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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1973
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Ceremonies Scheduled June 30
Third US Navy Ship To Honor Blacic Navyman
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
The third U.S. Navy ship to
be named in honor of a Black
Navyman will be com
missioned in ceremonies at
Norfolk, Va. at 2 p.m. on
June 30.
The ship, USS MILLER
(DE-1091) a KNOX-class
destroyer escort, is named in
honor of mess attendant
Doris “Dorie” Miller, who
received the Navy Cross for
his gallant performance of
duty in the battleship USS
WEST VIRGINIA during the
attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec.
7, 1941.
MILLER helped move his
mortally wounded com
manding officer to place of
greater safety. He then
manned a machine gun and
shot down several ot the
attacking enemy aircraft.
He died later during the
war when the USS
LISCOfflBfe BAY was sunk
in the South Pacific on Nov.
24, 1943.
The MILLER was laun
ched at the Avondale
Shipyard in Westwego, La.,
on June 3, 1972. Mrs.
Henrietta Miller, mother
of the Navy Cross
winner, sponsored the
ship and christened
her when she slid into the
water for the first lime.
DORIS ML LER was bom
Oct. 12, 1919 in Waco, Texas.
He was a fullback on Waco’s
Moore High School football
team and left his father’s
farm to enlist in the U.S.
Navy on Sept. 16, 1939q
In addition to the Navy
Cross, Miller was awarded
the Purple Heart, the
American Defense Service
Medal (Fleet Clasp), the
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Medal, and the World War II
Victory medal.
(The other two ships
named in honor of Black U.S.
Navymen are the USS
LEONARD R. HARMON
(DE-678) (and now
decommissioned) and the
USS JESSE L. BROWN (DE-
1089), which was launched
April 18, 1972, and com
missioned on Feb. 17, 1973.)
Brennan Pledges Open Administration Poor Food Hurts Children
Our timetables may differ -
but our targets are the same.”
Brennan observed the
Department was far from
inactive during the
five-month transition period.
“Ways were found to end
or head off crippling strikes,”
he said. “OSHA
XDccupational Safety and
Health Administration)
worked dilgently and justly
to protect the working men
and women of America at
their work places, veterans
found a helping hand when
they came home from
Vietnam. All these things
were done - by and through
you.”
Brennan pledged, “now
that the transition is nearing
an end. . .we’re going into
high gear. You’re going to see
more of me - not only here in
Washington but in the 10
regions, too.”
He commented on some of
the specific actions taken by
the Department since
January:
The investigation of OSHA
of the Staten Island storage
tank explosion where 40 men
lost their lives.
*The investigation of
high-rise construction
collapse at Bailey’s Cross
Roads in Virginia where 14
died.
*The AT&T agreement in
January where the biggest
employer in the nation agreed
to restore $15 million to
15,000 employes who had
been underpaid.
*The great labor
settlements made without
strike action in steel, railroads
and elsewhere.
Also sworn in at the
ceremonies were four of the
10 regional directors of the
Department: Gerald P. Reidy,
Region I, Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Rhode Island and
Vermont, headquarters in
Boston; Stephen D. Blum,
Region II, New Jersey, New
York, Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands, headquarters
in New York; Paul W. Story,
Region VI, Arkansas,
Louisiana, New Mexico,
Oklahoma and Texas,
headquarters in Dallas; and
James T. Hughes, Region X,
Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and
Washington, headquarters in
Seattle.
Philip J. Davis was sworn
in as Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Employment
Standards and Director of the
Office of Federal Contract
Compliance. Benjamin L.
Brown was sworn as Deputy
Under Secretary for
Legislative Affairs.
Secretary of Labor Peter J.
Brennan, speaking to Labor
Department employees,
promised today an open.
progressive administration in
the next three-and-a-half
years “because the strength
of Ajuerica lies in telling it
the way it is.”
“We can’t ignore the
Watergates, but they won’t
stop us from moving to make
this a better America - an
America we can continue to
love,” he said at ceremonies
conducted in the
Departmental auditorium. “If
wrong has been done - let the
guilty be found and punished.
But let’s not slow down our
drive for a better future.”
The occasion was the
swearing in of seven top
Department officials, among
them Under Secretary
Richard F. Schubert, the No.
2 man in the Department.
Brennan spoke about a
standing-room audience, and
his remarks were carried by
telephone hook-up to
employees across the
country.
Brennan noted the
transition period from his
own swearing-in on Feb. 2,
1973 “took a little longer
than we expected,” but “is
now nearly over.” He said
only two major appointments
are left to be made - the
Commissioner of Labor
Statistics and the Assistant
Secretary for Policy,
Evaluation and Research -
and those posts will be filled
“very shortly.”
Brennan also made note of
some comments made by
others during the transition.
“We’re not going to attack
old friends who have been
critical of us,” he said.
“That’s destructive. But we’ll
show them that, although we
may have honest differences
of opinion, we’re fighting for
the same goals - betterment
of the American worker’s
place in our great country.
WASHLNGTON - Testi
fying before a Senate Selec'
Committee on Nutrition ant*
Human Needs, nutritionist.'
stated that 70 per cent of
black preschool children
living in the south are
anemic and children of the
>oor generally are under-
rown and undernourished.
The committee was con
ducting three days of hear
ings to determine the rela
tionship between maternal,
fetal and infant nutrition
and optimum physical de
velopment of the child.
Dr. Alvin M. Mauer, pro
fessor of pediatrics at the
University of Cincinnati
College of Medicine, stated
that a recent 10 state sur-
vey-study by the American
Academy of Pediatrics
demonstrates a correlation
between retarded growth
and low-income.
Mauer reported that com
pared to a well-nourished
population, two times as
many black and three
times as many white chil
dren in families living in
poverty (the lowest econom
ic quarter) were far below
the accepted American
height standards.
“Substantial numbers of
children examined in this
l,nr-o rurvc" were indeed
malnourished” Mauer
stated, “and statistics &how
many pregnant a-nd lactat-
ing women also suffer from
low nutrient intakes.”
According to Sen. Charles
Percy,^ R.-Ill., cochairman
of the committee, 256.000
babies were below min
imum birth weight stan
dards in 1972.
Percy noted that, given
the proclivity of under
weight babies for birth de-
fects. “we might have
saved 32,000 babies born
mentally retarded last year
if we had provided their
mothers with an adequate
diet.”
Mauer reported that de.i-
pite glaring needs the fed
eral government has re
duced its supplemental food
program that met special
nutritional need of pregnant
and lactating women and
young children.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture h?s reduced the
number of part’O'r'ants
from 450,000 to 157.000.
Also Office of Economic
Opportunity funds widely
used in the program have
been eliminated -- which
will soon force the closing
of one-third of the remain
ing supplemental programs
by January.
Said Mauer, While the
supplemental food program
is often cumbersome, it is a
source of much needed food
for thousands of people.
And it is the only federal
feeding program currently
in operation which focuses
on the nutritionally vulner
able segment of the popu
lation comprising infants
and mothers to be.”
Mauer also observed that
a special supplemental food
program — a two year, $20
million project — has been
delayed because of USDA’s
unwillingness to allow the '
program to operate.
It is now apparent none
of the $20 million appro
priated for fiscal 1973 will
be spent,” he said,” and
nutrition service reports
only $5 million will be spent
in fiscal 1974.”
Blad( media
more trusted,
says study
Abortions Now Available NAACP UrqeS IRS tOX Studv
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CHIC.^GO — A recent re
search study prepared for
Johnson Publishing Co. has
apparently substantiated
what ad men for black
media have been saying for
years: Blacks “relate more
closely” with black-oriented
media than with white-ori
ented media.
The survey, conducted by
Daniel Yankelovich, com
pared white magazines and
television to black news
papers, radio and Ebony
Magazine, the largest
black-oriented publication
in the country, and released
by Johnson,
“Blacks view television
primarily as a medium for
entertainment and place ■>
low va,lue on its honesty
and integrity,” said John
H. Johnson after receiving
the study results.
According to the Yanke
lovich study, black con
sumers “are less likely to
spend their money on in
tangibles than on tangibles;
even more important, black
consumers feel strongly
about not being taken for
granted.
RALEIGH - Complying
with a mandate of the 1973
General Assembly, the N.C.
Medical Care Commission
today named a committee to
establish standards for
facilities whose primary
function is performing
abortions.
The legislation followed a
decision by the Supreme
Court liberalizing abortion,
with a measure making
abortion a matter between a
woman and her doctor. The
law now permits an abortion
during the first 20 weeks of
pregnancy, or after 20 weeks
if there is a risk to the health.
The bill also directs the
Medical Care Commission to
determine if the facilities of a
clinic or hospital are suitable
for performing abortions.
Licensed hospitals are
qualified if they wish to
perform the service.
According to Dr. Rachel
Davis of Kinston, chairman of
the seven-member committee,
attention will be focused
mostly on tree-standing
clinics not associated with
hospitals.
Dr. Davis pointed out that
by setting up hospital type
standards for facilities
engaged in performing
abortions, the committee
hopes to reduce the
possibility of hemorrhage,
infection, psychiatric trauma
and permanent sterility,
threats the patient is subject
to if the procedure is not
d one under acceptable
condition.
The former legislator
commended the General
Assembly for its concern over
the Supreme Court’s ruling in
the matter of patient health
and for coming up with a way
to implement abortion
legislation in a creditable
way.
Named vice-chairman of
the committee was William F.
Henderson, deputy secretary
of the Department of Human
Resources. Other members
NEW YORK - Roy Wil
kins, executive director ot
the NAAi(3P urged the In
ternal Revenue Service to
investigate the tax-exempt
status of the burgeoning
number of private, all-white
academies through the
South.
These institutions, he
c(bar,ged. were established
to thwart school integration.
In a letter to Donald C.
are Dr. Charles Hendricks of
Chapel HiU, Dr. Paul Fleming
of Raleigh, Dr. Philip Pearce
of Durham, and Ed O’Herron
of Charlotte. One other
member will be appointed in
the near future.
Alexander, IRS commis
sioner, on June 1, Wilkins
said:
“We are calEng to your
attention, 108 private, all
whits academies recently
established in 11 southern
states. These schools are
operating in areas where
student desegregation is in
process.
“In many instances, they
are located in communities
where the issue of busing is
a focal point for white resis
tance to school integration.
Their pupil population, for
the most part, is made up
ot white students who left
the public sdhools once they
were integrated.
“Awarding to our
branches in the local com
munities, in most instances,
these institutions have not
followed I.RS r^uirements
regarding publidity guide
lines as set forth in Rev
Proc. 72-54.
“We are asking that you
investigate the tax-exempt
status ot these schools and,
in keeping with Internal
Revenue Service policy cov
ering requirements for tax-
exemption, revoke the tax-
exempt status where viola
tions are found,” the letter
said.
The NAACP leader at
tached a list of the private
all-white sdhools in the 11
states.
Medgar Evers Remembered On 10th Anniversary Of His Slaying
JACKSON, Miss. -
There w'as a mammoth
rally in an old “jail” here
last week to mark the 10
anniversary of the assassi
nation of Medgar Evers.
B. B. King, Dick Grego
ry, James Earl Jones and
others, black and white, en-
tcrttained an audience of 6.-
000 in the Jackson Munici
pal Auditorium, where civil
rights demonstrators had
been detained a few days
before the 1963 death of the
NAACP leader.
Gov. William Waller,
prosecutor of Evers’ ac
cused killer, called to give
permission to extend the
program past midnight.
T 0 reinforce Fayette
Mayor Charles Evers’ talk
“with” his slain brother
earlier in the week, four
black Mississippi stale
highway patrolmen made
an appearance.
The four were added as
result is a NAACP suit and
there are 30 more training
as cadets at the State Po
lice Academy.
(During Medgar Ever’s
nine years as NAACP field
secretary for Mississippi,
he h£d to press his car’s
accelerator to the floor
many times to “shake its
tail” at following state po
licemen.)
Mrs. Myrlie Evers, Med-
gar’s widow, and (his three
children returned from
their California home for a
series of events marking
the anniversary.
A 200-car caravan made
the 85-mile trip over to
Jackson from Fayette,
where Mrs. Evers had told
a crowd earlier,
“The spirit of Medgar
Evers lives on. Clear evi
dence of that is here today
in this state.
“We’re here today on this
10th anniversary not to be
sad, but to rejoice that a
man such as Medgar
Evers, walked on this
earth.” she said in a voice
that showed no emotion.
A predominantly black
gathering was assembled
for what Fayette Mayor
Charles Evers, described
a s “a homecoming for
people who left in fear after
Medgar’s death — to show
them that it’s just not the
same as it was.”
At one point, Evers
turned to his brother’s
widow and said. “Mis-
sissippians ain’t forgotten
him, Myrlie. Medgar did
not die in vain.”
Before leaving the Fa
yette City Hall for the brick
school a mile away, Evers
received an official procla
mation issued by Gov. Wall
er in recognition of the
memlrial event.
“This is one of the hap-
BEFORE HIS DEATH in 1963, Mr.
and Mrs. Medgar Evers made a hand
some couple. Ceremonies were held
last week in commeration of the 10th
anniversary of the assassination of
Evers, former Mississippi field secre
tary for the NAAP.
p-.est moments of my life,’’
Evers said.
He described Waller as
the “best governor we’ve
ever had in Mississippi.”
In planning the anni
versary program, Charles
Evers stressed his desire to
show that racial progress
had been made in Mis
sissippi during the past
decade. “i have known for
many years that all whites
were not bad,” he said.
That feeling was dis
pelled for Mrs. Evers al
most 10 years ago. In her
book, “For Us the Living.”
she describes her racial bit
terness just after her hus
band’s death. Then she re
lates an incident at the fu
neral home.
After the children had
viewed their father for the
last time and left the room,
his wife, lingering at the
casket, senses she was not
alone and noticed a ubi
quitous photographer from
Life Magazine.
“His eyes were filled
with tears For the first
time since Medgar’s death
the hatred I had felt for all
whites was gone. It never
returned.”
Earlier last week Mayor
Jackson’s Evers spoke to a
gathering at Jackson’s New
Hope Baptist Church,
■where the state NAACP
held memorial services for
his brother.
“Missippi is going ahead
— the next few years it is
going to be the greatest
state in the world,” Evers
said.
Many of the 200 persons
in the church cried softly
as Evers spoke from the
pulpit. Before them was a
large portrait of Medgar,
flanked with orange and
white arrangements of gla
dioli.
Evers spoke not to the
congregation so much as to
his late brother.
“It ain’t all been bad and
you did not die in vain,” he
said. “Life ain’t worth liv
ing if it ain’t worth dying.”
Evers pointed to the suc
cess of the voting rights
struggle in Mssissippi. Be
fore Medgar’s death “we
were scared to register to
vote in this state,” he said,
“now there are over 250,000
blacks registered.
Mississippi, he said, “now
has the third highest num
ber of elected black offi
cials in the country, behind
New York and Ohio,”
Speaking to his brother
again, Evers added “and
there ain’t a school in this
state you did not help to get
blacks in.”
Evers attributed the
shooting of his brother to
“hate, ignorance and evil.”
He said “because white
racists thought th »t if they
could just get rid of that
one smart nigger, the
others would run to the
hills,”
“Medgar, ain’t none of us
running.”
Byron De La Beckwith, a
Greenwood fertilizer sales
man, was tried twice for
the murder of the civil
rights activist, but both
trials ended in hung juries,
“The white folks ain’t
quite as mean as they used
to be,” Evers said, "There
hasn’t been a lynching here
in the last five years.”
Ironically, Sen. Theodore
G. Bilbo, Mississippi’s con
tribution to the world’s
greatest native body in the
waning years of ripsnorting
racism, was a better civil
rights prophet than he ever
thought.
According to Mrs. Evers’
book, the senator was
warming to a favorite topic
in a late 1930s Decatur
campaign speech when he
spied two black boys at the
edge of the corwd. ^
“If we fall to hold the
wall of separation between
the races,” he shouted, “we
will live to see the day
when those two n—-r boys
right there will be asking
for everytthing that is ours
by right.”
The boys were Medgar
and Charles Evers.
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