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Cross Burnings In The North,
Racial Harmony in The South
FAYETTE, Miss. (NPI) -
Cross burning in the North and
racial accord in the South -that
was the upside down picture
offered last week by four de
velopments north and south of
the Mason-Dixion line.
In two North Shore suburbs
of Chicago, crosses were burnt
on the lawns of Negro resi
dents - one suet, on the lawn
of Mrs. Franc s Woods, de
feated school board candidate,
in Evanston.
In Kenilworth, a cross was
burnt on the lawn of Atty. and
Mrs. Harry Calhoun, the ex
clusive suburb's only Negro
residents aftei a local news
paper printed a storj disclos
ing their integration of the com
m unity
In Passaic, N. J., a cross
was bur nt on the lawn of a
synagogue for the second time
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IT'S IN THE BAG ... for these happy young people at the
National Youth Conference On Natural Beauty And Conserva
tion in Washington, D. C. as they receive complimentary pic
nic cooler bags from Bill Bass of The Coca-Cola Company,
Atlanta, Ga., co-sponsor of the event. The delighted delegates
are from left to right, Louis Gayco, 16, New York City, Sandra
Phillips, 17, New York City and Gale Hamaoka, 18, Honolulu,
Hawaii. Over 500 teen-agers representing the nation’s ten
leading youth organizations attended the four-day conference
held last week at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in'Washington, D.*C.
Who’s Kidding Whom,
Or Job Corps. Fizzle
The following is an editorial
that appeared in the MODERN
GROCER magazine recently.
“A few montKk back Modern
Grocer received a ‘hot’ tele
phone call from Washington.
Someone at the Job Corps head
quarters asked for help in plac
ing young men trained for
supermarket work. ‘Fine,’was
the reply. ‘Give us the facts
and we’ll do a story.’
“The facts came soon enough;
a New York regional office was
designated to which to apply and
Modern Grocer editors hurried
and wrote the story. We did
more. We called up some key
people whom we knew needed
personnel and referred them to
the Job Corps. We sat bat.
them, waiting to see doors swing
wide open and Job Corps grad
uates pour through.
“The doors did. open. Key
people in the stores phoned in,
wrote; there were even personal
calls. With what results? To
date not a single candidate for
a job !,as been supplied by the
Job Corps. Calls to the New
York office, letters, have turn
ed up zero. In a word, they
don’t have people ready yet.
“Is this the way the Govern
ment does things 0 Is the
Government playing some sort
of game in which big expecta
tions are raised but nothing
happens" We think this matter
in three weeks.
Mayor Paul De-Muro blamed
It on a “bunch of vandals who
have nothing else to do but
make trouble,’’ but David B.
Kaplan, Passaic director of
public safety, said police con
sidered the crossburning no
boyish prank.
Dr. Leon Katz, rabbi of Con
gregation Adas Israel, where
the crosses were burnt, said
he believed the acts were com
mitted by "an organized group
In the community, perhaps an
element Impressed with the Ku
Klux Klan, which is active in
nearby Paterson."
Headstones were overturned
at the Menorah cemetery in ad
jacent Clifton in the interval
between the two burnings. The
cemetery vandalism is “more
serious, because it was a more
mature type of work,” said the
of jobs directly affects our
entire economy and we ask,
‘What’s with the Job Corps?
Who’s kidding whom with the
people’s money?’ ’’
All of this is indeed strange
when you consider that OEO
claims 6,013 graduates of the
Job Corps to date, of whom
only 2,526 have jobs, have gone
into the armed services, or back
to school. Where are the 3,-187
Job Corps graduates who have
supposedly been prepared for
employment?
* * *
HOME Journal, where it was
promptly published In a Christ
mas Issue. The first eight of
sixteen verses follows:
THE SECRET
(A Young Wife Muses)
Dim is the night, and the stars
are infinity:
White is the snow in the width
of the street;
Something seems drawing me
close to dlvinlty--
Dear is my secret, and sacred
and sweet.
Here I lie dreamily musing,
and slumberless,
Thrilling at dear little echoes
that start;
Silent 1 lie, with my thoughts
that are numberless--
Something is whispering under
my heart.
Rev. George H. Talbott, pas
tor, First Presbyterian church.
An opposite picture va s
painted in Fayette, Miss., where
white and Negro leaders settled
racial differences.
Stores were fully desegregat
ed after being boycotted by
Negroes. City parks and play
grounds were desegregated, a
long with all public buildings.
The police force was integrat
ed, and city and store em
ployees were instructed to use
courtesy titles in referring to
Negroes.
“I yvould like to see Jeffer
son county as a place yvhere
the yvhite anct colored work to
gether. Let’s go forward as
friends,” said Mayor R J. Al
len, who called for forgiveness
on each side,
Charles Evers, Mississippi
NAACP chief, agreed. “No
longer will there be talk of
what's best for the Negro or
what s best for; the white. We’ll
now discuss what s best for
Fayette and Jefferson county.
We’re going to start working
Tor what’s right.
* * *
DE FACTO
LOS ANGELES - The United
Civil Rights council has de
nounced this city’s school ef
forts to combat de facto seg
regation and has urged th state
board of education to withhold
approval of sl3 million in fed
eral aid designed to continue
compensatory educe t ion so i
70,000 low-income .res chil
dren in 1945 schools, Mrs.
Marnesba Tackett, UCPC edu
cation committee chairman,
charged that 30 per cent of
Negro teachers are in Negro
area schools and that 90 per
cent of the double and irre
gular session schools and 90
per cent of tire oldest schools
are in r. im.rity areas.
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Conyers Comments
On Letter To Hersey
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Con
gressman John Conyers, Jr.
(Dem - Michigan) last Friday
commented on tire letter sent
yesterday to General Lewis
Hershey, Director of the Se
lective Service System, by him
self and fourteen other Con
gressmen about the question of
racial discrimination in the op
eration of the draft system.
“In recent months, Defense
Department statistics have giv
en rise to charges of racial
in the draft sys
tem,” said Congressman Con
yers. “These statistics show
that 16,3 r of the 1965 draftees
were Negro Americans though
Negroes comprise only ll r - of
the overall population. For
this reason I and many other
Congressmen have asked the
Selective Service System for in
formation on the draft’s impact
on different ethnic groups and
the racial composition of the
draft boards.”
DEAR SALLY
BY SALLY SHAW
DEAR SALLY: My husband’s
mother is driving me to distrac
tion. Although I’ve been mar
ried for only five years and al
ready have two babies, she is
constantly after mo with sug
gestions to have another one, al
ways singing the same tune
about how wonderful it is to have
a large family and how happy she
was in rearing seven children,
and so on and on until sometimes
I could almost scream. For
reasons of health, I don’t think
I should have another child just
yet, and furthermore both my
husband and I are perfectly
happy and contented with the two
darling babies we now have. So
how can I putastoptotheneed
ling of my mother-in-law with
out being downright rude to her?
TIME OFF
DEAR TIME OFF: Your hus
band is the one who should
handle this with his mother. He
should tell her that the size of
yo u r family i s nobody’s busi
ness but your own.
* * *
DEAR SALLY: I’m a married
man who is now embroiled in a
mess of his own making.
Several Months ago I foolishly
got myself involved with a di
vorcee who works in the office
where lam employed. There
was nothing real bad or selious
about this -- just a few dinner
dates and dances when, sofar
as my wife knew , I was supposed
to be “working late.” However,
I finally came to my senses and
told the woman “no more
dates.” She really got furious
about this, and now she’s threat
ening to phone my wife and tell
her all about her wandering hus
band unless I continue dating
her. So what can Ido about this?
BIRD BRAIN.
DEAR BIRD BRAIN: The
woman is blackmailing you. You
can put an end to this, and feel
much better too, if you go to your
w ife and tell her everything. She
may find it hard to forgive you
for bruising her faith in you ...
but you deserve this, and I know
you’ll be working hard to re
store her faith a ri d never again
be tempted to kray afield.
* * *
DEAR SALLY: I’ve been mar
ried for a year to a widower who
still makes a regular practice of
visiting his late wife's family
now and tnen. I am always ter
ribly u n c o m f o r t a b 1 e during
these visits, because all these
people do is talk a bout their
“dear daughter” and the “won
derful life” she and my husband
“However, we have all been
told the Information was not
available,” declared Conyers.
“As a result of our specific
request and the current hear
ings by the House Armed Ser
vices Committee on the overall
effectiveness and fairness of the
draft, we would hope that the
Selective Service System would
quickly compile this informa
tion. Since the draft expires
next year, we all felt that these
questions should be answered
now while Congress is con
sidering possible changesinthe
Selective Service System.”
"I want to congratulate Con
gressman Robert Kastenmeier
(Dem-Michigan) for initiating
this joint effort to obtain the
information,” stated the Michi
gan Democrat. “Congressman
Kastenmeier has a well-known
record of working to eliminate
injustices from the draft sys
tem and all aspects of mili
tary service.”
had together. It isn’t that I’m
in the least bit jealous of a
woman who is no longer here--
because my life with my hus
band Is otherwise wonderful and
happy--but after every one of
these visits with his former
parents-in-law I feel heavily
depressed. Do you have any
advlce at all for me? SECOND
WIFE.
DEAR SECOND WIFE: Yes.
Stay at home when your hus
band makes these visits.
* * *
DEAR SALLY: I have been
going with a certain man for
almost eight years, and for the
first seven of these years he
led me to believe that the only
reason w-e could not marry was
that he could not forsake his
aged mother. But now his moth
er has been dead for over ten
months, and s< ill he hedges.
He tells me now that he “has
things to work out” before he
can even plan a marriage. I
am completely In the dark as to
what those “things” are, and
I am finding it more and more
difficult to control my patience,
especially after eight years of
patience. I am almost 30 years
old, and I think it's time I knew
for sure where I’m heading in
life, don’t you? PUT OFF.
DEAR PUT OFF: Indeed I
do, and long before now! Long
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"FREEDOM MARCHERS” ON THE GO - Granada, Miss; “Mississippi Freedom Marchers”
enter this small farm community June 14, then marched 600 strong into the town square where
they held a rally at the confederate monument. Floyd McKlssick, CORE national chairman,
Cleft front), his arms outstretched, calls for all to join the march. (UPI PHOTO).
Bmtm Retires From CPU
L. M. Deaton, supervisor of
plant accounting for Carolina
Power and Light Company,
concluded a 42 year career with
the company when he retLred
July 1.
"Deaton joined CP&L if 1924
as a clerk In the Raleigh general
warehouse. Later he was trans
ferred to the treasury and
accounting department.
In 1934, he was promoted to ac
countant, and 10 years later he
was named senior accountant.
He was promoted to accounting
supervisor in 1946,theposition
he now holds.
A native of Montgomery
County, Deaton moved to
Raleigh when he was a youth and
has remained here since.
He was educated in the Raleigh
schools and studied accounting
through the International Ac
countants Society.
Following high school, Deaton
before now you should have re
alized the fact that this man Is
not in the least eager for mar
riage. For seven years he used
his mother as an excuse, and
now it's just “things”. Tell
him goodbye.
* * *
NOTE TO PATSY: Since you
have been going with this boy
for such a short time, a suit
able card would be the proper
rememberance from you for his
birthday. If, however, you would
like to do something a little
extra-special, you could invite
him to your home for a dinner
in honor of his birthday...with
possibly a cake baked by you.
entered the Navy for four years,
during which time he saw action
in EuroDe during World War L
EMPLOYED BY CONG. COO
LEY - Stephen Rodgers, son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Rodgers,
has been employed for the sum
mer months, by Congressman
Harold D. Cooley, in the De
partment of Agriculture, Con
gressional Liaison, Washing
ton, D. C. Stephen received
his Grammar and Junior High
School training in the Public
Schools of Germantown, Pa.,
and his Senior High School
training at Cardinal Gibbons
High School, Raleigh, from
which he graduated in 1964.
He is now a junior at Provi
dence College, Providence
Rhode Island.
He is a member of the Taber
nacle Baptist Church, where he
has served on the senior board
and as chairman of the finance
committee. He has also been a
member of the American Legion
and Veterans of World War I.
Mrs. Deaton is the former
Elizabeth Chason of Robeson
County.
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