Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1966-12-03
J. A. Beauchamp

NEGRO WOMEN MEET —
HIGH POINT, N.C. —
During a break in activities at the 31st annual
convention of the National Council of Negro
Women, Inc. held recently in Washington, D.C.,
(left to right) Mrs. Dorothy Shaed Proctor, Consumer 
representative, NCNW; Dr. Geraldine
Wood; National president, Delta Sigma Theta

Sorority; Mrs. T. Wilkins Davis, NCNW Liason,
Woman's Auxiliary, NMA and Thomas Bell, representative 
of Commercial Credit Corporation,
swap small talk before attending the "Youth
with a Future" luncheon co-sponsored by Commercial 
Credit Corporation.


An expanded program of nursing 
home care has freed thousands
of beds for treatment of additional
veteran patients in Veterans Administration 
Hospitals, the VA said
recently.
Dr. H. Martin Engle, Chief Medical 
Director of the VA, reported
that a three - point program of
nursing home care has made available 
an additional 1.37 million bed
days of hospital care in the VA
system by freeing hospital beds
formerly occupied by chronically ill
veterans.
Veterans transferred from the
hospitals to nursing home care facilities 
were mostly older, chronically 
ill veterans who have received
maximum hospital benefits but still
require skilled nursing care, Dr.
Engle explained.
"Advancement of medical techniques 
has changed the function of
the hospital in treatment and rehabilitation 
of chronic illness. Once
the permanent residence of the
chronically ill, the hospital is now
used as the center of treatment of
the acute phases of the illness." Dr.
Engle said.
Long - term supportive treat ment 
and rehabilitation are increasingly 
carried on an outpatient
basis while the patient resumes his
normal pattern of community living 
to the extent his disability will
permit. Dr. Engle added.
The three - point program authorized 
by the Congress included
(1) the creation and operation of
4,000 nursing home care beds within 
the 465 VA hospitals: (2) authorization 
for the VA to place
veterans in private nursing homes;
and (3) a grant - in - aid program
to help the states build and operate
nursing home care facilities for
veterans.
The VA currently has 2,614 nursing 
home care beds in operation
at 42 VA hospitals and expects
to have all 4,000 of its authorized
nursing home care beds in operation
by June 30, 1967. There are more
than 2,000 veterans occupying nursing 
home care beds daily in VA
hospitals and more than half a
million days of nursing home care
had been provided in VA facilities
at the end of the 1966 fiscal year.
During the past fiscal year the
average daily nursing home care
patient load was 1,244 in VA hos
pitals, 
at a budgeted cost of approximately 
$7.2 million. A number 
of existing buildings at VA
hospitals have been remodeled to
provide nursing home care facilities 
in line with current nursing
home philosophy of operation.
The VA Community Nursing
Home Care program provides for
placement of veterans in approved
public and private nursing homes.
generally for a period of 6 months.
At the end of July 1966, the VA
had negotiated agreements to provide 
care under this program with
1913 nursing homes with a capacity 
for 129,490 patients.
By Mid-October 8,575 veterans
had been admitted as patients to
community nursing homes, and 2812 
were still being cared for in
these facilities. Since April, 1965,
more than 764,000 days of care
have been provided veterans by the
community nursing homes.
The agency sets standards for
nursing home care and requires
home to keep standards at a high
level.
Prior to placement in a community 
nursing home, a description
of the patient is forwarded to
the home so that nursing care
plans may continue uninterrupted.
Subsequently the agency requires
a brief report from the nursing
home each month.
Recurring visits to nursing homes
are made by VA staff members
both to review proper disposition
of the patiens following completion 
of nursing home care, and to
determine the adequacy of care
when necessary. Facilities Which
have not been accredited by the

Joint Commission on Accrediation
of Hospitals are inspected before
they can be approved for veterans'
care.
During the 1966 fiscal year the
average daily nursing load in approved 
community nursing homes
was 1,634. The annual cost of the
program was approximately $6.1
million.
During the past fiscal year, $2.5
million was appropriated to assist
states in the construction of nursing 
home care facilities in State
homes for veterans. Approval was
given to construct State facilities
for 614 nursing home care beds
in five states — Georgia, Nebraska, 
New Jersey, Vermont and Wisconsin. 

An additional five states have
applications pending to provide 430
nursing home care beds, and another 
13 states have expressed interest 
in the program.
Congress has authorized the VA
to pay up to $3.50 per day for
veterans receiving nursing home
care in State homes for veterans.
During the past fiscal year the
average daily nursing load in State
homes was 972, with a budget cost
of $1.2 million.
The VA nursing care program is
believed to have made a substantial 
contribution to better nursing
care in communities through raising 
standards and criteria for its
approval of these facilities.
The VA reports its nursing care
program is providing better care,
with more interest and attention
being given to the welfare of the
nation's aging veterans.

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Secretary of
Labor W. Willard Wirtz has reported 
that a special employment
survey is being conducted in 10 U.
S. cities to solve "urgent" manpower 
problems.
The survey, he said, is designed
to provide the statistical information 
required to develop "effective"
manpower programs at the national 
state and local levels.
Testifying before the Senate Subcommittee 
on Intergovernmental
Relations Mr. Wirtz cited the joint
effort between state, local and national 
agencies as an example of
"creative federalism."
"We hope that the results of this
effort and the survey will be useful 
to all of us in meeting unemployment 
in the slum areas of our
major cities," he said.
A recent Labor Department study
showed that last March the unemployment 
rate of all workers living
in big - city slum areas was 7.
percent about double that for the
entire U. s. work force.
Among Negro residents of slum
areas, the jobless rate at that time
was 9.4 percent, compared with a
6.0 percent rate for whites living
in these blighted areas.
The cities involved in the special
survey include New York, Chicago, 
San Francisco, Philadelphia,
Boston, New Orleans, St. Louis,
San Antonio, Phoenix and San
Juan, Puerto Rico.
In each city, Mr. Wirtz said the
State Employment Service has administrative 
responsibility, but the
staff members are being provided
by agencies at all levels.
He also announced that a management 
consultant firm has recommended 
in a report that states
have increased flexibility and responsibility 
in the important manpower 
area.
Implementation of the report's
recommendations "should have a
significant and positive effect on
federal state relations, and constitute 
another concrete example of
'creative federalism.'" he said.
Secretary Wirtz also cited the
vital role three - man Federal
manpower teams are playing in
working out with local officials
ways of meeting a wide range of
employment problems in 30 U. S.
cities.
Comprised of representatives
from the Labor Deparmtent, the
Department of Health, Education
and Welfare and the Office of Economic 
Opportunity, these teams
are talking with local program administrators, 
public officials, civil
rights groups, employers and unions 
to determine the success of
manpower programs and to encourage 
cooperation between various 
agencies.
"These have been action, teams,
not just study groups," Mr. Wirtz
said.
Following the Hunter's Point riot
in San Francisco this year, for sample, 
the team canvassed Federal
agencies and developed 1,000 job
openings for disadvantaged persons,
he noted.
In addition, the team got an
agreement with Federal agencies
on a new "Worker - Trainee" position 
that doesn't require a written 
entry examination and gives
the employee one year to qualify
under regular standards, he added.
In Los Angeles, Mr. Wirtz said,
the team successfully organized a
"clearing - house coordinating committee" 
on job development activities 
and was able to get the
full cooperation of the merit employment 
council to assist in the
effort.

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U. S. Has
More Radios
Than People
Radio is America's most popular 
entertainment.
In fact America has 25 per cent
more radios than people — 242
million radios compared to a population 
of 195 million. The average
U. S. family has four radios in
its house.
Radios are popping up just about
everywhere these days — inside
and outside the home. They are
now built into toys, men's hats,
liquor bottles, statues, lamps, piggy 
banks, sunglasses, jewel boxes
and the newest idea — a combination 
radio - toaster.
A total of 98 percent of all U.
S. households have a radio set,
which is higher than any other
home entertainment item according 
to the National Association of
Music Merchants.
Seven out of ten Americans, listen 
to the radio every day and
the most - listened - to programs
on radio are music, according to
the NAMM. "Music has always been
and continues to remain the most
popular feature on radio," reports
William R. Gard, NAMM executive
vice president. 'Music is the most
common interest of the entire family 
in terms of home entertain ment 
and radio is the electronic
device that delivers this to the
home at the lowest cost."
Price has been a key element in
making radios so common with
total sales reaching 34 million annually. 
A typical U. S. — made
transistor set costs just 25 per cent
of what it did seven years ago and
imports, which account for half
of all radios sold in the U. S., have
dropped to an average wholesale
price of $5.95 with sets from Hong
Kong wholesaling at an average
price of $2.57.
In the first nine months of 1966,
Hong Kong alone sent 5,500,000 radios 
to the U. S., while Japanese
exports of radios to the U. S. for
the first nine months added up to
9,600,000.
"With integrated circuits now
making possible the most miniature
of radios designers have tremendous 
new freedom in shapes and
styles. We anticipate that any number 
of new imaginative uses of radios 
will be seen at the 1967 Music 
Show, where new electronics
products are traditionally unveiled
for the trade," reports Music Merchants 
executive Gard.
"Because they are the most portable 
as well as least expensive kind
of entertainment devised by man,
radios have outdistanced every
other media of communication,"
notes Gard. "As leisure time has
increased. Americans have become
accustomed to having radios in
every nook and corner of their
homes."
Radio's penetration of the A merican 
home has been recognized
by marketing experts and last year
network radio had the biggest
growth in advertising sales volume
of all media, its 18 percent doubling
even the percentage gain of television. 

Americans are far ahead of the
rest of the world in use of radios
although half of our U. S. sets are
foreign - made, mostly in the Far
East. Compared to more than one
set per person in the U. S., there's
a set for every three persons in
western Europe, one for every six
people in Russia and one for every
40 in southeast Asia.
"Radios have not only become
a measure of a nation's affluence
but also its cultural level," Gard
states. "It is a fact that music
interest, both in terms of listening 
and playing, has soared in the
U. S. as radio use has increased
Radio has succeeded in bringing
culture to the masses as no other
media in history.
"The fact that the U. S. is the
most music-minded nation in the
world today is due in no small par
to radio penetration of every American 
home. More people listen to
radios than can read in the U.
S. and what they listen to in music 
and news eclipses the impact
of books or magazines, schools or
colleges.
"Radio has made music a necessity 
to most Americans — whether
it's rock 'n' roll or opera — and
today music is found everywhere.
Today the number of musicians in
the U. S. has reached an all time
high of 39,300,000. America produces 
more music and spends more
for it than any other country in
the world, thanks in no small part
to radio."

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Churchmen Gather
To Oppose Backlash
About 150 Negro churchmen from
20 states and 11 denominations met
near the Statue of Liberty four
days before the November elections, 
to express their concern over
the "white backlash" issue and to
state the determination of black
men in America to exact from this
nation not one whit less than our
full manhood rights."
The Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Payton, 
executive director of the National 
Council of Churches Commission 
on, Religion and Race,
spoke for the group in the worship 
service, on Liberty Island.
"We will not be intimidated by
the so-called 'white backlash,' for
white America has been 'backlashing' 
on the fundamental human
and constitutional rights of Negro 
Americans since the 18th cen
tury," he said, in a statement writ
ten by a committee of 30 ministers
working with Dr. Payton.
After making clear that "our pur
pose here is neither to beg nor to
borrow," the spokesman said, "Let
us try to be very clear about on
thing black Americans are determined 
to have all of their full
human and constitutional rights.
We will not cease to agitate this
issue with every means available
to men of faith and dignity until
justice is done."
Pointing toward the elections, he
said, "There is no turning back the
clock of time. America cannot be
America by electing 'white back
lash' candidates in the November
elections."
Head marshall in the procession
that preceded the service was the
Rev. J. Metz Rollins, associate executive 
director of CORAR.

Computer For
Desegregatoin
In Evanston
Evanston has embarked on a computerized 
plan for integrating its
elementary schools. The superintendent 
of schools, Dr. Gregory C. Coffin, 
says it could be the first such
program in the nation.
The plan is designed to redraw
school attendance boundaries to
permit the same ratio of Negro and
white children in all schools in the
district. About 21 per cent of Evanston's 
students are Negro.
Coffin said, "The plan could give
Evanston an opportunity to lead
the school systems of the nation."
The plan was opposed by two
groups, an organization called save
our schools and the committee for
better education.
Stanley Abramson, an advertising 
executive, said he might seek
a court injunction against the integration 
plan.
But most of the persons who attended 
the meeting cheered when
the school board announced its decision 
to proceed with the plan.
Under the 21 per cent formula,
which will take effect next-fall,
about onetenth of the 6,200 students 
from kindergarten through
the fifth grade will be bused to the
city's 16 grade schools.
The city will pay the cost of
transporting the children, most of
them form pre dominantly Negro
school districes. Early estimates indicated 
the transportation will cost
$35,000.
"It's the only way that Evanston
can have realistic, quality education: 
anything else would be unrealistic 
because we live in a multiracial 
society." Coffin said.
Eight Evanston elementary schools
are now all-white.

NAACP Membership
In Denver Tripled
The three newly
organised multiple branches in Denver 
report that they have already
tripled their membership. From a
total of 243 members at the end of
1965, they have already enrolled 890
members this year, and feel con
fident that they will exceed their
quota of 1,000 members.
In a recent membership memorandum 
to all the branches, Executive 
Director Roy Wilkins encouraged 
them to "go over the top by
December 31." The NAACP has se
a goal of 200,000 new or renewed
memberships by the end of the
year.
On a statewide basis, Secretary
for Membership Lucille Black re
ports that six states show percent
age increases over last year's senior
memberships. They are Mississippi
79.5 per cent; Nebraska, 76.8 per
cent; Alaska, 41.9 per cent; West
Virginia, 29.3 per cent; Nevada
22.2 per cent and Rhode Island
12.5 per cent.
Other states showing every indication 
of topping last year's sen
ior membership totals are Louisiana, 
Oklahoma, Oregon, South
Carolina and Washington.
Youth Councils in eight of the
nation's states are showing substantial 
membership gains, They are
Wyoming, up 655.6 per cent; Minnesota, 
329.4 per cent West Virginia
99.6 per cent; Nevada, 97.3 per cent
Louisiana, 64 per cent; Arkansas
39.7 per cent; Mississippi, 22.1 per

sent and Oklahoma, 3.2 per cent.
Seven other states in which curent 
Youth Council membership inicates 
greater totals than in 1965
re California, Georgia, Iowa, Neraska, 
New Mexico, Ohio and Oreon. 

However with more than half of
he branches still due to report
heir membership efforts, Miss
Black says, "We have every reason
o believe that we will reach our
riginal goal."

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MISS BETHUNE AT HOMECOMING —
During
special coronation ceremonies for Miss Homecoming 
at Bethune-Cookman College this weekend, 
Miss Richie Bossard from Jacksonville, Fla.,

last year's Miss Homecoming, is shown placing
the crown on the head of Miss Gwendolyn
Mainor from Miami, Flo. who was elected Miss
Homecoming 1966-67.

$1 Million Grant For Poor
Given NAACP Fund By Ford
A grant of $1,600,000 
was announced to the
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational 
Fund, Inc. (LDF) this week
by the Ford Foundation.
This money, which is the largest
single, contribution by a major
foundation in the history of civil
rights, will be used to establish a
National Office for the Rights of
the Indigent.
Jack Greenberg, director-counsel
of the LDF, will also serve as director-counsel 
of the new agency
which will be headquartered at 10
Colmnbus Circle. The LDF operates
from the same address and the two
staffs will be interchangeable when
and if necessary.
"If the law is to fulfill its role as
a great binding force for civil peace
in our society, it must be readily
at the service of all, the poor as
well as the rich," said McGeorge
Bundy, president of the Foundation,
in announcing the grant.
"In strengthening the legal rights
of those who are poor and those
who lack full and fair, opportunities, 
we strengthen the rights of
all."
"Respect for law will grow as the
law respects the aspirations of those
who seek to climb out of poverty
and discrimination." Mr. Bundy
added.
Mr. Greenburg told the conferees
that the LDF "has already become
involved in cases seeking to make
precedent on poverty law questions.
just as we have been involved with
civil rights cases over the years.
"We now have welfare cases involving 
the man-in-the-house rule
and the employable mother rule;
housing cases involving the rights
of public housing agencies to evict
without a hearing."
"We also have cases in which mothers 
of illegitimate children have
been denied housing; in private
housing we have litigation over the
right of poor persons to defend
eviction proceedings without having
to post a bond twice the amount of
ent,"
"In criminal prosecutions," Mr.
Greenberg continued, "there are
suits over the right of an indigent
to be released without bail where

an affluent person would have been
released because he had the money
to put up bail," Mr. Greenberg.
"In short," he concluded, "the
problems of society in general begin 
to emerge. And they are not
solely the problem of race, but of
poverty."
The National Office for the Rights
of the Indigent, which is now being 
set up, will be mainly concerned 
with the systematic testing of
cases before courts and administrative 
agencies.
Based on its own research and
contacts with local offices providing 
legal services for the poor, N.
O. R. I. will take up cases likely
to set national precedents in such
fields as wellfare benefits, public
housing, landlord-tenant and creditor-debtor 
law, consumer protection
and special problems in criminal,
family, and juvenile law.
It will also handle significant
cases referred by local-service offices 
and individual practioners, or
supply lawyers to help local offices
in such cases. It will also provide
funds to enable specialized lawyers
to work on difficult cases, and help
marshal volunteer services from law

schools and law firms.
N. O. R. I. is thus envisaged as
a center of strategy and planning
in the field of legal rights for the
poor, as well as a national resource
for the hundreds of officers now
providing legal services for the
poor, most of which must cope with
heavy caseloads and lack adequate
staff and funds to underwrite a
precedent-setting case.
In its research on poverty law,
N. O. R. I. will work with the Center 
on Social Welfare Policy and
Law at Columbia University School
of Social Work.
It will also conduct meetings with
lawyers in large cities to deal with
the law in relation to problems of
the poor and techniques for developing 
issues in a coordinated
program of litigation.
The LDF — which is a separate
independent organization from the
NAACP — just concluded its first
national "Conference on Law and
Poverty" at the University of Chicago. 

Two hundred attorneys, interested
in legal problems of the poor, attended 
the three day meeting.

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The Commander 
of U. S. forces in Vietnam,
General William C. Westmoreland,
stating for the record some of his
personal beliefs about the nature
and significance of war, today
characterized war as "excitement
overlaying boredom" and "dedication 
winning over weariness and
frustration."
The General made his declaration 
as part of a copyrighted special 
Christmas message in the current 
issue of McCall's; just re leased. 
He said, 'War is fear cloaked 
in courage. It is excitement overlaying 
boredom. It is close friendships, 
with loneliness only a
thought away. It is compassion in
the midst of destruction. It is dedication 
winning over weariness and
frustration."
"War is "paying a terrible price
today for a better tomorrow," said
Westmoreland, adding that Ameri
cans 
believe in freedom and the
dignity of man and "they back that
belief with action."
Special section in McCall's is
A Gift of Love," in which celebrities 
set forth examples of individual 
"human kindness, courage
and concern" in the spirit of the
Christmas season. Westmoreland's
article concerned the heroism of
an American medical officer, Major 
Charles L. Kelly, who was killed 
in action in Vietnam.
The magazine revealed recently 
that the General refused payment 
for the article, asking that
it be sent instead as a contribution 
to the Chaplain of the U. S.
Military Assistance Command in
Vietnam, "to be used to help the
Vietnamese people for whom Major
Kelly gave his life. He would want
it this way."


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