Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1969-10-25 J. A. Beauchamp Soft Drink Industry To Stop Using Cyclamates Sweetener The soft drink industry said Saturday it will "immediately suspend production" of low calorie soft drinks containing cyclamates-the sweetener the government barred for medical human use. An industry spokesman made the announcement after emerging from a meeting with Secretary Robert H. Finch of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Finch held the meeting after announcing the government would ban the use of cyclamates. Cyclamates were the only artificial sweetner affected by the ban. It does not Include such sweatners as saccharia. Tom Baker executive vice president of the Soft Drink Association, expressed some doubt about whether the industry would be able to develope a substitute for cyclamates before drinks and foods already produced are banned from store shelves' after the first of the year. "The soft drink industry will immediately suspend production of low calorie son drinks containing cyclamates, baker said. "Members of our Industry have advised that they will turn their efforts to developing or reformulating other products with sweetners so that low calorie products can again be offered for consumption to those people who wish to make that choice." Baker, who represented about a dozen industry menbers who met with Finch, said some companies already had been working on a substitute, but that others may not have one before the Jan. 1 ban on. soft drinks containing the sweetner. Diet foods with cyclamates are not to be sold after Feb. 1. "Whether all of this can be accomplished by Jan. 1 is problematical," Baker said of the soft drink problem. Finch emphasized in announcing the government saction that there is "no evidence at this point' to indicate that the sweetners produce cancer. The ban wan based, however, on a report to HEW earlier the weak by two laboratories that cyclamates were found to have caused malignant bladder tumors in rats. Finch said he was compelled by federal law to order removal from the market of any food additive shown to cause cancer In humans or animals. Baker said the Industry understood the secretary's position. Our industry accepts that congressional mandate," Baker said. "We will find ways to live with it." In Atlanta, Ga. the CocaCola Company said if had suspended manufacture and distribution of its two low-calorie products which contains cyclamates, Tab and Fresca. A spokesman for Royal Crown said in Columbus, Ga., that production and movement of its cyclamate containing drink, Diet - Rite had been stopped. SRC Reports On Segregated Private Schools In South The Southern Regional Council estimated Saturday that more than 300,000, white children are attending segregated private schools in the South. It said the private schools may jeopardize public education in the region. The civil rights research agency reported it was unable to estimate the number of private schools formed in the South as a result of increased integration in public schools. But it said there likely are ten times more private schools now than there were five years ago. The SRC report said the Citizens Councils of America sponsors at least 150 all-white private schools. It said, the councils have become, "the principal promoter of the South's new segregation academies." "The existence of the new schools in some communities already is depriving the pub. lie schools of funds and general public support," it said. "With more of the school' population in private schools. the public may be more reluctant to pass bond issues and approve taxation to support public education," the report said. It added that many of the new private schools "tend 'to be not only racist but also right-wing extranist attracting board members and teachers who are philosophically In accord with anti-democratic values." The SRC recommended that the Department of Health, Education and Welfare keep statistics on private education. It said racially segregated private schools should be de nied federal tax benefits and federal aid and state aid to the schools should cease.' NEWS REPORT FROM WASHINGTON Of all the issues which could determine the outcome of the 1970 congressional elections and the. 1972 presidential election, none is as important to President Nixon as bringing to an end the Vietnamese war. The President knows this better than some; this is one reason he is willing to explore any avenue which might, lead tot an honorable ceasefire-including secret talks with Hanoi's new leader. He has had, until now, few choices but there are interesting hints that some in Hanoi may at last be inclined to seriously discuss a ceasefire, and secret contacts and some exchange of views have already taken place. This is one reason for some recent hawkish proposals–to bomb North Vietnam again, for example. Such demands by prominent Americans might aid those in Hanoi who are not against a ceasefire, to internal debate on the issue. The President knows public opinion is building up in opposition to the war. An October Gallup Poll revealed that for the first time over half the Americans' questioned felt-the nation made a mistake in entering the war. In addition, the number of hawks on Capitol Hill is decreasing. One or two years ago veteran Georgia Congressman John Flynt would not likely have been heavily applauded at an American Legion meeting in his district for announcing his switch from hawk to opposition to the war. But that happened recently and is symbolic of a trend affecting other legislators in other sections of the country. President Nixon has been told sentiment against the war is certain to increase He knows well the awful cost to the nation in blood, disunity, to the national economy and lo the dollar stability in continuing the war. For these reasons, and political implications if a ceasefire is not reached, Washington's efforts to find a solution to end the killing are certain to be vigorous in, the coming months. The Vietnam War- Nixon's Choices- Public Disgusted- The New Hope- Of all the issues which could determine the outcome of the 1970 congressional elections and the. 1972 presidential election, none is as important to President Nixon as bringing to an end the Vietnamese war. The President knows this better than some; this is one reason he is willing to explore any avenue which might, lead tot an honorable ceasefire-including secret talks with Hanoi's new leader. He has had, until now, few choices but there are interesting hints that some in Hanoi may at last be inclined to seriously discuss a ceasefire, and secret contacts and some exchange of views have already taken place. This is one reason for some recent hawkish proposals–to bomb North Vietnam again, for example. Such demands by prominent Americans might aid those in Hanoi who are not against a ceasefire, to internal debate on the issue. The President knows public opinion is building up in opposition to the war. An October Gallup Poll revealed that for the first time over half the Americans' questioned felt-the nation made a mistake in entering the war. In addition, the number of hawks on Capitol Hill is decreasing. One or two years ago veteran Georgia Congressman John Flynt would not likely have been heavily applauded at an American Legion meeting in his district for announcing his switch from hawk to opposition to the war. But that happened recently and is symbolic of a trend affecting other legislators in other sections of the country. President Nixon has been told sentiment against the war is certain to increase He knows well the awful cost to the nation in blood, disunity, to the national economy and lo the dollar stability in continuing the war. For these reasons, and political implications if a ceasefire is not reached, Washington's efforts to find a solution to end the killing are certain to be vigorous in, the coming months. Labor Secty. Says Strikes Will Hurt Labor Secretary George P. Shultz predicted Saturday a wave of strikes will sweep the nation next year as labor continues to demcal higher wages and management stiffens its resistance. Shultz said the government will offer its help in mediating disputes, but he cautioned: it is up to the parties to work it out for themselves even if that means a strike." Shultz addressed the prestigious Business Council, which includes the top executives of many of the nation's biggest corporations, as the group would up its semiannualmeeting. Shultz' forecast of "stormy weather" in collective bargain ing echoed views expressed privately this weekend by other high administration officials and by council members. Man of the 105 business men attending the meeting indicated management will be a lot tougher at the bargaining ta ble this year. One industrialist said business may have to "invest in a strike. Shultz said the admontstration's anti-inflation measures are beginning to cool the economy and reduce corporate pro fits. Another administration official, who declined to be quoted by name: said labor will not be able to get increase of 10 or 8 percent, as was the case in some settlements this year, because the employer would "not be able to pay It." M. L King Jr. Library Formally Opened Sun. The Martin Luther King Jr. Library project had its formal opening Sunday evening on the ITC campus. The opening began at 5 p.m. and was scheduled to terminated 7 p.m., however a stream of visitors and other interested persons continued to pass through the doors as late as 7:45 p.m. The Martin Luther king Library was established in July, 1968. It grew originally out of the concern of Mrs. Coretta Scott King, members of the King family, and several friends, to ensure the gathering, preservation and future use of Dr. King's papers. It has rapidly expanded its scope towards becoming a major documentation center for the Post-1954 -Freedom Move ment. From the viewpoint of scholarship and Intellectual life, the library Documentation Project has been motivated out of the recognition that the Black Freedom Struggle–perhaps the most dynamic American social movement of our century–had largely been ignored by the recent surge of interest in the study and reassessment of the history of black people. Few black scholars and almost no black institutions bad sought seriously to document this history made in our own generation. However, we seek to gather documentary materials on this period for more than ordinary scholarly purposes.... We do this work out of a convictions that we must control and write our own history. We do it because we believe that we must understand both the glories arid failures at the past in order to move into the next phases of our struggle. Wo do it, of course, for the sake of our children so that th ey may have some tangible evidence of the movement of their fathers. ON-THE-JOB TRAINING One of the most important aspects of the Library's task is self-consciously developed in its on the job training. It senses a responsibility to introduce the black community to the immense possibilities of archival work, and most of the students and in many of the full-time staff are working in this context for the first time. Those members of the staffwith skills in these areas work regularly with others to expand this reservoir of abilitties. Confluent with this are the future plans of the Library staff for bringing in interns from surrounding communities to help them develop some of the basic skills involved in the archival task. We also wish to involve people in local communities in the collecting process. By these means, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library Project hopes to reproduce itself on minor levels in many communities in the collecting proover the next ten years. FUTURE It is planned that the Library - Project will eventually become part of a larger library complex. It will be related at once to the Institute of the Black World of the Martin Luther King Center, and hopefully, to the larger 300 Students Suspended After Walkout Leaders of a group of black students who staged a walkout at Valdosta High School Friday were scheduled to meet Monday with school officials to work out a plan to return the students to classes. Officials said about 300 students were Involved. They walked, out of homeroom classes Monday morning and subsequently were suspended. for three days. The students unrest came to a climax here after an election for a homecoming queen in which a Negro girl was one of three finalists was voided when it was - discovered that there ware more ballots cast than there were students. Negroes also complained that the high school band plays parts of "Dixie" at gatherings and that they have been gener ally harassed. Many of the Negro members of the band were absent when Valdosta played -Moultrie Friday night and one first string player, defensive safety Curtis Lee, did not play. Valdosta won the game 21-0. The students milled around the campus when they walked out Friday but dispersed at the urging of Police Chief Wilber Perkins. Leaders of the group were scheduled to meet Monday morning with City School supt. Foster Goolsby, Principal Charles Green and members of the board of education. Nixon welfare plan supported in poll. Named Visiting Prof. At Chicago University George E. Kent, a noted educator, has been named a visiting professor of English and in the Humanities at the University of Chicago for the 1969-70 academic year. The appointment which was effective Oct. 1, was announced by John T.. Wilson, provost of the Univer sity. Kent will teach six courses during the year, includeing two on black American literature and on self— consciousness in contemporary black literature. He also will teach courses on Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and the existentialist tendency in literature. Kent spoke at the University last March and April as part of a series of lectures and other events in the area of African and Black American Humanties. Kent is a professor of English and dean of the Division of Liberal Arts atQuinnipiac College, Hamden, Connecticut, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1960. From 1949 to 1960., he was a faculty member and dean at Delaware State College. Kent has been a visiting professor at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; the University of Connecticut, Storrs; Florida A. and M. University, Tallahassee, and Grambling College, Grambling,— Louisiana. He has written numerous articles for scholarly journals and has lectured widely. He is vice-president of the Yale University Broadcasting Corporation and a board member of the Civil Liberties Union. Kent received a B. A. degree from Savannah State College (Georgia) in 1941 and an M. A. and Ph. D. in 1948 and 1953 from Boston University. LAFF - A - DAY The new-left got belted by an old-right." 1970 Census Questionaire Requires 15 Minutes To Fill It will take you only 15 minutes to fill out your 1970census questionnaire, but the information will help shape U. S. communities for the next 10 years. On the basis of data collected in the decennial population count, federal funds will be distributed, schools will will be planned and highways will be built. "It is this information which tells us where we've been, where we are, and where we're, going in matters on population and housing," the Census Bureau says in a newly published pamphlet entitled "Uncle Sam Counts." DETERMINES POVERTY AREAS The Census Bureau will determine, from totals in various categories in given geographical areas, where poverty pockets are. Educators will know where funds should be provided for children with limited Englishspeaking ability. Power companies will be better able to route utility lines. City planners will know where additional sewage faci lities are needed. The basic questionnaire, which every American household will receive, consists of queries designed to disclosed not only the number of people in America, but the quality of Full size cars are seen losing favor. their housing, the degree of Crowding and other economic facts. Questions were chosen by the bureau on the basis of two criteria; they must be of broad public interest and they must be easy to answer. Questions such as "Do you have a flush toilet? measures "housing quality." If a home lacks an Indoor flush toilet, the bureau reasons, "lessthen-satisfactory housing qual ity, is indicated. INQUIRIES IMPORTANT "Data from these inquiries are therefore important to the Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD and to local planning and urban renewal officials for they delineate areas that demand attention," the pamphlet says. Similarly, responses to questions dealing with owneroccupied housing units will become the basis for state mortgage and basis financing legislation. In metropolitan areas," a person - per - room ratio measuring the degree of crowding will be formulated from the question, "How many rooms do you have in your living quarters?" The Censue Bureau is porhibited by law from revealing any information concerning an individual citizen of household. Three astronaut tour 21 nations. CONSUMER TALK about CURTAINS AND DRAPERIES A change in curtains or draperies can be just the bit of magic needed to make an old room new, introducing a bouncy color, a dramatic mood, a creative focal point, a fresh warmth. Today many of the most exciting curtain and drapery styles are available ready-made and come in a variety of colors, patterns and fabrics. When choosing curtains or draperies, consider color and pattern first. Think of the room as a whole and the effect of neutral window treatment versus a strong graphic statement. Next decide whether or not you want lined or unlined draperies (linings add to cost but retard sunfading and give body) or tailored, novelty or ruffled curtains or a combination. Decide, also, whether or not you prefer an easy-care fabric such as one marked PennPrest or "washable with littie or no ironing" or whether you prefer to dry-clean. When shopping for window coverings, be prepared with exact measurements. Using a steel tape or carpenter's rule, measure length from the top of the rod to the sill, apron, baseboard or floor, depending on the effect you wish. Measure width from one end of the rod to the other. Then ask a knowledgeable sales associate to help select the right size in the style you prefer. If the size needed falls between two standard measurements, select the larger and shorten it. 285 Highway Opened Today Gov. Lester Maddox, never adverse to a little show manship, hopped atop the hood of a Cadillac convertible Wednesday and rode it through a paper screen to formally open Interstate Highway 285. The highway circles the city of Atlanta and was built at the cost of $97. million, mostly to federal money. Traffic experts hope it will help alleviate congestion to downtown "Atlanta by routing trucks around the city. Maddox had been scheduled to ride in an open convertible that was to crash through the paper screen, and exercise replacing the traditional ribbon cutting. But the top wouldn't come down. "I'll do it any way," Maddox saw as he climed on snood" of the car. The governor's car was one of about 15 making up a motor cade in ceremonies connecting the last two links of the 62.6mile divided beltline freeway. In a short speech Maddox said the highway is not a panacea for all of Atlanta's transitills but is a shot in the arm. Maddox also said it makes plain horse sense to investi gate the possibility of using the existing freeway system's right of way to build's sorely needed rapid transit system." VIET VETOERS— As anti-war congressmen talk about the situation inside, more than 1.000 young people stage a moratorium rally outside on steps of the Capitol in Washington. Mrs. Haxetta Harris, assistant director of Wesley Center in the South Atlanta area, told a World reporter Saturday that she was deeply concerned over the lack of black participation in working with children, teenagers and young adults of this community. "We've been here nine years and this is the first time any blacks have come out to talk about the tutoring situation and volunteer their time," she said appreciatively, to a young black man offering daily volunteer services to the center. "All we have gotton is criticism of whites coming out," she added. Mrs. Harris explained that the center is trying to serve some 150 people and that there is virtually no effort to help The program she continued has a tutoring service available for junior high school stu dents that will have to be discontinued if help isn't obtained. She explained that these students involved in this program are in great need for it. She also said that she had been promised volunteers by several local organizations, but none of them "have followed through." She mentioned Morehouse, Urban" CORE, and the Urban League as a mong these organizations that had promised support, but as of yet had not been out to talk with her. Mrs. Harris, whose office is located at the Bethelem Community Center (on the old Clark campus), said that there are some 30 groups ranging in ages from 6 through 25 involved in the program. She explained that gym and recreation; as well as tutoring in basic fundamental skills of reading, spelling, math, were areas of concerned, at the center. Scheduling for the center includes daily from 4:30 p. m. to 8:30 p.m., with gym activities from 7 till 9 p.m. and Saturday from 1- a.m. till 4 p.m. Tutoring hours are dally from 11:40 a.m. to 12:40. p.m. Though Mrs. Harris' biggest concern was tutoring she also states that she was looking for a dance Instructor. In the past she said that she has received a lot of criticism from blacks of whites coming out to volunteer and work in the program. She said that she wished the black community would respond as the need was critical. The Wesley Center is under the sponsorship of the Methodist church. Extend Social Security To Four Million The House Ways and Means Committee tentatively approved Tuesday an administration bill extending unemployment insurance to four million uncovered workers and raising taxes to finance the program. The decision, subject to final employment compensation for about one out of four of the 16 million workers who now cannot claim weekly benefits if they lose their jobs, Already about 60 million workers are covered by the federal state unemployment compensation programs. It is often implied by socialist and communist critics of the U.S. economic system that a few people control the wealth in a capitalistic society. And yet, in the United States, which is the leading capitalist nation in the world, there is a greater dispersal of wealth than ever before in the history of mankind. Statistics' concerning the material abundance of the asets, autos, home appliances, etc. – have become a sheer bore. But, they do give some measure of wealth dispersal under U.S. capitalism. The corporate system represents public ownership in its truest sense. Millions of citizens own the productive industries of the United States. The New York Stock Exchange, or the Big Board as it Is popularly called, is the nation's leading marketplace through which millions of investors buy and sell shares of ownership in major American business enterprises–enterprises that recently put men on the moon, among other things. The Exchange is building bigger, new facilities for the simple reason that more people every year are buying shares in expanding industries. This hardly sounds like the concentration of wealth that we find in the stereotyped definition of capitalism. "The free enterprise system, as we know in America, is preferable to other forms of government–as history has shown. However, one is not lacking in patriotism or Americanism to realize it is not perfect and can be improved upon." (10-9-69) BIBLE VERSE "A in than great riches and loving favour than silver and gold." 1. Where is the verse found in the Bible? 2. Who is the author? 3. Who was his mother? 4. In what language was it written? 1. Proverbs, 22-1. 2. Solomon. 3. Bathsheba. 4. Hebrew. Answers To Bible Verse "A in than great riches and loving favour than silver and gold." 1. Where is the verse found in the Bible? 2. Who is the author? 3. Who was his mother? 4. In what language was it written? 1. Proverbs, 22-1. 2. Solomon. 3. Bathsheba. 4. Hebrew. 300 Students Suspended After Walkout Leaders of a group of black stulents who staged a walkout at Valdosta High School Friday were scheduled to meet Monday with school officials to work out a plan to return the students to classes. Officials said about 300 students were involved. They walked out of homeroom classes Monday morning and subsequently were suspended for three "days. The students unrest came to a climax here after an election for a homecoming queen in which a Negro girl was one of three finalists was voided when it was discovered that there were more ballots cast than there were students. Negroes also complained that the high school band plays parts of "Dixie" at gatherings and that they have been generally harassed. Many of the Negro members of the band were absent when Valdosta played Moultrie Friday night and one first string player, defensive safety Curtis Lee, did not play. Valdosta won the game 21-0. The students milled around the campus when they walked out Friday but dispersed at the urging of Police Chief Wilber Perkins. Leaders of the group were scheduled to meet Monday morning with City School supt. Foster Goolsby, Principal Charles Green and members of the board of education. Atlantans To Be Honored At U. of Ga. The National Association for he Prevention of Delinquency and Civil Disorder will hold its Annual Banquet at the University of Georgia, Georgia Center for Continued Education at 7 p. m. on Get. 23. At this time, several people from throughout the country will be honored for their outstanding contributions in Community Service; Atlanta, Georgia; Mr. Warren Cochran Civic; Mr. R. O. Button, Banker; Mr. Carey A. Hooks, Housing and Mr. Fred Miller, Commuinty Relations Sevice. From Augusta Georgia Dr. A. J. Harris. From Sportanburg S. C. Mr. Robert Irvin. Director of City of Spartanburg; from New Orleans. Mr. Sidney Cates and from Athens Judge D. O. Price and Dr. J. W. Fannin.