Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1963-04-20
J. A. Beauchamp

MISS TUSKEGEE —
These three Tuskegeeans, tense but still charming, 
have just completed their bid for the title of "Miss Tuskegee,"
1964. Though th beauty of the candidates is obvious, they were
further scrutinied in a newly-organied beauty pageant, designed
to show "what 'Mist Tuskegee' can do." Patterned after the Miss
America Pageant, and used here for the first time in 36 years, the
Miss Tuskegee Pageant presented the candidates in talents, intelligence, 
beauty and charm. Smiling left to right: Scevia Adams,
Miami, Fla.; Evelyn Montgomery, Chattanooga, Tenn., and Eva
Baker, Ridgeland, S. C.

Employer-Union Bias
Charged By NAACP
A Federal establishment, four industrial corporations, 
two railway systems and four AFL-CIO trade unions are
accused of racial bias in complaints filed Wednesday, April 10, on
behalf of 33 Negro workers, by the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People with the President's Committee on
Equal Employment Opportunity. The companies hold government
contracts which provide for non-discrimination in employment.
In complaints submitted to Hotart 
Taylor, executive vice chairman 
of the Committee, Herbert Hill,
NAACP labor secretary, charged
collusion between the Union BagCamp 
Paper Corporation in Savannah, 
Ga., and the Brotherhood of
Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill
Workers to, maintain racially separate 
seniority lines of progression
"with severely limited job opportunities 
for Negro workers."
All Negro workers at this plant,
Mr. Hill pointed out, "are segregated 
into two Jim Crow locals of
the Pulp, Sulphite and Pauer Mill
Workers union which maintains a
pattern of segregated locals
throughout the southern pulp and
taper manufacturing industry."
According to Mr. Hill there are
some 40 segregated locals, of the
union throughout the south.
The NAACP labor secretary filed
similar complaints against the
American Cyanamid Corporation,

also located in Savannah, and the
International Association of Machinists. 
The complaints charge
that there are separate racial seniority 
lines in the collective bargaining 
agreement between the
company and the union, that plant
facilities are racially segregated,
and that all Negro members of
the IAM in Savannah are heredd
into Lodge No. 2019 a "catch-all"
citywide local exclusively for Negroes 
whereas white members are
assigned to locals composed of
workers at the respective plants
where they are employed. The Negroes 
are employed as helpers in
railroad repair shops, foundries and
a variety of manufacturing plants
throughout the city.
In the complaints against the
Southern pacific Railroad Company, 
at Houston, Texas, and the Brotherhood 
of Railway and Steamship
Clerks. Negro workers charge a systematic 
denial of seniority rights

and refusal to be admitted to more
skilled and higher paying job classifications 
"as a result of collusive
practices by the railroad company
and the union."
The union, Mr. Hill charged,
maintains a national pattern of
segregated locals and has negotiated
collective bargaining agreements
providing for racially separate seniority 
lines. "The union, in clear
violation of an anti - discrimination 
pledge signed by its president,
George M. Harrison, with the President's 
Committee, maintains more
than 100 Jim Crow locals," Mr. Hill
said.
Complaints were also filed against
the Charleston, S. C, Air Force
base; the Atlantic Coast Line, St.
Petersburg, Fla.; cotton Concentration 
Company, Galveston, Texas;
Graybar Electric Company, Columbia, 
S. C; and the Bricklayers, Masons 
and Plasterers International
Union, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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Africans Reject
Christianity As
Import–Ramsey
With
the growth of nationalism in Africa, 
there, was an inevitable tendency 
to reject Christianity as being 
a European import, Dr. Arthur
Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of
Canterbury, said in a television
program.
One of the major problems confronting 
the mission stations in the
African bush country, he declared,
was the disillusionment of young
African who visited Britain after
being taught about Christianity in
their own land.
Dr. Ramsey said they came expecting 
to find a deeply Christian
civilization, but found "a country
where there is so much abandonment 
of the Christian faith lag so
many people. It is very disillusioning." 


Pope's Encylical
Scores Race Bias
The nencyclical issued April 10 by
Pope John XXIII to all the bishops
of the world in communion with the
Holy See contained a plea condemning 
colonialism and racism.
Pertinent sections of the general 
letter read as follows
"Men all over the world have today 
— or soon will have — the
rank of citizens in independent nations. 
No one wants to feel subject 
to political powers located outside 
his own country or ethnical
groups.
"Thus in very many human beings 
the inferiority complex which
endured for hundreds and thousands 
of years is disappearing while
in others there is an attenuation
and gradual fading of the corresponding 
superiority complex which
had its roots in social - economic
privileges, sex or political standing. 

"On the contrary, the conviction
that all men are equal by reason
of their natural dignity has been
generally accepted.
"Hence racial discrimination can
no longer be justified, at least
doctrinally or in theory.
"And this is of fundamental importance 
and significance for the
formation of human society...."

Illiterates Make
Progress In School
A
group of poorly schooled and unemployed 
people, who entered a
year - long course conducted under
the Manpower Development and
Training Act, have made remarkable 
progress in learning to read
and write.
When they started out a month
ago, according to Lawrence L. Baylor, 
assistant director of the local
training program, four of nearly 50
heads of families who joined the
class signed their names with an
"x".
They have now learned to write
their full signatures, addresses and
Social Security numbers. Before the
year is over, they are expected to
have attained at least the level of
a sixth grade education and certain 
vocational skills.

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ARDENT UNIONIST—
James
A, Moore, Jr., of Atlanta, for 2-1
years president of Local 326 of the
United Transport Service Employes, 
recently completed along with
10 other representatives of international 
unions, a special fourweek 
course at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A
railroad employe since 1934, Moore
has been an ardent unionist since
1939, making a notable contribution 
to the organizing of Negro
rail workers. The four-week course,
designed especially for unionists
working in the South, included a
study of problems of union organization 
and administration with
particular emphasis on economic,
political and social conditions. International 
President of the UTSE,
with headquarters in Chicago, is
Eugene E. Frazier. — (Associated
Negro Press Photo)

POWELL JOINS ATTACK
ON ROCKEFELLER STAND
Harlem Rep, Adam Clayton Powell
joined with 19 other New York
Democratic Congressman April 11
in taking Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
to task for his criticism Of the Administration's 
handling of the unemployed 
problem.
In a statement, the group said
Rockefeller's "concern for the unemployed 
and hungry does not extend 
beyond the out-of-state break
fast table or after - dinner speech.
"For On Wednesday he breakfasted 
with the New York Republican
Congressional delegation and wept

eloquent tears for the unemployed.
The Kennedy Administration, the
Governor insisted, was failing to
meet the Nation's number one domestic 
problem.
"A few hours later, however, the
New York Republicans had an opportunity 
to transform their Governor's 
eloquence into votes, that
would create jobs for 250,000 Americans. 

"When, they voted on the $450
million accelerated public works appropriation, 
they voted 18 to 1
against the funds."


The U. S. Department of Labor is
searching the nation for qualified
Negro candidates for positions including 
economists, investigators
and employment security advisers,
a department official said here last
week.
Robert N. Merchant, assistant
personnel director for the department, 
told the concluding session
of g two - day Secretary's Conference 
sponsored by the department
at Fisk University that problems of
Negro colleges are such things as
limited curricula, low standards,
lack of incentive and inadequate
placement.
Don Fuqua of the Housing and
Home Finance Agency told college
presidents and executives attending
the conference that colleges should
inspire students, raise academic
standards and revise curricula. He
advised them to emphasize the role
of placement officers by giving them
suitable office space and increased
campus status.
Earlier, Dr. Stephen J. Wright,
president of Fisk University, termed
unemployment "the most difficult
of all problems that face minority
groups. The conference, the second
of four being held in the nation,
can "point out new and merging opportunities," 
he said.
April 11, Louis Levine, director
of the U. S. Employment Service,
said Negro colleges have been bypassed 
until recently as sources of
manpower, through ignorance or
excuses. Urging that universities reexamine 
their policies, he said that
in the South vast sums are spent
in educational areas where em
ployment 
opportunities are disappearing, 
such as agriculture.

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Thresher's Chief Reactor
Technician Was Navy Vet

I can imagine the shock and
grief of the survivors of the men
who lost their lives in the disaster
because only a week before the
tragedy I had talked with Chief
Pennington here. He had flown
to Chicago on direct orders from
the Pentagon along with Lt. Commander 
George I. Thompson, to
participate in a nuclear submarine
orientation program, aimed at encouraging 
qualified Negro youths
to Join the Navy.
I talked at length with Chief
Pennington six days earlier on
Thursday, April 4, in the Pick
Congress Hotel. I was probably the
last newspaperman to talk with
him.
It was Thompson, who was on
duty at the Pentagon before becoming 
one of the first two Negroes 
to enter the Naval War College 
for senior officers at Newport, 
R. I., who arranged for Pennington 
to come to Chicago with
the Nuclear Motivation team. Chief
Pennington was selected after a
search had been made of the entire 
Atlantic and Pacific theatres
of operation to find the top Negro 
nuclear reactor specialist.
A native of Fort Worth, Tex.,

Pennington, 38, was a completely
dedicated Navy man. A 20-year
veteran who survived many sea
battles during World War II and
the Korean Conflict, Pennington
"talked and breathed the Navy."
He was highly patriotic; he contended 
that "If this country fails,
we all fail with it." He was mindful 
that while there were still racial, 
problems in the service, he
was convinces the Navy was making 
an earnest effort, to promote
goodwill among its personnel.
He cited a case in Fort Lauderdale, 
Fla., in 1960, when he and
other Navy men and their families
were invited, to a park picnic. He
was the only Negro Navy man in
the party and objections were
paised because of his race As a
result, the Navy cancelled the
picnic. "If I, a Negro, couldn't attend, 
then the Navy would have
no part of it," Pennington recalled
with pride.
"Aboard ship we are just Navy
men, all of us," he said, in emphasizing 
that Negro youths entering
the Navy need not worry about
their race as a hinderance. "The
Navy doesn't care who operates
the machines aboard our subs.
But it does ask whether the man
is qualified," he added in agreeing
with Thompson that "There is no
limit to how far a Negro can go
in the Navy." He urged high school
students to "Stay in school until
you graduate and then join the
Navy and you'll have a career of
unlimited opportunities."
Pennington told me he himself
bad had a "fine career." With his
service seniority and rank as a
non-commissioned chief petty officer, 
he was earning $700 a month,
and said he was "looking forward
to retiring to a nice ranch in California 
where I can live quietly
with my family golf and fish "He
was a great golf enthusiast.
Up to last week, when "he went
down with his ship," Pennington
was living with his wife, Doris, a
graduate of Johnson C. Smith university 
in North Carolina, at Croton, 
Conn.
Pennington told me with humility 
that he "did not know why I
was selected for this orientation
program because I am not a fine
public speaker." But high school
students and adults, who heard him
discuss "the vast opportunities"
open to Negroes in the Navy's nuclear 
program, at Mt. Pisgah Center 
here thought he spoke convincingly 
and well. It could be,
therefore, that in death Penningotn 
has put in his greatest "plug"
for the Navy.
As a Navy "sea salt", Pennington 
had absolutely, no fear. "I have
been depth charged so many times,
I don't even think about it," he
told me. The dept charges resulted 
from bombs, called "Ash Cans"
in Navy language, dropped into the
ocean by enemy planes and ships
in an effort to destroy his submarine 
during World War II and
Korean Conflict.
The chief participated in six
World War II patrols While serving, 
aboard the submarines U. S. S.
Seadragon and Spikefish. After the
Korean Conflict, Pennington was
assigned to the Naval Shipyard at
Portsmouth, N. H., where he served 
as electrician division chief.
With the introduction of nuclear 
power, to the Navy's submarine 
force, Pennington was one of
the first or any race, military or
civilian, to be selected to attend
the various nuclear power schools.
He attended the Basic Nuclear
Power school at New London,
Conn.; the S3G Proto-type school
at Schenectady, N. Y.; the Bettis
Atomic Power Laboratory in Pittsburgh, 
Pa., and the Atomic Biological 
Chemical, Defense Warfare
school at the Philadelphia Naval
Shipyard.
He emerged as an able, thorough
technician. The Navy thought so
highly of him that in Sept., 1961,
he was sent to the David Taylor

Model Basin in Thresher. He was
"completely sold" on the ship, he
said.



I can imagine the shock and
grief of the survivors of the men
who lost their lives in the disaster
because only a week before the
tragedy I had talked with Chief
Pennington here. He had flown
to Chicago on direct orders from
the Pentagon along with Lt. Commander 
George I. Thompson, to
participate in a nuclear submarine
orientation program, aimed at encouraging 
qualified Negro youths
to Join the Navy.
I talked at length with Chief
Pennington six days earlier on
Thursday, April 4, in the Pick
Congress Hotel. I was probably the
last newspaperman to talk with
him.
It was Thompson, who was on
duty at the Pentagon before becoming 
one of the first two Negroes 
to enter the Naval War College 
for senior officers at Newport, 
R. I., who arranged for Pennington 
to come to Chicago with
the Nuclear Motivation team. Chief
Pennington was selected after a
search had been made of the entire 
Atlantic and Pacific theatres
of operation to find the top Negro 
nuclear reactor specialist.
A native of Fort Worth, Tex.,

Pennington, 38, was a completely
dedicated Navy man. A 20-year
veteran who survived many sea
battles during World War II and
the Korean Conflict, Pennington
"talked and breathed the Navy."
He was highly patriotic; he contended 
that "If this country fails,
we all fail with it." He was mindful 
that while there were still racial, 
problems in the service, he
was convinces the Navy was making 
an earnest effort, to promote
goodwill among its personnel.
He cited a case in Fort Lauderdale, 
Fla., in 1960, when he and
other Navy men and their families
were invited, to a park picnic. He
was the only Negro Navy man in
the party and objections were
paised because of his race As a
result, the Navy cancelled the
picnic. "If I, a Negro, couldn't attend, 
then the Navy would have
no part of it," Pennington recalled
with pride.
"Aboard ship we are just Navy
men, all of us," he said, in emphasizing 
that Negro youths entering
the Navy need not worry about
their race as a hinderance. "The
Navy doesn't care who operates
the machines aboard our subs.
But it does ask whether the man
is qualified," he added in agreeing
with Thompson that "There is no
limit to how far a Negro can go
in the Navy." He urged high school
students to "Stay in school until
you graduate and then join the
Navy and you'll have a career of
unlimited opportunities."
Pennington told me he himself
bad had a "fine career." With his
service seniority and rank as a
non-commissioned chief petty officer, 
he was earning $700 a month,
and said he was "looking forward
to retiring to a nice ranch in California 
where I can live quietly
with my family golf and fish "He
was a great golf enthusiast.
Up to last week, when "he went
down with his ship," Pennington
was living with his wife, Doris, a
graduate of Johnson C. Smith university 
in North Carolina, at Croton, 
Conn.
Pennington told me with humility 
that he "did not know why I
was selected for this orientation
program because I am not a fine
public speaker." But high school
students and adults, who heard him
discuss "the vast opportunities"
open to Negroes in the Navy's nuclear 
program, at Mt. Pisgah Center 
here thought he spoke convincingly 
and well. It could be,
therefore, that in death Penningotn 
has put in his greatest "plug"
for the Navy.
As a Navy "sea salt", Pennington 
had absolutely, no fear. "I have
been depth charged so many times,
I don't even think about it," he
told me. The dept charges resulted 
from bombs, called "Ash Cans"
in Navy language, dropped into the
ocean by enemy planes and ships
in an effort to destroy his submarine 
during World War II and
Korean Conflict.
The chief participated in six
World War II patrols While serving, 
aboard the submarines U. S. S.
Seadragon and Spikefish. After the
Korean Conflict, Pennington was
assigned to the Naval Shipyard at
Portsmouth, N. H., where he served 
as electrician division chief.
With the introduction of nuclear 
power, to the Navy's submarine 
force, Pennington was one of
the first or any race, military or
civilian, to be selected to attend
the various nuclear power schools.
He attended the Basic Nuclear
Power school at New London,
Conn.; the S3G Proto-type school
at Schenectady, N. Y.; the Bettis
Atomic Power Laboratory in Pittsburgh, 
Pa., and the Atomic Biological 
Chemical, Defense Warfare
school at the Philadelphia Naval
Shipyard.
He emerged as an able, thorough
technician. The Navy thought so
highly of him that in Sept., 1961,
he was sent to the David Taylor

Model Basin in Thresher. He was
"completely sold" on the ship, he
said.

DEDICATED NAVY MAN

I can imagine the shock and
grief of the survivors of the men
who lost their lives in the disaster
because only a week before the
tragedy I had talked with Chief
Pennington here. He had flown
to Chicago on direct orders from
the Pentagon along with Lt. Commander 
George I. Thompson, to
participate in a nuclear submarine
orientation program, aimed at encouraging 
qualified Negro youths
to Join the Navy.
I talked at length with Chief
Pennington six days earlier on
Thursday, April 4, in the Pick
Congress Hotel. I was probably the
last newspaperman to talk with
him.
It was Thompson, who was on
duty at the Pentagon before becoming 
one of the first two Negroes 
to enter the Naval War College 
for senior officers at Newport, 
R. I., who arranged for Pennington 
to come to Chicago with
the Nuclear Motivation team. Chief
Pennington was selected after a
search had been made of the entire 
Atlantic and Pacific theatres
of operation to find the top Negro 
nuclear reactor specialist.
A native of Fort Worth, Tex.,

Pennington, 38, was a completely
dedicated Navy man. A 20-year
veteran who survived many sea
battles during World War II and
the Korean Conflict, Pennington
"talked and breathed the Navy."
He was highly patriotic; he contended 
that "If this country fails,
we all fail with it." He was mindful 
that while there were still racial, 
problems in the service, he
was convinces the Navy was making 
an earnest effort, to promote
goodwill among its personnel.
He cited a case in Fort Lauderdale, 
Fla., in 1960, when he and
other Navy men and their families
were invited, to a park picnic. He
was the only Negro Navy man in
the party and objections were
paised because of his race As a
result, the Navy cancelled the
picnic. "If I, a Negro, couldn't attend, 
then the Navy would have
no part of it," Pennington recalled
with pride.
"Aboard ship we are just Navy
men, all of us," he said, in emphasizing 
that Negro youths entering
the Navy need not worry about
their race as a hinderance. "The
Navy doesn't care who operates
the machines aboard our subs.
But it does ask whether the man
is qualified," he added in agreeing
with Thompson that "There is no
limit to how far a Negro can go
in the Navy." He urged high school
students to "Stay in school until
you graduate and then join the
Navy and you'll have a career of
unlimited opportunities."
Pennington told me he himself
bad had a "fine career." With his
service seniority and rank as a
non-commissioned chief petty officer, 
he was earning $700 a month,
and said he was "looking forward
to retiring to a nice ranch in California 
where I can live quietly
with my family golf and fish "He
was a great golf enthusiast.
Up to last week, when "he went
down with his ship," Pennington
was living with his wife, Doris, a
graduate of Johnson C. Smith university 
in North Carolina, at Croton, 
Conn.
Pennington told me with humility 
that he "did not know why I
was selected for this orientation
program because I am not a fine
public speaker." But high school
students and adults, who heard him
discuss "the vast opportunities"
open to Negroes in the Navy's nuclear 
program, at Mt. Pisgah Center 
here thought he spoke convincingly 
and well. It could be,
therefore, that in death Penningotn 
has put in his greatest "plug"
for the Navy.
As a Navy "sea salt", Pennington 
had absolutely, no fear. "I have
been depth charged so many times,
I don't even think about it," he
told me. The dept charges resulted 
from bombs, called "Ash Cans"
in Navy language, dropped into the
ocean by enemy planes and ships
in an effort to destroy his submarine 
during World War II and
Korean Conflict.
The chief participated in six
World War II patrols While serving, 
aboard the submarines U. S. S.
Seadragon and Spikefish. After the
Korean Conflict, Pennington was
assigned to the Naval Shipyard at
Portsmouth, N. H., where he served 
as electrician division chief.
With the introduction of nuclear 
power, to the Navy's submarine 
force, Pennington was one of
the first or any race, military or
civilian, to be selected to attend
the various nuclear power schools.
He attended the Basic Nuclear
Power school at New London,
Conn.; the S3G Proto-type school
at Schenectady, N. Y.; the Bettis
Atomic Power Laboratory in Pittsburgh, 
Pa., and the Atomic Biological 
Chemical, Defense Warfare
school at the Philadelphia Naval
Shipyard.
He emerged as an able, thorough
technician. The Navy thought so
highly of him that in Sept., 1961,
he was sent to the David Taylor

Model Basin in Thresher. He was
"completely sold" on the ship, he
said.

LOOKED TO RETIREMENT

I can imagine the shock and
grief of the survivors of the men
who lost their lives in the disaster
because only a week before the
tragedy I had talked with Chief
Pennington here. He had flown
to Chicago on direct orders from
the Pentagon along with Lt. Commander 
George I. Thompson, to
participate in a nuclear submarine
orientation program, aimed at encouraging 
qualified Negro youths
to Join the Navy.
I talked at length with Chief
Pennington six days earlier on
Thursday, April 4, in the Pick
Congress Hotel. I was probably the
last newspaperman to talk with
him.
It was Thompson, who was on
duty at the Pentagon before becoming 
one of the first two Negroes 
to enter the Naval War College 
for senior officers at Newport, 
R. I., who arranged for Pennington 
to come to Chicago with
the Nuclear Motivation team. Chief
Pennington was selected after a
search had been made of the entire 
Atlantic and Pacific theatres
of operation to find the top Negro 
nuclear reactor specialist.
A native of Fort Worth, Tex.,

Pennington, 38, was a completely
dedicated Navy man. A 20-year
veteran who survived many sea
battles during World War II and
the Korean Conflict, Pennington
"talked and breathed the Navy."
He was highly patriotic; he contended 
that "If this country fails,
we all fail with it." He was mindful 
that while there were still racial, 
problems in the service, he
was convinces the Navy was making 
an earnest effort, to promote
goodwill among its personnel.
He cited a case in Fort Lauderdale, 
Fla., in 1960, when he and
other Navy men and their families
were invited, to a park picnic. He
was the only Negro Navy man in
the party and objections were
paised because of his race As a
result, the Navy cancelled the
picnic. "If I, a Negro, couldn't attend, 
then the Navy would have
no part of it," Pennington recalled
with pride.
"Aboard ship we are just Navy
men, all of us," he said, in emphasizing 
that Negro youths entering
the Navy need not worry about
their race as a hinderance. "The
Navy doesn't care who operates
the machines aboard our subs.
But it does ask whether the man
is qualified," he added in agreeing
with Thompson that "There is no
limit to how far a Negro can go
in the Navy." He urged high school
students to "Stay in school until
you graduate and then join the
Navy and you'll have a career of
unlimited opportunities."
Pennington told me he himself
bad had a "fine career." With his
service seniority and rank as a
non-commissioned chief petty officer, 
he was earning $700 a month,
and said he was "looking forward
to retiring to a nice ranch in California 
where I can live quietly
with my family golf and fish "He
was a great golf enthusiast.
Up to last week, when "he went
down with his ship," Pennington
was living with his wife, Doris, a
graduate of Johnson C. Smith university 
in North Carolina, at Croton, 
Conn.
Pennington told me with humility 
that he "did not know why I
was selected for this orientation
program because I am not a fine
public speaker." But high school
students and adults, who heard him
discuss "the vast opportunities"
open to Negroes in the Navy's nuclear 
program, at Mt. Pisgah Center 
here thought he spoke convincingly 
and well. It could be,
therefore, that in death Penningotn 
has put in his greatest "plug"
for the Navy.
As a Navy "sea salt", Pennington 
had absolutely, no fear. "I have
been depth charged so many times,
I don't even think about it," he
told me. The dept charges resulted 
from bombs, called "Ash Cans"
in Navy language, dropped into the
ocean by enemy planes and ships
in an effort to destroy his submarine 
during World War II and
Korean Conflict.
The chief participated in six
World War II patrols While serving, 
aboard the submarines U. S. S.
Seadragon and Spikefish. After the
Korean Conflict, Pennington was
assigned to the Naval Shipyard at
Portsmouth, N. H., where he served 
as electrician division chief.
With the introduction of nuclear 
power, to the Navy's submarine 
force, Pennington was one of
the first or any race, military or
civilian, to be selected to attend
the various nuclear power schools.
He attended the Basic Nuclear
Power school at New London,
Conn.; the S3G Proto-type school
at Schenectady, N. Y.; the Bettis
Atomic Power Laboratory in Pittsburgh, 
Pa., and the Atomic Biological 
Chemical, Defense Warfare
school at the Philadelphia Naval
Shipyard.
He emerged as an able, thorough
technician. The Navy thought so
highly of him that in Sept., 1961,
he was sent to the David Taylor

Model Basin in Thresher. He was
"completely sold" on the ship, he
said.

HAD NO FEAR

I can imagine the shock and
grief of the survivors of the men
who lost their lives in the disaster
because only a week before the
tragedy I had talked with Chief
Pennington here. He had flown
to Chicago on direct orders from
the Pentagon along with Lt. Commander 
George I. Thompson, to
participate in a nuclear submarine
orientation program, aimed at encouraging 
qualified Negro youths
to Join the Navy.
I talked at length with Chief
Pennington six days earlier on
Thursday, April 4, in the Pick
Congress Hotel. I was probably the
last newspaperman to talk with
him.
It was Thompson, who was on
duty at the Pentagon before becoming 
one of the first two Negroes 
to enter the Naval War College 
for senior officers at Newport, 
R. I., who arranged for Pennington 
to come to Chicago with
the Nuclear Motivation team. Chief
Pennington was selected after a
search had been made of the entire 
Atlantic and Pacific theatres
of operation to find the top Negro 
nuclear reactor specialist.
A native of Fort Worth, Tex.,

Pennington, 38, was a completely
dedicated Navy man. A 20-year
veteran who survived many sea
battles during World War II and
the Korean Conflict, Pennington
"talked and breathed the Navy."
He was highly patriotic; he contended 
that "If this country fails,
we all fail with it." He was mindful 
that while there were still racial, 
problems in the service, he
was convinces the Navy was making 
an earnest effort, to promote
goodwill among its personnel.
He cited a case in Fort Lauderdale, 
Fla., in 1960, when he and
other Navy men and their families
were invited, to a park picnic. He
was the only Negro Navy man in
the party and objections were
paised because of his race As a
result, the Navy cancelled the
picnic. "If I, a Negro, couldn't attend, 
then the Navy would have
no part of it," Pennington recalled
with pride.
"Aboard ship we are just Navy
men, all of us," he said, in emphasizing 
that Negro youths entering
the Navy need not worry about
their race as a hinderance. "The
Navy doesn't care who operates
the machines aboard our subs.
But it does ask whether the man
is qualified," he added in agreeing
with Thompson that "There is no
limit to how far a Negro can go
in the Navy." He urged high school
students to "Stay in school until
you graduate and then join the
Navy and you'll have a career of
unlimited opportunities."
Pennington told me he himself
bad had a "fine career." With his
service seniority and rank as a
non-commissioned chief petty officer, 
he was earning $700 a month,
and said he was "looking forward
to retiring to a nice ranch in California 
where I can live quietly
with my family golf and fish "He
was a great golf enthusiast.
Up to last week, when "he went
down with his ship," Pennington
was living with his wife, Doris, a
graduate of Johnson C. Smith university 
in North Carolina, at Croton, 
Conn.
Pennington told me with humility 
that he "did not know why I
was selected for this orientation
program because I am not a fine
public speaker." But high school
students and adults, who heard him
discuss "the vast opportunities"
open to Negroes in the Navy's nuclear 
program, at Mt. Pisgah Center 
here thought he spoke convincingly 
and well. It could be,
therefore, that in death Penningotn 
has put in his greatest "plug"
for the Navy.
As a Navy "sea salt", Pennington 
had absolutely, no fear. "I have
been depth charged so many times,
I don't even think about it," he
told me. The dept charges resulted 
from bombs, called "Ash Cans"
in Navy language, dropped into the
ocean by enemy planes and ships
in an effort to destroy his submarine 
during World War II and
Korean Conflict.
The chief participated in six
World War II patrols While serving, 
aboard the submarines U. S. S.
Seadragon and Spikefish. After the
Korean Conflict, Pennington was
assigned to the Naval Shipyard at
Portsmouth, N. H., where he served 
as electrician division chief.
With the introduction of nuclear 
power, to the Navy's submarine 
force, Pennington was one of
the first or any race, military or
civilian, to be selected to attend
the various nuclear power schools.
He attended the Basic Nuclear
Power school at New London,
Conn.; the S3G Proto-type school
at Schenectady, N. Y.; the Bettis
Atomic Power Laboratory in Pittsburgh, 
Pa., and the Atomic Biological 
Chemical, Defense Warfare
school at the Philadelphia Naval
Shipyard.
He emerged as an able, thorough
technician. The Navy thought so
highly of him that in Sept., 1961,
he was sent to the David Taylor

Model Basin in Thresher. He was
"completely sold" on the ship, he
said.

18-Year-Old Mother
Expecting Quads
An 18year-old 
mother is expected to deliver 
quadruplets at the end of
July, Michael Reese hospital officials 
said last week.
She is Mrs. Delores Harris, the
wife of an assembler at International 
Harvester.
It would be the first quadruplet
birth at the hospital.
Confirmation of the impending
multiple birth was made by a special 
electrocardiograph that traced
four fetal heartbeats simultaneously 
with the mother's own heart action. 

Doctors explained that use of an
ordinary stethoscope would not
have permitted determination with
certainty that each fetus was alive.
Mrs. Harris is in good, health but
is being kept at the hospital as a
precaution. She has one other
child, a son, Shawn, 13 months.

BBC SAYS INDIA LEADS
CHINA IN NUCLEAR CLUB
India's 
nuclear capability was placed
high above that of China, Japan
and many western countries, in a
program on the development of
nuclear weapons televised by the
British Broadcasting Corp., reports
the Hindustan Times.

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PEACE CORPS AIDE PROMOTED —
Franklin Williams, right, of
Flushing, N.Y., newly appointed director of the Division of Privates
and International Co-operation in the Peace Corps, discusses a
paper with corps Director Sargent Shriver in Washington. A
former secretary-counsel of the West Coast office of the NAACP,
Mr. Franklin joined the Peace Corps in 1961. He formerly headed
the Division of Private Organizations, which, with the Divisions
of University Relations and International Programs, make up the
newly created office designed to streamline the corps' work with
non-governmental agencies. (NNNPA photo from Peace Corps)

ELEANOR
— By Arthur Wesley Reason,
A.M.

MEN,
THE WORLD'S NEED
— By Arthur Wesley Reason,
A.M.

WE ARE AMERICANS
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START BOWLING LEAGUE —
The Promoters started a 20-team
Bowling league last week at Rollaway Lanes and members, of the
club hope to see the league grow to 34 teams, Isaac Young, business 
manager, said Southern Educators, Inc. will supply shirts for
two of the teams. Pictured, left to right James Crittendon, president 
of Junior Promoters; the Rev. N. A. Crawford, manager of
Southern Educators; Roland Lambert, general manager of Rollaway 
Lanes, and Bolder Lawson, president of the Promoters.

CURRIN AND GORDON OF
LeMOYNE IN TOP SPOTS
Monroe Currin, sensational guard from Halls, Tenn. who
paced LeMoyne's Magicians during the past season, was ranked
16th among individual scoring leaders, according to final statistics 
just released by the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
He had a 26.0 average.
Captain James. Gordon, the big forward from Louisyille,
wound up in the No. 14 spot among field goal percentage leaders.
His average was .611.
LeMoyne was 32nd in team offense, ahead of Arkansas
AM&N, and ninth among field goal percentage leaders," just
ahead of Grambling.