Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1963-02-02
J. A. Beauchamp

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION CENTENNIAL
OBSERVED AT MORGAN STATE COLLEGE —
The
observance of the centennial of the Emancipation 
Proclamation at Morgan State College last
week brought together these principals. In the
group, left to right, are Dr. Buell. G. Gallagher,
president of City College of City University of

New York; former Governor of Maryland Theodore 
R. McKeldin; Dr. James M. Nabrit, Jr., president 
of Howard University; Dr. Armin Mruck,
chairman of the Division of the Social Sciences,
Morgan State College; and Morgan president,
Dr. Martin D. Jenkins.

Son Detained After
Bludgeoning Father
A
38 year -old man who told friends
they should go see about his father 
as he had hit with a splinter 
and thought he was hurt" was
taken to the State Mental hospital 
in Whitfield for mental observation 
last week in connection with
the death of the father.
The father, Ollie Gary, about 70,
was found dead by the group at
the Gary home, about seven miles
south of here. His head had been
beaten in with a stick.
The son, Malcolm Gary, came into 
Morton last week and, according 
to testimony given Scott County 
Sheriff Dewitt Simmons, told
the friends to go see about his
father.
After finding the body the group
summoned Morton police officer
Lauris Sessum who investigated and
jailed the son.
A coroner's inquest ruled that
death was the result of murder.
The younger Gary gave no reason, 
for the slaying.


As a followupto 
unveiling the architectural design 
for North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company's new 12story 
scuptured concrete building,
A. T. Spaulding, president, has
just announced the selection of the
general contractor and a training
program that will offer Negro
youths an opportunity to increase
their earning power.
The REA Construction Company
of Charlotte, N. C., has been engaged 
as the general contractor to
handle the construction work on
the new home office building.
Said Spaulding: "While the primary 
purpose in constructing our
new home office building is to provide 
the best possible service for
our many policyowners, we have also 
given a lot of thought to benefits 
to our community through optimum 
local employment opportunities, 
and also to enabling Negro
workers to increase their earning
power." He continued, "Although
i is not our purpose nor our intent 
to be chauvinistic in racial
matters and indulge in self-imposed 
segregation; nevertheless, with
the Negro worker remaining the
low man on the economic totem
pole, we feel a responsibility to do
as much as we can to aid in the
creation of additional job opportunities 
and to assist in upgrading
the earning power of Negro workers." 

We believe the plan approved
by our directors and the management 
of the Company, in cooperation 
with the Construction Apprentice 
Council in North Carolina,
will do just that. Apprentice carpenters, 
tricklayers, cement masons,
pinter-deconators and other crafts
working on our job under the supervision 
of journeymen in these
trades and attending state supportted 
classes two evenings each
week will provide them the opportunity 
for pay increases every six
months. Apprentice carpenters, for
example, under the pay scale ap
proved 
by the Council will receive
an increase in pay amounting to
$20 per week when they complete
the program."
"One of the factors," Spaulding
continued, "in our decision to arrange 
a negotiated contract, in lieu
of the conventional sealed bid
method for the determination of
the general contractor, is the fact
that, under this method, we can
be in better position to assure a
goodly number of local employees
an opportunity to be on the payroll 
and fair employment on all
levels according to their skills."

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Author of Wartime
Poem Dies In D.C.
Funeral services were hold Jan. 25
for the Rev. Harry Wilson Patterson, 
whose wartime poem "Sleep
On" won him a citation from the
U. S. Navy and was distributed
around the world.
He succumbed to a heart attack
Jan. 21 in Lenardtown, Md., at
the age of 64.
A native of Baltimore, Mr. Patterson 
retired from government
service in 1952 and since had served 
as a traveling minister of the
Washington Conference of the A
M E Church.
During Word War II he was
employed as a draftsman and artist 
far the Navy. It was during
this period that he was inspired to
write the poem beginning "Sleep
on, Shipmates, and take your rest,
recline your heads on glory's
breast!."
Mr. Patterson also was the author 
of a little book of verse and
prose called "Gems of the soul."

First Colored
TV Station Goes
On Air Feb. 11
A
musical extravaganza staged by
Lionel Hampton will ope WOOKTV, 
the country's first colored television 
station, at 5 p. m. on Feb,
11.
John Panagos, executive vice president 
of United Broadcasting
Company, sadi WOOK-TV will operate 
on Channel 14 six hours daily, 
Operating from a 350 - foot antenna 
at 275,000 watts, it will be
the second UHF (Ultra high frequency) 
station in the area.
The station originally scheduled
to begin, broadcasting last Nov.
1, but was delayed by construction 
troubles and delays in arrival
of equipment.

Mahalia Jackson
Leaves For Hawaii
Gospel
singing queen Mahallai Jackson departs 
the Windy (and frigid) City
soon for a stint in Hawaii.
She has signed for a series of
concerts in balmy Hawaii.
The concert series came at a
convenient time for Miss Jackson.
Temperatures have been consistently 
below zero here the past two
weeks. Last week the Chicago temperatures 
ranged between 10 to 19
degrees.

"Salute To Southern
Students" Slated For
Carnegie Hall Feb. 1
A "Salute 
to Southern Students" will be
held here at Carnegie Hall on
Feb. 1, exactly three years since
the sit - in movement began in
Greensboro, N. C.
The program a benefit performance 
for the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee — the organization 
which came out of the
sit-in movement and now initiates
voter registration and direct action
drives in five Southern states —
will feature Tony Bennett, Thelonius 
Monk, Charlie Mingus, and
the Freedom Singers.
The Freedom Singers, a group of
SNCC field secretaries from several 
local protest movements, have
just completed a successful series
of engagements in the Chicago
area. This will be their first New
York appearance.
Proceeds of the benefit will go
to SNCC's voter registration and
direct action campaigns in Southwest 
Georgia, rural Mississippi,
South Carolina, Arkansas and Alabama. 


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Study Shows Gross
Inequities In Jobs
Of Tenn. Government

Though not suggesting a Negro
job quota based on population, the
study indicated that this can be
used as a standard in accusing the
degree of job opportunity. Among
the 17,295 employees covered by
the study in 14 agencies, there were
only 1,223 Negro workers — less
than half the number expected on
the basis of population percentage.
State employment in all agencies is
estimated at 20,000.
The study findings were made
public at about the same time that
Governor Frank Clement presented 
his "state of the state" message
to the Tennessee Legislature, and
Dr. Wallace T. Dooley, president of
the Nashville Community Conference 
on Employment Opportunity,
sponsor of the study, said that the
situation described by the findings
"urgently required attention and
action by the Governor in his program 
for the State the next four
years."
"We need a Governor's Commission 
on Human Rights to project
a clear policy of equal opportunity
for all citizens, to effect equal rights
in state employment and non-discrimination 
in all aspects of the
state establishment and, most importantly, 
to set standards which
can be followed in private sectors
of the state economy and in places
of public accommodation licensed
to do business in Tennessee," Dr.
Dooley declared.
In qualitative aspects of state
employment — occupation level and
range of job types, the study findings 
pointed to additional aspects
of ineuity. More than half of the
Negro state employees were found
in unskilled and janitorial jobs,
and some 80 percent fell outside
the general "White-collar" job classifications. 

A total of 1,216 types of jobs
constituted the full inventory of
state agencies, and of these only
115 were occupied by Negroes. Thus,
according to the study, Negro access 
was absent over more than 90

percent of the range of job types.
The study commended former
Governor Buford Ellington for
making the project possible and
praised the cooperation given by
the several department heads interviewed 
hed by representatives
of the NCCEO, pointing to the
general effort as an "example of
the worth and value of the democratic 
process" in the redress of
grievances.
Two important gains in state policy, 
aimed toward setting a reliable
base for establishing fair and equitable 
practices by the previous administration, 
were cited by the
study. These were (1) the elimination 
of separate Negro and white
eligibility lists for applicants to
state jobs, and (2) the reorganization 
of the state employment offices 
and procedure so as to eliminate 
racially separate facilities and
discriminatory job selection. With
respect to the latter, the study reported 
that it had no information
as to the degree to which this policy 
had actually been put into practice 
in offices across the state.

IMPORTANT POLICY GAINS

Though not suggesting a Negro
job quota based on population, the
study indicated that this can be
used as a standard in accusing the
degree of job opportunity. Among
the 17,295 employees covered by
the study in 14 agencies, there were
only 1,223 Negro workers — less
than half the number expected on
the basis of population percentage.
State employment in all agencies is
estimated at 20,000.
The study findings were made
public at about the same time that
Governor Frank Clement presented 
his "state of the state" message
to the Tennessee Legislature, and
Dr. Wallace T. Dooley, president of
the Nashville Community Conference 
on Employment Opportunity,
sponsor of the study, said that the
situation described by the findings
"urgently required attention and
action by the Governor in his program 
for the State the next four
years."
"We need a Governor's Commission 
on Human Rights to project
a clear policy of equal opportunity
for all citizens, to effect equal rights
in state employment and non-discrimination 
in all aspects of the
state establishment and, most importantly, 
to set standards which
can be followed in private sectors
of the state economy and in places
of public accommodation licensed
to do business in Tennessee," Dr.
Dooley declared.
In qualitative aspects of state
employment — occupation level and
range of job types, the study findings 
pointed to additional aspects
of ineuity. More than half of the
Negro state employees were found
in unskilled and janitorial jobs,
and some 80 percent fell outside
the general "White-collar" job classifications. 

A total of 1,216 types of jobs
constituted the full inventory of
state agencies, and of these only
115 were occupied by Negroes. Thus,
according to the study, Negro access 
was absent over more than 90

percent of the range of job types.
The study commended former
Governor Buford Ellington for
making the project possible and
praised the cooperation given by
the several department heads interviewed 
hed by representatives
of the NCCEO, pointing to the
general effort as an "example of
the worth and value of the democratic 
process" in the redress of
grievances.
Two important gains in state policy, 
aimed toward setting a reliable
base for establishing fair and equitable 
practices by the previous administration, 
were cited by the
study. These were (1) the elimination 
of separate Negro and white
eligibility lists for applicants to
state jobs, and (2) the reorganization 
of the state employment offices 
and procedure so as to eliminate 
racially separate facilities and
discriminatory job selection. With
respect to the latter, the study reported 
that it had no information
as to the degree to which this policy 
had actually been put into practice 
in offices across the state.

SNCC Secretary
Is Bound Over
An
assistant circuit solicitor said here
in a hearing on a -'false pretenses" 
charge against Robert Zellner,
field secretary for the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
that he had offered to drop that
charge if Zellner would plead guilty 
to a charge of vagrancy.
Assistant Solicitor Maury Smith
said in court that he had offered
Zellner the following deal: if Zellner 
would plead guilty to the vagrancy 
charge accept a $100 fine,
and a 30 - day suspended sentence
the "false pretenses" charge would
be dropped. The Solicitor himself
said in court that Zellner refused
the offer.
Zellner, 23, was arrested in
Montgomery on January 8 and
charged with vagrancy. At his trial,
the "false pretenses" charge was
added.

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Propose Program
Of 3R's For D. C.
Area Unemployed
The
hard - core unemployed with little
schooling would benefit under a pilot 
education program proposed for
the District of Columbia under the
Manpower Development and Training 
Act.
The program would train unemployed 
persons for service and
maintenance jobs by sending them
to classes in reading, writing and
arithmetic.
Sponsors of the program pointed
out that basic education is jobrelated. 
They said waitresses must
read a menu and be able to take
down an order, maids must read
grocery lists, an janitors need to
read and write in carrying out their
work.

Threat To Newspapers
In Northern Rhodesia
Reporters 
of Lusaka's "Central African
Post" were described as "prostitutes 
of pressmen" by Kenneth
Kaunda, Minister of Local Government 
and Local Welfare in
Northern Rhodesia.
Taking exception to a report of
the Lozi tribal faction breaking
away from the United National Independence 
Party, Kaunda threatened 
to suppress Northern Rhodes
ian newspapers, which report tribal 
rifts in party ranks.
New Togo chief gets jobless aid
problem.

SEEK EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ARMED FORCES
—
President Kennedy is shown at White House
meeting Wednesday with members of his advisory 
committee on Equal Opportunity in the
Armed Forces. In asking the committee to pinpoint 
problems of discrimination against servicemen, 
Mr. Kennedy said he was more concerned
right now over proper housing, schools and
facilities for them off military bases than with
in 
the posts. Pictured, left to right: Laurence L.
Hewes, 3d, of Washington; Nathaniel S. Colley,
Sacramento, Calif.; Benjamin Muse, Manassas,
Va.; Gerhard A. Gesell, of Washington, chairman; 
Mr. Kennedy; Whitney Young, executive director 
of National Urban League; John H. Sengstacke, 
Chicago publisher; and Abe Fortas, of
Washington.

Will Of Doctor
Includes Daughter,
But Omits Widow
The will
of Dr. Harry Montgomery Nuttall
was made public last week and revealed 
that his six children will
share equally in his estate with
Harry Dalton Nutall, the oldest son
being named as executor.
It was noted that Bernice Thomas, 
who had attacked her father in
an argument a few days prior to
his death, was included in the will.
Mrs. Thomas had been sought on
a charge of felonious assault by
police prior to the death of her
father, but the search was discontinued 
when a coroner ruled that
Dr. Nuttall's death could not be
attributed to the wounds that had
been inflicted by his daughter.
Dr. Nuttall at one time was considered 
one of the wealthiest men
on the near Eastside. He was reported 
to have held extensive property 
holdings.
A source close to the family,
however, reports that the remaining 
estate was not as large as it
has been purported. Dr. Nuttall who
was 92 years of age at his death,
had retired from active practice
some three years ago.
One of his daughters Helen, is
the wife of Russell Brown, prominent 
politician and bondsman who
was recently indicted on a Federal
narcotics charge.
In naming his six children as his
heirs, Dr. Nuttall made special note
of the fact that he Was aware that
he had a wife, Susie Naola Nuttall,
lthough making no provision for
her in his will.

HAD BIG HOLDINGGS
The will
of Dr. Harry Montgomery Nuttall
was made public last week and revealed 
that his six children will
share equally in his estate with
Harry Dalton Nutall, the oldest son
being named as executor.
It was noted that Bernice Thomas, 
who had attacked her father in
an argument a few days prior to
his death, was included in the will.
Mrs. Thomas had been sought on
a charge of felonious assault by
police prior to the death of her
father, but the search was discontinued 
when a coroner ruled that
Dr. Nuttall's death could not be
attributed to the wounds that had
been inflicted by his daughter.
Dr. Nuttall at one time was considered 
one of the wealthiest men
on the near Eastside. He was reported 
to have held extensive property 
holdings.
A source close to the family,
however, reports that the remaining 
estate was not as large as it
has been purported. Dr. Nuttall who
was 92 years of age at his death,
had retired from active practice
some three years ago.
One of his daughters Helen, is
the wife of Russell Brown, prominent 
politician and bondsman who
was recently indicted on a Federal
narcotics charge.
In naming his six children as his
heirs, Dr. Nuttall made special note
of the fact that he Was aware that
he had a wife, Susie Naola Nuttall,
lthough making no provision for
her in his will.

Wellesley Alumnae
Council To Meet
Mrs. James H. Carter, 981 Eulalia
Road N. E., Atlanta, plans to participate 
in the 40th annual session
of the Wellesley College Alumnae
Council, which will meet January
31 through February 2 on the campus 
in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
This year's Alumnae Council will
include representatives of classes
from 1903 through 1962; officers of
most of the 145 regional alumnae
clubs and groups; and leaders of
the 22 geographical fund districts.
A total of some 300 alumnae leaders 
are expected to come to Wellesley 
from throughout the country.
Miss Margaret Clapp, President
of Wellesley, will be the principal
speaker at the opening Alumnae
Council meeting on Thursday evening. 

On Friday, Council members will
hear from heads of the College's
admission and placement offices;
from undergraduates from the Philippines, 
Japan, Ghana and the
British West Indies; and from two
members of the faculty who held
leaves of absence during 1961-62.
They are a professor of Biblical
history, who will dsecribe her work
to India during her sabbatical
leave, and an assistant professor
of German who will discuss her
study of German and French existential 
writers, made while she
held a "junior leave" available to
younger Wellesley faculty members.
Speakers at Saturday evening's
Alumnae Council session will be
John R. Quarles, chairman of the
Wellesley Board of the Trustees, and
two members of the Board — the
vice chairman who also heads the
Board's finance committee, and the
senior trustee elected by members
of the Alumnae Association.
During Alumnae Council members 
also will hear about the College's 
Personal Call Program, designed 
to keep all alumnae informed 
about activities on the campus
and about the progress of Wellesley's 
current effort to raise $15,000,000 
for faculty salaries.
Workshops for class, club, and
geographic fund leaders, open house
to academic and residential buildings 
on the campus, an alumnae
chapel service, and a reception at
the president's House are other
events in which Alumnae Council
numbers will participate during
their three - day meeting.
U. N. tightening troops grip on
Katanga.

JFK Would 'Pinpoint'
Bias In Armed Forces
President Kennedy asked his advisory 
Committee on Equal Opportunity 
in the Armed Forces Wednesday 
to "pinpoint problems of
racial discrimination against servicemen." 

Administration special counsel
Lee C. White said the President
was concerned that the group of
seven citizens should have accurate 
data —especially about discrimination 
in off - base facilities
such as housing, restaurants and
service clubs.
He also told the committee to
look into any intraservice problems
as "some feeling" had been expressed 
on the part of colored

groups that promotion policies are
discriminatory.
The committee, organized last
June 21, was asked at that time
to recommend measures to improve 
equality of opportunity for
members of the Armed Forces and
their dependents. Another meeting
with the President is scheduled for
next June or July.
Gerhard A. Gesell, of Washington, 
is chairman of the group.
Other committee members include
Nathaniel S. Colley, of Sacramento, 
an attorney; John H. Sengstacke, 
of Chicago, newspaper publisher; 
and Whitney M. Young, Jr.,
executive director of the National
Urban League.

NEA Research Shows Teachers
To Earn $5,735 Average In'63
The nation's
public school teachers this year will
earn an average annual salary of
$5,735, or $220 more than last school
year.
The figures are estimates compiled 
from all 50 states and the
District of Columbia by the Research 
Division of the National
Education Association. The figures,
issued annually by the NEA, are
contained in Estimates of School
Statistics: 1962-63, published, this
week. The estimates are only for
public elementary and secondary
schools.
Although the estimated average
salary hike represents a four percent 
increase over the average salary 
of $5,515 paid in the 1961-62
school year, it is the smallest pay
hike in the last eight years.
Elementary school teachers are
still paid less than teachers in the
high schools, according to the report, 
but the gap is narrowing.
While elementary school teachers
10 years ago earned just 85 percent
of what the high school teachers
did, this year the percentages is
up to 93.
The reason for the gap, the researchers 
say, is that high school
teachers normally have spent more
time in college preparing for their
teaching roles, and their salaries
have reflected this. But more and
more elementary school teachers

are now also getting extra preparation, 
and so the salary gap is closing. 

For the entire instructional staff
of the public schools — which includes 
not only teachers but also
principals, supervisors, and other
persons whose tasks are directly
related to teaching — the average
salary throughout the nation is
$5,940, or $205 more than the average 
for teachers alone. Last year,
the average salary for the entire instructional 
was $5,710.
The states of the Far West, according 
to the report, are still paying 
the highest salaries to instructional 
staff members. The average
is $7,161, followed by average of
$6,546 in the Middle Atlantic states,
$6,114 in the Northwest, and $4,750
in the Southeastern states.
The average salary for the entire
instructional staff — not just the
teachers — has gone up 67 percent
in the last 10 years, according to
the report, which says the 1952-53
average was $3,554.

Prominent D. C.
Lawyer, Curtis
Mitchell Dies
Funeral services were set for Friday, 
Jan. 25, for Curtis Paris Mitchell, 
a well-known Washington
criminal lawyer, who died Monday 
at Freedmen's Hospital.
The death of the 49-year-old attorney, 
who was one of the leaders
in a local fight against arrests for
investigation, was attributed to a
cerebral hemorrhage.
At his death, Mr. Mitchell was
the senior partner of the law firm
of Mitchell, Ellis and Shorter. His
practice had ranged all the way
up to the Supreme Court, where
in 1954 he challenged the constitutionality 
of Washington's 1953
omnibus crime law dealing with
search and seizure.
A native of Denver, Colo., Mr.
Mitchell was graduated from Howard 
University in 1938, after attending 
Lincoln University at Oxford, 
Pa. He was awarded the law
degree by Howard University in
1941.
Mr. Mitchell was employed as a
lawyer by the Federal Housing Administration, 
but resigned that
position in 1942 to enter private
practice.
He was a member of the District
Bar Association, the Pigskin Club,
the Bachelors Benedict and the
Maryland sportsman's Association.
Survivors include four children
Curtis P., Jr., Welker C. Angela L.,
and Michell D.

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