Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1965-09-25 J. A. Beauchamp "Indignities" Blamed In Riots Not Brutality Police Indignities, rather than "police brutality." may have spurred the bloody Negro riots th t convulsed the Watts section of Los angeles last month, according to an article published today in a national magazine. Writing in the current issue of Look Magazine, editor T. George Harris said that "whatever the substance of the brutality charges loudly aired in the press since the riots, the central fault of the police went largely unreported. It sounds too simple; yet it has to do with basic human dignity. "Too many white caps used terms like 'boy' and 'nigger' on the black citizens they were supposed to protect. Too many showed subtle signs of racial contempt.' Interviews with friends and families of Negroes killed in the riots showed that "police indignities" enraged many Negroes who sought equal courtesies, the article indicated. According to Harris, the mother of a 20 - year -old Negro shot to death by police during the riots "still seethes over memory of a white patrolman who made a crude, pass." Harris said the dead youth, Charles P trick Fizer, was given a $5 fine for jaywalking last year, but did not mind the fine so much as he "hated the way the cop addressed him: 'Boy! Where are you going?" The Look article said the major cause of the riots could be found in the "collapsing bonds of the Negro family," but also laid blame on the "failure of churches, of Negro leadership and of white businessmen." Wide public support is being given to the New York City Board of Education's "Operation Reclaim" designed to provide teaching positions in the City's public Schools the next few years for as many as 500 sothern Negro teachers who have lost their positions because of school desegregations. Dr. John B. King, executive deputy superintendent of schools, who is directing the project, announced that 40 community and proffesional organizations, more than 75 southern colleges with predominantly Negro student bodies nine New York metropolitan colleges and the New York State Employment service are helping to gather statistical information needed for application for federal funds to finance, the project. The local area colleges are also cooperating in the development of programs for orienting to local educational problems, methods and resonrces those teacher who will want to teach in New York City schools. The college will also provide programs for those who need additional or refresher courses to meet fully the City school system's requirements for teaching . Dr. King also said that The Hoc Committee in charge of the and magazines throughout the country particularly those with Negro audiences, to assist in the campaign to collect valid and complete informatoin about the New York City newspapers and radio and television stations and the national wire services for the news coverage already extended to "Operation Reclaim." Dr. King stated that applications are being received and that he expects substantial information to come in within the next few weeks. Thus far, more than 200 inquiries regarding teaching positions in New York City have come from the displaced teachers, Dr. King said. "As soon as the grass - roots survey identifies a substantial number of displaced teachers desiring to serve in New York City we shall submit a formal request for Federal fund to cover moving and subsitence expenses and the cost Labor Department have been most helpful in the preliminary planning of our proposals for MDTA and or NDEA funds." Dr. King added. The cooperating community and professional organizations include the following: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, National Program; American Jewish Committee, N. Y. Chapter; American Teachers Association; Anti - Defamation League of Birth; Catholic Inter racial Council; City Commission on Human Rights; Congress of Racial Equality; National Association for the Advancement of Colored Prople; National Association of Colored Women's Club; National Conference of Council of Negro Women; National Education Association; National Scholarships for Negro Students; NYC Department of Relocation; NYYC Housing and Redevelopment Board; The One Hundred Men. Inc.; Protestant Council of the City of New York; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Non -Violent Coordinating Committee; United Federation of Teachers, Urban League of Greater New York. In addition, letters requesting similar cooperation have been sent of the following organizations; Alpha Kappa Psi Sorority; Alpha Phi Alpha Faternity; Bedford YM CA of Brooklyn; Delta Sigma Th Sorority; Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies; Friends of the Harlem Y Hary K Alpha Phsi Fraternity; Links Social Club; National Sorority of the Phi Delta Kapppa; Omega Psi Phi Fratornity; Beta Sigma Fraternity; Zeta Beta Sorority. The placement officers of more than 120 southern colleges with predominatly Negro student bodies have also invited to cooperate in this survey. The nine New York City colleges and university helping the school system in this project are; Ford ham University, Long Island University Yeshiva University, Bank Street College, St. John's University, Teachers College of Columbia University and Queens and Hunuuter colleges, representing the City University of New York. Hofstra University may also participate in the program. Dr. King said. The New York State Employment Service has enlisted the help of state employment services in the South in compling information about teachers who have lost their jobs because of school desegragation. The survey is being concentrated in 12 Southern states including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma. South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Estimate of the number lost or are likely during the next few years to lose their position as desegration proceeds have ranged up to 5,000. The New York City project is intended to reclaim the otherwise wasted talents of these displaced teachers and bring the benefits of their unique professional experience to the children of New York City. The program will help these teachers to obtain professional employment now where awaiting the outcome of the many court cases necessary to obtain employment in many of the desegregated schools of the South. Lloyd K. Garrison president of the New York City Board of Education and Dr. King have explained the objectives of the project thus: "In order to achieve Excellence in Education in New York City one of the continuing goals is to increase the pool of teachers and supervisors specially qualified to meet the many and varid needs of urban children. "It has become evident that the progress of desegregation in the schools of the South will bring with it the displacement of thousands of experienced and highly competent Negro teachers and supervisors The work of these professionals would be particularly valuable in New York City, where educational experiences in a multi - racial setting." Mr. Garrison and Dr. King pointed out that these teachers and supervisors already have had extensive professional training and experience. 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Harris, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Chicago Metropolitan issued their statement following a meeting of the Executive Committee and Beard of the two companies They expect the merger action to become final before the end of the current year. Supreme Life now has a total of $220 million of insurance in force. Total assets of the broadly based company to be known as Supreme life Insurance Company of America will amount to $51 million. The plan was stimulated according to the statement, by the increased effectiveness and butter service resulting from the merger of the two companies, "We will be in a better position to effect savings in operation, reflect improved services and be in a better position to develop stronger and more meaningful plans of insurance protection for all," the statement said. Above all, according to the statement, the plan to merge the companies will make the insurance of fered more competitive with other insurers on the market today. "The present climate of more brcadly based economic and social opportunity for the Negro community accentuates the insurance needs in that sector as well as major insurers in the nation," the statement pointed out. "This planned merger will make even stronger our ability to compete in the total insurance buying market," the Joint statement emphasises. It goes on to say, "In the past both supreme and Chicago Metropolitan have attempted to fill the important gap in insurance coverage for the Negro community The plan reached today by our companies serves as major step in our desire to serve all facets of the community regardless of color, creed, education or other factors in our society." Just a month ago Supreme Life introduced an entirely new portfolio of ordinary life insurance policies at that time it was made perfectly clear th t this new portfolio was intended to serve every part of the community and out merely one segment of it. Concurrently Chicago Metropolitan had developed a modernized and competitive portfolio of policy offerings for the total market. Supreme Life, with its home office in Chicago, serves the following twelve states and the District of Columbia: California, Illinois. Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio. Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Chicago Metropolitan is also bused in Chicago and serves the following five states: Illinois, In Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. Final details of the merger of the companies are now in the process of completion. The plan to merge is to be submitted to the Illinois Insurance Department. The Joint statement by the two officers concluded by saying "Al though we are delighted with this development (the merging of the companies), we are fully aware that its effect on the community will require deligent and untiring effort on the part of our staffs. We pledge ourselves to th t end." IRRITATED SKIN Relieve minor skin irritation quick— Switch to Super-refined hospital quality 20 Civil Rights Cases, On High Court Docket At least 20 civil rights cases of public interest await the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, when the high tribunal opens its fall term the first week in October. At the weekend, the high count had agreed to hear oral argument in seven of the cases. One case of considerable interest involves an effort of the Federal government to reinstate indictments against 18 persons charged with "offenses against the civil rights" of Michael H. Schwerner, James E. Chaney and Andrew Goodman. The three young civil rights workers were killed during the summer of 1964 in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Miss. Three of the defendants, Cecil Kay Price, Bernard L. Akin and Richard A. Willis, were alleged in the indictments to be State law enforcement officers. The Federal court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Mar. 2. 1965, dismissed one indictment in its entirety involving all 16. Three counts of a second indictment in its entirety involving 14 of them were dismissed on the ground that they did not state an offense against the United States. On. April 26, 1965, the Mississippi court entered an order postponing further consideration of the guestion ing the two court appeals into one, is prepared to argue that the defendants are within section of the U.S. Crimi with individuals act association with public officials persons of life or process as guaranteed U.S. Constitution. "On this appeal Marshall court brief state. "there can no question that a violation of the 14th Amendment —at least by three official defendants—has been ade quately charged." In another case, Annie E. Harper and three others are seeking to have the high tribunal enjoin the enforcement of provisions of the Virginia Constitution and statutes which require the payment of poll taxes as a prerequisite to voting. The four contend, that denying the franchise to paupers and indigents and other persons who are without economic means to pay the taxes, who are otherwise qualified to vote is in violation of the 14th Amendment. Miss Harper formerly did domestic work, but was being maintained solely by social security benefits at the time the suit was instituted. She claims the cannot pay 3 years' back poll taxes at $1.50 a year, plus 5 per cent penalty for late payment, as well as interest charges. A third case, originating in Richmond, Va., in Sept. 1961, seeks inJunctive relief against public school segregation, particularly against the Richmond School Board and superintendent and against the Virginia Pupil Placement Board. A group of parents charge school authorities with failure to "make a reasonable start to effectuate a transition to a racially non-discriminator system ..." Of 41,568 children in Richmond schools in Sept. 1961, only 37 nonwhites were in schools with whites. Samuel B. Wells and Donald Harris, appelants involved in civil rights in Albany, Ga., in 1964, have asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, which in Feb. 1965, denied them injunctive relief. Wells is an official of the southern Christian Leadership Confer ence and Harris is a member of the student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. Both were members of the Albany Movement, a group seeking to obtain equal rights for Negroes. They are accused of attempting to incite insurrection by distributing leaflets urging colored citizens to attend a meeting in order to protest the killing of a local man at the city dump. Wells was arrested after a disturbance broke out in his absence. He was held in jail for 13 days and denied ball. The Supreme Court will consider the case of the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, an aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was arrested on April 4, 1962, during a boycott conducted by colored citizens in Birmingham, and convicted for loitering and failing to obey a police officer. The minister was sentenced to 180 days imprisonment at hard labor in default of a $100 court fine and costs. Shuttlesworth says the city ordinance under which he was prosecuted are unconstitutional on their face as applied to his conduct, and were so "vague and overboard" as to be incontravention of the 14th Amendment. Other civil rights cases involve sit-ins in Atlanta and New Orleans, demonstrations in Chester, Pa., de-annexation of a colored community in McComb, Miss., school racial imbalance in New York City and Hempstead, N. Y., and voting rights arrests in Greenwood, Miss. ELEANOR NOTE: This interesting article is published in the Reader's Digest 1965 issue. It was condensed from The American Legion Magazine by Donald John Giese. Lewd, larcenous, mysterious or just plain annoying, they're increasing, here are practical steps you can toke to protect yourself against intrusion. Recently the police and the telephone company in St. Paul, Minn, received a rash Of complaints from warried women who had had telephone calls from a man who said he was taking a "newspaper survey." Discovering Later that no such survey was in progress the women realized that they had given the caller more information than should have been released to a stranger. From each he had learned whether her husband worked nights, and which nights she was usually alone - information helpful to any burglar, mugger or windowpeeper. Unfortunately, neither the police nor the telephone companies scan do very much about annoying or mysterious calls, which are increasing along with the prime rate. The difficulty of tracing the calls and the strict federal laws protecting the privacy of telephone communications are major obstacles. But the telephone subscriber himself can help. Why should you permit abuse of your privacy on the phone that you would not take in person? Let's eavesdrop on a mysterious call received by a Mrs. White, You have had a similar one: "Mrs. White this is the American Institute of Mumbo Jumbo Research, and we would appreciate your co-operation in an important surrey we are conducting through selected people. Will you help us by answering a few questions?" "I'l Try". "Fine. Were you listening to the radio when the telephone rang"? "No, I wasn't." "Do you have a radio?" "Yes." "Television?" "Yes". (The voice on the other end sounds sincere and professional. Mrs. White's confidence has been gained.) "How many in your household?" "Myself, my husband and our little girl." "And what is your husband's occupation?" "He's sales representative for the Bland Manufacturing Co." "Does the family have any pets? "Just our parakeet." "When you are spending evenings alone do you generally watch television or listen to the radio." "I usually watch Television." "About' how many nights a week do you do this?" "Oh, sometimes three or four." "What month do you and Mr. White go for vacations?" 'We like June or July." Are your household goods and How To Cops With Crank Telephone Calls NOTE: This interesting article is published in the Reader's Digest 1965 issue. It was condensed from The American Legion Magazine by Donald John Giese. Lewd, larcenous, mysterious or just plain annoying, they're increasing, here are practical steps you can toke to protect yourself against intrusion. Recently the police and the telephone company in St. Paul, Minn, received a rash Of complaints from warried women who had had telephone calls from a man who said he was taking a "newspaper survey." Discovering Later that no such survey was in progress the women realized that they had given the caller more information than should have been released to a stranger. From each he had learned whether her husband worked nights, and which nights she was usually alone - information helpful to any burglar, mugger or windowpeeper. Unfortunately, neither the police nor the telephone companies scan do very much about annoying or mysterious calls, which are increasing along with the prime rate. The difficulty of tracing the calls and the strict federal laws protecting the privacy of telephone communications are major obstacles. But the telephone subscriber himself can help. Why should you permit abuse of your privacy on the phone that you would not take in person? Let's eavesdrop on a mysterious call received by a Mrs. White, You have had a similar one: "Mrs. White this is the American Institute of Mumbo Jumbo Research, and we would appreciate your co-operation in an important surrey we are conducting through selected people. Will you help us by answering a few questions?" "I'l Try". "Fine. Were you listening to the radio when the telephone rang"? "No, I wasn't." "Do you have a radio?" "Yes." "Television?" "Yes". (The voice on the other end sounds sincere and professional. Mrs. White's confidence has been gained.) "How many in your household?" "Myself, my husband and our little girl." "And what is your husband's occupation?" "He's sales representative for the Bland Manufacturing Co." "Does the family have any pets? "Just our parakeet." "When you are spending evenings alone do you generally watch television or listen to the radio." "I usually watch Television." "About' how many nights a week do you do this?" "Oh, sometimes three or four." 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Bibb, as director of public safety. had held the highest appointive post held by a Negro in Illinois. Sept. 21, 1909 — president Kwame Nkurmah of the Republic of Ghama was born. Sept. 22, 1862 — President Abraham Lincoln issues first Emancipation Proclamation freeing all Negro slaves in Confederate states. Sept. 22. 1872 — John Henry Couyers was first Negro to beadmitted to the U. S. Naval academy. Sept. 22, 1906 — Bloody riots tatke place against Negroes voting in Atlanta. Relief of SNEEZING due to hay fever CIGARETTS or COMPOUND Like nothing else you ever tasted CHAMPALE is America's Original Sparkling Malt Liquor. Gives a champagne glow to any occasion... yet costs just pennies more than beer. Buy it wherever beer is sold. FREE—Write today for exciting new CHAMPALE Recipe Booklet— Dept. N. Metropolis Brewery of N.J. Trenton A. S. 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Finding ways of establishing more central kitchen's or otherwise expanding the lunch, program to schools where, the installation of kitchens and lunch rooms is not feeble is a matter of much current interest in USDA. and school feeding generally will receive special attention during National School Launch Week - October 10-16 Theme of the week to be proclaimed by President Johnson is "School Lunch Serves Child Health." About 71,000 public and non — profit private schools now serve lunches to some 18 million pupils. Approximately 10 per cent of the lunches are served free or at reduced prices to needy children. However, more than 2,000,000 pupils in some 5,000 urban schools still are not participating in the school lunch program mainly because their schools do not have cooking faculties. Centrally - located kitchens offer one possibility of providing lunches to more children, according to the USDA study of such facilities in eight urban areas: New York; Washington, D. C.; St. Louis, Mo.; Salt Lake County, Utah, Livonia, Mich.; Bremerton, Wash.; Kirksville, Mo; and seven counties in West Virginia. In New York City, for example, 650 of the 1,000 public and private schools receive lunches from a contral kitchen which is preparing 144, 000 lunches a day. These are distributed to the schools by 46 trucks. In Washington. 9,000 bag les a day are prepared in 21 secondady school kitchens and delivered to needy pupils in 85 elementary schools. One problem, however, in establishing a lunch program for older schools in urban areas, the report indicates, is the lac of readily available funds to provide free or reduced cost lunches to the high proportion of needy children attending these schools. Part of the funds. for the lunches, the report suggests, may hive to come from private welfare groups or other outside agencies. Some assistance in developing school lunch programs in low - income areas can come from the Office of Economic Opportunity through Neighborhood Youth CorpsWor - Study Program and the Vista Volunteers. And OEO and the tlementary and secondary Education Act are sources of funds for kitchen and cafeteria construction. The meal provided under the National School Lunch Program - plate lunch, tray pack lunch, soup and sandwich lunch, or packaged or bag lunch - - is known as a "Type lunch and is designed to meet one - third or more of the daily nutritional requirements of a school - age child. While the lunch sells for an average of 27 cents, it actually cost about 50 cents, say officials Of US DA's Consumer and Marketing Service which administers the program in Cooperation with State and local school authorities. The Federal Government pays about 12 cents of the difference cash repuhsements and donated foods. State and local sources pay the remaining 11 cent last year USDA, contributed $384 million to the program in cash and foods. When asked what appeared to be his biggest problem, Knox said, "well, we've got the lame identical problem we had last year this time. Last September, we were looking public relations corps worked from the paying field. They were no available to give heeded and desired background information to the press and to the grid radio describers, One of the arbiters working the game reported the game to a Birmingham daily). OFFICIALS: Benjamin D. Mc- SCORES BY PERIODS The Miles College Golden Bears. reportedly suffering a "manpower shortage", are scheduled to open their five-game 1966 football sche dule in a game with the Albany State College Rams of Georgia two p. m., Saturday, Sept. 25, at Miles Alumni Field. According to campus reports, Dr. T. J. (Mule) Knox, head football coach, "has now become a fullfledged card-holder in the Tearful Tutors Fraternity. Coach Knox was recently quoted as saying "Things are just so-andso" as he prepared to meet his 55man Golden Bear squad on Miles Field. When asked what appeared to be his biggest problem, Knox said, "well, we've got the lame identical problem we had last year this time. Last September, we were looking public relations corps worked from the paying field. They were no available to give heeded and desired background information to the press and to the grid radio describers, One of the arbiters working the game reported the game to a Birmingham daily). OFFICIALS: Benjamin D. Mc- 4 Job Corps Men Charged With Rape Four young men from a Job Corps forestry camp, were charged Monday with the rape of a 17-year-old Indian girl. Flagstaff police arrested the four, one of them a juvenile, on Saturday night alter the girl complained she had been taken aboard a Job Corps bus, given whiskey, then taken to a dirk alley and assaulted. Three of the youths were identified as Jacob L. 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