Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1966-01-08 J. A. Beauchamp First Negro Heads County Government The swearing in of Essex County Freeholder Charles A. Matthews by Judge Joseph G. Lyons hare New Years Day took on state and national significance as the Negro freeholder became the first of his race in the state and nation to head a county government. Matthews, 48, was chosen director of the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders by the Democratic majority on the Board. In his initial address following swearing curemonies in the meeting room at the Board, said: "Much has been made of the fact that I am the first member of ethnic background to hold this great honor. The fact that this is singled out makes me feel in turn that, we still have a long way to go here in this wonderful country it ours before discrimination in all its forms can be eliminated. The newly elected Director con tinued. "I will reconstitute the lead orship of our former Director and now our Finance chairman. Alber Saldutti in pushing with all speed possible the erection Mid operation of a Community College in Eases County. If there is one crying need it as the need of higher educa tional facilities and higher educational opportunities for all who have the ambition and the desire to avail themselves of its opportunities." Matthews said further, "I will further dedicate myself to the completion of the county's building program — the new criminal courts building and the new county all to replace the antiquated and tired institutions by which the services in this county are so sorely belabored But in any case the partuership which we have established here today can and must do its part in bringing to all the citizens of this county the services upowhich the growth and progress really depend. Under the freeholder form of government, the board directs the operations gad facilities for some 969,000 residents of Essex County. iounty. Welfare Board, a position Alabama farm. April 1917. He came to Philadelphia as an infant and at the age of seven his parents moved to Newark where, he has since remained. At the age of 20 he b Newark's first Negro Democrat district leader and at 25 was elected the first Negro Ward chair man of the city and the state. He reached the level of county influence in 1961, when he was elected by a margin of 12,000 votes to fill an unexpired term on the Board of Freeholders. He was elected to a full three year term in 1962 by a plurality of 20,000 votes. Welfare and other problems indigenous to the poor and deprived are high on Mr. Matthew's list of interests. He is a member of the county Welfare o Bard, a position he will retain, and coauthor of the Essex County Narcotic Rehabilitation Program. The program, which utilizes work therapy as well as psychologists and counselors for rehabilitation of addiets, is under study for possible auoption by Federal panel institutions. Mr. Matthews had been both to Watts, the siene of last summer's rioting in Los Angeles, and to Selma. Alabama, a landmark in the history of civil rights demonstrations. Mr. Matthews insisted that the state and federal governments should shoulder a greater burden of the cost of welfare in Essex County which accounts for one third of the total welfare bill in New Jersey. Compared with a county average of 8 per cent for the other 3,000 counties in the nation. Essex taxpayers pay 26 per cent of the total cost of welfare, he said. LBJ asks business leaders for price contort. Jet form Enterprise lost U. S. aircraft over Vietnam. France indicates it will pay United Nations debts. ELECTED TO BOARD IN 1961 The swearing in of Essex County Freeholder Charles A. Matthews by Judge Joseph G. Lyons hare New Years Day took on state and national significance as the Negro freeholder became the first of his race in the state and nation to head a county government. Matthews, 48, was chosen director of the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders by the Democratic majority on the Board. In his initial address following swearing curemonies in the meeting room at the Board, said: "Much has been made of the fact that I am the first member of ethnic background to hold this great honor. The fact that this is singled out makes me feel in turn that, we still have a long way to go here in this wonderful country it ours before discrimination in all its forms can be eliminated. The newly elected Director con tinued. "I will reconstitute the lead orship of our former Director and now our Finance chairman. Alber Saldutti in pushing with all speed possible the erection Mid operation of a Community College in Eases County. If there is one crying need it as the need of higher educa tional facilities and higher educational opportunities for all who have the ambition and the desire to avail themselves of its opportunities." Matthews said further, "I will further dedicate myself to the completion of the county's building program — the new criminal courts building and the new county all to replace the antiquated and tired institutions by which the services in this county are so sorely belabored But in any case the partuership which we have established here today can and must do its part in bringing to all the citizens of this county the services upowhich the growth and progress really depend. Under the freeholder form of government, the board directs the operations gad facilities for some 969,000 residents of Essex County. iounty. Welfare Board, a position Alabama farm. April 1917. He came to Philadelphia as an infant and at the age of seven his parents moved to Newark where, he has since remained. At the age of 20 he b Newark's first Negro Democrat district leader and at 25 was elected the first Negro Ward chair man of the city and the state. He reached the level of county influence in 1961, when he was elected by a margin of 12,000 votes to fill an unexpired term on the Board of Freeholders. He was elected to a full three year term in 1962 by a plurality of 20,000 votes. Welfare and other problems indigenous to the poor and deprived are high on Mr. Matthew's list of interests. He is a member of the county Welfare o Bard, a position he will retain, and coauthor of the Essex County Narcotic Rehabilitation Program. The program, which utilizes work therapy as well as psychologists and counselors for rehabilitation of addiets, is under study for possible auoption by Federal panel institutions. Mr. Matthews had been both to Watts, the siene of last summer's rioting in Los Angeles, and to Selma. Alabama, a landmark in the history of civil rights demonstrations. Mr. Matthews insisted that the state and federal governments should shoulder a greater burden of the cost of welfare in Essex County which accounts for one third of the total welfare bill in New Jersey. Compared with a county average of 8 per cent for the other 3,000 counties in the nation. Essex taxpayers pay 26 per cent of the total cost of welfare, he said. LBJ asks business leaders for price contort. Jet form Enterprise lost U. S. aircraft over Vietnam. France indicates it will pay United Nations debts. STUDIED BY U. S. The swearing in of Essex County Freeholder Charles A. Matthews by Judge Joseph G. Lyons hare New Years Day took on state and national significance as the Negro freeholder became the first of his race in the state and nation to head a county government. Matthews, 48, was chosen director of the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders by the Democratic majority on the Board. In his initial address following swearing curemonies in the meeting room at the Board, said: "Much has been made of the fact that I am the first member of ethnic background to hold this great honor. The fact that this is singled out makes me feel in turn that, we still have a long way to go here in this wonderful country it ours before discrimination in all its forms can be eliminated. The newly elected Director con tinued. "I will reconstitute the lead orship of our former Director and now our Finance chairman. Alber Saldutti in pushing with all speed possible the erection Mid operation of a Community College in Eases County. If there is one crying need it as the need of higher educa tional facilities and higher educational opportunities for all who have the ambition and the desire to avail themselves of its opportunities." Matthews said further, "I will further dedicate myself to the completion of the county's building program — the new criminal courts building and the new county all to replace the antiquated and tired institutions by which the services in this county are so sorely belabored But in any case the partuership which we have established here today can and must do its part in bringing to all the citizens of this county the services upowhich the growth and progress really depend. Under the freeholder form of government, the board directs the operations gad facilities for some 969,000 residents of Essex County. iounty. Welfare Board, a position Alabama farm. April 1917. He came to Philadelphia as an infant and at the age of seven his parents moved to Newark where, he has since remained. At the age of 20 he b Newark's first Negro Democrat district leader and at 25 was elected the first Negro Ward chair man of the city and the state. He reached the level of county influence in 1961, when he was elected by a margin of 12,000 votes to fill an unexpired term on the Board of Freeholders. He was elected to a full three year term in 1962 by a plurality of 20,000 votes. Welfare and other problems indigenous to the poor and deprived are high on Mr. Matthew's list of interests. He is a member of the county Welfare o Bard, a position he will retain, and coauthor of the Essex County Narcotic Rehabilitation Program. The program, which utilizes work therapy as well as psychologists and counselors for rehabilitation of addiets, is under study for possible auoption by Federal panel institutions. Mr. Matthews had been both to Watts, the siene of last summer's rioting in Los Angeles, and to Selma. Alabama, a landmark in the history of civil rights demonstrations. Mr. Matthews insisted that the state and federal governments should shoulder a greater burden of the cost of welfare in Essex County which accounts for one third of the total welfare bill in New Jersey. Compared with a county average of 8 per cent for the other 3,000 counties in the nation. Essex taxpayers pay 26 per cent of the total cost of welfare, he said. LBJ asks business leaders for price contort. Jet form Enterprise lost U. S. aircraft over Vietnam. France indicates it will pay United Nations debts. SSC Gets New P. E. Facility The new physical education faciliies at Savannah State College with additions to Wiley Gymnasium have been completed and will be ready for occuancy on January3, 1966. These facilities will provide seating for the public, dressing rooms for visiting teams, and storage for athletic equipment. A lobby connects the new additions to Wiley Gymnasium and a new swimming pool building. The swimming pool building encloses a regulation size all-ainum swimming poll with a three meter and one meter diving board. The pool will be utilized for instructional purposes as well as for spectators. As a part of the swimming pool building there are toilet facilities showers, drying and locker rooms. An office building for the physical education staff, consisting of five offices, conference room and toilet facilities, and air conditioning, is adjacent to the swimming pool building. A three story classroom building of reinforced concretet, consisting of a corrective room, which will serve as a testing area for physical fitness tetsttst, psychological tests and as a training room to house corrective equipment; an apparatus room for heavy exercise equipment two classrooms for instructional purposes and toilet facilities are a part of the complex. The entire complex is so designed as to enable students to move from one area of instruction to another undershelter at all times and to provide an easy access to these areas from other parts of the campus. The new physical education facilities were designed by the architectural firm of Ritzert, Weatherly and Nowell, A. I. A., Associated. Architects, for a total cost of $420,000. Voting Examiners Enter Mississippi Federal voting examiners opened new voter listing offices in Catroll Newton, Simpson, and Warred Counties, Mississippi, on Tuesday, January 4, Civil Service Commission Chairman John W. Macy, J said. The offices were recently designated by the Attorney General of the United States for the assign ment of examiners under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Chairman Macy said the new voter listing offices will be open from 8:30 a.m., to 4:30 p.m., Mondays through Saturdays, at the following locations: Carroll County — U. S. post Office, Carrollton; Examiners: Victor Smith and Anthony Altier. Newton County — U. S. Post Of fice, Neaton. Examiners: Robert. A Buckman and Mervin Booth. Simpson County — U. S. Post, Office. Mendenhall and U. S. Post Office. Magee; Examiners; M. C. McDaniel and Henry Humes. (The examining offices will be open alternate weeks in the two county seats, with operations beginning in Mcndenhall or January 4 and moving to Magee the second week, starting January 10.) Warren County — U. S. Post Office and Court House Building, Nicksburg; Examiners: Waiter J. Cowan. William Hargis, and Glover Torrence. Under the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Service Commission is respon sible for listing eligible voters regardlcss of race or color in countles designated by the Attorney General in which tests or devices have been maintained and in which les than half or those eligible to vot were registered or had voted November 1964. The new locations bring to 36 the number of counties or parishes to which Federal explainers have been assigned since President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6 In the 2 counties where offices have been opened., Federa examiners have ted more than 81,000 poisons, including over 79,000 Negroes, as eligible to vote. COMB AWAY GRAY WITH THIS COLOR COMB BRUSH The equivalent of $158,828,000 in local currencies is now available in 19 less developed countries for loans to U. S. private on interested in overseas investments. In making announcement last month, the U. S. Agency for International Development also reported for loans in Ceylon, as well. The funds, administered by AID consist of local currencies received for the United States from sales of Food for Peace commodities overseas. The American businessman borrower repays the so-called "Cooley" loan in local currency. The program is named for Rep. Harold D. Cooley (D.N.C.,) who sponsored the amendment to Public Law 480 which created it. Cooley loans may be made to (1) U. S. firms or their branches, subsidiaries or affiliates, for business development or trade expansion in the local firms for purposes which world expand ove seas marks for U. S. agricultural products. Loans may not be made for man of products which would be exported to the United States to compete with United tat procts, or for agal commoies to be marketed in competetion with American agriculture. A list of of currency and amount in U. S. dollars is as follows: — Latin America —Bolivia, pesos, 1,335,000; Paraguay, guarantes, 3517,000. Far East — China (Taiwan) New Taiwan dollars, $4,642,000; Korea, won, $1,050,000. Near East and South Asia —Cyprus, pounds, $524,000, India, rupees, $53,270,000; IIran, rials $1,182,000; Israel, pounds, $8,523,000; Pakistan, rupees, $18,021,000; Turkey, lire, $6,568,000; UAR (Fgypt). pounds, $50,645,000. Africa-Congo (Leopoldville) Congo, francs, $1,770,000; Ethiopia Ethiopian dollars, $171,000; Guinea, Guinean francs, $2,516,000; Ivory Coast, CFA francs, $469,000; Morocco, dirhams, $1,985,000; Senegal, CFA francs, $492,000; Sudan, Sudan pounds, $2,530,000; Tunisia, dinars $2,516,000. Ten Thousand Doctorate Holders Questioned By U.S. Ten thousand doctorate - holders graduates of United States universities in the years 1935, 1940, 1945, 1950, 1955, and 1960, have been questioned about the jobs they hold or have held their functions on the job, geographic migration, earnings and family and educational backgrounds. The results included in a nucleation released toda by the National Research Conical. "Profiles of PhD's in the Sciences." The report, sponsored by the public Health Service's National Institutes of Health illuminates the career patterns of carefully - selected samples of the most highly trained manpower in the nation, with particular reference to the most people in the health - related sciences Separate chapters are devoted to important aspects of their careers, and a generous appendix pliers an in - depth study of the career lines of various sub - groups. Some major findings of the report show that: — Most of them now work, and have worked in the past, in colleres and universities, but, as careers mature, there is a net shift away from such employment to other categories. — The percentage of doctorateholders engaged in research, and the average time spent in research, have been steadily increasing. — Sources of support for predoctoral education have changed significantly in the last 25 years. Family support has tended to shift from parents to working wives, the role of government has enlarged considerably: and the student's own earnings represent a smaller percentage of the total. — While the duration of postdoctoral fellowships has changed only slightly in the same period, fellowship support by government agencies has markedly increased, and there has been a corresponding decrease in support by foundations, ions. — New student generations stem from wider sociological sources than their predecessors. The professional portion of the Poulation while still the predominant source has deced relatively as lower income groups have achieved more education. — Job - mo both as to number of job and as to changes from field to field, was accelerated by World War II, but has recently declined. — Women doctorate - holders employed primarily in colleges and universities, chiefly in teaching positions. — Geographic migration of women PhD's varies, according to status as move with their husband's job opportunities. — Support for PhD's spending at least half their time on research comes almost equally from private and government sources. — Salary levels have advanced steadily new graduates start at a higher and advance more rapidly today. Salary varies more by function performed on the job than by field administrators receive the highest salaries, teachers the low all fields and all fields and all ages of graduates. This report is the first of a series that will embrace a longterm, intensive, study of the career patterns of some 10.000 doctorate holders in several fields, with emphasis on the health - related sciences, Conies of the report, NAS - NRC Publication No, 1293, are available at $2,50 per copy form the National Academy of Sciences, 211 Constitution Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20418. Doctor is satisfied with LBJ's condition. Bishop Perry Takes Office On January 6 The first colored American in this century to be appointed a bishop in th Roman Catholic Church was scheduled to be consecrated Jan 6 in a ceremony in historic St. Louis Basilica. The Most Rev. Farold R. Perry 40, of Lake Charles, La. was named Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of New Orleans last Oct. by Pope Paul VI. An outspoken critic of social in justice. Bishop Perry told newsmen shortly after the announcement of his appointment that he didn't think he would "have the time to be a civil rights leader." "I am sure I will have a lot of duties to keep me busy." he said, adding Catholic Church's answer' to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Tan Topics by "WHY DO YOU WASTE TIME KISSING THE —WHEN WE OWE THE ! CONTINENTAL FEATURES Harlem Bank Is Proving A Business Boost The assets of the Freedom National Bank, this city's only Negro-owned bank, rose from $1,5 months ago to $10 million by the end of December. Rounding out its first year of operation in the black, the Harlem based bank attributes its succes, to its "interest understanding and faith in the Negro community." William Hudgins, president of the Freedom National, said the bank's customers take pride in the bank "because they own it." Some 80 per cent of the bank's 60,000 capital shares is owned by 1,200 Harlem citizens. The remaining 20 per cent is owned by the organizers. When it comes to making a loan the bank "bends over backwinds" to help an applicant but the loan is not approved unless the applicant "represents a good security' risk. Hudgins cited the case of a Negro store owner stuck with a mortgage he couldn't pay. Alter other banks turned him down, he applied to Freedom National — and got the loan. He said the fact that the bank demonstrates "more faith in Negroes making repayments" is paying off, resulting in a decided business stimulus to Harlem, which could use two more banks like Frcedom National. North Vietnam awaits Red Chinese aid. Conyers Says Poor Should Not Pay For The War In Vietnam A Michigan Congressman said Saturday "the poor must be asked to pay for the war in Vietnam through a slow-down in the war on poverty." Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D.-Mich,) told the annual Emancipation Day Service of the Greater Boston Interracial Ministers' Alliance that many anti-poverty programs scheduled for action at the start of the new year are now being stamped "postponed for the duration." He placed most of the blame for this situation on Republicans in Congress "who item on the Great "clamoring for the delay or cancellation of these programs,' he said. The Michigan Democrat said that Republicans are now inferring that the bringing of democracy and economic security to the Vietnamesa peasants requires a slow-down in efforts to rescue "the one out of five American families who are trapped in self-perpetuating poverty. Conyers said Congress must adequately finance the rent-subsidy program. This, he said, would aetually lead to a decrease in housing segregation instead of an increase as claimed by the program's opponents. He suggested that another possible casualty of the Vietnam war is the proposal to launch a major public works porgram designed to create a half-million jobs for adults and help eliminate "nighlevel unemployment in a boom economy." U.S. Assisting Zambia In Congo Airlift A State Department spokesman said Thursday the United States has signed an agreement with Pan American airlines to begin airlifting gasoline and oil bound for Zambia. Pan American will use a cargo version of Boeing's 707 jet airliner to shuttle petroleum supplies between Nili airport at Elizabethville to Leonold in the Conan. From Leopoldville, the supplies will be loaded on trucks and hauled over land routes to a town just inside the Zambian border. The spokesman, Robert J. McCloskey, said the airlift, set up and supervised by the Agency for International Development will move 6,000 tons of gas, oil and lubricants bound for Zambia during January and February. The U. S. airlift operation is part of an overall effort supported by Britain and Canada to move a total of 14,000 tons during January and a higher amount in Feburary, McCloskey said. Russell Declares Economy Not Taxes Kev To Viet Costs Senator Richard B. Russell has called for a reduction in "less pressing non-defense spending" to meet the mounting costs of the Vietnam war. Georgia's senior senator, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Commitee and the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, said he hoped it would not be necessary to arise taxes because there is "ample room" for economies in non vital government programs. Speaking to the Atlanta Jaycees, Russell said: "It is becoming increasingly apparent to every knowledgeable observer that this country, for all its wealth and resources, cannot carry on a war effort of the magnitude we are reaching in Vietnam and at the Same time finance all the domestic programs of the Great society — however worthy they may be. "There has been some talk about the possibility Of a tax increase, but I hope it will not become necessary because there is ample room for reducing less pressing non-defense spending.," he said. "The alternative will be a new round of deficit financing that will add enormousin to the inflationary pressures aiready at work in the economy and further increase the national debt." Russell recalled that he had been criticized for a Senate speech he made last August in which he warned that the nation's growing commitment in Vietnam could force a retrenchment in less essential domestic programs. "But what I said then is even truer today." he said. "We cannot have both guns and butter in unlimited quanties for to do so would be to have our cake and eat it too. And that is a feat no other government in, the history bf mankind has ever been able to achieve. "For my part, the choice is clear. We must provide whatever sums are necessary for the defense of these United States. The nation's security must be placed ahead of every other consideration," Russell declared. Viet Cong terrorists bomb U. S. barracks. BEAUTY FOR BRUNETTES— For the brunette - complexioned woman, Elizabeth Post cosmetics is featuring a full line of beauty aids products, from "Sun Tone" liquid make-up to lipsticks, in "Royal Violet," "Star-Spangled Red" and Fashion (deep rose) hues. The model, seated, is using triple-sifted face powder in a sunfan shade. The other model is holding one of the lipsticks and a "Potalpuff" compact with a "New Ton" shade of powder. Other products in the line include Royal Jolly Foundation liquid makeup and a combination powder and creme formulation which is described as "a complete make-up in a tube." Elizabeth Post products are sold nationally in many leading department stores and in S. H. Kress stores. Ghana To Unveil Plaque Of JFK The Republic of Ghana has invited Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy widow of President John F. Kennedy, to a piaque in memory of her husband at a ceremony marking the opening on Jan, 22 of the multi-million dollar Volta River bydroelectric project. Mrs. Kennedy received the invitation more than a week ago. A spokesman said Saturday that she had acted on the invitation, but it was doubtful whether she would be able to accept it. The late President committed the United States to a $37 million longterm loan for the Volta River dam scheme and approved an addition al $96 million loan to an American consortium which is building a related smelting project. The U. S. commitment led to a World Bank Loan of $47 million and a $14 million grant from the British government. One of the largest multi-purpose hydro-electric projects in the world, the Volta River scheme was first suggested in 1915 by Dr. Robert Kitson, chief British Gold Coast colonial government. President Kwame Nkrumah celebrated bis 56th birthday last Sept. 21 by inaugurating the first of four power units of the project at Akosombo. Soldier Loses Eye Following Arrest The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has launched an investigation, into a fight between a Philadelphia policeman and a discharged Baltimore, Md., soldier that resulted in the Negro soldier losing an eye. The Department of Defense is also looking into the matter as a result of a protest lodged with President Johnson by the Baltimore NAACP Branch. The scuffle occurred, according to police reports, Saturday night, December 18, at the Trailways Bus Terminal here when patrolman Richard Farina was called into the terminal by security guard Themas McLaughlin when a dispute developed between a bus driver and two soldiers. Allegedly one of the soldiers, Wallace. Beauford, 23, of Baltimore, snatched the policeman's nightstick from him and knocked him down with a blow across the face. The officer got revolver and held Beauford and his companion, Cwen Williams, 19, of Fort Dix, N. J., at bay until other policemen arrived. Beauford, the report said, resisted attempts to disarm him and eventually was subdued and placed under arrest on changes of aggraveted assault and battery and disorderly conduct. Beauford lost Mr right-eye during surgery at Philadelphia General Hospital where he was admitted. The officer suffered a broken nose, the report said. The dispute which seemingly touched off the fracas was over a Trailways bus driver tearing off too much of a ticket, rendering it invalid for a transfer. The two Soldiers were returning from a hitch in Germany. Russia launches new soft lunar landing instrument. 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