Memphis World
Memphis World Publishing Co.
1969-06-14
J. A. Beauchamp


The Atlanta Hawks will open their
main rookie camp Monday morning, 
June 9th, at Southern Technical 
Institute in Marietta, Georgia.


The morning workouts will be
closed to the public but the area
fans will be invited to the evening
drills — which — in the main —
will be scrimmage-type affairs.
"We plan to stress fundamentals
in the morning sessions but we
would like to invite all of our fans
to attend the evening sessions
which I am sure they would enjoy
much more than the morning workouts 
due to the nature of the type
of program we plan," Coach Richie
Guerin explained.



Heading the list of first-year
men will be the club's top two draft
choices—Butch Beard (Louisville)
and Wally Anderzunas (Creighton)
plus two other players who spent the
past season at the Hawks' Eastern
League farm clubs—Wilkes-Barre
(Pa.) and "New Haven (Conn.)—
Mack Daughtry and Dwight Waller.
Waller was carried on the Hawks
active roster as their 12th man although 
he did not play with the
team after Nov. 27.
"Dwight is a fine rebounder but
needed improvement on his shooting," 
General Manager Marty Bla
ing," General Manager Marty
Blake said. "At New Haven, he
worked out and played under Tom
Sullivan, who was also the head
scout for Boston College, and a
fine tutor on the art of shooting
and he developed into a fine outcourt 
shooter. Just how much he
improved we'll find out next
month."
Waller averaged 22 rebounds and
21 points a game in the Eastern
League.
Daughtry, who won the award

as the top rookie in the initial
Hawks camp last season, helped
Wilkes-Barre win their first Eastern
League title in 12 years. He was
the club's most popular player and
was credited with the club's tremendous 
season by their coach,
Stan Novak.
Novak, who developed Jim Davis
for the Hawks, feels that the former
Albany State star may be ready
for the NBA this coming season.
"Mack's the finest young man
we've had here in some time," Novak 
said. "He's a great shooter
and a fine passes and I feel the
year in our league helped him. He's
got a great chance."
Guerin who with Assistant coach,
Gene Tomohlen, returned from Los
Angeles after their stint with the
club's first rookie camp last week,
announced that two rookies, guards
Don Griffin (Stanford) and Loren
Bracci (San Fernando Valley State
College) will be invited to the
Hawks June camp.
"We may even bring in another
guard, Dave Jones (LaVerne College) 
but we'll have to wait and
see just how many other players
accept our invitations to attend the
camp," Guerin said. "We both
feel Jones can play in the NBA—
which is something for a kid drafted
12th."
Griffin was a fourth round choice
and Bracci was taken on the 11th
round.
In addition to the rookies, the
Hawks expect several players who
have played the past year with their
Italian and Spanish AAU affiliates
to arrive in the United States in
time for the camp.
"We'll announce the lineup for
the camp in another week as soon
as we hear from all our invitees,"
Blake said.

Entertainers
Visit Home
Jesse Hawkins and Edward
Hawkins, native Atlantans and now
residents of Rome, Italy, visited
their, father, Mr Jesse Hawkins
Sr. and a host of other relatives and
friends in Atlanta during a whirlwind 
weekend starting May 23rd
1969.
Jesse and Edward have lived and
been entertainers throughout
Europe for over twenty years, beginning 
their careers with the
Katherine Dunham Dancers. They
are now prime singers with the
Folkstudio, Singers—Rome, Italy
and have produced a number of
popular records in Europe including 
"A Man Called Jesus," "Missanobis" 
and the current favorite
"SHak-A-Lak. " A new long-playing
album of music is expected to he
on the European market in late
June.
The weekend visit was packed
with activities. Some of them included 
cocktails with friends of
their cousins and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. K. B. M. Crooks, Jr. and Mrs.
Edna K. Greene. Also, they were
feted with a cocktail party given by
Miss Doris Ward, where a number
of old school mates were present.
Teh visit was climaxed with a family 
dinner at the home of Mr. A.
J. Lewis. The Hawkins Brothers
left for Rome via Washington and
New York on Monday.

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CBG To Make
Documentary On
YMCA's Winston
Collegiate Broadcasting Group,
producers of educational ani informational 
programs for radio, has
announced plans to produce a special 
30 minute documentary report
oh Mr. Joseph Winston, youth director 
at the Butler Street YMCA.
CBG officials said the special report, 
titled "Joe Winston: An Atlanta 
Profile," will be an unprecedented 
account of Mr. Winston's
numerous contributions toward he
beterment of our community. The
documentary is scheduled to be
broadcast over all three Negroprogrammed 
radio stations in Atlanta 
— WERD, WAOK, and WIGO 
later this month.
The special program Is one of
the many informational programs
produced by CBG. The broadcasting 
organization puroduces a yearly 
series on the various Negro
colleges and universities, designed
to better acquaint high school students 
with the offerings and requirements 
of the insitutions.

Negro History
This Week In
An "NPI" Feature
June 1, 1859 — Henry O. Tanner, 
famous American Negro
painter who achieved his greatest 
honors in Europe, was born
in Pittsburgh, pa.
June 2, 1950 — U. S. Supreme
court outlaws racial segregation
in raliroad dining cars in interstate 
travel.
June 3, 1887 — Roland Hayes
noted tenor and concert singer
who has achieved fame all over 
the world, now living in retirement, 
was born in Curryville,
Ga., of a Cherokee Indian father 
and an American Negro mother. 

June 3, 1967 — Boston-Rouxbury 
riot over welfare checks.
June 4, 1849 — John Mercer
Langston, lawyer. Congressman
from Virginia, abolitionist, minister 
to Haiti and acting president 
of Howard university, 187375, 
was graduated from Oberlin
university.
June 5, 1967 — Bob Lee excoach 
of Southern university,
Baton Rouge, La., named to NAIA 
Hall of Fame.
June 6, 1831 — First annual
national convention of "The
People of Color" opened in Philadelphia. 

June 7, 1789—Alexander Pushkin, 
grandson of noter African
warrior who bacame Russia's
foremost poet and writer, was
born in Moscow.
June 7, 1967 — Death of Mrs
Jessie Vann, former owner-publisher, 
Pittsburgh Courier newspaper. 


Observe Father's
Day At Collins
The Cooperative Circle of Collins
Chapel C.M.E. Church will observe
"Father's Day" Sunday, June 15.
with a special program at 4 p.m. at
the church, 676 Washington Avenue.
T. J. Toney, principal of Geeter
High School, will pay special tribute
to fathers. The music will be
rendered by several men's
choruses.
A token will be given to the
oldest father present, to the youngest 
father present and to the father
with the largest family present.
The public is cordially invited to
be present to share this fellowship.
Mrs. J. S. Dickey is president
and the Rev. P. Gonya Hentrel,
pastor.

C.O.M.E. Meeting
In Postponed
A meeting of C.O.M.E. officials,
called last week by the Rev. James
M. Lawson Jr, never came off.
Originally scheduled for 4 p.m.
last Friday, the meeting was rescheduled 
for the same time Saturday 
after but no one but a reporter
showed up at Mississippi Blvd.
Christian Church, site of the called
meeting.
The meeting was postponed
"until a later date" at the suggestion 
of the Rev. H. Ralph Jackson
around 4:35 Saturday afternoon
after Rev. Mr. Lawson failed to
show.
On hand for the Saturday meeting, 
along with Rev. Mr. Jackson,
were labor leader Jesse Epps, Jim
Mock of the Black Student Association 
at Memphis State, the Rev.
James Lyke of St. Thomas Cahtolic 
Church, Joe Purdy and Nesby

Blanchard of the Black Knights and
representatives of The Invaders
and the Beale Street-Linden Avenue
Slum Tenants Association.

She looks like a kitten but
Carolyn Logan is a Tigerss.

Tigress. An extraordinary Perfume,
Cologne. By Faberge

NAACP AWARDS —
 Mrs. Maxine A. Smith, left, executive secretary
of the Memphis NAACP, presents awards to, left to right, front: Miss
Carol Thompson, a stand-in for Elder Blair T. Hunt, and George
Jones, a stand-in for Thomas Oliver Jones, and back row, left to
right: Mrs. Mamie Lester and Mrs. M.L. Archie.

Flood Disaster Wiped Out
Generation Gap Says ARC
That gene
ration gap everyone's talking about 
pulled a fast disappearing
act in the Upper Midwest during
April and May.
Its closing according to the American 
Red Cross, can be attributed
to the way the high school and
college generation pitched in to
wage battle against floods that endangered 
a 500,000 square mile area
stretching from St. Loure north to
the Canadian boarder.
In an interim report on the Red
Cross relief operation, the organizations 
bows to the help received
from the "now" generation and
qotes an Oquawka, Ill., news paper
as stating that the youths who
manned the dikes, sandbagged,
helped feed emergency workers and
the homeless "may look like Hippies, 
but it's because they're hip
deep in water.'
The colorful booklet, entitled
"What Generation Gap?" reports:
"When disaster strikes or threatens, 
everone is part of the new
generation. This is true when Redcross 
first moved to help victims in
the Michican forest fires of 1881. It
was even truer in the spring of
1969 when flooding rivers waged a
muddy assault on hundreds of communities 
in North and South Dakota, 
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Illinois. Nebraska and Missouri. As
the protection of life and property
became the pressing problem of the
day, the generation gap closed
tight.'
Much credit that the floods did
not reach their threatened potential 
goes to the preparedness plans
worked out by the Corps of Engineers, 
the Office or Emergency
Preparedness, the ESSA Weather
Bureau, other federal agencies and!the 
Red Cross under the name of
"Operation Foresight," said the report. 

"In February, the ESSA Weather
Bureau-warned that massive snowpacks, 
in the northern states could
cause major flooding in the Missouri 
and upper Mississippi River
basins and along the Red River of
the North, said the Red Cross report. 
"The Flood Watch Plan de
veloped 
by the Red Cross for just
such emergencies shifted into high
gear. Memories of serious floods
in 1952 and 1965 gave a reality
base to facing the immediate future." 

The Red Cross prepositioned emergency 
equipment and supplies, including 
foodstuffs from the Department 
of Agriculture and cots and
blankets from U.S. Public Health
Service. It also predetermined
shelter locations, feeding stations
and trained additional volunteers.
The Corps of Engineers helped
communities strengthen flood controll 
dikes and systems. The millitary, 
coast Guard, National Guard,
Civil Air Patrol and horseback posses 
watched for developing danger
spots.
"In one of the largest mass movement 
of Household furnishings ever
carried out in a short space of
time, the Red Cross coordinated removal 
of furniture and appliances
for thousands of people whose
homes, were evacuated when the
rivers began to rise," the Red Cross
report stated.
Hardest hit communities were
Minot, N. D Sioux City, S. D. and
Cherokee, Iowa, according to Red
Cross disaster relief specialists. In
all nearly 7,000 families in the
eight-state area suffered losses and
approximately 2,000 of these, will
need Red Cross recovery help to re
turn them to their normal way of
life. This includes cleanup supplies,
assistance with the replacement of
household furnishings and occupational 
equipment, or with the cost
of repairing undermined foundations, 
warped floors and twisted
walls.
"Hopefully, the Red Cross, and
the communities within which it
exists, can make the most of this
flood-borne coming together for
there are more than 18,000 disaster 
situations in the United States
each year, and the need for unity

in time of stress will exist wherever 
and whenever the next disaster 
strikes the report concludes.

Senior Citizens To Pressure
For Social Security Increase
Pressure for
a Social Security increase much
greater than the 7 per cent catchup 
increase budgeted by President
Nixon will be exerted by 1,500
delegates to the 2,500,000-member
National Council of Senior Citizens'
Eighth Annual Convention June 57 
at the Statler-Hilton Hotel here.
Can the Administration be persuaded 
to revise upward the amount
of Social Security increase It will
support?
The convention delegates eagerly
anticipate word from Undersecretary 
John G. Veneman of the Department 
of Health, Education and
Welfare on this critical question,
William R. Hutton, the National
Council's Executive Director,
states.
Veneman is scheduled to address
a convention luncheon meeting on
June 6. He will represent HEW
Secretary Robert H. Finch who
could not attend the seniors' convention 
because he will be in his
native California to give the commencement 
address at the University 
of San Francisco.
In addition to a substantial Social
Security increase, NCSC delegates
are expected to urge extension of
Medicare, the Federal health insurance 
for those 65 or over, to out-ofhospital 
prescription drugs and
voice their strong opposition to
Federal and State cutbacks in Medicaid, 
the Federal-State health, program 
for the needy.
John B. Martin, Commissioner
of HEW's Administration on Aging,
will follow Veneman as Convention
speaker. A former Republican National 
Committeeman for Michigan,
Martin headed a Task Force on
Problems of Aging for the Republican 
National Committee. The
Task Force's report formed the
basis for GOP positions on problems 
of aging in the 1968 Presidential 
election campaign.
The convention's keynote speaker
will be a Senator Harrison A.
Williams Jr., (D.N.J.), Chairman
of the Senate Special Committee on
Aging. Williams recently demanded
an across-the-board Social Security
increase of at least 20 per cent.
The Senator will receive the National 
Council of Senior Citizens
Award of Merit for outstanding
Congressional service on behalf of
senior citizens.
The National Council's highest
honor, the, Aime J. Forand Award,
will go to Wilbur J. Cohen, former
Secretary, of HEW who is coming
here from Ann Arbor, Mich., to
receive it. Cohen is Dean, of the
University of Michigan's School
Education.
The Forand Award, voted by the
National Council's Executive Committee 
last January and announced
then, is named for former Rhode.
Island Congressman Aime J.
Forand chief sponsor of legislation
that led to enactment of the Medicare 
law and the National Council's
first President.
Cohen is on record for a 50 per
cent across-the-board Social Security 
increase with a much higher
increase in the minimum benefit
to bring it to $100 a month.
Other National Council Awards
of Merit for services in consumer
affairs in behalf of older Americans
will go to Sidney Margolius, newspaper 
columnist and author of a
recently published book, "Your
Personal Guide to Successful Retirement;" 
New Jersey State Senator 
Richard J. Coffee; Lucile M.
Kinne, Director of Senior Citizens
Centers, Amherst, N. Y.; and
Samuel I. Klingman, Older Adult
and Golden Age Club, Hamilton
House, New York City.
Nelson H. Cruikshank, Acting
President of the National Council,
will greet the delegates. Cruikshank, 
who is 67, was named Acting
NCSC President last Match, replacing 
76-year old John W. Eidelman 
who resigned for health reasons. 
Cruikshank is without opposition 
for election to a full term as
head ot the seniors' organization.
Convention delegates will hear
reports on two anti-poverty programs 
administered by the National

Council of Senior Citizens for Federal 
agencies—the Labor Department 
program known as Senior
Aides providing jobs for low income, 
elderly in 15 communities;
and the U. S. Office of Economic
Opportunity program known as
Legal Research and Services to the
elderly operating in 10 communities. 

The National Council of Senior
Citizens speaks for 2,500 affiliated
senior citizens' clubs in 40 States
with 2,500,000 combined membership. 

The seniors' organization worked
for the enactment of Medicare and
currently seeks Social Security
benefits at a meaningful level for
millions of impoverished Social
Security recipients, Medicare improvements, 
modern housing at
prices the elderly poor can afford,

a nation-wide service corps to employ 
low income elderly at socially 
useful tasks in their own
communities, property, tax relief
for elderly homeowners and reduced 
fares for the elderly on local
and national transportation systems
during non-rush periods.
The National Council is a nonprofit, 
non-partisan Organization
but "we are definitely, not non-political" 
say Acting NCSC Presdent 
Cruikshank, He adds We are
more than a special interest group
for the elderly.
Our organization supports the
test ban treaty the Peace Corps
the war on poverty, clean air and
clean water legislation, consumer
protection and similar measures of
general concern as well as meaningful 
programs for seniors."

A ROMAN
CATHOLIC NUN

who worked among
Negroes and Indians just
after the Civil War; to
learn more about her, freel


Cornwell Heights, Pa. 19020

Nixon's Administration
To Beef Up Model Cities
Housing
Secretary George Romney said
Friday the Nixon administration
hopes to pump nearly $1 billion
into the Model Cities program next
year, five times the current spending 
level.
"We are making an effort that
has far more depth and far more
conviction than what we inherited," 
Romney said.
Testifying before the Senate
Banking and Currency Committee;
Romney did not refer to criticism
Monday by Sen. William Prdxmire, 
D-Wis., who accused the
housing and urban development
HUD secretary of "poormouthing"
and not even trying to meet housing
goals set by Congress.
Sen. John Sparkman, D-Ala., the
committee chairman, and Edmund
S. Muskie, D-Maine, sponsor of the
original Model Cities praised Romney 
and endorsed his plans to give
city governments a bigger role in
their Model Cities programs. Romney 
indicated he thought the program 
had been oversold to the poor
as a panacea for urban ills. "I don't

want to depreciate its importance,"
he said. "I believe in it. But I do
believe there are too high expeetations. 

So far 150 cities, big and small,
have been included in the Model
Cities program. Its purpose is to
coordinate hundreds of federal,
state, local and private programs
including aid to education, slum
clearance transportation and other
services, focus them on the neediest
neighborhoods, beef them in with
federal money and let local officials
carry them out.

INEVITABLE
Salesman — This model has a
top speed of 120 miles an hour,
and she'll stop on a line.
prospect — That"s fine But
what happens them?
Salesman — A little putty knife
comes out and sorapes, you off
the, windshield.
Mrs. Mattie Range teacher
at Norman, Ala., is back home with
her husband, Charlie, Range, in
Docena, during the school vacation
period.
Lecture emphasis this year will
be on Microbiology, with the co
operation 
of the National Communicable 
Disease Center Atlanta 
Workshops and lecture
demonstrations on various phases
of medical technology will be offered. 

Among the many educational
seminar speakers will be Alexander 
S. Wiener, M.D., discoverer
of the Rh factor in blood.
Diversified lecture topics include 
Alexander S Wiener, M.D.;
"Coding of Blood Group Reactions," 
George W. Douglas, M.D.;
"Innocent Microorganism's in Hospital 
Infections," Kenneth W.
Walls, Ph D. "Automated Serologic," 
Procedures in Clinical Microbiology," 
Vulus R. Dowell, Jr.,
Ph D.; "Anaerobic Techniques in
the Clinical Laboratory," Robert
J. Alpern, M.D.: "The Significant
of Clostridium Septicum Bacterenua 
in Malignant Diseases,"
John T Goodwin, M. D.; "Normal
and Abnormal Leukocytes" J. G.
Bohorfoush, M.D.: "Bone Marrow
Examinations."
Over 50 exhibits have been planned 
to present the newest scientific
advances in services and equipment. 

Thirty-eight AMT award, recipients 
will be honored at tile
July 11 Awards Banquet.

Christian Service
Club Meets Sunday
The Christian Service Club will
meet in the home of its president,
Mrs. Bettie Dotson, 858 Olympic
St, Sunday, June 15. Her cohostess 
will be Mrs. Georgia Ivory.
Mrs. Ernestine Roberts is the
club's secretary and Mrs. Willie
Ada Clark, reporter.

26-Day Program
Offered To Boys
High School Age
Two hundred Atlanta High
school bays, between the ages of
free. Operation Upstream, a program 
of The Atlanta Public School
is a 26 day course in rescue and
survival in "the North Georgia
Mountains. Interested persons
should call Elton Powers at O'Keefe 
High School.