Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1968-02-10 J. A. Beauchamp BARRED WIRE TRUCE — This is a stretch of the often-violated truce line between North and fourth Kores. The bared wired separates about 15 miles of the 125-mile line across the Korean Peninsula. Note the "Applachian-like" terrain. Increasing incursions from the north prompted the fence in the past year. Executive "Action Team" Charts Program Of SCLC Twice a month, a group of men and women meet to the conference room of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) here to grapple with questions and programs that help shape the destiny of black people in America. Dr. Martin Luther King, the SCLC President, meets with the SCLC Executive Staff to discuss and plan wide-ranging action programs that have taken SCLC and the Amreican Negro through hard ship and victory —from Montgomery to Birmingham to Selma to the Northern ghetto and, next April, to Washington, D. C. for the Poor People's Campaign for Jobs or Income. Who determines and leads the SCLC action? If begins with an Executive Board of Directors, meeting twice yearly to set board, long- range policy. Presiding over the week-to-week policy and program development in SCLC are Dr, King and his top long-time associates, Dr. Ralph D. Abernathy, Vice President At-Large and Treasurer, and Rev. Andrew J. Young, Executive Vice President. Two recent executive additions who help co-ordinate and carry through over-all SCLC activities are William A. Rutherford, Executive Director, and Rev. Bernard Lafayette, program Administrator. Hosea William, SCLC Director of Voter Registration and Political Education, who has also token on the job of Weld Director of the Poor People's Campaign. A native of Attapaulgus, Georgia, Mr. Williams received nation-wide acclaim as leader of the Savannah Movement in 1963. He went on to be a front-line leader of the St. Augustine Movement of 1964 and the Selma-to-Hontgomery March in 1965, and to develop the comprehensive and successful Grenada Freedom Movement in Mississippi in 196-67. Mrs. Dorothy Cotton, Director of the Citizenship Education program (CEP). After rising to local leadership of civil rights drives in her native Virginia. Mrs. Cotton joinedp SCLC in 1960. The Citizenship Education Program grew out of an dea for training Southern adults in literacy into today's quiet but highly effective program of helping people at the local level develop their own leadership and community organizations. CEP became an SCLC program in 1962 and is now sponsored by both SCLC and the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, and supported financially by the Field Foundation. Prior to Mrs. Cotton's appointment as CEP Director in 1966, the program had been directed by Andrew Young (now SCLC Executive Vice President) and, later Dr. Robert L. Green (now SCLC Educational Consultant). Rev. Fred C. Bennette, Jr., a close associate of Dr. King and now SCLC's Executive Secretary for the city of Atlanta and State of Georgia, including Atlanta and Georgia Operation Breadbasket, Rev. Bennette has been in the forefront of Breadbasket since it became SCLC's economic development arm in 1962. With Dr. Ralph D. Abernathy and other leading Atlanta clergymen, Rev. Bennette built up Operation Breadbasket in Atlanta and then expanded it throughout the South. Rev. T. Y. Rogers. Jr., Director of SCLC Affiliates and Director of the recently announced SCLC Urban Leadership Program. Rev. Rogers, a former pastor in Phildelphia, Penn., and Tuscaloosa. Ala., is an experienced civil rights leader who has served on the SCLC Board of Directors and is former president of the Tuscaloosa (ALA. Citizens for Action Committee. Rev. James Bevel, Director of SCLC Nonviolent Education and Training. Rev. Bevel is the articulate apostle of militant nonviolent action, who baa aroused many thousands of freedom fighters to fallow the philosophy and practice nonviolence. From his home in Ita Bens. Miss, Rev. Bevel went forth into a career that started with the original Nashville student movement of 1960 and carried him through freedom rides, sit-ins, mass marches, jailings, rural slum organizing and peace activities, Rev. Bevel's current duties include teaching both ministers and ghetto youth at the Urban Training Center in Chicago and organizing work shops on nonviolent tactics and strategy in areas where SCLC is mobilizing poor people for the Washington Campaign. Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, National Director of Operation Breadbasket Rev. Jackson as a North Carolinian who became active in civil rights as a student leader in his home state in the early 1960's in 1966 when he was studying at the Chicago Theological Seminary, he joined SCLC and soon was a leader in the Chicago Open Housing marches and Director of Chicago Operation Breadbaskets. This SCLC program is now so extensive -owned and controlled business and financial resource. Last fallrl WHERE THE ACTION IS Twice a month, a group of men and women meet to the conference room of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) here to grapple with questions and programs that help shape the destiny of black people in America. Dr. Martin Luther King, the SCLC President, meets with the SCLC Executive Staff to discuss and plan wide-ranging action programs that have taken SCLC and the Amreican Negro through hard ship and victory —from Montgomery to Birmingham to Selma to the Northern ghetto and, next April, to Washington, D. C. for the Poor People's Campaign for Jobs or Income. Who determines and leads the SCLC action? If begins with an Executive Board of Directors, meeting twice yearly to set board, long- range policy. Presiding over the week-to-week policy and program development in SCLC are Dr, King and his top long-time associates, Dr. Ralph D. Abernathy, Vice President At-Large and Treasurer, and Rev. Andrew J. Young, Executive Vice President. Two recent executive additions who help co-ordinate and carry through over-all SCLC activities are William A. Rutherford, Executive Director, and Rev. Bernard Lafayette, program Administrator. Hosea William, SCLC Director of Voter Registration and Political Education, who has also token on the job of Weld Director of the Poor People's Campaign. A native of Attapaulgus, Georgia, Mr. Williams received nation-wide acclaim as leader of the Savannah Movement in 1963. He went on to be a front-line leader of the St. Augustine Movement of 1964 and the Selma-to-Hontgomery March in 1965, and to develop the comprehensive and successful Grenada Freedom Movement in Mississippi in 196-67. Mrs. Dorothy Cotton, Director of the Citizenship Education program (CEP). After rising to local leadership of civil rights drives in her native Virginia. Mrs. Cotton joinedp SCLC in 1960. The Citizenship Education Program grew out of an dea for training Southern adults in literacy into today's quiet but highly effective program of helping people at the local level develop their own leadership and community organizations. CEP became an SCLC program in 1962 and is now sponsored by both SCLC and the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, and supported financially by the Field Foundation. Prior to Mrs. Cotton's appointment as CEP Director in 1966, the program had been directed by Andrew Young (now SCLC Executive Vice President) and, later Dr. Robert L. Green (now SCLC Educational Consultant). Rev. Fred C. Bennette, Jr., a close associate of Dr. King and now SCLC's Executive Secretary for the city of Atlanta and State of Georgia, including Atlanta and Georgia Operation Breadbasket, Rev. Bennette has been in the forefront of Breadbasket since it became SCLC's economic development arm in 1962. With Dr. Ralph D. Abernathy and other leading Atlanta clergymen, Rev. Bennette built up Operation Breadbasket in Atlanta and then expanded it throughout the South. Rev. T. Y. Rogers. Jr., Director of SCLC Affiliates and Director of the recently announced SCLC Urban Leadership Program. Rev. Rogers, a former pastor in Phildelphia, Penn., and Tuscaloosa. Ala., is an experienced civil rights leader who has served on the SCLC Board of Directors and is former president of the Tuscaloosa (ALA. Citizens for Action Committee. Rev. James Bevel, Director of SCLC Nonviolent Education and Training. Rev. Bevel is the articulate apostle of militant nonviolent action, who baa aroused many thousands of freedom fighters to fallow the philosophy and practice nonviolence. From his home in Ita Bens. Miss, Rev. Bevel went forth into a career that started with the original Nashville student movement of 1960 and carried him through freedom rides, sit-ins, mass marches, jailings, rural slum organizing and peace activities, Rev. Bevel's current duties include teaching both ministers and ghetto youth at the Urban Training Center in Chicago and organizing work shops on nonviolent tactics and strategy in areas where SCLC is mobilizing poor people for the Washington Campaign. Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, National Director of Operation Breadbasket Rev. Jackson as a North Carolinian who became active in civil rights as a student leader in his home state in the early 1960's in 1966 when he was studying at the Chicago Theological Seminary, he joined SCLC and soon was a leader in the Chicago Open Housing marches and Director of Chicago Operation Breadbaskets. This SCLC program is now so extensive -owned and controlled business and financial resource. Last fallrl Pamphlet On 'Smoking Among Children' Released By HEW A new public Health Service pamphlet on cigarette smoking and children reports a light decrease is smoking among boys and a fairly steady increase in smoking among girls. The reason for this trend in recent years, says the pamphlet, is a social one "At one time, smoking was a masculine privilege and was considered unladylike, or worse, for women. This distinction has fallen away with the passage of years and the smoking habits of women have grown closer and closer to those of men." Titled "What We Know About Children and Smoking," the pamphlet is based on an article by Dr. Daniel Horn, Director of the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health. The Clearinghouse is an agency of the PHS's National Center for Chronic Disease Control. Discussing the prevalence of noting among children the pamphlet states: "There are few smoken before the age of 10 or 12. Exploratory smoking increases rapidly in junior high school and farily regular smoking begins to get a foothold by the 8th or 9th grade. During high school there is a large- increase in the porportion of regular smokers, so that by the age of 16 half of the teenagers smoke of a fairly regular basis." Probably all children consider smoking at one time or another, the pamphlet points out, adding, "Why would they not -in a society where 40 per cent of the adult people smoke, where cigarettes are adverted, sold and used everywhere?" "Commenting on factors which influence the child, the pamphlet skys. "The general climate of acbility of smoking it probably one of the strongest influences that makes smoking attractive to children. But acceptability, being a social phenomenon, can be changed. It has already been changed, for example, among physicians. Large numbers of physicians have quit smoking in the past 10 years or so; the result is that today smoking at medical meetings is rare, and those who do smoke feel embarrassed. On a smaller scale, the same thing can occur within unite such as families, circles of friends, clubs, PTA's or work groups." The role of adults as an influence is also stressed. On this point the pamphlet Says. "Perhaps what emerges most significantly from a study of smoking behavior of children is the importance of the personal behavior of people who work with children. It is easy to see that smoking by a parent, a teacher, or an adult leader can influence the motivation of youth to smoke, can support the perceptions that might lead to the decision to start, can encourage learnning to use the cigarette to handle emotions, and can provide strong environmental support for smoking. "Unlike trying to persuade a child to do something once, like getting a tetanus shot, and unlike trying to teach children to do something always, such as 'brush your teeth after every meal," we are trying to get young people to not do something forever." Single copies of 'What We Know About Children and Smoking" (PHS Publication No. 1711) are available without charge from the National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health 4040 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington Virginia 22203. The pamphlet may be purchased in quantity from the Superintendent of Documents, P. S. Government Printing Office. Washington, D. C. 20402, at 5 cents a copy or at $3.25 per 100. ISABELLA of PARIS THAT'S ME! 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Brown and Smith are to be arranged on the charge of harassing olice officer, Furey act a tr date of Feb. 28. Outside the court, Brown told reporters he was not surprised his motion was quashed in view of "white man's justice." Minimum Wage To Start Pay Spiral If past history is any indication, the new minimum wage scales that went into effect on February 1 will kick off a new upward spiral in wages, at higher-paid workers fight to maintain existing wage differentials, predicts Purchasing Week magazine. Minimum pay for millions of workers in textiles, lumber and other industries went up 14 per cent on February 1, from $1.40 to $1.60 per hour. And many lowpaid service workers who recently were brought under the minimum wage umbrella get a 15 per cent hike — from &1 to $1.15 per hour. As a result, Businessmen can expect to pay more for cleaning laundering, catering and other industrial services, says Purchasing week. And there are more boosts to come, similar increases in the minimum wage are due on Feb. 1. 1969. By 1971, everyone will be guaranteed $1.60 per hour.— unless Congress decided to raise the minimum even higher. AJC Fights Discrimination Among Non-Whites in New York Theodore Ellenoff, President of the Chapter, discussed the New York City poverty program at a news conference at the Chapter's headquarters offices, where Rabbi Bernard Weinberger, of Young Israel of Brooklyn, who is a member of the New York City Council Against Poverty and President of the Rabbinical Alliance of America, charged that the principles and procedures governing the ethnic representation on poverty boards and the allocation of anti-poverty funds threatened to bring on severe ethnic conflicts in the city. Rabbi Weinberger challenged the Office of Economic Opportunity on the following grounds: 1. Guidelines that currently define poverty — minimum income, Juvenile delinquency, delilvery at wards in municipal hospitals, veneral disease, welfare role membership, narcotics addiction — are bated on life styles different from those of Jews and other groups. 2. The exercising of full control over their poverty funds by local autonomous corporations has on occasion resulted in one group's domination of a corporation, in effect freezing out the poor of all other groups. This "winner-tokeall" concept, Rabbi Weinberger added, embodies built-in conflict. He continued: "The very concept of indigenous participation and local is threatened by insensitive or irresponsible implementation. We have welcomed and still suggest 'maximum feasible participation,' of the poor in the management of the anti-poverty program. But power must be accompanied by responsibility and accountability. The rights and needs of every individual and every group, no matter how small, must not be ignored or lost in the shuffle," 3. Restricting anti-poverty funds to those in declared poverty areas in effect penalizes the poor person who lives in a non-poverty area, or who has made some progress and is able to move to such an area, since he loses the services from which he might otherwise benefit. "In a sense we are perpetuating slum-living rather than combating it," Rabbi Weinberger said. 4. Keeping the poverty program on a locality -based structure leads to competition between the various areas, even to the point of pitting the Negro of Harlem against the Negro of Brownsville, and the Puerto Rican of Hunts Point against the Puerto Rican of East Harlem. Such conflict is inevitable, Rabbi Weinberger pointed out, when the crucial question of whether a suggested program is funded becomes the question of what area it comes from. 5. The emphasis on community action programs reveals an insensitivity to the problems of impoverished Jews since their need is not so much for community organizations as it is for employment opportunities and training. This emphasis, Rabbi Weinberger stressed, 'reflects a widespread misapprehension that the poverty program is nothing more than a riot-preventing stop-gap measure, ad not a long-overdue national effort to provide vocational and educational training so that the productive capacities of the deprived within society can be developed." Mr. Eilenoff recalled that Rabbi Weinberger's challenge to the Office of Economic Opportunity comes on the heels of complaints by Puerto Rican groups that they are being discriminated against on poverty boards and subsequent assurances by city officials that ethnic representation is to be improved. He explained: "We are just beginning to realize now now widespread such complaints must be. We therefore urge these city officials to take an overall look at the entire program, perhaps leading to its restructuring, in the interests of all the poor, no matter from what area or what group. "Our own effort goes back many months. Yet repeated appeals during the past year by the New York Chapter of the AJC to the New York regional office of O. E. O. to discuss the guidelines have failed, while attempts by Jews to gain help from poverty corporations through duly prescribed democratic method; have been frustrated by a stubborn refusal to consider the problems of poor Jews." Mr. Ellenoff concluded: "Much of the responsibility for creating a battleground of ethnic conflict rests, of course, with our national failure to provide enough funds for the poverty program. If ample funds were made available, a basic cause for competition and conflict would end. It is about time that we as a nation raised our sights in the poverty program to realistic heights." Founded in 1906, the American Jewish Committee is the pioneer human relations agency in this country. It combats bigotry, protects the civil and religious rights of Jews here and abroad and advances the cause of human rights for all. Afro-American Arts Festival At Dillard U. February 12-18 The first Festival of Afro American Arts in the South and one of the few in the nation will be held Feb. 12-18 at Dillard University in New Orleans. Sponsored by Afro - Americans for Progress, a Dillard student organization, the six day Festival will showcase professional and amateur work of Negro artists in both the graphic and the performing arts. According to David Dennis, president of Afro - American, each day's program, with the exception of Monday, the first day, will feature workshops in the afternoon and live presentations of the art form under study in th eevening. Coffeehouse discussions following the evening programs are also scheduled daily. "There is a need for increased identification that will further self development and encourage creative potentials among Negro students," says Dennie in explaining how the Festival came about. "Our purpose is to encourage both students and the community at - large to discover and ap preciate therich portions of Negro heritage which have lonng been neglected or overlooked." he says. The kickoff day will be devoted to an exploration of Negro music. Both a workshop and an exhibition of African dancing staged by two Xavier University students from Africa will be held during the afternoon. An exploration of Negro blues gospel and folk music will be on Tuesday's agenda. Both professional and student artists will participate. Literature, graphic arts, cinema, African dances, pays and AfroAmerican history will highlight the third, fourth and fifth days. John Killens, author or 'Black Man's Burden," will conduct a workshop on literature. Other workshop participants will include Tom Dent and Eluard A. Burt Jr., director and director of workshop respectively, Free Southern Theatre, Vernon Winslow, assistant professor of art at Dillard and Edwin B. Hogan, head of the music department at McDonogh 35 high School. Dilliard's Theatre Guild, under the direction of Dr. Theodore E. Gilliam, assistant professor of drama and speech will stage "Hand on the Gate" by Rocoe Brown and "Malik," an original paly by Dillard graduate Norbert R. Davidson Jr. The New World Theatre will present "The Dutchman," a controversial play by Leroi Jones. Also scheduled for Wednesday. Thursday and Friday are showings of two movies. "Black Orpheus" and "The Sound of Drums." A workshop on New Orleans jazz traditions will be held Saturday afternoon, followed by a mock funeral featuring a New Orleans second line band. The appearance of a jazz recording star Saturday evening qand a keynote speaker Sunday afternoon will climax the week long Festival. The Festival, which will coincide with what is traditionally known as Negro History Week, February 11-17, will be free of charge and open to the public. All activities will be held on the Dillard campus, adds Dennis. The Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Quintet will headline the Festival of Afro - Ameriacn Arts February 12-18 at Dillard University. "Cannonball," described by critics as one of the most important and exciting alto saxophone players in jazz today, will appear Saturday evenig, February 17, on the Dillard campus. The exact time and place will be announced later. "WINDOW SHOPPING"— South Vietnamese soldiers use a ladder to get to a window in search for Viet Cong in Saigon. Hoard's Widow Seeks Respite For Husband The widow of Floyd G. Hoard, the crime - fighting prosecutor whose forays into a moonshine empire cost him his life, has filed suit against five men convicted of killing her husband. Mrs. Hoard aswed for $1,272,000 in a civil suit naming the five convicted murderers plus the wife of the man a jury said masterminded the Aug. 7 dynamite-slaying of Hoard. The suit, filed Thursday, named as defendants A. C. Cliff Park, 76, the admitted bootleg baron accused of scheming the bombing of Hoard's car, his wife, who may Have legal title to some of Park's property and George D. Pinion, George I. Worley, John H. Blackwell and Lloyd G. Seay. The suit said by virtue of their convictions last month in successive trials on murder charges, the five men should be liable for damages to Mrs. Hoard and her children through loss of Hoard's income and other causes. Park was sentenced to the electric chair. Pinion and Worley were given life sentences. The three have filed appeals. Blackwell and Seay, who turned state's evidence, also received life sentences. The defendants have 30 days to file replies to the civil suit, The case then will be set for hearings or trial in Jackson county Superior Court. 'Windbag' To Save Lives, Says Auto Makers An "air pillow" that sits on your lap while driving your car, inflates in the event of a crash and keeps you from hitting the dashboard, has taken a giant step toward perfection. Some companies have been working on the air pillow for as long as 10 years. The big stumbling block has been that inflation time took too long. Now, Purchasing Week magazine reports, a Detroit auto maker and a supplier have come up with an air pillow that inflates in 40 milliseconds — about the speed of a slow eye-blink. It's estimated that the device is still three to 10 years away from total perfection, however. The reason for the delay: they've got to teach the air pillow to distinguish between a head-on collision and a hole in the road or a slam of the car door. Chrysler To Train, Hire "Hard Core" Unemployed The U. S. Department of Labor and the Chrysler Corporation have agreed to a contract that will provide jobs for 760 hard-core unemployed men and women. Secretary Willard Wirtz announced recently. Twelve hundred and ninety-five Chrysler wrokers will be enrolled in a skill improvement program and advanced up the job ladder to make room for the new workers, he said. The United Auto Workers, the union representing Chrysler, production employees, has also approved of the plan, the first of its kind. "Chrysler Corporation is very pleased with this new program." V. E. Boyd, Chrysler president, said. "This cooperative program with the federal government will provide an effective approach to the motivation and training of those people who might otherwise have been thought unemployable by putting them in practical work situations they can handle and then showing them how they can improve. It will also offer the underemployed an opportunity to be trained for better positions." The Labor Department is investing $1,716,630 in the 15-month program. "We hope this will become a model for other partnership agreements between government and business, in our effort to realize President Johnson's manpower goals outlined in his message to Congress January 23." Secretary Witt said The President said his target, was to put 100,000 hardcore unemployeds en the job by Juno, 1969, and 500,000 by June, 1971. The underemployed Chrysler workers will receive training in 16 skills, including auto mechanics tool and gauge inspection and parts programming. They will be paid their regular wages by Chrysler during the training period which may continue tip to 26 weeks at 40 hours a week. The contract provides that 250 hard-core unemployed will be recruited as soon as possible and trained for jobs in Chrysler plants, and 500 more will be hired as openings develop. Chrysler will conduct the 40 hour-a-week training program in its own plants. Participants will be given on-the-job training, counseling and remedial education up to 23 weeks, depending on individual need. Upon completion, they will be hired by the auto company at a minimum rate of $3.17 to $3.20 an hour, plus $1.70 an hour in frinnge benefits. During training they will receive a living allowance will be about $60 a week. Chrysler has already staffed up to carry out the program and counselors and instructors are being briefed, Secretary Wirtz said. The company anticipates that many of the hard-core people will be unable to read and write. They will be given basic instruction four hours dally in math and English and will be allowed to progress at their own speed. The remaining four hours a day will be spent out in the plant. Chrysler intends to hive them launch with the regular workers, punch time cards and general associate with production workers in the plants. This is expected to ease the transition into a new way of lift and help them become acclimated to shop work and the industrial world. "There will be a high ratio of counselors to trainees," Wirtz said, "They will continue to work with the trainees, even after they move into permanent jobs'. GLORY KEEPS THE SOLEMN Ground Out Where We Heaped The Flora Mound I Across the February sod and dew We pause here to remember you The guiding light, the kindly hands Lead us still across the sands That love calls life; we struggle still Where mountains fell beneath thy will, O that our whole hearts could embrace Thai courage that lent thee heavenly grace. II GONE but not forgotten the years Keep green where memory's burning tears Well along the vistas sweet When we again can hear thy feet; And the soft voice that made more bright! Across the February sad and dew Times pauses to remember you. William Alexander Scott III Robert Lee Scott, sons Mrs. W. A. Scott, Sr., mother Brothers and Sisters ason of 17-2 and a conference record of 7-1. On their way to this successful road trip, the Braves had victories over Arkansas Grambling Willey, Mississippi Valley State and Tenns Southern and their only back was at the hands of the Panther of Prairie View College. Coach Hopkins quintet got outstanding and sometimes supers play from Julius Keye, Willie Norwood, James Kelly, Chari Walkins, Samuel Sing. Levi Wyatt and Bobby Flowers during trip.