Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1965-12-18 J. A. Beauchamp U.S. Fights Against Mental Retardation An estimated one million dollars the screening of newborn infants for phenylketonuria. Of these, 25 States have mandatory screening in Children's Bureau funds is currently being spent by the states for screening newborn infants for phenylketonuria (PKU), an inborn error of metabolism leading to severe mental retardation, the Children's Bureau, Welfare Administration. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, reported today. The funds are also bring used to provide necessary treatment services for infants found to have PKU. Mrs. Katherine B. Oettinger Bureau chief, also reported that 32 States now have laws pertaining to statutes and 7 have laws which en courage but do not require screening. The majority of these laws were passed during the 1965 State legislative sessions. During these sesion, 24 State passed new laws and 3 States amended their laws. "It is our hope," Mrs. Oettinger said, "that all States will develop programs to insure that every newborn infant is screened for PKU. If the disease is detected early and the infant placed on a special diet, mental retardation can be prevented, or at least modified. This relatively simple procedure is a small price to pay for making possible a normal or near normal life for a child who would otherwise be severely retarded and, in all probability, require institutional care." Homesteading for city dwellers was proposed by Prof Norton E. Long of Brandels University Dec. 10, at Syracuse University Great Society seminar. "In the urban frontier we need a similar device to turn those who have no stake in the community into property holders interested in maintaining theirs equities and with a concern for their neighborhoods," he said in his prepared text "The VA Program pioneered giving veterans housing with zero equities and long-term mortgages. We can do the same in our slums for those who will maintain their own housing and do neighborhood work, whether in single houses or what can be treated as cooperative apartment." Speaking on "Local and private Initiative in the Great Society." Long said: "For those of low income the role of property owner is one of the most powerful sociatizers. We need to se it to convert the rootless and the hopeless into people with at least some equity in the society and a visible chance of increasing it." "The costs to government city state and nation of excess maintenance in public housing could be reduced tremendously it tenants were converted into owners, and the ownership were earned in a fashion similar to the farms of the national domain," he said. "Enough property owners with a stake in neighborhood maintenance and improvement would provide the human means for transforming grey areas." Long spoke at the Arthur F. Bentley seminar on the Great Society a year-long program in the Maxwell Graduate school of Citizenship and public Affairs at Syracuse University. The seminar is examining President Johnson's Great Society program. "The Great Society to the lives its people live," Long said. "It is great to the extent and only to the extent it permits and encourages its members to live greatly. "The search for a Great Society is urgent and in all probability its achievement is a condition precedent to the defusing of an explosive world." "It is natural, given our heritage,' he said, "that when we seek to give our national enterprise renewed meaning, we turn to be current version of Roosevelt's submerged third, ill-housed, ill-fed, illeducated and only marginally a part of the larger society. The relief of avoidable human misery seems a unifying goal well high universally acceptable in the culture .... it has the merit of insisting on no concrete definition of the good life confirming itself to the removal of generally agreed evils." Speaking of the need for public and private initiative working together, Long cited the space program: "The exploration of space with its complex of private, public, and academic cooperation is a useful model for the creative development of a fully employed society." said. "NASA .... found that both space and the military can get much of their work and, even more important, their needed new thinking done for them by enlisting the unfettered energies of independent or ganizations. "Socially desired goals may often prove to be most effectively advanced by private means and by mixed private and public means. The possibility of the state university system of California one of the outstanding achievements of the American states, degenerating into a paper-shuffling civil service as lacking in morale and creativity as the New York City school system is built into the dynamics of centralized administration." "The public responsibility becomes one of creating a generalized system of goals and goal supports that will permit the fullest use of individual and institutional initiatives for their attainment." Long said. Long concluded: "The Great Society we hope to build is not on a planet to itself. A Great Society could scarcely deserve the name were it to fail to respond to the major problem of mankind. "The war on world poverty is a war which, like World War II, if waged With equal vigor, would fully employ all our population. Unlike that other and present wars, it would not be man the wolf of man, but might be William James' moral equivalent for war. In the prosecution of the war roles of dignity and meaning should be available to our whole society. In a great and necessary task needing all our energies, the Great Society might come to be." Negro Apprentices In 23 Trades Number 235 In Nation's Capital Some 235 Negroes are working as opprentices in 23 skilled trades as a result of services of the Apprenticeship Information Centre (AIC) in the Nation's Capital Secretary of Labor W. Williard Wirt disclosed Since the Center opened in the summer of 1963, the Secretary pointed out almost 70 percent of the 350 apprentices hired by employers and joint labor-management committees are minority youth. The Secretary said there are 82 Negroes enrolled in carpenter apprenticeship programs, 46 in bricklayer programs 13 cooks: 13 electricians 12 meat cutter: 7 plumbers: 7 upholsters 5 printers: 4 sheet metal workers and 3 oprating engineers. Negro apprentices are also enrolled in employer and joint laborman of into machanic, bookbinder, cement mason, dental technician, electronics, form worker, jewelry repairs, lens grinder, machinists millwright, painter, plaster, and steamfitter trades. Mr. Wirtz noted that the appilcants who failed industry tests on the basis of education were referred to other training programs conducted under the provisions of the Manpower Development and Training Act. The District AIC was the first of nine established in urban areas during the past two years by the Department Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training (BAT). Another 15 centers will be opened within a year. Past-acting C-2223 contains sodium Salicylate to speed welcome comfort! If you periodically suffer the annoying minor pains of rheumatism, neuritis, muscle aches, arthritis, help yourself to welcome comfort fast with the blessed temporary relief of proved salicylate action of C-2223. 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Bolding, he was then shot in a shuffle with a police officer over a police rifle which he allegedly attempted to sieze while in the police station. The slaying was investigated inrally by NAACP officers from the nearby Greenville Branch — Rev. D. C. Francis, president, and Mark D. Tolbert and A. J. Wittenberg. They reported to the Rev. I. DeQuincey Newman, NAACP field director for South Carolina, that there was no apparent justification for the shooting. The body was removed to Opelika for burial. (An NPI Feature) Week Ending Dec. 11, 1965 Dec. 5. 1955 — The first mass meeting out of which was born the Montgomery (Ala.) boycott movement, was held. STARS LEND A HAND — Eddie Albert (right) and charming Betty Furness, both top stage, screen and television actors, lend a hand to the Philadelphia division of the American Cancer Society during the volunteers kickoff last week. City co-chairmen Sedric William Melidosian (center) and Mark Hyman (left) will help direct the campaign in America's fourth largest city, Melidosian is a regional official with the Veterans Administration. Hyman is an advertising agency executive, civic worker and fraternalist. 20 Bias Cases' Closed' By Fair Housing Panel Using a cut-oft date of Dec. 9, the Commission said 294 individual complaints alleging job discrimination have been acted on since it went into business last July 2. The agency found sufficient cause in 127 of the cases to merit conciliation efforts. No cause was found in 81 of the 294 complaints, and 11 were returned to points of origin marked "no jurisdiction." Twenty-one complaits were withdrawn. At present, 54 complaints are awaiting action by the Commission. The 127 complaints on which conciliation proceedings have been ordered involve 41 respondents or defendants." Some of the cases invove only one complainant, while other cases involve several in more. As of Dec. 2, the Commission had received 2,706 complaints charging discrimination in employment practices. Recently, Commission Chairman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., sent out letters to 28 State fair employment commissions asking them to send complaints of discrimination originating in union locals to the AFLCIO and Construction Industry Joint Council. The EEOC already has entered into an agreement to send copies of complaints to the AFL-CIO and the Council Rooseveit said the move was made to help achieve an "equitable solution." But several State commissions, including units in Kansas and New York, have taken issue with the request. They argue that the complaints lodged against union locals of individual employers are confidential. To turn copies over to a "third party," they contend, would betray the "Complainants trust." Herbert Hill, NAACP labor secretary, criticized the move a one which would present the building trades unions and the construction industry — both with a long history of discrimination — with an oportunity to "investigate themselves." The mother of an Illinois soldier on duty in Vietnam was sworn in Dec. 6, as a nurse to serve with the Agency for International Development in the Southeast Asian country. Mrs. Dorothy E O'Neill, Lemont, Ill., says she hopes she will have a chance to see her 19 - year - old son, Gary, who is a private first class serving with the First Calvary Division. Air Mobile Unit. Mrs. O'Neill has signed up for 18 months with AID to work in hospitals and health centers in the rural arras of Vietnam. Mrs. Neill was one of six recruits from the Chicago area to take the oath from Rutherford M. Poats, AID Regional Administrator for the Far East. The other five, first of more than 30 thus for accepted from the Chicago area following a special staffing drive in October, are: Mary Theresa Bannon, Diane M. Bloodhart, and William Wayne Brock, nurses of Chicago; Jack R. Thiel, La Grange. Ill, also a nurse and James R. Webb. Chicago, who will serve as a provincial representative. With the exception of Miss Bloodhart who will receive six months of language training in addition to the standard four weeks of AID and Vietnam area training, the recruits are schedled to be in Victnam in January. The signed up any six weeks ago in Chicago. "We are pleased to have these highly qualified additions to the AID Mission on the economic and social development front in Vietnam," Poats said. "They represent many Americans who are responding to our call for volunteers to serve in Vietnam. "We are especially happy to have them here so quickly. Six weeks is a very short time for each individuals to receive security, medical and Vietnam Mission clearances give notice to his present employer and complete the many personal arrangements he must make before leaving the United States." Dec. 6, 1849 — John M. Langston, acting president, Howard university Washington. D. C. from 1873-75, was graduated from Oberlin college, Ohio. Dec. 6, 1869 — National Labor convention in Washington creates Colored National Labor union. Dec. 6, 1949 — Huddle (Leadbelly) Ledbetter, king of the 12-stringed guitar, died. SKIN INJURIES Relieve pain of minor skin injuries quickSwitch to super-refined hospital quality White Petroleum Jelly¯ Twice as much for 274 Do's And Don'ts GOOD MOKNING, FOLKS! Pat CONTINENTAL FEATURES 600 Teachers To Get Course In Journalism Summer study in Journalism will be offered to 600 high school teachers and publications advisers through the 1966 Newspaper Fund Fellowship Program. Two types of study are offered. Seminars, 3 or 4 weeks in length, will provide opportunities for 225 teachers to explore some fundamentals in Journalism and to improve their classroom teaching of the subject. Workshops will offer 450 inexperienced teachers training in basic techniques of producing school publications. How to write and how to teach others to while will be stressed at the nine seminars and at some of the 20 workshops. Tuition, room, board and incidenial expenses are paid by The Newspaper Fund for teachers attending seminars Graduate school credit can be earned. The seminars will be offered in early, middle and summer Marquette University, the University of Minnesota, the University on Gregon, Syracuse University and the University of Texas. Special efforts will be made through the workshops to assist teachers in the large metropolitan school systems — New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit and San Francisco. Last summer, the seventh year of the program, 241 teachers received fellowships. An additional 450 teachers attended workshops. Requests for information should be sent to: Paul S. Swensson, Executive Director. The Newspaper Fund, P. O. Box 300, Princeton, N. J. 08540. Negro Unemployment Rates Stubbornly High The Nation's job situation showed continued improvement in November, the U. S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Nontarm employment rose by 500,000 between October and November, in sharp contrast to the usual seasonal decline. Unemployment moved up by 200,000 slightly less than usual) from its seasonal low in October to nearly 3.0 million in November. Altogether, there were about 650,000 unemployed nonwhite workers in November including 200,000 1419 year-olds. The unemployment rate for nonwhites has been about 8 percent for the past 4 months, compared to a white rate of close to 4 percent. Although both rates were down sharply from the August-November 1964 figures the nonwhite rate has remained about twice as high as the white rate. The teenage unemployment rate, which had remained close to 15 percent since early 1963, has been lower in recent months. In the Julyto-November period the teenage rate averaged 13 percent, its lowest level in three years. Moreover, the decline in the teenage rate has occurred despite a record improvement in the teenage unemployment rate has taken place among white youngsters, since July, the unemployment rate has averaged 25 percent for nonwhite teenagers as contrasted with 11 1-2 percent for whites. NONWHITE WORKERS The Nation's job situation showed continued improvement in November, the U. S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. Nontarm employment rose by 500,000 between October and November, in sharp contrast to the usual seasonal decline. Unemployment moved up by 200,000 slightly less than usual) from its seasonal low in October to nearly 3.0 million in November. Altogether, there were about 650,000 unemployed nonwhite workers in November including 200,000 1419 year-olds. The unemployment rate for nonwhites has been about 8 percent for the past 4 months, compared to a white rate of close to 4 percent. Although both rates were down sharply from the August-November 1964 figures the nonwhite rate has remained about twice as high as the white rate. The teenage unemployment rate, which had remained close to 15 percent since early 1963, has been lower in recent months. In the Julyto-November period the teenage rate averaged 13 percent, its lowest level in three years. Moreover, the decline in the teenage rate has occurred despite a record improvement in the teenage unemployment rate has taken place among white youngsters, since July, the unemployment rate has averaged 25 percent for nonwhite teenagers as contrasted with 11 1-2 percent for whites. 1966 Upturn Is Seen For Ceramic Tile While domestic ceramic tile production in 1965 showed little change from last year's output a 5 per cent upturn is expected in the year ahead. R. L. Carlee, president of the Tile Council of America reported that the 1965 production would closely match 1964's figure of 295 million square feet. However, next year's business is expected to reflect a general upswing in the entire construction industry, Carlee said. The Tile Council is the trade association of domestic ceramic tile manufacturers. Adding to the expected healthy business year ahead, Carlee predicted, would be the Tile Council's new testing and certification program The program, begun last April, is aimed at assuring architects and contractors of getting top grade domestic tile. Only tile meeting Tile Council's triangular certification mark. Total ceramic tile installed inresidences and commercial buildings throughout the country in 1965 is anticipated to be an all-time high of 435 million square feet Fifteen years ago, when the Tile Council of America was a five-year-old fledgling and the war-torn ceramic tile industry was attempting to rebuild, installed ceramic tile industry was attempting to rebuild, installed ceramic tile amounted to only 126 million square feet. The disparity between current figures of domestic production and installed tile, Carlee explained, represented the influx of foreign made tile into the domestic market. Heavy imports, beginning in 1959, have curtailed domestic production, he said. Carlee also noted that the present installed cost of ceramic tile is less than it was in the 1920's. He attributed the cost decrease to major advancements in adhesive materials and installation techniques stemming from the Tile Council's research and development of new mortars and grouts. Tuskegee To Hear liberties Union lawyer A member of the Board of the National Civil Liberties Union, Atty. Marlon A. Wright will deliver the first in a series of five S and H Lectures at Tuskegee Institute. Dec. 16. A former president of the Southern Regional Council and currently vice-president and a member of the executive committee of the Council Atty. Wright will discuss "The Relation of Ethics to Government" at 7:30 p.m. in Willcox Auditorium. He will also discuss his conception of the significance and effects of capital punishment at 1 p. m. Thursday. The S and H Lecture program is supported at Tuskegee Institute through a $2,000 grant from the Sperry and Hutchinson Company. Mr. Wright's lecture is in keeping with the series theme. "Toward Civic Democracy in the South." Atty. Wright is the former president of the Alumni Association and Law Alumni Association of the University of South Carolina, the South Carolina Conference on So cial Workers, and the South Carolina Citizens Library Movement. By appointment of former President Roosevelt, Mr. Wright served as a member of the Enemy Alien Board for South Carolina during World War I. Future speakers in the S and H Lectures Series include: Dr. Leslie W. Dunbar, executive director of the Field Foundation, "The Significant Responsibility and Role of Government in Contemporary Soclal Change in the South;" and Dr. James McBride Dabbs chairman of the Board of Directors of the Perm Community Services, will discuss "Planning for Civic Democracy in the South." Other speakers will be announced. 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THE BROOMS are used to matt or lubricate the ice in front of the running stone to help it on its way and to hold it on a straight course. In Scotland, curling was originally played out of doors on frozen lakes. But in America today, the runway is kept frozen with modem buttweld steel pipe refrigerating systems. In fact, buttweld steel pipe curling and ice skating rinks are being installed in communities all over the country, cataring to the ever growing interest in winter sports. Committee of Steel Pipe Producers, A.I.S.I. CURLING THE NEWEST sport to "sweep" the country is curling—a frozen variation of shuffleboard. Scotland's ancient national Winter sport, it now has more than 15,000 followers in over 100 clubs throughout the U.S. and Canada. All that's needed are 42½ pound stones with handles attached, brooms, and 150 feet of slick ice! EACH RINK or team is made up of four players, with each of them curling his stones toward a target "button" some 125 feat away. The player "curls" each atone by giving it a twisting motion as it leaves his hands. Points are scored by the team whose stones are closest to the center of the target. THE BROOMS are used to matt or lubricate the ice in front of the running stone to help it on its way and to hold it on a straight course. In Scotland, curling was originally played out of doors on frozen lakes. But in America today, the runway is kept frozen with modem buttweld steel pipe refrigerating systems. In fact, buttweld steel pipe curling and ice skating rinks are being installed in communities all over the country, cataring to the ever growing interest in winter sports. Committee of Steel Pipe Producers, A.I.S.I. Urban renewal has been an Increasingly powerful factor in boosting Atlanta to a peak of unprecedented prosperity, Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., told a blue ribbon audience of Charleston's key business, industrial and professional leaders at a luncheon at the Fort Sumpter Hotel Thursday. Mayor Allen spoke upon the joint invitation of Charleston Mayor J. Palmer Gaillard, Jr. and Thomas C. Stevenson, Jr., president of the Charleston Trident Chamber of Commerce. He was introduced by Mayor Gaillard. Mayor Allen pointed out that Atlanta was riding the crest of an all around four year boom unmatched in its history. "Two basic indites, construction and employment, show how solid is this surge of success" he said "For each of the past three years and for the present year to date, building permits issued by the city of Atlanta have broken all previous records. "For 1962, we issued building permits totaling $116,648,000; for 1963, the total was $109,196,000: for 1964, is climbed to $149,738,000 through December 3, 1965, the total was $116,470,000. "So I am confident that by Dec 31, we shall see more than half a billion dollars invested in construction in Atlanta. "Equally impressive is the record in building up employment. "In 1961 when I was president of the Chamber of Commerce, we set 10,000 new jobs a year as our goal for our Forward Alanta Campaign in the Atlanta metropolitan area. the Mayor said "We thought that was a high target. But for each year since then, new jobs created in our metropolitan area have more than doubled that goal. "Now, as the fourth year is ending, Georgia Department of Labor figures show that 540,000 people are employed in the Atlanta metropolitan area. That is more than 33,000 above the high mark for the same time last year. "Correspondingly, our unemployment rate, which stayed at less than half the national average all last year, has dropped to a new all time low - two and one tenths percent. "As all business men know, such records just do not happen. Many factors enter into making them. Allen explained "It is my considered opinion, based on my experience of many years as a business man and my first four years as mayor, that one of the most potent factor in boosting our Atlanta economy to its all time high, is our urban renewal program. He continued "The dollars urban renewal invests in rebuilding and restoring blighted areas put people to work. They bring new businesses into being They reach out far and wide. As they restore and redevelop property, they build up the value of our most important resource .... our people". As an example of direct financial benefit brought by urban renewal to Atlanta, Mayor Allen referred to what he called the "twenty-five million dollar quadrangle" of redevelopment by private enterprise in one of the city's original renewal projects. Alaska expects no change after voting test ban. WIGLET HAIR STYLES Some of Seven Latest Now shown in Medicine Hair Style Charts! Created for the woman who needs hair at the top near the crown on her heads. 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