Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1967-08-26 J. A. Beauchamp BY SAM BROWN All the teams have been working out for the past few weeks and are well along in their preparation for the opening of the regular season's play. The teams have been grouped into divisions according to the size of the schools or student bodies, and some of the traditional school rivalries of the past will likely be missing this year and in the future. At the end of the season, the winners of the divisions will play for the city championship. So, instead of being two championship teams as in the past, the Negro League champions and the Memphis Prep League champions, it will be the city champions, whether it will be a predominately white school, or predominately a Negro school, or one of the other team. This is the first time the football league has been fully integrated in the Memphis school system, and fans are looking, forward to a new day in prep sports as has been for such a long time in professional sports particularly baseball, football, and basketball which have signed, the best players regardless of whither they are white or Negro. It is now only a few weeks before the end of the baseball season with the pennant winners entaring the world series for gold and glory. The St. Louis Cardinals have just about sewed up the pennant in the National League, as the rest of the league seemingly trying to settle for second place. At one time and just afew weeks ago the Chicago cubs were, makin ga bid to overtake the Cardinals, and pulled into a tie for first place a day. Then, just as suddenly as the Cubs appeared at the top they just as suddenly had a tail-dive and now trail the Cardinals by 11 games. A far distance from a pennat contender this late in the season. One thing can be said of the Cubs, they were the most surprising team of the year. Five teams in the American League are making a try for the championship, as the Minnesota Twins and the Chicago White Sox are tied for first place as this is written, with the Boston Red Sox, only one game out, the Detroit Tigers, two, and the California Angels six out. It is a real battle in the American League and anybody's pennant. In town for a few days last week was Marvin Carter, ormer member of the disbanded Memphis Red Sox of the old Negro American League. Many old-time baseball fans remember Carter for his many years of brilliant play as an infielder for the Red Sox. He now makes his home to Chicago. DAISY A WARNING! Robards Segal Meeker STARTS AUGUST 31 Sidney Poitier in LAUDERDALE COUNTY NEWS Your reporter is happy to bring to you agate news of happenings in Ripley and Lauderdale county I Just returned home from Memphis last Wednesday. Rev. I. H. Harvey was in Memphis a few days ago to visit his sister. Mrs. Josephine Reed Bums, and her sister, Mrs. Minnie R. Davis, have returned home after spendin ga week with their sister-inlaw, Mrs. Reed, along with other friends. They also stopped by to see my son, Lonnie Shoffner, Mrs. Shoffner and their son, Calvin. Sorry to report that Mrs. Bertha Amos is sick in her home on Montgomery St. Mrs. Mary Magg Klyce died Aug. 17 at the residence of her sister. Funeral services were held Monday, Aug. 21, at Myles Chapel Methodist Church, Ripley, Tenn Thompson's mortuary had charge of arrangements. She leaves three sisters and other relatives and friends. Funeral services for the late Mrs. Lugenia Thurmand were held at Trinity CME Church, Sunday, Aug. 20, with the Rev. C. J. Jarrett officiating. Landon Thomas of Thomas Funeral Home directed the services. MRS. MARY MAGG KLYCE Your reporter is happy to bring to you agate news of happenings in Ripley and Lauderdale county I Just returned home from Memphis last Wednesday. Rev. I. H. Harvey was in Memphis a few days ago to visit his sister. Mrs. Josephine Reed Bums, and her sister, Mrs. Minnie R. Davis, have returned home after spendin ga week with their sister-inlaw, Mrs. Reed, along with other friends. They also stopped by to see my son, Lonnie Shoffner, Mrs. Shoffner and their son, Calvin. Sorry to report that Mrs. Bertha Amos is sick in her home on Montgomery St. Mrs. Mary Magg Klyce died Aug. 17 at the residence of her sister. Funeral services were held Monday, Aug. 21, at Myles Chapel Methodist Church, Ripley, Tenn Thompson's mortuary had charge of arrangements. She leaves three sisters and other relatives and friends. Funeral services for the late Mrs. Lugenia Thurmand were held at Trinity CME Church, Sunday, Aug. 20, with the Rev. C. J. Jarrett officiating. Landon Thomas of Thomas Funeral Home directed the services. MRS. LUGENIA THURMAND Your reporter is happy to bring to you agate news of happenings in Ripley and Lauderdale county I Just returned home from Memphis last Wednesday. Rev. I. H. Harvey was in Memphis a few days ago to visit his sister. Mrs. Josephine Reed Bums, and her sister, Mrs. Minnie R. Davis, have returned home after spendin ga week with their sister-inlaw, Mrs. Reed, along with other friends. They also stopped by to see my son, Lonnie Shoffner, Mrs. Shoffner and their son, Calvin. Sorry to report that Mrs. Bertha Amos is sick in her home on Montgomery St. Mrs. Mary Magg Klyce died Aug. 17 at the residence of her sister. Funeral services were held Monday, Aug. 21, at Myles Chapel Methodist Church, Ripley, Tenn Thompson's mortuary had charge of arrangements. She leaves three sisters and other relatives and friends. Funeral services for the late Mrs. Lugenia Thurmand were held at Trinity CME Church, Sunday, Aug. 20, with the Rev. C. J. Jarrett officiating. Landon Thomas of Thomas Funeral Home directed the services. Bishop Johnson Is Principal Speaker When Clayborn Temple AME Church held its "Friends Day" program last Sunday at 3 p m, Bishop P. L. Johnson, pastor of Tabernacle Community Church, was the principal speaker. His subject was "An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure." He was introduced by the Rev. M. D. Blackburn, Clayborn Temple's pastor. Mrs. While Fonder was the chairman. Bishop Johnson used the same timely subject when he spoke at a meeting at the Chisca-Plaza Hotel the previous Thursday night. Mrs. Perry, Family At McKenzie Motel Mrs. Lucille Day Perry and her family, of 1988 swift St., to Memphis, were guests at the McKen zie Motel in Hot Springs, Ark. for a week, early this month. The Perry family had an enjoyable vacation resting and relaxing in the famous mountain resort area, taking baths in the mineral waters from the hot springs. They visited relatives in Little Rock before re turning to Memphis. Mrs. Perry is employed by the City Board of Education. Her children will enroll in Carver Junior High and BTW. Owen College Site Of Ushers' Meeting The Usher's Union Association will meet at the administration building of Owen College Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. The president, Charlie Walton, is requesting all members to be present. SEE JACK at ALG LIQUOR STORE AT SOUL-SAVING STRATEGY MEETING — The above group is shown at the Chisca-Plaza Hotel last Thursday night when the Tabernacle Community Church, pastored by Bishop P. L. Johnson, held its first "Soul-Saving Strategy meeting. Bishop John son (center front) is shown shaking hands with Charlie Morris, Sr. candidate for city councilman; District 7. At Mr. Morris right is Mrs. Alma Morris, campaign manager. Next to Bishop Johnson his wife, Mrs. Hattie S. Johnson. At his left is the Rev. J. H Burrell, Samuel lake and Clyde Thomas, left of Mrs. Morris is Emmitt Hart. Others on the photo are members and supporters of church's program. Speakers at the meeting were Commissioner Hunter lane, Jr. candidate for mayor; Detective E. E. Redditt of the Police Dept.; Wm. Perry, of the Juvenile Court, and Mr, Morris. Mrs. W. P. Brooks Is Sunday At St. Peter's The Saint Peter Missionary Baptist Church, 1410 Pillow Street, will observe annual Woman's Day Aug 27. Mrs. W. P. Brooks, well known speaker and a prominent member of the church, will speak at 3 p m. Mrs. Brooks is president of the Missionary Society of St. peter, president of the Women's Auxiliary of the Tennessee Regular Baptist Missionary and-Educational Convention, and is affiliated with the United Church Women's Organization. Mrs. Laura Booker is the chairman. Rev. C. J. Gaston is pastor. Miss Stiles Is Wed In Iowa Rites Mrs. Ellen D. Stiles, 1018 E. McLemore, announces the marriage of her daughter, Mary Evelyn, to Joseph A. Cameron, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cameron of Fairfield, Ala. They were united in marriage in St. Thomas More Chapel in Iowa City, Iowa, Aug. 10. Mrs. Cameron is a 1962 graduate of Father Bertrand High School. She received her B.A. degree in nutrition from Marion College in Indianapolis, Inc. She is. completing a dietetic internship at. the University of Iowa Hospitals while currently working on the M.S. degree in nutrition. Mr. Cameron receive his bachelor of science degree form State University and his master of science degree from Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas He is currently working on Ph.D. degree in zoology. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. The couple exchanged vows in an evening nuptial mass before Father Clarence Slanghor. Best man was Roy Peterson of Alexandria, La. The maid of honor was Miss Protia Salvacion of Le Casa, Philippines. Writers Named To Johnson's Riot Commission The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders; announced Monday the appointment of Alvin A. Spivak verteran United Press International reported, as its information director. Spivack, 39, a native of Philadelphia, will serve while on a leave of absence from UPI. The Commission, set up by President Johnson to investigate the causes of city riots this summer, also announced, appointment of James E. Booker, a free-lance writer and television commentator in New York, as consultant on information to David Ginsburg, Executive Director of the Commission. Booker, 41, a Negro, is a former columnist and political editor of the New York Amsterdam News. He was information director, for the White House Civil Rights Conference last year. Spivak will receive an annual salary of $22,000. Booker will be paid on a per diem basis. Spivak began his reporting career on the staff of the philadelphis Bulletin after he was graduated by Temple University. He was with International News Service as a Senate and White House reporter when INS and House Press merged in 1958. Since 1960, Spivak has been assigned, to the White House for UPI. Wilkins Warns Congress On Anti-Negro Welfare Vote In a telegram, dispatched on Aug. 17, to Speaker of the House John W. McCormack, Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of colored People, warned that passage by the House of the pending Social Security bill "will be interpreted by the great majority of Negro American citizens as punitive action against children of the poor, many of whom are Negro. Those who vote for this welfare restriction upon Negro children" will face aroused voters who will demand straight answers, on their vote, the NAACP leader told the Congressman. The full text of Mr. Wilkins telegram follows. Passabe by the House today of Social Security Bill without separating or amending the Welfare section will be interpreted by great majority of Negro American citizens as punitive action against children of the poor many of whom are Negro. We are well aware that your own humane approach to matters of this, kind would prevent your condoning the penalizing of children for the actions of their parents. The fact that the Welfare provisions were cleared by a committee headed by a Congressman from Arkansas and given a closed rule by a commit tee headed by a Congressman from Mississippi helps to fix the conviction that certain provisions are racially punitive. The nation is spending more in one hour for military action abroad than the amount allegedly saved by cutting off aid to these children. We in the NAACP know that under the presently immutable rules of the House it would be a miracle if amendments were permitted. If we read the developing signs correctly, however, those who vote for this Welfare restriction will face an electorate which is not bound by House rules and which will demand straight answers on their vote. Fair Employment Required Of All Housing Programs Affirmative Action Programs for insuring equay employment opportunity are now required nationally of contractors and subcontractors taking part in Federal and federally assisted construction projects financed: by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. "This requirement is another step in our continuing efforts to achieve equal opportunity to employment on construction projects financed by this department HUD Secretary Robert C. Weaver said. The new affirmative action requirements are covered in "Instructons for Contractors Regarding Affirmative Action Under Executive Order. 11246." Also outlined are ten basic areas of suggested activity. Contracting firms are asked to appoint a "top management official" as Equal Employment Opportunity Officer to be responsible tor direction ofcompany's program. Non-discriminatory recruiting, HUD suggests, can be helped by advertising in media serving the minority community, and by covering schools and colleges, substanfially attended by minority students. Recruiters are also urged to develop contacts with civic and human relations organizations able to encourage minority applications and referrals. Top management should instruct recruitment and employment officers that it will consider all quailfied candidates without discrimina tion for all jobs, including those in supervisory, technical, journeyman and office categories. HUD suggests joint action by contractors and unions to develop programs that will insure equal opportunity to all applicants for building trades jobs-including apprentices—and urges contractors to press for effective nondiscrimination clauses in renegotiating union agreements. Instructions for Contractors-" also recommends active contractor participation to Joint Apprentionship Committees, and the support of training and education programs as a further means for equalizing opportunities and improving minority skills. Affirmative Action Programs HUD says, should provide for nondiscriminatory placement and promotion, for the review of job areas with little minority representation, and for a canvass of lower-paid employees to determine their interest and potential, for employment in higher paid-trades. The publication includes suggestions for eliminating discriminatory conditions of pay, other compensation, working conditions, and demotion, layoff or termination. Prime contractors are urged to take affirmative steps to encourage minority sub-contractors, and subcontractors with minority representation to bid for sub-contracting work. HUD's final suggestion is that Affirmative Action Programs must provide for a continuing follow through, and for making whatever changes or additions may be necessary to achieve results. Compliance will be monitored by HUD's Regional Equal Opportunity Offices. AUTOMATIC T ADJUSTED • EXCHANGED • REPAIRED Owned and Operated by Memphians With Memphis Capital ** CHECK OUR REPUTATION ** IGO 217-223 Union Ave. 526-7491 335 Highway 51 S. 397-4469 Memphis, Tenn. 1900 University, Little Rock, Ark. Harlem Youth Mayors Leads Tour Of Expo A group of 75 Harlem ghetto youths between the ages of 16 and 19 were treated to a day at Expo 67 in Montreal, Sunday, August 15. The boys and girls were members of such community action, organizations as Har - You Act and Harlem Youth Uplift. Calvin A. Alston, Youth Mayor of Harlem, and his wife led the group on the bus tour visit to Expo. At the Kodak Pavilion, Alston was presented with an Instamatic camera by representatives of the Canadian Kodak Company who were hosts for the young torusits. The Harlem teen - agers were afforded the opportunity to visit the Canadian fair following their selection by Harlem community organizations as deserving representatives of New York's underprivileged. In what was termed a "reciprocal trade agreement," 15 members of the LaRocque Bey Dance Group put on a demonstration of African tribal dances to the delight of sev eral hundred Expo visitors. The tour was under the direction of Reuben J. Patton, president of Locality Mayors of America; and Samuel Price of Har-You Act. 32 School Systems Violate Federal Laws A State Department of Education official said Monday 32; Georgia school systems are in some form of non-compliance with federal civil rights provisions, leopardizing government education funds. J. J. Fulbright, assistant director of the state and federal relations division, said 17 systems of the state's 195 are in deferred" status and cannot participate in federally assisted new programs but can retain the funds and programs they now have. Fifteen more systems, including two that are currently being negotiated, have cutoff status, he said, and cannot receive any federal educational funds under provisions of the Civil Rights Act through federal school integration guidelines. "Visiting teams from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) are, still checking around the state" and the status of various systems could chage, Fulbright added. At this time to 1666, no systems had been cut off from federal funds, but 50 were in deferred status, of the systems now cut off, all but Toombs County were in the deferral category last year. Fulbright said Georgia has 26 or 29 systems in 100 per cent compliance which have more or less eliminated dual systems for Negroes and whites. In a related matter, Fulbright dented that discrimination was, a factor in removal of Negro school principals from any Georgia Systems, as Negro officials have charged. At a meeting last week of Georgia principals and supervisors, Executive Secretary Dr. H. E. Tate of the prepdominantly Negro Georgia Teachers and Education Association reorted that all-Negro schools are being manned by white principals. He charged Negro principals with good qualifications were being dismissed and added, "integration is taking a strange turn when it begins to integrate the Negroes out." But Fulbright said, If that has happened, it has usually been when the Negro community and faculty and the HEW felt it was a very good way to start faculty desegregation. "With a white principal, it is easier to draw white teachers," he added. I know of no actual discrimination in those instances, or the people from Washington would be worrying. The qualified Negro principals Sometimes left of their own choice and in any event, could find other employment easily with higher pay, Fulbright added. The systems to the deferred status were the city systems of Butord and Newnan and the county system of Appling, Calhoun, catur, Dooly, Effingham, Hart Lee Morgan, Monroe McDuffie, Lincoln, Stewart Taylor, Tattnall and Wilkinson. Those in the cutoff status were the city systems of Vidallia and the, county systems of Ben Hills Camden, Early, Echols, Glascock Johnson, Randolph, Screven Seminole Sumter Terrell and Toombs. In addition two systems were in the negotiating stage with funds to be cut off Saturday unless a compliance agreement, is reached. They were the systems in, Atkinson, and Brooks counties. BLINDNESS NO HANDICAP Though blind since, birth, Joy A. Taranto has a longer, list of accomplishments than most girls at the age of nineteen. She has graduated from Perkins School for the Blind and won awards in girls athletics, music and scholarship. LITTLEJOHN TAXI SERVICE Mobutu Ignores Ultimatum, Issues New Warning The official Kinshasa Radio said Monday Congolese air force fighterbombers attacked all day Sunday the white mercenaries, holding the east Congo town of Bukavu. The mercenaries, led by a Belgian Jean Black Jack Schramme had given President Joseph Mobuton until Sunday to give up his power and take ex-Premier Moise Tshombe into his government Tshombe is in Algeria awaiting extradition to the Congo where he is under a death sentence for treason. The radio gave no details of the raids on Bukavu or the type of planes which participated. Itmade no mention of damages which might have been inflicted on the mercenaries and Katangese rebels in the town on Lake Kivu. The Congolese air force is known to have two T28 World War II propeller driven fighter bombers. Mobutu had ignored the ultimatum from Schramme and sent one of his own last week. He told the mercenaries that unless they laid down their arms and surrendered in 10 days they would face spectacular punishment." He did not elaborate. Schramme commands about 110 white mercenaries and 800 former gendarmes from Tshombe's home province of Katanga. READ THE TORCH GLOWS An Effective Treatise on Current issues and Dis-orders. Tyrone is a ninth grade students at the Prairie View High School and has received numerous art citations, one from the Texas Education Agency in Austin. He is a student of Mrs. Pearl Martin. BOOM RESTORES HEARING David Jones 12, finds no fault with sonie booms, because he claims an unusally loud boom retored his hearing. A medical expert said shock waves could have freed small bones in the ear which had caused his deafness. President Johnson appeals to American youth to respect law.