Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1966-05-14 J. A. Beauchamp NAACP Convention To Study Tension In Communities Community tensions –their causes, effects and remedial action to eliminate the causes –will be explored at a plenary session of the 57th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which meets in Los Angeles, July 5-9. Using the riot in Los Angeles last year as a point of departure, a panel of experts and the delegates will seek to develop a program designed to improve substandard conditions in the ghetto which contribute to frustration, tensions and conflict. Another major session will be devoted to political action with a view to devising a strategy to accelerate civil rights progress. Because of the steadily increasing southern Negro vole, the session will not be divided geographically as in former years. Additional workshop sessions will cover consumer protection, employment, housing, education and such organizational problems as membership recruitment, fund raising and leadership development. Plan To Strengthen Negro Colleges Told By Danforth The Danforth Foundation announced recently a grant of $5,000,000 to support a plan to strengthen the faculties and administrative staffs of predominantly Negro colleges and universities in the South. The program was developed by the Council of Southern Universities in cooperation with a group of predominantly Negro colleges. The total program extends for seven years and involves a budget of tipproximately $17,000,000. The plan seeks to increase the pool of trained faculty and encourage commitment to a career of service in predominantly Negro, institutions. These purposes will be accomplished through graduate fellowships of several kinds, administrative internships, post doctoral fellowships, faculty, grants, en hanced interchanges between predominantly white and predominantly Negro institutions, and other measuers. These efforts will be directed by a specially established regional organization representing the universities the colleges. In a period of seven years more than 2,000 individuals will be benefited. This number is equivalent to 40 percent of the present faculty of southern, predominantly Negro institutions. In response to the grant Chancellor Alexander Heard of Vandebilt. University, President of the Council of Southern Universities, Inc., said: "The directors representing the nine university members of the Council and the presidents of the ten predominantly Negro institutions who worked to gether to prepare the seven-year plan for faculty development are deeply gratefuly for the Danforth Foundation's enormously important grand. We hope to obtain the other resources needed to implement the plan fully, and will as quickly as possible establish an operating agency widely representative of southern higher education to administer the programs provided for." Members of the Council of Southern Universities include Duke University, Emory University, Emory University, Louisiana State. University, University of North Carolina, Rice University, University of Texas, Tulane University, Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia. The Danforth Foundation was created in 1927 by late Mr. and Mrs. William H. Danforth of St. Louis. Its purpose is to strengthen education, through its own programs and through grants to schools, colleges, universities and other educational agencies. Application For Hampton Are Reported On Increase Dr Jerome H. Holland, president of Hampton Institute, reported May 11, an "unprecedented" 36.7 percent increase in applications for admission to the college. At a New York press conference the head of the predominantly Negro college –located in Hampton, Virginia –said that young Negroes are beginning to see that "the promise of equal job opportunity is becoming a reality." He poited out that this year, as in the past six years, there has been a substantial increase in he number of major corporations visiting the campus in the search for qualified personnel. He Stated that 11 companies from 24 states incerviewed students at the College. "As hopeful as these bare facts are" he said, "it is even more exciting in terms of the changing character of the student body itself." Dr. Holland noted that whereas his year's graduating class is onethird men and two thirds women, the current freshman class is more evenly divided between men and women. He stated that "Negro boys in high school are beginning to recognize and believe in the real opportunities now opening for them in American business and industry." One leading indicator of this is the 36.7 percent, overall increase in applications from high school students, Dr. Holland said. Mr. Fred G. Scott, director of placement as Hampton Institute, stressed that in 1959 not one company sent a recruiter to the campus. The following year, 1960, only 12 companies showed up. Since then it has increased each year, reaching 141 in the 1963-66 school year. Written requests from corporations seeking personnel had a parallel increase during the same period, running from 365 in 1959 to over 2,000 in 1965-66. Mr. Scott reported that as of this week over 100 specific offers had been made to Hampton seniors. Jobs offered ranged from executive and sales trainees to work in accounting, chemistry and mathematics according to Mr. Scott. A follow-up survey of recent graduates, Mr. Scott said, revealed that they "were non being held back or advanced because of their race, but seemed to be progressing solely on the basis of their professional abilities." He said that this is convincing evidence that "we have entred a new era of opportunity." Starting salaries offered to this year's graduating class averaged $6,432 which is in line with nationall reported figures, Mr. Scott added. Hampton's student body, which has grown form 1,348 in 1960-61 to 2.055 at preset, will take in 730 Freshmen this fal. As of this week Hampton has received applications form 1,845 high school seniors and the final total will be about 2,350. Much of the increase comes from Students in the mid Atlantic Region from Washington to Boston. Dr. Holland also stated that for the first time in Hampton's history, there were more students on the campus in the Spring semeser than in the Fall. Drop-outs were more than replaced by transfers and new student he said. Mr. Scott noted that 90 percent of the recruiting corporations are locaed 150 miles or more from Hampton. Institute which is situated in the Norfolk Newport News metropoiltan area. They include life insurance, banking, transportation, utility, manufacturing and chemical industry leaders throughout the country. By commencement last year, 75 percent of the students had accepted offers and, by October,95percen were at work in positions of their choice. This pattern is expected to continue this year. Hampton Institute is a privately supported college founded in 1868 as a school for freed slaves. In its early years, it pioneered in vocational education for Negroes and American Indians. It was accredited to give Bachelor degrees in 1922 and Master degrees in 1932. Today its students, Negro and white, come from 33 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and 15 foreign countries. TRYING FOR PERFECTION — Assisted by William C. Price (left). Dr. George E. Dombrowski is trying to perfect a microwave energy converter which would permit man to power orbiting space vehicles from Earth. Dombrowski is working under a National Science foundation grant at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. COMB AWAY GRAY WITH THIS COLOR COMB BRUSH Just comb and brush to add color tone. Washes out. Will not rub off. NOT A DYE. Easiest, quickest way to add color gradually AVOIDS THAT SUDDEN DYED LOOK. Brush attached for removing excess coloring, Prevents soiling, rubbing off. Comes in Plastic Case. Can be carried in pocket or purse. Comes in all shadest Black to Platinum Blue. Just Write, state shade. Pay only $1.98 on delivery plus postage Money back if not delighted. Georgia And Tennessee Get Fed. Grants Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor has announced approval of Federal matching grants of approximately $77,000 to Georgia and $45,000 to Tennessee under the new State Technical Services Program. Texas and Iowa were announced last week as the first two States to be approved, and additional State programs are being processed, the Secretary said. In the six months since the Act was signed, the Governors of all 50 States plus the Distriot of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands have designated State agencies to plan and coordinate their respective activities. The State Technical Services Program is designed to promote commerce and to encourage economic growth by supporting State and interstate activities to place the findings of science usefully in the hands of American business and industry. Following are background and descriptions of the two new programs announced today: Governor Carl E. Sanders designated the State Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia under Dr. George L. Simpson, Chancellor, to plan and coordinate the State's program. The Governor also appointed the 40-member Georgia Science and Technology Commission as the program's advisory body. The Chairman of the Commission is H. McKinley Conway, Jr., President, Conway Reseach, Inc., Atlanta, and the Vice Chairman, James A. Dunlap, attorney of Gainesville. Georgia's proposal consists, as required by the State Technical Services Act, of a five year plan and a first year program. The former states: "The principal objective of the Georgia Technical Services Program is to effect an increase in the rate of application of advanced scientific and technological knowledge among the State's business commercial; and industrial establishments. The State proposes to accomplish this goal by providing to both established and emerging industries appropriate combinations of information services at instructional services." The plan points up the rapid changes in the urban rural proportions of the State's population Prior to 1960 most Georgians lived in predominantly rural areas. The 1960 census was the first to show a majority of the population, 55 percent, as being urban. Population losses continue in many of the State's rural counties, where farm mechanization replaces human labor. "The major problems to be solved in the urban growth centers of Georgia are those created by growth itself," the program continues. "They include both technical and economic problems. At the same time, in the State's smaller rural towns and communities, the basis problem appears to be how to create end maintain an economic base sufficient to support local population and to permit fast -growth trade and service industries to function successfully. GEORGIA Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor has announced approval of Federal matching grants of approximately $77,000 to Georgia and $45,000 to Tennessee under the new State Technical Services Program. Texas and Iowa were announced last week as the first two States to be approved, and additional State programs are being processed, the Secretary said. In the six months since the Act was signed, the Governors of all 50 States plus the Distriot of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands have designated State agencies to plan and coordinate their respective activities. The State Technical Services Program is designed to promote commerce and to encourage economic growth by supporting State and interstate activities to place the findings of science usefully in the hands of American business and industry. Following are background and descriptions of the two new programs announced today: Governor Carl E. Sanders designated the State Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia under Dr. George L. Simpson, Chancellor, to plan and coordinate the State's program. The Governor also appointed the 40-member Georgia Science and Technology Commission as the program's advisory body. The Chairman of the Commission is H. McKinley Conway, Jr., President, Conway Reseach, Inc., Atlanta, and the Vice Chairman, James A. Dunlap, attorney of Gainesville. Georgia's proposal consists, as required by the State Technical Services Act, of a five year plan and a first year program. The former states: "The principal objective of the Georgia Technical Services Program is to effect an increase in the rate of application of advanced scientific and technological knowledge among the State's business commercial; and industrial establishments. The State proposes to accomplish this goal by providing to both established and emerging industries appropriate combinations of information services at instructional services." The plan points up the rapid changes in the urban rural proportions of the State's population Prior to 1960 most Georgians lived in predominantly rural areas. The 1960 census was the first to show a majority of the population, 55 percent, as being urban. Population losses continue in many of the State's rural counties, where farm mechanization replaces human labor. "The major problems to be solved in the urban growth centers of Georgia are those created by growth itself," the program continues. "They include both technical and economic problems. At the same time, in the State's smaller rural towns and communities, the basis problem appears to be how to create end maintain an economic base sufficient to support local population and to permit fast -growth trade and service industries to function successfully. Committee Maps Rules For Annual NAACP Convention Rules and regulations for the 57th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People were formulated at a meeting of the Association's 14member committee on convention procedure here, May 3. The committee also designated the presiding officers for the legislative sessions of the five day convention which opens in Los Angeles on July 5. Mike Mitchell, Baltimore, chairman of NAACP national youth work committee, will preside at the opening session on July 5. The presiding officer at the legislative session on July 8 will be Chester I. Lewis, president of the Wichita, Kans.; Branch. On July 9, Judge Joseph G. Kennedy of San Francisco will preside. Judge Kennedy and Mr. Lewis are members of the Association's national Board of Directors. Members of the committee are J. Franklyn Bourne, Seat Pleasant, Md.; Ike Adams, Los Angeles; Miss Brenda Hart, Pomona Valley, Calif., Paul Gibson, New York City; Miss Glenda Copes, Northampton, Mass.; Wendell Erwin, Cleveland; and Daniel Bogan, Albion, Mich. Also, Robert Waters, Kansas City, Kans.; Rev. Frederick C. James, Sumter, S. C.; Kenneth Cox, Memphis; Volma Overton, Austin, Texas; Miss Linda Pogue, Oklahoma City; Miss Linda Johnson, Washington, D. C.; and Robert Wright Jr. Des Moines, Iowa. Seven of the committee members represent NAACP youth units and the otter seven adult branches. Wilkins Has Busy Schedule In May Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is scheduled for a series of public appearances this month including four NAACP branch meetings, a university forum, two church conferences, a labor union convention, and a testimonial dinner. On May 5, the NAACP leader presided at a meeting in Washington of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights of which he is chairman. Plans to mobilize support for the new civil right legislation were mapped at the meeting. He was scheduled to return to Washington or, May, 6 for the regular weekend meetings of the Council of the White House Conference. Mr. Wilkins will address the following NAACP branch affairs: a dinner meeting celebrating the 12th anniversary of the Supreme Court anti segregation decision of May 17, 1954, Waterbury, Conn., May 15; dinner meeting, Perth Amboy, N. J., May 19; public meeting, Atlantic, City, May 26; and East Liverpool, Ohio, dinner meeting, May 28. On May 12, the NAACP leader will address the Student Forum at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. This will be his fourth appearance this year before students at southern institutions of higher learning. His other appearances were: University of Georgia, Jan. 18; University of Texas, Feb. 15; and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, March 31. On May 11, he will address a session of the 1966 general conference of the Christian Methodist Church in Miami, and on May 22 the closing session of the sesquicentennial celebration of the African. Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington. Mr. Wilkins is among leaders scheduled to make brief remarks at a testimonial dinner in New York City honoring the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, general secretary elect of the World Council of Churches, May 9. Also in New York on May 18 he will participate in the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Convocation. On May 26, he will be a speaker at the 25th biennial convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. AFL-CIO. PRINCE VISITS Britain's Prince Margaret and her husband, Lord Snowdon, arrived Friday, their sixth wedding anniversary, to attend a Franco-American ball. Tan Topics Lawyer Continental Features. University Of Cal. Called "Pivotal Base" For Reds The state senate subcommittee on un-American activities Friday declared that the University of California campus at Berkeley was "the pivotal base" for a Communist organized, international campaign against the U.S. War effort in Viet Nam. The charge was continued in a 153-page subcommittee report sharply critical of University President Clark Kerr. The report also charged that "deluges of filth" had hit the Berkeley campus recently along with an attitude of "anything goes." The entire situation resulted from Kerr's refusal to crack down on a minorly of rebellious, Communist, criminal, Marxist and radical students, non students and faculty members, according to the report of the five-member legislative committee. The report said the Kerr administration "retreated before the savage tactics and increasing demands of the rebellious students .. 4to the point that virtually no rules for firm cenrel of student conduct remained. Kerr, $45,000 a year president of the beleaguerd university commented in Berkeley that the report was full of "distortions, half truth, inaccuracies." He said the subcommittee declined his offer to appear before it. As for cracking down on students, Kerr noted that the rules on the Berkeley campus have, been under intensive discussion on levels up to the board of regents. He challenged the legislators to find a Communist on the faculty. In June 1985 the legislative subcommittee made similar charges agiants Kerr in connection with the free speech movement after nearly 800 students and others were hauled by police from a sit-in at Berkeley's Sproul Hall. Kerr last October issued an "analysis" of that report, saying it, too, presented "half truths," and "distortions." Recovers $6,300 From Great Train0 Robbery Of '63 James Edward White told police be had money form the great train robbery of 1963 hidden under the floor of his garage when he was arrested two weeks, crown prosec or said recently. But the sums received amounted to only $6,300, less than 1,000th part of the haul in history's biggest robbery, police said. White, 46, confessed to police that he took part in the robbery of $7.3 million from the Glasgowo-London mail train, Prosecutor Howard Sabin said. Thus far, only $700,000 of the loot has been recovered. The World War II paratrooper appeared under heavy guard at his pre-trial hearing in tiny Linsdale court charged with armed robbery and conspiracy to rob-the same charges that brought 30 years jail sentences to seven other train robbers two years ago. He was arrested April 21 at the little English Channel resort of Little stone on Sea, where he lived with his family under an assumed name. Two other men are still on the run as top suspects in the great train robbery, along with two convicted robbers who broke out of jail while serving 30-year sentences. The meticulously planned ambush of the Glasgow-to-London mail train took place before dawn 8, 1963 at nearby Cheddington. South's schools slow on integration pledge. Senate panel backs Dirksen plan on districting. COOK GIVES PRESIDENT HIS COME UPPANCE — Zephyr Wright, White House cook shown with Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, placed a note on the President's dinner plate recently, it was revealed, which read: "Mr. President, you have been my boss for a number of years and you always tell me how you want to lose weight. And yet you never do much to help. Now I am going to be your boss for a change. Eat what I put in front of you and don't ask for anymore and don't complain." Mr. Johnson indicated he would follow orders. An "epidemic" of public health workers is due to hit Augusta May 15-18 when the 1500 member Georgia Public Health Association holds the 37th annual convention Of the thirty-eight-year-old association of representatives from local, state and federal health departments, voluntary and professional organizations, hospital staffs, nursing schools, and education and welfare organizations concerned with health. Theme of the meeting headquartered at the Augusta Town House is "Today's Health Georgia's Future." The health workers, in addition to the special technical programs, will hear such emminent speakers as Boisfeuillet Jones, President of the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation, who will be the keynote speaker. The implications of federal legislation on public health practice will be discussed at the second day's session, when the panel moderator will be Dr. Leroy E. Burney, Vice President for Health Science at Temple University, and former Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. The Wednesday session of the convention will hear an address by Dr. John H. Furbay, lecturer, author, and global commuter. A highlight of the Wednesday session will be an address by Governor Carl E. Sanders of Georgia. In 1938, the Georgia Public Health Association was organized to promote and protect the health of all Georgians." Better-known by its initials, GPHA, the association has kept its members and the public informed of the latest trends, problems and progress of public health in the state, the nation, and the world. There are nine specialized sections within the organization: medical and dental officers, health education, mental health, sanitation, nursing, administration, laboratory, clerical, and health investigation. Dr. William T. Johnson, dental director of the Fulton County Health Department, is president of the association, President-elect is Mark R. Harbison of savannah. Other officers include: T. F. Gibson, VicePresident, John D. Humphreys, Secretary, and Mrs. Marion Carswell, Treasurer, all with the State Health Department in Atlanta. Following a custom of recent years, the State Board of Health, has scheduled a meeting in Augusta to coincide with the GPHA convention. Dr. John M. Martin, chairman of the Board, has set the meeting for Sunday, May 15 at 2:30. Board members will also be platform guests at the Monday session of the association. Klansmen Held On $15,000 Bond In Wife Shooting Joseph Howard Sims. 43-year-old Ku Klux Klansman accused of attempting to murder his estrange wife, was held Saturday under $15,000 bond in Clarke County jail. Sims surrendered Friday night to Butts County Sheriff J. D. Pope in Jackson near Griffin. A preliminary hearing began in magistrate's court Saturday morning but was continued. No date nor explanation for the continuance were given. Sims, acquitted for the July 11, 1964, nightrider slaying of Negro educator Lemuel Penn near Colbert, Ga., appeared in good spirits as he got out of a patrol car in Athens at the Jail. He smiled at newsmen and photographers but shielded his face when television camera lights went on. DETERGENT HANDS Relieve pain and itching, soothe quick! Switch to super-refined hospital quality White Petroleum Jelly Twice as much for 27¢ THE ALL NEW THE WORLD'S MOST EXCITING MUSICAL PERSONAL CHARLES RAELETS ALL FRONT SEATS RESERVED B. B. BEAMON CO-ORDINATOR. Alabama Negro Vote To Grow In Influence, Wilkins Says Commenting on the Alabama primary election, Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, predicted an increase in the influence of Negro voters in that state. The NAACP leader's statement, made public here on May 4, the day after the election, follows: As a result of last week's election, Alabama Negroes apparently will be represented in the state legislature for the first time since Reconstruction. Incomplete returns also indicate that they may have elected a sheriff and that some Negro candidates will be in the runoffs in certain county elections and may win. The new Negro voters of Alabama need not be discouraged. Even though many of the candidates they supported failed of election, these voters have already had an impact upon the conduct of elections in their state. Their influence will grow greater as their numbers increase and as they and the white voters forsake racial polarization at the polls. Bill Of Rights Stamp Will Be Issued On July 1 The paths of Pulitzer prizewinning Cartoonist "Herblock" and the National Education Association will cross again July 1 on the final day of the NEA's annual convention in Miami Beach, Fla. That is the date and locale set by the Post Office Department in cooperation with NEA for issuance of a new U. S. five-cent postage stamp desiged by Mr. Block commemoratig the 175th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. The "Free to Teach" theme of the convention in which 10,000 teachers from all parts of the country will participate was felt to be an appropriate occasion on which to honor the anniversary of the first ten amendments to the Constitution which established freedom of religion, speech, press, the right to a jury trial and other safeguards to human rights. Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien has accepted an invitation from NEA President Richard D. Batchelder to address convention delegates on Friday, July 1. Herblock (Herbert C. Block) has won many salutes from the teaching profession for his penetrating cartoons on education. For example, he was named 1963 winner of the Golden Key Award by NEA and five other rational education organizations. His red, white, and blue design for the Bill of Rights stamp shows the hand of freedom opposing the gauntleted list of tyranny. CITY FLOODED The worst flood in 40 years Friday inundated the city of Novgorod on the Volkhov River, and 82 other towns in regions south of Leningrad, No casualties were reported. The floods were blamed on a quick thaw after a heavy snowfall. Florida — Ed Johnson, executive editor, The Gainsville Sun, Gainsville; and Charles Kerchner, St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg. Kentucky — Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Willis, editor and publisher, Meed County Messenger, Brandenburg; and Henry C. Cox, editor, The Central Record, Laneaste. Maryland — John Murphy III, Afro-American Newspapers, Baltimore. Oklahoma — Mike Flanagan, assistant city editor, Oklahoma City Times, Oklahoma City. Chrysler Corp. To Cutback On Automobile Production Chrysler, the nation's third largest auto maker, said it would close its assembly paints at Nare and Los Angeles for four days starting May 31, laying off about 6,000 workers and eliminating, 4700 cars from original June production schedules. The firm said its five other car assembly plants and its one truck factory would run regular five day schedules through June. Even with the reduction. Chrysler said its June car output was scheduled at 136,000, a record for the month Last June Chrysler built 134,485 cars. Ward's Automotive Reports, an independent trade publication, said Tuesday the auto industry planned to cut 34,000 cars from May sched ules, 57,000 from June and 70,000 from production schedules for July, final month of the 1966 model year. Ward's said the industry had no choice but to reduce its final quarter build-out of 1966 models because an enormous buying rush carlier in the year had settled back to a normal level. Set Food Meeting The European Regional Conference of member countries of the U. N. Food and Agricultural Organization FAO will meet here Oct. 5-11, it was announced Saturday. The meeting agricultural policies of European countries in general and their effects in countries outside.