Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1969-03-29 J. A. Beauchamp SUCCESS IS THE WORD — Diana Ross and The Supremes are congratulated by co-chairmen of the Chicago Urban League Woman's Board offer their smash, record-breaking performance to benefit the league at Chicago's Auditorium Theater. The performance by the Motown stars netted more, than $40,000 for the Urban Lea gue, more than double the proceeds of any previous benefit, left to right are Supremes, Cindy Birdsong, Diana Ross, co-chairmen, Mrs. James F. Hodge, jr. and. Mrs. Rudolph Moragne and Mary Wilson of the Supremes. (Motown Photo) New York Black Republicans Differ On Virgin Island Gov. Horace Carter, State Chairman New York Caucus of the National Council' of Concerned Afro-Americans said his organization was critical of President Richard M. Nixon for not appointing a Native Governor of the Virgin. Islands. A telegram has been sent to Mr. Nixon. In a Resolution adopted by toe Caucus last Sunday. Mr. said Mr. Nixon could have taken two courses of action. Appointed a Native black virgin Islander or Appointed a Black American. Mr. Carter also said that most Black Republicans in New York State supported this position. He said the leadership of his group had received hundreds of calls raid offers of support of the resolution which is as follows: "Be is resolved that the New York State Caucus of the National Council of concerned Afro-Americans criticize President Richard M. Nixon for not appointing a Black Republican Governor of the Virgin Islands or a leading Black Republican Governor of the Virgin Islands or a leading Black Republicon with a record of service to the Party and the Black race from the United States. Be is further resolved that there is sufficient talent, among Black Re publicans who could have filled the position of Governor of the Virgin Islands in an efficient and progressive manner. That since the population of the Virgin Islands is predominantly Black such a person urged by this organization would have created undemanding of the problems of the Virgin Islands and work toward elective solutions. Be it conclusively resolved that in the spirit of this organization their worth and appointing them to positions of trust, influence and responsibility." James R. Lawson was appointed Chairman o Resolution Drafting Committee. Fred Knight, Co-Chairman of Resolution Drafting Committee. Fred Knight, Co-Chairman, and Nat Singleton. Coordinatos. COUNTEROFFENSIVE — A U.S. tank accompanied by 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment troopers rolls through the Michelin rubber plantation 45 miles northwest of Saigon, South Vietnam, during a mighty counteroffensive by Americana and South Vietnamese to wart a drive by the Communists. () Relief Agency Doctor Reports To Senator Edward Kennedy Doctor James w. Turpin. Founder and President of Project Concern, has reported the following observations to Senator Edward Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Refugees. "During the past four and onehalf years, I have seen many changes in the situation in South Vietnam. None have been as start, ling as those which have taken place during the last six months. In June. 1964 I started a private civilian hospital in a remote area of the Central Highlands. I have just returned from Project concern's DaMpao Hospital and the site in Tuyen Due providence for our new "Living Memorial" Hospital at Lien Hlep. There is a new spirit of optimism in Vietnam, People are talking about peace. At all levels of Vietnamese life, guesses are being made as to when a negotiated settlement will be reached and when the fighting will stop. In the past eight weeks, I have been privileged to privately interview president Nguyen Van Thien, General Creighton Abrams, Minister of Health Dr. Tran Lu Y. Deputy prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem top provincial officers, United States Agency for International Development personnel, and hundreds of people in the rural areas. Some startling and encouraging findings resulted. Our military situation has vastly strengthened. The South Vietnamese armed forces approach military self-sufficiency. The present Saigon regime is betterorganized and administratively superior to any government since the Diem era. The Vietnamese are assuming a greater role in not only military operations, but thanks to a mature and far-sighted policy of the American Government's part, are taking a much larger role in civilian aid including care of refugees. Those tens of thousands of refugees created by the "TET offeisive" have now received specific and practical help from their own government officials. A recently concluded audit of this aid shows that a vast majority of the funnds were carefully and honestly distributed — and this by government representatives who historically use their official positions for personal gain. One real danger remains. The American people may interpret an end to the fighting as an end to the problem. It is only a beginning to the solution. Any adequate answer must involve large numbers of American and third-national "nation builders" moving into rural Vietnam with an extensive and intensive pacification program. Fortunately, the Paris negotiations are putting pressure on both the Viet Cong and Saigon to win the rural people through the development of programs which will answer their real problems now. This is as it should be and represents a much more appropriate arena for competition than the battlefield. With our vastly stronger resources and with the physical, moral and spiritual support of concerned people the world over, we can win this contest as well. One method or rebuilding a nation is through the concept of "Living Memorials". One hundred and fifty-three men from Worcester County, Massachusetts have died thus far in the Vietnam conflict. Gold Star parents, surviving comrades, and members of the American Legion have decided to gether to build a sixty-bed rural hospital for the civilians of Tuyen Due Province, onehundred and thirty miles northeast of Saigon. Their representatives have chosen Project Concern, an international, private, and interreligious organization, to construct and operate this facility for which they have raised nearly $100,000. A sixmonth training program, similar to the one at DaMpao Hospital which has graduated over 100 young men and women, will be organized to teach the basic techniques of Village Medical Assistants. If this general concept will spread to other areas of our country, and other parts of the free world, we can gain still larger and more effective means by which the Vietnamese will someday become tally self-sufficient." Doctor Turpin has just recently returned from Southeast Asia where his medical relief agency project Concern operates a 42-bed hospital in DaMpao, and also medical facilities in Hong Kong, Mexico, and Tennessee-U. S. A. Lutheran Leaders Laud COCU Merger Efforts The Consultation on Church union, which is seeking to unite nine Protestant denominations into a single church of more than 25,000,000 members was praised by a Lutheran leader for its efforts "to heal and to resolve some of the disgraceful divisions which mar Christianity." In a letter to the consultation's four-day meeting here, March 1720, Dr. C. Thomas Spitz Jr., general secretary of the Lutheran Council in the USA, said that "we are grateful for the opportunity which you have extended to us as Lutherans to sit with you in your "While elements of the detailed process which you have followed toward church union are new to us and foreign to our pattern, there is much that we have to learn from you," he said, "If, in allition, there is anything that we can contribute, that will be an extra value." Dr. Spitz noted that "all planning for and certainly any realization of the united church efforts wil laffect not only our national church bodies but also every Lutheran ministry and each Lutheran congregation." "This realization adds weight to our burden of responsibility for representing their interests to you and for sharding the results of your work with them," he said. Dr. Spitz was unable to attend the session here as an observerconsultant due to conflicting engagements elsewhere. Representing the Lutheran Council in this capacity were Dr. Paul D. Opsahl, assistant executive of its Division of Theological Studies, and Dr. John H. Tietjen, executive secretary of its Division of Public Relations. The meeting was the eighth since the Consultation on church Union (COCU) was established in 1062, to negotiate the formation of a united church "truly catholic, truly evangelical and truly reformed." Involved initially were four church bodies. Others subsequently joined the conversations. Participants are the United Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church to the US (Southern), United Church of Christ. Disciples of Christ, African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion church, and Christtian Methodist Episcopal Church. The Lutheran Council was delegated at its second annual meeting in 1968 to represent its member bodies at COCU and sent four observer-consultants to the consultation's seventh session at Dayton Ohio. Most of the meeting here was devoted to consideration of a preliminary outline of a plan of union — to be used only for study, discussion, and reaction. The 6,500wordword ten-section paper deals with the proposed church's, faith, worship and sacraments, membership, ministry, organization and government, and ecumenical relations. A complete plan of union will be drafted" during the comming year for submission to COCUs next meet ing in 1970. Although no timetable has been set, estimates on when the actual merger will take place range from six to 12 years. "This Is King's School" Says Chicagoan At Boston University A young Chicagoan who transferred to Boston University last, year because "this is King's school, Las been selected for the outstanding scholarship award in the College of Liberal Arts at the University. Bill H. Weathersby, who became friendly with Dr Martin Luther King while working with him in Chicago in 1966 has been named a beneficiary under the Professor Augustus Howe Buck Educational Fund. Weathersby is not the first black to receive the award that was established anonymously in 1916 to honor a professor of classics. Exactly 50 years ago one of the first Buck senoiars was Stephen Balfour Mfoato, a young man from the Gold coast of Africa who wanted to become a medical missionary to his people. A junior majoring in philosophy and government, Weathersby earned outstanding grades last semeester while currying six courses. He also worked, was a member of the debating team and was elected to the student congress. High marks ore a cause for some introspection on Weathersby's part. Sensing the strong desire on the part of white faculty that black students mane tend, he must ask himself. "Is it an A. or is it a black A?" Weathersby transferred from the University of Iowa. Resident of Chicago's Hyde park and graduate of DuSable High School his other reasons for coming east include the Cambridge-Boston mystique" und knowledge that Boston University was offering yew opportunities was black students. An especially close friend is the Rev. Jesse Jackson, national coordinator of Operation Breadbasket under he Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Weathersby was recommended for the award by Donald R. Dunbar, professor of philosophy who was himself a Buck scholar. Students are selected who wish to make careers in fields of humanitarian service, such as medicine, the ministry, or education. Weathersby hopes to go to Columbia graduate school as a start toward a teaching career. Weathersby is the second stud ent to be named to the award in this school year. Joseph Percival, also a junior, was named in the fall. The stipend is flexible to the student's needs says Kenneth A. Bernard, history professor who is chairman of the committee on proferros Augustus Howe Buck Scholars. Fifties graduatees and undergraduates are now being provided with stipends ranging from $200 to $4300. University expenses are included, and any other legitimate expenses, including clothes, eyeglasses, subscription option to a relevant magazine. The fund's stipulated purpose is "to enable young men of unusual promise and of positive Christian character, but with insufficient means, to receive a very much more thorough education than they could otherwise obtain." Prof. Buck retired from the University in 1902 and died in Germany in 1917. The anonymous donor was later identified as his son, Henry. In the last 52 years upward of 150 men have received the scholarship for periods ranging from six months to more than eight years. Many are now professors of higher education. There are a fair share in the ministry and medicine, one is ambassador to Bolivia and enc a CIA administrator. Coming to America in 1914, he spent five years at Tuskegee and Wilberforce before entering Boston University. A year later he transferred to the medical school. His first years in America proved disillusioning, he told a friend, for he had always thought of this country as close to heaven. At Tuskegee he ate the bitter bread of the southern Negro. But he learned from it. He said, "There was a group of people back home whom we always looked down upon and treated much as whites treat Negroes in the South. When I go back I shall act differently." He was never to go back. He contracted tuberculosis and died at Rutland State Sanatorium in 1922. WILL JACKIE FIND KENNEDY'S KILLER? An astrologer thinks so — and this year! $5 a head! So you think slavery is dead? Read 'Slavery in South America' and see how wrong you can be! Do's And Don'ts LADY, BUT NOT FIRST— Another "invasion" of the jockey domain takes place at Santa Anita in Arcadia. Calif., as Tuesdee Testa steps on the scales to be the first female rider then boot Gallarush home dead last, then smilingly return to the scales. Vote In Favor Of Larger Rote For Poor Blacks In Anti-Poverty Delegates attending the fourth annual conference ot the National Association for Community Development here voted strongly in favor of a larger role for poor blacks in an expanded end reorganized anti-poverty campaign. Instead of breaking tip the Office of Economic Opportunity, the delegates voted to insist that Congress spent another $2 billion for the program. The consultants and voted for the employment of more black directors consultants and superviseors in CAP agencies as well as for support of black control and economic development of poor areas. The delegates took these actions after they were presented by the 200-member black caucus. The caucus refrained from serious criticism of President Nixon's role in handling anti poverty efforts. The black delegation was the largest bloc among the 650 men and women attending the conference. NACD is made up of OEO community action and HUD Model Cities program officials in Negro, Spanish-speaking and poor white communities around the country. The full delegation passing, Lalutions support fair housing. Labor Department funding of community action programs, and the reduction of people suffering from hunger, by 90 percent; in two years. Investigation of graft in OEO programs was urged, along with investigation of fraud in other federal programs. The group also opposed the ABM missile system and called for a national holiday in honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Although Congress of Racial Equality leader Roy, Innis urged support of the Self-Determination Act "just as it is" in a speech before the convention, black caucus leader Gerald Robinson of Kansas City, Mo., feared the bill will be changed in Congress. They decided to take a wait-and see attitude heroin they support it. Innis also taped the delegates to support black nationalists' "separatist" pulicies for black communities to "maximize" their power. His appeal appeared to have little influence. He also demanded that the U. S. Constitution be revised to reflect the political position of blacks in this country. The CORE leader later told newsmen be was not dismayed by the reaction since "Washington Hamilton, Madison and Jefferson were ahead if their people when they called for the American Revolution." Although the majority of the speakers and panelists at the sessions criticized the administrations handling of the anti-poverty progiam. Mr. Nixon was praised in the only reference to him in the resolutions, lie was cited for "so ably stating the case for Head Start." White House special Assistant Robert J. Brown told the group earlier that most of the anti-poverty programs, including Head Start, will probably be continued by the Nixon adm m "No community union agency doing its job" will, be cut on from funds, Brown emphasized. Howard Fuller, training, director of the Foundation for Economic Development in Durham, N. C., brought the delegates to their feet in their first session last Monday, when he declared that OEO administrations must risk losing their jobs to organize communities around political and economic power instead of only providing cooking sewing classes. A resolution calling for a court test of any limitation of political freedom or expression by antipoverty workers was also passed by the body. An effort to limit the influence of the black caucus was defeated in the final black caucus group to defeat the proposals after members pointed that convention participants usually organize around special interests and that the general body could not prevent such meetings. In additional to the black caucus meetings for Negro delegates a brown caucus for Mexican-American delegates, and a rural coalition meeting, attended mostly by white NACD members, was also scheduled at the same time at the convention. Following the caucus debate, outgoing NACD president, David Hill, of Cleveland, said that in the future, the caucuses would not be scheduled to conflict with each other so that black or brown persons could attend the rural coslition meeting or any special group to which they belonged. Athens Charlie Ammons, a Goodyear employee, who had an accident recently is able to be home from the Flody Hospital and doing fairly. D. M. pounds, Atlanta Daily World representative is able to be home from Polk General Hospital after surgery and is doing fairly well. Lish Newman and Clarence Thomas of Bowden visited with Mr. Pounds on Friday. Camp D. M. Pounds, High Priest announces that the Royal Arch Chapter will meet. 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