Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1966-06-18 J. A. Beauchamp Chicagoan Speaks Sunday At Greater Mt. Pleasant The women of Greater Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, 47 West Desota Ave., will observe their annual day Sunday, June 19 at 3 p.m. The guest speaker will be Mrs. Flossie McDowell - Purnell, native Memphian, now residing in Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Purnell is widely known in Memphis as a vibrant speaker and missionary worker. She was formerly a member of Greater Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, pastored by the Rev. J. H. Patton. In Chicago, she is a member of the Antioch Baptist Church, pas tored by Dr. W. N. Daniels. Active in many phases of church work, she sings with the W. N. Daniels Choir and is secretary of the Brown's Chapter 12, O. E. S. Having won wide acclaim as a public speaker, she will be presented by Mrs. J. C. Austin, president of the women of the Shelby County District Association. The public is invited. Mrs. Irene Sanders is the chairman; Mrs. Louise Williams, cochairman. The Rev. L. H. Aldridge is the pastor. ASTA To Ask Investigation Of Alabama School Pressures The Alabama State Teachers Association announced June 10 that "it is exploring the possibility of inviting the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to investigate the political pressures in the Alabama School System." The statement was issued on the eve of the Conference On Education Desegregation sponsored by the Alabama State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission On Civil Rights held June 11 at the Dinkler - Tutwiler Hotel in Birmingham. ASTA Executive Secretary Joe L. Reed of Montgomery attended the conference. Gov. George C. Wallace, a bitter critic of federal - aid programs which do not overlook the needs of minority groups, has been leading opposition to the school desegregation guidelines formulated by the Department of Health. Education and Welfare. ASTA Executive Secretary Reed said: Executive Secretary Joe L. Reed said, "In view of some recent action by our high state officials urging school administrators to resist the desegregation guidelines, and the apparens evidence of further pressures on our school people who are honestly seeking to comply with the guidelines, leaves us little choice since there may be some violation of academic freedom." The Alabama State Teachers Association respects any person, agency, state official, or others right to disagree or protest. ASTA believes this is being done through the "Bessemer Case" presently before the United States Fifth Appelate Court, and any other form of pressure by anyone must not be allowed to go unchallenged. The organized professional association must use every effort at its disposal to prevent political expediency from supplanting educational advancement in Alabama." The Alabama State Teachers Association also announced that it was giving full support to several teachers who were dismissed by the crenshaw County Board of Education on May 25 Mr. Reed said, "It appears to be beyond question that there were other factors surrounding these dismissals other than those given by the Board ASTA is for high standards in the teaching profession and respects all boards of education rights to make adjustments in their teaching staff, but in making these adjustments, the board must not be arbitrary and capricious." This was the first reported case of teachers dismissed since the 1966 school year ended. Last summer several Negro teachers were dismissed from Wilcox. Lowndes. Hale, and Greene Counties. The Alabama State Tenure Commission rejected the action by the Wilcox County Board, but that Board refused to reinstate the teachers. A hearing has been set for June 14 in State Circuit Court at Cam den. Executive Secretary Reed, who accompanied some other Negro executive secretaries from the south to Washington, D. C., to confer with the United States Commissioner of Education, Harold Howe, on a "Strategy for Education" and to New York as a guest of John W. Davis, Special Director of Teacher Information and Security, and Jack Greenberg, Director - Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, said he was impressed with the response of the Commissioner concerning the future of Negro teachers as they face integrated education systems. "We are also gratified with the assurance Mr. Greenberg gave us with reference to future litigation." The Alabama State Teachers Association will begin investigating the discrepancy between white and Negro teachers salaries. Reed said "evidence suggest that some school system subsidize white teachers salaries with local funds and deny these supplements to Negro teachers." "We must eradicate this practice immediately," Reed said. SEE JACK OPEN NIGHTLY UNTIL OCTOBER 4 DOG RACING AT ITS BEST summer home of champions Air conditioned for your comfort Court Rejects 1963 "Trespass Conviction The Supreme Court today repected efforts of Sheriff Ralph Grimes of Atlanta to reinstate the treaspass conviction of a white demonstrator arrested in 1963 at Leb's restaurant there. The man, Tom Taylor Tolg; was a 23-year-old graduate teaching assistant at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, at the time of the arrest. He and 13 others, including Negroes, attempted to enter the restaurant lor lunch. After his conviction was affirmed, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawing racial discrimination in most eating places. As a result, the Supreme Court in another case ruled that all pending, convictions that conflicted with the new law must be set aside. Tolg's case had meanwhile cleared state courts and was before a federal court on a habeas corpus application. The 5th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Jan. 24, 1966, that under these circumstances his case was still "open" and must be quashed. Grimes contended that this decision "represents a retroactive intrusion into state criminal laws which is wholly unwarranted." Tolg was sentenced to 12 months of labor on the county public works and six months in jail, plus a $1,000 fine. Judge Durwood T. Pye said the sentence would be reduced to four months if Tolg promised to obey all state laws thereafter. He has been free on $5,000 bond. Passage Of Bill Depends Upon Senator Dirksen Here's what is going on behind the scenes in the civil rights legislation fight in Congress: The James Meredith bushwhacking in Mississippi built up instant heat for passage of President Johnson's newest civil rights bill. But not to the point where passage is assured, or anything close to it. Neither the shooting of the Negro nor the resultant pressure has budged Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen from his opposition. And Dirksen, close friend of the president, is the major barrier to final passage. It is a fact of congressional life that unless advance agreement can be reached with Dirksen on the bill, there just isn't a chance of getting it passed in the Senate, no matter what the House does. The House now has completed public hearings on the legislation. A measure to be presented to the floor is being drafted in the Judiciary Committee. If what has happened in the past foreshadows what will happen again, the committee will produce a drastic measure going far beyond the administration's request. Key members involved in the drafting are Democrat Emmanuel Celler of New York, the committee chairman, and Republican Willia McCulloch of Ohio. They have been the chief framers of other civil rights bills. Both are well aware that all the work they do can come undone unless agreement is reached with Dirksen. So far, they've been told that no deal has been arranged and the administration just doesn't know how one can be ararnged because of Dirksen's adamant opposition. Instead, the word has been passed and risk finishing up with no bill at all. There are some at the Capitol who will wait to see whether the administration displays such intestinal fortitude. Dirksen is a shrewd politician If he thinks he is done in unfairly, he could make the WhiteHouse pay a high price for some of its pet legislation. House members to just go ahead and approve the strongest kind of bill. The apparent, strategy is to give the administration bargaining room with Dirksen and, if necessary, to put him on the spot as the man who stood in the way of civil rights at this session of Congress. The latter point is a sensitive one. If that strategy is followed down to the end of the road, it implies the administration is willing to tangle head -on with Dirksen A SOUVENIR FROM VIET NAM — The family of Air Force Maj. Calvin Carter gather around as he shows off genuine Viet Nam money he brought back to the states following the end of his tour of duty in Southeast Asia. Maj. Carter ended a furlough in Atlanta June 10 where he picked up his family and headed for his second assignment in Germany. In 19 years of service Maj. Carter has served stateside, the European Theatre, Korea, and Viet Nam. A Howard University graduate, where he met and married an Atlantan, the former Miss Cynthia McClain, Maj. Carter is a missile expert. Shown with him are Yvonne, Steven Edward, Lisa Ann, Eric Owen, and Mrs. Carter. — (Staff Photo by Perry) TO PARTICIPATE IN U. OF GEORGIA WORKSHOP — Barbara Whitehead and Rose Wilder are trailblazers. They are the first Negro junior high school students chosen to participate in a two-week Summer workshop for outstanding choral students sponsored by the University of Georgia. They are members of the C. D. Hubert Junior High chorus, directed by Miss Haraldeen Murray. Aid To Military Families A True Social Work Agency "My job is one big warm, helping relationships with service men and their families," Mrs. Mitchell said, case worker at the American Red Cross Service To Military Families. She explained that helping others, especially military men, with their problems offers more than a busy day and complex paper work, it brings personal satisfaction. In a brief interview with Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Mary MocR, director of Service To Military Families the two explained that as a Social work service the agency helps families pf veterans and of men and women in the armed forces in ways of counseling, financial assistance, reporting and communications, government benefits and foreign inquiries. Miss Mock said that out of the Three million men Military Families handles 875 families a month, with 175 of these veterans. Since last year the case load has increased 150 families per month and she stated that this is due to the Vietnam conflict. "There is so much anxiety and fear among married men in the service today until we keep busy," Mrs. Mitchell said. She explained that she handled from 15 to 20 new cases a day. A native of Atlanta, Mrs. Mitchell is a graduate of Atlanta University School of Social Work. "She is not just an experienced Red Cross case worker," as Miss Mock points out, "but a professional trained social worker." Miss Mock has been affiliated with the Red Cross some 24 years and has been with the Service six. She had been overseas twice and Worked with several military and Hospital programs. In its 50th year, Military Families offers 24 hours service for emergency calls with at least one of he five case workers on duty both day and night including Saturday, Sunday and holidays. Its metropolitan coverage extends over Cobb. Fulton Clayton. Dekalb and Gwinnett counties. Perhaps to civilians, Service To Military Families serves merely as A primary mission of the American National Red Cross To families of veterans and service men, the agencu is a "next of kin. 6-Month Boycott Of Merchants Ends In Mississippi Negro leader Charles Evers said redently agreement had been reached with the city leaders and officials over racial grievances and that a six-month long boycott of merchants in this southwest Mississippi town was over. Evers, state field secretary of the NAACP, announced the end of a "blanket" boycott after settlement of the 19-point grievance list was told by him and city officials. He said, however, that a "selected buying campaign" would continue against a few stores which declined to go along with desegregation demands. "We don't intend to make it better for just Negroes, but all citizens of Jefferson County," said Evers. The stores here have been desogreguted, Negroes are employed in many establishments, public facilities were desegregated and the two-man police force includes one Negro, he said. Evers said some things sought by Negoes — such as a position on the board of education — would have to come through elections in this country where registered Negro voters now outnumber whiles. He said street improvement work was scheduled to start within a week in the Negro areas of the town. The Negro leader, who launched the campaign here and in nearby Claiborne County six months ago, said a boycott remained in effect in Port Gibson, county seat of Claiborne. He also said a voter registration drive will begin later this week in Wilkinson County, south of here, where Negroes also outnumber the white population. Morris Brown Gets $2 Million Housing Loan Reservation of $2 million in College Housing Loan funds for Morris Brown College. Atlanta, Georgia, pending review of the college's reduest for financial assistance, was announced Saturday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Dr. John A. Middeleron, president of African Methodist Episcopal Institution. The fund reservation established on the basis of a preliminary application for assistance under the College Housing Loan Program sets aside this amount for subsequent use by the college if the project is approved by HUD following review of a complete applications. The college plans to build student housing for 200 men and 200 women, with dining facilities for 1,000. College officials estimate their current enrollment of 540 students will increase to 600 in five years and reach 800 in 10 years. Construction is expected to get underway within four months and completed 10 months later. HAMMOND ORGAN STUDIOS Memphis, Tenn. • ORGANS • PIANOS SALES - SERVICE - RENTALS PHONE 682-4637 482 S. Perkins Ext. SCIENCE FAIR AWARD WINNER — Harold M. Lawson of Langley High School, McLean, Va., shows Secretary of Labor W, Willard Wirtz the science fair exhibit, "Freeze Motion With Sound," that earned him a special Labor Department Award for outstanding achievement in the 1966 Washington Area Science Fairs. Mississippi Trip Shows Need Of Law Enforcement Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (Dem.-Michigan) recently declared, "My recent trip to Mississippi has overwhelmingly shown the urgent need for full enforcement of the 1965 Voting Rights Act." In a press conference called today by the seven congressman who flew to Mississippi to observe the primary election on Tuesday, June 7th, Conyers, who organized the trip, said, "Although there was an encouraging turn-out of Negro American voters in the two counties we visited, only 24 of the more than 80 counties in Mississippi had federal registrars. It is imperative that the federal government enter all those counties which have documented histories of discrimination and register every human being who is eligible to vote." Conyers was accompanied to Mississippi by a bi - partisan group of six New York Congressman: Ogden Reid. Theodore Kupferman, William F. Ryan, John Dow, Lester Wolff, and Benjamin Rosen that. The group stopped en route to Jackson, Mississippi to visit James Meredith in a Memphis hospital. "We interviewed Meredith at some length and were greatly impressed with his quiet courage." said Conyers. He was returning to his home state on Monday to lend some of this courage to Negro Americans who had been so long intimidated that he feared they might not exercise their newly found right to vote. The vicious attack upon Meredith, who was not an outsider, shows all too emphatically the need for passage of federal anti - violence legislation." ON MAIL SERVICE Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien has announced that in the next nine months 100 selfservice post offices will be constructed in shopping centers across the land. These centers have been tested for more than a year in four cities. Dr. Ostfeld's subject will be "Are Strokes Preventable? Dr. DeBakery will speak on the subject of "Surgical Aspects of Cerebral Bascular Disease," and Dr. Plum will discuss "Neurological Aspects of Cerebral Vascular Disease." Dr. Newman's topic is to be reHabilitation, of the patient, and John M Cotton. MD. director of Psychiatry at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, will present the psychiatric aspects. S. Georgia Methodist Conf. Takes Steps To Lower Racial Bars South Georgia Methodists were asked to take their first step toward eliminating racial barriers within the Georgia denomination at their centennial conference Monday and Tuesday. A resolution proposing elimination of the all-Negro Central JurisMethodists in south Georgia. diction were presented to the delegates representing 148,000 white Passage of the measure would result, primarily in a change in administrative organization. Merging of churches and integration are not proposed in the resolution, and uuder Methodist legislation, could be achieved only on a voluntary basis. The step would be the first taken in the nine-state Southeastern Jurisdiction, It requires a two-third vote for passage and would open" the door "for further study and negotiation with Negro Methodists." A report on the merging of the Methodist Church with the Evangelical United Brethren will also be presented but no vote is expected. Bishop John Owen Smith, Atlanta will preside over the sessions. Negro Officials Urged To Avoid Radical Groups A plea for elected Negro officials to avoid radical groups and assume active roles In the Democratic Party in the 8outh was made by Rep. Charles Weltner (D-Ga.) during t special closed meeting a the White House. President Johnson and Vice President Hubert H. Humphery met with 300 Negro officials who had attended the White House Conference to Fulfill These Rights. The group included 60 state legislators and city councilmen from Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and candidates of the recently formed Alabama Democratic Conference and Mississippi DemoCritic Conference.