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■ • valL'' • »' -J ; V, 1 Tenheisee S7B03 ■. •. 1 i - With A tantmtln FolJey Better than 50 percent of Negro homeowners in the Mitchell-Levi Road and Walker Homes area are against annexation. City Council has voted to annex seven outlying areas, Including the MltcheU-Levi-Walker section. City attorneys are now preparing ordinances for first Abernathy Scheduled WASHINGTON The U. S. Com­ mission on Civil Rights will es­ tablish a field office in New York City, William L. Taylor, staff di­ rector of the Federal agency, an­ nounced this week. Taylor said the northeastern field office will serve the state of New York. Pennsylvania, Massachuset­ ts, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecti­ cut, Rhode island, Verman. New Hampshire and Maine. Jacques E. Wilmore, director of the Commission's Southern Field Office in Memphis, ill be transferr­ ed to New York to head the North Mrs. Martin Luther Ktag- eastern office, the Commission's widow of the slain civil rlghflfj fourth field office. er who founded SCLC, wlU> the convention a special TAYLOR HAYES' WIDOW-Mrs. Frances L.’ Hoyes, ney Oates, left, one of the funeral directors, Thornes 0. Jenkins, a field re­ when she appears on the scenvC widow of Taylor C. D. Hayes, is accompanied and her neohew, Powell Thornton Jr. Mr. Hayes presentative stationed in the Wash­ 15 as speaker at an t p. m. bia to his burial site at Elmwood Cemetery by Sid- died suddenly in his office Sunday, July 21. ington headquarters, will be trans­ scheduled for dab Parodies, ferred to Memphis as director of East Georgia. The spacious the southern field office replac­ will seat about 3,000. ing Wilmore. Another highlight will be evening mass meeting Friday,. 16, at Mason Temple, 936 lib which will be addressed by the’ Ralph D. Abernathy who Moab [The Memphis Branch NAACJBf Ur. King as praddaat 4,3 Mrintaree In the area In- I of the Ghetto Development Project Mason Temple, the Uaoe wtay begun spproxlmaely three weeks igD. In an effort to recare ibereas- Taylor 'Red' Hayes, a colorful giant of a man who numbered turned to the city to participate In 1 fore his April 4 assassination, i eif employment opportultles with his friends in the thousands, went to his final resting place in the funeral. William U. Underwood, regional seat around 6,000, - The funeral was held at Metro­ manpower administrator for the lU. Lectures and an exhibition Elmwood Cemetery last Thursday afternoon. ( (Continued on.PaRe' Few) : politan. across the street from Sec­ S, Department of Labor, said the artifacts on "Black Art and C '________ — ------—- ! Department of Labor and the De­ Many of these thousands viewed They came, too, to console his ond Congregational, because it is a ture” also are planned for C partment of Health, Education and GOSPEL TEMPLE KING ANO QUEEN - Louis Johnson and Mrs. Paradise,-------------4—hai his body Wednesday at T. H. Havas widow, Mrs Frances L. Hayes, ami larger edifice._____________________ Welfare announcer approval of and Sons Funeral Home, paced his brother. T. H. Hayes Jr. Headquarters for the convention William Fleming at at the or­ two classroom-type projects to Metropolitan . Bapt’st Church for will be at the newly opened Cjffl ■Red’ Hayes entoyed life and srev- gan and provided the opening teach job skills to 20 hardcore Church national offices at 531 SoillK his funeral Thursday afternoon ed his community well during h’s , musical tributes. The choirs of both! jobless workers and servicemen, and then followed his remains to Parkway East. Workshops dealing 60 years He had been a humanitar­ churches performed. and to furnish job skills to 135 the graveside. with recruiting, organising and pro­ ian as well as a churchman, sports­ prison inmates in Tennessee, cost­ They made up an interesting The Rev. s. A. Owen, pastor of gramming will be conducted at thio man, businessman and a leader in ing $120,793 in Federal funds. site. t One-hundrwi thirty-five glrbi are cross-section, the litt’e and the Metropolitan, read the first scrip­ civic, club and fraternal groups. moiled in a cultural enrichment big, the known and the unknown ture, and the Rev. William Smith, The Shelby County Penal Farm This will be the 11th annual meet­ | minister of Collins Chapel CME ing of SCLC. Last year AM ~8S program at the Sarah Brown and the rich and the poor. An inspiring eulogy was deliver­ at Memphis will train 136 persons Branch of the YWCA. Church, read the second scripture ganlzation met in 'Atlanta. They came from all walks of life, ed by his minister, the Rev. John' as auto body repairman, spray phis program is designed to de­ Memphians and out-of-towners, to i Prayer was offered by Elder Blair C. Mickle, pastor of Second Con­ T. Hunt, minister of Mississippi | (Continued on Page Four) Young Memphian velop skills through sewing, dance, pay respect to this man who had gregational Church. _ Rev. Mr. won their admiration down through Mickle, on leave this month, re-1 (Continued on Page Four) includes dramatics, tennis at the years. ilehem center, swimming at Le- Tenn. State To Play 5 Gaines In Nashville Jet Stewardess Witnesses End Here is Tennessee State's 1968 football schedule: Bishop Charles P. Golden. W HOME GAMES Nashville and well known tn Eetaf- Sept. 21 — Kentucky State — phis, has been named head of tie 7:30 p. m. First it was Dillard University in ter of Mr and Mrs. Joseph Wilson California-Nevada Conference of Big Convention Oct. 5 — Teyas Southern — 7:30 New Orleans, where she was a Westbroowk, Jr., 1711 Glenview the United Methodist Churck- - p. m. cheerleader and counselor-instruc­ Avenue. Memphis. Her father is He is the first Negro bishop ever Nov. 2 — Southern University tor for pre-freshmen. supervisor of secondary educatiin A new Bible study program expected to fgiure prominently assigned to the Far West by UMC 2:00 p. m. Next it was Pan American’s In­ for the Board of Education. in the work of Jehovah's Witnesses for months and possibly Nov. 9 — Morris Brown — 2:00 ternational Stewardess College in A native of Holly Springs, kg. On the Dillard campus Miss years to come was being launched this week by local Witnesses p. m. Miami, Florida, where a diploma he is the brother of Mia AoSe Nov. 28 — Bishop College — 1:00 Westbrook was a member of Drama follownig their district convention at the Mid-South Coliseum. means gold wings and a passport Golden, assistant librarian at Guild, Choir. Lambda Chi Omlcron, p. m. to instant adventure. Moyne-Owen College in Memphjg Student Government, Modern The program ceters aroud a 22 million copies in the first edition (Homecoming) He had been the bishop for the Dance Bnd YWCA, she is a mem­ part Bible study course unveiled and will appear in millions more Now Miss Westbrook is based in Nashville-Birmingham area.of the ber of Jack and Jill Club of Ameri­ at the four day convention which cop es in 50 languages by the end Miami, serving aboard jet Clipper all-Negro Central Jurisdiction of ca, enjoys singing and dancing in ended Sunday More than 16.000 of 1969. flights to Latin America, the Ba­ the Methodist Church. The theatrical productions. witnesses form 32 states and "Every member ofthe focal con­ hamas and Caribbean resort Islands, gro unit was dissolved earlier thb Canda joined the 19-host Memphis gregations will be urged to start and across the Atlantic to Lisbon, year when the Methodist Church area congregations at the seminar. home Bible studies with interestedt Barcelona and Rome. and Evangelical United Brethren individuals, using the 22-part A veteran’s widow who remarries Church merged to form the United ‘‘The new Bible study program course, said George Yarborough, is not entitled to G. I. home, farm Negro Methodist Church. will be extended into hudreds of presiding minister of the Falrtiaven or business loans, says the Veter­ The all-Negro Central Jurisdiction homes immediately,” said Law­ congregation. ans Administration. was dissolved in a move totted rence Slaughter, presiding minis­ Yarbrough and Straughter said racial inclusiveness and Its bishops ter of the Orange Mound congre­ the new study aid summarlM6 the were assigned to other jurisdiction gation. The course will use a text­ basic teachings of the Bible and in the newly formed demattoe- book entitled, “The Truth that should help the house-to-house tion. Leads to Eternal Life," which al­ ministry to reap benefits for years LeMoyne-Own College To Bishop Golden's new assignment ready has been printed in five to come. to the predominanty white churoj body for the 1961-72 term wei £1- nside Memphis nounced at the Western JurMbt Present African Dancers i Continued air Page Peer) LeMoyne-Owen College will present the exciting Les. Dan- seurs Africains du Senegals, a company of 50 African dancers, singers and musicians, October 1 of this year in the Music Hall of The Auditorium. Curtain time is 8:30 p.m. This will be the first time In, the finest to be found in Africa to­ America for these sensational per­ day! Their phenomenal dance feats formers who are coming here di­ have electrified audiences and cap­ rect from a triumphant European tivated critics throughout Europe. tour. The fast-paced, varied, and color­ Dr. Paul Hayes, chairman of the ful stage spectacle la constantly en­ sponsoring Cultural Activities Corr» thralling. ranging from native vil­ mfttee at the college, said tickets lage scenes to exotic secret witch­ will go on sale late in August craft rituals. The numbers are .

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