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WHILE IT IS NEWS Constraetiva FIRST Integration L IN YOU* 7» ■ Policy I ÙNION CITY, N. J. - In a speci­ I al, five-state report un “Southern Catholics and Integration" The VOLUME 24, NUMAER 104 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1956 PRICE SIX Sign, national Catholic magazine puuusii here, reporta in its July i issue that while some southern t.lo­ i esses are definitely moving toward Eyes on a Title racial integration, titheia are going Two Policemen slowly and a few — in the iace >.( strong public pressures — are fol­ lowing a policy of "wait and t>»e." Tlie report, which covers the Cleared Of states of Ixtuisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia CEASE BUS "more Southern than Catholic" in Beating Charges the matter of ending racial segrega­ tion. Negro police officers. J D Wil­ The general attitude of Negro liams and E. S. Berkley were exo­ Catholics, as indicated by the report nerated by police chief J. C. Mac­ is not in favor of aocial mixing Donald of chaises that they had mixing but is nevertheless against manhandled two Negro youths fol-, legalized segregation lowing an investiyatiou of the charg­ 2 JUDGES es. RDER I Tlie brightest aspect of the whole The clmrges were made bv 15- picture is In the area of integrated year old Eddie Lee Vance worship. In most of the state sur­ «hose mother has charged ne.wa MONTGOMERY veyed there remain separate Negro held at Juvenile Court for three day? parishes; however. Negro Catholics without lier knowledge are perfectly free to attend Mags Vance claime,, .h'> officers hit GETS 10 DAYS and other religious services in any "white" Catholic parish. And South li.m with a nightstick and made ern Catholic bisnops support them him si and on one fool for more emphatically in exercising tills light than 15 minutes Irvin" to make him TO APPEAL Here is Tlie Sign report's pattern oonfe.«» to a burglary by rates: The other charge was made by a MONTGOMERY, Ala (INS) LOUISIANA: * ..most Catholic lj-year-old youth is now being held A federal court Tuesday ordered state of the South more Catholic in Juvenile Court on charges of bur- an end io segregation on buses e la ruing a cafe on Linden This Negroes than any other state _ in Montgomery, but withheld ef although Catholic leaders have been youth chimed tlie same two offi­ fectiveness of the ruling pending champions of racial justice, most cers hit limi in tlie stomach and Catholics would accept integration mouth after his arrest an appeal to the Supreme court. only ;eietaiilly." Two ut three federal Judges who "YOU SEE, IT'S LIKE THIS” Says pretty singer Barbara Bolden, In “The brightest spot is youth's at­ heard a suit attacking enforced rac­ PICK IT BfillMiE. explaining the $100,000 PANORAMA OF PROGRESS production, titude," tlie report asserts "An­ ial segregation in trans|xirtation- troubled Montgomery turned aside other generation will see a great Oklahoma C,ty When a io jazz-men Max Roach aijett and Chffo-d Biown at right. Look­ arguments of city officials that vio­ change in the general Catholic at­ EDNA Golden, 18, of the Virgin bridge was needed at the ing on is Cliarlus C. Diggs, Sr., President ol Diggs Enterprises lence would follow elimination of under titude But at present, putting Islands, waves pertly as she ar­ Texoma lodge site, Highway the color line In (lie city transit whose auspice« the giant salute Io the past decade of Negro tlie Church’s interracial program rives at New York to compete cials recalled an abandoned bridge system achievement is being piesenfed. The “Detroit Little World Fair" into action Is no simple, sure pro- fur the Miss United States in eastern Oklahoma which would is slated Io run June 30 through July 4 at Michigan State Fair cess" crown. The winner will be an be Just the thing for the new site. END IN TEN DAVS entrant in the Miss Universe Bids will be let to move tlie struc­ Tlie Jurists ordered that segrega­ Ground. TENNESSEE.': According to The ft ennteit. (hiterauliuaal) ture to its new home tion previously held to be viola­ Sign report Catholic Negroes dis- Í. tive ol the lederal cuiisiitutlmi agree about the widsom ol Inte­ be ended in ten days II the city oi grating parochial schools, '"but they state spirals this ruling to the Su­ are agreed on one thing - they preme court, effectiveness of the want their rights as first class cltt- order will be held up. the court tens, particularly for ths benefit said. Ike Can Run, of their children. As for social in­ School Aids Bill State officials declared when the tegration — they are not at all original finding was handed down conoemed about it." Tlie report says, “Tlie Memphis & June 5 that they would appeal parochial schools wont be Integrat­ SHE CARRIED HOME THE BACON-Mrs Theresa Manning, a City Attorneys for Negroes who brought ed this September. Most Rev. Wil­ Beautiful Commission division staff member, liferally walked home the action asked the court to Older liam* L. Adrian, Bishop of Nash­ with the, bacon (ham Io be exact) when she won the first prize, an immediate end to segregation, Doctors Repeat and stop its practice while the is­ ville, stated this definitely recent­ Heads For Floor a gigantic ham, presented by the East Hollywood Civic Club at sues involved were being decided ly. This decision surprised many, WASHINGTON - President Eisenhower is physically able to its first public meeting recently. Awarding the ham, donated by by the Supreme Court. as the parochial schools in Nashville run for re election despite his recent operation, his doctors bluntly WASHINGTON - The 10 months deloyed federal school aids City Finance Co., was Arzbando (Zonnie) Jones, president of the Virtually ail of Montgomery 's 45.- the state’s capital and home of the declared Tuesday. "* bishop, have already been suc­ bill was approved by the House Rules Committee Wednesday, recently organized civic club.-(Staff Photo by Tisby) 000 Negro residents have refused to ride city buses since last Dec. 5. cessfully integrated.’ clearing the way for floor action, and a controversial anti-segre The news came along with a flat the Intestinal uilmeqt. when a Negro woman wag unested refusal by Mr Eisenhowers phy­ Tlie president personal physicians Bishop Adrian is quoted es say­ gation amendment. (or refusing to nmve to the rear of said it will be “the middle of neirt The vote was eight to three Tlie voting "no" were Chairman How- a bus. The protest will continue, sicians to engage in public "con­ ing: “Integration at three paro­ week" or pwliapa longee before tte bill is expected to be called up in ard W. Smith (D) Va, and Reps, MISSISSIPPI GOP chial schools in Nashville ts going leaders said, until a final determi­ troversy'.' with other doctors over tlie House next week. The legisla­ William Colmer <D> Miss. and Ctiief Executive can leave Walter very well, but we want to see what nation by tlu- courts. the likelihood of a recurrence of Reed Army Hospital. ™ tion authorizes one billion 600 mil­ Jamea W Trimble (D Ark the public reaction is before going Tile doctors emphasised that hie lion dollars in Federal aid over a With the bill out of the Rules reason' the Church will not Inte­ NAMED DELEGATES Committee, the next major hurdle recovery from the abdominal oper­ grate this tell", he said, is lack of four year period to help state* fin­ ance tlie construction of bsdl/ faced by the legislation is an anti­ ation he underwent June • otettn- apace JACKSON. Miss.-The Negro-da- Accommodations In Parks ues to progress “vwf satufactor- needed classrooms. segregation amendment which will Udent the 15-man delegation would mutated Republican faction oi Mk- lly,” but indicated that the cripto- MISSISSIPPI: "... perhaps the The bill was approved by the be offered by Rep Adam Powell lx- seated at San Francisco, August -wslppl named s mixed delegation a) prediction of 15 days' hoapital- most race-conscloqs and rigidly Education and Labor Committee in (D) N. Y. 2(1 of nice Negroes and six white men i izatfon had been slightly over-op- segregated state in the nation, the August, 1966, but the Rules Com­ The amendment would bar Fed­ Howard called the all-white Mis- Open To Negroes, No Bias to the National Repub'ican Conven­ timlatic. Catholic hierarchy has chosen to mittee, which acts as a steering eral funds to schools which prac­ tion pledged to vote for the nomi­ sssippl Republican Party, a sepa­ WASHINGTON. D. C.-Negroes Pleasin' Motoring" is distributed Maj. Oen. Howard Snyder, MT. pput into effect quietly the tea­ group on legislation failed to act tice racial segregation. Its adop­ nation of President Eisenhower. rate group vicing with the Black traveling through or contemplating free as a public service through se­ Eisenhower's full-time medical ad­ chings of the Church and create Federal aid advocates finally forced tion apparently would doom the bill Keynoted on a .theme of Negro­ and Tan for national recognition, spending vacations in the National lected dealers of the American Ol) viser, when asked when the Presi­ a healthy Catholic community for a showdown. to death In the Senate where South white harmony, about 22 white men "interlopers and hijackers " Parks will find there Is no discrimi­ Company in Connec’icut. New Jer­ dent could leave the hospital, re­ both whites and Negroes behind Those voting to send the bill to ern members could be expected to end one white woman attended the plied: “Any time from the middle nation in any facility where meals sey, Pennsylvania.

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