VOL. It NO. 14 Weekend Edition: Oct. 16-17, 1965 TEN CENTS IIIUiI '"' = u Anti .. verty War on Poverty, in Second Year, Calhoun as Is Slow but Effective in Alabama Dollars And The federal government's War on Poverty entered its second year this week. Difficulties In the first year of its existence, the anti-poverty BY DAVID R. UNDEEHILL program spent its $793,000,000 appropriation on the ANNISTON - -Not long ago, an hysteri cal lady burst into the offices of the following: Community Improvement Board of Cal Community Action Programs in more than 1,000 cities and counties in all 50 houn County and began screaming that states; the whole thing was another of the great Head start schools for more than 560,000 children in 13,344 centers, again in federal give-away programs. all 50 states; In one way, she was right. The fede Neighborhood Youth Corps providing jobs for 348,338boysand girls in 916 pro ral government has paid the anti-pover jects. ty board here well over half a million Other programs--like the Job Corps, VISTA, College Work Study, Work Ex dollars since it started operations last perience, Legal SerVices, Adult Basic Education and Rural and Small Business May, But the government ha8n·t given Loans--also helped large numbers of people. the money away. In Alabama, the anti-poverty program got off to a slow start. At the end of the It gave the Improvement Board the first year, six of the 26 anti-poverty districts in the state had received grants to money to start an office and to pay for start Community Action programs. the anti-poverty programs run through There were still no programs in most of the impoverished Black Belt counties. the office. But 15 mo re districts had submitted plans for Communi ty Action Projects. And All the board's requests for funds in the Black Belt, whites and Negroes were beginning to plan together, as the anti were drastically reduced in Washing poverty progTam requires (page One). ton before being approved, and the Some communities in the northern part of the state had ambitious anti-poverty board's programs are carefully check programs, and were planning for more. ed as the money is spent, These included Winston and Walker Counties (Page One), Anniston (Page One) And the money isn't spent on anyone and Hobson City (Page Five). who wants some. It is spent on pro grams to benefit families earning less than $3,000 a year. There are· over a ker ... inston Program 7,000 of these families in calhoun Coun ty, The aid these families get is not Aids give-away aid, like many welfare pro Counties' Economy grams. Instead, the money is spent to BY DAVID R. UNDEHHILL voluntary help from the people of the help these families eventually earn their own living, so they won't need CORDOV ..&,. -- "1 don't know what two counties. they're doin' up in the old union of Last spring many of these people any more government help. The hysterical lady was partly right fice, but I hope they're doin' some came to the meetIng in the Walker Coun thin'. We sure need it around here," ty courthouse that made the first plans about the give-away--and mostly The man hitching a ride into Cordo- for the Community Action Program. wrong. Some citizens of Jasper, the county But if she was also worried that the seat and largest town, had asked for a Community Improvement Board might federal official to come in and explain help to integrate Calhoun County, then how they could use the EConomic Op she was quite right. People Learn New}ob kills This anti-poverty office like all portunity Act. others in the country. cannot discrimi They needed help from somewhere. kind of work." They learn toworkelectrictypewrit- BY GA,L FALK nate by race in the programs it runs Just a few ,:ears ago the coal mines And so, last February, she applied at ers and adding machines and mimeo- or in the hiring and assignment of its and cottonmiHs intheareameantslea MONTGOMERY -- "This education the Employment Service to go to graph machines. Some willlearn to run own staff. It loses its money if it does. dy jobs for thousands of people. Then the the school. She .filJed out a headliner or a muHilith offset ma- Both Negro and white youths are in d'$m~nd fer ca[
BY EDW AI~D M. RUDD Life for the poor white ain'tbeen a crys the next 20 years," said the mayor. -Negro. Its leadership comesJ'rom the wouldn't touch them with alO-footpole. SEL MA--In the Selma SC LC office two weeks ago, tal staircase. There have been boards Albritton was elected mayor of Cam Hale County Improvement Association, "They call the Negroes on our com the Rev, Harold Middle brook listened to a report of torn up and nails sticking out." den 20 years ago. One ofthefirst things the group behind the demonstrations in mittee Uncle Toms. I'd like to know Six leaders of the wh:lte community he did after he took office was to put a l~ Greensboro last summer. what they mean by Uncle Tom. The Ne a meeting held the night before by the Dallas C ouhty arrived at the next meeting and pledg sales tax on every item sold in the city. The committee in Moundville has 16 groes on our committee might not be Planning Committee for President's Anti-Poverty Aid. ed their help to the poor in Dallas Coun Since then, the mayor said, the town whites and four Negroes. Its chairman agitators, but they know what they want "And were there any white folks there?" he asked. ty. has been able to install a sewer system is Victor poole, president of the Bank and what is rightfully theirs." and a public lighting system entirely Behind the leadersbip question, a Three white men from Selma had attended the meeting in a Negro church, he NO HOPE IN CAMDEN of Moundville. was told. One was a Lutheran minister, and the other two were a father and son with money from its own treasury. "They have 16- whites and four Ne- deeper political conflict keeps the two CAMDEN-- You can bet your last pen who own a department store in the Negro section. The reason the Camden mayor pre groes who don't represent the Negro committees apart. The Greensboro ny that the city of Camden won't asl, the fers to go it alone is simple: community," charged Lewis Black, group takes a "Freedom Now" ap "Good, good," said Mr, Middlebrook. "But did everybody on the Ust get a let federal government for anti-poverty ter?" "We don't wantfederalfunds because chairman of the Greensboro committee. proach, while Poole's group follows the money. At least as long as Mayor Eegi there are too ma.ny strings attached. But Poole said the Greensboro com slower road of moderation. Certified lett~rs had been sent to 14 thing he wanted, nald Albritton has any say about it. Every time you take federal funds, you mittee could not claim to speak for the "Our two committees would be to white people in all walks of life in Selma. Mr. Middlebrook has·a definite plan "There.a hasn't been a red, copper The letters invited them to the first pub for getting anti-poverty money andpro end up paying ten times as much for all Negro: gether, if it hadn't been for all the hell penny of federal funds in this town for "They say that their two leaders lic meeting of the anti-poverty planning jects for his group. the red tape." raising and street demonstrations," 20 years, and as long as I have anything speak for the Negroes, but for every committee. All the members of the "We understand that the white folks' "Camden is one of the truly ihdepen said Poole. to say about it, there won't be any for one that follows them I cannamel5who (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) "white folks" anti-poverty committee poverty committee had a very good pro dent towns in the state," concluded got an invitation. gram. But we didn't like the fact that Mayor Albritton. Mr. Middlebrook was furious at first they had not invited the Negro commu Albert Gordon, a Negro schoolteach to hear that only 14 letters had been nity or any poor whites on their commit er in Camden, said he thought all this Also t mailed. tee. They are all businessmen or people independent spirit was fine for the white He wants to show receipts from as who are pretty well set," he said. people. But he wondered what it all many certified letters as possible to the A group of prominent Selma citizens meant for the impoverished Negroes in Court cks Wallace the area. Office of EconomiC opportunity when it had formed a poverty committee and See Page Two comes time to apply for a Community submitted a Community Action Pro When Gordon's county-wide anti Action Program. The letters will help gram to the Office of Economic Oppor poverty committee sent out 25 letters to prove that his committee tried to reach tunity in Washington. But because there white people, inviting them to two meet all the people--white as well as Negro. weren't enough Negroes involved, the ings in the Antioch Baptist Church, King Comes to Crawfordville "And what about the people from out plan was not approved, and the commit there was not a Single reply. in the rurals?" he asked. "Was Mr. tee died. "They don't want any part of it," See Page Two Paine there from Orrville?" "You see," said Mr. Middlebrook, said Gordon. Finers Paine, president of the Dal "what we're going to do is take over the CONFLICT IN GREENSBOHO las County Home Improvement Associ white folks' program--which we think is Birmingham Ambulance Case ation, had come to the meeting. He very good- -add our own proposals to it, GREENSBORO--There are only brought his plans for a processing plant and submit the whole thing to the OEO." about 33 counties in the United States See Page Two in Orrville that would supply the new Mr. NEddlebrook said l1e hoped that that are poorer than Ha.le county, Ala Negro- owned and -operated P & B Su once the anti-poverty committee getsa bama. permarket in Selma. federal grant, more whites will jOin. But, despite the obvious need for help, "You see, doctor, we did our home "If white people could und~rstand that the two planning committees in the More Anti .. Poverty News work!" cried Mr. Middlebrook. He was the anti-poverty program is not justfor county can't get together to apply for an happily jumping around now, because Negro people, but for the betterment of anti-poverty program, the meeting had done just about every- the total community. they would join in, THE REV. HAROLD MIDDLEBROOK The committee in Greensboro is all See Pages Four. Five and Six PAG.TWO,., THE sour ERN COU Gov. allace; The SOUTHERN COURIER 1s pubUshei:l weekly by the Southern Educational Con ference, Inc., anon-prdU;non-share educational corporation, for the study and di$semmatioll of accurate information about events andafiairs in the field of hu man relations., Editorial and.business office: Room 622, frank Leu Building, 79 .ilibuster Sti His Succession Bill Commerce st., Montgomery, Ala. 36104. Phone 205-262-3572, Price: 109 per COpY, $5 per year lli the South, $10 per year elsewhere ,tn the U,S •• patron sub BY MICHAEL S, LOTTMAN ruled that the Senate had a rightto require 24 votes to shut scription $25 per year, used to defray the costs of printing and puhlication. Sec MONTGOMERY .. .,.. Gov. George C. off debate, even though only 21 votes would be needed to ond-class postage paid at Montgomery. Ala. pass the amendment. Wallace, closer to defeat than he has There is nothing in the Constitution's section on amend President: Robert E. Smith ever been before, was stumping the ments "to make the Senate do any thing It does not want to EdUor: Michael S. Lottman do," the court rulec!. Executive Editor: Gail Falk state this week, trying for another four Circulation Manager: Patt J, Da\'.: s years in office. After the decision was read in the Senate, Wallace called Wallace was dealt· a big defeat Wednesday by the Ala a press conference to announce that he would "go to the oct. 16-17, 1965 Vol. I, No, 14 ... bama supreme Court. In a 6-1 deciSion, the court refused people in this matter." to change the state Senate's 24-vote requirement for clo Specifically> he said, he would go to the people in dis ture (shutting off debate). tricts represented by men who opposed him. Wallace's Senate supporters had asked the court to de These districts included Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Gads By the People clare the requirement unconstitutional, aiter they failed to den, Birmingham, Mobile, Morgan County and Elmore and cut off debate in their first attempt last week. Tallapoosa Counties. The anti-poverty program will be a great test of the Wallace needs a constitutional amendment to succeed "1 trust the people of this state. I will cheerfully accept American democracy. himself in office. A filibuster in the state Senate has stop whatever decision they might render," the governor said. President Lincoln said in his Gettysburg Address ped the bill that would put the amendment to a vote of the "If I stay in public office, I will do exactly what I have people. been doing in the past." that the American democracy was a government of the When Wallace's men tried to shut off debate last week, If the people wanted l1im to, he said, he would go back to people ,by the people and for the people. they fell six votes short. Indiana, Maryland and Wisconsin, where he ran in presi The anti-poverty program is of and for the people, Tl1ey then aSked the state Supreme Court to reduce the dential primaries last fall. It works on the faith that the "little people" of Amer number of votes they would need to stop the filibuster. Re said he didn't think the filibustering senators "have ica are the key to her future strength and prosperity. But on Wednesday, aiter a tense five-day wait, the court a right" to keep the people from voting on the second-term qUestion. And he added: And the program is also by the people. The burden "The succession amendment, in my of making the program work in each community is put • judgment, is going to pass." squarely on the shoulders of the people of that comm u The Wallace forces still could try to nity, Of course, some of the burden will be carried by tts Tr u stop the filibuster by changing the rules the men who have always carried it--the town officials, of the Senate. A simple majority of the the civic leaders, the doctors, the lawyers and the min BY STEVE COTTON senators could decide to reduce the 24- CRAWFORDVILLE, Ga.--The Rev, vote requirement. isters. Martin Luther King came to Crawford But the Administration could run into But for the first time, the poor must help carry the ville Monday night, and for one evening, another filibuster if it tries to change burden. Anti-poverty money will not be a gift for the the population nearly doubled in this lit the rules, farmer who just gets by, the mill hand out of work and tle Georgia town. Both the House, which has already the young mother with six children and little food. It More than 700 Negroes and a handful passed the succession bill, and the Sen will be a heavy. heavy load. of whl te ci vii rights workers packed the ate were adjourned until Friday. Friendship Baptist Church to hear Dr. No one person can take it upon himself to speak for King, When there was no more room the people and get the money for them. Nor can he tell inSide, latecomers had to huddle outside Wage, Union them how to spend it. If he tries, he is only fooling the doorways in order to hear. himself and the community, because no one can speak "There will be neither peace nOr for the people but the people themselves. tranquility in this commUllJty until the Laws aten Negro receives justice in Crawford BY LAURA GODOFSKY To get the anti-poverty money, it takes long meetings Ville," Dr, King declared. He said his WASHINGTON--As the U. S. Con of the people where everybody gets his say. It also organization, SCLC, was" here to stand gress Winds up one of its busiest ses means tense meetings that jumble together rich and by your side until freedom is yours."· sions in history, three of President poor. black and white. And it takes courage to stand up The racial situation in Crawfordville, Johnson's domestic proposals seem at these meetings, to say what you mean, believing in he said, "left you with no choice but to headed for defeat. demonstrate and left us with no choice No action is expected on. repealing the worth of yourself. but to support your demonstrations," "right-to-work" laws, raising and ex That's what American democracy is all about. The Negroes have been demonstrating panding the federal minimum wage, and Office of Economic Opportunity has put democracy to here for two weeks to protest school giving "home rule" to the nation's cap a test. Whether Alabama and the rest of the country desegregation. A dozen have been ar ital. The President had promised that can pass this test is up to you--all of you. rested. THE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING IN CRAWFORDVILLE Before school opened, it looked for a Congress would do away with work laws the buses going to school outside Tal some kind of creative pressure." in 19 states, including Alabama. Re- while as if Taliaferro County's only· iaferro County, but 40 state troopers "The whole nation is looking to you pealing the laws would allow workers in white school, the Alexander Stephens are there to keep the Negroes back. in Crav,'fordville, Ga., to make it clear these states to organize union shops. United Appeal Avoids Institute, would be integrated, Each afternoon there is a march to But all the white stUdents transfer- that you are not going to allow anybody In a union shop, a worker must join the the courthouse. from the statehouse on down to the union aiter he is hired, or lose his job. sanders has asked tllat the state·'troopers to turn you around." he Theright.. to"wo~k repealwl!.sPll'Ssed U.S. Integnation:· ~lW!~,,~"':
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES H. PEPPLER
POVERTY HAS A YOUNG FACE AND AN OLD FACE, v lab
A WHITE FACE AND A BLACK FACE.
POVERTY LIVES IN GARBAGE HEAPS
AND IN PA WN SHOPS. AND POVERTY LIVES ON THE FARM.
AND TIRED.
POVERTY WALKS SLOWLY DOWN THE STREET. POVERTY IS LONELY Anti -Pove ty Pro ams Offer Many han s for P ogress
BY GAIL FALK The women's centers prepare girls for jobs as nurses, secretaries, cooks, recreation lead Everyone knows there are poor people in Alabama. Every ers, teachers or commercial artists. one has seen faces of poverty like those on Page Three. And Men apply for the Job Corps atthe State Em al~ost everyone knows Congress has voted the money for anti ployment Office. Women's applications are pove,rtyprograms--money local communities can use to get rid handled by Women in Community Service, a na tional federation of women's groups. of poverty• Young people' who apply are screened care But there are 120 U.S, laws 700 titles with 5,000 fully and the ones' most likely to benefit from sections that deal with anti-poverty programs. So it's hard for Job Corps experience are s,elected. Thereare people in local comm unitie s to figure out where to start. It's no set standards. Some young people who are hard for them to learn what the anti-poverty program will do, accepted have an eighth-grade reading level. and it's hard to find out how to get them. Others don't even know the alphabet. An important part of Job Corps training is Here is a description of some of the new anti-poverty pro basic education. The goal of the reading pro grams that almost every town or county in Alabama can get. gram is to teach every Corps member to read Some schools gave toothbrushes to all the an average book or magazine. The math pro Community Action gram is aimed at everyday problems, teaching children. A teacher in Selma said that some of TYPING CLASS AT THE MONTGOMERY MANPOWER TRAINING SCHOOL The most important program created by her class had never used a toothbrush. ,Job Corpsmen the math they needior shopping, the Economic opportunity Act of 1964 is the The children were served a snack of fruit paying bills and paying taxes. cannot read well enough to understand anews or what crops will sell best. Community Action program. juice and at least one balanced meal a day. For As in the Neighborhood youth Corps. theac paper or a sixth-grade text book. The loans are not just for farmers. Non There have been anti-poverty programs on many youngsters, this was more food than they tua1 job training is in twoparts--job skills. and These people may have lived for 20 or 30 or farming rural people can get loans to improve the books for years. But these programs have got at home. instruction in how to apply for and keep a job. 70 years in a world that expects everyone to be their businesses. A rural, non-farm loan might never reached many of the people who need Many schools had "parents' night;· where Most of the girls in the Job Corps centers will able to read. Many of them would like to learn. be used to buy a pick-up truck, enlarge a farm them most. the teachers told the parents how the children soon have the job of keeping house and taking The Adult Basic Education program teaches machinery shop or build a roadside market. One reason has been that poor people--the were taught and how the parents could take bet care of a family. And so the girls' program in adults with six years of schooling or less to Farmers' cooperatives can get loans that people who had the problems--did not share in ter care of their children's health. cludes classes in child care, family budgeting read, write and do arithmetic. don't have to be completely repaid for 3~years. planning the programs. They usually weren't All over the country. people found the sum and meal planning. The program is experimenting with new The loans can be used to buy shared farm ma consulted when programs were started, and, if mer program so worthwhile that they asked for Much of the education in the Job Corps is ways of teaching. Some teachers don't use a chinery or a crop-storage building. One dairy they were, they usually didn't know enough to it to continue into thef3:ll. informal--Iearning to live in a group with reading book, for instance. The teachers let cooperative, for instance, got a rural loan to re to come up with a good plan. The year-long Head start program will be young people from all over the country, and the students tell stories, and they write them build a milk processing plant. The Communi ty Action Program is a way to called Upward Bound. In addition to the things getting to know teachers and counselors who down in the words the stUdents use. The sto An FHA representative will work closely with get local people--especlally local poor people the summer programs had, it will provide after care about young people. ries then become the "reader." tb,e cooperative, as with the small farmer, to --in on the planning, and to figure out what -school activities for six- to ll-year-olds and Job Corpsmen receive room, board, $30 a Many adults didn't learn to read because make sure the loan is used wisely. programs are needed most in the local com a more thorough medical program, month for spending money, and the cost of one they couldn't see the blackboard and no one knew munity. Flmds for many upward Bound projects in trip home a year. they needed glasses, or because they couldn't Small Business Loans To start a Community Action Program, a Alabama are expected to be approved by the end When Corpsmen leave the centers, they are hear the teacller and no one knew they needed a Small business owners usually give up trying group that represents all the residents in the of the month. paid $50 for every month they were there. If hearing aid. Many of the basic education to improve or expand their businesses When area--including the poor people--requesls a a Job Corpsman wants to send home up to $25 courses give a sight and hearing test at the they cannot get a loan. federal grant. Neighborhood Youth Corps per month of this, the government will send start, and then see to it that everyone who The Economic Opportunity Act provides for The government will pay the group to start home an equal amount. needs glasses or a hearing aid gets them. loans to businesses with a reasonable chance of an office and to hire a coordinator (someone Maximum stay at a Job Corps center is two A town in Delaware took over a house in succeeding. The loans are made through the with a college degree and experience in com years. The center tries to see that its gradu a slum neighborhood for its Adult Basic Ed Small Business AdmInistration. They can be as munity planning), two aSSistants and a secre ates are settled in a school, a job or the Army. ucation project, The house was painted 'and large as $25,000, to be repaid in 15 years at tary (preferably a youth Corps member). remodeled. In addition to classrooms, a game 5 1/2 per cent interest, one of the first jobs for this office is to make Work room, a kitchen and a child-care center were These loans are available only in communi a study of poverty in the area. This study Teen-agers aren't the only people who have built, so the house could be a place for people ties that have Small Business Development should find out things like whether most of the trouble finding jobs. A person in his 40's or to make friends as weU as to learn together. Centers organized by the local Community Ac poor people are high school drop-outs, retired 50's who gets laid off, a woman who is divorced. tion Program or by private businessmen. The 'people, or people ont of work because they don't or a widow may find themselves with a family Rural Loans Center will recommend a business for a loan have the right skillS for the jobs available. to support and without the skills they need to A small farmer who has a mortgage on his if it thinks the owner is reliable, and if it thinks The Community Action program study may get a job. farm may fall farther and farther behind in the loan will help the economy of the community find out how many people cannot read and wri teo The Work Experience program gives adults his payments because he can't get a loan for by providing needed jobs or services, If there are quite a few illiterates who would the extra training they need for a steady job. farm improvements. like to learn to read, the study may recom mend It is intended particularly for people now on VISTA an Adult. Basic Education program. welfare. VISTA--Volunteers in Service to America- It may find a large number of unwed mothers, Under this program, living expenses will is a program for people 18 and over who want to and recommend a mobile birth control unit. be paid for adults while they get on-the-job spend a year in the War on Poverty. It may find that men are being laid off work training and take baSic literacy classes. VISTA volunteers are carefully chosen, and at a plant in the area,and recommend a job re~> For example, a woman who is being trained go through a thorough six-week training pro- ferral center. "" " ''i'''''' ;,,," """, , "",,,,,,,,,,,,,,; '"~" """""'.
Cordova HED BELL CAFE AND POOLHOOM ••• and moke use of ~ many lpecioi faeiliti. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) Entertainment as you like H. -and the varied financial experience-ovollobht for an anti-poverty grant. to start a 138 Monroe St. only at ell FULL-scAlE lANK such as oun. Community Action Program. Montgomery. Ala. He spent weeks convincing people in federal offices and in Walker County YOU'VE SEEN HER ON TELEVISION, READ ABOUT MAKII IOU. IIANK YOU. that the program would work. And the HER IN THE PAPERS, NOW SEE HEll IN PEllSON. fede ral officials told him to bring neigh boring Winston County into the program p.NANeIAIL HIIADQUARTiI•• , too. IVI R S. THO MP SON Space Covers Then the grant came through, and the GOD SENT COD'S MESSENGER A~B~~EXCHANG~BANK Walker-Winston Community Action EVERYONE WELCOME WillTE AND COLORED Next 7 cacheted covers commem Program opened its offices in a vacant All Prayers and Healings Free orating only the major U. S. space Member building that had once been the tex achievements for $5,00 advance de Federal Reserve System and tile union headquarters in Cordova. Touch of her hand will heal you. lvlHS. THOl\1PSON has the God posit. SPACE CRAFT COVERS, The buHding and the materials to fix Given Power to Heal by Prayer. \Vhat you see with your eyes your heart P.O. Box 2296, Huntington, W. Va. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation it up were all donated to the program•. will believe. Are you suffering? Are you sick? Do you need help? Do 25724, U.S.A. The community Action Program has you have bad luck? Bring your problems to IvlRS. THOMPSON today P.O. Box 128 Tuskegee. Alabama 14 full-time employees, all local people, and be rid of them tomorrow. She advises on all affairs of life. There working in the office and out in the is no problem so gre,lt she. can't solve (how to hold your job when failed, field. It could use more, if it had the and how to succeed, and reunites the separated). Upon reaching woman money to hire them. hood and realizing she had the God-Given power to help humanity. MHS. There are, two main projects at pre THO~v1PSON has devoted a life-time to this work. sent. One is a survey of all the fami From the four earner" of the world thGY come to her, 'White and Col lies in the two counties who live on less ored men and women of :ill races and walks of life. Guaranteed to remov€! than $3,000 a year. evil influen<'p and bad luck. There is not pity for those knowing they are- GR Most of the anti-poverty programs , in bard luck and Deed help and do not come for it-one visit will convince, are open only to people in this cate you. She gives lucky days and hands. Lifts you out of Sorrow and dark gory. The Walker-Winston group wants und starts you on the way to success and happiness. If you suffer from to locate them all, and find out which alcoholism and cannot find a curc, don't fail to see this Gifted \Voman who Folks uy of the many different programs would will help you. MRS. THOMPSON is here for the first time. MRS. help them the most. THOMPSON invites you to her home. Come Sec i\fItS. THOMPSON The other main project is the es Today-Tomorrow May hE too Latd tablishment of "referral centers," A FREE LUCKY CHAH.II.1. VilLI, BE GIVEN WITH EACH VISIT SOUTHERN CO at: where people in poor neighborhoods YOU'VE SEEN THE BEST - NOW SEE THE BEST! and rural areas can go to learn what 8:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.l\'1. Daily and Sunday local, state, and federal services are JUANITA'S PLACE FORRESTER BROS. CLEANERS available to them. "Y ou' d be surprised how many people MRS. THOMPSON Love Street 1500 East Newton Street TROY DOTHAN don't know about the assistance that's LOCATED AT 937 MADISON AVENUE (across the street from the already available to them," said J. L. Holiday Inn), MONTGOMERY, AI,ABA.MA Sartin, assistant to coordinator Boyd. TRAWICK'S STORE GIRARD STORE The first center opened in the Negro LOOK FOH PALM SIGN IN FRONT OF HOME section of Jasper. "We figured there's Reynolds Street 153 Girard Street the best place to start because that's OZARK ABBEVILLE where the greatest need was," Sartin explained. lma rs Plans for Black Belt Free Food to Needy Complicated by Race SELMA--When disaster strikes a creed. "We figure if they can double their \cfty, families often have to rely on "Surprisingly enough, it's about 50- (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) emergency free food distribution to get 50 white and Negro .who come in for the income and improve their living, we're "The two leaders of the other com going to get a share of it, too." them over the cri~is period. food." Decker said. mittee were at the head of the demon But to some families every day is a Poole is confident the two committees Although Dallas Connty is the only strations. It would be political suicide crisis, because the man of the house will eventually be one. county in the Black Belt that has a free for any public official to embrace those can't find work and there are many "We're this close together now," surplus food program, it is not the only two or their organization." mouths to feed. These families need said Poole, holding his fingers a few one in the state. Twenty-five counties in And, in fact, the public officials of inches apart, .. when we were that far food as badly as disaster victims. northern and south-eastern Alabama Greensboro did shy away :from ·Black's A free food distribution program has apart before." And he stretched his started distributing food as far back group last summer, been set up in Dallas County to help fam arms out wide. as 1953. But one white man, Poole, wrote to ilies like this keep food in the house. Neal Freeman, Director of Com Black from Moundville. He said he The food is distributed under the U. S, Tuscaloosa modities Distribution in the Depart couldn't make any of Black's meetings, Department of Agriculture's free sur ment of Agriculture, explained why the (CONTINUED FROM PAGE FIVE) but he invited Black to come over to his Olie of the Griffin's approaches was to plus food program. program was so popular in these areas. committee meetings in Moundville. conduct tape-recorded group meetings "Say a man is making just enough for Once a free food program was started in "Poole is about the only white person where lOW-income families described his family to get along on, ::md then he one county, he said, it was easier for I feel I can trust," said Black. "The the primary needs in their neighbor gets laid off for a couple of months," neighboring counties to learn about it rest they'rescared--can'thardly trust hoods, said Col, Joseph F. Decker, County t and start ones of their own. TOP has been finding out how to y Defeats Vigor commodity Supervisor. them." "This poverty program is not all that help existing programs fill the needs, "The free food can give him just the popular with white people." said Poole. where pOSSible, rather than starting little boost to help him getover the hard WorkrStudy Plan "I don't agree with all of it myself, but separate projects from scratch. luck." In Game of the eek I've taken a stand for it. I believe this Free flour, lard, riee, cheese, beef Cutting said, "Working together on BY DAVID R. UNDERHILL down and extra point that put them in Aids YOllngPoet county definitely needs the poverty pro the common problems of poverty has and other foods will be handed out every MOBILE .. - You wouldn't have thought front to stay. TUSKEGEE--Xavier Nicholas is a gram, and that the advantages will greatly improved the relations between month at 26 North Division St. in Selma, it was a high school football game. They added another touchdown on a 21-year-old poet from Mobile with big greatly outweigh the disadvantages." the minorty and majority groups here. beginning on Nov, 1, The foods come 16-yard pass late in the fourth quarter. "You know as well as I do," he said, A year ago there little or no com The two big, fast teams had been from the surplus crops that the Depart dreams and a small bank account. was Meanwhile ... they held Vigor to just one "that 95 per cent of the peoplewhowill munication. Now we all sit down and whipped into shape for the game in se ment of Agriculture has bought tokeep Two years ago, Nicholas left college crel practices conducted by six-man first down, and intercepted two of Hunt at the end of his sophomore year, "I get the money are colored people--but work together without really noticing farm prices stable. er's passes, It ended 14 to 6. that's all right. it... coaching staffs. The result was pass The program can also be a life-saver was bored," he said, "I was silly and The Murphy-Vigor game attracted ing, running:, and tackling that few col to men who have jobs, but can't make immature." most of the fans and most of the atten lege coaches would complain about. enough money to support their: families lIe went north to Chicago. Days, he Ambulance Clip and Save This Ad Mammoth bands staged awesome tion last weekend in Mobile, butin other properly. distributed mail in an insurance firm. games Central edged Booker T. Wash half-time shows, and battalions of "The fact that they're working keeps Nights, he explored the city and wrote (CONTINUED FROM PAGE TWO) ington 13 to 6, Thomasville shut out cheer-leaders kept the fans in a frenzy , them off the welfare rolls," Decker ex poetry. I buy old guns, clocks, when the action on the field didn·t. Grove Hill 20 to 0, and .Jackson beat At the end of twoyears, he decided he plained, "This is the group that really Bruce's funeral took place last Sun Citronelle 14 to 10, and coins There were more than 30,000 fans, and needs help, and the free food program wanted to finish college after all. day at the First Baptist Church of they had plenty to shout about. But his father, a mail clerk, had re LISMAN ···C:hoctaw County Training really gives it to them." Mountain Park. They may have been watching Ala tired, There wasn't enough money to School defeated C, p. Austin High School In his eulogy, the Rev. B.G, King TOP PRICE PAID bama's white high school championship pay all his expenses at Tuskegee Insti of Linden by a score of 12 to 0 last The City of Selma and the Dallas said, "This (Bruce'S death) has paint game. It certainly was the Mobile area tute. He was too late to apply for a John M. Hetzel Friday night. County Board of Revenue pay the costs ed vivid pictures all over Birmingham, championship game. scholarship, and his request for a loan P.O, Bas 1750 In the first half, the Choctaw Wild of distributing the food and keeping Sometimes it takes something like this Both Vigor and Murphy were unde cats threatened several times to make track of the people who get it. had been turned down. to bring men to their senses," Montgomery, Ala. feated this season, both stood near the It looked as though Nicholas wasn't a touchdown, They got as close as the The city and county had been asked to top in all the state-wide ranldngs, and going to get a second chance at college. three-yard line. take on the money end of the program both had crushed all their opponents this But he discovered something new had In the second half, star Wildcat quar several times before they finallyac season by frightening scores. CARTER'S GROCERY & LUNCH. terback Landis Dothftrd ran the ball cepted this summer. They accepted been added to Tuskegee's student aid Murphy had an unstoppable backfield, program while he had been away. for the first touchdown of the game, The when it appeared that the program would and VIgor had a senior quaterback who second touchdown for the Choctaw be handed over to the county's civil That something was the War on Pov started getting college offers when he erty's college Work-Study Program. Training School came on a pass from rights organizations to administer. was still a junior. the quarterback to right end Tom Jack Hunger apparently does not discrimi Tuskegee is one of 20 Alabama colleges Vigor went into the game a slightfa receiving funds to provide part-time son. nate on the basiS of race, color, or vorite, but few people would have risked jobs for students who otherwise might much money on the Wolves. The Vigor not be able to afford college. Murphy game is usually the big one in Sermons the eek The Institute has had its own Work Mobile, and it is usually unpredictable. BY ROBERT E, SMITH Study program for years. BuUhe anti This year was no exception. The two poverty funds have doubled its size. high-scoring leams held each other DOTHAN--"The grace of God is not MONTGOMERY --On the same Sun Nicholas found a job writing news scoreless until the last few seconds of like a bank, where you can't always get day morning, the Rev. Larry Williams releases for the Institute's informa the first half. Vigor forced Murphy to money. chose the lowly ant for his message, tion bureau, and enrolled as an Eng punt four times, and Murp!lY held down "It is never too early in the morning. This was the first of a month-long lish major in the junior class, Vigor's running and passing attack, You can go anytime to get the grace of series of" Harvest of Souls" sermons "Eventually I'll try to get a mas But with only 69 seconds left in the by Mr. Williams at the First Baptist ter's degree and teach," he said. God." PHON.E: ... first half, Vigor took a 40-yard Mur~ This was the message of the Rev, T, Church. i< And I'm still struggling to be 72'1-03.60 phy punt on its own36-yardline. Quar M. Finch, pastor of the New Maranda "Go to the ant, thou sluggard." Mr. a writer." terback Scott Hunter then showed why Baptist Church, last Sunday. He was Williams read from Proverbs 6: 6, people say he's the best high school preaching at the Adams Street Baptist "Consider her ways and be wise." quarterback ever seen in south Alaba Church, where the pastor is the Rev. What does the ant teach? asked the ma. E, D. Jones. pastor, He moved Vigor out of its regular Mr. Finch's scripture was "God is "cooperation is one lesson, We need "T" into a "shotgun" formation. The able," from the third chapter of the Book love and cooperation. There is no way ball came straight back to Hunter, and of Matthew. "If you believe it, act like a church can live, unless it makes up its he threw six completed passes in a row it," he told the congregation, mind to cooperate," Mr. Williams said. for a touchdown that put Vigor ahead 6 "God is able. He is able to keep us Another lesson from the ant world is HA to 0 at the half. on the path, regardless of how crooked planning. In the summer, the antputs But Murphy came back in the second it is." away something for the winter, he said. half and turned the game inside out. 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