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Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60616 I Afro-American New York Bed ....68 Blstor1 .....••..ll Paris Scratchpad ..83 Bus iness .......•..ol6 ~~~1e~r.!T::~: .....to Census ............29 1 Education .........2" 2 Entertainment ....53 S p~:f, ?.: : : : : : : : : : ~ tllTVol. XXXVII No. 22 Televis ion .........66 Journalism ........31 Ticker Tape .......12 March 5, 1970 Medicine ..........29 Week's Best Photos.35 A Johnson Publication National ... ....... 8 Words of the Wee k .34 NATIONAL REPORT Black SoIons To AttackBias InMilitary, Welfare The black lobby composed of nine congressmen shortly will meet with Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird to discuss the plight of blacks in the armed services. The conference, according to chairman Charles C. Diggs Jr. (D., Mich.), will be the first joint effort by the lawmakers to seek solutions to problems of discrimination and segregation in the military. In recent months, scores of black military men have complained about discrimination and urged the lawmakers to help. Recently organized into an unofficial lobby, the lawmakers also will con duct a drive to retain the present voting law and will, for the first time, launch a campaign to improve U.S.-African relations. Other subjects the group hopes to research are the effectiveness of the anti-poverty and minority business enterprise pro grams. Currently, the group is studying proposals for welfare reform. The organization of the black P ubliahed weekly by Johnson Publlahlnir Co.. Inc., 1820 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Jlliooia 6061 6. New York office at Rockefeller Center , 1270 Avenue of Americaa, New York, N. Y. 10020. Loa Angele• office, 8600 Wilshire Blvd.. Loa Angele•, Calif. 90005. Waah ington, D. C., office, 1 760 P ennsylvania Ave., N.W., Wa$hlngton, • I • D. C. 20006. Second-class postage paid at Chicago. llllnols © Copy • 1, • right l 970, by J ohnaon Publiahlng Co., Inc. Sub scriptiono: $8.50 ··-·····•. one year, Canada, $10.60 . foreisn $ 11.50. We cannot be reapon '•,.•&.•·"· eible for ur.soHclted material. Member, Audit Bureau of Circulation. 3 lobby is the first move in an effort to coordinate the po litical strength of blacks in the country, according to Rep. Diggs. "We represent black people and our lawmakers in tend to speak for black people," Diggs said. He pointed out that the lobby is supported by a group of more than 1,300 elected black officials in some 35 states as well as about 400 alternates and delegates to the recent Democratic Na tional Convention. Diggs said the lobby is the outgrowth of conferences held throughout the U. S. as to the best way to effectively utilize the highest number of blacks in the House in history. Members of the Democratic lobby, be sides Diggs, are Reps. Louis Stokes, Cleveland; John Con yers, Detroit; Adam Clayton Powell and Shirley Chisholm of New York City; Robert N. C. Nix, Philadelphia; William Clay, St. Louis; William L. Dawson, Chicago, and Augustus Hawkins of Los Angeles. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Asks Nixon For 'Philly P lan' For Jobs In Buffalo A black community group asked President Richard Nix on to consider extending the Philadelphia Plan for hiring minority workers in the construction trades to Buffalo. The Labor Dept. announced that the plan, named after the city where it was first instituted, was being extended to 18 other cities. But Buffalo, where a local agreement was worked out by the industry, the unions and the state, was not included. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller hailed the local agreement and lifted an 11-month construction ban on state projects, but Minority Coalition, Inc., criticized it. Rev. James T. Hemphill, president of the coalition, told President Nixon in a letter, "Contrary to the pattern in other communities, there was no involvement of the min ority community in the development of a Buffalo and Erie County so-called affirmative action program." Under Fire For Bias, Club's Facilities For Sale The Detroit Boat Club, under fire for alleged racial dis crimination toward blacks, offered to sell its facilities on Belle Isle to the city of Detroit, according to reports. A club official and a top-ranking city spokesman confirmed the offer, priced at between $400,000 and $500,000. 4 Stung By Staffer's Antics, SCLC Asks Bevel To Resi Officially, top brass at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference head quarters in Atlanta claim they asked top staffer James Bevel to resign because he wasn't pulling his weight on a Martin Luther King Jr. film project SCLC is coop erating with late in March. But privately, top executives of the civil right organiza tion concede that Bevel was "given his re lease" at the end of last January because Rev. Bevel he just hadn't been very productive in the last two years. At any rate, Bevel, once SCLC's strongest field organizer and an unbelievable handler of crowds, no longer is in the employ of SCLC. Bevel is reported to be in Baltimore, Md., where he is organizing a march on the United Nations building in New York City to petition for world peace generally and for U. S. withdrawal from Vietnam in par ticular. Bevel has withdrawn from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., where he was pursuing a theology de gree. It was there that Bevel became intensely interested in nude psychotherapy which he tried to put into practice in Nashville and Atlanta during marathon workshop ses sions. Worried SCLC colleagues admitted him to an Atlanta hospital, but Bevel refused to stay put and soon walked out. His colleagues consider Bevel a near genius, regard nude psychotherapy as practical in a well-controlled en vironment, but are worried that Bevel could not be effec tive any longer with SCLC. Replacement Housing Guaranteed By U. S. A new government order guaranteeing replacement housing for persons whose homes are in the path of fed eral building projects may slow down some highway and airport construction across the country. The order, issued by Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe in Washington, D. c.. says no construction will be authorized for transpor tation projects until the government verifies replacement housing is available and has been offered to the residents about to be displaced. 5 Governor To Seek Changes In 'Old Virginny' Song Virginia Gov. Linwood Holton, who pledged in his inaug ural address to make Virginia "a model of race relations," said in Richmond he will ask the legislature to change some of the wording of the state song-Carry Me Back To Ole Virginny. State Sen. Lawrence D. Wilder (JET, Feb. 26) told the state senate he found such words in the lyrics as "darkie" and "massa" reminiscent of Virginia slavery days. "I think it would be appropriate to change the lan guage that might be offensive," said Gov. Holton. 'WISH THEY'D CALL O~ "\IE \fORE~ Big James (Jim) Farmer, the plucky civil rights leader who dared to lead the first Freedom Ride to abolish travel segregation in the South in the '60s, is not about to give up on President Richard M. Nixon's Administration. Now a $34,000-a-year Assistant Secretary of the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) in Washington, D. C., Farmer, in an exclusive JET interview, said, "I'm not pleased with all of the developments but there are gains being made in the fields of education, health and welfare." Farmer said the resignation of Leon Panetta as chief of HEW's civil rights enforcement branch for the past 11 months made it "extremely difficult" for him to operate effectively. Panetta said he was dumped because the White House wanted a softer approach on school desegregation. Farmer took one word, "bad," to describe the Senate pass ing of the Stennis (John D., Miss.) amendment to an education bill (equalizing enforcement of school desegre gation in both the North and South) . Farmer explained that the amendment, as law, could take the heat off the South in complying with school desegregation laws. Is he called in as a civil rights advisor by the White House? Farmer said that occasionally he was telephoned by Nixon aides but quickly added: "I wish they would call me more." After being billed as the Nixon Administra tion's top black appointee, Farmer, in the early months, became a traveling man. He spent more time on the road ·~ Panthers On Trial Get Huey Newton's Birthday Ofi Thirteen Black Panthers, facing trial on bombing con spiracy charges in New York, had Feb. 17 off, the birthday of Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the party. Justice John M. Murtagh announced that attorneys could use theses sion of the pre-trial hearings for legal arguments and the defendants would not have to be present. Defense at torneys asked that the Panthers be given the day off be cause of Newton's birthday. Newton is in jail in California, serving time for a manslaughter conviction. FOR RIGHTS ADVICE: FARMER TO JET as a speaker in cities than he did in his big office. "Only once a week now," Farmer related, does he go out of town on speaking missions.