VOL. III, NO. 36 WEEKEND EDITION: SEPTEMBER 2-3, 1967 TEN CENTS To Oppose SEASHA? • CAP Heads Go II n idate 0 , To Washin illi BY MARY ELLEN GALE BY MBRTIS RUBIN MONTGOMERY. Ala. BY MER TIS RUBIN JACKSON, Miss.-,.Almostevery Ne­ FA YE TTE. Miss. --Why did half a dozen gro leader has been asked atone time Community Action· Pro­ or another» "Where did the Negro vote The night before last gram (CAP) directors go in the· state-wide. .races.?"· Ther.e Tuesday~s DemooratiC from Alabama go to have been no saUd answers. '. primary run-off, Will T. Washington last week.? The Mississippi Voters League.was Turner told about 600 Ne­ formed last. June, with representatives groes here, "Make up Members of the group said theywent. from most of the countielil, for the pur­ to ask the federal Office of Economic ':Pose of screening state-wide oondldates your minds if you want to Opportunity for local control over anti­ and deciding whom to support, be black or white.~' Evi­ poverty programs. In the Aug. 8 primary,the voters dently. a lot of them de­ But a leader of the South East Alaba­ league supported Wmlam L. Wl1,Uerfor cided to be White. rna Self Help Association (SEASHA) said governor. as a favor to the NAACP's Turner. a Negro running for sheriff the CAP directors were trying to block Charles Evers, a member of the of Jefferson County. went down to de~ SEASHA before it has a chance to get league's executive committee. Waller feat. So did all the other Negro candi­ started. twice prosecuted Byron de laBeckwith dates in this predominantly-Negro "This: is their primary motive," for the 1963 slaying of Evers'~rother. char~it'Rufus C. Huffman. treasurer Medgar. area. And so did Negro candidates ev­ of SEASHA--a new, mostly-Negro or­ But last MOllday night in Fayette, erywhere else in the state. RUFUS C. HUFFMAN ganization "form ed to fight poverty in 12 EVers endorsed WilUam Winter tor Meanwhile, Congressman John Bell Alabama counties. Miss Grice charged. g9vernor in the run-off. Wi11iams, a conservative and a segre­ "SEASHA is meant to touch the peo­ She said the CAP directors oppose The Negro vote was probably more of gationist, won the nomination for gov­ ple the CAP programs do not touch--the single-purpose agencies in counties a factor in the lieutenant governor's ernor by a wide margin over State very poorest," said Huffman. If SEA. where community action programs are race. The voters league supported Roy Treasurer W1l1iam Winter. Somepeo­ SHA has to check every program it plans under way. Black in the first primary. and without pIe considered Winter to beamoderate to sponsor with CAP directors in the 12 "SEASHA, for example, overlaps at Negro votes Blackmight have lost his --though he denied it again and again counties, Huffman said, "the programs least seven on-going CAP programs," place in the run-off to Paul Johnson. during the campaign. she observed. that would be most beneficial wouldn't ' After the Aug. Selection, however, But some of the seven CAP directors "1 always felt .confident I would Win," be allowed to come in." the. voters. league found out that Black said R, T. Pritchard, who defeated .But Miss Mary Grlce, president of the in SEASHA counties said they don'tob­ had moved into Johnson1s campaign ject to SEASHA--1fitavoidsdupll.cating Turner in Jefferson County, When Alabama CAP directors association, headquarters. The league felt that local CAP programs and checks with asked about hiring Negro deputies, he said th~ group wants all "single-pur­ Johnson must have been supporting local officials, said, "I've got one now," pose agencies"--including SEASHA-­ Black, and woul.d influence him if he got JOHN BELL WILLiAMS Charles Evers of the NAACP said "Our main concern 1s toknowwhat1s to follow a "checkpoint procedure" for elected, So the voters leaguuuppotfed later that there is no Negrodeputy,and going on in our counties," said Mont­ another reason: to maintain "rac1al Charles Sullivan in the run-off. gomery CAP director CharlesR. Shel­ , that the man Prttchardreferred to is a' harmony and equal opportunity at the But there may well have been some school-crossing guard. don, a member. of the group that visit­ local level." j dispute about this a.mong Negro leaders. ed Washington. "The SEASHA people Evers and others chl'rged that the "The South has many problems which Evers, at the rally 1n Fayette,wasstm Life elections were stolen by white officials. stopped in at my office once and invited must be worked out at the local level by supporting Black. "We sent a telegram.to President John­ me to a meeting, But they never told local people," Miss Grice Said. «It is The Mississippi Freedom Democrat.;. son, te1l1ng. him about the election," me where it was--andtheyhaven'tbeen the local people of all races who carry ic Party, which Is stronginHolmes said Evers, the burden of solving our problems, and back since/' elon' County and some others, urged black ttl think he should take time out and Two CAP directors who didn't go to I am tired of seeIng local people treat­ voters to stay awaytrom thepollsuntn sendsorneone, or come ~eeforh1ltlse1f. Washington --Charles L. Weston of BY. ALAN BO.LES of their skins is as black as midnight, ed as if they were the enemy." thegiilneral elecUl;>nNov.'1..Butob- wr(!~geleeUonsarefor Barbour.Daie-Henry .:a,ndGene Schrge.", and one. of .their skins .is as white as how Negroes "Some people. • • are stmply'con" servers.feelthatsomeNegl'6es< in WE;DOWEE,Ala.--"Whatthls case ali1y.Rdoesn·tmake a bit of differ- in. MissiSSippi, Insfead(j£ftghUngfor cerned with creating 'poverty war­ derofBullock-Pike-Coffee--said they HolmeSCoUIltyml.lsthavet" . ", .... '.' ',,' / Circuit Court. . '.. Ot.·.iw.. at... .s.'r.m. .' '... $..... !.~Il... ·. a:ga..•. i.n. s. till.. '.dida,te;fQrs .:Wl~n.C .Too.ld.J.W.oul;th~reworking said there·' was a lot ~sallner was one ofthelawyerspros­ tarm,hls:wa,termelon patch was en s ecuUng J. W. Watkins.aolle .. eyed~63- a,s dear as your ear might be to of Negl;'o voters•. "A week befol;'ethe year-old Negro, on charges of second~ YOUeu! In your front yard. electibnl'. he.$al.d,"achUl'chwas •• degree murder. Watkins was charged burned in· Perrytown, and the Kianwent with fatally shooting James Burks, a UHe did just exactly what youor lor around in the Negro .Boreas andpttt 19-year-old white man, last July 1. anyone else would have .done." ~KKK' on all. the (campaign) slgus/' ecognltlon Unzon The jury returned a verdidof guilty According to the testimony, Burks ~."not of second-degree murder, but of In Jefferson County's district 2-" BY BETH WILCOX and a companion were carrying off Wat­ second-degree manslaughter, which where a Negro was killed after the SELMA, Ala.--"! went on strike to kins' watermelons at the time of the usually applies to accidental deaths. Aug. 8 primary--poll watcher Percy get a union in here, because I felt it shooting. Ninety~elght shotgun pellets Watkins' one-year sentence was sus­ Turner said white men sat around the would help out a whole lot," said Robert were found in. Burks' torso and head. pended. polling places with guns. and knives Nunn. "There were a lot of unfair things this time, while the ballots were being go1ng on." Watkins testified that he· meant to counted. scare Burks, not kmhim. He said he Although there were several federal Nunn is one of the people on strike 01 losed thought he was aiming above the vic~ observers' in southwest Mississippi, against the Laura Industries raincoat tim's head. many people said the observers just plant in Selma. The goal of the strike-­ Watkins safdhe still suftered from a In Roa e sat around, observed the wrong-doing, now in its fourth week-~is to force the and did nothing. company to rElcognize the International stroke he had two years ago. He said BY ALAN BOLES Ladies Garment Workers Union at the he sold watermelons to get money for ROANOKE, Ala. -- Last summer, In Simpson County. where no Negroes plant. medicine. Roanoke' s swim ming pool was integrat­ were on the ballot, people said the ed. This year. it is closed. voting in Oll.e precinct was done out The major point of dispute in the trIal Why are the workers striking for rec­ Mayor J, P, Philips said the pool 1s in the open, on a table in a white man's was how much warning Watkins gave be~ ognition, instead of going through regu­ chsed because oia broken-down filter dining room. And, they sald, Negro fore :firing. Burks' companion testified larchannelsand appealing to the Na. system. "At the beginning of last sea­ voters were not allowed to use sample that Watkins merely said. "Wow!" But tional Labor Relations Board? son, we patched (the filter) up, and ballots. Frank Goss, Watkins' grandson, said A union organizer said it might take thought we might be able to go through When they complained to a federal ob­ the defendant shouted "Halt!" and then from nine months to three years to get the season wIthout spending too much on server. the people said, he told them, asked, "Have you boys planted any recognition through official proce­ it," he said. lilt's not my problem--it's your prob­ watermelons. 1n this patch?" dures. "By that time, everyone is "After about. three weeks, the filter lem," scattered to the four winds," he said. Watkins himself testified that he broke downe and the .way I remember it, In state-wide voting, Charles Sullivan The-organizer said 95% of the work­ yelled, "Hey, boys, what y1a11 dotn' it costs a minimum of $2,400 to fix. was nominated for lieutenant governor. ers had signed cards to join the union. here?" and then carried 0n a brief con­ "We discussed the problem at City Strike leaders claimed last week that versation with the white men. He Hall, and decided that the expense, plus 375 employees--85% of .the work force claimed that he fired only when Burks the salary of a coach and three life­ Free! --were staying away from their jobs. moved toward him. guards. wasn't warranted, The indica­ Nunn and other workers talked about Five white residents of Roek Mills, tions were that no white children would the company practices they considered near Roanoke, told the jury that Wat­ use the pool;' unfair. "For instance," said Nunn, kins' reputation for peace and quiet was But Wilkie Clark, an officer of the "when people would run into real trou­ excellent. Randolph County Improvement Associ~ ble in the morning getting to work, and' R. C. Wallace, Watkins' attorney. aHon, said the problem was more than they'd be a few. minutes late, they'd just argued to the jury, 4'1 don·tcare if one a broken filter, "I say they closed (the be fired," pool) to keep the Negroes and whites Mrs, Leona Bowden, another striker, Food Plan Approved., from using it together ," Clark charged, said the company doesn't pay compen. "The city keptHinftrst-class condi­ sation when a worker is Injured. "I But Boone Loses Job tion every year before it was integrated. The filter had been .torn up before, and burned my hand around June or so, and MONTGOMERY" Ala.--Thiswas the in September a roller fell on my ankle." they fixed it:" week that the Rev. Richard Boone.got Lastsummer. integration of the pool she said. a food stamp program and lost a job. began without1ncident. But later, "They called me into the office to sign PICKETERS IN SELMA Boone had requested a stamp plan for a.paper to get money for the injury. r someone contaminated the poel with Iness. But the strikers said the resentatlves. The petition noted that the county several weeks ago. Last chemicals. and on two nights, it was ran· on down there and signed-that paper, Monday. the Board of Revenue approved but they never paid me a thing." walk-out was hurting the company. the workers had asked .David Wallace, completely drained. "If they don't start making some Laura Industries' preSident, to engage the. plan --provided the Montgomery According to city councilman Robert Other workers complained of being rainCoats soon," sa1doneworker, ·'that in collective bargain1ng. City Commission agrees to share the Ford, two or three Negro children. cost. called by their first names over the plac~ goin' to start losing a whole lot were the only people regularly using "In cynical disregard of the law and But that night at a mass meeting, loud-speaker system, and of hearing of money ..' tangible evidence before hIs own eyes, the pool after a few weeks of integra­ announcements over the speaker that Boone told the people that he was "with­ 1'1 heard from a girl yesterday that Mr. Wallace stated that he doubted that tion. tty don't think anybody with any people had been fired. they barely get out production at all over out a job." Later. he explained that he busIness Sense. would have opened it?' we constitute a. majority oftbe employ­ had been removed from the SCLC pay­ The company· has an incenUvesystem there any more.".' s!l.id Nunn. "There ees/' the petition said. uSince then, Ford said. roll. He said he had spent $500 of his --paying a worker more 1fhewentover were labels sewed on the wrong Side, we have' remained away from work. in "When you had only afewswimmiI% faCings on the wron'gside, everything." own money taking a survey to demon­ it just wasn't feaSible," Phl.1ips ex- his production quota-abut the system Is a continUing efforUoconvillceMr.Wal­ strate the need for a food program. plained. . meaningless,' the strikers said. Mrs. The strikers .said they think the com­ lace of the obvious fact that we do con­ In Atlanta, Ga., Hosea WUUams of Bowden said the quotas were so high that stitute a majorHy of his workforce.. ' Yet last year. the bonds that were pany is at least. a month. behind on its SCLC said Boone was fired because issued to build. the pool were complete­ "no one could ever make prodnction governqlent90ntract to make ml.Utary The petition noted that Laura indus­ "we just had to cut the staff--we didn't anyway." Iy paid off. And according to the city raincoats. tries gets its business <'exclusively" have the .money to pay people... • Wil­ clerk, while the pool has been running Company officials refused to com­ Last week, a group of people went to from government contracts. and asked liams sald Boone was never "autho­ on less than $4,000 a year, a cigarette ment on the workers' charges, or Wash1ngton, carrying. a petition toa the governmentto force the company to rizedu to come to Montgomery: 4,You tax to support the pool will yield more on how the strike was a.ffecting'bus- subcommittee of 'the U. S. Honse of Rep- bargain. . just don't go off and starta movement.'! than $U,OOOIn 1967. More on Page Three PAGE TWO THE SOUTHERN COURIER SEPTEMBER 2-3,1967 THE ROOM 1012. FRANK LEU BUILDING erson MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA 36104 equ 8t UBBER PHONE: (205) 262-3572 NECK SUE THE SOUTHERN COURIER is published weekly by a non-profit, non-share edu­ , cation corporation, for the study and dissemination of accurate information about events and affairs in the field of human relations. IIIllIII! IIIllIII! Price: 10¢ per copy. $3.50 per year in the South, $10 per year elsewhere in the 00 L te TALKING FOLKS U,S., patron subscription $25 per year· used to defray the costs of printing and BY MARY ELLEN GALE sheriff -- said the revenue board should publication. Second-class postage paid at Montgomery. Alabama. TUSKEGEE, Ala.--Eight months af­ have acted more quickly lUhe members ter Sheriff Lucius D. Amerson first want adequate law enforcement in Ma­ Editor: Michael S. Lottman asked the Macon County Board of Reve· con County. Executive Editor: Mary Ellen Gale nue to raise his deputies' salaries, the "They ought to have went on and done BUSINESS D ~ER5 Too Photography Editor: James H. Peppler board has done something about it. it when I first asked for it/' he com­ Meri.dian, Miu. man of Marks talked about the Missis­ Lay~out Editor: Lilian R. Irwin At a special meeting Aug. 18. the m ented. "We could have gotten it then," Compositors: Barbara H•. Flowers, Mary Corbin The St. Joseph Alumni Association sippi Freedom Labor Union, and urged revenue commissioners unanimously But Radney said that board chairman everyone to' sign a petition demanding Technicians: Gloria Bradford, H. O. Thompson met in the home of Mrs. Alma Lloyd approved a resolution asking the state Harry D. Raymon dfd call hlrl'l "about the withdrawal of federal funds from Adv~rtising Manager: Lawrence Johnson on Aug. 20. The purpose oHhe associ­ LegIslature to permit the county to pay six weeks ago," to askhltn to tneet with the Mississippi Employment Security Regional Circulation Mgrs.: George Walker. Norman Warren higher salaries. the board. "l wasn't told wMt it was ation is to help out St. Joseph Catholic Benton Colvin. CaSSie King School. The group was started in Jan­ Commission. Details about how parents But the day the board held its meet­ about," Radney added. "If I had known, can use tM new choIce period to send Subscription Manager: Margaret H. Dabney uary, 1966, and in the past year, it has ing, it was already too late in the Leg­ I could have introduced the bill right their children to white schools this fall away." donated $500 to the schoolfor rebuilding Reporters: islature's regular session for any new were given by Alex Capron. a law stu­ bills to be presented. There were a few dtfterel'lces between and other needs. 0 (it oil " ••• to • /10 " 00 .... Go 00 '" 0 " dent. (From Presley Franklin) Birmingham, Ala., .... to t> •••• e • " e " • 324 ... 7704 Amerson's requests and the revenue Huntsville, Ala. (Bob Dinwiddie) •••••• , ••••••••••••••••••• 536-0404 "We didn't know it couldn't get board's resolUtion. Mobile, Ala. (Franklin Howard) •• , ••••••••••••••••••••••• 4'78-0327 through;" claimed Harold W. Webb, a Montgomery. Ala. The commissioners went along with Montgomery. Ala. (Patricia M. Gorence) •••••• , ••••••••••••• 262-3572 Negro member ofthebl.-racialrevenue Mrs. Bertha D, Howard recently re­ the sheriff'·s recommendation to raise Selma, Ala. (Beth Wilcox) •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 872-5248 board, He said Macon County's three ceived two trophies at the National his chief deputy's salary fi'om $300 to Talladega, Ala, (Alan Boles) •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 362 ... 6076 legislators--State Senator Tom Radney Beauty Culturist League'sannualinsti­ and Representatives Bm Neville Jr. $400 a month. The bolrd askMtor per~ Troy. Ala. (Sandra Colvin) •••••••••••••••••• 0 •••', •••••• 566-2009 tuteand convention in Atlanta, Ga. The mission· to pay other d(lputie$ $37\? a Tuscaloosa, Ala, (Robin Reisig) •••••••••••••••••••••••••• '752-9628 and James Paulk--met with the board trophies were awarded to Mrs. Howard month--$5 more than Amiar!!On sug­ Tuskegee, Ala. (Mary Ellen Gale) ••• , • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• 727.:3412 Aug. 14, and "some things were done as the best student in the hair-styling gested. .Greenville, Miss. (Ruben Pates) •••••• , ••••• , ••••••••••••• 335-3'737 on their advice." and hair-coloring classes at the insti­ But the commissioners requested the Jackson, Miss. (Kerry Gruson) •••••••••••••••• ,..... • •• 362-7989 "But there was no promise that this tute. authority to hire only oM !rtOr~ tieputy 'Mendenhall, Miss. (MerUs Rubin, Tony Ganz) • • • • • • • • • • •• • •••••• 624.'7 was going to be it," Webb added. "We than the three the law lIt'lidy pro .... ides. Greensboro, Ala., Meridian, Miss. (patricia James, Bettie Manuel) •••••••••••••• 485-9555 acted on the possibility." Radney said he told the revenue com­ Amerson had requested three new depu­ Mrs. Theresa Burroughs ishomeaf­ missioners it was toolate togetalocal ties. . Vol. m, No. 36 September, 2-3, 1967. ter a stay of about 15 days in the Good law through the regular session •. "They And.while the commissioners were at Samaritan Hospital in Selma. While she ST. JOSEPH ALUMNI felt there would probably be a special it, theypassed two other resQlutions. was at the hospital, she said she "sent 'FEditorial Opinion seSSion," the senator recalled. One would anow the cOUl'lty. to pay its AbbeviUe~ Ala. for one or two gowns and housecoat" Radney said he would introduce the inferior court judge $250 Ii mclnth and It seems like everyone in Abbeville is from the I. Kayser department store in Macon County bill "whenever I get a its solicitor (attorney) $225 a month-­ visiting or being visited. JimmieGlov- Selma. 441 told the m,rse to call and ind Your Own Business chance." Will he have to wait until the raises of $50 apiece. er is visiting his children in New York. have them send it to MRS. Theresa Bur­ Legislature's next regular session in The other resolution would raise the Mrs. Ethel Mae Culver has just re~ roughs, and she did/' Mrs. Burroughs The group of Alabama Community Action Program 1969? salaries of the revenue commissioners turned from a Maryland vacation. The said. But she said, when the package ar­ (CAP) directors that went to Washington last week was "We're going to meet a lot sooner --and of the board chairman--from Rev. L. '0, Bryant and Mrs. Bryantare rived, "it was addressed to 'Theresa .. not acting in the be st interests ofthe state's poor peo­ than that," Radney replied. $250 to $350 a month, after the present visiting their daughter and son-in-law Burroughs.' I told the boy I wouldn't ac­ ·.pIe. The CA P directors' claim--that they were just Amerson ~- Alabama's only Negro terms of office are over. in Tennessee, and their trip will also in- cept H, because it didn't have MRS. Bur­ ~,trying to extend local control over run-away anti-pov­ clude Chicago. Comer Baker and his roughs. This is important--that when wife and children have just come back we buy and give our money, they give us :erty programs--shouldn't fool anyone. from their vacation in Indiana. TheRev. title." Seymour Palmer, the store's .,' What the CAP directors really meant was that they Independent Agencies O. L, Gamble and Mrs. Gamble have manager, said Mrs. Burroughs "Is 11st­ ,don't like the growing number of Negro-run agencies recently returned from their vacation ed on our charge account as 'Mrs.'," >'which are forming across Alabama in response to the in Miami, Fla. Mrs. Jeanette Knight and "we always send packages as re­ ,inaction of white-controlled CAP programs. The CAP is visiting her children in Ohio. Ned quested." He said Mrs. Burroughs Getin ay--CAPHead Stephens, from New York City, is here hadn't requested the title of "Mrs." 'directors want to keep the power where it is now--in visiting his Sister, Mrs. Hortie Mae the hands of the white people who have so long ignored (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) 1apoosa County. "Ineverthoughtitwas Vaughah. Mrs. Ernestine Adams, from Abbeville, Ala. the needs of poor Negroes (and often9 of poor whites). program that doesn't interfere with serious enough to mention;" he ex- Atlantic City, New Jersey, is here to otis Jones and his Wife, Rheutma. Few--if any--of the CAP directors even bothered to their efforts, plained. "It's not a reality." visit her father, Johnnie Hardaman, and and his son, Mike, enjoyed their trip ;get clearance from their boards before taking off for ''If it was good and we weren't going Miss Grice, the he~d ot th/ll CAP dl~ her Sister. Mrs. Ophelia Brown. (From to Montreal and Toronto, Canada. While ;Washington. They had no business going there without to do it, I would give SEASHA my en- rectors association, said the local James J. Vaug'han) in Montreal, they visited Expo 67. dO.rsement 100%." Schroeder said. CAPs now "don't know anythil'lg about Selma,. Ala. (From James J. Vaughan) ;he knowledge and consent of their board members-- But Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, dlrec$ a single-purpose grOUIl ul1tl1 w~ read Sist"r Michael Ann was given a fare- Tuskegee, Ala. who Tb:efederal Office of Economic Opportunity (OEQ! single-purpose agencies get in CAP's pose agencies cannot act 1fi thlt man,.. maritan Hospital. She has been reas- "I've .been in there six years," said should pay no attention whatsoever to the CAP direc­ s self-ser 'l:'equests. Instead,OEO should con- ::~~:t:!~~:;i:;r:t~~r~~~~JdI~7tl~e;p~~~~:na;:. ~:dc::r:i~t·:~;,. ,;~i~~~e~~~i~i::;e~:~n~~~j¢~~~,:~i~ ... ,.fi;~;;;~~:~~E~:::!.th~,r::~~ '~~~~1~J'Ltltc~tn2t~)?endetnt ' lllif~izect.ii~EASI'iA~-~'wa'S'~lreadY;in ti~ia~:I?oiffC1~r';;';hO mucli'kndish, cplltinu~dttleWh • n~",·-,··-··.·i i ...... '''i.·' > ...• ative. far-reaching, and wo Elm'ore when wewere'funded'''she of the ground-work for SEASHA said yeartioldman."inthe Ii. me I've ~'")w.1lilepal,'t oftbefederal governmentt s war on poverty. said. "1 was trying to get centers for local organizers made re.li~iforts got left, I'm workIng for a clean voting .• :.. ~ And in the future, the. CAP directors should stay nothlng,while TICEP was already there to get local cooperatiort. record in Macon County. That's what! .;':home and do their jobs. They don't need to worry about --and could pay." "We went to mayor/! and CAPd!rec- hope to do while I'm livin,.i, Mangham "It put us in areal hard spot/' Mrs. tors and everything/' he f'jl!.id. "We spoke at the monthly meeting of the > There~ '''competition'' from other agencies. s more Edwards said. "TICEP may be very have continuously iniorm!;l4 them about Board of Revenue, He was accompanied than enough poverty to go around. noble, but we were trying to get white our activities." by Mrs. Martha Witt Smith, voter regis- people and nigra people together for SEASHA, he saili,lIh4t§ 'B8 lfit~nt1ons tration consultant for the Alabama State the first time in the hlstory of our com- of doing anything but helplllg the CAP Sovereignty Commission. She said the . Letters to t tor munity." directors. We don't W!I.llt tolifhHhem. Board of Registrars will soon be under To the Editor: job, Every since I resigned from the Mrs. Beulah C. Johnson, Macon We hopetheywoulddoll'lOl'ethatltheY're a federal court order outlining proce- Why is it tflat your reporter in an arU­ board of directors I have been pushed County's CAP director, said she has doing now--Und out what lowtr-1ncome dures for keeping the county voting list cleAug. 5-6, 1967 tUtle "Poverty Fight back. Iappl1ed to work in the youth pro­ "no opposition to SEASHA." people teel their problE1ms to be and accurate and up-tO-date, The newsys- Were any of the CAP directors get them involvedhldec1S1ou-mQki1'l.g." tern wm be good, Mrs. Smith said, be- in WilCOX," reported a false twisted gram in May. but the Educational Di­ SISTER MICHAEL ANN facts, and failed to report the whole rector suggested that I not be hired in authorized to go to Washington by their Did the CAP directbl's' trip to Wash- mental health center. For the past cause "no names can be addded except boards of directors?, Ington produce any resulti? MiSs Grice by registraUon--that'll save anyone truth? The statementls false that says, the youth program, and the ProjectDi. three years, Sist~r Michael Ann has "Smith also protested the quality oHM rector said in a speech to the board that B. D. MayberrY, chairman of the Ma. said that national CAP director Theo- served as administrator at Good Sa- from dipping back into the old records instruction." The reporter failed to to hlre Rev, Smith is "unwarrented, un­ con County CAP board, said last week, dore Berry "told us he thought our re~ maritan. During that time. Good Sa- and adding the dead ones again." "I don't know who authorized it (Mrs. quests were reasonable." tell the whole truth, and these words called for and unnecessary," Myblack maritan has grown fromamissionhos,;. M'll F Y Al were lifted out of the context when Smith brothern on the board voted against me, Johnson's trip), but I know who didn't." ButH. p. Coale, director otthe. Cren-'pital to a general hospital and skilled- ~el"s err" a. was reported as saying, "We learned and five of them were school teachers. "I don't think it was put before any shaw-Covington-Butler CAP· sil.id, "we nursing home. She will be succeeded A program commemorating the end of to do that in Wiscons1n." After I yelled loud and long, the staff board of directors." said Weston, the asked for a little c()fi~l a1ltU.ll by Sister Evelyn. the youth program of the Wilcox County The facts were twisted in the state­ attempted to offer me a pacifier, Barbour - Dale - Henry CAP director. we. got was the run-arO\1n anti-poverty program was held Satur- ment, "Now, said Smith, he would take "It was not practical to do ft. This was And Montgomery cAP dlriewrShel- Marks, Miss. day at Malden Park and the Wilcox a job." The fact 1s I wanted a job ever I would like to know how much that a quickly-arranged affair." don said the group gotnothirtrbutPolite Quitman County Negroes met Aug. County TrainIng School. In the morn- since the Wilcox County Board of Edu­ reporter was paid to twist the facts. And Claud Young, director of the assurances of "understa,udingh from 21 in Marks, to get moving on problems lng, a group of consultants--including cation took my job in August of 1965. I Chambers-Tallapoosa CAP, said his congressio.nal leaders. t related many complaints against ty--held a career workshop for youths the county welfare department. "This from all the centers •. Baseball, food, Attack New Welfare Proposal morning. one family had nothing to eat, and a crafts display werefeatured at the chlldren naked. and barefooted;" said park. A play given by the Yellow Bluff the Rev. C. C. Cole of Lambert. "So I center concerned a harassed bride and stopped and gave what I could." The her ne'er-do-well groom--whocarried food stamp program was also blasted a bottle in his inside breast pocket. oth s r on shin ton by a number of speakers who com- There were contests in watermelon­ plained tfiat many people don't have the eating and bubble-blowing. The direc­ BY GAIL FALK gested by President Johnson. which Monday's "Mothers Mtreh on Wash­ money to bUY stamps. Mrs. Henrietta tor of the anti- poverty program, the WASHINGTON, D. C. _.. "That stuff does not set up new restrictions and re- ington" was the first 15\1bl1c activity of Franklin and Mrs. Ruth Figgs of Marks Rev. Thomas Threadgill, said, "I am .cost money. baby, "said Mrs. Johnnie •quires states to. pay 100% of a welfare the National Welfare .lfrht& Organiza­ said they are organizing a sewing co-oP, so glad the program has been such a • Tillmon of Los Angeles, California, as family's needs. tion • topr()duce articles for the Poor Peo- success, and r thank each of you here she looked up at one of the huge crystal' (Some states pay only a fraction of a During the past two yt~d. l:'\(Iorp90- pies Corporati'on. The Rev. L. C. Cole- who has helped to make it so." chandeliers in the U. S. Senate caucus family's minimum needs, Mississippi pIe in many cities have ot'gMtl~edlocal room. <'That could have cost enough to aid reCipients, for Instance, get only welfare rights groups. SoMe of these fUrnish welfare to 200 or 300 families 27% of what the welfare departme.nt fig­ groups have worked/or changes in state for ten years." ure~ is the least amount a family can welfare laws. Groups of Ohlomothers. "So there Is money here some­ Uve on.) for instance, demanded Ii raise In wel­ wllere," she. continued, "and we're go- fare grants by marching to COlumbus George Wiley--director of the Pov­ lng toflnd it." ' and sitting in at the state Capitol. oth~ erty/RIghts Action Center in Washing­ .. Mrs. Tmmon~~whose children have er groups have concentrated on inform­ lived on welfare since she got sick four ton, which coordinated Monday's lobby­ ing poor people about the rights they do years ago,;.-was speaking as chairman Ing--said Johnson's bill "is not God's have, and on pushlng local welfare de­ of tile new National Welfare Rights Or­ gift to the people. But our strategy is partmentstolive up to their own rules. ganiZation. to go back to the bill that does not hurt us--that helps us just a little." The main goal is "decent jobs with As she spoke last Monday, hundreds adequate wages for those who can work_ 'Of other poor people shouted agreement. Some senators were friendly to the and adequate income for those who can­ ~They had come to the nation's capital poor people. Assistants to New York not work", Other goals include clearer from as far away as Seattle, Washing­ Senators Jacob Javits and Robert Ken­ and simpler welfare regulations, an end nedy said the senators agreed with the to "man.1n the hOUSel' rules, and :ton. and McComb, MiSS., to tell the MRS. JOHNNIE TILLMON :U. S. Congress that welfare recipients poor people, and would fight for fairer searches without a warrant; and aid for' who were on welfare rolls last January '.need ¢lmore money now." welfare laws. people who have jObS, if their income will be able to receive Aid to Dependent "We're mad, and we want to be is still below the "poverty line." Children (ADC) in the future. But a delegation of welfare recipients :heard/' said Mrs. Gertrude McCall of from Chicago reported a different kind The new organization is based on the .:Hartford, Conn. 2, Requiring mothers--and children of reception after they visited their sen­ belief that welfare is not charity or a over 16 who are not in school--togoto The Senate 1s now conSidering a b111 ator--mlnority leader Everett Dirksen. favor to poor people--that it is aright. . passed last month by the U. S. House of work or face loss of welfare assistance. According to several members of the Mrs. Mary Johnson. a mother from 3. Setting up stricter eligibility .re­ 'Representatives. Thls bill changes the group. Dirksen got mad when they in­ Brooklyn, New York, put it this way: qui rem eilts, . present· welfare system in several sisted. that he listen to them, and he hH "I'm not ashamed to be on thewelfare. ways, by: All day Monday. delegations of poor Richard Hamelin, a student in social They just paying me back every damn 1. "Freezing" the number' of chil­ people visited senators and asked them work. Dirksen said at a news confer. penny tMy stole tram my parents and dren who can g'et ..assistance. This to vote against this bill. They told the ence on Tuesday that he had raised his grandparents, andgreat-great-grand­ means that only., the number of children senators to support another bUl, sug- hand to pick a hair off Hamelin's coat. parents." WILCOX COUNTY CELEBRATION : SEPTEMBER 2-3,1967 THE SOUTHERN COURIER PAGE THREE

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PhJOS and Text by Bob Fitch ; PAGE FOUR THE SOUTHERN COURIER SEPTEMBER 2-3, 1967 Ready to tory IDIng• epar • te t d 1 h 01 BY ROBIN REISIG theY're hearing lies and dIstOrted history." '/ For example, she sald, the classes paid specia!'a.ttention to what happened I.n BIRMINGHAM. Ala.--"I went to an integrated high the South in the years just after'the Civil War. school in Oklahoma"Hsaid Vincent Dunn. "When they'd "We want you to have a mOre realistic picture of Reconstruction than the my­ speakof the Negro in slavery. I'd tremble and want to thology the South perpetrates and that you will be taught,'" she told a student. get it over with. The classes also gave the teen-agel's a chanc.E! to hear about' the contributions "These kids can go to the white schools and fill in the gaps in the white kids' Negroeshave made to American history. For instance,. they learned the story edUcation. Maybe they can teach those white kids something." of Jean, Baptiste Pointe du Sable, a Negro explorer. who helped found the biggest DUM helped run a summer program that gave a "Head start on High School" city in minois. to some 60 Negro ninth-graders who will attend integrated schools for the first Miss Buss told her students that du Sable used .to say, .. The first white man to time this fall. settle in Chicago was a Negro." One reason why the history classes were important, said Dunn, is that 41the The teen-agel's studied Engl1sh.-composition, reading, andgrammar. They white schools are almost sterUe of Negro history. Before anyone can have any played Scrabble--a word game .. ,..to build their vocabularies. They visited the pride in beingAmerican, he has toknow the part his race played,u library regularly. Ani! they spent a lot of time studying Negro history. But the students didn't stop with the history. of the Negro in America. They Negro history classes are vital preparation for a black student entering a also studied the history of black people in Africa. ... . -mostly-white school, explained Miss Mary Lynn BUSS, director of the summer And they learned about the present as well as the past. "We had a map of the :' program. She said the classes gave the students 4'background to know when war and kept track of the war every day,;' Miss Buss said. The ma.p was of the United States, be­ cause Miss Buss was talking about "the American CiVil War of 1967,·--therace riots that broke out this summer in cit­ ies across the natlon, including Birm­ ingham. The 60 students attended classes at two centers -- Birmingham Baptist Church in Powderly and St;Paul's Luth­ eran Church. The Head start on High School Program was sponsored by .the Lutheran Church, American Friends . lanta. 'Ga., formerly had a "Negro" . Service Committee, and Birmingham the white students "looked upon Jim CroW' as their idol." Bible and a "white" Bible in each court- , Council on Human Relations. room, to be used by people taking oaths. About 20 unpaid volunteers taught at A number of teen-agel's didn't know the centers, Although some tutors were exactly. what "Jim Crow" meant. So What did the program accomplish? white, most of them were Negroes who Miss Rucker's class studied the South's "We're living in a period where these rec.ently attended integrated high old Jim Crow laws. kids are making history themselves," schools and could talk about the prob­ They learned that a Birmingham city said Miss Buss. "As they study their lems from experience, ordinance formerly made it illegal for past history. so long denIed them 9 they Miss Sandra Rucker, who graduated Negroes and whites to play checkers to­ ,realize the important roles theY're last spring from Jones Valley High gether; that New Orleans, Lao, once playing in the present history of Ameri­ School in Powderly. told her class that segregated 1ts prostitutes; and that At- ca/'

In R ad Start Cl ses BY KERRY GRUSON the Ozark center. the children run ar.ound too much. The OZARK, Ala. -- When Head Start "r had four white children in my sheI'W: sent a prisoner up to tell us classes began this summer at the Na- , class," said Mrs. Caldwell. "And none when the pounding' on the floor got too · tional Guard Armory here, several of them played with each other. They bad." . , children didn't know what to make of all made Negro friends." Even people who criticized the pro­ · their puzzling new experiences. "People's attitudes have changed" gram before it began said it had worked "One gl.rldid not eat the fIrst day be­ because of the program, Mrs. Caldwell out well. The Rev. G.B. Cossey of Eu­ :'cause she was afrald of the fork?' said said. A parent who didn't want to send faula listed only one real complaint-- . ' .. Mrs. Kathleen CaldWell, a teacher in the his child to· Head Start later prpVided that one Barbour County doctor wouldn't 'Head Start program, ..Another child transportation to a Head Start hay -ride. see the children in bi~r'ac:!.al groups. ran out of the building when he first Although no doctors would participate When parents mentioned the problem heard the toilet flush." in the program at first, she said, "by to CAP director Weston, Cossey said, And, she sald, so many of the chU­ the end we had four." "he told. us it would be better for the , dren had never u!led toothbrushes be­ The teachers at the Ozark armory program not to change. I think we should 'fore that the Bead Start teachers had to saId their only problems were minor have taken the children somewhere show them how. The program bought ones. Because the center was right else." each child two toothbrushes--one touse above the county's jail facilities, said But tfallin alI;' said Cossey, "Head 'at the center and one to use at home. Mrs. Shirley McCall, "we couldn't let Start has been a success." , Although Head Start Is over now. tudy <:harles L. Weston, director of the Bar­ 'hOUr-Dale-Henry Community Action : 'Program (CAP), said he thinks the "youngsters in all three counties are still 'getting the benefit. <: 4'Thesechildren came to SChool with In 11 de a o m "pot-bellies from hunger and improper ,:'fOOd," he sald, "They had no energy. BY ALAN BOLES poem by Robert Frost--"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy .. , After two months of good hotfood, their TALLADEGA, Ala.-.ltU's nice," said Donald Thomas. Evening"--to the show tune. "Hemado's Hide-away." "stomachs are down and their pep has "Here people take the time to help you learn. In school The purpose, Tharinger said, was to show his class that , Picked uP. they usually don't." the poem had strong rhythm. , "Their teeth are fixed, they have new Thomas was one of 174 high school students and recent Another time, Tharinger asked, "If a tree faUs in the ,.eyeglasses and all. We think Head Start high school graduates from throughoutAlabamawhospent woods when no one is around to hear it, do you think that <',did a wonderful job getting them ready eightweeks at Talladega College this summer• it makes a sound?" The class said it would. .,,':Cor first grade." The studellts were participating in "Upward BoUnd," a Tharingertaped the under-side of his desk so lightly ", Kenneth Wardf director of the Head course of study and fun designed to stir enthusiasm for that no one heard H, and then told the class what he had "start program, said the commUnity, learning. . done. The high school students began to re-examine their · benefited as much as the children. "The whole pOint of the program is to make the·kids idea of what a sound is. For· instance, he said, Mrs. Mary want an education, to make them see the opportUnities an Tod Peterson, another Dartmouth College student, spent Lou Thornton, a cook at the Henry edUcation can open/' said John McCarthy. assistant di­ a week and a half teaching his humanities class about the ,County Head Start center at the Union rector of Upward Bound. blues. He talked about the places and things that insPired ,School, supported eight children on her "The kids we're trying to reach are the ones who are some famous blues songs, and then put on the records for Head Start salary. suffocating in the structured atmosphere of the schools/' the class to hear. "To getthe people who needed these Each student was reqUired to take three courses--math, The teacher and the kids ,swayed, sang, and tapped jobs, we had to go and seek them out ... English. and humanities. In addition, the teen-agel'S each along with the mUSiC, thinking about Highway 61 or the ,Ward said, "They didn't come to us-_· chose one or two other courses from a long list--chem­ "Panama LimHed," ': because so many doors have been closed istry,biology, computer SCience, mUSiC, art, and typing. "You can use the,' authorityo! the teacher in exciting , in their face." Thirty-six college students and a, dozen local high ways," Peterson said, "in ways which you missed when .. Many people worked for Head Start schoolteachers acted as instructors. They stressed what you were in hIgh school. You can be a friend as well as . without pay, Mrs. Ethel Stovall drove McCarthy called the "inductive method--ihe asking of an instructor. Some kids are veryunresponsl.ve In class "17 children to the Union School every open-ended questions, the avoIdance of rIgorous lesson but outside you can tell you've been getting through."• 'day. "I traveled 90 mUes each way to plans.t • Upward Bound wasn't all academic. Two movies or 'bring them in from the rurals." she "It's a learning processlnsteadofa teaChing process," shows were presented every week. and dances were held. , .,saId, She also helped out around the McCarthy eXPlained., The students formed a softball league with team names ',,~:center. . The classes studied a wide variety of topics. Humani­ likE!' the Grapes of Wrath and the Hard Corps. · At the Head Start center in Ozark" ties students took a scholarly look at subjects rangl.ng There was nothing really unique about Upward Bound at . 'Mrs. Caldwell sald, "help has come, from "blaek power'~ to Jewish culture and religion. Eng­ Talladega. Some 235 Similar programs were held across from all parts of the community." lish classes read books by modern Negro-American au- the United States this summer. including several in Ala­ Ozark Mayor Douglas Brown lent apia.; , thors 111!;Ei James Baldwin and 19th-century Englishpoets bama, no, Dale County Probate Judge Kirk like Alfred Lord T('Innyson. But Thomas Parsons, who Visited dozens of stich pro­ '. ,. Adams supplied chairs, and the Holiday Whli)ri the':weather was good. ciassesoften met outdoors grams as a consultant to the Office of Economic Opportun~ '- Inn contributed packets of soap. on the college lawn. One humanities class sometimes held ity. said Talladega's Upward Bound was special. Head Start director Ward said the its sessions at the High Pockets Cafe, a restaurant near ¢lit's rough, it's messy» Ws unprofessional, it's uncon@ the campus. '. . '. staff was, "integrated 50-50," and vent!onal/' Parsons sal.d, "And for these reasons the '-worked hard to get white children to , Many.; tutors dld their best'to do the unconventional. . Talladega program Is very effective. The points Of rough­ come to the centers. There were 13 DurIng one English class, Bob Tharinger, a studenttrom ness are what engage the kids. Theyare being awakened -white children and 35 Negro children at , , HEAD START CLASS IN EUFAULA Dartmouth COllege In New HampShire, sang part of a and challenged as never before." SEPTEMBER 2-3, 1967 THE SOUTHERN COURIER PAGE FIVE aconC on ut BY MARY ELLEN GALE plied after the telegram was. read. fare departmentg to replace Washington fice approves the new director and as­ Director Replies TUSKEGEE, Ala.--The board of th.e But the Rev. Lawrence R. Haygood-­ as assistant director. sistant director. Macon County Community Action Pro­ the man who brought the telegram to the For a moment, it looked as if the board BY MARY ELLEN GALE gram has voted by afour-to-one major­ meeting--sa!.d, "We have to work with .1 TUSKEGEE, Ala.--"I love it," said had created another problem for itself. ity to oust Mrs. Beulah C, Johnson as OE 0, We should abide by their wishes," Mrs. Beulah C. Johnson about her job. John A. Price, Miss Pricetsfather. is a PATRONIZE the program's paid director. After several minutes of heated dis~ ; "It's always challenging. And I think I board member. and OEO does not al­ At a stormy. three-hour seSSion Oln cussion. Mayberry announceq that he COURIER 'have somethlng to offer. I have been low board members to have relatives on Aug. 24, the board selected Freddie L. had changed his mind and was willing to ,concerned about the poor in Macon, the paid staff. Washlngton, presently the assistant halt the election. .. Letthe record show But Price told the group he would re­ ADVERTISERS . County since 1932." that Dean Mayberry has yielded to one . For those reasons, said Mrs, John­ director. to replace Mrs. Johnson. Sign "when and if" the regional OEOo!- But this week, nobody knew whether rabble-rouser." he sal.d, : son, she is fighting to continue as di­ Washington was really going to get the rector of the Macon County Community But the board members refused to lis­ RESiUUftT job. B. D. Mayberry, the board chair­ ten. "1 think we should proceed on," me !I,m Ie [&1 Action Program (CAP). MR. &. MFiU,;\ •. WILL-Ill:. (Bo) BANKS man, said Office of Economic Opporw,n­ nm! Mrs, Johnson has held the ,job for said the Rev. Henry Ellis, "This body PIiOPRtE.'-ORIS tty (OEO) officials have not accepted t.he , more than two years, She was the first --not the OEO in Atlanta--should deter­ board's decision. --and until a few months ago, theonly-­ mine the director. If we are wrong, they can send it back." Negro CAP director in Alabama. Mayberry said the OE 0 regional office BLUE MOON CAFE & A chart behind her large desk in the in Atlanta, Ga., has asked him to send "The community has waited patiently CAP offic,e in downtown 'TUskegee lists in "several documents--the by-laws. for two years for us to getthe program BANKS SERVICE STATION going." added the Rev, Robert Smith. ,16 different Macon County programs personnel policies, and incorporation FINE FOODS "The people are not going to wait much that have been funded by the federal Of­ papers," ALL BEVERAGES AND SHORT ORDERS fice of Economic Opportunity (OEO). ('I "They said they would study the docu­ longer. We know what the problem is. P. O. BOX 2B2 UNIONTOWN, ALA. have gotten $1,639,000/' said Mrs: MRS. BEULAH C, JOHNSON ments and then come over here and talk We ought to go ahead." Johnson. "We have reached 10,000 peo­ contract with anyone we choose.") with us." Mayberry said. "Until then# The board then voted 10 to 6 to con­ ple, Some CAP board members--and lo­ we won't know where we are." tinue with the selection of a new direc­ "We are the only county in Alabama cal citizens--have charged that Mrs. As late as Aug.22, the communityac­ tor. The personnel committee recom­ the with full-year and summer Head Start Johnson failed to get the anti-poverty tion program (CAP) board thought it had mended that job go toWashington-­ who, like Mrs. Johnson, is a Negro. programs and chUdday-care centers." program out to the poor people in complied with OEOregulations. on th:at ARKANSAS--The Arkansas Council FOR A BETTER ALABAMA~-The But several members of the CAP rural Macon County. But Mrs. Johnson day, an OEO spokesman in Atlantasa:id Haygood, a member of the personnel on Human Relations has affiliate coun­ Alabama Council on Human Relations committee, promptly stood up and de­ board have been increasingly critical said it was the board members who kept there was "no evidence the board has ells in Conway. Fayetteville. Pine Bluff, has active chapters in Blrmin~ham. of Mrs. Johnson's performance as CAP her from doing a better job. done anything out of the ordinary." nounced the personnel committee's Fort Smith, and North Little Rock. We MobUe,Montgomery» HuntsvUle,'FlCir­ methods as "unjust." He nominated director. At a meeting Aug. 24, the "Following the funding of any pro­ But two nights later. as the board was are interested in establishing local ence-Tuscumbia-Sheffield. A'Uburn­ Mrs. Johnson to continue as director. board voted 16 to 3 to replace her. gram/' she said, "we have hadagroup getting ready to vote, one of its mem­ councils throughout the state. ACHR is Opelika-Tuskegee. Talladega,.and'TUs­ 4'1 really don't believe the board throwing up as many obstacles as pos­ bers suddenly produced a telegram But the 21 board members present integrated at all levels, working In ed­ caloosa. It has, a staff that works gave Washington a strong majority, The members understood what they were sible to keep programs from functioning from J. M. Merrell Jr •• actingdirector ucation, voter education, employment, throughout fhe state. Tile ~labama tally was 16 to 3. dOing," Mrs. Johnson said this week. smoothly, I don't think they have con­ of the Atlanta OEO office. welfare, and housing. For Information, Council is integrated at all' levels: A few minutes later, the board chose a "They have not followed OEO policies cern for poor people." The telegram said the CAP boa:rd wi'lte Arkansas Council on Human Re-' its staff officers, staff. and local chap~ and procedures at all." "must take no further personnel ac:" white lady, Miss Roselyn A. Price, now lations, 1310 Wrigl)t, Little Rock, Ark. tel's aIr have people of both races Mrs. Johnson said that OEO policies Mrs, Johnson said that B. D. Mayber­ tion" before answering "specific a social worker with the Florida wel- working side by side, The Alabama ry. who was elected CAP board chair­ require a hearing for anyone who is charges and allegations" made by all. JOBS--The Interagency Council wishes to establish local chapa fired from a CAP job. "I have made man in June, opposed the children's un-named board member. A I dama ChriStUUl tel's in .every county' in the state. If day-care program. "That·s the kind Board of Civil Service Examiners is two requests to the personnel commit­ Merrell did not list the charges, But Movement/or Human Rights holding examinations for the positions you wish to join the Council's crusade tee," said Mrs, Johnson. "There was of thing I'm up against," she said, shak­ he did ask the board to explain "wM.t for eq,ual ,opportunity and human bro':' ing her head. of cook, commissary worker. and meat no reply. Now I have requested a hear­ authority is contained in your by.law:s The weekly meeting will be held at cutter. The jobs are located in South therhood. write The Alabama CouneU i tng before the whole board." "There are many very fine board or personnel procedures by which the '1 P,m. Monday, Sept. 4, in the Mt. Alabama and Northwest Florida. Infor­ p. O. ~ox 1310, Auburn. Alabam~. {Personnel committee members said members," she added, "This is just executive director can be replaced." Calvary Baptist Church, 706 Second mation and application forms can be ob­ ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN-~I am they didn't reply to Mrs, Johnson's re­ a few--that's the sad thing, It's Very "It is my opinion that a board of 34 lAve. N., the Rev. Prince Jenkins, tained from Alex Culver. Examiner in quests because she wasn't being fired. destructive. ' We are in danger of losing people should not be told to stand still Ipastor, now studying,electronics and radio from Charge, 413-A Post Office Building, the National Technical Schools, in Los "Her contract has' ended," said the Rev. our programs unless this Situation is on the basis of what one unidentified Montgomery. Ala. 36104. Robert Smith. "We can make a new cleared up." board member has said," Mayberry re- Angeles, California. I am now at the stage of my training to start doing radio VOLUNTEERS NEEDED--The Mont­ repair work. For more information gomery Community Action Committee about this radio servIce. contact Arthur • needs all the volunteer help it can get to Holifield Jr., Rio 1. Box 259-A. Marion, work in Head Start class rooms, Men, Ala. 36754. Tus egee B c -to- c 001 Ul e women, and teen-agel's (minimum age 16) can all be of use. Volunteers will MISSISSIPPI JOB OPENINGS--Proj­ assist as teacher'S aides and cook's ect MARK, a new anti-poverty program Earn More NOW! Mrs.WiUie Bell Allen'8 helpers, and will take children on field run by the Mlsssissippi Medical and trips in the area, A volunteer can Surgical Association, Inc" has started Per year. Current rate compounded choose his or her own hours between hiring staff. Positions are open for a City Florist 8 and 11:30 a.m. on a convenient day director, at $11,000 per year; job de­ %% semi-annually. Monday through Friday. Transporta. veloper, $7,800 per year; recruiter­ FLOWERS FOR tion and lunch will be furnished. If you Effective Rote 4.81 % counselor. $6,000 per year; secretary­ OCCASIONS are available, apply to the Rev.!J;. W, bookkeeper, $80 '8. week, clerk-typist, McKiuney (VOlunteer director) or Mrs. $65 a week. The project w!11 contact rUlk~le,e;"Federal ;:;; , .., .... ,',,,: Or you can offer your select 100 for training in 4'paramectl­ 313 N, Prairie services to St. Jude's Center. 2048 W. cal" fields. such as medical technician, Savings and loan Assn. Union Springs, Ala. Fairview Ave., or ResurrectionCenter, phone 738.;9690 lab aSSistant, doctor's secretary, Con­ 505 Montgomery Roed 2815 Forbes Dr. rr it 1s more conve­ tact R. Hunter Morey, chief recruiter nient, go directly to the neighborhood and acting director. Mississippi Medi­ Head Start loca.tion nearest you. cal and SUrgical Association, Inc.-­ CARTER'S Project MARK, Room 6, Masonic Tem­ L.. E. REID'S STANDARD OIL ATTENTION NURSES.- Serve in the ple, 1072 Lynch St., Jackson, Miss, GROC'ERY & LUNCH Air Force Reserve. There are vacan­ 39203. or phone 353-3594, cies available in the 542nd Medical Ser­ Meats, Fruits, VeBetables Tat 127 .. 1110 vice Flight for qualified nurses, Pre­ POST OFFICE JOBS--The Board of vious service not required. Asanurse U. S. Civil Service Examiners for the Steaks, Chop., Short Orders in the Air Force Reserve. you continue 'U. S. Post Office, announces an open We Take Better C.Gre Of Your Cell' in your present civilian occupation. and competitive examination for positions train one weekend per month, In addition, of substitute postal clerk and substi­ TEL. 121.. 0360-'12'1 .. 9833 Tuskegee Institute, Ala. you will serve 15 active duty days each tute city letter-carrier for all first, year in a well-equipped Air Force hos­ second and third-class post offices in FLOYD BUILDI'NG pi tal, If you are between the ages of 20 Autauga, Chilton, Elmore, Lowndes. and and 35, with no dependents under 18 Montgomery counties, Rate of pay for years of age, and you are currently these positions is $2.26 or $2.64 per registered as a nurse in any state, you hour. In addition, postal employees may qualify as a nurse in the United receive vacation, sick leave. low-cost BRE Eft'S HOL ND'S ST RE states Air Force Reserve Nurse Corps. life insurance. health benefits, maxi­ If you have a desire to serve with a ded­ mum job security, and good retirement PURE SERVICE STATION icated team to help safeguard the health benefits. No formal education or spe­ of America's airmen. call Maxwell cial training is required, -and applicants Pftllc~ RadiO!! 525 Montgomery Road Phlleo Televlsloll'is APB, 265-5621, Ext. 5818, or write to who pass the Civil Service examination Phileo IBcteriee HOlisewClre TIRES· TUNE-UP - BATTERY TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, MSGT G. K, Flowers. 3800 ABW have their names placed on a regIster Recor. Health 6' lIe@~ty (BPMQRP), Maxwell AFB,Ala'$ 36112. in the order of their scores for future consideration. without regard to r~ce Photographic: ~R. ALA..380U C:oii!!lftillties Tel .. 121... 9819 creed, color, sex. or national origin. MERCHANT MARINE -- The United Interested applicants may obtain addi­ States Merchant Marine Academy de­ tional information and application sires to inform qualified young Negro forms by contacting their local post­ THOMAS Lincoln men of the opportunities available to master or Alex CUlver, Examiner-in­ Continental them at the academy and in the United Charge, Room 406, Post Office Build- FRAZIER MOTOR SERVICE States Merchant Marine. The academy Montgomery, Ala. REED'S is located on Long Island Sound at Kings P.o. !!ox 1159 Point. New York, about 20 miles from BIRMINGHAM SERVICES -- Worship TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. ALA. New York City. The academy educates with the New St, J2mesBapt!.stChurch. and trains young men for careers as li­ 600 N. Fourth Ave. Birmingham--the ( KEN COOP·DAIRY .. DELICIOUS censed deck or engineering officers in church with a program. the minister the Merchant Marine, through a four­ with a message, Sunday School 9:30 COMET I METEOR! MONTEREY year college curriculum leading to the a.m•• morning worship 10:45 a.m., Bap­ lEST fRIED OHIOKER II THE WORLD tist Training Union 5:30p.m. TbeRev. IE. W. FRAZIER Bu •• "!lone 727·2250 bachelor of sqiience degree, In addition L. Clyde Fisher, pastor. - TuskeBee Institute, Alae Scles RllpnlHntollv@ lies. Phollo 127·3702 to receiving a degree and a license as third officer or third assistant engi­ CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS--"Knowye neer, graduates may be granted a com p that the Lord he is God: it is he that mission as enSigns in the United States hath made us, and not we ourselves; we Naval Reserve. Candidates for admis­ are his people. and the sheep of his pas­ sion must be nominated by a U.S. con­ REID'S ture." The Golden Text of this week's gressman or senator, but apPOintments Bible lesson on "Man." tobe read in THE are made on the basis of candidates' all Christian Science churches this Sun~ competitive standing within the state day. is from the 100th Psalm. PHI I from which they are nominated. Com­ petitive standing is determined by Col­ HELP WANTED--Interviewer want~ lege Board examination scores, high ed for telephone survey work. ,Must school rank in class, and evaluation of have private line. Not a sell1ng job. It's 'erformalnee That Counts candidates' leadershi!;l potential and Air-mail a letter--including your edu­ motivation, Men desiring admission to cation and work experience and the the academy with the class entering in names of your references--to Ameri­ LUNCH & SNACK BAR July, 1968, should request nomination can Research Bureau, Field Staff De­ by a senator or congressman as early partment, 4320 Ammendale Rd.. Belts­ Tel. 717..4612 Minor A.uto Repairs, Tune-up as pOSSible, and not later than Jan. 31. ville, Md. 20705. Give phone number 527 Montgomery Rd. 1968. Information concerning the acad­ when applying. Brake Service.. Washing emy program. requirements for admis­ sion, and procedure for requesting a MAKE MONEY--The SouthernCour­ Bakery & Catering nomination can be obtained by writing ler needs distributors in Huntsville, to Admissions Office. United States Ala, and Jackson, Greenville, and Sun­ Merchant Marine Academy, Kings flower County. Miss. If interested" POint. N. Y, 11024. write or call collect. :PAGE SIX THE SOUTHERN COURIER SEPTEMBER 2-3, 1967

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Alabama Team, Fight It Out mOll Top in outhernL BY MICHAEL S.LOTTMAN A's are loaded. Marcel Lacheman (2-1), Mike Olivo thing spectacularly bad atleast as often MONTGOMERY, Ala.--The Southern Birmingham had three.300 hitters in (13-7). and RolUe Fingers (6-4) all were as it does something spectacularly Leaguia's dramatic, all.Alabama pen­ . the lineup last Sunday--Reggie Jackson tough in the series here. good. nant race came to an end here this week­ (.305), Joe Rudl (.301), and Stan Wojcik The Rebels, on the other hand, have stl.11, the Rebels pve their fans some end, as the mIghty BlrminghamAthlet­ (.309). And Jackson, the Southern one .300 hitter--Ron Woods, who ac­ exciting moments this year -- Les ics won three straight garneill from the League's best bet for the majors, has counted for the only Montgomery run Cain's no-hitter, Rojas' feat of hitting Montgomery Rebels. clouted 26 doubles, 17 triples, and 14 Sunday with his 11th homer. Barry for the cycle (single,double, triple, and When the' weekend series began» the home runs. Morgan, the soUd left-fielder, has driv­ homer in the same game), and even a Rebels were only 2' 1/2 pmes out of Anything hit to the left side of the en in 80 runs, and Brant Alyea, the beefy double play now and then. first place. But. after theA'.s won by Birmingham infield this season has first-sacker. has socked seven homers And who can forget the night that Dra­ scores of 3 to 2, 2to (J,and 3to 1, the been an out. Shortstop Art Miranda since joining the club lesS tbanamonth go pve up 11 hits--but still won, largely Rebs were an impossible 51/2 out, with (.222) and third-baseman Hoss Bowlin ago. because he (a pitcher, remember) hit just a week left in the sehedule. (.230) don't hit mUCh, but with their de­ But beyond these three, the hitting has a double and two triples? fensive skillS, they don't have to. been of the banjovariEny. AM the Rebel But now it's all over. except for the The Rebels had tried to make it with And the A's pitching is nothing to be lnfJ.eld--featurmg Junior Lopez at short Dixie World Series between Birmmg­ a magnificent pitching staff and eight ashamed of. George Lazerique (13-4). and Larry Rojas at third--does some- ham ,and the Texas League champion. guys named Joe. But three Umes during the season, the Rebels' best piteher of LADIES WAIT TO APPLY FOR FREE FOOD the moment-·Jim Rooker, then' Fred Lasher, then Bob Reed--.was promoted to a higher league. (~$her is now ilcox Folks Complain mowing them down for the parent De" troit Tigers in the American League.) Even so. the Rebs. have the Southern circuit's top winner in Dick Drago (15- About Food Pro run 10). and two ot tht! Mp relievers mBob Dustal (1.71 ERA) l\,lld Fred Scherman BY BETH WILCOX means something extra that is onhand. (2.30). But they have Utt1ul~e~-and the CAMDEN, Ala •• :.. .. Ithink this place Is Then I don't know why it's taking so long just awful," said a man waiting to sign to get surplus food. They don't have to ANTI.POVERTY up for the commodity food program at a grow the food, or manufacture it." Get warehouse in Camden. A woman with a P1UjG1UMS! cane said, "1 have been waiting here all Mrs •. Watts outlined the grievances the morning, and I still haven't signed she had presented to Workmore. "When ADULTE/JUC.dTlON up." I arrived at the warehouse on Aug. 21, THE Mrs. Valerie Watts of Coy thought the first day of signing uP. there was a CUSSES! there were enough things wrong with the crowd of people standing in muck and SUMMER**** SESSIONS! program to list them and give them to mire," she said. SO J. D. Workmore, who' is in charge of "They just regard us as animals. Use The Southern C~uder tor in­ food distribution in Wilcox County. Why, most of the people were 50.60-70 teresting, real-life reading mate­ "Mr. Workmore was surprised we had years old. One man was 92. People as rial. COURIER any gripes," Mrs. Watts reported. old as that should not be stand1ngoutln It's better than "Dick Ind Jane"-­ "We have had 1.500 applications for the rain all day", it tells people thingJ>_y-reelly want food so far." Workmore said last Satur­ to know. ,day. "We expect tohave3,OOOappl1ca­ Mrs. Watts said she vOlunteered to Write to the ~ Courier. help take applications on the first day, tions. I am just new at this job, and we 1012 Frank Ltfu MQn.t~omery, For 3 Months have so many applicants." HI thought they would brief us on what Ala. 36104 maHon about to tell people and how to £111 out applica­ "We ordered some food which was special reduced re.t~$. supposed to arrive three weeks ago;' tions, but they didn't." she charged. he went on. "It hasn't arrived yet. We Mrs. Watts said she didn't see any were hoping to have the program start­ white people signing up the first day. ed by the middle of September. Nowwe "There's something fishy going on, or Blessings Blessings FOR ONLY $11 think it will be Oct. 9." they'd have everybody registering to­ But Mrs. Watts charged, "Surplus gether ," she said. The man with the s«t..,·l:UIV. Roo­ sevelt FranlcUnOf, ~wif Georgia. Some, quesUehll }'ott may witlh to Sea knov.r: (South only) Fresh is my sickne$S ~turlU? Food Can my hUsbMl$ 'to~ drinklng? Can my wife IIltopdrinkmg? ' Can my loved ones bereturned1 At Where CM I ~.tI'h0lU!¥1

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THE GOODWILL GIANT to 5 p.m. CW8edWedMSday, .·and· Saturdays MOBILE, ALA@ NoLetteI' Answered Unless Accompanied by Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope PAGE EIGHT THE SOUTHERN COURIER SEPTEMBER 2 ... 3. 1967 Unple sant y im Clark's rm: COLE Grocery Co. itol D~Y1~::! With Welfare t t e At a press conference Aug. 24 and The Fretlhesg HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Jim Clark, later in a speech to the Conservative Meat and .Produce. former sheriff of Dallas County, said party. Clark spent most of his time BY SANDRA COLVIN last week that he is very definitely a talking about Selma during' the time 120 Washington St. candidate for the U. S, Senate seat now when he was sheriff. MONTGOMERY, Ala.~"James Kolb, Selma, Ala. held by Lister Hill. "Martin Luther King brought the Crenshaw County civil rights leadEn:, Although he 1s a Democrat, Clark paid a visit to the state Capitol last Nazi. George Lincoln Rockwell, to said the party label he runs under isn't week, along with three white students Selma with him to create tenSion." important. "We have too many DemOm Clark said. "They both stood in the from the American FrIends Service crats and Republicans in Washington PATRONIZE Committee, street outside the courthouse, and asked now;' he said, UWhat we need is more to be arrested," They did not enjoy the visit at all» Americans," Kolb said this week. Clark said he and his deputies could COURIER ADVERTISERS Clark was invited to Huntsville by Kolb said he and the three students only see nine local Negroes among the the Alabama Conservativ.e Party. The sat in the gallery. watching the state people who marched ,from Selma to party is looking for a man to run if Legislature in action. $'Some plain­ Montgomery in 1965. Hesaldaninves­ neHher of the two major parties puts clothes officials of George Wallace sat tigation revealed that each of the nine up an "acceptable" conservative candi­ !lad been paid to march. the whole family next to me, and to the left of one of the date. three boys," he said. If elected•. Clark said, he will oppose Mrs. Lena Frost of Demopolis, When one of the white students, Fred schoolintegratlon. open housing. and all Ala •• sells 600-1.000 Southern Cour­ Aubrey, walked out .into the hall, Kolb anti-poverty and welfare programs, He iers every week in Marengo and your . said, «two officers marched out behind benefits from said hH favors ail-out war in VietNam south Greene counties• (Aubrey) and asked. 'What in the hell and thinks SNCC leaders Stokely Car-• are you doing down here?' .. JAMES KOLB michael and Rap Brown should be told$ "I want you to take your nigger According to Kolb, Aubrey told the· charged with treason, friend and go to hell with him." aU-services bank! men that he and his companions were The only way to solve the poverty there to llsten to the discussion in the "When we started out," KolbrecaI1- problem, Clark said, Is to stop all Legislature, Kolb said Aubrey was ed, "four officers followed us around anti~poverty and welfare payments, and everywhere we went in the building. force people to work. "1 would cut off When Tom Cronin (another student) the poverty payment," he said, "nen- Negro, 18, Shot; .asked for their names, they refused," It you want to sell The Southern . courages laziness and illegitimacy. It Kolb said the group protested to Capi­ Courier in your community, write to creates a new iUegitimate child every tol officials, but nothing was done. The 1012 Frank Leu Bldg•• Montgomery. 2 Whites year. Having an illegitimate chHd is a Sought Crenshaw leader said he was speaking Ala. 36104. or call 262-3572. criminal act." BY ALAN BOLES out because he thought people in his county and the rest of Alabama should ANNISTON, Ala.--State, county, and know "what is happening in this demo­ city pollce are continuing their search cratic country." Tired of Making $1().,15·$25 Weekly? for two white men in connection with the "We've got a man here in the Senate Competent money-management protects and helps Aug. 12 shooting of an 18-year-oldNe­ (Alton Turner) that some of my tax gro man, everyone in the family, from great-granddad to the money supports. How can one expect The victim, Gary Redding. was shot me, a tax-payer, to go to Viet Nam to newest member, very junior grade! in the stomach on Highway 431, about fight a war for democracy. when I am seven miles from Anniston. He was on NEW YORK D BOSTON denied the right to sit in the Senate gal­ Aim toward specific "targets" - old-age security, the critical list for a week at Anniston lery?" Memorial Hospital, and is still too weak music lessons for the youngsters, a special vacation - ~®*0 •• ~ •• ®.*~ ~~~. NEED 1,000 MAIDS to ,talk to visitors. newcar-·- whatever it is, save for it ... let us help you According to the Anniston police re~ :l?OJf'~rB , R ~! port, Redding was shot as he and three Ages 18.. 65 finance it with easy payments. You will reach your aim other Negro men were pushing their : TOMOl{.RQW : more quickly by letting us be your financial partner! broken-down car to a gas station. • In Alabama all oilr yesterdaysll ~ Salary $40 to $80 weekly. plus free room and meals. All expenses They flagged down a blue Chevrolet *.'«I are marred ..by hate, d!scrill!inat1on,. pickup trUCk, the report says, The truck :irijUstice, and violence. Among the: advanced, tickets sent. Friends are placed close to one another. All jobs are guaranteed. circled around, and when it returned, .'Gr~nizations·working for a better$ one ofthe men inside flreda pistol, hi t­ : tomorrow on the principle of human= For more information, write ABC MAIDS, 934 W. College St •• Flo­ rence. :Ala. 35630, or call 766-6493 collect. ting Redding. :brotherhood is. the Alabama.: co.unCi.. Member S~rgeant Roy Riddle of the Alabama 111.01'1 Human Relations. Mempershipll Federal Reserve System ,aDd state troopers said the investigation 1s :;111 the. Cbuncfl. is open to, all wile'! proceeding slowly because no evidence @'Wish to work for a better tomorrowjll 'God Helps Those Federal Deposit Insu:ranoeCorporatloD was left at the scene. :.on this principle. For further il),.: Last week, Mayor Claude Dear of An~ :t()t'mation, write the Al!ljlall!,a~ P.o. Box 128 Tusk_,••• Ala'ballul niston reprimanded city police for a de­ @CQuncil, P,O. 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