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Tace 2 THE NEW COURIER MAR. 1, 1969 U. COURT CASC $400,000 IN CONTRACTS 1 MISS I'XCF Brenda Sprag i gins, outstanding young so! prano from Oakwood College Huntsville, was crowned Queen of the "Miss National UNCF Coronation Ball," during recent ceremonies in New Orleans. She was chosen from among 36 college and university queens representing the UNCF. Sullivan On Africa Tour PHILADELPHIA, a Reverend Dr.

Leon H. Sullivan, at the request of the United States Government, left last week for a tour of African countries to analyze their pos sibilities for the development of Opportunities Industrialization Center Programs and Dr. Sul livan's related economic development work. Reverend Sullivan took a team with him, including Reverend Thomas J. Ritter.

Executive Director of the Philadelphia OIC, Mr. Valo JorDan of the OIC National Institute and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Africa and Mr. Bouba car Diallo, International Student, University of Pennsylvania. Reverend Suiiivsn is Founder and Chairman of the JC Centers of America which egan in Philadelphia in an ole an doned jailhouse at 191. and Oxford Streets which has iince spread into seventy ciUes all across the country.

Reverend Sullivan returns to the United States on March 18. Free Kluxer Shooting At Of Rights WEST MONROE, La. The U. S. Supreme Court Decision against illegal search and seizure was "used in reverse" here recently to free Louis Waybe Works, a 28 year old member of the notorious White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, arrested for allegedly shooting into the residence of Dr.

F. Rayficld Brown III, religious and civic leader, in a night rider attack last Dec. 26. Works, who had been arrested on charges of aggravated assault, criminal damage to propety, and discharging a firearm within the city limits, was exonerated of all charges in a nolle pross action in City Court before Judge John Mc Cormick. i rw.t i.

ii Chief John Mitchell who had k. due mc oiirsi aner numer ous civil rights and black citi zens organizations had protest ed vigorously and dispatcher resolutions of condemnation for the attack to the mayor of Monroe and West Monroe and the rhiof. MRS. LOGAN, 88 Mother Of Skegee VP lls Buried TUSKEGEE INST ITL'TE Ala. Funeral services were held here last week for Mrs Georgia Koontz Logan, mother of Tuskegee Institute's Vice President for Businness Affairs Harold K.

Logan. Mrs. Logan died Feb. 10 at the John A. Andrew Hospital in Tuskegee.

She was 88. A native of Baxter Springs, Kansas, Mrs, Logan held de grees from Lincoln University in Missouri and Howard Uni versity. While teaching school in Anderson, South Carolina, Mrs. Logan met the late Dr. Booker T.

Washington, who influenced her to join the staff at Tuskegee Institute. Prior to her re tirement, she taught kindergar ten at the Chambliss Children's House and was a teacher with the Institute's nursery school program. Mrs. Logan was an active member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tus kegee and was affiliated with the Tuskegee Women's Club and The Handicrafters. Mrs.

Logan's husband, the late Warren Logan, served as treasurer of Tuskegee Institute. Survivors include a son, Mr. Harold K. Logan of Tuskegee Institute; two stepdaughters, Miss Louise T. Logan and Dr.

Myra Logan Alston, both of New York City; two stepsons, Dr. Arthur C. Logan of New York City and Paul H. Logan, San Francisco; and five i Vy jjf vy IL FOR THE KIDS Common Pleas Judge Robert N.C. Nix.

Jr. (left), of Philadelphia chairman of Black Coalition, presents a check for $15,000 from the Coalition to Wyllys Terry, Jr. (right), president of the United Fund's Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania, while Common Pleas Judge In Home Leader said that his men had techni cal violated the search and seizure guidelines in procur ing the gun and therefore It could not be legally used in evidence. Without the gun which al legedly linked Works to the crime, there wasn't much of a case against the alleged Klansman, it was said. Dr.

Brown was not at the exoneration hearing. He said he had been called by the police chief and told it would not be necessary for him to appear in court on that date in answer to a subpoena. He said he had not been told of the technicality about the gun not being legal evidence. Dr. Brown's wife was said to have just got up from a chair fr 1 fiUU missed by about six inches when the nightrider attack oc cured.

Among organizations which had protested the cowardly attack and which had demanded eluai protection ior au were iha Fifth Education A sociation, the ouachita Citizens improvement League, and the Ministerial Al liance of Ouachita Parish. Child Aid Is Sought NEW YORK Lisle C. Carter, visiting professor at Cornell University since leaving Washington as assistant secretary of the Dept. of Health Education, and Welfare, has been named chief consultant to the Citizens' Committee for Children's allowance projeot ihe committee, received a Ford Foundation grant of $71,000 for a yearlong project to organize national interest in a proposed system of children's allowances in the United States Children allowances are monthly payments made to all families with dependent children, regardless of family in come. The United States is the only major industrial nation in the world which does not now make such payments.

The Committee is urging that the United States institute such a program at a significant level, perhaps as high as $50 a month per child. Carter said that the Committee's interest grew out of an international conierence on children's allowances it sponsored i ctomber, 1967 under an earlier Ford Foundation grant. "One out of four American children 19 million of them," said Carter, "live in our near poverty. And the majority of them live in families with a father who works." Mrs. Milton A.

Gordon is president of the Committee. Some of the Committee members include Judge Jane Attorney G. Donald Mrs. Elaine Danaval, Dr. Beth Davis, mrs.

Edward R. Dud ley, Dr. Adele Franklin, Clarence B. Jones, Edward S. Lewis, Curtis F.

McClane, John Morsell, Cyril Tyson, Rev. M. Morton Weston, and Dr. Doris Wethers. Clifford Scott Preen, a member of the Society's board of directors looks on.

Funds will be used to launch an aggressive recruitment for critically needed adoptive homes fur Negro children and children of mixed racial background. 'A i A TRADITION Dixon Lee, 13, left, and Karen Lee, 10, present a rooster to Dr. Kalph Bundle, U. N. Under Secretary General, as they welcome the Chinese Lunar Year, the Year of the Rooster, at the Flow 'HE'S WISHY WASHY' Eartha llitt Xan't See Nixon Doing Anything Worthwhile' SIDNEY, Australia Eartha! Kitt, the American Negro sing er, who more than a year ago upset a White House luncheon by bluntly telling President! DECORATED Dr.

Elliot P. Skinner, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Upper Volta has been decorated "Commander of the National Order of the Republic of Upper Volta." Making the decoration is President Sangoule Lamizana at the Presidential A. Maceo Smith In Key HUD Post FORT WORTH, Tex. A.l Maceo Smith, of Dallas, has been named Assistant Regional Administrator for Equal Opportunity in the Fort Worth Regional Office, U. S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mr. Smith, who had served since December 1966 as Assistant for Equal Opportunity, is a pioneer in the field of improving race relations in the Southwest. In 1939, he was made a field representative in Dallas for the U. S.

Housing Authority; and in 1947, he became Intergroup Relations Officer with the Federal Housing Administration, Dallas. Mr. Smith will administer HUD's obligations under the Executive Order on Housing and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri. Mr. Smith stated that one of HUD's primary goals, as it embarks on the mission of providing dwelling units over the next decade for lower income famil ies, is to assure housing opportunities for all Americans.

His responsibilities include en forcement of the Fair Housing provisions of the 1968 Housing Act. A native of Texarkana, Texas Mr. Smith holds A. and M. A.

degrees from Fisk and Vow Yfirlr rpsDec tively. He did post graduate work in Economics and Busi ness Law at Columbia Univer sity. He pioneered the annual Prairie View College Housing Conference in 1947; Jl. a and Mrs. Johnson that much of the burning and looting in the ghettos was responsible to youngsters "going for broke" and taking to narcotics in fear 0 (I Palace in Ouagadougou.

then in 1959, he laid ground work for the annual Grambling College Housing Conference in Louisiana. He has received the Fisk University Alumni Award; Distinguished Service Award, Texas Conference, NAACP; Distinguished Service Award, Southwest Area Council, YMCA and the Award for Distinguished Service in Housing, Prairie View College. Mr. Smith has taught Business Administration in the Dallas Public Schools, directed the Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce, co founded the Tex as Negro Chamber of Com merce, and directed Negro participation in the Texas Centennial of 1936. Presently, he is a Bishop College trustee, board member of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, vicelchair man of the Dallas Community Relations Committee, and board member of the Texas Social Welfare Association.

Still Violent STOCKHOLM (NPI) Despite bis recent marriage to internationaly famous South African songstress Miriam Makeba Stokely Car michael's feelings about the black man's rightful place In the American way of life have not changed. In an interview with a Swed ish newspaper recently, Car michael noted that "I am using all the money I can spare to buy arms (to help) the Black Panthers prepare for guerilla warfare in the United States." He is designated as the "prime minister" of the Black Panthers. er Drum Restaurant in New York. The traditional Chinese ceremony celebrates the passing of the hectic Year of. the Monkey and dawning of a new twelve year cycle of hope and promise.

panic over possibilities of being drafted for the Vietnam War, says she doesn't expect much out of Nixon. The signer who is currently filling nightclub tour engage ments in Melbourn, sounded out just as candidly as she did at the White House lunchone when she was met by reporters! as she alighted from the plane ai oiuuey Airpon. Miss Kitt said: "There a fcel ing among the underprivileg i Blade Electrical Contractors In Big Breakthrough CHICAGO Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, National Director of SCLC'i Operation Breadbasket, announced the awarding over $400,000 in electrical con tracts to four black electrical contractors in the Woodlawn Gardens construction program sponsored by The Woodlawn Organization (TWO).

"These electrical contracts awarded to black said Rev. Jackson, "is a break through for the black communi ty for three reasons: "First, the gaining of these significant contracts are not accident, they are the results of the SCLC's Operation Bread basket program which brought black contractors together to give them the strength and the information necessary for them to prepare to do all the construction in the black community. The four black firms re ceiving the contracts are Solar Ray, Leroy Young Electric, James Files Electric and Electric companies. By co operating within the black community they have the ability to perform on major contracts. "Second, Rev.

Arthur Brazier of TWO made it quite clear that he was going to cooperate with Operation Breadbasket demand has black consciousness. Rev. Brazier's black consciousness plus the black consciousnes of Operation Breadbaket demand ed black cooperation. Rev. Brazier told us that TWO will use black businessmen in con struction and other areas in Woodlawn, particularly in the Woodlawn Gardens program.

Our black consciousness plus our black coaperation has produced concrete black unity. These electrical contracts show that real black unitv between TW0 and Operation Breadbas ket "Third, the a of black unity is the power to ne SENTENCED Mary Liuz zo, 21, daughter of Mrs. Viola Luizzo, Detroit civil rights worker who was shot to death on a darkened Alabama highway March 25, 1965, received a three year probated sentence in Federal Court in San An tonio, on a charge of narcotics violation. She was arrested July 24 at San Antonio I ternational Airport with two ounces of marijuana concealed in her underwear. i mi ed people in America that they! gotiate.

These contracts rep can't fight the government, so resent a major breakthrough take out their frustrations! with the unious for black com on each other." 'panies. For so long black peo She added: "On the other hand, the important people at the top don't see the real problems of poverty and bigotry. They cover those problems with roses and don't bother to look any deeper." Miss Kitt had almost reduced Mrs. Johnson to tears when she made her much noted com ments about ghetto problems and the Vietnam War's influence on them while accepting White House hospitality as a gust and delegate to a women's conference on juvenile delinquency. Last year.

Asked about it at the airport, she said: "I was asked there to give my i i on the causes of delinquency and crime in America and I did." She added: "I told her (Mrs. Johnson I thought the reasons were that the people were drain ed finacially by taxes and the seemingly insoluble problem of Vietnam." She said that "Mrs. Johnson got very upset but I think I spoke the truth in the White House for the first time in history." Asked what she thought of the Nixon administration, Miss Kitt said, that she got the impression personally that Nixon was "rather wishy washy." She added "I don't think that! he will probably do anything worthwhile." pie were locked out of many unions, particularly the building trades, and we were not heard in our cries for Justice. We had no power to be heard. But our unity gave us the ability to negotiate the electrical contracts with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No.

134. The union has also agreed to cooperate in several ways to make the program a success. In addition our unity gave us the power to realize respect and cooperation from Metropolitan Structures, the general contractor for Woodlawn Gardens, in awarding the contracts to the black companies." "Black concluded Rev. Jackson, "is beautiful with a concrete program to produce with our power. Black technical aid from our lawyers, architects, insurance representatives and ministers were crucial to the work involved in securing these electrical contracts.

We have tasted the sweetness of black unity, after the long night of separation." MRS. C. L. FRASCR Rites For Prominent S.C Woman GEORGETOWN, S.C. Services for Mrs.

E. Lillian Fraser, retired local city school teacher and church organist at Bethel A.M.E. Church for more than 40 years were held here last week. Mrs. Fraser died in the Georgetown County Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient for two months.

She had been a life long resident of Georgetown. She was born in Georgetown, S.C, the daughter of the late William and Eliza Moultrie. She married Captain Thomag Fraser who passed in 1917. He was a bar pilot in Georgetown for a number of years, and served as captain of the local bar pilots during part of that time. Mrs.

Fraser was judged by school officials as a distinguished elementary school teacher in the local public schools, an accomplished church organist, and a noted soprano soloist She was a graduate of Claflin College and attended Howard University. Mrs. Fraser held positions as elementary school teacher, resource teacher, and teacher trainer. She also served as organist for Bethel A.M.E. Church.

Mrs. Fraser is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Maria Wilds of Georgetown, and Mrs. Bertha Williams, elementary school teacher of Orangeburg; four sons, Dr. Thomas P.

Fraser II, professor of science education at Morgan State College, Baltimore, Maryland, H. Jerome Fraser, lithographer, New York City, Mendel E. Fraser, chemical engineer, New Hampshire, and Walter S. Fraser, Georgetown funeral director; eleven grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren. IN NEW JOBS These two women, Pearl Capers and Olivia Butts became the first two female applicants hired to jobs at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard without examination under Federal Civil Service.

Under a recent Worker Trainee program established for this purpose, inexperienced youths are permitted to enter Civil Service at the Shipyard on the strength of the experience they receive under this.