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Tage 2 THE NEW COURIER MARCH 29, 19G9 MOVING ON Birmingham businessman philanthropist Dr. A. G. Gaston, right, is shown discussing the opening of Gaston's new Citiien's Federal Savings Loan As List South's Black Officials ATLANTA, Ga. The Veer Education Project of the Southern Regional Council has released the first directory of the South's 388 Negro States.

sociation Building held in Birmingham, Ala. last week. With Gaston is Birmingham Mayor George G. Seibels, Jr. Minority Enterprise Is Off And Running In B'ham SPEAKING OUT In a meeting of the National Medical Association's Board of Directors in San Francisco, Dr.

James M. Whlttico, right, president of the NMA and N.MA Board Chairman Dr. Emerson C. Walden, made an appeal to President Nixon to help the hungry in poverty areas throughout the United States. Black Med icos In Appeal To Nixon SAN FRANCISCO paring for their annual convention in this city, National Medical Association officers have addressed an urgent telegram to President Richard Pre iM.

Nixon. Led bv James M. Whittico, Jr. M. president of the 6,000 member organization, the black physicians asked Nixon to declare a Whittico declared during the planning sessions at the Hilton Hotel, "We have for a long time by study and practice been aware of and repeatedly pointed out to local and national officials and agencies, the magnitude of hunger and nutritional disease that exists in the country." Emerson C.

Walden, M. The directory was prepared chairman of the NMA's board as part of the planning for the'also cited during the Hilton VEP's Southwide Conference 1 meetings that the Association's of Black Elected Officials Crash Talent Recruitment Pro which was held last December, gram is operating at the local The conference brought to At level with medical school ad lanta approximately half of the minission committees. "The region's black officials for fourjprogram" according to Dr. days of workshops and speeches on their particular problems as Negro officeholders. The Rev.

John B. Morris, coordinator of the Southwide Conference, wrote in the book let's introduction: Walden, "has caused positive results but revolutionary and innovative measures must be taken to bring about the ad mission of more of the country's black to medical schools." Dr. M. Al "This directory is now made.fred Haynes, on leave from BIRMINGHAM. multi million dollar example.

of "minority enterprise unveiled here last week. In a Saturday morning ribbon cutting ceremony, the new Citizens Federal Savings Loan Building was opened in downtown Birmingham. Citi zens Federal Savings and Loan xnis new i.3 iiuuiou neau quarters a total renovation of the old Calder Building is the latest venture of Negro philantropist and millionaire Dr. A. G.

Gaston, president of the Association. Dr. a native of Demopolis in the rural "black belt" of Alabama and long time Birmingham businessman, established Citizens Federal in 1957 to be a source of home mortgage funds for "less affluent citizens of Birmingham" both Negro and white. Since 1957, Citizens Federal has served tens of thousands. Birmingham's rate of Negro home ownership is today one of the highest in the nation and highest in the South.

Dr. Gaston said last week that. "Our new building is a symbol of Negro achievement. We are intensely proud of our accomplishment, and hope it will serve as an example to I other negroes of what is pos sible. And because we do serve our white fellow citizens also, we think we have created a medium of unity." The combined asets of Gaston's interests are estimated at $20 million employing 450 people with an annual payroll of $1,750,000.

They began in 1923 in Birmingham with the Booker T. Washington Insurance Company, and since have grown to include: the Booker T. Washington Busi ness College, Smith Gaston "state of emergency" in pover Funeral Home, Vulcan Realty ty areas throughout the United A. G. Gaston Motel, and the A.

G. Gaston Home for Senior Citizens. The past March 4th Dr. Gaston was announced as one of five for the International Award to be given next month in Toronto. The award was given because of his gift in 1967 of the $60,000 A.

G. Gaston Boys Club, which has served 5,000 underprivileged boys and more generally because he has been "a source of help for a long line of people simply in need He has paid medical i expenses, house rent, loaned ambulances, loaned money, and; given jobs and dozens of other things to more people than a thick volume could contain." Dr. Gaston is a director of the Birmingham Area Chamber of Commerce and Operation New Birmingham, and a trustee of Tuskegee Institute, Tus kegee Alabama. A graduate of Tuggle Institute, Birming ham; Paul Quinn College, available in the hope that it; John's Hopkins Hospital, is! Waco, Texas: Allen Co will contribute to the ever heading the association's ef lumbia, S. and Monrovia increasing political involve i fort to bring more minority i College, Monrovia, Liberia, ment of black persons in the youth to the medical profes1 Dr.

Gaston has recently South who, heretofore, have sion. published an autobiography. been denied full and free par NMA's National Convention i GREEN POWER with all pro lieipation in the various levels will be held in San Francisco, of government in the region." I August 10 to 14, 1969, ceeds of which will support hi boy's club. of Jewish Women's Clubs pre sented their massive petition to Senator J. William Fulbright, Chairman of th Senate For A MOTHER'S GRIEF The grief or Mr.

Norma Otero of New York City Is plainly visible la the above picture as she watches In anguish as a fireman tries to revive her five year old son, Otero, 5, with mouth to mouth resuscita Jewish Women Warn Against Genocide WASHINGTON. D.C. A na lthe deliberate destruction of; tional Jewish women's orgam national, ethnic, religous or zation charged last week that unless the United States ratified the United Nations treaties which would outlaw genocide and bar racial discrimination "the conceiv ability of genocide racial groups, ao international crime. The 60,000 petitioners declared that the six million Jews and millions of other people were deliberately exterminat against minority roups, here ed by Hitler, demanded that in our own country, particular 'we join the rest of humanity against the Black people can in outlawing this most heinous not be wholly discounted. of all crimes." Th rhapoo wa madP when! The Emma Lazarus Federa the Emma Lazarus Federation1 tion of Jewish Womens Clubs 1 1 1L 11 A n.i A eign Relations Committee.

Thej the United Nations Conven I wasi The national federation of descent or national or ethnic women's clubs headquartered origin." in New York reached a mile "Adoption of the U.N. treat stone in their camDaisn foriies," said the Federation "can United States ratification of the speed the liberation of Black two United Nation treaties. Americans and other ethnic They pointed out that the twen and national minorities from ttT tragi Cannn Ma rvmrnn. thp nlflpup nf discrimination i ij jtui vivj uuuwuv uu i is a totally Negro owned andUon was an epoch making and save democracy from the r.Q ii treaty, the I guarantee ALPHA KAPPA MU NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Atlanta, Georgia March 27 29 NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ARTISTS Jefferson City, Missouri April 11 13 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MARKET DEVELOPERS, INC. Washington, D.

C. May 20 24 NATIONAL IMPERIAL GRAND COUNCIL, ANCIENT ARABIC ORDER, NOBLES OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE, S. OF D. INC. Dayton, Ohio May 22 24 THE GIRL FRIENDS, INC.

Toledo, Ohio May 30 June 1 NATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL AND BAPTIST TRAINING UNION CONGRESS Miami, Florida June 17 22 NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Phoenix, Arizona June 18 20 NATIONAL EPICUREANS, INC. Klamesha Lake, New York June 20 22 THE MOLES, INC. Raleigh, North Carolina June 20 22 NATIONAL PORO ASSOCIATION Indianapolis, Indiana June 20 25 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MINISTERS' WIVES, INC. Portland, Oregon June 23 27 NATIONAL HAIR WEEV ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE Cleveland, Ohio June 23 27 CONTINENTAL SOCITIES, INC. Roanoke, Virginia June 26 29 INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CONGRESS CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST OF COLORED PEOPLE Jackson, Mississippi June 29 July 5 CHI DELTA MU FRATERNITY, INC.

Pittsburgh, Pa. June CHI ETA PHI SORORITY, INC. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania July 8 12 LAMBDA KAPPA MU SORORITY, INC. Milwaukee, Wisconsin July 9 12 DR. L.

H. NEWSOM ft 4 i participation in the anti Geno Iji NpNAQHrn cide nact with eaual insistence I I JVl I I upon early Senate approval of petition calls upon the Govern jtion to Eliminate au lorms oi, 3pc VV6r ment to ratify the international Racial Discrimination. iwivw treaties that would end "all The anti racist treaty pro forms of racial discrimination vides for a sweeping outlawry, A.Q and outlaw Genocide, the mass of discrimination stemming! it ITI IT aesirucuon ot minorny. peo auJ i pies." striction based on race, color, Charlotte, N.C. bined ceremony, officials of Johnson C.

Smith University will install Dr. Lionel H. New som as the ninth president of the Charlotte institution on March 28, and celebrate the the Insitute of Higher Educa tional Opportunity in the South, which is a part of the Southern versity of Michigan, and a Ph D. in sociology and anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis.

N.C, Newsom held admini strative positions on the campuses of Southern University and Morehouse College. Doctor Newsom is married to the former Jane M. Emerson of Springfield, Illinois, and is the father of a 20 year old daughter, Jackyie, a senior at Lincoln University in Rutgers Post For Proctor Chicago, Illinois June 26 30 i NEW BRUNSWICK NJ GENERAL CONFERENCE OF GRAND CHAPTERS, HO Dr. Samuel Proc'tor dea LY ROYAL ARCH MASONS, P.H.A. for special projects at the Uni Miami, Florida June 28 July 2 versity of Wisconsin and a GENERAL CONFERENCE OF GRAND COURTS, HERO specialist in Negro life in the INES OF JERICHO, P.H.A.

United States, has been ap Miami, Florida June 28 July 2 I pointed to a professorship in NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT the Rutgers University Grad uate School of Education. The appointment, effective immediately, was announced by Dr. Milton Schwebel, dean of the Graduate School of Edu cation. Dr. Proctor visited the Rut jgers campus earlier this year NATIONAL HOUSEWIVES' LEAGUE OF AMERICA, INC.

as a lecturer under the Martin Washington, D. C. July 13 16 Luther King, scholar in CHURCH SCHOOL CONVENTION OF THE AFRICAN residence program. The pro UMUN METHUU1ST rituitaiAiii cKtiNun, gram, sponsored by the Grad Hockessm, Delaware July 16 18 NATIONAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION Miami Beach, Florida July 21 24 INTERNATIONAL F. M.

MASONS, INC. AND ORDER OF EASTERN STARS Miami, Florida July 21 27 NATIONAL BAPTIST DEACONS' CONVENTION OF AMERICA, INC. Washington, D. C. July 22 25 WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF THE NATIONAL BAPTIST DEACONS' CONVENTION OF AMERICA.

INC. Washington, D. C. July 22 25 FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL. INC.

New Orleans, Louisiana July 22 26 NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE, INC. Washington, D. C. July 27 31 NATIONAL BEAUTY CULTURISTS LEAGUE, INC. Philadelphia, Pa.

July 27 August 7 uate School of Education, bring black leaders to the State University as visiting lecturers. Author of "The Young Negro in America 1960 80," published by Association Press in 1966, former president of two universities, and a ranking federal administrator, Dr. Proctor coordinated university efforts at Wisconsin to enlarge oppor tunities for the disadvantaged. Dr. Proctor was graduated from Virginia Union University in 1942 and attended Crozer Seminary and Boston University, where he earned a doctorate in ethics in 1950.

i Thev were also fined S1.000 il A tion after he was overcome by smoke inhalation. Despite the fireman's effort the youngster was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital. Tvo More Idansmen Begin Jail Terms WASHINGTON The Feder to test the arrest and trial of al government's determination, Shelton before pleading guilty. that racists or extremists ter rorism will no longer be con When they were sentenced last week, both Jones and doned by the Congress or the.ccoenin asked and were oer courts, which have since before! mitted by the court to tak, the Civil War permitted them another ten days each in ordei to operate without public scrut ciean up thgjr business be iny, became ever more emphat fore starting their jail terms ic last week as three more In Mississippi, the Federa Klan officials, in as many stat C0lirts nave found imperia es, were nnea. iwo oi Wizard Sam H.

Bowers guiltj them began serving federal of violating the civil rights prison terms for failing to pro tne slain Mississippi Trio bu duce records during a 1965 in ia state court of Bower! vestigaUon by the House on a chare of conspiracy anc Un American Activities Com tne fire. bombing ambus! mittee murder of the NAACP leadei Sentenced to one year prison Vernon Dahmer has i terms by U.S. District Judge a judged a mistrial as the re Edward Curran were I. Robert suit of a "hung" jury. He wil Jones, 40, of Granite Quarry, be tried again, the cour ha.

N.C., and Robert E. Scoggin, ruled. 47, of Spartansburgh S.C. Both held the titles of Grand Drag on in the Klan in their states. In a com apiece as was another former OUTl! VlaD Grand Dragon, Calvin Fred Craig, 47, of Atlanta, Ga.

The former Grand Dragon of the Georgia Klan was not sentenced to a jail terms. i Vote Plans t. th r.oin MJTW VHP TaHpre nf colleges one hundred and sec has announced his resignation the youth section of the Nation ond anniversary. from thg KUn and nas Association for the Advance Dr. Newsom became Johnson, mnrnno vOPno.lment of Colored Peonle met nrsi in nisiory uugui ui uiguujr.

cmith' ninth rhipf PYPPiitivel the right to They Pledged, their unceas i "fV first in history to blight of bigotry The women's federat on scor efforts to acnieve tne eariy 'tirpmpnf" iauitt 5 iVlouei lues Aiea re ed the Senate's failure to ratify ratification of these two great a eleJewal program The Depart 'rally support for the proposal th hv Mvernment. Rufus Perr.y.aft". an elev ment of Housing and Urban to lower the voting age to 18. me iicaijr winiu Uu.u uuvo year nenod office. Tho ic tnr.A nn a Convention Calender Before coming to Smith, New odel cities has rul.

two day naUonal Youth Mobili was associate director of' fuof ei10v amc, mc' zation Conference to be held in consist of revitalizing both aiWasninSton, D. April 21 22. black ghetto area and an ad The Rev. James G. Blake, iappnt nrpdnminatlv.whitp area thp Association's vice nresi Regional Education Board of nr(prakiv rfictriot in which dent for vouth affairs, exoects Atlanta.

poor wmte aso jjve at tne same tne conference to bring some Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, time, 2,500 young people to ths na Newsom spent his boyhood inj crai also appealed to Ne tion's capital for face to face St. Louis, Missouri. He has a groes for votes in a vain try lobbying with their senators B.A. degree from Lincoln Uni jiast fall to gain a seat in the and representatives. The NA ver5iiy, an m.a.

irom me urn legislature. ACP youth group in the civil The sentencing of the South rights movement, Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia Grand Dragons follow ed the iailins recently of Im In addition to contacting directly members of Congress, the delegates will participate Formerly President of Bar 'twrial Wizard Rohert Sheltoniin a rpHps nf seminars and ber Scotia College in 0f the Klan on the same charg meetings to be addressed by es. Shelton began serving his; experienced legislatives and term earlier this month. by congressional leaders of The three Grand Dragons had, the fight to lower the voting elected, through their age. Hockb Here, Baby Block Anger, Tom Block Beautiful, Hooky 1 I Order Form nu Alia ImMii The Riot Report Renaissance or Riots NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER "EPRINT prices I Pll RAY Ml 1 to I Copies: 40c Each I 10 to Copies: 30c fcicb I I PITTSBURGH, PA.

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