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PACE 2 THE NEW COURIER NOVEMBER 11. 1967 Evers Says te Watchers Is Singer To Join By MAJOR ROBINSON WW VflRK CITY Is best selling record artist Joe 4t 5" Ltf ol BEAUTY IN TEXAS Joyce Richardson, a student at Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, Is one of the contestants In the Homecoming Athletic Queen Contest currently underway at the school. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Richardson of Prescott, Arkansas, the lovely sophomore is majoring in Elementary Education, SUSPENDED FOR DEMONSTRATING Reinstate Ten At Bluefield BLUEFIELD.

W. Va. Ten students eight Negro and two white were reinstated in Bluefield State College here last week by President Wendell C. Hardway. The students had been sus pended early in October for narticioation In a demonstra tion in protest against alleged discriminatory practices by the college administration.

In Mobile, Ah Brutality Charged To Negro Cops MOBILE, Ala. New charges of police brutality were made against Prichard police officers last week when a man identified as Robert Lawrence Loper said he was beaten up by two policemen filed charges with both the Non Partisan Voters League and the Citizens Committee and the FBI. Loper said he was beaten by two Negro police officers who had been previously accused of being abusive and brutal to members of their own race arrested by them. J. L.

LeFlore, director of case work for the Non Partisan Voters League and Citizens Committee, refused to name the officers but admitted charges had been filed against them in similar cases several months ago. Now Possible To Shrink Painful Hemorrhoids And Promptly Relieve Pain New York, N. Y. (Special): A scientific research institute has discovered a medication which has the ability in most cases to actually shrink hemorrhoids. In case after case, the sufferer first notices prompt relief from the itching, burning and pain.

Then this medication starts right in to gently reduce the swelling of inflamed, irritated hemorrhoids. Tests conducted on hundreds of patients by leading doctors in New York City, in Washington, D.C. and at a Midwest Medical Center proved this so. Joe Tot Set Black Muslims? Tex about to become the newest convert to the Black Muslims? Dr. Hardway lifted the suspensions before U.S.

District Judge Sidney L. Christie acted on a complaint filed by NAACP lawyers seeking a temporary i junction re ouirins immediate reinstate ment of the students, dropping of all charges against them and restraining tne college from further suspensions based upon participation in peaceful demonstrations. Among the ten suspended students was Alonzo Saunders, of Philadelphia, president of the NAACP College Chapter on campus. Following a campus rally addressed by Mark Rosenmen, NAACP youth director, the student body initiated a series of peaceful marches protesting the suspensions and the administration's alleged discriminatory practices. Meanwhile, the legal action was instituted by NAACP General Counsel Robert L.

Carter and assistant counsel Lewis Steel of New York City, and Herbert Henderson of Huntington, W. Va. Also, at the request of the NAACP, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is sending in an investigator. Bftiefield, once an all Negro state college, is now 70 per cent white. The new president.

Dr. Hardway, is white as are most of the faculty and administrative staff. The administration has een charged with seeking to convert the college into an all white institution. Stop The Itching, In Most Cases. And it was all accomplished without narcotics or stinging is a astringents oi any Kina.

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No prescription is needed. The Courier learned from informed sources this week that the hot rock and roll singer has been quietly taking lessons and studying the Koran, the bible of the Muslims. Tex, whose income from records and personal appearances across the country exceeds $10,000 weekly, is about to make the public announcement soon of his conversion, it was learned. In the past month he's made several appearances with deposed heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) to help raise funds for the Nation of Islam as the Elijah Muhammad sect known. Two weeks ago at Rockland Palace in New York they drew a capacity rrowd and Tex was full of praise for the Muslims.

If he takes this step he will become the second big public figure to embrace the gest public figure to embrace the faith. The first was Ali, who publicly stated his belief in Muslimism after he won the title from Sonny Listen two years ago in Miami Beach, Fla. From time to time rumors have cropped up that other famous athletes had been courted by the Muslims. Among the names were Jim my Brown, former fullback of the Cleveland Browns football team, however he quickly cold watered any intentions of becoming a disciple of Muhammadism. The informant who told the Courier of Tex' intentions was also of the belief that a popular basketball player, who's still In college is harftoring desires to becom.

convert also. A member of tfie New York Giants football 0m Iwm. nniptlv male. ing plans to adopt the Chicago headquartered faith reponea The top name on Dial records, Tex in toe three years has deveiopea into a bin name star. His newest rd, "Skinny Legs it AH is a smasn hit with disc Jockeys.

Herbert, Still Elevated By Gov't WASHINGTON, D.C. The appointments of Stanley P. Hebert as Deputy Director of Investigations and Lawrence A. Still as Deputy Director of Information for the National Advisory Commis sion on Civil Disorders were announced recently by the Commission. Hebert, a former Assistant City Attorney of Milwaukee, will be on loan from his present post as Deputy General Counsel of the U.S.

Navy Department. He will be chief assistant to Milan C. Miskovsky, Assistant General Counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department, who was recently named director of Investigations for the Commission. Hebert, a native of Baton Rouge, was formerly a civil rights lawyer in Columbus, and associate professor of law at North Carolina College in Durham and Southern University in Scot landville, La.

He resides here with his wife and six chil Arn Still, a native of St. Louis, is an instructor in jour nalism at Howard University .1 uiu rrpMaeni oi uie api tal Press Club of Washing ton. He resides with his wife, Cecelia, and three children. iC Dme CHARGED Edmond Pullom, 38, left, was probe into alleged irregularities concerning charged in Chattanooga, Tenn. last week in the James Hoffa legal proceedings.

Right the shooting of Mrs. Mary Francis a key is detective Billy Ray Davis, wlio placed witness in the government's continuing the charges. FIRST SUCH ORDER Fed. Judge Rules Building Biased MACON, Ga. A Federal District judge in Georgia has ordered the Bibb County Board of Education not to construct a proposed high school on a particular site because this school would re suit in further segregation.

This is the first time that a Federal District Court in a school desegregation case has issued such an order. The a ttorneys for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (L Iimmary injunctwn, rehed on provision irum ui wmi mark Jefferson County de cision, in which the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held as a whole, shall locate any new scnooi ana suDstantiai Pny listing acnoois wuu me uujecuves or eradicating me vesuges of the dual system." Acting behalf of the residents of Pleasant Hill, a predominantly Negro resi 1UVUU VV1 UlA 2 auorneys cnargea ine cidd i planning to build a Negro school in further support of the "dual system." In support of their charge that the proposed high school would further result in segregation, the LDF attorneys pointed out that the school was being built in a Negro community, next to a Negro elementary school, and was being named after a Ne gro educator. ThPv fnrthpr rharppri that the school was earmarked as a coeducational institution, as opposed to white schools, which are traditionally separate for boys and girls at the high school level. These factors, according to the LDF attorneys have in the past denoted such schools as a Negro school, and have 'contributed substantially in perpetuating segregation." The LDF attorneys also took exception to the selec tion of the site on the ground that the acreage is far too short of the regular mini mum standard recommended by the State Education Board. The limited capacity of the school resulting from this "entirely inadequate acre age" argued the LDF at torneys, "makes it impos sible for the school ever to be enlarged so as to ac commodate more than the the curriculum at many Ne outspoken critic of school Negro students now living in gro colleges for some years, board policies, was not in thp rrea." but it will be difficult for formed at all about the meet As an alternative the LDF the Navy to do this because ing, which was dominated by attorneys suggested that the school Board consider ex panding the existing facilities on a 35 acre high school site, presently nearly all white, so as to accommodate the Ne gro students from the Pleas ant Hill area.

LDF attorney Steve Ral ston said that this new break through in school desegrega tion "offers us the first pre cedent to attack the pattern throughout the south of con structing and xpandins scnoois in a wav 10 yireserve them as all Negro or sub stantially all white. "in the future" he con tinued, "we can force school boards to locate schools and to plan constructions and ex pansion so as to integrate them and break down the identity of white and Ne gro schools." NAVY, Out To Negro 1 WASHINGTON The De partment of Defense has told lareuco ug u. iu.i that It plans to double the "6' avj Uu maime within the next two years. Congressman Long released a letter last week from Jack Moskowitz, Deputy As niuvu nsa in ici'i a CI noc A tho UIMUVl 111111 AJVllg The subject of the slow pace of promotions in the services both at the noncommissioned and commissioned officer levels was discussed in depth during a recent briefing for members of the National Newspaper Publishers' Association and Pentagon officials, including Secretary of Defense Robert Mc Namara. The meeting was asked be kept confidential until further developments 1.1 i i.

had been firmed up. One of the agreements made at the time was that N'NPA members would be kept fully informed of plans for the implementation of equal opportunity directives. Moskowitz said there are now 290 Negroes holding commissions in the Navy and 155 in the Marine Corps. As of March, 1967. less than a dozen Negro officers were serving with the Navy and the Marine Corps in Viet nam.

These were the steps out lined to Congressman Long carry out the program: The first ROTC Navy unit will established at the beginning of the 1968 69 school year at a predomi nantly Negro college, yet to be named. Army ROTC pro grams have been part of oi sigid recruitment stand ards. An advertising firm has been hired by the Navy to advise on how to improve recruitment of Negro offi cers are being sent to some 300 colleges throughout the country to urge Negroes to join (Navy ROTC units, and Negro Navy officers have been enlisted to heln with a special push. The Marines have assigned a Nepro officer at Pentagon i neauMiiarurs lo aavise on Negro recruitment and pro motion in the Corps. Efforts have been intensified to en 'V Against School The LDF attorneys who handled the case were: Charles Stephen Ralston and James Finney of New York city, and Thomas Jackson of Macon, Georgia.

MARINES Double Officers roll more Negroes in the the Naval Academy and Prepatory School, gon is considering a program to upgrade the education of Negro enlisted personnel who show a potential for officer careers. Congressman Long represents a district that in iwvv iv fpw Mpty. mtih, but he is weighing the chance to run for U.S. Sena tor. Hobson Leads D.

Protest WASIUNGTON Julius Hobson. the persistent cad fly of the education svstem in seel the Nation's Capital, was at inaction in this terribly des it again last week. He head perate situation." ed an angry demonstration against the school board's selection of Dr. William R. Manning of Lansing, Mich and for a time, succeeded in entirely disrupting the board meeting.

He and his followers took over the chairs vacated by the mem bers who left the room, but later reconvened and voted 6 to 0 to offer the job to Dr. Manning. Two members. Dr. Eunhemia Haynes, former president of the board and Julian Dugas walked out in protest of the handling of the proceedings.

Both charged that they had not been notified of a second meeting to be held. Dugas got a later notice; but the secretary of the board ad mitted that Dr. Haynes, an Rev. Everett Hewlett, the president, and Mrs. Anita Ford Allen, vice president and chairman of the selection committee for the superintendent.

With the landmark Skelly Wright decision upholding him on sweeping reforms in the D.C. school system already under his belt, Hobson was in fine form. Wearing his habitual scowl, but minus his trademark pipe, he led a delegation of parents and citizen representatives into the board meeting. Some were black power After 16 Eyes Election Stolen By RALPH E. KOGER PITTSBURGH The Mississippi NAACP's Charles Evers, one of six nationally known Negro news figures to appear in Pittsburgh at the same time that the 33rd annual Pennsylvania State conference of NAACP Branches held its three day session here, was critical both of the federal government and his state's handling of civil rights matters in Mississippi despite the recent conviction of seven Klansmen for violating the rights of the Mississippi trio.

c. JU Juys juiulc ucfji. Hatcher Wire Is Missing By ETHEL L. PANE WASHINGTON A spokesman for the Justice Department has denied receiving a telegram charging attempt ed election frauds in the Gary mayoralty campaign. Dean St.

Dennis of the Office of Public Information said that a check of the records showed no receipt of a telegram reported to have been sent by Henry Coleman and Jesse E. Bell Campaign Managers for Richard Hatcher, the Democratic nominee for Mayor. The telegram was addressed to Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark and it read as follows: "Richard Gordon Hatcher, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of Gary, is about to be cheated out of an election.

"We have absolute and undeniable proof that certain prominent election officials are engaged in massive fraudulent registrations in white areas in order to steal the election. "At the same time, they are wantonly and illegally disenfranchising ousands of Negroes who are qualified and registered to vote. We charge that no protection whatever is given our candidate by the members of both political parties who com prise the registration and election boards. "On the contrary, some members of these boards are participating in, and aiding and abetting these fraudu ing circumstances, and with out immediate federal inter ven' aJair ca? not be held, and the people of Gary will be robbed of their inherent and constitutional rights. "We urgently request that the Attorney General of the United States and the officials of our government protect this community under all appropriate legislation and particularly under the 1964 and 1965 voting rights acts.

"The Federal Government hears the full responsibility for all the consequences of ti ai a. Copies of the telegram were sent to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the White House and to Indiana Senators Birch Bayh and Vance Hartke. A call to the Attorn ey General's office also drew a negative reply about the message. A receptionist would say only that Mr. Clark was out of the city.

Reduced SEND THE PITTSBURGH COURIER TO SERVICEMEN ANYWHERE AT REDUCED RATE5 6 MONTHS $4.00 1 YEAR $7.00 Please send The Pittsburgh Courier to: Clty Sent By. P.O. Box 2939 Wins, The other nationally known fisres wh made trips to Pittsburgh i ultaneously with the convention were Father James Groppi of Milwaukee and of his commandos, plus New York City's William Booth, and Jackie Robinson. Muhammad Ali made a surprise visit to the convention and Floyd B. McKissick came to town to lecture to a new organization of social workers while the convention was in progress.

Evers said that while the Mississippi Trio conviction was heartening, the state of Mississippi still continues to take no legal action in civil rights murders of Negroes by whites. "The state of Mississippi still has not asked the FBI for any of its evidence in that case," said Evers. He added: "There have been 46 Negroes killed many just shot down in the street by white men since my brother Medgar was slain and not one arrest has been made by Mississippi. There have been 43 churches bombed, in addition, without any state action." Evers voiced his disenchantment with the federal government also. He said: "They have brought numerous Mississippi Negro youths home who have been slain in Vietnam and still we cannot get any buried in the national cemeteries in Mississippi.

There is not cne Negro on a draft board in Mississippi. Often they give a Mississippi Negro youth 24 hours to put on a service uniform and when he is discharged and Teturns home our law in Mississippi gives him Just two days to take that uniform off. Evers said that about 10 per cent of the money spent on highways in Mississippi comes from the federal government and yet there ara no Negroes employed by the Mississippi State Highway Dept." Evers said the same ratio held true on public welfare funds but that no Negro social workers were employed by Mississippi. Evers said the white news media makes much of the fact that we Negroes were said to have lost in every election Negroes had on the ballot in the last Aug 29 runoff. "They said Negroes were voting for their white enemies of old.

Well, we aren't unless all of us Negroes decided to vote for the same white man," he went on. Evers further exclaimed: They don't tell you too much about how we elected 16 Ne e10" 10 primary and how we are planning to elect Negroes in every county in Mississippi. We even elected a Chancery Court clerk." Evers said federal observers permitted white Mississip pians to steal the Aug. 29 run off. Evers stated: "We did alright in the primary when we had Negroes as officials helping to count the ballots.

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