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2 THE NEW COURIER FEBRUARY 7, 1970 MOBUTU VISITS NIGERIA Lt. Gen. Joseph Mobuto, President of the Congo, renews friendship with Gen. Yaku bu Gowon, right, Nigerian Chief of State, and conquering hero in the bloody Nigerian Biafran civil conflict. Reports says the Congan President received a warm welcome from Gowon, who embraced him upon his arrival in Lagos, thanking him for his unwavering support of the Nigerian Federal war effort during the bitter two and one half year war.

Gen. Mobutu fought a similar civil war when Moise Tshombe's Katanga state rebelled. Horace Cayton, Former Courier Columnist, Sociologist, Is Buried SANTA CRUZ, Calif. Memorial services were held here in Santa Cruz, where he last made his home before goingj abroad, and in Chicago and New York last week for Horace Cayton, grancLson of Hiram Revels, first black man to sit in the United States Senate from the state of Mississippi, who was in his own right an editorial page columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier for more than 27 years and for two years the Courier's United Nations cor respondent. The noted author, reporter, educator, sociologist, consultant, and social welfare administrator, died Jan.

21, in Paris, France. He was 66 years old. Born in Seattle, Washington to Horace Roscoe Cayton, an ex slave, and Susie Revels Cayton, the daughter of U. S. Senator Hiram R.

Revels, the first Negro to sit in the United; States Senate as a duly quali i fied member. Cayton's experiences ranged, from a childhood meeting of! Booker Washington who was a guest in the Cayton home in, Seattle to personal friendships with some of the great persons; of our time: Gunnar Myrdal.l Marian Anderson, Sinclair Lew is, Ralph Bunche, Ralph Elli Mrs. H. Wilson Buried In W. Va.

MRS. IIELANE P. WILSON bnrled in Bluefield, W.Va. BLUEFIELD, W. Va.

Funeral services were held at Edwards Memorial Presbyterian Church, Bluefield, W. recently for Mrs. 1 P. Wilson, widow of the late United Steelworkers staff representative Boyd Wilson and organ izer of the original chapter of national Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Beta Eta Chapter, in Bluefield, W. Va.

Dr. A. L. Poolk officiated. She was born in McKeesport, the daughter of the late John and Mattie Whiting Pry or.

She had been a resident of Bluefield for the past 43 years, serving in Bluefield as secretary to the Bluefield State Col lege president and as a teach er at the same institution for many years prior to her ill ness. As a member of the Bluefield Beta Eta chapter of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority for forty two years, she served as president, recording secretary, financial secretary and presently, had been corresponding secretary for the past five years. Flower bearers were members of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority and Patroness Board, also friends. Pall bearers were friends of the family. Lugo's Funeral Service was in charge.

als to be used in a book relating their experiences. Cayton wrote "Black Workers and the New Unions." 1939, (with George S. Mitchell); "Black Metropolis," 1945, (with St. Clair Drake), winner of the Anisfield Wolf awar dof 1945 for the best book published in the field of race relations; and his autobiography, "Long Old Road," in 1965. i HORACE R.

CAYTON dies in Paris He taught at Tuskeye Institute, Fisk Univers'ity. Universi ty of Chicago, College of the City of New York, and conducted a seminar for advanced students in race relations at the University of Berkeley, which he completed just before leaving for Pans. hmd Servkes Probe States: Rmffl Tensions imrease' SAIGON, South Vietnam military bases failing to re An official summary of a sur port racial conflicts, often vey made by the United States withholding, or covering up in Army and recently released cidents continuously, thereby here, has revealed that, "alii leaving officials in Washington indications point to an increase ignorant and unaware of the in racial tensions in the armed fast growing problem, forces and further warns Race relations on the front that, "unless immediate action; linp: tn h. nnA is taken to identify problem areas increased racial confrontations can be expected." The actions to correct the situation must be taken at both the squad and the platoon level, said the report, that was a part of a military survey of race relations at U. S.

Army bases both here and in the United States. In the report Army counterintelligence officers said that the Negro soldier had, "lost complete faith in the Army." They further stated that the problems were intensified by the habit of commanders of according to the survey, where black and white soldiers co operated to overcome a com mon enemy, but once away from the front lines, blacks i so their way and wnites goaoroda. polarization of the races in the military." This is reflected, according to the survey, in an increasing number of case in which mobs of black soldiers have attacked white military police. The military commanders i Head Of Catholic Schools In Miss. Quits To Protest 'Segregationists Catholic Schools has resigned South Demands (Continued From Page 1) Havens' JACKSON, Miss The from the position in protest of white superintendent of this the Catholic schools providing, southern state's 57 Roman "havens for segregationists." were told that the really big i out of every eight soldiers sta problems in the Army tioned there was black, one out come when the young white of every non judicial punish soldiers either decided or were ment minor penalties im forced to band together for; posed without trial, and impos violent retaliation against theed without marring the record black soldier.

of the soldier was imposed The new survey was commissioned by Gen. Westmoreland last summer, was sent but several different individuals of various grades said that if nothing is done there are likely to be wide spread disruptions a year or less." black soldiers, who readily complain they suffer injustice in the Army solely because of their race." The cries of the Negro soldier have never been so loud. The average Negro soldier tells Army officials they re sent having their newly found racial pride confused and mis The announcement was made understood as evidence that he also refused the suit against 7 TA 1 going echelon cality. The Court said Gov. Kirk had He said that his He was the Director of Park failed to "state a claim against! have been futile to date.

son Langston Hughes, Alexan iway Community House in Chi any 0f the defendants warrant He also said that although der Archipenko LeRoi Jones rBfi" lu ling tne exercise or tne original neariy au oi me cainoncs and Richard Wrieht. I It was his 30 year friendship1 with the late Richard Wright that led him to Paris. Working on a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he was compiling materi J. Tf.r! schools to avoid the desegrega up upper jurisdiction of the court." I schools were integrated in the However, one school district1 state that both the faculty, and from Florida, Orlando an student percentage of members of the Orange County the svstem was miu' School Board claimed that a mal five member committee of the Rev Gnbert declined to nam U.S. Justice Dept.

and the Dept the schools that he accussed of i of Health, Education and Wei furthering segregation, but he Hp was a freouent consultant fare had altered the busing' said the white in comine stu. and public speaker, appearing throughout the country. At Co well College, University of Call The Black Experience. Mr, Cayton spoke at the formal opening of the Martin Luther King, Memorial Center in Atlanta, Georgia in December. Cayton's biography is in "Who's Who in America, 1968 69." Although Berkeley, Oakland, and Chicago have been cities in which he has lived in the past few years, since 1961 he mostly made the Monterey Bay area his home.

Having lived in Capitol Aptos, Monterey he lived at 335 Seventh Santa Cruz, just prior to leaving for Paris. He is survived by a sister, Lillie Fisher of Seattle, his brother Revels Cayton of San Francisco, and Mrs Susan Woodson of Chicago, a niece. A memorial service will be conducted at the library of Co well College, University of California, Santa Cruz, at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, February 1st. Contributions in his memory are requested to be sent to the Martin Luther King, Jr.

Memorial Center, 671 BecKwith S.W. Atlanta, Georgia, 30314. provisions or an oraer lor dents were accepted several school integration. times over his protest. Gov.

Lester Maddox, how 1 fornia. Santa Cruz, he rpcpnt pvpr filed suit in thp ITS nit fattier bilbert has further ly participated in a seminar Court in Washington, D.C.1 indicated that he will return against U.S. Attorney General to the Jackson State College, John Mitchell and U.S. HSW Secretarv Rohprt M. Finch Hp.

where cepting he taught; before ac position as the manding an equal, same pace Parochial schol nead desegregation ratio for all of the: 50 states. Maddox noted that de facto school desegregation in southern states has not been ended by the Federal govern 1 ment nor are there ultimatums Apartheid Papers Blast Clergymen to those cities and states thatj JOHANNESBURG, S. Africa. "Desegregate NOW" rulings be South Africa's government carried out this term. Atty.

Eunice Carter Buried In New York NEW YORK Funeral services were held for Atty. Euice H. Carter, age 69, who was renowned as a civil rights leader and who became the first Negro women to serve as an assistant district attorney in New York City. controlled newspapers have openly unleashed a campaign against 71 white clergymen who signed an ad and published it in some few of this na tion's newspapers who head elected to stand up for freedom of the press despite the perils of seizure and arrest without trial which the government can invoke. The clergymen who signed their names to the ad demanded that citizens vote against the nation's legal policy, of apartheid, or official racial separation at the next election.

inc loinc i Florida U. Law Faculty Of IP A ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. Dr. Martion D.

Thorpe, President of Elizabeth City State University, accepted membership in the very influential International Platform Association. His name was proposed to the Board for membership as a result of the Association's ef GAINESVILLE, Fla. Dr. cent above 1964 figures and the Thomas Miller Jenkins II, for production increase mer dean of Florida Uni by 75 per cent versity's Law School, has been; Under his leadership, some appointed to the College of $7.5 million was poured into Law faculty at the University! building fluids for the college, of Florida. with five new buildings erect Dr.

Jenkins, one of the ed on campus and a sixth un South's most distinguished Ne way at the time of his re gro educators, will begin teach signation. ii i I A 44 year old native of Hot q.u V. er sp8 Jenkins recevcd March 30, according to College hi, Aaaroa 1Q. of Law Dean Frank Maloney. frnm Worf st.t.

i. Hum wesi oiaic Virginia vol forts to expand and broaden For more than 12 years Dr. iege and his law degree in 1949 its present roster. Dr. Thorpe, who more recently was named by Governor Bob Scott to serve on the Education Commission of the States now joins this Association of distinguished persons.

Mr ling to a letter from Dan Tyler Moore, Director General and ucuniua yt a a ucau vi j. ivji sua AIM'S law school, resienin? to from Boston University. aceeDt thp nrpsidnnrv nf Al The former member of the bany State (Ga.) College in1 Florida Supreme Court Cimmitr July, 1965. Since last June, Dr. Jenkins has served as executive assistant to the president of Geor gia State University in Atlan tee on Legal Education is specialist on legal ethics, con flict of laws, damages, Florida jurisprudence, legal meth od and contracts.

Board Chairman, IPA's objec ta, simultaneously working He will be the second Negro tive is to use "its to with the Office of the Chancel to serve on the College of Law A closed burial ceremony was1 improve the plat' in and as lor of the Georgia University faculty. Spencer H. Boyer held Sunday evening, Jan. 4. jsembly programs hooljsystem in developing Georgia i taught here during the 19B8 wall the president, horor liou children." The orginiv.ation in State.

1 winter quarter, resigning in ise McClanahan, in charge andt eludes, among va list of mem all sorors participating in the bers, writers, columnists, busi ceremony. Inessmen, judges, politicians, While at Albany State, Dr.l April of that year to return to Jenkins saw state appropria 1 Howard University in Wash lions increase more than 50 per ington, D.C. on blacks. The report said that while the record did not show that to Washington last month, and! commanders did not discri bas since then been sent to congressmen and ilitary commanders in America and ing punishment, there was no way for investigating officers to determine whether discrini their way. The report continued in con nation was practiced when thej The survev cited what wasitent to say, "The assesments original charges were filed byi referred' to as, "dangerous of the degree of danger vary, minate against blacks in level filed by lowTanking officers, The ironic thing revealed in the report was the fact that often Negroes' complaints in the Army were the same as whites, but blacks blamed their Grave warnings were written! troubles on iscrimination, cautioning military com i while the Caucasian soldier manders that, "to take an i blamed everything on the Army i ostrich like approach to racial; in general.

fear, hostility and misunder The worst incident cite by standing is the report was the riot in the especially when the signs can Longbinh stockade outside be read in the racial obsceni i Saigon in September 19G8. ties written by both groups on! One white soldier was killed; latrine walls.l and can be heard in the melee and several whitesj from an alarming number of, were wounded in what blacki an pntirptv riifferpnt hi! 0 RH National Service Life In Army counter intelligence of surance is available to veter tion edict. I whites, lower echelon for ficials. in lieu of their recent' ans separated from service U1JCKS. ppnnrt ara mnro than oftai Ari1 )A wiWtx haii proiRbi.

ine survey revealed that inivinced that thp answer tn tw hoPn ratpH tho va va. the European area Arm yj question had better soon be! ing a service connected dis bases major source of forthcoming, lest race relations! ability. the black resentment was1 in the military dieress Annliratinns for RH insnr caused because while only one! the irreparable. ance must be submitted within 1 IP i 1 i i SUPER CABINET MEMBER Joseph Williams smiles broadly after Mayor John Lindsay of New York announced he had appointed him to the new position of Model Cities Administrator of that city. Williams who is a Family Court Judge 'will become a 49 year old member of what has come to be known as Lindsay's Super Cabinet.

Veterans Implored To Take Advantage Of Low Cost Gov't LiCe Insurance WASHINGTON The Vet one year from the date VA es soldiers described as a "take'erans Administration has said tablishes the disability, and is over of the prison. Less than 50,000 of the 465, 000 United States troops in Vietnam are black, while the black G.I accounts for up to 14 per cent of the death rate. The entire nature of the sur vey highlighted the fact that the black soldier of today is of that thousands of disabled veterans are not taking advan tage of valuable low cost insurance available to them. Administrator of Veterans Affairs Donald E. Johnson said that VA disability ratings result in more than 7,000 veterans being added to the rolls each available whether or not veterans have converted their Servicemen's Government Life Insurance (SGLI) to a private policy after they got out of military service.

Disabled veterans are urged to et additional information from their local VA office as month. When they are, John soon as possible after receiv here by Rev. James D. Gil a black militant, or black' thnn any in previous military1 son said, they are encouraged ing disability rating. A legally bert, 38, who left the faculty history.

to apply for the special RH in appointed guardian or other of Jackson State College where! Race relations between1 His reaction to his continuous surance with premiums so low person acting in a veteran's he became the first white in white Army officers and black perception of racial discrimi that a 25 year old veteran, for behalf may apply if the veter sturctor there several years soldiers are worse than black nation has shifted. The black example, can start a $10,000 in an is incompetent, Johnson tion of the Governor of the ag0i to take over dministra and wmte relations are ordi soldiers typical response to surance program for 52.60 a said. State of Florida for leave to in tion of Mississippi's Catholic narilv Wnite officers see the discrimination was endurance month. VA insurance offices in Phila tervene and to recall the judge 1 school system. assertive black soldier asand hard work, but the white "Thus, $10,000 RH and $10r delphia or St.

Paul inform each ments is denied." a threat to the authority they military, as has civilian Ameri 000 converted SGLI at standard veteran that he is entitled to The Supreme Court also ap Rev James wno said his nave ca, has fallen prey to the worst rates allows disabled veterans apply for low cost RH insur parently aware of the intent of moral committment to the; Awareness of racial unrest; maladv they have ever been an opportunity to carry $20,000 ance at the time his disability some southern governors of equality would notjincreases the lower one goesj confronted with, which has insurance at comparatively low has been established, but VA sue such a suit against theipermit him to be a part of Vn the chain of the created a problem that as ye! premiums. Many could not has found that many ignore other 49 states to stir up sym isystem tnat fosters segrega The number of black junior remains to be solved. qualify for other insurance or the opportunity to do so. nathv acrn thp United Vites I tion said he had continuously officers has been gradually de What to do with the new could do so only at increased pamy across me unuea snies rrpainir nu asainst the Court's decisions uumuci matu America, wno now premiums, me va cmei poini 1 i I 1 accepting white students who "lack noncommissioned posesses something called racial ed out. anousning auai scnooi bysujins, nf ront Don't suffer relieve pain seconds as millions do with 0RA IEL Many dentists recommend using ORA IEL until you get oro'essionai treatment ora jel 'CrS? 1 ft l.

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