The Black Dispatch from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 1

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State CtQltol RD 28T OMENIA INIONSI ESS LI a 0 0 0 0 3 11 2 sOtkiltabocm'alpstorteal society 11 L0 SATIr Eln 8 00S '0 23T lin SESSIMOS 1 drn pr Id" 0100 1 I IA 11 al iire 1 Vtillillarid' I 1 1111 I ------T1--- t----r--- 7 '411-ei sat Three Oklahoma City dope peddlers were sentenced in Judge Wallace's court Thursday morning and were given a total of 25 years according to information coming from the clerk's office Gershon Spears was convicted on three counts and given a sentence of 5 years Pearl Dunn Mitchell was given a total of 10 years and Aubrey Else was given 10 years They all were token into cust9dy by federal authorities Sunday NAACP Conference Fixes Blame for Apathy in Okla PRICE 10 CENTS VOL 19 OKLAHOMA CITY OKLA FRIDAY JUNE 7 1957 MEM imc97 Thurgood Marshall Talk Is i High Point in Prince Hall Gran Lodge Session at Douglass Hi Thurgood Marshall talked enthusiastically before an audience of more than 1000 Monday night in the auditorium of Douglass high school during the closing session of the annual communication of Prince Hall Grand Lodge and its affiliates Despite a downpour of rain that had the countryside flooded and had continued during the entire session an audience ba chapter of the and the showed its appreciation of the dis- Heroines of Jericho tinguished attorney with loud cc Response was made on behalf of claim when he was presented to the Grand Lodge by Mrs the Grand Lodge and members of Walters of the Order of the East the Eastern Star by Grand Mae- ern Star and by Mrs Pearl Rog ter Juno' Hall ers of the Heroines of Jericho Meredith Mathews presided at Duncan represented Prince the public program which started Hall Grand Lodge with a prelude by Arnetta John son The audience then arose and Following a solo by Robert sang "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Crawford the speaker of the even-which was followed by an invoca- Ing was presented and delivered ton by Rev Wallace one of his eharacteristie address-A representative of Mayor Allen es in which he told of the diffiStreet delivered some remarks in culties and problems the NAACP which he made the delegates wel- Is now facing in the Southland in come to Oklahoma's capital city the field of integration The following which greetings were ex- speaker said he could assure his tended to the Grand Lodge by audience that all of these difficulE McMurray and Mrs Mary Wil- ties would be surmounted and that 1f1 th d1t the NAACP concept of things A representative of Mayor Allen Street delivered some remarks in which he made the delegates welcome to Oklahoma's capital city following which greetings were extended to the Grand Lodge by McMurray and Mrs Mary Wilson saluted the delegates as a Thurgood Marshall Talk Is High Point i( Prince Hall Gran Lodge Session ion at Douglass Hi Thurgood Marshall talked enthusiastically before an auI 0 ho 0 2 05'tba a zi to rJ Arrows fo Atoms Tower Was Real Headache of Semi-Centennial Dissidt Whites Seek Other Way Out of School District When Annexation Move Fails representative of Queen Bathshe- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 COL 2) That 211-foot Arrows to Atoms tower which stands snajestically in the middle of the Oklahoma Semi Centennial Exposition Grounds is more than the nation's tallest exposition symbol Every foot of its fiber-glass and steel makeup can be matched with a headache and a hope that lasted during the four months it took the tower to go from blueprints to dedication The first sections began going up last February and the first major problem cropped up when the steel shaft was crowned with a 20-foot high 12-foot wide red arrowhead The initial strong guests of wind proved that the arrow tip needed special guying It took a human fly to climb up the shaft into the arrowDead and out on top to fasten the special guy wires Although the tower W3S ded0 cated on April 22 therewere sew' eral harrowing memories sheurl by construction crews and el dans One was the alterationsnoll the silhouetted map of Oklaho after it had been hoisted 170 fectl (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 COL 3) 25 Young Ladies Make Debut At Debutante Charity Ball Despite a continuous rain Saturday 'night and all day Sunday a majority of the members of the regional directors of the State Conference of Branches NAACP met Sunday in the offices of the Black Dispatch planning the fall campaign of work for the organization President IL Williamston presided at the session and stressed the outlines of what he IN LONDON ENGLAND proposed as a challenge to NAACP workers In the state and the nation to offset the dangerous at -4 tempt to thwart NAACP work in 7 most all of the mouthern stetes by iee' state government and some hidden i ii cells of opposition that are now f4 kiJie making themselves felt 4 et 2 "The NAACP is going through I orsi 4 torv" said Dr Williamston at the ii4 ottpsenminosgt ik) i i fighting for its very life in the til -111 Southern states and while our --4 i state officials have not taken the i -1 posltion'of Texas Ceorgia Louisi- i 14 are and Alabama we do have a k'' i herd cere of opposition in our own kt state that must be met if we are to survive 4 A -6 "Many of our branches In the ttfi'OP''FAlep I state have failed to meet in the seZJ' a past year due to local-opposition lyw and things are not as rosy as it 1ee--tew-e itlikttittiaEr" 404 ee 1411 would appear Not alone in the Deep South but right here in Ok MISS LULA CARTLIt lemma we must find some way to pierce this fog of opposition that is coming from ninny anglee" Dr Williamston cited vehalt Is going on in several of the southern states anti pointed out what op posing foreeshave sought to make the Oklahoma Conference of Branches responsitle for "They say the Oklahoma Conference is responsible for the firing of about 400 teachers in the state and that has not helped conditions in the various communities of the state so far as good will for the NAACP Is concerned" Williamston conrhey Untied The NAACP executive said citiUgh zens will recall he called a meet ing with the governor two years ago to discuss the elimination of Negro teachers from workopporiters tunities and that the governor promised to give work in some other fields for the unemployed Negro teachers We formed a committee that day and two prom mint teachers were named to head that committee SO for as 1 knows that committee has never tune-Li I I I tioned since that date" said Wil Grady county superintendent of schools refused to grant transfers to 21 white chihlren from the Rrcadia school district following a hour's conference in his office Wednesday on the grouna that the request for transfers violated the law One of the patrons requesting transfer is a resigned member of the board Grady told his conference that he was trying to uphold the law on Integration and all of their requests violated state end federal laws on that subject Grady gave three legal reasons why he could grant transfers: (1) topography of the neighborhood in question (2) health of the child accompanted by a doctor's certificate STOPPING BY (3) failure of the district where the child was assigned to teach the grade and type of work the patron wanted his child to secure One of the patrons said he wanted his child transferred because the enrollment at the Arcadia school was largely Negroid and that his child was being denied social advantages in not attending an all-white school Two of the protestant are teachers in the Luther schools and they stated they were unable to attend social functions at Arcadia and wanted their children along with them "None of your reasons for wanting transfers conform to the law and I am attempting to uphold the Supreme Court decision on this subject so your requests will be denied" said Grady The Arcadia school has been in turmoil for the last two years despite the fact most of the white parents have accepted integration and everything is moving along nicely It is the only school in Oklahoma known to this writer which is integrated as to school board members teachers and pupils Earlier this year the dissident ones souglit to work put an annexation plan This failed on the day of election three to one showing that thoee who oppose integration are sadly in the minority The Wednesday plan was another move in attempt on the part of the "segregationists" to serve their ends Miss Lula Carter formerly of the Oklahoma City schools but now employed in the school sys tem of San Francisco Calif is on leave of absence in London Eng land entrusted with the educa tion of five pupils two aged 17 two 16 and the 14-year-o1d leader of the group Frankie Lymon The group hi on TV and in the movies and their money is being put into a trust fund to insure their education Miss Carter says The boys are really keen to learn They appreciate education is important anti aim to get through high school" Miss Carter has been asked to remain six more weeks but has refused to return to her young sters in San Francisco She is the daughter of Mrs TJ Tatum of 608 Everest Oklahoma City and the late Rev Carter of Tatums Okla Miss Carter is scheduled to return June 9 Miss Lula Carter formerly of the Oklahoma City schools but low employed in the school aye iem of San Francisco Calif is on Rave of absence in London Eng land entrusted with the educe Lion of five pupils two aged 17 ivo 16 and the 14-yearold leader pf the group Frankie Lymon The group le on TV and in the novies and their money Is being Put into a trust fund to Insure education Miss Carter says The boys are really keen to learn appreciate education is im- 3ortant anti aim to get through school" Miss Carter has been asked to emain six more weeks but has efused to return to her young in San Francisco She is he daughter a Mrs Tatum pf 608 Everest Oklahoma City ind the late Rev Carter of returns Okla Miss Carter is scheduled to re urn June 9 In recent years Debutante Balls across the nation have become one of the highlights of the Social Season Oklahoma City is no exception come Saturday night June 8 when Nu Vista club presents its first annual Debutante Charity Ball Due to the increasing number of reservations the Ball Will be staged in the Zebra Room of the Municipal Auditorium downtown Oklahoma City Realizing the importance of a Langston Student good Mental Health program and its effect upon the safety of the Receives Graduate people Nu Vista club has pledged Fellowship in Chemistry nation and the well-being of its Its full support to this great and s'-'04t'' worthy cause and will contribute the proceeds from this affair to the Oklahoma Association or Mental Health and the club's oth-- er charities 44-4 The Oklahoma Association for -1'4 "tlk mental non-profit or ganization financied by voluntary a division of the National Association for Mental Health The OAMH is an advo- cate of 'The Mentally Ill can P' come Help Them" You can do your ilFre for mental health by supporting the DebtsT11 tante Ball with your donations and attendance Ni 1 Donations and reservations may i 'if At iii iioli If 3k --1 '1 i i i i'-4 'i- pt I Mental Health Careers Seen For Graduates World Politic Discussions To Begin Monday Co-leaders or the sumrner World Politics discussion group to begin Monday June 10 at 8 pm in the air-conditioned Main Library have been announced by the Libraries' Community Workshop Division local sponsors Named to moderate this ten-week series are Mrs Nathan A Geurkink 1205 NE 16 formerly head of adult education at the YWCA and presently a teacher for Casady and Capt Fred Crube '428 NW 26 Marine recruiting officer for the state of Oklahoma World Politics is one of the "read and discuss" programs designed to stimulate critical thinking and objective discussion on International affairs offered nation-wide by the American Foundation for Political Education a non profit educational organization Approximately fifty-five pages per week will be read for each of the ten sessions Some of the topics to be discussed are 'What Causes War?" "Democracy" and I (oovrixao ON PACE 2 COL 2) (CONTINUED ON PAM 2 MIA 1) Negroes Urged To Register For Voting GUEST SPEAKER More and more graduating senora of highsehools in Oklahoma County a turning to mental health and 'It's- fields for careers after college Evidence of this growing Interest is the increasing competition for the scholarships awarded to a graduating senior of each of the qualifying highsehools in the county -Mrs Erandes chairman of Youth for the Oklahoma County Association for Mental Health states that seniors who receive these awards are often the leaders or one of the leaders in their class and are the recipients of other distinguished awards as well In order to qualify for the Ok NAACP Branch Meet To Be Sunday June 9 Arriving Saturday in Sacramento Calif from Japan via Commercial Airlines will be Miss Myra Irons en route to Oklahoma City after having spent the past two years doing civil service in Tokyo Japan She will spend approximately three weeks visiting relafives and friends before taking up a new assignment in Ramstein Germany She is the sister of Lillian Oliver Naomi Johnson and Thomas Irons all of the city Blaylon Is 5peaker at Douglass Hi (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 COL 5) ((ONTINCF!) ON PAGE 2 COL f) Arthur Johnson a member of the May graduating class of Lang sten university has been awarded a graduate fellowship in chemistry by the University of Pittsburgh The award amounts to $1500 plus tuition and laboratory fees for the year 1957-58 At Pittsburgh Mr Johnson will serve as a graduate assistant while pursuing a program of studies leading to the Master of Science degree In Phy steal Chemistry Johnson is the son of Mr and Mrs II- Johnson of McAlester Okla He is a graduate of the L'Ouverture high school of Mc Alcster and graduated with honors from Langston The Negro community was urged to register to vote at a mass meeting of the Montgomery Improvement Assn attended by more than 400 rierAWIS at the Bethel Baptist church 2771 Mobile Rd recently Rufus Lethvic chairman of the MIA registration and voting committee bald "all of you who are residents of the county anti state and who have committed no crime or felony must qualify and vote" The Lev A Wilson pastor of the liolt Street Baptist church advocated Negroes make themselves "worthy of integration" He told them to "leave knives and (CONTINUED UN PA( 2 oUL 21 'i: ''41 A -tre I IA 'I' r--tt 0 i i 4 4M1') 4::1 4 4 vi srti' i i1 1' 4-1-44' 4 v-44w- i 'f -fe is Iv 111 0 it': 0' 'S'' lir New York City report to be given the regular meeting of the Oklahoma Branch NAACP will be held on Sunday June 9 at 3:30 pm at the Church of Nazarene 1716 NE Alice Mrs Worms ley chairman of the program committee announced that a report from the group attending the Youth Bally in New York Cityy last week will be even Aso special music will be provided during the meeting All members and friends are asked to be present at the meeting Electric Power Suppliers Have Ma lor Role In Nation-Wide Civil Defense Test July 12-14 Cities in Oklahoma to Be Bomb Targets Rev Martin Luther King Is Named Spingarn Medalist Douglass high school auditorium ssas packed and jammed Friday evening to see 200 graduates receive their diploma and hear a profound address delivered by Bluyton Atlanta Ga business man and president of Mutual Federal Savings and Loan Association of that city Mr Blayton is a former resident of 'Muskogee Okla and is veil known in the state and the Southwest Following processional "March of the Priests" by Mendelssohn the program opened with prayer by the Rev Perry The Douglass high school choir sang "Creation" Mr Blayton when presented to the audience gave a glowing plcture of the future and that it holds for the young men of tomorrow lie told of the many opportunities to be l'oand today all over the col Id for the prepared youn people of all races The address lAus o)nsidetud orie Texas So ions Apologize To Barbara Smith Association's 48th annual convention in Detroit June 2440 The presentation is scheduled for the night of June 28 Lincoln Ragsdale has been selected as the principal' speaker at the State Embalmers and Funeral Directors of Oklahoma June 13 and 14 In Tulsa Okla Ragsdale Is a native on of Muskogee born In Muskogee and reared in Ardmore where he finished high school lie I the son of Mr and Mrs It Ragsdale mot ticlan of the same city Lincoln Ragsdale served is lieltenant and fighter pilot during World War It and came tn Pho nix in 1945 and along With hla bvI her I tN they organized tit 1tortuary in 1947 Less than six weeks from today July 12 the faces of more than one city in Oklahoma will be disfigured by hypothetical bursts of hydrogen bombs marking the beginning of Operation Alert 1957 the nation-wide civil defense test said the state civil defense director Tom Brett today Swarming in from the north an aggressor force of aircraft will assimilate hydrogen bomb drops on nearly 100 cities through out the nation dealing death and destruction numbering in the hundreds of thousands of lives commented Brett If such an attack were the real thing one of the biggest tasks would be the restoration of electric power facilities Without these power facilities Brett equipment supplies and even communications would be scanty The entire regional group is or- u'orkers if the need Justifies it ganized and working as a unit un- hospitals would be hampered and Included in the regional group are bleak for we have come to depend der an arrangement whereby if electric power companies from the general situation would be one system were to suffer severe Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Ar- Will-losses of generating capacity the on electric power for these Will- kansas Nebraska New Mexivo other systems would come to its ties and needs remarked Brett and parts of Missouri and Miss aid automatically Arrangements Then too the Job of rebuilding have been made for exchange of would be limited for the contrac- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 COL 4) tor relies on power saws power drills and other povverized equip- ment of the twentieth century RAU WIIitint Clfac tJA ArP equipment supplies and even workers if the need justifies it Included in the regional group are electric power companies from Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Arkansas Nebraska New Mexivo and parts of Missouri and Missis Roy Wilkins Cites NAACP's (CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 COL 1) members of the Texas legislature sent a letter of apology to Miss Barbara Smith a 19-year-old Negro student of Texas university it Anglin who waS ousted (rum participation in a student opera Lit the sihool because of hiT race Miss Smith's rerniivLil rront the Ina role In the L1111 Arre!" cast the prssne I'd a Xas 1r NEW YORK Luther King Jr the young clergyman who leaded the dramatic and Montgomery Ala bus protest movement of 1955-56 has been ciiissen as the 42nd Spingarm tretialist Iloy Wilkins executive crtary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced here last et The medal awarded annually to a Negro American for (listing-dished achievement will be pre111110 to the Rev Dr Ring at the Joseph Rauh To Speak at NAACP Confab (CONTiNUFD PM: 2 OA PAC1 2 ow Man Dies After Becoming III In Carolina Jail I Fight Against Communism STOPPING High Court Will Review Ala Contempt Conviction of NAACP at the AO NEW National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "has been the greatest anti-! Communist organization among Negroes since the Communist party first began its efforts on the race problem in the Twenties" Roy Wilkins executive secretary declared here as a mass meeting of the Association's New Orleans branch ri2-year-old Winston-Salem man stricken in a city jail cell flied nt a Joel(' hospital Tuesday May 21 at 9:40 a The victim James Naylor of 716 Moravia street was arrested May 20 and charged AA ith larceny alter Worth and Jessie McLeod named litn a an accomplice in the thelt equipment awl materials a1it(1 at cqtdt1 kleT arkflo trprn tiel NVASIIINGTON The S1 Suprme court agrvect on 2iity 27 10 revieW an Alabama in vhich the NAV71' as htkt to be contempt of coltrt breiris it refused to turn its nmmbei- ship Lt lo th t1('s gnriti 141st i ii (pit in The committee he pointed out 'Id not call a single NAACP rrember or offIcer It reached into So as they might be even better prepared for such a task the three major electric power suppliers serving Oklahoma have announced they will participate in the nationwide civil defense test July 12-14 along with a Southwest Regional group of electric companies and other electrical distribution systems said Brett today Named by the regional group as state liaison officers are William A Kitchen Oklahoma City Webster Allen Public Service Company and Neil Adams Southwestern Power Administration both of Tulsa The Southwest systems which will coordinate their activities during the civil defense alert will for the most part include those states which make up the Southwest Interconnected Systems This Intereonnected System enables the electric suppliers to exchange electricity through mutually operated switching stations during times of emergency or when other conditions make it desirable according NEW yortx Joseph Raub national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action will speak at the NACP's 48th annual convention in Detroit next month it was announced here today by Roy Wilkins the Association's executive secretary Mr Rauh will discuss civil liberties aspects of the desegregation crisis in the South Mr Wilkins said Other speakers at' the convention which is to be held June 23 to 30 will include the Rev Dr Martin Luther King leader of the Montgomery bus protest movement ho is to receive the NAACP Springain Medal Mr Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall NAACP special counsel Dr Chanoing II Tobias chairman of the Associntion's Board of Directors will deliver the keynote address Convention workshop sessions will deal with every aspect of the NAACP's fight for desegregation and full civil rights the state When the As-I sociation offered to register the court it could npt 'rite petition for rev'ew woe i1e41 by 'c1urgoo1 NA AC'I' spocint eotinsel: Robert Carter NAACP getieri1 colnsel: and At thur iv Shores of Pirmitigharn A1J An that tho NAAcp by the high Art vt4 vv NireEt by tiu Ala: genend general "The Only Relief" 'I Associatiois petition to the eot tIII lor le AL103 't many to exereie their intinithiiii rights of freedom of Ohio and New York for some former Communists anti IA1 NI i urt nt ouncipa oho till thi NA confesse WI' hd to iperior Court in their 1 a S1(10- 1-ni I iti-m paid their expenses to come down I Arditliz to Jail sergeant 1 I I a here and give their opinions on Na lor ditirity1 as tot 1111'n'her'h'i) 111" the NAACP" I moith tid NAACP ii ad hfIti alcohdie became set iously ill NN lo as an 1 AACP" During the put week the fol lowing young men stopped at the Fourth Street Branch YMCA: A Russel! Tyler Tex! Zack Howard Ft- Worth Tex Edwin Washington Dallas Tex As-raw Ethiopia Phillip Cooper Norman: Paul Young Langston rev Reddick Chandler armies Covington Norman Eugene Robbins Vt'agmer Joe Hardy Mtn Earnest 13 Jones Ity Billy Washington Altus: MBrayer Jr Ft George NI Bell Altus Cole Norman Rev William Kimble Ft Smith Ark Ilogon Dafla Tex Herman Moten Dayton Ohio Perkins Chichasha and Leugene Walls Lanzston rating Johnson (lo of those In his first appearance before a Louisiana unit of the Association since injunctive proceedings were instituted against the organization in March 1956 the NAA CP leader on May 26 domineeri a state legislative committee lor its "Communist smearing of the NAACP" The committee held hearings in March "allegedly for the purpose of discovering the forces responsible for racial tensions in the South" Ihm ever Mr Wilkins charged the hearings cere held for "the sole purpose of linking the NAACP to the Communist party" former Communists as ibell as "director of research I or es Department of Justice in Vashinglon" Later the Justice Pepartment statel explicity that Johnson is not an employee and that his testimony against the I nj Th t111(i I ho rtdirg nortik genural kI conucttot1 I IC Vate's suit to ban NAACP aetiity Ilav911v tar filar a tn row and vtis taken to Kato Ilittig itvynolits Nternuritil hospital hp iLi41 in about one liwir lakr county coronir Nayi1 to natinal causes anti siiit that Naylor was an alcoholic and had been hospitalized recently iTLMIL ChaN 'AGM OO 33 (('ONTINUED ON PAGE 3 COL 4) i 4 0 Amu 7 AL kr 4 r'.