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Sunday, June 18 f 1967

BATTLE

CREEK

ENQUIRER

AND

NEWS

Local Man Replies

M a i l

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Crowded Ghettos, Unemployment

Found Causes for Racial Crisis

News of the Battle Creek area and Michigan, set to clip out and mail to
men and women in service and to friends around the world.
grad and was a varsity swimmer there.
Just got out of the USAF.
We're going to have to continue to
bang up tires and shocks for awhile as
railroad spokesmen for both Grand Trunk
Westem and New York Central here announced delay of completion dates for
expected crossing repairs. Lack of dough,
men and time, they say. /

By AL LIVERS
Hello out there
Well, Troops, true to our promise,
here's the final straight ungarbled word
on the Great State Time
Hassel! Well, almost
final . . . After bitter
fighting in the Lansing
Delta, the B o a r d of
State Canvassers OK'd
the petitions requesting
a vote by the people in
November '68. So, at 0501
Zulu t i m e Wednesday
morning everybody in
Michigan set his clock to
0101 Local, (Zulu minus
four,) Well, almost
AI Livers
everybody . . . The Upper Peninsula all
stayed on EST.Well, almost a l l . . . Two
counties there went along with the EDT
gag. Most of the U.P. says it's in the
CST zone anyway and with the central
zone on CDT they feel they're right on
the money with EST: Zulu minus five!
Still pending is a federal court suit which
could throw the entire state bfack to EST
later this summer. Mighty happy we
could finally clear this up for y'all!

Area and State Stuff:

U.S. Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Grand
Rapids has asked the Army to re-test
the Fermont - manufactured gun lubricant, Dri-Slide, we discussed last week.
In a letter to the manufacturer. Ford
said the congressional subcommittee
which went to Vietnam to check out the
M-16 hassel also was "to look into the
use of Dri-Slide."
If you're back in this part of the
Land of the Round Eyes by November 11
and qualify, you'll be able to take the
State Education Department's competitive scholarship exam. Winners get cash
grants ranging from $80 to $800 depending on tutition costs at college selected
and financial need.

Army Sgt. Jackey Harrison, eightyear vet and 1959 Harper Creek grad,
received a Purple Heart for wounds he
got when a mine went off during a search
and destroy mission by his* patrol in
South Vietnam. He has a wife and two
youngsters here at 354 Pleasant View
Drive. Lt. (j.g.) Thomas Wondergem,
Navy jet jock type, dropped a span of
a North Vietnamese railroad bridge with
a direct hit from an air-to-ground missile. He's a BCCH and MSU grad, has
wife and son here at 189 Cameron Drive.
Central's baseball fans still remember his
pitching.
On the police beat, th^ee armed men
robbed a local motel of $113. Woke up
the owner, asked him price of a room,
pulled their gats, herded him to the room
where he kept his cash box, made him
lie on the floor until they split out. He
saw the car leave, but road blocks didn't
net any fish.

Q. What insurance coverage is

available to men in service?
A. Every man now in service
is automatically covered with
$10,000 Service Group Life Insurance at a cost of $2 per month
which is deducted from his pay.
He can, upon written request to
the. military,- reduce- this, to
$5,000 coverage or refuse cov
erage.
Q. Will the Veterans Administration pay for a correspondence course taken concurrently
with a residence course?
A. The VA cannot authorize
payment for a correspondence
course while payments for a
residence course are being made.
Q. A veteran has been suspended for a semester because
of low grades. What action
should he take in order to receive further training?
A. He should request a counseling appointment with a VA
Counselor. Before additional
educational allowance can he
authorized, the counselor must
agree to reentry into the former program o ra new program.
Q. A veteran has had one
change of program when he
changed from college to a vocational school. He wants to make
a second change. Is this permissible?
A. The VA may approve the
second change if after counseling it is found the new program
is in keeping with the veterans
abilities and interests and there
is a resonable chance he can successfully complete the program.
If you have questions regarding veterans affairs, or wish
to make an appointment,
phone John Egan, Contact
Representative at the Veterans Administration Hospital,
between the hours of 12:30
p.m.t and 4 p.m., Monday
through Friday, phone 965-3281,
E x t 408.

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munists. P o l i c e undercover
agents said Communist had no
part in the riots and a study by
sociologists concluded that the
lack of effective leadership and
unresponsiveness to the needs
of the Negro community were
the real causes.
The then attorney general,
Nicholas deb. Katzenbach, told
the Senate that the real agitators were "named disease and
despair, joblessness and hopelessness, rat-i n f e s t e d housing and long-i m p a c t ed cynicism."
In commenting on a Boston
riot, Sen. Edward Brooke, RMass.. stated "the demonstration in Roxbury is less racial

but more economic and social.

This is a situation of man fighting against society."
The only ones who are hurt by
them are the people in the ghetto themselves. It makes no sense
to allow terrible 'conditions to
exist, watch them explode, and
then offer concessions. Yet this
is the pattern that is developing.
Only a few cities are making
a real effort to change the face
of their ghettoes by creating
jobs, improving health and welfare conditions, and doing all
the other things necessary to relieve t e n s i o n and create a
healthy atmosphere conductive
to progress.

It appears to me that this nation can take the high road to

racial peace or it can take the
low road. It can willingly inactivate the poverty and racial
injustice that feed violence or
it can wait until the absolute
last moment and take action
only when the crisis gets out of
hand.
What is needed in today's
struggle is meaningful action on
the part of all citizens, and public and private agencies - - action similar to that which has
taken place in Battle Creek,
where the mayor has called on
business, industry and citizens
at large to support programs to
provide jobs and recreation.

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Enquirer and News Sports Department!)
Local sports action is confined to summer baseball and softball this week . . .
with Eaton Valve of the City Major baseball league flexing its muscles early. In
two games this past week, the Valvemen
won 19-1 and 20-1 to run their record to
5-0 atop the six-team circuit.
Incidently, $1,500 of that $32,000 Spartan Stadium total was donated by the
Enquirer and News.

City Commission approved sale of

part of the W. K. Kellogg Auditorium
parking lot on Van Buren St. for expansion of Willard Library $1.5 million
worth. It'll double the library's present
capacity and should get on the road this
summer. Harper Creek came in a week
late with its high school graduation. The
system takes a longer spring vacation
and had to hack the 180 days. Former
Governor "Soapy** Williams was the
speaker.
New policeman on B'Creek's Finest is
Dennis L. McWilliams. He's a '63 BCCH

The
Veteran
Asks

U.S. Senate critics of the Vietnam war

are beginning to back-peddle now that
the '68 elections are coming up. They
don't really want to risk an open break
with LBJ who probably will be the Dem's
choice for Prexy. Some of them are playing
it real cool by heartily endorsing the
t4
Great Society" but not really whooping
it up for the war.
Here in Michigan, Democratic State
Chairman Zolton Ferency very probably is going to "phase out" his party activities and return to private law practice. He's not saying so himself, but
there's enough smoke for fire.
Augusta's Barn Theatre opened its
season wowing 'em with "Barefoot In
The Park." One of the. MSU profs shook
up the natives by saying campus folks
are lucky students today are "carrying
placards and not pitchforks, burning
draft cards and not deans." Gave several hairy examples of student self-expression in the 1800's complete with
shooting. Thinks some of it today "may
be pure hell-raising in the tradition
reaching back all the way to the Middle
Ages."
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Ionia's cranking up a plant to start
production of 1968 Shelby American GT's
in late August. It's the high performance
version of the Ford Mustang. Y'all in
the Army are due for company when
seven men from Barry County report
for induction at Hastings Legion Hall
July 17.
Republican leaders of our Heros of
the House in Lansing got set back this
'week. They'd figured to push through
their tax program by deals with individual Democrats but that party's caucus
told them no dice. Now they'll have to
horse trade with the leaders at a very
probable stiffer price.
It's hot here now and people are griping. Quick switch from just a few weeks
ago when everybody wondered if they'd
see spring!

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Meanwhile . . . Back in G'tr B'Creek:

About 500 volunteers braved a local
monsoon and pulled in more than $18.000 in a house-to-house canvass getting
dough for Lakeview's Spartan stadium
fund. This brought the total to $32,000
out of the $200,000 goal. Incidentially,
you Lakeview athletic b o o s t e r s out
there can buy a hunk of the field at $3
per square foot. Send it to: Hugh Wright,
Michigan National Bank, here. He's finance officer for the drive. They've
enough for the lightsnow for the seats!
Go Spartans!
Voters In Battle Creek, Springfield
and Pennfield school districts approved
extra millage for their systems. Springfield especially heaved a big sigh of
relief.
Also in school news Harper Creek's
going to pay a minimum of $5,800 to
its teachers.

This introduces a series of can be placed on long supcolumns on race relations and pressed bitterness and frustrarelated questions by Milton tion fostered by over-crowded
J, Robinson, executive direc- ghettos, widespread unemploytor of the Battle Creek Area ment. ineffective cooperation between the races, and the failure
Urban League.
on the part of the ghetto-dweller
This s u m m e r , like the two to see any real i m m e d i a t e
previous, our larger metropoli- change in his living conditions.
tan areas are faced with the Most of white America doesn't
problem of racial outbreaks and realize it or is unwilling to face
disturbances. Boston, Tampa, the effort n e e d e d to change
Watts and Cincinnati may be these conditions. This is obvious
concrete evidence of the kind of from the reaction to many of the
problems that our cities will riots, which places the blame on
have to deal with. "Why?," is "outside agitators."
a question frequently asked me. The Mayor of Cleveland went
My usual reply is that the so far as to back a grand jury
causes are multi-faceted and in- which blamed riots there on
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Saturday, April 6, 1968

THE

BATTLE

GREEK

ENQUIRER

AND

NEWS

House Approves Bill to Legalize Phone Tapping

LANSING (AP) -y A bill alThe Senate passed a resolu- by Rey. Hal Z i e g l e r ,
lowing law officers to tap tele- tion, sponsored by Sen. Basil R-Jackson, and passed 63-22,
phones and use other means of Brown, D-Highland Park, call- would permit use of eavesdrop
electronic surveillance under - ing for a period of mourning evidence in court if it were obcertain conditions was passed for the slain civil rights lead- tained under a warrant issued
by a Circuit Court judge or
by the House Friday and sent er.
Appeals Court judge.
to the Senate.

Ziegler said the procedure

G o v . G e o r g e Romney,
Approved also were two tenants' rights bills, a measure meanwhile, declared an offi- outlined in the bill could be
allowing policemen to issue c i a 1 period of mourning followed constitutionally betickets for minor ordinance ^ through Dr. King's funeral cause of a 1967 decision of the
violations, a $34 million spend- and asked that all flags on U. S. Supreme Court.
An eavesdroping warrant
ing bill and a memorial reso- public buildings be flown at
could be obtained by a proselution for Dr. Martin Luther half-staff.
The Senate approved a bill cutor or the state attorney
King.
Allowing
school districts to set general if he convinced a

The House, which Thursday up - school psychological ser- judge that a crime had been
night adjourned its session af- vices, but turned down anoth- or would be committed, and
ter learning of King's death, er which would have altered that conventional means of
Friday praised the Nobel ( s t a t e payment of tuition getting evidence had failed or
Prize winner as "one of Amer- grants to resident students en- would likely fail.
The court-issued warrant
ica's great leaders, the man of rolled in private, nonprofit inwould restrict law officers to
peace and the apostle of non- stitutions of higher education/
The wiretap bill, introduced monitoring a particular perviolence."

son, location or telephone line.

Warrants would be valid for 30
days, but could be extended by
the court.
A person who claimed to be
the victim of electronic surveillance not legally authorized by a warrant could sue
for actual and punitive damages and legal fees.

"It is absolutely necessary,

if we're going to solve the
problem of organized crime,
that {tolice be able to wiretap," Ziegler said y
"Let's not continue to have
law enforcement officers hunting bears with a switch,"
added Rep. Loren D. Andersort, R-Pontiac. "Let's give
them the toofs to work with;"
R e p . J a c k i e Vaughn,
D-Detroit, charged that "this

bill, more than any other bill,

indicates a police state.?
Approved also was a bill
spending $33.9 million in state
general fund money for the
present fiscal year and another $246,743 from restricted
funds. If signed into law, it
would push Michigan's 1967-68
general fund spending to about
$1,146 billion.
The Senate has approved a
version of the supplemental
appropriation which was $573,153 smaller than the House
bill.
A pair of bills designed to
offer protection for tenants,
particularly those in m'ban
slums, were approved easily
with little debate.
^
One provides that rental
agreements shall be regarded
as including an agreement by

the landlord to keep the premises in good repair and in compliance with health and safety
codes.
The other forbids evicting a
tenant as punishment for any
legal act such as reporting
housing law violations or attempting to secure rights contained in the lease.

Approved 76-0 was a bill

sponsored by Rep. Gustave
Groat, R-Battle Creek, which
would allow a policeman to
ticket a person for violation of
certain local ordinances, rather than taking him immediately before a magistrate.
" In cases of offenses punishable by not more than 90 days
and a $100 fine, the officer
could give the offender an
"appearance ticket" similar

in Flint, Alma, Saginaw and

Port Huron.

Three persons were injured Friday, one seriously, in two

traffic accidents in the Battle Creek area.
August Hardesty, 40, of Kalamazoo, is listed in fairly
good condition, at Leila Hospital. Calhoun County Sheriff's
Department deputies said Hardesty was a passenger in a car
driven by Daniel Barrett, 57. of Kalamazoo, which struck the
rear of a semi-trailer as both vehicles were traveling east on
1-94, one mile east of the 1-69 overpass.
. The truck driver, James Croft, of Ubly, was uninjured.
Barrett was treated and released at Oaklawn Hospital, Marshall.
Sheriff's deputies said-that no charges have been filed
pending further investigation.
Lawrence Burkhead, 17, of 151 W. Pitman St., was
treated and released at Leila for injuries, which he sustained
when his motorcycle collided with an automobile driven by
Dallas Ballard, 28, of 43 Sharon Ave. City police said that the
accident occurred when Ballard attempted to make a lefthand turn into the Kroger Store parking lot at 535 Emmett St.
and struck the cycle as it traveled west.

Giving Their All

Off-duty Battle Creek firemen have their temperatures taken by Mrs. Charles Kime, Red Cross
volunteer, prior to donating blood at the Defense
Logistics Services Center Friday morning. Helping

towards the June 30 quota of 6,000 pints are Fireman Ronald D. Bracy, Ronald D. Tuttle and Randolph C. Tharp. (Staff Photo by Jack Stubbs)-

City Pledges Disturbance Charges Will Be Dropped ...

No injuries were reported.
And Principal Edward J . Martin said the incidents involved
young people who were not
students at the school.
Later, classes at the high
school and the city's four jun-/
ior highs were dismissed about
30 minutes earlier than usual,
Martin said "because of concern expressed by many parents who called the schools
through the day."
During the three-hour meeting Of Negro and white leaders, the city commission first
rejected the demand for dismissal of charges, arguing
that the city government has
no control over the judicial
system.
However, the final decision
was announced following the
second of two lengthy caucuses by commissioners.
The delegation immediately
contacted the youths at the
church, who reportedly were
becoming restless. At least 10
telephone calls - some from
the church were received
during the meeting.
The commission also agreed
to establish the Negro youth
advisory recreation council after delegation members complained that Negro youths are
not satisfied with the operation o present recreation facilities.
Three of t the demands were
listed in connection with a
demonstration a u t o accident
which injured Stanley Morrow,
vice president of the Young
Adult Council.
A police report, still awaiting further investigation, said
that Morrow fell to the pavement after coming in contact
with a car at the intersection
Of Capital and Michigan avenues.
The driver voluntarily went
to the police station after the
accident, police said, and told
officers that his car was traveling at between three and five
miles per hour,on the green
light.
Morrow is listed in fairly
good condition today at Community Hospital.
Meanwhile, the delegation
demanded that the driver be
arrested, that police officers
at the scene of the accident be
prosecuted "for allowing a
white man to run over a black
man" and that the city pay
Morrow's medical expenses.
The Negro group appeared
satisfied, however, when Kool
reported that the city Human
Relations Commission would
be brought into the accident
investigation.
Other demands to the city
were: A
Removal of all policemen
other than city officers. Kool
said that the extra police

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Honors Set for VFW Post * Joseph Scerra, Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, will visit the Seventh District April 18 to
present a citation to Battle Creek's Bastogne-Luzon Post
8715.
Scerra, 53, of Gardner, Mass., is scheduled to arrive at
Post 8715 on W. Columbia Ave. and present the .membership
citation. Bastogne-Luzon Post achieved 100 per cent of its
1967 membership.
The national commander also will visit Bronson, Dowagiac and Monroe during his Michigan visit.

The amount of the grant

would be determined by tjie
Higher Education Assistance
Authority based on an evaluation of the applicant's family financial resources.
The law presently contains a
s c h e d u l e whereby grant
amounts are determined on
the basis of family income.
The maximum amount allowable is $250 per semester.
The maximum grant under
the defeated bill would be $1,000 for tuition and fees for a
full academic year.

Three Injured
In Two Crashes

Other cities sending men

from their armories were Lansing; Detroit, Inkster, Utica,
Carleton, Wyoming, Big Rapids, Holland, Dowagiac, South
Haven, Three Rivers Manistee, Cadillac and St. Joseph.
S t i l l more were Grand
Ledge, Bay City, Muskegon,
Cheboygan, Alpena, Ypsilanti,
Ann Arbor, Adrian, Monroe^
K'a 1 a m a z o o / Greenville,

The troops, including 13 S t u r g i s , Coldwater, Ionia,

c r a c k Army SRF-1 units Jackson, Howell, Owosso, Pontrained for Vietnam combat, tiac. Midland and Lapeer.
The Selected Reserve Force
were ordered into action early.
Friday afternoon by Romney. units are those picked as the
All, with the exception of 16 number-one backup force to
Air National Guard units from the regular Army. Four SRF
Inkster and the Battle Creek 2 units, the next in line,
command are Army units were also mobilized for state
action.
from the Lower Peninsula.
The biggest group mobilized
All men reported to their arwas the 844-man 1st Battalion mories immediately with full
of the 125th Infantry with units field equipment.

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stationed inside the Rev. Mr.
Jackson's church at 491 N.
Washington Ave. to await the
meeting's outcome.
During a late afternoon session in the Senior Recreation
Building at 242 Hamblin Ave.,
the g r o u p reportedly had
threatened violence if the demands were not ihet.
Most of the young people
packed the Municipal Court
throughout the day as 31 of
the arrested people pleaded
not guilty to charges of disorderly conduct, chose jury
trials and werexreleased on
$25 bonds. Two girlSNwere released on interim bond to.
await arraignment
Kool told the delegatibn that
John W. Bothwell, /assistant
city attorney, assured him
that he would recommend dismissal Monday for those persons who did not resist arrest. Bonds would be returned
immediately after dismissal.
The judge would decide on
dismissal at the recommendation of the city attorney's office.
The mayor said the deciison
was rendered because t h e
demonstration, h e l d during
the early morning hours, Friday, was peaceful, with most
of the lO^ffemtm^trators not
challenging police)
The /demonstxatdrs blocked
traffic at severaLaowntown intersections. However, city officers, suppjpmented by policemen fcorn surrounding townships, Calhoun County sheriff's
deputies and state police troopers from here and nearby
posts, didn't attempt to end the
demonstration until gging-towork traffic began to build.
It was at that time that the
bulk of arrests occurred...
AH extra police left the city
at 4 p.m. today after police received only two reports of
destruction during the n i g h t broken windows at the Miller
Flower Shop, 162 W. V a n
Buren St., and Rambo Live
Bait & Sport Equipment, 548W. Van Bufcen.
Downtown streets, usually a
bevy of cars on Friday night,
were nearly deserted as most
residents, apparently fearing
violence, stayed home.
' Police recorded only one arrest for drunkennessfive or
six short of the usual number
for a Friday evening.
Earlier in the day, about a
dozen officers* entered the
main hall of Battie Creek High.
School where a panel of glass
in a showcase had been broken. While they were on the
scene, a rock was thrown
through a first floor science
room window from W. Van
Buren.

The service would be operated in accordance with rules

set up by the State Board of
Education, which also would
establish requirements to be
met by the psychologists.
The senators turned down

14-15 a bill sponsored by Sen.

James Gray, D - Warren, revamping the present system of
awarding tuition grants to fulltime resident students enrolled in private, nonprofit colleges.

Around Battle Creek

65 Guard Units
Are Mobilized
Sixty-five National Guard
units, including 600 members
of the 110th Tactical Reconnaissance Group in Battle
Creek, were mobilized Friday
for possible use in racially
tense areas, especially in Detroit.
Gov. George Romney ordered 3,000 of the men into Detroit late Friday afternoon,
the rest were on "stand-by
alert" or enroute toward the
Motor City.

to tickets handed out in minor

traffic cases. The ticket would
indicate when the person
would be required to appear in
court.
The Senate approved 22-8 a
bill sponsored by Sen. Sander
Levin, D-Berkley, wttch would
allow the board of any school
district to establish a school
psychological service.'
The district also would be
authorized to employ school
psychologists, school psychological examiners and supervisors.

forces were called at the discretion of state police, but that

they would leave "as soon as
the city was safe."
More Negro secretaries in
local industries. The Mayor
told Urban League director
Robinson that he would accompany him to the Battle
Creek Area Chamber of Commerce to discuss the matter.
Hiring by the Kellogg Co.
and the Post Division^of General Foods Corp. on a Negrowhite, ratio basis. The point
was not discussed.
Additional,
immediate
public housing to be named after Dr. King. Kool said the
next public housing project
now in the plannin^stages,
would be named after the civil
rights leader.
Door-to-door voter registration drives in the predominantly Negro neighborh o o d s . T h e commission
Vice Mayor Clark M. Valentine in particular agreed
after the delegation explained
to them that the city clerk
may legally conduct the drives.
Commissioners, at first, felt
voter registration w a s an
area in which they could not
legally be involved.
More Negro reporters. Not
discussed.
An end to expulsion of Neg r o students - "for minor
things." Not discussed.
A strong Negro hand in all
phases of the city's summer
employment. and recreation
program. Kool explained that
Edmund R. Morris, deputy director of the Calhoun Community action Agency and a Negro
is planning this year's program "100 per cent:" Morris,
attending the meeting, conc u r r e d . H o w e v e r , the
NAACP's Boards and Laws
- later told the Enquirer and
News that the city had promised the Young Adult Council
an instrumental part in the
program.
Demands made to school administrators and members of
the Battle Creek Board of
Education at the meeting included;
Establishment of Negro
history as an elective course
in the high school by next fall.
Superintendent Harry R. Davidson and Principal Martin
agreed, noting that the school
now has required courses,
placing emphasis on Negro
history, that are being copied
throughout the state.
The removal of Jack Finn
as the high school's track

Students March
In Ann Arbor
ANN ARBOR (AP)Some
400 University of Michigan
s t u d e n t s marched through
downtown Ann Arbor Friday
in tribute to the memory of
the slain civil rights leader.
Dr. Martin Luther King.
A few sang "We Shall Overcome" softly. Most walked
along in silence, with eyes
downcast. Many passersby
joined the march.
Several dozen carried handlettered signs saying "He
Had a Dream ... Is It Over
Now?" and "America the
BeautifulFor All."

coach because he "intimidated" trackmen who sought

to attend the court sessions
Friday. The schools denied the
charge and the delegation
could not cite specific examples. However, it was
agreed that specific charges
should be brought to Tillman,
who in turn would talk to the
schools.
Recognition of the Black
Student Alliance as another of
the school's "official groups,"
allowing members to select
their own a d v i s e r s . The
schools agreed, noting that it
would be the only group allowed to pick its own advisers.
No reprisals against students who left school to attend
the court sessions. The schools
agreed, adding that a non-reprisal policy had been determined early in the day and
that students had been* allowed "to come and go" without interference.
More Negro counselors in
the high school. Davidson said
efforts are being made in this
direction.
The Negro delegation verbally commended the schools
for their reaction hto the demands.
The meeting almost broke
up early in dissension because
members of the delegation
felt the city commission was
"pleading lack of power" in
an effort to stall demands.
However, the session resumed after Urban League Director Robinson spoke to his
fellow delegation members,
telling them to wait and hear
more answers to their demands.
His action ultimately led to
a re-caucusing by the commission and the decision on
the charges.
Appearing in court Friday
before Judge William C. Burke
and Associate Judge James J.
Dunn were: Boards, 40, of 680
W. Van Buren St.; his wife,
Ceatte M. Boards, 26; Tillman,
44, of 204 Grove St.; Laws, 23,
of 97 Hubbard St.; David Jackson, 19, of 60 Oak St.; Ronald
W. Cromwell, 22, of 200 Waubascon Road;. Charles W.-Rogers, 22, of 236 Parkway Drive;
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of 52 Graves Ave.; Mary F.
Adams, 18, of 24^ Greenwood
Ave.; Roberta Hewlett, 21, of
22 Hanover St.; Henry N. Burt,
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GRAND RAPIDS An injunction suit against Komarck
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and Charles D. Ure, J r . has been filed here in the U.S. District Court. The action was taken under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz
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The complaint alleges that the defendants failed to pay 74
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overtime compensation since Oct. 1, 1965, and that $8,370.41
in unpaid back wages has been unlawfully withheld from
these employes. Violations of the record-keeping provisions
of the law were also reported.
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and restrain the corporation, Komarck and Ure from future
violations, the Court was requested to-order payment of the
$8,370.41 in back wages found due employes.
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their own responsibility for

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challenge to Christ's Church
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"Since the whole Church is
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Pentagon Delaying
On Reserve Call-Up
WASfflNGTON (AP) The
Pentagon is moving at an unexpectedly slow pace in carrying out the call-up of Reservists an4 National Guardsmen
for the Vietnam war announced last Sunday by President Johnson.
Army staff officers had expected the necessary administrative machinery would be
starting up by Thursday but
the go-ahead didn't come.
The explanation given by
Pentagon authorities was that
Secretary of Defense Clark M.
Clifford has been marking
time becatfse of the press of
other business.
Preparations for the President's trip to Honolulu to talk
about the possible negotiations
with North Vietnam were given top priority by Clifford,
they said,- until it was announced Friday the Honolulu
conference was being canceled.
The meeting is to be held
later. Meanwhile, Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, was scheduled to fly into

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The National Archery Association, which was founded in
1891, was the first amateur
sport organization in this
country.

Washington today to confer

with Johnson.
- The unexpected announcement by the North Vietnamese
that they are willing to meet
with U.S. representatives has
prompted speculation that the
call-up may be delayed even
more, or perhaps canceled.
One school of thought at the
Pentagon is that a call-up at
this time might jeopardize
talks.
The conflicting view is that
the U.S. posture shbuld continue to be one of strength and
determination, so as not io
give the enemy the idea it can
dictate terms of a peace settlement.
'
In his speech to the nationSunday Johnson gave no figures on the size of a call-up.
Early in the week, however,
defense officials s^Jke of a
first-stage mobilization of up
to 16,000 men, to be followed in
the next several months by a
muster of up to 50,000 more.
The primary purpose of the
call-up is to replace U.S. bases
^ r e g u l a r troops shifted to Viet,
nam.

Center of the school which Ijas

16,000 students.
The center was not damaged
and no one was injured. Miller
said that because of the orderly conduct of the Negroes no
disciplinary action would be
taken.
He said four Negro students
would be sent as WMU's delegation to King's funeral, with
their expenses to be paid by
private sources of funds. Monday classes at WMU also were
cancelled in honor of King.
The Negroes had demanded
both steps be taken. They also
had demanded that the Student Center be closed, as it
was Friday, that no disciplinary action be taken, and
that the university declare the
entire white community had
been derelict in its responsibilities for all persons to enjoy
freedom.
The other student demand,
that a committee evaluate the
"racist curriculum," also was*
agreed to by Miller.

The President said the nation had made some progress

toward# equality but that the
job was not finished. He ended
his statement with the three
words that King made famous: "We shall overcome."
Among those who conferred
with Johnson were Roy Wilkins, executive director of the
National Association for the
Advancement
of
Colored
People; Whitney Young, executive director of the National
Urban League; Bayard Rustin, a New York civil rights
leader; Richard Hatcher, the
Negro mayor of Gary, Ind.;
Walter W. Washington, the Negro mayor of Washington,
D.C.: C l a r e n c e Mitchell,
Washington director of the
NAACP, and Fauntroy, who is
head of the Washington office
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Council King's
civil rights organization.

Blazes Started
in Jackson Cars
JACKSON (AP)Five automobiles were set afire in
Jackson Friday and two motorists reported rocks thrown
through their windshields in
what police described as acts
of harrassment.
Firemen said all five blazes
were started by books of
matches thrown onto front
seats of the cars, one of which
was damaged extensively. All
five autos were parked near
Jackson's predominantly Neg r o South Side neighborhood.

By GEORGE W. CORNELL
Associalxf P r e s s W r i t e r

NEW YORK (AP) Black

and white, religious leaders
looked on Dr. Martin Luther
King with a kind of awe. They
saw something of the Old Testament prophet in him. And
his closest followers looked on
him almost as a messiah.
He had a. "charisma," as
the theologians put it, an inspired quality, an inner force
pressing him on, and firing his
words.
It showed up most obviously
in his eloquence, a sort of
swelling tide that built up as
he went along, carrying him
with it, generating a rhythm
of its own, like a chant or litany, with re-echoing theme
lines.
"I've been to. the mountaintop," he said again and again
in a talk he gave only hours
before he died, the phrase re-

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Clean ...

curring like a keynote. "I've

been to the /nountaintop, and I
see the promised land."
It was a reference to Moses
of old, who viewed the lush
valley of the Jordan from
Mount "Nebo, but who died before he could enter it with his
people, the fugitive slaves
from Egypt.
Asked once about the welsprings of his rhetoric, King
said, "It just comes."
For the last decade, eyer
since the boycott led by him
won integration on Montgomery, Ala., buses in 1955, he has
been a regular feature of major church conventions and
many interfaith conferences.
In a sense. Christian and
Jewish bodies looked to him as
guideas an interpreter, pathfinder and a stimulantin the
tangled, agonizing struggle to
right.the wrongs of racism.
A t his call, an inter-

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denominational army of clergy, including many of the forem o s t churchmen of the

country, converged on Selma,
Ala., in 1965, more than 5,000
priests and ministers in a period of 30 days.
"Walk together children,
don't you get weary," King
told them, along with a host of
others, Negro and white, in
starting the 54-mile march to
the stat^f Capitol in Montgomery.
Again, at his call, the nat i o n ' s religious leadership
joined in mobilizing th^ vast
1963 march of 200,000 on Washington, D.C., a moving sea of
many skin tones and churches
that surrounded the Lincoln
Memorial.
"I have a dream," King told
that remarkable multitude,
the phrase resounding again
and again as he spoke. "I
have a dream that one day on

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the red hills of Georgia the

sons of former slaves and the
sons of former slave-owners
will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
"I have a dream that one
day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering
with the people's injustice,
sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed
into an oasis of freedom and
justice.
"I have a dream that my
four little children will one
day live In a nation where
they will not be judged by the
color'Of their skin but by the
cbntent of their character. '
"I have a dream that one
day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain
shall be made low, the rough
p l a c e s w i l l , be made
plain...and the glory of the
Lord shall be revealed and all
flesh shall see it together."

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just one week after another
march he led flared into brief
window breaking and looting
in the downtown area.
As his body was borne back
to Atlanta Friday by his widow in a chartered plane, union
leaders and civil rights workers throughout the country
continued planning for the
Monday march.
Spokesmen said they anticipated that as many as 40,000
persons from 11 states would
take part, foUowing guidelines
laid.down by a federal judge.
King had termed the strike
by the Memphis garbage men,
98 per cent of them Negroes,
as the second phase in the
fight by Negroes for equal
rights. He said his Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 started
the first phase, the fight for
desegregation, and that the
garbage collectors were now
engaged in the battle for economic equality.
The bullet that killed King
came from a communal bathroom in a flophouse behind the
motel. Police were looking for
the man who had checked into
the place, paying for his $8.50
a week room with a crisp $20
bill.
Bessie Brewer, manager of
the rooming house, told police
the man gave his name as
John - Willard. "He was a
clean, neat man," about six
feet tall, she said.
Charlie Q. Stephens, who
had the room between that
taken by Willard and the bathroom, described the man as
"clean shaven" and that he
had a "loilg, sharp nose. He
had normal eyes and a square
chin, thick hair at the front
and receded on each side."
Others said they saw the
man walk away
after the shot
1
was fired.
Clark, who made an eighthour visit Friday, said evi-.
dence "indicates a single individual" was involved in the
assassination. "There is no
evidence of a widespread
plot."
The investigation already
has widened to several states,
he said, and "will spread as
far as the evidence takes us. It
has already spread several
hundred miles from the boundaries of Tennessee now."
Clark also said that evidence in the case was considerably more than police "usually get in cases likethis," but.,
he refused to elaborate.
"A number of studies of
prints that may establish the
identity" of the sniper are
being made by police and FBI
agents with the aicTof the FBI
laboratory in Washington, he
said.

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crimination in the sale, rental
or lease of about 68 per cent of
the nation's housing and would
make crimes like King's assassination or other violence
against civil rights figures federal offenses.
As the afternoon wore on
and violence, arson and looting mounted in Washington,
Johnson became even graver.
In midafternoon, he ordered
4,000 federal and national
guard troops deployed in the
city. Army units threw cordons
around the White House and
Capitol Hill, and a machine
gun emplacement was set up
at the Capitol building.
In the evening Johnson, who
normally is a model of coolness, was seen coming and going from the situation room in
shirt sleeves, his tie loosened
and shirttail out.
In his television address,
Johnson said:
"Men of all races, all religions, all regions, now must
join together in this hour to
deny violence its victoryand
to fulfill- the vision of brotherhood that gaVe purpose to
Martin Luther King's life and
works.
"But this I do believe deeply: The dream of Martin Luther King has not died with
him."

CREEK

King Awed Church Heads

Officials of WMU Bow

To Demands of Negroes
KALAMAZOO (AP) Officials at Western Michigan
University,
saying
white
America is guilty in the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Friday bowed to the demands
of 400 Negro students who had
held the university Student
Center most of the day.
"We of white America are
guilty by our callousness and
insensitivity," WMU President
James W. Miller said of
King's death in a statement he
read to about 500 white students at a chapel on the university grounds.
"We have created a context
and an atmosphere in which
this evil deed could be done,"
he said. "We at Western Michigan University bear our share
of the burden and the guilt of
this deed."
The Negro students then
filed out of the center and the
crowd of whites broke into applause that continued until the
last Negro had left the Student

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China Blasts Bombing Halt
New York T i m e s Service

TOKYOCommunist China declared today that President.

Johnson's partial halt to the bombing of North Vietnam was a
"smokescreen" to cover further escalation of the war and
urged the Communists in Vietnam to continue fighting.
"Peace will return to Vietnam only after the Vietnamese
people win victories in the batUefield and drive the U.S. aggressors out," the Chinese Communist press agency, Hsinhua,
declared in a Chinese language broadcast monitored ihere.

May Delay Academy Awards

HOLLYWOOD (AP)Actor Gregory Peck says Monday
night's Academy Awards program may be cancelled or postponed because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
A meeting of academy members was scheduled today with
a decision expected tonight. Peck said Friday. He is president
of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Sour Negro performersSammy Davis Jr., Diahann
Carroll, Sidney Poitier and Louis Armstronghave withdrawn
from the ceremonies out of respect for the slain civil rights
leader.

HemisFair Opens Long Run

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)Six years of planning and
the imagination and money of many men culminated today in
the inaugural of HemisFair '68, a story in exhibit form of the
cultures that blended into the Americas.
Simultaneous ceremonies swung open the main gates of
HemisFair's 92.6 acres at 9:30 a.m. EST for a six-month run
to end Oct. 6.

Female Dynamo Gets New Job

LONDON (AP)In a Labor government reshufle Friday
night, a female dynamo who once said her politics were as
red as her hair moved up to the sixth-ranking Cabinet position.
She's Barbara Castle, 56, formerly transport minister, now
by appointment of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the secretary of state for employment and productivity. She thus takes
charge of controlling prices and incomea keystone of the
Labor government's austerity campaign to make devaluation
work.
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Replace Lost Swing-Wings

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP)Two . U.S. Air Force F111A
aircraft arrived at the Takli Royal Thai airbase Friday to
replace the two swing-wing craft that were lost last week, a
U.S. Embassy spokesman said.
The spokesman said the two fighter-bombers arrived from
Nevada. The Takli base is about 150 miles north of Bangkok

Fires Flare Through Washington

WASHINGTON Smoke rises from burning buildings in downtown
Washington Friday as renewed looting and arson broke out. The flag
in foreground, with the words "Justice on the Job," flies under the American Flag from the top of the Machinists Building. (AP Wirephoto)

Racial Violence ...

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with his throat cut, a man was
Guardsmen were injured in an killed when a wall collapsed
exchange of gunfire with sni- and a man died after he was
pers near the predominantly beaten and stabbed early FriNegro North Carolina A&T day, Washington officials reState University in Greens- ported, but one of these was
boro. Guard troops also were said to have been in a holdup
and unrelated.
called to Raleigh and Durham.
Two Negro men were killed
S o m e w i n d o w s were
smashed in midtown Manhat- by snipers in Chicago. Another
tan as groups of Negro yoflths Negro man was shot and
moved into the Times Square- killed by police after officers
theater district area of New said the man opened fire on
York, but the Harlem and them. A fourth man was found
B e d f o r d Stuyyesant Negro dead in a burned out grocery
areas were relatively peaceful store. Two others were found
after sporadic violence the shot to death, one in an alley,
one behind a looted store.
night before.
Trouble also was reported in
At least 20 buildings burned
Philadelphia, Wichita, Kan., to the ground in Chicago,
Oakland and Palo Alto, Calif., more than 150 were arrested
Denver, Hartford, Conn., Jef- and some 200 treated at hospiferson City, Mo., Albany, tals for injuries.
Freeport and Buffalo, N.Y.,
A 19-yearK)Id white youth
Toledo, Ohio, South Bend, burned to death in Tallahassee
Ind., Trenton, N.J., Portland, when a store was firebombed.
Ore., Pike Bluff, Ark., AtlanPhiladelphia Mayor James
ta, Ga.
H.J. Tate declared a state of
T h e incendiary fires in emergency as a precautionary
Washington were reported un- measure. The order closed
der control by 11 p.m.
bars and banned the gathering
One of the deaths in the na- of 12 or more persons and the
tion's capital was that of a carrying of weapons. Trouble
14year-old boy. The circum- also was reported in Pittsstances were uncertain. One burgh, Erie and Lancaster.
report said a policeman's gun
Police and Negroes exwent off accidentally as the of- changed gunfire in downtown
ficer tried to stop several Pine Bluff, Ark., after six fireyouths looting a store. .
bombs were thrown in the
A looter was shot and killed city, police reported. There15
by police, a man was found were no reports of injuries.

Khe Sanh Troops

Greet Relief Force
SAIGON (UPI)Troops of a
massive allied relief force
landed at Khe Sanh today for
the first time since the Qommunist siege began 76 days
ago. As they did, frontline
dispatches disclosed the North
Vietnamese h a d introduced
surface-to-air SAM missiles inton the Khe Sanh area.
The Communists had brought
the Soviet-built SAM missiles
to the Demilitarized Z o n e
DMZ earlier but this was the
first report they had set up
SAM bases in South Vietnam
itself. The missiles apparently
were brought down the Ho Chi
Minh Trail through Laos.
UPI correspondent P e r r y
Young reported seeing one
missile fired from just West of
Khe Sanh today. The telephone pole-shaped rocket took
off with a blast of smoke at a
45-degree angle, apparently
aimed at planes bombing supply lines in Laos. At least two
others were reported from the
same area.
The SAMs are the Communists' best weapon against
American B52 stratofortresses,
and although no B52s had
been lost to the missiles fear
of the SAMs is one reason the
eight-engine jets rarely fly
over North Vietnam.
The first allied troops to
land at Khe Sanh were a company 'of South Vietnamese
paratroopers who flew in by
helicopter to be greeted by the
U.S. Marine defenders who

King
Service...
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rights leader brought him international fame.
'
King's body will lie in state
at Spelman College for 48
hours beginning at 4 p.m. today. The body will be taken tp
the church Monday and the funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m.^
Tuesday.
The service will be led by
Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, retired president of Morehouse
College and King's former
teacher and friend.
After the funeral, mourners
will march several blocks to
Morehouse College, King's
alma mater, for a memorial
service on the school's quadrangle.
King will be buried at South
View Cemetery, alongside his
grandparents.
His widow returned to her
home Friday after completing
the funeral arrangements.
The house was filled with
friends, white and Negro, who
had been busy answering
phones, preparing food and
sorting the thousands of telegrams that poured in from
throughout the world.
The messages were representative of all walks of life,
from heads of state who knew
King as an equal to slum-dwellers .who followed him as a
messiah.'
One, a woman in New York,
said "I am a nobody, but I'm
sorry."

Youth Charge
Through Capitol

ran whooping and cheering

from their bunkers to greet
them. Others were flown in by
LANSING (UPI)About 200
plane.
white
and Negro youths shoutAt the same time the Leathing,
"We
want Romney," Friernecks who had captured
day
stormed
through Capitol
Hill 441 a mile south of Khe
oors and headed for Gov.
Sanh and then held it agamst
eorge Romney's office only
suicidal North Vietnamese/asto
be turned back by Negro
saults linked up with troopls of
leaders.
the 1st Air Cavalry Mobile) DiRomney had spoke to the
vision which landed there by
group
only minutes before.
helicopter.
What
started out as a peaceThe Marines pulled back
ful demonstration in front of
from the scarred mountain top
the Capitol nearly turned into
and headed toward another
a disturbance when youths
ridge knowfT to be occupied
heeded the call, "If he won't
by North Vietnamese. Later
come out, let's go in?" The
an entire cavalry battalion retrouble
came after Romney
placed them, moving into the
had
returned
to his office and
Communist-dug bunkers that
a
number
of
Michigan State
had sheltered t h e Marines
University
students,
about
from the Communist attack.
half
of
them
white,
turned
up
The bodies of 70 or more
later.
North Vietnamese still hung
They stormed up two flights
on the barbed wire defenses."
of stairs toward Romney's ofThe Leathernecks who had
fice. it's doors locked and
withstood the long siege were
lights off. "We want Jtomhappy at arrival of the reinney," they yelled.
forcements and a bit deriThey were stopped at the
sive.
corridor to the executive office
by the Rev. Archibald Mosley
of the Trinity Church of LanEx-Actress Dies
sing and by State Rep. RayHOLLYWOOD ((AP) Lois mond Hood, D-Detroit. Both
Andrews, 43, former actress are Negroes.
Mosley and Hood, shouting
who was once the wife of codown
the students, said "Rommedian George Jessel, died
Friday. She had been in poor ney came out and spoke to us
health for some time. Miss An- once, and t h a t . should be
enough."
drews married Jessel when
The youths protested but
she was 16. They were didrifted away.
vorced two years later.

Czech Cabinet Resigns

PRAGUE (AP)The Czechoslovak Cabinet resigned today paving the way for a sweeping government reshuffle
with Oldrich Cernik as the new premier, the news agency
CTK said.
The Communist party's central committee nominated
the 47-year-old Cernik Thursday to form a new governmnet.
It called on Communist members in the cabinet to resign.
The Cabinet agreed today, "after a short discussion," CTK
said.

Union Good. Friday

Service in Marshall
MARSHALL1 Union Good
Friday services will be held
next week from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
at both Trinity Episcopal
Church and the First Presbyterian Church.
The services will be in
charge of the Marshall Ministerial Association, and ministers from throughout the
community will participate.
Congregations of Faith Reformed Church and the First
Baptist Church will join Sunday evening for services at
Faith Reformed Church. This
is the third in a series of combined services. The Rev. Dennis DeHaan of the First Baptist Church will bring the message. Singing will be offered
by the junior choir of the host
church. A fellowship will follow the service.
The primary and youth
choirs of the First Presbyterian Church, under the direction of Miss Margie Gage,
will perform at the morning
worship service. For his sermon, the Rev. John-W. Marvin
has chosen "Lift Up Your
Heads."
M e n ' s Lenten fellowship
breakfast will be held Wedhesday at 7 a.m. at Mt. Hope Lutheran Church.
A special Good Friday service for children of Mt. Hope
Lutheran Church will be held
there at 10:30 a.m. Friday.
For his sermon Sunday the
Rev. Richard Schultz has chosen the message "Procession
to Life." At the service of
Holy Communion at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, his sermon topic
title is "Given and Shed."
A Quiet Evening service will
be observed Tuesday from
5:15 to 9 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church. Leader will be
the Rev. Dennis Odekirk, rec-

tor of St. John's parish, Sturgis. A supper will follow at the

parish house.
Maundy Thursday services
will open at 7 a.m. with Holy
Eucharist and breakfast. Continuing Holy Eucharist services will be held at 10 a.m.,
5:15 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Maundy Thursday vesper
services will be held at 7:30
p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church.
At the same hour on Friday, a
Good Friday service will be
held including the celebration
of the Lord's Supper.
For his sermon Sunday, the
Rev. T. R. Taykowski has chosen "Don't Stop Now." The
children of the church will
study the lesson "When Jesus
Died for Us." .
A church school contest
opens this Sunday at Calvary
Baptist Church. Theme of the
contest is "Crown Him King."
Winners will be determined on
the number of points they receive. Prizes will be awarded,
and at the close a king and
queen will be chosen.
For his sermon Sunday
morning, the Rev. Myrl G.
Ross has chosen the title "A
Message for the Mess We Are
In."
The Rev. Charles Manker of
Brooks Memorial Methodist
Church will present the sixth
in a series of Lenten Sermons,
Sunday, entitled "Discovering
the Kingdom of God." At 7:30
p.m. Sunday, the Rev. Mr.
Manker will preach at the
Birchwood Methodist Church
in Battle Creek.
. For his sermons Sunday, the
Rev. Dale B. Nye has chosen
the titles "King for a Day" for
the morning service, and ' T h e
Potter" for the evening service.

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This is one letter but concerns two of us Kellogg Community College students since our stories are almost the same,
word for word. The other student and myself are sophomores
at KCC, married and rely heavily on the benefits we are
supposed to receive un/der the GI bill. At the start of each
semester we've had to wait about two months after school
started for our checks. This time I've not received any money since the semester began in January. I might add we're
not the only veterans who are having trouble of this kind.
P.A.S., Battle Creek.
You and your chum can look for checks covering 25 days
in February and all of March along about April 10. The
Veterans Administration office in Detroit says that students
approved for GI bill benefits are informed to expect at least
a two-month waiting period before the checks begin to arrive
after a new semester begins. The schools attended by the exGFs have certain procedures to go through before the papers
are sent to the VA where processing takes about 30 days. In
your cases, the school sent the papers March 7 and processing began the next day.

Sixteen persons have died in

racial disorders since King
was killed Thursday night, including nine in Chicago, and
four in Washington. Parts of
both cities were heavily damaged by fire. Twp youths died
in Detroit and one in Tallahassee, Fla.
Police in Washington had at
least a dozen reports of looting
within 90 minutes of the lifting
Saturday morning of a darkto-dawn curfew imposed by
By BRIAN SULLIVAN
city officials.
Associated Press Writer
In Pittsburgh, roving bands
Racial violence spawned by of Negroes smashed -windows
the murder of Dr. Martin Lu-' and looted stores in several
ther King Jr. subsided at sections before police restored
order. A white man driving to
dawn today in most cities work was" shot, but he was rewracked by disturbances. In ported in satisfactory condithe nation's capital new loot- tion. Police said about 90 aring was reported after a cur- reste were made during the
night.
few was lifted.
W A S H I N G T O N (UPI)
Crack paratroopers and
marines moved into the nation's capital today to help
army and national guard
troops prevent any renewal of
violence which claimed five
lives. Looting and arson began
to increase again after an allnight curfew expired at dawn.
In Chicago more Guardsmen
were called as sniper fire and
looting broke out again.

See pictures on Pages 2 and

10.
National Guard troops and
police restored a measure of
calm today in Chicago after a
night of firebombing, shooting
and looting. "The situation is
under control, said Brig. Gep.
Richard T. Dunn, emergrtcy
commander of the Guard.
Chicago was hit by waves of
fires, shootings and looting iii
a predominantly Negro West
Side area Friday night and
early today. Some 3,000 Nat i o n a 1 Guardsmen shuttled
from one trouble spot to the
next. At least 20 buildings
were burned to the ground.
Federal troops, ordered by
President Johnson, guarded
the White House and Capitol
after aiding police and National Guardsmen to bring a rag-

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I'm calling about an article tb?>t annparpil in thp nan*r

several weeks ago about the Roman Catholic Church's stand
on Catholics joining Masonic orders. I haven't seen anything
since and wonder if the Vatican has permitted' Roman Catholics to join the Masons or if the ban is still in effect?Richard Kline, Battle Creek.
A United Press International story from Vatican City
that appeared in the Enquirer and New March 11 stated that,
according to Vatican sources. Catholics are now free to join
the Masons in the United States, Britain and most other
countries of the world. The Vatican sources said that there
had been no official revocation of the excommunication law
but that the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith "has let it be known that Catholics joining Free Masons are no longer automatically excommunicated."

I was laid off from work at VI tJ.S. Army Corps on Feb.

23. I am eligible for unemployment, compensation but as yet
neither I nor anyone else who was laid off has been able to
draw any money. We've been told the money has to be appropriated but where's the money gone which had already been
put into this fund? People who are without funds have no
income and still have to report at the unemployment office
each week and they are told they will have to wait. When will
we be getting our money?Mrs. E.M., Ceresco.
Funds for unemployment compensation payments to federal employes and veterans were exhausted in the U.S.
March 15. And there won't be any additional funds until Congress can act on a supplemental request for funds. Meanwhile, it's required that unemployed federal workers must
continue to report and file their claims as long as they are
unemployed. The branch Employment Security offices will
be notified soon as funds are available. The compensation
money is just a part of the supplemental aid bill which is still
in^committee. Jlep. Gary Brown said it won't take long to
report the bill out once it can be determined how much is
needed and that figure hinges on manpowei^eeds in Vietnam.

About a year ago we had our kitchen floor tiled. The

cement began oozing through the tile and I called the company in November. I was told the only way to correct the
situation was to replace the Entire floor. After Christmas the
manager told me the tile company representative would have
to look at it. I'm still waiting for his visit. MRS. R. G.,
Battle Creek.
Company records show it's been somewhat more than a
year. Installation was completed in June, 1965. While the oneyear labor guarantee of the firm that laid the tile expired
June 22, 1966, the tile manufacturer representative will be out
to see you the next time he is in town. A snow storm
prompted him to cancel his previously scheduled visit here.

INSIDE T O D A Y
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a charter member of the Morning
Challengers; and left rear, Mrs. Edward Melville of 580 W. Main, Mendon, and Mrs. Louis Ormsbee of Bellevue, president of the Button Poppers.
(Staff Photo by Jack Stubbs)

More than 2,500 delegates to the

TOPS and KOPS state convention
signed in here Friday with club banners for display at the Post Tavern
official headquarters. Mrs. Henry
Wildschmtz, from left, of 217 Bradley St., displays some of the outstand-

"Neat, Clean Man" Hunted

As FBI Widens Its Search
MEMPHIS, T6nn. (AP) A
neat, clean man with a long,
sharp nosethe type of man
who seems out of place in a
flophousewas the object of a
widening search today as the
assassin of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
Both U.S. Atty. Gen. Ramsay Clark and Frank Hollo-

man, city police director, said

they were optimistic of a
break soon. But no arrests
were announced and police declined to reveal details of their
investigation.
King, the chief exponent of
nonviolence in the civil rights
struggle, was slain by a single
bullet Thursday night as he
leaned over the second-floor

balcony of a motel, talking

with aides on the ground.
He had come back to Memphis to lead a mass march in
support of striking garbage
workers, and he was killed
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ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. will
return for the last time Monday to the small Negro church
where he and his father
Page preached the doctrines of hu5 man dignity and nonviolence.
King's widow asked that his
5
funeral
be held at the Ebene14'
zer
Baptist
church, which had
9, 10
been a touchstone for her husband throughout his turbulent

career.
That career was ended in
Memphis, Tenn., Thursday by
an assassin's bullet.
The Rev. Martin Luther
King Sr. was pastor of Ebenezer when the slain Negro leader was bom. It was in this
church that the younger King
grew up and it was where he
returned as co-pastor with his
father after his role as a civil
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This is an artist's conception of

the man believed to be Dr.
Martin Luther King's assassin.
Memphis Commercial Appeal
artist Bill Herrington drew
this pencil sketch.
(AP Wirephoto)

Peace Talks Crawling Forward

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
giers the United States had not
replied to his government's
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. proposal for preliminary disofficials report arrangements cussions.
"In accordance with the
with North Vietnam for pre- President's statement of April
liminary discussions on peace 4," the State Department said,
talks are "moving forward" "We immediately proceeded
very slowly but are still on the to take steps to establish contact. ApparenUy the deputy
track.
The State Department offi- foreign minister is not fully incially disclosed Friday night formed."
Johnson announced Sunday
the North Vietnamese have
been notified through diplo- a limited bombing halt over
matic channels that President North Vietnam and asked for
Johnson has agreed to "estab- peace talks. Hanoi responded
Wednesday morning with a
lish contact." -statement it was ready to

The unintended disclosure make contact. Several hours

was forced, officials said, by a later Johnson announced: "We
vreport that North Vietnam's will establish contact."
That was followed by the ofD e p u t y Foreign Minister
Hoang Van Loi had said, in Al- ficial word through diplomatic

channels and officials said

Friday night they were waiting for President Ho Chi Minh
to make the next move.
President Johnson's cancellation Friday of his- Hawaii
conference with his top Saigon
officials did not affect the
peace talk prospects in any
way, administration officials
said.

trip to the Pacific could be

achieved in Washington.
Diplomats said they thought
Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker
would also show up in Washington in a day or so though
they had no definite word on
his plans.
Johnson canceled his Pacific
trip because of developments

follpwing the murder of Dr.

Martin Luther King. But the
subsequent announcement that
Westmoreland was coming to
Washington meant that despite his preoccupation with
the homefront crisis Johnson
intended to spend as much
time as possible on the crisis
in Vietnam ..

The White House announced

G e n . W i H i a m C. Westmoreland, the U.S". commander in Vietnam who was to
have attended the Honolulu
conference this weekend, was
coming to Washington instead.
He arrived at the White House
this morning.
So it appeared a major purpose of Johnson's abandoned

Evening Prayer
.

ing Negro outburst under control. Some 350 persons were

injured, 2,000 arrested.
Washington, Detroit and
Memphis were under cjirfew.
National Guardsnrfen were
also backing up police in Detroit and the greater. Boston
area. A unit of 500 guardsmen
moved into Pine Bluff, Ark., to
keep peace after police and
Negroes exchanged sporadic
gunfire during the night.
Guard troops operating from
armored personnel carriers in
Nashville flushed snipers from
buildings on the campus of
Tennessee A&I University.
Two students were wounded,
neither seriously.
Five policemen and National
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Forces
Calm
Detroit
DETROIT (AP) . Detroit,
less than nine months ago the
scene of the nation's worst recent outbreak of racial violence, was calm today after
authorities moved state and
l o c a l police and National
Guardsmen swiftly to quell
violence following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh,
saying, "We think it is better
to overreact than underreact,"
and Gov. George Romney,
c a l l i n g his moves "precautionary steps," quickly
committed city police. State
Police and National Guard
troops to action in Detroit.
Gov. Romney today extended his curfew and state of
emergency orders in the Detroit area at- least through
Sunday night. He said he will
determine Monday morning
whether the curfew will be
continued.
Two persons died, both of
them 18-year-old Negro youths
shot by police at the scene of
lootings. One of the youths
backed into an officer who
was searching him, causing
the officer's gun to discharge,
officials said.
Otherwise, the city remained calm overnight. "It's
quieter than normal," a Detroit Police lieutenant said this^
morning.
T h r e e p e r s o n s were
wounded, all of them shot by
police. Three policemen^ere
reported injured by flymg^objects or splintered glass, none
of them seriously.
At 5 a.m., police reported 38
fires, only three new ones
since midnight. There were
311 arrests, well over 100 of
them for violation of curfew or
o t h e r emergency restrictions.
Police officials said both the
number of fires and arrests
were about normal for a Friday night.

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stands guard on the Senate steps of the Capitol.
Federal troops were called into Washington by
order of President Johnson during a day of arson
and looting Friday. Four persons were killed during the turmoil. (AP Wirephoto)

Weary LB J
Vigil
By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI Whita H o w * R c p o r t t r

W A S H I N G T O N (UPI)
President Johnson, weary
and red-eyed from lost sleep,
kept vigil over the national racial crisis today from a White
House ringed with federal
troops.
. As reports from tense cities
around the nation streamed
into the White House situation
room which normally keeps
track of international upheavals, Johnson was never far
away. .
Even the Vietnam War took
a back seat to the domestic
violence flowing from the slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.,
,
The President went on television to address the nation
for the second time in 24 hours
Friday, telling his listeners
"America shall not be ruled
by bullets" and calling on Congress to hold a joint meeting
to consider new measures he
will propose to improve the lot
of the Negro.
He asked Congress to meet

no later than 9 p.m. EST Monday "to hear the President's

recommendations and suggestions for action, constructive
action instead of destructive
action in this hour of national
need." His address will be
broadcast live on radio and
/ television.
Before addressings the meeting Johnson met with civil
rights and governmentleaders
summoned from across the
nation to help deal with the
violence, arson and looting
sweeping the nation's cities.
Later the group went to the
Washington National Cathedral, where Johnson, his face
haggard from fatigue, bowed
his head in sorrow as Dr. King
was eulogized by one of the
slain civil rights leader's closest aides. The Rev. Walter
Fauntroy of Washington.
The President did not indicate what he had in mind for
his address to Congress, but it
was almost certain a priority
item would be an appeal for
House passage of the Senatepassed civil rights bill.
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City Pledges Disturbance

Charges Will Be Dropped

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Racial V i o l e n c e
Gradually Ebbing

Is there any place in Battle Creek where canoes can be

rented? Three friends "and I are planning a canoe trip on the
Kalamazoo River from Albion to Saugatuck, but have no
canoes. Dave Egnatuck, Albion.
Couldn't find anyone in Battle Creek who rents canoes,
but you'll be hearing from Bob Wikstrom, the tennis coach at
Albion College where you're a freshman. He knows of some
college people who own canoes and maybe something can be
arranged.

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Mayor Kool t o d a y proclaimed Sunday "as a day of

prayer for racial tolerance
and racial peace in our town"
and urged "that all citizens
attend their churches tomorrow."
By DICK COLBY
Local leaders both black
and whiteanticipate another
quiet night here after an "11th
hour" decision by city commissioners apparently quieted a threat of racial violence
Friday night.
Mayor Preston J. Kool climaxed a tense, yet calm meeting with a Negro delegation
in Lincoln School by announcing steps to dismiss charges
against most of the 33 people
arrested during a demonstration sparked by the Memphis,
Tenn., murder of Dr. Martin
Luther King.
Dismissal of the charges
was termed the key demand
in a list of 20 presented by
the delegation, which included, among others, William E;
Boards Jr., executive director of the local Yoimg Adult
Council of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, Herbert L.
Tillman, chairman of the local
chapter of the Congress of
Racial Equality, Timothy R.
Laws, Young Adult Council
president,. Milton J . Robinson, executive director of the
Battle Creek Area U r b a n

League, the Rev. Gilbert L.

Jackson, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Mrs. Lillian McGee and Mrs. 'Selena
Smith.
Present along with the City
Commission were members of
the Battle Creek school board.
Other demands ranged from
removal of a Battle Creek
High School coach to establishment of a Negro youth ad-

visory council to serve in an

advisory capacity to the Civic
Recreation Department.
Some demands were accepted, others partially agreed to
after negotiation and still others not aired at all.' None was
completely rejected, however.
The delegation spoke for
a group of approximately 250,
predominantly-young Negroes
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USS New Jersey

Is Recommissioned
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
The battleship USS New Jersey, bound for Vietnam duty
after 10 years in mothballs,
was recommissioned Saturday
in colorful ceremonies viewed
by several thousand invited
guests at Philadelphia Naval
Base.
"We salute her captain and
her crew," Navy Secretary
Paul R. Ignatius said in prepared remarks, "wish them
Godspeed and smooth sailing,
and express our confidence
that she will be a worthy
champion of her country's
cause in the difficult days that
lie ahead."
Ignatius' coupled his remarks with a plea for the
United States to see the Viet-

nam war "through to a satisfactory

conclusion."
4
The morale of the crew is
excellent," he said. "They are
ready to do their job. But their
patience, determination and
courage must be matched by
our own.
"For neither this battleship
nor all the ships of the United
States Fleet, nor all our men
in uniform, can succeed without the support and understanding of the American
people."
The 1400-man crew of the
New Jerseyhalf the normal
ship's complementlined the
b a t t l e w a g o n ' s freshly
scrubbed decks for the ceremony. Guests viewed the
traditional naval pageantry
from dockside.

THE

BATTLE

CREEK

iilllPP^

ENQUIRER

A N D /N E W S

Sunday, July 30 f 1967

AAillage Vote Holds Fate

ss in West
' Of Harper Creek Contract
Dies
Ex-Aibionite,
unn

.ii,'- i-

ALBION Services will be A master contract for teachheld at 10 a.m. Monday in Fort ers of the Harper Creek ComCollins, Colo., for Miss Jose- munity Schools, already tentaphine (Jo) Dunn, 70, who died tively approved, is at stake in
there Friday after an illness of a special millage election Monday.
several days.
Miss Dunn had resided with Members of the Harper Creek
a sister, Miss Dorothy Dunn, af- Education Association and the
of education, in urging a
ter retiring in June, 1962, as board
"yes"
vote on the proposal,
director of women's physical have pointed
out that the milleducation at Albion College, a age requested is necessary to
post she had held since 1929. maintain quality education and
She was bom Dec. 4, 1896, in continued operation of a comFort Collins, a daughter of Al- plete school program.
bert and Sarah (LiUlefield) The proposal is for an addiDunn. She attended school there tional levy of 7 mills for 1967and in 1920 was graduated from
Oberlin College.
Miss Dunn taught at State
College of Education in California, Pa., from 1920-1924; at
Tulare, Calif., Union High School
from 1924-1925, and at Fort Collins High School from 1925-1929. DETROIT (UPI)Two banShe was also a member of the dits, both carrying guns, enFort Collins YMCA staff.
tered a downtown jewelry store
Miss Dunn received her mas- Friday and fled with $100,000
ter's degree from Columbia Uni- worth of gems.
versity. She had completed post Police said the two men blindgraduate study at Colorado Col- folded and tied the store's ownlege, the University of Colora- er, Herbert Segal, and a womdo, Mills College, Stanford Uni- an employe,, scooped up the
versity and the University of merchandise and fled.
Southern California.
At Albion, Miss Dunn was an Sheriff Inches Off
officer of the Faculty Women's
League of Albion College and LOS ANGELES (AP) Sherthe Camp Guardians Associa- iff Peter J. Pitchess moved an
tion. She instructed Red Cross inch closer today to finding 200
first aid courses during World more deputy sheriffs whom he
War II and had served as a re- has been unable to recruit.
g i n a 1 representative in the Pitchess said men 5 feet 7
Camp Fire movement. She had or taller may apply. The minibeen honored many times for mum height until now has been
her Camp Fire work. She was 5 feet 8.
active in local Red Cross work.
She was a member of the Local Scouts Score
First Methodist Church of AlIn Swimming Meet
bion and the PEO Sisterhood.
Miss Dunn had been treasurer
Five Battle Creek Boy Scouts
of both the Midwest and Na- helped Camp Mikquano, Nelsontional Associations of Physical ville. Wis., win a swim meet
Education for College Women. with Camp Wapaca, another
Surviving in addition to her Wisconsin facility.
sister are two brothers, A. H. Ray Nagel placed in two
Dunn Jr. of Pelham, N.Y., and events. Pat Hert won a first in
J. P. Dunn of Los Angeles, Calif. the freestyle race. Kirk Holtzkemper placed second in the
back stroke. Jeff Colquhoun had
a first in the freestyle and back
stroke. Jeff Parlin had two first
places.

Jewel Loot:

$100,000

Church Ground Breaking Set Today

This is an artist's conception of the Cathedral
Church of Christ the King, Episcopal Diocese of
Western Michigan, for which ground will be broken
today in Kalamazoo. Bishop Charles E. Bennison

will officiate. Cost of the church, designed by Chicago architect Irving Colburn, will be $1,250,000.
The building will feature a circular altar.
(AP Wirephoto)

Red Cross Bloodmobile Due Friday;

County's Annual Goal: 6,000 Units

The Calhoun County Chapter blood in the n a t i o n ' s blood land vastly stepped-up medical treatment, gamma globulin for
of the American Red Cross is banks.
1 research have created a need p r e v e n t i n g and modifying
out for blood! Yours!
The fact is, however, there is for human blood far greater measles and hepatitis, fibrinogen
With a last July 1-to-June 30, not enough blood available for than were the nonmilitary needs for hemorrhaging in childbirth,
vaccinia immune globulin for
1968 county quota of 6,000 units, everybody in the United States. before.
(pints) the chapter Friday will And while the Red Cross re- The Red Cross supplies 50 per complications from vaccination,
hold its first blood collection gional blood center in Lansing cent of the blood in the nation. fresh frozen plasma for condrive since replacing Blood Do- provided blood for Calhoun Its role as program director in trolling bleeding in hemophilia
nor Registry as the agency County between the Registry's Calhoun County allows residents and red cells for anemia.
closing and Red Cross' official to receive free blood anywhere, The first step following donahere.
The initial drive is scheduled entrance earlier this month, it: a life-saving matter for motor- tion is the typing of the donor's
blood into main groups such as Looking for a chance to "get
for the new wing basement of also has many other counties to ists.
worry
about.
I
Donated
blood
must
be
used
A,
B, AB and O and into sub-i away from it all" next weekthe Community Services BuildThe
sharp
increase
in
the
fre-.
within
21
days.
After
that
its
groups
such as M, N and Rh; end?
ing between 10:30 a.m. and 4:30
quency
of
new,
life-saving
operaplasma
is
extracted
for
the
blood
factor.
The
blood then is stored I The youth summer employ
p.m. Aug. 4.
ment and recreation program of
All residents meeUng age and tionsopen-heart surgery, kid- derivatives such as s e r u m in hospitals until needed.
health standards are urged to ney transplants and the like albumin for emergency shock Typing allows quick and easy the Calhoun Community Action
matching between patients and Agency has reserved the Outgive May 17. Lack of donors
blood
needed. The Red Cross too door Camping Center at Wilderhere resulted in the Registry's
is
noted
for its access to rare- ness State Park next Saturday
demise.
type blood.
and Sunday.
"There is no substitute for
Red Cross also has blood- The center, on Carp Lake 11
whole blood," says Anthony R.
mobilesone will be used Fri- miles west of Mackinaw City,
Spormann, Red4 Cross executive
daywhich
carry the supplies will accommodate 96 people.
director here. 'You must have
necessary
to
set up blood col- Edmund R. Morris, agency depdonors. We will provide service
lection
facilities.
as long as the community suputy director, wants to make it a
But the most important com- "family affair"48 fathers and
ports us."
ponent is the volunteer donor. sons and 48 mothers and daughRed Cross, which has manned
Blood can't be manufactured.
an office in the county since
ters.
1916, is funded by the United
The trip is free for those who
Community Services' U n i t e d
qualify. Campers must provide
Torch Drive, the Albion Comtheir own bedding and health
m u n i t y Chest, the Marshall
Milton J.
and comfort items.
United Community Chest and the
Robinson
Interested persons should conHomer Area United Fund.
tact
the agency at 182 W. Van
There is a big myth throughout much of the nationa
But, as Mr. Spormann notes,
Buren
St!
money is meaningless in a blood myth that welfare rolls are filled with Negroes and chiselers
The
Athens
Indian
Holiness
who don't want to work.
program without donors.
Recent newspaper and magazine articles have helped Camp on M-60 between Athens
Unfortunately, many people
perpetrate
this myth by not showing a complete picture of and Union City is holding its
feel there is no need to worry
our
welfare
policies and welfare recipients. Too frequently Miss'onary Day today.
about an adequate supply of
Rev. Harry Stanley, missionwe find articles containing statements like this: "Jobs are
ary
to Haiti, will be the speaker
going begging throughout the country because relief clients
LOS ANGELES (AP)
at
the
10:30 a.m. service and
won't take the low-paid employment available to unskilled
Apartment
house
manager
Rev.
William
Gale,
field
repreWorkers."
James
H.
Anderson
told
police
sentative for the Brainerd Indian
School, will be the speaker at he was standing in the parking
lot of a bank, carrying a plastic
Figures recently released by the White House should the 2:30 p.m. service.
bag with $3,000 in cash and
Missionary
Day
is
part
of
the
help to clarify this situation.
checks
ready for deposit, when
annual
Indian
Holiness
Camp
CHARLOTTEThe second anThere are 7.3 million people in the United Slates getting
he
stopped
to light a cigar.
activities.
The
camp
will
be
held
nual Aluminum Extrusions Corp, some form of welfare aid. A little more than two million
through
Aug.
6.
Suddenly,
as a car whizzed by
scholarship a w a r d s totaling are aged, 700,000 are blind or handicapped, 3.5 million are
The
meeting
is
open
to
the
the
motorist
reached out and
$2,500 have been announced. children and the rest are the parents of those children who
public.
Meals
are
served
on
the
snatched
the
bag
from AnderFour of the five award recipients are unable to support them.
free-will
offering
plan.
.
son's
hand
and
sped
away.
are graduates of Charlotte High
Almost a million of these are mothers who can't leave
School.
their children to go to work, while most of the 150,000 fathers
The winners were selected by on welfare are handicapped in one way or another. The rethe AE scholarship commitee port concluded that of the total number of welfare recipients
composed of: Clyde A. Fulton; only 50,000less than 1 per centare able to work.
the Rev. W. N. Malottke, rector
of St. John's Episcopal Church;
Dr. George R. Myers, director
These people don't sound like chiselers to me. They are
of student teachers at M.S.U.;
the Rev. John F* S h i n n e r s, people who may have met with misfortune in life, or are
pastor of St. Mary's Catholic victims of a system which has failed them.
At the National Conference on Social Welfare last May,
Church; and John B. Smith, asI
heard
New York's Commissioner of Welfare, Mitchell I.
sistant superintendent of CharGinsburg,
say the welfare system was "designed to save
lotte schools.
money
rather
than people, and the tragedy is that it does
Two of the students received
neither."
r e n e w a l s for scholarships
For example, this nation reveres the family and everyawarded last year.
one
agrees that a strong family unit is essential to society,
Coquette Vale, 20, daughter of
Mrs. Dora L. Klaiss, is a senior yet the welfare system actually helps break up many famat Michigan State where she is ilies.
Children who receive welfare in the Aid to Dependent
majoring in special education;
Children
program in many states often pay for the aid by
Sue Force, 19, daughter of Mr.
losing
their
fathers. That's because of the "man-in-the-house"
and Mrs. Carroll B. Force is a
rule
which
forbids
assistance to the children if there is an
sophomore at M.S.U. in the
able-bodied
man
living
with them. In many states this rule
liberal arts field.
Three y o u n g men were is enforced by night raids to check whether a man is in the
awarded scholarships which may home. "These raids are also'conducted without search warbe renewed annually for a max-i rants or voluntary consent," according to a recent issue of
Time magazine.
imum of four years.
Ronald D. Ball, 18, son of Mrs.;
Luella M. Bail, will a t t e n d
It appears to me, as a professional social worker, that
Olivet College to study chemwelfare
policies like these are antiquated.
istry; Alan Woodbeck, 18, son of
The other myth about welfare is that Negroes gravitate
Mr. and Mrs. Gayle Woodbeck
will attend Lansing Community to big cities because welfare payments are better there.
College to prepare for a business This is false, according to the statistics of the White House
VALUES TO $37.95.
career, Michael E. Castner, 17. report, which said that only about a third of welfare recipiSelected styles from
son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith E. ents are Negro.
our stock are
Thomas Keenan, director of the Calhoun County DepartCastner, is a 1967 graduate of
REDUCED for a
Lansing's Michigan School for ment of Social Services told me that of the total number of
limited time only.
the Blind. He will attend Olivet cases handled by his office, the percentage of Negro cases
Good
selection, but
is
slightly
less
than
the
national
average
of
33
per
cent.
College to prepare for entrance
not
all
sizes in
He
described
the
total
case
load
as
follows:
Aid
to
Dependto law school.
all
styles.
Two pairs
ent
Children
868,
Old
Age
Assistance
802,
Aid
to
the
Blind
This scholarship program was
and
Disabled
311,
Medical
Aid
543
and
direct
cases
of
reare
a
good
investment!
established in 1966 to assist quallief
207.
ified children of AE employes
Mr. Keenan, who is also a professional social worker,
in developing and realizing their
said
that "as a nation we will have to reach out and find
full potential as future leaders
better ways to assist those in need." To this I say amen,
and good citizens.
and addespecially minority group citizens.
Mr. Keenan will elaborate on his statement at the Legal
Amnesty Declared
Aid Conference tomorrow at Northwestern Junior High
JERUSALEM (AP) Israel School. He will discuss recent changes in the law, attitudes
will release about 600 persons and treatment of welfare recipients.
As I see it, the problem facing our welfare departments
from jail under an amnesty for
those
convicted
of
minor today is one of providing the basic necessities of human
22 W . MICHIGAN AVE.
crimes. The amnesty was pro- life while allowing recipients to maintain their dignity. At the
claimed after Israel's victory in same time, we must provide incentives to restore these recipients to self-sufficiency whenever possible.
the June 5-10 Middle East war.

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He Wasn't Left
Holding the Bag

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Aside from salaries, the proposed master contract involves
no major changes. Fringe benefits include health insurance
and group life insurance coverage.
While the general HCEA membership vole on approval of the
proposed contract awaits public
approval of the additional millage, the HCEA executive board
has gone on record as supporting the millage request.
In announcing endorsement of
the proposal, James Miller,
HCEA president, released the
following statement:
"In agreement with the Harper Creek Board of Education,
the teachers emphasized that
such a millage will insure qualified teachers, full use of facilities and maintain a quality program for the children of Harper
Creek."
Voting Monday will be at the
Harper Creek High School, from
7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

AID Job Done 'Too Well/

Mt. Pleasant Paper Says
MT. PLEASANT (UPI) The Mt. Pleasant Times-News
said Saturday it is getting a little weary of hearing about a
government agency's recruiting drive.
So far, the paper said, it has heard of the project by
mail, and telegrams and, if it wished, could hear of it
again by telephone or television.
The paper took the Agency of International Development, an arm of the State Department, to task in an editorial blasting the AID for wasting the people's money while
seeking civilians for work in Vietnam.
"We previously received an identical story by mail," the
paper said. "To make sure we know about the drive a
second telegram was sent inviting us to a Grand Rapids
news conference where details of the recruiting drive would
be explained.
"Apparently still not convinced we were fully informed,
a third telegram was sent. All three telegrams about
550 words were delivered at the same time.
"In addition, a special telephone line has been set up
where anyone can call collect to Grand Rapids to hear details about the jobs available. The three telegrams were no
doubt sent to all daily newspapers, radio and television stations in western and central Michigan. This is a tremendous
waste of money . . . but obviously when you are spending
government funds, why worry about the cost?" the editorial
staled.

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Pre-Seoson Savings
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68 only, for operating purposes.

Electors of the district last May
1 approved the renewal for
three years of an 11-mill extra
levy for operation, with the
understanding that a request for
additional millage would be
necessary after determination
of such factors as slate aid and
salary increases.
The tentative agreement on a
master contract was announced
a week ago in a joint statement
by representatives of the board
of education and the MEA professional negotiations team.
It calls for teacher salaries
ranging from $5,800 to $9,314,
after 11 years, for those with
bachelors' degrees and $6,100 to
$10,217, after 12 years, for those
with masters' degrees.
The figures, far below the
minimum goals of $7,000 to
$16,000 urged by the Michigan
Education Association, represent increases over last year's
scale amounting to about O1/^
per cent at the base and 17 per

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Sunday, July 23, 1967

BATTLE

CREEK

ENQUIRER

AND

Sec. Four

NEWS

Report on Highway Probe Expected

By WILLARD BAIRD
Our State Bureau Chief

LANSING Attorney General Frank J. Kelley's report of

his six-month investigation of
the State Highway Department
will not whitewash the department, informed sources say.
But it may not completely
satisfy the department's more
vehement and suspicious critics,
either.
Thbse familiar with its contents say they can't disclose
how far it will go in rapping
knuckles o r recommending
sterner measuresbefore public
release of the report, expected
this week.
Kelley gave Gov. Romney a
verbal report of how the investigation was conducted and the
findings it produced in a private
two-hour conference last week.
AP Wirephoto

BIRTHDAY REUNIONJohn Edwards, a former Army

medic blinded by a grenade in Vietnam, has a birthday surprise as he g r e e t s his wife, Brenda, at a party in Oak
Lawn, a Chicago suburb. Edwards, in the blind training center
at Hines Veterans Hospital in Chicago, mentioned to friends
he'd like to have a visit from his wife, from whom he had
been separated because of hospitalization. Because she
couldn't afford to fly from their Sea Grove, N.C., home, the
Chicago sales staff of a national airline chipped in for the fare.

Underwater Fag Underground

COMO, Italy (AP) Customs
police announced they have discovered and stopped an underwater route for smuggling cigarettes from Switzerland into
Italy. They seized 120 ifeunds of

Robinson on Race

Halted

smokes floating in waterproof

bundles on an underground
stream flowing under the border
from the Swiss Breggia River to
an Italian canal.

Romney had undertaken a

short-lived, private conducted
inquiry of his own into Highway
Department activities during his
first campaign for governor in
1962. After he was inaugurated,
he questioned the department's
practice of making over-run
payments to contractors beyond
their original bid totals, for unforseen additional work, but
was outvoted by the board's
then Democratic majority.
At least three of the four members of the State Highway Commission are expected to meet
Monday morning in Lansing for
a briefing on the outcome of the
attorney general's probe.
Started Jan. 18
Kelley's inquiry has b e e n
under way since Jan. 18. He announced then he was launching
"a full scale investigation . . .

Milton J.
Robinson

Equality Is
Still Far Off
For Negroes

In last week's series on racial tension in our Michigan

cities. Associated Press reporter A. F. Mahan stated that,
44
the Negro, who generally believes that handicaps of prejudice and discrimination remain, is pushing stoutly. Some
whites are of the opinion the push is too stout." His findings
concur with a recent magazine poll which showed that 70
per cent of white people feel that Negroes 41 are trying to
move too fast."

The Facts As They Were

the
S c h i c k set...

Almost five years ago, the late President Kennedy, in describing the progress and position of the Negro, said: 4, The
Negro baby bom in America today regardless of the section of the country or state in which he is born has about
one-half as much chance of completing high school as a white
baby born in the same place on the same day; one-third as
much chance of completing college; one-third as much chance
of becoming a professional man; twice as much chance of becoming unemployed; about one-seventh as much chance of
earning 110,000 a year; a life expectancy which is seven
years less; and the prospects of earning only half as much."

Disparities Still Exist

Special

A look at a few of the most recent statistics convinces

me that Negroes must still go a long way before they can see
progress and become full partners in our affluent society.
Take income, for example. The median income for Negro
families is $3,971, only a little more than half of the median
income for white families $7,170.
Negroes have a greater knowledge of poverty too. Of
primary family units in cities that is, husband, wife and
children only 1 out of 20 white families earn less than
$3,000, the poverty standard set by the federal government.
But more than one out of every five such Negro families
earn less than this income.

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Their unemployment rate is double that for whites, and has
been since the early 1950's. It is especially rough on young
people. The most recent figures show that the unemployment
rate for white youth aged 18 and 19 declined from 17 per cent
a year ago to 15 per cent. UnemploymenUfor Negro youth
in this group actually increased at that time from 27 per
cent to 32 per cent.
In housing the statistics show that only 13 per cent of
white families live in substandard housing, but because of
housing discrimination, and a less favorable economic position, almost half of Negro families live in substandard housing.
Negro citizens, have a life expectancy of 64 years, while
the white citizens have a life expectancy of 71 years. Infant
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to life itself. For every thousand babies' bom to Negro parents, 41 die, compared with 21 white babies per thousand.

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white and non-white citizens.
Negroes total 15 per cent of the city's population. However, they constitute 25 per cent of the total number of families with incomes of $3,000 or less per year.
In the Lincoln Elementary school district, which has the
highest concentration of Negroes in the city, the percentage
of deteriorating and dilapidated housing is 43.9 per cent as
compared with the overall city average of 16.6 per cent.
The statistics on infant mortality reveal that one out of
every three infant deaths is a Negro infant.
The figures are there for all to see. They are symbols for
shorter life, worse jobs, less pay, and substandard housing.
An affluent America cannot sink into complacency and
smugly agree that the Negro is 44moving too fast." If democracy, justice, equality and opportunity have any meaning,
America must move, and move quickly to insure that all its
citizens share equally in t4the Great Society."

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plans to build radar stations
nearby. The television watchers
say the stations will wreck their
reception. The pigeon racers
say the radar waves will wreck
the homing pigeons' reception
of whatever it is that guides
them.

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Saturday, Aug. 5, at Kellogg
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with a visit here by the famed
"Thunderbirds," the Air Force
acrobatic team.
The team is scheduled to present its show at the annual
Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival. The group will be based
at Kellogg Field because of its
adequate facilities to handle the

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The open house will be from
noon until 5 p.m. and will be
coupled with a drill day of the
local Air National Guard. This
will provide extra flights during
the day.
Requests have been made of
the Air Force, Army, Marine
Corps and Navy for different
types of military aircraft for a
static display. Civilian aircraft
operators at the airport will display aircraft and explain flight
training programs.
The Battle Creek squadron of
the Civil Air Patrol will handle
ground control of traffic and
safety at the airfield. The Battle
Creek Model Airplane Club will
demonstrate "U" control and
radio controlled airplanes. Helicopter rides will be available
for a fee.
The "Thunderbirds" have been
asked to put on a short demontration on their return from the
Grand Haven show. This will be
done if the aircraft have sufficient fuel. Their return is set
for about 2:15 p.m. The team
will arrive here Friday, Aug. 4,
and a landing show will be presented about 3 p.m.

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where the family was camping
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general's office.
Joined Staff in 1957
Williams, who joined the Highway Department's upper echelon'in 1957 as an administrative
assistant to the then deputy
commissioner, Sidney H. Woolner, has been shifted to several
different jobs since Woolner left
the department in 1959. In April
of this year, when Kelley's investigation was well under way,
Williams was assigned by Howard E. Hill, then director of the
department, to the traffic survey and analysis office in East
Lansing.
Hill, 60. has since relinquished
the department's chief executive position and will retire
Aug. 1. Henrik E. Stafseth, who
was one of his three deputy directors, has headed the department as acting director since
May 31.

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ment's contract over-run payments later called into question.

Critics also noted the Democratic attomey general was primarily investigating the affairs
of the Highway Department
when it was headed by fellowDemocrat Mackie. During his
7V years in office, Mackie had
also served on the Administrative Board, then under Democratic control.
Kelley's answer to the partisanship charge is that Republicans as well as Democrats have
been involved in Highway Department management. He also
says his investigators were instructed to get the facts without regard to possible political
embarrassment in their search
for evidence to support or disprove alleged wrongdoing.
Townsend retired last year
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during the last month to a bulging summary of charges presented, evidence found and conclusions reached.
At the outset. Kelley conferred with the chairman of the
S t a t e Highway Commission,
Ardale W. Ferguson, a Benton
Harbor Republican, who pledged
"complete cooperation" of the
four-man, bipartisan commision.
Later, the attomey general
and his investigators talked to
top-rankipg officials as well as
lower level employes of the
Highway Department and to
former State Highway Commissioner John C. Mackie who
headed the department from
mid-1957 through 1964.
They had also interviewed
Eugene F. Townsend Sr., a retired assistant attomey general,
and Ben A. Williams, a Highway Department e m p l o y e ,
whose complaints augmented
by several legislative inquiries,
newspaper reports and other investigations of a private nature
had finally spurred Kelley
into launching the investigation.
Kelley Criticized
At times during his six-month
probe, implications of self-protection and political favoritism
were hurled at Kelley, who as a
member of the State Administrative Board had joined other
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of the allegations of wrongdoing" in the department's relationship with the Holloway Construction Co. of Wixom, a major
contractor on Michigan freeway
and trunkline projects, and in
other Highway Department activities.
At that time Kelley referred
to "repeated questions, suspicions, innuendos and rumors"
about Highway Department affairs which he said had circulated "for some five years"
without producing sufficient evidence 4, to take criminal action
against any individual."
"All evidence will be scrutinized carefully," he said in January. "No allegation will be left
uninvestigated.
"If it appeals further legal
investigative tools, such as a
grand jury, are required, such
will be requested. But this step
will be undertaken only if it appears necessary."
As the investigation proceeded,
it was leamed the probe delved
into Highway Department affairs further back than the fiveyear period Kelley originally
mentioned. One source spoke of
a 12-year review.
Attorneys on Case
Kelley assigned a team of
seven attomeys and five special
investigators to the inquiry.
The stacks of written reports
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Last month, Pope Paul VI .was said to have "accepted

and agreed" to an appeal to all churches to provide leadership in a "new moral crusade to remove prejudice from the
hearts of tho people."
The appeal was made by Whitney M. Young Jr., executive
director of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, who said the Pontiff encouraged all efforts
to secure the full benefits of modern society for all its members. without discrimination.
It seems to me that local ministers of all faiths can follow along the same path and crusade to change people's attitudes.
The problem churches face is not an easy one because
of the prejudices which often lie in sectors of the congregation. For instance, two Protestant clergymen in Pennsylvania
recently were forced to leave their churches for other assignments because they were too active in the civil rights
movement. One was subject to harassment which included
threatening phone calls and attempts to force his car off the
road. The other was told he should have preached more
iermons on "peace of mind."
In too many churches throughout the South, we find a
refusal to face moral crises of our national life. Many have
actively aided segregationists by allowing segregated schools
to be set up in church buildings for the purpose of frustrating public school integration.

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and female, who have a gradepoint average of 3.0 or better.
Each student will receive a $600
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board and Incidentals and $100
for travel expenses.
Kellogg Community College
expects to enroll more than 3.000
students this fall. Martin College operated by the Methodist
Church in Pulaski, enrolls about
400 students.
Glenn Yarger, of 59 James St.
and B a r b a r a Wisner, of 217

G r e n v i 11 e, were the two exchange students from KCC last

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In Battle Creek the Catholic church, through the Michigan Catholic Conference, and the Methodist church, through
the Methodist Michigan Conference, Board of Missions, have
completed studies of the problems and social inadequacies of
minority group citizens. At the conclusion of both studies,
recommendations were made r e g a r d i n g the churches'
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representing more than 3 million people, last spring, overwhelmingly approved a creedal statement affirming its obligation to work for social justice.
Last week the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, general
secretary of The World Council of Churches, said that "on
the whole, American Protestant churches had been active at
an earlier stage in backing integration, but in recent years
the World Council had shifted its emphasis to the antipoverty campaign." He added that "we must pick up the integration campaign again."
, The National Conference of Bishops recently issued a pastoral statement on race relations and poverty which called
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360 Join in '42

Central Reunion

WASHINGTON (AP) The help stem inflation, hold down

"I'll bet you don't remember . Memories of the 1942 era
administration's conviction tha interest rates and help pay for
me" and <rWhy, you haven't were aroused by a skit and a
it must seek a tax increase this the Vietnam war.
changed a bit" were familiar rousing rendition of the Bearcat
year now is stronger than ever. One analyst said Saturday
phrases around Battle Creek "Fight Song."
Although officials hesitated to that in late May administration
Central High School this week- The group meets today at 10
describe their position as 4'be- officials, although firm in their
end.
a.m. in the Holiday Inn for
;
yond the point of no return," tax thinking, were willing to
It was the weekend for the 25- brunchs and final farewells.
they don't see any possibility of point to the need for more ecoyear v reunion for the class cf
backtracking now, barring any nomic data before bearing down
1942. .
unforeseen upheavals.
hard on taxes.
Festivities began at 1:00 p.m.
This tone was set by Gardner The data now is in and adminSaturday when 50 class memAckley, chairman of the Presi- istration officials contend the
bers took a tour , of the high
dent's Council of Economic Ad- boom they predicted in January
s c h o o l which brought- back
visers, who said previous doubts already has begun.
memories and set the scene for
about the economy now have "We'll be hitting full stride by
the evening ahead.
the third quarter," a key gov
GULL LAKE Two nightbeen cleared up.
About 360 class members and time
ernment
source
said
Saturday.
painters were collared by
"In the tight of the outlook
their spouses met for the social the director
"A
robust
expansion
in
the
secof the Gull Lake
and the aims, there is no escape
hour at the American Legion Bible Conference
ond
half
and
into
1968
will
deand turned
from the responsible and objechall, followed by dinner and over to authorities,
although
tive conclusion that personal mand a tax increase."
dancing until 1:30 a.m.
their giggling audience escaped.
and corporate income taxes will The possibility has been
Decorations were in the blue Howard Pieruki, director of
need to be raised this year to opened to an even larger tax
and
white, school colors and in- the conference, was telephoned
Staff
Photo
b
y
Jack
Stubbs.
safeguard healthy prosperity," hike than the six per cent sur
cluded
tribute to the 18 de- about 1:30 a.m. Saturday by a
charge proposed by Presiden
R E N E W I N G ACQUAINTANCES^John Postma,
Storey, the former. Georgina Steele; Mrs. Kent Kanaga, ceased amembers*
Ackley said.
class
Johnson
last
January
on
indi
who reported someone
left, retired principal of Central, talks with four memthe former PhyUis Reeves; Ted Pixley, who emceed which consisted ofofa the
His remarks at a congressionmemorial neighbor
vidual
and
corporate
income
was
"doing
something" around
al hearing last week were the
bers of the class of 1942. From the left, Mrs. Gerald Saturday night's program, and Harold Good.
table bearing a 3-foot scroll.
the big, white tablemacle^huildstrongest yet voiced by any ad- taxes..
All but 19 of the 457-member ing.
ministration official on the need Ackley has said that anything
less
than
six
per
cent
won't
do
class,
were traced. Some arfor a tax increase this year to
Rushing o v e r , Mr. Pieruki
the job and he agreed a higher
rived from great distances found
two 18-year-old boys paintrate might be needed if Vietnam
Florida, Massachusetts, Arizona
ing
brown
and green shamrocks
spending should escalate furand Deleware were among the
on
the
tabernacle
walls, while a
ther.
\
states represented.
carload
of
juveniles
nearby
^One administration analys
Lottie (Smith) W d t s o n of
laughed
and
made
wise-cracks.
said a major upheaval such as
Battle Creek won the award for
"very punishing" strikes or^an
being married the longest, Ger- He seized the young men and
end or de-escalation of the war
ald Austensen of Farmington identified them, then provided
took the prize for having the t h e m turpentine and brushes
could change the tax thinking
most children. Jack Langs of and made them scrub the fresh
but this isn't expected.
Proposals for street lighting When the tax plan will forBattle Creek won an a^ard for paint away. After the walls were
Here is the first report rect contact with one another. the Calhoun County Health Company, and the Kellogg Com- having the youngest child, Mar- cleaned, he tumed the youths
improvements and a s t r e e t mally be submitted to Congress
from Elizabeth (Beth) Butter,
Although the Experimenters in Department for my s h o t s ; pany, also for presentation ma- jorie (Snyder) Oms of Battle over to the Kalamazoo County
sweeping contract will be con- still is an open question.
sidered by Springfield council- It was first proposed to take Battle Creek's 1967 Commu- training here at Ross, Calif., Krums Photographic for pic- terials. Thank you all very Creek won recognition for hav- sheriff's department.
ment at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
ing the most grandchildren and
effect July 1 but the guessing is nity Ambassador. Miss Rutter, have one basic goal that of tures of Battle Creek which will much.
Harold Good of Bruna Park, Pomegranates ere commerThey will hear a Consumers it won't even be sent to the a caseworker for the Depart- becoming submerged in and be given to my host family; the
KEIGU,
Power Co. report on the feasi- House Ways and Means Com- ment of Social Services, CalCalif, took the award for having
clally grown in Arizona and CalBattle Creek Chamber of ComBeth Rutter,
;
bility of putting more lights on mittee until as late as mid-Au- houn County, is on her way to reaching an understanding of a merce, the Clark Equipment
' ifnmin
Community Ambassador traveled the farthest.
Japan where she will reside c u l t u r e completely different
Avenue A, east of Easy Street; gust
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mr
joint sponsorship of the city
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and the Experiment in Inter- grounds and interests vary wideOfficials are considering plans
national Living. She will be ly.
for having, city streets swept
sending
back further reports
regularly on a contract basis.
There are three groups of preduring
her
"homestay."
Now city workers clean intercollege students and five of colsections with push brooms and
lege-age or older. Each group
Dear Friends,
the remainder of the street syswill have its "homestay" in a
/MEET M E A T
Here in the hills across the different city in Japan: Takaotem is not swept, according to
City Clerk Carl H. Grasher.
Battle Creek Amvets Post Golden Gate from San Francis- ka, Okayama, Nanao, Takamatsu, Nagano, Ashita, Matsuyama
66 twice was honored at the co, nearly 100
young
a
d
u
l
t
s
or Akita.
annual state convention for
100 per cent renewal of its lave taken over
Hie group to which I have
h e ' Katherine
membership for. 1967 and its
been assigned is made up of
Branson School
public service activities.
10 post-college Experimenters.
where
the ExThe projects include sponAmong us are a Canadian m
Nancy Durham of Route 3, s o r s h i p of a Connie Mack periment in Ingirl of Japanese parentage, an
Box 132, is a first prize winner baseball team, an a n n u a l , ernational Livarchitectural student from Isin the Funland Coloring Contest, scholarship fund to a student ng has b e e n
rael who has lived in the
which appears in the Sunday at Kellogg Community Col- lolding its twoUnited States for two years, a
Enquirer and News. The award lege, the annual Amvet Circus week orientation
teacher ambassador from Calis a set of Compton's Pictured and participation in projects or those who
ifornia, two Community AmEncyplopedias.
for the Veterans Administra- will spend the
bassadors (a young man from
summer iir Ja- Beth Ratter
Akron, Ohio and myself), three
James C. Boles, 22, of Rt. 3, tion hospital.
pan.
Convention
delegates
reprewho are In various stages of
Bellevue, fell out of a tree he
senting Post 66 were ComThe non-profit organization an- graduate study, an artist from
was trimming at the home of mander
1.1
Harvey B. Simrod nually sends 1,500 Experiment- Boston and our group leader.

Owen Smithy, 190 W. Rittencountries The leader, David Strother of

house Ave., Saturday afternoon. and Post Chaplain Thomas B. : ere :to imwre than
i h'z&f y.'V- ittan
He was taken to Community Moss,
Grosse Pointe is a graduate stuii i
ing between peoples through di- dent in political science at
Hospital where he was treated
for a broken collar bone and
Wayne State University. He
released.
has previously led groups to
Sweden, Turkey and India.
Don DeGroot, local chapter
0
Perhaps the most important
president of the National Assophase of our orientation has
ciation of Accountants, D. L.
been language training. On camKupfer, national director, and
members Keith Kirby, Clair
pus here is a full staff of Japa- :
nese instructors from Michigan
Omo and E. R. Severn and
State University, headed by Shitheir families were among the
geo Imamura, designer of the
1,356 attendityf* the recent naentire language program. We
tional convention in Denver,
have been in class about six
Colo.
hours
a day, six days a week,
Charles Bicknell, 10-year-old
divided
into ability groups of
son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Milton J.
10
each
for the greatest possiBicknell of 378 Emmett St., was
Robinson
ble
saturation.
taken to Community Hospital
orientation also involved
Saturday a&emoon with a broThis is another in a series of columns by Milton J. Robinson, anOurintroduction
to what we
ken arm. Mrs. Bicknell said her executive director of the Battle Creek Area Urban League, on
ii
might expect in Japan. There
son was climbing into a bed- race relations and related questions.
have
been
films
on
various
asroom window when he fell
Through deliberate omission^ the history and social studies pects of Japanese culture and
* backwards on his arm. He is
listed in good condition at the textbooks of our schools have deprived most Americans of in- panel discussions on such topics
as family life and the role of
hospital.
formation about historical contributions of Negroes.
the Japanese woman.
This
statement
may
appear
to
be
dogmatic
but
it
can
be
Roy W. Hover, son of Mr. and
We were prepared to underdocumented
by
several
recent
studies
of
school
textbooks.
Mrs. Leonard J. Willis, of 229
mm
stand
and accept our various
One
such
study
by
the
American
Federation
of
Teachers
found
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Matchmate
Ardmoor Drive, began his in- that in most of the 'texts used "the Negro is considered only reactions
Japan and to overternship Saturday at William as a slave before the Civil War and 'as a problem" since come an toanticipated
r
"culture
Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, then. Another study "by Tufts University examined 24 social shock."
after receiving his doctor of
;
During our free timewhich
medicine degree from Wayne studies books and found that many were "tinged with racism."
has
been scarceswimming in
State University. He received
the beautiful pool on the school
DECISION NOT MENTIONED
his B.A. degree from Albion
grounds, tennis, hikes in the
College in 1963. His internship
A B'nai B'rith study of high s c h o o l social studies texts hills
around Ross, and, of
will continue until July of 1968. found that half of them didn't even mention the 1954 Supreme
course,
occasional trips into San
The Peace Corps placement Court decision outlawing segregation; and half made no mention Francisco, about 15 miles away,
Regular $5 and $6
test will be given at 1:30 p.m., Of Negroes in the period following Reconstruction.
have been favorite pastimes.
When
texts
like
these
and
others
like
them
are
finally
Saturday, July 15, at the post ofA description of the Haightfice.- Applicants must fill out an dropped from our schools and replaced by more realistic ones, Ashbury district of San Franapplication form and present it white children will begin to leam about the vital role minorities cisco and the "hippies*' who
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to the tester before taking the h^ve played in making America great.
there would necessitate a
Negro children also will receive a more accurate picture live
mi.
test. Forms are available at the
separate article.
post offices or from the Peace of their rich heritage.
But these children with their
For example, most history texts omit the contribution of beards,
Corps in Washington, D.C. The
long hair and unconventest measures general aptitude Negroes such as: Alonzo Pietio, who piloted the flagship in tional clothing are your chiland ability to leam a foreign which Columbus discovered America; Crispus Attucks, the first dren, just as those who attend
language. It is given to deter- American to die in the American Revolution; Matthew Henson, Kellogg Community College are
mine where and how an appli- who accompanied Admiral Peary to the North Pole and who yours. They have the same
cant will be best utilized over- stood atop first and actually planted the stake there; Black eyes, the same smiles, the same
Beckwourth, who founded Colorado and the city of Denver, fears. It is only that they have
seas.
and Lewis Latimer, who improved Thomas Edison's electric light chosen to run from the society
Regular $7 and $8
bulb with an inexpensive carbon and wooden socket much like that we know, instead of trythe metal ones used today.
ing to make the best of it as
the majority has. Certainly
CHILDREN UNAWARE there are times when we can
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Most children, through influence of movies and distorted hardly blame them.
COMMUNITY n o S P I T A i ;
My "homestay," which will
Mr, and Mrs, Charles Rowe, textbooks, are not aware of the full tapestry of Negro history. begin
in less than a week, will
Only
now
are
they
beginning
to
find
out
Africa
was
not
a
land
140 . Avon Drive, a son, at 1:30
be
in
the
city of Takaoka, poppeopled
by
savages
straight
out
of
Tarzan
films,
but
a
conp.m. Saturday.
ulation
150,000.
It is located in
tinent
which
developed
nation-states
at
a
time
when
Europe
i
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Belles,
Toyama
prefecture,
on the north
was
wallowing
in
feudalism;
a
continent
which
contained
an
153 Rook St., a daughter, at 4:56
advanced civilization for its time; a continent which contained side of Japan, near the Sea of
p.m. Saturday.
Regular $12 Values
All that* I know of my
Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Heine, a variety of popples who have contributed greatly to the world's Japan.
"family" is that I will have a
S19 Arcadia Blvd., a son, at 5:29 arts and knowledge.
20-year-old
"sister," a college
All history and social studies books used in our schools must
p.m. Saturday.
tell the complete truth and deal fairly with our pluralistic so- student.
We are now less than two
ciety.
days
from departure and the
At a May 5 meeting, BatUe Creek public school adminisW e have mentioned only a f e w of t h e s a v i n g s in o u r G r e a t J u l y
excitement
is, mounting. , Last
trators stated, "This matter has been under discussion for the
m
i
n
u
t
e
gift-buying,
clothing
past several years; most of our history and social studies books
Sportswear Clearance! N o w is your o p p o r t u n i t y to buy a f i n e name
preparation and language study
are lacking in Negro lustory."
^
Kathryn M. Parrott
occupy everyone's time. Our, inbrand m a t c h m a t e o u t f i t a t Va the cost. 5 major brands included in
structors and leaders have done
Kathryn M. Parrott, 80, who
NEW
MATERIAL
resided with her daughter at
all that they can to help us
this sale group! N o t all sizes in every group b u t most sizes 8 to 18!
However, they indicated that this September they will use the reit will be o\ir own re1105 E. Michigan Ave., died at
2:10 p.m. Saturday in a local new supplementary materials on United States Negnr history. sponsibility.
Big assortment of p r i n t o u t f i t s Finest name k n i t s Chic checks,
1 am thrilled, anxious and,
hospital where she had been a To help ensure the success of this undertaking, they have emf l o w e r prints, stripes and solid colors in a host of gay tones.
patient for five days. She was ployed three teachers during the summer months to review I suppose, a little frightened.
bom March 31, 1887, in Battle textbooks.
Whatever happens and whatThe chairman of the Education and Youth Incentives Com- ever the summer brings, howCreek, a daughter of Charles
and Mary (Mellon) Scanlon. mittee of the Battle Creek Area Urban League, Marcus J. Gray, ever, I know already that my
She was a m e m b e r of the is also participating in reviewing textbooks this summer.
life will never be the same.
The Battle Creek public school administration is to be com- I would like to thank the ComAmerican Cancer Society and
was a secretary of the Emmett mended for its ability to recognize and effectively deal with munity Ambassador Committee
for making this experience posRescue Squad for many years. this particular problem.
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I am hopeful that book publishers will remove the distortions sible. Many people and organiSurviving are a daughter, Mrs.
Carl (Maxine) Clark of the in our history and social studies textbooks. The distortions and zations helped in my preparaMichigan Ave. address, and omissions of Negro history in the past must not be allowed tion for the trip, and I feel that
to flourish in the future.
they should be thanked publicly
three grandchildren.

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