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Branch Banking Suffers Another Real Setback
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Volume XI. ROBBINS, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1963 11th Year—No. 23
7 GROUPS APPEAL TO DALEY
Seven civil rights agencies
today urged Mayor Daley and
Gov. Kerner to bring pressurc
on members of the General
Assembly in order to secure
passage of a freedom of resi
dence law.
The agencies also ripped
Charles F. Carpentier, Illinois
secretary of state, because of
published newspaper reports
in which he criticised “the
new belligerance and aggres
siveness of the Negro.”
In a telegram signed by the
heads of the intergroup agen
cies, Carpentier was told, “At
a time of national crisis in
race relations, we are appall
ed by the report of your state
ment in the press critical of
‘the new belligerance and ag
gressiveness of the Negro.’
Open occupancy legislation in
Illinois could fail for almost
complete absence of support
from Republicans (in Spring
field).
The seven agency heads are
Maurice Klinger, executive
director of he American Jew
ish Congress; Rev. Carl Fuqua,
executive secretary of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People;
Walter Zand, executive direc
tor of the American Jewish
Committee; John Kearney,
executive director of the Unit
ed Citizens’ Committee for
Freedom of Residence; John
McDermott, executive director
of the Catholic Interracial
Council; A. Abbot Rosen, di
rector of the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith; and
Edwin C. Berry, executive di
rector of the Chicago Urban
League.
In a wire to Mayor Daley
at the Hawaiian Village in
Honolulu, where he is attend
ing the 30th annual meeting
(Continued on page 3)
Branch banking took an
other beating Wednesday
(June 12) when the House
voted 112 - 51 to kill legisla
tion pushed by two Chicago
loop banks that would have
legalized branch banking in
Illinois.
The vote came on a moton
to “nonconcur” with the ac
tion taken by the House Bank
ing Committee. Last week,
the Banking Committee re
jected branching for the 3rd
consecutive session by a vote
of 28-5.
J. Ross Humphreys, presi
dent of the Central National
Bank in Chicago and presi
dent of the Illinois Bankers
Association, called the House
action a great victory for free
dom and competition over
greed and monopoly.”
The Illinois Bankers Asso
ciation led the campaign a
gainst branching in behall
of more than 90% tof the
banks in the state which
have taken the positiion that
“branching would reduce
competition and would re
sult in the creation of power
ful, giant branch banking
systems.”
Humphreys said the public
interest has been served by
the preservation of our com
munity banking system. The
House, like the Banking Com
mittee, has met its responsi
bility to thousands of busi
ness people, labor learers,
farmers, professional men and
and women and ordinary cit
izens who recognize the great
public interest in maintain
ing our present, strong com
petitive banking system.”
Opponents of branch bank
ing argued in the House de
bate that that branching
(Continued on page 14)
Pay Last Respects
To Jerome Cephus
On Thursday, June 13, 1963
hundreds of friends in the
village and from surrounding
communities came to Great
Hope Baptist Church to pay
their last respects to Jerome
Cephus, Water Superintend
ent of the Village of Robbins.
The wake which was held
at Crook’s Funeral Chapel on
Wednesday June 12 and was
attended.
Rev. W. L. Cook, pastor of
Great Hope, officiated at the
funeral.
Cephus leaves to mourn his
loss a wife, six children, a
mother, two brothers, one sis
ter and a host of friends.
Recognize this sports action
Photo? Zt was taken this year
at a game where these boys
from Robbins won laurels.
Name these basketball greats
from your own village?