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Volume XV—Number 47_ Jackson, Mississippi, Saturday, September 29, 1962 PRICE TEN CENTS
STATE NEGROES ANXIOUSLY WATCH MEREDITH OUTCOME
Democrat Party Chief Hails Negro Nomination
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Howard University Inaugurates 95th Annual Session
NEW WORLDS HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION: The new
Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World is Sonny Liston. !
Liston won the Championship by knocking out Floyd Patterson
in two minutes and six seconds of the first round in the title
match in Comiskey Park in Chicago Tuesday night. The early
knockout was a sharD disappointment to the crowd of 18.894
for whom Patterson was the sentimental favorite.
School Dropouts
Are Lose Outs
In Job Market
Washington — Last year,
about 350,000 young people over
sixteen years of age left school
between January and October
without earning that valuable
high school diploma. By now,
many of these “dropouts” are
finding themselves at a serious
disadvantage in today’s com
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Carl Rowan
Gets Swift
Canfirmation As
UN Delegate
Washington, D. C. — The U.
! S. Senate last week swiftly con
firmed the nomination of Carl
T. Rowan, deputy assistant
Secretary of State for Public
Affairs, as an alternate dele
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Delaware College Places Business
Graduates With Big Companies
Dover, Del., Sept. 20 — Dela
ware State College has been
very successful in placing its
business graduates with big
companies.
Recent graduates are rapidly
making the grade in the home
offices of these firms. Several
have the distinction of being
| the first Negro employed in |
such positions. They are: Rich- |
I ard Saunders of Wilmington,
Dela., an accountant in the Ac
counts Receivable Section of the
Treasurer’s Department, E. I.
duPont de Nemours & Co., Inc.,
Wilmington, Dela.; Irvin R.
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i
Ghana Bank Official Study
U. S. Banking Practices
I
CHICAGO, Septen.ber 24—
Kwasi Amoako-Atta, deputy
governor of the bank of
Ghana, was in Chicago re
cently to discuss banking and
finances with some of the city’s
experts in these fields.
Mr. Amoako-Atta arrived
here from Phoenix, Ariz.,
where he spent several hours
with officials of the First Ari
zona National Bank. Of his
impressions of American bank
ing practices, Mr. Amoako said:
“I am most impressed with the
advertising and publicity of
your savings and loan com
panies and your banks. They
are most aggressive, something
that we might well emulate in
Ghana.
“For example, First Arizona
National Bank has a special
department just for granting
livestock credit. In Ghana we
will nave loans for export and
import and for wholesale and
retail, but it might be well if
j we would specialize, too.
“In Ghana we import about
, $16,000,000 in meats each year.
I There is a great need to build
> up the livestock Industry. Thus,
we might well specialize in
banking to encourage this In
dustry.
In Chicago. Mr. Amoako
Atta met with Theodore A.
Jones, vice-president and gen^
eral manager of the Supreme
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Ifkrnmah Assissination Charge
Baseless And Disgraceful
Accra, Ghana — The United
States Ambassador to Ghana,
Williain P. Mahoney Jr. says
that charges of United States
complicity in the recent assas
sination attempt on President
Nkrumah ace “baseless and dis
graceful”
A strongly worded statement
i>y Mr. Mahoney said that the
“official Ghana Government ra
dio and press’' had made “un
founded charges and distor
tions” which were being brought
to the attention of President
Kennedy.
The ambassador utterly re
jected the charges, saying that
he could “only regard them as
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Keyna Minister
Sets Value On
U. S. Esteem
Say His Country
Wants Friendship
OfU.S. People
While in Chicago for a two
day visit, Kenya’s Minister of
State for Constitutional Affairs,
Ronald Ngala, told a press con
ference that his country was
very anxious to have the
United States as a friend.
“Our country,” said Mr.
| Ngala, “would like friends in
| the people of the United States,
friends who recognize our diffi
I culties and who are prepared
| to help when help is necessary
i and who do not back out when
| we call for help.”
He continued: “We in Kenya
have three problems: igno
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Violence Arson
| Flares In
!S. Rhodesia
Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia
Paratroopers, jet planes and
helicopters joined police in a
i drive to quell new outbreaks of
i violence and arson in this
white controlled self-governing
British colony Saturday.
The disorder has increased
■ since the government outlawed
! the African nationalist Zim
! oabwe African People’s Union
| (ZAPU). which is opposed tc
j the government of Premier Sir
Edgar Whitehead.
I The security drive brought
' new arrests among leaders of
ZAPU, the main African na
tionalist party which was
- banned Thursday by the gov
ernment in an effort to stamp
| out alleged African terrorism.
The number of African
I nationalists under restriction
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U. S. Novelist
Is Barred
From Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
American novelist Robert
Ruark has been declared a
prohibited immigrant by the
Kenya Government, a De
fense Ministry spokesman
h&s announced.
, The spokesman declined to
give a reason, but said the
decision was taken within
the past few months, since
Mr. Ruark left Kenya last
May.
His latest novel, “Uhuru,”
which is set in Kenya, has
been criticized here on
grounds it presents a damag
ing picture of Kenya’s pros
pects.
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Uganda Plans
Movie Capitol
For Africans
Kampala, Uganda
Six young Ugandan*—five
men and a women — have
formed themselves into an
African artists’ association
with the ultimate object of
creating a “Hollywood” in
this capital.
Their hope is that after
independence on Oct. 9, they
may be able to induce the
country’s first African gov
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Rev. Brown At
C. Methodist
Church Sunday
Central Methodist Church will
have as guest preacher Sunday
September 80, at 11 a. m. Dr.
James Wiley Brown of Jackson
State college. Dr. Brown comes
to serve the congregation Sun
day as one of the most out
standing ministers of the state.
He is a graduae of Clarck col
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President Tells
Students To
Develop New
Freedom Goals
See Changing
World Themes
Being Set In
Africa And Asia
Washington, D. C., Sept. 17—
Howard University President
James M. Nabrit, Jr. today chal
lenged students at the Univer
sity to develop new goals for a
coming era where “equality of
opportunity and full citizenship
are on the horizon.”
In his address inaugurating
the 95th year of instruction at
Howard, Dr. Nabrit declared, “in
our lifetime we shall traverse
I the chasm from second-class to
' fiist-class citizenship, but we
need new goals, new' techniques,
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Federal Troops
Called To Back
Ban On African
Political Party
Government
Charges Party
With Build Up
Of Terrorism
Lusaka, Rhodesia, Sept. 22—
The white government out
lawed the country’s principal
African political party Thurs
day charging the Africans with
terrorism “typical of the worst
days Of fascism.” It called up
federal troops to bolster civil
authority. '
Police manned roadblocks on ;
all main roads after the govern
ment banned the Zimbabwe Af
rican People’s Union (ZAPU)
of Joshua Nkomo and arrested
several of its leaders.
More than 20 persons, includ
ing two European officials of I
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! Governor Confronts Meredith For
Second Time In Ole Miss Case
Jackson, Miss. Sept. 26 (DSN)
j —Something near one million
Negroes of Mississippi, nearly
half the population of the state,
fearing for their safety in break
down in race relations, and for
their protection by law enforce
ment authorities in a continu
ously worsening situation, and
for the aftermath should federal
troops be sent into the state,
are watching with growing anx
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iety the outcome of the power i
struggle between the state and
the Federal governments over
the enrollment of Negro student
I James Meredith in the Univer
i sity of Mississippi.
In Jackson late Tuesday af
ternoon, arriving from New Or
leans by chartered plane in the j
company of Department of Jus
tice Attorneys and U. S. Mar- j
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Measure Freedom On 100th
Anniversary Of Emancipation
Washington, D. C., Sept. 22—
It began 100 years ago, on a
Monday afternoon in the White
House, when President Lin
coln rose at a Cabinet meeting
and read from a manuscript in
his hand:
“. . . All persons held as
slaves within any state, or des
ignated part of a state, the
people thereof shall then be in
rebellion -against the United
States, shall be then, thence
forward and forever free....”
The drama so begun is with
us still—aboard a bus in Mont
gomery, Ala., at a lunch counter
in Nashville, Tenn., in a class
room in Little Rock, Ark., and
in the chambers of the Su
preme ^Durt of the United
States, j
It is the story of the Negro
as a free American; a story
that began when Lincoln first I
read the Emancipation Procla- j
mation to his Cabinet on Sept,
i 22, 1862, shortly'after the op
portune Union victory at An
tietam.
As the history of the United
States is measured in mile- 1
stones, so is the history of the
free Negro in the United States
measured in steps from slav
ery to an equality not yet
achieved.
What are the great mile
stones in Negro history?
The Associated Press asked
five distinguished Negro his
torians to list the five events
they consider the most impor- j
tant in Negro progress since j
the Emancipation Proclama
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Slaying Of Negro Youth Sets
Off St. Louis Race Riot
St. Louis, Mo. Sept. 25 — The
slaying of a Negro youth Sun
day was seen as being respon
sible for setting of a race riot
in the predominantly Negro
suburb of Kinlock here Tuesday
morning.
The riot starting early Tues
day morning after a crowd
gathered outside the Kinlock
Police Station Monday night
shouting for the scalp of the
officer who killed the youth.
As the rioting broke out a
series of small fires broke out |
in the community with firemen
from Kinlock being joined by
firemen from neighboring com
munities. One of the fires was
Dunbary Elementary School
which was destroyed.
During the rioting three
policemen were shot and wound
ed. Two of the wounded police
men, Kenneth Armstead and
Hugh Hodges were reported in
serious condition. Officer Wil
(Continued On Page Six)
Justice Department Silent On
Federal Troops To Mississippi
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 —
Justice Dept. Tuesday night de
clined comment on a published
report that the Federal Govern
ment is prepared to send troops
into Mississippi to enforce fed
eral court orders that Negro
James H. Meredith be admitted
to the University of Mississippi.
The report, published in the
New York Times, said officials
expected to reach a decision on
whether te use troops soon, “per*
haps tomorrow.”
Trie Justice Department refer
red reporters to a statement is
sued by the department Satur
day night which said:
“The courts have ordered the
university to accept Mr. Mere
dith. It is our responsibility, to*
gether with the courts, to see
that these orders are obeyed no
matter what course ultimately is j
necessary.”
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Chicago Riot
Halts Wedding
Reception For
Negro Couple
! Whites Against
Using HalJ In
Commercial Area
| Chicago, 111. Sept. 19 — The
j planned reception for a newly
: wed Negro couple turned into a
I minor race riot here last week
when a mob of 1000 whites dem
onstrated against the use of a
hall located in a white commer
cial area and stoned the bridal
; (Continued On Page Eight)
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Negro Editor To
Civil Rights
Information Post
Washington — M. Carl Hol
man, professor at Clark College,
Atlanta, and editor of the At
lanta Inquirer, has been ap
pointed Information Officer for
the U. S. Commission on Civil
Rights, the agency announced
Friday.
Active in Atlanta civic af
fairs, Holman succeeds W. Otto
McClarrin, of Washington, who
recently became public relations
counsel for the joint U. S. -Ni
geria fund raising campaign co
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Majorie Lawson
Meets Senate
Dist. Committee
i
Washington — The first Ne
gro woman ever nominated for
a judgeship by a U. S. Presi
dent appeared before the Sen
ate District Committee last 1
week and expressed her grati
tude for the history-making ap- j
pointment.
Atty. Marporie McKenzie
Lawson, a longtime resident of
Washington, who had been
nominated for an associate
judgeship on the three mem
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Girl Shot In
i Georgia Seeks
Church Funds
Philadelphia — Prathia Hall,
22-year-old Temple University
graduate who was wounded by
shotgun fire during racial vio
j lence in Dawson, Georgia, last
week arrived here to tell her
story and plead for funds to aid
oppressed Negro voters in south
west Georgia.
Miss Hall, the daughter of the
Rev. and Mrs. Berkley L. Hall,
said that she plans to return to
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Negro Newsman
Worthy Given
Three Months
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 19 — Wil
liam Worthy, a reporter for the
Afro-American newspaper, was
given a three month federal
prison sentence and put on one
year’s probation for re-entering
the United States without a
passport,
The 40 year-old correspondent
posted a $1,000 appeal bond
after a $5,000 bond was re
duced.
Worthy’s passport was taken
by the U. S. Government in 1956
j after he ignored a state depart
j ment ban and visited Red China,
i (Continued On Page Two)
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Democratic State Convention
Nominate Negro For Attorney
General Of New York
Edward R. Dudley President Of Borough
Of Manhattan Is First Of Race To
I Run For Statewide Election
MASONS SPEAKER: Fed
eral Judge Thurgood Marshall,
will be the featured speaker at
j the meeting of the Supreme
Council of Prince Hall Masons
j in Jackson early next month.
Washington, Sept. 24 — Chair
man John M. Bailey wired con
gratulations Wednesday to Ed
ward R. Dudley, President of
the Borough of Manhattan, who
is the first Negro to be slated
for an important state office in
New York by a major palitical
party.
Dudley was nominated by the
Democratic State Convention as
the candidate for Attorney Gen
eral of New York on the Demo
cratic ticket which is headed by
Robert M. Morgenthau, the
candidate for Governor. Dudley
will run against the incumbent
Attorney General, Louis J. Lef
kowitz who lost his bid to un
seat Mayor Robert Wagner of
New York City last year.
Chairman Bailey wired Dud
ley: “Your selection by the con
(Continued On Page Five)
Kennedy Marks 100th Anniversary
Of Emancipation Proclamation
Washington
President Kennedy has
, marked the 100th anniver
sary of the Emancipation
Proclamation by saying it
“must be regarded not as an
end but a beginning.”
The President’s remarks
were carried by radio and
television to the nation and
to ceremonies here Saturday
marking the return to Wash
ington of the original draft
of the proclamation which
Abraham Lincoln first made
public 100 years ago.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
of New York presented the
document to Allan Nevins,
chairman of the National
Civil War Centennial Com
mission.
Also speaking at ceremo
nies on the gleaming white
marble steps of the Lincoln
Memorial were Adlai E.
Stevenson. United States
Ambassador to the United
Nations, and United States
Circuit Judge Thurgood
Marshall.
The draft of the proclama
tion v^.s sent to Albany,
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See Academic Freedom Dying
In Many Southern Colleges
New York, Sept. 24 — Many
Southern colleges—both Negro
and white—are being beseiged
by the Radical Right and acad
emic freedom is dying. ,
This was the finding of C.
Vann Woodward, a professor of
history at Yale, who visited
more than a score of Southern
campuses during the spring
term last year.
, Writing in the October issue
; of Harper’s Magazine, Profes
! sor Woodward cites examples of
harassments of both faculty and
students at both white and Ne
gro colleges:
* At Sam Houston State
Teachers College (Huntsville,
Texas)— Professor Rupert C.
Koeninger, head of the sociology
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Rural And Urban Leaders of South
Invited To Meeting In New Orleans
Washington, D. C. Sept. 24—
White and colored rural and
urban leaders of the South have
been invited by Secretary of
Agriculture Orville L. Freeman
to attend a Regional Conference
on Land and People at Loyola
University in New Orleans,
October 15-16.
This will be the fourth in a
series of five such conferences
designed to find ways of streng
thening rural America. One of
these has already been held in
St. Louis, and the others are
scheduled for Portland, Ore.,
Oct. 1-2; Denver, Colo., Oct. 8-9;
and Philadelphia, Oct. 22-23.
Some of the Southern leaders
probably will attend the Denver
and Philadelphia conferences.
Secretary Freeman has said
that he would like to have the
widest possible participation in
these meetings.
Areas to be discussed are: (1)
Rural-urban community plan
ning, (2) using and conserving
natural resources, (3) develop
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African Educators See Need
For Expansion And Reforms
NEW YORK, September 19
Reforms for the expansion
and improvement of education
in Africa — in particular a
greater “Africanization” of
school curriculums and an eas
ing of the tight bottleneck be
tween primary and secondary
education—were suggested at
a meeting of 45 education ex- *
perts from 28 African states
held at Tananarive, Madagas
car, under the auspices of the
United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organ
ization (UNESCO). An Afri
can committee of seven ex
perts has been set up to bring
about these reforms.
The meeting studied propos
als for curriculum reform and
the effects such reform would
have on related activities such
as teacher training, methods
and techniques of teaching,
text books, examinations,
school and vocational guid
ance, end admission to the
university.
The meeting also considered
outlines of national and re
gional programs of action and
research designed to assist
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