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GOOD CONDUCT WILL ALWAYS GAIN you RisracT. Watch Your Public Conduct, Volume XVI—Number 31 _ --—- PRICE TEN CENTS \ _i o o ’ % • * • • Baptist Ministers Urge Halt In Violence Threats it it it + ^ LIGHT IS DIM ON CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION FOR THIS YEAR THE PRIME MINISTER: Jomo Kenyatta, one time leader of the dreaded Man Man emerged as the Prime Minister of the new African Nation of Kenya as it celebrated its Independence Day last Wednesday. The crowds that lined the streets of the new nation’s capitol cheered the former Man Man leader at every turn during the Independence Day Parade. State PTA Board Of Managers Hold Annual Planning Meeting The Mississippi Congress of Colored - Parents and Teachers Board of Managers held their anual planning meeting in Jackson, Mississippi Saturday, December 7, 1963. In this meet ing plans were made of which We hope will be beneficial as well as inspiring to our local, county and district PTA’s. The Mississippi State Con gress of Colored Parent and Teachers will give a $100.00 scholarship to the senior who meets the following qualifica tions: Scholarship Criteria Senior Applicant: 1. Must be of good character. (Recommended by PTA presi dent, High School Principal and Minister.) 2. Must have an average or above average ability. 3. Must have a pleasing per sonality., show an interest and love for people and have the ability to get along with them. 4. There must be a need for the scholarship. 5. Must have been in church, school, and worthy community activities. 6. Must be endorsed by the State Board of Managers. 7. Send the name of the senior who will take the exami nation to Mr. Clarence Thomp (Continued On Page Six) Job Training Law Denounced By Spokesman For N. Y. Mayor San Jnan, Puerto Rico A wide-ranging attack on the federal Manpower Develop ment Training Act (MDTA) was launched here by a spokesman for New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner. Acting Labor Commissioner James J. McFadden said that “drastic .revision” of the act was needed to aid workers displaced., by technological change ter upgrade themselves and young people entering the labor market without sufficient skills. The New York City official addressed the concluding ses sion of a conference on auto mation and education. A day earlier at the same meeting Mayor Wagner, -now being talked about as a potential vice-presidential candidate next year, had called for a 10 year public-works program to reduce unemployment. The MDTA was enacted last year by Congress. While the legislative intent has been praised, the law’s scope has been criticized because of its ■ limited usefulness. Mr. Mc Fadden said that the city’s 16 months of experience with the (Continued On Page Six) Storkline Employees In Eleventh Annual Children’s Christmas Party Santa Claus distributed toys and candy to over 2,700 children of Storkline Corporation em ployees in Jackson Saturday, December 14. The occasion was the eleventh annual Children's Christmas Party for families of the Jackson firm’s over 1,700 employees. Storkline employees residing in eight Central Mississippi eounties brought their families to Jackson to visit with Santa Claus at the parties. Storkline’s 17-acre wood cabinet plant on Livingston road was completely idle for the day so all employees could take part in the Christ mas parties. The annual parties are plan ned and conducted by the com pany’s Key Men’s Club, made up of 137 members of the com pany’s management group. Master of ceremonies was Jack Banks, president of the Key Men’s Club and Quality Control Manager for the company. Gen eral Chairman of the parties was George Planken, Receiving and Stores Supervisor for Storicline. Music and entertain ment featured members of the Key Men’s Club, other employ ees and members of employees families. Charles B. Ryan, president of the company, welcomed em ployees and their families. San ta Claus made a dramatic ap pearance, and Kej Men’s Club (Continued On Page Seven) See Kenya Independence Crucial Test Of Nationalism Jomo Kenyatta Former Mau Mau Leader Hailed Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday,— (UPI) — The British colony of Kenya, where Mau Mau ter rorism was rampant barely a decade ago, became independent Wednesday in a crucial test of African nationalism. Thousands of Africans shout I ing “uhuru,” independence cheered Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, a former terrorist Header, as he drove Khrough the capital’s streets before the midnight ceremony signing the (Continued On Page Two) —--o Say Robeson Plans Return To United States New York — Louis Lomax, a Negro journalist from Cali fornia, is quoted as saying Paul Robeson, internationally fam mous actor-singer will be com ing home soon after living a broad in Engand and East Ber lin for more than five years. Robeson has been a contro (Continued On Page Five) General Mills Hires Negro Market Analyst Minneapolis — Louis M. Moore has joined the marketing research staff of General Mills, Inc. He will be a marketing re search data analyst in the Mar ket and Media Analysis Section and will take over his new du ties on December 23. Moore resigned his position * (Continued on Page Three) $50,<HH)is Verdict For “lliclo Tom” Wilmington, N. C. Dec. 16 — Another judgement involving the much used epithet “Uncle Tom” was handed down here last week when a local leader sued the Jeffersonian, a subur ban newspaper. A jury in district court here awarded a sum of $50,000 to Harvey Thomas, who charged (Continued On Page Five) -o .. Negro Soldiers Are Convicted For Murder EVREUX, France.—Two Am erican Negro soldiers were con victed of unpremeditated mur der Monday in the death of a white U. S. airman in a barracks brawl at the U. S. Air Force Base here. The 10-officer U. S. Army court will fix the sen tences later, an aide said. The maximum penalty in each case is life imprisonment. Pfe. Ray Continued On Page Seven) r Civil Rights Petition Slowed After Getting 100 Signers Goal To Force House Showdown In January Washington, Dec. 16— The drive to obtain the signatures of 218 House members to a pe tition to force civil rights action swept quickly past the 100 mark last week, but has since that time slowed down to a walk. (Continued On Page Four) British Irked By Dismissall Of Ghana’s Chief Justice Nkrumah’s Action Poor Advertising For Independence London A loud chorus of British protests has greeted the action of Ghana’s President Nkrumah in dismissing his Chief Jus tice, Sir Arku Korsah. The action is seen as par ticularly deplorable in the con text of Kenya’s achievement in independence this week and (Continued On Page Five) Nat King Cole Is Given An Extraordinary Tribute Nat King Cole received one of the most extraordinary tri butes ever paid to any member of show business recently when California Congressman Augus tus F. Hawkins read into the Congressional Record a com mendation of the famous star. Included in Congressman Hawkins’ remarks were the fol lowing praise for the celebrat ed entertainer: “Nat King Cole, the son of a poor Alabama farmer-preach er, has risen by virtue of sheer talent and character to be one (Continued On Page Two) Joint Effort To Advance Equality Brought Christians, Jews Closer NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—The president of the American Jew ish Congress declared today that during 1963 the country’s three major religious faiths had moved “closer than ever before to mutual understanding, mu tual respect and mutual cooper ation.” Dr. Joachim Prinz of Newark, N. J., said the new spirit of in ter-religious good will was a by product of the civil rights strug gle in which Protestants, Cath olics and Jews had joined hands in “common action to advance the common good. “Not by drinking a toast to brotherhood once a year but by working together every day to advance the cause of equality for all our citizens have Prot estants, Catholics and Jews been able to develop a genuine sense of community,” Dr. Prinz told the American Jewish Con gress national Governing Coun cil at Stephen Wise Congress House, 15 East 84th St. In his address to the year end meeting of the Congress' policy-making group, Dr. Prinz asserted: “At a moment of moral crisis in America, the three great faiths have come into their own by embarking on a great cam paign in which racial equality and social justice for all citi zens have become the new re ligious battle cry.'' He continued: “The leaders of American Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism recognized that if the churches and synagogues were to play a significant role in our time, they had no choice but to join the great moral struggle (Continued On Page Eight) Labor Task Force To Do MHch Toward Eliminating Bias Organized labor’s civil rights< task force “will do much toward helping to eliminate race bias,” AFL-CIO Vice President A. Philip Randolph declared in a network radio interview today. This “socio-economic labor in vention,” asserted Randolph, will work at the local level throughout the nation to “arouse, awaken, inform and ad vise” trade unionists in their struggle to eliminate racial pre judice. Appearing on the public ser vice program LABOR NEWS CONFERENCE over the Mu tual Broadcasting System, Ran (Continued On Page Six) »— -— IV. C. Mutual To Durham, N. C. — The Board of Directors of the North Caro lina Mutual Life Insurance Com pany of Durham, North Caro lina has approved a $26,000 do nation to the United Negro Col leges Development Campaign. The announcement of the dona tion was made by Asa T. Spaul ding, president of the company. The campaign to raise $60 (Continued On Page Seven). "" -H Johnson Backs Proposal For Kennedy Center Washington President Johnson has giv en his formal support to naming a proposed national cultural center here for the late President Kennedy and financing half the cost with federal money* Legislation has been intro duced in Congress to author ize both the steps. The center would be erected on the bank of the Potomac, almost directly across the river from Mr. Kennedy’s grave in Arlington National Cemetery. 'Mr. Johnson made known his preference for what he termed this beautiful sight. He said that naming the cen ter to honor President Ken nedy “would be one of the most appropriate memorials that a grateful nation could establish to honor a man (Continued On Page Two) -o Atlanta Rights Group Call Off Xmas Boycott Atlanta, Ga. Dec. 16 — Plan ned boycotts against Atlanta merchants have been called off by two civil rights groups. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, spokesman for “Operation Breadbasket” and Larry Fox, chairman of the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights, de cided to call off boycotts during the Christmas season. Rev. Abernathy, whose organ ization is affiliated with the (Continued On Page Eight) White Church Kneel-lns Are Arrested Sunday Four men identified as New York ministers, two Negroes and two whites, were arrested here Sunday when they refused to leave two white churches which they were attempting to enter. They were arrested and jailed on charges of disturbing the peace at Galloway Memorial Methodist Church and Capitol (Continued On Page Four) ", ... - v; 1 '■ Shoots Into B’ham Negro Lawyer’s Home Birmingham, Ala. — Attor ney Arthur Shores, whose house has twice been bombed, report ed to police Tuesday night that a shot had been fired at his home. Police said Shores told them there were no injuries. Shores has been active in anti-segregation suits here for (Continued On Page Five) Clerk Told To Open Voter Record MERIDIAN, Mis.—The Jus tice Department asked U. S. District Court here Monday to order Jasper County voter reg istral on records opened for in spection. The suit charged the regis trar, Victor H. Hosey of Bay (Continued On Page Five! V Christmas Boycotters Here Threaten To Shoot Decorations Out Of Negro Homes Windows Christmas Tree Tore Down And Destroyed At Elks Club The threats and rumors of threats of violence to be visited upon those local Negroes who refused to abide the call for a Christmas boycott here by local civil rights groups brought forth a call from the local Ne gro Baptist Ministerial Alliance last week, and again early this week, for a halt in such threats and call upon Negro citizens to erect Christmas trees, decorate their homes, and enjoy the sea son as befits the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. The spokesman for the Al liance was Rev. L. L. Williams, its President, himself a leader in the local civil rights move ment. The most serious of the threats and rumors of threats was the threat to shoot the Christmas decorations out of the windows of Negro homes. This threat or rumor, was made all the more real because of the number of incidents in the most recent past here when stores and other property in Negro neighborhoods have been severe ly damaged at night by gangs of so-called civil rights crusad ers. That there existed the possi bility of such violence became more evident when, one night last week, the beautifully dec orated Christmas trees at the local Negro Elks Club was torn down and destroyed. Early this week, according to reports, there was no disposition on the part of Officers of the lodge to put up another tree. The Elks Club is the chief spot where the mem bers of CORE, the NAACP, the Student Non-violent Coordinat ing Committee, and their most vocal adherents indulge in night time recreation. (Continued On Page Four) Negro Women Leaders Meet With President Lyndon B. Johnson Washington, D. C. Dec. 14, 1963—Miss Dorothy I. Height, National President, National Council of Negro Women, Inc. and Dr. Rosa L. Gragg, Presi dent, National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. at the invitation of President Lyn don B. Johnson, met with the Chief Executive at the White House, Friday, December 13. During the meeting, President Johnson spoke highly of the way women work to achieve goals to which they are dedicat ed, the leader said. He showed the same vital interest in Civil Rights and other issues as he had set forth in his message to Congress. The President seemed keenly aware of the problems affect ing social and economic welfare of the Negro family, said the leaders. He emphasized the im portance of women's groups working on such problems as school drop-outs and offering assistance in all parts of the conimunity. Following the meeting, both women leaders issued a state ment saying, “The passage of the Civil Rights legislation must be the first order of business. A great deal has been done al ready by women, but much more has to be done, now. Discrimi | nation against women and a gainst the Negro results in lim ited opportunities for the train ed and untrained alike. There is a large reservoir of untapped talent among our women, with due appreciation for what prog ress has been made, there is still a greater need for an in (Continued On Page Seven) 2nd Mother Of Johnson Children Witness At President’s Inagurial Washington — A lone Negro woman was singularly honored on Thansgiving eve as she was quietly escorted into the House gallery before President John son spoke, and seated directly behind the First Lady of the land, Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson. Although the attempt was made to inconspicuously seat Mrs. Zephyr Wright, it wa^to no avail, for Mrs. Wright—for more than 20 years a member of the Johnson household staff — was the only Negro in or near the party of the First Lady. When she first entered, Mrs. Wright was placed in a seat in the second aisle behind that of Mrs. Johnson and her two daughters. One of the daughters, when she discovered that Mrs. Wright was there, turned and extended her hand in warm greeting of friendship. (Continued On Page Two) Mrs. Kennedy Extends Her Mourning Period To One Tear WASHINGTON -Fore going public appearances, and wearing the traditional black of the widow, Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy will observe a one year mourning period for her dead husband. Mrs. Kennedy’s decision was announced by her press secre tary, Pamela Tumure. - Asked if there was a possi bility that Mrs. Kennedy would campaign for President John* son next year, Miss Tumure said Mrs. Kennedy would re main in mourning and would not accept any public engage ments. v The former first lady and her two children, Caroline, 6, and John, Jr., 3, plan to spend Christmas in Florida. After the holidays, Mrs. Ken nedy will move into a new home in the Georgetown sec tion of Washington. i