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Teachers Defy Cold As They Demand C. B. E lection
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I NEGRO HISTORY
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The first building in the area
that is now Chicago was the home
of a fur trader named Jean
Baptiste Pointe Du Sable. It was
JEAN DuSABLE
located on the site of what is now
the Mandel-Lear Building, just
cast of the ;an Avenue
Bridge on the north bank of the
Chicago River.
Du Sable was a Negro from
San Domingo, married to a Pot
awatamie Indian. The marriage
was recorded at Cahokia, Illinois,
in 1708.
The earliest known reference
to Du Sable is contained in a
report by a Tory colonel dated
1779, but there are several con
temporary mentions and descrip
tions of him and his home after
that date.
In addition to the Chicago
property, Du Sable is also known
to have owned a farm at Peoria,
ill., and property in St. Charles,
Mo., where his son settled.
Du Sable sold his Chicago
home in 1790 to live wilh his
son. lie died in St. Charles
around 1814. His grave has not
been located.
The site of the trader’s home
Cl Insurance Checks To
\
Reach Vets By January 2
In response to President John
son’s directive for the earliest
possible payment of the $234.-
000,000 GI insurance divident for
1904, the Veterans Administra
lion today announced that t h e
first checks will reach veterans
by January 2.
The entire payment to 4.725.000
veterans participating in the div
vidend will be completed in rec
ord time by January 25.
In Michigan 194,729 veterans
will receive $9,678.0(H), Robert
M. Fitz Gerald, VA's Regional Of
fice Manager in Detroit, an
nounced.
Mr. Fitz Gerald explained that
the speedup in payments is VA s
answer to the President's request
as a stimulant to the economy.
In the first accelerated pay
ment of a dividend, ordered by
President Kennedy in 1961, pay
ments were completed by March
17. The stepped-up payments of
the 1963 dividend were complet
ed last January 31. The VA plan
to issue the 1964 dividend checks
by next January 25 will cut a
week from the previous record
processing time of 31 days in
1963.
The dividend payments in 1962
and in the years prior to 1961.
were made throughout the en
tire year on the anniversary dates
of the individual insurance pol
icies.
Os the total distribution of $234
million, sls million will go to
abou f 255,000 World War I vet
erans holding U.S. Goverment
Life Insurance (USGLI) policies. l
The remaining $219 million will I
U.S. Mayor Gets Gift
SIMM a
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Allentown, Pa. Allentown
Mayor John T. Cross (left) re
ceives a painting of Munich from
the Bavarian capital’s Mayor Al
bert Buyerle at a ceremony in
llcss’s nationally known depart
ment store in Allentown, Pa.,
where Mayor Bayerle expressed
his gratitude to the large Ger
man-extraction population in the
area for their interest in visiting
in Munich’s OktabciivsU
| * s indicated by a plaque on the
, northease corner of ihe Michi
gan Bridge. An earlier plaque
' is owned by the Chicago Histor
ical Society.
Another plaque commemora
ting Du Sable is in the lobby of
Du Sable High School, 49th and
State streets. A painting of him
hangs in the school’s library.
Du Sable's achievements re
i ceive special attention in a book
! (« ui and e t o Negro Monuments”
j yet ‘itled “American Travelers”
published by the American Oil
I Company, 910 South Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
NAFAD Sponsor Affair
However, deia»e the 1983-64
social calendar may be, no af
lair is likely to rival the en
thusiasm and excitement of the
forthcoming “Salutes to Joseph
ine Baker ' to be held in t h e
(Irani! Ballroom of the Waldorf-
Astoria, New York City, January
5. sponsored by the National As
sociation of Fashion and Acces
sory Designers, Inc., of which
Mrs. Lois K. Alexander is Na
tional President.
Reservations are being receiv
d from all over the country for
NAFAD’s annual Fashion Show- 1
Luncheon, at which time the
group will pay a long overdue
tribute to the legendary Ameri
can born artist-humanitarian for
her undisputed contribution to J
haute couturue throughout her
monumental career. On this oc-j
casion, she will receive one of j
the organization's coveted “Best;
Dressed Woman” awards before 1
a glittering array of personal
ities from society, the theatre,
opera and, of course, notables
from the fashion world.
go to 4,500.000 World War II
veterans who hold National Ser
vice Pile Insurance (NSLI) pol
icies.
Korean onflict veterans hold
non participating policies that do
not provide regular annual divi
dend payments.
The regular dividends are pri
marily a return to the policy
holders of part of their premium
payments since the death among
GI policyholders continues to be
lower than the rate upon which
the payments were established
by law.
Mi. Fitz Gerald reminded pol
icyholders that the preparing and
mailing of dividend payments
are automatic and require no
correspondence Loin veterans or
their families.
In fact, such correspondence
might delay the dividend distri
bution process, he said.
Ex-Cotton Farmer Now Specializes In Trees,
Sells Tons OfPetans to Christmas Market
A farmer who hasn t planted
cotton in years on his hilly farm
now counts mostly on trees
pecans, pines, and hardwoods
selling tons of nuts to the
Christmas market and timber
and pulpwood from time to time.
He is Dewey Bedell, a part
time farmer and merchant of
Auburn, Ala,, who has 200 acres
in trees, including four of pecan,
on his 270 acres of rolling hills
that were once eroded and al
most worn out by constant pro
duction of cotton
"We haven t planted cotton
now in about 25 years, says Mr.
Bedell. “Wc got poor yields
watched gullies now. and had
trouble finding good help”
Mr. Bedell gave up bricklay
ing in 1951 I" f; ' rm wi,h h,s
father in law. Button Drake, who
died two years ago.
Years be r ore. his father-in-law,
like some of the plantation own
ers in the area, began setting out
pecan trees. Little by little, the)
added more trees until now
there are four acres of them, pro
during nearly five tons of nuts
during most good years such as
this one.
Attend Church
Regularly
More than three thousand
teachers demonstrated outside
the Schools Center Building at
Butman and Woodward on De
cember 10th as Federation Presi
dent Mary Kllen Kiordan addres
ed the Board of Education meet
ing inside.
The Board's meeting room and
antechamber, and the broad mar
ble staircase and the building
lobby of the headquarters build
ini were jammed with deter
mined teaciiers wading for some
word that the Board was ready
to move ahead on the Federation
petitions lor a collective bargan
ing election submitted more than
half a year ago
The demonstration, which
lasted for nearly two hours, con
cluded with a meeting in block
ed off Putman Street. President
'tiordan reported to the crowd
that the Board members had re
ceived without comment her do
mand for a collective bargain
ing election 4 ‘now," and for an
immediate pay increase.
Later, President Hiodan, ex
ecutive Secretary Helen Bowers,
and executive Board Member So-
Marchers swing around the
Schools Canter Building at Put-
—
Marchers set out. Lino ex
tended three abreast around
the corner of Schools Center
Win'll Mr. and Mrs. Bedell and j
Mr. Drake stopped growing cot- j
ton. they tried vegetables as a
main cash crop, and later shift* j
cd to dairying, 'today, however,
the Bedells depend on trees,
beef cattle and thir grocery
.lore. 1
In addition to pecan produc
tion, they selectively cut pines
for tnmber and pulpwood. lhis
year they expect their timber
sales to total 50.000 board feet.
"Trees arc easy to grow and
they keep these hills from wash
mg” Mr. Bedell points out. He
says the biggest jobs in bis pe
can orchard are fertilizing the
trees and subsoiling among them
every year or two to cut thiough
any developing hardpan and as
sure moisture for the roots and
good surface drainage to facto
tate the pecan harvest
At harvest time, Mr. and Mrs
Bedell hire about a dozen work
ers from nearby Auburn to gather
the pecans. They estimate that
th'-sc workers, who harvest b>
the pound, earn from $0 to $8 a
day.
In addition to their 200 acres
in pecans, pine, and hardwood
for timber and pulpwood. This
corn and 65 in permanent pas
hires for their 40 head of Angus
cattle The county office of the
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service hel p e«
them establish the pastures.
And ASCS and Soil Conser
phio Med loin conferred with the
Hoard in informal closed session.
Although the Board at the af
tc r the demonstration meeting
appeared to have dropped the
“Teachers Assembly" and other
“representation" schemes, no
action was taken toward sched
uling the collective bargaining
election.
Detroit Fducation Association
representatives, wh» were also
present, opposed th e election.
SALARY DEMAND
The Federation salary demand
presented at the regular Hoard
meeting calls for adding SSO to
each step increment of the
present schedule.
The result would he acceler
ated dol Ia r advancement by
teachers on the lower steps to
wards a HA. anr* MA. maxi
mum which would be $450 high
er than the present maximums.
"It is unfortunate that the
representation election has not
yet been held," Mrs. Hiordan
pointed out, “because now the
CB issue has become intertwined
with the salaryincrease issue.
"It will be next to impossible
nam and Woodward. Whan this
picture was taken, marchers
Building on Putnam and Wood
ward.
Crowd respondad enthusias-
vation Service together assissted
the couple with the construction
and stocking of a pond for tish
i n !, swimming, watering their
cattle, and irrigating their crops
or fighting fires when necessary.
With some help from the Ag
ricultural Conservation program,
the Bedells have saved a farm
that was once washing down cot
ton rows into the Chattahoochee
river, says ASCS County Office
Manager R. F. Hampton, those
who came after them, he ex
plains. will find ahe land pre
served for continued production
of nuts and timber for market,
as well as grasses for livestock,
or for careful cultivation of
nt her crops.
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CATTLE AND XMAS PE
CANS Dewey Bedell. top
left, part-time farmer of Au
burn, Ala., discusses eontinuad
pasture improvement for his
beef cattle herd with County
Agent John C. Moore. Agri
cultural Stabilisation and con
servation Service of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture has
aided Mr. Bedell in developing
permanent pastures on his hil
ly farm to help prevent erosion.
At bottom: Mr. Bedell weighs
and loads bags of pecans into
his truck for the Christmas
market. His four acres of po
cen trees produced nearly five
tons of nuts this year.
USDA photo
to reach agreement on a salary
increase until teachers are b
presented by a single negotiat
ing representative."
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Teachers mill around Schools
Center Building, trying to get
inside to hear Board of Educa
tion proceedings. Only 400 of
were still forming into lina at
McCollester Hall, Cass and For-
tically to speakers o nsound
truck, sand and chanted slo
gans as they waited for Union
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She called attention to r re
ported $1) millions nest -el
aside last spring in case of ;
T h e demonstration was t h •
the earliest arrivals could g:t
in.
Nearly 3,000 more paraded
outside.
rest. Later, police cordoned o's
Putnam as the crowd swarmed
President Mary Ellen R : ordan
to report on Federation pres
entation to Board of Education.
DETROIT TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1963
second millagc disaster,
largest since 1947. when a teach*
i er s strike was only averted I y
a last minute settlement.
As v, ord of mocfi r -*$
were relayed back throu, •;e
cro-.yd, there were aiti < ie
end jeers.
together for a street meeting,
Finr! police estimate of the
crowd "OrfCr 3,000."
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