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Racial Violence

Gradually Ebbing

Dial 965 1843

This

is one

letter

bu t

concerns

two of us

Kellogg Commu-

nity College students since ou r stories ar e almost the same,

word fo r word. The other student a nd myself ar e sophomores

at KCC, married an d rely heavily on the benefits we a re

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 mon-

ey since the semester began in January. I might add we're

not the only veterans who a re having trouble of this kind.

— P.A.S., Battle Creek.

You and your chum can look fo r 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 ar e informed to expect at least

a two-month waiting period before t he checks begin to arrive

after a new semester begins. T he schools attended by the ex-

GF s have certain procedures to go through before t he papers

ar e sent to the VA where processing takes about 30 days. In

your cases, the school sent the papers March 7 and process-

ing began t he next day.

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, bu t 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.

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 ha s permitted' Roman Catho-

lics to join the Masons or if the ban is still in effect?—Rich-

ar d Kline, Battle Creek.

A United Press International story from Vatican City

that appeared in the Enquirer and New March 11 stated t hat,

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

bu t that the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the

Faith has let it be known that Catholics joining Free Ma-

sons are no longer automatically excommunicated."

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

23. I am eligible fo r unemployment, compensation but as yet

neither I nor anyone else who was laid off has been able to

draw an y money. We've been told t he money has to be appro-

priated bu t where's the money gone which had already been

pu t into this fund? People who a re without funds have no

income and still have to report at the unemployment office

each week a nd they ar e told they will have to wait. When will

we be getting o ur money?—Mrs. E.M. , Ceresco.

Funds fo r unemployment compensation payments to fed-

eral employes and veterans were exhausted in the U.S.

March 15. And there won't be any additional funds until Con-

gress can act on a supplemental request fo r funds. Mean-

while, 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 ar e 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 ou t once it can be determined how much is

needed and that figure hinges on manpoweiêeds in Viet-

nam.

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

cement began oozing through the tile and I called the com-

pany 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 wa s completed in June, 1965. While the one-

year labor guarantee of the firm that laid th e 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 hi s previously scheduled visit here. •

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I N S I D E T O D A Y

. Wiretapping bill approved by House. P. 3.

' Three persons injured in two area accidents. P. 3.

W A S H I N G T O N (UPI)

— Crack paratroopers and

marines moved into the na-

tion's capital today to help

army an d national guard

troops prevent any renewal of

violence which claimed five

lives. Looting a nd arson began

to increase again after an all-

night curfew expired at dawn.

In Chicago more Guardsmen

were called as sniper fire and

looting broke ou t again.

By BRIAN SULLIVAN

Associated Press Writer

Racial violence spawned by

the murder of Dr. Martin Lu-'

ther King Jr . subsided at

dawn today in most cities

wracked by disturbances. In

the nation's capital new loot-

ing was reported after a cur-

few was lifted.

Sixteen persons have died in

racial disorders since King

wa s killed Thursday night, in-

cluding nine in Chicago, and

four in Washington. Parts of

both cities were heavily dam-

aged by fire. T wp youths died

in Detroit and one in Talla-

hassee, Fla.

Police in Washington had at

least a dozen reports of looting

within 90 minutes of the lifting

Saturday morning of a dark-

to-dawn curfew imposed by

city officials.

In Pittsburgh, roving bands

of Negroes smashe d -windows

and looted stores in several

sections before police restored

order. A white ma n driving to

work was shot, but he was re-

ported in satisfactory condi-

tion. Police said about 90 ar-

reste were made during the

night.

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

an d looting. Th e situation is

under control, said Brig. Gep.

Richard T. Dunn, emerg«rtcy

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 Na-

t i o n a 1 Guardsmen shuttled

from on e 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 a nd Nation-

al Guardsmen to bring a rag-

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»mirni

TOPS anner Registration

More than 2,500 delegates to the

TOPS and KOPS state convention

signed in here Friday with club ban-

ners fo r display at the Post Tavern

official headquarters. Mrs. Henry

Wildschmtz, from left,

of 217

Brad-

ley St., displays some of the outstand-

in g banner^ with Mrs. Donald Schoon-

ard, right front of 153 McAllister Rd.

a charter member of the Morning

Challengers; and left rear, Mrs. Ed-

ward Melville of 580 W. Main, Men-

don, and Mrs.

Louis Ormsbee

o f

Belle-

vue, president of the Button Poppers.

— Staff Photo by Jack Stubbs)

Neat, Clean

M a n

Hunted

As FBI Widens Its Search

MEMPHIS, T6nn. (AP) — A

neat, clean ma n with a long,

sharp nose—the type of man

who seems out of place in a

flophouse—was t he object of a

widening search today as the

assassin of Dr. Martin Luther

King Jr.

Both U.S. Atty. Gen. Ram-

say Clark and Frank Hollo-

m a n , city police director, said

they were optimistic of • a

break soon. But no arrests

were announced and police d e-

clined t o reveal details of their

investigation.

King, the chief exponent of

nonviolence in the civil rights

struggle, wa s 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 Mem-

phis to lead a mass march in

support of striking garbage

workers, and he was killed

Turn to Page 2

Funeral Set Tuesday

ATLANTA,

Ga. (AP) — Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr . will

return for the last time Mon-

day to the small Negro church

where he and his father

preached the doctrines of hu-

ma n dignity an d nonviolence.

King's widow asked that his

funeral be held at the Ebene-

zer

Baptist church, which

had

been a touchstone for her hus-

band throughout his turbulent

career.

That career wa s ended in

Memphis, Tenn., Thursday by

an assassin's bullet.

The Rev. Martin Luther

King Sr. was pastor of Ebene-

zer when the slain Negro lead-

er 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 h is role as a civil

Turn to Page 2

This is an arti st'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

AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.

officials report arrangements

with North Vietnam for pre -

liminary discussions on peace

talks ar e "moving forward"

very slowly but a re still on the

track.

The State Department offi-

cially disclosed Friday night

the North Vietnamese have

been notified through diplo-

matic channels that President

Johnson ha s agreed to "estab-

lish contact." --

•

The unintended disclosure

wa s forced, officials said, by a

vreport that North Vietnam's

D e p u t y Foreign Minister

Hoang Van Loi had said, in Al-

giers the United States had not

replied to his government's

proposal fo r preliminary dis-

cussions.

In accordance with the

President's statement of April

4, the State Department said,

We immediately proceeded

to take steps to establish con-

tact. ApparenUy the deputy

foreign minister is not fully in-

formed."

Johnson announced Sunday

a limited bombing halt over

North Vietnam an d asked for

peace talks. Hanoi responded

Wednesday morning with a

statement it was ready to

make contact. Several hours

later Johnson announced: We

will establish contact."

That wa s followed by the of-

ficial word through diplomatic

channels and officials said

Friday night they were wait-

ing for President Ho Chi Minh

to make th e next move.

President Johnson's cancel-

lation Friday of his- Hawaii

conference with his top Saigon

officials did not affect the

peace talk prospects in any

way, administrati on officials

said.

•

Th e White House announced

G e n . W i H i a m C. West-

moreland, the U.S . command-

er in Vietnam who was to

have attended the Honolulu

conference this weekend, was

coming t o Washington instead.

He arrived at the White House

this morning.

So it appeared a major pur-

pose of Johnson's abandoned

trip to the Pacific could be

achieved in Washington.

Diplomats said they thought

Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker

would also show up in Wash-

ington 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 wa s coming to

Washington meant that de-

spite his preoccupation with

the homefront crisis Johnson

intended to spend as much

time as possible on the crisis

in Vietnam ..

Evening Prayer

. .

O God, the sunlight of Thy smile comes again in spring

as all the loveliness of the earth shines fo r Thee. The fresh-

ness of the breeze, th e dûisihg rain, the blooms—all speak

of Thee. Amen. \ '

ing Negro outburst under con-

trol. Some 350 persons were

injured, 2,000 arrested.

Washington, Detroit and

Memphis were under cjirfew.

National Guardsnrfen were

also backing up police in De-

troit 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 th e 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

Turn to Page 2

Forces

alm

Detroit

DETROIT (AP) . —Detroit,

less than nine months ago the

scene of the nation's worst re-

cent outbreak of racial vio-

lence, wa s calm today after

authorities moved state and

lo c al police and National

Guardsmen swiftly to quell

violence following t he assassi-

nation 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 pre-

cautionary steps," quickly

committed city police. State

Police an d National Guard

troops to action in Detroit.

Gov. Romney today extend-

ed his curfew an d state of

emergency orders in the De-

troit 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

wa s searching him, causing

the officer's gun to discharge,

officials said.

Otherwise, the city re-

mained calm overnight. It ' s

quieter than normal," a De-

troit Police lieutenant said this^

morning.

T h r e e p e r s o n s w e r e

wounded, all of them shot by

police. Three policemenêre

reported injured by flymgôb-

jects 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 fo r violation of curfew or

o t h e r emergency restric-

tions.

Police officials said both the

number of fires and arrests

were about normal for a Fri-

da y night.

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Capitol Guard

WASHINGTON — Soldier with a machine gun,

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 dur-

ing the turmoil. — AP Wirephoto)

Weary L J

By MERRIMAN SMITH

UP I Whita How* Rcporttr

W A S H I N G T O N (UPI)

— Preside nt Johns on, weary

and red-eyed from lost sleep,

kept vigil over the national ra -

cial crisis today from a White

House ringed with

troops.

. As reports from tense cities

around the nation streamed

into the White House situation

room — which normally keeps

track of international upheav-

als, Johnson wa s never fa r

away. .

Even the Vietnam Wa r took

a back seat to the domestic

violence flowing from th e slay-

ing of Dr. Martin Luther King

Jr . , ,

The President went on tele-

vision to address the nation

for the second time in 24 hours

Friday, telling his listeners

"America shall not be ruled

by bullets" a nd calling on Con-

gress to hold a joint meeting

to consider new measures he

will propose to improve the lot

of the Negro.

He asked Congress to meet

Vigil

no later than 9 p.m. EST Mon-

day to hear the President's

recommendations and sugges-

tions fo r action, constructive

action instead of destructive

action in this hour of national

need." His address will be

broadcast live on radio and

federal / television.

Before addressings he meet-

ing Johnson me t 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 Cathe-

dral, where Johnson, his face

haggard from fatigue, bowed

his head i n sorrow as Dr. King

wa s eulogized by one of the

slain civil rights leader's clos-

est aides. The Rev. Walter

Faun roy of Washington.

The

President

did not in-

dicate what he had in mind for

his address to Congress, but it

wa s almost certain a priority

item would be an appeal for

House passage of the Senate-

passed civil rights bill.

The bill would outlaw dis-

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City Pledges Disturbance

Charges Will Be Dropped

Mayor Kool to d a y pro-

claimed Sunday as a day of

prayer fo r racial tolerance

an d racial peace in our town"

an d urged "that all citizens

attend their churches tomor-

row.

By DICK COLBY

Local leaders — both black

and

white—anticipate another

quiet night here after an 11th

hour" decision by city com-

missioners apparently quiet-

ed a threat of racial violence

Friday night.

Mayor Preston J. Kool cli-

maxed a tense, y et calm meet-

ing with a Negro delegation

in Lincoln School by announc-

ing steps to dismiss charges

against most of the 33 people

arrested during a demonstra-

tion sparked by the Memphis,

Tenn., murder of Dr. Martin

Luther King.

Dismissal of the charges

wa s termed the key demand

in a list of 20 presented by

the delegation, which includ-

ed, among others, William E;

Boards J r . , executive direc-

tor of the local Yoimg Adult

Council of the National As-

sociation 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. Robin-

son, executive director of the

Battle Creek Area U r b a n

League, the Rev. Gilbert L.

Jackson, pastor of the Sec-

ond Baptist Church, Mrs. Lil-

lian 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

estab-

lishment of a Negro youth ad-

visory council to serve in an

advisory capacity to the Civic

Recreation Department.

Some demands were accept-

ed, others partially agreed to

after negotiation and still oth-

ers not aired at all. ' None was

completely rejected, however.

The delegation spoke for

a group of approximately 250,

predominantly-young Negroes

Turn to Page 3

USS New Jersey

s Recommissioned

PHILADELPHIA (AP) —

Th e battleship USS New Jer-

sey, bound fo r Vietnam duty

after 10 years in mothballs,

wa s recommissioned Saturday

in colorful ceremonies viewed

by several thousand invited

guests at Philadelphia Naval

Base.

We salute he r captain and

he r crew," Navy Secretary

Paul R. Ignatius said in pre-

pared remarks, "wish them

Godspeed and smooth sailing,

an d express ou r confidence

that she will be a worthy

champion of her country's

cause in the difficult days that

lie ahead."

Ignatius' coupled his re-

marks with a plea for the

United States to see the Viet-

nam war "through to a satis-

factory conclusion."

4

Th e 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.

Fo r neither this battleship

nor all the ships of the United

States Fleet, nor all our men

in uniform, can succeed with-

out the support and under-

standing of the American

people."

Th e 1400-man crew of the

New Jersey—half the normal

ship's complement—lined the

b a t t l e w a g o n ' s fr es hl y

scrubbed decks for the cere-

mony. Guests viewed the

traditional naval pageantry

from dockside.


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T H E B A T T L E C RE E K E N Q U I R E R A N D / N E W S

Sunday, July 30

f

1967

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Ex-Aibionite,

AAillage Vote Holds Fate

ss

unn

O f Harper Creek Contract

Church Ground Breaking Se t Today

This is an artist's conception of the Cathedral

Church of Christ the King, Episcopal Diocese of

Western Michigan,

f or

which ground will

be

broken

today in Kalamazoo. Bishop Charles E. Bennison

will officiate. Cost of the church, designed by Chi-

cago 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

Th e Calhoun County Chapter

American Re d Cross is

blood Yours

With a last July 1-to-June 30,

county quota

of

6,000 units,

the

chapter Friday will

its first blood collection

Do-

r

Registry

as the

agency

The initial drive is scheduled

wing basement

of

e

Community Services Build-

between 10:30 a.m. and 4:30

All

residents meeUng

age and

ar e urged to

May 17. Lack of donors

in the

Registry's

"There is no substitute for

R.

Re d

Cross executive

4

'You must have

We

will provide service

long

as the

community

sup-

us ."

Red Cross, which ha s manned

office

in the

county since

funded by the United

unity Services' Un i t e d

the

Albion

Com-

Chest,

the

Marshall

and the

But , as Mr.

Spormann notes,

is meaningless in a blood

without donors.

Unfortunately, many people

is no

need

to

worry

an adequate supply of

Company Grants

Five College

Scholarships

CHARLOTTE—The second

an-

larship a w a r d s totaling

of the five award recipients

e graduates of Charlotte High

The winners were selected by

scholarship commitee

of :

Clyde

A.

Fulton;

Malottke, rector

John's Episcopal Church;

.

George

R.

Myers, director

student teachers at M.S.U.;

John

F* S h i n n e r s,

of St.

Mary's Catholic

and

John

B.

Smith,

as-

of Char-

Two of the

students received

fo r scholarships

Coquette Vale, 20 , daughter of

Dora L. Klaiss, is a senior

Michigan State where

she is

in

special education;

Force, 19, daughter of Mr.

Carroll

B.

Force

is a

at

M.S.U.

in the

Three young men were

may

renewed annually for a max-i

of

four years.

Ronald

D.

Ball,

18, son of Mrs.;

M. Bail, will a t t e n d

to study chem-

18, son of

Gayle Woodbeck

to

prepare

for a

business

E.

Castner,

17.

Keith E.

is a 1967

graduate

of

for

Blind. He will attend Olivet

to prepare fo r entrance

school.

This scholarship program

was

in 1966 to assist qual-

of AE

employes

developing and realizing their

as future leaders

d

good citizens.

JERUSALEM

(A P )

—Israel

600 persons

an

amnesty

for

of

minor

Th e amnesty was pro-

in

e

June

5-10

Middle East

war.

blood in the n at io n ' s blood land vastly stepped-up medical

banks. 1 research have cr eated a need

Th e

fact

is,

however, there

is

no t enough blood available for

everybody in the United States.

And

while

the Red

Cross

re-

gional blood center

in

Lansing

provided blood fo r Calhoun

fo r

human blood

fa r

greater

than were the nonmilitary needs

before.

The Red

Cross supplies

50 per

cent

of the

blood

in the

nation.

Its role as program director in

County between th e R egist ry's Calhoun County allows residents

closing

and Red

Cross' official

to

receive free blood anywhere,

entrance earlier this month, it: a life-saving matter fo r motor-

also ha s many other counties to ists.

worry about. I Donated blood must

be

used

Th e

sharp increase

in the fre-.

within

21

days. After that

its

quency of new, life-saving opera-

tions—open-heart surgery,

kid-

ne y

transplants

and the

like—

plasma is extracted for the blood

derivatives such

as

s e r u m

albumin

fo r

emergency shock

Robinson o n Race

O t

Welfare Roll

Statistics

Misleading

treatment, gamma globulin for

p r e v e n t i n g and modifying

measles

and

hepatitis, fibrinogen

fo r

hemorrhaging

in

childbirth,

vaccinia immune globulin for

complications from vaccination,

fresh frozen plasma

for con-

trolling bleeding in hemophilia

and red cells f or anemia.

The

first step following dona-

tion is the typing of the donor's

blood into main groups such as

A, B, AB and O and

into sub-i

groups such

as M, N and Rh;

factor. Th e blood then is stored I

in

hospitals until needed.

Typing allows quick

and

easy

matching between patients and

blood needed. The Red Cross too

is

noted

for i t s

access

to

rare-

type blood.

Re d Cross also ha s blood-

mobiles—one will

be

used

Fri -

day—which carry

the

supplies

necessary to set up blood col-

lection facilities.

But the

most important

com-

ponent

is the

volunteer donor.

Blood can't be manufactured.

Dies

in

West

ALBION

—

Services will

be

held

at 10 a.m.

Monday

in

Fort

Collins, Colo., fo r Miss Jose-

phine (Jo) Dunn, 70, who died

there Friday after

an

illness

of

several days.

Miss Dunn

ha d

resided with

a

sister, Miss Dorothy Dunn,

af-

ter retiring in June, 1962, as

director

of

women's physical

education

at

Albion College,

a

post she had held since 1929.

She was bom Dec. 4, 1896, in

Fort Collins,

a

daughter

of Al-

bert an d Sarah (LiUlefield)

Dunn.

She

attended school there

and in 1920 was

graduated from

Oberlin College.

Miss Dunn taught

at

State

College of Education in Cali-

fornia, Pa . , from 1920-1924; at

Tulare, Calif., Union High School

from 1924-1925, and a t Fort Col-

lins High School from 1925-1929.

She was

also

a

member

of the

Fort Collins YMCA staff.

Miss Dunn received

her mas-

ter's degree from Columbia

Uni-

versity. She had completed post

graduate study at Colorado Col-

lege,

th e

University

of

Colora-

do, Mills College, Stanford Uni-

versity and the University of

Southern California.

At Albion, Miss Dunn was an

officer

of the

Faculty Women's

League

of

Albion College

and

the Camp Guardians Associa-

tion.

She

instructed

Red

Cross

first

aid

courses during World

War II and had served as a re-

g i n a 1 representative in the

Camp Fire movement.

She had

been honored many times for

he r Camp Fire work. She was

active

in

local

Re d

Cross work.

She was a member of the

First Methodist Church

of Al-

bion

and the PEO

Sisterhood.

Miss Dunn had been treasurer

of

both

the

Midwest

and Na-

tional Associations of Physical

Education fo r College Women.

Surviving

in

addition

to her

sister a re two brothers, A. H.

Dunn Jr . of Pelham, N.Y., and

J . P.

Dunn

of Los

Angeles, Calif.

A master contract fo r teach-

ers of the

Harper Creek

Com-

munity Schools, already tenta-

tively approved, is at stake in

a special millage election Mon-

day.

Members of the Harper Creek

Education Association and the

board

of

education,

in

urging

a

" y e s "

vote

on the

proposal,

have pointed ou t that th e mill-

ag e requested is necessary to

maintain quality education

and

continued operation

of a com-

plete school program.

Th e proposal is for an addi-

tional levy

of 7

mills

for 1967-

Jewel Loot:

$100,000

DETROIT (UPI)—Two

ban-

dits, both carrying guns, en-

tered a downtown jewelry store

Friday

an d

fled with $100,000

worth

of

gems.

Police said the two men blind-

folded

an d

tied

th e

store's

own-

er ,

Herbert Segal,

and a wom-

an employe,, scooped up the

merchandise

and

fled.

68 only, fo r operating purposes.

Electors of the district last May

1

approved

the

renewal

for

three years of an 11-mill extra

levy

fo r

operation, with

the

understanding that

a

request

for

additional millage would be

necessary after determination

of

such factors

as

slate

aid and

salary increases.

Th e

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 pro-

fessional negotiations team.

It

calls

fo r

teacher salaries

ranging from $5,800

to

$9,314,

after 11 years, fo r those with

bachelors' degrees

and

$6,100

to

$10,217, after

12

years,

fo r

those

with masters' degrees.

Th e figures, fa r below the

minimum goals

of

$7,000

to

$16,000 urged by the Michigan

Education Association, repre-

sent increases over last year's

scale amounting to about O

1

/^

pe r cent at the base and 17 per

cent

at the top.

Aside from salaries, the pro-

posed master contract involves

no

major changes. Fringe bene-

fits include health insurance

and group life insurance cover-

age.

While th e general HCEA mem-

bership vole on approval of the

proposed contract awaits public

approval of the additional mill-

age, the HCEA executive board

ha s

gone

on

record

as

support-

ing the

millage request.

In

announcing endorsement

of

the

proposal, James Miller,

HCEA president, released the

following statement:

"I n

agreement with

the Har-

per Creek Board of Education,

the

teachers emphasized that

such

a

millage will insure quali-

fied teachers, full use of facili-

ties

and

maintain

a

quality

pro-

gram

for the

children

of

Harper

Creek."

Voting Monday will

be at the

Harper Creek High School, from

7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Milton J.

Robinson

There is a big myth throughout much of the nation—a

myth that welfare rolls

ar e

filled with Negroes

an d

chiselers

wh o don't want to work.

Recent newspaper an d magazine articles have helped

perpetrate this myth

by not

showing

a

complete picture

of

ou r

welfare policies

and

welfare recipients.

Too

frequently

we find articles containing statements like this: "Jobs a re

going begging throughout

the

country because relief clients

won't take

the

low-paid employment available

to

unskilled

Workers."

Figures Clarify Situation

Figures recently released by the White House should

help

t o

clarify this situation.

There

are 7.3

million people

in the

United Slates getting

some form of welfare aid. A little more than two million

ar e

aged, 700,000

ar e

blind

or

handicapped,

3.5

million

a re

children

and the

rest

a re the

parents

of

those children

who

ar e unable to support them.

Almost

a

million

of

these

ar e

mothers

wh o

can't leave

their children

to go to

work, while most

of the

150,000 fathers

on welfare ar e handicapped in one way or another. The re -

port concluded that

of the

total number

of

welfare recipients

only 50,000—less than

1 per

cent—are able

to

work.

Victims of Misfortune

These people don't sound like chiselers

to me .

They

a re

people

who may

have

me t

with misfortune

in

life,

or a re

victims of a system which ha s failed them.

At the National Conference on Social Welfare last May,

I

heard

New

York's Commissioner

of

Welfare, Mitchell

I.

Ginsburg, say the welfare system wa s "designed to save

money rather than people, and the tragedy is that it does

neither."

Fo r example, this nation reveres the family an d every-

one

agrees that

a

strong family unit

is

essential

to

society,

yet the

welfare system actually helps break

up

many

fam-

ilies.

Children who receive welfare in the Aid to Dependent

Children program

in

many states often

pay for the a id by

losing their fathers. That's because of the "man-in-the-house"

rule which forbids assistance to the children if there is an

able-bodied

ma n

living with them.

In

many states this rule

is enforced by night raids to check whether a man is in the

home. "These raids ar e also'conducted without search war-

rants

or

voluntary consent," according

to a

recent issue

of

Time magazine.

Policies Antiquated

It

appears

to me, as a

professional social worker, that

welfare policies like these ar e antiquated.

Th e

other myth about welfare

is

that Negroes gravitate

to big

cities because welfare payments

ar e

better there.

This is false, according to the statistics of the White House

report, which said that only about

a

third

of

welfare recipi-

ents

ar e

Negro.

Thomas Keenan, director of the Calhoun County Depart-

ment

of

Social Services told

me

that

of the

total number

of

cases handled

by hi s

office,

th e

percentage

of

Negro cases

is slightly less than th e national average of 33 per cent.

He

described

the

total case load

as

follows:

Aid to

Depend-

en t

Children

868, Old Age

Assistance

802, Aid to the

Blind

an d Disabled 311, Medical Aid 543 and direct cases of re-

lief

207.

Mr .

Keenan,

who i s

also

a

professional social worker,

said that "as a nation we will have to reach out and find

better ways

to

assist those

in

need."

To

this

I say

amen,

an d

add—especially minority group citizens.

Mr . Keenan will elaborate on hi s statement a t the Legal

Aid Conference tomorrow at Northwestern Junior High

School.

He

will discuss recent changes

in the law,

attitudes

an d treatment of welfare recipients.

As I see it , the problem facing o ur welfare departments

today

is one of

providing

th e

basic necessities

of

human

life while allowing recipients to maintain their dignity. At the

same time, we must provide incentives to restore these re-

cipients

to

self-sufficiency whenever possible.

Athens Indian

Holiness Camp

Holds Meeting

The

Athens Indian Holiness

Camp on M-60 between Athens

an d Union City is holding its

Miss'onary

Day

today.

Rev.

Harry Stanley, mission-

ary to Haiti, will be the speaker

at the 10:30 a.m.

service

and

Rev.

William Gale, field repre-

sentative for the Brainerd Indian

School, will be the speaker at

the 2:30 p.m.

service.

Missionary

Day i s

part

of the

annual Indian Holiness Camp

activities.

The

camp will

be

held

through

Aug. 6.

The meeting is open to the

public. Meals

ar e

served

on the

free-will offering plan.

.

CAA-Sponsored

Free Camp-Out

Planned for 96

Looking for a chance to "get

away from

it all"

next week-

end?

The youth summer employ

ment

and

recreation program

of

the Calhoun Community Action

Agency ha s reserved the Out-

door Camping Center

at

Wilder-

ness State Park next Saturday

and Sunday.

The

center,

on

Carp Lake

11

miles west of Mackinaw City,

will accommodate 96 people.

Edmund

R.

Morris, agency

dep-

uty

director, wants

to

make

it a

"family affair"—48 fathers and

sons

and 48

mothers

an d

daugh-

ters.

Th e trip is free fo r those who

qualify. Campers must provide

their own bedding an d health

an d comfort items.

Interested persons should

con-

tact the agency at 182 W. Van

Buren St

Sheriff Inches O f f

LOS

ANGELES

(AP) —

Sher-

iff

Peter

J.

Pitchess moved

an

inch closer today to finding 200

more deputy sheriffs whom

he

ha s

been unable

to

recruit.

Pitchess said men 5 feet «7

or

taller

ma y

apply.

Th e

mini-

mu m

height until

now has

been

5 feet 8.

Local Scouts Score

In Swimming Meet

Five Battle Creek

Boy

Scouts

helped Camp Mikquano, Nelson-

ville. Wis., win a swim meet

with Camp Wapaca, another

Wisconsin facility.

Ra y Nagel placed in two

events. Pa t Hert won a first in

the

freestyle race. Kirk Holtz-

kemper placed second

in the

back stroke. Jeff Colquhoun had

a first in the freestyle and back

stroke. Jeff Parlin

had two

first

places.

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 Develop-

ment,

an arm of the

State Department,

to

task

in an

editori-

al

blasting

the AID for

wasting

the

people's money while

seeking civilians fo r work in Vietnam.

"W e

previously received

an

identical story

by

mail,"

the

paper said.

"T o

make sure

we

know about

the

drive

a

second telegram

wa s

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 wa s sent. All three telegrams — about

550

words

—

were delivered

at the

same time.

"I n addition, a special telephone line ha s been set up

where anyone can call collect to Grand Rapids to hear de-

tails about

the

jobs available.

The

three telegrams were

no

doubt sent

to all

daily newspapers, radio

and

television

sta-

tions in western an d central Michigan. This is a tremendous

waste of money . . . but obviously when you a re spending

government funds,

wh y

worry about

th e

cost?"

th e

editorial

staled.

He Wasn't Left

Holding the Bag

LOS ANGELES (AP)

Apartment house manager

James

H.

Anderson told police

he was standing in the parking

lot of a

bank, carrying

a

plastic

ba g

with $3,000

in

cash

and

checks ready fo r deposit, when

he

stopped

to

light

a

cigar.

Suddenly,

as a ca r

whizzed

by

the motorist reached out and

snatched

the bag

from Ander-

son's hand

an d

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Highway Probe xpected

By WILLARD BAIRD

Our

State Bureau Chief

LANSING — Attorney Gener-

al Frank J. Kelley's report of

hi s six-month investigation of

the State Highway Department

will

not

whitewash

the

depart-

ment, informed sources say.

But i t may not completely

satisfy the department's more

vehement and suspicious critics,

either.

Thbse familiar with it s con-

tents sa y they can't disclose

how far i t will go in rapping

knuckles — o r recommending

sterner measures—before public

release of the report, expected

this week.

Kelley gave Gov. Romney a

verbal report

of how the

investi-

gation

wa s

conducted

and the

findings i t produced in a private

two-hour conference last week.

Romney ha d undertaken a

short-lived, private conducted

inquiry of his own into Highway

Department activities during

his

first campaign fo r 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 un-

forseen additional work, but

wa s outvoted by the board's

then Democratic majority.

At least three of the four m e m -

bers of the State Highway Com-

mission ar e 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 ha s b e e n

under

wa y

since

Jan. 18. He an-

nounced then h e w as launching

a full scale investigation . . .

Robinson on Race

Equality

Is

Still

Far Off

For

Negroes

ilton J.

Robinson

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

cities. Associated Press reporter A.

F.

Mahan stated that,

44

the Negro, wh o generally believes that handicaps of preju-

dice and discrimination remain, is pushing stoutly. Some

•whites are of the opinion the push is too stout. Hi s findings

concur with a recent magazi ne poll which showed that 70

pe r cent of white people feel that Negroes

41

are trying to

move too fast.

T h e

Facts

As

They Were

Almost five years ago, the late President Kennedy, in de-

scribing the progress an d position of the Negro, said:

4,

The

Negro baby

bom in

America today

—

regardless

of the sec-

tion of the country or state in which he is born — h as about

one-half as much chance of completing high school as a white

baby born in the same place on the same d ay; one-third as

much chance of completing college; one-third as much chance

of

becoming

a

professional

m an ;

twice

as

much chance

of be-

coming 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

A look at a few of the most recent statistics convinces

me that Negroes must still go a long wa y before they can see

progress an d become full partners in our affluent society.

Take income, fo r example. Th e median income fo r 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.

Bu t more than one out of every five such Negro families

earn less than this income.

Facts

in

Battle Creek

Negroes ar e still more likely to suffer unemployment.

Their unemployment rate

is

double that

fo r

whites,

and has

been since the early 1950's. It is especially rough on young

people. Th e most recent figures show that th e 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 posi-

tion, almost half of Negro families live in substandard hous-

ing.

Negro citizens, have a life expectancy of 64 years, while

the white citizens have a life expectancy of 71 years. Infant

mortality rates also show that Negroes have less of a chance

to life itself. Fo r every thousand babies' b om t o Negro par-

ents, 41 die, compared with 21 white babies per thousand.

Unemployment Double

Figures in Battle Creek also indicate a wide ga p between

white an d non-white citizens.

Negroes total 15 per cent of the city's population. How-

ever, they constitute 25 per cent of the total number of fam-

ilies with incomes

of

$3,000

or

less

pe r

year.

In the Lincoln Elementary school district, which has the

highest concentration of Negroes in the city, the percentage

of deteriorating an d dilapidated housing is 43.9 per cent as

compared with the overall city average of 16.6 per cent.

Th e statistics on infant mortality reveal that one out of

every three infant deaths is a Negro infant.

Th e figures ar e there for all to see. They ar e 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

44

moving too fast. If de-

mocracy, justice, equality an d opportunity have an y meaning,

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an d

move quickly

to

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of the allegations of wrongdo-

ing in the department's rela-

tionship with the Holloway Con-

struction Co. of Wixom, a major

contractor on Michigan freeway

an d trunkline projects, and in

other Highway Department ac -

tivities.

At that time Kelley referred

to repeated questions, suspi-

cions, innuendos an d rumors

about Highway Department af-

fairs which he said ha d circu-

lated for some five years

without producing sufficient evi-

dence

4,

to

take criminal action

against an y individual.

All evidence will be scrutin-

ized carefully, he said in Janu-

ary. No allegation will be left

uninvestigated.

If it

appeals further legal

investigative tools, such as a

grand jury, ar e required, such

will be requested. But this step

will be undertaken only if it ap-

pears necessary.

As the investigation proceeded,

i t was leamed the probe delved

into Highway Department

af-

fairs further back than the five-

year 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.

Th e stacks of written reports

they produced were boiled down

during the last month to a bulg-

in g summary of charges pre-

sented, evidence found and con-

clusions reached.

At the outset. Kelley confer-

red with the chairman of the

S t a t e Highway Commission,

Ardale W. Ferguson, a Benton

Harbor Republican, wh o 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 Commis-

sioner John C. Mackie who

headed the department from

mid-1957 through

1964.

They had also interviewed

Eugene F. Townsend Sr., a re-

tired assistant attomey general,

and Ben A. Williams, a High-

wa y Dep ar tmen t e m p l o y e ,

whose complaints — augmented

by several legislative inquiries,

newspaper reports an d other in-

vestigations of a private nature

— had finally spurred Kelley

into launching the investigation.

Kelley Criticized

At times during his six-month

probe, implications of self-pro-

tection and political favoritism

were hurled at Kelley, who as a

member

of the

State Adminis-

trative Board ha d joined other

board members in approving

some of the Highway Depart-

Open House

to

Feature

Air

Force Thunderbirds

An open house will be held

Saturday, Aug. 5, at Kellogg

Regional Airfield in conjunction

with a visit here by the famed

Thunderbirds, the Air Force

acrobatic team.

Th e team is scheduled to pre-

sent its show at the annual

Grand Haven Coast Guard

Fes-

tival. Th e group will be based

at Kellogg Field because of its

adequate facilities to handle the

Flint Child Dies

In Turtle Lake

A 4-year-old Flint bo y drown-

ed Saturday aftemoon in Turtle

Lake at Cedar Park, a mile

north

of

Union City.

Th e child, James A. Zemba,

son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Zem-

ba of Flint, wa s found sub-

merged in 12 feet of water by a

swimmer. Rick Mackinder, 13,

of 65 Spaulding St. in Battle

Creek.

Officials said the Zemba child

ha d wandered from the site

where the family wa s camping

an d picnicking.

HeAvas given mouth-to-mouth

resuscitation at the scene until

the arrival of the Union City

rescue squad which adminis-

tered mechanical resuscitation.

C The child wa s dead on arrival

at Coldwater Health Center.

F100 Super Sabre jets.

Th e 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 an d Navy for different

types of military aircraft for a

static display. Civilian aircraft

operators at the airport will dis-

play aircraft and explain flight

training programs.

Th e Battle Creek squadron of

the Civil Air Patrol will handle

ground control of traffic and

safety at the airfield. T he Battle

Creek Model Airplane Club will

demonstrate U control and

radio controlled airplanes. Heli-

copter rides will be available

for a fee.

Th e Thunderbirds have been

asked to put on a short demon-

tration on their return from the

Grand Haven show. This will be

done if the aircraft have suffi-

cient fuel. Their return is set

fo r about 2:15 p.m. The team

will arrive here Friday, Aug. 4,

and a landing show will be pre-

sented about 3 p.m.

Romans were among the first

to use mineral waters for health

purposes.

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ment's contract over-run pay-

ments later called into question.

Critics also noted the Demo-

cratic attomey general was pr i-

marily investigating the affairs

of the Highway Department

when it was headed by fellow-

Democrat Mackie. During his

7V£ years in office, Mackie had

also served on the Administra-

tive Board, then under Demo-

cratic control.

Kelley's answer to the parti-

sanship charge

is

that Republi-

cans as well as Democrats have

been involved in Highway De-

partment management. He also

says his investigators were in-

structed to get the facts with-

ou t regard to possible political

embarrassment in their search

for

evidence

to

support

or dis-

prove alleged wrongdoing.

Townsend retired last year

after 22 years of state service,

including several years in the

highway division of the attorney

general's office.

Joined Staff in 1957

Williams, wh o joined the High-

wa y Department's upper eche-

lon'in 1957 as an administrative

assistant to the then deputy

commissioner, Sidney H. Wool-

ner , has been shifted to several

different jobs since Woolner left

the department in 1959. In April

of this year, when Kelley's in-

vestigation wa s well under w ay ,

Williams wa s assigned by How-

ard E. Hill, then director of the

department, to the traffic sur-

vey and analysis office in East

Lansing.

Hill, 60. has since relinquished

the department's chief execu-

tive position and will retire

Aug. 1.

Henrik

E.

Stafseth,

who

was one of his three deputy di-

rectors, ha s headed the depart-

ment as acting director since

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T H E B A T T L E C R E E K E N Q U I R E R A N D N E W S

Boost in Federal

Taxes Imminent

WASHINGTON (AP) — The

administration's conviction tha

it

must seek

a tax

increase this

year now is stronger than ever.

Although officials hesitated to

describe their position as

4

'be-

yond the point of no return,

they don't

see any

possibility

of

backtracking now, barring any

unforeseen upheavals.

This tone was set by Gardner

Ackley, chairman of the Presi-

dent's Council of Economic Ad-

visers, w ho said previous doubts

about the economy now have

been cleared up.

In the tight of the outlook

and the aims, there is no escape

from the responsible and objec-

tive conclusion that personal

and corporate income taxes will

need to be raised this year to

safeguard healthy prosperity,

Ackley said.

His

remarks

at a

congression-

al hearing last week were the

strongest yet voiced by any ad-

ministration official on the need

for a tax increase this year to

Lighting Plan

Faces Council

Proposals for street lighting

improvements and a s t r e e t

sweeping contract will be con-

sidered by Springfield council-

ment at 7:30 p.m. Monday.

They will hear a Consumers

Power Co. report on the feasi-

bility of putting more lights on

Avenue A, east of Easy Street;

and on Nettles Street, between

26th and 30th streets.

Officials ar e considering plans

for having, city streets swept

regularly on a contract basis.

Now city workers clean inter-

sections with push brooms and

the remainder of the street sys-

tem is not swept, according to

City Clerk Carl H. Grasher.

help stem inflation, hold down

interest rates and help pay for

the

Vietnam

war .

One analyst said Saturday

that

in

late

Ma y

administration

officials, although firm in their

tax thinking, were willing to

point to the need for more eco-

nomic data before bearing down

hard on taxes.

The data now is in and admin-

istration officials contend the

boom they predicted

in

January

already ha s begun.

We'll be hitting full stride b y

the third quarter, a key gov

ernment source said Saturday.

A

robust expansion

in the sec-

ond half and into 1968 will de-

mand a tax increase.

The possibility has been

opened to an even larger tax

hike than

the six per

cent

sur

charge proposed by Presiden

Johnson last January on indi

vidual and corporate income

taxes..

Ackley

has

said that anything

less than six per cent won't do

the job and he agreed a higher

rate might b e needed if Vietnam

spending should escalate fur-

ther.

\

^ O n e administration analys

said a major upheaval such as

very punishing strikes or^an

end or de-escalation of the war

could change

the tax

thinking

but this isn't expected.

When the tax plan will for-

mally be submitted to Congress

still is an open question.

It was

first proposed

to

take

effect July 1 but the guessing i s

it won't even be sent to the

House Ways and Means Com-

mittee until as late as mid-Au-

gust

News Notes

Nancy Durham of Route 3,

Box 132, is a first prize winner

in the Funland Coloring Contest,

which appears in the Sunday

Enquirer and News. The award

is a set of Compton's Pictured

Encyplopedias.

James C. Boles, 22, of Rt. 3,

Bellevue, fell out of a tree he

wa s trimming at the home of

Owen Smithy, 190 W. Ritten-

house Ave., Saturday afternoon.

He was taken to Community

Hospital where he was treated

for a broken collar bone and

released.

Don DeGroot, local chapter

0

president of the National Asso-

ciation of Accountants, D. L.

Kupfer, national director, and

members Keith Kirby, Clair

Omo and E. R. Severn and

their families were among the

1,356 attendityf* th e recent na-

tional convention in Denver,

Colo.

Charles Bicknell, 10-year-old

son of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas

Bicknell of 378 Emmett St., was

taken to Community Hospital

Saturday a&emoon with a bro-

ken arm. Mrs. Bicknell said her

son was

climbing into

a bed-

room window when he fell

* backwards on his arm. He is

listed in good condition at the

hospital.

Roy W. Hover, son of Mr. and

Mrs. Leonard J. Willis, of 229

Ardmoor Drive, began his in-

ternship Saturday at William

Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak,

after receiving his doctor of

medicine degree from Wayne

State University. He received

his B.A. degree from Albion

College in 1963. His internship

will continue until July of 1968.

Th e Peace Corps placement

test will

be

given

at 1:30 p.m.,

Saturday, July 15, at the post of-

fice.- Applicants must fill out an

application form and present it

to the tester before taking the

test. Forms ar e available at the

post offices o r from the Peace

Corps in Washington, D.C. The

test measures general aptitude

and ability to leam a foreign

language.

It is

given

to

deter-

mine where and how an appli-

cant will be best utilized over-

seas.

MVETS POST

HONORED AT

ST TE MEET

Battle Creek Amvets Post

66 twice wa s honored at the

annual state convention for

100 per cent renewal of its

membership for. 1967 and i ts

public service activities.

The projects include spon-

s o r s h i p of a Connie Mack

baseball team, an a n n u a l ,

scholarship fund to a student

at

Kellogg Community

Col-

lege, the annual Am vet Circus

and participation in projects

for the Veterans Administra-

tion hospital.

Convention delegates repre-

senting Post 66 were Com-

mander Harvey B. Simrod

and Post Chaplain Thomas B.

Moss, i h'z&f y.'V-

:

360 Join in '42

Central Reunion

RENEWING ACQUAINTANCES—^John Postma,

left, retired principal o f Central, talks with four mem

bers of the class of 1942. From th e left, Mrs. Gerald

—Staff Photo by Jack Stubbs.

Storey, t he former. Georgina Steele; Mrs. Kent Kanaga,

th e former PhyUis Reeves; Te d Pixley, wh o emceed

Saturday nig ht s program, an d Harold Good.

. •

Community Ambassador Reports

Language Culture Training Over

Beth Prepares

for er

Trip

to

Japan

Here is the first report

from Elizabeth (Beth) Butter,

Battle Creek's 1967 Commu-

nity Ambassador. Miss Rutter,

a caseworker for the Depart-

ment of Social Services, Cal

houn County, is on her way to

Japan where she will reside

for three months under the

joint sponsorship of the city

and the Experiment in Inter-

national Living. She will be

sending back further reports

during her homestay.

Dear Friends,

Here in the hills across the

Golden Gate from San Francis-

co, nearly 100

young ad ul ts

lave taken over

h e ' Katherine

Branson School

where the Ex-

periment in In-

ernational Liv-

ng has b e e n

lolding its two-

week orientation

or those who

will spend the

summer i i r Ja-

Beth Ratter

pan.

Th e non-profit organization an -

nually sends 1,500 Experiment-

ere :to imwre tha n countri es

ittan

ing

between peoples through

di-

Robinson on Race

T extbooks

Milton J.

Robinson

Of Negroes

Local Births

COMMUNITY noSPITA i;

Mr, and Mrs, Charles Rowe,

140 . Avon Drive , a son, at 1:30

p.m.

Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Belles,

153 Rook St., a daughter, at 4:56

p.m. Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Heine,

S19

Arcadia Blvd.,

a son, at 5:29

p.m. Saturday.

Local Obituaries

Kathryn

M.

Parrott

Kathryn M. Parrott, 80, who

resided with he r daughter at

1105 E. Michigan Ave., died at

2:10 p.m. Saturday in a local

hospital where

she had

been

a

patient for five days. She was

bo m March 31, 1887, in Battle

Creek, a daughter of Charles

and Mary (Mellon) Scanlon.

She was a

m e m b e r

of the

American Cancer Society and

was a secretary of the Emmett

Rescue Squad for many years.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs.

Carl (Maxine) Clark

of the

Michigan Ave. address, and

three grandchildren.

This is another in a series of columns by Milton J. Robinson,

executive director of the Battle Creek Area Urban League, on

race relations and related questions.

Through deliberate omission^ the history and social studies

textbooks of our schools have deprived most Americans of in-

formation about historical contributions of Negroes.

This statement

ma y

appear

to be

dogmatic

but it can be

documented by several recent studies of school textbooks.

One such study by the American Federation of Teachers found

that in most of the 'texts used th e Neg

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