Whatever Happened to Jesse Parham? BY BOB LABAREE

BESSEMER, Ala..--It was a month ago this Saturday that Jesse Parham had an argument with his employer, the owner of a small grocery store In North Bes­semer, Some words were exchanged, and Parham went home angry.

People can't agree on just what hap­pened In the hours that followed. But one thing is cerWn--the next morntng. Parham and his entire family had dis­appeared. leaving everything but a few c lathes behind.

Artis Parham. JeSlie's father. said he baIIn' t heard from his son since that weekend. "All I know Is what folks tell

VOL. III, NO. 49

9 Kids, No Bail

BY BOB LABAREE BESSEMER. Ala. -- Lawyers have

been working since March to get be1l for Mrs. Ada Pearl Smith, a Bessemer lady accused of kUling a white blll col­lector.

Last week. the Alabama Supreme Court reversed Its earlier opinion and

set ball at $5,000. but since Mrs. Smith has no mooey she Is still in jail.

Meanwltlle, ber nine cblldren have been living 00 welfare and on donations from friends. Along with two of Mrs. Smith's Sisters, they are staying with their grandmother.

The Incident occured on March 10, when two men from the General Accept­aDce Corporation visited Mrs. Smith's home In tbe George Wasbinrton Carver Housing Project in South Bessemer. They were coming to colleet a debt 01 $300 owed by her husband.

Mrs. Smith has said she intormed the men that her busband was not horne, and asked Utem to leave. In the moments that follOwed, neighbors say, they heard loud sounds of klcldng and banging.

Mrs. Smith later testllied that the men were trying to enter, so sbe shot one of them -- Marc Hammaker -­through the trOllt screen door.

Mrs. Smith'. mother, Mn. Narcis­sus Dove. said this week that her daughter's ehlldren still show the ef­fects c1 the inCident, "All that knoek­Ing and hammering scared the chil­dren," she said. "They was locked up tight around her legs. Now, every time a white person comes to the door, the chUdren rl1ll,"

Attorneys Harvey Burg and Oscar Adams have argued that depriVing Mrs. Smith of bail was a violation of her rlgbts under the U, S. Constitution.

"BeSides." said Burg. "It otten works out that those who remain Incar­cerated get the convictions. It would help us prepare the case better U sbe were out,"

Mrs. Dove wants to raise the $500 premium for her daughter's bond by this weekend. She said she Is getting belp from Walter Jenkins of the Bes­semer area NAACP.

For the past nine months, she has had almost sole responslbUlty for the chil­dren, wbo ra� in age from four to 15. "I had to work myself for two months before we could get welfare," she said. "I bated to leave these children all alone here during the day, but what could I do?"

Both of the chUdren's parents were employed at the time of the InCident, but since May the father bas not had a job.

Shots Awaken Lowndes Folks

BY BETH WILCOX WHITE HALL, Ala. -- Mr. and

Mrs, Jackson Sellers' store was shot Into IaBt saturday night, "They just shot--bow, bow," saJd Mrs.Sellers. "I went to the door and looked out. Noth1nc."

A bullet went through the window c1 the store, and just missed the Coke cooler and thetreezer. "Itthey got that, they would've gotteD me for $I ,000 or mor .... said Mrs. Sellers.

Other Negro relidents--1ncludlng Henry Seaborn. the Rev. M. D. Tbomas. and A, D. Reeves -- said their cars were sbot up the same nlpt.

Lowndes County Sher11f John "Bltsie" JuUan said thi. week that "we rot some Ideas" on who did the

sbooUng. Many people wODdered If there

could be a connection be tweeD Satur­day's shootings and the death 01. Joe Cephus Thomas at a bomecomlng dance last week.

"We had a follow-up wltb the FBI 011 that (Thomas) shooting. becauae their civil rlibts mlpt have been .Iolated," laid Julian. "I would say In this case. the people whose houses were .hot bad their clvll rllbts vlo­l ated-"

me," said the fathe r • "He never spoke a word to me before he lef!."

There Is a rumor going around that Parham's sudden departure was the re­sult of night visitors. (Bessemer has a reputation as a Ku Klux Klan stroog­hold.) But no one knows an) thing for sure.

On th� afternoon of Nov. 4, the neigh­bars say. Parham returned from dellv­ering a load of packages. They say he told his employer, Ralph Autry, that three white boys had tried to hijack his groceries out in back of the store.

Parham told friends later that even­Ing that Autry said Parham was "talk-

Ing foolishness," and that "I! It was an)bod), It was nigger-bo)s who did It."

Wben Parham got angry at this. the story goes. Autry tired him. and Par­ham went home--some sa) to get his gun,

"Jes�e said Ralph paid him off, took out what Jesse owed him. and let him go." a neighbor recalled.

Autry's mother, co-propr1etor of the store, denied this. "He (parham) was acting nasty, so we sent him home." she said.

Employers and neighbors disagree on whether Parham was drunk that at-

ternoon. Between 4 and 5 p,m., Parham showed up at a friend's house and told his star} to the friend's wife.

"He hadn't had an� then." the lady recalled. "but when he came back to , It- I( m. husband around 6, \ ou could tell he had drunk a bit of something."

Mrs. Autr� said Parham had been "nipping a bit" when the InCident oc­curred.

The people agree that Parham was talking about a gun, but the} aren't sure whether he was actual!} carr)lng one,

Around midnight that day. a young man from the neighborhood saw four white men walking down the street past

Parham's house. "They said something to me," he re­

called. ''but I didn't stop, so they must have been looking for somebody else,"

At about the same time, a lady across the street was awakened b) a com moUoo at the Parham home. "I looked out the window and saw two cars In front of J e�5e' s house," she said, "Sounded like someone banging on a door."

"The next morning we detected the} were gone," said the l'idy's husband. "Everything was still there. furniture and a1\."

The Autrys complained that some people have been staying away from the

store slnee the Incident. "I doD·t under­stand wby they're dolnC it," said Mrs. Autry. "We've always had a rood re­lationship with the colored people around here."

A brother-in-law said Parham Is DOW In st, Louis, Missouri. working at a rood job. But In a phone call about a week ago, the relative said. Parham didn't say why he left so suddenly,

Mrs. Autry thinks she knows. "He had a paid vacatioD to st. Louis not loog ago. and liked It," she said. "He prob­ably just decided to go back."

But people are st1l1 wondering, As one man said. "It just don't seem right,"

WEEKEND EDITION: DECEMBER 2-3, 1967 TEN CENTS

SWAFCA HEAD JOE JOHNSON (SECOND FROM LEFT) LISTENS TO BERRY SELMA, AIa.--Theodore M. Berry, a top attIclal of the federal Offtce of Eco­

nomic Opportunity (OEO), had coogratulatlons and a warning for the Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association (SWAFCA) last saturday.

Berry, the national director 01 community action programs. came to SWAFCA's open house to praise the "few men and women wbo caught the spark and developed the Idea for creating a farm marketing co-op In the deep Southwest of Alabama."

"The success you have reallzed this summer Is the beginning at a larger suc­cess you can achieve In the years to come," Berry told people from all of SW AF CA' s ten counties.

But, Berry warned, "It Is not certain, It Is not written" that SWAFCA will get any more money from OEO. He said a new law "would make It Impossible for us to make a grant Uke this. unless It had the approval of (Selma) Mayor ( Joe) Smitherman." Smitherman led the flgbt against the original SWAFCA grant.

Among the governm.nt oftlclals who sent telegrams or personal representa­tives to the celebratloo at the SWAFCA office were PreSident Johnson, Vlce­President Hubert Humphrey. Agriculture Secretary OrvIlle Freeman. Labor Secretary WUlard Wirtz, OEO DIrector Sargent Shriver. and at leut 13 U.s, congressmen.

Man Shot Four Times, Held in Assault Case

BY SARAH HEGGIE MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Charles L,

Johnson. a Negro youth who was shot four times by a whlte parklng-Iot atten­dant, was bound over to the grand jury last Wednesday on a charge of assault with intent to murder.

Johnson, 19. was shot by Daniel D. Brown. 74, last month in downtown Montgomery. Last Wednesday In Muni­cipal Court, Brown--who signed the warrant aptnst Jobnson--was the chief witness against him.

been shot. In sending the ease to the grand jury,

Judge Loa Indicated that he was relying on testimony given by W1lliam L, Mason at the Montgomery County sheriff's of­fice.

Mason--who was withlD hearing dis­tance 01 the incldent--said he conclud­ed that Johnson had sbot tlrst, since Johnson had a .22-callber Pistol and Brown a .38. Mason said the tlrst two shots he heard came from the "smaller gun."

Federal Funds Misused, Barbour Group Charges

BY MARY ELLEN GALE EUFAULA, Ala.

NAAC P leaders in Bar­bour County have accused school officials of dis­criminating against Ne­groes in the use of federal funds.

In a letter made publ1c this week, two local NAACP branches charged that the Barbour County Board of Education has misused thousands of dollars received under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Educatlon Act.

Although Title I funds are meant to Improve the education 01 lOW-Income Children, the NAACP said. the county school board has "systematically spent more money per pupil In affluent. pre­dominantly white schools than In poor Negro schools."

The NAACP letter--slgned by John Kelly Jr '. president 01 the Eufaula brancb, and John. D. KnIghts. president of the Southwest Barbour County branch --was sent two months ago to the Rev. G. H, Cossey.

The NAACP leaders said they wrote to Cossey beeause he Is the hlghest­ra.'lk1ill Negr" board mE:mber of the Barbour-Dale-Henry Community Ac­tion Program (CAP).

They pointed out that, under federal law, the CAP board must approve the county's application for TlUe I money.

The NAACP leaders asked Cossey-­and other Negro board members--not to endorse Barbour County's appllca­tlon for 1968-69 funds unless certain conditions were met.

Specltlcally, the NAACP leaders asked Cossey to get "assurance In writ­Ing" from county Scbools Superinten­dent Raymond E, Faught that the TiUe I program would comply with federal laws against racial discrlm ina tlon.

They also asked Cossey to "require that the money be spent In schools where the greatest poverty exists." and to get a guarantee that free luncbes

JOHN KELLY JR. would be provided for children too poor to buy food.

About two weeks ago, Kelly said, he learned that Cossey and two other Ne­gro CAP board members had approved Barbour County's Title I application without making any conditions.

"This Is sam ethlng again 5 t us. not for us," Kelly said this week. "This will not help progress for ttl8 Negro."

But Cossey--who recently moved up from vice-president to president of the CAP board--sald he approved the Title I appltcatlon because "It was satisfac­tory 00 paper,"

"Of course. action Is something dif­ferent," he said. "But complaints, to be effective. have to come from parents --not from the CAP committee."

In their letter, the NAACP leaders noted that federal law requires Titl. I projects to be "developed in coopera­tion with" the local CAP. ThiS, the let­ter said, means a "contlnuous and gen­uine working relationship," not just a blanket approval 01 the school board's plans.

But Cossey said, "The first time I had any intormatlon on It was when we (a CAP committee of three Negroes and

three whltell) met with the superinten­dent, He explained the program, and w. were satisrted with the explanation."

He said the CAP board members had ·'no other Information" to indicate that tbe Title I money would be spent un­fairly.

Kelly said, however, that everyone In the county knows the Negro schools are Interior to the wblte schools. es­pecially in rural areas.

�e rural school--Center Ridge-­was included in a survey last year by the Alabama Council on Human Rela­tions (ACHR). An Investigator report­ed that the classrooms and cafeteria were almost without equipment, and that tbe three frame buildings were badly In need of repair.

II One bullding was once a barn owned by a wblte farmer." the ACHR report noted. "When he decided it was untIt for cows, he sold It to the board of edu­cation."

Superintendent Faught ball declined to discuss the schools on several oc­caslons. A secretary said this week that he was not In bls office and could not be reached.

Another Bombing JACKSON, Mlss.--Pollce have been

working extra shUts since the area's fourth bombing In a Uttle more than two months. A total at $50.000 has been offered for Informatioo leadlnc to the arrest and coovlcUoo at the bombers.

Robert B. Kocbtltzky, a white mod­erate wbose house was bombed Nov. 18, asked, "Why did tbey have to walt unt11 the bomblDgs bit exclusive wblte nelp­borhoods? As 100( as they bombed Touploo or a Jewish synagoeue, that was all right,"

The home of a dean at mostly-Negro Touploo COllege was bombed Oct, 6, and the Beth Israel temple was struck Sept. 18. The bome It Perry Nussbaum, rabbi of Beth Israel. was shattered In the most recent bombing Nov. 21.

Brown testllled that he bad told John­son and Sam Smith m not to throw pa­per 011 the parking lot. "The other sub­ject (Smltl!) threw the parking ticket in my face," be said,

Tuskegee Forum on South Africa

JOhnsOll and Smltb drove balf-way out ot the lot, Brown said,and then Johnson took out a pistol and shot at him. "My pistol was in my belt," said Brown, "and I PUlled It out and shot."

Johnson's lawyer, Jerry Cruse, asked Brown I! he had sbot Johnson in the back. "No." Brown replied.

"Well, be was shot In the back," said Cruse. "I guess that you didn·t do lt?"

"No," said Brown, "But be (John­son) shot while I had my back turned-"

Pollee Ueutenant R, D, Moody, who Investigated the inCident. testified that Johnson had not been questioned before Brown signed tbe warrant. Moody said pollce never went to Baptist Hospital to get Johnson's version of what hap­pened, because the victim was In seri­ous condition.

But Johnson testlfled--and bospltal authorltles contlrmed--that he was re­leased from the bOlpltal Nov. 12.

Johnson got to tell his story Wednes­day, after Smith's testlmooy set the scene.

Smith said that as he and Johnson were leavlnC the parking lot, Brown came up to their car and told them not to come back. Smith said Johnson re­marked. "Come on, man, let's gOo"

Then, said Smith, Browowent arOWld to the' other side 01 the car and asked Johnson, "What did you say, boy?"

When Brown said that, Johnson tesU­fled, he got out of the car, and Brown sbot him In the foot.

"1 reached inside the car and rot the gun, and sbot twice and miSsed," the def.ndant said. As he "broke and HIl," Johnson said. Brown sbot him three more tlmes--once In the back, ooce in the arm, and once In the leg.

Jobnson showed Judp D. Eupne

LoB the places on his body where he had

'We're Not Americans, Brother' BY M ARY ELLEN GALE

TUSKEGEE, Ala.--"The revolutioo has begun In South Africa." said the Rev. Gladstone NUabatl, a leader In the nation's struggle for black equality.

And. he said, "It has become very clear that the American government does not support us--It supports white South Africa.

"The Western world watches, be­cause it Is black people wbo are belnr killed. White people will not shoot white people for the sake of black peo­ple."

South Africa's alI-white IOvernment now appears to be winning the struggle, Ntlabatl said. "But the determlnatiOll a people have for freedom and justice ultimately becomes vlctorlous."

"When we wIn,"hewaroed, "lt mlght be very. very dlfftcult for Africans to f orget the years of sufterlDr and tbe years <11 slavery."

The South Atrlcan spoke to some4GO Tuskegee Institute studeDts and faculty members at a forum sponsored by the Student Government AssociaUoo. Ap­pearing with blm were James Forman, director of international affairs for SNCC, and G, Edward Clark, director of Southern African affairs for the U. S. State Department,

Forman joined Ntlabatl ID condemn­Ing U. S. polley on SouthMrlca as "ra­ctst,,, He urged "th. mllllons It Afri­cans llvlnr In the United States" to sup­port the blacks in South Africa.

"We are not Americans, brother, we are not Americans." said Forman. "We are vlctlmslttbeU.S.forcewhich bas colonized blaclc people all around tbe wOl'Id,"

Forman quoted at length from SNCC statements presented to a United Na-

REV, GLADSTONE NTLABA TI SPEAKS TO TUSKEGEE CROWD

UOII8 cOllference in Zambia. Atrlca.last summer, and to a UDlted Nations com­mittee in New York about two weeks ago.

The statements "were carried in the press all over the world, but not in this country." Forman noted. "They did Dot want us to know. because that would further unify us."

He said that U, S. business has in­vested mUI1011B of dollars in South At­rica. and that the U, S. IOvernment op­erates a "l1ly-whlte" embassy there, as well as several military and space Ins tallatlons.

By allowing business Investment and accepting South African racial lawlI,

Forman said, ·,the U. S. iOvernm.ntls saying, 'Damn black folks. because they doo't mean anything anyway., ..

Clark. the State Department repre­sentative. defended the U. S. refusal to use mllltary forc. against the South African (oVernmeDt, or to rive mUltary traln1nc to blaek refugees from South Africa.

" I sUll think that the bope of the U.s. ,overnment Is there wlll be a peacefUl solutloo," said Clark. The audienc.-­which gave standinrovatlons to NUlbati and Formtn--sbouted and booed In re­ply.

Clark also explatned that "u a mat-

ter of poliCY we couldn't support vio­lence." "What about Viet Nam?" called out Forman.

"We're not talkinc aboUt Viet Nam," Clark repl1ed.

Several questlClllBTS pressed Clark to say whlcb side the U. S. w1ll take in South Africa's "revolutloo." But Clark insillled that the U. S. doesn't expect CIa bloodbath, or revolutloo If you wtsh to call It that, ..

"I don't think any respcllSlble gov­ernment can answer a hypotbetlcal queStlOD," he a�ed. "You must know the Issues at that particular Ume."

., The issues are very clear," allot back Ntlabati. "'Ibe problem (the U. S.) ill boplnc wUl be solved peacefUlly Is being solved ruthlessly by our pern­ment • • • • 'lbere Is DO peace for ua (black peopl.). We are dytnr."

Clark admitted that U. S. business bas invested "a cooalderable amount" in South Africa'. But be said ncb in­vestments eould Dot be pretlnted by the U, S. iOv.rnmlnt,

"We don't have any investments in Cuba," said Forman. "w. dQll't bave any Investments in China, Don't let anybody tell you we can·t stop Inyeat­ments in South Mrica."

Clark also cooceded that the u. S. embassy In South Africa Is statttd by wblte people. "As lone u ... have di­plomatic relations," he explatDed, ..... ha ve to abIde by the cootrola 0Il8 fIndII ID the country where you are."

A fourth speaker--Verl G. stoct. South MrleUl cooaul-.... ral in Mew OrlllU, La.--waaalsolmU.cIltopartl­clpate in tbe forum. But be � to attend. ID a litter, Stock cited "tile eircumstanee' � �c. relatSuu wi ..... the United States."

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Vol. UI, No. 49 December 2-3, 1967

Letters to the Editor To the Editor:

I have a son was drafted In the Army, served In USA and overseas, was 18 In March, was called In June. His name Is Curtis William Jones, serial number 34633030.

He went In a well person, came out a sick person. He was operated on In Camp Shelby on his way out,

He was refused his unemployment In Mississippi, and he leftfor FUnt, Mich­Igan. There he received his first check.

When he came home, he would sleep liP nlgbt. get up and eat, and go back to sleep. He has tried several times to draw his pension. Every tlme they turn him down.

He Is yet sleeping, go to sleep stand­Ing stlll, eating, sitting down, while talldng, can not hold a Job, Isn't able to work.

Yet he served 3 1/2 years, has an Honorable Discharge.

What are we fighting for?

Mrs. Mattie H. Jones Philadelphia, Miss.

* * * * To the Editor:

On a weekend visit home, I discov­ered that the people In Bullock County can realize Christmas Is getting close. Each year this time, more people are paying more money than any other tlme of the year. Why? Because the PoUee Department Is trying to get rich by get­ting the poor man's money, so their families can have a big and happy holl­day.

It the Negro voters had voted togeth­er during election time, •• la probably wouldn't happen. Of course, I am not saying no one would never get arrested, but I am sure, It someooe did, there would be a reasoo of law-breaking to c ause one to get put In Jall.

Maybe this unjustlce Is just the thing

to show the Negroes what a mistake they made when they voted "white." It takes a white man to show the "big-minded" Negro man that he did wrong. The Po­lice Department Is serving the county just right, ThIs Is their way of thank­ing the voters for votlng"whlte." This doesn't mean that everyone voted "white," but 20% for a Negro and 80% against him wlll notput a Negro man In otftce. Everyooe must stick together.

I hope you as registered voters have learned your lesson and w11l think twice before you "X out Mr. WhIte" and get anger with "Mr. Black" for being a candidate.

Miss Jessie Reynolds Student Miles College Birmingham, Ala.

Soldier Jailed, Students Picket

GREENWOOD, Mlss.--Walter Frank Leonard, a 22-year-Old Viet Nam vet­eran, was bound over to the grand jury last Monday 011 a charge of kllling James Melvin Parkerson, a white gas station operator. Leonard was ordered held without bood until the grand jury meets next May.

Accordlng 10 testlmooy before Jus­tice of the Peace C. C. Williamson, Le0-nard and Parkerson scuffled Nov. 10 after the soldier Ignored an order 10 move away from the white man's gas station. Parkerson went Into the sta­tloo, witnesses sald, and Leonard shot him when he came out again.

Eleven college students from St, Paul. Mlnnesota--Includlng Miss Rose­mary Freeman, a Greenwood native-­demonstrated here Nov. 17, seeking Leonard's transfer to a federal prison.

Selma Strikers Look Ahead To Opening of New Plant

BY BETH WILCOX SELMA, Ala.--Strlkers at Laura 111-

dustries say an official ol the Vlllager dress chain has promised to start build­Ing a new plant In Selma within 90 days.

According to r.'Jlss Annie Wynn, sam­uel Altman at the Philadelphia (penn-

The Winner

UNIONTOWN, Ala.--"Thls Is the biggest thing to cwme this way In a long time," said master of ceremonies A. M. Hayden last Friday, before the annual Miss Uniontown pageant began In the pm ol Robert C. Hatch High &:hool.

La ler, his daughter, Miss Jean La­MaUde Hayden, won the title of "Mlslo Uniontown." In the interview part of the competition, Mlsl> Hayden--a senior at Dr.vlously ali-white Uniontown High ·khool--had said she wished most of ,II for peacE' In the world.

sylvania) firm told a strlters' meeting that be will soon pick "45 or 50" work­ers for a pilot tralnlng project.

"We wll\ be paid while we are train­Ing at Hayden's old (garment) plant," said Miss Mae Lois Morrow. ,

"From what I can understand, they have bougbt some land. It's right across from the Laura plant. I Imagine the people who train on the pilot project will be helping in the training of other people."

As she sewed a friend's cotton dress on a machlne In the union hall, Miss Beulah Lee Brown added, "Mr. Altman said he would choose the ones who go In­to training by how many children they bave--how much they need work, you know."

The shop would be a union shop, said Miss Doris Simmons, ''but he (Altman) said there would be no contract until we go Into the new plant,"

The strikers said Altman showed them samples of the goods that would be made In the plant. "It was beautiful, the thlnis he showed us--knlts quilted housecoals, dresses," said M1ss Jettle Minor.

About 250 workers are striking acalllst the Laura raincoat plant. The strlke--seeklng recognition of the 111-ternatlonal Ladles' Garment Workers Unlon--Is now In Its fourth month.

"It hasn't been too bad," said Mlss Minor. "This Is my tlrst dealings with a strike, so I got disappointed fast, It there ever was another strike, I CIIess I wouldn't get so dlsappolnted--but I hope there Isn't."

MlsK Minor said the promise of a new plant "sure has brought ourliopes uP. Only thing Is, U's so hard with Christmas coming uP."

THE SOUTHERN COURIER DECEMBER 2-3,1967

What Do They Want? JOBS Tuskegee: Long Way to Go

BY MARY ELLEN GALE nalres," he noted. ct the 25 firms which have responded so far, he said, "23 repUed that they had an opeD policy ,1 . ti, \ I

TUSKEGEE, Ala.--Although Tuske­gee has made progress toward ending racial discrimination In employment, there Is stm a long way to go.

on hIrtng, traIn1ng, and promoUon--or ,..

would have an open policy In the tuture." That was the opinion expressed by

most of the 30 NAACP members who attended the local branch's monthly meeting last SUnday.

James A. Johnson, chairman of the group's labor and Industry committee, reported on a new survey of local busi­nesses.

"We sent out 50 or 60 questlon-

Drive Opens In Copiah

EVERS IN CRYSTAL SPRINGS BY ESTELLE FINE

CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Mlss.--About 150 people marched from the Morning Star Benevolent Society to City Hall last Saturday, to dramatize a selective buy­Ing campaign that began here Nov. 21.

Amoog other things, the people are asking for two Negroes on the four-man police force, Negro clerks and cashiers In all stores, Improvements In the Ne­gro section of town, and 1m mediate de­segregation of the Coplah County Hos­pital.

Alter an Invocation by the Rev. Percy Baggett of the local NAACP chapter, State NAACP Field Seqetary Charles Evers addressed the curious white peo­ple who had gathered: "Wbltes have always boycotted Negro stores. Now It's our turn to boycott yours."

ODe white service station attendant remarked, "I'm not for giving them nothing. We had to work for what we got." The manager of Bennett's Foods explained his empty store by saying that business always drops oft after Easter.

"The survey also shows that Negroes are steadily moving Into skilled, whlte­collar, and managerial positions, John­son said: "Two years ago, there were only two or three (Negro) salesmen. Now there are 21."

He said the 20 white and five Negro businesses together employ more Ne­groes than whites In all posttlons ex­cept the top ones. ct the total of 166 employees, he said, 64% are Negro and 36% are white.

"Progress Is being made," he said. "And even greater progress Is being made In atmosphere. Two years ago, one firm wouldn't even discuss It. ThIs time, they fllled out a questionnaire."

The City Bank of Tuskegee--a long­time holdout--Is now under new man­agement, and has agreed to hire Ne­groes on the same basis as whites when It opens a new bulldlng, Johnson noted.

But several NAACP members pointed out that some of Tuskegee'S largest employers--the Leemar sewing facto­ry, and Ihe A & P and Big Bear grocery slores--have not yet replied to the questionnaire.

"I am more concerned with the 25 who didn't answer than those who did," said the Rev. K. L. Buford, the NAACP's Alabama field director. '

Buford, formerly a Tuskegee city counCilman, reminded the group that "Tuskegee has an ordlnanceforblddlng discrimination In employment." He said the firms which did not reply "are in violation of federal laws and possib­ly of local laws. We should look Into this."

"I'm not afraid to namenames," said Buford. "Down here at the A & P there is a real die-hard segregationist that doesn't want any Negroes In there, The only reason we have any Is that I called the personnel manager In Birming­ham."

Another NAACP member said he doesn't think the Negro employees at either chain grocery store are moving up Into better jobs;

"I have seen a Negro on the cash reg­Ister later carrying out groceries," Johnson replled. "But I have also seen thl! manager on the cash register and later carrying out groceries. It seems to be a rotation system.

"Now, how they are classified and how they are paid is a big problem In my mind," he added. "We need more information. This Is just an Initial re­port. We will follow It up--and take (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE, Col. 5)

'I'm Going to Tell It To the High Heavens'

BY MARY ELLEN GALE TUSKEGEE, Ala.--"r tried to work

It out (In private)," said Mrs. Beulah C. Johnson, director of the Macon Coun­ty Community Action Program (CAP). "But from now on, I'm going to tell It to the high heavens. And I haven't told near as much as I'm going to tell."

With those words atan NAACP meet­Ing last Sunday, Mrs. Johnson launched an attack on the CAP board members who want to dismiss her from her job.

EarUer--in a letter distributed a+ several churches Sunday morning-­Mrs. Johnson charged that many CAP board members are Irylng"to keep de­prlved people from benetHlng from pro­grams which could give them a better dally lite."

And that, she told the NAACP meet­Ing, Is why the board members want to replace her as CAP director.

"This Is not directed at me personal­ly • II she said. "It Is an effort to keep the (anti-poverty) program from tuDe­tionlng In this COWIty. As has been said to me, 'It we can't run It, we will tear It uP.' "

MACAe Hit BY EDWARD RUDOLPH

MOBILE, Ala.--At a MACAC (Mobile Area Community Action Commlltee) meetine last month, Dr. Hollis Wiseman of the plartnlni committee read a reso­lution saying that after Dec. 31, MACAC wlll have control of Head Starl here. The program Is now �er the auspices of Roman Catholic Archbishop Thomas J. Toolen.

The meeting became disorderly, and some people said they didn't know what they were voting on. The matter was set for discussion aealn last Monday, and a record crowd at more than 350 people showed up for that meeting.

A lady got up and said so many people were present because Head Start had sent letters home with the chUdren, saying MACAe Is trying to take over Head Start.

One man kept repeating, "MACAC haven't helped poor people, and now they're trylnr to take over the program that Is IM!lplnr the peOple."

"I bring you this Information because the way things are gOing, this county stands 10 lose • • • every program you have," Mrs. Johnson said.

She charged the CAP board members with telling "untruths" about her activ­Ities as CAP director.

"I have sought opportunities to keep us Intormed--but I have been shut up Ume and time again," Mrs. Johnson said. "I have wanted to give detailed reports, but I was not allowed."

Although board members have said she mismanaged CAP money, Mrs. Johnson said. they are the ones at fault. She charged that the board tried to make her pay employees who were attempting to cheat on transportatlon expenses.

111 one case, she said, the board told her to pay a janitor who was al­ready receiving a salary from the coun­ty board of education.

Mrs. Johnson said there Is a "IlUle trick" behind the CAP board's attempt to !tre her. "A member of one person's family Is Involved," she explained.

Last AUCIISI, the CAP board voted to replace Mrs. Johnson with Fredd1e L. Washington, now the assistant director, and to hire Miss Roselyn A. Price as lhe new assistant. Her father, John A. Price, Is a CAP board member.

Mrs. Johnson noted that the Southeast regional branch of the Office of Eco­nomic Opportunity (OEO) refused to ac­cept the board's vote to dismiss her, and told the CAP to re-wrlte Its em­ployment rules before taking any per­sonnel action.

But two weeks ago, OEO approved the CAP's re-wrltten employment rules, and lifted the ban OIl personnel action. The board members planned to meet late this week to decide whether or not to fire Mrs. Johnson.

111 her letter to Ibe churches, Mrs. Johnson said the community shares the blame for the CAP's problems.

She asked each churcb to elect a CAP representative to attend fUture board meetings, "It we fall In Macon Coun­ty," she warned, "we must accept the responsibility for and bear the results because we had no viSion. Remember --wllere there Is no vision the people perish."

BY BOB LABAREE

BESSEMER, Ala.--After almost two weeks of rest, Negro plcketers are out on the streets again, seeking more jobs In the stores where they buy.

Earlier, nine days of picketing and boycotting ended Nov. 13, when four large department stores agreed to nearly every Negro demand on jobs. Local leader Asbury Howard Sr. said the victory won Negroes a measure of respect from the white community.

"Now we begin on the food stores," Howard said this week. "This time It's Bruno and the 20th St. A & p. But we Intend to hit each one, one by one--unless they get wise sooner."

Bruno's and the A & P both have Negroes employed as stock clerks or package boys, but the p icketers are Insisting on jobs as cashiers.

"The man from A & P came out here yesterday and said he had a colored boy In training, but he (the boy) wasn't ready yet," said one veteran picketer. "I told him we'd be here until he was."

Manarers at both stores refused to comment.

RUBBER TALK\NG BUSINESS

NECK SUE FOLKS

�AND HERS Too Troy. Ala.

Mrs. Clevana Wooten and her daugh­ter, Miss Annie Grace Wooten, are s pending the Thanksgiving and Clu:1&.t­mas hoUdays together for the first time

MRS. WOOTEN AND HER DAUGHTER In Six years. Miss Wooten has been a patlent at Partlow Hospital In Tusca­loosa, and Mrs. Wooten hasn't had enough money to visit her. But the Com­munlty Action Program for Area 23 (Bullock, Pike, and Coffee counties) made Miss Wooten's visit possible. When Mrs. Johnnie M. Warren, a CAP field counselor, took some people up to Tuscaloosa for interviews, she brought Miss Wooten back to Troy with her.

Washing,on, D. C. u. S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark

said convictions have been obtained against 580 of the 625 adults arrested during October's anti-war demonstra­tion at the Pentagon. Fifty-one people have served or are serving jail sen­tences of as much as 35 days, he said, and convicted demonstrators have paid fines totaling $7,944. The convictions were on federal charges of disorderly conduct, assault, or conteml,>t of court.

Montgomery. Ala. Some 55 Neighborhood Youth Corps

trainees, parents, staff members, and Community AcllOll Committee officials

c elebrated the NYC's !trst year Nov. 21 with a party at the St. Jude Catholic Center. The Rev. Isaac Forbes, as­sistant NYC director, said the trainees voluntarily contributed $2.50 out of their earnings to pay for the party.. AI Dixon of radio station WAPX provided free entertainment.

New Orleans, La. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund last

Friday asked the U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to alIow Negroes In F lorida prisons to receive Negro news­papers and magazines. Earlier, a lower federal court refused the request, made on behalf of Herman Jackson Jr., a Ne­gro Inmate of the Florida State Prison.

Jack,on, Miss. Alvin J. Bronstein, Southern chief

staff counsel for the Lawyers CO'lSU­tutlonal Defense Committee (LCDC), has left Mississippi. He will take a va­cation, and then join the institute of Po­litics at Harvard University In Cam­bridge, Massachusetts. Richard Sobol, who has been with LCDC In Louisiana, wlIl become chief staff counsel. Jim Lewls--recently admitted to practice In Mlsslss!ppi--will remain In the Jackson office.

Montgomery, Ala. "Operation Goodwill," sponsored by

Ralph Featherstone of radio station WRMA and Roosevelt Barnett of the Alabama Action Committee, made Thanksgiving happier for 30 familles last week. On the air, Featherstone asked people fo give what they could for less fortunate famlUes. The listeners responded--for Instance, band-leader Bob Moore contributed seven turkeys. And several Montgomery-area grocer­Ies opened their store-rooms to Bar­nett. The food was distributed the night before Thanksgiving. Another "Opera_ tion Goodwill" Is planned for Christ­mas,

FEATHERSTONE AND BARNETT (LEFT) D1STHmUTE FOOD

DECEMBEH 2-3, 1%7 THE SOUTHERN COURIER

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The S tory of the Bracy Family HOME FROM APRIL, 1966, TO MID-196? (TOP LEFT)

On Jan. I, 1966, the House Was Bonilied

ALEXANDER BRACY (ABOVE)

M RS. MARIE B RACY (ABOVE)

WETUMPKA, Ala.--ln August, 1965, my sister Sophia and I were two of the 20 Negro students who enrolled at formerly all­white Wetumpka High School. Trouble began for us about two weeks after we enrolled.

First, the bus driver told us he couldn't pick us up at home any more. Then on Sept. 14, I Jabbed a white boy With a pencil after getting bJt In my back by a rubber wad. That got me an assault and battery charge, and a "flve-daY" suspenslon--whlch lasted until Jan, 3, 1966.

On Jan, I, 1966, the house was bombed. We managed to save a mattress, the seWing machlne, a dresser, and the washlng machine before the house was engulfed In flames.

After that, we went to live with my uncle and aunt. In their five-room house, there were four beds for 12 people.

In April, 1966, we moved Into an old two-room house. In the winter, we had to stuff rags In the cracks of the house, and we stacked coats, quilts, and other coverings on the beds when we slept. But we made It through the struggle.

Now our new house Is almost finished. There are six rooms and a bath, and we have water In the house.

For the time being, most of our work Is centered around our farm. It takes some time to gather the crops, especially with the children In school. However, It Is our own, and we are very proud of It.

Text by Debra Bracy

ONE OF BRACY COWS ( BELOW) Photos by Jim Peppler

DENISE BRACY AT HOME (BELOW, CENTER)

SOPHIE SERVES DINNE� (BELOW)

PAGE THREE

NEW HOME (ABOVE)

ON WAY FROM S C HOOL (ABOVE)

ED BRACY PYLES COTrON (ABOVE)

PA GE F OU R

BOB WRIGHT OF THE SR R P INTERVIEWS A DA LLAS COUNTY F ARM E R

T H E S O U TH E R N C O U RIER

Family Shares Home (Last summer, workers trom the Southern Rural

Research Project (SRRP) InvesUgated IIvlng condl­tlons and food and health problems through inter­views with 986 Negro tarmers In tlve Alabama Black Belt counties,

(The Browns- -lIOt their real name--are not un­usual. According to the SRRP, hundreds ot Negro farm families live In sim ilar conditions and face the same problems.)

COY, Ala.--The Browns, a family of tenant farm­ers in Wilcox County, live three mUes ott the near­est paved road In a one-room wooden shack sur­rounded by cotton fields.

The narrow dirt road leading to the Browns' home Is In a state of almost total neglect. When It's dry, a car can jounce among the ruts at a speed of about five m iles an hour, When It's wet, you have to walk.

The Browns' home Is a fram e box, with one door and two shuttered windows, Unllke most farm homes, It has no porch. The door-step Is a sawed­off tree stump,

To escape the summer heat, the family otten sits outSide on an old horse cart. But there Is no escape from the winter cold. The tar-papered roof does not always keep out the rain, Holes In the roof and walls are covered with pieces of cardboard, but the wind gets through,

The only heat comes from a small fireplace and

a wood stove, which Is also used for cooking. The Inside room Is dark and cluttered. A naked

l ight-bulb dangles from the ceiling, Two foldaway beds are shared by six d the Browns' eight chll­dren--and by fleas, files, and cockroaches. Rag quilts on the floor provide beds for the rest of the family.

Dust, dirt, paper, and food scraps are swept into a large hole In the floor, left by a rot tlng plank. At night, rats crawl up thrQUgh the hole to gnaw at the fertilizer sacks the family uses for bedding.

There are no toilet facllltles, not even an out­house. But the Browns are lucky-- they have a water pump In the back yard. Some Negro famllles have to walk a mile or two to get water from a friend's pump, or from a creek.

The Browns usually eat two meals a day. They often have grits for b reakfast, and greens or field peas and chicken necks for dinner. Most ot their food comes from a small vegetable garden. Some­times, the children catch squ irrels or wild turkeys In the woods nearby, The family spends about $5 a week on other food suppUes such as rice, cornmeal, sugar, and fat-back.

M rs. Brown's husband has nol been home for several months, so she m anages the rented, 40-acre cotton and truck farm. With the help of her s ix oldest children (ranging up to age 16), she

DEC E M BER 2 - 3 , 1 9 6 7

With Rats clears, plants, and harvests the land.

LIke m ost Alabama farmers, M rs. Brown works from sunrise to sunset, Last year, her far m pro­ducts sold for about $ 1 ,200. But the cost 01. seed, the famlly's debts, and other expenses gave the Browns v ery little money to l1ve on.

The Browns seldom buy clothing. Mrs. Brown works In an old Janitor's dress that someone gave her, Her daughters work In old slips, polo shirts, and material s craps, saving their few dresses for school,

The children are all small and thin. In the sum­mer, when they are not working In the fields, they sleep or sit, There Is none of the active play--or mlschlef-making- - ot healthy, well-fed children.

The youngest Child, a two-year-old, cannot walk because his stomach Is swollen by hunger and Im ­proper food, and because his legs are so thin. He does not talk yet. The oozing sores on his head at­tract flies and fleas, which he doe s not bother to brush away.

M rs, Brown, like many Negro farmers In their 40's, complains of headaches and fainting spells. She think s she may have high blood pressure. But she has not seen a doctor herself or taken her chil­dren to s ee one.

It wouldn't do any good, she says, because the price of medicine Is too high for her to pay.

Says Farm Agents Deny Help to Negroes

Rural Study Links Poverty With USDA Discrimination

BY SARAH H EGGIE

S E L M A , A l a . " P o ve rty i n the N e gro So uth i s d i r ec t­ly r e la te d to a c t ive d i s c r i m inati o n by Southern fed e r a l e m ploye e s of the U S D A ( U . S . D ep a r t m e nt of A gr i c ul ­ture ) . "

Th i s c h a r ge i s m a d e i n a r e p o r t i s s ued b y the So uth ­e r n R ural R e s e a r c h P r o j e c t ( SR R P ) , wh ich h a s spent six month s i nve stiga ti ng p overty a m o ng N e gro fa m i l ie s in A l a ba m a a nd M i S S i s sipp i.

The report I s based o n Interviews with 1,800 Negro farmers- - over 1 ,000 of them from eight Black Belt counties In A labama.

Eventually, SRRP workers hope to talk with more than 10,000 black farm­ers In Alabama, Mississippi, and south­west Georgia.

But already, the report says, replles to the SRRP questionnaires show that local USDA employees have prevented Negro farmers from getting th'e help they need to make a good living from their land,

And, the SRRP charges, the national USDA has chosen to Ignore the situation --leaving the farmers with nowhere to turn for aid,

As a result, says the SRR P repor t, most Negro farm fam ilies live In flim­sy frame houses, wear rags for cloth­Ing, have little to eat, and cannot get m edical care.

The chUdren of these families face one of two chOices, the report says. The young Negroes either stay on the farm and repeat the pattern ot poverty--or flee to a city ghetto, where the problems a re dlt!erent but just as hard.

On the basis of replies from black farmers In Alabama and Mississippi, the SRRP reports that:

1. "The vast majority of Negro farmers are not aware of the federal farm programs for which they are eli­gible and, therefore, are not able to participate In them ,"

2. Negro farmers who do apply for the programs are usually turned down by the USDA's local representatives,

Going North BY B ETH W I LC OX

S E LMA, A la.--The Southern Ru­r al Research Project (SR R P) plans to work In the North'as well as In the South.

Miss Kathleen A . Velt, asso�late director of the SR RP, said the g roup' s Interviews with 10,000 Southern Negro farmers will be sup­plemented by "a follow-up survey In the North,"

SRRP workers wlll go into big-city ghettos, to talk with people who have m igrated there from farms In the South.

"They wlll be asking people where they came from and what they were looking foro-and whether they would come back to the South If thlngs were different," Miss Velt sald.

Mus VeH said the SRR P thinks the survey will show a relatlonahlp be­tween the riots In the North and the number of recent migrants from the South.

"The places that exploded this sum mer -- llke Newark -- were places where there are a lot ot new people," she noted. " Not like Har­lem, which has just been there for c enturies."

In the South, M iss Velt said, the S R H P plans to study the effec t of poor food on growing children. "We tbtu these protein-caloric deficien­cies contribute to mental retardation durlnc the first three years (of life)," she explained.

TIle' SIW P also plans to study the orJrlDB and history at the black peo­ple In Dalla s County,

"who otten do not even record the re­quest."

3, Most Negroes who go to federal ottlces "are treated In a degrading and humiliating m anner, and usually only dealt with after all white farmers have finished their business,"

4. Negro farmers are given smaller cotton allotments (acres to plant) than white farmers and smaller "projected yields (a figure which determines the amount of the government subsidy check),"

5. The USDA's two food programs-­food stamps and surplus com moditles-­do not work properly, because "the very poor cannot afford food stamps" and the surplus food Is not "sufficient,"

The SRRP made speclflc charges against the three largest USDA agenCies active In the South.

According to the report, the Agricul­tural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS)--whlch tells farmers how many acres to plant - - systemati­cally favors whites over Negroes, '

Although l andowners, sharecrop­pers, and tenant farmers have "an equal vote" in elections for the powerful ASCS county committees, the SRRP notes, "Negroes have been unable to elect de­cision-making officials, even In coun­ties where there Is an 80% Negro m a­jority.

"The reasons were violence and In­tim Idatlon previously, but more recent­ly It Is fraUd and Intentlonal lack of edU­cational programs," the SRRP charges.

The Federal Extension Service-­which provides technical aid to Improve farming methods--"denles effective ... assistance to Negro farmers, prevent­Ing them from properly using their land," the SR R P says,

The report charges that the Farmers Home Administration (FtIA) " grants loans to Negroes for operating expenses which further Increase (the farmers') debt," but Is reluctant to lend Negroes the m oney to buy land of their own.

" One farmer In Selma • • • was afrald even to let the FHA agent know that he was buy Ing land-- lest the agen t spread the word which would eventually Intlml-

date the white landowne r Involved from sell1ng the land to a Negro," the report says,

The SRRP began last '.,'rll 20 In Sel­ma, when local Negroes met wlth proj­ect director Donald A. Jelinek to dis ­cuss ways of fighting farm poverty I n the South.

In mid-June, a group of SRR P work­ers came to Tougaloo, Miss., to hear a panel of experts--ranglng from a uni­versity professor to SNCC chairman Rap Brown- - talk about farm problems.

Then some 1 50 Intervlewer s - - two­thirds local people, one-third college students--fanned out across A labama, Mississippi, and southwest Georgia to begin gathering data.

They worked In eight Alabama coun­ties -- Autauga, Crenshaw, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Lownd�s, Perry, and WUcox--and 23 Mississippi counties, Including BoUvar, Grenada, Hinds, Holmes, Issaquena, Quitman, Simpson, and Sunflower.

Besides Investigating the effect of federal farm programs on Negro pov­erty, the SRRP also began collecting in­formation on the related problems of food and health.

Jellnek--a lawyer who has handled m any civil rights cases--sald the SRHP hopes to give this data to legal groups to use as evidence In civil rights law­suits.

The SRR P staff Is continuing to In­terview Negro farmers, When the re­sults are complied, the project work­ers hope to suggest new ways of solv­Ing the old problems of pover ty and racial discrimination.

The just administration ot federal farm programs could halt the flight ot Southern Negroes to Northern cltles-­"a circumstance that would have a dra­matic effect on ghetto riots where over­c rowding Is a major contributing c ause," the report notes.

" There are over a quarter of a mil­lion Negro farmers In the South," the SRR P report concludes. "These are tbe Negroes who will be forced Into the ghettG8 of Northern cities It their farms or livelihoods peter out.

" Proper application ot the federal (farm) programs could give Negroes a chance to work the land, obtain cotton and other crop allotments, Improve farm and soll conditions, • • , make a profit, and employ more labor to work the land--and remain on the land."

Federal Programs Fail to Reach Black Farmers in Hale County

BY B E TH WILCOX

SE LMA , Ala. - - Joseph Nicholas, who once planned to be a priest, came to A labama last summer to work for the Southern Rural Research Pro­jec t (SR RP).

Nicholas and Stephen Weintraub In­terviewed 450 Negro farmers In Hale County for the SRRP, Like m ost ot th e survey workers, they were pa i d only $5 a week.

Smoking a pipe and wearing a uni­ver sity sweatshirt, Nicholas last week recalled his experiences In Hale Coun­ty.

" We stayed with a family at first," he said. " Then we moved Into a free­dom house rented by the community. Since electricity wasn't connected, we read by candlelight or kerosene. We could've bathed In a tub, bu t we often took a bath In a river.

" M any people gave us m \'als, bat

FARM IN GREENE COUNTY

two ladles In partlcular--Mrs. Betty M iller and M rs. Lizzie Mae Bradley-­helped us the m ost. They fed us, and they often drove us to the houses where we were to Interview people,"

Getting the interviews wasn't easy, Nicholas said, although he attended the SRRP's training session In Tougaloo, M i ss,

The real stumbling-blOCk was his Ig­norance of a griculture and tarm pro­grams, Nicholas said. "But the more I learned from the people, the better my Interviews became,"

Nicholas said he and Weintraub "found In a lot of cases we had to Inter­view a while before we got m ore sincere answers. A lot ot times what people would say In conversation, at the end, completely contradicted what they had said during the Interview,"

"It was hard to get an estimated in­come from people," Nicholas noted.

-- Photos by James E. Lytle

"At firs t most people just said, ' Noth­Ing,' and we simply didn't believe It. But we cam e to know that with liens, payments, debts, and the 'turn Ish' sys­tem, that this was pretty much true."

Nicholas explained that most of the sharecroppers he Interviewed "were 'furnished' all their materials (by white landowners), and ended up making noth­Ing or were In debt."

The Interviewer s had other difficul ­ties. White plantation owners occasion­ally chased the SRRP workers ott the farms, Once, Nicholas said, a white woman "came after some of the others with a gun."

The survey workers discovered that Hale County farm famllles have all kinds of problems.

Nlcbolas said some people who had been sharecroppers all their lives were being forced otf the land because of civil rights work--or because the plan­tatlon owner was switching from cotton to soybeans.

In one Instance, he said, the owner cleared land for soybeans by bulldozing the tenants' trees--the famlly's only source ot wood for cooking and heat.

Another problem was lack ot know­ledge about how to choose crops and conserve soil. Nicholas said the Inter­viewers " only ran across two Negro farmers who had dlverslf1ed farming and pas tures.

"We suspected they were show-case farmers, so .we Interviewed them In depth. They told us they were In close contact with the Negro and white coun­ty agents, and that often visitors from (foreign) countries come to look at their farms."

Nicholas said that federal farm agents seldom talked with the Negro farmers, "About 250/0 had been visited by the county agent," he sald, but "some of these visits were only social visits. (Only) 5 to 10% had been visited by the home demonstration agent."

" In general, ASCS (Agriculture Sta­bilization and Conservation Servtce) in­for mation has not been given to people by an ASCS apDt," said Nlcholu. " To most people ASCS Simply means being

picked up In a truck and taken to the of­tlce ..... Ith a lot of other people to sign u p for cotton allotment."

As for government payments on grains, Nicholas said, "most people didn't grow enough toqualUy. Two peo­pie who did were not receiving the same parity (payment) as the white farme r with t he same amount of land a n d farm­Ing conditions."

AJthOllgh most people knew about the federal food stamp program In Hale C ounty, Nicholas said, " ali the govern­m ent had done In the way of explana­tion to the people was to send l etters to 'community leaders,' telling them to explain the program to the people."

As a result, said Ntcholas , he and W eintraub wound up glvlng the e xplana­tlons" and driving people to the food stamp office to s ign up. " We were r eally doing what the government should've done," he said.

Nicholas said most of the far mers had serious health problems--but no money for doctors or medicine. "Absolutely N O ONE, I mean no one, had gotten den­tal care except for extractiOCUl (tooth­pulllng)--not even children," he sa.td,

And, he said, some people �OIIld not get help even In medical eme r gencies. He recalled a pregnant woman whowaa told by the county health service thai she must have her baby In a hospital (most deliveries in rural Hale County are made by mid-wives).

But, he said, the hospital told the woman she must have the cash to pal' for the delivery before she could be ad­m Itted.

Nicholas and a C BS reporter arrived at the woman's farmhouse a s she was beginning to go Into labor. ,. The roads w ere Impassable, but we offered to try t o bring our car up to the door and takl' her to the hospital," he said, "We tried, but could not move the car.

" Her husband told us tha t hI" lYould get a pick-up by nightfall and takr her In himself," said Nicholas, "I did not tlnd OIIt whether or not she had the mon-

'"y' (to enter the hospital once she got there)."

DE C E M BER 2- 3 , 1967 T HE S OU T H E R N C OU R IER PA GE F IV E

How Many New People Hit Plans For NAACP Discusses Jobs

Voters in Lee ? R�'!:!E!'!.�L Jn !�����2�! TUSCA LOOSA, Ala. -- Tuscaloosa's the West Side, because many at the peo-

BY MARY ELLEN GALE OPELIKA, Ala.--How many Negroes

registered to vote during a 30-day spe­cial session of the Lee County Board of Registrars ?

rumors," she said. "Everybody I s urban renewal project- - stlll In the pie who wlll have to move are employed

treated just aUke. planning stage--Is already running into In the vicinity of their present East Side opposition. homes.

"Our courthouse office Is so small It w1ll hardly accommodate us. There's no special place for people to walt. They all walt together wherever they can,"

A triangular piece of land, located on Noting a tendency at whites to move the east side of town and bordered by east and Negroes to move west Parker H ackenberry lAne, University Ave., charged that the West Side Is �� and Tenth St., has been deSignated as to become a "ghetto."

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actloo If necessary." Several NAAC P members sun-sted

pubUsbing the names r1 stores wh1chdo not reply to the questionnaire or refllse to provide equal employment opportuni­ties.

Johnson said the committee w1l1 probably do tbat -- eventually. " We don't want to use stiff-arm tactics," be sald. " We want to be open-m1nded."

"Integration Is a two-way street," Johnson pointed out. He said the man-

li'lr 01 a Necro bualDess "said to me, 'Wbat would my CUlUmers th1nt I1 lput I white persoo In bere?' "

WbeII one man sun-lted that &ll nrms advertise job openinp publlcly, Jobnaoo noted that the Nocro-openled Tuat� Federal Credit Unloo recent­ly hired a new employeewithout ldVer­l1a1na'.

"We have to do I bl( selltnr job 00 both sides," he said. "We must try to build a community where employment and promotion wIll be based on abUlty." "I think we got between 90C and

1 ,000," said WUlIam H. Harrison, as­sociate director of the Alabama Coun­cil on Human Relations (ACHR), which led the voter registration drive.

And, she said, "we asked the white people the same questions we asked the Neiroes--the questions on the (regis­tration) sheet."

an urban renewal area. And W. H. Henton, leader of a group About 90 Negro tamllles now living of middle-class Negro fam1lies In the

there wlll be re-Iocated, many of them College Hills area, said he doesn't want In a new housing project. ButwherewUl public housing In his neighborhood. He the new project be built? said his group will fight any attempt to

AnnouncelDents The 30 special registration days were

held between Oct. 1 and Nov. 1 5--the Six-week period when most Alabamians visit their county courthouse to buy auto tags and pay property taxes. Harrison said ACHR workers made good use at the coincidence.

" We just worked the courthouse when the people were there," be said. " It may not sound like much--but people never did It before. And we got voters we wouldn't have rotten any other way."

But Mrs. J. B. NorriS, chairman at the Lee County Board of Registrars, said the Negro voter registration drive wasn't quite as successful as the orga­nizers say It was.

"I haven't had time to do a count yet," she said, "but a rough estimate would be 400 or 500. I'm surJ! It wasn't as many as 1 ,000."

The ACHR workers and Mrs. Norris also disagreed about the way Negroes were treated when they came to regis­ter.

Harrison said that, at first, employ­ees r1 the board at registrars "let the whites wait on the inside and told the Negroes to walt on the outside. They (the employees) said, 'Don't let tho&e nigger 5 In.' ''

Some people reported that the regis­trars asked personal questions that had nothing to do with votlng quallflcations, Harrison said:

"The registrars asked things like, 'Who do you work for?' 'Why don't you have a job?' or 'Where do you get your m oney?' "

He said the problems didn't stop "un­t1l we got some Justice Department law­yers down here for three dRys."

But Mrs. Norris denied the charges. "I just don't know wby they start those

" They never mention tbls," Mrs. Norris said about the clvll rl�hls work­ers, "but we stayed there after office hours to register people who couldn't iet there In the morning. They request­ed us to stay two afternoons a week, and we did."

Equal Streets ? OXF ORD, Miss. -- Negro resl­

denls of Shaw and Itta Bana have asked a federal court for an order giving them the same city services that white people get.

In sUits filed last Friday by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hawkins of Shaw and Scott H arris of Itta Bana asked for more paved streets, sidewalks, s treet l1ghts, and fire hydrants, and better trash collection,

The suit said city omcials should be ordered not to spend any more money on white neighborhoods "until the fac1lities and services furnished the residents of Negro neighborhoods have been brought up tosubstantlal­ly the level now enjoyed by white residents. "

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Hal McCall, Tuscaloosa housing dI- put the new project In College Hills. rector, said there has been no final se-lection of a sHe for the new project. M cCall said the city is still waiting for the go-ahead from Washington. MALOEI BROTHERS But many people think the new project wlll be buUt on the city's West Side, possibly In the College mlls area west of Stillman College.

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M ASONS--The M . W. Stringier Grand Lodge F & A M Is holding Its annual s tate-wide grand session Sunday, Dec. 3, to Wednesday, Dec. 6, In the Masoo1c Temple, Jackson, Miss. Grand Marshal James Gllllam o! C larksdale Is pre­s iding.

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS- -"God the Only Cause and Creator" Is the sub­ject of the Lesson Sermon to be read In all Christian Science churches this Sun­day, Dec. 3. The Responsive Reading Includes this verse from Isaiah: " Wt up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he Is strong In pow­er: Dot one faU�th."

BAHA'IS--The Baha'Is at Montiom­ery invite you to their weeldy fireside at 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, at 3222 Santee Dr. in Montgomery. For trans­portation, call 263-6938 or 264-4394.

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED--Tbe MODt­gomery Head Start needs all the volun­teer help it can pt to work In the clus­rooms. Men, women, and teen-aprs (minimum are 16) can all be 01 use. Volunteers win ustat u teaeller's aides and coot's helpers, and will take children 011 neld trips in lbe area, A vobmleer can choose his or her own bours between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. 011 a coovenleat day M<DIay tbrourh Friday. Transportation and lunch will be fUr­nished. If you are avaUable, apply to the Rev. E. W. McKlDDeY, volunteer di­rector at 419 Madison, call 263-3474, or go to the nearest Head Start ceoter.

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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WANTED-­The Alabama communities r1 Coosa lI1d Elmore counties have establisbed an agency to study the problems at pover­ty, and to develop new solutions and new efforts to combat these problems. The agency is establ1sbed by, and tuncUona under, a group at volunteer leaders from all parts of the community, in­cluding the poor themselves. The paid statf consists of Director Elizabeth T. Edwards r1 Wetumpka, and some pro­fessional and nOlI-professional employ­ees who are in this work because r1 a deep personal dedication to helping the poor raise themselves out at the con­tinuing clutcbes at poverty and ignor­ance. These are not easy "9-to- S" po­.itlOll8, and the pay is not fancy. But the rewards 01 persooal satistaction and pride are great.

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1. Education, A llberal arts educa­tion Is deSirable, preferably Including study at the gTaduate level, with majors In such nelds u community develop­m ent, education, SOCiology, or psycho­logy.

2. Experience. Three years at su­pervisory or managerial experience, Involving respoDSlb1llty for the organi­zation, direction, operatloo, and admin­Istration at tive or more employees. Six months' experlence worklng with the OffIce 01 Economic �portunlty or other federal anU-poverty apncy would offer Important adVantages.

3. Important Personal Qualities. Ded1caUon, appreciaUon r1 the need for community development, philosophy 01 m aximum feasible participation by the groups to be served. Exceptional ener­iY and drive, m8lltaland emotlonal sta­blllty, and physical stamina. Better­tbaD-av,rlP communications andper­suulve sklllB. An exceptiooal combi­nation <1 diplomacy, auressiveDeSS, aDd lnlt1atlve. Abil1ty to enter new com­munitles, quickly win the conf1dence r1 reSidellts, and identify and develop ex­Isting aDd poteatlal leadership. AbWty to recruit and train others to do thla type of work.

Male and temale appUcaats accepted, but must be willlnr to contrlbute some even1nC or wMkead work u nlCeasary to 8II8IlJ'e the succe .. 01 the program. Ownership or access to a car Is very important--mUoap wW be p&1d. Bala­ry scale I. $'7,000 to $8,400.

To apply: For prellmlDary discus­Sion, call 567-937'7 in Wetumpko be­tween 8:30 and l l:30 a.m. MOIIday through Friday, and uk for Mrs. McDoDald. Or I8Dd letter with sum­mary of your CJIl11f1cattOO8 to El1&a­beth T. Edwards, Director. Coou-EI­more CAC, p. O. Drawer H, Wetump­ka, Ala. 380t2.

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Tuskegee Tops ASC BY MICHAEL S. LOTTMAN

MONTGOMERY, A la.- -Thanksrtvtnc was really Turkey Day tor the Alabama State tootball team. Loslnc the ball slx Urnes on tumbles, the Hornets bowed to an inspired Tuskegee Institute eleven, 2 1 to 8, In the annual classic In Cram­ton Bowl.

A relentless Tuskegee pass rush, led by Maurice Crump, Melvln Jones, aud Robert Stewart, paralyzed the Hornet offense.

Tuskegee took a 7-0 lead when Crump smeared Hornet quarterback Charles M itchell on a pass attempt, and Stewart fell OIl Mitchell's fUmble In the end EOIIe.

Later In the opening period, Slale's Roosevelt Anderson decided to run a punt out from foor yards deep in the end zone. Anderson got to the ten. where he was hit by haU the Tuskegee team.

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Montgomery, Autauga Get Food BY SARAH HEGGIE

M ONTGOM ER Y, Ala.. -- Poor peoplf' in Montgomery and Autauga counties will soon be able to participate Ln ted­eral tood programs.

Clvll rights leaders In both countles --lncludlng the Rev. Richard Boone, Roosevelt Ba rnett, and Dan Houser ot the Alabama Actlon Com m1ttee-- re­quested the programs m onths ago.

The Montgomery City Commission's bildret tor the coming year includes about $21 ,000 to be used tor setting up a tood stamp program In Montgomery County. The coonty Board ot Revenue has promised to put up a 11ke amount.

When asked why the city decided to help f1nance the program, Mayor Earl

Al abama Clarhlian ot1e",en' for Human RisJa The weekly meeting wlll be at 7

p.m. Monday, Dec. 4, In the New Hope Baptist Church, 1 1 54 Tenth Ave. 5., the Rev. H. Stone, pastor. The Rev. F . L. Shuttlesworth wlll be the speaker.

James said, " The county has approved It, and we work in cooJunctlon with each o ther."

Betore the program can go into effect, s aid Henry SUddath, clerk III the board ot revenue, "the state Department of Pensions and Security has to submit an appl1catlon to the U. S. Department of A griculture, which has to approve It,"

SUddath said the coonty decided to ap.. prove a tood stamp program because

eager to please

"several people came to our ottlce and requested It. . .

Between the tlrst and 1 5th ot January,

the people of Autauga County wlll be able to eet tree surplus tood. Probate Judge E . A. Grouby said the county de­cided to Instltute the program because "the people need It."

Grouby said the county would rather have a stamp program , but the tree­food plan Is less expensive.

Crump recovered the result1nc fUm­ble on the Hornet four-yard I1ne, and Ralph Jenkins scored tor the Tigers four plays later.

ARTHUR BROWN OF TUSKEGEE;�D�IV�E!S�O�V!E!R2H�O�R�N�E�T�L�INE�� __ ������������= In the thlrd period, State came to 111e.

Mitchell passed 23 yards to Ralph Mlll­er tor a TD, and Ralph Patterson-­holding the ball on a fake kick--passed to Sylvester Scott for a two-point coo­verSion, making It 14 to 8.

As the foorth quarter began, Tuske­gee started on a 94-yard TO march that c llnched the game. Jenkins covered the final 42 yards OIl an olt-tackle run, and Cecil Leonard added his thlrd PAT.

The victory can t!Ie TIgers an 8-0-1 r ecord, and the section B champiooship of the Southern Intercollerlate Athletic Conference. It was the Hornets' first loss, atter nlne strallht wins.

Meanwhile, Booker T. Wuhlncton of MOIItiomery, Cobb Ave. t1 AnniSton, and Abrams t1 Bessemer were deelared stale hIgb school co-champlOlll.

A Nov. 18 game to break the Northem Div15ion deadlock between Cobb Ave. and Abrams ended in an 18-18 tie.

Laurel High Tops · Russell In Basketball Scrimmage

BY CHARLES THOMAS

ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. - - In a game-type scrimmage that lasted seven quarters, the Laurel High Hornets out­scored the formerly all-white Benjamin R usseU WUdcats, 1 50 to 115. Russell Is a hIghly-rated 4-A power, while Laurel Is a Class A Negro school.

Led by their tirst team of Theo Wy­ckoff, L. M. Hunter. Hershel Godfrey, A . J. Jones, and M orris Shepard, the Hornets got better as the long scrim ­m age wore on.

After four quarters, they held only a four-polnt lead, But in the last three periods, the boys from Laurel exploded, whUe the Wildcats all too noticeably collapsed.

In the B game, the Hornets took a hard-toogbt 56-51 victory.

RusseU took a quick Ill-point lead In the first period, and stayed ahead untU there were three minutes lett In the

game. Then, with Alvin Stephens and Charles Ransaw leading the way, the

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Baby Hornets turned on a pertect fUll­court press and caught the Wildcats.

Ransaw led the Hornet B leam with 1 8 poiDts. The h1ih scorer for the Baby Wlldeats was Charley Thomas, with 14. Tbomas, Incidentally, came to BenJamln Russell from Laurel this year.

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Ing at your office on Friday Instead ot saturday. I guess I was too ex­clled and didn't read the lnstruCtiODS to well,

But I enjoyed my overnight stay there In Florence for one day. Iwas a little scared at first, because I had never been away from home betore. Next to Mr. Hawklns Bar-B-Q, I liked Wilson Dam best. I was sur­prised to see so many colored girls working as typiSts and clerks at TVA .

[ lntend to work here In BostOD for a year. Then JIm going to busi­ness school and be a typist too.

I like my Job LD Boston very much. Everybody here 18 so nlce to me. My pay is $50 every week. Charlotte SlmpsOll Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Dear Mrs. LIner : I know that you are dlIappolnted

tor Dot hearing from me before now. I am fine, I arrived here flne, and the people r work tor Is very Idnd to me. They have two <laugh tera and they are sweet too. TIle oldest girl loes to kindergarten, and the baby I. too young to go to school. [ have one day off, aud that Is on Sunday. Thank yoo, Mrs. Liner. [ am sor­ry that It took me so long to write bide to you. JOHPhine Gray IlaJDevUl., Ala.

(LIsted below ar. letters received from women who have recently been employed as maids In BostoD and New York by ABC Maids Employ­ment Apncy, Florence, Ala.)

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Dear Mr. and Mrs. Llner: I Janet arrived 1D New York on

Tuesday around 8:25 a.m. The pe0-ple I work for are very nlce and they have ooly OI1e child, a boy. llld he 15

a nice young boy at the ace III seven. Mr. Harry Greenbry happen to be a manapr of a radio .I&Uoo, WBAB, and he pvel m. records everyday.

Mr. UDer, I am doInC fine on my Job. I would have written before now, but I just cot everythlDc layed oot O. K. Thank you for all the informa­tion and help yoo and your w11e did for me, and may God bless you and your famlly. JiD8t Chapman Mt. VeMloo, Ala.

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Women between the aps of 18 to 65 are needed tor more maid jobs in Boston and N.w York. Salaries ranp from $45 to $85 weekly. oIten with free meals, room, andTV. Fri­eDc1a are placed clOlle to ODe another. AU jobs are cuaranteed. Tickets sent. AU expeDl8s adVanced,

For more WormaUoo, write or call coUect to ABC Malds, 7 12 W. MobUe St., Florence, A la. 35630, phoDe 706-8493; or Mrs. Hattle Mae Scott, 120 Harrl. St., Atmore. Ala. 3811OZ, phone 388-5740.

Dear Agency, I am working tor a very nice tam­

lly. Thank you very' much for send­ing me to New York. l have my pri­vate rooms and TV, Last week I went to the Apollo Theatre, they had a rood show. At Xmas time I'm com­log home to vialt my family. The Illdy I work for Is golng to pay my fare one way and I pay ooe. Sarah M1l1s Merldlan, Miss.

Dear Sir: Thank you for the lood job yoo got

for me here in Roelyn Helpts. A. you know, I am 83 years old, and 11 ia hard for a woman my ace to pt a rood Job llke I have livre. Th. pe0-ple I work for pay me ,eo every Thursday. I am � Saturday and SUnday. I clean an .lgbt-room hou .. twice a week and cook two meals a day. There are no children. Tbe lady [ work for will do anytbtnr for me. She takes me to church every Sunday. Annie M . Harrison Gadsden, Ala.

Dear A BC Maids: Thank yoo for the Job. [ am work­

log In Great Plains, New York. It is a nice place here. I cot In touch with my daugbter here. [ utt my job very much. Martha Cunningham Mlllry, Ala.

COURIER

For 3 Months

FOR ONLY SI!

(South only)

MAIL T OI T HI 1I0UTHI B N C OUBlI R Boom 1012, Frau Leu Bid,. 7t Commeroe lit. WOailOmtl'1. Ala. 38104

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