New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-01073

Get New Assignments ND AFB, Texas—Air. Id D- Thompson and >nald Pringle, both of City, have recieved ng and duty assign­ ments following completion of their basic military training here. Airman Thompson, son of Mrs. Rubena Thompson of 120-2772nd St., St. Albans, will be trained as a communications analysis specialist at San Antonio, Texas. Airman Ronald Pringle, son of Mrs. Gloria J. Mason of, 110 S. 99th St. will be assigned to Platts­ burgh AFB. N.Y. for training and duty as a cook. $ .vhAt kind of chRistmas this yeaR? Christmas *63 brings to a close the year of the centennial of the Emancipation Toclamation. Behind are the great and tragic events which marked the fight for ivil rights: The demonstrations in the streets of Birmingham and other cities, the martyr’s leath of NAACP secretary Medgar Evers in Jackson, Miss., the bombing in which nnocent children were killed during church services and other recent tragedies which lave shocked the world and brought universal pleas for an end to lawlessness and acial hate. The struggle will go on. A civil rights bill is before Congress, national elections ire only months away. On these and a dozen other fronts the fight will be pressed. r- ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ a I To this end the National Association for he Advancement of Colored People has estab- ished a Commemoration Christmas Cerificate vhich is ideal for framing and will serve in lieu if the traditional Christmas gifts to adults. The Certificate will be mailed to the per- »ons designated by you from NAACP head- juarters as your gift. Both your name and the 'ecipient’s and the amount contributed will be nscribed on it (Certificates are available in lenominations of $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, $500, 11,000 and $5,000.) What finer gift, in the true spirit of Christ­ mas, could one select-or receive —doing honor io both sender and recipient in a common pledge to work for the day when “Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men” shall prevail for all. if At < N.A.A.JC.9. ' J» W«H 40(k Street, New Yarik N.Y. Gentlemen: my esteem and dol- _______ ______ ____ Christmas Certificate to be inscribed in the name and sent to: Address . City. .Zone___ State. My Name. Addresa_ as idea with a personal touch- give telephone service. Uptown Assemblyman Hits Plans For Short Session As Criminal - Bryant Lodge Elects Officers N.Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., Dec. 14, IMS • S lifetime than a white man who failed to go beyond the eighth grade that that much of this earning gap results from discri­ mination rather than differences in training and ability." He called upon Republicans and Democrats and business and labor to launch a major offen­ sive to meet the problems of poverty and discrimination head on, and not to end the 1964 ses­ sion until they have been met. Bryant Chapter O.E.S. held its annual election of officers recent­ ly in King Solomon Masonic Temple, 106 W. 127th St. Elected were Mesdames Willie MoCoy, worthy matron; Eula Cooke, as­ sociate matron, Rosa Carter, se­ cretary, Lucille Cofield, treasur­ er, and Annie Smith and Allen Gilbert, conductress and associate conductress. Past patron D.A. Walker, pre­ sided the election and the instal­ lation which followed. Boro President Edward Dudley and other officials win be |mwb ent Monday pec. lfi at 4:30 p.m. when the Christmas Tkwe is dedicated at the Lincoln Rec­ reation Center. The Tree will be located on the 7th Avenue laUnd streets. First At Navy Who will be Navy’s first Negro football player. Tun to the Sports Pages and see In this issue of the Amsterdam News. Charging that 38 per cent ofiis approximately 16.5 per cent the white families and 88 per | unemployed. : v cent of the Negro and Puerto Rican families in the area be­ tween 70th and 102nd Sts. be­ tween Central Park West and Riverside Drive, do not have enough money to maintain a low standard of living, Assemblyman Albert H. Blumenthal this week called for a bipartisan war on poverty. The Manhattan Democrat - Li­ beral legislator, bitterly critic­ izing plans to have a short leg­ islative session next year as "cri­ minal,” asserted that the state's “failure to mount an effective assault on the barriers of econ­ omic growth has resulted in es­ tablishing an increasingly large impoverished class as a per­ manent part of our society." Releasing results of the dis­ trict he represents on the basis of the 1960 census, Blumenthal noted that 29 per cent of the people in the Fifth Assembly District have only an elemen­ tary education, 35 per cent of the housing is structurally un­ sound or dilapidated: 8 per cent of the workers in the West Side district are unemployed; and the median annual family income is less than $6,200. Ethnic Breakdown ALBERT H. BLUMENTHAL Breaking his statistics down to ethnic groups, Assemblyman Blu­ menthal ^showed that the aver­ age whit® person has a median schooling of 12 years, a family income of $7,732, and only 6.1 per cent are unemployed, as com­ pared with 10.1 years median schooling for Negroes, with an average family income of only $3,132, and 13. 6 per cent un­ employed. The average Puerto Rican has 7.7 years of schooling, earns $2,955 a year, and there mwrmiff D’YA GET IT? — If you do (and who but a blind mole wouldn't), cooperate with your postman by mailing early for Christmas and making sure she did Just that at the PO’s your loved ones get it. This display reminder and stamp sensible young lady was re- vendor on 7th Ave. at 125th St. corded by our photographer as (Gilbert Photo). Place More Puerto Ricans Negroes In Foster Homes J Close to a 206 percent increase! boarding homes at the end of No­ in the number of foster home vember, 1963, Monsignor Moore placements cf Puerto Rican chil- reP°rted- dren over the last 12 years was <*** number, he stated 533 i are Puerto Rican children hous- noted by Very Rev. Msgr. G-led with 408 non - Spanish- Howard Moore, Catholic Home-speaking families; another 125 Bureau director, in his annual!are Puerto Rican children shei- report to the agency’s board of‘ere$ * « Spanish-speaking ! families, and 161 are Negro chil- directors at a mating held ^aring ,hp h,trnPS,^ Thursday in the Catholic ^harl-k;egr<> foster parents ties Center, 122 E. 22nd St. _______________ . The Catholic Home Bureau, a ■ i r\ . . . foster home agency of N. Y. LQUU r TintGrS Catholic Charities, also reported that, over the same 12 year per QjIT Aqr©©m©nt iod, foster home placements of white children had dropped 30 The Printers League of New percent while those of Negro York and Local 6 of the Inter- children rose 30 percent. The re- national Typographical Union port was based on a statistical i were commended last week oi review of the ethnic and racial their agreement to expand ap changes that have been observ- prenticeship opportunities to in ed in the Bureau’s foster care elude nonwhites and to insure ap program from 1957 to 1963. peaj machinery to prevent biai According^ the report, the ^ause <* race' color or study siWe<L that the ratio ofjglon Puerto Rican ^children under The Mayor lauded industrj fosteT boarding -.home care had and the union in letters to Ma gone up from 14. A percent in 1951 thew A. Kelly, of the league, ant to 40 3 percent to 1963, the per- Bertram L. Powers, president o centage of white children had Local 6, most of whose mem dropp'd from 76. 2 to 46.1, and hers are employed in plants o that of Negro*e4ildren had risen the city s eight daily newspapers from 94 to 12.1 percent. — . . Form a good habit and rea< The Catholic Home Bureau had 1,326 dependent and neglected Amsterdam News everj children under care in 586 foster week! Seeks Instruments For Children The recently organized Citizens 1 Improvement Association located i at 149th St. and 8th Ave., is i appealing for instruments and i funds to form a drum and ! bugle corps for youngsters living in the area. butions of musical instruments and funds, the Association an­ nounced the opening of an adult membership drive. The fee is $2.56 a year. Membership applications and donations may be forwarded to < the organization’s president, Mrs. Sidney Wyche, spokesman for 1 Mae Simmons, at 301 W. 149th St., Apt. 4. the group, said the Association has 75 youngsters, ranging in age 7 to 16, some of whom are already receiving instructions from qualified professional teachers on a voluntary basis. But more instruments are need­ ed to keep the program moving. “Our purpose is to foster, sti­ mulate and encourage develop­ ment of talent and aptitude among our youth in the arts and sciences by providing an or­ ganized program of free Instruc­ tion in music and other arts," Wyche said. Specifically, he said, the Association is trying to keep children off the streets. A spokesman for the National Committee Against Discrimina­ tion in Housing announced this week that a fund raising cham­ pagne supper that was to have been held on Dec. 12 Jointly hon­ oring the late ex-Governor Her­ bert H. Lehman and labor lead­ er A. Phillip Randolph has been postponed until an unspecifiec date owing to the former’s death Besides the appeal for contri- ■ on Dec. 5. CAMELOT Beauty Salon "for the woman who cares" 2329 7th Avenue (between 136 & 137 Streets) Cell AU 1-1001 Airman Rafael A. 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