New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00110
1963
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**• N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS. Sat, Fab. IS, IMS
Dems Set New Standing
Committees In Revamp
In keeping with the reorgamza-j lations • J Risley Dent, chair-
tian of the Kings County Demo- man; Meade H. Esposito, vice
cratic Organization, Assembly
man Stanley Steingut, the coun
ty leader, announced today the
appointment of the first five
chairmen and vice chairmen of vjce chairman
14 major standing comm.ttees WWJe egch flf „ standing
Committee on Community Ser
vices - Benjamin G. Browd ,
chairman; Thomas R. Jones,
chairman.
These committees are design
ed, in accordance with the par-
committees to be organized are
of equal stature and importance
ty’s new rules, to give the Kings jn me party machinery, M r.
County Democratic Organization steingut pointed out that the
a wider grass-roots base, thus Law Committee usually becomes
encouraging broader community most active group in the
participation in party affairs.
organization
The first committee appoint
ments are:
Committee on Law - J. Court
ney McGroarty, chairman; and
Neil Leiblich. vice chairman.
Mr. McGroarty, the new law
chairman, is recognized as one
of Brooklyn’s leading attorneys.
He is a member of the firm of
Wingate and Cullen and has long
been active in Democratic cir
cles.In 1954 he served as chair
man of the Brooklyn campaign
for the successful election of
tion - Victor J. Condello. chair-, Averell Harriman as Governor
Broo|dyn former
man; Gladys Dorman, v,ce chair-; Mr
Committee on Finance - Aaron
L. Jacoby, chairman; Mrs. Cath
erine Gillespie, vice chairman.
Committee on Public Educa-
Negro History Week Here
Negro Inventor
Helped Edison &
Alexander G. Bell
The annual celebration of Ne
gro History Week calls to mind
the many excellent but unsung
talents that men of color have
contributed in the development
of America.
Outstanding among these was
an inventor who spent much of
his life and effort in Brooklyn —
Lewis Howard Latimer—the tire
less aide and colleague of Thom
as Alva Edison. Latimer is cred
ited as the man who perfected
the incandescent lamp and made
the first drawings for the Bell
telephone.
HISTORY’S MILESTONES —
The Negro History exhibit com
mittee of Antioch Baptist
Church. Bklyn., under chair
man Walter Norfleet, left, puts
finishing touches to highly
praised display showing Negro
contributions to American and
world history. The others
shown are Dolores Stevens,
Mrs. Dorothy Vaughn and Ro
bert Gill, The exhibit will last
for two weeks.
(Merritt Photo).
Local Guianese
See Jagan Days
Numbered
Prospects for an anti-commu-
nist upset of Prime Minister
Cheddi Jagan in the South Am
erican country of British Guiana
were called brightened this week
by an informed Brooklynite who
recently vi6iied there.
Dr. naron Peters, a physician
of 5PA Greene St., who is sec
retary of the HeJp Guiana Com
mittee, a group registered with
the Justice Dept. as agents of
anti - Jagan People’s National
Congress Party, charged that
Jagan'a government is “Com-
munist controlled.”
Forbes Burnham, leader of
the PNCP and aware of his in
creasing political strength, re
cently rejected Jagan’s offer of
the Vice Premiership and is
mustering his forces for a drive
to defeat the controversial
Premier in the next national
elections set for 1965.
Guiana Committee
The Help Guiana Committee,
which was founded in 1958, is
headed by Clarence Griffith, a
social worker, of 606 Eastern
Parkway, Edward Butts Sr., a
realtor of 9607 Roosevelt Ave.,
and Dr. Gladstone Hodge, treas
urer, of 1267 Carroll St.
Dr. Peters estimated that!
there are approximately 5,000
persons of Guianese background
in the Metropolitan area. His
committee is dedicated to rais
ing funds toward the support of
Mr. Burnham’s political party.
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Committee on Inter-Group Re- cHha™ °f *• NAACP and
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Dems Put 2
Women In
Top Posts
As part of an expanded pro
gram to afford women a greater
voioe in the affairs of the Brook
lyn Democratic organization, two
prominent women were named to
top-echelon posts in the party,
it was announced today by As
semblyman Stanley Steingut, the
county Democratic leader.
Miss Beatrice M. Judge, a
noted attorney and State Com
mittee member from the 7th
Assembly District, was elected
vice chairman of the Brooklyn
Democratic executive commit
tee.
This committee is the duly-
elected policy-making and ruling
body of the Brooklyn Democratic
party, consisting of 44 State
Committeemen and Committee-
women, popularly known as dis
trict leaders and co-leaders, and
chairmen of various standing
committees.
John J. Lynch, President of
the Kings County Trust Co., is
chairman of the County Commit
tee.
Another top appointment was
that of Mrs. Margaret U. Ma'one
as vice chairman of the 4,000-odd
member county committee. The
duly-elected membership of this
committee represents the grass
roots of the party.
Mrs. Malone is secretary te
Civil Court Justice Thomas J.
MiraMe, State Committeewom
lan from the 1st Assembly Dis
trict and long active in Brook
lyti communal affairs.
The selection of Miss Judge
and Mrs. Malone to fill these two
newly-created pasts points up
the significance whch the Brook
lyn Democratic organization is
placing upon women in its acti
vities and functions.
affecting the Relations of groups
within the community, with sug
gestions as to how more har
monious relations may be fos
tered.
Louise Latimer Dead;
Father Worked With
Top Inventors
The remains of Louise Rebec
ca Latimer, recently deceased
schoolteacher and girls camp di
rector, of 137-63 Holly Ave.,
Flushing, were cremated at
Fresh Pond Crematory after ser
vices at the O.P. Armwood Fun
eral Home, 101-04 Northern Blvd.
Corona.
Miss Latimer, 73, was born
April 19. 1600. at 324 E. 55th
St., Man., after her parents had
moved to the city from Boston,
Mass. The family lived for m
eral years in Brooklyn before
moving to the Holly Ave. home
in 1903 where Miss Latimer con
tinued to reside until her death.
Worked With Edison *
Miss Latimer’s father, Lewis
Howard Latimer, worked with
Thomas A. Edison in the early
days of electric lighting as a
draftsman and patent attorney.
He was one of the founders
of the Edison Pioneers in 1918
and reportedly* executed for Al
exander Graham Bell the origin
al drawings for the telephone.
Mr. Latimer was also one of the
charter members of the First
Unitarian Church.
Miss Latimer was a graduate
of Flushing High School and
Pratt Institute of Brooklyn and
later spent a year at the Na
tional Acadenjy of Design 1 n
New York City.
She taught art in the public
schools of New York City for
several years and later assum
ed directorship of Camp Erne-
towa at Bear Mountain. She also
worked as an assistant super
visor in the Home Relief Bureau.
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Negro Bora In Mass.
Latimer was born in 1848 In
Chelsea, Mass., and served in
the U.S. Navy during the Civil
War as a landsman aboard the
U.S.S. Massasoit winning a n
honorable discharge in 1865.
Highly intelligent though lack
ing formal education, the young
veteran assiduously applied him
self to studies in electrical en
gineering and drafting. He ob
tained a job as office boy in the
firm of Crosby and Gould, pa
tent^ solicitors, and in eleven
yea/Fwith them worked his way
up to chief draftsman.
During his work with the firm
he met Alexander Graham Bell
who was then deep into his early
work on the telephone. Latimer
executed the original drawings
of the Instrument and also as
sisted in preparing Bell’s appli
cations for the telephone patents.
In the late 1870’a Latimer came
to New York where he began an
association with Thomas A. Edi
son who was setting out on his
historic experiments on the in
candescent lamp. For the remain
der of his life Latimer was close
ly . linked with Edison and his
work. Two years after Edison
developed a filament that would
glow when sealed in a vacuum
and heated by electricity, Lati
mer successfully produced a sub
stantial improvement of the idea
with his own carbon filament for
the Maxim electric Incandescent
lamp which he promptly patent
ed.
Maxim Light
Latimer assisted in the instal
lation and in initiating the opera
tion qf the first Maxim incan
descent electric light plants in
New York City, Philadelphia and
Canada for the U.S. Electric
Light Company and supervised
the production of the carbon fila
ment! used.
In 1881 Latimer sailed to Eng
land and established an incande
scent lamp department for the
JANUARY GRADUATE -Miss
Edna Williams who attended
School of St. Thomas the Apos
tle, 118th St. and St. Nicholas
Ave., and Commerce High
School, Manhattan, was grad
uated BA. in Sociology from
Brooklyn College, last month.
Mise Williams who resides with
her’mother Mrs. Mayotte Wil
liams. expects to Join the De
partment of Welfare soon.
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NEGRO HISTORY WEEK —
Or. Jerome Jones of Central
State College, Ohio, will be
guest speaker at- the Negro
History Week celebration of
the Brooklyn Association for
the Study of Negro Life and
History and the Adelphi
Union Lodge (Masons), No.14.
Affair, scheduled for the Hotel
Granada, Feb. 10, got the final
look-over from this group of
planners. Seated, left to right;
Mesdames, Vivian Cobb; Ros
etta Gaston, founder, Ida Mc
Cray, president, Catherine
George; standing: Leroy Mc
Lean, Miss Dawn Goldstein,
Mrs. Mae Nichols and Benja
min Nichols. (Baptist photo)
Maxim Weston Electric Light
Company of London. In 1882 and
1883 the energetic scientist exe
cuted projects in the employ of
the Olmstead Electric Lighting
Co. of Brooklyn and the Acme
Electric Co. of New York City.
In 1884 he was associated with
the Engineering Department of
the Edison Electric Light Co.,
65 Fifth Ave. By 1890 multi
talented Latimer was transferred
to the legal department where
he remained until the formation
of the Board of Patent Control
six years later by the General
Electric and Westinghouse Com
panies. He was appointed their
chief draftsman and held that
post until 1911 whereupon he be
came associated with Edwin W.
Hammer, patent solicitor and
engineer of New York City, and
later with the firm of Hammer
and Schwarz.
friends in 1925 as "Poems
Love and Life."
of Surface Operators
Dance
Six hours of dance music by
As time passed, Latimer con
tinued to render inestimable ser
vice to Thomas Edison. When
three bands are guaranteed at
the famous inventor found him
the seventh annual dance of the
self enmeshed in repeated million-
dollar lawsuits against companies'surface Operators Fraternal Or-
that had infringed his patent, it ganization due at the Rockland
was Lewis Howard Latimer —by palace Ballroom, Feb. 16.
dint of having been the original The group is composed of 30
draftsman — who was Edison s \ew York City Transit Authority
bus drivers headed by Charles
chief witness.
Adjutant
Bryant, president, and William
Latimer, who gloried in his *T- Steward, vice president. In
wartime derring-do, achieved the, this growing organization
post of adjutant of the George contributed to such causes as the
Huntsman Post of the Grand Amsterdam News-Jackie-Robln-
Army of the Republic"75f~Flush- son Fund and CORE,
ing. He died on Dec. 11, 1928,
at the age of 80 and was taken Lewis Howard Latimer Progres-
to Fall River for burial in his sive Association in commemora-
; tien of the co-worker of two of
beloved Massachusetts.
A group of Negro electrical [ America’s most noted inventors,
“
workers, in 1958, formed the Bell and Edison.
Lewis Latimer was one of the
first of the brilliant men who
banded together to form the
Edison Pioneers, a group of|
scientists, engineers and techno-;
logists who first began to work
with the famous inventor in the
mid-nineteenth century. When,
the Edison Pioneers were form
ed on Jan. 24. 1918, Latimer
was the only Negro member.
Linguist, Poet
A linguist, poet and literary
stylist of no mean talent, Lati
mer wrote an early volume (1890)
called “Incandescent Electric
Lighting" in which he desbribed
the wonders of the new light for
the lay reader. He later auth
ored a book of poetry which
was published by his family and
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