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FRED ROBINSON
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BY JULIE LEAKE
Miss Phyllis €. Wilsong daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wil
son of Springfield Gardens, L.I
was married to Cedric Phillips
at the St. Catherine’s Catholic
Church with Father Convoy of
ficiating.
The bride was given In mar
riage by her father Cecil Wil
son. Miss Jean Spearman was
maid of honor and Brian O’Reil
ly was best man.
—The bride wore a full length
antique white lace gown with se
quins and lace panels and finger
tip sleeves. Her veil of white
silk lace hung from a head piece
of pearls and sequins.
Dockers Give
CORE $1300
By SIMON ANEKWE
Anthony Scotto, president of
Local 1814, International Long
shoremen's Association, AFL-
CIO, annouced Monday, that the
executive board of the Brooklyn
local had authorized a donation
of $1,300 to the Congress of Ra
cial Equality.
This contribution will support
one CORE "task force” leader
one year as he travels through
the deep south educating Negro
citizens in their constitutional
rights and responsibilities, per
suading them to register and vote,
urging their participation in tech
niques of peaceful protest such as
sit-ins and freedom marches.
Progress
By exchanging letters, photog
raphs and progress reports, Scott
said, Brooklyn Longshoremen
will be in close touch with their
‘ adopted” task force leader—
thus creating a sense of personal
involvement in the fight for civil
rights.
Mr. Scott, a founding member
of the New York Trade Union
Committee for CORE, emphasiz
ed that: "This $1,300 is but one
part of Local 1814's continuing
participation in the struggle for
equality; but of course its timing
was stimulated by the turmoil in
Birmingham.”
“Brooklyn longshoremen do not
dodge controversial social issues.
We openly admire the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.; we
agree wholeheartedly with his
philosophy of militant but non
violent protest; we are with him
and the CORE freedom fighters
all the way.”
Marvin Rich said that CORE
had a significant number of peo
ple in the field helping organize
the demonstrations. Local 1814’s
action was in response to an ap
peal to unions to assume their
responsibilities in this regard.
"The money has already been
put to good U9e,” Rich stated. As
a result CORE was able to em
ploy Bruce Baines in North Caro
lina. He did the major organiza
tion work that brought on the
Durham demonstrations.
BY GEORGE BARNER I Motorman F. MstiU. operator
Fred Robdnsoo, a pudgy. 'of the approaching train, first
plucky subway change clerk, was sighted the fire and then Che fig-
the toast of the Transit Author
ure of Robinson frantically sig
ity this week after his fast and
nalling him to stop . Malta
courageous action saved the life
brought his thousands of tons of
of a rider who had fallen to the
steel to a screeching scop some
tracks of the BMT Montrose Av
60 feet (about the length of one
enue station
subway car> from the passenger
and a lot closer to Robinson.
It was not the first taste of ac
claim for the «2 year-old grand
father, however. Mr. Robinson,
who lives at 304 Madison St.,
Brooklyn, first got his name be
fore the public when he was play
ing a sizzling trombone with Lou
is Armstrong’s “Original Hot
Five”, and other big name Jazz
groups of the 20's, 3O'» and 40's.
Last week’s underground
drama unfolded when passengers
in the rear car of a Manhattan
bound train excitedly informed
conductor Benjamin Goddard, of
126 Albany Ave., Brooklyn that
they had seen a pa«s?r?er fall to
the tracks while chasing the train
las it pulled out of the Montrose
station stop in Queens.
Goddard secured his train at
the next stop. Grand fit., and tel
ephoned a report of the incident
to the trainmaster who, in turn,
notified Robinson.
Cab Driver
The passenger. John Calase, 41,
of 1278 Greene Ave., Brooklyn,
was removed to Greenpoint Hos
pital by ambulance where he was
released after treatment for bruis
es and lacerations.
Robinson, who retired from the
entertainment world in 1950 and
was appointed from a civil serv
ice list to his TA job in 1964 aft
er an interim stint as a cab driv
er, took it all with a shrug.
“I retired from show business
because it was getting too hec
tic for me; I figured I couldn’t
stand the excitement at my age.
But it seems like you never can
tell.” Or, to quote the words of
the late, great Fats Waller, with
whom Robinson also played:
'One never knows, do one'”’
Robinson, who lives with his
Robinson investigated and j wife. Lizzie, and two of his three
found a male passenger sprawled' daughters at the Madison St. ad-
dress, also played and traveled
across one of the running rails,
with Cab Calloway, Fletcher Hen
apparently unconscious. Knowing
diat a train was scheduled to ar
derson. Noble Sissle and Sy Oli
ver, in addition to working
rive momentarily, Robinson set a
Broadway shows.
match to a hastily gathered bun
dle of newspaper and hurled it to
the tracks between the fallen pas
senger and the direction of the
oncoming train. He then descend
ed to the tracks from steps at the
end of the platform and sprinted
as far into the tunnel as he could
toward the hurtling train.
Some of his recordings with
Satvhmo’s great combo included
Basin Street, West End Blues,
Skip the Gutter and others. He
rarely plays bis trombone now,
except as an occasional luHabye
for his youngest daughter or
some of his seven grandchildren.
Schools Close
For Parades
at different hours, and an even
ing parade at 6 p.m. in Middle
Village.
The theme for this 134th An
niversary Day parade is “Jesus,
the Bread of Life”, John 6:48.
Prominent church dignitaries
from various denominations, as
well as representatives of govern
ment and business, will be pre
sent in the several reviewing
stands. Many divisions will award
prizes for the most colorful and
significantly decorated floats bas
ed uppn the theme of the parade.
The bride is a sophomore at
New York City Community Col
lege.
Mr. Phillips attended Brook
lyn Community College and is
currently in the United States
Air Force.
The Reception was held at the
St. John Martyr Parish Hall.
The couple will reside at 120-
32-178 St. Springfield Gardens,
L.I.
Gun Trio Clip
£4dyn Drugstore
A trio of unidentified hoodlums,
all armed with pistols, held up
Harry Josepfison, 50, in-his drug
store at 668 Saratoga Ave., Fri
day and robbed him of an unde
termined amount of cash after
one of them belted him over the
head with a gun butt.
On Thursday, June 6, 179 Sun
day Schools in IS neighborhood
areas in Queens will participate
In the 1963 Anniversary Day Par
ades. All public schools In Queens
will be closed by law that day
to permit the Protestant school
children to parade In this signifi
cant occasion.
The New York State Legisla
ture enacted, in 1959 at the re
quest of the Queens Federation of
Churches, the law permitting
the schools to close. It was signed
by Governor Nelson A. Rockefel
ler. In addition to Queens Coun
ty, schools are also dismissed in
Kings County. This observance
is peculiar to these two counties
in the entire United States.
First Thursday
Anniversary Day, celebrated
annuadly on the first Thursday in
June, commemorates the found
ing in 1829 of the First Sunday
School on Long Island. The first
parade was held In Brooklyn on
June 26, 1829, and has been held
each year without interruption
since its inauguration.
As church people moved from
Brooklyn into Queens, they brou;(it
with them, the custom of observ
ing the anniversary of the found
ing of the Sunday School. Rec
ords indicate that the first ob
servances were held In the Ridge
wood area in the year 1909. As
the population continued to move
Eastward, parades were held in
various sections of the Borough.
This year, the largest number of
communities will observe Anni
versary Day, with parades at
various hours, beginning at 10
a.m. in Hollis, 10:30 a.m. in Bay-
side, 11 a.m. in Long Island City,
afternoon parades in many areas
Youth Dance
The New York City Youth
Board will conduct a dance at
Gaybeart Ballroom, 824 Nostrand
Avenue, Brooklyn, on Tuesday,
May 21. 1963, at 8 p.m., for young
sters of P.S. 25 Evening Com
munity Center; P.S. 57 Evening
Community Center and the Bed
ford - Stuyvesant Unit of the
Council of Social and Athletic
Clubs, New York City Youth
Board.
Only chaperoned members of
participating agencies can be
admitted. Arrangements for the
dance will be provided by the
Youth Board, the Mayor’s Com
mittee on Living Music and the
Recording Industries’ Trust Fund,
in cooperation with Local 802,
American Federation of Musici
ans. and the Municipal Broad
casting Station WNYC.
Art Exhibit,
A new and exciting art exhibit
compiled by Temple Emanu-El,
Yonkers, will be open to the pub
lic Sunday, May 26 at 1 p.m.
tlirough Thursday, May 30.
This will mark the start of a
major arts festival which will
culminate in October with the
premiere performance of an orig
inal musical service by Herman
Berlinski. It will be presented at
the Lincoln Center with the City
Philharmonic Orchestra.
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SPRINGFTELD WEDDING: At
Cedric Phillips - Phyllis Wilson
vyedding. are; left to right:
Jean Spearman, maid of hon
an OReilly, best man.
or, Phyllis Wilson, bride, Ced
ric Phillips, the groom and Bri
lng a police officer is scheduled
to receive a bearing on t h e|
charge Friday in Criminal Court.
The accused, 33-year-old Ed
ward Thomas, of 386 Bradford
St., wan arrested last week and
held without ball by Judge Lud
wig Glowa after he allegedly tri
ed to run down Patrolman Dan
iel M. GroBsane of the Mtller
Ave. station when the officer
stopped him for questioning.
Thomaa was also charged with
violation of the Sullivan Law be
cause he allegedly poee turned a
15-lnch bayonet. He was on par
ole from state prison where he
had served a term for robbery
and assault.
A milling crowd that at times I by the fact of a last minute
grew to more than .100 persons switch in location from the origi-
naily announced interesection of
braved a twilight chill at the
Fulton St. and Nostrand Ave. to
Intersection of Herkimer St. and
avoid traffic congestion.
Noatrand Ave. Friday to hear As
semblyman Thomas R. Jones
and other civic, community,
church and Labor leaders urge
the solidarity of Brooklyn Neg
roes and the aid of "liberal whites
to support of the Birmingham
civil rights movement. A featur
ed speaker was 18-year-old Wil-
iliam J. Douthard, a Birming
ham student who was jailed six
times during the protests.
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