New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00481
1963
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Pierce Heads Panel
looking Into Jobs
Aiming to halt thrreatened pos
sible violence in the city this
summer ever the question of Ne-
Four Awarded
In Hempstead
gro employment. Mayor Robert
Wagner this week named fortfi-
er Judge Samuel R. Pierue. jj
head a new Umee-roerober *tor-
lion panel’* to study chargee air
job discrtnafnattou to the ct^
and propose recommendaMam
and plans (or expanded opptfr
tonifies.
The Mayor. In announcing $e
appointments Ute Tuesday, aup
the group would work out of Up
Mayor's o’fices aip-would beipg
to a pnltBdaary report by Mat
Tuesday. July 2, aad a fuRer jf-
port within two weeks.
Serving with Judge Pierce aha
Brother Cornelius Jurttn, bea«
agement of Manhattan Cob
and Dean Harry J. Cure
dean-emeritus of Columbia
foge
High on the bat of specific
WiU;rrobeS48S(,«npS*«*
tion industry and to tabor uafoan
in the construction field wbtffi
was the cause of recent demon
strations at the Harlem Hospital
site. They will make
their findings to the Mayor/ add
labor leaders Peter Brennan and
Harry Van Aredale.
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The group will also jpress Yo
sec that the labor unions and
businesses who make pledge* To
ward integration, takje action
now to implement their state
meats, the Mayor asserted. „ ~
FACTORY CLOSBOUT
CUSTOM STHKO C ASSETS
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Four high school aces in Hemp
stead, L. I. were presented
with awards by the Hempstead
Heights Civic Association during
Award Nite held recently at
Jackson Elementary School.
Incentive awards were made
by Dr. Thomas D. Sheldon. As
sociate Superintendent of Schools
to these graduates of Hempstead
High School:
Mias Marilyn Gainey, winner
of Hempstead Lions Club Scboi-
arshrp Award m addition to sev
eral others, she will attend Adel
phi Univeriaty, Garden CWy;
Miss Diane Vane*, accepted a*
Oswego State Teachers College.
Oswego, and recipient of the Fu
ture Teachers* Scholarship and a
New York State Incentive Award.
Miss Barbara L. Young, to en
roll at Howard University. She
receive the Second District of
New York Federatioo of Wom
en’s Club Music Award, the Otni-
cron Chapter of Tau Gemma Del
ta Sorority Scholarship Award:
Stefan Leigh, valedictorian of
the class of MO students received
many honors in addition to a $2.-
000 schaiwship award. He wdl
enter Pnncetoa University in the
, fall. To the remaining 45 seniors
the Association presented gifts of
a Parker pen and pencil
Over 2tM» members, parents and
guests turned out for the affair
under inclement weather. At
torney John A. Cooke? president
of the Association, praised Ghe
' parents for their devotion to
their children.
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MALE 4 FEMALE SALON'
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4 • N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat, Jute 29, 1991
ZJis Old School Hears,
Honors James Baldwin
iveats of the blood and mayhem Jovi
■that will attend attempts to turn met
I hack the clock oe the current of
> Negro revolution but. ever the stsi
‘ skillful wordamith. was able to grs
balance the dire portent with pa- and
tornal admonitions and with his
flashes of earthy humor often Nei
delivered m sidewalk vernacular 3
aad with a casual animatioa that (ne,
bro
, revealed him to be at home and
, happy among friends.
, He demonstrated that be was
certainly among many old friends
ns he embraced with unblushing “
Sentiment his former teachers of 1
1 and scholastic associates Groip- Pui
' ed about him on the platform of
1 were former classmates of the It I
wa)
’ »-year-oid writer:
f There was Jim Barter, now cot
a Manhattan attorney: there waslnao
1 Dr. Alexander Jordan, a West-
' Chester physician; Leo Swan- of
son. youth work secretary of the thii
1 YMCA, and a copious list of meurblei
1 who returned to JHS 139 as teach- Let
* ers and counsellors, among them:
' Lionel McMurren. Edward Jef- try
fries. Edward Carpenter. Paul b[a
Clark and Sonny Frasier. gOt
“He never hurt a fly: he pul
NAACP Hits
Rocky And
Wagner
ALUMNI AWARD — Author
James Baldwin smiles his ap
preciation in receiving plaque
as the Alumnus of the Year at
Frederick Douglass JHS l»
last Thursday At right is Cal
vin Austin, president of the
school's General Organization.
His Yells
Don’t Take
Elmer Carter Quits
State Post June 30
his anger in his pen,” said Bark- cre
er remembering the undersized cJti
urchin who had had to be dosed COB
with codliver oil and milk by jt
a sympathetic teacher; and Me- inU
Murren read from a well-turned tail
valedictory piece the Incipient •<
writer tossed off when he left d0€
through graduation his post as ma
editor-in-chief of the Douglass ^n(
Pilot, the school's magazine.
J
FfctffTMten j .,
g Also doing honor to one ^ofl.
>- their own were many of the tea- j 11
g cbers who had either instructed lea
y Baldwin or been on the staff when g01
he was there, including Mrs.
r. Margaret Douglass, then an alge- '
d bra teacher now an assistant su-
d perintendent, the Rev. Irving An- *
yf ttoooy, then an instructor now
p priest-in-charge of St Andrew's
al Protestant Episcopal Church; and
_ Mrs. Gertrude E. Ayer, the city's “
Admirers thronged about the
toons, Elmer A. Carter. Special I
4^*™* /W»
A. Rockefellerfor Intergroup Re
lations. is retiring to devote
more to
“I want to devote more time to
those efforts which are now to
progress in every way possible
to help speed full civil righto,*^
the 73-year-old former chairman
of the State Commission for Ho
man Rights, told the Amsterdam
News in an interview this week.
Urges DsnssnstraUsns
Analysing the present racial
crisis, Mr Carter said the "Unit
ed States is to the midst of a so
cial revolution throughout the
country which has no parallel to
history.”
Postpone
Powell Case
Be urged Negroes to “regroup
, their forces” for demonstrations
„_____ ____ ___u
.Supreme Court Justice Morris,^
Spector this week postponed what President Kennedy is urg-
argumeuts on a show cause order tog, asserting that to stop dem
on why Rep. Adam Ciaytoy Pow- onstrations now would onb "give
«H should not be arrested for aid and comfort to Southern big
failing to pay the 1211.500 libel ots and weaken the force and en-
medics win
Press For
Civil Rights
Disappointed over the mihl re
sponse to its first public appeal
in Atlantic Cijy. the new Medi
cal ComrwttJp for Civil Rights
has vowed to step up the fight
tor equality in all phases of med
icine and public health.
Last week about 20 physicians
staged what was termed a "dig
nified demonstration,” In front
of the Traymore Hotel to Atlantic
them. It is important to be proud ,
that your ancestors stood on toe I1
'!
auction Mock.”
“We are after not a reversal of’<
this long nightmare with the shoe '
r>n the other foot. What one seeks i
is not revenge. Revenge is a,
cold, cold plate. We are trying i
t© build a New Jerusalem, to j
make the world a more human i
place: to live la.”
J [
The plaque honoring the nove- i *
list and essayist was presented J [
to him by Calvin Alston, presi- < i
dent of the General Organiza-j
tion and a senior The school ,
principal, David Pressberg, was ]
master of ceremonies
Previous recipients of the I
award have been Dr. Kenneth !
Clark, 1900; Thomas Stitch, 1901, 1
!
and Douglas Jones, 1982.
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to back-fence gossiping about tne
Kennedy problems.”
The NAACP official listed some
50 categories of state agencies
asserting that in only 17 of them
was there a Negro to a post
'paying $10,000 or more, aad sin
gled out the failure of the Gover
nor to name a Negro to top
j policy positions in the State Li-
iquor Authority, State Athletic
Commission, and in key posts
■with the State Lottery Commis
sion and other areas.
Sincerity
He also attacked the Republi
cans for failing to suggest a sin
gle Negro for any of the five
Councflma&At-Laxge positions,
asserting **B>uli actions belie
their sincerity of interests to Ne-
Qty where the American Medi
cal Association held its annual
convention. The demonstrators
included both Negro and white
doctors from Jackson, Miss.,
' Chicago. Washington, Boston,
New Jersey, New York and
While the pickets were outside,
a letter was delivered to the sec-
rtary of the AMA convention
urging the association to speak
out against segregation and to
assume leadership in the cam
paign to eliminate bias in med
icine and health care services.
EXPERT REPAIRING
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& VmCUUM CLEANER CLINIC
Bronx Mother
Gets Promotion
Joined the secretarial staff of
the Bronx Borough President's
office last year, has been pro
moted to the $7.000-a-yeer poet
her husband, Mrs. Strother la sur
vived by her mother, Mrs. OUvu
Eete and grandmother, Mrs. Vir-
ginia Robins
of Secretary to the Deputy Bor-1
ough President of the Bronx.
Mt Este said ebe bad no ides
take her
why b«T daughter
Ufe.
All-Out Drive
Spokesmen Dr. John L. S. Hol
loman Jr., and Dr. Walter L.
Lear of New York said foe com
mittee plans to use “all possible
noo-violent means until the
AMA responds satisfactorily to
Ito demands.”
First step In the move has
been a request to the House Judi
ciary Committee for an opportun
ity to present its views at the!
hearing on President Kennedy's
etvil rights proposals.
The Committee has also pledg
ed its support to Rev. Dr. Mar
tin Luther King Tor a people's
, mebilixstfoo la Washington to as
sure the passage of a strong civ-
il rights biC
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