New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00834

Negro Builder, 33, On H/s Way T o Becoming M illionaire plans, represent major new steps I have found to be of great on the long road the 33-year-old benefit.” * builder has come in the short Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, now time since he borrowed 12.600 parenU 01 ,four c,hUdrea who J4 ^’flrS tf buy hl. first piece of land while still working for the Schlitx building Ray ever erected, a Brewing Company back In WOO. modifled high ranch with full u Raiidiava cellar, located at Virginia and Alabama Aves. in Hempstead. Since thenChapmanhas put Wg a io-room affair with 3* wouid seu for a up a total of 33 buildings, all baUll first rate and some literally eye- minimum of $35,000. They are poppers. His works include an members now of the St. John’s entire block of buildings on Erie Episcopal Church of Hempstead Ave. in the town of Hempstead wd of the local branch of the which is one of the handsomest NAACP sets of individual homes in the area and numerous single homes nPnUet. on scattered throughout Review, SdJaSli young Ser a Coming Projects home, *• hl,h .. 965.040. « • «- Hard work, a memory of child- acre land at New Palu> hood poverty and his own sheer N y » for whlch he has .j^ady determination plus the devotion of contracted his wife, are the Ingredients to which Chapman credits his . ***" success D Ray Chapman, a native Brook- new Phlla Bosto“- PhBa delphia, Washington and possibly . Chicago. The sky’s the limit for buiWer. _ * HOME BY CHAPMAN — This the structures erected by youth- land’s leading Negro home beautiful dwelling is typical of ful Ray Chapman. Long Is- builder. (George West photo) lynite, started working at the age of eleven to help support his five other brothers and sis- “p a ters. He graduated from Bush- to ll™ *» "1th co,mfort wick High School and married s~url y re«ardl“a ** the former Rose Harris, also a ’ideration other than the r b y Brooklynite, whom he met at a to W contribution o the Young People’s Fellowship group cau*e °* Negro »dvancemenl- of the St. .Augustine’s Church demonstra- which they both then attended. that *e can pr°?UC* qua?^ for ourselves. That s the test I always try to meet.” Scheduler ' Ray became the second Negro-------------------------------- to be hired by the Schlitx Brewing I Company back in 1953 and it was Informal I ea Fleast . scheduler in Ihe traffic depart- mcnt that he learned IHUtf II of ujok the techniques in dealing with iuni°" IL«h people and problems that he was toput to good use later in his pup^s at •» formal tea Friday John „ Colemsn 1 *?■ pare“ta of “*nth it really helped fill in the gaps Joining Mr. Gilburt in the con- in my formal education. I can’t fcrence with parents were assis- give enough credit to plant pro- tant principals, guidance coun- duction superintendent, Victor «elors and teachers. Similar ses- Schwartz, who encouraged me sions are to be held with parents continually in the face of all i of seventh grade pupils on Oct. odds. He really set a pattern! 17 and eighth graders’ parents of life and work for me .hation Nov. 13. CHAPMAN. THE BUILDER— Ray Chapman, a leading Long Island home builder (who ob­ viously doeu pretty Well at building a family, too) shows his latest plana to his wife, Rene, holding one « year - old Rhonda; Ray Jr., 14, holding 2-year-old Richard at right, and Roland, 10. They live, natur­ ally, in a house that Ray built. (George West photo) Grant $1.5 Million Mortgage On Boro’s Herkimer Gardens Umc Comptroller Abraham D. are on the pround floor. The con- ww ■ O" I aeTw/ia alQS Beame has announced that the venttonal mortgage loan will run DON’T BE VAGUE ...ASK FOR IIEI0EB SCOTCH WHISKY. 86.8 PROOF • BOTTLED II SCOTLAHD • REIFIELD IMFORTEIS. LTO^ IFV YORE. I Y. EINHORN'Sslvct markets 991 FULTON STREET 1266 FULTON STREET 1533 BROADWAY 1720 BROADWAY 33-01 30th AVE., ASTORIA 40-16 NAT'L. ST., CORONA 1146 FULTON ST., N.or Franklin Av«. Shop and Save The Einhorn Way DEL MONTE FRUIT COCKTAIL Lgst. No. 2’/x Can 31C DOMINO GRANULATED SUGAR 51b. 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Vfie-fVICin 9V1OW tirement System, one of the City’s Though Just completed, Her- A one-man photo exhibit is be- fi’e employee pension funds, has kimer Gardens is already more lng held for three weeks at the granted a commitment for a $1,- than 80 per cent rented, with Greenburgh Library In Weatches- 600,000 mortgage loan to the leases running for three years, ter, for a 16-year old boy, as Beam Corporation for Herkimer Tenants are largely semi-pro­ part of the 175th Anniversary Gardens, said to be the first fessional and civil service people, new privately - built apartment and a number are employees of celebration of the Town. The boy is John Shearer, son house In the Bedford - Stuyve- St. John’s Hospital, which is lo­ ot artist Ted Shearer, whose car- sant section of Brooklyn In over cated only one-half block away, toon, “Mr. Puddingheadhead" 20 years. - Herkimer Gardens replaces a appears in this newspaper, and The seven-story brick build- group of old, decayed, three and Mrs. Phyllis Shearer, an attorney ing at 400 Herkimer Street la ele- pidated, single - room - occupan- and member of the School Board vator - equipped, contains 154 four - story walk-up apartment apartments, and has a garage for houses, which in recent years had In this district. The exhibit opened last Sunday 180 cars. Many apartments have been converted to crowded, dila- wben some 100 persons braved iterraces, and professional suites cy boarding houses, a damp, dull day to tee Mr. ' ' Shearer’s photographs. For one so " ~ » I y<mnLJOS hatloo<Cops Seek Gunman oua Job. His photos showing or- iglnality and tntuitlvenes* as well Three men who were shot Sat- number of ahota, the gunmai At 8 OAMi Of lmAfflnttinn. Particular attention was paid to urday by an uftknown Sunman started to flee but encountered I . his picture of an old women called who took it hard when called to third man, John Glover, 27, o “Waiting”, a young child tieing question over his profane lang- 671 Central Ave., and also flret her shoe laces oo a stairway, Uage were reported in good con- at him. and hit work tn Caracas, Vene dition thia week in borough hos- „ MU. while on . cruise with his pitals. Barents parents. , HoUey’ W0Unded lD teft 68 . «nd Bradley, wounded in thi , ___ According to police, James Hoi . John who has been taking pic- , of 2lOfi st and head, were token to St. Mary titfes since he was 11, won six Ac^ Bradley also 20 of 2123 Ho’Pitol. Glover, unacqusintei ptzes in the national photo con- gt w;re wa)king alon8'wlth either of the other victims asjailant WM taken to Kings County Hot tejt sponsored by the Eastman Bergen !P‘U1 W‘th * bulkt iB utter*d ™.a2. i°^n remarks Wnidtend ? wSh when the pslr d*manded to Th« gunman escaped In a maz 32. if know "Who’re you cursing at?” ner a. yet undetermined, >ft«rw>rHc Hi. anal nJtorslly to be a photojounillst. ‘ unidentified i.'.sn produced detectives of the East New Yor ' P‘»tol sod start- squad who are hunting clue, t « r * td shooting After discharging a his identity. Mt works of photography which will be displayed during a 3- week one-man show in Gran- burgh’s public library during the Westchester town’s cele- bration of its 175th year. Right from Mr.< Anderson are Mr. and Mrs. Tad Shearer, John’s parents, and Mrs. Barry Krels- berg, chairman of the library’s visual arts subcommittee. The 68th annual session of the 375-member church Empire Mis­ sionary Baptist Convention will convene at the Cornerstone Bap­ tist Church. 574 Madison St., Brooklyn, Oct. 21-25. A highlight of the Convention will be the second Achievement Award Dinner to be held at the Main Ballroom of the Hotel St. George, Thursday evening Oct. 24. Reservations for the affair can now be made through the headquarters of the Convention Banquet committee at 574 Mad­ ison St. Laymen Service The Rev. Dr. Sandy F. Ray. pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church, is President of the Con­ vention. The dinner will honor Baptist clergy and laymen for distinguished service in their communities. Plans for the dinner were com­ pleted at a July 30 meeting at the banquet headquarters at the Cornerstone church. The Con­ vention comprises Baptist church­ es from Niagara to Montauk Point and the dinner is expected to draw members of these church­ es, fraternal and civic groups. Making up the banquet com­ mittee are: Rev. Vastor Jphn- son, Jr., general chairman; Miss Dorothy E. Levy, general secre­ tary; Rev. E- J- Echols of Buf­ falo, co-chairman; Rev. Timothy P. Mitchell of Flushing; Miss Oretha Brooks of Manhattan, Rev. E. D. McNeely of Buffalo, committee on tickets. Also Mrs. Victoria Powell, com­ mittee on hostesses; Mrs. Evelyn Dixson, committee on patrons; Rev. Henry Grant Jones of Mt. Vernon, committee on finance and Rev. O. Clay Maxwell, Jr. publicity chairman. Services In Boros Memorial services and rallies were held in Brook* lyn and Queens, Sunday, in remembrance of the six Negro children killed in Birmingham, Sunday Sept 15. Some 3,000 persons participated in a 2 P.M. rally held at the Addisleigh Park, Linden Blvd., and Merrick Rd. There were four coffins on the platform, symbo­ lizing the four children killed by bomb in Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church. , Back Te Park At 3 P.M. the participants marched through Merrick Rd., Liberty Ave , New York and Linden Blvds. back to the park. The audience pledged itself to remember the dead children of Birmingham. A boycott of Jamaica Ave stores to start Oct. 7, was an­ nounced. This move Is IXt «rf a selective buying campaign to support demonstrations at Roch­ dale Village. Further support of the Roch­ dale struggle is expected to boom at an NAACP — sponsored rally, Friday at 8 P.M. AT Brooks Memorial Methodist Church, 143- 22 109th Ave., Jamaica. Mrs. Medgar Evers’ appearance will be the feature of the rally. In Brooklyn a rally sponsored by the Brownsville Sunday School Union drew some 4,500 persons from 18 member churches. They met at Betsy-Head Park at 2 P.M. after a permit for the rally had been issued by City Hall. 94 PRIINDLY NIIGHBORHOOO STORK TO SIRVI YOUREO I FOR RIO STORE NEAREST YC CALLSH 3-0800 OR SEC BROOKLYN YELLOW PAGE PAGE 1 85 n’h i * m n0K ’mHI"5 •*mat SALE STARTS SATURDAY 1 ONE WEEK ONLY TROUSERS USE THESE VALUABLE COUPONS AND SAVE * SKIRTS Cl ■VH. 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