New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00895
1963
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• N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, S*t», Oft. M,
Refuse To Unload
S. African Ship
we find it all over the world.
George Houser, Executive Di
rector of the ACOA pointed out
that the action was "primarily
aimed at focusing public and
governmental attention to the
whole question of economic sanct
ions. US trade with South Africa
totals more than $400,000,000 a
year, about half of which is in
imports. Our investments in South
Africa amount to almost $700.-
000.000. largely in mining and
manufacturing. So we have a
wn real and direct stake in
Brooklyn longshoremen refused
to unload the "South African
Pioneer” in sympathy with pick
ets protesting apartheid in South
Africa. Some 30 pickets, from
the American Committee on Af
rica and the Congress of Racial
Equality, started demonstrating
at 7:30 a m. at the gate of Port
Authority Pier 6 where the vessel
tied up last Wednesday.
Anothony Scotto. President of
ILA Local 1814. said that "we
are happy to take part in any
action against racism . our men
decided that this was one way of
contributing to the cause *
James Farmer. CORI Xafcow-
al Director, said that "Th»
action against apartheid » iwt
over. It is just the ke<-nn.tt*
When we find racism as ««w now
Nurses Confab
Set For Oct. 31
yunmisiwowc Vdeipht College School of Nursing
r> unnnuioec m Garden City,
v NtnfafTMU s McManus said the conference's
Kti* waL be overall aim is to encourage li-
v»::erwn censed practical and registered
a i.oadale nurses, who quit to have families
reasons, to return
<****' at V* to the profession and help ease
?»umbia Ln- acute nurse shortage in Nas-
iu specific purpose.
Denn of the saj
*'-* be Miss or for
—
he said, is to bring, non-working
nurses up-to-date on the nursing
5tt©l*S -echniques and practices at the
Patterson Home, and to discuss
with them personal requirements
VvU for working at the Home.
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LAST FUNG—Mr. Cecil Carby
of Queens, a representative tf
the N. Y. Telepho. e compa-y,
is King For a Moment, at his
wedding reception at the Play
boy Club, surrounded by beau
ties. Mr. Carby married fam
ous Guianese beauty Beryl Per
eira. With him here are two
bunnies, model Jackie Brooks
(left* and directly behind, sing
er Chinkie Grimes who is cur
rently the head seamstress of
the Playboy Club.
(West Photo)
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Welfare
Workers
Meet
The Brooklyn-Long Island
Church Ushers Association will
hold a mortgage burning ban
quet Friday Oct. 18. at 7:30 p m .i
at the Fellowship Hall of the
Concord Baptist Church. 8 33
. J
Marcy Ave., Brooklyn.
The 52-member association
will be celebrating the paying off
of the mortgage on its meeting1
home, at 915 Gates Ave. Brook-]
lyn. The building was purchased
in March 1953 and the last pay
ment was made in March this
Several hundred Long Island
social workers are expected at
the Nassau-Suffolk Regional Meet
ing of the New York State Wei-;
fare Conference at the Garden1
Negro Heads
Airport Cops
Ross L. Morgan Jr., 37,
a 15-year-veteran of the
Port Authority Police, be-
came the first Negro this
week to command Idlewild
Airport’s 100-man police H|||
detachment since the, 1
facility was opened in 1948.:
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dren who is still studying toward
.i bachelor's degree at Brooklyn
M„n.
stcr of Bayshore in the $12 1)00 I
a-year post.
Captain Id 1962
Morgan, a captain since 1962,
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in
'• l-.ncoln I'unilt'l where he
began
serving with the Port Authority
police in 1948 as a patrolman
and four years later became the B %
first Negro to hold the rank of ^J^B
sergeant. He scored another first
when he was advanced to Lieu- ^^^B
^^^B
in 1956.
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Morgan, as commander of the
police and crash squads, will be BBBB
responsible for the Safety and v»vv takf? thf ft oor
security of the murd than 32,000
JAKES THE FLOOR—
airport employees and the scores; CP0 A!J »avid’ a cominuni-
of thousands of daily touristy cations technician m charge of
and travelers whose numbers ?aval RJrul me"‘ danccs Wlth,
swelled above 18 million for the Mi» Muricl Thompson _gL
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years 1960-1961.
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1 I ve worked at the PA bus tetm-
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.
His duties include the control , .......
of traffic, crowds and emergency inal ,n Manhattan, at the George
services and the provision of Washington Bridge and the Lin-
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protection for visiting dignitaries, coin Tunnel and I’ve never had
n—gfctor 17
any racial problems with the
Capt. Morgan, who lives at ^°Ple 1 came in contact with'
116-39 168th St., Jamaica, with,or my fellow officers. This is
jhis wife, Bertha, 17-year-old quite a challenge.”
daughter Brenda, and sons Ron-i Morgan, a veteran of World
aid, 14, and Michael, 12. The War n service in south Paci.
1 Morgans were wed 18 years ago .
I in Emporia, Va., and have lived ^lc> 18 ^e highest ranking Negro
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in Jamaica for 16 years. and the first to acquire a cap-
“In my 15 years with the auth- taincy on the PA’s force of 1.200
ority.” Morgan told newsmen, men.
Queens, at the Dinner-Dance
given by the Northside Child
Center (Queens Unit! at the
Sheraton - Tenney Inn last Sat
urday —(Cooper Photo)
Hunt Shotgunner
The hunting season opened of
ficially this week, so Queens de
tectives of the Catalpa Ave. sta
tion are hunting the trail of a
hunter who couldn't make it to
1 the woods Monday afternoon and
levelled his shotgun instead at
Ben Schildcret, 35. in his grocery
store at 6724 Utopia Parkway.
The “hunter’s” bag included
’ $150 in cash money, police said.
The grocer was not hurt and the
shotgun-tpting Nimrcd escaped in
an unknown manner.
GOOD SCOUTS . . . Robert H.
Wilson, a member of the in
dustry committee for the sev
enth annual “Businessmen's
Luneh-O-Ree” of the Brooklyn
Council of the Boy Scouts, greets
three beaming boy scouts at a
rally to spur support for the
event. From left are: Domin
ick TydFn. 12: Bernardo Aleu-
dia, 16, and Edward Linen-
s.hm at, 16 Tha‘ Lunch-()-Ree”
will be held on December 5th
in the Hotal St. George. A goal
of $50,000 has been set by bor
ough business leaders who are
sponsoring the fete. Proceeds
will help expand scouting pro
grams in Brooklyn.
Boroite Tops At
Naval Academy
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Midship- After a standout academic and
man Lieutenant Commander Pat. athletic record at St. Francis
rick M. Prout, a 22 - year - old Preparatory School in Brooklyn,
Brooklynite who will graduate Prout graduated at the age of
from the United States Naval A- 16^ and wa3 appointed to the
cademy in June, has been appoint- Naval Academy by Congresswom-
ed sub - commander of the 2nd an Edna .F. Kelly after interces-
Rcg'ment, his student cadre, at ricn f—m Sixth AD Assemblyman
the academy.
Bertam Baker. Because of his
Midshipman Prout, an outstand- youth, his actual registration at
ing athlete and student who is Annapolis was delayed a year
one of only four Negroes in his during which time he studied at
graduating class, is a valued Hunter College and ran on its
year.
Organized in 1920 and Incor
porated in 1946. the association
has "Fellowship” as its motto.
Thomas A. Ellis is its founder.
Henry Ballard, president and
Gl Stabbed
Wife Held
City Hotel on October 17.
Nassau Welfare Commissioner
John J. McManus will preside at
the all-day conference, which
willy feature an address by New
York State Welfare Commission
er George K. Wyman, who will
discuss the anticipated impact
of new Federal welfare legisla
tion on public and voluntr.
ogencies in New York State.
Dr. I. Jay Brightman, Assis
tant Commissioner, New York,
State Department of Health, the]
organization's president, will ad-
* dress the members at start of
the morning session. This will be
1 followed by four panel discus
sions headed by John J. Keppler,
First Deputy Welfare C'mm's
sione- of New York Cty N-
son C. Jackson, Associate Execr
tive Director, National, Urh*
League; Mrs. Anita C. McCaul
ey, Case Supervisor, Catholic
Charities, Diocese of Rockville
Centre, and Mrs. David S. Lu-
1 banko, president of the AuxHiary
1 f
Sh-re
hasset.
V '-ere else can you get Martin
Luther King, Jackie Robinson.
Roy Wilkins. Poppy Cannon. Ger-
trude Wilson. Jimmy Hicks and
Jimmy Booker but in the Ams
terdam News. Out every Thurs
day.
- A
MAM1E H -.i'/Li
Br k ju singer, Mamie sang
at the social affair given by
the “Les Jeunes Femmes”
Club at the Living Room, a
week ago. She is to go into the
Town Hill soon.
1/ 1/A FULL QUART.
REGARDLESS OF PRICE.
NO BETTER WHISKEY IN
THE WORLD! Si '
FULL QUART i
ILSON *Me8»CAN
THAT'S AU
Try Wilton Liqueur
available only in
half pints
n% G»»m kutui smuts. wn mm lioufu*. so »o»
SEND-OFF —Joney Williams,
left, vice - president of Wil
liams Moving & Storage Inc .
gives last minute intructions to
driver getting ready to leave
from warehouse at 44 46 Rock
away Ave., Brooklyn. The firm
also maintains furniture stores
at Fulton St. and Tompkins
Ave. since growing from a one
man trucking business in 1956
to one employing 22 perSbns
and 6 late model trucks.
SEX (Y) TET — All smiles
at the height of their first
big social, which was held at
The Living Room, 915 2nd Ave.
Man., "Les Jeunes Femmes.”
a club of professional manne
quins, announced the establish-
ment of a charm clinic for Bed-
from left, are: Jean Ross
ford-Stuyvesant teenage girls
Davis, business manager; Vi
to be conducted at the St.
vian Johnson, president: Deris
John's Recreation Center. T:e
Porter, Elizabeth ”
;
first class in the 14-weekcourse
begins on Nov. 7. The Femmes.
Mary Gomts, treasurer; Sylvia
Vaughn, secretary.
makes you gl
24 HOURs .
IS TRUIY-TRULY WONDERFUL
IT IS COOL, COMFORTABLE
AND NATURAL LOOKING
IT CAN BE AS LONG OR AS SHORT
AS YOU DESIRE
IT CAN BE PARTED
AT THE SCALP....
AND WILL NEVER. NEVER
SLIF...NO PINS NECESSARY
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