New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-01006

n • a. 1, ArtXifeKOAM NEWS, Sat., Nov. 23, 1W3 Special Telecast Benny, Basie Amsterdam News Readers Write N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., Nov. 23. lMt Program Spotlights Hope For Retarded A new note of optimism and hope for victims of mental retardation will be sounded by President John F. Kennedy on a special one hour telecast on Wednesday, December 4 Joining President Kennedy ati---- ~--------------------------------- the Second Annual International and the presentation of scientific Awards Dinner of the Joseph P. papers on mental retardation, to Kennedy, Jr. Foundation will b« which outstanding authorities in Canadian Prime Minister Lester!the field have been invited P**rson, together with 1,200 The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. other distinguished guests, as six Foundation was established in international leaden in the field 19M by Ambassador Kennedy as of Mental Retardation are being a memorial to his son, Lt. Joseph bonorauL ,P. Kennedy, Jr„ who was killed According to R. Sargent Shri- in action during World War II. ver, Jr., executive director of the The foundation has distributed Foundation, Jack Benny will more than 116,500.000 to hospitals, headline a program of entertain- custodial institutions, day care ment in keeping with the festive centers and research projects in atmosphere which will prevail at the field of mental retardation, the event, as the award winners ----------------- :--------- . 4. Popular Demand Extends Exhibit on the TV screen will be Count f 1., Af ».u Kill? r.LJ.IX. Basie and his band, “The Most 1 Explosive Force in Jazz”. Mr. Basie has a retarded child. Di- Th* exhibition "Eleanor Roos- ane. 18. Mr. Benny is a former eveU On Her Own." which ha8 honorary chairman of the Na- attracted more than 20,000 visi- tional Association for Retarded tors from thirty-five countries to tJrie Concourse Lobby Gallery at Children The telecast will be originated Philharmonic Hall Lincoln Cen- by Station WNEW-TV. from 9 to te ’ w'38 extended through No- 10 p.m. EST. and will be fed to jvemoer 17- a large number of TV stations! Eleanor Roosevelt Mem- throughout the country’. Over 400 orial Foundation said that pop- statieos affiliated with the Mu- u,ar demand had prompted ex- tual Broadcasting System will tension of the exhibition made hear a special 30 minute radio! possible by the generosity of the variation of the presentation, in!Lincoln Center management. B'mham Lawyer Asks Help A white Birmingham lawyer this week called for' “outside’’ help to save his racially-torn city from further violence and tragedy. Attorney Charles Morgan, Jr., 33, declared that “nothing short of total national effort” can help- Birmingham overcome its racial crisis. In a signed article in the cur­ rent issue of Look Magazine, Morgan contended that “if.,. men from around the country could sit down at a table to consider our problems, they could do wonders for Birmingham.” Never Faced Facta ‘ They could,” he said, “re­ affirm facts Birmingham itself has never faced: that desegre­ gation is the law of the land, and that the life of a city de­ pends on its citizens’ respect for law. "These men." he added, “could then bring together a powerful team—of the press, of commun­ ications, of steel, of electric pow­ er, gas, construction, the banks, organized labor and the Federal Government—to resuscitate Bir­ mingham." Morgan gained national atten­ tion last September when he spoke out after four Negro children wre killed in a church bombing jand accused Birmingham's “nice people” of doing nothing to save the city from race hatred. SARGENT SHRIVER MRS. EUNICE SHRIVER Charges Police Brutality New Rochelle Asks Rocky's Help, Troopers Rochelle Branch, NAACP, has’ sought assistance from Governor Rockefeller and the Superinten­ dent of State Police because of what it considers the complete disregard df the local police for the rights of Negroes in the community as demonstrated by the savage beating administered to Charles Clark on Saturday, November 9. As a result of this beating Mr. Clark is now in the New Rochelle Hospital suffering from multiple lacerations and a partial paralysis of his arm. Mr. Clark, 27, resides at 220 South 4th St., Mt. Vernon, is married and the father of two children. He has been employed for 5 years at the Main Street Garage, Centre Ave­ nue in downtown New Rochelle. While in charge of the garage, without provocation or reason, he was allegedly set upon and beaten by both Patrolmen Don­ ald Murray and Bert Huffman in the presence of witnesses who have indicated the complete re­ sponsibility of the Police Officers for the assault and the complete lack of reason or cause on the part of Mr. Clark to warrant this brutal beating. Postage For Xmas Cards Outside U.S that Mr. Clark resisted lawful 1 arrest outside the service station! and assaulted the Police officers” I toe NAACP claims. Mr. Clark is being represented, by Atty. Paul B. Zuber. “This is the latest in a series of incidents which demonstrate the complete lack of respect by certain members of the New Rochelle Police Department for the rights of Negro members of this community. It is this very situation that has resulted in the request of the local Branch of the NAACP for the interven­ tion of the Governor and the State Police,” an NAACP state­ ment said. Make it a regular habit and read the Amsterdam News every week. Out every Thursday. VISITING QUEEN — When Carol Joan Crawford, second from right, "Miss Jamaica”, passed through on her way to London to compete in the “Miss World” contest she was ■■■» Johnson, consul gen- entertained here by toe er;of Jamaica; Miss Craw- Cornwall College Old Boys As- «g. who won the “M i s s sociation Shown here, from ,orld" title and Renville Whit- left: Philip Collymore, secre- tingham. president of the As- tary of the Association; Mr sociation. _______ Edna Crawford, Carol’s if*— ——— — ~ —— Ford Foundation Aids African Administrations N.J. RigH Groups Handmade Xmas Items On Sale U ation of govern , N, N.J. — A special .sale of Fast Africa I TREh' meeting for membersIbooks, r ’ a A,r States, Municipal Civil Rights|pli« at and other loca, New,among I was announced of ord Foundation. Qrey offjciais Wjii be held at the [Sixth An on announced Jjfddon Hall Hotel in AtlanticCityjdens Nui public adminubn Thursday, November 21 at the week 2 pm. The meeting is jointly Procee 1 sponsored by the New Jersey has bec< /help Division on Civil Rights of the dition in j League of Municipalities. *5°°’00%iinis- Department of Law and Public munity, tote of f Safety and the New Jersey State arships niv®*j borhood rig' *.ne * Representatives of thirty local The e1 7ian Society c.yil jjjgbts Commissions around the Gan ration. An or- tbe State, and municipal and State La Salle York — the officials, will attend a panel dis- and Bro: • Administra- cussion on the specific, "How, 7 p.m. the Institute What, and Why,” of local Civil 12 noon Rights Commissions: how a 24. grant four consult- Mayor or governing body may, ministration in set up such Commissions: what Local c y to the gov- are a Commission’s specific and fessional and Uganda, (over-all goals, and how those East Or Townshi 100.000 to the g03’8 can ** achieved. of Public Ad- The meeting will be moderated present rgentina to r by George S. Pfaus, director of ences ot i aborad. ithe State Division on Civil Rights, worked ENJOY AMERICA Freedom Fight Sir: Nowadays everyone is No matter how fai speaking in terms of color. The Negro entertainer is, fact of being a person is ig- barrier somewhere a nored. Because of this, integra- road. Go to the averi tion and segregation has been knock on his door, the number one top hit record with a smile. Tell hit of all, and has past the million pose of your visit. H qpota, with sit-ins, pickets, free- of tea or coffee with dom marches, incidents, injur- him know you're not i thing. Give him a h ies and deaths. There is nothing wrong with of togetherness to pas fighting for equal rights and fully to others, freedom of opportunity, but why But first the Negro fight for something that you al- rect himself. Especial' ready have? What is needed now iness owners. Price is work, effort, common sense chandise, produce and and most of all togetherness, derately and stop ch Nether one of these require harsh people to the white tactics that is. now going on. cheaper prices. Can't you see it’s not doing any stop self prejudice good. This situation could run hght skin and dark into the next century to 2063, if let jealousy of your I everyone isn't bombed out or neighbors get the bt bills and f marched to death. After all you Negn> colleetor> don cant Oght fire with fire. You may as well forget about white face show befot that old saying “if you can’t Respect your mates beat them join them”. You can ones regardless of surely see there won't be any voived. And for goot days like that. It's just one of font be a kettle call those things. You have to go for black. Always remen yourself. Stop * feeling selfcon- want something done scious because you’re a Negro have to do it yours< and leave the white people alone. The Negro people have to get together, stick together, and stay together. Redell Brookly _____ There .are plenty of educated Letter To Wall Negroes, and prominent ones too. Maybe they’re not governors or Dear Sir:-This lette: presidents but then they might Wallace never be if they have to wait Tbit is one letter ti to be appointed by a white sup- apt smugly mention erior. There are Negroes in each greater, approving mi field that hold authority, respect (fair-minded) Preside and recognition that really a- You, with your incer mounts to something, but again bre€ding remarks ab they are headed by a white sup- groes demanding thei erior, maybe a necessity, but as American citizens great extent responsi definitely not necessary. The Negro power in the poli- murder, in cold bio tical world is limited. The power little innocent girls, of the Negro is in the world of far above the averagi entertainment, so use that to (as j ami, were F work with as a start. The Negro love and forgiveness can dance, act, clown, play good hearts, for their to . music, and put down some good Hw can , !n a11 ca*gones Catn self a Christian, an . ... , ; get a crowd together and put y 1 cJnscience,’ j you think of a better way to forth some action? Get all-Negro ° y . cast. all-Negro crowd, in an all- reallze Jat and, • Negro establishment, and no >'ou *n th* South’ W? ‘ whites allowed, not even Mr. * refus* t°.see ’ Bossman Most of the Negro en- lo“ger dea!ing Wlth ■ tertainers have white managers. self-respecting, decen 1 and lawyers. Pull out. Why let ing’- regardless of tl • him sit behind his desk and don £ (heir s*tin>» : ! make money off you? The white lng A1J Americans in : man gets Just as much as you the ’*or*8- - do and he can't sing a note. You have no right Aside from the fact that you and I pray that our tour a native hometown and your and President will fii own people have to sit way ini means (the latter of book) to bring you to your senses. And this, before we find Negroes in every State of the Union, and every city, rising up in revolt against the injustice done them, and massacre all whites they meet. It could happeH, and you could thank yourself and Gover­ nor Faubus, and the rest of you inhumane creatures for it. Therese H. Moore NYC. Own Industries Sir: A reader wrote ("Missed The Point”, Sept 14. p 46) “Let’s stop bugging these white people for jobs and start cresting our own employment. Let’s start building our own factories . . The trouble with this plan is that it urges the hungry to be fed. If the money now given to the civil rights groups were used for this purpose, how many more jobs would be made than those groups now employ? Almost all Negroes—and most whites—are in the working class; have not inherited capital. A few people in this class may manage to start small businesses — which are more and more likely to fail. We are virtually forced to ask the (white) capitalists for jobs, which they will take away rather than shorten the work week when a machine lightens the work load. But all industries are run and managed by workers, so when we decide we can take them over and elect managers responsible to us. If most of the working class will take this nonviolent action, the capitalists must let it stand. (Can troops be sent against their own home front?) , As the Socialist Labor Party . says, We can amend the Consti­ tution to make the change legal. Since we must start from the way the industries are now run, . workers of all colors must co­ operate. Of course many people have learned not to trust any paleface, but when white workers 1 become socialists they will learn 1 that they are not free just be- j cause their bosses look like them ! and treat them better than black ' workers, and that they cannot ’ get freedom for themselves a- ( lone. Under socialism there will be " good jobs for all, and nobody ' will be tempted to discriminate. r Then even those who now call for a separate economy will , know themselves to be already 5 “free at last.” i Alan R. Brown N. Y. C. Unbelievable (Following is a copy of a letter sent to Dr. Ralph J. Bunche) Pro Boycott (Letter To Roy Wilkins) Sir: We were shocked at the report over the statement you made that you found It hard to go against Santa Claus. I would attribute this remark to a ten year old, not one of our so-called leaders of ten mil­ lion blacks. How could you find it hard to do anything when your black brothers are being killed and brutally beaten. This economic retaliation is the only thing this vicious animal respects; this is the only thing we have left. Our children would be tok the reason for no presents and it would be far-reaching. Remem­ ber the bus boycott in Montgom­ ery. It worked where •’ erything else failed. The perpretrators of the bomb­ ings will never be caught, to be made to pay for their crimes, as was the killing of Emmet Till or Gus Courts and many others. There were six murdered recent­ ly in Alabama. Why are only the four girls mentioned and not the two boys murdered? I find it very hard to compre­ hend that you could be divided ! on this issue with Martin Luther I King. Why can’t you and other leaders ever seem to get to­ gether on vital issues. This di- ' vision among us delights the op- ' position. They speak of lt many ' many times over the TV and “ radio day and night. My wife and her group solicit , for the NAACP, but we are so f disgusted and shocked over this last statement that 1 doubt we will repeat this year or any other ' year unless there is a vital ’ change in the policy of the or- 5 ganization. ° This seems to bear out the ‘ truth in Adam Clayton Powell’s 9 statement that the whites as bead n of your organization call the e shots, and you say what you are “ told to say. So let’s stop praying and marching and do the one thing d that he respects and fears — a ’■ boycott by all blacks over this 0 country. We can explain the rea- r son to our children, they will « understand, and I hope you will 0 see the light. Let’s be together 3 for once. s’) t-i Easton A. Marshall 11 Van Buren Place White Plains. N. Y. ■ )1 1 ? fe » ....* / X a’s own. Full-flavored—satisfying—made-to-order for America’s finest from the bluegrass country of Kentucky OLD TAYL0I niroa(Y STRAIGHT IOURBOH Wl#^, TAYLOR r'Ll-so ak> wot-rLeO T*H0R tUTlUE** ‘ . AillST It / Untitled Document file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/hello.html2/18/2007 11:01:03 AMThomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 www.fultonhistory.com