The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1961-03-25
BY }. ALFRED BUTLER


of DR.. Mcneil, pastor of the Tab
ernacle Baptist Church, 6125
Beechwood, is back home after
six weeks in Africa. Mrs. Jesse
Jai Mcneil, president of United
Church Women of Michigan, was
one of two women from this
country chosen by the National
Council of UCW to 60 to one of
five world meetings associated
with the World Day of Prayer in
February.
Her World Day of Prayer
meeting was in Kitwe, Northern
Rhodesia. On the agenda was a
host of frank, personal topics
that would be very strange at a
ladies meeting in this country.
One, however, was polygamy.
Mrs. Mcneil was to have taken
a French flight out of Nigeria,
but on account of a French atom
ic explosion in the Sahara, French
planes refused TO land. She took
a flight to Brazzaville, where
after four days she was able TO
board Dutch plane for the us.
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Pastor Rev. A. D. Evan Allen
Temple AME Church, 4l19 Helen
at Stuart, as an EDITION to its
continuing program to Eastern
High School students held its an
nuaI Sports Award Day Sunday
afternoon in Fellowship Hall.
DR.. Broadus Butler, assistant
to the dean of the College of
Liberal Arts at Wayne State Uni
vcrsity, spoke on AFRICAN AT
fairs" and attorney Willis Ward.
one of the u. of MS all time
sports greats, presented awards
to Eastern's city championship
basketball team.
A most valuable player trophy
was presented to the teams star
center, Reggie Harding, and the
school received permanent
plaque on which Harding's name
and the names of future most
valuable players will be engraved.
A fhree-msn commission is on
its way TO Liberia TO buy 5000
acres Of land for settlement and
development by American Me-
groes.
Or. Joseph n. Jackson, Of Chi
esso, president Of the five-miI-
lion member Baptist Convention.
said the commission consists Of
the Rev. Thedford Johnson, Of
Miami; the Rev. Robert Taylor,
Of Richmond, Va. and the Rev.
Julian Taylor, Of Hartford Conn.
Jackson said the convention
also bought 400 acres of land in
Fayette County, Tenn, for the
rcscttlement of Negro families
who have been "disposssssed"
and are living in tents.
Jackson said the convention
hoped Negroes going to Liberia
will become land owners and
noted that TO own land you must
become a citizen of the country.
Liberia originally was settled by
american Negroes.
DR.. William Holmes Borders,
pastor of the Wheat Street Bap-
fist Church, Atlanta. preached at
the Russell Street. Baptist Church,
Russell at Alger street, Sunday
DR.. Borders, one of the five min
listers who was jailed for viola
ton of the Georgia segregation
law on buses, who also a leader
who defied the xxx in 1857 and
led the Negroes against the mob
that lynched five Negroes in Mon
roe County. His Wheat Street
Church is the first integrated in
the south. DR.. Borderis, presi-
dent of the Georgia Baptist State
Convention, has travelled around
the world, throughout Europe
and the Holy Land.
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The Mseomb County Branch Of
The NAAcP's Youth Council held
. panel discussion on Crime Wave
Sunday afternoon AZ the vinson
Chapel AME Church.
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Roscvillc's Good Hope Baptist
Church has planned a Wacky Hat
Show for Sunday, March IS at
$3.50 pm.
The Senior Choir of the Cal
vary Baptist Church, Clinton
Township entertained members
and friends at a Silver Ice Sun
day evening in the church annex.
Twins-Day was held at Metro