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modestly theorized: II think q lot
more. boys in this school could do
this. but they perhaps don't know
it." ~
During the celebration, half a
dozen student groups presented
him gifts, and a convocation was
addressed by 1t. Col. Hubert L.
Jones, commandant of Tuskegee
Institutes Air Force ROTC.
Colonel Jones, who completed
flying training at Tuskegee Insti-
tute during World War ii, told
Bentley what to expect and some
thing to remember at the Acadmy:
There will be times when it
seems that the whole world has
turned against you But remem-
Der that there has never been q
man to complete the program who
is a better man than you"
Colonel Jones had been one of
several persons instrumental in
Bentley's successful application.
Others included Douglas Jones,
concessions manager at VA hos
pital, who first suggested that he
ask u. S. Congressman Charles C.
Diggs 3D., Mich for nomination.
Bentley, of course, feels greatly
indebted to Congressman Diggs.
Throughout his campaign for the
appointment ('tfor a while |
thought / wasn't going to get it"),
Bentley had no contact with state
or local public officials, and since
the appointment, has received no
word of congratulations from them.
This bears no portent for Bent
ley. He explains simply that Con-
gresham Diggs was contacted "be-
cause / though I'd have a better
chance by writing to him."
Had he failed to get the appoint
ment this year, Bentley would have
next year. Had he failed
a second time, he would have gene
to either Morehouse College or Fisk
University where he has already
been accepted under an accelerated
program. He plans to major in
Bentley's staunchest supporter is
his mother, Mrs. Grace E. Plum
mer, a records librarian, who with
three younger children, attended
the school celebration in Bentley's
honor.
Born in Warrenton, N. c., in
1914, he was brought almost i'm
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Jim Hill
High School
SENIOR CLASS I96O-6I

On Thursday, June 8, at 800 P
M. DR.. K. P. Walker, Superintend-
'ent of the Jackson Public Schools
will deliver diplomas to some lac
potential graduates. The Com
mencement exercises will be held
in the Hill High School Auditorium
PrihSipal Marshall announced that
an overflow crowd is expected to be
on hand when the ceremonies are
held. Parents and the immediate
family of the candidates are urged
to come early so that good seats
may be obtained. The entire list is
announced as follows:
Adult Education:
Shellie Brent, Joseph Gage, Calvin
Coolidge Fields, Lamar Jones, Cor
nelius Lewis, George Ruffins, Leon
ard Wilson, Sam Young,
Seniors
Auburn Adams, Mae Beulah Ad-
ans, Dorothy Alexander, Lois AL
ford, Earlene Ammons, Marion An
derson, Elaine Anding, Clara M.
Armstrong, Linell Bayliss, Ollie
Beard, Charles E. Bell, Ethel Black,
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African Trade
Unionist Move For
Unity OF Action

Casablanca, Morocco, May II
Leaders of forty-five trade union
organizations from nearly all
countries of Africa have begun to
build continent-wide program OF
united action.
The first aIl-African trade union
conference was formally opened
Thursday by King Hassan III OF
Morocco, who praised the union
lists for having laid a foundation
for African unity. Such a founda-
ton, he said, cannot yet be achiev-
ed on the political plane because
of the continued influence of CO.
lonialism throughout much of the
continent.
However, King Hassan eounseled
the unionists not to act hastily but
to build their unions with hexi-
bility, taking into account the di-
versity" of Africa.
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BrinkIey
High School
SENIOR CLASS-1961

Thomas Alexander, Beverly AL
len, Joseph Amiker, Robert Amiker,
Annie Anderson, Claude Anderson,
Mary Anderson, Matte Baker, Pa
tricia Bass, Gilmore Bell, Thomas
Blue, Roland Bradford, John
Branson, Arletha Brent, Luther
Bridgeman, B. C. Bridges, Curtis
Brown, Herbert Brown, Nettie
Brown, Rosie Brown, Rosemary
Braxton, Mary Bully, Jessie Burse.
Bonnie Cain, Charlene Catch
nigs, Freddie Chambers, Henry
Cheatham Vera Cobbs, Owen Co
ker, Bonnie Cole, Mary Dallas,
Spencer Daniels, Mary Davis, Ruby
Davis, Dorothy Dennis, Willie DON
erson, Jerry Douglas, Annette
Drummond, Bonnie Durham.
Larry Ellis, Veola Erwin, Joe Es-
ewes, Eugene Fleming; Joe Ford,
Ada Punches, Carl Griffin, Ella
Hamilton, Carol Harper, Minnie
Harris, Booker Hobbs, Leonard
Hollins, George Howard, Herman
Jenkins, Annie Johnson, Dorothy
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ScRIMINATlON::-T NORTh'S
Contribution IS The
TITLE OF new BOOK

Chicago. ILL.,, June Slavery In
the United States was largely ,
southern institution, but racial dis
elimination rs practiced today had
its origins in the North.
Before, during, and since the
Civil War, southern charges or nor
thern Hypocrisy have had 4 solid
basis in fact, according to historian
Leon F. Litwack.
In his book, NORTH OF SLAV-
cry: The Negro in the Free Sta
ties, 1790-186O, Litwack, assistant
professor of history ut The Uni
versity of Wisconsin, says:
~The more subtle forms of twen-
enth century discrimination had
their antecedents In the North:
residential restrictions, exclusion
from resorts and certain restau-
rants. confinement to mental en-
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Payments, and restricted GENE
teries-"
Litwack says that although slav-
cry eventually confined itself to
the region below the Mason Dixon
Line, discrimination against the
Negro and a firmly held belief in
the superiority Of the white race
were not restricted to one section
but were shared by an over-whelm-
ing majority of white Americans in
both the North and the South
Abraham Lincoln, in his vigor-
GUS support of both white supre-
macy and denial of equal rights
for Negroes, simply gave express
sion to almost universal American
convictions" he says.
Litwack's book, published May
23rd by The University of Chicago
Press, draws up a formidable bill
of particulars against the North
before the Civil War when racial
discrimination was not as subtle or
as concealed as it has been in more
recent decades"
Politicians, whether Democrats,
Wings, or Republicans, tried to out
do each other in declarations of
loyalty to the principle of white
supremacy, he says.
Tnasmuch as most northern sta
tes had disfranchised the Negro,
politicians were responsible only
to the whims, prejudices, and pres
sures of a white electorate; few of
them cared to risk political sui
eide"
A few examples, taken from the
book, show how racial segregation
or exclusion haunted the northern
Negro:
In 1885, a committee was
formed in Canaan, N. H., to abolish
the Noyes Academy gin the inter
est of the town, the honor of the
State, and the good of the whole
community" On August 10, the
committee proceeded with its as
signed task, enlisted the assistance
of men from neighboring towns
and nearly one hundred yoke of
oxen, and removed the school build
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ing from its foundations. The rea-
SON: Noyes Academy was integra-
ted.
Back in the days when it was
common to purchase church pews,
property-minded whites generally
decided their pews on condition that
no Negro be permitted to purchase
them for. according to them, this
would depreciate the precuniary
value of nearby pews." A Boston
Negro once acquired a white mans
pew in payment of a debt, tried un-
successfully to sell it, and then de-
cided to occupy it with his family.
Ignoring the advice of q church
committee, the Negro entered the
church one Sunday and found a
constable barring his way into the
pew. He finally agreed not to
press his property rights against
such formidable opposition.
"A proposal to have a Negro
minister speak at a dinner in New
York in 1886 met with such OPPOSE
ton that plans were dropped. The
occasion was the anniversary meet
ing of the American-Slavery So
ciety, an abolitionist group!
The expansion of manhood suf-
frage in the ante bellum North Of
ten came at the expense of Negro
voters. Litwack says that in sew
eral states where the Negro had
previously voted, notably New York
and Pennsylvania, they were dis
franchised at the same time that
the vote was being extended to all
white males.
"The justification for such dis
elimination in the North differed
little from that used to defend slav-
cry in the South: Negroes, it was
held, constituted depraved and in
ferior race which must be kept in
its proper place in a white mans
society"
While doing research for his
book, Litwack says, he had ex-
pected to find charges of northern
hypocrisy by Southerners, "but
was unprepared for the volume and
frequency which which they were
made. The charges recur constant
ly, suggesting that, to many, hypo-
crisy was the issue rather than dis
elimination or slavery"
Litwack says that, hypocrisy not
withstanding, important distinc-
tions did exist between northern
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year, he said, because without ex-
ception, juniors 9th graders)
have not done well accidentally. .
But Bentley passed stiff qualifying
exams with room to spare.
The rugged cadet program levies
. heavy tax on physical stamina
and skill. . challenge Bentley will
surely Snjoy: the tall, tailored type,
he is IN avid tennis player "a var
sity letterman) and intramural
basketball ace.
The academy program is de-
signed to develop - among other
things-leadership. But here, too,
Bentley has head start. He is
vice president of his schools chap
ter Of the National Honor Society,
a member of the Student Council,
and stalwart member of the Science
Club.
A typically modest 17-year-old,
he is nonetheless extrovertive in
the best tradition. He sings in his
school choir; attends church (St.
Joseph's Catholic) regularly, and
participates in its programs; and
in the last two summers, logged
300 hours of volunteer service in
the manual arts department of the
Tuskegee VA hospital.
Yet, Bentley quietly insists that
he is not a "joiner," pointing out
that he dropped several play" ac-
tivities to allow more time for a
college math course and an air
manship program ("for self-im-
provement"), both at Tuskegee In
stitute.
Chess, one of his favorite "play"
indulgences, is an "egghead" give
away, and has earned Bentley more
than casual respect among chess
players in the local college set.
Otherwise, Bentley Plummer is
just fellow with equal opportun-
ity at the Friday night teen hop
and the Saturday tennis match.
He wears an admirable conf
dence, yet Bentley, himself, would
be the last one to assess himself
as something of a phenomenon.
Following recent Bentley
Plummer Day" celebration of his
academy appointment, Bentley
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Lanier Junior
Senior High School
196O-1961

Henry Wallace Alexander, Tom
mic Lee Alexander, Beatrice Amos,
Gloriastine Amos, Lorraine Amos,
Sellers Jr. Bailey, Patricia Ann
Baker, Eugene Bell, Sarah Louise
Bell, Mamie Catherine Bennett,
John Edward Blackmon, Eva Mae
Bowie, Mary Lee Brady, J. C.
Brakefield, Andrew Braxton, Flos-
sic Teresa Bridge, Perry Jr. Brit
tain, Oscar Travis Brookins, File
noice Brown, Luvaghn Brown,
Mary Pearl Brown, Shirley Jean
Brown, Willie Bernard Cameron,
Stella Campbell, Pauline Cannon,
Annie Esther Chisholm, Ella Louise
Clark, Joe Lee Jr. Clay, Jimmie
Coates, Bobby Coleman, Jimmye
Neal Coleman, Ethel Ruth Conley,
Clara Mae Cotton, Anthony Edwin
Coyt, James Creswell, Hezekiah
Dallas, Dorothy Davis, Edith Mar
garet Davis, Jessie James Davis,
Betty Cora benson, Bobbie Jean
benson, Eva jeanette Dobson,
Thomas James Donaldson, Jurlean
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free Negroes and southern slaves.
"Above all, the northern Negro
was free man; he was not subject
to the whims and dictates of the
master or overseer; he could not
be bought and sold; he could not be
arbitrarily separated from his
family.
although a victim of racial
prescription, he could-and on sew
eral occasions did-advance his po-
litical and economic position; he
could and did organize and petition,
publish newspapers and tracts,
even join with white sympathizers
to advance his cause; in sum, he
was able to carry on a variety of
activities directed toward an i'm
provement of his position"
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mediately to Tuskegee where his
father, Edward ]. Plummer, now a
medical Investigator, was stationed
here with the Air Force during
World War III.
Bentley Plummer is no armchair
philosopher, but he sums up well
his outlook on the challenge he
faces when he becomes the fifth
Negro cadet at the Air Force Acad-
envy, June 26:
sit depends on my frame of mind
when l go in. If l prepare for the
worst, | can always make it. I'm
going to try real hard. / think /
can make it."
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district.
A. w. Crump who was on the
Meridian district was appointed to
the St. Paul church, Meridian. T. J..
Davis who was at Laurel, St. Paul
was sent to Biloxi. H. C. Clay was
transferred from Gulfport church
to Laurel. w. Leo Cole was trans
ferred from the East Tennessee
conference to the Mississippi Con-
ference at Gulfport.
D. M. Ray was sent from Hat
tiesburg to Haven Church, Merid-
ian, and J. D. Wheaton was trans
ferred from the St. Paul church,
Meridian, to the St. Paul church,
Hattiesburg.
E. A. Mays was reappointed to
the Central church, Jackson. G. w.
Williams was reappointed to the
Pratt church, jackson, and S. L.
Webb was reappointed to Anderson
Methodist church, Jackson. M. A.
Picken returns to the Jackson Mis-
sion. D. L. Morgan goes to the
Canton church.
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|ALABAMAN FIFTH NEGRO CADET
TO ENTER AIR FORCE ACADEMY

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.
The fifth Negro cadet to enter
the u. s. Air Force Academy il
Bentley Plummer, = bright, ath-
letic high school lad Of Tuskegee,
Alabama.
Known to be the first Negro
from Alabama to enter the acad-
envy, and believed to be the first
cf his race from this state to enter
any service academy, Bentley has
other superlatives that make him
a general model Of excellence.
One of TAP applicants chosen
from list Of 1898 promising boys
nominated by congress m n
throughout the nation, Bentley, at
II, is younger than most cadets
admitted, since cadets rarely quail
ify before graduating from high
school
Still in the 18th grade at Tuske-
gee Institute High School when
notified of his acceptance last
month, Bentley carried q 3.97 aca-
demic average (out of a possible
4.O). Academy officials advised
him to. drop out Of competition this
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The Nome nugget., 1961-11-27
Knights Campaign to Regain Governorship Slowed Down by Doctor

BURBANK, Calif. R - Good win Knights campaign to re- gain the governorsflip is slowing down on doctors orders. He may have infectious hepatitis and could be laid up from three to six months.
 Whether the 64-year-old Re- publican has hepatitis or simply a bad case of flu, he's going to take it easy for while, Knights press secretary said Sunday.
 Dr. Carl Lund said he believes from clinical observation that Knight has infectious hepatitis- a serious liver ailment- nt-but won't know for sure until results of tests are studied. Knight is in St. Joseph Hospital.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-27
Magic Formula Pays
 Off in Soccer Pool Lottery

TURIN, Italy R Pier Gio- vanni Valiuri's magic formula paid off eight times this weekend on the national soccer pool, rais- ing the Italian MT. Lucky's win- nings from the soccer pool and the national lottery this year to a total of 40, ,822 ,37O lire, or $65, 5,336.
 Valluauri, 32, chemical work CT, plunked down $500 lire - $6--a few days ago with batch of soccer slips.
 Among them, too, were 12 cor rect winners out of the 13 = not on one slip but on seven. Each paid 27,00O lire = $44 = or 193,- 900 lire $308 = for the seven.
 Valiauri took it in stride but Italians who play the soccer pool shook their heads in bewilder- ment. Italian magazine editors and film producers scrambled to sign him for exclusive stories and films.
 Vallauri says he spent months working out his system before he began to get results few months ago. His calculations are based on team strengths, the playing weather and the mathematical odds of probability
 But sheer luck is Vallauri's only explanation for his lottery and the car he won at the Turin Automobile Show this month. He dropped in for a look asd just happened to be holding the ticket for the door prize.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-27
Yellowstone Park
 Officials to Slaughter 5000 Elk This Winter

YELLOWSTONE N ATT OVAL PARK, Wyo. lR An effort to maintain Yellowstone National Parks natural balance of plant and animals will necessitate the killing of 5 5,O0O elk this winter.
 The slaughter is an unhappy consequence of civilization" Park SaEpt L. Garrison said Saturday However, the parks first goal is to keep it's natural setting"
 Garrison pointed out that elk, one of the largest animals in the Z, ,250, ,000-acre system, are raven ous eaters and deprive other anil nials of the necessary grasses.
 He said the white tail deer and beaver have almost become ex- tinct due to the over populated elk herd. An estimated 10 GOO elk roaan the parks northern 125, ,000 acres in the northwest Wyoming.
 The elk shot will be sent to needy Indian and welfare insti- tutions.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-27
Two Persons Involved
 In Tv Quiz Show Scandal Get Suspended Sentences

NEW YORK !A = Two persons involved in television's quiz show scandals pleaded guilty today to charges they lied in denying they received help in answering ques- tions. They received suspended sentences.
 The pleas were entered by Timothy Horan of White Plains, NY, and Joseph Rosner of Man. haitian who had appeared on ",r;c Tac Dough" Moran won $34,800 and Rosner $1,700.
 Each had been indicted on two counts of second-degree perjury for telling a Grand Jury they had received no help.
 Hnran and Rosner were among 2 number of persons indicted as result of testimony before the Grand Jury.
 They included such famous win- ners as Charles Van Doran, who received $lz9;0tj0 on the Twenty One" rrogram. Van Doran and 13 others still are facing trail.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-27
HEALTH HINTS FOR THE FAMILY AFTER A HoliDAY . A RASH OF COLDS
by: Margaret LitiIe !

Back to school--you heave sigh that vacation is over, and you are pleased, too, that there will be a few hours of peace at home while the youngsters are in school. But no sooner does noisy healthy little Eric gef back to school before he begins to snif1le. You see the tell.tale drib- ble on bis upper lip, :ae hacks as he goes to sleep, and you have another cold to live through.
 After a vacation there is very often rash of colds at school-- there are apt to be more among the children in the lower grades than in the upper ones.
 The children have been doing different things during vacation and seeing people they seldom see during the routine of school life. With these people they share not only good times, but they also share whatever germs they happen to have in their noses and throats.
 Eric had been having ball with his cousin. The two little boys ex- changed their germs. Neither one of them was sick, but each got a batch of brand new germs. In Eric his new germs grew peacefully in his nose and throat. They didn't do him any harm-probably he had met the same germs before in his life and had managed to build up some resistance 10 them.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-27
Two Negroes Refused
 Admittance to Churches

AUGUSTA, Ga. R - For the second time in two months Negroes tried without success to worship at white churches in this east central Georgia city
 The Rev Roosevelt, 2l, an or dained Baptist minister, and Paul 'Tho4npkins, 22, were denied ad- mittance to the First Baptist Church by an usher Sunday.
 They left without argument. l crossed the street and tried to enter St. Johns Methodist Church. Again they were turned away
 Green and ThompAins, students at Paine College, stood quietly outside a few minutes. Some l parishoners entering St. Johns made unfriendiy remarks. Marion Dasher, chairman of the church board, again asked them to leave and they did,
 Last month Green and another Negro tried to enter the First Baptist Church. Police were called and officers told them not to re- turn.
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Then Eric goes back to school,

Eric gets Andy's germs and Andy gets batch of Fries. Andy's germs are brand new to Eric, never in his short life had he met with this par ticular variety before. They grow in his nose and throat and Fries body has nc resistance to them. Pretty soon Eric comes down with a cold. Andy, too, with batch of Eric's new germs comes down with cold because he had never met them before.
 Both boys, though free from symptoms of a cold, had given each other a cold.
 Keep Eric a little quieter than usual, give him extra liquid to drink, if his cough bothers him use a vaporizer and give him a tea spoonful of a simple cough syrup.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-27
Teeth and Bones
 Are Latest Chapter On Disappearance Of Amelia Earhart

SAN FRANCISCO tR A handful of teeth and few bones formed the latest chapter Saturday in the mysterious 1887 disappear ance of Amelia Earhart, the worlds best-known woman flier.
 Fred Goerner, 36, a newsman for radio station KCBS here, told news conference Friday that he had found a shallow grave in the jungle of Saipan Island that contained bones and 37 human teeth.
 "We are not sure these are the remains of Amelia E:arhart and Fred Noonan," Coroner said, s'but pr. Theodore McCown, professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, has agreed 10 study them"
 The remains arrived Saturday from Guam via Honolulu in box about Is inches square seal ed with wax. Some 100 curious spectators gathered as Goener held it while posing for photo grarhers at the airport
 The box was not opened but held for Dr. McCown who will pick it up.
 Miss Earhart and Noonan, her navigator, were on a flight around the world when she disappeared July 2, 1887.
 The last word from her was radio message: Have one-haif hour fuel and no landfall." She was near tiny Rowland Island at that time, some 1,6OO miles from Hawaii.
 Goerner said Cmdr Paul Brid- well, Saipan's Naval Command ant, had offered the theory that Miss Earhart and Noonan were forced down in the Marshalls then taken by the Japanese tn Sai- pan, where they were imprisoned
 Goerner said the bodies hac been buried in Japanese style only two feet deep.
 Thomas Devine, West Haven Conn, businessman, was a sol dier stationed in Sainan in l944- AS. Coroner said Devine told him native woman had ;r>einted out tine shallow grave to him.
 Years later, he told Goerner of the incident and that fnforrnatscn led him to the grave.
 Goerner said the remains were thats5f. a man and a woman and, ssfrom teeth uncovered, doctors in dfeSIfed they were Caucasians and qul{e possibly those of Miss Ear hart ard Noonan. 2
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Many precautions taken by the professional laundry to avoid mental anguish can be followed by the launderer. For example, close zippers before laundering garments so they don't catch and tear other articles. And always fastess sncp bindings before put ting them through a wringer, to prevent damage.
The Nome nugget., 1961-11-27
PLANNING AHEAD :.

MIDDLETOWN, NY. R - Kenneth Apt, Public Works Com missioner for this city, believes in planning ahead.
 Last August, Abt ordered 60 tons of rock salt for use in snow removal and asked for delivery on Nov. 20. It arrived Monday. Good thing too. The city had its first snowfall of the year 3Izz inches.