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Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08
AI|-African Peoples Congress Hear
Denunciations OF The West

Cairo, Apr. 1.-The third all
African Peoples Congress in it's
first two days has heard a long
string of speakers, headed by
United Arab Republic President
Nasser, denounce Imperialism and
the West.
The conference, which opened
Saturday, is expected to be leftist-
dominated. The 200 delegates,
most Of them representing non-
governmental political groups and
trade unions, come from 81 Afri-
can countries.
Messages Of support were read
from Soviet Premier Nikita s.
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Clyde kennard.
Must Serve
7-Year Sentence

The State Supreme Court, in de-
nying his appeal here Monday, up
held the conviction of Clyde Ken
nard, who had been convicted and
sentenced to serve seven years in
the state penitentiary by a lower
court on a burglar charge.
Kennard who made an attempt
to be the first Negro student to
enroll at Mississippi Southern Col
lege in Hattiesburg two years ago
was convicted of burglary in the
theft of five sacks of chicken feed
valued at something under $40
which he bought from a Negro en-
ployed at the Firest County Coop.
In upholding the conviction of
Kennard the court rejected the jury
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alpha KAPPA MU NATL cow.
HEAD AT A Ct COLLEGE

GREENSBORO, N. C.-The i'm
oortant role of the scholar must
play in the future of America was
described last week at ACT Col
Sege.
Four prominent educa tors
bounded this note at the 23rd an
Aual national convention of the
alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society
Aeld at ACT College, March %,
e4 and 25.
The speakers were: DR.. Samuel
b. Proctor, president of A&T, who
delivered the keynote address at
he opening session Of Thursday
&fternoon; DR.. Herman Branson,
&hairman of the Physics Depart
hent, Howard University; DR.. T.
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08
Atlanta City
Board To Order
Equal PayFor
Equal Jobs
More Jobs More
Promotions Seen
For Negro Workers

Atlanta, Ca, April 3-With ac-
tion of the Board of Aldermen on
Monday, the City of Atlanta is ex-
pected to ease the last vestage of
salary discrimination against any
of its Negro employees.
The step will be the latest of a
series by which the city has lib
eralized job opportunities for Ne
groes.
What aldermen will be asked to
do Monday is remove a distinction
in job classifications which has
meant that Negro laborers for the
city got less pay than white labor
ers doing comparable work.
Until now, there were two job
classifications, a literary require
ment being the distinction between
the two and the basis for a differ
entail in pay of Negroes and
whites.
Laborers I, all Negroes, got pay
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272 Arrested
N Louisville
Easter Boycott

Louisville, KY, April 1-272 ar
rests have been made here to date
in connection with the NAACP-
sponsored withholding of patron
age campaign against the down.
town shopping area.
The arrests stem from the MA
ACP's Nothing New For Easter"
drive against segregation and in
wolves the city's $4,000 Negroes.
Local NAACP President, the
Rev. w. ]. Hodge, estimates that
Negroes spend $1S million annu-
ally here.
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08

c. Cothran, chairman, Department
of Sociology, Atlanta, Ca, and DR..
Richard Bardolph, head, Depart
ment of History, Woman's Col
lege of the University Of North
Carolina at Greensboro.
Hitting at an apparent relaxa-
tion of emphasis Of moral and spir-
itual values on college campuses,
DR.. Proctor said, colleges and
universities are longer thermo-
stats which set the moral climate,
but are just thermometers which
register the climate they are
becoming mere mirrors which re-
fleet the popular and profane
mores of our times"
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Foreign Service Officer Speaks
AT jackson State College

The Public Affairs program OF
Jackson State College presented
Don Torrey, Foreign Sersice Of
ficer, Department of State, Wash
ington, D. c., during the chapel
program recently.
Mr.. Torrey read newspaper art
icles to describe the varied func-
tions of the State Department, as
well as to show how this nat Ja's
foreign policy was formulated.
att is the task of the Secretary
of State to aid the President in
carrying out one Of the most awe
some responsibilities known to
man." stated the speaker. He also
pointed out taat the Secretary OF
State helps to explain to the ns-
ton, as well as foreign countries,
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on the tensions that have mounted
in our city during the past week.
Every citizen, rich or poor, white
or colored, has a right to know
where ! stand.
''As a Southerner, born and
reared in Jackson, / can take no
other stand than that of favoring
segregation, completely and de-
votedly. l, too, like every think
ing citizen, am concerned with our
mounting racial tensions. However,
l am of the opinion that this is
not the time to make statements
that are, as Shakespeare put it
"a tale told by an idiot-full of
sound and fury, signifying moth
ing". This is a time for stating
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USDA Explains Area Development
To Vocational Agricultural Leaders

Assistant Secretary of Agricul-
ture Frank ]. Welch told southern
vocational agriculture leaders in
Washington last week that the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
is determined to do something
about alleviating poverty in rural
areas"
Speaking at a regional confer
ence of vocational agriculture su-
pervisors and teacher trainers, AS
sistant Secretary Welch with 9TH
er key officials of the USDA out
lined a new rural areas develop
ment program designed to elimi-
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08

nate low incomes and underemploy-
ment in rural areas.
John A. Baker, chairman of the
rural areas development board, told
the group that "the new program
is the regeneration of the spirit
of enterprise and another step to-.
wards assuring that every child
born in this country has an equal
right to develop his abilities to
the full degree"
Rural areas development" John
M. Lovorn, staff director, said,
twill marshall the forces of the
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SOUTH AFRICA BANS MEETING OF
AFRICAN TRADE UNION CONGRESS

Cape Town. - The collapse of
South Africa's mass treason trial
against POLITICAL opponents of the
government is not hampering gov
erment action against those who
protest against its policies.
Within hours of the court ver-
dict acquitting the last accused
in the treason trial. the govern
ment has ordered a three-months
ban on meetings of the South
African Congress Of Trade Unions.
This is a federation Of predomi-
nantlly non-white trade unions not
recognized in terms Of South Af-
rica's Industrial Cancellation Act,
which enforces apartheid in union
ism. The Congress claims men,
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08
Prentiss Inst.
Receives Gift
Library

Prentiss Institute, Prentiss, Mis-
sissippi has received a 24-volume
set of Encyclopedias Britannica,
World Atlas, and 2-volume World
Language Dictionary from the Ma
tional Exchange Club as a part
of that organizations educational
program pertaining to youth.
Mr.. Robert E. Anderson, Presi-
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Rev. S. |. Whitney
Quits Post As Vice.
Pres. Of Baptist
Seminary Here
10 Devote More Time
TO Leadership In
Civil Rights Field

Rev. S. L. Whitney, Pastor of
Parish Street Baptist Church, the
city's leading Negro Baptist
Church, and one of those bitten by
the police dogs outside the city
Court here last Wednesday has
quit his position as Vice-President
Of the Mississippi Baptist Semi
nary here.
According to reports Rev. Whit
ney submitted his resignation this
week. Close friends of the Min
lister says, according to reports,
that he reached his decision to re-
sign the Seminary position follow
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Congo Crisis To
Get More Vigorous
United States
Lead dership Role /
Stevenson Sees
Federation AS
Best Solution

United Nations, N. Y. - The
United States is seeking to as
sumo an increasingly vigorous
leadership role on several key as
poets of the Congo crisis.
Among these are the shape and
makeup of Congo administration,
United Nations powers there, and
the financing Of the world body's
operation in that land.
Thus United States Delegate
Adlai E. Stevenson has said pub
licly and forcefully that French
refusal to contribute to the fl
nancing of the UN's Congo peace
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n. Y. Preachers
Battle Over Rival
Factions, Baptist
Ministers Confer
Call For Unity Is
Said To Have
Provoked Fight

New York, April 3-Bitterness
between followers of DIR. J. H.
Jackson of Chicago and DR.. Gard
ner c. Taylor of Brooklyn, leaders
of rival factions of the National
Baptist Convention, USA, Inc, re-
suited in violence at the Baptist
Ministers Conference here last
week.
"He Couldn't Take 1t"
81 beat him in a debate and he
couldn't take it,"
This was the way Rev. James R.
Moore, for more than 80 years the
pastor of Amity Baptist Church,
Jamaica, Queens, explained why he
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Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08
j. S. Secretary Of
Commerce Warns
Against Job
Discrimination
Order Bureau Chiefs
To Provide Equal
Opportunities

Washington-Secretary Of Com
merce Luther Hodges personally
directed his 13 bureau chiefs to-
day to provide equal opportuni-
ties for all races-or else.
Don't let me catch you" fail
ing to provide fair opportunities
for everyone, the former North
Carolina governor cautioned his
aides.
Hodges passed the word at a
special conference of his bureau
of Census, Bureau Of Standards
and other department divisions
which employ large numbers Of
persons in the District of Colum-
bia area.
But Hodges didn't limit the ef-
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Candidate Drake Answers Mayor
Says He's Devoted Segregationist

The first Negro students sit-ins
here last week spilled over into
the May 9th Mayor election cam
paign, when Businessman candi-
date, Jesse Drake demanded equal
time to reply to the address of
Mayor Allen Thompson, his op-
ponent in the race, after the May
or's race-relations speech over ra-
dio and television one night last
week.
In a short television appearance
Monday night Mr.. Drake said:
Fellow Jacksonians, l speak to
you very briefly tonight, firstly as
a fellow citizen. The fact that /
am offering myself for a public
office makes it morally mandatory
that l state clearly my viewpoint
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08
TOM ARMSTRONG FAILS TO
APPEAR AGAINST ATTACKER

Tom Armstrong, owner and op-
orator of the Parish Street News
stand, and photographer for the
Negro page in the Jackson Daily
News, who was severely injured
when he was beaten as he attempt
ed tc' enter the City Court room
during the trial of the nine Negro
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08
bership of 100000 workers.

bership of 100000 workers.
The ban is on the congress
meetings for April, May, and June
and will prevent the congress
holding its annual conference
scheduled for this weekend. The
ban is issued in terms of South
Africa's sweeping Suppression of
Communism Act.
Outspoken Critics
The congress has been outspoken
IN its criticism of government
policy and many Of its leaders
have been banned under the Sup
preston of Communism Act. It's
general secretary, Leon Levy, was
one of the two whites among the
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sit-in students, failed to appear
in court to testify against his at
tacker this week.
According to reports Armstrong
was beaten over the head with a
45-calibre pistol by "Red" Hy-
drick, well known Rankin County
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08

say may be maSsing for a big
drive.
General McKeown told newsmen
the Ktanga Army may be prepar-
ing to attack in the Manono area,
the tin mining region seized sew
eral months ago by troops sent
from Stanleyville by leftist An
toine Gizenga. General McKeown
expressed concern that the Nige-
erians would become involved in
the fighting.
"We regard the situation wit h
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DeadIine Announcement On ACT Test

DR.. Woodrow w. Clark, State
Coordinator for the American Col
lege Testing Program, announces
that the deadline as previously an
|nounced for high school seniors
applying for the April % test is
April l. However, every effort
'is being made to accept applica-
tions if they arrive in Clinton no
Ilater than April 10. This special
arrangement is being made be-
cause every student entering the
state universities and colleges in
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08
DR.. Jeanne Noble
Is Released
From Hospital

New York-Dr. Jeanne L. Noble,
president of the national women's
organization Delta Sigma Theta,
Inc, and an assistant professor,
Center for Human Relations Stu
dies at New York University, was
released from Mount Morris Park
Hospital this week, after UNDER
going treatment for kidney in
fection.
According to her physician, DR..
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NIGERIAN TROOPS IN CONGO face
KATANcA'S White MERcENARIES

Elisabethville, Congo - A bat
tie threatens between United Ma
tions African Negro troops and
white South African mercenaries
serving with the Katanga Army,
United Nations Commanding Gen.
eral Sean McKeown said Tuesday.
day.
A battalion Of Nigerian UN
troops is serving as a buffer be-
tween 600 Stanleyville rebel in
vaders in Central Katanga Prov
ince and white-officered Katanga
Army units which UN officials
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08
Coed Denies Being Hit BY jackson
State College President, j. /. RedSi.

The Jackson College Coed, re-
portedly involved in the incident,
has denied being hit by Jackson
State College President, Jacob L.
Reddix, during the sympathy dem
onstration on behalf of the nine
sit-in students from Tougaloo Sou
thern Christian College, following
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08

Mississippi September / of this
year and following must have a
score on the ACT examination.
DR.. Clark states that a formal
registration for the test must be
made to him, P. o. Box 242, Clin-
ton, Mississippi, accompanied by a
$500 fee before a ticket of ad-
mission to the test can be OBJ
tained. No one will be allowed
to register at the test centers on
the day of the April % test.
Continued on Page Four)
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Dir. James M. Nabritt To Be
Inaugurated As Pres. Of Howard j.
DEAN GRISWOLD OF HARVARD
UNIVERSITY PRINCIPAL SPEAKER

higher learning last June. He has
headed the University since July
II, 1860, when he succeeded DR..
Mordecai w. Johnson, who retired
after 81 years as president.
The new Howard president joined
the University's faculty in 1886 as
an assistant professor of law. Dur
ing the "a years prior to his cleo
tion to the presidency, he held
such administrative posts as ad-
niinistrative assistant to the pres
ident, University secretary, and di-
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First Negro Player
On Virginia High
School Team 1. /.

Norfolk, Va, Mar. 31-An inte-
grated public high school used a
Negro in a varsity interscholastic
athletic event Thursday for the
first time in Virginia history.
Reginald Young, a 16-year-old
junior, played the last four innings
for Maury High in a baseball game
with Norfolk Catholic.
When Maury Coach Bob Bates
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Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08

WASHINGTON, D. C. - DR..
James Madison Nabrit, Jr.. will be
installed formally as fourteenth
president of Howard University
during inaugural ceremonies We'd
nesday, April 26th, at 10 am. The
exercises will be held on campus
at Cramton Auditorium, Sixth and
Fairmont Streets, northwest.
DR.. Nabrit, who formerly served
as dean Of the Howard Law
School, was elected to the presi-
dency of the nations largest pre-
dominantly Negro institution of
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08
Vice President
Lyndon johnson
In Africa

Washington, D. C. April 8 -
Vice President Lynden Johnson
was in Africa this week heading
an American delegation represent
ing President Kennedy at the In
dependence Celebration Of Sengal,
newly established independent Al
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Natchez, Miss. - Mississippians
have donated more than $500 to
send a Negro deaf mute girl to
Helsinki, Finland to compete in
an international games for the
deaf this summer.
Both white and Negro leaders
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08
Negroes Given
Gulf Coast
Swim Rights

New Orleans - The U. S. 9th
Circuit Court Of Appeals has af-
firmed a lower court ruling en-
joining the city of Miami, Fla,
from denying Negroes use Of pub
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Funds Raised 70 Send Deaf Negro
Girl To international Games

supported the campaign to raise
funds for Mary Lynch, 21, of near
by Sipley. The girl, a high jumper,
is a student in Washington, ID. c.
The Helsinki event will be held
IN August.
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08

their arrest last Monday.
According to reports the Coed
has signed written affidavit that
she was not hit or otherwise HARM
ed by President Reddix during the
on the College
Campus.
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Police Dogs Incidents Puts City In Spotlight
T DEMONSTRATION SPILLS OVER INTO MAYOR ELECTION CAMPAIGN

THE CITY OF JACKSON May HAVE
TO FACE HUGE DAMAGE SUITS
FROM USING DOGS AGAINST
SPECTATORS AT TRIAL OF
SIT-IN STUDENTS HERE
Two OF city's Most Prominent
Ministers 81-Year-0Id News Vendor
Among Those Attacked By Dogs
MAYOR ALLEN THOMPSON TAKES
TO AIR IN CALL FOR RACIAL
PEACE AND GOODWILL
Clarence Mitchell High NAACP Official Sees
Incidents AS Call For More Civil Rights Laws
Jackson advocate., 1961-04-08

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ers - Their Advertising
in this paper shows that
they appreciate your
trade.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23
Church News

to become Assistant to tn.
president Of the United Church
|of Christ beginning in latt
January with offices in New
York City.
Among other duties he will
have responsibility for aiding
in the reorganization Of exist
ing Evangelical and Reformed
synods and Congregations
Christian conferences into con.
ferences and associations of the
United Church Of Christ.
The Rev. DR.. Ben NJ. Herbster
of Norwood, Ohio, was elected
president of the United Church
in July by its Third General
Synod held in Philadelphia,
after q national constitution
had been declared in force.
The Evangelical and Re-
formed Church and the General
Council of the Congregational
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23

Christian Churches formed the
United Church of Christ in a
Uniting General Synod held in
Cleveland in 1857.
DR.. Peters is q member of
the Committee on Conference
Organization Of the United
Church Of Christ in Greater
Cleveland. He is also presi-
dent Of the East Cleveland Min
isterial Association, and was a
member Of the East Cleveland
50th Anniversary Committee.
He is a member Of the board Of
managers Of the East Cleveland
'YMCA and chairman Of the pro-
gram committee of East Cleve-
land Kiwanis Club. He is a
former moderator Of the Ohio
Conference Of Congregational
Christian Churches.
He is a graduate Of Defiance
College, which also conferred
the honorary ID. degree in
1869, and Of Yale University
Divinity School.
DR.. and Mrs. Peters have
four sons: Robert, jr., a the
illogical student at Yale now
spending an intern year as re-
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23
Choose '62 Young
People Officers

This past week the following
Young People were chosen tc
hold an office for next year in
the work of Christian Endeav.
or, at the Sixth U. P. Church
Hayden and Castalia aves.
Gayle Cross, president; Jear
Hannah, Elaine Copeland, Ken.
meth Armour, David Balint
Donald Mark and Kenneth
Leach.
The intermediate group o1
young people chose as their
officers Christian Pishenery
Richard Conroy, Susan Dris.
coll, Billy Shriver, John Dris-
coll, Joan Swory, and Raymond
Brewer.
Also, today, at 1880 p. m. the
annual Thanksgiving service will
be held with Rev. Arthur Cope
land preaching on "Forget Not
All His Benefits"
The public is invited.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23
Bupfist Sermon Is
"a Waiting World"

"a Waiting World" is the
sermon topic for the Morning
Worship Service at the East
Cleveland Baptist Church, as
announced by the Rev. Blail
Benner.
Friday and Saturday, some
of the young people from the
E. C. Baptist Youth Fellowship
will be attending the State
Convention at Lima. Ohio.
The Rhoda Circle will meet
on Monday, Nov. 9th at l pm
with Mrs. A. J. Bevan, 14702
Elm ave., with Mrs. J. B.
Kneale, assisting.
Rev. Peters Leaves
E. Cleveland Pulpit
The Rev. DR.. Robert F. r.
Peters, minister Of the East
Cleve la nd Congregational
Church since 1858, has resigned
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study and prayer is Wednesday
at 1880 p. m.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23
Celebrate
Holy Eucharist

Celebrate
Holy Eucharist
Faith Lutheran Church, Hay
den ave. and Glenside rd., will
o serve Thanksgiving Day
with a celebration of the
Holy Eucharist at 1890 am
tomorrow, Nov. 23rd. The pas.
tor, the Rev. R. E. LaFontaine
will preach on: what Thanks
Have We to Render?"
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23
First Friends
Services Listed

The First Friends Church
schedule for next week Is as
follows:
Sunday School for all ages
at $3.50 a. m. Jack Ruff, Sup't.
Worship Service at 10:45 a. m.
Sermon subject, "But Prayer"
In the evening service at 1880
the young people Of the
Friends Youth Fellowship will
present the pageant, "The
Challenge Of the Cross" The
service is open to the public.
Mid-week service for Bible
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the church will meet in the
parlors, Tuesday. The grour
will have its usual quilting ane
hospital sewing at 10 a. m.
The prayer group will NEE
at 1915. Luncheon follows
with Mrs. w. M. Witherup ant
Mrs. David Gebhart as host
esses.
In the afternoon session Mrs
Meta Koncana will lead th'
devotions and the group viii
continue their study Of the
GOSPEL of John.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23
Rev. vorbIe SPeoks
On American Citizen

"The Citizen In An Amer.
ican City" will be the sermon
topic of Rev. Roscoe ]. Varble
at the 10:45 q. m. worship
service next Sunday at the
Phillips Avenue United Pres
byterian Church, East 125th
st. at Phillips ave.
Michael Varble will sing the
offertory solo. The anthem, by
the Senior Choir, will be cap
pear Thou Light Divine" by
Morrison.
Host for the day will be Mr..
Thomas Cox.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23
Women's Group
Meets Tuesduy

The subject Of Rev. Sappen-
fields sermon at the Winder-
mere Presbyterian Church for
next Sunday morning, at the
IL a. m. Worship Service will
be "Free to be Slaves"
The Women's Association Of
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23
BY BOB WICK

ga ne against the Boston
Bruves. -Four days ldter. on his
next time at the mound. ogoinst
the Brooklyn Do dgers. he
pitched onother no.hit. no.run
game. He is the only Mdjor
League pitcher to huIl two con.
secutive no-hitteYs ..
ChristY Mothewson. one of
the greatest pitchers Of oil time.
in 1913 pitched sixtY-eight con-
secutive innings without giving
up q single walk :.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23

REMODELING? Fall and
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work done. Check our Handy
Business Directory for the best
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East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1961-11-23

search associate with the Re-
gional Church Planning Office
and as student minister al
Glenville Congregationa
Church; Frank, a junior at the
College Of Wooster; Alan, 9
1860 graduate Of Shaw High
School where he was a two.
year football and track letter.
man; and Gregory, a Shaw
High senior.