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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08

REV. A. PATTERSON JACKSON
tor Pilgrim Church, 1944-Present,
for "labors beyond the call Of
duty, Rev. Jackson's topic will be
Small Things With Great Re-
suits.
Music will be rendered by the
Minnesota State Baptist Conven-
ton Choir with Mr.. Willie B. Hale
directing.
Many dignitaries from National,
State, local and civic levels will
bring greetings. A reception fol-
lows in Fellowship Hall.
The Appreciation Day Commit
tee Is: Mrs. Paralee Milligan,
Chairman, Mrs. O'Delle H. Gallo
way, Secretary and Program
Chairman, Messrs. M. A. Knott,
Sr. and John D. Hartsfield, Fin
ance Chairmen, Mrs. Justine Jack
son and Mr.. J. P. Dorsey, Recep-
ton Chairmen. The public Is in
vited to attend.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
Chester Simmons
Named President
MpIS. Urban League

At the May 81 meeting of the
board of directors of the Mime
apolis Urban League, Chester
Simmons was elected president of
the organization. Other officers
elected for the ensuing year were:
John Warder, first vice president;
Howard Shenehon, second vice
president; Mrs. Malcolm MCDANIEL,
secretary and George Robitshek,
treasurer.
Mr.. Simmons is Director of Data
Processing for the Minneapolis
Honeywell Co., and lives at POOL
West 31st st.
A native of Minneapolis, he is
graduate of Yale and a men,
Der of the vestry of st. Pauls
Episcopal church.
The new president Is serving his
second year on the Urban League
board. He succeeded Judge L. How
ard Bennett, who has completed
two years as board president.
The membership elected the fol-
lowing new members to the Board
of Directors for three year terms
at the Leagues 37th Annual Meet
ing at the Hotel Radisson April
"a. Mrs. Howard Brin, Mrs. Rob-
ert McCaull, Mrs. Thomas L. Jack
son, Mrs. Phillip Won Blon and
Frank Adams.
Board members reelected to
three year terms were: Mrs. Olive
Dobson, Eugene Gould, DIR. Ches-
ter Pennington, Chester Simmons
and John Warder.
Elected to a one-year term were:
Mrs. Russell. H. Bennett; Mrs.
Earle Kyle, Sr.; Judge L. Howard
Bennett and George Robitshek.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
HELP US,
HELP YOU
AND YOURS

This newspaper is currently con-
Quoting a Market Appeal Survey
to learn where and how the states
almost $4,000 Negroes trade and
spend their consumers dollars.
1t realizes that some of the vast
amount of money which the Negro
spends is often spent with firms
which do not practice fair employ
ment practices, but needs greater
documentary proof that such ex-
penditures occur with such firms
and others.
Two weeks ago we began print
ing a questionable survey of
this paper asking readers to fill
it in and mail it back to the paper.
We also asked that they not identi-
fly themselves - since only in this
manner would their answers be
kept confidential. A total Of 435
readers have SO far responded to
our request and we certainly ap-
preciate their thoughtfullness and
cooperation.
If you send the QUESTIONABLE on
page back to us you will help
make a study which will help us
and also help you and yours.
1t will help the newspaper sell
more ad lineage to merchants who
should be using this paper to get
their message to the Negro COM
munity - sharing part Of their
ad dollars with a Negro medium.
1t will furnish the paper and
other agencies, public and private,
seeking to improve the job OPP
portunity of the Negroes in this
community with ammunition to
convince firms which do not hire
or upgrade Negroes equally with
others, that this is a poor prac-
tice.
If you want to assist us in this
effort to help not only this news
paper, but the community as well,
fill in the questionable on page 4
and mail it to us, TODAY. -
Spokesman and Recorder Papers.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
Faced With BoYcott
DC. Transit Agrees
To Employ IS

Washington, D. c., June 1 -
Faced with a possible boycott of
at least three of its lines, the D. C..
Transit Company, which operates
buses in the nations Capitol, has
agreed to hire IS Negroes i'm
mediately.
The projected boycott was being
organized by steering committee
led by Washington CORE and
NAG, the Nonviolent Action Group
of Howard University. The COM
mittee had polled nearly 5000 resi-
dents Of areas served by the 14th
Street, 18th Street and Benning
Road lines and found that 85% Of
them favored a boycott unless the
company changed its employment
policy.
CORE chairman Julius Hobson
reported that a car pool Of 4S6
autos had been set-up to transport
persons boycotting the buses. Half
a million leaflets were printed.
Some were distributed at churches
by members of the American Fed
Grafton of State, County & Mum
icipal Employees.
Prompting the renewed drive for
a fair employment policy by D. c.
Transit was a story in the April
% Washington Afro American
which quoted a company official
as stating that there were only AZ
Negro drivers out Of a total Of
1900 and giving as a reason, you
got too many criminals" He also
admitted that the company did not
employ a single Negro secretarial
worker in its main office. Hobson
estimates that the company de-
rives more than half of its income
from Negro passengers.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08

from the chamber by police. They
were later released.
The federal police chief said
Kess-Nmomoh was stabbed with a
knife. However, observers in the
chamber said he was hit by a
thrown object. He was discharged
from a hospital after treatment.
Akintola challenged the Gov
ernor's right to dismiss him and
took the issue to the high court.
In addition, he asked Queen Eliz-
abeth II to dismiss the Governor
for having taken sides in the Ac-
ton Group dispute. He protested
the action the Federal Prime Min
ister
The ousted premier's refusal to
accept the dismissal has made
orderly government in the region
impossible.
The meeting at which the VOL
ence erupted had been called to
settle the issue.
At last weeks meeting Of the
Federal Parliament, the Action
Group Opposition protested the
move to declare the emergency as
a misuse of power" on the part
of the Federal Government.
Before adjourning, Parliament
approved 10 regulations giving
wide powers to the Federal Gov
eminent to carry out the assign
ment in the Western Region during
the emergency period.
The emergency regulations give
Senator Majekodunmi, as admins
traitor, the powers to prohibit pub
lie meetings and to imprison up to
five years any person or associa-
ton guilty of spreading false re-
ports. This is the first time that
the Federal Government has asked
for emergency powers since Niger
Ia became independent from Brit
ain in 1860.
Earlier, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu
Bello, powerful Sardauna Of Sok-
OTTO and premier Of the Northern
Region, Nigeria's largest section,
has called on "all men Of good
will throughout Nigeria, particul-
arly the people Of Western Niger
ia" to rally around Chief Alintola.
Also, DR.. M. I. Okpara, premier
of the Eastern Region and the
national president Of the National
Council of Nigeria and the Gamer
oons, the party which forms the
coalition federal government with
the Northern Peoples Congress,
announced that he will not recog-
nize the new government Of Wes-
tern Nigeria with Adegbenro as
premier.
Okpara added that it would be
dangerous for any government to
recognize the new Western Region
government unless the court had
determined the issue. He emphas-
lied that his party was not taking
sides in the matter.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
ST. Thomas Church
Presented Organ BY
DR.. w. D. Brown, ST..

st. Thomas Episcopal, 400
Fourth Av. s., church was the
recipient Of a new pipe organ re-
Gently, given to the church by DIR.
w. D. Brown, ST., along with a
set Of ceremonial lamps.
DIR. Brown is senior warden Of
st. Thomas church. He Is a
longtime member Of the con-
gregation and years ago served as
church sexton keeping the building
clean when the congregation was
located at 2941 Fifth Av. s.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08

ADuDaKar Ia1aWa BaleWd, tn
Western Region leaders at Ibadan
would be given time to solve their
political disputes which led to VOL
ence during a confidence vote for
the region premiership.
Named by the Lagos govern
ment as administrator for the next
seven months was the Federal Min
lister of Health, Senator Moses A.
Majekodunmi. Emergency regula-
tons giving him wide powers were
passed by overwhelming major
tiles at an emergency session of
parliament.
The power to declare a state of
emergency was given to Sir Abu-
bakar by emergency meetings
here Of both the House of Repre-
sentatives and the Senate.
The meetings were called be-
cause of a political crisis in the
Western Region that had left the
country's economically progressive
area without a properly constitut-
ed government for eight days.
On May Fl, the Governor of the
Western Region and the Oni of
Ife) Spiritual Head of the Yor-
uba tribe), Sir Adesoji Aderemi,
dismissed Chief Samuel L. Akin
tola as premier of the Western
Region at the request of his party,
the Action Group. He was also
ousted as deputy leader of the
party. The Action Group is the
ruling party in the Western Region
but it forms the Opposition in the
Federal Parliament.
The trouble started after rivalry
within the Action Group ranks be-
tween Akintola and Chief Obafemi
Awolowo, Federal president of the
Action Group and the Opposition
leader in the Federal Parliament.
The party found Altintola guilty
Of maladministration, anti-party
activities and gross indiscipline.
Sir Adesoii, the governor, informed
Akintola by letter that he did not
hold a majority in the House Of
Assembly. In his place the Gov
ernor appointed Alhaji D. s. Adeg-
benro.
In the sweeping action by the
Federal government, the governor,
premier and ministers in the Wes-
tern Region parliament were in
effect suspended.
Majekodunmi issued a statement
saying it was not the federal gov
ernment's intention to impose "a
repressive regime" in the Western
Region.
The Federal parliament took
only four hours to approve steps
to quell the troubled political stu
alton in the Western Region. The
move followed a fist-fighting ses-
sion May rs, in the regional as
sembly at Ibadan.
Federal police used tear gas
bombs to halt the disturbance. A
Government member s. Y. Kess-
Nmomoh, was hurt and the speak
er's mace, the symbol of his auth
ority, was shattered over the pre-
siding officers desk. Adegbenro,
the new premier, was kicked and
knocked to the floor. Two assem-
blymen were arrested and taken
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
UPholsfering Firm
Destroyed By Fire;
In New Location

"BilP Breland, president and
principal owner of the us. Up
holstering Co., Inc. whose plant
and offices were destroyed by fire
May 20, announced this week the
new location Of the firm at 1909
E. 38th st.
The new office and plant will
have twice as much floor space as
the old establishment at 1922
Third Av. s.
us. Upholstering will have the
same phone it had downtown FEE.
9-5026. I'VE are ready again to
serve our clientele" Mr.. Breland
told this newspaper Tuesday.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08

Miss Danya Brown, above
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Benja-
min Brown, 1O41 18th Av. N, q
Vocational High School student,
received the newly-created Mime
sofa Apparel Industries Silver
ThimbIe Award. Danya, a senior
in Industrial Arts, was given q
coat length Of fabric along with
the engraved silver thimble.
Miss Brown, who was voted by
her classmates as the most pop
ular all around grip Of the June
graduating class, Is employed
part-time at Wenders In the alter
alton department.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
Mill City Beoutieions
In Banquet And
Dance On June ~

Minneapolis Beauticians' chap
tiers 210 and 220 will present a
banquet and dance, together with
a hair fashion style show at the
Andrews Hotel Sunday, June IT,
at 7 pm.
Special guest for the affair will
be James B. Landeros nationally
known hair stylist from New York.
Featured also will be George Glib
son, the dancing waiter an enter
tainer Of note.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
Vundals Break Over
80 Windows In
n.Hns -
Halle q. Brown House

Jim Tucker, staff member Of the
Halle @. Brown Community House,
$50 Aurora, reported to st. Paul
police that someone had broken
80 to 40 windows in the building
on June 2, or June 3. Police are
continuing their search for the
responsible persons.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
Attention Graduates!

We graduation photos Of college and high school
seniors plan in q subsequent edition.
them this newspaper with full name address,
parents activities in school and hobbies We would
also like to know what your future plans
after your photo today
already have it. to Spokesman Recorder Papers,
STA S. Minneapolis MINI. put card
board around to keep 1t from being injured In the mail
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
Parent To MuBee Restitution
For Broken Window In Home

Sidney Cummings, 800 Fuller,
reported to st. Paul police that on
May 80, approximately 8:45 pm,
two foot by two foot window was
broken in the rear Of his home.
Police apprehended a nine year old
boy who was responsible for the
damage and the boys father will
make restitution.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
Trouble In Africa:
Nigerian Political Row
Causes Parliament To
Declare Public Emergency
Bv J. v. Clinton

Lagos Nigeria ANP) - In the wake of continued unrest
i'll the Western Region the Federal Government Nigeria
declared a state of public emergency in the area.
Earlier the Eastern and Northern regions had refused to
recognize the Western Regions administration
The action supercedes earlier announcement by Sir
Abubakar Taawa Baewa, the federal Prime Minister that
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
Packing Co. Worker
Loses Life Savings
To Three Con Men

A 81 year old st. Paul man was
robbed of nearly $4,000 in life
savings, bilked from him by a
pigeon drop" confidence game
Monday, June 4.
Joseph Wilson, 29S N. Kent St.,
Armour Packing Co., employee
told st. Paul police he withdrew,
$500 saved in 35 years, from
the company credit union and lost
it in one of the oldest swindles
practiCed on the unwary.
In addition to the money with
drawn from the credit union
he also lost 500 he had in his
wallet.
According to a story in the st.
Paul Pioneer Press of Tuesday this
is how it happened:
Wilson told police he met one Of
the men near Aldine st. and Univ
ersity Av.
The man asked him where he
could find room. Wilson, a Ne
gro, told the stranger, also a Ne
gro, that this was not an area
where a colored person would look
for a room.
1--WE got plenty of money" the
stranger said. A second man then
joined the conversation. AS the
first man continued to brag about
his money and flashed a roll in
GLIDING 500 bills, the two strang-
ers got in money argument which
resulted in a bet that If the second
man could match the first mans
roll he could have it.
The plan then developed for
Wilson and the second man to pool
their cash to match the Dragging
strangers roll.
A third man then entered the
picture. He went home with Will
son and then to the credit union,
where Wilson withdrew his savings
after telling officials he planned
to buy a house.
He got his savings in a check, so
he went to the Stockyards Ma
tional bank in South st. Paul to
try and cash 1t. Because 1t was
late he got $500 in cash and the
rest in cashier checks. He Endorsed
the cashiers checks and tried to
cash them at the Midway National
bank, while in company Of all
three swindlers. But the bank re-
fused to cash them because 1t was
too late to verify them.
Then the men suggested putting
the checks and money into a hand
kerchief and into Wilson's trunk
until the banks opened Tuesday.
Wilson agreed, and this was done
but Wilson in checking the trunk
after the three men left, found the
handkerchief in the trunk con-
tanned only a newspaper.
Wilson is the second member Of
the st. Paul Negro community In
six months to be victimized out Of
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08

Register today for the Annual
Upper Midwest Bronze Golf TOurn-
ament, sponsored by Jimmie slem-
mons, on July 7 and 8, at TheO-
dore With Golf COurse.-AdVt
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
No Negroes To HeovenI
Utah Negro Leader
Charges Mormon Church
Has Strange Prejudice

Salt Lake City, Utah (ANP) - This city, the capital of
Mormonsm has always been enigma Negroes living
here
They vaguely that the Mormon church doesn
have very high opinion of Negroes and wonders how the few
who live here manage to exist.
Though he sees no difference between Mormon and
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08
Chicago Pastor To Speak Ar
Chicago Pastor To Speak A.:
Joint Founders. Day
& Pastors Appreciation
At Pilgrim Sunday

The Rev A. Patterson Jackson Pastor Liberty Baptist
Church. Chicago Illinois, will be guest speaker Pilgrim
Baptist Church this Sunday, June 10.
Liberty Baptist Church which Rev. Jackson leads
ured in Ebony Magazine years Americas
most beautiful and modern Sancuares
At the II Founders Day Service Jacksons topic
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08

Dizzy Gillespie, got the nick
name at IT when he was so poor
he had to carry his trumpet In a
paper bag. A musician observing
the bag, remarked, What a dizzy
guy" The nickname stuck.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08

Ella Fitzgerald - was once an
orchestra leader. Ella, who scored
her first hit with "A-Tisket A.
Tasket" (Which she wrote), 'front.'
ed drummer Chick Webb's band
after the latter died in 1889.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08

Today, there are still thousands of Ne
groes without the franchise; there is stin
segregation in much Of the north as well as
the south; there is still job discrimination.
Negroes are still the last hired and first
fired. They still crowd the slums, the relief
rolls the unemployment offices. In the
South, they still find themselves being
jailed under state laws in their fight to
gain the civil rights they feel are due them
under the Constitution.-EBONY Magazine.
S. PER YEAR; Is CENTS PER COPY
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08

will be, This I Believe: I Be-
lieve In The Church,. Music will
be rendered by Pilgrims Senior,
Gospel and Choral Choirs.
At the 5 pm. Appreciation Serv-
ce for DR.. Floyd Massey, Jr., Pas
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1962-06-08

Wilson is the second member Of
the st. Paul Negro community In
six months to be victimized out Of
several thousands Of dollars.
Milford chronicle., 1962-10-19
Only 40'o Of Hogs
Protected Against
ChoIeru

A new challenge to the nation
wide drive to eradicate hog cholera
is expected with the arrival of one
of the peak periods for the disease
this fall, according to VIM. H. Hen
derson, county agent
The incidence of the nations No.
| swine killer starts rising about
now and the danger season wi III
continue for several months. This
fact makes it vital that hogs not
yet vaccinated be immunized with
out delay.
Vaccination is one of the k e Y
points in the current drive to er-
adicate hog cholera, Henderson re-
ports. 1t has been estimated that
only about 40Go of the swine pop
ulation has been vaccinated. This
figure must be raised to 1870 to
provide a solid wall of protection
against disastrous outbreaks.
In order to achieve the most sat
isfactory results with vaccination
several points such as the health
of the herd and local conditions
need to. be considered. A veterin-
arian should be called to check the
animals and vaccinate them.
The stakes are high in the era
dication drive. 1t can mean SIS mil
lion dollars year extra income to
American farmers
Milford chronicle., 1962-10-19

sequent offenses not less than $500
or imprisoned not less than 60
days, or both. for each such sub
sequent offense."
Farmers and all commission
field men are cooperating to era
dictate the illegal kill. There is
enough good hunting to go around
during the open season if We stop
the thief that jumps the gun.
An Excerpt from the Fedora !
Waterfowl Regulations
(a) Migratory game birds m ay
be taken only by the aid of dogs,
artificial decoys, manually or
mouth-operated bird calls, W t h
longbow and arrow, or with shot
gun mot larger than No. 10 gauge
and incapable of holding m e
than three shells) fired from h e
shoulder.
(b) Migratory game birds m y
not be taken with a shotgun of
any description originally capable
of holding more than three shells,
the magazine of which has not
been cut off, altered, or plugged
with a one piece filler, incapable
of removal without disassembling
the gun, so as to educe the capacity
of the said gun to not more than
three shells in the magazine and
chamber combined.
Milford chronicle., 1962-10-19
Home Help For
The Handicapped

Mrs. Green is eighty-eight b u
she was really spry until few
months ago. She kept house f or
her widowed daughter, a librarian,
moving about her daily chores eff
ficiently. Then, one day, going
down the stairs she fell and broke
her hip. She spent many months
in the hospital. Now she is ready
to leave, but all kinds of problems
arise. She is no longer so spry. She
can get around the house with a
cane, but it is obviously out of the
question for her to resume h r
housekeeping activities. And h e
cannot be left alone all day since
there are many things she can at
present no longer do for herself.
Her daughter cannot afford to keep
her in the hospital. indefinitely.
She cannot afford a full time house
keeper. She can't leave her job to
look after her mother, beacuse 1t
is their sole source of income.
To solve just such a problem,
faced by thousands of families, the
Milford chronicle., 1962-10-19

federal government has authorized
three million dollars for local ex-
perimental projects to see if it is
practical to provide home nursing
and homemaking care for the
chronically i'll and aged. Projects
have been started in eighteen
states, which have matched h e
funds provided by the government.
Local health agencies, voluntary
and official, are cooperating.
If a nurse can visit Mrs. Green
few times week, if home
maker could come in at noon to
make her lunch and stay with her
until her daughter gets home, some
of the problems would be solved
The number of elderly people lis
steadily increasing. They represent
special problems for themselves