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Portland/Observer Thursday, Oct. 7, 1971
The Northwest's Best Weekly
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GUEST EDITORIAL
The prophetic words of Martin Luther King
J r . t that ” blacks and whites in the South
will live together in harmony long before
they do in the North," have never been
more clearly demonstrated as truth than
they are today.
One example is Columbia, S.C.,and Pon
tiac, Mich., one a capital city in the heart
of the Deep South, the other a factory town
in the heart of the so-called liberal North.
The Columbia school hoard this year vol
untarily instituted a bussing plan designed
to achieve meaningful integration of their
schools. Predictably, white parents were
up in arm s and a meeting with them,black
parents and school faculties was arranged.
The meeting was not held in the gleaming
new air-conditioned "white" school,ra
ther in the old rundown " black " school.
Whites were schocked at the conditions
there - unscreened windows’ poorly
equipped classroom s, a well in the yard
which was the school’s only source of
water, etc.
The end result of that meeting was that
white parents whose children will be at
tending the school pledged to join the black
parents’ heretofore futile fight for urgent
ly needed improvements.
They didn’t like it but the bussing plan
prevailed because desegregation is the law
of the land and they believe in " law and
order" in its truest sense.
Explained SchoolSupt.Claud E. Kitchens:
” Without bussing there was no way we
could desegregate the schools. But there
was never any equivocation about comply
ing with the law -- regardless of what the
President said or what Wallace said."
The situation in Pontiac, of course, is
just the opposite. Fanned by opportunist
politicians and hardcore racists, vitriolic
emotions aroused by Federal Judge Damon
Keith's desegregation plan for the city’s
schools resulted in the mindless firebomb
ing of school buses and threaten to erupt
the physical violence.
Of course, ultimate blame for Pontiac and
other cities like it, rests with President
Nixon, who gave license to defiance of the
law and order he is sworn to uphold with
his anti-bussing stand.
"TH E BLACK PRESS, USA” by Roland E . Wolaeley, a
professor of journalism at Syracuse I niversity and author
and co-author of a number of books in the field, is now out.
Its subtitle - - “ A Detailed and Understanding Report on
What the Black Press Is and How it Came to B e" —
- - accurately describes this long awaited and long needed
362-page book. It is the most comprehensive work on the
black press since F rederick G. Detweilder’ s " I h e Negro
Press in the United States,” published in 1922. Jet's Robert
E. Johnson says in the introduction what every black journa
lis t w ill say, "T h is book had to be w ritte n . It asked me to
w rite it . . . " but 1 didn’ t. Almost anything you may want
to know about the black press, as well as a long lis t of who’ s
who in black journalism w ill be found in Wolseley’ s care
fully detailed book, published by Iowa State U niversity Press,
Ames, Iowa.
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HOUSTON FORWARD TIMES’ special edition on black
womanhood issued on Aug. 7 gave readers an opportunity to
meet its publisher, M rs. Julius (Doll) Lenora C arter,
energetic widow of hard-working, imaginative Julius who
died last January. A t 30, M rs . C arter, who had been serving
as business manager and advertising d ire cto r, became the
youngest woman publisher in the land. She is now assistant
secretary of NNPA, a member of a number of important
boards in Houston, including her bank and s till takes the time
to serve as lead soloist in her church choir. Also featured
in the section is MRS. CARTER WESLEY, publisher of the
Houston Inform er. A form er social w orker, M rs . Wesley
has been at the helm of her paper since 1961 when C a rte r
became ill.
H PUBLISHERS HAVE JOINED NNPA THIS YEAR. They
are: Clarence B. Jones, NY Amsterdam News; Augustus A .
Savage, Chicago Citizen Newspapers; Lesley Kim ber, C ali
fornia Advocate; Chester Washington, Los Angeles Central
News-Wave Newspapers; A rie l M elchior, D aily News of the
V irg in Islands; Fitzgerald Beaver, Seattle Facts; Christopher
Bennett, Seattle Medium; Robert E . W illiam s, M eridian,
M is s ,
Memo Digest; Thomas H. Watkins, New York
Recorder; and Brooklyn Tombar Publications; A lfred L .
Henderson, Portland Observer.
DEATH STRUCK RANKS OF JOURNALISTS during the
summer. L .E . Austin, able editor-publisher of the Durham
Carolina Times since 1927, passed in June at 73. He was
succeeded by his daughter, M rs. Vivian Austin Edmonds, who
grew up with the TIMES. ORRIN C. EVANS, who graduated
from the Philadelphia Tribune to the Philadelphia Bulletin,
died in August after 48 years in the field. JOHNNIE JOHNSON
of the New Pittsburgh C ourier and husband of longtime
women's editor, Toki, passed recently.
THE HARt IN...has 3 pool (able*
“ We cannot battle with sin in othersifw e are not wrestling
with it in ourselves. Sometimes it takes real vision and
faith to see private grappling as, more than nit-picking. But
if we can see it in its proper dimension we w ill be more able
to contribute significantly to the betterment of mankind.”
I ■ I ■ I H I
P re s id e n tia l P o w e r
By W illia m Sloan Coffin
In January of this year, a
Gallop poll showed that 73% of
the American people favored
total withdrawal of U.S. M il-
itary forces in Vietnam by tlie
end of this year.
But on June 17, only 42% of
the U-S Senate could be rallied
to vote fo r the McGovern-Hat-
field Amendment designed to
require the P re sid e ntto ca rry
this out.
U ndoubtedly many, perhaps
most, of the other 58% whodid
not vote fo r the Amendment
were also deeply troubled by
President Nixon’ s Vietnam
policy. But they were reluc
tant fo r Congress to fu lfill the
President’ s
responsibility
even if the President had faded
to do so.
I t Is to the Senate's cre d it
that it did pass the somewhat
softer Mansfield Amendment a
few days la te r. But as an a r
ticle in the Wall Street Journal
correctly predicted at the
A t the time, Tom Wicker
predicted in the New York
Tim es that "unless the record
is highly misleading, M r.
Nixon w ill not acquiesce in the
Mansfield Amendment, what
ever Congress does."
Of course, we should all
keep pressing both houses of
cont. from page 1
by James Lee, member of the
Portland
NAACP
Branch
Board
of D ire cto rs
and
C re d it Union,
and vice-
president of the Northwest
area conference.
F o r more than th irty years
Closter B. C urrent has been
one of NAACP'a most ardent
workers. Joining the NAACP
in 1936, he was fir s t assigned
to the Youth Councils at
D etroit, and three years later
was appointed to the chair
manship of the Central Youth
Council Committee and the
National College chapters.
From 1941-46, M r. C urrent
served as Executive Secre
tary of the D e tro it branch
where lie directed a strong
campaign for integrated hous
ing and fought bigotry and mob
violence in that c ity .
Since 1946, M r. C urrent
has headed the Department of
Branches, which has overall
supervision of field services,
membership, program and or
ganizational activities of over
1,706 branches in 50 states
with a membership of 450,000.
He received his Bachelor
of A rts degree in I94J from
West Virginia State College,
an a Master’ s in Public Ad-
ministration from WayneUnl-
verslty in 1950.
He la a
member of Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity and St. Paul Metho
dist church, J am lea. New
York. He is m arried and has
three children.
Sunday morning sessions w ill
be devoted to NAACP busi
ness and to attending services
in churches in C o rva llis.
Portlanders wishing to stay
In private homes in C o rva llis
may do so by getting in touch
with Reverend W illiam Wal
ker, 1165 N. W.Monroe Street,
C orvallis 9730 o r by calling
Reverent Walker at 752-2491
In C orvallis.
tim e, "th e President can re
main fa irly confident of main
taining House support."
Congress to demand with
drawal from Vietnam as long
as there is any hope at all
that this may he of value.
But now that President Nix
on has succeeded in ignoring
the rising clam or fo r peace
for nearly three-fourths of his
term , it seems almost certain
that he w ill ignore it for the
re m a ln ie r.
It is time fo r us once more
to face the hard facts of pres
idential power.
It was the presidential pow
e r of Lyndon Johnson which
committed our nation to a ll-
out m ilita ry inteiventlon in
Vietnam. It was certainly not
the w ill of die American peo
ple. If It were. It would not
have been necessary for the
escalation plans of the Pen
tagon to have been so care
fu lly concealed from the pub
lic during the 1964 presiden
tial campaign.
It is the presidential power
of Richard Nixon which has
kepi our national resources
committed to protecting the
Thieu regime and laying waste
to Cambodia and Laos—de
spite the widest and deepest
popular protests of this coun
try .
And It Is only through the
power and wisdom of our next
President that we can be cer
tain of total American with
drawal from Vietnam, release
of American prisoners of war
tliere, and leadership to build
a new, humane American so
ciety with goals that serve tie
public good.
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The Portland
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THE HARtiN...haa Bowling
CHUCK STONE, form er spe
cia l assistant to Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell when Powell
was Chairman of the House
Education and Labor Commit
tee, lias twon appointed direc
to r of m inority affairs at Ed
ucational Testing Service In
Princeton, New Jersey.
IHE
The AFL-CIO donated $10,006
tO tli«? L’ nltisi Negro College
Fund. George Meany, pres
ident of the AFL-CIO, said the
union recognizestheextreme-
ly serious plight of black col
leges at this time.
STUDENTS at Kent State Uni
versity and the Universities of
Alabama and Kentucky are fil
ing suit to force officials to
register them Io vote In loc al
elections. The Issue of wheth
er students can register to
vote where they attend school
will eventually go to the
Supreme Court for final dis
position.
New School
Policy
David L . Norman, assistant
Attorney General fo r C ivil
Rights, said t ie de p a rtm e n t’ s
new focus w ill he on whether
Blacks and Whites have equal
e d u c a t io n a l opportunities
nationwide.
Southerners have long pro
tested that tie Federal gov
ernment had singled out the
South foi school desegi agatlon
efforts. In spite of complaints
Norman gave no indication of
and consei ted desegregation
effort in the North.
Norman said the Just ice De
partment attorneys and m ar
shalls w ill be sent Into tie
South on School matters only
at the re v e s t of local author
ities. He predicted that com
plaints of " in school segrega
tio n ," tie segregation of Black
children in class rooms, play
grounds, lunch rooms, w ill
decrease this year. T ie num
ber of such complaints were
numerous last year.
Norman said Court Super
visors of souttern school dis
tric ts dial liave teen desegre
gated by court order w ill not
continue lndeflnately. Dis
tric ts w ill be considered to
have fulfilled t l e i r obilgatlon
" I f tie school board runs a
year o r so In compliance.”
A fte r that, d is tric ts w ill not
be expected to conform to
shifting residential patterns.
The PORTLAND TRAFFIC
SAFETY COMMISSION aksall
d rive rs to take a tip from die
pro’ s and quit competing widi
other tra ffic .
The " p ro 's ”
we’ re talking about are tie
professional
d riv e rs
who
drive m illions of miles each
year, yet show an accident
rate about half of all other
d riv e rs . D rive defenslvely-
-contlnually on guard against
mistakes of die other d riv e r.
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PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY
plans to establish a cultural
center for Afro-Americans,
lAtlno, Aslan, American In
dian and other students whose
cultural traditions are distinct
from Anglo-American. The
center will be open Io all stu
dents and one of Its main goals
will be to c reate a forum where
diverse groups can meet.
BLACK ATHLETES and en
tertainers are planning to pe
tition the National EixUball
League for an expansion fran
chise. Memphis has bee i s e
lected for the site for th • new
club with strong sentlm» nt for
naming the team the Memphis
King’s In memory of Dr.
Martin Luther King. Financial
backing will come from the
King Foumlatlon, Initiated by
affluent blacks and black-
owned business.
HARoN...has soul music
I N o * a// zf need« zs your food
|cozrip*oy -
Brademas BUI, passed by
the Senate, wUl underwrite (he
establishment of profession
ally staffed child-care centers
free of charge fo rth e poor and
pay-as-you-can fo r the in kid le
class.
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NNPA JOINED FIGHT FOR CBS by w riting letters to more
than 200 Members of Congress, protesting the proposed
contempt of Congress citation against the network and its
president. D r. Frank Stanton, fo r the TV feature "T he
Selling of the Pentagon." Resolution was defeated.
AD PANELIST AT NNPA CONVENTION LE FT FOOD
FOR THOUGHT which w ill be served in this and the next 2
issues of Intercom. In alphabetical order, the menu offered
by Frank Gromer of Foote, Cone, and Belding w ill be served
firs t.
Those of B ill Oberholtzer of Leo Burnett, and of
Jay Schoenfeld of McCann E rrickson w ill follow. GROMER
emphasized (I) the importance of the expanding black pop
ulation as a consumer market from 22 to 26 m illio n by 1775;
(2) buying rate of black people is 2 or 3 times higher than
purchase rate of average white consumer fo r many items;
(3) this higher purchasing rate of blacks more than justifies
the higher ad rate per 1,000 of circulation charged by black
newspapers; (4) most space buyers feel that the special
reading environment (news and features, etc.) in the black
press enhances the effectiveness of ad messages on their
pages; (5) black newspapers may be read more intensively
and by more readers per copy than Is the case with other
papers, because of reader involvement and interest in
editorial content; and (6) because of the increasing black
interest in TV programs, black press should improve Its
coverage of medium, keeping th e ir readers better informed
of TV programming. Research in all these areas is suggested
by M r. Grom er.
Read fu ll text of his Atlanta speech.
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2 NNPA MEMBERS WERE AMONG EDITORS AT NATO
BRIEFINGS in Brussels this month. NNPA President Garth
C. Reeves of the M iam i Tim es, and W illiam O. Walker of
the Cleveland C all and Post were among 8 editors invited
by the State Department to make the trip . The emplaned on
Sept. 11.
NNPA and congressional black caucus wui work
together for the advancement fo hlack Americans. This was
the outcome of a conference in July by NNPA President
Garth Reeves, board member John H. Murphy, III, of the
■Afro-American, Miss Ethel Payne ofSengstackeNewspapers,
aixi NNPA Executive D ire c to r Sherman Briscoe with Con
gressmen Augustus Hawkins, W illiam Clay, and Lou is Stokes.
tljeK aron,
Maliern
P erisco pe
NNPA IN ACTION
DELL \E EDITION
Ä
NNPA PRESIDENT VACATIONED IN EUROPE fo r 17 days
durtn August. Garth and M rs. Reeves traveled In England,
France, Germany, Austria, Ita lly, Switzerland alal Monaco.
He is doing a series on the trip . His Aug. 27 editon of the
M iam i Tim es was devoted to career planning ami carried
104 pages.
MRS. ELOU1SE H. RANKS, publisher of the Arizona
trib u n e , w rites well ahead to say she w ill attend the Mid
w in te r Workshop in Los Angeles, Jan. 19-21, 1972. M rs.
Leon Washington of the Los Agneles Sentinel w ill 1» host for
the Workshop.
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sem i-skilled craftsmen mechanics who
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