Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1958 — Page 14
8—The Indianapolis Recorder, May 31,1958
• • • • business, industry and labor
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H. L. POND, vice-president of The Barbasol Company, stated recently that the growth and success of his company might be attributed to studied policies on delivering a quality product Vhere there is a demand for it, otherwise creating more demands at the same time. The company manufactures shaving creams for men, packaged ^in several types of containers to meet the demand or fancy of users. Products of the company are known and sold on an international scale. The spacious factory building, of the company is located at 846 N. Senate. The company was established in 1919. Other officers of the company include James F. T. Sargent, secretary and Robert L. Rodabaugh, treasurer. * * * JACK B. GRAVES, vice-presi-dent and general manager of General ire Co., Inc., observed recently that the biggest years of his firm were the war years. The company, established in 1919, is located aj|h838 N. Delaware. It is the locaPhutlet for the nationally famous General Tire for all types .of automotive vehicles. Mr. Graves was fairly optimistic about future prospects of business. However, he noted that 1958 compares favorably with 1957 which yvas a better year than 1956. He pointed out that some adverse bends of business generally have yeacted favorably to busigess in his line, and 1952 was the biggest post-war business year. ;TMe company sells and services General Tires. About 50 percent of the employees are Negro persona. These include two*men with 30year service records and several with service records of 10 to 15 years. W. J. Coughlin Sr. is president of the firm, and its founder, W. J. Coughlin Jr., is secretary. i, * * * G. H. POINDEXTER is general manager of Poindexter Bros, general contracting and building firm. The firm recently completed a new office building and mill-work plant at 1622 E. 19th. A store carrying a general line of paints and painters’ supplies is operated in connection with the office building. The firm has been in the general contracting business nearly 15 years, building, remodeling and repairing business structures and
homes in central Indiana. The new plant of Baird Cleaners in the 600 block of N. West is a sizeable project recently completed by the firm. Services offered for homemakers and business operators include also painting, interior decorating and modem installations of all types or kinds. Other members of the firm include James D. Poindexter, assistant manager; his son, James O. Poindexter, and Lawrence E. Poindexter, son of the firm’s manager. * * * EUGENE BOBSON is the owner and operator of Gene’s Giant Burger Shop at 146 W. 30th, near Capitol. He is now serving dinner daily, with specials on Sundays. Gene serves all kinds of tasty sandwiches, fountain drinks, ice cream, etc., but specializes in Gene’s Giant Burgers. * * * JACK ALBOHER is the owner and operator of Jack’s Food Market, 328 N. Senate. The store was painted, redecorated and refreshed in various appointments in very recent weeks. Jack 'is a veteran in the food merchandising field and is well known in the downtown Westside area. The store carries a full line of quality meats, seafoods in season, staple food items and vegetables of all ’ varieties.
WESLEY O. JACKSON, former newspaperman, is a sales representative for the Ready Mix Concrete Corporation. The owners of the corporation or various persons in thq rpnks of management, marketing and production are oldline veterans in their field of business. Mr. Jackson, a na'ive of the city, has been active in sports promotion since his high school days. He Is the founder and director of the West S reel Boys’ club, an auxiliary of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, and he is active in his church. Otherwise he keeps busy as a salesman for Rusco of Indiana, Division of the Sanborn Electric Company, dealers in storm-doors, wondows. awnings, etc. He has been active in civic and social circles, and is a member of the YMCA and Masons and is a Shriner. <
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GET SCHOLARSHIPS: Representatives of two fraternities presented scholarships to two outstanding Attacks seniors Thursday of last week. Rozelle Boyd (left), a teacher at the high school, representing Alpha Phi Alpha, is presenting his fraternity's $200 scholarship to Billy Joel Hall. Awarding the
William L. Baugh $100 scholarship to William H. Tardy is Andrew Ramsey, Attacks instructor, Recorder columnist and member of Omega Psi fraternity, while Mrs. Vivian Terry Moore, Attacks dean of girls, looks on. (Recorder photography by George P. Stewart II.)
THREE ST. RITA BOXERS TO FITE AT LOUISVILLE
The St. Rita boxing team will cend three of its best fighters to Louisville on Saturday to vie with members of the Louisville outfit, which is rated the third best amateur team in the U. S. The local battlers will be Kenneth Brandon, 70 lbs., who will fight Mike Cook; Cleo Horton, 160 lbs., who will engage James Ellis, and Charlie Westmoreland, 175 lbs., who will take on Cassius Clay. Kenneth Brandon is only 9 years old but has been boxing since 1955. He has had 21 bouts and has lost only 3. He attends School 26. Cleo Horton, Indiana AAU champion, is rated the No. 3 lightmiddleweight in the nation. In the national tournament at Boston, he lost a close decision to Jose Torres, this year’s 165-lb. champion. Charlie Westmoreland, the Indiana AAU light-heavyweight champion, started boxinug seriously in 1955. He went to the Boston finals in 1956 and again this year, when he was defeated by Charlie Banks, who won the national title.
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Pearl Buck Tells Of Home Needs Of 'Mixed' Children CHICAGO — “Many families can accept and love children of other races and colors — if they love children.’’ writes author Pearl S Buck in the June issue of Ebony
magazine.
in temperament to the individual
family.”
The real purpose for writing the magazine article, she said, "is to awaken hearts to the need” of the Negro orphans in Asian countries.
Recorder Columnist To Be Gu^st Speaker Miss Willa Thomas, The Recorder
In her. article. “Should White church columnist, will be guest Parents Adopt Brown Babies,” Miss ! speaker Sunday at 3:30 for the Buck tells of the need for homes Youth Day program at Northside for half-Negro children of Ameri- j New Era Baptist Church,
cans overseas, particularly in Asia. I
The Nobel and Pulitzer prize-! She will give a short travelogue winning author of “The Good and show pictures made during Mr
Earth” says of these children, “They European tour,
will have the hardest time of all. The youth choir will sing. Mrs. bearing not only the onus of being Arlishia Brown is youth sponsor.
children of war and occupation, but !
also of having dark-skinned Ameri-
can fathers. We do not have enough ; More sell is present in the At-
homes for them.” : lantie than in the Pacific. Miss Buck and her husband. Rich- * * *
ard Walsh, have adopted a German-; At least 10 countries use the Negro daughter, two sons from i eagle as the symbol of supremacy.
India and are now in the process of * * *
adopting a Japanese-Negro girl. Edison invented the flashlight in
According to Miss Buck, “The 1914.
crucial necessity in adoption is not * * * similarity of religion or race, butj Benjamin Franklin was the first that the individual child be suited American ambassador to France.
NEW YORK — Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP. last week expressed confidence that “school desegregation will proceed” despite continuing resistance in the hardcore states of the Deep South. Wilkins made this prediction on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s historic decision of May 17, 1954 banning segregation in public schools. The NAACP leader noted that in seven Southern states no public elementary or secondary public school has been desegregated, although two of these states, Louisiana and Virginia, already admit Negro students to their publiclysupported universities and colleges. He pointed to recent federal court orders calling for admission of Negro pupils without segregation to schools in Arlington and Charlottesville, Va. He added- that similar orders are indicated for the schools of Norfolk and Newport News. “Although the state has a complicated plan for further evasion, it now seems possible that next September, Virginia will join the list of states which have made a beginning towards desegregation,” Wilkins indicated. IF THE VIRGINIA schools begin the desegregation process this fall, only six of the 17 states and the District of Columbia which maintained separate schools will retain an unbroken pattern of segregated elementary and secondary public education. These states are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Caro-
lina.
Ten states and the District of Columbia have begun or completed the desegregation process in their schools. ''These states are Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia. Despite tms desegregation action, Wilkins pointed out, "the vast majority of Negro pupil's in the South — more than two million — is still restricted to inferior separate schools.” THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER said that most of the school desegregation to date has been achieved by “voluntary action of local school boards.” The NAACP, he
continued, “lias from the outset welcomed and suppored such voluntary local action.” “However,” he asserted, “the Association will continue, when requested by parents and their lawyers, to file suits for desegregation wherever necessary.” According to statistics published by the Southern Education Reporting Service, 141 cases directly connected with some facet of the sthool segregation issue have been handled by state and federal courts since May 17, 1954. Approximately 95 petitions requesting school desegregation have been presented to local school boards by parents during the past four years. Since May 17, 1954. the legislatures ot 11 states have enacted a total of 145 measures designed to prevent or control the desegregation process. Meanwhile, WHkins asserted, a number of Southern states have passed laws or invoked court actions against the NAACP. Although the Association has operated in some of these states for as long as 40 years, it was not until after the decision of May 17, 1954. that official action was taken against the NAACP. Wilkins described the Southern anti-NAACP actions as “a largescale campaign ... to discredit the NAACP and drive it uot of business in the vain hope of stopping the desegregation movement.” “THESE LAWS TO CRIPPLE the NAACP and maintain segregation are being tested in the courts,” he added. He predicted that the laws aimed at the NAACP "will be-
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