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Justices Rebuke Nixon Integration Slowdown
Dr. Ralph Abernathy lauds High Court ruling
EVANSTON. 111.,-The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, praised the U S. Supreme Court for “its forthright deJohn Jones, father of Mets outfielder shot MOBILE, Ala. —The father of New York Mets outfield Cleon Jones was recuperating this week from a gunshot wound inflicted Saturday. John Jones, 49, was shot while walking along a street in north Mobile. Cleon was among several major league baseball players from Mobile who were honored with a parade and ceremonies later Saturday. Members of the family said Jones apparently was struck by a wild shot fired from a passing car. Officers said an investigation was under way. Jones* condition was listed as satisfactory by hospital officials.
cision” in ordering “imediate” desegregation of Mississippi's public schools.
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Marine pilot killed in Calif, plane crash
Rites were conducted Wednesday, October 29 atSt.Philips Episcopal Church for $ 24-year-old Marine Corps pilot killed during a plane crash in California. Military spokesmen said 1st Lieut. Kirby L. Williams died Thursday» October 24 in a jet crash four miles south of Joshua Tree, California. The tragedy is being probed by military investigators but early reports indicate the jet trainer veered out of control and young Williams was restrained after his ejection mechanism failed. The pilot, Capt. John A. Drew, 29, San Diego,Calif., managed to escape. Son of Mr. and Mrs.Joseph C. Williams, 430 N. California, Williams was a 1963 Shortridge High School graduate and attended Indiana University. He enlisted in the Marines in 1967. In competition with 285 other trainees, the Marine
LIEUT. KIRBY WILUAMS earned the Marine Corps Dress Blue Uniform award upon completion of his basic TURN TO PAGE 2
Father Groppi ordered freed by Marshall WASHINGTON - Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court Monday ordered the release from prison of the Rev. James E. Groppi, nrlitant civil rights priest. Justice Marshall said the priest was entitled to freedom on bail until the Supreme Court ruled in his case. This could take several weeks. Should the court rule against Father Groppi. Justice Marshall said in a brief order, his freedom would end automatically. The ruling went against the state of Wisconsin, which c(mtended that Father Groppi was given to violent conduct and "prone to abuse his freedom.*' Father Groppi was released from the Milwaukee County House of Correction about two hours after Justice Marshall’s TURN TO PAGE 2
$40 billion black boycott emvisioned by SCLC aide
BOXING BENEFIT: Proceeds from a boxing benefit show Thursday, December 4 at Tyndall Armory, will benefit young Dave Snider (left) former golden Gloves champion who lost both his legs in a farm accident in August.
Promoted by members of the Atterbury Job Corps Center boxing team, the card will include such standouts as (in right photo left to right): Norman Goins, Samuel NeSmith and Jesus Martinez.
A nationwide black boycott of UJS. big business and especially the automobile industry is being organized by Operation Breadbasket, theeconomic arm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson who heads Breadbasket reveals in the November issue of Playboy magazine. “Black people purchase about 35 to 40 billion dollars worth of goods each year,** Jackson states. “We represent the margin of profit in many industries. America depends on her cooperation with her economy, and we shall become the enemies of those businesses and industries that work against our interest by unfair hiring practices, by discriminating against black products, by not making investments in the ghetto to correspond with the profits taken out of it. "We have power, nonviolently, just by controlling our appetites, to determine the direction of the American economv. If black people in 30 cities said simantaneously, - ‘General Motors, you will not sell cars in the black com-
munity unless you guarantee us a franchise here next year and help us finance it,* GM would have no choice,** Jackson warned. "We can affect their margin of profit by withdrawing our patronage and resisting the system instead of enduring it." Jackson explained that his movement has not been ready to take this step before because it was not "sophisticated enough to see it," "It will certainly be done now, because we are organizing to do it," he declared. Jackson explains that the "essential purpose of Operation Breadbasket is to have blacks control the basic resources of their communities. "We want to control the banks, the trades, the building construction and the education of our children,** he states. "This desire on our part is a defensive strategy evolved in order to stop whites form controlling our communities and removing the profits and income that belong to black people. Our programs are dictated by the private enterprise economy in which we
find ourselves. "In my heart, however, I know that the entire system is a corruption. To me, the earth belongs to everybody; it*s just a very successful rumor white folks have going that the earth belongs to them. The earth is the Lord's and no man creates anything that didn't come from other things that God put here.** However, Jackson makes it clear that his movement does not agree with the efforts of young white radicals to change TURN TO PAGE 2
Atterbury boxing card will benefit amputee champion
A tragic farm accident that snuffed out the pro mi sing boxing career of a young Golden Gloves championship fighter from Decker, Ind. will result in the staging of a benefit boxing show Thursday, December 4, at the Tyndall Armory. Promoted by members of the Atterbury Job Corps Cen-
New ‘Fresh Start’ program is designed to aid young find jobs
Every year, high school commencement addresses are filled with promises, challenges and dreams. These graduates enter the adult world, blossoming with enthusiasm and eager to prove themselves. A few of them will go to college, some will enter the service, ethers will join the work force - yet a large percentage of them will
beat the pavements frantically looking for a job. The chances of them landing the job they want is highly unlikely. Moreover, the chances of them getting a job at all, offtime turns out to t>e the most difficult task of their career. In spite of the fact that a high school diploma has been awarded, the recent graduate TURN TO PAGE 2
ter boxing team, the card's proceeds will defray medical expenses of 21-year-old Dave Snider of the Decker-Vincen-nes Boxing Club who lost both legs in an accident on his Nab suspect in Fitzgerald slaying Police homicide detectives Sunday arrested a 35-year-old man in connection with the Oct. 19 shooting death of Herman Fitzgerald, 32, who was found mortally wounded, lying beside a building at 1907 She don. The victim who was clad in only pants and shoes, died several hours after the shooting in Marion County General HospitaL Arrested on a preliminary TURN TO PAGE 2
father’s farm in August. Dave, now recuperating at his grandfather’s home in Vincennes, was well known in Indianapolis Golden Gloves circles and was a two-time TURN TO PAGE 2
Integrate all schools now: High Court WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court, ordering the immediate desegregation of Mississippi public schools, declared Wednesday night that a segregated school sys< tern no longer is permissible anywhere in the nation. The unanimous decision, a stunning setback for the Nixon administration, pronounced the "all deliberate speed" doctrine dead forever and announced "the obligation of every school district is to terminate dual school systems at once and to operate now and hereafter only unitary schools." Mississippi school leaders expressed dismay over the court's order. "I don’t see how we can do it," said Ikie Ethridge, superintendent of the Lauderdale County school system. Ethridge said, "I don't know whether we ought to try to do it or not, if you want to know exactly how I feel. We have always tried to cooperate with the courts and abide by the law of the land, but when they ask you to try to do the impossible, that’s another question.*' Etheridge said he didn’t see how the ruling could be made effective immediately. "lt*s just a physical impossibilitj as far as I‘m concerned. As a parctical matter, “at once" does not mean today or TURN TO PAGE 2
Drag race ends in multiple family tragedy Solemn but dignified funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses for six members of a single family wiped out when the family's automobile was struck in the rear by a speeding drag racer Sunday night while parked in the 2200 block of E. Riverside Dr. Impact of the crash ruptured the gasoline tank of the old-model Mercury Comet being driven by Stevie Coleman, 25, 3101 N. Olney, and Coleman and his entire family perished in the flaming inferno that followed. All toll, nine persons died in the crash, including three members of another family who were passengers in the Coleman car. After the funeral services, Coleman, his wife, Mrs. Le. vina Coleman, 24, and the two children and two foster children, Steven Coleman, 3, and TURN TO PAGE 2 New Director announced at Fall Creek T The appiintment of Dwigh M. Cardwell as executive sec director of the Fall Cree Parkway YMCA was announced this week by Elme A. Binner, general secretaryelect of the YMCA of greate: TURN TO PAGE 2
8 black congressmen urge rejection of Haynsworth
Washington - aii eight members of the UJS. House of Representatives in a joint statement released last week urged rejection of the nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth to the United States Supreme Court. The reoresentatives are Hon. Adam C 3 Powell, New York; Hon. Charles C.Diggs
Jr., Michigan; Hon. Robert N.C. Nix, Pennsylvania; Hon. Augustus Hawkins, California; Hon. John Conyers Jr 0? Michigan; Hon. Shirley Chisholm, New York; Hon. William Clay, Missouri, and Hon. Louis Stokes, Ohio. Excerpts from the statement follow: Judge Haynesworth’s rec-
ord on civil rights clearly demonstrates his infidelity to the principles of racial equality, which are contained in the Ccmstitution. In 1954, the Supreme Court held that racially "separate educational facilities are inherently unequaL" But as Mr. Justice Black has recently TURN TO PAGE 2
COLEMAN FAMILY LIES IN STATE AT KING & KING FUNERAL HOME
MR. AND MRS. WILLIE ROUSE (MRS, COLEMAN’S PARENTS)
MR. AND MRS. STEPHEN COLL M W (MR. COLEMAN’S PARENTS)