Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1960 — Page 1
NORTHSIDE CAFE REFUSES MIXED MMISTERS
Annual Recorder Picnic Set Aug. 29 At Scout Camp
Rites Set for Woman Killed In Fall from Truck
CORA JONES Mrr* Cora Jones. 22, 3207 Guilford was fatally injured July 4tli when a b owout caused her to be tlirown from a truck, driven by her husband Police arrested her husband Ronald Jones, 25. and charged him with having inadequate brakes. Joilts said lie pulled iii to a Gu'f rilling station at 1345 E. 38th. where tin accident occurred, because Ids brakes were not working properly. Their son, Ronald Louis Jones, 2, also fell from the truck but suffered only slight injuries. Services for Mi’s. Jones were to be held July 8 in Jacobs Brothers West Side Chapel, with burial in Moral Park Cemetery. Mrs. Jones was employed at Dodd Electric Co,, and was a member of Mt. <> ive Baptist Church. Survivors, besides the sou and husband, include her mother, Mrs. V iolu Dale, her daughter, Jaunita Junes, three sisters, Mrs. Ella M. Smith, Mi's. Mary L. Smith and Mrs Barbara Hart and four broth«i s, Chrules, Neslt*y, Leon and John Dale.
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Indianapolis, Indiana, July 9, 1960
Number 28
KENNEDY DENIES SPURNING SOUTH'S CONVENTION VOTE HELENA, Mont. (ANP)—Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts claimed as untrue reports that he did not want or need support at the national convention from the Southern states. Regarding the vote of the Sotnhern states Kennedy, said: “I did not say (didn’t want their support. 1 had said, 1 didn’t anticipate it.”
Happy times are in store for several thousand kiddies who will be privileged to attend the 30th annual picnic sponsored by the Indianapolis Recorder. Originally planned for under-privileged children the picnic has been expanded from year to year to include children from families of all income levels. The date of the picnic is August 29th, and the chosen site is the magnificent Boy Scouts Camp Belzer Reservation. The camp is located scarcely twelve miles northeast of the city and near Fort Benjamin Harrison. Striving to make this the biggest and the best picnic yet the management has just about completed the monumental task of planning an outing to include all types of recreation including swimming, hiking, baseball, horseback riding and a host of other things to help make a full day of merriment. An afternoon variety show will be staged in the outdoor arena. Some of the top talent of the city will appear and do a bit of entertaining for the picnickers. A pie eating contest and a “greasy watermelion” contest will be wit-
nessed.
As usual a huge caravan of city buses will form in the 500 block of Indiana Avenue and transport the happy fun-loving picnickers to and from the Boy Scouts camp. The safety of all is insured with the cooperation of the Indianapolis Police department, The Marion County Sheriff, The American Red Cross, The Marion County General Hospital, The Civilian Defense Police, The Mt. Paran Nurses Association and other civic minded citizens who will help with the tremendous task of chaperoning this army of
youngsters.
Any persons wishing t6 help with the job of chaperoning might
call Thom Ervin, picnic director. ! dered returned by the court. Baptist Sunday School Congress To Convene tit Good Samaritan
By WILLA THOMAS
ernor Asked to Enter State Police ‘Bias’ Case
Supreme Court GetsJacque His Liquor Back Controversial Jacque Durham, armed with an Indiana Supreme Court order, left Criminal Court 1 last Thursday with 78 bottles of whiskey confiscated from his living quarters above the Ebony Missile Room, 518 N. West, during araid
over a year ago.
Durham was convicted in Murvcipal Court and appealed the conviction, but the case was dismissed when the excise officer, the state’s star witness died before the ease came to trial. However the court refused to return Durham’s whiskey until mandated to do so by the state’s highest
court.
Durham had been charged with the unlicensed sale of liquor in violation of the 1935 Beverage
Act.
On one other oceasiotv whiskey and other equipment taken from
WOULD YOU? If you worked at your ]oh all week and the Boss forgot to pay you — or the Boss couldn’t be found—or tlu* Boss just simply went away without leaving your money—what would you do? Would you come back to work and begin another week? or would the Boss have need for a softer pillow after you conferred with him? Well! You are the Boss. You hired your RECORDER CARRIER and it’s you who owes him 15 CENTS each week, that he leaves you a copy of THE RECORDER. He must pay for eacli paper that he leaves you. It takes his profits from three good eu* toiners to pay for a paper left to a poor-paying customer. We know that von intend to pay him, but WHEN?? The CARRIER and THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER would appreciate it if you would pay your CARRIER,
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EACH WEEK If you’re going to be away, make arrangements to leave it next door. THANK YOU VERY MUCH CARRIERS’ ASSOCIATION
Miss. Sheriff Clears Negroes, Whites From Federal Play Area GULFPORT, Miss. — A sheriff here last week, acting under a new state law to head ff. racial con flict, cleared out Negroes and white persons from a federal park play area. T’*" ' Harrison County Sheriff Curtis
Durham’s estab ishment was or-1 Dedeaux and 20 deputies ordered
both groups out of DeSoto National Park after a disagreement over the use of a ball diamond. There
was no violence.
it appeased to be a well-plan-ned effort to integrate the park, and although the dispute occurred ion federal land, the recreation area historically has been used by
L bite persons.
Dedeaux said he acted under a law passed by the 1960 legislature which empowers police to disperse groups when there is a possibility of tensions arising. It may have been the first use of
the law.
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MAKE INITIAL NAACP PAYMENT: Trinity Lodge No. 18 F. & A. M. makes it's initial payment on a $500.00 life membership in the NAACP. Worshipful Master Norris Powell is shown presenting the check to Earle M. Barnette, 1st vice president of the Indianapolis branch. Looking on (left to right) are: Louis Morse, Senior Warden; Ben Hopson, Junior Warden; Dr; Ford Gibson, Trinity member and president of NAACP conference of branches. All five members .(jf. Trinity Lodge ore proudly representing their brethren in becoming the first local Masonic group to purchase a life membership in the NAACP. Trinity Lodge has answered the call of the Most Worshipful Grand Master of Indiana, W. W. Waldon, to step forward a'3 leaders in their communities and actively support the community's civic program.
Governor's Aid Promises to Study Situation Gov. Harold W. Handley this week was asked to intervene in the case of a Negro applicant who has been rejected twice for different reasons by the Indiana State Police. The request that the Governor investigate the controversy around the application of Robert Ewing was made in aletter from Atty. John Preston Ward, executive director of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union. Robert J. Fink, the Governor’s administrative assistant, told The Recorder on Thursday that neither Governor Handley nor he had seen the letter. When it was read to him over the phone, he said, “We’ll have to study it, of course. I’ll look the matter up.” MR. WARD’S LETTER, dated July 1, took «no stand on “the quality of the evidence contained either in the report by the Indiana State Police Department which rejected Mr. Ewing or that in the Fair Employment Practice CornContinued on Page 3
Owner Arrested; Visiting Pastors Will Attend Trial Two out-of-state Negro ministers, who were refused serviea at Bernice's Restaurant, 5212 N. College, have promised Marion County Prosecutor Phil Boyt they will return to the city on July 28 when the case is scheduled for trial in Law* rence Magistrate Court. The two Negroes, who went to the Northside restaurant in the company of 13 white ministers, were in Indianaoolis attending a two-week "Institute on a Multi-Racial Society" sponsored by Christian Theological Seminary. The two ministers refused service were Rev. William K. Fox of St. Louis, and Rev. N. J. Dickerson of Bluefield, W. Va. Reached by telephone at his home in Larwill, Ind., one of the white ministers in the group, Rev. Joseph Kipfer, pastor of Larwill Methodist Church, told The Recorder that he and his fellow ministers had attended a session of the institute and were looking for a place to eat. “I just finished three years at the Christian Theological Seminary and have eaten at Bernice’s over 100 times,” the Northern Indiana minister said during the telephone interview, “and we decided to go there because the prices are reasonable, and the food is good. “Arriving at the restaurant we got in line (the service is cafeteria style) and were told by the owner and the manager that the Negroes in the party* could not be served.” The restaurant owner, reportedly a Mrs. Bernice Bonham, was definitely insulting, Rev. Kipfer said, and told him after he had informed her that he had been deeply insulted and humiliated and insisted that the group be served, that she would close her (Continued on ivage 3)
Latins Dig Satch and Nat More Than Ike and Dick, Says Journalist
Relations between the United thing about American politics or “
Trouble apparently started brew-i States . and th . e L ^ tin . Ameri ^ an wJ* aL 1 ® tudied at - Indiaaa Uni X^ r ' son. With about two-hours pracing whew Negroes using tlm park/s countries can best be improved- sity. The very first thing that | tice the c le had completely
j _.:_ J . U „ 1..J not by an exchange of diplomats my people are going to ask about mastered the “j ee turbug.”
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I diamond declined to yield the field I Thcu e were about 200 to 250 white persons and some 80 Negroes in ihe area. Most were picnicking
in family groups.
DR. B. L. WHITE jamin Davis, pastor of the ,Ne\v • Bethel Baptist Church, IndianapREV. J. T. HIGHBAUGH olis, will be the Congress Thenierw _i , ... izer and will speak at each sesDr. C. W. Black, pastor of Mt. ; j on Zion Baptist Church, San Antonio, ,," T \ • , . i .uTex., will be the guest speaker 1)r ; ? av,s * ' vh ° T J ^ ested tl ? IS Sunday at the kickoff meeting year’s heme, toured several nusof the Indiana Baptist Sunday • won fields 1 overseas la f y ear and the president of the Indiana Baptist State Convention.
Baptist State Convention.
Ohie Negro Girl In Competition for Miss United States Title MIAMI BEACH, Fla.—Corrine Huff, 19-year-old telephone operator from Youngstown, O., was the first Negro io compete for the preliminary Miss USA title as Miss Ohio. The contest got off to a zany beginning Saturday when 17-year-
old beauty Cathy Justice, of Po- Recorder,
land, O., discovered in the registnation papers that the minimum age of contestants is 18. She telephoned her parents and they with-
drew her.
Miss Huff was the runner-up to Miss Justice for the Ohio title in Youngstown. It was announced by Jim Gardner, sponsor of the Ohio competition, that she would replace Miss Justice.
—but by an exchange of cultures, is Rock and Roll music and the The people of the Latin Ameri- Jitterbug dance. I know that you can countries are not the least don t believe it, but it is an absobit interested in what Mr. Chris- lute must that my wife and I be tian Herter has to say, or what able to give demonstrations of the he thinks. The same thing holds current American dance rages, the true for Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Jitterbug, the Madison, the Twist, Nixon and oh yes, a new one I ve heard a ,,.' . » | . about, I think it’s called the
This view was expressed, last jj 0 ’>»
week, by Zac Ortiz, a newspaper- mi ‘ . , man from Paraguay, South Amer- Then very seriously, Mr. Ortiz ica. Mr. Ortiz, a graduate stu- asked the Ervins if they thought dent at Indiana University, and they could arrange some Jitterhis wife, Mrs. Naschi Ortiz were ^ug lessons for him. week-end guests of Mr. and Mr. Ervin obliged by taking the Mrs. Thomas Ervin. Mr. Ervin is couple to the Walker Casino where circulation manager of The Matthew Dickerson was holding
his regular teen-age dances.
Furthermore, Mr. Ortiz con- “Ah,” exclaimed the excited Mr. tinued, it is apparent that leaders Ortiz, “dese ese vonderful (sic), of this great country do not know these people are expert dancers, that all Latin people are fun lov- I could never learn to dunce like
ing people. Greater and more last- this.”
ing impressions were made by Nat After returning to the Ervin King Cole, Louis Armstrong and residence, a teen-age neighbor was other sepia jazz experts. summoned and Mr. and Mrs. Ortiz “When I return to my country were given several hours of inI am not going to be asked any- structions by Miss Carla Emer-
The meeting wih be held Sunday at 3 P.M. at Good Samaritan Baptist Church, with Rev. J. T. Highbaugh, host pastor. Widely traveled, Dr. Black is known throughout the country as a talented and understanding minister. He is the president of the Baptist Ministers Alliance of San Antonio, and was one of the guest speakers at the Baptist World Alliance which met recently in South America, He is also chairman of one of the Boards of the National Baptist Convention of America. Rev. Robert L. Saunder, pastor ' of the Second Baptist Church, Anderson, is president of the Congress. Music will be rendered by the singing groups of Good Samaritan Baptist Church. Dr. Black will be the guest lecturer at the Sunday Congress scheduled to open Monday, at the St. John Baptist Church, South Bend. Dr. B. L. White, host pastor. The Congress is expected to draw more than 400 delegates from all over the state. Th<* faculty and executive board will meet at the host church, 4 P.M. Monday. The theme of the Congress will be “The Challenge of the World Missions”, (Act. 1:8.) Dr. F. Ben-
Jeannie V - Hundreds of Other Negro Babies Need Loving Parents
Two-month-old Jeannie X is a tiny bundle of femininity searching for loving parents who will give her a name and a happy normal homelife. When Jeannie was born, she was entrusted to the care of the Children’s Bureau of the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum by her mother, who felt that the baby’s chances for future happiness might be better if she were released for adoption. This little girl is one of eight healthy Negro babies, all under three months of age, who are waiting for the right couples to adopt them. Jeannie’s mother might have been a woman with several other children, whose husband died or perhaps deserted her before the baby was born, leaving her without means to support a new baby. Or maybe sne was one of the 75 or 80 young unwed mothers who seek financial aid and a plan
JEANNIE X
for their babies’ future from the . Children’s Bureau every year. ^ THE CHILDREN’S Bureau is an agency that offers practical help and counseling to children and their parents regardless of race or creed. Most of the children under care of the Bureau are Protestant, as Catholic, Jewish and Lutheran children are referred to the appropriate sectarian agencies, which operate in Marion County. Jeannie and the other seven adoptable children are now living in foster boarding homes on a temporary basis. Although they are receiving the best of care, these babies, like all children, need permanent families to which N to “belong.” The Children’s Bureau has no hard and fast rules by which to determine who will be good parents. APPLICATIONS are usually accepted by the agency if the Negro couple wishing to adopt a child like Jeannie cgn answer Continued on Page 7
When we return to my country,” concluded Zac, “we shall be the most popular people in all Paraguay. “Boarding a Greyhound bus and heading back to the campus of Indiana University, he said in his native Spanish, “Muchisimas gracias, y nos vemos. “Translated into English it means Many thanks, and we’ll be seeing you.”
23 YEAR-OLD WOMAN CHARGEP IN THEFT OF SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK A 23-year-old woman was arrested recently on a complaint by postal inspectors who said they had been seeking her since June 3. Sue Ellen Wright. 1903 Cornell, was under arrest on a charge of stealing a $33 80 sacial security ciK-rk from a mailbox. U.S. Commissioner Edwin Haerle set bond at $7,000.
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TO HEAD TRAFFIC DIVISIONS: Another first for the Negro in the city of Indianapolis and State of Indiana was chalked up last week when Arthur G. Wake, a professional engineer, was appointed to a dual position as head of the traffic design and field engineer departments of the Bureau of Traffic Engineering. Wake is the first Negro in the history of the city to attain supervisory authority in a professional engineering capacity sional enginering capacity. SEE STORY PAGE 7
Census Bureau Sets Survey on Consumer Plans Special questions on consumer plans to purchase automobiles, air conditioners, clothes dryers, amd hi-fi equipment, including radios and phonographs, will be asked in the July Current Population Survey, it was announced this week j by Director Theodore F. Olson of the Census Bureau’s regional field office at Chicago, Illinois. The special questions are in addition to the regular inquiries on employment and unemployment which are asked each month of a sample of the population in the Current Population Survey. The information is being collected for the Federal Reserve Board for use Un a national study of consumer buying plans. The questions .about air conditioners, clothes dryers, and hi-fi equipment cover present owner(Continued on Page 2*
SHOT IN THE FOOT: L. C. Carter, 28, grimaces in pain as police administer first aid to a gunshot wound in his foot. The incident occured at 4 p. m. Saturday in the 2400 block on.Baltimore. Police didn't make an arrest because Carter didn't know why he wa shot or who had shot him. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres).