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NIXON CARRIES GOP STANDARD

LIKE, COOL. MA-'AM, COOL!: When the mercury climbs into the 90's what can be better than shedding your clothes, donning a bathing 'suit and "copping a breeze" in the backyard? 16-year-old local lovelv Cassandra Blaine, 3854 Byram, after a sizzling session ot Shortridne Summer School, demonstrates what she regards os an appropriate hot weather activitv And. on hand to catch the "hot" action was Recorder photographer Jim Burres, who, as usual, just happened to be passing by.

Hundreds Expected for 3rd Annual PCAF Meet

At Christ Temple

Hundreds of Apostolic min- j ; ——7 —77 islets and lay members from as- tremendously, the bishop decidsemblies throughout \.he <Jnited i efi to ,3°. . llth ancl Sen ? te » States are attending the 50th Con- anc ; there held his first convention, vention and Bible Confeirence Furtherincrease in strength and now in session at Christ Temple , rs *? ip * e( * *° m Church, with hundreds more ex- the present church edifice, pected when the Third Annual 1 a seat >ng capacity of 1,500. Convention of the Pentecostal ^ urui . g a sp ? n . 0 ^ ^ Christ Churches of the Apostolic Faith T em Ple has had four pastors. The meets at the church Aug. 1. The pr ^ ePt Pastor, Bishop Lee, was local confab, which convened July ? student of Bishop Haywood and

27, will last until July 31 Js a native f Indianapolis. Bishop S. N Hancock, of De- ® ,s ^ op . ^ ,e £ 1 - vv ^°

trait, will preside over the Nation- ^ e Christ ?! e [J lpl . e Church from al Convention, which is scheduled ^‘ us ^ pgol ?’ Mlc * 1 ’ 15 seemingly ento end Aug. 7. Other church digni- dowed great concern for 'jhe taries, including two bishops 1 ca . re pf the ag f d He ,^ ls 4 ^ from Africa and Missionary Helen 'Y h f p ^ ope els e cares it is his Voher, her husband and familv dut Y t0 ai< ^ anc ^ ca f e ,u^°i. iT from Monrovia. Liberia, Africa, aged men and women of the church

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July 30, 1960

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Vice-President Forces Strong 1 Rights Plank in Party Ticket CHICAGO — In o clastic example of his control of IHd Republican party, Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, this week, pushed his demands for stronger civil rights and Federal aid plonks through the party's Platform Committee, despite strong opposition from the so-called conserotive elements, and then rode the crest of his popularity to on overwhelming victory

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are also expected to converge on the church known as “The mother church of Pentecost.” At the church’s convention, Evangelist Mattie B. Poole of Chicago am! Bishop Willie Lee, pastor of Christ Temple, were to conduct healing iservicas Thursday

and Friday,

The late Bishop G. T. Haywood,

ly and numerically under the leadership of Bishop Lee. The new Christ Temple Annex was completed and dedicated in 1958. Although it is not a nursing home it is well equipped for the aged. It has matrons quarters, a nursery, men and women’s rooms, a lounge, an auditorium, private

who founded Christ Temple looms, Sunday school rooms for Church in 1908, started with only adults and children, a living room, a few members in a little tin shop dining room and a cafeteria. The at 11th and Missouri. After < two standards maintained by church years, in which the membership officials have been highly recomand strength of the church increas- mended by welfare authorities. Baptist State Missionary Group To Convene in Evansville Aug. 1

By WILL A THOMAS

EVANSVILLE—More than 800 delegates from throughout, the state of Indiana are expected to converge upon this city when the 89th Annual Session of the General Missionary Baptist . State Convention of Indiana and its Auxiliaries meet Aug. 1-7 at New Hope Baptist Church. Host pastor is Rev. R. E. Brown. Dr. R. T. Andrews, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Indianapolis, is president of the convention, and Rev. L. K. Jackson is general secretary. Theme of the convention, which will get under way Monday with the Pastors’ Conference, will be “Extending Our Outreach.” Delegates to the confab will be officially welcomed and a musical program, given by the churches in the Evansville district, will be presented. Tuesday’s session, opening with devotions led by Rev. A. J. Williams, pastor of New Baptist Church, Indianapolis, will feature introductory remarks by convention president Dr. Andrews. The program for the week will be

adopted and visitors will be presented. At this session the conventional sermon will be delivered by last year’s host, Dr. Edward Vincent, pastor of the Northside New Era Baptist Church, Indianapolis. Rev. A. J. Brown, pastor of Greater St. John Baptist Church, Indianapolis, will conduct the Ministers Seminar at Wednesday’s session. Guest speaker will be Dr. Grover L. Hartman, executive secretary of the Indiana Council of Churches. Other guest speakers at this session will include Calvin McKissack, well known building contractor, and Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, minister of Concord Baptist Church and president of the Protestant Council of Churches of Brooklyn, N.Y. Dr. Taylor will speak at the “Dollar For Dignity” and “Freedom Rally” for the NAACP. The distinguished world traveler is allso a member of the executive board of the Baptist World AlContinued on Page 2

Each Christian Must Help Stamp Out Segregation NEW YORK—“It is the job of each individual Christian to help banish racial discrimination in churches, the most segregated of all America’s great institutions,” says Billy Graham in the August issue of The Reader’s

Digest.

Graham, who ended segregated audiences at his evangelistic meetings in 1952, sav in three Deep South states, declares that Christians should banish jim crow from their midst “because it is right to

do so.”

In the magazine article, “Why Don’t Our Churches Practice The Brotherhood They Preach,” North Carolina born Graham says that “racial discrimination is a blatant denial of the fundamental roapel we p^egeti and ficofess.” Commenting on Graham’s article, Rev. J. H. Jackson, president of the four and a half million member National Baptist Convention USA, and vice-president of the World Baptist Alliance says, “The tragedy is our verbal preaching is Christian, our racial and prejudicial practices are pagan.” In the August Digest article, Graham says that “some integrationists, both Negro and white are trying to go too far too fast.” Jackson says that the “statement is the traditional reaction of our good southern white leaders to the struggle for first class citizenship.” Graham, who has preached to mixed audiences in every southern state except Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi without incident, says that churches face a problem in integration because they are social clubs as well as worshipping bodies, making racial intermingling more delicate than in other areas. Rev. Jackson, leader of the largest single body of Negro worshippers, says about this statement, “I fear most Americans think of the church as social clubs, and if they are social clubs, segregation would be expected and discrimination anticipated. The rea(ContinueO on Page 3) Indian Faces Murder Charge; Had Negro Foster Parents Richard G. Benbow. 33, a Sioux Indiana, and an adopted son of the late William Benbow, nationally known showman of days gone by, may face trial here soon for first-degree murder. Benbow has spent eight years in state institutions for the criminally insane. He was convicted in 1949 og beating a man to death, and while on parole he w'as indicted In 1952 for a similar offense in connection with the death of James Thomerson. Benbow has been declared sane and returned here to the Marion County Jail from Norman Beatty Memorial Hospital at Westville. Following his trial for the slaying of Thomerson he was committed to the old Indiana Hospital for Insane Criminals at Michigan City in 1953, and was later transferrel to the Westville hospital. Judge Thos. J. Faulconer has set a hearing for Aug. 3 to officially determine the sanity of Benbow. Benbow, a reported user of drugs and habitual drinker since the age of 10, is a native of North Dakota, born on an Indian reservation. He became a trooper of the show world in association with Ms foster parents and traveled over most of the country longer than a decade.

YOU'D CRY TOO: It looks os though three-yaar-old Carl Weeden has good reason to wail and whine. And Police Lieutenant Joel Sanders appears to have used up all his resources (including 15 cents) in an effort to quiet the young tot. Actuallv, the cameraman's ohoto lens brought the two together when the Northeast side lad caught both hands in a washing machine wringer last week while his mother, Mrs. Fallie Weeden 34, 2237 N. Arsenal, was outside hanging up clothes. The boy was taken to General Hospital where he was released after treatment. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)

Arguments Over Money Leave 2 Westsiders Dead Tempers apparently soared along with the thermometei during the past week as two Westside men met violent deaths climaxing alleged arguments ever money. Dead were 27-year-old Winston Haliburton, 440 W. North, shot to death early Friday night as he and three men participated in an outdoor crap game, and Dewey LaRue, 35, 159 Douglass, fatally stabbed Tues* day night outside a tavern in the 100 block of North Blackford. The stabbing was the aftermath of an argument that supposedly developed over a bet on a bawling machine. Haliburton was found dying on the curb in the 600 block of Fayette Street shortly after 7 p.m. Friday. He had been shot once in the stomach with a .38caliber revolver. Although working on several leads, police homiced detectives had not established the identity of the slayer as The Recorder went to press Thursday. A prime suspect, Harold L. Parker, was freed Monday after he turned himself in at police headquarters, but could not be identified by witnesses. Parker denied any knowledge of the slaying and volunteered to submit to a polygraph test. Samuel D. Miller, 1036 W. New York, a private contractor, who witnessed the shooting told Det. Sgts. Phil Sanders and Gene Smith that he was walking in the alley west of Fayette when he saw Haliburton and three other men (Contlnuea on Page 2)

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The platform of the Republican party announced mid-week at the convention reflects promises of some new federal action in the areas of racial segregation in schools, suffrage or voting, hous-

ing and employment.

Generally it has been proposed that both major parties are promising more in these areas to Negro people than at any time since the days of reconstruction. The civil rights plank designed to attract Negro people of the North to the support of the Nixon Presidential ticket was called “strong” and “attainable” in the

views of Mr. Nixon.

Gov. Rockefeller of New York said he was “disappointed” with some of the language of the civil rights plank. However, he stated,

he was accepting it. _ Said the New York governor, sense, too, it Is immoral and un-

“Never in the history of our party just

has so specific and so construe- “.. Equality under law promtive a civil rights plank been ises more than equal right to vote' fashioned. and transcends mere relief from “The fact that controversy sur- discrimination by government. It rounded its formation under- becomes a reality when all perscores its strength. It is a strong sons have equal opportunity, withand specific declaration in support out distinction of race, religion,, of equal opportunity, human dig- color or national origin, to acquire nity, and supreme worth of the the essentials of life—housing, individual.” education, and employment. However, Roy Wilkins, execu- “The Republican party—the tive secretary of the NAACP, party of Abraham Lincoln—from called the Democratic platform its beginning has striven to make “stronger and more comprehen- this promise a reality. It is tosive” on civil rights. day, as it was then, unequivocally A summary of the civil rights dedicated to making the greatest plank is as follows: amount of progress toward that

“This nation was created to give objective,

expression, validity and purpose “The Republican party is proud to our spiritual heritage—the su- of the civil rights record of the preme worth of the individual. In Eisenhower administration. More such a nation—a nation dedicated progress has been made during to the proposition that all men the last eight years than in the are created equal—racial discrimi- preceding eighty years. We acted nation has no place. promptly to end discrimination in

“It can hardly be reconciled our nation’s capital,

with a Constitution that guaran- “Vigorous executive action was

tees equal protection under the Continued on Page 3 Elderly 'Recorder Lady'

Is Legend Around Attucks

Possibly the best known person five customers are yet subscrib-

in the region of Attucks High School is not the policeman on the corner nor the man who delivers mail for Uncle Sam, but an elderly lady affectionately known as “The Recorder Lady.” Mrs. Mayme Haskins, 1143 N. West Street, has been selling The Recorder for nearly a quarter of a century. Beginning back in 1939 with only five customers given to her by a graduating high school lad by the name of George J. Thompson, presently the business manager of this newspaper, she built the route up to more than 500 customers only to lose roughly half that number when the redevelopment program was started in the area. Two of her original

5,000 Demonstrate at Scene Of GOP National Convention

Won't You Help? Gallant Little Miss Needs Clothing For Special School Eight-year-old Pamela Marie recovery, but it’s a lonely fight. Gaddie never had the “luck of the Without help the child may not Irish.” Retarded from birth, the be able to enter the hospital There frail Eastside youngster (weighing have been cards and visits to try only 25 lbs.) may never be like the to keep the youngster cheerful, other kids. She can’t see. talk, Mrs Gfcddie is grateful for this, walk, sit down alone or eat any “It’s strange for her.” said Mrs. solid food. And she can hear only Caddie. “She’s very lonely. Her 3 little. heart hurts and she’s all alone.” It would seem that her case is Mns. Caddie is hoping now that hopeless. Her mother, Mrs. Lo- her child will get the clothes that raine Gaddie. 1921 Hovey. knew she will need at the hospital. “Anywhat the affliction meant. But she thing will be appreciated,” she did not moan or whine. Rather, she said “but she is in bad need of the fought gamely through the years following: to provide a happy home and on- J0 dozen diapers f cU xity) vironment for Pamela, always with 6 pairs of SQX (size 5 or 6) an eye to her welfare and to that j dozen n ight gowns or sleepers of her four other children. | fsize 5 D r 6) For several years Pamela has j dozen white x sbirts (sixe 5 or been confined to her bed. She 6) probably would have been in the , , , third grade in a public school this j, dozen under shirts 5 or 6) fall had she not been victimized £ dresses (button in front size 5) by this terrible tagedy. Instead, 1 ^ pair , plastic pants (large), she must enter the Muscatatuck , The doctors at the hospital may State School for Retarded Chil- ^J p Pamela. I m sure the public dren where she may learn to walk, Wl11 to °- talk, sit and eat. 1 (Send contributions to Mlrs. LoAlways cheerful. Mrs. Gaddie mine Gaddie, c/o Indianapolis Reis still fighting for her daughter’s carder, 518 Indiana Ave.)

CHICAGO — More than 5,000 civil rights marchers and spectators, most of them Negroes, demonstrated for a strong civil lights plank in the Republican platform at the convention here this week. The demonstrators reached the Amphitheater about 7 p. m. They were led by Rev. Martin Luther King, leader of the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala.; A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP. Delegates entering the convention hall for the evening session of the convention heard the marchers chanting “Jim Crow must go” ais their leaders waited in the streets for the arrival of U. S. Sen. Kenneth B. Keating of New York Sen. Keating, designated t»y the committee to meet the marchers, told the three leaders in a sidewalk conference that he was not happy about the moderate civil ights plank first agreed on by members of the platform committee. All three congratulated the New York Senator for his support in the U. S. Senate of civil rights measures, and told him to convey to the Republican National Convention their hopes that the Republican standard bearer would, if elected President, stop by executive order and conngressional action injustices in the area of civil rights.

Following the huddle w'ith Sen. Keating, Mr. Randolph told the marchers, “We had an interesting interview. Sen. Keating expressed his personal support for what we seek.” A token force of less than two score students remained on the scene following the report by Mr. Randolph. It was reported that they were Negro college students mostly from Southern schools. Convicted Slayer Granted Stay of Execution Convicted of first degree murder April 13 in Elkhart Superior Court and sentenced to die Aug. 22 in the electric chair at the Indiana State Prison, 27-year-old Edgar J. Hatfield thir- week was granted a stay of execution by the Indiana Supreme Court. The stay was ordered by Chief Justice Amos W. Jackson, giving Hatfield time to appeal the conviction to the Supreme Court. On Dec. 6 the body of Hatfield’s pretty teenage bride, Mrs. Leavy Jane Hatfield, was found sprawled behind an Elkhart church. Officials said the 17-year-o’d girl had been bludgeoned to death by a heavy piece of lumber. Hatfield was given the death sentence by Judge Frank Treckelo after the jury had recommended the extreme penalty,

ing for the paper, the other three are deceased. Not exactly a youngster, Mrs. Haskins was bom in Chicago, Illinois, on March 13, 1882. At 78 years of age this very active lady arises at 5 a.m. every Friday to deliver her papers. Regardless of the weather, rain or shine, snow or sleet, she makes her deliveries with such regularity and nunctuality that many of her customers know the exact time that she will call and they meet her at the door and pay her as she hands them the paper, consequently she does not have to make repeated trips for collection. “My customers are good to me,” she states, “Many pay me a quarter a week for the paper because they appreciate the fact that I’m dependable. When you have good customers like that you are obligated to give them the very best of service and that’s what I do.” “To safeguard me from any possible harm”, she continued, “especially during the winter months, many of my customers leave the front porch light burning and they’re always on the lookout for me. Along the route several of my customers have hot coffee for me in the winter and there are others who prepare kool-aid or lemonade for me in the summer. I just can’t drink all of the coffee and kool-aid that I’m offered. I couldn’t ask for better treatment. I love them and I think they love me. I’ve never been robbed and nobody has ever offended me.” “I’ve never had to look for new customers. My old customers recommend me to their new neighbors and they call me on the telephone to request delivery service,” she said. A widow since 1943, when her husband Alonzo H. Haskins died, she is seven times a mother, seven times a grandmother and fourteen times a great-grandmother A son, Karl K. Haskins; a daughter, Geraldine Rhodes, live with her. Another daughter, Mrs. Ada Wheeler, lives in Richmond, Indi-

ana.

Mrs. Haskins believes that every child should sell papers because it’s an educationed endeavor which teaches them to sell, to meet people and to earn spending money. “Kids are given too much these days”, she said, “and it makes them shiftless and lazy and they simply don’t want to do anything, and you can’t blame (Continued nn Page 2)

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