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Ldtk>r Department Reports On ElOhPmit Progress of Negroes
WASHINGTON (ANP)—A special study on the economic progress of Negroes in the United States made by the Department of Labor was presented to the White House Wednesday. The study made under direction of Labor James P. Mitchell-stated that in the recent years there has been a “steady improvement in the Social and economic status of "Negroes. In education, type of work, income, housing, and other areas for which measures are available, the historic differentials between whites and Negroes have
narrowed.”
If a letter addressed to the President, Mitchell said, the survey was not made in an effort to encourage complacency but as a spur to continued action. While this report, which measures progress, permits satisfaction with past achievement it also serves as a prelude to a determination to forge ahead with vigor in opening the doors of opportunity wider. THE REPORT reveals that the number of Negroes in the United States is around 20 million or 11 percent of the total population. During the past 20 years the average earnings of the Negro have risen from 41 percent of that of white workers to 58 percent. Over the same period, the percentage of Negroes in professions and skilled work has doubled. This increase, said Mitchell is due to increasing educational advantages available to Negro youth. But the
report admits that “In education, as in other fields, statistics show Negroes still below the levels reached by whites, but rapidly gaining.” Despite the use of restrictive covenants and other forms of discriminatory real estate sales, home ownership by Negro families has been increasing. The report taken from figures compiled four years ago showed that 36 percent of Negroes own their own dwellings. Mitchell reported that better employment opportunities for Negroes had been developed through the Committee on Government Contracts. Between 1953 and the spring of this year the committee reached some 970 complaints and disposed of all but 252. The report did reveal that Negro skill rates remain disproportionately low, and therefore, their unemployment rates are disproportionately high. Standard Hires Continued from Page 9
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A SALIH E TO TROOP 189: Santa may have his little helpers — but the Indianapolis Recorder Chanties, Inc. has their's too ... An "army" of scouts fmm Troop No. 189 of Second Baptist Church are shown above diaplaving some of the containers thsy carry while covering the vari-
ous neighborhoods seeking donations for the charitable organization. John Straton, extreme right back row, is Scout Master, and Lee Lenderman, not shown, is assistant Scout Master. (Recorder photo by Houston Dickie)
Paul W. Johnson Named to Staff of Countv TB Assoc.
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two years, is awaited with interest. Rev. H. L. Burton, president of the branch, has announced he will not stand for reelection. Despite Rev. Burton’s retiring plea for unity, reports circulated this week that there will be a scrap for the presi- I dency, to be decided at the an*—4 ' nual election Dec. 8. Other business for next week’s meeting was slated to include written reports from branch officers for 1960, and the election of a supervisory committee for the annual balloting.
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PAUL W. JOHNSON Paul W. Johnson ha.s joined the staff of die Marion County Tuberculosis Association .-is a Neighborhood Field Representative after serving ive . ears n die teaching profession in Reid High School in Belmont, N. C. Alfred E. Kessler, executive secretary of the TB association, said that Johnson was employed for the express purpose of implementing liie issocation’s Neighbor hood Case Finding program initat?d 'ast year when the tuberculosis association began a neighborhood mogram which utilized a gasoline driven portable electric generator in conjunction with the v egular n obilo X-ray units of the Indiana State Health Department. ... ... At the time this program was •begun, it was felt that the tuberculosis association could do a more thorough 'job of neighborhood X-ray screening by using an electric generator which would provide a constant source of electrical power. Kessler said that the regular mobile units used in the past .u-cessarily require a stationary power supply and that the use ol he generator would make possible a nearly block-bk-olock X-ray survey of a given Marion County neighborhood. Such a program, Kessler said, demands the intensive elTort of one individual who can organize he existing resources in the community He said that this is :k?c.ssary in order io assure naximuir, .uccess of any neghborhood X-ray program, Authough Johnson’s most recent employment was in .he teaching profession, he holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees, and ha.s two years of experience in the health field' working in the tuberculosis control program of the North Carolina State Department of Health. Johnson, who lives at 803 W 43rd, is married and .he father of .wo sons.
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Natl. Magazine Sponsors Contest For Negro Writers NEW YORK, N.Y.—Promising young Negro writers will compete for cash prizes totaling $4,000 in a creative writing contest sponsored by the Reader’s Digest Condensed Book Club, it was announced this week. The contest, which coincides with publication of “Up From Slavery,” the autobiography of Booker T. Washington in the fall volume of condensed books, will be open to .students attending any of the 33-member colleges of the United Negro College Fund. Officials of the Fund will administer the competition. In announcing the competition UNCF Executive Director William J. Trent Jr., said that entries will be accepted in three categories’: short story, essay, and feature article. There will be a top prize of $500 and 13 runner-up awards of $250 each, Trent said. A panel of nationally known Negro and white writers will be selected to judge the contest, he added. Ground rules for the contest will be established by UNCF officials and will be announced shortly. The United Negro College Fund was founded in 1944. It seeks to raise annually ten percent of the educational budget of member colleges. John D. Rockefeller III is chairman of the Fund’s National Council, and Bruce Barton is chairman of the Fund’s national campaign.
Mystery Slaying (Continued from Page 1)
Ala. White Youths Get 10 Years for
Raping Negro Girl latGd ’ ‘ but our Inv<? stigation failed
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HUNTSVILLE. Ala. — In sharp contrast to the death sentence meted out to : r our Negro youths bund guilty of raping a white girl recently in Tennessee, two white brothers convicted of raping an 18year - old Negro girl received “light” 10-year terms here last
week.
The circuit court jury was out about two hours before returning “the verdict against William Bud” Mverson, 26, and Hobby Alverson, 23 Both live at Hazel Green, a community near this North Ala-
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The 18-vear-old victim testified the pair dragged her from a park- £ j eel car where she was sitting with “ 1 a boyfriend on a rural road near here in June She said the submitted without a struggle after one cf the men threatened her with a
knife.
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The report had interested the veteran detectives because it has been established that although he v/as fully clothed when his body v.as found, he wasn’t at the time
he was shot
There was a bullet hole in his undershirt and T-shirt but none i in his dress shirt or suit coat. In another instance, a test slug fired from a .38-caliber revolver taken from .a woman who had siightly wounded her husband in Barrington Heights Tuesday, failed to match the one taken from
Dance’s body.
Dance, reportedly, may have had more than $1,000 on his person on the evening of his death, and although the robbery motive has not been discounted the detectives said it isn’t likely Dance would have been undressed when he was shot or that a robber would take the time to re-dress
him.
“We still have a few aces up our sleeves,” Sgt. Brosius said, “and everyone who was known to have been with him that night or been associated with him is a suspect until we clear this thing up.”
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Divorce Rumored For Hazel Scott, Cong. A. Powell NEW YORK—Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (Dem. N.Y.) and his pianist wife, Hazel Scott are reportedly headed for a divorce. Friends of the famous couple, who have been estranged for the past four years, say they doubt that Miss Scott will seek a large financial settlement but may request full support for their 14-year-old son Skippy, who is now in an exclusive Riverside school. Miss Scott reportedly announced she had asked for a divorce because her husband refuses to pay “what I consider adequate support for his child.” That fact that Miss Scott is scheduled to go to Mexico for the divorce has led the public to believe that one or thej other may be contemplating another mar riage, but neither principal commented. Miss Scott, who had been living in Paris most of the time with Skippy, is now staying at an Eastside apartment house and is filling night club engagements while awaiting the re-writing of Langston Hughes’ “Tambourines to Glory,” in which she stars. Powell, 51, who inherited the pastorship of the Abyssinia Baptist Church in New York from his father, created quite a stii when he married the pianist-ac-tress. Later, however, she became popular with the congregation.
' STUDENT INTERVIEWS AUTHOR: Georne Mardikian, famous author and restaurateur, chats with Attacks sophomore Sheila Brown during an interview recently at Attacks High School. Mr. Mardikian, author of "Song of America" and "Dinner At Omar Khayyam's," spoke to pupils at the Westside school on his impression's of life in America. Arriving in this country from Armenia in 1922. Mr. Mardikian is now the millionaire owner of a chain of resurants, most famous of which is Omar Khayyam's, in Son Francisco. (Recorder photo by Charles Ervin, Attacks student photographer)
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