Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1964 — Page 2
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Father Conner appointed rector of St. Philip's Church
The Rev. Canon Earl L. Conner of New York City has been appointed rector of the predominantly Negro St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 702 N. West, it was announced this week. Father Conner, who is white and a native of Boonville, will succeed Rev. Henry J. Hill, who has been assigned to another church in St. Peters-
burg, Fla.
The announcement was made by the church’s senior warden, Wesley Jackson. A graduate of the former Central Normal (Cantebury) College at Danville, Father Conner has been assistant at the Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner) in New York. While at St. Philli’s Canon
Conner will survey the location of the 240 parishioners and their social needs and make
expansion plans.
Also a graduate of the Sea-bury-Western Theological Seminary at Evanston, 111., the new rector was archdeacon of Central America from 4960 to
1963.
He conducted pilot projects in large cities for the National Council of the Episcopal Church on urban problems as assistant director of urban work from 1957 to 1960. He formerly was vicar of St. John’s Church at Crawfordsville and rector of St. George’s Church, now St. Timothy’s, at 2500 E. Thompson Road. A World War II veteran, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleodea Conner of Winslow.
SCLCHolds rally to steer Negroes to direct action
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AUGUST 22, 1964 CAHS night school director attends workshop in Ohio Charles D. Walker, director of evening division, Crispus Attucks High School, and president of Adult Education Association of Indiana, participated in a Workshop on Adult Education in Ohio, called by the Ohiio Association for Adult Education. The workshop was conducted July 22-24 at the Special Education Services Center, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, O. Walker was extended the invitation by Dr. Edward R. Miller, regional director of Adult Education Association.
FORT WORTH, Texas (NPI)—A civil rights rally designed to steer local Negroes away from the peaceful application of civil rights statutes to a more determined and direct course of action was sponsored here last week by the local Southern Christian Leadership conference branch. The group, which staged the rally at Antioch Missionary Baptist church, pastored by the Rev. O. L. Hegmon, had as its principal speaker, Aaron Henry, prominent Mississippi pharmacist recently defeated as a candidate for governor of Missis-
sippi.
Before introducing Henry, the Revs. Marshall Hodges, Methodist minister, and local SCLC president and Paul A. Simms, exoressed disdain for
the failure of Negroes to fully explore the improved employm e n t opportunities offered them, and criticized the city council for practically ignoring demands for precise commitment on some civil rights is-
sues.
Henry, in his address, gave a detailed account of the problems confronting Negroes in Mississippi and pleaded for “full support of other area Negroes to their problems.” He urged “any action to get for the Negro full civil rights NOW,” adding, “We should take advantage of every opportunity to express our impatience, and to display our displeasure of racial discrimination in any form, anywhere in the United States.”
FUN AT THE CARNIVAL: These two scenes indicate the fun that was had by all attending a carnival sponsored last week by the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. In left photo, a group of children, under the
watchful eye of Mrs. Jerry Boone, ride minature motor cycles. They are (left to right) Deborah Barnette. In second photo 7-year-old Rhonda Rhodes, 918 Indiana, Apt. 715, bites into a piece of cotton candy. (Recorder photos by Jim Burres)
A TOAST AT THE AFRICAN PAVILION: A toast to the success of the African Pavilion at the World's Fair is joined by representatives of the Miller Brewing Company of Milwaukee—one of the major sponsors of the pavalion—and the Tree House Bar and Restaurant, which opened recently. From left to right are Tom Kappele and Len Goldstein, both representing Miller; Allan Voters, director of the Tree House and Ed Harding, the popular eating place's maitre d: Miller High Life is the exclusive American beer served at the Tree House.
Negro parents call for city-wide integration plan for all schools
The two School Board Planning Committee hearings this week gave Negro parents a chance to air frank opinions on not only the racial balance crisis at Shortridge High School but also on school integration in general. Though overwhelmingly showing favor to the proposal to assign students from two all-Negro elementary schools to all-white Northwest High School to preserve racial balance at Shortridge, the parents also confronted the committee with queries about conditions at other schools. ..FOR INSTANCE, Mrs. Essie Wells, 719 W. 31st, bluntly asked: “If rezoning can be done to make our (Negro) children go to Northwest, why can’t it be done to make other children (white) go to Attucks?” | Mrs. Wells was among the 25 interested parents giving testimony Monday night during a hearing at School 41. The committee - sponsored meeting gave patrons of the school, 3002 Rader, an opportunity to express views on the
plan presented by Shortridge PTA’s to option 9Bs of the school to enroll at Northwest instead .of .giving .them _a choice of Shortridge or Attacks which has an entire Negro student body. A similar sessiion was conducted the following night at School 44, 2033 Sugar Grove. If the proposal is adopted, graduates of the Northside school, who in the past went to Shortridge or Attucks, will be optiioned to attend Washington. ffl IN RESPONSE to Mrs. Wells’ question, Richard Lugar who presided at the meeting, reminded the audience of about 300 persons that the School Board has not yet adopted “any
plan.”
The sole purpose of the hearings, according to Lugar, was to obtain the suggestions and opinions of parents whose children will be affected if the move is taken. More blunt opinions came from Mrs. F. Benjamin Davis, an instructor at School 41, who contended that white children are often attracted to
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schools in “outlying communities” because their physical plants are in better condition than tho«e of inner-city schools which are largely populated by Negroes. She also questioned why white children in the “Golden Hill” area, which is embraced in School 41’s district, do not attend the school. On the other hand, she had nothing but praise for the idea. “I DON’T want my daughter to grow to 17 and then be thrust into a situation she doesn’t know how to handle because she hasn’t known white children. Shortridge parents suggested this plan because they don’t want another Negro high school. Neither do I want my child to go to just another segregated school,” she explained. The problem of transportation seemed to be the biggest obstacle in the minds of most parents. Northwest is located approximately 5 miles from School 41 while Shortridge is less than 2 miles away. Mrs. Gerald Jewell, 951 Eugene, whose daughter will be a 9B when school resumes, stated: “I’m in favor of integration. I think it’s won-
derful.”
She added, however: “I have eight children. That’s a lot of children to go to school. If the planning committee doesn’t do something about transportation, I don’t know what I’m j going to do.” HER CONTENTION was rebuffed by Mrs. Donald Grant, 1238 W. 34th, who recalled that “some of us used to travel farther when we couldn’t go to anyplace but Attucks.” She added that students often walked the distance. Also by Fred Phillips, 1222 W. 36th, who said he would be willing to drive his son somewhere to school everyday so he could get a good education. The most influential indorsement of the idea came perhaps from Mrs. Owen Cheatham, 614 Eugene, PTA president, who said her organization was in complete
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Continued from Page 1 A housewife in a better-class neighborhood on the Northside answered, “I don’t think riots will occur here. You don’t have the confining atmosphere of the ghetto, here. If you have the money, you can live almost anywhere in the city. There is anger, but you can’t keep anger burning all the time. “It’s not the seething kind of anger you have in New York. . And that’s because of politics. And a softspoken man who hid his face behind large sunglasses said he wouldn’t be surprised if rioting erupted. He was an ex-convict, unemployed and seemingly unemployable. ‘ Police is rotten,” he said, “I served time twice for somethin’ I didn’t do.’ Could the violence descend . . , and why? “It’s like, we|l, , somebody’s got a trade—say i he’s a presser—and he knows he can’t get hired no matter what he does’ cause he’s colored. Well that can build up in a man.” On that same street two friends said “the violence has already started.’ One recalled having seen a near-riot erupt a ; few weeks ago, with the police “just stoppin’ short of pullin' J out their guns. ’ “It’s a growin’ thing,’ said one. “Its gonna cover the coun- ^ try, he nation-wide.’ One of the j men said the police had left) the back seat of his car out
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