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OCTOBER 24, 1964

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Harry Oldham lands auditor position with P. R. Mallory

Twenty-two-year-old Harry Philip Oldham, 41. W. 35th, is living proof of the often resounded adage that he with proper training usually has only a brief period of “job hunting.” On June 9, only a matter of weeks after his graduation from Marion College, he became the first Negro hired as an internal auditor at P. R. Mallory & Co., 3029 E. Washington. Oldham’s duties as an auditor are primarily to examine the books at Mallory’s various

division (including several in other cities) to see that they’re being kept according to generally accepted accounting principles and procedures, and according to company policy. At Marian, Oldham, a Cathedral High School graduate, majored in accounting, the basic requirement of his position. He was referred to Mallory by an employment agency. He describes the company as a “really good place to work” and says he has encountered no racial discord whatsoever. “They accepted me well, even the executives,” he explained. “1 believe that if you go into a place with the right attitude, they’ll accept you. Attitude matters a lot. “I don’t think you can demand a job. I tried to make them think I really wanted the position instead of making them feel they had to hire me.” As any job holder, Oldham is naturally hopeful of advancement. He says he did not realize he was the first Negro hired in a “white collar” position with Mallory until someone told him. There are other Negroes employed at Mallory. His travels thus far have included a trip to Terrytown, N.Y., for a month’s work at Mallory’s largest battery division.

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Youth fells of her experience behind Miss. 'Colton Curtain'

By PAT WILLIAMS STEWART

Wfam earn as much as $2.50.

Two Negroes whom Miss Cohen knows lost their jobs for using the “white” library and “thinking” about registering his child in an all white school, re-

^ spectively. Housing for Ne-

groes is very poor - - few homes have running water. The deepest fear among ... potential registrants is losf ing their welfare check.

4*1 Miss Cohen’s day begins at

8 a.m. when she starts “can-

|| vassing the area” talking to a-

dults about registration and birth control and teenagers about going back to school. The response is usually favorable especially in terms of voter reg-'

< istration.

THE LOCAL rights worker related that it is safer for

James W. White is local salesman for 'Fighting Cock'

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Jeanette Jackson Mrs. Jeannette W. Jackson, 67, who died Oct. 16 at General Hospital, was buried Oct. 21 in Crown Hill Cemetery following rites at Jones Tabernacle AMEZ Church. Mrs. Jackson, a lifelong resident of Indianapolis, lived at 1428 Udell. She was employed 30 years as a salad maker for L.S. Ayres & Company prior to her retirement in 1959. She was a member of Jones Tabernacle, its choir and Sympathy Club. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Onoy J. Scott; a son, James Jackson; two sisters, Mrs. Mamie Babbs and Mrs. Esther Jones, all of Indianapolis. and three grandchildren.

BARRINGTON AWARDS PRIZE: Mrs Gloria Taylor, 1550 Barrington, beams as she displays a check in the amount of $150, presented to her by James C. Cummings Jr. (background), manager of Barrington Rental Development. Mrs. Taylor received the check as first place prize in competition which ended recently among the 700 Barrington families. She chose the cash instead of two jet airline tickets to New York. The competition involved referal of new tenants to the development. More than $500 was awarded.

Rites held for victim of burning Rites for a four-year-old tot, who died after suffering burns over 80 percent of her body Tuesday, were held Saturday at New Apostolic Church, with burial in Floral Park Ce-

metery.

Michelle Lynn Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner, died at General approximately seven hours after being turned into “a ball of fire” at her home last Tuesday,

Oct. 13.

Michelle’s clothes appraently became ignited as she played with matches near a pile of trash in the back yard of her

home, 766 N. Belmont.

Her mother, Mrs. Pauline

When you think of “Fighting Turner, had been standing on

ch^~rights"volunteers °to* work Co f. k " S' 011 ' 11 no doubt come up the back porch and spotted the in the areas inHuenced political. " ,th “ synonym of pm. hour- child s flaming body, became ly and financially by Senator ,K> ": vodka ’ or run >- s nckcn 8 "d rushed InEastland and Gov. Johnson than . However, another synonym to the house, in other points. She surmised to this cxc.tinK dnnk .s the Her screams attracted a

name of James W. White, en- neighbor Mrs. Mattie Harris,

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JAMES W. WHITE

MISS MIRIAM COHEN Returns to Mississippi

Among those devoted young other points. She surmised

white people volunteering time X or^esslTre'on ThTwhUe ergetie salesman for the Arch 33. 914 N. Belmont. Acting to better conditions for hun- „ n ™ t h r^h n Hr-im Beverage Corporation, 31 E. swiftly, Mrs. Harris removed

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paid $9.64 a week. With this sc . e " e « wel !: has been she pays for her own food, al- W1 ^ Arch firm three years.

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Dire shortage of Negro medics inspires drive BROOKLYN. N.Y. (NPI)— Dr. James L. Curtis, a local psychiatrist, disclosed here recently the beginning of a five-year-program to qualify more Negro students for medical schools. Some 31 Negro professional people have volunteered to counsel, as “Big Brothers”, eighth-grade students from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn for the next two years. Each of the volunteers have also pledged to contributt $200 annually toward scholarships for the students. Discussing the plan before the 20th annual Medical Following Inc., a Chicago organization that grants scholarships to aid Negro medical students, Dr. Curtis declared that Negro penetration of the learned professions “is still too largely confined to the ministry and teaching.” Dr. Eric Goldberg, president of the fellowship, and Mr. Everett Case, president, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which has donated money to the Chicago organization, were also speak-

ers. Dr. Goldberg pointed out one of the main problems in seeking more Negroes in medicine was getting enough good applicants. Another problem he said was getting voluntary hospitals to accept good Negroes as members of their staffs caring for all patients. Case added that unless something is done now, “We shall have to scratch around not for qualified candidates but for funds enough to meet the demand.”

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visited her family. The young Jewish woman has for the past three months volunteered services in Indianaola, Miss., through the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an affUiate of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). She is one of 10 workers. A typical segregated southern town of 7,000, the majority of the 3,500 Negroes are not allowed an opportunity to vote. Two thirds of the county, Sunflower, is Negro although only 114 are registered to vote—less than one percent of those

though she stays without cost

with a Negro family. The method of voter reg-

istration, lessons in English, politics and Negro history are offered to an estimated 30 or 40 adults, youngsters and teenagers daily in a renovated Baptist Church or “freedom school.” About one-fourth of the population is active in the movement and mass meetings are generally

Suffering from burns about the face, chest, legs and back,

and is the only Negro salesman the victim was rushed to Genworking for the six liquor eral Hospital where she suc-

wholesale houses located in the cumbed.

c jt y . The tragedy occurred around

White attended Crispus At- 9:50 a- m -

tucks High School and, before Michelle is survived by, in coming to Arch Beverage, addition to her parents, three worked at the State Office brothers, Julian, Wilbur and Building and Linde Air Corp. Robert Turner Jr. all of InHe is married and resides at d>anapolis; her paternal grand1508 W. 28th with his wife, Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rosemarian, and three children Turner; her maternal grand—Ariel, 11; James Gregory. 8; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otha and Darryl, 5. Lovelace, and a great-grand-The outstanding salesman is mother, Mrs. Edith Mae Tur-

7n expSng why she is giv- a member of the Masons Cos-

AS^VhUSTRATING us U 1S i^rr«=Je^v; - blink"Cook”*beverages working in a freedom school work in the ‘ Mississippi Proj- r_ d come in t he teaching the illiterate Negroes work doT^ It categories listed above. The how to vote and then seeing ) m Portant work to be doing. It ._ u_e.u

them go downtown to flimir a is medfiiri^£ul Hud I hdve the , . » * “special test” for minoritipc personal satisfaction of doing da S k™"*-

Louis Wilson Louis Wilson, 48, 1259 W. 36th, died Oct. 16 at W. 10th Street Veterans Hospital. Rites were conducted Oct. 20 at Our Savior Lutheran Church, of which he was a member, with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. Mr. Wilson, a native of Batchelor, La., had lived here 27 years and had employed 10 years as a pharmaceutical assistant by the Anchor Serum Company. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Tessie Mae Wilson; a son, Ricky Louis Wilson; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Oliver, Baton Rouge, La., and Mrs. Beatrice Dailey and Miss Ada Wilson, both of Batchelor, and three brothers, Ernest. Dave and Joseph Wilsort, all of Indianapolis.

rum comes in both light and

White attributes the success of “Fighting Cock” to its at-

“special test” for minorities, ... _ Miss Cohen still feels there is something I enjoy.

X thlTourthluse located F ^^eedoh, in segregationist Senator James Looter commented on Mrs.

O. Eastland and Gov. Paul

Fannie Lou Hamer of Rules-

it was an immediate success, and has been working its way

Westward.

All “Fighting Cook”

partment has taken out a suit whl1 ® llv i n 8 in Greenville, Miss. Vodka. Jim 'Bean, Yellowstone

against the county for discrim-

ination in voting.

As a repercussion for attempting to register many Negroes, most of whom pick cotton, have lost their jobs. The adult picker earns as much as $4.50 a day for 200 pounds of cotton, and a child can

Miss Cohen described Mrs.

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Ransom

Hamer as a "very wonderful, b and Hous( , of Lords Am .

warm person dedicated and sincere about what she’s doing.” The two met when they stayed at the same home while at a monthly civil-rights staff meet-

ing at Greenwood, Miss.

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Thc library COFO has opened for Negroes is due to the profound response of sympathetic civil rights advocates in the north. Miss Cohen said more books are djrely needed and should be sent to her in care of Post Office Box 30, Indianaola, Miss. There is also a great need for clothing and canned foods. Due to automation. Miss Co-

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