Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1967 — Page 3
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1967
THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER
Poge Three
Detroit woman to rebuild $500,000 store riot ruined
DOUGLASS' NEW POOL OPENS: The new $280,000 Douglass Park Swimming Pool was officially opened to the public Sept. 1 in ceremonies by the Metropolitan Park Department. On hand for the opening were
the (left to right) a group of youngsters from the Eastside area; in the center photo, Gregory Robinson, city free style and breast stroke champion for ages 16 and under, comes up from a dip, while in the last
picture, life guards pose for the photographer. They are (left to right) James F. Irvin, Sr., Susan Reed, Fred L. Randall, Lee Anne McNeal and Mitchcl
Ledford. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)
Soldier back from Vietnam says he suffered prejudice After returning home Aug. 14 American soldiers being bought from Vietnam where he served to the base. He described the for two years, 22 year old Henry Negro’s role in the Army as Clay Walker regressed over his “right because it has to be since experiences in the United States we’re living here.” He noted: Army and expressed concern for “My heart’s not in it.” In Vietthe alleged prejudice he ex- nam, he connected wires, dug perienced. holes and put up lines and workMr. Walker who served in the on radio and telephones communications division of the among other duties. Mr. Walker experience no discrimination among Vietnamese people, but said prejudice was exident on the part of the white master sargeant he served under while at Fort Lewis, Wash., and in Vietnam. The Arsenal Technical High School graduate said trouble with the sargeant began when he attempted to ask a question at the officers request during formation. As a result he received 24 hour extra duty for seven days. Mr. Walker said normally extra duty is extended one day and a soldier is given an explanation as to the reason for the punishment. Mr. Walker, who said the sargeant attempted to keep soldiers constantly busy, said the officer accused him of not liking him because he was a
white man.
The westsider said a young white sargeant had to do 150 push-ups as punishment because Mr. Walker did not have mosquito repellent while in Vietnam. “I encountered prejudice everyday in Vietnam. I was pushed down the line. Negroes didnot receive the same type of opportunity as white soldiers,” Mr. Walker declared. Whereas a white corporal with three discrepancy reports against him went unpunishd, a Negro soldier in Vietnam was busted
HENRY WALKER 29th Artillery was stationed in Tuy-Ou and Pliekeu, Vietnam. He said the Vietnamese welcome the Americans in their country since they are helping. He described living conditions in Vietnam as very poor. The young Indianapolis native did not engage in combat but served as a B.C.W. - base camp warrier. He did, however, recall seeing truckloards of wounded
from a sargeant to a corporal and given Article 15 in lieu of a court marshall, due to the white sargeant. The Negro soldier had only nine days left to serve in Vietnam. Mr. Walker said he went through the chain of command in Vietnam to get out of the communications unit. After he was allegedly squeeed out’ f a job in ammunitions through the white sargeant, he landed a job in sanitary division. Mr. Walker charged his commanding officer with sending unqualified white men out to work on radios and in other communications jobs to keep from selecting a qualified Ne-
gro.
He said, however, that perjudice does not exist in all units of the Army and that soldiers in combat “fight hard, live together and are the brotherly type.” “At times I wished I was on the battleground fighting rather than suffer prejudice,” he remarked. Mr. Walker trained in communications at Fort Ord, Calif. He returned to Indianapolis from Oakland, Col. after his Vietnam stay. His immediate plans are job hunting and going to school. Mr. Walker is the son of Mrs. Georgia Walker, 1402 N. Sheffield. Mrs. Walker is propietor of Georgia Walker’s Beauty Salon.
ANNIE COOLEY
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ONE OF CITY'S FINEST: One of the city's finest swimming facilities was open Sept. 1 in ceremonies at the Douglass Park Pool. The new pool, replacing a 40 year old plus structure.
Local dentist heads Natl Dental Assn.
Dr. Frank E. Chowning, a lo- ty, Indiana State Dental Asso-
cal dentist, was elected presi- ciation, for which he served as information and help concern- shop
dent of the National Dental As- a clinician, and the Anaerican i n g an appeal?
Mrs. Annie Cooley, 57, 129 W. sociation during its 54th annual Dental Association. ANSWER. The Government Ap-
DETROIT—“God opened doors daughters and sister never took for me before and I’m confid- a cent in salary, always ploughed that this time he’ll open ing t h e s ii m profits back into them wider for me again. the business. In 1960 she branchThus spoke Mrs. Florine ed oUt t0 a bigger location at Hawkins before a packed lunch- 13 3^6 Dexter Boulevard on the eon crowd of delegats to the Westside of town where her 31st National Boule of Sigma business grew by leaps and Gamma Rho sorority meeting bounds At the time that dishere recently. Though she had aster struck, she had 12 employevery right to be bitter, angry ees on the payroll and had put and mad at the whole world, on several teenagers for summer the gracious 64-year-old busi- employment to give them work-ness-woman instead spoke in an i ng experience, optimistic manner. While she hasn’t been able to During the five-day holocaust trace the statement to its source, that saw arsonists striking a businessman located near her homes and businesses with store told her that on Sunday their weapons of destruction, night, the first night of the principally Molotov cocktails, five day destruction, he had Mrs. Hawkins witnessed the raz- heard two men talking in whisping o the ground of th $500, ers and heard this remark e000 business empire that she merge from their conversation: had created over a period of “Hawkjns has got to go. Them 30 years. niggers don’t own that store, . . , L they’re just fronting for whitey.” And when she had finished Anyone who knows Mrs. her brief talk before the delegat- Hawkins knows that such a statees from 31 states who were in ment was absurd. She wouldn’t attendance only one question b e the type of woman to work 0 j everyone: ber fingers to the bone -to enWhy did it happen to a Negro rich someone else if she didn’t woman who put three decades own the business, of tears, sweat and heartaches since s h e was left destitute into an enterprise that Detroit business speaking, thousands of women had looked upon as a Negro men and women have monument of what a black wo- rallied to her support. Ministers man could achieve if she tried schoolteachers, housewives, teenhard enough.” agers and downtown fashionable Due to put on a fashion show Negro women in town, who said for the luncheon affair, Mrs. they were proud to be counted Hawkins was forced to cancel among her clientele, have literall these plans when her $300,- ally begged her to build from 000 a year gross dress shop, the ground up and many enclosvariety store, drugstore and dry ed checks into the hundreds for cleaning shop was completely future merchandise they want leveled to the ground twenty- to purchase, four hours after the rioting and Even at the Sigma luncheon looting had begun on Detroit’s women who have never met her Eastside. Who did it and why but were touched by her plight is something that he energetic came up to the dais at the end Mrs. Hawkins will try to fathom of the affair and gave her their when she comes out of the names and addresses to be mental fog that still envelopes counted as future customers to her. whom she could mail dresses,
suits and coats. Moved by her
Starting from selling door to determination they wanted to door and getting commissions demonstrate to her their faith from sales,, the native of Bain- and confidence in her ability to bridge, Georgia, who was raised rise up again from the ashes from an early age in Deroit, and create a business monument scuffled and wore out hundreds that any black woman could be
of pairs of shoes as she pound- proud.
ed on doors with her little bag But they couldn’t help but of merchandise. Her husband, shake their heads and wonder Samuel, now a retired motor how any arsonist, black or white, employee, while never taking would want to hurt Mrs. Hawkmuch of an active interest in ins. For here was a woman who
The Indiana Selective Service his wife’s affairs, always was not only had goodness in her System answer questions most around to lend her encourage- heart but regarded her stores frequently asked. ment and pay the bills. as belonging, not to her personQUESTION: Where may I get First starting with a small ally; but to the thousands whom
in 1947 on W. Warren, she tried to serve and pleasure
features a 165 X 50 Olympic size pool, located adjacent to the bath house, and an underwater lighting system and can be used by 900 persons. (Record-
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Selective Service System answers asked - draftees
Mrs. Hawkins and her two black or white, rich or poor.
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were held Sept. 5 in Jacobs dentists attending the meeting. Brothers Westside Chapel. Dr. Chowning is a graduate Mrs. Cooley was a member of of the Indiana University DenMt. Paran Baptist Church. tal School and did graduate Survivors include a daughter, study at the University of Miss Rosemary Cooley; and Pittsburgh Dental School, five sons, John WilUam, Earl H e is a staff member of Morand Robert Cooley, and James gan Health Center, clihician for
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: The fol- notwithstanding. With some dolowing is a brief synopsis of ing Rebecca finally succeeded.
there is a shortage of tool and £ett sSJk’^itteJTby William betwMn Hot" aiddfe make^ 0 e U xem^t ,n me a from “„r.°'on^e aCe Str0Ve t0 - r ^ tn ^ h0ld
being drafted? Negro family typical of those ANSWER: No, not as such, reflecting rising antagonism due While the Selective Service Sys- to racial inequality), tem is authorized to provide * * * for the deferment of any all since the events in William catgories of persons whose em- m. Johnson’s novel, “The House ployment in industry, agricul- 0 n Corbett Street” released Auture, or other occupations or guSt 2 4, 1967,by William-Fred-employment is found to be ne- e rick Press, New York,N.Y. date cessary to the maintenance of back to early 1950, its Negro the national health, safety, or characters have not yet come to intereset, “blanket deferments” re act as aggressively and vioare not permitted by law. Each lently to their ignominious pocase must be determined on an sition in the United States as indvidual basis. some of their fellows have QUESTION: Can registrants been prodded to do lately.
DR. FRANK E. CHOWNING who go to Canada to evade the Nevertheless the people here Nat’l Assn. President draft ever return to the United portrayed were strongly aware
States without being prosecut- 0 f the civil benefits and simply
ical, Dental and Pharmaceutical ed ? < justice due and denied them. Association, the Indianapolis ANSWER: Prosecution is a func- They were moeover aware of Dental Research Society, the tion of the Department of Just- their race’s innumerable contri-
the ice and not of the Selective butions to the development of
Service System. A registrant this nation and of the nation’s who is a citizen of the United haughty indifference to them States is not relieved of his aS their forebearers have been obligations under the selective since that first boatload of them service law when he leaves the we re dumped, shackled, upon
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omn’*! a ration Ho^nit- formed of his current address The story, set in a section of tion, Timothy and Charles, unni on 10+h w prp hpld and to obe y a11 lawful orders of Sprawlingtown, Ind., a counter- able to limit themselves to their cjpnt 9 at Tar.o’h<= Rrothprq that board. His failure to per- part of the near-westside of In- meager fortunes, launched on Westsidp Chanpl with burial in form any dutie s required dianapolis, principally focuses an adventure of burglary to Mpw rmwn Ppmptprv him under the law constitues a on Horace Pick. In spite of his obtain large funds for the high ry ’ violation which may render him ignoble birth and his inability to living they desired. Their pro-
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Mr. Sanders, 451 Blake, was a native of Vinegrove, Ky., and a veteran of World War I. He was a truck driver for the Hazelwood Transfer Company 20 years.
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acquire adequate training for ject carried them through sevlucrative employment, Horace eral criminal ventures, resulting longs and strives to attain a re- at length in a predictable end-
spectful life for himself, his ing.
wife, Moella, and their two The author uses the naturalsmall children, Gloria and Na- istic method of treament; that thaniel. is, it focuses on events and de-
... „ tails as would a camera rather
When we meet this young than select them as would a family, they have moved m on painter. Again a psychological Prentice senior and Rebecca approach is used freely to show Bryant, Moell s parents, follow- w hat the characters thought ing Horace s failure to become a bout their conditions in life, a machinist, an attainment his Although told with two main heart was set upon, or even threads of actions, events conto obtain and hold any job of verge at the conclusion to round
substance for a length of time. 0ut t b e story
In the household, unmarried, Wi ii iam m.* Johnson, the audwell also Moellas four bro- thor, long - interested in creH 1 . ers ’ ln ° rder tbeir ages: a ti V e literature, proposed to Timothy s urly grasping, give a slice of life of the Negro though disdaining heavy work ma sses. He hails from Greento attain his desires; Charles, viUef Tex f attended public joviai, likewise grasping, but schools in Greenville and St. willing to undertake any task Loui8> Mo ., continuing his bringing him material gains; stu dies at Wisconsin and IndiPrentice junior very industri- ana universities. He and his ous, if somewhat a wastrel, w ife reside in Indianapolis. with sieved pockets, and Ben-
jamin, a high school student,
mainly engrossed in youthful WILMA L. PERKINS “™
pleasures.
After going to the Bryants, Services for Mrs. Wilma L. Horace Pick continued his job- Perkins, 37, were held Sept, hunting with indifferent sue- 5 at King and King Funeral cess. Prentice senior, broad- Home. She died Aug. 29 at her hearted, urged Horace on in his home, 517 E. 20th. search. Rebecca, settled in her Survivors include her hus-money-loving way, more intoler- band, John; three daughters, ant of her son-in-law’s failings, Fostena and Pamelia Sommers, constantly rebuked and taunted and Laverne Perkins; five sons, Horace. Duana Wilcoxson, Frederick In time she sought to turn Sommers, Darrell, Gerald and the attention of the heretofore Lament Perkins; a step-son, loyal, faihful Mfaella to Joel Michael Howard; her father, Whitman, a friend of Prentice William Wilcoxson; and her senior, and a quite industrious stepmother, Mrs. Lazatha Wilindividual, his braggart nature coxson.