Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1972 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

SATURDAY JULY 8. 1972

Indianapolis youths enjoy outing at Camp for Diabetic Children

Four Indianapolis children are mong the 90 who registered for two weeks of camping at the John H. Warvel Camp for Diabetic Chldren, Bardford W o o d s, Martlnville, sponsored annually by the Indianapolis Diabetes Association. They are John Risk, 2932 Priscilla Drive; Donald Ferguson, 738 W. 12th; Rex Scott, 2864 N. Illinois, and Deborah Rutland, 3126 Rutland. Like other diabetics between the ages of 8 and 15 at the camp they are spending their time boating,swimming, hiking, fishing, feasting on watermelon and playing tether ball and badminton. Camping facilities this year have been increased by the association to accomodate 20 children more than any previous year. Since most camps are unable to provide the special diets and supervision required for diabetic children, The Indianapolis Diabetes Association established the camp 18 years ago using the facilities of Camp James Whitcomb Riley at Bradford Woods which is made availatde by the Riley Memorial Association for physically handicapped children. Campers participate in a "decentralized p r o g r a m" where they plan along with

their counselors the activities which most appeal to them each day. With a ratio of six campers to a counselor, the diabetic children are supervised carefully to prevent any danger of insulin reactions from overactivity. Each child Is encouraged to learn more about diabetes and how to care for his own needs as a diabetic. This Includes camp instructions in diet as well as giving Insulin injections. For many children the canp is a first time to meet another child who is diabetic. A highlight of the camping session is a watermelon party where the children, all of whom are on special diets, are permitted to eat all the watermelon they want. For children on a special diet, this is a treat which the camp provides and controls carefully to avoid complications in individual diets. A cook-out where each child prepares his own food and a night of sleeping under the stars instead of their assigned cabin or tent are other ways the camp staff see that the diabetic children have opportunities to learn that they can do all the things their non-diabetic friends get to do. The Indianapolis Diabetes Association is a member of the United Fund.

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SHARES IN EVENT: When the 4,000,000th engine came off the final assembly lines at the Indianapolis Truck Engine Plant, 5565 Brookville Road, International Harvester on June 27, present was Fred Bell, the

first hourly employee hired at the plant way back in 1937. Mr. Bell is shown standing by the 4,000,000th engine. He resides with his wife Aleane, at 128 S. Catherwood, Indianapoll*.

Retiree returns to plant to see 4,000,000 I.H. engine

On hand lurd week when Hu' 4,000,000111 miglm- cum* off the final tiHMtMuhly lines WUN Retiree I red Bell, tin* first hourly employer* lo he hired a( the trullununolis Plant. He came lien <lui lug the foristrui iimi pei !<h| in July, 1937, and he retired lunt September aft© r 34 years and two months of HI service. We asked Fred what4,000,000 engines mean to him and lie answered; " My job at International Harvester was the first decent job I ever had. I started at 00 cents an hour and my take-home pay was $19,33 a week. That sounds real small now, hut hack in 1937 the "going rate" for factory employees was 35 and 40 cents an hour. "Before getting a job at the Indianapolis Plant, I w a s working for $12.00 a week at a shoe repair place downtown. My wife and I — we had been married seven months—were living with her folks and my new job here enabled us to have our own home where we raised and educated our two daughters. Both are married now, and I've been a grandpa twice." Fred’s job during the Plant construction period involved anything that had to be done — general handy man, running errands, chauffeuring v i s itors, etc. Fred recalls with a laugh his most unusual assignment. One of his bosses lived in a house with a crawl space under it, and a cat had gained entrance to the crawl cnare where it proceeded to "meow" loudly at all hours of the day and night. Fred drew the assignment to get rid of the cat. "It really was simple," Fred says. "I took my dog over to the house, turned him loose INDIANAPOLIS RECOKUi-K MARCUS C. STEWART Editor and Publisher Published Weekly By The George P. Stewart Priming Co. Inc., 518 Indiana Avenue. Indianapolis. Indiana, 46202 Entered at the Post Office, Indianapolis, Indiana, as second Class matter under the Act of March 7, 1870. National Advertising Representative Amalgamated Publishers. Inc., 310 Madison Vemie. New York. N. Y. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation, National Publishart Association.

in the cruwl npaca, and the cut wua out of there to auy in 10 euoonda," In early 1937 Fred wan assigned to Department 30 and he worked for a while on piecework in Department 08 prior to taking over the operation of the Safety Shoe Store in 1063. There he sold shoos, took orders for safety glasses, repaired glasses and did the bookwork until he retired. "I cannot forget the many friends I made here during my service," Fred says. "Aperson could not find a better group of people than you have here at the Indianapolis Plant, and I do miss seeing them regularly." When Fred retired, his IH friends expressed their appreciation of him In various ways — rewiring his garage, installing a light in his front yard, and giving him a police dog as well as a substantial amount of cash made up of

many Individual donations. Just last week an old fritfnd sent him a large package of fresh fish for his enjoyment. Fred still does light hauling with his International pickup truck, but he and Mrs. Bell are taking several weeks In August to travel to Europe where they will visit their daughter In Germany, and also take in the sights In London and Pars. That's the story of what 4,000,000 engines m e a n to Fred Bell, and there are undoubtedly thousands of similar happy stores about others who are working and have worked at t h e Indianapolis Plant. Fred and his wife, Aleane, live at 128 S. Catherwood In Indianapolis. Their daughters are Mrs. Winifred Jackson of Mannheim, Germany, and Mrs. Carole Ediston of E. 39th street in Indianapolis.

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by Joe Black If our Black communities have realistic plans to improve living conditions, one thing is perhaps more important than anything else. Our Black communities need to grow. By growing, I don’t mean in population. Or in area. Or in new building starts. Our communities must begin to grow, economically. The reason for economic growth is simple. We must establish and attract business to our communities. But, to attract new business, we are faced with some nasty, old business we have to take care of first. The business of curbing crime in our communities. We must all begin to give greater respect to law and order, and stop remaining silent when we see it being broken. We must stop excusing Black crime, and turning our eyes away from it when we see it happening. Black robbing, and extorting from Black business is not beautiful. We need to weed out that insidious element from our neighborhoods, soon. Wc have to stand together and stamp out the parasites who call us brother to our faces, then rob us blind when our backs are turned. I simply can’t believe that Black crime is the result of years of deprivation and oppression. If so, why aren’t we all stealing and killing? I.et us stand strong against crime. All of us. When we do, we will make our neighborhoods far more attractive to business. Which, in turn, will create more jobs. And reduce insurance rates. And add millions of dollars to our spendable income. Consider for a moment: Can crime do as much for all of us?

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Midwest black community’s early history set for publication

GALESBURG, HI. (Special) — Tills historic prairie town of 40,000 Is unique because education and humanitarian projects have always rated higher among the populace • than those which resulted In vast money-making. Starting In 1837. when settlers arrived from upstate New York on these rolling flatlands of Illinois, to found a town and a college, moral emphasis has always been firmly based on two ideas. The first was that Galesburg should foster schools. To this end, the city fathers have traditionally aimed for and atmosphere which is conducive to public education. The second was that the less — fortunate members of society should enjoy whatever benefits and protection that might reasonably be hoped to flow from a broadbased school system. Records show that the first settlers brought with them a freed male Negro from upstate New York, believed to have been named John Bryan. Almost Immediately, the Congregational colonists In L o g City, the village which preceded Galesburg's establishment — almost immediately these people set up an AntiSlavery Society. Within a short while, the tiny settlement was known as one of the the busiest of the Underground Railroad "stations." Exactly how many fugitives from slavery found a safe haven tnGelenburg, while en route to Canada, has never been determined. But conalderlng the number that remained permanently, It la evident that thoae people were convinced It would be worthwhile. Today, Galesburg'a black community numbers many families with antecedents extending further back locally than a great many others. Perhaps the benefits resulting from the ties between education and hutnanl t a r 1 a n aims In Galesburg are boat illustrated by the story of Hiram R, Revels, the Vegro from the South who was born free tn 1827 and who devoted his life to preaching and helping his people. In 1857, Revels--then aged 30 and married -- landed In Galesburg. He became a scholarship student and a teaching assistant in the Knox College Academy. After remaining for an extending period, Revels, with the onset of the Civil War, returned East and got into rescue work. Following the War, he resided in Natchez, Mississippi. He was elected as United States Senator and occupied the vacant seat inCongress that had once been that of Jefferson Davis. In 1870, Revels returned to Galesburg on a speaking tour and the newspapers of the time carry most laudatory comments about his brilliance and good nature. It is possible, too, that a beautiful black lady who preceded Revels into the town of G a 1 e s bu r g contributed her high drama to the story. Susan Richardson was apparently brought Into Illinois by a slave-owning planter from Georgia. Of her early life in the South, quite a good deal is recorded in the official records of Illinois legal

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files dating In the early 1840's. She had three children — two of them around kindergarten age, and one around high school age, a boy. Susan, with her children, and with another young colored lady, escaped from Randolph, County, Illinois. They fled North twoard Galesburg. Susan and her party got to Knoxville. It i s ten miles east of Galesburg and was then the County Seat. The rest of the sad story tells how the slave owner pursued Susan, managed to take her children away forever, and how the brokenhearted woman was carried to Galesburg. There she spent the rest of her life in external peace, but with the tragic memory ever in her thoughts. Today Negroes who reside in Galesburg, a ndespecially those who are parents and homemakers, want to see their children well-informed about their local history. Admittedly, a town of 40,000 would likely have rather limited resources for the provision of anything so sophisticated as new books that tell in detail about the local community. This, however, has now been circumvented and the benefits should be evident soon. In 1970, named after the town's famous Abolitionist and Civil War nurse, Mother Blckerdyke, there came into existence at t h e Galesburg Public. Library a non prolt, educational publisher. This undertaking alms at publishing sejected Items In the Pnpera Of Mother Hlekerdyker or else Items which are worthy of Inclusion under the Imprint. So f w r, the group has brought out three lKs>ks. T his summer, the MB.H.C. will present a two-volume compilation of Illinois manuscript material. Titled "Voices of the Prairie Land,” the s e t

has already been ordered by the local Board of Education, for inclusion in all middle school, junior high and high school learning center libraries. One of the more exciting chapters is "Hiram Revels and the Negroes of Galesburg’’ and here at last In found the documentary material from the 1840’s and later, which tells about Susan Richardson, Hiram Revels, and many others. There are newspaper articles, letters, essays, photographs and antique prints. A television program is to be produced drawing on this material. Just how many other towns in the United States, given the size and resources of Galesburg, haven gotten the documentary history of their black communities published and into the public schools — this would be interesting to know. For it most assuredly can be done, If people are willing to make the effort, do the research, prepare the manuscripts and pay for publication. Galesburg, of course, Is not stopping for a frenzy of selfcongratulation over the publication of "Voices of the Prairie Land." There are too many other and new things to do, and to search for. The great mural of midwestern life Is lH>comliig clearer now, thanks to education, a n d people at last have a letter chance to locate some realistic answers*

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