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16—The Indianapolis Recorder, Mar. 14,1964

Blue Blazers Continued from Page 11 ton Tanton aiding starter Mike Franaer with 18 points in a 73-65 chmpionship win over South Bend Central (our alma mater). Not enough can be said about the value of 6-foot-7 senior center Ted Reasoner nor 6-foot-6 senior forward Dick Penrod. Not enough can be said about the value of Bell’s youthful desire to succeed as a championship coach in his 10th season at the helm of what is considered the best job (and toughest) in Northern Indiana Conference basketball. * * * AT 43 THE former Central Teacher’s’ College All-American athlete has a lucrative career behind (and ahead) of him. It was no easy task winning eight sectional titles in 10 years and four regionals in five years with everyone trying to knock the skids out from under him. “Give all the credit to the kids,*' Bell said in a longdistanced telephone interview with this writer. “They deserved to win (the regional) and now they realise that they can go all the way.” Highly confident of what his Blazers can do (“It’ll take a mighty good team to beat us,” Bell said before last week’s South Bend Central game), diminutive Bell figures matter-of-factly that his team has the ability to be the last team off the floor at Butler Fieldhouse come March 21. He refuses to comment further. Can Elkhart go all the way to the state championship? Only time will tell. 1

Our Servicemen:

Hayes Jones Saving Self For Olympics CHICACO (ANP)—Hayes Jones, track and field’s “Mr. Hurdles", withdrew from the Chicago Daily News Relay shortly before the meet opened last week. Jones, of Detroit, has dominated the high hurdles event in America in recent years by winning 60 straight contest. He said he was withdrawing from the Daily News meet because his training schedule for the 1964 Olympics called for no indoor running after March. Cassius (X) Clay Criticized By Jackie Robinson LOUISVILLE—Former baseball star Jackie Robinson expressed pity for newly crowned heavyweight champion Cassius Clay for linking up with the Black Muslims, as well as impatience with Negro athletes who feel “they have it made” and refuse to participate in the civil rights fight, during a visit here last week. The former Brooklyn Dodger star expressed his views over television station WHAS-TV, after arriving in Louisville to participate in the city’s march to protest segregation and racial discrimination. Concerning Clay, who confirmed his membership in the Muslim sect headed by Elijah Muhammad the day after Cassius dethroned Sonny Liston, Robinson said: “I feel sorry for Clay because of his association with something like this. The only thing that can push more Negroes into the Muslim ranks is if white American continue to deny us our rights of citizenship.” Negroes, Robinson added, have the responsibility “to help our country grow,” and therefore must “get into the mainstream” o! American life. “America,” he said “is only as strong as its weakes link. The Negro will not staj down.” When asked why more promi nent and successful athletes lik< himself doesn’t participate in tht civil rights movement, Robinsor replied: “Because many of them thinl they have it made.” Robinsor criticized this attitude, saying “But they don’t have it made until the lowest Negro has it made.’ Jackie, who quit as executive vice president of the Chock Ful. ‘O’ Nuts restaurant chain recently to join the campaign staff of Gov Nelson Rockeleller of New York said he feels that in joining thf Louisville march he was repaying the city for the many courtesies extended to him during his minoi league career. He nlayed in Louisville while a member of the Montreal Royals, the Dodger farm team.

Paternity Suit Against Cage Star Dropped TOLEDO, Ohio (ANP)—Larry Jones, University of Toledo basketball captain was reinstated last week after he had been suspended for more than a month because of his involvement in paternity charges. The charges were dropped by the young woman and Jones name was cleared, Harry Everett, referee in Domestic Relations Court said here. Jones’ suspension was lifted in time for him to participate in the Rockets’ last two games of the season and this gave him a chance to become the greatest scorer in the team’s history. He had 1,264 points in less than three seasons of competition and needed only 66 in the closing contests to set a new record.

Four of 10 Negroes Active

WhereAreTliey?| n Stlidy Reveals

AIRMAN THOMPSON . . . Reassigned LACKLAND AFB, Tex.—Airman David W. Thompson has been reassigned to Ft. Lee, Va., for technical training as a United States Air Force cook. Airman Thompson, a 1960 graduate of Indianapolis Manual High School, recently completed his initial basic military training here. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Haskell B. Thompson of 2040 Wagner Lane, Indianapolis. * * * * CANNON AFB, N.M.—Robert B. Ray, son of Vay B. Ray of 2462 Main, Anderson, Ind., has been promoted second class in the United States Air Force. Airman Ray, a jet mechanic in the 27th Organizational Maintenance Squadron here, is a former student at Anderson High School. Ills mother, Mrs. Pha Woods, *-esides at 2432 Pearl Street, An-

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SOUTHWESTERN TAIWAN— Three Indianapolis Marines are participating with the Third Battalion, Third Marine Division in a coordinated U.S.-Nationalist Chinese amphibious exercise called ‘Operation Backpack” being conducted off the coast of Taiwan. They are Marine Privates First Class Charles M. Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Young, 2540 Columbia, and Clayton E. Wallace, son of Mrs. Norman Wal.ace, 1209 N. Illinois; and Marine Lance Corporal Jerry W. Gearries, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy G. Gearries, 1405 N. Tremont. Backpack is an exercise to test the amphibious capabilities and readiness of the forces of the Seventh Fleet and the Nationalist Chinese Navy. The exercise, with over 40,000 men and 140 units participating, will culminate in an amphibious assault on beaches of southern Taiwan, and will demonstrate the iffectiveness of the United States Fleet to rapidly move a signi-

By Staff Correspondent “Everybody talkin 'bout heaven aint goin’ there,” but according to a report on a three-year study recently completed by William K. Fox of the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis, four out of every 10 Negroes in Indianapolis are trying to make it there through membership in nearly 150 Protestant churches. Serving in neighborhoods where life is often cramped and crushed by such city forces as overcrowded houses and inadequate recreational space, over 100 Negro ministers are trying to lead their “flocks” out of the lower levels of socio-economic conditions into greener pastures of existence. Laymen are becoming more and more enlightened as to the mission of the church in a modern society, thus pressing the need for closer cooperation between the minister and laymen in the work of the church. In the report to the Advisory Council to the study, Mr. Fox stated that 55 percent of the churches studied had less than 200 members while 10 percent had 900 members or more. The study comments that at the very heart of the e«vil rights struggle of the 60’s was the Negro church and its ministers. It provided the advocates of civil and moral rights, a sanctuary for meet- * ing and developing plans of strategy and strove to give the movement spiritual content. According to Rev. Fox, Negroes “put on their freedom shoes to walk around the walls of racial division.” It is the opinion of the researcher that Indianapolis churches were slow to become involved in the struggle. It took the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963 to spark an Indianapolis Social Action Council into being, spur city and state governmental officials into action, and nudge a cautious National Association for the Advancement of Colored People branch into leading interested Hoosiers in public demonstration of their interest in the civil rights cause. Dr. Joseph Tayor. director of the Board of Fundamental Educa-

FATHER OF 2 JAILED FOR DISROBING AND “DISTURBING” CORPSE OF WOMAN IN MORGUE

PHILADELPHIA (ANP) — In a weird and bizarre case, a 37-year-old father was arrested and held without bail here after he

Scant combat force to a troubled j admitted to disrobing and “disirea in order tp assist an ally. turbing” a dead woman in the

Backpact is similar to those exercises conducted periodically by units of the Seventh Fleet with SEATO and other allied nations in the Far East to improve their proficiency in coordinated amphibious warfare operations and to maintain working relationships

.vith allied nations.

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LACKLAND AFB. Tex.—Airman Myron S. Betts Jr., grandson of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Bett of 3315 S. Landess, Marion, Ind., is being reassigned to Ft. Lee for technical training as a

’ook.

Airman Betts, who enlisted in .he Air Force a short time ago, las completed his initial basic nilitary training here. He is a ormer student at Marion High

School. c * *

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.—Marine Corporal Jimmie H. Dale, husband of the former Miss Vicde L. Dauss of 1022 N. West, r ndianapolis, is currently serving with Marine Battalion Landing Team 3 / 2 in the Mediterranean. He has been serving in the Mediterranean as part of the seaissault striking force of the Sixth 71ect for the past five months. The battalion participated in yari)us training manuevers and visitd ports in Spain, Greece, Italy .nd Franee.

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USS TICONDEROGA—Jerry R. •smith, fireman. United States x’avy, participated in training cxrciscs off the Hawaiian Islands /ecently aboard ' the attack air•raft carrier USS Ticonderoga vhich normally operates out of

ian Diego, Calif.

Ticonderoga when operating in i “Hunter-Killer” group is the mb oi a combined surface, sub■uriace and air detachment working together to find and destroy

memy submarines. Fireman Smith is

Irs. Hilda Smith of

Pershing.

Morgue of the Misoricordia Hos-

pital. . , . Arthur G. Smith, who left behind a wife and two children when he came here three years ago, was specifically charged with burglary and descretion of a dead body. The woman he “disturbed was believed to be attractive.

Smith was discovered locked in the morgue with the woman, who was not identified, by a funeral director. The mortician said he had gone to the morgue, accompanied by a guard, to pick up a

body.

HE SAID they found the door locked, instead of open, as is the custom. They became suspicious. The P’uard opened the door with a pass key and they found Smith in the shower room. The guard said Smith told him: “I am an employe and I was about to take a shower.” He didn’t say why. Police were summoned, and later it was found that the^ dead woman had been “disturbed. ’ Detectives said Smith admitted disrobing the corpse. Mrs. Amelia Patterson, an aunt, with whom Smith lives, said she doesn’t know of his ever having suffered from a mental condition.

Youth Training Camp Proposed At Atterbury

Plans to utilize the facilities of Camp Atterbury to establish a youth camp and job training cen-

, .Iter in an .effort to better prepare the son of; “school dropouts, draft rejectees

and is advantaged minorities" for positions in the increasing technical job market, was announced

KENNEDY HALF DOLLARS th The W n^onosed G cImn 0 whkh 1 mav 'wASmvrTOK’TANP, Be operation thiC summer WASHINGTON (ANP) - Be- be ated< of ap p r0 val is givore the year is oyer 64 ninhon |en under a from the Fed . 'all dollai pieces with the image (era j M an p OWer Development Train-

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vill be minted and issued. \ccordimr to Jacnue LeRov diBut by March 24, the nation’s | rector of * thc Governor’s Youth

;ommercial banks will have )00,000 Kennedy half dollars avail-

able for distribution.

The treasury Department announced that for this initial disribution individual specimens of he coin wll be made only through

Council, the initial cost program which will youths from 17 to 21 may exceed $200,000. The men will live, work and study at the center for oeriods

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As a coin of regular issue, the Kennedy half-dollar will be in jftect for a twenty-five year period, the Department stated.

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of the rst states to initiate such

a program.

LeRoy said the Atterbury project was “the next logical step from last year’s Harrison State Forest project.” Last summer 70 unemployed youths worked for two months in the forest and also received vocational training and remedial reading courses. Of the group 62 are now employed, two were classed as unemployable and the others have either returned to school or gone into the service.

tion, and Dr. F. Benjamin Davis, pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church, responded to the report. Both felt that the civil and moral rights issues were key concerns for the church as it attempted to breach racial and cultural barriers and make a united witness. THE MAJOR THESIS in the study is that the Protestant Church reflects the racial caste system present throughout American society. This condition prevents the church from being effective in its onslaught against the forces of urbanization in the metropolitan area. Under the guidance of Dr. C. T. H. Watkins, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, the Advisory Council considered the suggestions made in the study for the development of a “climate” whereby church leaders from both races could unite in a common ministry to the central city. The study recommends the following “first steps” toward togetherness among the churches in their ministry to the central city: 1. The establishment of interchurch orientation committees from both the races which would acquaint both groups within a particular denomination about their common origins, explain their present historical status, and suggest plans for future cooperation. 2. The development ,of interracial co-pastorates in certain residential areas of the central city and/or interracial group ministry teams among the churches in the

inner citjr. 3. Support a council or federation of churches which will hold up the ideal of racial inclusiveness in the practice of its own life and work. 4. Work through a denomination, council, or federation in the provision of laboratory situations in which Caucasian and Negro churchmen might grow together in spiritual enrichment, leadership development, and total Christian commitment. 5. Work through a denomition, council, or federation in helping Protestant churches to meet the critical service needs in the “hard to serve” communities. Such services might involve the development of special types of educational programs for adults and youth, and the creation of new kinds of literature to convey the reality of the Christian message. 6. Provide a means for the voluntary association of committed Christians to band together to meet the forces which prevent the full growth and life of people; to meet such forces under the banner of the Christian faith and in a creative way. 7. The development of liaison councils or committees among churchmen serving in neighborhoods of racial and cultural transition so that ways might be discovered for the church to make an orderly and effective witness with

School Heads Seek Ways to End Pupil Violence In New York

NEW YORK (ANP)—Teachers representatives here and in Chicago are up in arms over what they termed an alarming amount of attacks by pupils on teachers in the public schools of the two

cities.,

VOICING alarm for the situation here was Charles Cogan, president of the United Federation of Teachers, while John M. Fewkes, president of Local 1, spoke out on behalf of Chicago teachers. Both warned that something must be done quickly to remedy the situation. Cogan said that teachers in this city’s schools are being attacked at the rate of one a day and added that “in many cases incidents are not reported, the teachers are intimidated and the principals are likewise discouraged from making reports.” A spokesman for the board of education refused to comment on the charges, saying that they were to be discussed at a meeting last week between Cogen and Dr. Calvin E. Gross, the superintendent of schools. Cogan recommended that “principals be given freedom of action in suspending un-

a minimum of stress and strain. The Advisory Council recommended that these recommendations be considered in depth by interested churchmen and civic leaders. MR. FOX conducted the threeyear study under the cooperative sponsorship of the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis, Christian Theological Seminary, and Lilly Endowment, Inc. He serves as a full-time director of special studies with the Church Federation.

ruly pupils.

In.Chicago, the rates of attack was slower but their nature serious enough to worry officials. In one instance, a teacher carrying a musical instrument was beaten, thrown to the ground and robbed of her purse by a boy pupil, and two teachers and a principal needed medical attention for head injuries after they were attacked by an unruly group outside a

school.

BUT AT least one teacher fought back. Bobbie O. Britton, a substitute teacher at Carter Elementary school, was accused of slapping an 11-year-old girl in his class across the face, both with a ruler and with his hand, and the Board of Education said no disciplinary action is planned against him. The teacher has a good record. However, police said they had a warrant charging Britton with disorderly conduct in the alleged slapping. The most serious cases in New York City were those of an unidentified boy who knifed his teacher and of a 17-year-old boy named John Nappi who beat and kicked William L. Schulster, a shop teacher at a school in Brook-

lyn.

Maude Spurting Mrs. Maude Spurling, 67, 1034 Eugene, died March 1 at General Hospital. Services were held March 5 at Campbellsville, Ky. Mrs. Spurling, a native of Spurlington, Ky., resided at Campbellsville before coming to Indianapolis. She was a member of Fannie Chapel CME Methodist Church at Campbellsville. Survivors include three sona, Fred and Cell Spurling, Indianapolis, and James Spurling, Campbellsville; two sisters, Mrs. Josie Tucker and Mrs. Nettie Fisher, Campbellsville, and seven grandchildren.

Myrtle Young Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle Young, 73, 2061 Broadway, were held March 7 at Patton Funeral Home. She died March 4 at General Hospital. Mrs. Young was a member of New Bethel Baptist Church. Survivors include a son, Earl Young.

Sarah E. Jones Mrs. Sarah E. Jones, 78, was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery March 7 following rites at Campbell AME Zion Church. She died March 4 at her home, 7331 Mt. Herman. A life resident of Indianapolis, Mrs. Jones was a former matron of the Alpha Home and a member of Campbell Chapel. She was also an ordained deaconess of the church. A daughter, Mrs. Bernice Walker of Indianapolis, survives. Mamie Mayfield Miss Mamie Mayfield, 64, died March 2 at her home, 3363 N. Park Funeral services were held March 6 at Willis Mortuary, with burial in New Crown Cemetery. A native of Elizabetown, Ky., Miss Mayfield had resided here 47 years. She was employed as a laundress and was a member of Jones Tabernacle AME Zion Church. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Marie Parrish and Mrs. Maggie Caddie, and a brother, Sterling Mayfield, all of Indianapolis.

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