Buffalo Criterion, 1967-01-07

              vol 41 1 buffalo n v saturday january 7-13 1967 the buffalo criterion price 10 cents workers defense league may help unit here annual visit to old folks home colorful fr«h page stary on january 2 the upper room prayer band made their 19th annual visit to the erie county home in alden n y it was well attended we were glad to have people from lackawanna n y and bufffalo partici pate but we also received contributions from churches out-of-town namely from memphis tennessee the columbus baptist church dr a e campbell pastor mt vernon ohio wayman ame church rev j b ! singletary pastor roches j ter n v mt vernon bap | tist church rev julius d jackson pastor and from j lancaster n v the pres byterian church of lancas ter rev walter v watson • pastor i some of the churches that j the upper room's minister can count on for support | are antioeh baptist church ' faith baptist " new hope baptist peace bautist tried stone baptist first baptist trinity baptist pilgrim bap tist second temple baptist 1 also st paul baptist church st paul ame zicsi church second baptist church bethel ame church durham ame z.i • church mt moriah bap humboldt park baptist ' y&-y ':'.'■ ' -- ' ~ •■"'■,■ i the ynun ministers cm ference rev thompson pres greater hope bapt em church friendship baptist st john baptist ebenez.r baptist i the upper room can never forget jordan grove baptist church we have adopted their singers . n-o our prayer band and they councilman johnson says remap plan is racist plan would reduce negroes to only one supervisor ! council horace b john son democrat of masten dis trict last week vehemently at tacked the recently - approved erie county reapportionment plan passed by the board of supervisors in * state mem day a he termed it is inequiia we and bjatantly ami - ne ro"'tuid labeled ii us the republican remap plan 11 wged voter to defeat it when h comes up for tcienssian i cbeemeai'tog on the unas he said i'wa political boon iiiry tinea have been f«i«-n rt sikh it devious mini ns j to assort the disproportionate reduction of ibe five negro tv ! per visors wbo pi event y bold t*f ats'.oc the i 4 ra * ra be t lbo^i-^my""<^^~':^'li-±l other hswvs .;■»,-».. ._._,. ,- i'llrtf urge ill-reside m ttv j hamlin park are to cooper lif with home inspections { which he says aw not pro | greasing as rvpfasjrur am 10 psai tit the snhffxt of crrnoixka i of property in the ktngsley barbara m sims heads cora p maloney club tbe com p moloney democratic club held their regular meeting a jan 10 at the 133 club a rani party vat held and i mm installation of officers - barbara m sims la the new nee went judith john son v pres batty cod trey roc tec mary wise tntm j-ens'sca black man car tec carrie menifee chaplain and mrs mills . sunshine chairman mrs films wsj presented * as gavel and other prizes wcee awarded the '; affair ' arm j very well attended '. heads guo of of jinuary iwi lev joseph bridgewater was elected war*f shipfui master of the pgm's council ssi guo el of the group meets the first wednes day in each month al sis jefferson aye all past mast ers are invited dr stephen j wright right president of tht united negro college fund accepts a check for 150,000 made out to u.n.c.f by the ksso education foundation from robert 0 goodykoonte a vice president of humble oil & refining company looking on at left is 3 a m c a s avery coordinator of community relations for humble who is serving hi sec ond year as a national vice chairman of the college fund campaign humble oil is a con tributor to the esso education foundation es tablished in 1955 by standard oil company new jersey humble parent firm . 1967 naacp leaders the buffalo notional asam ciaien fee the advance meat of colored people will be led by i bey milton williams pastor el durban memorial ami limn church its newly-install ; rd president for 1917-48 he is shown second from right be j leg congratulated by outgoing i president donald lee to his left others are farmer wome n's auxiliary president lu cille err la led 2nd vice president kapha i dußard j past president and en right rev james hemphill pastor walls memorial a.m.k zion church past president new ist vice president criterion photo ■■■ - ■■ ■ ________ dies in vietnam te date negro buffalo has lost ahew five ■ fighting men ia tile viet nam struggle the latest to give his life wa he cary neat 18-year-old marine 1 in vietnam us than a month repoiled killed in action there he had shipped out to combat i»«m california alter return ' ing from a 21 - day furlough with his family here thai end ed thanksgiving day the son of mr and mr willie neal jr f 437 madison st his mother said she received nerd of his death tuesday without accompanying details she re ceived a letter from him last friday saying he was doing well callsting in the ma rine corp last april during his senior year at boys voca tional high school he took basic training at camp le jeune n c —■ eflfl-uing si-fl pbot u l head issues statement on powell case statement by whitney m fyoung it executive direc tor national urban league an action removing congress man adam clayton powell as chairman of the house committee on education and \ labor ■ - ... stripping away congress man adam clayton powell ! authority as chairman of th house committee an educa tion and labor reaffirms the national urban league's contention that such action indicates application of a ! double standard of conduct by members of the congress \ as the league csserted last september 22 if action was taken against congress j men powell simultaneously action should also he taken against other congressmen ' who have obstructed the will of congress and abused the privileges of their office since such did not occur in this case we can oily conclude that other factors than those relative to the heads build « « v mum,:^_ma&je pasjor erf delaine-war log amu | c reft is the mammary chair a of build mm unity ledvpfli-rsdeace,.'liberty tad dlgsiij the buffalo at filiate of saul aliisshy's tsass judge clears atty trammell a i t v wilbur p tram j mfill who was charged by i a grand jury with conspiracy when he was director of real j estate for tbe city of buf falo in connection with the purchase of the seneca st post office garage for the city's police garage was cleared of the charge by jus lice gabrielk charges of conspiracy and first-degree purjury were also dropped against city comp roller george d o'cornel i in connection with the garage ' probe mrs h smith is ill mrs helen smith of smith's { hardware became ill chrst mas day tat is now recov ing in buffalo general hospi tal y v • r *,■ ." , - ' by staff reporter wdl grant would include bflo program wednesday jan 11 about 55 tai»r leaders representing j various units of the building trades listened attentively to pins outlined by two officers 1 0 tie york city's workers i defense league wdl which has come up with a pruduc | • ye and workable program to j interest and accept negro youth into the a union malf si up ihe bu.lding trades l v fltiftg officers were ray j ■■&*& murphy director-of i ew york city's wol apprm v «** program who mid , thai mca^r the government would ;. finance program with _ m*.9m grant hicb ha **&* .*&** mr tto_gb . the ma p»mnrt tr idxne office at __; th yawsi*mu..-ia£btme',ht : project ia nyc westchester i county buffalo n oeve-i ' tmbd t accompanied - cat *. te trip here by ernes green f jmrltcjlitlm re»re«iihati«j bn wmml aid in setting up the buffalo wdl * the marl mmm „ ■ ' among those agreeing to the pita after a 10 minute re cess were charles pidard president of the building trades council of buffalo * ! vicinity apl-cio b ray 1 ertell president of the con struction industry employers assn and david a collins president of the neighborhood advisory council of the com munity action organization and 2nd vice president of the buffalo branch naacp collins also spoke for the congress of racial equality citizens council on human relations urban league community action organiza tion opportunity development corp and build newly formed laf group unity liv depence liberty & dignity the meeting was sponsored by the area revet & refer ral committee headed by robert merron at the park lane the meeting was chaired by donald r lee assistant di rector of the odc's project jet jobs education train ing others at the speakers table were mssrs green mur phy herron and peter j brennan president of both the nyc and nys building and construction trades councils cio-afl who has worked j closely with mr murphy and | , mr green and had high j praise tor the wdl has useful plan councilman charles black of { the ellieott district is hard at j work trying to solve the 19 year-old problem or issue of redevelopment in the ellieott district it was first proposed j in 1949 he is seeking to transform j the remaining idle land into j a vigorous development and is also proposing to build a puerto rican - american two level community center . it has been reported to this paper from other sources that land in the swan st area is almost entirely unmarketable and unappealing to developers j so council man black's pro , gram seems appropriate seeks action councilman johnson art hardwick addresses md in rochester .- arthur riar^wfcfc itf^^if ; they guest • t„ot • honori t a ', t_e^^e^kn(tr^h^b^pa ;; spon ir«d by fse^tkftgrjift^rea i department ot the oni»er sity o^.rofthenftr^&bool.'iol | medicine,'.on saturday j j-x " in buffalo bishop brumfield johnson of the united holy church of america inc with head quarters in boston mass is in buffalo conducting his annual winter meetings at 364 william st * - karl koch in concert at shiloh the 50th anniversary com i mittee of the - first sh tab [ baptist church will present mr karl koch organist and choir director of the memorial evangelical unit ed brethren church in coo cert on the hammond grand organ january tt at 7:30 p m at sbiioh bap tist church 14 pine st the combined choirs of shiloh directed by . mrs | kuthetta smikle will elm participate urban league head see page 8 annual visit see pa«e i build yylyyvm sm pate » johnson • see page 8 hardwick y ■ v .".:' j-.y--(s««g«se