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Graduation exercises for the Sacred Heart School
Kindergarten will be held May 30 at 7:30 in the
school cafetorium. Members of the class are (front,
1-r) Michele Fullilove, Donna Lavender, Donna Jean
Vickery, Kathy Glebus, Laura Harper, Savanna Jack
son, Regina Little, Mona Evans, Brenda Demski,
Emily Shapard, Michelle Shackelford, Leigh Cain,
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CHOW ANNOUNCEMENT— Dr. Daniel Moynihan, presidential
urban affairs adviser, strikes a pose at the White House as
he tells reporters that President Nixon’s proposal to Con
gress on an expanded anti-hunger program to cost J 2.5
billion a year Is "the most comprehensive total program
•ver proposed by a president of the United States.”
Abernathy Says
Nixon Said
Nothing To Plea
CHARLESTON, S. C. (UPI) —
“He didn’t say or do any
thing,” said the Rev. Ralph
Abernathy as lie discussed
President Nixon’s refusal to re
spond to a plea to intervene in
a hospitals strike.
Abernathy, head of the South
ern Christian Leadership Con
ference, has been directing
much of the drive by Negro
hospital workers to union-'
ize Charleston's two largest
hospitals. He met for nearly
three hours with the Urban Af
fairs Council at the White
House Tuesday.
Abernathy reported in Wash
ington that Nixon “said noth
ing” when "I asked him to use
the power and influence of his
great office” to end the seven
week-old work stoppage.
In Charleston, SCLC Vice
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Wednesday, May 14, 1969
Sacred Heart Kindergarten
President Andrew Young said
he has little hope for an early
end to the dispute. He said the
state has interpreted the
group’s interest in negotiations
as “weakness”.
"Now they can come to us,"
Young said. “We are really go
ing to have to dig in for anoth
j er month or so.”
Young said his organization
i "was relaxing a little while’’
following a giant march Sun
day, but said the unionization
drive would continue until hos
pital administrators recognize
some form of bargaining unit
for the workers.
“We’ve got a lot of things go
ing on and it doesn’t look like
there’s going to be any settle
ment soon.”
Abernathy is expected to
make another visit to Charles
i ton later in the week.
In statement read at Tues
j day's council meeting in Wash-
I iugton, he charged the admlnis
i (ration’s response had been “in
adequate to the grave labor re
lations problem in Charleston.”
“Thousands of Americans
have expressed tlieir support
for the hospital workers
involved in a struggle which
has the most serious implica
tions for the domestic tranquili
ty of our nation,” he said.
The civil rights leader be
came irate when asked for
comment on reports that he and
the widow of Martin Luther
King Jr. were engaged in a
power struggle and the rivalry
had caused Mrs. King to cancel
a planned appearance in the
Sunday march.
“Mrs. Martin Luther King is
the widow of the dearest friend
I ever had in my life.” he said.
‘There Is no power struggle be
tween me and Mrs. King."
(back) Bryan Beck, Blake Casey, Brad Wynne,
Ashley Statham, Hiram Nix, Bobby Bums, Joel
Smith, Mike Slade, Glenn Howard, Stephen Barn
well, Robert Deraney, Philip Quinn, Tommy Mann,
Kevin Oglesby, Dietrich Reid, Caesar Zevallos, Bob
Slaughter, Ralph Gray. Mrs. Angeline Montgomery
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Evers Elected Mayor In Miss.
By ANDREW REESE Jr.
JACKSON, Miss. (UPD—Hun
dreds of new city officials were
chosen Tuesday in Mississippi’s
history making municipal pri
maries which saw the election
of the state’s first Negro mayor
of a blracial community since
Reconstruction.
Charles Evers, a veteran civil
rights leader and state director
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, outpolled incumbent
R. J. Allen 388-255 to win the
mayor’s office in the little town
of Fayette. Negroes also won
all five aldermanic posts in the
southwest Mississippi communi
ty.
Black candidates apparently
did not fair as well elsewhere
in the state. Incomplete returns
indicated less than a dozen Neg
roes won aiderman or city coun
cil posts in other municipalities
while at least seven advanced
to next Tuesday’s runoffs
against white opponents.
More than 100 Run
This was compared with
more than 100 black candidates
r—ning in the Democratic pri
maries in their first major bid
this century for city govern
ment posts. Several others qual
ified as independents and will
compete in the June 3 general
elections
About 67 Republicans filed for
city posts but most were unop
posed for their party nomina
tion and advance automatically
to the general election. GOP
primaries were held in only two
cities, Laurel and Columbus.
In addition to Evers, Negroes
were running for mayor in
eight other cities. All were de
feated.
One of the closest battles was
at Woodville where Marvin N.
Lewis, an incumbent aiderman,
nosed out Negro Ernest Wood
side 377-308 to succeed retiring
Mayor William H. Catchings.
An unofficial survey showed
three Negroes elected to the
five-member board of aidermen
at Jonestown in northwest Mis
sissippi, giving them a balance
of power. Single aiderman posts
were captured by black candi
dates at Hollandale, Moorhead
and Arcola.
Get Into Runoffs
Two Negroes went into the Nearly 25 blacks were elected
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runoff ‘ city commissioner
against white opponents at
Ctr’-sdale; two others won run
off spots at West Point; and
single Negro candidates ad
vanced to the second primary
at PasL Christian, Lexington,
Holly Springs and Moss Point.
Evers said he was ‘‘not too
surprised” that more Negroes
were not elected around the
state.
‘‘This was our first try
(at the city level),” he said.
‘‘We’re not going to w ! . every
thing the first go-round. This is
only the beginning. We’re going
to run in every race from now
on.”
to mostly low-level county posts
in 1967 in the wake of dramatic
increases in Negro voter regis
tration during the past five
years. The 1967 elections also
saw the state’s first Negro leg
islator of modern times.
A brisk turnout was reported
in most of the 250 cities
and towns holding primaries.
Negro candidates ran in about
40 municipalities.
Many out-of-state lawyers and
law students moved into Mis
sissippi to assist in the Negro
races, mostly serving as poll
watchers during the long hours
of vote counting. Car pols
were set up in many communi
ties and two-way radios used to
help get out the vote.