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Who Will Be Atlanta’s
Top Ten Beautician Queens?
They Will Be Crowned At The Big Beauty Show, November 4-5
Contest Details Inside
THE
Quanta inquirer
’ ' "To seek out the Truth and report it without Fear or Favor"
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST’I7,I963
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Local Trains, Buses Readied
For Big March On Washington
NAACP REGIONAL OFFICE
LOCAL MARCH H’QUARTERS
Negro and white leaders are busy making plans and contacts to
charter trains and buses for Atlantans to travel to Washington, D.C.
and join the March on Washington For Jobs And Freedom, August
28 of this year.
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Atty.A.T. Walden
Veteran Democratic leader
Attorney A.T. Walden and pro
minent businessman and re
publican leader Q. V. William
son are expected to lend the
South East Council Slates
Return Visit To City Hall
The Atlanta Civic Council
will stage a return march to City
Hall Monday August 19th, if they
have not recieved a response
to their 17-page list of grievan
cies.
Mr. L c D. Simon and Mr.
Bennie T. Smith, co-chairman
of the Atlanta Civic Council,
told the Inquirer this week that
many people have indicated an
interest in the activities of the
organization as a result of the
impressive march on City Hall
last week. He stated that the
best way the public can help
the organizations cause is for
everyone to try to encourage
as many people as possible to
register and vote.
The Civic Council plans to
stage mass meetings and carry
out an extensive voter registra-
delegation of A tiantans to Wash
ington. They are co-chairmen
of the Atlanta Negro Voters
League.
The Southeast Regional office
of the NAACP has been de
signated as the headquarters
for the coordination of trans
portation to the nation’s Capi
tol for the march which is now
expected to draw some 200,000
participants. Georgia State
Field Secretary for the NAACP
Leon Cox will be accepting calls
from persons desirous of
travelling by train or bus to
Washington.
The national office of the
March on Washington Com
mittee has asked that one-third
of all seating on trains and
buses be reserved for the un
employed, who will be trans
ported without charge. Other
persons are asked to contribute
tion program. Mr. Smith in
dicated that the South Side has
most of the unregistered voters
in the city. He takes the position
that the council plans to bargain
with politicians for jobs with
their votes.
At the time of the August
sth march on City Hall, the
Mayor was asked to give the
council a reply to their grie
vances in 10 days. Mr. Smith
said that when the group re
turns to City Hall on August
19th, if the Mayor’s reply is
favorable then not only will
the south east area benefit but
the entire city will reap the
benefits.
Inclused in the grievances
were these facts: the city
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Price 100
to the overall cost of the trip
and pay their own fares. The
round trip fare for Atlantans
will be $20.00 on the specially
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Delaney Accepts
Position With
Dayton Newspaper
Paul Delaney ■ first Negro
probation officer, has resigned
his position with the city of
Atlanta to work with the Dayton
Daily News as a reporter. His
resignation with the city be
comes effective August 23,1963.
Mr. Delaney is a native of
Cleveland, Ohio and has been
with the city government some
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Paul Delaney
30 months. Previously, he
has been a reporter for The
Atlanta Daily World and The
Atlanta Inquirer Newspapers.
Active in civic work since
establishing residence in Atl
lana, Mr. Delaney has served'
as a member of the Executive
Committee of local branch
of the NAACP, chairman of
the NAACP Publicity Com
mittee and a member of the
Special Events division of the
March of Dimes. He is also
a member of The Helping Hand
Society and Sigma Delta Chi
Fraternity.
He is married to the former
Anita Jackson and two children
—Paul 111 and David.
Mr. Delaney reports to the
Dayton Daily News, a member
of the Cox Newspapers, on
September 3, 1963.
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Negro Voters Here
Past 50,000 Mark
See Story Page 8
CAPS AND RECAPS
BARBER ORDERED TO SERVE ALL
PITTSBURGH. .The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
ordered a barber shop proprietor to cut the hair of Negro clients.
The decision came because a man complained of being denied ser
vice four times. The barbers said, they were not trained to cut
the hair of Negroes or asked $7.50 for the job. The man said he
had received service there twice before when the proprietor did
not knowthathe was aNegro. At that time he says it took less than
20 minutes and the cost was $1.75.
RACIAL BARS FALL IN JACKSON
JACKSON. .Several government agencies have dropped racial bars
as a result of a civil service team probe. Result is the hiring
of Negroes to cleric al positions in downtown offices.
ELECTRIC LOCKS AID DISCRIMINATION
ST. LOUIS ..More than 100 tavern owners have placed electric locks
on their doors to prevent Negroes from entering. They are operat
ed by the bartenders who push a button when a white person comes
to the door and ignore a Negro who appears. Noting that the locked
doors violate the city fire code, one reporter remarked, “if a fire
should occur, there would be quite a few prejudiced souls in hell
afterwards”.
MEREDITH SCHEDULED FOR GRADUATION
OXFORD. . James Meredith is scheduled to receive the bachelor’s
degree in political science on August 18, 1963. The 30 year old
Meredith will then become the first Negro graduate of the Uni
versity of Mississippi.
GEORGIA GRADUATE GETS AIDA ROLE
FORT VALLEY. . .Mrs. Susie Cobb, a 23 year old 1963 graduate of
Fort Valley State will alternate with another soprano in the lead
role when the Indiana University Opera Theater presents Verdi’s
Aida. Mrs. Cobb is also expected to compete for an award given
by the National Association of Teachers of Singing,December 27-
30 in Detroit.
AMERICAN HIRES STEWARDESS
DALLAS . .American Airlines has hired its first Negro stewardess,
23 year old Joan Dorsey of Flagstaff, Arizona. She graduated
from American’s stewardess school in Arlington, Texas and will
work on jets serving the west coast.
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