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ALL the SAN
ANTONIO and
SOUTH TEXAS NEWS
NO PROGRESS WITHOUT STRUGGLE
" If t h e r e is no struggle,
there is no progress.
Those who profess to fa-
vor freedom , and yet de-
preciate agitation, are-
fnen who want crops with-
out ploughing up the
g r ou n d .... Power cbn-
cedes nothing without a
demand. It never did and
never will."
--Frederick Douglass
San Antonio Register
RIGHT • JUSTICE • PROGRESS ,v
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While It is News.
Complete National
and World Wide
News Coverage.
VOLUME 42, NUMBER 29
Clemente
Dies in
Crash
SAN JUAN, P.R.--baseball
super star Roberto Clemente,
of the Pittsburg Pirates, along
with four companions, was kill-
ed, Sunday, in the crash of a
cargo plane on a mercy mis-
sion.
The four-engined DC7, load-
ed with relief supplies for sur-
vivors of the Managua, Nicar-
agua earthquake, plunged into
the ocean within sight of San
Juan, about one and one-half
miles north of San Juan Inter-
national airport, from which the
plane had just taken off.
No survivors were found, and
rescue units recovered only
bits of the wreckage in an all-
day search, Monday.
Puerto Rico Governor Louis
A. Ferre officially declared
Clemente dead, and ordered
three days of mourning be-
cause of “the death of the great
Puerto Rican, Roberto Cle -
mente. ”
The governor said that he
Issued the special proclama-
tion because “Clemente's pre-
mature death took place while
on a noble mission of charity
and neighborly love."
The 38-year-old Clemente
had agreed to head Puerto
Rico's earthquake relief opera-
tion when he got word of the
disaster on Dec. 23. His relief
organization had collected
$150,000 in cash, and tons of
food, clothing, and medicine
for the quake survivors.
The ill-fated plane had been
scheduled to leave at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon, but a series
of delays held it up for more
than five hours.
It is reported that Clemente
was on the verge of canceling
the flight. His wife, Vera Chris-
tina, quoted him as saying, “If
there’s one more thing, we’re
going to leave it until tomor-
row."
Memorial
HOUSTON--Memorial serv-
ices for Hobart Taylor, Sr. have
been scheduled for Sunday, Jan-
uary 14, at Christ Church cath-
edral on Texas and Fannin
streets in Houston.
The service will begin at
1:30 p.m. with music program-
med by the Prairie View uni-
versity choir, and a tribute
from Dr. Frederick G. Pat-
terson. Others participating in
the ceremony include Rev. Wil-
liam Coates of Wesley Me -
morial AME church, and the
parish priest Father Peak. The
cathedral’s dean, John Gibson,
is in charge of the service.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1973
IT’S YOUR NEWSPAPER
MARINE SERGEANT MAJOR EDGAR R HUFF
RETIRES--After 30 years service in the United States Marine
corps, Sergeant Major Edgar R. Huff--the first black Marine to
hold that rank--has retired. At retirement he was the first black
to serve 30 years in the corps, and had been sergeant major longer
than any other of his rank--black or whlte--in the United States
Armed Forces.
First Black Sergeant Major
Of US Marine Corps Retires
Register Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The first black ser-
geant major in the Marine corps retired this
fall, bringing to a close one of the most dis-
tinguished and unique careers any black has
served in the American military.
He is Edgar R. Huff who led the first black
marines into China at the close of World War
war II. Nearly 25 years later,
he was decorated for saving a
white marine half his age dur-
ing the Tet offensive in South
Viet Nam.
At retirement, he was the
first black to serve 30 years in
the corps and had been ser-
geant major longer than any
other of his rank In the U.S.
Armed Forces.
Sgt. Maj. Huff came from
modest circumstances to
achieve high military distinc-
tion and accomplishments in
three wars. He was working
the night shift in a steel plant
in his native Gadsden, Ala -
bama, when America entered
World War II. His father, now
deceased, was a veteran of
World War I and hopes his son
would enter the Marines. Young
Huff agreed. “I read one day
in the paper that if a Negro
was qualified he could be ac-
cepted," Huff recalls. “I al-
ways heard the Marine corps
was the best and toughest. I
wanted to be a part of it. I
still feel that
Armed Force.”
it's the best
Blacks are Fifth of Enrollees
In State-Run OJT Programs
Register Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON--Disadvantaged blacks com-
prised about one-fifth of all persons hired in
state - administered on-the-job training pro-
grams financed with U.S. Labor department
unds during fiscal 1972.
This figure is one of the highlights of a sur-
vey of the JOBS Optional Program (known as
8
JOP) Just reported by Manpow-
er Administrator Paul J. Fas-
ser, Jr.
The survey of characteristics
of 47,290 participants in JOPS
entry-level jobs shows that
more than 75 per cent were
white males and over three-
quarters were from disadvan-
taged backgrounds.
Half of all enrollees in the
program administered by the
state employment security
agencies under the Manpower
Development and t raining act
came from families with in-
come less than $3,000 the pre-
ceding year.
Other trainee characteristics
highlights:
--Nearly half were high
school graduates; 11 per cent
had more advanced education;
--Veterans comprised 30per
cent of male enrollees;
--About two-thirds of the en-
rollees had been unemployed
for three months to a year;
--Ten per cent were recip-
ients of public assistance; and
--Eleven per cent were hand-
icapped.
The JOBS Optional program
encourages employers to as-
sume a share of the responsi-
bility for training joDiess and
underemployed persons. The
employers, which are private
organizations, both profit and
non-profit, conduct the OJT at
their place of business and pay
(See FIFTH, Page 3)
So on June 2C, 1942, he be-
gan his remarkable career as
one of the first 50 blacks ever
chosen for the Marines. The
corps, now fully integrated, has
changed markedly from those
segregated days. Hut d< spite
the limitations of segregated
status, Huff went from private
to first sergeant in just 23
months while serving entirely
within the U.S.
Then he was made the ser-
geant-in-charge of all training
of black recruits at Montford
Point, North Carolina, near his
present home.
In the Pacific, Huff and other
blacks of the 5th Marine Depot
company moved supplies to
fighting units that were all-
white. In 194G, he led a black
unit into Tsien Tsin, the first
ever on Chinese soil.
Hardly any black has pass-
ed through the corps since then
who has not heard of Sgt. Maj.
Huff or been impressed by his
massive six - foot - six - inch
frame, squared away manner,
and sense of good humor and
fair play.
In Korea he got his chance
to fight, serving as a weapons
company “gunny" sergeant with
the 1st Marine division. He
made sergeant major--his
present rank--on December 31,
1955. He had gone as far as an
enlisted man could, and many
were recommending that he be-
come a commissioned officer.
“I declined it because the pay
for sergeant majors was higher
than what I would have receiv-
ed as a newly commissioned
second lieutenant,” he says.
“But, I feel that had I accept-
ed the appointment that by this
time I would be a field grade
officer.”
Huff returned to combat as
the sergeant major of the 1st
Military Police battalion in Viet
Nam.
When the enemy attacked Da-
nang in the early morning hours
of January 30, 1968, Huff ran
through an open field of wither-
ing enemy fire to reach a young
wounded white Marine. Round
after round kicked up dirt
around the Marine. So Huff
threw himself over the man
and took rounds in his elbow
and shoulder, but savin? the
Marine’s life.
Though wounded, Huff pulled
the man onto a stretcher and
dragged him to safety. Later
the Marine wrote: "Sergeant
(See MARINE, Page 3)
Texas Millionaire Dies
Suit Fired at Ozark J.
Crow School System
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Department of
Justice has filed a civil suit to eliminate the
remaining units of a once racially segregated
school system in the Ozark foothills of Arkan -
sas.
Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst
said the suit was filed in United States Dis-
trict court in Little Rock, Ar-
kansas, against the Conway
county board of education, the
six separate school districts
within the county, and the State
of Arkansas.
The suit said the state es-
tablished East Side School dis-
trict No. 5 and the Center school
of Conway County School dis-
trict No. 1 as Negro compo-
nents of a dual school system
in Conway county and has main-
tained them as all-Negro ves-
tiges of the segregated sys-
tem.
The suit charged this re-
sulted in a denial of equal
educational opportunities to Ne-
gro children attending those
schools, and violates the Four-
teenth amendment and Title
IV of the Civil Rights acts of
1964.
The suit said East Side School
district No. 5 is highly irreg- ,
ular in shape, consisting of 11
non-contiguous areas. The dis-
trict includes Negro residen-
tial areas but excludes white
residential areas.
Because of the Irregular
shape of the district, some
black children must travel ap-
proximately 25 miles by bus
to school in Menifee, passing
near or by the schools of the
five predominantly white dis-
tricts, the suit said.
The suit also noted that the
student bodies and faculty of
the East Side School district
No. 5 have always been vir-
tually all-Negro. During the
1971-72 school year, the dis-
trict enrolled 313 Negro stu-
dents and one white student
and employed 17 Negro teach-
ers and one white teacher.
In addition, the suit said,
members of the school board
Nine Die in
L.A. Holiday
Violence
LOS ANGELES--Nlne mem-
bers of the black community
here died violently during the
Christmas holiday in separate
incidents.
James Reed, 31, of Compton
was killed by a distant cousin,
James Robertson, 31, during
a family Christmas party.
Police said the two had ar-
gued, scuffled outside the home,
then a shot was fired and Re»d
was dead.
The murder occurred Christ-
mas eve.
DEAD IN CAR
The body of Clayburn Green,
50, of 8109 South San Pedro
street was found Christmas eve
slumped over the wheel of his
car parked at the intersection
of 67th street and Parmelee
avenue.
Green had been shot twice
under the arm.
Milton Bullard of 2421 East
115th street was shot to death
while he sat in his car in front
of a friend’s home in the 11000
block of South Zarzamora ave-
nue.
Detectives said the gunman
walked ud to the car. stint the
man, then fled. No arrests have
been made in Bullard’s or
Green's death.
The day before Christmas
eve, Levenice Fisher, 27, of
(See NINE, Page 3)
have always been Negroes as
have been all administrative
personnel.
Center school of Conway
County School district No. 1
enrolled 81 of the district’s 93
Negro students during the 1971-
72 school year and only four of
the district’s 79 white stu-
dents, the suit said.
During the same period, four
of the district’s five Negro
teachers and two of the dis-
trict's six white teachers were
assigned to the Center school,
the suit added.
The suit further noted that
white children living in the com-
munity of Cleveland are bused
directly past the Center school
to the school in W'onderview.
The suit said there are oth-
er feasible methods of school
district organization in Conway
county that will result in equal
educational opportunities being
afforded to the Negro students
attending the East Side School
district No. 3 and the Center
school
The Justice department ask-
ed the court to issue prelimin-
ary and permanent injunctions
forbidding the defendants from
discriminating against the Ne-
gro students of East Side School
district No. 5 and the Center
school.
The requested court orders
would also require the defend-
ants forthwith to adopt and im-
plement a plan to correct the
effects of the alleged past ra-
cial discrimination.
Attorney General Kleindienst
certified that he had receiv-
ed a written complaint from
parents of Negro school chil-
dren alleging that their chil-
dren are being deprived of equal
educational opportunity in Con-
way county.
Three
Bullets
Hit Man
A 19-year-old Victoria
courts man was jailed for as-
sault to murder early Friday
in the shooting of a Lindsey
walk man, who was hit three
times.
Booked was Alexander T.
Crockett Cavazos of 229 Pey-
ton place. He is charged with
shooting Winston Lewis, 29, of
118 Lindsey walk.
Police said Lewis was wound-
ed when a man fired several
shots at him from the 700block
of Labor street, with three of
the bullets striking Lewis in
the arm.
Officers reported the bullets
to be of a small caliber; Lewis
was treated at Bexar County
hospital.
Lewis had gone to Labor
street looking for two men whom
he suspected of removing a
wallet containing $1,500 from
his home, police were told.
wuLci a quviru l.c mis as sa) -
ing the men came to his home
trying to sell him a television
set and a stereo.
Cavazos was arrested after
Lewis named him to officers,
police said.
Two Women,
One Man
Get Cash
Two women and a man re-
portedly robbed a 40-year-old
Virginia boulevard man of $37
at Mesquite and East Commerce
streets Saturday morning.
Joshua Hall of 708 Virginia
told police tie was walking to
his car when the man approach-
ed and knocked him down, then
the women assisted in taking
Hall's wallet.
No arrests were made.
earlier that morninv, Moses
Prince, 3G, of 415 Willow, told
officers he was robbed of $30
cash by two men outside the
Apollo club at 3514 Nebraska.
Prince said he was told his
brother-in-law wanted to see
him outside and when he step-
ped outside, two men attacked
him.
BURGLARIES
Cecil Cole, 26, of 2340 Da-
kota returned home early Sun-
day to find $100 worth of tapes
and a $69 tape play er missing.
Sunday afternoon, Martin Ray
Davis, 23, returned to his 1706
North Alamo street apartment
to find a $50 clock radio and a
$125 portable television set had
been stolen.
Thieves left a filter cigar-
ette in place of a $375 color
television set at 553 Sterling
drive home of Beulin B. Stew-
ard Sunday evening.
WINDSHIELD HIT
Vandals caused $75 worth of
damage to the windshield of a
I960 model car driven in the
1300 block of Gembler road
Sunday evening by Wesley Ter-
I ell, 28, 4818 Wiidoak.
Mrs. Josephine Freeman, 21,
of 141 Ambrosia returned home
New Year's day to discover a
$114 sewing machine, $12
typewriter, $75 television set
and $25 coffee maker stolen
from her home.
An $80 .380 automatic was
reported stolen from the 630
Potomac street home of Mrs.
Wilma Carter, 22, early Tues-
day.
FIDC Urged
To Invoke
Anti-Bias Rule
Special to Register
NEW YORK -- The housing
programs director of the Na-
tional Association for the Ad-
vance njent of Colored People,
has called on the Federal De-
posit Insurance corporation to
place the public interest, es-
pecially in the area of provid-
ing equal housing opportunity
for minority groups, over those
of the vested interests of the
banking industry.
Testifying in Washington at
a recent FDIC hearing, on the
corporation’s proposed Fair
Housing Informational state-
ment, William R. Morris re-
peated an NA.4CP request he
made two years ago that the
federal government should not
delay in creating the regula-
tions called for under Title
VIII of the 1968 Civil Rights
act.
Specifically, Morris support-
ed the regulation's requirement
that lending institutions should
maintain racial and ethnic data
of loan applicants. To be effec-
tive, he said, this data must be
compiled on a national, region-
al, state and local basis.
"We believe this is neces-
sary to determine the Impact
and effectiveness of non-dls-
crmlnation laws and regula-
tions, tne inaac. t* nousing di-
rector said.
To strengthen even further
the proposed regulations, Mor-
ris proposed that the Fair Hous-
(See RULE, Page 3)
T.D. Armstrong,
Of Galveston,
Passes at 65
GALVESTON--T, D. Armstrong, 65, Texas
millionaire, succumbed Thursday night, Dec.
28, at John Sealy hospital, following a short
illness.
Armstrong was a powerful politician, and
in 196 1 was tne first Negro since Reconstruc-
tion days to b e elected to the Galveston city
council. At the time of his elec-
tion it was at first reported
that Armstrong was the first
Galveston Negro city council-
man in history, but that was
in error. Norris Wright Cuney,
following the Southern Rebel-
lion, was the first Galveston
Negro city councilman.
Armstrong was successful in
real estate, motel, drug store,
funeral home, and insurance
businesses. At the time of his
death he owned Tyler Life In-
surance company. He was pres-
ident of the Galveston Memorial
County hospital board of man-
agers, and belonged to numer-
ous civic organizations.
A son of Thomas and Mrs.
Mary Armstrong the family
moved to Texas from a Louis-
iana sugar plantation in 1913.
Thomas Deboy Armstrong was
six years old at the time.
h ollowing public school stud-
ies, Armstrong attended Tus-
kegee institute for two years,
but he received his bachelor
of science degree in educa-
tion at Prairie View A and M
college in 1929,
For six years lie taught school
in Port Arthur. He gave up
teaching as a career, and work-
ed for two years aboard a boat
operated by the United States
Coast and Geodetic survey out
of New Orleans, then moved to
Galveston in 1938 to become
manager of Strode funeral home
at a salary of $66 per month.
He entered the real estate
business while keeping his job
with Strode in 1943, with his
turning to real estate full-time
in 1943 when lie also opened
Armstrong's drug store.
Four years later Armstrong
opened the Little Shamrock mo-
tel and coffee shop in the same
block.
In 1958, Armstrong purchas-
ed the funeral home where he
once worked, along with Gold
Bond Funeral Benefits Insur-
(See MILLIONAIRE, Page 3)
Airman
Shot
In Back
A Kelly Air Force base air-
man was treated for a minor
gunshot wound in the back early
Monday and released from Wil-
ford Hall hospital.
Law rence Nellons, 46, of Kel-
ly Air Force base was taken to
tile hospital for a .22 caliber
bullet wound in his buck.
Homicide detectives report-
ed Nellons was at the home of
Ills estranged wife, Mrs. Mil-
dred Nellons, 34, at 5411 Plum
Tree drive, when the shooting
occurred.
Patrolman Albert Byrom
quoted Nellons as saying, I
shot myself in the back."
Mrs. Nellons, however, told
Byrom and homicide detectives
that she and her husband had
scuffled over a pistol when the
•■weapon went off.
No arrests were made in the
case.
Man Held
In Overdose
Death Case
I.OS ANGELES--A 32-year-
old man is being held in con-
nection with the death of a young
woman who reportedly died
See DEATH, Page 3)
History Made in Municipal
Bond Issue for Black Town
Special to Register
NEW YORK--For the first time in history,
anrnVu1?lcli^>a^ bond issue has been sold for an
™;™klacr- con\™ni.t>' b y a black - controlled
member firm of the New York Stock exchange
an°,“?e trustee named is a black-owned bank.
«7 Jnhlnnn np/e-,cnedented transaction, involving
6780,000 of 20-year first mortgage bonds”
was originated for the munlci- ment of Housing and Urban De-
pality of Mound Bayou, Mts-
sisslpi, by Herbert N. Britton,
manager, municipal finance de-
partment, Daniels and Bell, Inc.
Trustee for the bonds is Citi-
zens Trust bank, Atlanta.
Reynolds Securities Inc.,
members of the New York Stock
exchange, co-managed the pri-
vate placement with Daniel and
Bell.
Proceeds from the bond is-
sue will be used to build hous-
ing for low-income families
and senior citizens in Mound
Bayou, the oldest black muni-
cipality in the United States,
dating back to July 12, 1887.
The bonds are secured by an
annual contributions contract
with the United States Depart-
velopment, and further secured
by a first mortgage on the proj-
ect properties.
In making the announcement,
Travers Jerome Bell, Jr., ex-
ecutive vice president of Dan-
iels and Bell, said “I am proud
to be part of this historic event
and hope that the transaction is
the forerunner of many more
deals with black communities
and black businesses that will
serve to elevate the standards
of living amone minorities and
accelerate black economic
progress.”
Bell said that he was delight-
ed to have had such a prestigious
firm as Reynolds Securities
(Sec HISTORY, Page 3)
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