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)IO PROGRESS WITHOUT STRUGGLE
"If there ie no struggle,
there is no progress.
Thosewhoprotessio fa-
vor frl^omi. Mid yet de-
preciate Agitation, Ate
memwho wA'nt c
demand. It never did and
never will.
--Frederick Douglass
S an Antonio Register
RIGHT • JUSTICE • PROGRESS
All the SAN
ANTONIO and
SOUTH TEXAS NEWS
While It is News
Complete National
and World Wide
News Coverage.
VOLUME 44, NUMBER 6
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1974
IT’S YOUR NEWSPAPER
FIRE GUTS MT. ZION CHURCH
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and contents.
Blacks
Enslave
Whites
COLUMBIA, S.C.--The oper-
ator of a farm migrant labor
camp near Ridge Spring, South
Carolina, and his two assistants
have been Indicted by a federal
grand jury on charges of con-
spiring to hold five workers In
involuntary servitude.
Attorney General William B.
Saxbe said an 11-count Indict-
ment was returned In United
States District court In Co-
lumbia.
Cleveland Williams, the camp
operator, and Roosevelt Band
and Leroy Alford, Jr., his as-
sistants, were named In one
count on the conspiracy charge.
Williams was charged in five
other counts with Illegally hold-
ing five workers in involuntary
servitude and In five more
counts with holding them in
s condition of peonage by pre-
venting them from leaving his
viu^luymeui ana control.
The Indictment said the of-
fenses occurred between May-
10 and June 14, 1974.
Five migrant workers were
named as victims In the con-
spiracy count, and two addition-
al workers were named <n the
(See BLACKS, P .4 4)
-Photo courtesy Express Publishing Co.
SSI Recipients BlirSlST
Rapes
Woman
Must Report
Changes
Persons receiving Supple-
mental Security income (gold
colored check) are reminded
by Gilbert G. Gonzalez,district
manager oi the San Antonio
social security office, that cer-
tain changes must be reported
to the Social Security adminis-
tration.
The Social Security adminis-
tration must be notified Imme-
diately If there is a change In
address, living arrangements,
family size or composition, in-
come, resources, or absence
from the United States for 30
consecutive days.
Blind or disabled persons
must also report any Improve-
ment 1 n medical condition,
return to work, or discharge
from the hospital, If presently
hospitalized. It Is also nec-
essary to accept available
vocational rehabilitation serv-
ices if there Is indication of
benefit from such services.
Students under age 22 must
report if they stop regular
School attendance
Other persons should report
to the Social Security adminis-
tration when a person getting
the supplemental security in-
come dies or becomes unable
to manage his funds.
Any at these changes can be
reported by writing or calling
the nearest social security of-
(See CHANGES, Page 4j
A 48-year-old Dakota street
woman early Sunday complained
to police of being raped by a
young burglar.
The woman told officers she
had been asleep in her home
when she was awakened by a'
young man on top of her.
Reportedly the man threat-
ened the woman with a sharp-
pointed Instrument, but she still
fought and scratched him.
The woman told officers she
did not know If her assailant
was a black or Mexlcan-
Amerlcan youth, but was sure
he had been wearing a wig when
he assaulted her.
Aoply for Job
At Once, New
Vets Told
‘Apply for a Job Immediately
at your local state employment
service office," the Veterans
administration advises veter-
ans recently separated from
(See VETS, Page 4)
SA Man
Killed
An early morning west side argument left
a 29 - year - old man dead Sunday with a ,22
caliber bullet wound in the mouth.
Dead on arrival at Robert B. Green hospi-
tal was Reed L. Taylor of 447 Laverne ave-
nue.
Witnesses told police Taylor and a woman
Identified as his wife were
arguing in an establishment In
the 500 block of Old Highway 90
west when she got up, went
behind the bar, then opened
fire on him.
Police were told the man
managed to walk up to the
woman before falling to the
floor.
The woman fled the scene,
police said.
COMES IN
Monday, Mrs. Carolyn Tay-
lor, 23, of 439 Laverne came to
homicide detectives and made
a statement concerning the
case.
Homicide Detective Lieuten-
ant Dave Keene said Mrs. Tay-
lor, the dead man's divorced
Wife, was not arrested and the
case has been sent to the dis-
trict attorney’s office for
further action.
$100,000 Murder Bond
On His Wedding Day
A young couple’s marriage plans were
dampened Monday when the prospective groom
was detained by police on his wedding day and
later charged with murder.
Reginald Johnson, 19, 2558 Del Rio walk, is
currently lodged in Bexar County jail in lieu
of $100,000 bond. He is charged with the July
15 murder of Mrs. Vera L.ee
CHARRED REMAINS--Pictured are the badly charred remains of a section of the balcony of historic
Mount Zion First Baptist church which, early Sunday morning, was ravaged by fire of undetermined
origin.
Firemen from three companies answered the early morning alarm and battled the blaze for several
hours before bringing It under control. And then, only after the once beautiful Interior of the huge
two-story stone edifice had been literally gutted. Damages have been set ct $350,000, to the building
Harris, 54, 703 East Ansley.
Mrs. Harris was one of three
Anglos slain during what police
believed was a robbery at the
Terrace Drug Store, 2908 South
New Braunfels avenue.
The other two victims were
George Tatum, 49, 603 Fay
avenue, who reportedly was
buying the store, and Andy An-
derson, 5 4, 858 McCauley
street, a delivery man.
All three were shot once in
the head with a small caliber
weapon, Homicide Detective Lt.
Dave Keene said.
TWO SUSPECTS
Witnesses told police at the
scene two black men fled the
store shortly before the dis-
covery of the bodies.
One of the men reported to
have been carrying a red box.
Officers who investigated the
scene say there was no sign of
a struggle, however, lt did look
as though one of the victims
tried to flee from his killers.
Another investigator said the
bullet wounds were made at
close range.
FINGERPRINTS
After a week of intensive in-
vestigation by homicide, rob-
bery and task force officers,
Investigators were able to find
Justice Dep'f
Sets "Rights"
Case Record
Register Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON—The U.S. De-
partment of Justice filed and
participated In a record number
o.' civil rights cases in the
1973-74 fiscal year, Attorney
General William B. Saxbe has
reported.
The case total was 236, 27
more than the previous record
established in the 1972-73 fiscal
year.
During the Just completed
fiscal year, the Justice depart-
ment’s Clvl Rights division
filed 179 legal actions, entered
19 private cases as a friend
of the court, intervened in six
other cases, and was defendant
in 32 suits against the govern-
(See RECORD, Page 4)
fingerprints belonging to John-
son at the scene, Keene said.
Another source said John-
son’s name was in a log book
kept by Tatum listing customers
who purchased a narcotic drug.
Keene, however, said he could
not comment on the accuracy of
that source.
DENIES CRIME
A Viet Nam veteran who was
to have been married Monday
evening Johnson was secretly
brought In that day and ques-
tioned by officers.
The Lieutenant said Johnson
repeatedly denied robbing the
store or killing anyone.
At 5-38 Monday afternoon,
Johnson was taken to the county
jail and booked for murder.
Magistrate Manuel Lopez set
the $100,000 bond.
MORE SOUGHT
Keene said his department
feels at least one other person
Is Involved In the crime, pos-
sibly more.
The three deaths bring San
Antonio’s black-involved homi-
cide count to 22 as compared
with 24 at this time last year.
They also mark six Interracial
homicides this year as com-
pared with eight at this time in
1973.
Rights
Decree
Obtained
MARRERO, La.-The De-
partment of Justice has obtained
a consent decree requiring the
owner of a bar in Marrero,
Louis<ana, a community near
New Orleans, to serve black
patrons and permit them to
drink on the premises.
The decree anc a suit charg-
ing Mrs. Agnus lU. Bourgeois,
owner of the A and A bar,
with, refusing to serve blacks,
were filed in United States Dis-
trict court in New Orleans.
The decree requires Mrs.
Bournoll *h< 4m hw
accommodatloni provision! at
the Civil Right. 1 act of 1964.
Assistant Atto.*ney General J.
Stanley Pottlnger, head of the
Civil Rights division, said the
decree enjoins her from any
racially discriminatory conduct
and orders that a notice he
poated that service is available
to everyone regardless of race
or color.
Not a Wise
Move,
After All
Lorenzo Pollard thought he
was doing the cautiously wise
thing Friday evening when he
took his wife’s revolver from
her purse and placed It in his
rear pocket.
He and his wife had engaged
In a family argument and he told
police he feared she might get
upset and shoot him.
By having the gun in his
pocket, however, Pollard was
confident he was safe.
During the climax of the row,
however, Mrs. Virginia Pol-
lard, 31, snatched the gun from
her husband’s pocket and re-
portedly shot him once in the
stomach.
Mrs. Pollard was booked for
assault and her husband was
taken to Brooke Army Medical
center for treatment of a .38
caliber bullet wound.
Asylum
Asked foi
Haitians
NEW YORK—The American
Jewish Congress, Sunday, July
21, called on the state depart-
ment to grant political asylum
to some 800 Haltans who have
fled the Duvalier regime to
Flroida, warning that their
physical safety would be
"gravely Jeopardized* if they
were forced to return to
Haiti.
The Jewish human rights
group also said that "racial
overtones" had been raised by
the department’s ‘denial of
sanctuary to black Haitians
while white Cubans are given
haven."
In a letter to Assistant
Secretary of State Frances L.
Kellogg, In charge of refugee
and migration affairs, Howard
M. Squadron, chairman of the
American Jewish Congress’
national Governing Council,
said that charges at ‘racial
bias” were ‘no doubt unjust
but inescapable.
“During the very period In
which this relative handful of
Haitians has been excluded,
thousands of Cuban refugees
have been liberally admitted
into the United States under
virtually identical circum-
stances, Squadron said, asking:
“It is Imperative that our
country not only actually be free
from racial discrimination in
determining whether to grant
political asylum but also that it
be perceived as free from that
taint."
Citing the ‘long-standing
practice of this country to ex-
tend generous welcome and hos-
pitality to legitimate refugees
fleeing from dictatorial re-
gimes," the American Jewish
Congress leader declared:
‘Whether the regime be of
the left, as in Cuba, or of the
right, as in Haiti, our traditions
mandate a more compassionate
and sympathetic treatment of
refugees who reach our shores
than has thus far been accorded
this group of Haitians."
LEGAL SUIT PENQJNG
The Haitians began arriving
in Miami in December 1972,
mostly by small boat. Their
appeals for political asylum
were denied by the Immigra-
tion and Naturalisation Service
on advice from the state depart-
ment, which has said it regards
the Haitians as economic,
rather than political, refugees.
In 1973, 209 Haitian refugees
brought suit in the United States
District court in Miami, which
See HAITIANS, Page 4)
$350,000 Damages
Sustained in Sunday
Muming Blaze
While arson investigators this week con-
tinued with their probe, community members
and friends of Mount Zion First Baptist
church sifted through the ruins of the flame-
swept structure, salvaging what little was left
of its contents.
Early Sunday a three-alarm blaze roared
Youth, 15,
Attacks
Officer
through the church sanctuary
at 333 Nebraska street, causing
an estimated $200,000 damage
to the building and $150,000
damage to Its contents.
Nine engine companies and
53 firemen were called to bring
the fire under control.
The second and third alarms
were sounded minutes behind
the first. Alarms came In at
3:55, 3:57 and 4:01 In the morn-
ing. An hour after the first
alarm the fire had been brought
under control.
SECOND FIRE
The blaze was the second
church fire In a week's time In
the same vicinity.
An early morning two-alarm
blaze on July 13 destroyed Zion
Star Baptist church at 834 Vir-
ginia boulevard causing an
estimated $30,000 damage.
Mount Zicn might also have
been completely destroyed had
lt not been for the church’s
brick structure.
Rumors In the community
Identify the pyromanlac as the
same In both church fires, but
Investigators have not officially
said this Is true.
Other rumors say the burning
of Mount Zion was an attack
against Its pastor, Rev. Claude
Black, who Is also a member
of the city council.
According to the latter
rumor, the arsonist (s) Is some-
one ‘out to get even with the
city council for the high utility
rates."
NOT POLITICAL
Rev. Black, however, dis-
credits that rumor.
“There was no political mo-
tivation here,” the minister
said, adding he believes the
arsonist to be “an Irrational
person."
Indicating he toe believes
a connection exists between the
burning of his church and that
of Zion Star, Rev. Black said
the fire ‘has to be the work
of an adult."
‘Had he been a child, I think
he would have burned a few
pews, but to perfect a fire such
as this one takes the mind of
an adult,” Rev. Black said.
RESTROOM WINDOW
The minister and officials
believe the arsonist entered
through a window In the women’s
rest room.
Rev, Black noted there was
a strong possibility the window
may have been open. “Even
if lt had been closed, lt prob-
ably wasn’t locked," he said.
Presently the church’s 1,200-
member congregation Is meet-
ing across the street from the
(See FIRE, Page 4)
Wonder
Why He
Wanted It?
Police Saturday were trying
to figure why a man would want
to take home a bullet Just re-
moved from his shcjMer.
Isham Grin age, 37, 803
-iu.j, iiau inwi sum 111 Uie leit
shoulder by a man In the 900
block 0# Onslow street.
The man was reported to have
shot Grlnage following an ex-
change of words outside a lounge
where Grlnage had left the
man’s girlfriend.
Hospital authorities told
police Grlnage took the .22
caliber bullet with him when he
left.
A 15-year-old Como avenue
youth was turned over to
Juvenile authorities Thursday
afternoon, July 18, for crimi-
nal deadly assualt on a police
officer, after he reportedtly at-
tempted to stab the patrolman
with a knife.
Police Officer Patrick Hem-
mond, 35, told fellow lawmen
the teener tried to stab him
when Hemmond placed the boy
under arrest for possession
of a push-button knife.
The incident occurred In the
200 block of East Houston street
in the downtown area.
Hemmond said he saw the
youth drop and retrieve the
knife, and had to order him
four times to drop it again
before the teen-ager then
threatened Hemmond.
At that point, the youth was
placed under arrest, at which
time he tried to stab the pa-
trolman. Another police of-
ficer at the scene assisted In
subduing the youth who was
turned over to Juvenile autho-
rities.
July 31 is
Deadline for
City Taxes
The July 31 deadline for final
payment of City of San Antonio
property taxes Is a week away,
City Treasurer Jeff Gordon re-
minded.
To assist taxpayers In meet-
ing that deadline and thus
avoiding the possibility of a
penalty, tax officials have es-
tablished collection sub-
stations at 54locations through-
out San Antonio.
The extlmated city tax roll
Is $33,437,409 in both real and
personal property assess-
ments, Gordon said.
Payment of city taxes prior
to the end of the business day
July 31 may be made In the
treasury office In the City Hall
annex, 506 Dolorosa, or by
mall to the Treasury Division,
P.O. Box 9066, zip code 78285.
In addition, tax payments will
be received at any of the author-
ized collection sub-stations
located In all HEB and Trlft-
tex Foddstores, all branches
of First Federal and San An-
tonio Savings associations,
Highland Park State bank and
Texas State Bank.
The city tax roll Includes
about 228,000 real or property
tax accounts, of which
110,000 are administered by
mortgage firms.
‘City taxpayers should note
that collections of taxes will be
made up to the close at the
business day July 31 at each
of the authorized sub-stations,"
Gordon said. The treasury
office In the City Hall annex
closes at 4:30 p.m., but other
(See TAXES, Page 4)
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