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'PRO
WITHOUT STRUGGLE
"K Own Is no struggle, ttwre
1* no progress. Those who
profess to favor freedom, and
y« depreciate agitation, are
MB who want erops without
ploughing up the (round...Power
coacedee nothlnc without a
deaand. It never did and never
will."
—Frederick Douglass
RIGHT
Register
PROGRESS
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All the SAN
ANTONIO and
SOUTH TEXAS NEWS
While It is News
Complete National
and World Wide
News Coverage
VOL. 48 NO. 23
SA.N ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRlD/vY, OCTOBER 27, 1978
IT'S YOUR NEWSPAPER
MOBILE, Ala. -- The De-
partment of Juatlce has filed
a civil suit challenging that
at -large election of county com-
missioners and school board
members In Dallas County, Ala-
bama.
Attorney General Griffin B.
Bell said that voting-rights suit
was filed In U.S. District court
In Mobile, Alabama, against
county officials and • political
party chairmen.
The suit charged that the at-
large-system -- by which
voters throughout the county
vote for all five members of
the Dallas County commission
and all five members of the
Dallas County Board of
Education -- violates the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments to the Constitu-
tion.
The suit said no black per-
son has ever been nominated
or elected to the com-
mission or board of edu-
cation, although blacks make
up more than half of the coun-
ty's population.
Neither the commission nor
the bears of education has been
responsive to the needs of black
citizens, the suit said, and
blacks have also been discri-
minated against In education,
employment, housing, and
public accomodations and fa-
culties.
The suit said the adverse ef-
fect of the at-large electoral
system upon minority parti-
cipation has been aggravated
by requiring candidates to re-
side In specific districts and
election by at least 50 per
cent of all votes cast, further
diluting black voting strength.
The suit asked for a court
order declaring that the at-
large system violates the
Constitution, forbidding the
holding of at-large elections
for county commissioner and
school board members, and re-
quiring the establishment of
fairly drawing single-mem-
ber districts from which mem-
bers of the two governing bod-
ies will be elected.
Stack Wit Pipe
A 00-year-old woman was
struck In the head with a pipe
Saturday, "for no reason," she
told police, that she knew. She
reported that a man had spent
the night at her house. During
the day he became angry, she
said, and struck her In the luck
of the head with a pipe. She
suffered a small cut in the hack
of her head, and was treated
REGINALD PETTY
m ACTION headquarters In
Washington by Carolyn Payton,
director of the Peace Corps,
VISTA (Volunteers In Service
to America; and the Older
American Volunteer programs.
Ms. Hill, who left for the
Ivory Coast In late August, Is
a former professor of human-
ities at Fordham university In
New York. For the last aca-
demic year, she was on leave
of absence from Fordham to
chair the department of modern
languages at Morehouse college
In Atlanta, Ga.
"In the past, I've been very
much Involved with volunteer
service for the poor and dis-
advantaged," explains Ms.HUI.
"I see the Peace Corps as a
continuation of this interest In
my life. It translates Into being
In a developolng country and
working along with the poor."
The new country director for
Swaziland, Reginald Petty, pre-
viously served with the Peace
Corps In Upper Volta as de-
puty director from 196V to 196B
and country director from 1008
to 1970. Since then, he luu been
a memtier of the National Ad-
visory council on vocational
education, a group that reports
to Congress and the President
on programs for IS million
vocational students In the United
States. In 1975, he Iwcame ex-
ecutive director of the council,
rejoined the Peace Corps staff
this summer.
Petty oversees the activities
of the 104 Peace Corps volun-
teers In Swaziland who are
working in education, agricul-
ture, community and rural de-
velopment, and health projects.
One of the first black scho-
larship athletes to attend Sou-
thern Illinois University, Petty
graduated from that school In
1956 with a bachelor's degree
in sociology and education. He
earned a master's degree, also
from Southern Illinois, In 19GQ.
Between degrees, lie worked
In Mississippi with the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating com-
mittee, a civil rights organiza-
tion. He alsoserved as the
director of education at the
Breckenrldge JohCorpsln Ken-
tucky liefore coming to the
Peace Corps in 19CG.
"One of my disappointments
when I was with the Peace Corps
liefore was the scarcity of black
volunteers," says Petty.
"Hlack leaders talk a great
deal aiiout their concern for
Africa. I think tliey should talk
to the black students coining
out of college aiiout Joining
the Peace Corps. It's an op-
portunity to show wiiether the
commitment to work with less
developed countries Is reality
(See TWO, Pace 3)
F ive«-Month Old Baby
Hurled Against Wall
m
Westly
John
Is Claimed
by
Sutton
Death
LIEUTENANT COLONEL--Lleutenant Colonel Wllbert C. Stevenson, chief. Property Management
branch, Brooke Army Medical Center (BASIC;, la promoted to his new rank by Brigadier General
Andre JAOgnlbene, BAMC commander. Col. Stevenson's wife, Adolphlne, and son, Wllbert. attended
the cere#-— ...
T
Death claimed John W jstly Sutton, native
Sa-i Antonian,scientist, educator,writer, and
leader, Sunday morning, Uct. 22, at 9:30
o clock, at Audie Murphy hospital. He had been
in ill health for sometime.
A member of a distinguished family, Sut-
ton was the first born of S.J. and Lillian V.
Bessie Brandon, and they were
the parents of a daughter, Mrs.
Jacqueline Sutton Southall.
Sutton, like all his sisters
and brothers, was reared In
this
Sutton. Born Sept. 27, 1897,
and one of fifteen children, he
was a product of the city
school system, his graduating
from Douglass high school In
1914. His father wus the pr|n- ,■ .ftcond Baptist church of
clpal of DojgHr . dty.
His college work was dor^ Sutton recently had pre seri-
al Prairie View college, ted some of his papers and other
university, Iowa State memorabilia for placement
slty, and Tuskegee Institute, < the archives of the Moor-
He received a master s degree Itpd-Snrlnqyn Research Cen-
from Columbia "university; in at Howard unWerlsty In
where he also did work on his Washington, D.C. Quite re-
ALYCE HILL
NEW PEACE CORPS COUNTRY DIRECTORS--Two new Peace
Corps Country directors recently departed for Africa to head
volunteer programs In Swaziland and the Ivory Coast. Mrs. Alyce
Hill, 36, left for the Ivory Coast. She Is of New York City. Reginald
Petty, 42, of Washington, D.C. Is the new country director for
Swaziland.
Two New Peace Corps Country
Directors Now in African Posts
Register Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Two new Peace
Corp3 country directors recently departed
for Africa to head volunteer programs in Saw-
ziland and the Ivory Coast.
Alyce H.ll, 36, of New York City, the Re-
ginald Petty, 42, of Washington, D.C. were
sworn in as country directors in a ceremony
and held the position untu i«
Ph.D.
He taught science at Drake
and Tuskegee. He helped to
build the first science depart-
ment at Jarvis Christian col-
lege. Sutton taught In the public
schools of New York City.
Sutton worked under the world
famous Dr. George Washington
Carver at Tuskegee, with Sut-
ton's becoming Carver's re-
search assistant.
In 1931 he was one of a
number of experts who went
to the Soviet Union to make
their talents available to the
Soviet people In the early years
of the USSR. In an Interview
with Register in 1938, Sutton
said that the opportunity to go
to Russia was made possible
by Dr. Carver, who recognized
Sutton's unusual abilities and
exceptional potentialities. Pre-
sident F.D. Roosevelt, with the
aid of Dr. Carver, "loaned"
Sutton to the Soviet Union to
help that country In productive
work In Industry, agriculture,
science, and technology.
In May, 1977, the Soviet
Union complimented Sutton for
his participation In the "Inter-
national pioneering work of
cooperation with the Russian
people."
Sutton married while In Rus-
sia. To this union a boy, Juan,
was born. Sutton's wife pre-
ceded him In death.
On returning to the United
States Sutton married Mrs.
cently, Dr. G.W. Carver was
posthumously honored at Tus-
kegee Institute, marking the
enshrine ment ceremony to that
Hall of Fame for Great Ameri-
cans. In connection with that
event, photographs, documents,
and other Carver memorabilia
collected by John W. Sutton
were on display In San Antonio
at the G.W. Carver branch of
the San Antonio jiuhllc library.
Sutton, for years, had been
writing memoirs on Dr. Car-
ver. He is the president of the
Sutton Fund. A picture of Dr.
Carver hangs in the Cam i
Culture Center, another In the
Carver library hoth given
through the Sutton Fund In
memory of Mr. and Mrs. S.J.
Sutton, Sr.
J.W. Sutton was a member of
Kappa Alpha Psl fraternity.
John W. Sutton's civic acti-
vities Inrlndp u.trk with th.
National Association for the
Advancement cf Colored People
In the "Spend where you earn"
campaign; the rebuilding of the
Nolan street underpass, and the
saving of certain historic
buildings.
obsequies for Sutton were
held Thursday morning at 11:30
from the chapel of Sutton-Sutton
Mortuary.
-Surviving Sutton are his wife,
two children, four grandchil-
dren, seven sisters and bro-
thers, nephews, nieces, and
cousins.
Work on New Broonf els
Bridge Set for April
The State Department of Highways and Pub-
lic Transportation has announced tiiat the
proposed replacement of the New Braunfels
avenue overpass with a new bridge and ap-
proaches between Burleson avenue and Inter-
state Highway 35 has been cleared for detailed
plan preparation.
The proposed improvement
wtll remove the old narrow
steel truaa bridge with its two
lane approaches, in their place
a span structure with four driv-
ing lanea, each eleven feet wide
will be coos true ted. A concrete
barrier will protect the four-
food wide pedestrian walks on
both aides of the hrldge. The
new approaches wUl carry four
lanea of traffic.
These Improvements will re-
quire additional rights-of-way.
They WUl be acquired by the
City of San Antonio. A public
meeting was held at Us East-
side Multi-Service Center on
July 13. The project was en-
thualastlcally endorsed by all
Ihoae attending.
A Social, economic and en-
vironmental aaaeaament bad
been prepared prior to the pub-
lic masting. Approval by a fed-
eral agency was delayed be-
cauaa of a cltlsen's request
that the existing bridge re-
ceive historical deelgnation.
A study reaulted In approval
of the proposed Improvements.
Construction plans should be
(8m BRIDGE, Page 3)
One Woman Cut,
Vase Smashed on
Another's Head
In a fu r ious, shatte ring melee in a residence
in the 400 block of St. Charles street,Saturday,
a five-month-old baby was hurled aginst a
wall, a 35-year-old woman suffered multiple
cuts on her face, head, and arm s, and body and
had her clothestorn from her.anda 54-year-
old woman had a vase broken over her head
JOHN W. SUTTON
DIES--John Westley Sutton,
distinguished scientist, scho-
lar, educator, and writer, died
Sunday morning, Oct. 22, at
Audle Murphy Hospital. He was
81.
Woman
Beaten With
Pool Stick
A woman was belabored with
a pool stick because she would
not become a party to a crime,
she told police, Friday. The
woman said that she was In a
lounge In the 2400 block of
Hackberry playing pool with a
man. A man she named wanted
her to t.ike her pool opponent
"somewhere" so that tliey could
beat him out of his monej.
She told police that when
■ihe refused to he a party to the
plot, he became angry and
struck her several times with
a pool cue.
Carried to Brooke General
hospital, It was necessary to
put a brace on her right arm.
Si. Man
Slashed With
Broken Bottle
An 18-year-old San Anionic
man was slashed with a wine
bottle, broken so that II could
be used as a weapon, In a
fight Saturday, In the 900 block
of North New Braunfels
avenue.
Treated at Bexar County hoa-
pital for cuta on the left arm
and hand waa Harold Hall, 40f
Moten.
Police reported that Hall
stated that he had given a mas
some money with which to bu)
wine. When the man returned
with the wine, Hall refused tc
give him a drink. An argument
developed, and Hall's cousin
joined In the dispute, and a
fight developed involving all
three men.
According to police
ac-
(See BOTTLE, Page 3)
and was kicked and beaten about
the body, according to police
reports. There was blood "all
over" the living room floor and
there were 'piece of broken
pottery" everywhere.
Treated at Bexar County hos-
pital was Alonza Mae Johnson,
35, address listed at 412 St.
Charles. Injuries In the babr
were not immediately ascer-
tained, as the mother picked up
the child and fled, and did not
return during the police Inves-
tigate.
Police reported that when
they reached the house, the
found Lola Matthews, 54, stand-
ing In the living room. The un-
ci. .scious Alonza Mae Johnson,
35, was sprawled on the floor
with multiple Injuries.
Officers said there had tieer
a fight In the living room and
kitchen. There was an argu-
ment, and Ms. Johmon allegedly
attacked Mrs. Matthews, hit-
ting her with a vase, shatter-
ing it, and kicked and beat Ms.
Matthews. The police report
continued that Mrs. Johnson
threw the baby against a wall.
Mother of the baby, according
to the report, was listed as
Beatrice Matthews, 17. Bea-
trice picked up her babv and
fled.
The report continued that
Lola Matthews using a small
knife, began slashing Mrs.
Johnson In self-defense.
It was thought that tne baby,
Kissy, had been hurt, but the
extent of possible Injuries could
not lmmedlatelv lie ascertained.
Dr. Walter T.
Daniels Honored
By Engineers
Register Washington 3ureau
WASHINGTON—Dr. Walter
T. Daniels, the first black to
attain a doctorate In civil en-
gineering, and for 32 vears a
guiding force In Howard's civ-
il engineering program until he
retired 111 1976, has been ele-
vated to lumorarv meml*r sta-
tus In the American Society of
Civil Engineers.
Daniels, one of 10 engineers
to be so honored, was respon-
sible for developing and estab-
lishing the graduate program
in civil engineering at Howard
University. He was the first
black person to tveome a re-
gistered professional engineer
in Louisiana.
The citation honors Daniels
"for liecoming a professional
engineer and educator Ui an
era hostile to his dedicated
pursuit of his chosen profes-
sion: his attributes of scho-
larship, humanism and profes-
sionalism are harmoniouslv ex-
pressed and reflected in a
teaching career rich In contri-
butions to the civil engineering
(See DANIEI.S, Page 31
Shot Fired
In Sunday
■ j ^
A 26-year-old East Com-
merce street man was arres-
ted and charged with attempted
murder, as an aftermath of a
late Sunday disturbance at a
1000 block Exxon station.
Booked for attempted murder
*as John E. Garrett, 26, 1746
East Commerce street.
Complainant In the case was
Thomas E. White, 24, 1402
Rlvas street, who was alleged-
ly shot at, but escaped Injury,
In the fracas.
Police, answering a distur-
bance call at the Exxon station,
shortly after 11 o'clock Sun-
dav night, said they arrived at
the scene to find Garrett and
White engaged In a fight, with
a male witness standing by hold-
ing a .32 caliber handgun.
After the two belligerents
were separated and Garrett
placed under arrest, the wit-
ness, identified as Alex Mc-
Afee, 53, a friend and co-
worker of the complainant,
turned the weapon over to the
lawmen.
McAfee told police that the
weapon belonged to Garrett,
who had drawn the gun on White,
wuo subsequently knocked it
from Garrett'* hand, just as
the latter fired. The spent bul-
let went through the side of the
bill of the complainant's work
cap, barelv an Inch from his
right eye, the report continued,
and finally lodged in the roof
over the gas pumps.
White told police that Gar-
ret had been "bothering" him
for about a week, declaring
that he (Garrett) wanted him
to "stav away from his ex-
wlfe and kids."
"Shop Early,
Hail Early
Drive Starts
ii
Postmaster John J.
has announced the opening cf
the "Shop Early and Mall
Early" drive for Chrlstmaa,
1978. This year the PoatalSer-
vice will be Joined with the
American Retail Federation and
the National Association of
Greeting Card Publlahers
In promoting the "Shop Esrly .
Mail Early" theme.
"By shopping and mailing
early, the public can be aasured
(See EARLY, Page J)
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