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liut It is Not Worth a Billion Dollars
THE National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People has filed a fonr.al complaint of
job discrimination at Lockheed Aircraft corpora-
tion's Marietta, Georgia, plant
It is the NAACP's hope that the government, in
conformity with its non-bias employment policy, will
order Lockheed to hire in Georgia without racial bias
—or have canceled a one-billion dollar contract to
build one hundred jet transports for the Air force.
The NAACP's complaint is to be reviewed by the
Air force, according to Vice President Lyndon John-
eon, chairman of the President's Committee on Equal
Employment Opportunity. He expects the Air force
''to take any action necessary to insure compliance
With President Kennedy's no job-discrimination or-
der.
The Marietta Lockheed plant has all-Negro work
sections. Many categories of employment at the plant
are closed to Negro applicants—because they are
iNegroes.
The plant has separate lines of progression for
Negro workers so that their seniority rights are lim-
ited as to advancement.
Cafeteria and rest rooms are segregated. There
are even separate time clocks for Negro and white
employees, with different colored time cards for each
race.
Lockheed's Marietta plant has most elaborate—
and costly—devices to assure separation of the races.
Management will argue, of course, that Lockheed is
simply following the mores of the community, that
It is no: Lockhced'< business to institute social chang-
es entrenched by long ye«rs of custom.
Under the executive order, the burden is placed
Unequivocally upon the contractor to prove non-
discriminatory hiring as a qualification for obtain-
ing a government contract.
The NAACP, in a letter to Vice President John-
Son, set forth:
"If the Lockheed corporation is not able to prove
that it is now hiring and operating in a racially non-
discriminatoiy manner, and if it refuses to alter its
present policies so as to conform to the specifica-
tions of the executive order, the contract should
be withdrawn."
Those who insist on it, and practice it, know, and
admit, segregation is very, very costly.
We seriously doubt, however, that Lockheed
thinks it's worth a billion dollars.
I
M. —
they died hot knowing doos would
rights for their families.
used to prevent civil
Paste a Dollar Bill on Your Wall
•"WiE are now feeling the effects of a generation of
extravagance and inflation which is politely
called a recession," says the Industrial News Review.
"The causes of it are paying for work not done, pay-
ing for over-production of crops which could not be
Sold, higher and higher taxes, federal and state debt,
Skyrocketing peacetime federal spending above de-
fense needs, and promotion of the welfare state phi-
losophy."
Certainly, it doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to
(discover that we are penalizing savings, pricing our
products out of world markets, and constantly in-
creasing the cost of living, as the purchasing power
ipf the dollar is driven down.
Paste a dollar bill on vour wall, and mark off
Jialf of it with a ed line for purchasing power al-
ready lost. Then, as taxes and government debt, local
Iind federal. £o higher and higher, mark off more of
t with red lines as the dollar value decreases.
Also depreciate the purchasing power of your
Insurance, your savings account, your pension, your
Retirement plaa,«5ww-fcr jr- fixed dollar asset as
Jrou add reef lines to the dollar bill on your wall.
The future value of the dollar rests with the
ople through the interest they take in politics,
bor, industry, and economic policies.
VA Information
For the
Serviceman
EDITOR'S NOTE! Veteran* nd
their families are asking thousand*
Of question* concerning tho benefits
their government prorldef for thorn
erough Veterans administration. Be-
w art tome ropmontatiro qaerio*.
additional information may b ob-
Jfeined at aa* VA office.
QUESTION—i am th* widow of
| World War II rMstan who had
pi months at overseas amice. Will 1
fst a pension andar tfca new pension
Jaw that want into effsat last July 17
ANSWER—m awisrs that you
to eHflMs far •
ply for It. Contort
The contact
help yoo make out your applies-
•*TlO$—Can 1 apply to the
Veterans administration fur a head-
stone for my buifhand's grave? He
wa« a World War II veteran.
ANSWER — Tes. Headstones are
available for eligiMt deeeawd vet-
erans of World War II. Although
applications must to to Uie quarter
muter general of the army, any VA
office will provide Information and
; other assistance In filing the applica-
tion.
QUESTION—Which VA domiciiiar-
iea have accommodations for women
veterans to live there as members?
A.VNWKK — The ilnmlriliaries at
Ray Pines. Fla.; Itayton. Ohio; las
Angelas. California, and Martias-
burg. W est Va.
QUDSTIOV—Why are some vet-
eran*' "children" receiving pension
even though they are elderly per-
son*?
ANSWER — Pensions to veterans-
children asually stop at aga 1H sr II
if attending school or whan th* «M«
■arris* In the caas af children whs
Between the Lines
X
.4 tan ferdM B. laittck,1
aUa to prarM* for
they roach af* It.
single, the pension Is continued a*
long a* this condition Imsln
For th* Aaao, h.ted Negro rreaa
our great wastage
SOME daja ago the writer
was sitting in the reception
room of the Richmond Rede-
velopment and Housing author-
ity, and noticed upon the walk
■ beautiful architectural driving of
Fairfield court®, a projected develop-
ment for Negroea.
Fairfield courts development ban
now been completed and hns proved
blessing to thousands of Negroes
who hitherto bud been huddled in the
ghettoea and flnmn about the city.
There can be no doubt that the
liring lot of Negroes ha been im-
proved immensely. Then near the
great Fairfield court* are the Creigh-
ton courtf*, another great housing de-
velopment for Negroes.
But long before these beautiful
eourta were built. Armstrong
high sAool had keen moved to
the eaat end and thea came the
"eourta" of one kind or another
to surround Armstrong with
Negroea and all in ail thousands
and tans of thousands af Ne-
groes have been forced into the
east end by the touting patterns
established by the housing au-
thority.
We have in tbia development not
only better housing for Negroes but
we have established here a harden-
ing of segregation lines that meana
the indefinite perpetuation of segre-
gation and all that goes with It.
Whether such master planning
was mainly motivated by segrega-
tion or Negro welfare we have no
way of knowing, but a# Its effec-
tiveness there ran be na question.
With the Negro committed to re-
sisting segregation and the limitations
thereof, and with segregation being
more firmly established, we can easily
see how great must be the expendi-
ture of mental energies that are In
tbe offering.
What is ,/ '
going on to a greater or less degree
throughout the country. And when we
observe tho phenomenon as a na-
tional matter we enn get some Idea
of the great amount of mental ener-
gies that hare been spent on the
matter of segregation and the vagar-
ies thereof.
It Is safe to aay that ways and
means of segregation and opposition
thereto mean a great diversion of the
nation's mental energies which are
needed to hurl back the rising tide of
communism.
The point being made here Is.
we are not In an international
position where we can dissipate
onr energies nn segregation and
its perpetuation, when the larg-
er task of national survival Is
demanding our all. This writer
Is not happy over the way the
dictator* of Rossis and Bed Chi-
na and Cuba are throwiug their
weight aronnd la this twentieth
rentary world.
The? seem to be trying to bully
our great nation and this writer take*
no pleasure In seeing our nation bul-
lied by Khrushchev and Mao and
Castro. From a casual or serious pe-
rusal of the press, one gets the feeling
that we are on the defensive.
Wherever it la a matter of
give and-taha villi
nists. va
Comanni at
It Md ha naUa atw
that the desire for peace h a
two-way matter, and it should ha
made increasingly dear that va
than the C<
our* H
nmnlsts that we are more desirous
of peace than they, thejr art
hound to rah anr noaea la Ifca
.r,
It would therefore be a wiae aid
profitable thing if this country awakes
to the fact that the time is at fchad
when the wastage uf our
rrgies in the perpetuation of
tion and the evils thereof moat ata^.
Our national wniUal b at
atake and same af the (ar-raMb-
Ing thinking done on aegregalli
must be done on ways and meaaa
af stopping khrashcher and Mnav
and Castro la their aravad
minatian to take artr.
If the energies that hnve
wasted on segregation had been clAtl-'
neled constructively we povlpy
would never have loot the great inter-
national advantage that waa oura at
the conclusion of World War I.
It la quite conceivable that I
proper channeling of euch CM
gles might hare brought a ca
for
There are a thousand good things
that might have been wrought vith
energies wasted on segregation, and
thousands of other good thinga could
be wrought with the energiea being
waste.1 daily in th* aeeking and de-
vising of ways and meana of perpetu-
ating aggregation, the child a( race
prejudice.
It ia strictly necenaary that this
nation stand up to the dictators and
talk back to them.
Can this nation afford longer
to waste its mental energies la
aegregatlouf
♦
day.
its germs characteristically Invade
the body's mucous membrai ja—usu-
ally in the throat. They remain lo-
calized but grow and multiply and
exude a poison which produces typi-
cal symptoms.
Recovery from one attach of diph-
theria usually, but not always, cun
fera an immunity against a second
attack.
The only effective control against
the diseaie ij active immunizations
of whole populations, on schedule*
,HlM«ed by family physicians. Rein
forcing abuts are essentiul during pre
sch<iol years, deairalile on entrance
ipto school, and optional throughout
school life and earjy adulthood.
Our Past
This Week
Br FANN IB & W/UJAMS
Br tka asaoilolsd Map.. Praaa
APBU. It, 18dt—Slavery va*
ahsilahsd In the District of
ColunMa, by payment si MM,-
*01J to
April 18. 1*23—Gov. Hummer
of Massachusetts accused Negra
fnfWio alavea af anon la iio*-
Aprfl It, 1T2S—An ordinance
was passed In Wast en whM pro-
hibited Negraaa, saalattaes and
Indian* (rem corgregating aa the
streets.
April M. ItOI—Joe Wolcott,
"the Barbados Demon," lost the
world welterweight title. He is
not to be tonfaaod with Arnold
( ream, tbe Mersey doe Walrotf
af recent boxing history.
About Your
HEALTH
(A weekly public service feature from
the Texas State Department of fisaltn.
Henry A. Holla, M. P.. commies
of health.)
Diphtheria managed to
strike down 95 young Tex-
atit in January and February,
state health department rec-
ords show, despite the fact that
measures fur controlling it are well-
kuown and effective.
The 1960 toll rcached 239. That's
76 cases above the five-year mediae
and 63 cases more than were
during the previous year*
"While worrisome t-o- state and
cul health officials, the l'.HM) figure
by no means a record, even for recent
years, but it is highly aignificsnt
when individual cases are studied:
104 of the victims had no immunising
shots whatever, and 38 had been In-
adequately immunized. Only # 16 had
received the full course of protective
shots.
Therein lies n basic truth concern-
ing communicable diseases and tl
control: outbreaks arc products
neglected immunizations.
Other parts of the world are bar*-
ing similar flareups. An outbreak ia
reportedly in progress in Santiago,
Chile.
Is diphtheria dangerous? Certain
types can lie quickly lethal. In some
epidemics the death rnte may reach aa
high as 12 per cent, but it is mora
commonly two to five per cent.
In communities where immunisa*
tions have been neglected, studies
show that about one-fourth of all
cases and one-half of all deaths sre
among children under five. On the
other hand, when childhood immuni-
zations have been adequate, but rein-
forcing shots neglected, older prisons
are more often the victims.
April 2<
sity, Nashville, Temu was even-
ed ta educate Negroes.
April 21, 1803—The Rev. J.
Bishop, Negra pastor of Court
St. Baptist church (white),
Portsmouth, Va.. established the
first Negra church ia New York.
SOCIAL
SECURITY
By JOHN n. PALMER
QUESTION: I receive w idow's
benefits, aud also receive henefita for
iy two small children. If I work,
ill I lose the children's benefits?
ANSWKR: No, your earnings will
affect only your own beneffts, not
those of other members of your family
who receive benefits on your deeeaaad
hdjpmaband's social serurHy retard.
1 • QUESTION: How will my earn-
ipss affect my benefit, after 1 am
Jfc
ANSWER: When you reach age
72, >on can get a social security
check for every month, no matter
how much >ou malte or earn. How-
ever, your earnings In the entire
year that you reach 72 are caanted
in figuring what hancfila can he paid
to ><iu for mouths before your 72nd
birthday.
Diphtheria today is probably the
same disease which cut down great
numbers of children In Hgypt during
the second century, and faithfully
described by learn<*d men of that early
QCESTION: J>o I have to report
my annual earnings to the social
security administration st the end of
the year?
ANSWER: You need la nuke an
annual ref ort If your earnings
amounted to more than $1900 far
the >ear, ar if aama af year benefits
far the year were withheld. Rat yon
do not need ta Make a repeat If yaa
were age 72 or over daring all months
of the year ar if all af year benefits
wera withheld far tka year.
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Andrews, U. J. San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1961, newspaper, April 21, 1961; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth399867/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.