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RIGHT • JUSTICE • PROGRESS
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VOLUME 43, NUMBER 3 SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1973 IT’S YOUR NEWSPAPER
All the SAN
ANTONIO and
SOUTH TEXAS NEWS
While It is News.
Complete National
and World Wide
News Coverage.
HO PROGRESS WITHOUT STRUGGLE
“If there is no struggle,
there is no progress.
Those who profess to fa-
vor freedom, and yet de-
preciate agitation, are
men who want crops
without ploughing up the
g rourfd,- ...Power con-
cedes nothing without a
demand. Itpeverdid and
never will.
--Frederick Douglass
MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING WORK—Col. John W. White, Brooke Army Medical Center commander,
presents the Joint Services Commendation medal to Specialist (5) Clifford H. Byrd. At the right Is
Specialist (5) Byrd’s wife, Berma. Byrd received the medal for his outstanding work at the Armed
Forces Entrance Examination station in Columbus, Ohio. He and his wife live at 214 Vanderheck,
San Antonio.
Successful Efforts of Memphis
ToDesegregate Schools, Studied
ATLANTA--The successful efforts of
Memphis, Tennessee, to desegregate its
schools in a peaceful manner during the past
school year are examined at length in a re-
port issued by the Southern Regional Council.
The report is authored by John Egerton, a
Tennessee native and long - time education
writer.
An Introduction to the report
notes that the Memphis story
is Indicative of SRC’s long-
term Interest In matters re-
lating not only to school de-
segregation and education but
to positive efforts by local
leadership to meet and try to
solve some of the most diffi-
cult administrative problems
facing all cities in the South
and nation today.
Egerton chronicles the
events leading up to and through
January 24, 1973, when the
country’s tenth largest public
school system began imple-
menting the initial phase of a
court - ordered desegregation
plan, and 65 buses--the first
ever used in Memphis-rolled
through the city streets.
How did it happen that in a
city where there had been or-
ganized resistance and organ-
ized support, threats of dis-
ruption and rumors of violence,
feverish strategy sessions, in-
tensive planning, meticulous
preparation that the dominant
atmosphere In Memphis on Jan-
uary 24, 1973, can be described
by Egerton as one of "subdued
anticlimax?"
About that day he writes,
“absenteeism was high, but no-
body bothered the buses, or the
kids, or the teachers.” A one-
column headline in the after-
noon Memphis Press-Scimitar
read “Quiet Day As Busing Is
Started.” “Absences, Calm
Mark Busing,” said the next
morning’s Commercial Appeal.
The New York Times and the
Washington Post had reporters
In town for a couple of days,
and two of the television net-
works noted the event briefly
on their evening news program.
Egerton askes, “What Is the
significance of the events of
January 24 there? What are the
implications for urban school
systems elsewhere In the coun-
try? How did Memphis do what
It did, and why did It do It?
What has happened since then,
and what Is likely to happen
next?”
Egerton’s dominant impres-
sion and tentative conclusions
are these: “Memphis has start-
ed to bus children to school in
the face of strong opposition,
and has done It In a manner
that is, on the whole, impres-
sive. The city Is deeply and
seriously divided within Itself
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tlon. The hardest phase of de-
segregation by busing still re-
mains to be faced. The job of
making Integration a success
for indivudual students and
teachers Is just now begin-
ning. And the city’s search for
equity and stability Is still a
long way from being finished.”
In tracing the events leading
up to and through January 24,
Egerton begins In March, 1960,
when the N A AC P Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, Inc.
(LDF) first filed a desegrega-
tion suit against the Memphis
school system. Then there were
just over 100,000 students in
the schools—about 55 per cent
of them white—and segregation
was absolute.
Egerton points out that as the
Memphis school system has
grown In the past decade, so has
its percentage of black stu-
dents. “As the black enroll-
ment grew,” he writes, “the
city annexed portions of sur-
rounding Shelby County and
managed to retain a white ma-
jority In the schools, but by
the fall of 1970 the enrollment
of more than 148,000 was
slightly over 50 per cent black. ”
Today, after the implements
tlon of the court-ordered busing
plan, blacks make up 60 per
cent of the total public school
enrollment.
But for Egerton, the real
Memphis story Is not the “ka-
leidoscope of legal maneuvers,
pressure-group strategies and
statistical changes.” He main-
tains that "A more complex and
more Illuminating story lies In
the actions of powerful and In-
fluential Memphians In the final
weeks and days leading up to
January 24, when the city was
finally faced with a court order
that could no longer be avoid-
ed."
In October, chamber of com-
merce officials led in the for-
mation of IMPACT--Involved
Memphis Parents Assisting
Children and Teachers--and
with help from the school board
staff they got a $90,000 grant
from the federal Emergency
School Assistance program to
work in earnest on community
acceptance of desegregation.
IMPACT was launched early
in November. Said Its chair-
man, Rev. James H. Holmes,
“This program has been de-
veloped over the past several
weeks out of a groundswell of
Interest from parents, stu-
dents, teachers, citizens gen-
erally, and a number of organ-
izations.”
By the time IMPACT was
announced, Its plan of action
was already mapped out: news-
paper ana television advertise-
ments, fact sheets, a telephone
rumor control system, neigh-
borhood meetings, a speaker’s
bureau, church and organiza-
tional support, research and
(See MEMPHIS, Page 3)
NATHANIEL TYLER
IN PUBLICATION—In law
enforcement for the past 18
years, and for the past year,
chief of police of Shavano Park,
San Antonio suburb, Nathaniel
“Nat” Tyler has been nomin-
ated to be included in the 1973
edition of “Personalities of the
South. *
Persons selected, according
to a letter from K.B. Newton,
editor of the publication, are
“citizens whose background,
service, and past achievements
are worthy of note by other
citizens...”
Tyler, as chief of police of
Shavano park, Is the first black
officer to hold such a position
in a predominantly non-black
Texas community.
Tyler told Register that he
had had no problems with his
job as police chief of Shavano
Park, and that the “completely
white neighborhood town has
treated me as one of them.
There are no racial problems
whatsoever because I am black.
I enjoy my work very much.”
Tyler served for ten years
in the Bexar county sheriff’s
department, with his attaining
the position of criminal in-
vestigator, his working up from
jail guard. He also served sev-
en years with the Galveston
sheriff’s department as a pa-
trolman.
He has worked In all divi-
sions of patrol, both civil and
criminal, and has been sent
to other counties to work on
cases with the Texas Rangers.
He also has served as a se-
curity officer for Texas State
bank and Bexar County hos-
pital.
Long liiness
Claims Mrs.
Sadie Johnson
An Illness of several months’
duration proved fatal, Sunday,
June 24, for Mrs. Sadie Helen
Wash Johnson, a resident of
San Antonio for approximately
(See FATAL, Page 3)
Six Bullets Pumped
SanAntonian Killed in
Sunday Night Shooting
The Bexar county district attorney’s office
Monday accepted a murder case filed by po-
lice against a 19 - year - old Frederick walk
youth.
Sought Tuesday for murder was James Holt
of 258b Frederick walk. Holt is wanted in the
of William Smith, 2406
Sunday night slaying
Ezell.
Smith was pronounced dead
on arrival at Robert B. Green
hospital, from a small caliber
bullet wound In the upper right
temple.
Police Officer Sterling Golt-
hardt quoted two witnesses, Ty-
rone Smith, 35, 2402 Ezell, and
Frank Wayne Walker, 41, 1123
Center, as saying they and
Smith were talking in Tyrone
Smith’s front yard, when Holt
came through a hedge bush and
told the deceased he “was tired
of (Smith)......with him. *
The witnesses said Holt pro-
duced a pistol, fired once, then
walked away.
Homicide Detective Sgt. Doug
Houseton Monday said the case
was filed with, and accepted by
the district attorney’s office
and that a warrant was Issued
for Holt.
Smith’s death Is the 20th
black homicide for 1973.
REV. S.H. JAMES
NATIONAL PREXY — The
Rev. S.H. James, pastor of
Second Baptist church and mod-
erator of the La Grange Bap-
tist Association of Texas, was
elected to the presidency of the
Congress of Christian Educa-
tion of the Progressive Nation-
al Baptist convention, just con-
cluded in Columbia, South Car-
olina.
Rev. James was elected
unanimously and without op-
position. More than 2500 dele-
gates attended the sessions.
Wounded Double
Amputee Succumbs
Shot June 16 while sitting in his wheel chair,
a double amputee Viet Nam veteran died Fri-
day from a gunshot police believe was meant
for another man.
John Hardeman, 46, of 225 Mobile walk,
died at Brooke Army Medical center Friday
afternoon. He had been listed in serious con-
dition ever since the night he
was shot at Hines and Runnels
streets in Sutton homes.
Officers believe the bullet
that struck the Invalid was in-
tended for Community Rela-
tions Officer John Anderson,
22.
On the night of the shooting,
Anderson had snatched a bag
of LSD from a slow moving
vehicle as one of the car’s
occupants held the container
out the window. Reportedly the
three men were trying to sell
the dangerous drug to the neigh
borhood youths.
The car left the area after
Anderson took the bag, but later
returned at a high rate of speed,
and someone in the auto began
Beware of
The Back
Stabbers
For a 20-year-old nurse’s
aid, Monday, the song “Back-
stabbers" will have a sharp
meaning.
Mrs. Slrl Norris of 5310
Warcloud was treated at Wll-
ford Hall hospital for a stab
wound she received In her left
arm.
Mrs. Norris told officers a
young woman came to her home
asking to see Larry Norris,
the nurse’s husband.
When Mrs. Norris turned to
call her husband, the other wo-
man stabbed Mrs. Norris and
fled.
No arrests were made In the
case.
Boy,4, Hit
n.. I..1.
DY AUIU
A four-year-old boy was hos-
pitalized Saturday afternoon for
minor cuts and bruises he re-
(See BOY, Page 3)
firing at the people on the
corner.
Hardeman, In his wheel
chair, was at the corner and
unable to duck like the others.
He was hit by one of three bul-
lets fired,
A license check led homi-
cide detectives to Eugenio Ra-
mirez, 24, of 215 Southolme.
Ramirez was filed on for as-
sault to murder, but was nev-
er apprehended. The case has
now been changed to murder,
but as of Tuesday there had
been no arrest.
Hardeman Is the 19th black-
in-volved homicide in San An-
tonio this year, as compared
with eight at this time last
year.
Bank
Struck
ATLANTA, Ga.--Officials of
the Atlanta chapter of the South-
ern Christian Leadership con-
ference led employees of the
(See BANK, Page 3)
Thieves Hit
ET Office,
Library
The East Terrace Homes of-
fice and the George Washing-
ton Carver branch library were
targets of local burglaries,
during the week end.
Between Friday evening and
Saturday morning, the homes
office at 2610 Del Rio street
was broken into and a welding
set and oxygen tank were stolen.
The Stolen items were valued
at $173.
Between Saturday evening
ana Sunday afternoon, the li-
brary at 3350 East Commerce
was hit and two typewriters,
an electric «ddlng machine and
a cash register were stolen.
Nat'i Baptist
Body Elects
Rev.S.H.James
COLUMBIA, S.C.--At the an-
nual session of the Congress of
Christian Education of The
Progressive National Baptist
convention just concluded here,
Dr. S.H. James, pastor of Sec-
ond Baptist church of San An-
tonio, and moderator of La
Grange Baptist District asso-
ciation of Texas, was elected
president. Rev. James was
elected unanimously and with-
out oppostion. A former mem-
ber of the San Antonio City
council and the immediate past
president of the San Antonio
council of Churches, Rev.
James heads a new slate of
officers which will guide the
organized work o f Christian
education for the Progressive
National Baptist convention
which has a national constit-
uency of over 500,000 persons.
In addition to the fifty-five
courses of study attended by
some 2500 delegates, the con-
gress was addressed in one of
its plenary sessions by Dr.
Osborn P. Bronson, president
of the Interdenominational
Theological Center, Atlanta,
Georgia.
The Congress passed reso-
lutions on pertinent issues of
the day such as abortion, the
national drug problem, war and
peace, capital punishment and
the urging of continued sup-
port on the part of the federal
government of certain social
and educational programs un-
der the threat of non-funding
by the Nixon administration.
The 1973 session of the body
will be held in Philadelphia,
Pa.
A 26-year-old service man
was treated Saturday, at Brooke
Army Medical center for a .22
caliber rifle wound in his leg.
Johnny Gary, 124 Albert
walk, was shot once in the left
~al/ while walklnv on Mencha-
ca street.
Police were told by Gary that
he was hit by one of several
shots fired from a speeding
1957 model car.
Gary was taken to the army
hospital by his brother.
Man, 25, Accused
Of Monday West
Side Murder
A 25 - year - old west side man is awaiting
action from the grand jury concerning a Mon-
day evening slaying.
Clarence W. Wright of 1134 Menchaca is
accused of fatally shooting John Dossie, alias
J. Dawson, 36, of 930 Lombrano. Dossie was
shot six times with a .22 caliber revolver.
Police were told Wright,
Dossie and some other men
were outside, talking at the
rear of a lounge at 2049 West
Poplar when Wright and Dossie
got into an argument.
Homicide detectives were
told the two men had had pre-
vious rows and that on one oc-
casion Dossie had threatened
to kill Wright.
During the argument, Dos-
sie Is alleged to have placed
his hands In his pockets and
Wright quickly produced a
small caliber pistol from his
pocket and fired once into the
other man’s head.
Once Dossie fell, Wright
pumped the remaining bullets
in the man’s back, then fled.
According to Wright, he “drop-
ped the gun or someone grab-
bed it,” police said.
Police were also told Wright
could not fight Dossie due to
a colostomy he has from a
gunshot wound he received last
year.
When officers arrived at the
scene, Wright reappeared and
surrendered.
Homicide detectives Tues-
day said the case had been
sent to the grand jury for
further action.
GERALD J. BELCHER
TO THE “POINT"—Gerald
J. Belcher, son of Mr. and
Mrs. S.M. Belcher, 3331 “K”
street, left the city, recently,
for the United States Military
academy at West Point, New
York.
Young Belcher was a May
graduate of Highlands High
school where he was a mem-
ber of the National Honor so-
ciety and the Sigma Epsilon so-
ciety. He was a finalist in the
National Merit Scholarship
program for Negro students
and was included in the 1972-
■73 edition of “Who’s Who
Among American High School
Students.” He was also a mem-
ber of the school ROTC where
Hp cervoH ac Flrlll foam miorH
commander and received the
Superior Cadett decoration.
Nominated by Congressman
Henry B. Gonzales, Gerald was
notified of his appointment to
the academy shortly before his
graduation.
Gunman
Sought in
Ml ■ ■
A Jourdantlon, Texas man
is being sought in connection
with the Friday shooting of a
43-year-old Bluff street man.
Shot once in the back with
a bullet from a .44 caliber
pistol was Ray Rodgers of 5223
Bluff.
Police quoted Mrs. Sarah
Johnson, 79, 930 Lombrano,
as saying Rodg. rs was sitting
on her front porch drinking
when the 79-year-old Jourdan-
ton man approached and order-
ed him to leave.
Mrs. Johnson said Rodgers
made no remark and walked
away. While his back was turn-
ed, however, the man produced
the gun and fired three shots
with one of the slugs hitting
Rodgers.
The gunman then fled in a
two-door 1962 model vehicle
and was believed to be heading
for Jourdanton.
Rodgers was taken to Bexar
County hospital where Tuesday
they reported he had been re-
leased.
Sutton Blasts
Artesia Han
Hearings
AUSTIN—State Representa-
tive G.J. Sutton of San Antonio
has labeled the House Human
Resources subcomlttee’shear-
ings into the Artesia Hall af-
fair a “charade” and a “witch
hunt.”
Sutton in a letter to the chair-
man of the subcommittee Mon-
day blasted the members for
ignoring entirely the question
of racism in the affair, and
for their attempts to force his
silence on the fact that the
school was licensed by the State
Department of Public Welfare
even though its director was
an avowed racist. The direc-
tor, Dr. Farrar, has now been
indicted for murder in the death
of a young girl student at Ar-
tesia Hall. Artesia Hall is a
private school for “problem”
children near Houston in Liber-
ty county, home of speaker of
— - - - — • • vuuc, <ntc 1/lftJl—
iels, Jr.
Sutton also blasted the com-
mittee proceedings as arbi-
trary and unfair. He pointed out
that the committee was only
(See HEARINGS, Page 3)
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