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NO PROGRESS
WITHOUT STRUGGLE
*B there U nostruggle, there
u no profrva. Thoee who
profesa to favor freedom, and
yi depreciate agitation, are
men who want crop* without
ploughing up the (round...Power
concede* nothing without .1
demand It never did and never
will.*
--Frpderlck Douglass
San Antonio Keg
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RIGHT • JUSTICE • PROGRESS
All the SAN
ANTONIO and
SOUTH TEXAS NEWS
While It is News
Complete National
and World Wide
News Coverage
VOLUME 45, NUMBER 46
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1977 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1977
IT'S YOUR NEWSPAPER
Meet in
St. Louis
NEW YORK--The 88thannual
convention of the NAACP will
be held In St. Loula, Mo., from
June 27 through July 1 at the St.
Louis Gateway and Exhibition
Center.
The aeries of meetings, pan-
el discussions and public
forums will be structured
around developing civil rights
strategies in all areas involv-
ing minorities within the so-
ciety. More than 3,500 dele-
gates, in addition to a large
number of visitors, are expect-
ed to attend.
HISTORICALLY
The St. Loula convention will
be of apeclal historical signlf-
lcance in that Executive Direc-
tor Roy Wiikln*,whohasaerved
the NAACP for more than a gen-
eration, will be bidding farewell
as head of the largest civil
rights organization in the na-
tion.
wllklns first joined the
NAACP as assistant secretary
in 1931. Subsequently, he serv-
ed as editor of the Crisis, ad-
ministrator and, in 1955, be was
elected to bead the organiza-
tion. He has served in this po-
sition since that date.
A special program in his hon-
or Is being planned by the St.
Louis NAACP branch, and this
will be held during the conven-
tion.
The week-long series of
events will be launched on Mon-
day night with the keynote ad-
dress by Mrs. Margaret Bush
Wilson, chairman of the NAACP
national board of directors.
Other convention highlights
will Include a 'Youth Night,*
which Is open to the public, on
Wednesday, June 29. On Fri-
day, June 30, the convention will
close with a Freedom awards
banquet in the evening.
A related event will be the
Commerce and Industry show,
which will be open to the public.
Check
Tax
Returns
Taxpayers should dou-
ble-check their tax returns
before filing, since errors
can slow processing and
delay any refund that might
be due, the Internal Rev-
enue Service said.
Some of the moet com-
mon taxpayer mistakes on
tax returns Include math-
ematical errors, use of
the wrong tax table or
schedules, and failure to
(See TAX, Pa«e3)
Invites Carter
To Austin
AUSTIN--State Representa-
tive Mickey Leland of Houston,
on Feb. 17, introduced a re-
solution In the House of Repre-
sentatives inviting 'President
Jimmy Carter to address a joint
session of the Texas legisla-
ture on the nation's energy
problems.
The resolution was intro-
duced and finally passed by the
House, and is now pending in
the Senate.
Leland expressed concern
about the potential effects of
any energy plan to the Texas
economy. "President Carter is
developing proposals designed
to alleviate some of the coun-
try's energy problems. Texas
being a major producer and
supplier of the nation's energy
resources will be affected by
whatever plans are enacted by
the Congress. The Texss leg-
islature, in order to most ef-
fectively plan and implement
the state's budget for the next
two years, needs to know first
hand the potential impact of
President Carter's proposals
on our state's economy.*
"Additionally, the minority
community of Texas needs to
know especially the economic
impact of the President's pro-
posals because anything that
will adversely impact the Tex-
as ecooomy will first and most
severly Impact adversely on the
already stagnant economy In
the minority community. As a
Black stale representative con-
omy of the minority community,
as a member of the Democra-
tic National committee, and as
a former Texas campaign co-
ordinator for Jimmy Carter, I
am thus requesting that ha give
the Tssas Stats legislature first
hand knowledge and explana-
tions of his energy proposals
and their potential effect on the
Texas economy."
Wonder
Takes
4 Awards
L06 ANGELES--Stevie Won-
der proved his worth again Sat-
urday by walking offwlth the top
ones at the 19th annual Grammy
awards presentation. In all,
be won four.
He took the awards for album
of the year, best performance
by a male pop singer, best per-
formance by a rhythm and blues
(See WONDER, Page 3)
Gets
Married
NEW YORK-Tennis star Ar-
thur Ashe and photographer
Miss Jeanne Marie Moutous-
samy were married Sunday in
the modern chapel of the Church
Center for the United Nations.
United Nations Ambassador
Andrew Young performed the
ceremony which dispensed with
the traditional "Here Cornea the
Bride' music.
Aahe hobbled into church on
crutchea he was using after a
recent bursitis operation on bis
lsft heel.
He wore a three-piece blue
suit. The new Mrs. Ashe wore
a champagne silk crepe gown
with an empire waist and heavy
lace at the neck.
After Young's sermon, the
couple met him at a low, vine-
covered railing, exchanged
vows and then paused for a
long kiss.
The couple announced they
were considering a honeymoon
in Haiti.
California
Rites for
Native Texan
L06 ANGELES — Obsequies
were held Feb. 10 uqder the
direction of Angelus Funeral
Home for Samuel M. Grant, 74,
who died Feb. 8 fallowing a
lenithv lllntit.
He was the brother of Willie
Grant, 700 South Cherry, In
San Antonio.
S.M. Grant was born Nov. 8,
1902, in Hallettsvllle, Texas,
to the union of the late Mr. ami
Mrs. William (Cora) Grant. He
was reared there and graduated
from high school, then did fur-
ther study at Prairie View A
and M college.
After college he taught school
seven years In the Texas com-
munity of Breslow, then moved
to Houston where be went to
work for the postal service.
In 1911 be was transferred
to Los Angeles where be con-
tinued to work for the U.S.
Postal Service until his retire-
ment in 1971,
Bishop Harley Akers officiat-
ed at the funeral, interment
was in Forest Lawn, Hollywood
Hills.
Besides his brother In San
Antonio. Grant Is survived by
a widow, Mrs. Elisabeth Grant,
three sons, one daughter and
Man Shot to Death,
1 Wounded, I Robbed
Blatk lawyer Picked tor
Ass't Attorney General
WASHINGTON- - Drew Saunders Days, III,
nominated by President Carter to be assist-
ant attorney general in charge of the Civil
Rightq division of the Department of Justice,
is an experienced trial lawyer in the civil
rights field.
Upon confirmation, he will be the first black
TAKES OATH—Clifford L. Alexander Jr. (third from left) takes the oath of office as Secretary of
the Army. Judge A. Leon Hlgglnbotham Jr. (left), U.S. District court, Philadelphia, Pa., administered
the oath while Mrs. Adele Alexander, the new secretary's wife, held the Bible.
Looking on are Vice President Walter F. Mondale and Secretary of Defenae Harold Brown.
NAACP toB|ack So,on Ashe
assistant attorney general to
head any division of the Justice
department In its 187-year his-
tory.
Days, 35, la first asslatant
counsel of the NAACP Legal
Defense and Education Fund,
Inc., in New York City, with
which he has been associated
since 1969.
"Drew Days has the training,
the experience, and the commit-
ment to lead the Civil Rights
division in the vigorous en-
forcement of federal laws to
lnaure equal opportunity for all
persons,' Attorney General
Griffin B. Bell said.
"He will have my full support
in eliminating discrimination in
education, employment, hous -
lng, voting, public accomoda-
tions, and credit transactions
and in protecting the rights of
inmates of penal and mental in-
stitutions and of all persons
against abuses by law enforce-
ment officers."
With the Legal Defense Fund,
Days has been involved in school
desegregation, police miscon-
duct, employment discrimina-
tion, and prisoners' rights
cases at the trial and appellate
court levels.
Days has also served as ad-
ministrator of the Earl Warren
Legal Internship program, a
Legal Defenae Fund program
designed to train black lawyers
In civil rlghta and civil llber-
tlea and to assist them in start-
ing private practicea, primar-
ily in the South.
From July, 1973, to June,
1975, he served on leave of ab-
sence from the Legal Defense
Fund as an associate profes-
sor of law at Temple university,
teaching civil procedure, fed-
eral courts and jurisdiction,
constitutional law, and political
and civil rights.
Born In Atlanta, Georgia, on
August 29, 1941, Days attended
public schools In Tampa, Flor-
ida, and New Rochelle, New
York.
He received a bachelor of arts
degree cum laude In English lit-
erature from Hamilton college
in 1B63 and his law degree
from Yale Law school In 1966.
After graduation, Days work-
ed briefly as a law associate
with a Chicago labor law firm,
Cotton, Watt, Jones, King and
Bowjus, then joined the Peace
carps in February, 1967. He
served as a volunteer in an
agricultural cooperative organ-
ization in Comayagua, Hondu-
ras, until he Joined 'he Legal
Defense Fund In 1969.
Days Is fluent In the Spanish
language.
In other activities, Days has
beer, a volunteer attorney with
the Illinois Civil Liberties
Union, a consultant-program
writer for the Agency for In-
ternational Development In
Honduras, and an Interpreter
for the Rockefeller Commis-
sion to Latin America on his
visit to Honduras.
Days is director and presi-
dent of Windham Child Care, an
adoption and child care agency
(See POST, Page 3)
Free Blood
Pressure
Check Set
High blood pressure can
be detected by a simple,
painless test, and can
usually be controlled. The
American Heart associa-
tion San Antonio chapter
will sponsor a free blood
pressure check at Central
Park Mall Saturday, Feb-
ruary 26 from 10 a.m. to
9 p.m.
Rites for Mrs.
EtholiaCooksie
Friday,Feb. 25
Local obsequies will be held
Friday afternoon, Feb. 25, for
a former San Antonio Register
employee who died last week
in California.
Mrs. Etholla L. Cooksle, 57,
will be burled in City Ceme-
tery No. 3 following one o'clock
services at Bethel AME church.
Dr. Prenza Woods of St. Paul
United Methodist church, of
which Mrs. Cooksle was a mem-
ber, will officiate. Sutton -Sut-
ton Mortuary will arrange the
aervlce.
Mrs. Cooksle died Feb. 17 In
El Camlno hospital In Mountain
View, Calif., following a lengthy
Illness.
She worked for 15 years on
the staff of San Antonio Regis-
ter.
In 1967 she moved to Berke-
ley, Calif.
She was born in Columbus,
Texas, on April 21, 1919, totbs
union of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Shirley. Her parents died
when she was a child and she
was adopted by the late Tom
Garrlaon and Mrs. Edna Gar-
rlaon of San Antonio.
Reared in San Antonio, Etho-
lla Shirley attended Grant ele-
mentary and Phlills Wheatley
High schools. She did further
study at Pralrls View A and M
college.
Later she married Jesse
Cooksle of San Antonio to which
union a daughter was born.
An excellent speller and
fluent In tbe English language,
Mrs. Cooksle worked for both
San Antonio Register afid tbe
original Snap Pictorial Weekly.
She worked with the latter pub-
lication no more than two yeara,
but remained with Register for
18 years.
In 1987 she moved to Berke-
ley wbere she took up employ-
ment with Highland General
Hospital as an admitting clerk.
By tbe time she retired, due to
ill Health, in 1973, sbs had work-
ed her way up toanadmlnlstra-.
tlve position at the hospital.
Mrs. Cooksle's survivors In-
clude her faster mother, Mrs.
Garrison; daughter, Mrs.
Charles Etta Monetae, and two
granddaughters, Torn Rene* and
Mary Valree Monetae.
Gunman Held
In Lieu of Bonds
Totaling $200,400
A lone gunman showered an East Houston
street lounge with bullets Monday evening,
with his killing one person and wounding an-
other.
Afterwards he walked outside and robbed
a Job Corpsman of forty-five cents.
Police arrested the man minutes after the
Man Shot
Twice in
HEW Pleases
robbery as he sat in his car one
block away from where a
stream of blood flowed.
Dead on arrival at Robert B.
Green hospital with bullet
wounds to the upper chest and
left shoulder was Hamilton
Grant, a 44-year-old Victoria
man with a local address of 827
Dawson street.
Wounded In the left cheek,
with the bullet exiting from the
right, was Fort Hood ArmySgt.
Oliver Dlckerson, 38, of 3639
Wlllowwood.
Lodged in county jail In lieu
of bonds totaling $200,400 was
Anthony C. Ross, 31, of Hous-
ton.
Ross la charged with mur-
der, $100,000 bond; attempted
murder, $50,000 bond; robbery
by threats, $50,000 bcfnd, and
unemployment compensation
bond forfeiture, $400 bond.
Witnesses told police Ross,
Grant and Dlckerson and the
latter'a wife were in a lounge
in the 2900 block of East Hous-
ton street sitting at separate
tablea.
Ross reportedly stood up
from his table, produced a gun
and began spraying the place
with bullets, police said.
Dlckerson was the first vic-
tim. After he fell, his wife
rushed to his side, only to be
fired upon by the gunman, po-
lice said. She was not hit.
Another abot was fired and
Grant was struck, followed by
still another bullet that also hit.
Following the shooting, a
(See GUNMAN, Page 3)
Medicare
DeductibleNow
Increased
Social Security Medicare
beneficiaries are reminded by
Gilbert G. Gonxalet, social se-
curity district manager in San
Antoolo, that tbe deductible for
hospital care under Part A of
Medicare has been Increased
from |104 to *114 for benefit
periods beginning Jan. 1, 1977,
or later.
After tbe deductible Is „
Medicare Part A, paya for
Fight
NEW MBS LACKLAND--Sgt. Amelia Phlllipe, last year's Miss
Lackland, crowns bsr successor, Lt. Janice McKlbben.
The new Miss lackland Is a nurse at WUford Hall USAF Medical
center and works in the pediatrics ward.
U. McKlbben Is a graduate of Georgia state university where she
I a bachelor of science degree la nuralng.
—(Photo courtesy of Express/News Publishing Company)
1 ~
NAACP With
School Action
t
NEW YORK--NAACP Gen-
eral Counsel Nathaniel R. Jonas
has praised Joseph Callfano,
secretary of tbe Department of
Health, Education and Welfare,
for his announcement on Thurs-
day, February 17, that his of-
(See HEW, Page 3)
a hospital, if more than 60
daye hospitalisation Is required
In a benefit period, Medicare
Part A will pay all but $31 per
day Mr the 60th through the 90th
day.
Medicare Part B la the part
ef Medicare that helps pay for
doctors bills. After tbe beoe-
flclary moots the first ««0 de-
ductible, Medicare Part B win
pay 04 of every It of covered
services. The $40 dodutlbie
je only applicable once a year,
ftte differs from ths hospital
deductible la that the hospital
Oefectlble is applicable for each
new benefit period.
A fight Inside a bar the night
of Feb. 16 between three men
ended with one of them being
shot twice outside the establish-
ment.
Taken to Brooke Army Medi-
cal center for a bullet wound to
the upper left leg and to the
right chest was Eddie Bell, 30,
403 Harding place.
Police are seeking two mid-
dle-aged men in connection with
the case.
Offlcera were told Bell and
two men argued, then scuffled
Inside a lounge in the 2800 block
of Martin Luther King drive.
The fight eventually made Its
way outalde from where wit-
nesses told police several shots
were fired.
Officers were given the name
of one of the men being sought.
Youth
Tries
Suicide
A young man, despondent over
his and his mother losing their
jobs, shot himself In the he«
Sunday night in his rest''
near Sutton Homes.
Tuesday morning, h
Bexar County hosptta e
reported the man In good i*
dltton, adding that he was sit-
ting up, eating and active.
Detective Rudy Buenroatro
talked with the 19-year-old man
at the hospital wbere the youth
admitted attempting to take his
own life.
Mice were told the youth,
his motbsr and Ms sunt were
watehlng to Is vision when he
went into his bedroom, cloned
tbe door and shot himself.
The young man said ba at-
tempted suicide because bewaa
er being fired from their
jche early last wnek, Buenroa-
tro said.
The youth and his mother had
for a local oatabllah-
fer their being flrnd
(See SUICIDE, Page 3)
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