The Reporter. (Akron, Ohio), 1971-06-12

              ywraiiiifimuiM, REGISTER TO VOTE Vol. 2, No. 37 , 12 thiu June 19 1 5 cents i*r copy "POSSIBLE DREAM" - A MUST WOMEN LAW GRADUATES Akron, Ohio-Thirty women were among the 440 law students enrolled in the University of Akron School of Law last September. Four will be among the 38 receiving their law degrees June 13 in the University's 99th annual June commencement. Both figures are records for women. Dr. Stanley Samad, dean of the AU School of Law, said the nearly seven percent female enrollment reflects a national average and a doubling of percentage enrollment of women in the AU School of Law since the mid-Sixties. Nationally, the American Association of Law Schools and the American Bar Association are actively encouraging women to seek admission to law schools, Samad said. What will the growing number of women at law mean in the future? It may mean a growing influence of women entering trial practice. Further, the style of aggression in the courtroom may change to some extent, AU's four women graduates believe. "Women haven't been prominent in courtroom practice," Samad said. "Mostly it's been office practice, probate work and juvenile cases. This has been a problem. One of the disturbing things for many women has been this tendency to pigeon-hole them in these areas. They're becoming more aggressive, however." In the Moot Court Room of the AU Business Administration-Law Building recently, the four graduates met informally to discuss the future of women at law. Mrs. Alice Batchelder, of 447 E. Washington St., Medina, a former editor-in-chief of the Akron Law Review, an AU law school peridical, thinks trial practice would be fascinating. "Yet I thik a woman in a courtroom has to walk a very fine line between being aggressive enough to be effective and staying feminine enough to avoid appearing overbearing or offensive to the jury, to opposing counsel or the judge," she said. "Women are going to have to develop their own techniques and men will have to adapt to them." Also looking forward to trial practice is Mrs. Cythia Vogel, of 368 Ellen Ave.m Akron. She has had a varied career as a reporter for the Honolulu Star Bull en tin, office worker, a nurse's aide, a teacher. She also has owned fractional interests in several airplanes as a licensed pilot and member of flying clubs. She has a special interest in establishing herself successfully in the practice of law. "At the back of my mind is the fact that I have two children to support.** Mrs. Voge' agrees with Mrs. Batchelder that in an advocacy system of courtroom practice, aggression is part of the game. However, all four agree the style of aggression may change. Mrs. Lanette Flower of We mmit County prosecutor's office as part of the AU required f successfully in the practice of law. "At the back of my mind is the fact that 1 have two children to support. ** Mrs. Vogel agrees with Mrs. Batchelder that in an advocacy system of courtroom practice, aggression is part of the game. However, all four agree the style of aggression may change. Mrs. Lanette Flower of Wellgate, udson, worked in the Summit County prosecutor's Continue On Page 7 AFRO-AMERICAN BUILDERS TO TRAIN Akron Afro -American Builders, Inc., 1823 Manchester Road, Akron, Ohio, will hire and train seven jobless persons for full-time permanent employment under the Job Opportunities in the Business Sector (JOBS) Program, the U. S. Department of Labor announced today. The Labor Department will provide the Akron firm with $23,703 in Federal funds to help the corporation defray the costs for the on-the-job training (OJT) of the persons to be hired and for supportive services. Six of the new hire trainees will receive 20 weeks of OJT as general construction workers at a starting wage rate of $6.30 an hour. Upon completion of the OJT period, the wage rate for these construction workers will be increased to $6.60 hour. The other new hire will receive 22 weeks of OJT as a general office clerk at a beginning wage rate of $2.00; this will be raised to $2.25 an hour after the training period has been finished. The contract has been concurred in by Laborers Local 894, AFL CIO. The contract covers a period of 12 months. Average cost of training per person will be $3386 ELYRIA GROUP TOURS U.R. PROJECTS More than 100 Elyria citizens toured Akron's four Urban Renewal projects on Tuesday. While waiting for their first project to be funded, the Elyria group wanted to see Akron's accomplishments. The Elyria residents included high school students, members of Golden Age, City Officials, the press, and business and professional people. They first visited the Morley Health Center where they viewed a short slide presentation. Mr. Byron Sturm of the Department of Planning and Urban Renewal narrated the before and after presentation of Akron's project areas. The tour proceeded from the Morley Health Center through Grant-Washington, the University Site, Opportunity Park, and ended on Cascade Plaza. Mr. W. Scott Harrison of Elyria's Department of Community Development said that "Akron was chosen because it dramatically shows what can be done." GOD SPEAKS IN THE 70's Dr. L. J. Shipmon, pastor of the Firet Calvary Baptist Church of Youngstown, will speak at the B accalaureate Aervice at 10:30 a.m. Aunday in Beacom Gymnasium No. 2 at Central State University. Dr. Shipmon has been pastor of the First Baptist Church in Roxboro, N.C., the University Park Bapist Church in Charlotte, N. G.t and the Second Baptist Church in New Castle, Pa. He has been active in statewide religious activities in North Carolina and in Ohio. He received the B.A. and the B.D. degrees from Shaw University. He studied at Howard University and at Hampton Institute, and received the Doctor of Divinity degree from Friendship College and from Benedict College. NAACP PROBE YOUNG FATHERS DEATH Washington, D. C.- NAACP General Counsel Nathaniel R. Jones and Assistant Counsel James I. Meyerson conferred with officials of the Justice Department here, June 4th, in support of their request to Attorney General John N. Mitchell for a thorough probe of the police killing of Cornell Russ, a young Negro, in Star l City, Ark., on the night of May I 31 Mr. Russ, father of 10 ! children, was arrested by state police for a minor traffic I violation, charged with driving I 70 in a 60-mile an hour speed zone. He was killed inside police headquarters while paying the fine as his family waited in their car outside. In a letter to the Attorney [ General, Mr. Jones "urgently crues l?4 that the full investigative resources of the Department of Justice be utilized in ascertaining the facts in connection with the tragic shooting death of Comelll Russ... Our information strongly suggests that Mr. Russ was the victim of police violence. It is imperative that there be a prompt investigation of this tragedy by the Department of Justice and the guilty parties prosecuted." Meanwhile, the NAACP filed a complaint in the United States District Court in Little Rock on June 2, seeking a declaratory judgment holding "the process of selection of the Lincoln County Grand Jury and the convening of said Grand Jury as unconstitutional because it is racially discriminatory, arbitrary, and capricious in violation of the plaintiffs rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1871." Further the complaint asked for ** preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to quash the Grand Jury selection and the convening of said jury until the defendant parties" and others aiding them "promote, develop and implement a plan which provides for and ensures a method of selecting a more representative Grand Jury consistent jwith the provisions -jf the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution." The complaint was filed on behalf of Mr. Russ' widow, his father and his ten children, ranging in age from one week to 1 1 years. Named as defendants ar Circuit Judge Randall L. Williams of Lincoln County, Joe Holmes, the county prosecutor, E. C. Hardin, circuit clerk, md *h#? Lincoln County Jury Commissioners. OIC AT WORK PHILADELPHIA? The way to help people is "not just to give them r k and honey in heaven, but give them ham and eggs on earth." Those words of the R?v. Leon Sullivan pretty well summarize the goal of Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC) which started here and is blossoming nationally. OIC, founded by the Rev. Sullivan, seeks to break down barriers of discrimination against black and other disadvantaged workers by offering employers well-trained, highly-motivated employees. Judge from the record, the "ham -and eggs" philosophy espoused by the strapping Philadelphia minister with the booming voice is working in the OIC' Over the past seven years, OIC has trained 66,000 persons - mainly blacks recruited from inner-city neighborhoods - and placed 4 1 ,000 in jobs. A detailed account of the OIC story is featured in the June issue of Manpower magazine, published monthly by the Department of Labor's Manpower Administration. OIC training graduates are working as plumbers, carpenters, draftsmen, secretaries, chefs and in 200 other occupations. Their incomes have risen from an average of $2,094 before OIC training to $4,277 immediately afterwards, with future prospects looking better . By 1970, OICS were operating in 18 'cities with $13.7 million in funds from the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity. Moreover, six others received grants from the Commerce Department, some other were components of the Concentrated Employment Program and more than 70 others were operating with voluntary funding. Early this year, the Manpower Administration announced it would allocate an additional $10.7 million to bring 40 to 50 more OlCs under Federal funding by June 1972. The 68 cities receiving Federal money are expected to bring job and training opportunities annually to more than 27,000 disadvantaged persons. OIC puts strong emphasis on drawing its staff members in Philadelphia and around the country are black as are the trainees. The organization tries to give them the basic services they need, including pre vocational education, counseling and testing, training, job development and placement and follow up - all through its own staff and facilities. The unique program also stresses for the individual trainee the importance of self and racial pride. As the Rev. Sullivan explains it: "We teach him how to put his head up and his shoulders back, for we have found that the most important aspect of motivation is self-respect. Enrollees are taught that, as with a balloon, it is not the color that derermines how high a man can rise, but what he has inside him. And that the real worth of a man is what he does with what he has inside him." Some 386 High School Graduates from Buchtel High School raited the roof with applause and appreciation to the address of Thaddeus Garrett, Jr. It was a thunderous ovation that brought the graduates to their feet with joy and tears from them and the capacity audience of parents, relatives and friends. The ever sounding words of "Right on my friends" faded away in the auditorium but the flames of the joy of determination to be a solid citiziten to make America great and what it should be took a leap into space and into eternity. Mr. Garrett's remarks were as follows: Tonight, on this your commencement night. I call on you to commence a dream. As our nation stands confused, battleworn and weary, and without benefit of strong and courageous leadership, the challenge of the 70's stands squarely and clearly before us. I can on you to invest in the "Possible Dream, " a dream that when made, reality will bring to full and total existance, the rewards of a truly just and free society. We are here tonight in what should be a most joyous and happy occasion in the lives of you graduates. For it is on tonight that you have passed another milestone in your lives, and closed another chapter in the book of your achievements. This is your Commencement. And as the very word indicates, you on this day, commence or begin your lives as adults in this troubled world of ours. But my friends, I cannot help tonight but be happy for and with you on one hand; while sadden and worried on the other. For we stand tonight in what perhaps is the most troubled and dangerous period in all of our history as a nation and as a people. The burden of responsibility of all young people is heavier than ever before-and on all Black young people, heavier than it ever shall be again. We want to talk tonight about the road which you have just travelled in building over these past 12 years a foundation of education and knowledge- and what as well as how you must build upon that foundation for the future. A future that is already clouded with great confusion and uncertainty. But we have come to a new day in Americaa day when the appeasement and hypocrisy of the 50's and 60 s cannot and will not provide the answers and guidances which we so decparately need in the 70's; a day when we as a new generation, must call on America to put its priorieties where its problems are. For Blacks, blue-collar whites, you and old, city-dwellers and suburbanites, the poor and the prosperous, husbands and housewives, businessmen and consumers, students and teachersalmost without exception, feel themselves at the mercy of forces which they cannot influence. And while we are fighting to defend from without, we are permitting our country to die from within. Than through all of this, you ask how can we afford to dream It is easier to say what the "Possible Dream" is not than to explain what it is. It is not conformity. It is not passive acceptance of the status quo. It is not preference for everything American over everything foreign. It is not a particular creed, version of history or philosophy. Rather it is a willingness to subordinate every personal and private advantage to the larger good. It is an allegiance, yea, to the traditions that have guided our greatest protestors and statesmen, and inspired our greatest poets- traditions of freedom, of equality, of tolarance'and peaceful revolution. For America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, and became yeet through experimentation. And every effort to confine this dream to a single pattern or constrain it to a single forula is disloyal to everything that is valid in Americaism. This is the "Possible Dream." It is respect for our heritage, but even more so, it is the commitment to building tomorrow. It is helping the needy, protecting the weak, restraining those who abuse power and defending the rights of others so that we may have right* for Continue On Pajc 6