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GRAPEVINE
THE FAMILY MAGAZINE 25c OCTOBER, 1971
Rev. Naaman Haynes
Lucy Crossley
Lester Riggins
Bertha Sams
SERVING
CENTRAL
CALIFORNIA
Sarah Smith
Rev. Matthew Daw
Vince Santana
Calvin Johnson
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NOTE FROM
THE EDITOR
FRANK JOHNSON
Editor and Publisher
The GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE was
founded in June, 1969 by Frank
Johnson, Cleo Johnson, James
Aldredge, Dr. Freddie Hayes, and
Jerry Johnson for the following:
PURPOSE
-To provide a magazine that is orientated to Black people which will
be educational and enjoyable to both children and adults.
-To promote the positive aspects of the life and history of Black people
in Fresno and surrounding towns in Central Callfornia.
-To make available a forum for people of minority races so that they
may speak out on issues that affect their lives.
-To instill pride in Black people young and old.
-To bring about harmony between people of all races.
ACHIEVEMENTS
-First magazine to specialize in covering the life and history of Black
people in Central California.
-Magazine is first to publish a Who's Who of Black people in the
Central California area.
-Magazine's Editor and Staff have recieved awards and acclaim from
the Black community and the United States Army for the effort made
by the staff to honor Black people who contribute to the community
who otherwise would go unnoticed.
-Magazine is read by approximately 100,000 adults and children each
month.
-Magazine staff has honored through articles and pictures over 2,000
individuals and civic groups in the Fresno and Central California area.
-Magazine staff has hired approximately 70 part-time and full-time
minority people over the past two and one-half years.
-Magazine is used widely as supplementary classroom reading ma-
terial in schools and colleges in the Fresno and Central California area.
-Magazine has subscribers in over 40 different cities in California,
twelve different states, and four foreign countries.
SPECIAL NOTE
Over the past two and one-half years the owners of the Grapevine
Magazine have given Free of Charge approximately 40 thousand maga-
zines to various schools, churches, hospitals and underprivileged in-
dividuals in an effort to keep people abreast of the positive aspects of
the Black communities in the Fresno and Central California area.
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THE
GRAPEVINE
MAGAZINE
GRAPEVINE CORP.
Fresno, Calif.
1014 S. Trinity
Phone: 486-0273
or 233-1346
FRANK JOHNSON
Editor and Publisher
CLEO JOHNSON
Advertising Editor
JERRY C. JOHNSON
Director of Circulation
Grapevine Advisory Board
DR. FREDDIE HAYES
ATTY. DONALD THUESEN
JAMES ALDREDGE
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
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available upon request
Copyright 1971
by Grapevine Corporation
Table of Contents
October, 1971
Vol. 3 No. X
Mattie Meyers New Staff Writer 7
Fresno Awards 8
Furniture Company Employs Residents 9
Outstanding Woman 1O
Educator of the Month 11
Newlyweds 12
Family Reunion 13
Director of Water Safety 14
Former Fresnan 15
Model of the Month 17
Riggins Joins F.S.C. Staff 18
F.S.C. Ethnic Class Appointments 19
Football Player of the Week 20
Spcrts -Lynn Graham 21
District Clubs Elec1 Officers 22
12th Anniversary 23
71st Birthday 23
Integrated Schools 24
Furniture From Old Tires 26
Recipe of the Month 27
News of the Month 28
People in the Community 29
Fish Story 30
Photo Credits:
Fresno Bee, Pp 8, 21, 30
California Advocate, Pp 12, 18
Earl Bradley, P 17
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Mrs. Mattie Meyers
Is New
Grapevine
Staff Writer
Mrs. Mattie Burton Meyers
Born and educated in Durham, North Carolina, Mrs. Meyers re-
ceived her Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry and Mathe-
matics from North Carolina Central University in Durham and her
Master of Arts Degree in Education from Fresno State College. Al-
ways in the pursuit of education, she also studied in the University
of Southern California's Predoctoral Education Program. For the
past three years she has been a teacher at Franklin Elementary
School. Previously she taught at Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing,
Kerman Junior High, and this past year at Fresno State College in
the Center for Urban Education as a Tutor-Instructor. She feels that
education is one of the most helpful means of overcoming the
handicaps of poverty, ignorance, racial discrimination, and bore-
dom.
Probably better known for her candidacy for Mayor of Fresno
in the 1965 municipal election and her presidency of the Fresno
NAACP (1960-62), Mrs. Meyers has lived in West Fresno and has
been active in civic and educational affairs for the past twenty-
five years. Although she has lived in California longer than she
lived in North Carolina, Mrs. Meyers still retains a bit of the South-
ern accent of which she is very proud. She says this is so most
probably because her parents emphasized being proud of "What
God made you." Mrs. Meyers holds a deep personal religious phi-
losophy and feels that religion is what one lives everyday; and
hers is basically, "Do unto others as you would HAVE them do
unto you."
Among the things she likes best is the interaction of her students
in the teaching-learning process and writing. She also enjoys meet-
ing people, traveling, swimming, hiking, parties and discussion
groups where there is a lively exchange of ideas. Mrs. Meyers is
the mother of five children.
As a GRAPEVINE staff writer, Mrs. Meyers will travel throughout
Central California writing articles on various subjects.
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Fresno Awards
Mrs. John Ora Cal-
houn, left, president
of the Fresno Sigma
Beta Chapter, Alpha
Chi Phi Omega Soror-
ity, admires the tro-
phies brought home
from the annual con-
vention in San Fran-
cisco by Mrs. William
(Sudie) Douglas, cen-
ter, and Mrs. Arthur
(Flo) Atwater. Mrs.
Douglas was award-
ed the "most out-
standing" trophy for
community service
and Mrs. Atwater the
"Miss Charm and
Personality" trophy.
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A Fresno West Development Company Project
New Furniture Company Employs Residents
By Walt Porter
The Interior Environments, Inc., a furniture manufacturing company's
management conducted a press tour of its two temporary plants to dis-
claim reports it is not a functioning firm.
The company has been the target of criticism because of its financing
by Model Cities through the Fresno West Development Co. Much of the
criticism has been directed toward the use of funds provided and wheth-
er its intentions of providing jobs for Model Neighborhood residents is
being carried out.
Members of the news media were escorted through the West Fresno
plant in the old "You and Me Market" and another plant in Pinedale.
The company's management said its future projections call for moving
all operations under one roof in a new facility on South Cherry Avenue
in the Model Neighborhood.
IEI management also said it is projected that once the firm moves
to the new location the company will provide employment for an ad-
ditional 100 model neighborhood residents.
News reporters were shown 46 people at work in the two temporary
locations, most of whom were Negro and Spanish-origin.
In addition several workers were introduced as supervisory level em-
ployes.
The management told reporters the company is in the process of
manufacturing furniture for major retail outlets throughtout the state
of California as well as other western states and Hawaii.
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Outstanding Woman Of The Month
Mrs. Lucy Gwendolyn Carleton
Crossley, a native Fresnan, is the
first Black Family Court Counselor
for the Fresno Superior Court. Her
job, which consists primarily of
premarital counseling, family con-
ciliation, and recommendations to
the court in child custody cases,
was first created when California
eliminated the old divorce law and
adopted the new marriage disso-
lution law requiring family coun-
seling.
After graduation from Edison
High School and finding very
few non-menial jobs open to black
females, she began work as a ho-
tel and bar maid. After World War
II began with the demand for
skilled laborers, Mrs. Crossley ob-
tained work as an aircraft assem-
bler.
Not until about eighteen years
later did she return to school; and
this was after reading in the news-
paper that the first class for Li-
censed Vocational Nurses would
start at Fresno City College. After
completing this course, she want-
ed to go further. So with the en-
couragement of her mother, Mrs.
Ruby Pierro, and Lucy's husband,
Mr. Johnny Crossley, a Fresno Civ-
il Servic employee, she enrolled at
Fresno State College. At night she
worked at Fresno County General
Hospital an an LVN. While work-
ing in this position and seeing the
hardships of so many people, she
often recalled the days when her
grandmother, Mrs. Maude Ayres,
would take in girls and boys who
had run into trouble with the po-
lice. Remembering this kindness,
she reflected that "But For The
Grace Of God, Go I," and determ-
ined that she too would get into
work where she could help as many
people as she could. She changed
her curriculum course to Social Wel-
fare work.
After graduation from Fresno
State College, she went to work
as a Social Worker for the Fresno
County Welfare Department. Seven
years later, she applied for and
received a California State Grant
to enable her to go fulltime to
Fresno State College to get her
Master's Degree in Social Work.
After graduating with her Master's,
she went back to fulfill the commit-
ment with the Grant which was to
work at the same department for
two years. She was promoted to
supervisor. After this, she transfer-
red to the Mental Health Clinic
and worked as a Psychiatric Social
Worker. When the budget was cut
in this department, she was select-
ed for her present position.
A woman of many intellectual
pursuits, Mrs. Crossley also enjoys
expressing herself in fancy crochet-
ing and knitting. In her free time,
she takes part in a number of or-
ganizations of which she is a mem-
ber; some of which are: The Na-
tional Academy of Certified Social
Workers, National Association of
Social Workers, California State
Conciliation Court Association, Iota
Phi Lambda Sorority. She is a mem-
ber of Second Baptist Church.
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Educator
Of
The
Month
Mrs. Bertha Sams
This month the GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE is honoring Mrs. Bertha
Sams, a fifth grade teacher at Lowell Elementary as Educator of the
Month. Mrs. Sams who came to California at a very early age, is
a graduate of the former Fresno Tech High School, Fresno City and
Fresno State College. She has been with Fresno Unified School Dis-
trict for seven years.
A woman with varied interests, she is a member of many or-
ganizations. Among them are the Council of Negro Women, Fresno
Business Leaders Association, and the Fresno Black Educators
Association of which she is treasurer.
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Mr. & Mrs. Rodney O. Nelson
NEWLYWEDS-Miss Jacqueline Ann Johnson and Rodney 0. Nel-
son, both students at the University of Santa Clara in Santa Clara,
California, became husband and wife recently in marriage cere-
monies held in the college community. The new Mrs. Nelson,
daughter of Mr. Odell Johnson, Sr., of Fresno, and the late Mrs.
Irene Johnson, is a McLane High School graduate and is beginning
her second year at the University. The bridegroom, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Eddie Nelson of San Jose, California, is a junior, majoring in
engineering. The couple spent a brief honeymoon in San Francisco
before resuming their studies.
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Riggins
Joins
FSC Faculty
Chester Riggins, a former Fres-
nan, has joined the Fresno State
College faculty as an Assistant Pro-
fessor in the Black Studies Pro-
gram.
Riggins completed 22 years of
military service in the United States
Air Force on July 31, 1971, and
was awarded the "Joint Service
Commendation Medal" for excep-
tionally meritorious service. Rig-
gins had obtained the rank of lieu-
tenant colonel and performed du-
ties as Director of Material, Senior
Staff Transportation Officer, Squad-
ron Commander, Terminal Com-
mander, and Container Manage-
ment Officer world wide. This in-
eluded tours in many foreign coun-
tries including Spain, Greenland,
Japan, Labrador, and Taiwan.
Riggins attended Edison High
School and Fresno State College,
receiving his B.A. Degree in His-
tory in 1951. He received his M.B.
A. in Business Administration from
Indiana University in 1961 and a
M.A: in Counseling from Federal
City College in 1971.
Among his many honors receiv-
ed while attending college were:
Who's Who Among College Stu-
dents, outstanding AFROTC Candi-
date 1950, member of Blue Key
Society (men's honor society), mem-
ber Phi Gamma Mu (social science
honor society), earned letters in
football, soccer and basketball.
Riggins' hobbies are Judo (black
belt holder 5 years), golf, reading,
collecting black literature, history,
and dancing. He is an active
Mason, a member of the American
Personnel and Guidance Associa-
tion, Indiana University Alumni
Association and the Washington,
D. C. Indiana University Club. He
has been active in Little League
baseball organizations, Cub Scouts,
Junior Basketball and Junior Judo
activities.
During his last 18 months while
assigned in Washington, D. C., he
was very active in the Drug Abuse
programs, juvenile delinquency
agencies, neighborhood houses,
and ghetto youth activities.
Riggins, 42, is married to Nettie
J. (Johnson), and they have four
sons and two daughters.
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Vincent Santana Director Of Water Safety
Now that summer is over, there
are many children in West Fresno
who have been drown-proofed and
properly instructed in Water Safe-
ty. This has been the result of the
fine program put on by the Fresno
City Recreation Department, Area
III (westside) recreation swim pro-
gram director and staff. For the
second season, the program has
put through about 400 children
and a few adults, qualifying them
with Red Cross certificates.
The director of the program has
been Vince Santana an active Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity member and
one of Fresno's most eligible bach-
elors. Santana has done much vol-
unteer work with youth groups in
West Fresno, including being the
assistant coach for the undefeated
1970 Pop Warner Pee Wee division
Edison Tiger football team. His job
experiences have ranged from rec-
reational supervisor at the Veter-
ans Hospital; counselor for the San
Joaquin Valley Youth Service Pro-
gram; to Water Safety Instruction
Pool Supervisor for pools on the
west side of Fresno.
Vinvent Santana was born March
l0, 1944 in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
Grew up in the ghettos of New
York and later attended high school
in Bisbee, Arizona. A year after
graduating from high school he
joined the Navy for four years
where he was a mechanical engine-
er, reaching the grade of E-4 in his
special. He also worked with Spe-
cial Service, coaching boxing and
basketball. In Viet Nam he re-
ceived several service medals and
was discharged under honorable
conditions at the end of his tour
of duty.
Shortly after being discharged,
he enrolled at Fresno City College
with a major in Physical Educa-
tion. There he participated in foot-
ball and track.
Upon transferring to Fresno State
College, he changed his major to
Therapeutic Recreaton, in which he
is now currently pursuing a Bache-
lors of Science degree. He is cur-
rently in his last semester of study
and doing his internship at the
local Juvenile Hall facilities and
also in the Are III (west side) rec-
reational office.
14
Former Fresnan Stars In Bay Area
Children's Television Program
Leroy Mims
Contra Costa College's Special
Programs Director Leroy Mims is a
versatile man. He has just become
a star in a children's television
program, aired on KGO-TV in Oak-
land, California.
The format for the show is a
good one: Mims takes four chil-
dren on visits to places of interest
to children. So far they have taken
trips to the zoo and an art gallery
and museum. Scheduled are trips
to a circus in San Rafael and a trip
to the University of California at
Davis. The show is called, "Mr.
Mims Electronic Field Trip."
On the Davis field trip, Mims
and his moppets visited an experi-
mental winter vegetable garden;
got a brief lesson in botany -
scrutiny of a plant, its roots, male
and female characteristics - and;
finally, found out what a green-
house is and how it works.
Mims confesses that he finds the
field trips as interesting as the chil-
dren do, and that he is learning
new things along with the chil-
dren on each program
How Mims background and ed-
ucation led to this new interest is
somewhat obscure. His education
included majors and minors in
criminology: sociology, and physi-
cal education for his bachelor's
degree; adminstrative recreation
and counseling and guidance for
his master's degree, and he is cur-
rently in his third year of a doctoral
program in community college ad-
ministration.
He has been a secondary school
teacher in the Berkeley, Burbank,
and Fresno school systems, teach-
ing a wide range of subjects and
doing some adult education teach-
ing. He was a high school teacher
and coach, and a community col-
lege instructor in health education.
He coached winning basketball
teams for Contra Costa College.
He has been director of the col-
lege's special programs division
since its inception in April of 1969.
In the latter positin, he has over-
seen the planning, development,
and coordination of all of the col-
lege's special programs and ser-
vices directed toward disadvant-
aged and minority students.
Mims and his wife, Faye, live
in Moraga and have three chil-
dren: Rhonda, Rhonelle, and Royce.
He does not see the excursion
into television as a career possibil-
ity. He is primarily an educator and
that is where his life's work is.
Even his attitude toward the tele-
vision program is one an educator
would hold, for Mims sees the field
trips as educational as well as en-
tertaining experiences for his young
viewers.
In the meantime, Mims, who is
six feet two inches tall and slender,
will tell you with a warm smile
that he is having a good time mak-
ing the shows and working in the
new-for him-media.
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The Right
Chemistry
Miss Violet Cargill,
a Fresno State College
Chemistry laboratory
instructor, is Octo-
ber's Model of the
Month. The five foot
six inch beauty was
born in Kingston, Ja-
maica. She is current-
ly working on her
Master's Degree in
Chemistry at F.S.C.
GRAPEVINE
Model Of
The Month
Photographer Earl Bradley
Riggins Family Reunion
One hundred ninety-five descendants of Mr. & Mrs. John Riggins, Sr.,
of Marshall, Texas, were on hand at Fresno's Roeding Park's Palm
Point for a famliy reunion.
The senior Mr. & Mrs. John Riggins are now many years deceased.
Their children and descendants of Mr. & Mrs. Jesse McCray, Mrs. Nellie
McCray, Mr. & Mrs. John Riggins, all of Fresno; Mr. & Mrs. Joe Riggins
of Los Angeles, Mrs. Marie Lang of Santa Ana, and many close friends
were in attendance.
An old fashioned "TEXAS DINNER ON THE GROUND" was enjoyed
by all. The grandchildren and great grandchildren enjoyed tours of the
Park, Zoo, and games.
The family was in attendance at the 11:00 o'clock Sunday morning
service at the Saint Rest Baptist Church, pastored by Rev. Chester Riggins.
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Fresno State College
Announces Ethnic Classes Appointments
Rev. Matthew Daw Calvin Johnson
Fresno State College announced
the appointments of seven new
part-time faculty members in the
Ethnic Studies Program.
Six of the appointments are in
Black Studies and one is in Native-
American Studies. All are for one
year.
Calvin Johnson and Roger De
Lemos, staff members of the voca-
tional promotion and guidance of-
fice of the Fresno County Depart-
ment of Education, will teach
courses on Black Community Re-
lations and The Black Man and
the World, respectively.
The Rev. Mathew Daw, pastor
of the Second Baptist Church, will
conduct a seminar on race rela-
tions and Walter Brooks, a coun-
selor at Fresno City College, will
teach Black perspective.
Kenneth Walker, a graduate stu-
dent in religious education at the
Fresno Mennonite Brethren Biblical
Seminary, will conduct a course on
The Black Image and Robert Mikell,
a FSC graduate student in busi-
ness, will teach courses on Exposi-
tory Writing and Minority Business
Management.
They will join full-time staff
members Lester Riggins, Mrs. Chris-
tine Bessard, Bernard Pangulula,
and part-time lecturer Mrs. Lily
Small in the program.
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Ted Lambert
Football Player Of The Week
Ted Lambert, Fresno State College's defensive middle guard,
was the first recipient of the San Joaquin Valley Sportswriters and
Sportscasers College Player of the Week Award.
The six foot Senior from Oakland was in on 18 tackles during
the Bulldogs' game with Cal State of Hayward.
Before coming to F.S.C. Lambert played two years at Laney Col-
lege and was named player of he year. He was captain of both
the fooball and wrestling teams.
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A PAN-AMERICAN GOLD MEDAL WINNER - Lynn Graham, Pan-Ameri-
can Games women's shot put record-holder, displays her gold medal to
students at Fresno's Yosemite Junior High School during lunch hour. She
assists Mrs. Rita Axe in Opportunity Program classes (habitual truants
and behavior problems). Originally she wanted to be a physical educa-
tion teacher but now prefers the classroom.
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District Clubs Elect Mrs. Sarah Smith
Mrs. Sarah Smith
An Installation Reception was
held on Aug. 29 for Mrs. Sarah E.
Smith and her newly elected slate
of officers for the Central District
of the Calif. State Association of
Colored Women's Clubs Inc. Mrs.
Smith will preside over the Central
District which extends from Bakers-
field to Madera, and serve as a
vice president of the Calif. State
Association of Colored Women's
Club Inc. The installation services
were held at the YWCA with Mrs.
Albertha Dillard, president of the
Southwest Region of the National
Association of Colored Women of
Bakersfield, Calif., as the installing
officer.
Mrs. Smith is a member of the
Second Baptist Church where she
sings in the Gospel choir, member
and past leader of the Ruth Mis-
sionary Circle, and Sunday School
teacher in the Primary Department.
She organized and served 6 years
as president of the FYLE-MUN-ROSE
FEDERATED CLUB, past president of
the Fresno Section of N.C.N.W.,
chairman and charter member of
the Fresno County Probation Fos-
ter Home Guild. She is a member
of the Camp committee of the YW-
CA, member of St. Agnes Service
Guild, member of Education com-
mittee of the American Cancer So-
ciety and is a member of the Vol-
unteer Bureau.
The Calif. State Association is a
great fellowship of women united
for service to help make better
communities in which to live. The
National Association was organ-
ized in 1896 and the objectives of
the NACWC is to promote the ed-
ucation of women and girls through
the departments, to raise the stan-
dards of the home, to secure and
use its influence for the enforce-
ment of civil and political rights
of the group. To obtain for colored
women the opportunity of reach-
ing the highest standards in all
fields of human endeavor and to
promote inter-racial understanding
so that justice and good will may
prevail among all people. Mrs.
Smith stated that they are in a
membership drive and any wo-
man's club that would like to know
more about the organization should
contact her at 237-4559.
Other officers installed were:
Mrs. Ann B. Cole, 1st vice pres. of
Hanford; Mrs. Lena Jones, 2nd vice
pres. of Delano; Mrs. Mae Etta
Bennett, rec. sec'y of Wasco; Mrs.
Ruth Warren, ass't sec'y of Bakeres-
field; Mrs. Evelyn Beary, corres.
Sec'y of Fresno; Mrs. Jeftie Follins
Fin. Sec'y of Bakersfield; and Mrs.
Margie Green, treasurer of Han-
ford.
Mrs. Smith is a saleslady for
AVON PRODUCTS and has a cater-
ing business in Fresno.
22
Twelfth Anniversary
Rev. Naaman Haynes
Rev. and Mrs. Naaman N.
Haynes were honored recently at
an appreciation service given by
church members and friends to
celebrate their twelfth anniversary
at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in
Madera, California.
Rev. Haynes has been very ac-
tive in church and communiy af-
fairs since coming to the Madera
community. He has been a mem-
ber of Madera Unified School Dis-
trict Board of Education, member
of Madera Housing Authority, Ad-
visory Board, member of Madera
County Comprehensive Health
Commission, member of Valley
Children's Hospital Board of Trus-
tees, representing Madera County,
past chairman and board member
of the Madera County Action Com-
mittee (OEO). Rev. Haynes is past
president of Sierra Vista Element-
ary School P.T.A., past president of
the Madera Branch of NAACP, and
has served 5 years on the Madera
County Welfare Advisory Board.
71st Birthday
This past month Milton Gause
celebrated his 71st birthday. Gause
was born on September 9, 1900, in
Hennings, Tennessee. Several years
later he moved to Cotton Plant,
Arkansas, where he worked for I.
C. railroad as a young man.
While in Arkansas, Mr. Gause
married Edye Ellis and they have
been together for the past 22
years. Shortly after their marriage,
the Gauses moved to Saginaw,
Michigan and lived for a number
of years, then headed West and
settled in Fresno.
Shortly after arriving in Fresno
Mr. Gause started his own busi-
ness, as a gardner. Gause said, "I
love the fresh air and the smell
of earth. I have met and made
priceless friends in my work. I hope
to live and be happy the rest of
my life and make my friends hap-
py too!"
23
Integrated Minority Students
'Do Better'
A study shows that Black and Mexican-American elementary
school pupils learn reading and arithmetic better in integrated
schools than in nonintegrated schools.
The 256 page survey by the Sacramento school board officials
says the results are among the first in the nation showing positive
educational benefits of school integration, being achieved in Sac-
ramento mostly by busing.
In a citywide sampling in reading, integrated blacks outscored
their counterparts in predominantly Negro schools on California
Achievement Tests by an average of 10 points, the report said.
Integrated blacks led in reading in grades 2, 3, 4 and 6 with
"no statistically significant" difference in grade 5 where noninte-
grated students were slightly ahead.
In arithmetic, the report showed integrated black pupils out-
scored the nonintegrated on CAT tests in all grades, 2 through 6.
Integrated Mexican-American students exceeded previous per-
formance standards in reading from grade 2 through 5 and in
mathematics from 2 through 6, the study said.
Over-all, most of the integrated black children scored at or
above the national average on the tests while the nonintegrated
pupils did not, the study said, even though both groups were
given special help under federally funded compensatory educa-
tion programs.
The superior academic accomplishments of integrated students
evidently resulted from changes in teacher and pupil attitudes,
said research assistant Edward Morrison, who helped prepare the
report. "There is a hint in the study of something about the ex-
pectations of the students' peer group," Morrison said.
The study covered 528 pupils tested during 1970-71, with the
integrated children attending predominantly white schools through-
out the school district and the segregated black pupils attending
two neighborhood schools. There are no predominantly Mexican-
American schools.
Since 1966 the district, which has 27,000 elementary pupils in
56 schools, has been busing black pupils to 23 schools out of their
own neighborhoods. In 1969 the busing program was extended
to Mexican-Americans.
"If there is significance in this," said school board member
Adolph Moskovitz of the study, "then it ought to be spotlighted.
"This integration through busing is an issue on which this coun-
try is being torn apart. In our district we have put kids on buses
and taken them out of their neighborhoods.
"There have been no bad results. There have been good results.
That's important. If busing does it, then by golly let's use busing."
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Fresnan Makes Furniture From Old Tires
By Walt Porter
Sunny Green a 33-year-old West
Fresnan has solved his unemploy-
ment problem and at the same
time is making a contribution to a
clean environment.
Green has developed a process
for using old automobiles to con-
struct living room furniture.
"I am an experienced upholster,
artist, interior decorator, and drap-
ery maker," said Green. "However,
I couldn't find a job in Fresno, in
spite of my experience."
Green said he noticed that many
areas of the cities were blighted
with old used tires laying about
and conceived the idea of using
them in the construction of furni-
ture.
"I worked on the problem for
several weeks and found it was
workable," said the graduate of
Laney College of Oakland.
Green has set up construction
operation in the rear of the Good
Samaritan's Sales outlet on "C"
Street. He now has one man, Clar-
ence Wash, working with him in
the operation and is making ar-
rangements to have several wo-
men work as seamstresses for the
upholstery work. He said he hopes
to expand his operation to include
30 people.
The process developed by Green
uses coil springs, staples, old tires,
wooden frames, foam, burlap and
upholstery.
The springs are used to support
the tires shape. The tires are fas-
tened to a plywood base and the
foam is used to give softness to
the seating area of the furniture.
The upholstery is used to cover
the finished product.
He said he already has orders
for some of his furniture.
"This will not only help me with
unemployment," he said, "but
others also. There are a lot of peo-
ple in West Fresno who want work,
but there are no jobs. I have been
one of those people in the long
unemployment lines."
Green said he has plans on his
drawing board for sofas, chairs,
hassocks, love seats, round up-
holstered bars, coffee tables and
end tables.
26
Recipe
of the
Month
by Frank "Gil" Glasse
CHILI CON CARNE
* 2 cups Red Chili Beans
* 1 Onion diced
* 1 Green Pepper diced
* 1½ pound Ground Beef
* 1/3 cup Fat
* 3½ cups Tomatoes (No. 2½ can)
* 1 teaspoon Salt
* Cayenne Pepper (as desired)
* 1 Bay Leaf
* 2 tablespoons Chili Powder
Soak chili beans over night. Cook in boiling water with salt
added until tender, add hot water if needed while cooking,
drain. Cook onions, green pepper and meat in hot fat. Add
tomatoes and seasoning, simmer about 2 hours. Add water if
needed. Add beans.
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Education And Poverty
Several weeks ago, California's Supreme Court ruled that the state's
public school financing system, based largely on property taxes, was
unconstitutional.
In a six-to-one landmark decision which undoubtedly will be appeal-
ed to the U. S. Supreme Court, the justices held that the system is un-
constitutional because it discriminates against the poor.
In California, property taxes account for about 56 percent of public
school funds. Every state in the Union except Hawaii finances schools
in about the same way, levying various property taxes, and therefore
making the quality of education dependent upon the local tax base.
Anyone who doubts the relationship between education and income
level should know, according to the Bureau of the Census, that:
(1) People below the poverty level, regardless of race, complete 3.4
years less school than people above the poverty level.
(2) Blacks consistently complete less school than whites of compara-
ble ages, the total being almost two years less schooling.
(3) Whites below the poverty level average three years less school-
ing than all persons.
Edison's Drivers Are Safest
Edison High School's student body has been presented the first awards
in a local safe driving contest for having the fewest citations for moving
violations in a month's time.
The program determines the number of driving violations committed
by students of Fresno area high schools and computes the average
based on the school's average daily attendance.
Edison's students had no violations. The school received a pendant
from William Whitehurst and Lloyd Weeks, representing the Safe-D
Committee, and a plaque from Ken Franklin of the San Joaquin Valley
Insurance Fieldmen.
The awards will be moved to the winning school each month and
the school wi~nin~ the most times will be allowed to keep them perma-
nently. The violation computations are processed through Juvenile Traf-
fic Court.
So Called Black Radio Stations
Are Coming Under Fire
It is no secret that of the more than 300 so-called Black radio stations
throughout the U. S., barely a half-dozen are actually owned by Blacks.
In many instances these stations are little more than white money and
ideas being pumped through "colored" mouths at the Black community.
Well, the Black folk in Houston felt they were in a similar situation and
decided to do something about it. Calling themselves the Houston Broad-
cast Coalition and representing 35 Black organizations in the city, they
have filed a petition to deny renewal of suspended licenses of radio
stations KCOH and KYOK in Houston.
28
People In The Fresno Community
Mrs. Christine Jennings
By Mattie Meyers
Mrs. Christine Jennings came to Fresno as a child in 1942. Since then
she has become well-known for her bright and charming personality,
her work in political campaigns and community activities.
Mrs. Jennings, the mother of three sons and two daughters, was one
of the parents who is on record as having started the Teilman Element-
ary School's PTA, of which she was vice president. She is currently an
Eastern Star, a Daughter Elk, and a Gayette.
She lives life with a zest and she says that she will never die, for
she will live in such a manner that when she is gone, she will live in
the hearts of others. She likes to dance and says that dancing is good
exercise. Mrs. Jennings is writing a book and often writes poetry.
In her travels she was once the guest of the Ambassador of Gabon
to the United Nations, His Excellence Aristede Issembe. She has modeled
for Seafoam Fashions of San Francisco. Currently, Mrs. Jennings works
at Duncan Ceramics. She plans to devote more time to her writing.
29
No
Fish
Story
NO FISH STORY
It took Willard Nelson
of 1140 Jones Ave.,
Fresno, 25 minutes to
land this 14 1/2-pound
catfish at the main
delta in Firebaugh.
Jones used mackerel
as bait on a 12-lb.
test line. Dinner was
great.
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NOTE FROM
THE EDITOR
FRANK JOHNSON
Editor and Publisher
The GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE was
founded in June, 1969 by Frank
Johnson, Cleo Johnson, James
Aldredge, Dr. Freddie Hayes, and
Jerry Johnson for the following:
PURPOSE
-To provide a magazine that is orientated to Black people which will
be educational and enjoyable to both children and adults.
-To promote the positive aspects of the life and history of Black people
in Fresno and surrounding towns in Central Callfornia.
-To make available a forum for people of minority races so that they
may speak out on issues that affect their lives.
-To instill pride in Black people young and old.
-To bring about harmony between people of all races.
ACHIEVEMENTS
-First magazine to specialize in covering the life and history of Black
people in Central California.
-Magazine is first to publish a Who's Who of Black people in the
Central California area.
-Magazine's Editor and Staff have recieved awards and acclaim from
the Black community and the United States Army for the effort made
by the staff to honor Black people who contribute to the community
who otherwise would go unnoticed.
-Magazine is read by approximately 100,000 adults and children each
month.
-Magazine staff has honored through articles and pictures over 2,000
individuals and civic groups in the Fresno and Central California area.
-Magazine staff has hired approximately 70 part-time and full-time
minority people over the past two and one-half years.
-Magazine is used widely as supplementary classroom reading ma-
terial in schools and colleges in the Fresno and Central California area.
-Magazine has subscribers in over 40 different cities in California,
twelve different states, and four foreign countries.
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zines to various schools, churches, hospitals and underprivileged in-
dividuals in an effort to keep people abreast of the positive aspects of
the Black communities in the Fresno and Central California area.
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Table of Contents
October, 1971
Vol. 3 No. X
Mattie Meyers New Staff Writer 7
Fresno Awards 8
Furniture Company Employs Residents 9
Outstanding Woman 1O
Educator of the Month 11
Newlyweds 12
Family Reunion 13
Director of Water Safety 14
Former Fresnan 15
Model of the Month 17
Riggins Joins F.S.C. Staff 18
F.S.C. Ethnic Class Appointments 19
Football Player of the Week 20
Spcrts -Lynn Graham 21
District Clubs Elec1 Officers 22
12th Anniversary 23
71st Birthday 23
Integrated Schools 24
Furniture From Old Tires 26
Recipe of the Month 27
News of the Month 28
People in the Community 29
Fish Story 30
Photo Credits:
Fresno Bee, Pp 8, 21, 30
California Advocate, Pp 12, 18
Earl Bradley, P 17
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6
Mrs. Mattie Meyers
Is New
Grapevine
Staff Writer
Mrs. Mattie Burton Meyers
Born and educated in Durham, North Carolina, Mrs. Meyers re-
ceived her Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry and Mathe-
matics from North Carolina Central University in Durham and her
Master of Arts Degree in Education from Fresno State College. Al-
ways in the pursuit of education, she also studied in the University
of Southern California's Predoctoral Education Program. For the
past three years she has been a teacher at Franklin Elementary
School. Previously she taught at Lincoln Hospital School of Nursing,
Kerman Junior High, and this past year at Fresno State College in
the Center for Urban Education as a Tutor-Instructor. She feels that
education is one of the most helpful means of overcoming the
handicaps of poverty, ignorance, racial discrimination, and bore-
dom.
Probably better known for her candidacy for Mayor of Fresno
in the 1965 municipal election and her presidency of the Fresno
NAACP (1960-62), Mrs. Meyers has lived in West Fresno and has
been active in civic and educational affairs for the past twenty-
five years. Although she has lived in California longer than she
lived in North Carolina, Mrs. Meyers still retains a bit of the South-
ern accent of which she is very proud. She says this is so most
probably because her parents emphasized being proud of "What
God made you." Mrs. Meyers holds a deep personal religious phi-
losophy and feels that religion is what one lives everyday; and
hers is basically, "Do unto others as you would HAVE them do
unto you."
Among the things she likes best is the interaction of her students
in the teaching-learning process and writing. She also enjoys meet-
ing people, traveling, swimming, hiking, parties and discussion
groups where there is a lively exchange of ideas. Mrs. Meyers is
the mother of five children.
As a GRAPEVINE staff writer, Mrs. Meyers will travel throughout
Central California writing articles on various subjects.
7
Fresno Awards
Mrs. John Ora Cal-
houn, left, president
of the Fresno Sigma
Beta Chapter, Alpha
Chi Phi Omega Soror-
ity, admires the tro-
phies brought home
from the annual con-
vention in San Fran-
cisco by Mrs. William
(Sudie) Douglas, cen-
ter, and Mrs. Arthur
(Flo) Atwater. Mrs.
Douglas was award-
ed the "most out-
standing" trophy for
community service
and Mrs. Atwater the
"Miss Charm and
Personality" trophy.
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8
A Fresno West Development Company Project
New Furniture Company Employs Residents
By Walt Porter
The Interior Environments, Inc., a furniture manufacturing company's
management conducted a press tour of its two temporary plants to dis-
claim reports it is not a functioning firm.
The company has been the target of criticism because of its financing
by Model Cities through the Fresno West Development Co. Much of the
criticism has been directed toward the use of funds provided and wheth-
er its intentions of providing jobs for Model Neighborhood residents is
being carried out.
Members of the news media were escorted through the West Fresno
plant in the old "You and Me Market" and another plant in Pinedale.
The company's management said its future projections call for moving
all operations under one roof in a new facility on South Cherry Avenue
in the Model Neighborhood.
IEI management also said it is projected that once the firm moves
to the new location the company will provide employment for an ad-
ditional 100 model neighborhood residents.
News reporters were shown 46 people at work in the two temporary
locations, most of whom were Negro and Spanish-origin.
In addition several workers were introduced as supervisory level em-
ployes.
The management told reporters the company is in the process of
manufacturing furniture for major retail outlets throughtout the state
of California as well as other western states and Hawaii.
9
Outstanding Woman Of The Month
Mrs. Lucy Gwendolyn Carleton
Crossley, a native Fresnan, is the
first Black Family Court Counselor
for the Fresno Superior Court. Her
job, which consists primarily of
premarital counseling, family con-
ciliation, and recommendations to
the court in child custody cases,
was first created when California
eliminated the old divorce law and
adopted the new marriage disso-
lution law requiring family coun-
seling.
After graduation from Edison
High School and finding very
few non-menial jobs open to black
females, she began work as a ho-
tel and bar maid. After World War
II began with the demand for
skilled laborers, Mrs. Crossley ob-
tained work as an aircraft assem-
bler.
Not until about eighteen years
later did she return to school; and
this was after reading in the news-
paper that the first class for Li-
censed Vocational Nurses would
start at Fresno City College. After
completing this course, she want-
ed to go further. So with the en-
couragement of her mother, Mrs.
Ruby Pierro, and Lucy's husband,
Mr. Johnny Crossley, a Fresno Civ-
il Servic employee, she enrolled at
Fresno State College. At night she
worked at Fresno County General
Hospital an an LVN. While work-
ing in this position and seeing the
hardships of so many people, she
often recalled the days when her
grandmother, Mrs. Maude Ayres,
would take in girls and boys who
had run into trouble with the po-
lice. Remembering this kindness,
she reflected that "But For The
Grace Of God, Go I," and determ-
ined that she too would get into
work where she could help as many
people as she could. She changed
her curriculum course to Social Wel-
fare work.
After graduation from Fresno
State College, she went to work
as a Social Worker for the Fresno
County Welfare Department. Seven
years later, she applied for and
received a California State Grant
to enable her to go fulltime to
Fresno State College to get her
Master's Degree in Social Work.
After graduating with her Master's,
she went back to fulfill the commit-
ment with the Grant which was to
work at the same department for
two years. She was promoted to
supervisor. After this, she transfer-
red to the Mental Health Clinic
and worked as a Psychiatric Social
Worker. When the budget was cut
in this department, she was select-
ed for her present position.
A woman of many intellectual
pursuits, Mrs. Crossley also enjoys
expressing herself in fancy crochet-
ing and knitting. In her free time,
she takes part in a number of or-
ganizations of which she is a mem-
ber; some of which are: The Na-
tional Academy of Certified Social
Workers, National Association of
Social Workers, California State
Conciliation Court Association, Iota
Phi Lambda Sorority. She is a mem-
ber of Second Baptist Church.
10
Educator
Of
The
Month
Mrs. Bertha Sams
This month the GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE is honoring Mrs. Bertha
Sams, a fifth grade teacher at Lowell Elementary as Educator of the
Month. Mrs. Sams who came to California at a very early age, is
a graduate of the former Fresno Tech High School, Fresno City and
Fresno State College. She has been with Fresno Unified School Dis-
trict for seven years.
A woman with varied interests, she is a member of many or-
ganizations. Among them are the Council of Negro Women, Fresno
Business Leaders Association, and the Fresno Black Educators
Association of which she is treasurer.
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Mr. & Mrs. Rodney O. Nelson
NEWLYWEDS-Miss Jacqueline Ann Johnson and Rodney 0. Nel-
son, both students at the University of Santa Clara in Santa Clara,
California, became husband and wife recently in marriage cere-
monies held in the college community. The new Mrs. Nelson,
daughter of Mr. Odell Johnson, Sr., of Fresno, and the late Mrs.
Irene Johnson, is a McLane High School graduate and is beginning
her second year at the University. The bridegroom, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Eddie Nelson of San Jose, California, is a junior, majoring in
engineering. The couple spent a brief honeymoon in San Francisco
before resuming their studies.
12
Riggins
Joins
FSC Faculty
Chester Riggins, a former Fres-
nan, has joined the Fresno State
College faculty as an Assistant Pro-
fessor in the Black Studies Pro-
gram.
Riggins completed 22 years of
military service in the United States
Air Force on July 31, 1971, and
was awarded the "Joint Service
Commendation Medal" for excep-
tionally meritorious service. Rig-
gins had obtained the rank of lieu-
tenant colonel and performed du-
ties as Director of Material, Senior
Staff Transportation Officer, Squad-
ron Commander, Terminal Com-
mander, and Container Manage-
ment Officer world wide. This in-
eluded tours in many foreign coun-
tries including Spain, Greenland,
Japan, Labrador, and Taiwan.
Riggins attended Edison High
School and Fresno State College,
receiving his B.A. Degree in His-
tory in 1951. He received his M.B.
A. in Business Administration from
Indiana University in 1961 and a
M.A: in Counseling from Federal
City College in 1971.
Among his many honors receiv-
ed while attending college were:
Who's Who Among College Stu-
dents, outstanding AFROTC Candi-
date 1950, member of Blue Key
Society (men's honor society), mem-
ber Phi Gamma Mu (social science
honor society), earned letters in
football, soccer and basketball.
Riggins' hobbies are Judo (black
belt holder 5 years), golf, reading,
collecting black literature, history,
and dancing. He is an active
Mason, a member of the American
Personnel and Guidance Associa-
tion, Indiana University Alumni
Association and the Washington,
D. C. Indiana University Club. He
has been active in Little League
baseball organizations, Cub Scouts,
Junior Basketball and Junior Judo
activities.
During his last 18 months while
assigned in Washington, D. C., he
was very active in the Drug Abuse
programs, juvenile delinquency
agencies, neighborhood houses,
and ghetto youth activities.
Riggins, 42, is married to Nettie
J. (Johnson), and they have four
sons and two daughters.
13
Vincent Santana Director Of Water Safety
Now that summer is over, there
are many children in West Fresno
who have been drown-proofed and
properly instructed in Water Safe-
ty. This has been the result of the
fine program put on by the Fresno
City Recreation Department, Area
III (westside) recreation swim pro-
gram director and staff. For the
second season, the program has
put through about 400 children
and a few adults, qualifying them
with Red Cross certificates.
The director of the program has
been Vince Santana an active Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity member and
one of Fresno's most eligible bach-
elors. Santana has done much vol-
unteer work with youth groups in
West Fresno, including being the
assistant coach for the undefeated
1970 Pop Warner Pee Wee division
Edison Tiger football team. His job
experiences have ranged from rec-
reational supervisor at the Veter-
ans Hospital; counselor for the San
Joaquin Valley Youth Service Pro-
gram; to Water Safety Instruction
Pool Supervisor for pools on the
west side of Fresno.
Vinvent Santana was born March
l0, 1944 in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
Grew up in the ghettos of New
York and later attended high school
in Bisbee, Arizona. A year after
graduating from high school he
joined the Navy for four years
where he was a mechanical engine-
er, reaching the grade of E-4 in his
special. He also worked with Spe-
cial Service, coaching boxing and
basketball. In Viet Nam he re-
ceived several service medals and
was discharged under honorable
conditions at the end of his tour
of duty.
Shortly after being discharged,
he enrolled at Fresno City College
with a major in Physical Educa-
tion. There he participated in foot-
ball and track.
Upon transferring to Fresno State
College, he changed his major to
Therapeutic Recreaton, in which he
is now currently pursuing a Bache-
lors of Science degree. He is cur-
rently in his last semester of study
and doing his internship at the
local Juvenile Hall facilities and
also in the Are III (west side) rec-
reational office.
14
Former Fresnan Stars In Bay Area
Children's Television Program
Leroy Mims
Contra Costa College's Special
Programs Director Leroy Mims is a
versatile man. He has just become
a star in a children's television
program, aired on KGO-TV in Oak-
land, California.
The format for the show is a
good one: Mims takes four chil-
dren on visits to places of interest
to children. So far they have taken
trips to the zoo and an art gallery
and museum. Scheduled are trips
to a circus in San Rafael and a trip
to the University of California at
Davis. The show is called, "Mr.
Mims Electronic Field Trip."
On the Davis field trip, Mims
and his moppets visited an experi-
mental winter vegetable garden;
got a brief lesson in botany -
scrutiny of a plant, its roots, male
and female characteristics - and;
finally, found out what a green-
house is and how it works.
Mims confesses that he finds the
field trips as interesting as the chil-
dren do, and that he is learning
new things along with the chil-
dren on each program
How Mims background and ed-
ucation led to this new interest is
somewhat obscure. His education
included majors and minors in
criminology: sociology, and physi-
cal education for his bachelor's
degree; adminstrative recreation
and counseling and guidance for
his master's degree, and he is cur-
rently in his third year of a doctoral
program in community college ad-
ministration.
He has been a secondary school
teacher in the Berkeley, Burbank,
and Fresno school systems, teach-
ing a wide range of subjects and
doing some adult education teach-
ing. He was a high school teacher
and coach, and a community col-
lege instructor in health education.
He coached winning basketball
teams for Contra Costa College.
He has been director of the col-
lege's special programs division
since its inception in April of 1969.
In the latter positin, he has over-
seen the planning, development,
and coordination of all of the col-
lege's special programs and ser-
vices directed toward disadvant-
aged and minority students.
Mims and his wife, Faye, live
in Moraga and have three chil-
dren: Rhonda, Rhonelle, and Royce.
He does not see the excursion
into television as a career possibil-
ity. He is primarily an educator and
that is where his life's work is.
Even his attitude toward the tele-
vision program is one an educator
would hold, for Mims sees the field
trips as educational as well as en-
tertaining experiences for his young
viewers.
In the meantime, Mims, who is
six feet two inches tall and slender,
will tell you with a warm smile
that he is having a good time mak-
ing the shows and working in the
new-for him-media.
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The Right
Chemistry
Miss Violet Cargill,
a Fresno State College
Chemistry laboratory
instructor, is Octo-
ber's Model of the
Month. The five foot
six inch beauty was
born in Kingston, Ja-
maica. She is current-
ly working on her
Master's Degree in
Chemistry at F.S.C.
GRAPEVINE
Model Of
The Month
Photographer Earl Bradley
Riggins Family Reunion
One hundred ninety-five descendants of Mr. & Mrs. John Riggins, Sr.,
of Marshall, Texas, were on hand at Fresno's Roeding Park's Palm
Point for a famliy reunion.
The senior Mr. & Mrs. John Riggins are now many years deceased.
Their children and descendants of Mr. & Mrs. Jesse McCray, Mrs. Nellie
McCray, Mr. & Mrs. John Riggins, all of Fresno; Mr. & Mrs. Joe Riggins
of Los Angeles, Mrs. Marie Lang of Santa Ana, and many close friends
were in attendance.
An old fashioned "TEXAS DINNER ON THE GROUND" was enjoyed
by all. The grandchildren and great grandchildren enjoyed tours of the
Park, Zoo, and games.
The family was in attendance at the 11:00 o'clock Sunday morning
service at the Saint Rest Baptist Church, pastored by Rev. Chester Riggins.
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Fresno State College
Announces Ethnic Classes Appointments
Rev. Matthew Daw Calvin Johnson
Fresno State College announced
the appointments of seven new
part-time faculty members in the
Ethnic Studies Program.
Six of the appointments are in
Black Studies and one is in Native-
American Studies. All are for one
year.
Calvin Johnson and Roger De
Lemos, staff members of the voca-
tional promotion and guidance of-
fice of the Fresno County Depart-
ment of Education, will teach
courses on Black Community Re-
lations and The Black Man and
the World, respectively.
The Rev. Mathew Daw, pastor
of the Second Baptist Church, will
conduct a seminar on race rela-
tions and Walter Brooks, a coun-
selor at Fresno City College, will
teach Black perspective.
Kenneth Walker, a graduate stu-
dent in religious education at the
Fresno Mennonite Brethren Biblical
Seminary, will conduct a course on
The Black Image and Robert Mikell,
a FSC graduate student in busi-
ness, will teach courses on Exposi-
tory Writing and Minority Business
Management.
They will join full-time staff
members Lester Riggins, Mrs. Chris-
tine Bessard, Bernard Pangulula,
and part-time lecturer Mrs. Lily
Small in the program.
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Ted Lambert
Football Player Of The Week
Ted Lambert, Fresno State College's defensive middle guard,
was the first recipient of the San Joaquin Valley Sportswriters and
Sportscasers College Player of the Week Award.
The six foot Senior from Oakland was in on 18 tackles during
the Bulldogs' game with Cal State of Hayward.
Before coming to F.S.C. Lambert played two years at Laney Col-
lege and was named player of he year. He was captain of both
the fooball and wrestling teams.
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can Games women's shot put record-holder, displays her gold medal to
students at Fresno's Yosemite Junior High School during lunch hour. She
assists Mrs. Rita Axe in Opportunity Program classes (habitual truants
and behavior problems). Originally she wanted to be a physical educa-
tion teacher but now prefers the classroom.
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District Clubs Elect Mrs. Sarah Smith
Mrs. Sarah Smith
An Installation Reception was
held on Aug. 29 for Mrs. Sarah E.
Smith and her newly elected slate
of officers for the Central District
of the Calif. State Association of
Colored Women's Clubs Inc. Mrs.
Smith will preside over the Central
District which extends from Bakers-
field to Madera, and serve as a
vice president of the Calif. State
Association of Colored Women's
Club Inc. The installation services
were held at the YWCA with Mrs.
Albertha Dillard, president of the
Southwest Region of the National
Association of Colored Women of
Bakersfield, Calif., as the installing
officer.
Mrs. Smith is a member of the
Second Baptist Church where she
sings in the Gospel choir, member
and past leader of the Ruth Mis-
sionary Circle, and Sunday School
teacher in the Primary Department.
She organized and served 6 years
as president of the FYLE-MUN-ROSE
FEDERATED CLUB, past president of
the Fresno Section of N.C.N.W.,
chairman and charter member of
the Fresno County Probation Fos-
ter Home Guild. She is a member
of the Camp committee of the YW-
CA, member of St. Agnes Service
Guild, member of Education com-
mittee of the American Cancer So-
ciety and is a member of the Vol-
unteer Bureau.
The Calif. State Association is a
great fellowship of women united
for service to help make better
communities in which to live. The
National Association was organ-
ized in 1896 and the objectives of
the NACWC is to promote the ed-
ucation of women and girls through
the departments, to raise the stan-
dards of the home, to secure and
use its influence for the enforce-
ment of civil and political rights
of the group. To obtain for colored
women the opportunity of reach-
ing the highest standards in all
fields of human endeavor and to
promote inter-racial understanding
so that justice and good will may
prevail among all people. Mrs.
Smith stated that they are in a
membership drive and any wo-
man's club that would like to know
more about the organization should
contact her at 237-4559.
Other officers installed were:
Mrs. Ann B. Cole, 1st vice pres. of
Hanford; Mrs. Lena Jones, 2nd vice
pres. of Delano; Mrs. Mae Etta
Bennett, rec. sec'y of Wasco; Mrs.
Ruth Warren, ass't sec'y of Bakeres-
field; Mrs. Evelyn Beary, corres.
Sec'y of Fresno; Mrs. Jeftie Follins
Fin. Sec'y of Bakersfield; and Mrs.
Margie Green, treasurer of Han-
ford.
Mrs. Smith is a saleslady for
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ing business in Fresno.
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Twelfth Anniversary
Rev. Naaman Haynes
Rev. and Mrs. Naaman N.
Haynes were honored recently at
an appreciation service given by
church members and friends to
celebrate their twelfth anniversary
at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in
Madera, California.
Rev. Haynes has been very ac-
tive in church and communiy af-
fairs since coming to the Madera
community. He has been a mem-
ber of Madera Unified School Dis-
trict Board of Education, member
of Madera Housing Authority, Ad-
visory Board, member of Madera
County Comprehensive Health
Commission, member of Valley
Children's Hospital Board of Trus-
tees, representing Madera County,
past chairman and board member
of the Madera County Action Com-
mittee (OEO). Rev. Haynes is past
president of Sierra Vista Element-
ary School P.T.A., past president of
the Madera Branch of NAACP, and
has served 5 years on the Madera
County Welfare Advisory Board.
71st Birthday
This past month Milton Gause
celebrated his 71st birthday. Gause
was born on September 9, 1900, in
Hennings, Tennessee. Several years
later he moved to Cotton Plant,
Arkansas, where he worked for I.
C. railroad as a young man.
While in Arkansas, Mr. Gause
married Edye Ellis and they have
been together for the past 22
years. Shortly after their marriage,
the Gauses moved to Saginaw,
Michigan and lived for a number
of years, then headed West and
settled in Fresno.
Shortly after arriving in Fresno
Mr. Gause started his own busi-
ness, as a gardner. Gause said, "I
love the fresh air and the smell
of earth. I have met and made
priceless friends in my work. I hope
to live and be happy the rest of
my life and make my friends hap-
py too!"
23
Integrated Minority Students
'Do Better'
A study shows that Black and Mexican-American elementary
school pupils learn reading and arithmetic better in integrated
schools than in nonintegrated schools.
The 256 page survey by the Sacramento school board officials
says the results are among the first in the nation showing positive
educational benefits of school integration, being achieved in Sac-
ramento mostly by busing.
In a citywide sampling in reading, integrated blacks outscored
their counterparts in predominantly Negro schools on California
Achievement Tests by an average of 10 points, the report said.
Integrated blacks led in reading in grades 2, 3, 4 and 6 with
"no statistically significant" difference in grade 5 where noninte-
grated students were slightly ahead.
In arithmetic, the report showed integrated black pupils out-
scored the nonintegrated on CAT tests in all grades, 2 through 6.
Integrated Mexican-American students exceeded previous per-
formance standards in reading from grade 2 through 5 and in
mathematics from 2 through 6, the study said.
Over-all, most of the integrated black children scored at or
above the national average on the tests while the nonintegrated
pupils did not, the study said, even though both groups were
given special help under federally funded compensatory educa-
tion programs.
The superior academic accomplishments of integrated students
evidently resulted from changes in teacher and pupil attitudes,
said research assistant Edward Morrison, who helped prepare the
report. "There is a hint in the study of something about the ex-
pectations of the students' peer group," Morrison said.
The study covered 528 pupils tested during 1970-71, with the
integrated children attending predominantly white schools through-
out the school district and the segregated black pupils attending
two neighborhood schools. There are no predominantly Mexican-
American schools.
Since 1966 the district, which has 27,000 elementary pupils in
56 schools, has been busing black pupils to 23 schools out of their
own neighborhoods. In 1969 the busing program was extended
to Mexican-Americans.
"If there is significance in this," said school board member
Adolph Moskovitz of the study, "then it ought to be spotlighted.
"This integration through busing is an issue on which this coun-
try is being torn apart. In our district we have put kids on buses
and taken them out of their neighborhoods.
"There have been no bad results. There have been good results.
That's important. If busing does it, then by golly let's use busing."
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Fresnan Makes Furniture From Old Tires
By Walt Porter
Sunny Green a 33-year-old West
Fresnan has solved his unemploy-
ment problem and at the same
time is making a contribution to a
clean environment.
Green has developed a process
for using old automobiles to con-
struct living room furniture.
"I am an experienced upholster,
artist, interior decorator, and drap-
ery maker," said Green. "However,
I couldn't find a job in Fresno, in
spite of my experience."
Green said he noticed that many
areas of the cities were blighted
with old used tires laying about
and conceived the idea of using
them in the construction of furni-
ture.
"I worked on the problem for
several weeks and found it was
workable," said the graduate of
Laney College of Oakland.
Green has set up construction
operation in the rear of the Good
Samaritan's Sales outlet on "C"
Street. He now has one man, Clar-
ence Wash, working with him in
the operation and is making ar-
rangements to have several wo-
men work as seamstresses for the
upholstery work. He said he hopes
to expand his operation to include
30 people.
The process developed by Green
uses coil springs, staples, old tires,
wooden frames, foam, burlap and
upholstery.
The springs are used to support
the tires shape. The tires are fas-
tened to a plywood base and the
foam is used to give softness to
the seating area of the furniture.
The upholstery is used to cover
the finished product.
He said he already has orders
for some of his furniture.
"This will not only help me with
unemployment," he said, "but
others also. There are a lot of peo-
ple in West Fresno who want work,
but there are no jobs. I have been
one of those people in the long
unemployment lines."
Green said he has plans on his
drawing board for sofas, chairs,
hassocks, love seats, round up-
holstered bars, coffee tables and
end tables.
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Recipe
of the
Month
by Frank "Gil" Glasse
CHILI CON CARNE
* 2 cups Red Chili Beans
* 1 Onion diced
* 1 Green Pepper diced
* 1½ pound Ground Beef
* 1/3 cup Fat
* 3½ cups Tomatoes (No. 2½ can)
* 1 teaspoon Salt
* Cayenne Pepper (as desired)
* 1 Bay Leaf
* 2 tablespoons Chili Powder
Soak chili beans over night. Cook in boiling water with salt
added until tender, add hot water if needed while cooking,
drain. Cook onions, green pepper and meat in hot fat. Add
tomatoes and seasoning, simmer about 2 hours. Add water if
needed. Add beans.
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Education And Poverty
Several weeks ago, California's Supreme Court ruled that the state's
public school financing system, based largely on property taxes, was
unconstitutional.
In a six-to-one landmark decision which undoubtedly will be appeal-
ed to the U. S. Supreme Court, the justices held that the system is un-
constitutional because it discriminates against the poor.
In California, property taxes account for about 56 percent of public
school funds. Every state in the Union except Hawaii finances schools
in about the same way, levying various property taxes, and therefore
making the quality of education dependent upon the local tax base.
Anyone who doubts the relationship between education and income
level should know, according to the Bureau of the Census, that:
(1) People below the poverty level, regardless of race, complete 3.4
years less school than people above the poverty level.
(2) Blacks consistently complete less school than whites of compara-
ble ages, the total being almost two years less schooling.
(3) Whites below the poverty level average three years less school-
ing than all persons.
Edison's Drivers Are Safest
Edison High School's student body has been presented the first awards
in a local safe driving contest for having the fewest citations for moving
violations in a month's time.
The program determines the number of driving violations committed
by students of Fresno area high schools and computes the average
based on the school's average daily attendance.
Edison's students had no violations. The school received a pendant
from William Whitehurst and Lloyd Weeks, representing the Safe-D
Committee, and a plaque from Ken Franklin of the San Joaquin Valley
Insurance Fieldmen.
The awards will be moved to the winning school each month and
the school wi~nin~ the most times will be allowed to keep them perma-
nently. The violation computations are processed through Juvenile Traf-
fic Court.
So Called Black Radio Stations
Are Coming Under Fire
It is no secret that of the more than 300 so-called Black radio stations
throughout the U. S., barely a half-dozen are actually owned by Blacks.
In many instances these stations are little more than white money and
ideas being pumped through "colored" mouths at the Black community.
Well, the Black folk in Houston felt they were in a similar situation and
decided to do something about it. Calling themselves the Houston Broad-
cast Coalition and representing 35 Black organizations in the city, they
have filed a petition to deny renewal of suspended licenses of radio
stations KCOH and KYOK in Houston.
28
People In The Fresno Community
Mrs. Christine Jennings
By Mattie Meyers
Mrs. Christine Jennings came to Fresno as a child in 1942. Since then
she has become well-known for her bright and charming personality,
her work in political campaigns and community activities.
Mrs. Jennings, the mother of three sons and two daughters, was one
of the parents who is on record as having started the Teilman Element-
ary School's PTA, of which she was vice president. She is currently an
Eastern Star, a Daughter Elk, and a Gayette.
She lives life with a zest and she says that she will never die, for
she will live in such a manner that when she is gone, she will live in
the hearts of others. She likes to dance and says that dancing is good
exercise. Mrs. Jennings is writing a book and often writes poetry.
In her travels she was once the guest of the Ambassador of Gabon
to the United Nations, His Excellence Aristede Issembe. She has modeled
for Seafoam Fashions of San Francisco. Currently, Mrs. Jennings works
at Duncan Ceramics. She plans to devote more time to her writing.
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No
Fish
Story
NO FISH STORY
It took Willard Nelson
of 1140 Jones Ave.,
Fresno, 25 minutes to
land this 14 1/2-pound
catfish at the main
delta in Firebaugh.
Jones used mackerel
as bait on a 12-lb.
test line. Dinner was
great.
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