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All seven candidates representing Citizens Helping Our
Indianapolis Children's Educa
tion (C.H.O.I.C.E) swept to
victory Tuesday as a massive
campaign supporting the "more
liberal" candidates appeared to
have been successful.
With   173  of 371   precincts
reporting in the crucial election,
C.H.O.I.C.E.   candidates   Pat
RETURNS $48,000: Washington, D.C.. cabbie William Taylor got at $400 tip last week, a
reward for honesty. The tip
came from the wife of retired
General Motors president Edward Cole, who left an attache
case containing $48,000 in
jewelry, travelers' checks, and
cash in Taylor's cab. He turned
it in to police, who returned it
to a grateful Mrs. Cole.
Welch,  Donald Larson,  Mary
Busch.   James   Riggs,   Lillian
Davis,  Robert  DeFrantz  and*
Walter Knorr.
DeFrantz appears to have
won despite a concerted effort to defeat him. As the race
entered the homestrech, De-
Frantz's opposition, never
really identifying themselves,
launched a 1 e t t e r-writing
campaign labeling him, among
other things, of being a radical.
With incomplete returns it
appears Miss Busch led the
C.H.O.I.C.E slate with 15,253
votes in District 2. Next came
James Riggs (District 5) with
13,660, Pat Welch (District 3)
with 13,423, Lillian Davis (District 4) with 13,000, Donald
Larson (District 4) with 12,460,
Walter Knorr (District 1) with
12,431, and Robert DeFrantz
(Distric 3) with 11,906.
They were opposing a slate of
candidates supported by the
Citizens For Neighborhood
Schools (C.N.S.). The three
incumbent board members
were soundly defeated. William
M.S. Myers, the only black
member of the current board,
led the voting with a mere
4,418 votes. Martha McCardle.
the current president, got 4,301
votes, and Paul Lewis totaled
3.329.
Miss Busch and Mrs. Davis
are black, as is DeFrantz.
Besides Myers, the only other
black running was William
Person is District 3. He polled
8,253 votes.
Observers noted that some
voters did not vote the straight
C.H.O.I.C.E slate inasmuch as
Miss Welch was leading Knorr
by more than 10.000 votes.
Board members with the
most votes elected from Dist
ricts 1,2,3 and 5 will take office
in January, 1977. The remaining three will be added in July
of 1978.
to make black appointments
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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1976
No. 18
Norfhside area
target of
concentration
Sifting through leads with
painstaking care, homicide
detectives intensified their
search this week for the killer
of a 23-year-old social worker
who was shot to death early
Saturday night in her apartment at 3720 N. Pennsylvania.
Police have centered their
search around the area of 34th
and Graceland, where they say
a man fitting the description of
the killer has been reported to
frequent. Detectives said late
Wednesday that they were
close to naming a suspect.
The body of Miss Mary Jo
Kemmerer was found in her
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Julia Carson to be Indiana's
1st black woman state senator
Summers top black
Legislature winner
In a stunning show of force,
Joseph W. Summers who has
never held elective office,
proved the big vote getter
among the nine black Democratic candidates seeking legis-
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Black working
wives give more
to home budget
WASHINGTON-(NBNS)
Black working wives contributed 9 percent more to total
family income than their white
counterparts, according to a
recently released five-year
study by the U.S. Department
of Labor.
The study showed that between 1967 and 1972, income
for white families where both
the wife and husband worked
averaged $15,954, compared to
$13,536 for white families with
nonworking wives.
The average income for black
families   with   both    partners
working   was   $11,731,   com-
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lative seats during Tuesday's
primary.
Entered in the congested
District 45 race, the well-
known mortician even polled
more votes than favored two-
time incumbent Bill Crawford
who was also assured a spot on
November's general election
ballot.
Official returns indicated the
three election candidates from
this district, considered the
heaviest concentration of
registered blacks in the city,
will be Summers, Crawford and
John J. Say, a white currently
serving his second term.
A milder surprising was the
win registered by newcomer
Michael W. Rodman, only black
candidate in the mostly white
District 43.
In registering his win,
Summers continued the tradition started four years ago by
Julia Carson who vacated the
seat he's now seeking to run for
the Senate.
He first came to the attention
of constituents in 1974 when he
ran unsuccessfully for the legislature, and again last year
when he lost in his bid for a
JOSEPH W. SUMMERS
City-County Council post.
Early tabulations gave Summers a total of 7,151 votes
while Crawford received 6,920.
Day won with 5,134 votes.
They'll oppose  Republicans
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COMPOSITE OF SUSPECT
HUD approves
use of Federal
funds for city
The United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) has autho
rized (approved) the city of
Indianapolis to start using its
^976 allotment of $12,993,000
from the Community Development Act, Mayor William H.
Hudnut announced this week.
The funds are for May through
April, 1977.
However. Deputy Mayor
Michael A. Carroll observed
that approval contained numerous points which require
further negotiation and adjustment.
One issue concerns use of
$638,000 originally earmarked
for the Marion County Department of Public Welfare's program for children in foster
homes and other care facilities.
HUD rejected the use of the
money for that purpose, and
efforts to determine whether
other portions of the welfare
budget can use the funds will be
made, Carroll stated.
The federal money was put
into the welfare budget in place
of local taxes by the Republican
of the City-County Council last
fall on advice of Fred Arm
strong, then director of the city
Department of Administration
and now city controlled.
The action was for the
purpose of keeping the  1976
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Literally trouncing her four
Democratic opponents, includ-
ing Ms. Marie Lauck, the incumbent state senator from
Senate Dist. 34, State Rep.
Julia Carson appeared Thurs
day to be destined to become
Indiana's first black woman
state senator when the general
election rolls around Nov. 2.
Ms. Carson is almost assured
of victory in the Novemeber
election since the district which
is more than 85 percent black,
is staunchly Democratic. Ms.
Carson's Republican opponent
in the Novemeber election,
George Weathers, who is also
black, garnered fewer than 900
votes while running unopposed
in the GOP primary.
In her impresive victory, Ms.
Carson more than doubled the
combined vote totals of her
three opponents, newspaper
publisher Opal L. Tandy, the
incombent    Ms.    Lauck,    and
REP. JULIA CARSON
Atty. Charles A. Walton, who
withdrew from the race last
week and did not actively
campaign for the nomination.
In the incomplete vote count
available Thursday Ms. Carson
rolled a total vote of 5,260,
compared with a combined total
vote of 2,243 votes registered
by her three opponents.
Ms. Carson, a two-term state
representative, gave up a "safe
seat" in the Indiana house to
challenge Sen. Lauck for the
senate nomination.
Ms. Carson is a former
assistant to 11 District Con
gressman Andrew Jacobs and
is now an executive with the
Cummings Engine Co at Columbus.
In a second Indiana State
Senate district with a sizeable
black population, two blacks
were among four opponents
defeated by Atty. Louis Ma-
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ROYAL CHIT CHAT: Pretty Juanita Hoover
share's a private joke with one of her sister
"500" Festival princesses during the Mayor's
Breakfast the past Saturday in the Expo
Center.  The  breakfast  launched  the  20th
Annual "500" Festival celebration, a month of
festive activities claimaxed by the "grand-
daddy" of auto racing at Tony Hulman's
internationally-famous Speedway May 30.
[Recorder photo by Marcell Williams]
CHARLOTTE, N.C.   -
In Nor'h Carolina to address
the national issues conference
of Black Democrats Sunday,
frontrunning Jimmy Carter,
who appears to be sweeping his
way to the party presidential
nomination, told the gathering
of black Democratic leaders
here to draw up a list of
positions to which they would
like to see blacks appointed if
he became President.
The black Democratic
leaders went to work immediately to put together such a list.
One state representative said it
would include a list of jobs in
the domestic, areas of health,
education and welfare and
housing, as well as foreign
affairs. The former Georgia
governor, promised, if elected,
to name a significant number of
blacks to his administration.
In Indiana Tuesday. Carter
added another state to his
already impressive list of primary victories piling up an
overwhelming victory margin
of 68 % statewide. In the black
communities both in Indianapolis and throughout the state
Carter proved that he wasn't
hurt    by    his    recent    "ethnic
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Custody
suit is
continued
Juvenile Court Judge Val S.
Boring is expected to ruie on
May 21 who will gain custody of
the surviving children of a
Lafayette man under indictment for the murder of his
other three youngsters.
The suit involving Charles
Ross Jr., 8, and Betty Ross, 6,
was initiated by the Marion
County Welfare Department.
Currently, they're living in
Indianapolis with their mother,
Miss Adron M. Tucker. 34,
3007 Baltimore.
Miss Tucker is the common
law mate of Charles M. Ross,
32, arrested last month when
police found the skeletons of
three babies buried in his backyard and basement.
During a session last Friday,
the Welfare Department requested the children be taken
from their mother.
Judge Boring continued the
case    after    the    preliminary
hearing attended  by  both  pa
rents.
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Complainant   in    the    four-
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tional Technical College.
She is easily recognized in
the black community because of
her extensive work with the
NAACP.
Recently, she accepted an
appointment to the Indianapolis
Police Merit Board in addition
to her position with the Marion
County Public Welfare Board.
Indianapolis has had a Human Rights Commission for 13
years, but despite city ordinances, state and federal
statues, most housing charges
never get past the mediata-
tion or fine stage.
The unprecidented brief filed
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governor Winthrop Apart-
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list available units in The
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reputed open housing policy.
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Bowen, Conrad vy for governor
Lugar, Hartke to clash
in November election
Fifth black is
named U.S. bishop
CHICAGO -
The fifth black priest ever to
become a bishop of the Catholic
Church in the United States
was appointed Tuesday as the
nation's Catholic Bishops
opened a three-day semi-annual
meeting here.
Archbishop Jean Jadot, the
Pope's U.S. representative,
used the occasion to announce
the appointement of the Very
Rev. Joseph A. Francis, 52, of
Bay St. Louis, Miss., a s
auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J.
His appointment was seen as
a further indication of the
church's concern for its 950,000
black members in the U.S.
About 200 black priests and 700
nuns currently are working in
the country.
The Bishops' conference be-
VERY REV. J.A. FRANCIS
gan with an appeal from its
president, Archbishop Joseph
L. Bernardin of Cincinnati, that
"better ways should be sought,
Solidly supported by the
leadership of the Indiana Black
Republican Caucus, former Indianapolis Mayor Richard G.
Lugar soundly defeated former
Indiana Gov. Edgar Whitcomb
for the right to oppose three-
term incumbent Sen. Vance
Hartke in the November general election. Lugar defeated the
ultraconservative former go-
venor by a more than two-to-
one margin.
On the Democratic side,
Hartke barely beat back the
challenge of 8th District Congressman Phillip Hayes that
saw both men attacking the
personal integrity of the other.
In the Democratic gubber-
natorial contest, Secretary of
State Larry Conrad poled up a
landslide victory racking up
almost 70 percent of the vote in
defeating State Treasurer Jack
New and Senate minority
leader Robert Fair to win the
nomination for the top state-
house post. On the Republican
side, Gov. Otis Bowen and
Lieut. Gov. Robert Orr were
both unopposed.
Even at this early date,
however, there are indications
that Lugar, who has been
tremendously popular among
Indianapolis blacks, may cut
substantially into the traditionally Democratic black
vote  as  he   seeks  to  unseat
Hartke those performance the
last  few  years  "hasn't   parti
cularly pleased  Indiana  black
Democratic leaders.
Several prominent black
Democrats, who elected to
remain annoymous, have already indicated they are considering support for Lugar in the
fall.
However, on the other side of
the coin, there are number of
promient black Republicans
here and across the country,
who have indicated that they
will not back the candidacy of
former California Gov. Ronald
Regan should he manage to
wrest the party's presidential
nomination from President
Ford at the GOP nomination
which will be held at Kansas
City in July.
Regan who scored an upset
victory over the President in
Tuesday Indiana primary,
while also rolling up victories in
Alabama and Georgia, "would
set the country back 200 years
if he were to be elected to the
White House," one prominent
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