Ford Fund Grant Will Aid Negro Journalism Careers
Date: 21 October 1968
Special to The New York Times
Washington Journalism Center gets Ford Foundation $295,500 grant for 3-yr program to train Negroes
Merle Flowers (born October 20, 1968) is an American businessman and politician from the state of Mississippi. A member of the Republican Party, Flowers served in the Mississippi State Senate.
Flowers retired from the Mississippi Senate in 2012 to spend more time with his family. Flowers is Chairman of the Board for Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare Olive Branch Hospital. Flowers is former Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 241 and father of 5 Palm Eagle Scout, Jackson Flowers. He is President of Flowers Properties, LLC in DeSoto County. He is a member of The Well Methodist Church in Lewisburg. Flowers serves on two statewide Boards; The Mississippi Development Bank and The Mississippi Business Finance Corporation.
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Date: 21 October 1968
Special to The New York Times
Washington Journalism Center gets Ford Foundation $295,500 grant for 3-yr program to train Negroes
Date: 21 October 1968
Amer Anesthesiologists Soc med journalism award to M Kass (Houston Post)
Date: 20 October 1968
Hovercraft service set to link Nassau with The Current, Spanish Wells and Harbour Is in the Bahamas; illus
Date: 20 October 1968
By LEWIS FUNKE
Lewis FUNKE
Date: 21 October 1968
NY Daily News straw poll gives Javits 50%; O'Dwyer 23%, Buckley 15%
Date: 20 October 1968
By MURRAY SCHUMACH
Murray SCHUMACH
Lindsay meets with Kheel panel; group hears rept from Police Comr Leary and other top police officials on situation in Ocean Hill-Brownsville; Selden says AFT will seek funds throughout country to aid striking UFT members; Rev Oliver charges Shanker is willing to destroy city in order to destroy Ocean Hill-Brownsville school program; striking teachers at IS 201 complex, Harlem, get lrs threatening to replace them unless they return to work; parents and teachers continue sit-ins at some schools; illus
Date: 21 October 1968
By JERRY M. FLINTSpecial to The New York Times
controversy erupts, Detroit, between Negro leaders and Detroit News (newspaper) over latter's daily publishing of crime blotter with racial identification of assailants, most of whom are Negroes; Judge McCree, Repr Conyers, W P Reuther and others, in open lr to Detroit Tribune, a Negro newspaper, charge identification gives distorted picture; Detroit News reprints critical lr and Tribune's criticism; defends position
Date: 21 October 1968