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This week Professor Henry Allen Bullock, 50, a trained sociologist (Ph.D., University of Michigan, '42) and director of graduate research at Houston's all-Negro Texas Southern University (enrollment: 3,000), told, in an 18-month study of his fellow Negroes' earning power and buying habits, how close the Southern city Negro has moved toward economic equality with whites. While his log-page report is confined to the South's largest city, Houston (pop. 725,000), it is a good indication of the Negro's material advances throughout the Southland...
More Money. Bullock's report is based on a poll of 1,028 households, out of Houston's burgeoning Negro population of 156,000, and of 127 stores patronized by Negroes. He calculates that Houston Negroes spend $168 million a year; they constitute 21.2% of the city population, account for 15% of its purchases. Furthermore, he figures that this spending power is backed by a property investment of $45 million...
Through professional archaeological friends, the amateurs got their hearth dated by a new carbon 14 apparatus in the laboratory of the Humble Oil & Refining Co. at Houston. Last week Crook and Harris were celebrating the second and bigger climax: the charcoal had proved to be 37,000 years...
LARGEST SHOPPING CENTER in the South, seven miles from downtown Houston, will open Sept. 20. The $20 million, 60-acre Gulfgate has 60 air-conditioned stores, parking space for 5,000 cars, is expected to gross $60 million the first year...
While such a solution sounds reasonable, most arbitration experts flatly say that it makes little sense. Arbitration is an aid to collective bargaining, not a substitute for it. As Houston Transit Co. President Carl Frazier puts it: "You simply cannot, in effect, turn over the authority for managing the company to a third party who may not be nearly as familiar with the company's problems as you are." Once an agreement is signed, however, arbitration may come into its rightful role, interpreting the fine print, settling the petty grievances that might otherwise erupt into strikes...