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CongressmenAddress NAACPYouth MeetieNEW YORK.—Leaders of bothparties in the House of Representatives as well as seven of the nation’s outstanding Senators will participate in the two-day NAACP Youth Mobilization Conference, in Washington, D. C., April 21-22, theRev. James Blake, NAACP vice president for youth affairs, announced here this week.A'More than 2,500 concerned youths and adults from across the nation will convene to seek enactment of legislation to lower the nation’s voting age from 21 to 18. They will be addressed by House Majority Leader Carl Albert (D.-Okla.); House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford (R.-Mich.); Senators Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.); Birch Bayh (D-Ind.); Thomas F. Eagleton (D-Mo.); Hugh Scott (R-Pa.); Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.); Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) and Joseph D. Tydings (D-Md.).The Mobilization has drawn enthusiastic support from across the nation, including a $1,000 controbution from the International Leadies Garment Workers Union, AFL-CIO.According to Miss Carolyn Quilloin who is coordinating the conference from the NAACP National Office in New York City, a large number of organizations have promised to send delegations and have written hearty endorsements of the principle of lowering the voting age.These groups include the League of Women Voters, B’nai B’rith HiUel Foundation, the Youth Franchise Coalition which encompasses 15 youthgroups, the National Student YWCA, the National Association of Social Workers, Americans for Democratic Action, the National Student Nurses Association, the American Veterans Committee, the AME Ministers Conference of New York City, the National Council of Catholic Men, and the United Presbyterian Church of the U. S. of America.James Brown, NAACP youth and college division director, reports that numerous youth and college units have arranged chartered bus transportation to the Nation’s Capital for the event. These reports have come from both the Carolina and Virginia state youth conferences as well as from individual units in New Orleans, La., Louisville, Ky., Cleveland, O., Detroit, Mich., Chicago, 111.,Battle Creek, Mich., Birmingham, Ala., Nashville, Tenn., Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pa., Hartford and Waterbury, Conn., Boston, Mass., and Baltimore, Md.LAUGH TIMEi t.“That poor kid must need the money I didn’t expect to see her back here again/*r
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Thu, Apr 24, 1969
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