Good
morning radio Friends. This is Austin Coleman for the Ragsdale mortuary
where funeral services began at $195 complete. And the Valley Life and
casualty insurance company offering new policy service at a new low
premium rate, bringing you another in a series of sunday morning programs
that have been designed for your listening pleasure By this time. Each
year many of us have made our resolutions for the year. It is my hope that
we resolve to give more of our services to mankind. It has been said by a
great organization that the service to humanity is the best work of life.
Let us do the best work we can in 1960 for our program this morning will
feature the women of the Valley Life and casualty insurance Company who
are working week after week to serve you. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's what he's done for me. Being sung by the sally martin Singers. Our
first selection this morning will be by MS Mahalia Jackson. How great thou
art!
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my!
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the
first lady we would like to pay tribute to this morning is mrs Lillian
Brown. Mrs Brown is a member of the Wesley Methodist church and president
of the Women's Society in that church. Mrs Brown is director of debits at
Valley Life and casualty Insurance Company and has some 15 years
experience in the life insurance business. She has been with our company
for over five years and has done a remarkable job. We salute mrs Brown for
her fine achievements this morning. And we would like to dedicate our next
selection to the pastor, the reverend Rollins Winslow and members of the
Wesley Methodist church,
The roberta martin singers. He's using me
when you see me walking,
you hear me talking
when you see me, do my best.
When you see me stand my
giving up the right.
The
next person we would like to honour this morning is Miss Maybelline Walker
, the youngest lady on our staff at Valley Life and Casualty. Miss Walker
is the 1960 graduate of the South Mountain High School and has completed
two years at Phoenix College. MS walker has been with the company for over
six months and in that time she has done a remarkable job. She served the
south east broadway area. She is a member of the Pentecostal Church where
the reverend mrs ruby Mac is pastor and at this time we would like to
dedicate a selection to the pastor and members of that church. MS Mahalia
Jackson. My God and I wait
together.
Wait
our
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go
through
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Yeah, we
would like to pay tribute at this time to mrs Flora Mae smith, a mother of
eight young Children. Mrs smith has been with the Valley Life and casualty
insurance company for a period of six months. She is doing a fine job in
the Northeast broadway district. She is a faithful member of the Union
baptist church for the Revenue Alison Di Reed is pastor. We would like to
offer a selection to the pastor and members of that church, the Alex
Bradford singers. Do you know jesus
everywhere
he makes me
mrs
Freddie Mae Regan, the newest lady on our valley life and casualty staff
has been with the company for just about two months in that period. Mrs
Reagan has led the company in production and won the annual christmas
contest. Mrs Reagan says the outline areas of Stanfield Maricopa, casa
grande, E and alloy. She is a member of the Pentecostal Church located at
18th street and East Buchanan. The reverend bishop flooring is the pastor.
We would like to dedicate our next election to the pastor and members of
Mrs Reagan's church and all of our listeners in Maricopa Stanfield casa
grande E and alloy. The original five blind boys walk together Children
together
one morning singing Yeah,
uh huh. There
are other women at the Valley Life and casualty insurance company. They
are our office personnel who serve you in the coming weeks. We will
feature our officers and office personnel this morning. We wanted you to
become acquainted with the very fine ladies who served you as insurance
agents with the Valley Life and casualty insurance company to all ladies
listening. Mrs William Brown has asked me to extend to you the sincerest
invitation to become a life insurance agent with a very fine organization.
The Valley Life and casualty insurance company. You may call mrs Brown
for appointment at 2545323.
Please call 2545323
and ask for mrs Lillian Brown
at this time.
We want to allow a great man to speak to you briefly about another great
man. Let us listen to our friend Lincoln J. Ragsdale. Thank you. Mr
Coleman. The year of 1963
was perhaps the most important year of our history and particularly the
history of the Negro in Phoenix Arizona, because we have made more
advancements in the last 12 months, and we did in the last 12 years here
because you became interested in yourselves and you joined together and to
help to kill old discrimination, to run old jim crow out of town.
And you joined together to tell the handkerchief heads and those who were
holding back the progress of our race that you were not interested anymore
in them because you are somebody and God cared about you and you cared
about yourselves and you wanted to help change the situation and you march
downtown against El Rey cafe and you went down against world Worth in
other stores in these stores. In turn hired your boys and your girls and
My daughter and your daughter were able to get a job for the first time in
the history of Phoenix
and the year of 1963.
An angry demand and patient examples. We've made some great significant
advancements in the field of science, in the field of education, in the
field of medicine. We have been able to exert our power and come forward
because we had a great man as president, a man who recognized the
importance of all of God's Children, president Kennedy.
And then we had another great man in our own race. Dr martin Luther King
and Time magazine recognized him, has been the greatest man in America
regardless of his color. And despite the fact that a negro was born in a
small home in Birmingham Alabama in january 15th 1929. Just a few years
ago, 35 years. This man has such a wonderful mind that he finished high
school at the age of 15 and he graduated from college at the age of 19
and he went on to Theological Seminary and graduated from boston
University with a doctor of philosophy.
In the 1955.
He got involved in this great movement to free his people, the black moses
and the modern moses of our time. Dr. Martin Luther King has been stabbed
in the chest because he was out there fighting for you. His home has been
bombed three times when his wife and Children were there. He's been
physically attacked and has been put in jail 14 times because he wanted
you to have your rights in this Sunday morning, we're gonna honor Dr.
Martin Luther King because he's a man of the year, selected nationally
above all other men in the United States. Dr martin Luther King and he's
gonna give you a few words of encouragement, but you want just to be the
best or whatever. We are probably a cleaning floors and sweeping up
restrooms, are driving a bus or doing anything. Let us be and he tells us
to be the best of whatever we are. Let's listen to this special program by
dr martin Luther King,
a
prophet, this great leader in the struggle for human dignity, reminds the
american negro of things to come in the future. New opportunities which
defy them to sink into lethargy. These new
opportunities have opened within the last few months and this will be even
greater all over the United States doors will be opening that have not
been opened in the past. The negroes and the great challenge that we face
is to be ready to enter these doors when they open graph Waldo Emmerson,
Ralph
Waldo Emerson said in a lecture back in 1871
that if a man can write a better book, a preacher better sermon or make a
better mousetrap than his neighbor. Even if he builds his house in the
woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. This will become
increasingly true. nine means that we're going to have to work hard. We're
going to have to burn the midnight all sometime we're going to have to
take advantage of new opportunities. But we must set out to do our life's
work so well that nobody could do it better. We must set out to do a good
job and and we must not seek merely to do a good negro job. If you're
setting out to be a merely a good negro doctor or a good negro lawyer, a
good negro teacher, a good negro preacher are good negro skilled laborer,
good negro barbara, good negro beautician. You have already flunked your
matriculation exam for entrance into the University of Integration. We
must get ready. Yeah, we
must set out to do a good job and to do that job so well that the living,
the dead of the unborn couldn't do it better as I've said so often if it
falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out in sweep streets like
Michelangelo carved more sweep streets like Raphael painted pictures,
sweep streets like Beethoven composed music and like Shakespeare wrote
portrait sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will
have to pause and say he'll lived a great street sweeper who swept his job.
Well this is it. Yeah, yeah, you
can be a pine on the top of the hill. Be asker been the valley but be the
best little scrub on the side of the real. Be a bush if you can't be a
tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can be the sun,
be a star for it isn't by size that you win or you fail be the best of
whatever you are Again
in behalf of the Ragsdale mortuary and the Valley Life Insurance Company.
We want to thank all of our many friends who sent in cards letters in
reference to this emancipation program that we have brought to you for the
last 12 months. We asked many of you who have written us to write us again
and sent us in a special request and continue to let us know that you like
our program or tell us what you want us to do and to criticize us in order
to help us. We are new at this field, but we have sincerely enjoyed it.
And we ask you to send any correspondence you have to the right scale
mortuary. 1100 East Jefferson Street. Uh, leave it at the Valley Life
Insurance Company at 11 40 east Washington. We'd appreciate if you stopped
in and visited with us and come and look over your home office at the very
life insurance buildings. And we invite anyone to stop in and compare the
services at the rights. Don't mortuary with any other mortuary in this
area. Come and compare the prices of our funeral services and come and see
what you get for your money and come in and see the sympathetic and kind
services that we try to offer to our many friends and until next sunday
morning in behalf of the rights. Don't want to wear in the Valley Life
Insurance Company. We want to urge you to tune in to us. In the meantime,
visit the Church of your choice today and let us all keep working together
and playing together, and someday we shall overcome.
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