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Evening star., 1953-12-20

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Evening star., 1953-12-20
Brows Durkened at This

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. (P1.
This is no light matter:
City traffic Engineer Fran
els Burton found the city has
been paying $40 a year since
about 1949 for a street light
in the county,
Evening star., 1953-12-20
Two States Are Stormiest

MIAMI.-The two States with
the most electrical storms are
Florida and New Mexico. In an
average year. Florida has 70 to
80 days Of electrical storms and
New Mexico so to 70 days.
Evening star., 1953-12-20

morning in a rain, reminiscent of
the downpour which marked the
coronation of Elizabeth in Lon
don last June 2. On that occa-
sion, Queen Salote captured
British hearts by driving
drenched but smiling in an open
coach during the coronation pro-
ceSSion.
Tomorrow the royal party is
to attend service at Tonga's
Wesleyan Methodist Church and
lunch with Salote at her country
house.
Evening star., 1953-12-20
No Curb Service for Him

Ell PASO, Tex. (R.-Anx-
touS Ell PaSo f1remen rushed to
a lumber yard this week to
answer an alarm. No fire.
Businessmen told them they
saw motorist stop in front of
the fire box, jump out of his
car with a bunch of letters,
and set off the alarm trying to
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-12-19
Roanoke City Council Should Act!
Continued from Page One


fishing and sometimes alarming to note the willingness
of people to accept msnformaon and become part of
scheme destined to retard the march of progress.
The sin committed by the Council was when they
subscribed to public hearing the matter which had
to do with scientific welfare of the people is reliably
reported that they already had the endorsement of every
national health body in the United States and they all
speak with authority the benefits and safety of fuor
idaton joint statement has been issued by the Amer
Medical Associations Council Pharmacy and
Chemistry, and the Council Foods and Nutrition
stating that there evidence of toxcty which should
raise question against the fluordation of public
water supplies
Other national health organizations that have en-
dorsed fuoridaton include: American Dental Association
American Association of Public Health Dentists Ameri-
can Public Health Association, State and Territorial
Dental Health Directors American Society of Dentistry
for Children State and Territorial Health Officers Asso
cation u S. Public Health Service National Research
Council, American Hospital Association and American
Nurses Association
Roanoke City Council several weeks ago gave it's
approval to the program and directed City Manager
Owens to draw estimates of the installing and
maintaining fluoridation equipment We cannot believe
they would have that far without having given due
study and thorough consideration to the matter Acting
IN the interest and welfare of all the people of the City
1T unfortunate that they did simply include the
item as must" in the budget without public dis
cusson Once the public discovers that "indecsion" is
the Councils weakness, and fear its shackle those
impediments will be magnfied and the public will capt.
taze every opportunity to obstruct plans though thew
are designed for the public's interest.
With all due respect to the irresponsible opposition
to fuoridaton the City Council dutybound to accept
guidance of the nations leading health organizations and
research groups who give their unqualified endorsement
OF fluoridation of public water supplies
So to the Council have had too much talk already
Let us have action.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-12-19

since their establishment gradually cracking their
classroom doors to qualified Negro students.
But according to report recently released by the
National Planning Association, Negroes Totally
excluded from white collar work in whte-managad in
dusria firms throughout the South According to
lessor Donald Dewey of Duke University who prepared
the report for NPA Negro workers have scarcely toe
hold in supervisory jobs He reported that Gin the plants
surveyed the racial division of labor has remarkably
stable over long period of time" The Professor said
that ne found in industry occupation toward
elimination of Negro workers a practice noted by
many observers in the 1905 He pointed out that while
the color line tends to eliminate inerracal competition
In the labor market and hampers upgrading of Negroes
some cases were found where Negro workers have moved
into jobs previously held by whites
So despite the beneficial effects intepraton in the
Armed Forces has brought about, the struggle will be
long and hard before full realization of this lofty aim
becomes an accomplished fact
In the meantime, Negroes must take advantage of
every opportunity to better themselves educationay to
fit themselves smoothly into raciay migrated America
when such day arrives And do hope that the nation
VIII not nave to repeat struggle similar to the Korean
Conflict before it recognizes the feasibility of making
full use OF what each and every of it's citizens have
to offer irrespective of his skin color.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-12-19
PRESS COMMENTS

white citizens than in pos
,sible for Negroes. For no
man can think we'll of him
self, can respect himself
who takes the advantage of
his fellowman, whether it
be through chicanery or
force.
So the legal battle in
Washington is not one that
is to destined to free the
Negro from inferior edu-
catlonal opportunities so
much as it is to force our
southern white folks from
hanging to the warped no
ton that God ever intend
ed that there should be a
master race on the face of
the earth with the right to
exploit, cheat and rob 9TH
ers of their rights.
= The Carolina Times
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-12-19
IntegratiOn: Product of National
SeIf-PreservaitOn
By Randolph l.. White

Whatever the political, economic and military sig
nflcience of the fighting just ended in Korea it has
proven great benefit in the fight against racial segre
cation in the United States.
While no sanemnded people likes the idea of gaining
their obJectves through and misery it is an un-
denabe fact that it took the Korean Conflict to
something many Americans had doubted for years that
white and Negro men and women can study work and
fight side by side.
In the Korean action, necessity alone forced inte-
grafton OF troops requirements sorely needed in
all units and time barred too much worrying about the
color of mans skin long he could handle weapon
The success of this Indignation tryout on the field
OF combat paved the way for similar experiments on the
home front.
Civilian communities around Army Posts were keen
~ affected Many towns where social minglinp Of the
races is prohibited by law finally decided to ease their
restrictions after seeing harmful results of nteora
ton in the Armed Forces
True Indignation is slow and touchv subject on
the home 'front.' but it is nevertheless taking form and
noticaby in Dixie.
In the professional field in the South Negro nuraea
nave been accepted on formerly ywhte nursing staffs
and work on an ntegrated basis with white nurses
Southern Universities that have barred Negroes
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-12-19
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
READY TO COMPLY
IF SEGREGATION GOES
WASHTNCTON

w ASf1INGION
Should the Supreme Court
outlaw segregation, Wash
ington, d. G. is ready to
comply with the law, ac-
cording to Schools Supt.
Corning. DR.. Corning has de-
clared that white and Negro
public schools will be inte-
grated promptly"
Though the Superinten-
dent did not say how much
time would elapse between
a court bar and the actual
practice, he did say this:
"The effect of any decision
should be realized promptly
without delay over a period
of years."
Meanwhile, Asst. Corpor-
alton Counsel Milton d. Kor-
man, in a brief filed on be-
half of the District, which
contends that segregation is
legal, has also stated that
it might take time to change
over. The brief states:
Proper indoctrination and
instructions of teachers and
passage of necessary legis-
lation, including appropria-
tons for required changes
make the immediate change
to a unified local system inn
possible"
At one point it was adj
mitted that a gradual adj
justment of experts, inte-
grafton might be accom-
plished in certain areas of
the District before it is or
dered in others, as may pos
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-12-19
EDITORS NOTE

The articles appearing in
thas newspaper from time to
time oper the signature of
Randolph l.. White, or amy
other aOrtter, do not meces-
sarity reflect the policy nor
opinion of The Tribune.
The Tribune. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1951-19??, 1953-12-19
THE LEGAL BATTLE
OF THE CENTURY

While this is being writ
ten, the legal battle of the
century is going on in Wash
ington, where the United
States Supreme Court is be-
ing asked by the National
Association for the Advan-
cement of Colored People to
outlaw segregation in public
schools and thereby give Ne
groes of this country equal
educational opportunities
with other citizens. On the
other side is arrayed the
old South, with the cobwebs
of slavery still hanging in
its mind, demanding that
Negroes be kept in their
present status, where for
the most part, inferior
schools have been their lot.
Whatever the decision in
this momentous case, there
is certain to follow some
stirring times in the South.
For should the Supreme
Court outlaw segregation.
there is the task of inte-
grating Negroes and whites.
the plan of which must vet
be organized from the very
beginning. Should the Court
find some way to decide to
the contrary and thereby
force Negroes to rely on the
separate but equal" pro-
gram, the South is certain
to experience a wave of suits
in the federal courts the
like of which has never been
witnessed.
In the latter case, thought
full persons of both races
are aware of the fact that
southern economy cannot
maintain two standardized
equal basis. They know and
educational systems on an
admit that since the abolish
ment ofslavery, white child
rem have had superior ed
ucatlonal opportunities at
the expense of Negro child
rem. They also know and ad-
init that Negroes have the
law on their side, whatever
the outcome of the cases
now before the Supreme
Court, and that ultimately
they are going to have to
accept integration or lower
the standard of white
schools and raise that of Ne
groes in an effort to meet a
separate but equal" pro-
gram of education, should
that be approved by the
nations highest tribunal.
Thus, it doth appear that
stirring times, and that the
the South is in for some
end of the era of thievery
and exploitation of the Ne
groe's educational right is
at least in sight.
We think we see in that
end a greater benefit to our
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Song Book Brings Discord
To School Board Meetinu

A song book brought a sour
note to District Board of Edu-
cation meeting yesterday.
A teachers pamphlet on inter-
national friendship also came in
for some not-too-harmonious
attention.
Board Member Robert r.
Faulkner teed off on both sub
jects. Mr.. Faulkner not long ago
got widespread notice-some Of
it unfriendly-with attacks on
school "Socialistic trends"
Yesterdays discussion started
on textbooks. School officials
wanted to get a list Of new ones
approved for next year. Mr..
Faulkner thought board mem
bers shouldn't approve them
without some members having
read them.
Wesley Williams said he had
the utmost confidence" in a
committee of teachers who
picked the books.
Mr.. Faulkner wanted to know
what books the schools have on
UNESCO-the United Nations
Educational. Scientific and Cul-
tural Organization. Acting Supt.
Norman j. Nelson said none Just
on that subject.
Then Mr.. Faulkner displayed
a pamphlet called "Use the
United Nations in Your Teach
ing" He wanted to know wheth-
er teachers use it.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
By ChorIes J. Yorbrouoh

The author of that phrase
concerning the fate of old SOL
diers should know Gwynydd P.
Meredith.
At IS, ramrod straight and
6-foot-3. retired Australian Col.
Meredith is back from the Ko-
rean war on 30-day leave, visit
ing a son here he hadn't seen in
Is years.
The last time Col. John
Wynne Aubrey Meredith, 36. said
goodby to his father. both were
serving on what is now the
Pakistan frontier.
The son is a member of the
British Joint Services Mission
here. The father is a civilian
ammunition inspector with the
9th Army in Korea.
From the sons home, high on
a Dunn Loring hill in Fairfax
County, the elder Meredith is
using that leave to get acquaint-
ed with two grandchildren he
had never seen and a daughter
in-law he had never met.
He's using it, too, to see what
he can of the Virginia of Stone
wall Jackson, whose campaigns
I studied so diligently"
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Policeman on Fence
Halls Suspect With
; Warning Shots

A policeman, perched atop a
high board fence, fired three
warning shots to halt a huose-
breaking suspect after a short
chase early today.
Pvts. Samuel Rogovsky and
Patrick Sochocky were cruising
in their scout car at 7:15 am. on
North Capitol street near I street
when they spotted two colored
men carrying several filled paper
bags.
The policemen stopped to
question the two, and the men
ran east on I street. The police
followed in their cruiser. The
men ran into the front door of a
house on I street and out the
back door. The police left their
car and gave chase.
The suspects scaled a 6-foot
board fence in the back yard.
Third Shot HaIts Him.
Pvt. Rogovsky pulled himself
to the top of the fence and
spotted one of the men fleeing
down an alley. He fired two
warning shots into the air,
shouting for the man to halt.
He fired a third shot above the
mans head and the suspect
halted. At No. / precinct he
gave his name as Rudolph ".
Davis. Is, colored. Of the first
block of Myrtle street NE.
Police said he admitted break
ing into a grocery-with q IT.
year-old companion-at 901
Ninth street NE, and taking 283
packages of cigarettes, $50 in
cash and an adding machine.
Companion Sought.
Police recovered the adding
machine, which had been sold
and the cigarettes. which were
dropped in the house through
which the men fed. Capt.
Thomas Rasmussen of No. l
precinct said Davis would be
charged with housebreaking. His
companion is being sought.
Police said Davis told them he
stole cigarettes and sold them
on the streets in the vicinity of
the Government Printing ONCE
and the Main Post Office. They
said he admitted two other house.
breakings and . theft from an
automobile.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Mrs. Williams Hits
Segregated Training

Mrs. velma G. Williams.
Board of Education member.
attacked the school systems
segregated in-teacher training
program.
Mrs. Williams, who is colored,
told the board that the program,
for which outside lecturers are
hired to address groups Of col
ored and white teachers sep
arately. is out Of step with other
bi-racial teacher meetings. The
board took no action on the
subject.
The board postponed action
on a set of principles proposed
by Supt. Hobart M. Corning for
operation of the projected school
television station, for which the
schools have applied to the Fed
eral Communications Commis-
sion.
Given permanent status by the
board were Cedric o. Reynolds,
principal, and John D. Koontz,
assistant principal. Coolidge
High School; Henry L. De
Keyser. assistant principal at
Kramer Junior High, and Gill
bert A. Diggs, assistant principal
at Francis Junior High.
Retired were Mrs. Lillian 8.
Malone, principal of Stevens
Phillips School, and these teach
erS: Mrs. Jane M. EStopinal,
Wheatley School; Everett l..
Brown, Phelps Vocational School,
and George c. Williams, Francis
Junior High.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Popular Tax Query: Is Wife
Dependent fPoyBeIow $500?

The question most asked by
Washington area taxpayers of
the Bureau Of Internal Revenue
deals with claiming a wife as q
dependent. if she earns less than
$500 annually.
j. w. Maslin, Internal Revenue
agent in charge Of the Washing
ton Division, said this is the pop
ular query with which the tax
payer is having difficulty.
MAY I claim my wife as an
exemption on my return if she
earned less than 5000, and may
she file a return and receive a
refund of taxes withheld?"
Official Answer.
The official answer is: "Sep-
arate returns may be filed. How
ever. the husband could not
claim his wife as an exemption.
Generally speaking. a joint re-
turn would be the most eco
nomical way to file."
With less than a month left
for taxpayers to file their income
tax returns, Mr.. MaSlin reminded
them that the bureaus service
includes not only personal con-
sultation but day and night tele-
phone query service, from Mon
day through Friday. And Wash
ingtonians are taking advantage
Of both.
Since January 2, Mr.. Maslin
said. some 81 ,283 taxpayers have
been personally assisted by In
ternal Revenue agents at bu-
reau headquarters, Twelfth
street and Constitution avenue
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Five Rai|roaders Hurt
As Engines Collide

Five railroad men were in
jured last night when a road
engine backed into q switching
engine at the Ivy City round
house.
Washington Terminal officials
said the road engine. from the
Richmond. Fredericksburg & Po-
tomac Railroad, hit the yard
switching engine while backing
from the roundhouSe. The in
jured men were on the switching
engine.
Taken to Emergency Hospital
for treatment were:
Robert A. Million, 81. Of 6135
Central avenue, Capitol Heights,
engineer; Frederick Ehmcke, 80,
of 903 East Capitol street; Bill
Hensley, ~. Of 2685 South Nash
street. Arlington: Harry Smith,
"a, of Brentwood, Md, and Pres
ton Carpenter. Il, Of 316 Fiji
teenth street Sc. None was in
jured seriously.
The r. r. d p. engine was
driven BY II. B. Chapelle, 50, Of
Fairfax, Va, Washington Ter.
minal omcials said.
Evening star., 1953-02-19

NV, and 26,731 telephone quer-
les have been answered.
But Mr.. Maslin wants more
taxpayers to take advantage of
these services to avoid the last
minute jam before the deadline
on Monday, March 16. Ordinar-
lily. March Is is the last day;
but this year, it falls on a Sum-
day. so the taxpayer has one
days grace.
Number to Call.
Telephone queries can be made
by calling Sterling 3-8400 and
asking for Tax Information Serv-
ice. The telephone service runs
from $3.50 am. to S pm, and
again from Z to 8 pm.
In the Washington Office, q
dozen persons are on day tele-
phone duty; at night. there are
four
Officials pointed out that day
telephone service also is main
tanned in the nearby areas.
These numbers are: Alexandria
Temple 6-7615: Arlington
Jackson 8-0121, and -Four Cor
ners, Md.-Juniper 7-600S. This
service runs from $3.50 am. to
5 PM, with no night service.
Altogether, there are some 200
agents ready to aid the taxpayer
in filling out returns, here.
L. A. Chamberlin, collector OF
internal revenue for the Balti-
more District. in which Washing
ton is located. urges taxpayers
to file their returns now and not
in the last few days.
Evening star., 1953-02-19

The pamphlet, published by
the National Citizens Commit
tee for United Nations Day. was
prepared by Katherine Scriven-
er, director Of elementary edu-
cation in the District school syS-
tenn, with the aid Of Miss Eliza
beth Andrews. Bancroft Elemen-
tary School principal, and Miss
Jeanne Hogan, art specialist.
Mr.. Nelson said that "a teach
er in preparing her lesson uses
anything at her disposal to make
her presentation as interesting
as she can"
Then came the diSsonance.
'I have a book of SONGS" said
Mr.. Faulkner, holding one up.
zone ends up with United Ma
tions. United Nations It doesn't
say anything about the United
States"
The song book, called "Sing
Song Of Freedom" is by Irving
Caesar. It also contains a song
called Thomas Jefferski." which
brought a violent attack from
former board member Adelbert
w. Lee two years ago.
Mr.. Nelson explained that the
board then considered the song
book ''long and painfully" and
finally approved the issuance Of
one copy to each school. But he
stressed that 1t is mot put in
the hands of the children"
The board approved the list
Of textbooks.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
District Refuses 10 Cut
Undertakers' License Fees

The District Commissioners to-
day refused to lower the license
fees now paid by funeral di.
rectorS and embalmers here.
The District Funeral Directors
Association has asked that the
fee for directors be lowered from
$40 to SO and for apprentices
from $40 to IS. The association
pointed out that due to the fact
that local funeral parlors' trad
ing area spills over" into Mary
land and Virginia. they must pay
license fees in those two States
as well as the District. This
brings the undertakers' annual
license fee to $40 for each funeral
director.
The city heads said. however.
that city inspection costs Of
undertakers have not been re-
duced and saw no reason why the
license fee should be lowered.
Evening star., 1953-02-19
Groups Plan Appeal
To Congress for New
Van Ness School

Funds for a new Van Ness
Elementary School will be asked
Of Congress by several parent
and citizen groups.
Spokesman appealed to the
Board Of Education yesterday to
seek restoration of the STA mil
lion project to the city budget
for the year starting July /. The
Commissioners deleted it when
they sent the budget request to
Congress.
The school board did not COM
NIT itself yesterday, but Presi-
dent c. Melvin Sharpe, who had
visited the present school earlier
in the day, said a replacement
should be built.
Shocked at Deleting.
Van Ness, for colored children.
is the second deleted project on
which citizens have banded to-
gether. Fifteen Southeast or
ganizations also are organizing a
campaign to win restoration of
$2.3 million for a white Junior
high school.
Mrs. Esther Calls. president of
the Van Ness PTA. said yesterday
parents were shocked when the
new school project was cut out
Of the budget. The present
school, built for 4S0 children,
now houses TOO, and there is a
waiting list for undergraduates,
she said. The school is at Fourth
and M streets Sc.
In use are an eight-room
building, erected in 1909, and a
nine-room temporary annex. The
school is inadequately heated
and has no library. first aid
room. indoor play space or audi
torium, Mrs. Calls said.
Pastor Protests.
The Rev. c. w. Cleveland,
pastor of the A.U.M.P. Methodist
Church, Fourth and I streets
Sc. called the present school
deplorably inadequate.
Gardner l.. Bishop. president
Of the Consolidated Parent
Group, said he could not UNDER
stand why school authorities did
not give the replacement .
higher priority.
Robert Goodloe. Of the South
east Civic Association COM
planned that many youngsters in
the Van Ness neighborhood had
been switched to distant build
ings because Of the overcrowding.
Mrs. Justine w. Greene, board
member of the Southeast Settle
ment House. also supported the
project.