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Arizona sun., 1956-04-26

merly, school was held from
September IL to May "a.
The starting date (Monday
after Labor Day. will now be
the same for elementary and
high schools.
Arizona sun., 1956-04-26
Capsule
Quotes
ARIZONA SUN

eThe Sign, National Catholic
magazine published in Union
City, New Jersey, writing on in
tegration states: There is no
question that the Negroes cause
is just. There is no question,
either, that the white mans
adjustment is going to be more
difficult. Humiliation is more
painful than hunger"
Q Governor of Alabama, James
E. Folsom on politics-"In 1852
it was Vote for Ike and save
the South from the Negro. Well,
some voted for Ike and what
did we get? First we got the
Supreme Court decision on
school segregation written by
Ike's appointee, Chief Justice
Earl Warren. Next we got five
dollar calves following 100 dollar
heiferS, and we got less cotton
acreage and less peanuts"
. The publisher of the Norfolk
Journal, P. B. Young Sr., in a
telegram to Dabney, chairman
of board of directors of South
ern Education, gave notice of
his resignation from the board.
After reading what he termed
grossly unfair editorial COM
ments of other editors on the
board said, "The reference in
those editorials to the NAACP
are false and vicious; devoid of
truth, understanding Or fair
ness. The objectivity which char
acterizes the Southern School
News has been maintained to
a surprising degree by the pre-
sent director, Mr.. Don Shoe
maker, as the source of policy
under which the Service oper-
ates is polluted with some ra-
cists with ante-bellum ideas
who would thrust the nation
into another civil war"
Arizona sun., 1956-04-26
SAD NEWS FOR STUDENTS

The Phoenix Elementary
School District board has length
ened the 1S56-57 school year.
Students VII go to school from
September 10 to May 20. For
Arizona sun., 1956-04-26

SOUR NOTES-Singer Nat King" Cole. who assauled
during engagement in Birmingham. Ala. Is interviewed
by newsmen he stopped at Washington Notouol oioEt
en- route Raleigh. N C to his Southern tour. The
fned is being severely criticised for telling 70
segregated audiences. and for his detesinoen
deht Southern bigotY "hs woY Nswsrysss photo).
Arizona sun., 1956-04-26
LOYAL BUDDIES

The Buddies met with the
Eugene Sims, last Sunday night
where their com ing event
was planned. Mrs. Sims served
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Close This LoophoIe

The Senate Judiciary Committees
report on the narcotics problem in Wash
ington has given proper emphasis to the
dangerous laxity here in the sale of So
called "goof balls" and thrill pills"
These drugs, by more scientific names, are
the barbiturateS and the amphetamines
The former, commonly prescribed to in
duce sleep, can lead to serious drug addic-
ton, with all its evils. The latter, used to
promote wakefulnesS, also have bad
aftereffects on the human system. Both,
according to expert witnesses before the
committee, are especially dangerous
drugs" the sale of which should be
strictly controlled, just as the sale and
use of morphine is controlled.
However, the committee pointed out,
there is no District law regulating the
traffic in these potent drugs. The report
said it was "major surprise" to learn
that barbiturates, amphetamines and
some other drugs are not covered either
by the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act or by
the District Pharmacy Act. Pharmacists
are not required to keep any record of
sales. And apparently many juveniles
have been able to obtain the capsules
or pills without doctors prescriptions.
However, no law is violated if a person
is found with large quantities of such
drugs in his possession There is no such
thing as illegal possession of barbiturates
or amphetamines in the District. Yet
the testimony showed that these drugs
can do as much damage to their users
and to the community as the more IA
miliar kinds of dope"
The committees recommendation for
a District law to control the sale and use
of such drugs is warranted by the facts
disclosed at the hearings This loophole
In the local drug laws should be closed
as soon as possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
More Than a Dream

Critics of the Southwest redevelop-
nent program have called it dream"
They are right. 1t is dream of a blighted
community transformed into thriving.
attractive part of a reinvigorated Wash
ington. And, fortunately, it is a dream
that seems on the verge Of coming true.
Only the approval of the District Com
misSioners Is needed to start the program
moving toward reality. And that approval
should not be long in coming, in view Of
the overwhelmingly enthusiastic support
given the plan at the public hearing
last week.
That there was some opposition to
the tentative zeckendorf program at the
hearing was to have been expected. The
impact of the broad rebuilding of the
Southwest on residential and business
interests there will be profound. Home
and commercial areas will be completely
made over. This will mean pulling up
roots and resettling in the reconstructed
district or elSewhere--a wholesale opera
ton in which the benefits of redevelop-
ment for the whole community clearly
outweigh the disadvantages and incon-
veniences cited at the hearing by several
DIRECTORS.
The Commissioners have announced
their intention of giving full considera-
ton to the testimony, including especially
the protests. 1t is proper that the OBJ
jections should be carefully studied, with
a view to making any reasonable changes
deemed practicable. But we believe that
the remarkably united backing of the
program in general by organized civic,
trade, religious, cultural and other groups
can lead to only one decision by the
Commissioners-an approval that will
constitute "go sign" for the citys most
important improvement enterprise in
recent times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
course I would have asked them
to deSiSt long ago.

course I would have asked them
to desist long ago.
I had the most difficult time
persuading my sons counselor
to register him in Latin. He
said, Boys don't like Latin.
It's a dead language. He'll
never use it," I said. How do
you know boys don't like
Latino" He said, Look at the
statistics. Fewer and fewer
boys are registering in Latin"
said, "Of course, When peo-
pie like you advise them not
to-" My son did study Latin,
and he found it extremely
challenging. This is certain
unless he studies it, he will
never use it.
My daughter was advised
not to try chemistry. 1T is
unlikely you will achieve in
chemistry. Why don't you take
something you will like bet
ter?" But" she said. Il think
will like chemistry" She is
now attending a private school
and is taking chemistry. She
is achieving" and is thinking
seriously of majoring in
science.
There should be some way
in which guidance could be
classed as optional.
Patricia Freakes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Topiory, Indeed

The man next door has his hedge
shears out, breaking the neighborhood
quiet with his eternal chip-chip-chip 1t
is distressing sound. 1t reaches inside,
clear into the conscience, as one engages
in the more pressing occupation of wiping
off the golf clubs.
That is the way it is with neighbors.
They are forever seeding the lawn, ferti-
lizing, lining, raking the garden, trim
ming the hedge, cleaning the cutters and
doing all sorts Of disturbing things. One
barely gets settled comfortably in the
evening until it is mentioned how nice
the lawn next door looks, so green, and
with such finely trimmed hedge.
This man next door. we learn, is a
topiary gardener. one bent on shaping
his hedge into forms which would never
develop naturally The National Geo
graphic Society has sent timely mes
sage, saying that the term goes back to
the Roman, Topiarius--a slave charged
with keeping his masters hedge in the
shapes desired by the master.
One hopes that the slave next door
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Strange Justice

A strange sort of justice was dis
penSed in New York'S General Sessions
Court recently in a narcotics case.
Judge Jacob Gould Schurman, who has
been in feud with District Attorney
Frank S. Hogan on dope cases, not only
moved to dismiss charge to which the
defendant had already pleaded guilty but
offered to release the prisoner-an addict
with a police record-in his attorneys
custody. The attorney, quite properly,
refused to accept the responsibility.
Thereupon Judge Schurman abruptly re-
duced bail from $4,000 to 81 and turned
the prisoner loose on posting of the
dollar. Later he dismissed the indict-
ment 'in its entirety" charging the police
with brutal and shocking" tactics
although neither the defendant nor his
attorney had made any such allegation.
Stranger even than these curious
goings-on was the judges earlier action
in the same case. Refusing to accept the
addict's plea of guilty to feloniouS pos
session of Illicit drugs, Judge Schurman,
in what amounted to talking himself
maneuver, submitted to himself for con-
case. He then announced that he would
take his motion "under adviSement."
After weeks "deliberation" he granted
his own motion.
In another narcotics case last month
Judge Schurman called District Attorney
Hogan to the witness stand and criticized
him as an "oppressor" for urging maxi
mum penalties for dope peddlers and
similar racketeers. In that case, in
volving peddler who had pleaded guilty
to two counts, the Judge imposed the
minimum penalty 1.-TWO years. for the
lesser of the counts. 1t would appear
from these actions that Judge Schurman
has an astonishing lack Of appreciation
of the viciousneSs of the drug racket. He
should read the recent report Of the Sem
ate Judiciary Subcommittee on its Nation
wide investigation of the narcotics traffic.
That committee recommended that Con-
gress and the country" declare open war
fare on the dope racketeers-and pro-
posed the death penalty for third-offense
drug peddling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Plea for CIothinq

Many of us have felt a pang
of regret when we found our
selves unable to spare funds
to help a worthy cause.
Yet there is one cause.-the
cause of needy children and
their familieS-to which we can
give real assistance without
having to go any farther than
our clothes closets. Thousands
of youngsters in the United
States and overseas are deS-
perately in need of good used
clothing. Possessing little more
than a few tattered garments,
many boys and girls are un-
able to attend school.
The Save the Children Fed
Grafton, of which have the
honor to be a national sponsor
and board member, is APP
pealing for clean, wearable
clothing to help needy children
and adults. Your readers can
render a wonderful service by
sending such clothing to: Save
the Children Federation, Dept.
N, Ault road and Rutledge pike,
Knoxville, Tenn.
The cool autumn and bitter
winter months may seem a
long way of. But by sending
clothing now. your readers can
be sure that coats, shoes, jack
cts and dresses will be avail
able to provide warm protec-
ton for needy boys and girls
when bad weather sets in.
Faith Baldwin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
THE POLITICAL MILL
Stevenson and KefoWer in the Stretch
By GOULD LINCOLN

to Senator Russell Of Georgia.
What scares the Stevenson
people today is a possibility
that registered Democrats who
voted for Eisenhower in 1852
and against Stevenson may
vote for Kefauver in next
Tuesdays election. Observers
who have been in Florida say
the outcome Of the primary is
in doubt. and the result may
be very close.
The stage has now been set
in Oregon for a battle between
Senator Wayne Morse and
Mckay and 1t promises to be
bitter and hard. Morse is run
ming for the first time as a
Democrat-his two elections
to the Senate were won as a
Republican. Judging from the
primary results, not all Demo-
Gratis are likely to support
Morse. Woody Smith, a Flood
River service station operator.
rolled up more than $4,000
votes in the Democratic sena-
torial primary against Morse
who had 1889 votes. Also.
5000 more votes were cast in
the Republican senatorial pri-
mary than in the Democratic
primary.
Split on Power Issue
Mckay and Morse split vi
olently over the public power
issue. Also. Morse is a bitter
critic of President Eisenhower
and the Eisenhower admins
tratlon. How much good this
will do Morse in the election
next November is problemati-
cal. Eisenhower is still great
ly popular in Oregon and he
will head the Republican tick
ct. In the primary, running
entirely unopposed, the Pres
ident received 221.417 votes in
the precincts counted, and
Morse had 1911. 139. Much will
depend on whether Morse can
hold part of the Republican
vote he had in the past-to
offset Democratic OBJECTIONS
from him. Mckay is a good
campaigner, with flashes of
caustic wit. He has won many
elections in the State in the
past--once for Governor. On
the other hand, Morse always
has been a strong vote-getter
in the past, and he is indie
fatigable when it comes to
campaigning. The Oregon
senatorial race will be followed
with keeneSt interest. The Re-
publicans. who regard Morse
as a deserter, are out to defeat
him if they can.
McKay's chief opponent for
the Republican senatorial
nomination - H C h c ock -
has announced he will now
support Mckay up to the hilt
in the race against Morse, and
it is believed that the Oregon
Republicans will close ranks
in an effort to turn back
Morse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22

will not hear Of the New Jersey topiarist
who clipped his hedge in the form of an
ocean liner being nudged by tugboats,
man riding a bicycle, a windmill, a
stagecoach, and baseball field complete
with players. That would be too much to
keep up with.
One hopes even more fervently that
the sound of industry next door will not
reach the ears of others in the house, at
least not until the golf clubs are safely
in the car, past ones own uncut hedge,
and the car is block away. One feels
with certainty that this is the year for
breaking hundred, and one does not
want to become muscle bound by Shaving
too early over the hedge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL

Inspect them annually, or
even every six months.
The way to do it is to look
closely at the ground all around
the trunk. Putting it another
way, look carefully at the
trunk where it goes into the
ground.
If the tree roots have pulled
away at one side, there will DO
a slight opening in the earth
about halfway around the
circumference.
How long it will be before the
whole tree cuts loose its roots
and falls is a question not even
an expert tree man could tell
you, but he will advise you to
have the tree taken down, and
he will be right.
Best of all, do not tolerate
locusts within falling distance
OF a house. Have them taken
down before they fall. They
are all right in a forest, where
falling specimens will be
caught by others, but in a
housing development they
have their dangers.
Smaller trees, such as ma
pies, dogwoods and hollies. are
better suited to a small place.
If they fall. the fall is not so
great. but the chances are
they will not fall, since their
root systems are firmer and
stronger.
Oaks-even the live oaks
are not too good for the small
place, neither are the cotton
woods or the poplars.
Stick to naples, hollies and
dogwoods. and save yourself
much trouble and expense, and
maybe injury to house and
limb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22

@. Are State government
debts rising or falling?-S. S. @.
A. Rising. In the fiscal year
1855, total State revenue was
$19,667, 900, 900 - and total
State expenditure was $20,-
357,000.000. BY the end of the
fiscal year State indebtedness
had risen to a new high OF
$1l,198, 900, 900. The States re-
deemed s550.000.00O of debt
during the year, but borrowed
$2,l55. 100000.
@. Where is the automobile
race track named Road Amer
ica?-C. D. w.
A. This is a Annie highway
laid out on a 560-acre tract at
Elkhart Lake. Wisconsin,
about so miles north OF Mil
waukee. It was built at a cost
Of more than 81 million and is
the only one Of its kind in this
country. It's four miles Of as
phalt-surfaced roads include
up grades and down grades
and many twisting turns. Road
America was opened last year
with a sport car race. On Au-
gust II, 1856. the Nations
first major stock car road race
will be run over the course,
under the sanction Of the Ma
tional Association for Stock
Car mobile Racing
tNASCAR). More than 100.-
900 spectators can be accom-
modated at Road America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Why Don't They?

There is nothing essentially new or
surprising in the reports on our country's
latest thermonuclear test in the Eniwe-
tok-Bikini area. Everything apparently
has gone off in keeping with expectations.
The first hydrogen bomb ever to be I'M
leashed by an American plane Russia
claims to have made a similar air-drop
some time ago) has performed as pre-
dicted. Although not quite so tremendous
as the biggest one set off in our 1854
series, the detonation-unoff1cial eSti-
mated as equal to 10 million tons of ex-
ploding TNT-has certainly been terrible
enough.
The mind, in fact, can hardly COM
prehend the preternatural magnitude of
this destructive force. Had something
like it hit Washington there would be no
Washington today, but only the ghastli-
est kind of shambles. And the same holds
true for all the other key cities of the
world, including Moscow. Indeed, the
oretically at least, a total, no-quarter war
with weapons of this Sort-delivered by
either manned bomberS or unnamed
miSSileS-could annihilate the whole of
humanity, and so one verges on under
statement In describing the current ar
maments race as incomparably the dead
Hest in history.
Yet, as long as the Iron Curtain ex-
lists, as long as East and West remain
fundamentally divided, as long as the
Russians continue with their own tests
and perSiStently refuse to join in effec-
tive international arms control, what
choice has our country? Clearly, even as
we strive for peace in every possible way,
we must obey the law of Self-preServa-
ton. Which means that we must keep
on experimenting with these weapons
(there Is large potential family" of
them, big and small, for both offensive
and defensive uSes) to make sure that we
do not fall behind in the race-a race
that is bound to become ever more deadly
unless or until the Soviet leaders do what
is necessary to end it.
But Americans, together with every
other free people, have heard all this
before, over and over again. The reports
on the newest H-bomb test tell us nothing
we have not been told already. They
merely remind us, as does the test itself,
OF what major war could mean in this
day and age. Despite loose criticism of
its secrecy" our Government has kept
us we'll educated on that score, which is
one reason why our country is so pro-
foundry peace-minded. BY way of con-
traSt, however, the Kremlin has given the
world behind the Iron Curtain only very
small crumbs of nuclear and thermo-
nuclear information.
Why such taciturnity? Why don't
the Soviet leaders speak more openly-at
least as openly as our own officials-about
A and weapons? Why don't they tell
the story to the Russian and satellite
peoples as fully as it has been told us?
They ought to do so. If they did, then
perhaps the pressure of mass public opin-
ion would persuade them in time to take
the steps Notwithstanding acceptance
of the 'open-skies" inspection plan-to
establish peace. trustworthy enough to
insure the safety of all mankind.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22

Adlai Stevenson and Senator
Estes Kefauver are coming in
to the stretch in what Steven
son has called their mad en-
durance test" in the primaries.
The test has done neither of
them too much good-and
may in the end convince the
Democratic National Conven-
ton 1t had better turn to some
other nominee for President.
If the Stevenson forces, en-
couraged by their most recent
victory in Oregon. can win the
Florida primary next Tuesday
and the California primary
June 5, Stevenson will have
more than an equal chance to
go on to a triumph in the ma
tional convention. On the
other hand. should the Ten
neSSee Senator win one Of
these primary contests. he
might succeed in sinking Ste
venson without assuring him.
self the nomination.
Meanwhile, Governor Aver
ell Hartman of New York is
inching himself into a position
where he may make a real
drive for the presidential nom
nation. His weakness will be
strong opposition in the con-
vention from delegations from
the South. The Southern bloc
in the convention will exercise
much influence, in all proba-
bility.
Big Democratic Vote
The unofficial returns from
all except 60 precincts of 2,519
in Oregon gave Stevenson a
lead Of approximately 1880
write-in votes over the write
ms for Kefauver. The contest
between the two brought out
an unusually large Democratic
primary vote for Oregon, aided
by a brisk fight for the Repub-
lican senatorial nomination,
which was won by former Sec
rotary of the Interior Douglas
Mckay. Mckay defeated for
mer State Senator Phil Hitch
cock by some $4,000 votes.
Ever since Kefauver'S vic
tories over Stevenson in New
Hampshire and Minnesota
and Stevenson was not for
mally entered in the New
Hampshire primary, though a
slate favorable to him was bad
ly defeated-Kefauve has not
shown well where he was run
ming either in direct opposition
to Stevenson or where he met
other opposition, as in New
Jersey. His delegate slate was
overwhelmingly defeated by a
slate headed by Gov. Meyner
of New Jersey.
Florida provides the only
Southern test between Steven
son and Kefauver, and both are
campaigning day and night in
the wind-up of that contest.
Florida was carried in 1852
by President Eisenhower, over
Stevenson, and Kefauver lost
the 1852 presidential primary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
Fairfax Tax Hike

AS a small farmer in Fairfax
County, speak out against the
proposed increase of IS cents
in taxes. Over half of Fairfax
County is rural. and many own
10 acres or more. We rural
residents are the ones who
bear the brunt of the tax in
creaSe-not the newcomers who
own a lovely new home on a
small plot of land and who are
the ones usually that demand
more of this and that. Is it
fair to force us to sell our
homes where we have resided
all or most of our lives because
we can't afford to pay the
taxes? Is this progress? / don't
want any part of this So-called
progress where you have to tax
us to death to pay for it.
The Northern Virginia Re-
gional Planning Commissions
recent study relates that Fair
fax County derives 81 per cent
of revenue from property taxes
being the highest in the
Northern Virginia area.
The school budget accounts
for approximately 81 cents Of
the proposed tax increase, the
main reason being for an in
crease in teachers salaries. AS
responsible citizens of the COM
munity, the teachers, I think.
should study the community
in which they dwell and know
that the main taxpayers (prop-
erty owners) cannot afford to
pay this increase. Last year
the teachers received a salary
increase of a couple hundred
dollars. which is automatic
every year. If anyone took the
time to investigate, he would
find the Fairfax County School
Board well supplied with APP
plicants for teachers jobs.
Wake up. Fairfax County adj
ministrators, PTAs and house,
owners. and realize the dilemma
this tax increase will place the
farmers and property owners
IN. Rather than force people
TO sell their homes, the Fairfax
teachers and County Depart
ment employees would be will
ing to work harder and do
without a few things until
other sources Of revenue are
found.
Fairfax County Farmer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-05-22
The Hard Way

He sees the hooded cdrousel,
The yard NTH Jungle Gym;
He tumbles from the car.
Across the road
Deserted sand is ridged,
And pied Nth Snoip.
He tries the iron gate:
He shakes the pddlocked bar:
A child. be,cildered By dental,
He stumbleS back TO father,
mother.
We tried to tell you. son
ThereU be another summer.
Jeanette chOppeII