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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-04-05
New York Lowdown

THE TEENAGERs, headed BY
l4-year-old frankie Lymon. are
in Europe for a 12-week tour.
with the biggest item on the a.
genda being their opening at Lon
don's Palladium for two weeks.
While in London the group will
wax u sides for a new Gee label
called Frankie Lymon and The
Teenagers At The London PaIla-
dunn"
Thirty-two theatre parties
bought out the entire theatre
house less than a week after it
was announced that Lena Horne
would play the lead in the forth
coming Jamaica" musical.
Before Dick Boone left Univer-
sal Attractions, to head the Show
Artist Corporation he booked up
Krazy Kris Kolumbo's group for
the rest Of the year
Comedian Jimmie Rogers took
his NO Time For Squares" pro-
duction into the Club Elegante
for four weeks.
Lena Horne is a frequent visitor
at New York's Living Room, the
nations first club to feature cal
ypso music. The club is celebrat-
ing its first anniversary right
now.
Don Newcombe. whose liquor
store is located in Newark, was
the second Negro to own liquor
store in Bergen County, N. J.
Sammy Davis and family will
open at the Copa on April II for
Sammy's first big club booking
since Mr. Wonderful" closed.
Anybody who hasn't seen gor-
geous Abbey Lincoln in action
should rush out and see the movie.
The Girl Can't Help 1t" starring
Jayne Mansfield. Abbey's in it
too.
Hammond organist Bill Dog
getts next King release will be
the old Chloe" all dressed up in
new calypso-styled "Chloes."
Teenage vocal sensation Solo
mon Burke is very much excited
over his nine-day engagement
over the Easter holidays at The
Palms in Hollandale. Fla.
Buck Ram, the brains behind
the Platters, has discovered an
other group of singers who are
called the Dell-Tones. All girls,
the Dell-Tones will make their
debut on the Roulette label next
month.
When calypso artist Johnny
Barracuda slipped on a banana
peel and wound up in the hospital,
another Banana Boat Song
singer, The Duke of Iron, substi-
tuted for him at the Calypso
Room.
Noise-maker Spike Jones said
rock and roll is such wierd
sounding stuff that ut kind Of
forces us into playing sweet mus
ic 1t had got so we couldn't be
much funnier than the current top
rock and roll tunes"
Freddie Bell and the Bellboys,
just back from an Australian
tour, are due in England on May
5 and will work 2s one-uighters in.
81 days.
Two prominent spiritualists are
feuding, with each claiming that
the other is stealing" his adver-
Using copy and publicity methods.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-04-05

History repeats itself. as every
body knows But what some Peo-
PIE are wondering is why 1t has 20
repeat itself 50 fast - ST. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-04-05

When you keep in step with
yourself, you don't have 70 worry
about the rest Of the parade. -
The Old Timer.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1957-04-05

JON THE NAAcP - now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
I homson Comedies Law
Could Allow Inteqrotion

Delegate James Thomson of Alexandria who has called
his Democratic primary opponent nteatonist advo-
eating locally administered pupil placement plan admitted
yesterday that the pupil assignment plan he sponsored
the General Assembly could result in indignation
Appearing the teevson program "Citysde with Albert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

A. Smoot. his opponent in to-
morrow's primary Mr.. Thomson,
running on a platform of no
integration. said there is moth
ing in Virginia's current assign
ment law which prevents inte-
grafton.
The pupil placement law
sponsored by the delegate took
assignment of pupils out of the
hands of local officials and
placed the authority with a
State placement board.
Mr.. Thomson said that while
the law itself does not prevent
indignation, it gives Virginia
"a legal approach" to maintain
segregation.
"A clear avenue had to be
left open for migration to
take place for it to be legal, 4"
Mr.. Thomson said. Through
the assignment plan and with
holding of State school funds
for localities where migration
might occur, officials hope to
prevent any indignation in the
State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

gubernatorial ticket headed by
Ted Dalton, Mr.. Stephens said.
This I would hate to see, for
II ever there was a time the
Democratic Party Of Virginia
should approach q campaign
on a solid basis, it is now"
Delegate Whitehead leaped
into the race for attorney gen.
eral on Friday just after the
Democratic State Central Com
mittee Endorsed State Senator
Albertis S. Harrison of Law
renceville for the post and just
as Virginia Republicans were
gathering to nominate their
slate Of candidates in Roanoke
for the November S State cleo
tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
Stephens Urges Whitehead
I Reconsider Plan to Run

RICHMOND. Va. July a
Especially An appeal to Dele
gate Robert Whitehead to re-
consider his decision to run for
attorney general came today
from Virginia's 1t. Gov. A. E. S,
Stephens.
II regret that Bob White
head has indicated he will run
for Attorney General and wish
that he would reconsider before
the filing deadline." Mr..
Stephens declared from his
home in Smithfield.
The effect of Mr.. White
heads candidacy for attorney
general could result in a divi-
sion in the Democratic Party in
its fight against a G. o. p.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

Mr.. Smoot said the legisla-
ton supported by Mr.. Thorn
son win be thrown out by the
courts and leave the door oper
for mass integration. Mr.
Smoot said his plan would per-
NIT some indignation, but that
1t would be contained integra.
ton" Mr.. Smoot said his pri-
mary concern Is keeping the
schools open.
Il don't think there is any
such thing as limited integra-
tion-once it starts there is nc
way we can stop it," said Mr.
Thomson.
In response to a question
about the Law Reform anC
Racial Activities, which hs
heads. Mr.. Thomson predicted
his committee investigation will
be devastating" to the Ma.
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People
The delegate sponsored legis.
lation providing for the inves-
tigation OF groups involved In
racial activities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
Richards Quits
Wafer Concern
In Alexandra

Howard C. Richards, man.
ager Of the Alexandra Water
Co., for the last "a years, today
announced he was resigning eff
fective September /. He will
be succeeded by Philip H. Dow
dell Of Pittsburgh.
Mr.. Richards win move to
Darien, Conn.,. to supervise q
real estate firm he has been
connected with since 1858. Mr..
Richards managed the Darien
water firm for five years before
coming to Alexandria in 1888.
I'm those days the Alex
andria Water Co. served fewer
than $4,000 people with about
2 million gallons q day." Mr..
Richards declared. Nov the
company serves $4,000 with
over 20 million gallons daily.
We had about so miles Of pipe
line then. we have way over
800 now"
Successor to Be Busy
Mr.. Richards observed that
the Alexandria area water sup
ply win meet the needs Of flu
ture population expansion, but
my successor is going to be
very busy. We haven't finished
with the development Of the
Occoquan reservoir yet. There
are q lot Of things to be done
to keep pace with the expan-
sion Of Alexandria and Fairfax
County"
Mr.. Richards. a native of
Chicago. was graduated from
Pennsylvania State College.
His first Job with the American
Waterworks Co., which operates
the Alexandria firm, was in
New Castle. Pa, so miles north
OF Pittsburgh in 1924, where he
worked under his father, the
late Howard B. Richards.
With Virginia Water Co.
In 1927 he became manager
Of the firm in Darien, where he
met the former Madeleine
Wheeler. The Richardses have
two sons, Donald C. of Phila-
delphia and John w., q student
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
3 Killed on Highways
In D. c. Area; 5 Drown

on Allentown road. apparently
at a high rate of speed, when
he crossed the Marlboro pike
intersection and struck a road
sign and a tree
Mrs. Wells was killed in the
collision of two autos, driven
by Edward Wells. 18-year-old
husband Of the victim, and
Ralph B. Cloud Of Kent VII
lage, Md.
Maryland State police said
Pvt. Blackwell was killed when
a car in which he was riding
crashed into the rear Of a
tractor-trailer turning into a
gasoline station.
Three other Marines in the
car, hurt only slightly, were
identified as Pvt. George B.
McGhee. Is. and Pvt. James
E. Eppers. 20. both stationed
at Quantico, and Sergt. An
drew B. Butler. 81. stationed
at Edenton. N. c.
The deaths bring Prince
Georges County's auto fatal
tiles to 80 for this year.
IL Die In Virginia
The l02-hour long holiday
which began last Wednesday
ended with II accidental deaths
reported in Virginia. Nine OF
the deaths occurred on the
States highways. bringing vir-
ginia traffic toll to 407 for the
ycar-three more than at the
same time last year. Seven per-
sons drowned and one accident
was listed in the miscellaneous
category.
Maryland reported eight acct
dental deaths over the holiday.
three drownings and five per-
sons killed in traf1ic.
The District enjoyed a COM
paratively safe holiday. with
only one traffic accident. that
on July 4.
Washington area residents
returning TO work after the
long holiday had almost ideal
weather for travel. The Amer.
lean Automobile Association
estimated that about $4,000
area residents in 10000 autos
were on the road yesterday. II
was estimated another 100000
returned by bus, train and
plane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
Instructors to Hear
Two Stute Officials

BLACKSBURG, July 8 (Spe.
ciaD.-Two top state official:
will address the 40th annual
meeting of vocational agricul-
tural instructors to be held on
the Virginia Tech campus to-
day through Friday
The state officials are Parke
c. Brinkley, commissioner OF
agriculture, and DR.. Davis Y
Paschall. state superintendent
of public instruction. Brinkley
will address the 300 instructors
tomorrow morning on "Provid-
ing On-Farm Instruction; and
DR.. Paschall will conclude the
conference Friday morning by
speaking on Principles OF
Education"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

at the University of Virginia.
Mr.. Richards also has been
manager Of the Virginia Water
Co., which serves part of Fair
fax County. since it was formed
in 1850. 1t was merged with the
Alexandria firm June "a.
His successor. Mr.. Dowdell, is
now assistant to the manager
Of the Pennsylvania Division of
American Waterworks. which
includes the Alexandria firm.
Mr.. Dowdell has supervised
public water systems in Milton,
Butte. and Northumberland,
Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
NEARBY MARYLAND
SETS RECORD FOR
USE OF WATER

Water consumption set a
record in Suburban Mary
land yesterday.
Consumers used 65,9l2,-
600 gallons. the Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary
Commission reported.
Previous high was 65,-
$4,000 gallons on June Is.
The Weather Bureau said
that yesterday. with a high
OF 80, was much cooler than
June 10, with a high of 96.
But Commission spokes-
men blamed dryness, not
the heat, for the peak use
of water.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
100 Descendants Gather
To Fete Nom Fontocci

Yesterday, Mrs. Peter Pau
Fantacci saw the results Of a
chain reaction she started 81
years ago.
The Fantacci and Mehalic
families held a ,renuion. And
Mrs. Fantacci--a 77-year-old
white-haired lady with twink
ling eyes-and her husband
formed the nucleus for the four
generations who gathered 100
strong at the Capital View
Recreation Center in Kensing-
ton.
The little woman in the blue
dress didn't know everyone,
But she did know they all
stemmed from her. And how
does it feel to look over a 100
persons of different ages and
know you were the cause of it
all?
ITS like 81 Million" Mrs.
Fantacci said in. her thick
Slovak accent. And then she
gave one of her biggest smiles
Situation Has Changed
Looking over the faces filled
with love and admiration and
friendliness. was a far cry from
the situation Mrs. Fantacci
found herself in So years ago
Then. she was a 14-year-old
Czechoslovakian stranded on q
New York dock with only un.
familiar faces and an unfamil.
lar language around her. Ar
American woman had hired hel
as a domestic, brought her ovel
on the ship. and then diSap-
peared when the ship docked.
Authorities sent Victoria
Vozar, for that was her maiden
name. to her brother in Penn
sylvania. The next year she
married Michael NJ. Mehalic of
Austria. a Pennsylvania coal
miner. When she took her hus-
band his lunch in the mines,
she stayed beside him to help
load the coal carts.
Husband Killed In Mine
The Mehalics had 10 chill
dren. Nine Of them are living
and they showed up with their
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
Fairfax Park Man
Charged in Death

A Fairfax County man was
charged yesterday with the
murder Of his brother-in law
after a family argument.
The charge was placed
against William F. Newbill, %,
of Fairfax Park, after the
death Saturday night Of Clar-
ence H. Davis. 20. also Of Fair
fax Park, Of a gunshot would.
Detective Robert Harrison
said Davis was shot in the
stomach with a 20 caliber rifle
in the Newbill home where he
lived. The shooting occurred
June % and Davis was taken to
Arlington Hospital where he
died.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

Three persons died in trafic
accidents and five drowned in
the Washington area as the
long independence Day week
end came to a close.
Killed in traffic accidents
we're:
John Warden Blake. 81, Of
S42l Twenty-f1rst street NV.
whose car struck a tree today
on Allentown road at Marlboro
Pike near Forestville.
Mrs. Margie Wells. II. of l409
Fiftieth avenue. Hillside, Md,
killed yesterday in a two-car
collision in the 200 block of
Sixty-fifth street, Maryland
Park.
Pvt. Ronald Blackwell, IT.
year-old Quantico (Va.) Ma
rine, killed last night in a
truck-auto crash on u. S. Route
]. south of Laurel. Md.
Attorneys Son browns
The drowning victims were:
Matthew Warnke, 4. son of
Washington attorney Paul C.
Warnke, 5206 Albemarle street,
Westmoreland Hills Md. who
drowned yesterday afternoon
when he fell of a dock into a
Chincoteague Bay inlet on Vir-
ginia's Eastern Shore.
Holmas S. Heimert. AZ. Of
Sherwood Forest. Md, who fell
from a boat into the Severn
River yesterday.
Charles Edgar Collins. 81.
Baltimore, who drowned in the
Severn River after he play
fully jumped from a boat.
Aubrey w. Bingham, 40,
formerly Of Boaz. Ala, whose
body was found in the WASH
ington Channel late Saturday
after pasSersby heard a scream
for help.
Morton Ray Miller, is, OF
$40 @ street S.W.. who has
been missing from his home
since Friday. apparently
drowned in the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal. near Kings
Lock.
Park police said clothes with
the boys Identification in
them were found on the banks
near the lock. A body believed
70 be his was found today.
Park police said the boys
mother is Mrs. Alice Teresi OF
the same address.
Struck Road Sign
Prince Georges County police
eaid Mr.. Blake was driving east
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
Struck Road Sirn

Prince Georges County police
said Mr.. Blake was driving east
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08

children, and their children's
children for the family reunion.
After Mr.. Mehalic was killed
in 1918 in a mine accident,
Mrs. Mehalic married Mr.. Fam
tacci. He is a motor dispatcher
for a coal mine in Morgantown.
w. Va. The Fantacci's had
seven children, five of whom
are living and showed up for the
big celebration. It was the first
reunion Of the family in Is
years. Members wore name tags.
The eldest Fantacci son, An
drew. 1922 I street NV, was
on of the instigators Of the re-
union.
I'VE started this thing in
October" the 42-year-old floral
designer explained. We elected
officers Of the reunion. I'm
treasurer leach family head
paid SOD. We held meetings
and sent out IS form letters.
A granddaughter in Florida
and another in Saudi Arabia
couldn't come. But A men,
bers from out of town, as far
away as Ohio. showed up. The
family put them up"
Andrew Fantacci even ar
ranged with the Catholic arch
bishop to have a private mass
said in the recreation center,
just for the family. Father
Sebastian Miklas, a Capuchin,
offered the mass for the
italian Slovak families that
have branched out so that now
it includes practically every
nationality. even the Irish.
Extraordinary Mass
"A private mass like this is
very extraordinary" the goat
eed father said. Its the first
one I ever heard of. It's inter-
esting that today is the feast
day Of SITS. Cyril and Metro
dius, who brought the faith to
the SlovakS."
Actually. the Mehalic and
Fantucci families could almost
be self sufficient. Their talents
range from chemical engineers
to policemen, to teachers. to
ventriloquists, to singers, to
bakers. And what they aren't,
they have a friend who is.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-08
Chest Group Meeting

The board of trustees Of the
Montgomery County Commun-
ity Chest and Council will meet
at 8 pm. July II at Cit.
Gems Building and Loan Asso-
citation, Fenton street and
Pershing drive, Silver Spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-28
Incitinq to Riot

It may be true that the melting to
riot charge which has been filed against
four young hoodlums in connection with
the gang attacks in the Zoo area of Rock
Creek Park on Easter Monday is rarely
used. But in case of this kind there
Is ample justification for severe punish
ment Of the offenders If they can be
convicted.
Those facing the melting to riot
charge, which carries maximum Ave-
year prison penalty, are not juveniles
: Two are 10 and two are 10. They were
members of gang Of colored thugs who
attacked and beat up group of younger
colored children from Norbeck, Md; who
had come to the park for an Easter picnic,
This was not an isolated incident. In all,
there were seven gang attacks on young
sters, some white and some colored, who
were in the park that day.
Police estimate that there were as
many as $50 members of the gangs in
volved in these vicious attacks, most Of
whom escaped and probably will not be
caught. Unless the parks are to be operat-
ed on an enter-at-your-peril basis, how
ever, those who are caught, and whose
guilt can be established, should be pun
ished and punished severely. We have
very little confidence that any kind of or
gained recreational activity, such as has
been suggested, is going to satisfy the
type Of hoodlum whose idea of pleasant
days outing is to go into the parks and
beat up any outnumbered group Of young
sters who may be encountered.
More effective policing would also
help. Last years major rioting was at
Fort Dupont Park. This year it was
heavily policed and there was no trouble.
But at the Zoo there were only II
men available for patrol duty on a day
during which more than $1,000 visitors
were counted. More effective policing
might not have prevented all the trouble,
but 1t certainly would have helped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-28
Greatness and the Senate

1t is interesting, and maybe even
instructive, to follow the difficulties and
tribulations Of the Senate committee now
striving to name the five all-time great
Senator's of the United States.
The committee. headed by Senator
John F. Kennedy, who has written a
good book called "Profiles in Courage"
has bear by the tail. 1t is supposed
to agree upon the nominees within the
next few days, but so far 1t has been able
to achieve meeting of minds only on
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, and
some critics have already begun to fire
away at the idea that even these two
titans Of the past have a right to a
place in the Senate's Hall of Fame. AS
for other candidates-such as the late
Senators George w. Norris, Robert A.
Taft and William E. Borah-the pros
and cons are lined up for battle that
seems potentially almost too fierce to
contemplate.
SO 1t Is not surprising that an UNI
named Congressman has been quoted
as saying, ANY Senators who have the
courage to pick their Ave greatest COL
the honor" Some are born with great
ness, some achieve it, and some have
1t thrust upon them. But those who try
to do the thrusting, as in this instance,
run into much the same kind Of violent
dissent as can be found in the world
Of art or gastronomy: One persons meat
is another's poison. Anyhow, there are
lots of people who agree with La Bru-
yere's observation that "the more one
approaches great men the more one finds
that they are men," Then, too, there
are many who share the skepticism ex-
pressed by Thackeray in these lines:
He fought thousand glorious mars.
And more than halt the ioorld was his.
And somewhere. non, In yonder stars,
Can tell. mayhap wItat greatness is.
Small wonder that Senator Kennedy
and his valiant committee colleagues are
having trouble.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-28
These Figures Are Good

Some encouraging statistics on the
national economy have come from two
Government departments this month.
Based partly upon first-quarter meas
urements, the Department of Agriculture
now estimates that farm operators net
income in 1857 will climb above $l2.2 bill
lion, an increase Of about. 4 per cent
over the 1855 figure. Prices received are
expected to remain relatively stable, but
an increase Of approximately a half
billion dollars Of net income is calculated
through the operations Of the soil bank
program, enacted by Congress last year.
The soil bank was the first and most
urgent recommendation of President
Eisenhower in his nine-point farm relief
program OF early 1856, and most recent
figures show that more than 81 million
acres have been withdrawn from pro-
duction' Of crops that have been in bur-
densome surplus.
Meanwhile, on the business and in
dustry side, the Department of Com
merce has reported that sales and
activity in most lines were at record or
near-record levels in the first three
months Of this year. Automobile sales
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-04-28
Federal School Aid

People are taxed for the
legitimate expenses of Gov
eminent. There is persistent
lobbying. headed by the Ma
tional Education Association,
and in recent times espoused
by the National Advertising
Council which puts it on the
air. to extend the RESPONSE
bilities OF the Federal Gov
eminent into the field Of local
education. This has taken the
form Of an application to Con
gress to divert some Of the tax
money extracted by one means
or another for the legitimate
expenses Of the Federal Gov
eminent, and turn 1t back TO
its source from which 1t need
never have been squeezed, to
be applied to the local schools.
but with strings attached to be
manipulated from Washington.
Because 1t has been a favorite
statement Of this lobby that
Federal financing would not
necessarily mean Federal con-
troll OF the schools, let the
words Of Representative Bow,
Republican Of Ohio. be re-
quoted.
Speaking on his bill to cur
tail Federal aid to schools in
"impacted areas" he said in
part: When we give Federal
aid. we have a duty to know
how that Federal aid is spent
and we have a duty to cut 1t
of II 1t is not spent wisely