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effect.
In four out of five of the homes
visited the head of the household
was relatively young - in his late
20's, 30's or early 40's. A number
of them were veterans who had
seen service overseas during World
War ii. And all of them were am
bilious and determined to make
good.
Take Veteran Percy Everson of
Disputanta, Va. He was busy de-
veloping and fencing improved pas
lures of ladino clover, orchard
grass, and lespedeza with part of
an $4,000 loan he had received
from Farmers Home to build a
home and a barn and to improve
his farm.
The pastures were coming along
fine, but there wasn't a cow in
sight. Mr.. Everson is going into
livestock production right this time
He is getting his feed supply first,
I then he'll buy some cows. He went
into livestock raising wrong short
ly after the war. He bought three
Hereford brood cows and had to
sell them within two months be-
cause his grazing ran out and he
had no money to buy feed for them.
Willie Lee Anderson of Barlow,
Ca, says proudly that he is one Of
the best farmers in all Georgia,
and the production on his 186-acre
farm proves it. Last year he sold
$4,000 worth of buttermilk, door
to door, $3,40O worth of hogs, and
! $3.50 worth of cotton. His hog
narrowing houses and pastures are
as up-to-date as those at the
USDA's Beltsville Research Cen
ter; and he has State Dairy Show
trophy to speak for the quality of
his dairy herd.
Louisiana's farmer of the year,
Clarence Broussard of Lafayette,
boasts 1880 pounds of lint cotton
to the acre in an area where most
farmers are glad to get 400 lbs.
But Mr.. Broussard is no one-crop
farmer. In addition to producing
| % bales of cotton on 10 acres, he
raises 1000 bushels of sweetpo-
tatoes a year, and 81 900 worth of
cayenne pepper, not to mention his
hogs and beef cattle.
The Broussards have one daugh-
ter at Tuskegee and another at
Southern University. Six more
will be heading for college later
from their trim, white frame house
which sits in beautifully land
scaped yard that stretches away
200 feet to the road.
In fact it was the housing OF
all the things saw which impress
ed me most. Looking at some OF
the houses from which the fami-
lies had moved, it was hard for
me to realize that their former oc-
.upants could have had dreams in
the back of their heads of the kind
# homes they have built. Yet here
we're the homes: neat. clean, and as
modern as any city dwelling.
Briscoe Stackhouse Of Fairmont
| Y. c., for example, had two bath
ooms and a knotty pine multi
urpose utility room in the 67-foo'
amber he had built for his faml-
' of II. Members Of the family
,se the utility room to prepare
egetables for canning and home
eezing, and to wash up and
,ange their clothes when they
ome from the field.
In Carson, Va, ] visited 33-year-
cd Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Graves
/ i no had made an old house look
Ike new. In the spotless kitchen
they had their record book out and
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27
Name Ex-AIcorn
Head MAN Of
The Year"

Clarksdale, Miss, April 15.-
DR.. J. E. Oats, former president
Of Alcorn A. & M. College, has
been named "Man Of The Year
by the nominating committee of
the Regional Council of Negro
Leadership. The award will be
made at the Sixth Annual Meeting
of the Council in Greenville on
Friday, April 26.
DIR. Oats was recently dismissed
from the presidency of Alcorn Col
lege following student strike
over a series of anti-NAACP art
icles written by Prof. Clemon King
Of the Alcorn faculty.
Negroes holding Notary Public
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A n D
D 0 " n
"a R Is H
s 7 R E + 7
By PERCY GREENE

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT: During my early boyhood
up on the corner of Parish and
Cohea Streets in the neighbCrhood
where ! was born my Uncle James
kept lot of strange looking metal
rods under the house which kept
me eternally curious, until after
a lapse of several years, when !
had reached the age where it might
be proper that l pose a question
to my elders (kids don't think like
that today l got up enough cour-
age one day to ask Uncle James
what did he use all of them metal
rods for which were piled up under
the house, in answer to which he
told me that those were the rods
he used to go out hunting for
hidden treasure; but right there
his information stopped and al
though I rails, the question sew
eral> times later, l never could get
him to tell me about any hidden
treasure he found while out on the
treasure hunting expeditions. Dur
ing this time Uncle James was
just about the biggest ice dealer in
town with a number of employees
and ice wagons serving the whole
Of north Jackson, and the treasure
he found in the ice business en-
abled him to acquire some valuable
property while adding "a thriving
grocery store to the ice business.
1t occurred to me to be somewhat
strange that while | was indulging
my fish and beer my thoughts ran
back to my Uncle James and his
treasure hunting rods . but . .
on second thought, despite the
conversations going on around me.
| figured it out to be the result
of them stories that I've been read
ing in the newspapers here of late
about Negro farmers right here in
the Old Magnolia State, and in
other states in the south, whose
yearly earnings run into the thou
sands, some of whom, only few
years ago were just ordinary share
troopers burdened down with all
the disabilities of that kind of
life. What l imagined happened
is that these folks, like was evil
dent in what happened to my Uncle
James, quit dreaming of luck, and
starting to think about taking adj
vantage of the first opportunity to
do some real work towards the at
tainment of their fondest dreams
Wake up, Amt Haggar's Chill
luns. Wake Up.
SEEN ALONG THE OLE AVE:
Rev. M. L. Young, of Memphis,
Tenn, prominent AME minister,
founder and president of the Mu-
tual Association of Colored People,
South, Inter-racial Goodwill Or
ganization, which is doing some
good work in the field of race
relations and good will at the COM
munity level.
HEP MAN, HEP: Everybody
looking at one of dem young Far
ish Streeters strolling up and down
the Ole Avenue leading cat on
a leash.
WHO'S DAT MAN: The other
afternoon good-looking young
thing dressed in some real short
red shorts jumped outta her car
and ran across the street to the
pressing shop, and all | could hyar
from the Cats on the Corner was
Who's dat, man Who's dat
man.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: "My
concern is not whether God is on
our side; my great concern is to
be on Gods side. abraham Lin
coin.
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WEEKLY QUOTATION: my
concern is not whether God is on
our side; my great concern is to
be on Gods side."-Abraham Lin
coin.
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WHO'S DAT MAN: The other
afternoon good-looking young
thing dressed in some real short
red shorts jumped outta her car
and ran across the street to the
pressing shop, and all l could hyar
from the Cats on the Corner was
Who's dat, man Who's dat
man.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1957-04-27

HEP MAN, HEP: Everybody
looking at one of dem young Far
ish Streeters strolling up and down
the Ole Avenue leading cat on
a leash.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-13

gram next Monday with the
option of going on to try for
more or keeping his present
winnings He had won $63,500
when he went on the show last
night.
Mr.. Craig's opponent was
Mrs. Betty Sobel of Bridgeport,
Conn.,. a petite brunette mother
of two. She is a sales execu-
tive and clothes designer.
They tied, 21-21. in the first
round. Each gave correct an
swers to questions dealing with
current events and American
literature.
In the second round Mr..
Craig clinched the match by
naming France, England, Italy.
Germany. Russia and Japan
as the six permanent members
which sat on the league council
of the old League of Nations.
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he took a picture of some Of
the guests including a couple
identified for him as Mr.. and
Mrs. Dave Beck. jr."
Question Of Accuracy
The photographer was I'M
aware that the younger Beck
is unmarried. but the Advocate
learned shortly before 1t went
TO press with Mondays edition
that there was some question
as to the accuracy of the iden-
tification. 1t pulled back the
picture and did not print it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Lough-
ran of New York posed for
the photographer as the Beck
couple, Mrs. Skakel said. She
identified Mrs. Loughran as the
former Peggy Hague, daughter
of the late Frank Hague, long
time Jersey City Mayor and
Democratic boss of New Jersey
Mrs. Skakel said the idea fol
the prank originated with one
of hep half dozen weekend
guests. She said the prankstel
came from Wilmington. Del.
but declined to identify him
or her, by name.
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Kennedy. you would be the
honest one"
"I've always been honest"
Doria replied.
you and Johnny DID," said
Mr.. Kennedy.
mot me and Johnny Dio|
Doria answered. This was me
alone"
$4,000 Convention Fund
"But you say Dio was always
honest" Mr.. Kennedy said.
"Dio has always been honest
with me-" DORA insisted.
Doria commended that the
$4,000 convention fund. which
was labeled another Doria spe-
cial account. was used for meet
ing the obligations of the con-
vention, paying expenses of
delegates and other union ex-
penses.
Mr.. Kennedy asked for the
cancelled checks on that ac-
count and the witness replied
that he assumed they were with
the international union.
But they're gone," Mr.. Ken
nedy said and then asked, did
any go into your own funds?"
NO. said Doria, hopping
his forehead.
Partner Cashed Checks
Mr.. Kennedy brought out
that about $1,000 of the con-
vention fund went to Spyros
Kallas, former real estate part
ner Of Doria. The witness
swore that Kallas cashed some
checks for him while he was
on a trip and that ultimately
the union was reimbursed Out
of the little black box where
he kept both his own funds and
those of the union.
ultimately" said Mr.. Ken
nedy, I'VE come down to $14.00(
for which there is no account
ing at ALL"
TITS not unaccounted for a.
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.beneke Denies
Chester Deal

NEW YORK, Aug. Is (P.-
A retired police captain denied
yesterday he ever advised a
Brooklyn businessman to make
some kind of a deal" with Max
Chester, convicted labor racke-
teer.
Ex-Capt. william c. Beneke
testified for an hour before
a Brooklyn grand jury which
indicted Chester last week on
extortion and coercion charges,
Assistant District Attorney
Aaron Koota described Mr.
Beneke as a very cooperative
witness.
|, Mr.. Beneke was called to APP
pear again today before the
grand jury. and he may face
the businessman. Paul Claude
Last weeks indictment Of
Chester came after Mr.. Claude
had testified in Washington be-
fore the Senate Committee In
vestigating RacketS in Labor
and Management. and later be.
fore the Grand Jury.
Tells Of Advice
Mr.. Claude, owner Of a ma.
chine shop. told the prober'
the captain Of the Greenpoin'
precinct in Brooklyn-whom HI
did not identify-advised hin
in the summer Of 1854 to come
to terms with Chester because
he appeared to have a legiti.
mate union"
Mr.. Beneke. 81. was in com
mand Of the precinct at tha'
time. He retired recently atfel
80 years on the force.
Before going into the CRANE
jury room, Mr.. Beneke tolG
newsmen the statement by MI
Claude was "preposterous.
Mr.. Beneke said he did not re
call discussing the union mat
ter with Mr.. Claude and didn'
even remember him.
Mr.. Claude told the Senat
committee Chester forced
union contract on him in 1854
Chester then was acting 70
Local 405 Of the Retail Clerk
Union.
Complained TO Public
Mr.. Claude said he went +
the Greenpoint precinct +
complain of Chester's tactics
and the captain there, who's
name he did not know. CAV
him the purported advice. MI
Claude also said that some o
his employees told him two pa
trolmen advised them to go on
on a strike called a few day
later.
: Mr.. Claude said Cheste
shook him down for $1.400 TO
"a contract that I could liv
/ with"
Chester, 42-year-old bench
man of labor racketeer job
: Johnny Dio) Dioguardi. in
, voked the Fifth Amendmer
SO times in refusing to answe
questions before the Senat
: committee. Chester pleade
: not guilty to last weeks in
: dictment and was held withoI
bail pending trial.
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nected. was charged with a
Cadillac the union official pur-
chased. According to the tes-
timony this was after the local
had adopted a policy against
buying cars for its officials.
Mr.. Bellino testified that the
head of the local. Angelo In
ciso, claimed that Doria's car
transaction was completely
strange to him."
1t was brought out that Doria
paid the union $1,000 for the
car that had a. trade-in value
of $4,000. but the witness
claimed that "other adjust
ments" were responsible for
the difference at the time he
severed his connection with the
local.
Doria said the silver mono
gram "A. D." on the Cadillac
was "a gift" of the company
from which it was purchased.
II think that was nice. y
dryly commented Mr.. Kennedy.
Il think it was. too" Doria
replied.
Change in Rules
With regard to the unions
1855 convention in Cleveland
when a move was made to Gust
Doria and other officers, the
witness acknowledged that the
incumbent officers changed the
rules that would increase the
voting strength of some un-
ions. He said this was done
for insurance" that the in
cumbents would win.
Mr.. Kennedy said that the
change in union representation
at the convention applied most
ly to the unions under the con-
troll of New York Labor Rack
eteer Johnny Dio.
Doria also blithely acknowl-
edged that during the squabblt
with the union he obtained q
$4,000 certified check or
union funds made out to "An-
thony Doria special account"
The witness said this was 9
step to keep union funds from
being tied up by threatened in
functions of the insurgent frac-
ton.
You would be the one Il
handle the fund" suggested Mr.
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/ Hook Has Mrs. Kennedy
And the Becks at Porty

GREENWICH, Conn.,, Aug. Is
ga Greenwich society ma
iron said today that reports
that Dave Beck, ST.. and Dave
Beck, jr., were at a party at
tended by Mrs. Robert F. Ken
nedy. wife Of the chief counsel
of the Senate Rackets Probe
Committee, resulted from q
prank.
Mrs. Kennedy was at a party
at her home Saturday night,
Mrs. George Skakel, jr., said.
but she didn't mean it when
she told a reporter that the
Becks were there.
"All I can do is apologize, /"
Mrs. Skakel said. ut was a
prank-just a prank. All of my
200 guests were in on it and
went along with it,"
The senior Beck, teamsters'
union boss. and his son have
invoked the Fifth Amendment
repeatedly under questioning by
Mr.. Kennedy and others before
the Senate committee investi-
eating rackets in labor and
management. One of the COM
mittee members is Mr.. Ken
nedy's brother, Senator John F
Kennedy. Democrat of Massa-
chuSetS.
Mrs. Robert Kennedy and
Mrs. Skakel's husband. a bust.
ness executive in New York, are
brother and sister.
How Hoax Started
The Beck hoax started about
6 pm. Saturday when Mrs
Clara Gildemeister, society ed
itor of the Stamford Advocate
telephoned the Skakel home t.
check reports that a large party
was to be held there that eve.
ming.
Mrs. Skakel confirmed it, anC
added that Dave Beck is com
ing"
The Advocate publishes M
Sunday edition. and news O
the party did not become publ,
until Monday.
By arrangement between
Mrs. Skakel and Mrs. Glide.
meister, an Advocate photogra'
pher went to the party wher,
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Continued From First Page
which revealed bank deposits
of $11.5 and cash on hand Of
$9.500-a total cash of $4,000.
In addition. he had two months
earlier deposited $4,000 cash
in a business venture. This
meant an aggregate of $4,000
in cash at the end of the period
covered.
Mr.. Bellino said Doria's gross
earnings for the period were
$5l .687. and that he had in
addition a profit on security
sales of $2.228.38 for a total
gross income of $53,915.38.
Expenses Deducted
Deducting the $39. 900 cash
on hand from his gross income
left DORA with S14,915.38
From this there were deduc-
tible expenses $4.904.63, leaving
$10,010.75.
! One additional deduction
was payment on the mortgage
principal for his house-a mat
ter of $2.970.86. This left ST..
039.89 for living expenses fol-
the 50-month period.
The matter of his income and
the little black box were not
the only things Doria was asked
to explain.
l There was the matter of the
monogrammed Cadillac, the
unions turbulent 1855 conven.
I. ton and a $4,000 convention
fund kitty which Mr.. Kennedy
said was not fully accounted
for. and the question of who
paid for $4,000 worth of work
on Doria's home after the unior
moved to Hollywood.
There was also the question
of why the union spent. &C.
cording to Mr.. Kennedy. about
100000 to move to the West
Coast, where it had no mem
bers, and the sale Of its former
Milwaukee headquarters Il
Doria's former real estate part
. ner.
Transaction "Strange"
Mr.. Kennedy brought on
that Chicago Local 286. will
which Doria was formerly con
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NOhlAAS OAAC = AOAA EAAAAOAANAAAANAAS
the AFL-CIO will cooperate
with congressional committees
turning up corruption in Ia
bor."
The labor chieftain reiterated
his views yesterdays in a news
conference at the end of the
first session of his organiza-
tons 29-man Executive Coun-
Gil meeting.
Hoffa, Midwest boss of the
Transfers Union and a grow
ing power in labor ranks, has
declared himself against the
AFL-CIO amendment policy.
He is a prime mover behind
a labor group which is at
tempting to repudiate an Ex-
ecutive Council statement
which says:
Stand Called Threat"
1T Is the policy OF the ALL
CLIO that If a trade union of
fetal decides to take the Fifth
Amendment for his personal
protection and to avoid scru-
tiny by proper legislative COM
mittees, law-enforcement agen-
cies or other public bodies. into
alleged corruption on his part
he has not right to continue to
hold Office in his union"
The Hoffa-led group contends
this stand ''has created a SUBJ
stantial threat to liberty anc
the strength Of the union"
The Fifth Amendment to the
Constitution holds that a per.
son does not have to give testi-
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mony which might incriminate
himself.
Disagreement between Meany
and Hoffa on this matter might
come to a head when the coun-
Gil takes up the case Of Presi-
dent Maurice A. Hutchinson of
the Carpenters Union.
Hutchinson took the Fifth
Amendment when he appeared
before the United States Senate
Public Works Committee. The
committee was investigating re-
ports that Hutchinson and two
other Carpenters officials made
quick profits from the sale OF
right Of way along a road syS-
tenn to the State of Indiana.
Hutchinson. a member of the
AFL-CIO Executive Council
has said no union funds were
involved. Hoffa is reported sid
ing with Hutchinson.
Thus two powerful organiza-
tons in the AFL-CIO. the
$50, 900 = m e m Der carpenter:
Union and the is million
member Transfers Union
possibly could press a conflict
with Mr.. Meany and the coun-
Gil on the amendment issue.
Refers to Probe Testimony.
Mr.. Meany referred in hi:
news conference to testimony
brought out in the current
Senate Rackets Investigating
Committee hearing in Wash
ington.
Things that have been ex-
posed are things that labol
should not be proud Of" HI
said. I'm interested in eradi.
eating these things There
should not be any change IL
the policy of cooperating with
any committee turning up cor
ruption in labor"
Mr.. Meany said after tn
opening session the AFL-CIC
has switched its convention
which starts December 5. from
Miami Beach to Atlantic City.
He said the change was re
lated to a newspaper investiga
ton of "a condition existing il
some hotels" in the MAN
Beach area. He did not Civ
specific reasons. but declares
I'VE don't like it,"
The Miami Herald published
a series of articles last sprint
by reporters who said the.
found prostitution and gam
bling flourishing with little fea
of police interference.
Dan Sullivan, operating di
rector of the Greater Milan
Crime Commission. said yester
day while there is little douh
that there is hoodlum none
bankrolling some of the hoteli
they generally don't have any
thing to do with the operation.
Thousands of convention
GERS have come and gone with
= out having their morals seri
5 ously impaired" he added.
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far as we are concerned" Doria
testified.
DORA heatedly denied that
union funds were used to pay
for $4,000 worth of work done
on a home he purchased in
Hollywood after the union
moved to the West Coast.
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Former Increases
WINNINGS on TV

NEW YORK, Aug. IS (P).-
Harold Craig, dairy farmer,
raised his winnings an a tele-
vision quiz show to $73,50O last
night.
The 26-year-old farmer from
Granville, N. Y, will return to
the National Rroadcasting
Company's Twenty One" pro-
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BURKE

GOnSAnuCu EAOni a - oSO
would not be tolerated. He said
the overflow traffic from Wash
ington and jet planes serving
this area could make use of
Friendship for the next 10 or
is years before Friendship
reached its capacity.
On the other side Senator
Monroney. Democrat Of Okla
homa, a consistent advocate Of
the Burke project. filed state
ment declaring:
I'VE are, and have been,
flying on borrowed time.
I'VE have been risking seri-
Gus accidents from overcrowd-
ing since 1850 when the Senate
Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee directed the
Secretary of Commerce to pro-
coed to build a second airport
for Washington" He recalled
that in 1851 Congress voted
the first 81 million appropria-
ton.
Delay Called Costly
1.-THE delay has been very
costly" Senator Monroney con-
tinued. 1T is estimated that %
to so per cent more money will
be needed now than severa
years ago. Amounts will increase
further if there is delay, be-
cause economic development
near the Burke site is self-ac'
celebrating"
Now seven years later, Sen
ator Monroney added, the site
like a badminton bird, ma;
bounced back and forth between
Burke and Belmont Bay anC
Chantilly time and again."
Senator Robertson said that
while he and Senator Byrc
were opposed to the Burke site
they were not opposed as such
to some different site in Vir'
ginia that might be selected
that would not cause the SAINT
amount of community upset al
at Burke.
He said that in the origina
authorization for the seconC
airport, the Secretary Of Com
merce was required to consul
with the governing body Of tn
airport area to determine tn
feelings Of people, and to con
slider the impact Of the airport
He said this had not been done
Senator Robertson ais
wanted to know why the Com
merce Department agencie
had abandoned Chantilly al
though it was a site frs
considered.
Representative Broyhill sal
he though he could state TO
the people Of Fairfax Count
that they do not want the air
port located in the Burke ares