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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-05-15
Records Hold
Spotlight in
Mack Trial
~ the Associated Press

Government prosecutors
question a bookkeeper again
today about the records Of q
Miami insurance arm which
ngures Importantly IN the con-
spiracy trial Of Richard A.
Mack and Thurman A. White
side.
Mr.. Mack. a former member
OF the Federal Communications
Commission, and Mr.. White
side. his Miami attorney friend.
are on trial In Federal Court
on q charge Of conspring TO
swing the award Of Miami T'v
channel 10 10 Public Service
Television, Inc. a subsidiary of
National Airlines.
Mrs. Elaine B. Wood, head
bookkeeper for the Stembler-
Sheldon Insurance Agency,
faced her eighth day Of inter-
rogation by prosecutors and
defense lawyers.
Bitter Argument Stirred
A prosecutors reminder to
Mrs. Wood that she was under
oath and questions about a
$4,000 check set of bitter
arguments among opposing law
yers yesterday.
Defense lawyers protested
when William p. Clancy. a
Justice Department lawyer,
commented to Mrs. Wood may
/ remind you that you are under
OATH" Judge Burnita S. Mat
thews upheld their objections
and the remark was ordered
stricken from the record.
Mr.. Clancy made the remark
when Mrs. Wood repeated
earlier testimony that a dupli-
cate of a Stembler- Sheldon
ledger page showing trans
actions with Mr.. Mack &C
curately reflected the original.
She had testified that photo
graphs had been made of docu-
ments called for by the grand
jury which indicted Mr. Mack
and Mr.. Whiteside. and that one
original document was lost.
The $4,000 check, dated Aug
uSt Is, 1857. was from the New
York insurance firm of Parker
g. Co. to Stembler-Shelden
With the jury excluded from
the court room, lawyers argued
heatedly the question of
whether Mrs. Wood should be
allowed to identify it.
Payment for Services
Nicholas J. Chase for Mr..
Mack and Arthur j. Hilland for
Mr.. Whiteside contended the
check had no connection with
the Channel 10 case. They said
1t represented payment for
services by Charles F. Sheldon,
Stembler-S Sheldon partner. in
connection with insurance pro-
vided by Parker for National
AirlineS.
They described Mr.. Sheldon
and George t. Baker, president
of national Airlines, as old
friends.
j. Frank Cunningham, the
chief prosecutor, said Stem
bier Sheldon, 10 days after the
Parker check was received,
made out a check for $3.50
to Andar, Inc, owned by Mr..
Mack. Mrs. Wood had teSti-
fed this was for Mr.. Mack's
share of commissions on insur-
ance for Pan American Con-
struction Co.
Mr.. cunningham remarked
that he didn't know how close
the Shelden-Baker friendship
was, but that Stembler-Shelden
never got any of National Air
lines insurance business until
after Public Service received
q hermit for the TV channel.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24
School Board Changes Attendance
Area 10 Include Negroes at Hall

The school board Tuesday al
tered the attendance area of Hall
high school by adding to it part
of the area that was formerly
Central high school The board
made no statement to the OBJECT,
but it is apparen that this move
was taken to include more Negro
students in the Hall area. Before
the change, there were said to be
only three Negroes in the Hall
attendance area, and it is report
ed that those have moved to a
different locality,
The change in the area brings
Taylor street on the east from
West Markham to West 18th on
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24

the south and then to Bryant
street on the west back to Mark
ham. 1t is said to be between
% and 80 Negro students eligibel
to attend Hall high school.
1t is believed that the change
was made to offset considerable
criticism of the people in the 5th
Ward where Hall is located from
the segregationists The Segrega-
tionists have charged the people
in that ward with working toward
opening the schools in compliance
with the courts order because
there are no Negroes to be con-
tended with in the school thare.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24
No Nagging
BaCkaChe Means a
Good Nights

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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24
Registration for Classes Now Open

The school board is so optimis-
tic over events that have taken
place during the past few weeks,
this it has set this week for reg
istration of the students who plan
to attend the four high schools
which were closed during last
term on orders of Governor Fau-
bus.
The board said that it would
operate under the Arkansas Pupil
Assignment law law designed
with Faubus's support to mini
mize indignation in the schools.
The law is at present under at
tack in the federal court.
Registration begins this week
and end Friday.
TECH HIGH
Students wishipp ~ - oh
register at the school,
HALL HIGH
Students living in the Hall at
tendance area register at the
school except that Negro stu
dents who wish to attend Horace
Mann may register at Mann
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24

Police Department to deal firmly
and quickly in the protection of
life and property should the need
arise.
Just how far the city will go
to restore law and order, or is
any attempts will be made at all,
is not yet known.
Friday afternoon about 100
business and professional people
met at the Lafayette hotel and
formed committee to work
"aggressively" for the peaceful
opening and operation of the
schools They called themselves
the Committee for the Peaceful
Operation of Free Public Schools.
Those attending the meeting
signed resolutions endorsing the
Little Rock school board in its
effort to restore the public schools
to full operation and called on
public and private leaders of the
community ito support the effort
to preserve free public education
and maintain peace and order"
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24

The spokesman made mention
in his threat of the blueprint the
Governor had given in one of his
previous utterances. Faubus said
that if the schools tried to open
On an migrated basis there
would be violence, so much that
the federal government would
have to use force again and live
ammunition.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24
Citizens Organize to Reopen
Schools Without Violence

Two years after the Arkansas
National Guards were placed a
round Central high school by Gov
ernor Faubus to defy a court or
der by keeping the Negro regis
trants from entering the school;
one year after one term of school
under the protection OF federal
troops and federalized National
guards; almost two years since
mob law succeeded constitutional
law in Arkansas, and the denial
of high school education to near
ly four thousand children, city au-
thorities and private citizens mus
cled enough courage Friday to
speak out against the tactics of
Faubus which have completely
destroyed the integrity Of this
capital city.
The City manager board issued
a new policy statement of its
position, a little more direct to-
ward law and order than any of its
statements in the past.
The Board has instructed the
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24

promised an about fight against
Indignation of any degree in the
Little Rock schools.
The spokesman for the hate
group said the group would do
everything in it's power to block
raeial-mixing in the schools.
He said the council would not
fight the indignation in the court,
but would use action"
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24
CENTRAL HIGH

Students living in the Central
attendance area register at the
school except that Negro students
who wish to attend Horace Mann
may register at Mann.
HORACE MANN HIGH
Students living in the Mann at
tendance area register at the
school except that white students
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24
Board Announces
Promotions OF
School Personnel

The Little Rock school board
last week promoted Edwin l..
Hawkins, principal of Dunbar jun
Tor high school to principal of
Horace Mann high school. He sue
ceeds Dr.. L. M. Christophe, who
esigned June 30 to become prin-
eipal of an integrated school at
Wilmington, Delaware.
Succeeding Mr.. Hawkins at
Dunbar is Willie D. Harper, prin-
eipal of Capital Hill elementary
school, Before his assignment as
principal of Capital Hill in 1855
Mr.. Harper was formerly q class
Dom teacher at Dunbar high
school, serving also as dean Of
boys.
William II. Fowler, sixth
grade instructor at Granite Noun
tain elementary school, is the
new principal of Capital Hill. Be
fore affiliating with the Little
Rock system in 1854, Mr.. Fowler
was formerly an administrator in
the Pulaski County schools
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24

"Wednesday following the Tues
day night meeting Of the school
board pledging itself toward the
opening of the schools on a limit
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24
SeureqafiOnists Promise Fight

ed basis of indignation, the spokes
man for the Capitol Citizens
council which is composed of the
staunch segregationists group,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24

who wish to attend Central may
register at Central.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24
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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24

Not many rules for success will
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Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1959-07-24
HORACE MANN HIGH

Fri, July a. 1859 STATE PRESS PAGE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11

politically sensitive issues of the
war, he appeared on the average
of twice week before congress
sional committees. His method of
answering congressional and public
complaints was to take great pains
to explain carefully the reasons
for every OPA regulation that
affected voters business.
Mr.. Bowles' two years as Am
bassador to India and his extern
Sive travel abroad and study of
foreign policy, particularly on
Asia and Africa, made him a
natural selection for the Foreign
Affairs Committee. And, though
he is the junior member of the
33-man group, the committee
wrote into the new mutual secur-
ity law several amendments he
proposed. They were designed to
put more stress on economic
rather than military aid. These
proposals indorse the principle
that our basic purpose is not just
to stop the spread of communism
but ito encourage free peoples to
stand on their own feet and Gre
ate economic and political condi-
lions through improved living
standards and education under
which the principles of liberty and
human dignity can take root, grow,
and ultimately flourish"
Mr.. Bowles' amendments to the
Development Loan Fund favor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
DO WE MEET THE REQUIREMENTS?
Worlds Fairs Are Big Business Now

in q way designed to win the
maximum immediate financial
support, predicts that q Worlds
Fair there in 1864 would draw
So billion in tourist and other
trade to the city.
Washington is proceeding more
cautiously. A survey is under
way now to determine how much
related business a fair would draw
to the Nations Capital. The
Board of Trade wants some cold,
hard figures to present to pro-
Spective contributors.
Why is there a need for de-
Gliding a site for a worlds fair?
Why can't Washington and New
York both sponsor one in 1864?
The answer is that both would
flop.
The difficulty in picking a final
site involves a strange mixture of
international diplomacy and free
enterprise.
To be successful, q worlds fair
needs the approval Of the Bureau
Of international Expeditions at
Paris, a group to which the United
States does not belong. Its ~
members include most Of the
major nations outside the Com
munist bloc.
Without sanction Of the bureau,
a majority of its members would
decline to take part in the fair.
The bureau virtually demands
that a true worlds fair be Spon-
sored by the national government
of the country in which it is to
be held. 1t also insists that
worlds fair be supported finan-
cially by the government, and
that the government pick the
fairs site.
Getting financial sponsorship
from the United States Congress
would pose q delicate problem, and
the Government so far has side
stepped involvement In the con-
troversy over where the fair will
be held.
One reason the United States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11

They were asked to indicate be-
side each row Of pictures a pencil
dot for each picture in the series.
To test their common sense, the
children were shown row Of pic
lures containing a shoe, a table.
a boy and cat. They were told
to make a dot on the one that has
legs but cannot walk.
On each part of the test, a time
limit was set.
When the results of the first
test were tabulated, 188-or about
20 per cent-of the original $50
children had scored a mental age
of AZ years or less. These chill
dren we're subsequently, given a
similar Lorge-Thornlike intelli-
gence test as double check.
On the second test, 108 Of the
6-year-old children were found to
have a mental age of AZ years
or less. This was the group that
will be taken out OF the first
grades until next year.
This added year will give them
more time to allow their mental
age to catch up with their chrono-
logical age" said School Supt.
T. C. williams. LET me en-
phasize, however, that these
are not mentally-retarded chill
dren. They are just ones that were
slower than average in maturing"
He noted that the number of
low-Scorers on the tests, 1903, was
exactly in proportion to the num-
Der of first graders who failed last
year, 106. In 1858, first grade fail
ures also numbered l06. and the
previous year there we're 1874, he
said.
No Precedents Here
There was no precedent to fol-
low on the readiness center"
plan. Alexandria is the first in this
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
A VERY EXPERIENCED FRESHMAN
Reversing the Political Ladder

countries trying to create sound
internal conditions by developing
a competent civil service, advance
ing education. stimulating private
land ownership and improving ds-
cal and tax controls.
The Home Front r.
Mr.. Bowles has found one thing
that many congressman find:
Concentration on national and in
ternational problems has diverted
attention from his district. In
fact, contrary to the custom Of
most congressman with nearby
constituencies, Mr.. BowleS has
been back to Connecticut only a
few times since taking Office. How
ever, he keeps in touch with the
voters through a weekly radio
program. Also, he distributes H.
600 copies of a monthly newslet-
ter consisting largely of his views
on domestic and foreign issues.
AS a member of the House, Mr..
Bowles has been disturbed about
how hard it is to get the facts on
important national problems and
put them across to the voters. A
Congressman has so many things
to do and the issues are so COM
pick that only the extremely able
ones can really inform themselves.
Even when they are properly
briefed, they find that headlines
are made too often by sensational
and insignificant items, AS a re-
suit, their efforts to discuss i'm
portant bills, frequently based on
considerable study and research,
are lost.
The House, to Mr.. Bowles, is the
main testing ground for our dem
ocratic system.
after all, he said, "the House
is the forum where the average
citizen makes contact with his
government. Here the grass-roots
meet the powerful Federal bu-
reaucracy."
Mr.. Bowles says he doesn't be-
lieve that the House has lost
prestige with the public. There's
a lot of quality here and re-
markable high percentage of dedi-
Gated, conscientious younger men
with strong principles. In fact, I'd
say a higher proportion of such
individuals than in any group I've
ever dealt with. On one committee
discussing economic problems,
there we're four Phi. DIS"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11

Make most o

area to develop such a plan, and
National Education Association Of
flcials said they know of no SINH
lar plan being used in the country.
The children will go to regular
classes in four elementary schools.
They will attend the same hours
as first grade students. But they
will not begin learning reading,
writing and arithmetic, and no
work-book type of material will
be used.
Rather, their day will be blocked
into large time allotmentS which
will stress listening, speaking,
counting, art, music, rhythm and
science. They will go on field trips
and will have both supervised and
free play time. They also will learn
how to follow instructions and to
care for property.
Through hearing stories and
poems they will build their vo-
cabularies, and through telling
about their own experiences they
will develop better speaking abil-
tiles and overcome some of their
shyness. Clay modelling, painting
and drawing will help develop
imagination and initiative, and
rhythm will aid in muscular and
eye-hand coordination.
Mr.. Williams said parental ac-
ceptance of the city'S new admis-
sion policy has been good gen.
orally. Only two parents so far
have said they refuse to send their
children.
Criticism of the plan has been
based on whether the abilities of
children that young can be tested
adequately. But Alexandria school
officials said they have confidence
in the nationally accepted intel
ligence tests that were given.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11

did not join the bureau when 1t
was set up in 1928 was that 1t did
not like some of the rules and
regulations.
Among them is that no worlds
fair can be held in any "zone"-a
zone can include several countries
which has had such a fair with
in Is years. Another is that the
show must be limited to six
months.
These restrictions do not set
easily with Nation accustomed
to having fun and celebration as
it sees fit.
There have been reports that
the Bureau Of International Elk
positions is receptive to the idea
Of worlds fair in the United
States in 1864.
Moy Insist U. S. Join
But there is reason to believe
that the bureau may insist po-
litely that the United States join
it before any formal approval Is
given. The bureau has been some
what edgy since its experience
with the New York Worlds Fair
of 1939-40.
When New York launched its
plans for that fair, the spon-
sors gave virtual assurance that
the United States would join the
bureau. That did not happen.
Washington's fair sponsors feel
that any such assurance must
come from the Governmental
at least assurance Of unofficial
cooperation with the bureau.
A technical question raised in
some quarters Is that If the
United States joins the bureau.
the action might be considered
a treaty requiring Senate ap-
proval. That would undoubtedly
bring another furry Of activity
from New York's Senators, who
in the congressional session just
completed successfully STAYED of
Government participation in Sc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
BY JACK JONAS
Star stan Writer

Prince Albert, husband of Eng
lands Queen Victoria, awakened
the world with a neat 100000
profit in 1851.
That was in what is recognized
as the first in q long line of
worlds fairs-the Crystal Palace
Grand Exhibition in London.
Prince Albert's idea drew $4,000
exhibitors and 6 million visitors
during its 144-day stand.
The most recent. the Brussels
Worlds Fair of 1858, reaped a SIS
million harvest from the AZ mil
lion visitors who streamed through
It's various turnstileS.
Those figures may help explain
why Washington and New York. a
pair of normally friendly areas
about equidistant from the City
of Brotherly Love, are at each
others Threats about where the
worlds fair of 1864 will be held.
But the hard dollars and cents
which can be counted in the till at
the gates fade into inSignificance
when compared with other bene-
fits. which come to the site Of a
worlds fair.
For one thing, in these days
when more and more areas recog-
nize that the man with an extra
dollar to spend looks hopefully
toward spending it on travel, a
fair is good publicity. 1t puts
the city on more maps.
There are also what might be
termed loosely as "side profits"
Trode Mort ldeo
Washington foresees in a
worlds fair q prime opportunity
to have q permanent industrial
exhibition spot in the fair build
ings after the fair is over. This
would be a kind Of trade mart,
where industrialists and research
organizations could display their
latest wares.
New York, projecting its plans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-10-11
By GEORGE w. CAKES
Contributing Writer

Representative Chester Bowles,
Democrat of Connecticut, has re-
versed the usual political pattern:
He is completing his first
session of Congress as member
of the House after having served
as Ambassador to India, Governor
of Connecticut, and as a high Of
fetal in the Federal Government.
Last fall Mr.. Bowles lost bitter
and hard-fought senatorial pri-
mary. He then ran for the House,
a move which few thwarted Sen
ators have made. He won the ira
ditionally Republican eastern dis
trict of Connecticut-the fourth
Democrat to do so since the 18th
century.
Once in the House, Mr.. Bowles
has not sought the limelight but
has spent most of his time work.
ing quietly behind the scenes on
such issues as foreign aid and
housing.
His experience as a nationally
famous New York advertising and
public relations executive gave
him an approach in dealing
with people which is unusual.
In a political body which is
the focal center of all the di-
verse elements in American pol
iticS, Representative Bowles has
followed his natural bent to treat
Congressman as people to be in
fuenced. He works at it by put
ting himself in the place of his
colleague. Sometimes he has re-
sorted to unusual methods. Re-
Gently he presented in the Speak
er's lobby an exhibit of Commu-
mist propaganda from his own col
lection. He has made a point of
bringing key Congressman into
contact with outside experts.
Appeared as Witness
Mr.. Bowles has had considerable
experience with Congress in a very
special way, an experience few
House members have. AS admin
istrator of the Office of Price
Administrator in the World War
II days, he had frequent contact
with congressman, and some of it
very controversial. Few domestic
issues stirred Capitol Hill more
than wartime price controls or
provoked greater pressures.
In putting through Congress
and administering one Of the most