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Especially interesting to me were
two Americans, one a consulting
engineer out of the New York Of
flee of General Electric. The other
was the West African representa-
tive of the International Harvester
Co., with headquarters at Dakar
They had answers for a lot Of
questions.
The General Electric Company
representative had just returned
from an inspection Of the lower
Congo where the Belgian govern
ment has authorized construction
program that may develop eventu-
ally into one of the worlds great
power developments. From Leo
poldville to the Atlantic ocean, a
distance of less than 300 miles,
there is a drop of nearly 1000 feet,
and considering the volume Of
water that surges over the rapids
in this short distance, the potential
for power is tremendous.
What chance does any American
company have of getting a slice
of a Job Of this kind? The General
Electric man was not hopeful. He
was sure American companies
could not compete with foreigners
from a price standpoint. American
companies are at too great dis
advantage in labor costs and in
taxes he said. Another factor is
the practice of foreign companies
in submitting combination bids,
Cartels of this kind not only are
authorized but sometimes are sub
sidized in order to provide work.
In the electrical field, this man
said American industry has been
priced out of the world market.
The International Harvest e r
Company agent had much the same
story to tell but he explained how
the industry was meeting foreign
competition by building factories
in foreign countries. His company
was doing a good business in AZ
RIGA with farm machinery, manu-
featured In Europe. They were
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housing practices, which they said
have forced Negro families into
ghetto-lke quarters and blocked
any chance of their moving to the
suburbs.
Several said the bill under con-
sideration, introduced by Sen. DON
aid Fraser, Minneapolis, was not
broad enough, since 1t does not
apply to sale Of privately-owned
homes or multiple dwellings Of
fewer than five units when one
is occupied by the owners.
The bill is limited to publicly as
sisted housing, such as that carry
ing FILA or VA loans.
Unless limitations are removed,
said Douglas Hall, legislative
chairman of the civil rights council
the bill would have mo substantial
effect" on the Twin Cities or es-
tablished suburban communities.
Robert L. Williams, executive
director Of the Minneapolis Urban
CONTINUED on Page a
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Stanley Benner Recovering
From Burns Received
In Apartment Blaze

Stanley H. Benner ST., 429 lyle
hart Av., st. Paul, is recovering in
Northern Pacific hospital of burns
received when fire broke out in his
Friday morning March
6.
Mr.. Benner was dressed and
ready to leave his home for work
when he turned off the light in
the apartment, the room went up
in flames. He managed to get out
of the room and went to the next
apartment to notify Mrs. Sue Wei
don of the fire and then collapsed
at her door.
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to ascertain If there is any dis
elimination based on race, color,
creed or national origin in the
fields of voting, education and
housing.
At Saturdays meeting the sub
committee on education headed by
Mrs. D. c. Santrizos Of Mime
apolis and Rev. George Smith of
Cass Lake reported no evidence
was found Of any discrimination
in the exercise of the voting fran
chise in the state.
A report that Indians in the
state were excluded from the bal
lot proved groundless and two
communications from Indian tribes
in the state concurred in the sub
committee report.
The education subcommittee Of
which DR.. Carl Granskou, president
of st. Olaf College and George
Durnburger athletic director St.
Johns College were co-chairmen
reported no discrimination in the
public and private schools of the
state.
Monroe Schlactus, Of the Region
al Authorization office however
in a prepared report said several
Minnesota colleges asked questions
on their admission applications on
race and religion.
Mr.. Schlactus did not charge
that the use of such questions had
been used for discriminatory prac-
tees but said that such questions
could very well be used to exclude
persons of certain races or creeds.
A lively discussion on this facet
OF the problem took place.
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psychology when he enormously
contends Through the letter Of
James Bryce not Lord Bryce that
Negroes have a lower mental or
moral capacity than whites.
Il suggest he read the poetry
Of the slave girl Phyllis Wheatley,
who was brought to Boston, Mass
achusetts in 1871 at the age of
s years and who began to write
poems at age IS after being given
an education comparable to
white child of Boston at that
time. Her accomplishments should
be sufficient to convince even the
most impoverished mind.
II wonder if Mr.. Putnam, when
he considers the matter of earned
status, feels the $3.50 of the white
men in the South who have COM
pleted 5-S years Of schooling or
the So who have less than five
years Of schooling his social peers.
IF his thinking follows the pat
tern of other southern demogagues
he would be quite willing to sac
rifice them in order to keep the
$40 of the Negroes in similar or
infinitely worse educational clim-
ates.
Il won't argue with his dabblings
in religion. can speak only as
Catholic when I say that it is
our belief in the enjoyment of
natural rights by all men, that we
believe the Eucharist to be a sac
rament of ecclesiastical unity and
that the Mass is a corporate act
Of worship.
TT is always interesting to me
to see the bigots who denounce
civil rights as communist inspired
defend their motives by the dial
ectic method Of reasoning used by
trained communists.
In his examination Of Lincoln's
views his research must have been
of rather short duration as any
serious examination of Lincoln's
thoughts can only come to the
conclusion that he was in SYM
pathy with the rights and aspira-
tons Of all men.
In conclusion Mr.. Putnam
makes his indictment Of northern
newspapers who by a dispassion-
ate coverage of southern misdeeds
places the demogogues who are
attempting to perpetuate their tot
tering citadel of white supremacy
, in an unfavorable light.
1T is my contention that a
northern newspaper, however ex-
allied its motives toward freedom
of opinion, must find it difficult
to square its conscience and its
reputation by printing this guile
full and distasteful piece Of racist
propaganda under the guise Of an
advertisement"
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papers in an obvious attempt to
win friends for race segregation
in the northern states.
Principal target of the advertise
ment is the U. S. Supreme Court,
Justice Felix Frankfurter, the Ne
gro's lack of progress and the dis
position of church groups to sup
port indignation.
Mr.. McWatt's succinct reply to
the advertisement is reprinted
here in full. His letter was ad-
dressed to the Editor Of the Min
neapolis STAR and said:
Il am writing you in regard to
the advertisement which appeared
in your March % edition entitled
My Dear Mr.. President" I thor
oughly agree with the right of
dissent and the duty of a RESPONSE
bic press to air all opinions which
affect the interests and welfare
of its readers. I believe, however,
that the advocacy of segregation
in the public schools is of ques-
tionable interest to a region which
has been successfully integrated
for over a century.
MY first argument with this
self-styled historian is with his
mythical right" Of association in
public institutions. To deny Ne
groes this fundamental right is to
negate the Constitution, abrogate
their rights of citizenship and to
perpetuate the caste relationships
of the most backward area in our
country.
In addition, the fallacy of separ-
ate-but equal facilities in public
education has been definitvely es-
tabhshed not merely by Justice
Frankfurter but by a unanimous
opinion Of the Supreme Court. II
was supported by voluminous acts
Of discriminate n documented by
the NAACP, by a compendium Of
extensive research by eminent Soc
ial scientists and by private or
CARNATIONS such as The Conserva-
ton Of Human Resources Project
which was established by Presi-
dent Eisenhower during his tenure
at Columbia University.
LAS a historian Mr.. Putnam
clearly demonstrates his limited
intelligence when he ignores the
contributions Africa had made Ia
the folklore Of civilization prior
to the European Enlightment. To
attempt to compare the American
Negro of today with the natives OF
the Congo is an attempted anal
ogy scarcely worthy Of comment
Negroes in America despite the
handicaps forced upon them by
ignorance and reaction have ach-
ieved imminence, distinction OF
competence in every field of en-
deavor found in our culture,
After demonstrating his ignor-
ance Tor supposed ignorance) Of
history Mr.. Putnam goes on tc
display his paucity in the field Of
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chairman. He noted that this is
the 34th year of service by the
Minnesota Easter Seal Society and
that Easter Seal funds are used
to provide these programs without
regard to race, creed or type of
disability.
SPOKESMAN and RECORDER
publisher Cecil z. Newman has
been a longtime member Of the
Hennepin County Easter Seal
Committee.
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CORRECTION

Last weeks edition Of this paper
incorrectly listed the ownership of
station wagon to Mrs" odell
Smith instead Of Mr.. Odell Smith
in a news story reporting theft
of equipment from the auto. Mrs.
Odell Smith is not in the state,
Mr.. Smith 674 st. Anthony re-
ported this week.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-03-27

The U. s. government now pays
storage on enough surplus food
stocks to provide each American
family with "a bushels Of corn, 10
bushels Of wheat AZ pounds Of
dried milk 81 pounds Of cheese
2 Ia pounds Of butter.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-03-27
CHARGED WITH
ASSAULTING TWO OTHERS
WITH WHISKEY BOTTLE

Two st. Paul women complained
that another woman assaulted
them with a whisky bottle in the
Booker Tavern on March 20.
Both women. Crystal P. White,
%, 938 Carroll and Johnnie B.
Lewis, "a, 466 Iglehart were taken
to Ancker hospital for treatment.
Mrs. White suffered an inch
laceration on the bridge of the
nose and Mrs. Lewis sustained a
small cut on the lip.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-03-27
THIRD WARD D.F.L.
ENDORSE SLATE

At the regular meeting held on
Tuesday, March 18th, the Third
Ward D.F.L. Club voted unani-
mously to endorse the city-wide
.D.F.L. slate of candidates.
BY a vote of 35 to IA, the Club
also voted to endorse incumbent
Frank wolinski in the Third Ware
aIdermanie race. --aa a.ra-la-. .lssr. ~.
Mike Murphy is chairman of tht
ward club.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-03-27
Senate Committee Told
Open Occupancy Law
Key To Ending Bias
In Housing Field:

Representatives of section of Minnesota life appeared
Friday March 90 before the Minnesota Senate Judiciary CON-
mittee in support of "Open Occupancy ;" legislation
Among the groups which support the legislation for which
bills introduced in the House Minnesota
AFCIO WomenS International League for Peace and Free
DOM State County and Municipal Employees Union No 10 Min
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Minnesota NewsmGn In Congo:
Editor DahIquist Finds
Africa Exciting; Has
To Learn Sign Language
BY w. e. DAHLQUIST
CONTINUED from March 20 edition)

This Is the NTH hstaIment Africa by Editor
William Dahlqust Thief NfnnesOa)
to that continent late February that
African
opportunity print
pen MnnesOta's distinguished journalists
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-03-27
Housing Discrimination Widespread:
Housing Discrimination WidesPre0d
us. Civil Rights
Advisory Group Held
Open Hearing March Il

The Minnesota advisory committee of the u s. Civil Rights
Commission open hearings Saturday March q, at the
Prudential Life Insurance building
committee combined open hearings three phases of
discrimination which has been studying with executive
session the fourth since its appointment in November
Since November committee has been surveying the state
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-03-27
FINED 500

Buck Chaser, 902 Iglehart Av.,
paid a 500 fine in municipal court
Monday for unemployment COM
pensation fraud.
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MeW0ff Answers Ad:
MeWoff Answers Ad:
Segregationist AID In
Star & Tib Criticised
In CaustiC Letter

See Editorial: lutheran Appeal Newspaper
The 58 page ad in the March % editions the Minneapolis
Star and Tribune papers caustcay criticised St Paul
public school teacher Arthur c. McWa this week.
The offending ads part a wide campaign by
Alabama segregatonst organization called the Putnam Letter
Committee, - 81 North goth St, Birmingham Ala
Similar ads have appeared several leading northern daily
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-03-27

The Soviet news agency Tass
reports that a University Of Athe-
ism has been opened in Ashkhabad,
capital Of Soviet TurISmenistan.
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The
HIGH
And Low
DOW N
By BAILEE THOMAS

Tax The Tourists: One of the
arguments being advanced by the
Minnesota sales tax supporters is
that the tourists and those who
come here for medical treatment
and business ought to pay taxes.
The pro-sales tax folk say the
state could obtain 6 million dollars
"a year from out-of-staters. It Is
estimated that one million and a
half persons come to this state.
Don Brown, popular Waseca pub
Usher is chairman of the group
which wants the sales tax. Ray
Hemmenway, DFL state chairman
claims the group is a Republican
party-front and that the COP is
afraid to come out openly for a
sales tax but is using the Mime
sofa Tax Reform Committee head
ed by Mr.. Brown to do its job.
Indians up near Wealthwood on
MilleLacs have organized a corp
Grafton to manufacture Indian
souvenirs. The firm is called the
Thunderbird Enterprises. Frances
La Quier one of the organizers of
the enterprise says that most Of
the Indian souvenirs tourists buy
near reservations and in stores all
over the us. are manufactured
in Japan!
At least two segments Of the
Minnesota population will not
mourn the resignation of Ozzie
Cowles, the Minnesota basketball
coach, which was announced We'd
nesday. No Negro or Jew ever
made a University cage team dur
ing his II year reign over the
schools basketball fortunes
A few weeks ago when this
paper editorial questioned the
why Of the absence of Negro
talent, the Minnesota Daily beat
its editorial breast, the daily
paper sports writer's tut, tutted,
and expressed amazement (rath-
er quietly that 1t should even be
implied that Mr.. CowIes was
/, color conscious. .y.--
Mr.. Cowles himself denied any
such implication but our Head
Mans suggestion that it was gen
orally felt in the state that he
did not encourage Negro athletes
to try out for his teams brought
faint response. With practically
every team in the Big Ten now
having an open door policy for
Negroes in basketball, football and
other sports the lack Of Negroes
even trying out for the Minnesota
teams has been a topic of CONVEX
sation in the state for several
years. The same feeling has ex-
listed among the Jewish people.
Bailie hears that the Robert
IMurrays Che's the insurance mani
plan to build a ranch-type dream
home.
Birches Bird, former manager
of the st. Paul Gopher Lodge Rest,
now a night club operator in Port
land, Oregon was among those ar
rested by the FBI in connection
with the ring which fixed win
ners of a picture contest running
in dailies thruout the country in
GLIDING our own Pioneer Press and
Dispatch.
st. Paulites will remember
Bird as quite an operator for
a spell until John Law began
to put too much heat on him.
He even ran for the Mayor Of
Bonneville here.
The st. Paul NAACP has pro-
tested to the Pioneer-Press Dis
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The st. Paul NAACP has pro-
tested to the Pioneer-Press Dis
patch over the sparse coverage
given the proponents of open
Occupancy" The branch president
Leonard Carter says the Pioneer
Press story Of Tuesday March "A
was downright misleading.
Carter pointed out that the story
in question carried a long account
Of the attack Of the opponents on
the measure before the Senate Jud-
iciary committee and in final par
agraph, as an afterthought stated
that the ''NAACP and a few other
organizations" appeared before the
Senate Judiciary committee, when
as a matter of fact larger group
of organizations appeared in favor
Of the bill than appeared against
1t. Carter and the NAACP said
the Press story left the implication,
whether planned or not that only
a few groups were supporting the
measure.
Evening star., 1959-11-01
November 4
1-Hewoiion Eye. Crime.

"Millionoire Moureen Reynolds.
A young womon's letters TO her
husband ore returned stornped
deceased" and she sets out to
find him. Christine White, Rob.
ert Fortier.
$50
9-l've Got q Secret. Panel.
1000
4-This Is Your Life.
Ralph Edwords, host.
5-Raeket Squad. Detective.
Reed HodIey stars.
"Wednesday Might Fights.
Joey Giordello VS.. Dick TIGER.
Middleweiohts. 10 rounds.
CleveIond Arena.
gu. S. Steel Hour. Dromo.
Hour. ipBio Docs Girl Con-
Germs O young girl torn between
her environment os q country
doctors daughter and her desire
for q n1usicoI career. Morooret
o.srien, Gene Raymond. stor.
1890
4-Wiehito Town. Western.
Nor on the Hill" Morshol
Dunbos prevents q berserk former
from numbering O l4-yeor-old
boy. Joe and Jody McCreo.
5-0ffieiol Detective. Crime.
l0:45
7-Footboll HolI Of Fome.
1900
4-News and Locol News.
COLOR. Horkness. Word.
5-Star'ieht Theater. Movie.
IA, Hours. "FolI Texon." 1853.
Lloyd Bridges.
7-World News. McCoffrey.
9-News: Weather. Sports.
sMudd. DouoIos. DonieIs.
Il:10
7-Weofher. Sports. News.
Allen. SiseeI. MoIkie.
ll:l5
4-News. Weather. Sports.
COLOR. Rosh. Forester. simp-
son.
9-The Late Show. Movie.
IA Hours. "The Lody from
Shonohoi.1 l948. An Irish soilor
accompanies beautiful wonnon
and her lawyer husband on
cruise and encounters murder
Sosson WelIes. Rito Hpyworth.
lI:z5
7-Baekstose. Bunny Wneck.
Arizona tribune., 1959-08-28

Oils E. Brown, l9, a fresh
man at Arizona State Univer-
sity has joined the Arizona Tri-
bune staff. He will be the TEEN
age reporter for the Valley.
Oils graduated from the B.T.
Washington High School, Tulsa,
Oklahoma in 1858. He served
on the school newspaper for three
years. Oils was the sports ed
itor and during his junior year
he became the assistant editor.
He is journalism major at ASU.
His parents are Mr.. and Mrs.
Jeffroe Brown, Sr. of Tulsa. Oh
lis lives with his cousins, Mr..
and Mrs. Travis Williams, PLY
E. Broadway Rd.
Arizona tribune., 1959-08-28
WOMAN INJURED

Mrs. Carrie Mae Short, 4ol8
S. 2Ist Place sustained numerous
contusions and bruises from an
auto accident Aug. l9 at the S.
Central and E. Broadway inter
section. Two trucks, one on each
side, jammed the Short vehicle.
Arizona tribune., 1959-08-28

8 ROOM GROUP
REPO6SESSED 10 pc. living rm.
set; S pc. dinette set: 5pc. bd.rm
set. Bal. $2.47 weekly. See at
410l S. Central BR 6-4lOl
Arizona tribune., 1959-08-28

REPOSSESSED
HIDE A BED like new. Bal. due
1910 No money down. See at
4lOl S. Central BR 6-4l0l
Arizona tribune., 1959-08-28

FOR SALE ii ft. Kelvinator
S yrs. old. AZ lbs frozen food
capacity. excellent cond. $l00
call after $3.50 pm. VIII $3.50
Arizona tribune., 1959-08-28

5O% OFF cost $499 No money
down Just returned from model
home. Out only 2 mos. immac-
ulate 8 pc. curved sectional,
complete w/table & lamps. S pc,
maple bedroom group; cross top
freezer -refrig. & deluxe range.
4lOI S. Central BR 6-4lOl
Arizona tribune., 1959-08-28
WANT ADS!

TIME FOR back TO school sew
ing. Go to C.M. Sewing Center
for foil line Of Fobrics and Mo-
Sions. Patterns too. also Bros,
hose end Ponties. Prices ot=
RIG eht. 81 E. Broadway; op~,
ill 8 pm.
Evening star., 1959-12-20
TOP TUNES
By HARRY BACAS
Star Stad Writer

"How About That"
Dee Clark'S latest hit,
was ordered especially
for him.
When it seemed time
for Dee to make a re-
cording, Calvin Carter,
recording chief at Abner
Records in Chicago,
started LOOKING around
for a song. The first
thing he did was tele-
phone Goldie Goldmark
of Sheldon Music in New
York.
He told Mr.. Goldmark
he wanted an uptempo
number with a slightly
Offbeat lyric and a col
loquial phrase in the
title and refrain. What
he was thinking of, of
course, was something
like Dee'S previous hit,
Keep 1t Up."
The next day a dem
onStration record arrived
at Mr.. Carter'S home.
Mr.. Goldmark had found
a song and sent it off
special delivery. 1t was
called How About That"
and it fitted the Speci-
ficationS perfectly.
Mr.. Carter was so
pleased with the new
song that he decided he
shouldn't delay in get
ting Dee Clark to record
it. He telephoned Dee in
Washington, where he
was playing a weeks en-
gagement at the Howard
Theater. Dee had to
Evening star., 1959-12-20
Lee Dispute

In the November Is TEEN
1 noticed a complaint by an
elghth-grade student from
Lee High School in Virginia
who sign himself as
Wren" This person said he
was sick of being pushed
around and called a stupid
little eighth grader" l am
a senior at Lee but 1, too,
was once an eighth grader.
II I remember correctly our
actions made us deserving of
being called stupid little
eighth graders"
Eighth graders tend to
draV attention to themselves
by doing many things such
as running through the halls
and on the wrong side of the
hall. 1t is certainly not the
incest feeling to be walking
down the hall and have an
eighth grader come Slam
ming into you. Nor is it
pleasant to step out of a
Evening star., 1959-12-20
Virginia View

I'm a sophomore at Hand
ley High School in Winches-
ter, Va. Why won't you do
a few stories on us, or the
Winchester Christian YOUTH
Handley has a fine his
tory and every spring the
students put on a pageant as
part of the Apple Blossom
Festival. You could DO .
story on that! .
We get Washington news
papers and TV stations. we
play Fairfax, Va, In foot-
ball and basketball.
1t may be too late TO 40
a story on any of our foot
ball games, but Handley also
has basketball and track.
Also, the girls play the CLARKE
County girls in field hockey
once a year.
So let's get the ball roll
ing. You might say I'm VIII
Donna Kline.
BARBIE WHITE
Wen be NTH you IN Ap-
Dle Blossom time,
Evening star., 1959-12-20

spend a week in Balti-
more and a week in New
York before he would be
free for recording, but
they arranged for him to
flv from New York to
Chicago as soon as the
tour ended.
He arrived in Chicago
late in the afternoon,
saw Mr.. Carter and took
a copy of the song to
his hotel room. He had
to learn it overnight.
Evening star., 1959-12-20

At the studio the next
day, they found the ar
rangement was too long.
Mr.. Carter had planned
to do the bridge section
twice. He had to cut it
in half and take out an
instrumental section to
make the song fit into
the time limit.
The ARA n e m e n t,
made by Mr.. Carter, was
for two flutes, two cleo
trio guitars, pia o,
Evening star., 1959-12-20
PLAY BACK
From TEEN Readers

Letters to the Editor must carry rerS' correct names
addresses and telephone numbers. Pen oa be
used requested. All letters subject to condensa
tion Address letters to TEEN. The Washington Star
Washington 3, D. c.
Evening star., 1959-12-20

drums, bass and a four
voice chorus.
About three hours
later they called it quits
and the session was over.
Washington is really
the city that discovered
Dee Clark, and all his
records have broken into
the popularity charts
here faster than else
where. That's been true
of "How About That"
too.