St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-10-16
High &
Low Down
By BAILEE THOMAS
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remodeled so that it looks like
a million dollars, lighting up the
whole block.
Josie johnson and her hubby
Minneapolis Honeywell engineer
Charles johnson do a fine job in
interpreting the city and its people
to foreign visitors, especially those
from Africa and Asia. Many AZ
rican officials visiting the us.
under State department guided
tours often do not get to meet
American Negroes. This is the
fault of the State Department, the
local groups that entertain them
and the American Negroes them
selves.
The Yellow Cab Co.. in Mime
apolis which was once sincerely
disliked by Negro cabs patrons,
has a new birth of popularity
among Negroes, who use taxis as
a mode of transportation, simply
because of its driver employment
policy which now finds the firm
with Negro drivers. Minneapolis
cab companies stin discriminate
against their Negro drivers by re-
fusing to assign them night shifts.
From this distance it seems that
this is a job for Mill City FEPC,
the Minneapolis Urban League and
most certainly the cab drivers
union.
BY the way, when are the st.
Paul cab companies going to give
the Negro community which pat
ronizes them something besides,
thank you!
Wallace Hall, of Chicago a men,
Der of the sales staff of Reming-
ton-Rand Business machines div
ision was in town at the Radi-
son Hotel, attending the American
Association of Medical Librarians.
Hall represents the growing num-
Der of college trained young Ne
groes who are entering the sales
and merchandising fields of big
corporations, where incidently,
there is coolies of mazuma (mon-
ey) to be made.
That was Major Verdia Arnold
of the US. Air Force and Cecil
Newman at the Swedish Council s
reception for World Heavyweight
Champion Ingemar Johansson at
Tom Moore's Radisson Hotel, Wed
nesday evening.
Tom Hawkins of the Minneapolis
Lakers and his Missus live in an
apartment bldg. which is all-white
with the exception of the Hawkins
The new presiding elder of the
AME church in this district is the
Rev. Mr.. c. Wesley Ellison, re-
ported to be an aviation enthuiast,
flying his own private plane from
city to city. If the report is ac-
curate he has a perfect right to be
called a sky pilot"
COP state chairman, Ed Vieh-
man wants Senator Hubert Fl.
Humphrey to take only half pay
while he is out campaigning for
the Democratic nomination. On
that basis wonder how much pay
the government has coming from
COP aspirant Richard Nixon, who
gets pretty good pay while cam
paigning for the Republican nom-
nation.
Sandy Perry, former st. Pau
Urban League industrial secre-
tary, now holding down the same
job at the Omaha, Neb., league
spent the past summer by invita-
ton in West Germany with II
other social workers, youth work,
ers and students. Upon his return
the first few words In his report
to the Omaha Urban League board
Of directors was spoken by Perry
in German!
Bailie wants the Twin Cities to
have a Big League baseball team
in the worst way, but hopes II
won't be Calvin Griffith's Wash,
ington Senators.
Griffith's team supposedly Il
not making money in the nations
capital, and in Bailie's books II
does not deserve to do so.
The Senators refused up unit
last year to hire any Negro play
ers. Finally when forced to do 81
the team management has usec
only Cuban Negroes.
With over half Of the population
in Washington Negroes, Griffith
has been either stupid or so pre-
JUDGED that he has been blind t.
the fact that few Negroes win any
longer patronize any team which
does not give Negro lads a chance
to earn a living in the Nationa
Pastime. Washington Negroes who
have gone to the Griffith Stadium
have gone there not to see or cheer
the Senators but to see the Negro
players on other American League
team rosters.
Bailie hopes the new Contin,
entail League headed by Branch
Hickey comes to Minneapolis. Let
Griffith and his prejudiced prac,
tees remain in Washington!
Maybe I'm just too old 10 com,
prehend the modern economic the.
OPv that N man mr. N nation car