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St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11

police department, know what is
going on out here" yet their forces
have reduced the bootleggers by
only one. The other vices and crimes
pointed out by the Chief continue
to florish.
Ministers, whom we are abund-
antly supplied with have a stake
in this matter. Many are no
longer respected, indeed preach
ers have passed along the corner
and the gamblers refused to hold
up the dice game so the man Of
cloth could pass. This incredible
conduct, these few hopeless men
and women are placing upon us
a stain that will take aeOns to
eradicate.
The ministers who have champ
ioned the cause for his flock have
remained conspiciously silent. They
have failed to use their great po-
sition for further betterment of
the community. They are too busy
building edifices and watching the
trafficing of funds into and out
Of the Golfers; that sight has
been lost on their true mission.
Their position in the community is
a unique one, that is they spend
more time preparing people to die
than they do in preparing people
to live. A look at the corners in
question will show that much is
desired in their teaching.
We cannot and must not allow
our sons and daughters to be ex-
posed to this crime. These men and
women are few in number and
most are illiterate, but heavily
armed and extremely dangerous.
We must, dear ministers, stand up
and speak, cause them to submit
to law and order or force them
from our city. Rise up and blaze
the way, your flock will follow.
All that is needed is dynamic and
forceful leadership.
We predicted long, long ago that
a violent upheaval due to the dam
gers of gheottizing and discrimin-
alton. on the part Of the whites and
discrimination and aloofness on the
part of the blacks. We, the st.
Paul Negro, have sown the seeds
of neglect and now we are to reap
the harvest Of violence, from the
unwanted, along with a harvest Of
terror from the st. Paul Police
Dept.
Remember the above statistics,
that is what we shall be judged by.
Jesse w. Miller
A. c. Hill
499 Rondo Ave.
st. Paul, MINI.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
KIonSmen NOT
Buns JUST Poor
fruSfrufed WhifeS

Chicago (ANP)-Want to know
what makes a Ku Klux Klansman
tick? James Wander Zanden, a
young sociologist who has spent
the past five years in the South
studying such matters offers this
explanation:
Most Klansmen," he said, don't
terrorize Negroes primarily out of
hate for Negroes, they do these
things because their fellow white
citizens higher on the social ladder
will not accept them as equals.
Furthermore, Wander Zanden
said, "Klansmen are not buns.
half-wits or worse" About two
thirds of the 1873 rabid Klansmen
he studied were on the lower
rungs of the middle class-gas
station owners, small grocery
owners, small contractors, oper-
ators of hot dog stands; or were
on the upper rungs of the working
class-auto mechanics, carpenters,
stone masons and the like"
And in these occupations lie
the key to the Illustration of the
Klansmen. The status ranking of
these people is nebulous. At best
they have toe hold in the middle
class; at worst, middle-class stat
us is just outside their grasp.
A Way Out:
They don't have the status they
want, but society gives them a way
out. They are still American and
white in region where such things
are very important.
So what happens These people
over-conform. They became 100
per cent Americans and white ex-
tremists. The Klan gives them a
goal, a meaning to life. Within
the Klan they are able to identity
with something bigger than them
selves"
Wander lander, an assistant pro-
fessor Of sociology at Duke univ
ersity, spoke at a recent meeting
Of the American Sociological Soc
iety here.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
Mill City Woman
Gets Suspended Teri

Gets Suspended Term
Dorothy Mae Jones, 5000 Fourth
Av. s., was arrested by st. Paul
Police Sergeant James Griffin
September 7.
Griffin reported Miss Jones was
speeding and that he chased her.
He finally caught her he said
when she turned the car into a
gas station.
Griffin said Miss Jones reviled
him and berated the police depart
ment, screaming so loudly a crowd
gathered.
The woman was taken to head
quarters and booked on disorder
ly conduct charge. Later when she
Gained down she told officers she
was angry because someone had
stole her 25 caliber Beretta pear
handled automatic.
When police went to tow in heI
car they found William Tendle
also Of 5000 Fourth Av. s., in the
car. They questioned him and he
said the pistol was at the home
of his mother Mrs. Carrie Tendle
739 w. Central. The gun was con
fiscated by the police.
Tuesday, Miss Jones was giver
a 80 day suspended sentence IL
st. Paul municipal court.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
THREE HELD FOR
PETIT LARCENCY

Three st. Paul men are held for
petit larcency in connection with
the theft of six radiators from a
state owned house at $50 st. An
thony. Trial has been set for Sep
tember Is.
The charged men are Arthur
Olson. 81 of 439 w. Central; Cool
idge v. White, "a, Sioux City, Ia,
and Harvey Wells, 65 of 1856 Car
roll Av.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
Wife Sdys Husband
Threatened Her

Leo Leslie, AZ, first floor, 766
Rondo Av., a Great Northern R.R.
porter was arrested September 8,
and booked on suspicion of at
tempted murder.
Leslie was held on the basis Of
a complaint made by his wife
Mrs. A. Clara Leslie who told
police her husband tried to shoot
her early Sunday morning.
Leslie was taken to Ancker hos
pital for observation upon the ad-
vice of the police surgeon, DIR.
Powers.
Police located a automatic pis-
tol belonging to Leslie at the
home of a former landlord, Henry
Bailey, 45O West Central.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
FREEMAN RELEASED TO
ATTORNEY PENDING
GRAND JURY ACTION

Airman Walter Freeman, 905
Dayton accused of rape by a 19
year old woman was released last
week to his attorney Otis God
frey, pending disposition of the
charges against him by the RAM
sey county jury.
AS reported in the September
4th edition of this paper Freeman
was accused of an assault by the
young woman with whom he and
his wife had been drinking.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
Couldn't See Amy Sign
Asks To Re Shown

Junior Gray, "a, 306 N. st. AL
bans, police say doesn't believe in
signs, traffic signs, that is.
Recently a squad car patrolman
noticed Gray drive his car through
traffic sign, then back it up
and drive through it again.
When police stopped him, Gray
said he did not see any sign and
demanded the officer show it to
him-which he did.
Gray, booked on drunk charge
was sentenced Sept. 8, to 80 days
in the workhouse.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
Four ST. Paul Cops
Neqro Leadership

Four st. Paul cops have been
classified as Master Shooters, it
was announced Tuesday by the
Minnesota Police Journal. They are
detective Robert Frieschel, patrol
man D. R. Smith, Sgt. James Grif-
fin and patrolman Ralph Sivald
Only 1S other officers in the
state qualified as Master Shooters.
To be classified in that group po-
Hcemen must average 81 or better
in pistol competition.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
ARRESTED ON SUSPICION

Roscoe Reed, 36, who gave his
address as 5s5 st. Anthony was
picked up and questioned by police
September 5, upon suspicion Of
vagrancy. Reed is married but
has been separated from his wife
for about two years.
Reed was released with warn
ing. Police claim he has been living
with Ernestine Perry, alias Ruby
Perry who was arrested recently
for vagrancy.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
Wife Stubs Him; He
Suys n Wus His FuuIt

Leon Lyons, 35, sos Aurora Av.,
was treated at Ancker Hospital
September 2, for stab wounds
which he said was inflicted by his
wife Emma.
Lyons told police he was stabbed
in the back but did not see the
weapon used because his wife ran
out of the house after the in
cident.
Percy Mccoy, 725 Iglehart and
James Harris, 397 Rondo drove
him to the hospital for treatment.
The wounded man signed a
statement saying he did not want
to prosecute his wife. He said he
was at fault and is not complain
ng. .
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
WIFE CLAIMS HUSBAND
ASSAULTED HER

Jayne Boykin, 416 Carroll, st.
Paul told police September that
her husband Louis, 81, had beat
and strangled her. She signed a
warrant for his arrest. He was
brought to headquarters and book
ed on a charge of assault. Bail was
set at $25 and trial set for Thurs
day, September 10.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
2ss STITCHES TO MEND BOY

Houston (ANP) - Seven-year-
old Curtis Nicholson who sustained
serious head injuries when the
car his mother was driving went
out Of control, has had 2SS stitches
applied by a team Of doctors to
aid his recovery.
Reported improving at Brazos
Valley hospital the lad was thrown
out of the car last week when one
Of the tires suffered a blowout.
Three other children in the car
escaped injury.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11

Mon Arrested For Following
Woman Pedestrian
A st. Paul man followed the
wrong woman one evening in Aug
ust. Thomas P. Dwyer, 561 Van
Buren following a growing GUS
tom drove slowly through the
Rondo-Dale area.
AS he drove along he accosted
Mrs. Ivy Hagen s43 Iglehart Av.,
who was walking along the street
She had the presence of mind to
get his license number.
Officers picked up Dwyer as q
suspect.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
Open Letter
AssoiIs Locul
Master Morksmen
Continued from Page


dismal failure due to many
reasons, most important was
the inability of the chairman to
maintain order. Order cannot be
maintained when passion prevails
over reason or more still when
the least intelligent Is allowed
access to the floor.
This is a brutal statement, but
the fight we are in is even more
brutal, the stakes are much higher
than the befuddled and incoherent
rambling of a hopeless drunk, on
the other hand, if there are those
who entertain the idea that the
NAACP is a social organization,
they should be reminded of its
purpose; and failure to recognize
this is fatal.
Mr.. Carl Weschcke, Jr., secre-
tary of the st. Paul NAACP, who
resides at 2263 Riverwood Place,
has emerged as spokesman for the
st. Paul Negro, who tried so mis-
erably to justify the Negroes many
Illustrations. (We wonder where
were the President of the st. Paul
NAACP and other civic leaders
at the time Mr.. Weschcke made
his futile attempt)
Thanks Mr.. Weschcke for max
ing the statement, you do have
CUTS enough to stand up and voice
your opinion, although you can
not paint a true picture, because
you are not and you have not been
subjected to the many evils that
we the Negro have.
Is II that we do not have the
necessary leadership among our
people, or Is it the lack of the
required red marrow to stand
up and exhibit leadership, or is
it jealousy. or the lack Of coop
Grafton on our part, or have we
been sold down the stream?
We have tried for twelve long
years to awaken the st. Paul Ne
gro from their Rip Van Wrinkle
sleep. we have tried to instin the
cold calculated fact that our white
brother is not in love, with you, his
black brother, from an economical,
social and political stand point.
Daisy Bates and Martin Luther
King are not seeking social pub
licity, they are seeking justice,
equality and freedom. 1t is shock
ing indeed to listen to the prev
iously quoted statistics and shock
ing even more so to have the Ne
gro's defense presented by one
whose interest in the Negro is
genuine enough, but wholly mad
equate for obvious reasons.
1t can not be too fOrcefuIly
stated that the enemy Of the
Negro is dedicated, ruthless and
relentless. He will use any means
no matter how contemplate and
every means no matter how in
effective to keep the Negro down.
The Negro cannot and must not
allow the habituees of Kent and
st. Anthony stamp out his future
in St. Paul. Business men in the
area should stand four square for
law and order.
Drinking in the streets. profanity
that mule sldnners hesitate to use
is the order Of the day. Who is
responsible for this damnable sit
uation, the st. Paul Negro is 500
responsible, the St Paul Police
Dept is 500 responsible. The Ne
gro in this area should initiate the
movement and the police depart
ment should carry out the law.
The Chief of the st. Paul police
department say that they, the
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
PLEADS GUILTY

Charles Anderson, "a, 995 Rondo
Av.; was arrested on a warrant
sworn out by Lois Anderson Sep
tember 4, on a charge of assault
and battery.
Anderson pied guilty Septem-
ber 8 and will be sentenced Sep
tember 80.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
JACKIE TYLER ARRESTED

Jackie Tyler. 21 of S51 Aurora
was arrested September 5, on a
disorderly conduct charge. He pied
not guilty September 8. His. trial
was set for Oct. 1.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
FIFTEEN DAYS

Richard Maurice Schuck, 61s
Fremont Av. NJ, Minneapolis was
given Is days In the st. Paul work
house, September for driving
after suspension Of license.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
GETS GO DAYS

John Lee Mason, 442 Carroll
was given 60 days in the st. Paul
workhouse for driving after sus-
pension of his license.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
CULPEPPER TO COURT
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

Trial of Brady Culpepper, ar
rested recently for disorderly con-
duct has been set for September
20.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
Arrested For Careless Driving

Grady Randall, 35, $50 Carroll
was arrested September 6 after a
couple reported Randall was speed
ing. Two citizens signed private
declaration charging Randall with
careless driving.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
LOOK ONLY $500

You can live in this two bedroom
duple:$eor as little as $3.50 per
mo. with good credit and only $500
down. KE. 3-S658. ST
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
$50 AFRICANS
STONE POLICE AFTER
ARREST OF WOMAN

Durham, South Africa (ANP)-
Roughly $50 Africans stoned po-
lice cars after patroling police ar
rested group of women who were
selling meat on a sidewalk.
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11

YOU KNOW WHERE THIS PAPER
STANDS
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
ST. PAUL
APARTMENTS FOR RENT
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
MAPLEWoop AREA

Five bedrooms, 21a baths, two
freplaces. Luxury colonial on IN
acre. Two years old. Quality con-
structed. May take smaller home
in trade. Call owner for more de-
tails on this very complete home,
Spring S-0839. Ri
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
MIN N ZAP OILS

USE THE WANT ADS
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11

FOR SALE. Small cafe with low
overhead. Close to Catholic church
and school. Good potential for ribs
and take out. Call FE. 2-9134.
eli pm. ST
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11

23XX Oakland Ave. So. Three
bedroom stucco home. $10,500.
$500 down.
25XX-4th Ave. So. 8 room home,
2 baths. S10,500.-S500 down.
1923 Portland Ave. Three bedroom
stucco bungalow. Two car attached
garage. $15,9O0. Assume large
FILA. mortgage.
(SOLD)
37O8-5th Ave. So. Stucco duplex
two bedrooms each floor $11, TOO.
Low down payment.
johnson & Associates
4o6 e. 3Sfh 81.
Taylor 4-s22s Taylor 1896
ST
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11

2 and 3 BEDROOM DUPLEX
$3.50 MO. income. Full price $15,-
900. Low down payment-Chester,
WA. 6-5002. White Investment Co.
UN. 6-S495. ST
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
, REAL EsTAi FOR SALE
$500 DOWN ANYONE

Newly decorated 10 room duplex
528 18th Av. 8. Gas heat. Selling
for $4,000. Payments $75 mo. ia.
1892. ST
St. Paul recorder., 1959-09-11
MIN N ZAP OILS
APARTMENTS FOR RENI

FIVE ROOM apartment. Private
bath 256 18th Ave. South. Call Mr..
Blackman FE. 9-5610 for informa-
ton. S-tf
Evening star., 1959-12-25
BEDDING

Foam Rubber Bed Pillow, removable Upper cover So
ENGLANDER S0 Foldaway Bed, black metal
frame -----------------.- ---.----2----------~- = - 80
ENGLANDER Mattress or Box Spring. single or :
uOuUlc Size ~
RESTONIC Flex-o-Foam Mattress or Box
Spring, single or double size e------ SO
ENGLANDER Ortho-bilt Mattress, single or
ENGLANDER Hotel Special, double size set
ENGLANDER Hollywood Bed, complete with
Solid Maple Bunk Bed with guard rail and
ladder ---------- 79
ENGLANDER De Luxe Hollywood Bed with dec
orator headboard ---------------------- 139
ENGLANDER 624 Coil Double Size Set-floor
ENGLANDER Foam Latex Mattress and Box
Spring, single size ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SO
Solid LINED Oak Bunk Bed with guard rail and
ladder -------------- SO
ENGLANDER Foam Latex Mattress and Box
Spring. double Sze--------------------- 119
ENGLANDER Featherest King Size, 80" long,
single size eset----------l------- 139
The people's voice., 1959-07-31
Mlss,v;s;::s; ,;',; q: s;':s So. igh School Controversy

For two and a half years, Mis-
soula County High School has been
the scene of a bitter controversy
which has aroused the entire COM
munity. Community fights over
school management are nothing new
in Montana or in the United States.
They come close to being an Ameri-
can tradition. However, the one in
Missoula is unusual in that it has
resulted in the passage of legisla-
ton at the recent legislative session.
The real start of the row was in 1856
when the teachers at the high school asked
for revised salary schedule. Thirty-four
teachers refused for some time to sign
their contracts for the ensuing year. This
The people's voice., 1959-07-31

squabble ended when, at the instance of
a mediating group of citizens, the trustees
agreed to take up the matter of revised
schedule during the coming year and the
teachers signed their contracts.
In May, 1857, it became known that
at the request of the high school chapter
of the Montana Education Association, two
representatives of the National Education
Association from Washington, D. c., were
conducting an inquiry into difficulties
which had arisen" at the high school.
Rumors and reports circulated throughout
the community and there were allegations
of abnormal teacher turnover, inequalities
in salary administration, reprisals against
those teachers who had engaged in the
salary controversy, and host of other
matters.
The people's voice., 1959-07-31
NEA ASKED TO MAKE
"FULL INVESTIGATION"

Early in June 1857, there were two
meetings of groups of citizens, one with
an attendance of about $50, at which some
of the dissident teachers presented their
complaints. These meetings requested the
Board of Trustees of the high school to hold
a public meeting to discuss these matters,
but the board refused to do So Since the
board was unwilling to present its side of
the controversy, some of the citizens felt
there must be matters requiring remedial
action: accordingly, they joined with the
teachers in requesting a full investigation
of the high school by the National Educa-
ton Association
In August, 1857, NEA sent committee
of five educators assisted by staff members
from their Washington office to conduct
the investigation. The committee stated
it was handicapped by the attitude of many
witnesses who refused to testify except
under promise of protection from publicity,
since they stated they feared reprisals from
the board or its supporters against them
mately a week of investigation, large
number of citizens and teachers gave testi-
mony to the committee which also met
with the trustees and members of the ad-
ministrative staff of the school.
The report of the investigating commit
Continued On Page Three)
The people's voice., 1959-07-31
Newspapers
In Montana

In his very readable new book,
Montana: An Uncommon Land"
published only this spring, Ross K.
Toole ventured a prediction which
we are glad was little wrong. He
said: "Today Montana's daily press
is still owned and controlled by the Ana
conda Company. The day when such
papers were used to fight fire with fire is
long since gone. Today the papers are
simply monuments to apathy and bad
journalism. But the Anaconda Company,
barking back to the time when one clever
man and his vitriolic paper nearly drove
them from the state, would think twice
before it let them go. And so every morn
ing, when the paper thumps on the front
porch and when, having read it, they know
no more than they did before about the
real problems of their local community and
the state, Montanans are looking the past in
the face"
Perhaps the Company did think twice,
but anyway on June 16 Editor Guy Mooney
Continued On Page Three)
The people's voice., 1959-07-31

Our Voice did not carry far; at least
we did not hear many echoes from these
thousand hills. That was lesson we needed
to learn.
But we have been asked again to speak
our mind, and will again listen for the
echoes. We remind every reader that he
has the privilege of using the columns. of
the VOICE to express himself-even in
full opposition to anything we say THE
PEOPLES VOICE must have the best
record of any paper in the state for being
read by people who disagree.
One of the discouraging reflections we
cannot avoid is how much of our talking
is heard only by the people WHO already
agree with us. A prize ought to be given
to the Farmers Union for getting the fine
voice of Ted Townsend on a statewide
radio hook-up to report the daily doings
of the 1859 State Legislature.
THE PEOPLES VOICE and Montana
have lost two stalwart spirits this year.
We shall not forget the bright August
day year ago when we saw hundreds of
old friends pour into the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Lowndes Maury in Butte to pay
their respects on the sixtieth anniversary
of their wedding. Since that day, when they
sat full of grace and pride at their home
full of friends and many children, Mr.
Maury has passed away. THE PEOPLES
VOICE has lost supporter and contributor
of long standing. Nobody seems ready to
step into the place his going has left vacant
in the Letters column, ready to challenge
so much nonsense and faint-heartedness,
to remind us of the virtue of courage as
one of the most elemental political atti-
tudes
Mr.. Maury may have lacked what we
all lack in our Montana policy-the oppo-
sition that refines and strengthens our
thought. And he may have felt that he had
opposition enough! But it so often seemed
that his opponents only snarled at his argu-
ments rather than tried to meet them in
open discussion. A columnist complained
the other day that no speech in Congress
ever seems to have any relationship to any
other speech in Congress. So it so often
seems in our political life in Montana.
We hope that someone of his many
talented children will gather up the story
Continued On Page Two) ]
The people's voice., 1959-07-31
"The Teachers Voice"
Hail and Farewell

Two years ago a number of members of the Teach
ers Union at the State University and several of their
friends published two summer issues of The PEOPLES
, 1959-06-19
SUNDAY <, MONDAY
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