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Smyrna times., 1959-12-31

OF eighty-four foreign born resi-
dents who were admitted into
citizenship and received natural
ization certificates at ceremon-
les presided over by the Hon.
Caleb M. Wright, Chief Judge,
United States District Court,
Wilmington, on December 81.
Judge Wright called freedom
with dignity and significance for
the individual "the basic and es-
sential element of American cit
izenship." The Choma children
have received their application
for citizenship, but will not be
to 60 before the court.
Participating in the ceremonies
were Edward G. Pollard, who ad-
ministered the oath of allegi-
ance; DR.. Carl ]. Rees, John G.
Leach, Joseph Donald Craven,
representing the Wilmington
Lions Club, and Mrs. Helen
Scott, OAR. The flag ceremony
was conducted by members of
Public School Citizenship Class
es. The ceremony was conclud-
ed by the salute to the flag and
the national anthem.
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31

348.l0. With the operating ex-
penses of $327,8l7.36 added in,
the net operating loss came to
$l69,610.59, which was Sc per
cent of subscription income.
Other earned income reduced
the net loss for the III months
to $l28, ,498.30.
With the new rates in effect
December l, the financial exper-
fence of Group Hospital Service
should show a marked improve
ment this month, Mr.. Maybee
said. This will mean an end,
for the present, to the necessity
of reducing the reserves to pay
bills of members and operating
expenses. The reserves, he said,
are maintained primarily to in
sure the organizations ability
to continue to pay the bills of
its members even if there should
be an epidemic.
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31

ems Hose Com .Jany band played
Christmas carols at variou S
places, including homes where
people were ill, starting at mid
night on Christmas Eve. They
toured the entire town of Smyr-
ma, playing in all sections, and
also went to Clayton. Among
the places they played to instill
cheer was the Scott Nursing
Home on Main Street. The
Christmas carols were heard at
Four Corners, the Lake Como
area, Parkway Manor, in front
of the Asbury Methodist Church,
the home of the Rev. F. Sydney
on Mt. Vernon Street,
and the home of Medford Potter,
Sr., who is i'll. The tour ended
at the fire house. The quintet
included Paul B. Grier, director;
William Voshell, Howard Green,
Rosello, and Martin
Golden.
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31
Parties
Climax Christmas

The holiday season was mark
ed in Smyrna by several inform
al parties, family gatherings,
and visitors over Christmas Eve
and Christmas Day. The festivi-
ties will continue until New
Years Eve, with the climax the
open house at the home of 1t.
Gov. and Mrs. David P. Buck
son. Among the visitors are MIR.
and Mrs. John D. Jones, of AL
buquerque, New Mexico, who
are spending month as guests
of their son-in-law and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. Donald w.
Flaig. MIR. and Mrs. Richard c.
Price had as overnight guests
their son, MIR. G. Richard Price,
the Misses Nancy and Sylvia
Twitchell, of near Wilmington,
and MIR. Carl-Olaf Homan, of
Helsinki, Finland, a graduate
student at the University of Del
aware. The young people attend
ed the Smyrna Lions Club dance
on Saturday night. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold ]. Carrow had as guests
over the holiday their son, MIR.
Robert Carrow and Mr.. Adrian
Suarez, of New York City, and
Mr.. Suarez's mother and niece
from Havana, Cuba; DR.. B. Stim-
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31
Naturalization Ends lO-Year Dream
OF Citizenship For Ukraine Family

Ten years have elapsed since
the family of Anton Choma and
his wife, Anna, came to this
country from the Ukraine, and
went to live on the farm of NAL
colin FARRELL, near Kenton. At
that time there were his wife
and two children, Helena, l year
old, and Weldy, 2, who now at
tend the Clayton School. Anoth-
er son was born in America,
Stephen, now a first grader at
the school. MIR. Choma assisted
Mr.. FARRELL with the farm work
until his illness and death on
March 81, 1859. Weldy, now a
sturdy twelve-year old boy,
helps Mr.. FARRELL and has deep
interest in farming. The family
came to the Jarrells through the
Church World Service, which
was involved at that time in dis
placed families and their care.
The Rev. Donald ]. Parsons,
then rector of St. Peters Epis-
copal Church, Smyrna, was in
strumental in the details of plac-
ing the family here. The Chomas
were recommended by Ivan
Lewyckyi, then living in Mary
land, VINO preceded the Chomas
to America, and now lives near
Kenton with the Ernest FARRELL
family. Anna Choma and Ivan
Lewyckyi were among the group
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31
PleasantOn Gets
LegiOn's Top Post

Officers for 1860 were install
ed by junior members of Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary, Post No.
Ia, last week at Christmas
dinner party held in the post
quarters at Town Hall. Assum-
ing executive posts were Terri
Pleasanton, president; Janice
Rochester, vice president; Jer-
rie Mercadante, secretary; Mary
Turner, treasurer; Carol 10 Be-
hrens, historian; Dotty Pleasan-
ton, chaplain; and Vickie Pleas
anton, sergeant-at-arms. Install
alton was performed by Mrs.
George B. David, Sr., a past
president of the unit. Special
guests included Robert w. Rid
dagh, mayor of Smyrna; Mrs.
Morris Wasserman, Department
of Delaware junior activities
chairman, and Mr.. Wasserman,
of Wilmington Manor; and Bob
by Riddagh. A set of flags was
presented the Smyrna junior
unit by David C. Harrison Post
No. Ia. A gavel- also was re-
ceived from the post entertain
ment committee. The presenta-
tions were made by Leonard
Pleasanton, post commander,
and Lloyd Pleasanton. A large
Christmas tree surrounded by
gifts gave the meeting a holi-
day atmosphere. Each junior
member received a gift. Re-
marks by the guests praised
the junior group and the work
which it is doing. The meal and
program was arranged by the
young group under the super
vision of Mrs. Lloyd Pleasan-
ton. Meredith Wilder and Mary
Turner entertained with musical
selections.
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31
State Blue Cross
Operation Scars
K-Million In Red

The Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Plans had to take more than
$550,000 out of reserves to fin
ance operations during the first
ii months of 1859.
This was revealed yesterday
in a financial statement of OPP
erations of Group Hospital Ser
vice, Inc, issued by H. v. May
bee, managing director. He said
the fact that the plans were
forced to spend more in pay
ment of members hospital and
surgical-medical bills than they
were receiving in membership
fees is the reason the organiza-
ton had to raise its member
ship rates. The rate change, ef-
fective December /, is not re-
flected in the financial figures,
which are for the period ending
November 80.
In those III months the Blue
Cross Plan spent 1885, $685. .08
more than it received in dues
while the Blue Shield Plan spent
$l69,611.59 more. The two add
up to an operating loss of $685.
l74.67.
In the Blue Cross Plan alone,
income from subscribers came
to 1896, 1926, while hospital
ization expenses amounted to
$5,895, ,035.l6. Expenses of men,
bers' disqualification exceeded
income from membership fees.
even before the payment of op-
Grating expenses, which came to
$287,3l0.28, or five percent of
subscription income. The net
operating loss of $685., ,563.08
amounted to $50 of subscrip-
tion income. The loss, in the
Blue Cross Plan, was cut down
to $3l0,929.80 for the II months
by other earned income of the
Plan.
In the Blue Shield Plan, in
come from subscribers for the
ii months came to $2,996, ,554.-
81, while surgical-medical ex-
penseS amounted to $685.
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31

Staunton Military A C d m y.
spent Christmas Day as guests
of DR.. ]. D. Niles, Sr. at his
home in Townsend. DR.. Niles
also had as his guests that day
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry c. Webb,
Smyrna, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
L. FAIRIES and young son, David,
of Delpark Manor, Wilmington
Mrs. Robert D. Hoffecker had as
her weekend guests her son-in-
law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs-
Harry Rosenzweig, of Whining
ton, who spent Christmas in
New York City.
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31

son Carrow. Philadelphia; Miss
Elizabeth L. Carrow, Newark;
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold j. Carrow,
Jr. and family, Baltimore; and
Mr.. Harold ]. Carrow iii, of
Chicopee Falls, Mass, who will
remain for longer visit. Mrs.
John ]. Williams, R e h o b o h
Beach, is spending a week as the
guest of Miss Mary M. Holland.
MIR. and Mrs. ]. D. Niles, Jr.,
their daughter. Miss Joan Niles,
a student at st. GATHERINGS
School, Richmond, Va; their son,
j. D. Niles iii, at home from
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31
Ill Spoken

iii Spoken
When men speak i'll of thee,
so live that nobody will believe
them.
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31

The FIJI Is Whuf Counts
Some for insurance. good ossnt will that you don't
poy dollar for policy than you need and he will
also point out the dunssr Of being vndsnsvsd You make the
fnoi decision.
Fitting policy needs tokss experience and hos what
we've goi. Coll Us.
Smyrna times., 1959-12-31
Brass Quintet
Instills Cheer

The brass quintet of the Citiz-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-08-07
Lyndon johnson
Explains Position
On Civil RIGHTS

New York, August 3-Senate
Majority Leader Lyndon johnson
admitted today that he may have
voted wrong" on some civil rights
bills In the past, but insisted that
he is learning all the time" about
this subject.
II got all I could on civil rights
in 1857. Next year, III come a
little more, and the year after
that, III come little more" John
son declared in an article in the
new issue of Look Magazine.
THE difference between me and
some Of my Northern friends" the
Texas Democrat added. sis that I
believe you can't force these things
ON the South overnight.
you advance a little and con-
solidate; then you advance again.
think in the long run my way
may prove to be faster than
theirs"
Johnson running hard for the
Democratic Presidential is strug-
Cling to get his ''civil rights house
In order"
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RAMON SISSoN 400"
WRECK VICTIM STILL
In WISCONSIN HOSPITAL

Ramon Sisson, 1929 Portland
Av., porter on the Northwestern
400 continues to improve In
Memorial hospital in Menominee
Wis. Mr.. Sisson suffered back
chest and neck injuries when sew
eral cars Of the train jumped the
track near Wilson, Wis, Thursday
July 80, while enroute from Min
ineapolis to Chicago. He was
thrown ten feet when the car
lurched over on its side, and Ia
reported to be the most seriously
hurt Of all involved.
Mr.. Sisson has become well
known to the travelling public on
the 400" over "A years and was
featured in a railroad magazine
story as the first to make the TRIP
on the train when it went into
operation. He also won a national
R.R. service award.
Other crewmen sustaining less
serious injuries are Burie Car
michael ST., S744 Fifth Av. s..
who suffered a slight conclusion
and is recovering at home; WI
liam Small, st. Paul, who suffered
bruises, Manly Rhodes ST., VII.
liam Patterson and Michael
Schram, all of Minneapolis, were
badly shaken up and are recovering
at home.
The cause of the accident Is un-
der investigation by authorities.
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Nineteen Year Old
Despondenf Women
Attempts Suicide

In what police say was suicide
attempt, 10 year old Phyllis Brad
ley, 1853 Fuller Av., st. Paul took
IL Thorazine pills about 10 pm.
Monday, August 3.
The young woman was taken to
Ancker hospital by Levi Young, OF
$40 Iglehart Av. She told hospital
attendants that she took the pills
because she didn't want to live
any more.
Her stepfather Malcolm Henry
and her mother told Detective
James Fahey Miss Bradley has
been under the Doctors care be-
cause Of a nervous condition. Ac-
cording to the police the parents
believe the young woman became
respondent because Of boy friend
trouble.
Miss Bradley's stomach was
pumped and she was marked held
for the police at Ancker hospital.
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Attempt by a group Of white
home-owners In the Wheelock Park
and Hoyt Av., area In st. Paul to
forestaIl the development and con-
struction Of a possible 10 homes by
a st. Paul Negro couple Mr.. and
Mrs. Leroy Coleman of 813 w.
Central were defeated Wednesday
when the St. Paul city council vot-
ed to 3 to turn down a plea
that the area owned by the Cole
mans be purchased for a park.
The motion to grant the petition
Of the property owners was made
by Commissioner SEVERN Mortin-
son. One other Councilman Milton
ROsen and Mayor Joseph Dillon
voted with Mortinson on a roll call
vote.
Voting against the motion and
thereby for the Coleman's was Com
missioners BUD Holland, Robert
Peterson, Elizabeth Decourcey and
Adrian winkel.
After the vote against the park
petition a motion prevailed to re-
lease the lots listed in the park
petition for the disposition Of the
Coleman's, the owners. The home
development had been held up be-
cause Of the petition to use the
land for a park.
While the race problem never
entered the hearing openly it was
generally known that the attempt
to get approval to use land for
park development was aimed at
killing off the Coleman Park adj
dition home development because
residents felt the Colemans who
are Negroes, would sell the plated
lots to other Negroes.
The Wednesday action came a
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The governments own commits
sion has now reported that no mas
sacre was being planned. there
was no conspiracy of murder"
But, because Of a plot which did
not exist, 81 Africans were killed
by bullets, bayonets or beatings;
20 were wounded and about 1900
were imprisoned without trial. No
white man lost his life.
Who Lied?
Now, who are the liars-as &C
cording to Lord Malvern-Afric-
ans, or the white settlers in Gen.
trail Africa?
The Devlin commission gives
dates which show that the gov
ernor of Nyasaland, Sir Robert
Armitage, did not himself take the
murder plot" very seriously-until
it became politically convenient to
do so.
Police State
'Nyasaland today" says the
commission, lis a police state. AL
the effective African leaders are
in prison; constitutional reforms
are in allegiance; and tension re-
mains high"
Under the caption Guilty Men, /"
the editorial column of Reynold
News writes:
There are two comments which
should be made on this statement.
The commission itself shows that
there was no massacre plot to
justify action to the extent of a
minor bloodbath and imposition of
a police state. Lennox-Boyd and
CONTINUED on Page ~
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LiffIe Rock, Ark.
Incident Caused
AfTic0n Tensions

The Little Rock, Ark, school in
cidents caused race tensions in
Africa, a leader from Southern
Cameroons, West Africa told this
newspaper last Saturday.
The Hon. P. M. KeIncha, min
lister of Natural Resources South
ern Cameroons, West Africa said
the us. is losing its chance for
leadership and prestige among the
emerging African and Asian ma
tons by failure to deal affirna-
lively with its race discrimination
problem.
I, In his country, the Little Rock,
Arkansas school incident caused
natives to look aslance at white
civil servants and missionaries.
The people Of his country Mr..
Kemcha said, identified them
selves with the Negro children in
Arkansas who were being kept
from a public high school because
Of their color.
The Little Rock incident had the
same effect in all parts Of Africa,
and somewhat dimmed the image
which the African people have had
in the past about America, and its
people.
Mr.. Kemcha says the race prob
lem in his country has not been
too difficult because the climate
has not attracted many European
or British whites. The Southern
Cameroons are part Of Nigeria
which viii receive its independence
from Britain in 1860.
Africans who come here to study
the governmental practices under
state department sponsorship are
discouraged from visiting the
American South, Mr.. Kemcha said.
He said that while they were not
refused permission to 60 South
they were urged to wear their
native garb on such journeys.
Many Of the Africans at home
only wear the native costumes at
ceremonial affairs using European
dress for every day duties he points
out.
To be asked to wear native
garb just so Americans will know
they are not native American Ne
groes, Mr.. Kemcha said appeared
to be a little ridiculous, in a count
ry which boasts Of freedom. liberty
and justice.
Mr.. Kemcha, however said he
likes the American people. He was
a little disturbed because the State
Department did not brief him on
the presence Of a large Negro
press, in the U. s. and said he
found out about the Negro papers
only by accident, during a visit to
Chicago.
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day after the council had heard
the report from the corporation
which probably has made impossi-
BILE the passage of open occupancy
Legislation by the city council.
It was expected that Commits
sioner Milton Rosen and SEVERN
Mortinson even knowing the un-
dercurrents surrounding the petit
ton would favor the park petition,
but the vote Of Mayor Joseph Dill
lon for the petition was a surprise
to many observers Of the little
drama on housing which has been
going on for several months.
The council action Wednesday
makes 1t possible for the sale and
erection Of a number Of homes In
the area. Mr. Coleman is q fire
department captain and his wife
has been active in civic and club
work in st. Paul for years.
The couple secured the first
seven lots in May 1858 and others
later. The parcels were plated.
AS soon as the news got around
a petition was circulated to halt
the dwelling development. No open
mention was made that the petit
ton was aimed at the possible sale
of lots to Negro residents. Not
even the Colemans charged this
was the motive but it was general
ly known that the park petition
was a ruse to keep Negro families
out Of the area
william Marsden, attorney with
offices in the Minnesota Building
represented the Colemans.
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empowered to engage a staff and
to hear complaints. Penalty prov
isions Of misdemeanor nature were
also provided. a..
The st. Paul city council one
leader in the fight for the prop
osed measure said: was let off the
hook by Corporation Council shean
as was the Minneapolis city com-
Gil by city attorney Charles Saw
yer about Is months ago.
Sawyer was similarly requested
to give the Minneapolis city coun-
ell an opinion on the matter after
extreme pressure from the Home
Builders Association which prac-
tees the most race discrimination
in the housing field, and the as
ISOLATION which represent apart
ment owners who also unbalanced
ly reject person on account OF
race. Sawyers widely criticised
opinion that the measure was UNI
constitutional also got the NH
City aldermen off the hook.
In the case Of Shean a highly
respected attorney before being
named corporation counsel. a Num-
Der Of persons have stepped for
ward TO assert that Shean's opin-
ion was based solely ON what he
considered TO be the law and that
he would not stoop to offering adj
vice to the council solely on the
basis Of expedience and a effort
to get the council members off the
spot, which vote on the measure
would have placed them.
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John La Coste former st. Paulite
and now a resident Of Gashland,
Mo-, a Kansas City suburb was in
st. Paul and Minneapolis for a few
days recently.
He came primarily to visit a
relative Mrs. Lear Howard, 686
Burr st. but as usual friends made
his stay a pleasant one. The Mems
Club of st. Philips Episcopal
church gave a dinner in his honor
while he was here in the church
undercroft. He is a past president
Of the club.
Mr.. La Coste, a former road
contractor and a leading citizen
in st. Paul has been active in Kan
sas City during the past dozen
years. He has been a member Of
the Kansas City Urban League
board for 10 years.
During his visit to Minnesota
he was a guest at the Hotel Lowry,
A longtime subscriber to this
paper he inspected the papers new
building and plant.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1959-08-07

ing IanaClc VINO Styles nlmSeu as
the Messenger of Allah and is
known to his followers as Elijah
Muhammad. (He was born Elijah
Poole, son of a Baptist minister,
in Sandersville, Ga. in 1897. One
momentous day, he tells the faith
full, he met one Fard Muhammad,
who revealed himself to be Allah
on earth" and picked Elijah as the
messenger" for his black-suprem-
acy doctrine. Elijah took up the
spiritual surname of Muhammad
and founded his first temple in De-
troit in 1881
Masters Of the U.s."
Calmly feeding the ranking
Illustration Of the least-educated,
lowest-paid Negroes jammed into
big-city slums, Muhammad preach
es virulent racism and anti-Amer-
icanism. Last week, Time reports,
before $500 Negroes packed into
Manhattan's st. Nicholas Arena,
he proclaimed that every white
man knows his time Is up" He
continued: II am here to teach
you how to be free free from
the white mans yoke. We want
unity of all darker peoples on the
earth. Then we viii be masters of
the United States, and we are 60
ing to treat the white man the
way he should be treated" For the
next two hours, amid shouts and
applause, he poured out his scorn
upon all white devils" satisfied
black men," the poison Bible,
Christianity's "slave-master doc
trine," and Americas white for
white" justice.
Such cold black hatred, plus Mu-
hammads elite corps Of dark
suited, shaven-polled young ''honor
guards" has lifted his Moslems
well beyond the run-of-the-street
craclxpot Negro nationalist groups.
Indeed, says Time, the Moslems
are Of rising concern to respectable
Negro civic leaders, to the Nation
al Association for the Advance
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November, and December is $3.50.
The award is based solely on the
need Of the individual and his will
ingness to help himself and is ex-
tended to both sexes with no maxi
mum or minimum age limit.
AS the Turtles have already
made their contribution this year
In helping to further college and
university education, this award is
to be given for Trade Schools
Only. As trade we consider -
BARRIERS, Beauticians, Cooks, Car
penters, Painters, Electricians,
brick layers, musical training and
all others considered trades.
Those desiring consideration
must mail letters to the Turtle
Club Inc. 394 Rondo Avenue be-
fore September 1, 1959-addressed
Turtles Helping Hand Award. The
letters must include their names,
ages and any other information
personal or otherwise which might
help US in deciding.
Also, the name Of the business
school, factory etc. where the per-
son win practice or study. The in
dividual can be already in training
but at a point where the money
may be the deciding factor in his
continuance.
All letters must be mailed be-
fore September /, 1859 and the
announcement Of the person re-
ceiving the award will be made
September IT, 1859. The money
must be used toward schooling or
training and the check win be given
when the person begins.
For further information call
Cecil Little, CA. 7-1169.
Good Luck to you all.
The Turtle Club Inc.