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Evening star., 1960-01-10
BY EVELYN NJ. DENT
Contributing Writer

BY EVELYN NJ. DENT
Contributing Writer
Secretary of the Navy Will
liam B. FRANKIE and Mrs.
FRANKIE are among the most
popular members of the
Washington social scene and
this year the Secretary has
been chosen the Fall Guy"
for the Saints and Sinners
party on Tuesday, January
10.
The United States Repre-
sentative Military Committee
and Standing Group NATO,
Admiral Walter F. Boone
and Mrs. Boone are giving a
dinner on Friday in their
quarters. The Secretary and
Mrs. FRANKIE will be their
honor guests.
Two Receptions
The Vice Chief of Naval
Operations Admiral James S.
Russell and Mrs. Russell have
invitations out for two parties
over next week end. They
will give a reception from 5
to 7 o'clock both Saturday
and Sunday in their quarters.
The receptions are the first
in many that will welcome
home Vice Admiral and Mrs.
William R. Smedburg III, and
to say farewell to Vice Ad-
miral and Mrs. H. Page
Smith.
Admiral and Mrs. Smed-
burg arrived in town on
Thursday from Norfolk, Va,
and are no doubt house
guests of friends for the mo-
ment. They move into quar-
terS at 1900 E street when
Admiral Smedburg replaces
Admiral Smith as chief Of
naval personnel. Admiral
Smith goes to London, Eng
land.
Mrs. Smith and her mother
Mrs. Ida Rogers are visiting
in Dallas, Tex. They have
been out of town for about
10 days.
Admiral and Mrs, Russell
are giving a dinner in honor
of the Smiths on Saturday,
February 6. Admiral and
Mrs. Smith expect to leave
about the end of February.
The director of naval in
telligence, Rear Admiral
Laurence H. Frost, and Mrs.
Frost will be hosts at din
ner party on Thursday. jan
uary 81, entertaining in their
quarters at the Naval Weap-
onS Plant. The dinner is the
first in a series of parties
they will give this season.
Foreign Farewell
Chief of the Australian
Defense Service, Air Force
Marshal William L. Hely.
and Mrs. Hely are saying
good-by to their many
friends in town. They return
to Australia where he be-
comes the air member for
personnel, Australian Air
Force.
1t is now the Nays turn
to head the service and an
old friend returns here, Rear
Admiral Galfry G. o. CAT
acre who from 1853 to 1855
was naval attache at the
Australian Embassy. Re-
Gently, Admiral Gatacre was
flag officer. commanding Her
Majesty's Australian Fleet.
Admiral and Mrs CAT
acre, with their daughter,
Miss Maydi Christian Cat
acre, arrive in town on Tues
day and will stay at Alban
Towers until they find a
house.
On Thursday, Air Vice
Marshal and Mrs. Hely are
entertaining at a $50 to $3.50
reception in the headquar-
ters Of the Australian Joint
staff to say good-by to their
many friends and to intro
duce Admiral and Mrs. Cat
acre, and Miss Gatacre.
The officers of the Austral-
ian Defense Service have is
sued invitations for a recep-
ton on Tuesday, January l9
at the Army Navy Country
Club. The $50 to $50 party
is in honor of Air Vice Mar
Shal and Mrs. Hely.
The Minister of the Aus
tralian Embassy, Malcolm R.
Becker, and Mrs. Becker are
giving a dinner on Monday,
January 18, in honor Of the
HelYs.
The Helys. with their
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Evening star., 1960-01-10

sightseeing on their way West.
They sail for Canberra Feb
ruary 9 from San Francisco.
KERN, who has been vGy
successfully following her
career of interior design in
Washington. is going 10 Mel
bourne to continue her work.
Janet will stay in quarters in
Canberra with her parents
and continue her studies.
Gen. and Mrs. AZiZ Ulusan
of Turkey are entertaining on
Wednesday, January 20. They
have issued invitations for a
reception from $50 to $50
in the ballroom of the Broad
moor.
The UluSans are very pop
ular here with friends in the
many social circles in town.
Their first party of the new
year will find many of their
NATO friends meeting those
in residential and diplomatic
quarters.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-03-31
Wutch On The
POTOMAC
by
Robt. C. Spivack

THE PACEMAKER-Sen. John
F. Kennedy's showing in the
New Hampshire primary was i'm
pressive, even though his rivals
now belittle it by saying that
when you run against no one
you can always look good"
There are many explanations
for the 42,000-plus votes that
Kennedy received. He is we'll
known and well-liked in N e w
England. There is an undercur-
rent of resentment against one
party government in New Hamp-
shire. He is a scrapper and won't
sit back while religious issues or
any other dead cats are thrown
in his direction.
His critics complain that New
Hampshire has always been a
base of operations for the Ken
nedy family and this may well
be true. Too much significance
can be read into the New Hamp-
shire results. But / think the un-
willingness of his many rivals to
make even a token contest of
New Hampshire reflects more on
their courage that it does on Ken
nedy's judgment. Why shouldn't
he Cor they have tried to win
New Hampshire's delegates?
The New Hampshire primary is
known as the early bird" and
there are Is other contests which
may wen diminish the signifi-
canoe Of Kennedy's showing
there. But in terms Of political
technique Kennedy was well-ad-
vised to do just what he did.
y X X
This is not to say that l expect
Kennedy to be the Democratic
Continued on Page -
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-03-31
Booze, Bapfists, And BootIeggers
Let's Vote Dry-When We Sober Up

Politics, it is said, makes for
strange bedfellows. No doubt this
is a true statement, but certainly
no truer than the fact that booze
in Mississippi makes for even
stranger bedfelloWs.
To wit: The Baptists and the
bootleggers.
These two are bedfelloWs for
obvious reasons. The bootleggers
are among the States biggest
businessmen. The Baptists have
morals. Good business and high
morals make for a hard COM
bination to beat; indeed, it is
second best to serving the Lord
and making a buck at the same
time.
The latest uproar on the booze
front was brought about by a
statement on July 18th by Gov
ernor Coleman when he said he
would 'look with favor" on local
option legislation if it guaranteed
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-03-31
Politely, We Ask =
Has Education Failed So Badly?

While a student at sta t e
supported college here in Missis-
sippi a few years ago we were
taught the history of the state
by the author of the text book
We learned, but we'll We were
fortunate, therefore, we're CRATE
full.
Our instructors for example, in
relating the circumstances of the
writing of the constitution of
1890, told US the reason for the
two dollar poll tax, which was
included in the document.
Said he, and we are quoting:
"They put the poll tax in the
constitution to keep niggers from
voting"
Now, this is the proper kind Of
teaching we need in the South.
Anyone should agree to t h t.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-03-31

projection for dry counties. Tin
this connection we are betting
on the bootleggers.)
: Coleman also said that some
form of legislation may grow out
CT recognizing the facts of life
and the handling Of a distressing
situation
This seems to be a reasonable
and intelligent view on the part
Of Mr.. Coleman. He has stated
that he is Fundamentally oppos-
ed to liquor, legal or illegal. This,
too, seems reasonable and intelli-
gent.
We share the sentiment of
Coleman in that respect. In fact,
we have no use for a drunk. In
deed, we even prefer a Profess
sional Southern to drunk. But
-. and let's face it, people are
going to drink, some more than
others. This is one of the simpler
Continued on Page -
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-03-31

But we've noticed the failure of
such inspired teaching in a few
instances of late.
One such case, obviously, has
been in Memphis, Tennessee. On
Wednesday night, February 10Th,
a house in which two aged Ne
groes lived caught fire. They
were man and wife and were SO
and 78 years of age respectively.
The man James Polk, is a cripple
and can't walk. Now, here's the
situation: The house is burning,
the couple just stood there yell
ing for help The wife made no
attempt to leave her husband,
aged and crippled though he
was.
Well, a white boy, II named
Charles Kent Bridges, heard the
Continued on Page .
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1960-03-31
Fairhope, Ala.

0ll1lCPS3 hid.
Dear P. D.:
in the middle years of this
century, pitched between nu-
clear humiliation and dubious
peace, may at times seem pessi-
mistic for the future Of human
ity, they also record number of
things on the side of good. Among
these last there is the beginning
of African emancipation, Ii
joining of peoples of Africa tC
the common family and equality
of man."
This is a paragraph from the
last chapter of THE Lost Cities
of Africa" by Basil Davidson,
published by Little, Brown & Co.
Because of our ignorance we
have been wondering why the
Negroid races of Africa have not
been able to achieve a better
type of culture than to be used
as slaves for marauding white
races, not knowing that Negroes
are human beings with all the
weaknesses as well as strength of
the white races, with the desire
to live at ease and in luxury at
the expense of others. In the first
place do we know that "This vast
and various continent must al
ways in any case have developed
irregularly, unequally, some peo-
pie ahead of others, for the ma
ture of the country, its forests
and its plains, healthy uplands
and malarial swamps, abundance
of some forms of vegetation and
complete lack of others, would
always have imposed irregular
and unique patterns of develop
ment" according to Davidson?
Continued on Page 81
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he following two editorials scheduled
booklet December space they
be left The
of which
the nasuch The following pieces
few today additional cop
Beside that. they fill up space. pde)
Evening star., 1960-01-31
By EARL H. NOSS
star staff Writer

After they had gone in to pay their
respects to the great Indian leader,
an alert press photographer snapped
prize-winnng picture of the neat line
of footwear of the great and near-great.
The photograph was radioed round the
world, and legend has it that the Berd-
ing family on Foxhall road recognized
the size lbs of the head of the house.
Since 1855, Assistant Secretary
for Public Affairs Berding, former
foreign correspondent, master prOpa-
gandist, bridge player and virtuOsO of
the musical saw, travelled some 200, 900
miles with Secretary of State Dulles
alone. Since Secretary Herter'S eleva-
ton to the top State Department job.
he has been eating up the mileage at an
increased pace.
For Mr. Dulles, he briefed the press
and handled other public affairs advis-
ory chores at five NATO conferences,
four SEATO meetings, two Baghdad
Pact sessions. the two Suez conferences,
one disarmament meeting, the 1855
summit conference and numerous
other Western summit and Foreign
Ministers meetings.
The pace has not slackened under
Christian Herter. On the contrary,
it quickened. Mr. Berding was off
with the new Secretary five days after
Evening star., 1960-01-31
66W7HY is it, Daddy" his daught
" once asked Assistant Secreta

6SWIHY is it, Daddy" his daughter
w once asked Assistant Secretary
Of State Andrew II. Berding, that we
never see you in those pictures at the
airport when you are going away or
coming back from those trips with the
Secretary of State?"
Years of briefing the lncredulOuS
press have made Mr. Berding master
Ofthe noncOmmitta al answer.
Look for the brown manila envelope
peeking through at about hip level,
he suggested. or the elbow of the man
just outside the camera frame, or for
the hair blowing in the wind just behind
the Secretary. Like as not, that would
be your father"
If his daughter had been as un-
trusting as some newsmen, she might
have noted that he did not answer her
question directly and was suspiciOusly
indefinite in the last remark.
She repeatedly accepted the explain
aton however, and soon thereafter
found more convincing evidence that her
father did, indeed, travel with the
flying Secretary of State.
The late John Foster Dulles stopped
at the tomb of Mahatma Gandhi in Delhi.
At the entrance. Mr.. Dulles and his
party. observing the custom of the
mosque. took off their shoes.
INcToN n r IANuARv Al 1890
, 1960-07-21

led to make the observation
that no elected member Of the
Virgin Islands Legislation was
present in the hall and yet it
Continued on page Al
, 1960-07-21
Vikings Defect
Beutniks in Basketball
Lost Night

The Vikings defeated the
Beatniks last night in a bas-
ketball game played on the
Court in Christiansted. The
score was 81 43.
In the first period Beatniks
made % points as against Is
for the Vikings. In the second
period the Vikings came back
to outscore the Beatniks by
1920 to win the game BY
eight points.
Top scorers were Jose Encar
nacion with 20 and Roland
Benjamin 10 for Beatniks and
Hans Kissing IA and G. Finch
Il for Vikings.
, 1960-07-21

ton with the shipment of
goods to Puerto Rico.
According to the report, five
hundred cases of work cloth
ing were being shipped from
st. Thomas to Puerto Rico.
Joseph is said to have advised
the captain of the schooner
"Tiny Lou" at about 8 pm.
not to carry the cases Of
clothing manufactured by the
Lee Manufacturing Company
10 Puerto Rico because dock
workers there would refuse to
unload them.
The cargo was unloaded
back onto the dock. Two
truck drivers who transport
ed the cargo reported that
they were beaten up.
Joseph was arrested by court
order and charged with des-
Continued on page ~
, 1960-07-21
Department OF
Defense to Coll 1000
Men IN August

The Department of Defense
has requested the Selective
Service System to deliver
1000 men for induction dur
ing August. All are for the
The August call is based on
attainment Of approved
strength after allowances have
been made for enlistments
and re-enlistments.
The call for July was 5000.
, 1960-07-21

the Army last February and munity it becomes to some ex-
completed basic training at tent incumbent upon me, and
Fort Jackson, South Carolina. I think upon all Of US, to lend
The 21-year-old soldier at such assistance as we may in
tended Christiansted H g h finding an acceptable solution.
School. From this point of view I am
, 1960-07-21
Writer Notes No
LegisldtorWd as Present
AT Recent Meeting
G. Lloyd Joseph
Arrested in ST. Thos.:
Boil Set at 500
c. Lloyd Joseph Of Frederik.

C.. Lloyd Joseph Of Frederik- In q letter t 'the Avis under
sted, who IS said to be repre- date Of July -, 1860, George
sentative of the Brotherhood Van Ripper deplored the fact
Of Transfers, affiliated with that not one member Of the
James Hoffa'sUnion, was ar Legislature was present at the
rested on Tuesday, July 10, in recent meeting which dis
St. Thomas and five charges cussed Juvenile Delinquency.
placed against him in connec- He wrote as follows:
, 1960-07-21
Dept. Of SufetY to
Screen Film on
Artificial Respiration

The Department Of Public
Safety will be showing ;
sound film on artificial respi
ration at the following times
and places:
Friday morning, July 22nd
between 900 and HOO am
and Friday evening, between
300 and 800 pm. at the High
School Auditorium in Chris
tiansted.
Saturday morning, between
1000 and HOO am. at the
High School Auditorium in
Frederiksted.
All persons interested or con
nected with beach and boat
ing activities should make
every effort to see this film.
There is no admission charge,
and the public is urged to
attend.
, 1960-07-21

JuVGll1lG DS1A1lQuG1lCy.
He wrote as follows:
Last evening | attended a
public meeting concerned
with the problems Of juvenile
delinquency on these islands.
The meeting was well con-
Quoted by the officers Of the
Chamber 0 f Commerce.
was a free and open discus
sion and I thought the speak
ers with one or two excep-
tons gave a clear picture OF
their ideas on the methods Of
handling this quite serious
problem. | did not find myself
in agreement at all times with
their conclusions but that is
of minor importance-that in
essence is our right to- dis
agree.
Those in the audience who
raised questions, with the ex-
ception of one or two over
Jealous individuals, had on
he whole thought out their
questions in advance and they
were well presented. ! for one,
learned a lot about the prob
lens that face our elected and
appointed officials. | also was
awakened to the fact that
this is not a problem confined
to these officials alone-It is
rather a community problem
and as / am apart of the com
munity it becomes to some ex-
tent incumbent upon me, and
/ think upon all of us, to lend
such assistance as we may in
finding an acceptable solution.
, 1960-07-21
Two Bdsebull Comes
Scheduled for
Cunegutu Pork Sun.

Two games Of baseball will
be played on the Canegata-
Ball Field on Sunday after
noon beginning at | o'clock
when the Cubs Of Bethlehem
will play against the Com
mandos Of Christiansted. The
latter team is now hitting
that long ball and threatening
the Cubanos for first place in
the Leagues standing.
At $50 the Pirates will meet
the Los Cubanos which should
be interesting in that when
they lose a game it is always
to a weak team.
Evening star., 1960-10-10
Montgomery Teamwork

Montgomery County always has
been leader in interjurisdictional CO.
operation in the Washington Metropol-
itan Area. The county has not always
been marked by cooperative teamwork
among its own government agencies,
however. Too often in past years the
County Council, the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission, planning
authorities and the school system have
failed to get together in advance of
adopting policies or taking actions. Con-
f1ict and confusion are inevitable under
such conditions. It is good to know,
therefore, that the agencies are agreed
on plan to assure better co-ordina-
tion of their respective activities.
An outstanding example of this
teamwork has been presented with the
preparation of five-year sewer extern
sion program by the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission. The pro-
gram was submitted to the County
Council bearing the approval of other
interested agencies, including the plan
nerS, the public schools and the county
Evening star., 1960-10-10
No Place to Go

BY and large, it has seemed to us
that Washington officials have done
a reasonably good job In finding
new homes for families displaced by
Slum clearance and other governmental
programs. In meeting the needs of one
group, however, they have failed. These
are families too large to fit into public
housing but too poor to afford available
private houSing-and their numbers are
increasing to a degree which the COM
munity can not ignore much longer
In a report to the Commissioners,
welfare officials say that 253 large fam
1lies-among one group Of 800 they are
trying to relocate-are being permitted
to remain in condemned or overcrowded
housing for the simple reason that there
is no place for them to go. This, of
course, thwarts the very purpose of the
housing code, which specifies standards
for decent living conditions. It is no less
a threat to the urban renewal program.
In the Southwest, dozens of families are
the victims Of grim game of musical
chairs, in which the demolition crews
chase them from one large slum house
to another in the redevelopment area.
James G. Banks, the Redevelopment
Land Agency relocation director, be-
lieveS the only practical solution is some
new form Of subsidization to make exist
ing private housing available. One
possibility, he proposes, is that the local
public housing agency be authorized to
pay a portion of the monthly rent di-
rectly to the landlord, with the low
income tenants paying the remainder
Perhaps, as he suggests, foundation
could conduct pilot study on such an
idea as this to test its validity. Another
possibility is that the public housing
agency be permitted to purchase exist
ing housing, instead of limiting its
operations to low-rent units it builds.
Since legislation is likely to be re-
quired for any solution, this is problem
which might well be considered by the
House and Senate committees which are
looking into urban renewal here
In the meantime, the Commissioners
also should recognize that some brand
new approach is needed. For as one well
fare official commented, call the kings
men and all the kings horses can pound
the pavement and not find housing that
is not there"
Evening star., 1960-10-10
u. S. 'CoIonioIism'

IL Is sinai wonder ChaC Premier
Khrushchev engaged in table -thumping
fits Of anger at the speech of the Philip
pine delegate, Francisco A. Delgado. For
in describing the experience of his own
people over the last half-century, Mr..
Delgado gave the neutral representatives
Of the United Nations a persuasive and
concrete example Of the basic difference
between the "colonialism" of America
and Soviet Russia.
At the outset, Mr.. Delgado empha-
sized that he holds no brief for Western
colonial Imperialism in any form, and he
related in measured and Unconditional
terms the bitterness Of the Philippines
long struggle for independence. But the
fact Of the matter, he explained, is that
over the 40 years of its domination of the
islands, the United States went beyond
the orthodox colonialiSt reforms to
instill in the Philippines the very prin-
cipleS Of free thought, education and
democracy which led directly to their
freedom in 1916. The Philippines dur
ing this period realized the highest lit
eracy rates of any country in Asia; epi-
demic disease was stamped out, and
the most modern engineering feats were
accomplished. Mr.. Delgado added:
The Americans are no saints, but this
you can say of them: AS "imperialists" they
proved to be more inept than their rivals in
the game: they allowed us too many liberties;
and now that we are independent, they know
better than to disregard our opinions or to
ignore our rights.
Here is one little interesting detail: You
can discuss, argue and talk back to the
Americans, as we have discussed, argued and
talked back to them during all the years Of
our subsection, and since then, without being
slapped down or getting shot at dawn. One
wonders sometimes what would happen to a
Latvian or an Estonian or Lithuanian who
talked back to Mr.. Khrushchev We know, of
course. what happened to the Hungarians who
did just that.
These, Of course, are words that are
even more applicable to the people of
Cuba today than they are to the new
members Of the U. NJ, and we wish that
all CubanS could hear them. Certainly
Fidel Castro, had he not departed from
New York, would have reacted Just as
Mr.. KhruShchev did. And the words of
Mr.. Delgado, finally, are a. pointed an
Swer to those unthinking people in our
own country who preach that the recip-
tents Of American help throughout the
world are ungrateful wretches, who
never give anything in return.
Evening star., 1960-10-10
Wants Rights Too

One thing the two Presi-
Dental candidates have never
tumbled to, a matter which
will keep many voters from
going to the polls, is that all
their misses regarding
civil rights" are made to
Negroes.
The great mass of potential
white voters have civil rights
too, and want them, but the
candidates seem to feel that
the white voters will accept
their views on this subject
and obediently go to the polls
and vote them into Office.
I shall not vote, my family
will not vote, three other
families - neighbors - say
they say will stay at home
too.
No wonder Mr.. Goldwater
is gathering more followers
all the time. He is definitely
for civil rights for everybody,
which includes his own people
too.
Scott Ruell Evans.