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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-03

The most intensive drive ever
made to get fresh water from
the sea at tolerable cost Is
slated to come in the next ad-
ministration-no matter who is
elected president.
In the first of his series OF
papers on the nations needs,
Vice President Nixon placed
high on his list of essential
research programs concerted
efforts to find cheap means of
converting sea water into fresh
water"
In his tour across California
last month, Senator Kennedy
pledged that If elected, he will
launch a crash pragram Of
research on producing fresh
water from the sea.
In a speech in Washington,
D. c., a fortnight ago, A. l..
Miller, director of the Depart
ment of Interior Office Of
Saline Water, reported substan-
tial progress in reducing the
cost of producing fresh water
from the ocean and declared
with understandable bias but
also much logic) that today, a
man on the moon is less i'm
portant for the world than
making sea water suitable for
drinking in arid regions.
Cuban Base Problem
When Fidel Castro began
threatening the Guantanamo
Naval Base at Cuba the United
States Navy disclosed it was
speeding up Its search for alter
native water supplies should
Cuba cut off the flow of water
to our base. Before the Navy
now is an offer from two major
companies in the saline water
conversion field (Struthers
Wells and Scientific Design tt
build plant to convert the
water by a freezing" process
A Navy officer estimates the
cost would be around 50-6(
cents per thousand gallon:
against So to 81 per Thousand
to bring in the water by tanker
When Hurricane Donna
smashed the vital water pipe
line into Key West. Fla, it re-
minded millions of Americana
far removed from the hurri
canes course of how frighten
ing were the water shortage
thet hit more than J nnn citie
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-03
Branch Is Moved

The Washington branch Of
flee of Connecticut General Life
Insurance Co. has been moved
to new and larger quarters at
1000 K street NV. Former
location was 927 Fifteenth
street NV. John H. o. Schulz
is manager.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-03
3 Merged Banks Open
DC. Areas Largest
Private Switchboard
BY PHIL THOMAS
Star stan Writer

One result OF recent bank start
operation today Of the biggest local telephone switchboard
side the Government.
According to the American Security and Trust Co.. its new
switchboard which will serve 10 banking offices the a-
ated American Security Corpoaon has capacity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-03
Opens at AtIuntu

Francis I. dupont g. Co., who
has a busy office here, opens
its 18th Office at Atlanta, Ga,
today. Current net worth
of the firm exceeds $25 mil
lion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-03

Washington listinHs on over-the-
counter markets furnished by the Ma
tional Association Of Securities Dealers
as OF l pm. Monday, October 8;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-03
TREASURY BONDS

NEW YORK (AP)-Noon over the coun-
ter U. S. Government Treasury bonds,
bid, asked, net change and yield for Mon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-03
OVER COUNTER

T-Partially tax exempt. &.
wi when issued.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-10-03
BUSINESS BRIEFS

ended August 81 earned $6,547,-
053 or Sl.76 a share VS.. $4,947,-
1862 or 81. 33 in 1859 period.
Evening star., 1960-11-09

three and four pounds fS7.bo
to $l0) "baksheesh" daily for o
week.
Unlike taxis In Beirut and
Baghdad where drivers charge
ost foreigners scandalous
rates. ali Cairo taxicabs have
honest meters. The average tip
for Q 80 or Accent ride Is one
or two piastres, or o maximum
OF fiye cents. Try giving an
icy-eyed New York cabbie a
nickel tip someday!
"Baksheesh," anybody?
Evening star., 1960-11-09
Luring Tips Becomes
Fine Art in Mid-Eost

CAIRO. Nov. 0 tNANA).-If
you want to get something fixed
and have it stay fixed-in the
Arab Middle East. here's q
timely tip: Don't tip"
You may find yourself tip
ping the "fixer" for an ago.
nizingly long, long time.
One American news corre-
spondent In Cairo discovered
that his telephone was con-
stantly out of order for days at
o time. When he stopped tip
ping the workmen who allegedly
came to Ak 1t, the telephone
mysteriousiy stopped getting
''out Of order" -
An Egyptian housewife who
fretted for months over q balky
hotwater heater also learned
the hard way-that by tipping
the repairman she was assuring
future heater trouble.
Many Abuses
What is called "Baksheesh"
or tipping in this curious corner
on the globe has many uses
and abuses. -rt
When you park your car on
the street. an Egyptian attend
ant wearing q green armband
Is always on the spot. When
you leave. he expects his
"Baksheesh." usually one piastre
(about two and a half cents
presumably for guarding the
parked vehicle.
When you leave your hotel,
you will find at least three Or
four or more "boys"-ranging
In age from 20 to 75-ready to
grab your bags. They're also
ready with big smiles, sweeping
salutes and outstretched palms.
The equivalent of S or 10
cents for each of them will suf-
11ce by local standards, but for
eign tourists generally over
tip-though some do not tip at
all.
One American tourist making
9 round-the-world trip with
his wife reported he was
amazed at the friendlineSs" of
the stah Of q huge resort hotel
in Luxor, the site of ancient
Thebes on the Nile River 400
miles south Of Cairo.
"Just imagine" he said
proudly, when my wife and I
checked out of the hotel early
one morning. the whole staff
was lined up to shake hands
with us and wish us a good
trip"
To the sorrowful amazement
Of the hotel staff, the American
and his wife beamingly took
each Of 40 outstretched hands
and shook it warmly. Then they
left.
Aims Giving Required
One Of the four religious
duties required of faithful Mos
lens is alms-giving. Each good
Moslem is suposed-by injunc-
ton Of the Holy Koran-to give
about two and one half per cent
Of his or her annual income to
the poor. the needy and the
sick.
This commendable practice
also has spawned a small army
Of greedy human vultures," as
one Egyptian calls them.
They are the beggars of Cairo
and other cities Of the Arab
Middle East. Many of them are
real professionals.
Mothers have been known to
break the arm and leg bones Of
children in infancy so they will
grow up deformed, and thus
elicit more sympathy when ap-
Evening star., 1960-11-09

pealing for aims on street
corners.
1t is not unusual in Cairo for
a beggar to shove a grotesquely
twisted arm through one open
window and an outstretched
palm through another when an
automobile halts for q trafiic
signal. =
Black-clad women, most Of
them carrying babies, are ex-
perts at weeping real tears as
they walk moaningly along
the streets appealing for
"bakSheesh."
Follows Begsar
One Egyptian who grew tired
of handing out the inevitable
piastre decided one day to fol-
low an elderly beggar along the
street. He discovered that this
man. wearing ragged clothes
Evening star., 1960-11-09

and leaning heavily on q cane,
pocketed almost 100 Egyptian
piastres or one pound (worth
about $2.50) In less than an
hour. This Is 10 times the aver
age daily income In Egypt where
the per capita annual income is
only about s35 or q little over
500. y
One enterprising Cairo news
paper clad one Of Its reporters
in rags and stationed him on q
downtown street corner. He re-
ported he collected between
Smyrna times., 1960-10-06
Bruce Richards
Named States
Top Poultry Boy

| Bruce M. Richards, Roxana,
l8-year-old graduate of Lord
Baltimore High School who net
ted more than $1,000 in spare
time poultry profits during the
past two years, has been named
Delaware's best poultry boy
of 1860, according to Professor
Ralph P. Barwick, department
of agricultural education, Uni
versity of Delaware.
Richards. is the official
state Future Farmers of Amer
lea entry in the l4-state NEPP-
ICO-FFA Star Poultry Farmer
contest sponsored by the North
eastern Poultry Producers Coun-
Gil. Finals are taking place at the
Councils annual exposition in
Syracuse, N. Y. this week.
This year Richards contract
reared $4,000 broilers and own
ed so percent of another flock of
$1,000 meatbirds. He has also
grown field crops and raised
hogs.
He was married last month
after purchasing a l3,200-broiler
capacity farm of his own, and is
planning to build a l2,000-capac-
ity pole shelter in addition to
renting an 8,500-bird poultry
house.
Richards will join some 5000
other poultry folks, young and
old, gathering at Syracuse's War
Memorial Building during the
exposition to witness the selec-
ton of the Poultry Princess of
Smyrna times., 1960-10-06

complishments of these out
standing agriculturalists. 7 h e
farmers being honored have
been friends and customers of
Valiant Fertilizer Company for
many years. They are Wayne E.
Hickman of Selbyville, the 1859
Delaware Corn King, who OBJ
tanned yield of l29.59 bushels
per acre; Fred M. O'Neal, of Sea-
ford, the 1859 Delaware Soy
bean King, who received a yield
of 52.2 bushels per acre; Mich
olas Uniatowski of Townsend,
winner of the 1859 Delaware
Tomato Contest with a yield of
2l.5 tons per acre; and t. S.
Smith & Sons. Bridgeville, the
1854 Delaware Tomato contest
winners.
Smyrna times., 1960-10-06
Farm Fire Loss
Shows Increase

County Agent, George Vapaa,
urges all farm people and agri-
cultural organizations and agen-
cies to heed fire prevention
week, Oct. GIG. Farm fire loss
es increased by 81 percent in
the l950's. Last year farm pro-
perty losses from fire were
about SITS million.
President Eisenhower has pro-
claimed National Fire Proven
ton Week, October GIG. In the
proclamation he calls upon "our
people to promote programs for
the prevention and control of
fires"
All of us, Mr.. Vapaa believes,
can promote fire prevention eff
fectively by practicing fire safe
ty continually and by encourag-
ing fire prevention throughout
the year.
He lists these principal causes
of farm fires: failure to protect
building with lightning rods; de-
fective, sooty, and poorly con-
structed chimneys; sparks from
chimneys and bonfires on single
roofs; defective stoves and furn-
aces; careless smoking habits;
improper storage of gasoline and
kerosene; spontaneous ignition
of hay; overloaded electrical cir
cults, defective appliances, and
failure to replace worn cords.
The county agent suggests
correction of these hazardous
conditions in observance of Fire
Prevention Week.
Smyrna times., 1960-10-06
Fertilizer Firm
'Entertains Kings
OF Agriculture

Ebert N. Carvel, president of
Valiant Fertilizer Company, an
nounced today that his company
will be the host for a luncheon
to be held at the Dinner Bell
Inn, Dover, on Wednesday, Oct.
IL, in honor of three outstand-
ing farmers who were crowned
Corn, Soybean and I o m o
Kings of Delaware for 1859, and
one firm who was crowned the
Tomato King in 1854.
Leaders of agriculture from
all over Delaware will be pre-
sent to pay tribute to the ac-
Smyrna times., 1960-10-06

the Northeast" and several 9TH
er youth contests.
Rickkards' vocational agricul-
tural instructor at Lord Balti-
more was Raymond Swadley.
Smyrna times., 1960-10-06
Sausage-Apple Ring Arounds

odusdSe-APpie> mig ATouhuS
Here's a fancy way to serve
sausage. Shape sausage int o
small balls and cook. After
cooking place each ball on a
glazed apple ring. The apple
rings may be tinted red or
green.
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26

from that month on we figured
what we could spend. We saved
the rest for our payments. 1t was
tough because we had to give up
so many things we had called nee
cessities. 1t was two years before
we got out Of debt but we had
learned a good lesson.
I'VE had learned to count our
money before it was spent, not
afterwards"
Mary and her husband loved each
other and 1t was no great sacrifice
for them to work and save togeth-
er. They were looking toward the
future and building their home on
a good foundation Of love and un-
derstanding.
This Is the time so many couples
separate. One will feel it Is toe
great a sacrifice to do without for
a short time in order to build
toward the future. They should
look ahead before they are mar.
ried and If they feel they are not
willing to sacrifice a little they
are not mature enough to get mar.
ried and undertake all of the re.
sponsibilities Of taking care of g
home and family No amount oi
talking will make the young people
listen to their family when they
are told they are too young L
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26
Honeywell Has
Negroes In Many
Different Jobs

Large employers of Negro labor
in Minneapolis include such firms
as Minneapolis Honeywell where
Negroes work as machine oper-
ators, sweepers, engineers, drafts
men, typists, file clerks, laboratory
technicians, librarians etc.
Among them are Charles w
johnson, a senior research engineer
military products group, a grad
uate of Fisk University and the
world famed Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology, more fam
iliarly known as NIT; Luther
Prince, Asst. project engineer in
the aero division, a NIT. gradu-
ate; Richard Barrett, evaluation
engineer, University of Wisconsin; !;
Burton Lampkins, University of
Denver is technical librarian at
the Hopkins plant.
John N. Mitchell. a senior de-
velopment engineer received his
BIS. degree from Illinois Institute
OF Technology and his Masters in
mathematics from Loyola Univer-
sity in Chicago.
Harold Roberts 4121 Oakland
Av. s., a graduate of the University
of Minnesota Institute Of Technol-
ogy is a Instrumentation engineer.
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26

Mary Smith said, II will never
forget when I was a bride. I
thought I knew everything about
buying groceries and keeping
house. I soon found out how little
I knew. I learned it was one thing
to be given money by my parents
to buy what I needed and what I
had to learn was how to stretch
my groom's salary to pay for all
we were buying and thought we
needed. It didn't take long to figure
out our income and to know we
had to trim something down some
where or we would be in debt over
our heads. We had bought our
furniture and all our extras on the
installment plan. Then we went on
buying groceries and little things.
When the first of the month came
we had to make payments on this
and that and 1t wasn't funny when
we figured our payments added up
to much more than we could pos
sibly scrape together.
I'VE figured and figured and
there was no way we could stretch
our money to cover so much. We
were too proud to go to our par
ents for help just a few short
months after our marriage so we
took our small savings and paid
what we could.
That was a hard lesson but
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26

wright through whom millions
of Negro Americans express
their grief
MELVIN TOLSON, the bugle sig
mailing the advance of his race
through trials to great achieve
ment
CLAUDE MCKAY, the novelist ex-
pressing in verse the song of the
new era
STERLING A. BROWN, a brilliant
writer devoted to the portrayal
Of characters chiefly in the South
MARGARET WALKER, an i'm
passioned pleader for her people
FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS, a
realistic narrator Of the Negro
in the Cotton South
Musicians
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR,
the greatest composer produced
in England during the last two
centuries
HARRY T. BURLEIGH, a noted
baritone devoted to the adoption
of the spirituals
ROLAND HAYES, once acclaimed
as the worlds greatest tenor
since Caruso
MARIAN ANDERSON, the cele-
brated contralto with a voice
which appears only once in a
century
DOROTHY MAYNOR, the we'll
known soprano moving multi
udes on both continents
WILL MARION COOK, a trained
artist with a deep penetration
of Negro life
WILLIAM GRANT STILL, a COM
poser with a clear grasp of great
possibilities in his art
r. NATHANIEL DETT, an in
strument for the expression of
religious sentiment through sac
red music
DEAN DIXON, famous symphonic
conductor
CAMILLA WILLIAMS, member of
New York City Opera Company
WARNER LAWSON, brilliant
choral conductor
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26

gro descent teach in the public
schools Of Minneapolis. In 1949
there was only a single teacher OF
Negro ancestry in the system.
William Bowman, graduate of
Kansas State Agricultural and
Engineering College of SS25 Clin-
ton Av., Is an engineer for the
Minnesota Health Department
water pollution prevention de-
partment.
S. A. Proctor, 1886 Cedar Lake
Road, Minneapolis Is chief en-
gineer of Engineers Northwest,
Minneapolis electrOnics firm.
Field & Schlick's in st. Paul
has just promoted Mrs. Lamar
Smith to be an assistant buyer for
the infants wear department.
Oscar Jones, S707 First Av. S.,
Is a bacteriaOlogist at the Vet
Grams Hospital at Fort Smell
ing.
Louis Cason, 1885 Thomas Av.,
st. Paul, is a research chemist at
Minnesota Mining.
Charles Self is an engineer at
the University of Minnesota in
the construction and maintainance
division.
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26
Most Retail Outlets
Have Constantly
Improving Policies

Most of the major retail outlets
and department stores in both
cities continue to employ Negroes
in sales capacities. This includes
the super-market food chains who
use women as check-out cashiers,
young men in stock room work.
However, Negro men who seek
sales positions in downtown Twin
City stores it is reported have
difficulty in obtaining placement.
The exception is Dayton's Mime
apolis store who has employed at
least three men in sales.
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26
UNIVAc EMPLOYEES

A number Of Negroes hold i'm
portant jobs at the st. Paul Rem
ington- Rand Univac plant. Among
them are Joseph Hutton, engineer
on military projects a graduate of
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute
where he received a Bachelor of
Electrical Engineering degree;
Beverly Young, technical editor
who is a graduate of Louisiana
State University; Jerry Charles,
application analyst, Roosevelt Un-
iversity. BIS. Wilbur Kennedy,
technical writer Southern Univer-
sity; Cecil Lewis, Hampton In
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26

oll0 Ll4DCIld
TED POSITION, exposed the plight
of Negro workers
CHESTER HINES, recounted the
trials of prison life
RICHARD WRIGHT, presented in
a few words most developments
in Negro life
NovelIsts
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN, a his
torian fictionalizing the ante
bellum races in their social re-
lations behind the scenes
MARTIN r. DELANEY, an anti
slavery worker dramatizing the
secret plotting of the slave for
freedom
CHARLES w. CHESTNUT, the
portrayer Of the inevitable cros-
sing of the races in the ante
benum South and the resulting
conflict
JESSIE FAUSET, the Inner of
the talented Negro in the ghetto
WALLACE THURMAN, a pene-
trating observer of Harlem in it's
nakedness
GEORGE w. HENDERSON, the
painter Of the rural Negro in the
Deep South
FORA NEALE HURSTON, an an
thropologist weaving gripping
stories from her collection of
folk tales
WARTERS TURPIN. a family
chronicler with the skill Of the
novelist
WILLIAM ATTAWAY, a writer
dealing mainly with the portray
al of white characters
ARNA BONTEMPS, a poet rising
also to the level of the novelist
RICHARD WRIGHT, a master of
fiction dealing with the Negro
debased by social repression
FRANK YERBY, an historical nov
elist working beyond the limita-
tions of race
Poets
DITvT uuJrATr ,;,,I
lied African girl influenced by
the study of the classics, Alex
ander Pope and the Bible
GEORGE NJ. HORTON, a slave in
spired to sing the songs of free
dom
FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS
HARPER, an anti-slavery lee
turer using her verses effectively
on the public platform
ALBERT A. WHITMAN, an ambi.
tious poet following the style OF
Scott and Byron
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR, the
illustrious poet portraying the
pathos and philosophy of the ante
bellum untutored Negro
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, the
harp Of hope for the better, des,
pite inevitable lamentation
COUNTEE CULLEN, the voice Of
the Negro protesting in brilliant
verse.
LANGSTON HUGHES, the liter.
ary spokesman Of the frustrated
and the oppressed, in the short
story, novel and poetry
OWEN DODSON, poet and play
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26
PROBATION 0EFIc ERS

Hennepin county has two men,
bers Of the group who are proba-
ton officers. One is Katherine
Woodard, who received her MA. in
social work at the University Of
Minnesota and Jessie D. Bell who
has B.A. in sociology from the
University OF Pittsburgh.
John Randell, a native Of Min
neapolis is a Ramsey county prob
alton officer.
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26

marry They have to learn it later.
The vast majority Of young mar
ried couples manage very nicely, |
If they try.
SO many, however, do not give
their marriage a fair chance to
last. They give up at the first
sign Of trouble. They decide they
do not want to be tied down
and without a thought Of what
they are doing TO harm their
bride or groom they walk out
and go back home where they
should have stayed.
Alice said, when got married
my mother and father told me
I was too young to get married and
that I was welcome to stay with
them as long as I wanted to but
she wanted me to know that If 1
still insisted on getting married I
couldn't come running back home
the first time something didn't go
to suit me-.
AT the time I thought that was
terrible thing for her to say
and it really hurt my feelings, but
later I appreciated what she had
said. Several of my young friends
used to pack up and go home to
mother" and oh how they regret
ted it. Some would even go so far
as to get rid of their furniture and
when they were reunited they had
to go to the expense of buying new
furniture.
OF course we had our little diff
ferences too, but we worked hard
to make our marriage a success
because did not want to prove
my parents were right in thinking
we didn't know our own minds.
After we had been married a few
years and my parents knew our
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26

ager of Grossman Chevrolet Co.,
in Minneapolis.
John Pruitt of 274 Kent, St.
Paul is the purchasing agent
for the New Methodist hospital
in Minneapolis. AS such he con-
trolls the expenditures of thou
sands of dollars weekly for the
hospitals supplies.
Eugene Bradley, 4O49 Fourth
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26

There are still pockets Of Op-
position to job equality for men,
bers of the Negro group in the
Twin Cities. Since this is a
Progress Report, most Of what
is reported here has to do with
the positive gains.
In the coming months we plan
to devote considerable space to
those areas in the job field where
barriers remain-where discrim-
inatiOn is praCticed against the
Negro, no matter what his train
ing or qualifications for the job
he seeks.
Some Of the areas in which
discrimination is still practiced
in spite Of FEP ordinances and
laws are those where the Negro
himself has not made positive
attempts to be hired. Others are
instances of firms who have no
policy but simply have not had
occasion to recognize that the
lack Of representation or exclu-
sion Of a whole segment of con-
sumers Is not necessarily a
healthy American employment
program.
Others are where downright
unmitigated discrimination In
job opportunities is evident
There has been some Sign that
the trade apprenticeship train
ing programs from which most
Of the workers IN the skilled
trades oom4, will be opened up
more fully to Negro young people
who seek to learn skilled trades.
During the coming year this
newspaper will try to keep the
community informed on the lack
Of advance and progress in a
number Of areas where Negro
buying power is expended, but
where there Is little or no direct
return In the matter Of employ
ment.
St. Paul recorder., 1960-02-26

marriage was going to be a per-
manent one my mother told me
she thought young couple would
work hard to make their marriage
successful if they thought they
couldn't run home to mother the
first time they didn't agree.
I really thought she meant it
and am grateful to her for helping
me act like a grown up.