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Evening star., 1960-02-07
STATE OF MARYLAND
Boss Makes Less
Than Many Aides

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 8 (AP). -
1t doesn't pay to be boss Of 9
Maryland agency In many
cases.
A rifle through the personne,
detail book of the State budget
now before the Legislature
shows some odd salary setups
Title comes cheap, for one
thing.
The imposing position o.
State treasurer carries a $2.50C
price tag. The treasurer Ii
elected by the Legislature every
four years. and there have beer
contests for it.
Yet the treasurer is the low.
est paid Of his staff Of IT. Hi,
assistant is paid $10,270. He
couldn't afford to be promoted
The treasurer. however, holds
part-t1me Job.
The same is true in depart.
ment after department, al.
though not as striking. Such
as:
The commissioner Of labor
is paid $500 and the deputy
$9,815.
The insurance commissioner
$4,000 and the deputy $11,-
$40.
The banking commissioner
$4,000 and the deputy $11,640
The administrator Of loan
laws $4,000 and the deputy
I$8, ,450.
Evening star., 1960-02-07
Life Underwriters
Set Blood Drive

The District of Columbia Life
Underwriters Association will
open its first blood-donor cam
paign tomorrow in response to
the Red Cross Regional Blood
Center's appeal for blood.
District Commissioner Rob-
ert E. Mclaughlin will be pres
ent at l pm. ceremonies at the
blood center, 2O25 E street
NV, when about 100 aSsocia-
ton members will donate blood
Other members are expected
to donate during the week,
Frank Carlo, association blood
donor chairman, said.
Mr.. Carlo said the group
planned the program after Red
Cross officials said that dona-
tions had dropped to one third
of the daily requirements due
to colds and other respiratory
ills,
Evening star., 1960-02-07
Court 10 Quiz
Theater Men
Let in Children
In School Hours

Three Seventh street NV.
theater owners have been sum-
moned to Juvenile Court Tues
day to explain why youngsters
are admitted to their movie
houses during school hours.
Assistant Corporation Coun-
sci Michael Ritz said he issued
Summonses after receiving sew
eral complaints from the courts
probation officers that juveniles
under their Jurisdiction often
go to the movies instead of to
school.
Those ordered to attend the
meeting at 2 pm. in Mr.. Ritz's
Office are the managers or own
ers of the Gem Theater, ll3l
Seventh street NV: the Broad
way Theater, 1915 Seventh
street NV, and the Alamo
Theater, 1903 Seventh street
NV.
Mr.. Ritz says he will confront
the theater people with six spe-
cif1c complaints he has received
from the courts probation Of
flee and from District school
attendance officials. The COM
plants involve youngsters from
9 to IA years old. Other cases
than these six have come to
his attention at various times,
Mr.. Ritz said.
The meeting, which also will
be attended by a representa-
tive of the Department of
School Attendance, will be in
formal and no charges will be
placed against the owners, he
pointed out.
However, Mr.. Ritz continued,
II complaints persist after the
meeting. the owners could be
charged with contributing to
the delinquency of juveniles.
School-age children are
drawn to the Seventh street
movie houses, Mr.. Ritz says,
mainly because of low ad-
mission prices. 1t costs about
Is cents for children under a
certain height to attend the
movies, and about 80 cents for
older children and adults.
Probation and school author
tiles say many children use
their lunch money to go to
the movie, Mr.. Ritz added.
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salary increases would depend
upon how many new jobs were
eliminated, a board member
said.
Members who favored the
$675,000 slash were Mr.. Heriot
Hills Lory, Berge Thomasian
and Waldron E. Leonard. The
cuts we're opposed by F. Merritt
Ruhlen, Merton s. Parsons and
Mrs. Joan Butler.
Mr.. Ruhlen said he thought
the slash would harm the
school system. Well still have
schools. but they won't be as
good as they might be-" he
said.
Evening star., 1960-02-07
Culture Here
Hardly
Korrick Says

Washington is loaded with
culture and far from a hick
town. District Commissioner
David B. Karrick said last
night.
Speaking over WWDC's Re-
port to the People program
Mr.. Karrick said that three
weeks ago he was asked If he
feels Washington is a hick
town. He said he answered in
the negative but without an
adequate background.
I'VE have such an abundance
of cultural opportunity and
such good attendance that II
is ridiculous to contend that we
are not a cultural city," Mr.
Karrick declared.
He listed the National SYM
phony Orchestra, visiting or
cheStras, chamber music in the
Library of Congress as eX-
ampleS.
There is" he said. IAN
abundance of music available
in Washington"
Washington's architecture,
the various art galleries and
the Smithsonian all add to the
city's cultural background, Mr..
Karrick continued.
Part of the attacks on
Washington's cultural oppor-
tunities. he said, are based on
the fact that the expenditure
by the city government is
small.
This is irrelevant" he
added. The opportunities are
here, Washingtonians enjoy
them. And if visitors do not
that does not justify deprecat-
ing Washington's cultura
standards"
Evening star., 1960-02-07
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The Credit Union Ma
tional Association, Inc,
legislative conference opens
at the Willard.
The Conference of Ma
tional Officers and De-
partment Commanders of
the Veterans of Foreign
Wars opens a three-day
session at the Sheraton
Park.
Evening star., 1960-02-07

some OF them smaller than eX'
pected. Theodore S. Heriot
board chairman, said the slash
would not affect a promised
5000 increase in beginning
teachers annual pay.
Mr.. Heriot said the cut would
place the school board in o
better position next month to
convince the board Of county
supervisors that the rest Of the
school budget should be ap-
proved.
I'VE will be able to tell them
that we have effected econ
omies." he said. The $28 million
proposed for 1960-61 is "a pei
cent larger than this years
budget.
Pay Scales Compared
Present budget proposals cal
for a teacher pay schedule
starting at $4,000 and reaching
$3.50 after II years. New
teachers now start at $4,20C
and can expect to earn $6,21e
after Is years.
The proposed budget calls
for $50 new jobs, including 1886
new teachers. Eight intermedi-
ate schools for grades seven
and eight are to begin opera
ton in the next school year.
The proposed school budget
is part of Fairfax County's
$59.3 million overall proposed
budget for 1960-61. The over
| all budget would require a 90
cent increase in county tax
rates, officials have estimated.
School officials yesterday Of
fered to cut the budget without
touching proposed salary in
creases by hiring fewer new
clerks. fewer new elementary
school librarians and fewer new
speech and reading teachers
They said they could also re-
duce funds for elementary
school textbooks and driver
training.
Plan Rejected
The board rejected this pro-
posal and told the superintend-
ent to return at 8 pm. Tuesday
with a different plan that
would keep some Of these items
but reduce salary increases
somewhat.
In addition to reducing the
salary increases, the superin-
tendent was asked to scrutinize
proposals for new positions
The amount of reduction OF
Evening star., 1960-02-07
TAKER TIPS
Census Puts
Emphasis
On Smile
By GILBERT GIMBLE
Star Stan Writer

The accuracy Of the big pop
ulation count to be taken this
year will depend partly on
whether the census taker has
a friendly smile.
1.-The warmth of a smile wins
a persons confidence" says
Louis j. Alexis, the Districts
census chief.
On the other hand, should
the census taker fail to gain
the confidence of the person
being interviewed. the answers
may turn out to be incomplete
or even false.
"As soon as the door is
opened, the census taker must
give the correct impression
one that will convince the
householder he or she can
count on the answers remain
ing secret" Mr.. Alexis added.
Count Starts April 1
District area census super
visors and their staffs are now
preparing a training program
for enumerators that will get
under way next month. The
actual census begins on April /
Part of the training will in
clude a few tipS-such as the
bright smile-on how to con-
vince people that truthful and
complete answers are essential
to the success Of the census
project.
The strongest point that
census takers can make, Mr.
Alexis said, is that secrecy sur
rounds the personal information
that is received. Once that
point is driven home, he added
the main hurdle is overcome
5-POint Check List
A checklist of things the
census taker should bear in
mind in winning confidence of
householders was drawn up by
Mrs. Irene Coulter, census
supervisor for the nearby
Northern Virginia area.
Her list includes:
l. Discreetness-the most i'm
portant single point-which
means that enumerators (most
Of whom will be housewives)
are definitely not to go gossip
ing about"
Mrs. Coulter hastens to point
out that it is unlawful for any
census taker to reveal any facts
she is given by persons answer
ing the census questions
Enumerators are sworn to
secrecy.
2. NeatneSs-appearance is a
factor in getting accepted"
3. Accuracy-wrongly record
ing an answer scuttles the
census purpose.
4. Enthusiasm-the census Is
important to everyone. it is a
record for the entire Nation
and everyone is a part of it.
5. Patience, persistence and
always politenesS.
Mrs. Coulter added that most
women like to think they have
all Of these qualities, anyway.
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21o Survive
Gruyson Man, 81

ELK CREEK, Va, Feb.
(AP).-A Grayson County man
died Thursday night leaving
219 survivors.
Emory Jackson Burris, 81, of
Elk Creek, is survived by 6 sons,
z daughters, l brother, 81
grandchildren, 113 great-grand-
children, and IS great-great
grandchildren.
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"15 or 20 functions" performed
by the District customarily per-.
formed by State governments
in other cities. He cited the Dis
trict's responsibility to MAIN
tain facilities for criminals and
the mentally i'll.
No Tax Change Seen
Asked if the revised estimate
of revenue would permit the
District to cut proposed taxes,
Commissioner A. C. yelling
said I'VE committed ourselves"
to keep the tax level proposed
in the budget. The District re-
Gently estimated it would take
in $5.1 million more in taxes,
during the balance of this fis-
cal year and next, than it ii
had originally anticipated.
Prompt floor action in the
House on the first Of the years
local fiscal measures is sched-
uled tomorrow afternoon. The
bill is due to move on to hear
ings before the Senate Dis
trict Appropriations subcom-
mittee February IS, with public
witnesses slated for February
17-18. Prompt Senate action
also is considered likely. =
The appropriation bill waS
cleared by the House Appropri-
ations Committee without
change in recommendations
made by its District unit.
headed by Representative Ra-
baut, Democrat Of Michigan.
Civic spokesmen and District
officials are expeced to urge
additions to this payment. as
we'll as various budget items
when the Senate subcommit-
tee. headed by Senator Pastore,
Democrat Of Rhode Island,
conveneS.
Reduction Dismays
One reduction made by the
House unit caused concern at
Franklin School. A 81 million
permanent public school allot-
ment asked by the Commis-
sioners was reduced to $780,.
900. Assistant Superintendent
John M. Riecks said yester-
day a school f1re-protection
program would be the chief
casualty if the cut is sustained.
The House District Commit
tee currently is considering
legislation to toughen school
anti-f1re requirements, and
Congress members Spurred the
protection move by school off,
cials. 1t is expected. therefore,
that an effort to restore the
cut will win some House back
ing. e
There was no expectation
yesterday of any effort to make
significant changes before the
appropriations measure reaches
the Senate committee, however.
Still pending is an additional
SOB million in general fund
capital outlay requests. These
items must wait until Congress
acts on the city's proposed tax
increases.
Tomorrow, the heads Of Dis
trict departments are sched-
uled to confer with the Com
missioners on what restorations
will be sought.
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Morse to Speak

Senator Morse. Democrat Of
Oregon. will address the Prince
Georges County Council of
Democratic Clubs at 8 pm.
Wednesday at the American
Legion Post 1Os in Cheverly.
Md. Chris j. Wienecke, presi.
dent Of the council. will preside
Evening star., 1960-02-07

Meanwhile, quick passage OF
the Districts appropriation bill
is expected. tomorrow.
The Appropriations Commit
tee Friday recommended q
S237.118.276 budget for the fls-
cal year beginning July Ia
cut of nearly $5.3 million in
the amount requested by the
city. The House committee also
voted for a S25 million Federal
payment, rather than the full,
authorized $32 million asked by
the District.
Mr.. Mclaughlin, chairman
of the Board of Commissioners,
yesterday said top priority
would be given to restoring
money for the city'S program
to fight the rising crime rate.
Welfare Increase Sought
He said he also would press
for more welfare money, de-
claring that the $508.000 cut
by the House committee would
make it more difficult to find
foster homes for dependent
children.
Commissioner David B. Kar-
rick said he agreed with Mr..
McLaughlin's estimate of pri-
ority items, adding that he saw
no indication welfare needs
were leveling off.
The Commissioners hit claims
by some members of Congress
that the District gets favored
tax treatment because the Fed
eral Government pays a large
share of such city facilities as
parks and bridges while other
communities have to finance
those things themselves.
Speaking on the city side"
television program, Mr.. Nc
Laughlin said comparisons of
the District government with
other city governments were
invalid. For example, he said.
many cities rely primarily on
real estate taxes for revenue
while the District spreads its
tax load. Therefore, he said,
comparing the Districts real
estate tax with that of other
cities was not fair. In addition,
he pointed out that the District
does not receive State aid.
Mr.. Karrick said there were
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$675,000 Cut Ordered
In Foirfox School Fund
Woodson Told to Trim New Jobs, Roises
To Help Sell Budget to County Board

The Fairfax County School Board plans pare 600
much of in proposed raises and jobs from the 1901
school budget.
In 43 vote yesterday the board directed W. Woodson
school superintendent to reduce his $2S million budget
more realistic" figure.
The cut would eliminate all pay raises but would make
Evening star., 1960-02-07
Senate Bid Pledged
For $50 New Police
House Expected to Pass
DC. Budget Tomorrow

pledge fight the Senate for restoration Of funds to
hire $50 additional Washington policemen given yesterday
by Commissioner Robert E Mclaughlin.
The House Appropriations Committee Friday recom-
mended that request be to SO additional policemen
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measure the climate of Birming-
ham today.
Whites and blacks still walk the
same streets. But the streets, the
water supply and the sewer sys-
TEN are about the only public IA
cilities they share. Ball parks
and taxicabs are segregated. So
are libraries. A book featuring
black rabbits and white rabbits
was banned. A drive is on to for
bid "Negro music" on white"
radio stations.
Every channel Of communica-
ton, every medium Of mutual in
terest, every reasoned approach
every inch of middle ground has
been fragmented by the emotional
dynamite Of racism, reinforced by
the whip, the razor, the gun, the
bomb, the torch, the club, the knife.
the mob, the police and many
branches of the states apparatus.
In Birmingham neither blacks
nor whites talk freely. A pastor
carefully closes the door before
he speaks. A Negro keeps an
eye on the sidewalk outside his
house. A lawyer talks in the Ian
guage of conspiracy.
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Telephones are tapped, or there
is fear of tapping. Mail has been
intercepted and opened. Some.
times it does not reach its desti-
nation. The eavesdropper, the in
former, the spy have become q fact
of life.
Volunteer watchmen stand guard
twenty-four hours a day over some
Negro churches. Jewish syna-
gogues have floodlights for the
night and caretakers. Dynamite
attempts have been made against
the two principal Jewish temples
in the last eighteen months. In
eleven years there have been twen-
ty-two reported bombings of Negro
churches and homes. A number
were never reported officially.
Community OF Fear
Birmingham's whites and blacks
share a community Of fear. Some
Negroes have nicknamed Birming-
ham the johannesburg of Amer
lea.
"The difference between Johan-
nesburg and Birmingham said q
Negro who came South recently
from the Middle West sis that
here they have not yet opened fire
with the tanks and big guns.
81 have lived in Alabama all
my life" said a newspaperman.
birmingham is going to blow one
of these days. And when that
happens that's one story don't
want to be around to cover"
Remember" business man
said, birmingham is no place for
irresponsible reporting. Be care
full of what you say and who you
mention. Lives are at stake"
am ashamed to have to talk
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razor blades were sunk, the men
attacked the boy and his mother
and sister. The mother and sister
protected the boy with their bodies
The men broke the leg Of the
mother, smashed open her scalp
and crushed her hands.
Forty-five minutes after the
alarm had been given, the police
arrived, but the band had fled
The next day two deputies visited
the mother in the hospital. She
recoiled in horror. They were
two Of those who had beaten her
she said. No charges were lodged
"She is afraid to say anything
a man familiar with the case de-
clared.
A year earlier a Negro labor
union official was attacked by a
mob of forty or fifty men as he
was being led out a Bessemer
courtroom where he had been con-
victed of "incting to riot" Some
policemen tsood by and watched the
attack. This case was reported to
the F. B. l., but no action was
taken.
Girl Flogged
A year ago a Negro girl and a
white girl, both elementary pupils
quarreled on the way to school. A
white man emerged from nearby
house with bull whip and flogged
the Negro girl. The police failed
to respond to call from the Ne
gro school principal.
For weeks Negro children had
to 60 to school an hour early and
were held in school an hour late
so they would not come into con-
tact with white children.
The list of beatings, intimida-
tions and violence could be con-
tinued almost indefinitely.
But not everything goes accord.
ing to plan.
At the height of the last weeks
tension the Harvard debating
team came to town. 1t met in an
open and publicly announced con-
test with the debate squad of Miles
College, Birmingham Negro
school.
Whites and blacks talked from
the same platform. Whites sat
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firm said the first step was .
written demand for q retractior
from the Times which would shave
some effect on punitive damages
Even so we plan to file suit"
The commissioners contend the
story, which appeared in the April
IL issue Of the Times under the
byline of Harrison E. Salisbury
libeled them as officials and in
dividuals by charging they were
derelict in their sworn duty to
uphold the law.
They said the article pictured
Birmingham as a city where "ev-
cry inch Of middle ground has
been fragmented by the emotional
dynamite Of racism, reinforced by
the whip, the razor, the gun, the
bomb. the torch, the club, the
knife, the mob, the police and
many branches of the states ap-
paratus."
Headed "Fear and Hatred grip
Birmingham" the Times story also
said mail was intercepted and tel
ephones tapped in the city.
"The story was so distorted and
so untrue in so many respects, it
was just unfair to Birmingham"
said Morgan. at was distorted to
the point there is nothing real
about it at all. Our people are not
living in fear and we have never
known what race riot is"
Ccnnor denounced the article as
a "cheap attempt to smear our
city and state"
"The mighty has fallen into the
mud and the once good gray Times
has turned yellow" he said.
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to you off the record" said an
educator. at is not for myself
But these are not ordinary times.
The dangers are very real and
people up North must realize that"
Excuse me-" an educated Negro
woman said. "But l just don't un-
derstand the white people around
here. They seem to act so crazy
1t doesn't make any sense. Don't
they know there IL a limit to what
people will stand?"
IF you sow hate, you reap hate, 4"
said a Negro pastor.
The Birmingham of another era
that Of the happy-go-lucky, igno-
rant Negro, the serio-comic dra-
mas Of Eighteenth Street (the
Harlem Of Birmingham), and the
setting Of Octavius Roy Cohen and
his Florian Slappey stories, has
vanished. Gone with it is Bir-
mingham's fabulous Judge Aber-
nathy, who let Negro prisoners
determine the length Of their stay
in the Birmingham Jail with roll
Of the dice.
Quiet In Early Phases
When the Negro student sit-in
movement reached Birmingham
ten days ago it set in motion a
sequence Of events almost reflex
i've in character.
Birmingham had been quite dur
ing the early phases of the stu
dent protests. Two months ago a
dozen Negro students went to a
public park and began a brief
prayer for freedom" 1t was cur
tailed when the police arrested
the students on a charge of dis
order.
Then on Thursday, April 2, ten
Negro students went two by two
into five downtown Birmingham
stores. They made small purchases
and sat at the lunch counters. All
were arrested Immediately on
charges of trespassing. They were
held eighteen hours before being
able to make bond.
The next seventy-two hours were
busy ones for the Birmingham po-
lice. They arrested three Negro
ministers, the Rev. F. L. Shuttles-
worth, the Rev. Charles Billups
and the Rev. c. Herbert Oliver.
Mr.. Shuttlesworth was arrested
twice on successive days.
The police also arrested Thomas
Reeves, a 21-year-old white student
at Birmingham-S Southern College
and part-time preacher, and Jes-
sic Walker, a Negro student from
Daniel Payne University.
Each of those arrested was
charged with vagrancy are not ad-
dition, Mr.. Reeves and Mr.. Oliver.
who was hauled barefooted and in
his bathrobe from his home, were
charged with "intimidating a wit
ness"
By Birmingham custom, persons
charge dwith vagrancy are not ad-
mitted to bail. They are held in
communicate for three days. In
actual practice, such a prisoner
is sometimes permitted to make
one telephone call. But not al
ways. A person arrested on a
vagrancy warrant simply disap-
pears for three days. His friends
and family may not know what has
happened to him.
A Favorite Technique
This is a favorite technique Of
Birmingham's Police Commissioner
EuUene Conner Mr. Cannon ic q
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with blacks in the audience in vio-
lation of one of Birmingham's
most cherished ordinances. No po-
licemen appeared. 1t could not
have been more normal or peace
full had the contest been held in
Cambridge, Mass.
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MARCH 81, 1860
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
by
DIR. r. w. GREENE
PRESIDENT

Race Relations Public Relations Council Columbus,
Georgia
Members Of the Sby Subcommittee Of the Georgia School
Study Commission: .I
appeal to the conscience Of both white and eoored
citizens of Columbus Muscogee County the 3rd Congressional
District and the State whole Georgia Is against
stone wall.
IMMIGRATION OR SEGREGATION"