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for our children.
In this decay of this century
nothing matters more than the
achievement of the vision of equal.
ity in our land. America, in this
respect, remains far behind the
quickening pace of history. We be-
lieve that wiser and more at
tentive leadership than we have
now in Washington would have re-
solved humanity's ordeal and pro-
duced a better world. Senator Ken
nedy has committed himself to a
widening of the frontiers of oppor-
tunity for all of our citizens.
We are unalterably opposed to
the notion that all we deserve is a
small, carefully-limited blessing of
freedom. We are tired of oscillat-
ing between defiance and appeal,
between cynicism and hope. The
great discrepancy between the Am
erican democratic creed and the
American social practice on which
Mr.. Eisenhower has fastened his
policy, would be wiped out under
Kennedy's Administration. This
is a major premise of the Demo-
cratic platform on which Mr.. Ken
nedy stands. He believes that the
times call for larger assumptions
of responsibility by Government.
Here the Republican platform is
skinny and uncertain as to its
course. Whereas the Democratic
platform minced no words on the
question of the rights of the mi
nomity races and the pursuit and
accomplishment of these rights
through the agency of the Federal
Government. The difference be-
tween the two platforms is unmis-
takably clear. 1t is a difference
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ry. Like Africans throughout the
continent. the Congolese are hun
CRY for education, at least for
their children. A surefire play for
a newcomer here to strike UP a
successful conversation with Con-
golese is asking him about how
his offspring is doing in school.
The beginning of the subequa-
torial summer has brought to Leo
poldville curfew from 8 pm. to
$50 am. Even before the curfew
was imposed the streets were de-
serted after sunset, which is about
$50 pm. all year round. A wave
of banditry and crime kept Euro
peans and Africans indoors. Leo
poldville's seven movie theatres
are out of business.
A postal clerk looked around
cautiously before confiding to L
foreigner: eve were promised a
lot of good things before independ-
ence. Independence has come al
right and the Belgians have gone.
But now Pm afraid to cycle home
after dark, and what used to cost
five francs now costs ten"
If it is rare for the European"
as all whites are called here, to
hear such complaints, he is sure
to receive much courtesy, goodwill
and frequent smiles from the Con-
golese. The xenophobic followers
of Mr.. Lumumba once himself
a postal clerk--are clearly small
minority in Leopoldville.
An audience of Europeans and
Africans broke into laughter when
someone here read purple pass
age from a foreign newspaper
warning that the African city of
Leopoldville might rise up to "slit
the threats of all whites" Any
foreigner can stroll at will around
the African districts without any
trouble.
In the European city with it's
six-lane boulevard and its sky
scrapers you may be stopped by
some Congolese who murmurs in
more or less accomplished French
that he is hungry and would you
give him a little money if you
feel like it-"si vous voulez."
A vast economic development
plan for the Congo awaits the
settlement of the leadership dis
pute between Kassavubu, Lumum-
ba, Colonel Mobutu.
There is indeed much misery in
present-day Leopoldville, only
short time ago an opulent place
both for Europeans and Africans.
One out of two who were wage
earners on Independence Day is
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Voters League, CORE, and

Voters League, CORE, and
NAACP.
The latest project was financed
by SCEF, Southwide civil rights
organization with headquarters in
New Orleans. DR.. James A. DOM
browski, executive director of
SCEF said:
1.-THE aim of this project was to
strengthen the good work already
being done by financing a team of
full-time persons, led by an expert
enced worker in the field, to head a
campaign in a selected list of
counties.
"The thought behind the project
was that in 10 years of effort, the
know-how had been worked out.
What was needed was to make the
information available to more COM
munities, and especially to bring
more man-power into the picture.
"The methods used included or.
ganization of wards and precincts,
registration and voting institutes
for prospective voters, door-to-door
canvassing, organizing youth coun-
ellis, seeking out prospective lead.
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ilesges to which they are entitled,
to make democracy work, and make
human equality an immediate real
ity rather than a perennially post
poned resolution as we have wit
messed under the present drifting
Administration.
Whether the Federal Government
should substitute any part Of public
education, revise labor laws on the
books or establish the percentage of
parity that the government should
assure farmers whose prices not re-
ceive supports, are all questions
which weigh heavily upon the ma
ton conscience and to which Sena-
tor Kennedy has given unequivocal
and uncompromising answers.
Aid to schools, adequate health
measures, defense lags, housing,
farm problems, unemployment re-
lief, greater help for the Congo
these and many other matters cry
for attention. But none has as
much moral meaning, and none is
so closely tied to the November ell
ections as the burning issue of
Civil Rights, demonstrations for
equality.
1t is on this isspe that political
courage and integrity may undergo
the most revealing tests. It is Of
fensive to decency that we must
fight for the right to vote, for the
right to equality in employment,
for the right to decent housing, for
the right to unsegregated education
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1960-10-29

that voters must take into account.
In this setting we assert again
that the election of John F. Ken
nedy to the Presidency, November
8, is one of the few single events
that can alter the mood and course
of the explosive international dia-
logue and redress the inequalities
of our social order.
Senator Kennedy has promised
to give us the kind of leadership
that America urgently needs-a
leadership that will substitute for
Vice President Nixon's bleak bank
ruptcy or ideas, new frontiers of
thought and action, that will
bright mans horizon with new
dreams and fresh hope.
We believe you should vote for
Senator Kennedy, for in so doing
our readers will be performing an
act of high civic virtue and ad-
vancing the ideals of a free So
ciety, ideals to which both Senator
Kennedy and Senator Lyndon B.
johnson, his running mate, are
definitely committed.
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ers, furnishing transportation for
new voters to the places OF regis
tration and providing q leader to
accompany each new prospective
voter to the place Of registration,
and the distribution of sample bal
lots and literature"
The campaign closed with .
special drive in the islands off the
coast of Charleston and Beaufort
Counties, were 262 persons were
registered in three days.
Among advisors for the cam
paign was Mrs. Madjeska Simkins,
Columbia banker and a vice-presi-
dent of SCEF. She is former Sec
rotary of the South Carolina Con-
ference of NAACP Branches.
(patropizn 0ur AIvarkioaruN
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Negro VOTERS.
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president of the Student Council
Of South Carolina State College;
the Rev. Roses JAWS, Benedict Col
lege, Columbia; and Thomas Cal
Their, graduate Of Claflin College,
Orangeburg, S. C..
As in all Southern states, there
had been organized campaigns in
South Carolina to increase regis
tration and voting by Negroes for
ten years or more. Organizations
working in the field included the
Southern Christian Leadership Con.
ference, the Southern Conference
Educational Fund, Highlander Folk
School, the South Carolina Council
of Human Relations, the Palmetto
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See People -.


than the man in the tropical street
here.
News Scarce
Characteristically, Leopoldville's
only daily newspaper, the Courier
d'Afrique, comes out sometime be-
tween l and 8 PM. when the city
is thick with drowsiness. It's few
political news items are under
standable only to initiates and it is
anybody's guess how many of
them are around-5,0O0, 10000?
Old Congo hands predict that
Leopoldville will become even
more apathetic as it enters it's
sumner. From late October to April
the heat and the rains combine in
sapping energies. The new Congo
lese authorities have not even got
around to adjusting the scholastic
year to the climate. AS in Belgium,
classes still should begin here now
only all too many teachers are
missing.
This is one thing about which
the people of Leopoldville do wor-
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Chicago Defender
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Senator Kennedy has not hesitated
to commit himself to full implement
tation of the 14th and 18th amend
ments. TIE declared in no uncer-
tain terms that If elected he will
not wait for Congress to act on the
all-important question Of unabridg-
ed citizenship rights. He will go, he
said, beyond the legislative will and
use his executive powers, as has
happened bmefore in American his
tory, to give all the people the priv
Evening star., 1960-02-05

at three-quarters Of q million
dollars.
His attorney said the doctor
will explain that Mrs. Finch, 36
suffered injuries struggling
with her husband for a pistol
and that she was shot to death
accidentally.
DR.. Finch didn't get to that
part OF his story yesterday, his
second day on the stand. He
said his love for his wife dwin-
died after she grew sexually
frigid. and that he became en-
amored of Miss Tregoff after
he and his wife reached an
"armistice" under which he
was free to come and go as he
pleased.
The doctor admitted that he
fought a delaying action against
his wife's move for a divorce,
even though he didn't want to
remain permanently married to
her.
He said he was afraid a di-
vorce would adversely affect his
credit rating at a time when
he and associates were plan
ming to build a hospital.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
7 ronsit Pass Is Called
Way to Avert Fare Rise

A spokesman for a citizens
group today suggested that the
D. c. Transit System should
bring back the weekly pass as
one means Of increasing pa
tronage and avoiding a fare
increase.
Hilliard H. Goodman, an
economist and official Of the
Citizens Transit Improvement
Association, testified at q Pub
lie Utilities Commission hear
ing on the proposed increase
that a number of steps might
be taken to increase the COM
ipany's revenues. He suggested !
That transit buses be given
preferential treatment" on
streets by traffic police for
faster service.
That service be Speeded up
by eliminating fare collections
in the downtown area. This
would be done by having pas
sengers boarding vehicles
downtown pay when they alight.
Urges Short Haul Fare
In addition to the weekly
pass. a cheaper fare for short
hauls would encourage greater
usage Of mass transit facili-
ties, he said.
Mr.. Goodman said his or
! ganization feels it is uneco-
Evening star., 1960-02-05

nomical for the company to
convert to an an-bus opera
ton and urged that the COM
mission ask Congress to change
the franchise requirement that
D. c. Transit complete the
switch to buses by 1868.
Another witness, William A.
Roberts, representing the Fed
Grafton Of Citizens AsSocia-
tions, also urged that abandon
ment Of streetcars be delayed.
He contended that the rail
equipment may be needed for
future rapid transit use.
Hits Cost Estimate
! Mr.. Roberts disagreed with
the company's estimate on how
high its labor costs are going.
He said new equipment used by
D. c. Transit is resulting In
more passenger miles per en-
ploye than were previously at
tanned.
D. c. Transit is asking for a
25-cent rush-hour fare. to be-
come a straight ascent fare at
all hours starting in Novem-
ber.
The commission staff has
recommended a fare structure
including a 25-cent cash fare
and five tokens for 81.
Evening star., 1960-02-05
3 U. S. Officers
In Mikoyun Crew

HAVANA. 81 5 AP)-In
the plane crew Of l6 that
brought Soviet Deputy Premier
Anastas Mikoyan to Cuba yes
terday were three United States
Air Force officers, all Russian
language experts.
They were Tech Sergt. Harry
Zambryski, $500 Nichols ave-
nue. Sc, Washington, D. c.;
Capt. George Bohichik, Dayton,
Ohio; and Capt. George Ma
tecko, Yukon, Pa.
They said the Soviet crew
was most cooperative and Mr..
Mikoyan was a very pleasant
passenger.
The Americans boarded the
Soviet plane at Gander, New
foundland, to help with navi-
cation and liaison on the fight
south to Havana.
Evening star., 1960-02-05

Carole Tregoff-his medical
secretary. then his paramour.
and now his co-defendant-
found someone they thought
could do the job" He tes-
titled:
"She (Carole) said Jack
Cody told her that he'd get the
information for us and
then go to court and testify"
Jack Cody testified for the
State that Miss Tregoff and
DR.. Finch hired him not as a
gigolo but as a murderer-to
kill Mrs. Finch. He said he
took money but had no inten-
ton of numbering her.
DR.. Finch firmly denied the
charge for which he is on trial
for his life-that he plotted to
kill Mrs. Finch so he wouldn't
have to share with her COM
Imunity property she estimated
Evening star., 1960-02-05
Bill GivesAred
sag Million in
Military Work

A 81 billion military construc-
ton bill submitted to Congress
yesterday included projects ir
the District. Virginia and Mary
land totaling $40 million.
The projects, as listed by the
Defense Department:
District Of Columbia
Army-Fort McNair, utilities
$263. 900; Walter Reed Medical
Center, supply facilities, $780,
900.
Navy Bureau of Supplies
and Accounts, administrative
facilities. $4,000; Naval OBJ
servatory, research facilities,
$250.000; Naval Station, WASH
ington metropolitan area, op-
irrational, administrative and
community facilities, troop
housing, utilities and ground
improvements, $14,911, 900.
Maryland
Army - Aberdeen Proving
Ground. training and medical
facilities and utilities, $5,419,-
900; Chemical Center. opera
tional and community facilities
$843, 900; Fort Detrick, research
Evening star., 1960-02-05

said was frustrated by his
wife's GOODNESS. But he had still
to give his own version of how
Barbara Jean Finch was shot
to death outside their luxurious
suburban home last July 18.
The 42-year-old physician,
trying to counter the States
accusations. is to testify that
the gun that killed his wife
was one she drew herself. He
has denied the States charge
that he hired a man to kill her,
claiming instead that the man
was paid to get evidence that
could be used against her in
her divorce suit.
Several women jurors frowned
yesterday when DR.. Finch tes-
titled he had tried twice un-
successfully to hire someone
who could follow Mrs. Finch in
hopes of getting something on
her"
Finally, he said. he and
Evening star., 1960-02-05

tenance facilities, $1,203, 900:
Marine Corps School, Quantico,
operational and training facil-
tiles, $715,000.
Army National Guard-Ar-
mory, Richlands, training ia
cilitieS, $161 900.
Army reserve-center, Alex
andria, training facilities, $780,
900; center, Petersburg, Fort
Lee, training facilities, $452, 900.
Evening star., 1960-02-05

facilities. $3s4.OOo; Fort Meade
operational and maintenance
facilities s788, ZOO.
Navy-MedicaI Center, Be-
thesda. research facilities, ST.
69l 900; Naval Academy, An
napolis, troop housing, $6 mil
lion; radio station, Annapolis
operational facilities and util-
tiles, $795, 600; David Taylor
Model Basin, Carderock, utin-
ties. $206,000; radio station,
Cheltenham, operational facili-
ties, $396,000; air station, Pa
tuxent. utilities. $2,116,00O
Air Force-Andrews AFB, op-
irrational, training, mainten-
ance,, supply and community
facilities and utilities, $3,7S9 900.
Naval Reserve - Training
center, Fort McHenry, training
facilities, 100000.
Virginia
Army - Fort Belvoir, opera
tional facilities, utilities and
real estate. 81 ,SSS, 900; Fort Eus-
tis. training and administrative
facilities and troop housing,
81 ,095, 900; Fort Lee, admini-
strative facilities and utilities,
$577 900; Richmond Quarter
master Depot, operational and
administrative facilities, $685.
900.
Navy - Fleet Air Defense
Training Center, Dam Neck,
troop housing, 1858, 900; Sup
ply Center, Norfolk, supply ia
cilities, $151 900; air station,
Oceana, operational and main
Evening star., 1960-02-05
To Discuss Buddhists

DR.. Herbert H. Vreeland,
author Of a study Of Mongolian
Buddhists, will speak to a meet
ing Of the Washington Friends
Of Buddhism at 4 pm. tomor-
row in the Burmese Chancery,
1900 S street NV, on THE
Life Of Mongol Buddhists."
Evening star., 1960-02-05
DR.. Finch Gives Version
Of Wife's Death Todoy

LOS ANGELES Feb. S P)-The story Dr. R. Bernard
Finch hopes will his life today the point Of crisis
where he tries to show his wfes death murder
mishap.
His attorney already has outlined the defense
doctor has detailed his drift into adultery from
Evening star., 1960-05-01
10 Presidents

Presidency a political football rather
than an object worthy of the most
responsible choice.
And it has led to some ludicrous
situations. In 1876 when Rutherford
B. Hayes was told that his running
mate would be William A. Wheeler,
he replied: ''And who is William A.
Wheeler?"
James G. Blaine and John Logan,
the Republican ticket of 1884, may
have been well balanced politically
but they we're also bitter personal
enemies. This situation led to fa-
nous couplet that had Logan saying:
We neUer speak as toe pass BY,
Me to Jim Blaine - nor him to /.
1t is lamentably true that until very
recently the Vice-President usually
sank slowly but irrevocably out of
history.
Americans have tolerated this
shocking situation and neglected the
Vice-Presidency despite the fact that
of our 33 Presidents, ten served as
Vice-Presidents. Seven succeeded to
the Presidency through death.
Yet the sober manner in which for
tune has regarded our second highest
Office hasn't taken much edge off our
national habit of scorning it.
"A sseppins-sfone to oblivion"
Teddy Roosevelt complained that
the Vice-Presidency was "a stepping
stone to oblivion" But six months
later an assassin's bullet sent him to
the White House.
When Calvin Coolidge informed
his wife that he had been picked to
run with Warren G. Harding, she
exclaimed: Surely you're not going
to take it!'' She was talking to a man
who would be Chief Executive in less
than three years.
Luckily, two circumstances of re-
Evening star., 1960-05-01

THIS WEEK MaooIins / MoY I. 1850
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THEY SAID mo" TO

II shall not at any time
entertain any thought Of
accepting nomination to
the Vice-Presidency."
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller
(Dee. as, 1887
Evening star., 1960-05-01

II tciN not be a candi-
date for Vice-Preadent
under any circum-
stances"
Sen. John Kennedy
(Jon. 2, 1861
Evening star., 1960-04-29
Three Killed, 31Injured
In Oklahoma Twisters

their dairy barn and workshop
were splintered by the twister.
Haskell Shipp and his wife
Mildred, both 48, were slightly
injured when the storm dam
aged their home at Pocasset.
At Tuttle. 10 miles northeast
Of Pocasset, a twister clipped a
side of the high school gym
wrecked a cotton gin, a school
bus garage and three houses.
Ironically. the United States
Weather Bureau bore the ini-
tial impact of the storm here.
The last message transmitted
over its teletype printer told
the story:
Severe hail and damaging
winds is moving across Okla
homa City at present. :"
The rest was silence. The
Evening star., 1960-04-29
Appeals Board Change
Terminates Hort's Job

The District Commissioners
have revamped the Board of
Appeals and Review, eliminat-
ing the post held by the board S
hearing officer.
The job of Charles w. Hart,
who has been hearing officer
for the appeals board since it
was established about five years
ago, is abolished effective to-
morrow. He will receive 80 days
additional time, since he has
veterans status.
Originally Mr.. Hart was ex-
pected to be transferred to the
office of Corporation Counsel
Chester H. Gray with unspec!-
fed duties, but Mr.. Gray said
yesterday there are no plans for
the transfer at this time.
The function of the Board of
Appeals and Review is to hear
citizen appeals from actions by
various District agencies, pri-
marily dealing with licenses
and housing orders. The board
has been involved in disputes
with District officials, includ-
ing the Corporation Counsel.
Jurisdiction Dispute
Mr.. Gray has argued that
the review boards role has been
to interpret District regula-
Evening star., 1960-04-29
u. S. Set to Test
Saturn ENGINES

NEW YORK, April 90 (AP)
ALI eight engine rockets of
the new Saturn super-rocket
will be fired in a ground test
for the first time in a day or
two, Wernher Won Braun said
last night.
DR.. Won Braun called the test
a milestone of progress, in which
more than IL million pounds
of thrust will be developed.
The test firing will take place
at the Army ballistic missile
agency at Huntsville, Ala,
where Mr.. Won Braun is direc-
tor of the development and
operations division.
Mr.. Won Braun announced
the test in addressing the
Bureau of Advertising of the
American Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
"Saturn's power will be ade-
quate to launch a sizable space
craft including an automatic
radio relay station which can
perform a gentle landing on
Mars or Venus and transmit
back to earth scientific infor-
nation on the environment of
those planets" he said.
Evening star., 1960-04-29

OKLAHOMA CITY, April 20
(AP).-A farm family of three
was killed by an isolated tor
nado that spun in on their
home during the night, Semi
mole County officers said today.
A spokesman in the sheriff's S
Office said a motorist came
across the scene early today.
Details were not Immediately
known. Earlier an Oklahoma
City man died of a heart at
tack at the peak of a storm
which contained tornadoes that
churned so miles through Gen.
trail Oklahoma.
The twisters were first re-
ported over Andarko before
sundown and last reported over
Oklahoma City. The farm fam
lily reported killed by the twister
lived 3 miles west of Cromwell,
10 miles southeast of Oklahoma
City.
Lloyd Walters, the heart at
tack victim, died as his house
was damaged by the wind.
City Hardest Hit
The sprawling Oklahoma
capital city was hardest hit.
Its impossible to make an
estimate of damage at this
time" said City Manager Shell
don Stirling said early today.
Most of the damage here was
from roofs torn from buildings
and homes by the twister
which apparently passed over
at rooftop level. Two homes
were destroyed and the trailers
in a trailer court were over
turned.
In the tiny farm community
of PocaSset. so miles southwest
OF here, two homes we're fiat
tened by a tornado and two
others heavily damaged.
That's an awful looking
cloud" Mrs. c. F. Norvell COM
mented to her husband as they
ducked into a storm cellar. DO
you suppose the house will be
here when we come out?"
1t wasn't. The Norvell's home