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Evening star., 1960-10-05

Do you really want to
prevent traffic accidents, and
if so, how much are you
willing to do?
Are you willing to believe
that you are as likely to
have an accident as anyone
else?
Do you tell your best
friend that he deserved the
traffic ticket he got for speed
ing when he complains about
the injustice of it all?
Do you refuse a cocktail
because you are driving, and
do you call a cab for a friend
who has had too many?
Are you willing to admit
you make mistakes in traffic.
that you drive by habit, that
your attention wanders while
you're driving?
Are you looking for q
chance to speak your mind
on these and other attitudes
on safe driving?
II so, you are hereby
cordially invited to attend
the Ninth Annual Commits
sioners' and Governors Con-
ference on Metropolitan
Washington Traffic Problems
which will be held at the
Statler-Hilton Hotel on Mon
day, October 10, 1860, start
ing at 1000 AM.
Among the highlights of
the conference: a talk by
Governor j. Millard Tawes
of Maryland; a debate on
Whose at Fault?" between
a National Safety Council
official and a Washington
businessman: and a unique,
audience participation dis
cussion on the attitudes of
the driving public, which are
the key to any traffic safety
program.
Come one, come all. Let's
hear the voice of the peo-
pie on traffic safety.
Anthony L. Ellison,
Executive Secretary. Met
ropolitan Area Traffic
Council.
Evening star., 1960-10-05
Dream Kitchen
Samuel RogOvsky, Jr.


This writer gazed in rap
ture at the Dream Kitchen"
with the wide-open fireplace
in The Sunday Star article
by Elizabeth Hillyer.
There was one whole wall
Of the kitchen lined with
shelves and covered cupboard
where so many things could
be tucked away free from
dust. This indeed was a dream
kitchen. The trend now is to
have fireplaceS in every home
and to me. the ideal place
would be in a, big kitchen.
Should I design another
home. there would be the two
rooms downstairs for the
modest home the front
room a reception room free
Of clutter (as mine Isl and
the second room a large
kitchen. In such a room one
could eat. chat, read, write
and dream by the fireplace.
What a boon to have place
to burn up trash and the
daily collection of odds and
ends that take the time of
the trash collector! The city
could save millions if homes
were equipped with fire.
places. Think what it costs
TO pay collectors of trash,
and think of the awful litter
in unkempt D. C. Why is
America so waSteful and ex-
travagant and unthinking?
The poorest home should
have a fireplace and as the
cool days come, the house
could be kept comfortably
warm without turning on the
heat. I remember years ago
when I was in Paris, seeing
people carrying home un-
wrapped loaves of bread
they had baked at a COM
munity bakery. AS someone
explained to me: 1--WE are
frugal in France many
are unable to buy bread and
so make use of the city oven
where trash is burnt" I re-
call too the shortage of
dairy products and how care
full everyone was in using
milk, butter. etc. Why can't
architects and builders begin
installing fireplaces in every
home and also in the recep-
ton room of the big apart
ments going up around here
in the Southeast? Frank
Lloyd Wright would approve,
I am sure. Build your home
around the fireplace and you
will never regret it.
l like to sit by the fire as
the embers flicker and burn
and often light a candle late
at night and turn off the
electric lights and relax and
dream. At the end of a hectic
day, whether it's sad or gay.
this I think is the ideal way.
Lucille AgnieI Gaines.
Evening star., 1960-10-05
Not a Political Matter

Union leaders are not helping their
cause when they inject politics into the
efforts to save the Naval Weapons Plant
from being closed down. The campaign
to induce the Government to continue
operating the big plant will be hurt if
the proposal becomes partisan issue.
The question of converting the old gun
factory to other uses should be decided
strictly on such pertinent factors as the
suitability of the plant for other defense
Evening star., 1960-10-05
For q Strong Conqress

Through the medium of
television, radio. newspapers
and magazines, American
voters are being implored to
vote for either the Demo-
cratic or Republican nominee
for the Office of President of
this great country. Commen-
tators and writer's seem to
feel that the election of one
or the other is paramount,
but in truth, the real issue is
the nomination and election
OF Senators and Congress-
men who have the courage
and moral fortitude to re-
gain from the executive and
judicial branches of the
Government the authority so
meekly forfeited in the past
twenty-five years.
Our greatest need these
days is men in Congress Of
high integrity, men who will
control the law of our land
in accordance with the Con-
Stitution of the United States.
These men must have the
courage to reaSsert their
rightful authority, they must
be made to understand that
their election is a mandate
to serve all the people of
America and not the organ
lied minorities. Only men of
courage. with the spirit of
our forefathers, should be
elected 70 these vital offices
in order to maintain a Gov
eminent by the majority
which abuses no minority
and is abused by no minor
ity. They must enforce the
Constitution and safeguard
Americas tradition.
Evening star., 1960-10-05

The testimony Of D. C.
Transit's assistant treasurer,
Parker c. Peterman, before
the Public Utilities Commits
sion, in support of that COM
pany's application for a fare
increase, was highly illu-
minating.
D. C. Transit is. supposed
ly. a public utility furnish
ing a public service - mass
transportation of people. But
here it comes up with a pro-
posal that, by its own evil
dence. will reduce the mass
of its customers by All per
cent. Out of an expected
total of 1888 million riders
during the next 12-month
period, So million of them
will stop using transit, re-
ducing the total number to
an estimated 1l3 million.
And these remaining 113 mil
lion would bring in a pas
senger revenue of $27.4 mil
lion-an increase of S2.2 mil
lion, gouged from 5.8 million
less riders.
That is public service"
with a vengeance!
Any public utility that has
to reduce the number of
citizens that it services by
All per cent, or by any per-
centage (unless through a
decrease in population), in
order to survive, is sick.
D. C. Transit. by its own
admission, is not motivated
by any o'erweeing urge to
"be something today which
is more than it was yester-
day. and to be something to-
morrow which is more than
it is today" Its only motive
seems to be to earn" CD a
big profit from its patrons.
The sad thing about it is
that the hard core of transit
riders, those who must use
transit because they have no
other way of getting to and
from their work, is made up
OF loW-income groups and
thus can least afford to pay
the bill. But pay it they must.
Perhaps the newly created
National Capital Transpor-
tation Agency may be able to
create a transit system that
will truly be a public utility
and fully render public
service. Its recently ap-
pointed administrator, H.
Holmes Vogel, has had a USE
full and successful experience
in directing a real public
utility, the Chesapeake 81
Potomac Telephone Co. That
company truly performs a
public service. Public tele-
phone pay stations at fire.
quent locations in public
places-even booths along the
highways, and in growing
numbers-is evidence of the
fact.
D. C. Transit purSues the
opposite policy of tearing up
its street railway tracks and
scrapping its cars. In all
fairness, though, it must be
stated that this was made
mandatory on the company
by the asinine provision re-
quiring conversion to full bus
operation. in the franchise
granted it by the Congress.
Let us hope that Mr.. Vo-
gel may be able to stem and
reverse this trend and build
a real rapid transit system to
serve the public. We sure
need one. Here's wishing him
success.
Z. V. Hailman.
y
Years of experience have
Evening star., 1960-10-05
THE PASSING SCENE
West Puts 1t Up to the NeutroIs
By WILLIAM S. WHIT

The truly vital world dia-
logue now going on is not the
public debate between the
Free West and the Soviet
East. for this will not soon
come to anything, anyhow.
1t is, rather, an urgent pri-
vate discussion between the
West and the so-called neu-
tral or uncommitted nations.
And the kernel OF this
frank talk is that the West,
through its top leaders, is now
telling the neutralists that
their free ride at last is
over. They must now decide
whether any sort of order is
to be left in this world,
through the United Nations,
or whether they wish to re-
main so very nobly "uncom-
mitted" as to help the Soviet
Union destroy that last hope
and agency for peace.
For a decade now the neu-
tralists have been the cano-
nized saints of international
knee-jerk liberalism, the one
set of really good guys on all
this earth. They would join
neither West nor East. In
stead, they pointed accusing
fingers at both, though main
ly at the West, while SCOOP
ing up all they could get in
aid oney from each
though, again, mainly from
the West.
This policy in itself has In
evitably appealed to knee
jerk liberalism-herein de-
fined as the kind of liberal
ism which favorably reacts to
the pompous self-righteous-
ness of neutralism as auto
matically as a knee tapped
by a physicia MS rubber
hammer.
Some Short on Liberty
The international knee
jerks. though never pro-
Soviet. have always refused
real allegiance to the West.
After all, the West includes
the bad old colonial powers,
like Britain and France. And
there is another country, the
United States. which has thus
far refused to throw away
its nuclear safeguards just
because the neutralists-and
the Soviet Union-thought it
ought to do so.
The knee jerk mind, like
the very similar neutralist
mind, has remained proudly
untouched by all the massive
evidence against it's happy
theories. Some of the sanity
lands of neutralism-notably
the country of the neutralist
arch-angel, Prime Minister
Nehru of India, and Mr.. Su-
karno's IndoneSia-are mani
Evening star., 1960-10-05
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used if
letters carry Wrtters' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS are subject to condensd-
ton. Those not used will be
returned only tDhen accom-
panied By self addressed.
stamped envelopes.
Evening star., 1960-10-05
Answering Mr.. K.
WAsA@GIeN STAR

Mr.. Khrushchev's uncon-
trolled and rude behavior at
the U. N. during Mr.. Mac
millan's speech reminds me of
an old Russian saying, God
takes away the reasoning Of
those He wishes to punish"
James T. M. Sullivan.
1t is inconceivable that
President Eisenhower should
apologize to Khrushchev. The
head Of this nation has taken
enough insults from the Rus
sian bully. America would
suffer a loss of prestige from
which it would never recover.
We have turned the other
cheek once too often as it is.
Housewife.
&&
Lawrence Sullivan in this
column on September %,
aptly expressed the senti-
ments probably held by many
Americans. We should seek
the custer of Russia from
the U. N. We can only imag-
inc what great progress would
have been possible in the
past if at every turn U. N.
efforts had not been frus-
trated by Russia. A popular
vote should be taken on this
issue and our State Depart
ment called upon to carry
out the mandate. Foreign
affairs of this magnitude are
too important to be a matter
for decision by the State
Department, but must come
from the people.
c. d. Williams.
4
While the President is do
ing his job lining up free ma
tions for the defense of the
world, a short distance away
200 capitalists dine with
Khrushchev. They seem to
say KhruShchev has his
price-every man has his
price. But his is too high
Communist world domina-
ton. no less.
John Stone,
Evening star., 1960-10-05
EVER-RISING FARES

proved that increasing the
cost Of a thing is often the
best way to lose money. Wool
worth made millions selling
five and ten cent articles. In
spite of that fact the transit
company is again trying to
make that mistake by raising
fares, although every time
they have, the number of
passengers has dropped, the
service has become poorer,
and people have been forced
to drive more cars to work,
which has now dangerously
clogged the streets of metro
politan Washington almost
to the point of saturation.
The only common-Sense,
good-business procedures
which would effect economies
that would make it possible
to keep fares low and service
good, are:
/. Without any further de-
lay, set up one transit system
for all metropolitan Wash
ington.
2. Exempt the transit COM
pany from all real estate and
income taxes. This would
make it possible to
3. Reduce fares to 10 cents.
If this should cause a loss.
then the city should subsidize
the bus company or the city
could take over the transit
system.
4. Any loss through tax ex-
emptions or subsidized pay
ments would more than be
made up for in the economies
riders would be benefited by.
Private car travel is exceed
lngly expensive and Wasteful
both of the individuals mon
ey and our precious oil and
metal resources, which is
serious in peace, and perhaps
fatal in war. And the reduc-
ton of poisonous cancer
causing fumes would be
worth any cost.
S. The service should be
made so efficient and COM
Portable, passengers would be
glad to ride buses. The
great discomforts and incon-
veniences of the past. and
present, have made people
willing to do almost anything
rather than ride a bus.
6. Food companies and 9TH
er suppliers of household
needs, should have trucks
service all neighborhoods.
This would be a tremendous
assistance to homemakers,
especially mothers of little
children. 1t would keep many
cars off the streets and ell
inmate the necessity of two
cars in many families.
Isabel c. Moore.
Blame for DC. Transit
fare increases should be put
where it belongs. in Congress,
because it ordered that
streetcarS must disappear
from Washington streets in
1868. From a financial point
of view this was a mistake.
StreetcarS now in use have
many good years left in them
yet they must be sold at a
fraction of their value. Be-
sides this loss is the expense
of buying new buses at ap-
proximately $4,000 each.
The total cost for complete
conversion will be well over
$40 million. If riders Of DC.
Transit think that they are
not going to have to pay this
bill they are due for disap-
pointment.
Bruce Young.
Evening star., 1960-10-05

country free Of any foreign
domination.
I believe that these men
should have all-out support
in creating a democratic
country.
Evening star., 1960-10-05
On Traffic Safety

William A. Walsh
Arizona sun., 1960-09-01

Elkd0m literally took over the
city of Chicago during their 61st
Grand National Convention Aug
lust 22-26.
Attending the convention were
14OO delegates from all parts of
the nation At least $4,000 Elks
were in Chicago having some kind
|of association with the Elks.
The meeting was held at Cor
|pus Christi Center, 46OO S. Park
way.
The undisputed highlight of the
convention was a talk by United
States Attorney General Rogers.
One of his statements was: 81
would like to do much more for
|integration if l could only set key
witnesses into the court
Another dynamic statement by
Rogers was: Il know very well
how you are mistreated, and it is
a wonder to me how you have
avoided trying to solve your prob
lens by courting communism"
Two times the attorney genera
wept overcome by the emotion
of the situation.
Rogers received the coveted
I"Lovejoy Medal" )" which is award
i ed each year for the one doing the
most for race relations on the rae
lial scene.
continued on page p
Arizona sun., 1960-09-01
BUS TERMINALS IN FIVE SOUTHERN
STATES PLAN TO STOP SEGREGATION

PETERSBURG, VA, Cooper
ative leadership by the NAACF
and other local groups both here
and in Richmond prompted deci
ISion by a bus terminal chain oi
restaurants to announce this weeE
the immediate desegregation of its
Ifaciliies in Virginia and foul
other southern states where it op
IerateS
The NAACP was represented ii
meetings held by the Petersburg
Improvement Association and the
IRichmond Civic Action Committee
with, Bryce Wagner, head of the
bus Terminal Restaurants.
Following two separate meetings
with RCIA and PIA, Mr.. Wagner
on Aug. Is said his company's poi
icy in the future Twill be
to not refuse service to anyone
because of race.
The restaurant here, located In
1.-THE Trailway bus terminal, was
1.-THE scene of three separate stir
demonstrations. AS an outgrowth
55 adults and youngsters we're ar
Arizona sun., 1960-09-01
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PHOENIX YOUTH ACT FOR MORE DEMOCRACY


The sit-in movement has come to Phoenix again,
The last sit-ins were staged in 1852 at Walgreen's
downtown and at Dicks Drve-In on East Mcdowell
The present group has made it clear what they want
and why Their own statement needs no comment. It
follows: s IS N,lHst6isEsll
saturday August 27, 1860, the Negro youth Of
Phoenix doned their robes of dignity and courage to
join the rest of the young people of America sitting in
protest Of discrimination and inequality We want to
state clearly that dissatisfied with existing con-
ditions and longer tolerate prejudice and dis
elimination in any form We are concerned about our
future the future of state and nation That is
why we must act We must demonstrate against any
practices that threaten to retard the progress
of democratic nation.
We condemn the unAmerican practice of second
class citizenship and the moral indignities that are
thrust upon by refusal in way and accpetance in
another
s "Uptons Candy Stores and Citrus Drugs are only
two examples of the places in Phoenix that accord US
the humiliation of refusal because of They have
history of lunch counter discrimination, and that is
why we began actions there.
eve want to show ourselves American by showing
that we do not want to go off in separate or
grounds thet want to cooperate with all other
races and countries help release the spirits of the
world from bondage by helping to make this rulv one
nation under God with liberty and justice for all
Arizona sun., 1960-09-01
CENTRAL BAPTISTS
HOLD SESSIONS

The Twelfth Annual session of the
Central Baptist Association conve-
ned at the First Institutional Ba-
|ptist Church, 1141 E. jefferson,
Phoenix, from August "a through
|28. The Rev. A. G. Kendrick was
host pastor as well as state presi
dent.
A full-Scale program was con
Quoted on each day during the con
|vention. Thursdays program was
in charge of the women, the theme
being Christian Witness in Sou
Winning" The inspirational add
ress was rendered by Mrs. Juanits
Curtis. The evening youth program
was in charge of Mrs. Valdis
Smith. Mrs. M. E. billiard, pres
edent gave the annual address
Officers of the Association incluC
Rev. j. r. Miner, moderator
Rev. C. N. Murphy, first vice mo
lderator; Rev. w. B. Smith, seconC
Ivice moderator; Mrs. Bertha Rose
Lewis, recording secretary; Mrs
Shirley Jones, corresponding Sc
lcretary; Mrs. Victoria Smith, song
leader; James L. Davis, treasurer
and Wayne Fowler, pianist.
The womens department in
lcludes, in addition to Mrs. Dill
lard, prsident, Mrs. Lucreta Cox
vice president Mrs Lula B. Ash
LEY, corresponding secretary; Mrs
Queen Esther White, recording Sc
cretary; Mrs. Jodie Woods, trieas
urer; and Mrs. Valdia Smith, you'll
director. Members of the congress:
are ]. D. Holmes, president; w. c
Smith, Jr., vice president
ILeola Williams, recording secre
Itary; Miss Dorothy Echols, CORES
ponding secretary; and Mrs. Fan
ME Morgan, dean. Layrnen of
Ulcers are Tommie Williams, presi
dent; j. H. Burton, first vice pres
lident; Mrs. Victoria Smith, seconC
vice president; and Holly Lattner
corresponding secretayr.
lAriznaSun Urban League
Arizona sun., 1960-09-01
Newsman's Prayer
Offered In Capital

In view of the impending heat
and controversy of the current po-
litical campaign, the Rev. DR..
Frederick Brown Harris, chaplain
|of the U.S.Senate recently offered
the following prayer for the
press"
I'VE would remember before
Thee those whose calling it is to
report to the waiting millions at
home and around he world what
lis said and done in the nations
|law-making chambers. 3
"We pray Thy guidance on mem
|bers of the vital profession who,
on printed page and on the speak
ling air, pour forth their conclu-
Sions and interpretations. thus COL
oring the attitudes Of an unnufn-
|bered host.
Grant those who WELD such
power the inner candor never to
suffer themselves to be used to de-
ceive or drug the mind Of the pe0.
|ple with falsehood or prejudice.
Cause those whose writing and
speaking are channels of public in
formation and understanding to
realize that they have a sacred
junction and that the cause of
Righteousness and freedom may
De saved by their distortion, COW.
'ardice or silence"
Arizona sun., 1960-09-01
Ike Asked To
intervene In
Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Presi-
dent Eisenhower and the U.S.Jus-
|tice Department were called on to
investigate Jacksdnville's racial
outbreak last. Saturday; following a
'srnall.scale race riot precipitated
by a sit-ins.demonstrat alton.
i AT the Same time, the Jackson
vile Youth Council Of the NAACP,
whose members participated In
the drug store sit-in. disclained
ANY Responsibilities Of the troubles
and agreed to call off the sit-ins.
Instead, they urged a boycott Of
downtown stores.
I'VE do not do this out of fear
of physical injury, but to allow re-
sponsible citizens of the commun-
ity, white and colored, an oppor-
tunity to marshal the forces of
reason and common sense, so that
peace and order may be preserved
THE Youth Council stated.
In wake of the flare-up during
which both Negroes and whites
were dubbed and shot, a 10 pm.
curfew was clamped on the town,
and the office of Gov. Leroy Col
Inns ordered the national guard on
a standby basis.
Trouble started last Saturday as
the young NegroeSt ook seats in
establishments where they wereI
refused service. According to the
report, groups of whites appeared
at the scene, armed with club
and stones, Police said there wer
kiion members oi the XXX ank
White Citizens Council among the
white groups Soon, violence erupt-
ed and after the melee was broken
up by police, many were injured,
and at least two were shot.
Arizona sun., 1960-09-01
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Locations

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New State Grocery, 1896 S. z Ave.
Kash & Harry, ia S. 9TH Ave.
Cow Palace, 901 S. 7th Ave.
"A & F Stores, 10Th Ave. & Buckeye
Noes Food Fair,
18th Ave. and Westward Blvd.
Ziede's Food Center,
17O1 S. 18th Ave.
Lincoln Liquors, IL Ave. & Buckeye
New Valley Market,
1900 West Buckeye Road
Foodtown, 1903 E. Broadway
Keys Market, 2454 E. Broadway
Nelson's Market, 18th & Broadway
FrOstOp DriFe-In,
1902 E. Broadway
Broadway Liquor,
1906 E. Broadway e
Rainbow Market,
| 1885 E.. Broadway
Broadway Pharmacy,
1903 E. Broadway
Mountain View Market, g
2l06 E. Broadway ea.
Rosner Drugs, 901 E. Jefferson.
lNOrman's Midtown Pharmacy,
1900, E. Washington ~
Reddy's Corner, 1902 E. Jefferson
Lee jew Grocery,
1903 e. Washington
Hodges Barbecue,
1915 E. Washington
Bigbee & Manns Barber Shop,
609 E. Jefferson
Town Talk Barbecue,
1854 E.. Washington
HUT Liquors, 2345 E. Washington
TheIma's Coffee Shop,
Rice Hotel 537 E. Jefferson
Modern Market,
! 1887 E. Washington
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