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to the bathroom Mr.. Griffin
replied.
"'Your tickets straig h t
through to Hattiesburg. Don't
say nothing on it about you
getting off this bus before then.
The driver pointed a COM
manding finger to the rear of
the bus. where the rest of the
Negro passengers had remained
seated.
Now you get back there
and don't move till we get to
Hattiesburg. I can't be both
cred rounding up all you people
when we're ready to co."
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John Harlan Amen,
Top Racket Buster

NEW YORK, Mar. II (AP) -
John Harlan Amen, 81, who as
a special Federal and State
prosecutor was one of the top
racket busters in New York his
tory, died yesterday after a
short illness.
Mr.. Amen, the first to go
after wrongdoers in organized
labor, sent at least 20 topflight
hoodlums to prison. He also
served as an assistant United
States attorney in the Nurem-
burg war crimes trial Of high
German Nazis. He was born in
Exeter, N. H.
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Man Turns Skin Black ,
Rooms South as Negro

cooked over a small stove and
ate with his co-workers. He
took a bus to Mississippi.
His bus made a comfort
stop some miles from his desti-
nation, Hattiesburg," the &C
count went on. THE white
passengers filed off. Mr.. Griffin
followed, but at the bus door
the driver blocked him with his
arm.
Where do you think you're
goin'. boy?' the driver de-
manded.
Wanted to get off and 60
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Robert B. Carson

DIES MONIES, Mar. II (AP)
Robert B. Carson. 40, a can
didate for the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor of Iowa in
next tunes primary election,
was killed yesterday in an auto
truck crash. Mr.. Carson, an at
torney who lived in Independ-
ence, served as Republican floor
leader in the 1857 State House
OF Representatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-11
Justice Frumkin,
Israel Public Leader

JERUSALEM, Mar. II (AP).
Justice Cad Frumkin, 70, one
of IsraelS We" known public
figures died in a hospital last
night Of a heart attack.
Justice Frumkin was a mem
Der of the Palestine Supreme
Court from 1920 to l948,
founder and president of the
Society for Jewish Jurispru-
dence, and of the Friends of
Hebrew University. He also was
author of many papers on legal
questions and translated the
Ottoman civil code into Hebrew.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-11

Mr.. Griffin got job, unrec-
ognized, at a shoe shine stand
he had patronized as a white
man. On the sidewalk he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-03-11
II Escape to Mutsu

TAIPEI, Formosa, Mar. II
(AP). - Twenty-one persons
escaped from Red China to Ma
tionalist-held Matsu Island
aboard a junk today.
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LOS ANGELES, Mar. II
(AP).-With pills, ultraviolet
rays and dyes, John Howard
Griffin turned himself from a
white man into a black one.
For six weeks he roamed the
South, working as a shoeshine
boy and mental laborer, earn
ing an average of $3.50 a day,
learning what it means to be
a Negro"
ColumniSt Paul Goats told
the story in the Mirror News
today.
Mr.. Griffin, 40, born in Dali
las. is a college graduate who
talks with a slight southern
drawl.
Then, last fall, he changed
one of his vital statistics. He
became a Negro" Mr.. Coates
wrote. %. leaving his wife and
three children at home in
Mansfield, Tex, he walked into
the streets of New Orleans to
begin a bizarre new life.
"As a Southerner, an author
with a probing mind, and an
individual of keen senSibilitieS,
he wanted to sort the fact from
the fiction about the southern
Negro and his plight.
After Answers
HE wanted answers - both
economical and psychological
that no white man ever found,
because no white man can really
know what it means to be a
Negro
Griffin prepared for his mas
querade with the help of a New
Orleans dermatologiSt. In an
accelerated treatment program
of seven days, he was given pills
which darken the skin pigmen-
tation and ultraviolet ray baths.
His head was shaved to ourr
beforehand, and final touches
were made with a vegetable
dye"
Coates quoted Mr.. Griffin,
whose skin is now again white:
THE transformation was
horrifying. I was inside the
flesh of a stranger-and not a
very pretty one at that. A
f1erce-looking. b ld-h e a d e d
Negro"
Bus Incident
He registered at a Negro
hotel. Next morning, on a bus,
a few whites we're standing in
the aisle but the seat next to
him remained vacant. He
nodded to a woman in her 40s
who was standing next to it, as
if to offer her the seat. The
account continued:
"She gave him what he came
to know as the hate stare
What she demanded loudly,
are you looking at me like that
for?'
I'm sorry he said. I'm not
from here
"She turned, commented to
q stranger, they're getting sas-
sier every day and launched
into an easily audible discourse
about 'uppity niggers.'
Shoe Shine Job
Mr.. Griffin got a job, unrec-
ognized, at shoe shine stand
he had patronized as a white
man. On the sidewalk he
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Science PurIey Set

Howard University will hold
it's annual science career con-
ference for local high school
students on Friday, March Is.
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Friends Honor
Retiring Surgeon

More than 200 friends and
associates last night paid trib-
ute to DR.. Arch L. Riddick,
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SPECIAL NOTICES

COLLINWOOD Congregational
Church has s grave lot, White
haven Cemetery, will sell all or
part. Nv. l-45l1 for further in
formation.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01
Busy Actress Keeps
Her Luggage Handy

HOLLYWOOD tPl-Angela Lans-
bury is another of those Hollywood
stars who lives out of suitcase.
Back in the film capital after To-
cation work overseas the tall,
blonde British-born beauty admits
she keeps her luggage handy-just
in case a new role should call for
a sudden trip to Timbuktu.
She just returned from three
months in Australia for Summer
of the 18th Doll' and a quick trip
to Italy for "A Breath of Scandal. :"
Now Angela is earmarked for a
brief but important role in the
filmed version of William Inge's
play Dark at the Top of the
Stairs"
''The person I play was talked
about in the stage production, but
never seen,'' she says. "I'll finish
the role in a week, but it offers a
good opportunity, which is what
I'm looking for"
Miss Lansbury, married to talent
agent Peter Shaw, has three child
rem. She nearly retired from acting
a few years ago.
Il had two children fairly close
together and realized that becom-
ing a stellar personality wasn't
the only thing in life," she says.
Because she began her career in
her teens, Miss Lansbury is regard
ed as a veteran by some older film
executives. Actually she is under
35.
A refugee from blitzed London,
Miss Lansbury arrived in Holly
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01
Like Orchids? Take Your
Pick in the Philippines

eriana or walingwaling as the
natives call it.
This specie. with white purple
and-maroon flowers that last as
long as four weeks after cutting.
are used here for hybridizafion
purposes. Chances are some OF the
corsages you've bought had a
strain of waling- waling in it.
Orchid hunters say. however, the
real beauties are to be found deep
in the Philippines tropical rain
forests and mangrove swamps
where only the most fervent nature
lovers dare tread.
There you find orchids with
twisted petals and others with del
icate d0ve-like shapes. There's
also the giant orchid plant, gram
matophyllum speciosum, stretch
ing from to 10 feet.
Members of the Philippine Orchid
Society say as many as several doz-
en- varieties of the prasitic plant
may be found on q single tree In
the midst of swamp. Even experts
have difficulty spelling out the var
ious kinds.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01
Outstanding
Horses To Race
At BrandylUine
CONTINUED from page one,

CONTINUED from page 0ne1
for Brandywine. The system is a
complicated one that arrives at an
average for each driver based on
starts, firsts, seconds and thirds.
Harner was the only 400 hitter
of 1859, with .416 mark, based on
IL wins, "a seconds and SO thirds
in 377 starts
Practically all the leading Grand
Circuit drivers, topped by O'Brien
with his $685. ,636 earnings in these
rich stakes, will race at Brandy
wine, as will number of drivers
who took top honors at other
tracks last year and this year.
Dave Legum, a recognized ex-
pert who won top honors at Rose
croft Raceway's recent meet, and
Jack Wilcutts, currently burning
up Baltimore Raceway's track,
will bring their talents to Brandy
wine, as will Bill Fleming, who
tied Wilcutts in a down-to-the-
wire finish at the Delaware track
last year, which saw Levi Harner
just get nosed out.
The final score was Fleming:
So starts, 13 wins, eight seconds
and seven thirds; Wilcutts: So
starts. ,13 wins, six seconds and
five thirds; Harner: So starts, 13
wins, 10 seconds and seven thirds.
Brandywine drivers also viii in
clude such well kTowns as Del
Miller, who took the honors at the
recent meet at Yonkers; Vernon
Crank, big winner last year at Suf-
folk Downs, and Bell. who topped
the 1859 list at Roosevelt.
And where the star drivers go,
so go the star horses. HaughtOn,
well on his way to taking the ma
tional crown again, plans to- bring
along all of his standOuts.
Bob harrington, who was the
leading driver at three different
tracks, will be on hand, also. Far
rington took honors at the Free
hold (N.J), billiards (Ohio) and
Painesville (Ohio) tracks In 1859.
Other Brandywine hopefuls who
won top driving honors elsewhere
last year include Louis Rapone,
Buffalo Raceway; Clarence Ham
sen, Bay State (Mass.) Raceway;
Ellis Myer, Kent and Sussex Race
way; Pat Iovine, Monticello IN.
W Raceway; John Cation. North
field (Ohio); Jim Fleming, North
vile, Mich; Bob Webb, Ocean
Downs, Md; George Reed, both
spring and summer meets at Rock
ingham Park (N.H1 Eddie Wheel
er, Santa Anita (Calif), and Bill
Sargent, lScioto Downs at Colum-
bus, Ohio
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01

MANILA (P) = Orchids for
Mlady?
Come to the Philippines. botan-
lists say, and take your pick from
any one of thousand native
species.
They range from the common
butterfly or chi d (phalaenopis). !.
which can be found growing wild
in many backyards here, to the
silver gray-and-purple schileriana
or tiger orchid that blooms only
once year.
Red orchids are considered rare
elsewhere, even in Hawaii and
South Americas lush tropics but
there are several varieties here,
They're called renantheras or fire
orchids with flame colored bloss-
oms that live for days.
Not all the species are readily
available to the corsage seeker So
far only 80 out of the thousand or
so have been commercialized. But
these include what is recognized
as one of the more magnificent of
the local breeds-the wanda sand
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01
BEAVERS STILL IMPORTANT

PORTSMOUTH. Va. [R = The
Navy is going to conduct special
tests on underwater noises gem
Grated by submarines in a deep,
quiet reservoir in the Blue Ridge
Mountains some 800 miles from
the sea.
Goblin Town Creek, remote
inlet on Philpot Reservoir in Vir-
ginia's Patrick County was select
ed after search from the Virginia
coast to Lake Pend d'Orielle, Idaho.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01
EMMA SAYS NO

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (P)- A note
has been pinned to one page in the
marriage license record book in
the office OF County Recorder
John G. Utz. 1t reads: g. phone
He said Emma would not marry
him."
Utz says he pinned the note to
the record to show why the license
data was not complete. He adds
there would be no refund to the
man who lost Emma.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01
BAssINET CONES IN HANDY

CARNEGIE, Okla. [P-Edward
Hieneman, 2, wanted to go camp
ing but he didn't think his parents
would understand.
So he didn't say anything-just
picked up a blanket and strolled
to vacant lot quarter mile
from his home.
Police found him the next
morning curled up asleep under
a clump of bushes.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01

seven-minute frosting may need
seven minutes OF beating with a
hand rotary beater but It may be
ready with only four minutes Of
beating IL an electric beater is
used.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01

The Z. S. Army Signal Corps.
celebrating it's Tooth birthday dur
ing 1860, started as result OF an
Army surgeons experiments to
perfect a signal system for the
deaf.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01
( Results

Athletics-13, Dodgers-12; Dodg-
ers-15, Indians-10
Next Weeks Schedule
July 5: Pirates at Dodgers, 600.
July Z: Indians at Yankees, 500.
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01
Milford Little League
Standings as Of June 2s, 1860
Second Half
Results

Braves-6, Giants-O; Orioles-7,
Phillies-6; Tigers, Yankees
1: Tigers; PhiIlies- g; Giants
-15, Yankee; Braves, Phil
lies-2; ORIOLES, Braves; );
Giants-15. Tigers-S; Braves,
Tigers-1; Yankee-6, Orioles.
Next Weeks Schedule
July 4: Orioles at Braves, 500;
Yankees at Tigers, 500.
July 6: PhiIlies at Tigers, 900;
Braves at Giants, $780,
July 8: Yankees at Giants, 600;
Orioles at Phillies, 500.
MINOR LEAGUE
Milford chronicle., 1960-07-01

wood after a narrowing Atlantic
crossing. She refused to be typed
as an English girl after her first
two films, "Gaslight" and 1.-THE
Picture OF Dorian Grey"
She is happy that her roles are
now becoming more varied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14

international Communists had
selected the occasion as time
for a demonstration and that the
United States and Gen. Marshall
might be used as symbols to at
tack. We felt some apprehension
about having a substantial num-
Der of Americans attend in a mis-
sion headed by our Secretary of
State.
Just before the mission took of,
the general called me in and asked
me if there were any laSt-minute
matters that I wanted to take up
with him. l said there were not. l
then asked him if he had any
final instructions for me and he
said, Yes" he had. Using his eX-
preSsive hands to emphasize his
points. he said something like
this: "Lovett, don't like the sound
of that chest cold you've got.
You've had it for a week and it
doesn't seem to be getting any
better. l want you to go to see
doctor right away. act on his ad-
vice. and be over it by the time l
get back next week.
said, Yes, sir" and babe him
goodby.
Not long after the start of the
meeting in Bogota, carefully
planned and well-led major riot
broke out, during which many of
the city's buildings were burned
down and the radio stations and
local phone exchange were seized
by the mob. 1t was clear the stu
alton was getting rapidly out of
hand and concern for the safety
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
Kennedy Active

On his own, Mr.. Kennedy let it
be known that he'd keep up a
stream of speeches on issues be-
fore Congress.
He's kept on travelling and see
ing people.
Some travels:
To New York for dinner meet
ing with hackers lining up bust
nesSmen'S committees to support
the ticket.
To Hyde Park today to see Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Some people:
Roy Wilkins, executive secre-
tary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, in a 45-minute meeting on
civil rights.
Robert F. Kennedy, his brother
and campaign manager, for a Ses-
sion that included vice preSiden-
tial nominee johnson and Demo-
cratic National Chairman, Senator
jackson of Washington.
j. o. Tally, jr., of Fayetteville.
N. c., national president of XII
wants International.
Gov. Orville Freeman and Sena-
tor Humphrey of Minnesota.
The presidents of three rail-
road unions.
The list was longer-this is just
a Sampling.
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true greatness; first. his sincere
concern for others; and secondly,
his acceptance of change as a law
of nature. Perhaps you'll permit
me to explore these traits with you
tonight and to draw lesson from
the second.
His concern for other people was
something more than consideration
or courtesy. 1t Stemmed from a
genuine interest in people and
particularly those for whom he
felt some responsibility. 1t was
shown in many ways and on many
occaSionS-Some touching and a
few amusing.
1t comes through clear and
strong and heartWarming in his
attitude toward the Army, which,
often thought, Appropriated the
worried affection AOu see when a
mother, on a street corner, with
her very dear, small son beside
her, sees him rather vaguely step
off the curb into a street filled
with speeding traffic. She reaches
down. snatches him by the arm,
yanks him back onto the sidewalk
hands him a reSounding whack
on his Gumi9 little head and, while
he howlS al the top of his lungs,
she baWls him out for having
scared the living daylights out of
her.
In many things. the old Man, -
to give him that derful,
privately used title in the Army
felt compelled to do. there was
definitely that attitude. And in it,
I found comfort and delight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
Georgia Situation

Georgia led the States most dis
gruntled over the civil rights plat
form. There the Democrats ex-
ecutive committee hit upon an idea
to let off steam against the ticket
without leaving their party and to
give Southern politicians a bar
gaining power. They would hold a
referendum to determine whether
the party's presidential electors
should be free to take part in
a possible Southern bolt 1t will
be in connection with the Demo-
cratic primary on September ID.
The wording of the referendum
is:
For free presidential electors.
For pledged presidential elect
ors."
Two other Deep South States
are flirting with something of the
kind:
UNSATISFACTORY. Barnett has
called for voters to support
States rights" electors. The
Democratic State Convention will
meet Tuesday to decide whether
to nominate two states of electors,
one pledged to the Democratic
Party and the other unpledged
States Fighters
SOUTH CAROLINA-A State
Democratic Convention will be
held tomorrow and is expected to
make provision for the election
of unpledged electors. Senator
Johnston of South Carolina has
announced support of the national
ticket. The other Senator-Thur-
mond-was the States rights can
didate in 1948)
Otherwise, the Democrats cam
paign in the South seemed to be
coming along all right. Senator
johnson announced that he was
going to go into every Southern
State; Senator Kennedy was eX-
pected to go into almost all. There
were some good signs already, no.
tably Senator Kefauver's victory
in Tennessee. There we're also still
some big question marks. one of
the biggest being Senator Byrd S
silence in Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
Social Security Act Is Years Old;
Hailed as q Bu|work of Our Economy

The special tax starts out at l
per cent each on employees and
employers on the first $4,000 of
annual earnings effective January
l, 1887. There was provision for
periodic increases until a rate of 3
per cent each was to be reached
by 1949.
Congress postponed the early
tax increases, so that it was not
until 1850 that the rate advanced
TO 1i2 per cent each on the first
$4,000.
The rate now is 3 per cent each.
and the taxable base is now the
first $4,000 of annual earnings.
The existing tax schedule calls
for increases of Z per cent on
each at three-year intervals until
1869, when the rate would be 4 y
per cent on each.
The benefits originally voted
ranged from $40 to $65 month,
for retired workers only. Now the
benefits for a retired or disabled
worker range from minimum of
S33 a month to a future maximum
of 1927, and there is family
maximum of 1854 a month where
wife or widow and dependent chill
dren can qualify
Unemployment Insurance
The unemployment insurance
program is also financed through
a special tax levied by the States
in conformance with the Federal
law. Employers generally bear
the whole tax burden though
few States also tax employees.
Under both financing systems
the receipts in excess of current
costs are placed in trust funds in
the Treasury. The unemployment
insurance accounts show in the
budget but those for old-age, sur.
vivorS and disability insurance
do not
IlG OJdJGS lldu NOlltIlCu go
billion in unemployment taxes up
to June 80 and $24 billion had
been paid out, leaving a trust fund
balance of Sc billion.
The trust funds for the old-age,
survivors and disability insurance
programs totaled $22,942, 100000
as of May 81 this year, includ-
ing earned interest. Of the total.
$20,846,0OO,000 was in the old
age and survivors fund and
$2,O96O0O,OOO in the disability
fund.
The annual income of the old
age fund exceeded outgo regularly
until 1878 and is expected to
again exceed expenditures within
year or so under the existing
provisions calling for a tax in
1869 The disability income an
nually exceeds costs of that pro-
gram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
The National Scene

line in November. 1t would, rea-
soned the politicians whose bust
ness is to reason such things, ease
the South's apprehension over the
strong civil rights platform. Also,
it might help keep down the NOM
inee'S Roman Catholic religion as
an issue.
1t was true that before the con-
vention. Senator johnson had un-
Willingly thrown away some of the
prestige he may have piled up in
the South by insisting that he be
considered a WeSterner for pur-
poses of his own candidacy for the
nomination. But politics being
fast as we'll as perceptive, by last
week he had laid that interlude to
rest and had once more assumed
the role of a Southerner in the
eyes of the compaign spectators.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-08-14
BY w. JOYNES MacFARLAN
Associated Press Stan Writer


The Social Security Act, a new
concept of Federal Government re-
sponSibility to individual citizens.
was signed IS years ago today.
Under the broad programs initi-
ated or supplemented by that law,
more than SIPS billion have been
paid out in benefits to individuals
or for Federal grants to the States
to aid public service and health
programs. More than 1924 billion
have been paid to individuals in
benefits.
The original act signed August
ID, 1885. by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt provided for an old-age
retirement system for certain en-
ployes in private enterprise. Later
coverage was extended to other
workers, including most self-em-
ployed, and to dependents and sur
vivorS and disabled workers and
their dependents.
Also provided was a Federal
State unemployment insurance or
compensation system.
The law also established Fed
eral responsibility to aid in certain
types of public assistance or relief.
supplemented we're child health,
vocational rehabilition and other
programs.
Reach 3 of 4 Persons
The Social Security Admins
tration said the programs for the
aged now reach three out of four
people over IS, with monthly pay
mentS from old-age and survivors
insurance or from old-age assist
ance.
1t estimated that 10 years from
now the programs will be aiding
four out of five of the aged.
Secretary of Welfare Flemming
termed social security IAN &C
cepted part of our culture and
an essential bulwark for our econo-
my" He added that much re-
mains to be done.
William L. Mitchell, commits
Sioner of social security, said the
Skepticism which marked the pas
sage of the act has changed to
acceptance and support of social
security by the major political,
labor, and cultural elements of
our population.
He pointed out that the first
beneficiary of social security re-
tirement insurance, Miss Ida
Fuller of Ludlow. VT. is still living
and receiving monthly payments.
Her first benefit check for S22.94
was delivered on January 30, 1910.
Her present social security benefit
is $55 a month.
Congress has periodically in
creased the benefits since the
first became payable in 1910. The