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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18

weekend, and have extended an
open invitation to the commu-
nifty to see the show.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18

SENTINEL o soSsfSl MD'
Saturday, Nov 10, 1851 s
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-11-18

Junior High cheerleaders
were chosen ON November 10.
Evening star., 1961-05-16
HELP MEN
DRIvER-sALEsMAN, for 8

DRIVER SALESMAN, for soft ice
: cream truck (Mr. softee): earn
ings well over 500 week. II you
hustle, We can use you. Apply in
DRIVERS, eolored, with moving and
storage exper. in this area. Mary
land chauffeur's permit necessary.
BET H Z 8 D A-CHEVY CHASE
TRANSFER AND STORAGE CO.,
1919 st. Elmo ave, Bethesda, Nd.
DRIVER for hardware delivery
truck, must have references. Dis
trict permit, non drinker, knew
city; mechanically inclined. NO.
DRIVER-PORTERS (coloredD, day
or evenings, huuor store.
ABBEY PERSONNEL, 1888 Eye NV.
DRUG CLERK, junior, experienced
preferred, but will train. Apply
In person. z. d. GILMAN, 627
Pa. ave. NV.
EDUCATIONAL Statesmen. exper :,
Il local, 1 Baltimore); unlimited
opport. Auto necessary; no can
VasSins; abundance Of leads. Po-
tential $4,000. Call am, VIII.
0-Soo2. -
ELECTRICAL CRAFTSMAN, to age
25: pref. some exper., or good
training; 5 days: min $1.S6 hr.
POTOMAC EMPL., 1884 Wilson
blvd, Arl. IA. $4,000.
Evening star., 1961-05-16
HELP MEN

for new piz1e carry.
out store: exper., reliable: good
salary. Boz 476-A. Star.
Evening star., 1961-05-16
HELP MEN

YOUNG MAN (white), high-school
graduate; full Ayr. course. Per-
Inanent position w/motor-c1rrier
organizatlon compiling and check
ing freight rates 6-day week. va
cation and usual company bene.
fits, Apply MIDDLE ATLANTIC
CONFERENCE, Eli z st. NV.
YOUNG MAN between 20-45, to
manage doughnut shop: must be
honest and reliable. Good start
Ing salary: Apply in person. HI
BOY DoNUT SHOP, 330S Branch
ave. sc.
YOUNG MAN With mechanical sp-
titude for repairs and deliveries;
excel. future for young married
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT Co,
97l0 Capitol View ave, 8. g., Nd.
Evening star., 1961-05-16
MESSENGEh
STOCK CLERK

WEkOOEl3VNGIG
STOCK CLERK
Under age 35, for permanent DO
surance company; 5.day week;
many company benefits, Apply
to II an. or 2 TO 3 pm.
EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY, 5000 Wisconsin ave.
MUTUAL OF OMAHA-Excelient
sales opportunity. Complete train
Ing proGram. Call FE. $4,000.
OFFICE AssIsTANT-TypinR, some
knovl, bookkpg. desirable: bh-
day wk, Start $S0.SS5. Reply own
handwriting, stating age. race,
marital status. Box 364-A. Star.
OFFICE MARAGER (automotive)
KAPLAN q CRAWFORD, wash
ington'g Oldest and largest Dodge
dealer, 10 now interviewing 0ppli-
oants for position as office man
ager. The man We are looking for
must have q good accounting
background, preferably in the au-
tomotive field. He must be able
to manage an office consisting Of
8 people. We are prepared to Of
fer top salary to the right man.
Regular hours. with full CO. bene-
fits. Paid vacations, hospitaliza-
tion and insurance plans. Apply in
person to Mr.. Gordon. 4301 Conn.
ave. NV. EN-, 2-6300.
Evening star., 1961-05-16

OFFICE MESSENGER
Young man. II or Is, local high
school graduate. white. for office
messenger and clerical duties; reg
ular hours; permanent: full time
only; upper NV. area. Call EN-.
Evening star., 1961-05-16
lcoNrINUEp)

4 CARPET LAYER, experienced; sal
aried Job; good working conditions
Evening star., 1961-05-16
Bookkeeper-Typist

Large real estate office; experience
In machine bookkeeping. preferred,
also accurate typiSt, under are 40.
5-day week, salary based on ex-
perience, plus substantial company
CALL Mr.. GRIFFIN, Ma. s-s112
Evening star., 1961-05-16
MELP MEN AND WoMEH

RESIDENT MANAGEk, man and
wife; man capable Of general re-
pair work in small apt. project
and supervision Of tanitor. Very
good salary plus 2-bedrm. apt.
Mr.. KAY, ST. '3-4420, bet. 9:3o-
8 p.m. weekdays.
Evening star., 1961-05-16
Senior Electronic
Enpineer

The creative design of tran
Sistor circuitry for industrial
telemetry, not test equip
ment. Experience with de-
sign and development Of
industrial troll equip
ment. Must have prior
knowledge Of industrial su-
perivsory or remote control
systems, or pipeline COM
munication and control
techniQues. Report to Direc-
tor Of Research and Engi-
neering.
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
PIANIST IS AMERICAN
AMBASSADOR OF GOODWILL

New York-The narratives of
some careers are more interest
ingly related when begun with
childhood training and gradual
achievements, but in light of
several recent episodes in the
career of Armenia E. Adams,
young concert pianist, this is
not necessarily applicable.
A few months ago Miss Ad-
ans met a man who was shortly
to become a government Off
cial in Sierra Leone, Africa.
After hearing her play he graci-
ciously invited her to come there
to play at his country's inde-
pendence ceremonies.
"Seeing African nations en-
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Missionaries Continue Work In
Africa Despite Conflict, Tension

New York - Until a few
years ago, Africa was one of
the centers of missionary activ-
ity.
In the tensions and conflicts
attendant on the emergence of
so many nations into independ-
ence, Africa still is a focal
point of missionary concern.
DR.. John A. Reuling, secre-
tary for Africa of the United
Church Board for World Min
istries, in a recent Boston in
terview, discussed the United
Church of Christ's missionary
activities in this part of the
world today.
In Africa, the board operates
in Ghana, Togo, Angola, South
crn Rhodesia, and the Republic
of South Africa.
Angolan Restrictions
DR.. Reuling was Africa Sec
retary for the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions before it was absorb
ed recently into the Board for
World Ministries by the uniting
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Chief Probes
Police Beating
Two Lawyers

Los Angeles, Calf, Sept. 30
An exhaustive study Of charges
of police brutality against a
Deputy Public Defender and his
attorney brother has repeatedly
been ordered by Police Chief
Parker. Both are Negroes.
Complaining attorney Charles
L. Boags, 80, Deputy Public De-
fender since 1868, and Robert
Boags, 35, accused Wiltshire Di-
vision police officers of brutally
beating them during an arrest
in front Of 1928 Hauser boule-
ward, Sept. 10.
Police Commissioner Everette
Porter has submitted to Parker
a full report of the incident and
Continued on Page Six)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Memphis Gets First Public School
Inteqration As Police Stand Guard

Each school had 80 or more
policemen rowing the blocks
around it, walking patrols with
billy clubs in hand.
The date Of desegregation had
been. a well-kept secret, with q
news blackout lifted only this
morning. 1t came as q distinct
breakfast surprise to many res
idents.
Earlier mention Of the i'm.
pending event by Memphis
newspapers, radio or television
was casual, with no date speci-
fled - at the urgent pleading
of the school board.
The board argued that any
publicity was likely to have die
hard segregationist forces trum-
peting the alarm, with turmoil
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
H. |. Wright & Co. Hire Specialist
Financing Negro-0wned Business

New York, Sept. 80 - The
appointment Of four trained ac-
count executives served as the
initial staff Of the newly form
ed Corporate Finance Depart
ment of the Wall Street broker
age firm, H. L. Wright & Com
pany, Inc, has been announced
by Harry L. Wright. president.
The new Department specializes
in arranging financing of small
and medium Negro-owned busi-
ness firms in the United States,
and enterprises in Africa, the
West Indies and British Guiana.
Those named are Wilbur s.
Grant, Chairman, Erwin P. Dix
on, P,oderick D. Citizens and By
ron C. Headley.
Wilbur S. Grant, Chairman, is
a former sales manager for a
leading food processing firm and
instructor in mathematics. He
holds two degrees from Brook
lyn College and is a member OF
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
Erwin P. Dixon, who is also a
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Cong. Diggs
And Father
Denies Charges

Detroit, Mich, Oct. 3-Con-
gresham Charles C. Diggs, Jr.,
challenged his accusers to prove
their charges that he and his
father mishandled thousands Of
dollars" Of a Detroit insurance
company's funds. His father,
Charles, Sr., also denied the
charges.
The charges were made in q
suit filed in Circuit Court Fri
day in the name Of the Detroit
Metropolitan Mutual Assurance
Co., and a policy holder, Mrs.
Ida Glover, Of 5762 Rohns.
The purpose Of the suit which
was filed by Atty. James B.
Continued on Page Six)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07

been the policy of the fair
through all it's previous years.
What put the Mississippi-Ala-
bama Fair and its race relations
policy in the news was a pre-
fair statement to the press by
an official of the fair saying
that both Negro and White per-
sons would be admitted to the
fair here at any time.
The Mississippi State Fair
opens in Jackson next week and
is followed on Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday of the following
week by the Mississippi Negro
State Fair, both of which are
held at the State Fair Grounds
and sponsored by the Mississip-
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Say Negroes
FightTo Become
More American

Philadelphia, Pa.-There is an
historically unique element in
the Negroes struggle against
segregation that has been large
ly unnoted, says Ralph McGill
in the current issue of The Sat-
urday Evening Post.
Airing his views irf the maya
zines new feature Speaking
Out" McGill identifies this un-
noted aspect of the segregation
struggle as the fact that the Ne
gro has been trying to become
more American, not less.
"He was not, like some of the
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Negroes Dine
With Whites
In Atlanta
Without Incident
See elimination
Work OF Negro
And White Leaders

For the first time in the
memory of the eldest Allan
tans, Negroes dined quitely "a
long with white customers
Thursday in number of down.
town restaurants and lunch
counters operated by depart
ment and chain stores.
No one was arrested. There
were no disturbances, although
detectives had been assigned
to some of the stores as a pre-
caution. 1t was reported that
in one place a few white Gus
toners walked out when Ne
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07

Memphis, Tenn. Oct. 8 The
City Of Memphis got its first
public school integration today
backed by a massive show of
police power as the city school
board admitted Is Negro pupils
to four previously all white
schools.
It marked the end of a GEN.
tury Of rigid segregation in
Memphis public schools, and
came voluntarily under indirect
pressure from Federal courts.
No incidents were reported.
The only immediate reaction
to the Negro first-graders' ad-
mission was q trickle Of white
parents to the schools to remove
their children. But school
spokesmen said attendance re-
mained nearly normal.
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Tuskegee Dean Special ConsuItant
To Secretary OF Agriculture

Dean Lawrence A. Potts of
Tuskegee's school of agriculture
was named Wednesday as a
special consultant to Secretary
of Agriculture Orville L. Free
man.
In announcing the appoint
ment, the Secretary said Dean
Potts will advise him on methods
of more effectively implement
ing the Departments policy of
equal employment opportunities.
This will include, the Secretary
pointed out, the development of
a more tentative recruitment
program among students and
graduates of the land-grant col
leges.
Continuing, Secretary Free
man said, Dean Potts will be
visiting these colleges from time
to time to help them keep their
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Nkrumah ExpeIs
Six Members
OF Government

Accra, Ghana-President Nix
rumah has announced that he
has asked six members of the
Ghana Government, including
two of his chief lieutenants, to
resign because of their varied
business connections"
The two chief members whose
designations have been request
ed are K. A. Gbedemah, former
finance minister and now health
minister; and Kojo Botsio, Agri-
culture Minister.
President Nkrumah has also
announced that six members of
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07

NEGRO VISITORS wei COINED
AT TUPEL0 FAIR LAST week
Negro Group March In Parade
No Incidents Of Any Kind Reported

Tupelo, Miss, Oct. 3-Negro
visitors were admitted with seq
regation, at all times, both day
and night, during the 1861 show
ing of the Mississippi-Alabama
Fair which ended here last Fri
day Night.
Negro groups headed by Geor-
ge Washington Carver High
School, named in honor of the
famed Tuskegee Institute Ne
gro scientist and peanut wizard,
at the invitation of fair officials,
marched in the Tuesday morn
ing opening day parade.
Fair officials and old timers
here said the race relations poll
cy exhibited at the fair this year
was carried out exactly as has
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
LosAngeIes
1st Negro Woman
Police Dead

Los Angeles, California Oct.
3 - The first Negro police
woman in the history Of Los
Angeles died here in her home
Monday.
She was Mrs. Georgia Ann
Robinson, 81, Of 900 South Mari
posa avenue. Mrs. Robinson re-
tired in 1929 after being injur-
ed by an inmate and as re-
suit became blind.
One of the organizers on the
Los Angeles branch Of the
NAACP, she was an outstand-
ing worker for the Sojourner
Truth Home and the Plis-Art-
Lit-Mo Club.
Conner-Johnson Mortuary is
handling funeral arrangements.
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Two Convicted
For Fraud In
Social Security

Meridian, Miss - Two Clarke
county Negroes today were
sentenced in Federal District
court to three years in prison
and fined $1,750 each for con-
spiracy to defraud the Social
Security Administration.
j. ]. Hardaway and his sis
ter, Katie Mae Heidelberg, were
CONTINUED on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07

other intregationist organiza-
tions to jack up the Negroes
interest in his right to vote.
Aiding the SCLC in a door
knocking campaign, said King,
will be the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, Congress on Racial
Equality, the Student Non-Vio-
lent Movement Coordinating
Committee, the National Urban
league, the National Student
Association and the legal de-
fense and education fund.
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
WEST WITHH0LDS GHANA AID

London = Diplomatic inform
ants said Sunday that the IN
tied States and Britain will with
hold aid for Ghana's giant Volta
River development project.
They said the agreement for
the multimillion-dollar program,
due for signature in Ghana's
capital of Accra Thursday, will
not be signed by the Western
partners.
The report came as Britain's
Secretary for Commonwealth
Relations, Duncan Sandys left
London for talks with Ghana's
President Nkrumah.
"It is quite obvious" Mr..
Sandys told reporters before
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
NEGRO RIGHTS GROUPS PLAN
new DRIVES IN THE SOUTH

Nashville, Tenn, Sept. 29-
The Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference wound up a
three-day meeting here Friday
with a pledge to double Negro
voter registration in the South.
Negro integration leader Mar
tin Luther King, Jr., of Atlanta
said by such efforts Negroes
twill be able to change the po-
litical structure of the south and
the nation"
King outlined plans for a
door-knocking campaign to be
conducted by the SCLC and six
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07

leaving, "that the general at
mosphere of relations between
Britain and Ghana has not been
all that we would like in recent
months. | therefore suggested
to President Nkrumah that |
should like to go out to Ghana
and have a good, frank talk with
II hope very much that when
we get around the table together
we shall be able to clear the air
a little"
British spokesmen said Mr..
Sandy's trip was not directly
connected with the Volta River
project. Many other issues are
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Suggest Answer TO Soviet
Propaganda On Racial Minorities

Washington, D. c. = The
answer to Soviet propaganda
about racial discrimination in
the United States is to tell the
story of progress being made
try.
by racial minorities in this coun-
That was the suggestion Civ
en- Thursday to United States
Information Agency workers by
John G. Field, executive direc-
tor of the Presidents Commit
tee on Equal Employment OPP
portunity. Mr.. Field addressed
the U.SI.A. Forum at the ag-
ency office.
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Whites Urge
BoyeottAtlanta
lntegrated
Stores

Atlanta, Ca, Oct. 3-A spor-
adic campaign for boycotting
downtown stores that desegre-
gated lunch counters is under
way by an otherwise unidenti-
fled Committee on Human
Rights for White People"
A one-page sheet titled flight
blight-buy right" was circu-
lated Saturday. Persons hand
ing out the boycott request were
not in evidence today, possibly
because of a drizzle and cool
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
CongoIese Tell
East Germans TO
Leave Country

Leopoldville, Congo = The
Congolese Government has CIV
en- newly arrived East German
diplomats notice to get out.
A Foreign Ministry commu-
nique Friday said said they had
not been invited and added
that the government "does not
consider it useful now to
establish diplomatic relations
with East Germany"
The East Germans formerly
were accredited to the rebel
leftist regime in Stanleyville
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
White Mercenal;;es Given DeadIine
TO Leave katanga Army

Leopoldville = Secessionist
Kantanga Province has been
given a new deadline for the ex-
plusion of about 100 white
mercenaries still serving in the
Katanga Army.
A senior United Nations Of
ficial said Wednesday night the
United Nations had given Ka-
tanga President Tshombe "a
matter of days" to carry out
the expulsion order.
White mercenaries were
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07

chiefly blamed by the United
Nations for the fierce resistance
that greeted the world groups
attempt earlier this month to
end the PROVINCES secession
from the Congo.
Eight days CT fighting ended
with a UN-Katanga cease-fire
10 days ago and the Katanga
still maintained it's break
away status.
The new expulsion demand
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
14-Year-OId
Shot To Death
In Jackson Night
Club BraWI

A 14-year-old Negro boy was
shot to death as the result of an
argument at night club on the
outskirts of Jackson, Saturday
night.
Kinds county officers charged
Mary Lucille Jones, %, Negro,
of 3707 Hampton St., with mur-
der in the death of Wardell Ter
ny, IA, Of 1855 Reddix st.
Officers charged she killed
J CONTINUED on Page Three)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07

eve hear everyday that stor-
les of racial discrimination in
the United States are the best
propaganda weapon the Com
munists have" Mr.. Field told
the group. conversely, the
true story of progress being
made by racial minorities is the
best weapon to offset such prop
aganda.
Il do not contend that racial
discrimination does not exist in
this country. If that were true,
there would be no need for
agencies such as the Presidents
Continued on Page Two)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
See Communist In Plot To
Overthrow Liberia Regime

Monrovia, Oct. 2 = A police
hunt has been launched for a
former convicted traitor in con-
nection with an alleged plot
to overthrow the Liberian re-
gime and install a Communist
one with the b. lp of the Soviet
embassy in the nearby Guinea.
The announcement of the plot
came late Wednesday. 1t said
that the Liberian Justice De-
partment had conclusive"
case against Booker T. Brace
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Governor Denies
Segregation
Talk On State
Industry

Governor Ross Barnett, while
attending the Southern Cover
nors Conference in Nashville,
Tenn. last week, according to
press reports denied having
made the statement to the eff
feet that northern industry was
moving to Mississippi because
of the states rigid racial seq
regation policy.
According to previous press
Continued on Page Seven)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07

we'll.
Bracewell was handed a capi-
tai sentence in 1866 on trea-
son charges in connection with
plot to assassinate President
Tubman.
However, he was subsequent
ly pardoned after SPEEDING two
years in prison.
The announcement said that
the plot was unearthed when
confidential source reported
Continued on Page Six)
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07
Civil Rights
AdvisoryGroup
Reports On
Negro Voting
Cite Five Reasons
For Small Number
Of Negro Votes
In The State

An official of the State Civil
Rights Advisory Committee re-
ports an increase in the num-
Der of Negroes registered to
vote in the state, according to
an article by James Saggus, a
staff writer for the Associated
Press.
The article said the report
by the St. Advisory Commit
tee of the commission may sur
prise some familiar with the
federal suits charging discrimi-
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate., 1961-10-07

Patronize Our Advertis-
ers - Their Advertising
in this paper shows that
they appreciate your
trade.
Evening star., 1961-03-12

T1he unusual version of the world shown on
= our cover is the first official color picture of
major symbol of the Sixties - the Unsphere.
The Unisphere is the theme symbol of the l964-65
New York Worlds Fair, now in the planning stage
on drawing boards. This Fair will be held in Flush
ing Meadows, scene of the 1889 New York's World
Fair. On our cover is artists representation of
the stainess-steel giant Q2O feet in diameter that
the US Steel Corporation will construct and present
to the Fair for installation at Flushing Meadow
Park At night flashing lights will pinpoint the capi
tails of the world while satellites zip around i'll orbit.
''The Unisphere,'' says Robert Moses, President
of the New York Worlds Fair l964-65 Corporation,
represents mans achievements a shrinking
globe in an expanding universe, and the necessity
of achieving peace through understanding.
Evening star., 1961-03-12
by JOSEPH GIES

The Unisphere will be the biggest armillary
sphere ever constructed An armillary sphere, just
in case you didn't know, is model of the world
formed on concentric rings "a sort of global
skeleton. The Unisphere, which will be mounted
over 35O-foot pool, will not be taken down after
the Fair, but left as permanent establishment of
the park.
Meantime, on the opposite coast, Seattle has
picked a symbol for its own Worlds Fair, the
Century 81 Exposition" due to open in April,
1862 Seatles Fair planners have possibly even out:
symboled New York's, with 55O-foot-high tower
called the Space Needle (see above). 1t will house
22Oseat restaurant which will revolve as you eat
You'll get view of the Cascade Range with your
SOUP Puget Sound with your entree and snow
capped Mount Rainier - Continued on page %