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Arizona sun., 1961-10-12
Segregated Travel
Terminated By Order
Of Commission

New York-The Interstate Com
merce Commissions ruling BAN
ming racial segregation on inter-
state buses and in terminals used
by these buses eliminates a Is
year drive to get rid of Jim Crow
travel.
A series of NAACP- sponsored
law suits and complaints filed with
the ICC laid the legal basis of the
ruling requested by Attorney Gen.
eral Robert F. Kennedy on May
20 after the Freedom Rides last
spring focused international at
tention anew on the continuing
Jim Crow practices in Alabama
and Mississippi bus terminals.
The ICC handed down a ruling
OH Sept. % requiring all interstate
buses, as of Nov. l. 1861, to dis
play conspicuously signs reading:
Seating aboard this vehicle is
without regard to race, color,
creed, or national origin, by order
of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission
The Commission order also pro-
hibits interstate buses from using
"any terminal facilities which are
so operated, arranged, or main
tanned as to involve any separa-
tion of any portion thereof, or in
the use thereof on the basis of
race, color, creed or national orr
Egin."
Ticket offices located in private
stores at bus stops are nottcovered
by this prohibition.
Other requirements of the order
include a printed notice Of nom
discrimination on all tickets sold
on or after Jan. 1, 1868; public
display of the ICC anti-diScrimi-
nation regulations in all terminals
used by interstate buses and re-
ports to the ICC by the bus COM
panies within IS days Of its oc-
currence, any interference by any
person, municipality, county, par
ish, state or body politics with its
observance of the requirements of
these regulations.
The ICC order was hailed by
NAACP Executive Secretary Roy
Wilkins as gratifying amplifi-
cation of the ICC ruling handed
down in 1855 in response to a Pc
tition filed by the NAACP. It
MEANS" he said, "that American
citizens may now travel freely a.
Continued on Page Five)
Arizona sun., 1961-10-12
Judge James B. Parsons Appointment

1--WE welcome him today as a
brother" said Judge Campbell.
Sen. Paul H. Douglas Cd of
Illinois, who proposed Judge Par
sons name to the President, tele-
graphed from Washington: "YOu
can help to open up legitimate
avenues of progress for many
rabbi Jacob ]. Weinstein of
Kan Temple called Judge Par
sons investiture "a token and a
harbinger of a better day." and
a reminder that Justitia with her
scales of justice wears a blind
fold symbolizing an impartiality
that applies to color.
To-day we have reached a goal
toward which a host of people
have pushed through many years,
said Archibald Carey, well-known
Chicago Negro lawyer and pastor
and Judge Parsons Republican
opponent in the Superior court
election last November.
University of Chicago Law
School Dean Edward H. Levi re-
called that Judge Parsons, as a
beginning law student, had been
asked to write why he wanted to
enter law studies:
"He entitled it," said Dean Levi,
"Why l Want In Today" said
the dean to the new judge, ''you
are in" Nov it was Judge Par
sons turn to speak. In his posed,
gentle manner. he thanked all
the shareholders in my career"
MY beloved family" "the many,
many little people from whence
come and to whom I belong.
81 kneel in honor and sincere
appreciation, not exultation. :.
see only sacrifice to be made
and duty to be performed. My
dedication is to the law for the
improvement of society. l ask
your confidence, your encourage
ment, and your prayers.
'The son of a Decatur, ILL.,,
clergyman who had hoped his boy
would also be a minister, moved
softly into the annals of a nations
progress.
Arizona sun., 1961-10-12
Supreme Court Is
Asked To Reverse
Clerk S Conviction

Washington-Reversal of con-
tempt conviction of Rev. Theodore
R. Gibson, president of the Miami
NAACP branch, is asked in brief
filed Thursday tSept. 28) with the
United States Supreme Court.
Father Gibson, an Episcopal
priest, was held in contempt by
the Florida Legislative Investiga-
ton Committee because he refus-
ed to produce the NAACP mem
bership list or to identify as mem
bers of the Association names of
persons read to him at committee
hearings in Tallahassee, Fla, Nov.
AS, 1859.
A state trial court held, on July
10, 1860, that there was no valid
reason why he should not be re-
quired to produce the NAACP re-
cords for questioning by the COM
mittee. At the second hearing, on
July 81, 1860, he again refused to
produce the records.
On August 30, 1860, a state cir
cult court adjudged Father Gibson
in contempt of the legislative COM
mittee and sentenced him to six
months Imprisonment and a fine
of 81 200.
The legislative committee was
established in 1856 for the osten-
sible purpose of investigating al
legged communist influence in Or
ganizations operating in the race
relations and civil rights fields with
a view to ferreting out organiza-
tions and individuals advocating
violence or a course of conduct
which constitute a violation" of
the laws of Florida.
In accord with NAACP policy,
Father Gibson refused to identify
Association members and contri-
butors on the ground that such dis
closure would expose them to eco
nomic reprisals and other forms of
persecution and discrimination.
Representing the militant clergy
man are Robert L. Carter, NAACP
General Counsel, and his assistant,
Mrs. Maria L marcus, both of New
York City; G. E. Graves, Jr., of
Miami. and Frank D. Reeves of
Washington.
The brief they submitted to the
Supreme Court on behalf of Faith
er Gibson asserts that "the record
fully documents the contention
that the public Identification o
membership in the NAACP in
Florida results in reprisals of vari-
GUS proportions" 1t cites instances
of bomb threats. shootings, dis
missals from jobs, telephone ha-
rassment, and threats of intimi-
dation.
"The result of revelation of
Continued on Page Five)
Arizona sun., 1961-10-12
CORE PUSHES
FREEDOM RIDES
AND EMPLOYMENT

Washington, D. C. = Delegates
to CORES nineteenth annual Con-
vention voted unanimously to a.
dopt report presented by Ma
tional Director James Farmer to
return the struggle for dignity on
the nations highways from the
courts to the conscience of Ameri-
ca"
The Freedom Ride resolution
called for the recruitment and
special training of a new groups
of Freedom Riders committed to
a no-bail policy no matter what
the length of their sentence.
At the same time the $50 con-
vention delegates voted to contin-
ue legal support for those Free
dom Riders now out on appeal
bonds.
The Freedom Rides were called
Continued on Page Five)
Arizona sun., 1961-10-12

young ladies were welcomed by
the Links and given information
on plans for the elaborate debut
their daughters will make at the
Ramada Inn the evening of March
;, 1862. The beauty of a Sunday
afternoon was matched by the
radiant proud mothers as the Phoe-
nix Links honored their daughters.
Each prospective Cotillionette
for the spring of 1862 was greeted
with her mother by the commit
tee in charge of arrangements:
Mines. Maude Dunno, chairman,
Helen Swindall, Cleo Moorehead,
Ann Wormley. Mrs. Mary Jones,
president co-chairing the Cotil-
lion with Mrs. LaVerne Jackson,
addressed the group. Mrs. Nc
Fraddie Martin, Cotillionette chair
man, introduced Cotilli0nettes and
their mothers and gave require.
Arizona sun., 1961-10-12
THE WHITFIELDs
TAKE VACATION

Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Whitfield, Sr.
have returned from a months va
cation in the east. There they visit
ed their daughter, Mrs. Samuel
Williams of Chester, Pennsylvania
who presented them with their
first grandson. While there they
visited New York City. Atlantic
City and many other interesting
places.
On their return home the Whit
fields visited their daughter, Mrs.
Colorado. Mrs. Whitfield is quoted
as saying, ''The east is a good
place to be from. Nothing can
beat Arizona.
Arizona sun., 1961-10-12

This mOmentOus crisis in the life Of or
ganzed mankind may be Iikened to the cul'
minating stage in the political evolution OF the
great American Republic - the stage which
marked the emergence of unified community
of federated states.
Arizona sun., 1961-10-12

u. S. Postage
Phoenix Arizona
Bulk Rate
Permit NO. 498
PAID
Arizona sun., 1961-10-12
THE NEGRO PRESS CREDO

,, The Negro Press believes that America
can best lead the world away from racial and
national antagOnsms when II accOrds to every
man, regardless of race, color or creed. his
human and legal rights. Hating no man, fearing
no man, the Negro Press strives to help every
man I'm the firm belief that all are hurt long
as anyone Is held back.
Arizona sun., 1961-10-12
ice BANS jim CROW TRAVEL LING
Links Honor Future Cofi||ionettes
And Mothers At Very Successful Tea

Prospective Cotillionettes of the Phoenix Links,
Inc, officially greeted by the sponsoring group
when they were honored at beautiful Autum Tea,
October at the YMCA All the mothers of the
Evening star., 1961-03-19
RiverCompact
Fight Mapped
BYWatermen

BALTIMORE, Mar. Is (AP)
"A group of Southern Mary
land watermen laid out their
battle lines today for an April
4 fight in the Maryland Court
Of Appeals against the Mary
land-Virginia Potomac River
Compact.
Hyman A. Pressman, a Balti-
more attorney representing the
watermen, filed a brief with the
high court, arguing against the
compact on grounds that it
was a violation both of State
laws and the State constitution.
The watermen are appealing
a decision handed down Janu-
ary IL this year by Judge
Anselm Sodaro of the Balti-
more Circuit Court. Judge
Sodaro ruled that the bi-State
compact, which was approved
in a general State referendum
last November, was valid.
The watermen's suit named
Gov. TaweS as appellee, con-
tending the Governor and his
officials failed to publicize all
the details of the compact be-
fore the referendum.
In his appeal, Mr.. Pressman
Evening star., 1961-03-19
MARYLAND BRIEFS
Pilot Killed
In Putuxent
Jet Crash

PATUXENT, Md, Mar. ls
(SpeciaD The pilot of a twin
engine Jet attack bomber wa,
killed in the crash Of his plane
In shallow water of the Patux-
ent River yesterday, a spokes-
man at the Naval Air Station
here reported.
He was identified as 1t
Comdr. William E. Grimes, 81
OF Catawaissa, Pa, who was
alone in the plane.
Parts Of the plane, which
broke apart. were being recov.
cred during the day in opera.
tions hampered by the shallow
water, which would not &C.
commodate large boats. Re.
coVery operations were con.
tinued tonight.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Maryland Democrats Demand
Voice in Federal PATRONAGE :.

Mr.. Finan says even the
White House recognizes that
complaint and has not charged
Maryland with such appoint
ments as Eugene Zuckert, new
Secretary of the Air Force and
Burke Marshall, Assistant At
torney General. Both are resi-
dents Of Chevy Chase.
The Maryland group is an.
noyed because they say the
White House has ignored their
recommendations for a number
Of top Federal jobs. These in
cluded the suggested appoint
ments of Mrs. Margaret
SchWeinhaut as Assistant Sec
retary of Health, Education and
Welfare; David Wallace as AS
Sistant Secretary of the Inte-
rior for Fish and Wildlife, and
Representative Lankford as AS
sistant Secretary Of the Navy,
Democratic leaders say only
one of their recommendations
for a Federal post outside the
State has been honored-that
of former Baltimore Mayor
Thomas d'Alessandro, nomi-
mated last week for the Re-
negotiations Board.
Complicating the picture is
the absence Of any acknowl-
edged Democratic leader in the
9Th congressional district, which
includes Montgomery County.
Ever since a Republican, Rep
resentative Matthias, defeated
the Democratic incumbent,
John Foley, last fall, there has
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Kennedy TV
PorIeys Get


President Kennedy'S televiSed
news conferences got q pat on
the back yesterday from the
man who pioneered in the in
noVation.
James c. Hagerty, press sec
retary to former President
Eisenhower, said he thought
the ne wPresident 'iS doing a
pretty good job" with televised
news conferences.
Mr.. Hagerty. now with the
American Broadcasting Com
pany as vice president in
charge of news, special events
and public affairs, gave his
evaluation during the first
annual press convention spon-
sored by Regina High School, in
Adelphi, Md. More than $50
students attended from 40
schools in the District, Mary
land and Virginia.
In responce to students
questions, Mr.. Hagerty said he
knew Of no better way Of get
ting the Presidents news con-
ference to the people, than by
television.
I'VE (ABC) will carry 1t any
time the White House asks" he
added.
Mr.. Hagerty advised students
to enter radio and television
work, particularly because of
the immediacy of news that
will come with communications
satellites.
He predicted that within six
years the network, with the
satellite, could switch to Tokyo.
London or Paris as easily as it
now switchen from New York
to Washington.
I'VE hope to get some sort
Of image from the OlympicS in
Tokyo in 1854" he said.
During the all-day conven-
ton students attended work.
shops on news and feature
writing, photography, public
relations and yearbook produc-
ton.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
COLLEGE BELL CLAPPER GONE,
FOG HORN ALERTS STUDENTS

ANNAPOLIS (AP) Chalk up for the faculty
Students at st. Johns College here recently pulled
an oft-repeated prank-taking the clapper from the
Mcdowell Hall bell
The bell is used to summon students to class and
tolls five minutes before and five minutes after the hour
The faculty came through with apt substitute
fog horn What's more they're keeping the fog horns
location q secret.
We're afraid the students will take both the horn
and the anitor who operates it." college Treasurer
Charles T. Elzey said.
College officials maintain the fog horn will continue
In use until the clapper of the bell is returned.
Evening star., 1961-03-19

argued the referendum did not
meet legal advertising require
mentS, and the full text of the
proposed compact Shound have
been published in at least so
newspapers throughout the
State prior to the vote.
Gov. Tawes and other State
officials have argued that there
was substantial compliance"
with the legal. advertising re-
quirement, since the compact
received wide general publicity
in newspapers. Judge Sedaro
upheld the Governors view in
his ruling.
The object OF the compact
is to create a bi-State agency
that would regulate fishing on
the Potomac River.
Mr.. Pressman especially OBJ
jected to a provision in the
compact that would make it
possible for Virginia courts to
try Maryland residents. He
said the compact transfers to
Virginia courts the Jurisdiction
to try persons for any offense
committed on the Potomac
River"
The Potomac River compact
is an attempt to settle a long
standing feud between Mary
land and Virginia.
The latest compact already
has been ratified by Virginia.
If ratification were to fail its
legal tests in Maryland, pre-
the fight would go
back to the Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
OIney Folk and WSSC
Differ on Water Tower

from Clara May Downey, for
mer owner of the restaurant,
and was prepared to start con-
demnation proceedings should
she not agree to the sale by
today.
Then came the community
protests. Last week end pa
rishioners OF the Catholic
church started collecting sigma
lures on a petition seeking the
reconsideration and public
hearing.
900 Sign Petition
BY Tuesday, when the petit
ton was presented to the
WSSC, almost 500 signatures
had been collected, according
to Msgr. William J. Await, pas
tor of the church.
The petitioners conceded that
installation of such additional
water facilities may be ESSEN
tial to the health and welfare"
of Olney residents, bu t said its
erection on the proposed site
would be "unsightly and COM
pletely dominate the attractive
and picturesque landscape" Of
that area.
The petition also claimed 1t
would depreciate the church's
existing facilities, now valued at
over 100000, and said the
church has been negotiating
for a year and a half to
acquire land for a SIS million
expansion program.
The petitioners asked the
WSSC to pick another site.
Willard A. Morris, WSSC vice
chairman, said the commission
considered the tract in question
as the best Of several possible
sites because of its high loca-
ton.
Evening star., 1961-03-19

been a continuing tussle over
patronage in that area.
At the moment, each county
central committee in the dis
trict channels its recommends
tions through MIR. Finan, whose
home is in Cumberland.
Finan Bypassed
But Michael Monroney, jr., q
Montgomery County man who
is administrative assistant to
the Postmaster General, says
he has made several appoint
ments to postmasterships in
the district without consulting
Mr.. Finan.
One Maryland party leader
said he believes the Kennedy
administration is trying to fill
the posts with "Kennedy-type
people who will build a more
liberal organization in the
State"
In answer to the criticism,
Mr.. Bailey says potential Mary
land appointments have been
handled no differently from
those of any other State. He
said he and Lawrence O'Brien,
the Presidents assistant for
congressional affairs, "have
tried to get clearance from all
the States concerned with
every appointment"
But I'll be glad to talk to
the Maryland delegation" he
said. There are other Jobs
coming along"
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Maryland Lawmakers
Go Into the Stretch

sage evn when the urban eg-
islators get 1t broken loose
from It's rule book" trap. II
takes a three-fifths vote oi
both Houses to pass the bill
and the small-county legisla-
tors who control the General
Assembly have their ranks
closed pretty tight.
Another matter that has
given lawmakers considerable
concern and shortened the
temper Of the Governor may
settled Tuesday. This is the
Governors bill to convert
Frostburg State Teachers Col
lege to a branch of the Uni
verSity Of Maryland.
Legislative leaders, beset by
public aducation officials and
the teachers lobby, asked Gov
TaweS to call the FroStburg
bill off last week, but the Gov
ernor told them they were toe
faint-hearted. The vote on the
FroStburg bill coud determine
the future course Of higher ed
ucation in Maryland, and Gov
Tawes has q considerable
amount Of prestige riding on it
Slot Bill Hearing Due
Legislation to ban slot ma
chimes Is up for q hearing
Tuesday afternoon beofre the
House Judiciary Committee
Gov. Tawes and many legis-
lators would like to sweep this
one under a rug but the min
listers Of Southern Maryland
won't let them.
The most vital piece of leg
islation still in committee is
the 200 million budget and
taxing measures which 60
with it.
Tax bills can't move until
the budget is cleared. The Gov
ernor's supplemental budget
that's the things he left out
Of the first ONE probably will
be submitted this week.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
BY WILLIAM MacDOUGALL
Star staff Writer

Maryland Democrats, who
feel they have been left out in
the cold as far as Federal
patronage is concerned, are
planning to turn on the heat
tomorrow.
A delegation Of 10, led by
Gov. Tawes, has scheduled a
call on John M. Bailey, Demo-
cratic national chairman, to
see why its recommendations
for jobs have been largely ig-
nored.
The delegation will include
the States six Democratic Rep
resentatives, Maryland Attor-
ney General Thomas B. Finan,
who is State party chairman;
Mitchell j. Birmingham, ma
tional committeeman, and DR..
Mildred Otenasek, national
committeewoman.
They are expected to con-
front Mr.. Bailey with COM
plants that Maryland has been
short-changed on Federal ap-
pointments. They note that
President Kennedy carried the
State in November by a sub
stantial majority.
Recommendations Ignored
Except for a few jobs
handed to people who use
Maryland as a bedroom" one
member of the delegation COM
planned, there has been prac-
tically no patronage at all for
the State"
Evening star., 1961-03-19
Court Post Filled

ELLICoTT CITY, Md, Mar
18 AP).-Circuit Judge James
Macgill has named former
Sheriff w. Harvey, Sc, Of Daisy
Md, as clerk of the Howard
County Circuit Court.
Evening star., 1961-03-19
By PAUL HOPE
Star staff Writer

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 18.-One
hundred fifty-two weary Mary
land lawmakers begin tackling
q mountainous pile Of paper
next week as they try to clear
a legislative logjam so they
can go home April 8.
It's near the end of an
other 90-day session of the
General Assembly, and some
of the lawmakers who frit-
tered away a good deal of the
first 80 days are wishing they
had got down to business
earlier.
The House and Senate were
swamped with 397 bills during
the past week. This was only
IA fewer than the total intro
duced during the first month
of the session.
Most of the 397 bills were
local legislation, and more
than a few legislators thought
there was little excuse for the
last-minute rush to beat the
deadline of last Tuesday for
the introduction of bills.
1,5OO Bills In All
Several hundred Of the some
1900 bills introduced this ses-
sion will end up in committee
trash cans with little more
than . cursory examination.
Many Of them will never be
missed.
There is considerable senti-
ment among the part-time
lawmakers who spend three
months away from their bust
neSses that 80 days is too long.
A number Of legislators feel
that a 60-day session each
year might be better. Several
attempts to change the sys-
TEN have failed.
With only two weeks to go,
most of the controversial
Statewide legislation is still
pending.
Tydings Bill Pending
The controversial Tydings
bill, which would sharply curb
the activities of a savings and
loan association deposit in
Surance company run by three
legislators, is still in the Sen
ate. The hard-fought bill has
passed the House but has been
stalled for several days in the
Senate while individual SEN
ators null over whether they
should attempt to tighten or
loosen it. A move either way
could set off more fireworks.
Holding the spotlight at the
moment, however, is reappor-
tionment legislation. After
weeks Of being stalled in the
Senate, the Northrop-Pine bill
which would add 81 members
to the House of Delegates fl
nally got moving last week in
the House.
The House Judiciary Com
mittee had hardly breathed life
into the reapportionment bill
before the boys from the coun-
try were laying plans to kill it.
Now on the House floor, the
small-county legislators have
succeeded in stalling a vote on
the vote on the bill for two
days. They have more parlia-
mentary tricks ready.
ment bill has the backing of
Gov. Tawes, it is by no means
sure Of enough votes for pas
Evening star., 1961-03-19
BY CHARLES A. McALEER
Star Staff Writer

When the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission ex-
tended its water service to
Olney Md, less than three
years ago, little did 1t dream
that it would be involved in a
fight so soon afterWard over
how the water should be sup
piled. .,
The commission wants that
water to come from a 2.5 mil
lion-gallon water tank now
planned for construction on a
3.l-acre tract adjoining prop
erty Of St. Peters Catholic
Church.
The Olney church and its
parishioners object to that To-
cation, hoping to use the land
themselves for future expan-
sion Of the church's parochial
school and other parish facil-
tiles. .....
Hearing on April 4
It's an issue which won't be
resolved at least until April 4
when a public hearing will be
held at 8 pm. at the County
Office Building in Rockville so
WSSC members can hear views
Of Olney residents on the mat
ter and also present their side
Of the story.
The hearing is the result OF
successful efforts by the Olney
people to have the commission
reconsider it's decision to erect
the water tank on the church
land directly behind the Olney
Inn on State Route 81 Georgia
avenue extended.
The commission already had
made an offer to buy the land
Milford chronicle., 1961-06-09
sTANcHHoN TYPE

Sanitary pipeline encircles your
stanchion barn, and Universal gives,
you the advantages of supermatic
milking, carrying. cooling, filtering,
washing and Sanifizinq.
Milford chronicle., 1961-06-09
TANDEM TYPE

Elevated stalls for easier milking.
Tandem system gives more indi-
vidual control of COWS. Universal
gives you supermatic milking, weigh
ing. carrying, filtering, cooling,
washing and Sanitizing.