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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Arguments Heard In Suit To Enter
The University Of Mississippi

Meridian, Miss, Aug. 1.-Argu-
ments were heard here Tuesday on
the suit filed by James Meredith,
Negro student, to enter the Uni
versity of Mississippi, after which
Federal District Judge Sidney
Mize refused a request of COM
plaintants lawyers to examine a
sworn statement by a University
official.
Judge Mize did agree, however,
to let NAACP lawyers look at Uni
versity records involving the appli-
cations of transfer students, letters
of recommendation of applicants,
summer school applications, and
records of undergraduate students.
Meredith, 24-year-old Kosciusko
Negro, filed suit recently asking
a court order to keep the univers-
ity from barring him because of
his race. He has been student
at Jackson State College for Ne
groes and sought to enter the uni
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
North Carolina Leads South In
State Appointment Of Negroes

Raleigh, N. C.-This state leads
the South and many northern states
in the number of Negroes serving
on state boards and commissions.
The number of Negroes holding
state appointments was emphasized
recently when Gov. Terry Sanford
named Drs. James w. Seabrook
and Samuel E. Duncan to state
posts. Their appointments brought
the total to seven, more than in
any other southern state.
Gov. Sanford appointed DR.. Sea-
brook to the State Employment
Security Commission, the first time
a Negro has served on that body.
The governor named DR.. Duncan,
president Of Livingstone college,
Salisbury, to the State Board Of
Public Welfare, another "first" and
then rounded out his series Of pre-
cedent-setting actions with another
"first," the naming Of DR.. Edwards,
professor and chairman Of the A.
and T. college department Of chem
istry, to the Advisory Committee
on Atomic Energy.
In being named to the posts, the
three join four other colored citi-
CONTINUED on Page Five)
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Police Dogs
Anger Rhode
Island Negroes

Providence, r. /. - Urban Lea
que officials today worked to cool
tempers Of South End Negroes an
gered when police used trained
dogs to quell a riot earlier this
week.
The leagues action was its part
Of an agreement with Police Chief
Walter E.. Stone who rushed the
dogs into the district when the
riot threatened to get out Of hand.
The chief, in turn, promised he
would not use dogs in the future
unless . specific emergency de-
veloped.
The leagues executive secretary,
James N. Williams, told Stone his
organisation "felt it important to
point out to the police that the
use Of dogs IL to the Negro, !
CONTINUED on Page Two)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
White House Associate Press
Secretary Shriners Prineipa! Speaker

Cincinnati, Ohio - Andrew T.
Hatcher, White House Associate
Press Secretary, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the sixth national
convention of the Ancient Egyptian
Arabic Order Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine beginning Sunday, August
20. The convention will close on
Friday, August %.
Mr.. Hatcher, who was the first
Negro to be appointed by President
Kennedy and also the first of his
race to hold Press Secretaryship
in the White House, will speak
during the Public Program at the
Cincinnati Music Hall Springer
Auditorium at 1:30 p. m.
More than 5000 delegates,
friends and families are expected
to attend the six day meeting.
Domestic, international and health
problems affecting Prince Hall
Continued on Page Two)
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ing.
At the same time, property as
sessments are down SO million
while the property tax rates is ris-
ing-about SO per thousand over
last year.
The obvious answers are the So
million urban renewal program
now ready to get underway, and
cutting city costs-such as rising
welfare expenditures to unem-
ployed migrant farm workers and
incorriglble loafers.
"All of this has very strong ra-
cial overtones," says the Rev. Will
liam D. Burton of the Ebenezer
Baptist Church and spokesman for
the Negro Ministers Union.
Most of the worst slums slated
for renewal are occupied by Ne
groes. The biggest chunk of well
fare money for migrants and moth
ers of illegitimate children goes to
Negroes.
CONTINUED on Page Eighty
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SEE AFRICAN NATIONS BACK In NEWS SPOTLIGHT;
Prime Minister
Of Nigeria
Warmly Greeted
In Washington
Nigeria Expected To
Emerge Responsible
Leader Of Africa

Washington, July 20 - Wash
ington has two check-off lists on
Africa, one for possible trouble
spots, the other for areas of hope.
AS for today, Nigeria heads the
latter.
UNDERSTANDABLE, there are few
overseas visitors that Kennedy
administration officials greet as
warmly as the real, handsome,
moderate Sir Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa, Prime Minister of the
Federation of Nigeria.
The most populous 10000
Continued on Page Five)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Nations Capitol
City Has Its
First Negro
Commissioner
James B. Duncan
Approved By Senate
After Reeves Decline

Washington, D. c., July 20 -
The nations Capitol city has the
first Negro Commissioner in its
history, as the Senate confirmed
without opposition President Ken
nedy's nomination of John B. Dun
can to the $4,000 per year post,
as a second choice.
He was nominated by the Presi-
dent after Atty. Frank Reeves,
White House Aide, first Negro
nominee, asked that his name be
withdrawn from consideration for
the post after Senate inquiry dis
closed that he had been neglect
full in paying his taxes.
Senate approval of Duncan was
by voice vote, the routine meth
cd of confirmation of most Pres
idential appointees for District
and Federal jobs.
Duncan, 81, presently serving
as Recorder OF Deeds, was sworn
Continued on Page Four)
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See Portugal's
Outlook In
Africa Becoming
More Desperate
Charge Barbarism
On Both Sides
Of Conflict

Durham, South Africa-For Por-
tugal, the last great, lingering CO.
lonial power on this continent, the
outlook in Africa is becoming in
creasingly desperate.
In Angola, despite the official
communicates and the censorship,
the Portuguese colonial war against
African rebels is clearly not going
in Portugals favor. Yet another
1900 troops have just been shipped
out from Lisbon to swell the 10000
already in Angola. But with only
a month before the rains set in
Continued on Page Two)
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Mayor Of AII-Negro Town
Talks With indianapolis Mayor

Indianapolis = Mayor Clarence
w. Lee Of Kinloch, Mo-, and May
or Charles H. Boswell OF this
city met last week in Boswelps
office in City Hall. The SO-mlnute
conversation between the two
heads Of government ranged from
Urban Renewal projects to civil
rights.
Kinloch, an all-Negro town IL
miles from st. Louis, has popu-
lation Of $500. 1t has It's own po-
lice force, q fire department, post
office, three grade schools and a
high school. It also has the only
Negro postmaster in the state OF
Missouri and the only Negro sup
erintendent Of schools.
Mayor Lee, serving his first
term - mayor after presiding
four years as president Of the
Board Of Aldermen, was in indian
apolis to visit relatives.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Little Foxes"
To Honor Negro
Film Artists

Los Angeles, Calf. -Bil Howard,
national prexy for the LITTLE
FOXES AND THE HARES (aspir-
ing models-of-color, female and
males respectively, is happy to
announce what he feels is long
overdue occasion of merit. The
LITTLE FOXES FINLAND
FESTIVAL" which he is coordinat-
ing and directing for the Laurence
Elwood Enterprises of Hollywood
will primarily honor many of the
Negro artists who have contributed
to the Opening of the doors" in
the film industry. On the list for
this singular honor to be made
Aug. 9th at the Statler Hilton
Hotel in Los Angeles are such
names as Lena Horne, Sidney Poi
tier, Harry Belafonte, Dorothy DAN
bridge, Pearl Bailey, Woody Strobe,
Eartha Kit, Rochester, Juanita
Moore, Eta Moten, Louise Beav-
ers, James Edwards and so many
Continued on Page Seven)
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Federal Judge Declines To Open
Prince Edwards County Schools

closed two years ago to avoid ra-
cial Indignation.
Judge Lewis's comments came
Wednesday in the third day of
a hearing as attorneys for the
Negro plaintiffs and the Prince
Edward School Board summarized
before the judge their arguments
in a court case testing the legal
ity of the school closures.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
inner session.

versity for the summer session.
The court directed the university
to have the records available for
NAACP inspection at the U. S.
marshal's office in Jackson next
week for viewing on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday.
Mize said the application seeking
to study the sworn statement of
Ellis came too late. He said the
hearing had started before it was
received. 1t has been recessed sew
eral times.
The Judge directed lawyers for
both sides, the marshal and rep
resentative Of the university to be
present during the inspections.
Representing the NAACP today
was Negro lawyer R. Jess Brown
of Vicksburg. The states lawyers
were headed by Asst. Atty. Gen.
Dugas Stands of Jackson, the
Continued on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Find Body
OF Missing
TougaIoo Man

An elderly Negro man missing
from his home near Tougaloo for
several days was found dead on the
outskirts Of Jackson last night.
Sheriff ]. r. Gilfoy said the body
Of, Paul Purnell, n, was found In
q wooded area off Highway 81
north Of the Jackson city limits.
A coroner's jury ruled he died Of
natural causes.
Purnell disappeared from his
home several days ago. His son
had notified officers to watch for
him.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05

The Golden Anniversary Conclave
of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity will
be held August 14-18, 1861, at the
Sheraton Park Hotel, Washington,
D. C.
The four cardinal principles
Manhood, Scholarship, Persever-
ance and Uplift, is the program
theme.
Tuesday, August Is, 1861:
DR.. Robert C.. Weaver, Admins
traitor of Federal Housing Admin
istration, will be featured at a
luncheon.
Otto McClarrin, Information Of
ficer, U. S. Commission Of Civil
Rights, will address the Plenary
Session.
Wednesday, August Is, 1861:
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05

Richmond, Va, July II "A fed
eral judge here said it would be
up to the Virginia Supreme Court
to determine whether Prince Ed
ward County's public schools were
closed in violation of the states
constitution.
Judge Oren R. Lewis of Rich
mond Federal District Court said
he was not going to require the
reopening of the county's schools,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
See Welfare Deductions Aimed
AT Negroes In New York Town

NEWBURGH, N. with the
national eye on this little city and
its 13-poiint plan to curb welfare
costs now finally in effect, a small
but informed voice of public ap-
prehension says national trouble
may be coming, too.
According to this group of con-
cerned residents, both Negro and
white, behind this plausible argu-
ments for Newburgh's Plan lies the
first face-to-face challenge in the
North to the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People.
What will the NAACP do about
it, they ask?
For these increasingly worried
Newburgers, the subtle but direct
challenge to Negroes in the plan
comes about like this:
With outlying shopping centers
draining the areas 10000 potential
shoppers away from downtown
Newburg, local income is diminish
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
NEGRO NAMED MANAGER OF
VETERANS BENEFITS OFFICE

Washington-George L. Holland,
Assistant Manager for Veterans
Benefits at the Veterans Admins
tration Center in st. Paul, Mimi,
and veteran career civil servant,
has been named Manager of the
Veterans Benefits Office in WASH
ington, d. c.
Holland is the first Negro to
become manager of a major VA
benefits office.
The Veterans Benefit Office, at
Constitution Avenue and goth
Street, NV, administers, IA
benefits for all veterans in the Dis
trict of Columbia and in Montgom-
cry and Prince Georges counties in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05

opening ceremony was expected to
be carried out by President Kasa-
vubu.
The spokesman said Joseph Kas-
ongo, leading member of the Lu-
mumbist Congolese National Move
ment, was reelected President of
the Chamber of Deputies and Vic
tor Komoriko was named President
of the Senate.
The offices of vice-presidents and
secretaries were given to members
of pro-Lumumbist groups, but Dip
Continued on Page Two)
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Kennedy Names
Ambassador To
Congo Republic

Hyannis Port, Mass.-President
Kennedy has selected Edmund A.
Gullion, now deputy director of the
United States Disarmament Ad-
ministration, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of the Congo at Leo
poldville.
Mr.. Gullion has been in the dip
lomatic service most of the time
since 1887. He served in such
countries as France Che speaks
fluent French, Greece, Finland,
England, Algeria, Sweden, and In
CONTINUED on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Whites SPONSOR NEGROES IN
DALLAS INTEGRATI0N TESTS

Dallas, Tex. - One hundreo
and fifty-six Negroes went into
40 formerly all-white restaurants
and Mushrooms throughout Dallas
Thursday.
1t was a peaceful migration
program sponsored by white and
Negro leaders to prepare the way
for the court-ordered integration
Of schools at the first grade level
in September.
Every important store in town
was visited by Negro couples.
The Observation-Disclosures Mel
man-Marcus speciality store and
its expensive restaurant, the Zodiac
Room, were included.
There were no incidents. A
spokesman for the Dallas Citizens
Council, which arranged the inte-
grafton in cooperation with Ne
gro committee, said only one
white customer objected.
The council Is q more than 30
year-old organization made up OF
the presidents Of $50 leading bus
Continued on Page Four)
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SEE KINGS LEADERSHIP AND LACK
OF PERSONAL SACRIFICE AS NOT
COMPARED TO GHANDI OF
india AND AFRICAN LEADERS
Say Real Dedicated Leadership Entails
Tremendous Personal Self Sacrifice
Say King Should Be With Freedom Riders

Chicago, H., July 20 - Dan
Burnley, Managing Editor of the
New Crusader, Militant Negro
newspaper here, last week, an
swered critics of his recent front
page article under the caption,
Why Isn't Rev. Martin Luther
King in Jail?
In his answer he said: Many,
and / do mean many, readers of
these musings rose up in right
eous Indignation at my recent eff
frontry for even having the tent
Gritty to askin print the sacrili-
geous question as to "Why Isn't
Dr.. M. L. King in Jail? The re-
verbrations have been wide and
from all shades of opinion. For
most persons reading my piece
considered it highly immoral at
tack on a symbol of Negro leader
ship.
The excuses offered on behalf
of DR.. Kings not sharing the dis
comforts, abuses and other indig-
mites of the black and white
Freedom Riders by voluntarily go
Continued on Page Sky
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Negro Gets
High Post
In Memphis

MEMPHIS. - A Negro lawyer
was named to the Memphis Transit
Authority Tuesday, with four city
commissioners overriding the may
or's objections.
Mayor Henry Loeb considered A.
w. Willis, Jr. too controversial be-
cause Of his activities in the de-
segregation struggle here. The
post pays $1,000 . year. The term
ends in 1868.
The three-man authority fixes
policy for the city-owend 267-bus
TRANSIT system. Over so per cent
Of the systems customers are Ne
groes.
CONTINUED on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Negro Gets
High Post At
Minnesota j.

Minneapolis, MINI. - James H.
Reeves has been promoted to per-
haps the most important admins
trativs post ever held by Z Negro
at the University Of Minnesota.
Reeves, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
James H. Reeves Sr., Greensboro,
N. c., has besn appointed assist
(Contiiiaed on Page Four)
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
SAN FRANCISCO EDITOR ASKS
WHY DAN Burnley ISN'T IN JAIL

SAN FRANCISCO.-"Why isn't
Dan Burley in jail?"
This was the question asked last
week by the Sun-Reporter in an
editorial response to Burley's con-
troversial question of "Why Isn't
Martin Luther King in jail ?"
Indignant over the implications
of Burley's question, the Sun-Re-
porter declared. Zone of the most
ridiculous items of the current sea-
son of the Freedom Riders, who
are conducting non-violent tests of
the illegal segregation laws in in
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Negro Teachers
Lose Jobs In
Mound City, III.

Danville, ILL.,, July ~ - L. L.
Owens and his wife, Gertrude
charged in United States District
Court suit that they lost their
jobs as teachers in Mound City,
ILL.,, public schools because they
are Negroes.
The couple alleged they were
Disseminated against after the
merger of two high schools in
Mound City. All five Negro teach
ers were dismissed and all seven
white teachers retained, they
charged. Before the merger one
school served the white popula-
ton, the other the Negro.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Willie Mays
Wife Granted
$3.50 Per N eek

San Francisco, Calf. - Early
Monday morning, Willie Mays,
and his tall, slim wife appeared
briefly before Judge Karesh on 4
SHOW cause" hearing why the
star slugger should not be COM
PEELED to pay his wife $500 =
month temporary support for her
and their adopted son, Michael
-Rosiny Mays, 2h.
BY her side was her attorney,
CONTINUED on Page Severn
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Congo Parliament Elects Patrice
Lumumba Supporter Chairman

Leopoldville, Congo-The Congo
lese Parliament has reelected a
supporter of slain Patrice Lumum-
ba as chairman of the Chamber of
Deputies, it was announced We'd
nesday.
A United Nations spokesman
made the announcement as he re-
ported the Parliament has held its
"first effective meeting, electing its
speakers and officers.
The spokesman was unable to
say whether the parliamentary SEES
sion now is officially open. The
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Results Seen AS
Victory Over White &
And Black Extremist

Durbin, S. A. July % = With
the referendum result in Southern
Rhodesia, the Rhodesian Fedora
ton appears to have retreated
from the brink of immediate dis,
Indignation.
This is the Interpretation which
African observers are placing up
Continued on Page Six)
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terstate travel in the Southern
states, is front page article en-
titled "Why Isn't DR.. M. L. King
In Jail?" in the June "a issue of
the New Crusader of Chicago.
dan Burley, the Crusaders
managing editor, who wrote the
article stated: zone of the great
unanswered questions of the day
is why DR.. Martin Luther King,
Jr., spiritual leader of the southern
non-violent movement and most
vcciferous spokesman for the Free
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Tuskegee Has
Openings For
Job Seekers

Tuskegee, Ala. - The Board of
Civil Service Examiners at the
Veterans Administration Hospital,
Tuskegee, Alabama has announc-
ed examinations and is accepting
applications for Telephone Operat-
or, Laborers, and Nursing Assist
ant. Beginning salaries for these
positions are: $1.13 per hour for
laborers; $500 per year for nurs-
ing assistants; 1890 per year for
telephone operators.
The lists of eligibles resulting
from these examinations will sup
ercede lists established from pre-
vious examinations for these jobs.
Therefore, all persons interested
in these positions should apply for
Continued on Page Eight
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Negro Workers
In Omaha To Be
Hard Hit By
Packinghouse
Attenuation
Of CTS To Lose Jobs
500 Are Expected
To Be Negroes

OMAHA, Nebr.-The economic
backbone of the Negro community
is expected to be broken when
the Cudahy packing company, big
gest employer of Negro labor
here, switches to automation, &C
cording to an Urban League sur
vey.
The study made by George Il.
Robinson and Sandy Perry points
out that the layoffs have disas-
trous economic repercussions be-
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
White Groups
Announce Plan
For Counter
Boycott In |
Savannah, Ga.
No Precise Date Set
For Lunch Counter
Indignation

Savannah, Ga. July 20 - A
long drawn out Negro boycott
which recently ended here with the
announcement that downtown lunch
counters would be integrated is
now being charged with having in
spired a counter boycott that has
been announced by white groups
here, to halt lunch counter inte-
grafton.
Sponsors of this movement is
the Chatham County White Citi-
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
Desegregation Suit Filed By The
Govt Against Montgomery Airport

PENDANTS have been served with
first papers.
The civil suit charges that the
airport's present operation vio-
lates antidiscrimination provisions
of the Federal Aviation Act of
1853.
Attorney General Robert F. Ken
nedy said he acted at the request
of the Civil Aeronautics Board
and the Federal Aviation Agency.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05
See Threat To
South Africa
Gold Mining

johannesburg = South Africa's
gold mining industry is working
at record production and "increas-
ing efficiency" but its future is
felt to be seriously threatened by
foreign investors disinclined to
place more money here because of
the country's clouded political and
racial situation.
This picture is given by H. c..
Koch, president of the Chamber
Continued on Page Six
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05

Montgomery, Ala. July 26 =
The Justice Department brought
a suit in federal district court here
today to end what it called racial
segregation practices at Dannelly
Field, the Montgomery Municipal
Airport.
The action brought immediate
criticism from the city attorney.
He accused the Justice Depart
ment of seeking publicity by COM
menting on the suit before the de-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-08-05

AT OAK RIDGE - John A.
James, chairman of the Science and
Math Division at Mississippi Voca-
tional College, is attending the
Summer Institute at famed Oak
Ridge, Tenn. Mr.. James was aw-
arded Fellowship in Radiation
and Biology.
Arizona sun., 1961-01-26
WANTED

Minor repairs of amy kind.
Small rernodeiiRg or new work.
Finish carpentry.
LEE HOLLE
Arizona sun., 1961-01-26

Bundy's meetings. It explains TO rs Why
we have two Episcopal Church groups IN
Phoenix and Mesa passing resolutions re-
Iquesting the Bishop to censure the Ma
tional Council for something which peO-
pie who know, know that the Council new
|er has done. Mr.. Bundy stirred up quite a
storm when he, SO am told, urged some
Iof his listeners who were EpiscOpalian,
Methodist, or Presbyterian to go back to
their churches and make big noise against
the National Council and if that failed to
achieve their purpose, to pull out and join
the PentecOstal churches with their
Christian Council of Churches which is
Billy Hargis crowd.