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Evening star., 1961-04-05
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Vice President johnson makes big hit in Africa It's
the old problem Our side gets the appause-and the Com
munists get the real estate.
Britains Macmillan confers at the White House.
feels bit nostalgia The British say he kind of liked that
other golfer-the who worked at it.
Kennedys rocking chair starts fad The rocking chair
is the mans space rocket No matter where you
it, you have feeling you just got back.
Russia declines to help foot the bill for various United
Nations operations cardcaTying Communist isn't
Sarily dues-paying Communist.
JacQueine Kennedy will accompany her husband to
Paris May 81 Question of It's midweek and they
can fly on the family plan.
The Audubon Society says the American bald eagle is
extinction The reports premature There's still Sam
Rayburn in the House. Adla in the UN and Ike the
golf course
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thus on his own grandeur
is one of the big facts Of
Western life.
He has no great interest in
going out to see the other
leaders; he likes them to
come to him. Remote, haugh-
ty, incorruptible. he believes
in the rights and privileges
of the patriarch - and Mr..
Kennedy has learned before
this how to be deferential to
his elders.
In the second place, Gen.
de Gaulle for years has been
shaking up the North Allan
tic Treaty Organization with
recurring complaints and de-
mands. It is absolutely vital
for Mr.. Kennedy to do all
he can to get better French
cooperation in this top in
strumentality of Western Sc
curity.
And in the third place, the
distinct unwillingnesS of the
French to risk anything at
all to halt Communist ag-
gression in Laos has put the
American President in a less
than happy position in Asia.
The May meeting in Paris
therefore between the young
former naval lieutenant and
the old former generalissimo
of wartime Free France will
be Mr.. Kennedy's most crit
ical test in personal diplo-
macy. There was some evil
dence during our last ad-
ministration that Gen. de
Gaulle regarded even Presi-
dent Eisenhower as a rather
junior soldering type, not
withstanding the five Ell
Senhower stars.
President Kennedy will
surely need to hope that his
own less-than-exalted war
time rank will not held too
much against him.
And what is never men
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DORIS FLEEsON

Michigan election returns
suggest that in his six terms
as Governor, Democrat G.
Mennen Williams, now AS
sistant Secretary of State for
African Affairs, built up a
durable and self-substaining
party organization.
In an off-year with only
Statewide offices at stake
. but not including the COVER
norship-a hefty voter turn
+. out reinforced Democratic
control Of the State.
More important for the
long pull was voter approval
of a proposal for a constitu-
tional convention, that States
first since 1908. This is the
beginning Of the end of ram
pant rural domination Of the
State legislature which turned
a stony Republican cheek to
Mr.. williams and has been
doing the same to his Demo-
cratic successor, Gov. Swain
son.
No constitutional conven-
ton means automatic mod
ernization to reflect tn e
changed social and economic
patterns of American society,
particularly the flight from
. the farms. Too many en-
trenched interests see to that.
Michigan experts do predict
: that the Governor will be
given a four-year term which
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Papers Stand Against Secrecy Tactics
OF Citizens Councils Called Hopeful

being spied on. The informer
is not a popular American
here, as he is in Russia or
any of the totalitarian coun-
tries. 1t could seem, from
reading clippings of editorials
received from the Magnolia
State, that an increasing
number of Mississippians do
not feel free.
The staunchly segregation
minded editor of the conserv-
ative State Times, of Jack
son, has publicly appealed for
an end to a climate of witch
hunting, which is just as
wicked in Mississippi as in
Russia or Hitler's Germany"
even If done "in the name Of
patriotism and high ideals"
1t is, however, the desire Of
weekly newspaper editors to
be, and to feel free, which
is causing the most interest.
Most quoted is that of Edi-
tor L. H. Howell, of the Pan
Olian. at BateSyille. Miss. He
said. in part:
Some months ago, the
State Department of Educa-
ton was forced to ban the
use Of an education film
not because the film was Of
fensive, but because it's pro-
ducers were not on a list
of organizations approved by
the Citizens Council.
Most people know that the
Methodist Church and the
United States Air Force have
been listed as enemies of
the Citizens Council, along
with other denominations
and agencies. One questions
whether the reading of the
Bible soon is to be restricted
in the same manner that Nazi
Germany sought to rid the
Reich Of all subversive. in
fluences, literary and other
wise.
Hardly an individual in
Mississippi has failed to come
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Presidents Tact and Courtesy Viewed
AS Special Factor Behind Decision
WILLIAM S. WHITE

President Kennedy has de-
cided to meet with special
courtesy and tact his most
delicate problem in personal
relationships, that with Cen
eral Charles de Gaulle of
France. In this instance po-
liteness has become a foreign
policy.
Mr.. Kennedy's agreement
to go to Paris in May to see
the French President, rather
than have him here to the
White House, is by no means
a matter of form, though
protocol does enter.
President de Gaulle Is the
only one of the Western Big
Four, apart from Mr.. Ken
nedy himself, who is official
ly a head-of-state. OF the
others, Prime Minister Har-
old Macmillan of Britain is
a chief (but not a head) of
state. So is Konrad Ade-
nauer, as Chancellor of Free
Germany.
In international protocol
these seemingly dusty and
fusty distinctions of etiquette
are important-and partic-
ularly so in dealing with
Gen. de Gaulle. Mr.. Kennedy,
as not only a head of state
but also head of the most
powerful state in the West
ern alliance, could well have
insisted that Gen. de Gaulle
come here. Nevertheless, it
is to be quite the other way
round.
All Gaul was once divided
into three parts, as it used to
be said, again and yet again,
in high school Latin. And the
problem Charles de Gaulle
presents to his Western COL
leagues is divided into at
least three parts - all Of
them tough.
In the first place, the old
Generals insistence upon
Frances grandeur" - and
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RALPH McGLLL

A cloud Of encouragement
hardly larger than a mans
hand, but nonetheless large
in appearance because it
reveals the first sign Of a
silver lining of common
sense, is reported in the skies
of the Magnolia State.
At least one daily and a
half-dozen weeklies are pub
licly expressing disenchant-
ment with the secret police
like tactics of the Citizens
Councils. This is tied in with
a growing realization that
Gov. Ross Barnett has not
been able to lead the State
into the promised land Of
prosperity and isolation from
law and public opinion.
There are more and more
reports Of wistful wishing for
a return to the sort Of gov
ernment given by former
Gov. James P. Coleman, who
had sought to keep down in
flammatory actions.
- A MiSsiSsippian said a
recent conversation in a bar
bershop is typical. A loqua-
cious customer, waiting to be
shaved, Joined in the general
talk of politics and Federal
action.
II never voted for J. P.
(James P. Coleman" he
said, "but after a year Of
Ross I hope I get a chance
to do just that"
Now I know" writes an
other, why our official bird
is the mockingbird. 1t is
singing very loudly in Mis-
sissippi. but nowhere louder
than at the Capitol"
. Students report that paid
informers on the university
and college campuses long
have been active in reporting
to the Citizens Councils any
student or faculty member
who did not "think right"
Americans do like to be
free, More than that, they
like to feel free. They resent
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DAVID LAWRENCE

Many Americans are puz-
zled by President Kennedy's
proposal to send a Peace
Corps of young people abroad.
They are puzzled because
virtually the same work is
already being done by Amer
leans in the mission groups.
What will the Peace Corps
do that isn't being done now?
There is need, of course, for
more work in this field. but
the new Peace Corps will be
doing only a fraction of it.
The Kennedy plan calls for
the spending of somewhere
between $5 million and $40
million a year. Yet the Prot
estant churches of America
are spending approximately
$163 million a year, and the
Catholic churches of this
country, it is estimated, are
spending at least $40 million
a year on foreign missions.
According to the latest fig
ures. there are $4,000 Ameri-
cans serving as Protestant
missionaries abroad and about
6,700 of the Catholic faith.
There also are 10000 more
missionaries from 9th e r
Christian countries.
These missionaries do not
spend most of their time
teaching religion. On the con-
trary, they teach school and
also trades. They build hos
pitalS, furnish medical aid,
educate doctors and nurses.
train native leaders in ad-
ministration work, develop
social-welfare programs, and
supply technical skills. Many
are agricultural experts who
show farmers how to handle
their farms and increase the
yields.
Most of the missionaries
are married, but quite a num-
ber are young people. The
Methodist Board of Missions.
for instance, recruits about
125 people a year to serve
for three-year periods, and in
this project stresses Ian
guages and special skills.
It might be thought that
help is extended e d only to
those natives who agree to
become members of a certain
faith, but this isn't so. This
correspondent a asked DR.
Darby Fulton of Nashville
Tenn.-head of the board OF
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Possibility Is Raised That New Group
Moy Duplicate Work of Church Units

world missions of the South
ern Presbyterian Church
whether any condition was
imposed on those given help
by the missionaries. He re-
piled:
mot at all, SO far as their
religious affiliation is con-
cerned. We take them into
our schools and-of course;
if we are looking for teach
ers to come in and instruct
people in our schools, we get
Christians to do that-but so
far as the facilities of the
schools are concerned, in the
admission of pupils. there is
no religious condition. We
take Buddhists, Confucian-
lists, animists-any religion
or any irreligious group.
Many go out without ever
confessing any Christian n
faith, or even showing any
signs of being influenced def
initely in that direction"
The money for these mis-
Sions is contributed in the
churches throughout the
United States, as collections
are taken regularly for the
benefit of the projects abroad.
This has been going on for
many decades. In fact, Amer
lean churches started send
ing missions to points outside
the United States as early as
1909. There are many hun
dreds of thousands of natives
abroad today who learned
English and gained their ed
ucation through the mission
ary teachers. The work done
in China is pointed to as an
example of the effectiveness
of missions. Before the Red
Chinese took over, there were
approximately 100000 Chris
tians, and today, even under
Communist rule, many Chi
nese still a tie n d Christian
services regularly.
1t is in the field of general
education and economic well
fare that the work of the
American missionaries has
been widespread, but appar-
emily it has not been publi-
cized adequately. For today
many persons who have been
reading about the Kennedy
Peace Corps are assuming
that the idea is new and that
nothing like it has ever been
Evening star., 1961-04-05
A Message from our First Lady,

A Message from our First Lady,
During this Twentieth Anniversary
Year Of the us. Savings Bond Pro
gram we salute the volunteer spirit Of
the Women of America in bringing the
Savings Bond message of thrift into
our family lives. By buying bonds and
encouraging others to do so, we help
build more secure future for ourselves
and for our country. Most important,
this self-discipline of regular savings
helps build the spiritual strength so
essential to our continued growth as
individual citizens and as a Nation.
s)~e-o,~ F''".p1
Honorary Chairman, National Women's Advisory
Committee for Savings Bonds
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for their big part in the
Savings Bond Program

From the very start 20 years
ago, the US. Savings Bond
Program has been lucky in
having the dedicated support
of thousands Of American
women.
Their wonderful cooperation
has ranged from the War Bond
tours Of Hollywood's brightest
stars to helping to operate the
Savings Stamp Program for
the Nations small fry.
The special talents of
American lDOn,en
Studies have shown that Amer
lean women tend to be con-
servative with dollars. Their
long look at future security is
apt to be pretty, practical. So,
for them, Bonds and the Saw
ings Bond Program are q
natural.
Thousands Of husbands and
fathers owe their Payroll Saw
, 1961-09-25
Senator jacob Jovits
Urges End Of Bios
In Medicine

Senator Jacob K. Javits, Re-
publican of N e w York. has
called for an end to pernicious
racial discrimination in the
"life-and-death medical field.
He promised to make an effort
to bar federal funds from seq
regated hospitals.
In a report to the United
States Senate, Mr.. Javits said
TIL Il "the existence in our
country racial discrimination
in hospitals against Negro ply
sicians and Negro Patients is
so clear as to demonstrate the
urgent need for corrective le-
gislation." He called on all lev
vels Of government and medi-
cal societies to act to correct
these ~injusticies.
Sen. Javits is proposing an
amendment to the Hill Burton
hospital construction act, to
limit federal help to integral
ed Institutions. He noted that
Under the current law ninety
segregated hospitals have re-
Continued on page Al
, 1961-09-25
Bride & Home Mag.
Carries Article on
Virgin Islunds

Advance proofs of the Win
ter edition Of Bride & Home
Magazine, which carries a two
page story on the Virgin Is
lands, have been received by
the Department of Commerce.
The magazine goes on sale in
October.
Entitled, Triple honeymoon
by-Virgin Islands, U. S. A."
the first page Of the story
shows three baggage checks in
which are pictures of st. Croix,
ST. Thomas and st. John, along
with texts describing each of
the three islands.
The baggage ticket motif is
carried out on the second page,
in which is described our ho-
tells, the shopping picture and
island activities.
, 1961-09-25
Thurgood Murshull
Is Numed to Appeals
Court by President

President John F. Kennedy
has named Thurgood Marshall,
famous Negro lawyer for the
National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored Peo-
pie who successfully argued
and won the school desegrega-
ton case in the Supreme
Court, to be Federal judge for
the End Circuit Court of APP
peals, which covers the states
of New York, Connecticut and
Vermont.
Former Governor William
H. HASTE is the first Negro
named to the appellate bench.
He was appointed to the 3rd
Circuit by former President
Harry S. Truman.
President Kennedy also sent
the names Of seven other Fed
eral judges to the Senate for
confirmation. They include a
former chief justice of the New
York Court of Special Sessions
and Dudley B. Bonsal.
, 1961-09-25
Fifth. Sixth erode
Students Transferred
From La Vullee

Students Of the fifth and
sixth grades now attending the
La Vallee Public School will
be transferred to the Cram
mar School in Christiansted
leaving the 1st to 4th grades,
it was learned today.
The change is necessary al
this time because the Depart
ment of Education has been
unable to find another teacher
for the La Vallee School.
Alexander Wilson, after
whom the new school was
named, after having served
over forty odd years, is still
the only teacher available. Al
though he is anxious to retire,
he has promised to continue
until a teacher is found to take
over.
, 1961-09-25
Some Fucts About
Income Tuxes From
Washington. D. C.

The Superintendent Of Do
cuments, Government Print
ing Office, Washington, D. c.
has just published an interest
ing booklet entitled Statistics
of Income-Preliminary Indi-
vidual leone Tax Returns for
1882. Here are some of the
pertinent facts:
Total people in U.S.A. 1870
million; Total who filed tax
returns so million; Total who
paid taxes AZ million; How
much taxes were paid 1876 bill
lion dollars.
Those earnings less t a n
SIS, 900: So million, paid taxes in
the amount Of SIS billion dol
$4,000 and $4,000 total 10 mil
, 1961-09-25
Employment Service
Ticking Application
For S~upermurket Jobs

An announcement signed by
Mrs. Anita Reynolds, manager
Of the Virgin Islands Employ
ment Service states in part
that focal persons of legal age
and some experience, if pos
sible", will be employed at the
new super market to be open
ed at Golden Rock in October.
Applicants for selling and
cashier jobs are requested to
register at the Christiansted
office Of the Employment
Service Monday, September Is
and Tuesday, September 18th,
Some will be tested for apti-
tude in there positions.
All will be interviewed by
the employer on October End
andNO October 3rd in the Chris
tiansted Office Of the Employ
ment Service.
, 1961-09-25

lion persons, paid IS billion
lars; those earning between
dollars; those earning over
$40, 900 number All million per-
sons paid in taxes II billion
dollars and those earning over
ST. million number $50 million
persons paid taxes in the
amount of 267 million dollars.
On the other hand for Tax
violations, there were 1859 in
Continued on page Al
, 1961-09-25

A Spokesman responsible Tor
planning activities for the big
evening said that plans were
moving ahead rapidly to have
the two Virgin Islands Radio
Stations, T in st. Thomas,
and WIN in st. Croix join to-
gether to give full coverage Of
both the event and Governor
PaieWonsky's major address,
which will be delivered to the
people of the territory at the
Dinner.
VISTA will set up remote
facilities at the St. Thomas
Airport to broadcast the de-
parture Of the planes dubbed,
DEMOCRATIC SPECIALS,
which will carry those from
st. Thomas who will attend
the Dinner.
WIN will set up its facili-
ties at the Buccaneer Hotel to
broadcast the gala event, and,
in particular, Governor Ralph
Paiewonsky's address, which
has been billed as one of major
Importance covering the Gov
errors first six months in Of
flee and outlining the Admin
istration's programs for the flu
ture.
Tickets forthe affair, which
includes dinner and dancing,
are on sale at $500 each and
are reported to be moving
rapidly.
, 1961-09-25
NETWORK TYPE BROADCAST PLANNED
TO COVER PAIEWONSKY DINNER

Plans were announced to be moving rapidly ahead today
for a Virgin Islands network broadcast to cover the giant
Jefferson-Jackson Dinner planned to honor Governor Ralph
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Richmond Man
Named Regional
Postal Director
By the Associated p, esq

Fergus McRee, SO, postmas-
ter in Richmond for % years,
has been named Washington
regional director for the Post
Office Department.
Mr.. McRee's appointment,
announced last night, is eff
fective Immediately. He will
succeed Malcolm r. Clarke,
who retired in August.
The region over which Mr..
McRee will have supervision
includes three States-Virginia,
Maryland and West Virginia-
and the District Of Columbia.
There are more than 5000 post
offices in the region.
Mr.. McRee's successor in
Richmond will be named later.
Mr.. McRee, a Richmond ma
tive, will be in Washington in
the new position.
I'm highly complimented at
being thought capable Of doing
this job" Mr.. McRee said.
But I don't like the thought
of leaving Richmond. All of
my associations here have been
so pleasant, and my interests
are in Richmond.
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Winds Emborruss
Old SternwheeIer

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. IA
(AP.-An old-f ashioned
steamboat carrying 200 sight,
seers finally struggled to a safe
landing-l4 miles from its pier.
The Avalon, its three-decks-
tall SuperStructure catching the
wind like a sail, got upriver with
no trouble yesterday but
couldn't turn around. Every
time it turned broadside to
the 37-mile-an-hour winds it
started sailing sideways.
The passengers debarked at
a sandy forest landing and were
returned to Memphis by char
tered bus, leaving the stern
wheeler firmly hitched to
several big trees.
1T was just q matter Of
having too much (hurricane)
Carla," said Ed Weinheimer
Of Fontanelle, Iowa, a pas
senger. Nobody got excited.
The greatest damage was to the
captains pride"
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Thureood Marshall
In Line for Judgeship
BY the Associated Press

President Kennedy is con-
sidering naming Thurgood Mar
shall, general counsel of the
National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People,
to a Federal judgeShip.
An informed source said last
night Mr.. Marshall is under con-
Sideration for one of three new
iudgeShips for the United
States Second Circuit Court of
Appeals.
The White House said yester-
day Mr.. Kennedy plans to
nominate District Judge Irving
r. Kaufman of New York to
one of the appeals court posts.
Judge kaufman, so, has been
a judge for the southern dis
trict of New York since October,
1945. 1t was he who sentenced
atomic spies Ethel and julius
Rosenberg to the electric chair.
They were executed June 10,
1858.
Judge kaufman is a Dem
JcIat.
Mr.. Marshall, 50, a Negro,
has played a leading role in
moves to end segregation in the
South. He has been chief coun-
sci for the NAACP since 1888.
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tended today, he has hurt the
party's prospects by his long
delay in making his answer
public.
If Mr.. Nixon does not want
to run for Governor, they said,
he should not have permitted
highly publicized polls that
showed him the overwhelming
choice of California Republi-
cans, nor should he have come
East two weeks ago and let
prominent national party fig
ureS implore him to make the
race.
These tactics on his part, his
critics charge, will tend to hang
q "second-best" or second
choice" label on anyone else
the party dominates. should
Mr.. Nixon turn down the
campaign.
On the other hand. these
critics commended. if Mr.. Nixon
wants to run, he should have
taken other potential candi-
dates such as Mr.. Knight into
his confidence before this. In
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Panel to Discuss
D.C.NeeroLubo

: A panel discussion on Negro
labor conditions in the District,
sponsored by the Washington
Chapter Of Americans for
Democratic Action, will be held
at 8 pm, Monday, at Pierce
Hal, Sixteenth and Harvard
streets NV.
Speaking on the question,
"IS Labor in the District of
Columbia Jim Crow'?" will be
the Rev. E. Franklin Jackson,
president of the Washington
Chapter of the NAACP, and
William j. McSorley, assistant
to the president of the Build
ing and Construction Trades
Department of the AFL-CIO.
Benjamin Segal, education di-
rector. International Union of
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers, AFL-CIO, will be the
moderator.
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formed sources said there had
been no contact between Mr..
Nixon and Mr.. Knight for the
last five weeks.
AS things now stand. accord
ing to this analysis, Mr.. Nix
on's entry into the race is
bound to have unfortunate
consequences.
Fight Expected
If Mr.. Knight stays in, as
he says he will, the resulting
primary fight is expected to be
rough. Though Mr.. Nixon
would be favored to win, Mr..
Knight has sufficient support
to inflict some wounds on his
opponent.
National party leaders in
Washington are generally con-
WINGED that Mr.. Nixon will rim,
and that. when a decent in
terval has elapsed, Mr.. Knight
will withdraw from the race.
They tend to regard Mr..
Monday announce