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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20

Sept. 20. Although his good humor
never falters, he has made his play
the vehicle for powerful and pas
sionate sermon. While "Purlie Vic
torious" keeps you chuckling and
guffawing, it unrelentingly forces
you to feel how it is to inhabit a
dark skin in a hostile, or at best,
grudgingly benevolent world.
For his plot Davis has used a
simple scaffolding. Over it he has
poured a bubbling mixture of gibes,
jokes and wry and uproarious var
iations of cliches about whites and
blacks. The ingredients seem su-
perficially to be too wildly stirred
to fit the framework of the dram
attic structure. But they have a
strange and wonderful way of be-
coming as firm as concrete-and
of hitting as hard.
Purlie's Ambition
The play tells the story of Purlie
Victorious Judson, a joyous, robust
Negro with the gift Of tongues,
who sounds like Ecclesiastes, Jere-
miah and a possessed gospel singer
rolled into one. Purlie has come
back to his old plantation village
in south Georgia. His ambition is
to acquire Big Bethel and convert
it into an integrated church.
His antagonist is OF Cap'n Cot
chipee, an irascible, apoplectic,
white-suited, grey-haired, bull
whip-toting exponent of the unre-
constructed Old South. or Cap'n,
of course, is the very stereotype
of Confederate villainy. He isn't
much of an opponent to Purlie Vic
torious and isn't meant to be. He
is another of Davis's explosive
jokes.
Davis is turning the tables. How
long have Negroes had to endure
the white versions of Negroes, good
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20

grand sense Of humor and is as
happy as the day is long. When
she is taken to see friends and
places she will tell you what she
sees. She sees beauty in a great
many things her sighted friends do
not.
There is the friend who is on
crutches. She finds some of her
friends do not care to walk with
her because she walks too slow.
She does not seem to resent that
because she says they don't under
stand.
Yesterday I heard a mother
telling a friend how heartbroken
she is to learn the son in whom
she had so much faith has done
something that will make his
whole family sad She would not
listen when friends tried to tell
her son was going with boys who
would do anything for thrills. This
mother was not very charitable
when other boys got into little
boys troubles. Friends are rally
ing around her and she says she
appreciates it.
heard a member of one family
say, Il am going as far away as I
can, so if and when my relatives
get sick I won't be bothered"
taking care of themw I said, Sup
pose you get sick out there won't
someone have to take care of
you?" She said she had plenty of
disqualification, etc, to take care
of her. All who have had sickness
ourselves or in our family, know
disqualification cannot encourage
you to want to live when you are
so i'll it is a case Of life or death.
The doctor can make you feel very
happy when he tells you it is your
attention to the patient that helps
them have the will to live and get
we'll
overheard one friend congrat-
ulate another friend whose young
daughters engagement had just
been announced. The mother has
not become reconciled to the fact
that her daughter is leaving her
but the friend said, you got mar
ried and left your mother and
father, didn't your" That little
sentence seemed to bring the
mother to her senses and she said,
Eyes, of course. How silly of me
to feel so sad when my child is
so happy! What you say means so
much, so do try to think before
you talk. How happy you can make
your friends, If you say the right
thing to them. Do not use flattery,
because most friends know when
you are speaking sincerely and
they appreciate it. They know
when you are just saying words,
too. Think about it.
saw a mother trying to study
last week. She will soon get a de-
gree and her teaching position and
she has earned it. She is a wife
and mother and takes care of her
home and family and has had an
A average since starting back to
college after having been out of
school many years She said she
had to learn to study all over but
once she put her mind to it, she
found it easier each semester to
study. There are quite a few of
her friends taking the course in
the classes for older students, and
they, like her, have homes and
families that have to be taken
care of. The girls" have exchang-
ed plans and ideas and they really
do manage well. Their husbands
may be called to serve with the
armed forces and they have decid-
ed they will prepare themselves to
help while they are still young.
Write your name with love,
mercy, and kindness on the hearts
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20

IF you've been thinking of our
days as the Aspirin or even the
Atomic Age, you're behind the
times. Evidence is mounting that
we are living in the Age of the
Accountant" Henry s. Mullen,
LincOIntOn IN. O. Times.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20
Focus On Africa
BY EDDIE L. MADISON, JR.

AS REPORTS of alleged plots to overthrow the govern
ment continue from Independent African countries
observers inclined take closer look for pattern
some similarity that would indicate that these incidents might
have inspired by outsiders First there the report in
Nigeria alleged Soviet plot overthrow the government
student who had been attracted into the
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20
Writer TriUmphs:
OSSie Davis Newest
Toast Of Broadway
With Robust PIaV
By HOWARD TAUBMAN in the Montreal STAR

New York-It is marvelously exhiarating hear the
Negro speak for himself especially when he does in the full
of his native gusto and the enveopng hearnes of his
overlooking laughter.
Ossie Davis actor and author has passed this miracle of
unnhibed and jovial speakngOut in his play "Pure
Victorious which bounced whooped Cort Theatre
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A~~~-V
THIS N THAT
By Hazel Underwood
M GER TP And 90 HAs Con ~ An

MY GET UP AND GO HAS GOT AND WENT
How do know youth is all spent?
Well my get up and go has got up
But in spite of it all, I able grin
Old age is golden so I've heard
But sometimes wonder get bed
With in a drawer, my n a cup
Ny eyes the table until I up
Ere sleep dms my eyes say myself
Is there anything else I should lay shelf?
get up in the morning, my wits
Pick up the paper and read the obits
If my name is missing, I'm
So eat good breakfast go bed
-Anon.-Thants to Mrs Scott Bbb Pasadena Calf
The week received the poem
adena, received this Minneapolis
Don't tell too old Age imagination Ignore the
years and they will ignore you."-Author Unknown
From conversations few bits that
will you sghtless saying IT don't like
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20

His thoughts were slow, his
words were few, and never formed
to glisten; but he was joy to all
his friends-you should have heard
him listen" - Gerald X. Young,
Blakesburg (Ia.) Excelsior.
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60 DC ouOII q UOIII5I 60 IIItIIlS UuL
they insist on taking me with
them"
Every one enjoys being in Alice's
company and no one thinks of her
as being sightless because she is
her own cheerful self. She has a
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-10-20

Write your name with love,
mercy, and kindness on the hearts
Of those about you and you will
never be forgotten.
Author Unknown.
Evening star., 1961-12-10

livery YEAR about this time, min
u iature train sets are dragged out
of attics, cellars and closets, busted
off and assembled for use under
Christmas trees. And after the hOli-
days, when the tree is discarded, the
little railroads 60 back into storage
for another year.
Their owners don't know what
they are missing. Those toys can serve
as the beginning Of fascinating year.
round hobby. know because my in
terest in toy trains began when was
a very small boy, and now / have the
huge layout pictured here. Not only
does it fill about half of my attic, but
it has filled most of my years with
pleasure.
There are those who like only to
build models of prototype steam en-
gines, diesels and all types of freight
and passenger cars. Detailing is care
Evening star., 1961-12-10

The author is q retired Air
Force bri0ndier general.
e nECEHfRRR. 10. 1aR1
Evening star., 1961-12-10
Don't Put Those Christmas Trains Away
By MONRO MacCLOSKEY
Contributing Writer

fully and accurately performed, even
to the extent of the correct numbers
on the type engines. Others prefer just
to run trains with little regard to pro-
totype construction. Still others are
more interested in creating scenery,
building houses, barns, rivers, lakes,
bridges and tunnels, and placing
shrubs and trees on the decorated
plaster landscape.
Probably the largest group of all
is the one that combines all three
interests. This is the group I'm in.
My engines, from the little round
house goat to the big articulated, were
constructed from kits and are fairly
accurate prototype copies. My rolling
stock includes both kit and scratch
built" cars. 1 buy all my trucks (wheels)
and couplers for my scratch-built
cars; but a set of plans, cardboard,
balsa wood, dress snaps, staples, hair
pins, paint, glue and decals are all l
need to construct pretty good-look-
ing car. Continued on page rs
Montana farmer-stockman., 1961-03-01
Buyers Bid Fast
For Shipp Angus

A CAPACITY CROWD of buyers bid
briskly for the 27 head of coming
2-year-old bulls and females offered
by Don Shipp of Saco at his first an
nual Meadow Valley Angus Ranch
production sale held at Glasgow Feb.
is. The entire business was wound up
in / hour and Is minutes.
Highest selling bull was Ships
Postelmere 25, a May, 1859. thick
and heavy-boned calf that weighed in
at 1855 pounds. He sold to the Bar
20 Ranch, Wolf Point, for $625. The
Bar 20 also purchased two other bulls
head. Barney CIausen of Malta also
purchased five head.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1961-03-01
Swine Conferences
Al Billings, Falls

o.
TWO SWINE industry conferences
are scheduled this month. one at Bill
lings March 8 at the Eagles Hall. and
the other at Great Falls March 10 at
the DeAfOlay Memorial, according to
Earl j. Peace. Montana State College
extension swine specialist.
Programs at each meeting are iden-
teal DR.. Roy E. Huffman. director.
Montana Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton. will speak on Hogs in Montana
Agriculture: Earl J. Peace. Select
ing Quality Breeding Stock; Wesley
C. McEwen. feed company rerresenta
tive, Nutrition. /" and DIR. Maynard
Spear. extension veterinarian. Iowa
State University, will speak on ''Swine
Health"
The topic of Packing and Market.
ing will be discussed at Billings by
Harold Curtis. packing company rep
resentative. and at Great Falls by E.
F. Forbes, president and general man.
ager of the Western States Meat Pack
erS Assn.
Each meeting will have a panel dis
cussion by producers. Taking part at
Billings will be r. C. Conover Jr..
Broadview; Vic Johrson and Joe Jo-
Sephson, Billings, and DOUGLAS Marke
gard, Laurel TheImer MosdaI will
be moderator
Great Falls panel members will be
Phil Eidel. Great Falls Paul Kleffner.
East Helena; Dick Sinclair, Helena.
and Sherman Smith. Bozeman. Mod
orator will be James Lunney, Great
Falls
Montana provides a market for about
25O, 900 hogs a year. but only about
half that number are produced in the
state. Peace said: In addition, many
trainloads of hogs from the midwest
pass through Montana annually to
west coast markets.
Peace points out that some SO mil
lion bushels of barley are. grown an
nualIy in Montana Of the 1860 crop.
about 31a million bushels went into
This amount would produce
some 10000 market hogs, he said.
The two conferences have been ar
ranged by a statewide alI-industry
committee comrosed of Einar Lar
son. Helena; Riley Hensley, Montana
Swine Growers Assn, Fairfield; Robin
McNab, Bozeman; Eugene Coombs.
DR.. John Stafford, state vet
Helena; Jim Lunney, Great
Falls; Ted Walters, Billings, and Dean
Vaughan. extension marketing special
iSt. MISC.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1961-03-01

Here's plan that beots going to the
ronch oil hollow. AT leost I S or 20 of
Montono and Wyoning's top pure
bred breeders will be bringing their
bulls TO one centrol corral
Yor need only walk down the alleys,
look over the bulls. look over the
pediorees, check one against another,
check prices. oges, weights. comporo-
tive color and conformation.
Then toke your pick. Some breeders
will have hoIf q dozen or more bulls
of the same breeding i'm cose you
won't several bulls bred alike.
In most coses, breeders themselves
will be on hand 10 show their own
cottle and you con dicker directly
with the boss. Otherwise. or if you
prefer. do your whittIin' with one of
the men from:
Montana farmer-stockman., 1961-03-01

IT TAKES from 4 to years and an
investment Of $5OO,OOO to 81 million to
develop . marketable pesticide.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
Restaurant
Upheld by
Zoning Board

The District Board of Zon-
ing Adjustment has ruled that
the remodeling of two build
ings for a proposed restaurant
near Georgetown University is
proper.
A group of Georgetown resi-
dents had attacked the project
on coming grounds at a hearing
last week. The restaurant is
planned at Thirty sixth and
Prospect streets NV.
The board decided that zon-
ing officials acted properly in
granting permission for the
remodeling and in declaring
that a certificate of occupancy
would be given once the work
was completed.
Richard j. McC ooey, an
alumnus of the university,
wants to convert the buildings,
on the northwest corner of the
intersection. into a restaurant
to serve primarily the schools
students, faculty and alumni.
The university owns the prop
erty.
Objections were raised before
the zoning board by the Pro-
gressive Citizens Association of
Georgetown. A liquor permit is
also being sought by the
restaurant.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
Ten to Lose
D. G. Jobs in
Budget Move

The District Commissioners,
in a new budget-balancing
move, today ordered the dis
missal of 10 employees in the
Department of Buildings and
Grounds.
The reduction in force was
called for by the Commissioners
recent postponement of 20 pub
lie works items, officials said
These construction jobs, in
turn, were ordered delayed for
one year in order to close q
S6.9 million revenue gap.
The 10 workers will receive
dismissal notices shortly, ef-
fective December /. Eight are
holding professional or tech
nical jobs and the other two
are clerks.
James A. Blaser, director of
the Department of Buildings
and Grounds. told the Com
missioners informal contacts"
have been made with other city
departments, and that the
chances for placing the work
ers in job vacancies appears
favorable. The elimination of
the 10 jobs will mean an an
nual saving of $4,000.
Officials said there are no
other reduction-in-force moves
contemplated.
The city's current revenue
problems are the result of fail
ure by Congress to vote the
District any revenue-raising
legislation for the current fiscal
year.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
$1.3MiIIion Grant
To Aid Center
For Linquistics

The Ford Foundation today
announced a grant of $1.3 mil
lion to the Modern Linguistic
Association for it's Center for
Applied Linguistics here.
The grant will enable the
center to expand its activities
in strengthening A erican
knowledge of nom Western Ian
guages. The center also will
double its professional linguistic
staff and increase its output of
teaching materials, a spokes-
man said.
Another field of greater
activity will be assistance to
Asian and African countries in
the teaching of English.
The center, at 1346 Connec-
ticut avenue NV, also serves
as clearing house for informa-
ton among Government agen-
cieS, academic centers and the
profession.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
WHEATON ELEMENTARY-N-ROUND
School Site Extension to Be Studied
BY ANNE H. CHRISTMAS
Star Staff Writer

A study was authorized by
the Montgomery County Board
of Education last night on a
proposal to spend $4,000 an
acre for additional land on
which to build a controversial
school building in Wheaton.
Five citizen groups requested
the survey in connection with
the proposed extension of a
6-acre site already available
for the elementary school at
Bushey drive near Viers Mill
road.
Many parents expressed dis
satisfaction at an earlier board
meeting with the present lot
because it is smaller than the g.
acre standard set by the county
for elementary schools. The
|ever-increasing population in
the area would strain the size
further in the future. they
declared.
Although no parents spoke
at the meeting, many presented
letters expressing concern over
the circular design, which has
not been attempted before in
this section of the country.
Board members, however,
termed the preliminary sketches
Intriguing" and instructed
David Yerkes architect to pro-
ceed with plans. The school
would have fan-shaped class
rooms with corridors in a CEN
ter core. 1t is designed to make
maximum use of a small lot.
Mr.. Yerkes says that al
though construction men here
abouts have had no previous
experience with an in the
round school, their early esti-
mates indicate that the even
tual costs would be within the
$539, 900 budget. The school
would have 16 claSSrooms.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
ShipIey Says
D. G. Won't
Vote by Bloc

District residents. when they
exercise the newly-won fran
chise to vote in presidential
elections, will not "bloc-vote
by race or because Of religious
affiliation," a Washington Re-
publican leader predicted to-
day.
Carl Shipley, chairman of
the Republican State Commit
tee Of the District, declared he
does not believe Negroes will
"self-segregate themselves" in
to the Democratic Party.
Speaking at a Sertoma Club
luncheon in the Willard Hotel,
the Republican leader said he
expects city residents will sup
port the two-party system and
affiliate with the parties "on
the basis of issues and the
qualifications of the candi-
dates"
With an attractive and prog
ressive candidate the Republi-
cans will give President Ken
nedy the fight of his political
life in 1854" he said.
The Republican organization,
Mr.. Shipley said, plans to ap-
point a chairman in each of
the city's 68 precincts to head
at 10-man precinct committee.
He said the party will canvass
each of the 24,800 blocks in
the city and list names, ad-
dresses and political preferences
for all Of the approximately
10000 persons expected to vote
here in 1864.
Mr.. Shipley said he doubted
the truth of the assumption
by many Democrats that the
city will follow the pattern of
other big cities and vote Demo-
cratic because of our 81 per
cent Negro population"
Evening star., 1961-10-24

ever. was heatedly opposed by
Council President William F.
Hickey and Councilman Grover
Walker.
Notifications Asked
Maintaining that further
study would only delay develop
ment Of the upper county, the
two proposed instead that modi-
fications be made in the plans
section by section.
How do we know (thiS plan)
is going to break DOWN." Mr.
Hickey demanded. I'm not ex-
pert enough to tell professional
planners that it will"
Mr.. Cahoon, however, replied
to Mr.. Hickey that the council
was competent to stand in
judgment Of the plans.
If we let them stand, we will
not get the planning we need
in the county" he declared.
Officials of the planning
commission, who spent three
years in preparation of the
plans. were not available for
comment.
Evening star., 1961-10-24

and two companions, a Negro
woman kicked out a plate glass
window yesterday as she left
the establishment.
Police at Fullerton. a suburb
of Baltimore, said the women
entered the Chesapeake Diner
on U. S. Route 40 and sat down
at a booth.
A waitress said the women
were told they could get only
carry-out service. On the way
out of the restaurant. they
made remarks" and one of
them kicked out a 80 by IA
inch glass panel in a door, the
waitress said. Police estimated
damage at $l00.
Police broadcast a lookout
for their car, believed to be
headed south. The car had
New York tags.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
THESE HORSES ALWAYS FINISH NECK-AND- ND-NEcK
Rail LineStudy
Due in June

The National Capital Trans
portation Agency expects to
have a definite answer by the
end Of next June on whether
existing railroad facilities can
be used for rapid transit.
Warren D. Quenstedt, deputy
administrator of the agency
said yesterday that he believes
suburban rail operation be-
tween Springfield. Va, and
Southwest Washington will be
found feasible.
He told the transportation
committee of the Washington
Metropolitan Regional Confer
ence that studies are now be-
ing made to set up commuter
train service with the Southern
Railroad.
I'VE could unload the trains
at a point south of the Mall
and use buses to carry passen-
gers to various downtown loca-
tion." Mr.. Quenstedt said.
One location being consid-
cred for the Southwest terminal
is north of the Washington
Channel near the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing.
A Baltimore-to- o-Springfield
commuter rail line has been
considered by the agency plan
ners and discussed with rail-
road officials. This was the first
time June has been revealed as
the date the agency plans to
have a decision ready. The
agency must report to Congress
in a year on plans for rapid
transit.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
Seat Pleasant
Man Dies in
Boot Upset

A Seat Pleasant Md man
drowned in South River near
Annapolis last night after the
outboard motor boat in which
he and two other men we're rid
ing capsized.
The victim was Benjamin Au-
gust Miller, 36, of 7l14 F street,
Seat Pleasant. a floor sander.
He and two companions. Rob-
ert L. Weddings, "a. Of 6379
Rollins avenue. Capitol Heights
and Richard l.. Wright, 25, OF
64l2 Greig street, Seat Pleasant
were in the l3-foot boat when
it overturned about 6:45 pm,
off the Oak Grove community
near the South River Bridge,
Anne Arundel County police
said Mr.. Miller and Mr.. Med
dings started swimming for
shore while Mr.. Wright clung
to the overturned boat until
rescued. Mr.. Weddings made
it to shore safely. He told po-
lice Mr.. Miller vanished along
the way.
His body was recovered
about SIS minutes later some
$50 feet offshore after dragging
efforts by firemen and rescue
workers from Woodland Beach,
Riva, Deale and West An
napolis. police reported.
Mr.. Miller lived with a sis
ter, Mrs. Louise White. and a
brother. Harvey F. Miller, at
the Seat Pleasant address. He
also leaves four other brothers,
George, of North Forestville,
Md; Henry, of Carmody Hills,
Md; Jack. of Upper Marlboro,
Md, and David, of Portsmouth,
Va, and two other sisters, Mrs.
June Poffenbarger Of Ports
and Mrs. Emma Kramer
of Harrisburg, Pa.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
KNEW THIS was coming.

A young woman asked, not
tactlessly but ignorantly:
What vintage year are we
drinking?"
We were not drinking a
vintage wine.
Because M. Dargent was
representing the entire in
dustry, most of the wine
opened was labeled Cham
pagnes Of France"
However, when the waiter
opened a bottle of Bollinger
Brut, the cork popped like a
pistol.
Not at all disturbed by the
interruption, M. Dargent
turned to the waiter and
said.
That's good wine"
The Rambler tried it.
1t was good.
Brut, M. Dargent explain
ed, is a wine so dry that no
SUGAR has heen added tn the
ferment.
Someone asked why all
vintage years were odd years.
Most of the vintage years
are the odd years, M. Dar-
gent said. But not all-1946
and 1852 were vintage years.
He could not explain the i'm
balance.
He mentioned 1893 as a
historian would dwell on 1892.
How about 1882" asked
Albert Parker, an expert
whom the Rambler had toted
along.
That was before his time,
M. Dargent protested.
II asked that" said Mr..
Parker, because I was once
present and tasted a bottle
of 1875 champagne sent by
the French government to
the late Julian Street, the
writer and wine faster, for
his service to France.
That ended 1t.
Evening star., 1961-10-24

William R. Thomas III, a
board member, recalled that he
had voted last year to keep Le-
land Junior High School at its
present three-acre location in
Chevy Chase because of the
prohibitive cost of any other
land.
Ths board finally voted, 6-1,
not to approve condemnation
now, but to instruct its staff to
investigate the adjoining acre
age fully. The dissenting vote
was cast by Mr.. Morrow.