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Navajo times., 1961-01-01
Postmaster Job
Open At Oraibi

The United States Civil Service
Commission announced an exam
ination for postmaster at Oraibi.
Arizona. The position pays $46O5
annually. Applications will be open
for acceptance until February 7,
1851. Competitors for the Postmas-
ter vacancy in this city must
show that they can deal with the
public agreeably and effectively
and that they are reliable citizens
who would command the respect
and confidence of the patrons of
the post office.
They must also show that their
background will enable them to
maintain simple records of ac-
counts Or that it has given them
a knowledge of postal procedures.
Applicants must take a written
test. Those who pass will be as
signed final ratings on the basis
of this test and on their exper-
ience, and fitness for the position.
They must have resided within
the delivery of the office for one
year Immediately preceding the
closing date of the examination
In addition, they must have reach.
ed their 18th birthday on the
closing date for acceptance of ap
plications. Persons over 70 years
of age cannot be appointed. Com
plete information about the exam
ination requirements and instruct
ions for filing applications may
be obtained at the post office fol
which this examination is being
announced. Application forms must
be filed with the U. S. Civil Serv
ice Commission, Washington Is
D. c. and must be received OF
portmarked not later than the
closing date.
Navajo times., 1961-01-01
Oil, Gas Lease
Bids Are Asked

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz - Sealed
bids for Oil and gas leases in San
Juan County, New Mexico, will be
received by the Navajo Indian
Tribe until 10 am. Feb. q.
Paul Jones, tribal council chair
man, said the leases will be for
Sc tracts of tribal lands totaling
about 93,13O.4S acres.
Jones said the leases are offer
ed at sealed bids for the highest
cash amounts per tract for the
privilege of leasing. He said all
leases will carry a minimum roy
atty provision of 20 percent or
production, and annual rentals oi
81 .25 an acre in advance
Navajo times., 1961-01-01

nero feels that Democrat should
get the job.
Amaya said, 1T is time some
one took to task John B. Romero
for the remarks he has been max
ing about McCabe.
Il personally cannot see Mr..
Romero, as a professional politi-
ued villificatiOn of Mr.. McCabe.
Romero, as a professional ptoliti-
clan, should be able to see the
results of his statements.
Amaya contended Romero'S op-
position to McCabe has hurt Gal
lup economically, businesswise and
politically.
'The businessmen of Gallup" I"
Amaya asserted, "are starting to
note the effects of his childlike
accusations.
'"The heyday of politicians and
political patronage is on the way
out. This has been proven by the
cabinet appointments of President
John F. Kennedy.
IF the president of the United
States can transcend personal, re-
ligious and racial bounds for his
appointments, We here in McKin-
ley county and the state of New
Mexico should be able to do the
same, and help not hinder the
appointment of j. Maurice Nc
Cabe as Commissioner of Indian
Affairs.'
Navajo times., 1961-01-01
Kirk Plans Amendment
To Arts, Crafts Statute

SANTA FE - Rep. Dean Kirk,
D-Gallup, expects to introduce
legislation next week providing for
enforcement and inspection pro-
cedures under New Mexico's In
dian arts and crafts sales Act.
Kirk an Indian trader whose
place of business is 16 miles
west of Gallup on the Navajo Res
ervation, said he hopes to have
an acceptable system worked out
to protect Indians and the public
against machine-made limitations
OF authentic hand-crafted jewelry.
The present bill, enacted during
the 1859 legislature as House Bill,
So, requires the labelling of imi-
tation arts and crafts, and pro-
vides a fine of from $25 to $10O
Or 30 to 80 days in Jail.
Kirk, however said that there
has been no enforcement OF the
law and hopes to provide for both
enforcement and inspection with
his amendment.
Navajo times., 1961-01-01

He has suggested - but not
finally - that a workable approach
might be in establishing COM
mission or board. appointed by
the governor, to carry out the
inspection Of doubtful goods be-
lieved 10 violate the law. Enforce
ment, he said, might be through
the attorney general.
But it will be difficult to work
OUT Kirk said. Personnel charg.
ed to enforce the law would have
to be experts, and there aren't
many who can be clasSed as exc
perts.''
The present law makes it tho
duty of every merchant dealing in
authentic arts and crafts or imi.
tatiOn items to make inquiry Of
their suppliers concerning the
methods of production, and to de-
termine whether they are in fact
authentic Or imitation. The Law
also requires that imitation goods
must be designated by attaching
to each article tag containing
the words Indian Imitation" Oe
by the use of a display card.
The bill provides a penalty, but
nowhere in it is there provision
for enforcement of the law.
The 1859 bill was fought bitterly
in committee hearings, at least
one of which was held in the Sem
ate chambers before q packed
gallery. Representatives of nearly
every New Mexico Indian tribe
were on hand to support it, while
attorneys representing machine
jewelry makers took the opposing
side.
Other members Of the Mckinley
delegation are actively interested
in the amendment, as well as San
Juan County representatives.
Navajo times., 1961-01-01
Senator Takes
Another Slap

SANTA FE - (SpeciaD - State
Sen. George B. Amaya (D-McKin-
ley) today took a verbal slap at
former Democratic County Chair
man John B. Romero for RomerO's
opposition to j. Maurice McCabe,
in McCabe'S drive to be named
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Romero has publicly opposed Nc
Cabe's nomination on the grounds
that the executive secretary of the
Navajo Tribal Council is a "Nix-
on - GOldWater Republican,. Ro-
Navajo times., 1961-01-01
Arizona Governor
TOCall Two
Election

Secretary of the Interior Stew.
art L. Udall of Arizona resigned
as Representative of Arizona'S
Second Congressional District to
be swtOrn in as member of Pres.
ident Kennedy's Cabinet. Arizona
Governor Paul Fannin said he
would call special Primary and
general elections to fill the va.
cancy in the House.
Mr.. Udall submitted his resig.
nation 10 House Speaker Sam Ray.
burn and Governor Fannin.
Sec'y Udall issued this statement
with his letter of resignation. MY
SKIS years in the House has becna
in many ways, the most creative
and fruitful period of my life, and
naturally it is with deep regret
that I rendered my resignation to-
day. My service in the Congress
afforded me an unmatched opptor.
tunlty to study our country's prob
lens and its people"
Some COP party leaders in Ari.
zona are hoping for only a general
election. tn would give them a
chance to pick only one candidate
to run against the many Demo-
Gratis who are willing to run for
the House of Representatives.
Navajo times., 1961-01-01
Contract Isle
For Power Line

A 81 million contract for build
building a 100000 volt trans
mission line between Albuquerque
and Ambrosia Lake near Grants
has been awarded to Reynolds e.
ectricaI and Engineering Co. OF
Santa Fe.
Public Service Co. of New
Mexico said the 7O-mile line is
the first stage in transmission
network serving Albuquerque. Am
brosia Lake area and the Four
Corners section of southwestern
New Mexico.
A second line of 100000 volt ca
pacity is planned in the future
between Albuquerque and Ambrosia
Corners area. The system was
previously announced as linking
utilities in New Mexico, Arizona,
Colorado and Utah.
1t will be available for delivery
of power from the Upper Colo
RADIO River Storage Project to load
centers in states involved.
Construction on the first leg is
to start in March with completion
set for Sept 1. 1t will serve urani-
um mine and mill customers prin-
cipally, PSC off icialS said.
Navajo times., 1961-01-01
Navajo Children
Seek Education

graduated but what of Elsie? She
was still herding sheep and still
longing to go to school.
Then a break for Elsie came
Her little nephew was six and she
volunteered to walk to school with
him as he came from over the
rocky mesa down the steep can
yOnS.
The teacher saw in Elsie a po-
tential scholar and asked her to
come each day and sit with the
third grade. Elsie had learned in
that first year of Adult schooling
to read a little and to write. She
came regularly bringing the little
boy each day. She began to dream
now that come next fall she might
be allowed to go off to school
too.
But fate has an unkind way
sometimes of weaving a pattern
of life. During the Christmas holi-
days a young brother-in-aw came
home from his work ON a farm.
He hoped that this time he could
take his wife and young son back
with him. The old mother had
thWarted him now for six years
to keep this daughter at home to
herd sheep. When the girl insisted
she was going back, the grand
mother claimed the right to the
child. A Navajo custom. After a
two hour explanation to her she
would not accept it the young
wife and son went with the father
to the home he had prepared for
them. That was settled but now
it affected Elsie. No longer could
she come to school. Gone were
the chances she hoped for, going
away next fall.
These are the people who re-
tard the education of this new gen.
GRAFTON. A generation of great ptos-
sibilities and with unlimited Op-
portunitieS and q generation to
look to and be proud of. Senti-
ment must be cast aside and a
new look for the healthy minds
of the growing Navajo boys and
girls.
Marie Begay can give her par
ents help now far greater than
herding sheep. They too cried to
her they were old and needed her.
But Marie has learned how to live
well and help her people too. Will
Elsie learn this lesson or will she
60 on herding sheep for the rest
Of her days? Yes, there is a diff
ference in personalities.
There are many streets to take
down the way of life. Perhaps
the older Navajo took one better
than We, but in modern world,
they cannot compete.
Navajo times., 1961-01-01
Bond Sales Set
$5O9.497 Mark

Residents of Mckinley county
purchased $42, ,231 worth of E and
H savings bonds in December,
1860, compared with $31,1O8 in
December of the preceding year.
The report was made by Alfred
Meyers, Mckinley county bond
chairman, who reminded that the
Mckinley goal last year was $780,
600.
Navajo times., 1961-01-01
By ETHEL G. YOUNG

to know and understand their mode
Of ng, you must live among
the.. ,ind work with them. To visit
them briefly, even to those en-
ployed in Civil Service of Bureau
of Indian Affairs, certainly with
the tourist and all the wild Indian
stories vivid in his mind, wrong
impressions are formed.
The Navajo is quiet, seldom
speaks and what he thinks does
not change his expression. Only
by living among them, working
with them can you learn their
real personality and human inter-
ests. And they are people just as
you and I. People with different
personalities just as our people.
In the story OF these two Navajo
girls you can see this difference.
Both anxious for education, both
difference in their natures.
bright and young but there is a
1t was August 1854 and the
school bus had come for the chill
dren going off the reservation to
school. Parents and friends had
gathered at the school to see them
off. Trunks and suitcaSes were pill
ed and tagged outside. Excite
ment ran high and shouts of laugh
ter of the boys and girls echoed
back from the rocky cliffs of Tse-
lani. The parents were a little sad,
but for the children it was ad-
venture into a new world. There
would be many little herders mis-
sing that winter in Tselani.
The teacher checked the chill
dren with her lists and saw that
all their baggage was ready to go.
Several older boys came up to
ask if they would be allowed to
60. Sure, they were told. Just get
your parents signature, for the
slogan then was every Navajo
child in school this year. A young
girl in her teens came up shyly
and asked if she might 60. She
wanted to learn so very much.
She had never been to school. Her
parents refused to let her 60. They
needed her to herd the sheep. Her
dress was faded and ragged. She
had not noticed it at all. She only
knew she wanted TO go with the
other boys and girls to school.
The cook at the school came up
and hearing her beg to 60 offered
her some clothes. All she had was
what she wore. So the cook took
her to her hogan to fill a suitcase
with some of the clothes while the
teacher enrolled the girl and got
the necessary signature. How? No
body ever knew. That was six
years ago. Last week a young
lady wrote the cook and sent her
picture. She told how she had fin
ished her school and now had
good job working and was contin-
wing her school in advanced work
ut night.
II that teacher is still around,
she wrote, thank her and say God
Bless her for putting me on the
school bus that day.
And Marie Rose Begay had
found her place in the modern
world. She had not forsaken her
parents, but she knew that on the
reservation, her help was limited
to herding sheep. Now she could
really take care of them. That is
one of the girls.
The other. 1t was the same year
1854 and two girls enrolled in the
Adult school at Tselani. These
girls were relatives, with mothers
who refused to let them 60 off
the reservation to school. While
this Adult programme was educa-
tional it did not begin to cover
the experiences and the curricu-
lum offered at the other schools.
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funds to restore the Washington
home of the noted abolitionists
and maintain it as a national
shrine.
During a three-hour program
sponsored by the National Asso-
citation Of Colored Women's Clubs,
three distinguished speakers lauded
Douglass and urged nationwide
support of efforts to restore his
Cedar Hill home in the Anacostia
section of the Nations Capital.
They were U. s. Senator Philip
Hart (D-Mich.); DR.. Mordecai w.
johnson, president-emeritus Of
Howard University; and DR.. Ben
jamin A. Quarles, chairman Of the
department of history at Morgan
State College in Baltimore.
( Sen. Hart praised Douglass as a
"truly great American" and an
nounced that he will introduce a
bill in the Senate to make the
Douglass Home a national shrine.
The bill will be introduced stimuli
taneously in the House by Cong.
Charles C. Diggs Jr. (D-Mich. f.,
according to the Senator.
"Put a needle into your Con-
gressmen so that we can assemble
across the (Anacostia) river and
make the Home a part of the her
itage of all America" Sen. Hart
said.
DR.. Johnson, who serves as hon.
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result of forcing themselves onto
the national TV networks or
whether their agitation will gain
! Roadway outside of the New York
area. They have already been dis
owned by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People whoch executive secretary,
Roy wilkins, said after the UN
riot:
observers, including New York
police officials, estimated the num-
Der of demonstrators in the UN
at less than 100. Obviously, this
raucus handful cannot be said to
represent either the sentiment or
the tactics of American Negroes"
At the same time, Mr. Wilkins
indicated that it would be we'll
for Americans generally to appre-
ciate more fully "the deep and
warm feeling American Negroes
have toward efforts of Africans
to achieve freedom from colonial
ism. This emotion" he declared,
"is heightened as they note the
determinations and inequalities
they themselves continue to suffer
SO years after the Emancipation
Proclamation"
In Harlem, where approximately
200 persons stood three hours
through downpour at a Lumum-
ba memorial service led by James
r. Dawson, president of the United
African Nationalist Movement, Mr..
Wilkins was sharply attacked
along with Ralph Bunche and
other Negro leaders by speakers
who frankly advertised themselves
as "black supremacists." DR..
Bunche has called the UN demon
strations "hooliganism."
Ranging over a wide field of
ended almost 100 years ago to
the 1866 murder of young EN-
NETT Till in Mississippi to today's
economic pinch, the orators reused
passionate outcries from their au-
dience with promises that mo one
can stop the onward march of
4OO, 100000 black men,"
Indicating no contrition for their
UN invasion, they launched angry
attacks at Adlai E. Stevenson
and others who apologized for
them. They also voiced contempt
for reports that indicated their
actions were Communist-inspired.
They said it was an insult to the
Negro community to insinuate that
they had to be led by the Com
munists when they had been moved
by "impulse to protest the death
| of our own brother"
The next day Communists held
their own mass memorial service
in Harlem for Patrice Lumumba,
spearheading an attack on Omitted
1
States support Of Belgian imper-
ialism."
Mr.. Dawson repeated his esti-
mate that IL to 20 African nation
alist groups heretofore operating
singlehandedly In Harlem now
were joining forces to make their
cause felt. One thing they are
telling any Negro who will listen
Is that he should no longer refer
to himself % an American Negro,
but as an Afro-American, thus
stressing his black African heri-
tage.
Part Of the aftermath Of the
UN riot has been threat by
Malcolm X, leader Of the New
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-03-11
Mrs. Annie F.
Davis, Retired
Touga|oo Teacher
Died Feb. 9th

Mrs. Annie F. Davis, retired
Teacher of Tougaloo Southern
Christian College, Tougaloo, Mis-
sissippi passed suddenly Monday,
February 81.
Requirem Mass will be held on
Friday, March 8, 1861 at II A. M.
at Holy Ghost Catholic Church on
Cloister Stree. Rosary Devotion
will be held Thursday, March 2,
1861 at Peoples Funeral Home, at
8 P. M. Interment will be in Tou-
galoo College Cemetery.
She is survived by three children,
Laura D. Clarke, of Washington,
d. c.; Sarah D. Mack, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, and James L.
Davis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
seven grandchildren and two great
grandchildren, a host of relatives
and friends.
Peoples Funeral Home, Inc, ir
charge of arrangements.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-03-11

York Members of Elijah Muham-
MAIDS Temple of Islam to take
legal action against Ambassador
Stevenson and public statement
linking this religious group to the
UN disorder.
at wasn't u.s." the self-styled
Moslem declared. 1--WE weren't
involved because we don't involve
ourselves in any politics, whether
local, national, or international.
He refused to condemn the riots,
however, explaining, Il am not
Moishe Tshombe and l will permit
no one to use me against the ma
tionalists."
The only Moslem group report
eddy represented at the demonstra-
tions was the international Mos
lem Society, Headquartered in
Harlem.
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Agency which directs the federal
governments mammoth housing
program.
The January meeting of the
NAACP board voted to fill the va
cancy caused by DR.. Viewers an
ticipated resignation at the next
major policy meeting of the Board
in April.
DR.. Weaver was designated U.
S. housing chief by President Ken
nedy and he took the oath of Of
flee during a White House cere-
mony attended by the President
on Feb. II.
A Harvard trained economist,
DR.. Weaver was formerly one of
the three members of New York
City's Housing and Redevelop-
ment Board.
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orary chairman Of the Douglass
Home Advisory Board, said that
the Home can become ian attract
i've center Of esteem and affection
for all Americans" The audience
was urged not only to rebuild the
Home, but to live their lives like
Douglass by the former Howard
head.
Douglass was not content to
be free himself; he wanted to see
all Of mankind Free" DIR. Johnson
said. "He was one of the most
powerful spokesman for the cause
of freedom who ever lived in Am
erica"
DR.. Johnson told of Douglass
appeals to Great Britain during
the Civil War, which he said were
instrumental in keeping the Brit
ish from entering the war on the
side of the Confederacy. He also
related the abolitionist's active
role in the movement for women's
rights.
Like Douglass, we must do
everything we can to change the
Negroes status in America and the
status of oppressed peoples
throughout the world" DR.. john
son declared.
DR.. Quarles, a Douglass biog-
rapher, said that the life of the
abolitionist exemplified struggle
and achievement. "He personified
the great American goal that ev-
cry man, regardless of his begin
ming, can become somebody" the
Morgan professor said.
The restoration of the Home was
seen by DR.. Quarles as being more
than the building of a shrine. He
said that it can give many people
a sense of belonging. MANY peo-
pie do not believe that the Negro
has contributed to American his
TORY" DR.. Quarles declared. "The
Douglass Home can show one of
the contributions of the race"
Other speakers included DR..
Joseph H. Douglass of Washing
ton, grandson of Douglass; the
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First Negro
Announcer
On CHS Radio

New York - Pat Cornell, a "a :
year-old veteran announcer, as
sumed his new duties as a stat
announcer on the CHS network
Sunday, Feb. 10, and became the
first member of his race to be
hired by the multi-million dollar
network in that capacity.
In his new position, Connell, who
started with CHS as a summer re
placement last April, will handle
both radio and television announ
cements and station breaks and
other announcing duties. Occasion
ally, he will also do some news
broadcasts.
Connell credited his upgrading
to the help of the local Urban Lea
que and CHS officials. He said:
IL owe a lot Of credit to offic-
ials of the CHS who have made
this all possible, to the Urban
League and to a lot of other peo-
pie who have helped me-"
Connell did so we'll with the
summer replacement duties that
he impressed Eugene King, the
CHS program director, and Ar
thur Peck, network operations su-
pervisor, who recommended him
for the staff position.
Besides holding the network po-
sition, Connell has a regular disc
jockey show on weekends.
He had previously done radio
and television work in New Jersey
and in the far West, and current
ly lives with his wife and two
sons in Verona, N. J.
"Do you ever have rows with
your wife ?"
ave used to until we realized I
was wronuv
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-03-11

Reverend E. Franklin jackson,
president Of the d. C. Branch Of
the NAACP; and DR.. Rosa L.
Gragg Of Detroit, NACWC ma
tional president.
Under DR.. Graggs direction,
NACWC will attempt to raise
100000 during 1861. If the drive
is successful, the Douglass Home
will undergo extensive renova-
ton, including landscaping Of the
14-acre tract on which it is To-
Gated. Present plans call for the
dedication of the Home as a ma
tional shrine on January /, 1862.
The Douglass Home was be-
queathed to the Frederick Doug
lass Memorial and Historical AS
ISOLATION in the will Of his widow,
the late Helen Pitts Douglass.
NACWC became affiliated with the
Home in 1916, when it paid off
the mortgage on the Home, there
by preventing a public auction of
the property. The Home contains
many of Douglass historic docu-
ments, as well as other relics of
the mid-19th Century. Included
are the flag and spear used by
John Brown at Harpers Ferry, w.
Va. The Homes collection "rep-
resents what a slave might think
and what a slave might become"
according to DR.. Gragg.
The advisory committee for the
restoration of the Home includes
some 80 distinguished citizens. 1t
is headed by DR.. Joseph Douglass,
and has among it's members the
nations four Congressmen-Diggs,
William L. Dawson (D-Ill.), Rob-
ert N. C. Nix (D-Fa.), and Adam
Clayton Powell (D-N. ".
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court trial on the basis that the
name of his attorney had failed to
appear on the docket. The county
attorney and the Judge said the
case would have been set if the
attorneys name had appeared on
the docket.
Kennard is now being held at
Hattiesburg, pending a Supreme
Court appeal on a later conviction
and seven-year prison sentence for
burglary.