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Evening star., 1961-01-15

Foirfox to Hire Expert
ToHeIp Fill School Job

The Fairfax School Board
viii employ a personnel expert
to sift through applications for
the job Of superintendent Of
schools.
The board, in q statement
yesterday, said 1t wanted q pro-
fessional man skilled In per-
sonnel recruitment" who would
compile data on all prospective
candidates.
Information on all applicants
will then be presented to the
board, which must make the
final decision by May. the
statement said.
The board released the pre-
viously prepared statement
after an hour-and-a-half closed
meeting at which 1t discussed
election Of q man to replace
Superintendent w. T. Woodson,
who Is retiring in June.
Last week the board said II
intended to ask the board oi
supervisors for authority to
employ q management consult
ant firm to aid 1t In making the
selection. Estimated cost was
5000 to $1,000.
That plan was shelved when
supervisors objected. Instead
1.-THE supervisors voted Wednes-
Iday to permit expenditure Of q
minimum amount Of money
for q personnel expert.
The boards statement yester-
day said last weeks decision
Evening star., 1961-01-15

had been ''misinterpreted in
some quarters as an evasion Of
responsibility and an improper
delegation Of the school boards
authority"
Such interpretations "are
completely inconsistent with
the stated intent" Of the board
the statement said.
The personnel specialist will
gather data on all applicants
and prepare . brief resume or
each for presentation to the
board. Chairman Theodore 8
Heriot said.
The board. he said, does moi
yet know how much the per.
sonnel specialist viii cost.
Mr.. Heriot said o number
of applications had been re.
ceived, but that the board
would get in touch with other,
whom it thinks might be quail.
ified and interested in the job
Earlier. the board begar
studying the $3l.1 millior
school budget presented by Mr.
Woodson last week. A public
hearing on the budget, S.;
million more than this years
win be held February 2.
Evening star., 1961-01-15

responsibility for investigating
into your efficiency"
Mr.. Kaul later said that II
the county manager does not
submit . satisfactory report
about the status of the Runyon
assignment. II wiz propose an
investigation"
However, other board mem
bers indicated they do not
favor such an investigation
now.
AS Mr.. Runyon's attorney,
Oren Lewis, tr. started to bring
the Runyon issue before the
board, Mr.. Lundberg inter-
rupted. ~ .
IF it involves the operation
or activities Of q county en-
ploye, such q discussion Is not
properly before the board and
can jeopardize the position OF
any county board member" he
said.
I've been in the county many
years and I've never heard q
county manager threaten the
county board. It's disgraceful,' >
Mr.. Lewis declared.
II take exception to that
statement. It was proper to ad.
wise the board Of an existing
statute. I didn't draw up the
statute. Any Interpretation that
1t was a threat is false" Mr.
Lundberg retorted.
Board members yesterda,
directed Mr.. Lundberg to re.
port In April on the status o1
the new park squad.
Evening star., 1961-01-15
:kouI Accuses Boord Colleagues
Of Secret ToIks Before Meetings

| pointrnent Of members TO some
citizens advisory committees.
After the board ignored sew
eral requests by Mr.. Kaul,
including one that appoint
ments be deferred to obtain
more citizen recommendations,
he interrupted proceedings to
say:
MAY I ask whether the
majority Of the Arlington
County Board met In private
session and decided the ap-
pointment?"
Chairman Leo Urnanske re-
piled: "You may ask. I have
no answer" Silence ensued.
But o few minutes later, when
reporters questioned the board.
other members supported Mr..
Brown.
Abiding to q tlmuituous
secret meeting in December,
1859, ct which q board member
selected appointees, Mr.. wit
asked Mr.. Kaul:
did you ever attend Q pri-
vate caucus In Q private home
about school board appointees?"
Talks Held Needed
Mr.. Kaul answered, "Yes,'
did. But I have not partici-
pated in o regular Friday night
meeting at someone's house to
consider the agenda Of the
Arlington County Board"
Mr.. Brown retorted: Eyes
you have. You regularly ar
ranged meetings at your home
when YOU were chairman Of
the board"
Mr.. Kaul replied that the
meetings were not regular ones
Chairman Urbanske said he
thinks 1t necessary to talk Il
colleagues and citizens at every
opportunity so he can gather
information with which te
make decisions. He asserted
all decisions are made publicly
Newly elected board member
Thomas Richards said: ''Tc
make intelligent decisions, Q
member must spend hours oi
what often Is drudgery in mas.
tering facts and issues involved
Failure to do so is q disservict
to the community. But 1t Il
automatic that all Of US art
opposed to making decisionl
privately. -"
Admits Conflicts
| However, noting that tn,
issue Of private conferences Il
q basic one between him ant
Mr. Brown. Mr.. Kaul said:
"It was perfectly apparent
that the board members hat
decided whom to appoint. May
be commitments were made.
don't know"
!, Mr.. Wilt declared that h
1 sees no Improperly in boart
members comforting informall,
with each other, receiving call
from citizens, and exchanging
information about issues to b
resolved officially.
Evening star., 1961-01-15
BY JOHN BARRON
star staff Writer

Ralph Kaul yesterday angrily
accused his fellow Arlington
County Board members Of en-
,dangering the public by con-
ferring privately before open
meetings.
His charge Immediately
brought down upon him q hail
Of counter -denunciation and
barred the deep conflict between
Mr.. Kaul and his colleague.
Herbert Brown.A
Referring to informal. BIZ
monthly sessions which board
members say are conducted so
they can study and exchange
ideas about issues they have to
decide. Mr.. Kaul declared:
The temptation and ten
dency to decide things behind
closed doors becomes very
strong. The danger in the fu-
ture is very great. The action
of our governing body. regard
less Of who the members are.
should be q matter Of continu-
Evening star., 1961-01-15
Foirfox College
Approved

cHARLoTTEsvILLE, Va.
Jan. u (AP). = Preliminary
plans for George Mason Col
lege in Fairfax County were
approved today by the build
ings and ground committee of
the University Of Virginia's
board Of visitors.
The plans now 60 to the
State art commission and State
architect.
George Mason will be the
first Of the new two-year COM
munity colleges constructed as
a planned unit on q new cam
pus In Virginia.
The university will make the
plans public after final ap-
proval by the Governor.
Evening star., 1961-01-15
PuroIees Screened

LOS ANGELES. - California
is screening its $4,000 prison
inmates and PAROLES to- esti-
mate their probably success In
staying out Of prison II re-
leased. Low-risk prisoners are
put In work camps where
psychologists try to prepare
them for freedom.
Evening star., 1961-01-15
ToII-Free IS Tradition

NEW YoRK.-Freedom from
tolls, taxes, or impost for inland
waterways and harbors in the
United States has been the law
since the Northwest Ordinance
Evening star., 1961-01-15
Rotterdam I'd Port

Rotterdam Is Hollands sec.
ond largest city and the worlds
second largest port.
Evening star., 1961-01-15
NEW cpnIJp @s1
NEW GROUP
College Unit
ToBeHeoded
By Durden

DR.. Colgate w. Dardell, IT.,
former Governor Of Virginia,
viii head q group which wiz
set goals for higher education
lin the South.
Gov. Ellington Of Tennessee.
chairman Of the Southern Re-
gional Education Board. yes
terday announced DR.. Darden's
appointment as chairman of
the newly-created Commission
on Goals for Higher Education
in the South.
The group Is charged with
setting educational goals, FOR
the next two decades and rec
ommending ways Of attaining
the long-range objectives.
Other members Of the COM
mission include Marion B. Fol-
som. former Secretary Of
Health, Education and Welfare,
and Ralph McGill. columnist
for The Star and other news
-
Evening star., 1961-01-15
virqiniun Named
CHARLO LOTTESVIILE,

CHARLOTTESVILLE, va,
Jan. II tAP). - Arthur C..
Greene. jr., Of the University
|of Virginia staff has been
named assistant executive sec
retary OF the Virginia High
School League.
Mr.. Greene will be in charge
Of dramatic. forensic and liter
|ary activities Of the league.
Arizona sun., 1961-09-28
PRESIDENT KENNEDY ASKED TO
REINSTATE LETTER CARRIER

There was a lull in activity after
NAACP protests were filed in late
July, but it now appears that the
Postmaster Generals office has
been won over to supporting the
head-chopping plan of the Geor-
gians. Negro citizens have suffer-
ed savage economic reprisals in
the southern states during the past
seven years because they have
campaigned to enjoy their con-
stitutional rights, but it has re-
manned for department in the
executive branch Of the Kennedy
Administration to permit the en-
ployment of the might of the United
States Government in such mean
endeavors. If the government is
to become a partner in economic
reprisal against a government en-
ployee who exercises his right as
a citizen to seek the redress OF
notorious grievances suffered by
his racial group then we have
come, as a nation, to a low estate,
indeed.
Our Board of Directors respect
fully but most firmly urges I'M
mediate action on the administra-
ton level to rescind the dismissal
and to order a complete and de-
tailed inquiry with view to de-
termining the steps to be taken
against those responsible for this
injustice.
Arizona sun., 1961-09-28

New York-The National Associ-
ton for the Advancement of
Colored People has called upon
President John F. Kennedy to
rescind the dismissal of Westley
w. Law from his job as a letter
carrier in the Savannah, Ga, post
office on Sept. 8.
The real reason for the dismis-
sal, the NAACP leader told the
White House, was Mr.. Laws role
in the struggle for civil rights in
Georgia and particularly his leader
ship of a successful 15-month CAM
paign ito withhold patronage from
local merchants because of the
shabby treatment accorded Negro
customers and the refusal to lift
barriers at lunch counters and to
employ Negro citizens in any ex-
cept the most menial categorieS. "
The full text of Bishop Spots
woods telegram to President Ken
nedy follows:
In a resolution adopted unaml-
mously at its regular meeting Sep
tember II, the Board of Directors
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Col0red People
protest against the dismissal on
trumped-up charges of WeStley W.
Law from his post as letter car
rier in the Savanagh, Georgia,
Post Office on September 8, 1861.
Mister Law is a member of our
Board of Directors and is also
president of the Georgia State Or
ganization of the NAACP and of
its Savannah unit. In the latter
capacity he has directed for fif-
teen months a campaign to with
hold patronage from local mer-
chants because of the shabby treat
ment accorded Negro customers
and the refusal to lift barriers at
lunch counters and to employ Ne
gro citizens in any except the most
menial categOrieS.
In an agreement reached July
Is, 1861, The Savannah Merchants
changed their policies and tn e
withholding campaign was relax
ed, but hardly had the reports OF
a settlement been published be-
fore officials in the Savannah Post
Office began a campaign to dis
miss Law. This shameful effort,
pledged in advance to a white citl-
zens council audience by a cam
paigning Georgia Congressman, re-
ceived the support of persons in
the Postmaster Generals Office
in Washington.
Arizona sun., 1961-09-28
Arizona Frontiers Hits
Political Bosses

In its October issue, available
at most newstands and by SUBJ
scription $3.50 yearly, P. 0. Box
9541, Phoenix, ARIZONA FROM
TIERS reveals the story of how
Maricopa County's political boss
eS operate.
Proving itself a hard-hitting fac
tual magazine, Arizona's newest
magazine also features a cover
story on Senator Carl Hayden; a
clear statement of the Glen Can
yon power controversy and the
part Rep. j. J. Rhodes had in it;
an article by Congressman Nor
ris K. Udall explaining the reas-
ons for the dismissal of a right
wing politicing army officer;
and other articles of local, state,
and national significance.
After only three issues, ARIZ-
|ONA FRONIIERS is last dciileV-
ing a reputation as one of the fin
est political journals the state has
seen. Its articles are factual,
though its opinion leans strongly
toward the Democratic administra-
ton of President John F. Ken
nedy. Political observers of both
the Republican and Democratic
parties, consider ARIZONA FROM
TIERS a good antidote to the one
sided information handed out in
1.-THE Phoenix monopoly press.
Arizona sun., 1961-09-28
THE NEGRO PRESS CREDO

/ The Negro Press believes that America
can best lead the world away from racial and
national antagOnsms when it accOrds to every
man, regardless of race, color or creed, his
human and legal rights. Hating no man, fearing
no man, the Negro Press strives to help every
man in the firm belief that all are hurt long
as anyone is held back.
Arizona sun., 1961-09-28
ELKS HOLD MASSIVE EDUCATIONAL
CONFERENCE IN DOWNTOWN new YORK CITY

did with tremendous success what
the Sit Inners and Freedom Riders
are attempting to do now. Today
we stand with massive political
power, able to elect or defeat any
candidate for any - County, City
or State = who does not consider
us.
Turning to educational needs
the Congreeman asserted:
''The imperative need of the
hour is for black men and women
to save themselves through more
and better education"
"a Bachelors Degree in tn e
Humanities is of absolutely more
value in this objective scientific
world of absolute truths.
81 call for Negroes even at the
high school level to start empha-
sizing, as far as possible, formal
training in mathematics, sciences
and related subjects"
James Farmer, of New York
City, president of CORE, told the
Baccalaureate Service that his or
ganization had placed a total of
O,OOO in Jackson, Mississippi, all
in cash, for Freedom Riders.
Farmer said:
"On the question Of facing trails
1 tell you that each "rider" that
does not show will lose for us
$500 in bail, and we don't think
we will lose any of the bail money.
"We intend to fight and continue
to fight even to the Supreme Court
of the USA, and more and more
Freedom Riders are going to ride
buses into the south.
Nothing but justice will stop
our cruSade!"
Grand Exalted Ruler Reynolds.
and Commissioner Lee, both, plac.
ed the IBPOEW on record of rails
ing money for, and supporting the
Freedom Riders.
The annual Oratorical contest
was won by Miss Doris Jean Terry
of Birmingham, Ala, second place
was captured by Miss Mariner
Orita Fannay, of East st. Louis,
ILL.,, and third prize went to Ray.
mond Warren of Phoenix, Ariz.
Arizona sun., 1961-09-28
Senator Hayden To Be
Honored AT Dinner

: Phoenix, Ariz.-Three of the
best-known personalities in t h
u. S. Senate-Richard B. Russell
of Georgia, Leverett Saltonstall of
Massachusetts and Harry F. Byrd
of Virginia-are scheduled for
Phoenix on Nov. II to honor a
longtime friend and colleague:
Senator Carl Hayden of Arizona.
Hayden that evening will be
rendered a $11O-a-plate Golden
Anniversary Dinner" hailing his
5Oth year of Congressional service.
Setting will be the Hotel. Westward
Hos Thunderbird auditorium.
President pro tenn of the Senate,
Hayden has served longer in Con-
gress than any other man in the
nations history.
Heading a non-partisan citizens
committee arranging the event is
Tom Chauncey, television execu-
tive and Phoenix businessman.
Committee vice chairman is James
Minotto. local banker, rancher and
former minister to Portugal.
Chauncey said today he has re-
ceived definite acceptances from
Senators Byrd and Saltonstall, and
a tentative Eyes from Russell.
Underscoring the affairs mon
Npartisanship," Chauncey noted that
Saltonstall is a ranking Republican
member of the Senate from his
native Massachusetts, Russell Of
ten has been a 'favorite so n
candidate of the South at Demo-
cratic national conventions, and
Byrd is a leader of conservative
Democrats in the upper chamber
of Congress.
Tickets for the Nov. II dinner
meeting will be placed on sale
shortly. 1--WE are anticipating a
capacity audience of more than
1000 Arizonans of every shade OF
4 political faith," Chauncey said.
He indicated additional accept
ances would be forthcoming soon
''from several other highly prom
.jnent figures on the Washington
scene %
Senators Byrd and Russell took
their seats in that body in 1888,
and have been reelected ever since
Hayden, however, precedes them
by six years-firSt elected to the
Senate in 1926 after serving since
Arizona's admission into the union
(1912) in the national House OF
Representatives.
Chairman of the powerful Ap-
preparations Committee, Senator
Hayden is invariably described
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Arizona sun., 1961-09-28
Prince Edward County
Board Of Supervisors To
Appropriate Fund

Richmond, Va.-The Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia has
been asked to issue a writ of man.
damus directing the Board of Su-
pervisors of Prince Edward Coun-
ty ''to appropriate and make avail
able to the County School Board
of Prince Edward County suffice
ent funds for operation and main
tenance'' of public free schools
for the current school year and
for subsequent years.
Unless such a writ is handed
down, the southside rural Virginia
county will begin its third year
without public schools. The Board
of Supervisors has refused to ap-
prOpriate funds for school pur-
poses since the close of the school
year, 1958-59. This action was TAX
en- in order to circumvent COM
pliance with a 1859 Federal court
order to desegregate the schools.
Meanwhile, some 1900 white chill
dren have been attending schools
maintained by the Prince Edward
School Foundation. Last year these
private schools we're aided by state
and local tuition grants to pupils.
These grants and other public aids
were nullified by a ruling handed
down on August % by United States
District Judge Oren R. Lewis. The
100 colored school-age children
IN the county have been without
formal academic training during
the past two years.
, The petition for a writ of man.
damus was filed with the Virginia
Supreme Court of Appeals on Sept
8 on behalf of Leslie Francis Grif
fin, Jr., a Prince Edward County
school-age child, and his father
Representing the petitioners were
NAACP attorneys S. w. Tucker
and Henry l.. Marsh, III, of Rich
mond.
Arizona sun., 1961-09-28

New York, N. Y.-Lt. George
w. Lee, of Memphis, Tenn. Grand
Commissioner of Education for the
IBPOEW, states that the I'M
proved Benevolent Protective Or
der of Elks of the World set an
all time high attendance record
when more than $4,000 Elks from
all over America, Canada and the
Islands" jammed the fashionable
Grand Ballroom of the multi-ml-
lion dollar Commodore Hotel in
downtown New York City.
Congressman A. Clayton Powell,
Jr., chairman of the House Ed
ucation Committe, was the princi-
pal speaker for the annual Elks
oratorical contest, and, James
Farmer, president of the Congress
of Racial Equality (CORE) origi-
nators of the Freedom Riders
was speaker for 1t. Lees annual
Baccalaureate Service. Cong. Po-
well, Farmer along with Rev. Wy
att Walker, crusading equal rights
minister of Atlanta, Ga. were re-
cipitents of awards from the Elks
Education Department.
The record high attendance, 49,
600 for two meetings was set un-
der the new Elks leadership OF
Judge Hobson r. Reynolds, serv-
ing his first term as Grand Exalt-
ed Ruler
Powell Backs Riders
Cong. Powell, joined by seven
high school students vying for ma
tional oratorical contest honOrs,
struck at segregation and discrimi-
nation. The seven contestants, all,
previously won 81, 900 Elks regional
scholarships from 1t. Lees de-
partment.
Making what was considered by
white reporters covering the ses-
sion Monday, Cong, Powell told
the crowd that he backed the Free
from Riders 100 percent. The Con
gresham said:
"The south must realize that the
Freedom Riders are coming, and
we intend to give this effort great
er support in the future as we die
in the past. A generation ago we
Arizona sun., 1961-09-28
New Trial Filed
For Georgia Boy

ACldnCd, Gd.-lLC INAt1OI DC
cured postponement this week of
the death sentence of Preston
Cobb, IS, charged with killing a
7O-year-old white man. The stay
followed filing of a motion for a
new trial which will be heard on
Oct. 6. Execution had been Sched-
uled for Sept. %.
The Staying took place in Month
cello, Georgia, following a quarrel
last June between young Cobb and
Frank Coleman Dumas.
An all-white, all-male jury de
liberated" a mere As minutes be-
fore rendering the guilty verdict
without recommending mercy.
This made the death sentence man.
datory. The youth would have be-
come the youngest person to be
electrocuted in modern Georgia
history.
Donald l.. Ho11owell, NAACP at
torney here, is handling the case
following investigation by Vernon
E. Jordan, the Associations
Georgia field secretary.
Mr.. Hollowell, seasoned civil
rights lawyer, was retained at the
request of the boys mother, Mrs.
Leatha Cobb, who came to the
NAACP for help.
The Georgia Pardon and Parole
Board announced its intention to
investigate the case this week fol-
lowing an appeal by Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, in her syndicated col
umn, for citizens to wire Georgia
Governor S. Ernest Vandiver ask
ing clemency.
A longstanding member of the
NAACP's national Board of Di-
rectors, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote
that there would be worldwide
repercussions if Georgia electro
cutes a 15-year-old boy, regard
less of whether his skin is black
or white"
Mr.. Dumas, the slain man, was
a farmer and employer of the
youths mother, a widow. who,
with her children, lived on the
Dumas plantation in a small dwell
ing not far from the "big house"
where the planter lived.
The Staying followed a quarrel
last June between Mr.. Dumas and
the boy.
Georgia wrote Mrs. Roose-
welt, sis part of the United States,
no matter how much we may wish
to conceal the fact, and there is
going to be worldwide feeling that
this in unenlightened penal legis,
lation."
Meanwhile, in New York, the
Associations national office has
received many calls about the
case from foreign and domestic
newspaper men.
An NAACP on-the-sp0t investi-
cation revealed that:
No Negro has served on a
jury in Jackson County, where the
crime was committed and trial
held, for more than 40 years.
The court-appointed attorney
failed to raise pertinent conStitu-
tional issues.
There is a possibility that per-
sons other than young Cobb were
involved in the murder.
Arizona sun., 1961-09-28
Committee Studies
Housing Problem

Middletown, Gonna lar G e
number of Negro families, who
rent homes here, are being denied
significantly better houseing, ="
which they both desire and can
afford.
This is one of the early findings,
announced today, of a Wesleyan
University faculty committee that
is undertaking a comprehensive
15-month study of the Negro COM
munity in the Middletown area.
The first phase of the study con-
Germs housing and is based on in
terviews of 314 Negro families,
about 80 per cent of the Negro
families in the area.
Roughly one-fourth of 63 of the
254 Negro families now renting
"are willing and able to buy homes
ranging in price from $4,000 to
over $25 5,OOO," the committee said.
These families "are kept from
moving by a lack of income.
The committee said the Negros
are being confined to several con-
centrated areas primarily because
of racial discrimination and low
income, which is caused, to high
degree. by discrimination.
It predicted that these concen-
Etrated areas, already rundown
overcrowded and unhealthy, are
likely to deteriorate and expand. .
'Most upper-income Negroes diff
fer significantly in appearance and
behavior from the stereotype image
which lies behind the fears o!
many whites who discriminate,
the committee said.
Consequently the easiest path
to expansion of housing Opportu'
mites for Negros in general lies
in the removal of discriminatory
barriers to the many Negros fol-
whom income and behavior OBJ
stacles are not important" f"
The committee said that tn
average annual Negro income
after taxes, was just under $4,000
significantly less than the com
parable white figure of ovel
$1,000" 1t found, however, tha
nearly half of the families survey
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ed have incomes of more thar
$1,000 per year after taxeS-"suf
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