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, 1961-01-05
Reception. Confdbs
Set UP Fir v. |.
Senators in Wdsh.

Members of the Virgin Is
Legislature, who are schedul-
ed to attend the Inauguration
of President-elect John F. Ken
nedy this month in Washing
ton, will attend many reoep-
lions and conferences.
A reception hosted by Con
gresham Michael Kirwan of.
Ohio, will give the legislators
an opportunity to meet many
foreign leaders, including
those from the AfEica-Asian
bloc.
conferences nave already
been arranged with Represen-
tatiye Wayne Aspinall & Sena-
tor Clinton Andersen, chair
men of the House and Senate
Committees on Interior and
Insular Affairs. The legisla-
tors will also meet the new
Secretary Of the Interior, Ste
wart Udall and other officials
in the Department of the In
terror to discuss various poll
-cy questions.
Most Of the islands eleven
legislators are preparing to
make the trip.
, 1961-01-05

Assoc. Prof, Lectures
TO Churchwomen
Miss Laura Moorhead, As
Sociate Professor of Nursing
at South Dakota State College
was a guest speaker at the
United Church Womens
World Community Day re-
Gently in Cook Hall at the
First Methodist Church, ac-
cording to a news item in the
fWatertown SD Public Opt
nion".
"A woman's Job is the crea-
ton Of human values said
Miss Moorhead, in speaking
on Christian action for free
dom. She told the women that
they, in their roles as mothers
have the perfect opportunity
to instill in their children
from the time Of their birtha
set of Christian values.
Through the ages, the Wo-
mans role has been to intro
duce kindness, compassion &
meaning to life, while men
concern themselves with more
material things, and nothing
adds more meaning to life
than giving to Others she
said,
Miss Moorhead, born in
Frederiksted is sister to two
well-knewtn citizens, Aleran-
der Moorhead, merchant and
Judge William Moorhead.
OF segregation, Miss Moor
head said that Christianity is
the answer to the segregation
problem, for God does not diff
ferentiate between-Biack and
White. Segregation scars the
soul Of both segregated and
segregator, she said.
Miss Moorhead was former
y director Of Nursing in the
Virgin Islands.
, 1961-01-05
Vicorp Announces
Purchase Of New
Generator; Due Goth

5 E7E 15E#tE- @LeSE
a replacement for the power
generator which was destroy
ed by fire last week was pur-
chased by the Virgin Islands
Corporation yesterday & will
be shipped from the west
coast tomorrow, it was an
nounced. Fortunately, the
East Asiatic Co, Ltd. had a
boat sailing from Los Ange-
les, California for St. Thomas
on January s and the supplier
OF the generator has agreed to
see that it is placed on this
ship which will arrive in St.
Thomas on January 20.
Through the excellent CO.
operation which we have been
receiving from the public, the
Vicorp release said, it has
been possible to meet the
peak load demand ever since
the emergency arose. Unless
there is a sharp build-up in
electric usage within the next
three weeks, which is not ex-
pected, Vicorp should, barr
ing any unforeseen circum-
stances, maintain power thru
out the island without outage.
This will require, however,
the continued cooperation Of
everyone in reducing their
usage form 600 to $50
4 ~
pm.
, 1961-01-05

Some troupes from Chris
tiansted are expected to take
part in the Frederiksted pa
rade.
Evening star., 1961-03-02

that 1000 families will have to
move OUT
This presents a serious prob
lem. Accordingly, the council
recommends that the Commits
sioners direct the Department
Of Licenses and Inspections to
implement this inspection pro-
gram in an orderly manner
with the least possible disturb
ance of public morale" the
council said.
An additional $500 families
will be forced to move ", 1T
downs of rooming houses, tene-
ments and apartments that
have been operating under
temporary world War II re-
laxed standards, according to
estimates by licensing officials.
At a council hearing yester-
day. R. Donald Kinney, deputy
director of the Department Of
Licenses and Inspections, said
he thought it would be unreal
istic to try to gear the city's
compliance efforts on the re-
troactive regulations to less
than a l0-year period.
Mr.. Kinney's position was
that the enforcement program
involves far more than inspec-
tions of the $4,000 older build
ings. There is a major prob
lem Of handling the appeals
Evening star., 1961-03-02
81 Are Hurt,
Two Missing
In Explosions

BATON ROUGE, La, Mar. 2
(AP).-Three explosions in a
chemical wash house rocked
the Ethyl Corp. plant today, in
juring 81 workers. A company
statement said later two men
were missing. Their names
were withheld.
The company said six men
were sent to city hospitals, and
Is others were treated at the
plan medical cener.
Abou 5000 workers are en-
ployed in the big chemical
center.
The first explosion destroyed
the brick 2la-Story wash house,
used to take impurities out of
various anti-knock chemicals.
Bricks rained over a wide
area. One workman a block
away said he was knocked 10
feet by the blast.
j. D. Adams, an iron worker
at the plant, said the men
really started moving when the
second explosion occurred. A
third blast followed about five
minutes later as workers ran
the mile or so to safety.
A big, yellowish, mushroom
shaped cloud spread over the
area A plant spokesman said
what fumes there were drifted
westward across the Mississippi
River. away from the industrial
population area.
Evening star., 1961-03-02

and the enforcement cases, he
noted.
Officials also are concerned
over the forced displacement
of so many persons and the
question of overlooking the
construction industry in max
ing necessary repairs to the
buildings.
City officials have estimated
that it would cost about SIS
million, mainly for extra city
workers, to complete the build
ing code program in five years.
Priority List Given
Today, the citizens advisory
council also recommended a
priority list for carrying out
the inspections.
The first category on the list
covers such institutions as jailS
an dpsychiatric hospitals. Next
were such buildings as medical
hospitals. nursing homes, well
fare institutions and fraternal,
religious and charitable insti-
tutions.
Third priority on the 16-
point list was for schools. fol-
lowed by hotels, apartments
and tenements.
The councils recommended
tions will be considered by the
Commissioners at next Tues
days board meeting. Commits
sioner Robert E. Mclaughlin
said today that the proposals
appear to me to be very log
ical and very reasonable"
Evening star., 1961-03-02

frankly admitted the leadership
in the last Congress had been
reluctant ito embrace" the
legislation.
THE leadership gambled and
won," Mr.. Celler said. Now ap-
pointments will be made by an
administration of the same
party as Congress. That is moth
ing new in our political system. "
Chairman Celler asserted that
no one need fear that the Ken
nedy administration would not
name "Skillful,. objective, eru-
dite and honest lawyers" to fill
vacancies.
Evening star., 1961-03-02

age reached its highest state
of unrefined refinement"
The Senate bill would author
ize President Kennedy to name
SO new judges. The House
Judiciary Committee is con-
Sidering proposals of Chairman
Celler, Democrat of New York,
for SO judges. The Judicial
Conference has recommended
SO.
Senator Dirksen said it would
have been more wholesome" if
the Attorney General had sub
stantiated the need for judges
to the Senate committee. as
he had to the House Judiciary
Committee yesterday.
The senior Republican on the
House committee, Represent
ative McCulloch of Ohio, de-
plored the custom of past
Presidents in appointing the
majority of Federal judges from
their party ranks.
President Eisenhower bal
anced the ratio to 48 per cent
Republican and So per cent
Democratic, he said. Senator
DirkSen broke down present
ratios this way: OF 68 circuit
judges, 20 were Democrats and
IS Republicans, with four
vacancies; of 244 district judges,
l25 were Democrats and 119
Republicans.
FavOrS Best" Individuals
Repre- S entative McCulloch
asked Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy yesterday for a
pledge of reasonable balance"
in appointments.
Il believe the best individuals
should be selected as judges, /"
was the only assurance he drew
from Attorney General Ken
nedy, brother of the President.
Representative Meader, Re-
publican of Michigan, and
House committee member, was
collecting data aimed at show
ing that fewer judges might be
needed if judges on the bench
now cut back their vacations
and worked harder.
Committee Chairman Celler
Evening star., 1961-03-02

senate consideration OF the
judgeShip bill because the Judi
ciary Committee did not file its
report until 9 am. today. But
Democrats had cleared the fill
ing to allow immediate debate,
> Motion to Postpone
Republicans still plan to cal
for a vote on a motion to post
pone action until March l6
two days after a report on the
judiciary is due from the Judi
cfal Conference.
Debate on the measure began
under an understanding there
would be no vote today but
that action would continue to-
morrow.
Senator Dirksen. in a state
n1ent, said the bill lis indeed
in keeping with the New From
ttier spirit where courthouse
politics was a highly cultivated
art and where judgeShips were
considered among the most
desirable political plums of all"
The Republican leader said
that former President Eisen-
hover urged creation of addi-
tional judgeships during the
past four years but the pleas
for action fell on the deaf ears
Of Democrat (sic) leaders" IN
Congress.
G. o. P. Offer Recalled
Senator Dirksen noted that
Republican spokesmen even Of
fered to appoint Democrats to
half Of any new judgeShips
created. Federal judges are ap-
pointed by the President sub
ject to Senate confirmation.
'"The election outcome in
1860 seems to have suddenly
and strangely sharpened a new
sense Of duty and responsibility
along and the New Frontier,
and. presto!-23 days after
transition day when the new
administration took over, a bill
appeared providing for SO new
judges" Senator Dirksen said,
adding:
ut shall never be said that
the New Frontier is not main
tanning the tradition of Andrew
Jackson when political patron
Evening star., 1961-03-02
Senate Delays Vote
On Judgeship Bill
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

Democratic Senate. confident bill to increase the
her of Federal judges would pass today agreed Republican
requests to delay vote until tomorrow.
Il think have the votes" Senate Democratic Leader
Mansfield said after respecting wishes for the delay
Minority Leader DkSen earlier threatened object
Evening star., 1961-03-02
More Time Sought

More Time Sought
The councils report noted
that enforcement Of the retro
active regulations will mean
displacement for a substantial
number of city residents.
tOfficials have estimated
Evening star., 1961-03-02
BUILDINGS

Continued From First Page
additional city workers should
be hired to complete the prof.
ect in less time.
Evening star., 1961-03-02

DCIIdU6 CUIISIUGI dIIUII OF IIIt
judgeship bill because the Judi
ciary Committee did not file its
report until 9 am. today. But
Democrats had cleared the fill
ing to allow immediate debate.
Papago Indian news., 1961-04-01


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Evening star., 1961-10-22
Ki-Wives Set
Benefit

Mrs. Thomas L. Coleman Of
Potomac has been appointed
chairman of the 10th annual
benefit luncheon to be held
at 1890 pm. Tuesday at the
Shoreham Hotel by the XII
Wives Of Bethesda.
Assisting Mrs. Coleman are
Mrs. Richard A. Danzi, Mrs.
Frank JaggerS. Mrs. Fred
erick G. Harting, jr.; Mrs.
James F. Hogan. Mrs. Ben
janin Treadwell, Mrs. Eu-
gene c. Meyer, Mrs. Edgar L.
Voneiff and Mrs. John
Hudgens.
The Ki-Wives of Bethesda
assist their husband Kiwan-
ians in charitable endeavors.
They maintain a hearing
clinic in Montgomery County
for aiding underprivileged
children.
Evening star., 1961-10-22

to normal. 1t won't work for
everyone, but with my me-
tabolism I manage very well.
I have two eggs three times
a day with a half grapefruit
in the morning and sliced
tomatoes for lunch and
dinner"
Jan spoke of how much she
missed Paul cher late hus-
band Paul Douglass, and
said that she didn't expect
to marry again for a long,
long time.
Its easier since I moved
into another house." she ex-
planned. But it's still diff
cult doing everything by my
self.
"One thing for which I am
very grateful is that I taught
myself to catnap. I had to
grab sleep whenever I could,
when I was working in stock.
It is a matter of training
your mind to concentrate. !
began by closing my eyes and
lying still and trying to think
of only one thing, such as a
cloud in a clear blue sky. I
forced myself to lie still and
little by little it became cas-
ier TO relax and retain a sin
gle image. Don't get discour-
aged. When you think you'll
never make it, you'll find
you've fallen asleep. From
that day on you've got it
made. You'll be able to lie
down, knowing you've only
Evening star., 1961-10-22
GLAMOUR IS THEIR BUSINESS
The Impact of Color
BY LYDIA LANE
Times-Mirror Syndicate

HOLLYWOOD. We were
having one of our rare gray
days with forecast of rain
when Jan Sterling met me
at the Brown Derby wearing
an apple-green tweed suit
and a chic little hat.
How pretty and gay you
look" I told her.
81 always get compliments
when I wear clear colors,"
Jan said. "And I feel COM
pletely different in them.
The psychological impact of
color was taught to me in
the threaten years ago. ! was
doing a play on Broadway
and I had a funny scene
which didn't get a laugh. I
thought it was my timing
and so I worked extra hard
on it. Then one day the di-
rector gave me a new dress
from the wardrobe, and when
I played that scene in yellow
instead of black I got a big
laugh. One should never
wear dark colors for comedy
he told me.
That started me thinking
about colors in a way I never
had before. I understood,
then. why a dress that was
a favorite of mine in one
shade wasn't becoming when
copied in another color.
II was born in the spring."
Jan revealed, "and I always
feel best in spring colors.
Anything muddy actually de-
presses me.
Audience Reactions
1.-THE psychology Of color is
fascinating and I have
learned a great deal from au-
dience reactions. I know that
If I am playing an unsym-
pathetic part and I don't
want to be trusted, I wear
purple. This doesn't hold true
for everyone, though, some
one else wearing the same
shade would get a different
reaction.
I'm hot weather, I try to
wear cool colors or white be-
cause they reflect the heat.
I remember reading tn at
when Picard assembled into
the stratosphere the first
time he made it in a white
gondola and he was cold, but
when he tried it again in a
black gondola. the tempera-
ture was much warmer"
Jan is a natural brunette,
but she has been bleaching
her hair for a long time.
With your blue eyes and
coloring, YOU look blond" I
told her.
And I feel it," she con-
fessed. When I changed the
color Of my hair, it gave me
and my career a lift.
Even if you are not a pro-
feSsional, I believe in doing
everything you can to i'm
prove whe: you don't like
about yourself" After Jan
hsd her nose bobbed, she
talked about it on a TV show
and received thousands Of
letters from women asking
her about plastic surgery.
Counting Galleries
'I changed my measure
ments when I came to Hol-
lywood. I went from a IL to
an 8. I still have a massage
several times a week. I don't
enjoy counting calories. I
can't cut down or have a
little less food. With me, it's
all or nothing at all. 1t may
not be the wisest way" Jan
pointed out, but at least I
know my limitations. I love
food with rich sauces, and
when I overindulge, I have
a dependable three-day diet
that always brings me hack
Evening star., 1961-10-22

luncheon at 1890 pm. Tues
day at the Kennedy Warren
Hotel. Mrs. Page Belcher, wife
Of Representative Belcher, is
the president Of the chapter.
Mrs. Peter Dracopoulous,
Evening star., 1961-10-22

the vice president, will pre-
side at the meeting. the pro-
gram of which will be a
panel on the status Of women
throughout the world.
Evening star., 1961-10-22

Is minutes and be able to
sleep Is of them.
IF you train your body to
obey your mind, you will al
ways be able to relax. Then
when sorrow comes, you
won't have to take sleeping
pills." Jan concluded.
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Panel Discussion
Is Planned

Chapter two Of the Capital
Speakers Club will meet for
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native symbolist poetry IN the Ne
gro folk tradition stood waiting
70 receive 1.-THE blues. Il have
always wondered Baldwin told
an interviewer in 1858. why there
has never, or almost never, APP
peared in fiction any Of the Joy
Of Louis Armstrong or the really
bottomless, ironic and hooking
sadness of Billie Holiday" The
combination had always been in
the blues; with Ellison and Bald
win it became the major strain
in American Negro writing.
As this confusion about his own
literary tradition suggests, Bald
win is not educated enough Cby
education do not mean schooling)
for his intelligence, ambition and
talent. He shows little acquaint-
ance with the great literature Of
the past, apart from the Bible,
and he win quote Emerson or T. s.
Eliot with an innocent Someone
said" His remarks about American
immigration and racial stereotypes
show a considerable ignorance of
history and anthropology. Bald
wins prose falls frequently into
cliche ia match in the powder
kegO or jargon ("the aforemen-
toned coterie'D. Sentences ramble
or have no subject, and one whole
essay, Notes for a Hypothetical
Novel: An Address" wanders
rIinously from its topic. 1t is dis
couraging to note that the shape
Hest and most eloquent essay in
the book is the earliest, a fine re-
view Of Andre Gides Madeleine
that appeared in The New Leader
in 1854. ...
No one can doubt Baldwin's en-
ormous talent Go Tell It On the
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Mountain showed us the sharpness
and range Of his perceptions, and
Giovanni's Room their depth and
emotional truth. Any number OF
sentences and passages in this
book carry absolute conviction.
But few whole essays do. Baldwin
needs to read more literature and
to work harder at its discipline,
form. More than that, he must
decide firmly who he is, and what
he is. and stand there. II the blues
he uses for his title says Nobody
knows my name" there il also a
blues beginning MY first name IL
James"
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writes in desperate italics.
IF the books racial message Is
ultimately simple, its literary mes
sage Is more complicated. Primari-
ly 1t involves a coming TO terms
with Richard Wright, the author
Baldwin identifies as his spiritual
father. Three Of the books IS
essays are memoirs of Wright, the
last Of them the only piece in the
book previously unpublished His
work was a road-block in my
road" Baldwin writes, as Henry
James called Maupassant a lion in
his path. Baldwin moclxs Wright
in the memoirs, exposes his alb
surdity as a social thinker, cruelty
notes the replacement Of his
friends by "dreary sycophants" in
his last years, even identifies
Wright's real" impulse toward
American Negroes: ito despise
them" Yet there is no reason to-
doubt that, with characteristic am
bivalence, Baldwin feels and all
ways felt the love and respect for
Wright that he claims, and his
Judgment of wright's work is very
perceptive. 1t is flawed by "grat-
uitous and compulsive" violence,
but ''Wright's unrelentingly bleak
landscape was not merely that Of
the Deep South, or of Chicago, but
that Of the world, Of the human
heart"
Baldwin disTnisses Wright's nov
elette The Man Who Lived Under
ground, and says that the work
that proved IAN immense liberia
ton and revelation" for him was
Black Boy, lone Of the major
American autobiographies." Black
Boy Is a very impressive book, but
it was The Man Who Lived Under
ground, appearing in Cross-Sec-
ton in 1914, along with the fiction
Of Ralph Ellison about the same
time, that freed American Negro
writing from the letters Of natur-
alism, and thus made Baldwin pos
sible. The new tradition was SYM
bolist fantasy, and 1t came in from
modern European literature, but q
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tricky in the essays. There Is moth
ing in Nobody Knows My Name as
bold as the essay in Notes Of a
Native Son that Is written with an
ironic white I'VE" but observe the
dance Of pronouns in a lecture to
a white audience about the Negro:
This is because he has had to
watch you, outwit you, and bear
you, and sometimes even bleed and
die with you, ever since we got
here, that is, since both of US,
black and white, got here"
Baldwin writes Of a crisis Of
identity earlier in his life: II
could not be certain whether I was
really rich or really poor, really
black or really white, really male
or really female, really talented or
a fraud, really strong or merely
stubborn" Like the protagonist Of
Go Tell 1t on the Mountain, whose
identifications ranged from st.
John the Divine to Mildred In OF
Human Bondage, Baldwin's COM
pick ambivalence viii not let his
personality come to rest anywhere.
Baldwin's vision Of race rela-
tons in the United States also has
its st. John elements and its Mil
dred elements. The Southerner
remembers" he writes, Historical
ly and in his own psyche, a kind
Of Eden in which he loved black
people and they loved him" Chat
is: historically before the Civil
War; psychologically before puber-
ty). The expression Of this thwart-
ed love, in Baldwin's obsessive i'm
agery in the book, is lynching and
castration: hanging from a tree,
while white men watched him and
cut his sex from him with a knife;
that black man, seSless, hanging
from a tree; 1.-THE sex torn from
its socket and severed with q
knife" What Baldwin's Negro asks
of white America, quite simply, is
that it stop making him either
a nanny or a eunuch, and recog-
nize him as a man. Negroes want
to be treated like men," Baldwin
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'HsObody KnO~s NY NonOo"'
jones Baldwin Writes
Of The Blocks, Whites
And Croys In New Book

striking photograph jacket design for
Nobody MY Name $I5O) Baldwin
through standing apparently
ton Of demolished Tsht his displays
Of infinite suffering
world slumped shoulders
strikes the perfect this collection Of articles
written over the past seven years and II raises all the issues: COM
position blacks whites gays; writer foreground
his ambuouy and Observed the return Of the native
Negro question and literary literary
tend to be better although the racial often shewd tough
md eloquent
the book the defiant
songs Young sings
I'm young and amt done rmniu' round.
Pm young woman. amt rmnin' round.
Some people call a hobo call q bum,
Nobody knows my name nobody knows what I've
I'm as good as any woman In your town.
amt no high yaner, I'm a deep yarer brown.
amt gonna marry, amt gonna settle down.
I'm drink good mOOnshne and these
See hat long lonesome road dOnt you know
gotta endS
nd Pm n good woman, and 1 can get plenty men.
The blues the book Baldwin explains that when he su
Europe helped
him writes: listened to Bessie Smith in
America Tin way that years
elon), reconcile being niger
recording a literary
story by Richard Wright as spare and moving as the song;
passage comparison thin like too long
Baldwin quotes blues lyrics Ma Raney and others
like the blues singer Baldwin talks great deal about himself
usually persona
this collection frank and than its predecs
only the sections Wright and
Norman Mailer ironically something Of Baldwin himself
He writes his first meeting with Mailer in 1856 II then and
changed tight abnomaIy ambi
abnormay black eve that
hungry before notably the
cutters Tell the Mountain but realized that
1 he
continually projects
ing an
Baldwin displays the parents
adequate education rather
any cusadng title Baldwin general
their children out to
mobs':
Negro parents spend trembling their
time that their children have
badly inside doing this out Of ideals
the Of desire to
children they not wanted They doing it
they child receive the education which viii allow
possibly escape impossby abolish
sitting they daily children
perish"
truth; Negroes who buck the
partially wholly ideals" and "conyc
the truth because abnoInay
young himself getting into the forefront Of
his