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Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
Health Club In New
York City Now
Open To Negroes

MineOla, N. Y. - The Vic Tan
ny's Gym and Health Club pledged
this week to pursue policy of oper
admissions without regard to race
color or creed"
The pledge was made as a re
suit of a suit filed in the State Su
preme Court here by DR.. Eugene
Reed, president Of the New York
State NAACP Conference, who
charged that on Jan. 20, 1861, he
had been denied membership in
the health club solely because OF
his race.
Conceding that its own investi-
cation confirmed the validity of
the charge, the health club agreed
to pay $4OO damages to DR.. Reed
and to cease all such discrimina-
ton. The settlement was agreed
upon before the trial and entered
into the record as the case was
about to be heard before Justice
Edward Robinson, Jr. 7
Representing Dr., Reed in the
case was Jawn A. Sandifer, chair
man of the New York State NAA-
CP Legal Redress Committee.
Mr.. Sandifer hailed the settlement
as extremely important to the
NAACP" in that it "goes beyond
anything the jury could have given
us and beyond anything the State
Commission Against Discrimiria-
ton could have DONE
When DR.. Reed sought to enroll
in the Vic Tanny's club at Mass
apequa last January, he and Cal
vim C. Cobb, who accompanied him,
were told that there were no va
cancies although the club was at
that time advertising extensively
for members. A white applicant
who followed them into the club
was promptly enrolled.
The NAACP New York state
leader then filed suit under the
states civil rights law. Meanwhile
the Vic Tanny's Gym and Health
Club in Massapequa and elsewhere
in the metropolitan area began ad-
mitting Negroes.
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
NEGRO NAMED TO TOP POST in PEPSI co La
ARIZONA JOURNAL
HIRES NEGROES

The new daily newspaper will
have among its working staff Ne.
groes in jobs other than menial
work. Setting a pattern which has
long been needed in Phoenix by
hiring Negroes throughout tn e
plant, the Journal is, no doubt, a
paper for the people. On its staff
as far as this. paper knows, there
are three district managers, one
editorial assistant and one man
working on the press who are Ne
gro. There are also a large number
Of carriers and several men in the
maintenance department. There is
speculation that a Negro reporter
will be hired soon.
Several Negroes in Phoenix have
bought stock in the Journal and
more are said to have made pur-
chases as of Monday night. Not
only setting the pattern for an off
set daily newspaper, the Journal is
setting the pattern for fair en-
ployment in Phoenix. The Journal
has passed the $4,000 subscription
mark. And at the rate the sub
scriptions are coming in, it is quite
possible that the $4,000 mark will
be reached by press time.
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
Justice Dept.
Probe Sought

Savannah, Ga. - The NAACF
announced this week that it will
file. formal complaint with the U,
IS. Department of Justice, seeking
full investigation of the police kill
ing of an unarmed Negro.
Chatham County Patrolman C.
II. Goolsby was cleared of the
Staying Arthur James in the local
police court last week.
The killing took place January
is, in the Safari Restaurant, where
James %. was attacked by Patrol.
men Goolsby and C. L. Diffenber-
fer.
The officers charged that James
was armed with a counter stool
when they attempted to accost him
in the restaurant, following an in
cident outside, during which, they
said, James took up for another
Negro.
WeStley w. Law, president OF
the Savannah NAACP chapter and
of the state organization, said
"the court failed its clear Judicial
responsibility, in view of the over
whelming evidence showing that
Mr.. James was shot down in cold
blood under color of law.
ANY trigger-happy police Of
ficer has now been given license.
to disregard his responsibility as
a law enforcement official, where
Negroes are concerned" q
He questioned the training OF
the policemen who were unable to
successfully arrest an unarmed,
retreating citizen with hands in
the air.
Eight Negroes, who were in the
Safari Restaurant at the time OF
the killing. testified that James had
his hands over his head and was
retreating when the officers fired
one shot each.
Mr.. Law concluded that lit is in
deed a dark day in Chatham Coun-
ty now that Negroes here are in
serious need of protection from
their police officers" )"
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
URBAN LEAGUE CONSULTANT
TALKS TO INDUSTRIALISTS

lexist, particularly as reflected in
the South. However, he injected
the observation that the South ap-
parently ''is beginning to see the
light, dirnly'' He said he is en-
couraged by what some forward
looking industrial and business
concerns are beginning to do"
The third problem phase point
ed up Mr.. Thomas arises from the
great expansion of the Negro pop
ulation in some 10 or more major
industrial centers of the country.
Most crucial factor in this portion
of the problem, he declared, are
the thousands of Negroes "who
have been deprived of education
and the kind of work experience
that qualities them for available
jobs. "
"These are the people who ap-
pear in disturbing proportions on
public and private relief rolls, "
their needs will be assessed as we
tackle the problems created by
automation and mechanization.
Mr.. Thomas assured the industri-
al leaders that the Urban League
will exert its fullest strength to-
ward breaking down these obstacles
to economic progress within the
decade Immediately ahead.
Continued on Page Four
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08

New York = Any nation that
fails to provide every citizen the
opportunity to develop his native
abilities and to compete in the
market place for a chance to use
his skills in deliberately depriv-
ing ITSELF of one of its basic re-
sources.
This opinion was expressed by
Julius A. Thomas, National Ur-
ban League consultant on industri-
al relations, at the first 1862 meet
ing of the Industrial Relations So
ciety here, Jan. 81 at the Hotel
Biltmore. Representatives of forty
major industrial firms of the ma
ton attended.
Mr.. Thomas. who has spent more
than a third of a century with the
Urban League movement in its
effort to secure equal opportunity
for Negroes in American economic
and social progress, told the in
dustrialists he regards swift build
up in the number of competitive
ly trained young persons in high
schools and colleges as primary
among major problems to be re-
solved in assuming equal opportuni-
ty.
Second, he said, is the task of
more rapidly dissolving diserim-
inatory practices wherever they
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
EIks ChoIIa AntIer Guart
Hosts Tea, Convention

The Elks' CholIa Antler Guard
will host the 14th Annual Presenta-
tion Tea and Convention at the
Phoenix Elks Lodge, 1907 S. 9TH
Ave-, February 10 ana IL.
The program will include:
1. Banquet Saturday, Feb. 10 at
7:3O pm. The public is invited.
$3.50 per plate.
2. Parade and competitive drill
ing, marching and mounted units
from California on Sunday, Feb.
IL at / pm. The parade will start
at Harman Park and end at 9TH
Ave. and Tonic.
8. Church Service at the South
minister Presbyterian Church Sum
day at II am. Rev. George Brooks,
pastor
a. Presentation Tea Sunday after
noon at 4::3O pm. at the Elks Home.
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
Harvey Russell
Made Vice-Pres.
OF Corporation

New York = Harvey Russell,
Negro, yesterday occupied an
office that few of his race have
attained: vice president of an in
ternationally known corporation.
''This is the most popular cleo
ton of vice president we've had
in recent years, said an associate
of his at the Pepsi-Cola Co.
Herbert Barnet. president, said
Pepsi's board voted to make Rus
sell vice president of special mar
kets strictly on merit. ut was in
recognition of the great job Har-
vey has DONE" he said. Russells
salary is in the neighborhood of
$2O, 1000.
Russell, physically trim at 43,
commented:
The problem my race faces is
in getting to spot in which to
prove ability. Once in position
where ability counts there are very
few problems.
Russell said in an interview that
until the war there wasn't much
opportunity in business for the
Negro. Any Negro looking for ad-
vancement had to do it in the field
of education.
But after the war, Russell re-
lated, things began to change.
Il personally have run into no
major problems as an executive, 7
he said. i've had some, of course,
but by and large I've found that
among executives there is much
lmore acceptance on the basis of
ability than on any other basis.
Russell's first job in the COM
mercial world paid him no salary
for the first six months. And his
rise at Pepsi was not meteoric.
But for IL years he has been hand
ling some of its toughest problems
since he began as a field repre-
sentative. His last job was di-
rector of special markets.
At first. Russell, native of LOU
isville, KY. consider8i teaching
career. His father was president
of West Kentucky State College, his
mother a Louisville school teacher,
and his four brothers and sisters
all college graduates.
81 was going to study for a doc
tors degree in sociology he said.
''Then l saw my chance to branch
out after the war. And truthfully,
| wanted to make some money.
MY family was so well known
in Kentucky believe l could have
got a teaching job But | had the
feeling l would like to get some
where on my own.
His first job was with an ad-
vertising agency in New York. His
second, with a cosmetics firm as
Continued on Page Four
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
"SIT.IN" CASE
TAKEN TO THE
SUPREME COURT

New York = The U. S. Supreme
Court was petitioned today to re-
view the cases of 10 Negro youths
who conducted lunch counter dem
onstrations in Birmingham, Ala.
in March 1860.
In its petition for certiorari, MA
ACP Legal Defense and Education
al Fund attorneys asked the high
Court to review a judgment of the
Alabama Court of Appeals of May
80, 1861. which upheld the demon
strators' convictions.
The youths, on March 80, 1860,
satin in groups of two's at five
store lunch counters in Birming-
ham: Pitts, Loveman's New
berry's, Kress's and Woolworth's
The ''sit-iners' were asked to 60
to counters reserved for Negroes
and when they refused were ar
rested by city police. There was
no disturbance at any of the dem
onstrationS.
The youths were convicted in
Recorders Court of the City of
Birmingham for 'trespassing after
warming" and later sentenced to
thirty days hard labor and $4,000
fine by the Circuit Court of Jeffer-
son County.
The Defense Fund petition con-
tends that the demonstrators were
denied due process of law because
a Birmingham segregation ordin-
ance requires racial segregation
of eating establishments, and thus
presents a plain conflict with
numerous prior decisions of the
Supreme Court invalidating state
efforts to require racial segrega-
tion."
The Negro youths who are petit
toners in the case, are James Co.
ber, James A. Davis, Roy Hurch-
inson, Robert j. King, Robert Park
er, William West, Robert D. Sand
ers, Roosevelt WestmOreland, Jes-
sic Walker, and Willie j. Willis,
all of Birmingham.
Today's petition for certiorari be-
comes the ninth 'tsit-in' case pend
ing before the U. S. Supreme Court.
Five of the cases are from Virginia,
two from Maryland, and one from
North Carolina.
NAACP Legal Defense Fund at
torneys representing the Negro
youths are Arthur D. Shores, Peter
A. Hall, Orzell Billingsley, Jr.,
Oscar Adams, Jr, and j. Rich
mond Pearson, all of Birmingham,
and Jack Greenberg, Constance
Baker Motley, Leroy D. Clark,
Michael Meltsner, and James M.
Nabrit. III, all of New York City.
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
Clark Joins Fund Staff

New York = Jack Greenberg,
Director-Counsel of the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational
Fund. announced this week that
Leroy D. Clark of New York City
has joined the Fund staff.
= Mr.. Clark, a27, lis a 1861 graduate
of the Columbia Law School. He
has worked since his graduation
in the office of the Attorney Gen
eral of New York State.
Mr.. Clark completed his under
graduate work at City College of
New York in 1856 where he won
Phi Beta Kappa honors and a
Tremaine Scholarship. Before en-
tering Law School, he attended the
New York University Graduate
School of Psychology under a
United States Public Health Eel
lowship.
The Defense Fund legal Statt
with the addition of Mr.. Clark, has
now been expanded to six attor-
neys, said Greenberg. The staff
had been reduced to five last Fall
due to the resignation of Thurgood
Marshall to take a federal Judge
ship and the induction of attorney
Norman Amaker into the U. S.
Army.
Married to the former Florence
Gomez of New York City, the
Clarks live at 1894 Seventh Ave-,
in Manhattan.
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
Negro History Course

The University of Chicago Down.
town Center will be the first major
Midwest University to offer q
course in Negro History, Frank
London Brown, director of the
Union Leadership Program at the
center stated.
It will be taught in three 10
week units. The adult education
program includes among its spons-
ors the Chicago Urban League,
National Conference of Christians
and Jews, the Independent Voters
Of Illinois and the Johnson Publish
ing Co.
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
GETS RIGHTS HEARING
FEDERAL TEAM
LISTENS TO
VARIED TESTIMONY ~

The United States Commission
on Civil Rights held an all day
hearing in the Federal Building
on Saturday, February 3. The hear
ing began at 8:45 am. and con-
tinued until 500 pm. with break
for lunch from loo to 200. Un-
fortunately DR.. Hannah, chairman
of the Commission. was i'll, and
could not preside, but this task
was ably done by Dean Storey.
The purpose Of the Commission,
often spoken of as the Presidents
Commission, is to find out as well
as possible the facts, good and
bad, regarding civil rights: 1. An
appraisal of progress made in a
locality; 2. Examination of the
factors that have made progress
possible; 3. The most pressing civil
rights problems; and A. The best
methods of meeting these prob
lens.
Prior to the hearing staff OF
Investigators, mostly attorneys,
came to Phoenix and interviewed
many people, white and Negro, in
order to select a number of per-
sons to give testimony regarding
the civil rights situation in Phoe-
nix. Also, a panel was chosen to
discuss the methods for meeting
the civil rights problems.
Among the local speakers who
made presentations during the day
were the following: Mayor Sam
Mardian on a general descrlp-
ton of progress and remaining
problems in civil rights; w. A.
Robinson, former principal of Carv-
er High School, on Progress of
Integration in the Phoenix Schools;
Supt. Loren Vaughn, Jr. of Phoe-
nix Elementary School District and
Supt. Howard Seymoor of the Phoe-
nix Union High School and College
District on the situation in these
two large districts of Phoenix.
The voluntary approach to open
public accommodations in Phoenix
was presented by Rev. Culver Mel
son, president of Phoenix All Anne
rican Council for Equality (PACE)
and Mr.. Robert Alden of the Ari-
IONA Restaurant Association dis
cussed the progress made and some
of the limitations of the voluntary
desegregation of restaurants In
Phoenix.
Roy Yanez. Executive Director
of Phoenix Housing Authority, gave
something of the story of the limit
ed progress of integration In low
rent government housing. Charles
Harlins. Executive Director, Phoe-
nix Urban League, Lincoln Rags
dale of Ragsdale Enterprises, and
Rev. George Brooks, president OF
the Maricopa Branch of NAACP,
presented the progress (Or lack OF
progress) being made in the fields
of employment and housing by
Negroes.
Grace -Olivares and Eugene
Marin discussed the situation re-
garding the civil rights of Mexi-
can-Americans. The migrant labor
problem was presented by Rancher
John Jacobs. Rev. Harold Lund-
gren and Manuel Pena, Jr. Joe
Sanders, teacher and member Of
the Arizona Indian Association,
made the lone statement on the
Indian situation in civil rights.
Employment of Negroes and en-
ployment policy of Western Elect
ric Co. and the situation of the ad-
mission of Negroes to the labor
unions and their apprentice pro-
gram were discussed by John J.
Polosky, plant manager Western
Electric, and Keene s. Brown, Sec
retary treasurer Arizona State
AFL-CIO.
Health, Education, and Welfare
Continued on Page Four)
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
PAID

This momentous crisis In the life Of On
ganized mankind may be likened to the cuk
minating stage in the political evolution OF the
great American Republic - the stage which
marked the emergence of unified community
of federated states.
Arizona sun., 1962-02-08
THE NEGRO PRESS cREDo

The Negro Press believes that America
can best lead the world away from racial and
national antagOnisms 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.
Evening star., 1962-09-20
New Consultonts Enter
PIonning Agency Bottle

elected officials and should be
directly controlled by the coun-
Gil. PAS was formed by DR.,
Gulick in the 1930s. but he no
longer has any connection with
the organization.
In earlier action, the plan
ming commission after
debate = approved with few
changes its staff's recommen-
dation to oppose most new
sewer projects outlind in the
Washington Suburban Sani-
tary Commissions five-year
program.
The Montgomery Planning
Board earlier rezoned 224 acres
along the Rockville -Norbeck
road from rural residential to
the single family residential
categories. Owners Of the two
parcels involved were repre-
sented by william B. Wheeler,
an attorney and member Of the
County's Democratic State
Central Committee.
The planners. however,
turned down a request to re-
zone IL acres for high-rise
apartments off Macarthur
boulevard in Cabin john. The
action was in line with the
boards position against allow
ing apartments along the Po-
tomac River. f
Evening star., 1962-09-20
Planners Reserve
5000 Acres For
Park in County

The Maryland National Cap
ital Park and Planning Com
mission yesterday reserved
nearly 5000 acres in Northern
Montgomery County as the site
for a proposed regional park
along Little Bennett Greek.
Park Director John Hewitt
told the commission that their
action will mean no new build
ing permits will be issued for
the area. which now has about
80 residents, most of them in
the Hyattstown area near the
Frederick County line.
Mr.. Hewitt said his depart
ment had purchased about half
OF the 1000 acres of parkland
authorized under a recent Fed
eral grant to the commission
for the preservation of open
space. This means, he said,
that Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties will ! now
have about $500 acres of park
land and hold options on BIG
additional acres, not including
the reserved land on Little
Bennett Greek.
Evening star., 1962-09-20
BY WILLIAM DUKE
Star staff Writer

New forces joined the battle
of consultants yesterday when
the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commits
sion. beset by political threats
against its existence, hired ex-
perts to review its own effec-
tiveness and shortcomings.
The action came two months
after a report by other experts,
hired by the Montgomery Coun-
ty Council, recommended scrap
ping the hi-County agency and
making all planning functions
part Of the County Government.
Yesterday the Commission
contracted with the Institute of
Public Administration of New
York City to make an examina-
ton Of its regional planning
role.
The first phase Of this report
is due October Is. about three
weeks before the general elec-
tion which may decide the fate
of the planning commission.
Montgomery Democrats have
indicated they would prefer to
do without the planning COM
mission and Prince Georges Re-
publicans have promise d to
abolish it.
DR.. Luther Gulick. chairman
of the IPA, praised the work OF
the commission in accepting the
contract yesterday. Although
he declined to pre-judge his
staff's recommendations, he adj
mitted that in the past his or
ganization has been in favor OF
regional action to solve re-
gional problems"
The county councils study
made by the Public Admins
tration Service, claimed PLAN
ming was the responsibility of
Evening star., 1962-09-20
Finance Firm
Held Up by
Armed Man

A gunman escaped with an
undetermined amount of money
today after holding up a clerk
at the Suburban Finance Co.,
1899 Rhode Island avenue,
Mount Rainier, Nd. Prince
Georges County police reported.
The bandit entered the estab-
lishment shortly before noon,
approached a counter, and
asked Miss Joyce Wheeler for
money. according to w. E.
Ford. the office manager.
He said Miss Wheeler
handed the gunman "a small
amount" Of bills. There we're
no shots and no injuries in
flicted during the brief in
cident, he said.
Nine employees were in the
office at the time, but there
were no customers, MIR. Ford
said. Police said the gunman
escaped in a green car with
District tags. An unidentified
accomplice drove the car. police
believed.
A lookout was broadcast for
a Negro in his 20s. 5 feet 9,
about lao. with a small mus
tache and a light beard. wear
ing a green cap and a fatigue
jacket.
Evening star., 1962-09-20
FulIs1church
School Bourd
Head Named

j. Roger Wollenberg was
unanimously reappointed Falls
Church School Board chair
man for a, three-year term by
the City Council last night.
DR.. John r. Miles was named
to fill another vacancy.
Mr.. Wollenberg.. a Washing
ton attorney. was first ap-
pointed last year to fill the
unexpired term of former
chairman Thomas H. Lewis.
DR.. Miles. manager Of the edu-
cation division of the United
States Chamber of Commerce
and a former school board
member. received four council
votes to three for incumbent
John Sadtler.
In other action, the council
established a Seven-member
steering committee to deter
mine how best the central
business area may be developed.
Members of the committee
will be appointed at the Octo-
ber 10 meeting.
In two financial moves, the
council:
Voted 6-to-1, with Council
man Samuel J. Dennis oppos-
ing, to transfer $46.636 from
the Water Departments surplus
to the water works renewal
fund to cover the cost Of an
ticipated W ter extension
projects.
Gave a first reading to an
ordinance authorizing funds
for purchase Of the Roberts
Tract for recreational purposes.
City Manager Lewis z. John
ston reported he had temporar-
lily revoked the building per-
NIT for apartments on the
Roosevelt street Eglin Tract
pending replahting OF. nearly
30 trees in a buffer zone. He
informed the council. the sub
contractor had infringed on
the agreed 2-foot buffer strip
between the apartment devel-
opment and nearby homes and
had destroyed much of the
paintings in the strip.
Evening star., 1962-09-20
VIRGINIA TONGUE IN CHEEK
BOWS TO COLORADO TURKEYS

RICHMOND CAP).-Southern hospitality will keep
Virginia from competing in the heaviest twkeyof1963
contest. rs o.. n .f~w- fr7kEf
AS the Governor Of Virginia put TO the Governor Of
Colorado I'VE would be less than gracious II did not
decline. out Of consideration for you
The whole thing started when Coy. McNichoos Of
Colorado issued challenge for heavyweight competitors
during the National Turkey Federation convention in
Denver next January $40. colorados Tom turkey he
wrote Virginia Gov Harrison mot to be taken lightly
In his letter declining the challenge. Gov Harrison said
that compared to Virgnats magncently proportioned
hen turkeys Toms unsighty buges would bring botchy
blushes to his wattles In competition with Virgina's
tender BeltsYe white turkeys displaying their charms
teenagers Of sweet 16 weeks. Tubby Tom would be
ignored and thrown into mQIlt,"