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St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Housing Die-Hards Are
Dying Hard

AS predicted, the die-hards are dying hard
over the Presidents order forbiddng discrimination
in federally assisted housing which is most of the
recently built housing on todays market.
District of Columbia expert" comes I'D with
the suggestion that if Negroes are allowed to live
in the suburbs the suburbanites will simply move
farther out. This is idea that would be silly in
any part of the country With relation to the mega-
opois of the East, and particularly Washington it
Is pathetic 1t shows you how irrational the racist
mentality can get when faced with a perfectly
reasonable and desirable new situation
And in Chicago builder has made a big ges-
ture Of laying off half Of his 300-pus crew. decar-
ing there will be market for housing under the
Presidential order. (People will live in caves
But there caves around Chcago.) The builder
says he cannot sell houses under present conditions
1t will escape those who eager to agree with
this that are in the season when builders nor
maly lay off large numbers Of construction workers
on account of the weather. The men who pour
foundations lay brick, and otherwise work with
materials injured by the weather frequently out
of work in the winter
We predict that when things open up in the
spring most builders talking about the absolute
impossibity Of working under the Presidents
order will change their minds. Most of them will
find it much more pleasant to live with the realities
of the 1960s than to die with their obsoescent pre-
JUDGES. And there will be other builders, there
always have been, to take the places of those who
choose to die.
noteworthy thing about the reaction of the
reactionares to the housing order that they uni
versay take it seriously This is no empty verbiage
which they can wink at pay lip service to, and
ignore. What's more, even the most stubborn of
them know it. They know they have to live up to
the letter and spirit Of the order or go out Of
business.
This is tribute to President Kennedy and
Housing Administrator DR.. Robert Weaver The
bitterest opponents Of the order know that it will
be enforced. They know that no matter how tough
they can get, the people in charge of enforcement
can and will get tougher
The irony of this is that there's nothing the
the clientele they cater to far worse than it car
possibly hurt the Negro. The building industry Is
not, for the most part, building for Negroes OF
other minorties 1t has for years built for clientele
that is preudiced against minorites and it has fec
that prejudice.
These people still need housing If new con-
struction does not keep pace with their needs they
may begin to feel just little bt-just the faintes
touch-of what the Negro has faced as a norma
condition for many years that he is Injured tc
it even though he doesn't like It.
When this happens, they will be willing to &c
on accepting government help to get housing-anC
the government rules that go with it..
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Focus On
Africa
BY EDDIE L. MADISON, JR.

III GDDAES Ia N<ADAoO4ND 0Ass
Chief Obafemi Awolowo, con-
troversial leader of the Action
Group Party now on trial on
charges of reasonable felony
and conspiracy with "a others,
is no longer official leader of
the Opposition in the Nigerian
House of Representatives.
The Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir
Abubaker Tafawa Balewa, an
nounced in Parliament that the
Government had withdrawn rec
ognition Of Chief Awolowo, no new
leader Of the Opposition has been
named one may be before the end
of the present session Of Parlia-
ment.
Meanwhile, the minister Of edu-
cation in the suspended govern
ment Of the Western Region, DR..
Sanya Onabamiro, told the Lagos
Special Criminal Assizes that Awo-
lowo instructed sometime last year
that the duty of the Action Group
Four-Man Tactical COMMITTEES"
should be not only to take over
the Federal Government, but also
to take the four seats of govern
ment in the Federation lThe Fed
eral Government and the three Re-
gional Governments - Northern,
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the public places in the high academic office which
he holds
We endeavored to obtain from Dean Grambsch
copy of his talk the names Of the national labor
leaders he mentioned, and Recommendation for the
position attributed to Ambassador Galbraith. For
reasons we do not understand-usualIy an academic
leader is glad to lay his ideas the table for an
alysis and consderation-Dean Grambsch failed to
reply to queries and did not answer our tele-
phone calls.
We do not believe that Ambassador Galbraith
ever said that the sales tax represents the most
equitable source of revenue to pay for the rising
costs of local and state government, or anything
approaching this.
What he did say was approximately the opposite
Of what Dean Grambsch reported:
Liberals are obliged to argue that the
(pubhc) services he paid for by progressive tax
alton which will reduce inequality Conserva-
tives rally to the defense Of inequality" (The
Affluent Society, page 262)
The relation Of the sales tax to the prob
lem Of social balance Is admirably direct. The
community is affluent in privately produced
goods 1t is poor in public services. The obvious
solution is to tax the former to provide the
latter" page 315).
The sales tax may have merit for the
opulent, but it stin bears heavily on the poor"
(page 322-323)
1t is obvious that our areactionary friends
look at that part of Galbraiths book into which they
can read meanings that support their position, and
ignore the rest. It must be remembered that CAL
braith was writing not with specific reference to
Minnesota, but in national scene in which the
state and local income tax is largely unavailable
Even where he makes defense Of the sales
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Heat & Light On The
Sales Tax

The advocates of the sales tax are growing
boder It is obvious that the heat is going to be
rifle on the legislature In January, and that If the
tax wins 1t will be the bases Of heat rather than
reason.
The sales tax differs from the income tax prin-
cipally because it falls upon all consumers whether
they have income not, and because 1t falls much
harder upon the consumer with low income than
upon the consumer with high income. It Is also
much costlier to collect and much less efficient In
the form which it will take in Minnesota it will re-
place the personal property tax now paid by bus
iness, and especially by business in the million
dollar plus brackets However, its advocates are
talking less and less about this aspect Of the matter
and more about the possible Of sales-tax rev.
enue for socially good purposes like education.
Thus two Of the most reacdonary schoolmen in
Minnesota advocated the sales tax for educational
purposes. They did not explain how the sales tax
would collect the needed revenue more efficiently
they couldn't: they seemed to be for the sales
tax first and better schools second.
And now we are being treated to an outrageous
confidence game designed to persuade US that tor
liberal leaders favor the sales tax. This s coming
out Of the Governors tax committee which operates
a totally different intellectual and moral leve
from that Of the tax study committee which did q
monumental and unanswerable job under the Free.
man administration. The chairman Of the current
committee, Dean Paul Grambsch Of the University
Of Minnesota school Of business recently made q
rado-TV talk in which he asserted that Ambassador
John Kenneth Galbraith and unidentified national
labor leaders" believe 'the sales tax represents the
most equitable source Of revenue to pay for rising
costs Of local and state government"
Dean Grambsch Is abusing the confidence which
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ton rights stop bad
legislation which pushed by powerful conservative
country the satellite bill stop rights
real is to protect segregation
Way of Life"
the revealing Congress
vote to debate satellite
supported the buse defense
that they would
liberal Senators who fighting what
public interest In other
Southerners kill civil rights but the right
bad legislation This
the committee assignments patronage rules power
81 The third thing with Congress
me Originally power away too powerful
Speaker and to act ee
laton it is committee which
legislation 1t whether legislation
House. 1t establishes the conditions Of voting whether
be amendments to bill 1t has the
going conference committee between
House and Senate versions In fact this is
bills They have killed
them This high thwarng
Senator Paul Douglas, Illinois,
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"OLE MISS"

impact damage Mississippi Ross Barnett has
done to higher education his ntegraon
crisis at Oxford has been realized
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, meeting
Dallas Wednesday, the states colleges
probation with sharp warning that accredaon
any time.
Thus the states schools position
irresponsible action by racist thoughess
could bring characterization
thousands of students 1t
senseess defiance of law and order by seeking
his own political career-The Nashville Tennessean.
The Southern Association
sspps state colleges universities probation warning
that accreditaton may be lifted at any time.
This strong statement plainly the result of the
and brings that something greatly welcomed
namely the voice Of Southern speaking
protest against the events at Oxford
direct rebue retaliation the
preachers Of hate voence.-NY. TINES
statements professors university
administration threatened to funk students
ong Eastland
left doubt pitu collection
he's going to the professors proof
that they're 'un-American"
Ordinarily example of gooinss in
duced hyster going beyond gooness;
quite openly thought
tempting to into line people
who the judiciary
and stop it fast:-Chcago AMERICAN.
THE COP DIXIE
The spectacle of the Republican party South
resentment the "ole Miss nominating
who will outshout reaconary Southern Indignation
example of opportunsm at its shodest morally wrong
because 1t bellies and repudes Republican
party in its national declaration principles politically wrong
because it is certain ALLEVIATE larger white as
well Negro in urban everywhere West and
the North.-NY. TINES
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28

"You ride bumper to bumper to
the beach, and you sit the same
way upon reaching your destina-
ton" Kenny Bennett Green
castle (Ind.) Putnam County
Graphic.
"Our forefathers built a mighty
nation. If we want It to continue.
we must return to the original
blueprint" - Dean M. Worden,
BroOlfield (N.Y.) Courier.
How fortunate Canada got Soc
ialized medicine first; maybe we
can get some doctors" Louis
Nelson Bowman, King CITY (MO.) }
TrI-C County News.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Eastern and Westerly.

Eastern and Westerly.
DR.. Onabamiro was continuing
his evidence under resumed cross
examination by Awolowo, who is
representing himself at the trial.
The members Of the tactical COM
mittee, according to DR.. Onaba-
miro, were Chief Awolowo, s. G.
Ikoku, Action Group Federal sec
retary reportedly in Ghana, Chief
Anthony Enahoro, party vice pres
ident, and himself
He said the plot was discussed
at tactical committee meeting In
his home in Ibadan, Nigeria, dur
ing which time Awolowo empha-
sized that the ballot box had failed
in the country, especially in the
Northern Region.
The witness said that Chief
Awolowo also told them that the
Federal Government was planning
to legislate for the extension of the
Lagos (Nigeria's capitaD bound
ary to Abeokuta and the creation
Of a Midwest Region. Awolowo,
he said, was of the view that If
these bills were passed, the re-
naming Yoruba West would be
economically unviable.
The conspiracy and treason trial
Is an outgrowth Of the Coker COM
mission inquiry into alleged mis-
use Of funds by the Western Re-
gion Development Corporation,
which was controlled by Action
Group party officials. The party
also had formed the Western Re-
gion government until a political
clash between Awolowo and Chief
Samuel L. Akintola, Western Re-
gion premier and action group
deputy leader who was ousted by
the Action Group leader. The Fed
eral Government stepped in and
declared a state Of emergency in
the region.
All region officials were removed
from office and most of them were
placed under restriction. Aldntola
has since formed a new party
called the United Peoples Party.
Also, the Nigerian supreme court
ruled that the removal of Chief
Akintola from his post as Western
Region premier was unconStitu-
tional. This phase Of the investiga-
ton has been obscured by the later
developments alleging an Action
Group plot to overthrow the gov
ernment.
Airing Of the controversy has
not been confined to Ngerian soil.
DR.. Oladipo A. Maja, son Of DR..
AlIinola Maja who Is described as
Father" Of the Action Group,
testified that Ghana's President
Kwame Nkrumah knew Of the al
legged plot. He further testified
that Action Group boys were sup
posed to receive training In Ghana
and he was sent there to seek in
formation in this connection. The
Ghana Government has emphatic
ally denied the charges by young
Maja, calling his testimony sense
less" and obviously fabricated"
A Ghanaian statement said there
are other features Of the treason
trial which bring to mind men,
ories Of some political frameups
during the colonial days"
And, in London, Chiaf Enahoro,
the Action Group vice president,
was arrested and accused in a
British court Of being a key figure
in the alleged plot to overthrow
the Nigerian Government by force.
Jeremy Hutchinson, Queens Coun-
sci, representing the Nigerian
Government, said the Action
Group realizing 1t would never
win a majority In the country
through the ballot box and to over
come this difficulty recruited
and trained men in the use Of
arms and explosives.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
DIR Y-POINTS
BY FRED GRAM

Republican to the
request for equal time enough
so long as they don't also demand equal
26551 kevasea
this each with pocket especially
license.
The Bay Of Pigs prisoners ransom
The big question he needs cash
crop
Hoffa trial again. new twist This
time the the middle
claiming that it's impossible to get fair trial
Common Market airnes getting down
operatonal problems Object to stay up the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01
Mrs. LowIer Leaves
S. Million to Church

RICHMOND, Mar. i (AP).-
A Richmond woman who died
last Friday in Miami has left
more than S. million in trust
to aid the Richmond Diocese
Of the Roman Catholic Church.
Another 100000 in cash and
personal property was left to
friends and relatives.
Mrs. Florence H. Lawler, rs,
was chairman Of the board and
treasurer of Union Life Insur-
ance Co. at the time of her
death.
Under terms of her will, all
of her stock in the insurance
company will go into a trust
fund for the benefit of hospital,
educational and mission work
OF the Richmond diocese of the
church.
The stock has a current value
Of about IS million.
Total value Of the estate is
$5,624,823. It was the largest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01
9. O.: P. Leader
Backs 3 Negroes
For Court Post

Carl L. Shipley, District Re-
publican leader, today recon-
mended to President Kennedy
the names Of three Negro at
torneys here for appointment
to one Of the new Juvenile
Court judgeships.
Mr.. Shipley, in a letter sent
to the White House today,
named Assistant Corporation
Counsel Hubert B. Pair, Bar
rington D. Parker and Mrs.
Margaret A. Haywood as "out-
standing" possible choices.
He declared that any one of
them would command wide
spread bipartisan support
throughout the community, re-
CARELESS of race, religion or
any other consideration"
Mr.. Shipley said future BIZ
partisan effort on behalf of
legislation for local self-gov-
eminent, revenue and other
matters would be limited "if it
became clear the result of such
bipartisan effort would bene-
fit the Democrats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01
Temperature
Due to Drop
To18 Toniqht

Despite all those Snowfalls,
February was a comparatively
easygoing month in Washing
ton.
The total snowfall was only
SIS inches compared to last
years February snowfall of 10
inches.
Generally, however, las st
month was a bit wetter and
colder than normal, the Wealth
er Bureau said.
Tonight the temperatures will
drop to 10 in the city and IL
in the suburbs, the bureau said.
A 30-day forecast issued to-
day calls for heavy precipiat-
tion-either rain or snow, de-
pending on the temperature.
Temperatures are expected to
range around normal, which
would be a high of SIS and a
low of 81 degrees.
Last months total showed
rainfall of more than 3.6 inches
which is somewhat more than
an inch more than normal for
February.
The average temperature last
month was 34.6 degrees, max
ing it more than 3 degrees
colder than is normal for Feb
ruary. The highest tempera-
ture reading was 81 on Feb
ruary 5 and the lowest was
II on February II.
Seven snowstorms produced
the SIS inches of snow last
month with the heaviest fall
measured on February 9, when
more than 2 inches fell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01

will ever probated in Hastings
Court, Part II.
Other requests include $685.
600 each to John Hawkins
Kelly of st. Petersburg, Fla. /;
June Kelly Hanley, Rena K,
Lambert and Dorothy K. Bush
nell.
Mrs. Lawler, whose husband,
John N. Lawler, died in 1929
when he was treasurer of the
insurance firm, was a native of
Harrisonburg, Va, and had
lived for many years in Wash
ington and Richmond. She had
been board chairman of the
company since 1947.
She was a member of the
Country Club of Virginia,
United Daughters of the Con-
federacy and the Virginia Mu-
scum Of Fine Arts.
Funeral services were held in
Richmond on Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01
Most Crime Cotegories
Show DC. Rise in 1861

cent last year from Ill cases in
1860 to 100 cases in 1861. Ag-
gravated assaults dropped a
per cent from 1896 cases in
1860 to 1856 last year.
Washington's other increases
were SO per cent in murders
and non-negligent manslaugh-
tiers, from 81 cases in 1860 to 88
in 1861; SO per cent in bur-
glaries, from 4,587 in 1860 to
1902 in 1862, and SIS per cent
in larcenies of $50 and over,
from 2,314 in 1860 to 2,464 last
year.
Nationally, Mr.. Hoover re-
ported, increases were reported
in all crime categories except
robbery which was down / per
cent. This crime had the most
significant rise in 1860 and the
reversal Of the trend indicates
to some extent the success of
police efforts to reduce rob-
berries, Mr.. Hoover said.
Arrests Of young persons I'M
der 10 fer all types Of criminal
acts continued to climb with q
3 per cent increase over 1860.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Staff Writer

Sir Edmund Hillary was at
tempting to head off an i'm
portant expedition to the candy
counter.
It appeared easier for the
calm, craggy-faced New Zealand
explorer to conquer Mount
Everest. than Peter, Z, Sarah, 5,
and Belinda, 8, who squirmed
away to explore National Air
ports candy machines yester-
day as their father answered
questions.
For the more jaded, 42-year-
old Sir Edmund was reassuring
us that there still are things
to do once you've climbed Mount
Everest.
There are thousands of
things I haven't done. I'm most
interested-not in what hap
pened in the past-but in what
I'm now doing or going to do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01
BEYOND MT. EVEREST
Hillary Finds No Lack of Goals

stroke he suffered last sum-
mer while at 1880 feet on
Mount Makalu, says Sir Ed
mund, nor did this slow down
his activities. Ordered at that
time by doctors to remain
below 10000 feet. Sir Edmund
says next March he'll climb
a nepal peak called Taweche.
The only reason he'll go only
21,500 feet is that the peak
doesn't 60 any higher.
Sir Edmund speaks today at
a Shoreham Hotel luncheon for
Field Enterprises Education
Corp, publishers of World
Book Encyclopedia and spon-
sors of the nine-month Hima-
layan scientific expedition
ending last June.
Sir Edmund's wife - the
daughter of q New Zealand
Alpine climber cloves to walk
in the mountains" but terms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01
City Denied Immunity
From Police Dog Suit

Through Attorney John j.
Spriggs, jr.. she contends the
city should have kept the dog
under control.
The District argued that the
Canine Corps is used to prevent
crime and that the city is not
subject to suits for its govern
mental activities.
Judge Sirica said negligent
maintenance of q dog under
minimum restraints that allow
it to assault innocent citizens
on public streets was not a
governmental function.
1.-THE court does not feel that
governmental immunity ex-
tends to personal injuries in
flicted by such animals when
not in pursuit of official du-
ties" he said. Today's ruling
means that a trial must be held
on Mrs. Bars claim against
the District.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01

Cases of rape and aggravated
assault showed a slight de-
crease in Washington during
1861 compared with the previ-
Gus year but all other cate
gories of major crime increased
during the year.
This was disclosed today by
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover,
using figures from the uniform
crime reporting system which
covers much of the Nation. The
report showed an overall in
crease of 2 per cent in crimes
committed in cities over Is, 1000
population.
In Washington crimes in the
seven major categories showed
as increase of 9 per cent over
all. The largest increase was in
robberies, which increased 25.7
per cent with 1,348 cases COM
pared with 1,072 in 1860. Next
largest increase was in auto
theftS, which went up 1913 per
cent from zoos in 1860 to 2,459
in 1861.
Rape cases dropped go per
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01
Tuwes Will Open
Wheaton Office

Gov. Tawes will be in
Wheaton tomorrow night to
open a campaign headquarters
for Montgomery County.
He will arrive about 7 pm.
for a tour of the Whe a ton
Plaza area to meet well-wishers
and Friday night shoppers be-
fore going to the new Demo-
Gratis for Tawes headquarters
at 11435 Georgia avenue, a
half-mile away.
The Governor, who is seek
ing his party's gubernatorial
nomination in the May pri-
mary and then reelection in
November, will address the
gathering at the Headquarters
about 8 pm.
The public has been invited
to participate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01
D. c., BANGKOK
INACCURATE
SISTER PLAN

BANGKOK, Thailand.
Mar. / (AP). - Bangkok
and Washington, D. c.,
officially became sister
cities last night.
AS the flags of both
capitals flew side by side
over the City Hall, Lord
Mayor Chamnarn Yuwa-
boon inaugurated this as
pect of the United States
People = to = People" pro-
gram and said the sister
city project would serve
to create better under
standing between people.
Leaders of the municipal
administration and the
social, business and news
paper communities of the
city were present.
The Mayor read a cable
from District of Columbia
Commissioner Tobriner.
I'VE look forward to q
splendid program of cul-
tural and educational in
terchange," Mr.. Tobriner
said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-01

It's never difficult to think up
trips that are interesting"
BY trips" Sir Edmund in
cludes those jaunts to the
Himalayas and blowing more
than 1900 miles across the
white Antarctic four years ago
to complete the first overland
drive to the South Pole in 46
years.
The lean 6-foot-2 man, with
a quick smile that transforms
a gaunt, tapering face under its
shaggy lock of hair into hand
someness, says he's going back
to the Mount Everest region
next March, but has no inten-
ton Of climbing the mountain
again. He plans to start schools
for children Of Sherpa tribes
men in that area and is now
seeking school funds through
lectures.
There has been no recur-
renee Of the mild cerebral