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Arizona sun., 1962-01-04
Train From
Savannah Infegrated

Savannah. Ga. - w. w. Law,
president of the Georgia NAACP,
Sunday reported ''the first success
full integration of a passenger
train travelling from one point in
Georgia to another in the state.
Law said that six Freedom
Riders" from Savannah rode to
Atlanta in white passenger Sec
tions of the streamlined Central of
Georgia Nancy Hanks" Saturday
and returned here on the same Sec
tions Sunday morning.
The Freedom Riders" were
identified as Hosea Williams, Sec
retary of the Georgia NAACP;
Mrs. Mercedes Garrison; Mrs. Hey
ward; Benjamin West, Jr., and
Miss Mary Roberts. The latter
two are teenagers.
Williams said the officials aboard
the train were dogmatic and
abusive They threatened to have
the Negroes arrested for violation
of a state law but never carried
it out, Law said.
Williams said white passengers
offered the Negroes newspapers,
cigarettes and best wishes for
Christmas.
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04
Move Made By
Govt. To Halt Hiqh
School Drop Outs

Washington = The government
announced stepped up program to
provide more training for student
counselors in hopes they can trim
the number of high school drop
outs" number of high school drop
outs" and steer more youths to
college.
The 81 million program by the
U. S. Office of Education calls for
at least one year of graduates
school study for all counselors
trained under the National Defense
Education Act.
During the 1928 academic
year, the government will provide
$4.4 million to finance a years
graduate school training for 600
men and women. Another $2.6 mil
lion will be used to support sum-
mer sessions for 1000 counselorS
who already have received SUBJ
stantial training.
A spokesman said the education
Offices support of counsellor train
ing was aimed at cutting down
the number of youths who leave
high school before graduation and
at identifying and steering to col
lege those with high abilities.
About one of every three stu
dents who enter high school fail
to graduate.
DR.. A. Ralph Carli, a specialist
in the education Offices training
institutes section, said there are
the equivalent of about 1900 full
time counsellors employed by the
nations high schools. An estimated
38 900 are needed to provide coun-
selling services he said.
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04

A Louisiana constitutional in
depreciation test for prospective
voters has been used to discrimi-
nate against Negroes and should
be declared unconstitutional, the
Department of Justice asserted
Attorney General Robert F. Ken
nedy said the complaint, filed in
New Orleans. is the Departments S
first challenge of the constitution
ality of a state voting law. The
Department has brought a numb
er of cases challenging the ad-
miniStration of state voting laws
in specific counties.
The action, brought under the
Civil Rights Act of 1857, asked
that a three-judge federal court be
convened to declare that the in
depreciation test on its face vio-
lates the 14th and 18th Amendments
to the United States Constitution
and to forbid state officials to en-
force it. to.. '-@,s
Named as defendants were the
State of Louisiana, Governor jim
mie H. Davis, Lieutenant Govern
or C. C. Aycook, j. Thomas Jewel,
Speaker of the Louisiana House
of Representatives, and Hugh E.
Cutrer, Jr. ss
The b three state officials are
members of the Louisiana Board
of Registration which administers
state voter registration procedures.
Cutrer is director and ex officio
secretary of the Board.
Mr.. Kennedy said the Depart
ment action asserted that the ef-
feet of the Interpretation test has
been to permit parish (county)
registrars to deprive otherwise
qualified Negroes of their right to
register and vote.
"The history of the interpreta-
ton test. the setting of white po-
litical supremacy and racial segre-
cation in which this test was a.
dopted and is enforced, and the dis
cretiOn which is vested in the
registrars of voters in the admins
tration of this test render (it) in
valid on its face" under the U. S.
Constitution and the Civil Rights
Act of 1857, the complaint said.
The test has been used in
racially discriminatory manner,
especially since the 1854 school
desegregation decision of the Su-
preme Court of the United States,
according to the Government.
Last October, the complaint said,
the Board of Registration adopt
ed a resolution requiring all reg
istrars of voters in Louisiana to
enforce the Interpretation test
strictly.
The complaint cited a pamphlet
entitled 'Voter Qualification Laws
in Louisiana-the Key to Victory
in the Segregation Struggle" which
has been distributed to registrars
and other public officials by the
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04
Nationwide Drive
Launched To
Aid McConlb

| WASHINGTON, D. C. = Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority staged re-
funds providing tuition room and
board for the 20 high school stu
dents expelled from their McComb,
Miss. classes for refusing to sign
pledges to discontinue, demonstra-
tionS.
The students demonstrated peace
fully against the August 3Oth ar
rest and subsequent jailing of IS
year-old Brenda Travis, a fellow
student.
Jailed for staging a non-violent
sit-in at the local Greyhound Bus
terminal, Miss Travis was SEN
fenced to stay in Oakley Training
School for Delinquents until fur
ther orders from the court. She is
still there.
FOCUS ON A DEPLORABLE SIT
UATION
To show its own indignation.
and to focus national attention on
what it considers a deploable sit
uation. Delta Sigma Theta has
asked each of its 181 alumnae chap
ters to donate either $1,000, which
would provide one students tut
ion for one semester, or $4,000,
which would provide one months
room and board for one student.
Also contributing will be each
of Delta's SO undergraduate chap
ters, its honorary members, ma
tional board members, national
committee-women and its profess
ional staff.
EXPECTS MINIMUM OF 81. 900
The minimum amount expected
to be raised exceeds $1,000. Delta
officials have asked that the funds
be forwarded to their Washington,
D. C. headquarters by Dec. 18th.
Continued on Page Six
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04
JUSTICE DEPT. REFUSES TO ACT
NAACP Finally
Given a Chance
To Defend Itself

Montgomery, Ala.-The Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People will finally get
a chance to defend itself-after five
and-a-half years of dilatory legal
tactics which effectively banned
the organization throughout the
State of Alabama.
Under direct orders of the United
States Supreme Court, Alabama
authorities scheduled the trial for
Dec. 27, in the midst of the holiday
season. The hearing was held be-
fore Judge Walter B. Jones in the
Montgomery County Circuit Court.
NAACP General Counsel Robert
L. Carter announced that the As
sociation's executiv sec., Roy
Wilkins, and Mrs. Ruby Hurley,
NAACP southeast regional secre-
tary, would be called to testify in
defense of the Association.
Without notice or warning, the
Association was served with a re-
straining order and injunction, June
1, 1856, on the ground that it had
failed to register as an out-of-
state corporation doing business
in Alabama. The NAACP contend
ed that it did not interpret thissre-
quirement as applicable to non
profit organizations.
Although the Association had
been operating in Alabama since
1913, this issue had not been raised
until 1856, two years after the ~.
S. Supreme Court decision banning
segregation in public education and
in the midst of the year-long Mont
gomery bus protest.
Gov. John Patterson, then at
torney general, also charged the
NAACP with creating racial ten
sion and unrest" He was able ito
secure $1O0,OOO.eO fine and a
contempt of court ruling against the
NAACP because of the Associa-
tion's refusal to reveal the names
and addresses of its rank-and-file
members and contributors across
the state.
From this point, the case of Ala
bama VS. NAACP was maneuvered
through a maze of courts, with the
NAACP trying vainly to receive
a hearing in Alabama's state
courts.
The case was carried. by the
NAACP, to the U. S. Supreme
Court three times. and three times,
the High Court ruled against the
State of Alabama.
Mr.. Carter has been the Asso-
ciation's chief legal strategist
since the case emerged in 1856,
presenting the Associations argu-
ment before the Supreme Court
each time and participating in
lower court pleadings.
He has been aided by Attorneys
Fred D. Gray of Montgomery;
Arthur D. Shores, Orzell Billings
ley, Jr., and Peter Hall of Birm-
ingham; Mrs. Maria L. Marcus of
New York City; and Frank D.
Reeves of Washington, D. c.
Continued on Page Six
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04
International Wedding

TEL AVN, Israel an interna-
tional wedding was ceremonialized
in the Church of Scotland at Jaffa
recently, when % year-old Miss
Rosie V. Ocampo of the Phillip
pines, became the bride of Ehren-
fried K. Mawadeku of Ghana. The
ceremoney involved persons from
four continents of tn earth. The
minister officiating at the cere-
mony was the Rev j. w. Blanchard
CBE, of Australia, James McFar-
land, press attache of the U. S.
Embassy. gave the bride away.
Philip Ananae of Ghana was best
man.
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04

The glamorous Mrs. Margurite
Belafonte is coming to Phoenix to
help the Phoenix community raise
its 1862 quota for the NAACP Fight
For Freedom Fund. This beauti-
full lady and her beautiful costumes
for all occasions will be presented
at a FASHION SHOW AND DANCE
at the ELKS CLUB Saturday, JAN
uary 27.
Besides being beautiful, Margu-
rite Belafonte holds degrees from
Hampton Institute and New York
University, and has studied at The
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04
Monroe Jail
Beating Case
Declared Closed

The Department of Justice has
Informed civil-rights attorney Con-
rad Lynn, counsel for the Commit
tee to Aid the Monroe Defendants,
that it intends no further action in
the case of Freedom Rider Rich
ard Griswold who was brutally
beaten in a cell in the county Jail
In Monroe last August 9th.
Lynn had submitted to Attorney
General Robert F. Kennedy a hand
written, signed confession from
Howard Stack, the white prisoner
who had done the beating In it
Stack told how 1.-THE Monroe police
and deputy forces" had promised
him that if he beat a Freedom
Rider, whom they would put in his
cell, all charges pending against
him would be dropped. Stack, who
was being held on two charges of
assault, and five charges of pass
ing worthless checks, carried out
his part of the bargain. He gave
Freedom Rider Richard Griswold
a beating which could have been
fatal had not the outcry raised by
another, Freedom Rider being taken
into the cell block some time later
persuaded the turnkey to take
Griswold out of Stacks cell:
In payment for the savage beat
ing, Stack was released. Two
weeks later, however, he was re-
arrested on the same charges. In
furiated by this doublecross, he
wrote out his confession and SNUG
gled it out of the Union County
jail to a representative of the CIV
MD.
The Justice Department has for
some time been very reluctant to
investigate conditions in Monroe
and Union County both of which
have a long history or racial in
justice. 1t was here that Negroes
in 1857 formed armed self-defense
squads and fought off Ku Klux Klan
motorcades driving into the color
ed community to get DIR. A. E.
Perry, then president of the
NAACP branch. The notorious
kissing Case" in which two Ne
gro boys, aged eight and nine. were
sent to the reformatory because
one allegedly had induced a g.
year-old white girl to kiss him.
also took place in Monroe Coin
cidentally the cell in the county
jail where the two Negro children
had been held was the cell in
which Freedom Rider Griswold was
beaten.
Justice Department refusal to
take action in Monroe where Sec
retary of Commerce Luther Hodge
ex-governor of North Carolina, has
political and family connections,
became most blatant in the past
year when appeals for protection
and investigation of attempts on
his life, by NAACP branch presi-
dent Robert F. Williams, were
completely ignored. It was be-
lieved by many observers that Will
liams militant statements about
Jim Crow and his outspoken de-
fense of the Castro regime in
Cuba had made him persona non
grata to the Kennedy administra-
ton.
When Attorney Conrad Lynn sent
Continued on Page Six
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04

Sarbonne, The University of Madrid
and the University of Heidelberg
and leads a busy professional life
as a journalist in newspaper work
and radio. No Negro woman has
been a more dedicated worker for
the NAACP in its efforts to develop
in America and the world a con-
cept of the American citizen las
a person, regardless of race, color,
religion or national origin, who
makes this land his home and con-
tributes to the common welfare
through sharing together the re-
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04

sponsibilities, rights and prive-
leges of citizenship" She has visit
ed all SO of the states of the Union
on F.F.F.FUND raising projects
including a highly successful af-
fair in Tucson in the spring of
1861.
Tickets for the affair to be given
by the Entertainment Committee
of the Maricopa Branch can be
secured from any of the members
of the branch board, some local
citizens will also be assisting Mrs.
BelafOnte as models.
Arizona sun., 1962-01-04

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-02

Embarrassing benefits. AS in
past benefits, one Of the arts
will be featured. This year
drama will be keynoted.
The chapter has raised
over 100000 for scholar
ships in the arts since its
inception in 1914. Includ-
ed among the members are
Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs.
Eisenhower.
The program will feature
music Of the baroque period
and Mrs. Lowell Blake Ma
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Decorations
Sale Set

Stonecrest Residence, 1880
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
will hold a sale of Christ
mas decorations Thursday.
The women living at Stone
crest have fashioned many
attractive small trees and
other table ornaments Of
pine cones and live greens.
Attic treasures from all
countries. handmade aprons,
and cakes will also be on
sale. The sale will start at pm.
and continue through . pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-02

pop sorn, were placed on side
tables in the entrance hall.
In the rest of the house
bowls of holly, garlands OF
green's and Della Robbia
wreaths are used, but used
sparingly.
One year, Mrs. Stevens dec
GRATED the dining table using
a Della Robbia style of
wreath to set off the beauty
Of the famous glass epergne,
but she believes now that
the Monticello dining room
needs little in the way OF
decoration.
1T is so decorative itself, "
she comments. The room is
of Wedgewood blue and white
with a fireplace inlaid with
Wedgewood plaques.
Mrs. Stevens job is actually
not as seasonal as 1t may
sound. She serves as a hostess
during the winter and also
works in that capacity dur
ing the busy spring and sum-
mer afternoons.
To Appear Fresh
In the fresh flower sea-
son, she estimates that she
makes 18th century mass ar
rangements five mornings a
week to insure that the flow
ers in each room appear
fresh to the public. During
this period, she also sees to
the harvesting of flowers and
foliage, all of which are dried
against the coming Of the
cold.
These flowers are selected
and dried under Mrs. Stevens
Direction by Randolph Craw-
ford, a member of the Mon
ticello garden staff.
I'VE begin to put down our
flowers for drying when the
jonquils come out" she says.
The drying room may include
everything from the easiest
recognizable garden flower
to a particularly decorative
weed from somewhere on
Monticello mountain.
Although the Colonials
used dried flowers, which
they called "everlastings"
unsparingly during the win
ter months, their drying
methods limited their win
ter bouquets.
At Monticello, modern dry
Ing methods and materials
make it possible to use a
great variety of spring and
summer flowers throughout
the cold months.
An illustration of this va
riety is seen in the 18th
century mass arrangement in
the parlor, considered gen.
orally to be the most i'm
portant floral influence in
the house.
Tourists in these winter
months find 1t includes gold
enrod. boneset. joe-pye weed
larkspur. peonies. marigolds
brown eyed susans. globe
amaranths. fern. snow or
the mountain, Queen Anne'l
lace, beech leaves, amonl
others harvested and drieC
last spring and summer.
DO Not Touch
So natural do most Of the
flowers appear that the tour
list is often driven to touch
arrangements something
that offends the hard-work,
ing arranger.
But even Mrs. Stevens Eel
low hostesses point out that
at 3 o'clock, when the SUI
strikes the yellow marigold
in the tea room 1t is almos
impossible TO believe the.
could be dried flowers.
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In an 18th century at
mosphere, the National So
ciety of Arts and Letters
will gather Tuesday at the
City Tavern for its annual
Christmas program.
Mrs. George Tillman Bell,
jr., president Of the Wash
ington chapter, will preside
at the 2 pm. business meet
ing. Mrs. Paul H. Hatch,
ways and means chairman,
will outline plans for the
chapters 1868 scholarship
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-02
Business Meeting

The Washington Panhel-
lenic Association will hold a
regular business meeting
Wednesday at 8 pm. at the
Perpetual Building in Be-
theSda.
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restored by the Garden Club
Of Virginia to correspond to
Jefferson's own careful plans.
are used to complement the
18th century furnishings at
Monticello. The only addi-
tons are wildflowers picked
on the mountain.
When harsh weather puts
an end to fresh flowers, dried
arrange m ents are used
throughout the first floor of
the house. They, like the
fresh flowers, come from
Jefferson's gardens or are
picked growing wild on his
mountain.
And they, too, have but one
purpose.
And that is to make the
house look lived in" explains
Mrs. C. Elmo Stevens of
Charlottesville, who came to
Monticello 10 years ago to
take care of arranging flow
ers at the house. maintained
as a public memorial to JEFF
ferson by the Thomas JEFF
ferson Memorial Foundation
since 1923.
Jefferson, although a bot
anist and q gardener of re-
pute. left no known record
of the use of flowers indoors
at Monticello. His daughter
Martha had q window box,
but where 1t was located is
not known today.
Native Plants
However, flowers, fruits
and foliage were popular
additions to the decor of Vir-
GINA homes almost from the
time of the founding of Will
liamsburg. Many of the
plants were found growing in
Virginia by the earliest col
oniSts, but others were con-
tinental in origin.
Prints, paintings and writ
ings relating to other 18th
century Virginia homes give
an added assurance that the
use of flowers in the Month
cello of today is an authentic
touch.
I'VE use nothing in our
arrangements today that was
not growing here-either in
the gardens or wild on the
Notwithstanding Mr.. Jeffer-
sons time" Mrs. Stevens
points out.
The 18th century mass ar
rangement In a low container
or suitable vase is the type
most frequently used by Mrs.
Stevens who seeks never to
have the flowers overpower
or distract.
Her prime object is always
to add Just a touch. and a
very correct and authentic
touch, to that lived in look"
Within a few weeks, Mrs.
Stevens will begin to deck the
halls with boughs of holly,
but with limitations for JEFF
ferson's references to Christ
mas are sparse indeed.
The Christmas decorations
at Monticello are kept to the
barest minimum. Always in
good taste. they seek to be
something a lively 18th GEN.
fury family, such as the JEFF
Persons, might have affected
for Christmas.
Before Christmas
They are hung a few days
before Christmas and are re-
moved about the first of the
year.
Mrs. Stevens has in the past
years used the Della Robbia
wreath modelled on the 18th
century Italian sculptor's
bright garlands of flowers and
fruit in the entrance hall.
Garlands of green's. usually
ground pine or running ce-
dar. decorate the balcony ov-
erlooking the hall.
Last year to replace the
wreath. she devised a band
OF greens and fruit. includ-
ing apples, lemons, kumquats.
lady apples, small red apples.
lines and nuts as q Della
Robbia style decoration for
above the entrance to the
parlor.
Garlands OF greens were
used on the balcony. and two
tiny trees decorated in red
velvet bows and strings Of
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Society Plans YuIe Program

son will play the harpsichord.
Two members of the National
Symphony Orchestra Will
complete a trio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-02

Editors Note: This Is 0nother In
a series Of women's enterprise
lectures by Virginia newspaper
members Of the Associated Press
and mode ovoiIobIS to other
members.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-02
TO LOOK LIVED IN
Montice||o's OWnF|oWersAreUsed
BY NANCY TALMONT
Charlottesville Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va,
Dec. Spring and summer,
winter and fall, flowers from
Thomas Jefferson's gardens
decorate Monticello. the
home he envisioned and
built here between ITO and
1909.
From early spring, through
mid-fall, fresh flowers cut
from the Monticello gardens,
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Evening star., 1962-03-25

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digestion strikes. whether you're
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other acid-caused distresses,
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Evening star., 1962-03-25

last WEEK we published preview of
the remarkable Royal Canadian Air Force
exercise plan, which has swept Canada
and received acclaim all over the world.
The plan involves separate sets of
exercises for men and women. Last week
we gave the Introductory "5BX" exer-
cises designed for men.
The women's plan, ''XBX," is COM
posed of four charts each containing the
10 basic exercises in Chart I (below),
increasing in difficulty in the more ad.
vanced charts.
As YOU PROGRESS through each chart,
you gradually increase the number of
times you do each exercise, but always
within constant time limit - IL min.
utes. Each chart has Il levels of
performance. When you reach II on
Chart |, then you are all set to 20 on
to Chart ii.
For Chart !, it is recommended that
at least one day be spent on each level
Evening star., 1962-03-25

by women Is and younger, two days for
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five days for ALAS, seven days for 1850
and at least eight days for women 5l-55.
Depending on age and physical con-
dition, every woman can aim for
certain fitness level" Throughout the
four charts there are 48 levels. For
example, 22-year-old woman of good
health should reach level IS, whereas
5l-year-old woman should not normally
60 beyond Level II, which falls in Chart
l. Once you reach your optimum level,
you can maintain it in only three exer-
else periods week.
The program of Chart l, shown
here, is the basic beginning for everyone.
To 60 beyond it, you'll want to send for
the RCAF Exercise Plan for Men and
Women. Use the coupon below.
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