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Arizona tribune., 1962-03-02
NEGRO TEACHER IS
AEA MEET SPEAKER

Mrs. Elizabeth Koontz, sec
retary of the National Education
A ssociation, Department of
Classroom Teachers, will be the
principal speaker at the Arizona
Education Assn, OCT meeting,
Sat-. Mar. IL, at Scottsdale
Coronado High School.
Mrs. Koontz. received her
bachelors degree in English and
elementary education from Liv-
ingstone College in Salisbury and
her ma ster's degree in education
from Atlanta (Ga.) University.
She also has done graduate work
at Columbia University. Indiana
University, and North Carolina
College at Durham.
She has served as president of
her local unit of the North Car
olina Teachers Association and
president of the North Carolina
Department ofClassroom Teach
ers of the Meta.
Present officers of the OCT
are Richard Evans, Tucson,
president; Josephine Bates,
Globe, vice president, and H. B..
Gray, Mesa. secretary.
Arizona tribune., 1962-03-02
NAACP WANTS FEC
TO INVESTIGATE
TESTIMONY IN ALA

NEW YORK The Feder-
al Communications. Commission
has been urged ito make thor
ough inquiry" into the introduc-
tion in an Alabama court pro-
ceedings of the names and tele-
phone numbers of persons called
by NAACP official from his
Birmingham residence during
l956-6l.
Also introduced were the
names and telephone numbers of
persons who made collect calls
to w. C. Patton, NAACP field
secretary for registration and
voting. and the contents of tele-
gram sent by MIR. Patton. Some
400 calls we're read into the rec
ord by William E. Eagerton, an
employee of the Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany of Birmingham.
In a lengthy letter to FEC
Chairman Newton N. Minow, sent
on Feb. II, NAACP general coun-
sci Robert l.. Carter cites the
Introduction of this testimony
during injunctive proceedings
against the NAACP in the Cir
cult Court of MontgomeryC County,
Dec. 27-28, 1861.
He also called for prosecution
of those responsible, since a
violation of federal law would ap-
pear to be involved" The pro-
ceedings involved suit by Ala
bama officials to bar the NAACP
from operating in the state.
"As far as We have been able
to establish" the NAACP lawyer
said, "the Attorney Generals
office had not secured court
order directing the Southern Bell
Telephone Company to open its
files for examination by the At
torney Generals office for the
purpose of securing the testimony
which" was read into the court
record.
I'VE are gravely concerned
with this procedure, Mr.. Carter
continued. while we are salts
fled that the court was in gross
error in permitting this kind of
testimony. We bring it to your
attention for determination as to
whether this constitutes a viola
tion of the Federal Communica-
tions Act. Without basis for a
belief that crime has been COM
mitted, for state officials to be
permitted to secure information
with reference to telephone and
telegraphic communications of
private citizens, raises a SER
ious question respecting personal
freedom and security"
Because of this exposure of the
names and telephone numbers,
I'VE feel CERTAIN" Mr.. Carter
said, that many persons, con-
cerned about issues of civil rights
and racial discrimination in nAla-
bama, will not now feel free and
secure in using the telephone
and telegraphic communications
system in connection with these
issues"
Arizona tribune., 1962-03-02
No Rum or

On OaT1Ous occasions, The arizona Tyib-
u'ae, the only Negro oaOned newspaper in the
entire state has presented a resume of in
surance activities of the Valley Life hasuy-
ance Company, headed by its president, Lin
coin j. RagsdaIe.
Each article carried factual material OBJ
tanned from the official annual insurance re-
ports prepared by the state department of
insurance. All iryoYnation cited all stats
tics contained the Arizona Tribune was fac
t~aI, none uas based ON heaYsay or vunaoy.
This company uas cautioned by both state
and federal agencies for its false ADVERTISING.
During the past months there haze been
mautteyi'lgs from certain persons that no eau
tions from authorities concerning mis- leading
Valley Life Insurance advertising weye re-
ceived. The FOLLOWING letter, which is re-.
produced, WlIl giue further proof:
Arizona tribune., 1962-03-02
RULES TRAVEL IS
OPEN EVER YWHERE

WASHINGTON : The Supreme
Court ruled that all racial seq
regation in transportation facil-
tiles is unconstitutional, intra-
state. within the state, and in
terstate. from state to state.
The high court said all pre-
vjouS decisions on racial mat
ters in transportation we're bind
ing on the entire field of travel.
The arrest and prosecution of
22O freedom riders in Jackson,
Mississippi was the Indirect cat
alyst of this ruling. Three riders
have filed an appeal to end pros
ecution of the freedom riders.
Arizona tribune., 1962-03-02
YOUNG SINGER
SCORES WITH JFK'

WASHINGTON = A young
Negro mezzo-soprano Grace
Bumbry received ovations from
President and Mrs. Kennedy and
their guests after her per-
formance at a White House party
Tuesday night.
Miss Bumbry who had flown
from Paris for the command ap-
pearance captured the audience
with selections by Richard
Strauss. Henri Duparc and Aaron
COPELAND.
Arizona tribune., 1962-03-02

Mr.. Edward Banks
Pub1isher-Editor
Arizona Tri ibune
2137 Bast Broadway
Phoenix, Ari zona
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24
Special Delivery!

The Post Office Department, some
times as widely criticized as the Weather
Bureau, and likewise for faults not al
ways within its control, deserves a well
done" for its prompt production of the
Project Mercury commemorative stamp
AS the story of the stamp unfolded
it revealed foresight, Imagination and
planning by department officials, plus
unusually effective measures to safe
guard a secret. In brief, the idea of
having such stamp ready for sale on
the day that the first American astro-
naut completed an orbit of the globe in
space was born nearly year ago. In the
months since, designs were prepared,
choice made, and more than 100 million
Of the commemorative were printed
and distributed under security classifi-
cation to 300 post offices around the
country. In attractive blue and gold
dress, they were ready at the windows
within minutes after Marine 1t. Col.
John H. Glenn had stepped out of his
space capsule on the deck of the de-
Stroyer Noa on Tuesday. At four cents
each, the product is one which should
please philatelists and its creators alike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24

works out well locally, however, the
Building Trades Department may apply
1t nationally.
Actually, the department will not
be pioneering an entirely new approach
to the problem of employing union
funds. The international Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union, for example, al
ready has turned to diversified invest
ments in construction financing of such
enterprises as apartment buildings, Gov
ernment-insured housing on military
reservations and insured mortgages on
one-family homes. Other unions have in
vested in commercial building, of course,
but the idea Of financing small family
units has not been tested as widely.
Savings banks, building and loan as
sociations, insurance companies, foun-
dationS and even college endowment
funds already employ capital profitably
in this field. In the light of our popula-
ton growth and nationwide housing
needs, this show of union interest is
not surprising-even though expansion
of union membership may be the pri-
mary goal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24
Sensible Time Decision

The decision of the House General
Laws Committee of Virginia's General
Assembly to send to the floor daylight
saving bill, rather than one making
standard time official throughout the
State, was a victory for common sense.
To have made "fast time" illegal even
in nearby Virginia, where time sched-
ules should conform to those in Wash
ington, would have created confusion,
If not something akin to chaos.
Under the bill recommended by the
committee, Virginia would go on day.
light time in consonance with the Dis
trict and most of the Eastern States.
This follows trend that has become
widespread in most parts of the Eastern
time zone. We hope the General As
sembly will adopt the committees re-
commentator so that Virginia can keep
in step with other Jurisdictions on the
time issue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24
Fair Representation

Willie all QeCallS nave not been
worked out, the basic features of the
&c ompromi Se" reapportionment bill
developed by special committee of the
Maryland Legislature deserve support
If they are enacted, the cause of a more
equitable voice for urban areas in the
General Assembly would be advanced
Significantly
Unfortunately, the 'if" is big one.
For this proposal, as would be the case
IN any meaningful reapportionment
bill, would remove from some areas of
the State a measure of their present
representation in Annapolis. And under
these conditions, the attainment of a
favorable vote by three-fifths of the
present members inevitably means an
uphill struggle.
However, the study committee,
headed by Delegate Alger Y. Barbee of
Montgomery County, obviously has at
tempted to steer reasonable course, to
minimize the impact in less-populous
areas while gaining the maximum
degree OF additional representation for
faSt-growing urban and suburban
regions. Under it's bill, one delegate
would be elected for each $4,000 resi-
dents in counties and Baltimore election
districts up to population of 100000,
and, thereafter, one for each $4,000 up
! to total of perhaps 100000 In order
to protect rural areas, however, each of
the % counties would be guaranteed at
least two of the 1923 seats in the Legis-
lature, regardless of population.
This formula encompasses many
features of a commendable bill intro
duced earlier by Delegate James Clark
of Howard County. Rather surprisingly,
1t eliminates one provision of the Clark
bill which had particular appeal to
rural leaders-a proposal under which
each county would be divided into
Legislative districts" from which the
individual delegates would be elected.
Admittedly, the mechanics of such
division would not be easy. If it should
turn out that the elimination of this
provision jeopardizes the entire package,
however, then it should be reinstated.
In any event, either the Clark or the
Barbee proposal is vast improvement
over the several other pending reappor-
tionment bills, including one supported
by Governor Tawes which merely would
add 81 new members to the General As
sembly. This measure, as it's critics have
pointed out, has several deficiencies, in
Guiding failure to provide for an
adequate redistribution of seats after
each decennial census. We hope that the
Governor, who has placed reapportion-
ment so high on his list of priority legis-
lation, will not remain welded to
formula which attacks the problem in
effectively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24

I see signs of the United
States and the Western world
taking the offensive away
from the Reds. Too long has
this country been forced into
defensive positions by Red
trickery, threats and bluffs.
Too long have past admins
trations sat mutely by wait
ing for the next move by the
Communists, ever placing us
on the defensive, forcing the
United States to try to extri-
cate itself.
Followers of world events
have noted over the years
Gen. de Gaulle's firm stand
against Mr.. Khrushchev's
threats. His attitude Of no
appeasement, no useless con-
ferences until Mr.. Khru-
shchev shows some sign of
sincerity has no doubt paid
off. This has had a great eff
feet on the Western world.
Recently even Prime Minister
Macmillan, who was always
pressing the Allies into con-
ferences with the Reds, has
had a change of attitude.
Perhaps the Western world
is finally learning how to
deal with communism. The
signs of a change are definite
ly there. I believe the present
administration is gradually
but surely gaining the often
sive against the Reds. Let's
hold it, by all means.
Herman M. Young.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24
On Aidinq Tito
II was disappointing to

IL was disappointing to
find The Star, in its editorial
of February 7, lining up on
the side of those who favor
United States aid for Tito,
the Communist dictator of
Yugoslavia.
Granted that Tito has
shown that it is possible to
remain a Communist and yet
show some signs of independ-
ence from the Kremlin, isn't
this analogous to a member
of a criminal gang DESERVING
the gang and pursuing his
criminal ways by himself?
In both instances, the es-
sential evil remains. While
solitary criminals are less of
a threat to society than Or
ganized gangs, it hardly be-
hooves society to extend its
favors and rewards to such
dissenters while closing its
eyes to the continuance of
their criminal conduct.
If it is advisable to demand
that South American coun-
tries institute Ger t a in
economic reforms as condi-
tions of eligibility for aid in
the Alliance for Progress"
is it not incongruous to ex-
tend assistance to Yugo-
slavia without requiring it to
jettison a regime that Is the
very perversion of the idea
of government?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24

community is housed in one
large oval hut about 1876 feet
long. These huts have but
one opening on the rooftops
to let light in and several
doors about three feet high.
The missionaries now have
visited about so of these"
The Army now is using an
earth satellite to sharpen the
radar eye of it's electronic
Nike-ZeuS anti-missile mis-
Sile system.
Designed to field the
hottest line drives in his
tory" says a statement is
sued from the Ordnance Mis-
sile Command at Huntsville,
Ala, 1.-The warheads of inter-
continental ballistic missiles,
even in practice, need fly
balls travelling thousands of
miles out in space. The earth
SATELLITE offered the best So
luton to the fielding practice
requirement at the test site
for target tracking radar To-
Gated on Ascension Island,
$500 miles from the Atlantic
Missile Range at Cape
Canavaral.
Target of Opportunity
Army and civilian per-
sonnet who man the radar
site have been using the
satellite as a target Of op-
portunity, much as radar
crews throughout the United
States track passing air
planes for practice. In the
case of the Zeus radar, how
ever, the target of oppor-
tunity Earth satellite Echo
I launched a year ago-is
moving at speeds in excess
of $4,000 miles an hour hun
dreds of miles away from the
tracking radar. Tracking of
the satellite has been going
on for some time and helps
to fill in otherwise slack
times between ICBM tests"
Data collection devices on
Ascension Island record on
magnetic tape what the
tracking radar "SeeS" as the
ICBMs come hurting down
the range. ZeuS missiles in
flight get their orders from
an electronic brain on the
ground to guide them to their
targets. By feeding the tapes
recorded on Ascension Island
into the guidance computers,
the system can be tricked
into guiding missiles in fir
ing tests to intercept ghost
targets" provided by ICBMs
launched months before.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24
Money Available

" The decision made by the Building
Trades Department of the AFL-CIO to
employ part of its substantial pension
funds in trial project of financing
home huilding in the Washington-Bal-
timore suburban area offers potential
benefit of several kinds.
- For the union, the first of these is
the opening Of a new use, and at
higher earning power, of capital &C
count which has been increasing nation
wide by nearly 81 billion yearly. At pres
ent, most of this money, accommodating
through the pension fund contributions
of approximately 5000 construction I'M
ion locals, is invested in Government
bonds or bank deposits with relatively
low interest returns For home financing
purposes, officers of the Building Trades
Department have indicated they plan
to charge the going interest rates of 5
to 51a per cent, mostly in mortgages
qualifying for insurance through the
Federal Housing or Veterans Admins
trations At the same time, union
spokesman have said they hope to elm
mate extra charges which make mort
gage money more expensive in some
cases.
.. A second potential benefit to the
union depends upon one of the condi-
tions of their proposed loans, namely,
that the construction work must be
done by union labor Presumably, this
will increase union membership. If it
increases construction costs, however,
as it almost surely would, there is doubt
the proposed lower charges on the mort
gage money would be a sufficient in
ducement to attract builders or pros
pective home owners If the experiment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24
WHY Not Tshombe?

According to your editorial
February 10, our State De-
partment admits that it won't
let Noise Tshombe visit us.
Why? As you put it, the State
Department means to keep
Tshombe's feet over the fire
till he signs - with his
knuckles, perhaps?-the sub
mission of Katanga to the
rest of the Belgian Congo.
But why Adoula as pre-
mier? Why not Tshombe?
He is clearly the intelligent
head of Leopold's most pro-
ductive ex-colony. Why are
we bludgeoning Katanga into
a union it does not want?
Our own Is States, after a
period of confederation, VOL
UNFAIRLY formed a union:
voluntarily-not because they
were bullied.
Is this liberalism" the
liberalism of our tradition
that of Washington and
Franklin and Jefferson?
1t will be an endless shame
to those of us in that tradi-
ton if Tshombe may not
visit us-although Adoula
has done Soto explain his
case.
This Is no time for cool
irony-"we finally are being
rather candid"-but for an
ger. The State Departments
action is an insult to the
freedom of Africans. It is
an encroachment, in turn,
upon our own freedom.
John Lee Coulter
Asst. Professor,
TIpjuarcitxy 1f NEo,x1Io - .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24
Conservative View

IL was encouraging 10 reaQ
your recent editorial on the
plight of the Republican
Party. This is the kind of
editorial regular readers of
The Star expect but seldom
get. I suppose millions of con-
servatives took heart from
your statement that the rank
and file of the Republican
Party is conservative and,
therefore, could never sell out
to the labor bosses, creeping
socialism and Welfarism.
You correctly state that the
only hope is for a re-align-
ment of party structure based
on the conservative-liberal
issue. If this country is to
survive, such a re-alignment
will come in time. 1t may be
some time before conserva-
tives in some areas will cease
voting against General Grant,
but they are no less ridiculous
than conservatives in other
areas who vote liberal merely
to stay in office. The most
such candidates can prove is
that some Republicans have
stronger stomachs than
others.
That there is a growing
demand for conservative
views cannot be challenged. I
am sure that I am not alone
in my hope that The Star
will one day depart from its
comfortable middle of the
road editorial policy and be-
come again an actively con-
sentative paper.
If we need an organization
to propagate true conserva-
tism and to keep separate
issues separated and to pin
the right labels on the right
things my vote goes to The
Star. The Star reserves its
news material for its news
columns and its editorial
comments for its editorial
columns.
Owen Allen Keen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24
No Time for Summitry

Nikita KhruShchev has not budged
an inch from his unrealistic and slightly
preposterouS proposal-made fort
night ago with much propagandiStic
fanfare-to start the impending 18-na-
government meeting.
On the contrary, replying to the
Anglo-American rejection of the idea,
the Soviet Premier's latest note on the
subject makes him seem more insistent
than ever, and in rather tough tones, on
having such summit conference open
in Geneva on March IA, the date sched-
uled for the resumption of efforts to
work out an agreement on arms control.
Thus, as he has declared to both Presi-
dent Kennedy and British Prime Minis
ter Macmillan, he is "grieved" at their
negative attitude" and he hopes that
they will recognize the urgency of the
situation, reconsider their position and
be sensible enough to do as he says.
Well, it need hardly be added, of
course, that Britain and the United
States most definitely will not do as he
says, and this holds true for the free
world in general. Instead, as Mr.. Ken
nedy and Secretary of State Rusk have
indicated, our country-with the full
support of all it's friends and allies-will
continue to veto any new resort to sum-
mitry on disarmament, or Berlin, or any
other critical issue, unless or until lower
echelon probings, including discussions
at the level of foreign ministers, offer
some substantial promise that a heads
of-government gathering will be gen.
timely fruitful, rather than grimly
sterile. A basic American view on this
point-a view expressed by Mr.. Rusk
long before becoming Secretary-seems
well worth requoting:
The President can and ought to
undertake limited and carefully planned
program Of State visits, short in duration and
aimed at the exchange of courtesy and respect
as tangible expression of the good will Of
the American people But negotiation at the
chief of-government level is quite another
matter. It is not easily accommodated among
the peculiarities OF our constitutional system;
it diverts time and energy from exactly the
point at which we can spare the least; it does
not give us effective negotiation; such ex-
perlence as we have had with summit diplo-
macy does not encourage the view that it con-
tributes to the advancement of American
interests :. conclude that summit diplo-
macy Is to be approached with the wariness
with which prudent physician prescribes
habit-forming drug-a technique to be en-
ployed rarely and under the most exceptional
circumstances, with rigorous safeguards
against its becoming a facilitating and
dangerous habit.
These words, excepted from an
article in the April, 1860, issue of Foreign
Affairs. are as much to the point today
as they have ever been. They explain, in
part, why Mr.. Kennedy can be counted
upon to stand firm against Mr.. Khrush-
.chev's altogether unreasonable and
propaganda-laden demands for instant
summitry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24
Red Strategy

After listening to the argu-
ments, pro and con, on the
subject Of the handling.
stocking and selling Of
obscene books, I would like
to quote from a Russian text
book used to train their
agents on how to take over
the world:
by making readily avail
able drugs of various kinds,
by the banning of all reli-
gious observances and the
capitalistic Bible from the
public schools, by giving the
teenager alcohol, by praising
his wildness, by stimulating
him with sex literature and
advertising to him or her
practices as taught at Sex
poll the psychopolitical OPP
orator can create the neces-
sary attitude of chaos, idle
ness and worthlessness into
which can then be cast the
solution which will give the
teenager complete freedom
everywhere"
Lenin also decreed, de
moralize, degenerate. and if
necessary devastate the
United States of America and
it will fall like an overripe
fruit into our hands"
Frank G.. Birkhead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-24

from IS to lis miles an hour.
Surely the intelligent" police
force of Falls Church could
have apprehended this boy at
a later time, thus eliminating
the threat of injury and
death to the unsuspecting
drivers and pedestrians I'M
fortunate enough to have
been in the path Of these two
uncomfortable cars.
Pvts. Harpe and Honse
"got their man." but are they
satisfied that the means JUS
titled the end? I'm not!
Robert E, Lake.