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St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Edward L. Boyd
Resigns officiuI
ST. Peters Duties

Edward L. Boyd, 1888 Fourth
Av. S., Minneapolis pioneer fra
ternal and church figure for %
years an official at st. Peters
AME church, Al ST., and Fourth
Av. S., announced this week he
was resigning his official duties
effective Jan. 1.
Mr.. Boyd stated his advanced
age (he's an active 80 year old)
and other duties have been piling
up on him. AS a result he stated
he felt he had to give up his offic-
ial church activities.
Mr.. Boyd said he thought this
holiday season and the New Year
was the logical time to be relieved
of some of his responsibilities.
Mr.. Boyd has been a delegate
from st. Peters AME church to
the annual conference nine out of
ten conference years.
He also has been district dele
gate to two AME General Con-
ferences. ...-
In making his public announce
ment he stated the church through
the pastor the Rev. Lowell john
son will have his written resigna-
ton by Jan. 1.
The veteran st. Peters steward
said he was extremely apprecia-
tive and proud of the confidence
which the church membership has
shown him during his years as
chairman Of the church stewards
board.
Mr.. Boyd stated: The many
kindnesses, the fine cooperation !
have received for most Of the 20
years I have been active has been
most heartwarming.
II shall never forget these fine
acts and gestures Of good will and
Christian charity and brotherhood
shown me by the members of st.
Peters AME church, Mr.. Boyd
added.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
The Year 1862
Was Fruitful

The year 1862 was an eventful year for the
world This was true of of the United States
of America which continued to play chief role In
world politics the international scene.
Perhaps the event of greatest Importance to
the world scene was the Cuban crisis and our
country's conformation with the Russia govern
ment and our forcing that countrys rulers to back
down on the establishment of missile bases few
miles from shores.
Although we at "the brink of war" that
neither nations civilian population was prepared
for, we won the engagement this time UnfOrtun-
ateIy we have already forgotten the hurried at
tempts and almost pitifu panic with which our
civilian population viewed the apparent impend-
ing missile warfare, and its effect on our almost
totally unprepared cities and population centers.
Our Civilian Defense posture is still in frightful
mess, and nobody but nobody seems to give
care.
The year 1862 vas eventful for the Negro The
big news of the year was the admission of James
Meredith Negro armed services veteran, to the
University of Mississippi. The nation suffered by
the bad light in which our country was placed in
the eyes of our watching world neghbors by the
antics and insurrectionary activity of state gov
ernor That governors encouragement of open VOL
alton of law his defiance of the law which led to
bloody rioting on the campus of the states seat Of
higher learning, which resulted in the deaths Of
two persons and the injuring and manning Of
dozens of others, mitgated by the action Of
the Federal government in putting down the open
rebellion which brought the nation close to second
civil war; and which except for Federal action could
have cost the entire country the disrepect Of the
world.
As with the Cuban crisis which followed
President John F. Kennedy, patient but firm
and when action was necessary he took 1t with
some dispatch, always trying to understand the
dilemma to which elected demagogue, had
plunged a state, which Of all the states needs
leadership which will It away from the
| poison Of racsm which has made It disgrace in
the eyes Of the civilized world.
The American Negro himself in the year before
which he along with the nation, will observe the
Tooth anniversary Of the Emancipation Proclama-
tion has made striking headway towards fun cit-
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28

Slgnaled OFFICIALLY Wnen Lne BTU
lsh government said 1t accepted in
principle the secession Of Nyasa-
land from the combine.
The federation, established In
1853 and embracing Southern
Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and
Nyasaland, has long been a source
of discomfort for African nation
alists. They have often scoffed at
the European-sponsored idea that
the union was a partnership"
Nyasaland, eastermost sector of
the African grouping, has a pop
ulaton which includes 2,500,000
Bantu tribesmen and $500 Euro
peans. DR.. Banda's Malaw Con-
gress Party controls the Nyasa-
land government.
The British move brought a
harsh rejOlnder from Welensky,
Onetime boxer and opponent of
immediate African independence.
Declaring his government had
been ignored and side-stepped
by Britain on the Nyasaland issue
Welensky accused England of "ar
act of treachery" and charged 1.-THE
British government have rated on
US"
Speaking in Salisbury, South
ern Rhodesia, capital Of the fed
Grafton, Welensky said his govern
ment believes there is little II
any honor left in dealing with the
British government"
Although the opposition Labor
Party in London approved the
governments Nyasaland move,
1t Is likely to draw protests from
the right-wingers in Prime Min
lister Harold MacMillan's Con-
servatIve Party. Macmillan was
meeting with President Kennedy
In Nassau, Bahamas, at the
time of the action.
In announcing the governments
acceptance of Nyasalands seces
sion, which probably will not bt
effected for nine months to one
year, First Secretary Of State R
A. Butler acknowledged 1t woulC
mean serious and substantial
economic troubles for the African
protectorate. Nyasaland anC
Northern Rhodesia have British
protectorate status. SoutherI
Rhodesia is a self-governing Brit
ish colony.
Butler said the Nyasaland
ernment is aware Of the econ
OmIc hazards Of secession and
"ready to adopt policies to min
lmlZe them"
] DIR. Banda has stated previousl,
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28

American Labor Council, and vice
president, AFL-CIO's Roy Wilkins,
executive secretary, NAACP, and
Whitney M. Young, Jr, executive
director, National Urban League.
Wilkins, acting as spokesman
for the group following their one
hour meeting with President Ken
nedy, said the President was told
that they Negro leaders, were
representing the keen interest that
American Negroes have in Africa
today.
Said Wilkins: 1--WE explained
to him that the American Negro
community is more keenIy in
terested in our foreign policy In
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St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28

appointment, announced by Rev
Denzil A. Carly, president of the
st. Paul Urban League branch is
effective Feb. 16, 1868.
Jones, "a, presently executive di,
rector of the Pontiac, Michigan
Urban League, fills a vacancy left
by the resignation of Ernest Coop.
er in November.
Born and raised in Heidelberg
Mississippi, he attended hi g h
school in Meridian, Mississippi
and was graduated from Clark
College in Atlanta, Georgia. He
entered the army and served foI
two years as an administrative
specialist and first sergeant al
Fort Lewis, Washington. He later
attended graduate school at At,
lanta University where he was
awarded the MA. in Sociology anC
the Master of Social Work De.
gree.
Jones is active in scouting and
church activities in Pontiac. He Is
chairman of the Social Policy and
Action Committee of the Oakland
County Chapter - National AS,
sociation of Social Workers and 9
member of the Human Relations
Committee, City Of Pontiac. Jones
Is also a member Of the Committee
on School Holding Power, State Of
Michigan.
Jones and his wife, Prethenis
have two children, Marya and Sam
Henry, Jr.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
MOTHER OF MRS.
REGINA MORRIS BURIED
IN KANSAS CITY, KANS

Funeral services for Mrs. Villa
Ann Spiller, wife Of Rev. A. w.
Spiller, Kansas City, Kansas will
be held December %, at the Eighth
Street Baptist Church, Kansas
City, Kans., Rev. I. H. Henderson
pastor.
Mrs. Spiller is the mother OF
Mrs. Regina Morris, All Mackubin
St. Paul and had come to visit hel
daughter and son-in-law Mr.. anc
Mrs. B. L. Morris on Wednesday
December 10 for the holidays.
Mrs spiller was stricken ill De-
cember % and taken to Anckel
Hospital where she succumbed De-
cember "a. Alexander Funera
Home arranged shipment of re-
mains.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28

first time in the history Of the us.
that an American President has
discussed foreign policy with an
all Negro group.
Not to be overlooked also is that
this meeting signaled a new ap-
prOaCh and gave international
dimensions to the Negroes quest
for civil rights and equality for
all peoples.
Meeting with the President were
James Farmer, national director,
Congress of Racial Equality
CCORE); Miss Dorothy l. Height,
president, National Council Of Ne
gro Women; Rev. Martin Luther
King, Jr., president, Southern
Christian Leadership Conference;
A. Philip Randolph, international
president, brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters, president, Negro
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28

cation because he wants top re-
serve "the purity of the races" in
America.
Then he proceeded to demon
strate that a Mississippi governor
can be as erudite as a Louisiana
senator:
Everywhere they've integrated
long enough and extensively
enough, it has ruined the civiliza-
ton because you mongrelize the
white race" he declared.
He cited Egypt as an example of
this theory. "At one time" he
said, Egypt had only a white
race.
1T was admired and respected
by all the world, because they ex-
celled all other nations in litera-
ture, medicine, art, law and other
fine arts.
But the Negroes began to go
down the Nile (River)," he said,
"and mix with the white race, in
tegrate, mixing socially, dancing
together.
"It was at that time they started
to go down hill," he said, "and
the people of the world began to
lose respect and confidence in the
white race of Egypt.
Now" he said, "they have
neither a white nor a Negro race
there"
The governor who has achieved
quite some renown because Of his
open defiance of the federal gov
ernment over the admittance of
James Meredith to the University
of Mississippi, came here to make
a speech to some businessmen as
sembled to hear him by The Miss
issippi Research organization
which Is interested in Turing new
business to the Deep South state.
But his interview which was
staged at a hotel here to show
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St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
ST. PAUL WOMAN HELD
ON AGGRAVATED
ASSAULT CHARGE

Helen Haskins, SO, 142 South
Robert ST., admitted to st. Paul
police that she had cut Raleigh
Burkeen, SO, of the same address
about 8 pm, December Fl.
Burkeen was cut on the back of
his left hand. The wound extended
the entire width Of his hand. He
was taken to Ancker Hospital.
Helen HaslSins was given a
breathalyzer examination at police
headquarters and a reading Of 20
was obtained. She was charged
with aggravated assault.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Luomo Replies To
Richard Chapmdns
Kew Club BIdSF

Everett E. Luoma, in Every
body's Ideas in the STAR, 1924
9th St, Sc. whose attack on the
Minneapolis City councils reVoca-
ton Of the licenses Of the Key Club
was in turn the subject Of an at
tack by Ralph Chapman In the
same section of the daily paper on
Saturday, Dec. %, has replied
to the Chapman letter.
Wrote Mr.. Luoma this week:
Ralph Chapman is as vague as
to what specifically closing down
the Key Club will accomplish as
Is the City Council. I can only
assume that he believes as the
City Council wishes us to believe
which Is that prostitution will
somehow be lessened If the Key
Club Is closed. II this is his opin-
ion, he simply has not been around
as much as he says he has.
ANY individual who is seriously
interested in lessening prostitution
and the other vices would look for
the causes of these vices. He would
then reach the conclusion that pow
erty and its resultant social ten
sions so prevalent among the low.
er classes Is the major-if not the
only-cause Of vice. In order tc
abolish prostitution than, this in
dividual would look for ways tC
abolish poverty.
Closing down the Key Clut
merely increases the number Of
unemployed among the Negroes
who always have been the last
ones hired and first ones fired
The result would be further low
ering of personal dignity anc
therefore an increase in the basic
problem.
Because the Minneapolis City
Council has refused to consider thC
relationship of socio-economic pos
ition and crime, can only assume
that there is no serious effort t
abolish prostitution. can onl!
conclude that the entire issue is 1
RED Herring"
Sincerely,
Everett e. Luoma
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Ohio City Sweors
In Negro AS
Police Chief

Portsmouth, Ohio (ANP) -
Portsmouth has become the third
city in Ohio history to name a
Negro as chief of police.
Theodore (Ted) Wilburn, 35, was
sworn in last week to succeed
Robert M. Edwards, who resigned
last month at the height Of local
controversy.
Chief Wilburn, 1o-year veteran
of the force who has held the rank
of lieutenant since 1857, has been
acting chief since Edwards stepped
down.
The other Ohio cities with Ne
gro police chiefs are Yellow
Springs and Lincoln Heights.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Two St. Paul Youths
Arrested On Suspicion
nS loPranu EPoF1N An huf,

Joe Nathaniel Bennett, 20, 548
Aurora and Nathaniel Bolden, "a,
563 Fuller were arrested about
midnight on Dec. 20, and charged
with suspicion Of larceny.
The theft allegedly occurred in
a parking lot on Western Av., be-
tween Selby and Dayton.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Biused Legion Post
Divorced By Post Office

bloSeo Legion FoSG
Divorced BY Post Office
Los Angeles (ANP) - Amer
lean Legion Post No. 325 at the
Terminal Annex, which last Oc-
tober rejected membership applica-
tions from four Negro workers
who are World War II veterans
has given up the privileges it has
enjoyed in the past as a recog'
nized Post Office unit.
The action occurred following g
meeting here attended by Al Ber'
gesen, regional personnel director
from San Francisco, representa-
tives of the Legion post and Post
master Otto K. Olesen.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Confer With President Kennedy:
Negro Leaders Join
In Asking Marshall
Plan" For Africa
By Adolph ]. Slaughter

Washington (ANP) = An historic meeting between The
President of the United States and of the influential
Negro leaders in the U.s. occurred the White
week. when they asked the President for Marshall Plan"
for Africa
1t to evauate the impact and Importance of the
meeting but point of major significance that this was the
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Chicago Educated Premier"
Chicago Educated Premier:
Banda Leads County
Out Of European
Controlled Federation

Blantyre, Nyasaland (ANP)-Dr. Hastings K Banda mild
hammered Chicagoeducated physician who became fiery
African nationalist has led this country of the federation
with wealthier Northern and Southern RhOdesa
The action which has London approval breaks up the
Central African Federation which Sir Roy
Welensky Prime Minister has struggled vany keep intact
While the breakup has been brewing for time it
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Milton 6. WiIIiums
Reported Seriously
III At HospifuI

Milton G. Williams, % South
Sixth ST., Minneapolis publisher of
the st. Paul Sun and the Twin
City Observer Is critically Ill at
Mount Sinai hospital.
The local publisher has been con-
fined to the hospital for two weeks,
suffering from complications.
Mr.. Williams has been publisher
Of the Observer for 10 years and
the Sun for a shorter period.
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
New Director
St. PouI Urban
League Selected

The new executive director of
the st. Paul Urban League is Sam
H. Jones Of Pontiac, Michigan. The
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
MississiPPiun Changes Mind:
Mississippiun Changes Minds
Governor Barnett SCuftIeS
With Chicago Reporters
Over Interview Notes

Chicago (ANP)-Though he hasn't had Sen Allen ElIend-
advantage of touring Africa at the taxpayers expense
Msspps Gov let it be known here that he
too, is expert on Africa
support his contention that ntegraton leads to the
"mongreizaton of the involved Mississippls newly
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
MRS. FLOSSIE HARRIS

WEEDS CALVIN TAYLOR
Mrs. Flossie I. Harris, 3540 Fifth
Av. s. and Mr.. Calvin L. Taylor,
st. Paul, were married December
"a, at st. Peters AME Church
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28
Have Particular Interest

Likewise, Negroes as members Of the
group still most disadvantaged in American
society, have particular interest in the
extension Of social security, an area in
which America is still rather backward
particularly in the field Of health and
hospitalization) by comparison with the
most advanced countries. In this situation,
it is both natural and necessary that Ne
groes should join those forces in American
society which stand for general social and
economic progress -Gunnar MyrdaL
TWENTY NINTH YEAR, NO. %
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28

Cannot cTY...
The future society Of equality is Of q
free competition, and you (the Negro) will
have to face it and prepare yourselves 70
deal with it successfully. You cannot cry
for the breaking down of the walls Of dis
elimination while at the same time, hoping
to retain petty monopoly preserves among
Negro clientele to give you a comfortable
and uncontested economic safety You must
have the courage to choose a harder life in
which your abilities will be tested against
the norms established in the wider Amer
ican society.-Gunnar MyrdaL
St. Paul recorder., 1962-12-28

The American Negro himself in the year before
which he along with the nation, win observe the
Tooth anniversary Of the Emancipation Proclama-
tion has made striking headway towards fun cid-
Evening star., 1962-05-01
Thought Dead inWor
Are Alive, Mother I old

!. SHELTON, Wash. May (AP)-A German woman says
she has been reunited by transatlantic telephone with
the Nazs forced her to abandon % when they
shipped her to Dachau concentration camp.
II thought he dead" Mrs Frank Cooper yester-
day II told all four Of my children were killed during
Evening star., 1962-05-01
PoIuris Subs
Collision With
Ship Is Revealed

NORFOLK, Va, May l (AP)
The Polaris subm arint
Thomas A. Edison and th'
destroyer Wadleigh collideC
during exercises off the vir'
ginia coast April o.
No one was injured and
damage was negligible.
spokesman at Atlantic Fleet
headquarters said today in re.
SPONGE to q reporters questions
The spokesman said a top.
side rudder on, the submarine
was bent slightly and that the
destroyer's bottom plates werl
damaged slightly. Both ship.
continued on their scheduled
operations" he added.
"a misunderstanding tool
place between the Edison anc
the Wadleigh which resulted
in slight contact between the
two ships" the spokesman re-
ported, -.
The collision occurred about
{ pm. during routine exer.
cises Of Atlantic fleet surface
units and the Edison.
The submarines bent fin wa,
repaired at the yards of tht
Newport News Shipbuiidlrg anC
Dry Dock Co. before Presiden'
Kennedy visited the Edlsor
April 13 at Norfolk.
Evening star., 1962-05-01
Eisenhower Library
To Be Dedicated Today

ABILENE, Kans., May /
(AP)-Top political figures Of
the leS0s meet today to dedi-
cate the new Eisenhower Pres
idential Library.
Former President Dwight D.
Mrs. Eisenhower, arrived early
today in q private railroad car.
His three brothers and five
cabinet members from his ad-
ministration already were in
Abilene, the EiSenhowers' boy
hood home.
Former President Harry s.
Truman Cancelled plans TO at
tend after his cousin. Maj. Gen.
Ralph E. Truman (retired)
died yesterday in Kansas City.
Vice President Lyndon john
son left Washington By plane
for Abilene to attend the cere-
mony. He planned to fly to
Austin, Tex, afterward to at
Evening star., 1962-05-01
J. W. Symineton
Named Aide to
Robert Kennedy

James W. syminston, dep6t,
director Of Food for Peace, viii
become Attorney General Rob.
|ert F. Kennedy's new admins.
trative assistant.
Mr.. 6ymington, s4-year-olt
son Of Senator sSymineton
Democrat Of Missouri, win taks
over his new post tomorrow
He replaces John Seigenthaler
who resigned last month to be.
come editor Of the Nashvillt
Tennessean.
Mr.. syn1tngton. born Sep
tember %. 1897, In Rochester
N. Y. is q Yale sraduate who
was lightweight boxing cham
picn on the campus. He was
graduated from Columbia Uni.
versity School Of Law in 1854.
He is married to the former
Sylvia Schlapp Of st. Louis and
has a daughter. Julie, z. and q
son, Jeremy, 5. The Syming-
tons live at so1s Forty-fourth
street NV.
Evening star., 1962-05-01

tend the funeral Of an old
friend. Tom Miller, former
Mayor Of Austin.
Gen. Eisenhower met with
the cabinet members and his
brothers at q breakfast aboard
Q railroad diner.
Gen. Eisenhower viii lead q
parade through the Abilene
business district to the library
The dedication is scheduled q
little later and immediately
after that Gen. and Mrs. Eisen-
hover planned to attend 9
luncheon for close friends and
dignitaries. During the lunch.
con another group Of visitors
win tour the 90 million library
which win house Gen. Eisen-
hower's presidential papers.
Gen. Eisenhower win visit
the library later in the after
noon.
Evening star., 1962-05-01
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
DuoI Compensation Compromise
includes Fresh Start Principle

who are now permitted to hold
Federal civilian Jobs BY reason
OF their retirement resulting
from @ non-coEnbat disability.
At present there is O $4,000
limitation Of the annual sti-
pend they can receive from
their combined military-civil-
ian pay. The proposed change
would give them their entire
civilian pay plus first $4,000 Of
their annual retired military
pension plus so per cent Of the
remainder.
All military personnel retired
for combat disabilities or In
line Of duty during war have
been exempted from dual COM
pensation laws and would con-
tinue to be exempted.
PRO AND CON-The CSC
said the "fresh start" princi-
pie proposed in the new legis-
lation Is intended to provide
reasonable safeguards" 50 that
the employment Of retired mill
tary personnel which would
not unfairly compete with ca
reer civilian employees. BY
withholding veterans prefer
ence, the retired military per-
SON would not be given addi-
tional points In examination
for.job scores.
II hired, he would not have
Job retention rights stemming
from his military service, such
as placing him In Q higher re-
tention category than those
without veterans preference
and counting his military serv-
ice in computing reduction-in-
force retention points.
On the other hand, Govern
ment employe unions are not
very happy over the proposed
easing Of dual compensation
which will permit more retired
military personnel 10 serve o.
lcivilian employees In Govern
ment.
i Taking note Of this, the CSC
said Its proposal Represents,
overall. 0 fair and workable
compromise" 49,.
Evening star., 1962-05-01

learned she was born in Ger
many.
When she was released, she
said she received letters from
her husband, telling her the
children had been killed. She
said he also asked for a divorce.
After the war she met Frank
Cooper who was stationed with
the American Army in Frank
furt, Germany. They were
married and moved to Tacoma
.1947. When Mr.. Cooper, who
is now ~, retired from the
Army. they moved to q cottage
beside Lake Nahwatel west Of
here.
There were no children by
the Cooper marriage. Mrs.
Cooper said she does not know
what happened to her former
husband.