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Government

The 1861 avalanche of Negro appointments to
high federal posts fzzed to trickle in 1852 Fore
most among last years appointments were those of
Hobart Taylor, Jr., to executive vice-chairman of
the Presidents Equal Opportunity Committee and
A Leon Higginbotham to commissioner of the Fed
eral Trade Commission. Numerous lesser appoint
ments included those Of Attys Marjorie Lawson and
Joseph c. Waddy to Washington, DC, municipal
judgeships; Luke c. Moore, who became the first
Negro named us. Marshal since abolitionst Fred
erick Douglass held such post; and Clarence o.
Horton, Jr., who became the first Negro assistant
us. attorney in Tennessee. Mrs Ann M Roberts
named FILA deputy regional administrator and
became the highest ranking Negro woman in the
federal housing field
A promising 1862 development in the area of
housing integrauon the Federal Housing Auth
oritys abandonment of old Jim Crow policy under
which Negro real estate brokers and home buyers
were only shown Istings of reclaimed property in
Negro neghborhoods.
AS the year 1862 to a close, there were
still widespread feelings among Negroes that the
Kennedy Administration moving too slowly in
the of civil rights. Although it up cred
liable record with executive action, there seemed
little doubt that much more was needed to realize
Americas promise of liberty and justice for an :?
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Public Accommodation

Pressured by Federal Government action and
unrelentng onslaught of sit-ins, boycotts and
other protest techniques by action groups large
number of Southern cities forced to yield their
Jim Crow traditions in various types of public ac-
Commodation.
BY the end of 1862, lunch counters Of drug,
variety and department store chains-long a prime
target of militant rights groups-had quietly opened
to all customers in downtown Mobile, Ala, Pensa-
cola Fla, Columbus Ca, Memphis and New Orleans
In Missouri the State Supreme Court upheld the
cOnstitutionality of a challenged Kansas City law
prohibiting discrimination in hotels and restaurants
Meanwhile, as Kennedy aides considering
to put all biased hotels "off limits" to federal
employees travelling at US expense, major hotels in
Houston, Tex. lifted their color ban to admit Negro
guests for the first time. In Macon, Ga, the cum
ulative effect of federal court action and local bus
boycott resulted in a policy of non-segregated
seating of passengers on all buses operated by the
city.
Similar gains were made in the of air
transportation According to 1862 mid-year report
by us. Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, there were IA
Dixie airports which voluntarily integrated their
passenger facilities.
The so-called Albany (Ga) Movement, compris-
ing the combined civil rights efforts of several
ton groups, including CORE, sNCC, sCLC and the
NAACP resulted in the following social advances:
II an agreement by local authorities to form a bi-
racial committee racial problems. q desegraga-
ton of the citys bus terminal and cafe 81 the re-
lease from Jail of movement demonstrators and an
end to arrests. ~ the substitution Of "Mr"
and Mrs" for derogatory terms by city officials in
addressing Negro citizens. While the movement
failed to achieve its stated goal of complete integra
tion it did pave the way for important changes to
come.
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Employment

Negro employment, another ma
jor rung in the civil rights ladder,
continued its climb in 1862. Set
ting the years stepped-up pace
for the administrations equal op-
portunities programs was the call
ing of the first national conference
on Negro employment problems
held in Washington, D. c. The
year also marked the Inauguration
of the administration first nation
wide compliance reporting system
aimed at checking into major
federal employment areas as well
as individual complaints against
federal contract-holding firms.
The television industry, a peren-
nial culprit in the realm Of Negro
employment, made feeble steps to
mend its delinquent ways by hir-
ing a number Of qualified Negro
announcers for full-time, on-the-
air work. Newscasters' jobs went
to Chicago's Ben Holman (WBBM-
TV) Pittsburgh's Melvin (MaD
Goode (ABC-TV), New Orleans
George (Tex) Stephens (WYES-
TV), and Washington, D.C.'s NAL
colin r. LaPlace (WMAL-TV). An
additional noteworthy departure
from TVS traditional spurning of
Negro talent was the use of ex-
Ebony Fashion Fair Model La
Jeune Hundley on MICS program
say When and the same networks
signing of budding New York act
ress Ena Hartman to a $4,000
a-year talent grooming contract.
Meanwhile, four major TV adver-
tisers, including the Gillette Co.,
have approved the use of Negro
models in their commercial skits
aimed at nationwide audiences.
Another mammoth dispenser of
jobs, the Jim-Crow-ridden US. air
line industry, showed a slight
change Of heart by adding four
Negro girls to its army Of flight
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Sports

Of all sports achievements made
by Negroes during the past year,
few captured the spectators imag-
nation as much as the diamond
thievery of the Dodgers shortstop
Maury Wills, who with 81 base
thefts in 156 games stole his way
into baseball immortality and the
hearts of his fans. Not satisfied
with having broken the late Ty
Cobb's 47-year-old record of SO
stolen bases, Wills finished the
season by nabbing an additional
seven bases, thereby establishing
himself as the greatest base thief
of all times.
Less covetous, though no less
impressive than Wills accomplish
ments, was the admission Of his
former colleague, Jackie Robinson,
to the National Baseball Hall of
Fame. 1t was the first time a Ne
gro had been so honored and it
seemed only fitting that the honor
should come to the first man who
had added color" to the game.
In basketball, the San Francisco
Warriors Wilt (the Stlt) Cham
berlain added to his growing string
of alI-time records the distinction
of being the first professional
player to score 1000 points in a
single season. BY the time the
season ended, he had scored 4,029
points.
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ard Rodgers mo Strings" was the
reaction of the public, which
heaped praise on her brilliant per-
formance while all but ignoring
the issue Of her race. Similar
trends toward racial maturation in
the theater were observed in Chi
cago where Ossie Davis bias
spoofing comedy, Purlie Victori-
GUS, starring Davis and his wife,
Ruby Dee, scared to a smash sue
cess.
In Atlanta, concert singer Mat
tiwilda Dobbs became the first per-
son, Negro or white, to sing before
an integrated audience in the city's
famed Municipal Hall. Also in At
lanta, cameraman Ed Smith scored
a Hollywood" first when he was
appointed associate producer for a
film by the Bishopff and Diamond
production firm.
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the Observation-Disclosures diplomat
and United Nations Undersecre-
tary and DR.. Martin Luther King,
the great religious leader and
champion of civil rights.
Along that historic trail, also,
were the great pioneer educator
and founder of Tuskegee Insti-
tute, Booker T. Washington; DIR.
George Wa shingtOn Carver,
world acclaimed scientist; Mary
Mcleod Bethune, the dedicated
educator who founded Bethune
College and many others.
Douglass was born in 1917 in
Maryland. He became one of his
generations greatest orators and
writer's. In 1857, his writing at
tracted such widespread attention
in "The North Star" that this
papers name was changed to
Frederick Douglass Paper"
Douglass undoubtedly one Of,
the great men Of the Civil War
period was q powerful influence
in persuading Abraham Lincoln
to emancipate the slaves.
A staunch Republican, Douglass
served with distinction as us.
marshall for the District Of Col
umbia, Recorder Of Deeds and as
the first us. Negro envoy serving
as us. minister to Haiti.
Douglass coined the famous
phrase, THE Republican party is
the ship; all else is the sea-"
Douglass, even before the Civil
War erupted and long before the
Emancipation proclamation was
signed saw the need for the Ne
gro to develop a press.
His paper first published three
years before the Civil War along
with the earlier Freedoms Jour-
nal" published in 1920 were the
forerunners of the present day Ne
gro press, which has played the
most important role in the ad-
vance of the Negro since Abra-
ham Lincoln signed the historic
proclamation which the nation is
now celebrating a Centennial.
Booker T. Washington, early ex-
ponent of vocational education for
the Negro, was the man who rem
dered a great service to his race
and nation by impressing the i'm
portance Of educating citizens in
the trades and arts. He and WEB
Du Bois staunch advocate of formal
college training for the Negro
blazed the trail which eventually
led to greater appreciation fol
education among the Negroes.
Washington as the first
acknowledged national Negro
leader developed after the Civil
War attracted both praise and
criticism for his position on var
IOus interracial matters.
He became the friend and con.
fidante of Presidents especially or
the race problem and was the first
American Negro to win widespread
white support both in the South
and North.
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to the relatively more noeraI,
heavily Negro populated urban
South.
Since the decision, a rapidly
growing number Of Dixie states
has been confronted with federal
court ordered reapportionment
headlines that promise drastic re-
visions of the entire political pic
ture in the South. In Georgia, the
abolishing of an archaic county
unit system" which had robbed
millions Of city dwellers Of their
vote, produced immediate results.
Unable to capture the states pop
ular vote after contemptuously re-
jecting Negro support, racist CUB
ernatorial candidate, ex-Gov. Mar
win Griffin, was soundly trounced
by his moderate opponent, Carl
Sanders. II further proof was
needed that the tide in Georgia
was changing, it was furnished by
the election Of a Negro state SEN
ator (the first since Reconstruc-
tion), Leroy johnson.
Similar inroads were made out
side Dixie, where the list Of firsts
was headed by the election Of
Democrats August Hawkins Is
US. representative from Californ-
Ia, Gerald Lamb as Connecticut
state treasurer, Edith Sampson as
Chicago municipal judge and Re-
publican Edward w. Brooke as at
torney general Of Massachusetts,.
Otis Smith was elected Michigan
! Supreme Court justice in a nom
partisan race.
A vital factor in changing the
nations political climate has been
the voter registration drive by mil
liant groups, which is rapidly re-
ducing white politicians apathy
toward the Negro vote.
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Sterling Club Has Washington
Birthday Party: Members of the
Sterling Club observed George
Washington's birthday at a party
at the club Friday night, Feb. %.
A lively crowd was present, enjoy
ing the food and refreshments.
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Nofind

The most significant development in 1852 af-
fecting civil rights the us. Supreme Courts
precedent-setting decision authorizing Tennessee
citizens to sue in federal courts to force the long
overdue reapportionment of legislative districts. In
effect the decision set the stage for shift Of pol
itical power from rural segregatonist stronghods
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Does Change-Of-Life Make You
Feel Older Than You Are?
In DOCTORS tests, special medicine relieved
those hoi flashes weakness, nervousness for woman
offer then they could enjoy happier middIe-aaaI

Does change of life leave you so
weak, irritable you feel older than
you really are? Suffocated by hot
flashes, constantly tense, so you
can't be the affectionate wife Of old?
Don't despairl LYDIA PNKHAM's
COMPOUND can relieve that physi-
al distress and tension both
10 doctors tests using Pinkham's
Compound, woman after woman
got glorious relief Without costly
shots! Hot flashes quickly sub
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us. Negro AcceIerates Gains
In 1862 In All Fields
(FrOm January, 1868 EBONY Magazine)

The year 1862, which brought to a close
century of so-called freedom for us. Negro
citizens, still left an abysmal gap between the
democratic ideal of full racial equality and the
widespread practice of keeping the Negro Sin
his place" But although the last IL months
failed to produce any sweeping changes to-
ward bringing ideal and practice in line, piece
meal racial advancements continued in many
major areas of American life
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Entertainment

In the field Of entertainment,
Diahann Carroll made 1852 head
lines as the first member Of her
race cast in a romantic lead role In
an otherwise all-white Broadway
musical. Even more noteworthy
than her pioneering work In Rich
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stewardesses. Alice Joyce Will
iams crashed the color line at
United Airlines, Marlene White
and Leonora Bolden at Northwest
Airlines and Carol McCalla at
Western Airlines.
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MRS. GENEVIEVE BURNS
AWARDED DIVORCE AND
CTISTODY OF DATTGHTER

Mrs. GeneWeve Burns, I'll FL
wood NJ, announced that she was
granted a divorce from her hus-
band, Aron Clarence Burns, Thurs
day, February 21. Mrs. Burns was
granted custody of their II year
old daughter, Peggy Ann Burns.
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The national per capita income
Of the tiny Caribbean island of
Antigua has almost tripled since
1851. Then it was $126, now it is
1862.
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Varied Group Played
Part In Progress
Since Emancipation

Blazing trail of progress almost unparalleled in history
Negroes shook off their yoke bondage hundred ago
and took seveneague strides of advancement along the trail
which leading toward full freedom and frstclas citizenship
This path of progress and achievement has stretched from
the trying days of the late and great Frederick Douglass Amer
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sided. That awful nervousness was
calmed. Then most women found
they could go smiling through"
the trying years of change-of-life-
without that dreadful miseryI
If change-of-life is making you
feel older than you are, ask for
LYDIA E. PTNKHAM's VEGETABLE
COMPOUND at drug stores. Do it to-
day. See how fast this special med
icine for women helps you feel like
your happy, active self again.
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ShrinkS HemOrrhOidS
Without Surgery
Stops ItCh-ReIieveS Pain

For the first time science has found
q new healing substance with the as
tonishing ability to shrink hemor-
rhoids and to relieve pain - without
surgery. In case after case, while
gently relieving pain, actual reduc-
tion (shrinkage) took place. Most
amazing Of all = results were so thor
ough that sufferers made astonishing
statements like "Piles have ceased to
be a probleml" The secret is a new
healing substance (Bio-DyneS)- dis
covery Of a world-famous research
institute. This substance is now avail
able in sUppository or ointment form
called Preparation H0. At all drug
counters.
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Edgar Pillow To
Speak To Sterling
Club Murch 5

The Civic committee Of the
Sterling Club will present Edgar
Pillow, of the Corrections Bureau,
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SLEEP HOURS WME UP IaDl When due simple deficiency
anema take Pnkham Tablets Rich
blood within dayl Thus help restore vitality
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"Obranyame Aside Mmo", a tune
by Ghanaian composer, Ephraim
ANU, is the new theme music for
the BIC African Radio Service
program Calling Ghana."
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PRESIDENT KENNEDY
issued Executive order on
fair housing and who has exhibited
the greatest desire to extend the
Negro first class citizenship than
any United States President since
the Emancipation Proclamation.
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pace school desegregation C
incidents across the South.
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
pioneer educator, the first
national leader of the Negro after
Frederick Douglass whose advocacy
of vocational training for the Ne
gro caused a national schism with
in the group with w. e. B. Du
BOis contending against Washing
ton that higher education would
develop a "TaItented Tenth" and
lead the Negro from the more
modest pursuits.
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like The 12Ohp Trift feels like Chats r Of the
exacos hp Tubo Thrift g. And the exraco 9hp urbo
Fire V8we that's something you'll have feel yourself With then
spending less gas just half the fun.
The goes for everything about the ga Chevy H. It fits
nh with workbench left But watch OF kids
out Of that fam Body by Fisher and you'll wonder how
Lots things make an rocker Dcoron
generator larger fadstng brakes MonoPae springs But
they also make Chevy the best built for the price,
In Short you're particularly bdgemnded and drive the "a Chevy
Chevrolet dealers showroom And you're It's hard
not to like saving and lively like thi
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Here tomorrow with a lively new V8

Never before have you had this choice Of power in Chevy II,
the Supr1t four cylinder, two sKcynders Or new TubO
Fire VS-mOre kinds Of engines than any other car Now you can
have your economy as lively as you want it in the '64 Chevy Il!
One of the things you'll like ga Chevy economy
that doesn't More
and goes as were just about anything else but that
Those four lively economical Chevy engines choose from this
will show exactly what The 9Op SuprTt feels
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Sunday


F6I drama. Louis Hayward. l:00-5
THE MIRACLE OF MARCHING" 1855.
Trench. A little orphan boy. raised by monks,
is visited by Christ in a miracle. Pablito
cavo and Rafael RNeIes CAPTAIN
JANUARY" 1886 Shirley Temple IS an
orphan again. Real junk but Shirley Is cute
Guy Kibbee Is featured 1909
GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY" le4s.
father waiting for vaudeville to come back
and the romanees of his kids make up the
ingredients for this film. Dan Daley
300
EASTER PARADE" le4s. Forget the plot and
enjoy the talented cast performing IL Irving
Berlin tunes and you have more than enough.
Judy Garland, Fred Astaire. 3:00-5
THE UNFoRGIvEN." 1860. A spirited pioneer
family In the Texas panhandle Of the 1905.
Burt Lancaster Audrey Hepburn, Audie
Murphy and Charles Bickford 1901
THIS MANS NAVY" le45. A veteran officer
in the balloon service adopts" lad and
urges him to make good In the Navy Good
direction and performance. Wallace Beery,
Tom Drake and Jan Clayton. 11:00-5
THE AMBASSADORS DAUGHTER" 1856. A
United States Senator is sent to Paris to
investigate the conduct Of military personnel.
Olivia de HavilIand. John Forsythe and
Myrna 10y. lilo
COVER GIRL" 1914. tFirst-Run) A chorus
girl (Rlta Hayworth) achieves fame and glory
when she becomes top cover GIRL Spectacular
dances BY Gene Kelly. ll:20-o
mo QUESTIONS ASKED" 1851. Dull melo-
drama. Arlene Dahl. Barry Sullivan. 1851
Mondoy AN.
HAVING WONDERFUL TIME" 1888. MIId
comedy. Ginger Rogers. 1905
Mondoy PM.
my FAv0RTTE WIFE" 1910. Excellent comedy,
laugh a minute. Cary Grant. .l:00-5
g The Sunday StuS ~ Mosoxine,
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"HENRY ALDRIcH FOR PRESIDENT" ls4l.
Juvenile story about Henry running for pFesi-
dent Of his high school. should please the kids
Jimmy Lydon and June Preisser. 5:0O-o
IAN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER" 1857. A notori-
Gus bachelor and sophisticated slnger-both
engaged to mllllonaires-meet and fall IN
love aboard luxury liner. Cary Grant,
Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning 7:30A
TALL IN the SADDLE" 1914. Entertaining,
fast-paced western. John Wayne and Ella
Raines. 11:10-5
"THE MAN FROM COLORADO" ls4s. A sadist
becomes federal judge and runs things his
own way Good western. William Holden, Glenn
Ford and Ellen Drew. 12:55Ae
Tuesday AN.
"eANeWAY FOR TOMORROW" ls43. Sincere
but loosely made drama. Robert Ryan and
Margo. 1905
Tuesday P.M.
THE Ex-MRS. BRADFORD" 1886. Delightful
eomedy-mystery. smooth and sophisticated
William Powell and Jean Arthur. 1:OO-5
BERMUDA AFFAIR" 1857. Grim but inter
esting film about the disintegration Of a
marriage Kim Hunter. 500
SUSPICION" 1871. Thrilling Hitchcock melo-
drama. exceIIently acted Joan Fontalne and
Cary Grant. 1l:l0-5
LADIES OF THE BIG HOUSE" 1882. Routine
prison film with our heroine imprisoned for
murder on pure eircumstantlaI evidence. Sylvia
Sidney and Gene Raymond. 12:55-o
Wednesday AN.
HEAVENLY DAYS" 1914 Two smal-towners
go to Washington to tell Congress how to win
the war. Fibber MCGEE and Molly. Barbara
Hale. 1905
Wednesday PM.
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homes. John Pignataro, the
founder, has had a half GEN.
fury Of experience at home
building, and he still is on the
job every day.
The firm now is headed by
Joe Pignataro, president, and
Jack Mangan, secretary.
Curtis Bros. has decorated
two Of the four model homes
on display at Wilburn Estates.
Spring Realty, Inc, is the
brokerage agent.
Directions for reaching the
community, as provided by
the builder, are:
From the District lin e,
drive out Marlboro pike to
County road in District
Heights, left on County road,
and turn left at Addison road
to the homes.
For an approximate lOca-
ton Of Wilburn Estates with
respect to the Washington
area, see No. 81 on map,
Page 2 of this section.
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Yeonos Preparing
West Springfield

The Yeonas Development
Corp. last spring bought 1O7
acres known as West Spring
field from one Of its top COM
petitors In Northern Virginia,
Edward R. Carr. Construction
is now being rushed with a
view toward opening the first
of $50 homes about October II.
Yeonas plans seven models
designed by Cohen Haft & AS
sociates, to sell In a range
from $50, 900 to $4,000. These
will include two bi-levels, two
ramblers, a colonial, split
level and split-foyer.
They will have four and five
bedrooms and 21s to three
baths. All will have carports
or garages.
The setting at West Spring
field, one Of three Yeonas
developments in the Fall
Festival Preview Of "a Homes,
will be pleasing to the eye,
with rolling hills and wooded
lots. ALI wiring will be under
ground. Near the site is a
country club.
Yeonas brings to West
Springfield Is years expert
ence building 5000 homes in
Northern Virginia. Other inter-
ests include the YeonaS
Insurance Agency and Yeonas
Property Management, begun
in 1859, and the Vienna Shop
ping Center, a 27-store COM
pick begun in 1855.
Stephen G. Yeonas founded
the development firm in 1850,
four years after he had
launched his first company,
Yeonas Realty. Since that
time, the firm has grown not
only in size Of operations,
but in its family ownership
as well.
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Brothers Jim, Gus and Paul
are now in charge Of land de-
velOpment, operations and con-
structiOn, respectively. Even
George c., their 7O-year-old
father, gets into the act, as
treasurer.
An interesting Sidelight is
that, according to Greek
custom, all four brothers have
the same middle name,
George.
The three other brothers
joined Stephen about seven
years ago.
Mr.. Yeonas thus gained time
to take part in other activi-
ties. He served last year as
president Of the Home Build
erS Association Of Metropoli-
tan Washington and now Is
chairman of the marketing
committee Of the National
Association Of Home Builders.
A native Of Washington and
graduate of American Uni
versity, he is married and has
a son and daughter aged 8
and 9. Although absorbed in
business and family life he
went on to the Columbus
School Of Law, where he won
his degree in 1855. He is a
member Of the Virginia bar.
During the Second World
War. he was an anti-aircraft
radar tracker in the Pacific
campaign, rising to the rank
of sergeant,
For an approximate loca-
ton Of West Springfield with
respect to the Washington
area, see No. So on map, Page
2 Of this section.