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St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14

will be of no in redstricting unless the board
knows where the Negroes live! If the school officials
cannot get this information from the banks and the
Real Estate Board that the Urban
League and NAACP will be glad to help them.
School Board Attorney Charles B. Howard in
terprets Attorney General Mondales ruling to mean
that the board make the count but better not
"or you will get into trouble" This is astonishing be-
the Attorney Generals office said nothing of
the sort. Finally, one school board member argued
that the count is unnecessary because I'VE have
fairly good idea already for our purposes" But
part of the argument is that the fairly good idea"
is both vague and various and is being put to various
purposes, some OF them contradictory The purpose
have in mind is restrcting the schools to avoid
de facto segregation. II the Board has the same pur-
pose in mind, what's wrong with gating correct,
reliable information, rather than "a fairly good" but
often contradictory idea?
On the other side of the coin In this controversy
there was we believe some genuine concern by some
board members 10 whether the Negro community
was in favor of head count, whether such
count could be used in the manner which was de-
trimental to the Negro and Indian minodties. When
these individuals apprfsed Of the favorable
reaction Of the Negro community to the count they
announced their approval and it is up to Super
intendent Putnam to get with the count.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
Reader Praises PuPer
As lndiVidUdIisfie In

moSS PRODUCTION Doy
We are enclosing our check to
renew our subscription to the Min
neapohs Spokesman.
always look forward TO your
paper with pleasure and read it
with a great deal of respect. Most
people have no idea how difficult
it is to publish an individual paper
in a community. We are so used
to mass production today and 1t Is
a pleasure to pick UP a paper which
is indiWdualistic. In order to live
today, one must be alive to every
situation which confronts us. You
are certainly that. Sincerely.
Charles L. Horn, FOshay Tower
Bldg, Minneapolis, October 4, 1868.
Editors Note: Reader Charles
L. Horn was this newspapers
first mail subscriber beginning
with the papers first issue Aug
ust 10, 1884, receiving the paper
continuously since that date.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
Minnesota Urban Truck
"Gift" Unique Among
The States

Only Minnesota, Of all the United States, ex-
tends truck license advantage to urban truckers
on the scale given to the transport industry in the
Twin Cities Metropolitan area. This Is revealed by
a study of truck license fees in the so states.
The advantage, reported in earlier story
on this subject, amounts to much as 80 per cent
saving on the normal license fee for the heaviest
transports The advantage for light trucks is negli
gible. but increases with the weight of the equip
ment
In the north central area, North and South
Dakota both offer special rates or exemptions for
trucks in local" traffic, but not on the scale Of
Minnesota The Dakotas and Wisconsin have
special rate for farm trucks. Wisconsin licenses
milk haulers at go per cent Of commercial truck
rates.
North Dakota exempts from a 81 per ton (gross
weight) surcharge, farm vehicles and vehicles used
within the city village limits and in a two-mile
radius beyond.
South Dakota licenses trucks for use exclusively
within the corporate limits of city, at flat fee
of $25 and with no restrictions as to weight In
practice, this applies to light and medium delivery
trucks and overthe-road outfits use this license
Only 112 such licenses have been issued this year,
mainly for Sioux Falls and Rapid City. A few have
been issued for Pierre and Watertown
In other respects, license fee practices through
out the area appear to be relatively uniform, where
comparisons can be made. Comparison Is not posi-
BILE in all instances because of different bases used
in taxing the vehicles, or because, in Michigan
and South Dakota, the schedules are exceedingly
complicated.
The following table gives comparative license
fees for vehicles up to three years DID, charged
by the states in this region. The comparisons are
not exact in every because some schedules are
based on net weights and on gross necessitat-
ing conversion In some licenses are based
partly the registrars valuation of the vehicle
Figures have been omitted where reasonably ac-
curate comparisons proved impossible.
Light $4,000 lb) MINI. $500; N. Oak,
$500; Iowa, $2s.OO; s. Oak, $780, Mich, $500
and Wis $16
Heavy Car lover 5000 lbs.) Mimi, $75; N. Oak.
$94; Iowa, $40; s. OAK, $55; Mich, $17.6O and
Wis, $16.
Farm truck (s2OO lbs) Mimi, $21; N. Dals
$1S and Wis $40.
Light Commercial $4,000 gross) Mimi, $25; N
Oak, $780, Iowa $25; s. Oak. $25 and Wis, $35
Heavy Commercial (75OOO gross) Mimi, 81
O3s.5O; N Oak, $s95; Iowa. $4eO and Wis, $1,000
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
Our Past This Week

Nov II, 1928 - Rev. Lott Carey,
early missionary to Africa, died in
Liberia.
Nov. 18, 1921 - Roy Campanel-
la, former star catcher of the
Brooklyn (now Los Angeles) Dodg-
ers, was born in Philadelphia, Pa.
Nov. 10, 1853 - Date Of Abra-
ham Lncoln's famous Gettysburg
Address.
Nov. 20, 1895 - Salhe Martin,
pioneer singer and organizer, was
born.
Nov. %, 1870 - Robert Seng-
stacke Abbott, founder of the Chi
cago Defender, was born in Geor-
gia. Started newspaper working in
a kitchen on Chicago's Southside.
The Defender newspaper chain,
under the late founders guidance,
grew 10 national prominence.
Nov. 20, 1912 - John H. Seng-
stacke, present publisher Of the
Chicago Defender, was born in
Georgia. Launched the Daily De-
fender In 1855. He Is a founder and
former president Of the National
Newspaper Publishers association
and a nephew Of Defender founder
Robert s. Abbott.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
General Mills Tells
Why II Opposes

SSsNS0"S Sl"
Editor: I noted with interest
your editorial in support Of the
so-called Truth in Packaging
Bilr' and would like to bring to
your readers attention some add
tional information on this proposed
legislation.
At the outset, I should like to
make 1t clear that General Mills
is opposed to this bill for several
basic reasons:
1. It Is not needed because ex-
isting laws fully protect the
consumer.
2. 1t would cost consumers
money without giving them
added value.
8. It would prohibit truthful
statements on the packages
which would remove the in
centive for manufacturers
making special money saving
offers to consumers.
4. To term 1t the Truth in Pack
aging Bill" implies the aver
age American manufacturer
Is untruthful in pacl1aging.
This is creating a when did
you quit beating your wife"
impression to the American
public and Is grossly unfair.
Why is it not needed? The pres
ent Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
and Federal Trade Commission Act
provide adequate protection to the
consumer and authorize every
thing provided for in this bill with
two exceptions.
This bill provides for the stand
ardization Of package weights and
it provides for prohibiting package
statements stating or indicating
that the particular package is Of
fered at a price lower than usual
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14

mixes alone). Whether smaller
firms can secure that kind of CAP
ftal is questionable. The net result
may be the elimination of small
firms and the increase in size Of
the larger firms.
In other words, the Hart Bill Is
not in the real interests of the con-
sumer and is not necessary, since
there is legal machinery available
to the government now to correct
any abuses in pacl1aging. What is
needed Is proper administration of
existing laws and regulations and
not a new law to add to the con-
sumers federal bill. - Sincerely.
Nate L. Crabtree, VIce-Pres. Gen.
eral Mills, Minneapolis, MINI.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
Letters To The Editor

or retail sales price advantage.
The effect of these two provis-
ions would be TO substantially in
crease cost to consumers.
Manufacturers now use basic
package sizes for various products
with different weights. This en-
ables the most efficient use Of
packaging machinery. For example,
boxes containing "Wheaties" or
"Cheerios" may be the same size
but weigh different amounts.
Why? Because a puffed cereal
weighs considerably less than a
flake cereal. A two-pound package
of our new Gold Medal Wondra"
flour comes in a larger package
than does our two-pound bag TO
regular Gold Medal Flour. This
is necessary because ''Wondra" is
granular and, consequently, occu-
pies more physical space than reg
ular Gold Medal although both
have exactly the same baking quail
tiles.
General Mills, for example, packs
eleven ready-to-eat breakfast GER
eals in its basic package. There are
seven different weights of cereal
ranging from 61a OF. to 10 OF. A
second package size is used for
five different cereals with four
different weights ranging from 9
OF. TO 12% o., while a third pack
age size holds IS OF. of Cheerfos
and 19 OF. Of Wheaties. # cereal
weights were standardized at say
8 o., IL OF. and 1 lb., the present
three package sizes we use would
change to thirteen and the add
tional packagfng machinery and
the plant to house it would cost
millions Of dollars which would in
crease the cost Of the products to
the consumers.
An even more startling problem
would exist in the matter Of the
possible effect on cake mixes.
Cake mixes are designed for use
with the basic or normal size cake
pans and represent the ingredients
which, with the addition Of one or
two eggs and an easily measured
quantity of liquid, result in a sat
isfactory cake. In the case Of the
basic twoLlayer cake mix, package
weights where various combdna-
lions Of ingredients are used might
range from 1871 OF. to 21h o., in
each case the actual weight Of pro-
duct being the quality necessary to
provide a satisfactory finished
cake. If cake mix weight was to be
standardized, we might have some
mixes providing cakes not adequate
and others too big.
With regard to statements on
the package such as cents off, half
price sales, one cent sales, etc., we
and other manufacturers from
time to time make these special
offers avaiIble to get people to try
our products and the labelling Is to
assure that the price reduction
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
DRY POINTS
BY FRED GRAM

Some Washingtontans are learn
ing the Disadvantages Of beguile-
ment by the local sirens. Trouble
is the siren song can change with
disconcerting suddenness to a
polite horn.
The party-girl scandals in Wash
ington and London have turned up
a fresh meaning for the old cliche
Politics makes strange bedfel-
lows"
Californa's Birch-society super
intendent of schools has ordered
the libraries to suppress the Die
tionary Of American Slang. It's
a two-time loser: as slang it's
probably un-American; and as q
book it's certainly under suspicion
as subversive.
Hatters and politicians are wor.
ried about the Presidents hatless.
ness. A hat Is an indispensable
property to most politicians - fol
tossing into rings, and for talking
through.
Government officials are catch.
ing Ned from the one-party press
about news policy. 1t Is complained
that whenever the bureaucrats are
not managing the news by giving
information to reporters, they are
csnsoring the news by not giving
information 10 reporters.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
Now Is Time To Press For
Hollow Area Renewal

The step taken by the Mayor George Vavoulis
and City Council in charging the st. Paul Housing
Authority to initiate Rehabilitation and Consera-
ton in the Negro ghetto has been long awaited
one. The city fathers have spoken and given the
directive They are to be commended. Hollow and
Hollow Expansion is a priority area for Rehabiita-
ton and Conservation. 1t roughly Western to
Lexington Selby to University. The project should
have been initiated along with the Riverview and
Capital Center projects.
Members of the North Central Community
Council, the Planning Board, the MIC, and Hous-
ing Authority well aware of the time lost in
getting to the Hollow and Hollow Expansion area.
Therefore no time should be wasted in initiation Of
the project on the part Of the Housing Authority.
Nearly two years ago the Planning Board passed
a resolution urging the Housing Authority to in
itfate such a project. The MIC. has publicly en-
dorsed it and that the City Council is calling for
initiation of the project should have no further
delay.
A private firm should be engaged to draw the
plans as was done in connection with Capital Centre
and the Cathedral Projects The leaders Of the North
Central Community Council willing to work with
the firm, giving endless hours of time to get the
project off the ground and the plan where it meets
the satisfaction of the people of the area.
Rehabilitation and Conservation in Urban Re-
neval will have only minimum of clearance. There
should be no large scale clearance Wfncn causes
great losses to individual homeowners and difficult
problems in relocation. Negro communities in the
North have experienced only clearance of their area
and relocation in another ghetto adjacent And often
it has been improvement but only field day for
real estate dealers. The individual homeowner de-
serves a break The Hollow and Hollow Expansion
will get face lifting where homes can look as
beautiful the automobiles and the absentee land
lord will have to put money into the neghbor-
hood as well as take it out.
The North Central Community Council, Leroy
Lazenberry president is the principal civic organiz-
alton for the Hollow and Hollow Expansion Area.
This group led the fight for Public Housing in the
City which has made possible all Of the St Paul
Urban Renewal Program; moreover, it cooperated
on Capital Center, Riverview and Cathedral pro-
jects There is no area in town deserving Of
cooperation of other groups now, than North Cent
raj Community Council in its efforts to get urban
renewal going in St Paul.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14

goes straight on TO the consumer
If such statements are prohibited
on the packages, manufacturers
will not offer these bargains, which
a sizable savings to con-
when all Of the various
products are taken into account.
We have submitted a document
ed report TO Senator Hart showing
him the cost to General Mills in
new physical plant equipment nee
essary for just part of our bus
mess. OF course, these costs would
ultimately be passed on to the con-
in higher prices. We do
have resources for the substantial
capital investment lover $10,000,-
900 just for cereals and cookie
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
Turning A Good Law
Upside Down

Until quite recently applicants for drivers
licenses were required to state, in the application
FORM their race" Many, 10 be sure ignored this
question and got their licenses anyhow. Some made
the proper answer anthropologically speaking
human" or homo sapiens".
1t proper for people to ignore or defy this
question because the only possible application 1t
could have to facilitate discrimination against
Negroes and Indians. Applicants for jobs could not
handle such questions in this way. The purpose Of
the questions was discrimination, and to ignore
them was TO lose the chance
Minnesota now forbids this sort Of thing It Is
Illegal TO gather racial" information that can be
used for purposes Of discrimination
There are, however, still people in Minnesota
who would like bo abet discrimination and who are
motivated by bigotry. They have turned the Mime
sofa law upside down. They arguing that
the law forbdds gathering of Information for the
purpose Of ENDING discrimination. That Is what
the recent argument in the Minneapolis School
Board was all about
What has happened, an Negroes know too
well. Is that anti-Negro discrimination by the real
estate industry the banos and building and loan
sociatons, and the landlords, has resulted In de
facto segregation in the public schools The housing
discrimination, because it Is cowarly and furtive
sort Of thing. is something that Is difficult to
uaC II VIII Jake long IuIle co correot Inc result
ing school discrimination is something we meet
heaCon and we propose to do So
Our children cannot learn the true lessons of
American citizenship in segregated schools, and we
will not tolerate this.
Nor will we let those who are trying to preserve
this condition get away with the subterfuge that
state law forbids looking at the facts This travesty
using a statute designed TO stop discrimination as
an excuse for continuing discrimination, Just won't
be accepted by the people Of the community.
The excuses which were Offered for not looking
at the facts spectacularly udmpresstve Some
say count of Negro pupils in the segregated schools
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14

today I'D with what's going on
in single community, much less the nation Even with
the advanced contact with the
four OF the world the blink
going today population flooded
by almost resident Today we
have to tumble to remember the
for Even blame shrinking
still provoes us that can't call bon7ed by
really bugge by age does to the
kids knew when
young family inquire re-
member them We stall
remember their but of
face This toying usually young
man, but it gives a very guilty feeling
finally just unidentified party is we
ding clothes later in elementary
turned the lad into a with a family
returning paragraph deporng in
ability today we
have found difficult to find time for the editorial pages
per0se each day.
of all four Twin City daires
TIMES Chicago TRIBUNE Street
JOURNAL the St. POSTDISPATCH general daies
Chicago DEFENDER Negro daily papers
published in the United States
reading speed rapddso
people page page printed matter
and understand and absorb what have viewed.
Thursdays Fridays Saturdays the editorial pages
of leading Negro and white wee the latter
Minnesota publications.
reading helps answer some of the myad of questions
regularly every day by readers
others. reading
ours, handy EGRAMS World Al
of keeping with the world thought
Newman.
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
THE TENNEssEEAN, Nashville


1T Is impossible to condemn
anyone for wanting to protect his
life. Mr.. Mcdowell was aware Of
the dangers when he enrolled at
the university and accepted the
challenge to represent his race in
desegregating the university. It
was impossible for him to be Just
another student" But he should
have depended on the law which
enabled him to go to the univer-
sity - not on a gun in his pocket.
It is saddening to say that the
laws protection Is sometimes not
enough. But In our society the only
way progress can be made. In the
face Of bitter and powerful Opposi-
ton, ID under law" g..
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
Crazy-Crazy-Crazy Or
Sick-Sick-Sick?

You can hear Of the most outlandsh
things If you listen attendvely enough. Thanks TO
the Minneapolis Stars Beverly Mindrrm for listen
ing attentvey to this one, and putting 1t in print
"Dr, James Lawton, General Hospital, says If
you want to castrate adolescent boy, take his
car away"
And Quoting DR.. Lawton), The minute parents
find they afraid of their children they should
move out Of the house."
St. Paul recorder., 1963-11-14
ISSUES: GOOD
AND BAD
BY P. L. PRATTIS

DA Ls Il IVA Il AAS
So we are going to have a Christ
mas buying boycott directed by
the American Negroes new, young
and creative leadership.
1t is understood by the planners
for this selective buying, or non
buying, campaign that American
Negroes goof themselves out Of
about five billion dollars for Christ
mas gifts, toys and liquor.
If these same people would Just
put fifty per cent restraint upon
themselves, they could alter the
volume Of Christmas sales by two
and one-haH billion. This is ex-
pected to hit the white man where
1t hurts - in his pocketbook.
II the Christmas boycott comes
off all right, the next one will
be at Easter time.
Publishers Of Negro newspapers
should view with special relish this
Christmas boycott. Most of them
are already planning programs to
get hold Of the additional lift that
comes from Christmas advertising.
There Is not single Negro news
paper that does not need it. Much
Of this advertising must come from
businesses against whom the boy
cott is 10 be staged. The chances
are that 1t will not make sense to
the advertiser to place copy in Ne
gro newspapers when the new Ne
gro leadership Is telling Negroes
not to buy the advertisers product.
OF course, somebody has to
make sacrifices In the course of
this revolution. Why not the
publishers Can't they sacrifice
q few filthy dollars? II the mat
ter were as simple as that the
answer would be q simple yes.
But 1t Is not that simple. Most
Negro newspapers are having a
difficult time staying alive. None
of the publishers are rolling over
In money.
The people who would really be
hurt would be the employees Of Ne
gro newspapers. Publishers can't
meet payrolls without advertising
What are the new leaders going to
do about the men and women who
run the risk of losing their jobs
This boycott, as all boycotts, can
be a two-edged sword and hurt
the initiators as much as the pros
pective victims.
OF course, the plight of Negro
newspapers can be dismissed as
just another necessary sacrifice.
But II the boycott is really sue
cessfuI and hurts the white man
In his pocket, how are you going
to keep from hurting your
friends while harrassing your
enemies.
Many donors to the United Ne
gro College Fund could be victim
lied by this boycott. How are they
going TO feel about giving In 1854 ?
The Negro has friends in business
as we'll as enemies. Must he tell
his friends that this Is just another
little sacrifice they must make?
Actually, despite the tenor Of
the foregoing, I am much in
favor of less spending at Christ
mas time. I think our people
throw away entirely too much
money during the Christmas sea-
son - for gifts, for toys, for
travel, for clothes, for whiskey
even for Christmas cards.
But that kind of spending and
it's restraint Is another matter.
FrugaHty Is one tlringI boycott,
another. Frugahty wins respect in
the long run and has bu1lt-in bene-
fits.
The boycott can boomerang;
leave a nasty taste in the mouth
and hurt the boycotter as well as
|
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-12-19

KNeIUBoU AWIC6'
Charlie Sifford
Aguin Denied
PEA Membership

Los Angeles (ANP) - Charlie
Sifford Of Los Angeles, one of the
nations leading golfers, last week
was denied membership in the all
white Professional Golfers Assoc
iation for the second time in three
years.
The action is expected to stir
strong protests and repercussions,
including possible legal action.
Sifford's second request for PGA
membership was turned down, de-
spite the fact that he had met the
associations qualification requisite
as player.
Three years ago when Sifford
applied for PGA membership, he
was similarly turned down. But the
rejection stirred such a storm of
protest, including threatened legal
action by the encouragement of
California, that he was granted a
temporary card to play in certain
PGA-sponsored tournaments. The
card did not sanction him as a
PGA member.
However, many golfing fans
thought that Sifford had become
the first Negro PGA member. This
was not the case.
The PGA had instructed Sifford
that in order to become a member
he would have to play professional
golf for three additional years. The
three years was up when Sifford
applied the second time, and was
rejected. No explanation was i'm
medately available as to why he
Minneapolis spokesman., 1963-12-19
was rejected.

was rejected
However, Dick Boggs, local PGA
president, told the press that he
did not think the rejection would
stand, or that it constituted final
decision" He said he was conf
dent that Sifford's membership
card will be granted following the
next meeting of the PGA board Of
directors at West Palm Beach
Fla, the last week in November.
Boggs said he would personally
use his influence to help obtain
membership for Sifford. He said:
I'VE were sorry to hear that
Charlie did not get his member
ship card, but I am sure it will all
be cleared up after I meet with the
national body. I am carrying with
me a recommendation from this
area and feel certain that after
receiving this they (board men,
bers) will make their final decis-
ion"
Full membership in the PGA
would permit Sifford TO play in all
the association sponsored golf
tournaments, including those held