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people; the amount of dynamite
used showed that the intention was
to kill"
The Sun Times, Chicago
Gov. George c. Wallace's de-
fiance of the federal courts and his
encouragement of racism in Ala
bama have helped bring horrible
consequences.
His policies have given aid and
comfort to those who believe that
they may justifiably oppose the in
tegration of public schools. They
have emboldened the vicious and
the mentally twisted who believe
race progress may be stopped with
dynamite"
The Post Tribune, Gary
Can the governor wash his
hands of blame when he has used
the states police power TO defy
federal law?
Can the officials of BirIning-
ham or its white citizenry regard
themselves as blameless when
their young people have been per-
mitted to demonstrate riotously
against court orders of desegrega-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17

intention to take to court an order by the Civil
Service Commission covering the employment rights
of 7Oyear-old employee The commission says he
can't demand the employees resignation on the
ground Of age Previously the Attorney General had
ruled that the burden of proof the Highway
Commissioner as to whether the employee was cap
able of doing his work
Thus the two state agencies whose function it is
to rule such matters have ruled, and Marshall
says he won't accept them. Who is Marshall? Is he
part of the state government or an independent
potentate unrelated to other state functions and re-
sponsible to nobody?
When he appeals the ruling who will represent
him in court? Will he be his own lawyer? viii he
expect legal services from the Attorney Generals
office which has already determined that he Is
the wrong side of the law in this case and which
would presumably be obligated to represent the Civil
Service Commission? Or will he use highway funds
to set up competing legal staff in the state govern
ment-a STEP by the way, for which he probably
lacks legal authority?
The questions illustrate how preposterous is the
highway commissioners position.
Before his election, Governor Karl Rolvaag
promised he would demand MarshalPs resignation.
There was at that time and there is now strong
ground for such demand, but the Governor has
changed his position and has said he does not
remember making the promise. Marshalls latest
maneuver ought to jog the governors memory and
stir little action.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17
Our Post This Week

October %, 1895 - Joe Louis
defeated Max Baer In New York
October 27, 1851 - National Ne
gro Labor Council founded in Gin
cinnati, Ohio.
October %, 1898 - Levi Coffin
Cincinnati Quaker and president
OF the Underground Railroad, :
was born. He died in 1877.
October 20, 1776 - The Harri-
son Street Baptist church, Peters
burg, Va, was organized.
October 20, 1887 - Henry Arm.
strong won the featherweight box
ing title from P. Sarron at Madi.
son Square Garden, New York
City.
October 80, 1926 - Levi Coffin
began abolition movement against
slavery, in New Port, Ind.
October 80, 1892 - Dayton,
Ohio, high school students pledge
to buy copies Of PAU Laurence
Dunbar's poems.
October 80, 1915 - Brooklyn
Dodgers sign Jackie Robinson for
Montreal team.
October 81, 1900 - Ethel Wat
ers, sctress-singer, was born In
Chester, Pa.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17

We read last week in Jesse Bells sports column Ringing
City Negro community are being
seen at the sports events than prior years.
Ben tells that ait the Viking
enjoying proFoota games observed
during the first seasons.
We've been attending games Minneapolis st. Paul
for years We get big kick out of just stadium aOing
CITY HERALD
hardly a game since that year. and have
joeyed in earlier days various of town dates
Minnesota.
The outoftown game trip to
Iowa City years ago when tan Oze Simmons the star haac
on the Hawkeye
We game Royalties
period at Minnesota when there uvten against lads
playing in the baed and Iowa had been playing bronze lads
place they could qualify.
We part
whOOped HawIeyes.
raised eyebrows gances
paniOn bother
spitOyalty!
We've always had feeling that of the bridge playing ladies'
per
Viking games ought persuade
football game it's fashionable at football
games girls Many games
tailored At the
ban women are fashonay dressed and there is something about
game enjoyment
enjoy society socially attend
football games they attend the symphony
When we began attending games lucky
lads the field for both teams the Big Ten
encounter
Now there hardly team which cophers play
Army Navy which its roster Negro
goody racial quota system
players would break Of the
combinations big hme college and footbal!!!
Negro American may with the ball from
positions Gopher loyalty not strained
departments in the Big Ten must feel lot better
they their merit regardless of their
this Minnesota will field basketball team
includes tan This will be first
Minnesota about Is to decide to Negro
to make the varsity About 20 years
Big apparently unwrtten which discouraged
pecve players from trying to make the conference varsity
the bars Is Others like
Indiana dropped with boom
Mcmillan and Ozzie COwes didn't lift
coached Finally when began
with Negro to beat
the wonder and We
the questioning the Ozze COwes
tices ndWithC QUIT situation changed
earlier paragraph there is strong
Negro fans will have
cheer the the
T; Newman
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ton?
HAS not the Alabama policy of
resistance been of the sort that in
evitably would encourage irrespon-
sible extremists to undertake VOL
emit acts? And who can know when
the forces of violence, once I'M
leashed, can again be brought I'M
der control ?"
The Press Scrimitar, Memphis
ut is a frustrating Illustration
of flaw in our democratic system
that politicians, thru ignorance or
lack of principle, can gain control
of entire states thru appeal to
prejudice and that tho the whole
nation may be tormented and dis
graced in the eyes of the civilized
world nothing apparently can be
done to take away their powers
for mischief.
Federal authorities should join
with the decent Birmingham mum
tcipal authorities to do everything
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17
Northside Citizens Take
Bold Step Forward

Sunday afternoon representatives OF many
Northside Minneapolis families gathered at the call
Of the Northside Committee on Community Action
10 discuss the serious crime situation in the neigh
borlood Many of those were parents who
cerned about certain conditions which exist in the
area.
cross section of the area population, repre-
sentng all CLASSES races and creeds attended the
meeting and listened attentively 10 community fig
ures city officials and citizens give their views on
the problem which faces this section of the city.
The meeting was kind of town hall" session
where the people came face to face with critical
situation which has existed almost unchallenged on
the Norttside for too many years.
The citizens of the area were telling the city
officials the police authorities the city and US.
attorneys that they wanted the crime which exists
in the district off the community's back"
Not only did the people vocalize their wishes
but they roundly applauded those who taking
leadership in the movement, and by their applause
promising support for the movement.
The Committee presented printed comprehen-
sive formulation of recommendations and plans
which it felt should be carried out to clean up the
area and reduce the unlawful activities which are
a threat to the law-abding families and the youth
of the area
The program addressed itself to needed action
by the Northsde Community, City Council, the
Judiciary, Probation and Parole Agencies, the City
Attorney Federal Government, the Mayor and the
Police Department and Aldermen.
The complete List of recommendations which
were adopted by the assembled citizens is printed
elsewhere in this edition.
The comprehensive set of recommendations are
of such far reaching and constructive nature that
other areas of the city of Minneapolis and St. Paul
also should consider them a model for community
action which would drive crime out Of residential
districts where it infects members of families es-
pecialy the youth
The meeting Sunday at Phyllis Wheatley of the
Northside Committee of Community Action was a
good start and this newspaper wishes the dedica ted
people well who at last aroused-n their efforts
to clean up the district and restrain the small min
GRITTY whose conduct and activity blemish the repu-
tation Of thousands of law abiding citizens
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17


What comfort should the par
ents of the slain children take
from Governor Wallace's declara-
ton that all Alabamians are sad
dened by this vicious crime" and
that every state resource will be
used to apprehend the perpetra-
tors? Only a week ago, in caIIous
defiance of Federal court orders,
the same Mr.. Wallace was using
every state resource to keep
Birmingha m s schools closed
against their children. Birmingham
is reaping the whirlwind shown by
the Governors own contempt for
legal process. Only the superhuman
forbearance
The Tribune, Chicago
There Is no mitigating circum-
stance about the bombing of the
church in Birmingham, which
caused the death of four little girls
and injuries TO 81 other persons.
The crime was not committed on
an impulse; it was carefully plan
ned and executed. The bombers
were not merely trying to scare
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17
Letters To The Editor
An Open Letter

An open Letter
To Jerry Robins
Editor: To Mr.. Jerry Robins
You wrote an open letter to the
citizens of st. Paul, which was
printed on the front page Of the
Sept. 10, Spokesman-Recorder. But
your appeal fell on deaf ears.
Instead of appealing to others
for leadership and action, why
don't you, as the head of a union,
tell us what should be done TO
solve the unemployment and ghetto
conditions which are breeding re-
sentiment and Illustration among
our Negro youth in st. Paul?
What about a permanent play
ground for the short hill area, and
library within easy walking dist
ance for our children who can't
study at home after supper?
Do our civil rights groups have
any long-range program for jobs
and low-cost housing?
Is there an adequate program Of
settlement and guidance for the
many, many Negroes who are NOV
ing into st. Paul from the poor
areas of the South?
am afraid the truth is sad. We
don't get any progress reports be-
cause the problems in st. Paul are
growing faster than any action is
being taken 10 solve them.
We don't have leaders who know
the steps to achieve Freedom now
If am wrong, Mr.. Robins, please
show me some progress.-Mrs.
Sarah M. Cross, 100 ROndO Av., St.
PauI A Mimi
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17
Where Much BIume
For Race Problems

Should Be placed
Editor: "Millions of people
throughout the world are under
nourished. The production Of food
is a field we believe, that offers
attractive investment opportunities
for us" reported M. Rathborne,
May %, to the stockholders of
Standard Oil Of New Jersey.
The south offered attractive"
investment opportunities, too, for
northern capitalists, because Of the
abundance of cheap and subserv-
lent labor there as a result of the
racial segregation policy.
According to Senator Humphreys
September IT, speech in the Sem
ate: "And so-for profit, for
money-the whirlwind of racial
hatred and violence has been en-
couraged-not permitted en-
couraged, invited, yes, incdted!! Ac-
cording to the Minneapolis Tribune
he criticized those who keep Ne
groes uneducated and unframed to
hold down wages in the south. He
put the blame on the Southern
establishment, those who control
banks, factories, news media, and
who contribute heavily to polite
ans. I know the power of these
men. And I also know that much
of their power is linked with, and
subservient to, the economic power
Of the northern and eastern banks
insurance companies and other
corporations. Yours truly, Ken
meth ChristOphersOn, Oct. IL, 1858.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17
"Well, Who Did Do
Tt. The Pixies?'

A letter to the editor of the St. Paul Pioneer
Press ON September % blames the Supreme Court
for the disturbances in the South. Since this Is a
very serious accusation, wanted to know more
about the author We looked Mr.. Southland up. I'M
agne our surprise at not being able to find him. He
is not on the tax rolls He is not in the city directory
He does not have telephone He doesn't even have
a police record.
Can you imagine so large and responsible
newspaper publishing such grave accusations against
so august body the authority Of 50 obscure so
ANONYMOUS and so nonresident person?
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17
DRY POINTS
BY FRED GRAM

The hottest political idea to hit
the country since Clare and Henry
Luce discovered General Eisenhow-
err Is 'Retawdlog." CHATS Gold
water in modern dress.)
Concerning the critical shortage
of public transportation in our
major cities, why not call in the
farm people, and see how quickly
they can convert 1t into a critical
surplus?
The Secretary of the us. Senate
has resigned under a conflict-of-
interest cloud blown up by his
over-enthusiastic admiration for
and emulation Of some of the peo-
pie he works for,
A reading specialist says that
children nowadays have to clue in
on an unfamiliar word by studying
the sentence context. Johnny may
not be doing too well at reading
but he's developing wondrous tai
ents In his guesswork.
The Administration clears the
shipment Of wheat 30 the Russians.
and the opposition Is at work TO
generate enough heat to bake It
Into bread for them
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17
Arrest OF Narcotic
Peddler Suspects
Highlights Problem

There are those who claim that the percentage
of Negroes involved in criminal activity in the Twin
Cities Is relatively small and ostrich like" they att
tempt to minimize it. They object sometimes 10 our
reporting crime apparently expecting it. If ignored
to go away.
Many of these good souls have not visited the
state penal institutions and observed the large num-
Der of our young men and women who are confined
in complete disproPortion to Our Negro population
percentage-wise in the state We know some of the
them for years: discrimination in jobs in education
and in many
However the Negro community, and most of us
are guilty have ignored of the principal reasons
for the large crime rate is that we have too long
tolerated much of the corruption and crime which
have infested some of our neighborhoods without
citizen challenge.
Only few hours Sunday after a Northsde
Minneapolis mother of five had told a large public
meeting of crime operating openly in the where
she was trying to raise her children, the Federal
narcotic agents assisted by local police had arrested
il Twin City persons and sought IL others under in
dctment for participation in alleged dope ring"
Fourteen of the IS suspects arrested are men,
bers of the Negro community Most of them SO years
of age and four were less than rs years old.
Narcotics Is a terrible scourge and the know
ledge that members of the community from all Sec
lions of the Twin Cities involved in dope sale will
come a shock to some of satisfied ctizenry
who think we don't have much crime in our fair
cities.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17

in their power to apprehend the
perpetrators of this savage bomb
ing. And as Gov. Wallace joins in
the hunt he might possibly find
time to search his own conscience"
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IA. I-43I5 WE. 9-25I5
LONDON PLUMBING CO.
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17

The boards decision not to accept Willis resig-
nation made October 7, will only prolong the agony
which the Chicago school system is going through
When Willis finally resigned he at last did the right
thing for whatever reason he chose to give.
If he bows to the board and decides not to quit
the city of Cdcagos school system is in for long
period of uncertainty and Illustration which is bound
to hurt the educational processes and the children
who attend the schools
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17
The True Moral Issue I'm
Chicago School Fight

In resignng superintendent of the Chicago
Public school system, Benjamin c. Willis sought to
make moral issue of his situation He said that if
he were to bow to order by Superior Court Judge
Arthur Sullivan IT would sacrifice the integrity Of
the office of Superintendent of Schools The court
order covered transfer of students, and was aimed
at equahzing educational opportunities of Negroes
This is quite switch! The moral issue is not
equality of opportunity but the integrity" Of an
office which has been dragging its feet pro-
gram that has been demanded by the large Negro
community has been adopted by the Board Of Edu-
cation, has been ordered by the Superior court and
concurred in by the Appellate court.
There has been difference of opinion between
willis and most of the rest of Chicago on the ques-
ton of whether there is segregation in Chcago's
schools Willis says there Is not Most other people
agree that there is. The Chicago superintendent is
said to be the highest paid public administrator in
the United States except for the President. One of
the jobs of an administrator Is to know what Is
mood of the people he is dealing with and the prob
lens which concern them
Instead what Willis has done Is to stand on the
dignity of his office and make moral pronounce
ments about Integrity" In a school system that has
failed as Chicagos has failed, there is to the
issue of integrity than the dignity and perogatves
of an administrative office. We hope that Superin-
tendent Wilis's successor will understand this, and
will have the administrative sagacity to put into
effect policies which will be in tune, instead Of at
odds with the needs and wishes Of the community.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17

Our Independent
Highway Commissioner
General James Marshall, Minnesota's free
wheeling highway commissioner, has announced his
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1963-10-17

If President like Kennedy who
has done so much to help our cause
is in any sense deserted by us for
not going as far as fast as we want
him to, are we going to open the
door to a Goldwater whose most
earnest conviction is that Barnett
and Wallace should be left alone
to handle segregation and discrim-
nation in Mississippi and Ala
bama?
Arizona tribune., 1963-01-25

Funeral rites for Lee Grady Monday.
at First Institutional Baptist Church, l4l Jefferson MIR.
Jones died suddenly his home 5o33 81 Way.
Born July II. 1908 Long Branch. Dallas.
Texas with his in 1926 where he completed his schooling
1880. he joined his older brother j. Jones. the field Of
life insurance. which became his e's rapidly
salesman with the Universal Life Insurance Coz
came the educational director Of statesmen.
In 1889 he and his wife, the former Louise Carde Watt Dallas
moved ST. Louis. Mo-, where he
Universal Life Insurance Co.
Mr.. Jones 1858 he became
the vice president and agency director the Valley Life
ance Company
An and Lee
state and responsible for the tred premium
end Of the fiscal Dec. 81 1862 Assets Of the firm had
doubled.
He of First Institutional Baptist
treasurer, also.
Phoenix YCA and the Desert ashie
Golf Club.
Survivors include his widow. Mrs. Louise
j. S. JONES' hoeni and Eze JONES' Los Angeles sisters
Mesdames Irene LaChappel Golde HART Phoen Allen
Matte c. Smith, Los Angeles. and Hattie Washington Neck
New York; and several nieces. nephews and cousins.
REV. A. G. Kendrick officiated. at@@'
hterment Greenwood Cemetery.
Arizona tribune., 1963-01-25
STATE HAS GREAT POPULATION
RISE OVER 243 900 NEW RESIDENTS

63. 900: Coconino. Al. .Ss7 to
4S.00G CHA. 25,745 to 200
Graham. l4.04S to l6. .000 Green
lee ll.509 to $4,000: Mohave.
1886 to 10000 Navajo, 1894
to 6.O0G Pinal. 1873 to 81. 900
Santa Cruz. 10000 to $4,000
Yavapai. 1922 to 81 900; Yuma
46.23S to 81 900.
Equally important. "the econ
omic climate for q continuation
Of Arizona's population growth
remains highly favorable"
points out ARIZONA PROGRESS.
Manufacturing holds one of
the keys to further expansion.
and In recent months a number
Of antional businesses have an
nounced plans for new plants.
In Maricopa County alone last
year. about 80 new firms started
production--and many companies
already located there expanded
existing facilities"
The Valley Bank business pub
ication states the entire West is
benefiting from Horace Greeleys
advice Of long ago. Of the ten
leading states in population. nine
are located In the West.
Net effect of this Westward
bound immigration is an 8 per
cent population increase--more
than double the national rate
during the April 1860 July 1862
period.
Arizona tribune., 1963-01-25
null HEADS
ADDRESSES MEET

CHICAGO - A three fold al
ternative to what her termed
shortcomings of the church In
facing up to "closing the gap"
Of racial injustice was voiced
by Whitney M. Young. Jr.. exc
cutive director Of the National
Urban League.
Speaking as a panelist at the
opening session of the National
Conference on Religion and race
in the Edgewater Beach Hotel,
Mr.. Young cautioned that:
ut Is not enough now to say
our doors are open, or even to
say our hearts are open. There
must now be the same conscious
and aggressive effort at inclu-
sion (ofNegro citizens In the main
stream of national life) that 80
characterized our institutions.
including the church. all of these
years In their fanatic efforts at
exclusion"
The null leader declared that:
In our communities we have a
choice between helping citizens
become constructive. productive
consumers. proud of their COM
munity and country = or through
Indifference and injustice we can
make them chronic dependents,
frustrated, bitter about their So
ciety and our American way of
life.
Arizona tribune., 1963-01-25

Arizona's population in 81
months. from the April 1860
census to Jan. /. 1868 has zoomed
243. 900 or 1877 per cent.
"Arizona today is experienc-
ing the fastest population ex-
pansion in It's history" empha-
sizes the current issue Of ARl-
IONA PROGRESS. Valley Ma
tional Banks monthly business
review.
Phoenix and Tucson. centers
Of the greatest population growth.
have benefited from favorable
weather and diversified econo-
mic fabrics--key factors along
with a rising statewide birth
rate In triggering their head
count Increases, notes the VNB
review.
Phoenix's growth places 1t
among the select Is US. cities
with a population in excess Of
half a million.
Taking a look at the states
IA counties. reports that Mari
copa climbed from 663.5l0 to
$4,000 between the 1860 census
and Jan. l Of this year. Pima
County jumped from 265. $50 to
$4,000. and the state as a whole
advanced from l,302,l6l to
l.54S, 200.
The county rollcall discloses
these gains: Apache. 30.438 to
80. .00G Cochise. 5000 to
Arizona tribune., 1963-01-25
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