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1V0 Hope Seen for Vote Bill
To Aid 500,000 Negroes
By til* limliM Ne»rs Tnm ■ •*'
WASHINGTON—A four-point bill aim*d at makinfk.it Miier
for Negro* to wgiiter and vot« in the South Mnt to th*
Sonata by tho department of Juitice lait weak fulfills a presi«
dential promise but hai little ohanoe of bein# voted into law.
In faot, It will be lucky If It ever gets to the floor of the
Senate.
Holding the key to luecesi or failure are Senator Jamei O.
I'uHtlnnd (Dom.), Mississippi, chair-
man of the gennU Judiciary commu-
tes, and Heiwtor Ram J. Krvin. Jr.
'Drm.), North Carolina, chairman of
I ha juriiriarjr stibcommlttes on con-
stitutional rights.
Civil rifhla legislation general);
la put through the hearing mill flint
bj the Ervin subcommittee under
rather difficult circumstances.
It It aurvlves thia process, It
faces further prublemi with Eaet-
land in tha full judiciary committee.
Eaatland U an outapolcen segregation-
lat and rigorous in hia opposition to
all civil rights legislation.
On top of then* difflcultlea, the ad-
ministration aurcly would ba con-
fronted with tha threat of a filibus-
ter by aouthern aenntora, aven If tha
vol In* rights bill ahould clear tha
judlciarjr committee.
Id a confreaa already far behind
In Ita work this aeaaion, It ta con-
sidered unlikely that the Senate lead-
ership would wont to bring on an-
other time-consuming debate prior
to expected adjournment in the lata
gummer.
Attorney General Robert F. Ken-
nedy aald If pnaaed, the admlnlatra-
tlon bill would enable "aereral hun-
dreds of thouaands of Negro** to
register almost Immediately" in aomo
Mates and that the total would go
In a abort time to more than 600,000.
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Lone Negro Boy at Dixie High School
Mourned by All-White Community
' *' I3r tho Associated Negro Press
ELIZABETH, W. Va.—The itory of how a 19-year-old
boy, the lone Negro student at Wirt County high school
here, won the hearts of his 400 schoolmates and the towns-
people of this all-white community was told in touching terms
after his sudden death of a heart attack recently.
The boy, Bonald Victor Costly, an honor student and out-
standing athlete, was one of several Negro students who in-
tegrated Wirt liiiih In 11157. But st
the time of his <fc*«ith, all the other*
had left the school. Ooirtlj would
have been the first Negro to gradu-
ate from the school.
All Costly did was to becom# tht
tiost popular student at the m-hool
and one of the moat respected voting
aters in Klisnhcth, where he didtft
even live. The town hasn't a single
Negro family. Ronnie, who was born
In Waiihington, I). C., lived with Mm
grandpnrents. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Myle, on a farm 10 miles away, lie
commuted by bus daily.
However, the town folks knew #nd
admired him, and he was so popnlar
at Wirt that he was elected president
of the student body lant year by • 10-
to-1 margin. The school's principal,
Itay O. Jarvis, anid It was hard to
find "anyone to oppose him."
Jarvis said Coatly was so "well
loved and rrspected" that tho day
after he died, his achoolmatea cried
openly In the classrooms and corri-
dors. and the chaplain bad to be
called la to console them.
Coatly died the day he was Issued
equipment to train for the track
team. He was already outstanding
in football and baseball. Two schools
hsd offered him acholsrships, and he
had planued to go to college and study
science.
After Ronnie died, the townsfolk
forgot about sewegstion and contrib-
uted $B00 for an integrated funeral
for the boy. Hit grandparents are
poor farmers who are welfare recip-
ients.
Serenty-five of the 1.000 persona
who crowded In the Wirt high gym-
nasium for the funeral were Negroes.
There was no incident. His grand-
parents, meautime, received hundreds
of sympathy cards, and whites they
"had never seen before" came to the
house to help out an(f express their
condolence.
The people hers a?so decided to
purchase a monument for Ronnie's
grave, and a nearby roadside park
was named the Ronnie Coetly Me-
morial park In his memory.
Stormy -Romance of Jilted Jamaican,
London Model Has Wide Repercussions
By the Associated Negro Preaa
T ONDON—A KM Ja—Iran,
li a distinguished aiwihar ef
•fee British cabinet, a RaaaUa
diplomat and aa American all
had t mnmm Interest ef which
they aay set have been aware
antII a torrid romance exploded
In a hall of bullets.
The liaail denominator
that crossed racial Ones, inter-
aaiioaal boundaries and class lev-
els la a curvaceous, ae»y, red-
headed model named Christina
Heeler.
The name* of the four might
■ever have been linked publicly
with Miss Heeler. 20. had net the
JUted Jamaican. John Kdgecombe,
SO, not shown his resentment of
tha sudden termination ef his rv-
mance wMh tiie Marh-sought-aft-
er model by firing some shots at
her.
But those ahots, If not heard
around the world, certainly ech-
oed In the ear* of John Profumo,
member of a distinguished Ens-
liah family and minister of war
In Prime Minister llarold Mar.
millan'e cabinet; Capt. Yevgeny
Ivanor, one-time assistant naval
attache in the Soviet embassy
here- Dr. Stephen Ward, society
physician and artist, and Paul
Mann, an American living In
Madrid. Spain.
Kdgecombe. last week, waa
languishing in a British Jail;
Profumo appeared In ths House
ef Commons trying to dispel ugly
rumors swirling about hla head
about his friendship with Mlsa
Heeler; Capt. Ivanov, who, It
was rumored, had sought the
model'! friendship through Pro-
fumo, waa back In Rumla where
he had bewi recalled last De-
cember. and Mann reportedly
waa entertaining Miss Keelec in
Madrid. Ward waa also making
the headline* here because of hla
Involvement in the ease.
Mine Keeler herself was re-
sorted to have been spirited In
and out of Madrid, after she had
mysteriously disappeared from
London. An all-out search for
her wae expanded to Include
Spain, after the British news-
paper News of the World report-
ed that she had visited Mann In
Madrid. However, she fled before
reporters could locate her.
Meanwhile, In I-oodon, Edge-
aombe went on trial at Old
Bailey for the ahooting episode
M Mies Heeler1* West End
apartment last January. How-
ever, Miss Keeler, who report-
edly had onca carried a flaming
torch for him, was not on hand to
testify aa . * government witness
against him.
It waa not known whether she
former Negro lover.
But her afcnnce at the trial
touched off ngly rumors that
people In high places might have
thought H best that <*>« should
Dot be on hand to testify.
Edgecombe, even without Miss
Heeler's testimony, waa een-
tenred to seven years la prison
for possessing a firearm with In-
lent ta endanger life. The Judge
dismissed a charge of shooting
Willi intent ta murder Ml*a
Keeler.
Tha trial alsa aroused ausffc
dan that Edgecombe might hare
romance with the model.
Meantime, Profumo waa forced
to take the floor in the House of
Common* to denounce allegations
that he might have served as •
romantic link between Capt.
ivanor and Miss Keeler. With
his wife and tho prime minister
himself looking on. Profumo de-
nounced the rumor*, eaylng be
was Just a casual acquaintance
ef Mlae Keeler.
Bat he admitted that he had
awt her about ab times en social
•ccasloas at the - home ef Dr.
Ward. He said he first met the
pretty model at a house party
la July, last, at Cliveden, the
home of Viscount Astor, son ef
Amsrlcan-born lady Astor. At
the party also were Capt. Ivanor
and Dr. Ward.
Hi* statement In Common*
aame after Uiice Laboritee,
George Wlgg, KRhard Cross
and Mrs. Barbara Caatle, made
critical statements about Pro-
fumo's Involvement and had call-
ed for an lnveetigatlon of the
ease.
The Keeler scandal not only
threatened Profumo'e political
career, but shook staid London's
society circles.
MRS. M. CHRISTINE Gll-MORE
FIRST—First Negro to be ad-
mitted to Alpha Kpsiion chap-
ter of the netion-wlds Delta Pi Epsi-
Ion fraternity waa Mrs. M. Christine
Qllmore, Instructor In business edu-
cation at Bishop college lu Pallas.
She waa initiated Saturday, March
its.
Delta PI Epsilon la a graduate
fraternity in business education. Al-
pha Epsilon chsptcr waa oritnniied
at North Tcias Stat* university, in
Denton, Tcias, In 1D07. It haa near-
ly 100 members.
I It waa at this university that Mrs.
Oilmore received her grsduste degree
of MBB—msiter of business educa-
tion.
Mr*. flilmore, who la married, Is a
native of Louisville, Ky. Her mother,
Mrs. tirsce Richardson, st ill lives
in Louisville.
She is a graduate of Howard uni-
vereity, Washington, D. C„ receiving
her graduate degree st North Teias
Htate in 1001. Hlte bus been on the
fsculty of Ilishop college since Ilk".
Those Who May be
Buried in National
Cemetery Clarified
(Special to San Antonio Register)
WASHINGTON — Any 4M MM I
veteran of wartime or peacetime serv-
ice, wfeOM lift peri<*l ef wr\ice ter-
minated honorably, it eligible for bur-
ial In any national cemetery In which
grave space it available, the Veterans
administration aaid today.
The BpouHC, widow, or widower of
an eligible veteran may be buried In
the same grave or in an adjoining
grave If apace le available.
A minor child of the veteran mny
also be burled in a national cemetery
in the same grave in which either
parent has been Interred.
Should the spouse or child die be-
fore the veteran, the veteran must
sign a paper stating his intention
to be buried in the national cemetery
before the spouse or child can be
buried there.
At the time of the death of a vet-
eran, apoQM or child eligible for bur-
ial In a national cemetery, the mor-
tician, or person, responsible for
funeral arrangements ahould request
interment directly from the superin-
tendent of the national cemetery.
There la no charge for the grave
aite In a national cemetery, or for the
opening or closing of the grave there-
in, the VA eaid.
Brothers, 80, 74,
Die Within Hours
Of Each Other
By the Associated Negro Press
SlTtRY, Va. — Death strurk
twice in the same family last
weefc. within three hours, taking
the lives of a 74-year-old minis-
ter and bis 80-year-old brother.
Rev. William H. Harrison, a
retired sawmill owner and mem-
ber of I<ehanon Baptist church,
died at his residence here after
a lingering Illness. Kdwsrd B.
Harrison, his brother and a dea-
con in the same church, died at
the saaltoriuin at Rurkeville, the
same day, about three hours lat-
er.
A Joint funeral service was
held at I.rbanan Baptist churrh.
HOUSE BUBOLAKIZED
A portable record player, a clock
radio, a nursery chrome wrist watch,
and a bottle of perfume woe reported
stolen, Thursday, April 4, from the
burglarize*! residence of Charles Fish-
er, SO, 114 Shenandoah.
Vets Urged to
Check Policies
For Beneficiaries
U veteran* can *pln la their grave*
a lot of them will do Just that wksa
the Veteran* administration pay*
th* proceed* of their OI insuranc*
policies.
That'a what a VA survey haa Ju*t
revealed, according to P. J. Mima,
manager of the Veteran* administra-
tion regional office la Ban Antonio.
"Our insurance people recently sent
out microfilm copies of the prceent
beneficiary designations to a sampling
of OI inaurance policyholder*," Mima
aald, "and th* mult* were reslly
shocking."
Horn* 46 per cent at th* benefl-
clarlea were Incorrect in some re-
spect, the VA official said, and of
that 40 per cent, one-third changed
th* major beneficiary.
"In other words," Mima aaid,
"over one-third of the changea allow-
ed that the veteran waa paying hi*
hard earned money Into insurance
policies, but in many instance* any
aimilarlty between those be wanted
to get th* insnranrs snd thoae who
would have gotten It, was strictly
coincidental."
Tho VA official emphasised that
the agency must pay OI insurance
policies to the latest beneficiary of
record even though It might be an
obvious injustice to the immediate
aurvivlng family.
The atrong advice he gave veterans
was to periodically review their UI
insurance benefiriariea and make
changes to meet changing family con-
ditions.
Change of beneficiary forms can lie
obtained from any VA office, be said.
WOMAN STABBED IN ABM
Mrs. Dora Hansford, 4\ 370-II
Goldsmith walk, was stabbed In the
arm, in an Incident In the 2Ti00
block of East Commerce, Tuesday.
She named a 47-year-old man as
the knife wielder.
B0C1 THB0UQH WINDOW
A r«ck hurled through • window
ci Ik* Coliseum Park variety store,
Friday morning, mad* a three-inch
kola la the window, and set off the
bardir alarm system. There was ao
evident of theft.
Dauiag* to the window was set at
flOG.
—
Marches
(Continued from Page l)
side agitators" atirring up trouble In
Gratnwood and other Mississippi com-
maaltitt. Gregory aald "Hitler could
ka?a aaid the same thing about
aoafkem white boya" who fought in
Oanisny during World War II.
Gregory later fired another charge
of "harawraent" against the Green-
od police. ITe made the charge
afta* police began photograph iug
aa 40 demonstrators he was leading
to th« courthouse to register, lie
charged the photographing was an ap-
parent move to frame the demonatra-
tora for allegedly blocking traffic.
Voter registration leadera ordered
tha demonstrators to return to their
headfunrters bee at «e they feared the
pictoroR wouM !«• used to eiact eco-
nomic and other reprisals sgainnt
them. Gregory, who has called npon
Washington to send federal troops
to Greenwood to protect Negroes
seeking to register to vote, aaid re-
garding of the tactics used by the po-
lice and city officials, the marches
would continue.
Pollen, who have been disperaing
large groups trying to register, have
been tilling the white press thst they
do not object to Negroes registering,
but would object to their doing so
en rtaMe. Negroes, however, feel that
the parches are necessary to guard
against unfair treatment by regis-
trars, anil to encourage those who
would otherwise stay away. They
dramatize the situstion, they be-
lieve.
The (barge about a "deal" between
the justice department and city offi-
cials was made after the government
withdrMv its request for a prelimi-
nary federal Injunction againftt an-
thorftlea Interfering with the lemoa-
at rati one and reglatratlon.
The withdrawal of the government^
request waa announced after eight
Negroee were releaaed from jail for
participating In demooetratlone on
March 27. They had been arrested on
disorderly conduct chsrgea and given
the maiimum penalty oi four months
in prisoa and $200 fine each.
Meanwhile, it waa pointed out, leaa
than two per cent of the county'a
Negroea of voting age are registered.
Few applicants have been able to
pass the atrlngent literacy and con-
sdtutional interpretation require-
mentai Negroee reportedly outnumber
whites In LeFlore county.
The Southern Christien Leadership
conference bee been conducting a
cresh Pilot project to trsin Negroes
in the area la meet the requireraente.
Meantime, voter registration lead-
ers here insist upon the constltutionsl
righta af Negroee to walk In an or-
derly manner to the courthouse to ap-
ply for registration.
In another move, eight jailed BN-
CO atsff workers have written en
"Open Letter" calling upon e\ery
congressman and eeuator in the
United Btatee, particularly the Ne-
gro congreesm^n, to support "legisla-
tion which will inaure that workers
snd applicants who register to vote
are afforded protection by the federel
government when local authoritiee re-
fuse to provide protection."
They called for particular eupport
of provisions of Tresident Kennedy's
civil righte bill calling for automatic
appointment of federal referees in
any county where 15 per cent of any
racial minority are not registered to
vote,
——♦—
Postmaster —
(Continued from Page 1.)
safety center where he will meet em-
ployeea from throughout Ix»s Angeles
city's p<»stal system st a reception.
At 8 in the evening, he will arcen-
pany Senator Engle to a community
reception which will be held at Wil-
fandel house.
Shaw will be in charge of the post
office which has postal receipts In
excess of $>0.t*l0,000 per year, and
haa Jarisdietion over 94 postal eta
tiona la the city.
The appointmeut of ghaw la in line
with Preaident Kennedy'a recent exec-
utive order applying to equal oppor-
tunity In the federal eervlce.
Postmaster General I>ay haa re-
ported that sines President Kennedy
took office there hss been s M per
cent increase in the number of Ne-
groes employed in the top cetegoriee
(fredes 12 20) in the poet office. The
Increase in this srea amounts to 100
per cent in the post office administra-
tion In Wasbington and the regional
headquartere throughout the country.
In Grades 6-11, there has been a 20
per cent Increase and a 70 per cent
increase within the Wsshington and
regional and admiiii«trsti\s offices.
Obsequies --
(Continued tnm Pue Lf
ference. lie also preceded her U i
in 19.18.
Survivor* include two deter*, lba
Lucy Olasro, Han Antonl*; Mia.
Fanul* James, Detroit, Mlchlgaa;
nephew, Cbaunrvy Jone*, chlaapa.
lllinoia; and another nephew Id
ifornla; two nle«e* of Fort Warift
and Arlsons; flea (trpdioghtev*^ *ad
three stepsons.
Atlanta
(Continued from Page I.)
tion at Rimi>son road snd Flowers
place IW| when the facility la de-
pleted. Chief lUldebrend said the
new station sill be dedicsted the first
week in Mey.
The new fireaien will eerve nndfr
white officere st the station, Chief
Ilildehrand said.
'They will have the same oppor-
tunity for advancement as any other
firemen." the chief aaid. "Any one of
them can become nn Officer if he
qualifiea and the opening is tbere."
Atlsnta hired Its first Negro po-
Hamaa in ttll There sre now 4*
Negroes on the police force.
G. J. Ms
Funeral Director
430 N. Cherry St
CApitol 6-7283
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