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SOCIAL & PERSONAL * MINNEAPOLIS * - - - , r - - - - Mr. Rudy Pope was host to a small get-together at his home, 908 Aldrich Ave. No., Saturday, Jan. 20. Among those present were Misses Juan Witherspoon, Harriett Myers, Gwen Miller, Mary Kate Breedlove, Bessie Davis, Della Ruth Wil kerson, Patricia Witherspoon, Gloria Brown; Messrs. Walter Lowe, Sonny Martin, Nat Walker, Johnny Beasley, Lawrence Shannon, Eddie Manderville, and Charles Logan. Mrs. Essie Wyatt, 1407 Third Ave. So., entered Fairview hos pital Wednesday, Jan. 17 for a minor operation. Mrs. Wyatt is vevry much improved. Mrs. O. L. Alexander, 3832 Fifth Ave. So., was confined to her home with illness. Mrs. Alex ander became sick Monday morn ing Jan. 22. The Jolly Sixteen Club met at the home of Mrs. Floyd Poole, 3032 Fourth Ave. So., Thursday, Jan. 25, the iley, laid the and isey The it 8 pre ome ting non. Mrs. Marion Andrews, 906 Bry ant Ave. No., is confined to her home with illness. ’hen was ver rom ong The Booker T. Washington Study Club met at the home of Mrs. Emanuel Grimes, 3815 Fifth Ave. So., Tuesday, Jan. 16, for a business meeting. A light lunch eon was served. The next meeting will be ,held at the home of Mrs. Mae Jones, 2900 Portland Ave. So. Sunday, Feb. 4. ung ited nter and Lt 4 won ney. AU held On ler’a itld v at t at the nily :erc the .thy ami also and ami i of I. I ank and em- til OUR COMPLETE DISPLAY OP LAWN AND GARDEN TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTS AT LOWEST PRICSS. 101 E. sth St. ■ ImUHiiM m BIFOCALS TRIFOCALS OORPOLT Dr. Roht. Liudsß XTarK" Lo«U4 M (itrtar't • Lltk II KM BERDES FOOD CENTER "Better Meats at Lower Prices" 388 Wabasha CEdar 3657 PRISM MEATS, POULTRY, PISM «mI DAIRY PRODUCTS CLEARANCE SALE ON ODD LOT WATCHES RONSON LIGHTERS REPAIRED ONE DAY SERVICE It's O. K. to Owe .... use our lay-dy plan Lou Kaye Jewelers It your watch keeping perfect time? Hava It checked now . 450 Vi WABASHA ST. (Strand Thaatr* Bldg.) 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Wilson and Miss Ronna Cuff. Mrs. War field-Motley will join her husband in Saginaw, Mich., where they will make their home. Miss Eunice Leverett, 3605 Clin ton Ave., will leave Sunday, Jan. 28 for a two weeks visit in Evan ston, 111. Phyllis Marie, infant daughter of Rev. and Mrs. M. L. Simmons, 3756 Fifth Ave. So., was bap tized Sunday, Jan. 21 at St. Peter AME church by her father, who is pastor at that church. Drink Pasteurized Milk Health STAGE AND SCREEN STARS PREFER oixiej*Jr? vSmfro^Mes »■ ' MAKES HAJR SMOOTH tANO LUSTROUS LARGE SIZE ta * r •Ur Wjflf All t* ,rr nu > ? u 1 iar P£Afl/ Avail d‘ I\‘Y »Tji Mm-* i ; y our favorite five and dime NONE BETTER AT ANY PRICE! TMI LANDER CO., St* Ml . N. T. ? RATING THE ! I RECORDS l J By I. Henry Randal] \ RECORDED JAZZ OIMS RCA Victor has finally answer ed a fervent wish of many a disc fan by re-issuing a collection of 18 waxings which have weathered the test of time and popularity, and which were recorded by some of the great names in the jazz idiom. The collection is an adjunct to the discery's Red Seal category entitled "A Treasury of Immortal Performances.” Broken down into six albums of three discs each, the tunes are for the first time on the revolutionary 45 and 33 H rpm speeds. Lest there be any confusion or hesitance about smoking these over, let's run through the titles and personages in each packet. First, there is the one entitled “Theme Songs," the signature tunes so closely associated with a band or musical group. In this division, there are Artie Shaw's Nightmare, Lionel Hampton’s Flying Home, Duke Ellington's Take The ‘‘A” Train, Benny Good man’s Goodbye, Charlie Barnett’s Cherokee, and Louis Armstrong's When It's Sleepy Time Down South. With the exception of Shaw’s opus, these melodies were not originally conceived as themes nor were they written by the bandleader who made it a byword in jazz annals. For example, the composer of the Ellingtonian theme is not Duke as is commonly thought but Billy Strayhorn, the band's top-notch arranger and Duke's fellow-composer. “Chero kee,” of course, is the Ray Noble composition; Goodman’s theme was written by an unknown com poser-arranger in those days. His name is Gordon Jenkins, now a bandleader in his own right. "Flying Home” was a joint ef fort of Hampton and Goodman, while "Satchmo” used the Leon and Otis Rene-Clarence Muse Dixielandish opus. Satch first re corded the tune in 1931, and the version in the album dates from December. 1932. Shaw disdained the use of his best seller “Begin the Beguine" for his own exciting and weird composition, “Night mare." Under “Dance Band Hits” are Tommy Dorsey’s Bbogie Woogle, which featured Charlie Spivak and Buddy Morrow (the latter known then as Moe Zudekoff); Larry Clinton on Martha, with Bea Wynn chirping the vocal re frain; Ted Weems and his Laten ized styling of Heartaches, ac companied by the distinctive whistling of Elmo Tanner and Hal Kemp's popular staccato treatment of Got A Date With An Angel, which had Skinney Ennis (now bandleader) on lyrics. Also in this album are the late Glenn Miller's treatment of Song Of The Volga Boatmen and the Ellington (several times record ed) Mood Indigo. This Is the authentic 1930 version, display ing the tonal hues of the Duke’s aggregation of that period. At least one other version had the late Ivy Anderson on vocal. No collection would be complete without examples of “Small Com bo Hits", the third album in the series. Sides are Stomping At The Savoy, Benny Goodman Quartet (The Goodman, Hampton, Wilson and Krupa clique): Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Artie Shaw and his Grammercy Five; House of Morgan, Lionel Hampton with the Cole Trio; the Bix Beiderbeck immortal In A Mist by the late Bunny Berigan and his Men; and Johnny Green’s Body and Soul, a superb interpretation given by tenor sax ace Coleman Hawkins. The sixth side is a Dixieland or rather "ragtime” excursion on Blues. Called a "Jam Session at Victor,” It features Tommy Dor sey and George Wettling, and the late "Fats” Waller, Bunny Beri gan and Dick McDonough. For the “Keyboard Kings of Jazz, there are Meade "Lux" Lewis doing his classic version of llonky Tonk Train; the team of Pete Johnson and the late Albert Ammons on Walkin' the Boogie; Fats Waller’s classically inter preted Honey Suckle Rose; trig ger fingered Count Basie betting away on Swinging the Blues, which has the lusty sounds of "Jumpin' at the Woodside" and others of that ilk; and Duke El lington's alluring mood painting of Solitude. Earl "Fatha' " Hines' Chicago style jazz appears in his brilliant arrangement of W. C. Handy's "St. Louis Blues.” en titled Boogie Woogie on the St. Louis Blues. We might add here that the recorded exhortation to Hines to "play till 19G1" should be moved up another 100 years, at GARDNER'S D-X STATION Western and Central DAL MM D I Ose«Ue» end Piemeit Oreeehe WMttM and D-X Mae OOt cvxarrr oaxdmex. fee*. DIAHOIDI sores mi MAIN nous f^^QELCToDSoHuSStF^ A radio show sponsored by General Mills becomes the first air program this writer has heard in which an American Negro has been portrayed as giving his life in the fight against communism here at home. "Armstrong of the FBI” over the ABC net work on Tuesday and Thursday evenings had as one of its main characters on its Tuesday, Jan uary 16 show, Fred Lester, a young elevator oper ator, who outwitted commie agents at the price of his own life. Now I know some of the bre them who are never satisfied anyhow, are going to be un happy because the character of Fred Lester had to be that of an elevator operator. It won't make them feel any better that the script stated his father was a postal em ployee. They’re going to mutter and mumble that It's a shame Fred couldn't have been portrayed as a postal worker, too. Or a doctor or lawyer or scientist, etc. It so happened that the character of the elevator operator fitted In with the pattern of the script logically without going all the way around Josh’s bar to manufacture a situation. Actually, the idea of an elevator operator defying communism is more in keeping with the true facts of life than if the character portrayal had been that of a professional or business man. It is among the rank-and-file of Negro workers that communism has made its biggest inroad. Nell Russell The more I read about this flying saucer business, the more I am convinced somebody’s giving somebody the old razzle dazzle. Bob Considine's recent article in Cosmopolitan debunking the flying saucer "hoax” was directed mostly at Frank Scully’s book, “Flying Saucers Are Real.” However, Considine, while exposing several of the proven, deliberate hoaxes perpetrated by practical jokers, didn’t have much other than a printed sneer to discredit the statements and figures in the Scully book. Scully’s book either contains the most amazing facts ever printed or is a collection of the most fantastic parade of gibber ish ever to appear on the bookstands. Scully states that after the Air Force spent eighteen months studying and running down 375 reported Incidents of flying saucers, explanation was found for all except 34 incidents which currently remain unsolved. He also states and Considine's article hinted the same, that the Air Force flying saucer project is still going on, al though without fanfare and publicity. Most unbelievable of all in the Scully book was the tale that on March 8, 1950, about 850 students of basic science classes at the University of Denver, heard a very hush-hush lecture by an unnamed and unidentified speaker who said that flying saucers had landed within 500 miles of the University, and described the ships and their personnel. The Scully report (as given to him) tells of three space ships made from a material that "looked Ake aluminum” but wasn’t of a material “known to this earth.” The first disc reportedly was 99.9 feet in diameter with a cabin measuring 72 Inches in height. The second ship measured 72 feet in diameter, the third, a smaller saucer only 36 feet in diameter. There was not a bolt, rivet or screw in any of the ships. There were 16 men "ranging from ages 35 to 40” taken from the first craft, their bodies charred a dark brown. There were 16 men in the second craft, and only two in the third ship. Those two had apparently died, the Scully book says, while attempting to escape from the cabin. The little men were described as of "fair complexion” and lack ing in beard except for a growth on their faces resembling "peach fuzz.’’ Scully stated there was a fourth ship which was unoccupied but when members of the group which had found the ships went for camera and equipment to analyze the saucer, several little men hopped Into the saucer and it disappeared! Well, Considine mentioned nothing of the University of Denver lecture, nor of the facts, measurements and descriptions in the Scully book, probably thinking it all to fantastic to bother with or purposely ignoring it. Mind you, Scully has no explanation for his readers of what happened to the ships after they were found or of what happened to the bodies of the little men, but he hints both were spirited off and kept secret from the public. Scully, in his description of the ships, also stated water in small containers was found in the ships, and when it was analyzed, it was found to be almost twice as heavy as our water. Little wafers of food found in the ships were so condensed that when one was put in a gallon of water, It swelled up and overflowed. “It was fed to guinea pigs and they thrived on it," Scully writes. Neither Considine, Scully, the Air Force nor anyone else has yet come up with an explanation of the object pilot Frank Mantel was chasing that day when his radio communication suddenly went dead and his wrecked plane was found several days later. The last heard from Mantel was that the large aluminum-like object he was after was not far from him and he was going to keep after it. Meanwhile the Air Force describes the flying saucers as no thing more than the following: (1) Misinterpretation of various conventional objects. (2) A mild form of hysteria. (3) Hoaxes. Somebody's hysterical all right. Either it's fellers like Scully or it's Air Force brass carrying a bee in their bonnets they don't dare let loose. MOVIE REVIEW: Another excellent film from the British studios, "Operation Disaster," the story of men trapped in a sub marine far beneath the sea. If this movie had come out of Hollywood, we would have had all the conventional gimmicks appropriate for such situa tions. There would have boon the handsome commanding officer showing the Hollywood version of suppressed emotion —mainly displaying the facial valor of a guy at a formal dinner wanting to burp but keeping It down for the sake of Emily Post. There would have been the usual hard-boiled non-commissioned officer, the weakling, the wise guy and the happy ending. "Operation Disaster" has only one of these ingredients, the weakling. He is played with such a sensitive, human touch that his tragedy becomes a personal thing with every member of the audience. John Mills, as the commanding officer of the sub, is not the handsome Hollywood type. He looks and acts like one would expect a man to look and act in his position. The superlative cast of English actors portraying members of the sub crew doesn't have a handsome Hollywood type in the whole lot. The suspense In "Operations Disaster” Is at times too real to be classified as entertainment. The finale Is heart-breaking and could never have happened In Hollywood. LE MAY’S BEAUTIFUL LAMPS BIG REDUCTION SALE... Entire Stack «f LAMPS Drsatly REDUCED FINEST SELECTION OF if CRYSTAL LAMPS * BRASS LAMPS if CERTIFIED LAMPS if IMPORTED LAMPS if FICURINK LAMPS * MODERN LAMPS W# Art Open Daily From 9JO A. M. to 6:00 P. M. EVENINCS MON., WED., FBI. TILL 9 P. 11. LE MAY’S Corner Salby and Victoria No Patfcing Problem* Lay By Han If Dtirnd 860 Salby NEW YORK CITY BIRTHDAY GREETINGS BIRTHDAYS Jan. 28 Raymond Cannon. 2905 Fifth Ave. So.; Louie R. Perkins. 3620 Clinton. Carrie Wal lace, 3632 Snelling Ave. Jan. 29—Mrs. Phoebe Mae Givens, 1014 Fourth Ave. No. Jan. 30—Alvin J. Rowe, 2546 Hiawatha; Leonard Vaughn, 834 17th Ave. So.; Mrs. C. E. Beck, 3705 Fourth Ave. So.; Alonso Lee, 2023 Bloomington Ave.; WUver A. Lee, 2023 Bloomington Ave. Jan. 31—Rev. Henderson Red dick, 3908 Clinton Ave. So.; Vi vian Patterson, 3512 Clinton Ave. So.; Cynthia Daviess, 98 Hyland Ave. No. Feb. 1 Miss Martha L. Kay, 3748 Fourth Ave. So.; Clifford Harris. 2614 31st Ave. So. Feb. 2—Alice Cook. 2709 30th Ave. So.; Gordon Granger. 3624 Fourth Ave. So.; Clarence Pal mer, 530 Tenth Ave. No.; Alice Morgan, 3827 Fifth Ave. So.; Mrs. E. W. Lee. Jr., 2023 Bloom ington Ave. Feb. 3—Worthy Turner, 1130 Emerson; Margaret Kelley, 948 Bryant Ave.; Rosalie Day, 117 W. 15th St.; Ben Warfield, 1019 Lyn dale Ave. No.; Gary Miller, 522 Emerson Ave. No. Out-of-Town Birthdays Jan. 29 Mrs. Ann Albright, Duluth, Minn. Jan. 30—William Seymour, Chi cago, 111. Feb. I—Aaron Shauntee, Evan ston, Ill.; Frank Jones, Chicago. Ill.; Mrs. Lillian McOavock, San Francisco, Calif. Feb. 2—N. E. McCoy, James town, N. D.; W. B. Williams. San Bemadino, Calif. ST. PAUL BIRTHDAYS Jan. 26—Mrs. S. E. Hall. 996 Iglehart Ave.; George C. Shan non Jr., 895 St. Anthony; Mrs. Anna Wooten. 512 Carroll Avo.; Mrs. John Dodd. 385 Rondo Ave. Jan. 27—Lillian Rose Brown. 221 Bt. Anthony Ave.; Mrs. Buena Hughes, 405 Farrington; Mr. William Goddctte. 628 St. An thony Ave.; Mrs. Clara B. Shelby, 288 Rondo Ave. Jan. 28—Mrs. James Oliver, 943 Iglehart Ave.; Mrs. Daniel Taylor, 776 Rondo Ave.; Mr. James Jack son, 865 St. Anthony; Charles A. Danforth, 833 Carroll; Mrs. James Walker, 323 W. Fisk; Mrs. Har rison Davis, 441 St. Anthony Ave. Jan. 29—Mrs. George H. Todd, 638 St. Anthony Ave. Jan. 30— Carlos Moffatt, Jr., 458 Mackubln. Jan. 31—Horace St. Anthony Ave.; Paul Church, 954 Fuller, Ilene Dawts. 299 N. Avon; Crystal Lewis, 243 St. An thony Ave. Feb. I—Mrs. D. E. Cotton, 663 Iglehart Ave.; Mr. Clarence Roper, 982 Fuller Ave.; Mr. A. S. Myers, 868 Iglehart Ave.; Mrs. George Shannon, 693 Carroll Ave. Howard House, 747 W. Central Ave.; David Gardner, 581 Igle hart. UNOLEUM CAPITOL SJvSKfKSJ ASPHALT TILE MEAT CO. RUBIER TILE Wibuht at 7th m ■ i ■■ 515 Wabasha Street ' I L IA M "Batter Meats (or Lean** B. E. SCOTT I 111111 TIIU Meals Priced to Fit the """Smaa LINULIUM Average Pune. A 1 MM Wiimi MMf Free estimate* - torn.. OIL mm . tm *7O Robert ft. Cl OS2I NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE... f I'MYfiUR \ Reddy Kilowatt i* right with you all the time. You I CCDVM kJT OP THE 1 probably don’t think much about it, but he helps you \cEtnußY,Too// • k “ d " d ** u __ Why waste YOUR time and energy in your home, on the farm, in the office, or plant? Reddy is on duty yx J / 24 hour* a day. He never asks for a day off not even i for holidays or Sundays. He’s stronger than a hone and I be travel* with the speed of light! He’a Tho Mighty AA LV Atom im Parson! ©** He’a the lowest priced servant in history with wagea that average leas than tbraa cants tm ham! BymjagTU iliy Tbat's Roddy Kilowatt Power for yoasl NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY Friday, January 26, 1961, SL Paid RECORDER, Page S SOCIAL & PERSONAL * ST. PAUL • Hn. Lovely Brown of 460 Iglehart Ave., returned home Monday, Jan. 8 after visiting her sister, brother-in-law and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cason, in Denver, Colorado. On her return trip, Mrs. Brown stopped in Omaha, Nebraska to visit her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Golden of 456 St. Anthony will celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary Sunday, Jan. 28. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stokes Sr. of 757 SL Anthony will celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary Saturday, Jan. 27. The Alpha Kappa Pal fraternity held a closed Stag party at the Sterling Club, Friday, Jan. 19. Mr. and Mrs. Little WllHe C. Robinson of 251 Rondo Ave. will celebrate their 34th wedding an niversary Saturday, Jan. 27. Mrs. Charles Young of 577 SL Anthony was ill at her home this week. Mr. Lionel AUen of 608 W. Central Ave., Is up and around after being confined to his home. Mrs. George Wilson, formerly of 570 Rond Ave., Is now residing at 337 Rondo Ave. while caring for a retired mail carrier, Mr. Ralph Allen. Mias Sandra Jean Anderson of 707 Iglehart Ave. will celebrate her birthday Sunday, Jan. 28. Miss Patricia Moore of 966 Igle hort Ave., entertained a group of girls with a "Hen" party Friday, Jan. 19. Among those present were Misses Joan and Norma Howell, Julia and Roberta Jones, Sylvia Byrd, Carlotta Doyle, Jean Southern. Marcheta Allen, Patri cia Dodd, Marion WilUama. Beverly Kirk, and Patricia Brown. A "Going Away** party was given for Mr. Delbert Cruahehon of 662 SL Anthony Ave. by the Los Caballeros Club Saturday, Jan. 20 at the home of Mr. Philip Freeman of 857 Iglehart Ave. Mr. Crushshon left with the 47th Na tional Guard Division last week. Mr. Eugene Harris of 565 8L Anthony Ave., left Saturday, Jan. 20 with the 47th National Guard Division for Camp Rucker, Ala bama. Mrs. Mabel Farmer of 402 Ron do is ill in Ancker hospital. Mrs. James Watson of 776 SL Anthony Ave. la confined to her home. Mrs. Martin Weddtngtoa of 714 W. Central la recuperating at her home from a minor operation. A baby shower eras given for Mrs. Louise Oliver of 490 SL An thony Ave Friday, Jan. 19 by Mrs. Rufus Williams of 506 W. Central. Among those present were Mmes. Flora tine Garcia, Viola Watts, Mildred Bueford. Evelyn Patterson, Esaie Stewart, and Mias Betty Vassar. Also among those present were Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Oliver’s mother, and Mrs. Oertrude Christmas of lowa. NEW ARRIVAL Mr. and Sirs. Robert Inderaea of 800 Iglehart Ave, are the proud parents of a baby boy bant Thursday, Jan. 11 in SL Joseph's hospital The baby weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces at birth. His name is Gregory Robert Ander sen. The maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heidberg of California and the paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Martin Anderson of 429 Front SL Mr. E I. McK night of 960 Fuller Ave., has returned home after bring ill in the University hospital. Blood dooon in neodid for Mies Dorothy Hampton of 701 Carroll Ave., who is ill In Aneker hospital. Mra. Margaret Moore of 960 Iglehart Ave., is IB at her home. Mr. N. N. Smith of 309*4 Jack son SL, is lU at his home. Blood doners are needed far Mr. Edward Ramsey who is ill la Ancktr hoapltaL The Ivy Leaf Club, pledge club of the Eta Chapter of the AKA Sorority, will hold a tea Wednes day, Jan. 24 from 4-6 p. m. In the Coffman Memorial Union of tbs University of Minnesota. The Ladies AM Society of Pil grim Baptist church held n busi ness meeting Thursday, Jan. 26 at the church. The Gospel Chorus of Pilgrim Baptist church will hold their Midwinter Musicals Sunday, Jan. 26 at S p. m. at the church. St. MIL NOISE Furnishing Co. 008 MOTTO '"Wldsws ri4 Ofp4ou NMlsslsd** m 4 Mu. sa at tm