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Preparing for the largest gathering of electronic specialists
£ ever staged, in Arizona are (left to right) William R. Saxon,
Aden M. Creighton and Marilyn Dreste. All three are mem
bers of the Phoenix section, Institute of Radio Engineers,
sponsors of a nine-state regional conference and trade
show on April 27 28 and 29 in Phoenix. In attendance
will be 650 IRE members and several score of the nation's
leading electronic scientists and engineers. More than 80
nationally-known laboratories and electronic equipment
•■ manufacturers already have contracted for exhibit space at
• the conference, which will be held at the Hotel Westward
• Ho's new convention auditorium. Conference Chairman
Creighton said "the conference will add impetus to Ari
' zona's bid to become the capital of the natron's booming
electronics industry." , y . !
# Local Urban League Official
Leaves For Convention
Community leaders concerned
with the race relations and the
elimination of bias in every phase
of American life will convene in
Kansas City, •Missouri, April 15th
through 17th, as delegates to the
National Urban League Board Con
vention. “Changing 'Patterns in
Race Relations: Next Step in Ur-
ban League Programming” is the
over-all convention theme.
The. delegates will come from
the sixty League cities in thirty
states and the District of Colum
bia to participate in discussions to
be led by six experts in the fields
of social science, economics and
education. This will be the first
of its kind sponsored
r>y the National Urban League and
Former Resident
* 33 Years Passes
Funeral services were held
Wednesday for John Davi.f Pow
ers, 79, who died in a Douglas hos
pital last Friday. The Rev. Stanley
R. King, assistant pastor of First
Institutional Baptist Church, offi
ciated at services in Ragsdale
Chapel of the Valley. Interment
was in Greenwood Memorial Park.
(Mr. Davis, born in Montgomery,
Alabama, spent his early childhood
■&- in Seguin, Texas, and moved to
Phoenix in 1923. He worked at J.
G. Boswell Company in Litchfield
for 25 years as oilmill cook, retir
ing in 1952. In 1953 he moved to
'Douglas to live with his daughter,
Mrs. Valaska T. Lewis. *
He was a member of the First
Institutional Baptist Church here.
Besides Mrs. Lewis, he is sur
vived Iby another daughter, Mrs.
Ruby Ruth Duke of San Antonio,
Texas; two sons, Vullen, Los An
geles, California, and Lathan H.,
Phoenix; and 10 grandchildren.
ARIZONA SUN
has been made possible by a grant
from the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund.
The Rev. Frederick A. Barnhill,
First Vice-President of the Phoe
nix Urban League and its exec
utive director, Alton W. Thomas
will leave for Kansas City on Fri
day, April 15 to attend the conven
tion. They will both serve as a
member of one of the several pan
els on the program.
The three-day convention will he
attended by approximately two
hundred Board and staff members
of tho Urban (League affiliates. Lo
cal and national Urban League pol
icies and programs will he reviewed
and a program of future activity
will be charted to. obtain equal
opportunity for Negroes and other
minorities, particularly in employ
ment, housing, health and welfare.
Phoenician Dies
in California
John Greer of 1405 South 12th
Avenue passed in Los Angeles,
California, last Friday. Funeral
services will be held at Ragsdale
Chapel in the Valley, Tuesday, at
2 p.m., with Rev. L. J. Dunbar of
ficiating. Interment in Double
Butte Cemetery.
Mr. Greer, horn in Malino, Texas,
in 1898, moved to (Phoenix from
Brooksville, Oklahoma in 1940.
He was a member of the A.F. of
L.; was working in Los Angeles,
when stricken. He had (been in Los
Angeles since January.
Survivors Include: his mother,
Mrs. Millie Kirks of Phoenix; four
sisters, Mrs. Lola Parks, Phoenix;
Mrs. Ceola Johnson, Reno, Nevada;
Mrs. Lela Jamerson and Mrs. Neo
ma Brown, both of Brooksville,
Oklahoma; brother, George Greer,
Phoenix.
READ THE SUN THE VOICE OF 60,000 NEGROES IN ARIZONA
PHOENIX, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1955
SUPREME COURT OPENS HEARING
ON DESEGREGATION DISPUTE
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Negro Laborers Hired
For Lettuce Packing
With .temperatures returning to
normal, the spring lettuce harvest
is accelerating rapidly, according
to John R. Foley, Manager, Phoe
nix Farm Office. Arizona State
Employment Service. Approximate
ly 400 additional workers will be
needed this week. Those individuals
seeking employment, who are able
and willing to work in farm labor
at stoop labor tasks every day a
full shift, are urged to report to
the office, located at 39 East Madi
son Street in Phoenix for referral
to the fields. Those workers in the
Glendale area may report to the
Arizona State Employment Ser
vice Farm Office at 101 South
Third Avenue in Glendale. Tasks
involved in lettuce include cutting
and trimming, packing, lidding, and
loading the cartons. No experience
is necessary if the worker is willing
to learn. Workers must be avail
able eyery. day, as lettuce and other
crops are of a (perishable nature.
The Arizona SUN learned today
from Alton W. Thomas, director of
the Phoenix Urban League that
this development is very favorable
for Negro agricultural workers,
since it is the first year that this
type of work has been open to
them. Negro* workers are ui'ged
to take advantage of this oppor
tunity uis it will afford the worker
the change to work all year round
instead of only seasonal harvesting.
Through the efforts of the CIO
Labor Union, the lettuce growers
have consented to change their
policy and hire Nero lettuce work
ers. It is urging that all interested
persons report to the above la
bor offices immediately for work
orders.
Transportation To
The Blind Recreational
Center Needed
iln Older for the blind in the
community to (participate dn the
various activities scheduled at the
Recreational Center for the Blind,
it is necessary for transportation to
be provided. This service depends
on those willing to volunteer some
of their time to make it possible
for the non-sighted to enjoy the
center.
By the combined efforts of the
Lions Club, Kiwanis Club, and the
Knights of Pythians, the following
persons have consistantly contrib
uted their services to the project:
Messrs and IMlmes. Augustus Shaw,
Robert Banks, W. A. Rolbinson;
Messrs. William Warren, Joseph
Flipper, Hadley Murrell, Roger
Johnson, Hartwell Ragsdale and
William Corbin.
This very fine contribution these
citizens are making, are needed and
greatly appreciated by .those who
live in a World of darkness.
ilf there are others who will give
time to this cause, contact Mrs. L.
P. Hedgpeth, 3337 N. 3rd. Ph. AM.
5-3595.
Last Monday the U.S. Supreme
Court opened hearing on the school
desegregation case, postponed last
December 6th.
Chief Justice ’Earl Warren sharp
ly challenged S. E. Rogers, attor
ney for a South Carolina School
district, who claims that the white
people in his state will refuse to
send their children to school with
Negro children. The South Caro
lina lawyer said he does not be
lieve the attitude of his community
is ready for integrated schools.
Chief Justice Warren, seemingly
irked, snapped: It is not a question
of conforming to an attitude but
of conforming to a decree. The law
yer was then asked by the court:
“You are not willing to say hon
estly what the district would at
tempt to comply with the decree?”
Rogers suggested that “we leave
honesty out of it.” Chief Justice
said, “I’d rather not.” Rogers then
said I don’t think white people will
send their children to a Negro
school.
Rogers, arguing that details be
left to lower courts with a free
hand as to time, declared: “We
cannot solve the problems without
a change of attitude, and" that will
come slowly. We recommend that
L A. Negro Judge
Orders Marilyn
Monroe To Court
LOS ANGELES, (NFB)— Judge
Thomas L. Griffith Jr., sitting in
traffic court here Wednesday, de
manded the appearance of screen
actress Marolyn Monroe in court
to answer traffic violation cita
tions.
The order for her appearance
followed a plea by her lawyer that
her presence was urgently desired
in other parts of the nation. Judge
Griffith, however noted, that Mass
Monroe had signed a film contract
to work here and that since she
was in the city, he was going to in
sist upon her appearance before
him.
Shipment Os Supplies
For Polio Vaccine
The precious cargo of polio vac
cine supplies needed for mass in
oculation of Arizona’s first and sec
ond grade school children will be
speeded throughout the state by
Arizona National Air Guard April
14, two days after the release of
the Salk vaccine report by Dr.
Thomas Francis, Jr.
IPolio vaccine wil not be deliv
ered at the same time, but in sepa
rate shipment just prior to the
start of the vaccination program,
according to the Arizona State De
partment of Health, which is now
working out a schedule for ship
ping ithe vaccine by refrigerated
trucks.
IMaj. Gen. Frank E. Fraser, head
ing up the Air Guard “operation
supplies” said flights were sched
uled to begin at 8 a.m. for. 10 major
destinations. The cargo is valued
at nearly §15,000.
10 CENTS PER COPY
the case toe returned (to lower
courts) without instructions.”
Roger’s appearance followed the
argument toy a lawyer for Negro
groups, who declared that Southern
States are “asking either a mora
torium or local opinion” in their
proposal for gradual and locally
administered integration.
Thurgood Marshall, counsel for
the National Association for Ad
vancement of Colored People and
lowyer for South Carolina and Vir
ginia Negro petitioners, declared:
“There is no place for local op
tion in the constitution.”
(Marshall assailed the Southern
“moratorium” plans as unworkable
and called for “forthwith” integra
tion.
He said: “If local district courts
are to say how much time is
needed, Negroes wil ibe in horrible
shape.’
Mention was made of the con
tention that there are differences
of ability between Negro and white
children.
(Marshall commented: “Put the
dumb Negro children with the
dumb white children, and the
smart Negro children with the
smart white children that’s no
problem.”
According to late report, the
Eisenhower administration urged
the supreme court to use “modera
tion with firmness” in ordering the
states to end racial segregation in
their public schools.
U. S. Solicitor General Simon E;
Soibeloff said the government dobs
not agree with attorneys for Negro
groups that integrated schools
should be ordered forthwith. Nor
does it favor turning the prolblerti
over to lower court with no target
date for ending segregation, he
said.
iSobeloff said the prope rcourse
would be to send the school cases
back to lower courts with specific
orders to end segregation as fast
as possible.
He emphasized that lower courts
should not ibe given “(blank checks”
however, tout should have “some
guide, some criteria,” to follow.
They should toe instructed to
brook no delay except for good
cause, he added.
'Four Faces West'
Next on Valley Bank
Academy Theatre
“Four Faces West,” an action
packed drama -that blazes a trail
of thrillg through a thousand miles
of Southwestern (badlands, high
lights the Valley Bank Academy
Theatre show next Monday eve
ning, April 18, on KVAR-TV, Chan
nel 12, and ICVOA-TV, Channel 4,
at 9:30 p.m.
With Joe McCrea in the role of
the most amazing outlaw the West
has ever known; Charles Bickford
as Pat Garrett, the fighting mar
shal; Joseph Calleia as the gambler
with his own strange code of hon
or, and Frances Dee as the girl in
love wit ha fugitive, “Four Faces
West” will bring television viewers
90 minutes of fast-moving suspense
and excitement.
WARNING:
Let's watch
our language,
boys and girls,
on the streets
and in public
places and on
the buses.