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ARIZONA SUN
iHE VOICE OF 60,000 NEGROES IN ARIZONA
Published Every Thursday by the
ARIZONA SUN PUBLISHING CO., INC.
U 27 South Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona PHONE AL 3-3682
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p. p. Benson . . Editor and Publisher
Predonia Benson a. Assistant Editor
W. A. Robinson Associate Editor
Registered as Second class matter July 2, 1948, at the Postoffice at
Phoenix, Arizona, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Vote For Good High School
For Your Children
The Phoenix dailies with ho
regard for the harm they do by
seriously crippling the Phoenix
high schools, are for their own
selfish purposes sabotaging the
work of the high school system,
affecting about fifteen thousand
children. In order that the read
ers of the ARIZONA SUN may
have the facts given out by the
system, we give you below the
Fact Sheet sent out by the sys-*
tern and urge that for the sake
of the children of Phoenix and
our reputation as a community
of good schools, you go to the
polls on Wednesday, December
11, 6 a.m. to 0 pjn., and vote
“yes” on the bond issue. Facts
are as follows:
What are the questions in
volved in this election? —-Shall
bonds be issued and sold in the
maximum principal amount of
$1,262,000 for the purpose of
providing funds to purchase an
* additional school site for a sum
not to exceed $200,000, to make
additions and alterations to ex
isting school buildings, to build
Miew school buildings, to supply
and equip school buildings with
furniture, apparatus, and equip
Our Educational Inheritance
By Louis Pete.
Our daily newspaper that re
presents the classical ideal of
education which is characteris
tic of the people of European
countries, have shouted far and
wide in their columns against
our present school boards at
tempt to bring to the .American
people the kind of education
foreseen by our forefathers—a
system of education which would
meet the needs of all Americans
and prepare them to develop to
the utmost, whatever talents
they might posses.
Our dailies are not attacking
only the Phoenix educational
set up, but our entire national
educational philosophy arfd pol
icy.
They seek to blame modem
educational ideals and practices
for our failure to meet Russian
competition in science, when
they well know that our failure
to develop scientifically at the
same rate of progress as the
Russians,, was due to the fact
that these same people, who
have grown wealthy on the mass
of the American peoples inad
vertently have held America in
check by not making sufficient
money available to the public
schools in the area in which
EDITORIAL PAGE
ment, to improve school grounds,
and for every other necessary
and lawful purpose in connec
tion therewith.
Where to vote Camelback
High School—46l2 North 28th
Street, Carl Hayden High School
—3333 West Roosevelt, Central
High School —4525 North Cen
tral, North High School—llol
East Thomas Road, Phoenix Col
lege—l2o2 West Thomas Road,
Phoenix Union High School—
-512 East Van Buren, South
Mountain High School 5401
South 7th Street, and West High
School—29lo North 19th Ave.
Voting qualifications You
must be a registered voter in the
state of Arizona, a resident of the
school district for 30 days im
mediately preceding the day of
the election, a real property tax
payer in the district, and you
must sign an affidavit supplied
at the polls by the Department
of Public Instruction.
The annual tax at 1958-59 es
timated valuation would be: on
$2,000 assessed value $ .80, and
on $3,500—51.40, and on $7,000
—52.80.
they were needed because they
couldn’t profit financially by the
venture.
As we go to the polls Wednes
day to vote let each Os us re
member that the money which
• we vote to improve out children’s
' education came from the pub
- lie lands of the West that were
given to our government at the
very beginning of our nation for
the purpose stated in the pre
amble of our constitution.
We the people of Arizona, of
| these United States, have not a
duty but a pre-impoded obliga
tion that was attached to our
public lands at the very found
ing of this nation, to se§ that
wealth from these lands be not
devoted to founding various
estates, family and religious
body holdings, but to the pur
i pose of educating, all the chil
l dren of this new natiort regard
less of race, color, religion or
previous conditions of servitude.
i Those who oppose the increas
ed funds sufficient to give our
- children the proper type of rrur
► roundings necessary for their
; educational advancement say
that it costs too much. The as
sessed valuation of the Phoenix
, High School and College Dis
trict is $312,903,078. This bond
i (Continued on page 6)
ARIZONA SUN
flo J Owment! ,
By James W. Douthat.
Editors Note: “No Comment,” ]
should not be regarded as nec- ]
essarily reflective of National <
Association of Manufacturers po- ]
sition or policy, for it is a re- \
porting of incidents and conver- \
sations which its author, Ass’st. j
Vice President Government Re- ]
lations Division thinks might be .
of general interest. j
WASHINGTON— There seems
to be no doubt that the Eisen- 1
hower Administration will ask 1
Congress to raise the $275 bil- 1
lion ceiling on governmental in- <
debtedness —but this should not
be interpreted to mean that gov- i
emment spending will shoot up
ward immoderately. 1
In fact, according to present
official estimates, raising the 1
ceiling wodld be principally a
matter of convenience for the j
Treasury—to avoid bookeeping
adjustments in an effort to keep
the total within legal limits.
The debt now stands at $273.6
billion—only $1.4 billion below
the ceiling. But Treasury of- '
ficials have told key members
of Congress that until the heavy
tax collections start next March
the debt would rise very close
to the Umit and the cash balance
would be very low. They have 1
assured Congressional leaders,
however, that they will be able
to get by until Congress has an
opportunity to review the situa
tion after its Jan. 7 meeting 1
date.
VETERANS NEWS
Veterans and their dependents
who receive Veterans Adminis
tration benefits may now have
their checks forwarded by the
Postmaster, if they haye filed
a regular change of address
notice with the Poss Office, Mr.
Wayne A. Sanders, Manager of
the Phoenix VA Regional Office
said today.
Under the new law VA pay
ment checks for benefits may be
forwarded by the Postmaster to ■
another address in the same or
different city only if the ad
dressee ha<s filed A regular
change of address notice with
the Postmaster.
Mr. Sanders emphasized that
in addition to notifying the
Postmaster of a change of ad
dress, a change of address notice
should also be mailed immedi
ately to the VA Regional Office
and the person should identify
himself with the “C-number”
assigned to him.
The change of address re
quest, both to the Postmaster
and to the VA, should be in
writing and should be made as
soon as possible after the per
son has moved to the new ad
dress. Veterans and their de
pendents were urged by Mr.
Sanders to file these change of
address notices promptly, not
only to insure prompt delivery
of checks but to prevent un
necessary forwarding of mail by
postal authorities.
As of September 30 1956, says
the American Hospital Associa
tion, there were 6,966 hospitals
in the continental United States
with 1.607.692 beds. The average
daily census was 1,355.792, and
the total personnel required was
somewhat 1arger—1,374,704.
FACING THE FACTS !
W. A. Robinson
The Negroes of Greater Phoe
nix, including all communities
within or without the city limits,
from which children attend the
Phoenix high schbols, have a
heAvy stake in seeing that the
quality of our high schools is
kept at a high level. It is true
that the high schools employ
their own staff of painters, car
penters, electricians, typewriter
repair people, and do as much
as possible of their own print
ing.
These men are paid union
wages and this is an effort by
the high school administration
to save money in the running
of our high schools and not to
reduce wages. It may not please
some of the people who sell these
services, but no one has proved
or tried to prove that it does
not save money for the taxpay
ers.
The dailies eount all of these
workers, plus the necessary
staffs of janitors or mainten
ance crews in the schools and
the accountants who must keep
the accounts of this huge opera
tion as “administrators”, and
claim this employment figure as
their first reason in their
Wednesday editorial—“ Bond Is
sue Not Needed”—for asking the.
taxpayers to defeat the high
school bond issue. As a matter
of fact, not one penny from the
bond issue will go to pay for
salaries of these people or for
any teachers, principals or other
employees pf the high school
district.
The dailies also claim, second,
that there is no need for extra
classrooms. They base this claim
on their “misunderstanding” of
the educational term “member
ship” to which they give an en
tirely erroneous meaning. The
editor of the Republic calls this
a “trick”, word. “Membership”
simply means the number of
students on the school rolls on
any given day after all drop
outs and known school leavers,
have been substracted from the
total enrollment. All students
counted in the school's member
Here We Go Again!
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ship must be provided for by
the school even if thdy are not
all present on any particular
day because they will be back
in school after a temporary
absence due to any cause. The
editor could understand this
~ meaning of an educational term
unless he wanted deliberately to
confuse voters for his own or
his boss’ purposes of power seek
ing;
Any citizen can vote who owns
or is buying property in the big
“union high” district. There will
be a pressing need for all friends
of good schools to go out and
vote for the bonds. Since the
polls are only in the high schools,
cars will be provided by high
school Parent Teacher Associa
tions and will be parked near
Julian School and near Bethune
School, for the convenience of
voters in these areas who live a
long distance from the near
est high school. A vote for the
bond issue is a vote against
having the city of Phoenix en
tirely dominated by a news
paper.
URBAN LEAGUE WILL ASK PROBE
OF HATE GROUPS
NEW YORK The National
Urban League plans to ask the
newly created Federal Civil
Rights Commission to investi
gate hate groups which have
forced units of tiie league out
of community chests' in six
Southern cities and are seeking
its exclusion in 17 others.
This announcement was made
Sunday by Theodore W. Kheel,
League president, who also said
the organization will urge the
United Community Funds and
Councils of America, the na
tional coordinating agency for
local funds, to reconsider past
refusal to intervene in the situa
tion.
Kheel said the 47-year-old
League’s survival as an instru
ment of interracial cooperation
is being imperiled by the read
iness of “timorous fund officials
to submit to coercion by avicious
and nurepresentative minority.’*