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ARIZONA TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1962, Arizmt£^&ttbunE * 'f ih ipi 11 im~TT 111 Pictorial Weekly VOL. 5, NO. 9 EDWARD BANKS. PUBLISHER-EDITOR ELOISE BANKS, asst, editor BOBBY HEARD, staff PHOTOGRAPHER ESTABLISHED JULY 10, 19S8 PUBLISHED EACH THURSDAY BY THE BANKS PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., 2137 E. BROADWAY, PHOENIX 40, ARIZONA, BR, 6-2901, $2,90 PER YR. SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT PHOENIX 26, ARIZONA "ALL THAT IS NEEDED TO REMEDY THE EVILS OF OUR TIMES IS TO DO JUSTICE AND GIVE FREEDOM." Voters Don't Core There are hundreds of words written and spoken daily about the enemies of our great country. Some commentators direct their attention toward Cuba . Others warn us of the activities of the Communists within and without our boundaries. Still others view with alarm the nuclear and missile tests which are increasing . All have some theme to keep before the people of the United States of America. Perhaps the most important and often most overlooked until election time is the right of our people to exercise their fran chise —in other words to cast their votes. In the past primaries for both the Repub lican and Democrat parties in Arizona , es timators say that less than 53 per cent voted. In some areas this figure dropped to 30 per cent. Some areas could proudly say they had 60 per cent out. In this nation which boasts of its freedom and believes in democratic processes it is a bit startling to think of the few citi zens who hold their right to vote as impor tant. As the general election on Nov. 6 draws nearer, let us try to use the ballot to exer cise our freedom. There is little sense to worry about the enemies of our nation from within or without if we idly sit around and refuse to take a part in our government . Editor Arizona Tribune: In your issue of September 7 you published a picture depicting Governor Paul Fannin handing a proclamation to two of our Grand Lodge officers proclaiming September ninth as Prince Hall Amer icanism Day. Among the statements accompanying the picture was the following "Prince Hall was a man who rose from slavery to found the parent body of all Negro Masonic groups in America and some foreign countries/* If by this you intended to infer that Prince Hall had been a slave please let me correct you. Prince Hall never was a slave. Any Entered Apprentice of a lawfully constituted body of Masons should be able to say why. The biography of Prince Hall reveals that he was born on the island of Barbadoes in the British West Indies. His father was an Englishman named Thomas Prince Hall, a leather worker by trade. His mother was a Free Born woman of Negro and French extraction. Hall immigrated to America at the age of sixteen. At twenty-five he was a property owner and voter in Boston, Massachusetts. Prince Hall was initiated into Masonry by a British military unjt together with a group of other free colored men. A year later he applied to the Grand Lodge of England and received a charter to establish African Lodge No. 1 in Boston in 1779. Much more could be said of Prince Hall but this letter is intended solely to remove the error which in some places is prevalent and also to renew our reverence for this man who is the Founder of Free Masonry among Negroes in America. Yours truly, Walter B. Scott — SNOWDIN - Barber Shop 2104 E. BROADWAY Op*n 'til Bp.m. i ■p'fef".” P.2 HAGLER’S BARBER SHOP • PM TUKS,-rRI, •—T PM SAT. •as E. JzprtßeoN St. Sights and Sounds ELOISE BANKS TURN IT OFF OR ON IT IS TIME Each year around this month new television schedules are an nounced. New shows make their debuts and new actors and ac tresses seek the favor of mil lions of viewers. Last week several new shows were announced and I waited eagerly for a preview of some of them. This is the time of the year also for those re-reruns of last year* s reruns. Some pro ducers are crafty-they rerun this year's shows—just for spite, no doubt. For awhile it seemed as though old male movie stars didn’t fade away, they simply found a spon sor and returned via television. Some tried pilot shows in the hopes of luring some weakwilled sponsor but were unable to win friends and influence bankrolls. Robert Taylor led his detec tives through many thrilling ep isodes after appearing as the Don Juan of the Forties in the movies. He has now made his demise on the magic eye machine and told reporters, he never liked television. Fred Mac Murray, one of those perennial comedy stars who fin ally rode a few nags in some movie tales of the not so wild west, succumbed to the lure of the little screen. He joined four more male actors, one a dis placed actor, William Frawley, formerly with the I Love Lucy Show, plus three sons. A flop eared mutt rounded out the so called comedy characters. I have seen several of Mr. MacMurray* s movie comedy suc cesses and I am sure his tele vision audiences might have en joyed them more than his very unfunny three sons show. Lucille Ball and Desi Amaz ended one of the most profitable and talented husband and wife teams with their divorce. How ever, television producers pre tended the audiences hadn’t read of their split and their old I Love Lucy Shows dating from five years ago were faithfully re issued all summer long. Now Lucy and her female sidekick Vivian Vance will team up again for the new Lucy Show. Lucy plays a youthfully aging mother with a teenage daughter to raise. The preview was a bit too much— Lucy is a wee bit wrinkled to be bouncing skyward on a trampo line. Donna Reed will not be back, but Loretta Young will present a weekly program of drama. Not much left for the girls ex cept to smile at the horses. Returning to the mad, mad world of television are such non favorites as Candid Cam era, What's My Line?, Lassie, Passward and To Tell the Truth. These programs are rates so low in my book that I would like to see some new Emmy Awards categories established for shows of this kind. By hook or crook or both, the game of guessing some participant's job or duty is certainly not enter taining. No matter how much the blindfolds or blinker cloths are decorated. I have been unable to be caught in the tide of ap prehension while a flea trainer from Oshkosh baffles a smart panel of famous personalities. Lloyd Bridges will appear fully dressed this season. Out of the ocean and off with his scuba equipment he comes. He assumes a new role as a newspaperman. Perhaps he could write some splashy stories on the private lives of purple seahorses. Marshall Dillon will be seen only in reruns during the season. Probably he, Chester, Kitty and Doc are chasing the wagon train west. Red Skelton, Jack Benny,Garry Moore, Dennis the Menace and Doble Gill is will attempt to bring some ho-ho-ho Into our lives. Views, Previews flf| and Reviews t%tll Edward Banks ONE MAN IN GEORGIA As the fourth Negro church was destroyed by fires deliberately sot in Georgia this week, a new and different reply came from die lgse of one man. ” In Dawson, Georgia, after four men had been arrested for setting fires at a church, the town's mayor announced publicly that funds would be raised by the white people of the town to help rebuild the edifice. His actions are one of the few which are displayed daily by some of the intelligent and courageous white men and women who were born and bred in the Deep South. The events of human association have proven one outstanding thing that In time education brings about understanding. For many years we have heard about educating the Negroes and lifting their sights. The other races and ethnic groups must be like wise educated-but this education doesn't always come from the schools. There is an altogether different kind of education which comes from trying to learn and understand then helping solve the problems of other people. The attitude of this one southern mayor may not secure bold front page headlines but he will win honor in his own small com munity with perhaps a large group of people. He and others like him must face the racial problems with calmness and intelligence. NEGRO HISTORY NOTES FIRST NEGRO AT WEST POINT Henry Ossian Flipper died May 5,1940. He was bom in Thomas ville, Thomas County, Georgia, March 21, 1856, the eldest of five brothers. His mother was the slave of the Rev. Reuben Lucky, a Methodist minister. Henry Ossian Flipper's father, Festus Flipper, was a shoemaker and carriage-trimmer owned by Ephriam G. Ponder, a slave trader. Young Flipper learned to read in 1864 in a night school; but, when Sherman's Army came, the school closed. Flipper attended the Missionary Schools after die emanci pation and finally advanced far enough to study at Atlanta University. The turning point in his career came when he secured through J. C. Freeman, the congressman from his district, an appointment as a cadet at the West Point Military Academy. He passed the entrance examination, was admitted, and made good grades in his studies. He met with all sorts of insults and discrimination in the worst form, aggravated by newspaper comments that he would be "slaughtered" before graduation. Flipper, however ignored these persons and their comments. He graduated with honor in 1877. Flipper met outside of West Point the same general hostility to a Negro Army Officer which he met as a cadet at the academy. Wherever he went, military honors were given him wily begrudgingly. While the Negroes were highly elated to have him referred to as the first Negro product of West Point, the whites bore it very grievously that a black man had been thus elevated. Flipper did not remain long in the service before charges of misconduct were lodged against him—such charges that one cannot easily refute or prove. General Shafter, it is said, did not like Flipper. He heard that Flipper was spending money rather freely as canteen officer of die regiment. He ordered Flipper arrested and called upon him for an accounting. Flipper produced some of the money for which he was responsible and Informed Shafter that the balance was on deposit. Shafter wanted to knpw where, but Flipper refused to say. He did produce die balance in a few days, but he was dismissed just the same. Under similar circumstances before the Civil War General U, S. Grant was allowed to resign when his friends made Up the missing funds. Flipper's friends say that he was "framed." His superiors accepted those complaints as true, and he was dismissed from the United States Army. After leaving the Army Flipper worked as an engineer and made a good reputation in this field. He operated chiefly in Latin America. Near the end of his career he made his home in Atlanta with his brother, Bishop Joseph Simeon Flipper, of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. There the former lieutenant died May 5, 1940. (Descendants of Henry 0, Flipper reside today in Phoenix.) SIGHTS Cont'o. Arizona's busiest>w Mister Ed, the talking horse, liquor store /jJpe/V won a new lease on the airwaves. j Y\ It just proves that no one should D underestimate the power of our fourlegged friends. / Jackie Gleason, the roly-poly whiz of cinema, stage, records and train rides returns to the , television with a bevy of beau ties and some of his clever acts. A completely new show. The FAST SERVICE Nurses must have been produced 2 DR I VEIN WINDOWS to give the girls in white equal I time with Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare. With so many shows going to die hospitals--Lassie had better watch out. There’s little left to go to the dogs. C’OfmmWt' GOOD V*4****ee ' 1180 E - WASHINGTON GIVE AL 4-3076 L i Featuring •MS 3 k 4 br. homes, Coronado Park area MUTER PHOENIX- * h 3 br.homei SCOTTSDALE West Capitol area UNITED FUND Very reasonable do.pymtt,