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The Austin American from Austin, Texas • 5

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Ilif Amrrlrau-Slalrsmatt Austin, Texas Page A-5 Sunday, March 27, 1960 Alamo City Negroes Shun (NAACP leader in San Antonio), to the church leaders and to the San Antonio business men and citizens. "It should be a shining example for the rest of the nation. This is social action in the best democratic and Christian tradition." Desegregated Eating Places here together a lot and have be News sent reporters to one var SAN ANTONIO. Tex. (AP- Daniel Names Infantry Chief By Associated Press Governor Price Daniel Saturday announced the appointment of Colonel Selden Simpson of Ama-rillo as assistant division commander of the 36th Infantry Division, National Guard.

Simpson, an Amarillo attorney, commanded the 142nd Infantry, Regiment since 1949. He was made commander of the 1st Battle Group. 142nd Infantry, when the 36th was modernized in 1959. come accustomed to it. The integration agreement was iety store for all-day observation.

Only seven Negroes, all dressed better than average, ate there. worked out in quiet conferences between businessmen and church How did San Antonio achieve leaders of many faiths after Na integration without trouble? Fatalities Down By Associated Press Governor Price Daniel said Saturday that traffic deaths in Texas for the first 12 weeks. of 1960 total 345 compared to 467 for the same period in 1959. Fatal crashes so far in 1960 total 285, compared with 402 for the same period a year ago. tional Assn.

for the Advancement You get a number of answers. Clarence LaRoche, managing of Colored People officers threatened sitdowns like those in many editor of th San Antonio Express, says, "San Anontio is very metro other Southern cities. politan and more of a Western Columnist Dick Mesquill, in the Alamo Messenger, of Two Dead In Blast On Ship CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)-Two men were found drowned, live were missing and 12 others had burns Saturday because of an explosion and fire aboard the tanker Mobil Astral at La Cruz, 200 miles east of here. They were among the 52 East Indian seamen and 13 German officers on the two-year-old Panamanian flag tanker, owned by the Socony Mobil Oil Co. of New York City.

Three of the burned men were in serious condition. The owners in New York said three Indians were dead and three missing and' the German third mate in a hospital. The fire was brought under control and tugs towed the tanker offshore. The vessel was about to sail for Staten Island, N. with 8,400,000 gallons of crude oil, and was only about 1,000 yards from huge coastal storage tanks, when the explosion occurred.

The blast was believed to have resulted from an electrical short circuit. culture area rather than ficial Roman Catholic diocese II -Tr'" This Southern city integrated nearly 30 eating places 10 days ago and the only notable result is that Negroes rarely take advantage of the facilities newly open to them. This was the consensus Saturday about the local outcome of an issue which has swept the South, resulting in violence and arrests in many cities. The San Antonio eating places were integrated without demonstrations or incidents Wednesday a week ago. The desegregation took place at six variety stores and 21 chain drug stores.

White patrons of the lunch counters appeared more interested in reporters and cameramen when integration first took place than they were in finding that other customers were Negroes. He said the "same smoothness that characterized school integration, golf courses, swimming poots, buses and the like has been demonstrated in the lunch counter integration." San Antonio was one of the publication, quoted an unnamed Protestant minister as saying, "The agreement was possible because the archbishop put some backbone in us." He referred to Archbishop Robert E. Lucy of San Antonio, whose city is strongly Catholic. Catholic parochial schools integrated some years before the 1955 Supreme Court decision ruling public school segregation is unconstitutional. first cities in the South to inte grate its public schools.

IflsHHiUHSsiSsf NEW I960 I HHI BB IRA jpl jH IH OlretHonal Grill i IHllHBlfill'y MBS Thermostat I ft mmmmma 12,500 btu I I 3822 N. LAMAR CL 3-3038 I Bert Wise, city editor of the San Antonio News, added other reasons, pointing out that the city In Houston, Waco and store managers have closed has fewer Negroes than many their lunch counters rather than Clarence A. Laws, NAACP field secretary, said "much credit should go to Harry V. Burns Southern cities and "people have seen Negro and white soldiers from the military installations integrate them The San Antonio Express and i 1 i to Austin American Un Supreme Court. Lawson is executive secretary of the Texas Butane Dealers Association, an graduate, a member of the national board of regents for professional education of commercial and trade association executives.

TAKES OATH William J. Lawson of Austin, former secretary of state, here takes his oath as a member of the board of directors of Texas College, succeeding the late Herman Heep of Austin. The oath is being administered by Associate Justice Joe Greenhill of Texas Police Arrested SEOUL, Korea (AP)-Five national policemen were arrested Saturday in Mason for investigation in connection with the fatal shooting of at least seven demonstrators there the March 15 presidential election. Masan is 250 miles south of Seoul. CLEBURNE'S JAKE KING Dallas Pastor Invited Here The Rev.

Leon Morrow of Dallas, who has. ministered all over the United States and Canada, will conduct revival services at Grace Assembly of God Church beginning Wednesday night. At 109, Woodcutter Challenges Anybody FASTEN ff EFFICIENT- I That's Photo I 1 Processing at I ELLISON'S 615 CONGRESS jff CLEBURNE (AP) Jake King! first cotton gin in Texas, in Red Morrow was here in the spring River County. He has hewn logs claims to be one of the best yard of 1959. The services will continue until April 10.

There will be special faith-building services each morn ing at 10 a.m. The public is in vited. The church is at the corner of East 50th and Caswell Avenue with a broad ax and has also split King is deeply religious. He believes religious training is a substitute for superstition and fear. When asked how he managed to live so long, he said, smiling: "I just kept praying as if everything depended on God and I kept working as if everything depended on me.

You can't make a mistake if you do that." mssm FAMILY DEPARTMENT STORE ON FINE QUALITY FOR HOME AND FAMILY! NEW-POPULAR, WASHABLE Night Stands, each, $99.50 Open Head Bed, $129.50 tt Dresser and Mirror. $349.00 li i mf Pi Bench, $69.95 Cvf II men in Cleburne. And this despite the fact he will mark his 109th birthday June 19. He's worked all his life, ever since he was born a slave on a cotton plantation near Jackson. in 1851.

The Negro's master and mistress were a General King and his wife, Amanda. King said in a recent interview that they were wonderful people, but the overseer was cruel. As a child, King was assigned to his mistress. He drew her bath, helped her dress and combed her hair each morning. King used a comb carved with a pocketknife from a thin flat piece of wood.

He also kept her pipe clean and shining and the tobacco shredded and ready for use. When King was 10 years old the Civil War began. During the war, a group of Confederate soldiers from Texas camped at Jackson. The soldiers told glowing accounts of their home state. They talked about the rich, cheap land.

In the forests were wild fruit. Hogs ran wild in the forests. After the war. King, along with 75 Negro families, started for this land of milk and honey. The children walked all the way from Mississippi to Texas.

The families settled near Clarksville in Red River County. Having lived more than a century is just a step to King. He says he will live to be 125. King will challenge anybody to! a wood cutting contest now. He is one of the best yard men in Johnson County.

He sometimes shoulders his rifle and ventures into the woods for a mess of squirrel. He does not wear glasses and has his natural teeth. King helped cut the timber to build what he believes was the CUTIES Miracle fabric and terry cloth Neolite crrpc soles Ela.stinzrd for perfect New Surgery Used on Tot For Heart PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Five month old Suzanne Doyle went home to Martinsburg, VV. Saturday to recuperate from a heart operation performed for the first time. A spokesman for the Children's Hospital here said the infant's future is unknown because there is no previous experience with such an operation.

The operation was performed March 16 to correct a congenital anomaly of the coronary circulation and several abnormal connections between coronary arteries and coronary veins. The, abnormal i connections were isolated and tied off. The hospital spokesman said medical records show only 52 cases of any kind of congenital anomaly of the coronary circula-: tion, and only five of the type Su-; zanne had. Of the five, three were discovered in an autopsy and the other two examined but treated. Suzanne's parents, Mr.

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The regal arches and sabre leg motifs were inspired by 19th century Regency designs. And from the 20th century come countless functional advantages. Designers Henry and David Warren employ genuine mahogany woods with walnut burl accents. A single dining room piece or an entire grouping is also available in two exclusive colors Triune white and Triune blue. Come discover these treasures of Triune masterfully correlated for your living, dining and bedrooms.

I GIRLS' EASTER 9 jij ssar' St. David's, now live in Martinsburg where Doyle is office manager of a can firm. The baby's rare condition meant oxygenated blood under high pressure was pumped into the veins of the heart meant for low pressure. The veins became enlarged. NEW SPRING COTTONS SLIPPERS "IT 1 p- White Leathers I Black Patents if Sizes Little 4 to Big 12.

VyV.V Val. to 3.99. 0 WVV All full bolts Pillow case prints New Nursery designs Solid broadcloths Florals, Stripes Summertime colors VALUES TO 59c yd. Buffet, $247.50 Arm Chairs, each, $64.50 Side Chairs, each, $49.95 Oval Extension Table, $189.50 Breakfront, $379.95 Physicians To Attend Seminar Carcinoma in the Female will be the subject for a one-day seminar to be sponsored by the Texas Academy of General Practice, state association of family physicians. The intensive one-day course will be given from 9 a.m.

to 4 p.m., Sunday, April 3, at the Terrace Motor Hotel here. Dr. James M. Graham will be chairman of the program. Dr.

John W. Simpson of San Antonio will head the team of speakers. Dr. Edwin M. Sykes Jr.

will discuss "Carcinoma of the Breast Early Detection, Trends in Therapy, and Palliation;" Dr. Billy D. King will speak on "Use of Ionizing Energy in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the Breast, Uterine Corpus, Cervix and Ovary;" and Dr. Simpson will present a lecture on "Corcinoma of the Genital System Early Detection, Trends in Therapy, and Palliation." The afternoon session will be given over to a panel discussion with Dr. Simpson serving at moderator.

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