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So This Is Washington By ETHEL L. PAYNE The condition of Dr. James Cheek, President of Howard who underwent surgery last week was described as "satisfactory" by his attending physicians. He was in the operating room for five hours. The exact nature of the operation was not disclosed, but it was understood to be in the area of the spine.

Sources at the university say that it will be at least five or six months before Dr. Cheek can resume his full time duties. Earlier this year, Dr. Cheek, the 36 year old dynamo who outlined a sweeping new set of proposals to make Howard an international center and a research laboratory where scholars of every persuasion can contribute their thinking, also had surgery for a recurring eye ailment. His ideas have received a warm reception from the militants on campus.

Reps. Augustus Hawkins (Los Angeles) and William Clay (St. Louis) have a joint working arrangement on many years of legislation. Sometimes they are joined by Rep. Louis Stokes, (Cleveland) as a team.

This week, the trio is introducing a measure on OEO which essentially is the same as the original Senate version and knocks out the Murphy rider that would eliminate vital legal services. The three black rep resentatives will undertake a petition drive to bolster support for the bill In his speech to the Capital Press Club dinner, Congressman Clay lists the following cost items for President Nix ori's move to San Clemente, his summer residence in California. First was $9,000 to drive limousines to California; $36,000 for motel rent for aides; $100,000 first year lease on the Western White House $70,000 to furnish and partition the place; and $400.00 per hour to fly per sons to San Clemente Sen Fred Har ns, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, appearing on Meet The Press, explained why he was not taking part in the New York Mayoralty campaign, said "his boss there," Rep. Shirley Chisholm who also serves as Democratic National Committeewoman man was remaining neutral, therefore, Fred Harris was taking no sides and witfild not endorse the Democratic candidate, Mario Proccacino John Dean, Minorities Director of the INC has a new assistant, Yancey F. Martin, former Assistant Director of the Community Action Program in Birmingham.

Ala. If the bill goes through to create a non voting representatiev to Congress from the District of Columbia, the post could go to Washington attorney, Joseph Rauh Jr. who would have strong backing from the Leadership Conference on Civil Right, but would draw opposition from such organizations as the Black United Front because he is white. Grace Halsell, the Texas born white woman who turned herself into a Negro with the help of several skin specialists, including Dr. John A.

Kenny Jr. of Howard U. and a drug called psorlen, wrote about her six months experience of "passing for black" in a book to be released soon under the title, "Soul Sister." Interviewed for a Voice of America broadcast, Miss said that among the painful indignities she was put to as a maid working for a Mississippi white woman was being made to eat off paper plates. Whites think of blacks as neuters or sub humans, she says, and she sees little hope for an overall change in attitudes because they have been brainwashed too long. During her stay in Harlem, she lived at the Adam Clayton Guest House next to Ab byssinnian Baptist Church and she believes now that the only way Negroes have survived is because like most poor people' they cling together and are inordinately kind to one another, a point on wmcft she might tind considerable disagreement.

Miss Halsell is currently working on a book with Charles Evers, recounting his experience since assum ing leadership in Mississippi politics. Frank C. Kent, former director of the Minnesota Human Rights Commis sion, has been named chief of the OEO Office of Civil Rights by Director Donald Rumsfeld. The rights unit has been absorbed into the General Counsel's office and Kent will work under his direc tion. U.S.

policy on Rhodesia was criticized by, Rep. Charles C. Diggs Chairman of the Sub Committee on Africa. The Michigan lawmaker charged that the U.S. was continuing to maintain diplomatic relations with the regime of Prime Minister Ian Smith by keeping open its consulate general there.

Diggs warned that Rhodesia could turn into another Vietnam. David Newsom, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, said the White House plans to make a decision on whether to close the consulate next Spring when the new Rhodesian constitution goes into effect. That makes the white domination of the four persent minority official. Newsom said that the U.S. is giving scholarships to Rhodesian refugees and is keeping for New York had endorsed Mayor Johnin touch some of the national liberation Lindsay and the National Committee 2rouP8 The bill to restore the Frederick Douglass Home in Southeast Washington appears to be near final passage.

Architectural plans have been completed and presented to the proper committees in both the House and Senate. The grant would amount to around $400,000 for the project. While her husband was busy with UN matters in New York, Mrs. Okoi Arikpo, the wife of the Minister of External Affairs for the Federal Government of Nigeria (the title corresponds to our Secretary of State) came to Washington for a few days to renew old acquaintances. She was entertained at a luncheon given by Mrs.

Lillian Wiggins, Society Editor of the Washington Afro American. Sharing the honor was Mrs. Joe Iyalla, wife of the Nigerian Ambas sador to the U.S. Arikpo was in the States among other things to address the UN General Assembly. By Diggs Dal roof jy Anmt'tr Best Vttkli A Stngjfocke Publication NEW PITTSBURGH COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY Telephone: Ana Cede 411; UI S30S 315 E.

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Tho Now Pittsburgh Courier doe not guarantee either the use or return of unsolicited nasuscrlpts and photographs. THE NEW COITIIER NOV. 1, 1969 Page 7 THE RAINMAKER fflTIBMi FA6TS ABOUT TH IA.10frUS A.tMUl Distributed by.Sengstacke Newspaper WASHINGTON When jazz trumpeter Miles Davis was shot in New York recently it was only days away from the gangland style killing of his uncle in St. Louis. Mortician pastor Leonard Davis was gunned down on the steps of his swank, west side Jume by three men riding, in car Davis' daughter shot and killed her husband only a m'ontk before and the brother of the son in law was arrested and questioned in the funeral director's slaying It now has official sanction: A group of 14 experts appointed by the National Institute of Mental Health has recommended that the laws on homosexuality be repealed.

The experts found that such relaxation would Improve the mental health of some 3 to 4 million adult homosexuals in the country. They emphasized that this would not affect sexual behaviour that violates public decency or involves the seduction of minors. The Institute is studying the findings before passing them on to the federal government for consideration and action. CHIT CHAT: What's to the report of rumblings at HUD? Can it be that officials all the way to the top feel that they are boxed in. Will this restlessness spill over into overt action on the part of top staffers? These and other questions' may only be answered in coming chapters in the HUD saga.

Stay tuned in Columnists Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden have unearthed a positively intriguing thesis on pretty Angela Davis, the self proclaimed commun ist on the UCLA campus. Writing in their syndicated column, the duet surmises that possibly Angela ain't Red atall, but rather has cooperated in perpetrating this elaborate hoax on a zealous Gov. Reagan who has been riding his milk white steed in search of campus radicals for months. According to the. writers, Miss' Davis is just too smart to believe in the Red dogma.1 That further, the guys and gals of the New Left are i much farther out than the commies or the Old Left This is an interesting theory and it just tickles many to death.

DEECEE DOINGS: Although those outside of Washington want to think of it as something special, they might be interested to know that the same kind of problems exist here as in any urban area. Last week, tenants of public housing went into court protesting the raising of rents. The Housing Authority eded last year with a deficit. This condition of too high rents and too little income for public housing is present in a dozen or so cities around the country. At D.

C. General Hospital, citizens met to urge more community control and to bemoan rising health costs. HEW which has a hand in D. C. General said that non profit companies have been chartered to run health facilities in many cities There are some bright sides, The Training Corporation of America moved into its new offices with its thrust to train the poor And a couple of weeks ago, the House overruled an attempt to delete $181,000 to be used to maintain and refurbish the Kennedy gravesite.

BACKDOOR STUFF: Reports, are filtering back here from across the country of that of the bigtime Washington daily who is traveling around the country under the guise of doing a feature for his journal on the Negro Press. The "reporter" who is taking no notes is strongly suspected by black pub lishers everywhere that he is on a recruiting kick, for his bigtime daily. Arid this "reporter," who sent out elaborate correspondence in advance, is black Dr, Carlton Goodlett, San Francisco Sun Reporter pub lisher, is recuperating following illness. So is former OEO racial trouble shooter Sam Yette, who is now in Newsweek's Washington bureau Attention Los Angeles: The Justice Dept. will be coming your way real soon.

It plans to probe discrimination against blacks and other minorities in the movie industry. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 will be the guide. L.A. Sentinel statffers should have a field day." 1 NATL VIGNETTE: If you survey the country in towns where the Brother has a number of gripes and where ultimately the town council is finally forced to come to grips with those gripes, you will find that such action normally follows some overt action on the part of some zealous police department. A head is; are issued.

And as the town churns and churns, the city poppas begin to accede to the demands to restore peace. Som time the city poppas try to save face by giving in under cover. Such was the nature of the City Council of Alexandria, one day last week. After the cops pistol whipped a 14 year old black youth, the demands came swift and sure. 4 mrt A yJrmrrfrrrrrJ GflOTED NEGRO WOMAN WHO LIVED IN BORDEAUX, SOUTHERN FRANCE AND WHOSE BODY IS PRESERVED AND ON VIEW IN THE CAVEAU OF THE CHURCH OP ST.

MICHEL. BORDEAUX WAS ONCE A GREAT SLAVE FORT. What are the reasons for such poor results in the total picture of breast cancer? First, we do not know the cause of cancer and thus we cannot remove this initiating factor or factors. We can not immunize a person against cancer and give them protection. Another fac "1 li 1idvAoi'o" oi1 Vl lnoV.Il!.r to predict the course of the cancer According to the 1951 CENSUS THE BLACKS AUD THE MULATTOES outnumbered THE WHITES ALMOST 4 TO 9.489,556 TO 2,558,933.

TUB MULATTOES, WERE AT ONE TIME SEfi REGATEP FROM THE BLACKS CALLEDMATIVES. THE OLDEST WHITE FAMILIES HAVE A NEGRO STRAIN PIRST WHITE COLONISTS. MATED WITH NEGRO WOMEN THERE 8EING NO WHITE WOMEN THERE NEARLY A CENTURV." i mmm OF 4000 aC. PROBABLY MENES. CULUS, ROMAN HISTORIAN.WHO TRAVELLED IN EGYPT, 67 8.C..SA1P THAT THE ETHIOPIANS CLAIMED THAT THEY HAD COLONIZED EGYPT.

HERODOTUS, FATHER OF HISTORY, TELLS OF ITS ETHIOPIAN RULERS. XENOPHANES, GREEK HISTORIAN, SAYS THAT ETHIOPIANS WERE 4 Hi Aris AMn uAn a hrr iw rv if noses: Send $1 for 49 Page, 147 Illustrated FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO (2nd of a Series) to The Courier Book Club. .315 E. Carson Pittsburgh, Pa. 15219.

Discounts on bulk orders. I Im GEDICAL This serious disease occurs in the male and female breasts. It is true that that in the former the incidence is unusual or rare and probably constitutes 1 or less of the total number of breast cancer cases. The results in breast can cer are not as good as we would like for them to be. Anatomically, the breast normally is located on the anterior chest wall.

There are normally two breasts and the incidence of malignancy or cancer is approimately the same. The breasts consist of ducts, nipples, blood vessels, fibrous tissue and overlying skin. There are surrounding lyphatics and lymph nodes which drain the breasts in cases of infection or "cancer spread." These nodes are located in the armpit or axilla, in the neck, within the chest and within the abdomen. In spite of all the advances in medical science the results in breast cancer are not m. im.

mil smith What is the procedure? Is it' difficult? Self examination is a simple procedure which only requires concern, interest and cooperation. The procedure is as follows: A. Examine the breasts each month after the menses or at a routine time if menses are not evident. B. Secure good lighting and a mjrror.

C. Stand in front of the with your hand3 on your hips and your extended. D. Lopk at the nipples and the dark circular area around the nipples. Look for dimpling of the skin, irregularity, change in contour, mass coloration or anything unusual.

E. Recline on a bed or sofa with a small pillow under the breast to be examined. E. Take your right hand and palpate the left breast and your left hand to ex mine the right breast. Your mam" ob jective is to feel or palpate gently 'for a mass or a localized growth.

DonT attempt to be too exact because you are attempting to detect an suspicious "areas. Compress on the nipples in order to detect nipple discharge. Note the color of the nipple discharge. G. If anything is found, see your growth, spread and results or response Ph'sician immediately.

to specific treatment. The best approach to breast cancer is to find the tumor early and then seek treatment. Cancer begins as many uncontrollable cells which grow like a "crab" in a wild and unlimited fashion. Most cancers of the breast begin in the ducts which are usually deep in the breasts or in this "skin organ." Thus when the mass becomes palpable the cells may have been growing for approximately "six months." Self examination of the breasts is the best approach for early detection that "something is wrong." Self eamination of the breasts should become a part of sex education training for young girls in the homes, schools and church. It is distressing that less than 5 of females actually and routinely self examine fheir breasts each month.

H. Every female should have" her breasts examined by a physician at least twice a year on a routine basis. llr Breast cancer can occur in the pregnant female and also in the lactating breast. In our opinion the management of breast cancer is relatively standardized. The best results are noted in" surgical excision without or with radiation therapy.

the best way to fight cancer of the breast is to discover the tumor as early as possible and then the institution of an effective management chances are great that if, you, tient becomes involved in a case finding program most of the breast tumors would be found localized to the. breast proper and not extended to other nearby areas such as lymph nodes, bones, skin and lungs..