arizona tribune (phoenix, ariz. ) 1961-12-22 [p ] · pictorial weekly fourth year, no. 22, 12 pages...

Arizona tribunePictorial Weekly

FOURTH YEAR, NO. 22, 12 PAGES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1961 PHOENIX 40, ARIZONA

CHRISTMAS IS FUN, BUT THE WAITING PERIOD IS HARD

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Denzil, Terri Jo and VirgilSolomon, children of Mr.and Mrs.Sam Solomon, 2438 W.Jefferson Street, take a few inquisitivelooks at the various sized packages underneath their Christmastree.

Childhood visions may include toys, clothes, food, books oreven a turtle. It is a long wait for children at Christmastime.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROMEDWARD AND ELOISE BANKS

CHURCH MEMBERSINCREASE IN U. S.

NEW YORK - Last year 63.6per cent of the American peo-ple belonged to a church or syn-agogue, according to the NationalCouncil of Churches’ newly pub-lished 1962 Yearbook of Amer-ican Churches.

Protestant membership' was63.7 million or 34.4 per centof the total; Catholic, 42.1 mil-lion or 23.6 per cent of the total.

There were 22V Protestantbodies reporting, with a totalmembership of 63,668,835.

Total number of Catholics wasreported as 42,104,900.

Jews totaled 5, 367,000.

ALABAMAPARKSTO CLOSE JAN. 1BIRMINGHAM, ALA. - Faced

with a federal court order to in-tegrate public recreation facil-ities next month, Birminghamcity officials have moved to closemost of them Jan. 1.

The city parks and recreationboard approved a skeleton bud-get which would result in theclosing of parks, playgrounds,swimming pools, golfcourses andcommunity centers.

U. S. District Judge H. Ho-bart Grooms ruled last Octoberthat the city must integrate itsparks by Jan. 15.

TEN CENTS

GIRL RETURNSFROM RUSSIANEWARK, N.J. A 14-year-

old Negro girl who started goingto school in Moscow in Septem-ber “to help fight segregation”is coming home for Christmas.

But Huldah Clark will returnto Russia after spending the holi-days with her five brothers andsisters in their low-rent housingdevelopment apartment here.

When Huldah flew to the So-viet Union, at the invitation andthe expense of Premier NikitftKhrushchev, her father said shewas fust “the first in a seriesof Negroes "who eventually wouldbe sent to Moscow for an edu-cation.

“The Jim Crow type ofschoolsin this country deprive our chil-dren of decent learning,” Clarksaid.

NEGRO NAMED HEADUN TRUSTEESHIP

Atty. Robert K. Shoecraft, aNegro lawyer of Xenia, Ohio,hasbeen appointed Attorney Generalof the Trust Territory of the Pa-cific Islands. Sec. of the InteriorStewart L. Udall made this an-nouncement today.

Mr. Shoecraft is the first Negroto be appointed to this position.He has served as assistant attor-ney general in the land andclaims department. Since 1958he has served in the trust ter-ritory department.

A graduate of Central StateCollege, he holds a law degreefrom Ohio State University. Hehad a private practice beforebeing appointed assistant prose-cuting attorney forGreenCounty,Ohio.

He served in the U. S. AirForce from 1942 to 1947. Thetrust territory, of the PacificIslands was captured from theJapanese during World War 11.The United States administersit through a trusteeship agree-ment with the United Nations.Comprised of the Mariana, Car-oline and Marshall Islands, thearea has a population of nearly77,000 persons. .

JAILED IN SOUTHALBANY,GA. -The Rev. Mar-

tin Luther King, Jr., and twoother Negro leaders were among266 marching, singing Ntegroesarrested during the fifth anti-segregation demonstration in fivedays at this south Georgia city.

Arrested with King, who ispresident of the Southern Chris-tian Leadership Conference,were the Rev. Ralph Abernathy,president of the Montgomery(Ala.) Improvement Association,and Dr. W. G. Anderson, presi-dent of the Albany Movement.

The march, which began atShiloh Baptist Church in the Ne-gro residential section .of thecity, followed a breakdown in bi-racial negotiations. A truce wasin effect while the talks were inprogress.

Officials of this south Georgiacity agreed to release 427 jailedNegro demonstrators in time forChristmas. The Negroes agreedto a 60day halt in their anti-segregation demonstrations.