The Anniston Star from Anniston, Alabama • Page 7

A The Anniston Star Wednesday, September 7, 1960 PLATFORMS COMPARED Meany Sets Appeal For Democratic Aid ST. LOUIS (AP) AFL-CIO, president George Meany compared party platforms and candidates from organized labor's view. point today and appealed to the or Machinists' Union 00 convention to endorse the Democratic presiden-or" tial ticket. voters will decide on Elec- tion Day whether America shall stand pat or go forward," Meany said in his prepared address. "Labor cannot afford to sit this one out--and I can assure you it will not." MEANY SAID that based on their records, Democratic presidential nominee John F.

Kennedy can be counted on to support organized labor's objectives while Republican nominee Richard M. Nixon would 'support conservative views. The AFL-CIO chief's talk obviously was designed to 'swing the 900,000 member Machinists' organization to the Democratic cause. Machinists' leaders have indicated some reluctance. They stayed away from recent AFLCIO meetings in Washington which resulted in a federation endorsement of the Democratic to ticket.

Meany said no organization with million members, such as the AFL-CIO, could possibly be unanimous on any question. But he said the 1960 political campaign requires a united labor stand. at "We must act," he said. "For our own interests and the interests of the nation as a whole, we have got to get into this campaign with both feet and in favor of one MEANY REVIEWED the platform declarations of the two mai or parties a and concluded the ocratic platform is "vastly superion labor policy and in most other respects, including economic defense policies. On foreign policy, Meany said Kennedy would not be "bound by the mistakes of the present as he intimated Nixon would be.

"It is on the domestic scene, however, where the contrast becomes most dramatic," Meany said. "On almost every social and economic issue vital to the public interest, the Democratic candidate has voted on the progressive side and the Republican candidate on the reactionary side." WIFE PINS ON SILVER BARS- Lt. Charles R. Raley, smiles proudly as his wife, Jane, pins on his silver bars denoting promotion to rank of first lieutenant during a special ceremony recently at Anniston Ordnance Depot. Lt.

Raley is a graduate of Mississippi State University and is assigned as assistant to the director for supply operations at the depot. (U. S. Army Photo). Leadership School Leadership School Slated In Heflin HEFLIN Cleburne County home management leaders will learn Sept.

9 to stretch their grocery money and at the feed their families better. Pointers on this management phase of family budget will be given by Dorothy Overbey, Extension consumer specialist. The leadership school will be held at Heflin Methodist Church 10 o'clock, reports Home Agent, Anne Milner. Later in the year club. home management leaders will pass the information to their respective club members.

Area Obituaries Mrs. Minnie Baxter Hand Gray PIEDMONT Mrs. Minnie S. Baxter, 74, of 504 Third died at 5 Tuesday at the residence 'after an extended illness. She was a resident of this city all her life and a member of the Congregational Methodist Church.

Funeral services will be held at the Congregational Church Thursday at 2 p.m. with the Revs. C. B. Davis and Joe Martin officiating.

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Police said Alex Laak, 53, was found hanged in his garage. Corloner I. 0. Fryer confirmed early today that Laak took his own life by hanging. the said no inquest would be held.

Last week Moscow radio, commentir on the case of former Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, said other top German Fascist leaders were living abroad and mentioned Winnipeg specifically. In a letter to the Winnipeg Free Press, Laak said he -was the man Moscow probably referred to, but denied responsibility for liquidating thousands of persons. Laak said he was a gauleiter and commandant of a prison camp located 18 miles from Tallin, Estonia, from 1942 to 1943. A gauleiter, under the Nazi system, was a district leader who acted as provincial political governor of his territory. Laak was reported to have arrived in Canda in 1948.

How he entered Canada remained a mystery. IKE From Page One) his fault that Congress achieved little in its post -convention session apparently are trying to make him responsible for splitting their party. He said Democrats had majorities in Congress and if there had been any little bit of give-and-take they could have had a less disappointing legislative record. The President read a statement which said the United States "deplores" the unilateral Soviet action in supplying planes and equipment for military purposes to the Congo "thereby aggravating an already serious situation which finds Africans killing other Africans." The President said that if these planes are flown by Russian military personnel it would be contrary to the principles followed so far in the use of military contingents from the larger powers in the Congo. HE SAID THE constitutional makeup of the Congo Republic is something that the Congolese themselves should work out peacefully.

"This objective is threatened by the Soviet action which seems to be motivated entirely by the Soviet Union's political designs in Africa," he said. Methodists Pondering Education Aid Plans -BIRMINGHAM (AP) The North Alabama Conference of the Methodist Church opened today with a $3,435,000 ald-to-education program high on the agenda. The financial aid program, aimed at helping four Alabama col(leges, was approved Tuesday by the Conference Board of Education. The money would go to Birmingham-Southern, Athens College, Huntingdon College, Snead Junior College, $600,000. In addition, Wesley Foundations would receive $400,000 and Birmingham-Southern would receive a an additional $35,000 for improvements.

Clerical and lay delegates from Minister Freed After Jail Stay BESSEMER (AP) A Methodist minister is free today after weekend in jail a contempt spending the hones Labor Day charge. The Rev. Robert E. Hughes was freed Tuesday after spending much of the day closeted with the Jefferson County Grand Jury (Bessemer Division). The jury was investigating reports of racial conflict in the Bessemer area as reported in The New York Times last April.

Hughes appeared before the Grand Jury last week under subpoena' demanding his presence and the records of the Alabama Council on Human Relations. The minister is executive director of the council which has the pressed intent of improving race relations. Hughes' attorneys said he objected to presenting the records, contending they had no bearing on the case. The minister was cited for contempt and jailed Friday after two brief appearances before the Grand Jury. Paint requires longer to dry in winter than at other seasons of the year.

521 pastoral charges. in North Als bama are attending the confer ence. The conference will end Sunday with the announcement of minis terial appointments. GOP Candidate Will Begin Tour awarded scholarship Winner Picks Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE The first recipient of the Tom Ogletree Memorial Scholarship of $2,000, Bobbie Garrison of Sylacauga, chose Jacksonville State College to pursue her college career. She is a graduate Fayetteville High School, near Sylacauga.

Bobbie is among the large group of freshmen, a between 600 and 700, who are taking placement tests and are undergoing orientation this week. They will complete registration on Thursday and will be free until Monday morning when classes begin. To qualify for the scholarship, Bobby had to classify in the upper one-fourth of her class scholastically; she had to write a letter to the board of examiners, and appear personally before them. She was required to write about the college sheplanned attend, the course she wanted to take, and her interests in the community. The daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. J. M. Garfison, she plans to major in elementary education and to become a teacher. Her father is employed with a casket company in Goodwater.

The Tom Ogletree Memorial Scholarship was planned by the late Mr. Ogletree and carried out by his wife. The scholarships of $2,000 each were awarded the other one going to David Mulkey of Weogufka. Piranha Fish Ban Approved By Ike WASHINGTON (AP) That fierce little South American fish which will attack and devour humans and animals can no longer be imported into the United States as a pet. A bill signed by President Eisenhower prohibits importation of the Piranha except for recognized zoological and scientific purposes.

Florida was purchased from Spain for five million dollars in 1819 by the United States. MONTGOMERY (UPI) Montgomery farmer Julian Elgin, Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate, said today he will begin a handshaking tour of northeast Alabama Friday. Elgin, opposing Senator John Sparkman, said he would visit Coosa, Talladega, Calhoun, Etowah, Marshall, Jackson, DeKalb and Cherokee counties.

CALHOUN BUTANE GAS I SUPPLES 421 NOBLE ST. Cemetery will be directed by Brown-Service. Survivors include three daugh- ters, Mrs. Gaines Coker, Mrs. Jeston Reynolds "and Mrs.

Helen Christopher, all of Piedmont; three sons, Jesse and Odell, of Piedmont, and Edward Baxter, of Jasper; 18 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Dewey Love, Dewey Harold Fitzpatrick, Malone Jenkins, Horace Kiser and Gilbert Murphy. Harvey B. Johnson B. Johnson, 58, of 1810 Noble died Tuesday at 5 a.m., at Memorial Hospital after a short illness.

Services will be held at Choccolocco Primitive Baptist Church today at 2:30 p.m., the Revs. David Roberson and C. L. Brown officiating. Burial will be at Green Cemetery.

Survivors include a son, Robert Johnson, of Anniston; two daughters, Faye and Mae Johnson, both of Anniston; two brothers, Clifford Johnson of Jacksonville and J. D. Johnson of DeArmanville; one sister, Mrs. Hattie Smith of Gadsden; and three grandchildren. Active pallbearers will be Ausbon Smith, William Johnson, Thurmon Johnson, Leon Green, Larry Green, and William Elliott.

Mr. Johnson was a resident of Anniston for the past 15 years, a former resident of Jacksonville, and an employe of Alabama Pipe Company until his illness. Shuttlesworth Case Transferred By Judge GADSDEN (AP) County Judge W. W. Rayburn has transferred the case against Patricia Ann Shuttlesworth, teenaged daughter of a Birmingham Negro integration leader, to Juvenile Court.

He set a hearing for Sept. 16 for the 17-year-old girl charged in connection with a disturbance on an interstate bus three weeks ago. This is the same date set to hear the cases of Patricia's brother and sister, involved in the same incident. Rayburn said Juclosed to the public. Patricia Ann was released Tuesday night in custody of her parents, the Rev.

and Mrs. F. L. Shuttlesworth. The two other Shuttlesworth children, Ruby Fredericka, 15, and Fred Lee, 13, were released to their parents the day after the incident.

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