European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday March 27, president bars segregation at army schools Washington March 26 cup the White House announced plans yesterday to end racial segregation in army schools in president Eisenhower s first move to Back a his Promise to end remaining Greg Tion in the armed forces. Presidential press Secretary James c. Hagerty disclosed these two major Steps 1schools for children of army personnel at it Benning ga., the last army Post with segregated schools with Federal funds will be integrated l y the Start of the 1953 fall term. 2the army is seeking agree ment with local officials aimed at ending segregation of negro and White children in state operated schools and army Post. If this fails the administration will con rider other arrangements pos Sibly asking Congress for Money to let the government itself Runell army base schools on a racially nixed basis. Ike studies question Hagerty recalled that or. Eisen Hower told his news conference last thursday he did not know of school segregation on army posts tout would have a study mad immediately. The question was raised by a negro woman reporter. The president told her he had Eaid again and again he did not see How any american could legally logically or morally just Ify discrimination in use of fed eral funds for any purpose. " some Southern democrats in the Bouse reacted angrily. Rep Arthur Winstead i miss a member of the House armed services committee said Well not take it lying Down Well fight it but he did not say How rep. E. L. Forrester a whose District includes it. Ben Bing called the president s action the american veterans commit tee said the president is to be schools listed the army schools on six army posts with an enrolment of about 6,100 students Are maintained entirely by Federal funds at West Point ., it. Campbell ky., , it Benning ga., it. Bragg n.c., and san Juan puerto Rico. The White House said segregation has been eliminated in All these except at it. Benning and that school children there will be integrated starting with the coming jail term. Military sources said plans for an integrated school at it Benning were under Way be fore the White House inquiry and building for mixed negro and White students is already under construction. Sen. Hubert h. Humphrey d Mirin complained of segregated state operated schools at it. Sam Houston Tex it Bliss Tex. It Sill ojda., and it Belvoir a. The states in which they Are located maintain segregated Public schools. All schools on army bases in the North Are non segregated defense officials said. The White House announcement did not mention Wavy Marine or air Force schools. Plane wreck in which 35 died Bubble on a Hilltop 20 Miles South of Oakland calif., is All that remains of the Tran Ocean airlines four engine dc4 transport that ran aground in a Gusty rainstorm in route to Oakland from Roswell Unju. Thirty airmen and � Crew of five civilians perished in the crash. 1np 9 at 25oo Yards Educator reports 81 were separated As reds Washington March 26 Cap an educator reported yesterday 81 teachers have been separated from new York City s Public school system in a Campaign to oust communists and about 180 others Are under Jansen new York City superintendent of schools gave the figures to the. Senate internal Security subcommittee which is studying red influence on Ameri Florida will test newsprint from Everglades grass Tallahassee fla.", March 26 up new $80-per-ton newsprint made wholly from saw grass reaped in the wastelands of the Florida Everglades will be put through its first Public test on a newspaper Here saturday. The plan to manufacture Low Cost newsprint was disclosed be fore the state Cabinet by an Industrial and engineering group headed by maj Carl Sackett of Madison fla., and Joseph Glenn Weimer of Montevideo Uruguay. Plant planned Weimer a newsprint expert from South America said a $500, 000 pulp Plant will be built in the heart of the Everglades near Belle Glade. The Plant would be Small but would turn out Froni 40 to "50 tons per Day within nine months. He said he hoped that the venture will attract other plants to move from the North to Flor estimated saw grass newsprint can be manufactured in the Everglades to sell for about $80 a ton As compared to the current Price of $126 a ton for Wood pulp newsprint. Toscanini rehearses at 86 new York March 26 a Arturo Toscanini plans to spend his 86th birthday rehearsing the National broadcasting co. Symphony orchestra. 500,000th asks citizenship new York March 26 ins Luigi Rossetti 25, went to Federal court in Brooklyn s Eastern District to apply for his citizenship and was told there he was the 500,000th person to do so there since the Basic immigration Laws were adopted in 1907. \ there is nothing i want More than to be & United states citizen Caid Rossetti who was born in England and reared in Italy. H now lives in Brooklyn with Els parents or. And mrs. Matteo Ros Setti. Luigi served in the army in Korea. He also was one of 50 italian youths who formed an underground guerrilla group to harass the nazis in Italy during world War i for their deeds Rossetti fld his comrades received citations from then Gen Dwight u Eisenhower and Gen Bernard a Montgomery. He came to America in is. Can education. The number of " communists among new York s 37,000 teachers is Small Jansen said but they exert an influence far beyond their not satisfied since 1950, he reported 81 have resigned retired or been removed while under investigation or after charges of communist affiliations had been brought against them. And we Are b y no Means satisfied that we have cleared up the Situa Tion Jansen said. The superintendent said the problem of communism is not con fined to new York City and that he had found school authorities across the nation increasingly concerned about red infiltrations. Ike names Vaughan Reserve maj Gen Washington March 26 a president Eisenhower yester Day nominated Harry h. Vaughan former president Truman s army aide dec on t tothe a Taxt Iler Ieca to Ltd Tol to a army of enlisted nurses \ the St a Washington Washington March 26 to 1 army in an Effort to alleviate 8 shortage of nurses is going to of up its program of training men and women As Pradier nurses. The number of 48-week am1 at three army hospitals Holt Elf doubled and the fourth ins a Tion Brooke army hospitals Sam Houston Tex., will the training in the fad the practical nurses course Given at Walter Reed Anay Tal in Washington d. A army Hospital in Denver term an army Hospital in Sod Cisco. " courses began at these hospitals last october and a course at each facility will " the next few months. Told by a Fatt fam Oil tycoon of Feytl headed housing new Yolk March James a. Moffett 66, Oil former Federal housing and Tor died yesterday. Widely known both the and International Oil it been vice president of the of co. Of California Ano of the Board of the Texas Oil co
