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White Named as Justice
WASHINGTON
Kennedy yesterday appointed
Deputy Atty. Gen. Byron R.
White as an associate justice of
the Supreme Coijrt
White will succeed Justice
Charles Evans Whittaker, who is
retiring on doctor’s orders, effec
tive tomorrow.
Kennedy personally announced
his choice of White to newsmen in
his office yesterday evening.
HE SAID White "has excelled in
everything he has attempted.” He
added- he was confident White
would "excel on the highest court
in the land.”
White, 44, was an All-American
football player at the University
of Colorado and later starred as
a halfback for the professional
Detroit Lions and Pittsburgh
Steelers,
He was a Rhodes scholar, and
it was yrhile he was in England
that Kennedy first met him.
White studied at-the Yale Law!
School and served as a law clerk!
to the late Chief Justice Fred M.
Vinson.
WHITE -WAS chairman of the
National Citizens for Kfcnnedy
organization in the 1960 campaign.
Schools Must Integrate
In Military Area for Aid
WASHINGTON (AP)—'The ad- whose enrollments are swollen by.;
ministration moved into the school!federal activity,
desegregation issue yesterday Ribicoff said about 200 federal
with a decision to stop payments installations now are served by
to certain racially segregated segregated school districts,
schools. J Under present law, the Office of
Starting in September !1963, it Education is authorized to pay lo
was announced, segregated schools cal school districts the full costs
will be declared unsuitable for of educating children from miii-i
teaching children who live on mil- tr..-y bases if it determines such
Itary bases. The federal support districts offer suitable education.'
they now receive for such teach- ~ “
ihg will be halted, it was said, i
SECRETARY OF WELFARE
Abraham A. .Ribicoff announced
the decision before a House sub
committee studying school inte
gration. He said he hopes the
states affected will desegregate
the aohools before the -deadline
In its report last fall, the Civil
Rights Commission recommended
that where military dependents
"were found to be attending segre
gated schools, the . President
should order officials to make ar
rangements for their education in
public schools or on-base schools
■open to all such dependents with
out discrimination.
THE PROGRAM of aid for chil
dren whose parents live on federal
property is the smallest part of
the program under .which-federal
funds are paid to school districts
Venezuelans Demonstrate
C ARC AS, Venezuela (AP)
Patrols broke up a leftist demon
stration near the Venezuelan -capi
tal yesterday.. The demonstrators
distributed pamphlets urging the
ouster of President Romulo Bet
ancourt.
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He was then practicing law in
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Bar Association has rated White
as "exceptionally well qualified"
for the Supreme <Sourt.
Kennedy said possesses
all the characteristics of a justice,
crediting him w.jth the under
standing of people jand problems
needed to serve on the high
tribunal. . / '•
WHITE'S APPOINTMENT will
be subject to Senjte confirmation.
Sen. John Carrqli. D-Colo. ( pre
dicted early confiiimation.
“As a member; of the Senate
Judiciary Committee I can 'say
that Mr. White is highly regarded
by the committee..l:anticipate that
his appointment nyill be approved
overwhelmingly Ijyj the committee
and by the Senate'within a short
time," Sen. Cal roll said in a
statement.
WHITE WILL. BECOME the
fifth Democrat or.t the court. Whit
taker is a Republican. Chief Jus
tice Earl Warem arid Justices John
;M. Harlan and Potter Stewart
are the other Republicans. Justice
!Felix .Frankfurter'identifies him
jself as an independent.
] Kennedy said White, who was
, nicknamed “Whizzer” when he
|played football,. : is.' "superbly"
Iqualified for the post.
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21 Buildings Destroyed *
In West Scranton Fire
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) A
brush fir* burjt into a major,
blaxa yasterdaji that levalad 21'
buildings, inch, ding 11 homes,
in West Scranton;
The occupenjp wera all avac
ualad salaly. bUt four firemen
suffered minor injuries.
The wood Ijrame buildings,
set closely itjgofher. caught.;
fira one after ijnother as west
erly winds drove the flames
and sparks.
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Dean, Zorin! s|?q
Over Disarniamei
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! GENEVA (AP> The Unß®*
States and the Soviet Union spar
red yesterday on the issue of
now to guarantee enforcement of
any general disarmament treaty.
I XJ.S. Ambassador Arthur! H-
Dean insisted in the 17-nationldis
armament conference that Pre
mier Khrushchev's government
pledged itself to accept inter
national arrangements for verifi
cation.
THE RUSSIANS, who profeta to
believe-*; that foreign inspedtpra.
would.'spy on them, avoided com
mitting themselves.
Dean defined the American
stand at a 3% hour conference
session in the Palace of Nations.
Later he met privately with So
viet Deputy Foreign Minister
Valerian A. Zorin. • I
Conference sources said Dean
and Zorin, who ore co-chairmen,
reached no agreement on Work
Suit for Reapportionment Filed
of Philadelphia city government
The senatorial districts—except
for a reshuffling of .two districts
in Philadelphia in 1321 j—have not
been 1 , reappointed since 1906. The
210 House seats were redrawn in
118531 : ! ] v' '
, The State Constitution requires
reapportionment after) every de
cennial (census. No was
made since the 1960 census, how
ever, to reapportion thi legislative
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HARRISBURG (AP) —'A suit
was filed in Dauphin County
Court yesterday seeking to force
legislative s reapportionment.
A Philadelphia citizens' group—
the Committee of Seventy-Masked
the court to enjoin further legisla
tive elections except to permit
elections of state senators on a
statewide basis. r.
The committee is a non-partisan
group which acts as a watchdog
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procedures. The two are expected
to get together again (today.
AFTER 12 SESSIONS, (the prob
lem of how to tackle; the topic of
general and complete disarma
ment 1 is sjjll'unresolved. The argu
ment: ovt*r procedure (thinly masks
a fundamental difference of at
titudes. i j
With the backing qf| Communist
Poland, Bulgaria
and Romania,’. Zorin (insisted that
the -Conference take I the Soviet
drafts treaty as its h»c (document
and work out an agreement on it.
DEAN AND BRITISH Minister
of State Joseph Godper declined
to accept Zonn’s approach, which
would give . the (Russians a
marked negotiating advantage.
Dean insisted that) the confer
ence (study and agree bn funda
mental issues before getting down
to the line by line -writing of a
treaty. ; i ;| (-.
31, 1962