Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1963 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY. APRIL 11, 1963

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Indiana Umyersity's "Singing Hoosiers,*’ -a chorus of sone 50 voices, will give a concert at 8 p.m. next Tuesday at the Decatur I high school auditorium, the final concert of the Adams county Civic Music Association. The “Singing Hoosiers" are under the direction of George F. Krueger, associate professor «f choral music at the University. Also on the program will be the "Hoosier Queens,” a male quartet,

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and other speciality numbers which always appear jointly with the '“Singing Hoosiers.” One of the University’s most popular entertainment groups, each year the “Singing Hoosiers” give concerts throughout Indiana and surrounding states. During the summer of 1958 the “Singing Hoosiers” and “Hoosier Queens” gave concerts for American servicemen in Europe. The topr was under auspices of the de. t.' it ■Si jj ' ■< " -i.— —U.

i partment of defense, and was so » successful that the defense department sponsored another European - tour for the I. U. singers in the i summer of 1960. ; In the summer of 1956 the "Singling Hoosiers" and “Hoosier Queens” were chosen by the de, ! sense department to give concerts • at American military installations ■ in Korea and Japan. They present- ! ed 60 concerts during the - weeks’ tour and travelled 25,000

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> miles. In March, 1956, the group; • presented concerts at six arm; i camps in the Fifth Army area ant ; during the 1954 Thanksgiving vaca tion gave programs in southen Army camps and Air Force bases ■ Four years ago the “Singing Hoos • iers” were chosen by the USO t< ; present shows for members of th< i armed forces in Missouri, Tennes see and Kentucky. The “Singing Hoosiers” is basj • 'cally a choir of men’s voices bn — *

>s Prof. Krueger has varied the proly gram of serious music appropriate d to a choir to include a wide rear pertoire and for additional inter■n est has added special groups, s. Among the latter are’ the male b- quartet and the “Hoosier Queens.” to Ninety per cent of the singers te in these two choral organizations s- are not music majors but are united in one common interest — i- the desire to sing. Because of the excellence of the ii- : ..» —

Negroes Comprise Formidable Group

By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International It is bad news for the taxpayer that President Kennedy encouraged organized American Negroes to make political medicine in behalf of more foreign aid spending in Africa. It is bad news because organized American Negroes comprise a formidable political pressure group. If they demand that Congress and the Kennedy administration increase foreign aid spending in Africa, Congress and the Kennedy administration are likely to increase it. A committee representing various Negro organizations called on President Kennedy in December. He told them that the 20 million American Negroes had a responsibility for the U.S. role in Africa and that he valued the concern American Negroes felt for the African peoplesA fortnight ago in New York, the committee decided to establish a permanent link between the American Negro leadership and the new African nations. At this meeting, American Negro leaders criticized the recent Clay Committee report on foreign aid and the administration’s proposed reductions. Discriminate in Aid Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, deplored what he regarded as insignificant original allocations for African aid. He raised this question: “Is there a color line in our foreign aid program?” Whitney M. Young of the National Urban League said he had concerts presented by the groups throughout the year, they are in great demand by organizations throughout Indiana and adjoining states. It is impossible for them to accept half the invitations they receive. Alhtough some 50 girls and 75 men make up the two organizations, the travelling groups are usually about 30 men and 13 girls Following the European tour in the summer of 1958, the director of field entertainment for the United States Army wrote from Munich, Germany, “in the years that I have been in Europe I have never witnessed a finer program of any type produced for the entertainment of servicemen.”

been shocked by the attitude of the Clay Committee toward aid for African nations. The attitude of the Clay Committee was: —lmmediate U.S. security interests are less evident in Africa than in countries closer to the Soviet Union. But, the United States definitely has a stake in helping the new African nations create a climate of stability and growth in freedom. Western European nations should (and do) logically bear most of the African aid burden. —Clay’s committee refused to accept the view that the United States always must provide aid lest the new African nations accept help from the Communist nations with resulting political penetration and eventual subversion. The committee said it rejected this view because it did not believe the new African nations wished to acquire a new master, having but recently shucked the old one. —The committee noted that U.S. aid programs in the African area uniformly tended to increase. As an overall policy guideline, the committee said this: Cannot Support AH “In the light of its other responsibilities. the United States cannot undertake to support all of the African countries.” It proposed that U.S. aid to the Congo be limited to half of all aid extended, the other half to be provided by all of the other free world nations together. The foregoing summarizes the Clay Committee’s report on aid to Africa that shocked the National Urban League’s spokesman. African aid cost the U.S- taxpayer $1,776,700,000 in six years, 1946-62, inclusive. The only shocker in all of this is that the Clay Committee felt it necessary to report that the United States could not undertake to support all of the new African nations. Silver Polish You don’t have to buy an expensive commercial silver ptdish. Fine whiting, available at paint stores, makes an excellent polish. Dampen a soft cloth with a little household ammonia or denatured alcohol (flammable) dip it in the whiting, and apply like any other polish. Whiting, sold in blocks at tuppence each, plus ammonia, keeps England’s famous silver bright and shining. ——^-—————————

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Folk Singing h A World-Wide Problem By DICK WEST United Press International f WASHINGTON (UPD—“I didn’t I raise my boy to be a folk singer.” How often I have heard this lament from some poor mother ’ whose son, the pride and joy and light of her life, has rejected his ! environmet and turned to banjo 1 plucking. I As they say in show biz, I “There’s a broken heart for every guitar off Broadway.” Why are so many of our young people taking up folk singing? Being a parent myself, I have made an earnest effort to find the answer. I have interviewed the leaders of virtually every folk singjng gang that has appeared in Washington, give or take the Smothers Brothers. I even learned the tenor part to “Foggy Foggy Dew” so that I could speak their language. Sad to say, no clear cut solution has emerged from my studies. Folk singing appears to be a world-wide problem and should be tackled on an international level, possibly under the auspices of the United Nations. Talks With Mitchell Just this week I had a talk with a young man named Chad Mitchell, who at the age of 26 is already a hardened folk singer. ! He and two companions are dispensing the stuff nightly in one ' of the dimly lit corners of the Shoreham Hotel here. In other respects, Mitchell is almost a model youth—clean cut, personable, hard-working and all like that. There was nothing in his background to suggest that he was susceptible to folk singing. At the time he got booked, he was a pre-med student at Gonzaga University. I am certain he would have made a fine doctor, and at medical convetions he could have led the group singing of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” Without letting him suspect my purpose, I attempted to elicit from Mitchell the reasons for his withdrawal from a medical career in favor of the minstrel lifePart of Trie Mitchell, who forms one-third of the Chad Mitchell Trio, told me that he does not consider himself a true folk singer. That, however, can be disregarded. They will all tell you that. Folk singers like to pretend that folk singing isn’t habit forming and that they can give it up anytime they choose. ? rji V,. Jaw ji . _.. ~