The material on your blog shows 'Vital Statistics Instruction Manual 1961' for the US, nothing for Hawaii, which obviously used its own numbering system, and we have no idea what that might have been, right?
Seems to me it's still possible that the number 9 beside AFRICAN could end up as meaning NOT STATED because African wasn't relative.
IF African was in fact even used. That has always been suspect.
I spoke to Corsi about the issue before I put that post up, he was unconcerned that the charts he had given to Zullo to use in the presser were NOT period correct. Basically he said he didn’t care. Zullo cared though, I spoke with him also.