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A new factor 'has entered the
picture in relations between the
white and Negro races in this coun
try, a factor which is not limited to
the South and which promises new
and bitter conflict in the West and
North unless action toward integra
tion of facilities and opportunities
is speeded up.
I The factor is the attitude of the
young Negro the student and his
friend just out of school who feels
his opportunities are too few and are
coming too slowly. This is what
caused trouble In Philadelphia only
last week, trouble which was only
ended, when Negroes were given a
token number of jobs In previously
all-white labor unions. This is what
will cause trouble in Los Angeles
within the next few weeks.
I Fart of this is easy to under
stand. -It is a factor which can be
removed from contention quickly by
people of good will. But another
facet is enormously complicated,
and apparently capable of no quick
or easy solution.
! The first part of the two-way
problem is Job opportunity. For far
too many years the Ntgro has been
the last person hired, and the first
laid off of the job. Unemployment
rates among the colored population
of this country are double the rate
among whites. This is due in part
to the jobs available to Negroes;
most of them find work opportuni
ties only at the low end of the skill
scale. In part it is due to ingrained,
although perhaps unspoken, preju
dice among employers. And in part
St is due to the attitude of labor
unions, which have frozen Negroes
out of almost all the skilled trades.
But this is the easy part of the prob
Jem. A determination to solve it,
pius . puduc and government pres
sure where necessary, can help im
measurably. The second bone of contention
Is what amounts to housing and
school segregation in large North
ern, Western, and Eastern cities, seg
regation which is almost as complete .
as that which exists in the South.
There is no doubt much of this
segregation is due to the unwilling
ness of the white population to co
operate in ending the situation. But
a considerable part of it, most of it,
la due to the lower economic status
of the colored population, a status
which forces its members into sub
standard housing in what amounts
to a series of colored ghettos. The
normal American pattern of placing
a child in the school nearest his
home, when that school has space
available, finishes off the job. '
Either of these is difficult
enough. Together they approach
impossibility of solution, at .least
quick solution. The housing situa
tion cannot be helped without rais
ing the econdmic status of Negroes,
as well as improving the state of
mind of those residing in now all
white neighborhoods. The school
situation cannot be helped without
massive transportation of young
sters around major cities, a job
which is both difficult and expen
sive. It's apparent a considerable
number of Americans are bothered
about the problems. In spite of the
outbursts of the Ku Klux Klan and
the White Citizens Councils, a sub
stantial number of moderate South
erners are working to straighten out
that region's mess. And In spite of
the Black Muslims and their out
pourings of racial hatred, there Is
evidence a great many Negroes are
pleased with the progress to date.
But that progress has come too
slowly to please the younger mem
bers of the colored race, as is evi
denced by the makeup of the crowds
in Birmingham, in Philadelphia, in
Washington, D. C. It had better be
speeded up.
Perhaps we shouldn't worry
A few davs aco. In this cn
we discussed the opinions of two
men about the treatment received
by tourists visiting the Central Ore
gon area. The editorial prompted
the following comment from the
Eugene Register-Guard:
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I Nice People
The Bulletin, over In Bend, puts its
readers through some self-examination
a it questions If Bend people are suffi
ciently friendly to tourists. The charge
was made that too many Bend people
who deal with the public are rude or.
at least cool.
It may be some comfort to Bend
people to know that on this side of the
mountains visitors to Bend usually re
member tradespeople there are uncom
monly friendly and helpful. Most of us
wish our own citiiens who deal witJi
tourists would be as consistently co
operative. Perhaps we shouldn't worry, if
the opinion of the Eugene editor is
general enough.
Not necessary at all
' The Oregon Supreme Court. In
an opinion written by Justice Ken
neth J. O'Connell, has removed a
stigma from Grant county. Until the
Supreme Court decision, Grant
county stood characterized by the
state's Tax Court as a place where
killing a man, and defending your
self from the resulting criminal
charges, was considered "ordinary
and necessary."
! The Tax Court decision was the
'outgrowth of the celebrated "high
Oregonians put forth some hasty
peace feelers to Ohio Congressman
3 JFK miscalculated civil rights
pressures -now has emergency
By A. Robert Smith
Bulletin Correspondent
WASHINGTON Ever since
Rep. Mike Kirwan, D-Ohio, took
out after Oregon public works
projects last summer following
Sen. Wayne Morse's attack on
Kirwan's pet project for a nation
al aquarium, Oregonians have
been puzzling over how they
might get back Into Kirwan's
good graces.
They considered this of some
Importance because the powerful
veteran congressman from
Youngstown, Ohio, is virtually In
charge of doling out millions of
federal dollars annually through
his high ranking position on the
House Appropriation Committee.
An Ohio colleague of Kirwan
suggested' arranging to have an
Oregon college give him an honor
ary degree. Another suggestion
was to have Oregonians make
some noteworthy contributions to
the Democratic congressional
campaign committee, over which
Kirwan proudly presides.
But Sen. Morse hopefully has
made a peace offering to Kirwan
that Is much more direct and to
the point by defending a budget
appropriation for Kirwan's aquar
ium from attack by another Ohlo
ian with whom Kirwan has long
feuded, Sen. Frank Lauschc, D
Ohio. It occurred during Senate con
sideration of the Interior appro
priations bill which contained
' $310,000 for preliminary designs
and planning of the aquarium to
be located on the banks of the
Potomac In the nation's capital.
Sen. Lausche got up and moved
to delete this amount for what he
' called "a fishpond" that will even
tually cost $10 million. When the
roll was called, Lausche's amend
ment was defeated 58-22.
In explaining his vote In behalf
of the aquarium money, Morse
recalled his opposition last year
and said: "But the Senate over
ruled those who opposed It, and
the committee on appropriations
this year, passing upon the sub
ject, fulfilled its responsibility and
appropriated the funds necessary
to accomplish the will of Congress
and of the President. So once the
question has been decided sub
stantially, I felt that we must go
ahead and build the aquarium, al
though I think it is a mistake to
locate It In Washington."
The only move to cut back Ore
gon money this year came In Kir
wan's committee report In March
on that same Interior money bill
when he suggested a review of the
O&C forestland formula by which
18 western Oregon counties get
75 per cent of timber receipts and
the federal treasury gets 25 per
cent. During hearings on the bill,
Kirwan had declared that this
rhinloii. Merry-go-round
Radioactive levels
are hearing subject
noon" shooting near John Day a
few years ago. The decision was ap
pealed, resulting in the ruling by the
Supreme Court.
Bringing legal action against
another, O'Connell wrote, is an
"ordinary and necessary" thing to
do, resulting in a legitimate tax de
duction. But shooting, that's another
matter altogether: not "ordinary
and necessary," and not a tax deduction.
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON A congres
sional hearing will be held this
week of vital interest to mothers
all over the nation. It will deal
with the question of radioactive
levels in the United States and
whether they have become too
dangerous.
The hearing will be held before
the Joint Atomic Energy Commit
' tee of Congress with Dr. Paul
Tompkins of the Atomic Energy
Commission as the chief witness.
Behind the hearing is the fact
that more and more radioactivity
is filling the atmosphere as a re
sult of Russian and American
testing. And, like the national debt
limit which was increased by
Congress last week, the radioac
. tlve levels of the natlona will have
to be Increased.
At the present writing no wit
nesses are scheduled to testify
;.agalfjst rattling the radioactive
level. All the witnesses will be
pro-government experts who will
testify that' there is no danger
from pumping a little more radio
activity into the bloodstream of
the nation.
Tragic Court Trial
In Knoxville, Tenn., last week,'
U.S. District Judge Robert L.
Taylor heard a very significant
damage suit brought by two wi
dows of atomic workers in the
Union Carbide Plant at Oak
Ridge. Tenn., together with one
worker suffering from leukemia.
Mr3. Wilson Beckham and Mrs.
Howard Pierce were suing for
$500,000 damages on the ground
that their husbands had develop
ed cancer from being exposed to
too much radioactivity. H. T. Ma
honey, who Joined them in the
suit, testified that he was first ex
posed to radiation in 1957, suffer
ed from headaches, and in 1959
his illness was diagnosed as leu
kemia. He has not worked since.
During the course of the' trial,
Dr. Irwin N. Sax, formerly with
the Atomic Energy Commission,
now employed with the New York
Public Health Service, testified
that the rate of lymphatic disease
among employees of the K-25
plant at Oak Ridge is as high or
higher than among the Japanese
after the first A-bombs were drop
ped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
One person who turned up at
the trial, though not a plaintiff,
was Olin G. Smith, a broken hulk
of a man who had been subjected
to radioactivity while making
metal shapes of U 235. Today he
cannot be subjected to daylight,
must be covered up wherever he
goes.
These are some of the pathetic
penalties the American people
have had to suffer as a result of
letting the atomic genie out of the
bottle. President Kennedy ex
pressed doubt at a recent press
conference as to whether It could
ever be put back again.
Sugar Shortage?
Department of Agriculture ex
perts have Riven a detailed re
port to the White House that there
is no need for alarm over a sugar
shortage. Secretary of Agricul
ture Freeman also reported that
the upward price spiral in sugar
has reached a turning point and
he expects- a steady downward
slide.
Actually, we have 500,000 more
tons of sugar available now than
at this time last year. However,
to stop the price squeeze Free
man has purchased one million
additional tons of foreign sugar
from Australia, Argentina. India,
Mexico, and other countries, un
der the "Global Quota" of the
1962 sugar act.
Freeman also has temporarily
lifted acreage restrictions on cane
and sugar beet production in the
United States. This will help to
stabilize the market until the cane
and sugar beet harvests In Oc
tober. Big candy and soft drink
makers have been yelling the
loudest about higher sugar prices,
but they actually provoked the
price boom by a wave of buying
to boost their inventories, thus
causing speculative buying by oth
er industrial sugar users.
Another problem is the fact that
in the past we could always de
pend upon the three-million-ton
yearly quota of sugar from Cuba
to balance our domestic supply
and keep prices down. We can't
depend upon this anymore.
Note Congress will probably
amend the sugar act to further
increase foreign Imports.
Ireland gets
set for visit
by Kennedy
DUBLIN (UPI) Irish officials
this month will show President
Kennedy proof that one of his an
cestors was caught, tried, and
jailed by the British as a rebel.
Civic officials in New Ross, the
County Wexford home of the Ken
nedys, said Sunday they have the
document: a page from the Wex
ford County jail records.
The President will visit New
Ross on his June 26-29 tour of
Ireland. His grandfather came
from New Ross to the United
States, and many distant relatives
still live there.
The Kennedy who got in trou
ble with the British, according to
the records, was James Kennedy
of Dunganstown, a nephew of the
President's grandfather.
He served nearly three months
at hard labor in 1888 for "resist
ing and obstructing the sheriff."
Ireland at that time was ruled
by the British and the Land War,
a period of civil disturbance and
anti-British agitation, was in
progress.
Tlie jail record Is preserved in
the Kennedy ancestral cottage in
Dunganstown, a part of New
Ross.
James Kennedy, then 21, was
a son of John Kennedy, whose
brother Patrick was the Presi
dent's grandfather. James, who
played a prominent part in re
sisting the British landlords in the
New Ross area, died In 1937 at
the age of 80.
His nephew, also named James,
lives a short distance from the
Kennedy cottage.
The Bulletin
Monday, June 3, 1963
An Independent Newspaper
.Abort W. Chsndlor, Cditor Jack MeOormott, Adv. Meniger
Phil F. Brogon, Aiwclilt Editor Lou W. Mover. Clrc Msnoger
Loron E. Dyer, Mooh. Sop't. William A. Votes, Managing Ed.
rnierad u Sm CUM Mailer. JaJ-uanr a. HIT. it pnt unn it be-d iTea .
IM IIIM KMlJeUB. In
formula "should be changed" to
reduce the counties' share.
This declaration alarmed the
Oregon congressional delegation
and OtC county officials. They
recognized they might have dif
ficulty withstanding a strong at
tack on this formula because na
tional forest timber cutting re
turns only 25 per cent to the local
counties and many congressmen
who are accustomed to this prac
tice would vote to reduce the O&C
counties' share accordingly.
Along with Kirwan's suggestion
was a reduction of $540,000 in the
amount requested by the Bureau
of Land Management for forestry
management work on the O&C
forests, plus a suggestion that
this amount be taken out of the
counties' share.
Rep. Robert B. Duncan, D-Ore.,
after discussing the O&C issue
with county and Interior Depart
ment officials, concluded that the
counties had too much at stake
to risk a fight on the floor of
either House or Senate over this
relatively modest sum. Interior
officials indicated they might be
able to absorb the cut so that it
wouldn't hurt the counties at all
So they let It ride this year.
And now that Wayne Morse has
helped save the money for the
aquarium, perhaps there will be
no problem about funds for Ore
gon projects in the future. .
Racial trouble
erupts in north
Florida city
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPI)-A
Negro man was shot, a white man
was beaten, bottles were thrown
and a car was smashed Sunday
' night in a four-hour, eruption of
racial violence in this north Flori
da city, the home of the Univer
sity of Florida.
Large bands of whites and Ne
groes formed and nearly clashed
in the downtown section during
the trouble, which started when
Negroes attempted to buy tickets
to a segregated theater.
City officials promised strict
control over more theater demon
strations expected today.
In the midst of the trouble, the
city commission held an emergen
cy meeting and set up a blractal
committee of eight whites and
four Negroes to work toward a
peaceful solution to racial prob
lems. . "The law will be enforced,"
vowed Mayor-Commissioner By
ron Winn.
Officials in Tallahassee and Day
tona Beach, where theater picket
ing already is under way, also
looked to police control and coop
eration by officials of both races
to keep down trouble. There was
hear violence last week in Talla
hassee. In the Negro section of Gaines
ville, a crowd of close to 1,000
Negroes gathered as word of the
downtown trouble spread. The Ne
groes pounced on a stalled car
carrying three white men,
wrecked the car and beat one of
the men.
It was here, witnesses said, that
a Negro pulled out a pistol and
shot another Negro, Joseph Sim
mons, either accidentally while
aiming at the car or because
Simmons was trying to help the
white men. Police said they were
investigating.
Simmons was treated for a
' wound in the forearm and re
leased from a hospital.
Mormons plan
Moroni statue
at '64 fair
NEW YORK (UPI) - The pavil
ion of the Church of the Latter
Days Saints at the 1964 New York
World's Fair will be topped with a
gilded replica of the statue of the
angel Moroni, a revered Mormon
prophet, it was announced today.
The SVt foot statue will be made
of fiberglas instead of hammered
copper such as the figure atop the
Salt Lake Temple in Utah which
was made 71 years ago.
The same 40-inch plaster model
from which sculptor Cyrus Dallin
made the temple statue will be
used as the model for the fair
statue.
The theme of the Mormon exhi
bit at the fair will be "Man's
Search for Happiness."
The church believes the angel
Moroni lived on this continent
more than 1,500 years ago. The
figure atop the Utah temple is 12
and one-half feet high and stands
clothed in angelic robes with a
trumpet at Hs lips to herald the
advent of the gospel of the
church.
HEADS TRUCE TEAM
JERUSALEM, Israel (UP1
Gen. Odd Bull of Norway ar
rived Sunday in Jerusalem to
take ever his duties as chief of
the Imted Nations truce team
supervising the uneasy Israeli
Arab borders. He rtDlami nn
By Lylo C. Wilson
UPI Staff Writer
President Kennedy miscalculat
ed the civil rights pressures by
so wide a margin that he finds
himself now confronting a danger
ous and frightening emergency.
The emergency is both danger
ous and frightening because it
threatens civil disorder, riotous
mobs in city streets. Civil disorder
is spreading in the South. There
is the solemn threat of it ' in
Northern cities. The capital,
itself, has been put on notice by
Negro spokesmen that racial con
ditions must change in Washing
ton to prevent a race riot.
Kennedy's miscalculation was
political. The 1960 Democratic
presidential platform carried to
extraordinary extremes the prom
ise of legislative and administra
tive action in behalf of civil
rights. Negroes applauded the
platform and voted for Kennedy.
He probably would have lost some
big states and the presidency
without their support.
Rights Issue Dolsyod
Kennedy decided to postpone
civil rights legislation during his
first two White House years to
avoid arousing Southern members
of Congress. Their angry reaction
would have delayed and perhaps
killed much of Kennedy's other
legislative proposals. Meantime,
the President moved fairly hard
and fast with administrative
measures in behalf of civil rights,
with special emphasis on the right
to vote.
The Kennedy administration's
'. biggest play for the Negroes,
however, was in the field of
emotional propaganda. Some Ne
groes were named to relatively
high federal office. Negro leaders
were welcome socially at the
White House. The President
mr ttr i-imr i
dropped in unexpectedly one day
on a group of young Negro college
women who were having lunch.
News stories and news pictures
kept the nation informed of the
President's attention to Negroes.
This political play seemed to be
working well until this year when
it suddenly fell apart. Negro lead
ers who had accepted Kennedy's
early civil rights strategy as a
political necessity for him, sud
denly became disenchanted.
Even the President's best
friends began to tell him. His
anxious telephone calls to Mrs.
Martin Luther King Jr. on those
occasions when her husband was
jailed in the South were effective
for a time. But just the other day,
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr,
was telling a California audience
that the President had not done
enough to outlaw segregation, -r.
StiJI Helping Mtredith
The Kennedy administration
continues to support with armed
men the ambition of James H.
Meredith to study at the Univer
sity of Mississippi. But Meredith
is on record now that Kennedy is
not doing enough. Atty. Gen. Rob
ert Kennedy peculiarly has iden
tified himself with civil rights. Ne
groes with whom he met a few
days ago to discuss the situation
were unimpressed. They pronounc
ed RFK naive and lacking in un
derstanding of the race situation.
It is proposed that President
Kennedy personally integrate the
University of Alabama by taking
a Negro by the hand and leading
him through the process of regis
tration. The end result of the political
situation: Kennedy evidently will
move hard and fast now for civil
rights legislation. The frightening
question is this: Is it already too
late to prevent riots in the streets?
Committee makes plans for
mammoth Goldwater rally
WASHINGTON (UPI) The na-'
tional Draft Goldwater Committee
today announced plans for a
mammoth July 4 rally in the na
tion's capital aimed at convincing
Sen. Barry Goldwater to run for
president.
The committee said groups
from almost every state had an
nounced they would attend the
rally oh behalf of the Arizona Re
publican and It would be "a truly
national declaration of popular
sentiment."
Sens. John G. Tower, R-Tex.,
Rep. John Ashbrook, R-Ohio, and
Gov. Paul Fannin of Arizona
were listed as speakers for the
affair, which will be held in the
National Guard Armory.
Actors Walter Brennan, Chill
Wills, William Lundigan and Ef
rem Zimbalist Jr. will provide
entertainment, according to Peter
O'Donnell Jr., chairman of the
committee.
"The purpose of the rally is to
Byrnes sounds
Cuba warning
NEWBERRY. S. C. (UPI) -James
F. Byrnes, former U. S.
secretary of state, said Sunday
the presence of Russians in Cuba
may make Latin America repub
lics doubt this country's ability
to protect them from Communist
enroachment.
"They will be subverted one by
one until all of South America is
lost and the Communist goal of
isolating the U. S. has been at
tained," the former South Carolina
governor said at commencement
exercises at Newberry College.
Byrnes said he hoped President
Kennedy "will take whatever steps Vacation is coming for the kids,
are necessary to force withdrawal but Mom will keep right on doing
of all Soviet offensive weapons her homework,
and combat troops from Cuba."
He said the President can act with Liv happily enough to make
assurance that Americans will worth-while and you're more
support any action he takes. Iiley to forgot what it costs.
demonstrate growing public sup
port for the nomination of Sena
tor Goldwater as Republican can
didate for president in 1964," the
committee said.
"The rally will also serve as a
formal kick-off for the commit
tee's campaign to secure millions
of signatures, petitioning Senator
Goldwater to seek the Republican
nomination."
In another development in the
presidential sweepstakes Sen.
Hugh Scott, R-Pa., said he hoped
that Gov. William Scranton of
Pennsylvania would accept the
call if he were asked to run for
president or vice president.
Scott, appearing on a bi-month-,
ly television program with Sen.
Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa., described
Scranton as "one of the ablest
Republicans we have."
"If he's ever called for higher
duty, it would be my hope that
he would feel impelled to accept
it," Scott added. However, lie
said there was no movement
afoot in Pennsylvania to generate
interest in Scranton as a nation
al figure.
Barbs
If you don't want to be sailing
on a sea of trouble, throw out
your anger.
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flock of grandchildren rush in for
a visit and also when they go
homo.
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