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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1955)
1 I i I : a v t A P fi U i : Jt et bi rt e th th Dt ha ke fr Ri. I ate da Th qui tin wil eigi I Toi the ; 15t aga; STJ H The feat! era ! len: ter ; row the behi ; Hi in hi; fa Sc p: School Segregation Arguments Go (Before HDgh Court' Monday Washington (U.R) Tne Su preme Ccourt hears historic ar guments Monday on how and when the states should lower once and for all the barriers of racial segregation in public schools. Ten southern and border states are prepared to warn the justices of the "shock effect" of any immediate end to separate school systems for whites and Negroes. Attorneys for Negro groups contended the states are exagge rating. They say the best way to solve the problem is to wipe out segregation immediately. Tolerance, they say, comes with asociation and acceptance of the inevitable. Urge Middle Course The Eisenhower administra tion urges a middle course. It wants the Supreme Court to take into consideration the im pact on southern states where segregation is century-old. The arguments are expected to last about three days. They were ordered by the high court in an unprecedented action last May when it handed down its unani - mous decision outlawing segre gated public schools. The histor ic ruling struck down a doctrine established in 1396 that "sepa rate but equal" facilities are constitutional. It marked the first time in the court's 166-year history that it had asked for guidance and opinions on how a decision should be carried out. Its action underlined the justices' concern with the tremendous sociologi cal impact of its ruling. The attorneys general of the border states of Kansas and Dela ware lead off the hearings. They have optimistic reports on prog ress already made in barring color distinctions in schools in their states. But they caution against any order requiring an abrupt shift. Each Side Gets Hour The other three parties to the original suits the District of Columbia, South Carolina, and Virginia will argue Tuesday. In each case, attorneys for the Negro parents involved in the original cases will present their stand. Each side is allotted one hour. Seven "interested" parties al so are scheduled to outline their proposals. They are the Justice Department representing the administration and Florida, North Carolina, Arkansas, Okla homa, Maryland, and Texas. The arguments originally were to begin last Dec. , but were postponed until John Mar shall Harlan could replace the late Justice Robert H. Jackson and provide a full bench. Southern states are firmly op posed to any immediate piercing of the race barriers in public schools. Many southern legisla tures have taken tentative steps to avert integration in event the high court orders an abrupt and outright end to separate school systems. Most of these state proposals center around the principle of a segregated private school sys tem coupled with a public school system for those who wish to attend. A mammoth school construc tion program for Negroes was underway in the south when the Supreme Court threw out the separate-but-equal doctrine. As a result, Negro pupils in some areas now have better school fa cilities than white, and southern states are expected to use this as one argument for gradual aboli tion of segregation. Quick-Thinking Youths Receive Credit For Saving Life Of Mother, Youngsters Seattle, Wash. iU.P.) Two ouick-thinking youths received credit Saturday for saving the lives of a distraught mother who threw her two children off a 60-foot bridge into a rainswept ship canal and then jumped in herself. "Why didn't I die? I feel so sorry for them ... to have a mother like me," sobbed Mrs. Ann Salisbury, 24, Seattle, after she and her two children were rescued from the canal Friday. Threw Boy Into Stream James Hayes, bridge tender on the Montlake Bridge crosing the Lake Washington Ship Canal, said the woman parked her car at one end of the bridge. She put her daughter Cynthia, 2, astraddle the bridge rail and had the child lean against her. Then she picked up Bryan, 4, and threw him over the side-. Police credited Jim Sherman, 21, and his 14-year-old brother-in-law, Guy Smith, with prevent ing the deaths of the young mother and her children. "Wa were driving on the bridge when we saw this wom an throw the little girl off the bridge," Smith said. "Jim stop ped the car right then and we ran down to the bulkhead under th bridge and took off our hirts and jumped in. ' "All three were floating on the water when we got down. We went for the little boy and girl first and by the time I reached the boy, I had to dive under the water to get him." Jutt Going Down Sherman said he reached Cyn thia "just as she was going down. were taken to a nearby hospital where Cynthia was given arti ficial respiration. All were in sat isfactory condition. A policewoman said Mrs. Sal isbury had been to a clinic re cently and had been advised she needed psychiatric treatment. Police said the woman would be kept at the hospital for exam ination. Her husband, Frederick Salis bury, a salesman, removed the two children from the hospital Friday night. Man Who Got Phony Refund On Taxes Tripped by Dime Hoboken, N. J. U.R) Five years of collecting refunds on income taxes that were never paid ended for Charles Wenzel Saturday because he asked for 10 cents too much. Wenzel, 45, of Hoboken, was held in $10,000 bail after his ar rest on complaint of Treasury agents in Washington, Detroit and Newark, N.J. Filed Phony Forms Wenzel told U. S. Commis sioner M. Lester Lynch he had been filing fraudulent W-2 tax withholding forms and claiming refunds since 1950. He said he filed two phony rebates in 1950, five in 1951, 15 in 1952, 18 in 1954 and 23 already this year. He received seven returns total ling $2100 for 1954 so far this year. Then he asked for a refund of $400.10. Claims up to $400 are approved in a routine manner. Anything requested over that results in an audit. Wenzel's re quest for a $400.10 refund was audited. He was arrested. Lynch said Wenzel would claim deductions for "his wife and two children" nnrJ shnw The mother and her children that he was entitled to a refund. But questioning revealed he was a bachelor, had never worked for a company or paid taxes. SOMEWHAT worried by It all, Harold E. Stassen, ex-foreign operations administration di rector, hears that Senate prob ers plan full-scale investigation of Pakistan grain storage con tract, reportedly awarded to highest bidder. (International) Food Program Said Propaganda Source Washington (U.R) The Com munists are finding a source of propaganda in the slow opera tion of the United States surplus food disposal program, Rep. Har old D. Cooley (D-N.C.) said Fri day. "The Communists point to our warehouses and grain elevators bulging with surpluses," he said, "and claim that we will not share this unneeded food with the starving peoples of the world." "Many seem to believe this propaganda," Cooley said, "be cause they do not know they can have this food just by making their wishes known." - Cooley said he would try to enlist officials of the United Na tion Food and Agriculture Or ganization (FAO) in an intensi fied drive "to speak the word" about the availability of Ameri can food surpluses. Raft Lehi II Still Docked As Legal Tangle Unchanged San Francisco (U.R) The raft Lehi II will sit out Easter morning moored to a dock in San Francisco bay instead of moving slowly to Hawaii. The . United States Coast Guard reported Saturday that no change in the situation has developed since .the raft was attached and impounded by them Friday for fines levied against the first craft, the Lehi I. Devere Baker, skipper of the ark-like vessel, was charged by the Coast Guard for failure to pay fines against the raft, which allegedly, lacked a license, fog bell and whistles, life preservers and navigation lights. Baker had planned to set sail for Hawaii today as a warmup for a 19,000 mile voyage from Jerusalem to Central America. The harassed skipper claimed o 500 Sheets Bond Typewriter Paper o 1 Typewriter Eraser WITH THE PURCHASE OF ANY NEW PORTABLE We Sell All Makes o COME IN AND MAKE YOUR CHOICE o w' JJ AND UP (Your Terms) Come In Today and Register For a FREE TYPEWRITER NOW UNTIL JUNE 1 Only Adults and1 Graduating Seniors Eligible JEWETT OFFICE SUPPLY that he no longer owned the Lehi II and had transferred ownership to Alfred Martin, an Oakland furniture dealer. He said he had no knowledge of the claims against the raft and added the Coast Guard had given him a clean bill of health recently. Intermediate Luther League Formed Here An intermediate Luther lea gue recently was organized at Zion Lutheran church for stu dents of the seventh, eighth and ninth grades. Linda Slessler was elected president; Keith Berg, vice-president; Margaret Tizek ker, treasurer; Jean Bjorlie, sec retary, and Hazel Creel, activi ties chairman. The group is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Slessler, and any one interested in joining may telephone 2-8320 for further in formation. Regular meeting date sched ules have not been set Six Die in Crash Brisbane, Australia CJ.R) A Royal Australian Air Force bomber on a mercy mission crashed into a mountainside Sat urday, killing all six persons aboard, including a newborn baby being rushed to a hospital. The Lincoln bomber was car rying two-day-old Anna Huxley, suffering from a rare blood di sease, and her nurse from Towns ville to Brisbane for urgent biood transfusions. Rescuers found the bodies of all four crewmen and the two passengers in a rugged moun tainous area in New South Wales, some 100 milei south west of here. Chicago (U.R) Adlal E. Stevenson will outline his ideas on the current Formosan crisis when he delivers a major address here Monday night. It will be Stevenson's first major address since last Decem ber, and will be broadcast from 10 to 10:30 p. m. EST over the Columbia Broadcasting System. 'fa G& IS BEWARE or UXTATUHtS LOOK FO THI HAPPY LITTLE DOG Sunday, April 10, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNENINE Senators Hear Call for World Disarmament bv Revision of UN San Francisc(j (U.R) A steady stream of speakers appeared be fore two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee here Saturday and unanimously called for a revision of the Unit ed Nations charter that would provide world disarmament and curb world aggression. The subcommittee, represent ed by Sen. John Sparkman (D Ala.) and William F. Knowland, senior Republican senator from California, conducted a public hearing, one of a series being held throughout the nation, to obtain "grass roots" opinions on revision of the 1945 United Na tions charter. The subcommittee is permanently headed by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.), who was absent from Saturday's ses sion. Almost without exception, wit nesses, speaking for themselves or for an interested organiza tion, expressed the wish for some method whereby the United Na tions could enforce world dis armament, a lack of which they felt was a major obstacle to ward world peace. Suggestions ranged from broad general desires for a change to a recommendation from a Los Angeles man that Russia be ex pelled from the United Nations because the "USSR is the only root of war in the world today." P. A. Horton, of Los Angeles, a member of the National Asso ciation of Sojourners, cited the growth of communism in the United States and the world and felt Russia should be expelled from the world organization. Horton's suggestion that Rus sia be expelled from the United Nations brought a spontaneous cascade of applause from the crowded city hall supervisors' chambers and Chairman Spak man had to mildly reprimand the spectators and other wit nesses for showing approval or disapproval. WEATHER By United Piess Northern California: Consid erable cloudiness northern por tion with some light rain Cape Mendocino and Redding north ward; mostly fair elsewhere. More than 90 applications were received from persons wishing to speak before the com mittee. After listening to a statement made by Mrs. Erwin C. Sage, representing the League of Wo men Voters, Senator Knowland j asked her: "Has your organization dis cussed whether the Soviet Union should be allowed to remain in the UN, or has it presented a prima facie case for expulsion?" Mrs. Sage said her group had not considered this point, add ing, "The League believes that any changes which might be made in the charter should be limited to those .which would strengthen the UN's ability to fulfill its twofold purpose: That of preventing war, and of pro moting peace." The matter of expulsion again came up following the statement from Mrs. Mary L. Sisson, of Berkeley, representing the Wo men's International Leagut for Peace and Freedom. Mrs. Sisson said the Interna-! tional Court of Justice instead of force should be used to en force peace and the disarma ment of "all nations for secur ity." Senator Knowland then asked: "Should any nation not comply ing with the charter be subject to expulsion?" 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