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o fiction Taken Against Segfigatlifi pQlIlfiQ States Cditor't note: When public schools Pn next week, most of the S nth wl resist the Supreme Court decision 'deriuj an end to separation of Jhite and Negr pupils. The United T'ess surveyed the situation in nine southern states. This is-f 'tt of ttreo dUpatches. v By AL KUETTNER United Press Correspondent Atlanta, Ga. (U.R) Gracie Richburg, a Negro school teacher nd mother of two young chil dren, went job-hunting today, but not in the teaching profes sion. " Mrs. Richburg was fired from th teaching job she has held lor 13 years in Clarendon c&in- ty S.C., after her father-in-law sijfced an anti-segrOj&tion peti tion. Loss of her job w&s the pric3 she paid for becoming eve?! re motely involved in a well-organized campaign tfcg National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is pushing throughout the South to impll ment the Supreme Court rulin.3. South Carolina and Mississip pi both reported numerous cases of Negro petition signers losing their jobs. As the news spread, Negroes all over Dixie rushed to get their names off the lists. 3 Meiy charged their sxstt west ?orged, -vere fraudulently 5d or that the facts of th otitis were misrepresented. Sto LQgal "2'Oisht The NAACP chose t?i ptitioa strategy at a meeting i.n Atlants last month. Tha petitions :r e i?scS s SioeS fe.rfo nf fc.tfii segregation b slimia ta5. ?hy livi ni! 11 vtighf, ut ilue. ? ichcnl ord t omjly would infiicata. it had no intention of interting tchcula, with th "raesonsbla pted" afi monihfi by the Supreme Court. 50th Year Medfork Unite Press Full Leased Wire SEaiON TWO MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY? AUGUST 31, 195 Paps 1-6 Change in Checks On Allotments Set 1 For Next Year A change In checking compli ance! of wheat allotments will become effective next year, ac cording to T. D. Sehorn, secre tary of the Jackson county Agri cultural Stabilization and Con servation committee. Next year, the Initial measure ment of acreage will be financed by the government, but any re check necessary because of har vesting excess wheat will be fi nanced by the farmer, according to changes in wheat allotment regulations. Previously, the government financed both the initial" check and any recheck. Sehorn reminded J a c k s o n county farmers that federal con trols still will be in effeet on wheat plantings next year. Al lotments have been issued, he said, to qualified county farmers. Penalties will be assessed on wheat harvested in excess of the farm allotment. Penalties are not levied where the total wheat harvested on a farm does not exceed 15 acres, Sehorn pointed out- Long Beach, Calif. gU.R) Mrs. Fred J. Tooze, Portland, has been reelected recording sec retary fit the KationaPwomen's Christian Temperance Union convention here, Comic Harbors Yen. for Return To Goocj Old Days When. Life Wasn't Quite So Fast New York U.R) Sam Leven- said Levenson. "It used to be son, who earns his living by pok- that your cousins and uncles practically lived with you. Now you only see them at funerals." ing gentle fun at the foibles of the past, admitted today he har bored a secret yen for the days when you and I verg young, Maggie. e "Life is too fast nowadays, too complicated, too big to grasp," said the roly-poly comic. "And as a result, I've think we've lost something-y-a senje of personal relationships with our neighbors. "Take something like doors, for instance. Who would ever think of locking a door in the past? But nowadays, they've got peepholes in apartment doors," said Htevenson. "Your neighbors inspect you through those little holes you gotta have 20-20 vi sion to get in." Curtent Summer Sub Levejson, currently working as summer replacement fot Herb Shriner on CBS-TV's "Two For The Money," moaned low about today's kids. He's currently rid ing herd on two youngsters of his own. Conrad, 12, and Emily, 3. "We've been doing a miserable job in the past 25 years of rais ing our Jkids, said Levenson. "We've been intimated . we hand everything to them on a platter. "When I was a kid, I was sat isfied with a small allowance. Nowadays, the kids demand a guaranteed annual wage." Families are falling apart, too, Can't Pinnoinl Blame The blame, for all this disarray is hard to pinpoint, Levenson admitted. "But I think it has something to do with our sensi bilities," he said. "Nobody cares very much when thousands of people die now casualty totals have become too difficult to grasp. But in the old days, the whole neighborhood cried when an old man would fall off his stoop." "A guy will go fcito a super market nowadays and swipe a can of soup. It's a big impersonal organization, he'll figure, and nobody will miss it. BAt in the old days it was different then you were stealing from the little corner grocery man, Mr Jones." Levenson confessed that, of course, it wasn't all rosy in th placid world of the past. "I guess it's a little like my mother's meatballs," he saidj "I remember they used to melt in my mouth, but I tend toiforgefc they used to harden in my stomach." Still there was a difference. "We used to ge'fc'into mischief when we were' kids, no doubt about it," Letenson said. 'ut we were still scared of our par ents, our teacher and the coaner cop. Who's scared of 'a cop now? He's a buddy. she got sick, I remember, but wouldn't go to gee a physician. She said, "A doctor? I'm too sick to go to the doctor.' "My father was a poor tailor and he put me through college. You know, I was a Spanish teacher in a Brooklyn high school for a long while and I really miss teaching. "Byt TV isn't so bad. After all, now I have a much bigger class." BIG SIX-GU Riverton, Wyo. U.R) Don ald Layton doesn't think the cul prits who stole a pistol fi3Sm his eun shnr will set much use from it. They carted off the huge'i four-foot replica of a six-gun used to advertise the shop. And there was the ood old institution known as snitching. That seems to have disappeared, too. Snitching was healthy one parent would tell another, "I saw your Sammy climbing up a feiSfce' and t'he next day you can bet Sammy wouldn't be climbing fences anymore. "We mind our own business now and we think it's a virtue, but I wonder if it really is." Levenson turned nostalgically to his own family. "I had even brothers and one sister even my father was wearing hand- me-downs. Actually, my mother., yisit to Europe the tj. s Govern. naa xu Kias, dui iosi iwo. one was a wonderful woman. Once Chaplin Objects To Tax Assessment Washington (U.R) Silent film star Charles Chaplin has protested the government's asses sing him $516,167.47 in income taxes and interest for 1953, U. S. Tax Court records show. Ihaplin left the United States during 1953 and consequently cannot be assessed income tax for that year. - Chaplin, a British subject de spite his majy years in the United States, said that when he lett in September, laoz, lor a ment announced it would oppose his return. The . government, he said, raised a question of "moral turpitude" against him. Chaplin said he "interpreted this statement to mean that he would be prohibited from re entering the United States." The government contends that between Jan. 1, 1953, and April 10, 1953, Chaplin was a resident alien and frpm April 11, 1953, to the end of that year he was a non-resident alien engaged in trade or business in the United States. The states west of the Missis sippi account for 62 per cent of U.S. livestock production wlfile 69 per cent of the country's meat prpduction is eaten in the stes east of the Mississippi. V , -".. (says TROWBRIDGE & FLYNN) THEN AFTER 10 DAYS TRIAL IF YOU DON'T WANT THE estioglhouse bundromai 2 ,w MODEL H-l PORTABLE SENT TO YOU ON CASTERS-NO INSTALLATION I'LL TAKE IT BACK" Save washday work! Save up to $20 on laundry Bills! While you try the Laundromat 25 on me! Fully automatic c. . . only 25" wide, yet it does i full family size bad. Gives you famous Agi-Tumble Action of NEW WAY TO WASH. Uses less water than other automatics. Note the handy door for loading and unloading. SENSATIONAL BUY! ' $"5) (9)95 WITH ZbZb2 CASTERS After Small Down Payment. As Little as $2.14 Per Week EASY TERMS iI3ft3V LOW Down Payments TBWIlllS I - MEDFORD 214 West Main St. FLYHRI - Phone 2-5211 Vtiu & elitiov mifet S uatd M ihe basie Sot ovt uit. Mr. aichftu$' caw was Jrent from most. M? flh?;jj lw, farmer J. Haskell Ttichburgr, signed petition ndosin tfc famed Clarendon county sagjrf ation case, one of tha 2iv on vftich the Suprem Co$rt ou? lewed Segregation. "I don't fenow wftat I will do," iSffs. Richburg said. "8Ly bus band Joe, is a teacher, too, an he also signed the petition. We are afrai?he will lose his job." She said School Superintend ent K. B. Betchman promised her husband that ifhis oton and his father's name were removed from the petition, she and two other discharged Negro teach ers "Crould get our jobs back." Mrs. Richburg said the names were removed and they applied for their jobs "but that was three weeks ago and we've heard nothing." V Setc&JMUi idt, fio-r:ver, that i erf oi' a petition ur;cinar tha ijcliil- "1 te 1 of the C Nero ittchtrt wSo aorkedt in his dis trict last yr lav not ii-n re nifsd o? va? ious raoiift. He ssiiS rvceivfiS stout 500 application te thfc job. srirSuft cj Siftiag; &sfcd to comment sgacifically abou& the Fiichbunj case, Betch man saic': "I couldn'6 tell you about any individual cases. A si&ool district has the right to hire who it sees fit to teach. To ask why we didn't renew any particular con tract is getting too gSrsonal. We don't have to say why we hire a teacher. We had one who asked for a year's leave because slip's pregnant. There are lots of reasons." inrougnout tne south Negroes are increasingly fearful of sign ing any kind of petition. At Raleigh, N.C., the city school board said "several" sign- dren be assigned to school new est their homes asked by tele phone that their nameO be remov ed. They said they didn't knoT& what they were signing. Thg same thing happened at Union Springs, Ala. In Mississippi a number o5 Negroes wanted tldr name3 stricken from such lists vth the standard emanation, "We didn't0 know what it meant." 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