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."
Ten Negroes from Charleston
county,S.C., signed a statement
that "at no time" did they sign
petition asking that their chil
dren be admitted 3 white
schools. Thirteen otiSrs said they
signed "under a misrepresenta
tionQtf fact.'-
The local school board then
met and issued a statement diat
fraudulent methods had appar
ently been used to obtain signa
tures of an integration petition
before the board.
I I
TTTT Wm-JWyi .
OPEN c
WED.
TIL 9
r . II I
Iff IVH .
aaa ra vmav a w
IWM I
i iiEJitnumnimiv ni
v:,o:0ojfrot
rrrwri
Regularly $149.oo
Special! Not Only
EXTRA CHARGE
FOR CREDIT!
$1.50 a Week!
We Give
S&H
GREEN
STAMPS
See
"Baseball's
Hall of
Fame"
KBES-TV
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Phone 2-2970 .
Your
Friendly Credit
Jeweler
15 North Central
o
j