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I I; ' zMjMW. Iff net!? i t&tt. raM-. . -. . REDS FREE SELF-PROCLAIMED SPY Walter A. Rickett deft) of Seattle is met at the border bridge in Hongkong by Red Cross officials Richard Tomlin (American) and Mar garet Strathie (British) after he was freed oy Communist China. Rickett said he had Rspied" for U. S., Dutch and British groups, but was well treated during his six years in Red Chinese prisons. Ricketts' wife. Adele. was released bv the Reds last Febru ary and arrived home singing the praises of Communist China and said she, too, had been a "spy." " Reporter Watches Integration at Work In Tennessee; Negro Pupils Accepted Editor's note: Public schools at Oak Ridge. Tcnn.. were desegregated this fall. The United Press assigned a re porter from the Knoxville bureau to spend a day at Oak Ridge High. Here's what he saw and beard. By JAMES C. WAHTERS United Presi Correspondent Oak Ridge, Tenn. (U.R) I watched integration at work in a Southern public school last week. Archie Lee, a gangling 17-year-old Negro, showed up for his first class at 8 a.m. at Oak Ridge High. It is one of the pre viously all-white schools the Atomic Energy Commission or dered to- comply with the Su preme Court ruling. . Neither Archie nor any of the other pupils, only the teachers, s knew that the visitor who sat through classes and strolled around the school yard at recess was a reporter. Archie was greeted by white pupils with a wave of the hand, a nod or a "hi"as he entered the algebra class. He took a seat be side a white boy. And within a few minutes there occurred that old familiar classroom right the white boy was looking over to see how Archie' was working out a problem. Two chairs away sat Hazel Robinson, his classmate at Scar boro Negro High School last year. While Archie appeared confident and at ease when ex plaining a formula at the black board, Hazel was shy. Negro Student Shy ' "She was shy at Scarboro, too," Archie told me later. "But she is more so at Oak Ridge high." After Algebra there was Am erican history. The teacher, Mrs. Esther Buchanan, introduced the day's lesson. It was about the period between the settlement of the first colony in 1607 to the date of the first shipment of slaves to the new world in 1619. There was no sign of embar rassment when a white girl told about slave ships or when Ar chie said that "as a result of a slave uprising in 1712, several persons were whipped and 26 killed. Archie and his Negro class mates (there are about 100 at Oak Ridge high and Robertsville Junior high) reacted easily to classroom routine. They, laugh ed with other pupils when a funny situation developed and they talked and whispered. After school I identified my self to Archie and walked home with him. His mother is a 34-year-old widow. He was born in Batesville, Miss. He has an a-mi-nus average. He likes some of his white teachers better than others, just as he did at Scars boro. He wants to be an engin eer. Archie pitched for a junior league baseball team last sea son and hopes to make the var sity baseball, basketball and track teams this year. Coach Jack Armstrong had told ' me earlier the Negroes were 'fully accepted in sports. "When they choose up sides on the playground, the Negro seems to be the first ones chosen," Armstrong said. Archie said he didn't find much difference in his instruc tion except "I have a lot more home-work but that's what I'm in school for." Archie said he wasn't worried when he found out he was go ing to an integrated school. . "It's time we got a break," he said. "My mother told me to avoid any sort of trouble be fore school began, but I found the students were friendlier than I thought they would be." Mrs. Lee met us at their mod est five-room home. "I left the problem entirely up to Archie," she said. "I brought him up to know how to behave and I knew he would know how to act." Around Hollywood By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent m ol 1 IdHbl So smooth it leaves you breathless mirnoff - VODKA 0 proof. Msde 6om 1 00 gni n neutral spirits. St:rWtcSfflirooSns.liic.Haitixil.Cooa. Hollywood '(U.R) Actors soon , will be hiring press agents to pump them for 1956 Oscars, but Ernest B o r g nine confessed today he does not think he deserves one for his famed port rayal in "Marty." Borgnine, a homely man with a sagging Aline Mosby waistline and teeth widely spaced like a rake, became one of the big new stars of the year when he played Marty, the butcher searching for love. ' ; Oscars and Salary Since that film, Borgine's sal ary has soared. ' He's been of fered a musical on - Broadway and rafts of film scripts. - And when lists of probable Oscar nominees are . drawn up, Bor gnine's name stands first. But today the actor, with a humility like Marty's, declared "I don't feet I'm eligible yet for an academy award." Audrey Hepburn won an award after only one good role; Borgnine thinks one isn't enogh. "It's one of the most tremend ous things a man could possibly garner," he said." "If I c6uld go on for 15 or 20 years like Spen cer Tracy then a man can prove himself to be an actor. Then he deserves an Oscar. BAN CI AT tfbutL CONVENIENCE! of our Lato-lhur VJindovs BH3 f.lon. through Fri. mt Saturday B Drrre up .V MEDF "But to do the thins in one shot is not good. It's an honor for a person who has really shown his worth." With "Marty" behind him, Borgnine has gone on to other roles. In "The Square Jungle" he again got to play a "nice guy." But in his current "Jubal Troop" the once-gentle Marty mercilessly beats up the heroine. Borgnine first gained notice of, playing ugly heavies in "From Here to Eternity" and "Violent Saturday." But after the soft eyed "Marty" it was a shock to watch him throwing pretty Val erie . French around the set of "Jubal Troop" at Columbia. "I try to keep my strength in my biceps so I won't hurt her too much," he said softly. Offscreen Borgnine (rhymes with fine) is more of a Marty than a villain. As he talked on his set today he kept up a mod est, almost shy laugh. He ap pears good natured and sincere. Still a Villain "After Marty everyone wanted to use me in good-guy roles while before they'd only cast me as a villain," he chuckled. "Marty surprised a lot of people in this town. I'll take any role if it's a good one. I wouldn't want to quit as a villain. You can do so much more with that kind of role.". ; Borgnine next hopes to star in a movie about an actor and his pet goat at Universal-International. Then Hecht-Lancaster Productions may star him in a re-make of a French classic, "The Baker's Wife." He also has been offered a stage musical. "Sing? Sure. I get along pretty well in the bathtub," he grinned. A Nichol's Worth of ". , . Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Pe- EuNn Writer Washington U.R) What's new in Washington: Capitol Hill has been pretty quiet, except for the swish ing of paint brushes and the snoring of guards. Most of the eleva tors, which are attended when Congress is in session, are running now Herman Nichol on a do-it-yourself basis. A few hundred yards away the Library of Congress is prac tically empty. Whatever visitors are in town aren t bothering to drop in on the finest and big gest library in the world. sM . - : W' Exposition Center ' Site Choice Delayed Portland (U.R) Selection of a site or sites for Portland's eight million dollar exposition recreation center was - put off until at least Oct. 5 today after another spirited argument over its location. The City Planning Commis sion yesterday argued for the South Auditorium site, saying it had greater development pos sibilities, would be closer to ho tels and restaurants and would fit in with, the Portland State College program. James H. Polhemus, chairman of the Coliseum Commission, presented a detailed report in which it was suggested that the project be placed in Delta Park Vanpprt and that the auditor ium be remodeled to meet needs for conventions and other small er groups. Mike Palm, who owns a res taurant across from the library, has two youngsters both born on Feb. 29. He thought maybe when the last one came he could bunch 'em and have all of the birthday parties at one time every four years. But Mike and his wife danned it wrong. The third child was born in Sep tember. Sen. John L. McClellan, the Democrat of Arkansas, held a news conference the other day and somebodv asked him what he thought about Russia, where a lot of lawmakers are visiting. He said he hadn't been any closer to Russia than Hot Springs, Ark., but added "If we had a snecial session so many of mv colleagues are over there looking, that I doubt if we could get a quorum." A 72-year-old Warrenton, Va., woman was picked up as a "commuting lottery" operator. The cops liad been watching her and finally caught her with the goods. When Mrs. Minnie Eveline Douglas was taken to the sta tion the matron stripped her down and reported she found "thousands" of numbers slips A police officer remarked that Mrs. Douglas looked like she had lost 25 pounds when the search was over. The Army at the Pentagon re ports that Sgt. Earl Petty Jr.. of Birmingham, Mich., is sitting in Aschafeenburg. Germany, bitr.ng his nails. He doesn't have time to write back home. He's too busy reading letters from his dad. Papa Petty has made a habit of drooping his lad a. three and a half page single-space letter every blessed day. But the other dav he overdid it. 'The elder Petty sat himself down for five days and whipped up a 48-foot special delivery memo to his kid. It contained a play-by-nlay on a couple of ball games. The weather reports on the blowing of wind in Michi gan. The .day - by - day .oollen count. Not to mention the run down on several Very old films on television. During the same , period he kept ut the business of the three and a half psfee "notes." The old man will be lucky if he hears from Ms bov bv Christ mas. Mail call weighs him down every day. Killed by Lightning Greeley, Colo. (U.R) James Marsden, 24-year-old college stu dent from Buckeye, Ariz., was struck and killed by lightning near here yesterday. Marsden, a sophomore at Colo rado State college and the father of a seven-month-old son, was struck as he sat beneath a tree during a dove hunting expedi tion near here. The lightning struck the tree and ran down the trunk before hitting Marsden, according to his " companion, James Carson, Carson was not injured. Tuesday, September 20, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Rains May Ease Bonneville Situation Portland (U.R) Bonneville Power Administration said to day it will be able to serve all of its interruptible industrial power loads at least through Oct. 9 due to rains over most of the Columbia basin last week. Prior to the rains, Bonneville had scheduled interruptible pow er cuts to aluminum and other eiectroprocess industries for, the last week in September. John P. Jolliffe, Bonneville operations chief, said rains -temporarily halted the downward trend in stream flows and regis tered increases in major power streams west of the Cascades and in the Snake river basin. Jolliffe warned, however, that present fair weather could again place interruptible pow er deliveries in a critical situ ation by mid-October. Extortion Attempt Brings Prison Term Los Angeles (U.R) '. Mrs. Veronica Elsie Williams, 24, must serve a two-year federal prison term for trying to extort 5100,000 from the family of a murdered Bel Air socialite. District ' Judge William Byrne sentenced Mrs. Williams yester day after she had pleaded guilty to extortion charges. She was charged with trying to extort the money from wealthy electri cal contractor John A. Thomp son, father of ' the x late Mrs. Norma- T. McCauley by threat ening to harm her three sons. Similar charges were dismiss ed against her husband, Edgar Leon Williams, 24, after the U. S. attorney's office said in vestigation showed he was un aware his wife had sent the threatening letter to Thompson. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a m Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day Portland Councilman Talks With McKay Washington (U.R) . Stanley Earl, Portland, Ore., city coun cilman, called on Interior Sec retary Douglas McKay yester day to discuss the possibility of Portland's acquiring from the government the' Pioneer Post Office building as a historic monument. Earl said he was hopeful of getting support of the National Park Service which would have to approve the building as a monument before Portland could get it for nothing. Next step, he said, would be for the city coun cil to write to the General Serv ices Administration saying it wants the property. GSA recent ly announced it was disposing of the property. MOUNTAIN LION SHOT Canon City, Colo. (U.R) Lions in Colorado are safer in cages. A mountain lion, caged at the Parkdo, Colo., post office as a tourist attraction, escaped yesterday and was shot by E. J. (Ted) Filer. . . Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. 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