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FOmTEEW MTDrORD (OREGOrT) MAIL TRIBUTES rrfdBT. 'lTsMfflb! 11,-ltSS Race Integration Said Working Smoothly at Southern Army Post Schools CP Rural Fire Disfrici Accepts Insurance Bids Central Point Central Point Rural Fire Protection district has accepted the bid of the Chris Barker and laber-Strat-ton Insurance agencies on li ability and all-risk inland marine insurance policies for the dis trict. The Barker offer of $621.46 on liability insurance and the $127.50 bid of Faber-Stratton on inland marine were taken, Fire Chief Richard Krupp reported Four Bidders Other bidders were Tumy In surance agency and W. W. Fer guson. All four firms submitted propositions on the two types of insurance. Offers were opened yesterday by Krupp, Dave DeArmond, dis trict secretary, and Bert Smith, member of the board of direc tors. Krupp said that he and Richard Stratton of the Faber Stratton ' agency today were working on a complete inven tory of all small equipment of the fire department. The cheif said district officials feel that the district is more adequately covered with the new insurance, Author Found Guilty On Contempt Charges Washington U.R) Author Harvey 0"Connor was found guilty of contempt of Congress today by Federal Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy. He was fined S500 and put on probation for a year. His attor neys promptly announced they would appeal. O'Connor was continued free on $1000 bond. The charge against O'Connor, 58, biographer of American mil lionaires, stemmed from his re fusal two years ago to' tell Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's Investi gating Subcommittee whether he was a Communist when he wrote some books used in Ameri can overseas libraries. 1 VJatvl Wote on BUY THE NEW GP AUTOMATIC t ELECTRIC Water Heater Wash a Load of Clothes EVERY HOUR 3 All Day Long ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN APPLIANCE 115 EAST MAIN Authorized Dealer 1 CENERAl ELECTRIC Water Heaters Why Suffer Longer? When Others Fail ! COME TO US ACT NOW! 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Army private who escaped from guards Wednesday was captured less, than 24 hours later, the Army revealed today. A spokesman said Pvt. Allen H. Minor, Oregon City, Ore., has been returned to the Army stockade in Seoul to serve out his six-month sentence on con viction of being disobedient and absent without leave. Minor fled from army guards in Seoul one day after his con viction. The spokesman did not reveal whether the man will face a new trial on escape charges. Two Passengers Jailed After Minor Accident Two men were lodged in the county jail charged with being drunk on a public highway yes terday afternoon following a minor automobile accident near Siskiyou summit on Highway 99, according to state police. Jailed were Herman Floyd Rogers, 39, Great Falls, Mont., and Warren William Hedgecock, 48, Omaha, Neb., police said. Both were passengers in a car driven by David M. McKenzie, Burbank, Calif., according to in vestigating officers. McKenzie had not been drinking, they said. McKenzie was attempting to pull off the highway at Siskiyou cafe when his car slipped on snow into the side of an automo bile carrier truck operated by Carl E. Brown, San Jose, Calif. Damage was minor. Two Plans To End Water Problem Told Yreka, Calif. a'U.R) Two spe cific plans for ending Yreka's chronic water shortage were ad vanced here Wednesday at an open meeting of the Yreka wa ter shortage. The plans were: 1. To set up a number of gen erators to loose vapor of silver iodide which, provided a cloud were present and hit, might let go with a supply of moisture in the form of rain. 2. Tapping of a vast subterra nean flow in the vicinity of Mt. Shasta, bringing the water to Yreka and the adjacent agricul tural and ranch lands. No decisions were reached at the meeting. Marjorie Smith Trial Costs Multnomah $6222 McMinnville .CU.R) Yamhill county today added up the bill it will present to Multnomah county for trying the Marjorie Smith murder trial at McMinn ville. The tab will come to $6222. Mrs. Smith, acquitted of a charge of helping murder her husband, was tried in Yamhill county for the Portland slaying because her attorneys said pub licity would prevent her receiv ing a fair trial in Multnomah county. The breakdown shows $1573 for jury pay and mileage; $854 for veniremen called but not used on the jury; S520 for jury hotel rooms and $626 for meals; $1130 for witnesses; $136 for the county clerk and $428 for court reporters. FOE Past President Succumbs at Seaside Seaside OJ.R) John A. Abel, 69, past grand worthy president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, died here yesterday following a stroke suffered earlier this week. Abel was grand worthy presi dent in 1939. Survivors include his widow, Marie, of Seaside, and a daughter, Mrs. James Rein, Hillsboro, Kans. CHARLIE CHAN OFFICE OPEN SUNDAYS ONLY 12 NOON TO 4 P.M. CHINESE MEDICINE & HERB CO. 624 S. 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They are op erating by presidential order at U.S. military bases. United Press reporter Lee Nichols visited four bases and interviewed more than 70 persons in cluding school officials, local citizens, and parents of white and Negro child ren. In the following dispatch, he tells how this particular integration program is working. Nichols is author of the book, '-Breakthrough on the Color Front," which detailed the breakdown of racial barriers in the armed forces. He has also covered many Washington developments deal ing with segregation in recent years. N'ochols wrote a series of dis patches for morning papers this week. The following wraps up his findings in one piece. Br LEE NICHOLS United Press Correspondent ' Washington 0J.R) Negro and white children are sitting to gether in classrooms on military posts in the South, without fuss or fanfare. These schools exist by au thority of the federal govern ment in areas where that au thority is supreme. They are is lands of integration in commu nities where schools have been racially segregated for genera tions, and where many spokes men are vigorously opposing the Supreme Court's mandate to erase color bars in public schools. The percentage of Negro pu pils inolved is tiny compared with that in most communities near the bases. Their parents usually rank well above the eco nomic and education levels of surrounding Negro cottonfield workers and laborers. Many of the White military personnel in volved are from Northern states where school integration is ' an accepted fact. Moreover, military people are accustomed to obey ing orders. But Southern white civilian teachers are teaching voluntarily in the integrated post schools. And some Southern educators and observers are watching the military experiment closely. De-segregation of schools on Southern military posts, begun during the Truman administra tion, was all but completed this fall under ah Eisenhower admin istration order banning separate racial schools after Sept. 1. 27 Schools Now Operating Some 27 post schools, almost air at the elementary level, are now operating on an integrated basis in 10 Southern and border states. The only military bases which still have segregated schools are the Army posts at Fort Meade, Md., and Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark., where the govern ment extended its deadline. All post school in the "Deep South" are run by the armed forces. Local officials there refused to operate integrated schools for the military. This reporter visited four post schools. Two in Florida and Texas were integrated this fall, one in Alabama last fall and the fourth in Georgia, in September, 1953. Post commanders, school offi cials, teachers and parents said the schools were working smoothly with but rare instances of minor racial friction. The small number of Negroes in volved almost certainly had a bearing on this. At Eglin Air Force Base on Florida"s Gulf Coast, Dr. James N Luton, Tennessee-born prin cipal, has nine Negroes among his 802 students. Orus Kinney, assistant princi pal fresh from segregated Alaba ma schools, said integration "is working fine 'here." He said neither he nor his wife, teaching at Eglin, had any hesitation about instructing Negroes and whites together at the . Air-Force- operated school. "It doesn't matter who the child is;" said Kinney. "The more people we educate the bet ter off we are, particularly in the South." . He knew of but one teacher who turned down a job at Eglin because of integration. The sole Negro on the staff of 32 is the librarian. Kenney said she was fully acceptable to the other teachers, nearly all Southerners, Officials fWonderful' The Negro librarian, a native of South Carolina whose son at tends the Eglin school, said the teachers and school officials were "wonderful" to her and there were "no references none" to her race. Miss C, a young white teacher born and educated in Mississippi, had taught a year in an all-white school in Meridian, Miss., before coming to Eglin. She said she was the envy of other first grade teachers because she drew the schools only Negro first grader "She is very appealing," Miss C. said of her pig-tailed pupil. She was at the class average when school started and now is ahead. She dresses way above average. Her speech is funny, but she'll talk like the rest before long." A White Mississippi mother, whose 11-year-old daughter at tends Eglin s fifth grade, said she is not opposed to integra tion at all." She was against ra Seven Submit Bids On Sunday School Seven bids - were submitted last night for construction of a new Sunday school building for St. Mark's Episcopal church in Medford. The bids were referred to, the vestry of the church for decision on an award. The apparent low bid was from Myers Jones, Medford, for 870,600. Other bids were Wiley Co., Ashland, S70.900; H. Barn hardt, Medford, $71,000; H. G. Carl, Salem, $72,256; Smith Phillips, Portland, $76,577, and Arman Richter, Medford, $79, 862. Various alternates also were Included in the bids. The two story building on Oakdale ave. near Fifth st., was designed by Jack Edson,' Med ford architect, and will be situ ated on the lot in front of the old First Church of Christ, Scientist, which recently was purchased by St. Mark's. This building and the St. Mark's Guild hall will be retained for the present. The building will include 20 classrooms and three offices, and will be steel structural frame with pumice blocks and aluminum. Man Requests Longer Sentence in Jail Indianapolis, Ind. '(U.B Ver non Moran', a retired Army ser geant, asked for a longer hitch in jail Thursday when a judge sentenced him-to 16 months for forpery. "I could use a little more." Moran said, explaining it would be nice- to spend about two years in jail while his Army pen sion pays off his debts. Judge Scott McDonald ruled Moran would have to be a good soldier and serve the shorter sentence. cial intermarriage but did not thing an intergrated school would lead her daughter to marry a Negro. At Fort Benning, Ga., the three post elementary schools were integrated in the fall of 1953 and now have about 1700 white arid 35 Negro pupils. The teachers so far all White are mostly from Georgia and Alabama. Officials expect to hire a Negro teacher in a year or two; they don't think it will cause any difficulties. A Negro girl was recently elected queen of her 4th grade class. A Negro sergeant at Fort Ben ning related that his son, who attends the post school, was once called a "Nigger" by a White child. Other White classmates, he said, promptly shunned the name-caller. An Exception At Sheppard Air Force Base, Tex., the local school district is running the integrated school for the military an exception to the prevailing pattern. Prin cipal Marcus Anderson, a native of East Texas, said he is "glad" there are 12 Negro children at tending classes with the 484 White pupils. "I believe all chil dren should have an equal op portunity regardless of race." Joe B. McNiel is superintend ent of the Wichita Falls School District which operates the post school at Sheppard AFB. He said his office welcomed the op portunity. "We felt this would be a very good step toward seeing how in tegration would work in our school system. All our local people are pleased with the re sults. "There will be little difficulty in letting the few Negro school children living in White school districts in town enter their nearest schools now that we see how well it works on the base." The fourth base visited was in Alabama. Its commander, con cerned about local relations, asked that its name be withheld. The post school had 200 White pupils and two Negro children until recently, and had "no dif ficulty." Tlie Negro children have now left, because their father was transferred overseas. More Oregon eat other pet foods BONNIE Births BOBBINS To Mr. and Mrs. Carl, Trail, Nov. 11, 1955, a boy, weight 9V4 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. AGEE To Mr. and Mrs. Homer, route 2, box 372D, Med ford, Nov. 11, 1955, a girl, weight 7 pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. BRATTEN To Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, 16 Kenwood ave., Nov. 11, 1955, a boy, weight 8V2 pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. MELTON To Mr. and Mrs. Clarence, 827 Blaine st., Ash land, Nov. 12, 1955, a boy, weight 7V4 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. PHIEL To Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, 45 Hawthorne ave., Nov. 13. 1955. a girl, weight 6 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. KANNASTO To Mr. and Mrs. Raymond, 147 Nutley st., Ashland, Nov. 15, 1955, a girl, weight 734 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. McCOY To Mr. and Mrs. Theodore, route 2, box 699, Cen tral Point, Nov. 16, 1955, a girl, weight 7 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. BLACK To Mr. and Mrs. Clarence, Box 471, Jacksonville, Nov. 16, 1955, a girl, weight 9 pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. ZAHNOW To Mr. and Mrs. Theodore, 1049V2 West 11th st., Nov. 17, 1955, a boy, weight 6 pounds, at Sacred Heart hos pital. BOEN To Mr. and Mrs. Gus, 2305 Barnett rd., Nov. 17, 1955, a boy, weight 834 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. LARSON To Mr. and Mrs. Wayne, 6 Kenwood st., Nov. 17, 1955, a boy, weight 8 pounds, at Sacred Heart hospital. PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland (U.P.) Cattle for week 3225. Choice steers under 1100 lbs., S22-22.75; good light steers 315.50 17.50; good stockers and feeders $17; good fed heifers $16.50-18; mixed good choice to $19; utility-commercial heif ers S9-16; canner-cutter cows S6.50-9; utility-commercial bulls $12-13.50. Calves for week 400. Good-choice vealers $18-21; individuals to S22; good-choice above 350 lb. calves 15.50-16.50. Hogs for week 2400. U.S. No. 1 and 2 butchers 180-235 lb. S14.50-15; some S15.25 Monday; No. 3 lots mostly $14; heavier and lighter weights $13-14; sows $300-550 lb. $11.50-13. sheep for week 2000. liood-cnoice lambs late $16.50-17. early to $17.50 with choice to 18 until late; range lambs mostly $15.50-16; good-choice ewes $4.50-5.50. PORTLAND PRODUCE Portland (UJ.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large. 56-57c; A large 53-56c; AA medium, 48-50: A medium, 47-49c; small, 40-41c; cartons, l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints, 66c lb.; cartons, 67c; A prints, 66c; cartons. 67c; B prints. 64c. Cheese To retailers: A grade Ched dar. Oregon singles, 40Ia-45',2C: 5-lb. loaves, 461.2-49',2C. Processed Ameri can cheese, 5-lb. loaf. 392-41c lb. Farm Market Name brand sacks of strictly No. 1A Deschues potatoes sold 25 cents higher within a general range of $3.25-3.50 today and No. 2 grades sold around $1-1.10 a 50-lb. bag. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 Duality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers, 2',2 to 4 lbs., 23-24c; at farm. 22-23c: roast ers, 25c lb. f.o.b. Portland; light hens, 18c; heavy hens, all wts.. 21c; old roosters, ll-14c. Dressed Chicken No. 1 dressed to retailers: Frvers, New York style, 34 35c lb.; whole drawn, 43-44c: cut up, 47-49c; hens, light type. New York style, 28-30; cut-ups. 41-46c: hens, heavy type. N. Y. style, 31-33c; whole drawn, 41-45c. Turkeys To producers for A grade young hens, f.o.b. farm, N. Y. dressed, 36-36 lie lb.; A grade toms. 28c; A grade hens, eviscerated, 40li-41c. evis cerated toms. 31 lie lb.; fryer turkeys, liveweight, 62-10 lbs., 34c lb. Dressed Turkeys To retailers, A grade young hens, 53-55C lb.: eviscer ated; A grade young toms. 45-52c lb.; eviscerated depending on weight; evis cerated -fryer-roasters, 57c lb. Rabbits (Average to growers f.o.b. killing plants) Live white. 3,s-4!z lbs. .23-26C up; 5-6 lbs., 18-21c: colored pelts. 4c under; old does. 10-14c lb.; a new higher. Fresh killed fryers to re tailers, 58-61c; cut up. 62-65C. PORTLAND HAY, GRAIN Portland Wholesale hay prices: No. 2 green alfalfa, baled, f ob. trucks, Portland and Seattle. S36-38 ton. Prices as reported by the USDA market news service: Wheat. No. 2 soft white, S72 ton; No. 2 white oats, 38-lb. test. Coast deliverv. S49.50: No. 2 Western barley, S46.50 f.o.b. Portland, Coast delivery": soybean meal Si9 ton, delivered Portland; standard millrun, S44.50-45 cars: No. 2 yellow corn. East ern shipments, f.o.b. Portland. S60. BONNIE than 7 W Wall Street New York (U.R) Stocks de clined irregularly today in mod erately active trading. Special issues continued to meet demand and some of them rose 2 to 4 ooints. There were strong individual issues in such groups as the rail equipments, aircrafts, electrical equipments, oils, and electronics. General Motors moved higher and Chrysler gained a small amount. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 181 Anaconda 71 Chrysler 9734 Curtiss Wright ..... 28 Vfc General Electric ......... 52 V4 General Motors 503,4 Montgomery Ward 102 PennRR 24$ Penney J C 10014 Radio 4534 Southern Co 191,4 Southern Pacific 58 S Oil of Calif j S6Vs Texas Gulf Sulphur 38 Transamerica 4234 Tri-Continental 26V2 United Aircraft 63 V4 U S Rubber . 46 U S Steel 55-s ! Youngstown 96 Daily Weather Report Sunset tonight 4:47 p.m. Sunrise to morrow 7:07 a.m. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Considerable cloudiness with occasional rain show ers in valleys and snow showers in mountains tonight and Saturday. Slowly rising temperatures. Low to night 35. High Saturday 48-50. Western Oregon : A few showers and periods of partial clearing tonight and Saturday. Warmer in inland val leys tonight. Low tonight 35-44. High Saturday 45-55. Northern California: Showers Mon terey and Modesto northward tonight. Saturday partly . cloudy except show ers north of Ukiah and Red Bluff. Snow in mountains down to 4,000 feet. Little temperature change. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: Mean, yesterday 34: below normal 10. Record high this date 67 in 1936. Record low this date 21 in 1929. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night .14 inch. Midnight to 10 a.m. .111 men. Total this month 1.17 inches, .28 inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 4.19 inch., .18 inch above normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 80, highest this a.m. 99. CITY High Low Prec. Brookings 48 47 .74 Crater Lake 33 18 .77 Granst Pass 39 35 29 33 24 Klamath Falls 33 MEDFORD 36 Portland 28 Seattle 31 27 .43 Spokane 17 15 .19 Yakima 21 9 .27 Eureka 53 44 1 .05 Red Bluff 50 43 .25 Sacramento 49 44 .01 San Francisco 56 47 .09 Los Angeles 59 48 Phoenix 61 38 Denver 22 9 . Chicago 31 21 Miami 84 : 70 New York 41 36 Washington. D.C 53 32 .03 CopfMaht by iit Kilo-ott, Int. So Sfepte - mm TO DRY CLOTHES .Sg : -.7? ' j'. 1 "f" 1 ,ir Volunteer Firemen Battle Two Blazes Shady Cove Shady Cove volunteer firemen were called to combat two fires here this week. At about 3:30p.m. yesterday, they were called to the home of Mrs. Bruce Sanford and family in Shady Cove next to . the Mountain . View cafe. The fire was well under way by the time Get That Letter Filled Now ' WHILE OUR TREMENDOUS STOCK IS COMPLETE! 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