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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.
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Arrested in Seoul
Seoul, Korea OJ.PJ An 18-year-old
U. S. 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
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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.,
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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.
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Abel was grand worthy presi
dent in 1939. Survivors include
his widow, Marie, of Seaside,
and a daughter, Mrs. James Rein,
Hillsboro, Kans.
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Editor's note: Ther re Integrated
schools in the South. 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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