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o Governor Names Women lo Siaie CD Advisory Group Salem (U.R) Ten mem bers of the Oregon civil defense women's advisory c o mmittee have been named by Gov. Elmo Smith to make their various state-wide women's groups aware of the civil defense pro gram. The governor told the com mittee members that in addition to their duties would be to help guide the activities of women in civif defense and to study the over all task of placing educa tional material in the hands of thousands of women of the state. The committee will meet here April 8 to hear Mrs. Lovilla La lor, Santa Rosa, Calif., regional director of women's activities for the federal civil defense agency. Appointed today were Mrs. Carl Shomemaker, P o r tland, Veterans of Foreign, Wars Aux iliary; Mrs. Clarence B. Grund, Dallas, American Legion Auxil-i-y; Mrs. Natalie M. Burns, Canby, business and profession al women's clubs; Mrs. Kenneth Hall, Oswego, American Nation al Red Cross; Mrs. Eugene Schmitt, Portland, Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women; Miss Shirley Thompson, Port land, Oregon State Civil Defense Nurses Advisory Committee; Mrs. Mabel C. Mack, Corvalis, Oregon home economics exten sion service; Mrs. Clifton Mudd, Salem, federation of women's clubs; Mrs. Ivan C. King, Port land, Oregon Congress of Par ents and Teachers; and Mrs. D. W. Densnioor, Albany, American Association of University Women. Wednesday, March 28, 1S58 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Kaiser Net Earnings Up About $3,000,000 Oakland, Calif. (U.R) The Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation reported net earn ings for the third fiscal quarter ending Feb. 29 were $10,133,000, up almost 3,000,000 from last year's figure. The new February earnings is equivalent to 66 cents per com mon share as compared to 50 cents a year ago. iegro Male n Northern eat Strides for In s Despite tegration Daily P reiudice Editor's note: The attention of the nation and the world has been focused on the fight over integration of Negroes and white people in the American South. With less fanfare in recent years the Negro has been working and fighting for equality in the North. Following is the first of a series of dispatches reporting how the Negro has fared in three large industrial cities of the North New York, Chicago and Detroit. By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN United Press Correspondent New York :U.R) The Negro in the North has made strides toward integration in the last 20 years that dwarf any event since the emancipation proclamation. He is being accepted in white collar jobs his father would never have dared apply for. Guarantees of his right to enter hotels and restaurants of his choice are being written into law. He is moving from seedy neighborhoods onto the sunnier sides of the street. Yet every day of his life the Negro in the North, like his cousin in the South, swallows heavy doses of prejudice and discrimination. New York prides itself on the social harmony it has achieved. It has absorbed waves of im migration, and its profusion of dialects and creeds and shades of color epitomize the "melting pot" concept of America. Negroes, however, still live for the most part in three dis tinct parts of the city. No matter how much money he has a Negro cannot move into many of the better apartment houses and suburban neighborhoods. He may work side by side with a white man in an office but chances are. he knows he will never be promoted beyond a certain level. Curious Boundaries His world ,is made up of curi ous boundaries. City-run hospi tals will let him in as a patient but some private ones won't. He can get a job baking bread but is excluded by most bakeries from driving trucks to deliver it. His children may go to a school where there are only Negroes although the New York school system is officially "inte grated." Since the middle of the last century Negroes have been mov ing north, sometimes at a trickle, sometimes in a flood. The largest migration has been to such industrial centers as New York, Philadelphia, Chi cago and Detroit. Once there, the Negro most always settles down in a "colored section" of town. To overcome the ghetto-like concentration of Negroes in spe cific areas has been one of the Educational Video Promoters Get Boost Portland (U.R) Education al television promoters have been given a boost here when the Portland school board voted without dissent to turn over 10 rooms of a school building for of fices and studios for Community Television, Inc. The group that has been at tempting to establish an educa tional television channel here for two years was given the top floor of the Failing school for TV purposes. School director James C. Yeo mans said the donation of space often, in other areas, has aided the cooperative stations in get ting financial aid from foundations. Oregon Hopmen Defeat Commodity Commission Salem (U.R) Oregon hop growers have voted down a com modity commission for their crop, according to J. R. Short, director of agriculture. Results of last week's referen dum showed 72 ballots were cast with 32 favoring the commission and 40 opposed, Short said. Approximately 63 per cent of the total 1955 Oregon hop pro duction was represented in the vote, or 15,189 bales out of a total production of 23,898 bales. primary goals of such agencies as the Urban League. Landlords, banks and real estate agents usually work together, openly or secretly, to keep the complexion of a neighborhood white or black. A n t i - d i s crimination clauses in public housing acts, however, have broken down many barriers. New York law prohibits race discrimination in any housing development built with assist ance of public funds or special tax exemptions .Enforcement of the law has not been easy, how ever, and out of 20,000 apart ment units built under such pro visions only 60 are now occu pied by Negro families. Liberal-minded housing offi cials are plugging for a law to ban discrimination even in pri vate housing but this is private ly conceded to be a distant goal. Better Understanding Hulan Jack, the Nego elected borrough president of Manhat tan two years ago, maintains that total integration in housing would be taken in stride by cos mopolitan New Yorkers. "Peo ple from all parts of the world have come here and created an environment that lends itself to ward better understanding," he Safeway Profits In Slight Decline San Francisco (U.R) Safe way Stores, Inc., has reported ; that net profit after taxes last j year totaled $13,621,803 or $3.25 1 per share after payment of pre ferred dividends. This compared with $13,983, 771 or $3.52 per share in 1954. Cash dividends on last year's 3,492,129 shares of common stock were $2.40 per share, the same as the previous year. In their annual report to stockholders, Board Chairman Milton L. Selby said the decline in earnings occurred during the ! first 36 weeks of 1955. says. "What people have done for the Negroes here in the last 10 or 15 years was possible be cause a lot of. groundwork had been laid by minorities that came before." Another New York law pro hibits race discrimination in em ployment. While this, too, has been hard to enforce Negroes have succeeded in cracMng la bor and professional barriers to a remarkable degree. It has been accomplished by economic boycott in some cases, by assist ance of the anti-discrimination law in others, and in many cases by sheer persistence and good example. iixegro leners in canics Negro doctors treat white pa tients in city hospitals. The first Negro went on the faculty of Fordham University six years ago. Negro tellers work in banks with predominantly white clien tele. The New York Telephone Co. has completely integrated Pennsylvania Railroad Strike Action Delayed Washington (U.R) The National Mediation Board has announced that the AFL-CIO Transport Workers Union has postponed a strike sched uled against the Pennsylvania Railroad at midnight tomorrow. The board said the union agreed to postpone the strike pending mediation of the dis pute by the board. its switchboards. The pattern of integration j and segregation is a constantly changing one. "We've come a long way," one Negro leader said, "but we still have a long way to go." Some northern Ne groes are fearful that racial agi tation in the South may cut back some of the gains they have made in being accepted in the North. "The principle that there shall be no discrimination must be upheld," Hulan Jack told a re porter the other day. 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