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BIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE We-dnwday, Mar 1. 195S Fears of Public Over Jet Age Found Lesser After Three Years Lancaster, Calif. U.R The jet age arrived here three years ago with a boom. Everyone in town heard it. There were protests immediate ly. But three year; of living next door to a busy et plane base has changed a lot of attitudes. Peo ple have learned X6 "co-exist" with the jets. Many townspeople were fear ful when jet aircraft first moved into the Edwards Air Force Base Palmdale Airport complex here in the Antelope Valley 50 miles north of Los Angeles. There was fear that shock waves or sonic "booms" from jets maneuvering overhead would damage property or, if not that, the great noise of jets would be such a nuisance that property values would decline. There was also fear of falling aircraft. Today, such fears are seldom expressed. Damage claims result ing from jet noise and shock waves have been negligible. Few families seem to worry about the possibility of accidents. Values Increased Property values have increased by leaps and bounds in the three years since jet flying began, and there ;s even a housing shortage. Flight patterns established at the Eowards and Palmdale air ports have sent the jet planes flying over mountainous terrain where the roar of their engines is absorbed. At the Palmdale Air port there is a buffer strip two miles wide on all sides in which high-density residential building is prohibited. The Lancaster firm of Neidig, Haddan and McGillivry, insur ance claims investigators, reports, that not more than half a dozen damage claims stemming from jet flights have been filed in three years against the many in surance companies the firm rep resents. None were large claims. Chickens Lost One poultry farmer lost sev eral hundred chickens when they were frightened by a jet and dashed themselves against the wire netting of their pen. Yet several other poultry farmers say the noise has never bothered their chickens. The W. J. McAdam Real Estate and Insurance Company in Palm dale reports claims for damages from sonic shock waves amount to less than $500 since the start of jet flying. Several jet planes have crashed in the Antelope Valley but all have gone down in open country. Test pilots and flight personnel from both Palmdale and Edwards AFB seem to have no fear of living close to the airfields. Chicago minister Rebuilds Church Membership By Selling Integration Chicago (U.R) There were only 25 youngsters attending Sunday school in a building with 75 rooms when the Rev. Jerry Walker went to St. James Meth odist Church on Chicago's south side three years ago. The congregation had dwin dled from more than 1000 to about 365. It had once been a 100 percent white neighborhood but, by 1953, it was 80 per cent Negro. Yet only six or eight Negroes would drop in for Sunday serv ices from time to time, Walker said. They usually didn't come back. "They weren't made to feel at home fcy the white parishioners," Walker said, "and they knew they weren't welcome." Still the area was predom inantly Negro, attendance was constantly slipping and it was suggested to Walker that the church should be sold to a Negro congregation. Serves All People "That's how the problem usually is 'solved' in Chicago communities where Negroes move in," Walker said, "but I decided to operate on one prin ciple a church needs to serve Headwailer Wins $16,000 on TV Quiz New York (U.R) A Phil adelphia headwaiter won $16, 000 last night by answering a question on a television quiz program. New York school teacher de cided to settle for $8,000 in her appearance on the CBS-TV pro gram "The $64,000 Question" and a Bloomfield, Conn., house wife worked her way to the $8,000 level. Gregory Simonsen, 57, the headwaiter, heard recordings of the opening bars of five well known musical compositions and was ask:d ' to name the compo sition and its composer. His correct answers were: "Italian Symphony" by Felix Men delssohn, "Finlandia" by Sibe lius, "Eine Kleine Nachtmusic" by Mozart, "Variations on a Theme by Hayden" by Brahms, and "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini'' by Rachmaninoff. Next week Simonsen returns to the program to decide wheth er he'll take the $16,000 he has won or try for the $32,000 question. the people of the community whether they be Negroes or Jap anese, bankers or ditch diggers. Walker, who is 38, called a meeting of the church's board of trustees in October, 1954. He proposed 14 new names for church membership, seven Neg roes and seven whites. He said he had been warned not to do it by a small but very vocal minor ity. "There were letters to the bishop criticizing me and the usual threats f financial with drawal by certain parishioners," he said. One member of the board of trustees said he would move to another church before he would sit next to a Negro on Sunday. "But a very striking ' thing happened when I made the deci sion," Walker said. "Men and women who had been dragging their heels on this problem had a change of heart. When the deci sion was made they wanted to see It through." Only about a dozen members left the church. The trustee who said he would never sit beside a Negro was one of the first to welcome the new parishioners." Membership Increased I "With integration, everything j about the church has begun to grow," Walker said. "We now j have 518 members, about 150 of I whom are Negroes. "The fears people had about mixing sort of faded away when they met as individuals. We don't even talk about race prob lems now. I do when I'm asked to talk in other churches, but in my own pulpit I don't." Walker's church is an excep tion. Out of some 1500 Prot estant churches in the city, only about 10 or 12 have been truly integrated. Walker said many ministers still are afraid to taolde the integration problem because of fears and lack of understanding about things they just don't un dertsand themselves. Intermarriage Feared "The intermarriage fear is al ways raised," Walker said. "I might not want my children to marry a Negro, but we can't separate our children from everybody we don't want them to marry. We have to be realistic about this. "Another interesting point is there are more children born of mixed marriages in the South where segregation is practiced than in the North where there is much less segregation." Stale Seen Near End . Of Vaccine Shortage Portland (U.R) Dr. Har old M. Erickson, state health of ficer, predicted today that Ore gon "may be nearing the end of the period of critical shortage" of Salk polio vaccine. But Dr. Erickson pointed out that a mod erate shortage of the vaccine probably would continue through the remainder of this year: "During the past two and a half months as much vaccine was released to Oregon as 'during the preceding eight months," Dr. Erickson said. "In the three weeks ending April 27 we ac tually received about 60,000 cc's of commercial vaccine." The State Board- of Health said almost 400,000 cubic centi meters' of Salk polio vaccine had been released to Oregon since last July 1. . Dr. Erickson said his depart ment is continuing its policy of recommending that third shots not be given during the present shortage. House U-A Group Names Committee Aide Washington (U.R) Chair man Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) of the House Committee on Un American Activities, Tuesday announced the appointment of Richard Arens, a veteran Sen ate Communist investigator, as committee director. Arens has served as a member of the staff of the Senate Judic iary Committee since 1947. He also was staff director of the Senate immigration subcommit tee and associate counsel of the internal security subcommittee. He helped draft the 1950 Intern al Security Act. Farm Official Finds Raincoat Handy Item Dallas (U.R) Harry Fra zee, a farm credit service of ficial from Washington, said his wife laughed at him when he packed a raincoat preparing to tour the Texas draught area. Tuesday, Frazee had the last laugh, as he toured Dallas coun ty. More than six inches of rain fell in 48 hours, and Frazee wore his raincoat. THE BETTER TO SEE WITH American League Umpire Frank Umont, who made his tory when he wore glasses during the Athletics-Tigers game in Kansas City, Mo., says, "I expect to be ribbed about my glasses, but I don't expect it will worry me." Chutists Want Funds For Jump on Russia Trenton, N. J. (U.R) Five American parachute jumpers are trying to raise $18,000 so they can "skydive" from a air plane over field near Moscow next July. The flying five, who are prac ticing jumps at Cobbinsville Airport here, need the $18,000 to cover part of their expenses as- the first official American parachute team to compete in the world parachuting champ ionship contest. Current champs are the Russians, who are hosts for the international event. Those currently practicing sky diving and spot jumping here are George E. Bosworth, Buffalo, N.Y.; Walter R. Fair, Athens, Tenn.; Floyd M. Hobby, Elyria, O.; Joseph L. Hoffman, Seattle, Wash.; Lewis Sanborn, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; George J. Stone, Cleveland, O.; and Jac ques Andre Istel, Bedford, N.H., team captain. EVERYONE INVITED! MEET MAUTZ CANDIDATE FOR . . . REPUBLICAN National Committeeman BOB MAUTZ COFFEE HOUR 3:00 to 5:00 P.M., Thursday, May 3 Rogue Room, Hotel Med ford MAUTZ for Republican Notional CommlttM O. C "Sluo," Polmr, Cholrman 420 S. 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