Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 29, 1956, Image 16

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Newspaper Page TextSIXTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Auguit 29. 19S8 School Integrationists Successful in Some Areas But Failure Met in Heart of Dixie Atlanta U.Rr Here it is almost September morn when Johnny goes marching off to school again and, throughout the deep South, the white boy will go to his school and the Negro to his as they have done for generations. This September of 1956 two autumns after the Supreme Court ruling on segregation was to have been an historic date. People working for quick compliance with the ruling had set it as the goal for removal of racial barriers in the public schools. Let's see how close they have come to the target. The integrationists have a solid record of accomplishment in some areas, mostly the states bordering the old South. But there is no minimizing their fail ure in the heart of Dixie. Some) Districts Integrated On May 17, 1954, when the court made its ruling, there were 21 states and the District of Columbia with segregation laws. Almost 600 school districts in those states have integrated the past year. Don Shoemaker, ex ecutive secretary of the Southern Education Reporting Service says some 300.000 negroes will attend integrated schools for the first time next month. But two million others will re turn to seeregated classes. A pin-studded map of the South shows a thicket of inte gration in Maryland, West Vir ginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Okla homa and Texas. That thins out to three spots in Arkansas and two in Tennessee. But there is not yet the slight est crack at public school level the segregation wall in Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala bama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Those are the states most like ly to bear out predictions that generations of litigation over the race issue are in prospect. If Multi-Million Dollar Building Boom Going on Along Colombia Walla Walla (U.B The Co lumbia river, from its mouth to the Pasco-Kennewick area, is un dergoing a multi-million dollar building boom. Chemicals, grain and petro leum are moving in unprecedent ed volume on the river, and alumina and finished aluminum ingots will soon be added to the tonnage, the Inland Empire Waterways Association said to day. Barge movements this summer are reflecting the stepped-up business vice president of the association, said. In July, downstream traffic lmimJvr '-' h !-. -ri'Vi'if. ,'., n.i'i Til (ZED v Union Pacific's Skeam&ne PORTLAND ROSE Also direct service to Boise, Salt Lake, Denver and Kansas City. Fast; Luxurious, Dependable Service. Leaves Portland 9:30 p.m. UNION 4t,clf-IC Phone CApitol 7-7771 through McNary Dam totaled 42,967 tons of wheat and petro leum, highest since the locks were commissioned in 1953, West said. Signs of Times Indications of the boom: In 1955, the Continental Grain Co. in Longview added a $300, 000 grain storage warehouse of two million bushel capacity, to boost the port's total storage to 5.365.000 bushels. AfPort Kelley, on the McNary Dam reservoir, the Walla Walla Grain Growers added 250,000 bushels to their elevator capacity late last year. 'Near Paterson, AVash., just downstream from McNary Dam. a private operator has completed a 500,000-bushel elevator with rail and water access. Across the river, a 270,000 bushel elevator in Morrow County, Oregon has ended its first year of operation. New Building Also on the McNary Dam reservoir, at Kennewack, North Pacific Grain Growers this sum mer completed a 1, 500,000 bushel grain warehouse at a cost of S150,000 to bring the port's total storage capacity to four million bushels. Phillips Pacific Chemical Co. is investing $15 million in an anhydrous ammonia plant on the Columbia near Kennewick. The plant will manufacture fertilizer for distribution to eastern Wash ington. Oregon, and Idaho. At Walla Walla, a $400,000 turning basin, dock and indus trial site with rail and highway access has been prepared for potential construction. By December, Standard Oil of California plans to complete a 70,000-barrel increase in stor age capacity at its Salt Lake pipeline terminus near Pasco. The addition will raise the terminal's total capacity to 610, 000 barrels. Aluminum Boom Northwest aluminum produc tion was raised by about 21,750 tons as Reynolds Metals Co. and Alcoa expanded operations. Alcoa has raised its Wenatchee plant capacity to 108,500 tons a year and its Vancouver, Wash, capacity to 95,000 tons. Reyn olds' increase at Troutdale. Ore. makes that plant in the 85,000 ton capacity class. At Longview, Reynolds is raising its capacity five per cent over its present 52,500 ton capacity. 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After Slump American Smokers Resume Habit Chicago U.R) American smokers puffed out of a cigaret slump last year, the Federation of Tax Administrators said. The Federation said a down ward trend which began in 1953 and continued in '54 was ar rested in 1955 with a 5.6 per cent tax increase over '54. The 41 states imposing tobac co taxes at the time collected 496 million dollars, the Federa tion said. The Federation is the clear ing house for the National To bacco Tax Association.- Charlottesville, Va., is under court order to integrate this fall but that is likely to be post poned by appeal. Gov. Thomas B. Stanley will ask the Assembly to permit closing of white schools forced to admit Negroes. In Tennessee, where Gov. Frank Clement's influence has held down an all-out pro-segregation drive, it is reported that the issue will hit the 1957 Legis lature full force. With election year politics out of the way, Cle ment may go along with strong er segregation measures. 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