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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
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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.
Ground was broken July 31 at
The Dales, Ore., for a $64 million
aluminum reduction plant for
Harvey Aluminum Co.
West pointed out that since
1940 traffic on the Upper Co
lumbia has increase 225 per cent.
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Laws Strengthened
Already this year Florida and
North Carolina legislatures held
special sessions and strengthened
segregation laws. Virginia and
Louisiana are in extra session
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After Slump American
Smokers Resume Habit
Chicago U.R) American
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slump last year, the Federation
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The Federation said a down
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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.
In Memphis, the old Crump
organization backed a "Citizens
For Progress" group that won
with a segregation platform
over a local Good Government
League.
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good-will trip to Greece. The
pastor of a local Greek church
gave Cronin an album of "learn-Greek-yourself"
records.
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