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EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Fridty, August 31. 195S Civil Rights Listed Among Most Violent Of Controversies In Administration By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series on the record of the Eisenhower administration. Washington The most vio lent controversies of the past four years have been raised over issues in the broad field of civil rights, from racial in- tegra t i o n of the public schools to the admi n i s t ra tion security program for weeding out a. Robi bmiui federal era ployecs suspected of being se curity risks. Nothing has occurred more monumental in this period than the Supreme Court's decision striking down segregation in the schools, but it has fomented out cries from most politicians of the Deep South pledging to resist the implementation of the deci sion in order to preserve the his toric southern pattern of racial Damage Suit Filed In Ml. Hood Tragedy New York (U.R) A S500, 000 damage suit has -been filed in federal court against Youth Hotels, Inc., for the injuries re ceived by a 16-year-old girl when she fell with a party of teen agers down the slopes of Mount Hood, Ore., last month. One girl was killed in the accident. The suit was filed by Herbert Blum, of Baldwin, N. Y., on be half of his daughter, Suzanne. It asked $450,000 for damages and $50,000 for medical and other expenses. Blum charged that the com pany was negligent in failing to prevent the fall and had not ad vised parents of the teen-aged tourists that mountain climbing would be involved in their 5430 cross-coun'ry tour. The National Safety Council said past lecords indicate acci dents are billing, on the average, about 40 farm residents each day and injuring one farm per son about every half-minute. scparateness. Because the high court is a branch of the government apart from the executive which Pres ident Eisenhower heads, and its makeup is bipartisan seven Democrats and two Republicans when the school decision was handed down the Eisenhower administration can hardly claim credit for this historic ruling. And yet it agreed entirely with the decision, as the arguments before the court of administra tion lawyers clearly demon strated. In the mounting furor over the court ruling, many have cri ticized the president for not ex erting leadership to calm the troubled waters through a White House conference of reasonable minded men of the South. Whether this "hands off" atti tude will turn out to be best or not remains to be seen. Defeat of Southerners Legislatively, Eisenhower has proposed much the same civil rights bill that President Tru man sent to Congress. And he met the same result defeat at the hands of southern Democrats in the Senate who use the fili buster as their main weapon. But, administratively, the ad ministration has made advance ments to further the rights of Negroes by pushing integration in the nation's capital's schools, hotels, restaurants, playgrounds; ruling by the Interstate Com merce commision that segrega tion on buses and trains is il- Quotes From the News Br UNITED PRESS Clfnton, Tenn. U.R) Assistant Police Chief Joe Wilson on the shower of tin cans and tomatoes loosed by white students in front of Cliton High school where the integration of Negro students in the school has created great tension: "They even threw a, one policeman. We almost had a riot when they started throwing tomatoes and everything else." Chicago Psychologist Edward M. Bennett describing the eon duct of a "deputy survey" on the relationship between personal ity traits and political persuasion that showed Republican women more self-centered and Democratic women more uphappy: "Naturally, some of our interviewers got thrown out on their ear." Knoxville Democratic presidential nominee Adlai E. Steven son attacking this country's progress in development of atomic eneigy for peacetime uses: "It has become increasingly apparent that, under the. Eisen hower administration's go-slow policies, we are lagging seriously in the development of nuclear energy for peacetime purposes." New Delhi Touring Chief Justice Earl Warren turning aside i suggestion his wife should- join him in broadcasting a speech over the Indian radio network: "I do all the talking for the family in public. Mrs. Warren does all the talking at home. ; stockings when she visit- Washington Miss Bertha Adkins, chairman of women's activi ties of the Republican National committee, on whether President Eisenhower noticed her "I Like Ike" silk stocki ed his office: ' "I don't think he looked at them." Forest Park, Pa. AFL-CIO President George Meany under lining the "definite progress" the union's executive council has achieved against racketeering in organized labor at a summer session here: "Wo are not ever going to be satisfied with the answer that the autonomy of individual unions can be used as a covur-up for corruption practices." legal; ending segregation in veterans' hospitals; carrying through with integration of the armed forces; fostering greater employment of Negroes in gov ernment. Because of the heavy fire by Republicans against the Truman administration over charges of Communists-in-government, the Eisenhower administration was in office only three months be fore it issued a tough security program which applied to all government employees, whether in sensitive jobs or not. Employees Dismissed In his 1954 stale of the union message. Eisenhower reported that 2200 federal employees had been dismissed under this pro gram. Subsequently, this figure was raised to 6926, then K008, and finally 9600 figures which GOP politicians were quick to put to use. Vice President Nixon, in a 1954 campaign speech, claimed: "We're kicking the Commu nists and fellow-travelers and security risks out of the govern ment not by the hundreds but by the thousands." But since then, the adminis tration has conceded that these figures were misleading or false in almost every respect, as fol lows: 1. Over 90 per cent of those numbered as "security risks" ac tually left government by regu lar civil service procedures with out a test of their case, many without knowing any charges had been lodged against them. 2. Through last Sept. 30, only 1016 employees actually had been charged under the security program and of these, only 342 were dismissed. 3. Over half of the 9600 em ployees listed as having been weeded out had been hired by the Eisenhower administration. The cases of several inriiviHn- als aroused general public atten tion. An air force lieutenant, Milo J. Radulovich, was branded a securitv risk hpraii nf itcm . - cions concerning his father and sister, tie was later restored to his initial status. Wolf Ladejinsky, a land re form expert;-was let out by the State Department when it shift ed that program to the Agricul ture Department. State had cleared him, but Agriculture dis missed him as a security risk. Then another agency, Foreign Operations Administration, hired him after agreeing with State that he was not a risk. Navy Employee Suspended Abraham Chasanow, a navy employee, was suspended with out pay for 14 months while his case was determined by a hear ing board, which ended by clear ing him. Then an assistant sec retary of the Navy summarily dismised him, despite the board's ruling. When the cress championed Chasanow in stor ies that won a Pulitzer prize for Anthony Lewis of the Scripps Howard Washington Daily News he was finally restored to duty. Much of this administration confusion over who was or was not a real security risk came during the period when Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) was still riding high as chairman of the Senate committee on govern ment operations, investigating the. International Information Administration, which then ran the Voice of America and over seas libraries. ' The Eisenhower administra tion instructed its officials to co operate with McCarthy, for the president, while despising the senator's tactics, decided not to tangle with him. McCarthy, as a result, summoned regiments of government officials to Capitol Hill and conducted open warfare against various administration programs with the clear impli cation that he " considered the Eisenhower administration "soft on Communism." McCarthy Lowered McCarthy was finally brought to- his present low estate by two almost simultaneous circum stances: in the elections of No vember, 1954, Democrats won control of the Senate, thereby removing McCarthy from his seat of power as chairman of the investigating , committee; the Senate convened shortly after that election in special session as a climax to the Army-McCarthy televised hearings of that spring, and in the end voted to censure the senator for his con duct. On the whole, the administra tion has operated a tough secur ity program to restore public confidence in the integrity of government employees, although this has worked hardships and unfairness on those wrongly ac cused. And the administration has used misleading figures about the program for political purposes. (NEXT What's happened to natural resource development?") Cutter Laboratories Named in New Lawsuit Oakland. Calif. 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