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. (U.R) A
Modesto, Calif., couple's suit for
$100,000 against the Cutter La
boratories, Inc., has brought to
$5,468,773 damages sought from
the Berkeley firm in connection
with polio vaccine' it manufac
tured last year.
It was the 26th suit against
Cutter and it was filed by Mr.
and Mrs. Sheldon M. Smith in
behalf of their four-year", old
daughter, Cindy Lee Smith. They
said she contracted polio 10 days
after she received an injection
of Salk Vaccine manufactured
by Cutter April 18, 1955.
Newark, N. J. (U.R) Louis
West's number was up because
it was too easily recognized.
West, 30. was arrested at a check
cashing firm when he tried to
pass a bad check for $58.58. He
was sentenced to 16 months in
prison Wednesday after admit
ting he cashed three other bogus
checks this month, each for
$.58.58.
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