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Riotous Integration Experiment Ends At Kentucky School as Negroes Withdraw Br UNITED PRTSS A ihort lived and riotous ex periment in integrating a high school in Sturgis. Ky.. ended to day amidst the cheer of a white crowd that gathered to witness the return to trict segregation of the school. In Washington, an all-Southern Congressional investigation into integration of public schools in the nation's capital got under way today. The two Northern members of the House subcommittee making the study failed to show up for its begin ning. Eight Negro children came to school at Sturgis as they have for two weeks under protective custody of National Guard or State Police. Today's arrival was different. They were met by Superintendent Carlos Oakley who read them an order from the school board saying the Ne groes were attending that school illegally. Negro.a Leav. Quietly The Negroes, who had been escorted to the school by Lt. Col. Clarence C. Burcb of the Kentucky National Guard and two other guardsmen, left quiet ly by automobile. As their car moved slowly through the crowd, a middle aged woman ran close behind beating on the trunk with her fists. Another woman cried out to the Negroes: "Don't you ever try that no more." Nearby Clay. Ky., set the pat tern for the Sturgis action by barring four Negroes on grounds the school board had not ap proved the integration. A crowd of more than 200 as-' sembled in a cold, drizzling rain to see whether the same plan would work at Sturgis. It did, although there was a chance Speed-Up of Highway Construction Urged; Oregon Projects Set Salem (U.R) The Oregon highway department this month will launch more than S6 mil lion in highway construction projects, some of them to be built on the ultra-modern scale of the federal interstate highway program. When the highway commis sion meets in Portland Sept. 27 and 28 it will call for bids for the Ford's Bridge-Canyonville unit of relocated Highway 99. It will be designed to the latest standards of four-lane construc tion on the interstate system of highways with opposing traffic lanes separated by a 50-foot wide median area. Twin Bridges Major features of the big pro ject will be twin 588-foot con crete and steel bridges over the South Umpqua river at Missouri Bottom and twin 144-foot via ducts over Irwin road. Parts of Highway 30 at the Emigrant Hill-Deadman's Pass section in Umatilla county will also be reconstructed according to standards of the new federal highway system, four lanes with an eight-foot median strip. CAT BURNS DOWN BARN Bromyard, England (U PJ Peter Snatchford. 11, accidental ly dropped a lighted match Tues day night. It landed upon his pet cat. The cat, its fur burning, streaked Into a barn filled with hay. It charged out again, singed, but no longer flaming. The barn burned for nine hours. Pittsburgh (U.R) Speed-up of the nation's road building program from 20 to 10 years could save 200. 000 lives, accord ing to a report to the American Automobile Association. Glenn C. Richards, commis sioner of public works ' at De troit, Mich., asserted the super roads . would drastically reduce the number of traffic accidents and highway fatalities. He also said better local roads would permit working men in the city to get home for evening meals without the worries of being late. Developments Explored Richards participated in a panel which explored the de velopments stemming from the $33 billion federal highway pro gram enacted at the last session of Congress. The parrel featured activities Tuesday at the AAA's 54th annual meeting. Keith L. Seegmiller, execu tive secretary of the Association of County Officials, urged the motor club representatives to "look into their- county court houses" in their quest for better roads. "One of the soundest Invest ments that can be made by the American motorist today , is an effort to obtain improved ad ministration. It will go far to increase the purchasing power of the highway dollar," he said. Negro groups might go to court later to fight the decision. Clarence Mitchell, NAACP Washington director, charged that today's race hearing there, headed by Rep. James C. Davis (D.-Ga.) was in the hands of "bigots." He warned that it may cost the Democratic party votes of Northern Negroes in Novem ber. All Are Southerners Davis, Rep. Bell Williams (D. Miss.) and Rep. JoeJ Broyhill (R.-Va.) conducted the hearing in the absence of Rep. A. L. Mil ler (R.-Neb.) and Dewitt S. Hyde (R.-Md.) who were aligned on the Northern side. The South erners all signed the Southern manifesto opposing racial inte gration. State Attorney General Joe M. Ferguson backed up the Stur gis school board's action by rul ing that integration there was premature because local school officials had not voted to inte grate. The NAACP tried to get Con gress to cancel the Washington hearings. Mitchell said he feared the inquiry would be used as a "forum to promote the kind of strife that has brought disgrace to Clay and Mansfield and Tex arkana, Tex." "The NAACP is a radical or ganization," Davis said. "I don't pay any attention to what the NAACP says now or any time." May End Picketing In the Kentucky ruling, Fer guson said the U.S. Supreme court left the matter up to the school officials and not to Ne gro parents. The decision, if followed by peaceful withdrawal of the Ne gro students at Sturgis, as at Clay, apparently would end for the time being integration at tempts that stirred riotous white picketing until National Guards men took over. . Negro Attorney James A. Crumlin said at Louisville. Ky., that he believes Ferffuson's nil.: ing is wrong in that the count; f school board has desegregated I by "implication," if not by ac tual vote. 1 CanyonviUe Man Hurt In Eagle Point Accident Eagle Point Frank Bunburn sky, 38, of CanyonviUe, suffered lacerations about the head when the logging truck he was operat ing failed to. stop and rolled Wednesday, September 19. 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEW over early yesterday afternoon near Eagle Point. He was treated by a Shady Cove physician and released. The truck's brakes failed as the vehicle approached Murdock rd., according to reports. An object in the grip of the air follows the earth's rotation at approximately 1,000 miles an hour at the equator. Longest infra fed waves are about one sixty-fifth of an inch in length. The population of the United States increased by 36.4 per cent between the years from 1800 to 1810. The sands of Arabia's deserts ' sometimes reach a temperature of 170 degrees Fahrenheit. ' Free Lecture on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Under the Auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Med ford Entitled Christian Science: "The Liberating Light of Truth" By J. Lingen Wood, C.S., of Vancouver, British, Columbia Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts Thursday, Sept. 20, 1956-8 P.M. At First Church of Christ, Scientist Windsor Ave. at Oakwood Drive One Block South of East Main Street It is open to the public. No charge is made, no money is solicited ar a Christian Sciencs Lectur. Faculty, Administration Discuss SOC Plans Tuesday Ashland Featuring plans for a 20 year expansion program for Southern Oregon college in terms of buildings, enrollments, and facilities, Tuesday's admin istration and faculty meetings centered around further discus sions relative to the coming school year. Bob Myrick. student body president, discussed the forma tion of a student judiciary body which is intended by the Student Body council to aid in disciplin ing students. The group would serve in an advisory capacity to the administration only and would not assume responsibility for major decisions. Items under discussion per tained to student and faculty or ganizations and activities. Home coming Week plans, housing and World Scientists Ask New Set of Laws Borne (U.R) A conference of world scientists called today for a new set of laws to govern the conduct of man if and when he conquers the universe. Problems of space etiquette highlighted the second day of the seventh International As tronautical congress meeting here. The main themes were discus sed by chief U. S. Delegate An drew G. Haley, president of the American Rocket society, and A. A. Cocca of Argentina. Haley argued that man may eventually be forced to conquer outer space because the physical resources of the earth are lim ited. Cocca discussed jurisdictional problems involving the right of possession of territory occupied by space explorers. food services, registration pro cedures, library functions, and buildings and grounds. Extension services, graduate programs, and student guidance were other topics discussed, the latter discussion being led by Mabel W. Winston, dean of wom en, and Harold Cloer, director of guidance. Under Cloer's direction, fresh man advisers began the after noon's program with a session devoted to the policies and pro cedures to be followed by the group in its advisory capacity during the year. Committee appointments were anounced by Dr. Elmo N. Steven son, president, who then con ducted a series of discussions on student aids, faculty improve ment, public relations, academic standards, and the role of the faculty in student affairs. Knowland Says World Opinion Against Force Cincinnati. Ohio (U.R) Sen. William F. Knowland said today that world opinion would not justify the use of military pow er by Great Britain or France to force passae of the Suez can al. The Sent publican leader said the cart ..ness of man, an act of nature, or the secret de sign of a saboteur could touch off an explosion in the Suez dispute that could lead to World War III. In a speech prepared for the National Association of Retail Druggists, Knowland said the in fluence and actions of President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, "with bipartisan backing." have been "to prevent the outbreak of hostilities." VETERANS! ENROLL NOW for V.A. APPROVED SCHOOLING IN BUSINESS COURSES AT ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Medford, Oregon Phon. 3-4264, Medford for Information. Day or Evening Courses. 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