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IT testis, 'ft .... - . .. u t M . St rS : 7 ii f .r A CIVIL RIGHTS BILL This is the copy of the Civil Rights bill which President Eisen hower signed into law at the summer White House on the naval base at Newport R L The President wrote at the bottom of the long-fought bill: "Approved, Dwight D Eisenhower, 9 September 1957, U. S. Naval Base, Newport. R. LM SIGNS CIVIL RIGHTS BILL President Eisenhower signs the long-fought Civil Rights bill in his small summer White House office at Newport Naval Base, R. I. The President, who signed the bill without comment, used six pens to affix his signature to the legislation. Neuberger's Bill To Propose Limiting Use Of National Guard Washington (W Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.), an nounced today he will introduce legistlation soon after Congress convenes in January barring use of the national guard as "the personal army or storm troop unit of a governor. forbid the use of the guard to prevent or interfere with the carrying out of any U. S. Court order. He said it also would for bid Its use for any action con trary to the U. S. Constitution. Under the bill as drafted, Neu berger said, the President would Neuberger said the Senate's be empowered "to halt the pay leeislative counsel already has prepared such a measure for him. The Oregon Democrat said the school integration crisis in Little Rock, Ark., and use of guard troops there made the need for the legislation "abun dantly clear." Asks for Commission His statement came as Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), called on President Eisenhower to establish a federal civil rights commission immediately and let it get to work. Humphrey also cited the Little Rock dis orders, plus other civil rights problems. The new civil rights law sign ed by the President Monday au thorized him to appoint a six member commission to investi gate civil rights complaints and report back to him. One idea would be to determine whether further legislation was needed. Would Forbid Use Neuberger said his bill would ment of federal funds for the support of that state's national guard." Hl-Lites -IN THE History by ED HALL On Feb. 19, 1821, the board of trustees of Univer sity of Pennsylvania pub lished its rules covering the examination of druggist, and Feb. 23, 1821, the Philadel phia Apothecaries and Drug gists held their first meeting, this being the first united ac tion of this profession in America. The first law regulating re tail sale of drugs was first passed in Rhode Island in 1870 now all states have their laws protecting the health and welfare of its people. Phone SP 2-9431 for your PRESCRIPTION specialist . . . a registered PHARMACIST is here to serve you use a con venient CHARGE ACCOUNT . . . CENTRAL REXALL DRUG, Main and Central. adv. Nevada Man Heads Mining Council Salt Lake City OP) Charles H. Segerstrom Jr., Tungsten, Nev., was elected chairman of the Western Governors' Mining Advisory Council at a meeting in connection with the Ameri can Mining congress. Miles P. Romney, Salt Lake City, was elected vice chairman; Louis H. Gordon, Reno, secre tary, and S. H. Williston, Palo Alto, Calif., became executive committee, chairman. The council adopted a resolu tion of "highest commendation" to Gov. Goodwin J. Knight of California for his "reasonable national mineral policy" pro posal at the 1957 National Gov ernors' Conference. Commended by the resolution for enthusiastic support of the Knight proposal were Govs. Ernest W. MacFarland of Ari zona, Charles Russell of Nevada, and Robert Smylie of Idaho. THEOLOGY PROFESSOR DIES Chicago (IP) The Rev'. Dennis F.i Burns, theology professor at Chicago Loyola University and former president of Xavier Uni versity of Cincinnati, died Mon day after a short illness. SPECIAL TANK SALE Indianapolis (IP) Indiana bargain-hunters have been noti fied of a special sale on a hard-to-get item. State Adjutant John McConnel announced that for only $100 a 36-ton M4 tank can be bought. Smith-Dynge LUMBER GO. 8th and Fir St. Youthful Atomic Expert Correctly Answers TV Quiz New York (IP) Atomic ex pert Joyce Myron, North Ber gen, N.J., Tuesday night put a nuclear reactor through its paces to win $96,000 on the CBS TV quiz show "$64,000 Question." The 18-year-old college sopho more answered a two-part ques tion of three sections each in her category "the atom" while at the General Electric Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory at Pleasan ton, Calif. The questions were asked by Hal March in New York and had to do with the op eration of an atomic power plant. Plastic Clothing Miss Myron was dressed in special plastic clothing to pro test her from atomic radiation. She first answered questions from her observation of the re actor, ending up with rapid cal culations and instructions that put the huge device into action. The questions i n c lu d ed: Identify one of two elements producing the most radiation; select a radiation-measuring in strument from a group of five; test reactor fuel elements; and instruct laboratory technicians in operation of the reactor. Eligible To Return Besides winning $96,000 on Tuesday night's show, Miss Myron, who attends the Drexel Institute of Technology in Phil adelphia, became eligible to re turn next week for a $128,000 question. If she answeA that cne correctly, she can go on to try for sums up to $256,000. Also on Tuesday night's pro gram were Mora, a Manchurian- born Oriental dancer, and Kamal Mansour, a member of the Druse religious sect from Isfia, Israel. Mora qualified for a $32,000 question by correctly answering questions in her "great love stories" category. Mansour came on the show too late to pick a category and wil return next Tuesday night. Pope Pius Calls For Censorship Vatican City I Pope Pius VII today called for social and moral censorship of radio, movies and television. In the 22nd encyclical letter of his 18-year reign as spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic church, the pontiff warned of the grave dangers which "can beset Christian faith and morals if the powerful inventions of mo tion pictures, radio and televis ion are perverted by men to evil uses" In the encyclical letter, signed by the Pope Sept. 8, the pontiff said that unless "set laws" and "moral safeguards" are applied to the movies, radio and tele vision, "they will restrict the people's true development and weaken their morals." He called upon both industry and the state to cooperate with the church to help "these new arts make their proper and nat ural contribution to the right fashioning of minds." IP Q3G!IE3 THURSDAY Home Appliance Go. Medford Ashland GOP Political Gains Less Than Expected In Civil Rights Bill By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (1P Democrats should be pleased by returns from a spot check of the first test of politi c a 1 sentiment among Negroes since the con gressional de bate on the r i g h t-to-vote ' bill. Republicans should be cor r e s rjondinelv disappointed. c- WUson President Eisenhower signed the vote bill Monday. It was a much diluted version of an over all civil rights bill originally sponsored by the administration and substantially rejected by Congress. The test of Negro political judgment took place in last month's Wisconsin senatorial election. William Proxmire de feated former Gov. Walter J. Kohler by a lopsided score in a light vote. Kohler ran as a 100 per cent Ikeman. The election was held two days before the final congressional vote on civil rights, but long after the admin istration's position had been demonstrated. Milwaukee's 2nd and 6th wards are Negro areas. Adlai E. Stevenson won 64 per cent of the 2nd and 6th vote in 1952. Proxmire got 76 per cent in 1956 against Republican Vernon W. Thomson, the state-wide win ner for governor. Opposing Kohler last month j for the Senate, Proxmire took 79 per cent of the 2nd and 6th ward Negro vote. Proxmire won state-wide by 122,000 votes. He did not need the Negro vote to win. The political fact, however, is that Milwaukee Negroes voted for him almost en bloc. Cast en bloc, the Negro vote could be the balance of power in any moderately close contest in any industrial state such as, for example, New Yprk, Pennsyl vania, Ohio and Illinois. Failure of Wisconsin's Negro voters to react favorably to the Republican record on civil rights is, therefore, a political factor of considerable import ance. Especially if it proves to reflect the political attitudes of Negroes in other states. This importance extends to the southern states. Eisenhower's signature on the bob-tailed 1957 civil rights bill committed and empowered the Republican ad ministration to assure the vote to southern Negroes who desire it. To be disclosed by events is where and how southern Ne groes will confide their newly guaranteed franchise. A Delicate Position They may infiltrate the south ern Democratic Party in an ef fort to defeat local and national officials who offend them.. They may become the core of an oppoi sition party in the South perhaps as Republicans. The Arkansas ruckus over school integration, now spread i n g somewhat through the South, offers the Eisenhower ad ministration new opportunities to win Negro affection on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Negro voters would be ex pected to turn toward the Re publican Party if Eisenhower and Atty. Gen. Herbert Brow nell Jr. deal effectively and promptly with opposition to in tegration at the state executive level. If aggressive opposition spreads from Arkansas and de velops generally into a direct challenge to the authority of federal courts, then, so much the greater will be the adminis tration's opportunity to make some political hay among Ne groes everywhere. It is a delicate position for the President. Wednesday, September 11, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE Candidates for Teamster Union Presidency Start on Campaigns Seattle. Wash. ( Four candidates for the top post in the giant Teamsters' Union scattered across the nation to day to begin campaigns each h6pes will put him on Dave Beck's throne. Three of them left the impres sion they will gang up on the fourth Teamsters' vice presi dent and Central Conference president James R. Hoffa. Hoffa's opponents: Thomas J. Hickey, New York vice presi dent; Thomas J, Haggerty, secretary-treasurer of Chicago Milk Drivers Local 753, and Rep. John F. Shelley, San Francisco Democrat. All four were there Tuesday to present their platforms to the powerful Policy Committee of the 11- state Western Confer ence of Teamsters. After the meeting, Hoffa's rivals promised to keep in touch with each other "every other day" to keep up on their anti-Hoffa campaigns. Although Western Conference chief Frank Brewster told news men, "I'll support a winner I'm a horse-player you know," the committee did not indorse any of the candidates. Instead, it decided to leave the decision to locals. The election for international president of the union will be held Sept. 30 at Miami, Fla. Beck, under indictment on charges of income tax evasion, will not be a candidate for re election. Shelley returned to San Fran cisco, Hickey to New York, Hoffa to Chicago and Haggerty to Los Angeles. All plan appeals for votes from locals and joint councils. Copper Men Agree on Import Tax Approach Sale Lake City (IP) A new approach to the question of im port taxes on foreign copper has been agreed upon by industry leaders and will be presented to the next session of Congress. The new . approach would tie the tax to the price index of non-ferrous metals. It was worked out at a daylong meet ing of copper producers at the American Mining Congress and a bill drafted with help from the staff of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs committee. The price peril point for cop per would be fixed at 30 cents a pound, two cents less than advo cated in a speech by J. B. Pullen, assistant general manager for Phelps Dodge Corp., Douglas, Ariz. Shelley, after his appearance before the committee, said Brew ster raised the question of Shel ley's eligibility as a candidate. Shelley indicated the question originally came from Hoffa sup porters. Personal Comment The candidates had this to say: Hoffa: "I'm happy to have competition. I wish more were in the race." Hickey: "It isn't the indivi dual personality that is import ant here but whether we are go ing to stay inside the AFL-CIO or put ourselves , in a position where we get kicked out of the organized labor movement." Haggerty: "Followers of Hickey and Shelley will be gathering forces and merging their strength ... to provide the necessary numbers which will elect Haggerty." Shelley: "I think the fact they (Hoffa forces) are making so much of it (Shelley's eligibility) indicates they're worried." No candidate claimed the sup port of either Brewster or Beck, although Hoffa paid Beck a "social call" before returning to Chicago. The 400,000-man Western Con ference will play an Important role in the Miami convention with its' more than 500 votes out of a total of 1883. Say Lady! 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