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52nd YeaF Medford Price 10 Cents Tribune 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1958 Pages T to 10 Inter-Racial Friction Said Not Cause of Teen-Age Gangster Violence in New York Editor's note: The tnited Press brought its Atlanta bureau man lier to New York with instruc tions to take a food look and give his opinion whether race friction is causing the school violence there. This is the last of three dispatches. By AL KUETTNER United Press Correspondent New York opt Take the juvenile delinquency r problem In your own home town and then multiply it by the comparative size of New York City's 8 million popula tion. What does it add up to? Well, here it adds up to a king-sized municipal head ache and everyone is look ing for a sedative to ease the pain. A congressional com mittee is scheduled to get in to the investigative act Thurs- j result almost purely of racial day. The sidewalks of New York have been the subject of song and story for genera tions. Its street gangs are lengend. But never before have they had the national publicity they do now. For where they once fought with brickbats and raw knuckles, they go at each other now with knives and guns. , These are not grownups. They are children, often in tender early teens. School boys, or so they should be. Sometimes they are girls. There's an idea in some parts of the nation that the city's teen-gangsterism is the Merchants Cautioned About Magazine Ads Area merchants were cau tioned today by Jackson County Chamber of Com merce officials regarding soli citations for placement of ads in magazines and booklets purported to be officially con nected with the Oregon Cen tennial. Don McNeil, manager of the Chamber, said that "no word has been received from the centennial commission that there is any publication officially connected with the commission in which space for ads is being sold." Ample notification will be given upon the establishment of an official publication by the commission and represen tatives will come well equip ped with proof documenting their official representatives, McNeil said. Reports Received Reports have come from chambers all over Oregon, in cluding Jackson county, that local businessmen are being contacted for advertising space in a booklet many have thought was an official con nection. Although the contract, in fine print, does mention that the publication is not official ly connected with the centen nial commission, local reports indicate the business people thought they were taking an ad in the official publication. McNeil advised merchants to remember that there is no hurry to secure ads, that they should read the contract in cluding the fine print, and check the authenticity of the representative's credentials at the chamber of commerce if in doubt. Three Youths Are Arrested in Ashland Ashland Two Klamath Falls youths and one from Ashland were jailed by Ash la n d city police Tuesday night. Sheldon J. Harrison, 18, of 455 South Mountain ave., Ashland, a student at South ern Oregon college was charged with illegal' posses sion of intoxicating liquor, and Bruce Edward Niles, 21, Klamath Falls, with furnish ing liquor to minors. Police said they apprehend ed the three after a report that they were. seen in a local tavern with a pistol. One re volver was found under the eat of the car they were in nd another was in possession Df one of the youths, accord ing to police. HAIRDRESSER KILLS SELF St. Petersburg, Fla. OPl The third suicide leap in four months from the Sunshine Skyway across Tampa Bay occurred Wednesday when Alexander MacKenzie, 56-year-old hairdresser, jumped 155 feet to his death. The spectacular' span is part of a 15-mile linkage of bridges and causeways across the water. Chairman Named For Film Plans Mrs. C. B. Collins, Med 'ford, has accepted the chair manship of a special commit tee arranging details of the area-wide showing of the American Cancer Society film, "Breast Self - Examina tion" for women of Jackson county. Mrs. John Dellenbeck, president of the Jackson coun ty branch of . the American Cancer society, announced that Mrs. Collins will be as sisted by Mrs. Ivan Burton, Mrs. Brandt Bartels, Mrs. Fred Burich, Mrs. George Schuler, Miss Francis Clink, Eric Allen Jr., and Herb Grey. Free showings of the film will be held at 10 a.m. March 25 and 26 at the Holly and Varsity theaters. An estimated 1,000 women will see the film, and a Jackson county doctor's panel will be present at the showings. Theater fa cilities are being donated by Robert Corbin yof Lippert theaters, and volunteers of the Moving Picture Machine Operator's union will serve as projectionists. v Camp White Men Named to Group Luren L. Dover, chief of the registrar division, and Charles G. Goold, assistant chief of the division at, the Camp White veterans domi ciliary, have been elected charter members of the Am erican Academy of Medical Administrators. j The academy was founded recently in Boston, where its international headqua r t e r s are located. It also has a Washington, C, -i.vice bureau. Hugh C. McEwan, Cohasset, Mass., is the first president.. The academy's aim is to elevate the standards of medi cal administration. i OLD STORE - NO MORE! NEW STORE - VALUES' GALORE! Yes, ACME Has mmdvmid Out of the High Rent District! Our New Building is Conveniently Located at 245 South Central at 10th FREE PARKING While you shop at . . . 9 1 ' , QUALITY tALU. Jjf9AtA A At Lowest Prices! ICJQu SPECIALISTS IN HO MEW ARES ! 245 South Central at 10th Phone SP 2-520 J strife. As a matter- of fact the same opinion is not foreign right here in New York. But listen to this: Defies Proof "I've lived in New York all my life and I defy anyone to prove this is a racial prob lem," says Capt. Conrad S. Jansen, a police officer and part-time preacher whose pre cinct station it in the heart of Harlem. After a week of roaming the city, including the stamp ing grounds of the "Dragons", "Devil's Angels" and "Sports men," I am ready to agree with Jansen except on one point. It wasn't inter-racial fric tion that causes the gang vio lence. But the gangs are get ting their membership from the 41 per cent increase in the city's non-white popula tion in the past seven years. Membership is made up of many racial groups. But the important thing to a gang is not who you are but where you came from. The fellow from the next street is your deadly enemy, whereas those in your block, regardless of race, are your pals. ' Reassured by the broad shouldered huskiness of Har rison Lightfoot, a Virginia born Negro with a master's degree, I toured some of New York's juvenile gang territ ory this week. Lightfoot is in charge of the youth board's 10 'street clubs, the emotional bridge between derelict chil dren and organized society. Before the night was finish ed, I knew that a "diddy-pep-per" is a non-conformist mem ber who stirs up trouble in side a gang; that every gang has - an intricate organization; that "bopping" or "rumbling" sessions are conflicts careful ly arranged by warlords of opposing gangs who decide whether fists "or bludgeons or pistols will be used. Gangs Are Mixed N Some gangs are all Negro, some all Puerto Rican, others all white and many a mix ture of various' races, nation al origin and religious back ground. Gangs do battle for "ter ritorial rights," revenge, out of jealousies, over girls. They often stake out city parks or swimming pools for their own use. Just such an incident brought death last summer to Michael Farmer, too crippled from polio to escape a gang's wrath when he was suspect ed as a gang member from another territory slipping in to the neighborhood pool. Ac tually, Farmer belonged to no gang. Seven boys are on trial for his murder and could be sent to the electric chair.. They are. inter-racial: Two Puerto Ricans, two Negroes, two whites and a boy from the Dominican Republic. Race has become second ary to more pressuring ten sions satisfying physical needs, getting attention, find ing security. Magistrate Matthew Fa gan, a night court judge, puts a great deal of the blame squarely on teachers and on parents who say they didn't realize what was happening. "Why didn't they know?" he said. "It was their busin ess to know." Fringe Area Appraisals To Be Subject of Course Corvallis Appraisal of property in' suburban fringe areas will be emphasized this year at the third annual state appraisal short course at Ore gon State college. Dates are March 24 to 28. Sponsored jointly by the state tax commission and the college, the course was start ed in 1956 to provide a con tinuing training program for appraisers and to help bring about greater uniformity in valuation of real property across Oregon. Between 75 and 100 county assessors, deputy assessors, and other persons interested in appraisal training are ex pected to attend this year's course. Grant E. Blanch, professor of agricultural economics, is executive secretary of the planning committee. , Fringe Areas Fringe areas were selected as the central theme for this Rescue Course Starts in Ashland Ashland Twenty women from the Ashland, area are enrolled in a civil defense course on women's light res cue duty at the Ashland fire department. Instructors are Fire Chief Charles Davis, who is civil defense director for Ashland, and Fireman A. M. Miller, assistant director. The two men attend in struction classes in Grants Pass taught by City Fire Mar shal Forrest Gardner. Subjects of the 6-12 week course include knot tying, stretcher handling, basic fire fighting and home emergency protection. Special visitors at the first meeting of the class early in January were Gen. John Har graves, head of the medical division, Oregon state civil defense, and Maj. Joseph Hicks, head of Jackson coun ty civil defense. year's work, Blanch said, be cause of the rapid develop ment of such areas through out the state and because they pose new and special valua tion problems for appraisers. The course will include in struction in value theory, planning the appraisal and report preparation, and ap praisal of principles and tech niques in their application to various types of properties. Two field trips are planned for practice appraisals of an open lot in a new housing subdivision x and of a farm located in a fringe area. A staff- of experienced ap praisal authorities from Ore gon, California and" Washing ton will direct course work. David Schumacher, Los An geles appraiser, will be one of the course leaders. Staff members will be available in the evenings for conferences on special problems. Representatives of the Ore gon County Assessors associ ation participate in confer ence planning. Man Arrested For Applegate Thefts William Ivan Rawley, 38, Upper Applegate, was arrest ed by sheriff's deputies Tues day in connection with sev eral burglaries and cases of larceny in the Applegate area. According to officers, many items, mainly tools, were dis covered at Rawley's house and in the area. Rawley, who was paroled from the state hospital at Sal em a year ago, was scheduled to be returned to the hospital, officers said. 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