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Medford Tribune 2rJ SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1958 Pages 1 to 6 Segregation at Central High Appears Certain Little Rock, Ark. (UPI) Segregated classes appear cer tain for Little Rock's embat tled Central High school this fall unless the Circuit Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court grants a request to set aside Judge Harry Lemley's order suspending integration. Lemley has denied a plea by the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored people to say his sus pension oraer. NAACP attorney Wiley Branton, of Pine Bluff, Ark., who entered the lft-ief argu ment for cancelling Lemley's order, inunediately answered the latest decision" by telling newsmen "The best thing I can say is have motion, will travel Tak Months Negro students will not be allowed to attend Central High while the cast is being argued before th higher courts. Lemley indicated "It will take month to carry the case through the Court of Appeals and the United States Su- pme Cour' In a lengthy memorandum reiterating many of the same arguments made in his initial decision Saturday, 74-year-old Lemley, Virginia-bom grand son of a Confederate soldier, said he did not believe it was in the public interest to al low Negro and white students to return together 4o the school. Stay Request Opposed Branton said Lemley spoke for the NAACP at one point, however, when he pointed out that they had not been de prived of the right to appeal. In Monday's argument, Branton urg$d the judge to stay his order because of the time it would take to appeal the decision. Little Rock School Board attorn Arch House opposed the stay requested by the NAACP because he said they were granted only in "extra ordinary circumstances and - we see n suck-circumstances here." . 0 Governors Inspect National Guard Ft TlewiH Onob - Wash ington Nationl Guard units of the -ttst Infantry Division passed befqr the governors of bc state during the divi sion's 11th tnnual Governors' Day Review nl Open House at Ft. Lewi. Wasa., Saturday. Governor Bofcert Holmes of Oregon nl Albert Rosel- lini of Washington, and their wives, accorded a 19-gun saluti by C battery, 965th field rtillw feattalion, Portland. &mon the honored guests and diAnittnea were Mayor and Mra. Teftry Schrunk, Port land;' it. ea. Herbert B. Powell, cijuy commanding genergl tot reterve forces, Unite Statu continental com mand, Monroe, Va., and Coast Guari, Navy, Army and Air Ford commanders from Seattle, Bremerton, Ft.. Lewis and McCho? AFB. Two Otofon units and one from Vtshinfton received trophies tupinf - the ceremo nies. Th 41 9t Division asso ciation trojhy was presented to company M, third battal ion, 162nd infanixy regiment, Corvalliso The Eisennower trophies for each statl vent to Head quarters company, first bat talion, 162 net -infantry, Silver- ton, and th lst reconnais- tf nmrnv Rromortnn Uniform Enforcement Act Has Complicated Title, Easy Process This U the second of five articles on family deier-lion. sance Wash. Q By L. R. FISHBACK A complicated title but a simple and effective process in action this describes the Uniform Reciprocal Enforce ment of Support Act, which was enacted into Oregon law by the state legislature in 1953. The legislation was in troduced to help reduce the family desertion rate in Ore gon. The act has greatly simpli fied the task of the courts in punishing deserters and has given the deserted a sense of security and assurance that their rights are being con sidered. " Before interstate coopera tion was made easier through the Reciprocal Support Act, the only means to apprehend deserters who crossed state lines was to initiate extradi tion proceedings, which meant considerable expense to the state. Also, it was difficult to gain interest in extraditing the deserter, because in a legal sense, he had not com mitted an offense against per son or property, and so was not considered a serious of fender. Securing Extradition If a child was abandoned, the chances of securing extra dition were, better, because abandonment, as distinct from desertion, constituted a felony in most states. But in most cases extradition was too cost ly, time consuming and too arbitrary to be of much bene fit to the solution of the de sertion problem. The development of Re ciprocal Support legislation makes it possible for civil proceedings to be instituted anywhere in the United States and its territories, except the District of Columbia, to ob tain support for deserted fam ilies when the husband has left his home state and has gone to another state. The first state to enact this form of legislation was New York in 1949. The planwas conceived, by Mrs. Grace Clyde Seaman, assistant district attorney of Kings county, Brooklyn, New York. Several inconsistencies and failures in previous laws controlling desertion prompt ed Mrs. Seaman's action. There was no practical way to force deserters to support their families. Federal statutes didn't an swer the problem and still don't. Moves toward any form of national legislation have never even gotten out of com mittee. Encourage Legislation Mrs. Seaman decided that the only way to get son thing done was to encourage uniform legislation in all 48 states, one by one. She also noted frequent jurisdictional disputes in desertion cases. Not every desertion is a criminal act. In many states, if the family is being provid ed for in any way by an agen- the crime is a misde meanor. The family must be abandoned and completely destitute for the desertion to be considered a felony m these states. It was difficult under these circumstances to classify the individual case, and after it was classified, to which court it should be sent. These conditions led to a proposal by Mrs. Seaman and the district attorney of Kings county, New York, that each state pass a bill providing for reciprocal state aid in enforce ment of payments in cases in which husbands refused to support needy wives, chil dren and other dependent relatives for whose support man is legally liable. Their proposed law also made de sertion a civil crime. An example of the opera tion of the act is quoted to clarify its purpose: "A Pennsylvania mother with four children has a hus band in Colorado who ignores all' appeals for aid. A Penn sylvania family court would take testimony in abandon ment proceedings and send the record to a Colorado court, which would try the husband, order him to make regular payments of specified amounts, and see that he de livered or went to jail. "The guilty husband would remain in the' state to which he had fled, continuing to work on his job. The charges would be civil ones, thus over coming the Constitutional pro vision that in a criminal ac tion the accused must be per mitted to confront his accuser. The new law would not inter fere with extradition for criminal acts or bigamy, that should be punished by prison sentences." This new act was to supple ment rather than supersede previous legal measures. The Reciprocal Support Act does have a few limitations. If a deserter jumps from state to state? it may take a long while to catch up with him. Also, the deserter's approxi mate address must be known in order to establish under which jurisdiction the charge should be filed. Successful administration of the program depends on favor able attitudes and responses of judges of the courts having jurisdiction. The reciprocal support program also requires the cooperation of both the initiating and responding states. . . Another drawback of the act becomes apparent if half hearted support is given the program by some of the courts. The petitioner some times must wait for long pe riods of time for support money, when the money is needed immediately. Rural courts, lacking both the nec essary knowledge and person nel, 'often allow cases to bog down. On the favorable side there is a saving in extradition costs on criminal charges, which usually result in imprison ment at - additional public cost. Money can also be saved in public assistance costs, if the deserter returns to the family, because he knows that support obligations will fol low him from state to state. Tomorrow: The family court system. Harry Holt's Wife Answers Critics of Adoption Program Creswell, Ore. (UPI) Mrs. Harry Holt replied to Oregon medics Tuesday with a scrip tural quotation: "If the Lord be for us, who can be against us?" Her statement followed in troduction before the Ameri can Medical Association con vention in San Francisco of a resolution from the Oregon delegation expressing "con cern" over health factors in the Holts' ambitious program to rescue Korean orphans and to put them in American homes. The resolution was intro duced to the AMA committee on legislation and public re lations by Dr. A. O-1 Pitman of Hillsboro and Dr. E. G. Chui: nard of Portland at the sug gestion of the Lane County Meedical Society. It suggested that Congress alter the law which permits entry of Ko rean orphans with tubercu losis. The resolution asserted that many of the Holt orphans have suffered from severe communicable diseases when they entered this country. Mrs. Holt, who with her hus band has arranged for the adoption of more than 900 Korean mixed-blood orphans in this coumry, denied the medics' allegation of inade quate health safeguards in the program. She Laid nq children are brought to this country if they are ill, with the exception of those who are suspected of having tuberculosis. Those are flown immediately to the Na tional Jewish Hospital in Den ver in quarantine. The AMA resolution brought a rebuttal from Philip Houtz, executive director of the Denver hospital. He said that of the 22 Holt orphans brought to National Jewish Hospital 10 are still there and that within four or five weeks they will have been released with clean bills of health. Houtz added, "We have provided these American chil dren born in Korea with their only chance to live, be happy and lead normal lives. With all the billions of dollars being spent by this government - to make friends, the least we can do is offer help to some babies who need it.' Houtz concluded, "We will Weather Delays Vanguard Firing Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) A siege of soggy weather that dampened the heart of the tempermental Vanguard rocket and played havoc with electrical circuits brought a second postponement Tues day of the Navy's attempt to blast a new satellite into orbit. Launching of the 72-foot Vanguard was called off about 2:34 a.m. (EDT) after the Navy rocketeers had come within eight minutes of blastoff, only to find they had to backtrack in the long countdown be cause of the moisture-logged innards of the complex rocket. They wheeled the tall gan try tower back over the dark green space bird and worked some three hours around the second stage. But evidently they found the task hopeless, at least for the night. The New York state divis ion of Veterans Affairs was created in 1946. Since then it has handled mre than 10 million requests for counsel' ling. i - r cooperate with the Holts in every way we can." . Mrs. Holt said simply, "If we left these children in Ko rea they would die." Five Holt orphans, out of 902, have died natural deaths since their arrival in this coun try. Four of those were from pneumonia and one from en teritis.' i J ISK&S) (pfSr3irifV :i r 'PURUCKIEI3'' music House "Your High Fidelity Center" 1 1 1 North Central Ave. Phone V 1-5. 02 John Harvard, founder of Harvard university, died in 1633 of tuberculosis, two months after college classes began. ' ' ' E-jg3M JMv-" V HI ANDY'S EXTRA BONUS m n nn nannn cr? n n o ronaDierouyng mm Ky u uy u uiuy u uunuui Srntnh it Ckf' ElectricRbtisserieica W mm this page HURRY! QUANTITY LIMITED! for Only $1 a Week on ANDY'S Credit Terms G0''G flSHlHG? 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