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." .
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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.
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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
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