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Several Acts of 35th Congress IKIave Bmpact on Pacific By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington-The 85th Con gress should be recorded as one of the most decisive and '&Ami,..&:.''k,'. nrnrfurtivp - in 'wml9 'jfer. 11V some years. n. especially on ? legislation of major sigmh '. cance to the Pacific North west. It will p r o b ably be most remem bered in the A. ftobL SmiUi Northwest be cause it: Admitted Alaska into the Union as the 49th state. Saved the rich Klamath Indian forests for perpetual Theyll Do It Every Joe yoe aud ed lee h4ve. a service . STATION -4ND THEIf? SIGN RE4DS Vhile two other fellows n4med christopher bl4mkembecker Asm Anni PHMS ROLLENROCKEMFELT I Uvr A ciMir AO i ENTERPRISE" .'"it OF THEIR SIGN'" 8-16 n K -r r- vrM.r fnr , W-rf- rth I Some States Still Holding Out In Public School Segregation Editor's note: This is the first of two dispatches by a veteran Southern Journalist assessing the progress or lark ct it of racial integration in the Souths public schools since the C.S. Supreme court ruled four years ago that all whools be opened to children of ail aces. By AL KUETTNER -UPI Correspondent Atlanta - (UPD - The school buildings are empty for the summer. The children are at the beach or down at the old swimming hole. Its a good time to take a calm look at our biggest school problem, racial integration. What's the situation? What's ahead? Have we found any answers in the four years For Half-Sizes Flattery assured, with this PRINTED Pattern! Designed especially for the half-size figure; on wonderfully slim ming princess lines. 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Biggest Headlines Other national acts of this Time CHRISTOPHER BUNKENBECKER 4D0LPHUS ROLLENROCKENFELT PETROLEUM BY-PRODUCTS EMPORIUM, INCORPORATED if since the Supreme Court ruled that children no longer could be kept out of a particular school because of race? The situation is this: In a 'nation that had 17 states practicing classroom segregation four years ago, all but seven have made some move toward compliance with the integration mandate. At the close of school in June there were 764 school districts in the South were integration was the practice. But this in cluded none in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina or Virginia. Comes with Difficulty In- the so-called border states, the policy of integra tion has been developed with out much pain. It has come with more difficulty in Ar kansas, North Carolina and Tennessee. At the moment, Virginia is the state to watch, with some side glances at Arkansas and Florida. The situation in Virginia is this: During the past year, federal courts have ordered five localities Arlington, Charlottesville, Newport News, Norfolk and Prince Edward county to integrate their schools. Fresh legal stumbling blocks probably will postpone the issue in two of the spots, but Arlington, Charlottesville and Norfolk apparently are headed for the showdown. Under Virginia's massive re'sistance laws-the plan de vised by Gov. Lindsay Al mond to keep the schools seg regated at all costs public schools win be closed in any areas where integration is im minent. Virginia Coming Around Despite standby plans for operation of the South's first private school system, Vir ginians seem to to be coming around in growing numbers to the realization that this would lead to one giant head ache. There is now serious talk of a special session of the legislature to reconsider Almond s program. Officials admit there aren't enough private schools in the state to care for a fraction of the pupils. Several church groups have come out strongly against use of church property for classrooms. An attempt to try out a "model" private school in Arlington is snarl ed in local zoning and health regulations. "The only aid and comfort I can give," Almond said rec ently, "is to call on the people of Virginia to stand with us and the general assembly to resist any mixing of the races in the public schools." Class To Go Ahead Here Alrnond stands. He plans to go right ahead with his private school plan, un less the state assembly changes it. Even the governor acknowledges he has no cer tain knowledge of how it would work. Still to be decid ed are the mechanics of dis u i i Northwest Region Congress, such as the labor pension and welfare fund dis closure act and the general aid to education bill, will also have their affect in Oregon. But those are the legislative decisions that earned the big best headlines and the most attention in Oregon during the life of this 85th Congress. But the list of other acts of this Congress is more formidable than usual. Here are the completed deeds of this Congress and the law makers who were invovled: Small business timber sales small business act was amended by Sen. Wayne Morse and Richard N. Neu berger, as well as Washing ton state and Montana sena- By Jimmy Hatlo bursing millions of dollars to parents in the form of "tuition grants" to pay for private ed-ucation-if and when the priv ate schools can be found. Almond still says, however, that the crash program should begin and not when Negroes appear at a white school but as soon as they are assigned to a white school. The governor believes this precaution would "avert and avoid fanfare" and forestall the influx of "outsiders" the element that helped fan the flames of agitation in Little Rock and in Tennessee. But there is mounting senti ment at the top level in Vir ginia to find an anwser to the problem that-will not in volve closing the public schools. Education To Suffer "Somehow and some way we are going to educate ad equately our youth," is the way Lt. Gov. A. E. S. Stephens puts it. Attorney General Al bertis S. Harrison feels that the "cause of public educa tion will suffer if and when it becomes necessary to embark on a policy of private or part ly private education. Colgate W. Darden, a form er governor who is now presi dent of the University of Vir ginia, puts it even more strongly. "Public education is the greatest development of our times and to destroy it would be a tragedy," he says. As for Florida, the first "crack in the dike" may come this autumn. The courts have ruled, and the university has agreed, that qualified Negroes will be admitted for the first time to the University of Florida graduate school. The state government apparently will not intervene. There is one applicant so far, but he probably will be rejected on strictly academic grounds. Prospects were for two others to register before the dead line. Suspension Granted It's not clear at this point what may occur in the Little Rock controversy. The latest decision on the explosive situ ation there is from U. S. Dis trict Judge Harry J. Lemley who granted a suspension of integration at Little Rock's Central High School until January 1961. The NAACP has asked that the suspension order be held up pending an appeal and wants quick ac tion so that a final decision will be handed down before September. (Next: Where has worked.) integration INVITATION ACCEPTED Redondo Beach, Calif. -(UPD-Leo D. Burr left a note on his door reading, "Make yourself at home, the key's under the welcome mat." Whoever went in and walked out with two rifles, an adding machine, a typewriter, a sewing machine and a piggy bank didn't even leave a "thank you" note. tors to guarantee exclusive timber sales to small operators if they can't otherwise get timber. Billboards controls Neu berger's" persistent efforts to ban billboards on the inter state highway network, de feated in the last Congress, finally succeeded this time with a provision for offering the states a small federal aid dividend if . they effectively control signboards along the new superhighways. New harbor projects the Yaquina Bay harbor project survived two Eisenhower ve toes to win final enactment this year, after Congress trim med certain objectionable projects from its rivers and harbors measure. The Siuslaw harbor project also was auth orized. Funds were not ap propriated this year to start either of these, but $750,000 was appropriated to start work on the previously auth orized Gold Beach harbor at the mouth of the Rogue river. The entire Oregon delegation backed these, but Rep. Char les O. Porter and Neuberger did the work of getting Gold Beach funds. Boundaries Extended Siskiyou National Forest expanded a Porter-Neuberg-er bill extended the bound aries of this southwest Oregon forest to add about 20,000 acres along the banks of the Rogue river for 20 miles to protect its scenic value. Waldo Lake tunnel rescind ed another Porter-Neuberg-er bill wiped off the books an old tunnel project authorized by Congress in 1950 to tap this Cascade Mountain lake of extra water for Lookout Point dam. The lake will now be developed for recreation pur poses, with which the tunnel would have interfered. McNary townsite legisla tion was enacted sponsored by Rep. Al Uullman and Neu berger to permit Umatilla In dians to acquire federal lands near McNary dam for possible industrial development. Housing stimulus down payment requirements for buyers of homes with government-insured mortgages, as well as increases in interest rates on mortgage loans, help ed stimulate home construc tion, with resulting benefits for the lumber industry that had slumped badly early this year. Base at Adair Missile bases-Defense De partment proposed and Con gress approved establishment of a defensive missile base at Camp Adair, near Corvallis, and an offensive ICBM missile base near Spokane. The Camp Adair base would be for fir ing Bomarc missiles at attack aircraft; the, Spokane base for firing long-range missiles in a counterattack at the Soviet Union over the pole. Oregon Centennial Resolu tion sponsored by Neuberger and Rep. Edith Green: this asked President Eisenhower to issue a proclamation, which he did, hearalding the coming centennial and international trade fair. Ban of futures trading in onions onion futures re moved from the commodity exchange because speculative trading had adversely affected cash onion prices. Ullman was a sponsor. Small boat safety tightened because of the boom in small boats, this requires all power boats over 10 horse power to have a number and specified safety equipment, under penalty of fines im posed by Coast Guard and local officials. " Outdoor Recreation study a commission was established to study need for recreation resources in the future with growing population. Neuberg er and Ullman were among 10 members of Congress appoint ed to serve, along with five presidential appointees. Consent to Compact Oregon-Washington compact Congress consented to a compact between the two states over the position of the boundardy between them in the Columbia river. Green and Ullman sponsoredi t. Oregon-California compact Congress consented to the compact between these states over use of water resources of the Klamath basin. UU man's bill. Those lawmakers involved in the big decisions were: Klamath timber-Neuberger and Ullman. Hanford reactor-Sen. Hen ry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) push ed it all the way. Fort Clatsop Neuberger and Rep. Walter Norblad. Transportation tax repeal all Northwest senators. Hells Canyon bill defeat this was a reversal for Ullman and Rep. Gracie Pfost in the House Interior Committee- on which they sit. Northwest senators managed to get it through the Senate last sum mer. Alaska statehood a victory for many members of Con gress on both sides of the aisle, including virtually all Northwest lawmakers. Non-High Pupils Must Obtain Certificates Students living in non-high school districts in Jackson county and qualifying for en trance into high school are reminded that prior to school registration, they are re quired to make application for "tuition eligibility certifi cates," according to Alf B. Mekyold. county school su perintendent. , Application for tuition eli gibility certificates must be made from the county school superintendent's office. The seven non-high dis tricts in Jackson county are Griffin Creek, Ruch, Lone Pine, Applegate, Evans Val ley, Pinehurst and Howard schools. "In addition, students from Elk-Trail and Shady Cove are required to obtain eligibility certificates for the coming school year 1958-59, even though consolidation has been effected with the Eagle Point school district," the su perintendent said. Budget provisions for these students were made by the non-high school district board for the coming school year only." For non-high students reg istering for the first time in local high schools, an infor mation blank is required and school clerk's certificate of residence must be completed and signed by the student, the parent, and the home district clerk, Mekvold stated. For those non-high students who have been certified previous- get your car 8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, August 26, 1958 . .v.V.v.y .-. w :;;.; ; ; : v .v.-.-, v. v.v.;.yw:-V- HORNS OF A DILEMMA Police Chief John L. Hunter is on the horns of a dilemma as he tries to lasso bull after the reluctant "Ferdinand" refused to leave the ring during Canada's first bloodless bullfights in Lindsay. Although thrown twice, Hunter was unhurt. The bull was finally removed from the arena after being lassoed by a matador. ly by the non-high school dis trict board, and have not moved to another district, an eligibility certificate renewal is necessary. "This is a positive require ment that must be completed before a pupil's registration can be accepted," the county ljast year there were 55 million car breakdowns. A lot of this distress could have been avoided. 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James, 42, of route 3, box 218D were both south bound on Highway 99 south of Medford Sunday evening. According to reports the Dill ree vehicle had stopped in the inside lane to make a left turn into the Star Light drive in theater when the second car struck it. Last of Elkins Indictments Dropped . Portland (UPD The last eight remaining bootlegging indictments against Jim Elk ins and others which grew out of the Portland vice probe have been dismissed by Cir cuit Judge James W. Craw ford. Elkins now is .clear of state charges arising but of the prolonged investigation. Over 55 million FREE ROAD AAAPS FULL TANK of Super Shell with TCP OIL CHECK (change to X-100 Premium if needed) unique gasoline additive developed by Shell Research. THIEVES ARE TTraVT Tort Worth. Tex.-l'W-Bur-glars during the week end proved they like baiting the lion in his own den. They broke into an automatic cof fee machine and got away with S10.87, The machine was in police headquarters. 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