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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
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sustained-yield management
against the imminent threat
of clear-cutting.
Approved a project for
developing electric power
from atomic energy at the
Hanford Plutonium Works,
first of its kind in this coun
try. Killed the federal high
Hells Canyon dam bill.
Authorized creation of
Fort Clatsop National Memo
rial at Astoria.
Repealed the wartime
transportation excise tax
which has discriminated
against Northwestern shippers
who are a great distance from
markets and supplies.
Biggest Headlines
Other national acts of this
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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
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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-
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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
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Trucks Involved
In Minor Mishaps
Two minor accidents In
volving two cars and two
trucks were investigated by
state police over the week
end.
Trucks operated by Charles
Porter, 30, of Irvington, Calif.,
and Richard Walter Scott, 26,
of Grants Pass, were involv
ed in a collision at Foots
Creek bridge on Highway 99
south of Rogue River Satur
day afternoon. Officers report
ed that the trucks sideswiped
each other causing minor
damage to both vehicles.
Porter, operating the south
bound truck, complained of an
injured shoulder but was not
hospitalized, according to re
ports. The second accident caused
minor damage and no injuries,
police said. Cars operated by
William D. Dillree, 17, of 2871
Orchard Home drive, and Mrs.
Betty M. 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.
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Tort Worth. Tex.-l'W-Bur-glars
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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.
OIL PRESIDENT DIES
Fort Worth, Tex. -UPD- Sam
Weiner, 75, retired president
of Texas Crude Oil Co., died
Monday from a heart attack.
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