Business Unharmed
At Oklahoma Eatery
In Serving Negroes
' MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford, Oregon, Friday, SepremW 1 J, 15 J
Oklahoma City -CPU- The
manager of a large downtown
eating place who last month
began serving Negroes after
a "sitdown" demonstration by
colored youths said today the
new policy "hasn't hurt our
business in any way."
The statement from J. B.
Masoner, manager of Katz
Drug Co.'s store, was solicited
after an official of a citywide
church organization an
nounced plans for a campaign
among whites to support the
firm's action.
To Seek Approach
Mrs. E. R. Reno, executive
secretary of the Oklahoma
City Council of Churches,
said a meeting of council
leaders would seek an ap
proach to the problem. Des
pite Masoner's statement, Mrs.
Reno said there is evidence
that some white persons are
boycotting two eating places
where Negroes are being
served.
Question of U.S.
Policy in Formosa
Denied by Chiefs
Washington (ITD Defense
Secretary Neil H. McElroy
and Gen. Nathan B. Twining
flatly denied Thursday a pub
lished report that the new
U.S. commander in chief in
the Pacific questions Ameri
can policy in the Formosa
situation.
The Pentagon issued a two
sentence statement from
Twining, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, repudiat
ing the New York Tunes re
port involving Adm. Harry
D. Felt.
McElroy subsequently said
of the story: "It's not true."
He was asked about it as he
end Twining appeared at the
-State Department for a con
ference with Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles.
Won't Discuss Messages
Twining said: "The report
this morning that Adm. H. D.
Felt, commander in chief,
Pacific, has questioned U.S.
policy in the Formosa situa
tion is not true. Naturally,
the Defense Department will
neither disclose nor discuss
the substance of messages be
tween the commander in
chief, Pacific, and the Penta
gon involving operations in
the Formosa area."
According to the Times
story from Washington, Felt
was reported to have ex
pressed his dissident views in
a series of messages to the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. The
'story said he raised questions
pbout the wisdom of defend
ing the offshore islands of
Quemoy, the adequacy of
U.S. stocks of non - nuclear
munitions, and the effective
ness of the Chinese National
ist forces.
Members of the youth coun
cil of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People occupied
most of the seats at the Katz
soda fountain for two days
before the company agreed to
serve them. The S. H.. Kress
& Co. nearby immediately
bowed then to the group's de
mands but all stools at the
Kress lunch counter were re
moved. Both whites and Ne
groes must stand up while
eating.
A nine-day sitdown at the
John A. Brown Co., described
as Oklahoma's largest depart
ment store, involved as many
as 100 Negro youths at one
time. Store officials refused
to serve them and have stead
fastly refused comment on
the problem.
Whiles To Assist
The demonstration was
called off last week. NAACP
leaders said white organiza
tions had agreed to assist in
achieving the same goal by
other means, since the youths
had to return to school.
Mrs. Reno said church lead
ers have been interviewing
restaurant owners and man
agers. they favor desegregation,"
they favor desegreation,"
Mrs. Reno said. "In most in
stances, they would like to
open up their restaurants to
Negroes, but they don't be
lieve their customers would
let them. They would lose the
business of white customers,
they fear."
One of Oklahoma City's
largest downtown cafeterias,
operated by the Young Wo
men's Christian Association,
has served Negroes for many
years. Oklahoma City s
schools and public transporta
tion have been desegregated
in the past three years with
out incident, although some
schools have remained all
white because no Negroes
live within their districts.
Truman Article
To Appear Sunday
"I do not tnink there will
be a war in the Pacific unless
Red China launches it and the
Soviets abet it," writes form
er President Harry S. Tru
man in an exclusive article
on the explosive Far East
crisis.
Recalling our historic
friendship with China, Mr.
Truman says "When the pres
ent Administration in Wash
ington took office, it reversed
American foreign policy in
the Pacific." But he warns
that this is not the time to
discuss past mistakes.
His program for the free
world in blocking Communist
advances in the Formosa area
will be included in a series of
articles by Mr. Truman, which
will appear in Sunday's Mail
Tribune.
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