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MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Tuesday, November 25, H3 DimftegratDini dod Aoroy es im ymnm4ked Editor's note: This Is the first two articles on inteeratlon In the armed forces, prepared by Thomas B. Dorsey of the New York Herald Tribune News Service- By THOMAS B. DORSEY Herald Tribune News Service Washington-(HTNS) Imag ine, if you can, an infantry rifle company with a majori ty of Southern white men and a Negro top sergeant. And imagine everyone in the com pany, after a bit of initial grumbling, taking it as a mat ter of course, even of pride. Imagine further, children of American officers and en listed men of both races from all sections of the United States happily attending class es taught by equally assorted teachers, and all sharing the same residential areas, join ing in community and. social activities oblivious to all dif-. ferences in coloration or home background. : In light of the strife that has gripped the Nation since the Supreme Court laid down the law on public school in tegration, this situation might seem unreal. But this, is precisely what has happened in the U.S. Arm ed Forces. Quietly and smoothly, inte gration of Negro GIs into formerly "white" units has been completed with most non-military people not even noticing. I Everyone Victorious The integration battle can be chalked up as one of the Armed Forces' great victories; everyone appears to have won. The Negro gained dig nity. The Armed Force got a better working team. The free world has made a reply to Communist propaganda. The word of the Pentagon officials that integration has succeeded becomes even more significant when it is echoed in the words of those who have lived with the problem. They are the ones we talked to. Without exception, they agree that integration in the Armed Forces is a whopping success. The most important victor ies in the eyes of the Negroes interviewed are the gains of "dignity and respect" for in dividuals and the opportunity to move ahead on the basis of ability. Lt. Col. Edward C. John son, Professor of Military Sci ence and Tactics at Morgan State College, Baltimore, Md., has had new worlds opened to him by integration. In 1956, Col. Johnson became the first Negro in the Army ever to hold a Chiefs job on a com bat division general st?", when he was named Intelli gence Chief for the Second Armored Division in Ger many. Col. Johnson has been in the Army for more than 25 years. He has served with both segregated and intergat ed units. These are his obser vations: Smooth Transition Surprises "Even the most rabid were surprised at the smooth trans ition. In my own case, my family and I have been taken into the community and un less I looked in the mirror, I wouldn't know I was a Negro. "Today in the Army, a man can go according to his ability. If you have the stuff, it doesn't matter how long you were baked in the oven." When he was with the com bat troops in Germany two years ago, the easy-going Phil adelphia officer was president of the School Board and American youth activities. He was elected by his neighbors, most of them white soldiers from South of the Mason-Dixon line. His wife, sister of ex Dodger star Roy Campanella, was area chairman of Volun teers for the Red Cross and was involved in a half-dozen other community activities. The Colonel said he thinks the key to the success of in tegration in the Army was that it "was not jammed down people's throats. It was simply shown to everyone that this was the best thing that we can't go throughout the world and win people if we don't practice what we preach. The Negro was not the only one who had to do the inte grating in the Armed Forces It was just as important to integrate the white soldier in to the Negro unit. We talked to a cross-section of them too from North to South. No Trouble Sgt. First Class Willie H. Terry Jr., a white soldier from Cola, S.C., is an infantry squad leader. He said: "I've never had any more trouble with them than with a white boy. One of the best men we have in the platoon is a Neg ro." MSgt. Jesse Mason is another white soldier from the South. A platoon sergeant, he said he thought integration has helped the Army. "There was a lot of friction before, but not now." There are still a few Neg roes who think they are being discriminated against in the Service. Perhaps a few are, but most are not, and they are, no longer receiving the sympathy, even from their own people, that the com plaint used to bring. The only Negro Army Chap lain who is a full Colonel now is counseling .one of the largest concentration of Amer ican troops in the world. He's Chaplain (Col.) John A. De Veaux, Senior Chaplain, U.S. Army Garrison, Ft. Carson, Colo. Before integration, the chap lain told us, "If a guy failed in the Army it was blamed on segregation. A dishonor able discharge didn't even mean anything to a Negro soldier, because, he would al ways say, 'They kicked me out because I wouldn't be an Uncle Tom. When they get a hishonorable discharge now or flunk out, they get no sympathy from Negroes." Chaplain DeVeaux had an interesting comment on how the integration program has probably been of more value to the Army than it has to the Negro. Once Service Units "More of my people were killed in Korea than in World War I and II combined, and there was no such thing as a Negro prisoner of war before intergation. Negro units were service units, and stayed far behind the line and never took an active part in the hot war." The Negro Chaplain said he considered the most important thing integration has given his people to be "dignity that's a big thing in my dic tionary." The real success of integra tion is not here even yet, Chaplain DeVeaux said. "Integration is for the young men," he explained. "They will -grasp it. They will make it work because the young lads coming into the Armed Forces today are learn ing there is nothing to this race business. "The Army has done more for my people than anybody else, and the best part is that Army men white and Negro are carrying this integra tion out of the Service with them. That's why it is be ginning to work on the out side, too." , UNEXPECTED VISIT Actress Linda Christian, second wife of actor Tyrone Power, ie TrtPtnror! in TTnllvwnnrl rfnrin an nneTnerted visit to the erave of her ex-husband -with her two children, Romina Franchesca, 8, and Taryn Stephanie, 6. Power died of a neart attacK wnue masing a movie m apam. W4iV0mCM 4 ":J Hfcjf BEING SLOWLY LED AWAY, Aurora, 111., Mayor Paul Egan (between two police men) was jailed when he became too persistent in trying to get the ear of Governor William Stratton to ask why he (Egan) was not invited to dedication ceremonies of a portion of the new East -West Tollway. Egan tried to break through police lines at Leland Hotel where Governor Stratton was making dedicatory address but (failed. Silica Compound Found Effective Way to Kill Insects Delos Smith By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York-flJPD-There is a new possibility of science win ning a total victory over cer- t a 1 n insects, including that p ri m e and seemingly un c o n querable pest, the cock roach. The new weapon seems $ iu a. ill uiseuis by physical rather than chemical means. If that is so, insects won't be able to learn to live with it as many have learned to live with DDT and other poisonous insecticides. It also means people won't accidentally poison themselves while exterminating insects. The new weapon is a kind of sand. Add two oxygen atoms to the molecule of sili con, which is one of the most abundant of the elements, and you have silica. Nature fre quently makes the addition; silica is everywhere, in sands and rocks. Now, toy with silica in technically easy ways, and you have an ex tremely fine powder which is aggressively greedy for mois ture. An insect walks over a sprinkle of that powder and very soon thereafter it is dead. Science doesn't yet know posi tively why, but the best theory is that the powder draws moisture out of its body. That's as physical a way of killing as swatting, but it's infinitely easier. DDT and the other orgarlic insecticides kill by adding in gredients to an insect's body chemistry which the chemis try can't handle. Unhappily insect chemistry adapts to the added ingredients and even tually lines of insects emerge which are immune to what used to kill them, but mean while people, birds, fish, and other creatures are endanger ered. Silica in any form is notably non-poisonous. The silica pow der has been in use for a long time as a filler of diluting substance for resins and other materials. Dr. Walter Ebeling of the University of Californ ia discovered by accident that it was an insect killer. Faster Than DDT He was diluting DDT with it and discovered that when he decreased the DDT content of his insect poison while in creasing the powder content, it killed more insects. Since then there have been many experiments. In the lab oratory, the powder alone will knock down cockroaches in 15 minutes and kill them in 45 minutes, which is faster than DDT, parathion, dieldrin and a number of other poison ing insecticides can do it. It works as effectively on all insects experimented with so far. The answer to the critical question of whether the pow der is the total victory weap on, now is in the making. The Davison Chemical Co., whose scientists developed the powder formulation which tested best in the laboratory, has released quantities of it to professional insecticide users for strictly controlled scien tific experiments under natu ral conditions. Their results will give the answer. Princess Grace Purchases Trinkets New York -(UPD- Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco spent the first day of their month-long vacation in this country buying trinkets for their palace in Fifth ave shops. Grace's mother, Mrs. John B. Kelly of Philadelphia, and her sister, Mrs. Donald Le Vine, Monday helped the prin cess pick out linens and ac cessories in several expensive shops. Le Vine went along with Rainier to give advice on ties. The two shopping groups got together for lunch, then visited friends. All will go to Philadelphia for Thanksgiv ing dinner at the Kelly family mansion. Typhoon Nancy Endangers Okinawa Tokyo -(UPD- Typhoon Nan cy, packing dangerous 150 miles per hour center winds, moved closer today to the U. S. island bastion of Okin awa. The storm which left at least 15 dead in the Philip pines was located today by U. S. Air Force weathermen about 480 miles south sout west of Okinawa. The weathermen said the typoon was moving northeast at 14 miles per hour and that the storm's center was ex pected to be 460 miles east southeast of Okinawa early Wednesday. W. Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central S-W-I-F-T Sewing II' S17FS. 9346 ' uv-zm Wrap 'n' button jumper for half-sizes! Simple - sew style has slimming lines and a blouse you can team with suits or skirts. Styled to fit. Tomorrow's pattern: Misses' princess. - Printed Pattern 9346: Half Sizes 1412, I6V2, 18VS, 2012, 22 Vz, 24Vi. Size 16Vi. jumper 454 yards 39-inch; blouse lVa yards. Printed directions on each pattern part. Easier, accurate. Send fifty cents (coins) for this pattern - add 10 cents for each pattern for first-class mailing. Send to Marian Mar tin, Medford Mail Tribune, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS, SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. Back stairs: Helicopter Language By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI Correspondent Augusta, Ga. - (UPD - Back stairs at the White House: When President Eisenhower hops around in his helicop ter, he encounters a language difficulty that would stop the government's most talented translator. The rotors make so much noise that vocal communica tion is virtually impossible, even between two persons wedged together side by side. This leads to all sorts of sign language: Pointing to another person while patting one's own tum my fasten your seat belt if you don't want to lose your upper fillings when we land. Pointing upward (this only for the benefit of first trip pers) "See, we're taking off." Pointing upward (for a vet eran of helicopter hopping) "I wish the heck this guy wouldn't come so close to the TV aerials." Pointing out window, ex ictedly, "If your seat was as good as mine, you could see a whale of a football game going on below." Pointing out window, casu ally "still raining." Fairly Simple Signs These signs, as one can see, are fairly .simple. The passen ger in a White House heli copter has to be up on current events, however, to under stand some of the more com plicated communications: War I Munitions Terminal Sale Told Jersey City, N.J.-WPD-Black Tom, a 27-acre peninsula where German saboteurs set off a gigantic munitions ex plosion during World War I, was sold for $27,000 at public auction Monday. A New York syndicate bought the property through Francis X. Hayes, a local at torney who refused to identi fy his clients or indicate to what use the largely unused marine terminal would be put. Pointing downward with I have been appreciably larger. shrugged shoulders "Lousy crowd." Ponting downward with hands rubbing together "Brother, easily 10,000 in that crowd." Nodding downward, keep ing hands in pockets "Looks cold down there." Nodding downward, arms folded "I'm nearly asleep." Waving hands excitedly in all directions "Don't talk to me about Harold Stassen I've heard enough." Clapping hand over fellow passenger's mouth "No smoking." Slapping self on top of head "I left my hat on the other plane." Crowd Small When President Eisenhow er's big plane, the Columbine III, touched down here from Washington last week, the air port crowd of spectators con sisted of about 50 to 100 on lookers. On many arrivals here in the past, the crowds The local morning paper, the Augusta Chronicle called it ,"by far the smallest and most undemonstrative gather ing attracted by the chief ex ecutive since he started va cationing here in 1951." This, of course, is a matter of judgement. For one thing, the President arrived here 40 minutes earlier than the schedule printed in the news papers. He came in at 1:50 pjn. when the schools still were in session and a lot of people still at lunch." Washington reporters who travel with the President in and out of many towns saw little out of the ordinary in his arrival, but perhaps they are jaded. It is true, how ever, that Eisenhower goes in and out of Washington air port week after week with out attracting so much as a dozen spectators even in the spring when the nation's capital is overflowing with tourists. v CMna frta todi wetffltej anniversary symbol. follow me to the top notch cafe where i'll be on the table, with all the trimmings, thanks giving day ; UKE MY DAUGHTER' Queen Frederika of Greece (right) smiles and points to daughter, Princess Sophie (left), during press conference at U. S. Navy base, Long Beach, Calif. Asked her impression of American youth, the Queen pointed to the Princess and said, "They are like my daughter," In background is Madame Carolou, a member of the royal party. The Queen and Princess are on an extended tour of the U. S. By Sewing Machine Won Medford Woman Mrs. J. B. Creager, 920 West 11th St., Medford, has been notified that she won a Pfaff sewing machine in the recent "200,000 Family Contest" sponsored by the Colgate Palmolve company. To win a prize the contest ants had to complete a num bered dot outline and give an appropriate title to the fin ished picture. RESUME TALKS Warsaw-(UPD-U.S. Ambassa dor Jacob Beam and Chinese Communist Ambassador Wang Ping-nan resume their incon clusive talks here today. It was their first meeting since Nov. 7. Cuba Army P&lrol Kills 15 Rebels Havana -UPD- Fifteen reb els were killed by a Cuban army patrol Monday during a surprise attack on Yareyal, six miles from Holguin, an army communique claimed. The communique said the dead included the leader of the group, and two Mexicans, none of whom was identified. 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ONE OF A .1 1 SCRIES, ANSWER: A 6X9-INCH BOOK OF 204 PAGES. In order to put something in the daily newspaper to bring everybody into one market place requires a variety of features. Sports pages for the sports lovers, recipes and household hints for the housewives, different news for different people. The newspaper's ability to reach all members of the family is an important reason why so many advertisers use the daily newspaper. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
