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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1958)
Civil Rights Commission Probes Voting Rights Denial of Negro : Br United Press International The Civil Rights Commis sion bucked a solid front of local resistance Monday in an effort to determine whether .rsegroes nave been wrong fully denied voting rights in Alabama. " Records of voter registra tion were impounded in all but one of the counties figuring in the probe - and officials in that county threatened to withhold their books from federal agents. One circuit court judge threat ened to throw agents in jail if they tried to seize records. It appeared the investiga tion, scheduled to last two or three days, would provide a test of just how far the com mission can go in tracking down complaints of civil rights violations. Receive Numerous Complaints The commission acted after receiving numerous com plaints from Alabama that registration methods dis criminated against Negroes. Most of the charges were made by residents of Macon county, where Negroes out number whites and where two commission investiga tors were denied access to regis tration books. An attack on segregation at the college level goes on trial in federal court at At lanta today. If three Negroes are upheld in efforts to enter a state-supported college in Atlanta, state law would cut off funds to it and to all other units in Georgia's higher edu cation system. Public school segregation also is under legal fire in At lanta, and a decision in that suit is expected before the summer is out. Resistance statutes provide for closing public schools on a district wide basis should one unit become subject to desegrega tion orders. Expect Dynamiting Decision There were these other de velopments on the race-rela tions scene: -In Atlanta, a jury was ex petced to rule in the trial of George Bright, who with four other men is charged with dynamiting a Jewish temple. Conviction could re sult in the death sentence. -Two "moderate" candi dates who lost to segregation ists in the Little Rock, Ark., school board election Satur day said they would challenge the results. One segregation ist who lost indicated he may contest the vote. Half of the six board seats went to "moderates" and half to citi zens council-sponsored candi dates. -A state committee appoint ed to advise the federal Civil Rights Commission announc ed plans for a meeting in January to study Negro vot ing in Florida. . It also is to take up possible discrimina tion in the fields of housing and education. " 56 Accidents, 7 Deaths Occur in State as Result Of Firearm Carelessness Fortland Despite the ex cellent reports from all sec tions 01 the state on the re sults of this year's Red Hat program, hunters payed little heed to one of the pledges tti be careful with fireapns. According to reportst re ceived by the game commis sion, hunter conduct in the field was highly commendable during this year's hunting sea sons. Ranchers and landown ers spoke highly of the pro gress made in hunter-landown er cooperation. Vandalism re ports were at an all-time low, and even the incidence of tres pass was much below normal Only a few reports of live stock being shot were receiv ed. The excellent reports in dicate that great strides have been made in hunter conduct afield. "' Although some hunters were careless with fires, the fire record was generally good considering that one of the driest hunting seasons in years was experienced. But when it came to being careless with firearms the commission said that hunters this year ieally let their hair down, with 56 gun accidents reported, seven of which were fatal. If the number of gun acicdents continues at the present rate, the number of accidents will reach an all time high in the record book. The commission said that it is alarming to note the great number of accidents in which juveniles have been involved, with the lives of 23 boys in Oregon endangered by fire rrris two of these youngsters dead as a result of firearms hunting accidents- This is a tremendous -number of gun accidents caused by a small minority of hunters. The records show that so far during 1958, 23 gun acci dents occurred where the shooter's age was 19 years or under. Of this number, 12 boys shot themselves, while the remaining 11 either shot their hunting companies or some other hunter. In one in stance, a young hunter wound ed both of his hunting com panions vith a single shot. In addition to the 12 boys who shoi. themselves, eight more boys were victims of juvenile hunters, while three juveniles were victims of adult hunters. . Four adult hunters were casualties from juvenile guns. Four Juvenile Caused Of the seven deaths report ed so far this year, four were juvenile caused. Two of the deaths were boys of 14 and 15 years of age, one who shot himself when he grasped the rifle by the muzzle and at tempted to turn over a broken shoved with the butt, while the other died instantly from a 30-30 bullet fired by his 14- year-old companion at a dis tance of less than three yards. The two adult deaths fell into the "mistaken for game" cate gory with juvenile hunters behind the guns. The records show that al most all of these accidents were caused by juveniles from 10 to 17 years of age. The commission said that although these youngsters are still de pendent upon adult supervi sion while in the field, adult hunters were present in only two cases. . The game commission re minds all hunters that gun hunting accidents don't just happen they are caused by carelessness or just plain ig norance. 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