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Story of American Negroes in Soviet Magazine Brings Sparks lllf -""S'ifn irffiiWnriil BY LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent Washington - (UPD - Propa ganda sparks are flying in Russia because of the latest is sue of "Amer ica Illustrat ed," the Russian- language magazine dis- 1 1 r i b u ted in the Soviet Union by the U.S. Informa tion Service. The article Louis Cassels which touched off the sparks is a two-page spread of text and pictures de picting the "generally im proving status" of America's 18 million Negroes. The text tells of the dra matic progress U.S. Negroes have made in recent years in income, education and hous ing. Sample J statistic: The average dollar income of Ne gro workers has gone up 415 per cent since 1940, while the average income of white workers has risen 277 per cent. Accompanying pictures show mixed Negro and white groups at work in offices and scientific laboratories, wor shipping in church, playing basketball, attending school, and participating as equals in civic meetings. Under Heavy Fire The article directly contra dieted the stereotyped picture of Negro life in America which the Soviet press has as siduously created. It prompt ly came under heavy propa ganda fire from the widely- circulated Soviet youth news paper "Komsomolets." "Komsomolets" published a full page spread purporting to show "what the magazine America was silent about." It featured pictures of a white robed Ku Klux Klansman car rying a hangman's noose', and the body of a lynched Negro hanging from a tree The Soviet newspaper also charged "America Illustrat ed" with "juggling figures" and "hiding facts" in an at tempt to "prove that a para dise for Negroes has been cre ated in the United States." But, it said, "reality tells us quite the contrary." Gives Lurid Description It then went on to give a lurid description of "Negro ghettos" in New York, Wash ington and Chicago, laced with accounts of attacks by "racialist hooligans" on any Negro family which seeks to move into "the prohibited areas reserved for whites only." U.S. propaganda analyists are intrigued by the vehe mence of the Soviet reaction to the "America Illustrated" article. "It indicates," said one of ficial, "that we drew blood. They wouldn't have been so upset unless a good many Russians were reading and taking seriously - the articles in America Illustrated." . He said this is the first time the Soviet press has at tacked the monthly U.S. mag azine sinpe it went on sale in Russia in October, 1956. Under an agreement nego tiated in 1955, Russia per mits the U.S. Information agency to sell 50,000 copies of "America" Illustrated" in Rus sia each month. In return, Russia is allowed to circulate in this country an equal num ber of copies of its English language magazine "USSR." America illustrated is sold at news stands in 80 Rus sian cities at a price of five rubles per copy-$1.25 at the official rate of exchange. A British newspaper, the Econ omist, reported in a dispatch from Moscow last month that the U.S. magazine is so popu lar with Soviet readers that "it is snapped up the moment it appears on the' bookstalls and thereafter changes hands briskly at three times the published price." The avowed purpose of "America Illustrated is to "promote better understand ing of the United States in the Soviet Union. To tell the story of America today: What the American people are doing and saying . . . how they live, work and play." About half of each month's 60 pages of pictures and text consists of articles reprinted from leading U.S. magazines The remainder is produced by the USLA staff. The article on Negroes was in the latter category. Uses of Skin-Diving Explained Monday During Roundtable Skin-diving as a sport and as a commercial pursuit was discussed by Richard Smith of Ashland at the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce roundtable yesterday. Joe Walsh, county sheriff, discussed its role in law en forcement. , Smith, whose past, diving experience includes demoli tion and salvage work, re lated incidents from recover ing a dental plate in Shasta lake to releasing logs from the hold of a sunken lumber vessel. He said that while diving is a fascinating sport it is dangerous too and should not me undertaken without prop er education. He cited the case of a youth in California who suffered ruptured ear drums by diving deep with plugs in his ears. Diver's Flag Smith showed the group an official diver's flag red with a white diagonal stripe and stated that when a boat dis plays it others should keep a safe distance away. He said that while there is not enough underwater work locally to keep him busy all the time he has found some of it very interesting espe cially lake poisoning for the state fish and game commis sion. Other work in this area, Smith said, includes recover ing sinker logs and inspect ing sunken boats for insur ance purposes. He discussed the hazards of releasing dry, lumber from the holds of sunken ships. When the hatch is opened, he said, the buoyant logs burst out with terrific momentum. Recovering Bodies Walsh "said diving has proved useful and economical in .recovering bodies of drowning victims, and miss ing weapons and safes. He said a diver can retrieve a sunken safe without the dam age caused by other methods. He said two sets of equip ment are now available in the sheriff's office for inves tigations. Tfte county . court, he said, authorized their pur chase a few months ago. Walsh said that Lon Skin ner, who introduced Smith to the roundtable audience, had helped interest the court in the value of having this equipment. He said it has just about paid for itself already. He cited as one example of its use the search for the body of 81-year-old Andrew Kolstad in the Pleasant creek area, during which Deputy Veryl Canoose descended in to mining test -holes 30 to 40 feet deep. Smith described the equip ment necessary for skin div ing work. He said a complete outfit including mask, fins, breathing apparatus, depth guage and compass, a decom pression table costs about $300. Read what these reporters say! QUENTiH REYNOLDS "I've tried them all, American and foreign. R's a Cole Portable for me ...it's lighter, faster, cleaner." KENNETH BANGHART Sali? seconds are important For speed JjppS?!' and accuracy &vV I depend on my ' - $tk Cole Portable." j PORTABLE These experts hove chosen the nevr Cole Portable above, ad other tvoewriters only because Cole has oil the important features they demand m a portable. Lightweight, streamlined and rugged, tool IDEAL FOR STUDENTS, let us show you this remarkable Cole Portable. Regular Price with matching carrying UOIGHT'S Bedford Office Equipment Co. ,-. ' Where you get a better deal' Eighth and Grape " v SP 2-4100 Court To Study Overtime Pay in Foods Industry Washington - (DPD - The' Su preme Court agreed Monday to examine a government claim that the frozen food in dustry in many cases is vio lating the federal wage hour law. The court will schedule ar guments on the issue some time next fall and will hand down a written opinion later. The Labor Department took the issue to the high court after losing in two lower courts. The department sued Oregon Frozen Foods com pany of, Ontario, Ore., in an effort, to compel the firm to pay time-and-a-half for over time beyond 40 hours a week. Entitled lo Exemption Processors are entitled to an exemption from the law when they are handling freshly-harvested produce. But the department asserted that Ore gon was improperly applying the exemption to subsequent re-packaging of items frozen and stored in bulk. The department said by the bulk storage procedure "pre mium labor can be avoided and packaging can be done by the regular crew after the rush season has passed." The lower court, it added, "will affect many' thousands of workers throughout the frozen foods industry." insects Coming Into Limelight As Crops Planted Washington-(Science Services-Insects are coming into the limelight as the days grow warmer and farmers as well as home gardeners begin to pay attention to .their crops. One "outstanding grain in sect," the khapra beetle, has even made a first this year, the U.S. Department of Agri culture's plant pest control division reported her. It has been found for the first time in Texas in a feed mill in El Paso. Researchers had be lieved the beetle was pretty well confined to California, where it was first detected in 1953, and neighboring states Eradication Underway A large-scale, Federal-state eradication program is now underway to get rid of the khaDra beetle. Joseph w Gentry of the pest control di vision said. Fumigation of infested buildings with methyl bromide will probab ly be the eradication gener ally used, he explained. 1 While plant pests receive increased attention as crops begin to come up, the USDA researchers study insect de tection and control through out the year. It is particular ly important, Gentry pointed out, to keep track of insect survival populations after the winter. On the basis of these studies it is often possible to predict infestations of a spe cies such as the boll weevil or alfalfa weevil. Hopper Infestation High So far, studies of grasshop per egg survival indicate the infested acreage is high while the numbers of grasshoppers are down. This may be a bad year for the European corn borer, pest surveys indicate. Spring re ports showed a high survival rate. The gypsy moth infestation is the lightest in six years- since 1952 in Connecticut, USDA researchers reported However; some 9,000 acres have been certified as in dan ger of epidemic infestations Trees in about 700 acres are in danger of losing more than 50 of their leaves. . Back Stairs: Visitors at White House CARELESS ELEPHANTS Tokyo - (UPD - A worker re ported, to an employment agency that he had quit his S1.30-a-day job feeding and leading around the elephants at the Tokyo Zoo. "They don't seem to care where they step, he complained. "I'd rather be flat broke instead of just flat, PLAN LAUNCHING PADS . Vandenberg AFB, Calif-flJPD -Nine launching pads for At las intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of hurling thermonuclear warheads into Russia will be constructed here, it was announced Mon day. , Wall $t reel Chatter New York-fiJPD-Edmund W. Tabell of Walston & Co. sees a similarity to the ,1953-56 market pattern. Applying it to the present situation, he notes, would project a top around 770 to be reached in a year or so, followed by a distributional, period similar to 1956-1957 and, as a sequel, a decline greater than any witnessed since 1937, although probably no lower than the 525 level Recent anti - speculation warnings by stock exchanges and brokerage firms may have had something to do with decreasing volume according to Hemphill Noyes & Co., and, if interpreted as signs of a coming change of long range importance, may have influ enced some of those respon sible for the investment of large sums. Failure to penetrate the mid-March highs, according to Joseph E. Granville of E. F. Hutton & Co., would leave the market in a vulnerable position' and he feels it too early to be conclusive about the ability of the market to sustain the advance long enough to make such an im portant break-through on this swing. Four Still Missing From Maryland Jail Jessups, Md. (UPD All but four of the 34 inmates who escaped from the unwalled Patuxent Institution for De fective Delinquents were back in custody today. State police continued heavy road patrols in the area after the biggest prison break in Maryland history. A 300-member manhunt by Monday night had rounded up 30 of the inmates who es caped Sunday night by over powering two guards and un locking steel doors. Some of those who es caped were regarded as high ly dangerous but the four still at large were not considered in this category. Standard & Poor s men tions Ryan Aeronautical as a good candidate for a substan tial stock dividend or stock split . . ! says Vanraalte earn ings are estimated at $3.50- $3.75 per share, compared with $2.72 in 1958, with a hike in $2 dividend rate likely be fore year end . . . lists Lock heed Aircraft as week's "stock for action." Oak Ridge Wells Not Contaminated Boston (UPD Wells and crops near the Oak Ridge, Tenn, national laboratory have remained uncontaminat ed even though three million gallons of radioactive waste is dumped into pits each year, it was reported today. Donald G. Jacobs of Oak Ridge, the government labo ratory operated by the Union Carbide Nuclear Co., and Wil liam J. Lacey of the office of Civil and Defense mobiliza tion, Battle Creek, Mich., spoke at the 135th national meeting of the American Chemical society. Lacy, senior chemist at Oak Ridge at the time of the stud ies, said tests showed no leak age of radioactive waste to surrounding test wells and plant life. Results of the work were expected to help other atomic installations which dispose of their waste by dumping in se lected geologic formations. CHINESE CHANGE NAMES Taipei, Formosa - (UPD - The China News reported today that ' the Nationalist Chinese government had approved ap plications for new names from more than 100 persons whose parents had christened them with "sin" names. Among the names tney were permitted to drop: Mistress, Horse Ma nure, Pig Thief, Chicken Claws and Colored Hog. One woman was permitted to drop a name which means "good in the night.' Washington-(UPD-Back stairs at the White House: With the coming of spring, there's also the coming of children to the White House They arrive during the spring holidays by the thousands, traveling in school buses and checking in for one or two nights at downtown hotels, six and eight to a room. Naturally one of their first ports of sight-seeing call is the White House. This week, with the peak still to come, the kids were lining up on East Executive ave. more than an hour ahead of opening time for their brief tour of the pub lic rooms of the executive mansion. Most Old Hands The nearest thing to an ad ministration executive en countered by these youngsters is a White House policeman, Most of the officers are old hands at shepherding the chat tering youngsters through the house. One morning last week, a policeman beheld a swarm of young boys in the eight-to- ten age group, all wearing the string ties usually associ ated with fancier dressers south of the Potomac. "And what part of the South are you from?" inquir- Estacada Youth Found Innocent Of Killing Dad Oregon City - (UPD - Duane Marvin Anders, 17, said to day he planned to return to school and hoped to graduate with his Estacada high school senior class this spring. A jury of six men and six women deliberated less than an hour Monday evening and found young Anders innocent of the murder of his father District Attorney Winston Bradshaw then moved for dis missal of an arson charge and Circuit Judge P. K. Ham mond agreed. The father, Hector Anders, 56, was found dead in the charred ruins of the family barn early in February. In vestigation disclosed that he had died of a bullet wound in the head. Shot Said Accidental. Young Anders was arrested and charged with first de gree murder. He toid author ities he accidentally shot his father and then panicked, set ting fire to the barn. His trial began March 30. The jury got the case at 5:23 p.m. Monday and finish ed its deliberations at 6:18 p.m. When the innocent verdict was read, Duane's mother, Mrs. Bertha Anders, who had testified for her son, fainted. The boy broke into a smile and was hugged by his at torneys, Bruce Williams and Otto Skopil. The spectators in the courtroom cheered, bring ing a warning from the judge. Anders was fourth-ranked in his class at Estacada high school and also president of the senior class. ed the White House police man with his best grandfa ther smile. "New Jersey," piped up the kids. Juvenile Experts Sam Levenson or Art Link letter who have emerged of late as juvenile experts on the. Doctor Spock magnitude, would do well to check with the White House police this time of year on child behav ior. For example, kids from the South sometimes will, .on a group impulse, all dress up in Union Army hats just to con found their bus driver from Umatilla, Ga. Also, a bunch of youngsters wearing carni val-type hats with their names embroidered on the visors can be counted on to be more fractious than their non-em broidered colleagues. Facilities Available There are bathroom facili ties available for the visitors. but the White House doesn't advertise the fact. They took the signs off the doors a year or so ago because too many tourists were using the facili ties as an excuse to prolong their presence within the his toric walls. The police have found over the years that requests to go to the bathroom in the White House come much more from adults than from the kids. Mostly School Children During the spring, the daily load of sightseers through the White House between 10 a.m and noon runs between 6,000 and 12,000 persons a day, This time of year and until mid-June, the crowds contain a heavy percentage of school children. The tour of the White House takes about 20 min utes, but on extra - crowded days, the police encourage faster movement of the lines Klamath Water Storage Helpful Klamath Falls -(UPD- Stored water is saving the day for Klamath Basin farmers in contrast to surrounding areas facing water shortages in late summer, it was reported here Monday night at the annual water forecast meetmg. Water content of the moun tain snow pack is only 65 per cent normal and low eleva tion snow usually found . in April is completely gone, ac cording to W. T. Frost, Or egon snow survey supervisor for the Soil Conservation Service. Water content of the snow pack on the Klamath Basin water shed averages less than 40 per cent than last year and March inflow m the Klamath lake reservoir went below normal for the first time in many years, it was reported. Walter Jendrzejewski, Klamath county extension agent and chairman of the meeting, urged careful water management this summer to conserve stored water as in surance against another short snow year. 4th ANNIVERSARY p DRAPERIES & Drapery Materials 0 OFF! CLEARANCE on All UPHOLSTERY SI 95 MATERIAL. . . . . . Yd. and Up At Wholesale Prices ROLLER SHADES $4 Odd lot, up to 36" wide. g Your Choice I Many other fine values! Sale starts today . . . Ends April 18 Buy Now and Save! VALLEY SHADE (0. 307 N. Bartlett Phone SP 3-4620 of tourists, some of whom find themselves back out on East Executive ave. in seven or eight minutes. Crowds Heavier The crowds, according to the kindly cops who man the velvet rope barriers that pre vent the tourists from trying out the President's chairs, are getting heavier each year. Im proved highways is believed to be one reason, but the po lice perceptively spot anoth er: There seems to be a grow ing trend all over the country to have school children study current events at first hand if at all possible. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, April 7, 1959 S A German shepherd dog can hear sounds at a distance of 80 feet which man cannot hear at 20. In Life . . . experience is the great teacher In Scotch . . .Teacher's is the great experience 7995 SIGNATURE 5. 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