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f 8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Meciford, Oregon. Tuesday, April 21, 193 Castro's Shaving Plans Reason For Gl Clothes Learned in Talk Br FRANK ELEAZER UPI Correspondent Washington -(UPD For the latest word on whether, and when, Fidel Castro plans to chave off his beard, read on. Also it is possible to divulge now one possible reason why the Cuban prime minister still wears those GI clothes. Otherwise, I guess we did not learn much new from Cas tro's appearance at the Na tional Press club. We did find out, though, that he has a watch, knows how to read it, and can take a hint as good as the next guy. 'Large Speeches' To use his own phrase, Cas tro is given to making "large ipeeches." Some of them go on for hours. Press Club Pres ident Bill Lawrence noted in fact that in a number of warm up addresses and interviews around "town the past several days Castro had made Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey look like silent Cal Coolidge. I guess we learned some thing there, too: That Castro reads the newspapers. Any way, he must have known all about Humh prey's eight - hour talk with Khrushchev because he was able to see this was funny. He also was able to join in the laughter at the ridiculous remark Lawrence made next Namely that Castro would ad dress us for 15 minutes. Hammered With Questions Of course, Castro didn't quite make that. But with the neip oi me vuoan iinance minister, who told him when 12M minutes was up, and af ter a careful check of his own left wrist at the 16-minute mark, he wound it up with an "okay" exactly HVi min utes later. This unquestionably was his shortest speech on record. Then, as is our custom, we hammered away at him with question. The questions and his responses-it wouldn't be right to call 'em answers ex-actly-took another 35 min utes, and the whole thing wound up, just like the rules say, at 2 p.m. Nobody asked Castro why he hasn't shed those army fa tigues but maybe this was be cause nobody had to. There were 505 of us seated in the Press Club's big ball room, plus 100 or so standing about the edges and in the balcony, and with the bright lights and all we were sweating under our collars and coats before Castro even got up to talk. He was the only guy in the room with neither jacket nor tie. We sure envied him. There were lots of good questions, like why Cubans may not have an election for maybe four years. He talked 10 minutes on that one, and I believe his reply was that they don't want an election yet and that, anyway, they aren't ready for one. Expounds New Theory He had an interesting ex planation also for the time he persuaded a Cuban court to . TOOR CHOICE IS TY PICTURE TUBES.-IU-NEW OR FACTORY REBUILT a SFLVERAMA $4550 . Monogram For the bodget-minded! The only factory-rebuilt picture it, V tone made by RCA no mtn finer rebuilt made! MONOGRAM 'Other sizes priced tit proportion both warranted for one full year by rca fit Virtually every ' make and model tv set. When your TV picture iube . needs replacing, caff ... SP 3-6241 TROWBRIDGE & FLYfiFI 214 West Main MflUfl IVUltf iSilveramaJjp : AO-new, premiom quality R f made erf all-new glass and gnf parts. Finest picture tube grj made today! J&J change its mind about free ing some fliers charged with dropping some bombs for Ba tista. He said the accused has the right of appeal. So why shouldn't the government? That was a new theory of jurisprudence to most of us non-lawyers, but Castro has a doctorate in law so maybe he knows. Anyway, we were im pressed with the fact that he believes what he says, wheth er or not he's always right. Our questions were written and relayed through Law rence. Mine was, "how are Porter Tells Castro Of Duty To Visit Oregon Centennial By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - Fidel Castro Monday became an ambassa dar at large for Oregon. "It's your duty to come to Oregon," Rep. Charles O. Por ter (D-Ore.), said he told the bearded Cuban prime minis ter as he presented Castro with ambassadorial creden tials being issued in connec tion with the Oregon Centen nial. "Could he come in a Cuban military plane?" he asked Por ter. The congressman told him he didn't see why Oregon air ports wouldn't be glad to ac commodate such aircraft. "We have lots of mountains 'AFTER YOU, SIR' Vice President Richard Nixon gestures for Cuban Prime Minister Fidel .Castro to pre ceed nim as they leave a marathon two-hour, 20-minute meeting in Washington. Castro said he was convinced of the great goodwill of the United States toward Cuba. Oregon Delegates Receive Missouri Welcome Some 50 newspaper, radio and television men, and offic ial delegates from Oregon re ceived a real Missouri wel come Friday evening on their arrival in Kansas City. Transported in four planes, the Oregonians were taken to Independence quarters in loaned station wagons. The Independence, Mo., Junior Chamber of Commerce fur nished all but one driver in the caravan from the airport to Independence, some 15 or so miles. The other driver was a vol unteer: John Salisbury, a newscaster for KPTV, chan nel 12, in Portland, who had 4-H Club News K nitwits Applegate The Applegate Knitwits met at the home of Joe Krause. Vice President Judy Drake was in charge and Susan Head led the flag salute. Adrienne Brian led the 4-H salute. Members talked about a model meeting some time in May. Mothers will be invited to a tea. The club decided to sell mail boxes, name plates and . to paint every mailbox in the area. . Linda Pittock, Reporter. Krazy Kooks The Krazy Kooks met at the home of Mrs. James Pull man April 17. Danny Thompson called the meeting to order. We de cided to plant trees on Sat urday. We talked about goals for the club. We discussed how to measure ingredients and had a short demonstra tion. Next meeting will be May 15. We are going to make cookies. Steve Nelson, Reporter you fixed for blades," and it never did get asked exactly. However, Lawrence did ask Castro whether Gillette still sponsors ball games in Ha vana. Fidel, an old ball play er himself, fielded this one with no trouble. He said he worries about Gillette. He said if everybody in Cuba wore beards, the blade folks might be in a fix. So he said he plans to shave his off. When? "When we finish the job." We gathered this might take a while. and beards in Oregon," Porter told the man who rose to hemispheric fame by emerg ing from the mountains of eastern Cuba with a band of loyal bearded rebels to lead a popular revolution against an entrenched dictator. Castro didn't rush out and buy a cutaway and striped pants for his ambassador role. Porter said he just sat down and pulled on his boots. They were together in the Cuban embassy. Then they climbed Into a limousine and, with sirens howling, sped down to the Na tional Press Club where Cas tro was the guest speaker and Porter was seated on his right as the highest U. S. official attending the function. Friday never been in Kansas City before. The caravan of about six station wagons (most of the members of the party had been taken to the motel earl ier), was escorted by Missouri State Highway Patrol, Jack son county (Missouri) Sher iff's dputies, Kansas City po lice and Independence police. Sirens sounded from one patrol car and six or more motorcycles through the downtown area of Kansas City all the way to Inde pendence at a rapid speed. Salisbury, in a strange car in a strange city, followed, the station wagon in front of him for all he was worth, and managed to get there. The welcome, wherever the group went, was the same. Residents of Independ ence found themselves in the middle of something different and vthey loved it. They co operated to the fullest, in helping members of the wa gon train last week, in pro viding transportation for vis itors over the week end, and in spirit. Everyone from Oregon was important, for it was from their town that the first wa gan train started for Oregon more than 100 years ago. The hospitality was indeed that famous Southern hospi tality. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 Kg 'P'WMJl-'"'" ' ' M'JJjllU)iJIJIIIMin(I.IUJMJ,.II.LXIUIIII.Iv ,. . NEW STATE SECRETARY President Eisenhower Is shown introducing Christian A. Herter (left), at a news conference in the vacation White House in Augusta, Ga., where the President officially named Herter as the new U. S. Secretary of State. Herter replaces the ailing John Foster Dulles, who has been stricken with cancer for the second time. Animated 'Skippers' Are Not Beautiful "Skipper" is a popular name for a dog, probably im plying a sprightly or vivac ious nature. But "skipper" is also the common name for a butterfly, which, too, is alert and animated, seeming to en joy every minute of its life in the sun. Most of the butterflies are said to be beautiful but the skippers, although common, fall down in this category; they are too dull colored, us ually brown, with yellow or white markings. And the skip pers are too small to be con spicuous. The handsomest of the lot is the gold-banded variety. The body is hairy, of a dusty brown color, with a bright- colored, gold band or slash on each wing. The silver-spot ted skipper probably the most plentiful in the U.S., has yel low spots across the fore wings and a conspicuous sil ver white spot on the under side of each hind-wing. In flight the butterfly often em its a buzzing' sound. Named for Flight . I The name skipper comes about because of the method of flight, an irregular, jerky, rapid up-and-down series of hops and usually close to the ground. The flight or skip, is much more rapid than the more leisurely flight of most of the butterflies. When the skipper cames to rest the wings are held in a vertical position. Although the skip pers are day-time fliers, they resemble the night flying moths in many respects. Early naturalists classified them with the moths. The body is moth-like, be ing more robust and stout. The wings are strong and the insect has short, well develop ed legs. The antennae are far apart at the base and end in a tiny hook at the tip and point backward. The skipper lays her yel low eggs singly on the under side of selected plant leaves. Each egg hatches into a small pupa, who immediately be gins cutting a flap in the edge of a leaf. The flap is wedge- shaped, whereby the loose end can be pulled over or folded back upon the body of the leaf and "sewed" or "tied" with several silk cords, form ing a small tent or nest. In side this tent the worm lives during the daylight hours. At night it crawls forth to feed on the plant tissues returning to the tent at daylight. Keep Moving As the caterpillars grow they keep moving to other lo cations on the leaf, each tune constructing another tent or wigwam in which to hide. For some strange, unexplained Placed Q from J 11 Typewriters New & Used Adders Calculators Portables All Makes VOIGHT'S MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT CO. FRIDEN AGENCY 8th & Grape, Medford Phone SP 2-4100 Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Wat kins reason the larvae or cater pillar destroys his former home when he leaves by cut ting the silken cords that hold the leaf-edges together allowing the leaf-flap to fly back. ' Usually, if not disturbed, the caterpillar will build many tents before it arrives at the time and place where it spini. a cocoon about itself. There hanging head down ward it goes to sleep to em erge later, often the follow ing spring, as a rapid flying, vivacious butterfly known as a skipper. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) Liz Will Leave Hospital Soon Hollywood OJPD Elizabeth Taylor, recuperating slowly from a 90-minute throat ope ration last week, might re m a i n hospitalized until Wednesday- The 27-year-old raven haired actress had hoped to be released from Cedars of Lebanon hospital the day aft er removal of tonsil nodes, but doctors said that more in fection had been discovered than anticipated. Miss Taylor planned to re turn to her rented Las Vegas, Nev., ranch after her release to be near singer Eddie Fish er, 30. The couple will marry early next month after Fisher obtains a Nevada divorce from Debbie Reynolds. Fisher also has been ill, suf fering from a virus infection that hsa kept him from ap pearing at the Tropicana for the past two nights. He planned to go back to work tonight. Records of Canyon Received at Library Eugene Records of the National Hells Canyon associ ation's Washington D. C, of fice have been received by the university library. The office's files include about 9,000 letters and rep resent activities of the organi zation between 1953 and 1958. The association has carried on a long fight for a high dam constructed by the federal government at Hells Canyon on the Snake river. Records given the library include copies of promotional and information pamphlets is sued by the association, and samples of similar material used by the Idaho Power company, a major opponent of the federal dam idea. ADDING MACHINES We Rent Adders Typewriter Calculators T Influx of Negroes Info Nortri, West Create Several Problems Editor's note: This is the second of two dispatches on the vast change and problems created by the recent migration of Negroes from the South to the cities of the North and West. By LOUIS CASSELS UPI Correspondent Washington - (UPD - During the 19th century, America's big cities were inundated by great waves of immigrants from Europe. They crowded into ghetto like districts of the inner city New York's East' Side, Chi cago's South Side, Detroit's Hamtramck. Differences of language, culture and religion set them 'apart from the, na tive population, and made4 their assimiliation a slow and painful process. For the past two decades, immigrants of another kind have been pouring into the metropolitan centers of the North . and West. They are Negroes from the rural areas of the American South. Like their European pred ecessors, they have settled first in the decaying areas of the inner city. They, too, are "different" not in nationali ty or language, but in race, in education and income levels, in many of their cultural mores. Their assimilation also is proving to be a painful proc ess both for them and for the cities. The problem has many as pects. Here are some of the most acute: Exercises To Help Build Up Adrenal Glands Beneficial By DELOS SMITH UPI Science Editor New York-(DPD-A new theo retical basis for making peo ple healthy and happy - has been broach ed to medical science. The broacher said the secrets of to bring about that desirable end may lie i n exercises for both mind and body Deios smith which build up the adrenal glands. Dr Kurt Schutz, a long time student of what physical exertions can do for the whole body, reminded a medical au dience that Greek physicians 2,000 years ago evidently did what no present-day physi cian can do. They made ath letic champions out of sickly people by prescribing gym nastics. Those Greeks had no idea of the vital chemical func tions of the adrenal glands which look a little like mush rooms as they perch above the kidneys, but they appar ently stumbled upon some thing useful. Modern medical science ' should find out how today's people can also stimu late their own adrenals in a healthful way. Protection Against Stress Schutz continued by re minding of how the adrenals protect the body against stress and illness, keep in mind, is stress, too. When stress ap pears, they increase their se cretions of hormones and those potent chemical sub stances prepare the body's chemistry to deal with stress without any harm coming to the body. Extreme stress can produce shock in the adrenals. The chemical balances among their secreted hormones are threatened which in turn, threaten the bodily defenses in that case, "counter-shock" secretions are set off and all is well although the glands are weakened in the process. From this Schutz said, can stem all manner of diseases. Muscular exercises, he con tinued, causes very little shock to the adrenals but does set off the "counter shock" chemistry. The result is that chemical balances are Frlmnnri F . JLIcific Northwest Smoe 1913 SUITE 303, FLUHRER BLDG. , PHONE SP 3-7319 5 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE Consult With Mr. Hass on Investment and Retirement Programs Using th Securities of . . . Utilities Banks Insurance Industrial. Investment Company Shares. Dependable Incomes of 5 to 6 Can Be Obtained Other offices in Portland, Salem, Eugene, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma. Aberdeen, Bellingham, Yakima, Wenatchee and Walla Walla. There is no legal segrega tion in northern cities that is one big reason why Negroes move there. But there is un official and often highly ef fective segregation in hous ing. It is enforced by re strictive covenants (which have no standing in court but are carried out as "gentle men's agreements"); by the financial pressure of lending institutions, which approve mortgage loans for Negroes only if the 'home being pur chased is in an already "brok en" block; by the refusal of white owners to sell or rent to Negroei? . These and other factors have served to keep the fast- growing Negro population of most northern cities cooped up in grossly - overcrowded slums and near-slums. It is not uncommon, in New York's Harlem, for 15 people to live in a three-room, cold-water flat. In Chicago's South Side "black belt," the popula tion density is approaching that of Calcutta, India. Under-Educated Many of the Negroes who have migrated to northern cities in the past two decades were illiterate. Nearly all were "under-educated" with an average of four years less schooling than whites of com parable age. Most of them knew only one trade farm ing. The handicaps they brought with them have been com- restored to adrenals which had become unbalanced by too much shocking stress and too little counter - shocking stress such as exercise and feeling emotions of anger. Anger Relieves Trouble Schutz was precise in point ing out that emotions are stresses to the adrenals, as well as disease processes. He said one of his asthmatic pa tients noticed that whenever he angered, his asthma was relieved. Presumably anger increased the secretions of the particular adrenal hor mones which supervise the body's production and utiliza tion of energy and for a short time restored lost balances. Hydrocortisone is the prin cipal one of these hormones. It is given from the outside to relieve many ailments, such as arthritis, often with spec tacular results. But the re sults never last. Schutz sug eetsed the cood results came because 1 the outside hydro cortisone restored the lost balances, but meanwhile the glands shut down their own production of hydrocortisone and the balances were again lost. Now, if medical i science could find out what physical exercises anud what emotions were "optimal" for perfect function of the adrenals, peo ple could be taught to "train" their adrenals by exercising correctly and conditioning their emotions into channels that would build up rather than tear down those glands. He set forth his theory to the Medical Society of the State of New York, and at this stage it is theory but the ory based upon much accu mulated knowledge of the vital roles of the adrenal hor mones in body chemistry. "The " human organism is geared to activity," he said, and implied that today's peo ple are not active enough-in a physical way. Washington -(UPD-r The Sen ate Commerce committee has introduced a bill to permit the Federal Communications commission to license TV "booster" stations. The mea sure would apply to very high frequency stations built be fore Jan. 1, 1959, and engaged solely in rebroadcasting tele vision stations. Hass 4 e v -rtes Compant Svj I pounded by racial discrimi nation in trainins and pm- ployment. In Washington, for example, Negroes cannot train as apprentice plumbers or electricians the unions won't let them. Throughout the North, the barriers to Ne gro employment in higher paying jobs are still very high.. Census surveys show that only 12 per cent of all Negro workers have profes sional, managerial or other "white collar" jobs, com pared to 42 per cent of the white workers. The result is clearly appar ent in Negro incomes. "The latest government analysis shows that the medium in come of full-time Negro workers is $2,661 a year, compared to $4,375 for whites. Social Disorganization The mass influx of ill-prepared immigrants has created severe problems for the cities. Item: New York City's wel fare budget has shot up to $200 million a year, with non whites accounting for 70 per cent of the load. Item: Philadelphia's vene real disease rate has climbed to an all-time high. About 90 per cent of the patient's treat ed at public clinics are Ne groes. Item: Washington has what one official calls a "stagger ing" rate of illegitimate births to teenage girls. Of 185 nub- lic school girls who' became pregnant m the 1957-58 school year, 169 were Ne groes. The social disorganization inherent in transplanting a huge Negro population from sauthern farms to big city slums is also reflected in a sharply rising crime rate. Muggings and yoke rob beries have become so com mon in Washington that many citizens are afraid to walk the streets at night. Balti more has equipped police pa trols with German shepherd dogs to cope with increasingly bold street bandits. New York's public schools have been plagued by rapes, rob beries and assaults. Youthful Hoodlums It is a fact, well-known to police departments, including those that do not break down arrest statistics by race, that a large percentage of these violent crimes are being com mitted by youthful hoodlums from the Negro slums. In Philadelphia, two thirds of those arrested for serious crimes during 1958 were Ne groes. , While stern police meas ures may be the immediate answer to this problem, au thorities agree that the ulti mate solution lies in relieving the social tensions of which a high crime rate is sympto matic. "Educational deprivation, job discrimination, low in come levels, overcrowded housing, broken homes and juvenile delinquency are all mutually related parts of the same picture," says an officail of the Urban League. "Each phase of the problem feeds on the other. "It will take time and ti tanic efforts to work this thing out. But there are no shortcuts." ways it! 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