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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1960)
IKIarry Holt in Chorea Preparing 100 Orphan Tots tor FDSght to America Creswell (DH- Harry Holt, farmer from Creswell, is still in the babylift business. He's in Seoul, Korea, preparing another 100 orphan tots and toddlers for a flight to new homes and new lives in the United States. Over the past four years, Holt has found U.S. homes for 1,615 Korean orphans the offspring of American GIs stationed in Korea and girls from the "Land of the Morning Calm." It hasn't been easy. There have been hassles with immi gration officials and medical societies, but they now seem to be resolved. More than 300 children jam Holt's orphanage in Seoul -all of them in the process of adoption by American fami lies. The newest batch will ar rive in the U.S. at the end of this month by chartered plane and will be received with affection by their Ameri can foster-parents. Holt says that lately the process has been a little tougher and slower because immigration officials, under new rulings, are making more thorough checks of both children and their prospective parents. But this does not discourage the Holts. Adopted Eight Themselves As Mrs. Holt puts it: "We are Christians. We pleaded that we could continue, and the Lord allowed us to do so This pretty much sets the tone for the whole babylift operation which started when Harry Holt read an article about the plight of Korean orphans fathered by GIs in Korea. A fairly well-to-do family, the Holts poured all their money and energy into the babvlift - and for a starter adopted eight of them them selves to go along with their own six children. "They are very much Amercan how," Mrs. Holt says. After four years, the four oldest are in Creswell schools and doing nicely. "We receive letters from parents all the time bragging about how their children are doing," he added. The biggest pitfall in the operation has probably been the question of the children's health. There have been hold ups by Immigration for checks on possible tuberculosis or measles and one little 11-' month-old girl died of pneu monia shortly after arriving. But the Holts think these problems are now licked. They have two doctors one Korean and one American -in their $40,000 Seoul orphan age; this plus 20 Korean nurses to help prepare the 1,000 bottles of formula need ed daily. Have Own Hospital Mrs. Holt says "we have our own hospital now. The children are in good health when they come over." The Holts praise both the Immigration Service and the American Embassy in Seoul for their cooperation. Corvallis Debates Library Control Corvallis-(DPD-The city coun cil here differs sharply as to whether the local public li brary should remain under city control or be taken over by Benton county. The council voted 5 to 3 at a "work" meeting to try again to give the library to the county. The County Court has said it won't take the library wihout voter approval and that it won't ask for a vote unless voters themselves peti tion to have a measure put on the ballot. The city council said it wouldn't circulate a petition and it didn't know who would. Morse Schedules Pendleton Speech Pendleton-(UPD-Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) is scheduled to speak here Saturday evening. Morse is due to arrive by plane at 5:15 p.m. and leave about 10 pjn. Station wagons have doubled in number in recent years. PRE-HUNG DOORS Complete Includes Mahogany Door Casing Jambs Stanley Hinges Yale Latch Sets LEWIS Wholesale Builders Supply S. Riverside SP 2-7135 . The zeal with which 54-year-old Harry Holt and his wife Bertha, have taken to the project has spread to the rest of the family. Daughter Molly works at the Seoul orphanage, and daughter Barbara and her hus Section B Medford MEDFORD, OREGON, 'Bull Session' Supplies Spark For New Integration Editor'! note: A new form of anti-segregation campaign by Sou thern Negroes is taking . place in five sontnern states, it attacics custom instead of law, and some leaders expect it to develop into an all-out assault on racial segre gation without the delay or legal maneuvers and court arguments. United Press International staff members who bave covered the demonstrations in North Carolina, Virginia and Florida supplied in formation for a comprehensive ex amination of the campaign and its probable future course. By LOWRY BOWMAN Atlanta - (UPD - Three weeks ago today a "bull session" in a college dormitory supplied the spark for what may be come the first full-scale as sault by Southern Negroes on the nerve center of racial seg regation in the South. The attack is on Southern customs and Southern habits -not Southern laws. The movement began with Negro college students at Greensboro, N.C., Feb. 2 and raced throughout North Caro lina into Virginia, South Car olina, Tennessee and Florida. It appeared in New York City and in Baltimore, Md. Students Demand Service The Greensboro students walked info the local F. W. Woolworth store, part of a na tional chain that has no racial barriers but', follows "local customs," and demanded serv ice at the lunch counter. When they were refused they took seats and announced they would stay until served. They serve us standing up, said Holland iiannan, a student at Greensboro's North Carolina A & T college and Until smooth Smirnoff came along, nobody had tried using vodka in a Dry Martini. In fact, ten years ago, only one Ameri can in a thousand had ever tasted vodka. Today, thanks to Smirnoff, vodka drinks are everywhere . . . and the Vodka Martini is a household word. If you want the world's subtlest, driest Martini, try making it with Smirnoff! And let nobody tell you all vodkas are the same! NOTE: There's a world of difference in Vodkas. Be sure your Vodka is Smirnoff ... the standard vodka of the world since 1818. it leaves you breathless SO AND 100 PROOF. DISTILLED FROM band. Jack Chambers, also are in Korean orphan work. Another daughter, Wanda, is a flying missionary to Mex ico. The Holts are now a little short of funds, but they aren't complaining. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY one of the "sit-in" leaders "We want to be able to eat sitting down like everyone else," Hannah said. "We will not settle for anything but in tegration 6f the lunch coun ters, and we have no inten tion of stopping there." Committee OKs Bond Interest Plan Washington-flJPD-The House Ways and Means committee has approved 18-6 a bill that would give President Ei senhower sweeping authority to ignore the W, per cent in terest ceiling on government bond issues. Although the measure would not grant Eisenhower's re quest for outright repeal of the per cent interest ceil ing, it provides all of the au thority which the Treasury has said it needs. The bill was rammed through the - committee over opposition of six Democrats. Backers said it was almost certain to win House ap proval. Screen Actors Guild Sets Industry Strike Holly wood-(0PD-The Screen Actors Guild has announced it will call a strike against the motion picture industry Monday, March 7, at 12:01 a.m. (pst). THIS DBY riHTIfll CHKD THE DRINKING j HABITS OF I 1 rt did mirnoff.. THE GREATEST GRAIN. STE. PIERRE SMIRNOFF FLS. (DIVISION OF HEUBLEIN), HARTFORD, CONN. As Mrs. Holt puts it: "This is the most pleasant business anyone could be in." Farmer Holt and his family have found a vocation and more than 1,600 children have found a home. This, the Holt's say, is reward enough. Tribune 24, 1960 Paaes 1-6 Campaign All insisted the Greensboro demonstration was spontan eous. But the local president of the National Association for the Advancement of Color ed People called in another organization to coordinate and lead- the campaign. Spurs Demonstration The Congress for Racial Equality of New York sent Gordon Carey, 28, a white man, to spur the Greensboro demonstration into something bigger. Leaders of other demonstra tions in other North Carolina cities denied that CORE had a part in their plans. But CORE managed similar dem onstrations in Tallahassee, Fla., and other cities. The NAACP encouraged the movement and provided lawyers for those arrested on charges ranging from tres passing to disturbing the peace. It denies, however, any part in the organization or leadership. "We are trying to show Negroes the best way to dem onstrate," Carey said. "We are trying to show them that it is better to hit one chain store than different stores." There are no laws requir ing segregation at the lunch counters of drug, dime and department stores in the South. There only is long standing custom. Negroes long have been ac cepted customers at such stores-but never at the lunch counters. "That's what I call a Dry Martini. What proportions you use?" "Same as always ... but with Smirno ff instead of gin." VODKA NAME IN The Little Cochineal Bug Produces a Red Dye To most of us the deliberate planting of a special crop for the express purpose of raising bugs is a funny business. What makes it even funnier is that the planted crop consists of cactus plants. And this isn't any small business either, although it does deal wjrth a "small prod uct," the product being a group of bugs who during their lifetime of sucking cac tus juice into their little bodies, convert the sap into a brilliant red dye. To add confusion to the al ready ridiculous business of planting a crop to raise more bugs is the discouraging fact that an expert collector, one familiar with his job and willing to work hard, can just about gather two ounces of insects during the course of one working day. Probably, too, the man is conscious of the almost hopelessness of his vocation if he stops to realize that it will take 70,000 of the little woolly - looking insect blobs to weigh a single pound. Pretty Important This little bug, the Cochi neal insect, is a pretty impor tant little guy. Its importance goes back a long way, too, for the ladies of Queen Isabella's court made Cortez promise to ' WHi?3 C? , pictore tabes i fSSSU Knifes boned m- " - r twxr.nt .mLm v. wu 1 1 1 ' 1 Ava. .viA-A -MmmW I mTi M 1 J Men's 17 J. Watch Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins bring back, from one of his early trips to Mexico, some of the dye that is manufactured in the bodies of the cochineal insect for them to use in color ing their courtly robes a bright scarlet color. The old Spanish explorer Cortez lived nearly 500 years ago, but even before his time the Indians of South America and the an cient Mexicans' knew and used . the scarlet dye that comes from the bodies of the cochineal insect. Today sandy wastelands in Mexico, the West Indies and many other sections of the world, are planted to branch ing cactus with the planned purpose of acting as grazing pastures to a host of little in sects. As soon as the plants are of suitable size, a group of cochineal insects or their eggs are placed on the plant stems. The individual cochineal is somewhat smaller than an aspirin tablet. But ' they are willing little workers, or more correctly, willing drinkers, for once on their favorite plant they plunge their sharp little beaks into the tissues of the cactus, then they , start their little pumps, sucking the juice into their tiny insides; insides that are actually "dye factories." . ' The female cochineal insect Reg. $49.95 Water and Shock Resistant A:$1188 May Terms is wingless. She Is a little larger than the male who has wings., Both are usually cov ered with a white, mealy powder. Without the powder, the little bodies are a reddish brown. . They belong to the scale insect family, sluggish sapsucking creatures that spend their lives drinking the juice of the cactus plant. The human harvester who gathers this strange crop, races from plant to plant arm ed with a soft brush and a bag into which the insects are brushed. After a full day's work, the collector takes the ounce or so of bugs he has gathered and dumps them into boiling water. HELPS RADIO PERFECT CONDITION YOUR FRIENDLY J J,0 CREDIT JEWELER 1511. Central 1 This p a r 1 1 a 1 eookmr re leases the bright scarlet dye which was contained within the insect. The dye is non poisonous and of unusual brilliance. Cochineal dye has found an important use in the coloring of many things, in cluding lipsticks, foods and textiles. It can even be used as ink-this vivid scarlet body juice from a tiny insect that drinks cactus juice. Portland - (DPD - Oregon's forest industries Friday will honor Dr. Donald Stotler, su pervisor of science for Port land public schools, for his leadership in forest conservation. CAN YOU HELP US? 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