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2 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medferd, Or. C Thurtday, March 10, 1960
Anticipated Success
Of Civil Rights Act
Credited to West
?y A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington - The widely
anticipated ultimate success
of the current drive for a
STSTH strong civil
ngms Din
a g a inst the
most strenu
ous filibuster
in Senate his'
tory - is a di
rect result of
the advancing
political pow
er of the New
A. Robe Smith West.
The admission of Alaska
and Hawaii, long opposed by
the Southern bloc, added vis
ibly to the strength of the
Western bloc. But the more
significant development has
been the shift of power with
in the Democratic party ranks
from the Old South to the
New West.
A successful civil rights
drive in the Senate can only
be conducted if the leaders of
both parties are in general
agreement in its behalf, as
they are today. Because of the
unlimited debate rule, and the
corollary requirement of a
two-thirds vote to shut off de
bate and bring the issue to a
vote, it has always been im
possible for the majority par
ty alone whether it be Re
publican or Democratic - to
force a civil rights vote.
Anchor! in South
Before the recent rise of the
New West, the Democratic
party in the Senate was an
chored in the Old South. If
the chosen leader of the Dem
ocratic senators did not ac
tually come from a southern
state, he was ever conscious
Licensing Foresters
Subject of Talk
A look into the background,
purpose, and problems of li
censing foresters was present
ed by Douglas Welch, Coos
Bay division, Georgia-Pacific
Corporation, at a recent meet
ing of the Siskiyou chapter,
Society of American Forest
ers, in Grants Pass.
Welch spoke on the devel
opment pf licensure from the
days of crafts and guilds to
the present-day licensing of
doctors, lawyers, and many
other professions. He mention
ed three states that currently
have some degree of register
ing or licensing foresters.
The talk was effective in
acquainting foresters with the
subject. Welch is on the na
tional advisory committee on
licensing procedures, Society
of American Foresters.
. A guest at the meeting was
Lee Hunt, Umpqua chapter
chairman. Hunt invited the lo
cal foresters to attend this
year's section meeting at Rose
burg. Next month's meeting will
be a field trip on Elk Lumber
company lands in the Pros
pect area. The evening pro
gram will be a discussion of
forest research in southern
Oregon with guest speakers
from the Oregon Forest Re
search Center at Corvallis and
Roseburg Research Center of
the U.S. Forest service.
Aaadir in Rare
Earthquake Area
Washington - (Science Serv
ice) The earthquake that
razed most of the Moroccan
seaport of Agadir recently had
its epicenter just north of that
popular tourist city, an un
usual area for strong earth
quakes. The earthquake's center
was in the southern tip of the
western extremity of the Al
pide earthquake belt, an area
where sizable earthquakes sel
dom occur.
The seismology section of
the U.S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey here has determined
the epicenter to be at 9V de
gress west longitude and 30
degrees north latitude. This
was calculated from reports
from Uppsala and Kiruna in
Sweden; Stuttgart, Germany;
Hungry Horse, Mont.; Eureka,
Nev.; Columbia, S.C., and
Fordham University in New
York. ;
Skunk Sweetener ?
Effective Weapon
Deming, N3I. - Mrs. Nancy
Benedict recommends an ef
fective weapon against skunks
-spray deodorant.
She called police when she
discovered the animal in her
basement. -
When they got there, the
officers found Mrs. Benedict
hotting the animal at bay
with a can of deodorant.
Every time the skunk made a
move, the 29-year-old house
sprayed him.
nd more important, the
4k didn't fight back.
that his freedom of action in
this sensitive area was severe
ly limited by the power of the
southern patriarchs led by
Sen. Richard B. Russell of
Georgia.
During the Truman admin
istration, for example, the
Democratic leader was from
Illinois - but all efforts of the
White House to press a civil
rights slate were frustrated in
the Senate. The Old South
successfully exerted its will.
Today's change is all the
more evident because the pres
ent Democratic leader is from
a state historically regarded
as southern, Texas. But Sen.
Lyndon B. Johnson has been
trying noticeably to escape
that identification by cozying
up to the Far West. After the
1958 elections brought a host
of new Democrats to the Sen
ate from the western states.
Johnson got his western col
leagues to include Texas and
Oklahoma in the roster of
western states for formation
of a new bloc. The westerners
didn't begrudge Johnson a
pair of their spurs, hoping he
would use them to dig into
the hides of those more con
servative Southern Democrats
who retain great power as
chairmen of committees.
Personal Driving Factor
Johnsons presidential as
pirations, to be sure, are re
garded as a personal driving
factor in all of this. But that
ambition aside, the Texan's
compulsive desire to lead his
party in Congress would
shrewdly direct him away
from the waning power of the
Old South.
The combination of Demo
cratic victories in the western
states, and the addition of
Alaska, Hawaii, Texas and
Oklahoma to this bloc, give
the New West domination
over the party in the Senate.
There are now 24 Democratic
senators from the New West,
23 from all the North East,
Central and Border states, and
18 from the Old South.
The Republicans now, for
their part, are behaving more
like a party which can claim
its rightful Lincoln heritage
as civil rights champions. Sen.
Everett Dirksen (R-IU ) and
his band of liberals and mod
erates who are loyal to what
ever the White House and
Justice Department propose
are in no mood for easy bar
gains with the South.
Informal Entente Gone
Gone is the day when Bob
Taft and Dick Russell had an
informal working entente, as
noted by Jack Bell, the As
sociated Press political writer,
in his authoritative new book,
"The Splendid Misery." Rus
sell kept the Southern con
servatives in Taft's corner to
help pass Taft-Hartley labor
legislation and block Fair
Deal social measures, and
Taft kept the conservative
Republicans from joining any
civil rights crusades against
the wishes of the Old South.
So the enhanced strength
of the Democrats from the
West has not only forced the
Democratic party leader to his
new liberalism. It has com
pelled the . Republicans to
make genuine exertions for
civil rights legislation in or
der to bid for popular favor
in the large cities of the East,
which the GOP must swing if
it is to hold the White House
in 1960's presidential election
and recoup its losses in Con
gress. -. " -
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AID DISCUSSED - Delegates of nine nations and the
European Economic Community met in Washington, D.C.,
to discuss aid to the less developed nations of the world.
Posing prior to start of the meeting are, left to right,
Robert Lemaignen, European Commissioner of European
Economic Commission; S. W. Plumptre, Canadian assist
ant deputy minister of finance; Italian Ambassador Egidio
Small Worlds
Around Us
By Lynn M. Watkins
The Lowly Ray Was
Stepped On by Nature
It was only natural that in
the push and crush of early
creation some creatures were
sure to be stepped on, de
pressed or downtrodden, and
there is one particular group
that seems to have received
a bad deal-tne ray family.
Nature stepped down hard on
these animals, flattened them
out like proverbial pancakes.
Today the rays occupy a
low position in the animal
scale; low in physical stature
and exceedingly low in the
estimation mankind has of
of them. The rays are fishes
that command no respect, and
have but few friends.
Most of the rays flap along,
just above the bottom, or lie
hidden there feeding on dead
animal life. Every fish that
dies and sinks to the bottom
may . become food for these
depressed fishes. The few
members of the family whose
tails are armed with sharp,
serrated spines that can stab
an unwary human wader
have given the entire ray clan
a bad name.
The one really bad one, the
so-called stingray, is probably
the most numerous and the
most to be feared. The unin
formed call all rays stingrays,
which of course they are not.
There are at least 30 varieties
of these strange creatures in
habiting Gulf waters and the
majoriety are pretty good
citizens.
Both rays and sharks be
long to a low order of fishes
characterized by having gull
slits instead of gills and hav
ing body stiffened by cartil
age instead of bone. Like the
shark, the ray has a rough
file-like skin which in some
is exaggerated into bumps
and spines that give the body
an untidy look. In the sting
ray the skin is as near mud
colored as a skin could be.
When the ray is partly buried
in the mud it is impossible
to tell where the mud leaves
off and the ray begins.
It's a long step from the
lowly stingray, lying in the
ooze, to the great manta-ray,
the largest of the entire fam
ily. It seems ironic that the
manta, who has been known
to weigh 3,000 pounds and
be all of 30 feet across, should
be the harmless one, but such
is the true fact. Someone
with more imagination than
knowledge called these big
fellows "devil fish."
Perculiar that these great
lumbering creatures, often
called "swimming barn
doors," have no means of at
tack and could hardly hurt a
man because they have noth
ing to attack with.
The skate, another low
dwelling member of the ray
family, lives on sandy ocean
bottoms. This is the character
that lays the black shiny pillow-like
eggs with a "horn"
on each of the four- corners;
in fact a "square egg." At
certain times of the year these
egg capsules, each two or
three inches long, are found
wried up on sloping beach
es. They're called mermaid s
purses, devil's pouches or sea
pillows. The skate itself is harm
less, but being one of the
members of the ray family
belongs to the riff-raff of the
sea and is dealt with severely
whenever caught. Their cap
ture is easy for they putter
along the bottom, gulping
down anything in the way of
flesh they can find.
They will swallow a hook
without a moment's hesita
tion. They they plaster them
selves to the bottom and re
sist the line pull with the
dead weight of a lifeless stone.
Poor old rays, even in death
they remain low in the ani
mal scale.
(Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate, 1960)
DOOMS LANDMARK
Haverhill," Mass. - (UPD - A
landmark dating from Indian
days soon will be razed to
make way for a new super
highway. Known as the
"Thompson Place," the colonial-type
dwelling has stood
for 312 years. On the south
east peak of the roof is an
original Ben Franklin light
ning rod.'
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Ortono; Dr. Ernst Harkort; West German foreign office;
Andre van Campenhout, Belgium; French Ambassador
Herve Alphand; Sir Dennis Rickett, Great Britain; C.
Douglas Dillon, U. S. Undersecretary of State, temporary
chairman; Albano Fernandes -Nogueira, Portugal; Shigen
obu Shima, Japan, and Anthony Geber, executive secretary
of the meeting. (UPI Telephoto)
Russia To Lead In
Skilled Workers
Washington - (Science Serv
ice) - The man who steered
America's participation in the
Inter national Geophysical
Year says that American
workers will soon be outnum
bered by skilled workers in
Russia.
Dr. Joseph Kaplan, physicist
at the University of California
at Los Angeles, said that as
time goes on, the U.S. worker
will be outnumbered by the
skilled workers in other parts
of the world, even in Com
munist China.
"As far as the USSR is con
cerned, this time may already
be here and if that is not so,
then it is not far in the future.
When we are outnumbered
two to one, each American
must be the equal of at least
two in other countries."
In his speech prepared for
the President's Conference on
Occupational Safety here, Dr.
Kaplan stressed that other
countries' numerical advan
tages mean that "we can no
longer afford millions of dis
abling injuries and thousands
of occupational fatalities." '
Continued Winter Weather in Sferf
Suitland, Md. - (Science
Service) - Continued wintry
weather is in store for most
of the nation for the coming
month, the U.S. Weather
Bureau here reports.
The Bureau's 30-day outlook
Asian Telescope
Passes Final Test
Newcastle - Upon - Thyne,
England - (LTD - Asia's largest
telescope has passed its final
tests and is about to be pack
ed in 47 crates for shipment
to Japan.
The firm of Sir Howard
Grubb Parsons and Co., which
has made and installed 74-inch
telescopes on four other con
tinents will add Asia to the
list with the 74-inch instru
ment to be erected on Mount
Chikurin, about 500 miles
southwest of Tokyo.
The telescope, with its 11 M
Ion mirror and 50 tons of
moving parts, will be Asia's
largest. It will be operated as
a branch of the Tokyo Astron
omical Observatory.
calls for temperatures ave
aging below seasonal nornfels
over all areas except the ex
treme Northeast and uth
east. The coldest weather is
predicted for the westers kplf
of the country.
Precipitation is expected to
exceed normal over the emtire
South and Northeast, result
ing in more snow than usual
for March. The Pacific North
west and Northern Plains can
expect subnormal amounts.
In areas not mentioned, near
normal precipitation is expected.
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