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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31. I960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. B Jimmy Doolittle Claims U.S. Is Losing Space Race Wholesale Prices Drop 7 Per Cenl Washington, (Science Service-Wholesale prices of pre scription drugs have declined more than 7 per cent since 1949. Prof. John M. Firestone of the City college of New Yorle told the American Pharma ceutical association meeting here that the decline is strik ing when compared to the 20 per cent increase in all wholesale prices as measured by the Bureau of Labor sta tistics. Los Angeles - IUPD - Retired in isn't any Saturday after noon ball game with the out come to be measured in runs, hits and errors," Glennan said at the opening session of a space symposium sponsored at the University of Southern California by the Air Force. Evaluations Differ Glennan and Doolillle dif fered, however, in their evalu ation of the United Slates' position in the space race. Doolittle said that while he believed the United States to be the "technological leader of the world," he thought Rus sia was ahead in the missile race because that country has given missile development higher priority than the Unit ed States. "We must develop a sense of urgency." said Doolittle. "We as a nation have had it too good for too long. We want to coast and maintain the pleasant status quo. In part this naivete is due to public lethargy because we are inherently a nation of op timists." He called for national sac rifices to fight t h e "space war," including extra efforts by management and labor. Air Force Gen. James A. Doo little Monday called the space race between the United States and Russia a war. He said we were losing. Doolittle warned that most Americans "do not yet real ize the frightful seriousness of this war." The leader of the famed World War II attack on Tokyo was joined in emphasizing the seriousness of the space race by Dr. T. Keith Glennan, head of the National Aeronautics and Space administration '. . . What we're engaged il -. . .-- ' . - K ' ' ' ' - ; .... ' f ,-, " - - -Trail inii 3lnI3J?JL HIGH SOCIETY Ku Klux Klanners mingle with specta tors at a shopping center in Birmingham, Ala., the second of three meetings Sunday during a five-hour motorcade through the western section of the city. About 50 hooded Klansmen and 300 spectators rallied, burning a 13-foot cross at the first stop and listening to a rare public ad dress by Alvin Horn, Grand Dragon, U.S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, at thelast stop. (UPI Telephoto) Storage of Flood Waters Planned Klamath Falls - Plans for storage of the flood waters of the Upper Klamath lake in three normally dry lake beds adjacent to Klamath lake re cently were announced by California Oregon Power com pany officials. The program would involve pumping with- dump power by a reversible turbine gen erator through tunnels to a maximum height of 260 feet and a total storage capacity of 1,275,000 acre feet of wa ter. Copco said this stored water could, in time of need, be re turned through the same sys tem to the lake, developing peak power and would then be available for multiple use. Use of the surface water in the upper Klamath basin has been designated for do mestic use, irrigation, recre ation, industrial, power, and other uses, in that order. The three lakes are design ed to be "beautiful, excellent for fishing, boating, swim ming and camping." To pri vate owners of property in the Round Lake area, offi cials said consummation of Copco's storage program is probably 10 years away and the company is not seeking to purchase any land in the lake drainage area at this time. Military Not What It Used To Be, Says Sergeant, 71 Los Angeles - IUPD - Things aren't what they used to be in the armed forces, accord ing to the oldest man in the United States Air Force. M. Sgt. George J. (Pop) Hunt, who will retire from the service Wednesday at the age of 71, said the fighting men of today lack the disci pline of soldiers of the past. "The young men of today don't have it as we had it," said the gray-thatched Hunt. "There's a lot more monkey business. Why if we did any of the things they do now we would have been whipped right on the spot." Hunt, who re-entered the service after a five-year stretch in the Army during World War I, is in Los An geles for guest appearances on several television shows. He'll return to Bergstrom Air Force . base in Austin, Tox., on Wednesday where he'll officially retire from uniform for good. At least he said it will be final. Once before he quit the sefvice for civilian life. That was in 1920 when he retired from Gen. John Pershing's famous American expedition ary force as a first lieutenant. He went to work as a con struction engineer, but the call of duty was too strong, "and after Pearl Harbor he signed on with the Army. .He enlisted as a private 'rather than return as an of ficer because he remembered the problems he had running out of money while he was a lieutenant. . Hunt, who will live with a niece at Denver and do youth work after his retirement, Havana - IUPD - Premier Fidel Castro's government held marriage ceremonies Sat urday for 5,000 couples who have been . living together. The ceremonies, sponsored by the' justice department, were part of a government pro gram to legalize common-law marriages or cohabitation arrangements. said that the men of today's services are much better edu cated than those of the past, but added that they- need to be trained for every job and role. Paraglider Studied For Astronaut Use Washington - (Science Serv ice) Astronauts could glide back to earth on a flexible "paraglider," a cross between a parachute and a glider, stu dies reported to the National Aeronautics and Space admin istration show. The glider is so simple it looks like something a boy might devise to glide off a garage roof; a flexible wing with rigid leading edges. A space capsule with an astro naut inside could be suspend ed below the glider NASA has been looking for a low-weight device to slow the speed of re-entry so that a space capsule does not burn up from air friction. The par aglider is light and could re main compactly folded until needed. Research has shown that maximum re-entry tempera tures could be held as low as 1,500 degree Fahrenheit by the paraglider. A paraglider of a nonpor ous material such as alumin um alloy would slow re-entry much better than a conven tional parachute at supersonic speeds, wind tunnel tests dem onstrated. At these speeds, parachutes exhibit a pumping action that makes them bounce their cargo dangerous ly. The research was conduct ed at the Langley Research center at Langley Field, Va., by Francis M. Rogallo, John G. Lowry, Delwin R. Croom and Robert T. Taylor. They re port that several methods of packing and deploying . the paraglider have been success fully demonstrated. Porter, Other Congressmen Attempt to End Segregation At Capitol Amusement Park By YVONNE FRANKLIN Mail Tribune Washington Bureau Washington - (Special) -Rep. Charles Porter led a small band of determined congressmen in an attempt to scale the wall of segregation at a local amusement park last week. The wall wasn't quite breached, but, with hardly a verbal shot fired, the management opened up a slit in the battlements for future peace negotiations. After announcing on Aug. 15 that he intended to dem onstrate support of the young people who have been picket ing Glen Echo park since June 30, Porter picked up support from three fellow Democrats (two of, them Ne groes: Adnm Clayton Powell, N.Y., and Chas. C. Diggs of Mich.), Byron Johnson of Colo, and Republican Sey mour Halpern of New York. The five showed up at 7:30 one night, borrowed signs from the regular picketers, and marched around the park ing lot entrance to the amuse ment park. After 30 minutes, they joined other pickets at the park's main entrance. There they shook hands with the 50 young people, whiie and colored, who were quiet ly marching. They then enter ed the office of the young manager of the park to dis cuss the possibility of an end to the racial discrimination which bars Negroes. Glen Echo is a large amuse ment park, with swimming pool, to which white Wash ingtonians, Marylanders and Virginians repair on a sum mer's day or night. Contrary to the public practice in the District, which has gradually integrated all public swim ming pools, theaters, restau rants and schools over the past 10 years, Maryland has only token integration. The swimming pool is thought to be the sticking point at Glen Echo; here white District residents can bring their children if they don't want to go to an integrated pool in Washington. Northern Virginia, where many district government workers and congressmen live (as well as suburban Mary land), only recently was the scene of sit-in demonstrations at drug stores. There the young people involved scored a victory in that shortly after they began sitting down at lunch counters in a mute re quest for service, and after meeting with the manage ment of several large chains, they were permitted to begin eating at the counters. Maryland and Virginia beaches and amusement parks along the Chesapeake Bay are generally segregated, and the Capitol has been embarrassed by racial incidents in recent months involving brown-skinned foreign visitors, who have innocently attempted to go to the beach. One large Mary land state beach is integrated. Beach property is generally in private hands. At Glen Echo, company hired private policemen, on hand to keep order, and to ar rest any Negro who trespass ed,, said there have been 15 arrests so far - Negroes who crossed the property line and tried to make a phone call, or buy a ticket, or who sat on a merry-go-round. The demonstrators are most ly young, there are a few youngish parents with small children also placarded. One little 8-year-old on her way home at 8:30, had marched with her parents since the picketing began on June 30. She was very tired, but her parents had made her under stand what it was all about. After the meeting with the manager, Porter, who was spokesman, said that the man- Rotary Needs YOUR Help ill The Medford Rotary Club, cooperating with the American Field Service, sponsors a boy or girl from another country for a full year at Medford High School. This fine program, part of a nation-wide movement to foster world understanding, is financed in part by an annual sale of used suits. That is why Rotary asks YOU to contribute one or more man's used suit, top coat or slacks for the . . . . USED SUIT' SALE September 9 and 10 RED CROSS BUILDING MEDFORD O Please help us by giving that seldom worn article of clothing to your cleaner now. Thank you! . . -MEDFORD ROTARY CLUB MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE ager had promised to try to arrange a meeting with the owners, who were in Florida, because they were responsible for the racial admission pol icy. Asked how and why he got involved in the picketing. Por ter explained that just before Congress adjourned, on June 25 he wrote to his colleagues in the House, urging them as residents of the nation's Capi tol and environs to join with him in a statement of sympa thy for the sit-in demonstrations. The passive . resistance movement called the sit-in has spread from the deep south throughout the eastern seaboard and toward the end of June young people started sitting down at lunch counters in drugstores across the Poto mac in northern Virginia They quietly read books and remained unprovoked as seg regationists poured ink in their pockets and burned them with cigarette ends and drop ped lighted matches in their pockets. Seventeen congressmen joined Porter in supporting the sit-in demonstrations. Rep. Edith Green of Portland sign ed the statement; Reps. Al Ullman and Walter Norblad did not. When Porter returned to the capitol after the recess, dur ing which time his party and the Republican party both wrote strong civil rights planks at their conventions, the congressman thought it time for action by leaders in the congress. He wondered why they weren't speaking up, especially since at Los An geles, after much hot debate, the Democrats endorsed the sit-ins. On Aug. 16, he wrote another letter to the signers of the earlier statement, and asked that they join him in lending support to the young people seeking to end discrim ination at the local amusement park. "I think you should not confirm your approval of these things to just words -j this is too often the case with platforms - a nice bunch of words everybody soon for gets," Porter said. "Thif civil rights issue was very important at Los Ange les, and I say that it is one of the most important issues we face in this country, and it goes farther back than cither party platform to our Consti tution. It has a lot to do with whether we have a peaceful world, since two-thirds of the world is colored," he contin ued. As he said afterward, "You know, the NAACP asked me to speak to their chapter here in Montgomery county and I almost said no because I was busy. This isn't an issue in my district, there are hardly 50 Negroes there; but I said to myself, " 'Charlie, what kind of a guy are you anyway? This is something you believe in.' And of course I made the speech." "This is not a casual Inter est of mine. This is a matter I deeply believe in. A politician who does these things insin cerely deserves his own re ward, said Porter. "But I believe that the best way to achieve anything is to go yourself. By sitting on the spot and negotiating, you get more accomplished than if you sit up there in an ivory tower and make pious pronounce '. Ill) : T T) :' J kJL J v .''' V..LT" 'i-iwwr. "ivtw . : - winner ir.i w jf i t l ?l k W ! 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