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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. New Orleans 'Cheer Leaders' feel Strongly on School Integration K v. A - 1 DESTROYER CHRISTENED With detor mination in her face, Mrs. Harry D. Wort man christens the USS Barney, one of the U.S. Navy's newest class of guided missile destroyers at Camden, N.J. Recoiling from the blow, left, is Harry W. Pierce, official of the N.Y. Shipbuilding Corp. Mrs. Wort man is a great-great-great granddaughter of Commodore Joshua Barney, after whom the ship was named. (UPI Telephoto) PT Boat Will Have Part in Inaugural Parade on Jan.20 Washington - (DPI) - A PT boat carrying members of the original crew of the craft com manded by President - elect John F. Kennedy during World War II will be "float ed" down Pennsylvania ave. during the Inaugural parade Jan. 20, it h a s been an nounced. The PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat will be one of the high lights of the mammoth parade, which will wend its way from the Capitol along Pennsylva nia ave. and past the White House, where the new Frost- dent will review the marching units. , , As a young lieutenant ().g.) In the Navy during World War II, Kennedy skippered a PT boat which was rammed and sunk by a Japanese de stroyer in the Pacific. After the sinking, Kennedy, despite a severe back injury, swam three miles to an island tow ing an injured crew member to safety. Follows Inauguration More than 15,800 members of the armed forces will take part In the colorful parade, which will follow the inaugu ration, according to an an nouncement by Maj. Gen. C. K. Galley, chairman of the armed forces participation committee. Among them will be 40 marching military units, In cluding 1,000 bandsmen from all the military services. Also on display will be more than score of the most modern weapons from the nations military arsenal, including Army and Navy missiles, mod els of the Air Force's B-70 and X-15 aircraft, a half-scale model of the Navy bathyscaph Trieste (an underwater labor atory) and carrier fighter aircraft. Among the 4,823 men and women from 15 Army units participating In the parade will be 1,800 cadets from the West Point Military academy; five Navy Units totaling 4,380 members, including 3,700 mid- Prison Inmates To Lose Boots, Shoes Salem - IUPD - Marion coun ty Sheriff Denver Young says boots and shoes are out for county jail Inmates beginning today and all prisoners will be given rubber Japanese san dals. There are two reasons for the move,' he said, security and sanitation. Last summer some Inmates look off their shoes and used them to beat another prisoner. Recently a prisoner used his shoe to smash a window. The sandals, purchased in San Francisco, -will be dis tributed to inmates and their boots and shoes will be check ed and given back, to them when they are free. Some Believe Whites Deprived Of Equal Rights Editor's note: The women light ing to hold the segregation line at schools in New Orleans are des cribed by policemen controlling them as the "cheer Leaders." In the following dispatch the women, most of them housewives, voice their strong feelings about Inte gration ana t:ielr reasons for try ing to DIOCK it aespue court oraers. By CARLTON F. WILSON New Orleans - IUPD - There is nothing personal about the way Mrs. Lee Hooks Jr., feels about the policemen who are called out daily to help en force integration at the Wil liam Frantz School. She hates the job they are doing, and she is bitter about the officials who send out the Ceylon Asks Broad Mandate in Congo United Nations, N. Y. -IUPD-Ceylon Saturday called for i broader mandate from the se curity council for Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjold's effort to restore order in The Congo. Specifically, Ceylonese Am bassador Sir Claude Corea with support from Indian De fense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon, urged that the United Nations take steps to recon vene the Congolese parliament to set the troubled country in order. - This would involve the re lease of ousted leftist premier Patrice Lumumba, as demand ed by Russia, and an end to the "college of commission ers" regime headed by Congo lese strongman Col. Joseph D. Mobutu. Los Angeles - (UP1I Bob Hope has been named national chairman of Brother hood Week by the national confer- shlpmen from the U. S.jNaval ence of Christians and Jews. academy; five Marine, units numbering 1,255 men and women; 3,620 Air Force per sonnel, including 1,750 cadets from the Air Force academy; and 1,130 Coast Guardsmen, Including the cadet corps of the U., S. Coast Guard acad emy, and 600 future officers of the U. S. Merchant Marine cademy. Musical Units Named Musical units taking part will include the U. S. Mili tary academy band, the U. S. Army band, the U. S. Marine Corps band and bugle and drum corps, the U. S. Air Force band and drum and bugle corps, the U. S. Navy band,, the U. S. Naval acad emy band, Ihe U. S. Air Force academy band, the Women's Air Force band from Norton Air Force base, the Women's Army Corps band from Fort McClellan, the ROTC band from The Cltadal, Charleston, S. C, and a composite Air Na tional Guard band made up of bandsmen from the New Hampshire, California and Massachusetts Air National Guards. The Coast Guard and Merchant Marine also will provide bands to accompany their marching units. .' Laos Commander Heads Government Vientiane, Laos - IlIPD-The commander of the Laotian army took over as head of a military government In this besieged capital Saturday night as pro-Western revolu tionary forces massed on the outskirts for an expected drive to seize the city. Gen. Southone Pathamma vong read a statement to for eign diplomatic missions de claring himself president of a governing "high committee of the armed forces. The army chief said the army had been delegated "all civil and military powers" by Premier Souvanna Phou- ma Friday shortly before Sou vanna flew out of the coun try. The premier fled after failing to effect a compromise In the three cornered struggle for power among Laotian neu tralists, pro-Communists and rightists. police. But the feeling doesn't spill over to the policemen in dividually. Last week she brought them coffee in a large picnic - type vacuum jug and served it in paper cups to help ward off an early winter chill. This week the weather was balmy Her friendly act won this 29-year-old housewife and mother of two the nickname of "Mother." She is one of the "Cheer Leaders" - a group of from 40 to 60 women who gather each day to demon strate against integration at the school where a Negro first grade girl is enrolled. But there have been some incidents. Woman Throws Egg A Negro truck driver stop ped at a traffic light in front of the school Tuesday, and a white woman threw an egg at him. The egg missed the Negro's head and smashed against the roof of his cab. The man glared and drove on. The egg thrower was Mrs. Antoinette Andrews, 42, one of the "Cheer Leaders." "I don't think the niggers are equal to the whites," said Mrs. Andrews. "Their heads are too hard to learn what our children can." Mrs. Andrews has four grown children and six school age grandchildren. She has belonged to a local White Citizens Council for five years, and went to Baton Rouge last month to encour age the state legislature to fight school desegregation in New Orleans. "We are going to win -we've got to," she said in an interview. Mrs. Andrews and her hus band, a fireman, are admirers of Gov. Jimmie H. Davis. "Thank God we've got a gov ernor who is sticking with us," she said. "If all the other governors were like him, we wouldn't have integration." Opposes Church Efforts Mrs. Andrews, a full-faced woman with streaks of gray in her black hair, attends the Roman Catholic Church but says "I don't put a nickel in the box." She opposes church efforts for desegregation. She has lived in New Or leans all her life, and said "most of the niggers in this city don't want to go to an integrated school."' - ' " The other members of the "Cheer Leaders" feel the same wayij Mrs. Hooks said; "'We wouldn t have, any trouble if the mayor would leave us alone." She sent Mayor de Lesseps Morrison a telegram this week that said: "Glad to see you fell into the hands of the NAACP." (National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People). She signed the wire "an intelligent dem onstrator." '-. Mrs. Hook's husband-is an electrician "who doesn't work with niggers." Her two school age sons attend a Catholic school. She has demonstrated TILE CLEAN LOOK of action " ' Makes even the biggest ones yell "uncle!" No mistake ! The Special is till liuick with room, rule and go that makes America's finest cars take notice. Sure tlie Buick SpcciiJ saves and handles like the compacts but even the big ones arc hnril put to match its sizzle! The reason? Its exclusive 155 h.p. aluminum Fireball V-8 delivers twice the pow per pound o most compacts, mors even than many big cars. (Ami, its now aluminum transmission is the liveliest on any car!) The Special gives you Buiik room , , , more tolnl head, hip and leg room than the comparts. Buick ride, too. 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Charges Inequality "The mayor is not looking out for the interests of the white people," she said. "We don't think we are getting a fair deal." "We are not getting equal rights," Mrs. Alexander add ed, complaining about the 91 policemen who keep hecklers away from the school. Her daughter, Mrs. Marie Jenkins, 31, said her children "don't want to go to school with niggers." Jenkins is a truck driver. The family is to enroll a nine-year-old son, Ray, and an eight - year - old daughter, Kathy, in a private school for white students who formerly attended Frantz. Pointing to red paint smeared on the front porch of the Rev. Andrew Foreman, a Methodist minister who con tinues to take his daughter to Frantz, Mrs. Jenkins said: "We have been booing and hollering, but it looks like the painting is the only thing left to do." Some of the women protest ing school desegration are single, as is Miss Betty J. Clement, 26, a slim blonde. "Mixing is definitely wrong," she said. "Negro schools are newer and prettier than the ones for white stu dents, and they (Negro stu dents) will take over all the schools if we integrate." Opposes Mixed Marriage Miss Clement is opposed vehemently to interracial mar riage, and said she does not even speak to three Negroes who work as deliverymen at the office where she runs a mimeograph machine. "If all the mothers , will withdraw their children from the integrated schools we will win the battle," Miss Clement said. The crowd of "Cheer Lead ers" is only partly organized. Two of the women have formed organizations and are signing up members. Mrs. Evelyn Jahncke, a 54-year-old divorcee with no children, organized the "Southern Rescue Service." She said it is a "patriotic ladies' organization" and de signed a badge that is intend ed to look like a police badge. She sells the badges for $1.75 each. Mrs. B. J. Galliot Jr. or ganized the "Save Our Nation, ' .. . . t . . J.,., of tho SPhOOl. 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