MONDAY, JANUARY 2, ml
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE.
Two Legislatures
In South Facing
Racial Issues
i t Nashville. Tenn.-fllPD-Gcor-
;gia and Louisiana are the only
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jtures In January face exten
sive work in bills dealing with
school Integration." ': . '
Southern school news re
ported Saturday the outlook
Jin the other 12 southern and
'border stateu shows "the prob
ability of a legislative letup."
; In 'an article .by Tom
'Flake, associate director of
!the Southern Education Re
porting Service (SERS), the
publication said Louisiana and
.'Georgia , lawmakers might
''take action concerning-court-bordered
integration of schools
$ in Atlanta and New Orleans.
; Court Fights
New Orleans currently Is
; engaged in court fights over
''school Integration In two of
?the city's public schools. At
lanta has been ordered to in
tegrate its schools next fall.
i The predicted letup In the
'legislatures follows a seven-
year-period during which law
makers in the 14 states have
'passed some 300 laws, resolu
tions and state constitutional
amendments "in efforts to pro
Vent, restrict or control school
desegregation."
Among these "restrictive"
measures, the article said,
were pupil placement laws,
provisions for private schools
and for tuition grants, author
ity to close schools, repeal of
compulsory attendance laws,
and penalties against organ
izations and Individuals who
advocate Integration.
The report said state leg
islative sessions scheduled for
1961 Include those in Dela
ware, Maryland, Missouri,
. Oklahoma and West Virginia,
border states; in the middle
states of Arkansas, North
Carolina, Tennessee and Tex
as, and in five deep south
slates Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana and South
Carolina.
Reasons Differ
. Flake. said the reasons for
the expected slackcrlng In leg
islative output on the segre-'
gallon-integration issue differ
somewhul by georgraphy. -
In border states which have
started to develop complete
ly "nonraclal school policies"
lawmakers "show little inclin
ation now to touch on the sub
ject,? the article said..
Further.', south', Flake re
ports,'1 appears to be largely
a matter of (1) reliance op
existing .statutes, at least for
. the time being, or (2) watchful
waiting, to see what happens
:,bcfore making further major
moves." ' ' '. i
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WIVES VISIT UN Shown during a visit to the United
Nations are the six wives of the crewmen of the RB47
downed by Russia. From left they are Mrs. Dean B.
Phillips, Inwood, N. Y.; Mrs. Eugene Posa, Santa Monica,
Calif.; Mrs. Willard G. Palm, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Mrs.
Oscar L. Goforth, Sardis, Okla.; Mrs. John McConc, Tan
anoxie, Kan.,, and Mrs. Freeman E. Olmstead, Elmira, N.Y.
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Nation's Banks See Another
Banner Earnings Year in 1961
By HENRY J. BECHTOLD
UPI Financial Editor
New York - (DPI) - With a
banner earnings year under
their belts, the nation's banks
look for at
least compar
able results in
1061.
The earn
ings picture
this year was
helped by
profits on sc
c u r 1 1 1 e s, in
contrast to the
Henry Bechtold large losses
taken by the banks on gov
ernment bonds in 1050.
Standard & Poor's said
tmnk earnings will be adverse
ly affected In the first half
by reduction in interest rales
that topk place in 1060. The
rate decline was sharp in the
field of short-term loans and!
Investments.
. A further reduction In rates
Is possible, especially if bus
iness conditions deteriorate
markedly, the stalistloal agen
cy said, but predictions of
economic Improvement in the
second , half may influence
maintenance of the current
4.5 per cent prime rate.
The average return on loans
and Investments of banks in
the first half will run behind
the like 1960 period, but the
situation should change for
the better in the second half.
Standard & Poor's also list
ed several other factors that
will have a bearing on bank
earnings in the new year. It,
noted that wages and salaries
have been increasing steadily,
but because of the more rapid
growth in operating income
they now account for about 28
per cent of operating income,
against 32 per cent in 1955.
Many banks have begun to
effect considerable savings
through the use of new equip
ment designed especially to
Increase efficiency of opera
tions. Constructive Mergers
In addition, the agency said
that mergers and extension of
operations through branching,
as is permitted by the omnibus
banking bill in New York, are
constructive from a long term
standpoint.
Despite the slow down in
business activity this year
loan volume of banks held up
well, with each class of loan
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remarkably steady.. The aver
age amount of loans ran about
6 per cent above 1059.
There probably will be
some decline in loan volume
in early 1961, but an improve
ment in business conditions
in the second half should be
accompanied by increasing
credit operations. This should
bring loan volume for the full
year close to the 1060 record.
Prisoner Can Face
Jail, But Not Dentist
Gulfport, Miss. - (UPI) -Willie
Bill Norman, 24, was
able to face the tedium of
an impending 18-monlh jail
term for burglary, but the
drilling was too much for
him,
Norman asked a deputy to
take him to a dentist Thurs
day, He settled down in the
dentist chair, took one look
at the good doctor checking
his drills, and leaped out of
the chair and through a
window.
Police were still looking
for him today.
Drivers Linked
To Suicide and
Homicide Rates
Fort yorth, Tex. - IUPD - A
study by a Texas sociologist
shows tiiat aggressive, hazard
ous drivers and people who
commit murder and suicide
have common characteristics.
The sociologist, Drl A. L.
Porterfield, is chairman of
Texas Christian university's
sociology department. The re
ported on his study in an
article for the American So
ciological Review entitled,
"Traffic Fatalities, Suicide
and Homicide."
He pointed out that automo
bile accidents kill nearly 40,
000 persons a year ' In the
United States. There must be
reasons other than "lack of
driver education, driver fa
tigue, deficiences of roads or
machines, or that the fact that
the driver 'took one for the
road,' " Dr. Porterfield said.
I . He reasoned that drivers
with little regard for their
own lives or the lives of others
have higher rates of accidents
than drivers who put a high
value on human life.
Lack of Respect
He also reasoned that his
"lack of respect for life" might
be estimated by checking the
suicide-homicide rates in a
given population area. So he
compared statistics on traffic
fatalities and suicide-homicide
rates in 60 metropolitan areas.
In nearly every area, he
found that if the suicide-homicide
rate was high, so was
the traffic fatality rate. If the
suicide-homicide rate is low,
the traffic fatality rate was
low.
"Whatever factors play a
part in the positive correlation
of suicide-homicide and acci
dent death rates, there is no
doubt that aggressive, hazard
ous driving is likely to be
characteristic of persons sim-
Ullman Said in Line
For Committee Post '
Portland -fflfD- Rep. Al Ull-
man (D-Ore.) is reported to be
in line lor a seat on the pow
erful House Ways and Means
committee which frames all
tax measures.
The Oregon Journal's Wash
ington bureau said Ullman
was "virtually certain" of ap
pointment to one of the com
mittee'i two Democratic vacancies.
Cuba Charges U.S.
Has Invasion Plans
United Nations, N.Y. - (UPB -Cuban
Foreign Minister Raul
Roa charged last night that
the United States would
launch an invasion of Cuba
"in a few hours." He demand
ed - that outgoing Security
Council Chairman Valerian
Zorin of the Soviet Union im
mediately call a meeting of
the council to hear his charges.
Zorin, council chairman for
December, wound up the last
few hours of his chairman
ship early today without call
ing the meeting. Sources said
he probably would refer Roa's
request to his successor, Omar
Loutfi of the United Arab Re
public. Roa told Zorin that the Uni
ted States was ready to start
"a direct military aggression
against the government and
people of Cuba" by "armed
groups of the United States
and the mercenaries at their
service."
(White House Press Secre
tary James Haggerty com
mented," "Nuts" when inform
ed of the Castro press charges
in Washington.)
liar to those who have suicidal
andor homicidal tendencies,"
he wrote. -
"Possibly we should begin
to check the driver's attitudes
and personality attributes as
closely as we check his ability
to steer a vehicle during a
driving test." 7
Russians Far From
Peaceful Nuclear
Power Development
London - IUPD - Russia ad
mitted Saturday its scientists
still are far from harnessing
nuclear power for general
peaceful use.
The Soviet news agency
Tass quoted the president of
the Soviet Academy of
Sciences, Aleksander Nesmey
anov, as saying "for several
decades more, carbonic fuels
oil, gas and coal - will remain
the main source of energy in
the world."
Nesmeyanov made the state
ment in an article in Satur
day's issue of the Communist
party organ Pravda.
Referring to the potential
source of energy from nuclear
transformations N e smeyanov
said "We are now only half
way on the road to solution
of this task."
Controlled Fusion
He said that obtaining con
trolled fusion was "task num
ber One" for scientists work
ing on energetics.
"It is impossible to say how
soon physicists will success
fully accomplish this task, but
its realization will be . a
s t r a tegic breakthrough," he
said. .
Nesmeyanov predicted that
once the new source of power
had been tapped there would
be development of the world's
"poor and scattered" mineral
resources. These were much
greater, he said, than the "con
centrated and rich" resources
now being worked.
Food Synthesis
He also foresaw great strides
forward in the chemical in
dustry, and automation, to be
followed by synthesis of foods
and eventually solution of the
fundamental problem of the
functioning of the live cell.
Nesmeyanov looked ahead
to world in which scienca
would become increasingly
precise.
"The generation which is
now entering school will live
and create in a much more
mathematized world," he said.
Corrected Schedule
Listed for Courses
Ashland-A corrected sched
ule for local college credit
evening classes has been an
nounced by the. general ex
tention division of the state
system of higher education.
Beginning Jan. 4, course
Ed 467, applied mental hy
giene, will meet Wednesdays.
Courses Ed 470, education of
the exceptional child, and Soc.
440, group dynamics, will
meet Tuesdays, beginning Jan,
3.
Additional information is
available by contacting the
southern3 regional office of
the general extension division,
Southern Oregon college, Ash
STUDENTS ARRESTED
Chilpancingo, Mexico -IUPD
Scores of university students
were reported under arrest or
in hiding Saturday as reinforc
ed federal troops patrolled
this tense Guerrero state capi
tal after a clash between
troops and opponents of the
state government in which at
least 12 persons were killed.
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