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Vancouver BC NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 14, 1951 (Wedneiday) Roy J. Rogers, the peren nial harbinger of spring in Jackson county, will arrive here Friday to begin prepara tions tor his frost warning service to orchardists. Fire, possibly starting from a carelessly thrown cigarette, did several hundred dollars worth of damage last night to the historic Jacksonville building now housing Taylor's Drug store. 20 YEARS AGO March 14, 1941 (Friday) Medford led the entire Pa cific northwest in tha percent age of gain in residential con struction during February of this year compared to the nmn mnnfh n venr affOj .'. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge rot ' column: - j Ben son Frost paid his first visit of the year to the valley this a.m. He caught a number of the Older Girls with their lace curtains washed, and orchard ists ready for him." 30 YEARS AGO March 14, 1931 (Saturday) Two Medford youths have been named to offices in the state Epworth league, which is holding a convention here. . County relief road jobs will end next week. 40 YEARS AGO March 14, 1921 (Monday) : E. O. McCormlck," vice president of the Southern Pa cific railroad, was a Medford visitor this past week end. A group is being formed here to tour Alaska this sum' mer. 50 YEARS AGO March 14, 1911 (Tuesday) The Medford post office led all other post offices in the PRciflc northwest in the per centage increase of Its bust- ncss over the last five years; It was 33 per cent. The county court is study' Ing the possibility of issuing bonds for county highway construction. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ran correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Which of these Is part of a sarncss: tripods, trices, traces, triolets? 2. For 23 years May, 1795, to July, 1818) the American Flag had more than thirteen stripes; how many stripes did it have? 3. Docs the number of points on the antlers of a deer give a reliable Indication of the animal's age? 4. In which South Amerl can country is the city of Lima? 5, What color is used for printing the back of the $1.00 U.S. Sliver Certificate? ! 6. Is Ecuador on the eastern or western const of South America? . 7. Where is the Eustaccan tube? ; 8. Which Is more brittle, cast or wrought iron? 9. Is Hamilton the capital of Jamaica, Bermuda, the Ba hamas or Puerto Rica? 10. Was Luther Burbank most famous as an actor, poet, plant breeder or author? Answers: 1, Tracts. 2. Flf leen. 3, No. 4. Paru. 3. Gretn. 6, Western. 7. Connects the ar and the pharynx. 8, Cast Iron. 9. Bermuda. 10. Plant breeder. Durno Unifies Opinion In scuttling the Dunes session of Congress, Hep. bciwin uurno nas aone more to unify opinion behind the proposal than i -e Ia J nave any 01 us auvucaies. Instead of just attacking the plan as an in vasion nf nrivato nrnnertv or as unnecessary in view of the present recreational development of the area, he contended the dunes seashore doesn't possess the scenic grandeur to warrant federal park status. CAY what you will about don t say it lacks scenic grandeur. Mitonai opinion, whether it favored the park or no, has iiimnerl to the defense of the state's beautv. The Coos Bay World says of mm to ne more temperate ana logical in nis op position than to brand us or our Oregon Coast unworthy." We hoiift Ren. Durno cets an onnortunitv to visit some of the national parks in the Eastern half of the United States while he is serving in Washington, D.C. If he does, he won't be nearly as willing to condemn Oregon's coastline as be ing "unworthy" of national park status. Oregon Statesman. American Guerrilla warfare, Webster informs, is "An irregular war by independent bands." It is a technique that has been United States military since the days 01 the old frontier. Appropriately a more than casual concern ot President John r . Kennedy's new frontier. As evidence, the rentagon announced on March 8 that the head Branch at Ft.-Bragg, N.C., Col. William P. Yar- brough, was being raised a rank to Brigadier General, And the administration authorized a 500-man increase in the strength of our 1800 man guerrilla and counter-guerrilla forces. The new emphasis on flect increased concern for the worsening situa tion in -Laos, where the Communist Patnet Lao forces have operated up until recently chiefly as irregulars. News reports indicate that this concern may be tardy. ; The rebels are now massive supplies of relatively heavy weapons, and tne artillery or iuo mm type is not consistent with the usual concept, of guerrilla warfare. On the other side, the monsoon season is now at hand in Laos, and the rains guerrilla tactics. THE Kennedy administration has shown a new lnfovoof in mnnnrl wjavfova in oronorol AA'Vlllo denying a leaked story m emphasis from nuclear ons, Secretary of State affirmatively mentioned non-nuclear aspects" of And the general suspicion in Washington was that the leak was an Air Force "extremist" move to forestall an Army build up. The N.Y. Times on March 2 carried a dispatch about an Army study recommending combat-ready units deploy ed to "toward areas of the tree world" which was supposed to have found favor with the new regime. As for guerrilla lighting, the semi-onicial macazine Armv has begun nublishing a three- part abridgment of a manual on the subject by Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Fidel Castro's field com mander during the successful Cuban revolution. And this is no dull technical publication, but, as described by Mark S. Watson, military corres' pondent of the Baltimore Sun, "a brilliantly rea- soned and highly readable work on how and where and wnen to organize secret guerrilla forces, and then to employ them with maximum effectiveness for destroying order. A RMY special forces "been given instruction and training in irreg ular fighting as have Marines but most of it has been sporadic and not War II Tank Destroyers, for example, were given courses in "dirty" fighting and pioneer tactics which proved largely useless once .they were blooded. More effective was training given ranger and air-borne forces. But for the most part, Americans have con sidered guerrillas only an adjunct of "legitimate" troops. Now in Bavaria as well as at Ft. Bragg the toughest kind of "special forces" are being drilled in irregular tactics. For good reason : Moscow has translated Che Guevara's manual into several languages. Red China is furtively pushing Mao Tse-tung's equally brilliant book on tne same subject, in translation, in Latin America. And Fidel Castro makes no secret of his determination to export Cuba's brand of revolution to disturbed nations in the Western Hemisphere. E.R.R. Nixon Resumes Practice of Law Los Angeles - IWIl - Private citizen Richard M. Nixon goes to work ns an attorney today for the first time in 20 years, planning to leave plenty ot time to the business of poll tics. The defeated presidential candidate Monday Joined the Los Angeles law firm of Ad ams, Duque it llazrltlnc. "Actually, the most profit able thing I could have shrdl able thing I could do was set up my own law firm," Nixon snld " but that would take a commitment of time I was not willing to make." Ht said hi deflnetly would Park proposal for this Oregon's coastline, but Durno, "We do expect Guerrillas largely neglected by the enough, it is becoming of the Special Warfare guerrilla war may re supposed to be receiving would favor Communist purporting a switch-over to conventional weap Dean Rusk on Feb. 28 'strengthening of . . . defense. have from time to time comoat-proved. world open a separate office from which to operate his political affairs and stressed that he will scrupulously avoid ped dling his influence to clients of the firm. "I will not take any mat ters using my Influence on' a government department to get something for a client," he said. Two local registrants of Lo cal Board No. 17, Medford, were recently Inducted into the Armed Forces at Portland. Inducted were Michael O. Stearns, Medford, and Larry M. Perkins, Roseburg. Dennis the Menace 'Hl.TOMMY! WE'RE GONNA Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a nen name or iniial for publication Is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensaton. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words .The letters printed in his column do not necessarily represent the views of the paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Expresses Appreciation To the Editor: We want to express our sincere appreci ation to our friends, acquain tances and the many people we have never had the pleas ure of meeting for their gifts of clothing, food and the many other things that makes life so worth while. We want to especially thank the . good friends who took time out to solicit and gather all this in the good old fash ioned way, when sudden dis truction came and fire took our home. ' Greg Scarborough and family. Route 2, Box 195 Central Point, Ore. Thank Lions Club To the Editor: Dear Lions club: I don't know how to thank you enough for what you people have done for me, At any rate I thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for the eye-glasses you people bought for me. Last Monday night by an accident 1 broke my eye glasses into two pieces. Being pretty near-sighted I have been much careful to my gla ses since these glasses meant my two eyes, especially as a student. The very next day I didn't know what to do, since 1 was completely broke and with out glasses I could not go to classes. But fortunately you people arranged everything, and I could go to doctor's and get a new one within a few days. I'm really grateful for you people's kindness. Here I thank again to all the members of the Lions club In Medford and personally to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Shoop who recommended me at the Lions club. In Suck Bak Korean student at SOC Ashland, Ore. Where There's Smoke To the Editor: O, for Pete's sake, you've done gone and left the Star Gazer's Daily Guide outta Friday's Tribune! How in the dickens Is my hus band going to find his to morrows activity doings? Generally speaking, I know that I don't intend to be very active nohow regardless of any stars. It's cloudy now; no stars in sight, and I never learned to read 'em. I never even ask what the weather Is; I simply look outta the window. If it is too dark, I listen to the weather man and believe what he doesn't. As for my tomorrows: The Bible tells us we aren't sup posed to know what's cook ing ahead of time. Who cares? I don't. I just read a communica tion entitled "Be Informed." As it happens I am, I've not only traveled over Mexico, I've worked In a factory with Mexicans and know many of them personally, and I'm nil for Mildred Engninn. She, too, has seen them work; I know Mildred personally. Know that Mexican song that has a line that says, "When my mother looks for me, I'm sle-eping In the 'yeard'?" Well, he is, and with his siunbiaro pulled down over his nose. That ombre runs true to form. I stayed a while at a natural gas plant where both Americans and Mexicans were hired. The American men had calloused palms, while Isau ro's and Pedro's were soft as a child's. Try buying cheap clothing, cheap labor or cheap anything and you'll get exactly what you pay for. There are good people In any and every country and I have personal friends in Mexi co, but I've worked in a fac tory among all sorts of hu mans and I've yet to see one Mexican who can do the work RECEIVISG BORROW SWtMONW: of three Americans. I still say "Hire local help and have your fruit handled carefully." Last week I met a woman who took a cigarette out of her mouth long enough to say, "Soon they'll be lighting those sickening smudge pots again." Just then, I got smoked but I'd rather have faced a smudge pot, for they bring fruit. Yep, where there's smoke there's fi-er "humans." Pearl F. Spackman, P.O. Box 33 Jacksonville, Ore. Abbreviated Excerpts To the Editor: Answering "Bishop Pike's Views" (your editorial March 2) I present abbreviated excerpts from an article "Is The Bible True?" by my father. Peace is recognized today as the world's greatest need. He who could banish war from the earth would be ac counted the greatest benefac tor of mankind that ever liv ed. The Bible would do this if men would accept and prac tice Us teachings. Matt. 5:44 Matt. 7:12. The supernatural source of the Bible Is attested by its possession of supernatural power a power that reach es and changes the human heart, that transforms char acter, that gives to the indi vidual a new creation. Through the" presentation of its message in the darkest strongholds of heaUicn savag ery, whole tribes have been lifted from the lowest depths of physical and mental degra dation and changed into mor ally upright, sober, studious and Industrious people. Try to convince one thus rescued from heathenism that the Bi ble is anything less than the Word of God. The Bible is the only book in which history was written in advance. The prophecy of Daniel 2 gives an outline of the political history of the world from the days of the first king of Babylon to the end of time. Compare its statements with secular his tory and note its unerring ac curacy, Unlike any other book, the Bible Is the product of many different writers, spanning In time of Its production a per iod of more than 15 centur ies, yet its 66 books consti tute one harmonious whole. Christ and His divine plan-of salvation are the central themes from Genesis to Rev elation. The Bible differs from all other books in that it posses ses the quality of being al ways up to date. Compare our dally news with such texts as Matt. 24:7, Luke 21: 25, 26, 2 Tim. 3: 1-5. Were the Bible of human origin it would not be today, 19 centur ies after Its last chapter was written, the world's best sel ler. The Bible alone gives an adequate explanation of the sudden and stupendous change that has swept over the world In recent times, summed up in the word "speed" (Dan. 12: 4, Nahum 2: 3, 4) and of present world conditions resulting from the emergence of the smaller na tions ("Let the heathen be wakencd"-"let the weak say I am strong," Joel 3: 9-14). It is the day of God's prepar ation. The gospel message is go ing swiftly to the remotest parts of the inhabited earth, in preparation for the great est event of all time - the second coming of Christ. The direct fulfillment of Bible prophecy, on a world wide scale, testifies today that this book is not a product of man, but the work of God. Dorothy Swan L. B. Star Route, Box 53, Eagle Point, Ore. MLUfUnu mail, irtiouiic, Mbui wi; onb Matter of Fact ON THE RAZOR'S EDGE Washington The past week's most important and in dicative American events took place behind closed doors. On Thursday, at an unan nounced White House confer ence, P r e s i- dent Kennedy approveda long series of pre parations Alsop for hard ac tion to prevent Laos from be ing absorbed into the Com munist .bloc. The occasion of the confer ence was the return for con sultation of the U.S.- Com mander of the Pacific, Adm Felt. With the exception of the Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who had to send a rep resentative, virtually all the members of the Kennedy Ad ministration's defense - and- foreign high command were present at this cruicial meet ing, which lasted for several hours. Some of the decisions taken. such as the decision that It was urgent to provide the non- Communist forces in Laos with better means of trans port and internal communica tion, can be counted on to pro duce immediate, open results, Other decisions, , calling for practical preparations for mucn graver ana sterner ac- Injected Into Scene To the Editor: Robert J. Howard is Improving. The acid into which he had been dipping his pen in recent months appears to have been diluted somewhat. Perhaps he'll soon learn to use ordi nary writing fluid. And I'll say this for him: misinformed and mistaken though he often is, at least he has the courage to sign his name to his communications; whereas some people who have been sending me their fear and hate "literature" haven't had the decency to identify themselves. In Sunday's communica tions in MT, Bob said, "Mr. Jenny was asked to be more specific in his charges against hCUA (sic). He chose not to be." I hope it is purely coin cidental and without unhappy signiticance that my anony mous correspondents similar ly got HUAC's letters out of order. As to Bob's charge, I can only say that I was very spe cific when I said that the House un-American commit tee's film. "Operation Aboli tion," had been "doctored" by so piecing together parts out of context as to maKe it ap pear, falsely, that the few identifiable Communists in volved in the San Francisco affair had led those student demonstrations. These are the palpable distortions which the Committee's investigator, William Wheeler, had admit ted. Perhaps it may help Bob if I add that the few Com munists present on that oc casion were the noisy rioters who had injected themselves into the scene, but they were not the leaders of the legiti mate and peaceful student demonstrators. If this isn't clear enough to Bob, I would suggest that he enroll in the school district's adult education program and take a course in English to improve his knowledge and understanding of our langu age; perhaps also in film techniques, if available, to learn how, by appropriate splicing, film can be made to falsify the truth. An English course also might help Bob interpret rightly such terms as my ref erence to "super-patriots," a species of homo sapiens our beloved America could do well without. Plain and real patriots of the order of Wash ington, Jefferson, Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, Eisenhower, President Kennedy and hosts of others as genuine, if less well-known, we all honor and desire to emulate. Funk & Wagnalls defines "super" as "Above In degree or amount: usually denoting excess." So, Bob, that's noth ing to be proud of. It is these super-patriot boys, in or out of HUAC, who make them selves nuisances with their un-American brainwashing of other citizens who have a truer understanding of and devotion to our Bill of Rights. And that is why I proclaim again, with earnest and patri otic fervor, Let Freedom Ring! Incidentally, a patriot over In Ashland has written me: "Just a line to thank you for saying (In your letters pub lished recently In the MT) many of the things about 'HUAC that I would like to have said, and for saying them very well. If I were su perstitious, I would think It more thnn an odd coincidence that 'HUAC suggests the name of some sort of blood drenched Aztec god." And many others, in vary ing ways, have added their appreciation of my efforts to enlighten some of our misin formed and misguided fellow- citizens. Arnold Eugene Jenny Rogue Valley Manor Medford Reports From Moscow Indicate Abolution By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst From Moscow comes the re port that the Soviet Union is about to abolish censorship of aWni news dispatch es written by p ondents there. The immedi ate result may expect to be a sharp increase in the already t h o usands of Ntwiom w o r as wnicn pour daily from the Soviet capital, and a probable in crease also In the number of resident correspondents as signed to Moscow. At present, 16 American newsmen work in Moscow un der some of the severest re strictions in the world. - Censorship, a favorite wea pon of dictators against a free tion, may not produce visible results in the end. The ac tions being prepared for may later be judged to be needless. fNE must pray, in truth, that these actions prove to be needless. The details of the program for meeting the Com munist threat to Laos are not known, and they had better not be known at this tune. But. it is clear that if the program has to be put into effect, the ensuing confronta tion with the Soviets will be very grim and tense. The program can only be discussed conditionally, as above, because the Laos crisis has now become a four-ringed circus. In one ring, the anti Communist leader in Laos, Gen. Phoumi Nosavan, and the neutralist ex-prime min ister, Prince Souvanna Phou ma, have negotiated an ap parent agreement to neutral ize their country with un predictable results. In another ring, situated in the wilds of Siberia, the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Llew ellyn Thompson jr., has been talking about Laos, as well as many other problems, with Nikita S. Khrushchev-report-edly with fairly encouraging results. In still another ring, the Communist forces in Laos are mounting what could be the previously predicted major offensive aimed at clear-cut military victory-with results that are disturbing but not yet clearly known. . AS CAN be seen, the action in any single ring of this bizarre crisis-circus can either cancel out the action in the other rings, or greatly in crease its meaning. For ex ample, the upshot of the Phoumi-Souvanna and Thompson-Khrushchev talks can per haps be a status for Laos like the present status of Cam bodia. In that case, the con ference at the White House and the offensive in Laos will both come to nothing in the end. Contrariwise, if the Com munist offensive achives seri ous breakthrough in Laos, the program approved at the White House conference will assume urgent significance. The Laos crisis, so much more potentially perilous than the better publicized places and the crisis in the Congo, is in fact balancing at this moment on a razor's edge. Almost, without warning, it can take a rather hopeful or a deeply somber direction. This balancing act on a raz or's edge, is a pretty breath less business. It is not easy to think about anything but the short run results, when the future in Laos will quite certainly control the future of South East Asia and may also involve choice between peace and war. For the long run, none-the-less, the strictly in dicative character of the While House conference on Laos may prove to be its best remembered aspect. What it indicates is the real character of President Ken nedy's approach to the appal ling problems he inherited from President Elsenhower. When Kennedy was confront ed with responsibility for American policy in Laos, in the Congo, in Cuba, and in other, similar situations which have not yet reached the stage of open, acute crisis, the new President might easily have taken refuge in the complaint: "This is a world I never made!" TN OTHER words, Kennedy could have claimed that situations had already gotten completely out of hand before he took office. And he could therefore have argued that there was nothing left to do except, for Instance, to adopt the British policy of politely concealed surrender in Laos. Kennedy would not have been human if he had not been tempted to take this comfortable, politically easy course. How much he was tempted, none can say. At any rate, he temporized for a while, resorting to such de vices as his proposal to make Malaya. Burma and Cambodia responsible for future neu- of News Censorship Dress, has existed in Russia sinpf the davs of the czars. Its abolition now would be a mark of growing confidence among Soviet leaders, begin ning with Nikita Khrushchev. and recognition of the fact that even the strictest censor ship seldom succeeds In sup pressing news for long. Dean of the American cor respondents in Moscow is UPI's Henry Shapiro who has been battling Soviet censor ship for more than 25 years. Shapiro was the first of the foreign correspondents in Moscow to break through the censorship wall and report the death of Joseph Stalin In 1953, and his notable dis patches before and since may have been among the factors leading to the decision that in the long run censorship is a futile gesture. Shapiro foresaw the end of Moscow censorship and while on a visit to UPI's New York headquarters last fall left this memo: "The death of Salin marked the introduction of more lib eral censorship rules along West Airs Problems Of New Department Of U.S. Government By DICK WEST Washington - IUPD - There has been some talk this year of creating a new government department to do for the city dwellers what the Agri culture De partment does for the farm er. As a city dweller m y self, I view this proposal with some misgivings. I am not certain that I want to have done for me what has been done for the former. Most of the problems in a city spring from surplus pop ulation. If the government tried to handle that the way it has handled surplus farm production, it could lead to some rather involved situa tions. ' For instance, I wouldn't mind being paid for not pro- Young Democrats To Elect Delegates Delegates to attend the state Young Democratic convention will be elected Thursday, March 16, at a meeting of the Medford Young Democrats club at 8 p.m. at the Labor temple. County Clerk E. M. Madden will speak on the duties of his office. In addition to the delegates the club president Mrs. Ed McGinty, also plans to attend the state meeting.. Others planning to attend include McGinty and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Poston. Keynoter will be Gov. Grant Sawyer of Ne vada. Ticket sales for the annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner to be held April 15 in Medford will be discussed at the local meeting. trality of Laos. By the be ginning of last week, how ever, it was apparent that the temporizing devices could not be counted on to work, par ticularly in Laos. The result was the White House conference. It indicates that Kennedy is prepared to be' exceedingly tough, to sub mit to the harshest sort of test, in order to avert any great, potentially decisive up set in the precarious equili brium between the two world blocs. (c) 1961, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Try and pi -By BENNETT CERF- T7ROM THE CLASSIFIED SECTIONS: 1- "Wanted! An incompetent stenographer to fill in until we find a really good one." 2. "Will the upnt nilin kissed me in a Paradise Lake canoe last Saturday nighht get in touch with me immediately. Other wise I shall be compelled to marry my present fiance." 3. "Wanted! Lion tamer seeks tamer lion." 4. "Pianos moved! We are famous for the loving care we lavish on valu able Instruments. We also sell kindling wood." LYRICIZES SAM HIMMELL: "He wrecked hi. car, He lost his job, And yet throughout his life He took his troubles like a man: He blamed them on hia wife." C 0. tX Beanett Cert. Clstrlbut.4 br King Feature. SmiicaW with the elimination of tha restrictive Soviet instructions. "Restrictions were gradu-' aly relaxed, delays in trans mission reduced and balanced, objective reporting, even if critical and unflattering to the Soviet regime, became easier. More Harm Than Good "Now the Soviet authorities apparently have decided that censorship, on balance, does more harm than good and have resolved to abolish it al. together." i As with other nations prac ticing censorship, the Russians have consistently denied that it existed. It was administered under an organization known as Glavlit, meaning roughly tha Administration for Literature. Soviet officials maintained that its sole function was to hold "erring", correspondents in cheek. Correspondents still would be held accountable for their writings and a dispatch dis pleasing to officialdom could result in expulsion, even though its accuracy might ba unquestioned. ducing any more children, not producing crops. But on the other hand, I wouldn't be especially keen about plowing under the ones I've already got. Suggest Name Some of those who propos ed setting up the new agency suggested that it be called the "Department of Urban and Municipal Problems." Then they abruptly withdrew their suggestion. They did so after someone observed that the abbrevia tion for "Department of Ur ban and Municipal Problems" would be "DUMP." As you can see, the spon sors of the proposal were not in step with this age of the organization man. Had they been in step, they would have known that they were doing things backward. Nowadays, it is considered bad form to give first consid eration to a name. What you do now is start out with an abbreviation. Then you think up a name that will fit it. The "initials first" trend started, as best I can tell, about 15 years ago with the formation of a post-war relief program. Someone apparently decided that "CARE" would be a fine abbreviation for tha organization. So, after a great deal o f brain straining, they managed to come up with a name to match the abbreviation, "Co operative for American Re mittances to Europe" was tha result. Initials Stay Later the name was chang ed to "Cooperative for Ameri can Relief Everywhere." which broadened the scope of the program while preserving the original initials. Since the advent of CARE, all sorts of initialized groups have come into being. None, I suspect, was named until after it had been abbreviated. We have a medical relief ship project called "HOPE" (Health Opportunity for Peo ple Everywhere), which is not to be confused with "COPE" (Committee on Political Edu cation). Good Samaritan physicians go overseas for "MEDICO" (Medical International Coop eration Organization) and the National Council of Churches Sponsors "CROP" (Christian Rural Overseas Program). The custom of initial nam ing was confined to national organizations until last Octo ber when it reached the re gional level. That was when some people in Atlanta form ed an anti-integration group named "GUTS" (Georgians Unwilling to Surrender). Stop
