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Port Elizabeth (Editor'! not: Thu mother in a series of ar ticles by Luke Lange, for mer Medford resident on an around the world cruise aboard the freighter, SS Friesland. Today's article is about Port Blisabeth and the Union of South Africa.) By LUKE LANGE Port Elizabeth is the indus trial supplier for most of the Union. Ford, Studcbaker, and Chrysler have large assembly plants for their autos. The units are all shipped by boat, and put together on a factory assembly line with nearly 100 per cent black labor. In all these ports the load ing and unloading is done by blacks under the supervision of a white man. While this work is going on there are probably from 50 to 75 of them aboard. When he returned to the ship, a native came running down the gangplank at full speed with a portable radio in his hand and at least 10 to 15 Dutchmen of the crew at his heels. They captured him before he reached the high wire fence surrounding the dock and returned him to the ship, along with the ra dio, which he had dropped in flight. Police Confer This episode caused quite a hassle aboard ship. Three na tive police and two while po lice conferred with the cap tain, and he had his choice of leaving a man behind to tes tify or tie the ship up until the man was tried. This, of course, would be foolish since the seaman had his radio back, and I think everyone by Naturalization Hearing Slated In County May 23 A naturalization hearing will be held in Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly's court Wednesday, May 23, accord ing to Alfred J. Urbano, dis trict director for immigration and naturalization. All petitioners will be no tified to appear at 9 a.m. for signing certificates and for other preliminary matters. Robert Duncan, speaker of the house of representatives and Democratic Congression al candidate, will speak. Invocation will L. given by the Rev. Le Roy Cox, St. Mark's Episcopp" church in Medford; presentation of can didates will be made by John Williams of the immigration and naturalizatij . service; and oath of allegiance will be administered by County Clerk Marvin Madden. To Present Corsaces Dr. Billy Blackstone will present corsages donated by the Kiwanis club. Leonard Carlson of the Medford Elks lodge will present fags to each citizen. Miss Annette Gray, teacher of naturaliza tion classes in the adult edu cation program, will present citizenship class certificates. Mrs. Shirley Collins, of the American Legion auxiliary, will give each new citizen a flag code. Mrs. Virgil Bolton, of the Daughters of Ameri can Revolution, will read a poem, and Mrs. Helen Rice, representing t h e Disabled Veterans of America, will present booklets. Refreshments will be serv ed in the courthouse audito dium by the American Le gion auxiliary. Band Boosters Set Pancake Dinner , Ashland - A band booster pancake dinner will be held at the Lincoln school cafeteria in Ashland Tuesday. May 22, from 5 to 7:30 p.m., according to Raoul Maddox. Ashland High school band director. Pancakes will be served With ham. scrambled eggs, cof fee or milk and ice cream. All the batter will be donated by Sambo's Pancake House in Medford. , Musical entertainment will be featured continuously dur ing the entire meal. Tickets can be purchased from band students. All mon ey will go into the band bene fit fund. Camper Parents To Attend Y Meeting A meeting for parents of prospective campers and YMCA staff members will be held Monday, May 21. at 7:30 p m. at the Medford YMCA. Odd Bjerke. well-known wilderness survival expert and director of the Diamond Lake camp, will explain his plans for camp this summer Fd Sapp. Applceate day camp director, will explain his procram to younger boys. A discussion period will fol. low. this time felt sorry for the native who tried to steal it. It was probably the only way he would ever hope to own one because his salary as a stevedore was 6 shillings (84 cents) for a 12-hour work day. The white officer said he would receive five lashes with a cane and be banished from any job in the city, and would have to live in the bush with his uneducated brothers. This seemed like pretty rough jus tice, but that is the way it is done in South Africa. While here, we saw another example of their strict segre gation. The morning paper told the result of a trial of a police trap that had been set. The police had been watching an attractive 18-year-old African girl who they believed to be consorting with certain white men. When the police trap was sprung and they entered the room, they found the African girl and the white man. . Police were much surprised as the white man was a mem ber of their own police force. The constable was sentenced to six months in prison with three suspended conditionally. The girl got 18 months with no suspension. Threat to Settlement This law, called the "Im morality Act," reminds you of the impossibility of en forcement in the last year or two of. prohibition in our country. From what I have seen, it is the most serious threat to a peaceful settle ment of the race problem they have all over the Union of South Africa. The Indians or Hindus, as we call them, are well edu cated, run most of the busi nesses and stores, and are quite well to do throughout the Union. They are classed as blacks and must carry a card at all times showing this clas sification. They, as well as the blacks, resent this law more than any other complaint they have with the whites. Even the whites can't agree as to the advisability of the necessity of the law, and it is the main point of argument among the whites. You can hear them on the street or in taverns argu ing heatedly. It seems every one but government officials want the law repealed. The blacks, or the colored, have no vole. The govern ment of England is recom mending that the Union of South Africa no longer be recognized, and the country to be turned over to the na tives with full independence. Look at Other Side The United Nations is for this, but when you look at the other side of it, when nearly 3 million white people built these large plantations, buildings and cities right out of a jungle and their fathers and grandfathers put every thing they had, including their lives, into building up the country, and the Dutch and the English fought the Boer War over this land, then have an organization such as the United Nations or a rulingbody body in England, who natural ly do not know, the problems like the people living here, give its decision that takes everything away from you with little or no compensation and turns it over to a group of people who, outside of a few educated members, are sav ages, you would fight for your rights as well as these people. It seems that a fair com parison would be for our Fed Merkel To Moderate Discussion Panel I Dr. A. E. Merkel, county health officer, will be modera tor of a panel discussion on mental illness and health to be given at a meeting of all interested persons at 8 p.m. Monday in the board room of the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital, according to Dr. John McLaughlin, president of the Jackson County Men tal Health association. Other participants' on the panel will include a team from Oregon State hospital in Salem with Dr. Thad Fur long and Dr. Harry Doyle, psychiatrists, and Mrs. Ger-; trude Stoltcnberg and Mrs. Nadine Nunn from the social service department. Dr. Merkel pointe.' out a report of a recent extensive study of mental illness order ed by the Congress of the United States shows that the "outstanding characteristic of mental illness is its stagger ing size." He also noted that among the recommendation! made as a result of the study was one calling for increased local re sponsibility and knowledge of the problem. In view of this, the local Mental Health asso ciation has urged as many In terested persons as possib'e hear the discussion. wh;h will include an explanation of facilities available in Ore gon. commitm.it and dis charge procedures, modern treatment method- and pro grams of prfventir. ifai-r jnu mail iniaufiL, wmrunu, wnLuuft Is Industrial Supplier eral Government in Washing ton to declare the Klamath Indian had not been treated properly and therefore south ern Oregon and northern Cal ifornia from Redding to Grants Pass would be turned back to the Indians in its en tirety forthwith. That is the decision that has been handed to the Union of .. WHY IS THE LITTLE INDIAN SMILING? Because little ol' Chief Pontiac knows that when all three cars sell so close in price . . . and the other two raise their cost factor to pay for trips and cash bonuses . . . that he can out-trade them! Pontiac isn't giv ing away anything but the best trade-in allowance for your older car. You can probably buy a Pontiac for the same difference. And you'll get a lot more car! CHEVROLET 1962 I m pa la 4-Door Sedan with 170 h.p. V-8 Engine and Heater 2914.00 Powerglide Transmission $199.10 See how close the Pontiac is priced to Chevy and Ford! And we're giving no cash or trips. So be sure to .. . as South Africa, and the Union has answered with a call for voluntary enlistment a id claim they will use force to protect their interests. You can feel a smouldering under current everywhere you go. East London Port The port of East London is much like Port Elizabeth. Be hind the docks is a large pris DEAN & 6TH AND GRAPE on for the Union of South Africa and prisoners could be seen from the ship where they were breaking up rocks and loading gravel into the box cars. There were many armed guards. We tried to take pic tures but they stopped us. We tried to go through the prison, but were not granted permission. We were informed Delivered Price CHECK THE TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE AND CHECK THE DIFFERENCE (bet you'll smile, too!) are for The it would be too dangerous, and that their worst type of criminal was shipped here and most of them would die here. We also were told they had escape tries almost daily and most of the prisoners were little mare than savages and might attack a guard, a vis itor or another prisoner at any time. free WORLDS FAIR FORD . .rr a i 1962 Galaxie 500 4-Door Sedan with 164 h.p. V-8 Engine and Heater 2921.50 Fordomatic Transmission ....$189.60.. 3iu TAYLOR MEDFORD o Union From their attitude for vis itors, as well as the refusal of any pictures and informa tion, I gathered in a conversa tion with a black taxi driver, the authorities do not want outsiders, especially a group of Americans, to get a view of prison life as run by the English in South Africa. v,-. 10 All prices quoted from Automobile we can give you PONTIAC 00. SUNDAY. MAY 20 1962 g of South Africa The beaches are wonderful in ali of the coastal cities, but one is warned to swim in the netted areas where there is no shark danger. Siftce the wea ther has been hot, we have managed to visit the beaches in every port. Since we were only in "iast London one day, we spent the rest of the time visiting the T7 ....... .. v:;'.;..: :''' PONTIAC 1962Catalina 4-Door Sedn with 267 h.p. V-8 Engine and Heater $2971.00 Hydramaric Transmission ....$231.34 Delivered $ rnce Invoice Service Co. more for your trade-in since 773-7421 Queen's Park, a large natural park with an abundance of flower anu planted flower gardens. An animal area is in the middle, where various Af rican animals graze. Lions and tigers are in pens. Mon keys followed us through tha park, jumping from trees. They were free to roam wher ever they pleased. VT 34
