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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 29. 1962 B 7 i ''.rl.j.- CANOPY REMOVED- - itf I - -, -v White Trash New Problem In Enveloping African Nations -Rcnnovation began this week at the former Top Notch cafe, 27 South Central ave.. Medford. Stan ley D. Smith, new owner of the restaurant, said only a little remodeling work would be done, especially to the exterior, before he opened Wednesday, Aug. 29. The res taurant will be primarily a fountain-lunch cafe, and will be known as the "Sip and work Snack Friday, workmen removed the can opy on the front of the building. At various times during the day crowds gathered to watch the men dismantle the landmark. Be side remodeling the outside, the interior is to be redecorated. Smith also owns Cubby's drive-in restaurant on South Pacific high way and Stan's A and W drive-in in Ash land. (Knackstedt photo) Employment Years Shortened To 15 By CLAIRE COX United Press International New York - iliPli - The work ing life of the average Ameri can has been telescoped to a point where he is likely to have only 15 good, productive years between the completion of his education and being re garded as "too old" for ad vancement, a sociologist claims. Dr. Jesse J. Frankcl, who left a successful career in bus iness to study sociology at New York university and be come a consultant in problems of older people while still in his early 40 s, said in an in terview that it is becoming in creasingly apparent that the man over 40 loses out in the competition for success and prestige. "The peak period of earn ing power is now telescoped from both ends," he said. "The number of years of education now considered necessary in this technological age in rapid ly increasing and many more young people will be going to college. "A young man may there fore not complete his educa tion till the age. of 22, or even 24 or 25, if he needs further professional or scientific train ing. At the other end, he may begin to encounter discrimina tion against himself around the age of 40 if he should have to look for a new job. "He must therefore com press all his progress into ap proximately 15 years, instead of being able to look forward, as young men once could, to a lifetime of achievement. Our future, as it has been said, is no longer what it used to be." No Middle Age Frankel regards this as a disturbing situation because, as far as he is concerned, the classification of middle-age, regarded as the time of a man's greatest expectations, has all but vanished. This means, he said, that the un employed man over 40 now is classified "older." Employ ment discrimination against him is so prevalent that 10 states have laws protecting the civil right to work of per sons between 40 and 65. Even the now widely ac cepted retirement age of 65 should be outlawed, in Frank- el's estimation. He feels that a person should be allowed to work as long as he is able to contribute something and wants to work. In his practice as a private consultant, Frankcl has gui ded a number of idle older men and women back to earn ing livelihoods. He is ada mently opposed to volunteer work by anyone of any age. Everyone should be paid something for any work he does, Frankcl says. "Old age clubs are all right in their place," he said, "but I'd like to see persons work ing during the day and going to a club in their leisure time. The terms 'senior citizen' and 'golden age should be abol ished and the clubs for these people must be regarded as places for constructive recre ation, not adult kindergartens. "We are a work oriented society. All our basic satisfac tions in life are through work. We have 17 million older per sons whose civil right to work is being chipped away. They must be rcinlcrgrated into the community without dizzy la bels such as senior citizen and oldster. "Did you ever hear of Mrs. Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch or General Eisenhower being called senior citizens? They are regarded as useful older people and others belong in the same class." By JACK ENSOLL , United Press International ; Nairobi. Kenya - IN - This I is the story of one white ) man in the Africa the white man once ruled and now does . not. It is the story of thou sands of his kind. ; He rolled into Nairobi re- j contly at the wheel of a strange contraption. It obvi ously had been at one tim.- a half-ton farm truck. It had built-up sides of rough boards. Its front suspension wks an ingenious mass of wire and scrap metal. One rear spring was broken and the back of the vehicle bunny - hopped along the road. The back was piled high with tattered suitcases in the middle of which sat two wor ried - looking Africans and a scrawny boxer dog. The truck's gas tank had been taken from its usual position and was balanced precariously atop the driving cab. The tank was there, the overalled. deeply tanned man gravely told the Sikh traffic policeman who stopped him, for "the purposes of gravity feed." The gas pump was broken. The protesting white man was pulled in for having an unserviceable vehicle on the road. He argued it was serv iceable enough to have brought him several hundred miles from the upcountry. He was still "grounded." Exodus The Nairobi law had, in fact, interrupted just one more of many private Odys seys from the former white highlands of Kenya to South Africa. This man was a one-time British naval commander who through no fault of his own had come unstuck in the uncompromising climate of politically - emerging Ken ya. He had come to Africa aft er the war with savings ac cumulated from his pay dur ing years at sea. He had tried mining and lost his savings. He had worked as a cattle rancher. With a little money earned he had bought a sur plus landing craft, sold it for a profit on the Gulf of Zan zibar, lost that money in an other venture. Then five years ago he had gone to work in mixed farming in the Kenya highlands. Now his luck in Kenya had run out and he was heading for South Africa would pay him House Group Calls For Muslims Check Washington - H'Pli - The House Rules committee Tues day recommended that the House Committee on Un American Activities investi gate the Black Muslims. The committee on un-American activities was expected to take the advice. It plans to meet within the next few weeks to discuss plans for in vestigating the Negro sect. Fruits from the Northv move to market dependably , tirJ aufcrnated H1 railway qP""1"" loi sa(t y, V A f t, A wide variety of Northwest fruits are picked, processed and packed at their fla vorful test. Then they are rushed to refrig erator cars Ahere constant temperatures are maintained while they are speeded to Eastern markets. Electronically controiiea equipment, com munications and data processing, super vised by skilled employees, monitor each shipment. Giant turbine and diesel locomo tives keep freight rolling dependably on Union Pacific the automated rail way. UNION PACIFIC S'jprb ooJ and scentry make Doth D'rinF mrno'8b' rinr (about S84) as an arriving im migrant, put him up at a ho tel and give him time to look around for work in a land where the political and eco nomic currents still run for the white man. The chances are the for mer naval commander will not get away - now that po lice interest in his strange vehicle had betrayed his in tentions to the authorities. Citizen . Because he has been in Ken ya for more than five years, tlits man is classified as a citizen. It is difficult for him to leave, lie probably owes income tax and he cannot get out of K;ist Africa without a tax clearance certificate. 11 is chances of getting another post in a country where Afri canization has taken over are almost hopeless. He has no money and he There they cannot get work. But he has 30 pounds ! to slay. He is one of a grow ft can officially help him. unemployed. They apply for : get Though on the late side of! the 40 s, he still has the guts ing number of destitute and somi-deslitute Europeans in j Kenya who are down on their S luck and who cannot, those i days, get work in competition 1 with Africans. Their main mistake, these people will tell you, has been to remain in the colony for more than five years and be come citizens. If the ex-naval commander had turned tip in Nairobi before his five-year period was up. he would have been classified as a "distressed British subject" and shipped out - not to South Africa -but back to the United King dom. Now there is nobody who and the spirit to try to get to South Africa but bureaucracy is keeping him in a country where there is absolutely no future for him. Class Develops A small but obvious class of "poor whites" is already being created in Nairobi. It now seems about to be in creased by one, And perhaps tomorrow another . . . and yet another. "There are probably 50 or till such people in Nairobi, a Kenya newspaper noted re cently. They were generally brought here by private firms and had no reason to suspect, provided they did their jol properly, that they would not finish their working lives in Kenya. Now, due to political change which has made it de sirable to employ Africans. they have found themselves ' jobs and are met with the an- swer: 'sorry, old chap, but you know how tilings are . . .' "It is no their fault that 1 the reason for bringing them to Kenya has ceased to exist.' but it U our responsibility to them back to a place where they will be able to find work." 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