MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 29. 1962
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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
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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."
The ex-naval commander,
and all the Europeans in the
same boat, hope somebody
will act on this "responsibility."
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