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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON longshore Strike Discussions Resume New York - tan - Negotia tion! in the longshoremen's strike, now in its 23rd day, resume today' following a week end recess. The dispute has crippled shipping operations from Main to Texas since Dec. 23. Going into today's meeting, there was no indication from either the International Long shoremen's association or the New York Shipping associa tion that prospects for a set tlement had improved. A dispute over wages re mains the key issue in the strike. The ILA has demand ed a 55-cent hourly package increase. The employers', top offer has been a 23-cent hour ly package) . Body of Fourth Logger Discovered Eugene - IUPD - The body of the remaining logger who died in a sudden earth and snow slide SO miles east of here Thursday has been found. The body of Thomas Bow man of Finn Rock was found late Friday. Three other log gers were found dead the day of the slide. A fifth man was rescued. Searchers dug through SO feet of mud and timber for al most two days before discov ering Bowman's body. MONDAY. JANUARY 14. 19E3 Durno Tells Sordid Side of Capital; Book on Subject By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington - (Special)-In his farewell newsletter, for mer Congressman Edwin R, Durno of Med- ford told of one of the sor did sides of life in the na tion's capital t h e criminal v i o 1 e n c e which breaks out daily in the form of robbery, rape and other forms of assault upon innocent victims. . While this is not unusual in the big cities of any coun try, Americans like to think their capital city should be an example of the best- in a free society' rather than be stained with the worst. But secretaries of congressmen, leaving their offices on Cap itol Hill, even one kneeling alone in a nearby church, have been assaulted within a few blocks of the Capitol. "The overwhelming major ity committing the crimes are Negro youths in their teens or early twenties," Dr. Durno reported. He didn't attempt tq an alyze the root causes of this violence, but he suggested that some foreign aid money should be ' diverted to deal with urban problems such as education and recreational fa cilities. . A new book, "Dusk at the Mountain," by Haynes John son, is a vastly illuminating study of the ugly internal dis ease of our society which few white people clearly compre- h e n d. Criminal violence, which many fear and con demn, is only its most evi dent symptom. From out of the Southern deltas and hills, nearly 1,500, 000 Negros migrated to the North and the Western states during the 1950s in search of greater opportunity. Few of them have found ii, even in modest degree. What have they found? Johnson, an able editor on the Washington Star, talked with countless Negroes for many months to get the an swer to this question. H i s brilliant and penetrating syn thesis of many comments pro vides a vividly unforgettable portrait. Because Washington is "the first stop across the bridge" from Dixie, it has long had a large Negro population. But the 1960 census revealed that it had become the first major city in the nation with more Negroes (411,737) than whites (345.263), not counting t h e Maryland and Virginia sub urbs to which thousands of whites moved and where Negroes are virtually exclud ed by segregated housing. Pays Higher Price Besides exclusion from new er neighborhoods, Negroes are victims of the "two-price sys- THE WEEK IN CALIFORNIA Governor Brown Takes Office, Outlines Progress Blueprint By United Prtss Internatoinal ' Gov. Edmund G. Brown took office last week as Cal ifornia's first iwo-term Demo cratic governor of the century and outlined a far-reaching "blueprint for progress" to help the nation's most popu lous state meet its many chal lenges. Sounding the keynote of his second four-year term, the 57-year-old Democrat proposed a sweeping legislative program covering education, crime, taxes, highway safety, civil rights and government reor ganization. Brown, speaking at his in augural ceremony just after the heavily Democratic legis lature had convened, pledged to make education his top pri ority. Brown also said he.woud later propose a budget - es timated by most observers to be close to the $3 million mark - which will be bal anced and call for no new or higher taxes. 1 In the field of crime, Brown, an avowed opponent of cap ital punishment, asl:ed the Legislature to consider a mor atorium on the death penalty. In place of the gas chamber, Brown asked for life sentence without the possibility of pa role. And this issue shaped up as one of the most contro versial before the lawmakers. Also during the week, Brown opened an attack on automobile traffic fatalities with a bill to require instal lation of seat belts in all new cars. Other bills affecting chil dren, the unemployed, the state supreme court and law breakers were introduced as the legislature got town to business. Brown delivered his inau gural address on the west por tico of the capitol before a crowd estimated at ",000 per sons. Later, Frank Sinatra and the "clan" from Holly wood inaugurated Brown in their own way with songs, jokes and quips at a special formal dress party. The new legislature was controlled by the Democrats with margins of 52-28 In the Assembly and 27-13 In the Senate. There were 34 new members in the lower house and nine freshman senators. Elsewhere, there were these developments: Keys: Two ex-convicts were arrested and charged with manufacturing keys to San Francisco parking meters and clling the keys to teen-aged boys. Taken into custody were Clarence A. Hanson, 34. and David Wiggins, 39, both of Sacramento. San Francisco police said the keys, each of which would open a thousand meters, were sold for between $15 and $50 apiece. Da Kaplanyi The acid mur der trial of Dr. Geza de Kap lany, a Hungarian-born phy sician, got underway In San Jose with selection of a Jury. The defendant Is charged with torturing his bride of five weeks. Hajna, 25, wit;, a knife and acid In their San Jose apartment Aug. 28. She died a little more than a month later In a San Francisco hos pital The former Hungarian freedom fighter pleaded inno cent by reason of insanity. But his defense attorney was considering a plea of guilty for his client, in hope he could be declared innocent by reason of insanity. Druet: The U.S. Food and i Drug Administration (FDA) was accused of ignoring the intent of Congress by issuing new rules which would allow Americans to be u.oed as med ical "guinea pigs" without thejr knowledge or consent. The charge was made by the National Health Federation, a private non-profit group with headquarters in Monro via, at the conclusion of its eighth annual convention in Long Beach. The federation criticized new FDA rules and said they would not protect patients. Skybolii Sir Arth r Har vey, chairman of the British parliament's defense commit tee, flew to Washington from Santa Monica to confer with Pentagon officials in hopes "someihing , could be sal vaged" from the scrapped Skybolt, missile project. Har vey met with Donald Douglas Jr.; president of Douglas Air craft Company, prime con tractors for Skybolt, and ap peared confident something from the project' could be saved. The U.S. has decided to cancel the Skybolt program and furnish Britain with Pol aris missiles instead, the switch has threatened thous ands of jobs in California. NCAA: Delegates to the 57th annual National Collegi ate Athletic association (NCAA) convention looked to Gen. Douglas MacArthur for a solution to the bitter fight for control of amateur ath letics in the United States. The three-day convention of the NCAA was held in Los Angeles with the dispute be tween the Amateur Athletic Union and the NCAA-sponsored sports federations having virtually excluded all other major business. MacArthur, at President Kennedy's re quest, has agreed to head an arbitration panel which will try to iron out the dispute between the two factions over control of athletic events. Powell: Actor - producer Dick Powell left most of his million-dollar estate to his wife, actress June Allyson, and their two children. Terms of his will, filed for probate in Los Angeles, disclosed Powell's estate was "in ex cess of $1 million." Powell died of cancer Jan. 2. tern." reports the author. Whether an ex-sharecropper or a Ph. D., the Negro has to pay a higher price than the white for comparable housing it he can get comparable housing. Because the demand exceeds the supply, landlords and real estate operators get their inflated price. "The two-price system ex ists because of one principal reason: white men do not want to live with Negroes," asserts Johnson, chiefly be cause they mistakenly believe that all Negroes make unde sirable neighbors. . Many desirable neighbor hoods have opened to Negroes by the migration of . whites to new suburban develop ments, but the Negro has to have money to buy his way out of the slums. For those who have succeeded in busi ness and professions, this is no problem. Hence, Washing ton has a number of attractive neighborhoods populated by more privileged middle class Negro families, as well as some rich ones, many college graduates. But the violence is spawn ed in the slums, which are occupied by illiterate or poor ly educated colored folk who have left the South more re cently. Slum area schools are over-crowded, and the young sters have a poor home en vironment in which to ad vance scholastically. Buying their way out of over-priced acquires that knowledge sim tenements is virtually impos-1 P'y by being born a Negro sible. Labor unions prevent their admission to apprentice ship programs, the main gate way to skilled, belter paying jobs. So many Negroes are marked for a lifetime of un skilled labor, of which there is an increasing oversupply, causing recurring unemploy ment. Most Negroes recognize that they are victims of systematic discrimination, reports John son, and most of all the Ne groes resent the Man, (heir pet term for white authority. The Man is the landlord who evicts them when they can't make their inflated rent. The Man is the merchant who mis leads them with cheap, over priced merchandise on "easy" credit terms. The Man is the employer or union official who gives them the run around when they try to ad vance beyond the pick and shovel gang. The Man is the fellow who takes the few bucks left for a bottle of cheap booze, which offers a magic carpet ride for a few hours of escape from the Man's restrictive world, Symbol of- Authority The agent or symbol of the Man's force and authority is the policeman. Johnson says: "Hostility toward policemen is almost an ingrained habit among these Negroes. It does not have to be taught. One in a slum environment.' When the House District committee periodically "inves tigatcs" crime here, its solu tion, dictated by Southern congressmen, is predictably ir relevant hire more cops and police dogs. Because' Washington lacks self-government, and is dependent on Congress, a handful of Dixie lawmakers appear determined to aggravate the city's racial strains as "proof" that inte gration is unworkable. While this is the uniquely Washington twist of "Dusk at the Mountain," its penetrat ing message in substance is this: the South is exporting its "Negro problem" to the North and West where many whites are reacting unhelp fully with fear and apprehen sion, some harmfully with cruel results, so that the plac id colored minority of yester year is developing within it a new element which is dem onstrating bitter hostility against authority by means of criminal violence. The message of Johnson's remarkable book should be j carried to every growing city where whites must recognize that the same conditions he describes in Washington may happen there unless they cre atively prepare to help eradi cate this social cancer in what we like to call a free society. Young Idaho Skier Found by Patrol Bend - (UPI' - A 15-year-old skier from McCall, Idaho, wjs found on the slopes of Mt. Bachelor in Central Oregon early Sunday by the Ski Patrol. Keith Bcauheir was report ed missing about 9 p.m. Sat urday when he failed lo re turn to his Bend hutel room. The patrol found the youth uninjured, but cold, tired and hungry, about 1:50 a.m. on the Sparks Lake side of the moun tain. Temperature in the area dropped to nearly zero during the night. McKee Ranch House Burns A 3 Applegate Valley A five room frame house at the old Amos McKee ranch, Upper Applegate rd., burned to ;he ground about noon yesterday. The home was owned by Mor ris Byrne, turkey grower here, and was rented to an employee and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Calhoun, who came here from Oklahoma in No vember. Some items of clothing and bedding and a heating stove were saved. The fire, which started in the atlic, was discovered by Mrs. Byrne's nephew, Ronnie Snopl, who was driving by and assisted the family in sav ing household items. The house was built by lh the late Amos McKee 44 yean ago and contained heavy tim bers, a portion of siding and three plate glass doors from the old St. Mary's academy in Jacksonville. The Calhoun family will re main at the same location ill a trailer home. Alcoholics Anonymous, founded 25 years ago, now has more than 8,500 chapters in 82 countries. Its officials esti mate that about 300,000 alco holics have been "saved" by the organization. THOMAS L GOFF, M.S. W. Psychiatric Social Worker' Announces The Establishment of An INDIVIDUAL and MARITAL COUNSELING SERVICE 410 Medical Center Building, Medford, Ore. 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