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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY. JUNE 4. IMS Washington Sitting on Powder Keg Of Racial Upheaval, Officials Fear DriVer ImprfWPmfrnll North of Birmingham-ll School Set Tonight The Jackson County Driver Improvement school will meet t 7 o'clock tonight in the courthouse auditorium in Med ford. The school has been meeting at Hedrick J u n icr High school during remodel ing of the auditorium. The school, sponsored by the Jackson county district and Medford municipal courts, is held each Tuesday evening, starting with the first Tues day in the month, and contin ues for four weeks. The sessions continue for two hours and include instruc tion in the Oregon Driver's manual, driver attitudes, psy chological effects, insurance, driver's age, traffic volume, defensive driving. Oregon traffic laws, motor vehicle equipment and driver license requirements. A number of films also are shown. ' Instructors are from the Medford city police and Jack son county sheriff's office. It is open to all interested persons. A 3 Editor's not: This is In second in a series of five dispatches by United Press International on the racial situation in live key north ern cities. Today, Washing ton, D. C. the nation's cap ital, is revealed to be a po tential powderkeg of racial unrest. h a v e I One-fourth of the Negro faml- i sairt nnh r v mat nasmnmuu swiwi-bc vtumiwi is Slttinfi On a real lime niuvtri iu mc suuuius iu uia- nt-a ivc un iin.vtin.a v proportionate numDers, By LOUIS CASSELS Washington - iLPC - Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N. Y ), a Negro congressman, predicted early this month that Washington will experi ence "one of the worst riots in the history of America" unless action is taken soon to relieve racial tensions. Powell is not alone in this grim appraisal of the situation in the nation's capital. Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy has Dennis the Menace 'I THOUGHT I COM)tiAT0r"to. fl!JT I MUST YMtOl LEO CVER ON 'EM IN My SLEEP.' bomb." And many other white and Negro leaders have voic-i ed similar warnings. ! A nightmarish sample of what could happen here was a brief but violent clash which took place last Thanks giving Day, following a high school championship football game in the District of Colum bia Stadium. Negro youths, partisans of the defeated team, raced through the stands beating up white spec tators. More than 300 per sons were injured before po lice could restore order. Negroes in Majority Racial tensions are a seri ous business anywhere. They are especially serious in the District of Columbia, which is the only major city in America with a Negro major ity.. Of the 800.000 persons who live in the district, about 54 per cent are Negro. It should be noted, howev er, that the District of Colum bia to day is only the "inner city" of the Washington met ropolitan area, which sprawls far into surrounding counties of Maryland and Virginia. The metropolitan area has a pop ulation of about 2 million persons, of whom 75 per cent are white and 25 per cent Negro. Greater in Schools The racial composition of the over-all metropolitan area has changed very little in the past 40 years. What has hap pened, especially during the past 10 years, is that many whites have moved into the Maryland and Virginia sub urbs, from which Negroes are excluded by a tight pattern of residential segregation. And Negroes, who once occu pied only a few sections of the inner city, now are spread throughout the district, save for ' a constantly shrinking white enclave in the extreme northwest section, between Rock Creek Park and the Vo- tomac river the! than $60 a week - real pover- racial imbalance of the Dis trict of Columbia public schools is even greater than that of its general population. About 85 per cent of the stu dents this year are Negroes. Thus the school system, de segregated by Sjprcme Court order in 1954, has been vir tually "re-segregated" by pop ulation shifts. Census studies show that 75 per cent of the Negro adults in the district have less than a high school education. One out of ten is illiterate. Bar Association To Entertain Court Oregon's supreme court moves to Medford Saturday for the annual entertainment aranged in honor of the mem bers by the Jackson County Bar association. In the group will be Chief Justice William M. McAllister, and Justices Alfred T. Good win, William C. Perry, and Arno H. Dcnccke; and F. M. bercombe, clerk of the su preme court. The Justices and Scrcombe will be accompanied by their wives. A cocktail party and dinner at the Rogue Valley Country club have been arranged for their entertainment, accord ing to A. E. Piazza, chairman of the Medford committee. ty in a city where living coots are high. Whites Fearful While frustrations and re sentments build up on one side of the color line, fear and suspicion are at work on the other side. Many Wash ington whites are terrified by the steady increase in the in ner city's Negro majority. They blame Negroes for the rising wave of assaults which have made it unsafe to walk the streets of the capital at night. Police statistics confirm that Negroes are involved in about 85 per cent of the fel ony arrests here. But they do not bear out the widespread impression that Washington has the worst crime rate o any big city. Actually, Wash- ington ranks below sew York, Chicago, at. iouis. l.us i other major cities in its over all crime rate. Washington has a unique handicap in its efforts to cope with the social problems which generate racial ten sions. 11 is the only big city in America which does not enjoy sell - government. Its laws are made and its appro priations are voted by the U.S. Congress. Southern law makers for many years have exercised a dominant influ ence in the House and Senate committees handling district affairs. Medford Man Hurt in One-Vehicle Accident Vernon Richard Wynloop, 48, of 1176'a Court St., Med iord, was reported in fair con dition in the Rogue Valley hospital following a one-car accident about 6;45 p.m. on Old Stage rd., state police re ported. Wynkoop suffered minor face lacerations and chest in juries after the car he was driving went off the road and Because white families with rolled over, police said. 11 CARDS When you care enough la send the very besi 217 E. Main St. Medtord Hill ire J9BSFQF mm 0 -TV 1 RAMBLER ALONE OFFERS ALL THESE EXTRA-VALUE FEATURES THE BEST OF BOTH: Big-car room inside; trim, gas-saving size outside. AWARD-WINNING STYLING ar,d engineer ing leadership as "Car of the Year." DOUBLE-SAFETY BRAKES stop even with damaged brake line. CERAMIC-ARMORED EXHAUST SYSTEM designed to prevent rust-out. 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