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.
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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.
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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.
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