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Civil Rights Section All Races, Kennedy By YVONNE FRANKl.lv Mail Tribune Washington Bureau Washington-Attorney Gen eral Robert Kennedy assured Western Senators last week during Sen ate Commerce C o m m i ttee hearings o n the public ac commodations section of the civil rights bill that it would outlaw discrimination Fr.nklU, against Jap. anese, Chinese, Mexican and Indian citizens, and other per sons of color as well as Negroes, in places that cater to the general public. "There is a lot of discrim ination in these United States every day that doesn't neces sarily always pertain to Negroes," said Chairman War ren G. Magnuson of Washing ton State. He pointed out that the West has its problems of discrimination against Indians and Orientals, particularly. He mentioned as one example a state law in Washington which forbids a Japanese from holding property in fee. When Magnuson asken Ken nedy if the administration's civil rights bill would pro hibit discrimination against these minorities in public ac commodations such as hotels and restaurants, Kennedy said it would. The bill does not cover private clubs. Sen. Clair Engle of Cali Try and F4? By BENNETT CERF- JIMMY DURANTE recalls the night his father first sav hint acting behind the footlights. Jimmy rushed offstagi to ask his father, standing in the wings, "Well, Pop, how't ya like my work? The lather, whose name, inci dentally, was Bartolomco Durante, answered cau tiously, "Lissen, boy, let's not get in an argument." At the wedding reception of a town beauty and the champion of the local golf club, the bride created a mild sensation recently when she appeared sudden ly at the top of the stairs and threw the groom's set of new matched clubs into the outstretched arms of the euests below. At last reports, the groom hadn't gotten, them back either! Reluctantly, Mrs. Miller allowed her friend, Mrs. Jones, to take her to a new doctor in town. While the two ladies were in the waiting room, a man who was ahead of them got a sudden cramp In his leg, and when his name was called by the nurse, he limped badly as he crossed into the doctor's inner offfice. A few minutes later he emerged briskly and sailed out of the front door in fine fettle. "You see?" gloated Mrs. Jones. "Didn't X tell you he was the best doctor in this part of the country?" C 1963. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndkste f FOR CONVENIENCE I THINK GREYHOUND Convenience and Greyhound go together. More fre quent schedules, more thru-expresses, downtown to downtown service, no reservations necessary. And Greyhound goes everywhere. For convenience, GO GREYHOUND ... AND LEAVE THE DRIVING TO US. Exclusive Scenicruiser Service Ruses One i wy Dally PORTLAND EUGENE ... REDDING, CALIF. ROSF.Bl'RG ' Save 10 extra each way GREYHOUND TERMINAL 212 fornia noted that "in Los Ang eles we have the largest Mex ican city outside Mexico City, and in San Francisco the larg est Chinese community out side the Far East, and we, too, have a great many Indians." He called Los Angeles the "third most segregated city in the United States." Pertinerh Question Engle then raised a pertin ent question, because all the Pacific Coast states already have laws on the books pro hibiting discrimination in public accommodations, pub lic and private housing and in employment. "Where do we go from here?" he asked Kennedy, when we still have segre gated housing, education and employment . , . where we have the law, and yet the law somehow hasn't got the job done?" Kennedy took a long time in his reply, tracing back to some of the roots of the prob lem, which he said would be with us a long time. Educa tion for employment seemed to be the key solution sug gested by him. "I don t think the passage of this law is going to get the job done," Kennedy said. "I think a lot of it goes back to education, vocational train ing and employment bas ically to employment." He said it didn t do a col ored person much good to have access to hotels and other places if he didn't have Stop Me at no extra (are. For example: Buiei One DHy wy t t 1 11 1.0! ANGELES 3 . 1H 65 t 'Z. S S OS I SACRAMENTO 3 I 8.1J t 1 4.H0I SAN FRANCISCO 3 MS I S 3.41SAN DIEGO 1 HJ.OJ with a round trip ticket' NO. BARTLETT 772-2203 Includes Declares enough money to feed his children. He pointed to the eight mil lion Americans, mostly non white, with less than a fifth grade education, those so called "functional illiterates" who can't deal with the writ ten word in employment ap plications and want-ads. On Million Jobless Youth He stressed that there were now one million jobless youth between the ages of 16 and 22 who have dropped out of school, and he said the antici pated increase was some seven million over the next ten years of uneducated, idle youth. Kennedy also listed a few sins of the North and West, "i think there has been a great deal of hypocrisy among us from the worm as 10 hie Cnnth " h said. "We have many problems in our own communities which haven't been faced up to. "We spend so much time looking at what Bull Connor is doing in Birmingham that , haven't bothered to take the steps that deal with the problems in our own com munities . . . "A lot rests with what we nrp emne to do Wltn tne young people coming along thev don't bo down the same road their parents have gone down wnetner there will be greater oppor tiinitv for them, whether we will have a program for them at the State ana reaerai levei to make sure they stay in school. - "It is extremely important that we make it possible for vocational education train ing," Kennedy continued. "There are going to be oh tnhs over the Deriod of the next decade, but there are not going to be jobs for people who are uneducated and untrained." Engle asked what the pro posed ban on discrimination in n ii h I i c accommodations would do in states which al ready have state laws to this effect. Kennedy expiainea that if the Justice Department received a complaint, he would defer to state officials tn take enforcement action un der their own state laws. The pending bill, he lm nliorl is aimeri Drimarilv at those 16 states which have re fused to outlaw segregation in public accommodations. Tn nrlrlitinn tn the southern states these Include Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Goldwafer Decision Claimed Necessary Washington-IUPIV-Sen. John G. Tower (R-Tex.) a leading supporter of Sen. Barry Gold water, doubts that the Ari zona conservative can win the GOP presidential nomination solely by a draft movement. "He 11 have to announce his decision one way or the other by the first primary," Tower said Sunday. Tower said New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's chance for the nomination have been damaged by his divorce and remarriage. But, Tower said the "back Barry" movement was gaining momentum be fore Rocekefeller married the former Mrs. Margaretta (Hap py) Murphy. If Goldwatcr does not win the nomination, Tower said he would urge him to remain in the Senate rather than ac cept the vice presidential nomination. Missing Lakeview Child Found Safe T.nirpuipun!Pn A seven- year-old Lakeview girl who was reported missing in the Fremont National Forest oat. nrHav was found in eood con dition Sunday morning as she slept behind a log. Ann Shotwell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shot well, disappeared from a family picnic in the Blue lake area of Gearhart mountain. A sheriff's posse and forest rangers searched until dark Saturday and resumed at day break. An unidentified Lake view man found the sleeping girl, just a naif mile from where the searchers had camped for the night. The child said she was cold and mosquito-bitten, but oth erwise all right. Smokey Say$: Prerent Range Firesl " OHe CARE1ESS ACT HERtTf- (gwtucwK hs (XmHV MEDFOHD j They'll Do It Every ' Wmem ' lcx2netta is all dolled up amd brin6s her vecv best things to the local laundrv spot, nobodv- . but nobodv" is there to ' SEE HER-- OUT THE DAY SME LOOKS A WRECK c AW PAS ALL MMDS OP OLD DUDS - .ITJ GET A LOAD 0 " TO BE WASMED THE WHOLE Y LORNETTANI l LITTLE ORPHAN )f BOV.' NEIGHBORHOOD IS MOLDING 1?.; 1 LORNETTAr-( IMS SUE A JTI" R " ; p Problems of Capital Living Noted by Wife of Congressman Bv MARIJANE DUNCAN Washington, D. C.-Recapitu- lating our experience in mov ing from Oregon to Washing ton, D.C. I realize that we-or at least I-had only a vague idea of what to expect. One thinks of the Capital as synonomus with excitement, great events, and glamour. It is easy to picture beforehand the Capitol dome, the Wash ington Monument, perhaps the cherry blossoms; and there's the extent of the concept of most Americans who have never visited Washington. We have culled our notions from picture postcards and travel ogues. So it is surprising and some what disappointing to find that this .is, after all, a city much like other cities. I can only compare it with those I have seen, and I find Wash ington, particularly with the arrival of spring and summer. more beautiful on the whole than Midwestern cities, some what less than those in the West. It is imposing at its very center, starkly ugly just beyond, and lovely in its many natural park areas. It is very much like Portland, Ore., in its suburbs. Phenomenal Growth Washington's growth is phenomenal and change is everywhere. Whole blocks in the District have been razed to make way for urban re newal projects. New commu nities are constantly springing up on the outskirts of Wash ington in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. There are projects and plans for restoring some of the old er residential areas, such as the Capitol Hill area. Much has already been done by in dividuals and many of the re stored old houses are show- places. Georgetown is the out standing example of what can be done by individuals to re store and renovate a run-down area. But this is very expen sive ''urban renewal." Depressing Areas One must drive past block after depressing block of dil apidated brick houses to get from the Capital Mall to any other part of the city. Though some low-cost housing has been built as slum areas are cleared, most of the renovated or new housing is in the middle-to-upper income brackets. Displaced families mostly move into other rundown areas further crowding them. Negro families, especially, are limited by income and "un written laws" as to where they can live. Of course all cities hae depressed neighbor hoods; it is just that one ex pects the capital, against all reason, to be different. On the other hand, there is, throughout the District, an abundance of parks and park like areas. One can start a few blocks from the capitol and drive over well-kept parkways j through wooded and unspoiled lands, nearly all the way to Silver Springs where we live, over 10 miles away. And there are many beautiful trees and shrubs right downtown. Actually, the contrasts are so great as to be startling. Driving through the parks and suburbs one is sure here is the most beautiful city in the country. But one must emerge eventually. Beauty To Spread If the city planners realize their dreams, Washington's beauty will spread and encom pass a greater and greater area. But, then, what of the New Many Wear FALSE TEETH With Little Worry Et tlk laugh or idm without fur of lnweure UlM drptng lipping or wobbiinit. FASTtiviH holds plt firmer nd more com forubfy. Thl plent powder h no gummy, f ooey. panty ute or l'n Doesn't eue nause. H a alkaline (non-actdt. Checlta "pl odor' (denture breath . Oet PASTEETU at drug counters everywhere. MAIL TRIBUNE. MEOFOR Time low income families? I won der if they are included in many of the plans? We are seriously consider ing moving into the District next fall if we can find a house. With four youngsters (here), apartment or row house living is not for us, so we are looking in some of the older residential sections just inside the District line. Here there are still family-size houses and yards, and the div Open Sundays 10:00 A.M.-5:30 P.M. MONDAY and FRIDAY 9:30 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. TUES., WED., THURS., SAT., 9:30 to 5:30 ACRES of FREE PARKING 3 DAY SALE CAY CONVERSATION PIECES TO BEAUTIFY YOUR LAWN 2.99 Daisy Bird Bath has yellow center on 40" green metal stem. . 4 pc. Duck Set . , . 15'' high white duck plus 3 yellow ducklings. Two Pink Flamingoes . . . one, 13Vax3-l'a" high, the other, 18x28". All in weatherproof, sturdy plastic. 1 2" 21-PC. PLASTIC PICNIC SET 4 Each Plattt Knivtf Spoons Pcppors Cups Ports Salts 88' T-PC. 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Tor uooa By DICK WEST Washington -NPll- At the last meeting of our neighbor hood literacy society we had an interesting discussion on the qualities that a person needs to be come a suc cessful writer. Some said the most impor tant quality is the ability to compose long murky paragraphs that invoke the atmosphere of an apart ment hallway at eventide when one of the tenants is cooking cabbage. Others said the most im portant quality is to have a friend on the selection com mittee of a book club. Stil lathers said the most important quality is an en cyclopedic grasp of four-letter words. Surprisingly enough, no body except me mentioned poor posture as a necessary qualification for a literary career. This leads me to be lieve that the importance of bad posture has never been adequately explained. 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JULY erally limited to the jour nalistic branch of literature, but the fact is that I have never known a first rale writer who had good pos ture. By the process of inductive reasoning a conclusion can therefore be drawn that their success is due at least in part to bad posture. This is something that the journalist schools and crea tive writing courses appar ently have been neglecting. Which is a pity. Not everyone can have a friend on a book club selec tion board, but almost any one can, with proper instruc tion and dcligent practice, de velop poor posture. There is a sound physiologi cal basis for arguing that bad posture is a vital force in lit erature. Most composition nowadays is done on a type writer, and it has been scien tifically established that when a person sits down at a type writer his thoughts rush to his feet. Sitting erectly with spin (33 YARD & CHARMING WHITE 20" FLOWER CART 4.95 ONLY C'oslly-look. decorative cart fnr pfltio or lawn. 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