MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER , 1963
Southern Town Demonstrates Workable Way to Integration iSensitive Device Finds Faint Stars
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HOPKINSVILLE. Kv. (UPD-
Ten miles to the east of this
southwestern Kentucky city a
stark concrete obelisk thrusts
351 feet into the sky to mark
the birthplace of Confederate
president Jefferson Davis.
It in a sense symbolizes the
fact that this part of Kentucky
is by tradition and custom a
part of the South geographic
ally and culturally almost as
close to Memphis as to Louis
ville. Until after World War II,
Hopkinsville's population was
almost one - half Negro. Emi
gration, industrial development,
annexation and other factors
since have altered the ratio, but
it still is nearly 30 per cent.
By every superficial standard,
Hopkinsville might have been
expected to be among the slow
est in meeting the problems of
desegregation, pleading its
Southern background and large
Negro population as ample rea
sons for a course of "gradual
ism," if not of "do-nothingism."
And it might have been ex
pected that here, if anywhere in
Kentucky at least, there would
be turmoil and possibly vio
lence. But the story of Hopkinsville
has been just about the oppo
site. The simmer of 1963 has been
filled with sweeping changes in
the patterns of life in Hopkins
ville, but the city of 23,000 has
taken them in stride.
During recent weeks the
school boards of Hopkinsville
and surrounding Christian coun
ty decided, separately but al
most simultaneously, to aban
don their plans for gradual de
segregation and ordered full in
tegration of their school systems
immediately this coming fall
semester. -,
City council passed, unani
mously, an ordinance setting up
a bi-racial Human Rights com
mission to deal with racial prob
lems. Voluntarily, in recent weeks,
many of the city's restaurants,
theaters, bowling lanes and sim
ilar establishments have open
ed their doors to Negroes.
Except for the peaceful boy
cott of one chain food store,
none of this has been accom
panied by a single demonstra
tion, disturbance, or even a sit
in, by either whites or Negroes.
Key Words
What has made the difference
in Hopkinsville?
White and Negro leaders of
fer several key words:
Communication, civic pride,
planning, good faith, courtesy.
They make a formula that adds
up on both sides to enlightened
self-interest.
A major force has been ener
getic Mayor F. Ernest (Dutch)
Lackey, a portly radio execu
tive, one of four brothers who
operate radio stations in west
ern Kentucky cities, and three
of whom have served as may
ors. '
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
From Washington:
Secretary of the Treasury
Douglas Dillon gave a flat en
dorsement Sunday to the idea
of selling American wheat to
the grain-short Soviet bloc.
Asked by a reporter for his
views on wheat sales, he re
plied: "I want to emphasize the im
portance we attach to the pos
sibility of sales of wheat and
other grains to the Soviet bloc
as a means of assisting us in
the handling of our BALANCE
OF PAYMENTS problem."
YOU may ask:
What is this balance of
payments problem that we hear
so much about?
The answer is quite simple:
We are spending more dollars
abroad than we are getting back
from abroad. So we are getting
ourselves into the same kind of
fix you would get yourself into
if you PERSISTENTLY spent
more than you took in.
QUESTION No. 2:
How will wheat sales to the
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Soviet Union help to keep us out
of bad trouble?
Secretary Dillon gives this an
swer: "Grain sales to the So
viet Union and its Eastern Eur
opean satellites might add $200
million to $300 million perhaps
MORE to American exports,
thus helping to check the drain
of our dollars."
SECRETARY DiUon then added:
"I am speaking for the U.S.
treasury and not for the Ken
nedy administration. I can't
predict what position President
Kennedy may take, or when a
decision might come."
Treasury Secretary Dillon is a
REPUBLICAN. He was under
secretary of state in the Eisen
hower administration.
rNE more question:
" How do American farmers
feel about this proposed wheat
deal?
There has been no authorita
tive statement of their views.
But, presumably, they are FOR
it.
Why?
Let's put it this way:
WE HAVE an immense sur
Itts nf wheat.
Our warehouses are bursting
with it.
This immense surplus hangs
over the markets of the future
like a dark thundercloud. As
long as it exists, the chances of
better wheat prices are slim. If,
for whatever reason, the surplus
should be THROWN ON THE
MARKET, the bottom would fall
out from under prices.
OO-
It is a logical conclusion that
American wheat farmers would
like to see the surplus disposed
of at this time when wheat pro
duction in Russia and more or
less all over Europe is below
normal, and demand is strong.
That makes sense.
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With LiMIe Worry
Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze without
fear of insecure false teeth dropping,
lipping or wobbling. FASTEETH
holds plates firmer and more com
fortably. This pleasant powder has no
gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling.
Doesn't cause nausea. It's alkaline;
(non-acid). Checks "plate odor"
Identure breath 1. Get FASTEETH at
drug counters everywhere.
As one Negro leader put it,
"The mayor wants this town
held together."
Another said: "When we took
the Human Rights commission
proposal to the mayor, he said
he would examine it. And he did
examine it, he didn't just stick
it in file 13. Then he pushed it in
council and they voted for it.
We have faith that when he
says he's working on some
thing, he means it, so when he
asks us to wait a little bit, we
can have a little patience."
Where some communities have
cited large Negro populations as
a deterring factor toward racial
integration. Lackev sees it as
having an opposite effect in
Hopkinsville.
"We just simply realized that
with nearly 30 per cent Negro
population, we had to raise the r
basic incomes and economic
standards to survive," he said.
'e were aware that unless we
raised their standards, the pros
perity of all of us would be held
back."
But he was quick to add that
it wasn't just a case of eco
nomics. "It was enlightened self-interest,
but it was moral respon
sibility as well," he said.
"Our people prefer to live
peacefully with each other. We
do not want any dark and bloody
days such as others have gone
through.
An important thing happened
in Hopkinsville 10 years ago,
when a citizens' group (sparked
by Lackey) threw out a turgid
city commission form of govern
ment, installing a mayor coun
cil system. Of the 12 new court
cilmen appointed, two were Ne
groes, and there have been two
on the council ever since.
One of these, Dr. J. H. Young
a dentist with an integrated
practice has been reelected
four times, and three times has
polled a larger vote than any
other candidate in city - wide
elections.
"Negroes and whites have
participated together in solving
problems, because they had to
do so," Young said. "There is
and can be no real solution to a
problem if only one side has
been heard."
Other Negro leaders thought
it went further back than Young
suggested.
"We have always been able to
talk to each other here." said
the Rev. William H. Wiggins
Jr., pastor of the Freeman
capel C.M.E. church. Wiggins
has played an active role in
desegregation efforts in Bir
mingham, Ala., and Jackson,
Miss.
The Rev. Cephas Striplin, lo
cal president of the National As
sociation for Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP),
agreed and added, "This did not
come because somebody walked
down the street waving a flag.
We've tried to prevent that. We
are planning this thing together,
to lie done with the least turmoil
and needless animosity as pos
sible." Incidents Result
This climate of opinion has
resulted in incidents that stand
in stark contrast to the strug
gles that have occurred in other
communities, North and South.
Recently a group of Negroes
went to the city's largest and
newest bowling lanes, where
they asked the proprietor to
open his place to all.
"Give me four days," was his
reply. "I want to talk to the peo
ple who bowl regularly in our
leagues and explain what we
are doing." The com m i 1 1 e e
readily agreed, and four days
later, without fanfare, the lanes
were opened.
Similar experiences took
place at the movie theaters, at
drug store lunch counters, and
motel dining rooms. Negroes
asked that they be desegre
gated, and they were.
So far, there have been just
two stbacks, ' both involving
small restaurants. One, oper
ated for years by a Negro and
his wife catering to a white
clientele, had to close down.
The other, after desegregating
for several weeks, went back to
a segregation policy.
Persons familiar with the sit
uations agreed that the small
size of the places involved was
a major factor.
"There just wasn't enough
room. They were swamped, and
they lost their regular custo
mers as a result," was one ex
planation. There are problems remain
ing. Local industries have inte-
SAN FERNANDO, Calif (UPI)
Discovery of stars to faint to
be seen, but detectible by use
of an extremely sensitive infra
red telescope, was reported to
day by International Telephone
and Telegraph Corp.'s federal
laboratories.
Scientist Freeman Hall said
grated production lines and
most city departments have Ne
gro employees but white col
lar jobs held by Negroes are
few. Housing is an especially
thorny matter.
But the housing commission
has Negro members; an urban
renewal project has opened the
way for construction of new
homes priced in a range avail
able to Negro families.
The mayor perhaps answered
the question of "Why Hopkins
ville?" when he added. "When
you can sit down together and
talk, you can work out almost
anything."
the extremely sensitive temper
ature - measuring instrument
used to detect the newly discov
ered stars also indicated that
some stars already known emit
as much as 36 times more infra
red radiation than previously estimated.
Noting that the hottest stars
Hall said the heat - measuring
telescope used in making the
discoveries was so sensitive that
measurements sometimes were
interrupted by heat from insects
as they flew past.
At one point, the work was
disturbed when heated air cur
rents rose from a cigarette burn
ing 50 feet away.
The scientists suggested that
the discovery may require modi-
emit bright visible light while i fication of present theories on
cooler ones emit heat waves the evolution of the stars and the
with much fainter visible light, ' universe.
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WHAT THE TAX BILL MEANS TO YOU - III
(Third in a Series of 10 Columns)
Small corporations would come in for one of the juiciest tax cuts
of all if the 1963 tax bill becomes law. For instance, if you head
a corporation which has a net income of $25,000 after all expenses,
your corporation now pays $7,500 a year in taxes. Under the bill,
this would drop to $5,500 in 1964 a whopping cut.
Actually, the tax rates would be lowered for all corporations,
but those with income of $25,000 or less would get the biggest pro
portionate benefit from the reductions. Here is how present rate
schedules would change under the 1963 tax bill.
Corporation Income 1963 1964 1965
Up Through $25,000 30 22 22
Over $25,000 52 50 8
What does this mean to you as a businessman? The proposed
rate cuts make it desirable to shift income from this year into
1964, if you can manage this, in order to cash in on the reduc
tions if Congress enacts them.
Also if the rate on the first $25,000 of corporate income is cut
to 22 per cent by passage of the bill you, as a businessman now
operating as an individual proprietor or in a partnership, should
weigh carefully the comparative advantages of switching intp a
corporation.
The sharply lower tax rate of 22 per cent on the first $25,000
of corporation income proposed by the 1963 bill might lead
some businessmen to split their operations into more than one
corporation just to get the extra tax benefits. As an illustra
tion, a corporation which earns $50,000 would pay 22 per cent
on its first $25,000 and 50 per cent of the next $25,000 under
the 1963 tax bill rates. If the business could be divided equally
between two corporations, each would pay only 22 per cent
on its $25,000 thereby saving (7,000 in taxes as compared
to operating as one corporation.
The House-passed tax bill, therefore, includes provisions design
ed to discourage operation of a business through multiple corpo
rations. It would limit the benefit of the new 22 per cent rate
on the first $25,000 of each corporation's income where a parent
corporation owns subsidiary corporations or where a group of cor
porations is owned 80 per cent or more by the same individual
or estate or trust.
Even if there are sound business reasons other than tax sav
ings for operating through more than one corporation, these groups
would be limited to this choice: Either get a 22 per cent rate on
only the first $25,000 of the group's total income regardless of how
many corporations are in the group, or pay a higher 28 per cent
rate on the first $25,000 of income of each corporation.
As a businessman vitally concerned with this choice, you often
would find it advantageous to pay the higher 28 per cent on the
first $25,000 of each corporation. Say each of four corporations in
a controlled group has $25,000 of income in 1964. The corporations
could pay 22 per cent on the first $25,000 of the total income of the
group plus 50 per cent on the remaining $75,000 a total tax of
$43,000. Or they could pay 28 per cent on the first $25,000 of each
corporation a total of only $28,000. This is an easy choice.
The 1963 bill also would make it more difficult to create a
new multiple corporate operations. Today it's reasonably sim
ple for a person to set up two or more corporations to operate
his business or to transfer his real estate to a corporation
he owns.
Under the bill, if five or less individuals who already own 80
per cent or more of one corporation form one or more other cor
porations to which they transfer property (other than cash), they
will be presumed to have done this for tax saving purposes. They
then would be barred from choosing the 28 per cent rate unless
they could clearly prove that tax saving was not a major purpose
a mighty tough job.
You still could set up new corporations to save taxes by trans
ferring cash to them and having them buy the desired property
from an unrelated person.
Next: Tax breaks on capital gains.
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