Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 16, 1963, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TexttO A MONDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1363 MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGOV Oregon Racial Situation Said Better Than in Most Areas Editor's Note: What is the shape of the nation's social re volution within (he borders of Oregon? The state has strong civil rights laws, yet discrimina tion exists despite a small Neg ro population. How do events elsewhere touch the Oregon Negro, and what progress is he making toward equal opportun ity? The following dispatch, first of two, explores Negro attitudes and measures the size og the problem. By GORDON RICE United Press International In the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan was burning crosses in Southern Oregon and electing public offi cials to represent it at Salem. Today, Oregon has one of the strongest sets of civil rights laws in the nation stronger than the federal laws proposed by the late President Kennedy. Some of its people have made the transition in attitude, and some have not. That, highly simplified, is the condition Ore gon finds itself in the civil rights field in 1963. The Medical Roundup Emeritus cnnsttltjinl In Mfdlrln Mayo clinic Emerltitn I'rnfrstiijr of Medicine Ma.vn Clinic Olegiller and Tribune Syndicate, IDfii). ' Advantages of Breast Feeding Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but I am always a bit distressed when I hear a doctor say to a woman who has just had a baby, "We'll dry up your breasts right away, and will put your baby on the bottle." I have read many pros and cons about tins, and about I he only auvan tagc I can sec in bottle feeding is thai there are some cases in which the mother does not give her baby enough milk. In such cases, of course, bottle feeding is justified. What has always impressed me is that mother's milk was made for a hungry infant and cow's milk wasn't. Cow's milk can produce in an infant severe forms of allergy which can be a nuisance for the rest of the child's life. Many a bottle - fed infant's skin gels covered with eczema, or lie gels severe stomach-aches, or diarrhea, or asth ma. That his troubles arc aller gic in nature is shown by the fact that he quickly gets well when given goat's milk or a milk-like material made from soy beans. Ycnrs ago, Dr. Corwin Ilin- shaw and I questioned with care 500 patients seen consecutively in our offices, and found Hint a fourth of them bad trouble with milk. Some just could nal touch it. Some said they had always been allergic lo it. Sixly-fivc years a go, when I was m high school, none of my classmates, so far as I can re member, had any allergic trou ble, such as asthma or eczema, and I often wonder il the ab sence of allergy in those days was due lo the fact that few infants were brought up on a bottle. I have just been reading a fine book called, "The Womanly Art of Breast Feeding," (l.n Lcchc League International, niillli Franklin Avenue, Franklin Park. Illinois). The authors of tliis book (eel strongly that a mother ought to nurse her baby. As the famous Dr. Granlly Dick Read wrote a while ago, "The newborn baby makes only three demands: warmth in the arms of its mnlhcr, food from her breast, and security in the knowledge ol her presence." On Page 1.1 of the La Lcchc book one finds some very im pressive letters from mothers who say that after they had had several bottle-fed babies, they tried breast feeding, and are now very glad that they did. One rejoices over the "wonder ful feeling of being needed." She wrote. The baby "needs me as no other person in the whole world ever has; and no one else can take my place with her." "When I finally put her down I find that I am calm again, and kinder to the rest of the family." Another woman says, "Patli is our fifth child, the first to be breast-fed. I am amazed at the difference in mc. I had no idea what I was missing. It is a feel ing of growth and development, I feel as if I have finally ar rived; I have a sense of com pleteness, of fulfillment." Another woman, after having had three bottle-fed babies, de cided lo nurse the next one. She speaks of the "lovely warm glow that nursing imparts." "11 spills over onto my relation ships with all tlie rest of my tamiiy." And to think that to day most mothers arc being ad vised not to have tins great happiness. Why should they be denied it? Another book I read on the advisability of breast feeding is "The Nursing Mother," by Dr. Frank Richardson (David Mc Kay). There are reasons for be "Today I'm proud lo say I'm , wants swift, severe punishment Webb's hard-line efforts have from Oregon at any national of offenders without the slower brought h i m some opposition meeting or convention," says E. slcps of medialion and concilia- within the Negro community. Shelton Hill, executive secretary lion. Mrs. Vivianne Barnett, president for the Portland Urban League. "People will learn to live with ! of the Albina Civic and Taxpay "Our situation in Oregon is ' stronger laws," he says, "Obvi-1 crs Association, said recently ages bettor than most areas of j 0usly we need changes of atti- there is now a danger of vio the nation. ..and improvements ludes, but I think they will be lence in Portland because of have been rapid and I believe assisted- by stronger laws. At ' such incidents as Webb's threat are accelerating,' Mark Hatfield. But discrimination docs exist. adds Gov. this rate it will take another 100 years." Webb takes a less favorable in spite of strong laws, a small , view of the situation in Oregon Negro population and Oregon's : than do most of his colleagues, generally enlightened attitude "I believe there are sundown toward civil liberties. towns, but I can't ,-inpoint them It exists "on a very quiet j fight now," he comments, basis," says Dr. Wesley G. Several of his pronouncements Nicholson, pastor of Eugene's First Congregational Church. What is the racial situation in Oregon? How are its laws work ing? What do the Negroes want, and what progress are they making? It il is true thai the lack of Negroes means there is no problem, then most of Oregon does not have a serious prob lem. But this docs not make the anguish of one Negro refused service in a smalltown Eastern Oregon restaurant anv less than that of a victim of discrimina-1 lion in Portland. Portland lias Most Negroes comprise less lhan one per cent of the state's popu lation. About 16.500 of the stale's approximately 18,500 Negroes live in Portland. There arc smaller concentrations in Eugene, Klamath Falls. Pendle ton and a few other cities. The rest are scattered widely. In 1940 there were 2,565 Ne groes in the entire state. Then came World War II, the ship yards at Vanport and other war time industry. By 1950, there were 11,529 Negroes in Oregon and by I960 the total had climbed lo 18,1.13. There arc four major civil rights laws on the books: A Fair Employment Prac tices Law, enacted in 1949, bars discrimination by employers, employment agencies and labor unions. The Vocational. Professional and Trade Schools Act of 1951 is designed to prevent bias on the part of training facilities which could give Negroes the have badly shaken a few sutis fied city officials around the state. Earlier this year he re quested assurances from Med ford, Grants Pass and Ashland lliat Negroes would be welcome tp use public accommodations in thai region. He hinted Ne groes would be sent lo "lest" il if (lie assurances were nol forthcoming. "We had a tremendous , re: sponse," he says now. "we ac complished a lot in getting the communities concerned." Another one of his plans for the future calls for sending a number of Negro young people on a tour of the state to test their reception. "I think it would be telling," he explains. to picket the Northwest Towers Housing Project during a pro posed dedication by President Kennedy. Webb said the Hous ing Authority of Portland dis criminated in its selection of tenants. Did Nol Visit Kennedy -decided not lo visit Portland, and many people blamed the NAACP. "The result is that those who have been liberal have become antagonistic to us," Mrs. Bar nett said. There have been several inci dents of violence and one death in Portland in which race played a part. Portland police say there is a "hard core" group of about .10 Negro youths who have been involved in such incidents as a post-football game riot, the chain beating of a white boy on Halloween, and several other beatings. Law en forcement agencies are attempt ing to get them out of circula tion while youth commissions make sure the problem gets no worse. A white skidroad resident Ed- to determine whether there is I take a less serious view of some i riu DDfllCId nCKITIIDCC ward St. George. 44. died after I more lawlessness among Ne- crimes in a Negro ghetto. NA DnUPXM ULIIIUIVLJ a I960 beating by a group of groes than whites in the same Nero youths, including Paul economic class. For one thing, Machen, the brother of fighter a Negro may be more likely to Eddie Machen. They told i be arrested for certain offenses authorities they were upset by j than a white, and on the other racial tension in the South. hand police and courts may Law enforcement authorities j are hesitant to be quoted, but police have experienced some difficulty in the heavily-Negro Albina district. Multnomah County Sheriff Don Clark says it is impossible ! His term, for this sort o TMo;..r, pLfl t.WtLU crime, which he admits is not Ama2m8 plate.WEld rcT,irs rJatt. original, is "misdeamanor mur- iu and "pi" lM'M?;i!j!l , ' .flow on put toccther. 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Clark, of Memphis, Tcnn., re cently said that it has become apparent in Ihe past few years thai disseminated lupus erythe matosus tends to appear more than once in some families. We physicians know that the dis ease, is related -to rheumatoid arthritis, and wc know that it can be hereditary. One of the best ways of learn ing whether or not a disease is hereditary is lo see what hap pens when one of a pair ol alike twins Rels the disease. If. usual ly, the other twin Rets il, the disease is probably inherited. A review of the literature ro- The Housini Act of 1037. which bans discrimination in Ihe sale or rental of housing. Mark A. Smith, a Negro, is administrator of the civil rights division in the Slate Bureau of Labor, lie and three staff mem bers carry the load of enforcing division in the State Bureau of Labor. He and three staff mem bers carry the load of enforcing these Inns among nearly Iwo million people. Smith gels about 12 coin plaints a month, hul says "most of them are traced to personal ity conflicts having nothing lo do with civil rights." Five Public Hearings Most of the laws win accept ance once Ihe public under stands them, he says. There has been no organized opposition and only live cases have gone dormitory buildings at S t a t e j W alter ('. Alvarez. Dept. Hospital North is nearly $3,00(1 ' Itox (157, Pes Moines, .move nvauanie Hums. l(3(r.t(M. BECAUSE OF A PUBLIC NEED FOR ADDED NEIGHBORHOOD BANKING SERVICE IN MED FORD, FIRST NATIONAL HAS OPENED A TRAILER BRANCH ON SOUTH RIVER SIDE AVENUE : UNTIL A PER MANENT NEW BUILDING IS BUILT. COM ' PACT, COM PLETELY SAFE ITWILLOFFER ' A NEW BANK ING CONVEN IENCE TO THE . '. RESIDENTS .l .. OFTHE MEDFORD AREA.ALL DEPOSITS ARE INSURED TO THE LEGAL MAXIMUM BY THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. YOU ARE INVITED TO VISIT THIS NEW BRANCH venled Iwo nets of writers who ' as far as a public hearing found Ihe widely spread form ! which is held if attempts to of the disease usually "concur-! medialc the dispute fail, rt n nt " in both of two alike- "Hul laws are meaningless twins. Other bits of evidence unless they are written in the have been found, all of them I hearts of men," Hatfield said suggesting a hereditary predis-' recently in a Salem speech, I position. ' and this is where civil rights ' workers think the work must be Is there any medical treat- l'ic. ment for gallstones? (.'an vou A Portland apartment house make them dissolve? For an- i operator recently was ov erheard swers to these questions and advising another to take down many more, read Dr. Alvarez' j 8 "vacancy" sign if Negroes booklet, "Callstones and Gall- ''ami! to inquire about the nous bladder Disease." 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Pkg. . lilt) TOO IIK.II BOkSK I UP!) - Public Works Commissioner Arthur Warren said Saturday that a bid on in stallation of lira escapes in two lope with vour reuuest lo Dr. i sign," he said MMT, "'e sign nown lor six montns Iowa " '"" have In. to make sure . you don't get into any trouble." j A housewife in Raker hesli- , , lale.s w hen a Negro (amilv wants lo buy her home, al though she disclaims any per sonal prejudice, she is worried about the reaction of her neigh bors. ( At Corvallis and Kugene. fra ternities and sororities conform to a ban on racial clauses in their charters, but not a single Negro is pledged at cither Ore I son or Oregon Slate One of the few Negroes who signed up (or I iush at Oregon said later he he , licved he had been a victim of discrimination. i At Portland State College, j President Rranlord Millar halt- ed sorority rushing and suspend : ed all Ihe houses on the campus , alter they failed lo pledge Iwo Negro girls. There are some Negro leaders ! who think stronger laws are the i answer. "A disgrace" is the way presi 'dent Mnyfirld K. Webb' of the ! Porlland chapter ol the National 1 Association (or the Advnncc j ment of Colored People de scrilies the lad that the Civil I Hights Division receives only about 12 complaints a month. Wants Law Amended Webb, generally regarded as the state's most militant rights worker, antj the law amended lo allow the Civil Rights Divi- IBf1 In inV'AvllPalA IV.cclhlA itie. OF FIRST NATIONAL BANK 0FOREfiQ& 'conation without the iknt of ANGEL FOOD 41 riHrmrco 6ocou, h MATEY BUBBLE BATH 2--69c. .5 29 A akj GOLBEN RAISINS OVl NU MAR MARGARINE . 225' GROCETERIA WILL CLOSE AT 7 P.M. TUESDAY, DEC. 17 FOR EMPLOYEE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY Center Cut KITCHEN CHARM DEI MONTE Pork Cho c psv II lb. Seedless 1 5 oi. pkg. SUN MAID PORK Loin End 3-lb. Avg. LOIN ROAST 39c SUGAR Powdered or Brown 1 Lb. Pkg. ID i 5 Spare Country Style a ib. w jr ARIZONA WHITE GRAPEFRUIT 8 LB. 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