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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
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producine, an allergic disease The, Public Accommodations
in an infant would be lessened 1"1w l!53. which prohibits dis-
il a mother would nurse her crimination in public accommo-
bahy if only for a lew weeks, ! nations, resorts, places of
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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.
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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.
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make them dissolve? For an- i operator recently was ov erheard
swers to these questions and advising another to take down
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