WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 31.
South's School Segregation
Scene Differs By Siates
By L KUETTNKR . school yard a crowd of some 500
United Press Staff Correspondent i white persons, a squad of stutc
ATLANTA. Ga., (UP) Travel ' troopers, sheriffs deputies and
the South lookin? for facts about deputized volunteer firemen. The
school segregation as classes open! Negroes were turned down. There
for the fall term and you would
find Dixie a land of contrasts
It all depends on where you look.
You would find Negro and white
children sitting side by side in
Wilmington, Del., San Antonio and
St. Louis.
In Georgia you would discover
that some Negro schools are the
last word in modern, fireproot
construction while many white
children still get education lh one
room buildings with outside toilets.
You could find it the other way
around without difficulty.
You would lind people on edge
about the segregation question
everywhere, even in the so-called
liberal states. North Carolina is
such a state.
At Old Fort, N.C., five Negro
children accompanied by a Negro
adult appeared for admission last
week to the white sclfool. They had
been attending a modern, well
equipped Negro school, but it was
15 miles away.
The Incident attracted to the
Rubber Strike
Threat Averted
CLEVELAND !i Beating a
threatened midnight strike dead
line by less than one hour, negotia
tors for the CIO United Rubber
Workers and the Firestone Tire &
Rubber Co. last night reached n
tentative contract agreement af
fecting 22.000 workers in eight
cities.
The settlement provides for a
general increase of 12 cents an
hour for Firestone employes in
Akron, Ohio; Des Moines, Iowa;
Fall River, Mass,; Los Angeles,
Calif.; Memphis, Tenn.; New Cas
tle and Noblcsville, Iud.; and
Pottstown. Pa.
Union and company negotiators,
:n a joint statement, declared that
"details of the agreement are be
ing drawn up for final approval
and signatures as soon as pos
sible." Average hourly rate Is now $2.20.
The new agreement calls lor spe
cial adjustments for an unspecified
number of employes, one addition
al paid holiday, an improved vaca-
linn nlan fnr mnlnvn with ll tn
15 years of service, jury pay. and!
iree hospitalization ana surgical
Insurance ior retired employes on
pensions.
Czech President
Said Stricken '"
VIENNA. Austria ItfPrague ra
dio announced today that Commu
nist Czechoslovakia's President An
tonin Zapotocky suffered a heart
attack last night
A bulletin signed by four doctors
said Zapotocky, 70, was suffering
from "severe disturbances of blood
circulation and heart weakness."
The bulletin said his condition
improved after treatment and he
spent a quiet night with his blood
pressure and pulse normal.
Czechoslovakia's Parliament
elected Zatopocky president March
21, 1953, after the death of Kle
ment Gottwald. He had served as
premier under Gottwald from 1948
to 1953 and was chosen for the
presidency by the Czechoslovak
Communist party's Central Com
mittee. Oil Well Gushes
Over LA. Area
LOS ANGELES i.n An oil well
spewing over automobiles and
stores at the Intersection of At
lantic and Washington boulevards.
J. W. Vandervanter, foreman of
the well owned by the Atlantic Oil
Co., said an overaccumulatlon of
gases caused the sudden guther.
Before a workman was able to
ahut down the well the oil splat
tered homes, cars and stores in a
two-block area. Two trucks collided
while moving along the slick pave
ment. 1956
1955
were no incmems. iney
are
pected to appeal first to the local
board of education and then to the
courts.
The Old Fort scene undoubtedly
will be reenaeted many limes in
the long process toward the inte
gration of public schools ordered
by the U.S. Supreme Court.
As the scnool bells start ringing.
the nation's segregation stronghold,
concentrated in nine slate:
Alabama. Georgia, Florida, Vir
ginia, Louisiana. Mississippi.
North Carolina, South Carolina
and Tennessee.
Take a look at Mississippi, per
haps the most vehement slate in
the nation about preserving segre
gation everywhere.
The state is 45 per cent Negro
populated. Between ages 6 to 21 it
has 431.857 Negroes and 367,764
whites. Enrollment figures for last
year show that 87 per cent of the
white school age children were In
class; 80 per cent of the Negroes.
That's the highest Negro attend
ance yet.
Mississippi will fight to the last
to keep segregation, But it is wil
ling to pay for it.
J. M. Tubb, Mississippi superin
tendent of education, said tho state
is winding up a 65 million dollar
school .building program and is
about to start 60 million dollars!
worth of new construction. More
trtan 50 per cent is for Negroes.
Tubb claimed that classroom
and teaching facilities have been
eaualized and that just as much
money is spent per pupil for both
races;
Some officials estimate the
"equalization" program will cose
the South a billion dollars. Schools
have been going up so fast that
iloodllghts were erected at some
spots so the work could go on at
night." .
-- Ask. the school superintendent at
Macon, Ga., to escort you to the
best school in town and you'll wind
up in an all-Negro institution with
broad corridors, a complete scien
tific lab. a fine library, excellent
woodwork shop and sparkling
washrooms.
A Negro school leader In Geor
gia, which Is spending 200 million
dollars for new schools, acknowl
edged that the improvements were
causing some Negroes to soft-pedal
integration talk.
This resistance of Negroes them
selves to integration has turned
out. as expected to be a thorn In
the side of the National Association
for Advancement of colored Peo
ple which is leading the fight to
Implement the Supreme Court de
cision. Bearing Failure
Halts Ship Test
ABOARD THE CARRIER FOR
RESTAL 1 Builders of the giant
supercarrier Forrestal still hope to
deliver the 60.000-ton flat-top to the
Navy on schedule next month,
even though bearing troubles have
forced postpone mem of full-power
speed trials.
Everything was going along fine
yesterday when a propeller shaft
bearing melted about 100 miles off
Cape Henry, Va.
Because of this, officials of the
Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Co. decided to bring the
great warship back to home base
tomorrow, instead of Friday as
originally planned. Changed plans
now call for the Forrestal to go
through her speed paces Sept. 19.
All other scheduled tests will con
tinue today.
"We still hope to deliver the ship
to the Navy on Sept. 29, as sched
uled." said H T. Bent, vice presi-
uorks manager or the
Newport News firm that built the '
world's biggest fighting ship. Com-,
missioning ceremonies are sched-l
ulcd Oct. 1. j
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about the time that rail lines were laid into this valley., The
contour of the hills remains the same but the city has mush-,
roomed around the lake shore. It is thought the picture was
Flood Relief
Meeting Held
WASHINGTON lPI Representa
tives of 10 federal agencies lath
ered for a White House meeting
today to check up on their vast re
habilitation programs for the flood
ravaged Northeastern stales.
They wanted to see where the
project might be speeded up and
whether any new aids could be sup-
plied with existing funds-and per
sonnel.
The closed door conference was!ov'ous aim at keeping the sexes
set up by White House staff mem
bers here at the request of Presi
dent Eisenhower, now vacationing
in Colorado.
Meanwhile. AFL President
George Meany called for a con
gressional investigation of reports
that "agents" of Southern commu
nities are at work in the flood
areas trying to entice mill owners
to abandon their damaged plants
and relocate in the South. He did
not specify the communities the
"agents" came from.
He said the more than 100,000
workers thrown out of work by the
floods and others are shocked by
the "piratical activities" of out
siders who "hurried into the strick
en areas with lush inducements to
mill owners to migrate and aban
don their workers."
He urged that Congress investi
gate and pass a law to bar "unfair
competitive methods by communi
ties" to entice new industries.
Under an informal understanding
with congressional leaders of both
parties, the administration has
made available up to 100 million
dollars of Army Enpineer funds to
help reconstruct public facilities in
the flooded areas. Through other
agencies, it is providing food,
loans, housing and health assist
ance to the homeless,- farmers and
small businessmen.
Defense industries also have had
placed at their disposal up to 900
million dollars for loans to repair
and replace factories swamped by
flood waters.
Labor Day Death
Figures Forecast
CHICAGO Wl A - Labor Day
weekend traffic death toll of 400
was forecast today by the National
Safety Council.
This Would be 10ft deaths more
than would occur If the weekend
were not a holiday. The period
covered by the estimate will run
from 6 p.m. Friday Until midnight
Monday.
'Our figures on past experience
compel us to estimate the Labor
Day traffic death toll at 400," Ned
Dearborn, council president, said.
"But we are convinced those. 100
unnecessary deaths and more
can be prevented if every driver
and pedestrian meets the extra
danger with extra care."
The council urged drivers to hold
down speed, take care in signaling
turns and stops to the drivers be
hind, keep in the right traffic
lanes, pass only when there is
plenty of room and keep a safe
distance from the car ahead. ,
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Scientists Study Mounting
Male Death Rate In World
By DKI.OS SMITH '
:l'nlted Press Self nee h'dlior
NEW YORK (UP)
Scientists i
and all other men have been
called upon to solve a riddle
which will strike 'you as bolh per
sonal and urgent If you' are mas
culine of sex. It is: "What Is kill
ing off the males?"
The solution is sought by the
Abbott Laboratories, which feels
untimely- deaths. .among mulcsi are
now so frequent that "nature's
in numerical balance may yet be
endangered.
"If you are a male between the
kbps i io aim yuur auy u .
day-chances of dying are at
50 per cent greater than those of1
your female counterpart in - thej
same age bracket,'.' it told the na-j
tion's physicians. j
-.Yet," it added. ' "in 1920. you
would have been much more near-i
ly on even terms with her.1' lhe
statisticians have been busily'
seeking out the .reasons for whntj
has been fading 'the male, "but a
really convincing answer has; yet;
to be found. J
Now, .take diseases in 'which!
worry,' overwork, and emotional ;
tensions seem to have a part ,
those ' of the cardio-vascular sys
tems and ulcers. .Among ..women. I
the death rate from these causes i
has declined sharply when com-'
pared to the period between 1921
and 192C. But for men, hus in
creased sharply. The big question
if, why? .
"Women may be" biologically
more resistant to diseases and
death than men." the laboratories
said without elaborating on why
they apparently have becomi
more so in recent generations
II thai is the answer.
Whether men contract tnfec-'
tious and communicable dffcejises
mbr( easily and frequrmly, or are
simply less resistant to them, has
not yet been established.
vTheir. greatest venereal dis
ease rate,- alcohol addiction, and
tendency to homicide nd acci-
cents may be explained by their
greater aggressiveness and lack
of caution. 'Getting arjund' more
than women, they- also may ex
pose themselves more to such
diseases as tuberculosis, polio--
myelitis, pneumonia, and influ
enza. "One Important difference be
tween the sexes is in their re
sponse to 3train and stress of to
day's high - speed, high - pressure
life. Wometi may perhaps ease or
avoid the consequences of tension,
worry, frustration and despair
through tears or . occasional hys-
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friends and schoolmates.-
iterics. Men, on the" other hand.
seem more likely to internalize
disease.- hvDeriension. or ul
cers." i -
Also women take better care of
themselves. What's hjore, public
hen It h officials pay more a t ten
tion to tnem. "They are known to
'nurse' mild illnesses in a precau
tionary, preventive way." which
men don't do. Many more doctors
specialize in the diseases of wom
en than of mtn.
Nevertheless, uone of these rea
sons or all of thein seem expla
nation enoueh. "Something ought
to and could be done for the male.
,hp miri(il..iPPri and
older male oy himself, the med
ical profession, and public health
agencies.." the laboratories said.
"Concentrated study and research
should seek causes be Inn d men's
rising mortality.
Paisley Church
Hears Student
SUMMER LAKE Roberta liar- i
ris.- a student at Scarrit College, !
Nashville, Tennessee, spoke Sunday j
evening at the Methodist Church !
at Paisley and showed colored ;
slides of the religious training :
school. . . I
Miss Harris had as guests Friday I
and Saturday, a group of seven!
Oregon State College students, ac
companied by the Wesley Founda
tion director, Tony Perrino. The
group was en route to Lake Tahoe
for a Methodist regional training
conference.
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Cool Canadian air continued to
spread southward and eastward to
day after causing some violent
electrical storms In the Appalachi
an Mountains and lower Great
Lakes area.
The cool air had pushed Into the
Oulf states and to the Atlantic
Coast.
Electrical and wind slorins hit
Pennsylvania and New York state
particularly. The heaviest rainfall
reported was 1.C6 Inches at Harris
burg. Pa. The Weather Bureau said
nn "unconfirmed tornado" hit
Townsend. N. Y., but no Injuries
were reported.
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HOUSTON, Tex. Ifi The Indian
ambassador to the United States,
slickly segregated at a dwank air
port restaurant here a week ago,
declined the mayor's Invitation to
eat In the same place yesterday.
The ambassador. Gaganviharl
Lallubhn! Mehta, and his secretary
were asked to leave the public
dining room of Horizon House. In
ternational Airport's main dining
place, last week.
They were whisked into a pri
vate dining room so deftly, wit
nesses said, that they never real
ized they were being mistaken for
Negroes.
Mehta and his secretary B..A.
Rajagopalan were met at the air
port yesterday by Mayor Roy Hof
heinz and a group of Houston dig
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things."
He said his government consid
ered the Incident a closed affair.
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