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Kennedy Deserted By Civil Bights Leaders By LYLE C. WILSON I that, however, if you date the I'nlted Press International beginning of basic white civil The- Kennedy Administration has been deserted by its principal Negro ally in the effort to keep the civil rights controversy in the courts and off the streets. The ally was the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). But NAACP took the civil rights dis pute to the streets in Philadel phia with mass picketing againstl job discrimination. Later Roy C. Wilkins, NAACP national secre tary, joined the Jackson, Miss., street demonstrators and was ar rested. Heretofore, NAACP has been the Negroes' legal counsel. It I was NAACP that confronted the Supreme Court with the argu ments that obtained the Court's order for desegregation of public schools. But the legal process has proved to be too slow for impa tient Negroes, just as the Ken nedy Administration's major strategy effort proved too slow. Registration Reasonable The Kennedy strategy was to obtain registration and voting rights for Southern Negroes. That would be the moderate, reason able, least abrasive way to as sure the Negroes civil rights permit them to vole. The other l ights then would follow. The white man got his civil rights guaranteed that way. The while man needed many more than 11)0 years to accomplish Doctor Named Center Head PORTLAND tUPli-Dr. Samuel Diack, a Portland physician, was elected president of the Oregon Graduate Center for Study and Research by the board's trustees Tuesday. Dr. Diack succeeds Dr. Rich ard Sullivan, president of Reed College here. Also elected were Gerald Frank. Salem, vice president; Harold Phillips, Portland, treasurer, and State Supreme Court Justice Arno Denecke. secretary. Dr. Sullivan had served as tem porary chairman since the board's rights no further back than 1215 AD. That was the year of the Mag na Carta. Taking into account the civil disorders in Birmingham, Jack son, .Miss., Philadelphia and else where, plus the movement of NAACP from the court room in to tlie street, the Kennedy Ad ministration had no alternative but to adopt its present civil rights strategy. The Administra tion was compelled to move to other ground. The time of the moderate, rea sonable, least abrasive approach to the problem of civil rights had run out. The direct actionists among Negro leaders were taking over. Rep., Adam Clayton Powell, D-iYY., was predicting riots in the streets of Washington, D.C. He was telling radio audiencesl at home and abroad that the bat tle for civil rights was just about over because the white man was scared. Children Used Negro children also were inject ed into the controversy. Negro aauits sent the grade schoolers into the streets to challenge local police power. A misplay then with a gun, a dog or a night stick could have triggered bloody violence in most streets of every major U.S. city. It hasn't happened that way yet. But it could. All of this is some measure but not all of the measure of the crisis the Kennedy Brothers now clearly see and which they now! seek to control with more federal legislation. Their objective is to speed-up the process of making etlective the civil rights commit ments of the constitution, of the laws and even of the Democratic party platform President Kennedy re-stated his purpose in his May 8 news conference: "I've made it clear since assuming the Presidency that I would use all available means tn protect human rights and uphold the law of the land If Congress authorizes federal shortcuts -to court orders in be HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Thursday, June I. 1963 PAGE 5 A i f f. :- hA . i . f " r 1 I'r - T I,., I' A V ii ,1 , n d ' f 3". SALEM 1UPH Most Oregonl taxpayers are going to have to ig deep in their pockets for ex tra money early next year when they file their 13 income tax returns if the new tax hike goes into effect. Tax Commission legal End ac counting personnel were pondcr-j ing the problem today. They did not know which of several plans to adopt. They were waiting to see it the new tax increase will be referred by the voters. Tax Commission Chief Legal Counsel Carlisle B. Roberts said the new income tax would not be- FIRST TICKET General admission prices to the Shrine Crippled Children's dance Saturday, June 15, are down in the easy payment bracket, but Bill Metier, seated, bought a $100 donation ticket from dance chairmen Ralph Ovgard to support the Shrine Crippled Children's Hospital in Portland. Brother George Metier looks oa while Ovgard makes the presentation in the Metier Brothers mill office. All proceeds from this annual dance will qo to the task of straightening bent and deformed limbs on children who otherwise might be forced to qo through life helplessly handicapped. Tickets for this event are being sold now by all Shriners and Masons. JFK Making Business Bias Progress New State Income Tax Law Means Bigger Bite; Tables Being Prepared come law until Sept. 2. This is 90 days after adjournment of the legislative session. Legully the session ended at 12:09 a.m. June 4. the 142nd day' of the session, although legislative records will show adjournment at; 11:59 p.m. June 3. the 141st day. Roberts said the commission could make up the new tables im mediately, but probably could not, have them printed in time fori use beginning July 1. He felt the commission would decide to start tlie new withhold ing rates at tlie beginning of the final quarter, Oct. 1. "But ve can't anticipate an early change in collection rates because the tax increase might be referred," he said. John J. Lobdell, director of the accounting division, said the com mission could issue a temporary withholding schedule to pick up extra money to cover the full year, but he doubted it would be done. "I would guess tlie commission will adopt new tables effective Oct. 1 to reflect the changes re sulting from tlie new law," lie said. 'Refunds this year have aver aged $39 a return, so this will take up some of the slack. Others will just have to pay the differ ence at the end ot the year. Lobdell explained. TB Patient Transfer Set PORTLAND UPI)-Dr. D.W.E. Baird, dean of the University of Oregon Medical School, said today transfer of tuberculosis patients to Salem would be carried out with "greater consideration" for the patients. The legislature switched control of the Salem TB hospital to the Board of Higher Education, which administers tlie medical school here, and ordered the patients here moved to Salem. Dr. Baird said no date had been set for the transfer, which will in volve 50 or 60 patients. He said a statement concerning the move may come when the State Board of Higher Education meets in Corvallis next Monday and Tuesday. OLD STUFF WASHINGTON (UPI Prcsi-lof days" to counter the rising dent Kennedy appeared today toitide of Negro demands. be makinE proorcss in selling KmTmer Redstone. Drcsident ol nan oi c vii ngnu. nenneoy business executives on Ule neea . . Management. Boston vv,.....u , uiuv, UK me ai,EU0r voluntary uesei uuuuu ui torces in support it necessary. That is one alternative to the ballot box approach to civil rights. Small chance that this dangerous their establishments to avoid ra cial demonstrations! said the temper of the meetin was a "general endorsement" ol organizational meeting last Jan. alternative will keep the civil 24. He asked to be relieved ofirights controversy in the courts his duties. land off the streets. Medical Problems Loom In Future Space Flight HOUSTON. Tex. lUPIt The,one astronauts' doctor cautioned today that weightlessness may create troublesome medical problems on future long space flights despite the success of U.S. manned or bital operations to date. Dr. Charles A. Berry, who was responsible for L. Gordan Coop er's medical welfare during his 34-hour flight, said physiological effects of long weightless periods may make it necessary to equip long-endurance vehicles, like space stations, with artificial mavitv devices. Hn indicated he favored one more Mercury flight that ti, Drciint mi Ti iH.-iv i the President's proposals and a great aeai oi appiuvai ui me uu- jcctives, Joseph E. Chastain, president of the Linlz Department Stores with 100 executives of firms with outlets in the South to urge them to speed desegregation. He seemed to have convinced a num bcr of them that this should be done promptly. Ally. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson joined the President the 45-minute conference at the White House with the business men. Milton L. Elsbcrg of Alexan dria, Va.. president of Drug Fair Stores, said the consensus of the executives was that the desegrega- The fiber of the common flax plant was one of the first ma terials used by early man to make cloth. Stone Age women spun flax in 5000 B.C. NEW SHIPMENT! MATERNITY SPORTSWEAR TOPS CAPRIS SKIRTS PEDALS SALE 3 2 for (Q) Reg. 5.95 SAVE 2.16 Reg. 11.90 SAVE 4.98 Choose from skirts, copris, pedals in black, green mint, pink, beige, blue, turquoise, sizes 6-18. Co-ordinating tops! How does LaPointe's do it! based in Dallas, Tex., said he though the overall sense of the meeting supported cooperation with tlie President in attempting! to desegregate commercial facili-J ties as rapidly as possible. ! would be an open end mission- staying aloft as long as safe for astronaut and spacecraft. Berry described two possible ef- " "eignuessness inat wm rf fe Kcnnc( ,.mus, be of concern as astronauts head' , H , . ' -,, . The tone of the meeting, he said, was that "this is something which must be done in a matter mure flicht of longer duration Cooper's to continue the step-hy-step buildup of knowledge about gravity-free existence. "e arc not setting up straw "men so we can knock them down," Berry said in an inter view at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA' Manned Spacecralt Center, where lie is medical operations chief. "Not with anything we have learned can we say that man can t fly in spaie. But wo still don't know whether zero gravity is going tn be a problem" for astronauts during and after flight. Berry said there were no seri ous problems to limit man's abil ity in space at the 166-mile height and for the durations they h;iie been achieving. He said the time had come from the medical viewpoint to "commit man to loncer flights." Conferences are being lield be tween spacecraft center officials and NASA heads in Waj-hincton this week on whether to schedule into longer missions. One is tlie loss of calcium from the bones and its "mobilization" in (he blood and urine. "We want to know what the problem would be over a long period, say in a space station," Berry said. Another possible effect is hypo tension, a sort of "woozincss" like that which affects person! Project Mercury orb''Lho get up alter being bedridden Every Day If A RUMMAGE SALE At SALVATION ARMY THRIFT STORE Ith A Klamath 10 nil 1 Dalit GLASSES ON CREDIT! !r Green Stamps COLUMBIAN OPTICAL CO. 730 Main St. IrTI Superintendent CHANTS PASS tl'Pl '-Thomas V. Calkins, supervisor o( second ary schools witli the Slate Depait mrnt of Education, has been named superintendent of tlie Jo sephine County Stho.il District, rtfrctive Julv 1. He will fill the vacancy created hv the death of Eimcr Klcmin, lat April. 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