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
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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-
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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!
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