FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1954 End of Public Schools Voted Mississippi Legislature Votes To Separate Negroes, Whites Editorial on page eight JACKSONi Miss., Sept. 16 (/P) Standby authority to abolish public schools to keep Negroes and whites separated cleared Mississippi’s Legislature today. The amendment to the state constitution goes to a vote of the people Dec. 21. Gov; Hugh White predicted the people would ratify: the amendment. But leaders ad mit there is a strong undercur rent of opposition. The : House of Representatives yesterday whipped a move to use state funds “to fully inform the people of tl\is state of the provi sions and purposes of the pro posed amendment, ” The amendment’s opponents, joined by some supporters, shout ed rejection of “being propagan dized with state funds’’ to get the people’s support at the polls. Sponsors labeled the amend ment a “last resort” measure ■to be used only if other methods fail to keep segregated schools despite the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing public school segrega tion. The .state Senate gave the amendment the last of three re quired approvals today, one week after the H'ouse overwhelmingly passed it. The amendment is the first pro duct of the Legal Educational Ad visory Committee, created by the 1954 Legislature to find ways of getting around the Supreme Court decision.- Later, the LEAC will recommend specific laws it hopes will make the “last resort” un necessary. LEAC members promised to support a public school building program to improve Mississippi’s schools if the amendment is rati fied. They agreed that better Negro facilities would help keep segre gated schools on a voluntary basis. But some LEAC members, hold ing decisive legislative posts, have refused to support appropriations for school buildings unless the amendment is ratified. If the people ratify the amend ment, it will be inserted in the state constitution by the next leg islature. Under the amendment, the Leg islature could: 1. Abolish schools throughout Mississippi by a two-thirds vote. 2. By a majority vote, set up a local option plan whereby indi vidual counties and school dis tricts could abolish their schools. 3. Sell, lease or rent state owned school property. 4. Pay tuition for students to attend private’ schools. Scientists Find Oil in North BOSTON, Sept.. 16 (£>)—'There’s oil in the frozen wastes around the meandering magnetic pole, a scientific expedition reported to day- upon its return from an ex ploratory voyage of more than 8,000 miles aboard the fishing ves sel Monte Carlo. Heading the scientififc staff was the Rev. Daniel Linehan, S.J., di rector of the-Boston College Seis mograph station, who compiled records which may show the ex pedition was first to localize the pole, an area rather than a pre cise point on the globe, in the vi cinity of Boothia Peninsula, about 1100 miles from the true North Pole. American Motorcycle Assn. MOTORCYCLE RACES SUNDAY, 2:30 P.M. New Half Mile Track New. Low, Popular Prices ALTOOMA-TYRONE SPEEDWAY—Tipton Along Route 220, South of ■Tyrone, Toward Altoona Jail'. Term Ends For Indignant Cabot Housewife ERIE, Pa., Sept. 16 (/P)—Mrs. Dorothy Montag, 34-year-o,ld But ler County housewife who chose a jail term rather than pay a traffic fine she considered unjust, will be released from Erie Coun ty Jail tomorrow. . That’s when her sentence is up, Warden Jay Sherman said today. Mrs. Montag, of Cabot, was jailed Monday night on a charge of driving through a stop sign in nearby Union City June 27. She denied the charge and claimed the arresting officer was 60 yards from the scene. Given her choice of paying an $8.50 fine or spending five days in jail, Mrs. Montag took the jail term “as a matter of principle.” Hospital Waste Reported CHICAGO, Sept. 16 (IP) —A Michigan doctor asserted today that unnecessary use of hospital facilities by insured patients has forced the cost of hospitalization insurance out of the reach of 25 per cent of American families. Dr. Harry F. Becker, medical director of the Michigan Hospital Service Blue Cross, told the an nual convention of the American Hospital Assn, that “profound changes” will be needed to re duce unnecessary costs. He said prepayment “has re sulted in millions of unnecessary days of hospital bed occupancy and many millions of unnecessary procedures. This, perhaps more than any other factor, is presently pricing hospital care out of the pockets of the lower income seg ments of our population.” The cure, he went on, is to find a way of maintaining high quality in patient care for those who need it, but to relieve insurance com panies from . furnishing hospital beds to those whose condition does not require it. He. suggested these steps: 1. General hospitals must ar range for much minor surgery and most diagnostic procedures to be Penn State vs. Illinois Special Football Party fe ATTENTION! ALL STUDENTS, ALUMNI AND in i FOLLOWERS OF PENN STATE'S FOOTBALL TEAM Enjoy a relaxing Irip io Urbana, Illinois via v x x rf* > •• >*✓ XSX. Pi*G£ Five