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.
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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
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Mother-in-Law
In Custody Suit
PARIS, Sept. (JP) Rich,
young Jimmy Goldsmith, who
captured a daughter of the Patino
tin dynasty for his bride, fought
her mother today for his (Own
daughter, half-orphaned and' ail
ing.
The 20-year-old British hotel
heir said the infant Isabela Gold
smith, born prematurely by Cae
sarian section last May 14 shortly
before the death of his beautiful
wife, had been kidnaped. He de
manded police help to get her
back.
A lawyer for his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Antenor, Patino, said the kid
nap talk wasn’t true and Gold
smith knew it. He said Mrs. Pa
tino is keeping the 4-month-old
child in “a safe place” and has
petitioned a Paris court for per
manent custody.
The child’s birth came at a time
of tragedy in the romantic mar
riage of Goldsmith and Isabela
Patino, 18-year-old pride of the
immensely wealthy Bolivian tin
family whose fortunes and mis
fortunes keep them in the lime
light. The marriage was cut short
when the bride died under surg
ery for a brain tumor five months
later.
carried out without admitting the
patient to the hospital.
2. Some hospitals should estab
lish convalescent sections, staffed
by less highly skilled personnel.
At present, most hospitals are set
up to. handle a 100 . per cent quota
of critically ill patients whereas
60 per cent usually are convales
cent.
3. Physicians must accept the
hospital outpatient department for
diagnosis and some forms of treat
ment.
Dr. Becker said a study of con
ditions .in Michigan hospitals
showed that Blue Cross members
misused their hospital stays in
nearly 36 per cent of cases, com
mercially insured patients mis
used theirs in 30 per cent while
patients who paid their own bills
showed faulty use in less than 14
per cent of admissions.
Make Your Reservations Immediately !
Probes of Funds Begin
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (JP) —Twin , congressional probes of re
ported abuses and mismanagement of union welfare and pension
funds , were in the works today.
The office of Sen. Irving Ives (R-N.Y.) made public letters from
presidents of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of
ndustrial Organizations, promis
ing full cooperation with a spe
cial Senate probe Ives heads. The
welfare funds add up to billions
of dollars.
Ives, slated to be nominated as
Republican . candidate for gov
ernor of New York, will continue
to direct the Senate inquiry which
was given $125,000 for its probe.
Rep. Samuel McConnell (R-Pa.)
heads a similar House Labor sub
committee investigation which
was given $75,000 for its inquiry.
It will begin public hearings in
Los Angeles next Wednesday.
. Meanwhile a special New York
state investigation is under way
in the same field with public
hearings before the state insur
ance superintendent!
William ' Leece, directing the
probe under Sen. Ives, said in
formal coordination should pre
vent any duplication in the sep
arate Senate and House inves
tigations.
Leece also said he expects that
hearings and recommendations of
the New York state inquiry will
be made available for the Senate
study.
Before Ives became involved in
the New York gubernatorial cam
paign; he announced that the Sen
ate five-man Labor subcommittee
would conduct a staff study of all
union pension and welfare funds
before any formal hearings.
In line with this he. wrote presi
dents Walter Reuther of the CIO
and George Meany of the AFL
asking cooperation and promising
“an impartial and objective” in
vestigation.
Ives said the Senate study would
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WDFM Will Begin
Broadcasts Monday
Campus radio station WDFM
will go on the air at 7:30 p.m.
Monday.
The station may be heard at
91.1 megacycles on frequency
modulation radios, or 640 kilo
cycle on ampere modulation
in the West Dormitory area.
The station will broadcast
programs nightly during the
semester from ' 7:25 p.m. to
10:30 p.m., Theodorre Bair, sta
tion manager, has announced.
cover all union funds resulting
from collective bargaining and
then decide on “the adequacy of
existing controls and the need, if
any, for remedial legislation.”
He said “employers, insurance
carriers and trade union officials”
would .be questioned.
Both Reuther and Meany, in
letters to Ives, said they welcomed
the. investigation and promised
their organizations and affiliates
would cooperate fully.
Reuther said there “has been
evidence of abuse of and mis
management in the operation of
some welfare and pension funds.”
. Meany said there were “rela
tively few cases in which abuses
have occurred.”
They agreed that any abuses
damaged the welfare and pension
programs which have become a
major benefit in recent collective
bargaining.
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