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Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS. Sat., June 1. 1963
Negro Gets Key
POPosition Here
John R. Strachan. a career pos
tal employee, began new duties
this week as the |13,000-a-year
assistant to Sean P. Keating,
regional director of the Post Of
fice Department’s New York Re
gion, marking the highest post a
Negro has been appointed to in
tly department in the New York
a’ ea.
The appointment comes on the
reels of a recent civil service
study which showed that 13,061 or
17 per cent of the 76,686 postal em
ployees in New York are Ne
groes. As assistant to the direc
tor. Mr. Stradhan, of 2160 Madi
son Ave., will be the third highest
ranking postal employee in the
region.
-
Janas Backs
Strachan, who was appoint
ed as chief of employment and
placement in the region last year,
was recommended for promotion
by Mayor Robert Wagner and
Harlem Democratic leader J.
Raymond Jones.
He is considered a specialist in
postal activities, and holds both
bachelors and masters degrees
from New York University. He
served four years in the Army
and two years as a public school
teacher here.
Region includes Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands and handles
ID per cent of all the mail in the
nation.
Catalog
Schomburg
Collection
A “Dictionary Catalog of the
Schomburg Collection of Negro
Literature and History’* has Just
been published by The New York
Public Library.
This nine - volume publica
tion contains, in photographic
form, the complete card catalog
—170,000 entries altogether—now
in the Library's unique Schom
burg Collection of Negro Litera
ture and Hiatorv, located at 103
West 136th Street.
For the first time, scholars,
students, and laymen throughout
the world who are interested in
Negro life and culture can, by
meane of the “Dictionary Cata
log,” become aware of the rich
resources and vast range of the
Schomburg collection.
Mr. Keating, in swearing in
Strachan in ceremonies Friday,
said he would assist him in mat
ters dealing with personnel, pub
lic information and in the imple
mentation of new programs which
go into effect on July 1 to speed
processing of mail. The New York
Thia library of special mater
ials is considered one of the most
important centers in the world
for the study of the Negro. Its
literature is international in scope
covering every phase of Negro
activity wherever Nggroes have
lived in significant numbers.
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Who Beat Youth?
Accuses Asst. Principal;
Principal Denies It
BY SARA SLACK
A Bronx mother, whose 11-
year-oid son was allegedly beat
en and punched in the head and
j face by a white assistant princi
pal at PS 1, Bronx, la drawing
up plans with her lawyers to
bring the assistant principal,
principal, and Board of Education
.into court on criminal assult
'charges.
Mrs Allene Jenkins of 681
Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx, moth
er of Kenneth Ray Haerring,
I said that last Wednesday when
(her son was brought home by
schoolmates, his face was cov
ered with welta, bruises and was
swollen and bleeding.
The mother said that her son
told her Earl Kuntz, assistant
principal at PS 1, Bronx, beat
him in the head and in his fare
with his fist. The mother said
the boy told her Kuntz had sum
moned the boy to his office for
a reprimand.
The boy told his mother that
he had been accused of being a
behavior problem, habitually not
doing his homework and pilfer
ing bread from a nearby store.
Denies It
Mrs. Dora Lapes, principal of
the school denied that Kuntz, her
I assistant principal, had struck
the boy. She told the Amster
dam News:
>
“There is no evidence that Mr.
Kuntz* at anytime struck Ken
neth. Thene is nothing that shows
the child' was struck. I’m Just
dumbfounded that the parent
would go to your paper.
“A storekeeper in the neighbor
hood accused three boys in our
school of petty pilfering. Ken
neth was supposed to be among
: them.
“Mr. Kuntz was told about this
> and spoke to Kenneth and some
- other boys about it. I know he
did not strike this child. The
mother came in, we discussed
the boy’s behavior problem and
she left with an amicable, friend
ly understanding between us."
Goes to Lawyer
The mother told this newspa
per that immediately after lis
tening to her child's version of
what happened, she took him to
Attorney Mary Jane Lowe.
“To do this to my child is a
sin and a shame. If he's bad
I’ll beat him myself, but to send
him home in this condition, is
criminal. I simply vton’t tolerate
it,” Mrs. Jenkins said.
“I’m filing euit and taking ev
eryone responsible to court be
cause this is the third time my
child has told me the officials
in that school beat him.
Mrs. Jenkins said upon the
advice of Attorney Lowe, she
had her son’s face photographed
from four different angles im
mediately after he arrived home.
She said since the beating, her
son continually suffers dizzy
spells.
NO EVIDENCE? — Wells
and cuts show up clearly oji
the faoe of 11-year-oid Kenneth
Ray Haerring, 5th grader at
tending PS 1 Bronx who tolti
his parents that Assistant Prin
cipal, Earl Kuntz beat hiin
about the head and face with
his fist. The principal denied
that Kuntz struck the child.
This photograph of the boy’-e
face was taken Immediately af
ter the child arrived home.
Burton And Blue Aid Rights Bill
Two Harlem Republican lead- peared before the House Juc
ers, Cary D. Blue, of the 11th As- iary Committee on May 28-29
sembly District, and Harold C. Washington, DC., In support
Burton, leader of the 12th A.D., Rep. John Lindsay’s civil rig
Square Deal Republican club.ap- bill.
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On European Trip
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell and
his wife, Yvette, arrived in Paris
Monday on the first leg of a
three-weeks European tour dur
ing which be will serve as an
official United States delegate to
the World Labor Conference
which opens in Geneva on June
June 8, and the Democratic Coun
ty Executive Committee meet
ing on June 10 when they will
select a canadidate for Council
man-at-large.
Prior to his leaving, however,
Powell wired Democratic County
leader Edward Costikvan deman
ding that a Negro b’ selected
for the post, and indicating that
his choice was ipubl’cLst John
Young, III.
jjPowdl said in his telegram i
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MARCAL
, that there are only tiwi Negroes
among the present 25-member
Council and that with the in
crease to 35 Counciknen in the
1 next election, “the party can do
1 no less than at least name a
Negro to the vacancy in Manhat
tan on the eve of the pivotal
11964 elections."
Youth Seminar
To Highlight
:rontiers Meet
A seminar on youth, which is
expected to feature several in
ternationally prominent figures,
will highlight the 27th Frontiers
International, Inc. convention set
for Chicago’s Sheraton - Black-
I stone Hotel August 20-23.
The convention will also fea-
■ ture a series of displays -at the-
hotel marking the 100th anrnver-
jsary of the signing of the Eman
cipation Proclamation.
The organization changed Its
convention date from July to
August in order that members
can also visit the Century of Ne
gro Progress Exposition at near
by McCormick Place.
HOSPITAL FUND PRESIDENT
Donald M. Elliman, adminis
trative vice president of The
Marifte Midland Trust Company
of New York, has been elect
ed to his third term as presi
dent -of the United Hospital
Fund of New York. Mr. Elli
man has been on the Board of
Directors of the Fund since
1959 and was general chairman
of its annual campaigns in 1958
and 1959.
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