New York Amsterdam News — 1969-06-22

Labor Office Problem Now Solved 4.3) Working Girls LYN —■ QUEERS Vol. XUI, No. 25 "SX*-AV SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1969-B Matter. Naw Y«rt NYC Mt NAACP - Manhasset-Fight THE (JTRLS — A Brooklyn and Queens club of 18 girls, calling themselves, naturally enough, The Girls, in which the letter “i” stands for “initiative, intelligence, integrity and in­ dustry." Here club members Camilla Jordan, Brenda Nash, Mary Jo Miller, Phyllis John­ son and Patricia Jones (left to right) prepare to sign up for summer vacation chores with Nurse Mary E. Miller, director of nurses at the Oxford Nurs­ ing Home for Volunteer Serv­ ice to the Senior Citizens. Suffering Boys McFadden, Leaders Make Up The boiling feud between Act­ ing Commissioner of Labor James McFadden and several Brooklyn leaders, over the soon to be opened Labor Office, seem- ed well on its way to be settled after a meeting, Tuesday after­ noon, in the Commissioner’s of­ fice. At the meeting led by Joseph Anderson, vice president of the Central Brooklyn Co - ordinating Council, McFadden admitted he had made a mistake not consult­ ing the committee in appointing Mr. Fields, and issued this state­ ment exclusively to this newspa­ per: OK SS'/i Million Co-op In Brooklyn Milton Mollen, Chairman of the Housing and Redevelopment Board, announced the granting of a $4.8 million mortgage loan and approval of the construction con­ tract for Pratt Towers, a $5.5 million, 326-family middle-income cooperative development to be built in the superblock bounded by De Kalb and Lafayette Ave­ nues, St. James Place and Clas- son Avenue, Brooklyn, under the City’s Limited Profit Housing Companies Program. Gates Ave. Projects Nixed The bulldozers won’t come in to raze Bedford- Stuyvesant brownstones and make way for two city projects on Gates Ave. from Lewis to Stuyvesant Aves. Not yet, and maybe never; depending on which point of view prevails. But last week's strong opposition from Bedford-Stuvves- ant residents forced the Board of Estimate to withhold approval and refer the issue back to the City Boosing Authority Brooklyn Borough Pratt Towers is the last of three buildings which comprise the $16.5 million, 978-family Uni­ versity Terrace development. This in turn is the final section of the $38 6 million, 1,839-family Pratt Institute urban renewal project. The first two sections of the ur­ ban renewal project, both com­ pleted, are Willoughby Walk, a $12 million development of three apartment buildings, each with 287 units, and the $3.3 million Pratt Institute 'development, con­ sisting of twodormitories, a stu­ dent union building and an on- campus athletic field for Pratt Institute. This action brings to approxi­ mately $185 million the total in mortgage loan contracts the City has signed for 19 developments under construction and 13 com pleted under the limited profit program. One to 1 Apartments at Pratt Towers will range from one to three bed­ rooms and are being sold to ten ant-cooperators at an estimated average of $485 per room with estimated monthly carrying char­ ges of *23.51 pee room, plus util tttes. Grand Jury For Killer A paroled killer who allegedly President struck again over the weekend without bail Wednesday Gardens Criminal Court Abe Stark made the motion which was told the Authority to re-examine jn the two projects in consultation with the community. x. Ghetto At the hearing, speakers charg- ed the city with trying to ram daughter, through proposals for low income accused man is Nathaniel housing that would create a "larg- Hooker, a 28 - year - old laborer er crowded ghetto.” And that on paroje since May 20. 1960,1 without their consultation. j from North Carolina for the fist veeant Association, sgfct public bousing had its place IB $ecirty. But he called for a new approach ’’which would take in more than a bull dozer” con- X speakers, spelling out this new approach, asked that loans be made to small homeowners for rehabilitation of the area. Where buildings can not be reno­ vated, they said, small garden- type apartments should be built. Sweeping but the idea of sweeping through the area with bull dozers and dispossessing residents of homes they struggled hard to buy, met withering fire as speak­ er after speaker went to the lec­ tern In the board’s City Hall chamber. Said Mrs. Marjorie Hoover Thornton, of 753 Gates Av® * “I say to you that you will not take our homes. Before you do I a blaok mother, guarantee you this—I will stand in the mid­ dle of the street and your bull­ dozers will cross my body first.” Police said Hooker went to vis­ it bis girl, Edna Mae Wimms, 29, who occupied an adjoining apart­ ment in the same building in which he lived at 109-18 164th St., Jamaica but boiled into a rage when the woman’s daughter, Gwendolyn, told him her mother was not at home and that she didn’t know where she had gone. According to police. Hooker drew a picket knife and stabbed the youngster then went in search of the mother. He found her near 156th 8t. and 110th Ave. about 2:15 a m. Saturday morning and allegedly stabbed her fatally in the chest. Police, interrogating Hooker at the Jamaica station, learned fin­ ally that be had also stabbed the child. She was taken to Mary Im­ maculate Hospital after tying for nearly five hours uncared for in the bedroom of . the apartment. Hospital spokesmen said her con­ dition was fair this week. Jamaica NAACP Holds Memorial For Medgar The Department of Labor agreed completely with the Labor Advisory committee of the C.B.C. C. that there should be and will be complete and mutual coopera­ tion in the planning and execution of programs that are geared to assist the workers of the Bedford- Stuyvesant area in obtaining bas­ ic educational skills, basic work­ ers skills, and good jobs. There was an agreement that the al workers educational program scheduled to start on July 8 in the Girls High School should be pub­ licized as widely as possible throughout the community. The Committee will co-operate in so doing. The details of this prog­ ram which is set up to give those who have not completed their high school education a second ■ be Brooklyn Surrogates Court chance of acquiring the neces- this week appointed Mr. Octav- sary basic edJcattoLi skills is Uwi. the father of an 18- Slain Ready OUT OF NOWHERE—INTO PAIN: “They came from out of nowhere," said motorist > Mra. Della Odums after her ,. auto collided with cyclists at Linden Boulevard near 170th St. A policeman and specta­ tors comfort Edward Johnson of 174-16 111th Ave., back­ ground, and Kevin Dyson of 109-15 174th St. Youth’s Estate To Sue The City for the grand jury charged with the open door to many jobs that co?e«« stud*nt wl™ wa< are now closed. Testing for this sl»in Ju?e,6 “ a »cuiLe Wito nar- program will start at 1 p.m. July cotic’ Electives, to administer killing his girl friend and criti- ie the dead youth’s estate for the caUy stabbing her 7-year - old 1 at Girls High. Everybody Is ------------------ _—.----------------------- . ' „ . .. .. purposes of a contemplated suit for damages hgainst the city. | *: Attorney Joseph McLemore, of 141 Broadway, who Is represent­ ing MrTewls, said the next step ift the damage action, the notice of claim, would follow amost im eligible to apply. Edna Waters Says Bklyn. Man Bilked Unemployed Women Speaking for the Bedford-St uy slaying of a girl friend for which f £ >sant Community Improvement he served an eight - year term'■* SrVMhi Arthur Bramwell) fOr first degree manslaughter. Miss Edna E. Waters, esteemed ehurchwoman and long time fun­ ctionary of the Brooklyn Elks, died last Thursday at Lefferts General Hospital and was bur­ ied Monday in Evergreen Ceme­ tery, Bklyn, after rites conducted by the Rev. Henry Deas at New­ man Memorial Methodist Church 257 Macon St., Bklyn Miss Waters, of 1091 Sterling Place, Bklyn., had been the bookkeeper for the Brooklyn Lodge No. 32, I.B.P.OJE. of W. (Elks) and was rendered final honors by the order during the funeral. She is survived by a sister, Marita Waters, a Federal civil appeared at the Beekman Street service employee, and brothers Alfred E- Waters, anassistant office following tl»e filing of their applications for the jobs, police were called to quell the dis­ turbance resulting from the fact that the offices were found va- principal at PS 258, and Robert G. Waters, a supervisor at the Grand Central Post Office. All reside in Brooklyn. Westchester Leaguers Has Membership Drive Hundreds of unemployed wom­ en in the New York area were | the victims of a scheme con­ cocted by a Brooklyn man who inserted advertisements in local newspapers offering them Jobs but who instead pocketed a $6 fee they forwarded at his request. Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz has charged. cant and the whereabouts of Montagna unknown. The women then appealed to the Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Frauds and Protection for help. Attorney General Lefkowitz said he has filed an application in Supreme Court, New York County, asking that Montagna and his organization be enjoined from conducting his business in a “fraudulent and illegal mann- er. The Attorney General charged that George Montagna, alias George Tomasino, doing busi­ ness as Atlas Research Com­ pany. Inc., of 1 Beckman Street, offered as "bait” to prospective Job seekers a salary of "$80 to start, $90 after two months, with no experience necessary The Attorey General also said that Montagna surrendered to one of his staff members yester­ day, was served with the pa­ pers in the action and then was brought before an Assistant New When more than 100 women York County District Attorney. According to the petition of Assistant Attorney General Ste­ phen Mindell, which is on file in the court, Montagna placed an advertisement in newspapers in May offering the employment to women. After answering the advertisement, applicants were required to forward a $6 fee, which the company requested as a charge for “special equipment and bonding fee.” justly proud of its record in pro­ moting harmonious race rela­ tions. But much remains to be done here. Subtle discrimination in housing, education, and em­ ployment is Just as surely a denial of the Awriean dream as Is the unleashing of vicious dags on helpless children.” Division leaders for the cam­ paign include Bertha White of New RocheHe, fernest Lindsay of New Rochelle and Thelma Washington of Yonkers: Team Captains are Richard Maaaa of White Plains, Ann Sterling of Elmsford, Douglas Williams and Cora Tolliver of White Plains, Willie Dawkins of Mamaroneck and Marion Hazelwood and Betty Davis of White Plains. The steering committee for the campaign includes those named plus Margaret Basket! of Elmsford and Beatrice Terry The job offered to applicants was to be one connected with department stores “to investi­ gate the honesty and efficiency of sales persons.” “The fact Is that none of the representations made by Mon­ tagna were true and were made by him knowing they were false and with the intent to induce applicants to pay a fee of $6,” the papers state. Attorney General Lefkowitz said the papers disclose that Mon­ tagna has no acutual business at all and merely rented office space “to give color” to hte operation. He said that the advertisement attracted many women in poor economic status who could not afford to lose the $6 registration fee. "His operation was all the more vicious because he held out false hopes of employment to the unemployed,” the Attorney General said. Over 500 Queens residents re­ dedicated themselves to the civil rights struggle at a Jamaica NA­ ACP sponsored memorial serv­ ice held Bunday, June 18, at the Morning Star Baptist Church, Ja­ maica. for Medgar W Evers, Jackson. Miss.. NAACP Field Secretary killed last week. He was eulogised by Attorney W Eugene Sharpe. Jamaica branch labor and industry com­ mittee chairman who had confer­ red with Mr Evers in Jackson, only a week before Ms death. Attorney William R. Booth, branch president, led the assem­ bly '» re-dedicatory prayer. He represented the Jamaica chapter at Mr. Evers’ funeral service in Jaekson, Miss. Other speakers included Gloe- ter Current, national director of branches who wa* the last person to see Mr. Evers alive in Jack- son; also Dr. Ann A. Hedgeman. Making brief remarks, Dr. Eu­ gene T. Reed, president of the New York Conference of NAACP branches, bitterly attacked the so - called "white moderates L» warned that they were "rclf- fl individuals Interested only in vhemaelvA” and could not bring about a peaceful solution of the racial strife. The Urban League of West­ chester opened its annual mem­ bership drive this week by urg- Gounty residents to "be as copwned about civil rights In Westchester as they are about the denial of those rights In Birmingham (Ala.) and Jackson (Miss.).” William K Wolfe, the League's Executive Director, announced that the membership campaign will aim at recruiting 750 new members and raising $8000. Mrs Max Meyer of Katonah was appointed chairman of the campaign which will extend through June 20 Co-chairmen are Mrs. Booker Terry and John Rogers, both of White Plains At the end of the service the clergy from 19 local churches led a procession through the streets. At the head of the Uae cheater." In annew eing was borne a large photograph of drive, Mrs. Meyer sain Medgar W. Evers. Theme of the campaign will be “Unfinished Busines in West- the Westchester County may be of White Plains. mediately. No dollar amount was specified. Sophomore The slain youth, Morris Lewis, a sophomore at Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, N.C., was buried in Wilmington, N.C., last week. He had been in New York 48 hours preparing for summer employment to help fin­ ance his education, bis* family said. The officer who fired the fatal shot into young Lewis, Detective John McClean, of the Narcotics Squad, will appear Thursday in Brooklyn Criminal Court to press a charge of possessing narcotics against Morris* sister, Clara, registered nurse with whom Mor­ ris was going to spend the sum­ mer at 233 Greene Ave. Questioning police accounts of the shooting and of the narcotics possession charges, attorneys for Clara Lewis said “This is a filthy, nasty story that will stand a lot of probing ” CD Helpers Needed The 79th Precincts Civil De­ fense Units, Auxiliary Police and Rescue Service are looking for volunteers to train and serve their community During the Cu ban crisis Police CommiMioner Michael Murphy made an urgent appeal for volunteers to assist the Police Department carry out it’s obligations to the people of the City of New York. Although Cuba is out of the headUnea temporarily, thia does not mean that we should sit back and do nothing. Now is the tirAe to be­ came active in Civil Defense, so that there may never be another Cuban crisis. De Facto Bias Is Dead In N. Y. State The Manhasset school segregation case sailed into its eighth week in Brooklyn Federal Court Thursday in the wake of one history-making decision and itself ploughing the legal waves toward another. Just 48 hours earlier Dr. James E. Allen, New York State educa­ tion commissioner ruled that lo­ cal school boards in the state must break up predominantly Negro public school enrollments — an order which sounded the death knell of the so - called neighborhood school plan. Ruling Commissioner Allen’s ruling, which came as a decision on an appeal filed on behalf of ele­ mentary school pupils at the most­ ly Negro Woodfield Road School in Malverne, L.I., gave the Mal­ verne school board until Septem­ ber to eliminate the racial imbal ance in its schools. J awn Sandifer, NAACP attor­ ney who is arguing the Manhas­ set ease, said that although the Commissioner’s edict wopld lay down the guide lines for non-dis­ crimination in New York Stgte it could have no effect nationwide and that a desideratum of the Manhasset plaintiffs is fhat the Manhasset case go eventually to the Supreme Court where a rul- .- ’ing would become the law of the land. “Dr. Allen’s fine decision has not rendered the Manhasset case a moot one,” said Mr. San­ difer. “We prefer that this action go eventually to the Supreme Court where it will have nation­ al implications.” Well before the commission­ er’s ami - bias ruling, however, Sandifer struck what appeared to be a crucial body blow to the Manhasset school board’s de­ fence of its de facto segregation policies, when he opened up on School Superintendent Raymond L. Collins, forcing him to admit that an "all - school council” of ranking board members and Man­ hasset school principal (includ­ ing himself) hr.d recommended Clean-Up Campaign Planned The Bedford-Stuyvesant Neigh­ borhood Council kicks off an .am­ bitious “clean - up campaign” this Saturday at 11 a.m., with a big opening ceremony at the Bed­ ford YMCA, under the direction of “Y’s" director Russel Service, and a motorcade which will con­ tain floats, canpaign material and campaign throw - aways. The campaign, set for the per­ iod of June 22 to July 22, will center around a 22-Mock area bounded by Lafayette Avenue to Monroe Street and from Nostrand Avenue to Sumner Avenue. This i, depicted as almoet solidly Negro contains some 16,432 people Bulk Pick-Up _ The council, meeting this week has planned a far ranging prog­ ram including a cleen-up of all city and private lots, with a bulk pick-up system from July 8 to July 20. During that time all old and broken material in your base­ ment can be placed on the side­ walk for pick-up. integration of the school be­ cause che segregated children were being deprived. Lengthy Memo. The recommendation was made in a lengthy memorandum contained in the minutes of the all - school council of Jan. 15, 1958. Other minutes revealing the Manhasset educators’ awareness of a segregation problem went jack to 1957 — four years before the institution of the NAACP suit in October 1961, although OoWns lad said he knew nothing of any complaints about the mostly all- Negro Valley School until then and that there had been no dis­ cussion of the matter with the faculty. Federal Judge Joseph C. Za- vatt indicated he would recall both Dr. Collins and Assistant Superintendent Henry B. Brlckell for personal questioning. Early last week Judge Zavatt kept his month • old promise to tour the entire Manhasset school system presumably because of a defense effort to show that tower educational standards at the Val- ley School result from low Brtng standards in the school area. Sandifer, who accompanied the judge along with defease attor­ ney Samuel Lane, other members of the court and of the school board, vigorously opposed Za> yatt’s plans to visit Negro homes in the area unannounced as an invasion of privacy and irrelev­ ant to the case. “My purpose was not to eon- ceai anything,” Sandifer said, “but the court’s announced pur- pose for the visit was to evaluate the homelife of the Valley School children and that kind of snap judgment couldn’t be made on a one or two - minute visit. So far as concealing anything ]g coo. cerned, 1 think he would have been pleasantly surprised by many of the homes.” Malverne Decision In the Malverne decision Coro- misstoner Allen sent a letter to local school authorities In which he defined a racially imbalanded school as one having 50 per cent or more Negro pupils. Sfo requested the aehool districts to submit a statement of policy re­ garding the "maintenance rtf ra­ cial balance in your schools” and asking for reporta on what steps are beinj taken to eliminate the racial imbalance in those schools where it exists. Robert L. Carter, chief coun­ sel for the NAACP, presented the case for Negro parents begin­ ning in 1969 when they rebelled at having tneir children ”go to school on an ethnic reservation ” He said Dr. Allen was tRs firgt ’ commissioner to "project a state- wide plan to eliminate (de facto segregation) realistically” Commissioner Allen appefeted a three - man Committee on Hu­ man Relations and Community Tensions in 1963 following sit-in demonstrations at the Woodfield Rd. School and the committee last month reported a 75 to X ra­ tion of Negroes to white, declar­ ing: Exclusive * When a neighborhood school becomes improperly exclusive in fact or spirit, or when it le view­ ed as being reserved for certttfh community groups, or when Its effect Is to create or continue a ghetto - type situation, it does not serve the purposes of democrat­ ic education.” Frank X. Alttmarl, lawYsr fer the Malverne board, amazement at Dr. Allfla’te ion and held that the tee’s proposal to place: ten > through - third • pils in two of the schools and fourth and fifth ere in Woodfield Bd. School wodtd rffla children as we would n deck of cards.” Meetings for the Auxiliary Po­ nce are held each Monday night Also planned are ten demon­ at 8:00 P.M. in room ”D” of stration lota to be fenced in by Girls High School, Nostrand Ave. the City and to be tended by and Halsey St. Volunteers wtH sponsoring block associations. receive training in Law, First TWere will be awards for partic­ Aid, Crowd Control, Protection ipation and achievement. The from Fallout and other interest- Council wUl also encourage resl- lng s<rf>jects. Au,owe interested dents to make complaints about in obtaining further information substandard buildings, vacant may contact Ptl. George Vader lots and sanitation problems. 79th Precinct Civtt Defense Co- Austin Henry, president of the ordinator at GLenmore 2-8986 or Council, said: "We have great co­ at the 79th Precinct station house operation from the Sanitation De­ 827 Gates Ave., Brooklyn. N. Y. partment and the puttee, and Captain Edward Jenkins, Com­ are working with the Bedford- manding Officer, 79th Precinct Stuyvesant Area Services Com­ GLenmore 2-6986 mittee under Darwir Bolden.’’ Untitled Document file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/hello.html2/18/2007 11:01:03 AMThomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 www.fultonhistory.com