New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00542
1963
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Minister Hits
March On D. C,
A Georgia-born minister of
New York said the proposed
march on Washington, scheduled
for Aug. 28, would accompttsh
nothing and predicted that
"tempers are bound to flare"
if the march goes through as
planned-
The Rev. Dr. Lee A. Belford,
associate rector of the Episco
pal Church of the Epiphany at
York Ave. and 74th St., made
his comments in a sermon Sun
Wait School
Site Report
In Newark
day at the church.
"Imagine several hundred I
thousand people merging in a I
city unable to take care of such I
a number, inadequate sanitary '
facilities, inadequate emergency i
medical service or food facil
ities for such a number," he |
said.
The Joint Committee on Civil
Rights, a group of Negro and
white organizations sponsoring
the march, did not say
how many persons were expect
ed to take part in the march,
but it was previously estimated
that 100,000 Americans of all
races and creeds might take
part.
Danger Of Injury
Dr. Belford, a native of Sa
vannah, said that he felt "that
tempers are bound to flare in '
the beat of a Washington sum
mer and there is the danger
that people will be injured and
property destroyed.”
(The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., one of the committee's
members, last week said that he
expected the march to be a
peaceful demonstration, unac
companied by violence.)
The Episcopal clergyman said
he thought the inarch would fail
in its objective of exerting pres
sure on Congress to pass civil
rights measures.
Sees Resentment
He added that he felt that
Congress should resent any at
tempt at this sort of pressure,
saying "no citizen should believe
that merely by storming the cap
ital Congress would be forced
to meet their demands.”
A source cloee to the march’s,
planners said this week a cen
tral office was being sought in
Harlem and probably would be
set up late this week or next
The office will serve as head
quarters where strategy will be
outlined for the march. The Har
lem area was considered as an
excellent location for the office
because its proximity to the
major Negro organizations.
Riverton
Tenants To
Get Interest
Tenants at Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company's Riverton.
Peter Cooper Village, Stuyvesant
Town and Parkchester housing
communities will receive interest
on their rent security deposits
in the future, it was announced
by the Company.
Effective July 1, more than
25,000 tenants will be affected
by this new policy. Before moving
Into an apartment each tenant
has followed the customary prac
tice of depositing with the Com
pany the equivalent of one month's
rent. This amount is returned
when the tenant vacates the
apartment, provided it 11 un
damaged and all rents have been
paid.
The advent of electronic proc
essing equipment in banking has
facilitated the handing of com
plex recordkeeping for such de
posits. Interest will be given
directly to tenants once each
year—at prevailing rates—by the
Chase Manhattan and First Nat
ional City Banks.
All rent security funds have
been deposited in savings accounts
at the two banking institutions.
There the funds will be admin
istered by the savings depart
ments.
IN NEWARK — Picket clutch
es sign as he is dragged to
site of fracas that broke out
last week Wednesday at con
struction site of New Barring
er High School during demoo-
strations in Newark (UPI
Photo».
—
Negro Prckets
Halt School
Construction
NEWARK, N.J. — Construction
work on the $6,500,000 Barringer
High School building, which was
halted after being picketed by
members of the Newark Coordin
ating Council resumed briefly on
ly to be halted again.
Harold Ashby, Board of Educa
tion president, gave the cease or
der to Joseph Polimeni, superin
tendent of construction for the
general contractor, Arhtur Ven-
neri Company of Westfield.
Ashby gave his order when a
bus with some 100 persons and a
caravan of cars drove up to the
construction site, and the people
alighted and started forming pick
et lines.
Pickets, members of the New
ark Coordinating Council, are a
group from Negro organizations
which charge that of the 200 work
ers hired to construct the build
ing only 20 are Negro. *
At Amsterdam News press time
construction was at a standstill.
TWO MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ma University in Tuscaloosa,
FIGHTERS — Mrs. Autherine Alabama, in 1965, is shown with
Lucy Foster, one of this nation’s her new set of twins in St. Eli-
most celebrated students and zabeth's Hospital in Houston,
first Negro to integrate Alaba- Texas. The babies, destined to
be spunky, brave integration-
ists like their Mom, made their
entrance June 29. They are
Hugh Lawrence, U, left and An
gela Jane. —(UPI Telephoto)
Medical Committee For Civil
Rights To Press For Showdown
The newly - formed Medical
Committee for Civil,Rights plans
to press for a showdown with the
American Medical Association to
affirm its stand on racial segre
gation despite last week’s move
by the AMA to deal with the pro
blem by setting up a joint com
mittee with the National Medical
Association, a Negro group.
tion, the Medical Civil Rights
Committee picketed the AMA con
vention headquarters in Atlantic
City. The committee urged the
AMA to "speak out immediately
and unequivocally" against rac
ial segregation in medicine and in
health services.
Besides the announced plans to
follow up the desegregation issue
with the AMA, Dr. John L. 8. Hol
loman Jr„ of New York, co-chair
man, said fact - finding missions
will be undertaken in the South
July 15 starting with Albany, Ga.,
and then New Orleans.
Closed Societies
The Joint committee, compris
ed of three representatives of
each organization, would work to
gether with the Negro group
which would point out specific
cases of racial inequalities Involv
ing Negro physicians
Last month in its first public ac-
The group had also asked AMA
to use its organizational strength
to desegregate state and county
medical societies in the South or
open its membership to Negro
physicians excluded from their
state and county medical societies
because of their race.
GILBEYS GIN
dry,
smooth,
flavorful.
The Committee also will dis
cuss at a meeting Friday its plans
to take part in the scheduled Aug.
28 civil rights demonstration in
Washington and will at that time
release a summary of a state
ment to be presented to Congres
sional committees. In it will be a
proposal for legislation covering
hospital and other community
health services that practice rac
ial discrimination.
Dr. John1 H. Mulholland has
been named 'co - chairman to
work along with Dr. Holloman.
The new officer is chairman of
the Department of Surgery, New
York University School of Med
icine.
Phillip Nash, 11, of 2292 Eighth
Ave., was struck and seriously
Injured Friday evening at 124th
St. and Eighth Ave. by an auto
which wit driven by David
Heller, 57, of 475 FDR Drive.
Police »a£d the youth report
edly darted between two parked
cart. The right fender, of the
auto struck him. Mrs. Bessie
Nash accompanied her son to
the hospital.
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Manhattan (120 W. 14th St.) for HOUSinO DIOS
the Army's Star Lake Camps . .
near Bloomingdale. New Jersey. HGOrinCI Set
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The contingent was part of a .
group of 355 boys and girls from 11"| N6WQrK
the metropolitan area who con ,
verged on the separate camps TRENTON, N.J. - The New
tor a two Trask camping period. Jersey Division on Civil Rights
The camping season of four tiro- h„ on1ered , bl|f
a^rirt^™
,u,y 15 00 *COTnplalnt n,ed
through Mrs. Kenneth Benton against the
In all, 1,500 boys and girls Xw"rk
from the metropolitan area are h-T
scheduled to be given a camping
denied the
experience this summer at Star 0W”rtu"‘,v *» "nt »Pa*
Lake. Colonel Edward Carey, dlr- ™ent there he<>aus<’ thpy are
ector of Metropolitan New Salva- Ncgroe*
tion Army operations, said.
Both are teachers In the Es-
------------------------------- sex County public school Rytem
, £
* the Wv-
ision established there was prob
Picture-Taking
*
Remember, film la perishable able cause for the action, and
so keep it away from hot. humid the hearing was set after medi-
areaa. Don't carry film in auto- ation efforts to obtain the rental
mobile glove compartments or for Mrs. Benton were rejected
on rear paekage shelves durtng|by the owners nt the Ivy Hill
hot weather.
Part Apartments.
Secretary of State Caroline K.
Simon has announced that each
individual who rents a barber
chair from a barber shop owner
must now secure a barber shop
owner's license.
In making the announcement
Mrs. Simon emphasized that li
censing by the Department of
State has as Its primary pur
pose protection of the public, at
the same time respecting the in
terests of the licensees.
The law, enacted by the 1963
Legislature as Chapter 502 of the
Laws of 1963, amends, the Gen
eral Business Law so that the
term "barber shop” now Includes
any part of any store, establish
ment, place or premises where
bartering Is practiced. This
means that a barber who leases
one or more chairs from a li
censed shop owner to practice
barberlng on his own must him
self be licensed aa an owner.
Application blanks are avail
able si (he Department of State.
Division of Licensing Services.
95 Central Avenue, Albany, New
York, or at the other offices of
the Department listed below:
270 Broadway, New York 7,
N.Y.;
19-21 Chenango Street.
Binghamton, N.Y.; State Office
Building, Buffalo, N.Y.; 65 Broad
Street, Rochester. N.Y:; State
Office Building. Syracuse, N.Y.;
1500 Genesee Street, Utica, N.Y.
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AT CITY HALL - The Rev.
the Rev. Dr. W. Eugene Hou
James Gordon Gilkey Jr.,
ston, the commission’s direct
chairman of the Commission
or, and Mayor Wagner (1 to r
on Religion and Race of the
foreground) turn to greel
Presbytery of New York City,
wellwishers before the Mayoi
spoke to Presbyterian demon-
straters last Wednesday who
started sympathy protests ag
ainst discrimination in hous
ing. employment and schools.
(Gilbert Photo).
Presbyterians Demonstrate
(See Editorial Page)
By MALCOLM NASH
"Are those people members
of the NAACP or CORE?" asked
a passerby of a reporter, point
ing to a large number of Negro
and white demonstrators para
ding in front of City Hall.
"No." replied the reporter,
but before he could finish the
passerby interjected:
"Oh, it’s a labor group."
"No, they’re church demon
strators,” he was told.
Looking somewhat surprised,
the man sheepishly nodded:
”'"Hhmm. The church is dem
onstrating now. Got a helluva
turnout here.”
New Commission
The demonstrating church was
the Presbytery of New York
City, an organization of 122 local
Presbyterian churches of 51,000
members in the five boroughs.
Last Wednesday was the first
time the church, under its newly
formed Commission on Religion
and Race, actively entered the
civil rights fight.
Under the leadership of the
Rev. Dr. W. Eugene Houston,
director of the commission and
pastor of Harlem's Rend all
Memorial Presbyterian Church,
the demonstrators - more than
5ou strong - paraded in front
of City Hall to dramatize its
protest arainst segregation and
discrimina n».
Clergymen, white and Negro,
padded in the long, winding
lines, just under the shadow of
City Hall
From Long Island
Teenage girls and youths, a
good number of whom came
from Nassau and Suffolk count
ies in Long Island, just beyond
the city line, cheerfully but du-
tihilly wound their way, carry
ing pickets and sometimes
chanting.
Some represented the Wom
en's Guild of the church.
Some came in bus loads from
Siloam Presbyterian Church in
Brooklyn.
Others had rustled down from
Harlem and the Bronx, from
such churches as Mt Morris
Presbyterian Church and St
Augustine Presbyterian Church.
On Signs
"Put an end to discrimina
tion". ., ."Equality in EmpAoy-
meat”... ."Fair housing for Ne
groes and Puerto Ricans”. ..
"Freedom Now.”
Those were the inscriptions
on softie of the signs, but one
■
Rent A-Chair
Barbers Must
Get License
and shall use every means to
motivate our government in the
same direction." '
He made the statement, with
the sun beating down on him
and the demonstrators, In a
speech following an address by
Mayor Wagner.
The Presbyterian leader said
the commission would "work
with every group concerned with
integration - CORE. NAACP and
the Inter-group Committee."
Mayor’s Remarks
Mr. Wagner assured the Pres
byterian demonstrators, who in
cluded Brooklyn's Rev. Milton
A. Galamison and Harlem’s Rev.
Eugene Adair, that City Hall
would do what it could to com
bat bigotry in the city.
"This is a struggle for justice.
While the Emancipation Proc
lamation abolished slavery, it
did not abolish servitude . .Let
us keep our eyes on Washington
and let us keep the heat on
Washington.”
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