New York Amsterdam News — 1963-00-00631

18 o W. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat, Aug. It, IHS CONVENTION OPENS —Units of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows opened their five- day convention Sunday at Ma­ sonic Hall, 155th St, and St. Ni­ cholas Ave., with a parade through the northern section of Harlem. Shown in the first pic­ ture above is the B. K. House- hold. In the second picture is parade queen Clara Mitchell, astride car. Brothers of the B. K. Bruce Lodge are shown marching in third picture. Pa­ rade route was lined by open- eyed youngsters such as those shown in last picture. (Gilbert Photos.) Metropolitan Firms . Up Non-Biased Policies Police Captain Asks Aid Of Community nbroken homes and have vtr- Representatives of the NAACP « bXounds. MetrepoliUn Ute tear- . vL York State Training “ce Company on Wednesday hci n J eaiH the lives reached the conclusion of a ser- ies meetings arranged by the ool for Giris either“bv domestic. Committee on Human Relations It™ or neglect problems in in which there was a frank ex- r families Some have indivi- change of views regarding the 1 oroblems which cannot be importance of equal opportunity dlXl bi natural parents. Oth- of all Americans regardless of have been abandoned Or race, creed or color. Metropolitan Life reaffirmed » lost their parents. Kter parents are paid $100 its longTsIablished policy of non- onth for room and board for discrimination in the fields of i girl in addition to clothing housing, employment and in- vance, medical aid and den- vestment ‘'‘With respect specifically to •xpenses. r further information con- its apartment development,” a the director of Community spokesman said, “this means ices, Mrs. Phyllis R. Snyder, that no bonafide applicant is de- e supervisor of Foster Homes nied housing there because of sion, telephone WA 5-0995. race, creed or color. office is open Monday Rumors of Pickets igh Friday from 9 a m. to In recent weeks there have been rumors that CORE plan- m. ---------------------- ------- ned to picket Stuyvesant Town and other housing projects own- ed by the insurance company. During the course of the meet- ing the Metropolitan representa­ tives assured the NAACP repre- llie Baker, 37, of 56 W. 119th ^tatives that its standards Of charged with the fatal shoot- tenant selection “are uniform- >f 57-year-old Henry Jordan jy applied without regard to F. 119th St., is being held race, creed or color and are de- iut bail for action by the signatedonly to select from liter- ally thousands of applicants, re- d Jury. ker, who was arrested* by sponsible tenants who will make Martin Dunn on July 7 and good neighbors and who can af- ged with assault, was re- for the rent. sted after Jordan’s death “The Metropolitan Insurance fuly 30 Police said Jordan Company is fully cognizant of red three bullet wounds, the trend of the times, and in »r reportedly said Jordan recent months has again been reviewing its operations to fur- d'him to shoot. -________ _____ ther insure that its policy is be- u | i • k©r rlGia I, . • i ) Homicide drive to secure desegregation of the insurance company’s three huge housing developments in the Bronx and Manhattan. Pend­ ing negotiations, no demonstra­ tions were held at the sites of the developments which house a total of 70,500 residents. There have been no Negro fam­ ilies in Parkchester, Metropoli­ tan’s Bronx development hous­ ing 38,000 tenants and only a handful at Stuyvesant Town and I Peter Cooper Village in Man­ hattan. The company also owns, Riverton, located in Harlem and occupied predominantly by Ne­ groes. $100,000 Rockefeller Grant To NUL A grant of $100,000 has been j given to the National Urban Lea-1 gue by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to establish a “National Skills Bank” of qualified Negro workers throughout the nation from which business and industry can draw new workers. You Can Get Proof Of Age Whitney Young, Urban League executive director, said the skills bank would open operation in September with headquarters in New York and would work re­ gionally in each of the local Ur­ ban Leagues throughout the coun- - . TSG V©rSG ing carried out. settlement was reached two weeks after the NAACP ou say a drtne is not so good, youth councils, in metropolitan Has fallen from its perch? New York, Miss Barbara Moore this is so, then tell me why and Mark Rosenman, co-chair- It’s seen so much in church?' men announced a full - scale IRISH PWCH MB „ a.e *o*wle'0'rt'y i»”'t a„„oi ot *"? Io* «<>''»' '. and >'e’h'y, — i„kv Try Our NEW FROZEN FOODS As delicious os con bo, and there's more than o score of different choices, including... ........ .. m. 69c Frown Beef Pie......... 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IMPORTED 151 PROOF tizens do not have to give their name. Mr. Southall urged citizens to cooperate greater with the po­ lice to help rid the uptown area of the increasing narcotics prob­ lem, and called for greater sup­ port behind a move to allow police to make arrests without warrants. Civil Service Commissioner George Gregory, Jr., in keynot­ ing the afternoon meeting, urged Harlem parents to take a greater concern with the education of their children, the community’s cultural level of the community, housing problems, and econom­ ics. He warned that many jobs Negroes are now qualified for will be disappearing with auto­ mation. and urged greater re­ training in Harlem and other minority communities. Form the right habit. Read the Amsterdam News every week. Out every Thursday. ,anuuca> West Indies Freight Cr Passenger Service 8HIPFLNQ | CRATING "To All Parts of the West Indies Prepara Bill! of Ladin*. Ciutotn Hoan Derivations and AU Necessary Function! FOR FIRST CLASS SERVICE SEE I'S /jr * — TR S-3MX Days Oalj IT RON. M«r. Mt EAST (Mh STRE Nrar First Aroasw New Tart ». N.T. Infen O L Harlem residents were urged ■ to cooperate with local police a. and other law enforcement of- H9h|| RcCrs in order to help improve the community, but several re- sidents complained Saturday that JH they fear reprisals when making P I complaints. The two sides were aired at fa public meeting of the newly- \ W Mt If Committee, headed by Assem- ■Ml i blyman Mark Southall, at R.S. wBjBSht-J 28. 155th St and Amsterdam Ave : formed Upper Manhattan Action Captain Edward P Wodzicki. B commanding officer of the 30th Precinct, told more than 100 per- ace. Cassius sons attending the emergency opus. “The meeting called to protest the r Liston’’, to new wave of robberies and in- it of Hamp- creasing narcotics addiction in the upper Harlem area, that the ’hoto) I-1 —r ~ pglice wgre often unable to do too-:much without the eoopera- tion of citizens. irinrv When Captain Wodzicki asked iriliy the audience if any person had called the stationhouse to report 2, of 308 W. crimes or suspects,, one person with knifing bitterly answered; t “Whenever hell in t h e we call the police they ask: ‘Who 1.000 bail for are you where are you, where sault charges do you live,’ and a whole series aid Mrs. Mit- of questions about you. I’m not ng to stop a going to identify myself and get ■nes and an-^ stabbed.’’ le was knifed., Several other persons joined to Sydenham in agreeing with him, but Capt. 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