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1963
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24 • N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., Aug. 17, 1%3
New Citizens' Group Formed In B'klyn;
Backed By Boro Prexy, It'll Fight Bias
The immediate formation
of a new borough - wide
citizens’ action group to
combat racial bias has
been decided upon by
Brooklyn community lead
ers, Brooklyn Borough
President Abe Stark an
nounced recently.
The group has been organized
with the backing of the Borough
President’s office and has been
assured of its support in imple
menting its work as it enters the
civil rights struggle, Mr. Stark
said.
Its establishment was praised
by the Borough President as he
listed its organisers. They Include
clergymen of the major religious
include:
Other major objectives he listed
3. Stepped-up enforcement of the
public agencies, Including ex
panded Job opportunities and Ap
prenticeships far Negroes and
Puerto Ricans, under anti-bias
faiths, business men, bankers,
school representatives, legislators
and spokesmen of civic and local
area units. *
He announced that the group will
concern itself with the primary
causes of racial inequality and. statutes and regulations.
injustice and will seek to spear
head action in such major fields
as Brooklyn’s needs for more mid
dle-income housing in addition to
loh-rent housing projects now be
ing built or in the planning stage
projects by the city and other ident. Brooklyn Branch, NAACP
Rabbi Benjamin Kreitman of the
Brooklyn Jewish Center, Rev.
Richard B. Martin of St. Philip's
P.E. Church, Rabbi Eugene J.
Sack of Congregation Beth Elo-
him. Rev. William J, Cullen,
pastor of Sf. Peter Claver’s R C.
city's building and sanitary eodesjchurch and representative of the
as essential steps toward improv
ed living and health conditions
7. rut, on of the group for act
ion in the civil rights movement
was disclosed aa Mr Stark made
public a letter thaukiug about a
score of prominwW0«ok|>nitcs president, Brooklyn
who had accepted an invitation of Commerce. Robert
4, Betterment of educational op
portunities and the development
of more effective programs, such lo ®«*t at his office, where a
as vocational training, in Brook wide-ranging, two-hour discussion
lyn’s school system to serve the borough problems resulted in
• decisive by its members to or-
borough's youth.
1 Speedier launching of employ .Kanise immediately for its plan-
Roman Catholic Diocese of
Brooklyn. John J. Lynch, pres
ident, Kings County Trust Co
Andrew Roscoe, president, Equit
able Savings & Loan Association.
Howard A. Swain, executive vice
Chamber
M. Burke
of the New York Telephone Com
pany, representing the Downtown
Brooklyn Association Assembly-
man Stanley Steingut. Kings Coun
ty Democratic leader. Assembly-
man Bertram L. Baker of the
various Sixth Assembly District. Assem
groups in Brooklyn had been ask
blyman Thomas R. Jones of the
ed to send representatives to the
Seventeenth Assembly District.
meeting and that Invitations had
Arthur Bramwell, Republican
beeu exleD<led also to outstanding]leader. Sixth Assembly District
individuals. Nearly all responded.
In a number of instances, indiv
iduals were unable to be present,
because of previous engagements,
but had pledged their support. The
Sanitation Commissioner meeting was held Wednesday at
ment-stimulating public work* ned activities.
Mr. Stark said that
Mrs. Ruth Best, Secretary to the
N.Y. State Labor Department.
Mrs. Ruth Goring, Democratic
co-leader. Seventeenth Assembly
District. Bernard Alderman, Dep
uty Commissioner, Fire Depart
ment. Lieutenant William Bracey,
71st Precinct, Brooklyn North,
Police Department.
Frank J. Lucia has announced the Brooklyn Borough Hall.
that stx-days-a-week refuse col
lection began in the Bedford-Stuy
Individuals present at- the meet
ing were: Warren Bunn, Pres-
Olympic Games” will be held
' And h^deciared that on Oct Red Book Stadium at Bay and sponsored hy Kings County
It, there will be a leadership con- Henry Streets in Brooklyn this Trust Company, 342 Fulton St.,
ference for priests, religious and Saturday, Aug. 17, when a thou-
and the Department of Parks.
girh_all under
laity .on interracial justice.
Things get under way at 10 a.m.
R. C. Bishop's |They'II Take
The Garbage
Pastoral
At Last!
Roman Catholic* In Nnaaau and
Suffolk Counties were urged
day to make “true understanding
and greater charity... the mark
all
of our treatment
8
our brothers.” .
of
The call wag made by the Moat
Rev. Walter P. Kellenberg, Bishop
of the diocese of Rockville Cen
tre, in a pastoral letter read in
all churches of the Long Island
diocese. The occasion was the
first anniversary of the Catholic
Interracial Council of Rockville
Centre.
Civil Rights
vesant area, Brooklyn, August 1.
He said that stepping up the col
lection operation from the old
three - times-a-week frequency to
six was made possible by Mayor
Wagner's Including an extra $1,-
000,000 in the Department’s new
budget. These funds cover, among
other costa, salaries of 172 new
Sanitation Men, 66 of whom will
be assigned to Bedford Stuyve
sant Regular refuse collection
now will be Monday through Sat
urday, legal holidays excepted.
Opening the letter Bishop Kel
lenberg stated that “the principal
and most difficult problem facing
our country and each of its cit
izens today is the struggle for
civil, rights”. * He asserted the
The Commissioner predicted
“problem of unequal treatment
service would
among men is really a moral on grMtJy improve the areas’ sani-
that increased
greatly improv.
“must study and acquaint him
self With the fact about discrim
ination and the harm it does to
air;
Each individual, the bishop said, tation situation, which recently
benefited from a special bulk re
fuse - removal project arranged
by the Department and local
groups represented by the Bed
ford - Stuyvesant Neighborhood
Council.
“If is .essential’’, the pastoral
went on. “that every man be
xiveq equal opportunity to provide
those things that are necessary
for his family, including equal
housing, equal opportunity for
employment and Job advancement
and equal education for himself
for all of our citizens."
The bishop asked for prayer and
action to create ' equal opportun
jty tor all” and “make the Am
ericqn dream of justice a reality
for all of our citiztns”.
He called for cooperation '.‘with
the program of practical educa
tion and application to true prin
ciplep of Christian justice being
spread through the Catholic Inter
The latter operation was de
signed to assist Bedford Stuyve
sant residents in getting rid of
bulky items like old furniture,
large appliances, bedsprings and
similar objects which cannot be
picked up by DS crews making
regular rounds with epclosed
trucks.
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the annual Kings County Olymp
iad.
The games, which are being
held as a part of President Ken
nedy’s physical fitness program.
ANOTHER ARREST: William
Booth, president of the Jamai
ca branch NAACP, (center'
with a newspaper reporter.
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Negro In Top
Position At
Western Electric
Howard R. Quick of Brooklyn
has been promoted to a Depart
ment Chief in the Public Rela
tions organization of Western
Electric in New York.
BABY CAREER GRADS —
These graduates received their
diplomas . y 11 on successful
completion of a two month
course in baby convalescent
and geriatric care at the Baby
Career Institute, X)8 Living
ston * St, Brooklyn: Ethel
Mickell, Dorothy Samuel, Lor-
ene Emerson, Vera A. Carey,
Frances Abney, Bette Irvin,
Louise Singleton. Henrietta
Rescia. Lina Powell, Tulia
Best, Elinor Greenidge, Kath
erine Piccarello, Valda Bel-
grave, Willis Crawford. Ger
trude Whitmore, Louise Ham,
Eleanor Nicholas. Letilda Ko-
"Y" Annual Report
Points Social Problems
“Picketing and acts of civil dis- drop outs, the highest concentra-
obedience at Brooklyn’s Down-
tion of which is found in Bed
state Medical Center construction
ford-Stuyvesant. The professional
chonin, Margaret Pisculol. Ma
bel Bourne, Marie Joseph, Min
nie Reeze, Mamie Bruce, Mary
E. Brown. Ruby Frazier. Sybil
Burris. Estner Moore, Sadie
Fulton, Ismay Burke, Marie
Ricken, Iris McLeod, Martlia
McNeill. Ruby White. Cather
ine Andrew, Elizabeth Carter,
Olga Deans. Also Myrtle Dun
can, Edna Abrams. Beatrice
Jones. Dolores Johnson, Wini
fred Kelly. Mamie King, Enid
Miller, Edith Murray, Amy
Nero, Louise Moorer, Adele
Parsons, Carmine Sandiford,
Sybil Smith, Lillian Shurelds,
Cora Lee Woods, Mercedes
Woodbury.------
site have only pointed out a few
of the major social problems that
Bedford YMCA has been con
fronted with for many years”.
So said Russell N. Service, ex
ecutive director of the “Y” at
1121 Bedford Ave.. Brooklyn, In
his annual report last week. Bed
ford-Stuyvesant is the most pop
ulous of all 74 communities in
New York City, he said.
staff has counseled and advised
sters during the report period.
in employment 435 area young
NAACP Rally
The Far Rockaway-Inwood
To help provide expanded fa
NAACP will hold a rally Sunday
cilities for teenage services the
Aug. 18, at 3 P.M. at Hassock
capital campaign goal of 876,000
St., Far Rockaway, Queens
was set for 1963. Thus far a total
Speakers from various allied
of $33,469 has been raised and thejchurches and civic organizations
lance is regarded as a must for like CORE and SNCC will par-
1963 fiscal year,
Jticipate.
ss*
Cohen Appointed
Attorney Joseph L. Cohen, a
former investigator with city’s
Department of investigation, as
sumed new duties this week as a
$9,500 - a - year senior attorney
in the New York offices of State
Controller Arthur Levitt.
An active figare in the 11th A.
D , United Democrats in Queens.
Attorney Cohen lives at 176-50
131st St., Springfield Gardens,
Queens.
He is one of throe members of
the predominantly-Negro Demo
cratic club who were given recog
nition by Queens County Leader
Moses Weinstein this week As
sistant District Attorney Ken
neth N. Browne was named By
Weinstein as a member of the
County Law Committee and Mrs.
Marie Brown Brewer, co - leader
of the club, was named to the
party’s rules change committee
to help in liberalizing the Demo
cratic Party in Queens County.
EVERY I
DAY I
LOADS
As a result of this population
density the juvenile delinquency
rate was correspondingly high.
The area also had a high per
centage of sub-standard houses,
the highest concentration of un
employment and a high rate of
racial change
report stated.
in population, the ■
I
Whites 8 Per Cent
. From 1950 to 1960 the population
of whites in Bedford-Stuyvesant
fell from 47 per cent to 8, making
the area the city’s seventh highest
point of change in racial compo
sition.
Among two positive attd signif-
ad*innis'- *cant neighborhood characteristics
listed in the report were the fact
that there is a large concentra
tion of strong Negro church or
ganizations with dedicated, train
ed clerical leadership: and a large
core of new arrivals with high
leadership potential.
Programs initiated during the
period June 1962 to June 1963 in
cluded a “Youth and Work” 16-
week training project and an ex
tension unit of the YMCA Voca
tional Service Center that pro
vided a counselling service tor
' community youth.
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Discontinued, ete.
Mr. Quick, who joined the com
pany in 1961, formerly was a
staff writer lor several New York
city and state governmental agen
cies, including the Moore Com
mission, which developed the first
proposals for revision of the New
York City Charter.
At Western Electric, Mr. Quick
has been editor of Public Affairs
Memorandum, a publication which
keeps management personnel
abreast of current political and
legislative issues. In addition, he
has been active in other public
affairs work, including
tration of the company’s Demo
cracy In Action program, a non
partisan course in politics which
is made available to Western
Electric employees on a volun
teer basis. In his new job, Mr.
Quick, assumes added respon
sibilities for public affairs activ
ities.
Mr. Quick, a graduate of Col
umbia University, is married and
the father of two children.
There will be seven separate!
events for boys and girls who will J
be grouped according to their
weight. Medals will be awarded
to the winners of first, second and
third places.
Friends
True friends visit in prosperity
only when invited, but in adver
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—THEOPHRASTUS.
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