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AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., Oct. 19,1963
Home Ownership
BeckonsN. J.Families
NEWARK, N.J. - Home own
ership is now possible for some
158,633 Negro families in the
greater New York area, if they
own 16ts in New Jersey, accord
ing to Stanley I. Kravitz, presi
dent of Kraveen Corporation, Ne
wark. builders of
Homes.
In New York and Northeastern
New Jersey, Negro family in
come and number of families in
the income range that could buy
homes are as follows: $5,000 —
$5,999, 46,891 families; $6,000 —
$6,999 33,659; $7,000 — 7.999,
Supreme; 24,011; 8.000 — $8,999, 16,866;
11,818; and
'$9,000 — $9,999,
These families, Mr, Kravitz, 1*0,000 and over, 25,388.
pointed out, all earn over $5,000! According to Mr Kravitz, thou-
a year, and this family incomen sands of Negro families have
could allow them to become own purchased lots in New Jersey,
ers of custom-built homes at not! but for one reason or another
much more than the current me- have not built homes on them,
dian rent paid by nonwhites in ‘ Many of them, perhaps'*, stated
greater New York of $72.00 per.Mr. Kravitz, "could be under
Tthe
*u* impression that they cannot
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month.
afford to have homes built.*'
—Dudley
-Bunche
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iex4M*iuea. as do other CORE vol
unteers In the South.
pearing clearer this week as Dud
working as a volunteer in
the CORE voter regiatra-
ley was one of 40 top Democrats___ _____ _
_____ _______ _____
A Vassar College graduate.
appointed to the new Demouattc^jop crusade in. Louisiana, Miss Bunche had worked as a
state Advisory Committee and he the Amsterdam News learn- ™r^rewiXLmsig^faUat
Vassar Grad
revealed that he had written top erf this week
'Democratic national leaders to
have his name withdrawn trcm
consideration for both a federal
judgeship and an ambassador
ship, electing to remain .in New
York.
The Amsterdam News learned)
A highly reliable source said ents in Kew Gardens, Queens.
that Miss Bunche, whose father
Is one of the world's best known
diplomats, recently decided she
wanted to go South to partici
Ur. Bunche and his wife were
unavailable for comment early
this week, but a source cloae to
Dr. Bunche indicated he had not
in the Negro revolution, opposed his daughter's trip. Dr.
member of the
national board of
and volunteered her services at Bunche ia a
summer. She lives with her par-
that Mr. Dudley, a former Mgel c(>RE nationai
and Ambassador to Liberia, had A CQRE spoke#roan „id Miss
written asking that his name be
withdrawn from consideration for
any federal post at this time.
NAACP’s
directors.
The Bunche s have two other
Bunche has been working in the
voter education campaign in Pla-i children, a younger daughter,
quemine, La., for nearly a Mrs. Bun Pier‘*' *nda.1
month, and receives no salary. Ralph Jr., a student at Bates
but money to cover her basic ICollege in Maine.
Less than a month ago Dudley,
who happens to be a member of
Jones' Carver Democratic Club,
was elected as chairman of the;
Democratic County Committee,
the first Negro to be elected to
the position.
-Auto Bias
absence of Negroes in the white toleration of department heads
J,.,., bM .ought the post two
years ago after he had success-,
fully guided the Mayor's petitions ‘he League spokesman said,
in his reelection to a third term, The Big Three .of the auto in-
but wound up as the Mayor's po- dustry in Detroit include General
liticai secretary in name only. Motors, Chrysler, and h ord.
tions in the automobile Industry,’
hostile to Jewish workers.
The survey also noted that 20
of the 146 Jews at Ford are In the
Scientific Research Laboratory
and 17 of the 102 at Chrysler are
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J In the Missile Division, both de-
The report, based on a study parUnent3 not directly Involved
Rejects Judgeship
by Arnold Forster, the League’s
With the county post and ^‘general counsel and civil rights
designation on the State Advisory director showed that of 15.500 at
‘T’CTTimittee, Dudley will be the cenerai’ Motors, only
are There was an almost total lack
key Negro in discussions regard- jews of 18.000 at Chrysler, 102 Jews in salcs and financing
in the production or
automobiles.
sales of
-Guard
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who meets the standard physical
and mental conditions.'*
Although a relatively young
company, Kraveen Corporation
has built 6upreme Homes foi
over SO Negro families In New
Jersey, and has been able to
obtain the convention 6% morti-
gage for them, i
Col. Joyce, the state's public
relations officer for the Guard,
said that Major Gen. A.C. O'Hara
constantly warns unit command
ers that they must accept any in
dividual who qualifies.
Most of the Supreme Homes
have beeu built in the Atlantic
City area of New Jersey, for lot
owners; however. Kraveen Cor
poration will build homes and
obtain mortgaging for them any
Compared with the Southern
where m the State of New Jer-.
states, New York shapes up well
I sev.
as most of the Southern com- _
munities still maintain rigid poli- SuP^me Home Buyers have
cies of segregation in their Na- ^‘r ^‘7, °.f JhrW.l>?pula^mi>
dels: split level, ranch or Cape
Cod. Each Supreme Home is
complete, and there is no extra
finishing or painting necessary .
Each home has Aluminum sid
ing on all four sides. '
• Na Negroes on Staff
tiooal Guard units.
At present, however, there Is
not a single Negro officer on the
h^dquarters staff of Gen. O’Hara
in. Albany working in a full-time
capacity, Cd. Joyea admitted.
Among the extra-value features
In every Supreme Horae are:
complete foundation; colored cer-
FRIENDS OF SNICK (SNCC):
Mr. Jimmy Wright. Mrs Elsie
Thompson, Mr. Lionel Hamp
ton, Mrs. Pat Thompson, Mrs.
Marjorie McMullen, Mr. Kenny
Burrell, Mrs. Carrie Gilbert are
shown at a cocktail benefit
given for the organization last
week at 2 East 63rd Street.
Negro
Strong's
Bid For
Mayor
-$435,000
(Continued From Page One)
had no idea what was the exact
cost, but an official of the Public
Works Department said the bill
to the taxpayers amount^ to "at
the proposals bearing his name
which, have set up a six-man re
ferral committee through which
ALBANY, Ga. —- What hap- 'w^ *** higher by the time a final Ibp applications of 3,000 nonwhites
least $500 a day" and probably
pened to those other 2,053 regis- ^“TiU workmen were laving * bC processedu
tered Negro voters’
,u_ ...m.___ ,■.................... So far. not more than300names
the million-dollar foundation of reportedjy have
They certainly did not vote for,the new hospital, at Lenox Ave
. i , j, „„ ing the party's future in the state, ar„ jews and of 17,500 white departments
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at Ford, only 146 are Jews.
State Senator Ivan Warner.
Brennan, president of the New!Ten 13 race-
York Building and Construction / The only other Negro sc 1 cc ted
Trades Council, is the father o/*or *he advisory group Was Bronx
unions as o emsm a i s very locally and for the 1964 Pres- couar and executive employees division and similar subsidiaries
worst."
The study noted while nearly
, — all of those now employed in the
had u diwcUy t0
Thesejow figures indicate an
...__ ___
ivoiik Mn Ki-rwcrn—rhe proc--
personnel offices, they
obvious gap between
laimed policy of fair employment had
Qo indicaUo# of dis.
by top company officials J tb.)crimlnation in employment prac-
industry and the actual luring Uce| Mp Forst)?r declared that
tWs howev#r> the low
practices at operating levels, the
percentage, less than % of 1 per
League pointed out.
While asserting that the study £ of Jpwish whjte coUar work.
cited n° single reason for the low .<lea nQ bt <hat artl.
number of Jewish persons in the {
key jobs, Mr. Forster said that 10<juatry ••
contributing factors would in
clude the social discrimination in
Dudley told the Amsterdam
News that he had decided to turn
down possible federal positions be
cause of "purely personal rea
sons," but it is known that he
referred would probly be equally as in-
terested in running in 1964 for a
State Supreme Court judgeship,
which pays $34.5000. much more
than the federal judgeship or the
ambassadorship, and has a 14-
year term.
A spokesman for the League
told the Amsterdam News that
which fall io make me?,, employ.
iprs tu, exigt ,n
3
.
While most of the Guard units
to building unions by the com-
ln New York City are integrated. am*c-tile baths and fixtures: real estate broker Slater King and 13othSt, and were almost mittee for either full member-
most of them in predominantly built-in Westinghouse oven and who was defeated here Tuesdaj thre* quarters of the way to- shlp or apprenticeship,
white communities have only a range: genuine fruitwood cabin- night as the first Negro candi "J™*
Brennan was referring to this
token Negro or two. Typical of ets: Formica counter tops; tri- date t0 for mavor ln tWs
these is the old 7th Regiment on pie-track- storm windows and
tnese is me om mi negimeu on
Park Ave which admitted its screens throughout, and many.
rarx Ave., wmen auinmeu
first Negro earlier this year.
absence of the in-Europe 8rouP when he said that “al least
«z««aM and Puerto
: southwest Georgia efty, scene of Wagner, ordered a halt during a a. aozer’ negroes ana ruerto
, Ricans have been
racial conflict the past two years critical moment of picketing by Klcans nave oee"
s m tne aosence oi me inc-uropi d
other features
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As such there are no all-Negro
units anymore in the New
National Guard, the survey
ed, but the two major units —
Negro sections remain heavilyi
Clayton
lits In _ _ z
The former 369th, now the 1st ■
Howitzer Battalion of the 369th J \~OU /l
Gun Battalion, commanded by Lt.
Col. John Woodruff, has almost a
50 per cent white personnel, but
most of the officers are Negro Redevelopment Board and
prior tQ eJectipn R)nj Joint Commit(ee for Equal unions, although he did not state
had stated that "there is a foel-!Employment Opportunity in the "bichi unions they ha\e been re-
ing here that a more liberal wind Construction Industry.
U blowin«”
iceived Into.
•
4 Arrests
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A record 11,500 voters did cast
M
300
their ballots at desegregated pol- The committee is an amalgam . 1 ne *°*ey ,, ,,
ling places. The winner was At- of the New York NAACP. Urban tions at City Hall - led to
torney James V. Davis, a form- League of Greater Ner York, arres * ‘’"J/'
jer state representative who re- Negro American Labor Council. w ° *ere °
ceivad 7.220 votes to 2,547 for Mr Workers Defense League. Con f”nduct., ^77 S!^if,nfh.°ULt<h
our p,c
°n "S°r
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the
The city’s Housing and whu°
actine Pres‘- sress Racial Equality and As- he:r a Pentpribg the site
J!--------dent of the Albany Movement, sociation df Catholic Trade
It is housed at the Armory at a group Of Other city and
142,,d St., and Filth Ave.
business officials have been “‘“T1 V ■ J’""' *
Ran Third
i
Unionists.
The Blitz coostntclors. ^.. WUhe Holton. 38.
___ ___________ ___
ewe. are working nt several nth. *™j
042 Eighth
Ernest Russell. 19, of 2o5
Commands Whites
ordered to show cause why
,
. architect, was third with 1.879 er publically-financed develop-
The majority Davi. re- ment, throughout the city.
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Similarly, the 141st Transports-
ommanaed by Lt. Col.
tion Bn., commanded — — .... , .
Rupert Frazier, housed in Brook- Involving Clayton Houses,
payments of funds ceived in the Democratic primary
...
.__ _________________ make a runoff unnecessary.
Demonstrations
2l» C,™8"
' ““ B;°“;
and Charles’Saunders. 17, of 2tk
W. 120th St.
lytfa Simmer Ave, Armory, is at 135th St. and Lenox
not hgJted
..bout 50 per cent Negro, w th a Aye
ntojorlty of Negro officers. Pre-
dominantly white units from Riv. Pending an action filed in
eriiead and Smithtown, L.I., are Supreme Court last week.
UISCr2,S tl,OnT^'bAW«-nr
Tlle Sb0W CBUSe Ord*r
.
the
^n tbe o^hcr band- howe' er, the
Monday by Supreme
stgte s highest ranking active Ne-Court Justice Margaret Mangan
argued on
in the National Guard. Col. js cjue
Otho C. Van Exel, commander of Friday, Oct. IS.
the 187th Artillery Group, has a The order
•majority of white officers and
jast Week by the realty
personnel under his command fjrm of Brooks, Hampton, Levy &
Col. Van Exel. the first state Walker, Inc., of 261 W. 126th
ranking officer to complete the st.f against councilman J,
Army War College to recent Raymond Jones and others, by
years, was returned to his post Attorney Henry Williams, whom
upon graduation rather than be Jones defeated for the City
given a headquarters assignment Council in the recent Democratic
which would pave the way for a primary.
future promotion.
Councilman Jones told the[
! Amsterdam News he. had no
comment at the present time,)
Col. Joyce said that from his indicated he felt the action
knowledge there are Negro of- wouid be dismissed Rep. Powell
ficers in units both upstate and was 0U( of die country, visiting
in most of the New York City Kuwait,and unavailable for corn-
units.
;ment.
Albany's 58.000 popularing to-! This week the New York C0RE>
Miss Harrin«ton on the
eludes about 24,000 Negroes
There are an estimated 4.603 Ne- new Federal Office Building site "We firmly believe that givil
eroes amone the 16 436 register- a‘ Fo,ey Square to indicate its r i g h t s organizations tn this
register disgatis{action with -t<Aen pro.'city shOuld not rest until the city.
S votJ™ *
demonstrations at the demonstrations:
, > Segf°?s. v?ted, _‘a ?
fWWWHI MWWWd to ^'^'construction industry.
other 2,053 registered voters? ... ;C
grams that barely scratched the state and unions take really con-
surface’’ of alleged bias in the structive steps to remove the bar-
riers to equal employment exist
Gladys Harrington, New York tog in unions.
------------------------------- vCORE chairman, called Peter "We are calling on all indivi
Form a good habit and read Brennan's recent statement that duals and groups to join us In a
the Amsterdam News — every where were “at least a dozen" renewed attack on this shame
week!
Negroes admitted to construction ful situation."
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Peacemaker
Another factor that may have
influenced Dudley’s decision is e
desire to help in healing Demo
cratic party breaches between the
reform and regulars in Manhat
tan. He indicated a desire to dc
this when he was elected chair
man of the County Committee.
Other sources speculated that
Dudley, who has had a long talk
with Mayor Robert Wagner in re
cent weeks, might haye Been pre
vailed to stay on his present po
sition to avoide future flareup?
between Councilman Jones and
Rep. Adam Powell and Jones and
Deputy Borough President Earl
Brown.
A fight between the two has
been brewing for weeks indepen
dent of each other, and the Mayor
reportedly wants to bring party
harmony in Harlem in time for
next year's Presidential and U.S
Senate races.
-Newsboy
(Continued from Page One)
meal .laadard. clear to place-
hut had nA met
. * th any progress in ending anti-
biasin the auto industry,
neermg schools; and company|__________________ ______ _
1
n? ? h“S ea8”
-Slain
(Continued from Page One)
BRIGHTON'S
1 OCTOBER SALE
. "YOUR CHOICr'
1
played basketball with the Dun- C
levy Millbank Center on W 118th *
St., attended Cooper Junior High I
School. "Linda was an obedient !|
girl and* dependable. She loved
Freeman.!*
sports
youth officer told the Amsterdam!
.
News.
PtT James
Mrs. McDuffie told the Amster
dam News: "My other daughter!*
Loretta has been deeply affected |
by Linda s death. They were|,
twins.”
f i
Mrs Perline Irick said theiri*
home at 5 West 117 has been (
in mourning since Linda s death.
"Everyone of her brothers and!1
sisters and her relatives have I
been affected by her death,’’i| ,
Mrs. Irick told the Amsterdam
News.
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Prior to taking off for Selma,
Ala . to see his Wife who has
been Jailed there, Dick Greg
ory, at right, addressed a New
York NAACP branch rally ur
ging greater registration and
voting to Harlem. Some 100
young men and women of tho
branch's youth council, the
Associated Community Teams.
Inc., and HARYOU were pre
sent to begin a door-to-door
drive to stimulate community
registration. Also addressing
the meeting Thursday night
were 1. to r.. Attorney Paul
B. Zuber, Basil Patterson,
chairman of the branch's Poli
tical Action Committee: and
True Picture
The Congress of Racial Equality’s New York
office said this week a survey of Negro membership
in the various construction unions disclosed the fol
lowing;
Local 28, Sheet Metal Workers—3,000 members—
No Negroes.
Local 1, Plumbers Union—2,600 members—8 Ne
groes. . .
Local 2, Plumbers Union—4,100 members—16 Ne
groes.
Local 638, Steamfitters—4,000 members—No Ne
groes.
< Local 1, Elevator Constructors—2,300 members—
No Negroes.
Local 46, Metallic Laflfcrs—1,700 members—2 Ne
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Local 361, Structural Iron Workers — 750 mem
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Local 40, Structural Iron Workers—1,050 mem*
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and initiative of these lads.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Nelaon
A. Rockefeller. Governor of the
State of New York, db hereby
proclaim October 19, 1963. as
NEWSPAPER BOY DAY in New
I York State."
Ricky and his mother. Mrs. Al
ma Johnson of 382 Riverdale
! \venuc. Yonkers, were present
ed to the governor by Warren
I Tackson. circulation manager of
the New York Amsterdam News.
1 The honor came to Ricky after
he had obtained the highest num
ber of subscriptions of the Am
sterdam News in competition
with other of the paper's news
boys.
Deputy Manhattan Borough
President Earl Brown.
Ricky is a student of PS 3
in Yonkers where he is in the
sixth grade Other members of
his family include his father.
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