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t • N. ¥. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat, Nor. 2, Whaf Game Is COHR Playing? By JAMES BOOKER Is Mayor Robert Wagner and the City Commission on Hiunan Rights continuing to play games .with the exploffve racial issue at the expense of more than a million Negroes fighting for an end to all forms of segregation and discrimination in New York City? This question arose this week as the Commission, in what it announced as a "new policy statement" urged preferential treatment in Jobs, housing and education for Negroes and Puerto Ricans. _____ Before the CCHR press release could hit the stands, however, the Mayor hedged on whether this was city policy, and told newsmen that there had been no discussion on the report. Newsmen found it ironical that the Commission, which earlier this year had been forced to check Its findings with City Hall on the Anne Kelly issue, the building trades bearings, and ev­ ery other pivotal race question it has been confronted with, had not checked the preferential pol­ icy with the mayor. Also causing speculation was why the Commission had chosen the present time to endorse a program which Whitney Young, BRIGHTON'S NOVEMBER SALE -yotr« CHO/ci- I $y9 4/5 Quorts COMPARE THESE VALUES Huntley Brands i. tucky Beer* bee Whiskey 100 Preaf 2. Imparted Scotch M Proof 3. Imported Canadian Whiskey 4. Imported Brandy 10 yeers eld. HAVING A PARTY? See Our Counter Specialsl New York State CHAMPAGNE or MANHATTAN Ceckt.il* 4/5 on. $179 BRIGHTON LIQUOR & WINE CORF. I 134 LENOX AVENUE , At West 114th St. Svbway I EN 9B4B4 CULTURE AT GRACIE MAN­ or Wagner at left and at right SION — Here are scenes at presenting certificate to noted Grade Mansion as Mayor Rob­ jnuslcian and composer Hall ert F. Wagner presented cer­ Johnson (left) and to famed tificates of appointment to 84 singer Marian Anderson, prominent citizens in the arts and allied fields to serve as a Citizens Advisory Committee to the Office of Cultural Af­ fairs. Top pictures show May­ (right). Center photo at top shows Mrs. Robert F. Wagner, the mayor’s wife, giving Mrs. C. B. Powell a “woman to wo­ man" looksie at some silver in the historic mansion. Mrs. Powell Is the wife*.of the Am-( sterdam News publisher. Dr. C. B. Powell. Bottom photos, left to right show Mrs. Dor­ othy Height accepting her award and Mrs. Hugh Bullock, president of the Academy of American Poets, chatting with Paul Dawson Eddy, president of Adelphi University. Harlem'sSugarHill Gothamite Mourns "Fat Man n The ‘Tat Man Cafe” 450 W. ducted services at the Masonic Organist At [ Va. State, I Clarence E. Whiteman, a native | New Yorker and graduate of the. High School of Music and Art and I >. He was a 32nd Degree Mason Manhattan School of Music, has. mndrian H- ia been appointed college organist ! and associate professor of Music . at Virginia State College. An Associate of the American . Guild of Organists and a Licen-1 ... . .. .. v u . tiate- Trinity College of Music.1. London, professor Whiteman has | served as organist in chief New . York State churches. Not only a teacher, but a con-. cert artist as well, the organist, has been heard in recitals throughout the East and the Mid-1 west. He is a winner of the Young ' Artist. 155th St., was closed Wednesday evening during funeral services for its late proprietor, Charles McKinley Turner, 62, wo died in Sydenham Hospital Sunday. Rev. Williard W. Monroe con- SCHR Opens Bronx Office Aiming to make it easier for Bronx residents to secure infor­ mation and make complaints re­ garding discrimination, the State Commission for HumA Rights has opened a branch office in the offices of the State Employment Service at 858 E. 149th St., SCHR Chairman George Fowler an­ nounced this week. Comm. Fowler said that Mrs Lillian Sharpe Hunter, who is also in charge of SCHR’s 125th branch office,*will also serve as regional director of the Bronx office. Other SCHR field offices in the metropolitan area are at 118Court . St.. Brooklyn; 62 E. 12Sth St., . Manhattan; and 244 Mineola Blvd, Mineola, L.I. Temple, 454 W. 155th St. Turner, a veteran of the first World War, was known as “Fat Man." and a former musician. He is survived by his wife, Edna, two sisters, Mrs. Queenie Boyd and Mrs. Nannie Brown and a num­ ber of cousins and nieces. P’c ^MtuMan wh° 770 St. Nicholas Ave., with his wife, came to New York in the early ’30’s with the Marian Har­ dy’s Alabamians with whom he played the bass fiddle and tuba. Owned Band He later organized his own band which he called the Turner Arcadians. After breaking up his band he became a member of the late Fat Waller’s combo. After leaving Fat Waller he opened the “Fat Man” in 1937 which became a meeting place on Har­ lem’s Sugar Hill. Sy Oliver penned a tune, “Jum lng at the Fat Man” during the time when the spot was one of Harlem’s showplaces. Turher was an ardent rooter for the grid Giants and the Dogers. Burial Insurance Sold by Mail prac- 8th Ave. Bar Owner Buried month. Hearings were held on this early last summer. executive director of the National Urban League, has been advocat­ ing for six months. Confusion The Commission did, however, Tuesday come up with a report on its recommendations on block­ busting, for which hearings be­ fore CCHR were concluded in November, 1962. Lost in the maae of confusion and rebuttals In opposition to the “preferential treatment” position for Negroes and Puerto Ricans, The report showed that an however, is the city’s and the “unsavory picture of exploitation Commission’s failure to act on a of racial prejudice for private long standing series of reports and studies if has been promls- Profit exists" by speculative real estate operators. The Commission recommend­ ed legislative action to end blockbusting tactics, a reexam­ ination by banks and other lend­ ing institutions of their lending policies to help Negroes get first mortgages, a massive education al campaign to help Negroes un derstand what their rights are, and called upon the various real estate bodies to police their bodies against unethical tices. ing for the past year. Ne Action More than a year ago the Com­ mission was assigned to investi­ gate charges of discrimination in the Corrections Department, but no report has come up to date. Last October the Mayor an­ nounced that the ethnic survey of Negroes in city government would be completed last Jan­ uary, but still agencies employ­ ing more than one - fourth of the city employees have refused to comply with the Mayor’s di rective, and nobody is saying anything. After bitter internal criticisms and staff departures, the Mayor ordered the Commission to come up with a reorganization propo­ sal to make CCHR a full city department last summer, but no report has been forthcoming to date. t f__„ 1962 Hearings With mounting criticisms over discrimination in the building construction trades and the shut­ ting down of Harlem Hospital, despite the urgent need for hos­ pital facilities in Harlem, the Commission has not yet come up with its report on bias in the building trades, and new demon­ strations are being planned next Volunteers Needed For Xmas Seals Oscar Newman, 69. president of Banks Bar Cooperation, 2338 Eighth Ave., was buried in Mt. 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