New York Amsterdam News — 1963-11-08

*F 4 • N. Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS, Sat., Nov. 8, 1963 I™ ■ bmobbsi IP» «KM I] r- T~ w wx-x w ■ Sre J ”Tfj* B I I : WHO SAID A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER HAS TO BE LATE WITH NEWS? WORLD TELEGRAM Oct. 8, 1963 AmsffilSNetos *• *® A san«OAT ex roast i >«o) Negro Cabinet Member Defies Mayor Wagner! Font W on t Count Uvads In Dopt. B» JAM** Om of the ( *v'« top Negro <tf .-c< bee re- hurt] id nbey a directive by W*» ar Robert, Wagner per:m-u as aeg as I aas Cplr NA. .;MES Cct. 9, 1963 City Agency Refuses to Allow an Ethnic Survey 11>1C,O.~Wcunuaurt 1, UblUui.n x Ntgro Htad of Wafer Board Calls Rights Stady Illegal Arthur C. Fnr^ —--LL Fard Says Project Moy Load to Racial Antagonism N.Y. AMSTERDAM NEWS Aug. 3, 1963 WORLD TELEGRAM Aug. 22, 1963 CCHR Making New Appointments The city’s Commission on Human Rights will seek to strengthen its staff operations through a series of appointments to key staff positions in the next few weeks, the Amsterdam News learned Wednesday. Among those scheduled to Join the agency in top staff positions in the next few weeks are Jack Wood, NAACP national housing ucretary. who will head CCHR’s^ housing division, and Theodore week 8’ the W.OOO-a-year exe- Urban League staffer and active In the Riverdale community groups, joins the agency next tive director Madison Jone Brown, former assistant to A. cutive assistant to CCHR execu- Philip Randolph and a former staff member of the national AFL-CIO, who will head the anti­ bias agency’s labor and employ- meat division. Mr. Jones told the Amsterdam News that the new appointments are part of the drive to “beef up” the agency to strengthen it to help in combatting the city’s growing racial problems. Both win take over their new duties on Sept. 1 at $12,000-a- yaar. Also joining the agency will be James Murphy, a Daily Mirror staff writer, who will head the CCHR publicity department, and Jack Whltner. a worker with die State Commission for Human who wUl head CCHR’ap investigations unit. Mrs. AaneM. Moatoro, one-time Staff reorganization and recom­ mendations for dropping the agency's cumbersome 15-mem- ber, nou-salaried commissioners were first proposed in 4 series of articles by the Amsterdam News earlier this year. A plan to re- visa the commission set up has be« Isubmitted to Mayor Wagner and is awaiting bis action. City's Rights Group Beefs Up Personnel As part of an efficiency overhaul, the -City Commission on Human Rights has quie reshuffled Its top command, it was learned today, i. In the last podnth the be- Jeagured agency has acquired five new salaried officials, in­ cluding heads for four of its setfen divisions. Confirming the changes, 'Madison S. Jones, commission executive director, said the to level appointments were part of a “major reorga “V States delegation to the United ions. Jack E. Wood, new head of the housing division. Wood is housing secretary for thr Na­ tional Assn, for the Advance­ ment of Colored People. Theodore Brown, new head of the labor and employment division. Brown i< an assistant to A. Philip Randolph, presi­ dent of the Brotherhood of peeping Car Porters, Heads Investigations SEE IT FIRST - READ IT FIRST IN THE NEWi YORK LARGEST WEEKLY COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES 1 II is 5$ 3 "4 Ab & i - 1 R : 11 ii Untitled Document file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Desktop/hello.html2/18/2007 11:01:03 AMThomas M. Tryniski 309 South 4th Street Fulton New York 13069 www.fultonhistory.com