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)?a ,e and categorize people on that basis as It Is done on the main N N P A M e m b e rs land.” Racial discrimination, then, M e e t in A tla n ta comes down to a matter of Individual prejudice. The most Atlanta, Ga. - More than distinctive features of Puerto 200 publishers and editors of ' ’ ’A-’D ^OBSERVER THURSDAY Rican society are language and the National Newspaper Pub culture, not race or color. lishers Aaaoclallon met hare The Northwest*» Best W eM ily T h e re are, to be sure, Indi recently for their 31st annual vidual Puerto Ricans - some convention. A Block O w ned Publication light-skinned, affluent per The NNPA was fcsinded in sons, for example - who ex “ 7 % ‘ hur* day E x w FuUlaking ¿ « „ „ „ y ¿20l n " 1940 by John 11. Snngstacke hibit racial prejudice In a Ktliwgswoith P Portland. Oregon 97217 company, zzui N. ortla nd , Oregon 97217. of the Chicago ( I II . ) Defender. variety of ways, but the pre £ 4° 1* n,S n’,,nth b> ‘ • m w .H .W w r vea, It, along with the Negro valent manifestations of white S X T w ” * « * press It encompasses strives supremacy that exist on the to Influence the “ general U j j . mainland have no ;<er- media to treat the Negro us ALFR ED LEE HENDERSON. PubbaJwr K diw r vastve parallel there. a human being worthy ot the “ We have plenty of other highest type of news treatment problem s,” Sallchs said, “ Hut rather than chattel to tie rele widespread discrimination In gated to segregated news col education, employment and umns adjacent to classified housing, such as you have In ad s," according to Erank L. many states Is not a major Stanley, form er NNPA presi problem here.” dent, and publisher of the Many Puerto Ricans believe Louisville Defender. that the various and subtle lb J ack E. W h it e . J r . The urganlzaton lias been form s of racial prejudice responsible for several 1 he National Association for the Advancement of Col which can be found there have “ firsts” In U»S. desegre been brought Into the society M E M B E R S OE N N P A gather for ■ p re -ro a v rn llo a planning aenaion. T hey are. from ored People, the oldest and largest civil rights organiza gation, some of them extend by U.S. Immigrants to the is left, John Sm ith, Atlanta Inquirer; John Seogslaeke, Chicago D ally W orld; Sherman ing beyond ttie field of Jixir- tion. is entering the 1970's beleaguered but still very much land. In the upper classes ualtsm. Hriaroe. executive director o f N N P A , Washington, D.C.J and W . A. .Srotl I I I . Atlanta alive. Although it has been severely criticized as “ too especially, U.S. Influence Is Its achievements Include Daily W orld. conservative' by black nationalists, and had its influence thought to have led to private desegregation of the U»S. schools, as well as to some in the high circles of government sharply curtailed by the Armed Forces, desegregation segregated housing and Job of the Veteran's Administra Nixon administration, the \ AACP continues to cling to its discrimination In banks and tion the first Negro officers own program, refusing to be pushed into stances that SALEM - - ( S p e c i a l ) — A other commercial ventures. In the U.S. Navy, the first would be inconsistent with its 62-year history warming throughout Oregon Is And among the working class, Negro war correspondents, accelerating farm and harvest there are Puerto Ricans who At a time when the black movement appears to be the first Negro reporters to activities, though adequate help have returned to the island a f August A, Busch, J r ., chair be accredited to congression dominated by adherents to the nationalistic position, the T h e project w ill he carrtei. Is available In all harvests ex te r living In the United States man of the board and chief out In cooperation wltfi the al press galleries and the first \ Double \ still maintains a steadfast commitment to cept raspberries, the Employ who attach racial significance Negro White House co r- executive officer of Anheuser- State Highway Department, i t racial integration— not the "desegregation" o f public ment Division’ s Rural M a n to the problems they faced respondent. Busch, Inc., announced that the w i l l e m p lo y juniors and power Service report stated there. Some of them have schools that has cost black teachers and administrators com pany has appropriat seniors from Inner city h ig h Current NNPA officers are here tulay. reacted against white racism. ed $110,000 to provide Jobs and schools and Is designed President: Garth C, Reeves, their jobs, not the "token" hiring of showcase blacks, but to In the Gresham area, there Is Others blame black Am er scholarships for young people make a contribution to the eco Editor and publisher of the the establishment ot a truly equalitarian society. a shortage of about loo rasp icans for their bad experi In the Inner city In St. Ixxils logy o f the area. M iam i (Elu.). Times; Vice As Judge W illiam Hastie. recently retired as chief ences. berry pickers, but no housing Is President: D r. C arter B. a n d In several of its plant Anheuser-Busch Is furnish judge of the Third U. S C ircuit Court of Appeals, said in available. Oregon City area Is One of the latter, owner of cities, Good 1 »kt, I- dltor and Publisher ing tbe NAACP with a dump short 500 ras|>berry pickers and a small restaurant in a rural of the San Francisco (C a lif.) “ T h e p la n t cities pro truck and U e equipment to be a speech during the \ A A C P s recent convention in M in lim ited housing Is available. area tn the mountainous Inter Sun Heforter; Secretary: W il gram s,’ ’ Busch said, “ a r e neapolis: used In this program. The stu P o t e n t i a l pickers In the io r , told of living for 13 years liam II, Lee, I dltor and Pub currently under study. T h e dents will check areas. Includ "The only really better society of the future to which Gresham a r e a s h o u ld call In Philadelphia. “ I am glad lisher of the Sacramento programs In St. Louis a r e In ing roads, express highways, 665-3102, the Gresham Employ we can hopefully look forward and for which we can to be back where the a ir Is (C a lif.) Observer; Assistant conjuctlon w it h the Urban and s tr e e ts --In and out of the ment office and In the Oregon c le a r,” he said, “ and where Secretary: M rs. Julius C ar League, the NAACP, and the meaningfully work is a better total society in which pres c i t y — to keep them free o f C i t y - S a n d y a r e a either, my children can go to school te r, Publisher of the Houston Mathews-Dickey Boys’ Club.’ ’ litte r and also to Introduce an ent major evils, racism prominent among them, are sub 656-2696 theOregon City office, without fear of being beaten (T e x .) Forward Times; and About $40,070 w ill be spent educational program a t the stantially corrected While ghetto life must be im or between 6 and 11 a.in ., t h e up. I made much more money Treasurer: Howard II. M ur on the St. Louis program alone same time. S a n d y Employment office at proved. this must be recognized as only a palliative, th ere, but what good Is n phy Ikisluess Manager of the and about 75 young people will Signs which w ill state— 668-4970 to find out where i f you can’ t enjoy It? So though a necessary one. in a period during which blacks Baltimore (M<l.) A fro-A m er b e Involved In the w o rk-re "P lease Don’ t Use Our Streets pickers are needed. I left. I came back home. ican. creation program. and whites increase their efforts toward the elimination of a n d Highways for Garbage ' I here Is a slight demand for Philadelphia Is not tor me. Dumps’ ’ - - w ill be prominent the ghetto and the dispersal and integration o f blacks In addition, 25 scholarships pea combine and equipment The niggers can have It .” ly displayed as t h e students w ill be provided to Inner c i t y within the total community.” operators for the |>ea harvest In UJ>. Influence on Puerto work along the highways urg people for tuition In the Junior the Pi iR II.A N il I KA FI 1C the M ilton-Freew ater area, but This program apparently still appeals to many black Rico has been a mixed blessing ing people not to litte r. College District of St. Louis SAFI. I > Ct M M ISSli 'N w a in s adequate help Is retorted f o r In the view of many people The areas to be worked will people. N A A C P membership is growing 22 per cent and SL Louis County. that hut w e .titie t can in c re a s e peas In the Pendleton area. there - so mixed, In fact, be selected by the sponsoring Anheuser-Busch’ s scholar faster this year than last year, and may reach the all-time T h e mint harvest In the Bend yuui te m p e ra tu re it» ! shorten that the relationship between organizations - - th e U r b a n ship program has been ad high o f 1969— 461.000. area will start July 28 with a yu u i te m p e i . It yuu’ r e d t lvuig the two has become a major Leauge, the NAACP, and the ministered through the Urban shall embody tnese principles political Issue. If racial pre s lig h t shortage o f chopper a c a r ... th a t's laid new s. In pursuing the elusive goal of racial integration, the H ig h w a y Department — In I,eague tor the past several of essential human equality.’’ operators expected al Madras judice becomes more pro When you teel i l l n a tio n o i Until about seven years ago, cooperation with the St. l-oula N A ACP has always placed its greatest emphasis on influ years and already over 100 The civil rights commission a n d commercial housing is there was a heavy and contin nounced in Puerto Rico be im p a tie n c e g e ttin g ttie up|<er F ederatlon of Block Units (an available. Inner city residents have been has found that In the six years encing national policy. It has worked with presidents and cause of U.S. Influence, the uous out-mlgratlon of Puerto Urban League affiliate). hand un a lung, hut d i ive .. s e n t through th e Junior of Its existence only a handful F o r full Information on farm senators, cabinet level officers and representatives, lobby Puerto Rican Commission on Ricans to the mainland United .. co o l it . la k e a b le a k arxl colleges where they w e r e of complaints have been made and agricultural Jobs contact ttie ing. consulting, pressuring and cajoling, to mold an im C ivil Rights may find Itself as States. According to the best trained f o r specific pro re la x fu r a m utuant b e tu ie to It that were based on a nearest o f f i c e o f th e Em available estimates, there are preoccupied with It as Its U q >. pressive string of legislation, executive orders and admin fessions or upgraded Jobs. g e ttin g back un ttie highw ay. ployment Division. violation of th ean tl-d lscrlm l- counter part has been. about two million Puerto Ric istrative decisions aimed at increasing racial justice. But T h i s is the thrld year In natlon provisions of the bill of ans living on the mainland, which Anheuser-Buach h a s in recent years— and in the years to come— this role has compared to about 2.7 million rights. Women’ s rights, the participated In the Mathews- rights of employees, academic become more difficult for the N A A C P to effectively play left on the Island. A re you planning a vaca Dickey Bo y s’ club program, freedom, political rights, the The N A A C P is convinced that the Nixon administra As a minority group in a tion th is sum m er? ( j r w ill which Is a summer recreation rights of prisoners and po society where discrimination lice-community relations are tion is consciously and actively "anti-N egro." Board a c t i v i t y , T h e Anheuser- It turn out to be a "w o rk against such groups has been Busch contribution w ill pro t r ip ” ? rhe PORTLANI chairman Stephen G ill Spottswood. a bishop in the African among the subjects the com The Portland Metropolitan extensive, the Puerto Ricans vide assistance f o r a new mission has given Its atten T R A F F IC S A F E T Y C O M M IS Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, went so far as to say so Steering Committee developed have experienced difficulties tion. building for thlsgroup w h ic h Racial discrimination SION says try in g to d riv e and Implemented a Career De last year in his keynote address. virtually unknown to their fel works among thousands of has not been a major Issue. five o r six hundred m ile s a velopment plan which Is dif low citizens who stayed on the This year. Bishop Spottswood let up a little in his c riti voung people In the Inner city. Last year, the commission ferent from any plan anywhere day Is N o vacation ... it's Island. In recent years, The Urban Leugwe/NAACP cism, saying that the administration has “ taken certain devoted a short section of a hard, demanding w o rk. Plan In the United States. Through Puerto Ricans have been re program Is a new one, Jointly study on civil rights problems steps and has announced policies in certain phases of the this plan, Initiated In 1969, turning to the island at a fast your vacation fo r fun, and sponsored by these two groups to the question of race. Quot civil rights issue which earned cautious and limited ap the non-professional staff e r rate than they have been safety, too. a n d financed h y Anheuser- ing from a survey made by members of PMSC are al leaving. The harshness of life proval among black Americans." He pointed to a recent Busch. the University of Puerto lowed time off during the work on the mainland apparently is Rico’ s Center for Social In decision by the Justice Department and the Department of day to attend classes and stronger than any economic vestigations, It said that: Housing and Urban Development to sue the ironically PMSC pays the cost of tuition, benefits the Puerto Ricans 6.2 per cent of the Island’ s books, and supplies. The u- might have received. named city of Black Jack. Mo., fo r its use o f a zoning o r whites are opposed to as nlque part of this plan Is that Since it was established by dinance to bar low-income, federally financed housing sociation with blacks. l ’ MSC has been able through Congress in 1957, the U.S. from the town. He also cited reforms instituted by the the Oregon State System of Commission on Civil Rights 11.5 per cent of the Island’ s Department of Defense to correct racial injustices in the Higher Education, to get some has concerned itself almost blacks are opposed to of Its professional staff armed forces H ILL COSBY exclusively with the problem association with whites. “ courtesy appointments” o t racial discrimination. The But almost before Bishop Spottswood's words hit the which allows them to teach civil and human rights ofblack At last someone has made an left off. The production came 50 per cent of the blacks front pages. N A A C P staff members hit the administration approved courses on site dur Americans and other minority honest Western, one that por In one week ahead of schedule. feel unwelcome In social as hard as it ever has been hit. They had not a kind word ing the work day at lunch groups have been the domi trays the roles of the Black clubs dominated by whites. I he writing of “ Man and hours, and In evenings, and to say about the administration's policy on employment, nant preoccupation of the man In a true to life produc Boy” s|»ared no cost to rap college credit Is given to the commission. The Civil Rights education or anything else tion tliat all the fam ily can en 38 per cent of the blacks ture realism and historical students enrolled. In addition Commission of Puerto Rico joy. One that fias an austere say they are not free to accuracy. The two w riters Perhaps the strongest charges came from labor direc PMSC is able to buy or block has had almost no Involvement realism for the youngsters and live In white neighborhoods. spent a year researching tor Herbert H ill, who accused the federal government of of courses which allows the at all in problems of racial capltivatlng an adult audience; background m aterial for the opportunity to enroll as many "directly subsidizing racial discrimination in employment discrimination. That curious That movie Is, "Man and Boy” 6 per cent of the whites say movie, which Is set In frontier persons In these courses as produced by B ill Cosby and fact gives some Indication of to the extent of billions of dollars of public funds every they would object to having Arizona In the lawless times want to take the course. how differently the concepts also places him In his first black neighbors. following the Civil War. l an year. The "subsidizing" comes about. H ill said, through This Is a breakthrough In staring role In a motion pic of race and color are viewed C a rl R. N e ll, newly-elected chairm an of Portland Com m unity guage, customs, wardrobe, the government's failure to enforce executive orders that ttie education field and no In American society and in ture. 55.4 per cent of the whites firearm s (all of which are col College Board of D ire c to rs , receives gavel atxl congratul where else in the United States permit the “ debarment" of government contractors with Puerto Rico itself. Cosby g lvesastartlln g dra- would object If their daugh lectors* Items valued at ations fro m la s t ye a r's chairm an, Robert E . I hompson (le ft). Is tis being done. patterns of discriminators hiring. matlc performance as a man Puerto Rico was ceded to ter wanted to m arry a b lv k 100,001 dollars) md gun- N e il, P ortland attorney, was named chairm an fo r the coming Since the Implementation of who struggles to maintain his the United States by Spain man, and 12.9 per cent said One of every three jobs in the American economy is a flghtlng techniques are all year at the board meeting held Monday at PCC’ s Sylvania campus. the Career Development Plan dignity and raise his family after the Spanish-American they would do anything pos valid. It Is In sliarp contrast direct result of the $54 billion worth o f government (PCC photo by Ken T a ylo r) two people have received col In a hostile, prejudice and vio War In 1898. Its people were sible to prevent It. to a “ shoot-em-up” scene of lege degrees and one person contracts awarded each year. H ill said, and the hanging lent era, most of which still given U.S. citizenship In 1917, phony Hollywood, le. John w ill graduate In August of 1971. back of the administration in ensuring that minorities get a Carl N ell, Portland attor Is present In Afro-Am erican and since 1947 they haveelec- 8.9 per cent of the blacks Wayne, productions. Last semester, through this society tixlay. ted their own governor by pop fair share of these jobs is contributing black unemploy would oppose their daugh ney, was elected chairman of A complete border town was S even E lem en tary plan, PMSC paid for tuitions ular vote. With the ra tifica Despite the production’ s te r’ s m arriage to a white, the seven-man board of direc set up with buildings typical ment rate that in some areas is nearly double the general which allowed 26 people to tion of a new constitution In fr o m these and other data, very obvious virtues, the mo tors at Portland Community o f that period. The movie was earn a total of 146 credit lours. rale of joblessness during the Great Depression That. vie was almost not made. 1952, Puerto Rico became the civil rights commission College at a regular meeting populated with Scottsdale res Principals M o v e d This Is out o f a staff of 80 H ill said, “ is the single most volatile factor in causing known as a free common report noted that some dis Holljrwood, perhaps, still Isn’t of the board this week. Lewis idents doubling as extras. To persons. wealth associated with the crimination does exist on the ready tor relevant Black Wes urban unrest and holds explosive implications for the fu Nickerson, president and leave the desert and general College credit Is not the United States, but Its citizens Island. tern portrayals. The movie Eddie Sallchs, the owner of Nickerson Fleet area undamaged, ttie entire Seven of the Portland School ture stability of American society." only objective of this plan. have no voice In U.S. elections lommlsslon’ s legal officer, would have been swept under town was dismantled and Management Corporation, wa.s D istrict’ s elementary prin T h re are people who are not U hat accounts for this seemingly contradictory assess the rug had It not been for and no voting representation In noted that evidence of dis hauled away when filming was cipals will move to different elected vice president. interested In college but are ment of the administration's performance on race? The Cosby’ s determination to see the U.S. Congress. They are crimination against blacks has completed. schools for the 1971-72 school Nell, who has been on the concerned about Increasing subject to federal laws, such it through, to make Hollywood answer, pieced together from N A A C P staff members and been found In banks and In PCC board since 1968, was year, It was announced by their Job skills. F o r example, listen. To do this he had to as the draft, but only those some commercial enter D r. Robert Blanchard, Sup long-tinte observers of the organization, contains the fo l born In Boise, Idaho, received the majority of the clerical Puerto Ricans who take up prises, In private social clubs, his B.A, from Yale University use his money. A sad editor erintendent of schools. lowing elements: staff which comes to PMSC ial on the nature of Holly residence In one of the 50 In some private schools, In and his LLB from Columbia Principals who w ill he mov from Albina can not type more • The Nixon Administration, the leadership believes, wood’ s motives, always mak states are permitted to exer fraternities and sororities and Law School. He Is a partner ing are Keith Adams, from than 45 words - per -minute. ing movtps tliat denounce cap will be in office until 1976. cise all of the rights of U.S. In some high-cost suburban In the law firm of Lindsay, Llnnton to T erw llllg e r; Frank Through on the Job training and citizenship. ital gains, but finding Itself housing. In political life , In Nahstoll, H art, Dafoe, and Brown, Lee to Clark; Joseph • A consistently harsh stance on the part of the the payment of tuition at bus In the position where It won’t The Puerto Rican consti public schools, In most areas Krause. Cherry, from Woodmere to iness schools these people are N AACP would give no encouragement to the administra listen to the Hlack man un tution Is considered a model of employment, In most A special meeting of the Blnnsmead; Custls Green typing 75 words per minute. tion to move on racial matters. “ If we knock them re less he can make It hear document among state consti housing, In public accommo board Is being held Friday, from Glenliaven to Lee, Gor The agency pays and In a money. gardless of what they do,” said one staff member, “ what dations and In health care, July 16, to award the con tutions, particularly In Its bill don Nelgtidelgh, from Clark way the agency suffers since The term s made to Cosby according to Sallchs, prob struction contracts on the pro of rights, and the common to Woodmere; Leonard Pat incentive w ill they have for doing anything?” these people leave to take bet w ere much llkethoseof a |>oor wealth’ s civil rights commis lems of discrimination are posed Communications build Birth control p ills have terson, from Blnnsmead to • 1 he administration must still be prodded hard in ter jobs. T h e re a re fo rm e r man on a used car lot, a typ minim al. sion was set up to promote ing on the M t. Sylvania cam Glenhaven; and Ralph Wamp been linked with rheumatism PMSC secretaries from Japan those areas where its performance has been less than satis ical proposal was one-third understanding and observance Even a brief visit In Puerto pus. and a rth ritis by two U.S. doc le r , from Ockley Green to to Germany, and In August a factory. of the movie company’ s ln- of these basic right by all to rs. Rlco by a resident of the main Buckman. secretary w ill leave for Italy. vestment for sixty percent of the people of Puerto Rico. land Is enough to stimulate “ If you have started to suf In addition, two new prin • The N AACP still wants to “ believe in " the Ameri Secretaries have moved up In (continued from page I) the gross reclepts. He then reflection on the curious and The five-m em ber commission fer from rheumatism or arth cipals were named: M rs. Portland in private industry can system, as one of laws rather than men As Bishop decided to go on with the pro Is appointed by the governor, contradictory ways In which ritis - stop taking The P ill," Washington, D .C . Helen Fisher, who will admin an In government. PMSC duction of the flick even though Spottswood said rather plaintively during his keynote ad and with the help of a pro race Is perceived by the maj Is the warning Issued to women A d m ira l G ra ve ly comes to the ister Ockley Green, and John profits because Individuals he knew he hadn’t enough mon- dress at Minneapolis. “ We have always cooperated with fessional staff It holds hear o rity of Americans. Racially, by Drs. D J I. Kay and G.G, Washington-based command Ball, wlm will take over at who benefited from the Career ay. ings, makes studies and Issues Puerto Ricans cover the en Bole at a recent Euro|iean our government We always shall. And we pray God from San Diego where he com Hollyrood. Development Plan become He started production on lo reports on a wide range of tire spectrum from white to Rheumatology Congress In The transfers are In accord our government w ill cooperate with us." goodwill ambassadors for manded the guided m is s ile f r i cation In Scottsdale, Arizona topics covered by the bill of black. There are pronounced Brighton, England. with the school district’ s PMSC. gate I SS Jouett ( I j L G -2 9 ) from Roy Wilkins, the N AA C P 's executive director, on a, “ we’ ll shoot until we rights. class distinctions, and there The doctors reported tliat of transferring With the semester beginning have to stop b asis." A few May 1970 u n til he received his practice summed it up nicely in an interview with the .\’cw For) "T he dignity of the human Is some correlation between th eir studies show tliat when school administrators period June 23, 1971, there w ill be two stars on June 2, 1971. days later, help came from being Is Inviolable. A ll men women stopped taking Ttie skin color and socio-economic ically, according to the Sup- ’‘ Blacks," he said, "could not live in a vacuum as 109 employees of PMSC and Its J. Cornelius Crean Film s, Inc. A d m ira l and M rs . G ravely erlntwident.’ are equal before the law. No status, but on the whole people P ill, their rheumatism got long as fN ixon] is president He’s still my president, al delegate agencies enrolled In and th e ir three c h ild re n ate re They looked at the film a l better. In half of the cases discrimination shall be made of all colors appear to be college credit courses. The though I did not vote for him I l ’s my business to do as ready shot and decided that integrated Into every aspect of the symptoms completely dis on account of race,color,.sex, siding in F a lls C hurch, V ir m ajority of these people are they liked It. They also were much as I can to get as many concessions for black people b irth , social origin or condi life on the Island. According appeared. Nearly a quarter ginia. (he A d m ir a l’ s perm a- nent residence Is the home of Th,‘ <>t a man Is residents of designated pover pleased to know that the pro of the women In the survey tion, or political or religious to Sallchs, “ There are so from him as I can I am not slamming the door on him " ty pockets in Portland. This Is duction was a G rated film . Ideas. Both the laws and the took The P ill again - and many tones of skin color that his father at 819 Nicholson St., ne'"’ r cor»pl«<« until he dies.” h i other words, the N A A C P is still Irving to do busi- community action In a non- Within 24 hours they decided system of public education It Is not possible to classify rheumatic symptoms re Robert E. Lee ’ » 1 1 Richmond, Virg in ia. t rad It tonal tone. turned. to pick up where financing had 1°71 NAACP R e s ta te s In te g ra tio n G oal ness with a national administration it believes to be hos tile. and is now attempting a "carrot-and-stick" policy. Not that the organization's leaders believe the policy will work Wilkins himself assailed the Republicans as "stupid " Although he would not say that this administra tion has been less open and more difficult for blacks to in fluence. he did say "We know where the buttons o f power are. but we can't get to them" to get results. Other staff members acknowledge that the strategy was highly fluid and "could change in a week If the N A ACP docs find a was to "push the buttons," here are the issues the organization considers to be most important for the next few years • Integration of the suburbs More than two-thirds of the tobs will be there during the coming decade, the N A ACP feels and the only way to ensure that blacks w ill get a fair share is to have them live in close proxim ity to employers • I he treatment of black servicemen and veterans. I fie armed forces arc riddled with racism, especially in ov erseas installations I he N A ACP w ill open its first over seas branch in West Germany to assist black G I's there. On the homefront. “99 per cent" o f A'ietnam veterans, black and whik do not know the rights and benefits due them, and many are faced with joblessness. • Integrating' the schools The job of knocking down legalized educational segregation has been done, the N A ACP feels Vow the job is to see that black teachers, administrators and students arc treated fairly. June Sha- galoff Alexander, education director, called for a careful monitoring of newly desegregated schools this fall to en sure equality of treatment. • A new emphasis on the "accountability” o f school systems AA e feel that if the students do not learn it is not thev who have failed, but the schools that have failed,” said Mrs Alexander • I he establishment of numerical goals and timetables for black employment, including preferential hiring for black workers until "parity is reached.” • A oter registration and education There are now over 1.S00 black elected officials in the U. S., W ilkins said, and efforts must be made to increase the number. • Police-community relations "O ur mail from our local chapters contains scarcely a letter that does not have reference to the police situation in that town, whether it's north, south, east or west." Wilkins said "A nybody who doubts that police in general are not brutal or do not act on their own prejudices ought to experiment with him self." Busch Announces Grant To Agencies H arvest Help Puerto Ricans As US Minority Group PMSC Plan Unique Cosby-''Man and Boy” Birth Control Pills Linked to Arthritis and Rheumatism
