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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MONDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1963 Washington, D.C., May Still Have Time To Head Off Race Troubles noie: nasningion, I wnicn wasmncion has ex. D.C., it a city in trouble. This Derienced in many years. It is the first oi three dispatches threw a profound scare into reporting on the racial ten lions, rising crime rate, school problems . and governmental confusion that have contribut ed to what President Kennedy calls "a very bad situation" in the capital city that belongs to all Americans. By LOUIS CASSELS Washington - IUPI -Last Thanksgiving Day, more than 50,000 football fans crowded into the District of Columbia's new stadium to watch two high school teams battle for the city championship. One team represented a predominantly white Catholic school, the other a predomi nantly Negro public school. During the closing minutes of the game, which the Catho lic school won, 20-7, a fight broke out on the playing field. Tension quickly spread to the crowd in the stands. Sensing trouble, many parents bun dled up their children and headed for the exits. But it , was too late. Violence erupted in the stadium the moment the game was over. Roaming gangs of Negro youths attack ed white spectators in the stands, at the exits and in the streets outside the stadium. More than 300 persons were injured before police were able to restore order. The stadium melee was the nearest thing to a race riot Maple Leaf Marvel Gather compliments from all for this afghan of knitting worsted, in 11-inch blocks. Newest afghan in cameo crochet! A touch of embroi dery defines leaf. Use differ ent colors for leaves. Pattern 7487: charts: directions. THIRTY FIVE cents (coins) for this pattern-add 15 cents for each pattern for lst-class mailing and special handling. Send to Alice Brooks, Med ford Mail Tribune, Needle craft Dept., P.O. Box 163, Old Chelsea Station, New York 11, N.Y. Print plainly NAME. ADDRESS, PATTERN NUM BER. 1963's Biggest Ncedlccraft Show stars smocked accessories-it's our new Ncedlccraft Catalog! Plus over 200 fresh-to-you designs to knit, cro chet, sew, weave, embroider, quilt. Plus free pattern. Send 25c now! V mm 'Well Flip My Wig' Feb. 27, 28 Mar. 1, 2 Tickets may be purchased now from any Kiwanian DON'T MISS THIS . . . delightfully funny, fast and flippant show. All proceeds to Kiwanis Dental Clinic. Join the fun this weekend. residents of the community both Negro and white. They recognized that it was not just a fight after a football game, but a symptom of ugly social tensions which have built up in this outwardly calm capi tal. President Notes Situation President Kennedy spoke the mind of many Washington residents when he told a news conference on Jan. 24 that the stadium riot "highlighted a very bad situation in the Dis trict of Columbia." There are, as the President noted, many contributing fac tors. Like nearly all big cities, Washington is plagued by a rising crime rate, traffic congestion, overcrowded schools and inadequate hous ing for low-income families. Unlike any other city in America, however, Washing ton is handicapped in coping effectively with its own muni cipal problems. Although it is the capital of the world's greatest democracy, its citi zens do not have the right of self-government. For its laws, taxes and appropriations. Washington must look to a U. S. Congress which has not always been particularly sympathetic to its needs, and to the executive branch of the federal government, which in the past has tended to pay more attention to crises in far corners of the globe than to the explosive prob lems accumulating around its own door-step. Fastest Growing City Underlying and complicating all of Washington's problems is the rapid growth and un usual racial distribution of its population. Washington is by a wide margin the fastest growing city in the East. Its metropolitan area population has doubled since 1940. It stands today at about 2,200, 000, which makes it the na tion's 10th largest urban cen ter. The 69-square-mile District of Columbia, which many Americans think of as being synonymous with the city of Washington, actually consti tutes only the inner city of the metropolitan area. Nearly two-thirds of the population now lives outside the District of Columbia in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. The racial composition of the total metropolitan area has undergone little change in the past 10 years. It is three fuurths white, onc-fourlh Ne gro, approximately the same as in 1920. But the white population is now heavily concentrated in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, while t h e Negro population is confined largely to the inner city. As a result, the District of Columbia has become the only major U.S. city with a Negro majority. Its population is 54 per cent Negro, 46 per cent white. If present trends continue, the District of Columbia popula tion will be 72 per cent Ne gro by 1970. Because white families with school-age children have mov ed to the suburbs in dispro- Veterans Council Elects Officers Wendell J. Frank, Jackson ville post, American Legion, was elected president of the Veterans Allied Council of Jackson County during its Thursday meeting. Other officers elected were Ray Lawless, Veteran of For eign Wars post, vice presi dent; Vaughn Beer, American Legion, Jacksonville, sergeant at arms; Edward Smith, VFW, treasurer, and Pat Graham, Disabled American Veterans, sccrcatry. Veterans voted to write a letter to Congressman Robert Duncan (D-Ore.) thanking him for his efforts in obtaining a medical and surgical center at the Veterans Administra tion domiciliary, White City. The council also passed a resolution favoring property tax exemption for Veterans of World War I without stip ulation of disability certification. 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Washington's Negro com munity includes many middle and upper-class families who live in handsome homes and send their children to the best private schools and col leges. But it also includes a vastly larger number of poor, uneducated and unskilled peo ple who have moved from rural areas of the South into an urban environment with whose complexities they are ill-equipped to cope. Census studies show that 75 per cent of the Negro adults in the District of Co lumbia have less than a high school education. One out of ten is illiterate. One-fourth of the Negro families live on in comes of less than $60 a week. Social unrest among the newly urbanized Negroes has been heightened by resent ment of racial barriers. Al though all of Washington's public facilities - schools, bus es, restaurants and theaters -arc desegregated, Negroes still encounter "white only" poli cies in many sectors of pri vate employment and housing. "Some progress has been made in recent years in open up job opportunities for Ne groes, especially in retail and service trades," said Sterling Tucker, executive director of the Washington Urban League. "But qualified Negro job-scekcrs still arc being turned down by many private employers. And Negro youths find it impossible to get into the apprenticeship programs of many skilled trades in the building industry and else where." Can't Get Decent Housing In their search for decent housing. Tucker said, Negroes arc "hemmed in" by their in ability to obtain homes or apartments in the rigorously segregated suburbs, and are forced to pay "outrageous" prices for the housing that is available to them in the black ghpttoes of the inner city. While frustrations and re sentments have built up on one side of the color line, fear and suspicion have been at work on the other side. Many Washington whites are terri fied hy the steady increase in the inner city's Negro ma jority. They blame Negroes for the rising wave of yok ings, muggings and other as saults that have made it un safe to walk the streets of the capital at night. They regard the stadium riot as a warning that serious racial disturb ances may break out at any time. The consensus of more than two dozen Negro and white leaders interviewed in the preparation of these dispatch es was that Washington is not trembling on the verge of a major race riot. It still has time - although perhaps not a great deal of time - to allevi ate the social pressures that are building toward an ex plosion. But there arc few people in Washington who would quar rel with President Kennedy's solemn warning in a special message to Congress last month that "the problems of the district have become so critical as to challenge the na tional government to redouble its understanding of and in terest in its capital city." Next: Washington's crime problem. SECRETARIAL SERVICE Shorthand dictation, typing, legal ciperienct. 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