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I g MONDAY. JUNE 9. 1U3 North cf Birmingham I MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON i I : ! f i '. 1 i '- ; ,: i' : l I 'U Y f t; I Eradication of Harlem Would Erase Most off Racial Problem in New York Editor's notti Following lht first of fiv dispttchat by United Pmsi International on lh racial situation in live kt artai in the North - Ntw York. Washington. Chicago, Dotroit and Los Angtlas. By GARY P. GATES New-York (UPD If one word could be used to sym bolize the Negro problem in New York City, the word would be Harlem Civil rights leaders on both tides of the color line agree that the removal of Harlem and all it represents from the face of the nation's largest metropolis would all but elim inate the racial tensions here Harlem U considerably more than a community sit' uated in New York's Upper Manhattan. To many Negroes who. live there it is less home than a condition of life and the name of the condition is poverty. Or, as more than one Negro leader has phrased it, Harlem is "the black man ghetto." Exceed One Million There are slightly more than one million Negroes Uv ing in New York City and they represent about 12 per cent of the city s population Ten years ago it was roughly 10 per cent and (he Increase Is the result of Negro migra tion from the South as well as the exodus of the white middle class to suburbia. Since both movements show no signs of decline, the percent age is expected to continue rising. Nearly 35 per cent of New Yorks Negroes live In Har lem, and most of the others live in what might be culled pass laws, demanding cm subsidiary Harlems in other parts of the city. There is no law enforcing this residential segregation, but to escape from it is almost as difficult here as it is in communities where segrega tion has the official approval of local governments. And therein lies the difference be tween the racial conflict in New York and the one that now is on the rampage in the South. For unlike the South, the civil rights struggle here Is not a legal problem. Best in Nation "New York City and New York state have the most en lightened civil rights law In the country," says Stanley Lowell, chairman of the City Commission on Human Rights, And Negro leaders would be the first to agree. New York Negroes have no trouble exercising their right to vote; there are no legal barriers to school integration Die housing laws, both city and state, make it Illegal for realtors to refuse rental or sale on racial grounds; and it is against the law to refuse employment to Negroes be cause of race. "The Negroes In New York have won their battle for legal equality," Lowell said. "Now they are demanding true equality and make no mistake bout It: They re impatient nd angry and they re tired of listening to empty promises and platitudes." "The shortcomings of our laws are that they're all neg ative," Lowell said. "You can enact legislation forbidding people to practice overt dis crimination, but you can't Cemetery Rights For Yets Reviewed Portland-Any deceased vet eran of wartime or peacetime service, whose last period of service terminated honorably, ployers to actively seek out I a few minor skirmishes, "but ...... 1 1 i , j i ., ... ... i wua.u.ifu negroes ana you tnese aid not originate irom lamette national cemetery, can't pass laws forcing white j racial problems as such," said R. J. Novotny, manager of the Americans to accept Negroes Deputy Police Commissioner ' Portland Veterans Adminis- Walter Arm. , i (ration . regional office, re- Arm confirms the recent r minded ,area . veterans, ports that .conditions in.Har- The spouse, widow or wid- wii .miu ut-ucT vtii,'gru a reus as first-class citizens. And that's what the white com munity must do. We must In crease our awareness of -the Negro problem and we must do something about it betore it blows up in our faces." Tension on Rise ,. There has not been a "er ious race riot in New York since 1043 when racial ten sions erupted in Harlem Mid quickly spread to other parts of the city. Since then there have been have been more iense and hos tile in recent weeks and of ficials are showing . growing concern. "I don't know if it's a re sentment over what's been go ing on in Birmingham (Ala.) and other parts of the South or what, but the atmosphere is not good. Not good at all," he said. yW MA .21 S?,i4-30-34.Jd 'to 77-84 W I MMM H65-8-74 CANC 5- 7 50-2d l-S' 28-41-45 uo JULY 24 u AUG. 23 Jf 4-11. 14-17 ILH-aii-gfl VttGO STAR GAXER0 Hj CLAY K POLLAN H ' Your Daily Activity Cvtd ' ' Ac ccerdina to tht Stort. To develop messoge tor Monday, reod words corresponding fo numbers of your Zodioc birrh.ilgn. - j ' IComt .11 Up I -ITli 2Ak .12 ApporonM 6? 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WILSON UPI Correspondent President Kennedy miscal ls eligible for burial in wil-! culated lne clvi rights pres sures oy so wide a margin that he finds himself now con fronting a dangerous and frightening emergency. The emergency is both dan gerous and frightening be cause it threatens civil disor der, riotous mobs in city streets. Civil disorder is spreading in the South. There is the solemn threat of it in Northern cities. The capital, itself, has-been put on notice by Negro spokesmen that racial conditions must rhange in Washington to pre vent a race riot. Kennedys miscalculation was political. The 1060 Dem ocratic presidential Dlatform carried to extraordinary ex tremes the promise of legisla tive and administrative action in behalf of civil rights. Ne groes applauded the platform and voted for Kennedy. He proDaoiy would have, lost some big states and the presi dency without their support. Rights Issue Delayed Kennedy decided to post pone civil rights legislation during his first. two White House years to avoid arousins Southern members of Con gress. Their angry reaction would have delayed and per haps killed much of Kenne dy's other legislative propos als. Meantime, the President moved fairly hard and fast with administrative measures in behalf of civil rights, with special emphasis on the right to vote. The Kennedy administra tion's biggest play for the Negroes, however, was in ;he field of emotional propagan da. Some Negroes were named to relatively high federal of fice. Negro leaders were wel come socially at the White Kennedy's Miscalculation of Civil Rights Pressures Noted Baby Elephant Is Rescued From Moat Portland -r- (UPD Me-Tu, baby daughter of the Portland Zoo's Rosy the elephant, was rescued from a dry moat at the zoo Friday. Zoo visitors who heard the baby pachyderm whimpering as she circled the moat noti fied keepers who coaxed her to climb a plank-walk back to her pen. She was not in jured when she fell. House. The President drop ped in unexpectedly one day on a group of young Negro college women who were hav ing lunch. News stories and news pictures kept the na tion informed of the Presi dent's attention to Negroes. This political play seemed to be working well until this year when it suddenly . fell apart. Negro leaders who had accepted Kennedy's early civ il right strategy as a political necessity for him, suddenly became disenchanted. Even the President's best friends began to tell him. Hie anxious telephone calls to Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. on those occasions when her husband was jailed in the South were effective for a time. But just the other day, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was telling a California audience that the President had not done enough to out law segregation. The Kennedy administra tion continues to support with armed men the ambition of James H. Meredith to study at Ministers To Elect Officers Tuesdsy Officers will be elected for the Medford Ministerial asso ciation during 1 the group's meeting Tuesday, June 4, at the First Church '.of God, 2000 Crater Lake ave. A coffee hour will begin at 0:30 a.m. followed by the business meeting at 10 a.m. John Freese and the Rev. Clifford Young will review the work of the Jackson County Board of Christian Education. The meeting is open to ministers and pastors of all faiths and churches. 1 Shop The Largest j Discount ; j i ......... , , , Center in Southern Under One Roof! o Boneless rV (TuMhC l choice fewy gig m ,-"!"-.'.... u. II TT: il:TTin:T! inAfiltiTnlt: ml. iTl ItiTTl 1 mi. 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They pronounced RFK naive and lacking in understand ing of the race situation. It is proposed that Presi dent Kennedy personally in tegrate the University of Ala bama by taking a Negro by the hand and leading him through the process of reg istration. Kennedy evidently will move hard and fast now for civil rights . legislation. The Pushinka Expecting Blessed Event Washington -H'W- Pushin ka, the dog Soviet Premier Nikita S Krhushchev gave to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, is expecting again. The fluffy, white 2-year-old offspring of the Russian space dog. Strelka, is expect ed to deliver a litter in two or three weeks, it was learned today. The White House declined to confirm or deny that Push inka was showing signs of motherhood. The pet was pregnant last December but suffered a miscarriage. Five-year-old Caroline Ken nedy's Welsh Terrier "Char lie" is believed to be the father. 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