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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
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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.
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may be buried in the same
grave if space is available.
A minor child of the veteran
may also be buried in a na
tional cemetery in the same
grave in which either parent
has been .interred.
Should the spouse or child
die before the veteran, the
veteran must sign a paper
stating his intention to be
buried in the national ceme
tery before the spouse or child
may be buried there.
At the time of the death
of a veteran, spouse or child
eligible for burial in a nation
al cemetery, the mortician or
person responsible for funeral
arrangements should request
interment directly from the
superintendent of the national
cemetery.
There is no charge for the
graveside in a national cem
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closing cf the grave therein,
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Br LYLE C. 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.
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the University of Mississippi.
But Meredith is on record
now that Kennedy is not do
ing enough. Atty. Gen. Robert
Kennedy peculiarly has iden
tified himself with civil rights.
Negroes with whom he met a
few days ago to discuss the
situation were unimpressed.
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.
Pushinka was sent to the
First Lady as a gift in June,
frightening question is this: i 1961. after the Kennedys and
Is it already too late to pre- j Khrushchevs had met in
vent riots in the streets? ' Vienna.
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