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MLDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON moll Group rgcamiiizes THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 19S3 for ti c 9; By JOHN J. GOLDMAN United Press International A four story yellow stucco house stands alone on a block of red brick tenements near a playground in New York City's Harlem. There is no air condition ing against the August heat. In a second floor reception reaftest Freedom inarch' room, a crepe paper mural of trees, flowers and hills is be ginning to peel from one green wall. Only the 10 tele phones and a switchboard are brand new. In this building - a com munity house where social workers toiled last month to keep children off the streets- Always Refreshing! ion a handful of men and women are organizing what they in tend to be the greatest civil rights demonstration in Amer ica's history. The building on West 130th street is the national office of a group caller the "March on Washington For Jobs And Freedom." The march, Aug, 28, is designed to bring at least 100,000 persons to the Capital. The marchers will include both Negroes and whites. Staggering Plan The logistics problem would stagger a general. How do you transport proverty-strick- en Negroes from the Delta out side Greenwood, Miss., to Washington? Or fill a train from Con necticut and charter a jet plane from San Francisco? And how, on a $65,000 bud get, do you reach the unem ployed, church groups, fra ternities, labor unions and convince them to take part in a rally in the middle of the summer vacation season? The march leaders over the years have had considerable experience organizinz demo strations. They are the heads of the nation's most power ful civil rights groups. The official call for the rector of the Congress of Rac march was issued July 12 by ial Equality (CORE); the Rev. James Farmer, national di- Martin Luther King, president DISPLAYS LETTER At "March on Washington" headquar ters, Carl Maynard displays the mimeographed letter ex pected to bring 100,000 persons Into the civil rights demon stration Aug. 28. ' lAtttjtStOt , MOT i ---w'-SS" IBS r.'-r at of the Southern Christian Leadership conference; John Lewis, chairman of the Stud ent Non-violent Coordinating committee: Roy Wilkins, ex ecutive secretary of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People (NAACP); Whitney Young, executive director of the Ur ban League and A. Philip Randolph, president of the Negro American Labor coun cil. March Chairman Randolph, head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, is chairman of the march. "The purpose of the march is, by a massive, peaceful, and democratic demonstration in the nation's capital, to provide evidence of the need for the federal government to take effective and immediate ac tion to deal with the national crisis of civil rights and jobs that all of us, Negro and white, are facing," says the official demonstration man ual. "Politically the march is non partisan," the book stres ses. President Kennedy is sup porting the demonstration. "1 look forward to being there," said the President at a recent news conference. The Negro leaders have quietly held conferences with representatives of the Justice department and with local Washington officials. They discussed routes, communi cations and above all, secur ity. Peaceful Plan The march on Washington is planned as a peaceful dem onstration - and Negro lead ers want to keep it that way. 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If you hit an item, you may buy it at tha Hit-A-Diac price . . . which it avan last than the Special Sale Price. Friday & Saturday Only o they refer to it ai t "non. ' violent" march. CORE In Washington busy recruiting 2,000 mar-.! ahals to keep order. They will be directed by members of the Guardiani, a society of Negro policemen on the New York City force. Current . plans call fnr th m...t..i. ' - and Guardians to train in crowa control and rehearse, along the line of march sev- " eral days before the demon stration. . . The District of Columbia's 2,800-man police force is tak- ing no chances. All leaves ' have been cancelled for the : day of the march. One potential source of trouble is the American Nazi party with its headquarters just across the river from Washington In Arlington, Va. The party asked permission to stage a "counter demonstra-.-. non," but police refused. Avoid Incidents There appears to be a tin. cere desire on the part of -civil rights leaders and tha ".' police to avoid any Incident . resembling the bonus march of 1932 when an "army" of 20,000 veterans and their fam- ' ilies came to Washington to -demand early payment ot World I bonuses. Police tried to move the demonstrators from Treasury " Duuaings, fighting broke out and two persons were killed. . The demonstration ended , when President Herbert Hoo- . ver called out the army. What will happen in Wash ington 31 years later? These are the latest plans for the ' civil rights march: It is strictly a one-dav af- 1 fair. "The size and scope of ' uus march make It imnera- tive that all participants come in ana go out on the same day," says the organization -manual. But some groups may . come the day before. Church- . es are being asked to turn . parish houses into dormito ries. A call has gone out to , the Red Cross for cots. By 10 a.m. pickets will amuiv: ai ui ciiurcnes throughout the capital. Con-' ffreitxmen and wnitnrt will hj invited to address their home deleaatioiu. If nn laffUlatni- . appears, a small group ot : marrhara urlll aaalr him mt on Capitol Hill. ' iii.c mis uiaivircia u. meeting their congressmen and senators, a group ot lead ers plus an unemployed white and colored worker will try to call on President Kennedy at the White House. They will seek to present the demands of the demonstration which include passage by Congress of "effective and meaningful" civil rights legislation, with out filibuster; immediate de segregation of the nation' ai-iiuuia ana a niaaaivc puuiic works progrsm to provide fnha tnr ihm nnamnlnval By noon, the marchers wilt - begin converging on the El Hose, a Dark lust south of the White House. There they will form state by state for the parade along Constitution . avenue to the Lincoln me- ' morial. It is a distance ot ' about one mile. There will be speeches at the memorial and a public ad- ' dress system will carry the ' speaker's words to the crowd, some of whom will be half a ' mile away, the speeches' should last two and one-half ' hours. Two GOP Hopefuls To Attend Eugene Party Conference Eugene - I0PI) - Two men -mentioned prominently for the 1984 Republican presiden- : tial nomination. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York and Sen. Barry Goldwater of Ari- ' zona, will be here Oct. 12 for" the Republican Western States ' conference. Both men are scheduled to speak, but at different loca-" lions, and no debate between -them is likely, a spokesman- said. Both Rockefeller and Gold water are expected to be on the Oregon presidential pri mary ballot next May IS. To Be Honored Lowell C. Paget, Oregon GOP national committeeman, said Rockefeller would be hon ored by a reception and lunch- ' eon at noon. Goldwater will , be guest of honor at a recep tion and dinner in the eve-.' ning. Goldwater's speech is sched-, uled for the Lane county fair grounds and Rockefeller's ten-' tatlvely for the University of Oregon Student Union build ing. Gov. Mark Hatfield of Ore gon will keynote the confer ence Oct. 11. Delegates from ' 12 western states are expect- 1 ed. Washington - ton - The Or-' ganization ot American States . has decided to send a com mission to Haiti to investigate charges that the Dominican ' Republic aided the revolt against the Francois Duva Her regime. O o o O
