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The Revolution of 1963-Part III House-Hunting Negro faces One of Major Tension Poi KDITOK'S NOTE: Many the major tension points of the Negroes believe the only string that should be attached to obtaining housing should be me purse string. The follow ing dispatch, third of five, re ports on the sentiments and problems the Negro faces ' in obtaining a place to live. By AL KUETTNER United Press International , When a Negro goes house hunting, he is headed for one of We never guess We look it up WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA 1 In Sales st. In Service for your LOCAL representative Write Box 62 Ph. 482-3196 Ashland, Oregon We never guess We look it up civil rights dispute Even in areas where there is almost whole-hearted sympathy for the Negro revolution, there is an attitude that the problem should be solved "but not in my neighborhood." A railroad track ... a river front. . .(he , end of the pave ment. Those are the boundary lines in city after city between the white and Negro sections. Negroes say they still are re stricted to ghetto life, regard less of how extensive their neighborhoods or how expensive their.-dwellings. - ... Most states report that Ne groes live in their own neigh borhoods "by custom." But "whose custom is it?" asked one Negro. "You" might say that Negroes are just evpanding the ghetto," reported a St. Louise Negro newspaper publisher. In just about every state in the nation where there is a sizeable Negro population, a FAST QUALITY FILM SERVICE Color Clinic for Polaroid Land camera owners SEE COLOR PICTURES IN 50 SECONDS Here's your chance to get expert inbtruction on exactly . how to make pictures with the new Polacolor film. See our display of Polacolor pictures made in. just 50 seconds! ...... . BRING IN YOUR LAND CAMERA Bring in your Polaroid Land Camera no matter how old and we will check it and adapt it for color photo graphy. We have stocks of Polacolor film now so you don't have to wait any longer to try it. 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"When we went looking for a new home, they wouldn't take our present home in trade be cause the Negroes have been moving into this area," said Mrs. Hillis. "The Negroes are still eight or ten blocks from us, but our property isn't worth what it used to be because of this." Mrs. H i 1 1 i s, ' a 33-year-old housewife, said she sided with the Negro cause more than a year ago. That was before the Hillis property value dropped. Take Legal Steps Last summer, the late Presi dent Kennedy issued an execu tive order forbidding discrimina tion in any building, project that receives federal aid. The V. S. Supreme Court has out lawed real estate covenants that restrict home buying to certain racial groups. A 1961 Indiana law provides that any person who bars an other from a public housing project "by reason of' race, creed or color" is subject to a maximum penalty of 30 days imprisonment and a $100 fine. There have been no convictions. Many other ordinances, reso lutions and rulings have been is sued to forestall actual or de facto segregated housing, but few have resulted in great suc cess. Most are superceded by an unwritten law: When Ne groes move in, whites move out. Negroes themselves are mak ing an effort at education cam paigns to forestall panic selling by whites and greedy buying by Negroes. Some of the strongest senti ment against Negroes moving into predominantly white resi dential areas has been in the non-South. .When Harold Amos, a Negro, started constructing a home in a white suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., anti - Negro slogans were scrawled on the ppr'ially com pleted dwelling. The Rev. Rob ert A. Rounce, a white clergy man, appeared with 20 of his church members the next day and painted over the words. Main Problem Negroes say their main hous ing problem, is finding adequate homes for low income Negroes and housing they can afford. A high-rise, high-rent apart ment building now dominates the scene in Atlanta's "Butter milk Bottom," formerly an area of dilapidated Negro shacks. But some of the best low-cost housing available to Negroes in the nation has replaced the slums. The most desirable Negro section in Jacksonville, N.C., is a new subdivision developed by a prominent white builder. The project resulted from efforts of James Robinson, publisher of the Jacksonville Daily News. The homes are two- and three story brick structures on paved streets. The negative side of Jackson ville's Negro housing long lower Court and K; .r'-,. This is the city's ga ..(.e ;.',d sewage disposal area. When it comes to segregation versus integration, "lines of communication" between the races often make the difference in peace or tension. "When it comes to housing. I don't think the Negro under stands the way the white feels, and 1 don't think 'the whites are making any attempt to know how the Negro feels," says Mrs. Thomas Newman, a white housewife . in Eminence, Ky. The Negroes are going too fast in housing." Two Of Largest Two of the largest concentra tions of Negroes in the world are in New York City and Chi cago. In Chicago the Negro pop ulation has gained 63 per cent in the past 10 years. During the same period, the while pop ulation decreased by 13 per cent. Most of the Negroes in Chi cago live in an area three by nine miles, but fingers of Ne gro settlements are spreading to other sections. The median val ue of a Negro-owned home in the city is $16,700, reflecting a boost of 82 per cent in a single decade. The Windy City's Negro sec tion also is a poorer section of town. This is the area where a 35-ycar-old Negro auto washer who migrated from Jackson, Miss., lives. He had hoped liv ing would be better. The Negro, who declined use of his name, stands daylong near a track and hops in front of a car to swab down the chrome. He has little education, and a wife and five children. 'We got to have more money and more living room," he says. "We're sitting on top of cacn otner. He asus nimselt, why are our schools crowded? We got to live all penned in here. When somebody tries to move out, they got to move into white neighborhoods because there just ain't no place else to go here. The problem worries white things I have gained to be con- bought a new home," said Mrs. Americans as much as any side.red a Sood Samaritan," said Natalie Seiman, a Connecticut , 'an insurance salesman in Okla- housewife "I can't reallv sav phase of the Negro transition, homa City. wnatTy feeling wouU b it a I don t want to sacrifice the "My husband and I have just neighbor sold to a Negro. 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Understand ably they want something better, and many are able to pay for something better. In many cities, though, the "something better" just isn't available. (UPI) Gifts Being Prepared To Send To Salem Contributions to the Christmas Gift project of the Jackson County Mental Health Associa tion are being assembled for shipment to Salem to the State Hospital this week, Mrs. Herbert Gifford, committee chairman, has announced. The shipment from Jackson County will go to Salem Satur day, Dec. 14. The Director of Social Serv ices has informed the local group that in some wards of older patients 80 per cent of the patients are dependent upon the people of the state for a Christ mas remembrance. Gifts to encourage group ac tivity, such as tea and coffee, games and records are wanted. These often provide an incentive for socialization and could short en hospitalization for some pa tients, the committee here has been told by the hospital superintendent. The Jackson County Mental Health Association's gift project has been designed to help fill this need, Mrs. Gilford empha sized. There also is a need for cloth ing, particularly shirts, socks, underclothing, slippers and sim ilar items. Considering the little time left to prepare the gifts for ship ment, Mrs. Gifford has asked that any persons interested in contributing do so as soon as possible. Quotes From the News By UNITED I'll ESS INTERNATIONAL WEST LOS ANGELES Jim Mahoney, a spokesman for Frank Sinatra Sr., after the singer's son was released by kidnapers: "The boy Is home. He just got here. He's in good shape." Static Spark May Have Up to 500 Volts CHICAGO (UPD-That static spark you get when you walk across a rug and touch a metal object may have up to 500 volts behind it mildly annoying but not enough to do any harm. The voltage depends on how dry the air in the house is, ac cording to engineers of Hamil ton Humid-Aire here. The drier the air, the more powerful the spark can be. DALLAS Attorney Melvin Belli, after talking In private with his client, Jack Ruby, charged with the murder of Presi dent Kennedy's accused assassin: "My eyes were moist when he recounted what he went through." WASHINGTON - Sen. Philip A. Hart, D-Mich, in a pre pared eulogy to President Kennedy: "In the past few weeks, millions of the world's people have worn a look of stunned despair. Certainly, nothing I could say would he n more eloquent tribute to John F. Kennedy than the grief on those faces." WASHINGTON President Johnson on the Senate's action in passing a $1.2 billion college construction aid bill: "This Congress Is well on Its way to doing more for educa tion than any Congress since the land-grant college act was passed 100 years ago." 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