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PAGE J-A Wednesday, August 14, 1983 HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Oregon No Business Is Safe From Racial Problem By AL KLETT.NER Vnlled Press International It has become increasingly evi dent during tills "summer of de cision" on the racial front that no business or community, large or small, is safe from integra tion pressures. Some have moved voluntarily to drop all racial barriers. Others resists. Atlanta restaurant owner Stan ley R. Davis, who simply wants to please his customers and stay in business, had this to say about the situation. "When I operated my rcstuar anls on a segregated policy, 1 was the target of integrationist pressure and propaganda," Davis said in a memo entitled "For Bet ter Understanding" w h i c h he placed on the tables of his eating places. Davis lamented that when he went along with other Atlanta restaurants and desegregated two of his places on an experimental basis, "the segregationist forces were not long in inaugurating a program of harrassment." "i find myself in the middle of a controversy for which there appears no immediate solution," he said. "I am a restaurant oper ator and not a social agitator. .Now that the (racial! issue has been joined, I can only solicit your sympathetic understanding." Stepping Stones One thing appears certain: From here on, Negroes will use one victory as a stepping stone to others. This week the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, tile nation's largest landlord, announced it will desegregate the 34,170 apartment projects it controls in the United States. Negro leaders have now an nounced a move to bring about similar desegregation of facilities owned or controlled by the Pru dential Insurance Company and the New York Life Insurance Company. They finance thousands of apartment projects throughout the nation. ; noy wiiKins, executive vice . president of the NAACP, called 1 the Metropolitan agreement t major breakthrough." He said it was part of a general move in similar firms. It obviously was also part of the fulfillment of an NAACP slogan of three years ago "Everybody Free by Sixty three." A Metropolitan spokesman said the huge firm is prepared to "go down the line" on its new policy. "If a Negro is a qualified ten nant and there is a vacancy for him, he will be given an apart ment whether it is in Alexandria, Va., at Parchester in The Bronx or anywhere else." Averts Picketing The company's decision, ac cording to a spokesman, was worked out harmoniously dur ing a month of study at the firm It averted threats by the NAACP outh Council to picket three Metropolitan projects Park Chester, Peter Cooper Village, and Stuyvesant Town, which also are in New York. Negroes also are winning a ma jor breakthrough in the advertis ing industry. Lever Brothers, a soap products manufacturer which is one of the nation's biggest advertisers, an nounced recently it has asked al its agencies to produce sugges tions for more effective use of Negroe s and other minority groups in the lirm s advertising. The trade publication, Advertis ing Age, listed Lever's advertis ing program last year at $46 mil lion. The publication said the first Lever Brothers television com mercial to appear under the new policy likely will be an advertise ment for a detergent (All) show ing a Negro housewife being in terviewed about her laundry problems. v.-.l , Uk'."' ifl . .11. ' : - ,,lt imriwii iihii iii ii wiWT uBinirM itira lrt-iii-rf rr-im tirrrl-frr i inwi'f nrtriMrmimr if ni iTTaiwrr i " T 3 Jack Miller Heads Efforts To Smash Syndicate Power EDITOR'S NOTE: The dis closure that a convicted gang land executioner is "singing" on his former associates has focused new attention on the Justice Department's Criminal Division, which is directing the war against the underworld. In the following dispatch, the head of the divisipn discusses its progress. By LOUIS CASSEI.S WASHINGTON (UPU-At long last, the good guys are giving the bad guys their lumps in the war against organized crime. "There's no doubt about it said Asst. Atty. Gen. Herbert J. Miller Jr., "the mobs are hurting." As head of the Justice Depart ment's Criminal Division, 3'J-year-old Jack Miller is the fed eral government's field general in the fight to smash the power of nationwide crime syndicates. He knows better than others that the fight is very far from won, and he is not indulging in premature victory celebrations. But he also knows that the feds are going after big-lime criminals these days with unprecedented vigor and determination. And he says it's paying off. We've got them on Die run," Miller said in an interview with United Press Intel-national. "If we can keep the pressure on for anotlier five or six years, we may break the back of this monster." Takes Over Division Miller is an amiable, quiet spoken Republican lawyer from Minneapolis. He was in private law practice with a distinguished Washington firm when Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy asked him in early 1961 to take charge of the criminal division. At that time. Miller knew no THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR "No, She shall not dismay me: I care not for that, But that I am afeard." Mistress Anne Pago (Virginia Flick, New Orleans,) is wooed for her seven hundred pounds and possibilities by reluctant Master Slender, who is backed in the pro posal by his cousin, the prodding Justice Shajlow, in this scene from Edward Brubaker's production of the "Merry Wives" at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival at Ash land. The four plays will continue through Sept. 7. Ex-Sub Capiain To Head Domestic Peace Corps WASHINGTON (UPI) A re tired submarine captain slated to head President Kennedy's pro posed National Service Corps said today that without even asking he has enough projects on hand now to utilize 2,000 volunteers. William Anderson, former cap tain of the nuclear submarine House Plans Rights Bill WASHINGTON (UPI)-A House judiciary subcommittee todayNautilus. said the so-called do-j (icials in such areas as mental hospitals, rural and urban slums, Indian reservations and on proj ects for migratory farm families, Anderson has been acting as a consultant on the program since last May. meets behind closed doors to take the first step toward shap ing the congressional answer to President Kennedy's call for a! new civil rights bill to ease the racial crisis plaguing the nation. The committee's seven Demo-j crats and four Republicans were expected to take about two weeks to draft the basic civil rights bill that will be sent to the floor of the House. The work of drafting the bill began as the committee ended public hearings on civil rights that stretched from May to Au gust. Once the subcommittee finishes its work, tile parent 35-man ju diciary committee will take three weeks or more to process the bill. The committee's influential southern Democratic members may be able to trim away some of the tougher provisions included in the legislation by the subcommittee. mestic Peace Corps "is going to be like selling ice cream on a hot day. We have plenty of proj ects; it's just a question of find ing enough volunteers." The bill to create the domestic corps, patterned alter tne sue-; cessful overseas Peace Corps,1 came up today for its second day of debate in the Senate. Backers were confident they had the votes to turn back any crippling amendments and pass the bill by nightlall although it faces formidable opposition from Republicans who call it a boon doggle" and a Kennedy adminis tration "publicity stunt. The measure authorizes an ini tial outlay of million to start the program and recruit up to! 1,000 volunteers by next June 30 to help needy fellow Americans, Enrollment would grow to 5,000 in three years. . Corpsmen, who would receive a monthly stipend of $75, would be used to assist local and state of- Navy Silent On Trawlers Defiant Integrationist s Continue To Plamie ice WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Navy maintained silence today on reports that, 50 Russian fishing trawlers had been sighted three or four miles off Cape Cod, Mass. When told of the report, a Navy spokesman would say only: "The seas are free. He pointed out that no objection can be raised to the presence of the vessels un less there is grounds for com plaint. One Navy officer, commenting on past activities of the Soviet trawlers, said it is known that some of them carry more elabo rate electronic gear than could conceivably be used for fishing purposes. The gear might be used for monitoring communications, or the flight of missiles off Cape Canaveral, he said. ! By United Press International Defiant integrationists sat atop power poles, lay down on railroad tracks, fought polic and were ar rested by the dozens Tuesday in demonstrations in Chicago and Elizabeth, N.J. The demonstra tors promised to return for more action today. The racial skirmish in Chica go's South Side saw integration ists tangle repeatedly with police. At least 41 were arrested and; many of the integrationists were carried bodily to waiting paddy wagons. ' At one point an estimated 1,0001 persons congregated and jeered police. The squabble centers around the use of mobile classrooms in the Negro neighborhood, scene of racial quarrelling for the past several weeks. The integration ists claim the use of the mobile classrooms perpetuates alleged de facto segregation of the city's public schools. I During the height of the melee1 a young Negro man and a teen-! aged Indian girl from Wisconsin climbed up two power poles and stayed aloft for several hours in the rain. Another demonstrator chained himself to a pipe. Six! girls lay down on the railroad tracks near the mobile class rooms. Three women dived under- neath one classroom trailer and had to be dragged out. At Elizabeth, civil rights pickets and a squad of police fought it out in three clashes al the con struction site of a $5 million court house annex, and later at the site of a 15-story apartment building. Police arrested 46 demonstrators. It was the most fierce outbreak of violence since demonstrations1 against alleged job hiring prac-: tices. Related developments across the nation: Houston, Tex.: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking to a meeting of southern 'city officials, warned that local governments only have self-rule in propor tion to the amount of civil rights they are willing to guarantee. Chicago: The American Bar Association's House of Delegates censured civil rights demonstra tions that intentionally violated laws, and public officials who try to maneuver around court deseg regation mandates. Pittsburgh: An estimated 300! Negroes picketed the offices of the Duquesnc Light Co. Tuesday pro testing alleged discriminatory hir ing practices. Five persons were arrested in the second consecutive day of picketing of the utility firm. Los Angeles: The president elect of the American Medical As sociation (AMA) said the organi zation is making an effort to end discrimination against Negroes in the practice of medicine. more about organized crime than the average citizen. He'd read fantastic stories about its multi- billion dollar annual take from gambling, narcotics and other rackets, and about the mysteri ous "Mafia" which was supposed to coordinate the whole enter prise. But he was inclined, as many citizens still are, to treat it as a myth. "But it's not a myth," he said with the dogged emphasis of a man who is telling (lie truth but expects to be disbelieved. The lurid stories in the press don't exaggerate if anything they underestimate the scope of the underworld operation, the de gree to which it seeks to bribe and corrupt law enforcement of ficers and public officials, the nithlcssness with which it em ploys murder and other forms of violence to protect its vast sources of income and silence witnesses." Says Mafia Exists Even the "myth" about the Mafia has turned out to be true, he said. The revelations of Jo seph Valachi, imprisoned gang land executioner who decided to talk, have given federal officials a wealth of inside information about the sinister organization whose very existence was previ ously questioned by some inves tigators. Valaclu not only con firmed its existence: He told just how it operates, and named more than 100 of ts top figures. Valachi's long song was a "ter rific break" for the criminal di vision's new intelligence unit, Miller said. The intelligence unit was organized two years ago to bring together in one place all of the information about crime and criminals available to the 26 dif ferent federal agencies which have law enforcement responsibilities. The government had never be fore had such a "CIA for crime," and Miller has found it "ex tremely helpful." The unit now has dossiers on the activities of about 1,200 major racketeering figures, he said. Credits New Laws Also of major importance in the stepped . up fight against crime, Miller said, is the new legislation enacted by Congress in 1961 winch makes it a federal crime to send gambling informa tion or paraphernalia across state lines, or to travel in inter state commerce in support of racketeering. 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