Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1951-11-27 Chester M. Hampton Foley Announces New Approach To Displacement Problem, Low-Rent Housing Announcement November 5 by Housing and Home Finance Admdnistrator, Raymond M. Foley of b new approach to solving the displacement problem in connection with new low-rent public housing porjects in Chicago was viewed this week an a formula which could be used in other cities. He made the announcement no the heels of the applications submitted by the Chicago Housing Authority for four additional projects. These announcements' were accompanied by a statement, of special steps aimed at solving the displacement problems involved in the projects. These steps, Mr. Foley stated, accord with a newly developed national method for coordination of use of the several aids administered by the Housing, and Home Finance Agency designed to minimize the impact of dislocation of families as a result of the clearance of slum ares and to give active aid in solving the relocation problems involved. Such problems are found in many cities, he said, and are particularly serious in clearance of alum areas largely occupied by families of minority groups. The policy will be followed toy the Agency in dealing with applications for Federal aid wherever the existing housing situation creates a serious relocation problem. However, Mr. Foley pointed out that the development of these projects by the Chicago Land Clear ance Commission and the Chicago Housing Authority also creates a special problem due to the fact that the area to be redeveloped by the Lake Meadows project and the sites of three of the additional low-rent heavily housing projecture slum areas heavily populated with Negro families, many of whom have incomes which exceed the requirements as to eligibility for occupancy in public housing projects. "This has made it necessary" he said, "for the local agencies and the Housing and Home Finance Agency and it's constitutents to that the families steps to assure these large-scale housing developments will not suffer unnecessary housing hardship and, in the re location of the displaced families, to avoid the establishment of con ditions which would tend to create new blighted areas." "In an undertaking of this character, a community, is faced with the task of developing and carrying out feasible method for adequate relocation of the families now living in the slum areas which it wants to clear and redevelop," Mr. Foley continued, "and Chicago agencies have been laboring with this problem." About 8,000 families of two or more persons, largely Negro families, were involved in the areas to be cleared. Administrator Foley indicated that the seriousness of this special problem was such that a concerted approach should be made by the city and its appropriate agencies acting with the cooperation of all the constituent agencies of the Housing anti Hope Finance Agency. The objective should be to assure maximum utilization of all Federal, State and local aids to both public and private redevelopment and housing activity in order to assure, not only that the families to be displaced by the development of the present projects will be adequately rehoused without unnecessary hardship, but also to increase the living space for the Negro population of Chicago so that other slum areas may be cleared and replaced with good, housing in well-planned neighborhoods. While the several Federal programs functioning in Chicago and in ther cities, are administered through separate constituent agencies, and separate con tracts entered into with the several separate local public bodies and private builders involved, the interrelationships of the program to achieve this objective are clearly recognized by all concerned, and the Administrator has responsibility to seek to coordinate their use toward production of the housing required to meet the needs of all families, which is the general objective set forth in the Federal housing laws. Mr. Foley said that, as a result of the study and consideration which has given to the special problem created by the proposal to proceed with the largescale clearance of slum areas occupied largely by Negro families, the constitutent agencies of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and his Division of Slum Clearance and Urban Redevelopment, will make special efforts to assist in meeting, it. Federal Housing Commission Franklin D. Richards said that FHA District Office in Chicago under Director Edward J. Kelly, in addition to their work to assist builders in meeting, the general housing needs in Chicago will actively undertake to encourage and assist private builders in a practical program of developing both sale and rental housing available to middle -income Negro families on vacant land areas in Chicago to the maximum extent possible and consistent with the clear evidence of a large unsatisfied market in Chicago for such housing. Public Housing Commission John T. Egan indicated that, in connection with the four additional lowrent public housing projects, arrangements would be made so that demolition can proceed by stages in a manner designed to reduce to a minimum any hardship affecting displaced families, with each stage of demolition. Commissioner Egan also indicated that contracts for any additional slum sites which would involve displacement of a substantial number of families could not be approved until the progress being made in meeting the existing relocation problem resulting from present redevelopment and public housing slum sites, and in increaseing the general housing supply in Chicago, indicates that the families can be adequately rehoused without undue hardship. THE BRAID Worn as a companies piece to your chignon. SEND NO MONEY — pay postman on delivery. ! . $5.00 "Gray Hair" Troubles are over...with LARIEUSE! Why fed lonely and unwanted because of gray hair—when it's so easy to give your hair lovely new color with Godefroy's Laricuse Hair Coloring! Larieuse colors your hair quickly, easily—leaves it softly shining. In flattering colors, too! Ask at your cosmetic counter for Larieuse Hair Coloring—the dependable hair coloring in the red box—used and approved for more thin 65 years! 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N W., was sentenced a fine of $134 and 60 days in jail on charges of speeding, driving intoxicated and driving without a license. The officers said Evans, driving east on Houston Street, about 1:10 a. m., overran a. red light at Jackson Street, N. W. striking a cardriven by Thomas James Ficklin, 25, of 485 John Street, N. W., Apt. 250, knocking it east on Houston Street into the side of a building Evans car then ran onto the sidewalk and stopped between an iron, pole and the side of a building. Police estimated that about $1,000 worth of damage was done to Evans' car, and $800 to Ficklin's. Evans received injuries to his right shoulder and lacerations of the face and nose. Three people riding with him were also injured. Grady Hospital listed them as: Gordon Williams, 20, 390 Leonard Street, S. W., who suffered injuries to his face and left knee; William Powell, 23, 580 Houston Street, N. E., injured right left and left knee; and James Harold Trice, 24, 312 Wadley Street, N. W. pains in the right side. Ficklin, sustained injuries to his head and back. Two passengers, riding with him wore also injured. Christine Buggs, 1060 McDaniel Street, received five broken ribs, collar bone and face lacerations. Latest Grady reports said she was doing "fair." Also shaken up in the accident was Roy Clack, 227 Dunlap Street, N. E., Apt. 2. Grady Hospital also listed two people hurt in an auto accident on Simpson Road early Tuesday. Geo. W. Patterson, 262 Auburn Avenue. N. E., suffered lacerations of the face nose and lips. Mrs. Mildrad Greenway. 25. 398 Mitchell Street, S, W., sustained lacerations of the face and right foot. ACCIDENT ON SIMPSON ROAD The 27-year-old driver of in automobile that collided with another vehicle early Tuesday at the Streets, N. W., causing injury to seven people, Was lodged in the city jail later in the day after a hearing in Traffic Court, police reported. Police Sergeant W. F. Eddleman. and F. R. Russell said Leroy Evans, 27, of 191 Griggs Street. N W., was sentenced a fine of $134 and 60 days in jail on charges of speeding, driving intoxicated and driving without a license. The officers said Evans, driving east on Houston Street, about 1:10 a. m., overran a. red light at Jackson Street, N. W. striking a cardriven by Thomas James Ficklin, 25, of 485 John Street, N. W., Apt. 250, knocking it east on Houston Street into the side of a building Evans car then ran onto the sidewalk and stopped between an iron, pole and the side of a building. Police estimated that about $1,000 worth of damage was done to Evans' car, and $800 to Ficklin's. Evans received injuries to his right shoulder and lacerations of the face and nose. Three people riding with him were also injured. Grady Hospital listed them as: Gordon Williams, 20, 390 Leonard Street, S. W., who suffered injuries to his face and left knee; William Powell, 23, 580 Houston Street, N. E., injured right left and left knee; and James Harold Trice, 24, 312 Wadley Street, N. W. pains in the right side. Ficklin, sustained injuries to his head and back. Two passengers, riding with him wore also injured. Christine Buggs, 1060 McDaniel Street, received five broken ribs, collar bone and face lacerations. Latest Grady reports said she was doing "fair." Also shaken up in the accident was Roy Clack, 227 Dunlap Street, N. E., Apt. 2. Grady Hospital also listed two people hurt in an auto accident on Simpson Road early Tuesday. Geo. W. Patterson, 262 Auburn Avenue. N. E., suffered lacerations of the face nose and lips. Mrs. Mildrad Greenway. 25. 398 Mitchell Street, S, W., sustained lacerations of the face and right foot. Present-Day Draftees Ask For Bible Present day draftees apparently seem to realize a greater need for Christianity than did their uncles and brothers who were called into service during World War II. Officials at the Atlanta Selective Service headquarters yesterday reported that many of the prospective inductees show up with the family Bible under their arm. J. F. Roger, assignment section director, said "quit ea few of the boys are showing up with their family Bibles—usually two or three a day. We have copies of the New Testament on the desk which have been placed here by the Gideons International. Many of the draftees come by to pick up one or to ass if we also have copies of the Old Testament." He estimated that an average of 70 pr 15 Testaments are distributed daily at the induction center. The Rev. Cecil Meyers, chairman of the Committee for War-Time Services of the Atlanta Christian Council, who has served as chaplain at the center, said most of the inductees take Testaments along with other religious literature and read them. Rev. Myers said he has noticed the "seriousness of the draftee of today." Southern Editor Cites Gains In South For Negro Hodding Carter, liberal editor of the Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat-Times in an address last week before an overflowing audience at Town Hall here, cited gains made by Negroes and expressed optimism over future race relations in the South. In describing the States Rights move, Carter said it was negative, but added that a third political, party might have wholesome influence. "Race relations is one recurrent theme in the changing South," the liberal spokesman observed. He pointed out that any deficiency or lack of vigilance in this area is used against us all over the world. by Communist and darker peoples looking to America for guidance. An example of the progress made in race relations in the South is the fact that some Negroes do vote, Carter observed. In 1936 the franchise for the Ne gro in the South was largely nonexistent. A few Negroes now are being elected to office by their own as well as interested and liberal whites, he said. Carter praised colored policemen He said they have cut the rate of crime and delinquency in Negro communities. He lauded the role of the Unit ed States Supreme Court in giving Negroes a voice in justice. As a result of this, Negroes are not kept off of juries, he said. In discussing lynching, Carter pointed out that the average in the South was less than two a year, but added that these two were too many. Mississippi which led lynchings has not had one in four years, according to the Town Hall speaker. The story of the acceptance of Negroes by the student body has not been fully told. Carter said He added that once the Supreme Court ruled that colored students had to be admitted to certain schools in the South, the student bodies and faculties accepted them. Finally, declared the editorial writer: "We in the deep South are learning to live together as creatures of God which is a divine lesson for all of us in these disunited time." October drought and freezes cut 1951 crop estimates. Florida NAACP Conference To Hear White. Mrs. Hurley N. A. C. P. delegates and friends are gathering in Daytona Beach this Thanksgiving week end. November 23-25 for the 11th Annual Meeting of the Florida NACCP State Conference. The Cypress Street Recreation Center is Conference headquarters. Discussions will center around the theme: "Pressing The Fight For Civil Rights On State and Loca Levels." Key persons in the Groveland Case, the University of Florida Case, the Daytona Peabody Auditorium Case, and in the fight to get civil rights bills before the Florida Legislature will be head in a panel discussion Saturday morning, November 24. No doubt the crowning features of the conferences will be addressed by Mrs. Ruby Hurley of Birmingham, NAACP regional coordinator, and by Walter White of New York, national head of the NAACP. Mrs Hurley will deliver, the keynote address Friday night, November 23rd. Walter White will speak at a mammoth mass meeting on Sunday November 25 at 3 p. m. It is expected that hundreds of admirers from over Florida will bein Daytona Beach Sunday to see and hear this oustanding Negro leader. Mr. White will be introduced by Dr. Mary McCleod Bethune, veteran educator and a national vice president of of the NAACP. NAACP youth delegates also are gathering at Bethune-Cookman College on these same dates. The call for the youth meeting was issued by Henry Finley of Florida A and M. College, state president or NAACP youth councils and college chapters. in World War I gave Hilyard Robinson the impulse to build. 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When asked the reactions of the swank "400" to them, he commented "there was none, whatsoever. Anyway, we would not restrict any decent citizen for it would not be the American way." Among the Negroes attracting the most interest off the stage was Harlem socialite, Modesta Rockmore, who sat in a $30 seat. Mrs. Rockmore wore a $20,000 ermine coat. According to Jet magazine, ser husband is a Pullman porter. Wilkins Hits Birmingham Blood Bank Bias "A city ordinance of Birmingham, Ala., or any other American city, which operates to discourage the collection of blood, will not win many cheers from our soldiers in Korea," declared Roy Wilkins, Administrator of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in a statement supporting the Birmingham NAACP branch in its boycott of the Jim Crow local blood donor center. "We do not believe." Mr. Wilkins wrote Rev. R. L. Alford, president of the Birmingham NAACP branch, "that the NAACP of Birmingham ought to endorse or cooperate in any blood collection program which requires that Negro citizens appear only on a certain day of the week to give their blood; and that such donations will be labelled as 'Negro blood.'" The executive secretary of the Birmingham Red Cross had written Rev. Alford that "a patient, whether he be Negro or white, should have the privilege of specifying if he so desires the source of the blood to be given him." The Birmingham Red Cros has set aside Thursdays "for the exclusive use of Negro donors." Man Goes To Chair In Death Of S. Sheriff Carroll Gantt, 20-year-old Negro charged and convinced for killing Polite Chief J. W. Etheridge of Branch ville, South Carolina, was electrocuted Friday. The police chief was wounded fatally June 30 when he investigated a fight in a cafe. Gantt had had alight there with another Negro and the testimony at his trial was that he stood across the street and fired several shot gun blasts into the place. The police chief was hit and killed. Besides slaying the chief, Garil killed Robert Varnes, another Negro and wounded nine other persons in the cafe. Miss. Whites Denounce NAACP Equality Stand Mississippi educators, white, are taking with, a grain of salt and discounting, as "unrepresentative of the great balance Of the colored people of this state," a resolution aimed at the outlawing of segregation in the public schools. Rev. W. A. Bender of Tougaloo college, president of the Mississippi state chapter, held what has been labeled a rump conference with only a handful of members to publicize the heralded warning. Gov. Fielding L. Wright, said that he intended answering Rev. Bender, but has learned since that it would avail him nothing. J. P. Coleman, attorney general, said that he would say nothing unless the matter finds its way into court. Secretary of the board of trustees, state institutions, E, R. Jobo, took a blast at Rev. Bender, saying that he doped the "irresponsible statements of Rev, Bender and his group will not cause the legislature to move in any way against the great mass of Negro people in this state whom Rev. Bender doctrines Director of finance and adminis tration for the department, G. J. Cain, spoke in the absence of Supt. of Education J. M. Tubb, saying: "This small group, terming itself the NAACP in Mississippi, is no representative of the vast majority of the colored people. "Bender himself is not an educator, nor are any of those who sign ed the resolution with him, insofa as I can learn. "The educators among the Negro race in this state have been work ing closely with the Mississippi Citizens Council on education and are a part of the council. They are eager to work with us on a long range program. 'We knew and they, know that We cannot complete the equalization o education program overnight, and they, the colored educators fee that we are making a good p proach with our foundation n. What Cain had in mind was, tha state's $80,000,000 program no wbeing fostered by the Mississippi Citizens Council, said it would solvet the educational ills of the Negro. At Tupelo, Supt. Tubb said that Bender resolution was a "carpetbagger resolution by people who have no concern for the Negro race." Two unknown quantities are teams cautiously rated as No. a and No. 6 respectively — Central State and Maryland State. Both teams started the season very slow ly, but now seem to have arrived at top form. Yet, neither team has been too impressive over weak opponents, but have done well against good teams. Central State is Midwest Conference champion, and this cannot be ignored. Each team in this coference has won nearly all of its non-conference games—with the exception of Tennessee State. Mary land State owns a 7-6 decision over Central State. Rated seventh if North Carolina College. Eighth ranking squad is Tennessee State, beaten by Central State mid North Carolina College. West Virginia State ranks ninth, ad Lincoln (Mo.) is rated 10th. Final ratings of all teams will come two weeks from now—ratings will be from the top to the bottom school on the list. Federal life insurance seen exceeding all private concerns.