Memphis World Memphis World Publishing Co. 1967-03-25 J. A. Beauchamp NAACP Urges Retention Of Rent Control Policy Gloster B. Current, director of the more than 1,800 branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says New York City's proposal to abandon rent control would cause such turmoil that "recent conflict situations in other cities would seem like a picnic." Appearing at the New York City Council Hearings on Rent Control, March 16, 1967, Mr. Current said the Mayor's proposal to permit landlords to increase rent by 15 per cent in apartments which have had only one 15 per cent increase since 1943, would adversely affect most "Negroes and Puerto Ricans in this city who live in controlled units." In his argument to retain rent control, Mr. Current said, "The income of non - whites living in rent controlled apartments is substantially unchanged over a period of the past five years. Their real income, in terms of purchasing power, is less than it was five years ago." "We know from past experience." Mr. Current declared, "that if rent increases were approved landlords would not invest these rent increases in fixing up rat-infested, ill-maintained dwellings." Mr. Current called on Mayor John V. Lindsay to maintain rent control in city dwellings for the following reasons: —Rent controls protect tenants who in a period of low vacancy and unavailable living space, are at the mercy of landlords who own and control ghetto property. —Racial discrimination in housing and failure of non - white income to keep pace with other wage earners prevent non - whites from gaining access to better housing accommodations at fair rents. —The city administration would not be able to protect the poor from gouging and other practices which plague the disadvantaged citizen. Mr. Current recommended a long range housing program to eliminate over - crowding in the ghetto areas and to free the housing market to the extent that landlords will find it profitable to upgrade, maintain and rehabilitate their property. AFL-C10 Says Appropriations Cuts Will Harm U. S. Youths AFL-CIO recently declared that the 90th Congress would do severe damage to state and local school programs and make a mockery of promises made to America's children if elementary and secondary education appropriations are cut in half. In testimony before the House Education and Labor Committee, AFL - CIO Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller said the two-year old Elementary and Secondary Education Act is bringing new educational opportunities to children in every part of the nation who need them most. "Any congressional action appropriating funds below the authorized amounts will severely damage state and local programs now under way or just getting out of the planning stages," Biemiller declared. He praised the work done by the education committee and urged it to pass a resolution calling upon the House Appropriations Committee to provide federal funding to the full authorization provided in the jaw. The proposed authorization for the coming, year is $1.5 billion less than what is allowed in the act and would hit hardest at educational help to children of the poor, which would receive only $1.2 billion of an allowable $2.4 billion, he said. Biemiller stated that the law thus far has been "an impressive success story" and the AFL-CIO is proud to have played a major part in securing its enactment. The law, he said, is helping children from low income families toward the excellence in education they must have if they are to break the poverty cycle. It has placed books in previously empty school libraries, financed innovative educational centers an dstrengthened educational research. "For the 90th Congress to appropriate less than half of authorized ESEA funds is to make a mockery of this promise and to destroy the hopes of those seeking to solve the complex prblems in ur present school systems," Biemiller declared. He told the committee that the AFL-CCIO fully endorses H. R. 6230 which would bring the Teacher Corps under the Act, would provide funds for educational planning and would establish assistance to the education of handicapped children. The labor movement is particularly enthusiastic about the Teacher Corps. Biemiller said, and welcomes the change over from the Higher Education Act as "appropriate," considering the central purpose of the legislation. The Teacher Corps, he said, "has brought into the Inner city schools something of the same spirit that the "Peace Corps previously brought to underdeveloped areas in other parts of the world." The Corps has made the inner city school "a teaching challenge, rather than an ordeal to be avoided," he said. The fledgling program, he noted, is giving a promise of injecting new vitality into schools and "at the same time maintaining the important principle of local control of education." Biemiller said the AFL-CIO had played an active part in improving the opportunities for the handicapped and is therefore pleased to give its support to the bill's provisions for regional centers where the educational needs of handicapped children would be diagnosed. The bill would also set up a recruiting program to overcome the severe shortage of special teachers needed for this work. The bill's povisions for funds to undertake educational planning is a "wise decision" by CCongress, he said, because of the extensive number of federal provisions dealing with education, among them the Civil Rights Act, the Economic Opportunity Act the Vocational Education Act and the National "Defense Education Act. "If school systems are to make the best possible use of the funds available to them under this, wide variety of programs," he said, "they must systematically identify their needs, organize them into a coherent pattern and relate them to all of the available funds under existing federal programs." Overall, the proposed amendments to the act, Biemiller said, continue and extend the important gains that have been made in elementary and secondary education. NAACP Urges Vote, Open Housing Law Strong resolutions on education and housing, a march to the State Capitol, and a stirring address by Mississippi NAACP Field Director, Charles Evers sparked Region II's conference here, March 11. More than 400 delegates (including approximately 150 youth) from the six New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut; as well as New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania participated in leadership and training workshops sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peple. Sen. Eleanor F. Slater advised delegates from states without fair housing legislation to seek advice from states which have been successful in passing fair housing laws. Mr. Evers charged northerners to "go out and show us what you can do with the vote .. show us that we can become elected officials. 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Spaulding, who rose from office boy to president of the multi million - dollar insurance company, gave the fifth lecture in the University's three - month Frederick Douglass Sesquicentennial series. In his talk prepared for delivery Spaulding said. "It has been man's response to challenge that has fixed his place in history and advance our civilization. It has taken him from savagery to civilization; from ignorance to knowledge; from a cave to a palace; from poverty to wealth; from disease to health; and from slavery to freedom." Spaulding noted that Douglass' life and works "are constant challenges to all of us to use our individual talents at all times as best befits us in the continuing struggle for equality of opportunity and freedom and justice for all peoples." Stressing his belief in challenges — "in converting obstacles into stepping atones, thereby gaining strength and reaching higher" — Spaulding expressed the view that "a man's real worth to society is measured better by what he contributes to it than by what he takes from it." The University of Rochester's Frederick Douglass Sesquicentennial Lectures are being held in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, who lived and worked in Rochester from 1847 to 1872. Other speakers in the series have been Prof. Benjamin Quarles, chairman, Department of History, Morgan State College; Prof. John Hope Franklin, University of Chicago Whitney Young, Jr. executive director. National Urban League; and Samuel Nabrit member, United States Atomic Energy Commission. Scheduled to speak during April are The Honorable William M. Hastie. Third United States circuit Court of Appeals; John H. Johnson, editor and publisher, Ebony Magazine and Prof. Allison Davis, Graduate School of Education, University of Chicago. Integrate All Parties, Says NAACP Leader The call for political separatism by "black power" advocates is dangerous because it would lead to and justify exclusion of Negroes from the major political parties in this country, according to civil rights leader Alfred Baker Lewis. Mr. Lewis, the national treasurer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said that civil rights groups at tempting to establish all -Negro political parties cannot hope to make progress on a state or national level. The establishment of all - Negro political parties and complete exclusion of whites "is dangerous because it will lead to all - white political parties," Mr. Lewis said last week in an address to the NAACP branch here at the Phyllis Wheatley YWCCA. The goal of the NAACP, Mr. Lewis added, "is to integrate Negroes into all aspects of the existing political parties." While he charged that proponents of black power and the participation of some Negroes in riots had given rise to the so - called white - backlash and temporarily damaged the civil rights movement, Mr. Lewis declared that "We must also end the cause of riots which have been triggered by frustration over lack of jobs, poor housing and inferior education." Do's And Don'ts DON'T DO AS! DO— DO AS I SAY DO! But He Will Do As You Do. You're Hit Idol! Roy Wilkins and other representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People met here Friday, March 10, with top oficials of the Armstrong Rubber Company "to discuss hiring policies" at the Natchez, Miss,, plant which employed slain civil rights worker Wharlest Jackson. Mr. Jackson, 36-year-old father of five, was killed Feb. 27 khen a bomb attached this pickup truck exploded while he was driving home from his job at the Natchez Armstrong plant. Jackson was a former treasurer of the Natchez NAACP Brancmb. Mr, Jackson had just been upgraded at the plant to the job of mixer, one not held befoare a Negro. Negroes claim that Ku Klux Klan members allegedly employed by the Armstrong Company were responsible for Mr, Jackson's death. Mr. Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP, who met with F. L. Dwyer, Lee Stewart, and James Walsh; president, senior executive vice president, and vice president respctively of the Armstrong plant's West Haven, Conn., headquarters, said: "I think the company should review its hiring policies. Where you have one attempted murder after another, we believe the hiring and screening policies are at fault. Another Negro leader, George Metcalfe, who is also employed at the Armstrong plant in Natchez, was seriously injured in a similar booby-trap explosion 18 months ago He lived, but was crippled for life. Metcalfe is president of the Natchez NAACP Branch. "We are not asking the Armstrong people to arbitrarily fire people," Mr. Wilkins said, "but we do insist that their screening process be tightened." "We are definitely asking them not to hire people affiliated with organizations that preach hate and murder," Mr. Wilkins added. "There certainly ought to be company regulations against the hiring of persons who practice hate anduse violence." Others attending the meeting with Mrs. Wilkins included Thomas Petteway, "NAACP New NorkNew England field director; and Connecticut NAACP branch presiedents Courtland Wilson, New Haven; and Andrew Wise, Nirwalk. Mr. Wilkins, who attended the Jackson funeral in Natchez and denounced the brutal bomb-murder by raciost elements in that city, said NAACP branches in Des Moines, Iowa and Hanford, Calif., would contract Armstrong plants in those cities. NATIONAL DISTILLERS EXECUTIVE WINS BROTH- ERHOOD AWARD — An award for "practicing democratic ideals in employment" was presented to Arthur G. McNitt, (third left). Central division manager of National Distillers, by the Chicago Conference for Brotherhood. Mrs. McNitt (with flowers) expresses her pride. Occas ion was the group's recent annual awards dinner at the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel here. Attending the dinner with Mr. McNitt were National Distillers executives, and wives to right): Bev Wilder, Earl Gary, and Henry Dumouil. Dr. John A. Peoples, Jr. Sixth President Of Jackson College Dr. John A. Peoples, Jr., on March 2, assumed his duties as the sixth President of Jackson State College, after serving as Vice President since September 1964. Jackson State College is-a senior level state supported college with an enrollment of 2,300. Dr. Peoples is a native of Starkville, Mississippi, where he attended Henderson High School. He is the first alumnus to serve as President in the 90 - year history of the College. He received the B. S. Degree with highest honors at Jackson State College in 1950. He later received two degrees from the University of Chicago, the M. A. in 1951, and the Ph. D.. in 1961. Dr. Peoples served as a mathematics teacher from 1951 to 1958, and a principal from 1958 to 1962 in the Public School System of Gary, Indiana. He also served, as a lecturer at the University of Michigan in the summer of 1964. In 1965, he was elected as a postdoctoral fellow in the American Council on Education Academic Administration Internship program. This program is financed by a Ford Foundation Grant, and is designed to train young college administrators. Dr. Peoples interned as Assistant to the President of the State University of New York at Binghamton, from September, 1965 through May, 1966. In 1952 he was elected to appear in the Who's Who in American Education. He was recently elected to appear in the 1967 edition of the same reference. In 1965 he was elected by the National Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the "Outstanding Young Men of America." Dr. Peoples has published articles in leading scholarly journals and has delivered and-or read innumerable speeches and papers. Recently he served is a group leader in the Annual Meeting of the Association for Higher Education. He holds memberships in several learned societies including the Association for Higher Education, the N. E. A., the M. T. A., and Phi Delta Kappa. He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., the local chapter of which elected him as "Man of the Year for, 1965." He is married to the former Mary Elizabeth Galloway, a native of Canton, Mississippi, and also an alumnus of Jackson state College. They have two children, Kathleen 14, and Mark 6. Thant proposes a skyscrapere annex on U. N. site. McCall's magazine of New York was challenged today to prove that it was not wasting taxpayers money in employing Lynda Bird Johnson as a reporter, wirter and socalled expert on young women. The challenge came from CONFIDENTIAL, which suggested in an article in its May issue that the President's older daughter was being exploited by McCall's for publicity purposes. The issue goes on sale today (March 21). 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At 18 he was an ordained eleder and has grown steadily in the work of his denomination. When only it years old he organized a mission at Popular Branch, N. C., with 12 members. He had successful pastorates in N. C. Conn., and has a glowing tenure at Hackensack for 13 years: As evidence of his ability and esteem he was the first Negro to be elected president of the Bergan County (New Jersey) Council of Churches, Jan. 15 and was off to a start of the 102-member interracial body. He has retained the staff that he inherited from Dr. Eichelberger. It is also to be remembered that Dr. D. H. Bradley, New Bedford Pa., who has been associated with the office for a number of years, has been available to Rev. Blackwell for the proper change in administration. The presentation to Mr. Simon was made during a brief ceremony preceding the final game of the district tournament at the Booker T. Washington gym. 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