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ftiday Aifat IS, 1967
As We Were Saying
By ROBERT E. SEGAL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
When Defense Secretory Rob
ert S. McNamara declared all
segregated housing near the An
drews Air Farce Ba*3 in Mary
land off limit® recently, he was
facing up to one issue which thus
far has proved indigestible for
enemies of “Open Housing.”
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Louisville's racial turmoil late
ly has revolved around the de
mand for “Open Housing”—an
end to discriminatory practices
in both private and public
bousing sectors. Martin Lvther
King's fop target in Chicago last
summer was to end bias and to
give the more than 800,000 Ne
groes of the Windy City a chance
to move out and occupy homes on
the same terms white people buy
or rent In Cleveland and in Mil
waukee, mare and more
students
lema are
elusion that housing needs for
Negroes must be ziven top prior
ity.
Taxpayers’ Association and the
Maryland Petition Committee.
But what can these foes of fair
play in housing do when citizens
attempt to end the shame of
denying habitation to service men
and their visiting relatives near
military bases solely' because
those in uniform and their kin
are ookwed?
A new study of housing dis
crimination in Massachusetts,
prepared by that state’s advisory
committee to the U, S. Commis- ,
sion On Civil Rights, includes a
revealing reference to the plight
of Negro service men near West-
over Air Base:
fcf current racial prob-
! acting upon their oon-
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LADIES’ and MEN’S HATS
Those who balk fair housing
practices are articulate, determ
ined, and active. At a high busi
ness level, they speak glihly of
the need to fight legislation that
would give everyone the right to
equal housing opportunities by
branding such a movement as
“forced housing.” In California
and in Maryland, fair housing
legislation has been hampered by
movements to funnel the issue
into referendums. (Not until this
June did the U. S. Supreme Court
strike down the California 1964
anti-fair housing vote by ruling
that Californians had made dis
crimination one of the basic pol
icies of the state. Meanwhile,
Maryland’s foes of fail housing
went ahead with plans to put
that state’s law to a test by ref
erendum.)
It is clear that people with
money and energy can frustrate
and curb and immobilize effort
after effort made to stop housing
discrimination. Indeed, it is note
worthy that the Maryland anti
fair housing drive is spearheaded
by the Maryland Association of
Real Estate Boards. Maryland
Soviets Double
Mediterranean Fleet
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ad
miral Thomas H. Moore, the new
Chief of Naval Operations, said
that during the Arab-Israeli war,
the Soviet Union doubled its
naval strength in the Mediter
ranean bringing it to mote than
20 ships—about half the size of
the U. S. Sixth Flee: He said
that the Russians were now un
usually active in the Mediterran
ean and that such rctivity was
increasing. The admiral saw tne
shift in that region by Russia io
a new sea posture, from defense
to offense, as one of the major
problems facing the U. S. Navy.
Armored Cars Remain
On Post in Beirut
LONDON (JTA)— The Times
reported from Beirut that armor
ed cars were still posted on the
street corners of the Jewish quar
ter where Jews have been large
ly unaffected during the June
war and the Arab bitterness at
Israel’s victory, “much to the
credit of the Lebanese author
ities.” Armor ?d care are still post
ed at the British and American
Embassies.
“But is the nomvhite discrim-
serioqs >' inated against when he lives off
the base? The base commander
did not allow military personnel
to participate in the open meet
ing (called in connection with
this study). However, the execu
tive director of the Holyoke
(Mass.) Housing Authority told
the committee: ‘We have found
the Negro serviceman and his
family were being gouged . . .
They even had to get extra jobs
to keep the rent paid up.’ If they
lived off the base in Holyoke,
their salaries were insufficient
for adequate housing other than
public housing. There had been
an instance of a family being
forced to live in a motel at $200
a month and of some of its mem
bers having had to sleep on the
floor.”
Perhaps this study, which was
made available to any federal
authorities interested, may have
helped Secretary McNamara to
take the action he has now taken
at Andrews Air Fores Base. He
has made it clear that till mil
itary personnel at the base are
forbidden to lease or rent in any
segregated apartment building or
trailer court within 3 Vi miles of
the base, and he has promised
Similar directives for bases
Weizman I. Chair C)
To Honor Klutznick
NEW YORK (JTA)—A chair
in development biology will be
established at the Weizmann In
stitute at Rehovoth In the name
of Philip M. Klurtznick, American
Jewish leader, it was announced
by Abraham Feinberg, president
of the American Committee for
the Weizmann Institute.
A sum of $250,000 to establish
the chair is being subscribed by
friends of Mr. Klutznick in rec
ognition of three decades of pub
lic service to the United States,
tile Jewish Community and to Is
rael, and to honor him on his
60th birthday. Formal presenta
tion of the chair will take place
at a dinner in Mr. Klutznick’s
honor an September 10, at the
Palmer House in Chioago. Vice-
President Hubert H. Humphrey
will be a principal speaker. Mr.
Klutznick is a member of the
board of directors of the Amer
ican Committee for the Weiz
mann Institute.
in other part* of the coun
try.
This action gives the enemies
of open housing something to
choke on. It should also provide
a morale builder for those 76
outstanding Chicagoans who have
organized to call on real estate
offices in Evanston and other
well-known suburbs, asking that
the people who rent or sell prop-
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erty stop the ugly practice of dis
criminating. And even more to
the point, it should spur President
Johnson to try to make good once
more on his announced determ
ination to get fair housing prac
tices for all firms installed
in this nation by 1969 through
law, if necessary; through other
appropriate means, if intransi
gents continue to kill the law3.
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