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CR People (Jsing Slams
To Generate New Support
Editor’s Note: The civil rights
People are using slums — an
ancient problem — to generate
new support for their move
ment The campaign in At
lanta, an affluent “new fron
tier” southem metropolis,
ri’hts threatens crisis. to erupt into a civil
Here is a report
by * veteran CPI civil rights
reporter.
By AL I”"TTTNER
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI)-Mrs. Clara
Everhardt, encased In an over
coat with a bandana wrapped
a-ound her head, stood in the
middle of “Lightning” and
cheerfully demolished an old
wooden fence with a huge ax.
“I’m gonna stay warm one
Way or the other,” the Negro
woman said as another section
of fence collapsed behind her
ancient home.
Lightning, a square block of
misery for the people packed
Into rotting shacks, is a glaring
Island of poverty in a sea of
plenty. Within sight are the
spires of new skyscrapers on
Atlanta’s modern downtown
skyline. Within walking distance
Is a new $18 million sports sta
dium.
But Lightning and Vine City,
Its neighbor, were left adrift
in the backwash of progress.
Recent zero weather rupture'
pipes and rivers of water‘ran
down the muddy streets, a sig
nal that there was none Inside
sanitation.
At Crisis Point
The view from Lightning is
excellent — if you climb high
enough up the banks of the
railroad tracks that bound the
all-Negro neighborhood. But
close up, the view Is not so
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good. Conditions threaten to ex
plode into a major new civil
rights crisis.
“We can have a Watts riot in
Atlanta just any time as a re
sult of things like this,” says
Otis Cochran, a Negro leader
In the Vine City Community
Council.
Absentee landlords collect
rent ranging from $25 a month
for a two-room place to $40 for
“luxury" accommodations with
three rooms. A duplex with
holes in the floor on one side
and a roof that lets In the rain
on the other brings a combined
monthly rental of $62.50.
Poverty Is nothing new In
this area of old houses. What
is new Is that It has become a
fresh cause celebre for the
civil rights movement which
has found street demonstrations
draw waning attention.
King Lives Nearby
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
lives on a comfortable, middle
class street bordering one end
of Vine City and at other end
is the headquarters of the mili
tant Student Nonviolent Coordi
nating Committee (popularly
known as Snick).
Both King and Snick have
Now comes Julian Bond, a
26-year-old Negro pacifist who
was barred from a seat in the
Georgia legislature because he
supported draft evasion. Bond,
Snick’s publicity man, has
called for a city financed "free
dom village” inside the pover
ty area. Along with King, he
has hinted at a blanket rent
strike.
Such talk by civil rights or
gnnizations does not meet with
wholesale endorsement in
Lightning.
For months, residents like
Cochran have been at work al
most without notice In a run
down community house seeking
to help the people and get them
food and clothing. Social agen-
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cies have taken up the task on
a hit-and-miss basis from time
to time. But nothing seemed to
get cured.
“The big fish still eat the lit
tle fish,” a Negro woman hud
dling before a small gas fire
said. “The welfare crowd, the
Office of Equal Opportunity,
the SCLC, (King’s Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence) and Snick come In here
with their campaigns. But they
don’t do any good.
“The social workers come In
with their noses up high and
tell us we ought to have gotten
more education. Hell, we know
what we should have done.
What we want to know Is what
can we do from now on.”
A big city with mounting ur
ban problems thus finds itself
In the vise jaws of crisis. Each
day the pressure to “do some
thing” mounts at City Hall.
Bond is demanding that Mayor
Ivan Allen guarantee heat,
light, water and food for the
poor.
Allen and his associates are
advising delegations from the
poverty side of town to use the
standard welfare facilities and
the courts for relief. No such
answers satisfy the people In
volved.
Atlanta has a housing court
that handles building codes vio
lations. But convictions come
hard and slow. Inspectors are
labeling many homes unfit for
human habitation. The Atlanta
Housing Authority has estab
lished a special task force to
help in the relocation of dis
placed occupants.
“We are trying to get new
legislation that will help us en
force the building code,” says
Alderman Richard Freeman,
chairman of the board’s police
committee.
“Another thing I think we
should do is to heavily tax slum
property,” Freeman said. “We
need to make it unprofitable for
people to exploit their fellow
men through the renting of dil
apidated housing which is unfit
for human habitation. If money
is the only thing that talks to
them, let’s let it talk loud and
clear. Let’s price slums out of
business."
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News Commentary
South Korean Troops
Obligated In Viet Nam
By PHIL NEWSOM
TJPI Foreign News Analyst
When South Korea dispatched
some 20,COO combat troops to
South Viet Nam last fall,
Premier Chung n Kwon ex
plained that it was in recogni
tion of South Korea’s obliga
tions to nations that helped it
turn back Communist aggres
sion 15 years ago.
The Koreans since have seen
hard-fought action and the
United States would like to
have more. But the negotiations
have found rough sailing.
Chief stumbling block is
South Korean dissatisfaction
with the way it says the United
States has carried out previous
promises.
First, the Koreans say, a U.S.
promise to arm three Korean
reserve divisions to strengthen
South Korea’s own defenses has
not been carried out.
Expectations Fail
Second, South Korean expecta
tions of substantially increased
Korean exports to South Viet
Nam have not been realized.
The first of these will be
done, the Americans say,
explaining that some of the
delay wa s caused by the long
supply pipe-line between the
United States and Korea.
The second is more difficult.
In South Viet Nam, as
elsewhere, the United States
pursues a buy-American policy.
This policy directs that Ameri
can aid money be spent
wherever possible on American
goods to help stem the outward
flow of U.S. gold.
The United States has been
reluctant to ease this policy but
the expectation Is that the
Koreans will get at least Part
of what they demand.
New Attitude Forming
The South Korean stand is
reflective of a new attitude
taking shape in Seoul, the
nation’s capital.
Even before the dispatch of
troops, Korean engineers were
at work on South Viet Nam’s
roads. Other South Korean
technicians were at work on
other development projects
elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
Korean salesmen throughout
the world push the quality of
Korean exports. Increasingly
confidence grows that at the
end of another fi e years South
Korea can become self-sustain
ing. There also is a growing
belief that South Korea has a
place to play in world, and
particularly Asiatic, affairs.
But there also is a belief that
in dispatching troops to 6 outh
Viet Nam, South Korea runs an
obvious risk. Red Chinese
threats already have held out
the possibility that the war
between North and South Korea
may be renewed.
Must Stand Beady
Therefore, South Korea can
not deplete the troops that for
15 years have stood guard at
the cease-fire line.
Already the Koreans note a
sharp rise m terrorism and
subversion directed from the
North.
The South Korean Central
Intelligence Agency says that
Communist agents have been
dispatched from North Korea
with instructions to assassinate
President Park Chung Hee.
Communist agents are held
responsible for the murder of
South Korean farmers.
Other Red agents are said to
have been instructed to deter
mine capabilities of the South
Korean army in the event the
war in Viet Nam should spread.
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thieves is occurring, you
might say, as Cuban Premier
Fidel Castro (above) de
nounces Red China for “be
traying” Cuba with the “eco
nomic aggression" of reneg
ing on a sugar-for-rice trade
deal. He said Red China has
“added to the . . . Yankee
blockade against Cuba.”
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