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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 Pythagoras Chapter No. 10 — R. A. M. Regular Convo cation tonight. A 11 qualified IKasoua invited to be present at 9:30 p. m. J. C. Tinley—HP Tom Brake, Sec.-Trea* 9 i "Ask Your Doctor To Phone Us Yow ftwcri p tloMP DELIVERY Phone 227-1211 City Wide ON SALE THURSDAY, FRIDAY l SATURDAY Call 227-3291 WafauzetiClgeficy drug store or 227-3292 LAST CALL!! VALENTINE’S DAY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER - BEAUTIFUL AND DELICIOUS RUSSELL STOVER HEARTS-MANY SIZES. Priced From $ 1 . 151 . $ 10.00 SOME PLAIN - SOME FANCY - ALL DELICIOUS - ALL BEAUTIFULLY WRAPPED FOR YOU! 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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- SAVE FT TIME Shop / thiL 33 : as FI ED 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." Griffin Daily News i i :• m m y. i . : •\ ■> m % Wi I r ) u i *»*k*j. H '■'v/V/.. i m m THIRD PLACE— Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper (left) and Vir gil (Gus) Grissom sit in their racing boat “Miss Firebird’* after finishing third in the unlimited inboard motor class of the 1966 Channel Derby at Texas Cty, Tex. The boat Is a 23 foot hydrodye powered by two Chevy 396-cubic-inch engines. World Briefs game a sellout COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (UPI) —The 1966 Hall of Fame game between the Minnesota Twins and the St. Louis Cardinals has been sold out, It was announced Tuesday. The game, which will be played at Doubleday Field, i s scheduled for July 25. COMPETE IN NEW YORK NEW YORK (UPI) -High jumper Otis Burrell, who won his event at the Seattle indoor meet last weekend, said Tues day that he will jump In the New York Athletic Club track and field meet at Madison Square Gr vden on Feb. 18. 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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. HWHBSBBS .... N.jA i \ j r> v 1 1 II 0 I ■ i ■M m : « % : r A FALLING OUT among 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.” Want Ads Pay