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Show -- u ..10 1 ,, ' ' -- - --- - - - ,' , , , tale , , f t - --- -- -- I Of-3---'hatdhi- , ! Newark Editor's note: Newark. Detroit and the Watts area of were three of the hardest-hl- t cities la the ghetto riots of the IPKiOs. Recession has brought new though all thme cities are expected to stay problems relatively calm this sununer. All are trying to keep tensions low. Following are three dispatches from Ulnristian Scienee News SerN ice writers. Pt!' Watts LoF Angeles ' David Anable You can't miss them. They hang around on street corners, lean against parked or abandoned vehicles, drift stot-- c fr(.irits. past ca va the of steps tenements. and stroll aimlessly over rubble-strewcmpty lots where houses and shops were burnt to the ground in the 19,67 By , 15.41.t.)1 ... . ., I, riots. are Newark. many employed in all about 2fl percent of the Pity's work force. Mostly black, NI any young. Ready for renewed riots? Not so. say black leaders and city officials includ-inMayor Kenneth A. 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One neighbor has had old broken cars in his driveway awl in front of his house for a year now. Another neighbor's home has had no lawn since it was built four years ago, and now there's a junk pile twhind it that ouid idite five trucks to haul away. Several other homes and yards :tre filthy; nury clean neightkrs are trying to 32 sell out, it's become so unbearable. Can you help? comity:, says: "I don't have that sense now.But he also warns, '"flier is a kind of apatny now, ft tenng that Wings are not going to chatige whatever yOU dO, why bother.', :;,- L AN:4N neighbors, Granger.: 4r. ii i copy of your, The Board of 'Icahn in We t nt 4; letter, and they made a survey of your neighborhood. To 0',.t (late, six notices have been issued to corroet conditions in violation of health reeniations And the Bit promises to tollow through for a satisfactory compliance, N - Again this !,ear. the eity is trying to ereate more summer job operdngs in an area where at least Ki percent are said to be on public assistance rolls. and where unemployment hits O percent in Do It A.A,,In c4t red,t)po. Writ addrtc, nurnbcr. The city is hoping for some $7.5 million in federal and state money for about 70,000 jobs. Forty percent of this money is expected to be used in the area known as South Central Los Angeles. which includes I i.ffiernr.,ls to solve prioblems, get ansvvers, your nanT ;ind Oiv'? Yair places. , t , 41. .,:, i:: :: ,7.......;.:-- ,- p:.,.,,: ,,,,,, ',- ;;..- - ,. ....:.:.:,..,.. :,::,,,:,.::i,. rr ... ,.. ,,,,,,:. 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ZINV Despite the ravaged landscape and the exodus of professional int,,,Test, people donut have forebodings ot a long hot summer or a replay of the 1965 riot Julian Kviser of the Community Relations Conference, who was involved in cooling the 1965 riot and .:':....:,:::,,.::,.:::,.... t .. ir. t. ,., . - 141 woi..,,I',!, .,,,.'i,, ..: 0, ;,......4,:, :....,.. if.; Ullio.;:,,2:4:::'.:i-irgm 1 :;?tl.,, , :,,:''""''''''''I''''' :''''' ,: ,.. :' .....,.... .:' ' '....:,:4::,,.;,,:, ," ,.,,,tiii74ircl3L.444,41,C17g, ,4 :": :::. ' g (6,4,:.,,e ''' 44 '4,1 .:' ;:,,, 04. :,ri;,A i;:,:tt '.'4 L7.4 ff,,m,g .:,..?11: ' :V.14! Iv , flli '4!:, C:4' :':: ;,.:,',. !,, nm startin t! a than rebuitding. or i;imply out of fright, he says. l',. :Ism' ''::.i::',,'''';'.4,k-ifr.:"!- . :::,',, of I Last December I bought an organ from a Si. store. owner said if the organ went on sale before Christmas, he'd return the difference in the price 1 paid for i;80 less. I've and the sale price. It did go on sale called him twice Siiii7e then. First he said to wait a month er two for the check, and later he promised to send it right out That was a month ago. Can you get him to make Mrs, LE, Salt Lake City. good? lie thought the cheek had been sent, was glad we let him know it hadn't, and promised to mail it to you right ' 1. :,:1'...',.:0- breal, the lure , Check on its way rather , ,::::: g Not a doctor. a policeman, a sellout teacher or "major" businessman lives in Watts today, says mininunity kiader Ted W'alkins. Vhat industry there was a decade ago has largely fled to suburbia either because of tempting - , iticil: itiis I ..ii i. rt.,. ,,,,,,,,,oianow.1',F.' r.,..t." ,... :4 .1r.e:"7-- ' ' .,,,,,,,.,,,, i'l-: ;wt... larged revenue sharing, for special relief for municipal governments with deficits, for looser guidelines attached to federal funds. and for more state money for their city. ,t,r4 '' 041.31.44w !IV ,.', iiit; , relationship taxiiiployment and nets. t rziit some ot America's Still the mayor and his aides are cainpaigning in Washington for en- 1 ' '!': 41;00.'fft, ' r ..,s4 IN :. 1 homes re- have hit cities with zero unempoyinent ; and Newark's own unemploy ment in riotous 1967 was nowhere near so bad as it has been since then. , I Neat, 1940s, T , 1 51 ..."."444 s , :. ,,,,..;, 1s' .9,..,..,: vor tr qt. ;i61,01 4561N"." ' , :,...,:Fitt46 , .rt4'.., , hii He poir'e:..1 worst riot-- ;.&.!:'-- : .!: 1.1,416,01421,:.;;7:1071.1tj V jected a ,, iti ': It. ,.- .4 Unemployment is "othi-- g new to Newark. Rather, it has become WaY c4 life for piaoy, In an interview, Mayor Gibson - ' ,,, It It ra, 4 j.: , ,.4, -- Li The realization has dawned, it is said, that the city government has little power to do much about the people's troubles. "They don't see the city government as the perpetrator of their unemployment." says Butier. , :.:;:r 7 A., ai4 i.,6,4;i ' e;:. 'fur tidy theS Tiny ser.st YOUf because you'd moved. order, but they were refill-fle- d Food stamps are not forwardable. When you called, you gave Social Services your new address, and the stamps ere again sent right out. They Were once zegain r(turned to Social Services, but this time the reason was a mystery. he'd been addressed correctly, right down to the zip code. Apparently, the third try was sticeessful, Social Services repiirts the stamps are now in your hands Against these gains must be viewed other developments since the 1965 disturbances. Where there wcre four drug StOrCS on Imperial I lighway at the 110I10. time ot the tots now theiv .., .,,, ''' if, - 4.1.4.!1:,:, ..,.,,:,,, , ;.'0.71,,,,.;.:44,,, -- , 4 ,.'s,, :,,,,,,,:,:,,,,.:,,,,;....0!..,,,,.4,1 , r ,. I lis , 4!, .,,,,..vow,,',' A .., : t; , , ,,144;.:, rt , sent for food shunps to two weeks ago, and Ntill hAveul received them. I called the Social Services, and tbey said they'd been sent to the wrong address, but theyd get them off to the right one that afternoon. That L.S. was a week ago. and I sure ;wed those stamps. Sall Lake City. vest-pock- 4 :. A LiNE I result dial-a-bu- ,,i;a0-i- i,' OUR READERS ACTION Third fry successful lam , , -- SW 113:; '; , sr:tne. of the riots, Watts million Martin lititIk'T King Hospital, the lan.r.est loyal employcr i2,200. There if; a new Bank ot Aincrica buili ing. an impressive sof viet's building, and an state employment almost equally funds have made office. Model-citparts, 700 new possible street trees, a systom and seniiir citizens service, As a direct !--t Slogans and concern over unemployment replace past violence in Newark. i 1 betv,-ee- ' C 9- ,,.- - - '., 811A I large, desolate tracts gape the tew remaining builahni.t.s, including the post office, the gas company, and the tebsphone company. Watti, is it, although intik Nvorse off in 07 than in i9it3, at,,eordin to many observers, tlie situation is not all bad. where I ill ti,-5- ' .: For more than two years WeVe had a zoning violation ma us. But we residents have been unsuccessful in getting aetion, eloTil in spite of a court. hearing where the defendant was found guilty., The violation concerns horses and donkeys. The court ordered him to comply with the zoning code and remove the animals or build a partition. But he continues to ignore court orders. Can Salt Lake City. you do something? CI like to he ignored our work, and neither do of hits been ksued ti the a As livuth now, judges. court to order compliance. If he continues to ignore it further penalties may be assessed. If you notice :iorne partition building activities or the removal ot the ot fending animals. let us kii ow. if no activity - do the kV atts toda also can tie The "1()'''d iaen in the vollop,e if a hurtled inn, tormout district area irtmFructig f , i 2 ' The black leaders needed to channel a "sparking incident" into a have left the streets. "Legitimate black politics have taken over from less legitimate, The black leadership has liecome the establishment." says Fred Butler, chief of Family and Community Services , , , ... a... : .: .: ' 4' ..""OrSk.-.4-5,:,.4emirk4t,;:Z-, ', 0 ilit, e ,s '' 4--4 , :;; - ...,. '..,e,'C'Afi .., ' , 4,4t ,,r4f IS fi , t "iri-Ikv,- ' 1 v tAi,o, .' ' ,,,..... ,, :. ,,,,,,,,,..,. 4:4 ). 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"Today the mood is despair, not, I, 4b ,, ':' True. they all admit. it is always possible that an unexpected clash between civilians and a police unit could spark some skirmishing. But, they all agree, high unemployment alone will not produce rioting. These leaders and others say there have been significant changes since the street battles in 1!167 took 27 lives and dcstroyed millions of dollars worth of property , Ni.N: ' ' " it MIVE i 1 1 rl fly David Winder Unlike thc gindtos (if the East, the Watts ire ri Of Los Angeles spreads its horizontally t4iong broad. open Povel; streets of deeoptively family homes v;ith mowed strips of grass and flovering shrubs, paint-peelin- Ls I WE Fr , . .1,0.1 '1,;' .' I 7. . I! cities t A NEWS, FRIDAY,AAY 2?, 1975 DESERET -,- , or teteohono. Ploar,r! inclodo Vc .)5.1 Sign ge Our TolThort., OUR MAN v 41v, ft 0;"1114 tuf W rifts, ti 1 Harry Joneq Deseret News staff writer ., e What is so rare as a day in June? ...1; How about a day in May with v sunshine? ,, ti 0i I just looked at a back issue, May I. My friend, Harold Lundstrom, who 1,,,,ii,, sits at the next desk, of the month piece. Did he miss May He missed it as far as our three weathermen on the tube, but he doesn't have all the machines. He just makes it up. In his piece he says, "May is the winding path that leads to the top of the hill where one stands under the aspens high above the river watching the daylight spread across the splendor of the LaSals. liuti,174-4W1k,7- 1 'loot Detroit By Robert M. Press Little remains of the aftermath of Detroit's ifiki7 summer riots in which 43 persons v'ere killed in a mostly black area along 12th Street. Most of the stores have been torn doAn. long svi alh of dirt bears witness to an unfinished urban renewal pmject. At the corner of 12th Street and Clairmont. , , A where the thing jumped," as one youth worker says. there is only a N'aeant lot. A police arrest at that corner sparked the fight that swelled into several days of inass looting, fina4 put dw,vri by the state's national guard. Some minority leaders intervioed here say 1967 was a "rebellion," an "expression of anger." and point out that the poverty, lack of education. and unemployment that aggravated it persist today. Frustrations are even hii;her today. they say. Unemployment across the country' is higher among tAacks than among whites. Among teen-ag- e blacks the jobless rate is estimated at 58 percent in Detroit. With summer, apprmichiin, sonic police officers here ask if things will "jump" again, There may be "more stealing, more shooting," this summer among young blacks, '' But a riot is unlikely. says Bill Howard, who has worked for several years lvith teen-ag- e gangs on the east side, who has On the city's west side, a Chicano teen-age- r been arrested several times says he is looking forward this summer to "dances, tveddings, and parties," not fights. But one gang leader recently told Lonnie Peek, a youth specialist with Citizens Crusade Against Crime: -, We don't have nothin' to do but fight." Mayor Coleman A. Voing is warning the young, the old, the poor, and tilt black to "coot it." Ite adds that "rioting gas you fascism." Having campaigned partially on the need for better relations between the police and citizens. the mayor is trying to hire some 1,800 black police of beers with federal funds. But due to shortages in the city's regular budget, he is being forced to lay off some other police and make tails in most city departments. Fewer cuts are planned in the recreation budget to by to keep things "cool" this summer. tc After the 1967 riots, key business leaders in the area formed New Detroit, which has funded fsearch ani some projects aimed at helping minorities, Recently the organization began hiring some ;10 street workers to "hang out Allem- - the youth hang Jut," says staffer Paul Hubbard. , d - - , . 200 1' 1 1 - I 1- i i. I : confidential study Roberts' gyration. Ills -- a ei years ago I May 23 Persons lirbeg on the New England eaast are asked to ecinove Iivcstock and ha ,d to restrict British el jor:.i to seciae prat sions-- becoming in ,314t supply. -- , 5 I 8 .toi or- ders, Ebel has sworn, were to rewrite a port." . Ti is prmseiy hat the Ectuenant colonel tad. He charged that Roberts, in his capacity 11S head of 730.(w0) reservists, was given to "intrigue," "indifference" and "lethargy." Roberts also lacked courage on tough decision:'. wrote Ebel. I 4 t-7- a of Ebel reSubsequently, cylwd a commendation for -111; tremendot: 6ervice" and 'personal integrity," But this was before Old Strom spoke to Army Secretary Howard "Bo" about Ebel. Callaway Callaway has assured us that Thurmond's approach was "low key." The senator passed on some allegations against Ebel. He just said, 'Look into it,' recalled Callaway. "There never was a case with less political influ- lieutenant colonel began to crumble. Here is the swift sequence of events: Callaway turned Thurmond's allegations against Ebel over to the Army In 0:1 -- tl: ,.--- Ix ence." Eel' s unflattering report, ''inay have beeri he ziaiUrek; this matter " The Army reserves chief, although conceding he had spoken with both Thurmond and or of his aides about Ehii, denied he W3S the original- purveyor of the rumors. But from the moment Oil Strom gave Ebel the evil eye, t the .woild of the ,- ' 1 i "1:1A::',:, :;,,Ziet...,,Ifxt 2-- t Thurmond won't say who cooked up the charges i,gainst Ebel and slipped them to him. A classified Army document suggests that Roberts, the subject of i:i ' JACK' RIIDERSOn speetor General to investigate. the in-- , snector General instled a re' port condemning Ebel for vi,Titing a "derogatory" report about Roberts. Yet Ebel's Pentagon superiors had ordored him to prepre Irauk report. The laspeetor General also made some nitpicking charges at,out E,bers putting in voluntary time and misleading the Army on a ' minor matter. , Citing the Inspector Gen- eral's report as an excuse. Callaway dropped Ebel's name from the promotion list. Ile conceded that he had been "tougher" On Ebel than the Inspector General had recommended but insisted this had nothing to do with Thurmond's intervention. tEbel had given up a t6p civil service job to return to the Pentagon. But after he landed on Thurmond's blackI list, he found the Defense Department didn't want him. Ebel also had hoped to become executive director of the Reserved Officers Association. Instead, this plum went to Rolg,rts. It is an ing coincidmce that Thurmond is an influential past n. president of the asso-iatioNot only did Ebel suddenly find himself under investigation. but his records detailing his 25 years ui dedicated servico mysteriously disappeAred, When h sought information from the Pentagon to defend himself, it was refused, i - , Defense Department's former assistant general counsel, to file charges.At j closed-doo- r meeting with Pentagon investigators, Bartimo charged that this horrendous case. .affects the very core and heart of the reserve forces. Evidence, Army have .strongly offi- of the committed crimes and misdemeanors aranng which are malfeasance. .perjury, conspircy, obstruction of justice. tempt of bribery and black 1113i1," he declared. according to the confidential transcript. , No rfie tables ace turned, and the Justice Department is being tbskts4i to 101)k Thurmond, Callaway and company. 01 5 Uniled 1,,,?ture 4V S. -- we, .; first 40,41. 4 r"qi. te. P Syndicav Harold got's on tit. w." . .r , the hill. .''And the grass underfoot . 401, ' he might be standing under an aspen, but he is also standing in about, two feet of snow! But vtwn the Army began investigating Ebel becansc he had put in free time at the Pentagon, this was the last straw. lie retained an attorcny, Frank Bartimo, the suggests certain high cials cl the Department ;4'44 - If the guy is on the top of But critics contend New Detroit has done tlxi much paper shuffling and not enough to help minorities develop political clout to help them sl ev e s. pay to mess around with one of Strom's boys course. is the straight-lacesenator from South Carolina. a very mrytel of a reserve major general, the Army's senior reWad on Capitol ILI Certainly. Thurmond is not one for a mere lieutenant colonel to tangle with. The unfortunate Ebel made the mistake of criticizing Maj. Gen. Manor Roberts, the Army; reserves chief, who happens to be one of Thurm ond' s World War II buddies. Ebel was ordered to make WASHINGTON Inside the Pentagon, it doesn't pay I, mess with one of Strom Thtirmond's boys. IA. Col. Wilfred Ebel found this- out. He conducted a sta4; which rapped one of Thurmond's cronies as a tau: incompetent. There was a' snort of annoyance from Old Strom All of a sudden, Ebel's military career began col-- 7' lapsing around his cars.Stiom Thurmond, ' of v i ., with It doesn't By 7- ,,,,, 44 4 1,4 wet That's not dew! Whoever heard of two fect of dew? I'm not quoting Harold now, but to me May is the boy down the block wondering if he will be able to get into college next fall. His big worry is getting out of high school this spring! May to roe is also a great staad of danehons They come up like the mailman, 'through snow and sleet and dark of night. It sure blow s thebit about what you sow. you shall reap. I couldn't possibly sow that many danelloas! Back to Harold's essay: "May is a robin calling a tentative call as though asking who else is awake." I did see a robin the other day, but he was wearing a muffler. He was calling alright. Ile was calling for help! Back to rey May. As the school year closes, the teachers that I know worry about school in the fall. They worry about being automated out of a job. I tell them notto worry. They'll still be needed for playground duty, fire drills, PTA, and collecting milk mon& Back to Harold: "May is the sun organi ag itself." Well it's about time it got organized. This May has been about as disorganized as the Democratic Party! Sorry Gov. till Republicans HAROLD: "May is the cottonwoods on the creek bank, still stadow:s against the sky . I've looked at the.creeks and the cottonwoods, at ieast in Sugarbouse Park. The trees are in the middle of the creek not on the bank! Harold: " , And it is the stars now gone and the promise of light . . ," HQ'S leng is it since you've seen a star? To me May is the college graduate unsuccessfully Set 'tang employment. There just t7,!4't any eull for vice pi esidents. 0 MT'S END Rasing a garden is as hard as raising kids, ettl you evenotal4 get something nut of a garden, , . 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