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Oshawa Times (1958-), 25 Jul 1967, p. 3

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An AP News Analysis By AUSTIN SCOTT _DETROIT (AP) -- The large sign chalked in a white scrawl across the charred doorway read Black Power. But Detroit's second day Latc Sunday night a happy mob of Negroes and whites bus- ily looting a furniture store politely asked permission from a white homeowner across the Street before dragging their stoleu plunder through his yard, hard helmets, and ran into only mild derision. Reporters who met hostile stares in Chicago or violence in Watts. found Detroit residents eager to talk about their own problems with the violence. ment blaming the violence on "a small number of hoodlums and hatemongers."' But no one said why the festive atmosphere in the streets Monday was so radically changed from hateful stares and sniping Sunday night. H ainied' nel by ean mie Other signs of inter - racial Unlike Cleveland or San Fran- The odd racial checkerboard color as at color tel Apart hostility connected with riots cisco, or even Harlem in 1964, of Detroit's slums supplies a : Lech aa Meat were curiously absent. almost as many people over 25 neiial "anewen? 68 sae In no other riot - sacked city Whites who dared to drive as under saw "a piece of the fall tape cael has there been such wholesale co - operation between Negroes along Jefferson Avenue in Buf- falo seldom escaped without at action." Matrons in their 50s leaped Except along 12th Street, an almost entirely Negro neighbor- hood, the areas where Detroit's and white queuing up like least one cracked auton.obile nimbly. over show windowsills ; happy locusts for a running window from a predictable hail to grab a lamp, an end table violence was born are. inte: grab at life's luxuries. f bottles and rocks. or a lightweight chair, grated on a patchwork basis Shiny Cadillacs, some 1967 But whites drove up and down Four men carted a console itt émall Groups (ot. whites models, some driven by Negroes Grand River Avenue and 14th television halfway across the and occasional large ones -- ) z slipped into the Negro neighbor- and some by whites, lined up Street all day Monday, hanging street, set it down in the centre hoods along Grand River Avenue. Mon- their heads out of windows, stop- lane and ran away laughing. Window. emi : day morning to be stowed with ping to gawk at looters, and "Soul brother". signs on store ahi emia sOk and ee everything from stuffed pandas getting only friendly waves windows were no guarantee seemed in some cases to be a to dining - room tables. from the integrated sidewalk against shattered glass ga' of TE aa a es ete Loe crowds. "It wasn't real," said one on- He SB Oe DON ey A red - haired white man di- small Negro each carried one rected operations as dozens of Segre disappeared into the _ White reporters risked weal- 'Whe driv er dee ce high with new clothes. pein lepths of a furniture ings to enter Tampa's Central barrassed watching " Whites picked up and_re- store basement, emerging with Park housing project, but they i turned packages that dropped two portable television clutched in each hand. sets RISK MUGGINGS walked Detroit's streets all day, even without their customary looker. "The looters didn't care who saw them. NO USUAL DEMANDS The leaders approved a state- handie of a garbage can piled from the huge piles carried by some Negroes, i Monday, looting and burning to|white looters emerging from the themselves." | Riot Victims Assess Loss Some Stay, Others Move By STANLEY JOHNSON but they have no place to NEW YORK (AP)--With no 39." : end in sight to the U.S, sum. Of the $169,000,000, $15,000,000 jmer of racial violence, weary Was in Newark, N.J., $3,000,000 | victims of rioting are adding up in Cincinnati, Ohio, $1,000,000, in their economic losses and plan- Tampa, Fla., $35,000 in Day- |ning for the future. Tampa, Fla., $350,000, in Day- | De aa! TNE N.Y., $150,000 in Erie, Pa. and With preliminary damage es- $100,000 in Cairo, Ill | timates in Detroit already more z than $150,000,000, official esti: The department of housing |mates of monetary losses and urban development said in lacross the U.S. total more| Washington that no _ federal lthan $169,.853.000 in an Associ-| funds are available to help re- ated Press survey. pair or rebuild. | Some victims plan to get out But no monetary value could of trouble spots as soon as pos- | be placed on the human trage- sible; others are starting work! "ies, the loss of the family on new plans to minimize the | Home, the work of a lifetime, | future outbreaks; still others) Perhaps, lost one riotous just don't know what to do night. | Cincinnati jeweller Rudolph P |Youmans said: 'I just can't! Newark's jtake any more," and planned; Development, said 783 stores in to leave, that city were damaged or i |looted or both. Of these, 16 ADVANCE PEACE MOVE were destroyed, and 86 suf- Tampa, Fla.. merchants fered heavy damage. joined a biracial commission in| The office uf Boston Mayor TRADE eae, in Bernard Nortman, chief of Office in Economic siete yews, : 4 NATIONAL GUARDSMEN Fast side last night as vio- son ordered Federal troops training program to open em-| John S. Collins said it could not | i and Detroit police use a lence flared anew. Sniping into the area to quell the | ployment to Negroes as a peace| provide "even a rough guess" | Jeep as a shelter against incidents were numerous as rioting, eh ¥ r : of damage resulting from four * sniper fire on Detroit's were fires. President John- (AP Wirephoto) | A Buffalo, N.Y., banker said: jnights of violence in the pre-| ; | "Many of the merchants|dominantly Negro section of 3 WwW ' Welly love to leave the area, Roxbury June 2-5. i Sri Eau MRICS ; Negroes Say White Looters First Federal T , H | P | | 'Taking Advantage Of Riots | DETROI T (AP) -- Shouting, "It's an all of 'em riot. They're\a pile of rubble. s : nara ca ~ | To Quell Negro Revolution # whites as well as Negroes rav-jputting it on one side but it's| 'They were laughing, talking, Saged one integrated Detroit both sides," |having a good time. It seemed! : 'i eieealaky meighborhood, residents said| Earlier, a reporter observed like everyone was enjoying! By ARCH MacKENZIE & ere ; WASHINGTON (CP) -- Presi-| 1. pian "They dragged refrigerators / questions later. ' ig houses and homes. ; |kets and grocery stores on 'Third and couches through my yard," Ant a ee al Newark, in applying earlier '@ __. This wasn't no Negro riot,"|St., cradling loads of beer and|said Mrs. King's husband, Ben.|troops to the other American this year for meagre amounts said a Negro woman who lives|whisky bottles in their arms. |"They asked if it would be okay|war--the Negro revolt on the of federal aid available for slum 'wo doors from a blackened) There were almost as manyjto come through here. I said|nome front. Detroit, the fifth- clearance, said the city faced i= tront wall, all that remains of whites as Negroes," said Ther-|they could do anything they/largest U.S. city is the latest|{@ highest percentage of sub- 2 three-storey brick warehouse ese King, a white woman who|wanted to as long as they left!tg erupt ily ae on 14th St., just south of one of} watched Monday night from her|us alone." iO Crupr. * the ground furniture ware-|shattered windows of supermars . (U.S. cities, plus 'the most} |deaths are caused by white mil- itia or police who fire first, ask standard housing among major| gon most heavily damaged areas|front yard across the street as| The residents of 14th St. g wong Grand River Avenue.ithe warehouse was turned into|not molested. | And stubborn as the war in/~ime per 100,000 population, the} were | Vietnam may look, it seems Cer-|peayiest per-capita tax burden, tain to be concluded before this)ihe sharpest shifts in popula-| By BORIS MISKEW MONTREAL (CP)--A_ group of 600 mayors and reeves from facross Canada booed Monday night when told Premier Dan- iel Johnson of Quebec could not be present because he was, "somewhat busy with another important person." The premier, originally sched- uled to attend the dinner being staged by Quebec province for the municipal officials, was with President Charles de Gaulle of France at the time. The dinner was designed to honor the 30th annual confer- ence of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities. The uproar followed an an- nouncement by Mayor Reginald J. P. Dawson of suburban Town of Mount Royal, president of the federation, concerning the ab- sence of Mr. Johnson The dinner climaxed the end of the first day of the three-day conference at which pollution and the financing of education were to be the major topics of discussion today The delegates later in the day will visit Expo 67 and Habitat, the unorthodox multiple dweil- ing structure conceived and de- Lawson Ordered Coroners To Shield Doctors: Shulman TORONTO (CP)--Dr. Morton Shuln.an, former chief coroner for Metropolitan Toronto, told the Parker royal commission Monday that Ontario coroners were ordered during the 1950s signed as part of the Man in,housing, Michael Wheeler, di-',; P the rector of the Canadian Welfare ee ull Council's special project on low- the Community theme at world's fair. Premier Johnson Absent, Draws Derision Of Mayor The conference was openedlincome housing, said: officially Monday with a wel- Mr. Dawson told the delegates Monday that 90 per cent of Can- ada's population will be concen- trated in large urban centres by the year 2000. He said the present system of government is, built upon the old pre - industrial units of town, county and province when the country primarily was a farm- ing community. "This system will not suffice in the future to provide for a mass of our people the answers fo some of their most basic] needs,"' Mr. Dawson added. | BECOME MORE ACUTE Many of the existing prob- lems facing municipalities would only be accentuated in the future and realistic solu tions would have to be found, objective," YOUR ONEY EARNS 1% ON TERM DEPOSITS "We have talked about the come from Mayor Jean Dra- right of every Canadian to ade- peau of Montreal who in turn quate housing in a decent en-| was presented with a scroll for yironment but there has been a "task well done" in bringing no genuine commitment to this! {Expo to Canada | THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, July 25, 1967 a | Mr. Wheeler caiied for an "ef- fective housing policy." He said housing starts suffered a 20-per- cent decline between 1965 and 1966, which likely would con- $ CANADIAN { § HEARING AID CONSULTANTS 3 10 Bond St. E. § 725-2771 : ¢ \ including a solution of the '"bur- geoning costs of education." Discussing the findings of an interim report on Jow-income GUARANTY TRUST FEDERALLY INCORPORATED AND SUPERVISED Capital and Reserve $26,000,000 Deposits over $400,000,000 Rein Harmatare, Manager Tel. 728-1653 22 King St. E., Oshawa been prevented is too remote," the commissioner, Mr. Justice W. D. Parker of the Ontario! Supreme Court, ruled after other lawyers had protested. not to tell the public about doc- tors' mistakes. Dr. Shulman said Dr. Smirle Lawson, then supervising coro- ner, issued the order and made sure it was obeyed. Dr. Lawson died in December, 1963 "Our instructions were, and | quote: 'If a doctor makes a mis- take, take him into a back room and give him hell but don't tell the public.' " Dr. Shulman said that many times in his early years as a Toronto coroner he tried to hold inquests into hospital deaths, but could not because of Dr, Law- son's directive. Dr. Shulman said he never mentioned the directive before because he would have been fired. He said he wanted to keep his job so he could ultimately become chief coroner and have the power "to wipe out this corruption.'"' | He also told the commission \there have been cases of neg- \ligence at the Hospital for Sick Children and St. Michael's Hos- pital here where he was ordered not to investigate publicly He did not expand this state- ment - Counsel for Dr. Shulman was accused of trying to broaden |the terms of the commission jand replied that an inquest six jyears ago might have prevented cause. E. B. Jolliffe, former leader of the Ontario CCF party and} the third lawyer to appear for| two more deaths from the same | ATTENTION OLD TYME FIDDLERS ! Tune up your fiddle, and resin up your bow, and bring them along to the 1967 Oshawa Fair, on Saturday, July 29th. By popular demand there will be an "OLD TYME FIDDLERS CON- TEST", on that day. REGISTRATIONS will be taken at the fair- grounds office at 6:30 p.m. with the contest to start at 7:15 sharp. This is an open contest, any old tyme fiddler may enter. Each contest must play a waltz, a jig and a hoedown, Cash prizes of $100, $50 and $25 will be given to the top three contestants. For further information call Earl Brown at 728-8334. OLD TYME SQUARE DANCING 2 :Drastic Riot Action Needed, A Negro woman who asked not be identified because 'I don't want them to burn me out" said she got up enough courage to go to the warehouse and ask the looters not to set it} on fire. | * . "I was afraid these houses ' Blame Agitators: IPA Told +0.' -*ie'o0" ' would go," she said. 'But they ' ame gl a ors: 0. told me they -had to." Another { woman said she sent a minister, H TORONTO (CP) -- The only| Mr. Heffernan said police tol--who had no better luck. + Detroit representative at an in-jerance was nearing its limits.| Then, toward 10 p.m., flames i ternational police conference|He said the day was close atiflickered inside the building) } here said Monday he was dumb-/hand when machine-guns would} which had once been stacked to ; founded at what was going on in| be set up in the streets and riot-|the roof, but now was almost + his city, He said he was glad/ers shot down by the score. empty. | ' he was not there. 1 Police from Los Angeles and . { Newark, N.J.--scenes of major} | Soi" smn' See's] Concern Grows In Windso } year--called for drastic action ; fo prevent or curtail rioting. | ' * { One officer predicted that| + within 15 or 20 years, racial) As Effects Of Riots Felt ! rioting would take place in Tor-| | + onto. | 4 iE Jindsor's airpor ay. | { Speakers at the International | By DAVID RUINE sal Lo re | ' Conference of Police Associa-/ WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--Shoul-| ua) number of arrivals, likely tions blamed a migratory group|der - shrugging disbelief has of agitators, perhaps several | given way to concern on the Ca- hundred strong, for touching off nadian side of the Detroit River. riots which have hit American' A mile away, in embattled De- cities from coast to coast. troit, plumes of smoke marked! The conference sent a tele-|fresh outbursts of violence Mon- gram to Michigan Governor|day, but within a 24-hour period George Romney commending | Windsor's mood had changed his firmness in ordering police|radically. to use their guns when neces-| A radio station ceased _ its -Sary. jnormal programming "'in the _ The Detroit police association public interest' to maintain sent 10 delegates to the confer-|constant '"'open-line" broadcast- ence. All but one--Bruce Finney ing, with special telephone lines, --have returned to their city./into Detroit to allow anyone to Because of the tense racial situ-jair their opinions on the situa- ation in the United States, only tion. 125 of 250 delegates are on| Many of the callers Monday hand. * |were Negroes, wio tell vividly George O'Nan, president ofjof their own participation in the the 8,500-member Los Angeles|riots, in the looting and burn- Fire and Police Protective As-|ing. Some have spoken only of, ,sociation, said he saw racial) the hardships they are suffering.| riots in Toronto's future. Others urge '"'more violence by "You are getting a mixed)police and troops to quell vio-| population here. You're at thejlence." stage. we were about 20 years} A Negro minister advocated avo and you have our Ameri-|"death for the few to save the can draft dodgers, who are also many." agitators. Thousands of Windsor resi- "You are welcome to all ofjdents who usually work in De- them--they are worthless to our|troit stayed home Monday as} country." }tunnel and bridge links 'o the The president of the New Jer-|beleaguered city remaine d sey State Patrolman's Associa-|sealed, tion, John C. Heffernan, said) Chrysler Canada Ltd. well-organized migratory bands|forced to send more than 500 of troublemakers "'are Commu-| production workers home whea nist-inspired."' automotive parts from Detroit He said rioters in New Jer-|failed to arrive sey resorted to savage methods} Some vegetable markets in to fight and kill police. the Windsor closed when sup- "One constable at Plainfield plies of fruit and vegetables was sliced up by long slivers of from the U.S. were barred from broken glass just as the Maujentering Canada through the Mau would have done." 'sealed border points. was due to the closing of Detroit's smaller city airport. U.S. residents were being al-| other campaign involving -- 000,000 Americans of African descent. Any euphoria generated by the slogans of the president's Great Society phase has long vanished. The violence flitting the byproduct of one of the great migrations in human his- tory, one of drastic importance for the most powerful nation the world has' seen. About 400,000 Negroes were brought from Africa as slaves between 1619 and 1808 to be used for cheap farm labor. EXODUS FROM SOUTH In the last 50 years, they have moved again--South to North, East to West, from farn. to city.| More than half now live in the} Nortn--where the rebellion ex-) ists. Perhaps 4,000,000 have left) the South since 1960--for Cleve- land, Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, Newark, Chicago, and| this capital city. More will fol-| low. They have congregated in vol- 21,-| | tion venereal disease, new ca TB and maternal mortality. Hopes, of pumping new federal funds into the situation are dim. A southern Democrat-conserva- 3a : tive Republican coalition has re-| ' from) asserted control on the House} Ff tonsils § me northern city to northern city is| 9¢ Representatives. The last bill|!osist's report indic shunted aside was $40,000,000 for slum rat control Given. all priority is the Viet- nam war, cost of which may reach $28,000,000,000 in the year) begun July 1. That is one reason the meeting of militant Black Power Negro leaders at Newark has just passed a resolution urg- ing debate on a separate Negro state with its own territory-- American separatism. Actors Join Show Cast NIAGARA - ON - THE-LAKE, lowed to cross the border to De-/atile, poverty-ridden ghettos 80 Ont. (CP)--Larry Gates of New troit only if they could show/tense no authority knows where York and Renee Asherton of they were residents of that city.|the next flashpoint exists. AS [ondon are to join the Shaw) The only Canadians permitted|the black slums have broad- Festival for Major Barbara, | to cross the border were doctor/ened, the whites have fled to) the jast of this season's threc| nurses, firemen and newspaper! men. One Windsor fireman, return- ing from a 12-hour tour of dutyjcause of agricultural automa-|the Manitoba Theatre Centre, | in Detroit, said he had just '"'re-|tion. King cotton and corn have! with Irene Mayeska in the title | He! been replaced by crops needing) role, Mr. Gates as Undershaft turned from hell." the suburbs, The health of urban America is a chronic concern.) The southern Negro fled be-| plays. Major Barbara opens Aug. 15, directed by Edward Gilbert of described how he was himself|fewer hands, dooming the old-/and Miss Asheson as Lady the target .of rioters who pep-| pered him with bottles andj rocks as he attempted to fight} the fires. Assault Charge | TORONTO (CP)--An 11-year-| old girl was thrown down cel-| lar stairs, hung upside down} from a beam and beaten with chains July 22, Crown counsel William Babe said in court Mon- day. Police said the girl had di obeyed an order to stay awa from a_ neighborhood wading | pool. | share-cropping system. Recently - revealed cases of acute starvation among them in\a week after its 34%-week sea-| | Mississippi indicate why the hu-|son here. man. flow will continue north-| ward. The southern states are not) ain. She played Catherine oppo- | ather Faces | stey to see them go. The north-|site Laurence Oliver in the lat-| ern cities cannot stop them, Most are illiterate, ill-| equipped ever to break out of) the black slums. All are dirt! poor. But it is not the newly-arrived migrant who triggers the burn- ing, looting and shooting. The) seasoned slum-dwellers do that. NEGROES DIE As Newark showed, most of the riot deaths are Negro--24 in this case -- and most of the The Crown counsel asked Magistrate Lucien Kurata to set bail at $1,000 for the girl's father, charged with assault causing bodily harm. The ac- cused was remanded for one week. | No names were made public. | John Ovens 0. 2. | OPTOMETRIST PHONE 723-4811 8 BOND ST. E., OSHAWA I Britomart. The play goes to Expo 67 for It is Renee Asherson's first acting assignment outside Brit- ter's color movie of Henry V more than 20 years ago. Larry Gates has acted in a number of Broadway hits and in movies. Dion's OIL FURNACES 313 ALBERT ST. |! ; d ighest rates of A and: the highest . ne opened May 1, was referring to} SERVING OSHAWA OVER | speeremm VIC TANNY'S 24-HOUR SERVICE | Dr. Shulman since the inquiry| the death in 1961 of three-year- old Barbara Moore. The girl died in Pembroke General Hospital two hours lafter an operation for removal and adenoids. A patho- ated death was due to oxygen. breaking into her abdomen and causing suffocation No inquest was held in the {Moore girl's death. Mr. Jolliffe said two other|™ Immediately following the Fiddlers Contest, you can grab your partner for the "OLD TYME COUNTRY STYLE SQUARE DANCE". Live music will be provided by the Hoedowners, and dancing will consist of both square and round, intermixed with country and folk dances. Dancing is free, you pay your admission to the fair. OSHAWA FAIR people have since died in Pem- broke hospitals from the same cause. He mentioned the death last September of Earl Raabe and the Jan. 29 death of John Francis Perrigo. He said it was relevant to consider. whether a repetition of | circumstances could have been) prevented by an inquest into the earlier death. "The mere suggestion that {subsequent deaths might have @ PITTSBURGH PAINTS @ WINDOW GLASS @ TWINCOW @ PEACOCK MIRRORS are just some of the many ts available at... Pi PAINTEGLASS J} CENTRE P il produc 273 Simcoe St. S. 723-1181 I] - The Oshawa Fair at Moxesite Park THURS., FRI., SAT., JULY 27 - 28 - 29 Thursday @ Midway @ Old MacDonald's Farm @ Bands Friday Saturday Children's Day (reduced rates on some Mid- way rides). Gates Open 9 a.m. Buildings Open 1 p.m. 4-H Club Activity Day --Heavy Horses | OPEN SOON 1 OSHAWA CANADA'S LARGEST 923-4663 | AND FINEST CHAIN OF 5:30 p.m.--Saddle Classes 9:00 p.m.--MISS OSHAWA FAIR CONTEST and CKLB TEEN DANCE Judging of Dairy Cattle, Light and Heavy Horses, Sheep 6:15 p.m.-- Horse Races (Wagering Privileges) 8:30 p.m. -- Modern Square Dancing with callers from Oshawa, Bowmanville and Brooklin. Livestock Judging -- Beef Cattle, Child- ren's Saddle Pony Class 2:30 p.m. -- Horse Racing (Wagering Privileges) 7:15 p.m. -- OLD TYME FIDDLERS CONTEST 9:00 p.m. -- OLD TYME SQUARE DANCING Music by the Hoedowners, callers Earl Brown and Art Winter. ADULTS 75c Children under 12 -- 25¢ Cers -- -- 50c

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