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ft PM, -V MENTALV^V *+ I ■ ''-n iEAL"C-l^^ sll I»M^/Nv4 PUBLIC Ll.)i A«V OF SOUTH BEND f ri.i i am ouppori U2.««. stkEEt Me s ^ampaiji SOUTH BtND» INL). 46601 >/ f SOUTH BEND, INDIANA \ W. ^°0r/t SEND, THE REFORMER Vol. 1, No. 38 May 19,1968 Washington Association Calls For Neighborhood Improvements ?5r * Mr. S. Lawrence Webb of the West Washington Associ- ation presented a seven point request for improvements in the Washington-Walnut area to the South Bend Board of Public Works at its regular meeting on Monday, May 13th. The seven points were: 1. Install crosswalks and signals at Washington and Birdsell St. 2. Halt all-night basket- ball and other activities on the Linden School play- ground that distrubs sleeping residents. 3. Install more powerful street lights on Birdsell. 4. Pave Orange St. and nearby alleys. 5. Assign walking beat po- licemen to Washington and Walnut. 6. Devise a street-clean- ing program for Washington, Birdsell and Linden Ave. 7. Prevent children 7 to 12 years of age from roam- ing after midnight in the Washington-Walnut area. Mr. Webb is a neighbor- hood businessman, and Pre- sident of the People's United Democratic Club on Wal- nut Street. He asked for a reply within ten days. THOUGHTS FROM A JAIL CELL.AND AFTERWARDS i BY JOE SCHNEIDERS Every citizen ought to be arrested at least once in his life so that he can per- sonally experience the basic sadism of our jail system. For we are judged not by how we treat the affluent and empowered in our soc- iety, but by how we treat the poor and the disenfran- chised. A community, such as this one, which hires only part time policemen, degrades the office of policeman and invites the hostile, the puni- tive, the sadistic, and gives them an opportunity to work off their hostilities, their need to punish, their sadism on the poor and the disen- franchised. There are good men in the police force, but they are caught in this evil system and rendered ineffective and forced to remain silent. Here are some of the ex- periences of students, social workers, housewives, clergymen, college profes- sors, teachers, factory workers, who were arrested the night of April 29 and kept in the South Bend city jail: A man with a bad heart condition had his medicine taken away from him, which was not given back to* him until ten hours later when the other members of his cell became worried about his condition and demanded it. An accountant began at three in the morning to ask to make a phone call and was repeatedly answered by having the jail door slammed in his face and denied the privilege. Women were answered with "This isn't the LaSalle Hotel" when they asked if (Continued on Page 6) REGINALD HOWARD ATTENDS NAACP CONFERENCE Reginald Howard, chair- man of the Housing Com- mittee of the South Bend Branch NAACP, attended a conference on Fair Housing Saturday, May 11, at the Sheridan Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. The conference for NAACP branches in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ken- tucky, was organized by Wil- liam R. Morris, national housing director for the NAACP and former resident of South Bend. Mr. Howard moderated a panel dealing with imple- menting and strengthening fair housing laws. Appearing with him on this panel was: Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, a councilman from Wheaton, Illinois, Mr. Louis Garland, DuPage County and chair- man of the NAACP Housing Committee, Dr. Maurice Rabb, a National NAACP Board member from Louis- ville, Kentucky, and Edgar Holt, NAACP Branch Presi- dent, Flint, Michigan. Each of the panelists discussed open housing and open oc- cupancy ordinances passed in their respective cities. One conclusion derived from this conference, was that a good open housing or- dinance should establish an administration agency that has its own legal counsel and the authority to police the ordinance. The agency should be empowered to hold administrative hearings and the power to make findings of fact and to issue final orders. The complain tant and the charged party should have the right to appeal, through the regular court system. ' 'Several new bills are now pending before Congress to (Continued on Page 5) Methodists Respond To Racial And Poverty Crisis DALLAS, Texas — A $20,000,000 four-year res- onse by the United Method- ist Church to the racial and poverty crisis in the nation, incorporating a youth ser- vice corps, has been approv- ed by the denomination's Uniting Conference. The wide - ranging pro- posal is included in a qua- drennial emphasis designed to motivate America's 11,000,000 United Method- ists toward "A New Church for A New World." Its plan- ners hope it will be as new as the denomination itself, which was formed April 23 by union of the former Meth- odist and Evangelical United Brethern Churches. In a news conference pre- ceding introduction of the plan to the church's 1,250 Uniting Conference dele- gates, Bishop James K. Mathews of Boston, Mass., acknowledged that no single denomination could respond with action "drastic enough" to solve the crisis in the nation, but said that United Methodists could create a public climate in which gov- ernmental and private pro- grams could operate more effectively. Bishop W. Ralph (Continued on Page 2) Youth Council Has Pray In Part of the group of people at the Sunday prayer meeting of the NAACP. (2nd. row, holding hands) L. to R.: Mrs. Robert Stewart, Mr. James Roseman, Mr. Grady Ross, unidentified, Mr. George Neagu (Executive Director of the South Bend Human Re- lations and Fair Employment Practices Commission), Mr. Charles Maxwell (whose son Valdez was involved in an incident with one of the school guards), and Mr. David Thompson. (1st. row, beginning third from left.) L. to R.: Mrs. George Neagu (Adult adviser of the NAACP Youth Council), Miss Barbara Harges (President of the Coun- cil), and Mr. Kenneth Brown of the NAACP National Office). Photo by Herbert Luckert. Rev. Daniel E. Peil (center), pastor of St Augustine Catholic Church on West Washington Street leads a group of people in prayer at a prayer meeting sponsored by the local chapter of the NAACP at the School Administration Bldg. on Sunday, May 12th. Photo by Herbert Luckert. Catholic Interracial Council Calls For Local Diocesan Action On Race The Board of Directors of the South Bend - Misha- waka Catholic Interracial Council recently issued eight specific proposals for action on the part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend in problem of area of race relations. The public state- ment read: The Kerner report has in- dicted WHITE RACISM as primarily responsible for the racial problems in A- merica. The Black Catholic Clergy Caucus formed at the Catholic Clergy Confer- ence in Detroit has stated that the "Catholic Church in the United States is pri- marily a WHITE RACIST institution". If one accepts these statements, it follows that the American Catholic Church must share the re- (Continued on Page 7)
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Title | The Reformer, May 19, 1968 |
Volume, Issue Number | Vol. 1, No. 38 |
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South Bend (Ind.)--Newspapers African Americans--Indiana--South Bend |
Original Date | 1968-05-19 |
Time Period | 1960s (1960-1969) |
Digital Date | 2015-03-26 |
Digital Reproduction Specifications | Full View: 300 dpi jpg; Archived: 300 dpi tiff |
Type | Text |
Genre | Newspapers |
Language | en |
Identifier | NEWS-REF-19680519 |
Repository Collection | Local & Family History Services Archival Collection |
Physical Repository | St. Joseph County Public Library |
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Provenance | St. Joseph County Public Library (South Bend, IN) |
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Transcription | ft PM, -V MENTALV^V *+ I ■ ''-n iEAL"C-l^^ sll I»M^/Nv4 PUBLIC Ll.)i A«V OF SOUTH BEND f ri.i i am ouppori U2.««. stkEEt Me s ^ampaiji SOUTH BtND» INL). 46601 >/ f SOUTH BEND, INDIANA \ W. ^°0r/t SEND, THE REFORMER Vol. 1, No. 38 May 19,1968 Washington Association Calls For Neighborhood Improvements ?5r * Mr. S. Lawrence Webb of the West Washington Associ- ation presented a seven point request for improvements in the Washington-Walnut area to the South Bend Board of Public Works at its regular meeting on Monday, May 13th. The seven points were: 1. Install crosswalks and signals at Washington and Birdsell St. 2. Halt all-night basket- ball and other activities on the Linden School play- ground that distrubs sleeping residents. 3. Install more powerful street lights on Birdsell. 4. Pave Orange St. and nearby alleys. 5. Assign walking beat po- licemen to Washington and Walnut. 6. Devise a street-clean- ing program for Washington, Birdsell and Linden Ave. 7. Prevent children 7 to 12 years of age from roam- ing after midnight in the Washington-Walnut area. Mr. Webb is a neighbor- hood businessman, and Pre- sident of the People's United Democratic Club on Wal- nut Street. He asked for a reply within ten days. THOUGHTS FROM A JAIL CELL.AND AFTERWARDS i BY JOE SCHNEIDERS Every citizen ought to be arrested at least once in his life so that he can per- sonally experience the basic sadism of our jail system. For we are judged not by how we treat the affluent and empowered in our soc- iety, but by how we treat the poor and the disenfran- chised. A community, such as this one, which hires only part time policemen, degrades the office of policeman and invites the hostile, the puni- tive, the sadistic, and gives them an opportunity to work off their hostilities, their need to punish, their sadism on the poor and the disen- franchised. There are good men in the police force, but they are caught in this evil system and rendered ineffective and forced to remain silent. Here are some of the ex- periences of students, social workers, housewives, clergymen, college profes- sors, teachers, factory workers, who were arrested the night of April 29 and kept in the South Bend city jail: A man with a bad heart condition had his medicine taken away from him, which was not given back to* him until ten hours later when the other members of his cell became worried about his condition and demanded it. An accountant began at three in the morning to ask to make a phone call and was repeatedly answered by having the jail door slammed in his face and denied the privilege. Women were answered with "This isn't the LaSalle Hotel" when they asked if (Continued on Page 6) REGINALD HOWARD ATTENDS NAACP CONFERENCE Reginald Howard, chair- man of the Housing Com- mittee of the South Bend Branch NAACP, attended a conference on Fair Housing Saturday, May 11, at the Sheridan Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. The conference for NAACP branches in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ken- tucky, was organized by Wil- liam R. Morris, national housing director for the NAACP and former resident of South Bend. Mr. Howard moderated a panel dealing with imple- menting and strengthening fair housing laws. Appearing with him on this panel was: Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, a councilman from Wheaton, Illinois, Mr. Louis Garland, DuPage County and chair- man of the NAACP Housing Committee, Dr. Maurice Rabb, a National NAACP Board member from Louis- ville, Kentucky, and Edgar Holt, NAACP Branch Presi- dent, Flint, Michigan. Each of the panelists discussed open housing and open oc- cupancy ordinances passed in their respective cities. One conclusion derived from this conference, was that a good open housing or- dinance should establish an administration agency that has its own legal counsel and the authority to police the ordinance. The agency should be empowered to hold administrative hearings and the power to make findings of fact and to issue final orders. The complain tant and the charged party should have the right to appeal, through the regular court system. ' 'Several new bills are now pending before Congress to (Continued on Page 5) Methodists Respond To Racial And Poverty Crisis DALLAS, Texas — A $20,000,000 four-year res- onse by the United Method- ist Church to the racial and poverty crisis in the nation, incorporating a youth ser- vice corps, has been approv- ed by the denomination's Uniting Conference. The wide - ranging pro- posal is included in a qua- drennial emphasis designed to motivate America's 11,000,000 United Method- ists toward "A New Church for A New World." Its plan- ners hope it will be as new as the denomination itself, which was formed April 23 by union of the former Meth- odist and Evangelical United Brethern Churches. In a news conference pre- ceding introduction of the plan to the church's 1,250 Uniting Conference dele- gates, Bishop James K. Mathews of Boston, Mass., acknowledged that no single denomination could respond with action "drastic enough" to solve the crisis in the nation, but said that United Methodists could create a public climate in which gov- ernmental and private pro- grams could operate more effectively. Bishop W. Ralph (Continued on Page 2) Youth Council Has Pray In Part of the group of people at the Sunday prayer meeting of the NAACP. (2nd. row, holding hands) L. to R.: Mrs. Robert Stewart, Mr. James Roseman, Mr. Grady Ross, unidentified, Mr. George Neagu (Executive Director of the South Bend Human Re- lations and Fair Employment Practices Commission), Mr. Charles Maxwell (whose son Valdez was involved in an incident with one of the school guards), and Mr. David Thompson. (1st. row, beginning third from left.) L. to R.: Mrs. George Neagu (Adult adviser of the NAACP Youth Council), Miss Barbara Harges (President of the Coun- cil), and Mr. Kenneth Brown of the NAACP National Office). Photo by Herbert Luckert. Rev. Daniel E. Peil (center), pastor of St Augustine Catholic Church on West Washington Street leads a group of people in prayer at a prayer meeting sponsored by the local chapter of the NAACP at the School Administration Bldg. on Sunday, May 12th. Photo by Herbert Luckert. Catholic Interracial Council Calls For Local Diocesan Action On Race The Board of Directors of the South Bend - Misha- waka Catholic Interracial Council recently issued eight specific proposals for action on the part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend in problem of area of race relations. The public state- ment read: The Kerner report has in- dicted WHITE RACISM as primarily responsible for the racial problems in A- merica. The Black Catholic Clergy Caucus formed at the Catholic Clergy Confer- ence in Detroit has stated that the "Catholic Church in the United States is pri- marily a WHITE RACIST institution". If one accepts these statements, it follows that the American Catholic Church must share the re- (Continued on Page 7) |
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