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Says Federal Government Responsible For Ghettos NCDH Calls For Residential Action WASHINGTON - The Feder al Government “is primarily responsible for undergirding a ghetto system that dominates, distorts, and despoils every aspect of life in the United States today.” So charges one of the coun try’s major civil rights or ganizations which today un wrapped for public view a bill of particulars that the White House asked for and received nine months ago. The National Committee A gainst Discrimination in Hous ing levels 17 specific complaints against Federal agencies for policies and practices which it says tend to perpetuate “tor tuous” patterns of racial and economic segregation. The charges are part of a 32-page booklet, “How the Fed eral Government Builds Ghet tos,” released today by Edward Rutledge and Jack E. Wood, Jr., the Committee’s executive and associate directors. Publication coincided with a Washington meeting of the Com mittee’s 71-man Board, which first approved the bill of par ticulars last April. NCDH is a nonprofit group through which 46 national or ganizations cooperate in pro grams to achieve integrated neighborhoods. The Committee documents its bill of particulars with what amounts to a case history of Federal housing operations, be ginning in 1938 with FHA re gulations that urged the use of restrictive covenants to keep out “inharmonious racial groups,” In the Committee’s judgment, the effect of such practices has been to fix “w'hite racist pat terns in thousands of new su burbs, where 80 per cent of all new housing is now being built,” and to trao Negroes in the central cities where “two-thirds of the dwelling units are sub-standard,” Today’s “Federal establish ment,” according to the Com mittee, is guilty mainly of fail ing to back up its good inten tions with affirmative action. “Its sin is not bigotry ... but blandness, not a lack of good will but a lack of will.” Most of the Committee’s charges are directed against the Department of Housing and Urban Development, whose ac tivities annually account for about 20 per cent of new hous ing in the U. S. Generally, NCDH finds the Department’s desegregation efforts “ad ministratively unworkable, self-defeating, ineffectual, and understaffed.” “FHA continues doing busi ness with discriminatory build ers, lenders, and real estate brokers,” the indictment con tinues. “Urban renewal and highway projects destroy inte grated neighborhoods ... Fed eral loans and grants are pour ed into restricted white subur ban communities for schools, hospitals, water and sewer sys tems and other facilities. Gov ernment installation and plants IMPORTED PAM SCOTCH gr- •’"■"-"-’I E \ . m if' ■>. m :* . A [House \' J wmm ihl&id \sCOmfWHISKT\ m% kiwi mtu wm not not •mm n wm mu omuis. m mu. with Federal contracts locate in areas where employment op portunities are cancelled out by racial barriers to housing.” For each charge, the Com mittee has a recommendation. One example: "The Department of Housing and Urban Development is re plete with officials who are out of sympathy with the nondis crimination policy and objec of the Adminstration. “RECOMMENDATION: Fire , them.” Among the other principal recommendations: No urban renewal grants should go to any community which fails to come up with an overall plan for desegrega tion. The exemption of existing FHA- aided housing from the nondiscriminatiom require ments of Executive Order 11063 should be revoked immediately. Instead of acting only on com plaints received, FHA should Initiate complaints against builders and developers whose policies discriminate against Negroes and other minorities. The President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in Hous ing should either be abolished or reconstituted as an inde pendent agency, composed ex clusively of public members with pow'er to review and issue regulat ions. HUD should investigate the mortgage-loan policies of in surance companies which ben efit by participation in Feder al programs. Going beyond HUD, the Com mittee accuses the Department of Justice of taking “a narrow constitutional position in advis ing the President respectingthe reach of his Executive power, contrary to the views and rec ommendations of leading...con stitutional lawyers throughout the country.” The Committeetouchesonthe current debate over integra tion as a realistic goal, citing the Administration’s Model Cit ies program as a crucial op portunity for re-statement of the national commitment. “The summer soldiers who in defeat and frustration are prepared to make their peace with apartheid and to rebuild the ghettos as ghettos, must face the stark reality that ‘separate but equal’ is not only consti tutionally and morally wrong but that as a practical matter it simply won’t work.” While supporting the concept of fair-housing legislation, the Committee contends that the Federal government already has sufficient authority to a chieve a turnabout. “What is required,” it con cludes, “is a strong...direc tive by President Lyndon B. Johnson which publicly assures the (HUD) Secretary and other Federal agency administrators that the goal of equal housing opportunity so frequently enun ciated by him must be achiev ed and that he expects mem bers of his Administration to pursue this goal vigorously with affirmative programs and poli cies.” NCDH president is George Metcalf, former New York State senator and co-sponsor of the pioneering Metcalf-Baker fair housing laws. Algernon D. Black, Senior Leader of the New York Ethical Culture Society, is chairman oftheboard.Copies of the report are available at 25 cents each from the Com mittee’s headquarters at 323 Lexington Ave., New YorkCitv 10016. ' NAMED DIVISION MANAG ER - Robert A. Watkins, form er All-American football star was named Central Division manager for Browne-Vitners Company. Browne - Vintner s markets White Horse Scotch, Mumm’s champagnes, Martell cognac, Noilly Prat French and Italian vermouths, Barton and Guestier French wines, Danish Cherry Kijafa wine, Julius Kay ser Rhine and Moselle wines, Brolio Italian wines and Nec tarose wine. As Central Di vision manager Mr. Watkins is responsible for the marketing of these products in the states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, North and South Dakota. as PRINCIPALS AT CHARLOTTE UNCF MEET - Principal to the left Is Dr. Stephen J. Wright, President of UNCF. Dr, Wright will set the tone for the NAC 21st Annual Conference. The theme of the Conference is “Instant Opportunity-UNCF Challenge.” Dr. Wright, an alumnus of Hamp ton, has served as a faculty member and officer of three southern colleges and as president of Bluefield State College and Fisk University respectively. He received his Ph. D. from New York University. Pictured in tiie center, is Mr. Dudley Dowell 1966 National Campaign chairman for UNCF. Mr. Dowell has been president and chief administrative officer of New York Life Insurance Co. since 1962. He is a trustee of the Independent College Funds of America and the National Industrial Conference Board of the Greater New York Council, Boy Scouts of A merica and chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater New York. Pictured to the left is Dr. Herman li. Long, Pres ident of Talladega College. Dr. Long is an alumnus of Talladega College cum laude, A. 8., major ing in Philosophy and Psychology. He was a varsity member of the football, basketball, track and baseball teams. He received his M. A. from the Hartford School of Religious Edu cation and Ph. D. from the University of Michigan. He taught in the public schools of Chicago, served as a faculty member of Miles College. Dr. Long directed the Race Relations Depart- * 1 , UNITED AIR LINES RECRUITERS - William Hudnall, em ployee representatives for United Air Lines, gives North Carolina College senior Barbara Richardson, a glimpse of the uniforms she would wear if she became a stewardess for the company. Hudnall was one of over 40 recruiters scheduled to visit the Durham campus this month. (NCC. NEWS BUREAU PHOTO). Woman Quarantine Inspector Hired WASHINGTON (NPI) - Miss erly of Atlanta, into the work, Mary Starks, a graduate of Mor- \Vhich had teen “for men only” ris Brown College, Atlanta, has since the end of World War 11. become the first woman quaran- Miss Starks, who entered tine inspector for the U. S. government service inFebr- Department of Agriculture in uary, 1966, is stationed at the 20 years. John F. 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