Bill Kennedy "Slum" Articles, 1965

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ALBANY, N.Y., SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1965 C-1

Miss ‘Cherlyn Fasulo, on duty in the Chamber of Commerce information
booth on the main street, displays folders telling of the many attractions of
_ the city and surrounding area.

They're (The Crowds) Off’
Tomorrow at Saratoga!

By JOHN MAGUIRE
Times-Union Staff Writer

business during the month. One restaurant
man says he does one fourth of his total

2 yearly volume durin gust.
Tomorrow is D-Day for Saratoga Springs. , ; Geren’ eh nse

That's when the big invasion of improvers
of the breed and just plain two-dollar bet-
tors will swoop down on this pleasant elm-

_Tich city of some 16,000 or so, give or take a
_ . few thousand Skidmore girls and their boy-

friends.

At 2 p.m. tomorrow, when George Cassidy
triggers the starting gate for the first. of
- 216 different times in this 24-day August
-- meeting, there will be more people hollering .

in uni HEY’RE OFF,” than there are

i. ear

Those Sarategians who don’t seek fulltime
jobs. find other ways to profit from the in-
flux of horse-players.

Small boys, and little ladies with front or
back lawns near the track, spend their after-
noons standing out in the road waving motor-
ists into their yards for parking, at 50 or
7 cents per car. Smaller boys sell: lucky
pencils outside the entrances, and there are
others hawking tip sheets — but most of

> these are not year-round residents,

rings the rest of the year. : ick: Gillet Be Abo: wives ane Abele
‘What happetis fo a small city like Saratoga Showed advance odkings highly satisfactory,
- Springs when its population — its afternoon With reservations at. capacity or very close

population anyway —

more than doubles for to it for the second week of the season, when
_ one month of the year?

the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales draw great
Well, for one thing, it bulges at the seams. pt at
One day last week, a casual tour of the
_ city showed comparatively few pedestrians,
no great shortage of parking spaces along
the main stem, and a disposition on the part
of innkeepers to chat politely and at some
length with a reporter who stopped in to ask
how they were doing.

Naturally, the city has to offer increased
services, and make special arrangements for
the public safety, during the month. The

normal police force of 28 men working eight-
hour shifts swells to 62 or 63 full-time men
in August, and they work six days instead of
five. In addition, about 32 or 33 special traf-
fic policemen work from 5 p. m. until most
of the racetrack crowd has moved out of the
city, which is about 7 p.m.

Tomorrow, and for most of August, the
sidewalks will be crowded with fat ladies in
shorts and equally fat gentlemen in pastel
slacks. The streets will be clogged with cars ,
-and the sound of fenders being scraped, or
crushed, will fill the air along with the odor
of noxious exhaust fumes. And any restau-
rateur you buttonhole will automatically mut-
ter, “‘There’ll be a short wait for a table,
: Sty

Tratfic lights at some corners are super-
seded by policemen directing traffic, taxicab
routes and bus routes are changed, parking is
forbidden in the peak hours on some streets,
and one-way traffic is installed on “‘getaway”
streets leading to the Northway and Route 9.

Also, additional night patrols protect the
In August in Saratoga Springs, the room visitors. ;

rates double — or most of them do. What this season holds for the city’s busi-

ness isn’t entirely clear. Certainly, the town
will be jumping in August, as always, but
there are differences of opinion as to how
big the jump will be.

Many Saratogians who spend the other
eleven months of the year in the pleasant
security of their homes move out in August;
they move in with relatives, and they rent
their living quarters to horse-fanciers, at
fancy prices, An upstairs bedroom. within
walking distance of the track costs $100 or
more for the month, a comfortable but not
lavish four-bedroom house renits for $1,500
for August (it has stall space for three horses
in the back yard, though)—and the mansions
go for much more.

One downtown businessman who preferred
not to be named, said he thinks business will
besnot as good as in some other years. The
Northway, he. feels, brings people to the
track more quickly, but many of them have
learned they can find rooms, and eat more
cheaply 20 or 25 miles away and can still get
to the track easily, without traffic tie-ups.

In Saratoga in August, everybody goes to
work — in the downtown stores, at the track
itself, at the outlying motels and restaurants.

But most merchants are optimistic. The
track expansion, and the better accommoda-
tions, will attract larger crowds, and that
will automatically mean more money spent
in town and in the surrounding area, they
feel.

In one typical medium-sized establish-
ment, the owner says he hires about ten
extra waitresses ‘‘and two or three more
in the kitchen.” He adds sadly that it takes
a week or two for the new help to learn the
job, they work for about a week with rea-
sonable skill, and then business starts to
fall off.

But he says his place, and others in town,
double or triple their normal volume of

And, at the Chamber of Commerce infor-
mation booth opposite the Drink Hall, Cherlyn
Fasulo, 18, says she is getting many more
requests for information than she did last
year. There have been more than 4,000
requests since June 12, and it has been
picking up of recent weeks, says Cherlyn.

In Saratoga in August, it’s the horse, of course, that comes first. Auto
traffic waits as a Pinkerton patrolman allows thoroughbreds to enter the

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Shameful Slums of

By BILL KENNEDY
Times-Union Staff Writer

Chapter I

The slums of Albany are a horror.

People are living today in conditions that are unfit for
animals, They are living in conditions that degrade them as
human beings, that degrade all the other humans who permit
the conditions to exist.

They are living in rot and stench and filth and dampness.

They are living with cockroaches that spoil their food, with
rats that bite sleeping infants.

They are living in houses that are a constant danger to
life—falling ceilings, broken %tairs, absent bannisters.

They are living in houses so ramshackle, so full of holes
and cracks, that in winter it is as cold indoors as outdoors.

They are living in houses with leaky roofs, with great
gaping holes in the walls, with floors built only a few inches
from bare earth. eM |

They are living in houses which have been burned out

once and in which the stink of fire still corrupts their lives,

They are living with corroded,
broken pipes, leaky fixtures, ~*

They are living with dangerous electrical wiring and fix-
tures that often flare into fires and wipe out the entire posses-

malfunctioning plumbing,

*sions of families. .

The slums are on Green Street, on Dongan Avenue, ‘on
Herkimer Street, on Westerlo Street, on Catharine Street, on
Livingston Avenue, on Ten Broeck Place, on First Street, on
Fourth Avenue, on North Pearl Street, on Orange Street, and
many others, The slums are in the South End, and downtown,
and in Arbor Hill, but not all these sections are slums, not
even all the above streets. ;

Many Fight a Continuing Battle

And certainly, not all the houses are slum houses. Many
families fight a continuing battle to elevate their lives above a
foul environment, and some succeed. But for most it is a battle
against steady decay, indifferent landlords, and only sporadic
enforcement of state and city housing laws. And their battle
is an expensive one. It costs as much to live in some slum
houses as it does to rent an apartment in a genteel section of
the city. In some cases it costs more, for the price of heating
these drafty tumbledown structures—and heating them inade-
the cost of rental.
last week a woman was cooking food
n oil drum—turned on its side and with
stove. She hhas no gas in her house.

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who receives $100 a month disability pension from the govern-
ment, has lived in the apartment since 1957, when he came
out of the hospital after 14 months of illness.

In an interview in the apartment last week he explained
that he pays $15 a month rent. The rent is collected by an
Albany insurance and real estate broker on behalf of the land-
lord, a Mrs. Joseph Grossman of 1230 North Avenue 56, Los
Angeles, Calif. Mr. Bethune said he did not know who his land-
lord is. Did he ever ask?

“No, I never did ask,” he said. ‘I ain’t never seen him
that I know of. Never seen him around this way.”

Mr. Bethune said a light stroke and tuberculosis put*him
in the hospital. Now, he says, ‘I just got the sickness.” He
expressed a vague desire to get out of the conditions in
which he lives, but not out of any sense of self-improvement,
rather out of uncertainty. ‘“They’re gonna tear down all these
old houses,”” Mr. Bethune said. “I’m gonna get outa here as
soon as I can. I ain’t got any notice or anything, but what
I hear is they’re gonna tear them down.”

Publicity Brings Sudden Awareness

‘The spotlight of publicity was thrown into his dismal home
this week, first by the initiation of a complaint to Mayor
Corning by a South End protest.group, and later by a tour of
the area by several Albany politcal figures. This is a sudden
awareness that some Albanians live in sub-human conditions.

Perhaps the landlord of ‘his building has not been aware
of what’s been going on in her house, but even so the point
remains clear: for seven yéars nobody cared; not the state,
not the city, not the landlord, and, ultimately not even the
tenant. And so two lives seemed written off as valueless.

The Bethunes have been singled out here because their
lives seem to touch bottom. They even look out at the world
through a grimy window from below ground. But there are
others who live in similar circumstances, perhaps not quite
so bad — but, then, personal distress cannot be measured.
To or people in distress it seems ‘as bad as it can be. These
people:

Solomon Hardy, 38 South Lansing Street: ‘‘We live in a
basement. It’s like a dungeon — no hot water, no gas, toilet
: ae & running. The floors are breaking in — extremely

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Ethel L. Lane, second-floor resident, 32 Westerlo Street:
“We have a large hole in the ceiling and the walls are in-
fested with roaches, rats, bed bugs; and the toilet pipes are
broken. The wiring in the house is all broken and has not
been repaired for years. We do not have a bathroom and we
have no fire escape. The windows need tightening as the sills
are all rotten.” :

Oscar Barker, 42 South Lansing Street:
pipes wrapped up real good for the winter
freezing up on us.”

James E. Rivers, 23 Dongan Avenue: “Our doors are
nailed up, our windows are broken, the bathtub leaks and has
a big hole by the pipes. In the winter it’s so cold in the
bathroom you can’t ‘ake a bath. You have to get a bucket
of water and go near the stove to wash. I smell gas all
year around.’’ it

Georgia Hodge, 78 Westerlo Street:
leak in the hall, roaches.”

Dorothy Mason, 40 Westerlo Street: “Ceiling falling in bed-
room and hall. Just a toilet, no bath, no hot water. Cellar full
of water. Sewage goes into cellar.”

James Harris, 78 Westerlo Street: “Broken window,
roaches, need papering and painting, bathtub doesn’t work,
sink doesn’t work.” Rae

Willie Walker, second-floor resident at 103 Herkimer
Street: ‘Ceiling leaks, no fire escape, needs plas‘ering, toilet
is located on first floor, hall stairs and bannisters need fixing
need windows in rear, sashes are rotten.” ~

Mrs. Katheleen Nixon, 124 Green Street: “‘Cockroaches,
rats, leaking sink and bathtub, ceiling falling, stair well deplor-
able — falling in.”’ ces

All these comments come from complaints registered last

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jin this fall’s special election,

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idences in Albany, —

By TOM WILKINSON
Times-Union Staff Writer

The scrambling of legislative
lines in. the state and their sub-
sequent redefinition through re-
apportionment has candidates
for office cropping up like so
many wildffowers. That means
primaries.

Three of the Senate seats in-
volving the Capital District will
feature intramural battling, as

seats in the Legislature are up

with the victors ‘serving only
one year,

In the immediate vicinity of
Albany, entrenched and insurg-
ent Democrats will be fighting
in the 45th Senate District and
the 112th Assembly District. Re-
publicans—three to be exact—
are also jousting for the nom-
ination in the 112th Assembly
District.

Two in 48rd _ District

Two Republicans are also con-
testing for the Senate nomina-
tion in the 48rd District
Greene, Ulster, Sullivan and
part of Orange Counties. In that
same area, two GOP Assem-
blymen will resort to the pri-
mary for the seat in the new
111th Assembly District—Colum-
bia and Greene Counties plus
the five hill towns in Albany
County.

The final Senate primary is
shaping up among Republicans
in the 47th District, which en-
compasses Rensselaer, Wash-
ington and Warren Counties,
plus Bethlehem and Coeymans
in Albany County.

A three-way primary battle
loomed among Republicans for
the Senate designation in the
46th District—Saratoga, Sche-
nectady and Schoharie Counties.
It was resolved, however, with
the selection of Robert E. Lynch
of Schenectady in a_ two-day
convention hassle in Saratoga
Springs.

Forced Seat Losses

In some instances, the new
lines have cut into and com-

were serving before, thereby

part of the area’s Urban Re-
newal Redevelopment—will be

have started in the upper floor
of one of the buildings and
quickly worked its way through

“Times-Union Staff Photos by Sheehan

his seat. On the other side of
the fence is plain dissatisfac-
tion with the current leader-
ship either party and the sub
sequent birth of splinter and
insurgent elements.

The latter is the case with
the Democratic group in Albany
County led by George W. Har-
der. Mr. Harder will run against
incumbent O’Connell Democrat
Harvey Lifset for the Assembly
designation in the 112th Dis-
trict, formerly the First Assem-
bly District. Mr. Lifset is play-
ing some sort of political mu-
sical chairs in switching dis-
tricts with his fellow assembly-
man, Frank P. Cox, to run
against Mr. Harder. Mr. Cox
also displays the O’Connell

Redistricting Draws Lines —
For Primary Battles, Too __

ter vote-getter. it:
Waged Long Battle

A lawyer, Mr. Harder has
waged a long and unsuccess-
ful battle against
and its leadership. He first ran
against Mr. Cox in 1962 and
came up with nearly 30 per cent

of the votes in his losing effort. —

He tried again in 1964 with the
same resuiits,

Another contestant in the
insurgent camp this year is
Josesh C. McCormick of Guild-
erland ,who will run in the
primary against long-time in-

3-Alarm B
City-Owne

yesterday.

jured in the blaze which at one
point choked off Clinton Street
with thick smoke from Arch
Street to the Schuyler Mansion
about half a block away.

Treated and released at St.
Peters Hospital were Lt. Edgar
Monington who suffered slight
injury to his eye from falling
plaster, and Fireman Thomas
DeRouville, who was shaken up
when he was knocked down on
a roof while handling a line.
Fire officials said all the
buildings have been empty for
some time, with the last build-
ing evacuated at least six weeks
ago.

Near Headquarters

A new police headquarters—

located on the site
fire occurred.

The fire apparently broke out
in one of five houses on Clinton
Street right next to the police
station. The fire appears to

where the

See ALBANY’S SLUMS, Page C-2

forcing one or the other to lose

the three adjacent structures,
officials said. sath,

Two firemen were slightly in-,

See REDISTRICTING, Page C-4

laze Ruins —

d Buildings

A three-alarm fire ruined four city-owned vacant buildings,
damaged three others, and kept things hot right next door at
Division Two Police headquarters at Arch and Clinton Streets

Firemen said by the time
they arrived at the blaze shortly
after 1:30 p.m. four wooden
structures and a brick three-
story building—numbers 4, 6,
8. 10 and 12 were burning out
of control on Clinton Street.

Fire Jumped

The fire jumped from Clinton
Street to Broad Street which is
back-io-back with Clinton
Street. Three buildings were
damaged on Broad Street.

In addition, a police garage

reported to have sustained a
slight crack in its asphalt roof.
Firemen used the roof to battle
the blaze in adjoining buildings.
_ All vehicles were evacuated
from the police garage. Sev-
eral gasoline trucks were re-
moved from the Star Coal and

limit of the fire next door to
12 Clinton Street. r

There was no damage to this
building.
A crowd gathered

under a

weather to watch the fire.

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Oil Co. located at the other

hot sun in the 80-plus degrees .
As the wind filled Clinton
Street with smoke on several
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sensitive electronic instruments.

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Barrels of Red Dye Ready to Test

The Public Health Service of
the U. S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare will re-
lease 21 barrels of bright red
dye at eight points along the
Hudson River Tuesday to help
determine the possibility of
using the river to a greater ex-
tent as an emergency water
supply and to study the river’s
current.

The dye, which is entirely
harmless, will be put into the
river’ in the early morning at
Troy, Castleton, Catskill, King-
ston Point, Stony Point, Pough-
keepsie, Newburgh and Hast-
ings. ;

It will be visible to the eye
for only a few hours, but its

presence in the water will be
detected for about a week by

115th Assembly Zone
_ Candidate Selected

- James E. Sloan of 465 Eighth
Avenue, Troy, has been select-
ed as Democratic candidate for
the 115th Assembly District in
the November elections, it was
announced yesterday.

He is 16th Ward Captain in
North Troy. The 115th district

takes in Northern Rensselaer

County and all of Washington
County.

The district is now represent-
ed by Assemblyman James

Lombard, a Democrat. He has| prehensive

chosen to run in the southern
Rensselaer County district set
up under reapportionment.
Mr. Sloan is the father of
two children. He is married to
the former Irma Wilder of Troy
and is employed at the Alle-

gheny-Ludlum Company.

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The instruments, which will be
installed in eight vessels that
~ill fo‘low the dye as it moves
downstream, will be able to
detect concentrations as low as
three parts per 100 billion.

According to officials, the
river now receives treated
and raw sewage from a popula-
tion of more than 1.5 million,
but provides usable water for
less than 90,000 persons. The
critical water shortage in the
Northeast has increased the
need for more information on
water movement in the Hudson
so that it may be developed
further.

The study is being conducted
by the Hudson-Champlain Com-
Pollution Control
Project in cooperation with
several federal agencies. The
project is a seven-year study
intended to develop long range
water quality plans for the
Hudson River and Lake Cham-
plain drainage basin and coast-
al areas.

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week with Mayor Corning by the Better Homes and Community
Organization, a group of South End residents who have banded
together to bring about improvement in their living conditions.
An in‘er-faith ‘‘task force” helped organize this group, plus
anc'her one in the South End that is so new that it has yet
to be named. But the aim is the same as the Better Homes
group — improvement of life at many levels.

These complaints from the Better Homes group are only
a fraction of the complaints that could be made. Dozens of
people who live elsewhere in the South End or Arbor Hill
told me one horror story after another over the past few
months, and simple complaints about rats and roaches, about
faulty wiring are inadequate to convey their meaning.

What do the rats do?

“They’re awful,” says Mrs, Susie Barton of 77 Catharine
Street. “You can’t hardly stay in the house with the rats
running. They cut your clothes and make them smell so
bad you can’t wear them.”

Mary Williams of 70 Catharine Street says her son killed
five rats in the house with a BB gun and by throwing a
buitcher knife at them.

“They run all over your feet at night,” said Mrs. Mattie
Tarver of 288 Livingston Avenue. “They smell so bad you
can’t hardly stay here but we got some rat poison and that
kind of slowed ’em down a little bit. When one of the chil-
dren was six weeks old something bit her on her jaw and
it swole up. I couldn’t swear to it but I believe a rat did it.”

What do the roaches do?

The Rev. James U. Smythe of Mt. Zion Baptist Church on
Schuyler Street, who has worked diligently to have landlords
improve the property of his congregation and of other South
End residents, told stories of roaches crawling into people’s
ears, necessitating a visit to the hospital.

Gracie Williams at 70 Catharine Street said she had such
an invasion of roaches in the house at one time that ‘‘when
you walked on the floor they popped, there were so many.”

“The landlord said there wasn’t no roaches in our house,
said Malinda Parker of 23 Dongan Avenue, “but that ain’t
true. I got one in my grits this morning.”

What about faulty wirtng? What does that mean?

In a 70 Catharine Street apartment, three fires started in
electrical fixtures, one in a living room ceiling fixture, one in
a kitchen ceiling fixture, and one in a kitchen wall plug.
The living room fixture the family has stopped using; but they
fixed the other two. The tenant, Mrs. Mary Williams, says
it was quick action by her 16-year-old son Arthur which saved
the whole house from burning down. He snatched the smok-
ing and sparking wall plugs out of the socket, then ran to
the cellar and cut off the power. He said he had learned
about this in school.

And what about living in an old house that did have a
fire in it one time?

”

The stench remains in the house, says Florence Miles cf
38 Ten Broeck Place. ‘I have to use all my cologne and per-
fume to keep the smell down.”

How did Albany get so bad?

It got old and a whole web of social circumstances con-
spire to prevent it from being rejuvenated. Urban renewal
projects now in various stages of planning by the city will
wipe out some of tle slums. And some have already vanished
with the razing of ancient structures that once stood on the
site of the South Mall. But houses by the hundreds just go
on and on and on, rotting slowly away on their 19th Century
foundations. Some should be condemned jand torn down.
Many are salvageable wj‘h extensive repaiis, but for some

-Jandlords the cost of repair’ ‘would: be: prohibitive. They would

probably close up the houses rather then fix them.

An easy comment to make is that the hjuses wouldn’t be
so bad if the tenants took care of them, and no doub® this is
often true. Some tenants ruin houses. But tenants have been
“ruining”? some of these South End houses for a century or
more, so arguing about the present blight in such terms is a
little ridiculous.

The amazing thing is not that so many tenants devaluate
the property but that so many are able to sustain a decent
and orderly life in the midst of such squalor.

The other pertinent factor is that so many of these people
are abjectly poor, ofte nsickly, and without the financial re-
sources or the stamina to cope with the problems that so
often come with slum living. Some of these people are now
banding together in these small neighborhood organ-zations,
and ‘hey are bringing about small changes. Other ferces are
also at work, including this and other publicity that may
shame some slumlords and scare others into taking remedial
action. Government these past few weeks also seems more

Kitchen sink and mirror in the Bethune home,
cold water only.

Old food cans and wine bottles litter corner of
room in the Bethune home—one of Albany’s

worst slum residences.

TIMES-UNION **
Sunday, Aug. 1,1965 €.2

Maintenance Need

AKRON, Ohio (UPI) — Con-.
ducting a pilot study to de-
dermine the average repairs |
needed on two-year-old cars,
Goodyear service stores found
that 73 per cent needed work
on mufflers, brakes and steer-
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aware of local conditions than previously, both at the state
and local level, althought ‘“‘aware’’ may be the wngng word.
“Interested’’ and “involved” probably says it better.

Token or temporary commitment by landlords, govern-
ment, newspapers, even tenants means next to nothing. Fixing
stoops and bannisters and rotten ceilings and bad wiring mean
only superficial changes and the problem is much more than
a superficial one.

When anyone in America thinks of a horrible slum, one
of the first places that springs to mind is Harlem. That stands
as America’s sium of slums. But an Albany man, Clarence
Parker, a state worker who was born and raised in Harlem,
who has lived here for 10 years and is now chairman of: the
Albany branch of the NAACP’s housing committee, has com-
pared Albany’s slums with Harlem’s and found Albany’s not
only équally bad, but worse.

“Harlem is terrible,’ he said. ‘“‘No doubt about it.
there is no South End in Harlem.’’

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occasions, the crowd was forced|
to move up Clinton Street to
keep out of smoke range.
Firemen clad in their heavy
raincoats, trousers and boots! :
were flushed with the heat of |
the day and the fire. Seeking!
relief several firemen during
the course of the blaze removed
their hats, doused them with
water from a hose, and Wag to
the water over their heads. \
At one point, firemen chased
a small, brown mongrel dog,
from one of the houses. Fire-|
men said they did not know
how it had entered the house
or how long it had been there.
Battalion Chief Thomas Ma-
her directed the firemen with’
assistance from Battalion Chiefs
Thomas Wink and Jack Martin.

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THE WEATHER

2)

Landlords Spend Misia

Acquire

Albany.”

and Arbor

collect rent

community
significant

Bill, Kennedy

Times-Union

rtment at, 74
seine nangs bye ihe
, “But ~ way.

"The people uA live on ‘@atha-
me Street have” “no money to
speak of. If they did they

; wouldn't live there. What they
have is a kind of prestige
poverty—prestige in the South
End, for they got something
done. They got other people to
spend money and improve the)
block.

In the summer of 1964 under founded in 1957 with Milton and}

the guidance of the Rev. James
U. Smythe, Negro pastor of Mt.
Zion Baptist Church on Schuy-
ler Street, and the Rey. Nellis
J. Tremblay, moderator of the
Catholic Inter-Racial
and assistant pastor of the
Cathedral of the Immaculate
Conception, some residents of
Catharine Street began io or-
ganize themselves into a self-
betterment group.

They registered ee on!

HEA TUNAATA HAUNTS AT ART cA

Mayor Corning has asked

Council |

South End Poor

Prestige

Times-Union Staff Writer Bill Kennedy spent
several weeks gathering material for his shocking
series of stories on

“The Slums of
He visited the unhappy

and unfortunate people who live in
squalor and misery in the South End

Hill Areas, talked with

them and with ithe landlords who

from them. His graphic

description of what he saw and
Jearned, and what It means to the

makes absorbing and
reading.

CHAPTER II
By Bill Kennedy

Staff Writer

the office of the Catharine Street Civie Association, a

Ca rine Street in. the. South
desk. “Money isn't é@very-)
eA of whatever's in second

housing conditions with the State!
Rent Control! office, which un-
dertook an investigation. They
also convinced the city of the
need to re-pave and re-light the
street. Pressure was mounting)

bly on landlords.
The Lee-Wald Realty
ipany, an Albany

Com-
corporation

Herbert Waldman as directors,
owned three houses on the block
at the time and sold them, as
the pressure built. to Sidnay
Albert and Irving Kirsch, large-
scale real estate operators who
owned some property on Catha-
rine Street. (They now onw 16
houses in the block between
Elizabeth and Hagle Streets, the
focus of all the action.) —

A day or so after elosing the
See CATHARINE ST., Page 13

Albanians to ae consumption

of city water to 20 million gallons daily from the present

average of 25 million gallons.

during the preceding

was:

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The alternative is even more

~ stringent restrictions than have been ordered so far. Each
_ day The Times-Union will publish the figure on gallons used
24 hours ending at noon. This will be
hoth a vee and a progress report. Yesterday’s figure

128, 933,532

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F can do in Viet Nam.

in several directions, most nota-

‘iman said no final selection has

16 |

6 | delay in carrying out the plan to
re | increase combat power.

There is yet a possibility

“ALBANY, Ne

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WASHINGTON (?—Secretary of State Dean Rusk suggested
Monday that officers of the United Nations could explore pri-
vately the possibilities of a Viet Nam settlement despite the
latest North Vietnamese rejection of a formal UN role there.

for a “formal action’? by the

| United Nations, Rusk told a news conference.

His remarks were in response to a request for comment
on the reported statement by North Vietnamese Deputy Foreign

“Minister Nguyen Co Thach that

the United Nations cannot use

| its influence to bring about negotiations.

| Full U. S. Support
| Rusk said the United States
‘would give full. support to what-
lever the world . organizatioon

The peace in the Viet Nam,
Rusk continued, “rests with Ha-
jnoi.”” American forces, he said,
iwould not be in Viet Nam at all
had it not been for the North
Vietnamese attempts since 1959
to infiltrate and take over South
Viet Nam.

rusk pledged that the United
States will “‘prevent, defeat, and
|stop”’ this. infiltration.

The United States, the secre-
tary added, would be ‘glad to
accomplish this through words
and not through bombs,’’ but if
peaceful means are not availa-
ble then it will be accomplished
iby war, he declared.
| Asked to comment on_ the|

|Suggestion jointly made by
| Yugoslavia’ s President Tito and
indian Prime Minister Lal
| Bahadur Shastri that the United
iStates suspend bombing of
North Viet, Nam, Rusk recalled

pended for a brief period, butt
“we Ah a harsh reaction.’

|

nere-onge-sus. 4me

Rusk said:

“Nobody is able to tell us
what would happen. Would the
North Vietnamese go home?”

Would Consider Halt

Rusk recalled, tod, Under-
secretary of State George W.
Ball indicated Sunday on televi-
sion that the United States
would consider another pause in

the bombing if such amove
would further the — cause of
peace.

But, Rusk said, th
very attractive sugg
everything remains |

On the other hand.
the United States dogs
to extendt he war or

not want
ake what
fay 26
8 er

First Since
This was’ Rusk’

‘priority
nonproliferation pac
Soviet Union a a

Reserve

i

WASHINGTON (AP) — Depu-
ty Secretary of Defense Cyrus
R. Vance disclosed plans Mon-
increase combat power of cer-
day to speed up training and
increase combat power of cer-
tain Army reserve units in case
“a call up of reserves should
become necessary.”

“We propose to take special
measures to raise the readiness
of three reserve divisions, six
independent brigades and se-
lected-combat and service sup-
port.units,’’ Vance told a House
Armed Services subcommittee.

The plans are to begin work
on these units in September
when their authorized strength
will be increased to 100 per cent
as compared to the 70 per cent
to 80 per cent now authorized.

The units’ weekly drills would
ibe increased to six drills a
‘month instead of four. Vance
added, ‘“‘Consideration is being
given to advancing their field
training instead of waiting until!
__., |next summer.

Vance did not identify the}
units, and a Pentagon spokes-

been made. Vance told news-
men the idea is to pick them
from the proposed realignment
of the reserves to be brought)
jabout by a merger of Army re-

‘serve units.into the National
\Guard. sin

The merger has had a diffi-
cult time in Congress. But the
deputy secretary urged that the
committee quickly approve the
disputed proposal and said the
Pentagon doesn’t agree with
suggestions the merger be. put
off because of the Viet Nam sit-
uation.
| He said: “The secretary and
ithe chief of staff of the Army
‘have reviewed again the desira-
ibility of going ahead with the
proposed reorganization in the
light of the recent decisions with
respect to Viet Nam. They
strongly recommended that the
realignment plan — designed,
as it is, to increase usable
forces and improve their readi-
iness — not only be implemented
but be implemented as soon as
possible.’

Vance indicated strongly to
‘newsmen that he hopes Con-
| BreSs will approve the merger
/soon enough so there will be no

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he “02nd ‘rece meeting vat

: Saratoga Springs opened yester-

day with the weather cloudy,

sizable and enthusiaistic.

Despite a steady drizzle that
fell through most of the morn-
ingg, the atendance reached 16,-
009, only 401 less than the crowd
on last season’s sunny and
warm first day.

For caged of the horse-players
present, the $3.5 million face-
liftipg of the old plant was al-
most as much of an attraction
as he racing card iself, and be-
tween races patrons were taking!

the ‘track fast—and the crowd |

The Times-Union, ane: Eindaa

entries for Saratoga Raceway.

at the inaugural appear in the society section, Page 15.

Part of 16 ,009 sees secon race stretch drive at Saratoga v won by Pleasure Bound. .
Times-Union Staff Photo by ey: ere

‘rack Fast at ‘Saratoga

s aa appear on appa BF
while complete graded entries by Pat Lynch and. other — continuation of last

selections are on Page 1) along with the Lionhearted’s graded

Photos of area personalities

Lynch’s graded entries, consensus and selections by AP,
UPI, T-U Sports Staff and Lionhearted along with the story
on the day’s feature will be a daily feature of The Times-

Union for the entire meeting.
also will have his daily graded

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informal tours of the 500-foot-
long covered addition to thejchilly temperatures made the
grandsand that extends up tojgathering less colorful than on
the turn for home at the headjother opening days, with most
lof the women wearing coats or}:

of the strech_

And, of course, Lionhearted
entries for Saratoga Raceway.

FR UTE WAU RUG

The gray skies and slightly

SAIGON, South Viet Nam,
(AP) — A fleet of 30 U.S, B52
jet bombers sought Monday to
destroy a suspected Viet Cong
base near the Doxa, a mist-
shrouded area in the central
highlands between government
centers at Kontum and Da
Nang.

A U.S. spokesman said the
leight-engine Strategic Air Com-
mand craft, flying from Guam,
dumped 500 tons of bombs on
‘Viet Cong installations in

raid.

U.S. Jets Bomb Cong Base

Quang Tin Province, approxi: |
mately 350 miles north-nor th-|
east of Saigon,” in a 45-minute

Air attacks north of the bor-
der included strikes at the
Thanh Hoa railroad bridge, 80
miles south of Hanoi, and two

‘strings of barges 10 miles farth-)
iteamed up for an attack that

er south.
Shot Down
North Vietnamese gunners
shot down a U.S. Air Force F105
Thunderchief on the Thanh Hoa

Deported N. Y. Mobster, 8 Matia
Chiefs Arrested in Italy Raids

PALERMO, Sicily (UPI)—De-
ported New York mobster Frank
(Three Fingers) Coppola and
eight reputed Mafia leaders
were arrested Monday in a se-
ries of lightning raids by police
across Italy. Authorities linked
them: with the, Cosa Nostra
rackets in the United States.

Coppola, now 75, was deport-
ed in 1948. He once was fru-
mored to be the successor to
Charles (Lucky) Lucian®, the
late crime chieftain who ran
the U.S. syndicate from exile in
Italy.

Also arrested was : Gulseppe
Genco Russo, 72, presumed by
Italian police to be the current
head of the Mafia. He was. ex-
iled from Sicily last year by
court order and ‘is in a Bologna
hospital being treated for an
eye ailment. |

Police issued’ arrest -warrants
for five other men, including
four Italian-Americans believed
to be in the United‘ States.

Palermo Police Chief Fran-
cisco Inturrisi said. three-year

investigations leading to the
mass arrests proved a sli
< t
s

link between Sicily’s Mafia and
organiezd crime in the United
States—the Cosa Nostra. There
were varied charges against the
men.

International Meetings Held
_ He said the 1957 summit meet
ing of American gangsters
at Apalachin, N.Y., had ‘been
preceded by conferences in Pa-
lermo between local Mafia king-
pins and Italo-American syndi-
cate big shots..

Arrested Monday, in addition
to the aging Coppola and Rus-|
sO, were: |

—Frank Garofalo, 75, who re-
turned to his native Sicily from
the United States in 1955, The
trip was on the advance of U.S.
police who said Garofalo was
— in the narcotics rack-

—Filippo Gioe Imperiale, 51, |
a wealthy Palermo business-
man who police said made his
money as a cigarette smuggling
boss.

—Rosario Vitaliti, 68, an Ital-
ian-American described as a

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mission. The pilot was seen to}-
parachute successfully, news-|
men were told, but efforts to|
rescue him failed. He was listed
as missing.

the raiders were downed.
In the ground war, U.S.

overran the Communist-domi-
miles south of the Da Nang air
base. |

They killed 25 persons —
among them from three to five
noncombatants who had failed
to heed a loudspeaker warning
to leave — and captured 80 men
suspected of serving as guerril-
las.

Diego Plaia, 57, and Giu-
seppe Maggadino, 30, identified
‘as leaders of the Sicilian Ma-
fia.

—Vincenzo Martinez, 69, an
American citizen who resides in
a luxury villa at Marsala, Sici-
ly. Police said the comfortable
surroundings were made possi-
ble by his earnings as a gang-
ster.

—Giuseppe Scandariato, 36,
described as one of the leaders
of the younger generation of the
Sicilian Mafia.

Warrants were issued for Ca-
logero (Charles) Orlando, a Si-
cilian born resident of New
York; Gaetana (Tom) Russo,
73, also of New York and a
former pal of Luciano; Joseph
Cerrito, 54, Sicilian born and a
U.S. citizen who calls California
home; Santo Sorge, 57, of Sciliy
and New York; and Gaspare
Maggadino, 57, a Matia chief-
tain here.

Coppola was found hiding in

miles south of Rome. He did

member of an_ international
narcotics ring.

or resist arrest, police said,

a farmhouse near Pomezia, 50

not try to conceal his identity

Ground Fire

| Viet Cong ground fire downed|®

ithree U.S. Army helicopters

casualties among the American
or Vietnamese troops. Together

made up about a regiment —
perhaps 1,500 men.

Farther south, government
forces were on the move in two
sectors. A spokesman said they

“Manuel -

came through with a pial +

Radio Hanoi declared four of}.

involved in the operation, but aj
spokesman said there were no

the Marines and the Vietnamese’

Yeaza, the

jockey at Saratoga

Yoaza’s big win was in fens
feature race, the 90th Pune

See BANGTAILS, Page 3

‘Woman shoots
Man Looking —
For Prowler

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Herkimer, Aug. (P—A 28-

iyear-old man who had joined in -

a search for a prowler Monday

‘was accidentally shot in the face .

by a womar, who mistook him
for the hunted man, state police
said.

Anton Reichinger of Richfield
Springs, was reported in good
condition in Herkimer Hospital
with facial wounds from a .22-
caliber rifle, according to police.

State police said that Reich-
inger went to the home of Mr.
and Mrs, Robert Andrecheck on
a rural road in Warren, Mrs.
Andrecheck, 35, thought he was
a prowler who had been report-
ed at the home earlier and fired
14 shots at Reichinger’s automo-
bile, troopers said.

Five of the bullets hit Risch:
ger’s car and one smashed a
window.

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U.S. and Vietnamese planes
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~ Catharine

_ Haith, the state agency issued

~ in all those houses for an entire

' feriors of the buildings were
_ painted.
|. “Paint the front of a build-

‘the “front” of a building The) ment. Politicians were praising
average. landlord would tell you,

.. were cleaned. Secondary -exits
more.

. Kirsch said.

"must be asked: better than

up from rural poverty in the/could thrill themselves,: if they

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Continued from Page 1

deal with Lee-Wald, Albert and
Kirsch were hit. with directives
from the Rent Control office.
Following an inspection of the
block by Rent Control inspector
Anthony LoGuidice and Deputy
Local Rent Administrator John

mandatory rent reductions to $1
each on eight apartment units
in the three new A & K acquisi-
tions.

“We told the state we wanted
an opportunity to fix this stuff
up,’ Sidney Albert said in an
interview, ‘“‘but they wouldn’t.
give us a chance.’ The rents,
which had ranged from $35 to’
$15 a month, stayed at $1.

Mr. Smythe, sitting. in the
Civic Association office at 74
Catharine Street, recalled the
condition of the houses when he
first came to the street: ‘‘Aw-
ful,” he said. ‘“‘And this house
was the worst. It was the only
building on the block I wouldn’t
come into when I first got here.

It was full of garbage and rub-
bish.”’
Albert and Kirsch began to
many things were ach
ANANTH
. Sidney Albert and Irving
Kirsch, who are mentioned in
foday’s story, are not only
the biggest slum _ landlords
in Albany but in the tri-city
area as well. A detailed re-
port on their operation and
their attitudes toward their
business will be the subject of
Wednesday and Thursday’s
articles in this series.

houses were painted a

Tce VARNIAUTEIY

pour money heavily into the re-
pair on all their Catharine Street
properties. They had already
been spending steadily on the
old structures—an average of
$385 a year, for example, on
one house—56 Catharine. But
the new expenditures skyroc-
keted, and during 1964 the total
they spent on their buildings in
the street reached $13,392.64. So
far in. 1965 they have spent $3.-
477.56 there.

Equals Gross Rents

“When they all made. this
push,” Irving Kirsch said, ‘we
spent roughly the same amount
that we’d get from gross rents

year.”’ The exterminating bill
alone to drive out rats and
roaches in the big push came
to $586 last November. The ex- ~

main source of water fo
the porch is so cold it
ing?” Irving Kirsch said. “No-, a_ bath.

ing says. you have to paint

Neen cs Bhat IE att CR SEN a

Catharine Street as a study in
self-help. The.-Civic Association
had undertaken a cleanup op-|
eration, and trash ehtheotior tal
addition to garbage collection—|
had been begun by the city in|
city-placed trash barrels. Asso-

ciation representatives had lob-
bied unsuccessfully at the Capi-
tol for a teacher-education bill
that would broaden teachers’
knowledge on racial matters.
The association had held a
December open house for Catho-
lic nuns. ‘“‘We want to show
them how we have improved the
street,’ said Susie Barton, the
association’s president, at .thé
time. Albert and Kirsch had
donated the second-floor apart-
ment at 74 Catharine to the
association for use’ as an office
at $1 a year rent. A reading
skill program had been. begun
by Trinity Institution,- a social

drop dead.’’ Yards and cellars

—fire escapes and wooden ex-
terior stairways — were built
where they hadn’t existed. And

What did if mean?
“T believe conditions are bet-
ter on Catharine Street,” Irving

This is true. But the question

what? And just how good is
“better?”
Several weeks ago at the out-
set of the reporting on these
articles, I visited a number of
apartments on Catharine Street.
The morning was bright, the
street was full of children, the
women sat on their stoops, and
the street stood in notable con-
trast to other streets in the
South End with its smooth black-
top paving, new sidewalks, mod-

ern street lights and- bright) welfare agency in .the South).

housefronts.
Up From Rural. Poverty

(End. And there were other pro-
‘jects afoot, all giving Catharine
|Street a sense of how far it had
‘For’ some of the residents—|come in about.a year. Observers

South, it was probably the best-|were inclined, with the
looking street they ever livedijthought that not everything
on, and very likely their first/about slums was _ hopeless.

sense of community involve-' But then, on this bright morn-

so

Thomas Green of 70 Catherine Street has a
logistics problem with his backporch bathroom.

This is fate cine Street ae South End where

te mek att SET i"

Street Residents

ieved—new stoops, new

sidewalks, new street paving, new street lights,
and city trash collection. The exteriors of the

nd many interior repairs

On Catharine Street a backporch bathtub is the

r washing. In the winter

is a health hazard to take

teeth ne Cr ee
sees

ing, I went inside the houses
and listened to the people talk
about their troubles. Some were
on welfare, some were sick and
out of work, and the women had
many children.

Doors Without Locks

Mainly they complained about
their houses; doors that wouldn’t
open, doors with no_ locks,

broken. windows, a toilet with-
out a door. They - still talked
about rats and roaches that
abounded before the time when
landlords instituted an extermi-
nation program—at a cost of $5
to each tenant. One girl had
only a snaplock on the inside
of her front door. To- get back
into her apartment she had to
use a knife to open the lock—
it had no outside keyhole—or
else. send, her brother up the
fire escape and into a rear win-
dow to let her in.

One woman complained of a
rotten floor in the toilet area.
She feared it would cave in un-
der her weight. Almost every-
one complained of the wiring—
sparking fixtures, near fires, in-
sufficient outlets. To use her
iron, one woman had to unplug
the lead which brought power to
the crudely strung light in the
backporch toilet.

were made. But life is
houses are old and crumb

f cess the improvements brought hangs by a deli-

cate thread.

Since this discussion with the
tenants, many of them met per-
sonally. with Mr. Albert and Mr.

Kirsch and registered written |

complaints about what was.
wrong in their apartments. The
requested repairs were made
and the tenants signed state-
ments attesting to their satis-
faction with the work.

“Tf we haven’t done enough
we will.do more,” Irving Kirsch
says now. :

But this is a relatively new
attitude on the part of the land-
lords and they admit as much
frankly. Sidney Albert refers to
Catharine Street as a ‘‘pilot pro-
ject” and Irving Kirsch says
“‘We’re trying. We hope that by
doing this the tenants will be a
little less destructive. and our
places will be better and the
tenants will want to stay in our
places. We have no vacancies.
now on Catharine Street.”

Undoubtedly tenants did des-
troy much of Catharine Street's”
houses by clogging toilets and

letting the water overflow to
rot the wood, by being careless

And tenants have been doing
this for many years on Catha-
rine Street and other South End
streets, as wave after wave of
immigrants occupied _ these
houses during the past 50 to
100 years, and it is now very
late for patchwork.

There is more wrong with
Catharine Street than just its|,
structures. It is a ghetto of
Negroes who are there because
they have almost nowhere else
to go in Albany. Two city hous-
ing projects with a total of 400
units, anticipated for completion
last spring but still not ready,
probably will ease some of the
pressure when they open later
this year.

The whole city, particularly its
Negro sections, is suffering from
a lack of decent housing for
low-income. groups. Urban re-
newal programs, highway pro-
jects, the South Mall, have
happily, wiped out hundreds of
slum houses, but also have

for Catharine Street and pro-
-igress on the block seems to
with garbage and attracting the|¢ontinue. Yet without appearing
rats that gnaw through th€lto be a prophet of gloom, one
walls and chew up clothing.}must characterize Catharine
Landlords do not go around 0|Street’s story as unfinished, and
their own houses knocking th€lits success as being a very
uprights out of bannisters or}tenuous nature.
poking holes through doors. and}.

BO eis Bia f..Mr.—Smythe-is the-Catha
“windows.

rine Street Association’s con-
gealing force, as he seems to
be, what happens if he moves to
another city, or moves his focus
to a new area? What happens to
the association as the enthusias-
tic members move away from
Catharine Street and new ten-):
ants take over, tenants unmind-|:
ful-of the spirit that once united |:

housecleaning party?

is Albany’s failure. At its mos
meaningful level the Catharin
Street story is an artificial ques
—an attempt to instill self-bet
terment in the people on. th
block. But it seems inordinatel
cruel that they should have t
strive so hard
little—a new front door, free
dom from rats, electric plug
that won’t catch fire. If it is
so difficult to reach a level o
existence in which most of the
people of the city begin their

lives, how difficult will it be to
achieve the niche which every-
body is supposed to have in the
forthcoming Great Society?

But to indict the community
at large is to indict nobody. The
failure is in institutions—those
which do not demand more of
landlords, which do not demand
more of tenants, which look the
other way from squalor and
misery.

Whatever the city has done,
it hasn’t done enough—not the
health department, not the build-
ing department, not the welfare
department. Whatever the state
has done has been insufficient.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
properties in Albany that should
be under rent control scrutiny
are unregistered today. A num-
ber have come to light easily in

small-scale investigation. The
Rent Control office is a fangless
tiger, but it does have a scari-
fying effect on landlords.

Mr. Smythe is a Republican
and to that extent he is at odds
with the Democratic city ad-
ministration. He has gotten con-
siderable support from the city
for some of his projects and is
quick to say so:

But who looks out for the
people? The Negro population of
Albany is largely Democratic,
assuredly so the bulk of wel-
fare recipients. Yet some land-
lords continue exploiting the
Negroes and only when com-
plaints flow in does anything
change. The Republican Party
as loyal opposition spouts plati-
tudes which disturb nobody,
for they mean nothing. And the
insurgent Democrats who take
the slum tour and then spew
outrage at somebody else look
like nothing more than political
opportunists.

Meanwhile, on Catharine
Street, Negro boys play with
Negro boys, and when a white
newspaperman sits on a stoop
and talks with them Mark
Hawkins, age 7, grabs the white
man’s wrist and touches it, over
and over again. White skin.

“When I grow up I’m gonna
be a lawyer,” Mark Hawkins
says, “‘and I’m gonna check
houses every day.”

“Every day?”

“Well, not every day.” |

“What are you gonna check
houses for?”

‘“Y’m gonna see they’re clean.’

still overcrowded, the
ling inside and the suc-

The only electrical outlet
in the kitchen of a Cath-
arine Street hom e—old
and overused by tenant.
Charred mark is where
fire erupted.

the course of this newspaper’s| -

Bonus Bargain Days |
Start Tomorrow _

Tomorrow will be a big day in downtown Albany and for
shoppers who flock here from. throughout Capitaland. I; will
be the start of the three-day Bonus Bargain Days.

More than 60 stores in downtown Albany will participate
in this sales event, and shoppers will find bargains galore. «

Edwin H. Sperber, president of Downtown Albany Unlim-
ited, which sponsors the event, said ‘Preparation and coordi-
nation for Bonus Bargain Days have been going on for weeks.”’
He added that “‘All of downtown Albany is aiming to make
this year’s days the greatest in history” :

Look for the Bonus Bargain Days signs in the windows of
the participating stores Wednesday through Friday, he advised
shoppers.

** ALBANY, N. Y., TUES., AUGUST 3, 1965

seman.

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time although we have different interests. She’s a golfer and |
am not. "

A few weeks ago she was one of the winners in a golf tourna-
ment and her picture appeared in our local paper. She cut it out
and came right over to show it to me. I was happy for her and
congratulated her. I forgot all about it until yesterday when I
needed some newspapers for a kitten I was trying to house-
break. I pulled a newspaper out of the stack I’d been saving
and noticed it was the one with my friend’s picture in it, so I
reread the article and laid it down for the kitten.

Later that day my friend came over, and when she stepped
on the perch she noticed the newspaper. She became very indig-
nanit when she saw that the kitten had wet close to her picture.

She said I was jealous and small and had done it on pur-
pose. I tried to apologize, but she stomped out of the house.
When I call her on the phone, she refuses to speak to me. Should
I go to her house and try to explain that I meant no harm?

“MISUNDERSTOOD ’’

DEAR MISUNDERSTOOD: Let her cool off. If your friend

was teed off by a small water hazard, she has a bigger handi- —

cap than she realizes. Her sense of humor is below par.

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PAGE 14

Ralph McGill

‘The Dead Hand
Of Tradition’ —

Education will become more exciting in
the years ahead. There will be changes.
They will come with bold, intelligent plan-
ning, or they will be forced painfully and
harshly by those determined
that a system largely un-
responsive to present-day
needs must be reformed to
accommodate them.

Delegates now are back
home from the recent White
House Conferene on Educa-
tion. They went back stimu-
lated to action. They were,
as assembled in Washington, a very good
cross section of men and women from edu-
‘cation. They were men and women who

~ vigorously applauded statements that to
many city school superintendents were
“complacent champions of the status quo’;
that too many were examples of “trained
incapacity.”

They were loud in their approval of an
assertion by David Seldon, assistant to the
president of the powerful American Federa-
tion of Teachers, that ‘‘too many teachers
have become satisfied” with ‘‘teaspoons of
- guecess’”? while “buckets of failure wash all
around them.’ They approved, too, the
statement that superintendents and teachers
be required ‘“‘to walk a mile every day in
‘the streets of the community they serve
and meditate on what they see.”

Philip M. Hauser, professor of sociology

at the University of Chicago, described the
average school board as being “custodians
of the past’ who have “passed the “buck”

‘to welfare departments and other agencies

to “mop up their (the board’s) failures.”

bi Other experts heatedly declared that one

~~ of every two ‘‘dropouts” should be described

as “forceouts” who find nothing in class-

~ rooms to interest them. These forceouts, it
was said, are too often the victims of grade
systems, of sterile teachers and methods,
and of an educational system that is “un-
aware of the fact that parental and com-
munity environment too often is hostile to
the point that many children come to school
socially and emotionally unprepared for
routine class practices.

Education was declared by some speak-
ers at the White House Conference as being
concerned more with whether a child was
“in school” than with what he was learning.
Many children are forced out because there
is no role ‘‘as a learner” no help in equatin
themselves with learning.

One suggestion, heatedly made and gen-
erously applauded, was that schools with
the highest number of dropouts receive the
lowest accreditation, since their dropout
total is evidence of the inadequacy of the
administration, the teachers, and the meth-
ods. Schools, it was argued have a respon-
sibility to keep children in school and learn-
ing—not to drop them out or force them out.

Trese are samples. In general it could
be said that the conference majority was
critical of and willing to name, educational
shortcomings.

Weaknesses of vocational education anda
condemnation of most professional educa-
tional leadersrip as ‘tired and timid” were
other samples of critical acclaim.

State governors present asked for more
federal aid. The Walter Heller plan for re-
bating income tax money to the state was
overwhelmingly approved.

The wise school board is one that goes
forward to meet change. These that remain
“cystodians of the past’’ will be unhappy—
as will their pupils. .

Considine: President Kennedy’s ‘Rock Bottom Hour’ at the Bay of Pigs

see the President was told to come over to the White House

By Bob Considine

Messrs. Schlesinger and Sorensen, who hover somewhere
between the status of historians and grave-robbers, have
given us a glut of what it was like being close to John
Fitzgerald Kennedy during the Bay of Pigs disaster.

For sums that will enrich them far be-
yond their stipend as employees of the late
President, they lay before a fascinated if
sometimes outraged reader what purports
to be the ultimate word on Mr. Kennedy’s
rock-bottom hour. Whether they intended or

not, each gives the impression that the late

President could not have pulled through iis
ordeal if he had not had them in constant

attendance and holding his hand as the
debacle reached its sorriest point.

At that point, neither of these chroniclers was there.

‘As the attempt to unseat Castro collapsed, the President
was alone with his young friend Ray O'Connell, New York
public relations man. Ray, who had broken his leg in a
skiing mishap, happened to be in Washington at the crucial
hour and, having called Evelyn Lincoln to ask if he could

Letter

Former Smoker
Still ‘Inhales’

To the Edtior: Not since 1956 have I held
a carcinoma stick between by lips, but I
have inhaled the noxious fumes blown from
the tar-coated lungs of thousands of smokers,
most of them complete strangers yet inti-
mate enough to waft unasked-for cigaret and
cigar smoke my way.

Before my tirade against the smokers’
rudeness proceeds further, let me publish a
public apology to the unknown sufferers who
breathed in my smoke when I had the
filthy habit. In many a bus, directly facing
a No Smoking sign, I lit up El Ropos without
asking or even caring about the stunk-up
clothing, the irritated throats, and the
offended feelings of my non-smoking pas-
sengers.

In fact, had anybody objected I would
have summoned up the Smoker’s Bill of
Rights Amendment, to wit, that smokers
have all the rights and the non-smokers
none. Why should anybody be rude or mo-
ronic enough to object to my lighting up
whatever and whenever I pleased—in bus,
train, living room, office, shop or elevator.
If I gave non-smokers any thought at all it
was this—if they don’t like it, let them smoke
in self-defense.

_ Now I see how terribly rude I was, not
only to friends, but more often to strangers
who were trapped in some restricted area,
subject to whatever fumes, cigar, pipe or
cigaret, I might want to exhale.

Since the sungeon general’s report it
makes no sense for any literate American
to smoke. But if my friends choose to do so,

‘it’s their funeral. Every man to his own
But the air I have to

form of suicide.

breathe is my business. I don’t want it

- polluted more than it already. is by auto-

mobile, industrial and backyard burner
smoke. Especially when it curls directly at
you, like a king cobra, following you no
matter which way you move your head.

AS Aen cre
And when the friendly smoker, as he fre-
quently does, lays down his cigaret on the

- ash tray, letting it die a slow and noxious

death, it’s the last straw. A dying butt
smells twice as badly as the active ones.

I don’t ask much of the smokers. I don’t
ask them to quit or even postpone their
funerals a few months or years.

But would they please observe a few sim-
ple rules such as these:

1—If they come in my house or office and
see no ash trays around, kindly keep the
coffin nails in purse or pocket. Don’t make
me seem like the rude one by lighting up and
then looking for an ashtray.

2—In all fairness, would they carry with
them a battery-powered air purifier, so that
as they pollute the atmosphere in a closed

_ room or vehicle, they would clean it up

as well?

3—Would they kindly refrain, especially
in winter when windows cannot be opened,
from smoking at all in automobiles, ele-
vators, buses, and other places where the
non-smoker is simply trapped?

4—Would they mash out a butt when fin-
ished instead of letting it die the slow death?

5—Would they’ carefully observe if their
smoke is drifting toward their innocent neigh-
bors and, if so, move or douse the light?

-6—Please observe No Smoking signs. Is
this asking too much?
Meanwhile I won’t smoke but I will inhale.

JOHN HARTMAN
Watertown ©

immediately.

salary.”

The two reminisced about earlier adventures for a time.
Then Capt. Tazewell Shepard, the President’s naval aide,
came into the office and handed him a message.

The President read it and handed it to O’Connell. O’Con-
nell scanned it swiftly. He is not sure today who signed it
but remembers the gist of it: The longer the invasion ships
remained in the Bay of Pigs the greater the chance that
they would be hit or associated with the United States role

advice.

them there.”

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“Sit down,” Kennedy said as Ray entered. He helped —
lift Ray’s casted leg to stool. “I want you to be able to go
back to New York and tell everybody I’m earning my

in the attempted coup. The memo sought the President's

The President took the piece of paper back from O’Con-
nell, looked at Capt. Shepard and said, “How would you like
to be on that beach and see your ships withdrawing? Leave

The only other person who came into the “President’s
study during that crucial time, O’Connell recalls, was press
secretary Pierre Salinger—who was in and out in a hurry.

As fy Bser_Se

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‘... And They Call These Dog Days’

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President and Congress on Viet Nam

WASHINGTON—An American president
has his most difficult dealings with Congress
in periods when the nation hovers in an un-
easy greyness between war and peace.

Grave uncertainties breed
strong emotions among
legislators.

As President Johnson
stepped into a new phase of
deeper uncertainty, his de-
cision against forcing Con-
gress to approve his new
assignment of troops was a
significant one. He reported- ‘
ly wavered over last weekend and -deter-
mined that he would not request congres-
sional authority to call up the reserves.

Some of the expectation that he would
was based upon the experience of Harry
Truman, who is judged by legislative ex-
perts to have gravely erred in failing to tie
Congress to his declaration of a national
emergency in late 1950.

Mr. Truman invited the congressional
leaders to his office twice and heard out
their suggestions and misgivings. He thank-
ed them for coming to the White House but
he didn’t oblige them to vote in Congress on
his large new commitment to the battle in
Korea. He thus left his critics free to attack
him as conditions worsened in the field.

Mr. Johnson, who has a passion for tying
his advisers to their positions, has not dis-
closed why he decided at this juncture
against pinning Congress to its support of
the war in Viet Nam. However the major
reasons can be pieced together.

The reserve call-up in the 1962 Berlin
crisis presented the government with a
grave problem as the mobilized civilians,
encamped in the United States so regular
forces could go abroad, began to complain.
Their laments stirred Congressional investi-
gations and disarray in the Pentagon until
President Kennedy sent them home.

A second reason appears to have been
that the activation of the reserves might be
interpreted internationally as a_ bellicose
step. Mr. Johnson, anxious to balance his
forceful measures in Viet Nam with his
pursuit of peace, is believed to have been
reluctant to risk an act of bellicosity that
was not necessary.

The Southeast Asia resolution, which
passed Congress with only two dissenting
votes after the Tonkin Bay attacks last

August, gives Mr. Johnson power ‘‘to take
all necessary steps, including the use of
armed force’ to assist South Viet Nam.
When Senator John S. Cooper declared in
debate that this was a generous grant of
power, Senator William Fulbright replied

that modern warfare moves so swiftly it is
necessary to anticipate what may occur.

The President’s sense of timing is pre-.
sumed to have been another restraint upon —

his willingness to go to Congress on a prickly
question at the end of an arduous session.

The legislators are fatigued and even old
friends like Senator Richard Russell are

troubled with doubts about the commitment —

in Asia.

The readiness to express these doubts
is encouraged by the recollection of some
senators that Lyndon Johnson pounded
Dwight Eisenhower’s desk in June 1954 and
declared that he would never support the
dispatch of planes and paratroopers to the
beleaguered French troops at Dienbienphu.
Mr. Johnson’s first public indictment of the
foreign policy of the Eisenhower Admini-
stration was evoked by the 1954 Geneva
conference, which he described as “a
stunning reversal’’ in a blistering speech to
a political dinner.

Mr. Johnson’s: wariness on Viet Nam
persisted into his vice presidency when he
was asked by President Kennedy to fly to
Saigon and reassure President Diam. He
did not want to go at all. Today he some-
times says to visitors, ‘‘Eisenhower made a
commitment, Kennedy strengthened it, and
I’m stuck with it.” This slight ambivalence
encourages the critics of his course to
speak their minds.

No one is predicting now the future man-
power needs for Viet Nam. Some say that
General Westmoreland asked two weeks ago
for 300,000 men. A decision to seal the
border from the Makong River to the sea
would require 150,000 men for that single
purpose. The experience in Malaysia and
the Philippines has indicated that govern-

-ment forces need a ten-to-one ratio of

strength to succeed against guerrillas. The
ratio in South Viet Nam will be less than
four to one after the new contingent of
Americans arrives.

These figures suggest that the President’s
verdict against calling up the reserves may
have been only a postponement.

“Do you think Castro will be crazy enough to kill those
people he’s rounding up?” the president asked O’Connell.
O’Connell guessed that Castro would.

“What do you think we ought to do?” the President
asked his friend. O’Connell was about to suggest that the
United States blockade Cuba (which would have prevented
the missile build-up that followed) but Mrs. Lincoln poked
her head in the office at that moment. She said there was

a phone call from Earl E. T. Smith, a good Kennedy friend

who had been President Eisenhower’s ambassador to Cuba.
The President took the call, spoke briefly, then accepted
another call, this one from his father. Then he put in a call
for Alan Dulles.

“T’m going to take the blame for this,’’ he said into his —
phone when that connection was made. “But don’t forget.
the advice you gave me.”

A few days later O’Connell wrote to Mrs. Lincoln to say
he would substantiate any of the President’s moves or words
during that terrible hour in history, should the President
ever need such supporting evidence. Mrs. Lincoln replied
that she had shown the letter to the President and that he
appreciated the offer. However, she added, Kennedy wished
to inform O’Connell that no matter what he himself or his

_housing just as the auto dealer is required to pro-

_ we do so strongly opposing the procedure of foisting —

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Editorials

Albany Slums

The slum is a headache to both tenants and
owners, points out Bill Kennedy’s series on the slum
housing situation in Albany. It can be added, of
course, that slums are a headache to whatever com-
munity permits them, and to all the residents of that
community. It may not be acknowledged, but the
headache is there, for without attention from all of
us the slums just keep growing. Never do they fold
up and go away because we wish they didn’t exist.

But it cannot be disputed that the primary re-
sponsibility for the condition of any housing rests
with its owner. He may or may not occupy it; he
may be wealthy or poor; he may have, or lack, a
sense of responsibility concerning the condition of
his property as it reflects the condition of the com-
munity. .

It is first of all up to the iandlord, the owner,
to keep the property in question from falling into
such a state of disrepair that it becomes an eyesore
and a health and safety hazard. If he rents to ten-
ants, it remains the primary responsibility of the
landlord to see that they do not contribute essen-
tially to decay and conditions of filth. For the land-
lord, the owner, receives money from the public
and if he makes a business of renting housing he
should be required to provide reasonably adequate

vide reasonable cars and the grocer, reasonable food.

The Times-Union series points out that Albany’s
slum landlords for too long failed to accept respon-
sibility for maintaining some of their properties in
reasonable condition; that some of their tenants con-
tribute to slum conditions; that governmental agen-
cies fail to enforce health and safety codes. And all
this, of course, reflects a passive attitude on the part
of the public generally, which has failed to insist
that the city do more over the years to resist the
slum blight.

Our series on slums, we hope, will awaken all
responsible persons to a need for cooperative, long-
term action. Only time, money, and attention can
right the wrongs that long indifference has created.

November's Election

Three months remain now before one of the
crucial state elections. For the first time in many
years the decisions made in the voting booths are
likely to establish for many years hence the com-
plexion and character of our state government.

This is true because remaining before the politi-
cal leaders of both parties, as a result of their refusal
to face it squarely in the past, is the issue of reappor-
tionment. The subject, about which we can expect
another abortive hassle during the next legislative
session, is far from settled.

The Republican Plan A, finally determined to
be the basis for election of a new Legislature in ©
November, sets up district lines establishd by a lame- —
duck session when the Republicans were still in con-
trol of the Legislature. But this is a temporary —
measure, applying only to this year’s election. The ©
legislators elected in November once again will face —
the task of reapportioning the state—this time on a
permanent basis, and one which will meet the re- —
quirements established by the Supreme Court and
the state constitution. Since some Congressmen are %
determined to try to force a federal constitutional
amendment which would amend the Supreme Court
rulings, (in effect to circumvent them) the compli-
cations which lie ahead can be surmised. But the .
Legislature must act as if these complications are %
not on the horizon. The men and women who come ~—_
to Albany in January do so with a mandate from the —©T
nation’s highest court, repeatedly upheld in lower +
court appeals, that each voter is entitled to an equal
voice among the officeholders representing them in
state legislative bodies. :

Whether the Democrats can retain control of
the Legislature, then, is going to determine whether ©
they have another opportunity to redistrict the state.
They muffed it the last time because of their leader-
ship fiasco. They may, or may not, have learned a
lesson. The Republicans, meanwhile, have the same
opportunity. By regaining control, they will regain
control of the machinery which sets up the new and
permanent districts. 1a ad

One can assume that leaders of both parties will
impress on voters that the significance of the Novem-
ber results extends considerably beyond the election
of individual candidates.

And such a situation also is likely to have the
important effect of unifying both parties. If, under
the conditions that exist, with so much at stake, the
divisive elements continue to persist in uncompro-
mising attitudes, one.or the other of our major —
parties may suffer mortal wounds. ;

* * * o> *

Another element ef the forthcoming election is —
particularly unfortunate and soon we’re going to
have much to say about it. This is the presentation —
to voters, in addition to their selection of candidates,
of no fewer than twelve amendments and proposi-
tions. Once again fhe Times-Union will present a
detailed review and recommendations on each. But

-

such a mass of difficult and important legislation on =
voters at the same time they are being asked to se-
lect candidates in an important election. Proper dis- ~ _

position of issues requires proper consideration.
\

visitor said, history would require that he take full blame — Ae
for the Bay of Pigs error. ae

O’Connell knew Kennedy longer and in many ways more : a.
intimately than either Schlesinger or Sorensen. But he has si(tw®
no intention of submitting his memoir. Ya Vie

“T think both those books, and some of the ‘inside’ ones
that are still to come, are just plain lousy,” he told me.
“If Schlesinger and Sorensen were reporters it would be
different. But they aren’t. They were hired by the man and —

the man gave them his confidence. I think it was mis-
placed.” ‘-, ae

Look Magazine switched chapters of its Sorensen pur- >
chase, against the author’s will, to combat Schlesinger’s -
Bay of Pigs Chapter in Life Magazine with Sorensen’s Bay —
of Pigs account. Life editorially condemned this writer last —
year for publishing an approved report on how Douglas —
MacArthur would have waged the Korean War if given full
rein, after the general died. Apparently Life experiences /[
no qualms however about ventilating Schlesinger’s brutal _— i
memo posthumously excoriating Secretary of State Rusk,
who has to keep pitching for the United States in today’s =
tumultous world, and other distinguished Americans who had
reason to believe they had merited Mr. Kennedy’s respect. |

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|THE WEATHER

- Sunny and Milder

(Map, Details on Page 2)

110TH YEAR—VOL. 106

i”

al Estate

Slum Landlords:
Albert and Kirsch

ai “tmnes-Union Staff Writer Bill Kennedy spent
several weeks gathering material for his shocking
series of stories on “The Slums of
Albany.” He visited the unhappy
and unfortunate people who live in
squalor and misery in the South End
and Arbor Hill Areas, talked with
them and with the landlords whe
_ collect rent from them. His graphic
description of what he saw and
learned, and what it means to the
community makes absorbing and
- significant reading,

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~ By Bill Kennedy _
Times-Union Staff Writer

Albert and Kirsch. Who are they?

Their names are part of the vocabulary of Albany slum-
dwellers. They are cursed regularly by people who live in
the decrepit houses that they own. They are also viewed as
a necessary facet of the society that exists in Albany—perpetu-

~ men who perform a service in the city which no one else can
or will do. :

They are unquestionably the biggest slum landlords not
only in Albany but in the tri-city area, with upwards of 6,000
‘persons living in most of the 761 buildings that they own in
Albany, Troy, Rensselaer, Cohoes, Schenectady and Water-
vliet. The majority of the 761, which contain 1,847 dwelling
nits, are in Albany and Troy.

They refer to this property as their junk. .

Others in Alabama

They also own some of. the city’s better apartment houses
Louden Arms on Northern Boulevard and Shaker Roads—

enue, off New Scotland Avenue.
They own five properties in the State of Alabama which

See ALBERT, Page 25

UENCE SPAR RP FTTH ANTRAL THT ATR TTT CREA RT TTT if

Mayor Corning has asked Albanians to cut consumption
city water to 20 million gallons daily from the present
average of 25 million gallons. The alternative is even more
stringent restrictions than have been ordered so far. Each
day The Times-Union will publish the figure on gallons used
during the preceding 24 hours ending at noon. This will be

Moni hallidal

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would be increased.

for the Army.

For October, a quota of 29,000

WASHINGTON (®—The Pentagon boosted the September
draft call Tuesday to 27,400 men and set the October call for
33,600 to help increase U.S. forces in Viet Nam. The quotas are.
the highest since the Korean War when 80,000 were called in
some months. The Navy will draft men ‘In October for the first
time since 1956. Draft calls have been running 17,000 a month,
the figure which had been announced for August and September

before President Johnson announced last Wednesday the

y

All of the September quota is| It has been policy to pass over

young married men between th
ages of 19 and 26. Bhar:

esac

ators, menders of much of Albany’s tumbledown slum housing—

rth almost $3,000,000. They own the Knickerbocker Apart-
nts (90 units) on Jay Street, the Dana Apartments on Dana

is for the Army and 4,600 for the
Navy.
The Marine Corps and Air
Force have placed no requests
for draftees during the two
months.

A Selective Service spokes-
man said no difficulty is expect-
ed in meeting the larger quotas.
He said local draft boards
have been directed to bring
their files of married men clas-
sifid 1A up to date. They also
have been reminded. they can
ask schools about the grades
and status of young men with
educational deferments.
The spokesman said review of
the draft status of single: men is
done all, the time but. hasn’

years or so. He explained that
some men who were passed
over because+they were married
might now be fathers and eligi-
ble for deferment. Some, he
said, might no longer be mar-
ried and thus subject to induc-
tion.

for first-person reports

day on the Viet Nam situation
Johnson
afternoon

retary Robert S.

ity matters.

ings

lor, outgoing ambassador
South Viet Nam.

Bm AP etic be igi taan inch: Naeem brat cat Ga RS
~ {been done génerally on marrie Nisted men wi
-jmen classified 1A in a couple of

some facilities.

Wednesday,

September, 27,400

The Army operates six b
training centers and believes it
can handle the added: draftees
at them, with enlargement

Johnson

they were in accord with ¢

draft and the rest

At his news conference last
said he
was sending 50,000 more Ameri-
cans to South Viet 4
monthly draft calls would be
double, from 17,000 men to 3

Nam

000 men.
The Pentagon’s announée
ment of increased quotas si

President’s decision ‘to ite
crease the active armed force§
strength in connection with:
Southeast Asia.” ye
The Army oh die Det i

th” no. ‘pr.

tary experience at 38,000 for
the
from ex-

from

asic

of

and

conferred Tuesday
with Secretary of
State Dean Rusk, Defense Sec:
McNamara,
and McGeorge Bundy, his spe-
cial assistant for national secur-

The session preceded meet-
Wednesday with roving
Ambassador W. Averell Harri-
man, just returned from Mos-
cow, and Gen. Maxwell D. Tay-
to

pected volunteers; and at 38,400
for October, with 29,000 from
the draft.

The Navy said it needed 13,600
new men in October, with 4.600
provided by the draft.

LBJ, Aides Confer
On Foreign Policy

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Presi-
dent Johnson held a three-hour
foreign policy meeting with top
aides Tuesday in preparation

from
Moscow and Saigon Wednes-

Johnson was scheduled

p.m., EDT.

ing to bring about. negotiations

even though Russia may be in-
terested in peace, China has
Said that it is willing to - risk
war.

Harriman said he found So-
viet Premier Alexei Kosygin to
be a “pragmatic rather than a
doctrinaire man.”’ Kosygin was

See PRESIDENT, Page 2

WASHINGTON (AP) A
House Labor subcommittee ap-
proved Tuesday a 50-cent in-
crease in the $1.25 federal mini-
mum wage and voted to extend
coverage for the first time to
ferm workers.
Hotel, hospital and laundry
workers also would be given
minimum wage protection for
the first time under the bill,
which surpasses the recom-
mendations of President John-
son.

The subcommittee rejected a
Johnson proposal that double
time be paid for overtime in an
effort to discourage its use and
to spread employment.

The subcommittee set three
different schedules for increas-
ing wages. Those presently get-
ting the $1.25 would g0 to $1.75
in three annual steps. The newly

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covered nonfarm workers would

House Unit OKs
Minimum Pay Hike

reach $1.75 by 1970. The farm
workers would start at $1.15
next July and go to $1.25 two
years later.

The subcommittee proposal
would cover all migratory farm
workers, ‘tenant farmers and
sharecropy S and the hired

on Jarms employing five

é workers. This would
amount to about 40 per cent of
farm employment.

Others who would get mini-
mum wage. protection for the
first time would be hotel, motel
ands,» restaurant workers, non-
professional employes of hospi-
tals, automobile’ salesmen,
workers in motion picture thea-
ters, laundries, drycleaning es-
tablishments and the logging
industry and many specialized
areas of employment, such as
seafood processing, cotton gin-
ning and the operation of grain

to
meet. with Taylor at noon Wed-
nesday. He and Rusk were to
confer with Harriman at 5:30

Upon arriving at Dulles In-
ternational Airport near Wash-
‘lington, Harriman told newsmen
he was under the impression
that the Soviet Union was try-

on Viet Nam. But he noted that

their main topic was the Shas-

Bi:

the U.S. Joint Chiefs of

Gen. Earle G. Wheeler of the Army, chairman of

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yesterday at Andrews Air Force Base, near Wash-

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Many Capitals

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world, the non-aligned nations,
and the West.
Roving U.S. Ambassador W.
Averell Harriman left London
for home after talks in Moscow
and said he believes the So-
viets ‘“‘would like to see a con-
ference” on the Vietnamese
conflict.
A Ghanian diplomat returned
from Hanoi with a letter from
North Viet Nam’s leaders and
said “peace moves are on
hand.”
France’s cultural minister met
in Peking with the Chinese Com-
munist leaders. There were re-
ports France was backing an
independent initiative to restore
peace to Viet Nam.
Tito and Shastri
A separate initiative was be-
ing pushed by the neutralists,
headed by President Tito of Yu-
goslavia and Prime Minister Lal
Bahadur Shastri of India. Both
met Harriman last week.
In Washington, Secretary of
State Dean Rusk left the way
open for the Communists to say
how they would react to another
cessation of the bombing of
North Viet Nam. But retiring
U.S. Ambassador Maxwell D.
Taylor said on his return from
Saigon that Hanoi could not be
forced to the negotiating table
‘‘in the short term.”
The only public reaction of the
Communists was to repeat de-
mands for an American troop
withdrawal from Viet Nam be-
fore talks could start—demands
the United States has rejected.
Tito conferred with President
Sekou Toure of the African na-
tion of Guinea Tuesday. Politi-
Cal sources in Belgrade said

tri-Tito plan to bring the Viet

start at $1 next January and

elevators.

Peace
moves for Viet Nam were re-
ported under way Tuesday in
the capitals of the Communist

from Honolulu. He met

there with other top U.S.

in Viet Nam.

S

Peace Efforts | Strike in Scattered Area

Under Way in Viet Cong Harass Outposts —

SAIGON, South Viet Namigon, a U.S: military. spokesman
(AP) — The Viet Cong kept up
its mortar fire and small arms
harassment of outposts and’ oth-

er installations in scattered ar-
around Saigon Tuesday

eas
night and early Wednesday.

can and Vietnamese

confirmed by body count.

The Viet Cong inflicted light
casualties on Vietnamese gov-
ernment troops early Wednes-
day in a brief attack on Cu Chi,
about 20 miles*northwest of Sai-

The brunt of the battle against
the Viet Cong earlier Tuesday
was carried by fighter-bombers.
A U.S. spokesman said Ameri-
planes
killed an estimated 157 guerril-
las, but the number was not

said.
A ranger training site at

Trung Lap, about seven miles
north of Cu Chi, was hit at about
the same time. No casualties
were reported.

| In one action Tuesday, intense
sniper fire led U.S. Marines to
burn about 100 huts of a Viet-
namese village three miles
south of the Da Nang air base,
380 miles northeast of Saigon.

The Marines suffered casual-
ties, officially described as
light, from small arms and au-
tomatic weapons fire as they
waded across flooded rice pad-
dies near the village. Viet Cong
losses in the engagement were

military officials to work rk he
out details of the announced 30,000-man_ buildup Rea

AP wirephoto

Other Viet Cong attacks Tues-
day night were directed at a
small outpost in the Mekong
Delta country, a watchtower
about 80 miles south of the capi-

west of Saigon.
Government casualties at all
three posts were termed light. A

killed'three Viet Cong, a spokes/
man said. :

On the Ca Mau peninsula deep
in the delta, the outpost of Tam:
Binh was said to have been at-
tacked late Tuesday and a flare-
dropping plane and an air strike
were called in.

Radio communication with
the post was lost and there was

not determined.

Two young Albany girls told
police last night they were lured
into a car by an unshaven man
and driven to a secluded area
near the New York State Thru-
way.

The older girl, 13 years old,
managed to escape from the
car and was found wandering
barefoot along the Thruway
west of Exit 23. The other girl,
9, later returned home,

At 1 a.m. today, Albany de-
tectives, under the direction of
direction of Inspector William
Van Amburgh, were still try-
ing to clear up the mystery.
Inspector Van Amburgh said
the case is ‘definitely not a kid-
naping.’’ He declined to elabo-
rate, saying the case was being
investigated.

The two girls were being
questioned atthe detective of-
fice late last night and appear-
ed to be unharmed.

State Police from Troop T

See SEVERAL, Page 2

Police Probe Report
Girls Lured into Car

found walking along the Thru-
Way about 8:30 p.m. by Troop-
er S. J. Vangura.

She told state police she and
a friend were picked up, ap-
parently on North Pear] Street,
by a man in a “‘beat up” con-
vertible. The man said he knew
the older girl’s mother.

The man first bought the
girls a soft drink and then
drove them to a deserted area,
the older girl told state troop-
ers,

She said the man attempted
to kiss her When she tried to
jump out of the car the man
took her shoes she told troopers.
In the meantime, the 9-yearold
girl hopped out of the car and
ran,

The man gave chase and then
the 13-year-old escaped from the
car and ran to the Thruway.

Inspector Van Amburgh said
the younger girl later returned
home, but he said he didn’t

New College
For Bay State

new coeducational liberal arts
college will be established in
western Massachusetts as a co-.
operative venture of Amherst,
Smith and Mount Holyoke Col-
leges and the University of
Massachusetts, it was announc-
ed Tuesday.

led Hampshire College — will
be built on a 300-acre site about
equidistant from the four sup-
porting institutions.

It will be a residential col-
lege for about 1,000 students.
The announcement indicated the
school would not be ready to
open before the fall of 1968. —
The announcement said the
impetus to form the new col-

said the 13-year-old girl was

know how she got there:

Downtown Bargai

n Days

Today, To

orrow, Friday;

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tal and at Duc Hoa, 12 miles

government unit at the tower “~~

no further word on its fate. Pe

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — A

The new college — to be cal-

slege came from a pledge of |
$6 million from Harold F. John-
son of New York, a retired at-
torney, who will be a member
of the first board of trustees
of Hampshire College.

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hey characterize as garden apartments—the Essex House,
Jf Five Points West Gardens, Park Manor and Jan-Mar Apart-

:
&,

200. perhaps in the next six years.

ments,
Decatur.

They own scattered parcels throughout New York State
and a few in other states, though this is a small part of their
holdings. Their focus is in the Albany area.

Their holdings are valued in the several millions, and they
must rank as the largest landlords in the area—using the
number of persons living in their property as a norm—until it
can be proven otherwise.

They are men of great personal wealth, socially prom-
inent, residents of the Pine Hills. Sidney Albert, 54, lives at
1045 Marion Avenue. Irving Kirsch, 55, lives at 104 Brookline
Avenue. They have been friends since childhood in New
York City; both graduated from New York University and
from the NYU Law School. They came to Albany 25 years
ago as young lawyers working in real estate, but have never

practiced as lawyers except as it concerned their real estate
business,

all in Birmingham, and Sheridan Apartments in

Better Off Here
__They came to the city representing a client who had state-
wide interests—most of Mr. Albert’s relatives have been in
real estate.

“We found we were better off being located in this area
than commuting back and forth to New York,’ Mr. Kirsch said.
_ They began buying property. ‘‘We found that the property
that was available at this time for sale was the poor property,
poor in the sense that it had not been built in the last 20
years,’ said Mr. Kirsch,

Between 1940 and 1948 the corporations with which they
are associated acquired more than 150 properties, another
As of 1963, they owned
680 buildings, 714 in 1964, and now 761. The slum property

-\, investment ranges somewhere around $1,500,000 and the busi-

7,
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~ for $5,500.) :
But Mr. Kirsch says that most of the property acquired.

ness continues to expand. In the Yellow Pages of the tele-
phone directory A&K Realty Buyers advertise their interest in
the slums: “‘Immediate All Cash — Very Low Priced Old
2-, 3-family unheated cold water flats.”

To an individual owner such dwellings are a_ liability.

If a government agency does crack down and force him to

make repairs, the owner might find the cost of repairs wiping
out a year’s rent, or more. But with Albert & Kirsch, this is
not the case. They insist there is no such thing as a point of
no return on any of their habitable dwellings. They deal in
volume and claim they can make extensive repairs to an old

' house and still run a profitable business.

5.1 Per Cent Profit

The profit margin for 1964 on the junk property, Mr.

Kirsch reported, was 5.1 per cent of the investment, ‘‘If you

/ say that,’’ he added, ‘‘no one will believe us.’’ He says that

the junk property, because of the high cost of repairs ($101,000

jin 1963; $112,000 in 1964), returns the lowest profit of any of
But both he and Mr. Albert also «

their real estate -holdings.
admit that until about three years ago—when they began to
spend more on repairs than ever before in their 25-year
operation—the profit was much higher, perhaps 10 per cent.
But even at five per cent, the profit is still substantial and
justifies to them the continuation of business.

They came by much of their property by buying out
estates that were being liquidated. Also they bought property
that the county had confiscated for unpaid taxes and water
rents. (In 1943, for example, Federal Investors, one of their

‘firms, acquired 29 Dongan Avenue from the county for $216,
the unpaid taxes. In December, 1964, Federal transferred
the house to another A&K corporation, New York State Realty

Liquidating Corp. (NYSRLC),. which sold it to an individual

a

NO TR 0 RN RES

28 Corporations Show Size, Complexity of Operation

_ The following are the names of 28 corporations under which
Sidney Albert and Irving Kirsch, and other associates, conduct
one of the largest real estate operations in the tri-city area.

There is nothing unusual about real estate dealers forming

multiple corporations, but this will indicate the size and
complexity of their operation. Herewith the names:

Bob Homes Inc., Buy Rent Corp., Core Homes Inc., Dana

Apartments Inc., Eagle Morton Corp., E. B. Realty, Federal

sold some pieces by cash sale, but this is not their method of
operation. They usually sell under what they call the Lease
and Option (L&O) method. Under this system the buyer signs
a lease and also an option to buy, and then, without down
payment, begins to acquire the house merely by paying rent.
But he does not take title until the full cost of the house is
covered. The procedure is a complex one and will be treated
in a later article, but a main purpose as far as Albert and
Kirsch are concerned is that after signing the L&O, the buyer
becomes responsible for repairs to the house.

Investors Inc., Grade Realty Corp., Hap Healty Corp., Ivory
Realty Corp., Jay Apartments Inc., Lancaster Corp., Lion

Properties Inc., Loudon Builders Inc., Moon Houses Inc., New

York State Realty Liquidating Corp., Pep Homes Inc., Rand

Properties Inc.) Seal Realty. Special Realty Inc., Stellar
Houses Corp., Sunshine Houses Inc., Town Realty Corp.,
“Valve Realty Corp., Whip Homes Inc., Whip Realty Corp.,
Win Homes Inc., and Zero Realty Co.

ANOTATAERLL CT aR gc

checking tennant complaints, a newly acquired man who also
earns $200 weekly and whose main job is finding competent,
independent ‘contractors to do repair work—a major problem
in their operation, say Albert and Kirsch.

Contact Man in Slums

There is also Morris Massry, a Troy man who became
acquainted with A&K several years ago when he became their
landlord. He owns the Boardman building and formerly

_pperated a children’s shop in Troy -until he joined A&K as

A&K also had substantial amounts of property bought 4% associate. He has broadened his real estate holdings since
from them for slum ciearance. For the South Mall area,
the state bought about 24 parcels, Mr. Kirsch said. Since
of Albany has bought roughly the same amount

1960 the Cit

Sidney Albert

of parcels for urban renewal projects in the South End
and in Arbor Hill. The profits on the sales are handsome,
often double the original cost, or more than double.

- Town Realty, for example, an A&K corporation, acquired
70 Schuyler Street in 1952 for $1,000, sold it 10 years later for
$3,000. Similarly, NYSRLC bought property on, North Lansing

Irving Kirsch

Street from Albany County for $620.21 in back taxes in 1947,

sold it to the city in 1960 for $1,500.

Street in Troy, is exceptionally complex. They operate under
at least 28 different corporations, The large apartment prop-
erties, like Loudon Arms, are managed at the sites, although
ultimate control is on Fulton Street. Most of their corporations

are listed on incorporation papers filed with the New York

secretary of state, with the address of 19 Rector Street in New
York City, which is the office of Henry Ackerman Associates,
a certified public accounting firm which audits their books.

There are 11 persons on their payroll (not including out-.
The staff includes secre-~

side contractors who do repairs).
taries, a man who handles phone complaints, a full-time
plumber who makes $200 a week, an office manager who has

the unenviable secondary duty of dunning tenants for non

payment of rent, a handyman-inspector who makes $3 an hour

_and paid double the regular premiums.

then, is a stockholder in Buy Rent Corporation — the most
widely known of all A&K corporations in that it is the one
under which all rent collections and other tenant communica-
tions are centralized. Mr. Massry earns $25,000 a year from
A&K, and it is he who is the man on the scene in the slums—
dealing with tenants, supervising repair expenditures, sitting
in at complaint sessions.
, The office staff accumulates an enormous amount of infor-
nation—on taxes, income, credit ratings of tenants, expendi-
ures on repairs. Records are kept on how many tenants
Records are even kept on how many prospective tenants
owe one months rent, two months’, six months’, and so on.
Records are even kept on how many tenants answer which
newspaper ads.

‘““We’re now thinking of putting it all on an IBM machine,”’

./ Mr. Kirsch said.

They operate under multiple corporations for various
reasons, tax advantage being one, diversity of ownership of
some corporations being another. But Mr. Kirsch claims the

main reason is liability.

Risks Deemed Uninsurable

‘Basically,’ Mr. Kirsch said, ‘‘these old houses are not
insurable. for liability because of exposure—so many people
living in them. We were insured but we were constantly being
canceled out. The insurance company gets a couple of
claims on our property (most claims were sidewalk or stair-
Way cases) and they cancel us out. This happened five,
six, seven times. We went to the London market—Lloyds—
But then our broker
said we could no longer get coverage from Lloyds.”

They went to a Canadian insurance company, paid $40,000
for three years’ coverage in advance, then after a year found

- the company was not paying claims. They checked, found the
Their operation, which has its headquarters at 346 Fulton

company had gone bankrupt in a scandal. A&K had between
30 and 40 lawsuits pending, which they settled themselves.

Then they went back to a New York insurance company
that had covered them originally. ‘‘We said to them,” Mr.
Kirsch reported, ‘“‘what do you want? We want to get cov-
ered. For an additional $15,000 they agreed to cover us.
‘We'll try,’ they said.” P

A&K now pay between $17,000 and $19,000 a year in insur-
ance premiums on their slum property and they wonder how
long their coverage will last. The very mention in this article
that they have coverage, Mr. Kirch said may scare the
“insurance company into canceling their policy in that it will
make them a target for lawsuit specialists. The company
has already canceled out other policyholders owning such

hE gah Sala 4 oh oe ty

‘Albert and Kirsch: Albany Area's Junk Real Estate Experts

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Albany, Wed., Aug. 4, 1965 —

25
and Kirsch because of the hefty premium they pay.

Because of this coverage problem, an expert in the field
has advised them to put each of their houses under an indi-
vidual corporation. If this happened—which is possible if the
insurance company cancels them out—a plaintiff could win
a judgment only up to the corporation’s net worth, and the
worth would be the value of the property, meaning if someone
died in a fire in a slum house valued at $1,000, that amount
is the maximum their survivors could get, no more.

“T want you to know,” Mr. Kirsch said, ‘that you won’t

find many people covered in this kind of property. In spite
of the trouble it would involve, it would be profitable to put
each piece of property in a separate corporation. But I would
not be morally happy to feel that if a guy got hurt there
would be no insurance.”

He addéed, however, that there would be further diversity
of their holdings into new corporations—perhaps 20 or more,
he said—in the next two or three years.

Anyone dealing with Albert and Kirsch until a few years
ago might have been dazzled by the variety of corporate
names that were used. I talked with one woman who had been
paying rent to Town Realty regularly and then one month
got a receipt from Buy Rent Corp. Another man has a lease
with Whip Homes Inc., and a purchase option with Whip
Realty Corp., but makes payments to Buy Rent. There is
nothing illegal] in this, but it generates confusion.

Property has been transferred constantly through the
years from one A&K corporation to another, and trying to
trace an individual piece in county record books is like trying
to find your way out of a labyrinth. Similarly, the city’s tax
rolls are totally incorrect in their listing of A&K property.
Many properties owned by the partners are still listed under
the names of people who owned them as long ago as 20 years,
and those which are listed under A&K corporate names have
usually been transferred to another corporation.

52 Under Rent Control
The State Rent Control Office reported that it has only 52

of the A&K properties in Albany listed on its registration —

forms (under 17 of the corporations), and seven of those reg-
istrations are for the large apartment houses, Whether or not
more of the houses should be registered is something a rent
control official would have to decide on the basis of an in-
vestigation of each piece of property, and its status under
rent control regulations. Y

The City of Troy, where A&K had’ 239 properties in 1960,
is not under rent control now. Albany, where they owned 360
during 1960, and Rensselaer, where they owned 16, are under
rent control.

So the slum business is more complex than most people
realize. With Albert and Kirsch it is big business. It made
them rich, gave them the resources to invest in even more
luerative property, like Loudon Arms. The slum property

they have bought through the years, and continue to buy, is ~ |

unmortgagable, unsalable for cash after they buy it; and

so they either sell it on the no-down-payment, lease-and-option ©

basis, or else they rent it.
“We are running a legitimate business,” Irving Kirsch

said. ‘The reason we’re in it is to improve it—to make more |

money through our business acumen. To give more services.
“If somebody would come along and say they’d buy our

old property at a reasonable figure, we’d take. it. And we'd :

use the mony to buy another Loudon Arms.’’ ce
But nobody wants the junk. Only Albert and Kirsch. |

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The ’

James Reston

WASHINGTON — The administration
seems to be settling down for a long war in
Viet Nam. Neither the fears of military
disaster, nor the hopes of a negotiated peace
are as prevalent now as they
were in June. There is very
little talk of ‘“‘victory” now,
but merely of avoiding a hu-
miliating defeat and secur-
ing an honorable compro--
mise.

The capital looks wonder-
ful and feels terrible. It is
radiant with flowers. The
long plazas are green from the gullywashers

of July, and even the polluted Potomac is
majestic in the summer sun. But the mood
is solemn; not worried, really, or fearful,
but increasingly resigned to a prolonged
struggle.

President Johnson has done a lot to re-
assure those who felt he was trying to tame
Asia, Texas-style, and not really seeking
peace. He convinced Arthur Goldberg that
he was seeking a fair compromise, or Gold-
berg would never have left the Supreme
Court for the United Nations. Senators Fui-
bright and Mansfield, who opposed his mili-
tant policy toward Viet Nam in the spring,
no longer doubt the sincerity of his efforts
to negotiate a settlement, and even U Thant,
the secretary general of the United Nations,
whose early efforts for peace were brushed
off and even resented by the President, is
now convinced that Johnson is earnestly try-
ing to end the fighting.

Also, the operations on the battlefield
have gone better for the United States and

the South Vietnamese than the pessimists .

feared at the beginning. of the. Viet Cong
monsoon offensive. The holding-operations

have held. The Johnson advisers who want-

ed a massive commitment of the reserves to
Viet Nam have been turned down. Thus, the
moderates have prevailed, and for the short
Tun are reassured, but despite this, the
doubts about the President’s policy prevail

and in some ways are more serious than

they were six weeks ago.
The reason for this is clear enough. Six

weeks. ago, American policy was based on

the assumption that a stalemate would lead
to negotiations, but now the policy makers
are not so sure. Instead of feeling that the
Communists would agree to a settlement
once they realized that a military victory
was out of the question, now there is a
vague suspicion here that maybe a stale-

Intimate

To the falter In the field of law are

‘both good and bad statutes, some that serve
a very useful and constructive service, and
| some, perhaps, that ought to be erased from

the books. One of the better statutes which
lawyers generally agree deserves to be in
the “‘good” category, is the so-called ‘‘dead
man’s statute,” which bars a party in in-
terest from testifying (in court, of course) as
to any transaction with a decedant. The rea-

- son for the rule is quite obvious; the dead

man cannot be called to affirm or deny the
truth of the testimony. Unless what a dead
man said or did can be proved by a disin-
terested party, it had better be left unsaid.

Arthur Schlesinger’s account of his con-
versations and transactions with the late
President Kennedy led me to think that it
might be wise to place a similar ban on
authors. For we have no way of knowing
with finality whether President said or
thought (particularly thought) all the things
attributed to him by Mr. Schlesinger. All
we have is the author’s word for it, and I
think it can be said that in this instance
the author is not an entirely disinterested
person inasmuch as he was a special assist-
ant to the President.

Consequently, and perhaps with skepti-
cism that is natural, I read what Mr.

Schlesinger writes, but I am less than prone
to take it as unvarnished truth.

Indeed, some things Mr. Schlesinger says

the President said and did or thought, he

could not possibly know except by hear-
say, and reading of these things cannot
help but cast suspicion on other things. For
example, the author says that following the
Bay of Pigs disaster the President, alone in
his bedroom with his wife, ‘‘almost sobbed.”
Maybe so, but how does Mr. Schlesinger
know? He does not say how he came into
possession of this intimate detail.

But quite apart from the questionable
veracity of the Schlesinger account of what
the late President said or thought, I cannot
quite divorce myself from the thought that

Taylor: ‘Armed Forces Under McNamara III Equipped to Fight’

The only defense that counts is the defense that exists—

Letter

' Albany

The Gamble of Moderation TIMES

mate is more acceptable to the Communists
than a compromise settlement.

A stalemate is certainly more costly to
Washington than to Peking or Moscow. They
are not committing their men; we are.
They are investing very little in the strug-
gle; Washington is putting up between $2,-
500,000 and $3,000,000 a day. The American
effort is dividing the western allies, divert-
ing the energies of the American govern-
ment from the development and unification
of the West, and hurting the United States
in the eyes of most of the uncommitted na-
tions.

Thus, the American military effort is fol-
lowing a familiar pattern. It was hoped
that the naval retaliation in the Gulf of Ton-
kin, and then the bombardment of North
Viet Nam, and then the commitment of the
Marines to battle would convince the Com-
munists of Washington’s determination and
lead to negotiations. But all these assumpt-
ions proved to be false, and now the new
assumption — that a stalemate in the land
war after the monsoon would bring peace
talks — is beginning to be seriously ques-
tioned,

Nevertheless, the President is operating
on a short-run plan of using limited power
for a limited objective. If he cannot get
negotiations through creating a stalemate,
he will then consider the sterner measures
of heavier bombardment of North Vietna-
mese cities and ports.

This “flexible approach” policy clearly
does not satisfy many of his associates. It
is not enough for some who do not think the
Communists will talk until they fear the
destruction of their cities, and it is too much
for others who keep talking about negotia-
tions when there is no prospect of negotia-
tions.

But the President is going on with it any-
way, not knowing any better course of ac-
tion, and the likelihood is that this is going
to continue long after the monsoon ends in
late October.

Meanwhile orders have been given to re-
inforce the American garrisons in Southeast
Asia without weakening the American force
in Europe. A specific instruction from Sec-
retary of Defense McNamara has gone out
to this effect.

' The first thing as, Washington sees it, is
-to hold the line, test the stalemate theory,

and keep probing for peace — but with an

‘increasing realization that this is probably

going to take a very long time.

(C) 1965 New York Times News Service

Details’ on Kennedy

the account is in bad taste. It seems to me
trat it unnecessarily belittles and humiliates
so many people, and in doing this the author
unwittingly casts unfair aspersions on the
hero himself, President Kennedy.

I, for one, find it quite easy to believe
that Mr. Kennedy did not want Mr. Johnson
as a running mate in the sense that he was
enthusiastic about it; but the myth that has
surrounded the martyred president has all
but obscured the fact that he was an in-
tensely practical and politician and therefore
the first to realize that the Johnson presence
on the ticket was absolutely essential to
victory.

Nor do I think he does the Kennedy
memory any good by seeking to place the
blame for the Bay of Pigs episode on other
shoulders. If President Kennedy could be
man enough, as he was, to take the blame

. for the whole thing, it seems to me that

others do him no great service by sugges-
tions that the blame lay elsewhere.

The author depicts Secretary of State
Rusk as being marked for replacement.
Since if never happened, what good is there
in commenting about it.

Indeed, there is much in the whole. book
from which little or no good can come to
anyone except the author by way of royal-
ties. All of which raises the question of how
much literary license should be granted to
authors in publishing private thoughts and
private conversations of public officials while
those who can be most adversely affected
by them survive.

I admit the book makes fascinating read-
ing. And, of course, I do not favor censorship
per se. But it seems to me that in this in-
stance the rules of good taste have been
seriously flaunted which gives leave to the
thought that more effort was devoted to
sensationalism than to accuracy.

W. C. L. CAMPION

Treasurer,

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PAGE 26

As fy Rasert Sees It

Leaving No Stone Unturned

Charles Bartlett

The Cost of Trying to Be President —

e Nelson Rockefeller’s decision against
running for the presidency in 1968 must have
been welcome to the men who handle the
family finances. Reliable political sources
report that the governor’s
efforts to secure the Repub-
lican nomination in 1964 cost
him $6.2 million. Even Gov-
ernor William Scranton’s
four-week plunge into the
nomination race cost over $1
million.

e President Johnson
stopped the grumbling of
African diplomats that they are being ignored
by the White House with his surprise outing
on the presidentialgyacht. He gave them a
lively long party and made a big effort to
entertain them with stories and anecdotes.
The Africans describe the evening as a great
success.

e@ One of the best and most expensive
portrait painters in Ameria, Peter Hurd, is
now at work on a painting of President John-
son. The Johnson’s alignment with good
taste is further reflected in their retaining
one of the best and most expensive New
York decorating firms, McMillen Inc., to
redecorate the family living quarters in the
White House.

e Arthur Goldberg made two specific
agreements with the President before he
accepted the ambassadorship to the United
Nations. The President promised that Gold-
berg would have direct access to him on. pol-
icy matters and that he would be consulted

by the Administration on all policies pertain-
ing to the UN. Goldberg was sorely nettled
by the State Department’s attempt to explain
his appointment to the Arab diplomats. He
felt the gesture was demeaning although it
was initiated by G. Mennen Williams, a close
friend of Goldberg’s, who was trying to be
helpful.

e Friends of Abe Fortas were puzzled
by the White House reports which preceded
his nomination to the Supreme Court. Bill
Moyers told newsmen on Monday that Fortas
was flatly opposed to accepting the post. The
word after the nomination was announced
was that Fortas had succumbed to the Presi-
dent’s persuasion. Friends know that Fortas
has been driven throughout his career by an
ambition to sit on the Supreme Court and
they suspect that the talk of reluctance was
window dressing, perhaps to enhance the
President’s reputation as a persuader.

e@ The President and his aides are un-
happy at some of the recollections by Arthur
Schlesinger of the Kennedy days.
Schlesinger reflects a philoshophie con-
sistency in these revelations however, In
1963 when Emmet Hughes’ tattletale ac-
count of the Eisenhower days was publish-
ed, many including John Kennedy felt that
Hughes had breached the confidences of his
White House relationship. Schlesinger main-
tained stoutly however that the Hughes ac-
count, like Rex Tugwell’s controversial
book on the New Deal, was a valid and im-
portant contribution to history.

_ Make our Constitution a model for those who

By Henry J. Taylor

It’s not what Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara
said on his return from Viet Nam that worries so many of
our high-ranking officers. It’s what he doesn‘t say that pro-
foundly concerns them about the preparedness of the United
States.

In fact, some feel that either Mr. McNa-
mara should put on five stars and fight the
war in Viet Nam all by himself or not hold
them responsible.

Mr. McNamara’s famous cost-paring has
been achieved chiefly in two ways: by
stretching out procurement programs and by
stripping equipment and inventories from our
combat forces elsewhere to supply the needs
in Viet Nam.

By dominating the strategic concepts, in which he, the
Whiz Kids and their computers alike are all untrained, the

stretch-out system has shown up fine in the McNamara
figures. But what happens if Mr. McNamara, his Whiz Kids
and the computers are dead wrong in pelr timing?

not a defense that is stretched out.

I recently pointed to Mr. McNamara’s congressional
testimony (repeatedly postponed) regarding the Khrushchev
confrontation in which he all but said our great armed forces
couldn’t have invaded Cuba! He stated we were caught

“terribly short’’ of fighter planes, transport vessels and escort
war vessels ‘“‘which we’d have needed to invade Cuba.”

This should make us wonder where our billions went and
we have a right to know where our billions are going now.

Are we better prepared to “think big” than we are
prepared to go to actual war?

Mr. McNamara has stated, for example, that the United
States infantryman of the future will jump thirty feet in the
air, aided by a jet-propelled belt. What he will do when he
gets up there is not clear. :

Meanwhile, the very practical Russian 14:5-mm, is prob-
ably the best heavy machine gun in the world and our light
machine gun does not match their R.P.D. either.

The new RS-71 reconnaissance plane is specified to fly

2,500 mph, the F104, is greased lightning, and OV-10A lifts
like an arrow, etc. But despite all the long talk about
“building for anti-guerrilla warfare’ we have no low-altitude
jet suitable in Viet Nam—and that’s where we’re fighting.

About $2 billion is involved in the C-5A giant. It’ll carry

800 men to battle areas at near-sonic speed. But this is
expensive transportation.

Mr. McNamara insisted that the $7 billion TFX fighter-
bomber (now the F-111) was right for both the Air Force

and Navy. Now a version must be modified for the Navy,
after all.

The billions can also include immense sums that mean
dead money consumed in obsolescence. Last June Mr.
McNamara’s office junked 14 missile complexes with 133
Atlas and Titan launching sites in 12 states, declaring obso-
lete the missiles they were built to launch. The sites alone
cost $856.9 million.

Oh, yes, the billions can circulate and the billions can go.

- But the sheer size of the spending can even confuse us.

Notice the second anxiety angong our high officers: the

Editorials =
Nobody Wants ‘The Junk’

In Albany, Troy, and many other cities, it is a

fact of life that bad housing exists. It consists largely —

of buildings constructed many years ago, and it is
limited to what now have become the residence areas
of those who can afford only the minimum for this
necessity of life.

The growth of slum areas in most of the great

metropolitan centers has led to increasing federal
and other government attention. The aim is to wipe

out the slum, and create, in its place, low-cost hous-

ing partially subsidized by government payments—
a place to live for those who now have no place to
go but to the slums.

But this is proving to be a lengthy, painful,
burdensome process. There is a question in some
cities whether the creation of new and more modern
housing ever will catch up with the increasing popu-
lations and increasing acres which, each year, add
a little more to the slums.

As our Times-Union series on slum housing
points out today, it is into this breach—this gap
between what is available and what is needed—that
such real estate firms as Albert and Kirsch, the Capi-
tal District’s largest landlords, have stepped.

They have, as they told The Times-Union’s Bill
Kennedy, bought up the “junk” properties that no-
body else will touch. They’ve made of it a lucrative
business, which has made possible the purchase of
Paige property in the middle and upper class brack-

e a . 5 ell

It can be said that they’ve taken on the responsi-
bility of dealing with the most difficult properties,
the most difficult tenants. The problems of obtaining
insurance, they report, are severe and expensive.

Yet it also can be said that persons who enter
this kind of real estate business do so with the knowl-
edge that the problems are multiplied by.the kind
of housing involved. :

The question each community must answer is
whether a large scale operation based on the sale or
rental of slum property contributes to the growth of

slum areas, or their perpetuation, or if, in the-end ~

it meets a need which could not otherwise be better

filled. The answer lies in the vigor and sincerity with ~

which such landlords act to rebuild, repair, maintain
what they can, and demolish what is hopeless.

The barest minimum anyone can expect is that

such housing meet reasonable standards of health
and safety. . ;

For a Cause...

The history of America is rich with the names of
pioneer stalwarts who fought, and sometimes died,

for something they believed in. Generally, beginning | f
with all those who fought to escape British domina-

tion, their causes had to do with liberty—freedom.

In our modern age, in a nation of conformists

preoccupied with personal material gain, to struggle
in almost any “cause” is to make uncomfortable all
those people who know they should, but who prefer
to shrug off such things in the belief and hope that
they will not have to become “involved.”

Yet among our young people, and a few of their _
elders, remains the spark of courage and determina: ©
tion that history tells us brought about the American |
Revolution and the freedoms for Americans which _

live in a free society.

We can list among these fighters now an Albar
youth, Lance Nelson. At 17 he went South to he

out in the civil rights struggle. He has been arrested |

and jailed, according to news reports, for participa
ing in a demonstration seeking to have more Negroes
register to vote. | i

others: “He should have stayed home.”

His mother says that “This kid is doing some-

thing he believes is right.”

We say that he follows an example set by those ne

who founded our nation. We
such people.

Voting Rights

Our democracy has taken on a more glowing ~

look with the agreement by congressional conferees
on a major rights bill that assures southern Negroes
access to the polls. Early enactment seems certain.

oy

can be proud of all

of

Ge We

ary
Those who will not or cannot feel the winds of
change will say, as has been said of hundreds of |

7

a
a

The legislation, delayed by harassment by many Ve

southerners, rights a long-standing wrong. It does
away with the literacy test distortion by which some
states have frustrated Negroes who sought to vote.

Now, if there has been discrimination, federal regis- _
tration is provided.

_ Compromises, as in
legislation, were necessary. The proposed ban on the
poll tax, required in several states, was dropped. But
the issue is likely to come before the Supreme Court.
Voting by Puerto Ricans now living in New York
is facilitated by foregoing the requirement of an
English language literacy test. Many of these citizens
speak only Spanish. :

‘The voting rights - bill is another tremendous

many instances of major ;

q
a

triumph in the continuing march of civil rights to-

ward actual, as well as constitutionally assured, prac-
tice. The likely enfranchisement of large numbers

of Negroes may have important impact on southern. —..

elections. Fear of this has been, in the main, the
reason why many southern public officials have kept
the vote from the Negro.
Whatever the effect of the recruitment of great
numbers of Negroes to the voting army, the bill well

and justly serves one of the great rights of code of _
American ethics, equality in choice, as well as equal-

ity of opportunity.

»

cannibalizing of our combat forces elsewhere to supply the
needs in Viet Nam. rt

The facts are ably expressed (July 29) by distinguished ~

New York Times military authority Hanson Baldwin: “Most

military leaders believe the McNamara cost-paring and inven- : :

tory reduction methods over the last four years, and particu-
larly the failure to provide for the extraordinary needs of

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Viet Nam, have created serious shortages. The shortages _

are in personnel, modern arms and equipment, aircraft, -

spare parts, reserve stock and other items. . . . The services
are worried about the state of the Seventh Army in Germany,
the capabilities of the Atlantic fleet, the status of strategic

reserve units in this country and the ability of the armed

forces to meet other simultaneous emergencies.”

He further reveals that the Pentagon explained in its

own “background briefing,” after President Johnson’s talk
to the nation, that one reason the President didn’t call up
the reserves was their lack of equipment and training.

Mr. Baldwin is courageously helping to bring the facts
out in the open.


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Union Staff Writer Bill Kennedy spent
weeks gathering material for his. shocking
stories on
He visited the, unhappy
and unfortunate people who live in
squalor and misery in the South End

“The Slums of

Hill Areas, talked ‘with
the landlords who

it means. to the
makes absorbing and

reading,

CHAPTER V
. 1 Bill ‘Kennedy

Sta ef) Writer |

sch at which - was emcarned ‘with dee hoacation’ of his
Sidney Albert’s business — a business that has made them
the biggest landlords in the {ri-city area, owners of 761 build-|
ings containing 1,847 units and housing about 6,000 persons, or! gr

more, The city of Albany, with 800 public housing units, is, by
contrast, landlord to upwards ot only 3,000 persons,

Many of the 761 buildings are|

mn th¢ Slums and it was with
this property that the conversa-
tion fwas mainly concerned. Al-
bea and Kirsch have accumu-
late it since. they came here
25 /years ago, They are, as yes-

rday’s article pointed out, the
ices Single landlord in the
jity’s South End area, but this

they are the only owners
housing in that area, or even
that they control a majority of
it. Their holdings are only a
small percentage of all the South
End slum housing, and many
other Jandlords are involved.
The ee aunts of =i of these

‘ath ii UU

Mayor Corning has asked
20 million gallons daily from the present

of city water to
average of 25 million gallons.

isay ho means to suggest that.
s of old).

ilatures must have a member-

others vill be dtlined later. tn

this’ series.

Albert and Kirsch have spent

‘much money on their slum prop-|
erties thr ough the years, and

they can document their ex-
penses.
ha aod concede that until

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See ‘editekial, “For the
Record .. .” on ouhal 38

NHB fTPCPRUINTAANERA AAR

very racer years, heer exipen-
ditures were much less than
they are today and their pro-
fits much higher.

“Our policy has been,” Irving
See Kirsch Page 37

eh Tr sno TTL PETAR AUT

Albanians to cut consumption

The alternative is even more

stringent restrictions than have been ordered so far. Each
day The Times-Union will publish the figure on gallons used

during the preceding

24 hours ending at noon. This will be

both: a reminder and a progress neces Yesterday's figure

24,570,000 —

was:

Sam Shulsky . 10
Sylvia Porter 11
Heloise 18
Edgar S. Van Olinda 30.
Dear Abby 37

Rail Strike Looms
The Capitol Spires

They'll get new ss
Stock Market

aa journed to Sept. 8 |

 ssified 41-47
mics — 43-45
ssword . 44
torial © 38
ncial 10-11
s of Women 17-29

Averages up for 6th straight session
Briggs Pleads Innocent

Charles Bartlett 38
Ralph McGill 38
Dr. Coleman a4
Charles Goren 45

Non-operating D. & H. workers vote ve ‘yes’ 3

48

Obituaries 40
‘Sperts 12-15
Suburban 4
Television 30
Theaters . 6

jrain and hail that caused an

By MERRIMAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Presi-
dent Johnson asked Congress
Wednesday to vote him an ad-
iditional $1.7
ithe Viet Nam war on an inten-
sified scale over the next six
months. He will undoubtedly
ask for more money after that.

Johnson’s money request was
sent to the Senate shortly be-
fore he conferred at the White
House with two key envoys in-
volved in the Viet Nam crisis
—Gen. Maxwell] D. Taylor
W. Averell Harriman.

Taylor, who is retiring as am-
ibassador to South Viet Nam,

andia

had a long mid-day meeting
with Johnson.
Harriman, the | administra-

tion’s roving ambassador, ar-
ranged to see the President

billion for fightingjlater in the day on his just com-

pleted unofficial mission to Eu-
rope where he talked with So-
viet leaders and other govern-
ment officials on possible peace
steps.

No Immediate ‘Prospect
After talking with the Presi-
dent. Taylor told newsmen he
saw no immediate prospect of
‘clear cut military victory.”
. But he said he envisioned a
situation in which North Viet

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costly and pull out of the south,
leaving the Viet Cong unsup-
ported,

Taylor’s review impressed
Johnson sufficiently so much he
arranged for a White House
conference Thursday when Tay-
lor will report in. detail to
Johnson and his top aides.

Defense Secretary Robert S.
MeNamara spelled out details
of the President’s ‘‘interim”
money request at a closed ses-
sion of the Senate military ap-
propriations subcommittee.

He said the $1.7 billion would
be used to increase the strength

See JOHNSON, Page 2

|
|

WASHINGTON (AP) — The|
Senate refused Wednesday night
to tamper with the Supreme
Court’s decision that state legis-

ship based on gpa axaty in both
| houses.

By seven votes, a propassl by
Republican / Minority. Leader
Mth bee M. te ths sen cf Illinois. to

Nam might find the war too

Apportionment Bill Fails

to muster a needed swords |e two-thirds majority required

majority.
His proposal would have al-
lowed voters in individual states
to decide in a referendum
whether they wanted: one house
apportioned on the basis of geo-|i
graphy and other factors ather
than population alone.
The Dirksen plan got a

€ the. so Sia é fail ee

owa-lllino

[By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

}

| Devastation returned Wednes-
| day to the Iowa-Illinois area
that was hard hit by spring
floods, This time it was wind,

estimated $1 million crop dam-
age.

The storm lashed the area of
Davenport in Iowa, and Rock
Island, Moline and East Moline
across the Mississippi River in
Illinois. This was tthe same area
that was ravaged by Mississippi
River floods in spring.

Farm communities in Mercer
County, Ill., particularly were
hard hit and extensive crop loss
also was reported in Warren,
Rock Island, and Henderson
counties. The $i-million damage
estimated was based on reports
of farm advisers in the four
counties. Damage was mostly to
the corn’ and tomato crops: The
hail — in some areas — was as
large as hen’s eggs.'!An Andalu
sia, [ll., farmer said the pelting
hail cost him 1,000 bushels of
»)| Lomatoes

Creek Overflows

In Davenport, Iowa, Black
Hawk Creek overflowéd _ its
banks and flooded homes. in
western sections of the city. Da-
venport measured almost four
inches of rain which caused
flash flooding in a 15-square-

addition. Amphibious — vehicles
were sent to help evacuate sev-
veral famiiles. In. some places
the water rose to the tops of au-
tomobiles.
Muscatine, lowa,
two.inches of rain:
As a midsummer cool wave
moved eastward, record-break-
ing low temperatures were re-
ported Wednesday morning
from West Virginia into Penn-
sylvania and in some other ar-
}eas. There was frost in Mary
land. At Oakland, Md , the, mer
eury sank to 36 degrees.
It was sunny and pleasant in
New York City and vicinity, but
as the chance of rain remained
remote, the drought continued.
Elkins, in eastern West Vir-
ginia, recorded 37 degrees,

measured

eclipsing the record of 45 set for

block area of the Garden Grove}.

soaccs 57 p 39 gut t ie

oe, wediad

the date in 1912. Philadelphia
had 52. The previous low mark
in Philadelphia for Aug. 4 was
55 degrees in 1964.

Records of 48 were estab-
lished in Parkersburg, W Va
and Charleston; W. Va. _
Southern Wisconsin farmers
reported that the recent rains
had “‘lifesaver’’ effects on the
hay, oats and corn crops.

‘impassioned

ye the proposal was for!
submission of a constitutional
| a fe
amendment to the states.

re Illinois Republican prom-
d to keep fighting.
“Tam not going to let a court

somehow destroy.
heritance — th

nbboeal part a thie: gov-
ernment. he’ said, is the consti-

tutional provision guaranteeing!

to each state a ‘republican
form of government.”

_ Seng-Paul. Douglas. Dirksen’s
“‘Wereratic colleague from Illi-

nois, led opposition efforts to
block the proposal. ;

“The real issue at stake
here,’ Douglas said, “is wheth-

er the needs of the people are to
be met by their state govern-
ments or whether the special
interests .. . are to control’
When Dirksen had finished an
speech, Douglas
answered by saying, ‘We have
listened to one of my colleague’s
customary speeches, charming

See DIRKSEN, Page 2

Charged in Priest's Death ;

~Mrs. Dorothy Bressie, 55, accused of killing a
Roman Catholic priest, enters Superior Court in
Los Angeles yesterday for a preliminary hearing.
She was ordered to appear for arraignment Aug.
18. She wears a white surgical mask; her attor-
ney said she had been in the women’s jail in-
firmary for tests for tuberculosis. Mrs. Bressie
has been charged with murder in the fatal shoot-
ing of the Rev. John Thom in the Roman Catholic

Chancery July 23.

UPI Telephoto
}

Harriman steps from car

LBJ Asks $1.7 Billion
More for Viet Fighting

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(C) 1965 New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON A House
committee voted today to boost
federal salaries, including those
paid to members of Congress.

The proposed pay raise for
Congress — the second in two

® years — was tied to a general

salary increase for some 1.8
million federal employes. The
first year’s cost was estimated

fiat $770 million.

Federal employes would re-
ceive the increase in two ‘steps,
45 per cent this October and
a still undetermined amount a
year later.

The raises for members of
Congress would not become ef-
fective until Jan. 1, 1967.

Congress voted last year to

raise its pay by $7,500, effec-
tive this year. This boosted Con-
gressional pay to $30,000 a year,
in both House and Senate.

The pay bill. was approved,
20-1, by the House Post Office
and Civil Service Committee.
Rep. H. R. Gross, R-lowa, voted
against it.

Far Beyond

The bill goes far beyond rec-
ommendations made by Presi-
dent Johnson last May 12. He
had sought a flat 3 per cent
increase, costing $406 million,
for all government servants.
Excluded were members of
Congress and the judiciary and
top executives, such as cabinet
members.

in Washi ngton.

The 4:3 per cent general pay
increase this October would be

followed a year later by a sec-
ond raise geared to salary in- >
creases that have been granted

in private industry since 1964.

Second Raise

The amount of this’. second
raise would be determined on

the basis of a survey by the: |
Bureau of Labor Statistics. It
i
amount of increase could range
from 6 per cent at, lower levels
to 10 per ‘cent for those in top”

has been - estimated that

brackets.

The bill also provides $5,000
raises, effective this October,
for the Democratic and Repub-

‘lican leaders of the House.

Senate Sends
Voting Law
To President

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Senate Wednesday night passed
and sent to President Johnson
the historic bill to guarantee
the voting rights of the nation S
Negroes. |
The roll call vote was 79 to
18. . :

The measure supplementing
the sweeping Civil Rights Act of
1964 and broader than that re-

|quested by the President 4%

months ago, cleared Congress a
day earlier than scheduled.
Final congressional action
came a little more than 24
hours after the House, by a
vote of 328 to 74, had approved
the compromise designed to
protect Negro voting rights.
Suspends Literary Tests
The measure would:
—Suspend literacy and other
tests found to be discriminato-

See Voting, Page 2

yl

Doctors’

(C) 1965 New York Times News: Service

CHICAGO (AP) — The Asso-
ciation of American Physicians
and Surgeons urged its 16,500
members Wednesday not to ce-
operate in the federal govern-

ment’s program of medical care
for the aged.

The board of diréctors of the
association, headquartered here,
advised physicians to decline to
serve on committees establish-
ed to implement the medical
care program and to refuse to
sign papers or execute forms
necessary to implement it.

In a policy statement, the
board deplored the pledge of
cooperation with the program
made by leaders of the Ameri-
can Medical Association and
disputed the A.M.A. contention
that refusal to cooperate would
be a violation of the law,

Dr. James Z. Appel, president

> t §

é \

Medicare Splits

‘

Ranks —

of the A.M.A., had said such.

refusal was illegal, A.M.Az of-
ficials said they would consult
with government representa-

tives to work out ‘regulations

for Medicare. ve
Association Directors

However, directors of the As-

sociation of American Physi-

cians and Surgeons said refusal -

to cooperate is legal. Dr. E. E.
Anthony of. Fort Worth, Tex.,

president of the group, said the

medical care bill does not re-

quire participation by patient,

physician, or hospital, and pro-

vides for voluntary cooperation

by doctors.

He said the action taken by
the A.M.A.’s House of Delegates
in June left it up to the indivi-
dual doctor to decide whether
to cooperate with the sa

program.


~ week to-scout for. independent .
_contractors to repair the o!d
houses. Irving Kirsch: cal!'s this

» preventive maintenance. -

~~ Tn (1964 Albert and Kirse!

spent $112,000. te: repair their

old houses. ;

“We are now dedicating our-

ae think we’re doing a good job.”

“Kirsch - said,
couple of years, that when any-
_ thing was not functioning, to re-

+ sa Msi othe aon

~~ $112,000 but another $59,009 on
top of that.” |

mind, a flashing mind that an-

-a man of milder manner who

said repeatedly during the ‘long
~ conversation:

cerned with our reputation.’’

_ “We’re in a business that has
a seamy, distasteful side,’ Mr.

| Kirsch said. “But we are doing
0 @, Sood job...

- “you’ve got somebody who loves

This is a section of the

Continued from Page 1

‘until the last

pair it. If we were to'd the roof
was leaking we fixed it. Plumb-
ing broken? We repaired it. But
what we. did not do, we did

not go iniadvance:to lock.and

‘see if it needed repairs. If the
step was broken in the old days

. we wouldn’t know -about it.”

- -Fieldman Needed
To know those things, he said,
he would have to have a fie'd
man such as he has in Morris
Massry), an associate: who tours

- the property constantly: He

would also need a man such

as he now has in William Mos-
 kowitz, former Troy appliance

dealer who now gets $200 a

‘selves in the next year,” Mr.
Kirsch said, “to «spend not

Why? |

RE L's

The answer relates to Mr.

the non-existence of good land-
Jords in the minds of tenants,
I aying that, he cited the case
ef a woman. who owned much
rty in Albany and upon
th a few years ago wil-
‘she had in cash. to
churches in 1)

Mr. Kirsch,
with a quick

ticipates your questions before
you ask them, and Mr. Albert,

lets Mr. Kirsch do the talking,

“We are con-

“In us,” said Mr. . Albert,
what they’re doing, and we

“Maybe we don’t exactly love
what we're doing,” Mr. Kirsch
corrected, “but. we’re enthusi-
SSW EG Sica res

ee

Kirsch’s curious comment about,

|for the future which Mr. Kirsch
. Seon.

jand cleanliness. and. to_.report

Albert-shd ‘Kirsch office

in the Boardman Building, an office building at

in their large’ real

Ain associate of Sidney Albert and Irving Kirsch
estate operation

ec
er, Ord *
Ticien

itc

is Morris

Massry, a Troy man who has large real estate
holdings of his own in Albany and Troy. He met
‘the two men when he became their landiord. He
is owner. of the Boardman Building in which the

A & K offices are located.

siasm now manifests itself in
the increased expenses, in. the
addition of personnel to their
staff to do preventive mainten-
ance, and in the following plans

d pay $6,000 a year
Oa. ied Negro social work-|
er who will go into our houses|
and upgrade the housekeeping

to us what has to be done. Let
Trinity Institution or some oth-
er qualified agency choose him.
We expect to make money when
we're finished. It will keep the
places from. being. destroyed.”

“We are thinking of getting.
a truck where our man will go
on the truck and pick up trash
once a month. If we could get

trash removed. we would. clear
up one of. the worst situations
in the whole city.’

Getting small contractors to
work. regularly and conscien-
tiously is one of their major
problems, says Mr. Kirsch, and
adds: ‘We, will hire 30 to 40
Negro men if someone will di-
rect. them. to’ do ‘the cleanup
work — repair broken glass and

Times-Union Photos by Sheehan

Make us léss ashamed_of being
associated with these places.
But they’ve got to have a leader,
someone to direct them, And if
we get this many people we
might be able to use them year

ts

le have offered the people

pay forany flowers and flower
boxes for the houses but we’ve
thad no offers. Nobody’s ‘asked
for geraniums. This doesn’t
mean anything, I know, but we
are sympathetic with what. the
people want.”

Albert and Kirsch make the
claim that they have upgraded
the South End housing since
they took it over through the
past 25 years.

“When we came here what
we found was that some hous-
ing had hopper toilets in the
back yard, that a large per-
centage of housing of this type
had only toilets, no other plumb-
ing on the inside. The bulk of
these houses had no secondary
exists, even though they had
three families or more. Since
we came hopper toilets: have
disappeared. Many houses now
have baths. A large percentage
that had only.cold water now
have hot water heaters. We are

doors, clean cellars and yards,

replacing the old sidearm heat-
ers that have. to be lit, with

The Albert’ and Kirsch enthu-

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n Street, Troy. The office is a highly ef-
nd complex operation.

uf heaters. Where the
houses haven’t been improved
like this, you’ll find, they have
become unliveable and disap-
peared,’’ .
It is in this manner that Mr.
Kirsch speaks of that the slums
of Albany have been perpetuat-
-ed, The interiors of some of the
buildings are arranged like a
Rube Goldberg cartoon — bath-
tubs on the back porch; elec-
trical systems installed on the
outside of the walls, with wires
exposed; gas pipes running
through several rooms — al-
most a foot away from the
walls; all this not only in Al-
bert and Kirsch houses but in
hundreds of others in the South
End. : a
Similarly, many of the build-
ings were built before central
heating became a_ standard.
People progressed from coal and
wood stoves to kerosene burners
and now gas-burning space heat-
ers. Albert and Kirsch will not
allow kerosene stoves in their’
houses, thes
But even with this progress
many buildings are still ice
boxes in the winter John O’Con-
nor, a, plumber employed by
A & K, reported going into som
of these houses in winte
deal with freeze-ups:
my torch and tools on the
and they froze. stiff,’’ hi
What happens is tha
apartments are so cold thi

h

said,
the

to conserve heat. This i
way cf saving money. B
out heat the water free
the pipes. Mr. O’Conner ab
to leave their water r
constantly, but to some th
the Chinese water torture whic

ime

prevents them from sleeping.

_Wwhap! A freeze-up,

‘|ter to run silently into the drain

|stoops. When you see holes in
|the. wall basically it’s been hit

jcoming down, basically it’s be-

jter to overflow.”

jloguing his troubles, explains

So they turn off. the water and

Also, the poor, conscious of
‘pennies, are reluctant to let
their hot water run, and simul-
taneously run up the gas _ bill
to heat more water. Mr. O’Con-
ner istructs these people on
Ways to turn off the heater so
that the water can run without
burning gas,

Plumbing is one of the major
problems with the A & K overa-
tion, and is largely, they claim,
the fault of tenants. Mr. O’Con-
nor says he pulls such things as
™ her balls. toys bottles and
Sanitary napkins out of - toi-
iets. Also, pegple Gump mop
wa.er inio sinks and the mop
ends cling to whatever sludge
is In the pipes, creating stop-
pages. Mr. Kirsch reports that
out of approximately 50 repair
calls that’ Mr. O’Connor has
answered recently 20 were call-
backs to solve the same problem
again.

Mr. O’Connor, a piumber for
18 years, instructs the tenants
often in proper usage of the
plumbing, another form of pre-
ventive maintenance. Also. Mr.
Albert designed a special tube
for faucets that allows the wa-

and thus permit tenants to
evade the water torture and fall
dsleep. And in some cases A &K
workmen have cut holes in bath-
room doors or walls to assure
the circulation of heat to pre-
vent freeze-ups.

“There has been a preat
change in the occupancy of
these places,” Irving Kirsch
said. ““‘We have never had fam-
lies with 10 or 12 children be-
fore. And this means more wear
and tear on the place, every-
thing gets more use. And some
of the tenants have come from
other facilities which are jin-
ferior. Although these facilities
are terrible here, they are su-
perior to where they came from.
As the houses grow older and
the type of people change, there
is more trouble. I have found
bathtubs with coal in them.
“Basically these people are
doing the best they can, but
due to the situation there is
more destruction. We have an
unusual amount of glass destruc-
tion; an-unusual destruction of

than anyone else. We have the
experience. We improve the
properties so they will be more
productive. We’re large enough
So we can operate the property
in a reasonably prudent and pus-
inesslike manner. I’ve gone on
record that if anybody- ignores
a request for repairs I will fire
him,

“I’m in what you might say
is a lousy business. I have never
said you couldn't” go through
our places and tear us apart.
But you can’t say we aren’t
doing anything. I’ don’t. know
anybody who can do a better
job then us, and if you do, let
us know and we’ll lift ourselves
up to their level. I only want
to be jegiiimate. I don’t want
to be Santa Claus.”

It was noted in a previous
article that Mr. Albert and Mr.
Kirsch say they have substan-
tially reduced their net profit
frem their slum holdings, that
it now stands at 5.1 per. cent
of their investment, which is
not a bad return, but is much
less than what they made
through the years when preven-
tive maintenance was not a part
of their operation, when they
did the field work in the slums
themselves, when they did not.
own such first-class Albany
property as Loudon Arms.
Their worry is now over their
reputation, and although _ it
seems to be a late-blooming
concern, it is unquestionably vi-
tal to both men at this point in’
their lives,

Irving Kirsch was. candid on
this point:

“I’ve gotten older,’ he said,
“and as I got older there has
been less drive to look to make
every buck, There is a sense of
security now.”

“All that we’re doing now,
Sidney Albert said, “we used
to do all by ourselves, without
a big staff. And we made twice
as much money.”

“At 55,” said Mr, Kirsch,
‘T’'m more interested in getting
a boot out of being able to do
something. When I see people
in trouble now I immediately
react not with .economics but
as a human being. And if you
happen to have the money, you
spend it.”

ss

#7

. Albany, Thurs., Aug. 5, 1965 merge s

DEAR ABBY |

By Abigail Van Buren it

fam in my mid-forties, divorced and have grown children. ~~
In the past year I have become very fond of a divorced lady.
She’s my age, extremely attractive and most desirable. I, want
to marry her, but this woman tells her mother everything, and
is completely dependent on her for advice in all matters. Even
in our romance, her mother.is chief onsultant, advisorc and has
the final word. She says she has to do what her mother tells
her beause her mother gives her money to live on. Now this
girl is a college graduate, ha staught school and worked in a
law office. Friends tell me that her mother destroyed her first —
marriage, but not without the daughter’s cooperation. She says
that after we are married she will keep her mother out of her
affairs. But is this possible since she makes her mother a ae
partner in our present romance? ‘What do you think? = = 2.

UNCERTAIN

DEAR UNCERTAIN: A woman in her mid-forties who =
“tells her mother everything’ and permits her to call the | ~
signals in her romances is just a little girl who has cele- an,
brated a lot of birthdays. Unless she first proves to you -
that she can keep her mother out of her affairs, and pro-—
ceeds to do so, don’t marry her. A Eg i ae

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I travel 1,200 miles every
summer to visit our married son. We stay two weeks. They do
not have a guest room, but their children have always “‘doubled —
up” and we had no idea that w ewere putting anyone out. We
have just had a letter from our son telling us that they cannot
accommodate ‘‘house guests” in their home any’ more. ea He
we plan to visit them again this year, they will gladly put us —
up in a nearby motel or hotel. Would you call your own mother —
and father house guests?’ . Thank you. WITHOUT A NAME —
DEAR WITHOUT: I think your son and daughter-inlaw
have made a reasonable suggestion and one which you should =
consider. I see nothing unappreciative or malicious in their
attitude. : he og ee
Problems? Write to Abby, Bob 69700, Los Angeles, Calif. —
For a personal reply, enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope. —

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The: Helicopter and Mobile War {TIN MI]

WASHINGTON—The helicopter, put down
_ by some experts 35 years ago as an im-
_ probable vehicle with no future has evolved
_ Into the essence of today’s
hopes that the ordeal of bat-
tle on the Asian mainland.
- ean be modified to the ad-
- vantage of the white man.
The contrivance that was

__ Leonardo da Vinci’s dream is
_- the only major innovation in
conventional warfare since
the disheartening campaign
in Korea and the French collapse at Dien-

ig bienphu. Helicopters flew in those wars but
~ not with the numbers and assurance neces- .

‘sary to counter the agility of the native
‘Communist troops.

A capacity to sweep like an ail upon its
prey is claimed for the first helicopter-borne
division, now enroute to South Viet Nam.
This boast is substantiated only by drills in
the North Carolina pines but the utility of
helicopters with smaller units in Viet Nam

~ has induced the Pentagon to make a heavy
-. bet upon their future,

+ “Battles are won by slaughter and maneu-
- yers,” Winston Churchill once’ said. “The
greater the general, the more he contributes

in maneuvers, the less he demands i in slaugh-

Cy MeR

: The commanding general of the new air-
mobile division, H. W. Kinnard, asserts that
helicopters make a bolder tactician of a com-
bat commander. ‘He soon learns to forget
road nets and terrain and fights the enemy
rather than the ground. He learns that a

- fleeting glimpse of the enemy is an oppor-
tunity to hit him hard.”

The ‘‘tyranny of terrain’ was the scourge
of Douglas McArthur in the critical phases
of the Korean War. Eleven days, a period
which helicopters could have telescoped
into hours, were required for the union of
_. the troops that. landed at Inchon with the
division which broke free of the Pusan peri-
- meter. The misadventures of tanks in the
mountains and rice paddies were a constant
_ deterrent and the great maneuvers were ac-
ee complished by sea.

Bernard Fall describes in his book on the
French defeat in ene: how eleven hat-

talions were once required to keep a thirty-
mile road linking a single deployed battalion
with its supply base. These eleven battalions

would have been no more necessary than .

the isolation of the the garrison at Dien-
bienphu if the French commanders had been
able to rely upon helicopters for mobility.

The French, burdened by the ineptitude of
their generals and the mercenary cynicism
of their troops, may not in any case have
been a match for the dedication of the Viet
Minh. But the huge advantages that the
natives secured from their facility at push-
ing elephant loads on bicycles through the
bush could certainly have been narrowed
by helicopter airlift. ;

The Johnson Administration, wary of
charges that it is applying gimmickry in
Viet Nam, has not made much of Secretary

-McNamara’s assertion that. the airmobile di-

vision is an “entirely new approach to the

conduct of ground warfare.” However the.

President counts heavily upon an expectation
that increased mobility will decrease the
ultimate number of troops needed to contain
the Viet Cong. If mobility does not do the
job, Mr. Johnson will face still new de-
mands for additional forces.

The promise of this mobility is evident in
tiie choppers’ potential to deliver brigade-
sized assaults as far as eighty miles in less
than 45 minutes. Chopper-conveyed troops are
flexible because they can be quickly moved.
Each chopper ferries eleven riflemen, loads
and unloads in less than a minute, and flies
110 m.p.h. at tree-top altitudes.

Statistics on the use of these vehicles in
Viet Nam has bred confidence in their invul-
merability. The evidence of 700,000 sorties is
that a helicopter will be hit only once in 400
sorties, knocked down only once in 7,500
sorties, and totally destroyed only once in
15,000 sorties. Their accident rate from
mechanical failure has. been surprisingly
close to the performance by fixed wing air-
craft.

Time ‘and experience have eroded hopes
that the United States will find any -easy
answers to its entanglement in South Viet
Nam. But the helicopter seems to hold at
least a possibility of becoming the white
man’s equalizer in jungle warfare.

Ralph McGill

2 ci That Ugly Word

What word in our time has the most ugly
and | ominous portent? Bente

Almost, certainly it is the word ee:

seniors

t the wovidts :

ve what amounts to an. obsession over any
G man share” in nuclear ‘Weapons.

AS ‘move by the atomic ‘powers to halt
proliferation is already at the critical point.
‘Delay of another year may find a possibility
of control, already dimmed, an impossibility.

China has exploded two nuclear ‘“de-
i vices.” They were made possible by initial
- Soviet assistance. Though later withdrawn,
the initial start was such that China’s several
‘competent nuclear physicists were able to
continue with but slight delay. France is not
et a “power” but is well along toward the
development of a nuclear weapons system.
_ France’s delivery capability is not yet de-
veloped,
Sh China has even less delivery capability.
It is this fact, plus the primary stage status

‘ “a 7 of her bomb production, that makes it likely

~ she will be unwilling to invite any risk that
jould necessitate, or even invite, use of

nuclear weapons against her or her nuclear

roduction sites. It is this realistic view that
may well prevent China from doing what she
would like to do—send troops into Viet Nam
and reactivate aggression in Korea.

nas, China’ 's short term objective, it is be-
lieved, was to develop nuclear power that
presently ‘would permit her to hold her
celal ‘aubpiagee India, as hostages ¥

ee : a Nasser, before ae ambitious plans to be

the mastermind and influence of Arab unity

‘ran afoul of nationalistic objections to his

influence, was busy seeking to obtain nuclear
warheads for his missiles. His plans, of
course, was to dominate Israel with fear

and, in time, move against her.

Gandhi iradition and the passivity of Hindu
> seulture, with its Buddhist influence, there is

immense political opposition to India’s adopt-
ing such a deterrent force. But this opposi-
tion grows less as the Chinese move ahead
in nuclear capacity. Israel, too, simply can-
not remain out of “‘the club” if the Arab
world continues its senseless obsession that
it must destroy Israel.

Israel, like India, is adequately staffed
with first rate physicists and scientific minds.
It would be no real problem for either to
move rather quickly on production of their
first nuclear weapons.

This is by no means the complete story
of awesome, fearful proliferation. —

By 1970 there will be in the world perhaps
700 “reactors for peaceful uses.’’ Most of
this ‘‘use” is for production of electrical
power. The magazine, ‘Industrial Research,”
in discussing the development of ‘breeder
reactors” that produce more fuel than they
consume, notes that the United States has an
“ambitious program’ for the development
of such reactors. The Enrico Fermi plant, lo-
cated near Detroit, now is undergoing low
power tests. England, France, and the So-
viet Union have dynamic programs. Italy,
Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and a dozen
other nations have begun preparing such
programs. :

Within five years there will be a great
supply of material such as is used in weap-
ons. The design of weapons is well known
and in circulation. ~~

Proliferation’ is at the door of the world.

v3 GENE ROBB, Publisher
‘DANIEL E. BUTTON, Executive Editor

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\\ SICILY AND USA. 77

To the Editor: 1 would like ian oppor-
tunity to reply to your, editorial entitled

“The Minority Role’? in the eae 30 issue
of The Times-Union. :

You state that the eaerwiive Party
has ‘“‘no legitimate reason for being.’’ As
has often been stated, the Conservative
Party came into existence because the Lib-
eral Party over the. years has exerted pres-
sure on both the major parties. This has
continued to such an extent that conserva-
tive Republicans in many cases have had
no choice at the polls. At the beginning of
the Legislature this. year the Democratic
Senate majority leader, Joseph Zaretzki,
asserted that Governor Rockefeller had ap-
propriated the Democratic platform.

You also say that the ‘‘Conservatives”’
were responsible for the ruin of Republicans
at the polls in the last national election. It
was a legally constituted “Republican con-
vention’ which nominated Senator Golld-
water — not a Conservative convention —
which would seem to indicate that the Sen-
ator’s views have rather wide-spread appeal
among Republicans in this nation. The Re-
publicans in this state who did not see fit to
enthusiastically support this legally desig-
nated candidate contributed to the “ruin of
Republicans at the polls. .

Your reasoning would seem to indicate
that both parties should run on a pion

-Conservatives-A R Reason for Being

ordinance, at least fech inically.

“what the majority of Americans seem

os want.’ As was said long ago, the Ameri-

can experiment in a republican form of
government will last until the people find
that they can vote themselves langess from
the public treasury.

The Conservative Party vote has been.

growing steadily, showing that an increas-
ing number of voters are dissatisfied with
the trend of the state Republican Party.
Such success came as a result of courage
and hard work by dedicated people who were
determined to give constitutionailly-minded
Republicans and Democrats. a_ political
vehicle to express their convictions. Fear
of defeat by a selfish, discredited leadership
seems to. be the only reason for condemna-
tion of the Conservative Party.

EDWIN P. WATERMAN
Conservative Party Candidate
for Assembly, 414th Assembly
District.

(Editor’s Note: Just to eae the
record straight, The Times-Union did
not say “that the Conservative Party
has ‘no legitimate reason for being.”
We said, speaking of minority parties,
“What should their role be? Too
often, we suspect, such parties fall
into the unhappy situation of possess-

ing no legitimate reason for being.” )

3 a = : _ Wicker: What Is a ‘Lawful’ Demonstration?

PNR AAMC TE a tami

; houses aa
Some famili they say, would creat :
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The Lively

Even if no law is broken, ©

ee By Tom Wicker
; ISEEOION. — Sooner or later, the federal courts will

* that District Judge Frank M. Johnson of Alabama touched
os Rees left unsettled this week.

That is the question of. what civil rights demonstrators

Seer "may or may not do in staging public protests. At what po'nt
_ does protest cease to be legitimate and become a public
nuisance that can and should be suppressed by. state and
2 saree te power?
eS Judge Johnson, who refused to take jurisdiction of the
Roe cases of 167 demonstrators arrested in Montgomery
ie violating local ordinances and state laws, said demon-
-strators had no right to decide for themselves whether to
obey the law. But he added that “‘peaceful, orderly, and law-

protesting
prosecution of the demonstrators. .
But the geustion he did not answer is precisely what

constitutes -a ‘peaceful, orderly, and lawful’? demonstration.

discrimination” could not justify the arrest

purpose of “dramatizing grievances or protesting discrimina-
on” or are wantonly disturbing the peace? —

courts: have not yet provided the answers. Federal
s; in New York and the Supreme Court itself refused to
ak jurisdiction, for instance, in the case of the Rev. Milton
alamison, who was convicted of violating local ordinances
during ‘sit-ins. at the World’s Fair and the New York Board
of Education. =

have to come to grips with the delicate and complex issue —

ful demonstrations for purposes of dramatizing grievances —

who decides whether demonstrators have the legitimate

Ses the other hand, the e Supreme Court did srtike down

Arthur Krock is on vacation until September 12.
A substitute column by Tom Wicker, chief of the
New York Times Washington igilee will be eee
in his absence.

ER ) aa A muisasteinaniininaidicion

Louisiana’s conviction of the Rev. Elton Cox on a charge
of leading a demonstration that broke the law by approach-
ing too near a courthouse when the court was in session.
It did so by 5-4, and even that narrow. decision was based
on the facts of the particular case and did not settle the
wider legal issues.

In a notable dissent to the Cox decision, Justice ‘Hugo
Black wrote: Eames

“Those who encourage minority groups S believe that
the United States Constitution and federal laws give them
a right to patrol and picket in the streets whenever they
choose, in order to advance what they think .to be a, just

and noble end, do no service to those minority groups; xa

cause, or their. country.”

Judge Johnson was more explicit. “The philosophy "* ‘s e
said, “that a person may — if his cause is labeled ‘civil —

rights’ or ‘states’ right’ — determine for himself what laws

and court decisions are morally right or wrong and either

obey or refuse to obey them according to his own determina-

tion, is a philosophy that is foreign to our ‘Tule-oflaw’ Mieory

of government.”
But the trouble is that it is scarcely possible to pate
a sizeable civil rights demonstration without Msinates some

local officials so inclined can almost always either push
demonstraters into an illegal position or trump up charges
against them.

Still another legal question arises from the purposes of —

a demonstration. Negroes protesting in a southern city be-
cause they had plainly been denied the right to vote might
be one thing; demonstrators hurling garbage in the streets
and chaining themselves to some judge’s desk in general
protest against the conditions of life in America probably are
something elise again.

The interesting question of civil disobedience as a philos-

ophy also is raised. it may be a perfectly justifiable belief
that one who is in profound moral and personal disagreement
with a law should meet the requirements of his conscience by
ignoring or even deliberately breaking the law.

But what of the man who professes a conscientious belief
in civil disobedience; and then asks a court to absolve him
of the legal consequences of having acted upon that belief?
Doesn’t a belief in civil disobedience require, at its very root,
a willingness to suffer the penalties that may follow the act
of conscience? What mora] o egal value could civil dis-
obedience have, if it sinc risk to the man who prac-
tices it?

The Supreme on can hardly settle such iuestione as

that but it can provide reasonable guide lines for demonstra-

tors and for state and local law enforcers. As Negroés extend
their protests to such matters as housing, de facto segrega-
tion and job opportunities, the gray area will become even

murkier. without. guidance. from the courts.
(C) 1965 New York Times News Service

primary fight for an pacer nomisabon ae '

ground along sa badly ‘Seadad ooh worl :
mained stalled, a Times-Union editorial called.

Education Commissioner James E. Allen—or some

other state official, “clearly removed from involve-
ment and sympathies with either side, ”__to ask both

‘builders and union men to sit down with them to try

to “at least agree on a formula for mediation or ar-
bitration . - .” to be conducted elsewhere.

; Now we read that the eight-week work stopp ue
has ta enineied the possibility of completing Stat

University dormitories. College officials are confer-
ring on possible emergency housing» measures.
Rooms must be found, somewhere, ‘for a thousand bp
students.

How, much more, one mi

ht ask, nee toca: in

stitutions, businesses, governments, ‘and industries be

asked to put up with? The emergencies are Declan
to pile up. ‘This costly ae i sce end. Soe,

The Mafia Sas

With the arrest “by. Siglien police a hen! Mafia
mobsters evidence has been seized definitely linking

that sinister organization with the similarly vicious

band in the United States known as Cosa Nostra.
Their partnership, particularly vicious and effective

“in smuggling dope into the United States, is so

strongly interwoven that the two are virt
powerful international crime gang. Mh

If the evidence taken in the Sicilian raids resi
in Cosa Nostra arrests, the American people will
all the more appreciative of the brilliant achieve
of the Italian police in the face of a difficult e
ment in which terror often has silenced the t
of possible informants.

It cannot be assumed that the Mafia he
destroyed or more than temporarily harassed. '
diabolic octopus has shown a capacity for sur
But if its structure now has been badly shaken, t
is hope that the damage sian e | may "y fatal.

For the Record...

The response by letter, teleptined and ie nal
contact to Bill Kennedy’s series on slum housing i
Albany has been quite heavy. Its nature, howe

least at this early stage, indicates the possibility
misunderstanding by some of our readers as
purpose of this series. hte

It is being produced as a factual review ¢
slum housing conditions in Albany. Mr. Kenn zs
reporting what he has seen, what he has le
from records, and what he is being told by. tena

nealy: ane

‘landlords, and any other aed at involved, in

situation.

The series is not intended to reflect sym
for anyone—beginning with the tenants who

such housing—as some of our letter writers, in p.

ticular, seem to believe. Mead pees up te!

They are, however, merely one
larger picture, and in saying this we
to reflect sympathy for those who choo
conditions of filth. Nor, as he reports this unhapp}
fact, is there any indication that they pare en
nedy’ s sympathy, either. 4 Uh

Both tenant and landlord ‘must care enc
about the housing involved to maintain it in rea
able condition. And just about as important is
attitude of the city and state in which slums exist
How diligent are the officials supposed to enfore
health and safety and other ee laws? How
do they care? a

And how about the comtoweni’ situat
zenry at large? Does civic pride extend to c ;
for how the city looks, how its housing is maintain
ed? Responsibility lies heavily in this area, as well,

112th!

Residents of Y newly created 112th Elec on
District, consisting of the towns of Bethlehem and
Guilderland, and a portion of Albany’s uptown
wards, find themselves. facing an unusual (for Al-
bany) and interesting situation in L Pega to the Nov-
ember election.

Neither party yet has officially chosen. its nomi
nee for Assemblyman. What is more, the designee of
the Democratic organization, Assemblyman Harve:
Lifset, is a non-resident, brought in to run in this
district because the man who ordinarily would run
faced the danger of bringing rare defeat to th

_ Democrats in a strongly-Republican area. Incumben

assemblymen were granted this privilege under the
redistricting program which established the new,
112th for one year.

Mr. Lifset’s nomination faces a primary. chal
lenge by George Harder, and in a highly unusua
statement for an Albany Democrat, Mr. Lifset has an Ve
nounced he will “wage a vigorous campaign,” and
seek reelection on the basis of his record. He sets a_
good example for Albany Democratic organization
men—whose approach to election campaigns tradi-

tionally has been that “We’re in anyway, pas wh

bother to say or do anything to get votes.”

_ Mr. Lifset’s welcome declaration was ened
by an immediate challenge from the Harder’ cam]
to public debate on the issues. It remains to be seen
whether the Assemblyman’s announcement of a “vi-
gorous campaign’ was in reference to whatever
publican opponent may face him. Wes

For in the GOP ranks, too, a five. gee “unusu
struggle is being waged for the nomination. Edwar¢
Rook and Robert Rice had been law partners. Nc
they are two of the three Republicans battling eac!
other for the Assembly nomination in the 112th, and
their law firm has been dissolved. Mr. Rice is
GOP organization’s choice for the job. The third
publican primary candidate is Thomas E. Mulliga’
Jr., who has been. engaged in a bitter struggle
the party leadership. It is the first local Republic

years.

It’s all for the aed. Voters of ‘ie ‘12th are be
ing given the opportunity to name their own choic
for public office. The cian Ganael borates oe L
be used more often. 3

THE WEATHER

Sunny and Warm

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TIOTH YEAR—VOL. 108

ALBANY, N. Y., FRIDAY,

a The ‘aise Sa Option’ As |
| Nothing Down...
And Little Else

Times-Union Staff Writer Bill Kennedy spent
Several weeks gathering material for his shocking
series of stories on “The Slums of
Albany.” He visited the unhappy
and unfortunate people who live in
squalor and misery in the South End
and Arbor Hill Areas, talked with
them and with the landlords who
collect rent from them. His graphic
description of what he saw and
Jearned, and what it means to the
is ‘community makes absorbing and
sr signi! ‘cant reading. »

__|northeast of Saigon.

; the reply 1 the cannot buy. one anywhere else.
‘ In t e first place, the slum resident with a yen to be a home-
owner usually has the yen along with very little money, rarely
enough for a normal down payment.
Secondly, if he chooses to live in one of the old sections,
such as the South End, the chances are slim that he will be
able to get a mortgage. The city’s banks are reluctant to
grant mortgages on slum property. Both because of the great
‘detail invol,ed compared to the risk,.and because of the
possibility of being cast in the Simon Legree role of foreclosing
on a poor man.
: Thirdly, a large proportion of slum dwellers in Albany
today are ‘Negroes and unless a Negro is well-connected in the
community, he will encounter difficulty buying, or renting, a
home in many of the predominantly white sections. There are
: exceptions to this, but they are few in the over-all picture of
ape the city.
Ne areas oe (iN | aaa ULNA i i
ay . The next Sacalinent in Bill Kennedy’s series ie appear
Se. Sunday. However, tomorrow’s Times-Union will contain
letters from our readers on this subject on the Editorial page,
and an article on the Church Page giving the views of the
Council of Churches.
See ‘‘complaint Night” story on Page 3, and Editorial,
aoe Housing Code’’ on Pane vat
iA NLA Hea TRU
ee within these teats, if a man ‘still chooses to on a
house (and many do) he is limited in his choice of property.
Choosing a house, he can make a cash purchase, if he has

a

Wh

Unt juts
MLA AT ANd

private individual, but that won’t be easy. Chances are he
will notice a sign on a house that advertises the building for
‘ “— or rent—NO DOWN PAYMENT. The telephone number
See A. & K., Page. 21

: 16: Warren Rogers
18 James Reston
19 Henry J. Taylor

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: Business Buyers Cautioned
Must notify state before purchase
Wall Street

~ Gold shares bolster Sao: rally

Obituaries

~ Comics 27-29 Ra ‘io-TV
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‘Editorial ee
Financial _ gy Suburban
‘News of Women 44-15 Theaters
; ay HAA i HAT

_ Mayor Corning has asked Albanians io oii ‘Savant
city water to 20 million gallons daily from the present
ge of 2 nilliqn gallons. The alternative is even more

‘ay The Times-Union will publish the figure on gallons used
uring the preceding 24 hours ending at noon. This will be”
both a reminder and a progress TE Scope ay S figure

Sy ane

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itracks was crushed to death in

"| Robert J. Brown,

xe jknife against her throat and
Pee the cash “and that’s that, He might get a mortgage from .a-

-|surrounded. But he. slasked his

‘ito the tracks and cireled around

By RONALD I. DEUTSCH
SAIGON, South Viet Nam
(AP) U.S. and South Viet-
namese planes maintained raids
on Communist targets as usual
Thursday, writing off lesses in a
Viet Cong attack on a big avia-
tion fuel dump near the Da
Nang airbase.
An American military spokes-
man said the. hit-andsrun guer-
rilla operation against harbor-
side tank facilities operated by
Esso Stndard East will have no
serious effect on the air strikes.
On the heels of the Da Nang]:
incident,
nounced the formation of a new
military command structure to
control all US. Army

over a 40-mile-long strip of}
South Viet Nam from the cen-|=
tral highways to the Mekong.|
Though there is no provision|
for joint command, the territory |=
covers the Vietnamese army's!
2nd and 3rd Corps area.

The new structure is called! :
Headquar-
ters. will be on the South China
Sea* at» Nha Trang; 200. miles

"Purse Snatcher

Crushed After
Stabbing 3

NEW YORK (UPI) —A purse-
snatcher who ‘stabbed three
persons on a subway platform
and tried to flee down darkened

a tunnel Thursday as he clung
to the out-side of the train.
The fugitive was identified as
25, of the
Bronx. .

Police said Brown moved
quickly to the side of a young
mother, Mary Murphy, 26, as
she stood with her small daugh-
ter on a subway platform in the
Bronx at about 2 p.m. He put
his arm around her, pressed a
voice:

warned her in a low

“Keep quiet.”

Rescuers Rush In

When he reached for ‘her
purse, Mrs. Murphy screamed
and several persons rushed to
her. aid.

For an instant Brown. was
way free with his knife, leaving
Donald O'Neill, 35, critically in-
jured with chest wounds, Sop-
hie Raschind, 75, seriously in-
jured with stab wounds in the
back, and Frank Davy, 21, stab-
bed in the chest.

As others in the crowd
screamed, Brown jumped down

a south-bound train just as it
was about to leave. The train
was halted and a search was
made, but 3rown was not found.
Screams Unheard
Then the train iook off
through the Harlem River tubes
and a passenger noticed a man-
gled body protruding from the
slightly recessed area between
the ninth and tenth cars.

Authorities said Brown  at-
tempted to make his escape by
hanging onto the outside of the
cars and was crushed between
the train and the walls of the
tunnel only inches away. The
roar of the train muffled his
— screams, 3 2

=

Oakfield. Youth Killed
OAKFIELD (UPI) —James

| Ross,

16, of Oakfield, died
| Thursday when his car. over
‘turned near this Genesee County.

the United States an-|='™

and|=
Marine ground combat Musee! |

Maj. Gen, Stanley L. Larsen,
formerly deputy chief of staff
for bneruticne at headquarters
of the U.S. Army in Europe, will
head the command, The aim. is
to expedite and coordinate the
operations of U.S. troops in sup-
port of South Viet Nam’s war
effort.

In the Viet Cong raid, two of
Esso’s nine. tanks. were  de-
stroyed, Two were damaged
and fuel estimated to total a
million gallons was lost. In ad-
dition, a railway engine explod-
ed a Viet Wee mine Thursday

iT we

Taylor Gives

AT
WUT

Viet Report
To Council

(GC) 1965 New York Times.
WASHINGTON
Johnson and. the. Natio
Bit tk oe peas ae report
sdiag {1 Q) Y :

Fon ihe mil
Isithation in, Viet’ Nam! os.

A White’ House . spo kesman|
said that the contents of Tay-
lor’s report were the same as
what he had given to Johnson
Wednesday.

Taylor said that a had told
\|the President that the situation
had improved in some respects
_jand deterioration in others, but
that the decision to send more
U.S. troops had raised morale
in Saigon.

Decline Mediator’s Role
Ambassador W. Averell Har-
riman who, like Taylor had.also
seen Johnson Wednesday, was
another participant in Thurs-
day’s Security Council meeting.
Harriman recently talked with
Soviet leaders in Moscow. and
found them, he reported, at
present unwilling to act as med-
iators in Viet Nam.

A- new and at the moment,

puzzling note in the current ef-
forts to set up negotiations over
VietNam came with a Ghanaian
government radio announce-
ment that Foreign Minister Alex
Quaison-Sackey was flying to).
Washington to see Johnson.
, Secretary of State Dean Rusk
made this point Thursday” in
addressmg a group of high
school students. ~

“We would be glad to go to
the conference table,’ Rusk
said, “‘but- thus far Hanoi and
Peking say no,’ he stressed
that the United States intended
to keep the door open for peace

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and was derailed on tracks link-
ing the oil storage area 2 with the
base,

But large fue] dumps are lo-
cated on the base itself and the
spokesman said it was believed
they contain enough to fulfill
immediate needs.

Tankers ferry millions of gal-
lons to Da Nang and other bases
to keep the jets, propeller
planes and helicopters flying.
The demand is high. Standard
tanks of a single U.S. ‘Air Force
F105 Thunderchief take about 1,-
200 gallons.

Fleet Has Own

The U.S. 7th Fleet has its own
refueling facilities and Navy
planes made the day’s biggest
strike north of the border. This

=|was an attack by 16 Skyhawks
=/and 10 Phantoms from the car-

rier Midway on the Vinh army
=|barracks, 160 miles south,of Ha-

=|nol;

12-plane
Air: Force

“Following
strikes by

up two
the U.S,

‘|that were reported to have de-
vice |Stroyed 19 bu Neings, the’ Navy

fliers dumped 22 tons of bombs
on the barracks. They © said
rom the resultant fires

‘Accurate:
White House

~-WASHINGTON (AP) The
White House insisted Thursday
that President Johnson’s charge
that a top Republican in Con-
gress violated his confidence
was accurate. ;

And press secretary Bill D.
Moyers said Johnson has no
plans to see House GOP Leader
Gerald Ford of Michigan,
President’s packer vines who
asked Johnson by letter for a

personal meeting to ‘“‘détermine}

on what basis you were erro-
neously informed as to my
views.’

Moyers, asked to comment on
Ford’s letter, said he had noth-
ing to add or subtract ‘‘from the
accurate response the President
gave” to a question put to him
during a news conference Sun-
day at his Texas ranch.

Knows of No Plans

On that occasion, Johnson

said a top congressional Repub-

lican — not named — who had
participated in a Viet Nam poli-
cy conference gave out informa-

the:

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LYNDA, LADY BIRD SEE FIDDLER

Mrs. Lyndon B. lobe and her daughter,
Imperial Theater to attend performance of the musical ‘
They are in New York to. buy some clothes and attend plays.

Lynda,

atrive at New York’ SA
‘Fiddler on the Roof’

Senators Expand

House Measure

Military Pay Bill if A /

WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Senate Armed Services. Com-
mittee approved Thursday a $1-
billion pay increase for the mili-
tary. services. But it made sub-
stantial changes in the pattern

WASHINGTON (AP)

leveled at Abe Fortas today at a
Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing on his nomination to be

an associate justice of the Su-

preme Court.

But Fortas, long-time lawyer
friend of ‘President Johnson,
was strongly endorsed by Sens.

his home state of Tennessee and
by Sen. Thomas J: Dodd, . D-
Conn., a former Yale Law
School classmate.

man James O. Eastland, D-
Miss., Fortas testified that to
the best of his knowledge and
|belief he never attended a meet-
ing or had any connection what-
ever with the ‘Tnternational Juri-
dical Association.

Chase... Md., editor of

3 community .

len ge: tO Socialism, Se eer!
ie ac she publishes, had de-

Charges of Communist ties were |

Albert Gore and Ross Bass from *

Sworn as a witness by Chair--

 tinternational
‘Marj jorie Shearon of Chevy lawyers. set up by Moscow. to/ withheld

Abe Fortas
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ered the association gas: **
organization

Fortas Attacked and Defended
In Senate Judiciary Hearings |

mittee during his days as a gov-

' ernment lawyer.

She said this and other testi-
mony she gave must indicate to
the committee that ‘“‘Fortas has
been Significantly connected
with Communists and Commu-
nist fronts over a ame nig
period of time.”

‘‘His connections were “neither.
trivial nor casual and I doubt if
they were innocent,” said Mrs.
Shearon, who testified that from
1945 to 1947 she served as a con-
sultant on Social Security and
compulsory health insurance to
the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, R-
Ohio.

Charles Callas of New York
City, a former research assist-
ant to the Senate Internal Secu-
rity subcommittee, testified that

an|Fortas as attonney for Owen
of | Lattimore

had deliberately
information from a

“Chal-|help Communists when they got|1950 Senate investigation — of

in trouble.’ She said Fortas wasjalleged Communist infiltration

a govnber of its national com- of the State Department.

ests,

a

tare in — srwie wae Ba" MG :

of the raises set up in a bill al+| ‘

ready passed by the House.

A combat-pay boost also was li
added by the Senate committee.

The senators followed the|*

House lead exactly in voting the}

largest percentage increases to
personnel with less. than two
years’ service but altered the
raises for both officers and en-
listed men with more than two
years’ experience.

For all such officers, warrant
and commissioned, the Senate|
bill would provide a flat, across-
the-board increase of 6 per cent.
This contrasts to the House
measure which would grant

boosts ranging from 5 per cent)-

for Army captains and Navy
lieutenants to 15.8 per cent“for
some chief warrant officers.
The House increases would ay-
erage 7.2 per cent for officers.

Enlisted Men, Too
‘Similarly, for enlisted person-|,

nel with more than two years’|

service, the Senate committee
would provide a flat, across-the-
board ipcrease of 1b per cent.
This contrasts with a House-bill
schedule ranging from 15. 3 per
cent for. some sergeants and
petty officers to 8 per cent for
privates and seamen.
Both _ bills provide for ‘ine
creases of 13 to. as much as z 6]
per cent for enlisted ‘personnel
and 20 to 22 per cent for officers
with less than two years’ expe-
rience. An estimated 790,000
enlisted men and 44, 000 officers

jtacular 2%-minute di aie

“The ‘Set

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these two ghar 2
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—A cost-of-liv
to 4 per cent for
400,000 retiped n

HUNTSVILLE, oe
A huge Saturn V booster rocket, :
its five engines roaring like a ee
caged: animal, was ip sige oe
test fired ‘Thursday in a.

the power which will ere? ,
American ae, toward the
m oon. ; tae es

“The 12-story booster, pt on
test model, gave space scien-
tists here ‘their first extended
look at the vehicle which will b
the workhorse for the
moon project and space

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A. & K. Tenants May

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on the sign will be AS-25450. This will lead him into an un-
usual experience in real estate dealing and will acquaint him
with Sidney Albert and Irving Kirsch, probably the city’s larg-
est private landlords.
| Albert and Kirsch in 1961 owned 668 properties in the tri-
city area, mostly Albany and Troy, and not all of which are
| in the slum classification. Of this number, 390 were what
| they refer to as L & O’s—Lease and Option arrangements

under which individuals were buying homes without a down
payment, and using their own rent and the rent of- other ten-
ants of the building to buy the property.

Oil Painting Tells a Story

This, obviously, is a major part of the A & K business,
and the partners-are proud of it. In the foyer of their offices
in the Boardman Building at 346 Fulton Street in Troy, an oil
painting by Mr.. Albert hangs on the wall. It shows three
hour-glasses in which ownership of a house passes from con-
. trol in the Boardman Building to clear ownership by the buyer,
in a period of 12 years. The painting has an over-the-top title
of No Down Payment, and beneath the hour-glasses is the
following poem:

You need not sign a note or bond—
You need not mortgage or borrow—
The rent that you must pay today—
Can buy your home tomorrow.

Also in the foyer are framed letters, and a bulletin board
full of unframed ones, almost all testimonials from owners
who have bought A & K houses through the years under the
No Down Payment plan. Benjamin Williams wrote on Sept.
11, 1960, after buying 321 Orange Street in Albany: “‘It has
been a great pleasure for me to deal with a great man like
you and Mr. Kirk (Kirsch). I sure did enjoy doing business
with you. I was too proud to get the house paid out, so I could
call it myy own, I shall greatly appreciate it, if you could
send me a poster, in order that I may put it up so that others
may know that I have paid it out, and that you are a man
of your word . . . Thanks, for being such a wonderful person
to do business with.”’

A similar letter is framed on the wall in which 11 cents is
pasted to the top of the page—the final payment on a house
from Mr. and Mrs. James J. Winters of Ravena. “‘As I
look back through the years,’ Mr. Winters wrote, “I cannot
recall one instance of any doubts regarding my feelings about
the whole transaction . . . Both Mrs. Winters and myself are
very happy with our house; it has been 13 happy years; we
completed raising our family in this house. . .”

The testimonials by no means come entirely from owners
of slum property. Albert and Kirsch own houses throughout
the tri-city area, many in middle-class neighborhoods, and
many families have bought such property through the no-down-
payment system.

Employed Selling System Since 1945

The partners have employed this system of selling houses
ever since 1945. They have sold some houses by cash sale, but
these have been few compared to their L & O operation. In
the early years few deeds changed hands—the buyer does not
take title until the house is paid for—because of the long-term
payments. But numerous closings have taken place in years
—AQ in 1961; 21 in 1962; 37 in 1963; 30 in 1964; and 18 so far
this year. Probably many of these buyers would never have
been able to own a home except under this arrangement.

The scuttlebutt in the slums is that a no-down-payment
‘buyer will hardly ever take title to his property. Albert and
Kirsch have the records and the testimonials to prove other-

wise. I have also encountered, in the course of reporting this
series, people who have nothing but praise for the real-estate
partners in the way the no-down-payment deals have been
conducted, :
_ Yet there is some basis for the scuttlebutt. Many persons
n disappointed after reading through their contract

Th $i

@, one a purchase option, and both
otect the seller.

contracts are drawn to pr

To begin with the buyer is not really buying the property;

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he is only entering into a contract to buy it, and receive a
deed, when the purchase price has been covered.’ Thus he is
not building up an equity, as he would if he were buying and
giving purchase money for part or all of the purchase price.
He cannot sell his accrued: interest in the property for tech-
nically he has none. What he can, do in this regard if he
finds he must sell the house and also can find a buyer, is to
obtain the permission of Albert and Kirsch to transfer the
ownership. The prospective owner can then take over the pay-
ments—making a private cash sale arrangement w.th the orig-
inal buyer—providing he is cleared by A & K as a good credit
risk. If they choose not to accept him, and the original pur-
chaser defaults, the property reverts to the original owner.

Similarly, if the no-down-payment buyer defaults on his
payments under the terms of the contract, he could find his
option terminated ten days later. This is considered short
notice. Oridinarily a buyer would have 30 days to correct his
default. But Albert:and Kirsch point out that they do not
necessarily exercise their rights under this clause. They
cited the case of a buyer on North Swan Street who in
July paid what was due last December. Thus he is eight
months behind—he still owes $2,000 on the house—and yet
A & K are carrying him because he has been faithful in his
payments in previous years, If he were not a good risk he

could have found himself an ex-home buyer as of last De-

cember.

Added to Indebtedness

Several advantages accrue to Albert and Kirsch in the
L & O arrangement. First the buyer must assume the re-
sponsibility for all repairs to the building,. which frequently
entails a big expense. And in some cases — the case of
Harry Stevens at 75 Catharine Street for example—the buyer
goes to great lengths to refurbish his house. Mr. Stevens says
that he spent about $1,000 putting in new walls, new flooring,
new wiring, new plumbing in the bathroom. He plastered and
painted by himself and has turned what was once a shabby
apartment into a pleasant home. Albert and Kirsch recently
advanced him an additional $112 to buy lumber to make
further repairs. That money will be added to his indebted-
ness,

Another advantage to the Jandlords is the lease arrange-
ment. When a tenant signs a two year or longer lease with

his tandiord-the-RentControl-tawspermit-a 15" per tent it

crease in rent,
Also, when a buyer defaults, the landlords can start over

again, selling the same house from scratch. There are many

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This is the oil painting
done by Sidney Albert
which hangs in the foyer
of the Albert and Kirsch
offices in Troy. Hour-
glasses indicate the pass-
age of a house from their
ownership to a no-down-
payment buyer over 12
years.

aK

Harry Stevens of 75
Catharine Street sits in
the living room. of his
apartment in the building
he is buying from Albert
* and Kirsch under the no-
down-payment plan.

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and Sheehan

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defaults for various reasons. Mr. Kirsch said defaults often
occur when a man must move out of town, when he breaks up
with his wife, loses his job, wants to buy a better place. ‘‘Sta-
tistics show,” he said, ‘‘that if they stay in the house for two,

three, four years, fifty per cent of them will go through with
it;!?

The Case of Harry Stevens Illustrative

The case of Harry Stevens is illustrative of the procedure.
He signed both his lease and option on June 3, 1964. He began
with a small payment of $25 on the house, a three-family-
dwelling. The rent for the house on State Rent Control rec-
ords was $45 a month for the apartment into which Harry
Stevens moved. When he signed his contracts he began pay-
ing $46.50 a month rent, plus $2 a month for liability insur-
ance, plus $1 a month for $5,000 worth of fire insurance.

His house is assessed on tne city tax rolls for $2,700, and
the land for $500. The “‘original option price’’ of the house
when he agreed to buy is given as $13,500. Rent from the two
upstairs apartments totals $86.50 and this is collected by
Albert and Kirsch and credited to Harry Stevens’ account.

His first payment began on July 1, 1964. He has an option
until July, 1979, in which to pay off the $13,500. Under his
lease his renewal rights terminate at the same date. If all
goes well, if Harty Stevens misses no payments, if the two
upstairs apartments continue to be rented at the same rate,
if taxes and water rents do not increase, the house will be paid
for in 1979,

If any of these circumstances change and income from the
house diminishes, the contract allows the period of the option
and lease to be extended. For example, the $112 advanced to

Harry Stevens to buy lumber will be added on at the end of his.

option. Any other costs which are the responsibility of Mr

Times-Union Staff Photos by Kolenberg

Stevens would also be added. If he had the money to cover

these costs with a lump sum’ payment in July, 1979, he could
then exercise his option to buy. If not he would pay at his
regular rate until all costs were covered.

The contract stipulates that in addition to “the original
price” of the house, there should be added six per cent interest
per annum ‘‘computed as on a bank loan.”

Receive Checks for Overpayment

A local banker explained that to buy a $13,500 house in
15 years from a bank, with interest included, the monthly
payment would amount to $113.93. This means that the in-
terest cost on a bank mortgage would come to $7,007.40 in

| DRESS

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THAT SOLD AS HIGH AS 89.98

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15 years, and the total amount paid in by the buyer to the
bank would be $20,507.40—original price plus interest.

At the end of 15 years, at his present rate, Harry Stevens
will have paid to Albert and Kirsch $24,480 in rent, interest
and insurance. Taxes, water rents, and assessments would
presumably account for the difference between the bank’s
total and the A & K total. Possibly Mr. Stevens would be in -
line for a refund for overpayment. Another letter displayed
en the bulletin board in Albert and Kirsch’s foyer is to Mr.
and Mrs. Lonnie Royal who received a check for $575.88 on
June 2, 1961, for overpayment in their purchase of 142 Frank-
lin Street.

Having a Place Was Important

Like almost everything else connected with the A & K
operation, the no-down-payment system is exceptionally com-
plex. Tenants are baffled, as almost anyone except a lawyer
would be. Some also live under the misconception that they —
own the house instead of merely getting’ title once it is paid
for. Some are not deceived. I talked with one person who
knew clearly that becoming an owner wasn’t likely. It was
merely a place to live and the rent was a little higher than
the last place but that was all right. Having a place was.
what was important. ‘,

One woman explained that her husband had gone through
the buying process with three A & K houses but he apparently
defaulted on all three, for he is now dead and she owns noth-
ing. Another woman who obviously did net understand the
option clause which requires buyers: to do all repairs, com-
plained the landlord didn’t fix the falling ceiling. She was
really the landlord for repairs, but she didn’t understand. — wae,”

“You the landlord?” she said. ‘‘You ain’t nothing’.’’ i

Irving Kirsch commented on this point in an interview: Jf

‘You know people say they’ll never get these places.
They won’t get the money to make repairs. But we take a
credit report on the man and if he looks okay we make the
deal. If he can’t pay he can get out without losing anything.”
And in some cases, as was pointed out earlier, Albert and
Kirsch do advance the tenant money to make the repairs.

The L & O system is central to their operation. Without —
it their expenditures on repairs to the old property would ski
ample. eT NS OPIS dale
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any negative aspects accrue only to the buyer. The landlord
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have exclaimed to himself,

fun!”

- with notoriety, tattled in a

Those Kennedy Articles

By Henry J. Taylor

When Arthur Schlesinger Jr., recently
fouled the Kennedy nest he proved again
how sad an error it. is to give one’s con-
fidence to the wrong man; there is simply

a small chewing noise, as

when the cat reaches the
backbone of a mouse. And
when Schlesinger cut ‘he
throat of appointee Dean
Rusk in the dead President’s
name, ah, this was pure
Schlesinger. But is it his-
tory?

It would be one thing if

you could just dismiss Schlesinger as a coat-
tail rider and fast-buck artist, arrogant but
sycophantic, ambitious but susceptible. From
published statements, that seems to be the
reaction among outraged Rusk defenders in
Congress. But it is Schlesinger’s calculated
pretenses in presenting himself as a_his-
torian that should lead the parade of objec-
tions.

A scholar who dishonors scholarship is
‘really an awful thing to see—like a child
who testifies against its mother in a divorce
court.

_ History pushed too far toward sociology
(a constant Schlesinger trick), like a
sociology pushed too far toward history, con-.
tains an inherent dishonesty. The best his-
tory is that in which no element of self-
interest, extremism or bias appears. Yet,

writing as a historian and reviewer, listen

to Dr. Schlesinger’s Olympian detachment
in writing on General Douglas MacArthur.

He describes MacArthur as ‘‘wearing his

patriotism on his sleeve,’’ charges him with -

‘*‘Messianism and paranoia,’’ no less, and
speaks with contempt of “his ham elo-
quence” and ‘overwritten Confederate
prose.”

If this is the writing of a historian, Har-
vard University better shut up shop. The
Pulitzer Prize committee, too.

At some point, facts also claim a place.
Said Bernard M. Baruch: “Every man has
a right to his own opinion, but no man has
a right to be wrong in his facts.”

_____A historian has no more right to play with ©
_ facts than a sentry has to desert his post.
Yet that’s pure Schlesinger, as well.

For example, I have direct, personal

_ knowledge of only two things in the maga-
me zine excerpt from Schlesinger’s forth-

Scholar Who Dishonors Scholarship

coming book, but in these his record is 100
per cent. Both are wrong.

One is his reference to clarifying the
status of ambassadors. Schlesinger states,
for the purpose of showing great improve-
ment, that ‘‘Kennedy’s circular letter to
United States ambassadors in May, 1961,
gave them (he emphasizes ‘for the first
time’) the authority ‘to oversee and co-
ordinate all the activities of the United States
government’ in their countries.”’

The clarification was issued years ago by
President Eisenhower, was famous in the
State Department, and was part of each
Eisenhower chief of mission’s reading file
when he took up his post.

It included: ‘An American Ambassador
is the commanding officer and everyone sta-
tioned in the country is under him,” etc.,
etc. It then ordered the multiple-agency sub-
ordination to him that Schlesinger misdates,
attributes erroneously and calls a new ‘“‘first
step.”

Next, Schlesinger neglects to state that
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had
great respect for Dean Rusk. But if his

facts are as false about Rusk as about ;

Dulles, his score remains perfect.

Here historian Schlesinger relies entirely
on the reader’s forgetfulness of the public
record when he castigates ‘‘the readiness
of Dulles to yield up foreign service officers
to McCarthyism.” But Ambassador Charles
E. Bohlen, often praised in the articles and
a foreign service officer prominently in-
volved, owes it to Dulles to repudiate
Schlesinger in print, and fast.

Dulles himself selected Russian-speaking
Bohlen to be Ambassador to the U. S. S. R.
President Eisenhower approved it. But
Bohlen’s defense of the fateful Yalta agree-
ments (he had been President Roosevelt’s
interpreter) created an uproar, and intense
Republican opposition, in the Senate.

Dulles told Robert A. Taft that Bohlen
was the best qualified man. He persuaded
Taft to beat down the opposition of Senator
Joseph R. McCarthy and many others.
Through Taft, Dulles pushed Bohlen’s nomi-
nation through by a vote of 74 to 13. Battling
Senator McCarthy and battling for the
foreign service, Secretary Dulles put his
neck on the block for Bohlen.

Again, what Dr. Schlesinger has written

is both unjust and untrue.

Warren Rogers

is a historian who, as a transient public
servant, was privileged to read secret cables
and sit in on secret White House talks and

who, from time to time, must -

“Gosh, foreign policy is

He has now, for profit and

book, parts of which have
been published in a mass-
circulation national maga-
zine (Life). His attack on
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who can not

and will not properly defend himself in the
midst of the Vietnamese crisis, based on
quotes from the dead President Kennedy,
who can neither vouchsafe nor gainsay, is

- the most miserable breach of confidence this

reporter has witnessed in fourteen years of
. } ;
covering Washington.

In those fourteen years, many things have
been said to me in confidence by many of-
ficials, including the late President Kennedy
and Schlesinger. But, like my colleagues, I

‘ would no more think of rushing into print

with them than I would think of stomping on
the American flag.

A reporter in this town who did what
Schlesinger has done would be drummed out
of the business—by his own colleagues as
well as the public officials who place their

trust in him. In Kafka’s words, ‘People
don’t do such things.”

What makes matters worse, Schlesinger
has violated the code in such a way as to
warp the truth. There is no way of proving
that President Kennedy did or did not tell
Schlesinger that he was dissatisfied . with
Secretary Rusk’s performance.

But Schlesinger, who made quite a point

of how close he was to President Kennedy,

Considine:

‘Miserable Breach of Confidence’

_-- WASHINGTON—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,

should have known about one pronounced
facet of his personality: Jack Kennedy had
a low boiling point, and a quick bounce-back
from anger, with no lingering vindictiveness.

The late President got so mad at me
once, during the Berlin crisis call-up of 1961
when I was writing critical stories about the
confusion, that he denounced me at a press
conference. But, a few days later, he laugh-
ingly apologized for not mentioning my name
because “it might have helped you with
your Republican readers.”’

Another man, far closer to the President
than Schlesinger and still at the White House,
once told me about Kennedy:

“You know, he blows like a busted boiler.
I’ve gone in to him with papers to sign and
he’s mad about something, walking up and
down and yelling, and then says, ‘however
. .-’ When he gets to the ‘however,’ I know
the storm is over and I hand him the papers

. and we’re in business again.”

Has Schlesinger forgotten how the New
York Herald Tribune was banned from the
White House? It happened this way: Be-
cause of my Reserve call-up stories and other
irritations, Kennedy searched the paper one
morning to see if it were carrying a story
about a stockpile investigation, derogatory
to the Eisenhower Administration. When he
couldn’t find it, he threw the paper across
the room and said, “I never want to see the
Trib again!” An aide took him literally, rush-
ed out and canceled the subscription. The
next morning, the President called for the
paper, only to be told what-had happened.
By then, the whole country knew, and he
was stuck with the situation and he had to
have the Trib bootlegged in.

Surely, Mr. Schlesinger, President Ken-
nedy must have said—at least once—that the
country was lucky to have Dean Rusk as
Secretary of State?

GENE ROBB,

DANIEL E. BUTTON, Executive Editor
Published Mornings and Sundays at 24 Sheridan Ave., Albany, N. Y., by The Hearst Corporation, Richard E.
Berlin, President; William Randolph Hearst, Jr., Chairman of Board; Gene Robb, Vice President; Frank Massi,
Treasurer; Raymond F. McCauley, Secretary. The principal place of business of The Hearst Corporation is 959
Eighth Ave., New York N.Y. the address of the President, Chairman of the Board, Secretary and Treasurer.

Publisher

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ALBANY, N. Y., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1965

PAGE 22

As hy Reser —Sees It

Fire Burn . . . Cauldron Bubble . . .
‘History Book’ or Just Big Trouble!

James Reston

‘Some Zip in the Old System Yet’

WASHINGTON—President Johnson is be-
ginning to make Franklin Roosevelt’s early
legislative record look like an abject failure..
He’s getting everything through the Congress
but the abolition of the Re-
publican Party, and he hasn’t
tried that yet.

It is a_ political miracle.
It has even surpassed his
0 wn_ expectations, which
were not modest, and while
he’s still a long way from
achieving a Great Society,
he is at. least making pro-
gress toward a more equal and compassion-
ate society.

In a single evening this week, the Senate
passed the most liberal voting rights bill in
the history of the republic, and sustained
the Supreme Court’s ruling that the state
legislatures must be reapportioned to give
equal voting rights to the steeply rising ur-
ban and suburban populaticn of the nation.

In this first session of the 89th Congress,
the federal legislature has also passed the
medical care bill under Social Security, a
bevsing bill with an experimental system of
federal rent subsidies for the poor education
and poverty bills that by-pass the ancient
conflict over federal aid to religious insti-
tutions, a constitutional amendment to deal
et lone last with the danger of. presidential
disability, a bill for the relief of the depress-

‘ed areas of Appalachia—all this and a lot

more and a tax cut too.

This is not, of course, due entirely to
Lyndon Baines Johnson’s particular brand of
political magic, though that hasn’t hurt. The
New Deal’s day has finally come. The radi-
cal ideas of the early thirties are now win-
ning instead of losing. There seems to be a

new sense of social responsibility in the coun-
try—a growing feeling that racial discrimina-
tion, bad education, inadequate medical care
and degrading poverty are intolerable in a
fabulously weathly nation.

Europeans were nc¢ sure that the United
States could maintain economic growth and
stability, that it would apply the new tech-
niques of tax and monetary policy, that it
could provide continuity of purpose from one
pelitical party to the other, or that a federal
government of proud and numerous states,
with an attic full of hobgoblins about the
welfare state and the planned economy,
could achieve social progress over an entire

continent and bring its military power to
the defense of freedom in other parts of the
world.

Well, it begins to look as if the people will
take the welfare state and the planned econo-
my if you just don’t mention the names,
pened to the old popular assumptions that
the American economy wouldn’t work if the
government tinkered with it; that the White
House and the Congress couldn’t get along
unless both were reorganized; that federal
money couldn’t be channelled to the private
and parochial schools without the immediate
retaliation of a vengeful God.

So maybe there’s some zip in the old
system yet. In his State of the Union mes-
sage, President Johnson said the time had
come to give more atention to the home
front. He promised ta try to keep the econo-
my growing, to extend the prosperity to more
people, and to try to improve the quality of
life for all. And even his critics here concede
that he has kept his promise.

(C) 1965 New York Times News Service

_ ing costs that now frustrate many students. _

‘

grass was red as if it had been toasted.

By Bob Considine

“T arrived about five-thirty in the evening,’ a Japanese
general noted in his diary twenty years ago this week. ‘“‘When
the plane flew over Hiroshima there was but one black dead
tree, as if a crow was perched on it. There was nothing there
but that tree. that’s when I realized how hor- _ f
rible it had been.

“As we landed at the airport all the

There was no fire anymore. Everything was
burned up simultaneously. Some schools
with blown off roofs and broken windows
were left standing at some distance from the
center of the city. But the city itself was

completely wiped out. That must be the
word, yes, completely wiped out.”

Some of the soul searching that went into the decision
to atomize Hiroshima can be found in the blunt words of a
book just published by Coward-McCann entitled “The Deci-
sion to Drop The Bomb—A Political History.” It emerges

from an NBC White Paper documentary two years in the
making.

Sixty of the scientists and engineers who had combined
their incredible talents to perfect something that man had
never known before were so stunned after seeing the test of
the bomb at Alamagordo, N. Mex., that they appealed to the
government never to use it. The group’s representatives were
given short shrift at the Pentagon.

The group offered alternatives. Why not drop millions of
leaflets warning the Japanese people about the ghastly power
of the new weapon? No, the scientists were told, the Japanese
wouldn’t surrender to a leaflet. Then, what about inviting
Emperor Hirohito and his war cabinet to watch a test some-
where out over a cleared area off Tokyo Bay? No.

One of the most distinguished nuclear physicists in the
party had one other alternative, which he submitted in writ-

- ing before leaving Washington. He requested that if the bomb

must be dropped that he be strapped to the first one and
drop with it—to atone for his sin in creating it. No.

“All of us understood the terrible responsibility involved
in our attempt to unlock the doors to such a devastating
weapon,” Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson wrote, “Presj-

dent Roosevelt spoke to me many times of his awareness of

the catastrophic potentialities of our work. But we were at
wats

Leo Szilard, one of the fathers of the bomb, had a change
of heart after Hitler fell. He and others who had known Nazi
and Fascist terrorism lost their zeal to produce the weapon
that would have destroyed their old foes. Szilard was offend-
ed at a meeting with Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes,
when Byrnes, in his words, “thought it would be difficult to
persuade Russia to witdraw her troops from Hungary and
Rumania, and that Russia might be more manageable if
impressed by American military might.”

Old reporter Winston Churchill watched Stalin’s face

when President Truman told him about the bomb: “I was
perhaps five yards away. He seemed to be delighted. A new

_bomb! Of extraordinary power! Probably decisive on the

whole Japanese war! What a bit of luck! This was my im-
pression of the moment, and I was sure that he had no idea
of the significance of what he was being told.”

(Klaus Fuchs, Alan Nunn May, the Rosenbergs and

Editorials

The Housing Code

Our readers may have had the occasion to notice

the photo-engraving which appears at the beginning

of each of Bill Kennedy’s series of articles on slum
housing. It depicts a row of slum houses. Looming ’in
the background is Albany’s City Hall spire. —

Rather symbolic, it might be said, that in sigh

of City Hall is some of the run-down. housing that

this series is all about. It points up another area of
responsibility for the conditions that exist, the city
adminstraton.

Albany municipal officials apparently recognize
the city’s responsibility for regulations governing
the construction, maintenance, and use of buildings.
There is a little yellow booklet, rather difficult to
come by, which contains 63 pages. Its title: “Albany,
New York, Housing Code.” Stamped at the bottom of
the front cover is the notation, “Price fifty cents.”

A perusal of the code indicates that it is a good
one. It covers a multitude of topics. Chapter I in-
cludes general provisions; space, occupancy, light,
ventilation, and toilet requirements; structural re-
quirements; fire-safety requirements; equipment re-
quirements; and property maintenance requirements.
Chapter II is devoted to “Administration and Com-
pliance.”

In Chapter II, for instance, it is noted that own-

ers of property are responsible for compliance ‘‘with
all provisions of this code” as well as “proper main-

tenance, condition, and function of service facilities.”

Here also we find that the occupants must maintain

their premises in “a clean, sanitary, and safe condi-

tion,” and are responsible for ‘disposal of garbage

and refuse into provided facilities in a clean and
sanitary manner,” and for ‘‘extermination of insects,

rodents, or other pests within his dwelling unit if his —

unit is the only one infested in the premises.”

Albany’s housing code makes interesting read-
ing, in view of some of the housing conditions that

exist here. We’ll have more to say about it, both in H

Mr. Kennedy’s series and on the editorial page.

For the moment, let us observe simply that the

city’s enforcement effort appears to need attention.

Such attention now has been promised by Edward

S. Conway, Albany County Republican chairman. He —

states that this will be an important Republican cam- _
paign issue, and most citizens will hope that the Dem- |

ocrats pay the situation some heed, too.

‘Hampshire College

A dramatic and highly significant enterprise ir

liberal arts education is taking place in Massachusetts

The facilities, faculty and administrative personnel |
and experience of four campuses have been joined t

contribute to the creation of a fifth in hope of reduc

cc scammed tr RE nota BLE see lags a cB is al

and the University of Massachusetts, have undei

taken to establish Hampshire College, a coeducations __
institution within easy access of its parent grouy

A $6 million donation by Harold F. Johnson, Ne\

Say ee et ;

York international lawyer and economist, has mad oe

possible the initial steps in the unique project.

Interchange of faculty members, class work
library resources and other facilities will be ex
panded on a comprehensive scale for Hampshire
It will have a faculty of fifty for a first student grour
of 250, with the four present institutions opening
their doors to Hampshire courses. Fraternities and
intercollegiate athletics, often costly, will be omitted.

The emphasis will be on broad education, a purpose ©

that in some instances has been encroached on by
specialization in a technological age.

The venture will be watched with intense interest

by educators everywhere. If it works out well, it may
lead to similar programs elsewhere. Traditionally
a center of cultural education, New England furthers

its prestige in that area with this latest, and mean-

ingful, departure from the custom under which a

college, or university, has been its own self, going
its own way.

Many campuses are breaking away from the

hidebound past. Some years ago RPI and Russell

Sage decided to share facilities, and Rensselaer also
has cooperative arrangements with Albany Medical
College, and area industries. .

The Hampshire College plan is of a somewhat
but is another evidence of the —

different nature,
readiness of some educators to explore new horizons.

If Hampshire provides quality education at a lower —
cost it will serve well these times when learning has

become more important than ever

* * *  Y * ee

Yet some of the special problems of fin ncing ©
pointed up by the fact that —
projected |

higher education are

despite the aim of reducing costs, the

total tuition-board-room charge will be about $3,000. —

This is not low-cost education. And the low-cost,

open-door educational opportunity is vital in higher —

‘education today.

The Men Who Made the Atom Bomb-—Fears and Reservations

others would not have agreed with that Churchillian esti:
mate.) me Ve

Generals Carl Spaatz and Curt Lemay were sure J ea
could have been knocked out of the war by conve ite

bombing. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer remembers what it |

was like after the first test:

“A few laughed, a few cried, most were silent. I remem-; > F

bered the line from Hindu scripture, the Bagavad Gita:

Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his _
duty and to impress him he takes on his multi-armed form _
and says, ‘Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.’ n

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Mrs. Frances E. Jones
“Clobber Them”’

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“we better get out.”

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By JOE PICCHI
Times-Union Staff Writer
Opinions range from ‘‘clobber them’’ to

_.» -That’s the way the man and woman on the

street feels about Viet Nam, its growing
. Seriousness, and the increasing role of the
United States in this explosive situation.

policy is the best possible alternative.

“T feel that President Johnson has done the .
best he can with a problem left to him by
... other administrations,’ Mrs. Jones said. “‘A

-. country as important and as powerful as ours
-. eannot be frightened out of a situation like

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ALBANY, N.Y., SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1965

S. Arthur Wallace
“Should Get Out”’

“DEATH
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at Is Your Opinion

Of War in Viet Nam?

Alexander Younglove
Questions Role

Alexander Younglove, a retailer, was in the
middle. He felt the U. S. should honor its
committments in Viet Nam, but questioned

whether its policy was actually supporting

democracy.

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son.

prseent U. S.

is needed.

pread of com-

Mr. Younglove contended,

“We always
the wrong people. Government

after government which we supported has
failed. It is evident that the majority of the
people of Viet Nam are not supporting the
governments We back.” «

He approved of the U: S. principles of being
in Viet Nam—to fight communism and support
democracy, but felt “democracy is not being
Supported there.’

Women in general, even one with two teen-
age sons ready for the draft, confessed they
understood little about the situation, but were
ready to back the President’s policy. Veterans
of past wars were emphatic in their support
and one or two felt greater U. S. involvement

James Black, a member of the Albany
Housing Authority. and veteran of World War
1, called the bombig and. troop build-up

“absolutely necessary.”

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Albert Mader
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right thing, only
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Mrs. Glenda Jones
“Show Force”’

A Guide to Negro Awareness

Onee direction is:
“Role-playing a meeting with
the owner of an employmen‘
agency who has come to you
- for advice. You are the director
of an Intergroup Relations
Agency: 24-2
Another is:
_ “Make a residential map of
your town. Pinpoint the areas
inhabited by Negroes. Hew
many Negro families live cut-
side the Negro neighborhood;
interview several of these fam-
‘ilies. Ask them to tell of some
of the problems encountered in
trying to find a place o
live...”
Still another:
“Organize a student commit-
- tee to study and report on e
- econributions Negroes have made
‘to American culture in music,
art, science or inventions. ...”
Part of New Approach
All—and many more besides—

‘integrating information abou
the Negro, his problems, his
contributions, and his hopes for
‘the future” into the social sud-
jes curriculum.
The “new approach” is a re
source handbook for 12th grade
-  gocial studies just distributed

noo SOs

~ ¥- Its. purpose is simple, ex-
_ plains Theron A, Johnson, ad-
- ministrator of the division of in-
tercultural relations.

“Too often textbooks which

= give the facts about contribu-
tions pertinent to contemporary |
society omit information about

~ the Negro. This resource unit,”

me ”

are part of ‘“‘a new approach for #

-by the State Education Depart-§

he says, “‘is therefore designed
asa supplement...’

A Closer Look

“The plan calls: for.a closer
look at the local community in
terms of shifting patterns in
housing, in. industry, in school
‘comrosition, governmental serv
ices, political complexion and
hew all this information is
treated by the press, television
and radio,’’ Mr. Johnson adds.

The 56-page booklet draws
heavily on films and records as
background sources. It also re-
fers students to such material
as Race Relations Law Report-
er, McKinney’s Consolidated
Laws of New York, Brown vs.
Board of Education (the land-
mark school desegregation
case), a bock called Role-Play-

S

bs

Ra

Mrs. Nida E, Thomas

;

ing in Leadership Training and
Problem Solving, and a film-
strip and guide titled How to
Put on a Rumor Clinic.

Mrs. Nida E. Thomas, of the
division of intercultural rela-
tions, had major responsibility
in developing the handbook. It
is a companion to an earlier
handbook she prepared for use
in the fourth, fifth and sixth
grades.

Three local persons “‘review-
ed and reacted to this ap-
proach,’ Mrs. Thomas writes.
They are: Catherine M. Fir-
man, associate in social stud-
ies, and Bernard A. Kaplan, co-
ordinator of Project Able, both
of the Education Department,
and Frank Andreone, chairman
of social studies at Guilderland

Central High.

Theron A. Johnson

.|Titan II intercontinental missile

State to Hear
Area Leaders
Hudson Plans

The Slums of
More Than §

New York State is asking
communities along the Hudson
and Mohawk to join in mapping
a comprehensive plan for con-
serving and developing the re-
sources of the Mohawk-Hudson
River basin. County and local
officials, as well as spokesmen
for community groups have
been asked to present their
views to the Staet’s Hudson
River Valley Commission at a
meeting in Troy on Tuesday,

Aug. 17.
Representatives from Albany,
Rensselaer, Schenectady and

Schoharie Counties will attend
the meeting, which will be held
at the West Hall Auditorium of
RPI at 10 a.1.

They are expected to present)
data and recommendations on
suhe topics as land use, conser-
vation needs, industrial poten-
tial, sites of historic and scenic
value, transportation, water
supply, pollution and waterfront
blight.

Named By Governor

The Hudson River Valley
Commission was appointed by
Governor Rockefeller earlier!
this year to formulate recom-
mendations for conservation
and future development in the
Mohawk-Hudson River _ basin.
The 13-member commission is
headed by Laurence S. Rocke-
feller, brother of the governor,
and chairman of the State
Council of Parks.

Mr. Wirth, who. will preside
at: the Troy meeting, is the for-
mer director of the National
Park Service. He retired last
year after 14 years in that post.
" Mr. Wirth disclosed that the}
commission’s staff is curret

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CHAPTER VII
By BILL KENNEDY
Times-Union Staff Writer

Here’s a story for people who
think that soap and water will
solve the slum problem—those
citizens who are reading these
articles and writing letters to
the newspapers and advising us
fo give a bucket and mop to the
poor instead of a carton of food.

I specifically address it to
“Mrs. Clean,” whose letter ap-
pears elsewhere jn today’s edi-
tion, and ask her to consider
the case of Mattie Tarver.

“Mattie Tarver is 50, a hag-
gard woman at the end of one
of her normal days. She goes
out rarely. But she dressed up
a few weeks ago to go to church
in the South End, not to attend
services, but to attend a meet-
ing called by the Rev. James
U. Smythe at which tenants
register housing com-

with their landlords,
Sidney Albert and Irving
Kirsch. The real estate part-
hers were represented at the

meeting by their associate,
Morris Massry. They had
agreed ‘to respond to every

complaint registered, and to re-
turn to a subsequent meeting
to prove they had kept their
word.

Hight women showed up, and
along with several observers
they sat in old wooden pews
and listened to the preacher.

Sign Up For It ,

He started explaining how he

went to Niagara Mohawk Pow-

‘jer Corp. and arranged for peo-
jple living in Albert and Kirsch

assembling data on land
zoning and other factors rel:
to its wo rk. However, he

ed out that. ee

this time and does
to formhulate such a-plan
it has conferred w ith the. pe
ple concerned.’” q
The Commission's studies will
cover the length of theeHudson,
from the Adirondacks to New
York City, as well as the Mo-
hawk Valley and other areas
that make up the Hudson water-
shed. Both federal and state
agencies are cooperating by
supplying data and technical
advice.
The commission is assisted
by a citizens advisory commit-

tee. Its members from this
area will participate in the
meeting.

The Troy meeting is one Ci a
series to obtain local views ana
recomemndations. Others wil!
be held in Kingston tomorrow,
for Columbia, Dutchess, Greene
and Ulster Counties; at Utica,
Wednesday. for Fulton, Herki-
mer; Montgomery and Oneida
Counties;. and at Glens Falls,
on Aug. 16, for Essex, Hamil-
ton, “Saratoga, Warren and
Washington Counites. Meetings
for the Lower Hudson Coun-
ties of Westchester, Putnam.
Orange and Rockland were
held last menth. 2
Another reund of meetings
will be held before the commis-

sion goes ahead with final
recommendaiions, Mr. Wirth
said. :

Derby Racer
In Too 24
At Akron

+ James M. Corrigan of Amster-
dam, 1965 Capital District soap
box derby champion, failed to
win the national championship
in Akron, Ohio, yesterday but
finished in the top 24 out of a
field of 252 boys.

He won two heats in the
championship to get off to a
flying start but was edged out
in the third heat by a racer
from Tocoma, Washington, who
went on to gain sixth place in
the championship, said a
spokesman at the event.

Young Jim was sponsored by
The Times-Union, Knickerbock-
er News, Capital District Opti-
mist Club, Marsh Hallman Inc.,
and the Westgate Shopping
Center.

Launch Participant

First Lt, John F. Shaughnessy
son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael
F. Shaughnessy of 1614 High-
land Avenue, Troy, took part in
the launch o fa U.S. Air Force

Smythe sugg
sign up for it.

;| houses to get on the ‘‘budget
4. gas system.”

Under this ar-

Ont per

ested that: people

“Your gas bill will eat you
up in January and February,”
Mr. Smythe said to the women,
who heat their homes with gas
space heaters.

Mattie Tarver lives at 288
Livingston Avenue. Her rent of
$70 a month for the three-story,
one-family house is paid by the
Albany County Welfare Depart-
ment. She also gets a check
from Welfare for $39 every two
weeks. Her husband, Henry
Tarver, who is. chronically ill
with a heart condition, works
occasionally as a self-employed
mechanic in a small garage on
Dongan Avenue. Some weeks
he makes $30, some weeks $40,
some weeks nothing at all.

“He might accidentally get a
job and get $50,” Mrs. Tarver
said, ‘“‘but that’s only. might.
No. tellin’ when that’s gonna
be.’

15 Children in Home

On this income Mr. and Mrs.
Tarver support their family.
At the time of a conversation
two months ago, Mattie was
living at 288 Livingston Avenue
with 15 children, five of them
her grandchildren. Since that
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ment that was formerly

from Vandenberg AFB, se

Oy,

Mrs, Tarver live in the

ANI ©

SUNDAY _
TIMES2.c-UNION
Nor,

SECTION

of the problems in the

Sidney Albert and Irving
Kirscch, owners of the. pro-

perty at 288 Livingston Avy-
enue which is the subject of
today’s article in The Slums of
Albany series, have announc-
ed their intentions to sell the
house to an undisclosed party
who has no connection with
their firm.

They have done this, they
Say, because this series of
articles has ‘‘caused us and
our families great personal
distress.’’ They also said in an
interview that they plan to
sell other properties, ‘where
the buildings cause personal
distress” to the tenants. They
They did not disclose which

This is the kitchen of the Tarver home. a base-

properties these would be, but

used as a store. Mr. and
house with 10 children

Life is coming out the windows of this house, in more Wave than one! “The:
residence of the Tarver family at 288 Livin % nan one,
unusual hardship case,

slum.

they said several were under
consideration.

Their statement on 288 Liv-
ingston Avenue’ a list of theor
plus expenses, is given below.
Not including the expenses is
a $50 space heater provided to
the Tarvers in November, 1964,
plus $76.70 spent on repairs in
January, 1965. These expenses
were reported by Mr. Kirsch
after he submitted the state-
ment for publication.

8-24-65 To: The Times-Union,
Alybany, N. Y.
From: Albert & Kirsch
Subject: 288 — Livingston

Avenue, Albany, N. Y., oc-
cupied by Tarver Family.
In Feb. 1863, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Tarver and their fam-

and 5 grandchildren. As

Albany --
oap Needed |

at. gston Avenue is the center of an
a continuing one, that demonstrates the complexity

ily of 16 children and grand-

children were burned out. of

their previous home.

The ed Cross prevailed upon or;

us to find housing for the

Tarvers on a temporary basis.
The only vacant one-family
house we had was located at
288 Livingston Avenue’ which
was on the market for sale for
commercial purposes.
ecognizing the nature of the
emergency and the fact that the
house was in poor condition,
we instituted a program of re-
pair to make the house as tem-
porarily habitable for the Tar-
ver family as conditions would
See A&K, Page C-2

many as 21 have lived

in the place, but some children have moved

away.

Albert and Kirsh to Sell
288 Livingston Avenue Site

bye

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More Than Soap Needed in Slums _

Continued from Page C-1

time one of her daughters has
married and moved away. The
others remain.

Mattie Tarver has had 16
children who range in age from
seven to 33. She has 36° grand-
children and the ones living
with her are from one to eight
years old.

What does this have to do
with ‘“‘budget gas?”

Henry and Mattie Tarver, in
Mr. Smyth’s words, are eaten
up by gas bills. When I talked

with her the bill for that month
came to $57. The month before

it came to $69. She has two

“space-heaters in the house, .one
-on the first floor and another,
‘plus a cooking stove, in the
“basement kitchen.

» ‘When it’s real cold I have
“to use all three of them,” she
‘said. “Now T turn off one of
these stoves. I don’t know why
‘it’s so much. I don’t burn it
if I can help it, but that bill
is so high I don’t know how
‘T’m gonna pay it and that’s
the truth.’ —

; In spite of the presence of
‘three stoves, they have been
“inadequate to heat the house.
“There is no heater on the sec-
‘ond floor. Heat circulates there

“through a hole in the first-floor

‘ceiling that is covered by a
grate on the second floor. Last
-winter was a difficult one for
the Tarvers.
Couldn’t Sit Without Blanket

» “When it’s real. cold and
-you’re sitting in the settin’
‘room,’’ Mrs. Tarver recalled,
“you got to wrap up your feet
-in blankets and keep your coat

on till you’re ready to go to

“bed. You couldn’t sit there

. without a coat like you was in

-a house.”

_ Ait the chunch meeting, one
‘of the complaints that Mrs.
Tarver made to the landlords

_ was that ‘‘wind comes in the
__ *sides” of the house. Wind also
--eame through holes in the door
where the locks used to be,

‘where the mail sgit cover used

to be. The Tarvers once lived

ee
Pal

eee ee ee ee ee ee

fat 122 Colonie Street, and she
_ ‘recalled that place :“It wasn’t

any good, either, but there was

(one room where we could ail!

_This is a section of the wallboard in
athe Tarver kitchen which Mrs. Tarver
“=says was slowly eaten away by rats.

*

*

* This winter may be a little warmer at
«288 Livingston Avenue. The landlords
“have put new siding on the house, and
*the tenant says they plan to paint the
* front. But the landlords announce to-
»day in this newspaper their intention

get in when it was real cold.

The front room. But there’s no.

room here we can get warm
in.”

Last December 22 Mrs. Tar-
ver made a complaint to the
State Rent Control Office about
the Livingston Avenue house.
She complained about the cold,

labout the house being ‘‘so full

of rats till you can’t hardly
sleep at night.” The Rent
Contro] Office noted that Mrs.
Tarver described on her com-
plaint for tnthat the house was
a one-famif ‘Yhouse.

Wniter Barely Begun

The Rent Control Office on
Dec. 23 notified the landlord
that a complaint had been reg-
isterd about the premises. The
landlord replied also that it was
a one-family house into which
the Tarvers had moved in
March of 1963, and was not
subj @ect to rent control regula-
tions.

The case was dispatched with
notable alacrity. The Rent
Control Office made no inspec-
tion of the premises. It notified
Mrs. Tarver she had no re-
course under state law and on
Dec. 28 the case was closed.

The winter had barely begun.

The Tarvers are not used to
winters. They come from War-
renton, Georgia. Until six years
ago they lived thef Bas share-
croppers and they left because
life was too hard. “If I had a
good way of livin’ in Georgia

ee

I'd have stayed down. there,”’
Mattie Tarver said. “But you
have to sharecrop. There
wasn’t anything else to do but
farm. You -work all year and
the ones you work for feed you.
And when the end of the year
comes and you expect some
money they tell you you're out
of debt and that’s all. And you
got to accept that.

“You have to keep the chil-
dren out of school to work.
When they get old enough to
work they have to go to the
field. I had to do that with
some of my boys and I didn’t
want it to happen to all the
children.”’

Now They’re in School
Now One of her sons is in
Philip Livingston Junior High
School, another is in Albany
High, and the smaller ones’ of
schoo] age are in School 6.

They came to Albany through
Mrs. Tarver’s brother, who
found a job for Mr. Tarver in
Coxsackie. Mrs. Tarver said
he worked there until he got
sick and then, she says, “They
wouldn’t let him work down
there.” He was hospitalized
for six weeks with a heart con-
dition.

“He has to take medicine
every day,’ Mrs. Tarver said.
“If he don’t take the medicine
he can’t walk up them stairs
without being.out of breath.”

When he was well enough,

mobile and drove to Georgif
and brought some of his fam-
ily to Albany. The rest of the
family came by other means of
transportation. During their
first six months in Albany the
Travers lived on Dongan Ave-
nue, then moved for another
six months to Dallius Street,
both in the South End, and
both in the slum areas. Then
they moved to 122 Colonie
Street, an old house in Arbor
Hill.

“Really,” Mattie Tarver said,
“T haven’t had a decent place
to live since I’ve been up here.
The house I moved out of in
Georgia was better than any
house I lived in up here. One
thing I can say about them
down there is they gave us a
good place to live.”

On Feb. 22, 1963, in the house
at 122 Colonie Street, fire broke
out in a second-floor bedroom
—cause unknown, <a a. bat-
talion fire chief said. It spread
to the upper reaches of the
building. Firemen fought the
fire for an hour and a half and
when it was out, the Tarvers,
then a family of 21, not only
were homeless, they had lost
what furniture they had, plus
all their clothes.

“I didn’t have only my bed-
room shoes and housecoat,’’
Mrs. Tarver said.

The family moved in with
friends on Broadway. Friends

Mr.

Fire broke out in ceiling electric fixture at the
Tarver house some time ago. The landlord re-
cently installed new wiring.

The pipes

upcoming

broke at the Tarver house

last winter in a freeze-up. They were
fixed, and this’ is the way they look
today in the kitchen.

The. front door of the Tarver house:
No lock, no knob, no cover on the mail
slot, all let in the cold. A new door is

for the Tarvers, the landlord

PHILADELPHIA (UPI)—The

‘to sell the property, so its future is said.
~ uncertain.
~ WCTU Founder’s Home Designated | Gets Grant

CHICAGO (UPI) — The Wom-
3 en’s_ Christian Temperance
Union WCTU. announced Satur-
(day that the century-old home
‘of one of its founders has been

“designated a national historic
lan Kk.

the Interior Department said
the home of Frances E. Willard
i Evanston, Ill., was selected
for preservation by the National
Park Service. The announce-
ment was made at the WCTU’s

Sist annual convention.

Franklin Institute Saturday an-
nounced it had received a $15,-
000 grant from E. I. du Pont
De Nemours & Co. The grant
is conditioned on the institute
raising matching funds of $60,-
000 from other constibutors this

lyear.

and neighbors gave them some
clothes and the Red Cross asked
Albert and Kirsch to find hous-
ing for the Tarvers. The real
estate partners, whose state-
ment on the Tarver property is
printed in adjacent columns to-
day, provided 288 Livingston
Avenue, their only vacant -one-
family house at the time. They
made some repairs, as their
statement notes,’ and the
Tarvers, in March, 1963, moved

in. The landlords state that the
house was made “temporarily
habitable for the Tarver family

as conditions would permit until
they found more suitable hous-
ing.”” No such find occurred.
The County Welfare Depart-
ment and the Red Cross re-
placed the furniture the family
lost, Mrs. Tarver said, and life
went on.

Overcrowded With Living

As Mattie Tarver talked to
me in her kitchen two months
ago, pointing out the wallboard
that had been eaten away by
rats, pointing to the broken
door, a broken window stuffed
with rags, her children

swarmed in the kitchen, bai-|q,. alled
tling over and spilling a bottle|jarver Problem when te aan
jof soda, yelling, crawling ot

the basement window onto the
sidewalk, coming back in and
crawling out again, running up
and down the stairs, watching a
panel quiz game‘on the blaring
television set. The house was in
riot, normal riot, overcrowded
with living. Two soft-drink signs
were ‘stuck in a window, hold-
overs from the time when the
basement kitchen was a small
store.

Mrs. Tarver began to cook
supper, greens and salt pork in
a frying pan. Smoke from the
grease began to fill the room
and Mrs. Tarver talked as she
cooked, breaking up her grand-
children’s battles with a sharp
word, scolding a boy who
spilled his glass of soda on the
floor, then giving him another
glass.

Landlord Acts

That was two months ago,
and if ever a picture of hope-
lessness in the slums was seen,
that episode in the Tarver
kitchen was it. I saw Mrs.
Tarver again en July 11 in Mr.
Smythe’s church, and not all
was hopeless. The landlord was
putting new siding on the ex-
terior of the house, building a
retaining wall in front of the
house to prevent water and
melting snow from draining
down the basement steps and
into the kitchen, as it had dur-
ing the entire time the Tarvers
lived in the house. _. :

An inquiry to the Rent Con-
trol Ofice by The Times-Union
spurred a reconsideration of the
Tarver case and an inspector
was sent to the house. He found
the interior “deplorable‘‘ and
having “obviously not enough
living space nor toilet facilities
for the total number of occu-
pants.” The house does not
fell into rent control jurisdic-
tion, the inspector again found,
and so the case was closed for
good.

But that doesn’t close the
book on questions.

Why didn’t the Rent Control
inspect the premises last De-
cember when it received its
first comyaint? And if finding
it lacked jurisdiction, why didn’t
oficials bring the case to the
attention of the city? The Rent
Control office was created to
protect tenants from rent goug-
ing and intolerable conditions—
‘to prevent uncertainty, hard-
ship and dislocation,” the law
reads.

Giving a bureaucratic brush-
of to such a complaint does not
seem to live up to anything ap-
proaching the letter of the law.

But the city or county need
not have waited to be informed
by the state as to local condi-
tions, ,If welfare inspectors
were intouch with Mrs. Tarver.

why hadn’t something been

Mattie Tarver has a new
window in her house, put
there in recent weeks by
the landlords’ workmen.
It is one of many needed
repairs to the old
structure.

done? Weren’t they awafe ot
the health problems inherent in
such living—rats,roaefies, in-
adequate heat;“insuficient toilet
space, insuficient living space?

Whatever fault lies with the
landlord, it is not the entire
fault..A total of $2,191 was spent

on repairs to the house jn“ 27

months — $301 more thdn the
rent collected for thdt period.
The house was, temporary

solution, but nof one ever found

a permanent solution. The com-
munity’s responsibility has to
begin somewhere in the vague-
ly bounded territory where the
landlord’s responsibility ends.

The community was made
suddeniy aware of one aspect

of the Tarver family’s prob

lems last Sunday when the-first
article in this seres quofd Mrs.
Tarver on the problem—oef-Tats
in her-horié: Ed Rogozinski of
272 @vingson Avenue telephoned
me to inquire what might be
done. He has lived in the neigh-
borhood all his life and was
upset by the presence of the
rats and roaches. He said that
he had talked with Mayor Corn-
ing and with Buildings “Com-
missioner Philip Gallagher and
that both had said they would
give it their attention.

_Mr. Rogozinski is interested
in preventing the block from
deteriorating and talked of tek-
ing up a petition to bave the
city condemn the building and
demolish it. He was not aware
of the other aspects of the

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“Who am I going to turn to?”
he asked. hy

Mattie Tarver must ask the
same question. Her problem is
not without solution, but the
solution is not in sight. She
signed a statement last week
attesting that the landlord made
all the repairs she requested
and she says now “I am satis-
fied.”

But sow Mattie Tarver could
be satisfied in that crowded
house js beyond one man’s com-
prehension. She js a community
problem, one of many. Her
needs are large and. unusual but
somebody must know how to
help her with some of them.

What she said two months
ago as she stirred the greens
in the smoking fat as her brood
screamed and fought, does not
seem to be an unreasonable aim
for a person.

“ft don’t know about other
people,’ she. said, ‘‘but I do
like to live decent.”

(Continued tomorrow).

A.&K. fo Sell
The Building

Continued from Page C-1

permit, until] they found
more suitable housing.
Over a 2’ year period. our

firm has invested over $2,000

this house can never be
placed in first class condition.
At best, the Tarver family
'was permitteed to occupy the
ipremises as an emergency
measures.

We have tried to do the best
we could under the circum-

stances, but apparently this
series of articles does not
agree with our efforts. This

has caused us and our families
great personal distress and we
have therefore decided to sell
certain properties. The sale of
288 Livingston is being negoti-
ated and we believe the tran-
saction will be concluded in the
next day or so. This will not be
a sale to anyone connected
with us in any manner whatso-
ever.
Facts: Premises — 7 rooms,
one family house with bathtub,
toilet, cabinet, sink in kitchen:
automatic hot water, gas spacce
heater.
epairs by year for Tarvers:
1964—$454.00
Taxes, about $200. yearly 600.00
1965—$ 500.00
Insurance, about $40.
Total $2,91.00

Total expended $2,911.00
Total collected $70 x
27 months $1,890.00

Net Loss $1,0211299

121.00

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POVERTY THE TARGET

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Albany.”

and. “Arkor
them and

collect rent

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oT imes- Union

, as so m Patan

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unemployment, lack of  spe- \:
cial skills, school dropouts. The
aim is to strike at causes,
break the cycle of poverty
which keeps sons in the slums
as well as fathers,

So far, the federal anti-po-
verty program is not a notable
success, Albany, for example,
still has no Community Action

city’s anti-poverty campaign.
Albany is not alone. Other
communities across the nation
| have failed to satisfy the fed-
eral dictum that the poor must
be involved at the decision-
making level of any anti-po-
verty program. If male is
BORE Nac

Mayor Corning has aikied

description o!
learned, and what it means to the |

re sire of

Slums

Always With Us?

Times-Union Staff Writer Bill Kennedy spent
several weeks gathering material for his shocking
Series of stories on
He
and unfortunate people who live in
squalor and misery in the South End

“The Slums of
visited the unhappy

Hil] Areas.
Ith
from them.

talked with
the landlords who
His graphic
what he saw and

makes absorbing and

§ _ significant reading,
# Gee eas Chapter X
Bic eee eee By BILL KENNEDY

mer Lita, al :

ALM gui MUA

See Aitorial ‘Housing and
Government,” on Page 24.
i ne

HAI INN

ut
not heeded, federal funds are
withheld. :

Albany has submitted a sec-,

ond application for poverty |
funds, raised its decision-mak- ‘

Program, the keystone of any ing board membership from)

three to seven and expanded
its program’s advisory com-
mittee. The application is now
pending before the federal gov-
ernment but is reportedly still
viewed negatively in Washing
ton as having insufficient rep-

See THE apa Page 23

HA URL RTC UL HLH

Albanians to cut Es auneten

ALUM RUM

Ma ir te Not fevahyone
thinks 80. The President’s war on ‘poverty is directed against
“some of the things which make aaa. y Ait ill health,

ALBANY. N. Y.. er AUGUST 11.

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HN AMAMAN ICAL

Housing Bill
Signed By
President

WASHINGTON (AP)
dent Johnson signed a_ four-
year, $7.5-billion omnibus
housing bill Tuesday and said it
represents ‘‘the single most im-
portant breakthrough in the last
40 years’’ in housing.

The measure includes a con-
troversial new program of fed-
eral rent subsidies.

Speaking at a ceremonial bill
signing in the White House rose
garden, Johnson said no man or
woman ever grows too old or
too successful ‘‘to forget the
memory of a childhood home
that was without water and that
was without coverings on the

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of 2 ins series. :

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floor — and I have never forgot-

ten. ”

press on in this decade to wipe
out ‘‘the shame of slums and

os: a reminder and a progress report.

of city water to 20 million gallons daily from the present
average of 25 million gallons. The alternative is even more

stringent restrictions than have been ordered so far. Each

day The Times-Union will publish the figure on gallons used
during the preceding 24 hours ending at noon. This will be
Yesterday’s figure

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terioration and decay,’”’ the’
President said.

Home of Dignity

must make ure that. 5
ery famiv HB ASA ee Re
heme of dignit:. 1a neighb

hoed of pride, a - see?
opportunity and a city of >:
ise and hope.”’

The measure authorizes an
additional $2.9 billion for contin-
uing the urban renewal] pro-
gram of slum clearance and
community development.

It also authorizes an expan-
sion of the low-rent public
housing program to provide for
240,000 additional units and new
methods of obtaining them. In-
stead of being limited to new
construction, ioca! authorities
could finance 100,000 of these
units by purchase or lease of
existing housing.

Johnson said the bill is land-
mark legislation because of its

om-

new ideas.

the |
Housing Act signed yesterday
by President Johnson is diséus- fi

IAA

The nation can and must

squalor and the blight of de-!

RE, Was. resist rere

olas Katzenbach.

Negroes

J ips : y § ¢ a ae
gies to Dallas County by creer Cenarat Nich

| Phu.

‘ than 300
: Navy. pla es alone killed eet eS+}
dariaged 135° thera: Re

SAIGON (UPI)-A_ three-mile
long column of South Vietnam-
ese troops backed by tanks and
U.S. warplanes pushed to the
rescue of a beleaguered U.S.
Special Forces camp Tuesday
in a grinding battle that could
become one of the biggest of
the Viet Nam war.

At last report the massive
column was five to seven miies
from the Duc Co camp where
13 American advisers are be-
sieged. Communist Viet Cong
forces were engaged in
‘‘steady”’ battle against the gov-
ernment troops seeking to pre-
vent a small-scale Dien Bien

In other ground action, Viet
Cong forces overwhelmed the
defenders of two government
outposts near the Laotian bor-
der, some 240 miles northeast
of Saigon. After smashing the
twin garrisons, the Communists
destroyed a bridge on strategic
Highway Nine.

Air Raids Continue

In the air, U.S. Air Force,
Navy and Vietnamese air force
planes pounded Viet Cong tar-
gets in South Viet Nam in more

7th Fleet carrier Oriskany kept
up the pressure on Communist
North Viet Nam with a series
of raids smashing at barracks,
barges and storage facilities.

American fighter - bombers
were playing a heavy role in
the push to lift the prolonged
Comnuiunist siege of the Duc Co
camp—the last government foot-
hold in the Le Than district and
the sole remaining obstacle to
complete Red domination of
vital Highway 19.

U.S. intelligence reports indi-
cate the Communists want to
force withdrawal of Special
Forces units operating out of
Duc Co so they can use the
road for stepped-up infiltration
of men and arms via neighbor-
ing Cambodia.

More than 1,000 government
paratroopers were rushed by
helicopter into the area around
the besieged Duc Co camp a
week ago. But the relief forces
also were hemmed in by the
Viet Cong, and the armored col-
umn then was ordered along
with thousands of infantry rein-
forcements to try to link up
with the camp.

Meet VC Resistance.

es a within 24 hours.

AP pace

rages

To Vote Regis trars

By Associated Press
Prsspective Negro
jammed federal regisirars’ .i-)
‘fices in three Southern states
Tuesday signing up under the
new voting law.

At the same time, the Depart-
ment of Justice moved to erase
poll taxes in three states.

Both actions were to make it
easier for Negroes to vote.

Hundreds of Negroes turned)

out to register in Selma, the
western Alabama’ town which
became an early symbol of the
voting rights struggle. Others

packed into the smail po:i office,

at Greensboro, center of the
most recent civil rights struggle
in Alabama.

At Canton,

Miss., so many

‘Negroes turned up at the reg-

voters ive!

isriers that some
ney were assured that voting
rolls would still be open.

The voting examiners — some
of them Negroes — are part of a
special Justice Department
team sent to nine counties in
Alabama, Mississippi and Loui-
siana under the new law signed
Friday by President Johnson.

Meanwhile, the Justice De-
partment sued Tuesday to abol-
ish the poll tax in Texas, Virgin-
ia and Alabama. The move was
another step in implementing
the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The department asked that
the cases be heard as soon as
possible by three-judge courts.

Separate but similar suits at-

SEE DIXIE, Page 2

MIAMI, Fla.

Cuban Tells of Killing 5 Sailors
In Argument over Fidel Castro

(AP) — A forme x:

er Cuban lobsterman said Tues- © ~

day he turned on the captain on
the ancient banana boat Seven
Seas during an argument over

Fidel Castro and shot him and ~
four other shipmates to death °

before abandoning the vessel in
a small skiff. :

The crewman, Robert Ram-
irez, 35, told the story several
hours after the rowboat was
picked up in the Gulf Stream by
a German freighter about 60
miles south of Miami. Ramirez
was carrying a loaded .38-cal-
iber revolver in his belt.

Federal authoriteis said Ram-
irez told them he had been de-
fending the Castro regime and
that the captain, Rogelio Diaz,
had threatened to turn him over
to authorities when the ship
reached Tampa where it was to
undergo repairs.

“Tt was either he or them,”
authorities quoted Ramirez.

Ramirez said after the shoot-
ing the captain, he walked afi
where he shot the first mate and
three other crewmen. He said
he spared the life of the ship’s
Negro cook, who is missing.

An eighth crew member,

Roberto Ramirez
AP Wirephoto

Burgwise Elvin, hid in a for-
ward chain locker and survived.
He was found alone Sunday
aboard the derelict ship with
three bodies.

Ramirez said he threw the
body of the captain and one of
the crew overboard.

The only known survivor was

et) to “come back later.;

Other Navy planes from the

lof t ank

‘Ithe east, Tt was inet
See VIETS, Page 2 2.

The. big. government column iA

Viets Push to Rescue ~
Trapped U. S. Advisers

es

aes and

Yi

$1.7 Billion
For Military
Construction

WASHINGTON (#—The House
passed Tuesday a $1.7 billion
appropriation for military con-
struction around the world after
being told the bill was spared
sharper cutting because ‘‘we
are in a war which is escalat-

ing.’
The measure, containing
$293.5 million less than the

Pentagon requested, now goes
to the Senate which has already
been asked by defense officials
to restore some of the funds.

Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes,
chairman of the House Military
Appropriations subcommittee
told the House “‘in recent years,
heavier cuts were made in the
military construction bill.”

Projects planned for New
York State under the $1.7 bil-

jlion appropriation include:

Elvin Burywaise, who cowered|
in the chain locker as the vio-
lence flared Saturday night.

After the gunfire ended, Bury-
waise said he thought the Seven
Seas changed Course southward
toward Cuba. It had been
heading from Miami around the
tip of Florida for drydock re-
pairs in Tampa.

About two hours later, Bury-
waise said, the ship’s engines
went dead. The Coast Guard
speculated that whoever was
operating the Seven Seas did not
‘know how to switch to auxiliary
fuel tanks.

Three bodies were found Mon-
day when the Seven Seas was
towed into Key west by a Coast
Guard cutter. One was on deck,
two in their blood-stained bunks
below.

Mrs. Raul Garcia, wife of the
‘Ship’s owner, said the dead
were Aldrich Hinds, the first
mate; Jose Abad, the chief en-
gineer; and Antonio Fornier, a
seaman.

Burywaise said he had seen
the ship’s Spanish captain, Ro-
gelio Diaz, lying dead on the
bridge, but Diaz’ body was not

ARMY — Watervliet Arsenal,
$1,713,000.

AIR FORCE — Pisdiabeeah
AFB, $126,000; Stewart AFB,
$126,000; Stewart AFB, New-
burgh, $414,000.

Slack Dies:
Jazz Pianist

HOLLYWOOD, Aug, 10 (UPI)
— Freddie Slack, 55, pianist and
orchestra leader who popula-
rized ‘““Mr. Five By Five’ and
other boogie-woogie hits, was
found dead tonight in his apart-
ment, police said.

Death apparently resulted
from natural causes, police
said.

Slack played piano for the
Jimmy Dorsey orchestra and
later the Will Bradley-Ray Mc-
Kinley aggregation. He led his

See CUBAN, Page 2

own band in the 1940s.

Mate on

(UPI) — The 23-year-oid third

mate aboard Frank Sinatra’s
chartered luxury yacht sacri-
ficed his life early Tuesday to
save a non-swimming fellow
crew member from drowning
after their 8-foot dinghy cap-
sized. Two girls swam to safe-
ty.

The tragedy cast gloom over
the month-long romantic cruise
Sinatra has been taking along
the New England coastline with

a

Robert Goldtarb

Prati
M ach C Dies a Her oO

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass.jhis 19-year-old sweetheart, tele-

vision starlet Mia Farrow.

Sinatra and Mia were seclud-
ed aboard the 168-foot Southern
Breeze. Occasionally one of

them could be seen looking out —

at the planes and boats criss-
crossing nearby in search of
Robert S$. Goldfarb, third mate
aboard the yacht.

Goldfarb, of New York City,
parents live in New Rochelle,
N.Y.

Two Miss Launch

Officials said Goldfarb and
James O. Grimes of Ireland, a
steward aboard the yacht, lin-
gered in a bowling alley-coffee
shop early Tuesday and missed
the launch going back from
Martha’s Vineyard Island to the
yacht.

Two coffee shop waitresses,
whom the crewmen met Mon-
day night and who bowled with
them earlier, volunteered to
row them back to the yacht in
their dinghy. The girls, Cheryl
K. Navin, 21, of Lincoln, Neb.,
a senior at the University of
Nebraska, and Margaret Whitte-
more, 21, of Fort Lauderdale,
Fla., had summer jobs at the

See MATE, Page 2

AP Wirephoto

By United Press International

More needed rain soaked the
drought stricken Northeast
Tuesday and record low tem-
peratures chilled the Midwest.
Southern California’s heat wave
went into this third day.
Heavy rain spattered onto
areas of Dixie, where the hot,
humid weather continued.
Drought areas of New Hamp-
shire and Vermont collected up
to a half inch of rain in six

hours, Burlington, Vt., had .69
of an inch. Portland, Maine,
had .59 of an inch. New York
measured .83 of an inch. Phila-

delphia, Pa., collected 1.47 inch-
*

More Needed Rainfall
For the Drought Belt

Watertown, N.Y., -

es of rain.
had .91 of an inch.
However,

missioner
was mapping more use restric- +
tions to preserve dwindling re-
serves.

Biloxi, Miss.,
of rain and Tampa, Fla., meas-
ured 1.16 inches. Austin, Tex.,
got about an inch, Along the

South Atlantic shore, Sea Island

and Brunswick, Ga., each had
nearly 6 inches of rain, Geor-
gia’s Glynco Naval Air Station

was soaked with 3.38 inches of

rain.

rm,

ammunition. a8),
drop by. ‘parachute. onto

New York City’s —
reservoirs contained only 43 per
cent of their water capacity de- —
spite the rains and water Com-. —
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The City Slums: Are They
_ Permanent in the Picture?

Continued from Page 1|whether the city really wants bought it for $2,800 for urban

resentation from the poor. A
federal norm is that the deci-

sion-making board must con-
sist of about 30 people, of
which from a quarter to a
third must be the people being

served by the program — the|

_ poor.
Schenectady Rejected

. Schenectady’s application
was recently kicked back for
being inadequate in this re-

’ spect. The federal government
has found that resistance by
communities often is the re-
sult of their reluctance to
share with outsiders ther pre-
rogative for running the com-
munity. When this happens,

millions of dollars go begging,
a major tool for - fighting
poverty goes ‘unused, but
purity of political control. is
preserved.

_. Unquestionably the anti-po-
verty funds would go far in
Albany to battling some of the
causes of slums. But there are
other tools in the arsenal and
Albany is using them.

In an interview with this re-
porter, Mayor Corning citde the
new Housing and Urban De-
velopment Act of 1965, signed
into law yesterday by Presi-
dent Johnson, as ‘‘one of the
most satisfactory things I’ve
seen” in regard to housing.

The bill is a major one, long
and complex. It could mean
much in new federal housing
funds for Albany. It also has
some radically new provisions.

- Mayor Corning pointed to one

which has direct application
to the city’s Arbor Hill urban
renewal program: the reha-
bilitation grants to low-income
‘home-owners in urban renewal
areas. Families or individuals
with incomes under $3,000. will
be eligible for loans up to $1,-

500 to assist in rehabilitating

their homes to conform to the

high standards insisted . upon

under renewal program.
Humane Approach

The Mayor sees this as “a

- humane approach’’ to the hous-
ing problem. ‘‘Sure we could
go in and take it away from

the owner who’s living in it,”

the Mayor said. “And then we
* could sell it to another man
who would fix it up.” But
with this new federal aid the

- owner-+tenant can stay in his
own house and get help in
; ages en zing ~ a0 ee Me rai aA 4 2

okie

basis. This is a federal ploy
' to generate construction of
375,000 new units of private

housing within the next. four

years as a means of dealing
| with the slum problem.

Also there is a provision for
federal aid to cover two-thirds

ne of the cost of demolition of old

or umsafe buildings, and a
similar provision to cover two-
thirds of the cost of housing
code enforcement. The latter
would pay for -inspectors — to
check on violations of city and
state housing- codes. T h e
Mayor termed both these items
“tremendously satisfactory
tools.” :

(One federal requirement is
that the community continue
spending what it had been
spending on code enforcement
prior to gétting the federal aid.
It is perhaps only lucky co-
incidence—or was it astute po-
litical foresight?—that the city
created a Bureau of Code
Enforcement this year within
its Buildings Department, with
-a budget of $15,000. Two-
thirds of this may now be fed-'!
erally subsidized.) |

Traditional Tool

So these are some of the
new tools the city can use
‘in its attack on the slums. Pub-
lic housing has been a tradi-
tional tool, one used, as Mayor
Corning pointed out, since the
end of World War 2. The city
now now has 800 units opera-

year, another 100 in construc-
tion. More public housing will
be built in Arbor Hill, but that
is two or three years away.
The city also has exceptional
tools in its own Housing Code

and in the State Multiple Resi-

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- habitable

dence Laws. Together they

provide maximum protection
- for tenants. The City Housing

Code, for example insists that
basements have
floors at least 42 inches above
the earth; that window space

in basements be equivalent to

& area; that exterior walls and

- interior floor be damp-proof.
Jt would be a simple matter
to uncover violations of this

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one-eighth of the room's floor

regulation in the South End of
Albanv. In one basement

apartment I visited on Bassett

~ apartn
- Street, the floor appeared to
have been built only inches

- above the earth and the damp-
ness was intolerable by normal
standards. A disabled woman

was living in the basement
and it seemed only logical that

her condition would worsen in

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be seen!

to uncover all the violations
that now exist. Mayor Corning
said a ‘‘cycle survey’’—a mas-
sive inspection of all slum
housing undertaken on the
city’s initiative with out wait-
ing for complaints — was not
impossible. There is precedent
for the city and the state join-
ing forces in such task—which
is formidable for a. city to do
by itself. Thomas  Heffren,
director of the State Bureau of
Rent Administration, reported
that when he was State Rent

Administrator in Glen Cove,
L. L, a slum seandal erupted
and the state joined with Glen
Cove to inspect 150 houses. The
scandal arose when a landlord
was discovered renting coal
bins to tenants for a $15 a
week.

The Mayor’s view is that the
cycle survey could be done,
but he added: ‘‘Until we see
the result of the inspections we
are now making and the result
of orders we’re issuing, it’s
too early to know what we
should do on that.”

’ The City Department of
Buildings is currently investi-
gating a number of complaints
‘from South End residents about
intolerable housing conditions.

‘The remaining tool available
in Albany for doing battle in
the slums is the State Rent
Control Office, whose activities
have been indicated in pre-
vious articles in this series.

Passive Use

But this and most of the
city’s tools have been used pas-
sively in the past. They are
there to do the job when a
job needs doing, when, tenants
complain, when landlords push
their greed to abnormal limits.
And even then I’ve encountered
instances where both the city
and the state have been lax
with complaints. The article
on Girdie Myers, which appear-
ed yesterday, noted the city’s
minimal response to her prob-
lem. And as to the Rent Con-
trol office I can cite the case
of a man who, unaware of his
rights, was told by the land-
lord that if he didn’t sign a
two-year lease he could be
evicted, He signed the lease,
promptly found his rent in-
creased 15 per cent. He was
duped, but the rent increase
was legal, a consequence of
signing such a lease. He in-
quired by. telephone at Rent
Control about the legality of

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2 toe * ok =. = ee ae a s on a i Pe “> ates te ,;ment 4 : pe a
ing families of low-income with| ported that “a Rent Control] ~ aye :
Pes ig rent on a continuing ekenban “told him: ‘What One thing he can’t do is stop

are you complaining about?
For that many rooms the rent
isn’t bad.””

What is pervasive among
people dealing officially with
the slum problem is the atti-
tude that the landlord and
tenant must be treated equally.
But this is not the purport of
Housing Codes and Rent Con-
trol Legislation. They were
drawn to protect the tenant,
who is often ignorant, afraid.
apathetic, and rarely aware of
his rights. The law also serves
to protect children who must
suffer because of parental
ignorance.

Yet I’ve heard the line over
and over: ‘You can’t blame
the landlord...”

Place to Start

Nevertheless, it seems 4a
good place to start.

“First things first,’ Mayor
Corning said the other day.
“We'll deal with the landlords
on violations.”’

In Albany, as has_ been
shown, much of the slum hous-
ing has come into the posses-
sion of professional slum land-
lords. Perhaps a dozen or two
control the bulk of the city’s
old houses. With them it is a
game of pure profit — profit
from high rents, profit from
long-term sales to tenants,
profit from buying cheaply and
selling quickly.

One landlady in the South
End reported being approach-
ed by a real estate dealer who
offered her $900 for her three-
apartment house. She held onto
it and two years later the city

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But more and more as the
South End decays the land-
ladies are capitulating, and the
property moves into the pos-
session of a handful of men.
It seems only logical that more
supervision by government
agencies, more active supervi-
sion—seeking out violations be-
fore desperation complaints
arrive from protest groups—is
needed to protect vulnerable
people from landlord greed,

Wagner Summary

Mayor Robert F. Wagoner of
New York City, whose admin-
istration coped far from ade-
quately with one of the worst
slum problems in the nation,
summed up what the slum
means: ‘Neighborhood decay
starts slowly,” he said, “but
'when it has gained momentum
it has the force of a hurricane
or a great storm at sea. It de-
Stroys values, it destroys fami-
lies, it destroys people.’

It also takes its revenge on
the community which permits
the decay—spawning disease,
crime, alcoholism, and _ profes-
sional poverty. Who could be-
gin to calculate how much of
public welfare funds could be
saved if the slums were cleaned
up? Much of this money now
goes into the hands of slum
landlords, for they own the only
housing in the city where wel-
fare recipients can afford to
live. Some will find their way
out of these dungeons, but many
won’t,

The smug soldiers in the soap
and water brigade who believe
that all the slums need is a good
scrubbing, fail to appreciate the
effect of slum environment on
people.

Michael Harrington, in his
book “The Other America,”
cites the results of a research
project conducted in New Ha-
ven, Conn., by August B. Hol-
lingshead and F. C. Redlich.
The project separated the city’s
society into five classes: the
rich, the almost rich, the mid-
dle-class, the working class, and
the poor.

Harrington cites a ‘shocking
and decisive statistic’ from the

Becker Wrecking of Albany is at work on these two houses at 218 and 220
Orange Street. “They've been picked clean,’’ said one workman, ‘‘there

isn’t a thing in there worth.a nickel.”’

The researchers,

important,

says

chiatric illness per 100,000 peo-
ple. The rate was fairly con-
sistent among the top four
classes—ranging from 556 to 642
per 100,000. But for Class 5 —
the poor—the rate was 1,659 per
100,000—‘‘almost three times the
magnitude of any other class.”

Har-
rington, developed a series of
“stress factors’’—for children it
was poor parental health, both
mental and physical, a quarrel-
some home, a broken home,
sharp disagreements with par-
ents during adolescence. For
adults—poor health, work wor-
ries, money worries, lack of
neighbors and friends, marital
and parental worries.

A conclusion of the report was
that the more stress factors a
person was subjected to the
more likely was mental illness
the result. And it was the quan-
tity of factors, rather than the
intensity of any given one, that
researchers found to be more

The slums of Albany are not
unlike the slums of New Haven.
They are full-of so-called stress
factors; the poor are rich in

them.

The slums are full of mentally

ill people, neurotics aplenty, but

more important, psychotics who
no longer can relate to the S0-:ciety considers a normal man-

study: the rate of treated psy-

What can a tenant do when
a landlord refuses to repair

paying the rent, for: it is on
this matter that the landlord
may take him to court and
evict thim. However the pro-
cess is a long one, and has to
go through City Court. A land-
lord cannot evict a tenant with-
out good and sufficient reason.

Here are some of the things
ia tenant in trouble can do:

1—File a complaint with the
State Office of Rent Adminis-
tration located on the first floor
of the State Office Building,
(Telephone GR 4-8580). He may
find that Rent Control has no
jurisdiction over his apartment.
Apartments over $80 a month,
for example, are not subject
to control; nor are one-family
houses. But he should file his

A tattered venetian blind,
and cluttered interior mark this vacant building
at 167 Orange Street. Neighbors say the house

has been falling down

tenants left — 14 years ago.

ciety around them in what so-|ner.

if the landlord has not. regis-
tered his property with the
Rent Control-offfice,-the Office|
will investigate and determine

What Tenant Can Do

whether it should be register-

ed

2—Call Mayor Corning’s of-|
(Telephone
HO 3-4111). The mayor suggests
this as a first step in bringing
any tenant problem to

fice at City Hall.

city’s attention.

3—If a tenant needs legal ad-
vice the Mayor suggests a call
to City Court, (Tel. HO 3-4111).
A court worker will advise the
caller which of the City Court
judges can speak to him about
his problem. The Justices of
the Court are Harold Segal,
Tepedino and John
Rehfuss. If none of the justices
are available the tenant may
Corporation
(Counsel, John W. Hacker, Tel.

Michael

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complaint and find out. Even

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ALBANY, N. Y., WED., AUGUST 11,1965 23 | a *
AllHouses Vacant —
On Demolition List _

By TOM WILKINSON
Times-Union Staff Writer

There is swirling dust, broken brick and crumbling mortar
in the slum sections of Albany. There are splintered timbers,
shards of glass and the smell of exhaust fumes as wrecking
crews and their carnivorous machines chew into the ancient
relics that housed part of the slum population.

The City of Albany announced Monday that 40 buildings in
the slum sections would be torn down. A list of 19 such buildings,
complete with addresses, was given out by the Building Depart-
ment.

If the inference was’ that demolition would start on those
19 buildings as soon as the families were relocated, then it was
the wrong conclusion to draw. There are no families—all of those
buildings are vacant, some for as many as 14 years, and most
had already been torn down.

Gone Two Months

The double buildings at 44 and 46 Franklin Street, for ex-
ample, disappeared about two months ago. There is a vacant lot ‘
at 129 Lark Street as well as at two of the five sites mentioned te
on Dongan Avenue. The ragged -building at 167 Orange Street, :
torn and blackened curtains flapping listlessly at the gaping
windows, has been vacant for 14 years. The structure at 211
Orange has had no occupants for 12 years. .

Most of the rest of the vacant buildings, like the one at 21 el
Dengan Avenue, have become refuse bins and playpens. John a
Neal, of 19 Dongan Avenue, says he was ‘“‘all the time chasing ‘
kids out of that place next door. It was dangerous.”

H. H. Valentine, who lives at 213 Orange Street, boarded :
up the house next door and put a padlock on the back door to +
keep the kids out. The stoops on all of the vacant houses. have
been knocked off, but the invitation of open windows is a strong
temptation, both for kids and drunks.

Now on Job

Cristo Brothers of Rensselaer are knocking down the Dongan
Avenue buildings; their father, Michael Cristo, has his company
at work demolishing the structures at 17 and 19 Franklin Ave-
nue as well as 66 and 67 South Lansing Street.

The workers peeled away the cement wall that divided 15 _
and 17 Franklin Street, revealing a latticework of wood stripping
as the outer wall at 15 Franklin Street. The tenants living behind —
that patchwork affair were not home to say what they would do
about a whistling winter wind. ss

Philip Gallagher, the city building commissioner, said a list
of the next 20 houses to be torn down is now being compiled.
The same is true, he said, for a list of house repairs and altera-
tions—a result of complaints lodged with Mayor Corning. -

The city also went on record as saying they would be crack-
ing down on landlords from here on concerning repairs and
complaints. Knocking down vacant houses removes an unsafe
factor; enforcing the law to make habitable housing out of oc-
cupied hovels is probably the first step in rehabilitation. Tt is also
good government. ee an

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in stages since the last

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spiritual emptiness that their fs Gata el
parents went through. Should
they stay there also?

“The slum,” wrote Michael
Harrington, “with its vibrant,
dense life hammers away at
the individual. And because of
the sheer, grinding dirty ex-
perience of being poor, the per-
It is as if human beings dilapi-|themselves ‘alcoholics’? even
date along with tenements in|though many of them have notlaico nN wi

touched a drink for years will/Saturday at the

Alcoholics Anonymous will con-|tratio:
verge on Schenectady Friday for|lobby
their second annual New York
State conference.

alcoholism

the same cycle of poverty and

which they live.’ { ot a
gather at the Van Ourler Hotel|by a banquet at7p.m. __

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_Mese war, the pressures

_ tion, to crank up the whole

-_ “In the councils of government,” Presi-

ALBANY. N. Y., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1965

PAGE 24

James Reston

Arms-—Industrial Complex

WASHINGTON—The Johnson Administra-
tion is now discovering what President Eis-
enhower meant in his farewell warning to
the nation about the power of an industrial-
military complex in this country.

In the frustrations and
uncertainties of the Vietna-

are mounting on the Pres-
ident and his-civilian aides
to increase arms produc-

mobilization process, to
call up the reserves and aie
declare a national emer-

gency on the assumption that the fighting
is going to continue indefinitely and become
steadily more violent.

All kinds of powerful forces are involved
in this campaign. Congressmen who have
been complaining about the military bases
being closed in their constituencies now
want them reopened in the name of
“preparedness” for the Vietnamese war.
The leaders of communities whose military
programs have been cut back in Secretary
of Defense McNamara’s drive for a rational
and cost-efficiency program are quietly lob-
bying to get the old programs restored or
new orders assigned to their idle machines.

Top officers in the Pentagon who have
been nursing their wrath for years over
McNamara’s reduction of old programs or
rejection of new and expensive programs
now feel that Viet Nam provides new argu-
ments for their ideas and new excuses for

lobbying with willing senators for their pet
. schemes,

This is not, in fairness, merely a self-
serving exercise in many cases. Equipment
destroyed and likely to be destroyed in the
coming months in Viet Nam—helicopters
and planes, for example—obviously has to
be replaced, and is in the process of being

replaced, but McNamara is afraid that more
than this is at issue. In fact, that the war in
_ Viet Nam is being used as a pretext

to re-

uestions which, in his judgr

dent Eisenhower remarked in his last speech
before leaving the White House, ‘“‘we must
guard against the acquisition of unwarrant-
ed influence, whether sought or unsought, by
the military-industrial complex. The poten-
tial for the disastrous rise of misplaced

_ power exists and will persist.

“We must never let the weight of this
combination endanger our liberties or demo-
cratic processes. We should take nothing for
granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable
citizenry can compel the proper meshing of
the huge industrial and military machinery
of defense with our peaceful methods and

Pes car eae rie Be ater ae Oe ee
look —- What he is fighting against — and he is

goals, so that security and liberty may pros-
per together.”

McNamara has had occasion recently to
recall these words of the last Republican
president. He was confronted by one sug-
gestion in the draft of a Senate report that
the Pentagon was some $12 billion short on
equipment, and has been working energeti-
cally behind the scenes with Senator John
Stennis and other members of the prepared-
ness subcommittee to demonstrate that this
simply is not true and that the so-called
“equipment gap’’ will prove to be as illusory
as the infamous and discredited “missile
gap” of the late 1950s.

- Nobody denies here that American and
South Vietnamese forces will have to be in-
creased as time goes on and that the equip-
ment for these additional forces will have to
come from the United States.

For example, the Viet Cong now have
about 70,000 regular guerrillas in the field,
plus another 100,000 irregulars and 30,000
political officials a total of 200,000. The
United States now has approximately 100,-
000 men in or enroute to Viet Nam, fighting
with a South Vietnamese army of 550,000.
This gives the United States and South Viet
Nam an advantage of about three to one, but
McNamara concedes that this is a ‘‘quite un-
satisfactory ratio” for guerrilla warfare.

The secretary of defense suggests ten to
one aS a more realistic ratio, but he doesn’t
explain where these extra men are to come
from, and he did say publicly this week that
the South Vietnamese had told him they
simply could not contain the Viet Cong unless
the United States put in the 50,000 extra
troops allocated to the battle by President
Johnson last month.

So there will undoubtedly be a need for
more men and more equipment, but McNa-
mara’s point is that this equipment is or can
quickly be made available. The defenders
are not in trouble, he insists, because of lack
of equipment, and the war will not be won
by equipment alone, but by political, eco-

nomic and social measures.

persistent and vehement about it — is power-
ful pressure to regard this as a classical
war requiring vast numbers of men and ma-
terial, with manpower and industria] mobili-
zations substantially beyond what we now
have. .

It is something new to have a secretary
of defense arguing that the military pro-
grams of the country should not overwhelm
the political and social purposes of the na-
tion, but this is what McNamara is arguing.
It is true that he was for a somewhat larger
call up last month, but he wants it kept
limited for limited war aims, and there is
something about the way he discusses the
problem that makes one feel he will be a

hard man to overcome.
(C) 1965 New York Times News Service

The Johnson-Kennedy Feud...

It is no secret in Washington, nor in most of the rest of the nation
that a distinct coolness exists between President Johnson and New York’s
newly-elected Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a series of three articles be-
ginning on the Times-Union Editorial Page Saturday, Vera Glaser, well
known Washington political writer, explores the extent of the feud between
these two powertul politicians, and what it means for the election years.
of 1968 and 1972. The articles will appear on Saturday, Sunday and Monday

editorial pages.

Charles Bartlett

State Strikes Back at De Gaulle

e@ The State Department campaign to
have American wines served in embassies
aboard is being followed up with an effort
to have American ladies’ fashions exhibited
in United States embassies. A _ full-dress
fashion show, patterned after the elaborate
affairs staged at the French Embassy in
Washington for many years, will be held
soon at the embassy in Mexico City. This
State Department emphasis on the domestic
versions of two of France’s leading exports
has a faint taint of reprisal against Charles
De Gaulle.

_@ The President’s technique of introduc-
ing his new appointees at televised press
conferences afforded a sharp surprise to one
high government official. Alan Boyd, happy
in his job as Chairman of the Civil Aero-
nautics Board, was invited on April 27 to
come to the White House. Escorted into the

East Room where a press conferenc was
beginning, Boyd was suddenly introduced
by the President as his new Under-Secretary

of Commerce for transportation. Boyd, who
had never heard that he was being consid-
ered for this job, had no choice except to
stand up and smile.

e A “prep” course for the presidency is
suggested by the special seminars which are
being scheduled with President Johnson’s
knowledge for Hubert Humphrey. The semi-
nars are intended to give Humphrey a fuller
understanding of problems which may plague
the nation in the future. Evening sessions
with experts on these problems are arranged
by former Kennedy aide Meyer Feldman;
Max Kampelman, who once worked for
Humphrey; and William Connell who works
for him now.

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‘Who Said The Age of Miracles Is Dead?’

of the Rhine, and Cuba re-
- fringed with fire. President Kennedy fore-

Henry J. Taylor

Responsibilities vs. Capabilities

An inventory-taking time is overdue in

this period of great events. For sound poli-
cies are impossible at home and abroad
without looking at the balance between our
responsibilities and our capa-
bilities.

Our responsibilities involve
four great confrontations:

1. The merciless certainty
that the Sino-Soviet menace
will continue. Russian troops
still stand within 93 miles —

cast the Sino-Soviet drain on us for at least

- another generation.

2. The long-range potential in our South
east Asian war. This is an unlimited com-
mitment, like all other responsibilities in this
enumeration.

We drafted 1.8 million Americans for
Korea. Will we ultimately need fewer now?
About $80 billion defense dollars were spent
between 1945 and 1950, and yet an adequate
Army, Navy and Air Force was not avail-
able. Are we really better prepared now
for a ground war in Asia? Is Defense Sec-
retary Robert S. McNamara’s overworked
computer just spinning its reels?

I recently pointed out that for four years
McNamara has supplied the Viet Nam needs
chiefly by stripping equipment and_ in-
ventories from combat units in place else-
where.

I cited the deep concern of many United
States military leaders about the combat
readiness and backup of the Atlantic Fleet,
our Seventh Army in Germany, and the
status of the personnel, equipment, spare-
parts, and replenishment stock, etc., of our
strategic reserve divisions in this country
to meet other simultaneous emergencies
since the Viet Nam attrition. Meanwhile,
providing merely one planned plane, the
C-5A transport, will cost more than we spent
to create the atom bomb from scratch.

3. The protection of the U. S. dollar and
—indivisible—the British pound. The full im-
plications in our monetary responsibility, al-
though less widely publicized, make these
nearly as consequential as the Sino-Soviet
menace.

Our “balance of payments problem”’ is
really a soft definition for our gold crisis.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman William
Mc.Martin puts this in perspective: ‘‘We’re
in an emergency situation. Unless it is solved
there is a very real danger that we could
have a world depression.” Yet on July 29
our gold reserves hit still another new 27-
year low. .

Now, inventory the British side, for the
entire free world’s postwar monetary sys-
tem is built on the dollar-pound relationship
and gold.

Beyond our advances and others made

_last November to support the pound, Britain

borrowed an emergency $1 billion from the
International Monetary Fund. This past May
Britain drew $1.4 billion more. Both IMF
credits must be repaid. Yet Britain’s true
reserves for this purpose are practically nil.

I am leaving on a trip to Communist
satellite countries, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
etc., and Western Europe. De Gaulle, opera-
tionally, has all but withdrawn from NATO
and the Common Market alike. Some fis-
sures also appear in the balloon of the Euro-

‘Mr. Taylor Abroad

Henry J. Taylor is on his way
to Europe on a four to five-week re-
porting tour which will cover some of
the Communist countries.

He plans to visit Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, and probably Rumania and
Bulgaria as well as some of the west-
ern European capitals. Mr. Taylor
hopes to obtain revealing reports on
social, economic, and political changes
in the Red satellite nations, particu-
larly signs of defection from Moscow
among both national leaders and rank-
and-file citizens.

pean boom, beyond Britain. This accounts
for the timing of the trip: to see where we
stand in our Atlantic responsibilities as well
as jn Southeast Asia.

4. The potential confrontation of the busi-
ness cycle. There. are many indications of
a near-term leveling-off which certainly do
not forecast a depression. But, in the face
of our responsibilities and commitments,
where would even an orthodox recession
leave us?

President Johnson came into office on a
rising business curve. So did President Ken-
nedy. Their promises defied the long his-
tory of business cycles—a complex, mys-
terious and persistently recurring enigma
within itself.

What happens if the ‘‘myth” of business
cycles again proves that it is not a myth
at all. Should business turn down, President
Johnson says the government will spend it
up again. But the effect is to borrow more
and dollar-depreciate. And an increase in
the debt-dollar means decreased value in
the wage-thrift dollar.

The effect on price levels, debt retire-
ment, unemployment, liquidity, credit, the
capital flow and the whole virtual circle of
expansion promptly confronts the vicious
circle of doubt, contraction and the con-
fidence factor. And when a shot like that is
fired, who can tell the distance the sound
may carry or the echoes from it?

By not prudently Inventorying the balance
between our responsibilities and our capa-

bilities, President Johnson looks good. But
he does not look far.

Considine: Reflections on Some Images from the Past

Editorials

Government and Housing

Some of the tools for improvement of slum
housing conditions—local health and housing codes, —
public housing, financial assistant for the tenants—

have been available for many years. Today, as Bill
Kennedy’s tenth article
on Albany’s slum hous-
ing points out, even more
help is on the way.

It takes the form of a
federal Housing and Ur-
ban Development Act of
1965, hailed by, among
others, Mayor Corning,
who told Mr. Kennedy
that this legislation is
“one of the most satis-
factory things I’ve seen”
in regard to housing.

Among the provisions:

e Loans of up to $1,500 for low-income families
to help them rehabilitate their houses.

e A rent-subsidy formula, to assist low-income
families in paying their rents on a continuing basis.

e Federal funds to municipalities to cover two-
thirds of the cost of demolishing old and unsafe build- ;
ings, and to cover two-thirds of the cost of enforcing |
building and housing codes. dae

All these are new ways in which the federal
government will assist local communities with their
urban renewal projects. ee

But even with these new weapons available, it

remains a difficult and long-term problem to try to
eradicate most of the worst slum areas, the product |
of a half-century or more of indifference and neglect.

The city’s announcement this week that it plans
to demolish forty of the worst properties is a hope-
ful sign. The new federal aid program is a hopeful
sign. Add to the federal and municipal govern-
ments’ role a strong interest and close attention
from proper state authorities, and the combination
of action should begin to produce results. |

Certainly everyone has the right to expect it
will work out this way. %

The Hudson Valley

About the only encouraging thing that came out |
of this week’s third hearing on the Hudson River
basin at Kingston was the unanimous agreement from
all concerned that “something must be done.” =,

The aspects of the river valley that got most or
all of the attention were, as our Times-Union story a
said, “rotting hulks, swamps, pollution, bridges, the
need for a ‘green belt along the east shore,’ prob-
lems of dust, smoke and other air pollutants, disap- _

‘pearing landmarks, crumbling historical sites, and a
what was termed ‘lack of enforcement of present — .
anti-pollution BRST vA Se

All these add up, of course, to a pressing ne ae}
for “something to be done,” and this is one reason — "
why Governor Rockefeller has begun a billion-dollar
pollution eradication program and set up the Hudson a
River Valley Commission, which is conducting the —
hearings. It is why federal legislators have intro- —
duced bills to preserve certain areas of the Hudson ~
from the threat of enroachment by commercial and _
industrial interests uninterested in preservation of
natural beauty and resources. It is why President |
Jhonson has called a conference of northeastern po-

litical and conservation leaders on the subject of —
water conservation. |

Indeed, on all levels and from all sides comes the _
unanimous chorus that “something must be done.”

But we’re having some bickering about who is to |
do it and what, specifically, to do, and when. :

This is an unfortunate attribute of the politician.
Differing political faiths see a worthy “cause” to be
espoused, and instead of getting together in an at-
mosphere of mutual cooperation and sincere and rea- |
sonable approach to the problems, each tries to turn
the situation into his own pet project which, if suc- |
cessful, he will be able to point to for political credit
to -himself. :

This, we all sincerely hope, will not become the
case in consideration of the many needs of the Hud- |
son Valley. An earlier Timés-Union editorial suggest- |
ed that the valley is both a state and national asset, |
and of vital interest, of course, to the individual citi-
zens who live here and who have such a stake in
whether the valley becomes a thing of beauty or a
gross reflection of man’s stupidity.

Consideration of its problems should not be |
undertaken on a political basis, for political gain. It’s —
too big, too important to the future of all of us for
that. All interested parties should be represented in
the discussions—and the decisions. ‘

i scnesl ais

a time—not so long ago—when he was com-

By Bob Considine

The passage of time does strange things to men’s images.

_ John Fitzgenald Kennedy’s friends have inadvertently dim-

inished him with their memoirs. In Italy, on the other hand,
there has been a cascade of second thoughts about Mussolini.
Reach anywhere into an Italian magazine
stand today and you can pick up a learned
tract stating in effect that Il Duce did a lot
of good for the motherland and fie on the
dastards who plugged him and his girl so
vilely and strung them by their heels.

Now we have a kind word for Adolf Hitler
as expressed by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky at

mander of South Viet Nam’s air force. An of-
ficial version of what the dapper little airman really meant

when he said Hitler couldn’t have been all bad has been re-
lesed by the Saigon government.

“It goes without saying that Vice Marshal Ky’s admir-
ation does not go to Hitler the dictator, warmonger and Nazi,
but rather to the leader who, in the 1930s, by sheer energy
and dynamism was able to build unity of Germany, a country
then divided.

“Viewed from this angle, one would not hesitate to wish
Viet Nam to be headed by a leader endowed with the energy
and dynamism of the Hitler of the beginning of Germany’s
renaissance. To admire certain successful achievements of
a man does not necessarily mean that one should take a leaf
out of his book.”

Let’s see now, there was his Folks Wagon, too, and his
interest in photognaphs—or, at least, his interest in a girl

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photographer. Of course, he was picking on Jews and other
minorities at the time he was “uniting’’ Germany, but that
doesn’t seem to worry N. C. Ky.

In Italy people are recalling fondly that, after all, Musso-
lint did make the trains run on time. Maybe if he were around
today, it is argued, he could make the air conditioners and
telephones work.

On the other hand, the superb young leader of the free

world who was mowed down in Dallas in one of history’s most

seuseless assassinations, the man who breathed youth back “if

into our world, who faced up to Khrushchev and the imminent
threat; of nuclear war, is now better known as a callow sec-
ond guesser who griped about his secretary of state, a fellow

scatterbrain who never knew where he left his briefcase.
Tempus certainly does fugit.

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‘It’s All a Matter of Getting Used to It’

Bruce Shanks, Buffalo Evening News


13,000 to 15,000. Yet the pat-
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only grown more
more intolerable and possibly,

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Chapter XI
By Bill Kennedy |

Staff Writer

ay pen) aes Ap ; ‘ .
“It is no longer important to be white — thank heaven

ee ~ the white face is no longer invested with the power of

“this world; and it is devoutly

‘ig. still important to be;

Dix cept for the upper Arbor Hill

‘Estntates ‘ranging | aes
tern of Negro. neighborhoods

crowded,

more volatile. Negroes are
still crowded into the area east
of Lark Street—the South End,
what’s left of Capitol Hill,

These are the areas where
the city’s slums are concen-
trated.

Insistence that hsay is an

no ae be important to be black.”

to be hoped that it will soon

—James Baldwin

choose if they have the money,

S and _ represents
ther ignorance, or deliberate

pic matters ieaore that ex-

area, ‘there are few than 50

See editorial, “The Last of:
A Series,” on Page 34.

Negro families living west of
A few statistics from the State

gives an indication.
Special Calendar Year
For a specia] calendar year
from September to August, the

16 discrimination cases involv-
ing housing, six of them in Al-
bany; in 1962-63 it handled 21,
nine of them from Albany; in
1963-64 there were 57 cases,

they can move anywhere they
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Mayor Corning has asked

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Albanians to cut Ss eetien

of city water to 20 million gallons daily from the present

average of 25 million gallons.

The alternative is even more

stringent restrictions than have been ordered so far. Each
day The Times-Union will publish the figure on gallons used

during the preceding 24 hours

ending at noon. This will be

both a reminder and a progress report. Yesterday’s figure

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Some major mechanical
contractors agreed to terms

yesterday with two unions on
five-year contracts that will

Lark Street. Why not more?!

Commission on Human Rights |”

Commission in 1961-62, handled

wounded.

bring an eventual 35-hour work
week and a $1.40 increase in
hourly pay.

a union spokesman said
pickets and work be remov-
ed today and work resumed
at projects of those contrac-
tors.

The sheet metal workers and
plumbers unions accepted the
new pacts whose terms coin-

| cide with a compromise push-

ed last week by Mayor Corn-
ing.

The agreements were gen-
erally viewed aS a major
breakthrough in setting an in-
dustry-wide strike that has
tied up an estimated $250 mil-
lion in consiruction off and on
since May 1.

Lending weight to this view
was the report that several
general contractors were hold-
ing peace talks with the same
unions. The mechanical con-
tractors work on air condi-
eel Poy plumbing, heat-

onstruction.
Both. employ the sheet metal
workers and plumbers.

The union source said - by
reaching agreement on the
shorter work week the me-
chanical contractors were dis-
affiliating themselves with
Eastern New York.

representing the mechanical
employers of Eastern New
York broke up a negotiating
session about 6:45 p.m. with-
out coming to terms.

One management man ‘said
“tempers were getting too

hot’ and that the meetting will -

be resumed at 9 a.m. today —
at the Labor Temple.

At one point in yesterday —
afternoon’s session, the plumb- —

ers left the meeting room for

a caucus. One jubilant piney.

er handed out cigars to per-
sons standing around the tem-
ple’s anteroom.

“Let’s act just like Red

- Auerbach,” he said. ‘‘When
his men have the game sewed
up he always lights a cigar.”

The union spokesman, who
did not wish his name used,

_ said all the employers were

“members of Eastern New
York Construction Employers
Inc. Dr. Wim VanEeekeren,
managing director of the em-

ployer group, would not com-
ment.

Other sources, however said
Jacob H. Herzog, who has
been counsel to the employer
group for years, had taken
over the chief negotiator’s
role. Mr. Herzog was in New
York yesterday and could not
be reached for comment.

The names of the contrac-
tors involved in the agree-
ments were not made public.
They expressed a desire to
have their names kept out of

BILLION DOLLAR BILL

Senate OKs GI Pay Hike

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
Senate unanimously approved a
billion-dollar military pay raise
bill Wednesday—more.than dou-
ble the amount asked by. Presi-

dent Johson.

The fa approved by an 89

postage to servicempn in Sout
Viet Nam or in any other com-}
bat zone.

The Senate measure now re-
turns to the House, which. has
approved a slightly larger bill.

Senate action came on a rec-
ord vote after Sen. Richard B.
Russell, D-Ga., had cautioned
his colleagues that the pending

Plumbers and = contractors

SAIGON, South Viet Nam
(AP) Vietnamese relief
troops shot their way through
thin Viet Cong resistance to a
linkup Wednesday night with
the besieged special forces gar-
rison at Duc Co, U.S. military
sources reported.

Americans expressed hope the
relief detachment, described as
large, could clear away guerril-
la gunners ringing the camp’s
airstrip so transports could
start landing to move in sup-
plies and move out the dead and

Re-establishment of aerial
contact was considered essen-
tial because the Viet Cong were
reported to have closed in be-
hind the relief column and again
cut Route 19 between Duc Co
and Pleiku, the 2nd Corps area
headquarters, 30 miles north-
east of the camp.

Route 19 is Duc. Co’s only
road. It is q strategic highway
that crosses the central high-
lands from Qui Nhon, on the
South China Sea, to the Cambo-
dian frontier at a point five
miles west of Duc Co. Duc Co is
220 miles northeast of Saigon.

Awaits Permission

“We have been waiting for
weeks for permission to clear
the Viet Cong out of this natural
highway from Cambodia into
Viet Nam,” U.S. source said.
“We have enough forces there
now to try to do the job.”

About a dozen U.S. advisers
and 150 Vietnamese — Montag-
nard tribal irregulars and low-
land paratroopers — held out in
sandbagged bunkers of Duc Co
during bitter fighting earlier
this week as Viet Cong battal-
ions sought to block government
infantry and armored units
moving down from Pleiku. The
siege began June 3.

Both sides have suffered
heavy casualties.

Air and ground strikes carried
on the war elsewhere.

North Vietnamese

shot down one of four

Cong Siege Lifted
By S. Viet Troops

Foree F105 Thunderchiefs on a
reconnaissance run north oi
Vinh. A U.S. spokesman said
the pilot, Cpt. Lawrence D.
Wilson of Cleveland, Ohio, para-
chuted over the sea and was
picked up unharmed by a U.S.
Amy helicopter. within 10
minutes.

Barracks at Vinh, Xom Bang
and Son La were among tangets
of the day. Pilots of eight Navy
planes who made the raid at
Son La, 125 miles west-north-
west of Hanoi, said they de-
stroyed 12 buildings and left two
large fires burning.

Planes Join

U.S. and Vietmamese planes
again joined in strikes at Vie:
Cong establishments south of
the border. Briefing officers
said the strikes destroyed more
than 120 buildings and were be-
lieved to have killed a large
number of the guerrillas.

Vietnamese ground forces
were credited with killing 40
Viet Cong in three separate ac-
tions. Government casualties
were termed light.

1.7 billion defense increase for

Viet Nam is ‘‘only a smal] down

payment” on the cost of that

buildup.

~The Armed Services chairman
ullenged the administration’ Ss}

Russell said it will “take al
{miracle’’

to do both without)
iarge-scale deficit financing and
its ‘‘danger of all-out inflation.”
~The senator said:

“The increasing involvement
in Viet Nam is rapidly bring-
ing us to a point at which this
Congress and the American peo-
ple will be confronted with hard
choices: If wé are able to have
both butter and guns, we wiil
have accomplished the feat of

‘having our cake and eating it

to0, which no government has
heretofore been able to achieve.
The pay raise bill Russell pro-

Cuba Executes
3 Merchants

HAVANA (UPI)—The  gov-
ernment Wednesday announced
the ~execution of three Cuban
merchant men alleged to be
spies of the U.S. Central’ Intel-
ligence Agency (CIA). It said
they were executed by firing
squad in Cabana Fortress Mon-
day morning.

The victims were identified
as Roberto Fernandez ‘Cobo,
Jorge Raul Pereira Castaneda
and Roger Sabino Sopena Hino-
josa. The first two were sailors
aboard Gonzalez Line steamers,
and Sopena a crewman of the
freighter Manue! Azcunce.

The official release said Fer-
nandez and Sopena had previ-
ous criminal records. It identi-
fied Pereira as a former Cuban
havy junior officer.

The statement said the execut-
ed trio received special training
in incendiarism and smuggled
radio sets and secret writing|*
equipment into Cuba.

posed gives the greater percent-
age increases to enlisted men.
The total of $991,258,000 is more
than double the $447 million pay

raise fener by: hen adminis- od

men with more than two year
service. Officers would get al
six per cent raise. ae

Breakthrough Scored
Construction Strike

print until work resumed, the
union spokesman said.

“The situation looks very op-
timistic,” he said. “But the
strike has been going on a
long time and there’s a lot of
ill feeling. Any little thing
could ignite the while thing
again.”

Harry Pozefsky of Glovers-
ville, the lawyer for the Build- -
ing Trades Council, said he

was ‘‘very optimistic.”’ Then
he added: “that’s a definite
understatement.”

The new agreements provide
for continuing the present 40-
hour work week two years,
with reductions to 39, 37 and
35 hours in successive years.
The pay increase, in steps,
will total $1.40 over the same
five-year period. ©

The unions had put forth ap-
proximately the same pack-
age proposal just before the
old contracts expired last Ap-
ril 30.

The iron workers and the
laborers unions, however, a id

t

the same deal 0
pay as “a compron

week in telegrams to the em-
loyers and the unions. 5
Despite heavy publicity giv-

en to the work week issue,
trade sources said there had
been a definite shift away

from the earlier adamant

stand expressed by Dr. Van-
Eeekeren. He had refused to —
discuss other issues while a
demand for reduced hours was.
still in the bargaining table.
to allow use of their names, —
said the contractors’ main ob-
jective was to eliminate other —

working conditions which they —

‘felt added heavily to costs

without aiding productivity
Among these they mentioned
travel time and ‘‘stacking”’ of
men on some jobs.

Dr. Van Eekeren’s insist. =
ence on keeping the status quo ~

in hours, they said, prevented
any negotiation ¢ on) tae ve

Raymond C. Skuse

Skuse fo Seek
Nomination

In a move just beating Fri-
day’s deadline for primary
candidates to decline their
nominations, the Albany County
Republican Committee early to-
day will file a nominating pe-
tition naming Raymond C.
Skuse of Albany to run for the
nomination for Assemblyman of
the new 112th Assembly Dis-
trict.

Mr. Skuse, active in the Re-
publican organization since he
came to Albany ten years ago,

See SKUSE, Page 9

(C) 1965 New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — The Senate
voted Wednesday to give the
cities a voice at the cabinet
table by creating a Department
of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment.

Passage of the bill came on
a vote of 57 to 33 after two
days of debate. It amrked anoth-
er in a long string of major

legislative victories for Presi-
dent Johnson.

The House passed almost
idential legislation June 15. How-
ever, it is likely to Wake 2&

nf

4

Senate-House conference to work
out the differences.

Johnson hailed the Senate ac-
tion and pledged that the new
department would be adminis-
beg for the benefit of all peo-
ple

“We will make sure that every
family in America has access
to a home of dignity and a
neighborhood of pride,” he said.

The bill does not provide any]!
new federal programs. The
major thrust is to group within
one department all the housing
and urban development pro-
grams scattered throughout the
government.

However, creation of the new

Senate Votes to Create
Urban Development Dept.

department is expected to have

a definite impact on the cities

and their growing problems.
The creation of the new de-

partment could lead to Robert C.
Weaver becoming the first Ne-
gro cabinet member. He is head
of the Housing and Home fin-
rance Agency, which would be
absorbed by the new depart-
ment.

the Urban Department bill is
te latest entry in the adminis-
tration’s list of measures win-
ning congressional approval ‘this
year after having been hope-
lessly bogged down in previous

years. j

lerisis teams

In Water Crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-
dent Johnson ordered federal
into New York,
Philadelphia and other big
Eastern cities Wednesday to
help speed hard and fast deci-
sions on what must be done to
meet the threat of an acute
water shortage.

“This is a time for action —
federal, state and local, public
and private,’ Johnson said.

The President spoke at a
White House conference of gov-
ernors, mayors, congressional
delegations. and other officials
called to discuss the four-year
drought that is rapidly becom-
ing an emergency in the afflict-
ed area.

Johnson announced a series of
measures to mobilize federal
aid for longer-range projects,
including a $4-million water re-
sources planning survey ‘“‘for
the entire Northeast from Vir-
ginia to Maine.”

Water Council

Meanwhile, the President
asked his Water Resources
Council headed by Secretary of
the Interior Stewart L. Udall to
consult daily with city and state
officials in New York, Pennsy]-
vania, New Jersey and Dela-
ware, the states represented at
Wednesday’s emergency  ses-
sion. .
Several participants voiced
general satisfaction with the
conference, although they told
newsmen no immediate solu-
tions developed for any immedi-
ate problems. They said pros-
pects for the intermediate and
ans a problems look bet-
er

In setting up the daily consul-
tations among federal, state and
city officials, Johnson asked for
reports on what action should be
taken. }
Mobilizing Units

He said the federal govern-
ment already is mobilizing var-
ious departments and agencies
to help, including Agriculture,
Health, Interior, Federal Power
Commission, Army Engineers,
and the Office of Civil Defense.

“Should the council find any
additional action is required,”
Johnson said, ‘‘I am prepared to
do whatever else is necessary.”

The chief executive keyed the
meeting by ae ¢ into law a

a or
be Li

tic. nature the job of producing
fresh water ‘‘when and where

afford.”

WASHINGTON (AP)

National Guard.

our national interest’? and de-

the proposal.
statement Wednesday that the

ed reserve uhits.”’
The. subcommittee

Rivers, D-S.C., and ranking Re-

pected.

later.

on this subject, and is deter-

future reorganizations of
Reserve components by recom
mending the enactment of pos
tive legislation on the sub,

Hebert said.

$185-million bill to speed ie
program of converting salt and
brackish water into fresh water. —
Johnson said the time has
come to take over from an erra-

we need it at a price we sa

Merger Plans: :
For Reserves —
Dead for Now

A
House subcommittee apparently —
has killed at least for this year
the Pentagon’s plan to merge
Army Reserve units into We.

An Armed Services subcom- ‘
mittee headed by Rep. F. Ed-
ward Hebert, D-La., held the.
present merger plan. is ‘not in

clined to act on legislation Sec-
retary of Defense Robert S. Mc-
Namara submitted to carry ~

Heert expressed belief in a;

plan “‘would result in an imme-
diate ‘and serious loss in the
combat readiness of the affect-

action, ci
concurred in by the chairman of :
the full committee, L. Mendel.

publican William H. Bates” of
Massachusetts, was not unex-

But in closing its hearings on
the plan, the subcommittee left.
the door open for more talks
with the Defense Department
and for a possible Siete

“The Armed Services Com-
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# Nine of them from Albany; and
in 1964-65 there were 46 cases,
23 of them from Albany.

This is a small number, ad-
mittedly, but the entire case-
load. of the Commission is
small when it is considered that
it has jurisdiction over nine
upstate cities, plus rural com-
munities. Commission workers

C criminated against do not file
point out that many persons dis-)
complaints because of the time
it takes, because of a basic fear
of government agencies, be-
cause of an erroneous impres-
sion that it will cost them —
money and bring them publicity
(discrimination cases are con-
ducted at state expense and
are mot public information un-

' less they get to the courts, a
rare occurrence), because they
do not want to be considered
troublemakers, or because
eventually, they find some kind _
of housing and then—unless
they are ideologically motivated

_—they put the discrimination
behind them. I spoke with one
man who was turned down 25
or 30 times, finally found a
house, but never complained to
the Commission.

A slum child in a home on Catharine Street.

Complaints Increase

The significant statistic is the
increase of Albany complaints
from nine to 23 in the space of
a year, plus tthe fact that the 23
cases represent 50 per cent of
the Commission’s entire case-
joad in the whole upstate area.

_ Partially this was because of
the Commission being given
jurisdiction. over almost alj
‘housing, thus broadening its po-
tentiality for complaints.

But it was also the result of
Albany’s specific circum-

stances, a chief factor being the
Mall land clearance, which
Swept away much decrepit hous-
ing, but also much that was old
but good. And Negroes who had
decent homes in this area and
tried to find their equivalens
were crammed into Arbor Hill
or deeper into the South End,
until only inferior housing re-
mained. This inevitably led
jthem to areas of the city that
for them is still almost virgin
territory.

Negro house-hunters (almosi
any Negro can cite half a dozen,
or a dozen examples of this)
found apartments or houses
suddenly taken off the market,

or suddenly rented to a land-
lord’s cousin. What alternatives
remained? Cne — to move out-
side the city, as many Negroes
do. Another — move into the
slums and make the best of a
bad environment.

It is not the Mall clearance
that creates such sit ations.

. §. End Racial Incident Stirs Ass

_ Two assault, third degree, charges have been filed against
white men as the result of a racial incident in the South End
on Aug. 4.

One charge is filed against Robert Dodge of 103 Third
Avenue, the other against an unidentified man known only as
friend of the family of Marguerite Turner 48, of 115 Third
Avenue, a Negro mother of 12 children.

; Mr. Dodge and his wife Dorothy ‘appeared in Subpeona
_ |. Court Wednesday as did Mrs. Turner, to discuss the case be-
: fore Judge Ralph Leonard. The Dodges were represented by

_ attorney James Woolsey PJr., and Mrs. Turner by attorney
John Jennings.

The Dodges, through their attorney, declined comment on
the case. Mrs. Turner gave this version of what happened:
With her children and the help of a white friend whom she
_ @id not identify, she moved on Aug. 4 from an old house on ‘
-»..~ Westerlo. Street. toa more -modern-and-roomier-house at 115 _
eee Third Avenue. On the day of the move her 10-year-old son

. became involved in an incident with the son of Mr. and Mrs.
r Dodge. Mrs. Turner said the Dodge boy called her son a
: “black nigger” whereupon the Turner boy chased the Dodge

boy up a tree. —

a aa ne OI ear: reel ge
: ae ae

ard. Mrs. Dodge alleged that
Turner had a knife. However,

Tells of Name Calling

Soon after, Mrs.. Turner said, Mrs. Dodge appeared at the
Turner house and using the word ‘‘nigger’’ on several occa-
sions told the Turners they did not belong in the neighbohood

and to go back wherde they came from. Turner said.

ault Charges

sons to call the police, and they arrived about this time. The
police, she said, listened to the stories, told Mrs. Dodge to go
home, and advised Mrs. Turner that she could lay an informa-
tion for a warrant in police court if she so chose.
Assault Charge Filed
Mrs. Turner on the following day filed an assault, third
degree charge against Mr. Dodge. Two days later Mrs. Turner

received notice to appear in Subpoena Court and through their
attorneys the women related the story to Judge Ralph Leon-

Mrs. Turner, only against the white friend. The charge against
him was filed on a John Doe warrant. pan
Judge Leonard spoke with the attorneys and pointed out-|,,,
that fights-among-children only become serious matters when’
the parents make them so. He expressed the hope that the
mothers would resolve their differences. He also advised Mrs.
Dodge through her attorney that the low of the land provides
that a Negro can live wherever he chooses and that she can
not go around making new constitutional law.

‘Mrs. Turner said she likes her new neighborhood and
has had a sympathetic response from other neighbors follow-
ing the incident.

“All the other neighbors seem to be nice people,” Mrs.

There is a continuing wall of
discrimination that is now keep-
ing an estimated 400 middle
class Negro families with in-
comes ranging from $6,000 to
$10,000 a year and up, confined
either to slum neighborhoods
or their peripheries.

Decent Sections

Some do break through and
mo@e into decent sections of
the city, but it is often a lucky
find ,or a wilful act by a white
home owner who makes the
sale or the renting of his house
to a Negro a matter of con-
science; or else it happens
through connections — social,
commercial, real estate or
other centers of influence in
the city.

Two Presidents have placed
the moral force of the White
House and power of the Federal
government behind the drive
for legislation that will give
all citizens equal opportunity.
A common sight in the homes
of Negroes who live in the
city’s slums, is a photograph
of John F. eKnnedy.

The state of New York has
been a pioneer in civil rights
legislation and now has a
stronger set of Civil Rights
legislation than the Federal
government. Yet  discrimina-
tion is not only a fact of life
in Albany; it is national pat-
tern. And more and more the
cities of the north that have
been thought traditionally lib-
eral in outlook are havinté the
curtain lifted on their racial
trouble. ;
An article in the magazine4

American,” published lagt wee
by a University of [ic n
sociologist concluded: ™ Dis-
crimination is the/principal
cause of Negro residential seg-
regation, and there is no basis
for anticipating/ major changes
in the’ segregg¢ted character of

]

}

comments are not something
that can be brushed aside. The
city underwent a day of tensior?
last summer following the Roch-
ester rioting, whose equal it un-

face ever again.

Mendes of Albany said in the
symposium:

no rioting elsewhere. If rioting
happened again in cther cities,
the same anxiety wonld exigf
here, and prebebly worse than
before.”

Williams said: ‘‘Of course there

the Negro wants
But

urosis Stifles Negroes

American cities until patterns
of housing discrimination can
be altered.’’

This, said Dr. Karl E. Taeu-
ber, the author, is the pattern
in major American cities. For
his detailed survey he analyzed
census data for more than 200
cities. Opinion is divided on his
conclusions among urban civil
rights leaders, but Dr. Taeu-
ber’s pessimistic conclusion is
that the white culture of these
cities will probably not change
much even in the next few
decades.

Some cities have learned the
hard way the meaning of non-
assimilation. The experience of
Selma, and Philadelphia, Ds.
and Bogalusq is tragic, ex-
tremely so, but so has that of
Chicago and Harlem and —
close to home—Rochester.

For too many people in Al-
bany this is something they
see on the television news
shows, something that will
neYer happen here. That is no
doubt the hope of all citizens,
black. and white, and there is
no real reason to think other-
wise, at the moment. Albany’s
Negro population has never
given the community reason
to believe that violence was a
desirab'e solution to their prob-
lems. Traditionally their life
has been tranquil.

Yet two Negro leaders were
quoted in this newspaper in a
symposium last week and their

juestionably dees not want to
But here is what the Rev. Val

“The tension is
ess here now because there is

And here is what Thaddeus

s tension, now as then. Inside
to explode.
the Negro here doesn’t

during the confrontation Mrs.
no charge was placed against.

}

want to explode and be the

patience, closer to the breaking
point.’

me in the course of this series
that
_|Luther King would be coming to
_|town one of these days and that

Hin the streets.
was that it would be Mr. King
who would bring on the Filling,
which is about as far from an

philoscphy that Mr. King has
propagated as any man is likely
to get.

is done by other Albanians?
How

An elderly white man said to

he feared that Martin

His imoression

mderstanding of the non-violent

How much thinking like this

sophisticated is their

and morality is a matter of
behavior. How to behave in re-
gard to the slum problem
Albany? Probably a thousand
ways, ranging from charity,
which is a cheap way out, to
a totally new conception of
what the city ought to be.

city have yet to be heard in
regard to the problem as des-
scribed in this series of articles.
Only one letter of a constructive
nature has yet been received
in response. But there have been
dozens of the other kind—
chiefly from those who thing’
that others should change, but
not themselves, who believe that
every force for

bulk of the letters have been
only examples of veiled bigo-
try against Negroes, and some
not veiled at all; very much
like, no doubt, the letters that
newspapers received about the
Irish in the 1990s, th
1900, the Italians in 1910,

out the terrible slums of the
city, or to liberate frrom squalor
the Negroes who live in them.

awareness of what the civil
rights movement means, of its
power to change the status
quo?

Albanians can consider such
matters at their leisure, but
they should be aware that
leisure consideration js not

necessarily jnfinite in nature.
Times have changed, and it is
interesting to note how Roches-
ter has become aware off this
very basic fact. ae

Delight of South

The Upper Falls slum, where
Negroes rioted last year to the
shock 6 fthe North and’ the de-
light of the South, is now going
to be cleared of its clusters of
crumbling shacks, factories
and houses. The New -York
Times reported on July 30 that
the city has applied for Fed-
eral urban renewal funds to
draw up plans for the area’s
135 acres.

On the site will be built more _
than 1,000 low and moderate
income apartments and a park
along the banks of the Genesee
River. The city estimates the
project will cost $20 million
and take 10 years to complete.
It will be the seventh urban
renewal project for the city,
which Federal and state offi-
cials consider to be the most
ambitious in the nation on ur-
ban renewal.

Could Albany do something

similar? Should it?

* . ALBANY,N. Y., THURS., AUG. 12, 1965

Three Albany boys—in

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s

3

heritors of the slums.

Should implies a moral factor

in

The intelligent voices of the

m

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improvement

af
th

m

long strike of RCA Communica-
tions Inc. by the independent
American Communications As-
sociation was settled Wednesday
when union members accep!-
ed a company-proposed agree-

overwhelmingly for the agree-

ion said that agreement called
for reinstatement of all person-

workers who refused to operate

RCA Communication
Union Ends Strike

NEW YORK (AP) — A week-jassignments with the new equi
ment “pending outcome of n
gotiations
prompt arbitration.”

ent.
The union members voted

ent. A spokesman for the un-

t

‘eavse of a riot. All he wants to creel ahd within, none from|nel suspended in a dispute over operates the “Hot Line” lin
‘do is better himself.” And he| ¥120ut- f use of automated switching! between Washington and Mo
added: “The Negro is coming! ,, @emerally speaking, though|equipment last July 28. jcow. — | Wigs
neerer to the end of his| ere have been exceptions, the| ‘The dispute was triggered| Supervisory personnel —

ter the company. fired five

e equipment. ye ah
The spokesman said ithat the

agreed to work out methods fd
more rapid handling of grie
ances in the future. .

subsidiary of Radio Corp.
America, is deeply involved i

ma nhad sa
been

or, if . neeessar

Both sides, he said, als

The communications firm,

he nation’s space program an

e Jews in

;

a bigoted minority does. ant

erase the fact that for anyone
readgng them, it is the only
voice heard. Benovelent good
will that is hQarded in the in-
dividual heart never accomp-
lishes much.

It doesn’t do a thing to wipe|

Mrs. Turner confronted Mrs. Dodge, she said, and Mrs. |
Dodge again used the term ‘black nigger”? whereupon Mrs.
Turner slapped Mrs. Dodge, who ran home, and reutrned with

a baseball bat, pounded on the front door and front stoop and
urged the Turners to come outside.

Mrs. Turner said her 15-year-ld son Philip went outside,
as did a daughter and the white friend. The white friend
grappled over the bat with Mrs. Dodge, who fell to the ground,
Mrs. Turner reported. Mrs. Dodge left and within minutes
Mr. Dodge returned with a length of pipe and began beating |

- on the Turner door. Mrs. Turner said he yelled: ‘Come on
black niggers get it.’ Mrs. Turner said one of her childrez |
replied: _‘‘You come in and get us.”

Meantime, Ms. Turner said, she had sent another of her

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A Look at the Inflationary Clouds

WASHINGTON—The open-ended charac-
ter of the commitment in Viet Nam is as-
sessed in thoughtful circles as the greatest
present danger that the Republican warnings
of inflation will gain valid-
-ity in the months ahead.
Senator Everett Dirksen has
pointed to the June rise in
the cost of living, which
the most substantial

ease in 23 months.

ely fo single-sot hike
food and such metals as tin,

Dirksen pointed further to the record of
recent wage settlements. Pay increases
ince the start of the year have averaged
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‘the established rate of expansion in produc-
tivity. One basic tenet of the new economics
is that pay increases which exceed produc-
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Official alarm over key wage settlements,
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increase to the auto workers last fall and
the four and one-quarter per cent increase
to the aluminum workers this June, has been
somewhat allayed by industry’s huge strides
in productivity. Good times have encouraged
companies to invest in new plants and
machinery which enable workers to expand
their output. This expansion is expected to
offset the inflationary pressures.

The current steel negotiations hold an om-
inous potential to foster inflation, either
through a shortage-inducing strike or a set-
tlement that gives the companies cause to
raise their prices. Stee] is three times as im-
portant in industrial production as all other
metals combined and the stability of steel

prices since 1959 is counted a key cause of

the general price stability.

The strike dangers loom larger in the
headlines than they do in the minds of offi-
cials in the negotiations closely. The differ-
ences are narrowed to a question of how
much and I. W. Abel, the new president of
the Steelworkers’ Union, is appraised as a
prudent man reluctant to initiate his tenure
of office with a strike for which his members
have little stomach.

President Johnson did not approve of
John F. Kennedy’s public endeavvors to hola

the wage-price line in the 1962 negotiations.
He has limited his visible participation in this
year’s go-round to publishing a White House
study which maintained that the productivity
gains in stee] manufacture should enable the
companies to absorb as much as three per
cent in labor cost increases without raising
prices.

As far as can be learned, the President
relies upon this study, on his personal con-

tacts with key figures on both sides, and on
- the competitive ‘climate which confronts the
- workers and the industry to discourage a

settlement large enough to stimulate the
wage-price spiral. There is considerable op-

“timism that this outcome may be attainable.

A larger uncertainty, in inflationary
terms arises from the war in Viet Nam. The
Korean encounter brought a flush of public
anxiety which produced a damaging tide of
scare buying and inflation. A wage-price
freeze was necessary after six months. A
similar public reaction has been avoided by
the gradual quality of the nation’s involve-
ment in Viet Nam.

The President and the Pentagon are pur-,

posefully vague in specifying the resources
that may be needed for combat by the end
of the year. The intention is clearly to build

up slowly to the level necessary to contain .

the Viet Cong. The economists believe the
economy is being strengthened by the pres-
ent rate of commitment but this judgment

will grow increasingly perilous as the com-
mitment climbs higher.

Unless the Red Chinese intervene, there
is obviously a limit to the cost of waging war
in a country only slightly larger than the
King Ranch. The Korean encounter added
$16 billion in its first year to the defense
budget. This was five per cent of the GNP
in 1951 but it would amount to only two per

cent of the present GNP..

Senators Russell and Stennis have esti-
mated that the war may add $10 billion or
more to the annual rate of defense spend-
ing.-This would pose an inflationary test for
a nation which has almost begun to take its
good fortune for granted after seven years
of price stability.

GENE ROBB,
DANIEL E. BUTTON, Executive Editor

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Ralph McGill
A Growing UN
Needs Maturity

“Seek peace while at war?” the cynics
ask cynically.

The reply must be, “‘Is there a better time
to seek it?”

UN Ambassador Arthur
Goldberg, since replacing the
late Adlai Stevenson, twice
has conferred at length with
President Johnson and, sep-
arately, with U. Thant, Sec-
retary General of the United
Nations.

There will be other meet-
ings. But Ambassador Gold-
berg will now, in a sense, go underground.
He will try to disappear into the anonymity
of conference, of talk, of learning his sub-
ject, of getting to know those with whom he
must work, and of learning the personal-
ities. attitudes and principles of those with
whom he will be discussing the possibilities
of peace-keping. It is necessary that he sub-
merge into this sort of life, The Assembly
convenes in September. Instructions to ‘‘find
out what sort of man Goldberg is, meet him,
give us your measure of him,’ have poured
in to the permanent stuffs. It suits him
fine. It is, in fact, what he himself must do.

The United Nations is in a critical posi-
tion. It is paralyzed insofar as “making the
charter work” is concerned. No workable
solutions have appeared among the many
proposed. No organization lives and grows
across twenty years without confronting the
need for adjustments. It is unreasonable to
expect the UN not to face such needs. They
will be necessary if the charter is “to work’’.

_. The UN inevitably must (and should) re-
flect the big powers. Yet, the flood of new
nations into the General Assembly brings
with it a lack of maturity in diplomacy,
world affairs and international relations in
general. This presently is a danger. Yet, the
other side of this coin is where hope lies.
Some nations that entered a few years ago

. already have learned that the UN_ offers

genuine opportunity, and that it is’ not
merely a prestige toy or a convenient forum
in which to air old grievances and hostilites.
Mature responsibility comes with experience.

Fifty-one nations signed the UN char-
ter in 1945. Western European and Latin
American countries made up 65 per cent of
the membership. Today there are 114 mem-

bers. The Afro-Asian group now totals 55.

per cent of the membership. The Latin
American countries added to them make the
percentage 75 per cent.

But as the new nations mature they tend
to think for themselves. Asian and African
nations do not offer any homogeneous front.
In both Asia and Africa there have been
changes in leadership. Ghana’s Kwame
Nkruma, for example, steadily has lost influ-
ence in Africa. His hopes to be the leader
of a Pan African movement have failed. His
ambitions were too strong for his neighbors.
Nasser’s ambitions to creat a North African-
Asian bloe based on a shared Moslem reli-
gion are blunted — at least temporarily. . .

Both the Soviets and the United States are
well aware that in theory it is possible for a
two-thirds vote in the General Assembly to
be put together by members that represent
hardly ten per cent of the population of all
UN members and less than five per cent of
contributions to the regular budget. Some of
the medium-sized nations also look at this
and shy away from a two-thirds majority
plan. Also impossible is any plan to ‘‘weight”’
the voting — the smallest nation is jealous
of the one-vote-one-nation status.

Secretary General U Thant, a realist and
philosopher, knows no great change or pan-
acea is possible through “reforms.” Yet. the
nations must somehow find the will and the
way to make the charter work.

Ambassador Goldberg equally shares this

. knowledge.

Warren Rogers

A Difficult War
In Viet Nam

WASHINGTON — It is impossible to watch
from afar the physical and moral ordeal of
the U.S. Marines in Viet Nam without feel-
ing a deep compassion for them.

What is happening to them
is precisely what happened
more than ten years ago to
France’s valiant “Group
Mobile 100.” Like Group
Mobile 100, the Marine units
in Viet Nam have a glorious
history. And like Group
Mobile 100, they are learn-
ing that all they learned
about fighting—in actual combat themselves
or by the osmosis which the military call
tradition — has not prepared them for the
strange warfare that goes on in Viet Nam.

It is exceedingly difficult to bring to bear
out there the proven fighting qualities of the
Marines. It is not a place for the devil dogs
of Chateau-Thierry, Guadalcanal and Korea.
It is a place which will require much more
of the Marines — an almost superhuman
sensitivity to when to kill and when not to
kill. Perhaps it is asking too much.

Some Marine units are reported to have

' suffered ten per cent casualties already,

from snipers and mines, without once com-
ing in contact with a Communist Viet Cong
unit. In pursuing their invisible enemy, some
Marines have sacked villages and inadver-
tently caused the death of women and chil-
dren trapped in them.

American troops don’t kill non-com-
batants, especially women and children. But
how is one to avoid it, in a war in which
the enemy wears no uniform and, indeed,
may sometimes even be women and chil-
dren? War brutalizes, and nothing in war

_ brutalizes more than to see your friends die __
about you, killed from the sanctuary which

only your own conscience provides. The in-
stinct for self-preservation pays no obeisance
to the Geneva conventions.

Group Mobile 100 did not have a chance
to wrestle with this moral dilemma, for the
French never had the overwhelming power.
At no time, for example did the French have

more than ten helicopters operating in the

eight-year Indochina war.

But Group Mobile 100 did arrive convinced
it could win the war. Its core was the First
Korean Battalion, flag bearer of the French
effort in Korea — Elite, Battle-hardened
veterans who had fought gloriously with the
United States 2nd Infantry Division at
Chipyong-Mi, Wonju and Arrowhead Ridge.

After the Korean cease-fire in July, 1953,
it was transferred to Indochina and rein-
forced by its own reserves, two Vietnamese
companies, the ‘“Bergerol’’ shock troops, the
2nd group of the 10th Colonial Artillery
Regiment, a “Battalion De Marche”’ of the
43rd Colonial Infantry (through jungle-wise
French and Cambodian troops) and the 3rd
squadron of the 5th (‘Royal Poland’’)

. Armored Cavalry.

The result was Group Mobile 100—3,498
men, well-equipped, well-trained and in
splendid physical condition. Yet, its first
operation, in December, 1953, had to be
called off after three days for lack of results.
Its three-day sweep turned up four hand
grenades, a few documents, 400 kilos of rice
and three prisoners. Its losses: Seven dead,
41 wounded. It was subsequently nibbled to
death. unit by unit, until its remnants were
officially disclosed Sept 1, 1954, one month
after the Indochina truce.

Group Mobile 100 found Viet Nam was not
Korea. Nor is it Chateau-Thierry or Guadal-
canal.

‘lords, tenants, and

Editorials

End of a Series

As the month of August began, The Times-Union
series of articles on Albany’s slum housing also began
—with a very unhappy observation:

“The slums of Albany are a horror.”
Today our series ends,

that it seems to have at-
tracted considerable in-
terest not only among

judging from the letters
we have received, also
among residents of
neighbor communities.
This was one of the
‘purposes of Bill Ken-
nedy’s compilation of
facts and figures, his ob-
servations and reactions,
a and those of the land-
some of the municipal and other
officials who are involved in the situation.

One of the reasons for the existence of slum
housing, we’re sure, is that not too many residents
of any city ever have much to do with the slums.
They rarely, if ever, have to pass through such areas
—even see them—much less live in or near them, or
spend some or all of every day in these districts.

In connection with the Albany situation, we

would guess that only a small proportion of the

city’s residents really knew of some of the conditions
that exist—not only pertaining to the housing itself
and its occupants, but the factors that make such
housing possible.

Our first editorial on this series pointed out our

belief that if something is ever to be done about slum
housing, “someone has to care.” We declared that
“the slums of Albany are the shame of every citizen
of Albany. Only until there is concerted citizen action
can we hope to improve a deplorable condition. .. .”

We’ll stand by that statement as the series is
concluded. And we note that there’s evidence, both
in reaction to Mr. Kennedy’s articles from our read-
ers and im certain actions which have been under-
taken since the series began, that some people are
beginning to care.

If we have been able to accomplish only this
little bit, the series has been worth the effort. And
let it be said, for those who care, that the subject will
remain the object of attention by The Times-Union

over the long, long period we are sure it will take to

make real strides in overcoming this blight on the

community.
* * *

On The Times-Union Sunday Forum page will ap-

pear another selection of the many letters which we °

have received relating to the slum housing series.

See them for interesting and intriguing comment —

from our readers.

Echo's Birthday.

__ The “grand old bag” of space will celebrate its
fifth birthday today as it continues to orbit the earth

and provides scientists with vital data about outer
space. The “bag” is Echo I, a balloon launched into —

space on August 12, 1960.

100-foot-diameter balloon as it moved like a star
across the night sky. Country people invited their

city friends to come out and watch the manmade  _

satellite move relatively swiftly across the sky on its

| orbit around the earth.

Echo I is still to be seen on its fifth birthday as

one of two man-made objects visible from the earth
without telescope or delicate scientific instruments

Before launching, NASA scientist: i
coat it with a skin of thin aluminum, se eee se
bounce radio and facsimile messages from one point
on the earth to another. It did its job well. In addition
it provided scientists with much information about
solar winds; was instrumental in discoveries that
proved the earth was slightly pear shaped.

In five years Echo I has not deteriorated appre-

ciably, even though it is now slight] inkle
cause of solar pressures. ghtly wrinkled be-

Its sister sphere, Echo II went into orbit in Janu-

ary, 1964. To insure it a long life, Echo I was given

a tougher skin of aluminum and plastic in the h i
re t

would stay rigid even re leapalk
ane Sh g after bombardment by space

lost some of its pressure and
radio reflectivity. : gas shack ig <2
NASA scientists report that neither of the Ec
spheres is being used for experiments. They oe
done their job. Nevertheless, both are in elegant

‘orbit, can be seen clearly on moonless nights — re- |

fone us that man can create a pseudo-stellar

Perhaps you ing wish to take time tonight to
try to find the “grand old bag” of space— ish i
a happy fifth birthday! ? y ne

Wicker: ‘Mr. Charlie’ Hears The News As Negroes Register in The South

By Tom Wicker

of discrimination. Where the problem is not so acute, the in-

But that will not necessarily be the case.

There are

WASHINGTON—Sheriff Jim Clark of Dallas County, Ala-
bama, may have been ‘“‘nauseated’’ by the sight of hundreds
of Negroes registering to voie in Selma, but he ain’t seen
nothing yet. If only one day’s activity by federal registrars in
the South had that effect on the sheriff, he is going to be a
desperately sick man before long—say, by November, 1966.

By the best available figures there are between 2.8 and
three million voting-age but unregistered Negroes in the old
confederacy. While no one would predict that all of these will
be added to the 1,907,279 Negroes believed to be registered
in the same states—certainly not in time to vote in next
year’s election—the plain fact is that throughout the south a
formidable body of Negro voters are going to be added to
the electorate and soon.

Federal registrars will register them in the worst areas

pi TRUM RE MRT TARTU ATRIA

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Arthur Krock is'on vacation until mid-Septem-
ber. Until his return, The Times-Union is using a
substitute editorial page column on Tuesday and
Thursday written by Tom Wicker. Mr. Wicker is

“Washington bureau chief for The New York Times.

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dications are that there will be widespread voluntary com-

plaince with the new voting law by southern officials who
would rather do the job themselves than have outsiders do
it for them.

If the federal suits to strike down the poll tax in Alabama,
Virginia, Mississippi and Texas are successful, that too

' should have the effect of adding more Negroes to the elect-

orates of those states. Any way Sheriff Clark can look at it,
the prospect may be sickening.

To less ossified southerners, however, the antidote is
clear. Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia recently called
up LeRoy P. Johnson, a Negro who serves in the state Sen-
ate and swings much political weight among his people. Tal-
madge wanted Senator Johnson to come to see him and talk
thisgs over. When Senator. Richard Russell of Georgia, the
last of the great bourbon leaders, heard about this exchange,
he called up LeRoy Johnson too and said, in effect, “when
you visit Senator Talmadge, drop in on me.”

Johnson made the double pilgrimage, no doubt ruminat-
ing upon the fact that Russell intends to run for re-election
next year and might be opposed by Georgia’s moderate gov-
ernor, Carl Sanders. In such a contest, the decisive votes
might by cast by the state’s 167,663 registered Negroes—not

-to mention a sizeable proportion of the estimated 445,247 .

unregistered Negroes who might get on the books before the

-Georgia Democratic primary.

1,124,415 white voters already registered in Georgia. If all
the Negroes registered, they would be only half the number

of the white voters. Besides, there are nearly 700,000 unregis-
ter whites of voting age in the state, and the fact is that up
to now white registration has been increasing at a faster pace
in the South than Negro registration, and may speed up even
more in an effort to offset the efforts of the federal registrars.

In no state — in only one congressional district in the
South — would Negroes have a majority if every voting-age
Negro registered. Only in Louisiana and Mississippi is there
the remotest chance that they can register as many as half
the number of white voters.

Thus, even Sheriff Clark need not fear that the Negroes
will “take over the South” (In Tuskegee, one of the localities
where they have a majority, and where they vote freely,

Negroes have pointedly refrained from
than a fair proportion of local offices),

What southern Negroes can do, however, is to register
and vote in great numbers, and thus become a calculable and
important part of the southern electorate. No politician in-a
southren election is goingto ignore thousands of Negroes who
vote regularly. He will have to take them into account as
he does any other interest group — farmers, say, or labor
or Catholics in some areas of Loutsiana — and he is going
to have to offer them benefits in return for their support.

In much of the South, Negroes already have been assimi-

trying to win more

lated into the electorate and have won such influence. It was*

really that process that the federal registrars began to extend
elsewhere in the South this week. And when Richard Russell
gets on the phone to LeRoy Johnson, it is fairly strong evi-

dence that Mister Charlie has heard the news.
(C) 1965 New York Times News Service

The Johnson-Kennedy Feud...

It is no scret in Washington, nor in most of th rest of th nation
that a distinct coolness xists between President Johnson and New York's —
newly-elected Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In a series of three articles be-
ginningfi on the Times-Union Editorial Page Saturday, Vera Glaser, well
known Washington political writer, explores the extent of the feud between
these two powerful politicians, and what it means for the election years
of 1968 and 1972. The articles will appear on Saturday, Sunday and Monday ‘

editorial pages.

' ‘

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and we’re happy to say

residents of Albany but,

_ To the general public the launch and orbit was
an amazing feat. Newspapers carried daily sched-
ules of what time and where in the night sky it could —
be seen in varlous parts of the country. City dwell- —
ers drove into the country to get away from the con-
fusing lights of metropolitan areas and watch the —

For some unknown reason Echo II has

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It's Pitiful’ Bishop Maginn

~ Maginn talks with Mrs.

News of Albany~-Troy~Schenectady and

J THE BISHOP PAYS A VISIT—The Most Rev. Edward J.
Ethel McNeil,

right, resident of

124 Green Street, during his tour of South End slum areas

. Saturday. Mrs. Oliva Rorie

By BILL KENNEDY
«i Times-Union Staff Writer

“It’s pitiful,” the Bishop said.
_ This was the reaction of Al
fay s Catholic Bishop, the Most
- Rev. Edward J. Maginn, after
eS walking tour through the South

End slums Saturday afternoon

is at center.

that took him into the homes
of four Negro slum families.
An entourage of about 25 per-
sons — nuns, priests, seminar-
ians, social workers and mem-
bers of two South End neighbor-
hood groups — went with the
bishop on the hour and a half

trip.

Sunday, June 5, 1966 €.]

Deaths Page 6 .

METROPOLITANI

Metro~

Neighboring Communities

THE BISHOP AND AUNT CORA—Mrs. Cora Heard of 56

Bleecker Street shakes hands with Bishop Maginn.

Mrs.

Heard told the bishop of her arthritis problems and invited
him and others with him to come back and see her again.

“T assure you that everything
that’s possible will be done,”
the Bishop said to the gathering
in an informal discussion at
Pilgrim Baptist Church after
the tour.

Members of the Better Homes
and Community Organization

acted as tour guides for the Bis-

hep, who explained that taking
the tour was his own idea and
that he asked the neighborhood
groups to join him. The. tour
began in front of St. John’s
Catholic Church in Green Street
and went over some of the most

decrepit streets in the city.

EMPTY BASEMENT—Bishop Maginn inspects an empty
and rundown basement at 43 Dongan Avenue, occupied until
fairly recently by a family which has since moved next door
to better quarters. Mrs. Rorie is at left.

In a second floor apartment
at 40 South Ferry Street, a man
cooking fried chicken greeted
the Bishop, who was introduced
by Rev. William Roland, pas-
tor of Pilgrim Baptist Church.

“This is our Catholic Bishop,”
Reverend Roland said, and the
crowd moved into the apart-

ment. Bishop Maginn walked to
the front room and chatted with
a bearded Negro man who was
sitting on the sill of the open
window, massaging his leg.

“How are you feeling,”
Bishop asked.

“Feeling pretty fair, but

the

the

leg’s sore. Just can’t give up.

SECTION

THE ‘RABBI’ AND THE BISHOP—Harry J. Swain, 54, mas-
sages his leg as he talks to Bishop Maginn, and explains how
he injured it. “Everybody calls me rabbi,’ Mr. Swain told

the bishop.

Didn’t miss any time on the
job. I just took the bandage off
and kept workin’. I worked the
last 20 years. Everybody calis
me Rabbi.”

The man identified himsel’ as
Harry J. Swain, 54, He fell while
tunloading a ship at the port of
Albany and injured his leg.

The bishop moved through the
rest of the apartment, occupied
by seven people, saw one room
with trash and broken plaster

spilling out a doorway, smelled

the fumes of frying grease, saw
the tumbledown condition of the
rooms, and moved out of the

See BISHOP MAGINN, Page C-5

Addresses Medical Gddunies

Health, Education and Welfare,
said Saturday in Albany.

. Delivering the principal ad-
dress at the 136th commence-

ment exercises of Albany Medi-

cal College at the Hellman The-
ater, Mr. Folsom said Congress
is ‘‘more responsive’ to the will
of the people than the state
Legislature. .

The federal Medicare bill, he
said, was debated in both

houses, extensive public hear-

ings were held, and outside ex-
perts spent a year investigating

the problem and possible solu-

tions before any bill was passed:
“Tn contrast, the state bill on
Title XIX was introduced on
March 9 and 19, one day’s hear-
ing was held, devoted larzely
to discussion of which depart-
ment should administer the
plan,” he said. ‘‘There was
little discussion or study of el-
igibility.”

-Termed Backward Step

He said the state should con-

= longer sessions of the leg-

ag Says Medicaid

o}Rafaet's:

‘COMMENCEMENT CHAT—Marion G. Folsom, center, prin-
cipal speaker at Albany Medical College’s 136th commence-
ment exercises, chats before the ceremonies with two of the
graduates, Gerald Casid of Albany, and Mrs. Betty R. Vohr
of Chatham. (Times-Union Staff Photo by McKinney).

islature, adequate staff for each
member, larger and competent
professional staff for important
standing committees, longer
hearings on important meas-
ures, avoidance of the custom

of rushing many bills through in

the closing days of a session,
and greater use of independent
advisory councils to study im-
portant and complicated meas-

ures.
Mr. Folsom said the state’s
See FOLSOM, Page C-3

Fire Damages 2 Albany Houses;
1S, Made Homeless in Smoky Blaze

rN two-alarm fire of unde-
eeeitie origin Saturday caused
- moderate to heavy damage to
two houses in State Street, just

| east of Ontario Street.

Thick black smoke from the
fire rose several hundred feet
over the city and could be seen
for. miles shortly after the fire
broke out, about 12:30 p.m.

The fire, believed to have
pee in a two-story frame
_ house at 712 State Street, spread
to No. 714. A narrow alley-

Be way ‘separates the two build-

ings.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward F.

- Questel and their ten children

were forced from their home at
712 State Street.

Lenore Ballard, a waitress at
he. DeWitt Clinton Hotel, Mrs.
Ann Sodamora, William Fields
and Mrs. Violet Samarel, were
- forced from their apartments at
No. 714. Miss Ballard was at
work when notified of the fire,

.. and rushed home.

.

Several hundred spectators

crowded the sidewalks at the
fire scene to watch firemen bat-
tle the smoky blaze, using face
masks and oxygen bottles to
protect themselves.

One fire-
“man was partly overcome, but
was returned to duty after first
aid treatment.

No estimate of damage was
made, and cause of the blaze
is under investigation. Specta-
tors at the scene said an explo-

sion had been heard, but none
of the occupants of the two
buildings reported hearing it.
No one was reported injured,

W. Albany
When Hit

~ a

James H. Lasher, 51, of 48
Everett Road, West Albany, an

excavating contractor, was
killed at 1:45 p.m. Saturday
when he was struck by a 2%-
‘|ton dump truck that was back-
ing up at the rear of 1518
Central Avenue, Colonie, on the
Albany Schenectady Road.

Police said Lasher was stand-
ing behind the truck and direct-
ing its driver as it backed: up.
The driver told police he ‘“‘gun-

ned’? the vehicle as directed
by his employer, Lasher, and
it struck him.

The truck driver was - ident
fied as Samuel C. Faragon of
107 Sand Creek Road, West
Albany. Police said the dead
man owned the truck.

Police said Lasher was direct-

Man Killed
by Truck

ing his employes in removing
soil from the site.

Coroner William Sheridan
witheld the cause of death pend-
ing completion of the investiga-
tion. Authorities said Lasher
suffered a crushed chest.

Detective George Mead and
Patrolman Raymond Krolack
of the Colonie Police Depart-
ment investigated.

Services will be from the Mc-

Veigh Funeral Home, 208 North/p-=

Allen Street, Albany, Tuesday
at 9 am. A Solemn Requiem
Mass will be at 9:30 a.m. at St.
Francis de Sales Church, West
Albany.

Burial will be in St. Agnes
Cemetery, Menands.

Capitaland
Datebook

For Week

TODAY
CONTRACT BRIDGE TOURNAMENT,
Ten Eyck Hotel, 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY :
beret KIWANIS CLUB, meeting. | 9
urants 6230 -p.mi. a
Soca INC., Albany Unitarian
Church, 7:30 p.m.
EAST GREENBUSH TOWN BOARD,
Meeting, Town Hall, 8 p.m.
ALBANY COMMON COUNCIL, meet-
ing, City Hall, 8 p.m.
RENSSELAER BOARD OF EDUCA-
TION, meeting, City Hall, 7:30 p.m.
ANTIQUE STUDY GROUP, meeting,
Hotel Wellington, 1 p.m. é
STATE COUNCIL OF CHURCHES,
meeting, Hotel Wellington, 9 a.m
NATIONAL SECRETARIES ASSOCTA-
TION, conference, Dewitt Clinton Hotel,
9:30 a.m.
ZONTA CLUB, board meeting,
Clinton Hotel, 5:30 p.m.
TUESDAY
DELMAR’ ROTARY CLUB,
Schrafft’s. Restaurant. 6:15 p.m.
ALBANY KIWANIS CLUB,
Ten Eyck Hotel, 12:1) p.m.

DeWitt

meeting

meeting,

ALBANY LIONS CLUB, meeting, De-
Witt Clinton Hotel, noon.
ALBANY MONARCH CLUB, meeting,

Wellington Hotel, noon.

NISKAYUNA ROATRY CLUB, meeting,
Niskayuna Club, 6:30 p.m.

TROY ROTARY CLUB,
sonic Temple, 12:19 p.m.

LANSINGBURG ROTARY CLUB, meet-
ing, Sunset Inn, 6:15 p.m.

EAST GREENBUSH-NASSAU KIWA-
NIS CLUB, meeting, Howard Johnsons’
Restaurant, Columbia Turnpike, 6:15 p.m.

NASSAU VILLAGE BOARD, meeting,
Village Hall, 7:30 p.m.

GUILDERLAND TOWN BOARD, meet-
ing, Town Hall, 8 p.m.

COLONIE CENTRAL DAY CLUB, din-
ner, Holiday Inn, 7:30 p.m.

ALBANY MONARCH CLUB,
noon, Hotel Wellington.

LIONS CLUB, luncheon, DeWitt Clinton
Hotel, noon.

HOTEL, RESTAURANT AND BARTEN-
DERS UNION LOCAL 471, meeting, De-
Witt Clinton Hotel, 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

ALBANY EXCHANGE CLUB, meeting,
Ten Eyck Hotel, 12:15 p.m.

WESTERN TURNPIKE KIWANIS
CLUB, meeting, Tom Sawyer Motor Inn,

meeting, Ma-

luncheon,

6 p.m,

CASTLETON KIWANIS CLUB, meeting,
Vito’s Restaurant, 6:15 p.m.

SCHENECTADY KIWANIS CLUB, meet-
ing, Van Curler Hotel, 12:15 p.m.

COHOES ROTARY CLUB, meating,
OCA Hall, 12:30 p.m.

SCHENECTADY LIONS CLUB, meeting,
Van Curler Hotel, 12:15 p.m.

WYNANTSKILL KIWANIS CLUB, meet-
ing, Fay’s Restaurant, 6:30 p.m.

RIVER VALLEY CHAPTER OF
SWEET ADELINES INC., meeting, Ham-
ilton Union Presbyterian Church, Guilder-
land, 8 p.m,

COLONIE ROTARY CLUB,

Tom Sawyer Motel, 12:15 p.m.

COLONIE ROTARY CLUB, meeting,
Tom Sawyer Motel, 12:15 p.m.

BETHLEHEM BOARD, meeting, Town
Hall, 7:30 p.m.

EAST GREENBUSH BOARD OF ED-
UCATION, wgeyee. Junior High School,
7:30 p.m,

ZONTA CLUB, dinner,
Hotel, 6:30 p.m.

UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION, din-
ner, DeWitt Clinton Hotel, 7 p.m.

JAYCEES, conference, DeWitt Clinton
Hotel, 8 p.m.

STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT-RE-
SBARCH, luncheon, Holiday Inn, 12:30
p.m.

meeting,

DeWitt Clinton

THURSDAY

CONTRACT BRIDGE TOURNAMENT,
Cohoes YWCA, 12:30 p.m.

RENSSELAER KIWANIS CLUB, meet-
ing, Jones Restaurant, 6:15 p.m.

LATHAM KIWANIS CLUB, meet-
ing, Crossroads, 6:30 p.m.

MENANDS ROTARY CLUB, meeting,
Panetta’s Restaurant, 12:15 p.m.

EAST GREENBUSH ROTARY CLUB,
meeting, Howard Johnsons’ ‘Restaurant,
Columbia Turnpike, 6:30 p.m,

ALBANY ROTARY CLUB, meeting, De-
Witt Clinton Hotel, 12:10 p.m.

COLONIE TOWN BOARD, meeting,
Town Hall, 8 p.m.

WATERVLIET CITY COUNCIL, meet-
ing, City Hall, 8 p.m. ‘

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PLANT
ENGINEERS, CHAPTER 20, dinner-meet-
ing, Dunn’s Restaurant, Latham, 6:30

SCHOOL 19 FACULTY, dinner, Holiday].
Inn, 7:30 p.m.

ROTARY CLUB, luncheon, DeWitt Clin-
ton, noon.

FRIDAY

OPTIMIST CLUB OF DOWNTOWN AL-
BANY;, Inn Towne Motel, 12:15 p.m.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL
WORKERS, NORTH EASTERN NEW
YORK CHAPTER, registration, luncheon,
meetings, Holiday Inn, 9:30 a.m, 12:30

p.m,

Episcopal Church Consecrated

Modernistic St. Paul’s Replaces Mall Site Edifice

The new modernistic St.

Paul’s Episcopal Church at 21
Hackett Boulevard was _visual-
ized. during consecration  Ser-
“the Bethel

vices Se, as
of Albany,, its.
eee Aris a re
earth, Jacob’s ladder pitched
here in Hackett Boulevard, in
the midst of a great swirl of
traffic and the hurrying life of
a great capital.”

Speaker was the Rev. Darwin }

Kirby Jr., rector of St. George’s
Episcopal Church, Schenectady,
who preached the sermon for
the consecration presided over
by the Rt. Rev. Allen W. Brown,
Bishop of the Albany Episcopal

| Diocese.

Father Kirby paid tribute to
the “‘vision and vigilance’ of
the people of St. Paul’s, saying,
“You and your distinguished
rector are to be congratulated
on what you have achieved.”

The new edifice replaces the

former church in the South
Mall.
Father Kirby warged that

“splendidly - cared - for church

buildings by themselves are not:

enough; that from the day of
Pentecost until the day of Con-
stantine, the Church owned not
a single building it could call its
own.” Yet, he went on, the
Church “‘outlived, outfought
and outdied a hostile, pagan
Roman Empire.”

THE BISHOP PRESIDES—Consecration services for the new St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, 21 Hackett Boulevard, were held Saturday with the Rt. Rev. Allen W. Brown,
left, Bishap of Albany, shown presiding on the high altar. The Rev. Thomas T. Parke
of St. George’s Church, Schenectady, right, served as master of ceremonies. The altar
boy assisting in the prayer portion of the service is Peter Eells.

During the Consecration Mass,
Bishop Brown was assisted by
the Rt. Rev. Charles B. Per-
sell Jr., Suffragan Bishop; the
Very Rev. David S. Ball, dean,
Cathedral of All Saints; the
Rev. Ralph M. Carmichael of
St. Andrew’s Church and the
Rev. Loren N. Gavitt of Grace
and Holy Innocents Church.

Officers of the Mass were
the Rev. J. Raymond McWil-

liam, rector of St. Paul’s, cele-
brant; the Rev. Dr. Laman H.

Bruner of St. Peter’s, gospeler;
the Rev. Andrew B. Jones of
the Church of Our Savior,
Lebanon Springs, epistler; the
Rev. George A. Taylor of St.
Paul’s Church,~ Chestertown,
Md., who read the Sentence of
Consecration (Father Taylor
was rector of St. Paul’s in
Albany from 1932 to 1947); the

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD—The - Rt. ny Allen W. Brown, Bishop of the Albany
Episcopal Diocese, blesses the new St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 21 Hackett Boulevard,
as he brings to a close consecration services conducted Saturday at the new edifice
which replaces one in the South Mall area. A reception and a tour of the new church
and grounds followed the consecration. (Times-Union Staff Photos).

Area Driver Killed, Passenger Hurt

A 23-year-old Amsterdam man
was Killed instantly and his pas-
Senger, a 19-year-old girl, was
in critical condition Saturday
night after they struck a tree
on a curve on Route 30 outside
Gloversville,

Dead was David Boice, 27
Jackson Street, Amsterdam,

driver of the car. In “eritical”

condition in Ellis Hospital, Sche-
nectady is Sharon L. McCaffer-
ty of 23 College Avenue, Troy.

Fulton County Sheriff's Offi-
cers reported the car evidently
left the road and struck a tree,
throwing Boice from the vehicle.
The car, a sports model, was
reported by officers as ‘‘com-
pletely demolished.”

Sharon McCafferty was first
taken to Nathan Littauer Hospi-
tal by Fulton County Ambulance
then transferred to Zllis Hospi-
tal in Schenectady. Hospital of-
ficials reported her condition as
“critical.”

The body of the dead man was
removed to the Boice Funeral
Home in Amsterdam.

Rev. Thomas T. Parke of St.
George’s, Schenectady, master
of ceremonies, and the Rev.
Canon William S. Barrett of
the Cathedral of All Saints,
assistant master of ceremonies.

Non-Episcopal guest clergy-
men in attendance included the
Rev. Dr. Vladimir E. Hartman,
executive director of the Al-
bany County Council of

Churches; the Rev. Henry H.
Heins of St. Mark’s Lutheran
Church, the Rev. Robert C.
Lamar of the First Presbyterian
Church, Rabbi Alvin S, Roth of
Temple Beth Emeth, the Rev.
Stanley Skrzypek of the Polish
National Catholic. Church and
the Rt. Rev. Archimandrite
John Matthiesen of the duces
Catholic Ohurch.

As Bishop Brown placed iis
Instruments of Consecration
upon the altar, he said, ‘Bless-
ed by Thy Name, O Lord, that
it hath pleased thee to put it
into the hearts of Thy servants
to appropriate and devote this
house to Thy honor and wor-
ship; and grant that all who
shall enjoy the benefit of this
pious work, may show forth
their thankfulness by making
a right use of it, to the glory
of Thy Blessed Name, through
Jesus Christ Our Lord.”

Bishop Brown Speaks

Then following the sermon, of-
fertory and Communion Verse,
and just prior to the final

blessing, Bishop Brown said,

“Blessed be Thy Name, O Lord
God, for that it hath pleased
Thee to have Thy habitation
among the sons of men, and to
dwell in the midst of the as-
sembly of the saints upon the
earth; grant, we beseech Thee,
that in this place now set apart

to Thy service, Thy Holy Name.

may be worshipped in truth and
purity through all generations,
through Jesus Christ Our Lord,

Amen.”’

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. Continued from Page C-1

' building and onto Dongan Ave-

| nue,
Houses of Ill Repute
The Bishop then looked into
the empty basement of one
house, its windows all broken,
~. the front of the house cluttered
’ with old wood and debris. He
stopped at the corner of Lans-
ing Street and looked at the
burned and rusted hulk of an
old auto, one of several in the
. corner lot. Informed members
- of the tour pointed out to the
bishop that certain houses were

. houses of prostitution.

* The Bishop absorbed it all
without comment. The tour
moved to Green Street and into
12% Green, the apartment of

_ Mrs. Ethel McNeil — who was

. Visited on a slum tour last sum-

» mer, and whose apartment, then

~ ‘was pointed out as being in an

* advanced state of deterioration.
It’s A Pity, Bishop Said

“IT was sick in the hospital

- nine months, I can’t see good,”

Mrs. NeNeil told the Bishop. ‘‘I

can’t hardly go to the store by

~ myself. I got no water.”
_ “Where do you get your wat-
’ er?” the bishop inquired.
. “At the filling station,’’ Mrs.
McNeil told him.

Mrs. McNeil has been with-

tae

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- < put water in the house since

Jate last year.

“We complain about these
things,’ Mrs. Olivia Rorie, Bett-
er Homes president told the Bis-
hop. ‘But nobody seems to
care.”

“It’s a pity,” the Bishop said.

The tour moved to 56 Bleecker
Street and into the damp base-
ment apartment of Mrs. Cora
Heard — ‘‘Aunt Cora.”

“Oh my goodness,”’ Aunt Cora
said. ‘You all come to kill me?
I’m very happy to see you. Won't
you let me comb my hair?”

“You look beautiful,’ the bis-
hop told her.

“There’s more people in here
today than in the 20 years I’ve

Cyclist Hurt
Biking Back
To Old Home

An éight-year-old boy, whose
family moved from Albany to

" Rensselaer Saturday morning,
- was injured while riding his

. __ bike across the Dunn Memorial

Bridge into Albany in the after-

ORE ec
~ Mark Maxwell, son of Mr.
md Mrs. Alfred Ct Maxwell, oi
- = 95 Washington Avenue, Renssel-
= ger, suffered a fractured leg.
He is listed in satisfactory con-
. dition in Albany Medical Center

* Hospital. He formerly resided
» at 279 Second Avenue.
{Rensselaer police said the
' young cyclist changed lanes
* suddenly and was struck by a
‘ear operated by Miss Georgia
- Cook, 17, of 549 Washington Ave-
nue, Albany.
-Patrolmen Thomas Owens

and Jay Stark investigated.

Albany Girl
In Honduras
Work Project

_ Miss Mary Taylor, daughter
> of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Taylor
* of 46 Nichols Drive, a student
_™ at the University of Vermont,
- ds one of 30 college students who
© will spend eight weeks in Mil-
» parada, Honduras working on
* community development project
' this summer. ~
The 30 volunteer students from
Cornell University, the Univer-
sity of Vermont and Middle-
_ bury College will comprise the
1966 “‘Cornell in Central Ameri-
ca” program of community de-
- velopment in rural villages of
- Honduras and Guatemala. The
* program originated at Cornell
- six years ago as an educational
_ summer work camp opportunity
_ for U.S. students and a contri-
’ bution to the development of
- rural life in Central America.
~ The team will function in four
- groups located in widely separt-
' ed communities, where they will
- reside among the villagers and
_ develop special projects of com-
munity service for eight-weeks
- during June, July and August.
Formerly an all-Cornell Pro-
gram, plans this year include
other educational institutions.

-
a

pe The teams will work at pro-

jects in literacy, health, nutri-
tion, child care and home nurs-
ing, reacreation and youth
organization, and in some cases
construction work will be car-
ried on.

; i Summer's Here
_ With 87 High

The area is having its longest
period of warm weather so far
this season, but temperatures
are still far from record heights.
_Saturday’s high of 87 degrees,
| the highest of the year to date,
appeared cool when compared
- to the record high for the date
* of 97 set in 1919.
- Fair to partly cloudy skies
- are expected in the area today
* and it will be continued warm
with readings in the 80s.

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noon when he veered into the]

been here. I’m so glad to see
you all.”
Aunt Cora said she didn’t
know how old she was, (I never
did know,’’) that she had arthri-
tis, high blood pressure and di-
abetes. “I hate for you all to
go,”’ she told the visitors as they
trooped out.

Playground Littered
The tour moved to Franklin
Street, past a no dumping sign
with a garbage piled beneath it,
and to the playground built by
the city last year. The play-
ground was closed and without
any equipment. Trash and brok-
en glass littered the surface of
the playground.
“This is our playground,”
Mrs. Rorie said to the Bishop.
“See what the wineheads and

the kids did to it? There’s no,

adult supervisor for it.”

“No maintenance?” asked the
bishop?

“And it’s not open on Satur-
days and Sundays,” Mrs. Rorie
Said.

Sister Kathleen Ann, mathe-
matics teacher at the Coliege
of Saint Rose, walked with the
bishop on much of the tour. She
and two other Saint Rose nuns,
Sisters Anne Robert and Noe!
Marie, work with the Better
Homes group. The Rey. Nellis
Tremblay, chaplain of the Cath-
olic Inter-Racial Council - and
other council members, were
present on the tour, including
Michael A. Nardolillo, council

|president, and associate direc-

tor of Trinity Institution. Mr.

Lawrence Burwell,
;director of Clinton Square
Neighborhood House, also took
the tour, as did two seminarians
from St. Anthony’s-the-Hudson
seminary in Rensselaer.

Most of these, and some neigh-
borhood people gathered at Pil-
grim Baptist Church after the
tour and listened to Mrs. Rorie
sum up the conditions in the
area.

“Tt took others on this same
tour,’’ she said, ‘“‘and conditions
still exist . . . as the Bible says,
am I my brother’s keeper?. .
what we need in Albany here is
some more housing and to teach
some of these people how to
live. We have got to get houses.
They don’t want to live like
this.”

executive She told the bishop of the ex-

ploitation of the poor bv some
store owners who foist bad food
and rotten meat on unsuspect-
ting people. She talked of chil-
dren growing up in an atmos-
phere of vice and degradation.

“Our kids are being educated
on these filthy streets,’’ she said
“And these are things we want
stopped.”

She talked lovingly of the
work done by Rev. Bonaven
ture O’Brien, the Siena friar
who was silenced last Novem-

.|ber for his outspoken behavior,

Father Bonaventure worked
closely with Better Homes and
Mrs. Rorie told the Bishop:
“We'd like to get somebody —
a priest—to come down and
work with us.”

Mr. William Thomas, presi-
dent of the Progressive Com-
munity Organization, told the
bishop of the overcrowded liv-
ing conditions in his neighbor-
hood and cited the need for a
playground. Mr. Burwell spoke
and discussed the need for law
enforcement. Speaking of the
house at 124 Green Street, he
said: “The law says you can’t
have a place like that. It seems
to me that the laws are unen-
forced.”

Bishop Maginn then spoke to
the gathering and cited the
work now being done in poverty
areas by the Catholic Church in
Albany—in St. Ann’s and St.
John’s Pairshes in the South
End, and in St. Joseph’s in Ar-

| Bishop Maginn Tours Albany Slum, Promises Action =

bor Hill. He mentioned The re-
cently - formed Social Action
Committee of the diocese, and
said: “I wonder if people realize
how much is being done by the
Catholic Church in this field of
St. Catherine’a home for child-
ren and the diocesan summer
camp for children “I wish I
could impress on all the mag-
nitude of the Catholic Church’s
works that are betng done in
this area, and in Arbor Hill and
in all parts of the diocese.”

Reverend Roland commented
to the Bishop ‘‘We’re grateful
to God to have the kind of man
you are to come down here and
take part in this with us.”

“T can assure you,” said the
bishop, “that everything that’s
possible will be done.”

TIMES-UNION **
June 5,1966 €.5

DAU Seeking
Father of Year

Downtown Albany Unlimited -

is sponsoring a Father of the
Year contest.

Letters from children telling
the good qualities of their
fathers will be judged to de-

cide which area father will be

the winner of a suit, hat, shirt,
tie and shoes from downtown

men’s wear stores; bar equip- —

ment from Lansing Bros, and a
trophy which is on display to-
day in the store window of
McManus & Riley and starting
Monday at Whitney’s.

The letters, which should be
mailed to Box Father, Albany,
N. Y., must be postmarked
prior to June 15.

A. SWIRE

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