FOUR - THE DAILY MAIL. Hagerstown. Md. Friday, Sept. 6, 1968

Slums Some Get Out, Some Won't Go, Many Can't Go

MRS. ANDERSON AND SAM! LU

II, CLIFF ELLNER

Harman', Alley 10 a dead-end street.

10 II maoh of Hagerstown', Negro hOll ..

fill· It .. epeaed up • IIttlo .me. \be cIt7

_ boaliDc erdiIUID" wal pa,sed 011 JlReh 19.

But DOt much.

Oa July 30, Saml Lu AlldersoB mada her entrance Into the world It the W.shin,­ton County Hospital. Saml Lu is about I month old. She lives with her parents in a four-room apartment in Harman's Alley. Three doors away, the housing inspector! haYe posted a sign which says, ··Danger­This building is uusafe for occupancy."

Early In August, the end apartment wal eoodemned when James E. Henderson, who lived there. almost burned the place down when he started a fire in his refrigerator II> get rid of the maggots.

There is no bathroom in Sami Lur•

home. Ber mom washes her in the kitchen link and hopes the water won't be too cold, The rent is $20 a month.

Tho toilet is behind the building, In • wooden closet. It is dirty. It ,tInks.

"I've aeen housing I wouldn't let a do, of mine live in," says Thurston Kelmer, ODO of tho city's two housing inspectors.

The inspectors and welfare workers have notebooks full of horror stories about Hagerstown's ghetto housing.

One of them teUs about the house on Jonathan St. which bas one bathroom for five families. An elderly woman who lives in the building uses t a slop jar in her bedroom because the bathroom i.J alway.

being used when she Deeda It.

Welfare worker Bob Huil teu. about 2-.tory frame hou.e. on Church St •• 1Id I!4!rk­IOn Avo. crammed with 12 to 14 people.

To anyone who walks through the JOD­atha" St. Deighborhood, it is paiDfully ob­vious that Hagerstown bas a crisis.

Take the woman who sits in froot of 59* Harman Alley and shoos flies away.

"I can't have any heat this Winter." .he'll tell you, "if they don't fix the chim· Dey." But her landlord is in Texas and she .. ys she has no choice but to pay the $30-a~month rent.

She takes her batha In a tin tub. She has to heat the water on tho stove first. 'Ibe toilet II In a small oloset.

591A1 Barman's Alley bas roaches. It ,link •.

"There was nowhere else to got" Sami Lu Anderson's mother said as she sat on • worn sofa in her sweltering front room.

According to Housing Inspector Walter Ny., the Harman estate-which owna some property In Harman's Alley-had "agreed II> tear dOWD their property in the alley af­ter WalDut Towers, tha Dew public housing for tho elderly, was finished."

But 11 aDd when slum dwellings ar. de­molished, there is always the problem of finding new housing for the economically· crippled families which live there.

"Where are you going to put the pea· pte now?" asks Inspector Nye. "You can't just set them out in the street."

Hagerstown's housing c.risis is "as plain •• the nose on your face," says Thurston Keltner, also of the city's housing depart­IMDt.

It \sa't 10 overybody. ..". ..,.ntioDI exist, that Ia trul, ..

1_ K. 1Indonoa', 1NIfaro wort. ..,...

Henderson burned the maggots out of his refrigerator at 56 Harman's Alley.

"And the city is trying to make prog­

resl. But ouch thlnp take tim.. And I thiDt JIIOple have 10 aeeept that f*!t.-

"Slums," laYl welfare WOI'II:.. Bob

Hull, "are profitable. And nntil .. e find a way to take the profit out of them, the problem will b. with UI."

Slum dwellers, on Jonatlan st. aDd elsewhere in the city, are caught in • vi· cious cycle. Their landlords will sometimes

improve their houses, but often the campaD· ion rent increases are too high for the teD· ants to bear.

On the welfare leal. adopted in Febro­ary, 1966-ud uniform throughout the .tate -the allowance for shelter for one person, living alone, with no utilities, comes to $31 • month. The hovels on Harman's Alley cost between $20 and $30 monthly.

The highest payment which the welfare department can make for sbelter is $46 monthly, no matter what the family's size 10. Welfare director Francis J. Connolly hal admitted that lib. shelter seal. II "inade­quate. tt

If a welfare - dependent penon oan't meet tho rent with his shelter &1Io ... n .. the differenee has to come out of his eating money.

"Nine out of ten tenants in substand­ard bousing are welfare and social security people,.. housiDg Inspector Thurston Kelt­ner says.

HTbe housing situation." Bob Hull says, fliJ getting more desperate every day. It'. a facl We need more housel."

Welfare workerl, housing people, black clergymen, NAACP officiaJa.-all agree that part of Hagerstown'. Negro housing dilem­ma could be relieved if more public, low .. rent housing were available.

'ISince the housing inspectors bave been condemning these houses," says Paul Eber­bart, manager of rents and occupanc.y for

THE REV, ROBINSON • • • few places to rent

the Hagerstown Housing Authority, Hwe'vt had applications coming at us fmm all Mde •. "

And the largest crouP tI. appllc.tIoDl, he lay., com .. bill I'eIidoIa at IIIMIud­mllo_

HARMAN'S ALLEY, 'HOUSING CRISIS IS PLAIN AS NOSE ON YOUR FACE'

line. public: housing rents are scaled to iDcome, Eberhart ny. that welfare re­eipients Ind locial eecurity dependenu eall aHord them.

There are uceptiOlII. A selection board rules out alcobolic. IDd other undesirable •. By a recent ruliDI unwed mothers can b. accepted.

"We avenge IOmewberl around -'0 apo­pUc.tiona a month, n Eberhart says. "But

clergyman! Keyes bought his S...room home and broke the color bar in the North End. Since then, a handful of Negro families h .. joined him.

"ThOle who have moved out, If he say., "will lead othen. tf

Keye. i.s .ecretary of the locil chapter of the National A.sociatlon for the Ad· vancement of Colored People. He Ilso acts on In informal house-tiDdin, committee

According to Curlin, the open-Dccupaney ordinance will do a lot to help Negroes move away from run-down housing on both sides of Jonathan Sl

"We Ire getting full cooperation trom the realtor., with the exception of only one. and he's coming around," Curlin said at

he cut wood on a power saw in his work· shop, behind his home on Bethel st He'. been retir~d for the past three and a half

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units, of which 150-those at Walnut Tow- got used to me and now everything's fine." of the new law;' Curlin 18Y8. wrhe older en, which just opened-are for the elderly. But most of his friends are from the black ODes are mOfe settled!'

But according to Thelma Powell. community OD the other side ot the tracks. "A lot of things come with age," ex· a progrlm development aide willi llie Com- There aro ollier vestige. of Keyes'. plaIDs Jame, H. Robinson, pastor of llio munlty Actinn Conneil, wholesale housing ex- tie. willi Jon.llian SI. HIJ lon, Rick, would Ebenezer A.M.E. Church, leross llie .treet pan.lon IIn't euougll. ordinarily attend tho Fountalndale Elemen- from Curlin'l home.

Somefum, h.. to be done to heal the tary School, not far from hio home. But "With age, you aren't II apt to adjud ~:::.nlng psychological wound. of slum Rick goes to tho Broadway School Instead, to new people.

his dad say., "because hi. friends aTi "Th' '1.:- th A decent home, welfare's Roberta Car- there." e lemor Chaens were never •

tee, a soeial worker, points out, would ones who were in the battle fot open oeOo help psyehologtcally a. well as physically. Nevertheless, Keyes uy. h. hopes oth- cupaney. They'v. always lived hero. WlIT

"Wben they ha ... something better to era of hiJ race will move to other sections would they want to move? wart with." sbe aays, .ttbey do better." of the city.' "Thia boUle," he .ay., reIerrbl,tII lila

"You' ... ROt to F!\'. the slum. out of "I'd lIko to ... Negr ... mOVe Into .M .... tury-old penonap u BetbeI It., "'Ia ibe ~," .. ,. - eoIJeaIuo, Boti BIllL ""t. ot Bagersto_," b ••• Y'· as nice II 01Q' ... Poloma. lit. w. IUIIl •

"And that'. not easy." One bl, dra"back--a1most II big a mate It .. alce, bec._ •• eMlda"'_. When the Hager.wwn City Council met damper •• discrimination was, beforo tho onte Powmac St. when ... wanlad to.-

last Kareh 19, it passed an ordinance open-occupancy ordinance-is financing, hi "I'm ODe no fougbt .for the 1Ktadn., which could, according to the dty's Negro .. y •.

law," Curlin say" "but personally I leadership, eventually disperse a commun· A d' wouldn't move out. Th'. house ,'s Ilmost 100 ity which bas been in the same place for ccor lUg to spokesmen for the real ... more than 130 years. estate business, banks have been demand- year, oJd. I've changed it to suit my eon·

venience. The move was designed Hto eliminate ing between 15 and 25 per ceot of the pur·

discrimination in housing based on race, "I never thought of selling. rYe had color, religious creed, ancestry, or national Gne offer, but I never gave it any thought." origin." A five·membe.r panel has beeD set Curlin laYI be feell fjtoo close to the up to hear complaints stemming from tile eommunity" to move out. ordinance. Curlin has an optimistic view 01 the

But there haven't been any complaints, Negro housing situation in Hagerstown. He according to the Rev. James H. Robinson, says that even though the row housing OD

pastor of the Ebenezer A.M.E. Church, ODe HaI'man's Alley is "about the worst I've of the commission's members. seen," action is being taken to alleviate

"The realtors, as far as I know, are in slum conditions there and elsewhere in the full compliance with it," he says. uThere black community. have been several families who have moved He expects that most of the slum tene· and haven't experienced any difficulty." ments will be demolished after tJhey're COD.·

demned. "Famlliea aN moving out/' IBYS weI· fare worker Bob Hull, who has several "In the very near future." he says, "all elien!! In the Jonathan 51. neighborhood. of tbese fumgs are going to be rectified. uIt', limited-eount 'em on your fingerl and t'I'm looking," he says, "for Hagers. toes-but they're moving out." town to be among the most progressivi

That isn't the way it used to be, the cities in the very near future." Rev. Mr. Robinson says. Not all oC Hagerstown's Negro leader.

"A person coming into Hagerstown now ship is inclined to be so optimistic. should not experience some of the problem. Welfare workers, housing inspector., he would have, ny, ~o years ago." community action council spokesmen and

A prejudice.racked housing situation, clergymen have come out foursquare tn the clergyman .ays, may account for thl favor of more housing for Hagerstown', faet that Hagerstown hal DO Negro doctor. Negroel, DOW.

]10 lawyer. and only a few teachers. One segment of the city'. black com. "If a young coupl. wanted to get mar- munity is 10 vitally attached to the Jona-

ried and move into the area, I don't know ilhan SI. neighborhood that It will probably of many properties they could find and never leave. The crisis is not theirs. dUmge to suit their needs," the Rev. Mr. A second segment of the community t. Robinson says. flWe really just don't have comprised of Reginald Keyes and others enough rentai properties." who have moved away to Carroll Heights,

That's the reasoD, he says, why the to Locust St., to Potomac St. and els.~

Jonathan SI. area has been, to a large ex- REGINALD KEYES where "not because of the open..,ccupsney tent, a closed community ever since Ne· ••• he moved. out law," the Rev. Mr. Robinson says. lI'oel leWed there. Rev. Mr. Robinson's "They've moved because of • necessIty to own cburch, for example, dates from 1838. chase tost a. I down payment. This 1& true move." The crisis il not theirs.

Until reeently, tho boundaries have for moot home-buyer. wbo are not reeeiv- The .risl. belongs to tho •• like Saml alway. heen implicit-hut very real. Ing FHA and Veterans' assistance. Lu And",.son who have to deal with i! In a

Keyes Crossed The Tracks

A mil. and a half on the other .Id. (the "right .ide") of the railroad tracks, In a modern boo.. In Carroll Helgbta, Re(inlld Keye. 11... with hi. wIf, and \I­

year·old SOD, Rick.

Two years .go thls month, Keyes was the first Negro to move his family to the North End. According to Keyes, a Mack Truck employe, the move wasn't easy.

HI wanted an apartment at first, II he says. "I didn't want to buy a house. But IIOnl of the real •• tate people would rent to me.

"I didn't havo much cboice, at the time."

"'There'l DO use looking at a house If Harman's Alley slum. Sami Lu will ahiver you don't have the money," Keyes IIYI. through the winter. She'll wash in a till

tub. She'll risk disease In a filthy outhoUSI. But the next 10 years, Keyes predicts,

Or will sh.? will see a substantial Negro exodus from the gbetw.

"I've talked W qul~ a few of th. youn, people,'~ he aays.

ffThey'r. Ilvin, their money.,t

He'd Be Last To Pull Out

flI don't seriously think that in the next 10 years there'll be a Negro community in the Jonathan St. area," says Leonard CUr­lin, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a patriarch of tho hlack community hero.

t'But I would he the last one to leave," he addl with a Imo.. ~I'm Ilk, tho eapw' of .Ihi ....

LEONARD CURLIN, • • • too dOH to mo",e

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Hagerstown Area News cf

~; ailn 'l'Ul<! DAILY MAIL. Hagerstown, Md. - THREE

Saturday, May 11, 1968

Workable Program Also Prllmises Housing Acti~n

Obituaries, ~. ,Features

ity Sees Urban R~newal Agency, Planner In 1968 By PHIL EBERSOLE 2. Code enforcement throughout the A.M.E. Church housing proj. This situation has become crit. Of tho 366, It Is •• timlted sian and urban renewal," the trated housing inspection pro· state •• An application for plaD.

Appointment of a planning di- the city. ect, a rivic center, and Publi~ leal in the Jonathan 5t. area that 281 have income. of less program states, "In addition gram;. and appointed a parking Dln, a Jonathan ~t: renewal ctor and staff an~ of aD ur· 3. Planning for the renewal and Square Improvement. where the. (A.l!.E. Churc~l thin $3,000 • yo ... Tho wO",o substanllal rehabilitation of bas. autho,:",ty. project Is also antiClpated. n renewal commlS~lon are rehabilitation of the central Capital improvement goals are housmg proJect is still pendIng. bl d t tl' ically sound structures wIt h Durmg the past year, the city How Long?

. ntici~ated" for 1968 in Hag- business district. listed as airport runway h;n- " By the end of 1969, the a • program oel no. an CI.. presently serious code violations ~overn~ent made 228 ~uilding Milton L. Scott, in the Phila-stown s proposed workable 4. Appointment of a planning di- provement, airport aircraft workabl. program estimat.s Pit. any of the 281 being abl. is required to upgrade the city's mspe~tions, 1,938 pll!IDb~ in- delphia office of BUD s aid 'ogram for 1968. rector and staff. parking facilities, airport medi- that 366 famines will n •• d to find new homes or aplrt .. housing stock. A co-operative ~pecbons. 45 el~ctrl~al mspee- Friday it is impossibl~ to say

';shesi~~~~a~~ ~~;~:mHe~~~~ 5. Appointment of an urban reo urn density approach:. ~ghts. new homes-200 IS the relult ments In exllting houllng. agre~ment .with the Fe!ieral ~~~'26~7~eh~usme~J:::ec~tn: how long it will take to process Mills and mailed on W dne newal commission. downtown parki~g facll.lties, a of a contemplated Jonathan The workable program said HOUSing AssIStance Administra- k bl ;sr' tate' Th the workable program. Approv ..

e .. s- 6 S eli f 1 'bU' new North End fire station, dis· St. urben renewar prolect, 135 the Hagerstown Housing Auth- tion for a survey and planning wor a e pro a~ s ~. ere al is required first in the Phil-r:iu!d:P~ ~:~r~toD~~a~~I~~ . ti~S ~s t~e I=:~:n ~~s~re~' posal plant facilities, street im· .. the r.lult of housing code ority and the Hagerstown Board loan for an additional 250 low- we:e121i~6 h~ulstig vIolations adelphia regional oHice and ~' Housing and Urban Develop. 7. Construction of a m~dium: provements and storm .sewer enforcement, Ind 31 IS the re.. of Real Estate Agents hay e rent housing ~nits was signed a~ hous~: ~~t!a~n~ard has then in ,,:ashington. . lent (HUD) for additional pub· low-rent housing project In Improve~en!s. suit of the A.M.E. Church been working together to fmd April 16, 1968. been ap inted the workable Scott said that priority Is glvo t housing and other HUD pro· the Jonathan st. area. .DI$place~ Persons •. housing proi.ct. new homes for displaced per- Put Accomp1ishments program~otes,' but no appeals en to processing workable pro-ams. 8. A turn-key low-rent housing. HOUSIng for dlsplaced families The workable ~rogram esti· sons. The workable program al· During the previous year. the of actions of housing inspectors gratD;' when. there ar.e 0 t ~ e r

. Antic1p.t.d Plans project or scattered projects. 15 not yet a. problem, but may mates, that only fI~: percent ~t 60 tak~s note of the :o\. • .M.E. workable program states, the have yet been made. pending proJects whIch hinge :The following projects, ae· g, A program to rehabilitate become 0r:e In. the fu~re unless the d,lsplaced famllies-one :m Church ~ . plans for housmg for city government has adopted It I. noted that. n.w civic: on workabl.e J?rogram approvaL rding to the workable pro· sub·standard but basically new hOll.lOg IS provldea, the ro.-wiJl be able to find new 100 families and of the 0 pen subdivision regulations; co·ord!· I I hi' Such a prlOnty was requested am, afe aniticipated for 1968: sound, houstD.g. workable program states. homes in existing houses or housing law sig.ne~ in March. nated .city and county planning cent.r I n t e p Inning in the ~over letter w~ich .Ie-

• "All families have· been able apartments. "However, additional low in- commIssions; sp"ent $1,528,826 on .tage. comparues Hagerstown s work~ Adoption of a completely new New goals for the coming year to find other accommodations," Rehabilitation can provide for come housing is desperately a long·range capital improve- Once funds are provided for a able program. zoning ordinance in keeping listed by the workable program it says. "However, continued ~ -percent of these, and new needed to bouse families dis· ments plan for streets, alleys. planning director, the city antic- nlf It Is in good shipe. you ~·1th present development pol- are code en10rcement urban code enforcement will necessi· onstruction is needed for 70 placed by elimination of sub· storm drains, sewer, water and ipates applying for 11701" :funds don't have too much to worry icies and the objectives of renewal, airport jmprovement, tate immediate action to provide ercent, the workable program standard housing through code airport; hired two housing In- to plan rehabilitation of the .bout/' h •. seid, "We'll do all

LihA. eomnrabans;VA ,00ao wat"'r:.ilDd.A&.W.elt lin. extensions _and , rehabj1it~t;A~-1.' . , action.. owner' ... J .. ;. .... ~ , araa. _ thA. tD hurrv , .1. ..!!

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Sports Section 10 Hagerstown, Md., Saturday, August 6, 1

Hell Drivers To Risk Necks At Local Fair

ON,E OF THE NATION'S top auto daredevil acts, Jack Kochman's Hell Drivers, will be featured as a free grandstand dttraction on Wednesday and Thursday, August 10 al,d 11, at the 1966 Great Hag­erstown Fair.

The show, consisting of 28 stunts, will be present-ed once 8:30 p.m., and will include

maneuvers as the bone­the two-wheel drive and the

program will be a ramp-to· 1965 model pick-up truck,

feet through the air. Ibat there will be

see Ibis grandstand attrac-

plus mechanics,

and roll-over maneuvers, flatbed trailer. is valued at over $100,000. of 35 years in the field of

driving. His program is seen

'Punk Umpire' 81 By GORDON BEARD

Associated Press Sports Writer BALTIMORE (APl-The Bal·

timore Orioles don't look for hearts and flowers when Valen­tine is umpiring.

"He has no business calling players namest" Oriole Manag­er Hank Bauer said of plate urn· pire Bill Valentine Friday night after a ninth-inning hassle.

"No punk umpire is going to run me around and get away with it, os Oriole pitcher Stu Mill­er said. "even if I get rUn out of baseball to let 'em know what I think."

Outfielder Curl Blefary said be was called a name by Valen-

tine earlier this year, and the Orioles pointed out that the usu~ ally mild-mannered Manager Sam Me1e of Minnesota tried to punch Valentine last season. Mele was suSpended five days and fined $500 after thaI epi· sode.

"That's the worst part of aU this," said Bauer. usomeone's going to pop him some day. but then the guy who does the bit· ting is going to be thrown out of baseball. "

Puffing on a cigar after the game, Valentine freely dis· cussed the dispute, which began after first base .... umpire Ed Runge called Fred Valentine of

Pony League Tournament Finals Set

righthan(ler l game, DO - hitter in the nrevious

)1 s"venth when Dover erupted for ie. Dover

JI:~:~~~I~:~ look a 2.0 lead in put on inning as Barnoski striking coasted home on innings.

Ulsh's opposite fie I d stretch run. Pennsylvanians made it the second when G e n e

drilled a line home run to

Maior League NATIONAL LEAGUE

Friday's Results Chicago 4, San Francisco 3,

10 innings St. Louis 7 Cincinnati

the Washington an altern pled

"Miller toward first," "and I said to no lar, 'come on, blank goat, come play ball.'''

Baltimore zDovskyy ,~,;,~~~~~ within s} fron t finger face.

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• ttl • Cloudy with the chance of showers,

lows In the upper 401 .nd low SOt tonight. Showers likely with highs In the 60s Thursdey.

PRICE FIVE CENTS. ,us 16 .. "IllIm" ,.,.~.'ttOOg '~'''ilit ~ T I!!I 1 "ffl' _ ~ .. ~ _ l"'7fZ1"S7"ZI" fB I m P·))iflr

City Has Broad Open Housing Law By PHIL EBERSOLE clsion on the open housing ordi· Actual implementation of the the next general or s pee i a I buman relations commission Is The ordinance passed in Feh· Mack Trucks and Fair.hUd HU· Dr. William Brish chairman

Mayor Herman ,L. Mills has n~nce. "I've e.::'ercised it." reo op~~ hou~ing ordina!lce will ,not meeting of the. Council w,i,th his directed to try to straighten the ruary by a 4~1 vote. However, Ier Corp., the directors of the of the Hagerstown Bi .. R a cia 1 igned Hagerslown s open hous· plied Mayor Mills, ~nd Fouche beg"! until Mayor Mills appomts approval ~r dlSapprnval. . situation out by lnforunal con. if the Mayor had vetoed it it Was·hinglon County Tach s As. C .. 'd "1 tho k th g ordmance, glVlng Bagers- let the matter drop. a flve·man human relatIons The ordmaDce forbIds racIal .. : . . . '. . e er omm.lsSloD, sal , In , e

'n the broadest open housing But after the meeting, when commission to administer the discrimination in the sale of clliatory processes, but, I( this IS unlikely that the necessary lSocla.tion, and many c h u r c h commIssion feels that this is en w in the state and one of the reporters asked him if he had ()rdinance. houses on the open market, and falls, it can supoena witnesses, f'Our votes could be mustered groups. important move forward for our

rroadest in the nation. signed the ordinance, May () r There had been a widespread in the rent of h()uses or apart· take testimony under oath, and to override his veto. Opposition to the ordinance community. We are quite grat .. The Mayor did not reveal that Mills hesitated, then flashed his impression that the City Oharter ments (except for boarding bous· issue binding orders. An open housing ordinance was also widespread, but th e lied the Mayor has signed the

e had signed the ordinance un· characteristic grin, a.nd s aid giyes the Mayor 30 days to sign es and for owner·occupied apart· Either party involved ma.y ap- was formally proposed to the only org-anized opposition was ordinance." L the last possible moment. quietly, that, yes, he had signed aD ordinance, and some had ex· ments with less than five apart· peal the decision of the hum.an Mayor .and Council by the Hag· that of the Hagerstown Board He thanked aU those who sup­About three·quarters of the it. pected Mayor Mills to wait two ments.) relations commission to t.h e erstown Bi·R'8cial Commission, of Realtors, and even the real- ported the ordinance. and said a.y through the City Council City Clerk John Conrad has., more days until the 30-<lay pe- Charges of discrimination C()urts, and penalties for viola· and was supported by a broad tors objected more to the means III believe we now have a basis eeting Tuesday night, Coun· the signed ordinance. He said it lriod is up. But Section Eight of must be made in writing to the tion of the ordinance or of or- spectrum of groUJ?S, including of administering the law tbs.n for working ahead in a coo.­

Umao Arthur G. Fouche asked is. effective starting Tuesday the City Oharter sa~s the May· human relations co.mmission set ~ers of the commission may be the Washington Couoty NAACP the principle of open housing it· structive way to better the bi. the mayor had -come to a de· night. or shaJl return ordmances "to up under the ordmance. The Imposed only by the courts. branch, the managements of self, racial problems of Hagerstown."

THE DAILY MAlL, Hagerstown, Md. - THREE Saturdlly, AVlv.t 11, 1f7S

Vacant Lot More Than An Eyesore

lame Homeowners Foundation

City's Blacks Upset Over Stall ,

In New Housing On Jonathan St. man steps Qut into the

The sweat trickles bis balding head as he

lo the rubble of the where he was born.

ain't built nothing I been born 1 •

projects," growls Sonny Campbell.

long as it's black, to stay this way. tI

"aml'Q'''~ is a firm believer W ashinglon County

e 0 wners Foundation, bQughl and cleared the

aD Jonathan Street in black neighbQr­

few years ago, is never to build new barnes

because this is a black peiightlOrlloc>d. They don't care

black areas,!' says. 4lThey ain't

"

going to build nothing as long as blacks are

foundation has been ",,,chinl' for more than eight

get lederal funding tOll.'bhou,es IIno. 80

. plmm"nt units on Bloom's were on the

success earlier

almost in the mail from the Applachian Regional Com· mission for pre-construction planning.

But the money was shackled in January when the Nixon administration imposed a freeze on housing monies.

Mrs. Flora Campbell, Son· ny's 70-year--old mother, was forced to leave her four·room frame house three summers ago when the wreckers came.

Now living in a tiny clap­board house nearby, the w hit e·h air e d grandmother says she too doesn't believe there'll ever be houses again on the vacant lots. "No, I don't. I really don't," she says.

• 'They were supposed to have started building again the next year . . . but they haven't. I believe it's some kind of eXC.:Ise. It could be because there was no white people living up there."

Hemmed by a weU·worn curbstone, the empty t~ts glilt.cr with buttles and cans. A tattered chair and old stove punctuate the litter. Thr.ee

ago and for a least

families lived in the row houses that stood there.

"There was an alley down there that we used for shoot­ing crap 'cause no cars came through the r e , • , says Campbell. His mother adds: uWe lived on the end of the row and the onlyest thing I had was a little garden," says Mrs. Campbell.

But the houses were "rotten . . . no ODe would fix them up and the kitchen floor was caving in ancfJthe plaster was just falling oU the wall/' she says.

So in tbe mid.fiOs, the members 01 the A. M . E . Ebeneezer Church dec ide d something ought to be done. Lacking the funds, they turned to the Homeowners Founda­tion, which bought the land and began searching for funds to build new haOles.

In 1970, the city condemned tbe houses and bnd them lorn down.

Some of the residents bITely recalls Mrs.

down and be hadn't gotten out yet. "

Mrs. Campbell and her son and several otbers a Ion g JonatMn Street just don't believe federal money for new houses will ever come.

"1 wou't believe it until I see them start building it," says one long·time member of the A.M.E. church.

"I lived there for 40 or n years," sqs Mrs. Campbe~ "but I just don't really think anything new's coming.

"If they aren't gonna build, tbey could use it for something nice like a park or maybe a laundromat • . . . I could be just a place for the children lo play," sbe says.

Bible Thoughts o Lord, why dOlt thou ellt

me off? Why do,t thou hide thy laco Irom me? Afflicted and clo .. to deatf1 fro", my youth up, I suffer thy terrorl; I am helplen. - Plilm 88:14, 15.

man "had Strength is bQrn in the deep a new silence of long suffering hearts;

were not amid Felicia Her4

'POVERTY HAS CREATED POVERTY'

Substandard Housing .&.&&&&.1 ..... "'-1

, Arthu, 1ft ..... , ..... ,. w ..... IiDbd with ........ County WeIf ... o.p.rI>

~=:.:='':i proIlIIeII .. WedDtIIday. .. - - --, ...... t~. JIoIarJ Club be.... m .... nl. 011 ........ ot t h • Ioonc'-• the y .......

{

tblUD/:;:;:lpeoSOCplelal ~D1~:1 weIla.. authority and a ill belter boma: mOlt of poe: p;r;~~; TIIeJ qreed OD Improve their 0 ... BYeS. the r after problem .. P.., • .., ....... - _.

elwlce to Dve arty .. ..I_than St.... Mrs.

Hagersfown Nearer Open Housing Law

a y

•• .. d

, . (Colo! ....... fnm p ... 1) subjects ""'capt wileD It _es aUempted to resolve our p..... "Now I.a the 1Ime for dofJD. .......... ,lYe In .....

eel lbout ... hour and a baH. to the moat: lmporlaDt proldem blem III Ibe area of housing," lte action," he said. with • ,""ck y ..... " Jut .. J'nuclIe said that III two y ...... faolllg the Clt;y? The MaJor ...... he said. "We have eome to Ibe y_ ..... that ... "- ........... for ............. .....

• 1Dee .!be pnoent Idmintstrl' DOt. bave a vote "",eept to bIoeat eoDdu.sioIl Ibat open oeeup....,. of tho ............ of _...... " ..... yeu .IY ..... _ .. tIoII took office "I have yet to a ti •• But rm sa)'lug .. eIIJef is !be 0IIly lIISWer." ....... _ hi • ..,. I. NOlI'" lIyt .... that _ It. The ....... hear a eollerei.. statement of ueeutiv. h. baa a reapoIIIIbJl. Be poillted. Get Ibat due to He ......... , thinII 1t.·1s do- Is no ...... for .-.t ........ !be lIayor's posItiOIl 011 fair Ity to make his positIoa baWD crowded eoadlI:loas "'" the .,.dlng that m • .., -'- he.. - - 'It ''''''11'111 Int! housing I have made my pool. of the problems and Jasues fae· petto" and !be rundOWII eondi- will hoy. to. NVt.1 to you ·Mrs. Key ... • s-.tI_ I tiOIl P;blie DOl as a eoUIICiI- lag Ha.eraIoWII today." 11011 of ho ..... past rebabD1ta· thalr pa.-llivII In........ like ·.Iv .... up. But I'. m... but II a CluiatiaD and At thlI point !he mayor ".n. lion ''there is 110 loDIer decent CGllVIn .. you" of tho ...... fer ioIIII 'to .1Ye up." , a. a dlle\ple of J08II. Christ. ed !be COUIIeU iDIo .peclal .... housIDg to he ~,:"nd III the JOlla· _ ............ but ... ..Id he JaImsoD laid he baa four • 1 want I atatement from the sIoD and ealled for the ..... tban St. area. I. wOIing ... - lIlY....... dren and .,_ , to live W,. Illyor if he supporta tbls leg. "Bow much faster do _ Rev.llr. RobiDloD said, ''Tbll ...... If ~. 1I0IIJ8 wItb a basement diI Illatioll and If he does DOt, how .,ant to mo'" thaD thet?" he Is DO 10llll8r a rae I all... Keyes said, "I went t!irou&fI "ntIIer deeeDelea allli iliIIlVeoIll' bs "peets to divide Dagaro- aated. "You call even 10 to but a hum ... problem. YCMI ean six mOlltba 01. houa .. hUll!iq. 1 _ wIdeh ether people have.:'

W11lllto first clasa and seeollli my office and draw up tile .. drive up IT_tball or the .ide weDt 1IIrouIh alotofliumDlaIlon Mn. Cox •• Id .... " .. ! , d.u eIUs"""T" diIlanee -," he laid. streets and see row 011 top 01.. , • 1 don't 1hIDk' anyoae elae ..... lieu .............. .......

III II1III I8Id lie wID 'nut meelinl ".. opaed row 01. houses mt fit for h,...1Iould have to go ........ h what -" I hod:' .... ..Id. . lto°r I to .~._ Wwll! ~: with eommeDta by the BeY. mall habitation. And 1 supeet 1 did ••• So 1 hope you fiDd .... ,aid lIIt .... hI have to ... mg . go 11 w.. ........ Mr. RobiDaoll. the OIIIy reason they have been It III jOllr bearts to pasa thIa." wftet his ............. . .... eoullcil and w!1b 0IIr Ittorney "For lOme tim. fIUreNd oeeupIed 100 10lIl is bse_ Mrs. KtyII ' .. hi. HI hava have to lOY about ~ .. to ... what kind '" leglalallon elt!zeas ill eo at o. " flva chi d...... I wauJd I I NI,,,:' . we can get."

CowIeUman FUDkhouser add­ed tbat "!be lIayor doesn't vote. It Is up to lb. ClOiiIIciL"

"Tbeoe people loot to lb. lIay, or for leadership. He h.s a "" .ponsibWt;y to make hi. po.llIon elear on porbapo the moat im· portant problem flelng the UDit ed Slales today," CoimeIlman Fouebe .. Id.

"I don't put anyone 011 the spot," IIlyor IIUis said. "We live III the ..... telt 011 earlb, Peop1e ' .re IIDed IlP trying to get Inside. I'n lake a iIWDd wheII !be time _"

After furIIIer dlseusslOll, eou ... enm ... Fouche .ald, "I'm III a "Iuallliry a. to why !be que .. tioll is bslag evaded and what !be mayor's position is. Why doee e

SPEAKER - qJ 10Ti~bth~ a.9.Jstlr~r\n1 the erO" I " N. Gluckm.n, Cnn,..,gation B'Dai Abraham, I annual brotherhood Broviee. About 200 people

left, ...."..n.Iat.. Clarence MitcheU, director of aU faiths were presellt to hear MiteheD II lb. W uhington Bureau of the NAACP, 101· speak on "Current Trends iD Race RelaUon •. "

........... P Official Says Segregated Is Smirch On Hagerstown

By DON SOBWICK the loudest gropononlt 01 "" linear and smirch on YO'U" community," '"'?~ief~ ~:~; MitcheU'. description of Hagerstown's Ne.l!ro .lc:~~~~:~: ,~nd 'louder lIlas the

problem. 11,

1:::a~;~~~r~I...!~~'W~atch' Go_ director of the Washington He said ODe 01 Ibe most 1m. spoke Friday JIi8ht at the annual things the onIinary dU·

wonlllp service at Congregation B'na! .all do I. to .. ate1a the wbo run city, eoaDty

lovemmenll. the man wbo ruDI

!doll.atcber abould have eoBlmUllity, I,

.............. .. ..wtlti~ .... ...,.

• _ Ia' bIs .... I/rda •. ''1fItea 1 .. u • ___ lItJt I

eat of coIIICe," IIJId!elI said, "0. of 1111 iInt Ullpmettll wu '- ""'* • ~ OD Use BaNn .... , _ • IIItDdHd IIIileo .... )'. Tbe fact Ib.t there .... ,oiaI • he • Iyaebin, ..... 10 w.u ..... lllal ... -­.1IIe to - __ ...,.. It had w-_

".It ...... Jaecaeeivable Iben I til.- Y'P" ~eday he

r<!iQ"'I"teoI iehoola and • pub­lic. accommod.tions law In )larylud.

"I ... oaIIl .evor bave beUeved tbft ~. would \lUI • eivU lithta la.... ,

1I1tcbe11 1dde4, "Ii 11 ... y _ • 10M at Alabama and KillllllJIII. aIId _, 'HoW .... fullt llibl' BIIt _ ill Selm., I ~.... ·od tID .... pIeturo of Dr. IIarthl LuIbar KIn. aIId ....... ph-inl stratecJ lor are ...... IqIIIratia *i.. 1m

IIoIeI 1Uite. '''l'IIat boIeI aulte .... iD ODe

er tile toa~~ boteII _ de-_ 01 the fed· d iijlita law." aD eama .bout bonu ..

......., oltlzeu ... 1IIted tAl <ball \be wwId, Ilitebell .. !d. n. dvll rlgbta work.r said

!bon __ .. different or,an­I .. ~ wvrkiDI iD WaabJnctoll pursuodjD' lella1atGr. to pu. tIuI ledei'al 'JeIlslaIlGD .

.... V ...... "-"There Is DO~ ia thI. country

• ~ ..... III resolution th.t !be.. proIIIeJIIa mUll he aol· yod," Imebtll said.

Ho pndlcJed lb.t "within • ,._" tho federal pvarament 'Waul<! pa.. a I.w eaabUag aD eIIizeDI to vote.

u1bere wUl be .. perm.Den 10m". 110 lema of voter

issue was raised by a member of

~::s'~~l~~~ . County branch ~ He said be .n" 1I0rEm

were seeking a ~partmcnl 10 live in.

said be and his started telephoning who bad apartments advertised in the local

pr~sent the

Mayor Winslow F. Burhans, in welcoming a st.te NAACP conference to Hagerstown, said h. wa, sorry I reporter wu present because h. would hive liked to "shere I few personal thoughts with you/'

Reo I Estate Say They

person'IRent To All

Garla"d Groh said he did M"lefLech,d re,nemt,er Keyes. but said, reputable and have

money and caD pa.J!' the that's our business, to rent." f!e ltanc.

said race made no difference i~:~n~I?J::~~.el'l him, 1«

He said he has good ments in both the white colored sections_

Daniel IV. Litton said I h aL \I'~~~.:.~~;l; Keyes callcd l he had

~~ [ ~:~"J.~!n.~ for white man or ; said his firm raI'elyl m,';;i

apartment rentals

Open Occupany Law Would 1egolln

I~~~tl;=~~::~1 McKeldin Pats Negroes On Back

To Become Red Cross Chapter House 1hII......, houM at lIS s. ........... St .......

the ....... of the "'-""' family. _ wi" -... .. A...... _.lIlIg ••• .. tile Well ..... . c:-,. a..ew of the AmerIcan NaII .... 1 Rod

c.-. A~ ""Ique In this - ..... Inlscont of a SwI.. chalot wllIt I'" .me .... nIH ........ !Ita ""'U It bel ... _vlrod loy tIto Reel C- dlapier wttIt funds _I ..... for tIto .....-­In the will of tIto late CI..- Welpnd. An­__ mont of tIto '""'" ....... 1 of ... chaplor

to ...... ill own ....... w .. -- at the - I.a::::'!~:i ...... "'- mooting of lito U.F. _ w-.... I. day .......... whoa lito 511ft __ '1 of lito chapter. founding _,""",eII. 11Iore .. ~. -' _ within lito lroup to name lito _ huclcluarten building "CI.,. Barton ....... " as on hi_leal rominder of lito foct IItot Clara Bar • hIn. lito fovnder of lito Rod C ..... ::'~nt HttIofi.ld nunlng at lito In W .... lnghIn C-,.

Group Asks

BALTIJIIORE (AP) - Kayor R. McKeIdin, at aa

Dews eonference praised Baltimore"

for the city'. summer.

mayor had some praise nearly everyone while say that be felt the critical lime

for racial unrest ha

JOHN H. MBRRBAUGH

r ouel,! 1 ;;:ad;~ :Servke - WreclIiuI '/31-'. Adv

Help In Open Occupancy Here \~~~ 1~=~:~~§2C~ '!'be HagerstowD

ComJllluioa oa •• lted five erstowa uk their

... a Albert th. Rev, ~;;;\t..~~::1 ard CurIlD, Mrs. I man and the Rev. volt

They .ald ...... _ ....... I .. Ie ...... __ of racial _ion In H ... ntown. The ...... c.mm .... " I. not •• calm la. It ..... ,. on the •• r-

foe •• thoy Hid. and only tho I re.}'~~~:'I: work of tIto II-Racl.1 C.m· I ",Isoion h.. kapt thI",. quiet .. fir. Hoopes aud Rev. Mr. Lucas

urged pa.",. of an open OCCU' pucy law. Hoopes said the fed· eral civil rights law made it posslhle for him 10 opeD jobs 10 Negroes at the Braudt Cabiael Works.

age _~_'~" work

Now thllt 80lIl8 Nearoes Cood jibs with loud pay, he they also •• ek the chauce to cood bouse ••

SIehl sald his firm asks aeIIera of property If lIIey wiDID8 to sell to Nesroea he laid, "I'm to

that lOme ......... ' hive lue­........ In finding hom .. out· .Ide the J ..... th.n St. tlWtrict, but .. kI "'"" ora too few to be worth talkl", about. "II'. kind of .tlnkl", thinking." h. ukl, "to expect • problem of this malnltud. Cln be relOl¥ecI without law."

No Roomfor Middle-Class Negroes? . 0- 'i\. \ '\

By tEl R'I~H~RDSON there was no room elsewhere commission)s need for two paid What Hagerstown needs is for them. staff members, a planner and a

more middle·income housing for Commission member J 0 h n secretary. Beyard said he would Negroes, Councilman Romayne Larson cited a new Housing for bring the matter before the Beyard told the Hagerstown the Elderly project under con- Council at its next meeting. The Planning and Zoning Commis- struction on Walnut Dr. He said commission is presently work-sian Thursday. when it was completed there iog under a $300 to $400 a year

He referred to comments would be room in the city's 500 budget, Larson said. made at a Bi-Racial Committee low-income units for about 30 lilt will be our fourth re-meeting Wednesday when Mrs. new families . quest." said Beyard. Marguerite Dolman pointed out He also cited a low to middle- The commission reviewed and that there is no place in the income project being planned approved preliminary plans for community, for middle - income by the A.M.E. Church on Jona- Section C of an Edison Groh Negroes to live. She said that than St. near Bethel St. He said subdivision between Marion St. the overcrowding in low· cost the project would also help the and Armstrong Ave. A,pprov·al housing would be ·alleviated if overcrowding situation in low- was given contingent on changes middle • income Negroes had cost housing. in the design of a cuI de sac some place to go. "Hopefully the private indivi· or turnaround.

Housing Inspector Thurston duals in this town will come for. The commission previously Keltner verified that some mid- ward and put up some middle- turned down plans because the dIe-income Negroes lived in income housing," he said. diameter of the turnaround did low - Income housing because Members also discussed the not coliform to city standards.

nspector Says Ha If Of Dwellings n Downtown Section Substandard

By PHIL EBERSOLE Max Fiery and (allbough not IteI·ioTl.ted dweUlJngs •. present this week) Sidney Metz· nero

Newcomers to Monday

ACTION LlNI .00n. problem., au ....... qu ... liOM. cham mlo complaiali, ttlDd. up for your rigbll. Can ACtiOD LiDe at 73S·5Ul from l:~ to 4:. p.m., MODday through Friday. Or write "eliOD LiD .. '1'11. Heral4·MaU, lIa,erl1owD, Md. 117411. '

Who determines whether a doctor Is allowed to I.t practice In Washington County. I, th.r. any way t.

out I phYlician to be lur. he II r.liabl.?-J.P.

A pbysician bas to be granted I license by lb. Board Medical Examiners for the State of Maryland to set up

~ractjce iD lbe state. He must satisfy aU the qualilications Medical Practices Act. He must have a license or be

practice. He can practice in Wash. Co. without being a ~:::::~ of the local medical society. But whether be's 8 ~ or DOt, the society takes it upon itself to cbeck

credentials to be sure he is duly licensed. U you confirmation of the professional qualifications of

physician contact the Wasbington County Medical Society, lOS E. Washington St., 731-lll00.

would Ilk. for Action Line to ",,"tlon tke Board of IEdu',ot'io,," motives for the p.aneterlum conltruction .. atina

100 Itud."ts and tn. c.onstruction and remodtllng of 20 new offlcel. The public Wit led to believe the

rPlon<,to"lum was going to cost $300,000. What we are .. t. Is • amaH p'ane'erlum without any equipment and the

bulk of 1M monty will 10 for offle.. and parking .poca. -W.J.N.

'!'be bas. bid by J. B. Ferguson and Co ..... $280,240. An alternJlte caUlJng for .dditional space would add about $1(,760. Rougbly abnut ~ne·third of the money is being spent on the planetarium itself. This does not include equipment. The federal government made the equipment, estimated at $50,000 to $60,000, available if tfie county provided a structure

house it. The bulk of the fund. will be used for class· for data processing classes and orientation pt'ograms students before they are taken into the planetarium,

:onferen'c. rooms and a few offices. Included in the cost also b. equipmeDt to outfit the.. .r ....

I hod a .... utiful kid wanted to get him started

modeling (th. kid i. only 4) how would I do It?

hive any addrln •• agencies that hire

ehlldr.n?-C,&.

have a beautiful eh? So does every· we know. Here'.

who can help you. Lilli Ann Ayers, exe-­

~cr<'tar'y , Mudeling As· America, 1445 Blvd., ADD Ar·

you're while homes.

HAt least th~y have a partial roof, over their now. They In ay be sha with rats and they may have plumbing, but they least have a roo! over t b e i heads."

If the bousing codes are Iy enforced, Hoopes said, people could be turned lbe housing they have any provision for a sullsl'il'ult<i

Keltner agreed there are to 100 structures that could

"but we have to move the tenant."

A.M. E. Church

Curlin s aid the Church project is being because Bishop Baber send through a certain

financial statement. source of the diUiculty. he may be a disagreement the Bishop and the local gregation over whether housing ptoject will be Baber Terrace or some name.

Although tbe non.profit ing group bas not been cerned with the A.M.E. housing project, several present said this project urgent to l>e d~loy.rl by politics.

If the project is named er Tenace, they said. it not be the first time sOInethlrj in Hagerstown had after an individual cO-(l.peTi,tiol'. On the

In order to get subsidies for the project aud for any Hag""to,~ Housing Authority Hagerstown is

Housing Code Enforeement SeenNeeded

110 ... l

,)i"~ eln rent "Where

laDdIordl pt mMey m.~, NftIdI'l'"

""". Mr • .............. to Ha ..... n'. IUCClnfuI ..... Ic .......... 1_ II ".., ..... -'- who ..... ..... ... In ""Iect ..... . ..... ___ .... w. .............. -

Wright Says Housing Law 'Fraud Upon The Negro'

Del. Fred Wright m listed sumers a watchdog. He ~1"w":~IG::H~~o;w:e;ver, Wrighl.ald Code Home Rule, air pollutioD however, that the bm Assembly wa. eantrols, cousmner proteet1on and "watered down." a bill to liberalize tas reform among the major ac- 3. Code Home

complillbmellta of Ibe 1967 very important," o;;~.m~~i~:lf~e1 General Assembly. "It allows the Couoty "

Bul he attacked !be OpeD hou· sioDers to call a Home ling law as "a complete fraud election instead of requiring upon the Negro." As a lawyer I petition." be .aid, be could not vote for •. Minimum wag e. a law with so many "loopholes said the minimum wage was aDd OceptioDi. II creased ID. two stases from

"Any developer who wanls to to $1.15 and Iben '1.30. discriminate, if he has a good 5. Revolving credit. H. lawyer, can do so," Wrighl said. Umitation of interest ch.,u".

GeDeraJly, he laid, "I feel rivolving credit to l"t:~~:I .. id thai !be s ... 1oa was especially a monlb "Is a step In productive from whal 1 UDder· direction, tryi'ng to regulate steDd of past legislalures under terest and usury."

_apportionment. This is 6. Sir I p mining~E~~~I~~ whal 1 get from Speaker of Ibe legislation, air poBution H 0 u se Marvla MaDdel and tightening of the stete House Majority Leader Thomas ity law, and the HuDler Lowe. They said the fel- convention. lows Ibis year seemed more Wrlgbl listed the followiD& Interested in legLslating Iban in failures of Ibe legislature: making emotioDal appeals on 1. Failure to enacl a "tJ"tll'll~n the floor." in·lending" law, which will

Wright listed Ibe lollowing as quire a lender to di.se~:e=~·I~~ accomplisbmeDis of Ibe legisla· true Interest r a I e. tuN: schemes are often so

L Tax reform. "I voted for cated, Wrigbl said, lbal.!h''-.b<orjlbUIs It somewhat reluctantly," he rower cannol compare said, "It's always difficult to know whal inter~ he vote for a tax increase. Bul 1 Illg. felt a graduated tax would mean 2. Failure to repeal the ,e n e r al burdeD of Ibe peDalty. "So maDy amenlll1l"nt"1 ~ woold he horne were pul on Ibe repeal more equitably." States m u s t it was a trashy bill," levy their own taxes, he said, said, uIf it bad been e~.~c!!~; or depend on the federal govern~ it would have been a bad ment for financing. He also He said as a member of said the state employes needed House judiciary CO:~~::~~I:io~:1 a pay "raise, 80 "you must vote Y 0 ted to delet~ for tbe revenue means to pay and present a bill for It." repealed the dealb

2. Consomer protection. Wright "pure" bill was delr.8i:ed'· OOD said • COIlS\IJJIer protection House of Delegates noor. division in Ibe state allorney· S. Failure to eDacl confUcto()f·

fee 0 n one fO les Condemned Un~ef Housing Cod By PHIL EBERSOLE

Three properties on Walnut few hundred yards r,ar of St. John's

~~~a::~~~dChureh, have been ~ under the City Hous·

city building, inspector,

t~a~l~ti~:~ .. as "unfit on Thurs-making a

Hagerstown Ro­an housing problems-.

aod property-owo-30 days to vacate the unless improvements

the main defects central huting, II poor stat. of

and lack of bath f.cit.

Dr. John C. Stauf· his next step will be

exactly what the [ode ~ I,equirem,~en't' arc. Hc ,aid

a letter out­"things which he thought be desirable," but this is

sam e thing as the re-~ilr.nlents of a code, "judging

properties I see in rager.,toWn:"

as a office

the rental in the meanti been incidenta1. The Patter­Agency. Inc., bas made all arrangements. HI've never in the buildings," be said.

going to t.ea r the Ib"II,jina. down sometime when

an office building, 10 s no desire on our

make unnecessary 1m-

~;:~~~:~~~~II. he said, Iiso "I don't have any plans right now/'

woman tenant says she not know what will happen

is forced to vacate. "1 .. she said, "With

hard to get a

SAI~URDAY, JANUARY 21, 1967.

These Properties Are Condemned woman, who asked that

Dame not be used because did not want a certain per· to find out where she lived,

Shown above are proptlrtles at 148·150·152 spector Gerald Shank under the City H"u,i/n.j Walnut Line condemned by City Building In· \. Code.

HI tried before to get a I have too many children. what they say."

gets about $200 • month the Welfare Department's dependent children pro- /w .• , •••

This includes $31 a month rent.

$45 A Month Her rent on Walnut Lane Is th

a month, she said. She furn. e ber own heat, gas and

lectrie:itY, she said, but the ltn:spec:t

as a dangerous strue· Under the code, the as hereinbefore provided, and tenants are required to

may declare such dwelling eate the buildiog within "a multi·family dwelling as UN . . , ,onable time as required by

~;:;n~~il~;:~NFOR HUMAN HABITA· huilding official" and keep '~-; and order it to be vacated. vacant "until written

any dwellmg or multi- liS secured from the building bousbog Ifan1ily dwelling or any part fiela!. .. whenever the

.Ith,,,.,of is occupied .by more oC' ldefects upon which the than perIDltt.ed under ation BDd placarding

an~ I ;;:~;rl code, or .was eIf~cted . rl. based have been '","OlII'""'" j or occupied contrary to . .

dwellin~ or mulu·fa' H the notice 15 n.,.lIlin, shall be deemed with. ··the building

nol.hlDgl ulllav,fui structure and the request the legall ;;;r~~~~~~~,~1 may cause insUtute an ,al

be vacated. It or proceeding to again property-owner is until it or its guilty in Magistrate's

as case may penalties could be up made to cOoform fille for each day the

Hagerstown Has 7,900 In Low -Rent' Housing

Hacerslown has 1.900 people I Authority flgures It would have program will tab from two Dearly one out of · every 20 to charge $84 • mODth. eicht years provl_ the p the city _ living in Iow'reDI AD 5;5S dw.Ulnca w.... .00' oer situ en he purehased,

. eupled 1D 1968. A sm.U Wilting . " . bUe houslnc projeOts. aeeord· Usl bas been maint.ined for the authority 101d. AU D

nc 10 Ibe annual report of the lamili.. wilb .hildreD. programa will he under .,.rstown Housing Autborlty. "The d.m.Dd for one·bed· 'lurlltey' method." The hOllliD, aulbority rents room units for elderly h •• been The report sald tenants a

565 IlmUl... which iDelude greal II all tim ..... Ibe author· held responsible for meIDle boul 900 .dults and 1.000 ebUd· ily report.d. "with .ome PeG- aDe. of the iDterior of tbe

. pIe waIting lor monlb. or even home.. and Ire eharg.d I Its projects are: Westview. years." • breakag •. "Routine IDspeeti

unIts. and P.rkslde. 40 In April. 1968. the lulbority of the hom.. Ire m.d. to eo ts. built iD 1952; Fr.d.riek made a program re.ervation lor reel .bu ..... he said, "and a~. 125 units. and Doucl ... 250 new public boos.iD' untts. tab ..... of _I')' ma

rt. 30 untts. built iD J958; The authority expects to gel tenuee." Watout Towers. I lSO-unll mnney for the .. now 1b.1 Hag· Parkside and We. I v I e

b-riae ... the elderly. buill iD erstown has a eertifIed work· Ho .... paid ".lD to the . able program. ,overllJllellt and $4,230 to

Average rani plid by teD· tntimltely. Ibe H.,erstowa.1ty government III lieu of tax ts Ia • a mnnth. and 108 HousIDg Authority plana to hive Frederlek Jlanor lIIII !>"'IIII'!II mIIIeo PlY the lowe.1 rent, 1.255 pubIie houIrinc unIta. In- Court Homel paid ",tIM to

h b $21 I montb. To op' "udln, .nother hlcb-rise of 1lI0

1"""""" ", •• -.t and ..

to .... thout • federal .!'b- unlta fo! Ibe e1der!y a~. ~ to the .Ity lOYenuDeDI III Ii

ThIrty _ THE UAILY MAIL. Hagerstown. Md. Thursday, J.nuary 5, 1967

'Human Beings Dilapidate Along I

With Tenements That They Live In By PHIL EBERSOLE lequallY sparsely. the inside of .aid. including infection of the is low or high. H. notlKl th

the house was dirty. aod the oldest girl with tuberculosis. But high stand.rds maintained I lilt is as if human being:; di- outside was littered. Boys and the family has shown "gradual public housing proiects, int

lapidate along with the tene- girls slept in the same bed, she improvement," she said. which mOlt tenants mov ments in whIch they live." said. The children's clothes The family now lives in a from sub·standlrd homes.

In these words Mrs Arthur were stored. for want of any Hfalfly adequate" five~room At the present time, he sal Hauver. acting 'super"visor of place better, in boxes OD the house, and the current Welfare jobs are readily aVailable, yet the Washington County Welfare cellar steps. Department report says: "The Negro wage-earner often fin Board pleaded Wednesday for "A garbage ean wa. used home is in a good state of re~ that only sub-standard bous sympathy for Hagerstown's slum for tollet purpose.," . Mrs. pair, and Mrs. R. is a good are available for him to re d e1lers She and the Rev. Hauver uid, Iland I ludge homemaker." He said the Hagerstown Ne~ J:mes Robinson, pastor of Eb. this was the cause of the Home is where children learn community "until recently" h ene:ter AM E Church were .teneh..'· to be adults, said Mrs. Hauver, lost its most promising you featured spe~kers before the Since then, Mrs. Hau~er said, and what do children learn. she people simply. ~cause. th Ha erstown Rotary Club. the woman has married her ~sked, in a hovel where there have been unv,:-Uing to bve T~ . ·ted t present common-law husband and they IS no work, no money. no books the houses available to t b e

ey we;e my 1 f o. . have had two more children. and no hope. here. the ~cnant s pomt ON VIew Ok But they have been able to "They need food," she said, What Is needed is strict ." h~US1Dg problems. exth ::~. move into a six·room house "They need something now, and forcement of housing cod. VIDeent Grob, :!dthh~O Wright with a bathtub, she said. tbey grab it. But they don't plan h. said, on both landlord. an ty ornpany, to n Bousin "I think they must take a for the future, because the (u. tenants. Jr., of.the IIager:ed~Jed to re~ batti six tim.s a day," Mrs. ture boJds nothing for them," Lf~wis Funkhouser. who i!!U AU~~lt~ .. a~e ~~ point of vIew Hauver said, "They think this Mutual Responsibility duced Mrs, Hauver and R~ se~ e Jan °Is sspeakers fro~ I. the most wond,rful thing In Rev. Mr. Robinson said ten- Mr. Robinson, spoke of ... an • ~n an.. will re the world:' ants expect landlords to pro- need for beUer understandin&" thetcithty g~vtye!nmp~~i of vie~ . She told of visiting another vide plumbing (including toil· the problems of the poor by-t sen e CI S • family which she found all ets), heating and "some basic middle class. He said the m

Not En:ough . standing staring blankly at a decoration!' He said landlords dIe class should show symp Many people 10 Wa~h1D~n televisoD set, in a living room expect tenants to provide "good thy Dot self·righteousness.

County, llrs. Hauver S81d, Slm- in which the set was the on1y stewardship" of the property 'If we fail in this aim (f ply lack enough. money t? af- furniture. It was obvious, she and a financial return. better understanding), let f?rd decent housm~. ~bhcfl as- said, that the house had not H. said most. tfltants are fail because of a p,assiona slstance, she s31d, IS.. not been cleaned in a long time. willing to maintain properties commitment to this cause,. 8J enough to SUPPO!1 a mllll11lum Since then the family bas had at the general level imposed not because of indifference standard of subSIstence," and, many troubles, Mrs. Hauver by the landlord, whether this lethargy," be said. she added, there are many peo· I

E;~:~1:j~::;·~gb;~~ar:ff a!~ Day Care Center May Ope r The Welfare Department's aI· ;. -

]owance for rent is, by law, $31

:d:u~~!h'toShisosa;d. ~~~U:S ff:: II G d' S·t C B F I" W::=~~'~ou~~r~velf~:e c~~ 00 I e an e ount.4 es involving chlldren, she saId; ~f thles~, ~~8averag!~r:~ '::. Washington County can get a operate a Head·Start program. monthly meeting of the Wa amI. y IS a!t xrso b law day care center for 7S pre- To do this, he said, would ington County NAACP bran $~Xlmum ~ • Y , school children if the Commun- probably require five teachers. Leonard Curlin, president, E

'Ha mdo°n. et th k'd th ity Action Council can come up five aides, a director. a social pressed doubts about the No 'ow you I" e I I • with a site, the names of the worker. a nurse, a cook and a St. YMCA as a site.

!~d th;v nHd? t '~~d ask::, children, and a w~rkable plan custodian. He said five vol· "It's not gOIng to be a N~g I

;;.w o.,:ou g~? H s d' by Jan. 15, accordIng to Ralph unteers would also be used. day care center. It's going cO es t y ne ow ~ Swauger, executive director of The Office of Economic Op· be a community day care c ~ou ~et them

b off t~O school, the Community Action Council. portunity guidelines would put a ter oJ Curlin said "Since

o~ 0 ~o~ Ul 'tel: : J,;" Right now it has none of $117,000 a year ceiling on ex- wa~t it for aU people, WOt un rms n ou on - n Y these. penses for such a center, Swau- the other people be willing drop out. The plan is no problem, Swau- ger said. "I don't think it would send their children out here Mrs. Hauver told. of one. wom· ger said. and be feels pretty be that high," he added. Other possibilities whicb we

an, the mother of eIght children, confident of being able to find The local contribulio', either discussed were the Potomac who lived on $80 a month sup· th~ children .. The problem, he in cash or in kind. would be YMCA, one of the city's lara port ~om her c~m~~n-law hus- said, 18 the SIte. 20 percent, Swauger s8.1d. The churches, a vacant mansio~~ band 10 W~st. VJrglnia. ~ut the He would like to be able to work of the volunteers and the the North End or a vacant s~ man lost biS lob, sbe saId, and get the. North St. YMCA COD- furnishing of a site can count downtown. Members were d the money stopped. The worn· verted mta a day care center. toward the local contribution. egated to explore some of the an wa~ unable to buy shoes for 'Quite frankly," he added, "I'd But the main thing now is possibilities. her children, and stopped ~end- like to see our oHiQe up there." finding a place in which toop.- H w ... Ing them to school, she said. Swauger figures on being able erate. "If we don't get the f 'ht ever, CUk'lln sald ihif no

For keeping her children ~ut to get. the day care center in b~ilding,1I Swauger s~id, Hwe ~ thin~sewr~:~ in oU~'rinci~~: of school, Mrs. Hauver saId, operation by Feb. 15. mIght as well forget It." b"' th d t Juvenile Court found the worn- He said the day care center NAACP Discusses avmg e ay care .cen er an guilty of child neglect. Mean· wo.ld not be a mere "baby. The day care cenler was dis. the Nortb st. 'yMCA bUilding."

... _ .... ii ..... ~_ ........ ~ .. __ ~_,oL ... J.;·i ... ·~a1 .. ' .... :ahI· : &:. aid Meanwhile we . i::)l

Broader (overage Needed By PHIL EBERSOLE

Hagerstown needs its own open housing law of the state open housing law, members

Hagerstown Bi-Racial Commission told City Coun-on Monday night.

They said the proposed local open housing law has coverage than the state law, which is nnolU'UIiOhar

buildings constructed after June 1, 1967 ... also said that it is bet· have local

people than to "riLOgl Cll officials on a

night, the Mayor and are ready for open hearings the proposed open

~~~:~:~: of the Bi. 7 p,C;;: .• V~a'n~d~n~f'~o~rai~,;~l~~ acknowledged ,that on the ordinance at the vided by religions

are ar.guments on bot h regular Mayor and Council organizations as to whether Hagerstown meeting on Tuesday. Feb. 20. members.

power to enact an open Attorney - Gener.. .~.~~I~T~h1;e1~!~~~i~:~ ordinance. But the only City Clerk John Conrad sev-really find Qut, they said, eral weeks ago telephoned

enact it, and let the ardin- Attorney • General's be tested in the courts. fice, and was told that DGthillgithe or,jinan"e

Councilmen informally ~ the state la~ prevents co,n.cilia,.t, to a suggestion CIty from enactu;lg an 0 p

J.1Ra,eial Commission law ,stronger 1:han th"ienc<,.." rclations com . p~ovlded the C1ty out the open ter .gJves It the powe! Eloublillzt;:;;~,~,

bi • racial CIty Attorney LoUIS was directed by the Mayor

to get an opinion He was sent a letter which said, "'We do

legal opinions to munici· corporations. As .a cour·

however, we would be to review aDd give Oul" .. _ ~ . .

on any opinion on '0151"", .. you might prepare

Mayor an

Commission Wants COuncil Direction Needed

The Hagerstow. l3i'Raol~1 miss/a. member, "If tbe s.ld Thursday It Il1Id Councu doesn't want Us status and direc. "'ark, we'll olos. up Sbop .. two bOUSing~.. . the MaYor, and. C?unoU lIabbi Stanley S k a in/

rating unde if It to Contlllue Its mISSIon. anotber lIlember, said the 'il :r:, "' •• , "'''''.'' .... "" '- ".0< ""'."... WOO" r;',da:rd ::::.,.,." ~. "" ... ~ "" .." .., '" ........ &.,. ;. ". "

of AmerICa Inc., know more about the Hagers. aCtivl!!es reoelved "'idespread Io"~erell!:~. the City of Ha t a II' n Bi'-Rao.iB! COlllmission, PUblioity .

. U, -. ' ••••• ~ ...... _. ""'" ...... , <'.W" . , -"-.\ '- '" '." ... "'" ...... ,,..., .. '''''' w """" ' .. _ .~.~ .. , ~"" ., -.. ..." '" ....... were hired for ,what they need to kno"" 8l'ieV

ances Witbout the need ~~~~?~~:~OUf'~~;~(A~:~mOtion to make the Bi· laWYers Or skilJ in Speaking in CommisSion an official Public.

organization and to giVe Other lIlembers of the Bi. s Powers of supeona i. now lI'cial eommittee are Leonard~n

. to b. <Pending before the City Councll. Curlin, Mrs. Marguerite DOle'J! it if f urban Tbe only miSSIon whloh the Arthur G. Fouobe and tbecct "" ",_-.,., .. • .•••• <~ .. ~. - """"-" ""',.

'!().page lInder city ordinance is to ~ .~ 5 e of lb.. ble fras an enforcement M' t ' & ts. ar. ava,lla offic.!be City's ordinance oglS . In . _." ... , -...... .,.

st action rental of hOUsing, Legal Cons,' .Ier

'r _. ." -. '" ~""" ." U" " insped~~s condem'Complaints are OUtlined in C· . h' ' , .... , , ........ ,t,zens '11 as 41\'~~nstitute However, the Bi.lIa

clal Com. wben i ty beallb miSSion, "'bose existence Ibe sa e ~nts or 'dates the OPen

the occup it lack"'ance, has been ,u'~~' I' ''"gerstow, b.oaui~e in disrel!formally bebind the or rroin - infljndustrialists, VWested; orand other to aIleviate the sanitary . g~ie,vaDces, iCCordillg t Clll"p"ne~~:,..~or olbe WIUIam M. Brish, the

• tbe "mao,

Ibis cae :'We've .about Used up ZI proP"bUity to lIItJuence in an have be1ficial capaeJ'ty, J, he

PrI)v",so, he eXPlained, tbe

~~~~~~~~~:i;~i~~~~~~~~wan~ a ~ its Powers

I - -pen ROIJ.sing" ,.. r- .,.. .... ne;

• But Still A Dream I, PHIL EBIRSOLE has .i'multaDeoual7 beld olber JObasoD lald be doe. DGt carel TIie; doa't RItI_ ~HI(' VerDOD JobasoD, of 170C lobs, Ibe Iat •• t belne aD lb ... belber be liYeS &iIIOII/I colored -- .......... Autbority. ''It'.

,dlordlDg Road, "OpeD bou .. 1igb! shift at We.terD lIorylaBd people or .. 1IHe people, so 10 .. tbeIf fault," .ald .M ... U II • reality. State Hospital. .. Ibey are people .. bo are ...roo, 'They need tbiI house C1iHord Edwlrd.. 01 462 "I ""d _ Iookl", fer a 'oqJ"'" cl ......... ~bIe. r... _ wllb a low ..........

aD" Ave., it i •• tID oDly c.up" of ,oan fer .. mothl ... · "Wi've broucbt our .bIldreII Echrards .. a. hora in ' Berry. elm. I really 1IIcod." J"""- .. Id. to re,pect olber people'. v':l1 •• V •.•• Dd. wbea blo fat.btr .... oro .... rMI. J ...... on. H. said ho found no problem erty .Dd olber people" b died..... rliled by bia older , h .. _ 1 .. 1... all hi. In ,ottln, r.all." 19 lhow .aid "We trelt people ~I brolber ID EastoD. P.. He fer hi, ewn hom., found him luftllbl. propertlea, but pie: .. 1 believe thb. If • per moved to Hagerstown .1 I - """.. two years ho w.. .....rmlned ,. w. "' .. If bl. • clllp on bia aboDlder JOUIb. IDd .. orked for t b e

.. ' .. 1-"'1", Road end until ho feund • hom. ...., .omeone i. going to ...... k i FouatalD He.d CoUDtry C I a b I lI .. tIeI the,. hlppU" Iv.r IUIted him Ix.efty. oft. u for 18 y.ars. c.. . He fouDd sucb • home two He said be ' bl. talked Wbea Ibe COUDtry club burned dwards II oue of five Neg· yea r. ago 00 BroadfordiDg YOUDg Negro men who are work cIowa, b. weDt to work for f DOW livlag ID public tious- Road - a four·bedroom house lag at Fairchild HlUer Corpora. Maok Trucks. IDe. He Ia a gear ~hose ~. bas exceeded costiog $13 000. He, bIa w I f e. liOD aDd lIa.k Trucka IDc., try. tutter. About Ibe .ame time, bl. ~Imum lim.1a set by tho fiv. childr'D aDd a gra.dchild lag to eDcourage Ibem to .ave groW. daughter we.t to work grstowD HouslDg Authority, (be ba. a 'OD I. the U.S. their mo.ey aDd inv .. t I. a dowatowa. Tho.e two tbingl put . wbo ba. heeD uDable to find Army) moved in. home. U the economIe boom !be family iDcome lhove t b e :on-slum house It • price Ibat At first bis wife IDd cbildren passe •• he .ald. Ibey would at 1IWdm1Dl! set for Ibe He ...... caD &Hord. UDable to stlY were apprebenslve lbout moy· least bave property aDd a town Houslag Authority.

\ UJlable to move. be I. DOt Ing away from Jonatha. St., be place to li.e. They ba.ve ... car. aDd Deed ! what to do next. said, but now they couldn't be i<U you own something, you I home within walking distance

Llfetl .... Dr.,m torn away from their new bave a voice" be said "But if 01 downtown Hagerstown. Mrs. '0 buy Ibla bouse, we .. cri· bome. you're oD.weifare wbai kind of' Edward. would also like to be J:" JOHson ._itt, "We had "Bow wou1d you like to blve a voice do you b8~e?" ' able to vis" ber 68-year..old ldel we waDted to buy I million dollars? That I. the Diffl I' D'I molber, .. ho IIv •• around Ibe

JetbiDc we could brilll up ~ way I feel about this bouse'" cu. emm. CGl'IIeI'. ,dren iD IDd live Ibe rest of .aid Jobnson "It', • beauttful IIr. IDd lira. CliHord Ed· Tbl. limits lbeir .bolea. ThO)' I U.e. in." locatio •. It i; quiet. It is Del~b. ward. are pa1inC $121.50 a have DOt heeD Ible to .oDaldft 'obuon waa bora In Washlag. borly. 1 recommeDd Ibat klDd moth for. a tw .. bedroom bouse offers of homes at PeD Mlr. iD n. D.C. HI. wife aDd bIa fatb· of a Deighborhood to anybody." In a ~blic housIDg project.. At KeedysVille.Dd 00 Outer DrIve.

were originally from Wash. He Hlel. "You _I .. ', uk one bmo Ibey were. PlYlDg They were offered a three. glo. Cou,,:ty, aDd he seDt bl, lor bettor """ ... be ..... When $148.50 lDItil the aulbonty set.a D .... apartmeot on North An., ife to liv. 10 Wa.hingloa Coun. ho w.. pI.nII... • .. _,y ceWag. WheD Ibey mO~ed ID but turned it down beeau .. tbey r wblle he served In the U. S. .nd .,.... nolghbe" elm. niDe yeart a,o, Ibey paid 148. could DOt afford to remodel. zmy cIurinI World War Two. .nd offe,'" cutti ..... Joh_ Tho H ... _ H_.... They were offered I bom. on H. Uked W .. bingtoD CouDty. ..Id: whon ho w.. puptInw _rity .1 .... thom to con- Ruby Ave. Ibat, .ecordlne to

lid decided to settle down up hi ..... vllion In"nnl. two Hnue.. Ifft In public Mus. Edwards, udoesa1: neD hay •• I.... "Yoa couldn't find any ...... __ ... m .. he ""dn" ..... ...... ......... their I... downstairs. It baa ........ 1111-eu.et locatioD thaD this vaDey," .ven te.med yet Clm. .... come .XaM the authority's der it." •• IId, " ..... the _Ie are and.......... -. !hoy "'lnacI. on Tho, wert off..... _ til 're1t7 Diee, .1 far I. I'm COD· People telepboned hi, .. If e cond,,"," thoy ............... n throe hem •• fer .... on _ eraad." wben Ibey moved in aDd told '""" throe ro .......... ry .Ix It. All h ........ 1. toI'-'i,

I JoImIon...... m.Dlger of Ibe ber ho.. plea.ed lbey were to monIho to c.rtIfy that they aalel Idw.rd .... W.· ....... rort.t, S~ YIICA, ba. worked bave them •• Deigbbors. .ro "'.k ...... Incere _ to .... back to th.,," •• Id M". or . egro YIICA brocb He .aid be eDeountered ooae find • ... ... rd _..... Idw.rds. "whon _ un .f. ~ ill JII""lDdln,. first uDder of the 'ala,omom or paDi. that II. tho project and ho.... ~ferd to U .. bettar." I ~ k!beD IDd thea IIJI. Negroes aappoaedIy rat! h to . 1L ... I._to .~- Said Edwards: "I think Ibe ar orl"" Hatt. He ha. beeD ",beD tbey move Into I ,.......... boaIiog situaUoD iD Hagerstown

n.er for .eveD year.. . He Iy In·wblte oel,bborbood. • declined sin.e I've heeD re. 1 know of about t h r e.

. _ buUt in Ibe colored ... ·1: tknI. ill the. last 30 years."

Tbe reason. be .ald. II there Ia DO room left to buUd. A per. _ mlllt ellber tear do... IDd repiaee I burned-out or dUa,~

or_ Jrait...Jor •

NoIIMr ill I IIIIJIIIIoo: '" NAACP ... any otbor old riIbIIl group.

"1'. nat ............ In ... • I.U ..... or _ ........ or .nyIhi ... like th.,," Hid Mrs. ......... "All my frIIMI ,N ._ horo (In tho J_ athon It . ...,..,..,. I luot ...... • ,I ... fa m .... "

IIr. IDd Mrs. Ed .. lrd. 'med • little baflled at iull

to overcome their probteJ81 even who to b1a ....

, "r don't fault aaybody bat ;the real e&tau: people." Mn,l IEd •• rda .IId, ''I IIIiDk tbere are plenty of wbIIe __ Iwho woukiD't mind aeIIIIII to, 'icolored. 1 think the na\ people are against it"

But ber busband felt that the ,I •• tate people were oDly

aeliDg .. agenla of the people lbey represeDt. although. be laid, I Soulb EDd property OWlJo ,r wbo ha. offered to sen him

• partially • completed bou .. i.howed him I letter from a real 'estate maa refusing to baadle the transaction. I Rlgbt ..... Edwards is dieker­Jag with I real estate maD for • house in the colored section owned by an Army captain in 'California. It is assessed by a blnk at $5,000, aDd Edwards, ,figures it will take $3.000 worth

remodeliag to be fit to live He wa. offered the property,

'far SII.700 aDd bas beeD .ble to rg.iD tbiI figure dowa to

1,750. Be talks knowledgeably .bout

IdIDg coaslruelioa aDd __ values. aDd apparently II

bas enough moaey for a payment, aDd is lootinc ~

. eouervative investor. He II:

• bouae in the $8,000 to ',0,000 prlee raage. · flOr $12,000," his wife said, "rd 10 back to work."

Hagerstown Area News

Section 2 - 10 Pages Friday, Jan. 12, 1973

Obituaries, Features

Nixon' Housing Freeze May Delay ~onathan Street Hous,ing Proiect

By ARNOL\o PLATOU years ago. And, he said, local 01 the Homeowners Founda- "My personal opinion is A low and moderate income organizers had a meeting with tiOD and the Bethel Corpora- there will be a big fight over

housing project in the JODa- HUD officials in Baltimore tion. it. Tbey caD get 8 million than St. area of , Hagerstown December 18. Ginsburg 'Said it would be to buy planes and go over that has been in the works The Cront money was to Habsolutely impossible" to lilly and shoot up little yellow for the last eight years may have been released and then how long it IDlght have taken people .•. Basically:' be ad· be delayed' another year and the local organizers were to HUD to have given final ap- mitted, "housing has been a a half because of a freeze have placed their final plans prova} to the project plans problem but it has generally President Nixon put on federal before HUn. "We are ready but, after approval, he noted, done more positive things than housing funds this week. to do that right away," construction would have taken negative.

But a consultant ' to the Ginsburg said. 12 to 15 months. "Many people have been Homeowners Foundation in The consultant said the What will happen tl()W is dependent upon them," he Hagel\stown said should the plans call for Iowan d uindefinite," the consultant fiaid. freeze affect the Jonathan S1. moderate income bousing for said, "But T do not believe Without the HUD funds, project, "We'll fight it like 100 families. He said the rna- the freeze wm continue. Sure, Ginsburg added, "We'd be In hell." jority of the land to be used there will be \Some cutbacks limbo unles~ we could find

Jim Ginsburg, of Bryant ....:.i':....:a"t-'p:.:r.::."'se.n:::.:t..:,:::'".::d".::r..:t:::h::e..:c"o::n::tro:::l_b::.u:::t=-.::no",t:..o::.v"c"rc..::.al"l--,p-:;r.::o .. g"ra::m:::.::,:.., __ ~s::o.::m:.:e:..o::.t::h:::."-r-,f.::lI::n::.dl:::'D~g,-t,,O:::o:::l._" __ Associat.s of PhiladelDhia. consultants to the Home­owners Foundation, said the foundation has already been granted Hfront or seed mo­ley" from the Appalachian Regional Commission for land and architectural -.study costs.

But that money was held up this week by the Housing and U r ban Dcvelooment f/BUD) office when the freeze wa<: announced.

City Housing Authority Doubtful About Request For 350 More Units

The freeze appUes imme­(liately Bnd places a tern­~orary bold on all a'OpJications Or sul}sidized h"u~intt ac;;,j~t­~.~ce that haven't reached tile 'feli5ibilltv a,oproval sta.t!e." t also blocks monies to. new

j"'ater and sewer, open space and public facility l~n :lrant-s.

By EUGENE ZITVER II age r s tow n Housing

Authority "(mlA) Executive Director Norman L. Foltz said Thursday the recent (reeze by the Department of Housing and U r ban Development (HUD) Oll funds for new housing could delay the con­struction of up to 350 housing units in the city.

At the housing authority's monthly meeting, F ° I t z reported he has written to HUD for forms to apply for the new housing, but has not received them.

for cbildren and youth living in the city's housing projects.

Under the program, a YM· CA worker will devote half his working hours to programs involving children and youth in the projects. The young people also will be allowed to use YMCA facilities down­town free of charge.

Paul M. Eberhart, assistant director of tile HRA. ,aid he hoped til. program would help curb a growing vandalism problem caused by young people in the projects.

Garbag. Collection

Allen G, Clapp. iI.altimore area HUn director, CMJIItirrned ~ednesdav the frant money for the Jonathan St. nroject 's being held back. He said ~e is awaiting word from his suoeriors on what steps to "U we do get them," he Foltz said th. b ° u , i n l! ake next. said, "we still wouldn't

........ _ _ _ ..... _lil._.....t._~._~AhI~ ~ ... . n. An»:t.hi.ll. '!IO be authority has not yet reached n;' , . an .on' ,

money tram the city govern· ment for garbage collection by a private comna.ny.

He eXplained the city gar bage collectors only collect from the streets and will Dot go into the parking lot.. to collect. Some Noland rcsidents have to carry their garbae;e up to 400 f •• t to tile street, Foltz added. The city counc_iI has nof acted on the HHA's request for funds to pay a private conector, he said.

FoHz said some residents are leaving garbage behind their houseJi rather than bringip.g it all the way out to the street. h '~~~is could c.~ul~e a i~erjol'"

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o pen ouslng owe

Be Ruled On B'yBurch By PHIL EBaRSOLE problem in regard to teachers." Negro," h. said, "Today we She said she has been

The City of Hagerstown Several Negro teachers working have the $120 a week Negro, ested in better housing Attorney - General Francis in Washington County commute which entitles hi mto a bet· years. HWe have called

it it is legally em- from Pennsylvania, he said. fer situ.tion!' tors numerous times," she io, ... "ed to pass' an 'open bOlls- "'Everything you say is true," Mrs. Dolman said many of "When they find out you

, the Mayor and Cauncil . Mayor Mills, " We have got the dwellings in I the Jonathan Negro, they have aU sorts Bi-Racial Camm" a housing shortage per se ... st. area cited by the Housing reasons why they can't sell

informal meeting Wednes- We are in a general housing Inspectors either are too deter- you." Isl,ort .. «,'· iorated to be renovated or would Curlin and Dr. Brish

Romayn. Bey· would have no

about putting the floor next Tuesdav

the Mayor and Coun· ml.tl,,,,,) .• If the Attor·

Gln.,,,1 SlYI its legal." ",,·unc:Jl)J18n . ~R~alph L. Funk·

its legal, we'U U not you '.

consoled," said Le(mara I , NAACP branch

and a member of the Commission. He noted proposal has been pend­

last May.

Hune Slid management at be over·crowded even if reno- of the rising impatience of Fairchild Hiller Corp. general· vated. If thc middle· class Ne· Negro community. Harne Iy favors an open housing or· groes get a chance move Beyard said the problem dinanee. "Twenty years ago of the area. be this will satisfy the legitimate we had the $30 a week the rest of the Negroes without

Historical Society Meet To Spotlight C & 0 Canal

iog bitterness among whites.

Dr. Brish pointed out a few Negroes have such places as Outer and Belview Ave., and they have been ac.cept,d the community, with no ruption or abrupt drop In perty valu.s.

~:~~I~~~~i~25~.:~R~CSerVatioos must be The Council had earlier by Mon .. Jan. 22, by pressed doubts about tbe Mrs. Robert Clark. ity of the ordinance. .

Bi . Racial ~~~:J~::~;~I:~:~~~~~~~~ le~ore,~nt~d by Curlin, Dr, Brisb, John J, Porter, Ja me! M. Robinson,

or writing to her at state law giving m~:ni:;~.~~~i~ home rule the

open housing Pros~,ecIUVl' I been sent to tbe Maryland

Marguerite DOlm~!~n~-;h~jf: I ii~l:~~~;;;::~;'t~~:~:~ ~::~~;;:n at City Hall ,1 Beyard, G. Fouche and

Harne. four Councilmen .!lO)~~~ I:~~

City Att.c>rn"Y ,

Jlou~litz, who was a~~ Ilh~'~~~.~~~~~~~.n: has raised 11 l~gality of an

in view of the ordinance

County and on al!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __ ~~~ Dr. Brlsh tben

dir..,Uy to the

r .. ~:!Z~~tl~~:~r:::, -General. exa mined • p ... tition urging p ..... g. of the ordinance ligned by 122 mem­bers of St. Plul's Methodist Church and • I.tter urging

from the .x.cutive ~ col11n'ltt," of the Washington

T.acher's Association. said the housing

for poor Negroes is than that for poor

because they are crowd­a smaller area and have

Dog Pack Creates Hazard In South High Section A pack of seven or eight man­

dogs roaming about the High area on the DOWDS­Pike is causing a bit of at the sheriff's depart· lenua:r ..