Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Fri press tuesday july 5, 1966 Watts May explode Watts has Home to Symbol Liz he bitterness and frustration the american negro feds about his situation. Last summer that bitter Ness spilled Over into unprecedented violence. What is ahead for this summer the following report tells what might be in store. By Dave Smith tos Angeles Cap could happen any Day now any Day and lord god i s said the Middle aged negro from his Small cluttered Groc Ery store. Outside in shabby streets St Iii deeply scarred by last August s six Days of race rioting other voices echoed the grocer s fear. Leaders average citizens and perhaps Roost ominously Idle Young people in the sprawling negro District of Watts in South Central los an Geles candidly expect More Trou ble this summer. the Young negro director of a neighbourhood youth Centre conditions Are no better or worse than last August. So maybe tomorrow next week next month but it s Coin from John a. Buggs negro executive director of los an Veles county s human relations commission conditions in the negro Community have deteriorated since the riots because negro expectations have not been met in terms of actual accomplish they can see feel discuss situation and along the hot brooding streets Young negroes the school dropouts the delinquents the parolees the unemployed and the ones who always Fol among themselves. This time it won t be no six Days this one is Gonna go said a Young negro. It s Gonna go till t he r e Ain t no waiters left Down Here in Black feelings in the negro area were further inflamed by the fatal shooting May 1 last of be j Gro Motorist Leonard tread water j by a White policeman and the subsequent eight Day inquest longest in City history. Testimony brought out that Deadwyler 25, was Rushing his wife Barbara also 25, to hos Pital in the mistaken belief her fifth baby was coming prematurely. She said officer Jerold m. Bova 23, shot her husband without provocation As he asked for escort to the Hospital. Deadwyler slumped into wife s Lap dying and murmured she s having a Bova testified that a sudden lurch o Deadwyler s car threw him ,.08 balance and caused him to fatal shot. Subsequently a Coroner s Jory a negro shooting an accidental Homi cide. District attorney younger then pronounced the Deadwyler Beva ease closed. Sniper at work that night shots were at a police car by hidden Ulper in and at least tour fires were ignited by flaming Gaso line hurled by embittered negress who roamed the still scarred neighbourhoods. Of the buildings either damaged or destroyed in fee a Guit riots Only a haps four dozen a City official been repaired or rebuilt. A feasibility study for i cheap housing still is being lived a possible Urban re Jiw by an Ever booming Popula Tea on As tension mounts higher f 1 Newal program had Hung fire because of a Federal freeze on California Urban renewal funds after the 1964 passage of proposition 14, a measure that Nulli fied the state s fair housing act. Proposition 14 was ruled too still deteriorating into Miles and of Sun blistered overcrowded Small forttes and action yous looking apartment Bouses. All to took to ignite the fires of August the Mast massive unconstitutional by the state us race riot in . History was a preme court May 10 last thus routine in inked driving arrest giving the redevelopment study for six Days As Many As a Green Light after nine months. Once an agricultural Belt on 000 enraged negroes rioted through an area of 50 Square the South fringe of los Angeles i Miles. All available police Power Watts was quickly carpeted with i and National g u a r d cheap housing in the 1940s to j troops finally quelled the de provide Homes for the thousands str Tiye orgy after Clam Ping a of negroes who flooded the area a search of wartime jobs in de Fence plants. Rigid curfew Over the riot area and repeatedly be our i n g the streets Block by Block i o Dis now two decades later the i Perse angry mobs. The costly carnage 34 injured arrested in property loss. Biden Cut that negro discos tent is not confined to Shuttl Centra los Angeles was part i video april 16 More than m9 negroes in suburban Pas Adyth t who resisted violently us i lice tried 10 disperse a crowd t the Battle was a Short oat i with Little damage and few a i juries and waned in t h r e e hours. But Here toe the City realized its negroes could Brood with serious implications Over a seemingly but and dried episode. Leaders More concerned about such incidents 1 now than they were two or three i years ago they admit because Theof View them through a perspective that was altered drastically last August. Mow has e e a it to i o evolved in Suu them California Long negro s Par Affine so Allting Towt negroes Sfax South exist it the rate h month actually evil rights leaders predicted Long before last a gust that n to pro endurance being str aimed to the breaking Point. And the h u m a n relations commission in study re leased Only two months before the riots Lidd out these Statis tics log anodes county s negro Popup Atio Only in 1940 f Kim in to 461. 54b ii per tse City s negro rinks Rose to la period the estimated negroes to. The co tasty and about in the City. Mut Nero newcomers to pm. Laud in 3.j-Square-Mue Watts. Walts a Core the. Negro District Broadens South and de Corning More and More a dark ening ghetto As Whites leave. Seek happiness because wages Are h i g h e r Here than in tire Southeast and by aude in Public places was rooted out years1 ago degrees come Erif act Fig an Abu Ridant Happy life in. South Ern California. To i. Degree Many achieve it. But they Ilsc found some . The ghetto character at Nigro femur ing imposes a de Facto segregation c on d to i o n of schools churches and virtually All facets of the negro Chiw s world. He rarely if Ever even sees the affluent White society of nearby Tina Beverly Hills h o 11 y w o o d or Brentwood. Negroes receive on the average markedly Tower wages than do Whites of the same educational Ley id. Cammi Sioa pointed out and at the same often Nave to pay More for poorer rental housing. The gave whih investigated the riots said m its it stands to reason that what we and other cities have doing costly As it All has been is Sot enough. Improving the conditions of negro life will demand adjustments on a scale unknown to any great society. The consequences of inac indifference and Inadequacy be can All be sure mow would be far costlier in the Tong run than the Cost of that observation haunts Community leaders As they strive to convince a sceptical Core of negroes soon enough that Progress really is being made. E. German guards foil escape try Berlin a Waters East German guards sunday night fired sub machine guns at an East German refugee Foti ing his attempt to escape to the West West Berlin police re ported. The refugee who apparently was not hit was arrested Only inches from the barbed wire Border fences the last barriers to the West. Women banned Taipei a nationalist chinese authorities slapped a ban sunday on the hiring of female attendants at Public Bath houses for men in Formosa. This Prattke is against social morality and is strictly Prohic the edict said. Try fish on bogs Black s Harbor . May be eat tog her ring Tot Dione in the future a food company official told use Gaza dial Atlantic herring fishery conference he heir High in protein and min eral bearing oils is. The. Idea food for dogs As Wen As cats. Birds Fly Back Bridgewater . Donald Corkum of Warby new Burne has supped a Mobile Home for a pair of s Walters for the second consecutive year. Entered the trunk of his car through a Hole intended for a signal Light and built a Best with three eggs. Gasoline a horseshoes 3-dimension Bright Orange plastic horseshoes adhere to car bumper. Bet your my my Way whilemyusj.mb4 stations where you see this free youll get a of Leif tit of playing musical showcase Channel . Every tuesday ;