The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • Page 115

Swtt'iy. Octobtr tO, 1 957 SECTION TIIRFF EIGHT PACES -TfTYltJ and WHLKt I 1 THE NEWS Dream Or Civic Reality? Cleveland's $65 Million Gateway conception of proposed new $6 Bullion aevelanToaVway Center. Project would straddle lokefrcnt raHroad tracks north of City Hall and Lakeside include 300,000 square foot exhibition hall, with 34-story office tower and 12-story new hotel. Ito edH Per GlfJQJXS Units would be interconnected and linked to the rest of downtown Cleveland by a ser.es of moving dewoi- Center. Arch wouid shelter permanent "This Is Cleveland" display, and also be ma.n entrance to JJSilj would be built in Willard Park, adjoining City Hall (left).

At right are proposed off.ee tower and new hotel front.ng on Gateway Plaxa. An On-The-Go Cincinnatian Looks At Kenya Sabin Robbins, Oxford Scholar, Surveys African Colony, Finds It Volatile In Its Emergence As 'A World Force' Jobs For Know-How! Taft Sanitary Engineering Center In City Needs Workers In Research it 7 In i US-fc-MEK't by Robbins and a British "Kikum girl friends" at a nomic aid. and an enlarging of our foreign scholarship program. Such things will pay fff tremendously in the long run. Unfortunately American public opinion is too ignorant of what is going on in Africa by applying western demo-ci-atic- theory where it does nt apply.

By encouraging self-government for all of Africa today, we are encouraging chaos and anarchy tomorrow. We must look upon African advancement In much the same way as a parent looks upon the necessary training of his child for future responsibility. Only then can we hope to ensure a stable and democratic Africa. Just A Premonition A LAMCK "iOR DO, N. Mes, Oct.

13 i.pi 'I'm not superstitious." said an Alrnase-rdw f.rcman recently, "but let's not put a story- in the paper about net having a fre around this town for almost a month. Probably nothing would happen, but I don't like to take chances." he toll a reporter. Ixss than two hou-s. later there was a fire. COMMENT ON skyscraper luxury apartment houses in park-like settings.

Whatever agreement city officials may make uit'i Zeckendorf will be subject to lot her vote of the people, since the New Yorker wants a 99-year on the city-owned land. The Cleveland charter requires that only the voters can grant a lease longer than 30 years on lake-front land. There arc numerous other obstacles in the path of the project. The railroads have indicated they ill demand a substantial price for air rights to build over their rights of way. Some councilmen insist on competitive bidding, rather than a negotiated deal with Zeckendorf.

Zeckendorf says he doesn't mind competition but would like the right to meet anyone else's offer. Another potential stumbling block is Zcckendorf's proposal that he control the convention and exhibition facilities, as well as all concessions, including restaurants and parking. Cclebreze Interprets his reelection as public indorsement of the Gateway Center plan, and insists that it can be built with the aid of Zeckendorf or some other investing group. Outcalt explain hi concept that every metropolis, to maintain it vigor, must have an "exciting center in which something ia always going on where a constant flow of people I attracted." The Gateway Center, he contends, would spark a building boom in the entire downtown area, which would expand into a mammoth redevelopment of the entire city. Outcalt views the $15 million bond issue as "seed money" that would ultimately bring the city hundreds of millions of dollars in new buildings.

His prediction is that the tax revenue from this new construction would more than compensate the taxpayers for their investment in the convention hall. The Cleveland plan i to use public fund to kick off a downtown redevelopment comparable to that of Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, where a complete face-lifting was chiefly financed by the Mellon family. Ironically, old-timers recall, the one family with sufficient resources to do the same for Cleveland was driven out of town by an attempt to collect taxes from them. The late John D. Rockefeller, ho founded his Standard Oil empire here, abruptly shifted his residence from Cleveland Height to Tarry-town.

X. when Cuyahoga County dunnoi" him for unpaid personal property taxev "If that tax bill hadn't been wrv rd," muse the Lakeside Courthouse senior citizen, "Rockefeller Center might In Cleveland, rather than in New York Citv." Name Change MILWAUKEE, Oct. 19 tr It all started when a peddler bought a stove here SO year ago. "Send it," he told the Move merchant. The stove dealer misunderstood, thinking the buyer had given hi name as "Sendik." He toured the city.

looking for the buyer. He finally located him and found hi name a BalistrerL but the name stuck. Now a descendant ef the bnvcr ha given up the truggle. Crank Balistreri. 4., a holcale produce merchant, asked the circuit court rhange hi name to Frank Balistreri Sendik.

EDITORIAL PACE Artist's CLEVELAND Mayor Anthony J. Cclobrreze likps tr Mt-ort visitors to a back window of Cleveland's massive City Hall. He points to a barren site down the hillside, along the Ike Erie shore. All that the visitor's eyes can see is a weed patch, a few trees ami the tracks of the New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads, with the Municipal Stadium and some piers in the background. "There," the mayor proclaims, "is where the new Cleveland Gateway Center will be rising in about a ear." The Gateway Center if it materializes would be Cleveland's greatest downtown face-lifting since the construction of 52-story Terminal Tower, America's tallest building outside New York three decades ago.

In one parknge. It would gie the city a mammoth exhibition hall and world trada renter, a modernistic 84-story office building and a new 100-ronm hotel, all interconnected and linked to the rest of the dnuntoun district by a Rerics of moving sidewalks. The dream leaped from the drawing board of R. Franklin Outcalt, an imaginative architect who also envisions expansion of the nearby Lakefront Airport (which he designed Into a major passenger terminal on the doorstep of the new development. Whether the Gateway remain a drawing or become a reality will be decided by Cleveland voters November 3, when they pans on a proposed $13 million bond issue.

This money would pay for a giant convention hull straddling the railroad tracks. I I.I.I i New York real estate developer, has offered to spend 545 million or more to erect simultaneously the proposed hotel nd office building. The city would have to spend another $3 million or more for the moving sidewalks, bringing the total price tag of the Gateway Center to better than $65 million. Present indications are that Cleveland voters, who recently approved a $30 million bond Issue for a downtown subway project that later was discarded as impractical, will adopt the Gateway Center Tlan by a whopping majority. The primary election Oc-toter 1 was a straw in the wind.

Cele breeze won immediate reelection by garnering 57 per cent of the votes cast. He iwamped two rival candidates whose only major issue was their opposition to the convention center plan. The Gateway Center ha the enthusiastic support of Ihe Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland's three daily newspapers, and most of the city's leading businessmen anfl industrialists. Although the voters could kill it off in a day, it took more than two jears for the Gateway Center plan to reach its present stage of development. The Heart of Cleveland Development Committee, composed of 10 councilmen and 10 businessmen appointed by the mayor, was worried that Cleveland was threatened by loss of convention business to new exhibition facilities in New York, Chicago and Detroit.

Architect Outcalt. then designing the now-occupied ul-Iramodernistic Cleveland-Hopkins Airport passenger terminal, casually suggested an over-the-railroad tracks convention hall and hotel. Pressed to pursue the idea, he added the office tower. Then the Cleveland Development Foundation, a private organization financed by "ITt's Courthouse. It would buHdina penthouse.

cCtand Soy Underg i7iT TPirtw. daneimr mm m-. officer. there i. discouraging evidence Juhs, with pay ranging as h.gh as $7500 per year, are going begging in Cincinnati.

There Just are not enough people with the tight skills to go 'round. The $7500 jab, open for a mechanical engineer, is in the "model shop" at the Ilobeit Sweeney Sanitary Engineering Center, of the U. S. Public Health Service. The shop, a newly organized unit of the Sanitary Engineering Center, helps to design and bulds small-scale, operating equipment for experiment and research.

Richard Gallagher, of 801 Academy holds a typical $3000 to $3500 job for which the need is great and the supply of trained people is small. He is a research technician in the field of medical biology. Gallagher is working in the field of human cell culture, the growing of human tissue of various types in test tubes. The racks of test tubes which he is checking in a constant temperature room, contain living cells which will be infected with various types of viruses to study the action of the virus on the cell. The aim of this research, part of the general program of the Sanitary Engineering Center, is to study the appearance of various disease factor in man's environment, particularly, in water, in order to find ways of controlling or eliminating those factor.

Job opportunities at the Sanitary Engineering Center also include summer, temporary and some part-time work in scientific research fields. The jobs are oen through two methods of Federal employment, under the Civil local businessmen to carry on major slum clearance and redevelopment projects, entered the picture. Outcalt presented his ideas to a group of corporation and civic leaders at the Mid Day Club. The foundation directors stamped them as worthy of "further study." Celebreeze asked and won a $50.0 0 0 appropriation from City Council to finance this study. OITCALT traveled about the nation, examining the convention and hotei facilities of o'her cities.

Before he completed his report, several o'her convention center plans were brought up for public discussion. Council voted to place the $15 million bond issue on the November ballot and to adopt the "best plan" later. Outcalt's plan won that designation soon after it was unveiled in the darkened Republic Steel Auditorium. Present were the directors of the 1 eveland Development Foundation, top executives of many major Cleveland companies, most members of City Council, and representatives of Zeckendorf and other big-time buiWers. With colored slides and drawings.

Outcalt showed how hp proposed to transform the lead spot back of City Hall into the hustling, bustling Viateway Center. There would he a Gateway a permanent hall of ricnre ami Industrv. a Thi Is Cleveland" evabit, a bo- Subin Robbins K'SO Ctn.ttirgo Indian Hill, a T. initu Colli ae man at Ox- Enaland. on a lour ound the world.

In this orfi-r'r sent to The Enquirer that "unfortunately. Amrhcan public opinion is ton ignorant of uhat i going o'i in jtrica today" a he attempt to correct c.th an on-the-pot repoit. BY SARIN BOBBINS JR. N- VTRORI. Kenya: After two months In 'East Africa, I find that one of the most exciting and interesting aspects of my trip so far is the fc-ding that this is a country which is just beginning it emerge as a great world force.

Africa todiry is going its pioneer stage of history with 11 Ihe dynamic enthusiasm 'that we associate with, tne opening-up of our own country'- And while talking to the various leaders and young men in Colonies such as Kenya, I somehow feci that these men will be as important to the history and legends of Africa Washington, Lincoln, and even Davy Crockett are to America today. I have been in Kenya jut three weeks now and have only begun to appreciate the colossal problems which face the Colony. Kenya is not wealthy country, and with few mineral resources it must depend on the proper and efficient use of limited agricultural land to produce such cash cops as coffee, tea. and p-rethrumt use In I was anxious to see these agricultural areas at first hand so I drove out into the African farming reserve to spend several days with an Ovlord friend of mine, Peter Richardson, who is now British Colonial Officer in chrrse of the Kigumo district. Thi area not long; ago a center of Mad Man rr-hrllicn.

and even today there are a tew die-hard torritorist till to be captured. The Kirumo oisTnci nni steeper hills than even Cin-and manv more of cinnati them. Thp orhre red so.l IS crammed with Kiknun nat.vcs. thatch-roofed huts, and endless plots of corn. The so.l is rich but over-population, bad farming, methods, and sMl erosion have contributed ti the poverty and dissatisfaction of the African.

I FORTUNATE in being able tj attend a "haraza" meeting at Kigumi where Pc tT, Kicnarason, sur- rounded bv a semiCirc.e of African chiefs and headmen. nroblems to be outline! met if the area was to prosper. As Peter toli his chiefs, "progress before politics is the most important thing to remember. All us must work together to improve the land." He then went on to outiine various programs of seasonal planting, land consolidation, and soil preservation. Peter i but sie ef many Joung, dedicated, and hardworking; colonial officers who mrr determined to African agriculture om it e-nomir feet by uggetine and applving mder tanning technique a bkrd and conservative peaBtry.

la stressing prog res before politic. British colonialism hop- I lay a firm foundation eventual self-government. HowevT. it i ss -1 f.v.t in Kenya today the national hobby is pities, and 'fetu Nfcliw a native ceremonial attended SAPfN" r.onr.INS with tribal dnnre or "Ngoma." those few hard-core Mau Maus that still are behind the b.irbed-wire confines of the prison camps. The attitude to American pol.cy in Africa d-pf-nds gen-cnl'y on whether you talk to i Afr.can or a European.

-t politicians like because they feel vve sympathize wi'h their self-govern. rent. A 1. 1 American labor entourage African nationalism by giving financial support to African trade Vinions. The European, whether settler or colonial officer, does nt particularly like Amerka.

4ack Lnsoli, the editor of the Kenv Weekly New, put It. "I on American can't think I colonialism without remembering the Boston Tea Party. It i time sou realised how outdated sour misconception It is obvious tr.at the American government now is taking a greater interest tHp affairs of Africa, and throughout East Africa I saw our consular and information scrviecs being expanded and improved everywhere. Nevertheless, there still is room for more African experts, eco- sr. ft, J.

mm 1 'iii'i I wiii'i'i i i mi his SKILLED JOBS like Richard Gallagher's are hard to fill. Gallagher is a research technician in the field of medical biology. Service Commission or by joining the Commissioned Officers' Corp sof the U. S. Public Health Service.

In either, salaries are about even, pending upon the particular skill and training of the applicant. Tay and benefits in the commissioned corps correspond to officer status in the armed services, starting the grade of assi.s!-ant." equivalent of second lieutenant, and reaching "surgeon general," equivalent of major general. Many of the jobs do not require examination. Application may be made directly to the personnel officer of the Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center.

4676 Columbia Trinity 1-1820. taniral garden, an ice skating rink, the new hotel and k-rraper. an underground garage, facilities that Would make Cleveland "the city where you can always find a parking place downtown," tha daring moving sidewalk. When the lights went on, the chorus of approval was obvious. A few da.vs later.

Zeckendorf sent word that his Webb Knapp, would "consider sponsorship of the entire project." Webb Knapp, Zeckendorf said, was trvlng to line up more than billion in nationwide urban reconstruction projects for the next 10 year. He already had major project either witter way or in variou stages of negotiation in Cincinnati, St. Louis New York, Washington. Denver, Sn Francisco, Montreal and ether citie. Zeckendorf and a staff nf city planning experts, architects.

enEineers and lawyers flew to Cleveland. With Cele-brezze as his guide, the big builder made a 15-minute inspection of the proposed Gateway Center site. "It's good." he snapped. "I'm prepared to handle sll tlie privately f.nanred sections of the plan (meaning the office building and hotel if the city will build the convention hall, the moving sidewalks and the parking facilities." Zeckendorf said he also would like to clear a rundown section of the lake-front hillsides and build a necklace of in uronn areas sucn as j-vairwiu that this hope of progress bc-f ire politics may well go unrealized. Whereas the rural African leads a simple and primitive life, the African in Nairobi wears pants, drinks cokes, and rides bicycles symbols of 20th-century progress.

Till: MOT A MO I political leader in Kenya today is Tom Mbova. He is young, iidelligent, ambitious, and anxious to throw off colonial rule as soon as possible. As Mr. Mbova told me when I saw him one morning i'i his tiny, crowded office, are not here to become dependent on beneficial rule. I believe that all people must have the right to vote and trust be treated as equals w.thin the State and Society.

There can be r.o grading according tj wefilth, education, or S'tcial standing. That is why I want a universal franchise as s.n as possible." The European settler in Kenya looks at the problem quite differently. Mr. S. Alexander, an elected member the Legislative Council, tlJ me thflt "the problem is try and give ins rcpre-s.

to races wh'ch are uis qiil in number ant at uneq inl Mars of Anv franchise mtit iat the future of Kenya is in civ. 1 zed and responsible hands. How cn just count heads hen the heads are of such different type?" I think It is evtremely important to realie that henya. like miDT Afrkan rilnies. Is nt ready for a system of western democratic govern-iwnt at present.

Democracy, it it is to he successful, re-iiirt-s an educated and re-nnvible pnpo'at'on which at present the African majority d- have. IT BI-KN" years tr oatbreak of Mau i. and the trrntoriits are a serious danger to Kra" Te cvernment h.a and released cf t'-e rerr.bers. and t'e pr.jb.eTi is now to deal it. i A.