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3 lea flnfff It Ctat i Riot Watts PAUL COATES Victims of Little Traps for Responsible Adults 1 sW "r'i- Antipoyerty Agencies Battle Among Selves: Are People or Places Program's Chief Goal? BY JACK JONES Time Stiff WrHtr If last week's flare-lip' of. youthful rage in Watts did nothing else, it brought into focus the desperate necessity for responsible adult control in a region of resentful poverty and shattered families. section of the in the Francisco supervisors voted against letting the state complete.it when it was opposed by constituents. Monday And, too, it gave sharper dimensions to the current running battle over whether the Neighborhood Adult Participation Project, a local antipoverty program unique in the nation, should become the neighborhood-conceived instrument for that control or a carefully supervised job-producing device, V. After Tuesday's rioting outbreak in which two a as i an truck drivers were attacked one of them fatally shot, as was a Negro by a rampaging crowd of youngsters, at least one staff member of the Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency observed: "What this community needs is an independent program, like NAPP, to build up a sense of responsibility that one or two people feeling secure enough, backed by an organization, would step out of a crowd to prevent someone from being brutally murdered." But, stressed Lorenzo Traylor, programs management director for the EYOA, "it has to be an independent organization.

It has to be their program." Red Tape Is Opposed Traylor, it is to be noted, has been in disagreement on this matter with EYOA executive director Joe P. Mal-donado, and has sided with NAPP's peppery director, Mrs. Opal C. Jones. Mrs.

Jones feels "the establishment" is out to strangle the effectiveness of her 13 poverty area outposts with a shower of red tape and arbitrary orders. The conflict between Mrs. Jones, a long-time social worker, and what she calls the "power structure" was intensified when NAPP was put under a new Manpower Department. This move was in line with the EYOA's shift of emphasis to programs geared to produce immediate jobs. In the poverty war jargon which might dismay those residents of shabby neighborhoods who have gone to work as NAPP aides, the clashing concepts are "career development" vs.

"community development." An EYOA staff member reflecting the thoughts of Maldonado insisted that NAPP was developed primarily as a manpower project "and only since its inception has it taken on the flavor of a community development program." Disagrees on Goals But Traylor disagreed: "I think the thinking prevalent in NAPP programs was that the main thrust was to be in community development. Actually, all it is is work experience, which is part of the program to make community development meaningful." NAPP aides are hired from among the impoverished and paid $4,000 a year on the theory that poverty people themselves can best help their neighbors with door-to-door efforts to solve those problems they know through personal, bitter experience. As these aides become more capable, they are fed into the various agencies requesting them school districts, community centers, welfare organizations (both public and private), churches, etc. Mrs. Jones likes to think of the Please Turn to Page 21, Col.

1 As we grope through the swampland of race bitterness, seeking a way out, we are constantly periled by small traps of hyper-sensitivity. It seems to me that Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally slipped and fell into one of them recently, when he opposed legislation, that would make it a felony to manufacture, possess, or use a Molotov cocktail. His reasoning was tortured. Such laws, he argued, are punitive and discriminatory. I won't stick my neck out and quibble with him about such laws being punitive.

Since the purpose of the penal code is to set punishment for drime, I'm afraid the assemblyman has a point there. But, discriminatory? it dis- crimination for a law to state that no citizen, regardless of race, creed or color, has the right to make, possess or use a fire bomb? Yes, according to Dymally, because it hits the people in his predominantly Negro distirct. "It is aimed at the lower economic groups," he charged, "and therefore it is discriminatory legislation." How do you read that? Does it mean that he thinks only poor people, and specifically poor people among the Negroes, would use a Molotov cocktail? A Peculiar Statement Is that what the man is saying? If so, he's making a peculiarly prejudiced statement. That isn't quite what he meant, Dymally told me when I talked with him the other day. "I wasn't referring necessarily to race," he said, "but to class.

It is class discrimination. A law like that might affect people who were guilty of violating it simply out of ignorance." He elaborated with the remarkable explanation: "Many people in my district use a lighting device like a Molotov cocktail to start their backyard barbecues." If that rocked me slightly, I got a further jolt when I discussed the proposed law with Louis Lomax, a man usually able to keep his cool. "It's white backlash," he said. "Molotov cocktails were around a long time before the riots. Why make an issue' of it now?" An Expensive Barbecue Why? Because the riots were most spectacular demonstration in the use of the Molotov cocktail since Stalingrad.

Thirty-five dead; More than 900 injured. Nearly $50 million in loss from looting and burning. That was one helluva barbecue. Obviously, making it a felony to possess a Molotov cocktail is hardly intended to solve the whole problem. To 'do that, we must cure the economic sickness of Watts, and cure it fast.

There may be some hope for that cure in a resolution which Councilman Billy Mills has presented, and seven members have signed, calling on President Johnson to initiate a new WPA, which would create jobs for the unskilled laborer of today. The dignity that comes with earned money would go a long way in clearing the atmosphere of anger and despair that hangs over Watts. But while we're getting at the underlying causes, we need laws that will control the surface effects of violence and vandalism. to End Get U.S. Fund DEAD ENDS Broken lines show.

Golden Gate Freeway link, topj and proposed Panhandle. Freeway which has kept from completion. Times map i Golden Gate section of this, called the- Embarcaderq Free-' way, was built in. front of the Ferry Building at the foot of Market the city's main business artery. Critics charged that the freeway defaced San Francisco's beauty and obscured the Ferry Building, which, with its clock spire, had survived the 1906 earthquake.

f. Reacting to the anger of their the supervisors voted against letting the State Division of Highways complete the Golden Gate Freeway. was intended to provide a crosstown link between the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco side of the Oakland-Bay Bridge, as' well as with the James Lick Freeway. Because of the revolt, it still hangs, incomplete, in The Lick Freeway, completed some years ago, runs along the east side of the peninsula here and even- tually to Los Angeles. It is the city's only superhighway of any distance.

Repeatedly. Mayor Shelley and his predecessor, George Christopher, sought to overcome objections to the Golden Gate Freeway and to anoth-" er crosstown route -which also would hook up the Golden Gate Bridge with the Lick Freeway via Golden Gate Park. This second 'route is called the Panhandle Freeway because it would travel through the. Please Turn to Page 21 Col. 4 (W si PROPOSED JV Wl GOLDEN GATE FREEWAY GOLDEN -v I omi.n Tf OAKLAND FRANaSCOKHJ 1 i I PROPOSED I 1 PAHHAHOLE FREEWAY Young Republicans Chief Says Group Is Nearing Crisis BY RICHARD BERGHOLZ Times Political Writer In the words of Mike Djordjevich, president of the California Young Republicans, are approaching a state of crisis." What the San Francisco insur-anceman.

means is, the volunteer party group has moved so far to the right it is in hot water with the Republican Party and is in danger of losing its credentials. Djordjevich came here last week, held a closed meeting with local YR leaders and discussed fairly frankly the problems which lie ahead, which are: April 2, the National Federation of Young Republicans will hold a special hearing here exact -time and place, as undetermined to decide whether the of ficial charter of the California Young Republicans should be revoked. 2 If the organization loses its national charter, there's a possibility attempts may, be made within the senior party to deny the right of the CYR to operate in California as a Republican organization which means the right to collect dues. Hurt Feelings Except for some bruised feelings, loss of the national charter wouldn't be viewed as major catastrophe by some of the militant conservatives who' now dominate the CYR. They opposed the present leadership of the national organization and they view the April 2 hearing as something akin to a kangaroo court, in that the people urging revocation are the same people who will con-, duct and rule on the hearing.

But there's a more serious attitude toward the official Republican Party and its state chairman, Dr. Gaylord Parkinson of El Cajon. Djordjevich and Parkinson held a private meeting recently in San Francisco and at last week's YR meeting here, Djordjevich was-reported to have concluded that "we can expect the cooperation" of the 'senior party leadership in the fight against those who want to punish the CYR for its ideological swing to the right. "Parkinson's not interested in getting involved in our fight," said David DeLoach, president of the Los Please Turn to Page 24, Col. 1 -SUNUMAg.

20,1 966- Shows Need Mrs. Opal C. Jones Times photo Doctors Warned to Keep Up With Social Changes BY GEORGE GETZE Times Science Writer Organized medicine must keep pace with fast-moving social changes or be stamped ruthlessly underfoot by bureaucrats and others, the president of the California Medical Assn. said here Saturday night. Declaring that medicine can no longer expect to unilaterally control its owvn destiny, Dr.

Ralph C. Teall, a Sacramento general practitioner, told the CMA's House of Delegates: "We need to re-examine (our battle cries and catch phrases) to see whether they are more than a protection of accumulated mythology, a reluctance or resistance to change, a desire to maintain a set of stationary or static, values, a clinging to rather than simply a sentimental cherishing of the past." Attitudes Understandable Dr. Teall said it is understandable that many doctors "would rather have no part in the escalating chaos of Medicare" but this would mean that all the rules and regulations, would be written by bureaucrats. Referring to county medical societies which have objected to CMA's way of involving itself with the government in drawing up Medicare regulations, Teall said they merely represented different approaches to the same objective. He said no government program has ever placed so much faith in the good judgment, social conscience and self disciplining ability of doctors to charge reasonable fees.

Dr. Teall spoke at the first meeting of the association's House of Delegates at the Biltmore. A second meeting will be held Tuesday and reconvened Wednesday. Dr. Teall will be succeeded as president by Dr.

C. McLaggan of San Diego. A new president-elect, who will take Please Turn to Page 20, Col. 3 ience," Father Caslin said, "and death by violence is still more dreadful. Does it really matter whether one is 35 years of age, or 25, or 75, when the call comes? "Larry Gomez was ready, and he was saying, 'Do not weep for Widow, Children Attend Helen Gomez, the handsome, black-clad widow, sat quietly beside her son, Stephen, 11, and daughter, 10, her composure unbroken except when Father Caslin read: "He who believes in Me, even if he dies, shall live Gomez' mother sobbed and clutched the hand of the victim's father, Jose Cruz Gomez, as Father Caslin sprinkled the casket with holy water.

The priei't then referred to a "sad event two years ago when President Kennedy was assassinated by a man impelled by malice or mad-, Larry Gomez was borne out of the church. A little while later, he was buried at Good Shepherd Cemetery in Huntington Beach. FREEWAY ENDS ABRUPTLY This proposed Golden Gate Freeway ends S.F. Has Until Freeway Revolt, BY DARYL E. LEMBKE Times Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO The board of supervisors will make a last-ditch attempt Monday to nd San Francisco's seven-year-old "freeway revolt." The Bureau of Public Roads has warned that unless the rebellion is called off by Monday, $235 million in federal funds earmarked for interstate highways here will be spent elsewhere.

Placed with mounting traffic jams and widespread disappointment in his administration, Mayor John F. Shelley is pushing hard to break the impasse and get "the board to approve two previously rejected freeway routes. He thought he had the votes last year after appointing Terry Francois to fill a vacancy on the board. But he neglected to obtain a firm commitment from Francois, first Negro to serve on the board. The route was rejected 6-5, with Francois voting in the majority.

Shelley got a new, and apparently last, chance when another vacancy occurred. He filled it with insurance agent Kevin O'Shea, a former Notre Dame basketball star. Backed by Businessmen O'Shea was backed by pro-free-' way downtown businessmen when he ran a close sixth in the race for five board posts in last fall's election. It is assumed that he will vote to approve the two freeway routes in question, although he has made no public announcement to that effect. What looked like a behind-the-scenes compromise was announced Friday.

Supervisor Jack Morrison, chairman of the board's street committee, announced that he will ask Monday for one of the two contested routes to be dropped. Reversing his earlier endorsement of both the Panhandle and Golden Gate freeways, Morrison said he now will ask that the Panhandle freeway be rejected and the Golden Gate approved. The Chamber of Commerce policy committee joined in the compromise, reaffirming support for the Golden Gate Freeway but remaining silent about the Panhandle. Protest Freeway Plan With the Panhandle plan apparently shelved, those who feel any freeways are incompatible with San Francisco will now concentrate their fire on the Golden Gate plan. Civic organizations fighting to continue the revolt have distributed "Save Us From the Freeway" signs throughout the city.

Their cause received a big boost last week when the San Francisco Labor Council voted to rescind its 1964 approval of the Panhandle Freeway. The council did a partial flip-flop once again when it voted Friday night to endorse early completion of the city's freeway system. But no routes were specified. The revolt began in 1059 when indignation arose here over the ugliness and massiveness of an elevated I Final Rites Held for Victim of Rioter's Bullet in Watts WINED AND DINED BY HAMILTON Lynda Enjoys Gay Birthday The somber cortege gathered before the sunwashed, starkly modern church, Lawrence Gomez, the peaceful civil rights advocate who fell victim to the savage violence of Watts, was being buried in the faith he had once aspired to serve as a priest. The bronze casket glistened in the sunlight as the 35-year-old father of five was borne by his father and four brothers into Catholic Church in They were followed by his widow, Helen, who walked with her two eldest children.

Behind them came his mother, Maura, and his three sisters, Juanita and Sisters Lucy and Maria Vinney of the Order of Jesus and Mary. Mourners Fill Church An estimated 300 other mourners-relatives, friends, children from the parochial school, sympathetic'stran-gers and a sprinkling of the merely curious filled the church. The Requiem High Mass for the man slain by a rioter's bullet was celebrated bv the Rev. Peter C. Cas-lin.

"Death at any time Is a sad exper If A Ik Lynda Bird Johnson, celebrating her 22nd' birthday, was wined and dined by actor George Hamilton at an intimate supper in his Beverly Hills mansion Saturday night. The President's daughter and the handsome 26-year-old actor spent "a lazy day" Saturday, relaxing around Hamilton's swimming pool and watching movies between rounds of Hollywood partying. A spokesman for Hamilton said the young couple wanted to enjoy "a very easy, casual day" before celebrating Lynda Bird's birthday at a dinner party. During the day, Lynda Bird believed to have opened birthday gifts from the White House, including an undisclosed sum of money from her parents which, it was thought, she would spend on clothes. Sister Luci, 18, sent cosmetics and Mrs.

Johnson threw in a pair of oversized dark eyeglasses to rib her daughter about "going Hollywood." Mrs. Johnson's press secretary and social secretary added an oversized pen for Lynda Bird "to sign autographs for her fans." Whatever Hamilton planned to give Miss Johnson was a secret. The guest list for Saturday night's intimate party included Hamilton's Please Turn to Page 21, Col. 1 RIOT VICTIM'S FUNERAL Mrs. Helen Gomez, widow of Lawrence Gomez, who was slain by rioter's bullet in Watts Tuesday night, is escorted into St.

Jrenaeus Catholic Church in Cypress for the funeral. At left is her brother, Edward McCrary. Behind her is the victim's mother, Mrs. Maura G. Gomez, ond at right is his son, Stephen Gomez4 1.

Times photo by Fr ank Q. Brown.