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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 22

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COLOR AD Page 22 Section A 5. F. Sunday Examiner Chronicle, May 23, 1967 eaidethe Next those lawbreakers who cannot be apprehended any other way." The trouble brought to light some unpleasant facts about life on the edge of a vacation wonderland. AID TO FAMILIES Welfare statistics show i 'O 'i tY Racial Unrest Suddenly Increases in Community CHARLES MULKEY No Uncle Toms that Seaside has 844 children receiving aid to families with' dependent children, compared with 130 in bigger Monterey. By LYNN LUDLOW Staff Writer SEASIDE The blue waters of Monterey bay are visible.

The air is full of dull popping ounds from nearby Fort Ord infantry training r. In Seaside, the talk is about summer racial violence. Here? Police chief Lee Luther Pilcher, 47, a quiet man, leans across his walnut desk In the new $700,000 city hall. He sayss: "We're a little apprehensive, but I can't agree there is a problem of any great magnitude. We aren't expecting any rumbles at all." in an area with integratea The latest incident on April 8 began with a party crashing and ended with the arrests of 23 Negro youths, injuries to four policemen and the looting of a gas station and a liquor store.

FIRED SHOTGUN In another recent incident, by. They aren't going to be Uncle Toms come hell or high water." VIOLENCE The visitor in the Monterey area learns quickly that the year-round Inhabitants were badly jolted by three outbreaks of violence in the past year incidents that never LEE TOLER Community action Young Adults for Action. He says the solution lies with community action a term that includes the white community of the whole Monterey area. NO CAS "It's a constant cycle," he explains. "I can't go to the park because I have no gas.

I have no gas because I don't have a job, and I probably don't have a car either." The Negro community has grown swiftly in the past 10 years, largely because of nearby Fort Ord. Army Major (retired) Sherman Smith of the newly organized Seaside Human Rights Commission told the fact finding CHIEF PILCHER Apprehensive group that retired Negro military personnel are attracted to the scenic area during army service. The Vietnam conflict has enlarged Fort Ord and the number of Negro enlisted men, officers and families who want to reside nearby. It is also one of three army posts for the discharge or separation of soldiers with mixed marriages Chess Star Dies LENINGRAD (AP) -Gideon Stahlberg, 59, Swedish chess grandmaster and former Argentine bridge champion, died yesterday at a Leningrad hospital. got much attention else two Negro youths were hospitalized briefly when a white policeman, suspecting them of having weapons, fired a The California State Employment Service told a fact-finding committee that nearly 2000 persons, mostly Negroes from Seaside, are registered for work in the Monterey office.

The unemployment rate in Seaside is estimated at 25 percent. When a new factory opened recently in Salinas, there were 2000 applicants for 80 jobs. Mulkey, the anti-poverty leader, is convinced that jobs are the key problem. He says the Monterey area has no industry aside from tourists and military bases. Many job seekers have no skills and little "There are many army veterans eking out a xnargin-alexlstence, taking what jobs they can get," he said.

"For their children, there isn't much. There are hundreds of kids in Seaside who have never seen the Seaside beach." lie tried to put himself in their shoes: "What do you do? You're going to try to survive. You steal. You hustle. If you're a member of a large family, how can you go home with, nothing for them?" Toler has organized a youth gang with educational and employment aims, called where.

They learned, to their sur prise, that the 6000 Negroes schools, brotherhood weeks and a tradition of hospitality, not in a town totally ignored by CORE, SNCC, VISTA and Berkeley activists. The first jolt was in January, 1966, when about 30 enraged youths surrounded a policeman who was attempting to write a traffic ticket. He held them off with a police dog. The dog has been retired. In June, 16, arsonists set fire to three stores and a school and caused $67,500 damages.

NEAR-RIOTS On Jan. 26 and 27 of this year, there were two near-riots at Seaside service stations. A white reserve policeman was accused of clubbing a 13 year old Negro girl, and two Negro youths were named two days later in the clubbing of a white gas sawed-off shotgun in their direction. On April 11, Seaside Mayor Louis N. Haddad caused fur ther uproar when he asked the city council to approve a "get tough" attitude by po-lixw "even if it becomes a shoot-if-necessary policy for of Seaside (population 22,000) are the largest black community between Watts' and Hunters Point.

Come to think of it, no Negro families reside in Car-mel, Del Monte Forest or Carmel Valley. Only a few reside in the resort cities of Monterey or Pacific Grove. The local folks had read in the papers about the Watts and Hunters Point riots, but it couldn't happen here not But at a community meeting recently, a Negro youth talked about the possibility of a Watts-type revolt in these words: "Just think how many more (black) people will be here in five years, and if they don't have jobs by then, what are you going to do but tear this place up?" JOB OPPORTUNITIES Two weeks ago an army veteran named Lee Toler, 36, took a leave from his job as a school custodian and opened a job opportunities center with funds from private donors. He has had four jobs and 100 applicants in the past two days. "Seaside is like any other city," Toler says.

"When you have a group of idle people, you'll have problems." Charles Mulkey, a dean at Monterey Peninsula College, is president of the Monterey Peninsula Anti-poverty Council. He explains: "The big problem everywhere is the Negro youth. They've seen their parents making compromises to get in California in California May 25-22 new ENC0 stations opened May 24-1 8 new ENC0 stations opened Can you spare 10 days to learn another language? rnia May 23-25 new ENC0 stations May 22-29 new ENC0 May 1 9-24 -3 win call this plan Total Immersion? and it goes something like this: For 10 days you'll be the only student wort-ing with a team of teachers. They'll fctart right in speaking to you in the language you're learning. And you'll start right in not understanding a word they're saying.

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