Waukesha Daily Freeman from Waukesha, Wisconsin • Page 15

Is Chicago Entering a Summer of Discontent? CHICAGO (CDN) white. So are you, maybe. Or not. In 1976, it matter. But clearly, as we begin the summer, it does.

Writing about race is one of the most difficult things a reporter can do. Even now after the tumultuous civil-rights days of the 1960s, discussing the tensions between blacks and whites is perhaps the most sensitive area in which a journalist can venture. Some feel that, in time of racial unrest, the best course is to ignore the warning signs, be silent, and hope that the jittery days will pass. We in Chicago are in such a period right now. And now, it seems to me, is the time to talk to each other about happening.

The current days of racial uneasiness had a definite beginning. When Nicholas Comito, a white West Sider who was mowing his lawn on a quiet evening, was shot and blinded by young blacks, the rumblings began. It has escalated since then with signs being erected in the Marquette Park neighborhood, with black harassment and abuse of whites who venture into certain South Side areas, with white gangs beating black pedestrians near a North Side Beach, with the murder and violence perpetrated by black gangs on stranded white motorists during a Sunday rainstrom and flooding. All of this ugliness has already taken place, and it is only mid-June. We can stop it right here if we want to.

When you are dealing with hatred and that is what we are talking about perception is often more important than reality. As a white, you read about the black gangs shooting at defenseless whites during the flooding, or a black man stabbing a white man on a train, and you perceive the possibility of blacks doing the same thing to you. As a black, you read about white men gathering 30 strong to stomp black passersby at a North Side beach, and you perceive the possibility of whites doing the same thing to you. This attitude makes itself evident in the calls we get here at the newspaper after we have run a story with racial overtones. If the story has been about whites harming blacks, the telephone calls will be from whites saying.

City Firms Tied to Fire Lawsuit A Waukesha engineering firm and a Waukesha builder have been named third party defendants in a lawsuit over a fire that destroyed South Side Pharmacy Dec. 20, 1971. Monday in circuit court the Wisconsin Natural Gas which is being sued by South Side Pharmacy, and in turn is suing others in the matter, named Rue- kert and Mielke, Inc. 419 Frederick St. and Link Builders, 200 S.

Prairie Ave. The gas company claims the two firms, which were contracted to build an addition to the pharmacy at 501-507 S. Grand were negligent on several counts. Suicide Ruling js Withdrawn A ruling of suicide in the of Howard No- yvatske, 502 Main Muk- Wonago, has been withdrawn by Coroner Donald Eggum because an autopsy Friday disclosed his death could have been caused by a heart condition. Nowatske, in his 50s, had been found in the house, where he roomed Thursday with a note saying have taken an overdose of pills and might die Eggum said make a final ruling in the case when blood tests for drugs are made by the state hy- genic laboratory in dison.

The firms failed to notify the gas company before hand they were going to work in the area. They failed to take the proper precautions against hitting a gas line and in fact hit and damaged the two inch line, then reburied the line in a damaged condition. The gas company asked for dismissal of the suit or, if that was not done, for Ruekert and Mielke and Link to to the judgment should the gas company be found liable for damages to the pharmacy after a trial. The pharmacy sued for about $74,000, which was the amount over the damages not covered by insurance. The pharmacy made a $300,000 claim against the insurance company.

State Lawmaker Dies ROCHESTER, Minn. (UPI) Wisconsin Rep. James Azim, 40, died here Monday almost a month after receiving a kidney transplant. A Mayo Clinic spokesman said that Azim, a Muscoda Republican, was making progress until the last two days, then took a sudden turn for the worse and died at 6:40 a.m. Monday.

Funeral services were pending. TTie spokesman said he did not know if the death stemmed from the kidney transplant Azim received May 16 or from tions of the abdominal surgery he underwent twice since then. Azim spent most of his 12 years in the Assembly in the minority, even during the two terms his Republican Party con trolled the house from 1967-71. His moderate stance frequently ran him afoul of the more conservative GOP leadership at the time. Since 1971, when they assumed control, Azim was a frequent critic of the Democrat-controlled house, especially, in regards to labor legislation.

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Birth Date State ZIP you tell the other side?" And if the story has been about blacks harming whites, the blacks will be the callers: They, too, will be demanding, you tell the other side?" other Both sets of callers, when they talk about other act as if the two sides in this thing really do consist of blacks on the one hand, whites on the other. But not right. other is not something we should allow ourselves to think of in racial terms. other if a person who lives in peace and wants only to continue living in peace is the side of craziness and meanness and hatred and hideous violence. If you want to live your life and be left alone, the hatred is other and it black and it white.

The point of all this is so basic that it even have to be expressed at this late date. But apparently it must: All whites the same. All blacks the same. In a city or a country of millions of people, the haters and the killers are in the tiny minority. Almost every white deplores them.

Almost every black deplores them. The only way the haters can win is if we allow them to convince the rest of as that we really should be enlisted in their sick warfare. The black haters nad the white haters want nothing more than to have all of us all of us who don't hate become so afraid of each other that we begin to think of the world as divided into angry racial camps, too. The haters want us to look at one another across the color line and to automatically assume hatred coming back at us. The haters want us to believe in our hearts, if we are white, that every black face means danger.

The haters want us to believe in our hearts, if we are black, that every white face means hatred The haters want us to III join them. They are black and they are white, and in days like these, it is so easy to become a part of what they want. The haters want to use our fright against us, to let our fright carry us over to their side. It would be so easy for us to blow everything, all the good that has been done. It is always easier to hate than to care.

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