Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 10

lO-A Wednesday, Aug. 21. '83 DETROIT FREE PRESS Vie for Jobs? Negroes Told Foxtrot 5 2 -Car Crash Kills Detroit Navy Officer ml A young Detroit Navy officer was killed Monday, night near Bremerton, when his car minded with one driven bv a ft Cha-cha Bossa Nova Highland Park Negroes de-! ciation, meeting with the City mandmg police, fire and other: Commission, had demanded at city posts must be prepared to least one Negro staff member take Civil Service exams and on each of the City's policy-compete with other applicants making commissions and boards. for jobs. Mayor Mark E.

Storen, 1 The Negro has been corn- said Tuesday. I in Highland and all others I 1 0 no Negro fireman, no Negro librarians, one Negro policeman, no Net roes in the courts, no Negroes in city hall, no Negrors in the offices of treasurer, clerk, assessor, controller, purchaser, urban renewal or inspection?" he asked. J.J j-HR. PRIVATE SQ DANCE COURSE 7 Commissioners Are Veterans of Anti-Bias Striiffcfle BY TOM SHAWYER Fret PrM StsH Writer The seven men Gov. Romney chose to be charter members of Michigan's Civil Rights Commission were picked with care.

That much is evident by ex-1 LaMarre, pastor of St. Joseph's amining their backgrounds and; Catholic Church in Saginaw. DANCE STUDIO .35 Grand Rivpr wo 1-9391 Park, as has in other cities Bremerton man. The victim wa Lt. 'jg-l; Dennis L.

Shouldice, son ofj Mrs. Cora Shouldice, of S035 ne nema nu'i live i "At least 98 per cent of the jobs available are under Civil Service," Storen told two groups which Monday night charged racial discrimination in Highland Tark. i a Guaranty in the country, by generations of second-class citizenship," said Walter J. Crider, of 306 Monterey, president of the seven-month-old Caucus Club. policemen in the uniform dm- HloB sunups di-'V m- sion, one each in the other formerly known as dale visions, three firemen, three in S- tll 4 the water department, two in One-fourth of the popula lion, the recreation depai.trnent and 'fiet your people to write exams and if they're on the of the city is Negro but there Rutland.

A graduate of Chadey High School, Lt. Shouldice took the Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps course at Michigan State University and upon graduation from MSU entered the regular Navy two years ago. He had been stationed at the one in each city office. 4 4 I i 4 4- Vt 11 rVinei VtAnn no iovrfipnnHi nf ni? i their records in the long battle; has served 14 years in a pansh that in the sani- if and in High-! FREE S-i me me aiinuALiwiL iLo tation department lent that contains many to assure equal rights for every 7 Tknnr "We're not going to fire any-, land Park General enerai nospuai. and Mexicans.

Crider labeled body and replace him with Rf tha s-! NeRroes Siven Jhs as gar- as Storen's contention that dis- Community leaders praised rriminatinn dops not evist in vot-ro 1 bage collectors, orderlies, at tendants and maids only. Spokesmen for the Highland Hihland rark. i 11 TT -V. Crider said he would nve him for his work on the Cath-jPuget Sound Naval Shipyard olic Interracial Council and on 'for the past year. Saginaw's Human "Relations! It.

Shouldice also is survived Commission. by a sister, Mrs. Harold Magce. Park caucus ciuo ana me niK. with officials again in 30 land Tark Improvement Asso-1 -'e could there be Mark E.

Storen American. These facts stand out: Six of the seven commissioners (the eighth is yet to be named) live in Metropolitan Detroit, center of the State's biggest Nejrro population concentration, and where racial problems are potentially the greatest. tt Five members are attor-nej-s and two are clergymen, emphasizing the application of the law and moral leadership to solution of civil right3 problems. 0 Five are whites, two are Negroes. Catholics, Protestants and Jews are represented.

Most important, every commissioner was active in human rights causes long before the commission was created, and long before racial strife erupted across the nation this year. JUDGING FROM its membership, the commission's approach to its assignment can be expected to be progressive, but I not radical, firm, but not mili-j tant. It3 progress will be steady, I' but not spectacular. Its deoi-j( Which 4' sions will be made after careful deliberation. Though only 41.

co-chairman Damon J. Keith has long been recognized as a leader in Detroit's Negro community. He is a member and former chairman of the Detroit Housing Commission, whose activities involve public housing for low income families, many of them Negroes. He is president of the De- ft 3. top Education, an all-Negro group influential in establishing Negro attitudes toward political issues.

He is a vice president of the Detroit chapter of fhe National Association for the Advance A J. IV ment of Colored People NAACP. He is a former presi-l dent of the Detroit Cotillion Club, made up of prominent Ki 0 Negroes who are active in civil rights matters. DURING HIS four years as. Republican state chairman in' the 1950 co-chairman Johnj Feikens became widely knownj as a liberal-minded Republican and a leader of the party's progressives.

I The posture was firmed up by his stance on civilrights ques-' tions that came before him during a brief tenure on the Federal District Court bench in 1P60-61. The Rev. Dr. A. A.

Ranks 9 i I til in made a strong Impression on Romney as chairman of the Governor's Ethical and Moral Panel, which advises him on mora! and ethical questions in state problems. His church is the Second Baptist, and under his leadership has grown to about 5,000 members. He is active in many church-related organizations as well as the NAACP and the Detroit Urban League. As chairman of the Detroit Commission on nity Relations, Richard E. Cross has enhanced his reputation as a dedicated and objective civic leader.

He has won the open respect of many Negroes for his efforts to resolve racial issues. WILLIAM" T. GOSSETT, who retired as Ford Motor Co. vice president and general council in 1957 to devote himself to public service, has made brotherhood a leading theme of frequent speeches across the country. A vigorous, outspoken liberal, he has been one of the strongest leaders of the United Negro College Fund.

He has been active for many years in the Detroit Urban league and was landed by the. American Jewish Congress as "a courageous defender of civil liberties" when it selected him for its coveted Amity Award. F. Sidnev 1963 P. Lorillard Co Kent with the MICRON1TE Filter offers smokers the best combination of filter There's a feeling of satisfaction among Kent smokers in knowing that only Kent has the exclusive "Micronite" filter and a superb blend of the world's finest tobaccos.

So, if you smoke a filter cigarette (or even if you don't), don't you think you should smoke Kent? Shevitz is another Amity Award winner. He was chosen bv former Gov. G. Mennen Williams in 1955 to be the first chairman of the Fair Employment Practices Commission, which has fought racial and other discrimination in business and industry. The Rev.

Fr. Theodore Canada Sends Cattle to Soviets MONTREAL The Danish freighter Athene is en route to Leningrad with 115 purebred bulls and 155 heifers. It is the second shipment of Canadian breeding cattle sent to he Soviet Union within a month. and mild, satisfying taste err Bnrk Roil 51 FOR TH EST COMBINATION 1 Teen due Fair CTRll OF FILTER'AND TASTE a.