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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, June 21, 1968

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paige 4 the stars and strip6s Home Price called negro s chief v by Ronald e. Cohen United press International a says for racial discrimination. Realtors said not Only would it take some of the responsibility for alleged racial prejudice from their shoulders but it would not list their Homes on As a result people who had Dothe open Market. V negro buyers sent to their can  Ronald Davis a broke in a Riftes looked upon the realtors Pittsburgh said that by realtor were pm but Home Vil Roer Souer ship probably would bring Back those concerning discrimination Able. A broker in Minneapolis St. Paul says that what is holding Back negroes from moving into predominantly White neighbor hoods is not racial discrimination but an inability to afford the mortgage. Seventy five per cent of the negroes Are not financially a Leto buy Homes in White neighbourhoods says . Birch a Columbus Ohio realtor. I Don t think the test lies in the resistance of people to the negroes says Murray Sachs areal estate broker in fashionable Rye . It lies in whether the negroes can afford to buy Homes in this  Alan Kurtz a realtor in a 90 per cent White neighbourhood of South Hills in Pittsburgh put it this Way economically negroes just do not have the Money necessary to make Down payments and meet interest  the . Supreme court in what Many Felt was its most important civil rights decision since the landmark prohibition against school segregation in1954, ruled monday existing Federal Laws forbid All discrimination in Sale or rental of housing. While Many hailed a decision they said swept away the Las stumbling blocks toward open housing in America the nation s realtors were not so sure. Many indicated in a nation wide Survey conducted by United press International that while the barriers of racial discrimination May have All but crumbled a perhaps less Subtle but no less effective segregation Money might keep negroes from Rushing to Suburbia. The most dramatic instance of inability on the part of negro family to afford Suburbia s Trees and crabgrass waste Case of or. And mrs. Joseph Lee Jones. It was on their behalf that the supreme court Appeal was made after Jones a negro and his White wife were refused a$30,000 Home they wished to Purchase in the paddock Wood subdivision in St. Louis. Monday the nation s highest court citing a 102-year-old reconstruction Era statute Rule the Joneses could keep up with their White  now Joe and Barbarajo Jones cannot afford the  Price has climbed to $36,000. Economics cold Cash not racial Bias May be the thin that now will prevent the negro from fleeing the ghetto the up Survey showed. But Many realtors questioned indicated that the doors May swing open slowly to be sure for the increasing number of Middle class negroes. As the Standard of living increases among the nation s minorities they said the results of the court ruling would become More obvious More negroes will soon be Able to afford the $25,000 to $40,000 Home in Westchester county ., in Mann county calif., in Cuya hoga county Ohio and similar affluent places. Under the 1908 civil rights act Congress said that Only Homes sold through realtors were covered under open housing statutes. The court made it Clear monday that even if the seller chooses not to list with a realtor he can be liable homeowners who because they refused to sell to negroes the person Selling his Home was not. Am villaiiw.4a Neitro realtor Glen l. Edwards of Salt Lake City agreed. Most realtors would like to Britain quits Europe atom reactor plan where they but not m areas of have hem contrite neighbourhoods and and their responds spouses to the sur Many were not is in Garden Cit Long Island  absolutely refuse about the court simply Hung up As so. Determined the Tom questions. Garden Homes Start  a and up dispatches Geneva Britain thurs Day jolted european Hopes of keeping Pace with America and. Russia in nuclear research by the legislative c announcing its withdrawal from the Mississippi Boari the project to build the world s tors sharply Casti biggest atom smasher. The future of the $400-million 300-billion-electronic-Volt accelerator envisaged by the euro Pean organization for nuclear research Cern now hangs on a decision by West Ger Many which would have to contribute 23.3 per cent of the total Cost. J. E. Sheppard court decision. As Long As courts Ait j with left Wing liberals continue to lose rights of Freedom of expression he said Larry Chambers vice president of the Ohio Board of realtors Britain would have tribute 22.16 per cent. Con but an Authora Totive cer source said the project is Al most certain to go on without Britain. It will however have to be built in two stages. It is hoped to reduce costs by up to 30 per cent this , the accelerator is designed to smash atoms into the smallest particles Ever known. It is hoped that important clues to the origin of life and matter would thus be revealed. Effectiveness of the depends if there Are loopholes in the ruling added that Columbus stand behind the Bel the homeowners should haul final say in who purchases if  said racial ims Lance exists because Are Clannish Type  w. W. Chestnut of said he believed his of Tyler id prisoners sitting in silence part of a group of 121 communist guerrillas who gave themselves up tuesday to South vietnamese troops huddle together at Gia Dinh. Up photo or. Brian Flowers head of the British scientific research Council told the Cern Council would have no that the British economic crisis with the ruling because ties largely responsible for Brit Ain pulling out. Pennsylvania suits expected state to assist non Public schools Harrisburg a. Up gov. Raymond p. Shafer s signature on a Bill wednesday made Pennsylvania the firs state in the nation to clip into its tax funds to assist non Public schools with Cash payments. The new Law which becomes effective july 1, is expected to be challenged on constitutional grounds in state and Federal courts. The governor termed the Bill signing which climaxed a general Assembly a historic Day in our Commonwealth in deed in our  our aim is not to Aid a particular religion or belief but to educate a child to be a Good and decent citizen with the knowledge and ability to live a productive and full life he said. State atty. Gen. William c. Sennett who had previously Given an informal opinion upholding the legality of the new Law said he did not anticipate its opponents would seek an injunction in the courts before its july 1 implementation. He also pointed out that first payments under the program which Call for about $4.3 million in state Aid to about 1,200 Church related and private schools in the next fiscal year would not be made until the end of the 1968-69 school year. Beneficiaries of the program will be More than 1,000 roman and then from the thoroughbred racing program when that gets fully underway the state Public department will of its negroes i do not think they we Content to buy anywhere we do not have a floating it around Here As far As Ico lored Are concerned. Mrs. Scott Campbell realtor in Crossett Ark negroes there choose to with their own kind,.,seem to be perfectly Zapfl new their segregated  hailed the Destt Eric Berkeley instruction \vash., realtor said enter into Means Sellers and v Catholic elementary schools contracts with individual non longer will have a bus whose 600,000 students make up Public schools and Purchase under which to Duck per secular services. The court no v a i about 25 per cent of All Pennsylvania school children. It Sec lathe purchases will be limed last excuse also will Aid protestant hebrew to four subject areas Mathe and private schools. The first rumblings of a possible court Challenge came from the Pennsylvania unit of the american civil liberties Union Acle. Thomas c. Kerr state Acle director said his group plans a close study of the Law and its methods of implementation before deciding whether to Challenge it. He indicated it might be necessary for stat funds to be expended first before a court Case could be initiated. Grounds for such a test he added would be violation of the first Amend Matics physical science modern foreign language and physical education. Use of Money in these subsidized subjects will be limited to teachers salaries textbooks and other instructional materials. Not Selling. B. Allen a Columbus group called said the than we be Ever been. And stripes european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa it. Col.  jr., u8af Mert Proctor Elmer d. Frank Henry 8. Epstein state and a ban on the spending York office 641 Washington St., new York of Public funds for sectarian second class postage paid at new Yonk Ciao  menu in this newspaper concerning rat re " Citi Pill poses. Endorsement by the department of def or under the program to refinanced at first by tax ". The United states is an open. Revenues from harness racing to know is cherished and Juanita b  
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