Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 79, No. 121, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 9, 1968 Page: 3 of 26
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Selective Unfairness Charged by Council Leader
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OKLAHOMA CITY TIME* Tuesday, July 9. 1968 3
Negro Called Victim of Dual Justice Standard
’that victimizos black andi fundamental.
useless lo aver pxppcl justice jcially pertinent as
K\ Richard Bard
Staff Writer j white persons,” he added. 1 Referring lo the National 1,0 prevail.” j ministration of criminal jus-
NORMAN — The national] Boone said it has fostered Advisory Commission on He said nothing else but 'icp. in the South especially
director of a criminal justice distrust of the officials tha11(^jvj| Disorders, he said, the threat of violent destruc- 'ends to select black peoplp
project declared Tuesday administer the rules,
that American policemen He blamed the dual stand-
pursue their legal responsi- ard as "the primary reason
bilily only when dealing with for disrespect of the law.”
powerful political elements. Boone was with the Federal; and unequal
John O. Boone, a Negro Bureau of Prisons in the
from the Southern Regional I South for 15 years before
Council, Atlanta, (la., told j joluiugf 'he council,
delegates to a seminar that "Police-community rela-j
police are inclined to consid- lions does not pxist, in my
er legal responsibility only opinion, in the black commu-
nity and never will as long
as there is in fact a black
community,” he said.
Boone said Negroes are in
the commission concluded1 lion seems to bp working,
that our nation is moving to- ••(;rjPvanrPS as a rPsult
ward two societies,
for the harsher aspects
jjcontrol and punishment.”
both poor police protection.1
Boone told
black, one while separate p,,|j(.P attitudes of over-pro- ’hat
the ad- alarmed about thp nalufp of
justice in the L'niled States
when most of thosp in prison
are poor.
"]'m an eternal optimist,
but I just want you to know
participants we re in a hell of a fix,”
be; Boone concluded.
Left unsaid is the
lection and ineffective meeh-l
fact anisms for redress ate di-
FAIRYTALE FOLKS from ’Mack and the Beanstalk”
will come alive Wednesday when youngsters from May-
fair playground join with several hundred other chil-
dren in staging “Adventures in Wonderland,” at 7: SO
p.m. in Will Rogers Amphitheater. Giant Bradley
Honk, left, and his equally wicked wife, portrayed
by Lynn Redus, terrify Jack (Park Lamerton) who
tries to keep the evil pair front snatching his golden
eggs. Fourteen parks and playgrounds are joining for
the show, sponsored by the Oklahoma City Parks
and Recreation Department and the Oklahoma City
Public Schools. (Times Staff Photo by Jack Hammett.)
with the powerful and ignore
their responsibility with
those "who are in many
senses helpless."
that the movement is toward] red causes of poor police-
two warring societies. community relations," he
“The commission's obser- said,
valions concerning the police Boone said, "the examina-
and the community holds the tion of the police function,
key to the solution of our should be next on the nation-
problem of law and order. I a| agenda,
only wish I could be as confi- ..-yhp po|jf.p ro|P js PSpe-
dent in the value of the pro-
spoke Tuesday at the a dilemma over strategy but (1(j rPmefRPS as I am
Oklahoma Center for Contin-
uing Education during the! honesty
“crises in the nation" semi-
nar.
“We would be ahead had
we not winked at the unfair-
ness of a system that sends
the poor and black to prison
— and rewards higots with
economic and political suc-
cess," Boone said
Roone's topic
New Approach:
objectives of justice and
in public policy is
Ex-Premier's
Aide in Jail
the commission's diagno-
sis,” Boone said.
He said the problem is
acute "because masses of
black and disadvantaged
people believe now that it is
Organist Dips
CHICAGO (AP) — Dr. Leo
Sowerhy, 74, organist and
Pulitzer Prize composer of
church music, died Sunday
while attending a music
conference at Put-in-Bay,
Ohio.
Offices to Move
ATHENS (AP) — Const an-!
tine Xarves, private secre-
tary to former Premier Pan-
was “The'ayiotis Canellopoulos, was
Po|icP-(’om- Bito custody Tuesdas
I munity Relations." b>' (:rPf'k security police, a
"I am suggesting that the source said.
GREENVILLE. T e x a s tendency of law enforce- Xarves was one of the few
(AP) — Corporateheadquar- ment, judicial, and correct-j persons permitted to visit
tors of LTV Electrosystems,jlional agencies to select Canellopoulos, who is under
Inc., will be moved from black clients for unfair treat- house arrest. The ex-pre-
Greenville to Dallas about ment has been much more mior was restricted on April
July 15, officials said Mon- damaging to our system 15 for speaking out puhlieK
hHy than the economic situation against the military regime.
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