Open | up gy ms piea Mass lobby in March U.S. Congress to get wins panel applause|civil rights demas ; : NEW YORK was not spelled out until today. The tables were turned on a panel discussing the juvenile delinquency problem in ; Sees The delegates will ask Congress i i ight-point civil rights pro- : ; held in the Mount Pleasant! An eigh Re wancouver uaa eave ie He oes ee . gram will be laid before the U.S. A A Pipers Legion Hall on Wednesday ast wee De : , ed | Congress March 4-6 in a mass ne . g Rev. Stanley Higgs stated that it was not just a youth problem, and advocated mobilization of civil rights ad-| WieGes or Eek, closer cooperation between home, school and church. vocates, Roy Wilkins, Negro from any institution which de- d last week. * 5 a Sea fas ooo Campbell River board deager, announce fies the constitutional pro have respect for law when the hibition against segregation in newspapers talk of graft and supports fishermen sents tote corruption in our police—” Erwin Swangaard, Vancouver Howard Naphtali, executive di- tector of Vancouver Community Chest, said that wealth and pov- erty had nothing to do with de- linquency. His main proposals were a survey of B.C. youth con- ditions and establishment of ad- ditional mental health clinics: Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, | @ CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. is also chairman of the Leader- ee pone ea bak age Case? Campbell River Board of Com- ship Conference on Civil Rights, oWfell, 1 said it was a touchy; missioners voted unanimously | sponsored by the March mobili- e : F i rotection of the right to vote. subject. Anyway, if the steps|).., week to support a resolution | Zation. P & outlined are taken, the juvenile linquency problem in Vancou-, placed before it by the Quathi-| He indicated that more than| e fe ee in the Seem not be big enough to be) aski local of the United Fisher-| 2,000 delegates are expected from Pp called a problem.” men and Allied Workers Union Negro, labor, church fraternal @ A permanent federal co A Amid eee applause, asking that fishermen be included| 2nd other organizations in the sion on civil rights. Bert Johnson sat down. t t of its kind in the Tr ti d ted a resolu- under the Unemployment Insur- biggest turnou 2 ne meeting adop Making lynching and other racist-inspired acts of violence federal offenses. : Abolition of the polltax and Mrs. Ann Angus, Vancouver School Board member, advocat- ed treatment centres for emotion- ally disturbed children and pro- Posed that an organization be set up to look after problem children who leave school at 16. Stat rane ® Elimination of Segregation and ; nation’s history. eit ; 5 Percy Padgham, director of Col- tion that a committee be struck! ance Act. h obilization was an- a ee a ingwood Community Association, off to investigate the problem The resolution is being for-|_[5& ™ } was the only one.of the 12 panel + iner and that a youth panel | nounced some time ago, but the a os : discuss the subject : and | warded to both federal and PYo-| Jegislative program supported by| @ pS Lea! 5 ed rule in ee: Fee deen | Vincial labor ministers. the 51 sponsoring organizations e Senate an ouse. members who blamed lack of adequate recreational facilities for the rising juvenile delin- quency rate. “We must establish more Com- munity Centres,” he said. “This is the best way of overcoming juvenile delinquency. Let us Call on all governments, local, Provincial and federal to give stants for recreational facili- ties.” Prof. Robert Osborne of UBC Said: “If, and I stress the word if, there is a correlation between. &N inadequate sports program and juvenile delinquency, some- ing must be done about it. He gave New Orleans as an example of a city which had had a high juvenile delinquen- cy rate until they instituted a Wide sports program and to- day that rate has been cut two t irds, Everett J. Irwin, former Van- Souver School Board member and Chairman of the mayor’s com- mittee on youth services, said that his committee gave $4,500 last year to different groups for ental of school gyms. “The problem is not as serious #8 made out. Only 2,000 delin- ents were picked ‘up in 1955 out of a school population of 18,000,” he asserted. Speaker after speaker droned | } 3, the majority placing their | phasis on mental health clin- ‘es, detention homes, the family, School and church. Finally, at 11 p.m, the chair- 7 Racists bar Negro girl White supremacists are whip- ' ping up riots and demonstrations man asked if there were any Wuestions from the floor. A Young basketball player, Bert Johnson, asked to say a few, Words, and in the next five min- | Utes hag the audience applaud- ing, laughing and cheering him. ‘Tam a member of the Inter- ational Sports League, which x S 60 Players but no place to ek € are not the only ones wcked out of Syms in Vancouver "Seause of lack of funds. & qd Our solution to the juvenile abpnduency problem is to est- Dlis, t More cultural and recrea- tonal f acilities for young people. ni Oren the school gyms at cent Open more community ees Build’ indoor’ swint- ey Pools. It is a disgrace ma city the size of Van- Couvey “f Showe usational films. and TV thi WS of this type. And another NS.’ This is a touchy subject, in several southern States in ef- forts to frustrate the U.S. Sup- reme Court’s order abolishing Segregation in education. ie In Tennessee (see Picture at top) demonstrators sent a dele- gation to see Governor Frank Clement demanding segregation _be enforced. Among signs they ‘Carried was one reading “God — the original segregationist.” In Birmingham, Alabama, riots Over-run the University of Ala- bama campus (see Picture at bot- tom) when 26-year old Autherine Lucy (botom, left) enrolled as the first Negro student. Univer- sity trustees, blaming “outsiders” for the riot, ordered her “ex- cluded until further notice” for her safety. Negro attorney Arthur Shore started contempt action, contending trustees were using the threat of violence as a “sub- terfuge.” In Montgomery, Alabama, where Negroes have been boy- cotting busses since December 5 to protest Segregation, bombs were thrown at the homes of