Friday, March 8, 1967 TI E MICHIGAN DAILY >Page Five Frdy- arh8-97 H IHIA-AL _a;:, Fiv 'STOP ARMS RACE': Cavanagh Pleads For 'Sanity' In Dealing With Riot Rumors Milwaukee Teachers Threaten To Close Inner Core Schools DETROIT 0P)- Asserting thatt "wildly irresponsible rumors" ini newspaperless Detroit have causedt both whites and Negroes to arm themselves in unprecented num- bers, Mayor Jerome P. Cavanaghc pleaded via television yesterdayw for "return to sanity." "This arms race must be stop-t ped," said Cavanagh, in whose city 43 persons were killed ands millions of dollars damage donei in racial rioting last July.t Detroit has been without itsi regular daily newspapers for 114t days because of a Teamsters strike1 at the evening News and an in sympathy shutdown by the morn- ing Free Press. TV Stations Cavanagh's speech was carried by the city's three major televi- sion stations. Several radio sta-, tions were to carry it or parts of it at different times. The mayor said the "wildly ir- responsible rumors" concerneds "what might happen next sum- mer." He said at one point, however,6 "riots are not inevitable, and It ca n n o t emphasize that toot strongly."_ Cavanagh did not describe any of the rumors. But two weeks ago the city's police and fire departments were placed on a full standby when a suburban police force received a letter saying that Black Power extremists had organized a dis- University Charter Caledonian Airways FLY.TO LONDON from DETROIT * $230 Roundtrip May 20 to Aug. 19 Also, Wait Lists For: May 9 to June I 4 June 27 to Aug. 22 CALL: 761-2348 5-7 P.M turbance that was to involve steal- ing autos and burping them on the major expressways. The letter also said that'homes were to be burned in several all- white suburbs as well as some stores in the downtown section. There were no incidents during the period of the alert. Pistols registered with the city, as required by law, totaled 6,029 in 1966. There were 9,988 regis- tered in 1967, with a sharp upturn in August. In January of this year there were 1,090 and in February, 1,421. Cavanagh said that if a citizen "accepts uncritically every rumor, if he buys a gun, if he endorses vigilante, groups, he has contri- buted to an atmosphere that may well bring about the very violence he has been seeking to avoid. Judgment "All of these things have been happening in the Detroit area. We seem to have lost our judgment and our perspective. "Without newspapers in this city, these rumors have been spread by word of mouth until they have taken on the aspect of truth and a basis for action.". The mayor said Detroit police now are equipped and organized to prevent-trouble and that "ex- tremism which takes the form of acts of violence or of provocation will not be tolerated." Control CenterI Cavanagh directed his Commis- sion on Community Relations to establish a "Rumor Control Cen- ter" to check out citizen reported rumors, establish the facts and dispel any false rumor "before it can do any more damage." "In the absence of newspapers and in the light of the present situation, I urge every citizen of the Detroit metropolitan area to make use of the Rumor Control Center," the mayor said. The strike is Detroit's second major newspaper strike in three years. In 1964, both the News and" the Free Press were shut down for 143 days during a strike by the Pressmen's Union. Three interim papers, the De- troit Daily Express; the Daily Press and the Daily Dispatch were pub- lished during. the early weeks of the strike, but all were shut down by the Teamsters. MILWAUKEE, Wis.(P) - School Superintendent Richard P. Gou- sha met in a marathon session yesterday with Milwaukee Teach- ers Educations Association leaders who have threatened to close some Inner Core schools unless they were made "safe for children and the staff." Under discussion was whether the problem, climaxed in recent weeks by rowdy demonstrations for "integrated" history courses, "soul food" in school cafeterias and more Negro kitchen_ help, could be solved by a series of 'neetings with parents and stu- dents. Vandalism Vapdalism in city schools amounted to $215,063 last year, the board reported earlier, com- pared with $146,940 in 1966. T h e association, bargainingt agent for city teachers, said that as many as six fires have been reported in a single day at one school, and added that "fire alarms are turned in at such frequency that the children now fail to res- pond to a real fire." Donald Baer, executive secre- tary of the MTEA, wanted im- mediate action. The school board's attitude, he said, "seems to be that we'll wait until the kids run out of matches." MTEA President Donald A. Feil- back, said in a complaint present- ed to the board Wedensday night that he could offer no easy solu- tion, but said it was clear that "it may be necessary to close the buildings until such time as you can insure safety for the children and the staff. Uncontrollable "Disturbances in several of our schools have reached the magn- itude that the staff is no longer able to control. Our teachers have had it." The demonstrations began last October, to support demands for, 'I - = ---- - ---- -- 'integrated" history courses show - ing the part Negroes had in the development of the United States. Arthur Rumph, social studiesI coordinator for the system, said that textbook publishers ''virtually ignore 'the Negro" in standard books on American Negro history texts, but ordered several hundred as supplementary material for five high schools. 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