About the riots: Rep. Charles Vanik (D., Ohio) has introduced a bill proposing federal subsidies to insurance companies that will be paying more than $100 million in riot damage this year; rates in riot-prone districts nearly prohibitive already. . . . Newark damage put at $10.2 million, one fifth of it from looted liquor stores. Riot backlash will help Cleveland mayor Ralph Locher in a three-way primary October 3 against Negro state legislator Carl Stokes, at one time regarded as serious threat. Stokes was just barely beaten out by Locher last time out. . . . Internal Revenue Service (it has a heart, honest) will permit businesses in cities hit by riots a delay in paying social security taxes due July 31.
Rep. Joe Pool (D., Tex.) wants a constitutional amendment to strip Stokely Carmichael of his citizenship; Barry Goldwater says Carmichael should be tried for treason. . . . Worker building up “persecution” of Rap Brown as “modern-day Dreyfus case.” . . . Floyd McKissick wants in on the violence bit. On his return from Africa, McKissick told reporters: “After what happened this summer in Newark and Detroit, do you think they are going to listen to me if I try to sell them nonviolence?” . . . Sidney Poitier taking courageously different stand at Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta. He insists 99 per cent of American Negroes work hard, take no part in riots and violence, are not truly represented by the Carmichaels, McKissicks and Browns.
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