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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 24, 1964
Manager Inaction Charged
By Roy Miller (Assistant Managing Editor)
The president of the International City Managers' Association said here last night that city managers are not "likely to do so many wrong things as it is that they too often fail to do anything at all."
Speaking at the 17th annual City Managers school, Bert W. Johnson, president of the ICMA and county manager of Arlington County, Va., said resistance to new ideas places city managers "in the position of leaving undone those things which we ought to have done.
"There must be courage to confront all significant problems and needs with the knowledge that some problems, such as delinquency and unemployment, are not completely soluble and that some of the solutions lie outside of action by local government," he continued.
"WE MUST NOT fail to be educators as we fortify our need for courage."
Johnson has served as city manager at Lebanon, Mo., Boulder, Colo., and Evanston, Ill.
Speaking on the role of the city manager in urban education, Johnson said the city manager must "educate so that his own value preferences become those of the governing boards he serves."
He said city managers should strive to secure an "healthier attitude" toward all levels of government.
"UNLESS WE HAVE fixed our goals we would never know we were advancing toward them."
Minorities and city government were discussed at an afternoon session by a panel moderated by Fredrick D. Lewis, dean of the School
of Law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and chairman of the Kansas City Human Relations Commission.
Members of the panel were:
Lee Vertis Swinton, attorney and president of the Kansas City branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Russell E. McClure, city manager, Wichita; Peter D. Newquist, assistant director of industrial relations and security of the Bendix Corporation and chairman of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce's Fair Employment Commission, and Dale Henry, regional director of the National Conference on Christians and Jews, Wichita.
"I THINK WITHOUT question the most serious problem a city manager will be facing in the next five to ten years will be problems relating to human relations," Dean Lewis said.
Lewis spoke of the Human Relations Commission's work in pushing passage of the public accommodations ordinance in Kansas City.
"We're in a fact-finding position," Lewis continued. "These are emotional problems, not intellectual problems. The only way you can deal with them is with facts, not with emotions."
Newquist, who heads a commission that was formed in June, 1963, said he is "convinced that the great issue in the nation today is employment. I am convinced the Negro is more concerned where he works than where he lives or where he eats.
"HE HAS NEVER had any real reason in the past 100 years to desire this employment," Newquist continued.
Newquist urged the city managers to seek support of the business community in their efforts to seek fair employment for Negroes.
Newquist said there was difficulty in finding qualified Negroes for certain types of employment because they haven't had incentive for training.
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