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Against Backlash & Bigotry. Cleveland was not alone in making last week's voting a historic off-year election. Gary, Ind., a northern bastion of the Ku Klux Klan 40 years ago, also elected a Negro, Richard Hatcher, 34, as its mayor. As in Cleveland, white votes supplied the crucial margin. In Boston, a coalition of white and Negro voters chose moderate Mayoral Candidate Kevin Hagan White over Louise Day Hicks, who had become a totem of opposition to school integration...
Muckraking Ache. When the non commercial station managers were in formed that PBL had prepared pocket documentaries on the campaigns of Louise Day Hicks in Boston and Negro Mayoralty Candidates Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher in Cleveland and Gary, Ind., they began worrying about whether they would have to make room for opposing points of view. Similarly, PBL's plans for "anti-commercials" on smoking and the relatively high prices of name-brand aspirin were bound to excite complaints from offended business interests. The problem for PBL staffers who ache to do some muckraking is not how to avoid...
Under normal circumstances, a Negro mayor would be a certainty in Gary, Ind., this year, and Richard Hatcher, 34, the Negro councilman who won the Democratic primary last May, should, by this time, be choosing his office curtains. Voter registration is approximately 4 to 1 Democratic, and the Lake County machine is one of the smoothest in the country; as a consequence, no Republican has been elected mayor in the last quarter century. But circumstances are not exactly normal in Gary this year...
...Hatcher has been cut off without a penny by the local machine, which is standing absolutely idle. The city's Democratic bosses clearly hope that the mayoralty will go the Republican candidate, Joseph Radigan, 46, a prosperous furniture dealer with no previous experience in politics, who, like Hatcher, promises to clean up the corruption and vice that have made the gritty steel town (pop. 178,000) a byword for vice in the Midwest. In desperation, Hatcher has sent urgent appeals to the Administration in Washington and printed a full-page plea for campaign funds in the New York Times...
...White & Blue. Gary's Democratic party boss, John Krupa, bases his opposition on a wild claim that Hatcher, a lawyer and the great-grandson of a Georgia slave, is linked to Communists and advocates of Black Power. "I'm not against Dick Hatcher because of his color, unless it's because he's Red," Krupa says. "I'd like to see a Democratic mayor, but he has to be a red, white and blue one." Krupa's real motives-aside from Hatcher's color-seem more basic. Not only has Hatcher pledged...