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City Hires 1,501 with 733 Negroes e >f k 1 Gt ·s st e a f The city hired 1,501 persons during the first quarter of 1967. · About half were Negroes. Negro-white employment was · 733-768 fo r al l jobs, the city personnel department said Wednesday. The breakdown of higherthan-menial labor was 168 Negro and 688 whit e persons. The city's work force is now about one-third Negro, Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. said. The personnel report shows 148 white firemen and 45 Negro firemen hired this year. There were 58 white and six Negro policemen hired. Allen said the city ha9 about 20 per cent Negro employes 10 years ago and has continued to increase the ratio. The white-Negro hirings-exclusive of laborers-in 1964 were 1,054-402. The 1965 totals were 1,209-455 and fo r 1966, were 1,982-815. �