Woodlawn Booster and Bulletin (Newspaper) - November 7, 1967, Woodlawn, Illinois No Word Yet On Poverty Fu YEAR NO 42 Miss Sepia 1967 POMP glamour and pageantry were very much in evidence during the coronation ceremony of Von Liggett a charming clerk at Collins Certified Market on E at who was recently crowned Miss Sepia of 1967 This was the coronation based upon beauty charm figure and poise sponsored by Crest Modelling School 36 W dolph Pictured crowning Miss Sepia is Miss Janet Floyd ing the coronation ceremony at the Sheraton Blackstone Hotel Sunday Oct 22 Senator Charles Chew observes approvingly and applauds the new queen during the festivities Besides winning the coveted beauty crown Miss Von Liggett has also been awarded an all expenses paid round-trip to Paris and a trophy as a tribute to charm and other natural attributes Map Survey Of Social Services To Be Offered In Woodlawn The Spiralling Cost Of Teen Payoffs FIGHT against organized teen crime is somewhat reminiscent of the beginning of World War II in that ignored all of the early signs of war and had to be iri our expansive personal before we to I think last summer's nation wide sociological explosions has given us i needed impetus anc while we are slow in our we are making some moves to reinforce our own little pieces of domain LOCALLY Park Manor has already issued a public statement of declaration of intention to hand-to-hand if to preserve it's status quo As in last week's BULLETIN Park Manor has already begun action to institute a Citizen's GREEN as it's neighbor to the East South Shore i ERRONEOUSLY described as a vigilante by a daily paper Citizens Patrols which have received only plaudits by the and city officials are simply a remedial answer to a continued open warfare staged on the streets in broad daylight by armed teen agers If my history serves me right Vigilantes were angered groups of citizens who broke the law themselves by effecting both arrest and punishment to offending but times innocent victims Citizens Patrols are aho aroused citizens but tney merely serve as auxiliary eyes and ears to the police and tne responsible adults If the Park Manor Plan is set up like the South Shore Plan it will mean that soon civilian cars will be cruising about the streets of Park Manor each night reporting by radio to a central base any activity that police i How any mature intelligent adult can knock such a volunteer plan of community protection is beyond me Whenever I hear adults spending valuable time and effort pointing to and placing fault as to why teen agers break the law at will I am reminded ot a long ago read story called The Offeree jfe science fiction the story deals with an attempted takeover o the country by an alien power thru the use of living matter which attached itself to the base of the human spine and thus control of the human body Sometimes I wonder if these living dugs are already in control of some of our community's adults when they continue to parrot meaningless phrases of defense for behaviour Sometimes I wonder if these obliging adults realize and understand that the crimes committed by crimina are the same crimes that send adult offenders to oui state institutions I wonder if these adults still feel the same after one of their own loved ones are struck down by juvenile THE REASONING that teen gangs have already existed is n defense for today's highly organized anti-social behaviour TO CONTINUE to appease and pay extortion to the gangs is i mistake that will cost ten times over in property damage and voung lives The government must feel pretty silly along with some of our weak-kneed adults with one of it's gang sitting in jail charged with the murder of old youth WE HAVE TOO long restrained our own hands and tied th police's I would rather light than give give and give some time of this writing a small group of concerned in Auburn Park are fighting a losing battle to raise funds to Auburn YMCA At the present time tin facility is being used as a headquarters for a Nation of gangs Seems like there is funds for the gang activities not for the entire community What's left for the member that's right THE GANG Postman Takes A Holiday YOUR POSTMAN takes a REGULAR MAIL deliver holiday next week will not be made with the ex of special delivery serv Veteran's Day on Saturday Henry W Nov II is a legal holiday for tha Bte Chicago post from all street Present Programs Will Still Go On at 639 E 71 it St 13 1967 press: By Charles Smith i THE TIME BEING it is a little too soon to know whether or not Con- Is will cut poverty funds Frank C Bacon Jr of Woodlawn Urban Progress Center 1030 E St sometime last week Bacon made the remark in an interview with the BOOSTER after the following ment appeared in the local clared director Woodlawn Slates Festival WOODLAWN YWCA Center 170 E is deep in plans his week for its third annual World Fellowship International festival scheduled for Friday Nov 17 at the Center between and 9 p.m The BOOSTER area YWCA is observing this occasion in con- unction with the YWCA in the United States as a time of prayer and financial support for toe throughout the world THE 1967 observance will be held between Nov A gram of international food and will spark the Woodlawn participation ng to Barbara Young awn YW staffer Miss Young revealed that Woodlawn YW has planned a program of en- A smorgasbord dinner will served from 5 to 7 p.m in- foods from all over the world And from to oik songs and dances ng musical instrument pation will highlight this show IN ADDITION there will be an international bazaar ng booths representing the and foods of many ands under the sponsorship of consulates and international guests throughout the city Miss Young added Donations for the dinner are per person and include he program Tickets may be obtained by calling HY or will be available at the door the evening of the program Despres Tackles Traffic Problems In Woodlawn EFFICIENT STEPS to ate traffic problems in lawn caused by sewer and driveway construction have ready been begun by Fifth Ward Alderman Leon M Despres Recently returned from a tour of Paris France where he observed the functioning of the Paris City Council Despres has asked that the Department of Streets and Sanitation hasten sewer construction in the street area A LETTER FROM the De- of Public works to Despres estimates that ment restoration on the sewer construction site at be- fc tween Langley and Cottage Grove will be completed by the winter months to allow traffic to flow freely throughout the area The letter also stated that sewer construction east of tage Grove would continue through the winter months and pavement construction would ensue in Scott Open House Community Dale A BLANKET invitation has been extended not only to our parents but to the entire com- munity to visit Scott ry school 6435 by its principal Norman Silber The OBSERVANCE OF American Education Week with special activities scheduled for Nov 8 7 to 9 p.m Silber in reporting on Scott school's celebration asked the BOOSTER to convey his special invitation to its readers PLEASE ASK your vast reading public to join us All of the rooms in the main building the units in MANY evU spirits scared away all second grade In the of loween Day when they confronted them earthly Miss Alma Bell These enjoyed goblins who were ready and waiting to pounce selves wearing their and costumes and upon the evil ones The above scene was taken pretending to frighten each other Their cot on Tuesday Oct 31 Halloween at Carnegie tumes and masks delighted many persons at School 1414 E pi Actually the youngsters the school Study To Determine Area Needs A STUDY to determine social service needs of the Woodlawn community is currently in ress under the Youth Action division of the Community Chest WARDELL HAYWOOD Di- rector of Training for Youth Action 841 E who is con- ducting the study described it as an inventory seeking mation on the kinds of social services by agencies in the Woodlawn community in terms of their success in getting these services to the people of the area THE STUDY will approach the community as an area ol three basic economic divisions West Woodlawn as a income area Central lawn an area of middle am lower incomes and East The office of Economic Op- revealed that 36 rams serving poor in one form or another will have to close down during the next three weeks Congress releases money to keep them going STATING that Congress has the authority to increase or de- crease poverty funds Bacon emphasized that Chicago Com- mission On Urban Opportunity receives only 47 percent of its unds from OEO The ng a3 per cent according to Jacon comes from the Federal Department of Labor ASSUMING that Congress does cut poverty funds Bacon said that only funds for marked and flexible programs will be affected The total effect will hurt the poverty program jut the entire program will not be jeopardized he opined CITING programs that may be affected the director said Head Start will be among the first to go At present there are Woodlawn students at- tending Head Start programs in six different locations out the area These locations are St Cyril Carmelite School 6358 stone Ray School and Kimbark First Presbyterian Church 6200 Woodlawn way Community Center 500 St Lincoln Church 6450 Champlain and Woodlawn Baptist Church 6207 University LAST SUMMER the BOOST ER learned about lawn residents attended Start under the auspices and partly funded OEO JOINT Youth Development Corps and Legal Aid for dents are two other programs that will suffer if Congress axes the current poverty r SPEAKING at a press ence last week Sargent er director of the war on erty is quoted as having said the city stands to lose lion of its current budget for next year DESPITE the rumors of bad news to come Bacon continues to Jackson Park and Harper ground will be open for them to lie tlA Little Goblins TRICKS OR TREAT began early for these happy students of Reading ic when they celebrated a fest on Saturday Oct 28 at Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran church 7426 Drexel Under the watchful eyes of Mrs Robert Strickland 7403 St Lawrence clinic director the youngsters played games ate refreshments and helped to ir HIT in th merry Halloween usually held on Oct 31 also view the community in terms of areas where there is an abundance of services and areas where there is a lack ol service WE HAVE ALREADY done map study of Haywood continued and have found areas of high service ami yet these services are in the wrong area As an example ol this we have noted a cluster of agencies on street in tral Woodlawn but none across the tracks It's easy to un- why they are not in West Woodlawn but not in East Woodlawn where the bulk of the real problems are HAYWOOD CITED another need for the study as the result of agencies working in currents and not coordinating their mutual efforts We are not sure what to ex- from this Haywood added but we will be looking closely at population and employment figures as well as agency services On the ba- sis of this we hope to mise an approach to y services Haywood said the results of this study will develop an approach to agencies whereby they will begin to coordinate their efforts and determine new needs in the community THIS concluded will be of extreme interest to all persons working in Woodlawn and will be able after completion to all agencies in the community through the Community Chest Haywood who is currently working with problem youth in the Central Woodlawn area was commissioned by the Com- munity Chest a non-profit char ity organization to undertake the study as an independent ef fort The projected completion date of the study is late spring of 1968 Pastor Finds Grand Jury Hearing Disappointing A COUNTY GRAND JURY trial held as a result of de- mands by The Woodlawn civil rights committee that a thorough investigation be conducted on the Sept 3 slaying of a Hirsch High School honor was convened last Thursday Patrolman John was upheld in his claim that the shooting of Kenneth Alexander 7154 Vincennes was accidental after IS witnesses were heard PR tee testified before the hearing along with three witnesses of the shooting plus another ber of the civil rights tee Other witnesses included six residents from the area rounding the scene of the ing members of the police In- ternal Investigations Division and the two officers involved in the shouting John Woodlock and Willie Pr Tracy who is the hearing state Our lem still remains These people gave explanations but the out- come is debateable AIX OF Three SIU Coeds Teachers AMONG THE 263 Southern Il- linois University Carbondale 111 students from 111 Illinois communities six other state and China and Japan in student teaching Illinois schools are three dents of the BULLETIN area They arc Herma Barclay 5824 Wabash Alberta Fender 1025 E and Sandra Gold en 3137 Pr i testimonies Tracy continued secret and none of us was able to hear the other nonet so there was no ty and no real room to contest a witness at the hearing policeman that Ml HAUt the future of the gram He We'll just have to wait and see what happens Then we'll do the best we can the poverty Four-Star Events At Area Park GRAND CROSSING Park and Ingleside has uled along with its regular class activity and instructions four-star events of interest to the general public beginning Monday Nov 7 We have a variety of events on the week's special Park Supervisor James C Young told the BULLETIN ly this week It is expected to attract the entire community to what we have designated an open house program EACH DAY a particular class will be conducted at ified hours with refreshments served each evening We are particularly interested in ing the general public share these activities with Young added On Monday Nov 6 at p.m gymnastics and tumbling demonstrations will be ed by the midget and junior boys in the Boys Gym Other activities will LAPIDARY shop on Tuesday Nov 7 at p.m where jewelry pieces made in class will be on display Of interest will be a of cutting grinding and polishing of stones from which the jewelry has been made The girls gym will be the setting for between intermediates while on Thursday Nov 9 be- tween and 6 p.m ballet and tap dance instructions for midget and junior girls will be conducted also in the girls gym CLIMAXING the week's is Senior Citizens ter slated for Friday Nov 10 at p.m in the girls gym Highlighting this activity Young further revealed will be the annual Fun and Variety Show Best Food Buys This Week Each week the publishes the best food buys at your local food store as advertised in your KERKR FANCY THICK Bacon
