Woodlawn Booster and Bulletin (Newspaper) - April 16, 1968, Woodlawn, Illinois Survey Cites Urgent Need For Proper Health Care In Woodlawn Community Said To Be Grossly Neglected Like What She Reads BEAUTY brains and strictly Clark's that this comely Miss who dropped into the office 639 E list Wednesday to meet and greet its staff Taking time oat to scan Ms latest edition and liking what she reads Thelma Clark goan briefly described her new duties as Traveling for the well known paper goods manufacturing firm When not on the road touring the 10 cities presently on her Itinerary for Kimberly Clark Thelma resides with her friend Miss Torn Shaw 7904 Rhodes A professional model the chic and attractive Miss Clark still recalls the days When she was a student at Sexton Elementary school and Langley enjoys during leisure hours her hobbies dramatics and sewing and often makes her own AND BULLETIN A PRESTIGE NEWSPAPER IN A PRESTIGE COMMUNITY ALMOST begging the tion as to how a great city like Chicago can maintain severe pockets of and other social a recent survey has revealed hat Woodlawn com- munity is currently undergoing a health care crisis of ing proportions Prepared by Mrs Florence Field student from the Uni- versity of Chicago School of Service Administration of April 16 thru 22 1968 at 639 E 71 St PRICI IQc PER COPY YEAR NO 13 working under the direction of Ireland Rips Mikva On Ghetto Needs In 2nd District Battle Tells Huge Aid Plans Congressman Barratt O'Hara of Dr Martin Luther King a tiny ray of hope announced late last FATHER OF In New Role OUT OF THE chaos and turmoil which swirled through Chicago's ghettos last week following the flickered in the Woodlawn WHILE WEAK misguided youths of the Westside and wood banded together under the guise of Black Nationalism were breaking windows burglarizing stores and burning their parents out of their own homes two of lawn's most publicized gangs were publicly and privately joining forces to prevent a rape and nage of that which they claimed as theirs though it Green week that a new Federal grant with the ex- pressed intention olf aiding low income residents The projects Of a design the projects and funds will be used for Pre-School Training Social Services Cultural En- richment Vocational Training Neighborhood Service Centers Manpower Replacement Pre- Vocational Training Job Placement and Small Loans The old lawmaker stressed the fact that of the announced some of funding are may be IN THE PAST I have personally felt only disgust for only the many criminal activities penned to these groups The framed 5 grams will be administered by shootings and the killings which has marked Woodlawn fhe Committee on Ur for the past few years have always been indefensible ban opportunity Not only does each shooting mean the crippling or loss of life of a black child but there was usually an arrest y ck e and another black boy either went to the already job Recruiting The crowded jails or at the very least was given a life-time calls for seven employment centers for criminal recruiting testing counseling ministers psychologists and other and referring unemployed and have not conditioned me to believe that adults this new organized youth crime can be solely in the employment ed to poverty and it's adjunct evils And fortunately for -.11 n tempts xo tne the black community there are many other adults who of adult education and job still refuse and reject the white man's promise that counseling Monies are also black children and black people are just one generation high BY SO LABELING all black boys as threats to o'Hara who is now fighting ty whites deny even more of the little opportunity for his political life in the 2nd which should be open and available Unfortunately i j if T.I i i j 4.1 ed that the services provided many of the would-be black leaders are apparently un- Dy urban Progress Center aible to see this as they in an effort to achieve are slated for an important tion exhort undisciplined young minds into Tne stated that a sizeable acts which they themselves would never commit tion of the funding is to AT ANY RATE last week during a period of vide seven son the BLACKSTONE RANGER CONSERVATIVES and the EASTSIDE DISCIPLES were able to make income residents mora sense than their so-called elders Not only did they Another phase df this adopt a plank but they also patrolled the sion will develop an Woodlawn and Hyde Park areas as well as distributed services for efforts and emergency food rations op and coordinate mobilization There are probably people who will Of course of local resources they co-operated the guardsmen were there to insure After school social services co-operation Nothing could be further from the There were guardsmen on the West and North sides but training for area young people this did not prevent violence The problem of Mental Re- I AM NOT ready to say that because of this action is known to be a i disease that the rich and the gangs have repented and all of their past sins are tne However for to be forgotten I do say however that in this instance the low-income parents the they Showed a maturity which should not go burden is always much J J greater One of the more IF THIS ACTION can be taken as a step toward features of the BLACK BEAUTY then the rest of us should be willing calls for preschool to take a step toward further beautification I am ment y re ing what a powerful force for good could come out of ln tne tha harnessing of so much BLACK POWER area will be aided ONE REPORT stated that the RANGERS were even under a department geared to instrumental in preventing an unwarranted attack by Hyde Park students on one of the areas Catholic schools zens which still have a partial white Student body If this Beefing up the existing report is also true this is still another avenue to be ects for cultural upliftment new fund will vide four cultural plans A SAD NOTE crept into the whole thing when These projects will be in the body blamed the groups for taking part in a shakedown operation According to Grand Crossing Commander William Griffin THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THE GROUPS WERE INVOLVED IN THE TAKING Rep indicated that OF MONIES FOR THEIR SERVICES Griffin cleared special funds will be the boys further by slating that the youths who were to animal arrested had no connection with the Rangers low income residents Fifth Ward Alderman Leon M Despres the report that Woodlawn ranks place in family incomes among 250 communities of the Chicago Metropolitan Area TURNING TO another topic the report also The poverty of the residents of Woodlawn is partly responsible for ignorance of proper health precautions and for the lack of adequate personnel and facilities for tine delivery of care On the subject of health care the report cited only 27 physicians and IS dentists ed in the telephone directory within Woodlawn community Moreover only 20 percent of these physicians are general practitioners which acutely limits their health practices to referred patients CONTRIBUTING to She health care crisis according to the report is the fact that only 161 Woodlawn residents were at five lawn hospitals which have a combined total of beds AC the same tune 296 lawn residents were patients at Cook County Hospital The hospitals in Woodlawn are Uni- versity of Chicago Hospitals 636 Woodlawn Hospital TO RECEIVE the regular 148 Illinois Central Democratic Organization's Hospital 299 Jackson the spring in many Park Hospital 184 and of the congressional district Chicago Osteopathic Hospital within Chicago proper is Republican Right-wing usually a guarantee of winning the November The showed that 90 per cent of people living out- The 2nd Congressional Dis- side the community receive is one of these kinds ot care from the Woodlawn locales However this tals residents receive tone Abner Mikva choice of of their care Cook the party is up against county Hospital It is said that a tough-minded and right-wing three times the number courting foe from the of Woodlawn residents receive side of slate His name medical care outside of the is Thomas R Ireland as those using Greenwood Woodlawn hospitals RECENTLY Ireland took strong issue with view ot the problems facing Time For Drill EXERCISE is healthy for both mmd and st Thedrick Wroten 6251 body These youngsters from Carnegie Eddie Cleaves 6260 Stony Island Lorel Bey 6246 Dorchester Green 1510 E pi and Raynard Adams 6146 Dorchester Anglin is a retired army officer Who has volunteered to give drill Instructions to male students of Carnegie between the ages of 11 mentary School 1414 E pl are being put through their drill paces by John Anglin assistant director of Woodlawn unit of Com- mission on Youth Welfare 6317 Maryland Lining up and following orders are from left Paul Sands 6042 Ingles We Raymond Adams 6146 Dorchester Leon Clalr 1417 E and 12 years during their regularly scheduled gym periods DESCRIBING Woodlawn as one of the more grossly dwellers According to Ireland neglected areas of She Mikva tad in- the report added that one creasing government spending child in every 20 born in on the cities to WOO billions which would mean Ireland has hls tost His chances stated for every man is comparable to that woman and child in the of non-white children born in try Ireland countered tne DeeP thrust with the statement that Lack of continued he doubted the average the report seriously affects working man with three the care patients receive dren could survive if forced to Furthermore it was at contribute for One time where 150 out of 590 grandiose schemes Woodlawn were trans- CHARACTERIZING Mikva from Woodlawn as one advocating to Cook County Hospital in ment by doubling expenditures unsafe condition In addition for everything even when the 80 of these residents were sent programs don't work Ireland to County hospital merely for suggested that his own X-rays when the sending als would work and will cost tal had adequate facilities IRELAND RECOMMENDED may be a recent meeting ot the Woodlawn physicians and St Xavier Young Republicans from in -a program of loans and tax health care at Woodlawn incentives in ghetto areas to the report stimulate the creation of jobs Physicians in private These solutions he said pay tice however cannot meet the people to work rather than needs of Woodlawn's poor The paying them not to work At health the poor is an that meeting he also stated gral part of their social and that children of mothers on economic condition and is as ADC cannot take jobs without much a social problem as a having their mothers medial one fare checks reduced by the full amount of the children's wages He cited an instance where a 16-year old boy quit his job because of the effect on the boy's mother's welfare payment calling the boy a government drop-out from the CONSEQUENTLY what is needed is a new system of delivering health services in poverty areas not just more and better health At the very least Woodlawn needs a comprehensive com- care center Register Guns By May 15th only takes on Mikva but the Kerner sion on Urban Disturbances as well The Kerner Commission on Riots which blames them on white racism is nothing but an Mot Lin wp Gun registration in Chicago began this week All persons who own any kind of firearm revolver rifle shotgun or automatic pistol must register it with the city collector's office by May 15 The necessary forms may be obtained from the city tor's office some gun sales stores and all police and fire stations Or a gun owner may use the reproduction of the form printed below to register his gun It should be mailed to the city collector's office room 107 City Hall or ered to any police or fire station A certified copy racism is an A f iho for the kind of AVT 01 ine lorm programs which are r which are returned to registrants causing riots in the first place within 30 days Maj Gen It is government not black Francis P Kane special power or bigotry that to the mayor in charge quarter of of gun registration that all gun a copy each weapon warned he Operating Earning of This represents an mcrase of OUN OF CHICAGO OR dm CITY CHICAGO ILL HOT Q O Q OUN O Q c WHO AM TCAM Of 1 MENTAL YOUTH IN FIVE TO AMD AM NOT TO t 1 CATrOW NOLI AND VOID AND M TO TV ui me wing even though Herbert bank he carries the banner of Based on the shares For instance at the St outstanding quarter earnings ler meeting Ireland amounted to compared The problem of government with 57 for the same period paying mothers to have more of 1957 on an adjusted basis illegitimate children is more for far bank at js on the same date a children so if you are poor ly and want to have children Our increased earnings it pays to have them while maintaining a relatively illegitimately This causes conservative re- some men who would biS fleets constructive bank on Page 3
