Woodlawn Booster (Newspaper) - April 14, 1970, Chicago, Illinois Votes Tod In Model City It's the Proudly displaying the product he represents Windsor Stokes 6634 Kenwood salesman discusses the excellent quality of Metropolitan Sausages with Ted Davis 8336 Elizabeth market manager of National Store WOODLAWN Each Slate Predicts Good Showing in Race YEAR NO 13 WOODLAWN BOOSTER TUESDAY APRIL 14 1970 Plans i Bookie SOME THIRTY Woodlawn East Woodlawn residents will compete for Candidates representing a prizes of 20 slate known as People's 20 seats on Woodlawn Model Noel Alsbrook Edward Cities Council in a special Byrd Frances Cain Mabel election that will be held Chamberlain Ollie Clark Tuesday April 14 throughout Kenneth Dosie Joseph Emory Margaret Frazier James Grammer Jacquelyne Grimshaw Elzena Hart and Marian J Hayes Phillis Hubbard Frozena Myers Tracy O'Sullivan Lee Smith Grace Strozier Taylor Mary Helen Warfield and Richard Washington PERSONS DESCRIBED as machine Does Your Employer's Racism THOUGH FEW of us can see any real results of the human rights revolution most of us have become painfully aware of many of the now ob- vious forms of white business practise racism There was a time a few short years ago when employers and the many captains of industry smiled winked their collective eyes and simply passed over the brother just as he would anything else which stood in his path Today it's still done only now with just a little twist and pretended rance Appoint 2 Model City Staffers Two new members of the Woodlawn Model Cities office have recently been announced by Erwin France Model Cities director Lonnie L Griffin 845 E ipl has been named the En- Coordinator for the program Prior to joining the Model Cities staff Mr Griffin was in the employ of the Department of Urban Renewal in the capacity of Rehabilitation Supervisor Preceding the latter employment he was a Housing Inspector for the Department of Buildings City of Chicago This consisted of other duties in Griffin Area studied at the subjects He is married and the father of two daughters a Model Cities council member and until recently served as the chairman of the Committee attended Roosevelt University and the IN MAJOR concerns located in white communities and the Loop area the racial quota system continues in effect with the that there just aren't more qualified black workers available and none are really smart enough for ascention to the supervisory or Chicago City College and the We know now that these jj worn rationales will continue despite presidential orders the Merit committees the seminars and what have you BUT OFF the mainland the and back and one son on the island the firms ai still at the Mme old stand ing and wooing black customers are eventually Blackstone going to have to take inventory of more than previously employed by the shoddy merchandise Very shortly u.s Post Office for they are going to have to realistically deal with three 23 years he served as the BHF Black Human Very shortly some of the white liberal employers who sit VTO w w down once a month and consume vast quantities Environmental of half-done roast beef his black Mr Pease is going to have to do it or get out IT means taking that good ful black employee and putting him to a more responsible position and then to a managerial spot Many employers would be surprised to know that some of their good old black employees not only have the capacity to handle a responsible position but in many instances could do it with a minimum amount of training There is no mystery about administrative Woodlawn YWCA ino E 63 ty everyone does not need a Harvard business After School Program t will degree to function in this capacity FOR THE black man who has remained on his feet after twenty years of exclusion from the system and without any real hope of ever making it has already demonstrated many times over many of the traits of leadership The white grant who came to this country at the turn of the century was even more handicapped than today's gym will be opened for long-term black employee of a firm until P.M and yet he made it in one generation EVERYDAY MORE and more white business concerns are closing their doors in black com- rather than subsidize and invest in the Selling YWCA Memberships PLEASED WITH the way the YWCA membership is going the four sons pictured above are gladly answering all calls for new memberships They are from left Mrs Ollie B Turnley Mrs Dorothea Woods Doris Sherron and John McGhee Manning manager of Radio Station and Joe Black marketing specialist for the Greyhound Bus Company are co-chairmen of a hard hitting Men's Division of the Woodlawn Center YWCA membership drive Issuing a joint statement Manning and Black urge all business men church men and men to support the YWCA program Emphasizes Involved Community BECAUSE THE WOODLAWN Organizations and city officials disagreed on proposals for Woodlawn model cities plans went its own way in the development of an in- dependent Model Cities proposal and planning which is now outlined in a booklet recently published by the U.S Civil Rights Com- mission Entitled Model Cities the booklet states in its THE PROBLEMS THAT beset the Chicago community of Woodlawn are no different than those that plague other American urban ghettos Discrimination and poverty have combined to create on the South Side of Chicago a square mile community characterized by substandard housing a high unemployment rate and an unskilled labor force a low median income and heavy dependence on welfare inadequate educational England He is married and the father of four daughters To Extend Y Program DUE TO popularity of the be extended and expanded to include more activities for a longer amount of time YWCA officials said last week On Mondays Dancing for girls ages will be taught between P.M pre- Teen and Teen Dance will be taught from The FOR ADULTS a Class will be conducted from P.M on Mondays It is hoped that these hours will accommodate the working Distinguished Holy Cross Students THESE STUDENTS recently distinguished themselves during the annual Science Fair sponsored by Holy Cross Elementary School 6537 Maryland They Christi English Karen Chachere Marcia O'Neal Warren Gipson Janet Massey Douglas Trumble Keenan Carroll Faith Gilkey Dena Marshall Vivienne Franklin Gregory Edwards Eric English Carolyn Rodger Steve Wilburm Dwayne Russell Olen Henry Leslie Sparks Diane Debra Marshall Cynthia Clinton Elaine Simmons Archie Blumingberg Michael Lane and Mark Hayes Council Defeats Motion To Get Observers for Election ladies On Wednesdays the gym will be opened until P.M Cooking will be taught from will include a basic course A Drama Course will be conducted from business under the ownership of a qualified de- manager White business owners still fall into two business the ones who simply their places of business thus leaving another sightless sore on streets already pock-marked with the ravages of abandonment and the businessman who remains in the back of the store and brings in a young white general manager who in reality is still an overseer CERTAINLY IT is true that the black On Fridays the gym will be ee does not have the money to buy out the opened until P.M and ness And it's not because he is not thrifty enough to own and operate a business The wages that he has been paid all of his years of faithful service simply have not provided enough of a margin to really meet his daily needs and certainly not enough to financially prepare for a business ownership Just as whites have given up homes in black communities there will come a point where the same surrender will have to come about The opportunities Holds Meeting both in terms of competition and is A not and never has been available to the would-be F black businessman THOSE WHITES who profess so long and hard that they really want to do something to help the black economy might do well to start right at Woodlawn office home in their own places of business The idea st that the U.S Government must solve all of the offered from tutoring will be conducted from A SPECIAL Sex Education Seminar will be held every Tuesday in April from for girls For more in- formation visit the Y or call A Model City meeting of all housing committee members will be held on Tuesday April 14 at p.m at the 835 East The meeting is being held to naft brief Housing Committee black economic problems is simply another part m of the cruel con game Local business efforts are Land Acquisition Project to be badly needed in this period of community sponsored by the Chicago sition Housing Authority A RESOLUTION calling for 32 impartial federal ob- servers in Woodlawn Model Cities Election April 14 was tabled during the council meeting last week Noel Alsbrook 6215 University Peoples 20 candidate sub- mitted the resolution Commenting on the tabling of the resolution A L Smith 6442 Greenwood council member We have nothing against the other group but if people want to take over the council then they should go to and put over their ideas The resolution WHEREAS in elections there is the continuing problem of fair campaigning and voter irregularities particularly in highly con- tested situations and WHEREAS there have already been substantially widespread campaign irregularities officially confirmed by the Board of Election Commissioners in the Woodlawn Model Cities election and there have been widespread filings of voter irregularities concerning the March 17 Congressional primaries totally far more than in normal campaigns and WHEREAS the confidence of the people of Woodlawn in the sanctity of the election on April 14 is the uppermost concern in order to legitimatize the electoral mandate of the new Model Area Council and WHEREAS the citizen participation guidelines of Model Cities and the U.S Constitution and Voting Rights Laws attempt to make every election as clear and legal as possible in both the North and the South THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Mid- South Model Area Interim Council formally revest the presence in Woodlawn of Federal election observers from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and other Federal agencies before the election and on election day to follow up this resolution and any other election matters brought to their attention On election day there should be an observer present in each of the 32 precincts from at least until after the Polls are closed and votes counted and transferred Federal observers never being away from the scene The Model Area Interim Council the Model Cities staff and the Board of Election Commissioners will all cooperate to make this one of the cleanest elections of which all Woodlawn can be proud City Colleges Promotes Two TWO AREA residents were recently promoted from within the ranks of the City Colleges of Chicago Cleve R Amos has been appointed staff writer in the Office of Public Information for the City Colleges AMOS HAS served as public relations assistant for Automatic Electric Company Northlake Illinois and as director of public relations for the Los Angeles Branch of the NAACP and the Los Angeles office of the Urban League He is a member of the Chicago Urban League and served on the public relations staff of Operation Breadbasket HE WAS employed on the Red Skelton Show on CBS and stage manager for the NBC 1961 Nat King Cole and program promotional writer for the Eddie Fisher Show and was later public relations representative for the Dinah Shore Freddie D Williams has been appointed Instructor of Mathematics at Malcom X College PRIOR TO his appointment Williams was a faculty assistant at Chicago State College from Sept 1968 to August 1969 At one time he taught at Hyde Park High School Williams was born in Chicago and received both his Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree from Chicago State College He is married and has a daughter high crime and delinquency rates inadequate recreational and cultural facilities and generally poor living con- ditions UNTIL FAIRLY RECENTLY relations ween and University of Chicago were strained and mutually suspicious the booklet By the summer of 1968 however the relationship between and the University of Chicago had improved University personnel had become in- with the community working on mental and child health programs activities within the educational system and legal programs desired by Woodlawn residents CONSEQUENTLY BOTH and the university formed six parallel com- to fit the Model Cities guidelines in the areas of housing health employment schools social welfare and civil rights The and the university committees met jointly on a bi-weekly basis while the steering groups met every week thereafter It is estimated that 1 400 to 500 community residents attended the sessions every time to keep abreast of progress and developments SAMPLINGS of the questions asked of Woodlawn residents during the discussions How can sufficient executive power be formulated so that the com- munity will have a functioning structure to get things How can more residents be actively involved in self- government of Woodlawn and how can more be reached to be What is the place of the community organization in Model Cities administration and implementation What must agencies do to fit in with the Model Cities Should Woodlawn residents be given the contracts to do Model Cities work or should experts be used regardless of residence ACCORDING TO THE BOOKLET TWO'S Model Cities Proposal are based on a set of principles which stress the central importance of the individual and family in constituting the focus around which professional functions and governmental tions are ordered The total cost of the O Model Cities proposals million for a 5 year period More than million was budgeted for the first year or backed by the Daley organization Elizabeth Smith Eddie Mae Johnson Orville Fitzgerald Henry A Banks Osman Sharieff William H Crawford and Otis Garner Candidates often referred to as independents include Dorothy Warr Charles Horn and William Clark THE ELECTION will culminate months of intense political activity and by many of the candidates The People's 20 candidates held their Kick-Off campaign on Feb 28 and have been endorsed entirely by the Independent Voters of Illinois Another candidate who held a Kick-Off meeting at the Fifth Ward Democratic organization in Hyde Park nearly two weeks ago ad- mitted she is a Democratic precinct captain in the 5th ward but insisted she is not a Daley puppet On Feb 5 ten prospective candidates were rejected after other persons filed ob- against the registered candidates on the basis of several technicalities ACCORDING TO model city guidelines Mayor Daley will appoint 20 persons to the council and the community will V People's 20 and some Independents express fear that the mayor will at- tempt to manipulate the council from downtown through his people on the council Consequently those candidates who consider themselves outside the Democratic organization are working feverishly to secure 20 seats on the council Names of the candidates as they will appear on the ballot are shown below Taylor William Clark Mary Helen Warfield Frozena Myers Lee Smith William H Crawford Jacquelyne Grimshaw Otis Garner Richard Washington Grace Strozier Osman Sharieff Phyllis Hubbard Kenneth Dosie Henry A Banks Mabel Chamberlain Noel Alsbrook Charles Horn Orville Fitzgerald Eddie Mae Johnson Elzena Hart Frances Cain Tracy J O'Sullivan Joseph Emory Dorothy Warr Margaret Frazier Elizabeth Smith Harlan Hayes Ollie Clark James Grammer Polling places will remain open from 6 to 6 p.m may vote at the following polling places 5th WARD POLLING PLACES i 1015 E St 6320 6450 Drexel 6411 Kenwood Scott School 6442 Ingleside 6420 S University Wadsworth School 6125 Kenwood 6400 Woodlawn 6251 Greenwood 6435 Blackstone Scott School 6115 17 Greenwood 6140 Drexel Blvd 6220 Woodlawn 6145 Ingleside Kiske School 6319 Kenwood 1414 E PI Carnegie School 1306 K St 6159 Woodlawn KTII WARD POLLING PLACES 1424 E Marquette 6543 Cottage Grove 1324 E St 1540 E Place 6646 Stony 1 sI a n d 6 6 1 4 Blackstone 6557 Kimbark 6520 Woodlawn 6653 Minerva 1101 E St Greenwood 945 E St 6630 Ingleside
