Woodlawn Booster (Newspaper) - March 18, 1964, Woodlawn, Illinois REP MIKVA CRITICIZES BIAS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS HE STORY BELOW Rule Motorola Guilty Of Bias Hiring Policy THE MOST WIDELY READ NEWSPAPER IN A COMMUNITY A charge of tory hiring practices has been against rola toe by the Illinois Fair Employment Practices commission Examiners In the case were Attorneys Ro- bert E Bryant and George Leon 6333 chester ave claimed In a complaint filed with the com- mission that Motorola de- nied him a job because of his applied for the tion of phaser and analyser This radio television and electronic parts to assure that they function properly before going on die market Robert V Nystrom an attorney for Motorola Leighton bearing the complaint by claiming that a Negro examiner could not a fair objective ruling when the complainants are Then Examiner Robert E Bryant ordered die hiring of and also directed the company to stop using a test for job applicants on die grounds that the test is unfair to culturally deprived and dis- advantaged groups Nystrom ruling as unconstitutional because under the FEPC act an examiner has no legal right to order an employer to stop using a test just because die examiner tions the validity of the test At die hearing Motorola claimed mat failed to pass die test which was administered to him to determine his em- ployment The FEPC then gave a form of the same test given by Motorola and he passed it This action was contested because it was ar- gued that through retesting had become familiar with the test an therefore could easily pass it Examiner Bryant pointed out that it had been two months since had ken the test and he could not possibly remember it If he did remember the test ant said this was a point in favor of him because it shows that he is intelligent enough to work for Motorola The appeal will be heard Friday when the commission meets to review Bryant's decision If the commission upholds Bryant's decision Motorola can take the case to the Circuit Court Bryant a former lawn resident recently re- signed from the 5th Ward Regular Democratic by charging teeman Marshall Korshak with refusing to award a fair share of elective and appointive political posts to Woodlawn residents VOL XXX NO WEDNESDAY MARCH 18.1964 THIRTIETH YEAR Hyde Park High School Multi- Track System Hit Addressing a crowd of approximately 125 Hyde Park PTA members State Representative Abner Mikva said should be ex- posed to the fact that mis is a pluralistic He stated that our rooms should reflect the fact mat our society is made up of different races religions and economies Mikva said that he often reads the Weekly Reader an elementary social science He charged that the zine which is distributed to the school children as class text material never contains an article on Negroes to or other minority races Further attacking die shortcomings in die public school system Mikva stated that teachers say hat ing is taught to diem to cope with ghetto schools He said dial social kers are always deleted from die school budget when they are often needed more dian teachers He said die school board maintains mat die son why the schools do not have enough social workers is because the board does not have enough money to appropriate for their ries He said in recent talks with textbook publishers be found that die reason why there are not more grated textbooks is because they cannot sell diem say that when they tell die various purchasers that die textbooks are grated they refuse to buy them Questioning the multi- track school system Mikva said that system has many merits However he stated the system seems to produce segregation in die school Mikva said that if die tem does gation within die school die educators must find ther system The new tem be said should blend die good of die multi-track system with die good of some other system Speaking of die Supreme Court decision of 1954 which made it unlawful to maintain so called separate but equal facilities Mikva asked Does it make any difference if diere are two rooms District One PTA Elects Director Mrs Samuel Overstreet 543 E Place was re- cently elected as Director of District One Illinois Con- gress of Parents and chers at die Sexton School 641 E St District One encompasses 104 schools from die cago River south to st 95th from Normal east to Cottage Grove Cottage from 95th soum to from Cottage Grove east to Stony Island and Stony Island from soum to city limits Approximately 190 delegates from the 104 schools were represented at me election which takes place every two years Mrs Overstreet has two children attending public school one in elementary and one in high school and a son in college Two ren graduated from Chicago public schools and college She has PTA memberships in die Montefiore Mosely and Parental Special Schools Chicago Teachers College Burnside and lan PTA's She Is currently secretary of District One serving Mrs Wm Saphir 7340 Merrill who has been Director for die past four PTA's Show Film Strip WOODLAWN FASHION SETTERS Maxine Duster 6640 Greenwood and Margaret Jordan wife of Rev C M Jordan 6400 Woodlawn display shift dresses that were sold by die John Stewart Fellowship of the Woodlawn Methodist Church 1208 E st The PTA's of the andre Dumas Elementary Church Circles Plan Meetings Two groups of the First Presbyterian Church of cago 6400 Kimbark ave will hold monthly ing this week The Garnet Circle will meet at die home of gia Harper 5483 Greenwood March p.m and die Ruth Circle will meet at die church March school 6650 Ellis ave and die Nikola Tesla Elementary school 6657 Kimbark ave are jointly sponsoring a of in PTA work They will show a film strip on parliamentary March 23rd and 24th from to p.m on bom days at th Woodlawn Boy's Club 6331 University ave All PTA's in the area have been invited to attend die sessions years and whom she will succeed in April Her duties will be to aid and assist local PTA's wim their problems form new PTA's and carry on sion work in PTA She will serve two years Tesla PTA Plans Nite Meeting The Nikola Tesla PTA 6657 Kimbark ave will hold it's first night meeting in the school gymnasium 6657 Kimbark ave tomorrow night at p.m According to Mrs S G Goens secretary an lent program Is planned widi the acting president zeU Harris and the school principal Jerome Gilbert taking part IVI To Meet The Independent Voters of Illinois Ward will bold an informal meeting at the home of Mrs Lucia Spier 1428 E St 8 p.m March 26 in die same Mikva proposed home room system h die home room system the children would be exposed to an ad- mixture of races and economic backgrounds They would study most of courses in die room However for special courses such as reading arithmetic and science would be allowed to different room depending on abilities he felt dwt here is a in relations he felt that die schools should not set up a special subject He said dut such a class would to failure as is die Pledge to This according n Mikva gives be students the feeling that ft is a forced issue and consequently diey would be less receptive He said that letting the ren play together hi gym classes and work together in classes would duce better results because are Taught Mikva asked die parents the meeting How long can we permit these separate cities Negro and white to He said that die Armstrong BUI was received by many Congressmen with different meanings However be con- be viewed it as a positive declaration of policy of the state to direct the Chicago School Board to draw lines school boundary lines to effect as much integration as ble Mikva closed his speech in humor by saying that Oat of die mouth of great wisdom He said mat kid once approached him inf proposed he take a Mil to Springfield abolish compulsory age limit for attendance in school The child said that under mis system everyone would stay in school until be ww able to pus a test covering all of die school subjects Mikva asked the child if meant that people would nave to stay in school even after diey were 21 The child answered de- finitely This sail the child would give dw cation a chance to teach die teacher how to teach before she tried to teach someone else
