Woodlawn Booster (Newspaper) - February 8, 1966, Woodlawn, Illinois Lent Show MRS EXIE WATSON JONES Center director for the lawn YWCA pictured it she shows the recently held complimentary coffee sip and party at the Chicago tist Institute 5120 South Park Mrs Jones discussed posed new YWCA center at and Drexel which will serve a primary on the southeast side of population in- girls and women Dr King Joins Forces Against Erection Of New Kenwood School Leader Calls Plan A Waste Set To Protest Building WEEK OF FEB 8 THRU FEB Published at 639 E St Stewart THIRTY-SECOND YEAR NO 6 By Leon Richard Forrest THE REV DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR has lent his international ture wisdom and tion to the cause of ing an educational adjacent to Hyde Park High school 6220 Stony land TURNING his attention from MEM Solution To Slum Clearance Tax Relief For Jesse By HURLEY GREEN Editor LIKE any other field there are some days when comments on community problems are directed into more than one arena of concern This happens to be one of those days with me Instead of sweeping analysis of one issue I see two such items that should be of interest not only to residents of the news family but to the City of Chicago as a whole One such item deals with the man from Dr Martin Luther King and his latest effort to bring relief to Negro housing problems I'VE SAID in this space many times before that King's contribution to the cause of equal rights and dignity cannot and will not be erly evaluated for years to come His mere presence has done more for the movement than words can express It now appears that King's announced intentions to function in a particular community signally starts all of the sociological wheels to turning at one time IT WAS almost see that Westside realtor start his in the middle of the winter And his comment to newsmen really brought the house We would do the same for any new Surprisingly he had not gotten around to providing minimal services for tenants already in the building One previously denied tenant said Glory be I hope Martin Luther King remains SELFISHLY Chicagoans would echo her remarks a though we are aware that this is not possible ever I have a solution that would possibly solve all of the slum problems at one time We all know that King is only one man in spite of his dedication to the cause of he is physically able to do just so much Now if we really want to keep this thing moving the thing to do is to assemble all of the Negro would-be actors make them up to look like Dr King and send them out to slum buildings to rent apartments This shouldn't be much of a problem in fact they really wouldn't have to look much like King since most of our white brethren can't tell us apart anyway THIS would serve a two-fold purpose first it would provide work for the actors because let's face it Cosby and Sam my Davis Jr have all the TV work tied up and it would also provide work for the many carpenters electricians and plumbers who are out of work this time of year BACK to the Westside it was also notably evidenced thai even the Chicago building inspectors got into the act when Kins moved in The inspectors said they had had their eyes on the building for some time and that many violations had been reported but nothing had really been done A K After I he same landlord was given a dale of hearing which without King's visit might have been postponed indefinitely ANYWAY it all goes to show even in Chicago the current of apathy can be altered I PERSONALLY hope that King will not limit his housing to the Westside I am sure the residents of Woodlawn would de- clare a national holiday if he would shift to Woodlawn Of course I am assuming that TWO would have no objection to outside help I THINK all of Chicago breathed a little easier this week when Judge Samuel Perry mixed judicial power with human under- standing and came up with a highly acceptable solution to the tax problems of former Olympic slar Jesse Owens LIKE so many public figures Jesse became entangled in the noose of income tax evasions This has been particularly true concerning the Negro figure Unlike others before him Jesse could not and wisely so did not plead ignorance In the submission of a no plea Jesse practically threw self on the mercy of the court which Judge Perry saw fit to grant JESSE'S prowess on the sports field was established at a time when Negro had not yet come into their own His Seminar On The Negro At U Of C Editor In Heritage Symposium A Race without a wholeness of knowledge concerning the riches of its cultural al past is similar to a tree without deeply based roots With this thought as a guide the choir at Berean Baptist church 5149 Dearborn will sponsor a program February 33 7 p.m dealing with facets of the Afro-American n an to link the whole ness of the Negro American's past with Africa Heading the panel of speak ers Sidney L Phillips noted historian will discuss the Afri can city of BOOSTER Edi tor Hurley Green will lend his to the subject Journal The Power of the Afro American Press The sweep of Afro-American history from 1775 to 1966 will be discussed by J F ran Dr Pedro Wall will act a MC Gertrude Stein prose writer of once said King Speaks DR MARTIN LUTHER KING has added hii SWAP George Bengston director of the UNI- words and strength to the seeking to TY group and the Rev Stevenson Board of Education King spoko at an church last week build a school adjacent after receiving threats to his life ry With Dr King are Rosio Simpson of S Anniversary Tea To Honor Chicago Judges The Woodlawn Community Services Agency will be that the Negro suffered not so Drating the Silver Anniversary much from oppression as he of its Blue Ribbon Tea Sunday does from emptiness For March 13 at the University of the African has a beautiful but Chicago's School of Social very limited Miss 969 E Stein stated in a conversation over forty years ago Much of the wisdom and Carrying out the theme of Pages from Negro History for the fourth year the Tea ing implicit in Miss Stein's honoring cago s Negro James D and rampant in our C Fereuson thinking and will be aired during the confab Many of color on Hie other hand argue with over the philosophy cult A culling across existential stating that there are cerain essences ing all Negroes Rhythm Richard B wood Mark E Jones Jr ney A Jones George N Ion James B Parsons Fred W Slater and E White Judge Edith S Sampson was honored at the 1964 Tea Special will be j given Dr Geraldine Hamilton telling myth making JMcCullough Chicago and and a sense of j ardene among Negroes are sculptress who was exhibited the US and Europe fhe B i jjC JJ some of the elements of this Medal of the philosophy Negritude and its j phia Academy of Fine Arts in will be another area of 11964 interest that will come under I McCullough was also re selected in national com- petition to do the illustrations for a volume on Latin A A T urc through Ages lo be O-t n in U S There will be a table fi I memorializing the late tient John Fitzgerald Employees dy Adlai Stevenson Mary A Allen who served as Blue Ribbon Tea Chairman for 11 yoars and Lovle Jackson Delgado young brilliant humanitarian who died In 1965 Mrs Delgado was a bright Scholar studied at noble France lived in Dakar Senegal with her husband Charlse Delgado working for the Senegal Foreign Ministry and Radio Senegal Featured honoree will be the Honorable Robert C Henry Mayor of the City of field Ohio Mrs Ruth West noted cago interior will serve ai chairman of tions art work and portraits Each of the will be presented with a portrait of himself Other committee chairmen are Mrs re Jo Green es Roger Weiss finance McKillrick and Shellon Key special Mrs Joseph Mrs Ellen Price and Mrs Henry Shields souvenir program book Neely re- ception and and Mrs Gibson program and music Mrs Ola Muirhead is ing as general chairman of the Tea assisted by William E Payne and Dr William A Jackson co-chairmen The Chicago Branch NAACP is in of employees in following ITC Designated Area i Teacher Testing Center Illinois Teachers College take the tests Dr Thorn 1 Haitian At Area Center Very few things catch per of the Woodlawn Urba Progress Center 1030 E off guard but a problem did iust that Mr Gervais Guirand a Ha lian has been referred lo Ih Center by a friend and wa seeking employment On foil successive he was see by Mrs Helen Murphy but be cause of language barrier nol much had been accom His case was trans lo Mrs Cecelia Guic when Mrs Murphy was ill for day Mrs Guice also an Intak Interviewer found the problem nearly ble In United Slates on a visa he had had a ries of odd jobs which because he speaks no English had nol worked out loo well Yet he needed a job of some in order lo support himself and meantime needed to know where he could go to study English Ironically he has a degree in music from Toussant and plays trumpet and trombone Mrs who her i French and Spanish are lo pul il mildly I the chief Employment lor Mr Wayman Edwards to the inflammatory Westside momentarily last week the Nobel prize winner rallied the spirits of an education rally iii Kenwood United Church of Christ 4608 Greenwood while 25 uniformed police and clothesmen guarded the en- trances and mingled in the crowd of persons The told the crowd that his plans in Chicago tests against the newly posed Kenwood school and at- tempts to get a high school for the section AN ANNOUNCED threat on Dr King's life hovered over the meeting as the Negro er spoke The threat on his life came in two calls to the church by the same man James Westbrook program di- rector of the church com ty center said that the called You've got lo slop my son TI has a gun and he's going lo ill Luther King AN AID of Dr King's re- History Arts Examined Negro Revolt Studied Continuing its long tradition f special programs for adults he University of trough University Extension i several seminars i j The Negro in America tnat in vas informed of the threat but These seminars will examine he character the direction nd the background of The through the eading and discussion of the lews of a wide variety of gro leaders and writers These vill range from James Baldwin nd Martin Luther King to Bocker T Washington and DuBois The aim of the seminars is to provide opportunities to the 1 to reflect on he underlying significance and direction of the civil rights 2 to consider ions regarding the rights du opportunities and of Negroes in America and 3 to gel new insights into Negro history by examining the writings of some of the men who made it The method will be discus sions based on these common readings under the guidance oJ discussion leaders The leaders will not lecture or put forth their own views but will be there to help the participants get full benefits from the read ings and each other Discussion leaders will be Herbert J Storing associate professor department of cal science Richard E man assistant professor de- of political science and Thomas S Schrock ant professor of social sciences in the college The University of Chicago A grant from the Sears dation makes possible ships for in this program The registration fee of covers the cost of all books and reading materials South Side groups will meet for six consecutive Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m Fob ruary 7 on the University ol Chicago campus in the Social Science Research Building 1126 E St For the conven lence of those who work in loop another group will mee on Fridays from 7 to 9 p.m starling February 4 al Center 64 E Lake St 6800 Stewart has 1 A person with a Bachelor been as a tesl cen of Science Degree in ier for administering Physics or Chemistry to be em- tional Teacher Examinations ployed as a Re- on March 19 Macklin search Assistant salary rang J ing from to per College seniors preparing lo month depending upon training 1 and experience I positions in school systems at home and particularly abroad gave the U.S a sports I education image which remains unchallenged even today Though Jesse is no longer the speedy youngster he is still one of the first U.S goodwill ambassadors and as such was deserving of the court's leniency MI IS also deserving of the plea for aid in the paying of the fine issued this week by radio station It was and is a magnificent humane gesture Many of us still recall the that were wrenched from the throats of hostile Berliners some three decades ago by the efforts of the brown speedster from Ohio University set examples from which there was no precedent He is still a 2 Telephone Operators which encourage or require women ages 16 to 42 with high lo their scores education on the National Teacher 3 Potential trainees for the along with their other apprenticeship program at I credentials arc eligible to take Trade School in the various trades offered in that curriculum The Chicago Branch NAACP urges you to contact the Branch office with reference to any of these positions so that we may refer you to tbe proper people The office is open day through Friday from 10 to t p.m and is located at 431 S Dearborn room 1317 tests The examinations are prepared and administered by Educational Testing Service Princeton New Jersey The designation of Illinois Teachers College as a test center for these ex- will give tive teachers in the Chicago area an opportunity to compare their performance on the ex- with candidates throughout the country who said Bulletins of Information procedures anil containing Registration Forms may be obtained from department of student teaching of Illinois Teachers College or directly from the National Teacher lions Educational Testing Service Box 911 Princeton New Jersey Prospective teachers ning to take the tests should obtain their bulletin of tion promptly Thomas advised At the one-day session a may take the common examinations which include tests in professional education and general education and one of the 13 teaching area nations which are designated to evaluate his understanding of the subject matter and ods applicable to the he may be assigned to teach Register by or in person a I the Downtown Center The of Chicago 64 E Lake St For further informa lion call Financial 6 8300 was determined to make the peech In addition to the hreat on his person lad warned him of bronchitis He made he speech against doctor's ders ALLUDING to the victory of Park who won a 2 year recently when the school voted to build a new chool adjacent to the Kenwood school 4959 the president of This is a waste Which only means perpetuating gation by race and class DR KING said local ors are perpetuating tion by using 19th century techniques and methods If we do not have quality education it means that tion will eventually lead to he said THE RALLY was sponsored by three groups who seek an educational park at Hyde Park High school rather than a arate school which they say would make Hyde Park high school all Negro IT IS CRIMINAL in the days of automation to have children get this kind of tional Dr King concluded DOVETAILING with Dr King's at church and his address on the causes of instability of the gro family at University of Mandel Hall recently was the all day symposium Feb 5 at Judd Hall 5848 bark THIS PROGRAM was sored by Organization Chicago Urban League Teachers for Integrated Schools and University of Chicago Friends of the Public Schools DESIGNED to inform goans about the broad concept of educational park and ils local application the featured Dr Max Wolff prominent educator a leading on inter- group relations and of the original park plan now research director tion Division Dept of Labor Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Dr James E Mauch U.S Of- fice of Education and Dr J Alan Thomas director of the midwest administration Center the University of Chicago and author of The Secondary cation Park plan designed I especially for Chicago's side PROPONENTS for the plan claimed the day long conference that the Commence Story Hour At Library Winter Spring slory hour grams will be held al Chal i provides a practical u realistic solution to several ham Branch of the Chicago Public Library E SI during February March could help in communicating with Mr Guirand A job had been secured for him but no one could determine if was if he could gel around ty and so forth Finally Mr Peter Brown who speaks French and Mrs Ida Maldonado who speaks Spanish were asked to talk with Mr Guirand For about an hour a tion took place in Mr Brown's office wilh satisfactory re suit that Mr Guirand is placed on a job and has enrolled in an English class at the Hyde Park YMCA Mr Brown a program Representative at the Center Miss Maldonado is a ty Representative who be- cause of her ground is in constant touch with the Spanish-speaking members of the Woodlawn community relating their needs to the Center and April story hour confronting urban educators ONE SPEAKER noted that the setting for a is a sions for boys and girls 3 to 5 I large sile on years of age are scheduled for I which several small schools p.m Monday I arp grouped under a central beginning February 7 and ing March 14 Parents wishing their children lo attend should bring them to the library for registration by February 3 The story hour sessions for elementary dents will commence Saturday Continued on Page 5 administration This plan at- tempts to get directly to the problem of the enormously in- creasing cost of providing well-equipped schools in local neighborhoods However much of and con on the educational Continued on Page 5 Best Food Buys This Week Each week the Booster publishes the best food buys at your local food store as advertised in your Finest FRYING CHICKENS 2 Mj 4 5
