Woodlawn Booster (Newspaper) - March 1, 1966, Woodlawn, Illinois SHIFTING SCENES There'll Be A Hot Time In The Twenty-Ninth by Hurley Green Editor WIN LOSE OR RUN-OFF the pending district state senatorial race will be an interesting one and at this point we know only one of the candidates But Woodlawn YWCA Starts Drive For Membership At Luncheon A PRESTIGE NEWSPAPER IN A PRESTIGE COMMUNITY i Stilt time Charles Chew takes hold to a situation there is bound to be works and excitement aplenty His latest move into a political con- with The has all the earmarks of being the liveliest state post tions in years WITH HIS usual flamboyant style the fighting alderman from the 17th has extended his political push toward the state capitol The only real surprise in his recent announcement was in the path he chose toward political ascendency Many had envisioned that the self-styled spokesman for the minions of would have sought an er road There has never been any doubt as to Chew's ambitions and capabilities his earlier refusal and later refused position within the party framework more or less dictated his move to higher ground One source had even suggested that the colorful Chew would lend color to the next mayoral race PART of this thinking might have been attributed to the fact that the alderman has ranged over the entire city in his jousts with racial problems and injustices STARTING with his hard-fought 1963 election Chew has probably ignited the fuses under more issues than any other city official A suit was filed in REVIEWING Chew's political past I can well re- Circuit Court last week against member the first time I saw this dynamic personality as he stood before a group of tired bedraggled campaign a v chimney workers who had just been informed that the entire led to tiie death of a procedure had to be repeated The election results were housewife According to the suit Mrs so close that a run-off election was necessary Murdock was Chew rose to the occasion magnificently He cajoled asphyxiated in her apartment philosophized pleaded and finally regrouped his forces on November 24 1965 when de- i j A ill ii bris from the building being for another assault in the ward On the eve of the razed next the off count Chew confidently told his now dwindled chimney Her husband forces that on the following evening he wanted them to er and Sylvester M s come into the campaign office and shake hands with the next alderman of the 17th ward And they Murdoch's attorney E ELECTION to public office did not dim his pledge to mas Cunningham said that the be the people's he opened his ward office Sf a and immediately began a new campaign Like a door When debris filled the tuned fighter Chew keeps in condition with daily chimney fumes from a gas it heater could not escape and outs of varying degrees of tenacity the apartment became He attends most of the community meetings and all of meated with carbon monoxide the pure civic functions Sometimes one wonders when gas which is colorless and this indefatigable man finds time to attend to his coun odor ess Director Underscores Self-Help At Kick-Off By R good citizenship Acting as the Under the inspiring only agency with the facilities ship of the personable service females from 8 to 18 driving gracious Mrs Exie years old the Woodlawn Y Watson Jones the WOODLAWN holds it doors open to the YWCA 1170 E com- area's residents with in it's 1966 membership age bracket drive Saturday Feb 26 at a Classes at the Y particular luncheon to the needs of area residents WEEK OF MAR 1 THRU MAR 7 Published at 639 E St STewart THIRTY-SECOND YEAR NO 9 Judge Sampson Bars Eviction Suit County Aid Dept Withholds Rent Woodlawn Open House WOODLAWN YWCA 1170 E it started Wabash Mrs Lorraine Adams 7532 Wabash classes on knitting health classes Mrs Delores Holmes 1008 W 80th Mrs M classes on catering services Pictured here liams Woodlawn Y Mrs Jean Wade 7401 from Left to Right Mrs Exie Watson Wabash chairman park YWCA committees Jones Center Director Mrs Mable Ford 7631 Mrs Ardella Smith Wilkinson instructor Wood I awn Head Start Plans Initiated By Expert Parley Planning for Woodlawn's 1966 Children attending the pre- program said there are more wonm AWM homemaking for ADC relationships personal conduct job etiquette proper job attitude toward work and employers and cultural ment programs for and teenagers Because of the ever ing goals and challenges the Woodlawn YWCA is in the ess of expansion Site for the new YWCA is in the process of A SUIT filed to evict two Site for the new Woodlawn public aid recipients YWCA is Drexel for back rent was thrown out of Center Director Mrs Exie Circuit Court by Judge Edith Watson Jones asked Sampson Feb 24 The tenants workers for the membership rents are being withheld by the drive to sell the story of the Cook County Public Aid Dept Woodlawn YWCA It will THE LANDLORDS sought to take fOT Woodlawn evict Mrs Catherine Williams ter to its operations and Mrs Daisy Krizer both of for and the Y is required by the Community Fund to The suit brought by landlord raise fifty percent of this Jacob M Feldman and his wife get from the local community Doris 9315 Jeffery was dis- through contributions from missed after Attorney Jerome business firms individuals and Feldman representing the membership dues lords told the court that the There are several methods building has been placed in re- that individuals or groups can and his clients no meet the Y needs Associate longer have control member to CIRCUIT CONTROL Judge Friends of the YWCA Richard A Napolitano Feb 17 You as a businessman may acting on a suit by the city give contributions or other type pointed the Chicago Dwelling membership for each of your Association a non-profit employees from to as receivers to correct porting or sustaining more than 90 alleged building violations at the site The luncheon featured a pan- Judge Napolitano said he el discussion of experts dis- would hear a progress report cussing the Why A from the CDA on March 3 YWCA In Our Panelists MRS KRIZER brought a were Mrs Exie Watson Jones complaint of neglect against Center Director Mrs the landlords early in Feb In ardme Mobley Community complaint she and her worker and Mrs Fred J yers housing jeneral chairman building plumbing JU t health and fire ordinance lations and sought an Tl lion receivership and other re- lief actions Circuit Court Judge Richard Named as are cilor duties But lie owner of His major efforts have been history making I the watched him in his demand for Open Occupancy ught tion which eventually led the Council to enact a Fair and the City of Chicago Housing Ordinance The suit asks I heard him as he defended the rights and works of James Baldwin when a parent heatedly Objected to Mr and for Mr Murdock summer Head Start program school classes are in the than pre-school children A Napolitano then replied to r j T n 11 ThB havo was initiated last Tuesday by a year-old age group in the poverty areas where the an injunction request by the at- presentations m a Junior College Johnny Lee 12 and the field of Dr G Lamar Harrison chief Urban Progress Centers of for the plaintiffs ruled LATER I marched in the red mud Of Alabama 8 a early childhood development educational planner for are located that the landlord must side the now Chew as he led a Chicago janitor for building The plans are being drawn describes the advisory Mrs Rosenbacher said that lam lawful operation of all into thp throat of thp Tt up by the Technical Advisory tee as an invaluable asset in Chicago's 1965 Head Start services and utilities may not factor jn safe driving is delegation into tne very Ol tne Committee on Pre-School our attempts to reach these gram was one of the best in the evict or harass thc tenants and se Qf the rear and side was Chew S pure physical dominance which prevented a ACtOr TO Head cation working with the children country and that the may not collect rents view mirrors according to the mass hysteria in a Montgomery air terminal following n go Committee on Urban Mrs Lillian Tauber director gamed will help make Richard H Newhouse Jr chicago Motor Club's safety Drama of child development this year's project even better one of the attorneys for the traffic engineering plaintiffs said the action could meni Safety Tips To Drivers An essential but often na the announcement of the death of a white civil rights worker A professional film and tele- The advisory committee will vision actor who has had ex- attempt to confer with It was Charlie Chew again when the city's Westside tensive experience in East and ington officials in working out glowed red in 1965 It was Chew who walked among the West Coast theatrical produc a summer program for smouldering embers of resentment that to has been appointed in- dren who will be entering T of the adult acting school for the first time next burst into an racial holocaust Many classes at the Parkway Com- fall sons were of the opinion that without Chew's visitation munity House 500 E The Committee on Urban Op- the West Side Story might have had an entirely Classes will be held each was coordinator of Thursday evening beginning at last summer's Head Start op- cm 7.30 p.m The three hour long and maintains other I HAVE MARCHED with the good alderman along sessions will run thru April 14 pre-school programs Salle Street in our efforts to make our wishes known to Mrs s Eugene Rosenbacher School Supt Ben Willis In all of these endeavors Chew underlying significance and chairman of the advisory has been in the forefront with or without a personal in- direction of the civil rights revolution 2 to consider We hope we can get the top du educational officials of the Of- All of these things are well-known to the general opportunities and of Economic Opportunity Chew has become a symbol of the new militant of Negroes in America Negro He has spared neither time effort money nor criticism in the performance of his rank as spokesman supreme But with all of his efforts controversial who made it Chew will have an uphill fight in his move to The method will be field sions based on these common AGAIN LIKE THE FIGHTER Chew without party lexers backing is like a fighter without a successful promoter will not lecture or put forth The regular organization's reaction to his announcement their but will be of intention has been rather cool even for February come to Chicago and the Some of e men what we are and what revolutionize relationship The motor club pointed out j that traffic hazards are not At the time of that decision obstructions and Newhouse emphasized that un- f f drivers der current legal interpretation d d fc himself con he only redress tenants have f as to what is to landlord violations is to needs to be More than children attended summer Woodlawn's public and private schools in 1965 In addition to Head Start the to help the participants Chicago Committee on Urban from the Opportunity maintains a Even Chew's willingness to support most of the other round child development cratic Party's program falls on stuffed ears Obviously The discussion loaders will fct for youngsters almost ready Chew's intention to run dictates the slating of a Negro be- Herbert J Storing Asso- A A Professor of The advisory committee m- opponent not jus a candidate but one who Richard E itself with ail aspects of Will be forced to campaign against an opponent who has Flathman Assistant Professor pre-school education and is di- all the Hash and the color to capture a generous Department of Political vided into subcommittees with of thp rolor and Thomas S Schrock centage 01 tne color vote Assistant Professor of Social Chew has announced a platform of slicing the sciences in the college The cal pie into equal parts for Negroes Certainly there is University of Chicago no way to dispute this we have been deprived and jived A grant from the Sears thc following Dr George H Ivins teacher training Mrs Oneida Cockrell Hav elation makes possible scholar court action on Jan 17 when her landlord acting then changing lanes or out as a plaintiff attempted to parking places have the court declare Interior rear view mirrors a new state law are standard equipment on all thc Public Aid De- cars and they are adequate to to withhold rents m show you what is directly be- the face of and housing hind your car the motor club violations said However these standard In this decision Judge Edith mirrors leave a large blind Sampson ruled the law spot in which an entire car just off a driver's left fender can be hidden from view Unless a driver has a side mirror covering this blind spot he always should turn his head and look back over his left shoulder before turning left or changing lanes Modern highway and city driving demands frequent use of rear and side view mirrors Besides offering the regular These mirrors arc safety de- lugh school curriculum Hyde They should be used Park Evening School offers an Martin E Leddy Stale whom he is associated elementary program of Technical Educa ing to Leddy adult students cation to come in for program tion was a recent visitor to The many suggestions that Thc program is designed to counseling A complete high Southeast Junior College Led Negro Family Life THE MOYNIHAN REPORT controversial text used by the government to delineate thc roots and disorders of thc Negro family was discussed in a major meeting of the Alpha Gamma Pi Sorority held School Social Service tration University of Chicago 949 E St Sunday after- noon Feb 20 Pictured here Dr Virginia Lewis Supt for Integration in Chicago Public schools speaks on tion and Upward mobility State Tech Supervisor Sees College Classes For Adults Hyde Pk Mrs Cordon for so long almost anything would be a relief The past few months have seen many organizational upsets around the country can Spring and Chicago be of covers the cost of all jn and Mlss made by Leddy during ready adults for the high school school program of everything Collier dv sPent considerable time in his visit will prove most program as fast as possible A from foreign languages to 1 1 far books and reading materials Extension Sponsors Seminar View of Negro Dcan John F- and As many students participating in to language and number skills The school office is open Dean Chester tnc Engineering Technology is also being offered from 6 9 p.m Monday South side and Woodlawn arc Messrs Anins Curricula at Southeast Hyde Park Evening School through Thursday Come in area groups will meet for six ln arca child Margolin and Seller He Another important visitor to invites all people who want to NOW and see what Hyde consecutive from 7 to centers operated by Southeast recently was Dr J further or implement their talked with 0 p.m starting February 7th the placement counselor Warren Perry assistant Deputy on the University of Chicago Chicago Committee on Urban He emphasized the demand Commissioner of Research and campus in the Social Science Opportunity Places for 150 ad- for well trained technical help Training Vocational Research Building 1126 E youngsters will be in many areas of Technology tation Administration St For the convenience of opened during the next few and the need for Engineering ment of Health Education and Continuing its long tradition Negro through the those who work in the loop an- weeks Technology programs of high Welfare Washington Dr of special programs for adults reading and discussion of the grouP mect on Frl The Chicago Board of quality The requirements of Perry together with Dr Jack The University of Chicago views of a wide variety of flays from 7 to 9 pm starting lion has 2 centers and plans to Industries and Laboratories in Arnold Director of Prosthetic through University Extension is gro leaders and writers These February 4th at the Downtown Open an additional three by the today's and tomorrow's com- Education several seminars will range from James Baldwin Center 64 E Lake end of January Of the citywide plex technological world re- western University discussed entitled in and Martin Luther King to Register by mail or in person centers now in operation 16 quire a high level well trained our program with ct Booker T Washington and at the Downtown Center The are sponsored by the Catholic person who is articulate and Scher Dr Perry indicated that These seminars will examine DuBois University of Chicago 64 E school board seven by private understanding and is able to Southeast has the largest most thc character the direction The aim of the seminars is to Lake For further information agencies and five under work under the direction of thc successful prosthetic program and thc background of The provide opportunities to the call Financial 63300 eel Learn engineers or scientists with in the country Evening School can do for you Best Food Buys This Week Each week the Booster publishes the best food buys at your local food store as advertised in your Georgia's FRYING CHICKEN Ib limit 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