Woodlawn Booster (Newspaper) - September 7, 1966, Woodlawn, Illinois Progress Center Board Of Health Spearhead Lead Poisoning Attack A PRESTIGE NEWSPAPER A PRESTIGE COMMUNITY On The Ready RIOT DUTY it thing and war it another but training which George Watson 6334 Greenwood hat received in the National Guard rankt will him in good Watton a member of the Second Battalion Infantry Illinois National Guard at the ready with hit 50 calibre air-cooled machine gun mounted atop a jeep THIRTY-SECOND YEAR NO 35 at 639 E 71 tt St STewart WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 7 THRU SEPT 12 Damages To Youngsters Create Deepest Concern The Woodlawn Urban gress Center in cooperation with the Board of Health has begun its second soning campaign The first in April was concerned with col- urine specimens from neighborhood youngsters for analysis to determine the pre- sence of lead in their systems The present compain even goes further Teams of doctors from the Board of Health will Urge Child Mortality Precautions Green SHIFTING SCENES Farewell To A Humanitarian And Friend by Hurley Green Editor BIG CITIES are generally known for their immunity to pain and suffering Chicago as a city is no different Citizens including judges and other city officials have been beaten killed and otherwise molested on our city streets In many instances of citizens rights the little man has had to fend for himself CHICAGO was different in the respect that there was one man that cared for his fellowman until last Friday There was a champion of rights for all men white and black TODAY as I write this column final plans are being made to bury the remains of one Stonewall Edwards a man that lived as he died in his one and only role of humanitarian Members of the white press upon being informed of his now legendary exploits dubbed him a self-styled humanitarian Efforts were made his varied efforts in the field of human rights and dignity But those of us who knew and loved Stonewall knew that he was in every sense of the word truly a factor of friend and stranger alike THE CIRCUMSTANCES surrounding death are clouded in mystery at this time but less he is gone HE WAS GUNNED DOWN like an animal Five lets were pumped into his frail body until his life blood oozed out into the gutter from which he sought so hard to escape The person or persons responsible for his death might or might not be punished in a court of law but the loss to the community can never be filled There will never be another Stonewall TO ATTEMPT to record many exploits in this space is impossible I can only echo sentiments that have been voiced over the years by many of the persons he did help IT IS ALSO impossible to evaluate value to the community by tokens of appreciation because there were none Many of the persons he helped ed his time and efforts without a of thanks This lack of appreciation was brought home in painful relief on June 14 when a small group of persons staged a Day for Edwards Only thirty persons appeared to express their feelings Though his disappointment was keen Stonewall was undaunted by the meager showing he continued in his efforts to be of service to residents of the community HIS PERSONAL confrontations with police brutality slum housing welfare inequities job discrimination and opportunities are now a part of his dedicated life There were so many areas that came under wall's that it is difficult for me to pick out those that would really show his real greatness There is one incident that I have told many times and to me this most clearly exemplifies character A young mother approached Stonewall one day with two children which she was unable to feed Upon ing her story of deprivation and lack of funds Edwards went immediately to a nearby where he sold a pint of blood for ten dollars From the ten dollars Tuberculin Testing In Woodlawn The start of school means testing for first fifth and ninth graders in Chicago schools said John E Egdorf executive director of the Institute of Chicago and Cook County Egdorf said the testing is part of a routine physical ex- amination required by law for students entering these grade levels Since the rate of TB tion m Chicago accounts for reactions as high as 35 per cent in some schools ents of children not included in those groups to be tuberculin tested should assume the responsibility of having them said Egdorf He said health authorities urge skin tests for children un der 15 just as they advocated chest X rays for those over that age because of this high rale of infection Parents not able to afford a private physician can have their children tested free of charge at any of the six clinics operated by the Municipal Tu he said Egdorf also reminded ents that they should not neg lect to get their free chest X ray when the mobile X-ray units come into their ty area The summer search for un known cases of tuberculosis in Chicago is sponsored by the In and the Municipal Tu Sanitarium and in suburban communities by the Suburban Cook County Tuber Sanitarium District in cooperation with the Institute A mobile unit will be stop ping at the following locations the week of September 12 COTTAGE GROVE on September 12 15 from 12 p.m on September 13 14 and 16 from 11 a m p m A unit will also be stopping at the following locations thi week of September 5 COTTAGE GROVE on September 6 7 and 9 fion 11 a m p m on September 8 from 12 p.m Stonewall gave the young mother eight dollars keeping two for himself I know of no other man who has clearly demonstrated such kindness and generosity There arc many other incidents concerning Stonewall but unless you knew this man as I did they are almost beyond be- lief One of the greatest moments in his life occurred re- cently when a group of students from the Doolittle School composed letters commending him for his humanitarian efforts These letters meant more to him than a lot of the phoney smiles that were bestowed upon him by less reputable associates Now at 36 years of age this young man lies soon to be buried in an unmarked grave He lived in poverty and he died in poverty It is very painful to me to see sons and organizations that laughed at him in life others don't want to let go w to gain a few lines of type by offering aid at this late date If there is a God and I believe there is I'm sure he will make a place for this great man I for one am a better person for having known him and his works We have lost the original rights fighter munity Dissident Parents Hold Meet The Concerned Parents Woodlawn are holding a Kick Off Rally for a better Wood lawn at 4 p m on Sunday a Sixth United Chinch 1210 E 62 st Whe asked why they were holdin the rally the group made th following The Concerned Parents Woodlawn arc striving hard t unite the people of Woodlaw into an active community Woodlawn belongs to the pet pie The people of Woodlaw have the power to or 1 do with this community So fa they have let their down through non-interest But we as residents of lawn know that there ar good as well as adverse pote tials here adverse at overrule We know many people in Woodlawn ai as concerned as we are Tl only way that we can mal Woodlawn a better place work educate pray and play to unite and strengthen it We can make things better c let things go We and man know how we feei and what v are trying to do We ask the Operation Anti Idleness THESE YOUNGSTERS do not fall into the idle hands Idle mindt category for they been keeping themselves busy throughout the summer months at the Woodlawn Y's Arts and Craft and Thursdays From 10 am to 12 noon There they have learned to fashion decorative and useful ob- and in the process have removed selves from the temptation of getting Into something that might lead to trouble From left the group consists of Diane Simpson 6218 Ingleside Mrs Velma Jetton 4137 Drexel in- Lilia Hodges 4108 Dorchester on 6209 Evans Theresa Ray 6626 Evans Karen Winesberry 6209 Evans Sybil Hayes 6140 Dorchester Gloria Franklin 6140 Dorchester and Buckner 6146 wood Pre-Natal Care Key To Life Identification and treatment f the high-risk mother prior to regnancy particularly among he non-white and indigent nents of the population is the ey to further reduction of the S infant mortality rate Particular emphasis must be iven to a comprehensive ram to reduce prematurity irough expanded programs of and care Such a program to be would require m- group health education j accelerate understanding nd motivation These were conclusions rawn by participants in the Medical ion's National Conference on Mortality at San isco attended by more than physicians There appeared to be ment that effort to continue the reduction of infant mortality lave centered too much on care of the high-risk Mother V Entertainers Now AT LEAST some of the Blackstone Rangers cannot be classed a shiftless troublemakers for a group of them displayed talent in the en- field recently when they put on a variety show at the First Presbyterian church 6400 Kimbark Part of the show presented the Uniques from Leondre Reno 6439 wood Leroy Hunt 6443 Kenwood and Leon Dunning 1504 E St essaying to entertain rather than disturb onlookers Despres Delivers Resolution The following remarks were by 5th Ward man Leon M Despres in the Chicago City Council recently opinions resulted from proposed resolution to praise the mayors in- unction and the mayor's action conccrnig the injunction demonstrations was passed Despres counter resolve was thusly de- The city administration's resolution to praise the Mayor the injunction against peaceful demonstrations is Although the tration has clear power to pass it it ought not to be passed The obtaining of the was ill-advised It was divisive It placed the full punitive force of the city behind one group of Chicagoans against another In the history of our city and nation the injunction has been a traditional repressive instrument against the op- pressed m their efforts for so- cial progress Starting with the strikes of the and going on for sixty years the injunction was a device to stop injure harass punish and undermine railroad ers building tradesmen advocates coal ers mill hands printers th i n g workers automobile workers and others in their quest for recognition and a ter life Chicago was one of the chief centers for the issuance of injunctions and used to be one of the injunction capitals oi America but since the lie Steel injunction and ere of 1937 for nearly 30 years Chicago has been free of mas sive injunctions The action we are asked to approve today re turns Chicago to the policy and establishes Chicago as the Injunction Capital o America The injunction shares all the abuses which made earlier in unctions hateful W was issued substantially without notice The notification of less our hours violated Circuit Court rules about notice and allowed the defendants quate time to prepare for a fair The provisions drafted y the city administration and by the court were restrictive and perhaps unconstitutional The injunction is one-sided It is directed only against lons seeking to end Chicago's lousing discrimination It con- tains no balancing provisions to protect demonstrators and rain others from interfering with their lawful rights In the resolution we are asked to condemn persons be- cause they live outside go However the city most intimate adviser lives outside Chicago and in eleven years has not found cago inviting enough to live or vote in Just this morning we honored an outsider a man who came from Poland to head a demonstration Rubin the representative of the Polish Cardinal Recently the City Council honored the Prince Consort of Great tain the Mayor of Lourdes and many others We delight in honoring outsiders unless we disapprove their aims All of us disapprove the Nazis and cists but the outsider part of the resolution we arc asked to pass today is directed ly against America's most dis- Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr So far we have not even asked him to come to the City Council although we ask other outsiders regularly and although a reso lution to invite him has been languishing for months seems almost pleased to an and attribute to th presence of civil rights cates We have every right I be skeptical of smacking lips over crime figures that ar lust too pat If Chicago doe not now have enough for minimum patrol of the the administration has the dul of finding them It cou promptly follow the of the city administration of C ccro which we do not usual compare favorably to ours an ask for urgent help from th National Guard as provided b law That is what we have National Guard for The su posed crime increase is a poo excuse indeed for the injun tion The injunction was a bio to effective meaningful ence The conferees who r the news of the injunction said that fell like a pall over the co ference It undermined pro rcss perhaps fatally A hi torian said it reminded him one man's description of Olive Cromwell He will lay his hands on h breast elevate his eyes and call God to record He will weep howl and repent even while we doth smile you under the fifth nb We should not approve the Mayor's course in seeking and obtaining the injunction Its fect is to deter and punish the policy of non- violence We are asked also to give approval and endorsement of the position and action taken by Mayor Daley in dealing with the great legal and moral questions in- and our confidence that the course he has charted will be at the Center 1030 E Street from to Monday through Friday and to p.m Saturday and Sunday All youngsters between 8 months and 3 years are to be given a blood test Blood ment given a blood test Blood ples are drawn by ment If your community has not yet called on you and you want your child to take advantage of this to make sure he is not affected by this dread disease simply call the Center a representative will be sent to set up the appointment Among the grave dangers of lead poisoning are mental re- permanent physical debility or even in some cases death The process goes as A child chews falling plaster or paint which contains lead as its base During the cooler months symptoms rarely de- which would lead to treatment But the lead is re- in the child's system Then when hot weather comes the poison is released and the symptoms develop Of the persons in the city's poverty proximately are suspected to be victims of lead poisoning At present at least are being discovered to be positive and requiring immediate ment We are again asking every concerned person in the com- munity to cooperate in this states Frank Ba- con Woodlawn Center director Unless we have this tion some of our children may die or suffer needless and wasteful retardation which will ruin their lives He said er It is so easy to head off by a simple blood so to treat once it gets a foothold in the child's system There is no charge for this the life you save may be your child's Dr Deton J Books tive director of the Chicago after pregnancy rattier than detection and care before nancy One physician suggested this emphasis may be responsible n part for the fact that the U.S reduction in the infant mortality rate has not ed as fast as we would like in recent years Ralph A Reis MD professor of obstetrics and gynecology Northwestern U School of Medicine Chicago said in the address that the tors responsible for fetal deaths are difficult to identify but that are due ito y fetal abnormality anoxia and birth injuries In relation to prematurity generally conceded to be one of the more important factors in the infant mortality rate he proposed this May not this increasing The question is increasing ability to prolong abnormal pregnancies through the period of immaturity into the period of prematurity this increasing the percent of The question is whether this stems from better rather than poorer obstetrical care The problem of prematurity was further explained in a per by Arthur J Lesser MD deputy chief of the children's bureau U S Depl of Health Education and Welfare In view of the fact that pre mature birth accounts for two- thirds of the infant deaths gress in accelerating the tion in infant mortality which has been slowing down in re- cent years can come about only if there is greater tion to the improvement of care expecially in income he said Dr Lesser said that since 1060 there has been an ent increase in the proportion of infants born weighing RI ams or less from 7 of births to in 1964 He warned of a possible increase If the projected number of live births for 1970 4.3 million is reached and present low birth weight trends continue we can expect about a in- crease in premature births over 1064 This reflects the increasing proportion of non-white infants Continued on Page 3 Urban ity says of the If we save the life or the mind of a single child through our ef forts it will be well worth the cost and effort involved We urge all residents to cooperate fully with the community when they call As an excuse for the j take these controversial tion against peaceful out of the and to stralions today's resolution re cites an Increase hi crime which the city administration the conference table where they may be solved with reason Continued on Page 3 Police Clamp Up Policy Offices Police have broken up a 000 a year policy office on the Southside Ruby Long 47 of 6026 S lis ave was arrested at 6626 S Ellis ave 2nd floor as the re- sult of a warrant issued by Judge Arthur Duane Arrested with Miss Long were William Rice 51 of 6432 S Ellis ave and Leroy son 46 of 6138 S Drexel ave Miss Long was charged with being keeper of a gambling house The two men were of being the patrons of a gambling house They were booked for at Central Court on Sept 2 Police said Miss Long ran a station for the Atlantic and Wheel and the Bank out and Room and Board wheel The wheel took in at least 000 a week police estimated Cite Local Marine Corps Recruits The ranks of Marine corps recruits who have just ed eight weeks training at the Marine Corps Recruit depot San Diego Calif list two names They are Marine Arthur J Bolton son of Mr and Mrs Clyde D Bolton 66 6551 Uni- versity and Stephen Harris son of Mrs Louise Ellis The training they received included military drill history and traditions of the Marine Corps as well as other demic subjects In addition they learned small arms manship bayonet fighting and methods of self-protection They are now scheduled to undergo four weeks each of in- dividual combat and basic training before being signed to a permanent unit Best Food Buys This Week I Each week the Booster publishes the best food buys at your local food store as advertised in your Georgia's Finest FRYING CHICKENS Ib 2 limit Hills COFFIE i
