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Newspaper
Hyde Park Herald
Location
Hyde Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1971
Page
5
A letter argues crime rises with unemployment and calls for a national program of full employment to fund housing hospitals and schools. It likens unemployment to America's Vietnam cancer and urges readers to contact the author about the proposed plan.
A Hyde Park reader lauds the Herald columns and notes forming an Emergency committee to safeguard the neighborhood. He reports attending a Del Prado meeting, stresses urgency, and asks for broad cooperation among residents and organizations to prevent service duplication. He cites Mrs. Billings and the U of C Billings Hospital and urges swift organized action.
The speaker notes Rep Epton opposed the committee report and its partisan stance on child care. He offered personal help to individuals and committees, urged everyone to arrange their own appointments, and promised to forward correspondence for responses.
The Day Care Crisis council asks Mayor Daley and the City Council to raise the Office of Child Care Services budget from 100000 to 780000. They cite 283000 children under five in Chicago and about half needing better care, urging unified licensing, curricula development, and extensive parental involvement as part of a comprehensive community plan.
Mrs. Harry Schneiderman voices safety concerns over taxi availability after the Stony Island and 56th Street stand lost its answering service. Drivers accuse Yellow Cab and Checker Cab of prioritizing profit over service as waits reach 40 minutes. Livery and independents lack enough cars, sparking calls for reopening the Stony 56th line or installing a capable central switchboard.
A Hyde Park elder recounts the neighborhood's missing post office since 1957. Promises to build a new facility at 5020 Cornell Avenue and other sub stations never materialized, despite efforts by the Hyde Park Herald founder Bruce Sagan, Alderman Despres, and Postmasters McGee and in Washington.
A reader praises self defense ideas from Fannie Hunter and suggests covering all exterior windows and doors with a water bucket and loud alarm to flood intruders and scare them away. The note predicts burglars will adapt but expects new criminals to emerge.
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