57th Street Art Fair to award prizes June 5
The 57th Street Art Fair opens June 5 and 6 at the Ray School playground. Three newcomers Larry Butcher, Les Klug, and Dale Zuehlke were chosen for outstanding jury submissions. Best-of-show prizes include Katrina Hadley and Nettie Hart Memorial awards with cash, plus a top poster design award.
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57Th Street
Ray School
Larry Butcher
Bloomfield Hills
Michigan
Chicago
Les Klug
Dale Zuehlke
Katrina Hadley
Nettie Hart
Korshak to push CAP demand for U S Steel reassessment
CAP activists meet fifth Ward Democrat Korshak in Chicago to press for a meeting with County Assessor Cullerton. CAP seeks two Hyde Park representatives at a panel on U S Steel taxes amid claims of underassessment and a potential conflict in the 1970 reassessment.
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Campaign Against Pollution
CAP
Fifth Ward
Democratic
Marshall Korshak
U.S. Steel
Real Estate Research Corporation
First National Bank
Gordon Metcalf
Both
Paul Booth
Chicago
Cullerton
Korshak
Hyde Park
U.S
South Works
P. J. Cullerton
Frank Pierson
Bob Creamer
Union at U of C Library vows continued union acts
Library workers at the University of Chicago press ahead as a union despite administration denial of recognition. Patricia Coatsworth says workers will elect officers and bargain collectively, citing wage, benefit, and promotion concerns plus professional involvement and wage disclosure issues. Most workers support union status and community support is being organized in Hyde Park and South Shore.
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University of Chicago
Patricia Coatsworth
S. Maryland
National Labor Relations Board
Coatsworth
NLRB
Hyde Park
South Shore
District 14 censures district superintendent Blyth for bad judgment
The District 14 education council censured Dr. Donald Blyth for disrupting decision making and manipulating ESAA funds. They cited a one day notice meeting, directing fund use, bypassing the district council, engineering a crisis, removing principals, and chasing policy by federal funding. A local council consultation on midyear teacher transfers was approved.
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District 14 Education Council
Donald Blyth
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Mrs. Coatsworth
Never
Neverland
Captain Hook
Peter Pan
Sinai Temple
Perennial Boy
Blyth
District 14
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