Pontius and Mikva Spar Over Despres and Dirksen Campaign
Pontius accuses South of distorting Despres views as the Fifth Ward alderman fights for black rights. Mikva blasts Dirksen on gun control and block grants while labeling the crime bill critique as a monstrosity during a University of Illinois Circle Campus banquet.
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Cousins
Sammy Rayner
Daley
Mikva
United States Senate
Senate
Dirksen
University of Illinois Circle
League of Women Voters
Illinois Voter
Ireland Allred tell differences
Two Republican candidates for Congress in the Second District proposed contrasting remedies for urban conditions. Thomas Ireland urged strengthening Negro communities through business ownership and political independence, criticizing welfare as costly and supporting ghetto finance programs. Glen J. Allred blamed Detroit Democratic administrations for ghetto problems and called for less government interference in employment and job training.
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Congress
Thomas Ireland
Greenwood
Ireland
Procrams
Allred
O Hara defends record amid sleep charge during term bid
Representative Barratt O Hara responded to accusations he sleeps in Congress by releasing a list of 39 introduced bills. The measures cover housing, death penalty abolition, and a mutual defense treaty with Israel. O Hara, a UN delegate and South Africa relations expert, seeks a 10th term as an independent after party endorsement went to Abner Mikva.
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House of Representatives
Barratt O’hara
Congress
Abner Mikva
47th Street planned developments approved in Chicago
The Chicago Plan Commission approved two planned developments on 47th Street urban renewal sites. Lake Village Associates will build townhouses on LR1 2 3 sites between Lake Park and Woodlawn, with Kimbark and Kenwood avenues closed to through traffic as fire lanes. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union plan a high rise and garden apartments on the HRI site south of 48th Street, with 49th Street closed at Lake Park and 48th as the primary auto entrance.
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Chicago Plan Commission
47Th Street
Lake Park
Woodlawn
Lake Village Associates
HRI
48Th Street
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
Lake Village
Kimbark
Kenwood
Union
Barratt O Hara backs 18 voting age with students
The 86 year old independent candidate Barratt O Hara agreed last week with University of Chicago students Vic Bernstein on lowering the voting age to 18. They met during a campaign stop near the Herald office at 53rd and Harper, captured in a Herald photo.
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Barratt O'Hara
O Hara
Congress
University of Chicago
Vic Bernstein
Herald
53Rd
Harper
Conference to honor James Cook at open housing luncheon
James W. Cook of Illinois Bell Telephone Company will be honored at the Hyde Park- Kenwood Community Conference advisory luncheon on June 19 at the Ambassador Hotel. He led the Metropolitan Open Communities council in 1966-67 and chairs Open Housing efforts. The luncheon doubles as the conference fundraising event and includes a past award presentation to Otto Kerner.
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James Cook
James W. Cook
Hyde Park- Kenwood
Ambassador Hotel
Cook
Ilinois Bell Telephone Company
Urban Coalition
Better Schools
Nois National Bank and Trust Company
Arthur Rubloff
Arthur Rubloff and Co
Leonard Horwich
David Zisook
Zisook Realty
Arthur Schoenstadt
Conservation Community Council
John Baird
Baird & Warner
Earl Dickerson
Supreme Life Insurance Company
Otto Kerner
State of
Illinois
Youth police relations workshop at Hyde Park club
A June 5 meeting at the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club will host a district police community workshop. A youth panel will discuss police community relations with questions answered by Urban Progress Center Legal Aid Bureau and Boy Scouts of America representatives.
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Hyde Park
America
Lamorne Threet
Clapp Named Interim Executive Director of HPRCC
Donald B. Clapp chosen interim executive director as the Hyde Park conference searches for a full director. A South Shore resident and former Air Force chaplain, Clapp has assisted the director for five months and will guide policy during the transition. Mrs. Clemens Roothaan remains as assistant director for six weeks after resigning as interim leader. A policy review subcommittee was formed to set long range goals. Robert Burns was named chairman of the membership and community participation committee.
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Donald B. Clapp
Hyde Park- Kenwood
Clapp
South Shore
Air Force
U.S. Air Force Academy
Southeast Asia
Episcopal
Ohio State University
Ohio State
University Community Association
Clemens Roothaan
Robert Burns
Kenwood
Burns
Kenneth Dawson
Barbara Birthwright
Greenwood
Four Democrats for Congress meet at Hyde Park YMCA
Four Democratic candidates for Congress will discuss the present primary campaign at a Women for Peace event. Abner Dale Pontius Wesley Barratt O'Hara and Mike Dale Pontius will appear in the Hyde Park YMCA Ea Gym at 1400 E 53rd on June 8 at 8 p.m. Loyce Braun is the south chairman of Women for Peace. Admission is free.
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Women For Peace
Abner
Mike Dale Pontius
Wesley
Barratt O’hara
Hyde Park
Loyce Braun
Park Blvd
South
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Sen. Dirksen
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Fifth Ward
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Everett Dirksen
Blackstone
Sane
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Kerner Commission
Glen J. Allred
Calumet City
O’hara
Israel
United Nations
South Africa
Vere
Chicago
Marshall Korshak
Thomas Ayers
Carson, Pirie and
Scott
Donald Graham
Continental Illi
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Ymca
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