03 Jan 1968
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Newspaper
Northwest Journal
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1968
Page
1
A narcotics exhibit by Youth Officer Richard Heinrich of Area 5 showcases drugs taken from youthful offenders. It aims to educate PTA groups and youth organizations in Shakespeare and Austin districts.
Attorney General William G. Clark announces that his fraud unit has recovered 2,076,678 dollars for 52,715 Illinois consumers since 1961. A new package of consumer protection laws takes effect, doubling the unit’s activity and broadening controls on lending, advertising, down payments, debt collection, and installment contracts while mandating consumer education in schools.
New statutes cap monthly credit card interest at 144 percent of the average daily unpaid balance and require detailed cost statements for each billing period. Protection expanded to nonapplicants and nonbeneficiaries, with liability starting only after signing or using the card.
The year 1968 opens with large increases in draft calls for physicals and inductions as Vietnam combat intensifies. January requests total 466 physicals and 126 inductions across 11 area boards, about fifteen times the December physicals and near double the December inductions.
Loyola Curtain Guild presents Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at Loyola Community Theater January 12 13 and 14. Cast includes William Norris Robert Hartigan and Perry Bullington with Mrs Sylvia V Zastrow directing. Showtimes are 830 p m January 12 13 and 3 and 730 p m January 14.
The district backed Superintendent Redmond's plan to bus students from overcrowded West Side schools. The board funded 150000 for transportation through January 29 and moved toward developing a non contiguous attendance area plan. Debate focused on racial implications and potential opposition at the January meeting.
The board discussed permissive transfer plans affecting 19 West Northwest Side elementary schools with 10 receiving in district 4 and space for 1 477 students. Receiving schools include Bridge Burbank Byford Canty Dover Clark Branch Lyon Sayre Smyser and Thorp. sending schools list Emmet Key Nash Faraday Jensen Sumner Webster Delano Lowell. Additional actions included contracts for Manley Elementary School expansion Dante branch at Marshall High School ROTC rifle range at Westinghouse and lunchroom equipment at Flower Vocational High School.
The Wingspread project seeks a 932,530 federal grant to exchange students between Chicago and suburban high schools plus elementary and junior high pupils. If approved, three week to year long programs would start next summer through 1969, with notable efforts at Austin Niles and West Side schools including a five week summer session and a moving classroom concept.
The Chicago Motor Club offers cold morning car starting tips. Push the gas pedal to the floor then release halfway and avoid cranking longer than 30 seconds. If flooding occurs shut off, floor the pedal, hold a minute, then restart with pedal down. Also advise idle warming and battery upkeep for winter driving.
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