TV documentary on urban slums faces audience challenge
Cynthia Lowry reports NBC aired a two hour look at Negro minority life in big city slums. The program examined employment, housing, and education while noting cooperation refusals and white outsiders telling black stories. It offered examples from Rochester and Detroit but lacked new issues or calls to action.
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Detroit
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Judy Garland
London
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New Jersey
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Leon J. Greenspan
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SIU fraternity renovates Murphysboro playground at Barbara Park
The Sigma Pi pledge class from Southern Illinois University spent two weeks clearing debris leveling ground and repairing and painting playground equipment at Barbara Park on North 17th Street in Murphysboro. The project, a yearly civic effort, was guided by Tom Scherschel of Glen Ellyn who said the park was previously unusable.
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Murphysboro
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Barbara Park
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Scherschel
Frankfort Park District Terms Expire in January Elections
Three terms on the Frankfort Community Park District board end this spring. Filing runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the park district office 1000 East Cleveland Street West Frankfort. Incumbents John Conner Marie Seyler and Val Stanley reach term limits, leaving three board seats open for an April 1 election. Park commissioners serve four years on a seven member board.
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Packard Hewlett name a model for deputy defense secretary
A portrait of David Packard and his Stanford classmate William Hewlett as founders of Hewlett Packard highlights their rise from a Palo Alto garage in 1939 to an international electronics firm with 17 plants and about 300 million dollars in annual sales. Packard and Hewlett hold about 3.6 million shares each worth around 3.1 million dollars.
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By George cast on tour at Southern Illinois University
British actor Max Adrian stars in the original Broadway play By George presented at 8 p.m. January 6 in SIU University Theatre. TRW Inc. sponsors the no charge campus tour, with $1 admission for the public and 50 cents for students.
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