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Show 'J . neatly dressed, good dancers, with intelligence and certain social gcaces. ,;J If a "junior" member was skinny, she could still'- - become a senior (given all other qualifications) if she well-behave- ; ( " ' . J "... (Continued) J J .. I body likes to belong to a club. You in a club with a big rep, it makes you feel like you're somebody." Why do you have to have guns?" r4Some Dtherclub got;uns,-an- d try in' to get a bigger rep, you have guns, too. You havea gun and : you're somebody. The gang has a ' gun and you're all somebody." Girlsj too, nejed to be somebody. Spewed from crowded rooms of rabbit-warre- n tenements,"these girls" get their schooling on the streets and stoops. And it's not exactly a finish- t .:-- I'"" ' , Nrr 1 -.-' ing school ? 1 ' . 'r C - H' y - '"v y ; - . u , , 4 , H , ORIOINAL PAINTINQ FM FRItNICS " r uphold friend ... " DOUCLAtt CMOCKWCU " would pledge tor eat at least one banana a day. way, oy the "time' sne was old enough to be a senior, she'd have a pretty good figure." Occasionally, girl gangs are directly involved in acts of violence or in crimes. Usually, though, they are the indirect "cause of crimes of vio- lence among members of feuding t boys' groups. The bitter "and rdeadly war between "my" gang and the "enemy" who came into the block to kill us - was started when one of our boys successfully wooed the other's girl. Retaliation grew more and more vio-- v lent fist fights, stabbings, shootings, - zed good-lookin- ,, - . t These kids stand at the foot of the social ladder. They knoW it. Alone, this is unbearable. No one can stand' to be nobody. So they form a gang, a group, a club which gives them what they need identity. Some girls gain identity and preseven murder. Neither gang dares to be the first tige from being a "deb" group sort of a ladies' auxiliary to a boys' gang. to "punk out" to give up on the Other. groups are. formed independ fight. Anyonewhpmdoes would lose ently of the boys for sports or for face, lose "rep." It's not a new thing gangs and "balling" having their own dances, JL ... gang fights and the drive for reputa- parties, picnics. One group, tKe Mananas, was tionT But "where" kidsused to fight" to prove to the world that with clubs and bricks and sandbags, there could be decent girls in the they now use guns and knives. And slums, too. mayhem becomes murder. "The newspapers as much as said According to social workers, the most destructively aggressive youngall girls in our area were prostitutes," Maria recalled. "So we thought sters are the most deprived ones. "We got nothinV they say. "So we'd show 'em." The girls voted absolute dictator what have we got to lose?" That's hard .to answer because it's powers to their president, who imposed rules and regulations designed true. Yet perhaps the kids themto give the group a high reputation. selves have suggested one answer. g, Give them something toJose. Mananas had to be or-gani- I 'i ; d, , . .. , Thsro's no substitute for the rich, red meat in Frisltfes low-quali- Vi, SK U. S. Government inspected horse meat is the principal ingredient in FriskieaTproviding a rich source of. body-- . building protein to safeguard your doslitalityThis fo one reason why Friskies is twice as nourishing as dog foods. Be sure your dog is getting a balanced diet-o- ne that contains every food element he is known to need. Feed him Friskies... made to the high standards of the Carnation Company and the U.S. Government v ty 7 I riKO FRISKIU MKAL rOm VAIIIKTY. CARNAnON-OUAUT- T ArMJtbh In r? . 1 . I "Wicnt OHIV CANMID do rooo That rytcy CAN IAN TMII U.S. OVT. SCAl HNM WIUM MM W. CARNATION COMPANY, iM tMIUI M. miinm i- - co., im. M.M. mum eo. N,l( Frank "Tartan"- - Santana, 17 (left) mistook William Blankenship, Jr., 15 (inset) for a member of a rival gang and shot him to death on a city street. ,$ 1 '" ' ' - -- e : |