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Show ittte f Skyscraper Ghetto: By BERNICE BURESH Newsweek Feature Service CHICAGO Eight years ago, Mayor Richard Daley beamed over a happy gathering, gestured toward the newly completed Cabrini - Green housing development on Chicagos Northwest Side and said: Lets do more and more of these fine things for the city. With fine things like Cabrini-GreeChicago needs no disasters. For n, 1 the projects 23 high-ris- e buildings, crammed with 15,000 human beings, represents everything that is wrong vith big city public housing today. Crime comes off the streets and into the corridors in such projects; so do all the frustrations of the black poor. In every urban area in the country, the results have been the sr me: instead of eradicating city slums, the high rises have created new ones more crowded, chaotic, hopeless and furious. The kids set the tone. The first thing a visitor to Cabrini-Gree- n sees is a group of tough young dudes lining the walkways to one of the buildings. They are members of the Cobra Stones, uicii itadcr, the police note, wears white hat; their hit men wear red hats; the goon squad has brown hats. They favor sleeveless shirts and stand scowling and arrogant with thrir arms slightly bent so the muscles show. Inside, the concrete stairways are littered with trash, the green walls embedded with grime. Using the elevator is an adventure. It creaks and jerks; its doors close with force enough to break a childs arm. Muggers use the steel cages as traps for their victims. And everywhere, at all hours, there is noise: the din of screaming, laughing, crying children, the smash of broken bottles and windows, the blare of radios, the keening of police sirens, the exasperated voices of people who live too close to other people. It made you feel like everybody . lives in one big common room, says a woman who recently managed to move to a better neighborhood. It made you feel naked and stripped. And she adds The first thing I noticed wonderingly: when I moved away was the quiet. When I walked down the street, I could ings of Concert? Cabrini-Gree- n. The Deseret News Music Editor ' As more and more units in the perarts face difficult financial futures, more of them keep looking to governmental agencies really the to taxpayers come to their aid. forming And now anothdirection of govern-mentsubsidization has been taken. al For the first time national attention is being focused on the issue of government support for the arts as a cal issue. Everything and everybody is contained in this little area, says an inhabitant. Its like the city says, you stay here and well bring everything in. So you go to the grocery and wait in line, you go to the hardware store and wat in line. A young person doesnt get an idea of what its like on the outside. Now, of course, the unholy conglomeration of politicians, housing bureaucrats and architects who foisted multistory dwelling places on the publie is the first to admit that the original high rise does not alleviate but aggravates slum conditions. In San Francisco, housing authorities assign only the elderly to nigh rises. Even the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has gotten the message. Recently, it issued By DEXTER C. ELLIS The Know Your Legislator forums held in 13 Salt Lake Valley high schools attended, Monday were disappointingly but they have the potential of filling very serious void In the Utah political process. This void Is the awareness chasm separating voters from their legisla-- t i v e candidates who, when they become state legMr. Ellis islators, make de- cisions having far more impact upon the y lives of citizens, than do national congressmen. Due to circumstances, there simply is no other feasible way (than these town e meetings) for voters to size up the people who want to represent them in the State Legislature. Creating summer arts festivals, one of which would bring the Philadelphia back heme from the Saratoga Festival in New York (in which the Tabernacle Choir participated with performances of Brahms Requiem, and Handels The Messiah three years ago). 3. "Aid in the development of a thorough aesthetic education program in the schools of Pennsylvania to provide for cultural literacy by making the arts a regular living part of every childs daily life. j 4. Establishing a childrens theater for the state. Tne Art Committee for Shapp-Klin- e is radio concerts sponsoring nine half-hoby young Pennsylvania performers and will feature Mrs. Edward Kennedy in her concert debut with members of the Phil. adelphia Orchestra. - APPOGGIATURAS The American Musical Digest, the new magazine of international criticism hes suspended publication after only six issues. Handsome, intelligent, and universal in its the American choice, the publishers Music Critics Society found that 2,500 subscribers were not sufficient to sustain the magazine costs. With the patience of subscribers and creditors, it may resume publication. A place exists for such a publication ... - butItsPresident supposed to be Nixon l , t guidelines Cabrini-Gree- n housing project low-sca- in Chicago is being offered as a lence of the projects. In St. Louis, the Homes arc now mammoth Pruitt-Igo- e urging the construction of units. almost deserted after a stormy decade and a half during which teenage gangs fought one another over extortion rights to whole floors. It may be too late, even for the smaller children, the ones who play on But the harm has already been done and must be lived with, though in many cities, Boston and New York, for example, slum dwellers cling to their tenements rather than risk century-ol- d the muggers, rapists and random vio "how-not-to- " example. the stairways because the bigger kids have marked off most of the scant playground area as their own turf. One of these smaller ones, a bright-eye- d caught sight of a visitor recently, took aim with his toy revolver and, gritting his teeth, pulled the trigger. Sir, although the seller of the trailer says the problem properly belongs to the manufacturer of the furnace, they will make an exception for your patient. They should, by now, have rechecked the furnace, and just in case were to take along a new one. They also want you to know that they did check the furnace on two other occasions and could not find any- thing wrong. Hopefully, perhaps you can discharge your patient. style. deposed barber, Steve MarMichel- angelo with the scissors, allegedly trimmed the Treasury at the same time he was trimming the Presidents hair. When the Internal Revenue Service began asking awkward questions about Martinis taxes, it caused consternation at the White House. The security people simply dont want anyone in tax trouble close to the Presidents throat with a razor. They suggesied delicately, therefore, that he get a new barber. Nixon entrusted this mission to an aide, Alexander Butterfield, who conducted a solemn, secret search for a hair stylist with acceptable tonsorlal talent and an impeccable background. Butterfield carefully chose Milton Pitts, who has now taken over the a worlds most exclusive hair salon single barbers chair in a back room of the White House, where the President and his top aides get trimmed and pomaded. ; . ' r Bouquet Line I wrote to yon about an order from Bellas Hess in Kansas City that I hadn't received. Well, I finally have it afte a month and a half and I thank yon. Mrs, J.J.D., Payson Refuse To Cancel I ia ' often well-know- n often-thankie- ss question-answerin- better-informe- and preparations to the Presidents head with artistic abandon. He also gave Nixon a bottle of the stuff to use beiveen All the oils and goos were thrown out by Pitts, who reportedly washed out the grease, combed out the curly ends and gave the President a sculptured razor cutting. Result: the President has lost look and has his old, slicked-dow- n acquired a new, more natural look. developed a suspinew hair cious a ' . signed a contract with Family Publications Service in November 1969. Then I , decided I didnt want the magazines and Most of the sessions were reported to notified them 1 wanted to cancel. When I SPEAKING OF POLITICS be fairly lively and informative. got the first shipment I sent them back. I In the main, the candidates were forthkept getting letters from them to pay up. ' without I have made about three payments in and politidefinable quality known nowadays as right guile, avoiding The cost of television and other mass-medand damagoguery. cal posturing hopes of getting this straightened out and charisma. advertising places it completely have written several times asking them This type of public airing is especially on the subject of air polinstance For canbeyond the reach of most legislative needed in heavily populated areas such lution which like cancer, everyone is to cancel. I also havent gotten any more didates and the great number of concandidates speaking to the magazines, but continue to get bills. Can as the Wasatch Front where voters are against tests make it difficult for the printed E.W., Salt Lake reduced to subject at Jordan High School generally you clear this up? took a responsible position. While acCity. press to do a complete job cf backgroundguesswork in making a legislative choice, rather than a serious effort knowledging that the problem must be ing legislative candidates. claim you paid their salesman to pick the best candidate. dealt with, they felt it should be done so an They At a public meeting, however, voters initial payment of $4.45 and have This problem Is usually not so serious in a manner not to cripple vital induscan get the feel of the candidates by made five payments on the account. , in sparsely populated areas where quite tries. Your order was sold Dec. 2 and you were seeing them in the flesh and watching which Women The League of often candidates are citizens. Voters, them react to situations. called from Denver a few days after the is constantly plugging away at the Also the weekly newspapers in small was signed to verify it. They contract Due to the nature of questioning and counties job of promoting greater voter say it you had usually can devote fairly generexpressed your cancella- - , the fact many of the candidates, usually ous to the qualifications of candiawareness, is to be complimented for tion desire then space they would have honored L half or more, have had no previous legisdates. plowing new ground. it. But because you did not they at thi lative experience, definitive answers to The meetings Monday were attended They are now pondering whether it is late date cannot honor this request for issues and problems are seldom forthby audiences ranging from as few as 10 worthwhile to repeat the effort, in view cancellation. As for of your coming. of the great effort involved, and the to as many as 150. This is scant reprethey will pursue that with the magazines, But in the course of the discussions sentation of the numbers of voters in the scant attendance the first time around. various publishers of the magazines you- -, i It is hoped they willy give it at least ordered. Since the candidates areas represented, but at least several and you did not tell us the ;k i one more trial to see if it will build, and reveal much about their philosophy hundred voters got a much better oppordate you requested cancellation it is diffi-become a real instrument in the crusade (whether conservative or liberal), their tunity to judge candidates than they othcult for us to advise you. If you can 'i d voters. for had. have in erwise would and that level of intelligence general prove fraud, or misrepresentation you y might have some recourse. We would suggest that you take your case to cither. u a lawyer, or to the Dept, of Financial In-- j stitutions, State of Utah, in the Capitol, cuttings. ; Pitts, of course, was given an exhausSiarting January 4 theaters in New' tive security investigation and was sworn York will experiment with a 7:30 p.m. cleared certain. Now if only concert managers in to secrecy before he was finally to shave the President. Salt Lake City would experiment with and adopt a 7:30 p.m. downbeat . . . Martini used to apply special tonics 1 The MERRY-GO-ROUN- D has fired his barber. The security has been so tight that the dismissal might never have been discovered if the P r e sident hadnt suddenly tini, , ' By JACK ANDERSON The Mon, Box 1257 I am writing on brhalf of a patienf. She came to me with numerous com ' plaints but essentially seemed to be frustrated over a house trailer problem. She . bought this from a dealer in S.L. and the. furnace does not work. Shes had many promises of repair hut nothing has been done. As winter is coming, she is apprehensive about being in a cold trailer. If, through you, I can help here, then I will feel I have helped her significantly from ' a medical standpoint. Town withheld tv request of Doctor. Presidential Barber Fired ; New Hair Style For Mr. Nixon deep, dark secret, t City, Utah 841 10 -- Deseret News Political Editor a Do-l- Doctor, Patient Most Voters Show Lack Of Interest WASHINGTON i Solution Helps imprisoned. Milton Shapp, candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, is campaigning on a specific platform for the arts. He has an Arts Committee, headed by R. Sturgis 2. Salt lake There are other problems, too. A family of four must have an income of less than $6,000 to be admitted. If the income exceeds $6,900, the family must leave. Thus, the solid citizen is hustled out almost as soon as he begins to make good, and with him goes the nucleus of responsible tenant leaderrhip. The crowding is not merely in the is a ghetto apartments. Cafcerini-Gree- n island in a neighborhood of mixed ethnic groups, and the people feel surrounded by hostility, if not actually hall-typ- Ingersoll, a Philadelphia lawyer, which is actively using artists, concerts, and speeches by interested citizens as a full plank in his campaign platform. A leaflet, called a position paper, has been widely distributed in Pennsylvania. Among the 14 specific intentions spelled out by Shapp are: 1. A concerted program to increase private giving to the Pennsylvania State Arts Council. You may write to kids. politi- ., With Public Housing In America g. day-to-da- er step in this 19--- October 8, 1970 earlier-buil- t, a By HAROLD LUNDSTROM A Thuisday, lower buildings are reasonably In the row houses, we have very little trouble, ne says. But ir. the high rises theres just too many HoW'Ahout A Political DESERET NEWS, What's Wrong hear my heeis click. Imagine, I could hear my heels clicking. Youth abounds. Seventy per cent of the inhabitants are under 18 and half the families are fatherless. The project is almost entirely black, and the kids are young enough to feel angry and old enough to feel hopeless. The combination is volatile: knives are commonplace; many youths pack guns. Theres even a Browning Automatic Rifle somewhere in there, says Lt. Raymond Skawski of the 18th District police station. We know its there, but do you think anyone will tell us where it is? Skawski notes that nearly all the buildtrouble is made in the high-ris- e MUSICAL WHIRL u A Case Study Of Insiders say the President likes his hair trimmed at least once a week. He summoned Pitts to the White House for example, the evening of his departure for the Mediterranean and called for another haircut shortly after his return. The new White House barber, of course, is expected to drop all other customers and rush over to the White House with his razor any time the President calls. For Cabinet officers and presidential aides in need of a trim, Pitts is available at the White House on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Footnote: The unhappy Martini, who is now barred from the White House, couldnt be reached for comment. His friends said he was in Ft Lauderdale, Fla., but he couldnt be located. Pitts refused any comment, explaining that the White House had instructed him not to tt- - ....ri. 4.. i. eUJUUl axis uaxS x ltdtuem. wuiA aoa. 4t. Vice President Agnews controversial remarks, of course, are cleared in advance by the White House. The voice may be Agnews, but the words are President Nixons. Agrww apparently shot from the hip, however, when he attacked the Presiden f tial Report on Campus Unrest. He called the report imprecise, contradictory and equivocal. Most officials who have read it insist the report is precise, consistent and unequivocal. The President also selected one of his most trusted backstage advisers, Pennsylvanias former Governor William Scranton, to head the campus study. The other members of the commission, though they came from diverse backgrounds, agreed unanimously with the conclusions. Scranton asked the President to read the report personally before he judged it. Nixon promised to give it a careful reading. It will be interesting to see whether the President, after reading the report, will agree with the vice president, who apparently didnt read It. THE LUMPITS YOU AND - Order From N.Y YOUR JOB By ROBERT O. SNELLING SR. Q: I wouldnt be a liberated woman for anything. I prefer to be a pampered pet, and thats how my firm treats me in many nice ways. At the same time, I sure wouldnt mind being equal in salary to some of the men in our office who are doing no more than I do. Im glad to be a girl. I have no desire to pick up the check when a fellow takes me out to lunch. I dont yearn to pitch for the salesmens softball team. I can do without a cigar from the boss. But couldnt American business just liberate a few more dollars for the female to even up the pay gap? I mean in all fairness now. FAIR SEX Dear Fair Sex: The gap is closing. I have said this before. The last time I had occasion to so declare publicly, I heard from the liberated and the the pampered and the unpampered, some of the most articulate female voices of the nation, and some of these writers have virtually struck up a running correspondence with me in this matter. Most of them say they havent noticed the pay gap is closing. A. Now I wont pretend that the Equal Pay Act of 1963 has put the countrys payrolls on a unisex basis any more than highway speed limit signs have wiped out speeding, but let me repeat myself (while my secretary braces for more mall on the subject, some, perhaps, as list time, from veiy liberation - minded ladies who still pleasantly cling to the perfumed envelope): The pay gap between man and woman of comparable qualifications will be generally closed, not overnight, but during, I confidently predict, the 1970s. That equalizing has begun and continues at an accelerating pace. i I bought a Lambretta motor scooter , from a private party. At the time there t were two dealers where It could be ser- -' ' viced and parts were available. Since' ' that time both places have discontinued i ' this service. Is there anyone else in the area now? R.C., Salt Lake City. t . , One place, Economy Scooter, which ' doesnt handle the scooter, does have an- other brand whose tires, light globes and cables will fit. For other parts you can : write to the American distributor in New York and order. Address is Noremco, ' 3726 32nd St., Long Island City, N.Y. 11101. You can order on a COD basis by sending the engine number and the model number or year, if you have it . , This is an Italian bike and not enough , ' were sold to warrant a dealership here ' The main states. other in and fao"'( many ; tory is in Milan, Italy. (Innocenti Corp.) -- Were You There? Last year they came around and had all the people sign a paper for paving, , . curb and gutters. They were going to re- place all fences, trees, etc., just like they were. So far nothing. Ive called but just promises. That was way back in February of 1969. This wasnt so bad but I had L: to give the city six feet of my property Now before getting the front c! the property fixed, they want the same done in 8. L. S., Salt the rear cf my property. Lake City. City did fix your property. There was never any agreement to replace trees, j By the way, the city bought, not took, only 4 feet and put in a decent curb and gutter and changed your alley to a ' ' street. Furthermore, there was a Board of Equalization hrid Feb. 3, 4, 5 of that . year io winch complaints rCulu have v been made. Where you there? (Editors Note We'ro sorry the number Of tills and the volume it moil make it impossihle to answer r questions. every question. Please, no medical or letal -Don't send stomps or nvelopes as . answers can only be q.ven In this cotumn. 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