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2 SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1997 LIFESTYLES The Times CALUMET ROOTS ARCHIBALD MCKINLAY Glen Park divided 4ymove to secede from Gary I i 3 -V and the need for police. "If Glen Park did not incorporate, the area of persons would have only one county sheriffs patrol for police protection." Mrs. Schwegel disagreed with Kirtland across the board, arguing that the drain on Gary's downtown was not growing.

Criticizing the anti-Hatcher sentiment in Glen Park as unfair, she said she thought he was doing an excellent job as mayor. "Disannexation will not solve any problems," she said and then, in perhaps a Freudian slip added, "You can't secede from the federal government." The secession movement lingered into 1970, but it was brain dead long before that. Its hopes rested on an Indiana bill that would aid disannexation. The bill passed the state legislature overwhelmingly but vanished on its way to the governor's office. It didn't help to shout that the bill had been stolen by Regionites who opposed it.

Archibald McKinlay is an expert on local history. His column appears every Sunday in The Times. "People were afraid that the project would draw not only Negroes but the worst tj-pe of Negroes," said City Councilman Eugene Kirtland. The first response to the public housing threat was a few Glen Parkers hiring a lawyer to fight the project. When money ran out, Stephenson, the Republican precinct captain in Glen Park, began to talk up secession, and he was amened by the Democratic precinct captain, Rudy Bartholomie.

Headlong white flight from Gary had begun with passage of Bishop Andrew Grutka's omnibus civil rights bill on May 18, 1965. It passed despite Gary Councilman Paul Dudak's last ditch effort, a public letter in which he excoriated the bill. Dudak had urged Gary's white people to not take the bill sitting down because, under the proposed ordinance, a person could go to jail just for talking his neighbor out of selling his home to an African-American or even "for trying to move out of Gary." "If I were to write a letter of this nature after its passage, I gration Hatcher is trying to pulL by putting up public housing here." Mrs. Martin Schwegel, former executive director of the Gary YWCA, emerged as spokesperson for the opposition to secession. She accused Kirtland of wanting to be mayor of Glen Park and saw the disan-nexation move as insanity.

"Everything we heard was on an emotional basis when this all got started, so we thought we should come up with some facts and figures," Schwegel said. "Everybody's watching Gary. If we don't make it here and live together in peace and democracy, we won't make it anywhere. People have got to stop thinking you can have a Berlin Wall." The effect of disannexation on taxes varied with the source. Supporters said taxes would drop.

Opponents said the tax rate would double. Mrs. Schwegel said disannexation would cost Glen Park quite a bit more than the $3.33 per $100 assessed property valuation that ordinarily would go to Gary. She cited duplication in offices, the need for equipment, would be put in jail," he added. As the secession movement picked up speed, its chief spokesman became Eugene Kirtland, Republican councilman from the 6th district (Glen Park).

Among other things, Kirtland worried that Glen Parkers would lose their financial base. "Our ivory domes have all left the town," he said, alluding to white flight. "They've gone to Lakes of the Four Seasons and Ogden Dunes. "The people remaining in Glen Park are those whose total assets are tied up in a small home. Glen Park now is populated mostly by middle-European people who work in the steel mills.

They moved to Glen Park when the Midtown section of Gary changed racially, and they don't want to move again. "It would be futile and ridiculous to say that no one had racial feelings, but that's not the whole thing," Kirtland said. "I think we could stabilize Glen Park through disannexa-tion. There are some Negro families here now, but they've come in normally, through home buying, not through the forced inte wT (A far as we're con-w ZA cerned, Gary is dead," XXRobert K. Stephenson, a steelworker, told a CNewsweek" magazine reporter ui April 1959.

"The citizens of r3Glen Park feel they don't bene-XIt from being part of the city of fiary We have no say in what city does with our tax mon-25', and we feel it's time we had wgontrol of our own destiny." By then, Stephenson and 30 3 his friends had started a seri- movement to secede from 233ary, disannexing Glen Park 2jid its 42,000 citizens. That really wasn't too much S3 a stretch. Glen Park had nev-33" felt completely part of Gary, Saving more in common with 2jighland and Munster and oth- er Ridge Road communities SjJSlen Park was annexed in 1910 3Shd in two subsequent TT? Tidy and quiet, with neat homes and golf -green lawns, Glen Park was physically split from Gary by the moat of the Little Calumet River and the Borman Expressway. The cultural moat was even wider. As "Newsweek" put it, "Glen Park is a stronghold of blue-collar aristocrats foremen and skilled workers with settled, conservative ways while the ret of Gary teems with restless, unskilled and often unemployed men." At the time, only six African-American families lived in Glen Park, while three-fourths of the rest of Gary's 138,000 citizens were black.

Glen Parkers had whispered about secession for a half century, but loud talk began when Richard G. Hatcher became mayor on Jan. 1, 1968, and it rose to a shout when Hatcher announced plans to build in Glen Park a public housing project. fftslaA 1 V. i a a km 1 i lm at 1 i -iTif LI jcS ENROLL FOR WINTER Coffee Continued from E-l on packages tend toward weaker coffee.

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"Actually, it's amazing how many people write to me and ask about the basics of making coffee," Drozdz says. "They like drinking coffee in coffeehouses but have just never made it themselves. I also get questions about Turkish coffee and other more esoteric methods, but mainly just really basic questions. I think I'll write 'Coffeemaking 101' one of these days." It can seem complicated, but each step in itself is fairly simple, Ward says. "All of those things are really easy to do," she says.

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