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Summer Job Projects Get Long-Term Results Many Young Persons Employed Permanently After Taking Part in Antipoverty Programs BY JACK JONES Times Staff Writer Summer crasfi programs offering jobs, training and fun to youths from poor neighborhoods havebeen criticized as little more than bribes to keep the summer cool, but some effects will last far beyond the hot months. Hwr A' SS i I HELPING HANDS Youths from Teen Post Job Resource Center ot 10205 S. Figueroa St. put finishing touches on home-renovation proj ect in the neighborhood. The center summer program, which has netted was one of seven in the Teen Post permanent jobs for many youths.

Times photo by Jark Carriole CAMPUS STRATEGY DILEMMA How to Handle Reagan Sponsors of several projects report (securing permanent full-time or part-time jobs for many of the young people who were involved in anti-poverty programs or city efforts to fill idle summer hours. Figures are still coming into the Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency (EYOA), which oversaw 36 special summer projects (costing $1.7 million) in which about 3,000 young persons held temporary jobs and perhaps 124,000 participated. Referred to Post-Summer Jobs But, as of the official summer program shutdown on Sunday, four of the six summer Community Youth Activity Centers indicated that nearly 600 had been referred to post-summer jobs and nearly 200 already are hired. As fragmentary, preliminary reports, these figures probably do not begin to tell the story. Mrs.

Margaret McThatter, director of the Teen Post Job Resource Center at 10205 S. Figueroa St. (one of seven such centers in the Teen Post summer program) said about 60 Watts area teen-agers have come out of the project with permanent jobs so far. Thus, after working at federally funded summer tasks like turning vacant lots into vest-pocket parks and rehabilitating homes of impoverished residents, some of these youths will become employes of private enterprise. The part-time and full-time jobs range from those in taco stands to five girls hired as doctor receptionists.

Camarillo Hospital Program At Camarillo State Hospital, where 47 young people from Watts and East Los Angeles spent the summer learning and working as laboratory and therapy assistants, nursing aides and lifeguards, Youth Opportunities Unlimited project director Ann E. Boles said: "Anyone who questions the value of summer crash programs had better come talk to us. The whole staff has been very pleased with these young people." The state's mental health budget cutbacks have made it impossible for Camarillo to retain the trainees on a permanent basis, but the hospital said it has permission to continue the YOU program for a week while it seeks jobs for about 30 exceptional ones in private hospitals. Miss Boles said the1 Watts and East Los Angeles young people "did a fantastic job" in working with disturbed patients, in one case taking over an occupational therapy shop that was due to be closed down. A similar summer training program at Pacoima Memorial Luther-Please Turn to Page 2, Col.

4 CC PART II EDITORIALS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1967 4 Hurt as Officers Thwart Attempt to Flee Juvenile Hall Four persons two of them policemenwere injured and an estimated $1,000 damage was done at Juvenile Hall during an unsuccessful escape attempt by six youths, police reported Sunday. Fifteen officers were called to the hall at 1605 Eastlake Ave. after a 17-year-old inmate smashed down a door and kicked in six others at the start of the escape attempt Saturday night. Clarence Cabell, Juvenile Hall supervisor, said it took the policemen about a half hour to handcuff the youths and put down the disturbance. A dozen windows were broken and there was other property damage.

One officer. Robert R. Van Drew, suffered a black eye and bruises when the 17-year-old who led the attempt allegedly struck him with a piece of metal he had torn from his cot. i Struck With Doorknob A second officer, Rudy Estrada, was bruised when he was struck on the shoulder with a brass doorknob. Roth policemen were treated at Central Receiving Hospital and released.

Minor injuries also were suffered by an unidentified Juvenile Hall attendant and the 17-year-old youth who precipitated the disturbance. Police said the youth would be charged with assault on a peace officer under the provisions of the welfare institution's code. Cabell said it was only the second time, in his 21 years at Juvenile Hall that the police had to be summoned. He said those involved in the escape attempt were mainly parole violators awaiting a state board hearing. -tr r' Rule Bars Appeals by Councilmen on BZA Use Grants BY ERVVIN BAKER Times Stiff Writer City councilmen, solely by virtue of their office, cannot appeal a conditional use grant by the Board of Zoning Adjustment to the City Council, according to a ruling by the city attorney's office.

The opinion was a setback for Councilman Louis R. Nowell, who contended that he was an "aggrieved person" in an alleged conflict, of interest zoning case involving former Harbor Commissioner Robert N. Starr. Nowell protested "shabby treatment" in appealing a BZA decision granting a conditional use to Starr for a 185-bed convalescent hospital and a for a beauty parlor to be built in Pacoima, which he represents. He contended there was a conflict of interest because BZA member James R.

Tweedy, a former business associate of Starr, cast the deciding vote. Subsequently, BZA Chairman Roger S. Hutchinson asked City Atty. Roger Arnebergh for a ruling as to whether a councilman may appeal to the council when he is acting only in his official capacity and "in no way personally injured or affected" by the board's action. In an opinion prepared for Arnebergh and given to Hutchinson, Asst.

City Atty. Claude E. Hilker noted that Nowell filed the appeal only as a councilman and does not live near nor have any interest in the property. "Nor," said Hilker, "is he in any way personally affected or injured by the matter Hilker said the code provides that Please Turn to Page 2, Col. 1 ON JOBS, DRIVING, small increase in fees if all the money is used for student financial aid.

Those who believe in a conciliatory approach toward Reagan were happy about the compromise because, as one chancellor said, "The regents avoided slapping the governor in the face a second time." Those who oppose this strategy thought the compromise a mistake. "I was utterly revolted by what happened in the afternoon," said another administrator. "All we did was create doubt that the regents know what they stand for and hat the university stands for." The case for conciliation was summed up briefly by one regent: "You can't pick a fight with the governor," he said. "He can hurt you in a hundred ways." Regent Offers Counter View The opposing point of view was stated by another regent: "Even making one's bow to the absolute necessity of getting along with the governor, I don't think you can allow him to use the university as a personal political arena." The conciliators argue that Reagan will soften his harsh stand toward UC because he wants to run for President or Vice President in 196S. "He recognizes that he erred," a member of this school of thought said.

"In the budget fight he Please Turn to Page fi, Col. 1 1 I UC Split on BY WILLIAM TROMBLEY Times Education Writer University of California regents and administrators are sharply divided over the strategy to employ in dealing with Gov. Reagan. Interviews with regents, chancellors and other university administrators since last week's puzzling Board of Regents meeting at UCLA indicated the existence of two schools of thought, each with powerful supporters. One group believes it is necessary to get along with the governor at all costs, that he is gradually moderating his attitude toward t'C and in the end he will turn out to be a good friend of the university.

But others believe efforts to get along with Reagan have done nothing but damage the university, that he is unalterably hostile to the institution and no amount of appeasement will change his mind. Both sides agree that the 14-7 vote against the governor's proposal that the regents "adopt tuition as the policy of the university" was a political defeat for Reagan, but that he regained much of this lost ground when the regents approved a new and undefined student "charge." Presses Hard for Tuition During the morning session in the steaming UCLA faculty center last Thursday Reagan pressed hard for tuition as such, insisting it would be "patently unfair" and "hypocrisy" to raise fees instead. "The first thing that has to be decided is yea or nay on the principle of tuition," the governor stated. "If the vote is nay, I guess the meeting is adjourned." The vote was nay, decisively so, but the meeting did not adjourn because the governor immediately reversed himself and moved for "a CITIZENSHIP tion," Miss Cory organizes her classes like those operated by the city's night schools for adults. "Many of my students are too shy to go to adult school," she explained, "but they can learn as much this way.

They watch Escuela for a year, gain confidence, and then decide they're ready for adult school." To overcome her students' reticence, Miss Cory combines the newest teaching methods with a very personalized approach. Nothing but English is spoken over the air, forcing her students to learn the unfamiliar rhythms of the language and increasing their comprehension of spoken English. One-to-One Approach "I tell my students to sit very close to their television sets and then I pretend I'm talking to just one person," she said. "With this one-to-one approach, they're more likely to repeat when I ask them to and answer the questions I put to them." When she began teaching Escuela three years ago, Miss Cory was intent on organizing what had been an erratic and sometimes unplanned presentation. But she quickly found out, as she says, that foreigners in Los Angeles needed "not just a teacher, but a friend." Her office was flooded with letters lhat were unrelated to the program but "demanded to be answered." Miss Cory and a part-time clerk provided by the City Board of i charge against the students, the specific uses to be determined by the regents." Details of the face-saving compromise were worked out at lunch by Reagan, aide Lyn Nofziger, Regents Chairman Theodore R.

Meyer and board members Edward W. Carter and Edwin W. Pauley. Another participant in the luncheon huddle was H. R.

Haldeman, a Reagan political supporter who completed a year as alumni representative on the Board of Regents July 1. Amount Yet to Be Determined As finally approved, the compromise resolution called for a student "charge" of unspecified' amount, "to finance a program of student aid, faculty enrichment andor other uses," to be determined by a special regents' committee. Regents who voted no on tuition but yes on the new "charge" were Pauley, DeWitt A. Higgs, William U. Hudson and Laurence J.

Kennedy Jr. Meyer and Carter, who abstained on the morning tuition vote, also approved the "charge." Regents voting in favor of both tuition and increased charges were Reagan, Lt. Gov. Robert H. Finch, State Supt.

of Public Instruction Max Rafferty and regents Philip L. Boyd, John E. Canada, Allan Grant and Mrs. Randolph A. Hearst.

Eight regents were opposed to both tuition and new charges. They were Assembly Speaker Jesse M. Unruh (D-Inglewood), Mrs. Dorothy B. Chandler, William K.

Coblentz, Frederick G. Dutton, William E. Forbes, William M. Roth, Norton Simon and Acting President Harry R. Wellman.

Mrs. Edward H. Heller and Einar 0. Mohn did not vote at all on the final compromise. Both are opposed to tuition but not necessarily to a Foreign-Born Education pitched in to answer each request.

The letters still arrive daily, but Miss Cory tries to anticipate questions by discussing problems that confront foreign speakers during her programs. "One day, we may talk about getting a driver's license," she explained, "the next about buying shoes or finding out bus routes. I also encourage them to apply for citizenship." Because many of her listeners are timid about leaving, their neighborhoods, Miss Cory makes a special point of discussing facilities and services provided free by the city. "The library, the museums, and free concerts are available to these people," she said, "but someone must tell them what to expect when they visit a new place, how to get there, and whether they can take their children." Just before the beginning of each new school semester, Miss Cory urges her students to visit the local adult schools and provides encouraging, step-by-step instruction for enrolling. "Now, dear friends," she said, closing a recent program, "I want all of you to think about going to adult school.

If you need the address of the school nearest your, home, just write me and I will send you the information." The next day, a new batch of letters arrived. TV Teacher Has Answers for 'a 1-4 1 I i I I BY LINDA MATHEWS Times Staff Writer "How can I find a job if I don't speak English?" "Will the state let me take the driver's test in Spanish?" "Is there a place I can take my children without having to pay admission?" Questions like these are fielded every day by Ginger Cory, a young Los Angeles school teacher who is paid only to teach elementary English on TV Channel 34, but who has actually become a friend and counselor to much of the Southland's large foreign-born population. Nearly 100,000 non-English speakers, representing 25 different countries, watch Miss Cory's programs four times a week. They learn to listen, repeat, and use English phrases that make their new environment a little more comprehensible. A large percentage enroll in Escuela KMEX and send written exercises to Miss Cory to be graded.

An experienced teacher of English as a second language, Miss Cory all her own material and designs the exercises to supplement the television lessons. The only expense borne by the city school for Escuela is Miss Cory's salary. KMEX, a commercial Spanish language station, provides free air time. Aiming for a "classroom situa fl It LESSON ON DRIVING Ginger Cory, teacher of a Los Angeles television classroom, makes a point on safe driving during her show, which has become a source of information for Southland's foreign-bom. Times photo by Jack Carrick.