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Cfr Atlanta gournal and CONSTlTtTION SUNDAY, DEC. 1 4, 1 975 6-A CONTRIBUTIONS Ch risimas Brings Blues to Poor Want to Help? Phone First If you have food, clothing or money to share with less fortunate metro Atlanta residents, here are some numbers you can call: Economic Opportunity Atlanta Inc. (collections will be headquartered at the West End EOA Center)-753-6101. The Salvation Army-524-5661 or 525-2765. The Christian Council of Metrepolitan Atlanta-892-9626 or 892-9627.

Volunteer Services Unit, Fulton County Family and Children Servim-753-1119. yj 'iiusuiNU Urn. Murder Charge OTTAWA, Kan. (UPI) A mentally retarded man has been charged with the murder of a female co-worker at a rehabilitation center for the mentally handicapped. First degeree murder charges were filed against Clarence J.

McQuire, 32, of Ottawa, for the drowning of Joann Stewart, 24. 11 I'M Will for the Gwinnett County EOA Neighborhood Center, says she talked last week with a young man who told her if he didn't get rent money immediately, he would be evicted the next day. He is 17, and his wife is pregnant. Mrs. Bell also learned that he has two other children by a previous marriage, when he was 15.

"We are talking with folk who come in with no food and eviction notices in hand," says Pouncie. "And we get people who come into Atlanta expecting to find their jobs and answers to their economic problems. We have to find them a place to stay." Social workers say the people they are seeing need clothing, shoes, food, blankets and often housing, and an unusual number are seeking help for the first time, people who once had jobs, And some come with unhidden anger, having gone to agency after agency, only to be told no help was available. "They say, 'I'm not going to let my children go hungry, if I have to steal relates Beatrice Logan, coordinator of social services for EOA, who adds "It's been a bad year for people. Many are probably worse off than last year." Mary Sanford says the economic hard times bode ill for the elderly and disabled.

"They're afraid td go to the stores," she says. "They know somebody will take what little they have." And she admits she is a little afraid herself. "A man comes in here with tears in his eyes, you don't know when he's going to come back and say, 'Lay yours on the she Says. "It really hurts me that we can't do more," she says. "All I've got to give them is some cans of corn and some beans.

We don't have anything like margarine for them to cook with. I'd appreciate some pprk 'n beans right now. You can feed little children pork 'n beans." $200 he had been saving to go to a safety patrol conference to help them pay bills. That family, at least, eventually got help. Paul Morgan, director of EOA's manpower program, says a young man who had been on parole for five months came into his office recently and said he had begged authorities to put him back in jail.

He had not worked since he was pa-' roled and was afraid he might do something wrong, according to Morgan. While the job situation has improved somewhat, Morgan says, his office still gets 200 to 250 applicants a week. Most are unskilled and uneducated, and all the Christmas jobs have been filled, he adds. Albert Love, associate director of the Christian Council of Metropolitan Atlanta, cites the case of a family burned out in October, with the father and an 8-year-old son still in the hospital from burns suffered in the fire. The family has been unable to get welfare money, according to Love, and needs assistance to subsist.

He also cites the case of an elderly couple who have custody of a 17-year-old boy now hospitalized and suffering permanent paralysis. "Both the couple and the boy are on Social Security, and the couple will be unable to provide Christmas for him," says Love. Rebecca Jarvis, volunteer resources coordinator for Fulton County Family and Children Services, tells of a mother recently deserted by her husband, left with three retarded children to care for. "One of our caseworkers said the house was completely barren of food," she says, "and the children were seen trying to get food from dumpsters." An elderly woman no relatives, she says, is about to lose her furniture, needs clothes and has practically no food. A young mother, 26, is bedridden and unable to care for her young son, in the first grade, who needs school clothes, she says.

Louvenia Bell, social services counselor two weeks immediately before Christmas, he adds. Numbers don't seem to tell the full story. Of 12 EOA centers in metro Atlanta, 10 actually showed decreases in intakes for November as compared to November 1974. Ocie Pouncie, director of EOA's East Central Neighborhood Center, one place where intakes have declined, attributes this to several factors, including the fact that people have resigned themselves to unemployment and that there is an absence of the "alarmist syndrome" of a year ago. But Pouncie, himself, is alarmed.

"I think the problems are just as pronounced, maybe more so," he says. "I think we are skidding on thin ice, that the bottom is about to fall out." While economic indicators tend to counter any idea of a slide into a depression and even reflect a new enthusiasm for Christmas buying, social workers can rattle off long lists of economic horror stories that paint a gloomy picture for at least a segment of metro Atlanta's populace. "We are finding people living in shacks, with no plumbing and no water, and middle class families who rocked along until the economic bottom fell out," says Mrs. Margaret Chadwick, social services counselor for the South Fulton Neighborhood EOA Center, She tells of one couple with eight children, living in a shack in a gully off busy Stewart Avenue in southwest Atlanta. Their electricity was turned off months ago, and she assumes the gas has been cut off, too.

She hasn't been able to check because everytime she stops by, the only people visibly present are two children who run and hide. "The only reason they're not on the street," she says, "is that the house they're living in has been condemned." She also tells the story of a paint contractor who lost his job after he had to have a leg amputated. A son gave his parents By RON TAYLOR "We've got one woman that's been on the street since last Wednesday," says social worker Mary Sanford, as she tries to weed through the desperate cases fresh in her memory, recalling a recent eviction situation. Where does the woman sleep? "She's been living under plastic, under the plastic draped over her furniture, on the street," Mrs. Sanford says.

"She's got a bucket, like a cleaning can, and she has charcoal in it and some wood. That's how she keeps warm." Mrs. Sanford, a social services counselor with the Northwest-Perry Homes Neighborhood Center of Economic Opportunity Atlanta Inc. (EOA), has been with EOA for 10 years. "It appears things are getting worse," she says.

"And we really and truly are going to be able to do very little." While merchants predict record Christmas sales and politicians talk of an economic turnaround, those who work with metro Atlanta's poor people tend to agree Christmas 1975 may be worse for the disadvantaged than the early recession period of Christmas 1974. They continue to encounter families without jobs, without sufficient clothing, without money, without food, even without places to sleep. Meanwhile, those connected with charitable organizations say those who have something to give seem no more willing to part with it than they did last year, when recession dampened the gift-giving spirit. Gilbert Dulaney, administrator for Fulton County Family and Children Services, says private contributions to volunteer programs are off 75 per cent from prior years. Maj.

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