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No-CHA seeks The Nucleus of Chicago Homeowners will sponsor an "all out" effort to raise the $20.000 necessary to carry out their suit against the Chicago Housing authority and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Last week, the group which represents 29 organizations voted to throw its full support into a door-to- door fund raising campaign. March 4. No-CHA has spent about $16.000 so far on its case, and has about $3.000 in the bank, according to William Mulligan, spokesman. The $20.000 is needed by March 12 to continue with the case when it goes to trial then A total of S45.000 is estimated for costs to keep going through 1973.

If the money is not raised. No-CHA will have to abandon its suit. Special fund raising meetings of member organizations i be i a a i Organizations with ready cash will be asked to contribute between $1.000 and $2.000. others will be asked to solicit funds. No-CHA will meet again.

Friday. Feb. 23. in the MarqueUe Park fieldhouse. Gage, Ke nned.v select students 3 anil 6 VOL.

73 NO. 8 lErnttfltmat Member Accredited Community Newspapers of America. Inc. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1973 48 PAGES IN FOUR SECTIONS Central Edition DELIVERED TO YOUR DOOR EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY OU PER MONTH Newsstand Copy 15' Call 586-8800 for Want Ads 6 I Figures may be misleading Archer civic A representative from the Cuna a Insurance company will be a guest speaker at a meeting of the A i i i association at 7:45 p.m., Wednesday, at Stempien Veteran of Foreign Wars hall, 4235 W. 47th st.

The speaker's topic will be "Insurance Available to Credit Union Members." A $5 attendance award will be presented. The association has a membership campaign in progress with the theme "bring three for 73." On speech A i in i a i i a improvement program are in- vited to attend a meetng 7:30 i p.m., Monday, Feb. 19, in the Marquette park auditorium, 6700 S. Kedzie. Classes will be taught by Judith Rossignuolo, a speech and drama graduate of Quincy college.

Miss Rossignuolo also conducts beginning drama for children and teens Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the park. For more information, Miss Rossignuolo may be contacted at PR 6-9879. TOP beginning A new Tops club (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) will start at 1:15 a at Marquette park, W. 67th st. and S.

Kedzie ave. The area captain, Dolores Cotter, will answer questions on the purpose and programs of the club. Officials said that mothers of pre-school children are welcome, and a baby sitter will be provided at future meetings. Additional information may i be obtained from Marie Brown, 597-1039, area supervisor, or Georgeann Leonhardt, 585- i 7388. Penny social The Ladies auxiliary of the Sisters of St.

Joseph will sponsor their third annual penny social at 2:30 p.m., Feb. 25, at Lourdes High school, 4034 W. i 56th st. Tickets may be obtained from the chairman, Mrs. Eleanore Czachor, 5908 W.

63rd phone 767-4648, or the co- i a i a Mrs. Lucille Wojciechowski, 3123 S. 55th Cicero, 652-8599. Science fair The PTA will sponsor a science fair at 7:30 p.m., Friday, in the Barnard school auditorium, 10324 S. Charles st.

Gage expects 3,100 in 73-74 BY ED KELLY Gage Park High school expects 3,100 students next September according to a report released by the school's faculty Shrader hits report Gage Park PTA President Mrs. Irene Shrader this week hit the recent faculty report of the Gage Park High school, calling it "Inaccurate" and "nonfactual." The report was prepared by the school faculty for the North Central Assn. of Colleges and Secondary schools, a regional accrediting agency. The report stated a number of parochial schools in the area, and three public schools have taken average and above average students out of the school, and left Gage with remedial level students. The report said there are 18 sections of basic level classes, 87 sections of essential level classes, 81 sections of regular level classes and 19 sections of honors classes.

Mrs. Shrader, of 5551 S. Washtenaw said the staff of the school could have raised the level of the school by petitioning the board of education or the Chicago Teacher's union. Mrs. Shrader said the school needs a number of special programs, including a reading laboratory', smaller classes, and a "boundary change." "Even the study halls at Gage Park are large and students just can't concentrate in that type of environment.

At high schools over east the classes are much smaller," she said. The Gage PTA leader claimed parts of the faculty report were inaccurate, especially the statistical information. Three sets of figures are given, she said, regarding enrollment during the 1972 school year. The report showed 2,783. 2.758 and 2,781 as the total enrollment at the school.

Mrs. Shrader felt the 3,100 students total enrollment expected for 1973 was a "cautious" figure." She also said the school, while expecting 3,100, is only staffed for 2,700 students. The report indicated there was controversy over who withdrew the request, the Gage PTA, the community or Area B. "Everybody knows it wasn't the Gage PTA or the community who withdrew the request, it was the Area committee. This is inaccurate and I find it objectionable," Mrs.

Shrader stated. She felt the proposed voluntary plan in effect for enrollment at the Gage High school, which would allow 400 students from Gage to attend the new school at Archer and Pulaski was unfair. "Why reduce our school when Kennedy, Hubbard and Kelly are overcrowded?" she asked. Mrs. Shrader said statements in the report regarding the 10-week protest and boycott in front of the school were also inaccurate.

The report said the boycott was ended when a court date was set for the suit filed by the Shrader family against the board of education. Mrs. Shrader noted the suit's court date was selected at the beginning of the boycott not the end. The report showed students at Gage (Continued on page 2) last week. The report was prepared in cooperation with the North Assn.

of Colleges and Secondary schools, a regional accrediting agency. This week, 36 evaluators from the Chicago board of education, local colleges and universities, and school systems outside Chicago, will be at the school, 5630 S. Rockwell to ap-- praise the school's education program. The report, prepared under the direction of Gage principal John Hahn, stated the Chicago board of education the combined capacity of the school and its branch is 2,303 students. The figures may be misleading.

The student body at the high school during the last six years has ranged from 2,250 to 2,758 students, according to the report, although the projected enrollment in 1972-73 had been estimated by the board of education at 3,100. In other words, the predicted figure for this year was never reached. Present enrollment in the school is 2,531 students. An 11-week protest in the beginning of the school year was led by Gage PTA president Mrs. Irene Shrader, 5551 S.

Washtenaw demanded an eastern boundary change for the school to relieve alleged overcrowding. The eastern boundary of the school presently extends to Racine (1200 west). The boundary change would move it to Wood st. (1800 west). The reports said several conferences proposing various boundary changes were held and the Area committee agreed to relieve overcrowded school, school.

The report claims Julien Drayton, Area superintendant proposed a Snow sprout It's not tulip time yet, be it Holland, Holland, or South Holland, 111., but the tulips planted in the backyard of Mrs. Helen Lang, 7923 S. Elizabeth, Chicago, are sprouting now. right through the snow. These tulips, called the parrot variety, do not usually bloom until May, and aren't expected to sprout until March.

(Staff photo by Larry Ruehl) boundary change to the board of education, who then made a report. However, public hearings on the boundary proposal were held and the report was withdrawn. The board agreed the school was overcrowded and offered an optional transfer plan which would allow any student in the district transfer to any city school with an enrollment under 106.2 per cent. Schools available for transfers under the plan are: Roosevelt, Von Steuben, Hyde Park, Kenwood, Carve'r, Harrison. Parker.

Englewood, South Shore, King Senn, and Tilden. The board also said 400 students from the Gage school could attend the new- Archer Pulaski high school which will open in September. The report claimed the boycott was conducted to protest the board's plans, and that the protestore felt a boundary change was the solution. Hahn's report said the racial makeup of the school has been the chief cause of difficulty since 1965 when the boundaries of the school were moved east. The boundaries were changed to absorb students previously living in the (Continued on page 2) CLN slates traffic meet tonight By ROSE CAHILL After hearing nothing from the Chicago department of streets and traffic, the Council of Lawn Neighbors has called a second community meeting about the intersection of 63rd and Kedzie for 8 p.m., this evening, at the Chicago Lawn Methodist church, 63rd pi.

and St. Louis. CLN, with the support of six other local community organizations, is requesting that left turn signals be installed at the lights at the intersection. Last month, more than 100 angry Chicago Lawn residents lambasted a youthful representative from the department of streets, Greg Kozlik. Kozlik told the group there was not enough traffic to warrant turning signals at the intersection.

CLN claims that because there is such a tie-up of cars at the lights at 63rd and Kedzie, motorists cut down the side streets to avoid the jam up. The increased traffic on the side streets has caused a number of injuries and unnecessary deaths, according to the CLN traffic committee. "At that last meeting, the group made a motion to give the street department 30 days," said Mrs. Florence Powers, 3331 W. 60th chairman of the committee.

"We have heard nothing from (Comm. James) McDonough's office. So we have called this second meeting." CLN has requested that someone from the street department be present at the meeting, but Mrs. Powers said she was not sure exactly who would attend. Mammoth CAP rally Sunday Final preparations are being made for the Citizens Action program unity meeting, 2 p.m..

Sunday, at St. Daniel the Prophet church hall. 54th and Special section Vandals attack porno A special section of the Southtown Economist will honor- community members who have died in the Vietnam war and those who have been honored by the armed forces for bravery and acts of sacrifice. Our readers are invited to contribute pictures and biographical information of their relatives and friends. The material should be addressed to Vietnam Section Editor, Southtown Economist, 5959 S.

Harlem Chicago, 111. 60638. theater The two adult bookstores and one adult movie theater near 63rd and Western ave. came under attack this weekend by unknown persons who broke windows and littered the area with garbage. Joe "Count" Dante, 2847 E.

90th the co-owner of the Danmar adult bookstore, 6250 S. Western said the store windows were shot out Friday night, and a brick was thrown at the shop Saturday night. "I was in the store after we closed with my wife when a brick was thrown at the window. It missed the window, and hit the door frames." He said bricks or pellets have also damaged Fran's Adult bookstore, 6255 S. Western and the Highway Adult theater, at 63rd and Western ave.

Dante, who is also the owner of the Chicago Motor mart, at 7311, and 7558 S. Western noted he has no intentions of moving despite the recent violence. "I plan to stay. So far I have had no formal community complaints, and I know a number of people in the community." Dante described the recent vandalism done in his store and neigh- borhingas, "Catholic Action," at work. Nashville.

More than 15 groups liave been invited to attend the session, which the Rev. Leonard Dubi, St. Daniel associate pastor, hopes will unite the entire Southwest Side. Dubi is also citywide co-chairman of CAP. More invitations are being sent out to groups this week, according to Mrs.

Mary Ann Kulpa, 5313 S. McVicker. However, any groups that were missed arc welcome to attend the meeting, it was announced. "At the meeting," Mrs. Kulpa said.

"We will go into what CAP is all about: its goals and what it is working for now. It will be a discussion of CAP and any questions or suggestions will be welcome." Long standing CAP targets, such as high taxes and lakefront pollution will be discussed as part of the program, she explained. "Possibly something like this might bring the entire Southwest Side together," Mrs. Kulpa said. "Maybe this is the time that the Rvlnlitl glory on page 2 groups will get to know one another and work together.

It has never before happened on the South Side." The CAP meeting is the last in a series of meetings which have been held throughout the city soliciting support for citywide group. These sessions are somewhat preparatory for the CAP convention, March 25. Mary Lou Wolf, action committee chairman, from the North Side, will chair the meeting, Mrs. Kulpa said. Groups which join with CAP will have the opportunity to affiliate with a large metropolitan organization, Mrs.

Kulpa said. "Most community organizations started because of local problems, and all have an identity with their own communities," she explained. "Now they will be plugging into a citywide organization and work together for common goals. This will be the organization of the organizations for the metropolitan area." Dubi has spoken of a meeting to unite the area for longer than a year. (Continued on Page 2) TODAY'S 48 Personal Valentine Greetings--see first Classified page fconomitf Food Award Mr inning Ads IF YOUR PAPER IS NOT COMPUTE CAU OUR RADIO DISPATCH CIRCULATION DEPT 427-1212.