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Hi II 1 MMt WpfrTiijjT i Chnrles Scclion Tuesday November 14 1967 Complete Local News a Foreign Language in Slums 1 i can sill Shull flier-come and huild housing projects until ice are blue in the face hut ice can educate the culturally disadvantaged child by treating his dialect as sloppy I)r William Stewart By GEORGIA MARSH Herald staff Writer The slum kid should be taught English as if it were a foreign language a linguistics expert told Dade educators Monday Negro children from low income families have a of their own said Dr William A Stewart one the teacher must treat as just that and not as incorrect English said Dr William A Stewart can sing Shall and build housing projects until we are blue in the face but we educate the culturally disadvantaged child by treating his dialect as sloppy he said must teach him new skills without applying our value judgments to the way he behaves just as we would teach him French for Dr Stewart a researcher at the Center of Applied Linguistics in Washington DC is considered a leading authority on Negro dialects He is in Dade this week as a consultant to the school system He blames failure of the Head Start program and other educational programs designed to help the slum child on failure of teachers to learn and understand the dialect the social customs and the value judgments of low-income Negro families dialect has logic order and but it is misinterpreted because of English he said For instance a child who says and be is saying two different things In the first instance the child means the running is occurring at that moment In the second the child refers to someone who runs off and on and may be expected to run at some future time But to many teachers the meaning is the same and she just chalks it up to improper speech he said He criticized as a in our social the lack of a coherent description of the social structure of the Negro ghettos of value concepts and conflicts and of the skills maintained and passed on in the ghettos regardless of school instruction interpret what the Cuban is like but not the his culture but in the mainstream culture considered This misinterpretation by the teacher leads to a breakdown of communication he added Stewart said it is up to the teacher to understand that the class Negro behaves in a different way from white The slum child should be taught standard English without out nonstandard he said when does talking two languages put you in a low-standard asked Stewart he said To illustrate his point he said the culturally disadvan- -Vo Strings Attached Notr Gives Metro ts' I if -Tv '4 i tk '''V i i I pvV- V-V -hfV -isr- yvi -j i -3 4- i I- iXn taged Negro child look at his teacher when he is speaking considered impolite in i hi 5 'kf 4' 'Of support to Hialeah postmen Bob Barton and Harrell Whitehurst and airline mechanic Jimmie Crews The fourth challenger is Dick Trendel an insurance agent going it alone Mayor Henry Milandir who won a 13th term without a runoff has not publicly reacted to revolt A week ago flushed with victory the mayor said he was pulling for the incumbents Thiee days later Lockward bolted with a slap at with the mayor gamble to seat at least one more disenchanted councilman is a tough uphill fight Whitehurst the closest in last election Named stuff at Stadium just before wowed an just more ft' Columnist Poverty War Gripes Many Critics of the War on Pov-ei ty which is stymied now i 1 Congress debates whether or not to appropriate more funds have to look far to find cause for gripes When dealing with a government-funded bureaucracy the likes of Economic Opportunity Program Inc there are bound to be plenty lying around 7 Watching this program mushroom in less than three years from an idea into a fullblown very complex organization having a subtle but expanding influence on many segments of community life had some gripes of my own For one thing been a slow business jarring the poor out of their apathy and into productive participation Walk into a neighborhood center and chances are find more desks and staff workers than neighborhood people 1 remember the Head Start teacher from Perrine who quit a couple of weeks ago and came storming in to complain that her class had dwindled from a score of children to five but dropouts were kept on the roll to make it look good There are many such ex-- amples one could find 1 sure to demonstrate that the poverty war is not perfect Some of them from other cities are even being re- counted in Congress But when viewed against what the poverty war seeks to accomplish and what it is already accomplishing in terms of lifting human aspirations their significance falls apart The War on Poverty is too great an ideal to be nitpicked to death Attack at Roots THE SUPERB thing about this massive and unique ef-foit is that it seeks to attack at their roots the causes of urban poverty ignorance apathy filth and human exploitation The undergirding philosophy is to provide people not handouts with the means of helping themselves Overcoming indifference is part of the effort There are many others One of the really fine programs in Miami now hanging by its thumbs until Congress makes up its mind is that which provides legal services to the poor It amounts to safeguarding rights of people who never had safeguards before For the first lime in history' a poor Negro tenant can go to a free lawyer and find out his rights in a dispute with the landlord For the first time people traditionally gouged by loan sharks or unscrupulous peddlers on credit of TV furniture appliances and whatnot can get expert advice about the shady spots in a contract EOPl Busy MONDAY I chatted with the top lawyer Howard Dixon who told me i division has handled 7000 local cases for 6-000 clients since being established 15 months ago If EOPI is killed Dixon told me one effect will be to shatter Negro belief in the white promises to help improve his lot wiped out it will be twice as hard to get back to where we are now This is enough to make me want to During the past week however it has become obvious that a lot of Dade Countians believe the War on Poverty is worthwhile They have put up some very' tangible evidence of this There was that $300000 loan from the School Board to keep the Head Start program going $10000 from the United Fund to buy food for kids in the Day Care program $20000 loan from Radio Station VKAT for legal sendees and the launching of a $500000 local fund drive for the rest The poverty war is not perfect but it seems to inspire a lot of good faith Horn of Plenty There was plenty of sound Satch-mo style Monday night and plenty of empty seats as the jazzman did his Staff Photo by JOHN PINEDA audience-shy Marine Louis Armstrong warms up going on stage where he enthusiastic audience of than 1000 Cily Drops 2 Demands In Isl Pact By MIKE POWER Herald Staff Writer Miami commissioners did an about-face Monday and handed the Miami Housing Authority over to Metro on its terms The action was in sharp contrast to a transfer proposal hammered out two w'eeks ago Gone were two provisions Metro officials said flatly they accept And Miami commissioners who appeared to be balking at the transfer said they weren't trying to indirectly block the transfer One commissioner however admitted that a month ago the vote would have been four to one against giving the muc h-applauded agency to the county Maurice Ferre who made the motion Monday said he would have been that lone vote Asked what brought on unanimous vote he replied simply winds I The two unacceptable conditions were a Housing Authority Board under the county manager and a demand that two city commissioners sit on the board County Manager Porter Homer said both were illegal uner the Metro charter Mayor Steve Clark said it a take-it-or-leave-it proposition The city was open to negotiation he said at the time first resolution was a resolution of intent to find out the feeling of Dade he said know those conditions were illegal at the time Had we that knowledge I think they have been Commissioner Athalie Range did win approval Monday of an amendment urging more public housing for poor Negroes It asks the county to consider construction of low income housing inside the city Criminal Staff Photo by DOUG KENNEDY weeks outfitting that will make it the prize of the charter boat trade in the Islands It was the America that eventually gave its name to international yacht prize competition The America's Cup A event the Cup has been held for 118 years by US yachtsmen Rudy Schaefer of the New York brewing had the replica built America Back in 1851 the foster father of this 104-foot schooner sailed out of Cowes England to defeat 17 British vessels in what has become the most famous yacht race This is the new America a better-than-reasonable facsimile of its predecessor tied up at the Albury docks on MacArthur Causeway awaiting six Defection Sparks Hialeah Runoff KiJdin Wealthy Firemen Big Blaze Lelchuck who sulfered a possible broken toe said McAuley The chief explained the town has four piofessional firemen reinforced by about 30 volunteers A system of phone calls rouses them out and they can all be at the fire in about ten minutes Why do they go? a matter of chic pride to belong to this said McAulev Channel 23 Goes on Air Today Bv JACK ANDERSON Herald TV Editor problem-beset new UHF television station WAJA-TV (Channel 23) received final Federal Communications Commission clearance late Monday to go on the air today Programming starts at 9 this morning with a test pattern and an exercise show Because of the lateness of FCC approval however The Herald is not able to include Channel programs in the listings of its TV-radio page today They will be included starting Wednesday A A-TV owned by Coastal Broadcasting Co had hoped to get on the air last Monday but its inaugural was postponed by technical difficulties with its transmitter A second start last Sunday was postponed by a delay in getting FCC approval The programs can be received only on those home sets equipped with UHF as well as VHF channels Sets manufactured after May 1964 are so equipped by federal law Older sets will require a UHF adapter Channel programming will include comedy and adventure series movies and sports with a heavy emphasis each day on stock market quotations and business news and analysis By MIKE PETIT Herald Staff Writer The last minute defection of an incumbent from the normally tight city hall ranks has given spark to a routine runoff election in Hialeah today Only about 9000 voters are expected to go to the polls open from 7 am to 7 pm but the crossover of veteran councilman William Lockward has given the darkhorse challengers some hope The four incumbents Vernon Ashley Lockward Hosea Smith and Milt Thompson led in last primary by wide margins and until last Friday were considered shoo-ins Then Lockward tossed his In forma lion Hoads Changes on bribery charges The three policemen admitted having taken part in the bribe negotiations between Baron and two wrecker firms The charges against Baron were iater dismissed by Criminal Court Judge Carling Stedman who said constitutional rights were violated when he was compelled to testify or lose his job The city is currently appealing a court ruling to reinstate Baron no reason to punish a man for being said PoUce Chief Walter trailed the lowest incumbent Thompson by 2700 votes If nothing else endorsement put new life in the campaign and spurred the three other incumbents to vigorous electioneering Earton Whitehurst and Crews cited op-positon to the sewer program as the principal reason for winning the support They said the three other incumbents were out to dump Lockw'urd for his opposition to the sew'er plan Voters will be asked today to pick four of the eight runoff contestants as well as ballot on a 30-year franchise Turn to Page 2B Col 3 DiLucchio who returns to work directly under Major Gunn worked under him earlier when Gunn was in charge of the homicide section lie was promoted to public information officer in 1964 and was one of the prime movers in seeking stricter gun laws will be nice to get back to do some detective said DiLucchio who once designed a red alarm system for use in alerting police or other persons when a burglary was in progress Pul Out By BILL ROBERTSON Herald Staff Writer The ritziest gang of fne-men in the county rolled out of their Bay Harbor Island homes early Monday and put out a blaze that gutted a restaurant and damaged several stores one could buy his own fire Chief James McAuley said proudly of the well-heeled volunteers who turned out to fight a fire that destroyed dick's Dcli-Lunth 1067 95th St Bv dav the volunteers are I pillars of the community doctors lawyers bank exec- i utives but once a month they show up at the station to learn how to fight fires Four firefighters suffered minor injuries The list in- eluded Town Manager Ed Preble and Councilman Jerry Lelchuck Also injured was volunteer Lloyd Manning and professional Fire Lt Robert Patterson training really paid off last said McAuley He said stores surrounding the restaurant were damaged by smoke and water but the well-heeled hose brigade kept the fiames from reaching them McAuley estimated $30-000 damage to the restaurant He said the fire started in the kitchen but he know why yet Injuries were limited to cuts except for I High-Ranking Staff Alter Police Lineuj Inspector Charles Gunn was named Monday to head the Miami Police Criminal Investigation Section succeeding the late Ralph Emerson Lt Jay Golden a key figure in a controv ersial bribery case last year was named the department's new public information officer replacing Capt John DiLucchio Capt DiLucchio was shifted to criminal investigation to fill the vacant post Major Gunn who has been wth the department since 1940 had been filling in for Lmcrson during the extended Headley of appointment Golden was in charge of our cadet program a federally subsidized progam and his file is replete with letters of commendation from Washington DiLucchio who returns to work directly under Major Gunn worked under him earlier when Gunn was in charge of the homicide section A veteran of 20 years DiLucchio started first bad check detail in 1954 while holding the rank of sergeant He also worked motorcycle and horse patrols illness before his death last weekend Gunn was named inspector of police on Jan 10 1964 and has served in that capacity as assistant to Emerson been a good man for many said Chief Headley of Major Gunn sure do a good job in the new LL Golden became a news figure last year when he testified along with Sgt Robert Stanton and Officer Harry Gould under immunity before the Dade Grand Jury The jury indicted former Assistant Police Chief Glenn Baron in December 1966.