Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1988 — Page 2

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PAUL PARKS By WENDY PORTER Staff Writer Some people are good at everything. Paul Parks, born and raised in Indianapolis, now living in Boston, is one of those people. His accomplishments range from serving as Secretary of education in Massachusetts to starting his own engineering firm, Paul Parks and Associates, Inc., in 1957. Enough to keep anybody busy, but Parks has added to his priority list the presidential campaign of long-time friend Michael Dukakis. ‘‘I have known Michael for years and years and years,“ Parks said. “1 was a close friend of his brother, Stelian, who was killed in a car crash.” Parks said although he has never held an elected office himself, he has been involved in several campaigns. “I grew up in politics,” he said. “My mom was a ward chairperson, and knew the Roosevelt family very vs ell.” It was Dukakis who appointed Parks secretary of education, during his lit st term as governor, and Parks said the decision reflects the importance he places on civil rights issues. “People have been arguing about where he was during school desegration,” Parks said. “I was involved in it, I was out on the street, and Michael appointed me Secretary of Education. He got a lot of public criticis^^om tM tight for that.” Parks sai4 although a move from engiitering to education may seem like S great leap, iT v CaSril“naturally, and the skills he gained in the Purdue University engineering program, where he got his degree, helped him. “Engineering is problemsolving,” he said. “Government is problem-solving. I learned about numbers, which is budgeting, so it was very natural. Skills are transferable.” As secretary of education, Parks was instrumental in the development of the Massachusetts Experimental School System. He said one important feature of the system is the variety of ways in which material is taught. “Children have different learning styles,” he said. “Too many schools

teach in one way, and if the child doesn’t learn, decide the child is stupid. School systems ought to be pliable and open to various ways (o educate children.” Parks gives credit for this concept to Crispus Attucks High School, from which he was graduated in 1941. His ties to the school are still close—he is the president of the National Alumni Association. “We had kids from all different backgrounds there, and the school taught all of them.” Parks said he got another chance to put his problem-solving skills to work at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta last month. By convention week, differences between the Dukakis campaign and the Jesse Jackson supporters had been resolved, but the unity that was achieved there took work, he said. “One state was ready to walk off the floor over a delegate count dispute,” he said. Parks was also partly responsible for the uninterrupted sea of Jesse Jackson signs on the floor the night of Jackson’s speech—all of Dukakis’ delegates traded their candidate’s signs in for the night. The candidates themselves. Parks said, get along well. “Michael and Jesse like each other,” he said. “They’ve always liked each other. The only conflict they had was a conflict of ideas.” Parks said although Dukakis has a good civil rights record, it has been overshadowed by Jackson’s campaign. “Black folks really felt that Jesse was going to win,” he said. “They’d been taught that the only way you win is to be the best, and they thought he was the best. They were hurt.” Parks said as the campaign continues to unfold, the Dukakis record will become more clear—and more appealing—to black voters. “Jesse’s so far out ahead that people weren’t listening to Michael,” he said. “At some point the focus will be on issues and people will start listening.” Parks said he can back his praise of Dukakis with statistics—on unemployment, and minority contracts in Massachusetts. “The Commonwealth has a black unemployment rate of 5.6 percent,” he said, and added that Dukakis made it mandatory that all public projects include 20 percent minority employees, and 11 percent of the state’s contracts are given to minority firms. Parks said he believes in his candidate completely—his only weakness is a distaste for the nastiness that can be a part of campaigning. “His greatest assets are his honesty, integrity, determinedness and forthrightness,” Parks said. “Michael keeps his word, and he’s very bright, very intelligent. The fact is that he’s a fiscal conservative and a very strong civil libertarian. He will mind the store well, and make sure that people get their money’s worth out of government.”

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MAYOR WILLIAM H. HUDNUT III last week endorsed Jim Cummings for Congress, Tenth District. The endorsement was made during a fund-raising reception Mayor Hudnut held for Cummings. (Photo by Leonard and Jeannie Clark) Federal grants will help city’s homeless

By WENDY PORTER Staff Writer Federal grants totaling $920,000, to be given to Eastside Community Investment, Inc. (ECI) and the Indianapolis Division of Housing, will provide aid for the city’s homeless, allowing for the renovation of two new housing facilities for homeless people. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has alloted $564,620 for renovation and support services for housing at the Brookside building in the 2200 block of East 10th Street. In addition to 14 apartments for lowr infeome residents, the facility will include transitional housing for up to 10 homeless mentally disturbed individuals. The grant will also provide services from Midtown Mental Health. “We will offer a stable housing situation for 18 months while people get help from Midtown Mental Health,” said Dennis West, president of ECI. “We want to get them into a home ownership or rental situation.” There are several shelters for the homeless in the city, but most have a time limit of a few weeks or a month. The Brookside facility will be the first of its kind directed at the homeless in Indianapolis. Individuals with some mental disability or in need of mental service or counseling make up a large percentage of the city’s homeless, according to Fred Hash, program consultant, Indiana Department of Mental Health. “People who have a history of serious mental health problems make up about 20 percent,” he said. “Maybe another 20 or 25 percent need some kind of service because of the stress of being homeless.” Renovations on the building will be extensive, West said, and will include a new roof, electrical and heating system, new windows, and design modifications. The completed facility will house offices of the Near-Eastside Multi-Service

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Center, including an adult day care center, in addition to the apartments. The Indianapolis Division of Housing will also receive a grant of $374,360 over the next five years for renovation of 20 units for the homeless at Beechwood Gardens, a public housing complex at 30th Street and Graham Avenue. Division of Housing Administrator Rudy Hightower said the funding will also allow for services such as job training. “It’s not just a matter of placing people in a decent place to live, because this money allows up to address the question of why they’re on the street and how best to solve the problem,” he said. Hash said with the homeless population increasing, a new group is swelling the ranks—families. He attributed the problem to a lack of affordable housing, largely due to cuts in federal funding, totaling about 70 percent, in recent years. Homeless families face an uphill battle, according to Michelle Anderson, who, with her two daughters, is staying at the Mount Olive Crisis Care Center while they look for a permanent home. “I work about eight or nine hours a day, three days a week, for $3.35 an hour,” she said. “When the welfare people found out, they cut me to $22 a month. I told them they could just keep it.” Hash said a 1986 study by the Community Service Council and the Commission for Downtown estimated the number of homeless in Indianapolis at about 1,800. Up to a third of these may be children; another third may be women. Jean Pirtel, a staff member at the Mount Olive Crisis Care Center, said homeless families are not easily spotted by most people because the children spend the day in school, but they are there. “They may spend the day just walking, looking in the stores,” she said. “They don’t want people to know they’re homeless. “It is serious,” she said of the problem. “Oh, is it serious. Homelessness has been around, it’s just getting worse and coming out.”

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IPD investigates weekend death of retired postal worker Indianapolis homicide detectives are investigating the death of a 62-year-old man found dead in the garage of his home in the 1300 block of Fall Creek Parkway East Drive last Saturday morning. The body of James E. Childress, 62, a retired postal worker, was found tied with cord at about 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 3. Police said the cause of death was suffocation. He also had superficial knife wounds and abrasions from an apparent struggle. The house had been ransacked, police said. Neighbors told police they heard a disturbance and knocked on Childress’ door to investigate, but got no answer. They looked into the garage and found blood running from under the door, then called police. Authorities are still questioning neighbors to learn if anyone heard or saw anything suspicious that morning. It is unknown whether robbery was the motive. Police are waiting for relatives to determine if f anything was taken from the house. Two shot and wounded Over the past few days two men were shot and wounded in separate incidents, according to police. Two armed men attacked Roy C. Ingram, 37, 2400 block North Ethel Avenue, and James E. Sears, 68, of the same address as they were working on a car early Friday morning in the 2306 block of North Yandes Street. The two men told police that the suspects said they were going to rob them. Ingram was shot in the right lower abdomen and Sears suffered a laceration to the head during the incident. The robbers escaped with an undetermined amount of money. Meanwhile, Charles Graves, 50, 3300 block North College Avenue, was shot and wounded Friday night during a domestic argument, police reported. Investigating officers said upon their arrival at the College Avenue address they found Graves sitting in a chair suffering from two gunshot wounds to the back. Dorain M. Davis, 20, 3300 block North Broadway Avenue, was arrested in connection with the incident. Police said the shooting apparently occurred during an altercation in an alley near Graves’ home. Davis is charged with violation of the 1935 Firearms Act and reckless with severe injury. Several arrested on drug charges A man and a woman were arrested on drug charges Tuesday after a patrolman on rouiine patrol spotted suspected marijuana growing in the back yard of their house • Elizabeth Mann, 52, and Fred Lammert, 43, 1800 block West Vermont Street were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell and possession of paraphernalia. Police confiscated two suspected marijuana plants, one bag of suspected marijuana and one bottle of pills. Michael Dillow, 29, of Chicago was arrested on drug charges last Friday in Delaware County by members of the Indianapolis Police Department and Delaware County authorities. Dillow was charged with dealing cocaine and possession with intent to deal cocaine. Two men were arrested on drug charges early Friday morning after being stopped fdr a traffic vidlaUort, according to police, # ^ ^ Audi Barnes, 33, 2100 block North Pennsylvania Street, and David Parrish, 17, of Ewing Street were apprehended after Barnes allegedly failed to use his turn signal while making a turn. While talking to Barnes, a police officer allegedly spotted a cellophane wrapper containing suspected cocaine. Barnes was charged with possession of cocaine and Parrish was charged with resistingfleeing and visiting a common nuisance. Parrish also suffered a dog bite h,e received from a police K-9 while attemping to flee arresting officers.

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The number of names appearing on the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial is not 500,000, as was stated in last week’s Indianapolis Recorder. The correct number is 50,000. *** The Head Start program is not accepting applications for three-year-olds. Due to a change in policy, it is seeking new and returning four-year-olds only. However, children who turned four by Sept. I are still eligible. School 71, a Head Start site, is at 3347 N. Emerson.

Tobacco users are urged to take advantage of Little Red Door’s oral cancer screening clinic Saturday, Sept. 10, beginning at 9 a.m. at the I.U. School of Dentistry, 1121 W. Michigan Street. For more information and to make appointments, call 925-5595.

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