The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 April 1968 — Page 5

Tuesday, April 9, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Page 5

School releases poverty study

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPI>A University of Notre Dame study of three major cities claims mass attacks on poverty will fail unless they are adaptable to local conditions and attitudes. "Our study is still going on, but preliminary findings indicate the poverty battle cannot be waged on a mass attack unless such programs as capable of being adapted where necessary to the conditions in a specific are a,” sociologist Hugh P. O’Brien said. "Despite common denominators bf poverty — low income,

poor housing, inadequate schools — there are many differences, even among the same ethic groups in different geographical areas," O’Brien said. The study was conducted in New York’s Harlem and Spanish Harlem; Washington's Negro and Appalachian blight areas, and Chicago’s Puerto Rican and southern white slums. It showed marked differences from area to area. For example, O'Brien said the Puerto Rican in Chicago feels much less entrapped in the ghetto than his counterpart in Spanish Harlem. Residential and

employment stability is far greater among Appalachian immigrants to Washington than to those in Chicago. The drug addiction which plagues Harlem is virtually absent in Washing, ton’s Q Street Negro slum area. Only half the households eligible for welfare had even bothered to apply for public relief grants, according to the study. The study involved 2,500 households and 9,860 persons and was undertaken under a $564,302 grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, OEO. It found that job training programs have had virtually no

impact in ghettoes. "Fewer than 20 per cent of those we interviewed, who had left or been graduated from school, had had any form of job training,’’ O’Brien said. Most of those who received job training got it from employers. Only 5 per cent received such training from government or non-profit agencies. The total dropped to 2 per cent among teen-agers, he said. Not only must mass attacks on poverty be better directed to the needs of the population they are aimed at serving, they must be accompanied by major

changes in social institutions, O’Brien found. "Such institutional change has not yet been brought about, with the possible exception of the legal services program, which appears to have accomplished some necessary changes in legal structure and procedures as they relate to the poor," O’Brien said. * * * San Antonio’s World’s Fair is the first international exposition ever held in the southern half of the United States. National Geographic says. The $156 mUlion fair seeks to combine the gaiety of a festival, the vigor and spontaneity of the frontier, and the sophisticated adventure of Space Age Technolcgy.

By MERRIMAN SMITH UPI White House Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI)Backstairs at the White House: It was possible from behind White House fences to get fleeting gUmpses of what was happening to America’s image abroad during violence that swept many cities after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King. '"here was an urgent telephone call to the White House Sunday from London. One of America’s better known columnists, Rowland Evans, was flying over the Atlantic aboard

a commercial airliner bound for Washington. The airUne’s London office wanted to arrange, through the good offices of the White House, “safe conduct’’ for Evans from Dulles International Airport in suburban Virginia to the columnist’s home in the fashionable Georgetown section of Washington. The conclusion at this end of the overseas call was that the British airUne people, in concern for a passenger, thought Washington had been turned into one large battleground. Actually, the route from

Dulles to Georgetown was far from the area of the nation’s capital where the disorders were centered. But the impression abroad must have been that the entire town was in flames. Worried African diplomats telephoned both the White House and State Department for advice on what to do during the worst of the Washington violence. The Advice The advice was to stay away from the trouble area and conform with the curfew, although police and soldiers probably would not have been too stringent in curfew enforcement for vehicles bearing diplomatic license plates.

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