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Et~AA Exposure ably to Chicago wlwrc she also inil'Yvicwecl neighborhood res idcnts. "In Chicago white flight has he~ en preceded by When RICKTI!Ol\1AS, CIIAHLESSCRUCCS, MARGARET bombings ~md violence. I don't sec that happening in the DITCIIEL and MIKE KIRBY met to talk about the VECAA South. However, wi lh regard to integration, VECAA is the neighborhood last month they had an interested on-looker. exception. For most cities open housing has not meant inte An NBC News film crew in Memphis to report on open housing gration." met with them to discuss VECAA 's successes in the areas The filmed report will be bro~ulcast sometime in March of housing, education and neighborhood stability. as a five-minute segment of the Nl3C evening news. It will Producer FIUEDA WILLIAMSON had chosen the Vollin serve as a follow-up report on a ncwseast :ti r·ed when open tinc-Evcrgrecn community because it is one of the few suc housing was introduced ten years ago. cessfully integrated neighborhoods in the South and, in fact, across the nation. Also featured in the news short will be a report on the Hyde Park community in Chicago which will serve as a Northern counterpart to the VECAA area. In addition to the filmed interview with VECAA spokes ~ VECAA M~ets men the crew shot footage at Vollintine Elementary School and interviewed its principal, ROCHESTER NEELY. Ran J OnHous1ng dom scenes were filmed on other aspects of the neighborhood. The next meeting of the Vollintine/Ever The crew also visited the Westwood area where subsidy green Community Action Association will be housing and overcrowded schools have caused white flight held on Sunday, April 4, at 3 p, m. at our neigh and the Bellevue-Lamar area where residents have produced borhood "Y" at 1542 Jackson Avenue, a film documenting a series of town meetings they have held. A major concern of V/E residents in recent In Westwood Reverend JAMES NETTERS, former City months has been housing deterioration and A Councilman and director of the Community Relations Com pril 's program is devoted to this problem and mission, escorted the news team through his newly founded its possible solutions, The program will focus Mt. Pisgah-Westwood Church. The congregation, which is on housing code enforcement and the featured black, recently moved to Westwood from South Memphis and speaker will be RICHARD HOLLADAY with the this resulted in white flight from the area. City's Department of Housing Improvement, In contrast the VECAA panel expressed confidence that Mr, Holladaywil1 discuss the nature of the race relations were no longer a major problem. Margaret housing code and what we, as concerned resi Ditchell stated that those persons wanting to do so had already dents, can do to see that it is enforced in left and that some black residents had sold their homes to our neighborhood, The code as a means of for whites anxious to move into the neighborhood. Mike Kirby, cing abnentee landlords to maintain their pro chairman of VECAA,felt that the neighborhood's stability is perty will also be dealt with" based upon a willingness to accept blacks as neighbors. He Plans are also being made to have at least also attributed VECAA 's success to a set of effective tactics one City Councilman at this meeting so that developed by the organization to handle potentially damaging your concerns about the area's housing can be issues. voiced, We encourage everyone to come and bring a neighbor, Memphis, Tennessee 6 March, 1976 Volume VI, Number 3 Circulation: 5000
NOT TO BE PLACED IN MAILBOXES Meet The Neighbors New Ad Rates Effective with the April issue of theN ews, there by Karen Tynes will be an increase in the price for commercial ads, The News has for over six years maintained the Judge ALBERT BOYD and his wife, JULIA, are relative rates that were charged in the initial issue, These newcomers to our neighborhood. They bought the house at prices have been far below the going rate and the 424 N. McNeil just two years ago. In addition to his new new prices will still be a bargain, duties as city court judge, Boyd says he has also become a The new prices will be $5 for a small box ad plumber, painter and electrician. The house, though struc and $10 fora lorge boxad, The rate for classified turally sound,needed a great deal of work and, like so many ads will rcmain 50¢ as this section is looked at as others, they are doing the work themselves. Julia's parents, a neighborhood service o Mr. and Mrs. GORDAN BINGHAM,live right around the cor ner from them :md were responsible for their finding the house on McNeil. The Judge's mother, Mrs. Clara Boyd, makes Ouotable her home with the Bqyds. Both the Boyds had lived out east before and really enjoy It is m)' belief that. our c:xistencc rm this pebble of the convenience of Mid-town living. The ,Judge says he is only the universe• i~; sc;stilinecl by intl'rdcpencic•ncy, vVe eight minutes from his work and Julia, who is a nurse for an will nC'vr;r secun? tlw blessinq s r•f lib<'rty <1n
but an attempt to provide companionship through card playing, Around The Neighborhood watching soap operas on TV, etc. STEVE WHELAN, a 16 -year -old student at Christian The program is open to both men and women and such Brothers High School, has received a summer scholarship ideas as sack lunches and widow-to-widow programs may be to the Sewanee Music Center. Steve is a percussionist and tried. is the son of Mr. and Mrs. JOHN WHELAN of 1952 Jackson. For further information call Ms. Ammons at the dovm REVA COOK of 727 West Drive recently was given the town "Y" at 527-948G. position of director of public relations for the Hyatt Regency Community Development Meeting Hotel in Memphis. Mrs. Cook has long been active in pro motional activities. About twenty residents of the Community Development Cypl"ess Health and Safety Committee (CD) Program's priority area I-B met on March 1 at McLean 1\ s this issue hits the streets a public hearing is being Baptist Church. The meeting served as an organizational held in the neighborhood to obtain citizen comments on some introductory session to kick off the planning effort for the of the area's environmental probloms as identified by tho Cy area bordered roughlv ily ChelsPa, University, Vollintine and press Health and Safety Committee. The hearing, which is Evergreen. scheduled for 7 p.m. , March 4, at Baron Hirsch Synagogue, The participants elected committee officers to work with is significant because it is being held in the neighborhood at a time when citizens can partie ipate. The Health and Hos pital Committee of the Shelby County Quarterly Court, along The Vollintinc-Evergrccn Community Action Asso with Squires Bailey, Canale and Smith, will answer questions ciation (VEC/\A) is a non-profit neighborhood organi and receive statements from neighborhood residents. zation founded in 1 9 7 0. Its boundaries arc roughly New YWCA Program Watkins, Cypress Creek, Trezevant and Overton Park BETTY AMMONS, director of the north branch of the A venue. V E C 1\ A's initial goal was to enhance and YWCA, has announced a new program beginning in March at maintain a stable biracial community with quality hous the facility in the First United Lutheran Church at Jackson. ing, services and facilities. It has been active in pro In an effort to meet the needs of neighborhood residents,the moting stability, assisting in school desegregation, op "Y" is initiating a program for nearby senior citizens. While posing commercial rezoning and in general promoting not duplicating any existing services for the elderly, the "Y" those activities that serve to create a viable mid- town is planning to turn over its facilities every Wednesday mor community. ning to neighborhood senior citizens. The activity will be ...... ' ...... ' ...... unstructured and both "Y" members and non-members can Vollintine-Evergreen Community Action Association: plan projects to meet their needs. There will be no classes 1976 NI:W AND RENEWAL MEMBERSHIP 1976:
REWARD for return of five-month-old Doberman with NAME·------~ red collar" Escaped from yard Thursday, Feb, 19 ADDRESS ______in the Vollintine/Evergreen area, Call 324-5638 and leave numbero No questions asked, Membership $2.50- Individual, Family, Business: Make checks payable to VECAJ\. ~ ; WINDOW AIR CONDITIONERS thoroughly cleaned Send to: Mr, Irvin Sachritz ~~·~,r,;:V.. : and checked, $17, 50 for one unit or $15 per unit 899 Sheridan Street ·. ~ !§ : .< ~ c,. ' • for two or more, Call Ed Wingfield, 274-3840...... M_emphis, " ...... TN 38107. · .:
Episcopal ITALIAN Church of the & AMERICAN FOOD Good Shepherd 1971 Jackson (at University) PLATE LUNCHES SUNDAY SERVICES 7:30A.M.- Mass DINO'S 9:30A.M. -Church School 10:30 A.M. - Choral Communion Southwestern WEDNESDAY SERVICE 10:00 A.M. -Mass and Bible Study Grill THE REVEREND FATHER 454 N. Bingham 324-1221 CHARLES H. SYKES RECTOR Just east of The Park off Broad 645 N. McLean Blvd. 276-9263 REGISTRATION OPEN DOOR BIBLE CHURCH NOW BEING ACCEPTED For the Tot a I Child Little Flower PLANNED CURRICULUM 17~J2 N. Parkwa~· HOT LUNCHES Sunday School- ~l::30 a.m. School Daily and Weekly Hates l\Iorning Sen·icc- 10:45 a.m. / ,',. fv'. - t, i . \1. 1976-77 School Year Evc·ning Service- 7:00p.m. AGES 2-G 274-H440 Grades l-8 "ft ~~·.., ri .. t H1l·lt· \'tlll \tc,'I!T, 1644 Jackson at Belvedere McLEAN BAPTIST CHURCH \ uu HUll! If!(· !JJhic ( iwrci·."
CD officials and made some progress in organizing block Mr. ED BOYD, ,,,,sist:mt deputy engineer in the divi:-;ion, clubs. Each V /E resident in the area described above will states that (he incrc:1sc w:1s appropriate on the h~1sis of studies be contacted and as keel to p:nticipate in the planning process. ('Omp1ctc·d in the :1rT:1. Only five of those present live in the V/E area; many more Tlw mnin crilcrion W'<'d in making such changes is tlH' voices are needed if our needs arc to be eonsidcrecl. typical r;;ic' or spc; i hy drivers now usin~· lh<' c;trc<'l. ~:!:lie Planners from the :trchitecturnl firm of Taylor and Crump b\1 n·qnir'l'S tl\:11 speed limits ::ppr·oxim:l!t· tll<' ex is~ inp; speed were present to explain the process by which they would de oi' S'ic; nf lhl' Vl'l1icle.-<. Tht' lr:lllc'pnrl:Jtion dcp:tl'imcnt ::!so termine the allocation of over .~:l million 'n thr~ ncighho 1·hood . check~ l~1nd u.~(' fr1 dc1Ci'nlith' if pPpui~ll ton ,!cn~-..ity, cong-('1-> The plan will require tl1rcc to four months to prcp:1rc. linn, e1<'. :trr· f;tcloi'~~ OPEN MONDAY Tl!IW SATUHDAY IT ALlAN & AMERICAN FOOD Porteous PARKWAY HOUSE BEAUTY SHOP Little Italy Garage 272-9686 c~RO UN D r LOOR !960 N. PT·RKWI\Y Private Dining Room OIL CHANGE, LUBE and OIL FILTER Seating 40 $9"95 With This Ad IRVIN SACHRITZ Tune-Up (Parts & Labor)-$26 761-1810 or 27G-G2!G 4 P.M.-lA.M. Open Monday thru Friday NEW YORK Ll FE TUESDAY- SUNDAY 1553 Overton Park Avenue INSURANCE COMPANY 276-1489 1580 VOLUNTINE 272-2{.00 8 9 9 Sheridan