Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winter in Detroit, and Spreen says the reason for the crime rise was that he didn't have his three best patrolmen working for him. He calls them "Snow, Rain and Cold." Ho, ho! Well, just as this whole thing is getting off the ground, Spreen starts another drive, this time for dollar contributions from citizens to help the department buy some new equipment. He calls it "Buck Up Your Police," and already $11,000 has come in. And he isn't forgetting the reforms, either. He's putting name tags on the cops...
...schools in the ten-county archdiocese will close this year for lack of funds. In Detroit, eight schools have already announced closing, and 42 others have been told that they must decide between consolidation and shutting down. In Philadelphia, the Catholic school system has mounted a mammoth fund-raising drive to head off a possible $10 million deficit next year. In at least half a dozen states, parochial-school lobbies are badgering their state legislatures for some kind of immediate help. It is needed: last year alone, 637 Catholic schools in the U.S. shut their doors, and the total will...
Withrop House, seeking to maintain its Straus momentum, has been disappointing so far. "I guess you could say that this is a building year for us in volleyball," said House Athletic Secretary Joe Mullin. "We were hoping to get a boost in our drive for the Straus, but I guess we just don't have the experience or the depth. We're just holding bated breath and waiting for the spring...
...interim the most effective answer to the crisis is rent control. The current Rent Control Referendum Campaign Drive makes these proposals...
Most importantly, the rent control drive will mobilize a segment of the community whose interests have been too long ignored. Winning rent control will not be the end of the housing fight. It is obvious that the real answer to the problem lies in the construction of more low rent units, and this must be the next step...