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...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Tenement" follows the fortunes-such as they are-of nine Negro families in a Chicago slum, from last year's long, hot summer to their eviction early this month to make way for an urban renewal project...
Most of the nation's ecumenical parishes have been organized in order to serve poverty-plagued urban slum neighborhoods, where shrinking financial resources often make it difficult to maintain separate churches. A case in point is the nation's first joint Protestant-Roman Catholic church, St. Mark's in Kansas City, Mo. (TIME, July 22), which serves a largely Negro district of 15,000. Staffed by a Catholic priest and three Protestant ministers (Episcopal, United Presbyterian and United Church of Christ), St. Mark's will break ground in May for its new building; the parish will...
...sees it, that would be unfair to the Center's aims. His group, he says, is not trying to provide ordinary opportunities for voluntary service, and many of the would-be volunteers who inquire at the office are referred to more conventional organizations--the Red Cross, the hospitals, the slum schools...
Chief William H. Parker was a crusty law-enforcement fundamentalist who spent 16 years building the Los Angeles Police Department into one of the best known, best paid and least corrupt in the U.S. There was a price though: a chilly distance between the cops and the slum Negroes that helped to start the 1965 Watts riots. When Parker died at 64 last July, Los Angeles set out to find a successor skilled in "community relations"-the art of enlisting citizens to help prevent crime, rather than relying on repression after it happens. Last week the city found...
...learn that the way out of the car is to write more traffic tickets and exceed their informal quotas (based on anticipated crime) in making "field interrogations" and misdemeanor arrests. Civil rights leaders argue that police sometimes overexercise their discretionary powers by hitting minority groups for marginal offenses. In slum areas, critics claim, such zeal is often self-defeating: for the poor, unpaid traffic tickets and minor arrests lead to more arrests, lost jobs-and more crime in order to pay the bills...