An experiment in reforming drug addicts, which has been tried successfully at a few celebrated institutions like Synanon in California and Daytop Village in New York, has come to the Skinker-DeBaliviere area.
Category: August 1970
In the Delmar Baptist Pre-School summer classes the children spend the morning excitedly feeding some hungry guinea pigs.
The Boutique Shop at 323 DeBaliviere is the result of a sewing industry program financed by the Neighborhood Youth Corps and sponsored by Skinker-DeBaliviere for 13 teenage girls.
If you stand on the steps of Hamilton School between 7:30 and 5:30 each weekday, you'd swear another school year was already in session.
Originally published in The Paper, August 1970.
A substantial percentage of the residential structures in St. Louis were over 50 years old when the first local housing code was enacted.
`The Story Lady,' known in real life as Miss Sherry Eckrich, the children's librarian at the Des Peres library, introduces as many as 40 children a day to the world of books and the pleasant experience of having a story read to you on a lazy summer afternoon.
The housing code should be enforced although where there is need for a loan, this money should be made available for improvement of this property.
Charles Brown has been living in St. Louis libraries all his life.
We must have a complete restructuring of the building and housing code enforcement program to include new programs and ideas.
For two years before retiring from her job at Southwestern Bell, Blanche Reel took piano lessons on her lunch hour.
