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Category: December 1972

Goblins, clowns, Spanish senors and senoritas and even a robot paraded, danced and ate hot dogs, cup cakes, and drank soda on Halloween afternoon in the gym.
Dec. 8 — Grace Methodist Church Dinner.
An office for a new project called The Project for the Improvement of School Attendance (PISA) will be opened at 1153 North Kingshighway late in October.
The Churches in the area will have an interesting and varied array of Christmas services and activities this season, ranging from the traditional carol service to an Art Festival.
Crime is down in the 7th District and in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area (though the West End keeps its image as a high crime area).
Since last April, Roundhouse, a student operated, non-profit community resource center at Washington University, has offered a placement service for area students who want to volunteer in any of 200 community organizations ranging from the Red Cross to the juvenile court.
The Rosedale-Skinker Association can take credit for the wettest party of the year, their fifth annual Hallowe’en Party, held in St. Roch’s Gym at 5:00 P.M., before the youngsters went trick or treating.
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PCR — Police Community Relations

The Union-Page Police Community Relations Center, 5884 Easton, is open Monday, Wednesday and Saturdays from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.; Tuesdays, Thursdays…

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New Car Blues

In manufacturing the 1971 and 1972 automobile, it would appear as if the automotive industry has taken one step beyond -- beyond…

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Block Mothers

Block Mothers, a nation-wide movement for the protection of school children, is not in effect in this area. The program provides for…

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Playground Schedule

The after school recreation program at Hamilton #3 is acquiring more youngsters each week. 175 enrolled in the first two weeks after…

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Repossessed Houses

A number of local block units, as well as the Council, are inquiring of federal mortgage insuring agencies about the disposition of…

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Be a Block Watcher

The Block Watcher program, a cooperative venture of police and citizens, has proved an excellent crime deterrent. Citizens are given a one…

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Crime Down

The incidence of crime in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area followed an irregular pattern from May to October of this year, with no clear…

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West End Receives Money

West End Townhouses, Inc., a limited dividend firm, founded by the late Phillip Lucier, to buy, renovate, rent and sell multiple family…

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Etching Tools Available

Electric engraving tools for marking valuables are available from the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, Inc., 6008 Kingsbury, and from the Police-Community Relations Office,…

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Opportunity

These days we tend to think of education as an expensive commodity as, of course, it is. There are, however, educational services…

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HAMILTON REPORT

Archival article — originally published in The Paper, December 1972. By Author not credited. Archival date note: only the issue month or…

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Ident

For the first time this year the crime rate for house burglaries is up five per cent in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area. One…

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White Influx

Why are whites moving back into the Skinker-DeBaliviere area? This question is answered in a report done by Daniel Jaworowski, a St.…

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