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Tag: December 1972

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 and Fridays, 9:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M.
In the first five months of 1972, the industry recalled more cars than it sold.
Block Mothers, a nation-wide movement for the protection of school children, is not in effect in this area.
The after school recreation program at Hamilton #3 is acquiring more youngsters each week.
A number of local block units, as well as the Council, are inquiring of federal mortgage insuring agencies about the disposition of repossessed homes in our neighborhood.
The Block Watcher program, a cooperative venture of police and citizens, has proved an excellent crime deterrent.
The incidence of crime in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area followed an irregular pattern from May to October of this year, with no clear evidence of long-range increase or decrease except in home burglaries.
West End Townhouses, Inc., a limited dividend firm, founded by the late Phillip Lucier, to buy, renovate, rent and sell multiple family dwellings in the neighborhood, reports that it is completing readjustments caused by Mr. Lucier's sudden death in 1970.
Electric engraving tools for marking valuables are available from the Skinker-DeBaliviere Community Council, Inc., 6008 Kingsbury, and from the Police-Community Relations Office, 5884 Easton.
These days we tend to think of education as an expensive commodity as, of course, it is.
Archival article — originally published in The Paper, December 1972.
For the first time this year the crime rate for house burglaries is up five per cent in the Skinker-DeBaliviere area.

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