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• l Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc. 101 Marietta St. N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30303 ( 404) 525-4262 William W. Allison , Executive Administrator Boisfeuillet Jones, Chairman, Board of Directors VOLUME 4 NUMBER 6 December 8, 1969 Yes, we know this is the first newsletter since October, but we've been rather busy! Just in case we don't see you again for a while, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR. For good measure maybe we'd better add HAPPY GROUND HOG'S DAY, too. -Public Information 525-4262 Former aide, Mrs. Elizabeth Holland (right), is shown with classmates Mrs. Rosa Huff and Mrs. Betty Ray and Herbert Goree, acting center director, Northwest (Perry Homes). SOUTH FULTON CNAC TO SPONSOR COUNTRY MUSIC BENEFIT DECEMBER 14 Jim Single Country music fans, get ready. The South Fulton CNAC is sponsoring a big Country Music Festival Benefit in the East Point City Auditorium, 3 to 6 p. m. on Sunday, December 14. RECORDING ARTISTS TO APPEAR Stars giving their time to help raise money for a community fund in a densely populated poverty area are: Jim Single, Jimmy Lewallen, Clayton Head, Phil Peace and the Peacemakers, Jimmy Meyers and the Cherokees Pap Test Pro1ec t with Carolyn Carl and Dude King, and Tommy Farrell. Set For Perry Homes A number of local and state officials will be An all-out campaign to pres.e nt at the benefit, indetect uterine cancer will cluding East Point Mayor be waged in Perry Homes on Robert E. Brown. EOA ch i ef December 10, 11, and 13. Bill Allison will be on EOA is cooperating with hand to present a certifithe Westside Branch of the cate of appreciation to American Cancer Society and Tormny Farrell for his work a host of other agencies in staging the festival. and volunteers to reach some 1200 low-income women TICKETS AVAILABLE with the Pap-smear test, breast self-examination and All tickets are $1.50 general cancer preventive and may be bought at the education. door. (For information on Volunteers to assist in advance ticket sales, call the project are still need767 - 7541.) ed. Call 522 - 6475. MRS. HOLLAND LANDS JOB AFTER AIDE TRAINING Today's world is a r a pidly moving place. And the skills needed to run it change just as f as t. For this reason, a great number of companies and government agencies are moving to re-evaluate outdated hiring policies. Mrs . Elizabeth Holland, now an employee of Atlanta Mortgage and Brokerage Company, has her job becaus e of such a re-evaluation . Until a few weeks ago, Mrs. Holland was employed (Continued on page 2.) WILLIAM CALLOWAY, vice chairman, EOA Board of Directors, congratulates corrnnunity leaders MRS . ETHEL COX and MRS. LENA HUNT as he names Central City as Center of the Month. �MRS. HOLLAND, continued from page 1 EOA STORIES IN PICTURES as a neighborhood service aide at the Northwest EOA center. While with EOA, she trained in a new program offered to all aides with at least one year of service. The eventual goal of the program is to place aides in better paying jobs. Like other aides, Mrs. Holland received full salary but was allowed to take half her clerical training during regular working hours. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKED After two months of training at Atlanta Area Tech, opportunity knocked for Mrs. Holland. Atlanta Mortgage and Brokerage Company was looking for a cashier. They didn't particularly need a person with a high school diploma and three years of business school, even though Mrs. Holland has ha:diploma. They simply wanted an intelligent person who could work with numbers. Through an interview arranged by Mrs. Ann Jackson and Mrs. Cynthia Montague, co - ordinators of the Aide Training Program, Mrs. Holland got the job. Summing up the training program Mrs , Jackson state~ Marketable skills is the real goal . If we can teach that, then we will have made a dent . " STAR PUPILS - Aides Mrs, Elizabeth Barker, NASH-Washington, and Mrs. Annie Sue Bogan, Central City, demonstrate a machine used in four Learning Centers as part of EOAs Aide Training Program. CENTER LAST OF ORIGINAL LEAVES EOA DIRECTORS Northwest resident Mrs. Ruby Hawk was one of many who paid tribute to George Dodd at a testimonial dinner last month. Other spokesmen included connnunity leaders Mrs. Mary San for d, Mrs. Carey S. Howard and Mrs. Odessa Hill; Johnny Robinson represen ting the Mayor's office and George Toomer f r om the YMCA. NO MUSCLE SPASMS HERE, IT'S BALLET - West Central youngsters enjoy their dance and drama classes taught by voluntee rs Cheryl Harris and Maye McGhee, Spelman students . I COULD BE YOUR little girl. FOR INFORMATION CONT ACT: FULTON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES 165 Central Avenue, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Phone 572-2406 PERSELLS HONORED - Les ter H. Pe r sells (right), executive director of the Atlanta Hous ing Authority, was honored recently with a luncheon arranged by Mrs . Susie LaBord at the Grady Homes Child Development Cente~ With Mr. Persells are tJ.T. Crittenden (left), associate director of housing, and EOA's Bill Allison. SESAME STREET - Pittsburgh youngsters are enthusiastic over the new T, V. learning program featuring cartoons, songs, puppets and dancing . Pittsburgh sta ff members who assist at Gideon Elementary School and Parker Junior High are Mrs. Mary Lee Lockett, Mrs. Elizabeth Holliday and Mrs. Patsy Leslie. �NOVEMBER / excerpts Repotf to the Board ---~ - --- - - - ___ -- - --------- - ...., ,_ __.. William W. Allison The Sena.te, October 14, has approved the bill for the continuation of OEO for two more years. Considerable discussion has developed around the Murphy Amendment which gives a veto over Legal Services Projects. Mayor Elect Sam Massell, speaking in behalf of the U o S. Conference of Mayors and National League of Cities,urged the rejection of the Murphy Amendment. The OEO bill is e x pected to be brought to the House floor in early December o On August 22, 1969, the Executive Administrator directed that a Task Force be set up to e x plore new and different resources and combinations of services that would both reduce cost and make EOA programs more effective in the communities they serve. The Atlanta GATE House for Job Corps has completed one year of operation . During this period, i t has served 1,281 returning enrollees, males and females. Of this number, 719 have been placed on jobs or in training programs. The average hourly wage for the se has b een $1.75 per hour . Six thousand three hundred six separate services were provided to the total persons served . These services were either direct or referral and covered the f ollowing broad areas: health, legal referral,housing assistance, educational assistance, emergency welfare, transportation for job interviews, Job Cor ps related problems, pre and post emloyment counseling. ACEP curr ent figures o f program par ticipants for the period ending October 28, 1969 are: Institutional (MDTA): 81; New Careers: 79; Project Ready : 118; Total: 278-. EmpLoyability Plan Completed : 29; and NAB Placements: 23 ; Total placed in employment: 52 . As a public service, General Moto r s is Start Now Atlanta Volunteer s at wo rk. making available 3,000 brochure s d e picting The Planned Parenthood Associat ion family planning program was featured on Channel Five November 17 . Service s in the project continue ·· to increase . Approx imately 4,500 persons have been se rve d during the current ye ar . ' The Rodent Control Project has been The major foci of t his project are : tion, and Rat Killing . in op era tion for approx imately ten(l O) months Resident participation, Inter-Agency Coordina- Approx imately thirty - five (35) clubs have been organized in the target area to assist the projec t in implementing the rat activities . More thaµ 300 meetings have been held with r esidents f ocusing on the problem . Clean up and poison have been under t aken in : Pittsburgh, Huff Road Community son Road Community a n d No r t hwest Perry area (e x cept Perry Homes) . John - ' . Mor e t h an 212 j unk c ars hav e been moved fr om the streets . The r at population ha s b een s u bs tan tia lly r edu ced . The envi r onment al sanitation has gene r ally been imp r ov e d . The p r oject is now in t he p r oc ess o f doing main ten a n c e a n d fi nal s urvey s fo r a fi n a l rep ort t o HEW. In addi t ion , mor e than 100 garbage r acks ar e being bu il t f or ,r e si dents who need t hem mos t . The monthly report for th e At lan t a Sou t hside Comp r e hens ive He alth Ce nt e r f o r Oc to ber 31 indicated that s ervi ces h ave be en e x t e n ded g reatly s ince June when t he n ew building opened . To date, of t h e 16 ,240 p a tient s who a r e eligible fo r service, 7328 have been r egi s t e r ed, approx i ma te l y 2,23 1 patient s were seen at t he cen ter in October a nd th ere have b ee n 25 , 000 home visits to patient s since J uly. The Center s t a ff cons i s t s of nin e (9) f ull time phy s i ci ans , 6-~ time phys icians arrl s ix ( 6 ) c on s ult a nting physici a n s , four (4) full time denti s ts, 1-~ time dentis t s , seventeen (17) full time regist e red nurse s and 161 individuals who reside in the target area, and are eligible for care at the center, 84 of whom above completed the <'Or~ c11rril'11l11m .<ind .<1rP wnrkincr in f-nP u.<1rin11<l n::,r,:imPrlir.<il <l11h-n-rnfP<i<iinn.<il l'l ·l nr<i. �CHANNEL 5 TO AIR EOA FILM DECEM_BER 23 AT THE LIBRARY CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS Special Christmas programs will be held in 11 branches of the Atlanta Public Library. Miss Bertha Parker, Children's Coordinator for the Library, will tell traditional Christmas stories including "The Little Match Girl'·' and "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Films, including "Kustard the Dragon," will also be shown in some of the branches. Also scheduled is the Christmas fantasy, "Christmas Cracker." Free to the public, programs will be held at the following branches: see below Storyhours and Film Programs* 3:30 p . m., Thursday, December 11, Lighting of the Tree at Smith Memorial Branch, 972 Alpharetta Street, Roswell, Ga. 3:30 p. m., Tuesday, December 16, Adams Park Branch, 1480 DeLowe Drive, S. W. 3:00 p. m., Wednesday, December 17, Ida Williams Branch, 269 Buckhead Avenue, N. E. 1_:00 p. m., Thursday, December 18, Inman Park Branch, 447 Moreland Avenue, N. E. MRS. SUJETTE CRANK,ch ief of neighborhood servic e operations, attended the White House Conference on Hunger and Nutrition during the first week in December. Storyhours Only 3:30 p. m. , Tuesday, December 9, Uncle Remus Branch, 945 Gordon Street, s . W. 3 : 30 p. m. Wednesday, December 17, Hapeville Station, Hapeville Recreation Center, Hapeville, Georgia 11 : 00 a. m. , Saturday, December 20, Kirkwood Branch, 106 Kirkwood Road, N. E . 2:30 p. m., Tuesday, December 23, Sandy Springs Branch, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, N. W. IN SYMPATHY EOA expresses~-s.ympathy,,to-,the fol1'owing pe rs oru; .:. on the loss of Mrs . Bunny Jackson, director of planning, on the loss of her fa t her . The family of W. A. Edge,who passed away recently . Mr. Edge was one of the most active CNAC members in Pitts burgh a nd was a member of the Planning Subconnnittee , Recreation Subc onnni ttee , and attended most of . the CC.le meeting s . Mrs. 'S usie Arnold, Edgewood intake ai de, on t he l os s ~er daughter . ~-~?~~: bu~.;e143.215.248.55f~ ~fi

ON - THE - GO STAFF MEMBERS 3:30 p. m., Friday, December 19, Anne Wallace Branch, 528 Lovejoy Street, N. W. Mrs . Yvonne Bankston, planning analyst, her mothe r-in-law . START NOW ATLANTA, the exciting film of poverty tours and volunteers,will be shown on Channel 5 at 10 p. m. on December 23. In announcing the prime time slot for the film, Miss Dale Jacobs, Public Service Director for WAGATV, called · the film "an excellent one" for the people of Atlanta to see . The full color movie was produced by intern Ben Dyer and given to EOA as a public service by AT&T . Plans are being made to publicize the film over the country for showing by clubs, businesses, ·... and other groups. In metropolitan Atlanta the film may be reserved by calling 525-2068. of MRS . MADELINE LOCUS, assistant coordinator for community development,and Mrs. ANNIE LOIS TURNER , chair man of the Full-Year Head Start Council, attended the Head Start and Child Development Conference in New Orleans, November 16 -2 0 . The two delegates rep ort •many new idea s on parent involvement which was the theme of the meeting . JOHN CALHOUN , coordina tor for community develop ment, has made two t r i ps t o Tampa , Fl ori da , as a con s u l t ant f or Regional OEO. Mr. Ca lhoun was also a special gues t and advi s or to the fall meeting of the Licens ed Practical Nurses Ass ociation of Georgia held at Calloway Gardens. tw143.215.248.55-I~I~-~~;.~-D!.,~:~~:;n~:~-~o143.215.248.55 13:06, 29 December 2017 (EST) 143.215.248.55 13:06, 29 December 2017 (EST)=~·c::::~Ba~khe~d �