Abstract

Volume two, Number six, June 1972

  • Keith Burroughs was the principal speaker during the workshop at Barren River Reservoir with Tom Davidson, C-P Co-Ordinator, and Joe Denning, liaison officer for Model Cities
  • Project New Hope termed a success
    • Project New Hope is giving new hope to several residents of the Model Neighborhood Area who have trouble getting and keeping a job
  • Crackdown to begin soon on illegal city outhouses
    • City Manager Leslie Allen says the city may have to use “some discretion” in enforcing the state law which requires all outdoor toilets in first and second-class cities to be connected to a sewer or a septic tank
    • The state law, which was scheduled to go into effect on June 18th, was approved by the 1970 state legislature and the deadline was set for the removal of all outdoor open toilets
  • New employment program proposed
    • Purpose: provide summer employment for 30 (preferably 15 girls and 15 boys) of the youth for the Model Neighborhood Area (MNA)
    • Eligibility: must be an MNA resident and must be 16-20 years old
    • Training: will be provided, if necessary
    • Types of jobs to be filled
      • Clerical
      • Office management
      • Research
      • Recreation
      • Supervision
  • Local resident celebrates her 92ndbirthday
    • Mrs. Lizzie Hines Marshall
      • Mother-in-law to Tom Davidson
  • Prince Skiles
    • A longtime resident of the High Street area and works at Howell Olds-Cadillac; he has worked there for many years
  • Five residents of the month
    • Prince Skiles (Hight Street Area)
      • One of the truly dependable C.P. members serving on the 20-man planning group
    • Danny Alford (Delafield Area)
      • The youngest of the area chairman and a student at Western Kentucky University gives the youth touch to the Citizens Participation structure
    • Selvin Butts (Parker-Bennett Area
      • A graduate of State Street High School
      • A member of State Street Baptist Church
      • Father of two children
      • A member of the Parker-Bennett 20-man Board
    • William (Stork) Page
      • State Street School graduate
      • Former football player
      • The vice-chairman
      • Participated in two Citizens Participation workshops at the Barren River Resort
    • Mrs. Wilhelmina Carr Butts (West Main St. Area)
      • Participated in many Citizen Participation activities
        • Held meetings in her home
        • Attempted to recruit the youth
        • Advertised C.P. door-to-door
  • Letters to the Neighbor
    • Joe Denning
    • Margaret Austin
    • Etta Mae Pritchett
    • Bob McCormack
    • Ellen Willyard
    • M.M. Douglas
  • The Neighbor speaks
    • F.O. Moxley
  • What is Citizens Participation?
    • Rev. S. H. Grider
  • The Neighbor staff
    • Clark Hanes, Editor
    • Barry Williams, Staff Reporter
  • From the people and for the people all springs and all must exist (lots of photographs on these pages)
    • Region IV C.P. board members attacked through confrontation and mediation problems and concerns of residents representing 18 Model City Programs
    • Bowling Green was represented by
      • Leonard Davison
      • F.O. Moxley
      • Joe Denning
      • Shelvy White
      • Danny Alford
      • Mrs. Etta Mae Pritchett
      • Miss Margaret Austin
  • Conservationist is hired by the city
    • Curtis Calloway
  • Compromise made for MH-MR funds
    • The Bowling Green City Commission has agreed to appropriate $2 for every $1 appropriated to the Barren River Mental Health-Mental Retardation(MH-MR) Board by other local governments in the 10-county region
  • Commission eyes pool at Lampkin
  • Bowling Green scheduled to get school consultants
  • Operation Venus receives praise
    • The recently opened program to dispense information about venereal disease has been termed an initial success
  • Counsel schedules burglary program
  • Jail grant sought for improvement
    • Warren Fiscal Court is expected to file an application with the Kentucky Crime Commission for funds to be used in part to install a television camera security system and an elevator in the county jail
  • THESE YOUNG LADIES will be participating in the Neighborhood Youth Corps
    • Wanda Duncan
    • Sheila Kawai
    • Bobbie Ellis
    • Deborah Claypool
    • Pam Harper
  • Study of Bowling Green drainage woes is completed
  • Work is underway by Urban Renewal
    • Demolition work has begun in the High Street area where workers are removing debris, land is being purchased, and families are being relocated

Disciplines

Architecture | Genealogy | Urban, Community and Regional Planning

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