Evening star., 1953-11-29
First Area Lists
Prepared for
Youth Council
z or 3 Neiehborhood
Groups Expected to
Be Ready Thursday
By Miriom Gutenberg


The first of the neighborhood
arms Of the Commissioners
Youth Council are expected to
be presented to the Council for
its approval Thursday.
The Council ultimately will
have 26 area committees
neighborhood teams in all parts
of the city-to carry out its
policies for prevention of juve-
nile delinquency.
States of candidates for mem
bership on area committees are
expected to be ready for two
and possibly three areas.
One of them is the area COM
mittee for the old Northeast sec
tion from Union Station to the
Anacostia river. This is the
councils pilot project" with
Paul Cheney loaned by United
Community Services to organize
it.
Change in Southwest.
A second is Southwest WASH
ington. There, the council will
be asked to readjust its area
boundaries to match the
natural neighborhood." The
eastern boundary previously ap-
proved by the council was at
Fourth street S.W. The coun-
Gil will be asked to make the
eastern boundary South Capitol
street, thus including all of
southwest in one area.
In this area, the area COM
mittee is being built on the
foundation of the old Southwest
Neighborhood Council. The
policy of drawing neighborhood
leadership as far as possible
from existing organizations is
being followed all over town.
In Southwest, Hugh Smith,
principal of Jefferson Junior
High School, got together repre-
sentativeS from school, recrea-
ton, parent-teacher, civic, citi-
zenS, businessmen's and church
groups, from the two settlement
houses and from the Southwest
Health Center.
List Compiled.
Miss Winifred G. Thompson,
staff aide of the Youth Council,
met with them and explained
what they would be expected to
do. A list of names was then
compiled and sent to the Youth
Council Office for presentation to
the Youth Council Thursday.
In addition to the change in
the Southwest area boundary, the
council also will be asked to ap-
prove these other boundary
changes:
To make one rather than two
areas out Of the Southeast Sec
ton north of the Anacostia river.
To make two rather than one
area out of the Chevy Chase
Cleveland Park section of North
west.
Chevy Chase Organizing.
In Chevy Chase, the organiz-
ing work is being done by AS
sistant Corporation Counsel Lee
Dante, who is chairman of the
Chevy Chase Citizens ASsocia-
tion's subcommittee on youth ac-
tivitieS.
Mr.. Dante said he hopes to
have a list of candidates ready
for submission by Thursday. His
list, he said, will include repre-
Sentatives of his own citizens as
sociation and the Hawthorne and
Forest Hills Citizens Associations,
representatives of parent-teacher,
church, business, Boy and Girl
Scout groups, Chevy Chase Com
munity Council and possibly a
student.
He said he understood the
school, welfare. recreation and
police members will be nomi-
mated by their departments.
Organization work repeatedly
is also under way in the Palisades
section; in Southeast north Of
the Anacostia, where Miss Lydia
Burklin, director Of Friendship
House, is getting group repre-
sentatives together and in a sec
ton of Anacostia south of the
river where the nucleus is the
Co-ordinating Committee of An
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