European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Inner new Washington api a despite a history of Urban riots the United states Nas never Learned How to invest in inner cities and Stop the cyclical upheaval according to a new study. Last Spring s riots in los Angeles underscored the Lack of a. Serious Federal Effort to erase the same Type of racial and economic discrimination blamed for riots As far Back As 1919, said the report. It was released sat urday by the private Milton s. Eisenhower foundation to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Kerner commission s report. In 1968, the Kerner commission concluded that the United states was Quot moving toward two societies one Black one White a separate and it Quot we can reflect again on the same moving picture a now the april 1992 riots in South Central los Angeles Quot the new report said. Quot Congress and the White House misunderstood the problem. They then constructed a solution that flew in the face of what really did work.�?�. After the los Angeles riots. Congress passed a $1.3 billion package that included Small business Loans and $500 million for summer jobs. A longer term plan focusing on Urban Enterprise zones and drug enforcement efforts was vetoed by president Bush. Quot the contents of the vetoed Bill. Raised grave doubts about whether the gridlocked american Federal political process would or could Ever enact informed solutions the report said. Lynn a. Curtis author of the Eisenhower report said the Federal government should focus on High tech Job training affordable housing and Community development Banks that can finance inner City projects. Quot our new policy., must be framed by words like in vestment replication reinvention leadership responsibility and sacrifice Quot Curt said. Federal efforts have been insufficient and too rigid and did t allow for Quot local neighbourhood based one Stop shopping for coordinate services Quot the report said. The study also urged a focusing on drug treatment and prevention rather than interdiction. A reorganizing the Job training partnership act to Orient it More toward the needs of unemployed inner City youth. A turning responsibility for building Low income housing Over to non profit organizations rather than for profit developers. A investing $15 billion More a year in programs for inner City youth and an extra $15 billion in inner City infrastructure for 10 years. The Kerner panel also known As the National advisory commission on civil disorders was convened by president Johnson to find what caused riots in Newark nj., Detroit Baltimore and Washington in the late 1960s.on March 1, 1968, the commission issued a report identifying a Cycle of poverty and despair that locked Many inner City Blacks out of mainstream society. Similar conditions it said led to riots Down through history including the Watts uprising of 1965, the Detroit and Harlem insurgencies of 1943 and an earlier Harlem riot in 1935. Subterranean septuagenarian nicest Guy under the Troy Kan. Apr when fire destroyed Ernest ditto More a six room farmhouse 18 years ago neighbors pooled their Cash to buy the 60-year-Ola Bachelor a trailer House. Grateful Dittemore thanked his friends filled the trailer with food then spent the night in a 4-by-10foot Hole he d dug in the ground with a shovel. Now just months Short of his 78th birthday Dittemore still goes into the Burrow Evcic night using the trailer just Tor storage. A to been thinking about living underground for quite a while even before the House burned Quot Dittemore said. Quot it s a lot easier to beat 1 can keep warm and save Money on fuel his subterranean dwelling is far from fancy with dirt Walls and floor. He sleeps on a bed of newspapers and uses a Wood burning stove for heat. A skylight buil Rinto a Cement ceiling slab is darkened by soot but still allows a Little Light in. There Are no lights or electricity. Forget about a Telephone. Don t misunderstand. Dittemore is no counterculture crusader. In fact he s a staunch Republican who never misses an election. Ale reads anything he can get his hands on and keeps up to Date on current events. He s unconcerned about anybody who thinks he s Odd. Quot As Long As it suits me that s Alt that matters. I done task them what they think and 1 Don t care Quot Dittemore said. Perplexed at first residents of the Small town of Troy about 15 Miles West of St. Joseph mo., Stem to have accepted i Traore s unorthodox life style. Some affectionately Call him the Cave Man of Doniphan v a the seems to be Well satisfied. He s got nothing to coi Plain about Quot said Jim Gilmore who grew up on the farm near Dittemore s. A the sets there and lets the world do their own thing and he does his. That s How he tikes nearly a dozen Sheds and Small barns Dot Dittemore s 60-acre farm where he was born. It lies in a wooded hollow among the rolling Hills of Northeast Kansas. A Stone foundation is ail that remains of the burned farmhouse which he describes As being a a to get into his underground room he lifts a Hatch Over the Hole s Entrance. Steps Lead to the floor 7 feet below. He says its comfortable enough even when the temperature outside dips below freezing. A i stay in there a lot of the time if it turns Nasty and cold. But you be still got to get out to do the chores Dittemore said. T Dittemore says he a in Good health but admits two bad Knees Haven to been the same since a cow stepped on him years ago. He no longer makes the two mile trip to town Ernest Dittemore 77, emerges from his 4-by-Io-foot Bole in the ground his Kansas Home for the past 18 years. And walks with the help of canes made from Sticks. Even so he manages to tend to 30 head of cattle six horses a dozen chickens and cats and dogs. His income from social Security benefits and cattle sales is enough to cover his limited expenses. His neighbors say Dittemore is no Crackpot. He sends birthday and christinas cards to his Distant relatives and friends. And when his legs were better he d help neighbors Harvest their crops. Larry Jones a neighbor returns the favor by delivering groceries and livestock feed. Gilmore said Dittemore is a Maverick not a Hermit or curmudgeon Bent on hiding from the real world. A a lot of Guys you read about they seem to get mean living Cut by themselves Quot his Friend said. A but Ernie is the nicest Guy you la Ever Chelsea Clinton turns 13 amid High level secrecy fat Wirt reports Washington a first daughter Chelsea a Clinton is now a teen Ager. The eighth grader turned 13 on saturday and celebrated with some friends visiting from Little Rock Ark. White House aides said she wanted to see the new Christian Slater movie untamed hearts a Romance rated pg-13. President Clinton and his wife Hillary go out of their Way to shield their daughter from the spotlight and released no other details about her birthday Celebration. But a big Bunch of helium fixed balloons and several brightly wrapped presents were spotted arriving at the White House. Chelsea made a rare to appearance a week earlier on an Abc children s special from the White House and told her Peers she always listens Quot to her parents. Her dad said Chelsea s Only fault was that she would stay up too late if i let her do . There was no word on whether curfew was suspended in Honor of her win age suit san Diego a two operating room nurses who contended they were area because of their age were awarded $242,000 in damages against a Hospital where they had worked for More than 25 years. The state supreme court annoy need the award Friday after binding arbitration hearings in december and january before retired supreme court judge Robert o. Staniforth. Mary a. Shughrue 60, and Colleen Hoppe 59, said in an age discrimination lawsuit that the decision to Are them was based on their age and not upon the Sharp memorial Hospital s Contention that the women had lost their skills. Quot evidence piled upon evidence supports the loyalty of these women to Sharp Hospital and to the Job which they performed there Quot Staniforth said. In the face of this they Are literally degraded morally struck Down and pushed out Quot an attorney for the Hospital did not appear at a hearing to contest the judgment Hoppe was fired in december 1989 and Shughrue was forced to resign the next month said their attorney Rod Toothacre. Both now work in similar jobs at other hospitals in san Diego teen killed Santa Ana Calif. A a 17-year-old gunman waiting at a Railroad crossing shot to death another teen Ager who was driving by on his Way to High school police said. Jose Luiz Lopez also 17, was the fourth student shot to death in Southern California in the last month. His killer stood on a median and waited for Lopez s car then took deadly aim through the Driver s window said police it. Robert Helton. A teen Ager identified Only As a reputed gang member was arrested later at his Home and booked for investigation of murder Helton said. Friends said Lopez a soccer player who planned to attend College was t a gang member but May have run afoul of a Street gang. Two passengers Lopez s brother and Cousin were not seriously Hurt when the car travelled 50 feet out. Of control and crashed into a tags to change Tallahassee Fla. Apr gov Lawton clues has ordered a state Agency to Stop issuing telltale License tags for rental cars in Hopes it jul deter criminals who target tourists for crime. J those who rent or lease a vehicle in Florida should have the Security of knowing that they Are not openly inviting criminal actions simply because Friday a a Derifi Natch vehicle Chiles said the action follows worldwide publicity about recent crimes against visitors to Florida where the Economy is closely tied to tourism. The governor s executive order will Stop the department of Highway safety and motor vehicles from issuing plates intended to identify rental cars by beginning with the letters a by Quot and the Florida department of Law enforcement Lorida in la i a the people who visited Honda m 1991 were victims of violent crime. A
