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"State aid chief raps HEW on abortion issue" - Ellen Warren - Chicago Sun-Times
The head of the Illinois Department of Public Aid, stung by federal accusations that the state improperly billed with government for $1 million in Medicaid abortions, demanded Thursday that these charges be withdrawn.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-12-01
Reaction: "Indiana Abortion Clinic is Thriving" - Lynn Sweet - Chicago Sun-Times
"Bickham, whose two Chicago abortion clinics were shut down within the last month, Thursday walked into an operating room at Biogenetics in Indianapolis prepared to perform an abortion. "She's in the best hands. She's getting the best care available," clinic administrator Harvey P. Jefferson assured a "worried" Sun-Times photographer Jim Frost. The Sun-Times sent a reporter, posing as a pregnant woman, and a photographer to Indianapolis in the wake of dangerous medical practices in Chicago abortion clinics disclosed by the Sun-Times and the Better Government Assn. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-12-01
"Report of Record Changing at Abortion Clinic Probed" - Pamela Zekman and Karen Koshner - Chicago Sun-Times
State authorities are investigating reports that employees at a South Side abortion clinic have been ordered to alter patient records that document dangerous medical practices, it was learned Wednesday. According to sources, employees claim they were ordered to falsify records of abortion patients dating back at least six months for whom the clinic allegedly had failed to record accurate laboratory results and appropriate medications.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-30
Reaction: "Medic Blames State for Abortion Clinic Abuses" - Charles N. Wheeler and G. Robert Hillman - Chicago Sun-Times
Springfield, Ill. - The chairman of the Illinois State Medical Society Tuesday blamed the state for poor conditions in abortion clinics. Testifying before a special Senate subcommittee examining some of the abortion abuses uncovered recently by the Sun-Times and the Better Government Assn., Dr. Robert Hartman, chairman of the medical society's board of directors, urged the state Departments of Public Health and of Registration and Education to better enforce the law regulating abortion clinics and doctors.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-29
"For 'babies who've died' - his mission" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
To his foes, he's a bearded, steely eyed zealot. To his followers, he is the champion of innocents, a demigod of mercy. Joseph M. Scheidler. Age 51. Father of six. Notre Dame University graduate. One-time journalist. Full-time pro-lifer.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-28
XV-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick -Chicago Sun-Times
They marched around the clinic, swinging their rosaries, screeching Hail Marys and howling the Lord's Prayer. Among them was Sun-Times reporter Pamela Warrick - the only marcher without rosary beads. Armed with a pseudonym and a prayerbook, she joined Chicago's pro-life movement to get an inside look at the hardcore opposition to legalized abortion. After several weeks as a volunteer at the Illinois Right-To-Life headquarters and a weekend showing gory movies on the group's traveling Life-Mobile, Warrick was referred to the office of Joseph M. Scheidler - considered one of the most radical and powerful U.S. anti-abortion leaders.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-28
XIV-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Ellen Warren - Chicago Sun-Times
Washington - The nationwide battle over abortion has become a giant business. Organization on both sides of the controversial question spend millions of dollars and incalculable hours to elect candidates, defeat others, influence legislation and stir the national conscience with their points of view.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-27
"People Who Care, People Who Help" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
The two women, Ann Wright and Miriam Desmond, decided to share the information they'd gathered and continue monitoring the city's abortion clinics. They founded the Health Evaluation and Referral Service (HERS) and began one of the city's first non-profit abortion referral agencies.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-26
XIII-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
During a five-month investigation by the Sun-Times and Better Government Assn., reporters and researchers worked undercover in six of the city's 13 clinics. In four of those clinics - the Michigan Av. abortion mills - we have documented how women's lives are endangered by people who care more for profits than patients. But working undercover in two other clinics, and working in co-operation with a third, we found that abortion doesn't have to be an assembly-line operation. We found that in clinics like these, women may find safe and compassionate medical care.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-26
XII-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
During a five-month investigation, the Sun-Times and Better Government Assn. found that some abortion profiteers advertise under a number of deceptive names to entice women into their Michigan Avenue clinics. In those clinics, telephone sales techniques are monitored more carefully than a doctor's operating techniques. New counselors or nursing assistants learn quickly that the telephone is the clinic's most important instrument.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-25
XI-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
During a five-month investigation of the Chicago abortion business, The Sun-Times and Better Government Assn. discovered that in some Michigan Av. abortion mills, women who are hired to counsel don't - they're paid to sell.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-24
"U.S. Charges State Abortion Aid Abuse" - Ellen Warren - Chicago Sun-Times
In a letter to Gov. Thompson, [Healh, Education and Welfare Secretary] Califano said that HEW paid the $1 million but now intends to get it back. At issues are the provisions of the "Hyde Amendment" to the HEW budget, which, since Aug. 4, 1977, has prohibited federal spending for Medicaid abortions except when strict criteria are met.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-23
"Closed Clinic OKs Appointments" - Karen Koshner and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Sun-Times
The Water Tower Reproductive Center, 810 N. Michigan, was accepting appointments for abortions Wednesday, despite a court order closing the unlicensed abortion facility.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-23
X-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
Nine out of 10 times, a simple urine test accurately diagnoses pregnancy. And, unless there is other proof of pregnancy, medical experts say, women with negative tests are not candidates for abortions. But working undercover at the Water Tower Reproductive Center, 840 N, Michigan, BGA investigator Mindy Trossman counted 81 abortion procedures performed on women with negative pregnancy tests. That was 12 per cent of all women who received abortions during the two months Trossman worked there.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-22
IX-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
It happened in the Rucker Memorial Medical Center, the little brick building in Detroit where at least two Chicago referral agencies send women more than 12 weeks pregnant for cheap, fast abortions. The center is owned by Dr. Joseph W. Rucker, who performs abortions there with his wife - and on at least one occasion, his dog - assisting him. During a five-month investigation of the Chicago abortion business by the Sun-Times and the Better Government Assn., we heard from a number of women who were sent to Rucker's clinic by these referral agencies - women with tales as ghastly as that of the Joliet couple who saw the dog in the operating room.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-21
Reaction: "Court Revokes Dr. Hah's License" - Karen Koshner and Dolores McCahill - Chicago Sun-Times
After almost two years of delays, a Circuit Court judge Monday revoked the Illinois medical license of Dr. Ming K. Hah, a Michigan Avenue abortionist who transferred operations to Chicago after his license was revoked in Michigan.
Chicago Sun Times 1964-11-21
VIII-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago's abortion profiteers are padding their profits with Medicaid funds illegally obtained through kickbacks and fraudulent billing schemes. During a five-month investigation of some abortion clinics and referral agencies, the Sun-Times and Better Government Assn. have documented massive abuse of the Medicaid program and flagrant violations of federal law.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-20
VII-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
At least 12 women have died following legal abortions in Illinois walk-in abortion clinics. Although state health officials knew of not a single clinic death just a week ago, the Sun-Times and Better Government Assn. have learned of a dozen women who suffered fatal infections or bled to death after undergoing abortion procedures in state-regulated clinics.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-19
Reaction: "2 Abortion Referral Firms are Subpenaed" - Pamela Zekman and Karen Koshner - Chicago Sun-Times
Illinois Atty. Ge. William J. Scott issued subpenas Thursday for the records of two abortion referral services in an investigation of possible consumer fraud.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-17
VI-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
They are identical twins with identical cons. They bill themselves as "counselors." But their business is sales, and they use every trick in the book to peddle abortions to confused and frightened women. Victoria Sanders and Valerie McCullough operate competing abortion referral services out of fancy suites and between them advertise half a dozen "abortion hot lines" in four states.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-17
"Probe Michigan Av. Abortion Clinic Death" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
The Cook County state's attorney's office has reopened its investigation of the abortion-related death of a Hammond woman because of information provided by the Sun-Times and Better Government Assn. The woman, 26-year-old Sherry Emry, died Jan. 2 after undergoing an abortion at the Water Tower Reproductive Center, 840 N. Michigan. First Assistant State's Atty. Barry Gross said, "Based on information we received from you about the practices at that clinic, we are pursuing the [Emry] case."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-17
Reaction: "Doctor Loses Out in 2 Court Battles" - Pamela Zekman and Karen Koshner - Chicago Sun-Times
Dr. Arnold Bickham, who is challenging the state's authority to regulate his abortion business, lost two court battles Wednesday. In one, a Circuit Court judge temporarily prohibited abortions at Bickman's South Side medical clinic.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-16
V-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
We were hired off the street as aides, medical assistants and counselors. Without checking our references or credentials, four of Chicago's abortion clinics gave us jobs we were unqualified to hold and tasks we were untrained to perform. The clinics asked us to do everything but perform abortions. They wanted us to remove IVs, administer injections, give psychological counseling and assist in surgery.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-16
"State Inspects Abortion Clinics" - Karen Koshner - Chicago Sun-Times
State inspectors paid surprise visits Tuesday to five clinics named in the Sun-Times' series on abortion abuses, but they were denied entrance to one clinic and refused access to patient records at another.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-15
IV-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
Dr. Ming Kow Hah, who has already lost his medical license in one state and faces revocation in Illinois, may give the fastest abortions in Chicago. According to a five-month investigation by the Sun-Times and the Better Government Assn., Hah may also give the most painful abortions in the city.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-15
Reaction: "Thompson Orders Clinic Check Step-Up" - Pamela Zekman and Karen Koshner - Chicago Sun-Times
Gov. Thompson ordered state inspections of abortion clinics stepped up in his first meeting with his task force Monday. Thompson also asked state Atty. Gen. William J. Scott for his co-operation in the investigation. Scott assigned two assistant attorney generals to expedite pending lawsuits against at least two physicians mentioned in the Sun-Times Abortion Profiteers series.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-14
III-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
On Michigan Av., women entrust their bodies to doctors who may be mere mechanics on the abortion assembly line. They may be moonlighting residents, general practitioners with little or no training in women's medicine, or even unlicensed physicians. While slick clinic brochures promise only board-certified obstetrician-gynecologists, few have earned that accreditation.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-14
Reaction: "State to Act on Abortion Clinics" - Pamela Zekman and Karen Koshner - Chicago Sun-Times
Gov. Thompson announced Sunday that he will form a special task force of four state agencies to crack down on abuses in abortion clinics exposed in the Sun-Times and Better Government Assn. investigation of dangerous medical care in four facilities.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-13
II-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
Meet the biggest profiteers of Chicago's multimillion-dollar abortion business. One used to sell cars. Another sold caskets. Two sold "welfare" medicine. They all jumped on the bandwagon to make a killing, selling abortions on the Magnificent Mile. During a five-month investigation of Chicago's legalized abortion trade, the Sun-Times and Better Government Assn. identified the men who run the four Michigan Av. abortion mills. And working undercover, we watched how they do it.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-13
"Abortion Peril Greater Before Legalization" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun Times
Although the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision had not stopped women from dying from abortions, legalization has been credited with reducing the number of abortion related deaths by 40 per cent.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-12
I-"The Abortion Profiteers" - Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick - Chicago Sun-Times
Five months ago, the Sun-Times and the Better Government Assn. began the first in-depth investigation of Chicago's thriving abortion business since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion on Jan. 22, 1973. We found: - Dozens of abortion procedures performed on women who were not pregnant and others illegally performed on women more than 12 weeks pregnant.
Chicago Sun Times 1978-11-12
"Dr. Theobald Supports Most of Allen Points" - Robert Prall - New York World Telegram & Sun
Dr. John J. Theobald, superintendent of city schools, yesterday agreed with the bulk of the conclusions of reporter George N. Allen, who for two months served as a teacher in Brooklyn's John Marshall Junior High School.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-12-02
Editorial: "Improving New York's Schools" - Unsigned - New York World Telegram & Sun
The objective of Mr. Allen's temporary role as a teacher, and of this newspaper's printing of his factual reports on classroom conditions as he found them, has been to perform a public service. Before reforms can be achieved, we believe it is essential that the public have the facts to guide it intelligently.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-12-01
XIV-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-29
XV-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
I came away from my two months as a substitute teacher in Brooklyn's John marshall Junior High School with some strong conclusions. They are based on what I saw and heard and experienced as a duly licensed teacher of two classes of adjustment students and two classes of average students. My experiences paralleled those of many other new teachers who entered the school system this term.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-12-01
XIII-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
Fortunately for me, I didn't have to live on my teacher's salary during the two months I taught at John Marshall Junior High in Brooklyn.My take home par was approximately $60 a week. As was reported at the start of this series, I spent not one penny of my salary. It's safely banked in a savings account and will be turned over to a teacher's fund or spent in some manner in the interests of the city school children.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-28
XII-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
Josephine is a tall, well-built girl. She spent most of her time in class primping or looking at a magazine. Periodically she bust into a rage over some imagined insult. Her IQ, as listed on her record card, is 58.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-26
X-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen- New York World Telegram and Sun
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-24
XI-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
Several teachers cited an incident they had seen the day before in the school's general office. They had seen a woman daily substitute, her eyes filled with tears, asking an assistant principal why the children in her classes that day had tried so hard to resist learning anything.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-25
IX-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
At the beginning of the school term I had to copy and recopy the registers of my various classes so many times that I once got writer's cramp. It seemed to me that in this age of modern office machinery, the school system's methods of handling its clerical work is far out of date - and wasteful.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-22
VIII-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
I got the surprise of my teaching life one morning in early October.I walked into the classroom of another teacher at JHS 210 to see how he was teaching hygiene to a group of "adjustment" pupils - neither of the groups I taught. By this time, I was aware of the learning limitation of my own "adjustment" (slow-learning) students. And I was curious to see how other teachers were handling the other ones.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-21
VII-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
From [Mary's] report card I knew that she and three sisters were living with an aunt who had four or five children of her own. A previous teacher had noted "child overworked at home" on her cumulative record card.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-20
VI-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
A group was pushing and shoving around my desk, fighting for extra sheets of paper. A jacket flew across the room. A pencil bounced off a window. Bedlam.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-19
V-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
It was Thursday, Sept. 4, when I first reported as a teacher - of what I didn't yet know - at John Marshall Junior High School in Brooklyn. Experienced teachers were not required to report until Sept. 5 and classes did not start until Sept. 8. But I was there because of a well-publicized announcement by school authorities that orientation meeting for new teachers would be held in all schools Sept. 4th.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-18
IV-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
Getting a job as a teacher in our city's school system is a relatively simple procedure, so hard pressed are school officials for teachers.I simply walked in off the street and my credentials were readily accepted by officials of the administrative headquarters of the Board of Education at 110 Livingston St., Bklyn.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-17
III-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
The training in education which I was required to take for my New York City teaching license was of little practical value to me in classroom 404 of John Marshall Junior High School.I taught two ninth grade adjustment classes - slow learners - and two eighth grade average classes. In all of them, I felt handicapped because I didn't know how to teach or control them.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-15
II-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
To the casual visitor, there is little about John Marshall Junior High School in Brooklyn to attract attention.From the outside, the five-story, red-brick building, erected in Brooklyn in 1924, looks like many of the 900 other schools in the five boroughs in New York City. The walls are unscarred, there are no broken windows, the playground is well kept.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-14
I-"Undercover Teacher" - George N. Allen - New York World Telegram and Sun
From Editor's Note: "Staff writer George N. Allen has just emerged from two months as a teacher in one of the city's "difficult" schools - John Marshall Junior High in Brooklyn. The school's principal committed suicide early this year after acts of violence in the school building and on the school grounds. Mr. Allen was assigned to obtain a teacher's job at the school, JHS 120, to learn first-hand the experiences of a teacher there, the attitudes and aptitudes of the students, the day-by-day problems of classroom instruction. School authorities, fellow teachers and students knew nothing of his true identity. From what Mr. Allen experienced himself and from what he learned from other teachers and supervisors there, he has written a series of articles the first of which appears today.
New York World-Telegram and Sun 1958-11-13
Our Costly Dilemma
May I commend you for your series of articles on public welfare. The presentation to the public of the problems of public welfare is long overdue.May I also suggest that the article on the problems under the category of Aid to Dependent Children did not present strongly enough the viciousness of the out-of-wedlock situation.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-25
Our Future Dilemma
The idea of a higher welfare bill is implicit in all of the recommendations. Sometimes this is explicitly stated. But implied or spelled out in detail, the end product is certain - increased welfare costs measured in billions of dollars.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-24
Our Future Dilemma
Ever hear of the "Report of the Advisory Council on Public Assistance?"It's a comparatively unpublicized 137-page paper-bound document available in Washington. It contains 20 recommendations of such magnitude that it could alter the basic structure of welfare administration. It could also add billions of dollars to welfare costs and it could further entangle the Federal Government in the "welfare state."
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-23
XIV--"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
Spend money to save money? In isolated experiments across the nation, the question has been answered. By spending welfare tax dollars you ultimately save them. For Erie County, saddled with a near $30,000,000 annual relief bill, many answers are available.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-22
XIII-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
"I'm wasting my time working. I'd be better off on welfare." The man holding the steaming cup of coffee could have been your neighbor, the worker at the next machine or the bus passenger sharing a seat. What he said is repeated often in the mounting public distress over high welfare costs. It is the echo of revelations of laxity, chiseling, laziness and dishonesty. It is also wrong. Because a man would be better off "on the welfare" only if he wanted to feed and clothe each of his children for less than a dollar a day.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-21
XII-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
The Erie County Department of Social Welfare has fixed rent ceilings it is willing to pay for welfare recipients. However, because of housing shortages in Negro neighborhoods, exceptions frequently are made. A single caseload may have between 20 and 30 exceptions.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-20
XI-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
Every day in Erie County there are scores of men, women and children sitting in doctors' waiting rooms. When they come out their bill will be sent to you - the taxpayer.Today, too, there are hundreds occupying public and private hospital beds. When they are discharged the statement will be sent to you - the taxpayer.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-18
X-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
Suppose where you work that half the personnel would leave every year. Could your office, factory or business operate efficiently?This is one of the major problems facing public welfare today in Erie County and across the state. Last year 68 of 121 caseworkers left the county welfare service.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-17
IX-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
If a man picked your pocket today, most likely he'd go to jail.But if he taps your wallet via the Welfare Department route, the chances are that he'll never see the inside of a cell.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-16
VIII-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
Tony has received public assistance almost all of his adult life. His son was on welfare in Erie, Pa. A daughter, living at home now, gets monthly Aid to Dependent Children checks for herself and Tony's grandson. Here are some excerpts from his relief history: 1932 - Victor found man had a car licensed in his grandmother's name. Victor knows that the man drives car and is out nights with it. Man doing window washing but denies it.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-15
VII-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
Joey P. had been on welfare for a month. He filled out job applications at half-a-dozen Buffalo plants, hitched a ride to the Niagara Power Project and visited the N.Y. State Employment office regularly. What he told me, as a caseworker for the Erie County Department of Social Welfare, could almost be a recording of what other workers hear repeated day after day, week after week. In many cases its true. But when it comes from men who have a two or three-year relief ride, then it sounds as if the needle got stuck.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-14
VI-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
In New York City, for example, ADC in 1958 supported 54,000 illegitimate children.On the other side of the coin the question is often put this way: What do you propose to do? Let these children starve because of the mistakes of their parents?
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-13
V-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
In Erie County today and in other New York counties, there are thousands of men and women who weekly deduct part of their take home pay and give it to a needy parent, an elderly aunt or children whose early marriage is being threatened by financial shoals.But there are others whose charity never began at home or anywhere else.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-11
III-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
As a group, many of the relief recipients have become a dependent society. During the three months I was a caseworker I gave your tax dollars to children who are fourth-generation welfare cases."Don't let them save you," was the advice I received when I first started. "Some of these people, you'll find, know more about welfare than all of us. They've got every angle."
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-09
IV-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
In a gray filing cabinet in the office of the Erie County Welfare Department where I worked there are supplies of forms that include a list of 65 different ones most frequently used by caseworkers.Each, used in duplicate or triplicate, serves a particular function in the paper empire that has grown with the administration of public welfare.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-10
II-"Our Costly Dilemma" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
"If I had the time I could close 20% to 30% of my cases."This statement by a caseworker in the Erie County Department of Social Welfare focuses on one of the major welfare problems. It means that one caseworker, giving away between $15,000 and $18,000 a month, could come up with a possible saving of $30,000 in one year - if he had the time.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-08
I-"Our Costly Dilemma: Inside Welfare: Close-up of a Staggering Problem" - Ed [Edgar] May - Buffalo Evening News
Every minute your clock ticks, New York State Welfare costs average $1075. Each day, the relief cash register totals about $1,547,945. And when the calendar reached Dec. 31, 1959, the bill for helping the needy in New York State stood at a single-year record of $565,000,000. For three months this writer spent some of that money as a caseworker for the Erie County Department of Social Welfare.
Buffalo Evening News 1960-06-07
"A Fight for Reform" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
". . .As county jails go, the Stanislaus jail at Modesto is among the worst in California. Sheriff Dan Kelsey, who took office two years ago, is the first to acknowledge this. The structure was built in 1910 to house 40 prisoners. Today, it has a daily average of 133 prisoners - and one day last year the total reached 200. . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-02-10
"'Worst Institutions'" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
"To Richard McGee, one of America's top penologists and the head of California's Department of Corrections, the problems of our poor county jails adds up to to this: 'The people who run our jails don't know how to run them. And in many cases they're not even interested in finding out' . . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-02-09
"County Jail Reform Urged" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
". . .A group of top men in Government, experienced in penology, have made concrete proposals on what we can do to remedy the shameful conditions now existing. Governor Earl Warren told me of his concern for the problem. 'The very large part of the inefficiency, much of the degradation and practically all of the brutality that you can find in the jails can be attributed to prisoner mismanagement . . .' "
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-02-08
"Behind California Bars" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
"The league found some employers who would hire released prisoners. Several large railroad companies agreed to hire men for laboring work. The league talked to labor unions. In some cases labor unions waived initiation fees for six months so an ex-prisoner could get a job and get on his feet. . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-02-07
"A Little San Quentin" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
". . .Last week, with Sheriff Dan Gallagher, I visited the county jail west of the Skyline boulevard in San Bruno. As we walked through the massive, clean establishment, he told me: 'This is a fine plant. But if we had it all to do over again, I think we would build it a lot differently ... a lot differently' . . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-02-06
"'Shame of County'" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
". . .Lieutenant Jim Gibbons, who is in charge of the jail, turned to me and said: 'One thing we do here is feed well. There's about nothing else you can say for the place' . . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-02-05
"Alameda Jail -- 'Best in Nation'" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
". . .Today, after five years of what Captain Creel describes as 'trial and error,' he believes that the Center is the 'best damn county jail setup of its kind in the country.' And he may be right. . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-02-04
VII-"A Brutal Beating In the Kern Jail" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
A man, moaning loudly somewhere outside my cell block, woke me suddenly that Saturday night in the Kern County Jail at Bakersfield.
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-02-03
VI-"Alcoholic as 'Tank Judge'" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
Duggan, "The Duke," a tall, thin dark-haired alcoholic met me as I walked into block "Left Three" of the Kern County Jail at Bakersfield on a sunny Friday morning two weeks ago. He was the assistant Tank Judge.
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-02-01
"Honor Rancho Has Its Faults" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
"Criminologists and penologists universally agree that the Wayside Honor Rancho of the Los Angeles county jail system is a great, forward step in county penology.The Rancho, however, also has its faults, many of which are recognized by the men who run the institution, located in the rolling Castaic valley, 40 miles north of Los Angeles. . ."
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, February 1, 1953
"Honor Rancho in L.A. Better Than Others" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
In 1938, Los Angeles county opened a jail farm in the rolling foothills 40 miles north of the city of Los Angeles near the small town of Castaic. There was one barn, one shed, and two sets of barracks. Thus was the Wayside Honor Rancho born.
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-01-31
V-"Sex Perverts, Extortionists Run the Cells" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
"A 23-year-old electrician, convicted of drunk driving, was shoved into a large tank cell in a Southern California County Jail two weeks ago. A squat man, languishing on the lower bunk of one of the small cells inside the tank rose to his feet. . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-01-30
IV-"In S.F. Cell at 18, Al Learned Paths of Crime" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
"It was in 1941 that Al, an 18-year-old from San Joaquin Valley, came to San Francisco to see how he could make it out on his own in the big city. He was broke and friendless. One day, he spotted a new red bicycle in front of a house out in the avenues. He needed transportation, so he stole the bike. It was the first time he had ever committed a crime of any sort. Two days later, he was caught. . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-01-29
III-"Ugly Violence Behind Bars" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
"There was violence, sudden and ugly, in the San Joaquin County Jail in downtown Stockton on Saturday night. It came without warning. We had just finished our evening meal, a poorly cooked stew, when the cell door opened and a man in his late forties was shoved in the door. He was neatly dressed in a sports jacket and slacks, with a pale green sports shirt. As soon as the door closed behind him, he began to beat on the door's bars with his bare fists. . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-01-28
II-"Sordid Life in County Jails Exposed" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
"After my first night 'on the boards' in the San Joaquin County Jail at Stockholm, it was with great relief that I learned I would get a bed to sleep in over the weekend. I had just made a routine appearance in court on the 'drunk charge' and the Judge had ordered me held over the week end for trial on Monday. . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-01-27
I-"County Jails Exposed -- Story of Cruelty, Filth" - Pierre Salinger - San Francisco Chronicle
"I heard a heavy jail door clang behind my back two weeks ago. A Stockton policeman firmly led me by the arm to a battered desk. An inmate trusty looked at me unsmilingly and said: 'Empty your pockets on the desk' . . ."
San Francisco Chronicle 1953-01-26
Reaction: "Warns Nursing Homes" - Task Force - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
"Gov. Ogilvie yesterday announced an increase in the number of nursing home inspectors and declared that owners of the homes have 30 days to correct health code violation or be closed. . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-04-02
Reaction: "Reveal Recommendations to Improve Nursing Homes" - Task Force - William Jones and Philip Caputo - Chicago Tribune
"A panel of experts that studied nursing home conditions at the request of the Chicago Board of Health has called for an end to profiteering by nursing home owners who are pocketing profits of up to 40 percent. . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-04-01
Reaction: "Daley Predicts City to File Suit Against More Nursing Homes" - Task Force - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
"Mayor Daley predicted yesterday that more substandard Chicago nursing homes will be taken to court soon and outlined a series of programs to improve living conditions for the elderly. . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-26
Aged Home Shut, Patients Moved - John Davies - Chicago Tribune
Twenty-nine patients of the West Side Nursing Home, 1900 S. Kedzie Av., were moved out of of the 40-year-old, three story building and into other city nursing homes yesterday. The Board of Health closed the building for alleged building code violations.
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-21
Chicago Board of Health Calls nurse Home Staffs to Account
Employees and operators of six nursing homes were summoned for questioning by Chicago Board of Health officials in closed door hearings which began yesterday into nursing home abuses witnessed by Tribune Task Force reporters and Better Government Association Investigators.
Reaction: "Chicago Board of Health Calls Nurse Home Staffs to Account" - Task Force - Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
"Employees and operators of six nursing homes were summoned for questioning by Chicago Board of Health officials in closed door hearings which began yesterday into nursing home abuses witnessed by Tribune Task Force reporters and Better Government Association Investigators. . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-13
State Attacked on Nursing Home Licenses - Unsigned - Chicago Tribune
Dr. Rasmussen, chief of preventive medicine of the Cook County Department of Public Health, charged yesterday that the state has ignored thousands of violation reports on conditions in Chicago area nursing homes.
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-07
Reaction: "Court Actions Sought Against Rest Homes" - Task Force - William Jones and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
"The city Public Health Department called for court action against nine Chicago nursing homes yesterday on charges ranging from unsanitary living conditions to staff shortages, lack of heat and patient neglect. . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-23
Reaction: "Percy Predicts Wide Rest Home Reforms" - Task Force - William Jones - Chicago Tribune
"Sen. Percy (R., Ill.) made a surprise inspection of Chicago nursing homes yesterday and predicted that the disclosures of neglect and abuse of the elderly poor here will bring nationwide reforms. . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-22
Reaction: "Flay Nursing Home Chiefs" - Task Force - Pamela Zekman and Philip Caputo - Chicago Tribune
"The Illinois Legislative Committee on Public Aid yesterday criticized the directors of three nursing home associations for failing to enforce standards in their industry, and charged that the director of one association had a "laissez-faire" attitude in permitting two of his officers to operate substandard homes for the elderly. . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-16
Reaction: "State Vows Cleanup of Nursing Homes" - Task Force - William Jones - Pamela Zekman
"A controversial 32-year-old physician appointed Wednesday by Gov. Ogilvie to crack down on substandard nursing homes promised yesterday to revamp state inspection and insure that the nursing home scandal exposed by The Tribune 'never happens again' . . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-12
House Panel O.K.'s Rest Home Probe - John Elmer - Chicago Tribune
The House Public Welfare Committee today approved a resolution calling for a special committee to investigate nursing homes and the Public Health Department's practices and rules in regulating and inspecting them.
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-11
Daley Asks Nurse Home Change - Unsigned - Chicago Tribune
A comprehensive ordinance to improve the education and training of nursing home aides and attendants was introduced in the City Council yesterday by Mayor Daley.
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-11
VIII-"Nurse Home Bars Transfer of Patients" - Task Force - William Jones and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
"The owner of a nursing home ordered closed by city health officials locked the doors yesterday and refused for six hours to permit the transfer of 33 public aid patients, even though 15 said they wanted to leave. . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-11
VII-"Crisis in Nursing Homes is Blamed on State Policy" - William Jones and Pamela Zekman - Chicago Tribune
"City health officials charged yesterday that the transfer of former mental patients into Chicago area nursing homes since 1969 has created a crisis in care for mentally disturbed and elderly patients. They urged that the transfers be stopped. . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-10
Reaction: "Senate Sets Hearings on Nurse Homes" - Philip Warden - Chicago Tribune
"Sen. Percy (R., Ill.) announced today that the Senate Select Committee on the Aging plans to hold public hearings in Chicago soon on nursing home abuses. . ."
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-10
3 Call for Tightening of Nursing Homes Laws - John Elmer - Chicago Tribune
Laws should be enacted to require immediate closing of nursing homes which do not meet state standards, and licensing of aides who work in such establishments should also be required, witnesses told the Illinois Public Aid Advisory Commission today.
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-09
City's Health Chief Closes 3 Nursing Homes for Abuses
Three more nursing homes were ordered closed yesterday by Dr. Murray Brown, city health commissioner, who directed the owners to transfer a total of 120 patients to other nursing facilities.
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-09
Some Nursing Homes Jeer at Law - William Jones and Philip Caputo - Chicago Tribune
Substandard nursing homes in the Chicago area have a remarkable survival record. Despite long lists of public health violations reported by state and city health inspectors, they continue to have their licenses renewed each year, even after they have ignored second, third and fourth warnings to clean up their operations.
The Chicago Tribune 1971-03-08