The Tiger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 2, Ed. 1, October 1978 Page: 2 of 16
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THE TIGER
October 1978
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S.A.'s Tribute To Black Leaders
Who put up the signs declaring open season on dumping and is also
running a week growing contest in the proximity of the intersections
of Wheatley and Bunche and I street and Wheatley?
It should be an honor to have a street in your community named
after a worthy person. And surely having three streets named after dis-
tinguished people should instill overflowing pride in a community.
Well, this does not seem to be the case in an area that comes dir-
ectly under Councilman Webb’s conscience,District 2.
Obviously, many low-mined persons are using this area to “dis-
pose” of unwanted articles.
Old tires, broken down furniture, piles of tree debris, and just plain
garbage line the area, openly mocking the preposterous no dumping
signs supposedly enforced by the police department.
Bookertee Street, which is also in this area and also as disordered,
was named after Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee
Institute; Bunche Street was named in honor of Ralph JohnsonBun-
che, a Nobel Prize for Peace winner; and Wheatley Street was titled
in recognition of Phillis Weathley, the first Negro to capture an im-
portant roll in American literature.
Certainly these three illustrious blacks deserve something a little
more dignified.
Moreover, the weeds lining the streets are way out of hand. Since
the area we are speaking of is not a heavily traveled one, maybe res-
ponsible people are thinking “out of sight out of mind.” But people
do reside in this health hazardous area. Certainly these people deserve
somehting a little more dignified also.
Some children going to Riley Middle School have to pass by this
“dumping ground.” Knowing children, old junk is enticing to them.
Furthermore, who is going to start pointing fingers and ducking
into the woodwork if a parent complains that little Johnny received a
bite from a snake which was under this derbris?
Booker T. Washington stressed that you should be patient when it
comes to changes being made. Judging from the height of the weeds
in this area, forbearance has turned a situation into a farce.
With a sigh of relief, let us be thankful that Mr. Webb is not the
overseer of the graves of Bunche, Wheatley, and Washington.
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