Blanche Parent Wise in Running for Detroit Common Council Seat Blanche Parent Wise, candidate for Detroit Common Council where she served with distinction for eight years, slated this week for television and radio broadcasts and appearances at various organiza- tions, released her usual blunt and forthright replies to queries about her stand on the issues. Mrs. Wise views the function of city government, particularly the Common Council, as the duty to provide citizens with the things that they cannot provide them- selves—water, sewers, highways, roads, police protection and other services. City government is big business — $370 million a year business with 49 departments. It requires a councilman's constant attention every work day of the week to re- view the actions, the budgets, the appropriations and disbursal of funds of the 49 departments. It is highly important that coun- cil members have business experi- ence. It is no place for theorists who expound utopian theories but lack the essential practical outlook on municipal problems. Mrs. Wise points out that she is the only council candidate with a successful business background. The experienced and knowledge- able Mrs. Wise takes a long, cold look at the relations between city and county governments in one in- terview this week. During her pre- vious tenure she was the first wom- an to be elected chairman of the county board of supervisors in the then 123-year-old history of that body. Detroit councilmen are manditor- ily members of the board. Mrs. Wise declares that the 118-member board is a most unwieldy body with three auditors and no head of gov- ernment. It has no office where the sign reads "The buck stops here." The next council, Blanche Parent Wise says, must do away with this headless government and install re- sponsible officials because Detroit citizens supply 62 cents out of ev- ery dollar spent at the county level. City Councilmen are members of the county supervisors board. They, with their appointments are a very integral part, in fact a major part of the board of supervisors in Wayne County. They must exercise the leadership so badly needed. If elected, Mrs. Wise promises to make this one of her prime objec- tives. Ravitz Receives Highest Ratings Enthusiastic support to Mel Ravitz in his bid for a second four- year term on Detroit's Common Council is evidenced in many quar- ters. Ravitz seeks re-election in the all-important balloting on Tuesday. •-743/4 The young Fr• Councilman has r won the support of numerous civic, religious, nationality, nei g h b er hood, block, education- al, labor and pro- fessional organi- zations. Civic Searchlight rates him "preferred and well quali- fied". "Ravitz, No. 36 on next Tues- day's ballot, is well - known to thousands of Detroiters a n d Ravitz is recognized as a champion of the ordinary citizen, whose needs he seeks to represent in resolving the complex problems of life in the huge Detroit metropolis," his friends remind the voters. • WISE VOTERS CHOOSE EXPERIENCE VOTE FOR JUDGE HARRY J. DINGEMAN JR. FOR CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE • • • • Judge of Common Pleas Court of Detroit since 1947. "Preferred and Well Qualified" Civic Searchlight. Endorsed by Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Recommended for election by Detroit Bar Association. NO. 11 ON THE BALLOT VOTE NOV. 2 Ed Connor Points to 17-Year Record Vaughn Urges Councilman Edward Connor, can- months ago, which extended the hours and days when the fares Voters to Avoid didate for reelection for his sev- were in operation. term, is basing his campaign Another program which Council- Confusing Issues enth on programs which he has intro- Jackie Vaughn III, candidate for the Common Council, made a strong appeal to the general com- munity, especially to the non- Negroes, to reject impugning of character and to •, • .• avoid being con- fused by public- ity which has muddled the posi tions of many candidates. He appealed for appreciation of "t h e basic facts" involving "t h e beautiful plans for the future of De- troit." He asked some pertinent questions, s t a t- Vaughn ing: "What kind of government are we getting when alongside new expressways, we have infected housing? When alongside a vital rebirth in downtown office build- ings, we have a Receiving Hospital pest house? What kind of city is this where basic housing and sanitation laws are not enforced? Where a council is so split — be- tween die-hard extremists and progressives — that even the simplest of legislative matters be- come entangled in personalities and vendettas?" "I seek to serve in a responsible position," said Vaughn, "that will help develop our community while keeping in mind the needs of today as well as hopes of tomorrow. We need enforcement of basic hous- ing and building codes; a better Receiving Hospital; solutions to juvenile delinquency; more plan- ning for the needs of Senior citi- zens; prosecution of an aggressive Urban Renewal program — but one that realizes the needs of peo- ple displaced by Urban Renewal, and need to rekindle old fashioned respect for law and order. "And, I say as a Negro and a citizen, that the Negro community has not a right, but responsibility to offer our talented men and women to serve on Common Coun- cil and in other levels of our city government. I am tired of hearing the phrase, 'they deserve repre- sentation.' No one deserves repre- sentation; you earn it and — when you are as large a percentage of the population as is the Negro group, with the young aggressive talent we now produce, you must share the burden of government which represents trial and sacrifice as well as prestige and authority." VOII ■ IMWO ELECT A Man of Courage JACKIE VAUGHN for your COUNCILMAN Ballot No. 40 • Graduate Oxford University, Oxford, England, with distinction. Fulbright Scholar and Fellow. • Past President State Young Democrats of Michigan, two terms. • Wayne State University Instructor (Social Science) 1960-61. • Presently serving as a Consultant. • For a united, progressive Detroit. • Improve city's neighborhood conservation program. • Specific tax relief for small businessmen. • Improvement and expansion of library and recreational facilities. 40 >E< ELECT JACKIE VAUGHN le 40 Miriani Given Wide Support Many leading citizens joined this week in an appeal for a high rating for former Mayor Louis C. Miriani, at the polls on Tuesday, in his race for the Com- mon Council. "His exper ence encourages the largest possi- ble vote of confi- dence for this able administra- tor," Esther Git- lin said this Miriani week, speaking for a large group of his supporters. The list of Miriani's backers kept growing since his splendid showing at the primaries. 16th Century Dramatist Solomon Usque, a 16th century poet and merchant, was the first Jewish dramatist since the second century before the Common Era. He was the author of Esther, the first Jewish drama in the Spanish language. 32—Friday, October 29, 1965 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS duced and actively supported for the past 17 years. Rated preferred and well quali- fied by Civic Searchlight and en- dorsed by 36 groups, Connor points to a number of achievements, such as reduced DSR bus fares for sen- ior citizens ten years ago and an updating of the ordinance two man Connor introduced locally to initiate government action against water pollution was the forerunner of national legislation which Presi- dent Johnson signed into law earlier this month. A native of Chicago, Connor is a law graduate from Notre Dame University, married and the father of two sons and a daughter. ELECT BLAIR MOODY Jr. CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE • Trial lawyer over 13 years • Graduate U. of M. Law School • Rated "Preferred and Well-Qualified" by Civic Searchlight • Chairman, Wayne County Citizens for Kennedy-Johnson, 1960 • Endorsed by Detroit Bar Association HERE ARE SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT BLAIR MOODY, JR. FOR CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Congressman John D. Dingell, Jr. • Robert Nederlander Irwin I. Cohn • Stephen I. Schlossberg Avern Cohn • Charles N. Shere Nathan P. Rossen • Boaz Siegel John Alexander • Gerald Tuchow Ivan E. Barris • Robert M. Warren A. Albert Sugar • Alan E. Schwartz Dennis M. Aaron • Allen J. Kovinsky Irving B. Ackerman • Samuel Charfoos Stanley Schwartz • Jacob Aispector Leonard B. Schwartz • Irwin J. Kasoff Jordan Rossen • Ronald B. Charfoos Paul D. Borman Lawrence K. Snider Elliot I. Beitner William Ellmann Stuart E. Hertzberg David Miro VOTE FOR • John H. Shepherd • Lawrence Fleischman • Harry Portner • Harry L. Pliskow BLAIR MOODY J r., NOV.2 No. 15 on Non-Partisan Judicial Ballot