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Berrien County h Tiff s
office hir d t 0 of thr
patrolmen laid off for no m
p lance ith the city's residency
r quirement.
Sandy and
S Yen rsh e into jobs
at the S riff's office Monday.
. Judy Gladney, a St.
[o ph To n ip resident, f ce
termin tion February 15 from
the Benton Harbor Police force
for non-compli nee ith th
re id ncy equirern nt.
. residency require-
ment d mands all city
emptov hired fter J un 1,
1973, to' become re idents by
July 1 of thi year.
150,
• Officer Friendly" rv d
total of t 0 year , eight months
on th B nton Harbor force,
Ii e in Coloma. e joined
th force ye r o.
In e pi ining hy Judy
GI dney . not hired by the
sheriff's office, Sheriff ick
Je lid, "To my 'no I dge
iss. Gladney did not ubmit
. - an pplication."
"Social Po er shouldn't
be concentrated in too fe
people", so says Dr. an fred
Thullen, Community Resource
Development Sp ialist of ichi-
gan State University, h
addressed Vle Horizons
Leader hip CI held at th
Benton Harbor Public Library
last Wed esday e ening.
r. Thullen po e on
"Po er, Po er Actors, and
Po er Structures in Community
Decision Making". H said that,
"Only 5% of the adult popula
tion in communities are acti
and diiectly in olved
community decision making".
That's wh it is important to
kno ho this 5% is in order to
effect social change. ,
February 6, 1979
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resources like w Ith and land,
obligations 0 ed, c ntrol over
job ,credit and mor lity.
I He went on to y that,
"Social Po er i exercised
through co rcion, influence or a
combination of both. They c n
facilitate, p emote, bloc or
delay' many community deci-
ions". "
Th red-he d d lecturer
d fined Po er Actor as,
"individuals who e directly
involved in deci jon making".
Thullen referred to various
tudies hich 0 ed Po er
Actors in olv d in th folio ing
catagories: 1) Local government
participants such as elected
officials, political party lead rs
an public employees; 2) non
gover' ment influencials, such as
The M.S.U. rofessor busines and industri I managers,
Social Po er as "The bankers, media p ople, and large
cap city to control the actions landowners; 3) non-government
of others". He added th t, gencies, such s ho pitals, pri-
"Social Power u ually comes vate schools and United Fund;
from two sources, authority and 4) voluntary organizations like
control of resources". neighborhood associations and
Thullen stated that con- civic cubs.
trol of resources can mea many' Dr. Thullen said that,
different things, such as s ills, "power structure is a pattern
knowledge, reputation and social of interaction among the power
standing. It can mean material tors in a community". There
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cy
Three other patrolmen
are affected by the residency
requirement: Larry T vlor,
Georg Schemenauer and ike
Slater .
According to Chief
Andre Rod z, the three intend
to comply. Rodez stated that
ill purch a home, one
and one is still 100 ing.
ith th fo down by
three, Rodez is m intaining
police coverag by reassigning
officers from Special Assignment.
to patrol.
as
Steven
ar h
lac s on disaster's brink
In its nual economic
revi , the State of BI c
''America 1979, the ational
Urban League says BI c Ameri
"cans are on the "brin of disas
ter."
the legislati gains di -
appointing, saying, If s ye r
e re reduced to trying to
preserve the f w meager pro
gram currently in existence."
A mood of "nega ivism"
as ell as a "rec lcitrant, in n-
itive,- callou Congres H, were
pinpointed by Jordan the
reason for the reluctanct to
boo t federal spending for
employment and social
programs.
�ALENTINE'S DAY
BI GO
Smdy Watson
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Judy Gladn y
Carter orders, funds for Blae
President Carter has
issued - a memo ordering all
federal department and agency
. heads to increase their invest
ment of millions of dollars in
BI c colleges.
"1.. have repeatedly
e pres ed m hope" that the
. historically Black college will
be stronger when I leav office
than hen my dministration
began," Carter said.
In the memo, he. endor-
d the nation's app <> imately
100 BI c colleges and the
"Uniqu role" they provide in
educ tion I opportunities for
thousands. '
colleges
The most recent statistics
from th Department of Health,
Education and Welfare (HEW)
how that in 1975 Blac colleges
received $239 million of n arly
$5 billion granted to all th
n tion's colleg .
BEOG student loan
from HEW accounted for 85
percent of that $239 million.
Minimal funds were pent by
. Government agencie . for
re arch grants, f culty aid nd
facility construction.
Th Dep rtment of the
Interior a arded the Ie st -$40,
000 - to Blac colle in th t
year.
Citin fed ral budgets
and a threatened recession as
the cause, Vernon Jordan,
le ue pre ident, tated, "The
income gap between BI cks and
ites is actually widening."
Loo ing back, Jordan
noted th t a year go the civil
rights group was hopeful that
the economic ills of Blacks and
other minoritie ould be
ddressed by expected tax cuts,
development of an urban policy,
passage of Humphrey-H wkins
full employment bill and new
elfare measures ..
Jordan commente at �� �. 1 �� �---- -------------- .. -- .. ---- ___
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are many ind of po er true-
tur s' in Am rica tod y In
referring to on m d b Ron
Po ers of 10 a State Uni ersitv,
Thullen id, "thi study ho ed
four different typ s of po r
I .
ructure . They Include:
a) Op n Person po er structure,
re on person controls all J" •
the d isions. b) Tightly nit
group po er structur s, here
all group of Po er Actors
ith . common intere t d high
interaction control d ision.
c) Split community po er struc
tures, here 0 tightly- nit
grou�s are dying for dominance.
d) Po er pool po r tructure I
wher a 100 Iy nit group of
Po er Actors ho n e ch
other, but are not invol d ith
all d ci ions.
I Dr. Thullen id that
po er tructures in olve and
chang 0 r time in commu
nity, and the Po er Actors also
change. Outsid Po er Actors
d structures often ffect a
community more so than those
inside.
Th .S.U. lecturer ys,
"th prob em ith po er stru -
tures is that th y often do not
reflect the rna e-up of th
community. Therefore, people
must org nize nd mo in
concert to effect ial chang ".
e Horizon is pon-
sored by the B rrien County
Cooperativ Extension Servi ce
in an effort to stimul citiz n
partici ation in th ir
community.
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garage.
Jam s Cren ha . ,a publi
orks mechanic, attempting
to eld a me J tep onto a
hen th fir
e out.
er n ha not in-
jured, but he $10,000 tr: c
total lo 1
Firemen, who r
called to the ara hortl
b fore 5 a.rn., u d fo m to put
out th blaz. The fire burn d a
small hole in the ro f of the
garag ,. but did not d rna e
other chicles in id th build- I
ing. I
Reported I
cI im d h did not no h
att ching th step to a gasolin
tan which is I ca ed b t n
the cab nd c rgq d p rtrn nt of
the true