VOL. 1 NO. 27
JU E 12, 1979
SERVING TRI-COUNTY SOUTHWESTERN ICHIGAN
Pric 20 cents
Th re is 2 hour-a-day surv iII�� of the Hotel Vincent by the Bums Security
force . Hou d in th trailer n in the photo �bo, guards keep QPS on th
hot I louted at th com r of in and Sixth Streets in downto n B nton Harbor.
Th ecurity force has been hired by a Washington D.C. rchitectual firm that is
in t proce s of dra iog up pecification for th remodeling of th building. Th
hotel i J ted to becom a Job Corps Center. Just recently the Justice Departm nt
ured the 0 p trnent of l bor's interest in the property. On th day The Citizen
report r pped th bove p otos, the B nton Harbor fire Departm nt was pump-
ater from the hotel's ba ment.
c
00
oard
in nday' election.
L rry iel n c ptured
th one-year term with 685
th ir vote: Antoinette ii­
liam (238), nni Robin­
on (269), Lour lIa L nge
(248), Di n Duc ett (105)
nd Lav me Willi m (205).
vote.
Other
nd
400,000 and
under pressure from th
United ay office to cut
off their c mpaign, the
Y CA is at a critical
point, an informed source
reve led to' The Citizen.
A sp cial ession of the
Y E ecutive, Board was c 1-
led for 7: 30 this morning
"to map strategy as how to
proceed," J mes Tiscornia
admitted to a Citizen re­
porter onday. Tiscornia
is Co-chairrn n of the com­
mittee e tabli hed to rai
$2 million for con truction
of ne YMCA in Royal­
ton To nship.
ne
Ip
Sl ,but too
no cti n tabling the
requ st until June 21
Running on th Ren-
nee Slat ith Coo .
rnold it."
II of EI
for
th
The problem ro
when Whirlpool Foundation
reneged on it promi of
$400,000, the urce id.
delin Higgin, Sec­
retary. _ f the Found tion
refu d to di u th
po d
that
gro
paign committe
that wants to proceed
a ne building th tile
than planned nd hop to
obtain other funding do n
the road; the other group
that apparently an to
shelf the whole proj ct.
"Ho c n we build
half the pac ag e prornis­
sed to contributors?" the
source qu ried.
hirlpool's re n for
withdrawing from th fund
rai ing efforts were reported
s "the do not
contribute to the n
division nd ab ndonm nt
of Benton Harbor."
Y Director David B rg-
m n told Citiz n on-
d th tam jor new
relea would be forthcom-
ing within two we. H
d c1in d to comm nt on
the pecific of th Cam­
pin difficultie .
ep
licans for
R pub-