SEE STORY BELO
By V4llIftll""lijW.��.
At a special call meet­
ing of t Benien County
Action Board of Direeto ,
Tuesday, ay 27, ora
Jefferson named the
choice to fill th po of
Executive Director. ,
The po had been
cant since arch' hen
the Board terminated James
Peep
Able to ster a
quorum after failure to do
ee earlier, t Board
ted Jeffe n from
a field of finalist
According to A
ard CIWI' mlJtl'-
con ts
from different c
s. Jefferson' cur­
rently director of the Com- to
munity Child Care Center
and Benton To 'p
Trustee.
According to Hender­
son, the federal guidelines
.impro ed from 33 percent
in arch to 29,8 percent in
pril. Until there is a more
IC m rement of the
jobl picture in the im-
poverish d B communi­
e cannot help but
r main cautious concemin
,this one pparent bright
spot in th unemployment
figures.
yS
Reprint
vi Defe
'A bloody
. 01 ce, fa , and looting
has left racially _ troub
. (Fl ) in ch os °th
19 dead, 500 injured and
millions 0 dollars in pro­
perty dama •
Calling
ODe of
tu
thori' n
situ tio
om civil dis­
U.S, history,
be' that
apparently
t direct BCA require her
to th e cted po 0
tion of Trustee.
"rm uncertain,"
to d a Citizen reporter hen
edif e tb
DCA po • She dded that
more information i bein
t 'from ashington.
She admitted that
honored to be con 0 d-
ered d td e fee
"The people need someon
to for them."
Jeffi . n
d four and one-balf y
a member of the
Board.
o 0 r propo
Do d members, Benton
Harbor ayor Joel Patter­
son and Ed Ke me from
Bridgeman were not pro-
o
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