II
pen
The
Police
32,000
ho
"
State
d
uad" files
ta
a
organizations names
were indexed to the me
be permitted to receive a
copy of their me. Becaus
the me ere extensive
in n ture, many per ns
d organizations may have
been indexed for cro -
reference even though no
ctual me wever main
tained on them. on
quently the per ns and
organizations will soon
receive this tice alo
with tho for whom a
Hie was maintained.
In ddition, notice
will b published in various
newspap r throughout the
te on 0 ember 23,
1980, and again prior to
Thanksgivin D y. Per ns
who wish to kno if their
name is inde ed to this
me may return a coup n
from the published
notices no telephone
inquirie will be ccept d
and coupon must be
returned in order for th
reque t to b honored.
All requests mu t be re-
, ceived by January 15,
1981.
Shou d there b a large
response to the notices,
or should ding be limit
ed, considerable time will
be needed to provide cop' s·
of the files to those
requesting them, according
to D/Lt. orman Smith
of the State Police Investi
gative Services Division at
E st Lansing.'
Honor Chicago police for gang arrests
,
enty-fi e officer of
the C' go, II. police
department, who . ted
th ichigan State Police
and Berrien County u tho r-
itie in criminal ca
ugu t in Berrien
county, were honored for
at istance at a dinner
tin Thursday evening,
ovember 13, 1980, t the
Holiday Inn t St. Jo ph
ichigan,
In ddition to the dinner
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tribute, the Chicago officers
ere pre nted certificates
of profe 10 excessence
by the ichigan State Police
wh repre ntatives
included ajor Lewis
Smith, commander of the
inve tigative rvice divi-
. on t East Lansing, Capt.
illiam Chandler, comman
der of th fifth district at
Paw Pa , and Lt. Carl
Hulander, commander of
the Benton Harbor post.
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The Benton Harbor
Area Schools' Title One
Pre hool, athematics and
Reading departments re
ho ing parent wor shop
ond y and Tuesday, 0-
vember 24 and 25. The
orkshop . being h ld at
the Di trict's Staff Develop
ment office, next to Seely
eCord Elementary School
on eCord Street.
Coordinator of Titl One
e hool program, rs.
1 udia Vescolani 'd,' e
are giving p rents and op
portunity to see the great
variety of educational toys
I ailabl from local mer-
chants. The toys are
dur b and safe and are
the type th t most capture
y
the interests of children
between the age of 4 and
11.
, ith prices of all toy
going up, parent should
consider that the items
that they give to their
children at Christmas are
really and inve tment th t
can be made in their learn-
program," said rs,
Vescolani.
Monday's ' n begins
at 1 :00 p.m. and runs
through 8:00 o'clock. Tues
day, the doors of Staff
Development will be open
from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. "If any parents need
a ride to see our display of
educational toys, or ants
to work ith us in m �
The ichigan State
Police said that the youths,
member of a street, gang
in Chicago, had committed
a rie of home invasion ,
armed robberies and crimi
nal sexual assault in Benton
township, Berrien Springs,
and at Lakeside in Berrien
county. Evidence at ili
scene linked the subjects
with the Chicago are,
prompting request for
Chicago PD a' ceo
ma
toys or games that they
can take home for their
children, they should call
926-7149," said Mrs. Ves
colani.
The today program is
open to all paren ts living
within the Benton Harbor
Are Schools community.
Questions concerning this
Educational Toy Workshop
for parents ould be direct
ed to Mrs. Claudia Vesco
lani, 92�273.
• e want people to feel
free to drop in anytime
during this two day wor -
shop. 0 one needs to feel
that they should tay any
longer than they want, a
few minu te or veral
hour ," said r. Vescolani.
Blae amilym
half of
edian family income
for Blac families in 1979
was $ 11 ,650 according to a
report from the U.s. De
p rtment of Commerce's
Census Bureau.
The 1979 median for
Bl cks was 6.7 percent
higher than the 1978
median of 10,880, but
when djusted for inflation
the 1979 figure showed
som evidence of a 4-
percent decline in real dol
lar even though the year
to-year change as not
"sta istically ·gnificant.
The 1978-1979 changes
in real dollars for White
and Hispanics were also no
statistically significant. The
1979 median for Whites
was 20,520 and for His
panics, 14,320.
In 1979, Bla median
family income wa 57 per
cent of that for White
families. This w not
significantly different from
1978 ratio of 59 percent.
According to the report,
the 1979 income figures
do not reflect the influence
of the rece 'on which
began in the spring of
1980.
E
can't
IF YOlfVE EVER
failed to get a ne job or
promotion becau you
eked "academic creden-
" you're goin to
ugh (or cry t this:
Since 1971, it h been
con . dered illegal for an
employer to require a
diplorn or degr as a
prerequi ite for a job or
po ition if the duties of
th job don't m e such
credentials nece
In oth r ord it'
u illegal for a com-
pany to discriminate gain t
a per for a I of
education it' to di
criminate on the b ' of
x, r e, national orism,
or religion.
That doesn't mean a
per n can qualify for any
job. But it doe mean
than no employer IeplIy
can place a superficial
barrier between an appli
cant and a job he or e
could do, given the chance.
THE REASO you're
probably laughing or crying
is that hundred, if not
thousand of jobs and pro
motions ar denied on such
abe ch year. The la
h n't been follo ed.
But it ha been te ted
in court.
Th United State
Supreme Court w ed
to re ye this' e during
its October, 1970, term.
The court delM!red its
opinion the following
March.
The c was Grigs
. Duke Power Co. The
QUestion was this: I an
employer prohibited by the
Cibil Rights Act of 1964,
Title VII, from requiring
a high School education or
p of a andardized
general intelligence test as a
condition of employment in
or transfer to jobs when
neither is related to success-
fuljob perform ce? _
The court's resounding
"no" changed employer
testing procedure, but it
didn't change and em
ployer's picking and choos
ing secretly among appli
cants lety on the basis
of educational attainment.
OST EMPWYE�
are a are of this c
because it w a landmar
decision. Out 'de of cor
porate and personnel
offices, however, little is
known about it.
A suit brought
against Duke Power by a
group of bl employe
working t the company's
power generating station
in Draper .C. The Di
trict Court found tha t
before July 2, 1965, the
effective date of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, the
firm openly discriminated'
on the b of race by
employin« bl s only m
tlte company' tabor depart.
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The report al sho s
that an e tirnate 25.2 mil
lion per ns of all race
were below the poverty
level in 1979, of whom
7,8 million were Blac . The
number of Black married
couple familie bela the .
poverty level inorea d from
370,000 in 1978 to 440 000
in 1979, reversing a de
crea for this group
between 1977 and 1978.
However, the app rent
incie of . 200,000·
between 1978 and 1979
in th total number of
Blac below the poverty
level was not ta tistically
, gnificant.
At the beginning of the
decade, 56 percent of all
poor Black familie ere
maintained by women; by
1979 the proportion h.ad
grown to 72 percent. Al
though the report notes no
significant change in the
overall number or propor
tion of persons belo the
po erty level since the
1975-76 period, certain
population subgroup
showed changes be een
1978 and 1979. For
example, the number of
poor person 65 and older
incre d from 3.2 million
in 1978 to 3.6 million
last year.
As part of an effort
to improve the quality of
it income and poverty
atistic , th Brue u intro
duced veral important
modifications in col
lection and pre ntation of
the data. The change
included larger sample,
a more de ' d income
questionnaire, 11 of n
hou hold . cl • . Ication
concept, more detailed in
income late for" .
income groups, and
farm definition,
A in all sampl rvey ,
the data in th report are
subjec to sampling vari
ability and errors of re
spon , including under
reporting and nonreporting.
Single copi s of the
report, Mon y Income and
Poverty Status of Familie�
and Per n in the United
States; 1979, P-60, o. 125,
m y be purchased from
the . Superintendent of
Documents, UiS. Govern
ment Printing in major
citie throughout the United
States. The price is $2.25
per copy prepaid.
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continued to perform well
in their jobs and, in fact,
were promoted.
THE CHIEF justice
found the evidence showed
neither the high school
compl tion requirement nor
the general intelli ence test
bore demon trable
relationship to successful
performance of the job for
which it u d.
In short, what Con
gre commanded in Title
VII is that any tandard
used to me re a person
for job must measure
him or her against the
cifi du of th job
itself and not gainst m
a tr tion.
ment, where the highest
paid age were lower than
in "white's only" depart
ments.
Promotions were made
ithin each department
on the b . of seniority .
When the company
changed its policy of
restricting bl ks to its
labor department, it did,
however, continue to
require a high school diplo
ma for transfer to other
departments.
FRO THE TIME the
high hoo1 requirement
instituted at the company
(in 1955 to the time of
the trial, however, white
employes hired before the
requirement w made