Ahh Ye there . good ne in Van
Buren. The ate h ju a arded our
Sherurs Department S57,OOO. The
money to be u to hire more officers .
d buy more radar equipment and if
there . anythirig that any kind of police
dept. e it . hiring more people and
buying more phi Heated equipment.
The grant . for ccident prevention
d e think that that i a onderful
purpo ,no let' hope that the deputies
remember hat they are out there
e also think th t it i about time for
eriff to give me thought to
int ting hi ork forces. Items that
he hasn't had much cce in fmding
B1 person ho kno s ho to
d . e a car write out traffi
ti et. e no th t that is an ful
lot to e perct to find in a Bl ck person
in V Buren County 1 em to be
ble to do e erything th t everybody
el can do on e they et cro the
Coun y line but e belie e that he can
do it if he really ant to. aybe h
ou d reaDy ant to if enough of u
ould complain to our County Com­
nu oner they appropi te money for
the Sheriff' Dept. about either the
I e of an Affmnative Action Policey
or the I of folIo ing the one that
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Out in Van
ur n County
the county does have.
ouldn't you think th t the AACP
uld h ve found some ay to cut off
some of the tate or federal funds that
come into this county? Do you think
that they could try? ill you rai thi
que 'on at the next meeting?
STRANGE THINGS ARE happening
all around us. e read where one of the
Blac churcher in Benton Harbor ill
soon be having a St. Patrick's Day MlJsi­
cal. e hope that this attempt to reach
cro the racial barrier ill result in
me form 'of reciprocation by some
local "white" church - but we doubt
it. Some years back one of the Black
churche in South Haven held a serie
of Shamroc Tea's but no white church
felt touched enough to sponsor Boo er
T. shtngton Tea a Fredric Dougla
Day or ary cLoud Bethune Hour
or any other event named for or honoring
anything or anybody Blac that
church abandoned the idea.
GOT CALL FRO friend who
ed about the CP meeting th t I
ent to in Kzoo I month. I really
hadn't planned to talk about it but since
I h d to tell her I might a well tell you
too. en I got to the meeting ( fe
minute late) and t do n I discovered
th t I h d gone to the rong place, there
a this nice white I dy up in the front
of the audience te ching some Blac
td ho to uare dance.
I leaned over and hispered to the
man next to me "Sir, I don't live in
K'zoo so I mu have made the rong
tum somewhere could you tell me ho
to get to the AACP meeting"? The
kind gentleman smiled and said, 'This
is the AACP meeting".
I got ho tile "you mean that this is
the AACP meeting for February and
February is Blac History onth and
this is the only meeting that they will
have this month and thi is the Black
Hi tory Program and shouldn t the
kid be learning about Paul Cuffe or
Paul Robe n?"
The kind gentleman said Don't
be bitter I dy.'
at do you mean bitter?"
ell, he id, e wouldn't have
come if she hadn't been ed.'
o invited her?
'It mu have been by the people
in charge, besides hat do you have
ain Square Dancing"?
'Look", I said, 'I like Square danc­
ing a ell a the next person, a do- '­
do or a promenade here or there never
hurt anybody. I just think that there
is time place for everything.'
I picked up my coat and walked out -
but as I huffed and puffed my w y thru
the door I could hear the kindly gentle-
man �ing to his nei&hbor, '7he
out . er always come in and cau
trouble."
DO SOUfH OF US in Ca that
political machine that elected all tho
Black to office last year is having the
kind of problems that are endemic to
this kind of operation and often are
difficult to solve. When revolutionary
change take place th re is usually a
period of uncertainty while role are
defined and everybody's po 'tion ith­
in the ruling structure is clarified. Once
this period is survived, when they realize
that the strength of the whole' greater
than the total of its individual part there
is usually clear sailing there after. Let'
h ve a little patience, everything i going
to be alright.
00 'T LET OBODY tell you that
Ronald Re an believe in tokenism
becau it ju t ain't true. Fact: Since
Reagan h been President he has
appointed 88 judge to lifetime job on
district or circuit courts plus one on
the Supreme Court. or the 89 appoint­
ments 2 ere Hispanic (who rve in
Puerto Rico - the closest thing to a
BI ck ppointment was the elevation of
a Blac Di rict Judge to the Circuit
Appeals) Court in e York. If you
want to accu Ronnie of being anti­
Bla that is your priviledge. y con­
cern i that nobody besmirch his reputat­
ion by saying that he believes in token­
ism. Even somebody who believes in
to enism ould have hired a token
Black. n.b. Jimmy Carter made 262
appointments 38 14%) Black 16
(6.1%) Hispanic.
5 0
G
There is warehouse in Chicago
rocked with items ranging from fragrant
soap to hou paint waiting to be given
away to non-profit groups.
The ational Associ tion for the
Exchange of Industrial Re ources
AEIR) is a nonprofit organization
th t warehou s charitable donations
and distribute them to other qualified
nonprofit organizations nationwide.
A ruling last year by the Internal
Revenue Service allowing companies to
receive tax deductions of up to twice
the cost of their donated inventory
has caused AEIR's busine to b om
ccording to an article in Inc. a azine.
AEIR i not permitted to 11 tr de
or barter any of the goods it receives
under the IRS ruling.
According to Gary C. Smith assi ant
to AEIR pre 'dent, items stored in the
65 000- uare-foot arehou on Chica­
go's South Side are inventioried and
listed in a AEIR qu rterly bullentin
available only to members. ember
rno t of whom repre nt educational
in titution pay 250 annual fee for
cce to the good .
embers can pic up the item they
am or pay freight charge, the Inc.
azine article report .
AEIR is he quartered at Dept C,
550 Frontage Rd., orthfield, u 60093.
T CITIZE
PAG 7
oran.
The BHHS Class of 1963 i planning
its 20th CIa Reunion for June 25 t·
6:30 t the Berrien Hills Country Club.
, e are doing our be to find every-
one - but still need your help id
Kathy Kuschel Green. "If you no
ho to locate any of the classm te
plea cont ct me at 983-2983 before
June 18.
The group i looking for: John
Ander n, Le ie Ander n ark B
Ema Boc B rbara Ch ddoc , Robert
Cummin P ul Dubman J arne Doroh,
Barbara Ed ards Ro Fee rdeen
Fishler rjori� Freeman, Sharon Ga •
David Gardner Pri ilia Goff Ronald
Hand Linda Hanks Thelm Hauch,
Linda Hendrix enneth Hill Fred Hill­
hou and Robert Holt.
Also, Ch de House Barb J n
Barbara John n Charles John n Don
Johnson Samella John n Jerry Jone
atthe Kickles J r. Richard Lauri ella
Earne Letinich J ames Looney, Ron
sters Lucind iller arlen oul-
-'\ ton, Lillian urr y Doug cCraith
illiam i hol Brend ichols nn
01 n, Robert Onnsby Rit Pa n
Andrea Pelkey Harold Polfi
Pollin Charles Porphir Phylli
Billy Robert d A. Dian Ro .
AI Ch rles Ro Leroy haub
Ken Schemer Raymond Shepherd Jim
Schlipp Ri hard Schlipp J arne S nei­
der John hramn Peter Shaffer, J immi
Simms enneth Sypre Charle Si
Harry S Lel nd Smith
Spitzke, Dorothy Stafford, Ger
Vanderbec ,Leo Vaughn, Darrell
Gary Eugene atkin P
Jim Whitt, Freddie UlS
Y rbrough and illiam lach ry.