DETROIT t I. - Chen in support
of the AACP' m . e national voter
registration �paign ill end their
J6O.miIe tre along the "Underground
Railroad" route from entucky and
through Ohio ·th am' e Voter
R' tion ch through do nto n
Detroit on Sunday, September 4.
The AACP' Overground Railro d
arch, concei d as method of dramat]-
zing the . tion's effort to regist
more a million Bl c voters Will
end in a rally featuring Benjamin L.
Hook , the AACP' exec tive director,
G rgia State Senator J uti n Bond and
the odd' home-run hitting champion
H Aaron, amo other.
The rilly will be held at the Second
pti Church ill do nto n Detroit,
the 0 B c church in IIUClUIDA
A core group of marchers ranging in
age from 16 to 76 left Louisville on
A u 13, to foDo the Underground
Railr d route u d by Blac' fleeing
slavery in the 1800'. Key cities ere
cho n where the marchers - which
included a judge, a cartoonist, several
udent and athlete topped to
conduct voter education clinics and
door-to-door regi ration.
The marchers averaged 5 mile an
hour and 20 mile a day. Twi ed and
oDen ankles, 100 degree temperature
d a fe cold emed to be their
bi e problems. ' e've been over-
helmed lth the enthusiasm we-ve
received," . d Joe ' n, Director
of Voter Education and Registration.
"In cit' , B and hit
and ho .
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BE TO H RBOR - The propo d
cooperative arrangement ereby the
city of B nton Harbor ill obtain 1.5
million Urban De elopment cti on Grant
AG for the city of St. Joseph is
echni ally po ibl n ccordin to
repre ntative from th Detroit Housing
and Urban Development UD om ,
"It doe not 0 00 gr t to have
a proje for a city th t' not eligi Ie
commented Larry Gonnezano Commu­
nity Planning and D elopment R pre-
ntati e for HUD.
Benton Harbor city meet the HUD
criteri for di tre citie - and is
ranked the at of ichigan' mo
distressed city - while St. 10 ph ranks
near the top of the affluent li .
The proposed 1.5 million UD G
grant will be solicited by the city of Ben­
ton Harbor to be given to the city of
St. Joseph to be loaned to in e tor
trying to purcha the former uto
Specialties foundry.
In broadcast remar Benton Har-
bor city man ger Elli itchell id if
the greement between the t 0 citie
could b or ed out the city re 'dent
ould be guaranteed 50 percent of the
their support, , id.
The U.s. Justic a on
hand in iddleto Ohio
in ca the Ku Klux n honored their
threat again t the marcher when they
arrived in tho cities, Th Ian did
not show up.
In Troy Ohio, small to n bet n
D yton and Toledo, there ere 750
eJigib e Blac voters, only 50 of them
registered. In couple of hours th
AACP' marchers and branch members
had registered 200 dditional p ople.
In Columbu Go em or Richard
Cel te honored the marcher donated
400 nd symbolically signed a bill hich
ha already been p alIo in hi
hool administrators to register tho
udent e'
ID T
25 s
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ne job opening up.
ccordin to Gonn zano H 0
the . prim benefit of the UD
o to Benton Harbor. Gormezan
it ould be more tha 5
job guar nteed to cit re ent.
"Th re ould ha t
provisions in the con r ct
the benefit to the city
r r G anne zano id
phon intervi ue ay.
Gonnezano so ommen ted
itchell' comparison of th pr
T in Citi UD G to a UD obt in d
by Detroit for Ham tram
good one.'
Hamtramc
eligible iti G armeza no
UDAG a for the General otor
ject hich cro d both municip 1
darie and' too va to be sit
dministered by more th none muni i­
pality. '
Gormezano said that usuall
municipalit 'e re to cooper t
volv a To nship and a it here
the city h run out of land for de el­
opment but ha the people for th job.
Th township provide the land th it
the people.
, ost cooperative greement d n t
or out," Gorrnezano id �
th citi n't gr .'
Gorm zano
Benton rbor' p
UDAG gr nt cement to be
to aIlo re' den of th entire 4
zip code ar to qualif for j b can
be changed.
HUD di not realiz that th it of
Benton Harbor 1
9022 zip code e
ton 0 n ip.
"Our office not a ar f that
condition' Gormezano id. H dd d
the no re n" th city
ulate th t city r 'dent r t I
zip code re 'dents get th un re t
job.
Under onununity De 1 pm nt Dir-
tor Bill Lilly, 0 UD G
on ith AIr 0 and on
- ere both written to
panie r tn UD G t
one in 9022 zip code