/
ay to
in phisti ted
be her ppro ch
re-election to the
o
ational Boar of the AACP thi
winter. n. Wil n, who lost her
board membership and her chair
man' po 'in a much-publicized
dispute with AACP Executive Dir -
tor 8ejarnin L. Hooks, will run for one
of eight at-large , according to a
ory by Judy Ho ard in the St.
Louis American.
"I don't propose to give up no ,"
de ed the articulate St. Lou'
lawyer and dministrator, hen there
h been an effort to discredit my
hole career, to demean me a a
n hen I ha e done nothing
illegal. uncon itutional, immoral or
improper. So 1 propo to stand my
ground and hope the membership
of the a elation Will have me
I
ppreciation for hat this situation
. all bout and lend me their up
port."
. "And that's good becau it me
that a movement ed and
pu ed by one group of oppre d
peopJ and h led other to e they
too can e effective in eking to
obtain t ir equal acee to opportun-
ity "decl ed the civil right leader.
From TIte ich' C1rro' ie
continu un b ted
a f 0 by a
Force chaired by Con
tt Jr., th go ernor' legal
the boiling
59-year-
d re 'dent, ot and
erif'rs Deputy Randy Ger e
altercation after a traffi
to
to u "sm hole in the floor to
urinate."
Other B c citizens id deputies
freqiemt?u opped t rn for bogus
traffic . olatio , abusing them both
verbally and phy ically. The T Force
returned to to prepare its report
to the go emor.
Though era! have it, one
question . remains unanswered. Why
n't federal officials inv . ted the
Idlewild 'dents complaints? If even
some of them are true, then Lake Coun
ty's la enforcement om have been
sy ematically violating te and federal
I, me
Robert illiaml� the ciYil rights
o fled to C ba and China to
a o';pro lion for allegedly violating
the right of bite orth Carolina re '
dents during the turbulent '60s,
been living in Idlewild for more than a
decade. B evins claims iDiams' , -
ing" Idlew d residen and ilson'
death.
Som Idlewild {1 'dents contend
B 'liDS ha been the tool of • small
ent of the White e County
community that ts to keep RIa
in their P ceo
iIliam has persuaded Detroit Atty.
Erne Goodman to conduct an indepen
dent inv . tion of ilIOn' death and
the other all tio Blevin
and . depu
Some te of' Ita . the
Lake County confrontation I a "politi-
cal hot potato." While admit· th
·tuation may be reminilcent of the
South," none of tho Ita of
ted to be identified or to
record.
Cham be r Board
Auseo pro je et
The T in Citie rea Chamber of
Commerc Board of Director ye terday
pa dare lution supporting the effort
of the St. Jo ph Foundry Company to
re-open the u 0 Foundry and provide
the needed 250-500 job tothe commun
ity, ccordin to Chamber Pre' dent
Jame F. urphy chairm n of the board
Inter-City Bank.
"
supports
ing the . chi an Economi
Authority to cure d
nece fundin for
been mailed to th Go
tor of the 'chi
Commerce, members of
Economic De lopment AUltbOJritY
and legislators.
,
y
The fi . plight of
citie more by
of political I en than by the 10 of
iobs and population to other ,
ccording to • an y' by two
Univer . ty of Chicago re arc
In City oney, published by th
Columbia Uni Pre , Terry Clar
and Lorna Ferguson id municipal
strain resulted primarily from
political spending d .. RI.
The 10 of job and peop , C
d, does not I d inevitably to
Pitt urgh and Schenectady, .Y., f r
example, experi ced relatively littl
bile others, ell ew Yor
d neared bankruptcy.
ey" , ys C ,. that politi-
cal 1 der in some citie re ed
quickly to the � health of the
local economy bile others either did not
perceive the problem or could no y
no to their political constituenci .
y continued to expand city function
and nding e en bile the city'
. ..
ree _ its pn te tor economy _
rinking."
City oney ! based on analy' of
62 American cities 0 r the p 20
yean d is the.no thoroup study
to date of strain in city fin C
. profe r of lOCiology
University of Chic 0 and Fergu-
tty reeei D.
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