/
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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