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ill the flow of federal Housi and
Urban velopment (HUD) dollar into
the city of St. Joseph bre down racial
barrier there?
The city has been tentatively approved
to receive S500,OOO in small cities block
grant fund from the Department of
Commerce.
The funds will be loaned to a group
of ew York investors to purchase the
former Auto Specialtie anufacturing
Co. in St. Joseph.
The city of Benton Harbor also ob-
o tained a $1.5 million Urban Deve opment
or of Union Action Grant (UDAG) to loan for the
same purpose.
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SHOOTI G CASE
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By Terry y
urice Carter pa d not one, but
three lie detector t� ts with "flying co­
lor ", ccording to C 'correspondent
Larry Wood •
the test e conducted by Peter
Perdomo last Thursday at arquet e
Prison where Carter is serving out his
life sentence for the assault on former
Benton Harbor police officer' Thomas
Schadler.
The a ult was made December
20, 1973 in a Wig and Record Shop on
the comer of ain and Wate Streets
in downtown Benton Harbor while
Schadler and hi wife ere Christmas
opping.
Perdomo' was hired by C to ad-
minister the polygraph to Carter
part of their investigation into the aur-
ice Carter ca . I
Perdomo is a polygraph expert from
arietta, Georgia. Woods said it was
Perdomo who administered sev ral te s
o two men on the Florida death row
and later saw them freed.
oods said Perdomo had been a police
, offlCet with the Miami, Florida depart­
ment before beginning his career a pol-
ygraph expert. oods said Perdomo w
recommended by veral law enforcement
agencies.
Carter had been dministered a lie de-
lie detector
tector test while waiting trial. He did
not p that one.
"1 wa real nervous during that te ,It
Carter told The Citizen. "I wanted my
lawyer, pre nt for the test, but they
wouldn't let him."
The first test was administered by Wil­
liam J. Menjies, Paw Paw.
The C crew filmed Carter at Mar-
quette during the administration of the
tests and interviewed him.
According to Woods, Perdomo said
that usually when administering several
te s, the suspect does poorer as time
goes by as minor discrepancies in testi­
mony begin to show up.
# '�ut the more Carter te ed, the
. better he got," Woods id. ' Carter
made a very credible witne . "
The C inve ligation was prompt-
ed by a letter fro Carter to Ted Kava­
nau, chief of the C Spec' I Assignment
Unit.
Kavanau told The Citizen that Carter
had included copies of the articles done
. by thi paper in 1981 on the arter case.
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The ne foundry' expected to em­
ploy 420 people af er four years, accor­
ding to county Economic Development
e espenon.
With the city of St. Joseph application
for the half million came their promis
to obey federal and state civil . t
tutes and federal fair hiring practices.
According to Ron Lada - Director of
Program anagernent Division, Office of
Busine and Community Dev lopment,
Department, the 'recipient community �
t. Joseph, i obligated to follo federal
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