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- A uniqu perspectivee
m ric n p Ii tical n wiJJ b
rovided by n extraordin ry group of
people t the ational Urban League's
19 4 Annual Conference on Tuesd y
July 31st at 8 P.M., when four member
of growing dre of ne BJ ck and
Hi p nic mayor gather for what promi
to be mo t hi toric di cu . on.
Entitled "The e Breed of yor
thi pecial forum recognizes that there i
ppearing on the scene second
of minority mayor, di inguished
from tho who ere elected in th 60s
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elf re recipi nt ould prefer
or ing to re eiving a elfare chec ,
ccording to information relea d today
by Doug Ro ,Director of Project Self­
Reliance.
St tewide more than twi e th num-
b r of recipient volunte red for avail-
ble opening in the program designed
to offer minimum age jobs nd the hope
of a permanent job in exchange for wel­
fare benefits.
"Approxirn tely 17,500 current ichi­
g n welf re recipients voluntarily cam
forw rd to trade their benefits for 7,000
jobs in the Community Service Corps "
reported Ro. 'It's clear from thi
trong re pon e that a large number of
m n nd omen on public istance in
i hi an would prefer ork and t
opportunity for economic independ nee
to coli cting welf re chec for which
they have to do nothing."
Ro id Project Self-Reliance is a
recently enacted tate experiment trying
to find b tter w ys to help welfare
recipient get off pubLi 'stance and
becom economicaJly independent. In
conducting t experiment, expl ined
Ross, veral que tion b ut the nature
of welf re re ddre ed.
Ro id th fir t que tion i to deter-
mine if welf re recipients are in fact
willing t t ke minimum wa e j b in
xchan for their welfare hec s.
Th e nd que ion i, wiU they
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and 70s. Appearing as panelist wiU be
the following:
ayor H rold Washington of Chi 0
who elected a the first Black hi f
executive of that city fter a h rd f ught
campaign in ) 983.
ayor il on Goode of Philadel-
phia who bee me that city's fir t Black
mayor in 1983 by rolling up th large t
margin of any candidate sine 1959.
ayor Harvey Gantt of 'Chari t e,
.C. ho wa elected to ity Hall in
) 983 with 40% or the white vote and
52 of the total 'v teo Black constitute
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perform succe fulJy in their temporary
public jobs, stick with th j b . and
m st importantly, be able to effe tively
compete for and hold permanent job
in the private ector.
Data from Ro showed the tron
respon to Project Self-Reliance in maior
urban are uch a Detroit and Flint.
In Detroit for ::! 550 J t . over 7.000
individual appli d. In Flint. for 480
slots, 1.955 pe ons applied.
"Project Self-Reliance has t 0 COIll­
ponents: the ichigan ommunity
Service Corp and the Michigan Con-
rvation Corp ," continued R
hile the e figures reflect th Com­
munity Service C rp only the Mi higan
on ervation orps which began hiring
in April aloha experienced a trong
re ponse from welfare recipient , with
each of its 500 po ilion no filled."
Ross indicated th t the 7,000 recip­
ients in the Project would all be at w rk
on their temporary public and privent
non-profit minimum w ge job ver the
course of the ummer. "The challenge
then become keeping our end of the
bargain and h Iping these former wel­
fare recipi nt find permanent jobs in the
private ector 0 they can upp rt them­
selve and their f milies,' R con­
tinued. 'Over the n xt veral month,
we will approach the community at
large to h lp in th ta of identi yin
enough vailable private ct r job.
: End aid to .South Africa
Young home' to 'becomel national museum
D YTO OHIO - Th hom of Col.
Ch rle Young, the fir t Bla k to re ch
the r n of c lonel in the United St te
milit ry, wa purcha d by th Omega P i
Phi r temity. Th nnouncem nt wa
m de by Dr. L. njamin Livingston,
Grand B il u (national pre ident .
The colonial tyl man ion with 60
cr of property 10 ated in Xenia Ohio.
n r th campuse of Wilberforce and
Central State Univer 'tie was purch d
for 0,000.
In ddition to bein the hom of th
"The . S. ha h rply incr a d th
xport 0 it m ith militar u t )
S uth Afri a durin th pa t thr c year :'
h aid.
cording to the merican . ri nd
rvi e Committe , the State 0 partment
under the Re n dministration. ha
uth rized 29 e p rt licen rth
2 .3 milli n f r od and t .hnology
that h ve military ap bilit ie and arc
being Id priv tely by III ri an COIll·
panie to uth fri an firms.
first Blac to become a colon I in the
army the l. Young home wa part ofa
m jor rout of the Unde round R ilroad
by hich lave freed them Ive from
phy i I b ndage by e caping to th
rth from the S uth. tunnel und r-
n ath th hou e till exi t .
Ac ui iti n of th Young man ion
culirnn ted the fi t tep f a major pr -
j ct f Om g P i Phi, and pav th way
for th de el pm nt f an hi tori I
mu urn and a enior citizen com plc .
AUGUST 1 - 7,1984 THE CITIZEN P!\CE THREE
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nly _7.6o/c of th city' v ting a p p­
ulation.
ayor Fed ri 0 Pena 0 Denver ho
in 19 3 put t et er a coalition of
Hispanic. Blac and hires to become
the city' fir t Hispani mayor.
The es ins moderator ill be Dr.
Charle V. Hamilton, one of the nation's
010 t re pected and no ledg bl politi­
cal scientist. Dr. Hamilton had written
e tensively on min rity politics and j th
author f uch b k a 'The Blac
Prea her iJl Am rica' . "Th Bench and
the Ballot: 'South rn Federal Judg and
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Black Voters", and co- uthor
St kely Carmich el of "Bl c Po er,
Politics f Liberation in Ameri
The Conferenc open on Sunday
July 29th. and concludes on ed day,
August 1 st. The site of t fere
ill be the Cleveland Convention Center.
Registration C r the C nference i
open to the public. For further informa­
tion I contact: Th Conference Depart­
ment, ationaJ Urban Le e, Inc., 500
E st 62nd Str t, Y r , VOl
10021.