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Murray-Wright Student Intem
The dream started befo e the
e dofthe87-88schoolsemester
fo the Murray-Wright band to
be one of the high chool bands
at the Annual Peach Bowl Pes
tivites.
They knew it going to be
hard 1I'k, but they had deter
mination and dedication. All
the car was e , dinner f
cabaret' and contributions
by responsibJc leaders in our
community like Senator Don
Reigle made it possible. _
The estimated funds needed
for the more than 100 member
band was 50,000, and it was
achieved Mr. James Ellison,
the Murray-Wright band direc
tor, had plenty of media
coverage by aU the major
television ne stations, and
By Ealow
Homeless organizations
across the country are angered
by RUD's refusal to comply
with the law requiring the agen-
cy to turn over surplus proper-
ayor'Young's he p
a1so the MicbipD Otizeo, Free
Press, News, and the Michigan
Olronicle also printed articles
about the bands efforts.
The trip to Adanta Georgia
• DOW official. The me day,
four night trip is the only thing
o these young people's mind
While you're UJIWI'apping your
gifts and enjoying Christmas,
the Murray-Wright band will be
preparing to 1ea\1e that next day.
They will leave Detroit on
December 26, 1988 and will
arive in Atlanta on the 27th and
return to Detroit on January 1,
1989,
The Murray- Wright march
ing band will participate in the
annual Peach Bowl Parade on
Dec. 30 and the' Peach Bowl
football game on Dec. 3L The
Band will be-able to be spotted
easily, they are positioned on
the 50 yard line. Watch and see
this Michigan's band dream
come true.
Union seeks
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\ he stated, Michigan Bell has elson emphasizes that the
brought 260 employees into union local is not against Belli's
Detroit, many into the ne plans to consolidate or use digi
Madison Building built at tal equipment, but he believes
Bethune and Woodward, -'-- this should be done in the
which amounts to more than Detroit office, rather than the
four times the number of Southfield one.
employees elson estimates are He states that a large com-
being moved into Southfield pany like BeD should provide
Hoovey added that Michigan "leadership" the way General
Bell's central headquarters is Motors has done in building up
currently in Detroit the Grand Boulevard area. If
In the transfer of the Bell were to stay LiYemo·
employees from the siDg1c of- and Six Mde, facilities, services,
lice, DO employee fired and lights and parking would be ex-
. ee under a special arrange- puded and other b ill
ment, the companys taxes are d want to come there.
paid to the state, Detroit lost DO The Lftemois- Six Mile of-
tax do . Nelson sta.ted, had
Hoo'Ye)' the - architect ral a ard for its
po e of moving the 64 dc::s9', b the predicted that if
e oyees. 0 Southfield Edison lea\U, it would become
to CODSO· e the of&:ea and • empty abeD.·
train m in digital system While Hoovey said he
equipneat, did DOt • t nothiDg about the a d, he
. the Detro· office. stated that Ed· on as not
EmpIo)u& &om • •.. the building,· but .
urban areu, s ch pontiac·are Iookia& for we can
and Lakesbo e, are a 0 af- revive··
fected by the "If_ do use it,. Hooveysaid,
be traDIferred to S are _'0 have to rea-
·th Detro· ken, DOYale. • but added, 'There
said. DO specific •.
Hoovey stated that the
Detroit office . e for
the CODSOlidatioo program, be
cause of too 1itde parkiDg in the
area and the fact that it did DOt
have digital equipment that
ld be used i the �
Nelson stated that parking
vailablc, dlat more could
be purcha ed (rom Mc
Do ' and actually it the
Southfield office which was un
suitable.
He charged t the building
too small d there were
only two lavatory spaces for a
large number' of people.
"It wiD orovide better servi�
e efficient help, tabilize
006t, • be stated. -rile aew tech
DOlogy helps to do thi the
old tcdmology doesn't" he said.
·Yo can't top im .
your busi .• Hcxwey dded.
�o do att i beat for the
greatest number of peopJc .•
I • -
eless prate gove nment's failure
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ties to the homeless. the sum 0£.$1 on an annual basis,
O�. �eptember 6, 1988, a I and the tenants are responsible
restrammg order was placed on • for all repairs and taxes.
the sale of all properties o�ed He said the other program .
by the Department of Housing the 90% as-is program where
and Urban Development homes are sold to homeless in
(HUD)-fo�owing the protest of dividuals, families nd or
two DetrOl! advocacy gr<?ups. ganizations for 90% of the
The United Commumty and market value prior to any public
Housing Coalition (UCHC) auctions.
and The .Coalition On Tem- Public Affairs Officer Bill
"lt would be like fittiag a size porary Shelters filed suit in, Glavin at HUD office in
nine into a size eight 'Shoe." Nel- federal courts (COTS) after WashintonD.C.echoedDetroit
son said - they were denied the use of HUD in saying HUD had no
As for the Detroit office several dwelli��s to ho�se surplus properties to turn over
lacking digital equipment, el- homeles .famifies and In- to the homeless, he said several
son countered that Bell should dividuals in Detroi homes were referred to by
have put digital equipment in. urnc, COTS and many re- homeless agencies none of
"FIl'St you fail to put in the lated organizatioDs n�tion-wide which belonged to HUD.
equipment, th� you say it can't say HUD � yet to, imp �ent Glavin said the majority of
grow, because . does not have the McKmny �ct s require- the surplus proper tie found
equipment" he stated ments were owned by General Ser-
Nelson suggested that the Detroit HUD Property Dis- vices Agencies or the Pentagon.
real reason fOl' shutting down position Officer Richard Haehl -
the office in Detroit was the said the regional office had not Glavin said last week on
fears Southfield employees had met with the McKinny Act re- December 14, Federal Court
working in the city, be- quirements beca it d no Judge Oliver Gasch ordered all
cause of the DeWSpapcc articles surplus properties and there- governmental agencies to im
OIl aime. fore did not qualify. He. said plement the requirements of the
He claimed th t before HUD's definitioo of surplus M . ey Homeless Act with
opening its office in Woodward properties are homes that are more expedieli�.
and Bethune, Bell gave ubur- not beiDg used or sold He said Judge Gasch or
ban workers a bus tour of the . H ebI said all of the Detroit dered HUD, under the Mc
area. The suburbanites office's properties are in ac- KinDy Act, to be res le for
rejected tile idea of orkiog tMsa1espr�HesaidHUD ob aining a list of the urplus
there and Edison ruled they did homes avecage approximately homes and determine whether
DOt have to, claimed... 3.9 � on the �ket from . those properties are suitable fo
He added that all the Detroi �e bme they are. acquired to the IiviDg quarters for homeless use.
ken bei movedo of the tilDeofsa1e�mg Glavin s id, HUD mu t
Detroit office,' most of them' H chi ::!!::J �� �UD make their determination on
white, siped a petition stating programs _eva. me- half of the listed properties by
that they did DOt • to leave less that are �tly aD effect December 28, and the other half
the city b BeD failed to listen are the $1 le IDg program by January 12, 1989.
to tbe";'wbu ;.,..---. ..... e_tbe_ho_me5 __ ar_e_Icased fo_r _
Hoovey denied such a Oaee the employees ked in
bu tour for suburban Southfield, they would become
employees ever arranged or a part of the Southfield local and
that the company was in- leave the Detroi one.
ced by fears of suburban Ne cknowIedge t the
workers regarding Detroit Jocal uld member but
aime. he maiDtained DOt a
"We don't make decisions m.i concern and was not the
based on thiags like that,· he _,
.d . reason . pursuing the ue.
Nelson added that even
Another person in tile Bell though the local n against
Compoany uggested the the consolidation policy, but
rea on for the union local' just the move out of Detroit,
protest about the transfer to there as some evidence that
Southfield its own personal CODSO • dation . have nega-
coacem t· members. live consequences.
Ho
According to material e
gave mE CITIZEN, a fire at a
Olicago _ telephone facility last
spring disrupted phone services
in Chicago and surrounding
suburbs affecting hundreds of
thousands of aastomers.
Concern expreSsed that
en telephone service i COD
centrated in a ingJe switclting
center, !DO e customers are af
fected than ever before by such
catastrop ea.
Hoovey declined to com
ment on this analys· .
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