ion
Pippin said . th many more
DETROIT - On January units mt now than last year,
16,· honor of Martin Lurber NHU's p fo· year's
King Jr.' birtIlday, NHU me de nstrati to expose
ber organized a peaceful the d these e units
demonstration at the could have been utilized to
Bre ter/Dougiass Projects on house many of' yet home
Detroit's Eastside.. . divi and hmjliea.
Wayne Pipp. of .. memory of the
eWayneCoUDtyUnionoftbe. countless people still living on
Homel , . d t year e the 0 could ha�
Union too 0 and moved been living in heated, lighted .
homeless famj)ies into �al of until the.. of actual
the cant • of the project. demolition, he and his group
He said people wece arrested pi ced brightly colored
for tres · breaking and cardboard tombstones and
entering. p on the doors of
Pippin said this year NHU the uai that re laid per-
member eat to the manantly to rest by the
BrewsterlDouglass 'cb .. Bre ster/Dougla Manag-
. projects to IDOUJ'Il the death t,
of the numero r h Pippin said NHU members
till cant &0 the previa &eedom so and linked
year. forming. human chain to
, He said the of block off the streets as did Mar-
Bre ter/Do com- tin Luther King during h·
pletely dcsregarded the Mor- demo If.· He said �
dable HousiDg Ad, . al- Pl'9ximately 60 people from the
I low to . . rece1ltly orguized Freedom
dividuals to use - Mis ion ry Shelter joined
<table hom NHU.·, .
In 1987, the manageme of He w.d many of the home;-
Bre ter/Dou scheduled les dvocacy group leaders
1,073 of its three and four re present the demonstra
bedroom units to be demolished tion including Marian Kramer,
and replaced • 2SO one and Sally Pattee, and General Baker
two bedroom . The build- U CIotil Lewis, one of
• ha� not been demolished the persons arrested during last
or occupied as yet years takeoYer demonstration.
'of
I SeIYice
LANSING - The rise of the Electr0n!c Data � (��
rvice economy in Michigan '. corporanoa, a seI'Vlce mess
areating high-pa. jobs that that provides cia processin�
can successfuUy replace lost and software war
J• obs in the maD cturing in- -several tens of thousands of
dustry, ccordiDg to a top mem- in Michigan ha� been
ber of the Department of formed by EDS and there are
Management and Budget' dozens and dozeas 0 examp
(DMB). of other �ll-p Jinf: in �.
Thom Clay, director of' ervice mdustry, . he said.
strategic p . and program �ey're not aU Job �t Me-
evalua . in the D , said the Do •
illus· th. service' ind try
jo are low pa . d provide
few benefits simply not true.
an examp Oay cited the
succes of Ge eral Motor '
"I thin there· common
. conception that all service
industry jo . volve flipp·
burgers, • " she said.
Many people are, no e
that high-payiDg occupations
c:h doctor, lawyer, account
ant, auto mechanic and plumb
er are all part of the service in-
dustry, Oay said .
The rise of the service in
dustry is also helping to tabilize
ware Michigan's economy in the
the service in- event of recession, he said, be-
dustry pay good accord- . cause it is by nature more table
ing to cia Horan Qf the co� than manufacturing industry.
merce departmellt. "I think the service ceo omy
, I -I creates a desirable effect fo our
state because it is less prone to '
, drastic swings in the economy
. than manufacturing," " he id.
Clay, who has been with the
state government for 22 years,
noted that in bad economic
times auto sales drop off sub
stantially, sending heavy reper
cussions aero the entire state.
"It is no uncommon during a
recession to see n tiona} auto
sales decline 10 to 20 percent, he
said, adding tha such a sig
nificant drop means hard times
and layoffs in the auto industry.
Since the deman for ser
vices such as automobile repair,
medical treatm nt or account
ing remain more or less steady
regardless of economic condi
tions, Clay aid Michigan's
economy will be more tab in
times of recession and not sub
ject to extreme highs and 10 .
Rep. Carl Gnodtke, R
Sawyer, quic to. caution
th t although the service in
dustry i growing. manufactur
ing is till very important to
Michigan. ,
'We've till go td have that
manufacturing base to support
the service industry, " he . d, "I
would r ther see rise in
ma uf cturing jobs." HOTan
echoed this sentimen
-Service and manufacturing
ly intertwined," " she
aid. "You can't have one-
without the other."
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