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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