gency food stamps and clothing.
Peters said, the organization
representatives tried to help.
�CK-�ne ly -We're poor, but we are
formed Hamtramc Welfare human beings," she said. "We
Rights Or anization (WRO) have rights too."
reportedly got the Hamtramck Pete�s charged that:
social service office to respond -. - Clients were told to co�
to client problems' after � t 7 a.m. and �t had to Sit
threatening to stay the entire 10 the <?ffice until 5 p.m.,. some
night at the office. with children went Without
HamtramckWROPresident breakfast, lunch, or supper.
Iris Peters stated that the or- So were told to co ba
ganization was not originally ftey t •. ' .. �
there to deal with client leaving the family Without food
I problems. They came to the of- for thr� days.. .
fice simply to pass a petition in - Clients stgn� up were
support of policies which would told they had to watt five days
get peop "up and out of pover- before they could get food
ty • stamps. Although the e were
. However, when they saw provis�ons in social service
- what clients had to go through, regulations fo emergency help,
particularly those seeking emer- some were told they could not
recei-ve it, because "the com-
puters were down."
- One person, suffering
from diabetis, was told he could
no have a medical" voucher for
insulin. Without some daily
dose of insulin, diabetics will .
die.
- Clients are only allowed 0
contact workers by phone t
certain hours during the day -
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 - 2:30
p.m. Often workers are not
re at the assigned times and
the client- gets is a message
from an answering service.
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pur
Last of the
�Sc9ttsb(\)ro f
Boys' dies
. NEW YORK (NNPA)'­
Clarence orr· the only ur­
viving member of the famed
"Scottsboro boys·, died at the
Bro Hospital er a Iong- iIl-
.He 76.
His death cl 0 e of the
most so did chapters of racial
bigotry in the hi tory of
America. Norr· as 19, in
I March, 1931, at tbe start of the
I great depression, when he and
eight other African American
boys hopped a freight train in
Alabama. 'II
The nine youths became in­
lved in fist fight with a group
of hires. - The Afrie n
Americans won and tossed the
off the tr .
At the ext stop, Scottsboro,
� . gave the boys their
name, the train met by a
mob of angry . es, incensed
by e bo ' victory and eager
for lynching. 1'he N tional
Guard called d the yo ths
(.;OIIIID.lled 12
I ,
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correcnons office;
, IUp'I I
CDpiUlJ News Service
LANSING - A shortage of
corrections officers further
plagues an overcrowded
Michigan prison sy tem, ac­
co ding to Corrections Director
Robert Brown Jr.
Brown, who h been in­
wived in correctio for more
20 � said his depart­
me will need an influx of De
officers to fill ...
•
In
h
t supply
people being sent to prison as
opposed to probation - in the
past few year . He said judges,
cling on new mandatory sen­
tepcing guidelines, now send 50
percent of the peop they sen­
tence to prison opposed to 25
percent a few year ago.
The result is a net increase of
250 prisoners a month, Brown
·d.
• About every nine weeks
we'd have to open a prison to
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executive director of the
Michigan- Corrections Or­
ganization.
Lou Chappel, spokesman for
the Department of Corrections,
said the problem stems fr�m a
huge increase in the number of
people being sentenced to
prison and the relatively sIo
and arduous process of recruit­
ing ne corrections officer .
Chappel said the biggest dif-'
ficulty lies in the increase in sen­
tencing rate -the number 0
DI1S0DS and staff the 14 ne
planqed 0 under con­
tructio .
"We do haYe some recruiting
problems," he s d. "We're
tatting to run out of people,
espeQally with the standards set
'aDd the requirements that there
are now."
Correctio officers tart out
$9.10 an hour, whichjum to
$10.75 after the firs� year and
into the $13 bracket after the
second year, said Fred Par
