,
. By Chri . urr y
Capital New Serv�ce
. I.A G-- Leg lation i-
ing the exci e t x on cigarette
would provide dduional
revenue for Gov. James
Blanchard' Healthy Start pr -
ram, .ays the mea ure's chief
.pon or.
Rep. Perry Bullard. D-Ann
Arbor, aid a 25-ccnt incrc c
in the tax on a pack of cigaret­
te • commonly known s
" in" tax. would provide an ad­
ditional 36 million to Healthy
Start. a program that would
give health care for uninsured
children from working Iarnilie
who are not eligible for other
government-financed health
care programs.
But Rep. Ralph Ostling. R­
Roscommon. aid he doesn't
expect Bullard's bill to get
through th House during th
A�P record fundraising
cri ical for record ri e in raci m
DETROJT - Leon Atchison
came into the AACP office to
some last minute work befo
city' 35th Annual Fight For
Jeedom Dinner held this
wee end.
Atchi on, a ational A -
oci tion For the Advancement
of Colored People chair
answered the telepbo and a
in hy terics told him
sent am' e tell-
her n to urpri ed if he
found her four-year-old dead th
next time she came to ·the
predominantly white nursery
school.
This call is one of a 60 per­
cent increase of dicrimination
complaints received in the las
tw 0 years by the AACP
Detroit office. The complaints
range from not being hired, n
being p moted to housing, to
death threats, Atchinson said
ark Shelton,.a lawyer, h
been hired to direct AACP dis­
. criminatory complaint re olu­
tion and has already been
swamped, h said.
"He ju t can't keep up,"
Atchinson explained. "We are .
retrogres ing even here in
1990."
The organization needs more
active participants to help con­
quer the injustice faced by
African Americans, Atchinson
said
Programs such as th Buy
Detroit campaign, the Academic
Olympics campaign, the Moral
Min rity organ donor drive as
well as the Autom ile Associ a-
Continu d on Pag (
ea
ax"
hy
current cion.
ttl don't thin thi body. in
tb 0 and n' tc, i
ready to vote era tax increa e
of any kind," 0 tling aid.
"You'Il probably ee orne
'mov ment on il(Bullard's bill)
during the lam -du k scs ion
after Bullard's hill also is
designed to raise additional
revenues for higher education,
drug abu e and trca tment
program • and the governor'.
Children at Ri k program.
·35
a
Bullard aid the 25-cent tax on
Cigarette will rai e
210 milli n ' 2
for health
pro am '.
'''WHAT E'R
is identifying new revenue and .
targeting it to pecific need
area that are not being t r­
gctcd right now" Bullard aid.
According to a study by th
Michigan .Lca rue for Human
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