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n't
ny ttention."
T. JO PH Detective
Soucek, who h d not returned
phone call by pre time, 1-
ledgedly que tioned witne se
who w the youth ch lng Mc­
Ginnl . The questioning w s
done before McGinni 's body
pulled from the river nd
under the gui e of the Crime
Stoppers progr m which Soucek
runs.
Many Benton Harbor resi­
dent have expressed fear of a
cover up. "They don't wanr St.
Joseph to have any blemi hes,"
aid the mother of one Benton
Harbor youth who attended the
dance at The Club the. night Mc­
Ginni disappeared. Fueling the
feeling is the lack of informa­
tion forthcoming.
The local daily paper, the
Herald-Palladium ha not run
the journali tic routine of ear­
chin out witnesse or Club
employee to report what per­
son on the scene saw or didn't
see. There have been no publi h­
ed reports of who own The Club
-as the paper cu tomarily does
when reporting incidents invov­
ing Black-owned businesse in
Benton Harbor- or whether
there is a hi tory of racial
trouble at The Club.
For two week the police
have offered nothing othor than
tbo Itatoment that drownin I
t 0 cause of death and there was
no evidence of foul play.
ThiS Week In
I
Black History
et -
ric Her,
culptor, born. 1840 Ja e
C. apler, US congre man,
w born.
When were Black slaves
first 011 the North American
continent?
JUNE 10, 1854 - J me
gu tl e, the first Black
American Roman Catholic
bi hop, ordained. 1926 -
�el ID lemln , execu­
tive, w born.
Is the late writer, James
Baldwin; best noted for plays,
novels, or essays?
JUNE 11, 1920 - azel
Dorot y Scott, pianist,
Singer, wa born. 1904 -
Clare ce ( Iaetop) Smith,
blue singer, was born.
Which religious group is
responsible for the founding
Qf Knoxville College?
JUNE 12, 1963 -�edgar
w. Evers, civil rights leader
wa murdered in Jackson,
Mis . 1888 - Sol White,
pioneer baseball player was
born.
Wa lavery always COII­
sitkretl a vile practice, or did
mtJIIY in colonial times see it
as a good �usiness?
PRISON EMERGENCY
contlnu.� from Page 1
FOR THE FIRST time, al­
ternatives to prison are being
seriously discussed in the capi­
tal. Many corrections officials
and judges are touting the idea
of containing the system
through the use of pri on alter­
natives. An "alarming note"
wu blown by former Director
Robert Brown Jr., who foresaw
the state of Michigan not having
enough money to accommodate
the steady influx of prisoners
MILITARY
continued from Page 1
Blackl comprise 23 percent of the 0 all active duty officers, a parity
ranks, only 16 percent were ranked g of 63 percent. .
at E-9 or higher. Blacks comprise 19 percent of the
The report stated that employ- Marine Corps and only five percent
ment in the military may be a viable of Marine officers. The pari� gap is
option for Blacks, but it is a mistake 74 percent.
to infer that serving in the military In the Navy, Blacks are only four
provides uncommon economic percent of Navy officers nd com­
rewards: prise 16 percent of all personnel.
The underrepresentation of The Navy's parity gap was widest �t
Blaeles in he higher ranks produces 75 percent.
a racial earning disparity which The Air Force has a better average
equals or exceeds those observed in of 50 percent parity, where Blacks
the civiliap sector, according to the comprise about 12 percent of person-
report. nel and are ix percent of the officers.
Black women comprise 30 per- The report when on to state when
cent of all female mili tary personnel, Blacks leave the mili tary, they en­
but held only 13 percent of the active counter I favorable economic op­
duty officer po itions, 44 percent portunities than their white counter­
fe er than required for parity. . parts. In 1990 the unemployment
_ rate for Black male Vietnam
BLACKS COMPRISE 29 per-: veterans 8.2 percent, compared
cent of the Army but onl Y 11 percent to 3.7 percent for white male ve .
How mallY Black
graduates were there of the
US Military Academy be­
tw ell 1877 and 1945?
JUNE 14, 1970 - C ri
Die eo, body builder, be­
c me the fir t lack Mr.
America. 1927 - Ell G.
Yate , librarian, wa born.
What is the name of the
first Blaclc American killed
o ry
011 a space flight?
JU E 15, 1877 - e ry
O. Upp r w the fir t
BI c to gr du te from We t
Point.
Who was the original
"clown prince" of profes­
sional basketball?
ANSWERS
t - 1,526 in what i
now the US J .A. Roger y
they were in the Americas in
1513, probably in South
America.
10th - Novel (and es­
say). 11 The Pre byterian .
12th - No. Originally,
laves were pri oners of war,
continued from Page
coun el, AACP Leg 1 Defen e
&. Educational Fund, Inc.; Hon.
Bdotpbus Town, ch irm n,
Congre ional B1 ck C ucu ;
Dr. Ramon Edelin, pre ident,
Nation I Urban Coalition;
Richard G. Hatcher, pre ident,
R. Gordon H tcher A ociates;
Dr. Dorothy Height, pre ide nt,
National Council of Negro
Women, Inc.; Norman Hill,
pre ident, A. Philip Randolph
In tl tute ; Dr, Benjamin i...
Hooks, executive director,
NAACP; Herman Art Taylor,
metimes YOU can't.
hi rd 1. fa.· But
in what' mi in.
'Thl' I'rlldllt I 10111.1111 lilt 111' 1ft' I han �o rill", hI( h " I: 10" r.1I 111.111 I hi' I . (l \ land rd
, v-r Food CorP
pre ident nd CEO, OICS of;
Americ , Inc.: Dr. Jo eph]
Lowery, pre ident, SCLC; Wil-.
li m Lucy, pre ide nt, Co Iilion
of B1 ck Tr de Unionist; Eddie
. Willi ms, pre Ide nt, Joint
Center for Political and'
Economic Studie ; Dr. 1Il s­
tine wn in , pre iden, ation I .
Blac Caucu f Local Elected
Offici Is; DailY M. Wood, pre i­
dent, National P n-Hellenic
Council; Hon. Unita BI cell,
pre ide nt, N tion I Conference
of Blac Mayo' ; Hon. D niel
Tabor, Councilman for District
1.
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lators decided to begin building entering prisons as fast as the
prisons anyway, taking money court and police filled them.
from the state's rainy-day fund, But he was just "one voice"
thee general budget and out ide crying in the wilderness.
sources. Projections indicate there
In 1984, the Legi lature will be nearly 37,000 inmates by
agreed to sp�nd more than $3 1992. When the buildup started,
billion .to bUild and operate a8 there were only 13,162 inmates
new prisons and 8 new prison in the prison system. Inmates
camps former governor James are shuffled from prison to
Blanchard's prison plan called prison in search for empty beds.
for. Transportation vehicles are on
The budget for day-to-day the road day and night, trying to
operations of tate prisons has' find bed space while many
increased 357 percent during the education and vocational
ast �e-from $14� million to programs were suspended in-
6 Hion, according to the definitely for lack of space.
Hou e �iscal Agency report. By Perhaps Governor John
companson, other state govern- Engler, State Legislators,
. ment departments have grown Judges, prison corrections offi-
an average of 78-percent. cials, prison analysts and
Michigan voters will focus on
the most cost effective alterna­
tive: Social Programs that ease
the condition that breed crime.
Joan Abbey, author of a
recent study on how state budget
choices affect social programs,
contends that Michigan resi­
dents have not yet begun to feel
the effect of Gov. Blanchard's
. prison buildup program. She
even sugge ted that prison will
bankrupt the State of Michigan.
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