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I JO COU , N.C.,
the embly helped obtain $l.5
million in federal rant for
ater line extension d home
r novatio .
D pite uch uc e , ho -
ever, Ander on h been unable
to attract the f nding to achieve
h· longstandin goal of or aniz­
in emblie in all 258 rur I
VOLU
TEER
oontlnu d from A-8
Area D Office, 7737 Kercheval:
John Avery, Charles Bonner, John
Bradley, Eddie Child, Lucille
Crockett, William Daniels, Stanley
Deric OD, Mark Brantley, Alberta
Estelle, Russell Gaine , Richard
Graves, Lawrence Gulley, Allen
Howard, Bertha Hunt, Aaron Joe,
Horace Kelley, Hermon Lindsey,
Charles League, Hosea Sabbath, Ab­
dullah Muhammad, Cecilia Stokes,
Edward Taylor. Mary Wallace,
Howard Williams, and Annie Wil­
son.
Area D (eastside) volunteers in­
clude Butte I Family Center board
members.
Area T Office, 4100 Third: Dul­
cie Spencer, Curtis Massey, Jr.,
Corey Carson, Pearline Harris, Ann
Spears, Jimmy Ward, Fred King,
Herbert Glenn, Don Hicks, Laverne
Ray, Maurice Waire, S. Chandler,
and T. Dugger.
Area T (Casa Corridor) is where
NSD' Homel Inten-ention Pro-
gram was started.
NSD Commissioners of the Year
Awards were presented to Hosea B.
Sabbath and Maggie Williams Hln­
ton. Sabbath received the Thelma
Echols Memorial Award which was
established last year to honor the
memory of this Wayne County Wel­
fare R1ghts Organization member
who helped develop NSD's Home-
Ie s Intervention Program. Mrs.
Hinton received the Willie J. Fowler
Memorial Award which honors the
former director of Detroit Neighbor­
hood City Halls and NSD Commis­
sion Administrative Coordinator.
Sabbath, an NSD commissioner
for fiv� years, is liaison to Wayne
County Neighborhood Legal Ser­
vices and also has served on the
commission's program, citizens par­
ticipation, by-laws, and election
committees. Mrs. Hinton, alternate
representative from the City's
Department of Public Works for
even years, has chaired the
Commission's citizens p rticipation
and annual dinner committees.
NSD City retirees honored at the
annual awards dinner include:
Detore Bettis, substance abuse
counselor, 31 years; Eleanor BetlS,
clerk, 25 years; Robbie Brown,
clerk, 2S years; Mitchell A. Clay,
building attendant, 26 years; Betty .
L. Currie, community program hel­
per, 19 years; Ernestine D. Deleslin,
counselor aide, 25 years; David H.
Drafts, counselor aide, 25 years;
Geraldine Gray, counselor aide, 2S
years; Dorothy Ivey, substance
abuse counselor, 26 years; Ann
Norfleet, clerk, 25 years; Alfred
Stroud, community services assis­
tant, 30 years; Nancy Tyus, coun­
selor aide, 26 years; and Guadalupe
Yanez, clerk, �9 years.
NSD and its corps of volunteers
provide food, clothing, housing,
medical, educational, job assistance,
transportation, and many other ser­
vices to approximately 100,000
families in the city, in addition to
supplementing MiChigan Social Ser­
vices Department programs and
providing emergency food and hous-
ing sistance. '
The awards were presented by
NSD Community Service commis­
sion Chairman Ted Jordan, NSD
Director Ca sandra Smith Gray,
Deputy Director, Henry Alexander,
and NSD Admini trator Arthur B.
Davidson. Guest speaker for the
award dinner was Dr. Claud R. '
Young, President of the Michigan
, Chapter, Southern ChristiJUl leader­
ship Conference.
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Greater Detroit
BIDCO, Inc.
II A Minority
Bu Ine and Indu trial
Developm nt Corporation II
1101 Wa hlngton Boul yard
Suite 600
Detroit, Michigan 48226
313/926-4326
Contact:
Catherine D. Lockhart
Lock ley A. Smith
Barbara Richardson
county i or nized into con­
ferences of 50 people, with e ch
conference h vin one repre-
entative on the embly. Th t
per on m inl in cont ct with
even committeemen in hi con­
ference, e ch of whom t y in
touch with ix member of the
conference.
The effect of uch n or­
ganization 1 concept, he id, is
that "no one per on ha to be in
contact with more than even
people" in order to re h the en­
tire community.
And the re on the concept
h proven succe fill over the
year , he said, i th t it allow
poor people to develop their own .
community-wide re ponse to
poverty conditions, rather than
having a government
bureaucr cy impose its solutions
on the community.
PAIN
contlnu d from A·1
sure people to get jobs, noting the
large number of want ads in different
papers.
Weine,r said that the unemploy­
ment rate i listed by the state at
�ne half minion people-and
this includes people who are newly
unemployed, not those who have
been on General Assistance for a
long time.
"Could they (the former General
Ass tance recipien ) compete with
thole who are newly unemployed?"
Weiner ked. .
Taylor aafd that state statfstJcs In­
dicated that there were more people
looking for work than there were
, jobs.
Weiner said that the local
Michigan Employment Security
Commission (MESC) stated that in
the Lansing area, in Hollister's own
district, the local unemployment of­
fice listed only 50 jobs and 3,000
people looking for jo .
In the Democratic Bill, H.B.
4605, people would receive $218 a
month if they entered a wor training
program, with food stamps, medical
benefits and transportation allowan­
ces for work related activitie . The
program is called the State Wor Ad­
vancement Program Program
(SWAP).
Guy Gordon of the Senate
Republican News Network said the
Republicans rejected the idea of any
program for "able bodied, employ­
able, single adults with no._children."
were "highly underutiltzed, "al­
though he indicated these did not
provide such aid.
Gordon said with such cuts the
govemorwas able to keep the budget
balanced without a tax increase. He
added that most telephone call and
letters to legislators indicated ap­
proval of the Governor's plan and a
poll conducted by Public Sector con­
sul tant indicated public support from
the majority of the state for discon­
tinuing General Assistance.
Tommy Meadows of the Hand­
icapper Caucus of the Democratic
Party challenged this analysis, in­
. dicating, "What is the use of a rainy
day fund, if people have to die for
it?"
Gordon did say the Republicans
would be ready to provide sup­
plemental appropriations to stop cut­
backs for oxygen, physical therapy,
artificial arms and legs, sbowtng
what he called readiness to "protect
the most vulnerable."
HE SAID funding for such a pro­
gram would drain $16 million dol­
lars from the state savings account,
the rainy day fund and Republican
senators did not believe there were
legal provisions for using it.
He said there were education
programs and job programs which
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SO 1.1.7 • ENGLER'S VISION FOR MICHIGAN
IMPACT OF GOVERNOR .ENGLER'S CUTS TO
FAMILIES
• reduces contracts to stop child abuse and neglect
• eliminates current energy assistance program as winter begins and reduces energy assistance
to families putting SS% at risk of electric shut-offs
• elim�ates work incentives for the 40,000 AFDe working mothers
• cuts shelter allowances to 23.000 homeowners
, ,
• cuts food and clothing allowances for over
350,000 needy children by 6.2%
•
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• fails to open 2 domestic violence shel-
ters which serve counties in Southwest
Michjg� and rural Central Michjgan
• reduces delinquency prevention and
, ttealmCnt contracts
• eliminates Harbor Light and Sacred
Heart substance abuse contracts
• eliminates contracts which serve the
Arab and Chaldean communities and '
other special needS populations
• requires day care co-payments for
women in school
I
• slashes emergency services by 65% and rum programs over to the countie
. )
ily and neighborhood service and self-help programs for abusive parents
• eliminates funding for the teen
parent program
• eliminates
• slashes- foster care payments for abused and neglected kids and cuts adoption ubsidies
for special needs children
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