Licensing
exams on hold
By JODI C. KLEIN
Grad ua ring
co metology tuden in Michigan
rna y h ve to tash th Ir ci rs and
combs until they are allowed to get
their operator's licen .
· lb b autyoperator' e am that
used to be given four ti me a wee ,
to 40 tudents per day, h been
eliminated for the month of
ovember. In December and
January th re will be 12 te ting
dates as oppo ed to the usual 48.
"Our past examiner retired and
because of staff Shortage and state
budget cuts we are now suffering a
unique 10 ," said Nancy Dixon of
the testing service in the Bureau of
Occupational and Profes ional
Regulations.
Because of the staff hortage,
cosmetology students will be
wai ting much longer to begin
practicing. Some 1,800
cosmetology students will be'
waiting for their license by Feb. 1.
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out of co metologi t gr duate from
ctice. chool they m y tempted to
pra tice ithout a license.
Thi
OBB
T
are nt
gradu te from Pr
Beauty School in Detroit, i
waiting to take her operator'
e amination.
"I'm really up t, cause I've
don thi course in 11 months ana
I'm an A tudent; now that I have
gotten to the end there i an th r
ob tacle and thi i one that I have
no control over," Carter aid. "I'm
up et with it. They want me to
wor and to be a taxpayer and they
can't help me by giving me a te t to
get my licen ."
Students are not the only ones
upset by this licensing delay.
Salons all over the state may be in
a . pinch because of the upcoming
holidays.
"Thi is the time of year many
people get jobs in salons, because
salons are bi torically busier during
the holiday season," said Gerald
Kelly, executive ecretary for the
Michigan Cosmetologists
Association.
As a result, h say, when the
By NATHANIEL SCOTT
St." Wrlt.r
HIGHLAND PARK-tn Septem­
ber of ] 990 Cora Jack on
founded SPIN (Serving People In
Need) out of her home on Tuxedo
Street and this past September he
moved into a new location at
12223 Wood­
ward Avenue.
But a thief
or thieves
have tried to
dampen the
spirit of this
woman who
not only gives
of her time but
also con­
tribute
money to help
those less for-
tunate.
T
week
w 0
ago,
omeone
broke into CORAJACK ON
SPIN and not
only took ap-
pliances and telephones, but also
the food boxes the organization
was putting' together of
Thanksgiving.
SPIN, however, presses on
and a entenee outofits definition
r
explains It attitude.
THAT
NTENCE read:
"We are concerned about the
economic, ocial and p ychologi­
cal problems that limit and
diminish our communi tie ."
When Jackson founded SPIN,
she was dis­
tributing
clothing and
boxes of food
out of her
home. She
also prepared
and delivered
meals.
However,.
ince he ha
ecured ade­
q uate pace.
th full cope
of SPIN i
beginning to
surface.
In addi­
tion to food
and clothing,
SPIN will irn-
plement a job bank program,
health education service;
(primarily for teenage mothers),
substance abu c awareness,
See SPIN, �-6
" H 0 working
without a licens and al 0 th alan
may b fined approximately $350,"
Kelly said.
Each day th tud nt are out
of work co t them money.
"I would volunteer my rvice
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- a member of Up nd Out of Po erty CoalJtion
the homel continue the stna I to w en the dty'
By NATHANIEL SCOTT
Staff W,it_,
DETROIT-In the Ca Corridor
there is the newly erected
"Englerville" that unlike the tate
capitol or the stately mani on that
Governor Engler and Mayor Young
live in represents the "symbolic"
o LITIO hold
ngter re ponsible for cutting
0,000 pl u ci tiz: n off of
ub i ten e with ut providing them'
with the means to cope, oth r than
pull yourself up by yourboot trap,
and Young for po tering and being
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difference between the. have and the
have no .
The vacant building next door to
the Cass Methodist Church ha b en
dedicated "Englerville" and on the
vacant lot beside it, when the rty
allow it to stand, the Michigan Up
and Out of Poverty Coalition ere 15
their It ymbolic" ten .
"Englerville It i di
both facte of government, the state
and the city.
Yunos Collins, a coordinator with
the coalition aid, "(Erecting the
tent) i a ymbolic ge ture against the
ity."
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Black voter coalitions proved
strength in Pennsylvania upset
B.y LARRY A. STILL
Sp.cial to Michigan Citizen
Revival of the Black
church/ci vil rights voter coali tions
developed in various communities
during the late 19 were evident
again in the recent election of
Dernocrati Sen. Harri Wofford
(PA) and Gov. Edwin W Edward
(LA), according to ob erve and
participants in the fast-moving
political campaign cene last
month.
,In two key tates,
. African-American voters delivered
regi tered Black voters turned out
against former Ku Klux
KJan leader David Duke.
Edward was elected with
61-39 percent of the total
vote despite th fact Duke
got over half the white
vote .
In Pennsylvania, Dr. C.
Delores Tucker, a
nationally- nown civil
rights leader and political
-activi t, wa redited with
the eleventh hour trategy
mobilized hundreds of
the margins of victor.y in the
November
balloting . by
overwhelming
registration efforts
and final voting
turnouts of nearly
80 to 90-plu
percent. Although
the 7 percen t
Black voter
registration in
Louisiana was DELORES llJCKER
below the whi te
thousand of Blac to vote for the
recently appointed Senator
Wofford for a remaining three-year
term in pecial election.
Ju t two week before the
election. Wofford, the underdo
.cand idate who beat .orrnc r
Republican Atty. GeneraJ Ri hard
Th rnburgh by a 56-to-44 percent
rati ,Vi almo t unkn wn among
the new generation 0 voters in
Black cornmunitie around the
tate, aid Tucker, alth ugh h i
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total a record 96 percent of the
that
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an African
of gathering
with thers."
