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Big band I der/trornboni t
Jimmy Wilkins will tak hi
quint t into B ker' Keyboard
Lounge th weekend of May
22-23. Featured with the
group i vocalist Joan Craw­
ford and axophoni t Miller
Bri ker. Jimmy will be
c lebratin his 71 t birthday
that we kend prior to leaving
for Copenhagen. Denmark to
visit hi brother, Ernie, who is
al 0 a musician. Jimmy will
also take part in the Interna­
tional Duke Ellington
Society' annual conference,
which will be held in Denmark
the week of May 28- 1 ...
" Stud nts from Burton In­
ternational and Golightly
Schools are working on a very
s pecia I proj ect. Las t
February, 21 fifth graders left
Detroi t for Pari , Franc ,
where they spent three weeks
as a part of the Association of
French/American Classe
LTD Program. They lived in
the homes of French familie
with children their age. Some­
time this month 20 to 30
French tudents and their
teachers will pend three
weeks in Detroit. This i the
first time an urban city school
has participated in this par­
ticular program ...
Maggie Porter wa
honored ,recently with an
elegant cocktail party and
fabulous show at the Roo ter­
tail. Over 400 attended thi
charity affair for the Harmonie
Park Playhouse of which she is
the director and founder ...
Singer Josephine Glady
has another talent. Her first
novel about women will be on
the shelve this spring. A
literary dinner/dance in her
honor was held recently at
Sharpe's Seven Flags Bistro
Lounge on Woodward
Avenue ...
Sharon Glimer of the
Thomas clan of Detroit, gave
her husband, Melvin, a 50th
birthday party on the Buhl
Building's top 'floor. The
Thomas family a well a
members of The Moors, of
which he' vice president,
turned out to help him
celebrate ...
Karl Young i founder and
president of The Moors Club.
This summer will mark their
35th year and they're planning
a three-day celebration. Je e
Hoover, Harold Cherry and
Phil Matthews are helping to
get it all together ...
Edi th Giles is chai rman of
a retirement celebration
honoring Sam Cooper. The
"Pride in Excellence Through
the Years" will be held on
Friday, June 5th. Sam will be
sorely missed as a teacher at
McCulloch School. Assisting
Edith are Shirleyann Wahls
and Charlotte Conner... .
Caulton Ray is president of
the Jolly Old Timers Club, Inc.
Jimmy Wilson, a longtime
member of the group, reported
that their spring dance held at
th Aruba Temple on West 7
Mile wa an affair to rernem­
b r .....
DETROIT
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upervi ors.
Sh al 0 prot ted conditions in
ci ty owned par .
Comb al p ed concern
about the propo e elimination of 10
people in th Hi bland Par Public
Safety Department, combining
police and fire ervices,
I G T emphasized
that th city elimin ted ome higher
official b fore cutting the officers.
Halo added that official talked to
th unions to ee about cuts in wag
and fringe benefits in order to
prevent the layoffs, but the unions
refused to do this.
He aid of the 10 officers would
go not because of layoffs but early
retirement arrangements.
Councilman Frank Ross noted
that in cities Ii Ecorse, where the
state had taken over, wholesale
service were cut without
consideration for the citizens.
th t under an
rrang ment with the t te, the
county w given mon y for traffic
enfor ment to free city officers
from the duties, tto warned
th t with cutb c in city police
offi rs, the county ould pull i
o ce out.
Ma tto I 0 expre ed concern
about poor police and fire equipment
and a la 0 money llocated for
capital improvements.
"If we can't provide minimal
police and fire, we don't have a city,"
Matto aid, "We (the Public Safety
Department) not only have the
biggest budget. We have the biggest
responsibili ty. "
He added that his own alary had
been cut to save the city money.
A ci tizen named Deny e
Butterfield asked whether it was
possible to cut back in hours before
ir jo .
, to in re e citizen morale .
.
" e h ve to ee little:
improvem nt, to ive the p ople •
hope."
P ul 00<1, th r citizen
former City 0 cial, . d, There
ople h feel that not enough .
ing done. There are imple things
that can be n of. en
people begin to v' ibly e that you
will have a change of attitude. "
, wa. not
g in t the cutb ck , c lled for
trong r ccountability in the Public
Servi Department, ying, "The .
Mayor hould go to t upervisor in .
man gement and y, 'You're going:
to clean it or I'm going to rep! ce :
you." :
One ob erver, who did not speak '
at the meeting, blamed the state for
the city's problem .
"Engler is cutting bac on tate
aid to poorer are . ow the state is
blackmailing u to cut essential
services. When we suffer it will be •
local officials who get the blame .
while his role will be ignored ...
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Councilwoman Chri tine
Franklin tate that the salaries are et
by the Employee Compensation
Commission under tate law, not by
the council itself. She dded th last
time the commis ion met, he was
"the only one" who went to k for a
cut in council alary.
DDED HE would do
this again when the commission met
next year.
A citizen named lloyd Turner
defended the rise in salaries, noting
that in earlier days when the city was
larger, there was Ie inflation and
alaries were smaller for everyone.
Butterfield called for greater
efforts to deal with community
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One p rson xpre sed concern
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Standard Federal Bank will
hold a free Comntunity Home
Buyer's Program Seminar on
Saturday, May 16, 1992 from
10:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon at
the Renaissance -Baptis t
Church, 1045 East Grand
Boulevard in Detroit. This
seminar is especially helpful
to renters who would like to
become buyers.
Refreshments will be served.
To register, or for
information about the
program, call 313/643-9600, I:
extension 6fI77.
H all your children deserved to go to college, " '
but you could only send one, how would you choose? :
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A Mind Is A Ierrlble Thing To Waste.
Highland Park Chamber of Commerce
announces
May Chamber
Luncheon Meeting
Guest Speaker
Honorable Un ey Porter
Mayor, Highland Park
May 21,1992
12 Noon
Am rlcan Legion Hall
55 Victor
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working with dangerou equipment becau e of the tendency of the
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evere that it limit the medicine' therapeutic u efulne .
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