.,
. AnnapO' MD--Malyland
Governor William Donald
Schafer last week shocked
much of the nation by t
ing a welfare reform policy
which would require tho
of Black women on welfare to
be implanted with five-year
birth control device and that
Black men receive vasectomles
which would remer them in
capable of fathering children
According to Schaefer, "If
they are on welfare am have a
certain num r of illegitimate
children," women would be re
quired to use orplant-a
device implanted in the upper
ami which prevents conception
for five years and it would be
mandatory that men get vasec
tomies.
The policy would apply to all
races. Black delegate Flijah
Cummings caUed Schaefer's
suggestion "very dangerous." .
Apparentl y anticipating charges
of racism and comparisons to
the genocide of Adolph Hitler,
Schaeferadded, "I krow it's ex
treme, and I am not proposing it
today. But it should be 122fed
at"
i e tim ted th t
n 16 to 20 billion
e ente Michi
terwa ch year, accorclin to the
Department 0 tural Resources
In an effon to clean up the problem, a
handful 0 tate natoIS have introduced
le 1 tion dd ing combined
overflow (CSO) arxt more are expected
to be introduced.
Ho Co-Speaker Paul Hlllegonds,
R-Holland, that
attention will
vyrai
11 combine in, to their citize to help payoff
the public HOO would call for t dts
c r in mmunity to pay for it," he
·d.
Sen. John Sicky, R-S inaw, intro
duced the other two bil in th eso
ka e.
, Gov. Engler nd
m ve met and announced
• Liwt 1 ve been ematOO in the t and
will be given eany t nnon," he d.
Hillego 'd that in the en-
vironmental area they will seek orne
combin d wer ov rflow fin, ncin
authority.
wage overflow Th I gisl on would give bonding
According to Hillegonds, there are a autOOrity 10 local communiti to rebuild
number of citi in the ta that have tho e y tem. Hillegonds said
never rebuilt th ir wer ystems and. municipaliti could tate bonding
the raw wag and the groun water or uthority and th n tum around and
surface water L m that iak care of charge wa r fees or wer disposal fcc
" y. group 0 g
to ther and d cid d to work in a bipar
ti an way," aid S n. William Van
Regenrnorter, R-Jenison. "We intro
duced a ka e 0 bil which did n t
t all the way throu h, 0 we decided to
try it gain this year. it will
a biparti n bicam cal g ."
Van Reg nrnorter' bilt would re
quire n tification f all downstream
communiti ,the Department of atural
R urces and the local health depart
ment about a mbined wer discharg
int a river or other body of wat r.
"It would HI' require m nit ring
, ing n �'lry to p teet the health 1
for tra fer
of a ut 12.2 million in inte t camed
form the Environment I Protection
Wat r Pollution Control Fund into the
State Revolving Fund to e(..'UJ'C H 1 )
percent match of fed cal fun .
Tbe Sta Revolving fund i d by
the tat to finance local w te wa r
plan and' pitali ed by m tching
fund form th fi ral government and
tied to the Clean Water Ai 1.
q
money."
Tbe Dep runent of atural RCMlUT
. al reviewing the ills f re it can
iti n on them.
Rc enrnotorer' hilI.
Sal tax eyed a way to
ease property tax load
By JEFFERY A, SCHONENBORN
C.ptl., N.w. S.rvlce
lA N - As the year-long freeze
on property tax ass ments ends and the
Legi lature decide how to provide
property tax relief, the Republican Co
Speaker 0 the House says a 1 -cent sales
tax increa e could make up the I t
revenue Ior s 'hoots.
rc' the
m r a r
• period to 40 percent instead of 50 per-
nt," aid Speake Paul Hille nds, R
Holland. "And probably down to 45
percent i first year; this year."
If the Lcgi slature cuts property taxes
without reirnbursingscbool , such as Hil
legends u 'ted, h 01 di tric likely
would ask for millage incre es.
"Pe pie or the tate, we would give
you om op rtunity to effect your own
d tiny on this." Hilleg nds aid. "(The
Legislature) would put n the ballot for
_y u a hancc t vote a I-cent ale tax
incrc ' ; all of it t go to cducati n to
pefully repla the I t nncnt
and make it I ne c ary for
di: tricts to e k millage in-
Surve
ete
differences
New York, NY-A lUVCy f
ver 2, high- chieving high
school students has found that
Black and white tudents often
have significantly different
icw of the world. For ex
ample, 5 percent f African
American tudent believe
Black have fewer oppor
tuniti ' than whites But only
percent f whit thou zht s .
Sixty percent of the Blaeks felt
they had n victims of racial
dis rirninati n, but only 10 per
cent f whites admitted to oi.
criminating again, t Bla ks.
_ Dcspnc negative experien
ce • percent f the high
achieving Black tudents id
they would date meone 0 a
different ra . This compa to
percent 0 whit . And, ver
half of Bla k uuoen said they
did not trust the police. Only 20
percent f whit felt the arne
way. The tudy nductcd by
Paul Krou ,publi her of
Who' Wh9 Am ng American
High hoof Students.
Recession, state cut
backs jeopardize
Afric_an-American
gains
atlv
- Am rica�. Asian Am 'nca •
and Hi 'panic,. The rcpo�
shO\ : that \\ hile "ml nty" en
IIment !few In mo, t stat
,fc\ tat
"howed . i JOlli ant at
proporti).U ol Afncan
Amen ·m. atlv Am 'nca� ,
or Hispani . am n their :tu-
d 'nl pulati ns.
A nstitutional arncndrn nt, via a
allot pro 1. is the only way the I
tax, now 4 percent can be ircrea ed.
Rep. Thomas Mathieu. D-Grand
Rapids, aid cutting tax and then rely-
ing on tb: ge 0 a ballot proposal to
replace revenues forscbools is not a good
idea.
"Every time there's a ballot PI'( al
to include sal tax, it 18 bumped," be
said. "I'm not ure the voters of this state
will upport arotber,"
H id a property tax decrease and a
sal hould occur simul-
Hillegonds said on of til, main
reasons that b 110t proposals for sales tax
increases fail, is that they in ludc other
items. In 1982, there was uch a roposal
that included a sales tax increase and a
property tax cut vhich was not approved.
The executive direc r of the
Michigan Education Association. Bever
ly Wolkwow, said th 'tat cannot be
certain tha� it'propcrty tax arc cut; there
will be enough funds generated by the
sales tax increase to reimburse sc I.
"Wewouldnot upportpumngusalc
tax on the 001101," he aid
The MEA proposes a nate-wide mil
la c rate of mills, and euinu c . ide
General Fund money c llcctcd from a
higher state ircorn tax rate to achic e
equitable funding for all Michigan
hools.
Tribute t Tuskee "Top Guns"
Gov. Douglas Wilder'(left). embraces Gen. Benjamin O. 0 VIS (nght) during program honoring the
Tuskegee Airmen, World War Il's all-Black fighter squadron. Gen. Davis, long with several other
surviving Airmen, is featured In a video documentary and �xhibit.
home in the area in 19 7. It I ow \\n\
12. m t f them a quired at tax \<11' •
and ha turned them into treatment
ntcrS and outpatil!nt h mc�.
Ebcrcchuku. 42. eXl'r cd hi" , wk '
in King Avenue hy n:citing a qllotati n
titled "Wha ' n I Do?"
ma .. L', a 7 'at or rmstakc
did I othin 7 'Gm e he
c( uld nly d , 1 .tle,' .. he qu te ....
�Thc m :t iml l1ar,1 thin that 4uot'
. il I�. JU! t do )nlcthil 7."
lint neighborhood works
to maintain King! dream
FUNT (AI') - t c cryone e 'ted
thin to han ze when Detroit trect was
rcnam 'd Martin Luth r Kin venue in
March 1 ctirl,
In me \ ay ,th 'Y ha cn't. Th reare
boardcd-up 't refronLI\, . hell. or once
Ie ant ho� ,dru and violenc.'c al ng
th' thoroughfare on Flint's n rth sid '.
In olh'r v.a, Lhere I� 'han' . It',
e min' from the J opl \l h live and do
bl.l,',inc�, th re.
. One n:SIU 'nt , id th: memory of
Martll1 Luth'r Ktn Jr. "i' n t being
d wnplc cd h" nammg th' �tn:(.)t aft r
him .... (Kin· tanill foral tinth'Bla k
... and thl' i th Bla k 'om-
,I U L
He ll: In'. a 1I�1,
, n'd IVC
Detroit get
leade� hip trainin
Pastor says Hawaii not a
. .
melting pot formany Blacks
110 OLlILU (AP) - The p' tor 01 pic
lh . tate'. large t ncan Amen "m
Baptist Church y HawaII fall\ t
up to its Image th "meltin
the Pacific" for many BI c}c;;.
Rev. Stanley Am f Tnnlt MI-
slOnary Bapti t Church ay.., man"
Bla � come to Hawaii to e cap lh'
fa i. m they experience on the m inl. nd
be . we of that mcltin pot m tho but
I'avc <Ii 'app i�ted hecau e of thc
racISm thcy find h reo
Otlle tay and pret nd th mcltlO J
pOI myth i true, Am atd dunn T it
Dr. Martin Luth r Km Jr. ay (h\cr
vance.
1 El<.llBOIUl<
'Ol'\! 1(.1 'I cd
mc pc pI
m lh nd try to livc U1
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