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P bl m f overcrowding h rself by
c nv rtin an old t her' lounge
into an ther year old room.
In two day I MathI ay h en­
list d th maint nanc taff in paint­
in t wall and waxin the floor,
t che into donating mat rial the
adva e 3-year-olds bad used, and
created another clas room.
Malhi aid h also converted a
tora e room into aootber nursery.
troubl 10 tn first pl ," Mathi
aid.
Mathis plalned th t th reason
tba t th re w re 25 tudents in a room
only enough for 21 w that Collins
w told by the Superintendent 0
Finance that th margin of ab ntee­
i m would allow an enrollment of 25,
ince all children enroll d are never
all present.
I C OLLIN too over as
program director at the center the
Centers enrollment well d from 60,
t total enrollment under the then
former mana er and now present
mana er Mary SuUivan, to 140. Col­
lins was aUe edJy told y the ad mini-
tration that th tu h enrollment w
od. ,
"We had no help," Malhi aid.
"AJ though it was the Center' prob­
lem Fat r Cunningham didn't even
recognize Richard (Collins) nor I. It
w if we were told to deal with
everyone el e" mistake. Fo-
us:HOPE' main obj tive i to
save money, that' all."
Mathi , who had been employed
at Focus:HOPE for five YeaIS, start­
ing a ecretary, tried to con t the
IT W that Collins alX1
Mathis ay they realized that Father
Cunningham was meeting with com­
mitte members without either of
them pr ent.
The only ide Father Cunningham
allowed himself to hear w the ide
of t eommi ttee. And th informa­
ti n nt to him by Mathi , he ay ,
was ignored.
During the chao Collins became
ill. High blood P ur and a do -
tor's instan e that he r t kept him at
home and Mathis continued to wear
th ecre tary , busines manag r, and
interim manager hat.
"In th five years that I had
worked at Focus:HOPE they never
See, CENTER P ge B8,
NO guaranteed jobs for Detroiters
There is no guarantee of any jobs for De'troit residents. Atlantic City
lost 84% of its high-paying manufacturing jobs after Casinos.
NO·tocrime
Crime in Atlantic City has increased 253% according to the FBI!
o drug
and prostitution
"Name any African-Americans anywhere whose lives have been
made better because of gambling. Name any Black neighborhoods
which gambling has improved .... lt is another way to redistribute
money, takinqit away from African-American families and putting it
into the greedy hands of the rich and powerful."
The Re·v. JimHolley, Little Rock Baptist Church
VO� NO Wednesday, June 2
Against Casino Gambling, P.O. Box 24195 Detroit, MI 48224-0195 (313) 875·707'0
in t
tory
AC 0 IN TO pro ecunon
witnes es who worked for Berrien
-County Circuit courts in 1976 at th
time Carter w tried, if a juror
wi h d to be excused the requ t
had to be ubmitt d by th employer
and in wri ting.
Furthermore the wri tten
requests wer kept in court archives
and were there until at least 19
when Marie B ekham, a Circuit
Court clerk retired, he testified.
How could Clementine Brown
be e eu ed wi thout written reque t?
Who waived 'the court rules? How
Stin , B rri n County
Clerk plained that t S retary
of State forward computer tap of
pot ntial juro h year to th
County.
If th courts y 12,00 narn
are needed from which to compil
juri , then th ounty computer
department randomly elects every
12th person, Stine explained.
That randomly drawn Ii t i th n
ent que tionaire which ar
returned for Jury Board
consideration.
Verlin Zimmerman, chairman 0
the Berrien County Jury Board, aid
that ther i nothing on the Ii t
provided by Secretary of State to th
County Clerk that identifies persons
by race.
Yet when Berrien County'
greate t concentration of African
American can be found in the
county's largest city, Benton
Harbor which is 93 � Black, it
would appear some a umption
about the racial composition of jury
pools could be drawn by looking at
addr e.
"We have quite a few
que ti nn a i r return d from
peopl in B nton Harbor,"
Zimmerman admitted, although he
could offer no explanati n as to why
so few Blacks sit on Berrien County
jurie .
Bradley Whitman election
divi ion of the Secretary of Stat ,
told the Michigan Citizen that th
reason he believed the tate went to
drawing jurors from drivers lie ns
lists rather than voter regi tration
Ii ts w to mak th juri more
repr entativc.
1 to 21 re
on voter
hitm n id.
more
re Blac fairly represented on
th origin 1 li t coming from the
r tary of tate to th county
ourt f r jury election.
Th t qu tion ha not been
n I y ed r tudied to the
knowl dg of th Berrien County
Clerk Whitman or Jean Pi ley,
man er of the Driv rs Programs in
th computer divi ion of the
cretary of State' office.
Court proceeding like that of
Carter in hi struggle to reverse the
18-year-old conviction that has him
behind bars, and Jones in hi effort
to force th courts to recognize their
past systematic racism are calling
into question an apartheid ystem.
Whether the past will be righted
remains to be seen.
Th jury 01} jury selection is still
out.
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on whether Propo al A would pro­
vide additional money for the
ch I and if the money provided
will really be dedicated to education.
Aside from these areas the or­
ganization considers civil liberties
i ues, Brewer aid there was also
concern about the effect of the sales
ta incr e reat d by Propo al "A"
on p or pcopl
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