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By RON SEIGEL
III 'HLA D AR - In a three to
one vote July 19, th Highland Park
City Council went to a private com­
pany to pick up garbage.
The coun il approved an open­
ended contract recommended by the
Porter Administration with City Mu­
ni ipal S rvices to handle garb g
collection and di posal. Privatiza­
tion, pushed by Highland Park
Mayor Linsey Porter, puts 43 city
employ out of wor .
The council member who voted
a ains t the agreement, Council­
woman Greta Johnson, said that a
city ordinance forbade the city to go
. to privatization.
She cited Ordinance 1060.04,
Sec. 4 as stating that receptacles for
garbage would be bandied by "mu­
nicipal" collectors", which she inter­
preted as requiring a public garbage
ervice.
COU CILMAN FRANK Ross
claimed the ordinance said "munici-
pal crvicc", m ruling th
the city w' responsible for.
He aid th city would be pon-
ible forwor don by priv
pany it was hiring ell a city
government department it w per­
sonally admini tering.
Councilwoman Franklin
cepted Johnson' wording, but aid
"municipal" contractor did not nee-
arily mean a public employ .
She added, however, that many ordi­
nances and the city charter itself
should be updated, because the law
did not deal wi th chang that had
occurred in the ci ty .
None of the council members
asked Assistant City Attorney Dian
Hutchinson, who was acting for Ci ty
Attorney Eric Daniel, for legal ad-
vice. .
Daniel could not be reached by
this deadline, and Hutchinson said
she could not give a legal opinion to
the newspaper in his absence. •
BOTH JOHN ON and other
citizens critical of the privatization
Dr. Corbi praises
education regi trants
move complain d that City Munici-
P Servi w chargin by th rat
of wor and did not giv total
mount for its ervi
They charged it w not clear how
m h the wor would co t or how
m h the city would ave by privati­
zation if anything.
Wanda Linsey B tic, a 1 er in
the drive against privatization, pre­
dict d the city might eith r have to
ask for more mon y for th erv­
ic than w allocated in the budget
or would have to cut out ervic .
Scotty Wainwright, admini tr -
tiveaide to the Mayor Porter aid that
the city should ave at least $15 mil­
lion, becaus the rate the company
charged w I than city timat
of what it would t e to do the j b
under the specifications in th ci ty
budg 1.
A ORDIN TO Wainwright
the adrnini tration' e timate for
collecting garbage, which h aid
were "on the conservativ ide",
were $4 per household per month.
Mayoral pok man tty
Wainwright aid BFI was only offer­
ing the service of garbage coll tion,
not disposal, mowing, and tree trim­
ming.'
� und it
ntractor
Council
can' fill
vacancy
By RON SEIGEL
Specl I to the Mlchlg.n Citizen
olin II Pro IU nt Dwight Downes
\(tId he would <ct a �p ial meeting for
hat date.
rll':' >lIn "lr rT\�mbers voted on
h( wno: I ! Ilea <lnc.l. nt in resum . I
See VACANT, AS
AID THE
WANDA F. ROQUEMOR /MIchl an Cltiz n
FREEDOM FOR ALL PEOPLE was the message South forum, sponsored by the MichiganCoalition for Human
Africa's Bishop Tutu brought to Detroit during a recent U.S. Rights, was one of several forums held in honor of Bishop
tour. Seated next to Bishop Tutu is Rabbi Julian Cook. The Tutu.
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIElY HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING­
Conrad Mallett (second, left), is greeted by board m mb
Socrety 'during its recent annual meeting in which Judg Mall was t ynote speaker.
Shown with Judge Mallett (from left), are Linda D. Ashford. board In r ber Ronald Smiley.
The Children's Society conducts numerous program on b. l If 0 '0 mgs rs in the Detroit
area .
I)ETROIT, MI-Dr. John Corbitt,
o Greenville, S. C. dean of the Na­
ti nal Bapti t Congres of Christian
Education. prai ed the 25 who
regl tered forcl es during the recent
anonal Mi ionary Baptist Sunday
Church School and Bapti t Training
Union C ngr held here June 13-20,
Corbitt aid in th last veral
years, at I t 75,(XX) different people
hav taken cours in the Congres .
He a] aid there are 500 faculty
mernbe • wh are compri ed of min­
i tc lay women and men. The fac­
ulty honored its If with a banqu t at
the River at Ro m of the Westin
Hotcl when Dr. O'Neil D. Swanson
w: u t peaker, and was intro­
duced by Dr. Charles A Greene of
Flint. Dr.
)RBITT I D high praise for
their pcranon love for ea h. other,
He i, "We have 0 many good
thin" om on. Our college and
" rrunary transfer programs are doing
well. thr u h American Bapti t Col-
Ic land th h 1 f Theology 0
Vir irua Union University. He re­
JOI d that dcl gat . can earn colle e
• t (I 'mlIlLiI) .redus.
Dr. Corbitt aid thc Black Family
Institute i di c ing uch i u as
teenage pregnancy, aving the Black
Males' -whil emph izin that our
churches must be innovative and rca­
tive and eck to find new way. to
make the church relevant in our times.
Dr. Corbitt las out at Black
churches who do not e the trength
to way from white chur h wh try
to recruit members from our Bla k
churches. He urged tho e who fall
prey to start their own tithing y tern
in their churches and to train volun­
teers for youth mini tri and chil­
dren ministri .
Georgia, 1903
A mob, ormed near Liberty
County, pursued through yen
counties a Negro uppo d to be Ed
Claus, who had as aulted Susie
Johnson, a young white woman and
lynch d him, hangi ng him and hoot­
ing him full of holes. After he was
lynch d it was found b w not
Claus.
-New York 'Tribune, July 27,
1903
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