-At
city council
y, Janu ry
13, on revi ion 0 th city
bud t pro by yor Lin-
y Porter, council m mb r
voted to d I y action until t
i more information
Phil Pi , t t onitor,
dvi e that the city council
hould make no chan in th
budget until it monthly
portsont city' financial tate.
City officials stated that the
Financial Department could not
give monthly reports of
staff hortages and the n ity
of giving ba audits to th state,
which ere b hind under the
previous administration of for­
mer Mayor Martha G. Scott.
Pierce added that in the revised
budget, $2 million were de-
cribed as "om' ions" in the cur­
rent budget. "This," he said, "is
tragic. This t lIs me, at best, that
the budget is a bigjoke."
. Wainwright said said that the
revised budget mostly repre­
sented money being transferred
from one item to another and not
a budget increase. "What you
have before you today is. a revi­
sion of the general fund," he said.
At the request of several council
Disaster aid .
does not
reach poor
By RON SEIGEL
5 eclll' to the Michl lin Citizen
DETROIT - Victims of the
California earthquake, who do
not have money might not bene-
t federal' aid,
a Maureen h. � the
Detroit Welfare Ri gani-
zation (WRO). '
Taylor said according to infor­
mation she has received from
Florida, some caught in the flood
disaster, who ve been without
money have li ving in bar­
racks and makesH·ft "put to­
gether" housing ai ce 1990.
. Those with money who were
rendered homeless by the disas­
ter, were able to get help from
the federal government immedi­
ately and got back into homes -
right a way, she said.
A WRO official from Califor­
nia called Ethel Long Scott will
give her information about con­
ditions there, she stated.
a bid from .... biracial volunteer
coali tion to rebuild the. church
for $35,000.
Miller has 20 days to file pa­
pers on the Amite County juris­
dictional question.
owners to participate.
In New York and other cities,
corporate sponsor have pr�
vided incentives for owners to
turn in their guns.
DUl ing a week-long cam­
paign in N w York City la t
month, 375 guns were turned in
at one police station in exchange
for Toys 'R' Us gift rtificat
that local businessmen had
bought.
Foo Locker Inc., which has
1,400 stor nationwide, began
off ring athle ic shoes for guns
in N w York. Other cities have ·
requested similar programs, but
Foot Locker spokeswoman Carol
Sharkey aid, "We're looking to
take it furth r, but w have to
evaluate it in New York before
we go to Baltimore or any oth r
city"
h�
U nive ity of rcy'
McAul y chool of u in
recently been a warded a
219,000 grant from the U. .
Department of H lth nd Hu-
man Services to fund th
y r program lIed Passazes
The purpose of th Passazes
Program i to d velop and im-
Friend and Family of Tau McClary
pre enta
Simone Thompson. a student In FOCUS:Hope' Center for Advanced Technologle , i one· of
the young people profiled in the City for Youth documentary -New Work for a New Gen ration"
which will b simulcast on Channels 50 and 56 on Tue day, January 25 at 7:30 p.m. (photo by
Fred Ferns)
Mardi Gra [St. Valentine
Co tume Md querade Ball
for Councilman Titu Me lary
ebruary 11
at 8-1am
continued from page A 1
"Giv am 'n a fi h, he can eat for
that day. Teach-a man how to
fish, he can eat for the t of his
life." Furthermore he tates,
"W want. to dispel the myth of
the "insipid life-style" of the
Christian. Most people tend to
think that if they accept Christi­
anity as a way of life, that 'real
livin" ends, when infact, it really
begins."
The groups goals ar to ex­
pand throughout major urban
cities across the country uch as
Detroit, Chicago, and Atlanta,
and then ultimately world wide.
They are firm believers that
charity begins at home and
spread abroad.
Plans for a King of King's
clothing line/sports wear should
manifest by the spring of '94 in
Rosedale Park. Apartment
buildings are in the process of
being bought and renovated to
house incoming Christians.
Mos t of the employment is
provided by Roderick
Jenkins/Rozelle White's Dry
Cleaning Service along with
Tyran Meredith's Vivid Property
Management Service.
See KING, AS'
." ,. t
Temple of I m upper Club
12111 Hamilton
The id w fi tconc ived in
Decemb r 0 1993 with King of
Kin sEnt rpri e serving an
umbr 11a compri ed of five sepa­
rate comp ni owned nd oper­
ated by each member
Pastor K nan Meredith, vi­
sionary and piritu 1 1 der of
the group, in out: "We want
to sow s in other ministries,
provide jobs, hou ing, education.
Give brothe a s ond I e on
life. "
TH PA TOR ideology is,
or
Dixon and her' ttorney,
Charl s Miller, also objected to
th matter being heard in Amite
Coun y Chancery Court, which
they cont nd is the wrong j uris­
diction.
Rocky Point is located near
ummit in Pike County, but
Reeves is the chancellor for both
Amite and Pike counties. Plain­
tiffs' a torney, Carroll Rhodes of
Hazlehurst, said the church has
reol Menu
Prize for Be t 0 tume
D nati n: $25
ive mu ie for your
dancing pleasure·
p nBar
"The people I know who have
gun won't in no rush to give
it up unle s they can get som -
thing back for it," said Ke'J1n
McNeal, 17, of We t BaltimOl�.
"It's th ir property. They may
not an a lot for it, but they
'want om thing. They got to go
through the effort of ttingan­
oth r one."
B LIMO where
w a OS n be turn in from
10 a.m. to-6 p.m. at 20 r ligious
f: ciliti s throughout th city on
S turday, the only incentive will
b peace of mind. Still, 1 I or-
niz ixp t th program to
be succ sful. They hope that
1993's r rd 353 homicides __.:
guns w re used in 75 percent of
th e killin d educational
p am .. q on tho n ofgu
will n ugh in n ive for n
or informatin and ti k call M.R.. Me lary
(31 )892-2658
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