of yet.
During th qu 'on period,
former City Councilman John
P tterson id the area on Cali­
fornia i prime land for housing
and should be used for that.
T PROPERTY
off th tax rolls, Patte on qu
u- tioned, when the city is facing
massive million dollar deficits?
"
By RON SEIGEL
h I.n Cltlnn
HIGHLAND PARK - The
Highland Par Board of Educa­
tion unanimously approved an
operating budget for Highland
Park Community College
(HPCC) covering 1993-1994,
hich reduced the deficit and
ly doubled the rate of excess
venue over expenditures from
approximately 566,000 to
,042,000.
C President Dr. Thomas
aid the college deficit is
1 million.
n the budget, instructional
c went down by $106,503.
loyd said this was caused by
irements of teachers that
re not replaced and a decision
t nc:rease class size, in order to
s money in such area as
101 t and heat.
, Funding for institutional ad­
inistration was reduced by
141,451.
:' Instructional funds went
wn in the following areas:
$9,767 for business.
$10,189 for computer sci-.
$6,077 for fine and perform­
arts.
$4,850 for mathematics.
$53,597 for social sciences.
: _ 5,378 for physical sci-
�.
: _ $5,530 for communication.
: _ $7,905 for electrical and
eleetronica trade.
, A total cutoff of funds for
the Center for Instructional
SVpport, which Lloyd said re­
• ted from a failure to get a
• nt for it.
ion.
ro
o
yor.
id t t origi-
nal city h 11 built h n
Highl nd Par h d much
larger popul tion, and hy
ould t city go into bigger fa-
ciliti hen the population
in decline, now below 20,000
idents.
"You are having bigger city
hall nd bigger government with
1 people," he charged.
Scotty Wainwright, adminis­
trative aide to th Mayor said
that budget records that city
council wanted were behind
schedule because the city did not
have the space, for computeriza-
HARO MD SHE ' ould
like more housing and entertain­
ment at the Woodward/Califor­
nia site. Porter said his plan
called for high income housing at
the site of the former Holiday
INSTRUCTIO AL SUP­
PORT services went up, despite
cuts of
• $8,540 in library services.
$2,909 in educational me­
dia services.
This was largely because of
increases in instructional sup­
port administration, despite the
elimination of the Vice President
of Instruction and a cut of $4,404
for the Coordinator of Corporate
Education.
This as 0 cr in
5,335 for he n of iberal
Arts and $36,692 for the Dean of
Occupational Studies.
Cuts were made in admini­
stration for the entire institu­
tion, with reductions of:
• $45,527 for the Board of
Trustees (school board), going
from $290,009 to $244,482.
Baptist
conunent on
race relations
The Christian Life Commis­
sion of the Southern Baptist
Convention states in its monthly
newsletter that "race relations is
a largely a myth!
The story says that " tragi 11
tragically, the Los Angeles riots,
the war in Bosnia, and apart­
heid in South Africa are ample
testimony that racial hatred is
alive and well on planet. earth. "
The writer says that even in
Southern Baptist work the im­
plications of the gospel of a cru­
cified and resurrected Jew
named Jesus has failed.
R LE R, Walsh
rtin's right to fr
h ut sh denoun his
k' "r curren and gratuitous
u of racial or religious identifi­
cation of individuals," and i
" tt mpt to port y Well ley
011 a r p ive institu-
tion bent on sil ncing rum. "
$126,674 for the Finance
Department.
$117,453 for the Instruc­
tional Material Center .
and one on Sunday.
Lloyd said some state and fed­
eral grants were reduced, be­
. cause the college had less
Money for maintaining and students and the formula for
repairing buildiz gs and grounds funding was student population.
increased $52,000, but physical Vocational education grants
plant administration went down were cut 5,700 for occupational
$8,547 from $98,014 to 89,467 administration, $573 for single
to deal with mid year problems parents and $34 for sex equity,
in meeting expenses. . and a there was a $3,900 cut for
ted this ould not at risk students.
. h m jar p', oyd'd that inee the ad-
uch as . . roof or in- .. tration had n cut to five
t erfor or cosmetic improve- members, there were some
ments. grants that it was not able to
'monitor.
Consequently, he said, the
college lost its grant of $27,356
for the state Miclrigan Opportu­
nities, Skills Training (MOST)
Program.
HEALTH D SAFETY
Services went down $966 from
$213,652 to $212,686 Lloyd said,
because of cuts on weekend staff,
from three to two on Saturday
BIG D P - Th
Michipn Department of Com­
m appro housing grant
of 175,000 und to the 1998
Community opm nt Block
ooordingto ma-
HIGHLAND PARK SMALL
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February '23, 1994
at Brown Bag & Eatery
15070 Hamilton
Highland Park
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
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Devco' Small Busine Developm nt Workahop at the
Brown Bag & E tery. At no coat to you, adv or will be on
hand to d c the new leR()'LOAN PROGRA (aman
b'--Ine a loa.,. up to 10,000), and t cone rna of small
busines locat d in Highland P rk.
Limited se ting ia availabl I All inter sted partie' m t
R.S.V.P. by eont cling Perrin.Emanuel, V.P. of HP Deveo at
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be a rved at 8:00 a.m. '
Highland Park Obituary
Abdul Aziz Ol118r
services
et
Dignitaries from aero the country are
expected to attend services for Abdul Aziz
Omar, 70, who
died Sunday, Feb.
6 in his home in
Highland Park
Mr. Omar, like
his younger
brother Malcolm
X, was drawn to
the Nation of Is- ,
lam because of the
preaching of the
Honorable Elijah
M u ham mad. Addul Az1z Omer
Both men were in-
fluenced at home by their parents' strong
devotion to the teachings of Marcus
Garvey and the Negro Universal Improve-
ment�ation. .
Unlike his brother, Malcolm, Philbert
X, as he was known in those days, did not
break with the Nation of Islam.
Mr. Omar became a devoted minister of
the Black Muslim faith, organizing tem­
ples throughout the tate of Michigan. He
became the minister of Muhammad's No.
1 Temple in Detroit, in the late 1970s.
Mr. Omar was born Philbert Little in
Omaha, Nebraska and moved with his
family to Lansing, Michigan six years
later. The Little family was burned out
twice by hate groups and in 1931, the head
of the family was found dead under the
wheels of a streetcar. It is believed he was
pushed by a mob after a brutal heating.
Mr. Omar's formal ministry ended
around 1980. Before retiring, he worked as
a salesman for Art Van Furniture.
Mr. Omar and his brother Wilfred lit­
tle, made many appearances before school
and communit groupe, speaking of the
need for African American youths to be
well educated and become economically
independent.
Survivors include his wife Ameenah;
sons Farod and Mustapha Shah; daugh­
ters Clara and Rarralah Shaf, Rasheeda
Lacey, and Lakisba and Cheryl Omar; four
brothers and two sisters and a grandchild.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m., Saturday,
February 12, at the Dairy Workers Hall,
on Second Avenue in Highland Park
� ..
Maligned college
professor responds to
antt-Semitic charges
scurrilous attacks, the name­
calling, the lies and distortions
about me. "She zeroed in on
what she perceived as my lack of
civility," said Martin. He said
that b cau e Walsh can't fire
him, he was using defamation
in ho of making his life diffi­
cult.
The book, "The Jewish On­
slaught: Dispatches From the
W 11 ley B ttlefront," accuses
J ws of conspiring against Mar­
tin, who is Black, and Black pee­
pl in gen ral. It w publish
1 month by Martin's own Ma-
jority
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