11 but on ofth
e8C!lDeB8 h db n pp h nd
nd the rgument to cl it or
p it open continu
Th peopl in th
munity or nizatio
Co lition, Kr inz Wood,
Conant Garden, Grixdale Park
nd the Davi on eighborhood
iation--are categorically of
on opinion, Irma Jaxon, a
Krainz Wood' eommitt m m
ber ummed up the consensu :
"Our concern i : we want the
prison closed,"
But Amanda Cindy Owens, a
community activist who d not
liv within the hadows of the
prison but in Highland Park
said: "I think it' a politically
sound idea to have the prison
there."
Owen ' argument hinges
on "rehabilitation." She says the
inner city prison offers the com
munity the chance to get in-
hand wh t the don
o the communi y.
"Sin tha
talking about lling their
hom nd moving out. Th r i
paranoi inc the c pe,"
Jaxon aid
The U-Four alition J not
worried about he politics of the
prison b ak out. M ny would
not comm n on Ryan Corr -
tional Facility's Warden Sherry
Burt' pl a in the D troit
Ne sIFr Pr rticl Sunday
which a ked for a "second
chance."
OR
arks:' adnes for
some of our people'
ROSA PARKS
mg, assault and robbery.
"I regret very much that orne
of our people are in such a men
tal tate that they would hurt
and rob an older person," aid
the 81-year-old Parks, who re
fusal to give her eaton a
Montgomery, Ala., bu to a
white man help d ignite th
civil rights mov ment.
"In th times, none of us
s ms tobe safe from this type
of tr tm nt and viol tion by a
ick-rninded pe on," h aid
only on ofth
in union con
now under-
If you know Where You're ����.
HE GAVE IDM the money
and the man fled. Parks was
treated at a hospital for bruis
and released.
.Police a ted a Detroit man
after two men tackled him and
held him in a car, flagging down
a police crui r. They had recog
nized the suspect, whose name
was withheld, from a composite
photograph released by police.
Parks' rented home where
the attack took plac is about
five blocks from the boulevard
named af er h r. Park ha
liv d in De roit sinc 1957,
wh n he left Alabama because
h could not find wbrk in the
wake o,f the bus boycott.
Fonner Hospital prez alleges
race discrinlination in ouster
o TROIT (AP) - H r face Wedne day, th day the 28-
swoll n nd brui ed, the mother year-old m n wa rr ted.
of th nation' ivil rights mov -
ment h d r oub le under-
t nding th action of people hay been made s ince h r 1955
lik he rob r who kick d in arr t trigger d c1 381-d y bu
h<:r b ck door, b at h r and Oed 4 bo)'c by h . in
with dlrs 53. Lu her In Jr., inspiring he
after the Tu d y fight agains egregati n.
night bre k-in at Ro Parks' "But as you can , at this
house, police arrested a man on time we still have a long way to
charges of breaking and enter- go and so many of our children
are going astray," he aid.
Parks had planned to move '
before the attack and headed for
her new downtown apartment
later Wedn day. She said she
went downstairs Tue day night
after hearing a loud noise to find
a man who said he was there to
protect hr. S meone had
ripped off her door, he told her.
But then he demanded
money for hi servi and fol
lowed her upstair as he went
to get it. It was th n tha he
asked for all the money she had.
He 'beat Parks when she re
si ted.
SAGINAW, Mich. (AP) - The
ousted president of the former
Saginaw Community Hospital
said the hospital's financial trou
bles were not his fault and al
leged h w pushed out because
of his age and race.
Te timony in enen L.R.
Asu n' uit agains th h pi
tal now call d Health ourc
S �naw, is expected to continu
Tu day in Saginaw County Cir
cuit Court. .
tifi
m r
by r ci m.
Asuan � rv
th county-own
19 7 un il 1992.
nt of
from
ou ht to
n to
hay "high xpectatio of good
havior" in hool for their chil-
dr n. "W al encoura nd
w lcome p r nt volun [in
chool)." he id.
Donar id that the union had
I' n w the contract on a day-to
y b " until a new contract
w ratified, instead of taging
rike, orne hool di tricta
did, becau union official
lieved the administration w
n gotiating in good faith.
The union felt that a strUt
. hould a "last resort," he id.
He dded the union wanted
the hool to open during th
offi ial count of the tudents dur
ing th fifth Frida:}" �pich d�r
min d the tate' funding
Hi hl nd P rk would receive.
It o wanted a .. mooth open-
of th hool y r" to facili-
the r tructuring plans of
hool distri t, planned by
admini tration under Cain.
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