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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