Buffalo Criterion, 1985-04-17

              niagara region wny's necessary minority newspaper - featuring paid legitimate circulation the buffalo criterion rochester vol 60 - no 16 wednesday april 17-23,1985 m out-of-towq 25 robinson lobbies for continued cao funding erie county legislator barry l robinson id-buf falo this week submitted legislation imploring the western new york con gressional delegation and new york's two senators to mount an extensive lobbying campaign to con tinue federal funding for the community action organization erie coun ty's anti-poverty agency federal funding for the community action or ganization is in great jeopardy at this point the federal budget currently before congress contains no money for the commu nity services block grant which funds cao and other agencies like it if this budget proposal goes through it would mean the closing of all cao centers in erie county and the discon tinuation of virtually all the agency's services to the underprivileged robinson said robinson's resolution which will be acted on by the legislature at its april 18th session notes that the cao serves economi cally disadvantaged resi dents youngsters and senior citizens from throughout erie county best known for its fed eral food surplus give aways the cao also operates programs for nu trition counseling and ed ucation an emergency food pantry community gardening weatheriza tion services and drug abuse treatnent ' given the high level of poverty and unemploy ment in erie county we have no choice but to wage a united lobbying effort to fight against the elinina tion of federal funding for anti-poverty agencies robinson said his solution calls on western new york con gressman as weu as senators daniel patrick moynihan and alfonse d'a""<»tnn to wage exten sive lobbying campaigns in each of their respective houses for the restoration of community services black grants it also asks governor cuomo and state legisla tors to prepare contin gency plans for funding anti-poverty agencies like the cao should the federal funding be cut off humboldt-hospital metro rail system station to re dedicated dedication ceremonies for the humboldt-hospital station of the buffalo metro rail system will be held fri april 19th at 9 a.m.fouowinthe hour-long ceremony the station will remain open to the general public from friday april 19th until tuesday april 23,betweenl0a.m and 8 p.m weekdays and from 12 p.m to 8 p.m on sundays this is the second in a series of six station open houses the first being the delavan-couege station on april 12th the station is located on the east side of main st at kensington aye with another separate structure located directly in front of the lbj development complex on the west side of main st civic political and edu cational leaders from across the city and around the immediate humboldt hospital station area wiu be in attendance for the dedication entertainment and visual presentations will be presented the construction of the station was undertaken by a joint venture firm of siegfried grow slat tery of buffalo and new york city foster en gineering of san francisco and robert shackleston of buffalo are designers of the building at the cost of 21,800,000 the structure has three levels concourse mezza nine and platform ite concourse level is equip ped with passenger assis tance phones ticket vending machines maps of the system and infor mation on how to ride metro rail the platform level is the inbound or outbound boarding area the station is equipped with security at all times there are bright lights tf*r*ii-_rlad closed c_mafc itfmatm tamtam <•• mgs passenger aatamtamaß phones and glass enclosed elevators for high visi bility and passenger safety sharon gold joyce kozloff and milton rogo vin are theartists whose work is displayed at this station guided tours of tte station are available to groups and can te arranged by eaoag 866-7975 or 866-7416 1st interfaith mayor's prayer breakfast set natl day of prayer proclaimed by reagan the buffalo convention center will be the site of the first annual interfaith mayor's prayer breakfast to be m ftp thursday may 2 at 7:45 am.this is the national day ol prayer as proclaimed by presi dent ronald reagan the interfaith mayor's prayer breakfast is spon sored by the buffalo area metropolitan ministries inc ibammi and its commission on inter religious dialogue the vent has been planned by a committee chaired by the rev eugene mcashan pastor of the bethel african methodist episcopal church the theme of the break fast is unity through prayer in this spirit the planning committee has opened each of its meetings during the past year with a prayer that in cludes this petition we may call thee a different name but thou are the same yesterday today and forever hear our prayer for we are all children the may 2nd interfaith gathering at the buffalo convention center wiu hear a message given by the most rev edward d head bishop of the roman catholic diocese of buffalo the participants will be welcomed by the ißw hte e mat bamm executive direc tor buffalo mayor james d griffin will bring greetings on behalf of all elected officials in western new york the program wiu in clude music representative of the protestant catholic and jewish communities erie county executive edward rutkowski will respond to bishop head's message on behalf of the people and elected officils a highlight of the interfaith gathering will be the litany led by the rev rastko trbuhovich pas tor of st stephen ser bian orthodox church the litany wtll be a psalm for today written in 1982 this litany was compiled from the people's re sponses by the bamm committee for the buffalo sesquicentennial under the leadership of the rev james lange the director of united methodit metro last rites held for lorenzo skinner memorial services for the late lorenzo skinner sr will be held thursday april 18th at 7 p.m at promiseland baptist church high and streets friends are invited mr skinner was wor shipful master of lester lodge 4 a f & a m omega grand lodge state of n v . and worthy patron of golden gate chapter 13 o e s he retired from the linde division of union carbide in 1982 where he was an honorary member of local 8-215."in the oil chemical and atomic workers internaitonal union mr skinner survivors are his wife ida m i white i skinner his children lorenzo jr lovell wells darlene beasley clark william maceo jacqulynn jeffrey kevin and stacey a step son of mrs annie johnson a sister mrs georgia oejesus of de troit michigan 30 grand children 13 great grand children and a host of nieces nephews and other relatives and friends columbia university should pull the plug on south africa no matter what the outcome the terrible arrogance of columbia university as it combats the commitment of its own students to the south africa freedom struggle has been laid bare the hunger strike by six students and the sit-in by an additional 300 students was mounted to protest the university's hard-line refusal to invest 33 million from companies doing business in south africa columbia university's arrogance carries a special irony for it was that university which present south african nobel prize winner bis , desmond tutu at its 1983 com mencement the univer sity made the presentation in the bishop's absence for the racist apartheid regime which rules mr tutu's country refused to allow the bishop to leave south africa and so in portest columbia univer sity placed an empty chair on the stage in honor of the absent churchman university officials then went even further in can 1984 columbia president michael sovem and others traveled to south africa to personally present to the bishop the honorary degree that he had be prevented from accepting now , one eyar later it is that same mr sovern who is threatening to suspend or expel those students who continue the sit-in to protest the policies which he himself decried for the south african students involved expulstion is a particularly let hei threat for it would mean that their student visas would no longer be valid it is therefore likely that they would then be deported and forced to return to the very regime whose in humanity they now so vehemently protest columbia claims that the university has di vested itself of stock in corporations which have shown indifference to south africa's repressive regime it also claims that the 33 million investment is but a small part of its total holdings ibm and other corpora tions also iuempi ur excuse their operations in south africa the same way saying that tl.ey have always voiced their opposi tion to apartheid and they too add that only a small percentage of their profits come from south africa this is no longer in acceptable excuse — if it ever was for years corporations doing business in south africa and their investors declared their repugnance to apartheid yet the evil remains and the amount of the investment is not important whether columbia supports south africa with a 33 million investment or with a 3,000 investment it is still supon of a repressive regime the students at colum bia understand this even if their university does not the holocaust in south africa must end but that end will not come with strong words it will come only by pulling the plug on south africa's life support system — u s invest ments this is charles e cobb of the united church of christ for civil rights journal we should behave to friends as we would wish friends to behave to us aristotle emil jackson succumbs a mass of christian burial for the late emil a jackson community lead er and businessman,was offered at noon tuesday april 2 in st bartholo mew's church 335 grider st mr jackson 74 died thursday march 28 1985 at his hamlin road home burial was in mt calvary cemetery mr jackson was born in natchez miss and was educated in st louis he later moved to buffalo where he became the first black man in new york state to be endorsed by a major party for a seat in congress and the state senate a leading local repub lican for 20 years mr jackson was also an endorsed candidate for the masten district seat and the erie county legisla ture he was a commit teeman in the 13th ward for many years mr jackson was at one time a director and first vice president of the buffalo branch naacp and a board member of the buffalo urban league he was also a former president of the buffalo professional men's club vice president of the american negro labor council a member of build a former member of the board of directors of the michigan ymca an organizer of the buffalo retirees club and a former member of the buffalo board of realtors from 1929 to 19-13 mr jackson worked for the new york central rau road from 1946 to 1970 he was the owner of the emil jackson real estate and insurance agency for his service in the u s army during world war h mr jackson received a presidential ci tation for meritorious ser vice from president harry s truman he also won service awards from the buffalo urban league the ymca and the naacp he received a business award from phi beta sigma and a community award from lota lambda mr jackson held the first meeting for a black to become judge in his hamlin road home when he and a group of citizens endorsed the late clarence maloney to run for city court judge against justice ann t mikol in the latter 60s he also held a job in the state legislature during emil a jackson donahue to address nuab william j donohue president of the western new york economic de velopment corp will be the featured guest speaker on april 25th at the first annual scholarship award luncheon of the national association of urban a w»_t.m.to*«4a4 .. sa w a _.__.. bankers-buffalo chapter naub to be held at the buffalo hilton mr donohue who is also former commissioner of the new york state dept of commerce will address an audience of leaders of buffalo's fiana cial community and other representatives of the public and private sector he will discuss current issues that influence economic development in western new york others invited to attend the award luncheon are buffalo mayor james d griffin city counsel president george k arthur and county execu tive edward j rutkowski naub will present its first annual 1000 couege scholarship award to kim berly ballard a senior at city honors high school who plans tip major in a a wwj i'lajltl ut business administration in college naub will also honor marine midland bank aa bank of the year for their role in support of the groups's assistance to minority business and pursuit of higher educa tion for minority students naub - buffalo chap ter with 41 members pro tddea financial and busi ness expertise to the minority community and encourages exceuence in the academics of students interested in pursuing financial industry career cuomo kicks-off campaign to increase alcoholic beverage purchase age governor mario m cuomo kicked off his tuev>de campaign to increase the state's minimum j kf for alcoholic beverages to 21 on april •*■. ia buffalo • at a press conference with a coalition of local or ganizations supporting the 21 initiative governor cuomo predicted that the increased purchase age would save the uves of scores of drivers on new york's highways and reduce injuries see page 7 see page 7 f serving 1 working leading in wny inner cities i since 1923 i price only 20 c per copy