Buffalo Criterion, 1984-11-21

              ■■- ■" ■ ' ■■ ■■"'» - m ******* mjmm wny's necessary minority newspaper - featuring paid legitimate circulation the buffalo criterion j>ut-of town 2oc rochester niagara region vol 59 - no i wednesday nt iv i'm 21-27 1984 landslide win president ronald rea gan won a second four more years with a sweep tag landslide victory over vice president walter mondale in the general election tuesday nov 6th he won 59 percent of the popular votes reagan's win was the largest presidential victory since lyndon johnson's landslide over barry gold water ta 1964 reagan won all but one of the 50 states and the district of columbia mondale bare ly won his home state of minnesota with a little over 50 percent of the vote the president who ad dressed his supporters at the century hotel after being declared the winner said that his victory was only the beginning reagan is the first president to win a second term since richard niton was elected ta 1968 and 1972 reagan's coat tails also helped many republicans to local and national offices across the naton particularly ta north carolina where u s senator jesse helms beat challenger gov james b hunt jr in a bitter expensive battle and ta texas where rep phil graham former dem ocrat beat out democrat state senator lloyd dog gett for the senate seat which was vacated by john tower democrats gained two seats ta the senate cutting the gop from 55 to 53 the gop still has an advantage at ft ta 47 4 more years four more years is a " long dry spell that's how charles hazley of kansas city summed up his reaction to president rea gan's landslide victory over democrat walter mondale other black democrats over the na tion shared hazley s re marks black democrats feared hard times by a new reagan administration to dismantle civil rights game and gains for minori ties for women mainly through the appointment of right wing supreme court justices and that the black communities have no effective com munication lines many black republi cans are chuckling over regan's victory they find support for their view lhat blacks need to be involved in large numbers ta both major parties they say that black overwhelmingly support the democrats mondale received 90 percent of the black vote this is an ineffective use helping the needy by mrs mamie garrett rev a charles ware pastor and the friendship baptist church 402 clin ton st gave away over 150 thanksgiving baskets to the poor and the less fortunate cash donations were also given saturday nov 17th rev ware so graciously let the recipients of the cheese-give-away stand in the church auditorium while waiting for the cheese to be distributed this kept the recipients from standing out in the freezing cold weather everyone thought that th was a fine gesture on rev ware's part your internship program a solution to youth unemployment several months have passed since assemblyman arthur o eve the architect of a piece of legislation that allowed the youth internship program currently ta operation at erie communi ty _ couege/city campus to receive 475,000 the purpose of this legislation was to identify socio-economically denied families by giving youngsters between the ages of 16-21 years old a chance to work the program is off and running with the able leadership of ms sabrina smith director of the youth internship program yip there are 60 students currently attending classes in money management life skills career prepar ation job seeking skills remediation and ged training this program is unique in that it will not only allow young people to move into the world of work but it will also prepare many of them to enter into couege the program has the support of a number of community based organizations cbos agencies such as 78 restoration and educational opportunity center eco will provide much of the training in conjunction with erie community by cassell a lawson phd vice president erie community couege/city campus college/city campus the exciting i phase of the program for many of the young people will come when they are placed on the job this experience will provide them with exposure to the world of work and hopefully have a positive impact on the 45 unemployment rate among urban youth the youth internship program yip is working daily with the support of jpta and other community agencies ' and businesses to implement a much needed concept ta buffalo and the surrounding area however much of this work nor the concept would have happened without the dynamic leader ship of assemblyman arthur o eve it is this type of leadership that does have the interest of young people and the future of this city in mind in october of 1985 there should be more young people removed from the unemployment statistics because of this legislation for information concerning this program contact ms sabrina smith director of yip erie community college city campus at 842-2770 ext 205 fight waged to save buffalo's aging neighborhoods 2nd round confab scheduled for dec 6th a conference scheduled for dec 6th at buffalo state college is seen as the second round in a fight to save buffalo's aging neighborhoods assemblyman william b hoyt d-buf falo a sponsor of the conference reports the conference is the second in a series planned by the committee on aging neighborhoods a coalition of community-based agencies various city of buffalo departments the regional new york state division of housing and community renewal office academic professionals and public officials motivated by concern for the stability and future of city neighborhoods and housing stock the committee has diligently worked since last march to fashion a viable and meaningful organi zation capable of facilitating the formu lation of a comprehensive city-wide policy on buffalo's neighborhoods hoyt . explained the theme of the upcoming buffalo state college conference will be the financing of otfigkboiipend tv*itm\zanim dr ronald coan chairman of the committee and the urban studies dept at canisius college cites population decline job losses aging housing stock and diminishing revenues as some of the factors contributing to an overall decline that must be address ed dr coan stated it is time for all to come together community govern ment and academics to plan for the future issues slated for panel discussions at the buffalo state conference include present and future directions of the block grant targeting block grant dollars and loans and grants the view from the street panelists include city community development commissioner james mill tello regional state division of housing and community renewal director cad brown cheryl karmer of the u s dept of housing and urban develop ment deputy director of city neighbor hood revitalization jay duderwick steve rolowitz esq director of the city office of citizen participation informa tion frank stahl dr ronald coan common council majority leader james pitts kensington-bailey neigh borhood housing services director michael clarke broadway-fillmore neighborhood housing services direc tor elaine grant linwood-oxford assoc director david bell university heights community center executive director lucy kohane and ellicott district concerned taxpayers inc executive director erma brown a written strategy report complete with recommendations is expected to follow a series of conferences with a diversified plan to attack based upon sound principles reliable date and community awareness and acceptance hoped to be garnered through the conference while the nationwide average homeownership rate is 65 percent in urban areas the city of buffalo renter rate has remained fixed at 55 percent since 1970 dr coan claims that because homeownership is below average and not increasing for a variety of economic reasons ta buffalo neigh borhoods are deteriorating as a result the committee's work is an effort to re-shape public policy to combat this trend dr coan asserts conference participants must regis ter are 12:30 p.m in the assembly hall student union at buffalo state college i tftft a cl.oo registration fee la required and is payable upon registra tion at the door buffalo state college president dr i bruce johnstone will give the welcoming address a wine and cheese reception at 6:30 p.m will complete the conference activities assemblyman hoyt encourages anyone interested in the future of our city to participate in addition to the canisius college and buffalo state college conferences two additional conferences are planned as follows february **, l'»»hr r state university of buffalo — implementing neighbor hood ke vita i/a tion " april 17 i'imi tentative erie community college-city campus putting it all together the committee is discussing and considering specified elements i the overall plan at each of the first three conferences the conferences will revolve around eight separate forums each organized as an on-going task force open and accessible to citizen input reports will be made as a result of •■„, forum and will include a description of past and present efforts a summary of data and relevant demographics a study of other comparable communities and » series of programmatic ideas and recommendations the fourth confer ence at kcc will attempt after thorough deliberation and input from all sides to develop one comprehensive plan evaluating the elections by bayard rustin and norman hill before we lament the results of the presidential election we ought to look at some good news the large majority votes that mondale received from blacks 90 jews 66 hispanics 65 and members of afl-cio union households 57 justify our belief in the traditional coalition upon which we always relied to pursue the interests of common people those figures ought to encourage us to continue the labor ethnic ties that are the strength and sinews of a truly progressive agenda another piece of good news is that the massive voter-registration cam paigns did have an im pressive effect on voter turnouts more people voted this year than ta 1980 this increased par ticipation ta the electoral process is a healthy trend and it will be important in the years ahead to con tinue efforts to bring more people into the democratic decision-making process in addition mondale succeeded in attracting a large share of very poor people's votes his pro gram and campaign were clearly perceived as favor tag the poor and unem ployed however the problems that will be facing demo crats as they analyze the results of the election loom large as we see ta some other figures among the 15 percent of the voters earning under 12,500 a year mondale won a majority of 53 percent the largest income group that is those earning between 12,500 and 24,999 re jected mondale by 52 percent to 42 percent even more distressing from the point of view of coalition-building the democratic party which has not succeeded in winning a majority of the national white vote since the landslide victory of lyndon johnson ta 1964 this year won a mere 34 percent of the white vote those figures must lead the party to a serious re-evaluation in the months and years ahead the party that claims to speak for the people has lost the loyalty of large numbers of the working and middle classes if the party does not revise its message and program it s simply asking for more defeats and greater de moralization the manner ta which the labor and civil rights movements participate in the debate may well be of great significance in the party's search for a road to electoral victories for blacks and labor this must not be a time for despair nor a time to question our most deeply held principles but an opportunity to examine our strategies and tactics it would be easy to explain the polarized white-for-reagan black for-mondale vote simply as the result of old-time racism a more accurate explanation is perhaps more difficult but the solutions are less formid able than when we did face the racism of jim crow days this year the party adopted some positions — both on domestic and foreign policy — and tolerated some forms of behavior that seemed al most calculated to alienate evaluating the elections enters miss new york state teen - u.s.a pageant pamela andrea jackson has been chosen as an entrant in the miss new york teen - u s a pageant produced by miss universe inc she was chosen from many applicants to compete she and her family will be traveling to saratoga springs n v on friday nov 23rd the pageant will be held on saturday evening at 8 p.m the judges will make their decisions on sunday afternoon pamela attends city honors high school in buffalo she is a sophomore she is cap tain of the cheerleading team and vice-president of the modeling club pamela is also a member of the jack and jill inc in addition pamela is being presented as a 1984 debutante by gamma phi omega chapter of alpha kappa alpha sorority in december she was chosen to model for seventeen magazine adam meidrum anderson and sibley's this year pamela won a scholar ship to john robert powers modeling school and will graduate this month she is the daughter of james and eunice jack son of parker avenue pamela has bmi spon sored by the following jackson associates inter lude restaurant and lounge inc buffalo me morial chapel the hurdle bob and john la hacienda towne house restaurant ray's clean ers marshall miles asso ciates jimmies shoe re pair manpower tempor ary services my-way restaurant robert yea ger scotties steak house dr george and betty blackman the greenery mall checkers restau rant the cloister lord chumley's restaurant and lounge inc little har lem and mulligan's res taurant all of buffalo and paul h levin of west falls n y pamela andrea jackson shown from left at the daemen college special feature last friday with judge william g young presiding judge from the bar room rape trial in fall river masachuaett are francis a balcerzak daemen college vice president for business affairs and treasurer erie county court judge penny m wolfgang guest of honor judge william g young receiving plaque from daemen college president dr robert s marshall and daemen college associate psychology professor john r segmen over 20*1 people attended judge william young delivered lecture dr robert s marshall president of daemen college in amherst announced that a public lecture was given by the honorable william g young presiding judge of the bar room rape trial in fail river massachusetts this took place last friday in the charles j wick center of daemen college 4380 main st in amherst judge young addressed the following topic during his daemen college special feature address how can we find guilt or innocence within the united states legal system massachusetts superior court judge william o young is probably best known for mi scholarly instruction to the jury of the well publicized massachusetts bar room rape trial judge young was a magna cum laud graduate of harvard college in 1962 and harvard law s hool in 1967 ke came to the judiciary after being part of the bingham dana and gould law firm in button mat judge young's speech at daemen < '***§ was funded by a grant from jaeckje fleivhmann and mugel attorneys at law in buffalo 4 more years — see pg 7 continued on page 3 j serving 1 working leading in wny inner cities l since 1923 j price on 20 c per copy