Buffalo Criterion, 1987-08-31

              the buffalo criterion wny's necessary minority newspaper - featuring paid legitimate circulation vol 62 — no 35 thursday august 31-september 2 1987 established in 1925 niagara region rochester greater east side business to expand united states congress man henry j nowak mayor james d griffin buffalo chamber presi dent eric swider and assemblyman deputy speaker arthur o eve will participate in the grand opening of a major expansion of buffalo insti tutional services at 1198 jefferson avenue this event will take place at 10:00 a.m on friday sept 18th for the growing health care linen and rental service company with joel a maten president offici ating maten's company buf falo institutional services will expand from a 17,000 square foot base with another 13.000 square foot annex annual sales are projected to increase from 3 million to 3.5 million with 65 employees on the east side of buffalo mr maten has also purchased 500,000 in new equipment for the expan sion including a dryer rail system hot water heater compressor small piece folder carts de livery truck sheets towels underpads and washcloths a tour will follow the 10 a.m press conference buffalo institutional ser vice handles linen needs for 3 county facilities 18 hospitals and nursing homes in four western new york counties this company's roots began in 1932 joel a maten wny regional education center elects chairman the western new york education center for eco nomic development region 10 has announced the election of dorsey h glover as chairman of the governing board for fiscal year 1987-88 mr glover served as vice-chairman for one year prior to assuming his new role as chairman of the center the regional education center service area in cludes erie niagara chautauqua cattaraugus and allegany counties this corresponds to the area which the new york state department of eco nomic development wny regional offices serves under mr glover's directorship according to jerald-i wolfgang director of the regional education cen ter mr glover's exten sive supervisory back ground is management commercial banking retail business and government will enhance the center's service delivery system his expertise will enable region 10 to expand its capacity to provide job training grants to busi ness and industry in the five county region of western new york this year the regional education center received increased allocations of federal and state program dollars to underwrite train ing program costs for employer specific skills traning grants esstg as well as jtpa and voca tional education act monies mr glover looks forward to working closely with the state education department and area ed ucaitonal institutions such as community colleges and boces to maximize these allocations the goal of the regional education center chair man and director this year will be to coordinate closely with other eco nomic development agen cies in the region in order to move forward in the revitalization of the wes tern new york economy for more information on the ivi'lnhil.t nt iobu training programs contact the western new york regional education center office at 716 681-5023 dorsey h glover early passage of county budget urged by rutkowski erie county executive < " t.u-«d - - ~ tjmuv»sr\l llcu called on his opponents in this year's race for erie county executive to exer cise leadership and push their democrat colleagues in the erie county legisla ture to adopt a county budget before election day rutkowski said that he is convinced that the democrat majority in the county legislature is con tent to stonewall his early budget proposal and that he wants his two democrat opponents to put public pressure on their col leagues to adopt the county budget before elec tion day my opponents jim keane and dennis gorski like to talk about fiscal i reform and fiscal integri ty rutkowski said the ultimate fiscal re form would be to tell the voters where all of their elected officials stand on the county budget before election day i'm calling on jim keane and dennis gorski to exercise some leader ship and convince their buddies len lenihan and dick slisz to adopt an early budget the silence of mr keane and mr gorski on this critical issue has been deafening could it be that these two gentlemen are afraid to ruffle the feathers of their political allies mr keane and mr gorski should public ally demand that the democratic majority do the responsible thing and agree to an early budget timetable just this past wednes day the minority leader of the erie county legisla ture proposed to call a special session of the legislature on august 27th to vote on an early budget resolution mr reynolds has indicated that he needs only two democrats to join with him to call this special meet ing i think it would be a good test of the leadership ability of mr keane and mr gorski to see if they could each convince one of their political allies on the county legislature to vote for an early budget 11 ronald mcdonald children's charities & naacp award local students scholarships carla e johnson and willie jones of buffalo have been named recipi ents of ronald mcdonald children's charities act so scholarships they are among 23 high school students awarded scholar ships during the 10th annual act-so awards ceremony at the recent naacp national conven tion in new york city act-so an acronym for afro-academic cultural technological and scienti fic olympics is an educa tional competition spon sored by the naacp more than 700 students competed in 22 categories representing the humani ties performing and visual arts and the sciences first place winners re ceived a 1,000 scholar ship from the naacp that was matched by ronald mcdonald children's charities rmcc)/mc donald's corporation johnson 18 won a gold medal for her original essay black progress in education a graduate fo city honors high school she plans to attend howard university major ing in english jones also 18 is a senior at buffalo academy of the visual and perform ing arts a gold medalist in photography he plans to continue study of the art in college the students first com peted in act-so on a local level through the buffalo branch of the naacp as gold medalists they tra veled to new york city for the national competition held july 3-6 th since being founded the goal of rmcc has been to support programs that enrich the lives of young people said ken barun rmcc executive director we are pleas ed to have become a part of act-sos history of providing unique educa tional opportunities to young black students mcdonald's has sup ported act-so since 1982 the ronald mcdon ald children's charities act-so scholarships will provide an additional means of recognizing act-so achievers established in 1984 in memory of mcdonald's founder ray a kroc rmcc awards grants to organizations helping chil dren past rmcc awards grants to organizations helping children past rmcc grants have bene fitted health care and medical research special ly designed rehabilitation facilities and living cen ters and education ronald mcdonald house is the cornerstone of rmcc carla johnson an act so gold medalist in the original essay competition is a graduate of city honors high school in buffalo she is a recipient of the ronald mcdonald children's charities act so scholarship act-so winners in photography at the recent naacp national convention were from left bronze medalist michea carter of houston gold medalist willie jones of buffalo and silver medalist beverly armstrong of south ozone park new york as the first-place winner jones is a recipient of the ronald mcdonald children's charities act-so scholarship accomplishments of minority-owned businesses to shine during med week the upstate new york regional minority pur chasing council inc and the buffalo minority busi ness development center will co-sponsor a business fair and awards breakfast in celebration of minority business enterprise week 87 the day long activity will be held at the buffalo convention center on monday sept 14th from 8 a.m to 3 p.m med week is the period during the month of october designated by president reagan to recognize the accomplish ments of minority owned businesses buffalo's med week 87 celebration will high light the achievement of area minority business owners at the awards breakfast in addition individuals from the public and private sector who have played an integral role in minority enterprise development will also be recognized the proposed agenda will start with registration from 8 a.m to 9:15 a.m the awards breakfast will precede the purchasing council's ninth annual minority business oppor tunity fair which will begin at 11 a.m and end at 3 p.m the fair will provide a one stop opportunity for minority vendors and contractors to introduce themselves and discuss their goods and services to representatives for major companies and govern ment agencies on the federal state and local levels anyone wishing to reg ister for the breakfast and attend the business fair is asked to contact the purchasing council .. majority businesses and public sector agencies wishing to exhibit at the fair are asked to contact the purchasing council by calling 716 856-6266 girl scouts thank assemblyman on behalf of the girl scout council of buffalo & erie county riri c . r ... candidate's night at the cao by abdullah luqman nearly all of the candidates seeking election in the september mostly democrats primary were present at the ellicott community action organization cao center 608 william st recently appearing before the ellicott and masten advisory councils and other community based groups in a program moderated by ida hines of the northern region black political caucus and johnny jackson president of the masten neighborhood advisory council the question on the minds and whispered among some blacks that did not want to give their elected officials hell in front of white candidates was how it happened that one race accounts for 90 of tenants in 18 of 27 projects run by the buffalo municipal housing authority bmha and in the 13 developments set aside the bmha exclusively for the elderly whites account for at least 92 of the tenants at nine of them some are 100 non-minor ity elderly projects according to a news report some of the people were in small groups muttering things like segre gated housing creates segregated schools segregated public housing sustains segregated public schools the separate but equal concept was rejected by the united states supreme court v board of education when they ruled that segregated public schools violated the united states constitution it seemed like the old civil rights warnours who fought to integrate the danny projects really want to know from their elected officials and civil rights leaders when did they know that government federal state and local projects were illegally resegre gated a what did they do b when did they do it c what are they doing to change it d what are they doing to ensure that it will not reoccur c why did they not keep them informed of what was going on in three races the candidates sparred with very light gloves on — masten councilman county executive and a four-way brawl in the third legislative district the judges chief associate and family court were civil the comptroller was absent someone spoke for the council president while the councilmen-at-large candidates tooted their own horns former legislator minnie gillette said i know what it takes to get things done that is why i organized with the republicans to bring services to the community present legislator bill robinson said there is a lot going on downtown there are some departments that do not have any blacks ted kirkland said there is no such thing as a good slave master i am going to give good pure leadership and ed herndon said i am proud of my record and i am going to be in each district at least once a month after the election the four candidates were still talking while they were turning out the lights both candidates for county execu tive addressed the crowd and answered questions dennis gorski said that his record in the legislature was an honor able one gorski co-sponsored seek eeop and other bills with assembly man eve and voted for the death penalty and asks to be lodged on his whole record of which he is proud james keane said that he does not have a beef with mr crangle and will see that county government reflects the makeup of women and minorities the race for the masten district seems to be shaping up as a battle of substance of at least the perception thereof between councilman david col lins and rev james hemphill hemp hill claims that collins is not delivering proper services to the masten district and collins said that the council has allocated the funds for 25 million worth of improvements but the mayor will not spend the money five candidates herbert bellamy cliff bell john hemphill gene fahey and pasternac who are running for councilmen-at-large presented their post election agenda the judicial candidates are hon wilbur trammell for chief judge hon mary ann killeen and john o donneli for family court and rose sconiers barbara howe and pat pancoe for two positions for city court judge budget — see page 7 serving working leading in wny inner cities since 1923 price only 20 c per copy