Buffalo Criterion, 1980-06-18

              vol s3 - no 25 the buffalo criterion w ny's littlest & only acxtedittxi mint nrv newspaper — featuring paid legitimate ( irculation wednesday june l*-24 wm kemp-nowak luncheon a huge success oset me rtimmunttt and civic leaders .!■.•...-. t ... uesteranew york attended the nd annual summit luncheon ...... i |„ it professional mill t'.-1.-l-a *•"' - - a<_*4m iattofl llf vt i . ■ , n « \ ■„* this was held en the terrace hoe mof ... i , hotel fri june i.lth i ..-.,-..• guest speakers csere ( nngressman jack f kemp awrt ( iingrrssman llrnrt j v v hi the speakers addressed the topic of i • norm i i:n r»f wny brian i rusk introduced mr hemp as be-in vers slrnngtt rem nitred lo bt our nation a nett vice president mr r«>.k «* hairrr.hr of the luncheon hi 1 111.1 ii sulci k i in mt ... 1.11111.11111 inlin • in 1 mi ounk to mr i ..... ti , mid cm ntinii haw former vim i lim.ii,,ii i 1 i m it.n i *..... ii.lt ■„ mr v.u.it for 1 1t i ran -. project i'll 111 hi th elms from hit in 11.1.11 l iicieiuskl luncheon . nil.mill c i 1111.1 fur nl i'm a rei.i.li.il if jink htmp 11 nut li 1 luncheon hi.tcnutei hard it sale ft i im i.c i chairmen hun henri %.._»_. iml llueki tune iii in . mi...hi ■ hon ltd lliilsk former < iiii«cissmnn mini men signer john liabalskt elizabeth chapter to a ttend universal grand session the i 11/al th chapter n . 4 a order of eastern stars are shwwn aa ihet posed fen a criterion photographer rertnlly at ihe ml carmel hall jsffsraon and klnga-ey shown in the photo seated from left are sialera . raa.es slitter pm.i louis mat field w.m hi other i harlet polk jr w i : dtillie llrintn trraauriar n.l h..ma malta n relarr slandin nhh lefl are jewel j *,*.-.* teste walla mar johnson (' i t ttoppi martin and etirabelh martin the chapter will he attending the i *.**, _*: ticsci.l seaslon in the coming months operation push head to address mass rally here rev jesse 1 jackson national president nf operation push will mske two waist i in the buffalo area sim , inn 22 1 will ha at the hautaui)ua inst it lit - it 1 in l hautauillin s v . addressing tin 11 am servir fur lhi timitaiiijtin summer nr .. *< at 930 „. he will address a muss ally at th st john daplis church if gooded st rev kennett vy smith pa nr the put.ltr is invited the pr..|.ram is undrr the operation push buffalo annual naacp convention to meet as scheduled june 28-july 5th in spite of what we have read or heard there's no doubt about it — the 7!«t annual naacp conven tion will be held in the miami beach convention center june 2fl thru july bth the theme is come what may — we re here to ***** the florida state con ference of n a act an ea will ho*4 more th»n 15.000 delegates and ob servers who are expected to attend from 1 hoo branches youth councils and college chapters na tionwide the convention serves as the major policy malt ing legislative and dm a lional mechanism for the membership at large activities will tne hid workshops on ffim-i*tive action act , criminal justice housing and civil nght amies to be chained by prominent spoheapei arms in their respective fields presidential candidates trill be on th ronventtaie program addrwssifvg ta-nie-a affecting all amen c*ns including the vrmotny energy mm ji.ohs politics ford autoworkers eligible for aid trade adjustment assistance approved for 4800 ford autoworkers in buffalo pprtiximau-ly 4 mm vkotker at the lord motor co a buffalo stamping plant in buffalo has t ieen certified liy ibe labor ivpartment as eligible tii apply for trade adjustment assistance the action revised an earlier negative determination by the department a further investigation ill the case *.- * --■ thai the workers at the buffalo pie tit have het»n or may bacouia unemployed or nnd >• tiiplnvcil as a result of increased imports of tub-ton pact mid tte and standard sue passenger cars as well as pick up trucks general mil vehicles and vans a petition for adjustment assistance was filed with the lalior department liy the united automobile workers union luaw on dec 18 1979 on liehalf of worker at lord s buffalo stamping plant the dept suliseciueritly found * the workers eligible to apply lor adt'jstment assistance at that time the investigation revealed that there were no imports of stampings like or directly competitive with those produced at the buffalo plant further consideration of the facts of the >*•** disclosed that the buffalo temping plant produces virtually all of ita stamping product for use in one or more of the ' d car and truck line which have been adversely affected by imports the plant is therefore substantially integrated into the pro duction of the import-impacted ford car and truck lines including pinto bobcat fairmont zephyr granada monarch ford ltd mercury continental pick-up van ami general utility vehicles the labor deportment certifica tion provide that all workers of the buffalo stamping plant who became totally or partially separated from em ployment on or after jan 1 1979 are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under the trade art of 1974 the trade act of 1974 provides lhat workers who bt'lteve lliey have been i will im in totally ... partialit separated from employment as a r-e-ull ol in.tensed imports may petition the secretary of labor for certification of eligibility to apply fur ad)ustment asais tanca assistance to winkers under the trade act may include cash trade re adjustment allowances training em ployment service counseling testing job placement services job search i.ruiit and relocation allowancee i cash 11 ml readjustment allowances amount to 711 pen eni of a worker's average weekly wage not to exceed the national average weekly m..until itu in **.»,.. for up i 62 weeks generally the amount to the trade re adjustment allowance is reduced by the amount of the unemployment insurance the workers receive workera mm we up to 26 additional week of allowances to complete approved train ing workers aged 60 or older when separated from their last job may re ceive up to m addilonal weefca of allowances no worker may receive more than 78 weeks of allowance workers separated on or after the impact date are eligible to apply lor trade adjustment assistance under the trade act of 1974 worker are not eligible for assistance if their laat separation from adversely affected un employment occurred before the impact date specified in the certification payments of trade readjustment allowances training unemployment service job search grant and relocation allowance will be adminis tered primarily through th new york state department of labor with hinds provided by the federal government to ha eligible a worker must have been employed m the buffalo facility lor at least six month out of th year prior to layoff bretherhood of durham plans trip to exhibition aj^jj^arie leho «*, to the exhibition the donation te tio.oo round trip and children under 12 half farm the bus trill leave from durham at * *■ a.m sharp fred herton is presi dent and rev michael flits pastor in revival minister p mont will conduct « revival in rochester at the spiritual house of god 25 lewis st . from june 22nd to 27th nitely at 7 p.m the public is invited to come and bring the sick the depressed the lame and sing together pray together and enjoy the lenrd together the host pastor is rev mr knight king solomon to celebrate women’s day sun . june 22 a 7:30 p.m women dor will be observed at the king solomon holiness church 92 monroe st res motley spell is pastor rev hill past of hill tabernacle will be the special guest a jobs strategy for the inner city by representative jack kkmp moat people when they think of it at all associate inner city decay with lie northeast — the kiawr in some national war of demographics the problem actually touches a moat every part of our nation and all of our people it is rare today to find a major american city without an area totally deterioratt-j lacking in tn.lustiy services and population particularly in our older duos thee areas rover tho heart >! a dty and syndic tin tho decline of an sn tire region middle and upper income raatiisuu have moved out and small pathoa industries - the key i new growth and new joba - have gone to the outer fringes of the sut.tnu or to small tame twrauae the northeast is «. heavily fcaataad ihu mass i in hits it aato producing chronically limit ttnatnn toymen sluggish economic th a lining tax base and rising tv rates and an inordinately high coat iwnt overall between 1970 and i*7l population in the northeast boiaay twlined even though u s p*pamlm brew b 3 percent between 7b aad 1974 nitrthtiaatern metropoli * ***• experienced a net migration j k>oa a walk through the ■■• ■*«« certain porta if buffalo aay other american inner i itiee ia jwaaaat that tarter dty decay is no leas mat laaiat than it was in the 1960 a ■*■•*. la thooe who continue to suffer " ua a ttm tragi w»be told that washington's beat jltoß ha-e already attacked r*?*«k«i oover ment has since the jy produced an array of imaginative w*m tor the inner city kile some waited acceptable reeulta many of jjpnifraaaa became pert of the «"**•• who can forget urban i which bulldozed gaping hole j araaa what about model ** tod new towns now ghost ?"! ." fntrama which achieved •***»»» torgsttable result • ]*» met * while anrtel welfare jyi tad ewewataed every year f~pl w-^uarter of the non-defense 2r***«»»per.t in the central cities tn ** irn tß^r cay po^itty remaiaa intrartalile a may keep the prior from starving hut government has ailed to 1..1 with the root causes of inner city poverty to meet the needs of ja-ople groping for help and a chance t make it .... hi own today wo have a segment of our population trapped in a cycle - a b.verty trap which has no beginning sci.i 11 end without government help aome 4,1 million americana - 20 percent of hi illation - maid be classified as poor why has this percentage remained the same for the past dozen yeats despite creation of millions of new jobs mill rising nominal wages that is the parados of our inner < it decline i sometimes get the feeling that just us a.isc people are poor policymakers think they ate economically illiterate kit inner tilt poor m in fact understand more about economic disincentives and price theory than many of our most learned members of the council of economic advisors a mmm today who g0 up welfare or unemployment benefits to take a oh that provides scarcely more if any in aftertax income than those benefits provide is nisi not being realistic but thai is eta what we ask of our inner city poor government has spent in the past decade upwards of 160 million to study people on welfare but what motivate _ or doesn't motivate - welfare recipients in their economic decisions that'a something our welfare experts haven't figured out i would make the case that the poor are motivated by exactly the same things aa all other people incentives rewards jobs that bring dignity not despair la 1975 nathan jiater of harvard i niveraitv described a case reported in the boston globe not there was no we fare fraud here in which a family on welfare had ceah income and trap health and educational servicea amounting to tl*0 a year a working head of family would haw to earn at least 20,000 to match this standard of living c.laiwr wrote a let strategy for ike inner it — congressman jack kemp vernon jordan on the way to full recovery — issues statement vernon £ jordan jr , president of ike national urban league was return ed to new york i "*»» thursday june tk from fort wajmtr indiana where he has been confin ed in the parkview me mortal hospital since may mb ** a raatia of an atsasstnatiem attempt mr jordan i now in the new york hospital - cornell medical center where hi recovery will continue mr jordan was tran ported to new york city in a military aircraft provided by the white mouse at the request of the nul he wa accompanied m the flight by dr jeffrey towles id dr al rtovall of ft wayne and i i*snlle lets airman of the surgery department how ard university medical srhool washington dc mr jordan's condition is listed as serious but stable the following fat . statement from vernon jordan today i am returning home to new york city to rntrt the next phase of my rectrvejry prut i am hrartrned at the progress i've made thus far and for that i wish to thank the entire man of the ■ ** m aa memorial hospital everyone here - in ail phase of the hospital a opt-rations - has my deetwst gratitude hs their professional care and for their personal interest and concern kn tie and fur my recovery 1 especially want to thank or jeffrey towles and his colleagues who attended me their professional ...... and devoted affectionate care leave me forever tabled to them i an fortunate to have jeff towles as my doctor and as my friend my thanks also to the it wayne urban league for their support and assistance and to mar winfield moses the city authorities and the police for the assistance they have given me my family and my colleagues and my thanks too to the thousands of individuals whose messages and well wishes have helped cheer my spirits in this difficult time 1 am well on the way to a complete recovery to the full resumption of my duties as president of the national char league and the continued ad vocacy on behalf of ameri ca dispossessed hi my personal struggle for re covered health as in the social struggle for justice i continue to believe we shell overcome | continued oa page 2 1923 1980 | criterion press and still hm no i wny central cities lot-goat proaa our e_lw has hern i*f_-n run rrk of rtrrt irai • in mi la.iai ai-ninu ctur < mmumti __ i , nu \* iijhl iiffi up tnr a i *.|. . f i h kiif.n i nit riofi * \* t vt k f"f n_u 20c national v i a.nl e e.rk _ nwrm acl laekct n.i»...n in ihr nil w n > mini.fell (>«)>• r thai '** r ki_u-r fl a » bwßa ml m.a pa|_r unhi t chi marrh t b«a \.. f aeafraai rrj.aiacjmi ni a f>_e[m rv