The Reformer, June 20, 1971

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Local Black Unity Conference Planned for August

The Black Unity Confer-
ence, August 13-15, in South
Bend, has been called to-
gether by various local Black
people who all agree that
the greatest single problem
facing Black people' today is
the lack of unity.

Recognizing that all Black
people share the same ulti-
mate goal -- freedom, jus-
tice, and independence - -
it is felt that the difference
lies in the method chosen
to help achieve that goal.
This conference intends to
find out what the best ideas
are and then live by them.

Workshops planned that
reflect seven areas of major
concern are: 1. political lib-
eration 2. social organiza-
tion and community organ-
ization 3. economic auto-
nomy 4. education and Black
history 5. religious systems
6. communications 7. Black
technology.

These workshops are de-
signed to be intensive prob-
lem-solving sessions throu-
gh which delegates will gain
and provide insight and in-
formation in problem defini-
tion and problem-solving. A
total of three 3-hour ses-
sions will be allotted for the
seven problem areas, with

a coordinator and five re-
source people in each area.
Councils will be created as
permanent structures of the
conference to insure follow-
up and implementation.

According to Ollisteen
King, Publicity Chairman,
"The desire is not to 'out
black' anyone but to organize
as many Black people as pos-
sible. This is the reason for
attempting to appeal to as
wide a spectrum of Black
people as we can, to gain
independence through un-
ity."

Members of the Black
Unity Conference Executive
Committee are: Willie O.
Coates, Jr., chairman; Ed-
ward Davis; Sam Henderson,
publicity co-chairman; Ben
Johnson; Dean Johnson;
Steve McMorris and Patt
Newbill, secretary.

Coordinating Committee
members are Hansom Bap-
tiste, Paul Cornell, Tony
Days, Lloyd Guerden, James
B. Herring, Isaiah Jackson.
Robert Johnson, John Key,
Leroy King, Charles Love,
Cheryl Love, Charles Mar-
tin, Ben Nicks, Dave Sims,
Jr., Paul Smith, Alonzo Wat-
son, A1 Williams and George
Woolridge.

THE REFORMER

VOL. 3, NO. 20

WHOLE NO. 110

A Community Conscience Newspaper Free

June 20, 1971

Watford, Allen Explain Youth Programs

One Hundred Persons
Endorse WNDU's
S teen King

WNDU's Steen King is
queen to 100 Black persons
who signed a petition of en-
dorsement and sent it to
Tom Hamilton, manager of
WNDU-TV and RADIO sta-
tion.

The petition reads:

"We the undersigned are
proud to say we endorse the
WNDU Steen King Show. We"
feel that you should be con-
gratulated for selecting such
a wonderful personality as
Steen. She definitely gives
South Bend's listening aud-
ience a fine variety of JAZZ
and SOUL Music. Hats off
to the Steen King Show as

well as WNDU for produc-
ing it."

The signers are Ben John-
son, Silas West, Jr., Gail
Key, Charles Martin, Pat-
ricia Martin, Willie O. Coa-
tes, O.C. Peterson, Jr., Ron-
nie Peterson, Dennis Peter-
son, Dale Clay, Vivian Tur-
ner, William Turner, Do-
vella West, Marilyn Ald-
ridge, John E. Key, Fred
McFadden, Charles Parkes.

Alton Sanders, Eugene
Page, Jr., Samuel Lee
Wright, James Neeley, Earl
Freeman, Alfred P. Wil-
liams, Jennifer A. Williams,
James Johnson, Cleveland
Johnson, ErvinLottie, Larry
Smothers, Madeline Smo-

Cont. on page 3

By Rosemary Horvath
Staff Reporter

Twins in a family doubles
the joy but twins in social
agencies doubles the trou-
bles according to some city
officials.

The twins are South Bend's
Youth Service Bureau and
the Youth Coalition of St.
Joseph County that recently
received $250,000 in federal
funds to run a "Youth Advo-
cacy" program.

Mayor Lloyd M. Allen sees
an overlap of ideas from
the two programs. However,
he admits he is unfamiliar
with the final proposal of
the Youth Coalition.

Criticism arose when
members of the Mayor's
Narcotics Commission lear-
ned of the new program and
felt that drug prevention was
included.

"We have nothing in our
proposal to do with drugs,"
says Tyrone Watford, 21,
president of the board of di-
rectors of fifteen youths,
aged 17 to 21, who will run
the Youth Coalition Program
and spend the money.

"We didn't go to HEW
(Department of Health, Ed-
ucation, Welfare), theycame
to us. Juvenile delinquency is
a problem- -all of these in-

stitutions have been doing
their own thing, now we'll
be working together. . .,"
Watford added.

Watford is also connected
with Project Star and the
Southeast Neighborhood's
Black Cobras, a group hop-
ing to eliminate the neigh-
borhood problems.

Youth Service Bureau

According to Mayor Allen,
the major hope of the Youth
Service Bureau is "to di-
rect efforts toward 'pre-
delinquency' ..... to be con-
cerned with the total prob-
lems of youth. The child who
comes to the attention of
the police department freq-
uently*-we have not de-
veloped the capability to deal
with that kind of child.

"The program has been in
effect for some time . . .
trying to develop compre-
hensive thrusts to try to
find out the problems of
youth--drugs, lack of jobs."

Youth Advocacy

The major purpose of the
Youth Advocacy program is
to open up to all youth ac-
cess to socially acceptable,
responsible and personally
gratifying social roles in
family life, education, rec-
reation, religion and even-
tually employment.

Mr. Tyrone Watford
to develop an proposal

A goal is
alternate to the delinquency
and criminal justice systems
now in existence.

The hope, according to the

would be to con-
fine the labeling and stig-
matizing of "criminals" to
truly dangerous persons.

Cont. on page 6

Milwaukee Black Press Fires at Model Cities

The Black press in Mil-
waukee is calling foul play
in the proposed Model Cities
newspaper.

The newspaper is pro-
posed by the Marquette Sch-

Youth Community Gives $200 to
Scholarship Fund

Urban League of So

Joseph C

Dr. Robert D. Nuner, Chairman, Scholarship Com-
mittee of the Urban League of South Bend and St. Joseph
County, Inc. receives a $200.00 donation check to the
Scholarship Fund from Miss Brenda Martin, Treasurer
of the Urban League Youth Community.

Others looking on are, left to right, Mrs. Frances
Dixon, Director, Education and Youth Incentives, Urban
League Staff; Miss Jackie Childress, member of the Youth
Community Scholarship Projects Committee; Miss
Jeanette Denny, Financial Secretary of the Youth Com-
munity, and member of the Y.C. Scholarship Projects
Committee; and Miss Verna Stroud, member of the Y.C.
Scholarship Projects Committee. (Photo by Don Land)

The Youth Community of
the Urban League ended its
program year with a con-
tribution of $200.00 to the
Urban League Scholarship
Fund. The proceeds were
derived from recent sch-
olarship benefit activities
sponsored by the youth
group.

Presently being planned
for members and their
guests is the annual Aug-
ust beach party denoting the
end of summer and the re-
sumption of YC business ac-
tivities in September.

YC officers for the com-
ing 1971-72 program year
are President, Jennifer
Grant, Adams High School;
Vice President, Vicki Shaw,
Adams High School; Record-
ing Secretary, Karen Wil-
liams, LaSalle High; Assis-
tant & Corresponding Sec-
retary, Betty Kirkendoll,
Washington High; Financial
Secretary, Gwen Aldridge,
LaSalle High; Treasurer,
Tina Phillips, Washington
High; Sgt-At-Arms, James
Phillips, Adams High; and
Parlimentarian, Calvin
Johnson, Washington High.

ool of Journalism, under the
consideration of the Milwau-
kee Model Cities Agency.
HUD has granted $102,000
for the paper. The only bar-
rier to the paper now is
the signing of the contract.

The Black press, includ-
ing The Greater Milwaukee
Star, the Milwaukee Courier
and the Soul City Times, say
the free, home-delivered
paper will hurt their circul-
ation in the Model Cities
area.

The Model Cities news-
paper is described in the
proposal as being modeled
after a "home town" paper
with Marquette students as
staff and the Echo Writers
Workshop "invited to partic-
ipate."

The three Black weeklies
say the federally financed bi -
weekly will perform the
same functions in the com-
munity as their own papers
are doing presently. The Mo-
del Cities newspapers' pur-

pose is to inform the resi-
dents of the progress of the
Model Cities program and
the facilities available. How-
ever, there are provisions
made in the budget to ex-
pand the paper into tele-
vision coverage, radio cov-
erage, features and inves-
tigate reportings.

The community news-
papers fear the proposed
paper will report the Model
Cities Program from the
eyes of the Model Cities
Agency and the City Admin-
istration because the Edi-
torial Board Membership is
heavily slanted in favor of
City Hall.

Letters have been written
to the Model Cities Agency,
the Common Council repre-
sentatives of the Model Cit-
ies area, Wisconsin Assem-
blymen, State Senators, and
Representatives asking that
they use their power to pres-
sure the Model Cities Agen-
cy into giving the Black

papers time to submit an
alternate proposal. How-
ever, the important thing is
to stop the paper before it
comes out.

Political observers say
the letters written to the gov-
ernment representatives
will set off a major battle
between the independent
Black weeklies and City Hall.

However, the Black press
feels they can do a better
job of putting out the paper
with some additional fund-
ing.

Only more problems are
created by starting a com-
pletely new newspaper.

Legal measures have been
under consideration by the
three Black weeklies, but
they are hoping that the re-
quest for time to write a
proposal will be granted by
the Model Cities Agency.

(Reprinted from the Mil-
waukee Star)

WSBT-TV Carries East-West Pro
Basketball Game Sunday

The Second Annual East-
West Pro All-Star Basket-
ball Classic will be carried
live on Channel 22 from
the State Fair Coliseum in
Indianapolis Sunday (6/20),
starting at 1:00 p.m. Played
under the auspices of the
Southern Christian Leader-

ship Conference, proceeds
from the game will go to
the Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., benefits.

Among the players ex-
pected to participate are
five members of the ABA
Indiana Pacers -- Roger
Brown, Mel Daniels, Freddie
Lewis, Bob Netolicky and

Billy Keller. Other NBA and
ABA stars who probably will
play include Cazzie Russell
of the San Francisco War-
riors; Walt Hazard, Atlanta
Hawks; Dave Bing of the De-
troit Pistons; Atlanta Hawks
standout Walt Bellamy; Walt
Frazier, New York Knicks;
Zelmo Beatty of the Utah
Stars and Connie Hawkins of
the Phoenix Suns. It is hoped
that Wilt Chamberlain and
Pete Marovich also may be
available for action.