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Public Library of South Bend 122 West Wayne 3t. South Bend, ind. 46601 ?V^V)s1 LI 3 £4'; HIST. & TR JlIN 211S73 ,TO| BEND, 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.
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Title | The Reformer, June 20, 1971 |
Volume, Issue Number | Vol. 3, No. 20 |
Subject |
South Bend (Ind.)--Newspapers African Americans--Indiana--South Bend |
Original Date | 1971-06-20 |
Time Period | 1970s (1970-1979) |
Digital Date | 2015-03-26 |
Digital Reproduction Specifications | Full View: 300 dpi jpg; Archived: 300 dpi tiff |
Type | Text |
Genre | Newspapers |
Language | en |
Identifier | NEWS-REF-19710620 |
Repository Collection | Local & Family History Services Archival Collection |
Physical Repository | St. Joseph County Public Library |
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Provenance | St. Joseph County Public Library (South Bend, IN) |
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Transcription | Public Library of South Bend 122 West Wayne 3t. South Bend, ind. 46601 ?V^V)s1 LI 3 £4'; HIST. & TR JlIN 211S73 ,TO| BEND, 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. |
Provenance | St. Joseph County Public Library (South Bend, IN) |
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