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MA YO Elects Officers JL TkAVEC nenvi PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SOUTH BEND 122 WEST WAYNE STREET SOUTH BEND, IND. 46601 REFORME Vol. 2, No. 25 South Bend, Indiana 46625 15? May 25, 1969 Working Poor A Tragedy Newly elected officers of MjLY.O. are from left to right; Dwight Macon, vice-president; Sherry Barr, treasurer; Ruby Daniels, secretary; and Dennis Ran- dies, president. The purpose of M.A.Y.O. (Metho- dist Advancing Youth Organization) is to promote bet- ter human relations and social justice. On Tuesday, May 20th, the Urban League of St. Joseph County sponsored a commu- nity forum on "The Working and Nonworking Poor." The following Urban Lea- gue position paper outlines the problem. Probably the most obscure and least clearly understood poverty problem in the U. S. is the problem of the Youth Community Holds fashion Show On Saturday, May 10,1969 at 2 p.m. the Youth Com- munity of the Urban League of South Bend and St. Joseph County, Inc. presented "The New Thrust in Fashions." This affair was a scholar- ship benefit sponsored in co- operation with the Frances Shop. Proceeds will be pre- sented to the Urban League Scholarship Fund. The show presented both Youth and Adult models, male and female. Serving as Models were members of the Urban League "family"-- that is, persons who serve on some of the various com- mittees that make up the local league. Also modeling were several members of the Frances Shop Jr. Haven Board. Hosts and hostesses at the affair: Larry Harvell, Dave Nowak, Linda Mc- Dougal, Ellen Shafer, Paula V agner, Rhonda Clayton, Tom Lyon, Jeanette Denny, and Robbie Manierre. Miss Sharon Banks, Youth President, served as Mis- tress of Ceremonies and Miss Ruth Gruber of the Frances Shop served as Commentator. Mr. Raymond Kerr, Miss Carolyn Woolridge, Mrs. William Demps, Mrs. Alonzo Wynns, Mrs. James Scott, Mrs. Paula Johnson, and Mrs. William Ellison all of whom are members of the Adult Advisors Committee, assisted the youth in various positions at the affair. Summer Program Grant Announced by Brademas WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1969 A $30,000 grant has been awarded to South Bend for special summer programs for underprivileged youth by the Office of Economic Op- portunity, Congressman John Brademas (D-IND) an- nounced here today. The Federal funds have been granted to ACTION, Inc., South Bend's commu- nity action program. "This grant means that i, 780 South Bend young people will have the op- portunity to enjoy organ- ized recreation activity such as sports, field trips and cultural programs as well as receive help in loca- ting summer jobs and par- ticipate in special ed- ucation programs this sum- mer," Brademas said. The funds will be admin- istered by Mr. James Gen- try, the director of ACTION, Inc. and will serve South Bend for three months be- ginning in June. Pictured here are some of the participants in the Urban League's Youth Com- munity Style Show held May iOth in the auditorium of the Frances Shop. Left to right: Mr. Bob Morence, Art Director of the Frances Shop; Mrs. Frances Dixon, Education: and Youth Director of the Urban League; Mr. Pete Donaldson, member of the Health and Welfare Committee; Miss Verline Wilson, Youth Community; and Mr. Herbie Smith, Youth Community. Kioto by Milton Herring. Christian Churches Unite on Tax Reform The National Council of Churches and the U.S. Cath- olic Conference have joined in recommending that Con- gress eliminate the special tax exemption of churches in regard to unrelated business income. The action was taken in a joint statement, ap- proved by the General Board, which endorsed two pro- posals for tax reform af- Negro Heritage at Layman Chapel Mrs FitzgeraldSmith(left) and Dr. Rita Cassidy (right) examine a Ghanaian fertility doll. This and other art and literature were part of the "Negro Heritage and Cul- ture" program held at Layman Chapel, C.M.E. on Sunday, May 18th. Photo by Milton Herring. fecting the churches. One would eliminate the exemption of churches from taxation on unrelated com- mercial activities. The sec- ond would eliminate abuse of debt financing to acquire commercial income prop- erty. The joint statement was presented to the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives which is currently studying tax reforms. It recom- mended that such revisions should 1) provide adequate procedural safeguards to prevent governmental in- volvement in the internal and financial affairs of the churches; 2) preserve the present exemption of churches from taxation upon passive or investment in- come; 3) protect from taxa- tion the traditional function of churches; and 4) provide a five-year grace period for the divestiture of existing unrelated business activi- ties. In its own separate state- ment, the General Board fur- ther urged that employees— both lay and clergy- of re- ligious organizations should not enjoy special privileges in regard to any type of taxa- tion. "If a clergyman re- ceives a cash allowance for housing," said the state- ment, "that amount should be taxed as part of his in- come ... If he owns his own home, he should not enjoy any reduction in prop- erty taxes." Also recommended were voluntary payments by churches "in lieu of taxes" to municipal governments to defray the costs of the ser- vices they receive. More Inside working poor. Having a job in this country doesn't guar- antee a living wage, yet one of the most cherished of American illusions is that poverty is the end result of laziness. Too many Ameri- cans believe that poor people are poor because they don't want to work. The facts, however, are to the contrary. The figures show that in 1966, 32 percent of all poor families were headed by peo- ple who worked fulltime - which not only says some- thing about the poor but about the people who hire them - as well as about wage scales and employ- ment practices. Another 25 percent of poor families were headed by people who worked part-time. In other words, almost 60 percent of the poor are in families the head of which works all or some of the time. Of the remainder, the vast majority are either too young (children) or too old (the aged) to work. We in America, cannot escape the fact that despite a prolonged period of con- tinuous economic growth, we still have more than 30 mil- lion people living in poverty in this country, the bulk of them in families that can be classified as the working poor. Only a short time ago, most of us believed that emerging general prosperity would solve the problem but it has now become obvious that it will take more than Calif .Establishes Black America Day SACRAMENTO, Calif., - The California assembly voted May 8th to designate the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jan. 14, as Black America Day in California. The bill was sent to the Senate on a vote of 47 to 10. Pictured here is Dean James R. Dumpson, former Commissioner, New York Department of City Services, and now Dean, Fordham Un- iversity School of Soc- ial Work. Dean Dumpson spoke twice at the St Jo- seph County Urban League's Community Forum on "The Working and Nonworking Poor" on Tuesday, May 20th. great general prosperity to free these citizens from the bonds of poverty. We have discovered that the economic and social rewards of general prosperity fall as unevenly among us as did the scarcer rewards of the past. The problem of the work- ing poor is particularly a- cute in the black community. White men cling to the myth that the black man is poor because he is lazy. The stat- istics quoted above apply to the poor population as a whole but the fact is that among the black poor, the percentage living in families headed by a working man is much higher than among the white poor. The problem of the working poor, then, is very particularly a problem of the black man. In South Bend, there are an estimated 9,000 families living in poverty, 2,000 of them black. The median income for South Bend is, roughly, $6,682 per annum as compared with (Continued on Page 5) The South Bend-Mishawaka Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews held its Forty-first Anniversary Dinner cm Wednesday evening, May 21st at the Indiana Club. Pictured here are this year'sthree Brotherhood Award winners and the guest speaker at the dinner. Left to right Mr. Van E. Gates, Award winner; Mr. Don McNeill, guest speaker and former popular radio announcer; Mrs. Helen S. Arnold, Award winner; and Mr.Louis Piser, Award winner. Photo by Milt Herring.
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Title | The Reformer, May 25, 1969 |
Volume, Issue Number | Vol. 2, No. 25 |
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South Bend (Ind.)--Newspapers African Americans--Indiana--South Bend |
Original Date | 1969-05-25 |
Time Period | 1960s (1960-1969) |
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Transcription | MA YO Elects Officers JL TkAVEC nenvi PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SOUTH BEND 122 WEST WAYNE STREET SOUTH BEND, IND. 46601 REFORME Vol. 2, No. 25 South Bend, Indiana 46625 15? May 25, 1969 Working Poor A Tragedy Newly elected officers of MjLY.O. are from left to right; Dwight Macon, vice-president; Sherry Barr, treasurer; Ruby Daniels, secretary; and Dennis Ran- dies, president. The purpose of M.A.Y.O. (Metho- dist Advancing Youth Organization) is to promote bet- ter human relations and social justice. On Tuesday, May 20th, the Urban League of St. Joseph County sponsored a commu- nity forum on "The Working and Nonworking Poor." The following Urban Lea- gue position paper outlines the problem. Probably the most obscure and least clearly understood poverty problem in the U. S. is the problem of the Youth Community Holds fashion Show On Saturday, May 10,1969 at 2 p.m. the Youth Com- munity of the Urban League of South Bend and St. Joseph County, Inc. presented "The New Thrust in Fashions." This affair was a scholar- ship benefit sponsored in co- operation with the Frances Shop. Proceeds will be pre- sented to the Urban League Scholarship Fund. The show presented both Youth and Adult models, male and female. Serving as Models were members of the Urban League "family"-- that is, persons who serve on some of the various com- mittees that make up the local league. Also modeling were several members of the Frances Shop Jr. Haven Board. Hosts and hostesses at the affair: Larry Harvell, Dave Nowak, Linda Mc- Dougal, Ellen Shafer, Paula V agner, Rhonda Clayton, Tom Lyon, Jeanette Denny, and Robbie Manierre. Miss Sharon Banks, Youth President, served as Mis- tress of Ceremonies and Miss Ruth Gruber of the Frances Shop served as Commentator. Mr. Raymond Kerr, Miss Carolyn Woolridge, Mrs. William Demps, Mrs. Alonzo Wynns, Mrs. James Scott, Mrs. Paula Johnson, and Mrs. William Ellison all of whom are members of the Adult Advisors Committee, assisted the youth in various positions at the affair. Summer Program Grant Announced by Brademas WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1969 A $30,000 grant has been awarded to South Bend for special summer programs for underprivileged youth by the Office of Economic Op- portunity, Congressman John Brademas (D-IND) an- nounced here today. The Federal funds have been granted to ACTION, Inc., South Bend's commu- nity action program. "This grant means that i, 780 South Bend young people will have the op- portunity to enjoy organ- ized recreation activity such as sports, field trips and cultural programs as well as receive help in loca- ting summer jobs and par- ticipate in special ed- ucation programs this sum- mer," Brademas said. The funds will be admin- istered by Mr. James Gen- try, the director of ACTION, Inc. and will serve South Bend for three months be- ginning in June. Pictured here are some of the participants in the Urban League's Youth Com- munity Style Show held May iOth in the auditorium of the Frances Shop. Left to right: Mr. Bob Morence, Art Director of the Frances Shop; Mrs. Frances Dixon, Education: and Youth Director of the Urban League; Mr. Pete Donaldson, member of the Health and Welfare Committee; Miss Verline Wilson, Youth Community; and Mr. Herbie Smith, Youth Community. Kioto by Milton Herring. Christian Churches Unite on Tax Reform The National Council of Churches and the U.S. Cath- olic Conference have joined in recommending that Con- gress eliminate the special tax exemption of churches in regard to unrelated business income. The action was taken in a joint statement, ap- proved by the General Board, which endorsed two pro- posals for tax reform af- Negro Heritage at Layman Chapel Mrs FitzgeraldSmith(left) and Dr. Rita Cassidy (right) examine a Ghanaian fertility doll. This and other art and literature were part of the "Negro Heritage and Cul- ture" program held at Layman Chapel, C.M.E. on Sunday, May 18th. Photo by Milton Herring. fecting the churches. One would eliminate the exemption of churches from taxation on unrelated com- mercial activities. The sec- ond would eliminate abuse of debt financing to acquire commercial income prop- erty. The joint statement was presented to the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives which is currently studying tax reforms. It recom- mended that such revisions should 1) provide adequate procedural safeguards to prevent governmental in- volvement in the internal and financial affairs of the churches; 2) preserve the present exemption of churches from taxation upon passive or investment in- come; 3) protect from taxa- tion the traditional function of churches; and 4) provide a five-year grace period for the divestiture of existing unrelated business activi- ties. In its own separate state- ment, the General Board fur- ther urged that employees— both lay and clergy- of re- ligious organizations should not enjoy special privileges in regard to any type of taxa- tion. "If a clergyman re- ceives a cash allowance for housing," said the state- ment, "that amount should be taxed as part of his in- come ... If he owns his own home, he should not enjoy any reduction in prop- erty taxes." Also recommended were voluntary payments by churches "in lieu of taxes" to municipal governments to defray the costs of the ser- vices they receive. More Inside working poor. Having a job in this country doesn't guar- antee a living wage, yet one of the most cherished of American illusions is that poverty is the end result of laziness. Too many Ameri- cans believe that poor people are poor because they don't want to work. The facts, however, are to the contrary. The figures show that in 1966, 32 percent of all poor families were headed by peo- ple who worked fulltime - which not only says some- thing about the poor but about the people who hire them - as well as about wage scales and employ- ment practices. Another 25 percent of poor families were headed by people who worked part-time. In other words, almost 60 percent of the poor are in families the head of which works all or some of the time. Of the remainder, the vast majority are either too young (children) or too old (the aged) to work. We in America, cannot escape the fact that despite a prolonged period of con- tinuous economic growth, we still have more than 30 mil- lion people living in poverty in this country, the bulk of them in families that can be classified as the working poor. Only a short time ago, most of us believed that emerging general prosperity would solve the problem but it has now become obvious that it will take more than Calif .Establishes Black America Day SACRAMENTO, Calif., - The California assembly voted May 8th to designate the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jan. 14, as Black America Day in California. The bill was sent to the Senate on a vote of 47 to 10. Pictured here is Dean James R. Dumpson, former Commissioner, New York Department of City Services, and now Dean, Fordham Un- iversity School of Soc- ial Work. Dean Dumpson spoke twice at the St Jo- seph County Urban League's Community Forum on "The Working and Nonworking Poor" on Tuesday, May 20th. great general prosperity to free these citizens from the bonds of poverty. We have discovered that the economic and social rewards of general prosperity fall as unevenly among us as did the scarcer rewards of the past. The problem of the work- ing poor is particularly a- cute in the black community. White men cling to the myth that the black man is poor because he is lazy. The stat- istics quoted above apply to the poor population as a whole but the fact is that among the black poor, the percentage living in families headed by a working man is much higher than among the white poor. The problem of the working poor, then, is very particularly a problem of the black man. In South Bend, there are an estimated 9,000 families living in poverty, 2,000 of them black. The median income for South Bend is, roughly, $6,682 per annum as compared with (Continued on Page 5) The South Bend-Mishawaka Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews held its Forty-first Anniversary Dinner cm Wednesday evening, May 21st at the Indiana Club. Pictured here are this year'sthree Brotherhood Award winners and the guest speaker at the dinner. Left to right Mr. Van E. Gates, Award winner; Mr. Don McNeill, guest speaker and former popular radio announcer; Mrs. Helen S. Arnold, Award winner; and Mr.Louis Piser, Award winner. Photo by Milt Herring. |
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