European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday March 1,1998 Black poverty blamed on defective system Racine wis. A two decades after the Kern or commission issued its report tin . Racial conditions panellists at a conference Here said prejudice is no Lunger the main reason Many inner City Blacks live m poverty. The problem is no a problem of a def relive peo ple the problem is a problem of a politically and economically defective Tvetem said Roger w. Wilkins. In assistant . Attorney general under then president Johnson. And until we gel that message across we Are going Toi Imti nue to grind up and destroy  Wilkins said nationwide programs focusing re Mir get on specific disadvantages areas and people will be necessary before any Progress can be made a growing number of people Are living in an Urban underclass in inner City neighbourhoods where the social and family support system has been eroded by the flight of people who could afford to leave participant said. The report by the National commission on civil disorders also called the Erncr commission was issued feb. 29, 1968. The panel named by Johnson and chaired by Illinois gov. Otlo pc incr examined the causes of racial tension that led to riots in Large cities across the United Stales the report in addition to calling Cor solutions to the problems of the Black ghettos lied the riots to a trending which America was moving toward two societies one Black one White separate and  participants at the weekend conference due to end monday said racial prejudice still exists but the growl i of a Black Middle class a made the ghettos less a racial phenomenon than a structural one. William Julius Wilson a professor of sociology and Public policy Al the University of Chicago said there Are 20 pc ent More underclass people living in the ghettos of the nation s so largest cities than when the Kurner report was issued. He said this is so despite the fact that those cities suffered a 5 percent Overall population decrease Between 1970 and 1980. The a to Reade poverty in such areas eliminates Many of the services and social outlets a available i n the larger More prosperous society at Large resulting in an in crease in crime and a decrease in the aspirations of the impoverished. Wilson said. Banks stores professional services churches they re either leaving or losing their audiences he said. Ranald Mincy of the Urban Institute in washing ton d.c., said racism was Al the Root of the rage that spurred i in Urban unrest of the 1960s bul social class should be the focus of contemporary discussion of the impoverished. The Black poor of today Don t just compare unfavourably with White America bul also with a growing Section of Black America he said. Wilkins now a professor of history and american culture Al George Mason University in Fairfax a said it Wilt ultimately be up to whiles and Blacks to solve the problems of the underclass. We Blacks have to throw our hearts and our spirits Back into these neighbourhoods he said. But in the end the response from the other Side of the Fence he response from while people has Tobe a very Strong response to help re employ and re educate ghetto dwellers he said the conference was co sponsored by the Institute for Public policy of the University of new Mexico the1988 commission on the cities and the Johnson foundation. Father Marks 14th birthday his youngest son is 19 Detroit a Donald Kaschalk has had fewer birthdays than any of his seven children my youngest by is 19, and i m just going to celebrate my 14th birthday said the East Detroit Milkman just before the anniversary. Kaschalk was born on leap Day in 1932. Like other folks born on feb. 29, Kas Clial s actual birthday Rolls around Only once every four years. It s a stutter step in time that compensates at the 365 v4 Days in lakes the Earth to orbit the Sun. The . Census Bureau estimates about 9,600babies were bom in the United Stales on feb. 29, i vim. And predicted that a similar number of infants would be bom monday it s truly delightful said v Psi Lanai business Man Peter Fletcher who was born the same Day a Kaschalk. The common reaction is one of Rympa Why and lament because you Don t have a frequent Natal commemoration. Bul that very Streak of sympathy provokes peo ple to make it even More memorable. When i was in my Callow youth people would try 10 compensate for it by having a veritable spate of  and celebrations for  Jason a cinch who s celebrating birthday no. 3 though he turned 12, takes in All in stride. It s of i guess said he sixth grader at Maple elementary school in walled Lake. This is his third birthday said Jason s mom Joyce Weiner. We used to celebrate it on the 28lh of february but the last few years he s said he wants to celebrate it on March i. The traditional Observance of leap year began in 46 . When Julius Caesar adopted the egyptian Calendar and the Western world began counting years with j6sw Days each. The added Day every fourth year keeps the. Earth s Calendar in line with the Sun s rotation. Stateside Oral Roberts defends work of Church evangelists Columbus. Ohio a Oral Roberts told a Church service that some Nolc arc trying to Embar Rass evangelists and ruin i hair ministries. Right now this old world and the Media and cer Tain Church people Are dragging the name of evangelists in the  Sard the 70-year Roberts. Roberts of Tulsa. Olda., mentioned no one by name when he spoke to More than 1,200 people sunday at the Christian Center in suburban Gahanna. Television evangelist Jimmy Swigeart was disciplined by the assemblies of god last week after Confes sing to unspecified sinful behaviour against hit wife. Jim ask scr left his National television ministry last year after he admitted having an extramarital Sci at encounter with Church Secretary Jessica , electrical problem forces plane to land off schedule Gainesville a. A a Midway airlines 737 lying from Tampa to Chicago made an unscheduled Landing Here sunday after its Pilot reported an electrical problem that produced smoke a the cockpit authorities said. Flight 793, with 119 passengers and five Crew member aboard landed safely at Gainesville regional Airport about 1 20 . With no injuries reported said Federal aviation administration shift supervisor . Steed. Was a precautionary measure he said. None of the passengers were Ever to danger to set Falls off stand kills 5-year-old boy Boston a a 5-year-old boy was killed when a 27-Inch television set Ell off a stand and onto his head police said sunday. Dennis Yau died of a massive Skull fracture in the Accident saturday in the City s Chinatown neighbor Hood police spokeswoman Jane Shiehan said. He had been playing in the living room and hit Mother heard a crash Shiehan said when she Well inside she saw the television on top of  the Mother Mei Yau rushed him to the new eng land medical Center and the boy was pronounced dead at 6 25 ., she said. It was not known How the television Felt off of it stand Sheehan said. Vandals paint swastikas damage Miami synagogue Miami a vandals smashed 30 windows and " led swastikas on a synagogue and school building is Heron families arrived Tor a fund Raiser celebrating jewish deliverance from persecution in ancient Persia. It just does t go away it just does t go away said rabbi David Auer Bali As he surveyed the deface ment of the Bel Shira congregation. Accept Hitler respect Christ and Jesus lives were painted Early sunday synagogue officials said. The congregation proceeded with the planned festivities for purim which commemorates Queen Esther s deliverance of jews from a massacre plotted by Hainan. The one Day Holiday begins at Sun Sci wednes Day. Damage was estimated at �10,000. Said a metro dad police detective and youth gang investigator. No suspects were apprehended. Gull population threatens 2 Bird species at Refuge Chatham mass. Apr the Pip ing plovers and Roseate terns due Loar rive in nesting areas Here in the coming weeks will be met by thousands of gulls renewing a Bailie blamed for the decline of the endangered Birds off Cape cod. Thirty years ago piping plovers and Roseate terns outnumbered the gulls Neil ing on Monn Moy Island during he Spring and summer. But last year Jusi two pairs of piping plovers and seven pairs of Roseate terns nested a the Conomoy wildlife Refuge lighting for survival against an estimated 70.000 gulls the . Fish and wildlife service which runs Conomoy in february re leased a new master plan for the Refuge led he endangered Birds. The Gull population explosion has coincided with rampant residential development on the coast where garbage in landfills has Given the gulls a new food source. We re giving them a free hot lunch every Day and the terns and plovers just Aren l adaptable enough to Lake advantage of that Opportunity said Thomas French director of inc state s endangered species program. They Are competing for the same piece of land and the gulls Are much More aggressive French said. They will Cai the tems for  there will be no poisoning this year because the plan was released Loo late to can Wiiri the necessary environmental study before the migrating share Birds arrive from Winter habitats in the South. But Refuge manager Jack fillip believes inc plan will be used nut Spring. I m of the opinion that the Gull population has expanded to the Point where this Sterns to be the most viable technology to use Fillio said. You could study the Issue until the plovers and terns Are  animal rights activists have denounced the plan. But stale and Federal environmental officials say they reluctantly endorse it As a Means of restoring balance to the habitat Only one pair of herring gulls was spoiled at Conomoy in 1961. More than  pairs have noted there since 1980. There were no Black Bat cd gulls nesting at the Refuge 25 Yean ago Butmore than 5,000 pairs have made it i hair summer Home in recent  Lacy conservation director for the Massachusetts Audubon society said provision in the new master plan endorsing Gull poisoning Only As a last re sort sound like a step in the right direct  Poison cannot be used this year Fillio said Refuge staffers Wilt us wire mesh to Fence Oft Tern and Plover nests and disrupt Gull nests near area where the endangered Birds nest. Bradford Blodgett a slate ornithologist said nature May have provided a alternative to Poison. He said a Dew bar Rier Island created last year when a win Ter storm Cut through a huge Sandbar off Chatham has created whal could be Agull free Home for urns and plovers