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A TOP SESSION-Rochester Police Sergeant Don Williams (left) discusses map of city patrol districts with members of Rochester’s Teens On Patrol (TOP). This instruction was part of the 1969 orientation week for the 100 TOPS who will be working with the police at city playgrounds, swim areas, parks, libraries, and neighborhood functions. TOP is in its third summer and is funded through an Eastman Kodak grant to Rochester Jobs, Incor porated, LDF Introduces Computer Results To Speed Mixing Os Tex. Schools HOUSTON A plan to com pletely integrate this city’s -'O,OOO school children by Sep tember devised by research scientists via a computer-will be introduced tn U, S. District Court this week. Attorneys of the NAACPLegaI Defense md Educational Fund, Inc., who have been pursuing ibis case since 1956, said that Hu computer was given one set of ! omprebonslve and pertinent 't v ■ about the Houston School System, Phis data-number and loca tion of schools plus racial com pos id :jn and location of students —v-,’ ; generated by the com pm v in .i short period of time ■ at : ■ ‘ novel a! alternate student a < s.i:.out schemes,” 'ft" " Plans, the LDF attor nc" point out, were then e vat iru for their individual •Perils, and the best one se lected. The alternate plans were re checked. One section of the city, re presenting 1/n of the total po pulace and area, was run through, the computer three If you like everything about homemade ice cream except the work, for we’ll crank it for you. Because your electric service When you add up all the elec costs so little, you can make tricity you use in a month . . five gallons of homemade ice divide it by the many services it cream electrically for less than performs .. . everything comes Enough to feed relatives at the' Electricity from CP&L is a next family reunion.. Or 40 maxi-service at a mini-price. While the tost of living has soared more than 23 percent in the last 10 years, the unit cost of electricity for residential customers has decreased 16 percent, Carolina Powmr Ik Light Company times to be certain none 1 of the alternates was superior to the plan selected. All plans were judged on two crucial criteria: busing costs and (lie level of desegregation achieved. The plan "with the most sat isfactory balance between the two factors” was selected, it was then used as a model for devising the integration pattern for the other four sections of the city. The data was programmed foi the LDF by ABT Associates, Inc, of Cambridge, Mass. It was then put into the comput - er by AVCO Comnuter Serv ices of W ilmington, Mass., un der the direction of Robert Nor bed, system analyst, LDF attorneys consider Houston as the "lead case” for brining complete Integration to school systems of large southern cities Results of this argument may affect pending LDF litigation in Dallas, Atlanta, and Memphis. The LDF maintains that the "freedom-of-cholce’ method of school integration, which has been practiced in Houston for the past several years, has brought only token results, (Under "freedom-of-cholce” the students select the school they attend. However, experi ence shows that the weight of progress has been placed on Negro parents and children,) Dur in g the Houston trial, which is expected to last two weeks, LDF attorneys will also ask for Integration of faculty and staff by September. They will stress that, dur ing the last school year 79,8 per cent of the white students attended schools which had more than 9" per cent white student bodies. * + * Veterans transferring to new jobs in new locations should get releases in writing on their present GI home loans from the VA. * * * Veterans who berved after January 31, 1955, may return and finish high school training under the GI Bill without los - ing any college eligibility. Cops And I’ops Join Forces For Summer ROCHESTER, N, Y. - About 100 youngsters from Rochest er’s inner city started their summer last week In police headquarters. They were happy to be there and the police were happy to have them. The youngsters are enrollees In the third summer program of Rochester’s Teens on Patrol (TOPS). After a week of Instruction, they work in cooperation with the police at playgrounds, parks, swim areas, libraries, and special inner-city func tions. The program, which originat ed In Rochester, has been close ly watched, praised, and copied by cities across the country. It was started in June, 1987, through an Eastman Kodak Company financial grant when Rochester Jobs, Incorporated (PJI), sought to help provide summer jobs for youth, Kodak has continued to support the program on a year-round basis through RJI. The primary goal of TOP Is the improvement of relations and understanding between youth and law enforcement of ficers. William M. Lombard, Ro chester’s pollce chief, says, "We have seen positive results. There has been an improvement in the relationship between youths and the police depart ment., TOPS— and even those youngsters who ars not In the program—understand us bet ter.” The benefits work two ways: Lt. Thomas F. Hastings, di rector of the Police Community Service Division and the ad ministrator of TOP, says, "My outlook has changed. So has the outlook of other policemen who have come In contact with the TOPS. All of us now under stand the problems of the Inner city better, A line of com munication has been opened.” Most of the TOP teenagers are black, but there are some Puerto Rican and white young sters in the program. A few are girls. All of the youngsters are hired as civilian employees of the Rochester Police Bureau, This mean# that they do not have police power. Each Is paid $1.75 an hour for a workday and each receives a TOP uniform that consists of a white T-shirt and blue jacket. The jacket has an emblem--the blue seal of the city aet on a white background with the letters TOP above. In the two winters since the program began, 30 TOP young sters have worked after school in libraries and playgrounds. A couple of examples Indicate how the program is working: One Puerto Rican lad was stationed in a patrol car with an officer at a busy intersec tion. He saw that the officer gave tickets only to those who flagrantly broke the law by running stop signs at the cross ing, "Prior to this experience,” Lt. Hastings said, "the youth bellved that a policeman gave tickets to anyone he wanted to, at random. Now this boy Is a strong supporter of the po lice. Without TOP this young ster’s response to the police would have been doubtful at best,” Several TOP younsters are stationed in Rochester’s Ge nesee Park, along the Genesee river, to prevent vandalism, bullying, and general rowdyism. One day lasi summer there were two separate canoe ac cidents. Five TOPS youngsters were involved in saving the lives of the canoe occupants. The police officer at the park says, "There Is no doubt we would have had drownings if it hadn’t been for the TOPS, Their speedy response adds another dimension to their con tribution out here. Throughout the summer they have made the park a safer, happier, bet ter place for the people of Rochester. And we have been freed for more Important po lice work.” The attitude of the life sav ers, who admittedly had spent some time "messing around” the park before they became TOPs, underwent some in teresting changes. One said, "we were only there late that night because It was hot and people were around late. We weren't getting paid overtime or anything. We Just thought we were needed,” Another commented, "I learned something. Those cats we saved didn't even thank us. How can people act like that?” Lt, Hastings feels that the entire Rochester community is benefiting from the changes in attitude resulting from the pro gram. He says, "In the inner city, brutality was always associat ed with arrest. With under standing, TOPs--many of whom were formerly police critics-- are now calling for more rigid law enforcement in the inner city,” He adds, "TOP can be a big door-opener for us In the inner city to help recruit more Negro and other minority policemen.” EDUCATION ROUNDUP BY NEGRO PRESS INTERNA TIONAL SEVENTH NAME CHANGE MONTGOMERY Ala. - For the seventh time in its 85-year history, Alabama State College has undergone a change In name. Effective immediately, the school Is now known as Ala bama State University, Twice before it had "university status,” during 1874-1887, when it was known as State Normal School and university: and 1887 1889. as Alabama Colored People University. BLACK STUDIES AIDED NEW YORK-The United Ne gro College fund, Atlanta U niverslty, Rust College and Hampton Institute have receiv ed grants to aid their programs on Afro- American culture and* history. The UNCF, Rust and Hampton received their grants from the 3M company (Minne sota Mining and Manufacturing) to provide microfilm research, centers and materials on Afro- American history and culture. Atlanta won a Ford Foundation grant to catalogue and restore materials in Its Negro collec tions housed in the Trevor Arnett Library. BLACK STUDIES MAJOR BALTIMORE - Morgan State Couege will be offering among its eight new majors for the fall term, one in Afro- American studies in its department of history. The course *is at the baccalaureate degree level. Other newmajors include music education, reading, business administration, educational ad ministration and supervision, sociology-s o c i a 1 welfare, and health-physical education- re creation, SCHOOL RENEWAL BATON ROUGE, La. - It is Dr. E. C, Harrison’s opinion that the need to desegregate schools "presents an oppor tunity for the renewal of the total school system as well as for self-renewal on the part of school personnel. ,f The southern University vice presi dent for academic affairs noted that it was wrong to assume that "Negro teachers alone are in need of further training. White teachers too will need to lie retrained, tn fact, all teach ers are in constant need of re taining because both are work ing with unfamiliar unman talent.” ASTOR— SAVE 18c COFFEE Rights Prices Good Through July 19 DETERGENT mmKmntmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmmmmmmmmtmmtmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mSAVI 29* - DEEP SOUTH MAYONNAISE Limit 1 with $5 or more Food order JAR TALMADGE FARMS OLD FASHIONED GEORGIA tommy UIUC owed nAIYU W-D BRAND U.S. CHOICE BEEF MATY DA ACT FAMILY KUA3I Morton s Frozen Moot DINNERS SMttOt THK CAHQUNIAK t RALSTOH, N. e., SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1988 15
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