The Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

August 3, 1992

Publication:

The Republicani

Location:

Springfield, Massachusetts

Issue Date:

Monday, August 3, 1992

Page:

35

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1 Union News Agawam West Springfield MONDAY AUGUST 3 1992 35 CENTS SI Sarajevo 1 Jrtt" Bush Diesel engines face stricter standards Continued on Page 8 Officials succeed in finding summer employment for youths 1 was on top of 1992 The Republican Company 0 3 00 1 9 4 WEATHER BUSINESS SPORTS 3 Ik TODAY which adminis the county re 1 1 Orphans flee from By MARY KANE Newhouse News Service Just after the Los Angeles riots lawmakers in Washington vowed to beef up summer jobs programs to aid the inner city But Congress took so long to ap prove its emergency urban aid package that cities are still scram bling to set up additional summer jobs and find youths to fill them a helter skelter approach that shortchanges everyone according to Labor Department officials and urban experts history of these programs is that cities need a substantial amount of time to create the jobs appoint supervisors set up pay rolls and provide some accounta bility so that kids just wan i dering said Roberts Jones Labor Department assistant secretary for employment and training told Congress this money was coming too The aid package approved by Congress earmarked $500 million for 360000 summer jobs in more than 75 cities doubling the size of existing programs By SUSANNAH PUGH In Hampden County officials hope the final figures will show that they took a lemon served up by Congress and made lem onade Capitol Hill added money to an existing program to create more summer jobs for teens in the wake of the Los Angeles ri ots Los Angelenos angry over the Rodney King verdict took to the streets during the last days of April and the first days of May But Congress took so long to approve the extra funding that it almost came too late to do any good The bill was not passed until June 18 which to put 1020 teens to work this summer They now expect to have found jobs for 1420 Jarvis said The county also extended the number of hours teens could work he said Making lemonade out of Con lemon was not easy was a nightmare in a lot of said Ellen Sullivan who works out of the Holyoke School Department coordinat ing the summer jobs program for all of Hampden County ex cept Springfield was nice they gave us the extra money but the timing was really she said The need for the extra money Continued on Page 14 mobiles are put through their lobby has been very effective at minimizing said Arthur Marin of i the Northeast States for Coordi nated Air Use Management an i agency formed by air quality offi cials of the Northeast states to study air quality issues gotten themselves exempted from inspection and maintenance programs for quite some time But with the new Clean Air Act getting a lot more control of buses fi nally contributing their share at this he said krX I meant it did not get signed into law until late in the month inal tabulations should show that Hampden County used al most all of the extra $849038 it got said Raymond A Jarvis ex ecutive director of the Hampden County Employment and Train ing Consortium ters the money ceives The $849038 $14 million originally allocated now pretty much on track in spending all of he said think we will be somewhere near 95 percent ex pended by the end of the pro The county originally planned By STAN REEMAN behind a bus or truck in city traffic and from out of the tailpipe pour thick clouds of black smoke You know a car possi bly pass inspection with that kind of polluting exhaust so how can these diesel burners get away with it? Part of the answer is that what you see is not necessarily what you get While buses and trucks can produce a lot of very visible soot they produce less of some of the chemicals that cause smog and harm health than gasoline powered engines are very noticeable be cause the emissions are visible and you can smell them With a gasoline vehicle you usually see the exhaust but it is higher on carbon monoxide and hydrocar bons Both of those are said Joseph Somers of the Office of Mobile Sources for the US En vironmental Protection Agency The other part of the answer in volves the strong trucking and bus lobbies Many diesel powered ve hicles come close to pass ing the rigorous inspections auto West Side arts festival wins kudos Page 9 Diesel engines operate differ ently from gasoline engines In a gasoline engine fuel mixed with air is ignited by a spark in the cylinder and the resulting explo sion pushes a piston the power of which is harnessed to do things like turn the wheels of a car In a diesel engine fuel mixed with air ignites by itself under a great enough pressure in the cyl inder and the resulting explosion pushes a piston creating power to be harnessed Diesel engines burn fuel more Continued on Page 4 Nigerian official pays visit to WMass Page 12 SARAJEVO Bosnia Herzegovina (AP) A bullet scarred bus carrying dozens of crying orphans raced from Sarajevo yester day on the second leg of an escape that has claimed at least two young lives Left behind were about 100 other children awaiting evacuation as Bosnian torces try to punch through Serb lines encircling the city Bosnian offi cials claimed some success in the battles Many of the orphans sobbed and struggled as they were put on the bus in the western suburb of Stup the end of the so called highway from central Sara jevo One blond toddler kicked as a burly soldier carried her under his arm to the bus But another little boy happily sucked a candy bar and climbed aboard The bus traveled through war torn territory en route to the Croa tian port of Split where officials from a German orphanage waited with a chartered plane The children stopped for the night in a area in oj nica about 25 miles northwest of Sarajevo said Anton Guenther Cromme spokesman tor tne ony Anhalt Social Ministry in Magdeburg Germany In poor physical condition Cromme said German officials who met the orphans in ojnica reported some children were in poor physical condition and may have to be hospitalized On Saturday two orphans were killed when the bus was hit by heavy fire heard the glass shatter then the bullets whistle past and then the said bus driver Zelj ko Grgic first I wanted to throw myself to the floor but then I remembered the kids were in the back and we had to make the last 200 to 300 meters to It was not immediately clear who fired on the bus or wheth er it was caught in cross fire Yu premier Milan Panic condemned the attack Bosnian they are all terror Panic said during a visit to Bulgaria yesterday Serb leader Radovan Karadzic denied his forces at tacked the bus the bus was properly index our sections But despite warnings in early May from the Labor Department and the US Conference of Mayors that money needed to be approved quickly to put the programs in place Congress pass the package until June 18 By the time the bill was signed into law Los Angeles had nine days to recruit screen test hire and place about 10000 youths said Jane Dawson coordinator of the summer jobs program been very tough Dawson said had to increase the number of kids at some work sites where I felt already in creased beyond a point where they had good supervision Look those riots happened in April If they would have acted quickly have a much better The Labor Department expects that some jobs for unemployed youth went unfilled because of the time crunch Jones said The delay also forced some cit ies to extend the hours worked by youths already hired instead of signing up more of them for jobs Continued on Page 14 LfeSfei (Blacks in the inner city of Los i Angeles have long been stuck on the sidelines as new generations of immigrants moved ahead to be come business successes in Ameri ca When Los Angeles burned riot ers struck at the latest group to pass them by Korean mer chants This second of two stories on examines the barriers blacks face in becom ing their own bosses) i By JAMES ANDERSON Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES John Murray i sweated and struggled to succeed as a liquor store owner and a landlord He overcame many ob stacles one of the biggest being his skin color In 30 years in the inner city Murray has witnessed one ethnic group after another make it in America He has seen Jewish mer chants prosp er Then Ko reans But he has seen other blacks squeezed out amazing to me how any body can come into this commu i nity and go into he said but have never had a line of credit even after owning property and having $100000 in the said i Murray 64 who once owned two liquor stores had to borrow against my own money in the i Murray has fought racism try ing to secure loans for himself and organizing boycotts for others so more black salespeople would be hired in the liquor industry Now he may be a victim of rac ism again indirectly A building he owned and leased to a Korean Continued on Page 4 un and profit at Strawberry Productions Page 17 WASHINGTON (AP) George' Bush is staying in the presidential race despite calls for his with drawal by three newspaper edito rials and conservative activists supporters in the administration and Congress said yesterday Bush campaigning in the Chi cago suburbs ignored a shouted question about editorials in yes Waterbury (Conn) Re publican and Orange County Reg ister urging him to quit his re election drive i The chief of staff Sam Skinner told reporters aboard Air orce One is an election year I have no Voices of frustration i 'I Tony Mitchell deputy Bush' campaign spokesman said think that what it speaks to is that people are anxious people are editorials and simi 1 lar comments from conservative fund raiser Richard Vigueriet capped a week in which conserva tive writer George Will urged the president in a nationally syndi Continued on Page 14 showers possible orecastPage 2 ederal funds for summer jobs arrive too late Jackie takes golden day into history Page 25 Black merchants struggle Squeezed out by immigrants Staff photo by Mart Murray IN ULL REGALIA A young American Indian dancer watches other dancers yesterday during the Honor the Earth powwow celebration this weekend at the Three County airgrounds in Northampton Several thousand people attended the event that grew out of an American Indian campus organization 10 years ago at the University of Massachusetts Story and photo Page 10 Bosnian troops try to weaken Serb lines ignores quit calls RATE AT I SEPA 0 NS fe MK? i iftVV JII1IJ I III I I (d nJP i in 4 i I A 4 UB MBaUL' 4 'M 41 SV' 9 di flaw 1 t3 Gr rj' MS' BiMHVJEW A "fc Hr hik It A1 V'11 4ellU A HI tiiifVlL' WL A 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