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Neighborhood Power. On the financial side, Mailer argues that the city pays $14 billion in income taxes to Washington and Albany - but gets back only $3 billion. If the city were a separate state,* it would get to keep a greater proportion of the tax money it ex ports. What is more, it would be freed from legislative control by the present state government, which is often hostile to city demands. At the same time, says Mailer, if he is elected in November, "a small miracle would have happened. At that moment the city would have declared that...
...result, there are few who can work in the upper echelons of white society while retaining their independence and the respect of the blacks on the street. One black leader who has succeeded in that ambivalent role is Frank Ditto, 39, a community organizer of the East Side ghetto of Detroit's inner city...
Ghetto Patrol. Ditto directs the East Side Voice of Independent Detroit (ES-VID), a civic action organization that is the moving force behind a dozen "black pride" projects in the slums, where burned-out shops still define the fury of the 1967 riots. ESVID runs a black-uniformed corps of 126 black youths that patrols the ghetto, escorting people through the crime-ridden streets and protecting threatened store owners -both black and white. The patrols also report alleged instances of police brutality and work to clean up their neighborhood. Ditto organized the Political Education Project (PEP), a junior version...
Ditto was called to Detroit just prior to the 1967 riots by a coalition of 36 mainly white Protestant and Catholic churches on the East Side to set up a grass-roots organization. Today, with a staff of five, he operates ESVID on $65,000 a year from local businessmen and churches and has also received a $50,000 grant from New Detroit...
...work privately with him say he is cooperative and constructive," says the community relations director of one automobile manufacturer. The ministers who brought Ditto to Detroit support his tactics. Says a black former Salvation Army officer, the Rev. Bob Baldwin: "We need a thousand Frank Dittos on the East Side...