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Nobody ever thinks they'll
have to go through the horror
of returning to a storm
damaged home. But, if Mother
Nature does force you into
such a situation, be prepared
for a mess, and be careful as it
can be extremely dangerous.
A publication from the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development explains
safety precautions you should
take and gives advice on
salvaging furniture, and on
renovating walls, woodwork
and floors. For a single free
copy of ' 'When You Return to
a Storm Damaged Home' ,
write to Consumer Information
Center, Dept. 88, Pueblo,
Colorado 81009.
Here's some of the safety
advice:
- When you first return to
the house, immediately turn
off the gas at the meter or
tank. Open doors and windows
to remove escaped gas or other
bad odors.
- Don't turn on the lights
until an electrician has checked
the wiring. If the electrical
system is aamagea, a snort
circuit could cause a fire.
- Have a competent
technician examine pump
motors, refrigerators, freezers,
ranges, washing machines and
other household equipment
and appliances. They may be
ruined if they are not clean,
dry and free-running before
they are put into use again.
- Make sure to boil water
to disinfect it before you drink
it. a 10-minute boil will kill
any disease-causing bacteria
present. "When You Return to
A Storm Damaged Home"
(free) is one of over 250
selected Federal consumer
publications listed in the
Spring edition of the
"Consumer Information
Index.' Published quarterly by
the Consumer Information
Center of the General Services
Administration, the "Index' is
available free from Consumer
Information Center, Pueblo,
Colorado 81009.
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Barber-Scotia College,
Dennett College, Johnson C.
Smith University, Livingstone,
St. Augustinei College and
Shaw University of North
Carolina.
In Alabama there is Miles
College, Oakwood College,'
Stillman College, Talladega
College, and Tuskegee
Institute.
Fisk University, Knoxville
College, Lane College, and
LeMoyne-Owen College of
Tennessee and Benedict'
College, Clafin College, and
Voorhees College of South
Carolina.
Bishop College,
Huston-Tillotson College,
Jarvis Christian College, Paul
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Quinn College, Texas College Bethune-Cookman of Florida;
and Wiley College of Texa$. v
Rust College and Tougaloo
Virginia.
In Arkansas there is
Philander Smith College; and'
Wilberforce University in Ohio.
College of Mississippi; Diflard
University and Xarler
University of Louisiana;
Florida Memorial College and
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THE BLACK BUDGET
President Ford pooped out an
austere fiscal 1977 budget of
$394.2 billion for the country in
State of the Union spill. Austere
is the white man's word for
doing away with social welfare
programs.
Instead of attacking at the
heart of unemployment, the
President has chosen to be
seductive - namely, with windfall
gifts to the working white
middle class andor with big
corporation gifts.Thus he put
forth accelerated depreciation
for corporations' capital
spending in high unemployment
areas.
This is expected to give big
business an incentive to spend
more therefore creating jobs in
needy places. This, like the
incentives to encourage low and
middle income wage earners to
buy common stocks, has too
many steps to set full
employment in motion in the
near future. 3ut read on, it gets
worse.
President Ford's brainstorms
for a moderate rise in
employment can best be
described as dead slow. If the
plan should stumble, as the
President seem prone to do, then
blacks have heard one of the
hardest budgets ever announced
by a President in pressing times.
The over 15 per cent
unemployment of blacks and
other minorities must be
something the President believes
he can live with these days. The
first problem with accelerated
depreciation is that the purchase
of new equipment is likely to
come from other areas other
than where there is
unemployment.
Thus strengthening other
possibly foreign countries like
Japan and West Germany who
sell labor- saving devices. Modern
machinery purchases are bound
to be for labor reduction
purposes. This will make it
unlikely that the corporation
which benefits from reduced
taxes with higher depreciation
write-off will recall many of its
old workers, much less hire new
people.
Clearly, the big corporations
will benefit, while the people
will lose. What thrust there
might be for capital equipment
companies to enjoy the
additional sales induced by the
accelerated depreciation
gimmick will not benefit most
blacks.
Most of us who are fortunate
enough to be employable are
available for the service
industries, not the capital
industries which hire more
racially discrimanatory skilled
workers. And whoever heard of
blacks or other poor people in
America owning common stocks
on mass. Even middle class white
Americans have given up direct
ownership of common stocks to
the tune of 5,500,000 of them
over the past five years.
Obviously, President Ford is
more concerned about the white
middle class stock-holder than
the poor - young or old. The
President is also pushing for an
increase in social security taxes.
This will reduce the take-home
pay of all those employed
earning $15,300 or less a year.
However, if you have
managed to make enough money
to give to your grandchildren or
close friend. President Ford
proposes to take care of you.
The Ford proposal for estate
taxes would permit the heirs of
small estates ($300,000 -$600,000)
to forget about their
initial estate-tax payment for
five years beyond the date it
would be otherwise due.Ford said
the changes are designed to
assure that 'family businesses
3nd family farms can be handed
down from generation to
generation without having to be
sold to pay taxes.' 'At a boy,
Gerry, keep it in the family.
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Don't Forget 1976 Sticker
A ONE-ACT PLAY ABOUT
BLACK REVOLUTIONARY
WAR HERO PETER SALEM
has been named a Special
Award Winner in the PLAYS
Magazine Bicentennial
Playwriting Contest.
A prize of $300 was
awarded to Mark Keats of Los
Angeles for his play, PETER
SALEM, MINUTEMAN, an
historical biography of the
Black Revolutionary War
soldier who was one of the
heroes of the Battle of Bunker
Hill. Utilizing voice choruses,
slide projections and
pantomime, the play recounts
the events before and during
the battle and the major role
playe din it by Peter Salem .
The play will be published
in the April 1976 issue of
PLAYS Magazine.
Mark Keats, a retired social
worker, has written children's
plays and stories and two
books. His special interest has
been in innovative projects and
programs in multi-ethnic and
multi-racial communities.
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her firm stand on busing.
"Anyone who comes out on
any one of the highways. . .
.can see the yellow busses
carrying children all over for
years,'' she told the students.
"I think you ought to be
alarmed at anything that
would undermine the
fourteenth amendment. Not a
single busing order in this
country has been issued
where there wasn't first a
violation of the
constitution,' she said. Mrs.
Wilson was responding to a
question on presidential
candidate, Henry Jackson's
statement on Monday in
which he said that forced
busing has failed.
"First of all, we must
remember that Mr. Jackson is '
a candidate for the president
of .the United States and
secondly, I am intrigued that
he is suddenly an expert on
civil rights," she said. Mrs.
Wilson also said that the
NAACP is seeking newer
directions through a
professional consulting firm
which will most likely be in
the area of economics.
RALEIGH - Edward L.
Powell, Commissioner of
Motor Vehicles, today urged
North Carolina motorists who
have not obtained their 1976
license plate validation stickers
or license plates to do so
before the February 16
deadline.
The Commissioner also
reminded owners of private
automobiles that this year they
keep their 1975 license plates
and must purchase a validation
sticker to update it. The sticker
must be placed in the upper
right-hand corner of the license
plate by law.
Powell said 'This year the
deadline for displayign 1976
validation stickers and license
plates has been extended to
midnight, February 16 because
the 15 falls on a Sunday. Since
there is no legal authority to
extend the deadline further, we
urge all motorists to purchase
their stickers or plates as soon
as possible. The first four
weeks of this registration
renewal period indicate that
less than one-third (13) of all
North Carolina vehicle
registrations have been
renewed. By obtaining the
license tag stickers and plates
early, the inconveniece of
waiting in long lines at the last
minute will be avoided."
Powell reminds motorists
that there are 102 branch
offices across North Carolina in
which license plates and
stickers may be obtained or in
Raleigh at the Motor Vehicles
Building on New Bern Avenue.
Alumni of UNCF Colleges To Meet
In Florida February 5-7
Some 800 alumni of United
Negro College Fund Schools
will meet in Daytona Beach,
FL February 5-7 for the 30th
Annual Conference of the
UNCF's National Alumni
Council.
Graduates of 41
predominately Black UNCF
Colleges will conduct
workshops, meetings and social
affairs at the Desert Inn Motel
In Daytona Beach.
The theme for the
conference is ' Crisis 76: Where
do we go from Here? The
Opportunity Night theme is
"Today's Youth...Tomorrow's
Leaders."
The conference chairman is
Julius Kidd, secretary of the
Bethune-Cookman National
Alumni Association.
Bethune-Cookman College will
host the meeting.
Dr. Milton Curry, President
of Bishop College in Dallas,
Texas and head of the UNCF
Board of Directors, will be the
key note speaker at the
opening session of the
conference on Thursday
afternoon, February 5.
Area high school students
will be invited to visit
representatives from the 41
colleges Thursday evening and
explore opportunities through
UNCF schools.
Christopher Edley,
Executive Director of the
United Negro College Fund,
which is headquartered in New
York, will give the status of the
UNCF 1975 campaign at the
second general session Friday.
Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, pastor
of the Canaan Baptist Church
in New York City, will be the
guest speaker for the Alumni
Recognition Banquet Friday
evening.
On Saturday, the
conference will conclude its
workshops and business
sessions. A Coronation Ball will
be held that night at which a
queen will be chosen from
representatives of the 41
UNCF schools.
The participants in the
Coronation Ball will represent
a country in Africa and they
will be attired in the native
dress of that country. The
contest winner will be adorned
in jewelry from head to feet in
an African custom instead of
the traditional crowning
ceremony.
The United Negro College
Fund is a nonprofit
fund-raising group which raises
money to help support its
member colleges. It was
founded in 1944 by Dr.
Fredrick D. Patterson and a
group of college Presidents for
the purpose of conducting
annual campaigns for the funds
needed to help meet the
operating expenses of 27
historically black colleges and
universities. As other colleges
were able io meet the criteria
they were accepted into
membership; the total number
growing to 41 in 1973.
All except on the the UNCF
institutions are located in the
South. Seven are in Georgia;
six each in North Carolina and
Texas, five in Alabama, four in
Tennessee, three in South
Carolina, two each in
Mississipps, Louisiana, Florida
and Virginia and one each in
Arkansas and Ohio.
The member institutions
are: Atlanta University, Clark
College, Interdenominational
Theological Center,
Moorehouse College, Morris
Brown College,' Spcllman
College and Paine College of
Georgia. '
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