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4 THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., JULY 21, 1979 Dofoat of Anti-Busing Amendment Urged r WASHINGTON (NNPA) If the process of turning the clock back on civil rights is not to Begin in the House on July '24 with the passage of the Anti-Busing Amendment, r-blacks will have to send an -ravalanche of letters and mailgrams to their con gressmen, said Congres sional Black Caucus Chairwoman Cardiss Col lins at a press conference Thursday, "She was joined in this view by other members of - the Caucus and four white "liberals. Rep. Don Ed wards of California said with assurance, "Even though 218 of our members have voted Con gressman Ronald Mottl's amendment out of com mittee, we will win." On the same note, Republican John B. r Anderson of Illinois, urg td the House to defeat the proposed amendment. "Such an amendment," he continued, "could reopen the wounds of racial enmity in this coun try." Both Ronald Dellums -of California and William "- Gray of Pennsylvania said that 146 votes are needed to defeat the amendment ana tney reel tnat more than 150 can be mustered. "We might have a majori ty," Dellums stated. Mottl needs 290 votes or two-thirds of the 435 votes in the House. If he gets them, it's hard to say what the Senate might do, said Peter Rodino of New Jersey. We must stop this amendment in the House, he declared. And the vote will be taken, he added, after only one hour and 20 minutes of debate. Congresswoman Collins pointed to three serious defects in the Mottl Amendment: It is a narrow provision addressing an immediate issue, rather than a lasting principle appropriate to the constitution. It is an attempt to undermine the 14th Amendment to the Con stitution by limiting remedies for racial discrimination, and its part and parcel of other attacks on civil rights for Black Americans and other groups which have historically suffered discrimination. By prohibiting localities from requiring that students attend a school beyond the nearest to their home, it ties the hands and ; y Winners of $1 ,000 Scholarships Winners of $1,000 scholarships awarded by F.W. Woolworth Co. through the Na tional Achievement Scholarship program receive certificates of achievement from company officials. In left panel, Marcus D. Givens, Milpitas, Calif. High School graduate, accepts award from Jack R. McNutt, Pacific regional vice president. At right Angela McQueen, who was graduated from Mirabeau B. Lamar High School in Houston, Texas, receives certificate from Hoover Pitcock director of personnel development for Wool worth's South Central region. The scholarships are awarded annualy to outstanding blacks students as part of Woolworth's aid-to-education program. takes away local control from all state and local governments in a myriad of unforeseen ways, such as school assignments to deal with overcrowding. The longest bridges in the world are the Lake Pontchartrain Causeways I and II from New urieans to Lewisourg, La. uotn are over 23 miles long, Mix A "fee f ,.4 ft o New MelloYello tastes so lemony smooth and slides down so soft and easy, it'll drench your thirst in record time. So race on down to the store and pick some up soon. Durban Coca-Cola Bottling Co. FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR DLACK COLLEGE GAINED ., ' Black colleges arc fin ding the Army's ROTC scholarship program to be an asset for their cam puses, say many of, the. presidents. These ROTC scholar ships are providing a significant source of revenue for black colleges, while at the same time ex-; - tending the benefits of full four-year college scholar ships to promising minors ; ty students, the presidents point out. ROTC merit scholar ship winners receive full tuition, textbooks, laboratory fees, and other related materials, the Department of the Army explains. Additionally, they will receive a tax-free sub sistence allowance of $100 per month for up to ten months of each academic year. The i ROTC educa tional program also offers a two and three year scholarship for students already enrolled in the ROTC' Basic Course, or- - rrw rnnco urnn arronn o civ- ' JUS n 11U UL LV.IIU 0. JIAku... wee Basic Camp. ...Dr. Calvin Rolark, president of the United Black Fund, and publisher of the Washington In former, says: "The United ... States ; Amry has always ' been a source for develop ing solid leadership per sonnel, and dependable character traits, which are mandatory for success in civilian or military life." . All interested students' may obtain information or applications for the ROTC scholarships pro gram by writing: Army ROTC, P.O. Box 700, Larchmont, N.Y. 10538, 1 between April 1 and November 15, 1979. Press Supports Minority Enlist Into Army ROTC TULSA, Okla. (NNPA) During the recent con vention here, National Newspaper Publishers Association President John H. Sengstacke, editor-publisher of the Chicago Daily Defender and .other papers in his chain, expressed strong support for minority enlistment into the Army ROTC and Reserve Pro gram. NNPA President John Sengstacke, who served on the 1949 task force formed by President Truman to desegregate the Armed Forces, noted the positive improvements made by the Army ROTC and Reserve programs in developing more har monious race relations in America. President Sengstacke added: "The Army ROTC and Reserve programs now offer minority Americans a sincere op portunity to develop their abilities to maximum . levels of achievement, and contribute culturally and -economically to American Society." 2&THE PUBLIC INTEREST Energy Business Is If we are to turn dreams into reality, there must be economic expansion. Ac cording to the experts at Edison Electric Institute, there must be more energy for that expansion. Jobs depend on adequate electricity. People's health and wel fare, their jobs everything they do or hope to do depend on an adequate supply of electricity. The Institute, an associa tion of electric companies, believes energy is inextri- Everyone's Business cably tied to economic growth. Because all business requires energy, it rises in relation to the Gross National Product. And what's needed to keep the GNP growing 19 million new job will be needed in the next ten years. It takes ten to twelve years to build a nuclear plant in the U.S.-twice that of Japan, but Congress and the states can establish a mechanism to eliminate duplicative hearing pro cedures, for resolving con flicts between agencies, and for establishing reasonable time limits for licensing new plants. That way, experts say, the energy business can help keep a lot more people in business. MsaMi-Wiiscs AMERICA'S TWO-FACED TOBACCO POLICY Allan R. Magie, Ph.D., M.P.H. In the United States last year 320,000 people died pre maturely because of cigarette smoking. A newly released report by the American Medi cal Association concludes that in addition to the well-documented dangers of cancer, cigarette smoking "plays an important role" in the de velopment of chronic lung di seases (primarily emphysema and bronchitis), is a "grave danger" to anyone with a di sease of the heart or circula tory system, may produce peptic ulcers, and renders smokers more susceptible to infectious disease (even the common cold, flu and the like). Ironically, this study, which summarized over 800 sepa rate investigations, was fi nanced by the tobacco indus try! In the light of such con demning evidence, it is little wonder that three-fourths of Americans don't smoke and four out of five who do would quit if they could. While costing untold mil lions in shortened lives and human misery, why is the to bacco industry allowed to con tinue endangering the public's health? This is a question every thinking person asks. Supporting on the one hand health studies which so clear ly point out the grave risks of cigarette smoking, the gov ernment also encourages to bacco growing through price supports in those states where the tobacco industry is a major employer. Recently, when President Carter was in North Carolina, most of whose tobacco ends up in death-dealing ciga retteshe went so far as to suggest that there was no contradiction between pro moting good health and pro moting a good tobacco crop. He even hinted that the government would continue its research "to make the smoking of tobacco even more safe than it is today." It is too bad that respected leaders play politics with the nation's health. There is absolutely no evidence that cigarette smok ing is in the least safe even when using the so-called low tar kind. Although no solid figures will ever be available who can place a value on a human life prematurely shortened? tobacco costs this country a thousand (or a million or bil lion) times more than can ever be made up in taxes or export surpluses. The only safe guide for f healthy nation (and world) ii to: 1. Make smoking unat tractive. 2. Stop supporting tobacco growing. 3. Ceast exploiting developing coun tries by exporting this healtl hazard. 4. Use former tobaccc land to grow nutritious food like peanuts and soy beans 5. Protect non-smokers fron the risks of "second-hand" ex posure to cigarette smoke. 6. Encourage (even using sub sidies if necessary) smokers t quit. by the Health Department, Ger eral Conference of the Seventh-da Adventist Church, as a communit service. ' '
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