( I <' w Vol. n. No. 38 wwrr " W aclicr Food Stamp ProgramTo IncreaseBy $1,4 Billion 0 a by James Smith Staff Writer With the passage of a new food stamp bill, the cost to operate the program has increased to $1.4 billion a year over and above the present level. In a newsletter from Senator Robert Morgan, D-N.C., he stated that the most important change in the program was to remove the 4 4itemized deductions" rule, by which millions of people who were not. poor could qualify for food stamps. "They could pyramid deductions for such things as home mortgage payments, private school tuition, alimony payments, medical and utility bills, and work-related expen ses, ana get ineir incomes down to where they qualified. Also, the Agriculture CornSee FOOD STAMP, Page 2 CETA Jobs v by James Smith Staff Writer Even if President Ford and the U.S. Congress does not act on getting additional funds, the Title VI program of the Concentrated Employment I Training Act (CETA) should be able to run a little longer than its expiration date, June I 30. Mrs. Florence D. Creque, director of Human Services here said that even though the expiration date is June JO, those persons employed under the program will be not laid off their jobs ? at least for a while. However, she said it is not known yet as to how long the . program can be expected to run. A while back, President irt WINSTO viaSettl -.-.if *-/ : *<*?? HEjK* . -j^p V - Ji I Wine drinking and parking haa causes of the plight of the dow frequently drink wine in clear vk Winos-Parl For Downt< Winos and parking meters -were blamed for the demise of the downtown shopping area by a local merchant at Monday night's Board of Alderman meeting. Joe Choplin, owner of Joe's i May Last Ford vetoed a bill which Congress was trying to get a two-year extension on that program. At the time it was vetoed, Ford called the bill, "fiscally irresponsible." As of December, 1976, there will be three funding sources of CETA which will become non-existent. Those three programs- are Title I, .Title VI and Title X. _ Another federally funded program, Title II, has been granted an extension until January, IV//. That program is a work experience program which was enacted by congress where the unemployment rate was over 10 per cent. Presently, there are about 800 people enrolled in all the federally funded programs. See CETA, Page 2 iN-SALEM, N.C. es Discr MpHHHp I fl 1 r-. -i been singled oat as two chief ntown area. Unemployed men sw of the public as shown here. ting Blamed own Demise Fine Foods on Sixth and Trade streets, said winos and bums were penetrating the area heavily. He placed responsibility for the situation on the city. "The city has neglected the area," Choplin said. "The city is slowly letting it become a ghost town.^' The aldermen were in total agreement with Choplin but no immediate solutions could be found. Doing away with the parking meters was the closest anyone could come to a solution and even that was not a good one, according to Norman Pomrenke, Public Safety chief. "There is nothing downtown to draw the shopper," Pomrenke said. However, Choplin insisted that it was the winos and the parking meters that "convinces people to go elsewhere to shop." He said he was just oKoif* fpoHu V???r?r? if ??/ """b Alderman C.C. Ross charged the police with playing a little game with the parking problem. "They (police officers) are quick to run up and give tickets," he said. Ross said that alcoholics are sick people. "We started off trying See DOWNTOWN, Page 2 204 iminati< $879,520 h Go To 1,4 A proposed consent decree was filed Tuesday in U.S. Middle District Court in Greensboro to settle a civil rights class action suit against Wachovia.-The suit was filed in July 1975, by four black women who were emptoyed by Wachovia here. They alleged that Wachovia followed certain employment practices which were discriminatory to blacks. In the decree which is CliKi r\ oaui>^ >9uujvwi iv/ v.uuI i ajj| \jvell, Wachovia denies that it has practiced discrimination and contends that its existing personnel and affirmative action programs have significantly increased employment and promotional opportunities for minority classes. The decree provides for a strengthening of certain personnel programs and affirmative action plans related to the employment and advancement of females and nnn.u/flitpc 11 oIca nmtri/lar IIV/I1 I I i VO A I UIJU pi V/T IVIWO for incentive payments totaling $879,520 to be' divided among the 1,400 full-time black staff members employed more than six months by Soul City 'Blacks Stil by James Smith Staff Writer "Black people think" they were freed by the 13th, 14th or 15th amendment, or perhaps they would like to give credit of their freedom to Abraham Lincoln. But. if vou reallv want to give someone credit for your freedom, it should be given to Eli Whitney for iiivcuiing iliv luUuil giu?tiic 'nigger* then became obsolete. "It was all a matter of economics," states Floyd McKissick, founder and president of Soul City. McKissick was the keynote speaker Wednesday night at a seminar and banquet for the t " .