Page 12 The Chronicle Sail r " I Jtf. Get your ^ ^ I \ doeent i JERO ! Keady-'lo' MVtrr^^^S Slipcover* , ML mlmSM iRid^ei I RECORDS, ETCETERA ^ I Stevie Wonder -- Songs In 1 Earth, Wind & Tire Spirit Norman Connors ? You Ar I La ti mo re ? It Ain't Where # Roy Ay ere -- Daddy Bug < I I " "I | S-10-V u D Speakers va i k^hi only ip^^25'00 ^ j GHETTol I x>i? WTH t PfTTIN'. I T~? &Oj Cnai Z C#/rr///v' t *L>?v:L ?o x ,U v v/' I. > f*- v " - IPla ...And ! | 111 ? ? ft |i 1 *% * ti \ ' " . \ " * 1 *! t ?nky October 9,1976 jpn] _ 35h S20 N. UKKTY > esssssas^fesHDBssfcfnBsae^^sss op Check Oat Oar New Records < * the Key of Life. e My Starship 1 ! You Been & Friends J rliament - Dr. Funkenstein Belle ? Chamelon ! n McCoy Rythms of the World ilph McDonald - Sound of a Drum ichael Henderson - Solid lours: 10 a.m. - 10 p.m. 'hone: 722*0111 ? GRAFFITI 1 ^ I SoUL fx VGqy X Ia)H^X vofiy i V?'6ts, /? ? i/\\-* .+ It ,t.? If/cV 1/ i N i /V % ' |*? i ** ' I ^' ' >"* ftOJW i ys More Mu i r " Che? A * ** ? t . H ? ??# i 4 *>? 4 ? ? ? New Book By E) Junkie: George C. Richardson, president of the National rnmmittpp Tn npr?larp W at* r*r? w xy ABlAAVb ^ V A \/ V VAM4 V V T MA VIA Drugs, and a former New Jersey Assemblyman, warned this week that heroin addiction has already reached the saturation point in some cities and was - radiating out to suburban, small-city and rural areas, where addiction levels ' are now rising fastest. "No city is safe from a heroin epidemic" he warned, "and today, Atlanta, Georgia, and Dallas, Texas, are just as vulnerable as New York City and Newark, New Jersey. Speaking before the South. ern Regional Convention of Black Media Inc., a service cooperation of over 100 black newspapers, and the Georgia Black Publishers Association XVI A +f atlfn rion* r*i ?" +tl?r> itTAntr in niiauiai u^ui^ta, mis wttiw, Richardson explained that the tragedy of the current addiction crisis is deepening because the government is' still not dealing with it. "Last April, President Ford I told Congress that record-high drug addiction levels were 'a clear and present threat to the | safety and future of the nation*. But despite this admission, nothing is being done, the public is still apathetic, and the same men who were part of the Nixon drug cover-up still lead our most important federal drug sic I I ercials. | jk Us Out ??. *. >ri /. ' 4 <-Addict The Deadliest < ^^HgK7?> :?. HP9F ^''fmmf^ m V? ?<7'->' $?<?> :.jKj . ? *? .;. George C. Richardson agencies today." Richardson charged. ' ? He continued that, "Dru addiction can destroy ou entire society as it has already begun to destroy our cities, but neither President Ford nor Governor Carter speaks about the addiction crisis. Although the costs and consequences of drug addiction hurts every American, black and white, rich and noor. neither ?candidate is dealing with this national tragedy." Richardson told the black publishers that drug addiction must become a national issue during this campaign publishers. In his book. JUNKIE: THE DEADLIEST COVER-UP!, which will be published in soft-cover early next month, Richardson charges that the Nixon administration deliberntalu vi?clnni4 t V? a ? Sm^/\ ai^ijr uiisi^au ui^ uoiiuii muu believing that its drug problems were virtually solved. He asserts that because of the Nixon drug cover-up, which he called "the deadliest cover-up of all" addiction has reached the highest level in our history and is now a problem in every part of the nation. "It is mind boggling to learn that in some cities, one-third ~ of all the young men between 16 and 35 are heroin addicts, and addition costs one and Ult Itt uai uiib uu a bette ' JP5'$$!?*' "~ 1rX- '- * " ir/rr^.. .. = / -,4is M * ? J St. H Don't cast your vote f< yon talk to me! See i | on any model in ot I Bob King's fl 701 Peters Creek Pa '' \ < ?..? * ! '. Cover-up! one-half times as much as their entire annual municipal budget. It is a truth we must atiH Ipam to HAAI ? ? -?* v???w IV V*VH1 with before we can hope to evitalize our cities and save our society." Cautioning the black newspaper publishers that addiction was now rising fastest among suburban and smallcity youngsters, Richardson warned that small cities in the South and in all parts of the nation, were on the way to being devastated by addiction just as Eastern cities already are. He urged the black newspapers to become the catalyst in launching a national war on drugs movement. "You, the black newspaper publishers, can begin to move the nation. You can make the people and the i a - mass meaia wane up to this deadly danger. You can move the nation to make drug addiction a priority issue during the next administration, whoever is elected. "The goal of the war," he said, "on the drugs movement is to build a broad-based national constituency of concerned citizens who will move the federal government to come to grips with the addiction crisis and seek i-.j'- - ?? - - soiunons.' tie told the publishers that they better than anyone else understood the impact of addiction on their local communities. He said, "You understand the need for action and you can make the people and the white press understand it also."* <& uiitry needs J r deal! g 1^ awtf #% ki m-ft" Hir-"-- 1 - - | *, k ,' ' 4^ ?* 1 Jerald" " I or any new model an til ne today ... and save $ it stock! ; AMC/JECP m-aij f I i j. ?# t , ? I 4 . 4 ? k ?

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