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Winston722-1
Ernest H. Pitt
Editor & Publisher
~ Melvin Eaton
Circulation Manage
Winston-Salem, IM, (
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There is a rumor going
"around East Winston that
the East Winston Branch
of the library may be
closed. It seems that the
?circulation figures for that
branch are substantially
below that of other libraries.
'If the library closes,"
one official noted, "It
won't be closed by the
library board, it will be
closed by the community."
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- - -- *atL way to?save the
Library is to
* use it,
Defeati
Joseph Califano's deci
sion to withhold federal
funds from the UNC system
may defeat the purpose
he claims to be
serving. The HEW Secretary
maintains that he is
taking this action to speed
up the university's desegregation
process, and to.
strengthen black colleges.
However, if federal
funds are withdrawn from
the university system, it
would seem that all
branches of the university
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wouia suner. uoes uaiiiano
have any control over
the way9 in which non- federal
money is spent?
Suppose his plan backfires,
and money is si--~
phoned away from deficient
programs to keep
? programs going at State
and UNC-CH?
We have already stated
in a previous editorial that
Reminder?V
Rep. Delben Li
Committee, did sor
the national debt:
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national debt. Tod<
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"It's funny," noted i
library staffer, "how the
people who make so mucf
noise about losing the
library are not the one?
who use it,"
Since April 2-8 is Na^
tional Library Week, there
could hardly be a more
appropriate time to take
advantage of the library'i
free services. Get a mem
bership card. Check out ?
book.
The East Winston Li
brary may not be . ai
accessible as it once was
thanks to Redevelopment
ing His I
the HEW ruling,eiimina
ting duplication of programs
would hurt students
of both races. 11
education or nursing: foi
example, were only offered
at one institution,
and it happened to be
Elizabeth City or Fay
etteville, then black stu
dents here would suffei
from the inaccessibility ol
courses just as much ai
the students at UNC-G 01
Asheville.
Califano's sweeping reforms
seem intended tc
bring about overnight
changes in the system changes
which not everybody
wants. Many blacks
vigorously oppose the loss
of their school's racial
identity. The reforms
8eem~~aimed at an end
result without heeding the
havoc that will occur in the
interim: students educaVe're
Still in Debt
it la (R.-Ohio), a member of
ne figuring and came up with tl
Eight years ago, an average c
x return was applied to payin*
iy. an average of $707 of ever]
09 per cent rise.
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:an Correspondent
y April Z, 1978
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i But those neighborhoods
? are being rebuilt ? slowly.
1 If the community can
? make an extra effort to use
j the East Winston library
in the meantime, the pro
blem will solve itself in the
? long run." *g
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The community can
3 save the East Winston
' Library simply by using it.
1 * Visit the library and read a
magazine or check out a
- book. All it will cost you is
3 time. East Winston lost its
, hospital ? have you got
time to save its library?
'urpose
i
0
tpH in nwiflrromo
- because funds are cut off;
students deprived of opf
portunities because proL
grams are eliminated;
standards lowered for
, quote requirements are
i raised beyond the hopes
- of students who could
- previously have been adr
mitted. All these effects
f could result from the
i Califano decision.
We agree with the criticisms
leveled at the Califano
decision by Rep.
Steve Neab Neal staT
; ted: " . . . It will be HEW,
and not the state of North
i Carolina, that has de-;
prived many young people,
both black and white,
of their right to obtain
l:_I -J
iiuaiitjr mgner education
at the campus of their
choice." the
House Budget
lese eye openers on
)f S263 of every in5
the interest on the
1 return goes to seri
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By T D1ANNE BELLAMY S MALL
North Carolina State Youth Conference President, NAACP
A job is an act, by which a person can obtain money,
experience and position for living in society. Snce having a
job affects how much money you can make and the
experience you receive, it places you in the socio-econonvc
order of tilings. It is your responsibility to know what you
_are capable of doing, what kind of job you want and where
you are going in the job market.
It is time now for young people seeking jobs to get out
and start placing applications. If you have already begun
that's great, if you have not, it's high time to get moving.
Jobs are going to be harder to find now because people are
not hiring, people are not quitting their jobs and money is
vcij right. It w*i! be important that, as yciu. seek
employment, vou be aware of a few things. Your appearance,
your ability to fill out an application and your ability to
conduct yourself in art interview will have some bearing on
~ 'wtieror you'gra'iap'anttmekuia'&rjdbyoocan W-?=
irrust conform to. It is no ? eood to-ffo4o<>k?m> fnr o ir>h m
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cornrows or plaits. It is no good to go looking for a job if
your body odor offends people. It is no good to go for a job
with the clothe ^-lav hnskrtbn^irj.. A suit-rrrrd tre-rrrrirc:.
a skirt or dress, butaon't try to look like "Su per Ely" 01
"Foxy B rown." - Wh atever you wear it should be cleean
-pressed and neatly worn. I guess you say every body-knows
that but I challenge you go to down to the Employment
Security Commission in your area and see how people come
in looking for jobs.
Once you get to the employment office, in most instances
j you have to fill out an application and, if nothing else, you
have to sign yourname. Many applications are made lengthy
to frustrate and discourage you. So you need to be alert,
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"Under the leadership of Secretary Patricia confirn
Harris, the Department of Housing and Urban HUD fc
Development has moved swiftly to ensure the best neighb(
use of scarce federal urban funds. income 1
The Community Development Bloc Grant That';
program is the centerpiece of federal efforts to aid after ta
the cities. It replaced categorical grants-federal incre?se
grants for specific projects and programs. Under poorer
the bloc grant system, the government transfers were ord
money to the cities with few strings attached. Then,
Naturally, local officials preferred this way of on the i
doing business. They could use the money in requiring
almost anv wav thev felt their cities needed it. .
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without the complex federal restrictions that had moderat*
tied their hands in the past. Man>
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The only problem was, the money wasn't flexibilit
reaching poor and moderate income consist*
neighborhoods. The law creating the bloc grant class nei
system stipulated that's where the bulk of the i m p r o \
money was supposed to go, but there was little intended
enforcement. _ By
In 1975, the National Urban League conducted overwhel
a survey of how the bloc grant system was thrust
working in 24 cities. The results were depressing. neighbor
Not more than half of the Community be impr<
Development funds were going to the continue
neighborhoods that needed them most, and of Man
those, about a third were used for land clearance p e r c e n
projects to prepare for uses that would generally preservin
benefit higher income people. Then HUD itself t^e ^
analyzed the results ot the program and regulati
|f The President
have plenty of time and read with understanding before you
start writing.
Look at the application betoie >ou begin wilting
Sometimes at the top in a corner or in fine print, you will
find the words, "Print in Ink" and many people see this alter
they have begun to write the answers on the application.
If youdo not understand what the application s asking, ask
somebody. Try to be neat and complete. It you are unsure ot
how to fill out an application, ask to take it home and bring
it back the next day. Then get someone to help you fill the
application out correctly. An application filled out the wrong
way will probably get little or noconsiderationind it leads
the employei to believe that perhaps you are not capable ol
doing the job.
.An interview can help you or hurt you. Never lie in an
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iiiibi . rvio?ti u.? y y->u uMUitdianu IHCHI, c c? i
don't ramble. Leave the street language outside. If you donvt
know how to use, "went," "came." "is." "I," "myself," find
"t. pivsctr is wTmig.flnri flhnulri to avnirisri. PwVt fr""
aTrni'rt "in Innt i! tiiA ro<wi 7.. !il
kvio^h, yviiu is unci viewing you. 11 me
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offended, ft is ortty a tactic to see how sensitive you ate-.
Remember you want to give yourself the best opportunity to
get a job.
r will never know what
, you can do until you try.
?Attend the Minority Youth Unemployment Conference:
"Brother Can You Spare a Job?'1 at Bennett-College ir
Greensboro, Friday, March 31, and Saturday, Apiil 1. It is
sponsored by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities
Committee and the North Carolina State Youth Conference,
NAACP. If you don 't have a job or need to know more about
-getting a job, do yotirseif~a favoi. come tcrihe conference"
this weekend.
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il Rights Debate
ied the Urban League's studies. In fact, controls over th(
>und declining resources goingto the projects. This en:
3rhoocis occnpred by low and moderate^ resources targeted
"amilies. areas woul d t ruly
> where Secretary Harris came in. Shortly there,
king office she implemented policies to yjie fjnaj regulati
the amount of bloc grant funds going to \ anj now ^ave t^e
areas. HUD staff all across the country officials' desire for I
ered to follow new targeting policies. primacy of aid to 1c
the Secretary proposed new regulations aDolication* will
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jse ot Community Development funds, three-fourths of the
\ that three-fourths of the grants would and moderate incon
a be used for the benefit oflow and applications will be I
j income families. reviews.
' local officials took a negative view. Flexibility is prt
ig the regulations would remove the t0 certify that not
y they once had. Chiefly that flexibility grant monies w
id of putting improvements into middle low-income peop
ghborhoods to win votes at election time, show that the lc
rements paid for with federal funds purposes derjves fr,
for lower income neighborhood communities anc
contrast, community groups planning process th
mingly supported the Department's new income people
, By targeting funds into poorer
hoods, the lives of their residents would Applications pro
aved and the neighborhoods saved from percent of the gt
d decline. . income people will I
y pointed out that the proposed 75 7} - new ml.
t rule would end past abuses while makjng federal fun(
ig plenty of local flexibility in the use of the Secretary is to
ds. Almost as important, the proposed making HUD's poli
ions included stronger administrative in need of federal ai
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T. Dianne Bellamy-Small
Congress ? ?
Wir Hill
For those ot us who had
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nium, foreseeing dwindpast
fixed incomes, there
is good news. Congress
has just passed a bill
prohibiting j>rivafce buni- nesses
from forcing employees
to retire before
age seventy. The federal
goverment cannot forcibly r
retire its employees at any
age.
Considering that the
Chairman of the House
Aging Committee is nearing
eighty, and that the
word Senate is Latin for
"old" (with a substantial
number of its members
* qualifying for the title), it
is hardly surprising that
such a bill would pass.
?Historically, some?of??
the world's greatest achievements
have been accomplished
by the elderly.
Picasso~was still paintingat
90; George Bernard?
Shaw wrote a play at 93;
Churchill wrote his "History
of hte English-speaking
People" at 82; and
Schweitzer head a hospital
in Africa at age 89.
It was unfair to arbitrarily
declare a person
unfit to work because of
his age. Sixty-five is just a
little over half way in the
lives of many. It is nice to
see that it is no longer
considered "the end."
Economically speaking,
this measure could be a
blessing for all ages. It
will give senior citizens
the opportunity to stay
financially independent;?
relieving the burden from
the state or the children of
the elderly.
7 yThis law restores -the?
nignity lo oia age, and
restores to the country one
of its greatest natural
resources: the wisdom of
its elderly.
2 quality of the bloc grant"
sures that, for the first time,
to low and moderate income
benefit the people who live
ions were published on March
force of law. They meet local
flexibility while preserving the
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-rrw. inhume areas. rNow grant
have to certify that at least
grant will directly benefit low
le persons and approval of the
followed up with performance
Jserved by allowing applicants
less than fifty percent of the
ould be used to benefit
le, but applicants will have to
>wer percentages for these
om the special needs of their
1 that it was arrived at in a
at included low and moderate
iposing to spend less than 50
ants for the benefit of lower
se turned down.
s are a major step forward in
is relevant to urban needs Mid
be commended for her role in
cies responsive to those most
d.