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I National, state and local
Black Power conference
GREENSBORO -- After three days of meetings in
Atlanta, the National Black Organizers' Conference
(NBOC) has decided it will organize a massive, nationwide
"People's Consensus Petition Campaign" to
nominate the Rev. Jesse Jackson for president of the
United States.
Declaring that "the national conventions of the
Democratic and Republican parties have never reflected
the will of the majority, particularly black people," the
conference voted to promote the petition in churches,
schools, communities and places of work.
"The purpose of the national petition campaign is to
build on and solidify the consensus represented in the
positions Rev. Jackson has taken," said Johnny Fair, a
trade union leader from Baltimore. Fair emphasized that
HUD finding ways to de
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development has launched a study it hopes
will determine workable approaches to the racial
desegregation of public housing throughout the United
States. c
HUD Secretary Samuel B. Pierce Jr. has announced
that the department has awarded a $70,000 contract to
International Business Services Inc., a minority-owned
firm based in Washington, D.C., to study desegregation
strategies that work and those that fail.
The assistant secretary for Public and Indian Housing,
Warren T. Lindquist, welcomed the study, saying that,
despite HUD's requirement that PHAs accept and assign
applicants on a first-come, first-served basis without
regard to race, segregation persists in public housing
Black papers and reader
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reported an increase in both the number of black
newspapers and their reported readership. According to
the researcher, his findings mark a reversal in the
downward trend he had observed since beginning a series
of surveys in 1970.
However, Henry LaBrie, an assistant professor of
journalism at Boston University's School of Public Communication,
has words of caution for the nation's black,
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reported to advertisers or run the risk of losing advertising
revenue.
f According to LaBrie's survey, more than 185 black
newspapers are published in the U.S. Three are dailies
and most of the others are weeklies.
Fire Prevention
Last chance for si
By THOMAS FLYNN
Syndicated Columnist
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The birds are back from the South...the crocuses are in
bloom...your income tax soon will be past due. There's
no disputing any more that spring has sprung. And with
spring comes the annual ritual called spring cleaning. If
you haven't gone through your house in search of winter
debris by now, you'd better hurry. Not only are your
neighbors starting to talk about you, but you could be
sharing your home with a number of five hazards.
How much paper are you keeping? Old newspapers,
cardboard boxes you'll never use and similar detritus?
How many old cleaning rags have become thoroughly
saturated with flammables like cleaning fluid, snowblower
fuel or shoe polish? In a closet, attic or corner of
the basement, a pile of such material is an invitation to
spontaneous combustion. Put it in a metal garbage can
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says nominate Jackson
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Jackson has taken "strong positions ranging from jobtraining
programs, to special taxes on large corporations
in order to fund human needs, to ending U.S. interference
in the internal affairs of other sovereign countries."
Conference organizers said local press conferences will
be held in cities throughout the country to show people's
views on the issues and "expose" some of the old leadership
they consider to be out of touch with the people.
"We want Rev. Jackson to be joined by thousands at
the People's Convention and the Democratic Convention,
both to be held in San Francisco in July," said Dr.
Mary Hoover of Long Beach, Calif., a conference coconvenor.
"Those thousands should be backed by hundreds
of thousands organized locally throughout the
country."
segregate public housing
authorities in many areas.
"We must do everything we can to assist public housing
agencies in alleviating segregated conditions where
they exist -- preferably through voluntary compliance,"
said Antonio Monroig, HUD assistant secretary for Fair
Housing and Equal Opportunity. "Our objective is to
desegregate public housing found in violation of the Constitution
or Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We
will do this as quickly as we can using every means
available to the department."
With HUD field staff assisting, the research firm will
study innovative desegregation techniques that have proved
successful, as well as desegregation programs that
have failed to achieve results.
ship up, says professor
"There are a few more newspapers than there were five
years ago, and the circulation is up, seemingly," says
Labrie. "Just how much it's up is hard to say, although it
appears to be up about 700,000, or about 23 percent."
But thb problem, says Labrie, is determining the real
number of readers, since only 33 of the black newspapers
use outside services to audit their circulations.
LaBrie says this poses a danger to the black press
because advertisers are less willing to buy ad space
without verified circulation.
He also suggests that black publishers ajrlopLDC?CJ^Qn^
- manSiadaur'1 ttilawriiffftr" devefflfr aggressstaff
recruiting aafdtraintng programs and iinpii/vethe graphic
appearance of their papers.
"Very few black papers have gone into computerization
or upgraded printing facilities," says LaBrie. "In
fact, the survey showed only 15 of the papers have their
own printing facilities."
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and get rid of it.
Newspaper can be sold to recycling firms in most com
munities for a few dollars a ton ? or you can sav<
yourslef the aggravation and announce to your area B05
Scott troop that your papers are there for the taking.
Have your winter appliances inspected by repairmer
before you put them away. If there's a hazardous defec
in your space heater or electric blanket, it'll only cosi
more to have it fixed in the fall ~ and incomparably mon
if the appliances sets your house on fire next winter
Snow-throwers should be tuned, adjusted and drained ol
fuel before they're put away for the summer.
This is a good time to sort all of your possessions
Items you never use are just more things to catch fire, 01
to trip over if you're escaping from something else thai
* has caught fire. Rent a mini-storage room for a few
Please see page A3
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The school prayer q
Both opponents and proponents of the prayer amend
ment have predicted that the outcome of last week's vot
would be used as ammunition in the upcoming presiden
> tial and congressional elections. If Richard Viguerie, wh<
raises funds and dispatches political messages through i
direct-mailVirm near Washington, is correct, the war ha
already begun.
"This is shaping up to be the No. 1 issue that the Nev
Right will use against senators if they voted wrong," sai<
Viguerie last week in an interview with the L.A. Times
Washington Post News Service. "Also, we will be sen
ding out 15 million letters for two major clients who ar
making independent expenditures on behalf of th
Reagan campaign. We will talk about Hart's and Mon
dale's positions against school prayer."
But Rodney says he's not interested in the politica
aspects ot the prayer amendment. 441 see prayer as i
valuable element in our lives," he says.
And Butler suggests that the ideology of separation o
church and state is misunderstood by the masses.
"Congress begins its day with prayer, and school
ought to do the same thing," he says. "Don't confus
that with the separation of church and state. God is ove
the state like God is over the church. We cannot say w
must lceep the state separate from God when God is ove
the state. The state is subordinate to God.
"Prayer means we must develop consciousness fo
God, and that's not political," says Butler.
Alderman Martha Wood expressed contentment witl
the Senate's vote.
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"I'm a Baptist and I believe in the separation of church
e and state," she says. "... I don't depend on the public
school system to teach religion. If we get to this point,
3 we're all in trouble."
a Wood also questions the political intentions of the pros
ponents of prayer in the^public schools.
"I think it has been misinterpreted - the separation of
v church state issue - with regards to public prayer -- by
i Sen. Helms and Sen. East," she says. "I am most con->~cerned
when that item is first on the agenda. My religion
- is too important to me to make pablum out of it -- I just
e can't support that approach."
e Counters Butler: "We ought to understand that
- America is founded on Christian principles. The Pilgrims
were motivated to worship freely. Prayer ought to
il saturate our lives.
"We have a tendency to forget that prayeuules our
f government -- and we mustn't forget that."
Chris Blakely and Michael Wingate, students in the
local school system, think public school prayer would
S work if studentircould be assured that they would have a
choice in the matter.
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e "It should be all right as long as teachers don't make
r people pray who4on't want to,"says Blakely, a seventhgrader
at Southwest Junior High,
r "If a person is religious, he has a right to pray," says
Wingate, an llth-grader at West Forsyth Senior High.
h "All Gods are the same, and people have a right to pray.
They just pray different."
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