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Page A8-The Chronicle, Thursda NAACPh By ALBERT NICK EPSON Chronicle Staff Writer NAACP President Patrick Hairston has started a non-profit organization called People Are Treated Human (P.A.T.H.) to alleviate the problem of increasing numbers of homeless street people in the city. 'There is nothing being done for street people," Hairston said. "America is rich enough to support all of its people." Hairston acknowledges that the Experiment in Self-Reliance, the NAACP, and the Urban League are trying to provide shelter and food for black street people, while the Salvation Army, the Rescue Mission and j several other churches . are the principal white organizations - helping the street people. But he said more needs to be _ done. "We need to place ourselves in their position and we would realize how critical the problem is," he said. He said the organization is "seeking a federal tax exempt status. As a non-profit agency, it already has a tax exemption from the state. Since April, the IMMMMMMMMHIHIIIIIIItllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllllll Belle From Pag HtMIKMMIMHMNIMtMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllllMIMMIIttlttft is that lower inflation induced by a fall-off in the demand for goods and services is bad. Inflation should be brought down by an increase in the supply of goods and services produced by workers in the particular country, not by foreign suppliers whose workers are being employed at lower wages at the expense of the U.S. workforce. U.S. companies are forced to cut prices on goods they cannot sell at the higher U.S. price. U.S. manufacturers lose money, go bankrupt, lay off workers and never become competitive in the U.S. or world market. This takes time before the public can believe I VOTE I AFR1 ||g MAI GOI MC lot of people d think it doesr your friends wl you do about country Get your friends together your more. This year, vc MpH A Public Servic fA\#| National Associ (jOlfloj State & The Ac y, October 18, 1984 ead initiate organization has been seekin funding from local corporations foundations and individuals. In August, Hairston met wit Gov. James Hunt and submitte the proposal for possible stat funding. Ben Ruffin, special assistant t the governor, said he is reviewin which agencies might fund th program. 44I am continuing to seek fur ding from several sources,'* sai Ruffin. 44We are looking < several ways to fund proposa but the Reagan administratio has cut funds that used to b available to fund such a project. Ruffin said he would contat Hairston whenever he could fin a source of funding for the pre posal. The Associate Consultant conducted a survey of the stree people problem for P.A.T.H More than 71 percent of the pec pie interviewed for the surve said that black churches weren' doing enough to help the stree people. The survey defined street pec pie as alcholic, drug abusers, e> offenders, and other victims o poverty. It indicated that a majc llllllllllltlllltllllltlllltttlllllllllllttlltHIIHItlttllllllll < e A4 H?|iiniiiimnMmmnwiMMMiMiM im country's economy by this ad ministration. But it will come. Cutting ou U.S. producers means cutting ou jobs, eventually for white as wel as black American workers. Pro sperity for the poor was over th ursi time tnis administration wa elected to office. Prosperity will pass over th< middle class if this administrator is re-elected. There is only on< place the president, if re-elected can look to mend the broker U.S. budget caused by too mucl spending on defense ? th "mythical" middle class. WITH IEND. IvK== INT NIL orit vote because it count. But think of io think the same the future of our to vote with you, votes will count )te with a friend. e Message from The ation of Secretaries of Jvertising Council js P.A.T.H. r* g social problem facing cities in the >, 1980s will be how to provide for the homeless, h "This group of Americans afd fects the majority of American e society like a cancer, eating away with crime, health problems, o education, housing and even the g future of the country," according e to a statement issued by P.A.T.H. 1- Hairston said Winston-Salem's d street people primarily are it located in the downtown area im1, mediately northwest of the M.C. n Benton Convention Center and ?e the hotel district. According to the study, there is !t a trpnH tnu/arH mnr? ? ? ?> V * ?N % BI?VI V IIV1IIV IVJJ d people in the city because of state >- and local urban renewal and relocation programs. s Of the city's 150,000 popula,t tion, there are an estimated 900 street people in the downtown area. About 30 percent of the y homeless are black, Hairston t said. ,t Generally, Winston-Salem's street people are from lowincome families, have lower >- education and are more likely to t- have poor health. According to f the study, about 33 percent of the ?r city's black families live in poverIII ty, compared to 10 percent of white families. Another factor is the unemployment rate, about 23 m percent for all blacks and about e 42 percent for black teen-agers. I- The P.A.T.H. study listed the street people populations of it it II S ' y ^ _ . * i M 4 Io u o o (A a r m S H to aid the ho various cities this way: Charlotte, 2,375; Durnham, 795; rec Greensboro, 950; Raleigh, 875; grj and Winston-Salem, 900. hel Hairston said P.A.T.H. will re! provide free emergency shelter est and food seven days a week, an 24-hours a day. Beds and sleeping orj facilities also will be provided -- if the necessary funding is obtain- ofl ed. gei DON'T LET TH1 * ON CIVIT Rir,H THIS WEEK Jesse Rights Act of 1984. S. ' On September 29, Senators to oppose Jesse Helms even r - hearings to try to t though two out ot Jim Hunt would ^ f Vote For Jim Hur Paid for by the Jim Hunt Committee You've got .^^^ H-# I^SMBttit^ OTMH v ftfeggj neral Has Determined ESfV angerous to Your Health. > ? titleless sti "Initially, a majority of the ipients of P.A.T.H.'s proim will be street people seeking ip themselves," he said. "But ferral programs will be ablished with churches, courts d other civic and social ganizations." What's more, P.A.T.H. will fer other services, including leral counseling and counselEM TURN BAC TS: Helms voted to tabl (October 3, 1984) 1984, he was one of C consideration of tha ised Senate Agricultu urn Senators against three had endorsed i /ote FOR the Cr SEN'4 f w what It V \ " :-rm "<*m ?| mf \/?:'":"' . ; RflBW *e**,Aj i mhHHE '*Gi eet people ing for runaways, ex-offenders, drug abusers, the alcoholic and the chronicly unemployed. And, the group will offer free meals, survival training and family relocation. Hairston said the organization will renovate the old USA Hotel at 718 N. Trade St. -- with the assistance of some of the homeless people it hopes to help.' K THE CLOCK | e the Civil )NLY FOUR t bill. J ire Committee this bill, even t. (June 12, 1984) . J_ ril Rights Act. takes. spirit efreshment. * HBI K Kv
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