FROM THE
EDITOR’S DESK
By Hoyle H. Martin Sr.
Po6t Executive Editor
Mayoral candidates Ken
Harris (R) and Jim Wetting
ton <D) appear to be frnstrat
ine many voters bv \ their
different points of view. At'one
neighborhood meeting where
the candidates spoke last
week, a woman said to them,
“1 haven’t heard anything
about what’s different be
tween you, why I should vote
for one and not the other.”
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The two leading black news
papers and 16 inter-racial or
ganizations have been banned
by the South African govern
ment. The editor of one of the
newspapers and 10 other black
leaders were arrested in the
biggest crackdown by the
white-supermist government
since the early 1960s.
These developments by the
South African government
were designed to discourage
any futher efforts by blacks
to take power from the mino
rity white government and
give it to the majority black
population.
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By a vote of 236 to 187 last
Thursday, the U.S. House of
Representatives approved a
35-cents increase in the mini
mum wage that raised the
rate to $2.65 per hour. Two
days earlier the Senate had
taken similar action. The new
wage rale will take effect in
January of 1978 pending Pre
sident Carter's signature.
This congressional action
represents the largest mini
mum wage boost in history. It
will mean raising minimum
wage workers annual wages
by $728 or to $5,512. The some
bill calls for hiking the hourly
base wage further in three
annual stages until it reaches
$3.35 in 1981.
Reportedly, Republican Jim
Martin was the only N.C.
i ongressman to vote against
tin* wage bill.
North Carolina's hourly mi
nimum wage was raised from
$2 to $2 30 last July. However,
the same wage bill requires
boostine the state minimum
“f* T “T
Inspite of having the world's
most rigid apartheid (racial
segregation) policy, there are
apparently no racial barriers
to medical transplants in Sou
th Africa.
A white woman received the
heart of a mixed-race woman
in a “piggyback" transplant
performed by the noted surgi
cal team headed by Dr. Chris
tian Barnard of Cape Town's
Groote Schuur Hospital.
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“Project Match,” a compu
terized system designed to
identify Washington area wel
fare cheaters, turned up only
47 suspects, none of whom will
probably 'be prosecuted for
fraud, government officials
said Saturday.
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A “Ms” magazine sponsor
ed seminar designed to get
women to speak out on sexual
harassment of working wo
men revealed last Saturday
what a meeting organizer cal
led “raw exploitation in the
work place.”
One young woman, an alco
holic, said she was hired by an
executive who took her out for
lunch frequently. Encoura
ging her to drink alcohol, he
would abuse her body as she
became drunker.
A Civil Liberties Union's
Women's Rights Project
spokeswoman said the courts
are finally beginning to reco
gnize sexual harassment, and
the consequences of sexual
refusal, as a form of bland job
discrimination.
Hoyle H. Martin Sr.
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federal minimum reaches or
exceeds that amount.
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