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SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1972 Section B —B Pages . WnikajdWH WKLT Minority Firms Get Million In Conlrads Eight minority-owned busi nesses have been awarded con tracts totaling 5i.24 million under provisions of the Small Business Act, the General Ser vices Administration announced today. Arthur F. Sampson, head of GSA, said the contracts "are examples of President Nixon's continuing effort to encourage the development and growth of firms owned by socially or economically disadvantaged persons. "During the last 12 months, GSA awarded 405 service con tracts worth $26.4 ihillion and 70 concession contracts estim ated to gross SB.B million over the next five years, all under section 8(a) of the Small Bus iness Act," Sampson said. Section 8(a) permits the government to negotiate con tracts with minroity-owned firms on a noncompetitive basis Continued on page 2B '-J>. hy-' iv P •#*"■;- ;&1 Mill®- ; m flli MBSiaHIm JHHWk Jtm 1 ■ SAMPSON Black Revolution Reach Poor W Exciting as the '"Black Re volution" is, it has failed utter ly to touch the one segment of Black society that most needs its benefits: the poor. In fact, reports an article in the August Reader's Digest, blacks who live in poverty are actually getting poorer. One result of this alarming trend, author Lester Velie notes, is that breakdowns among black families are growing. Since the family acts as a civilizing force during a child's developing years—the family unit has in fact been referred to as society's greatest law enforcement agency-it follows that broken families can lead to increased juvenile delin quency and the adult criminal ity that follows. Calling for remedies to end "the morass of poverty, family breakdown and crime," the article declares that we must stop blaming the victims of racial injustice for their mis fortunes. By preventing vast numbers of black men from playing the role of breadwinner in thcpast, our society has denied them the chance to play the role of father. Black unemployment is traditionally at least double that of whites. Result: families break up, black women must go out to work, black children grow up without fathers and with mothers they rarely see. In 1960 one of every four black families was headed by a woman. Today almost one of every three black families is without a father (compared with one in ten for whites). Without fathers to look up to and without job opportun ities for themselves (at last count, 32 percent of black teen-agers couldn't find work). BISHOP A. W. LAWSON ' President Fisher Memorial ToHost Western N X .District The Third Annual Convo cation of the Western North Carolina District of the United Holy. Church of America, Inc., will open Sunday Morning, August 6 and six o'clock with Moming Watch at Fisher's Memorial United Holy Church on Piedmont Avenue in Dur ham. According to Bishop A. W. Lawson, host pastor and president of the District, well many black youths become embittered enough to turn to crime. And so the vicious cycle goes on. (Cornell Uni versity researchers have found that children from homes where one or both parents are fre quently absent are more likely to engage in anti-social beha vior.) Obviously jobs are at the heart of the problem. "The first step," Velie writes, "is to realize that when a black man earns a living, he holds his family together." But before jobs can open up there must be training programs and better education for young blacks, says the Digest. High schools must do a better job for black youngsters, in both academis areas and job training. Until long-range programs can be instituted, the article notes, a "holding operation" could be provided by the Ad ministration's Family Assistance Plan, which would place a $2400 income floor under needy families and would offer supplemental payments to the working poor as well as to wel fare recipients. It is estimated that the Plan would provide 225,000 job-training opportun ities, boost child-care faciliteis to care for 875,000 children, and create 200,000 public-ser vice jobs. Passed by the House of Representatives a year ago, the Family Assistance Plan awaits action in the Senate. . Whatever form it finally takes, it is clear that immediate action is needed to break up the vicious cycle—poverty, fam ily breakdown and crime—that has afflicted the lower-class black population for too many years. Che CarplbCimig .3ft! l i i i mi k ■ i ShSB Hp BISHOP N. M. MIDGETTE Vice-President over five hundred delegates are expected to be in attend ance for the week long meet ing. The Convocation theme, "Focusing to Function Bet ter," will be developed through several sessions devoted to various aspects of church serv ice under such daily topics as Proper Fellowship, Ecumeni cal Relationships, Increasing Students Make Busing Work IParents Are The Problem "It is the students them selves who are making the busing programs work," de clares Urban America Unit producer-director Paul Alt meyer, who has spent several months in the South filming the television documentary, "Busing: Some Voices From the South," to be seen August 7, at 7:00 p.m. on Channel Eleven. His sentiments are supported by Linda Estes, an eighth-grader in Charlotte. "Parents are 70% of the problem," she says. Linda insisted on being bused to North West Junior High School in an all-black neigh borhood, fighting her parents' desire to put her in private school because she thought in the long run the integrated school would offer a better education experience. Linda is taking part in a Scientist Wins Washington, D. C. NASA today honored Dr. George R. Carruthers of the Naval Re search Laboratory here for the development of man's first moon-based space observatory, carried to the lunar surface by the Apollo 16 astronauts in April. In a special ceremony at the space agency's headquarters, NASA Administrator Dr. James C. Fletcher presented Dr. Car ruthers, one of the nation's outstanding black astrophysi cists, with NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. Dr. Carruthers, 32, of NRL's Space Science Division, devel i DR. CARRUTHERS DR. FLETCHER JPCMUM. HMttHCABpUNA ■»r—■ —■ 1 ■ nn «t* li | BISHOP J. W. TEAMER | Second Vice-President Awareness of Ways to Relate to Society, Missions at Home and Abroad, Political Con sciousness Based Upon a Chris tian Awareness, Channeling the Energy of Youth Toward Christian Fruition. Bishop N. M. Midgette, Vice President of the Dfetrict, will deliver the eleven o'clock Sunday morning message. Continued on page 2B student-inspired program, "Pro ject Trust," designed to keep parents informed as to what is taking place in the school. "I think they should let us alone to work out our own problems in school," Linda says. "Because I think that's one of the reasons to come to school, to learn how to work our problems ... "I think busing has taught a lesson—that all people are equal and there 8 not any difference between blacks and whites and their feelings and I think it has worked out well down here." A sensitivity session filmed for the documentary in Inde pendence High School in Char lotte reveals other students' attitudes: "It's helping the society. I think once we get as old as our parents. . .this world is going Continued on page 2B oped a unique, far-ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for the Apollo mission, which has taken nearly 200 pictures of the Earth, the Milky Way and other galaxies in far-ultraviolet wavelengths not observable from the Earth's surface. In formation from this film, which is undergoing analysis by Dr. Carruthers and his co-investi gator, Dr. Thornton Page, is shedding new light on the structure of the universe, and on the outer reaches of the Earth's atmosphere. NASA had presented other awards to participants in the Continued on page 2B IRS Warns Of Illegal Rent And Of Evictions Greensboro—Landlords who evict tenants in retaliation for protesting allegedly illegal rent increates to the IRS are viol ating Economic Stabilisation regulations and face possible criminal or civil penalties. IRS Director J. E. Wall said that if the government proves retaliation in court, the land lord may be subject to a $5,000 fine for each violation, a civil penalty of $2,500 for each violation, or an injunction to prohibit future retaliatory acts. Wall noted that the "ef fectiveness of enforcement of rent controls depends primarily on tenant initiative, aided and encouraged by Governmental action. "Eviction of a tenant, who has complained to the govern ment about illegal rental in creases, would not only punish the tenant for making a com plaint, which he has a consti tutional right to make, but would stand as a warning to others that they dare not be so bold. Retaliatory evictions under such circumstances would be a perversion of the Congressional purpose in en acting the Economic Stabilaza tion Act." Tenants who receive notices of eviction after complaining of a rent increase should con tact their IRS office, continue to pay rent and keep records of payments thought to be in exoese of those permitted by Stabilization regulations. Wall said that useful evidence to 'support an allegation of retaliatory eviction includes the following: 1) the tenant always paid rent on time, behaved properly, etc., and therefore, the land lord could have no reason for eviction other than retaliation; 2) when the tenant asked the landlord the reason for the notice of rent increase, the landlord refused to answer or was evasive; 3) if the. landlord contends that the tenant was sometimes late in paying the rent or was sometimes noisy, the landlord had never complained about this to the tenant; 4) other tenants were late Continued on page 2B Black Youth To Sponsor Discussions UIJVUJJIVIIJ On Monday, August 7th, at 7:00 p.m. the Black Youth for Progressive Education will sponsor their sixth panel dis cussion-Local Organizations. There will be representatives from Operation Breakthrough, United Durham Incorporated, Foundation for Community Development, and the Black Youth for Progressive Educa tion. The discussion will be held at the old St. Titus Parish House, 1608 Fayette vilte Street. The public is in vited to come out and be come acquainted with the functions and operations of its community organizations. Lee Says Any Candidate StaadsCtaKe "Candidate*, whether black or white, who can come forth with a progressive and rele vant program stand a good chance of being elected to al most any office within the! state regardless of the econo- Continued on page 2B bUMm mm XWS^m^ Jr JSMP ■ ■ iiHIVI I ■p jir ■ , H /^n ßßSfe: '' |B SvJjjj| ||/ kW B ,; \ pp SQUAW CONCLAVE BOUND | Six members of the Dur- ] ' . ham Chapter of Squaws, In- I corporated, are shown leaving the Raleigh-Durham Airport i on July 12, 1972 for the Na Six Members Of Dur Off To National Conc The Third Biennial Na tional Conclave of Squaws, In corporated, was held at the St. Regis Hotel in Detroit, Michi gan, July 13-16, with the Detroit Chapter hosting. Seven members from the Durham chapter attended. They were: Mesdames Cecelia Barnes, Virtee Cobb, Marian Covington, Quincey Eaves, Edna Harrington, Omega Parker and Clara Scarborough. The theme of the four-day Conclave was "X Decade of New Dimensions." During this decade, the Founding Chapter (Pittsburgh, Pa.) received its charter in 1962 and grew from two to eight chapters. Chapter affiliations became effective as follows: Philadelphia, 1964; Detroit, 1967; Benton Harbor, 1970; Toledo, 1970; Cleve land, 1970; Charlotte, 1970 and Durham, 1972. Squaws, Incorporated holds a life membership in the NAACP, contributes to the Legal Fund of the NAACP and at present the National Project is contributing to the Continued on page 2B k I pr^PP^tjl I ypS? t ,'tNL^t l /la ■* iUSH MRS. MARIAN THOMAS, incoming president of Eta Phi Beta Sorority, Alpha Theta Chapter is shown presenting decorative window shades and a play barrel to Mrs. Herbert Taylor, Director of the Sara Barker Center for the Re tarded. Scholarships, support Local » State and National of Interest to All tional Conclave of Squaws, Inc., held in Detroit, Michi gan, July 13-16, 1972. From left to right: Mesdames Marian Covington, Edna Harrington, Col. Hurtt Of Baltimore Leaves Morgan For Tour In Vietnam Baltimore, Md. Col. Clar ence \lelvin Hurtt, 51, profes sor and chairman of the De partment of Military Science at Morgan State College since JuJy, 196 C, will end his tour of duty on campus at the end of July for a year's return to South Vietnam. Col. Hurtt, who was an as sistant professor of Military Science at Morgan from 1953- 1955, was an advisor to four Infantry Regiments in the Re public of South Vietnam from June, 1957 to June, 1968. Having served in the military as a commissioned officer since 1949, Col. Hurtt has seen tours of duty throughout the United States and Europe. His last position before coming to Morgan in 1968 was General Staff Officer, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, at the Pentagon. Col. Hurtt is a 1948 Morgan and aid to institutions caring j for the mentally retarded is a project of the local and na tional chapters of Eta Phi | Beta. Alphg Theta Chapter was chartered in Durham in March, 1970 with eight members. Cur rent membership is now fif teen. Quincey Eaves, Omega Parker, Virtee Cobb and Clara Scar borough. Not pictured, but also attending was Cecelia Barnes. COL. HURTT aiumnus and a product of the Baltimore Public Schools. Speaking recently as he pre pared to leave Morgan, Col. Hurtt said, "My assignment at Morgan has been one of the most enjoyable since entering thernnilitary. Coming back to Morgan has been' a homecom- Continued on page 2B Seated at left is Mm Mitzi Howerton, an instructor and at right a student at the | Center. 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