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EMERGEUCY JOB PROGRAM
The Emergency Job Program which
President Ford signed into legislation
in late December U in process of being
administered in Durham by the
Durham-Orange County Manpower
Consortium and should help to give
some public sen jobs to currently
unemployed persons.
It h important to remember that
requirements have been set up for
those individuals who can participate
in such public works programs.
Individuals must have been
unemployed for 30 calendar days and
roust be residents of the
Durham-Orange County Area.
Preference will be given to those
persons who have exhausted or used
up their unemployment insurance
benefits, to those unemployed
persons who are not eligible fpr
unemployment insurance benefits and
to those who have been unemployed
for 1 5 or more weeks.
Special consideration will be given
to the most severely disadvantaged
persons, veterans, welfare recipients
and former manpower trainees.
It is hoped that many of those
persons who have been unemployed
and are actively seeking work will
make all efforts to become a part of
the Emergency Jobs Program. With
the high cost of living and with the
rapidly growing unemployment at all
levels, we hope that those who meet
the criteria and who have been
unemployed for some time will be
able to share and participate in this
program.
Durham's economy is in dire need
of an assist from such a program and
it is hoped that all who qualify can
become a part of the new Emergency
Jobs Program.
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CRUCIAL SESSION
The 1975 General Assembly
convened this past Wednesday and
observers and legislators alike agree
that it should be an interesting session,
one that very likely could extend into
late June or early July.
t But because the times are so
uncertain we think the word
1nteresting" does not clearly define
the importance of ' this legislative
gathering. "Crucial" is a much more
appropriate term, for in a sense, the
General Assembly has the opportunity
to deal with measures that could
dramatically improve the lot of many
North Carolinians, especially in the
areas of economic and consumer
natters.
We hope the legislature will act
swiftly in approving some kind of tax
reform package, while at the same
approving measures to limit the power
publictutUities have in imposing higher
,rl0T&aniMes already exert
too much control over our lives and
purses. -
The General Assembly should also
act favorably in approving a law that
would protect renters in their
relationship with landlords, and the
Equal Rights Amendment that would
tit effect, bestow full citizenship rights
upon women. Repeal of the sales tax
on food is another matter that has
attracted considerable attention of
those advocating consumer reform,
and repeal of the death penalty
deserves the closest of attention from
those in Raleigh.
The matter of allocating funds for
the NCCU Law School is an issue that
can stand no equivocation. The school
must be supported and the General
Assembly must come up with the
funds needed to construct a new
building for the school. The only
pro f essional . school at a
predominantly black college in the"
University of North Carolina system
must be saved, and in order for the
school to maintain its accreditation, a
new building will have to be
constructed. Positive action on any
allocationi of funds for NCCU is
imperative. '
The GeneVai Assembly will' also be ':
watched closely to sec if the members
exercise economy in government. In
this day and time of rising costs, etc.,
there can do no malarky and hanky
panky in Raleigh. The people's
representatives must work - and work
hard at arriving at the solutions to the
problems of the people of the state.
It is time to get down to business.
FIRST III HYPOCRISPY
The,:
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ambarrassment
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1975 license plate with its
u ui i iwvuuiih . la . an
to the those North
Carolinians who are aware of the
restrictive and repressive actions and
attitudes of many in this state.
'The slogan was attached to the new
license plates at the request of the
State's;, Bicentennial Committee to
commemorate What it considered two
significant events in the state's history
during . the country's; move for
Independence. The first was the signing
oTthc Halifax Resolution which made
North Carolina the first colony to
authorize delegates to attend the
Continental Congress where the
Declaration of independence was
signed. The second event was North
Carolina, in 1 775, being the first
colony to expel it royal governor.'
Unfortunately the Bicentennial
Committee, the governor and others
entrusted with the authority to
dictate the state's image seem more
concerned, with the state's past than
they do with the present.
One has only to remember that
there are more persons on death row
in North Carolina than any other state
to recognize the foolishness of the
"Firsf n iFreedom"' slogan. One has
only to recall the governor's recent
action. dismissing the members of the
state's HUman Relations Commission
to see thd absurdity of such a slogan.
Hie list could go on and on, but that
would only add to the embarrassment.
Perhaps a more appropriate slogan
to stick on the state's license plates,
and onef which would seem to
characterize North Carolina's present
and possibly its future, would be
"First in Hypocrisy."
Jzclioon Advocates Silver Rights
WE CAN NEVER BE SATIS
FIED AS LONG AS THE
NEGRO'S BASIC MOBILITY
IS FROM A SMALLER GHETTO
TO A LARGER ONE!'
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POLICE SAJPA NOTE WAS LEFT
READING NIGGERS BEWARE.
STATEMENT OF THE
REVEREND JESSE L.
JACKSON. NATIONAL
PRESIDENT, OPERATION
PUSH. ON HOLY DAY
SERVICES AND MASS
DEMONSTRATIONS
For th hot three months
the . National - ecumenical
. inlnitter's Division of Operation
PUSH has attempted to serve as
taa moral catalyst In.
loasfsbllihlng the coalition for
progressive - change. The
eepondveoes of the religious
community, ' chic and . ctvl
rtdits orgtnlzatlona, schools,.
organized and unorganized f ags. Specifically we are
labor, the unemployed and just' supporting congressman
ordinary decent people of all 'Augustus Hawkln's Bill,
races and ail political and ntltled the "E4ual
coBomlc fievpolnts have' Opportunity and Full
coa vlnced us that the Enplovnent Act of 1976."
economic Issue and our riming 2. DECENT IIOUSING-The
both comet. . . right of everyperson to safe and
On Dr. King's birthday we
wiU launch our "SUver Rights"
program by marching around
the White House, and around
U.S. Labor Departments and
Manpower Offices across the
country, seven times. Just as
Joshua marched around the
wall of Jericho, we intend that
Ford's economic policies shall
tall. Our Initial "Silver Rights"
program includes:
1 F U L L
EMPLOYMENT-The right of
every person willing, able and
desiring a job to be employed
in , meaningful and socially
productive work at liveable
Profile: Angela Davis
Today
By EMILY F. GIBSON
LOS ANGELES It was
Sunday afternoon, June 2,
1972. The small office on
South Broadway, which , for
almost two years bad housed
the local "Free Angela Davis"
committee, was filled with
supporters. They spilled out
onto the sidewalk and along
the curbslde anxiously awaiting
the verdict. They were the
faithful, the believers, those
who had trod the streets
getting signatures on petitions,
selling "Save Our Sisters"
buttons, staging rallies,
collecting coins - and
sometimes dollars for the
defense. As they waited, the
minutes dragged by
agonizingly.
Abruptly, the newscaster's
voice shattered the silence:
"Miss Davis has been found not
guilty on each of the three
counts - murder, kidnapping,
, and conspiracy....- -U
" An. Incomprehensible shriek,
almost like one voice, pierced
the air, as the crowd exploded
in jubilation. Thronging into
the streets, they clapped and
chanted in unison: "The power
of the people has freed
Angela." Simultaneously, on
the steps of the San Jose
County Courthouse, a tearful
Angela Davis told reporters,
"This is the happiest day of my
An all white jury of seven
women and five men had
cleared her of complicity in the
Marin County Courthouse
shoot-out which had left a
white judge, two black San
Quentin inmates and 17 year
old Jonathon Jackson dead in
its wake. According to Angela's
mother, Mrs. Sallye Davis, the
period preceding the acquittal
had been "Twenty-two months
of total nightmare."
The nightmare is over for
the present.
Today Angela Davis is at
home in East Oakland's black
ghetto. The door is always
open to the ' comfortable,
freshly-painted, yellow frame
house which she shareswith her
long-time friend Victoria
Mercado, a young Chkano
activist. At 30, Angela is a
striking woman with quiet
good looks and a generous
smile. Tall and willowy clad in
Levi cut-offs, knit body shirt
and knee socks, Angela no
longer bears the emaciated
appearance which, was evident
during, the latter part of her
16-months-long incarceration.
The walls of her study are
lined from ceiling to floor with
books, perhaps 1,200 of them
which she has collected over
the years. There is a 40-volume
set of the "COLLECTED
WORKS OF KARL MARX
AND. FRIEDRICH ENGELS"
in German, dating back to
1965 when Davis was a
graduate student at Goethe
University's Institute for Social
Research in Frankfurt Spanish
languages selections by Cuban
poet Nicolas Guillen are
remnants of the summer of
1969 which she spent working
in the cane and coffee fields of
Havana. The numerous
French-titled literature books
bring back memories of
student days at Brandels and a
year spent J'ttudyihtf at'nilhe
Sorbonne in Paris. At the far
end of the room is a large
wooden desk, rescued from the
San Francisco headquarters of
the former National United
Committee to Free Angela
Davis.
It is in these surroundings
that the former philosophy
professor recently completed
her autobiography which she
drafted during the early
months of 1973 in a Cuban
villa.
Between puffs on the small,
narrow-stemmed pipe, Angela
talked about the experiences
which had taken her from "an
intellectual conviction about
the necessity of social change
to actually working for the
revolution."
Davis first drew headlines
five years ago when she was
fired from her teaching post at
UCLA. The action was
triggered by a blurb in UCLA's
student newspaper, the DAILY
BRUIN, June 24, 1969, which
reported that the Philosophy
Department had made a
two-year appointment of an
Acting Assistant Professor, and
added, "The person is
well-qualified for the post and
is also a member of the
Communist Party."
Bill Divale, the author of
the article, earlier admitted
that he was a paid informant
for the TBI when he testified
as such before the 1968 Los
Angeles hearings of the
Subersive Activities Control
Board. Divale's article formed
the basis tor a "scoop" by the
SAN FRANCISCO
EXAMINER'S Ed
Montgomery July 9, 1969.
Davis incurred the wrath of
the California Board of
Regents by her admission of
membership in the
Che- Lumumba Club, an
all-black collective of the
Cormunist Party of Southern
California. The regents
summarily dismissed her. Thus,
on September 19, 1969,
Angela Davis, became perhaps
the first teacher in the history
of the American education
system to be fired without ever
having taught a class.
Basing their decision on
anti-communist resolutions
which had been passed by their
predecessors nearly thirty years
earlter 'and re-flffed' 5uVing
the "Red Scare" of the
McCarthy Era, the action of
the regents sparked a
nationwide controversy over
the question of "academic
freedom."
The real issue, according to
Davis, was a question of
political repression which
encompasses both academic
freedom and racism. "They did
not question my qualifications,
academic training, or ability to
teach, only my politics. And
had I not been so deeply
involved in the black liberation
struggle, it is doubtless they
would not have cared."
Definantly, she replied to
the regents: "As a black
woman, I am used to fighting
and I will continue fighting
now."
The first round of the fight
ended scarcely a month after it
began when the courts declared
Davis' dismissal improper
because resolutions on which it
was founded were
unconstitutional.
When Davis returned to
UCLA to present her first
lecture in a course entitled
"Recurring Philosophical
Themes in Black Literature,"
the largest auditorium on the
campus could not
accommodate the students and
spectators. More than 7,000
showed up to greet the
professor.
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decent housing. Specifically,
300,000 units of housing
sponsored by not-for-profit
corporations are scheduled for
foreclosure In the coming year
in the midst of the present
housing crisis. These units must
be saved.
3. ELIMINATION OF
HUNGBR-VJe're closer to
soup lines today than we've
been since the 1930's.
4. 8UPFORT OF SMALL
BUSINESSES-The little Iran's
desire of , self-determination
cannot be sacrificed.
5 . SPIRITUAL
REGENERATION We must
have an abundant moral as well
as material life.
January 15-Martln Luther
King's Birthday is the occasion
for a rededicatton to the kind
of unrelenting mass action that
will nuketbesegoals a reality in
this decade.
Resolution Passed In Memory
Of Mrs. Zoo ParltQ Dorboo
The 1974-75 School for
County Commissioners held at
the Institute of Government at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill passed
the following resolution in
memory of the late Mrs. Zoe P.
Barbee, the black woman
county commissioner who was
fatally injured in a car wreck
on December 23, in Durham
County,
WHEREAS, Mrs. Zoe Parks
Barbee, late of Guilford
County, had been elected as a
County Commissioner on
November 5, 1974 and by
virtue of such election was a
member of our freshman class
of newly elected County
Commissioners of 1974, and
WHEREAS, she had
attended the first sessions of
this class at the Institute of
Government in December of
1974, exhibiting her usual
intense. interest In furthering
her own knowledge to the
betterment of her county and
constituents; and
WHEREAS, shortly
afterwards, on December 23,
she was suddenly removed
from our midst in a most
unfortunate and tragic highway
accident, thus depriving her
family, her friends and ber
const! tutents, county and State
of her valuable counsel' and
service;
Now, THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED, that this group of
' her contemporaries do hereby
go on record extending
sympathy to her family and
friends, and 'expressing our
Horreownership, with its many benefits, also ' carries' with it
the burden and responsibility for maintaining and improving the
property. The properly cared for home pays dividends that can be
unnecessarily forfeited if improvements and maintenance are
deferred. ' ; ;
Under the new Housing and Community Development Act of
1974, the HUDFHA insurance program for Home Improvement
Loans has been made more attractive for the individual. '
Previously, the interest rate -had varied according1 td the
amount and term of the loan, and the loan maximum was $5,000
for seven years. Single family home improvement loans may now
be made in amounts up to $10,000, with a maximum finance
charge of 12 percent and maximum maturity period of T2 years.
Borrowers are free to shop around and should for the" most
favorable rate, and lenders can charge any rate up to the ceiling.
The HUDFHA loan insurance program is authorized by Title I
of the National Housing Act. These HUDFHA-Jnsured Title I
home improvement loans may be used for any improveritenls tnat
will make your home a basically more livable and useful place.
The loans can even be used for ' disnwashers, refrigerators,
freezers, and ovens that are built into 'the house, htacvetv they
may not be used for purchase? free-standing ppliances!''!f'y
Neither can these loans be used for what are considered luxury
type articles, for example, ' swimmihg; 'pfitors 'and1 ''outdoor
fireplaces. Additionally, it is not petmiSSBhte'W"Usl1l6iiH to
pay for work already done. -?irlV-f:-: snUw
The loan can be used to pay for' materials antf lkb6r;land',the
improvements can be made by a nWactor'or'dealeif!llf y6iflinave
the experience and skill for the j6b, yWi'rJaff'do !iMf:noi'
HUD's pamphlet, "Fixing Up Ybur,fibme'!cWiatiTo foAnd
How To Finance It," provides guidance1 ana1 iitfbrMidMiou
would do well to review before uhdei'iaklng linrjfotohts on
your home. ai.ol n
There are three requirements you must nielli' lisec'iSreone of
these loans. First, you must own your propelty '6it!'!ipng
term lease on it. Second, you must have i4sktifa,ctiiiiy'icffedit
rating. And, third, you must have enough lhcom''lo reptfy' Ihe
loan over its term. ' ' :i";,rtV!WJ
The loan insurance program is generally aiaflab'le tWo'ilgribut
the country through banks and other qualified rYders! i''
The loan can be small enough to pay'fusV'r6flmtftetts?or
larger, and can cover architectural and erigWe'eHn'tosft'ind
building permit fee's; In most cases,' loans Airidei' SftltWOWhol
require any security other than your signature arid1 r6 cbsigrfer is
needed. 'i.utfon'l
With the present national economic climate, second thdught
should be given' before acquiring new financial indebtedness.
Creditors are seldom sympathetic as to the whys, when you are
late in making a loan payment.
However, some home repair is essential to maintain property
value and excessive cost when minor repairs go unattended and
cause major structural damage.
There are several good plans with reasonable terms for
financing home improvements, if one must borrow. You should
shop around. And you should never sign anything you do not
completely understand. . , ; ; ..,..,;
-Single, copies r.ot 'ixLb.Yq'rjHrikiss jarid
How To Finance It" are available free in any HUD office or by
"writing:' U.S.' Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Publication Service Center, Room B-258, 451 Seventh Street,
S.W., Washington, D.C. 20410.
THIS COLUMN IS OFFERED AS A PUBLIC SERVICE BY
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sincere sense of loss in
her untimely passing; and
Be it further resolved that
copies of this resolution be
sent by the North Carolina
Association of County
Comrissioners to her farrily,
and to the Board of County
Commissioners of Guilford
County.
Done at the Institute of
Government at the University
of North Carolina in the town
of Chapel HD1 in the County of
Orange, this the Ninth Day of
January in the Year of Our
Lord One Thousand Nine
Hundred and Seventy-Five and
Is the One Hundred
Ninety-Ninth Year of
. Independence, and adopted by
unanimous vote. .'
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L. E. AUSTIN
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