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trailers would be brought in as
I emergency shelter for residents of
Sugar Ditch's worst shacks,
which are infested with vermin
and have no plumbing.
The first five trailers were
scheduled to arrive last week. The
I others will be brought in early
I this year.
Since Jackson's visit, federal
officials have approved loans and
grants of $4 6 million to build
government-subsidized apartI
ments here.
I - town of Tunica received
ET"^ pint to byy
96 homes along 2,000 feet of
I Sugar Ditch.
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i ncy win dc razed, sewer and
water lines installed and a 24-unit
apartment complex built, said
Mayor John Wilson. Another
complex with 40 apartmento"aficT
one with 80 will be built outside
of town', said Wilson.
The mayor said he was
unaware that more than a dozen
Sugar Ditch houses had no toilets
or that the ditch was contaminated.
"As far as I know, nobody had
ever complained," he said.
Ore Wall, 60, lives in a threeroom
shack with an 18-year-old
- daughter, a 19-year-old son, a
20-year-old son and a 65-year-old
husband, all of whom are
unemployed.
The family gets water from a
single outside spigot, but the
landlord recently installed a toilet
inside. He also raised the rent
from $30 a moqth to $60, Mrs.
Wall said.
Her landlord, Jimmy Eubanks,
a pharmacist who owns 13 other
Sugar Ditch houses, said he has
spent more than $4,000 recently
?to install toilets in a half-dozen
residences.
Mrs. Wall, whose fahrily lives
on her husband's $345-a-month
disability check from Social
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rely on the good faith of
employers.
When black folks in Baltimore
got tired of the racist editorial
and employment practices at the
Baltimore Sun, they knew what
to do -- they boycotted the paper.
Within three days the paper sat
down with black leaders and
agreed to substantive cbncessions.
Folks in Detroit and in bfewark
have followed the same course of
action. They simply relied oji the
electronic media and their local
black newspapers during the
boycott.
The traditional media are too
powerful a force to be allowed to
remain the exclusive bailiwick of
white males. It is up to us to
change this imbalance.
As Frederick Douglass once
rsaid* "Find out just what people
will submit to, and you have
found out the exact amoirfit of in^
justice and wrong which\v4tt"1>e
imposed upon them."
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the training investment!
5 And the real, long-term gain is
far, far higher than that, since the
training costs were one-time, one
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year costs wmie tnc new sicuis tne
trainees acquired will enable
them to work and earn far into
the future.
These figures are familiar to
those of us in organizations that
train people for jobs in an
economy that needs higher skills
levels. In the past, when government
ran similar programs, we
saw similar results - the net
benefits to the economy and to
the government itself made job
training a superb investment.
That message needs to get
through to policymakers today.
We should be tapping the
neglecfeft resources of disadvan_
taged minorities to make our
' economy work better.
John Jacob is president of the
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Security and $169 in food
stamp?, said Christmas at Sugar
Ditch has always been meager.
The Wall and Simmons
families have been luckier this
year than many Tunica County
residents, however. They were
among those who last week
received food and presents from
Calvary Baptist Church of
Tallahassee, Fla.
^ Other groups are trying to help
a? well.
About 300 Tunica residents
packed a small meeting halt
? where used clothing and- toy*
were passed out after a prayer
service.
And Joe Eddie Hawkins, a
representative of; Jackson's People
United to Save Humanity,
said his group had been collecting
toys, but had only enough for 35
families when at least 200 are in
needCobb,
who specializes in
southern studies, said Tunica
County is a victim of the shift
from plantation society to
mechanized agriculture.
Farm workers displaced by*,
machines, minimum-wage laws
and federal farm policies that left
thousands of acres unplanted
were to hft'ftml' IflKnrArc fV>r in
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dustry moving in, Cobb said.
But in 1982, Tunica County
had 280 manufacturing jobs, 50
less than in 1971. "
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, And Cobb said local officials
in poor areas are often reluctant
to build low-rent housing because
without it, displaced farm
workers are more likely to move
somewhere else.
Between 1970 and 1980, 2,78%
?blacks left Tunica County.
But Sugar Ditch will likely remain
home to Lena Simmons'
family for a while. ~
The family is too big, government
regulations say, to move into
one of the trailers. And there is
> no place else to go.
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Ingrid Yevette Ingram and
Carlton D. Robinson were married
Sunday, Dec. 29, in a 1 p.m.
ceremony at Kernersville
Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
The bride is the daughter qf
Lillian D. Ingram and James A.
Ingram of Winston-Salem.
The groom is t|ie son of Mr.
and Mrs. Earle B. Robinson of
Atlanta.
Elder Melvin. Preston and
Pastor Ivan Williams officiated.
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