FREE BICYCLE CONTEST UNDER WAY SEE PAGE 5 flnstcn-Salan Point THE TRIBUNAL AID QAj^l(l6^o.K cutd HanclaLp^lt Qo-u.ntle'i VOLUME II, NO. 17 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1974 15 CENTS PER COPY $5.00 PER YEAR Joe Willis Family First Owner Under Turnekey III HIGH POINT - The City of High Point Police Department, in conjunction with Guilford College, will sponsor two courses in the Justice Administration series this fall. The courses, Criminal Law I and Corrections, Parole & Probation, will be taught at the High Point Police Academy, and will carry four credit hours each from Guilford College. Registration for the classes will be held on September 19, 1974. These classes are designed to be of interest to not only professionals in the criminal justice field, but to the citizen with an interest in criminology and police work, and to the high school student who has an interest in entering the criminal justice field upon graduation. Persons interested in obtaining further information about these courses should contact Capt. George Leverett at the Police Academy, 882-2821. HIGH POINT - The Boy Scouts of the High Point District, Uwharrie Council, will hold a “Good Old Fast Moving Showando Fair” over the weekend of September 20, 21, 22, 1974 at the Uwharrie Scout Camp in Jamestown. The fair will be a fun-filled event in which skilled scouts will present or show their fellow scouters new skills and ideas, and then aid them as they participate in the “do” portion of the fair. The whole idea of the Showando Fair is to allow the spectators to learn by doing. Each participating troop from the High Point District will present a differnt subject ranging from camping equipment and cooking to first aid and fun with tools. Awards will be given for the three best showando presentations. GREENSBORO The se cond annual A&T, Bennett, UNC-G Talent Show will be presented on September 20 in Moore Gymnasium on A&T's campus. Because of the exceptional singing groups and soloists, this show promises to be the very best collection of talents the people in this area will ever see. Fittingly, the two bands that will be backing the participating groups, will be the sensuous sounds of the ‘Black Explosion’ of Greensboro, and the ‘Black Haze' of Winston-Salem. As an extra attraction the same all-girl group which turned out last year’s talent show, ‘The Bennett Under ground’ will be in Moore Gymnasium to do it again. These extraordinary sing ers will serenade the soul and soothe the heart. ‘Utopia’, a group from A&T which could easily be superstars if given a break, will be there vocalizing perfect melodies. Also, there will be a guest appearance by ‘Jack Smith and the Summer Breeze’. Ultra-beautiful would be the word to describe the exquisite movements of the ‘Neo-Black Society Dan cers; which is the special attraction from UNC-G. The M.C.’s are Nita Pettiford, from A&T, and, another exceptionally cap able person whose name will be announced at a later date. The talent show, coordi nated by Mike Coke, will also include poetry and Gospel music to satisfy .the diverse personalities of the expected packed audience. For information about this annual event, please contact: Nita Pettiford, at Gibbs Hall, A&T; Jackie Hemphill, at Player Hall, Bennett College; and, John Moore at Guilford Hall UNC-G. Additional infor mation can be obtained bj calling 275-5658. Prices are $1.50 with any college I.D. and $2.00 without one. Tickets may be bought at A&T's Student Union. * * s}; GREENSBORO, N.C. - Miss Linda D. Thomas, a senior music major at A&T State University, has been declared winner of a $2,000 scholarship in a national talent hunt sponsored by the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine of North and South America. Miss Thomas, a native of Wilson, N.C., was cited for her performance during the 27th annual talent hunt and scholarship finals in the ball room of the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia. The A&T student was declared runner-up in the national contest, after winning a local contest in Greensboro, N.C. last January, the state session Continued on Page a “Reprinted from the Journal of Housing, Vo lume 31, No. 7, July 1974 issue. Publication of the National Association of Housing and Redevelop ment Officials, 2600 Virgi nia Avenue, N.W., Wash ington, D.C. 20037.” by Kathy McKillop, Editorial Assistant, Journal of Housing The phrase “turnkey 111” has a very specific and personal meaning for Joe Willis of High Point, North Carolina: it means an attractive, one-story, four- bedroom brick home, set with 149 others in Hickory Chapel Woods, a newly- developed sub-division on the eastern edge of the city of High Point. The house is distinguishable from thou sands of others like it. in similar subdivisions all over the United States, only by what it represents: it is the first owner-occupied home built under what is known as the “Turnkey III” public housing program -- the Homeownership Opportu nities Program for Low-ln- come Families of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. And its occupants, Joe Willia and his family, are the first public housing family in the country to have achieved homeownership under the eight-year-old “turnkey” program. The concept of “turn key” homeownership op portunities through public housing evolved from an effort begun by HUD in 1966 to get more private builder involvement in public housing by offering local housing authorities a 1 m ^ iS m new way to obtain rental units without having to actually oversee their construction: under this method, dubbed Turnkey 1, the LHA purchases a completed new develop ment from a private builder, at a previouslv- agreed-upon price. The “Key” to each unit is turned over from the developer to the local housing authority for sub sequent rental of the dwelhng to public housing tenants. As with conven tional public housing pro duction programs, the LHA's contract with the lurnkey 1 developer is backed by federal funds received by the authority Irom HUD through an annual contributions con tract. arrangement. As Turnkey I gained acceptance and the concept of private-sector involve ment in public housing production increased in credibility, the turnkey concept was applied to management. Turnkey 11, designed to involve private management firms in the operation of public housing developments, was first implemented in 1967. Under it, the “key” is turned over from the developer (not necessarily a Turnkey 1 developer) to the LHA, and then to the private management con cern. Turnkey 111 -- the plan under which the Joe Willises achieved honie- ownership-- and Turnkey IV represent the later- blooming idea of making public housing units avail able for eventual home ownership to public hous ing families. In Turnkey 111, the “key” is handed over from the developer to the LHA and on to a public housing resident homebuy- Invited To Presidential Conference President Gerald Ford has invited W.J, Kennedy 111 of Durban, president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, to attend a national confe rence on inflation in Washington in late Septem ber. Kennedy is accepting the invitation. “The fact that President Ford is requesting imput from all sectors of the economy is quite signifi cant. And, with the anticipated increase in unemployment to 6 or 6.5 per cent nationally and a double rate among blacks, the usual adverse impact will be felt in the black community. Thus, the opportunity to participate in this conference on inflation with the privilege of making specific recom mendations is quite mean ingful to me. “Hopefully consumers, business leaders, my friends, and associates will take the time to drop me a President Firm Debarred From Contracts line before the conference rence convenes the last week in Ford the type of grassroots September. In that way I feedbacks that is so much can share their thoughts needed in overcoming this and expectations with my Continued on Page 2 colleagues at the confe- The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCC) has debarred a Texas firm from future federal contracts and sub contracts because of failure to meet federal equal employment opportu nity requirements. Philip J. Davis, OFCC director, today announced that Hesse Envelope Com pany of Dallas, failed to comply with the affirmative action requirements of Executive Order 11246. Davis said the action was taken upon recommenda tions of the General Services Administration (GSA), the compliance agency responsible for the Hesse Company’s adhe rence to the Order. Executive Order H246 requires federal contractors and subcontractors to provide equal employment opportunity for all workers, regardless of race, color. religion, sex or national origin. The affirmative action requirements are contained in Keviscd Order No. 4 of the regulations. Federal contractors sub ject to Revised Order No. 4 are required to develop acceptable affirmative ac tion programs that esta blish goals and time-tables to achieve prompt and full utilization of minorities and women in all segments and levels of the contractors' workforce. In .lanuary 1973, theGSA presented the Hesse Com pany with a list of deficiencies in its affirma tive action program. The company failed to remedy the deficiencies or show cause within 30 days why enforcement procedures should not be taken. The deficiencies included the following: 1 . No goals were established for official. Continued on Page 6 cr, who eventually can become the unit's owner, once the balance accrucd in two special “sa\ings ac counts” set up for him or her b \ the housing authority equals the a- mount needed to pay off the home (or, once the honiebuyer's iricomc in creases to the point at which a conventional pri vate or Federal Housing Ad ministration-insured loan bcc(uiics feasible.) Turnkey 111 and IV operate on the assumption that homeownership reallv is the “American dream” and that many low-inconic families, given the oppor tunity to buy their own homes rather than face the continuing insecurity of renting their shelter, will want to do so. The two programs provide an alter native to rental for families of lower income levels. And they offer to families of low income -- often for the first time -- the potential of '' o w n i n g '' soni e t h i ng . something they can point to and be proud of and, perhaps, pass on to their children. The turnkey homeowner- ship program was not the offspring of new legisla tion. instead, it grew out of a broad administrative interpretation of the section of existing public housing law that empowers local housing authorities to acquire or lease property to supply homes for lower- inconie Americans and provides for a federal subsidy to assist the agency in carrying out such acquisition activities. Once its legal framework had been guaranteed, '1 urnkey 111 homeownership opportunity was first made a reality through a demonstration project un dertaken by the National Council of Negro Women in North Gulfport, Mississippi in 1968. The Gulfport program was a first, an experiment, and therefore the victim of unset procedures and subject to numerous problems, revi sions, and mistakes. NCNW's housing specialist Dorothy Duke, cautions that regarding Gulfport's Forest Heights as a representative example of a Turnkey 111 development is akin'to “using the Model T as the example of an automobile''. Neverthe less, Forest Heights was the first implementation of lurnkey III and it has Continued on Page 8 What’s New? Dear Debbie on page 3. Horoscope on page 6. I loeoeeoooooed We must give our children a sense of pride in being black. The glory of our past and the dignity of our present must lead the way to the power of our future/' ADAM CLAYTON POWELL

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