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VOLUME II, NO. 17
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1974
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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.
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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
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“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
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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.
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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
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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