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ihe Augusta News-Review - September 29,1977 -
Joblessness aids crime?
WASHINGTON,DC. - The
House Judiciary Subcommittee
on Crime has started a series of
public hearings to determine
the relationship between
unemployment and crime, it
was announced by Chairman
John Conyersjr. (D.Mich.)
The inquiry will draw
witnesses from Administration
officials responsible for matters
of crime and or unemploy
ment, law enforcement
officials, social scientists,
elected officials at the national,
state and local levels, business
and labor leaders, and
ex-offenders and persons
involved in employment,
counselling, and related
programs.
“There is some polarization
of thought at suggestions of a
connection between crime and
unemployment. A large body
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of knowledgeable people
believe beyond a doubt that it
exists and point to a host of
learned studies to support the
point, buttressing it with a
common sense argument,” said
Conyers.
While neither crime nor
unemployment is a problem
limited to minority citizens,
the facts show clearly that
minority groups are
disproportionately represented
in the ranks of the unemployed
and in crime statistics, both as
perpetrators and victims of
crime, according to the
chairman of the
Subcommittee.
Teenage unemployment
among Blacks reached an
unprecedented 34.8 per cent
this summer, and at the same
time, perhaps not
coincidentally, “We received
the disturbing report that
I murder has become the leading
cause of death among Black
males in this age group. It is
not surprising that one of the
few early studies to examine
crime and unemployment
found that at least two out of
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every five Harlem residents
depended on some illegal
income, and one out of five
appeared to live entirely on the
proceeds of crime,” Conyers
said.
A comprehensive survey of
state correctional inmates in
1974 found that 12 per cent
were unemployed before they
were arrested for their current
sentence. That rate is three
times the civilian
unemployment level of all
males age 20 and over. If those
who didn’t want to work are
included, three out of every
ten inmates were unemployed,
added Chairman Conyers.
Concluding, Chairman
Conyers said that “ . . .
ultimately the purpose of these
hearings is to consider what has
been learned by the best minds
in the nation about
unemployment and crime. We
will examine their findings in
search of policy alternatives
which might enable us to
reduce crime, the fear of crime
and alleviate at least some of
the violence and suffering
associated with crime by trying
to get at the root causes of
crime.”
Haley visits Israel,
sees Jewish roots
Alex Haley, author of
“Roots,” visited Israel two
weeks ago and paid visits to
many historical sites, including
Masada, a fortress above the
Dead Sea reportedly the fast
stronghold of Jewish freedom
fighters in their revolt against
Roman tyranny 2,000 years
ago.
Mr. Haley, whose
prize-winning novel has been
translated into 24 languages -
including Hebrew - was
warmly received by Israel’s
leaders in the arts and by top
government officials, including
Prime Minister Menachim
Begin.
Mr. Haley told his hosts:
“The response to the book and
to me has been one of the most
profound experiences I ever
could have. The book speaks to
all who have suffered
persecution and have been
discriminated against.
“The plight of the Jews in
history is similar to that of
Black Africans who were
driven into slavery. Both have
proved that by courage and
perseverence they can
surmount whatever difficulties
they encounter,” Mr. Haley
said.
In Jerusalem, Mr. Haley was
the recipient of an Honorary
Fellowship from the Hebrew
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Broadcasters vexed
by car radio prices
WASHINGTON - Donald A.
Thurston, chairman of the
board of the National
Association of Broadcasters,
said last week that many
americans do not have AM-FM
radios in their cars because of
the high prices charged by
automobile manufacturers.
Testifying before the House
Small Business Committee, the
president of Berkshire
Broadcasting Co., North
Adams, Mass., said the
Committee “has the duty and
the authority to urge both the
Justice Department and the
Federal Trade Commission to
look into the pricing problem
and determine whether there
are antitrust violations.”
In his testimony Mr.
Thurston recalled a 1974
Senate legislation that would
have allowed te FCC to
mandate that all radio receivers
be equipped to receive both
AM and FM signals. In the
House, he continued, it was
approved by the Commerce
Committee but then failed,
because the Rules Committee
refused to act on the bill.
“The bill would have had
University. The award
described him as “an
outstanding literary figure of
the contemporary world who
has influenced people
throughout the world and has
strengthened his people’s pride
in themselves.”
“This has been a most
moving and direct exposure to
a whole people in search of
their roots, commemorating
and finding strength in their
roots,” Mr. Haley commented
on his visit.
Truckers meet
The second annual
convention of the nation’s
minority-owned carriers, bus
line owners, trucking and
transportation people will be
held in Washington, D.C., in
the first week of Nov.
The minority Trucking
Transportation Development
Corporation (MTTDC) is a
non-profit national
organization which acts as the
spokesperson for minority
truckers, and provides
assistance to minority truckers
seeking equal participation in
the transportation industry.
Clarence Horton, president
of MTTDC, said, the
convention will highlight the
inauguration of the Washington
office and the filing of a
national transportation
petition. Another sidelight will
be a workshop to impart
knowledge about how to deal
with the Government and the
private sector in problems of
minority trucking and
transportations business.
The organization, founded
in 1975, represents over 3,000
truckers and has nine regional
officers in the country.
Advertising Pays
tne greatest effect on
automobile radios, since this is
the one category of radio
receivers that lags behind all
others in the conversion to an
all-channel set. It is not hard to
see the reason why mor.
AM-FM car radios are not sold
in this nation,” said Thurston.
“It is simply the price that is
charged by the automobile
manufacturers for the factory
installed radios that are in fact
manufactured by the auto
makers themselves. We believe
this cost is out of proportion
to the actual cost of making
the radio and that as a result,
the American consumer
cannot in many cases, afford to
have full radio service in his
automobile,” he added.
The NAB chairman urged
that the sale of radios should
be part of the free market
system which should control
the price of automobile radios
as it does all other types of
radios.
Demonstrating his concern
for consumers, Thurston
referred to a study by the A.D.
Little Company in 1974 on the
actual cost of production of a
car radio which found that the
labor and parts cost of an
AM-only would be about
$13.52. An additional FM
tuner to the AM receiver would
cost about $6.95. He compared
that to the current price of $75
for an AM-only radio and twice
that for an AM-FM.
Labor Dept, has plans
to employ 300,000 youth
WASHINGTON
Attempting to help ease youth
employment problems, the
U ,S. Labor Department
announced the issuance of
guidelines for two key job and
training programs serving more
than 300,000 young people,
14-21, and funded with almost
SSOO million.
The two new programs are
the Youth Community
Conservation and Improvement
Projects (YCCIP) and Youth
Employment afid Training
Programs (YETP) which give
preference to the economic
ally disadvantaged, especially
minority youth and others
Pub rejects Blacks
Macon, Ga. - A civil suit
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of a pool hall and bar with
refusing to serve Blacks has
been filed by the Dept, of
Justice in U. S. District Court
here.
The suit said the defendants,
owners and operators of Fred's
Tavern, violated the Civil
Rignts Act of 1964 by refusing
to let Blacks use their pool
facilities or consume beverages
on their premises.
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Blacks not allowed
to mourn their hero
The suspicious death of
Steve Biko, the 30-year-old
acclaimed “father of the Black
consciousness movement in
South Africa,” in prison two
weeks ago, has triggered off
another mass unrest and an
expected brutal reaction from
the Apartheid State.
A series of mass arrests,
including that of 1,000
students of the Black
University of Fort Hare in the
Cape Province last week, have
been the prize for Blacks who
dared to hold memorial
services for the late leader of
the Black South African
Students Organization (SASO).
Several memorial services
have been held throughout the
country.
At the Fort Hare University,
near to King Williamstown
where Biko had been confined
by a government banning order
since 1973, police vehicles
drove up to the sports field
where the students held a
memorial service, -and
surrounded the crowd with
dogs.
The police, according to
reports, asked the women
students to leave the service,
and when they refused,
ordered the male students into
four large police vans.
According to witnesses, the
students boarded the vans
peacefully and gave the riot
police no excuse to unleash
having severe difficulties in
obtaining employment.
The YCCIR will employ youth,
16-19, for up to 12 months in
community oriented work
which is also the source of
training, with academic credit
for job experiences encouraged
wherever appropriate. TLe
majority of resources will be
devoted to year-round projects.
Participants will be paid wages.
For fiscal year 1978, $86.3
million will be available*
creating an estimated 17,000
year-round openings.
The YETP,for youth, 14-21,
operates the same kinds of
it demanded a court order
enjoining the defendants from
engaging in racial
discrimination and to require
them to post notices fiat they
will serve all persons without
regard to race or color.
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In yet another federal
struggle against racism, the
Department of Justice
obtained a legal order recently
requiring the Cuyahoga County
Engineer Department in
Cleveland, Ohio, to pay
$60,000 in back pay to 28
present and former Black
employees who were victims of
job discrimination.
The order obtained from the
county an agreement to adopt
a goal of filling 50 per cent of
all vacancies in entry-level
positions with qualified Black
applicants to raise the
percentage of Blacks in all the
department’s units to the level
of Blacki participation in the
Cuyahoga County labor force.
violence on them, as has always
been the case in this
white-minority ruled country.
The mass arrests, like any
others in this country, was
based on the Riotous
Assemblies Act which forbids,
especially Blacks and other
non-whites from holding any
mass public meeting not
sanctioned by the apartheid
government.
The death of Biko, allegedly
attributed to an eight-day
hunger-strike by the Black
leader in jail, has sparked
international reaction which
has urged the South African
police chief, James Kruger, to
say that Biko’s death “leaves
me cold.”
In the week prior to Biko’s
death, all the 700 teachers in
Soweto, the Black ghetto near
Johannesburg, the capital,
joined their students in class
boycotts in protest against
what they described as
“education for Slavery.”
At the same time, the South
African liberation movements,
the African National
Congress,(ANC), and the Pan-
Africanist Congress, (PAC),
have issued calls for an armed
struggle against the apartheid
system which keeps over 80%
of the country's citizens -
Blacks, Asians and “coloreds”
(people of mixed race) out of
the political system.
services already available under
a CETA title.
Participants will be paid a
wage or training allowances
depending on whether they
spend most of the time on the
job or in training. For fiscal
year 1978, $402.5 million is
allocated for an estimated
112,000 openings.
The programs were
authorized by the Youth
Employment and
Demonstration Projects Act of
F 977 of Aug. also
created the Young Adult
Conservation Corps, and the
Youth Incentive Entitlement
PiloUProjects.
(fa. probes
counterfeits
ATLANTA, GA. - The
Georgia Bureau of
Investigation (GBI) has begun a
probe of apparently
counterfeit public assistance
checks at the request of the
Saalg Department •of Human
Resources
R Deputy DHR Commissioner
Carden asked for the
investigation after counterfeit
checks were passed to West
Central Georgia banks and
merchants in an area southeast
of Columbus.
Four bad checks were
discovered by bank computers.
A fifth was refused by Cusseta
merchant Wade Coleman, who
southt verification when iie
failed to recognize a woman
who presented the check for
payment. Coleman, chairman
of the Chattahoochee County
Commission, has been a
storekeeper in Cusseta since
1952.
. . .
Mrs. Coretta Scott King
Mrs. King
for U.N.
Mrs. Coretta Scott King has
been named as public delegate
to the UN by President Carter.
The widow of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. will be joined
again with U.S. Ambassador
Andrew Young who was one of
the slain civil rights leader’s top
aides.
Ambassador Young was
praised by UN Secretary-Gen
eral Kurt Waldheim recently as
“highly respected” at the UN
and praised for bringing a
“completely new approach” to
that world body.
City snakes
Moccasins, corals and
rattlers are just some of the
members of the snake family
found in the city of Columbus,
Ohio, scaring many residents
and driving out construction
Workers in the Mason Drive
area of the city .wrote a
Columbus Times reporter.
One resident, an avid
gardener, has reportedly killed
26 coral snakes this year. She
has used her farm tools in
striking dead these venomous
snakes.
Another resident in the area
also killed a rattle snake that
was almost six feet long.
One resident reportedly said
that many landscapers and
contractors were afraid to
work on her property because
they had seen too many
snakes. One man was mowing a
lawn when he saw that he had
cut a moccasin in half. That
was enough for him, and he
left.
Another worker on the same
property ran and was never
seen by the employer after
seeing a moccasin.
The work crew for a
contracting firm that had made
arrangements to work on
another property in the
neighborhood stopped working
on discovering a nest of coral
snakes.
The job was not completed.
The reporter wrote that
there were so many poisonous
and non-poisonous snakes in
the city, enough specimens, to
start a snake zoo.
MARY MONROE
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