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SENATOR EDWARD BROOKE, (R Mass.) (left to right) looks over the program
at a recent dinner held at Ihe Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City for the
benefit of the National Center of Afro American Artists with Center Director Elma
Lewis and Dinner Chairman David W. Mitchell, chairman of the board and chief
executive officer of Avon Products, Inc.
The dinner was a tribute to Senator Brooke who received a citation tor his service
as a member of the board of the national Center of Afro-American Artists.
Unemployment declines in county
Richmond County’s
unemployment rate declined
by three-tenths of one per cent
in September, from a revised
7.4 per cent in August to a
preliminary 7.1 per cent,
according to figures released by
the Georgia Department of
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At the same time last year,
the unemployment rate in
Richmond County was 8.4,
with 58.531 persons working
and 5.373 unemployed.
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percentage point during
September, from a revised 6.2
per cent in August to a
preliminary 5.8 the next
month, the lowest level since
last November, when the rate
then matched the 5.8 per cent
level.
But last year at this same
time, the states
unemployment rate was even
greater at 7.6 per cent.
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By Steven Schneider
Pacific News Service
President Carter's proposal
to switch to coal as a principal
source of electric power may
lead to serious health
problems, experts warn.
The President’s plan to have
coal replace natural gas and oil
in power plants and industries
has received the unanimous
support of House and Senate
conferees.
The compromist bill
Congress will now' consider
would prohibit new plants
from using oil or natural gas,
give the federal government
power to force existing plants
to shift to coal, and would
outlaw most use of natural gas
by utilities after 1990.
Utilities serving large cities
with grave air pollution
problems, like New York and
Los Angeles, will probably be
allowed to continue to use oil
and natural gas, but most
others would be required to
switch to coal.
Critics fear that burning coal
without strict environmental
safeguards could lead to rising
death rates among urban
dwellers.
Emissions from coal-burning
while 132,434 others are still
jobless. But last year at this
time, there were 170,557
persons in the state still
looking for work, 38,123 more
than now.
“Naturally, we are both
pleased and gratified at the
continuing decline of the
unemployment rate, not only
at the state level, but also in
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plants, health experts say, are
among the causes of bronchitis,
emphysema, lung cancer and
cardiovascular diseases.
Dr. Bertram Carnow,
director of environmental
medicine at the University of
Illinois School of Public
Health, foresees a rise in
“illness, disability and death
among urban dwellers,
particularly those with heart
and lung disease” unless
stringent control measures are
adopted and enforced.
The burning of coal releases
sulphur compounds into the
atmosphere. These compounds
greatly aggravate respiratory
problems, according to Terry
Lash, staff scientist with the
Natural Resources Defense
Council. For people who
already suffer from such
problems, he said, the increase
of the sulphur compounds
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Blacks and the energy crisis
By Mark Hyman
Mark Hyman Associates, Inc.
In May of this year, Cecil B.
Thompson, a Black official of
the Federal Energy
Administration, spoke before
students at Jackson State
University in Mississippi. He
announced belatedly that
America was entering an
Energy Age. This was
seemingly a tardy piece of
information to hand to eager
college students. As acting
deputy assistant administrator
for international energy affairs,
he should have known that
college kids know we’re in
trouble in the energy field up
to here.
What the students needed to
know was how they and their
relatives can survive next
winter and how they might
share in the infinite revenues
which will come out of this
massive energy producing
future.
The script was followed
about the nation's energy crisis
creating jobs for Blacks....
which is not that easy and not
quite the case. Blacks must
press and pressure their leaders
and representatives in the
statehouses and in Washington
to make this happen. When the
deputy said Black educators
will play role in training the
“next” generation of Black
leaders to deal with the energy
situation, he should have said
“this” generation. There is no
time to wait.
Indeed, Mr. Thompson,
jumped way ahead of the game
when he talked about
conservation, construction and
exploration and development.
Instead, this is the time for a
nitty gritty approach to this
issue. Energy, which is heat,
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Although Congress passed
legislation this summer that
would require coal-burning
utilities to install “scrubbers”
by 1983, these sulphur-clean
sing devices would not cut
down on the total amount of
harmful sulphur emissions in
the atmosphere, if the Carter
coal plan is enacted.
Government energy officials
estimate that a 69 per cent
increase in coal use would
result in a 5.2 per cent increase
in sulphur dioxide emissions by
1985, even with the scrubbers
installed.
In addition, the scrubbers do
not capture oxides of nitrogen
or other fine particles released
when coal is burned. If coal
usage increases, the levels of
these pollutants in the
atmosphere will rise too, some
light, food preparation, job
performance, and
transportation, touches deeply,
very deeply, the lives of energy
soul in this country. The
poorer the soul, the deeper
energy touches.
He spoke of energy
conserving structures, of
geologists, engineers,
production and control
experts. Unfortunately Black
engineers comprise one per
cent of engineering graduates.
There may be 1700 in
America. Getting young Blacks
to enter engineering and the
physical sciences has been so
futile that funded and
non-funded groups have been
frantically trying to find and
motivate them. Science and
engineering is really where the
action is.
Although Thompson's
position in government is quite
minor, but most major to us
and bright-eyed college
students, he might have
suggested how the government
could institute a crash training
program and bring young
Blacks into the numerous
technological and technical
opportunities the vast program
will need. In this case,
government might truly
overcome the negative history
which made these fields taboo
to our children in the first
place.
Every Black who lives and
breathes has a rendezvous with
the energy crisis.... if they
don’t move fast and pressure
leadership into moving
government in their direction.
They can freeze and starve in
the dark, or they can survive
and get a piece of the action.
Without bombarding the state
capitals and Washington, there
will be no surge of instant
by as much as 18 per cent.
The compulsory use of
scrubbers recently received a
setback, however, when a
federal judge in Indiana ruled
that the Environmental
Protection Agency could not
force a power company to
install the anti-pollution
devices in two coal-fired
generating stations.
Some scientists such as
biologist Thomas Hayes of the
Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory, a principal center
of government-funded
anti-pollution research, believe
the dangers of coal use may be
exaggerated. “We’re making
significant progress,” Hayes
says. “The problems are real
but not insurmountable
because with coal we at least
know what we are dealing
with. It’s not like nuclear
power where the problems are
engineers and technicians....
and there will be no guarantee
of adequate heat this winter.
But strong collective action can
get adequate energy and can
also get youngsters enrolled in
programs which will allow
them significant roles in this
fantastic era of energy
development.
And while Blacks are
pressuring and demanding,
they might also insist on the
elimination of state and federal
laws which keep electric
companies from building
additional plants which will
Man shot
Thanksgiving Day
A Blythe, Ga. man suffered
a gunshot wound Thanksgiving
Day during a fight he had with
two brothe r s.
Authorities said Quincy
Roberson of Rt. 1 Box 22
Purighley Road was shot once
in the upper back after he went
to the home of Frank Rogers
on Bathedie Road.
Witnesses said Roberson
drove very recklessly up to
Rogers’ yard as children played
there. When Rogers came out
to the car to question him
about his driving, Roberson
attacked him.
When Rogers’ brother,
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last week.
Kassander Matlyer, 21, of
2123 Second Ave., told police
she was approached by an
unknown man on Ninth and
Broad Street just as she left a
downtown bank.
The man asked her if she
knew the location of Rev.
Jackson’s Rooming House. Ms.
Matlyer said she didn’t know,
but he could get a room at the
YMCA.
As she walked him to the
YMCA another man, unknown
to Ms. Matlyer, approached
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There are, as Hayes points
out, a number of coal processes
- including one now in use in
Britain - that either chemically
capture or “wash off” the
coal’s sulphur and other toxic
properties before combustion.
Other promising technologies
which minimize pollution
problems are coal gasification
and liquification. But while
these processes are now being
developed, all are costly and
none is commercially available
today.
Nonetheless, the energy
crunch has generated
substantial political support for
the switch to coal. Among
those in favor are the oil
companies, which own
one-third of the estimated 437
billion tons of coal that can be
economically recovered in this
country.
have to provide the energy for
today and tomorrow.
The fight might touch the
barriers in the construction
trades and in all areas where
energy production will need
technicians, technological and
labor support.
In short, the fight for
survival in the energy crisis is
no difference from any other
fights.... past and present. If we
don’t ask and demand, we’ll
never get, but this time, and in
this special case, if we don t
get.... we don’t make it at all.
Thomas B. Rogers came from
his brother’s porch to stop the
fight, whitnesses said Roberson
attacked him too, saying he
would kill Thomas.
One witness. Junior Jones,
told deputies Roberson had
made previous threats to
Thomas Rogers.
As Roberson went to his car
trunk for his gun, Thomas B.
Rogers shot Roberson once in
the back, deputies said.
Roberson was admitted to
University Hospital.
Rogers was arrested and
charged with aggravated assault
with intent to murder.
them. The first man asked the
other if he knew where he
might find a girl, police said.
The second man told him
yes, but he shouldn’t take his
money with him. Ms. Matlyer
said the first man then agreed
to let her keep his money.
She said she separated this
money in a handerchief from
the other money. Then,
“somehow” the two managed
to get the handkerchief with
the money back. When she
opened the exchanged kerchief
she found only paper,
authorities said.
week of over $2200 in
merchandise.
David C. Willingham, a
Johnson Motor Co. spokesman,
told police an unknown person
or persons entered the back of
the shop between 6 p.m. Nov.
25 and 10 a.m. Nov. 26.
Three sets of Cadillac wire
wheel covers were stolen
valued at $518.28 a set, and
two pair of tired valued at
$125 a pair. j
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