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Tbe Aagaata Newa-Review - September 5,1981 City officials have turned deaf ears on complaints from residents of Richmond county's poorer neighborhoods asking the city to clear up vacant lots, abandoned cars, and trash dumps, according to participants at a hearing sponsored by the C S R A Economic Opportunity Authority last week. The Rev. Charlie Moore, pastor of Crawford Baptist Church said, “When we try to do something ourselves, we can t get no help from city council or elected officials. Come election time, we’re going to tie their hands and tie their feet and throw them out of office. A.B. Strohman, vice president of the Laney- Walker Neighborhood Association took the News- Review to see a number of the “eye sores” , he said have been there for two to four years," and the city has done nothing about it." Among the 300 persons attending the hearing were THERE’S A FRIENDLY GIANT IN TOWN! He makes thunderous noise ± i in your cash register. .< / IT’S *,■ NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING! 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He said that one of the biggest problems in community development is the need for housing rehabilitation. “Residents that own their own homes do not have enough money to finance the kind of repairs necessary to make them adequate, and interest rates are so high that low-income persons can not afford loans or can't get credit. ‘A large number of homes do not have adequate plumbing facilities and many are overcrowed. NEW HOMES Lovely 3 and 4 Bedroom brick, 2 full baths, den, fireplace, large kitchen with built-in appliances, i Many other outstanding features. 9 attractive neighborhoods. We arrange all financing with best of terms. Come see and compare our homes and i prices. You’ll like what you see. We accept trades. Charles Smith, 793-1344 Floyd Hodge, 592-2175 South Augusta Realty Co. 3038 Meadowbrook Drive 790-0877 "he said. He also called for street paving, the installation of sidewalks, improved street lighting and improved recreational facilities. Strohman said residents of poor neighborhoods must be included in the decision making process. Low income residents usually don’t hear about new programs until "after the decisions are made and the priorities have been set." Congressman D. M ■Kvis/is • )i M'fl WffWi Douglas Barnard was criticized for not attending meetings of poor folk. Wilbert Allen, a spokesman for the Georgia Coaliton on Hunger asked, “Why hasn’t Doug Barnard Shirley Chisholm Shocked By Apartheid Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-New York) recently returned from and 18-day Congressional study T-X BERNARD JOHNSON 282 S DEANS BRIDGE RD. Ask About The Low Payment! J lan Availab'e Through FHA— Hfe Sell Wall to Wall Happiness Equal Housing Opportunity PHONE 790-5353 seen fit to come and address the poor people himself instead on sending a representative (Cal Thornton)? "He goes to the Chamber of Commerce, The mission to six nations in Africa.lncluding a four-day visit in South Africa, where she was “shocked and depressed” by the condition of that country’s non-white residents under the apartheid system of strict racial segregation. I""Wu<ar 1 mulestaW Kiwanis Club, and the Shriners, but npt to poor people." Thornton announced that Barnard says he intends to support the extension of the Voting “I was just not prepared,” the Congresswoman said, for the first-hand evidence of harsh repression and discrimination in South Africa. “I personally witnessed the desperation and human tragedy which is so prevalent there. I saw Black women and children forcibly evicted, in the cold rain, from their make-shift shelters in Langa, an area the government has declared off-limits to black squatters.” ”1 could see, in a starkness we in America are not used to, the human cost of apartheid. Black workers travel many hours each day from their homes to jobs in the city, and then must rush to leave the city’s borders before sunset to avoid being ‘detained’ by the police after dark. ‘‘By conscious government decision, Black communities are isolated, impoverished, neglected, and grossly underserved by basic public services. Anyone who protests these conditions is followed, DENTAL Insurance Offered This Month Call CICERO LUKE - X- HAVING RADIATOR AND HEATER TROUBLE? SEE US CALL . ..n~» 733-1306 w%@L-tM-s- ,^ c , SCRVI€C 2217 Milledgeville Road 733-1306 '’33 0972 ffi— —HBIHHBiaBMMI Hair Revitalizer Guarantee Longer, Stronger and t Thicker Hair Ia BEFORE AFTER Do yoa have dry, brittle, breaking, failing hair, or hair that has ; been damaged by perms, cold wares, bleaches, over-processed hair or hair that win “Jest” aot grow! Then try Dr. Gaither’s Strength ’N Length Hair Revitalizer. Guaranteed results la (90) days or your money back. Regular Price *14.95 - • oz. size. Special Offer until September IS, 1901 *13.95 0 oz. size. Available in 0 oz. Size Only! Make all money orders payable to: Dr. Gaither P.O. Box 41005 Atlanta, GA 30331 Rights Act. He did not say whether he supports extension of the act in its present form or only if it includes all 50 states, the position supported by Sen. Strom Thurmond. harrassed, arrested, or banned by an all-prevasive police power.” The Member of Congress spoke with a wide spectrum of government and community leaders. “Because of the weak and ambivalent U.S. policies on South Africa,” Mrs. Chisholm explained, “neither side in the conflict was happy to see an American delegation.' Government representatives accused us of meddling, and the Blacks blamed us for our country’s apparent condoning of the status quo. However, we all came away with a sense that the South African government is resisting reform and is perhaps even taking significant steps backward.” “Everywhere we heard great apprehension about the increasing chances for violent upheaval. Many Blacks are determined that their children must not grow up inder such a system, and the whites are equally determined to preserve their total domination of the economy and society. Prospects for peaceful change appear dim, and fading.” “I came back,” the Congresswoman concluded, “believing the unbelievable about South Africa's racial system; and more importantly, I came back even more committed to ending any semblance of American support for it.”