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Show salt lake free not for volume one may 25, 1972 sale'40 number forty Residents Debate Citizen Structure At the Model Cities Coordinating Council meeting May 18,. members Thursday, dealt with the Citizen Participation Component of the program and were presented with a brief report from Leo Adams, Housing Task Force Chairman, on the Federally Assisted Code Enforcement program (FACE). Skip Glines, Chief Planner for Model Cities, said an area has been selected for the Code Enforcement program. There are between 110 and 112 structures and he said he doesn't foresee any demolition or relocation. Residents of the Northwest area selected have been contacted and were in favor of the project with the exception of two families who questioned the potential increase in property taxes due to improvements. Al Blair, City Planner and City Commissioner Stephen Harmsen are working with Glines on the project. Adams advised Council members that there is an immediate need for housing and the Housing Task Force is working with the City and County to identify available funds. The Task Force is considering purchasing an apartment house on a "time" basis or an outright purchase. "If this does become a possibility," Adams said, "we will come back to the Council for possible reprogrammed funding." Hermoine Jex, Model Cities Government Task Force Assistant, presented the Citizen Participation Component. The objective of the citizen participation structure is to strengthen the six existing neighborhood councils and to insure maximum possible efficiency as well as meaningful productivity. The Council began lengthy debate over the proposed plan and will conclude discussion of corrections and changes and adoption of the component at a meeting Wednesday, May 24 at 7:30p.m. at Multi-purpos- the Northwest Center. e National Welfare Rights luncheon meeting of the Association of Black Social Workers at the Flagship, a Rochester, New York hotel. "Struggle to help people on Organization, at a Thursday evening, income, housing, education and nutritional programs for the poor, expecially poor children. "The struggle would insure our children of their rightful blood-earneshare in America's riches." Dr. Wiley also criticized d President Nixon's Family Organization he petitioned the in America." The struggle, as Dr. Wiley put it, would be to insure adequate and. others - May 18 by columnist Jack Anderson. free. Ain't nobody free harassed,'' the worst except for form of governmentall the others!" an original Winston Churchill idea restated social workers. "Unless they are respected as people, ain't nobody the outcast, the welfare brutalized, the degraded, the is - Assistance Plan, which was passed by the House of Representatives and labeled H.R. 1 being consideration by the Senate. He asked his audience to join the National Welfare Rights - the rich. by Steve Varley "Democracy to "struggle tor human rights on behalf of welfare recipients was sounded by Dr. George Wiley, president of the Prize Winning Columnist Discusses National Issues . we spend peanuts when only 24 feeding the hungry compared to the mink and sable we provide for the rich." Struggle Called For Human Rights A call Jack Anderson spoke to capacity crowd at UcfU. in opposition to H. R. 1 by flooding the senators and congressmen with letters. Anderson, the 1972 Pulitzer prize winner for national reporting of governmental secrets, spoke to a capacity crowd at the University of Utah's Contemporary Issues program. "It has been my peculiar function to cover the shady side," he said, as he told the audience of some of the corrupt politics, injustices and outrages he and others have uncovered. "We cannot expect the people on the street to practice law and order if those on the top, who make the laws, don't," he said. On government funding, Anderson said, "We don't subsidize the poor, we subsidize believe what is said in government. But there are no simple solutions. . you can't end poverty or pollution or the war with bumper stickers. You have to operate through the political process to reform government," Anderson advised. He said that one of our greatest evils is our method of ''Can you imagine the outrage if an impoverished family collected four million dollars in one year on welfare? J. G. Boswell collected that in one year for NOT farming," he said. "James Eastland was getting $2 1 3,000 a year for NOT growing cotton - - you've got to be rich to qualify for Federal aid. What kind of priorities do we have?" he asked. Anderson commented on the funding campaigns because candidates have to get their money from special interest groups such as corporations, trade and labor unions who want current political campaigning and problems off for the next generation to worry about. . instead we have golf and T.V. so we leave the problems to our a return on their investments. "The oil industry puts in one billion dollars every two years. That nets them eight billion a year in Federal aid. It would be cheaper for us, the people, to put in the one billion and reap the a spoke on the problems facing every American, saying, "We have problems that we're going to have to deal with, but we know we are going to die so we put the kids." "It's of the people can sad state of affairs return ourselves," he commented. Anderson said that most of the people in office would like to serve us, but "we don't le.them." ' |
