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Show URBAN SUPPORT Page 3 WORDPOWER CENTER All your needs OFFERS HELP During 1970, the first year of publication, Wordpower Newspaper was mailed and distributed free. We —347 South are now asking everyone who can City, Utah VALENTINES CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER | afford to do so, to pay a $2.00 a 4th East, Salt Lake Donations are still needed both for the newspaper and for the training programs conducted by Wordpower. Please send your subscriptions and donations to: termed very successful. Wordpower Newspaper, 975 East was 3300 South, Suite 1, Salt Lake Excellent cooperation from VISTA volunteers made a_ significant City, Utah 84106. contribution to the summers Persons interested in purchasing SUCCESS. advertising space can call 486-9371 The C.U.C. Thrift Store is now for rates and further information. being managed by the ladies from First United Methodist Church. It is open. -tTrom 10°30: to -2:30 Wednesdays and Fridays. Good usable clothing, particularly for infants and children, is needed. The drain on canned goods from the Emergency Pantry has been great. Contributions of canned or staple foods will be greatly appreciated. NEGROES MORMONS copy of — If this AMONG you would address by like a -Women’s Dean Sterlong McMurrin of the University of Utah, send a $1.00 donation to NAACP for their scholarship fund for a_ black student. The address is 247 North 6th West. A copy will be mailed to you. Center: A greal deal of planning has been done during the _ last few months at the Japanese Church of Christ in S.L.C., and it has come to fruition in an “‘Issei Center’ where a variety of programs of interest to the ‘‘first generation. Japanese will be provided - including Japanese meals and transportation furnished by a corps of volunteer drivers. The first meeting included informal time for getting acquainted and a movie of modern Japan. A second get-together featured a trip to see the beautiful fall colors. Utah a new class, January 12 and will continue to meet Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in the U. of U.- Union Building, Room 324, to discuss current feminist relevance members. publications in the lives and_ of their the class and Masculine/Feminine: Readings in and the Women,edited by Sexual Liberation Betty Roszak. Mythology of Roszak and Theodore Topics chosen for consideration are the dynamics of marriage and motherhood, birth control, sexism, the cultural history of women and many other issues of special interest to women. Ps Women’s Caucus, a consciousness raising group, meets Sunday mornings at 11:00 a.m. Babysitting services are provided by liberated men. Ee eee eae Carlo’s Italian Sausage FRESH ITALIAN BREAD SPAGHETTI SAUCES HOT LASAGNE — FRI. THRU SUN. Hours: 645 Tues.-Sat.: East 21st So. 10am.—8p.m. 466-0637 Sun: 10am. — 6 p.m. SHE SIS IC OH IC is Of Of hc Bie Of oe fs aie he Seale she she af af She 24 2h he Sik ofc 94 ake afc he. racial infecting free began “oefeake ae di afc ais 2c ofc 2fe 24 afc 2c afc he 24c 2 246 24 ee of the Organized by Bonnie Phillips and Carolynn Vincent, the class is now undergoing discussion of the books, Sisterhood is Powerful, edited by Robyn Morgan; Women’s Liberation; Blueprint for the Future, edited by Sookie Stambler ISSEI CENTER OPENS Issei Liberation, University DRUGS by Clifford Williams STORES 363-3394 So. 7th East to The Breakfast Tribune 10c! This is the price of a nutritious meal served for 8-9 a.m., Monday through Friday at the Central City Community Center, 615 So. 3rd East, to neighborhood and Sumner Elementary school children. Sponsored by the Community by Mary Adams Jones Action Center, So-called public schools in Utah are an extension of the LDS Church, operated primarily to promote LDS doctorines and meet the needs of LDS children. through federal Center. funds provided by the government and CAP : the “Breakfast Program” started earlier in the year The barrier that has our society, since these States first been our country, United, that we so proudly live in. But just how proud can we be of ourselves sitting futilely while a fellow citizen is being discriminated this very second because of his race, creed or color. Regardless who we are, we are the ones responsible for the murky waters our society is drowning in and its up to us to erase this discrimination now, before its too late. You say to leave things as they are is of no threat to our future; | and formerly received credit for although such non-LDS academic attendance, children bringing purpose of a dime is to pay the children for the Not only black children, but all milk cost which is $11 a day. non-LDS children are made to feel Approximately 50 neighborhood different, set apart, from the first children come to the center each day of school when the LDS morning before going to school and “An Open Letter” To The People Of The United States: teacher tells them to stand. the are -served cereal, milk, toast, ‘saints’ are excused to attend cookies, donuts and a fruit. » We have to do something about Seminary during the school day, ‘Some of the reasons the ‘ by Julie Fox THE ae ae 2keak ak ake eae ake ake™ THE THRIFTY The Mailbag NOTES ON LIBERATION scholarships CONTINUES AT YOUR FRIENDLY Article submitted and not published. Open Letter: Book To Support @) CARDS 680 Sale Of PROGRAM ) CHOCOLATES C) PERFUMES A new director for the C.U.C., Rev. Bruce K. McSpadden, has been introduced to Salt Lake City. The summer program of the Center, involving some 50-60 | pre- teen boys and girls, was conducted at the Center and at Grace United Methodist Church. It year subscription fee to help defray the cost of mailing the newspaper. BREAKFAST FOR neighborhood children eat breakfast at the center is because are ‘some mothers are too tired to discouraged, possibly excluded, up in the mornig due to from Seminary. Attached to all the working hours or breakfast get’ late states’ public high schools, colleges, served in the home,” said and universities one finds Salazar, head of the program. appendages called LDS Seminary. The program, which started two Tho’ Utah State College at years ago, was first introduced at Logan has an “LDS only’ domitory, Jackson Elementary school which the Church has been unsuccessful in proved to be successful, but achieving this exclusiveness at the application: for more money was University of Utah. However, much not renewed and the program was of off-campus student housing discontinued from there. listed by the U is, contrary to Through the supervision of Mrs. regulations prohibiting such say it is, and there are many more Americans voicing the same fear as |, Chinese, Caucasian, Italian, Indian, Jewish, Japanese, Negro, Puerto Rican, Spanish, etc., because discrimination, not available to non-Mormons, particularly black students. Attempts by black ending the bitterness, hate, ignorance and misunderstandings that have infested our country. request and get_ segregated dormitories at state schools? Salazar, project director, the program is run with four women and one college student daily. Miss Kenna Rogers, 19, students on other campuses to University sophomore, is one of the secure separate domitories (a stand steady volunteers that participate in we re all on the losing side if each this reporter does not support) the program. “The goal of the and everyone of us doesn’t begin to were met with howls of disapproval grogram is simply to feed the kids. contribute in some way toward nationwid e. Why do Mormons Medical reports have shown that a What and a public It's going to take money lot of it! It's going to take hard manual labor and sweat and hell of a lot of it! But before we can percentage ,of the states school teachers were educated at BYU? What percentage of its administrators are Mormon biships? How much time during the school day is allotted for children of Buddhists, Chatholics, Greek . Orthodox, Jews, Seventh Day Adventists, etc. to receive religious instruction in their Faith? How earnestly begin these things each of us has to open our hearts and our minds; then and only then can we begin to untangle this wretched snarl our country is in. Decide now what you can do, should do and many points are allowed for being genuinely want to do. Then begin LDS when selections are made for today; tomorrow will be too late. varsity athletic teams, pep clubs, Let's enrichen the United States scholarships, and other school starting today so that one day soon honors? we can be a Nation of one people The Catholic Church supports its undivided. educational institutions, and is Sincerely, Mrs. S. E. Two Elk Grand Rapids, lowa \ isn’t Tina indeed prohibited by law from using tax monies for this purpose. Why are tax monies spent for the support of Mormon schools in Utah? child who and learn is not hungry can study better than one that is hungry, said Miss Rogers. Miss Rogers also spends her weekend afternoons from 12-1 at the center teaching aclass with the children in the library. On Fridays, Miss. Rogers teaches the children games such as bingo and how to tell time. Saturday, tutored stories. “The what the children in arithmetic children and are are read explain to me they felt the story was about by drawing pictures of what to them,” said | read Miss Rogers. They learn to understand the story this way, she noted. The program which is a project of the state, was orginally set up for local schools within the community, but the schools have failed in applying for money needed in running the programs. : \ |