Show 0 - The Herald Journal Job corps program examined WASHINGTON — The (UPI) nation's Job Corps program has some serious problems according to the General Accounting Office the arm of investigating Congress Established in 1964 the Job Corps had trained about 26000 disadvantaged youths between the ages of 14 and 22 through last fall It provides vocational education for a number of occupations including automotive and co- trades nstruction building and industrial maintenance service food interior decorating and welding The GAO in a report to Congress recommended Monday the Labor Department correct recruitment procedures report more long-ter- m benefits It noted 11 1977 Black drug store in the river delta By Richard HGrowald UPI national reporter drugstore are all black But there is a difference Philip Sherman a young and husky white man running for reelection as county attorney stops and chats with a black man with a political style that knows today's Mississippi ballot box is color blind And across the tracks in what had been the white heartland there are blacks on the police and firefighting forces there are black city officials and through the bank’s front window s black teller can be seen “Whites are now courteous and southern gentle manners are what once they were only supposed to be” said Willie Lee Watkins 44 soda jerk and clerk in the Henry drugstore in Fourth Street “Whites now say 'Yes sir' and 'No sir' to us in the stores and no longer are we the last in line to be served” he said Watkins and his brothers and sisters can ride up front in the bus The separate drinking fountains are long gone The schools are integrated But Watkins mashed a ball of chocolate ice cream maybe harder than needed into a cone He was showing emotion “But I don't feel equal” he said "I can apply for a job but being - Once CLARKSDALE Miss (UPI) upon a time before Martin Luther King before the overcoming before black was beautiful white was white and black was black and the railroad tracks were the border Above the tracks downtown Clarksdale was white and manners and mores operated as in olden days when cotton first came to this flat delta country Blacks had such titles as Mister and Missus only below the tracks in black Fourth Street Then came the civil rights atrugles of the past generation Martin Luther King visited Fourth Street Hubert e Minnesota Humphrey the pharmacist spent much of a day behind the counter in Aaron Henry's Fourth Street drugstore And now today in the delta where integration once seemed as distant as snow the railroad tracks are a fussier border Oh it may look the same Fourth Street from Goon’s Store down to the Sunflower River is still all black The sidewalk loungers in front of the second hand stores and the one-tim- black my chances may not be too good at getting it And blacks are not being promoted “We've got civil rights The battle now is economic rights” Watkins said The walls of the drug store speak of yesterday and today Five photographs of President John Kennedy Three pictures of President Lyndon Johnson A colored display of Humphrey's smile A framed picture of an unsmiling Jimmy Carter And each wall has a picture of Martin Luther King and on the counter beside the cash register is an almost lifesixe plaster bust of gold-paint- King The plaster King gives an Old Testament prophet's stare at a display of civil rights literature and signs reading “Be A First Class Citizen — Pay Your Poll Tax!” and "Register Now — Voting Means Freedom" Behind the counter Clarence Cummings 40 Henry’s manager and pharmacist pats the King bust “People say I look Just like King They're wrong: Martin Luther King had more hair” he said Cummings measured some pills into a thumb-size- d bottle and said “I found a program the State of Mississippi had going they’d pay college costs if I'd just go to school outside of Mississippi 1® 0 in- comprehensive formation on placement of graduates in jobs and evaluate Logan Utah Wednesday July Sidewalk Sale C ojo "serious problems in Job Corps’ recruitment process as well as in its preparation and reporting of job placement information” Youth selected for the program are supposed to meet at least two of the adverse criteria it set jL-- 1 Wurlitzer 42" Console — li down for the program — substandard conditions living Model 2719 deficient or tj&r disruptive home potentially harmful spare time activities and limited job opportunities GAO said however the Job Corps “needs to tighten its eligibility requirement for determining whether a youth must be removed from the home environment to succeed in The training" noting a similar criticism was made in a 1169 review of the program The Labor Department defended its effort to screen Job Corps personnel saying the cost would be prohibitive if Job Corps recruiters-screene-rs were to travel to each applicant's home" The report also said the corps' portrayal of its effectiveness is overstated many job placements could not be verified and little is known about the longterm impact of the program on earnings of participants Now Only Thomas Organ $ 1695 1 Only sfi o' Reg $2737 '4 ODYSSEY II Tho ultimata computer homo video game Reg $17900 Now Cl AfkfiC IZY Magnavox Console STEREO (Cassette AMFMTurntable) e $69SOO $40000 Other Items Also Discounted For This Salel A Cache Valley Mall Ph 752-751- 0 CACHE VALLEY MALL 753-016- 1 o°" |