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Show “WORDPOWER” 7 JIN“ . ee Wosiertl Americawia ‘Sy UTA TINE ' FLEE S eyeSRD Lope ULL Priry i ¢ Serials U< Order of Utah City Dept. ‘ae ee 84112 pce catran. i 2) es eh a NN ot C oh Rees 1 i GPP THE BEGINNING OF UNDERSTANDING eee an THE PEOPLE’S NEWSPAPER ACP, Volume HOUSING — ‘SIst Annual Freedom Fund — HUD launches The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is planning to launch a major effort through the urban renewal program to fight environmental pollution. The outlines of the campaign were revealed in a speech delivered today in Honolulu, Hawaii, by ACTION Lawrence (Reprinted from FOCUS) Arthur A. Fletcher Leonard H. Carter Regional Director Assistant Secretary for Wage and Labor Standards U.S. Department of Labor Washington, D.C. 7 The Salt Lake branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held it’s 5Ist annual Freedom Fund Banquet on June 7th at the Predential Federal Savings Auditorium. Arthur Fletcher, Director for Gillespie, President the branch served Ceremonies. Assistant NAACP. James of the Ogden as Master of President’s Award” to the NAACP. Mr. Albert Fritz, civil-rights leader and past president of the branch presented his annual “Civil Rights Worker of the Year” award to Mr. Dooley for a year of dedicated effort in promoting equality in the Community and furthering the accomplishments of the NAACP. STATEMENT OF POLICY WORDPOWER is a new voice in our community and is growing in strength each day. Following is a statement of policy: “The goal of WORDPOWER is to “Tell it like it is’ — to give a voice to the people of the community, to help improve the community by eliminating poverty and discrimination of all kinds, and to strongly support equality of opportunity for all people in their search for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Policies are important to guide any project but action and results determine the success of a program. We anticipate both with the publishing of WORDPOWER. We urge everyone to “give a damm about their fellowman” and break the wall of silence which surrounds poverty. In a dynamic. speech on employment and economics, Mr. Fletcher asked for positive action in . bringing about economic equality, advising that efforts would need tu come from bottom right up to the top level of government to achieve this goal. He stated that when Eo James E. Dooley President other racial problems could be solved — a man needs money to buy a decent house and to properly educate his children. County Public Health Department. 101 East 21st South. Services: Well Baby, Family Planning. Immunization Clinic, T.B. Testing Clinic. V.D. Clinic, Well Baby, immunization and Family Planning, 45 Center STreet, Midvale. Well Baby Clinic, 532 4220 West, Kearns (Kearns Library) Free for everyone. Other services include qualifying families for food supplement program. Will make home visits upon referral from other agencies. rehabilitated. Four low-income families will be able to purchase and live in decent homes. | “We support the establishment of local Housing Authorities as we believe that volunteer projects such as ours can be implemented more efficiently through a Housing Authority.” Following the public hearing on May 21, the Salt Lake City Commissioners have agreed to consider setting up a Housing Authority. the Metro Division Board that sale of the four rehabilitated houses seems to be final; that the $1,200 borrowed from the Presbytery of Utah as “seed money” has been returned; and that Nancy Lignell will assume responsibility for the continuing contact that the Division, as sponsoring body, will have with the buyers of these homes. He pointed out that many Federal programs will be initiated during the 70’s and we must insist that non-whites share equally in these opportunities for employment. HEALTH SERVICES OFFERED Endorsement of the following statement was voted by the Executive Committee of the Metro Division at its meeting on May 20 for presentation at the public hearing regarding a Salt Lake City Housing Authority: “The Metro Division of the Utah Council of Churches has _ been working on a_ Housing Rehabilitation project for nearly two years. We have contributed over $1,000 to this project. Volunteers have been responsible for initiating the project and following through to its completion. ‘The results are that four houses in. Salt Lake City have been Kittz Getz, chairman of the Social Action Committee, informed J.B. Stewart, for his outstanding service to = non-whites earn the same as whites, James E. Dooley, President of Salt Lake branch presented “The & Honored guests were A. Secretary for Wage and Labor Standards, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. and Leonard H. Carter, Regional the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People The report of last fall’s Housing Seminar sponsored by the Division, Housing ’69 Salt Lake Metropolitan Area, JOIN THE NAACP A membership drive is underway for the Salt Lake branch of the NAACP. This dynamic group needs young adults to work on their many programs and committees. Visit a meeting held the first Monday of each month at 8:00 P.M. at the Nettie Gregory Community Center, and learn what is being accomplished in Utah. — Membership chairman Danny Burnett, 363-6031 can answer your questions concerning. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. is available now for distribution to the churches related to the division. In Brigham City a few weeks ago the Executive Board of Church Women United prepared a statement on the Proposed FHS 235 Housing Units, to counteract petitions being circulated to prevent such housing. [t concludes: “Most important .. . is our Christian attitude towards the personal freedoms of others. We...seem willing to petition to bring government in to limit the rights of a particular economic class to own adequate housing. As long as a home meets the building codes of the community, no unit of government should specify that the inhabitants should be of a specific economic level, race, political persuasion.” June 10, 1970 Fight Against Pollution PROBLEMS NEED _ Banquet 1,No.8 religion or M. Cox, HUD Assistant Secretary for Renewal and Housing Management. The Assistant Secretary told a Regional Conference of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials: “The renewal program has played an important role in the fight against pollution. But it has not done all that it could or should be doing. Nor has the program concerned itself with the adequacy of the community’s larger, overall efforts in the field of pollution and environmental quality.” Mr. Cox said “‘we can no longer g afford in urban renewal a passive or unconcerned Federal Posture” in= the administration of the program. The head of the billion dollar Federal renewal program outlined his preliminary thoughts on the shape of the new effort as follows: “BIRST, the establishment of standards in cooperation with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Interior Department to help evaluate renewal project applications and govern the allocation of our resources so as to give priority to those communities that are doing the best job in meeting our national environmental pollution objectives. “SECOND, the development of financial incentives where needed to help achieve desired environmental plans. Where legislation is needed, we will so recommend to the HUD Secretary. “THIRD, the development of a clearinghouse service for dissemination of information about environmental techniques and innovations that can be _ used throughout the nation. As part of this effort, we are considering the possibility of undertaking a national demonstration in one or more renewal projects to create a showcase of what can be done to create pollution-free urban renewal environments. ” | The exact nature of -a pollution-free urban renewal demonstration, Mr. Cox said, would have to be worked out between HUD and the participating city or cities. “We anticipate,” he added, “that it might consider the feasibility of such things as: special air and water pollution standards; the development of a central solid waste treatment facility (perhaps like the Centralsug vacuum system in. Sweden); combined _ utility tunnels; traffic design patterns to minimize traffic noise and pollution; total energy systems; visually attractive street furniture; rodent control programs; smoke abatement programs; _ special convenants governing signs and other visual eyesores; and other environmentally-oriented design features.” * Editorial Ofc. 975 E. 3300 SouthSuite1 Tel: 486-9371 |