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Show me Bnet . r seri als re Orde a TUCTITA, STN evade eA Ur City THE BEGINNING GF UNDERSTANDING Crowned Funds for Miss G. O. Smith, 1969 Miss Black America. Miss Slade sang “IfI Can’t Be First” accompanied by Cecil - Smith on piano. She will represent Utah in the 1970 competition. Runners-up were James Etta Foster, Rhonda Morishita, Faye Glasper and Sharon Burton. _ Willie Stewart served as master of ceremonies and Miss Black America Father Merrill Assigned to Parish Father Jerald H. Merrill has been assigned as co-pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe parish, Salt Lake City. This assignment will implement a “team ministry” with Father Patrick R. MclInally, the first of it’s kind for the diocese. _ Father Merrill will continue his work with the Guadalupe Center, 346 West First South and the Thunderbird Youth Center, 44 North Third West, combining these community efforts with the parish. Father Merrill has been an active community leader on the west side and has served as administrator of Guadalupe mission. Jobs for Utah Ruth Ross, W. 4th South, promoted the Utah pageant after seeing the national contest on T.V. last year. She worked hard to present a beautiful smooth pageant, giving the girls who participated a sense of dignity and pride. Many others in the community helped, working behind the scenes to sell tickets, coach the girls, and publicize the event. GUIDE OFFERED The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced publication of a new bibliography, Citizen and Business Participation in Urban A ffairs. The 84-page bibliography was compiled by the HUD Library in response to President Nixon’s call for voluntary action, and subsequent frequent requests from citizens asking how they may effectively involve themselves in urban affairs. More than 600 os ubliahed sources, including selected films, are described, indicating ways in which people have participated in the past, what has been accomplished so far, and what may be done in the future. The subjects covered include urban Teens 551 renewal, non-profit housing, model cities, institutional Utah will receive $665,500 from the Neighborhood Youth Corps Program to create summer jobs for 1,500 teenagers from low-income families. | The summer jobs program will provide for 10 weeks of work for needy youths. They will work 26 hours a week at a minimum salary of $1.45 an hour. Typical jobs under the program would be recreation assistants, Park Service helpers, hospital assistants or other jobs primarily with government agencies or nonprofit organizations. The program is administered by the U.S. Labor Department. $525,974 in federal funds government. Mr. Olson emphasized that new jobs will not be created, DRUG CENTER but instead, participants will be trained to fill vacancies occurring through normal turnover. In announcing the contract signing, Mr. Olson also reported that Gov. Calvin L. Rampton has appointed Jorge Arce-Laretta to direct the new _ public services careers program. The planning coordinator said the program will be carried out in two phases. The first includes working with various state agencies to analyze jobs available for disadvantaged persons within the prineiples of the State Merit System, and the second and major portion will be training. The Community Drug Crisis Center moved to a new location on July 1. The new facility at 868 McClelland St. (1040 West) offers expanded services. The move from the old location at 211 Edison St. (140 East) marks the beginning of new funding and reorganization efforts. of the Pacific States of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks held a five-day convention in Salt Lake City, which began July 1. The convention, said Bob Oliver, public relations representative for the Bee [live Lodge, drew Elk delegations from Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah and Hawaii. Between 700 and 1,000 members of the predominantly black lodge attended. Hive Lodge of Elks No. 407, and Timpanogas Temple 483, Ladies Auxiliary, will be hosts. Mayor J. Bracken Lee addressed the convention during the opening banquet. Other activities included a fashion show, a golf and bowling tournament, an oratory contest in competition for a $5,000 scholarship, and a parade. The parade started at the Bee Ilive Lodge clubhouse, 248 W. South Temple, and continued cast instruction at the Human Resources; South Temple and returned back dewn South Temple to the clubhouse. Utah’s. Susan Pitts, student of Center, 43:-Sth “ast, and on-the-job training. Ex-Utah Aide west to West. Temple, north to A. Gonzales, formerly Notre Dame High School in Price, won the regional oratorical contest. She will represent the region at the national contest in Philadelphia next month. The national winner with the = anti-discrimination division of the state industrial Pitts, 18, is a daughter of Mr. and Named Modesto Social Worker Picked for Anti-Bias Joh Quintin N. Garcia, formerly a social worker specializing in minor- receives a $5,000 scholarship. Miss Mrs. Lowell Pitts. Mr. James I. Dooley, scholarship chairman for the Utah lodge explained that the contestants give a 10-minute oration on the U.S. Constitution and relate some positive phase of the Negro’s role in American history. Mr. Lonnie A. Kelley, Piciiidrg, California succeeds Mr. James QO. McElroy, Phoenix. Welfare Recipients May Lose Services the that food stamp price increases may Industrial F. Commission, Gronning, chairman, Mr. Garcia succeeds Modesto (Mike) Gonzales, who resigned to accept a similar position with the federal government. Commissioner Gronning said Mr. Garcia will investigate complaints of employment discrimination alleged because of race, religion, color, sex or national origin. Mr. Garcia was born on Navajo Indian Reservation the in Arizona and is thus “Well suited to the position by background and work experience,” the commissioner said. as president of the women’s auxiliary. | Other Officers Collin Yarbrough was elected first vice president of the order, and Clanthie Green is the new second vice president. John W. Adams was re-elected executive secretary. _ General Discussion A recommendation was introduced proposing a “‘pedler’s Richard P. Lindsay, Utah Family Division cost some Utah of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. L. Fern Ellery, San Diego, Calif., one of the few white delegates to the’ convention, director, advised welfare recipients more than the increases theyll get in welfare payments as of July 1 He explained, food stamp outlays required of recipients are on sliding scales and as grants go up, so do food stamp total costs to the family. Thus a family getting $170.00 a month and expecting a $17 increase may discover they have to pay $18 more for food stamps a month. The $18 however, would buy possibly as much as $24 worth of groceries. Supposedly, the number of recipients to be affected will be very small. introduced the proposal. Mr. Ellery explained his proposal as an attack on “any organization that institutionalizes racial inequality.” The proposal would tax the highest structural level of the church operating within a district where missionaries were working, tax and license each missionary, and. distribute money collected to remedy the effects of racial « inequality. nning = ; Church policy ba The LDS from Negroes hoiding the priesthood is “socially unacceptable and a racist doctrine” Mr. Ellery said. Miss Cynthia Carroll was presented as the new PSA Queen at a presidential ball held at the hotel. UNITARIAN MINISTER RESIGNS The Rev. Dr. Michael Cunningham, pastor of the First Unitarian Church, ity race problems with the Salt Lake City Board of Education, has been named field representative in the Anti-discrimination Division of Utah Fair Mae Abner, San Francisco, succeeds Beulah Sanders, Tucson, tax” on missionaries of the Church All sessions for the convention were held in the Hotel Utah. Bee to Main Street, south to 4th South, announced Tuesday. MOVES Members Association Mr. Olson said training will include both fundamental Carlyle Sylvia Hopkins, West High School graduate, received the award presented by Mr. Daniel Dix, trustee of the NAACP Educational Scholarship Foundation at the 51st Annual NAACP Banquet, June 7 Miss Hopkins is the third recipient in the history of the foundation to have this award. The scholarship program was formed to help young people from minority groups secure whatever kind of training would be most useful for them after graduating from high school. ; iW for training disadvantaged persons for state public service careers. Kenneth C. Olson, state planning. coordinator, said the grant will allow the state to hire and train about 160 persons for entry-level positions with the state and_ minority and business partici- commission with the Utah pation in housing, employment and consultant Department of Employment civil rights. Items listed are generally avail- , Security has been named to the able in libraries and bookstores, or Region VIII staff of the Office of from publishers and issuing organi- Civil Rights, US Department of zations. A list of publishers’ Health, Education and Welfare in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Gonzales has addresses is included. The publication (HUD-103-A) is been active in the local branches of for sale for 75 cents by the Super- SOCIO and the NAACP as well as intendent of Documents, U.S. Gov- other community organizations. He ernment Printing Office, Washing- will act as civil rights specialist in his new position. ton, D.C. 20402. THIRD AWARD GIVEN . Utah state officials have concluded negotiations with the U.S. Department of Labor for participation, WASHINGTON - Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd, R-Utah, reported that Sten Price Teen Top Orator Job Project: SSauu Terrace Ballroom pageant bursting Kaye Slade grathe crown from goodness and talent. The day is coming when the black folks are going to be united.” _ The contest was sponsored locally by the black community.. Mrs. Improved Elks Conclude Meet Ey Black Utah at the on June 26 in a with black pride. ciously accepted the titl: of Miss | Ne ala off with 84112 et A beautiful young black woman walked told the audience, “I see so much libraries oe State Gains Uepe. (2) Utah Volume 1 No. 10 July 9, 1970 " THE PEOPLE'S NEWSPAPER Miss Black Utah of ereten KY aN 569 South announced his effective August Cunningham has of the church 1969. He 13th East, has resignation to be 31. The Rev. Dr. served as minister since August 15, submitted a letter of. resignation to the congregation, indicating his willingness and interest in joining the faculty of a local college as an associate professor in the division of nursing.- The Rev. Dr. Cunningham prepared for the priesthood at the Trappist Monastery of our Lady of New Melleray, Dubuque, lowa. He graduated from St. Luke’s Hospital of Nursing, Duluth, Minn., in 1961 and from the University of Minnsota in 1963 with a B.S. Degree. He obtained a doctor of ministry: degree from the University of Chicago’s Meadville Theological School in 1968. He has been active in community problems and has taken a strong stand on social action issues since arriving in Salt Lake City. Under his guidence, a Free Store was established in Central City with food and clothing being donated by the congregation. He inituated a series of evening dialogue sessions between the church, Central City residents police department. the BBOS, and the |
