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Thursday. August 2, 1973
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A fricare aids starving Africans
Africare, a private, non
profit organization concerned
with health improvement in
rural Africa, has launched a
Famine Relief Fund Drive to
raise emergency funds for
the drought stricken “Sahel"
Region of West and Central
Africa.
The Drive's goal is “6 for 6
for 6". $6.000.000 for the 6
afflicted nations where up to
6 million people will die of
famine and drought-related
disease unless they get help
within weeks.
Africare intends to send
volunteers with expertise in
rural Africa to buy and
distribute food, medicine and
crop seed throughout the
stricken area in cooperation
with the countries' ongoing
relief programs.
The Drive is staffed pre
dom inantly by volunteers
based in Washington. They
are recruiting an expanding
network of volunteer workers
around the nation. From its
D.C. headquarters at 2204 R
Street N.W., the volunteers
now work day and night on a
joint "communications and
contributions campaign", to
generate the publicity, the
concern and the urgently
needed relief before it be-
comes too late to save many
of the people.
Speaking at a press con
ference to inaugurate the
Drive, Africare President C.
Payne Lucas stressed that
only massive public response
could help avert the stag
gering human tragedy facing
the Sahelian nations.
He
said “We must remember
that these countries have
agriculturally based econo
mies. That means they’re
doubly jeopardized by natural
disasters. The people can't
feed themselves if the crops
fail or the livestock dies, and
the governments lose reve
nues on which their econo
mies significantly depend."
Drought is not uncommon
to the Sahel Region, as Mr.
Lucas noted. Rut neither the
governments nor the nomadic
herdsmen and small farmers
involved in this crisis could
have predicted its 5-vear
duration nor prepared them
selves for its devastating
effects.
In addition to the poor and
unseasonal rainfall, over
grazing by herds newly-en
larged through immunization
and well-digging projects
helped upset the ecological
balance of this vast desert
Save energy
Energy Crisis!
Gasoline
Shortage! Black outs! Brown
outs!
Headlines like these have
made most Americans aware
of the energy problem. It
can be frightening to think
about, but you can help.
The Department of the
In te rio r has published a
pam phlet called E nergy.
America and You which of
fers some steps you can take
to help cut the use of elec
tricity, natural gas and gaso
line. Free single copies may
be obtained by writing to
Consumer Product Informa
tion, Pueblo, Colorado 81009.
Some helpful tips to con
serve energy at home, at
\ work and in between are:
1
Make sure your cooling
and heating equipment is
clean and well lubricated. If
possible, add insulation to
vour house where needed.
- Use your stove effi
ciently. Make one pot meals
or cook more than one food
at a time in the oven.
Cut the number of times
you open the refrigerator
storing or removing several
items at a time.
- Save water. A drip
ping faucet wastes water
that has to be pumped to
your house, and if it is hot
water, energy to heat it.
Use clothes washers,
dryers and dishwashers only
with full loads.
And use
them in the evening, early
morning or on weekends
when energy requirements
are not as great.
Stop and think before
you turn on light switches.
Do you really need the extra
light, or is it just habit? If
you do need the light, turn it
off when you leave the room.
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for education grants
Oregon students who need
money for their education
after high school may now
apply for Basic Educational
Opportunity Grants, accord
ing to William E. McLaugh
lin. Region X Commissioner.
Office of Education. Seattle.
Approximately $500.000 is
available this year under this
new program administered
bv HEW'« Office of Educa
tion. for some 8.000 State
students.
".Although limited this year
to first year, lull-time post
secondary students, the pro
gram is expected to benefit
an estimated one hall million
students who might other
wise be unable to continue
their education." McLaughlin
s a id .
"Along with other
Federal programs of student
financial aid. it marks signi
ficant progress toward the
ultimate goal of making post
secondary education available
to all young people who
desire it."
Under the Basic Grant
program, students in finan
cial need may obtain funds to
help pay their educational
expenses at any approved
college. university, vocational
school, teehmeal institute, or
hospital school of nursing.
How much a student or his
family can contribute affects
the amount of his Basic
Grant and is determined ac
cording to a formula estab
lished by the U.S. Office of
Education.
T o a p p ly lo r <■ li. is u
of the Basie Grant to which
he is entitled.
Application forms are now
available at student financial
aid offices at postsecondary
in stitu tio n s, high school
guidance offices, post offices.
S ta te em ploym ent offices,
county agricultural extension
agents, and Talent Search.
I pward Bound, and Student
Special Services projects. Il
unavailable in your area,
write to Box G. Iowa City.
Iowa 52240.
For further information on
Basic (irants and other slu
dent financial aid programs,
students should contact their
high school counselor or the
financial aid officer at the
school in which they expect
to enroll.
a voteless
people is a
hopeless
people.
bordering region, stretching
for nearly a million square
miles through Senegal, Mali.
Mauritania, Niger, Chad, and
Upper Volta.
Today there is hardly any
thing left to eat or even to
plant if the rains do come to
the Sahel, and they are
already late. Life sustaining
cattle, sheep and camels have
been dying by the millions.
Already, some areas may
have lost as much as 80% of
their livestock, their primary-
source of protein. Now, its
natural resistan ce broken
down after years of under
nourishment, the human pop
ulation is succumbing to di
senses normally taken in its
stride. The weakest
and
the most pathetic
are
the first to die: The elders,
the sick, and the children.
Impeach
The late President Lyndon
Baines Johnson will be pre
sented the Alpha Phi Alpha
Public Service Award at the
67th Anniversary convention
of Alpha Phi Alpha Frater
nity in New Orleans, August
3 to 9. The award will be
presented at the public m e e t
ing Sunday. August 5. honor
ing the late President John
son for his devotion and
dedication to the cause of
civil rights. Senator Hubert
H. Humphrey. Vice Presi
dent under the late President
will accept the award.
Also receiving the Public
Service Award at the public
meeting will be the Honor
able James Charles Evers,
Mayor of Fayette. Missis
sippi. The Honorable Andrew
Young. C ongressm an for
Georgia, will be the guest
s,»eaker at the public meet
ing.
Dr. Walter Washington.
General President of Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity, said
both the convention and the
theme of the Sixty Seventh
Anniversary Convention of
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
reflect the concern of the
times. This year's conven
tion of the first of the Black
college fraternities, founded
at Cornell University in 1906.
will have as its theme "Re
dedication to Brotherhood".
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What about those who
aren't lucky enough to find a
Meanwhile, Reverend Ralph
job? The government says
D. Abernathy, who has an
there are 4.3 million of them.
nounced his resignation as
But that is only because the
head of the Southern Chris
government counts only (»co
tian Leadership Conference,
in a Buffalo speech last week pie actively looking for work
who can't find it.
called for Nixon's impeach
The fact is that there are
ment. Abernathy said the
millions of people who are
President “is totally insensi
live to the needs of poor peo not officially counted as being
ple. He has turned a deaf ear unem ployed because they
have given up looking for
to the pleas and cries of or
d i nary people, both Black work, or because they are
w orking part tim e, even
and white.
Abernathy told an overflow though they may prefer to
crowd at the State University hold full time jobs. If you
of Buffalo: "Whether you are add these discouraged job
Black, white, brown or green, seekers and under employed,
whether you came to this you'll find that there are
country on the Mayflower or a actually about ten million
slave ship, we are in the same unemployed people, over two
million of them Black.
sinking ship together now."
Instead of the official rate
"You and I," he said, “have
of
4.8 percent unemployed, a
responsibility to launch a
movement and to say we made more accurate picture shows
a mistake in the last election, ten percent of the labor force
but we must correct that now out of work, with a twenty
by im peaching P resident percent ra te for Black
workers.
Nixon."
This grim reality has been
The St. Louis American, a
hidden
behind doctored sta
Black newspaper, editorially
stated in its July 19 edition: tistics. misleading rhetoric
"The President ought to take
this time he has in the hospital
to figure out a way he can
gracefully resign from office.”
APA awards
President
Johnson
America loves?
what the
Colonel cooks
nomination method is cm
ployed in the selection of
nomine««. Using this method,
ten nominations are sub
milted to each academy based
on the applicant's high school
scholastic and extracurricu
lar activies as well as em
ployment record (and pre
paratory school or college
record, if applicable), letters
of recommendation, and the
results of the College En
trance Examination Board
tests. This method. Hatfield
continued, is the fairest pos
sible means of selecting Ore
gon's finest young men.
Applications and additional
information may lie obtained
by writing to: Senator Mark
0. Hatfield, Did Senate Of
fire Building, Washington,
D.C. '20510.
Full em ploym ent
(Continued from page I)
SPECIAL!
7220 N. Fessenden
Senator Mark (). Hatfield.
R Oregon, announced re
cenlly that he is accepting
applicai ions for nomination
for appointment in the 1974
entering class of Cadets in
the U.S. Air Fore«1 Academy,
the U.S. Naval Academy, the
U.S. Military Academy (West
Point I. and the U.S. Mer
chant Marine Academy.
To qualify for the com
petition. an applicant must
lie unmarried and must have
reached his 17th but not his
22nd birthday by June 30,
1974. The minimum educa
tional requirement is a high
school diploma: however,
high school seniors assured
of graduation by June 30.
1974, are eligible to compete.
Senator Hatfield empha
sized th a t the competitive
(Continued from page I)
m a u l,
an "Application for Deter
mination of Expected Family
Contribution'' must bo ob
tamed, filled out, and mailed
to P.O. Box B. Iowa City.
Iowa 52240. Within a m o ii i i i
the student is notified ol the
amount of his family’s ex
pei-terl contribution. He then
submits (he notification to
the school of his choice,
which calculates the amount
West Point apps due
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about a supposedly booming
economy, and other diver
aionary issues.
Ku* it is
clear that the economy does
not seem able to provide
everyone with work, and it is
time that issue came out into
the open and the nation
started a great debate on
what should be it's number
one priority
a full em
ployment policy.
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Rights o f
Unwed Father
Dues an unwed father have any
right Io the custody of his child?
As a rule, in case of dispute, the
law gives preference to the moth
er Two arguments are generally
cited in her favor:
1) that mother’s love is a more
powerful emotional tie than fa
ther's love; and
2) that the mother’s kinship to
the child is more certain than the
father’s.
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But suppose the mother is out
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ested in the child, perhaps unfit,
perhaps dead then, may the un
wed father insist on custody if he
so chooses?
The question arises in conflicts
w ilh the mother's relatives or with
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For example:
In a custody light between an
unwed father and the maternal
grandmother, the court uwarded
the child to the father. The court
felt that, other things being
equai. the closer relationship
should make the difference.
Of course, the father himself
may he disqualified by his own
ladings In another case, an un
wed father filed suit to gain cus
tody nt his two young daughters
I hey hail been entrusted by their
mother to her aunt.
However, the court decided
that the children were better off
where they were, with the aunt.
I he court pointed to evidence
that, on several occasians, the
father had been guilty of "cruelly
and depravity” hence, was not
likely Io provide a proper home
for the girls.
As one judge put it:
“ The polar star for determin
ing the custody of children is what
serves the best interests of the
children.”
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