The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 57, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1975 Page: 1 of 24
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RaciRm Renounced?
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White ” Policy
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man would not be stressed
unless it is dug up," he said.
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Detroit’s Sickness In
Rebate Worked
Twister Hoars Through Atlanta,
Blacks Suffer Heavy Damage
it certainly captures the
Death! What Will It Mean?
at-large
4 Firms Charged
See, BENNETT
With Bias
Cont'd Page 13
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a news analysis
by David M Breed
of Ihe Eagle Staff
The shot heard around the
world probably sounded
loudest in he palace of
Riyadh, the capital of Saudi
Arabia where smoldering
family hatreds suddenly
burst into the open.
Today, inspite of the hasty
A Sews .Analysis
By ( ha rles Jeffrey. Jr.
here no more 1 got to go
where the folks is gotn’.."
The Grapes of Wrath"
VOLUME 57
NUMBER 34
See MUSLIMS
Continued on P. 13
into the in-
dustry. nationwide
THetl&UUA.
IN BRIEF
workers,
scrutiny"
Layoffs
Nation-
FILING INEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS ■
These laid off automobile workers in Detroit are
shown filing for their Supplemental I nem-
ploymenl Benefits which provide them with 95
Vid it is safe to say that up
See F AISAI.
( onimued on p 13
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a tornado, ripped i northw- st
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percent of their regular take-home pay. But the
ripple effect of their unemployment reduces jobs
across the nation.
The outlook of the Big
Three could best be described
as cautious optimism The
rebate program, launched
first by Chrysler and picked
•We Make America Better When W« Aid Ow PawpiaT
TULSA OKLAHOMA. 122 NORTH GREENWOOD AVE. PRICE 20c
__________THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1975 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES
sat more or less serenely at
the center of a hurricane
which revolved around him
with an intensity that
fluctuated with the price of
Ml SLIMS Renounce
Racism’
INDUSTRY
Hurts Blacks
wide
-EAGLE MS. lakes
Country and Western
BOREN Pleads For
langston
• ALTER
What’
and
urging
t ensure
and
temper of hopelessness rising here
among the mounting num-
bers of unemployed
The preacher sighed I'll especially in the auto in-
go anyways,’ he said
Somepm s happemn 1 went
Frank Jedziniak, owner of
Circle Realty. Imperial
Realty, Inc.; Shorewood
Realtors, Inc.; and Spring
Realty Company. Inc.
The suit said the four firms
steered prospective home
buyers to certain areas and
away from other areas on
account of their race in
violation of the Fair Housing
Act of 1968.
In addition, the suit said
representatives of the firms
made statements indicating
racial preference and
disc runmaUon regarding the
sale of homes
The purpose and effect of
these practices has been to
, was why the programs had
been included in funding
recvmmendaions the week
knell for what was left of before and then had quietly
unperialism disappeared somewhere in
But that was only the the City struc ture
.ic mals of the Saudi's it is not beginning A year later he own house It was a trend that
at all clear that the crazed took over the whole operation the other Arab nations were
nephew was acting entirely and became master in his swift to follow
racially integrated com-
munities in the lx* Angeles
area, especially the
Dominguez Hills part of
Carson, the suit charged.
AFRICA'S Crimes Ed
Page
-DEBORAH
JENKINS Inducted Into
Scholarship Society p 4
■OKMULGEE
NATIVE Makes Navy A
Career p 5
-THE CHURCHES
Prepare For Faster p 8-
9
-JANICE WILLIAMS
Alpha Sweetheart p 3
RUFF FAMILY
Aided By Club p 3
o f the Week
Did you ever get really tired of Country
Music’ If you did and decided to go down to
KVOO radio station to find out why the offerings
were shifted from ‘easy listening* you migt well
have met this week's Ms.
Her name is Valerie Williams and she works
as the PBX-receptionist at KVOO.
Valerie was born and raised right here tn
Tulsa Her mother. Mrs. Izona Smith, still lives
here, though brother Michael is traveling and
sister Arietta now lives in New York City
Valerie attended Tulsa Central and then moved
to Muskogee where she finished at Mannuel High
School
Her work at KVOO? "1 like it," she says “It s
exciting to me and I’m going to enjoy ‘getting
used to the different types of things "
Valerie has been at the station just about three
months now. Before that she worked as a mail
clerk at Public Service.
Valerie's husband David is
See MS
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clearance in the Carver
sector is slated as well
I ieleted from consideration in
the appropriation of the $9 2
million in CDRS funds, ex-
pected to begin flowing into
the city in July, was begin-
ning of clearance in the
Kenosha sector, long stateo
as a first-priority item
through TAAG planning
teams Completion of already
begun programs was to take
irionty over the start of
riew” ones, it was argued
Plans reflected in the initial
Greenwood area. Hartford
and Kenosha sectors were to
begin assembling parcels for
industrial and commercial
redevelopment clustered
about the Northeast In-
terchange of the Inner
Disperal Ixiop TURA
forecasts indicate the area to
be a prime one in relation to
completion of the downtown
See GREENWOOD
Continued on Page 13
father hail made it clear that
the Muslims do not teach
hate Membership m the
But we will not spare any of organization, however, will
our energy, or even our lives
if necessary, to see that our
Benefits, an industry
financed program under
Ford and Chrysler hit their which auto workers continue
to draw 95 percent of their
lake-home'..} aft**: 'hey los"
See I NEMPI.OYED
( ontinued on p 12
by the circulated by "Muhammad
official
imd into a commencal
district leveling it before
hitting another residential
Sec STORM
I onimued on p. 12
Will It He The Death Of Reason Also?
The Department of Justice
filed a civil suit last week *hat son** caI1 a Several
charging four las Angeles "ret kless conservative and a representing
area real estate firms with
IHomolmg resegregation of
racially integrated com-
munities
Attorney General Edward
H Levi said the housing
discrimination suit ws filed in
US District Court in Los
Angeles, California.
New Muslim Leader Changes
CHICAGO • (NBSN) -
Wallace Muhammad, the new
leader of the Black Muslims,
declared last week that white
people have mended their
ways, and no longer will be
tine eye witness said that
the storm was not a twister
Ixit a low. black cloud—
blai kcr than black 1 thought
it was a bomber tn trouble *
The storm doved down out
of the clouds and barrelled its
way across the city in a north-
easternly direction
Lying serenely in its path
were a housing project, a
shopping renter, the
governor s mansion, and an
industrial area
W hen the storm had passed
none remained untouched
The place looked. "... like
saturation bombing," said
Mayor Maynard Jackson of
Atlanta, after he had flown
over the area by helicopter
It ripperl first into the
public housing project called
Perry Homes leaving -the
project a disaster area
leaving the project it slam-
Thr roaring winds of a hour before the rush hour wide and eight miles long
‘ '•n'klik tr noinily begi: s . ,-i.. ’’.owed, path of
It was this fax tor which pro- destruction left by the twister
section of Atlanta, Georgia ided a measure of relief to which wasn’t a twister
apart Tuesday morning, shaken authorities as they
killing 3 and injuring 118 The surveyed the unbelievable
storm struck about a half wreckage in the half-mile
Faisal’s
called "devils
separatist sect Speaks" - the
Wallace Muhammad is the newspaper of the Nation of
son of the late Elijah Islam, the new leader said
Muhanunad that the white man's
In an interview that was atrocities against the black
ture from a long - professed people receive • freedom,
"Yes, the past is the past, custom. justice and equality - and all
Muhammad explained that people, for that matter " He
adding: We will not dig it the group's emphasis on the said that Muslims do not hate
tip evil of the white man has been white people, and that his late
It was a dramatic depar- dropped tn recent years.
When evil began to sub-
I side, we began to tone down
I netnployed
Being Paid
Furloughed auto workers
are still drawing Sup-
up by the others, breathed piemental Unemployment
> Special for NNPAi John substantial number of blacks .wlivity briefly into the in- Benefits, an
Steinbeck s preacher from employed by the major auto
the classic novel about the manufacturers. In extensive
economic condition brought interviews at Chrysler, high point in inventory in
on by the Oklahoma dust bowl General Motors and Fo<-d. it October General Motors, the
in the 1930 s may not mirror becomes apparent that black largest, hit its high point in
the level of today's c risis, but America has a singular stake December Around the first of
in the economic condition the year, the Big Three had
on his own
The fact is, that King Faisal hei'CmiP Pif>
Leaves Many
Hungry
Some may have come away
<xl. the faltering economies of shaking their heads and
the western democracies, the wondering if there weren't
day to day fortunes of the ux, iliany chiefs and not
Arabs continuing diplomatic enough Indians, but that s
and military offensive the way it was last Friday as
against Israel, and the the City Commission sliced
determination of the Soviet up ,t $9,275 million federal
Union to gain a solid foot hold Community Development
in the middle east Revenue Sharing pie.
Being what some call a Several persons
[ the Native
cautious liberal,” it should American Coalition of Tulsa
have been obvious that he appeared during the 2-3 hour
was flirting with death as he public hearing on use of the
sought to balance, control and funds, wanting to know why
hold at bay the devestating two of their proposals,
whirlwinds which sought to originally recommended for
modify his influence or sweep funding under te new block-
hun away grant arrangement, had been
T he problem was that deleted m the last week prior
Named as defendants were Faisal, because he was a to City Commission con-
moral and a religious man, sideration Deleted were an
often found himself at cross Urban Indian Health
jxirposes with non-Arabs and Program 1 slated to receive
Arabs alike. $t>8 000; 1 and a $69,000 item
His problems were for planning toward a Native
profound It was he. for in- \1ner1can Center
stance, who became the Reasons given for dropping
activist and showed the Arabs the initial recommendatons
the way to become masters in *ere t^lat objectives of
their own house It was he Doth projects could be met
who introduced the novel through incorporation with
idea that those who own the other existing programs and
resource, in this case oil, funds could not be used
should also be shareholders in ” proj®’-’*8 to a
the companies who exploited s*n*!le **thn,c KrouP
it. This did not endear him to Speakers contended
the oil companies But in 1972 however, that most social
Saudi Arabia became the first programs are a|med at
nation to become a share particular groups But. what
holder, a move that was to reaUy wondered
promote the resegregation of revolutionize the relationship
between exploiter and ex-
ploited and sound the death
Bennett, Pegues
Appointed To Post
Mrs Lena Bennett At- Chairperson Irving Unger-
torney Robert Copeland and man The slate plan calks for
Julius Pegues are among a Tulsa facility to house about
those named last week by males and 40 women in
Tulsa Mayor Robert J medium security facilites
laFortune to conumttee to Mrs Bennett will represent
aid in selection of a site for the INCOG Criminal Justice
the proposed Tulsa regional committee along with Tulsa
jrison In his bi-weekly press Police Chief Jack Purdie
conference last Wednesday, Pegues and Copeland will be
laFortune announced that among six
the group is to be chaired by representatives.
Pat Malloy named to the committee
laFortune indicated that
the committee was formed in
response to a request from
Oklahoma Corrections Board
Rising Unemployment
By Howard B Woods temper of hopelessness rising here announced layoffs of 70.000
F.4P St Louts Sentinel among the mounting num- Rebate Worked workers During this period,
Chrysler assigned a special
With national figures citing section to the layoffs of
dustry here general unemployment minority and women
And while the full impact of between 8 and 9 percent, workers, urging close
up and I looked, an' the the auto industry s cutbacks black unemployment usually scrutiny t ensure an
houses is all empty, an the is not felt by the auto workers is double or triple tht amount equitable and orderly
lan is empty, an this whole themselves, the ripple effect The outlook of the Big process
country is empty I can't stay is here in Detroit, but more
importantly it is reaching
across the land
The significance of what
happenes here lies in Qie
Faces Change
the stipulation against actual
acquisition of the parcels
rules out payment of benefits
to present owners.but will
provide them with cleared
What's left of what was land to use as they see fit.
once called the "Black Wall An added clause, however,
Street of America" stands a in the adopted proposal in-
good chance of disappearing dicates that the Tulsa Urban
in the y ear ahead with the use Renewal Authority 1 TURA)
of funds appropriated may acquire the land if "a
following a dual public valid proposal to purchase
hearing before Tulsa's Board anti redevelop has been ap-
of City Commissioners last (roved by the City of Tulsa
Friday Board of Commissioners."
A total of $100,000 was set Also included in the ap-
aside from Community proved recommendations is
revenue Sharing funds to do provision of $700,000 to far-
away with the dilapidated ther and perhaps complete
remnants of the Greenwood clearance of the Hartford
that once was Provisions in sector of the Neighborhood
the allocation stipulate that Development Program
Urban Renewal activity in (NDPiares Additional strips
the area is to be confined to of clearance are slated along
demolition and clearance the north side of Pine and the
only, with ownership south side of Marshall to
remaining with those who remove dilapidated struc-
presently have title, and on a fares facing into cleared
voluntary basis. areas of the Unity and Carver
The voluntary' basis and sectors. Completion of
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Jeffrey, Charles, Jr. The Oklahoma Eagle (Tulsa, Okla.), Vol. 57, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 1975, newspaper, March 27, 1975; Tulsa, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1805739/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.