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SUNDAY, APRIL 17,1977
THE OKI-AHOMA EAGLE
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News & Views
by David M Breed - Eagle City Editor
12:30 P.M. SUNDAY, MARCH!, 1977
urban prosperity and urban decline.
of the past eight years, has weakened commercial buildings, and new
again, there can be no solution.
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Dedication of the $6 million facility
ADDRESS BY SECRETARY OF
COMMERCE JUANITA M. KREPS
PREPARED FOR DELIVERY
Commerce a more effective in-
strument of national economic policy
stores, employees and taxpayers
elsewhere, result from economic
managerial assistance for individual
busineses i— ----.
The National Fire Prevention and
Control Administration - through its
technical assistance to local fire
departments, allowing them to im-
plement model programs,
research programs of the
Administration and Fire Research
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alleging that there had been violations
of their civil rights. Taken together,
the suits seek payment of damages
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a recent discovery of EDA. As far back
as 1966, EDA public works loans and
grants, business loans and technical
assistance helped Oakland create its
marine terminal with the first con-
tainerization facilities on the West
Coast, resulting in 1000 new permanent
jobs. Today, EDA’s urban program is
expanding . 250 cities with populations
of more than 50,000 persons have been
designated and are now qualified for
EDA assistance. Recent amendments
now allow cities as small as 25,000 in
population to become eligible.
These are some of the resources the
Commerce Department has available
to aid cities and towns of all kinds. Let
us now consider how these resources
may be deployed, and on which urban
problems.
1. Cities are great generators of new
businesses. Here the mixes of skills,
markets, and capital combines to
enable men and women to make the big
jump - to undertake the struggles and
satisfactions of being one’s own boss.
Such undertakings are improlant to the
neighborhoods or larger communities
they serve because they add to the
choice of good quality and services and
thus enhance the quality of our lives.
They are necessary to local tovern-
ments because of the revenues they
generate and the jobs they supply. And
they are good for the economy because
they increase efficiency and add to our
gross national product.
In short, fostering new business is
good for America as well as for cities.
In cooperation with other agencies, we
intend to draw on the Department's
...or that would be in opposition to the
preservation of order and discipline
With regard to these policies, the SDX
statement noted that “these three
points appear to us to be a prior
restraint on freedom of speech and
expression. Their constitutionality is
seriously questioned
In answering Brocksmilh, TJC
President Dr. Al Philips read an ad-
ministration policy statement which
said that "because it is a teaching tool,
the Horizon remains under the direct
supervision of the journalism faculty
adviser...final decision regarding
content will continue to be made by the
adviser.”
checks on time, nor to helping house
and feed the poor, combat crime, or
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the City, several particular Police violations associated with his arrest for
officers are named in the allegations disturbing the peace last December 1.
stemming from separate incidents
involving arrests on a variety of
charges.
In one case, Tulsan Phillip Allan
Flanagan is seekint $8,000 in damages
stemming from a May, 1976, grocery
store robbery. When Flanagan at-
tempted to enter the Army last
December he found that his name was
on a warrant issued in connection with
the heist.
Our Office of Minority Business
Enterprise is active in the area for
which concentrations of minority group
members live and work-in the cities.
essential, and in many cases the need is in cooperation with the National Center
critical. Now is the tune, however,
when we must decide how to make our
cities economically viable once again.
levels of service and the quality of life Department program can help cities
of their citizens. We cannot have true
recovery while some groups of
Americans remain in a condition of
No trkk of statistical
medians can hide the fact that struc-
visual equipment and closed-circuit
television. The 16.1-acre campus is just
at the new facility located just west of across Tulsa's 11th Street Bridge.
Following purchase of the site from
TURA in 1974, construction was
financed with a $4.5 million grant from
culmmates events which began back in the US Public Health Service, with $1.5
million in matching I— .
14th are routes to and from the Broken
Arrow Expressway and have ex-
tremely high rush-hour traffic counts.
They are also adjacent to the site of
Hillcrest Medical Center.
Though 61st and l^ewis beat out 13th
and Utica in 1975 by a score of 45 to 41,
13th and Utica was up to 46 this year
with 61st and Lewis dropping to only 38.
Reports also indicated that the most
dangerous time to be driving in Tulsa is
during the late afternoon rush hour and
the highest concentration of accidents
occurred during the month of October.
tjc clamps down on newspaper.
Though members of the Tulsa Junior
College Board of Regents this week
gave strong support to the TJC ad-
ministration's refusal to give students
a free hand in their newspaper, they
apparently stopped short of formally
endorsing the administration's stand.
The difficulties began about a half-year
ago when the TJC Horizon ran an
editorial countering the TJC ad-
ministration's stand on location of a
Board of Corrections facility at Horace
Mann Junior High School near TJC's
downtown campus.
The student newspaper has been
operating with a single faculty adviser
who takes responsibility for the con-
business session set. . .
A conference is planned by Tulsa
University's College of Business
Administration April 21-22 for persons
who are planning to start a business or
who have started one over the last five
years. Subject of the session is
business survival.
Sponsors of the event include
SCORE - the Service Corps of Retired complicated
Executives, with co-sponsorship from
the Small Business Administration, the
Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of
Commerce and the business schools at
both TU and Oral Roberts University.
With presentations ranging from
finances to taxes to law, sessions will
be from 7 to 10 p.m. on both evenings.
Cost for the session is $7.50 per person
and enrollment is being handled by
SCORE at its offices, 610 South Boston.
‘i data system, and public education
closely with the Department of Housing programs - provides grants and
and Urban Development. Whereas
some of the issues to be considered
before and during the White House
$40,000 for violation of rights when he OF CITIES* CONGRESSIONAL CITY
was arrested for speeding and eluding CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON
_ officers last October and William
In addition to the Department and Hershel Murray is seektog $30,000 for
the City, several particular Police t.___--------2 22
THE OKLAHOMA EAGLE
(SUNDAY EDITION)
5827124 Tulsa, Olla bom a
of luck.
In summary, the free market system
is the foundation of our socio-economic
political system and if Black
Americans are to thrive rather than
just survive, we must fully understand
this complex area called economics.
Perhaps in a sense they could be
considered the new “Grits” of the
Black Americans future generation.
Sharom Melton charges that her
rights were violated in December
during her arrest for disturbing the
peace and is seeking $30,000 and
Farrell William Jones wants damages
of $40,000 for his arrest last May on
charges of interfering with an officer
making another arrest.
In filing the suits, an attorney for the
plaintiffs claims that all were sub-
jected to treatment which violated
Another man, Thurman Carol Knight their civil rights as protected under the
seeks $30,000 in damages on a claim
that his civil rights were violated when
women, black Americans, the Spanish
speaking, the young and the old - those
who want to revitalize an obsolete
enterprise as well as those wtu would
begin an entirely new one. Our field
offices will be fully supportive of
municipal and state business efforts.
More than forty percent of black
American teenaters are out of work.
You more than any other group are
painfully aware of the implications of
this statistic. It might be worthwhile,
however, to recall that prolonged
unemployment at any age is a burden
that the individual, the family and the
community will long bear. Unem-
ployment is income not earned. It is
job skills lost. It is investments
deferred. It emans educational op- £
If an appropriations subcommittee of
the Oklahoma State Legislature has its
way, the Oklahoma Crime Commission
will be pushed out of existence. The
State has served as the conduit for
federal Law Enforcement
Administration funds and its demise,
some say, could cost the State some $10
million in such federal grant monies.
According to Rep Mandell Matheson,
D-Tulsa, the act*on of the sub-
committee he chairs would mean
Oklahoma would spend its own money
on law enforcement programs and tell
the federal government to "stick it up
your nose with a rubber hose." The
Commission presently exists only to
receive and and parcel out federal
II, A A funds
Matheson indicated that the decision
to do away with the Commission came
after the subcommittee heard Com-
mission officials say that no
measurable impact can be noted on the
state's crime rate due to programs
funded through LEA A
The recommendation of the sub-
committee is to appropriate some
$54,000 for the Slate s share of Com-
ones. state and community assistance
-Second, to identify, acquire, and program to coastal zone management,
start up busineses with assets of
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
.. in Continental United States,
Hawaii. Alaska, Puerto Rico, Virgin
Islands .
standards for fire safety.
The U S. Travel Service encourages
economy is perhaps the most im- stales and cities as well as industry to
porlanl consideration for the cities, as promote travel to the United States by
well as the Nation. Some of our cities |
providing matching grants and
essential market information. When so
and prolonged many tf our cities are restoring
rights suits hit police...
In separate filings last Monday, the he was arrested last July on charges of
Tulsa Police Department and the City public drunkenness and reckless
sued by six individuals, each handling of firearms. PREPARED FOR
Ronald Bradley McMinn is seeking BEFORE THE NATIONAL LEAGUE
$40,000 for violation of rights when he L.------ .*
College of Osteopathic Medicine and
Surgery. The event is slated for 3 p.m.
By Jeanetla Adams
At the end of the Civil War. many
abolitionists and Republicans ad-
vanced a proposal to settle eman-
cipated slaves on confiscated and
abandoned plantations in the South.
Under the plan, Blacks who had been
held in bondage would have been en-
titled to receive forty acres of land and
a mule.
This proposal was never sanctioned
by the congress and former slaves-
many of whom owned only the clothes
on their backs-were left to fend for
themselves. Blacks had to wait nearly
a hundred years for federal programs.
These programs were designed to boost
minority economic interests.
Traditionally, economic opportunity
Oklahoma Chapter of the Society of said that "because it isa ^unX^eaZ^T^nw^roaSn is
Professional Journalists, Slgma Delta the Horizon remains unde the direct
CM- supervision of the journalism faculty f econoin|cs was cons.dered to
In a prepared statement, SDX adviser...final decision regarding fZcX s^uro
President Ed Brocksmith told regents content will continue to be made by the R r (“>
that “a vigorous presentation of adviser. „ R was to
. . business and there was an invisible, but
crime commission QeTS OX . . . definite sign saying Whites Only ”
** But no more. Today, a small but
mission administrative operations for growing cadre of Blacks are making
one more year, down from the current (heir way into this highly competitive
appropriation of $226,000 which also but lucrative profession, saying “We
includes the State share of matching want a piece of the action." This group
funds for roughly $8 million in LEAA has benefited from the wisdom of a few
programs throughout Oklahoma. older, long distance runners who have
paved the way for them by holding on
to that small business, although it
barely earned enough profit to buy food
and clothes.
Economics is an obstruse field,
dotted with statistical and quantitative
pitfails that only economists can
identify. Black economists not only
have to identify the special economic
problems of Blacks, they also have the
important job of translating their
jargon ino un-
published at Tulsa Oklahoma Saturday,
by THE OKLAHOMA EAGLE
PUBLISHING COMPANY, offices 122
North Greenwood Avenue.
., "Second Claw Postage paid at Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
legislation in Congress, and voicing
rational positions on congressional bills
that will support the economic
development of Blacks and minorities.
They are helping to raise the level of
awareness of Blacks concerning the
need to become involved in business
opportunities and economic
development. They are involved with
community-oriented action groups on
black issues. They are advising black
churches, sororities, fraternities and
the congressional Black Caucus. They
are consulting with black business.
They are raising money to promote
b'ack scholarships. They are sitting on
influential, policy making boards of
major national corporations, making
black viewpoints known They are
publishing research, writing books and
articles and establishing forums for
their colleagues.
In order to gain any measure of
economic equality, Blacks must have
full employment, which means that we
must own and operate businesses that
employ Black people. We are now in a
position where we can at least interpret
issues that have heretofore seemed
impossible to aprehend. We can lay
them out so that what ever decisions
are made, they will be made on the
basis of the impact on us and our
children.
tne piuBress made by the Black
economists may well be unmatched by
any other non-lraditional professional
groups.
The black consumer must realize
that there are minority businesses to
patronize There are minority business
men who are attempting to survive in
hostile environment. They are taking
great risks by being in business
because their market is limited in its
disposable income, consequently, the
chances of success in any business
complicated language, so common that venture is dependent upon a great deal
laymen can understand its relevance to
their everyday lives.
Black economists are making
significant contributions to improving
the economic conditions of Blacks and
minorities, they are serving as an
intellectual group to articulate
theoretic positions that will provide a
sound basis for action They are
teaching, speaking out for new
business financing to complete in-
dustrial or commercial projects. As
important as these are, there is a
I greater need to build, strengthen and
expand the institutional infrastructure
of urban economic development to
include state as well as private in-
vestments. The President has made
clear his intent to include the states in
our plans, recognizing that they, too,
preresent the urban constituency.
In meeting these problems, I am not
satisfied with the Department's
record. We need to streamline some
programs and to bring more of our re
ources directly to the -assistance of
cities. We are committed to expanding
employment, revenues, and sales so
that cities can take care of their own
prtblems. The tools we are presently
applying may not be the best we can
devise, however, and I look to you to
help us consider whether we need new
ones.
Two years ago, an official of the
previous administration who should
have known better told the press that
the urban crisis was over. You will
bear nc such nonsense from art,
minstration.
opinion is essential. To permit the
presentation of a wide variety of views,
the Horizon should have a 'letters to
the editor' column giving priority to
those letters disagreeing with Horizon
editorials." He added that the process
of leaving final editorial decisions to a
faculty adviser "relegates the student
editors to nothing more than
figureheads.”
The statement from SDX also in-
dicated "serious concern" over three
TJC policy guidelines which seek to
prevent articles “that would reflect
undue criticism of officials, .that
could reasonably be interpreted to
. forecast that the printing thereof would
tent of the paper. A proposal had been substantially disrupt school procedure
made to establish a publications board
with student representation to oversee
the student paper.
During the Regents meeting last
Wednesday, members appeared ready
to vote in favor of the administration
but backed off, promising to give
consideration to recommendations
submitted by students and local
journalists. A statement was offered in
support of the students by the Eastern
Thank you for the invitation to
discuss some of the important issues
before the New Administration. It is
my goal to make the Department of Conference will transcend those we
traditionally think of as “urban,” 1 can----
assure you that many questions will be Center at the National Bureau of
Other departmental functions need to
opportunity to share their analyses and be kept in mind,
prescriptions with our Department and "
„ others concerned with domestic
HILTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, economic problems. In planning the National Fire Academy, state and local
conference, Commerce will work f
and in doing so, to bring the Commerce concerned with the present and future Standards provide new and L-aproved
needs of our cities and towns.
In the meantime, the Nation’s
Department’s resource to deal with
what the President has referred to as
the Nation’s number one economic
problem : our cities.
As an economist, 1 am particularly
sensitive to the underlying causes of and towns have long had difficulties,
urban prosperity and urban decline. But the disastrous I r
Moreover, it is clear that the federal recession, combined with the inflation residential neighborhoods, public and
government does not
resources I
fiscal transfusion. Unless we are
simultaneously working to make our
for April 24 fo< Tulsa’s new Oklahoma seat auditorium equipped with audio- declining cities economically well
Every declining neighborhood; all of poverty.
the shut-down or marginal stores; all
of the underused, cleared or abandoned
uban land and structures; all of the
layoffs of municipal workers and
__ cutback in services; and all of the
1972 when the Oklahoma State mdhon to matching fui^i by’the pressures of higher texes which drive
legislature established the school. Its state Architects were Tulsa’s Murray
aim is to produce general practitioners jones Murray Inc. and the complex
for rural as well as urban communities was constructed by Flintco Inc., also of
throughout the state of Oklahoma Tulsa.
Situated on land obtained through the
Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority’s
Westbank Program, the $5 million
physical facility includes a six-story
laboratory and administration
building, a two-story education- following year,
mishaps center at 13th & utica. .
With accident tabulations complete
for last year it appears that the in-
tersection on 13th Street and South
Utica has again taken 'honors' as the
site of the most accidents to the city.
The intersection had earned the
prestigious' title two years ago but
been beaten out to 1975 by the in-
tersection of 61st Street aod South
Lewis.
Reports indicate that the 13th and
Utica site attracted some 46 accidents
last year. Part of the reason, local
officials have noted, is that 13th and
-First to improve neighborhood
America's older towns and cities has in commercial strips by upgrading planned development,
recent decades encouraged the view existing businesses and creating new recently added a major new $1.2 billion
that much of what has been invested by
the government has been wasted.
These underlying problems will be start up busineses with assets of in order to assure orderly development
considered in the coming months. One $250,000 or more, primarily in the areas of onshore facilities and to reduce the
forum for that analysis will be the of light manufacturing and assembly.
White House Conference on Balanced This is intended to strengthen the local
economic basis and allow disad-
vantaged men and women to become
owner-operators.
2___ I have the of the past eight years, has weakened commercial buildings, and new
to solve these problems by their capacity to maintain their earlier downtown areas, this Commerce
recapture some of their redevelopment
investment.
The Department also provides
economic adjustment tools to com-
munities facing dislocations due to
lural unemployment, low incomes and rapid growth associated with energy
small business failures have been development projects. In the next ten
heavily concentrated in the older cities years, between 200 and 400 counties
and towns. outside the coastal zone will be affected
To combat these urban problems by significant energy development
there are skills and resources at all
levels of government. tet me list some
reversals. Where attractive cities and of the resources that the Department of mining.
towns thrived, decay threatens. Commerce brings to urban economic partnership provisions of the Title V resources to help enterprising men and
Urban economic policy cannot be redevelopment and balanced trowth.
College officials indicate that there confined to mailing revenue sharing
will be 232 students enrolled by July
and that the student body will be in-
creased to a goal of 300 through the support the schools. Each of these is
Cities: Major Economic Problem
Growth and Economic Development, managerial assistance for individual a>f
which is now to the planning stage. In busineses and community-wide
the course of the preparatory work, business development planning.
local and state officials will have an (
Fourth and 14th Amendments to the
U.S. Constitution.
osteopathic college opens. . .
• Dedication ceremonies are planned learning resources building, and a 356-
portumties delayed or forever lost. In
short, it is a major barrier to economic
and social mobility.
Congress has enacted major job
use of economic and other date from creation public works programs, which
our Bureau of Economic Analysis.
and conferences co-
adverse economic and environmental
impact on coastal communities.
Our 64 Domestic and International
Business Assistance field offices are
frequently called upon to help
-Third, to find business opportunities municipal planning projects involving
- Recently .n,™d l^sladon c°"' ~ Bur(au « Ecommk „ rtU pul tau, nrttll,. Vou
-And fourth, to provide technical and Seminars and conferences co- and the employers and unions involved
rvwwwwwwwirin. sponsored with local officials deal with are in the best position to assure that
such urban-relevant subjects as crime those whose high rates of unem-
against businesses and consumer ployment earned that project for your
issues.
The Census is an obvious and
essential resource in all aspects of
local planning. In addition to the
decennial enumerations, special
studies such as the Annual Housing
Survey are produced to cooperation
with other Departments. And soon,
largely to meet your needs, we are
preparing for the first mid-Census
enumeration.
Commissions, these communities are
receiving financial assistance for
essential infrastructure and the
planning required to balance their
growth.
Similarly, our Coastal Zone
for Urban Ethnic Affairs, SBA, and legislation is helping communities
scores of minority-staffed local prepare for the rapid growth that will
business development corporations, accompany off-shore oil development.
Failure to rectify the underlying OMBE is working. Here, the problem is to protect fragile
economic distress of thousands of -First to improve neighborhood environmental resources from poorly
Congress
community will have full opportunity
to enjoy the employment generated. I
do not minimize the difficulties.
Training and employment programs
which enroll minority teenagers will
need to be directed to such a way as to
make available those workers who can
perform some of the necessary tasks.
It is unportant that you and we in the
federal tovemment make that extra
effort to meet the full intent of the
Finally, the Economic Development statute, for there are many who claim
Administration is the focal point of our that public works cannot be targeted
Nation's urban and regional economic adequately to combat structural
development policies. It provides the unemployment.
tools- public works assistance, loans 1. We need also to give due con-
for land assembly and site preparation, sideration to the lasting nature of the
loans, economic planning public works we create. The projects
and technical assistance-to we are to build ought to serve the public
private investment in
depressed areas.
Recent l. -
legislation strengthened our urban
prtgrams, making flexible EDA
assistance available to most major people who during the
urban centers. The effect of these
amendments is clear: a greater share
of EDA’s funds will be available to
needy cities, and we will have some
flexibility in providing assistance to
ways that are useful to you.
business
grants,
encourage
well, to be attractive and well to-
tegrated into the social and economic
amendments to EDA’s life of each community . As Mayors and
councilmen, you will want to have the
same sense of satisfaction that came to
‘ i Great
Depression built the trails and picnic
tables, the schools and parks that
continue to serve us today.
4. Finally, you would agree, I am
sure, that wp are investing far too little
* ‘ The in the so-called “software" side of
changes provide a fine opportunity for economic development. It is not
Federal, State and local governments enough that we locate public works
to build the partnership necessary for wisely or that we arrange for adequate
revitalizing the Nation’s cities.
Urban economic developme .'. is not
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