The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 38

IOC THE WICHITA EAGLE-BEACON Saturday January 22 1983 Blacks Need Job Help Now Congressman Says simply cannot permit people to remain out of work Parren Mitchell The Nixon administration through its Office of Minority Business Enterprise Increased contracts awarded to minorities from $88 million in 1969 to nearly $400 million by the end of the Nixon-Ford administration in 1976 he said gasoline tax approved by Congress As a result a potential $7 billion would be available to minority contractors through 1986 for road and bridge building and mass transit This 10 percent set-aside for minority contractors is just one in a series of federal acts to assist minority businesses that began with President Johnson's war on poverty he said Unfortunately Mitchell said the Johnson program was not Intended to develop minority business but to keep blacks "quiet and off the boldened to avoid compliance with the law to resume practices of he said Mitchell a seven-term congressman spoke to a meager audience of about 100 people in the Campus Activities Center about the gains federal legislation has brought to minority business over the past several decades AUTHOR OF several successful legislative efforts Mitchell noted the latest was a provision to reserve for minority contractors 10 percent of the money from a teent I By Al Polczinski Staff Writer A massive public works program is the only Immediate answer to the increasing joblessness among blacks and minority groups the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus said in Wichita Friday Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell acknowledged the need for retraining American workers and other remedies suggested for im- proving the grim statistics in the latest National Urban League sur -vey of the status of American blacks that will take time and you simply cannot permit people to remain out of work until able to 'do he said in an interview prior to speaking in the Eisenhower Blacks can help themselves the congressman added by forming strong economic associations not restricted to business members to invest In black businesses These have been effective in many cities he said US Rep Parren Mitchell called (or a hum public works program to help jobless blacks lecture series at Wichita State University THE URBAN League report concluded that black Americans 1982 in worse shape than in 1981" Unemployment among blacks rose from 155 to 20 percent and got up to 50 percent among black teenagers The Reagan administration Mitchell said has left the impression that concerns of black people and minorities are not important "Therefore many people feel em Teachers Sponsor Forum on Education Issuers People and yt Politics Bascombe Enters City Race be closed and Claudette Lance who staffed that office will run the Augusta office The new office will be the first that Whittaker has had in his hometown where he practiced optometry before his election to Congress in 1978 The shift from Winfield to Augusta was made possible he said by the change in' the district's boundaries by reapportionment last year' -a The Augusta office will be responsible for constituent service in Butler Cowley Greewood Elk Chautauqua Woodson Wilson i had Montgomery counties Offices' in Emporia and Pittsburg serve 17 oth-er counties in the widespread district Al Polczinsk! Legislation affecting teachers and education in general will be the focus of a seminar sponsored by the Wichita Federation of Teachers Committee on Political Education this morning Speakers for the 9 am to noon seminar at the Machinists Building 3830 Meridian will be state Sens Billy McCray and Paul Hess and state Reps Ruth Luzzati Henry Hel-gerson and Sandy Duncan all of Wichita The seminar is open to the public without charge and child care will be provided want the legislators to learn what our concerns are as the session said WFT-COPE Director Edyth Banks way we will be able to help shape the legislation that Demo convention Gov year's Lincoln Day meeting in Independence on Feb 12 The senator will speak at a 6 pm dinner In the Civic Center Reservations for the $750 dinner can be made with Robert ScOveL PO Box 747 Independence Kansas 67301 or with Jeanne Burton PO Box 406 Independence Activities will begin at 1 pm with a reception for Rep Bob Whittaker at the Independence Country Club followed by a discussion of state issues by legislators from within the 5th District Whittaker to open office Rep Bob Whittaker will open a 5th District office on the ground floor of the Augusta City Building on March 1 The Winfield district office will see the Citizens Participation Organizations have more of a voice in deciding government issues CPOs are advisory groups now Other candidates for the commission are Tony Casado Bob Brown Bill Compton Edwana Collins Maxine Hansen Bob Knight Earl Morrow Gary Ortman and Cheri Preston Voters will narrow the field to six candidates in the March 1 primary The general election for the three seats up for election this year is April 5 Bascombe holds no appointive or elective offices he said He was once a scoutmaster he said John Carlin and Lt Gov Tom Docking will attend the Democratic 1st District convention at the Holidome in Hays on Saturday The governor will be at a reception from 2:30 to 4:30 pm Docking is to speak after a noon luncheon District Chairman Ickie Kisner of Stafford and Vice Chairwoman Betty Ratts of SL John have no declared opponents for re-election Both have served one term si Senator on the stump Kansas Sen Nancy Kassebaum will be the featured speaker at this I SAVE72I VALUE A 26-year-old warehouseman for Excel Packing Co filed Friday as the 10th candidate for the Wichita City Commission Harlan Bascombe Jr 130 Greenwich said he wants to be a city commissioner because like to feel that the citizens need to become involved in their Bascombe was an unsuccessful City Commission candidate four years ago He said his priorities as a commissioner would be improving public transportation and traffic flow and cutting costs Bascombe said also like to Executive From Texas Joins KTVH Ronald Bergamo a Texas broadcast executive was named Friday as the new vice president and general manager of KTVH-TV Channel 12 He will take over his new duties Feb 7 Bergamo 39 replaces Stuart Mackie who re-i signed last week Bergamo I comes to Wichita from his post as vice president and general manager of KFDM-TV in Beaumont Texas where he has 1980 He also has worked as local and general sales manager for WFAA-TV in Dallas a national sales representative in Chicago with Avco TV a network sales representative with NBC a local sale representative with KMBC-TV in Kansas City MoH and a media buyer for the Leo Burnett Co in Chicago Mackie who had been with KTVH since July 1980 told his staff when he announced his resignation that he would remain with Cowles Media Co which just sold KTVH Kansas Broadcast System Inc owned by Ross Beach and Robert Schmidt both of Hays bought the station and its company Wichita-Hutchinson Inc from Cowles The purchase was completed Friday and KBS began operating the station today The purchase was approved last month by the Federal Communications Commission Beach and Schmidt also own KAYS-TV in Hays and KLOE-TV in Goodland which along with associate-affiliate KTVC in Ensign-Dodge City operate KBS a regional programming and sales network Evaluations Ban Is Lifted On Teachers A judge on Friday lifted a temporary suspension of several Derby School District teacher evaluations but set a hearing for Feb 7 on a teacher's union lawsuit challenging the evaluations Sedgwick County Associate Judge James Beasley said the school district could continue disputed evaluations which are separate from state-required three-year evaluations until a final ruling in the case next month The Derby Education Association which brought the suit against the district on Tuesday contends that current evaluations of five elementary schoolteachers violate the teachers' contract and has asked the court to order them stopped "What we have Is a set of administrators who decided they were going to change that policy and how certain teachers would be evaluated" said Peggy McNieve a Kansas National Education Association attorney who is representing the Derby association Such evaluations are McNieve said because of their frequency and because the district has not fully explained to the teachers why they are being evaluated Derby USD 260's attorney Janna Larsen argued Friday that the: contract allows for the! 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