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Group holds vigil
inside HUD office
United Press International
DALLAS — Seven members
of a group of low- and moder
ate-income families held an all-
night vigil at the Department of
Housing and Urban Develp-
ment office but a HUD official
Tuesday refused to hold further
talks with them.
About 100 members of the
Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now
packed into the HUD office on
Monday but Regional Manager
Irving Statman and all but seven
ACORN members left by 9:30
p.m.
“We talked until 9 p.m. until I
saw it was quite evident they
were more interested in getting
publicity than answers,” Stat
man said Tuesday. “I talked to
HUD has not raised its limit, it
has effectively killed the homes
teading program.”
Other demands from the Dal
las group included the abolition
of minimum income require
ments for the program, the ex
tension of boundaries for neigh
borhoods in the program, the
abolition of the lottery system
now used to distribute the
homes and the creation of a sys
tem to allot them on the basis of
need.
The national ACORN organi
zation, which boasts over 40,000
members, also is calling on HUD
to make it easier for low- and
moderate-income families to
obtain low interest loans and
grants for home rehabilitation
work.
New computer takes dictation
United Press International
HOUSTON — No one has
invented a computer that can
think — but scientists have
come up with one nifty num
ber that takes dictation.
A California-based compu
ter firm official claims his
company’s machine responds
to voice commands and obeys
correctly 99 percent of the
time.
“You can get twice the pro
ductivity because you don’t
have to stop your work or take
your eyes off what you are
doing,” said Bertam Wein
stein of Interstate Electronics
Corp. “Just tell the computer
and it will understand.”
Weinstein’s company was
one of about 650 exhibitors
showing the latest and most
advanced technology Monday
at the National Computer
Conference in the Astro
dome.
Computers have been de
veloped to transmit color pic
tures or graphics to other
computers several feet away
or several thousand miles
away. Other machines can
control climates inside build
ings, monitor security, help
increase productivity or reg
ulate inventory.
games drew long lines:
conference.
But only the voice-aciin
machine, which was lira
veloped about four yeans
can free the eyes and hanii
the user.
And, of course, computers
can be used for education as
well as entertainment. Video
For instance, Weim
said, a pathologist 1(
brain tissue under a w
scope can feed inforna
into the computer wi
stopping his examination,
them in good faith but we went
over and over the same things.”
The incident was part of a
nationwide protest to encourage
HUD to expand and accelerate
its homesteading program for
abandoned houses in low-rent
neighborhoods. Area ACORN
members threatened to remain
overnight at HUD houses in
Dallas and Fort Worth.
ACORN regional organizer
Terry Andrews had told the
news media that Statman had
threatened arrests of the all-
night squatters, but the regional
manager denied it — saying he
had left any such decision to the
building manager.
“Frankly I didn’t want to have
them arrested,” he said. “That’s
what they wanted me to do.
“They said they were going to
stay until I talked to them. But
I’m not going to talk to them.”
Statman said law and city
ordinances prohibited him from
granting any of the ACORN re
quests. He said he had promised
to answer by letter one ACORN
question about the time limit on
repairs because he was reluctant
to answer without checking with
his staff.
Andrews said one of the key
demands is that there be no limit
to the value of property eligible
for homesteading.
“Right now, there’s a limit of
$15,000 set seven years ago,” he
said. “A house worth $15,000
seven years ago could now be
worth $30,000 now. But since
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