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Saturday, February 26, 1972 Second Section 6 Pages YOUR. PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY DR. KENNETH f. JERKINS APPOINTED DEAN OF MORGAN STATE COUEGE AT BALTIMORE SICKLE CELL DRIVE AIDS WINSTON SALEM BLACKS TRAINEES SWORN IN Four New Careers Enviromental Research Center Four New Careers Trainees were sworn in as employees of the National Environmental Research Center at the En vironmental Protection Agen cy's Technical Center at Re search Triangle Park by Dr. Delbert Barth, Center Director. The four new federal em ployees are Mrs. Paulette De- Witt, Miss Verlinda Jones, Mrs. Carolyn Jones, and Mr. W. Earl Brown, all of Durham. New Careers is a Federally sponsored manpower develop ment program through the De partment of Labor. It is ad ministered in Durham by Op eration Breakthrough. The trainees, who came to EPA un skilled, have worked for one year in the EPA laboratories and are now judged trained and qualified for civil service em ployment. Dr. Barth said: "EPA is delighted to have been an im portant part of helping these young people to move into the regular job market. They learned well, received recom B. B. King And F. Lee Bailey Create Foundation For Inmate WASHINGTON, D. C. Re known blues-singer B. B. King and criminal lawyer, F. Lee Bailey, are teaming up in a newly-formed penal reform foundation, to be called Foun dation for the Advancement of Inmate Rehavilitation and Re creation (FAIRR). Through the Foundation, both King and Bailey hope to solicit prison appearances by other entertainers, lawyers, sports personalities, writers, musicians and a wide range of public figures, aiming for a series of concerts, discussion groups and training programs. FAIRR will also attempt to provide musical instruments art equipment and other crea tive tools, including books for prison libraries. Joining with King and Bai ley in fueling the FAIRR pro ject will be Senator John V. Tunney, a member of the Senate Judiciary Subcom mittee on Constitutional Rights, and Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D., Detroit) who has been a ktaunch advocate of penal reform. Both legislators will serve as vice-chairmen. B. B. King has been giving prison concerts for more than a year, his first arranged by Cook mendations from their super visors and have passed Civil Service examinations. This kind of program demonstrates that it is possible for job training programs between N. C. Central University Has Early Field Experience Project In November 1971, North Carolina Central University's Student National Education Association was notified that it had been selected as one of the seven schools throughout the United States to organize the Early Field Experience Project 11. The main objective of this project is to provide direct preservice preparation programs in the college career. The project, at this time has three phases: (1) placing stu dents in Day Care Centers within walking distance of the campus, (2) free music lessons to children in the Durham County Jail (Chicago) Warden Winston E. Moore. He relates well to inmates, many of whom come from poor, Black backgrounds similar to his H) fIfPP mi mtm ——= * ilh * ■ NIWIST MMKHR of B. F. Goodrtcfa'a Equal Bnployment Opportunity office In Akron Is Garejr C. Barkadale, center, who la coordi nator reporting to Manage W. W. Baughman. €he Cawlb Ci m& federal agencies and local or ganizations and citizens to work successfully. EPA is pleased to have these young people on our Civil Service rolls." community and, (3) college students tutoring elementary and high school students. Much of the student body has been introduced and ap proximately sixty students have volunteered to work in the project. The number of volunteers is increasing by 10% each week; however, the music lessons and tutoring program are slowly progressing because we are not getting as many tutees as we had anticipated. Therefore, we ask the parents of the Durham community to let us help your children. own. F. Lee Bailey leveled his attack upon the failure of the present prison system, and ad- Continued on page 4B With them I* their secretary, Mrs. Dorothy Haynp. Barksdale assists Baughman In Im plementing the company's Affirmative Action programs. DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA More fa 1000 Tested During First 90 Days More than 1,000 persons in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, North Carolina, were tested during the first 90 days of the Winston-Salem Urban League's sickle cell anemia diagnosis program, reports Exe cutive Director Samuel D. Har vey. Twenty-five of the persons who voluntarily underwent the tests were found to have the sickle cell trait and four others were suffering from the full impact of the disease. Accord ing to Mrs. Hazel Scott, co ordinator of this first program of its kind in the state, all cases identified through the free testing procedure are re ferred to Reynolds Memorial Hospital for further treatment. The Urban League initially organized the project under a 60-day grant from the local Model Cities program and, on the basis of its success in mobilizing community re sources and in generating re sponse to its testing program, has been awarded an additional grant of %67,000 for the next year. Originally the tests were given at Reynolds Memorial, but Mrs. Scott was able to secure a mobile unit from the Department of Social Services which is now systematically moving throughout the low-in come black neighborhoods of the city. The testing team in cludes a social worker, volun teer nurses, and field workers associated with the Forsyth County Welfare Rights Organi zation who canvass the neigh borhoods encouraging the resi dents to come in for the simple test. The test itself involves only a quick blood sample and the results are available immediate ly, Mrs. Scot said adding that while there is no cure for the disease, certain types can be controlled through medication. Sickle cell anemia is a here ditary blood disease charac terized by a cresent-like dis tortion of the red blood cells and is almost totally confined to black people. It is estimated that some 2 I A million Ameri cans are carriers of the disease, with about one in five adversly affected by it. ■ DR. JERKINS Norfolk, Ya. Native Joined Staff in 1965 BALTIMORE, Md. - Dr Kenneth F. Jerkins has been appointed dean of the college at Morgan State College. Dr. Jerkins, a native of Nor folk, Va. who first joined the Morgan faculty in 1965, suc ceeds Dr. Percy Baker as the College's academic dean. Dr. Baker, who had expressed a desire to return to the class room, will resume his teaching duties in September, 1972. Meanwhile, he will serve in an advisory capacity to the new dean until June 30. In announcing Jerkins' ap pointment, which becomes ef fective immediately, Dr. King V. Cheek, Morgan president, said, "We are pleased to be able to appoint from within our own faculty a man of Ken Jerkins' ability to serve as Mor gan's academic dean. In addi tion to his excellent back ground and training, he has a keen sensitivity of the needs of our students, and above all, he's respected by the faculty." Jerkins received the B. S. degree from Xavier University, and Master's degrees from Continued on page 2B Sickle CellAnemia:Little-Known Disease Attributed To Blacks Can Be Fatal Pafient Feels Weak And Later Anemic By SUE CHILDS Sickle cell anemia is a here ditary disease of the red blood cells. In people who have it, the red cells show an unborn tendency to become elongated and look something like a sickle instead of their normal round shape. The ends of these sickle shaped cells easily break off as the cells are pushed through the blood stream, thus killing the ceil. With this rapid de struction of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, the patient becomes anemic and constant ly feels weak. Occasionally, some of these abnormal sickle cells get caught in the body's tiny blood ves sels, creating "log jams" that block blood flow. The areas served by these blood vessels lose their oxygen supply and soon die. When this happens, the patient is suffering what the medical world calls a sickle crisis, an extremely painful event that usually requires hos pitalization. This can happen as often as once a month in some patients. No one knows exactly why tickle cell anemia patients have these crisis, but it appears that infection, high altitudes, and physical and mental stress can bring one on. ★★★★ ★ ★ ★ CONTACT FORMS A PROGRAM IN AREA Will Provide Assistance Via Phone in City By JOHN MYERS CONTACT, an organization to provide assistance to people via the telephone, is being or ganized in Durham. Dr. Alan Walker began the CONTACT organization in Sidney, Australia in 1963 when he received a call from a po tential suicide and failed to ease the caller's mind. The death of the caller made Dr. Walker realize that people need help often when there is no place to obtain it. He set up a program of telephone listeners operating 24 hours a day and the "lifeline" came into exis tence. In 1966, in Dallas, Texas, the Reverend John Brand, pas tor of Munger Place Methodist Church, heard of the pattern of ministry used in the "Life Line Center" sponsored by Dr. Walker. With the cooperation of Bishop W. Kenneth Pope, the Conference Board of Evangelism, and other churches' of all denominations, a faculty of distinguished professional persons was assembled, laymen were trained, and in March of 1967 the CONTACT Center was opened. Christian laymen, trained over a period of six months by professionals from their own community, man the telephone twenty-four hours a day. In Dallas, as in every city where the Dattern has been estab- Continued on page 2B t - -V ; ■ +***~ j " **"* ■ ■****- -. - »"s*■+'>*»- -■■*•■• ■■***""■■'■ m J.., v . !r *.+*,;*.+. • •»*» t^K SEEK END OF RACISM— (Left to right): Rev. William McKee, Assoc. Director, Ministries and Missions Benefit Board, American Bap tist Convention; Rev. Howard Schomer, Sec retary, World Issues, United Church Board Church Groups Seek End Of Racism And Colonialism By Companies In South Africa NEW YORK - American Church groups mounting their first joint campaign against U. S. firms in South Africa, which practices both racism and colonialism in Southern Afri ca, met recently under the chairmanship of Rt. Rev. John E. Hines. Presiding Bishop, The Episcopal Church. Plans were Local, State and National News of Interest to AD ■ •***" I^l IMPROVED BLACK RECRUITMENT— VeIma McEuen Strode, left, director of equal employment opportunity at the Depart ment of Labor discuss ways to improve recruitment of black college graduates with Clarie Collins Harvey, President of Church Women United. National Teacher Examinations To Be Given at NCCU on April 8 The National Teacher Exa minations will be administered on April 8, 1972, at North Carolina Central University which has been designated as a test center. According to Dr. Johnson, i Chairman of the Education De partment, college seniors pre paring to teach and teachers applying for positions in school systems which encourage or re quire the NTE are eligible to take the tests. In addition, the designation of North Carolina Central University as a test center for these examinations will give prospective teachers in for World Ministries: Rt. Rev John E Hlnes. Presiding Bishop, The Episcopal Church. Chairman, South Africa Task Force: Rev, Shelton Waters. Chairman South Africa Task Force, United Presbvterian Church made to meet with the Huge Major Corporations to end the crisis in South Africa involving the repression, Deprivation and dehuminization of 36 million Africans ans Asians by 5 million whites who have re sisted every effort by the "Non white" majority and the PRICE: 20 CENTS this area an opportunity to compare their performance on the examinations with candi dates throughout the country who take the tests. Dr. Nor | man Johnson said, i Bulletins of Information de j scribing registration procedures and containing Registration Forms as well as sample test questions may be obtained from Education Department, NCCU or directly from the National Teacher Examina tions, Educational Testing Service, Box 911, Princeton New Jersey 08540. United Nations to bring free dom and self determination to the people of this region. Consultations with Genera] Motors, Chrysler, IBM, Mobil Oil, First National City are some of the oompvtiaa that will be queried to end ttw aparteid situation.
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