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Thursday Highlights
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1
VVTVD, CHANNEL U, DURHAM
HAVING
A
SWINGING
TINE
"New, f Ms Is a puffer,"
explains golf champion Arnold
Palmer, Honorary National Chair
man of fhe March of Dimes, as he
gives a lesson to lif fie Paula Pfeifer,
5, of Tulsa, Okfa.
"Paula knows how fo pay
close affenf Ion," Palmer says, "and
you don't have to tell her how
important patience and practice
are. She learned to walk the hard
way, and she's been through nine
operations for her birth defects."
Paula, who is 1 973 National
Poster Child for the voluntary
health organization, is afflicted
with open spine and club feet.
"You might say she is used to
handicaps," says the golf pro.
After a few practice swings,
Paula putts the ball right for
the hole.
"You did fine, just fine,"
Palmer says, and swings her up
in his arms.
6 30 a. m. - SUNRISE
SEMESTER Symbols and
aspects of the Zodiac are
examined in his astrology
course. WTVD.
9 a.m. - MERV
GRIFFIN - Carol dunning.
Eva Gabor and singer Charo
visit with Merv. WTVD.
4:30 p. m. - MOVIE - A
man avenges the murder of
his college friend in 'G-Men,"
starring James Cagney,
Margaret Lindsay, Ann
Dvorak and Robert
Armstrong. VYRDU.
7 p. m. - CALL OF THE
WEST Ronald Reagan
stars as a cavalry officer
who helps a young man
searching for his sister.
WRDU
8 p. m. ADVOCATES -Tonight's
discussion is on
alternatives for financing
Social Security benefits.
WUNC
9 p. m. AMERICAN
REVOLUTION: 1770-1776 -Academy
Award winning
actor Peter Ustinov portrays
England's George III at
three critical stages of his
reign during and after the
American Revolution.
WTVD, WFMY
9 p. m. AN AMERICAN
FAMILY - A totally
unstaged portrayal of con
temporary American life is
shown during this series.
WUNC
9 p. m. - KUNG FU -Pat
Hingle plays a sheriff
facing death in this eastern
western starring David
Carradine. WRAL
10 p. m. - CBS REPORTS
In "What are we doing to
our Children?." Daniel
Schorr reports on the
tensions in American life
and their effect on young
people. The report examines
juvenile delinquency,
welfare - family children,
day-care ce n ters and
affluent - family children.
WTVD, WFMY
11:30 p. m. - MOVIE -Bette
Davis stars as a
monstrous matriarch who
stops at nothing to
maintain an iron grasp on
her adult sons and her
wealth. WTVD, WFMY
6.30 Semester
7:00 CBS Newt
:00 Capt. Kangaroo
9:00 Merv Griffin
10:00 Jokers Wild
10:30 Price It Rlfltlt
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
13:00 Where the Heart
12:25 Newsbeat
12:30 Search
1:00 Peggy Mann
1:30 World Turni
1:00 Guiding Light
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Lovt ll
3:30 Secret Storm
4:00 McHale's Navy
4:30 Wild, Wild West
5:30 That Olrl
1:00 Newt
1:30 CBS New
7:00 Dragnet
7tn parent Game
1:00 WaltOM
9:00 Latt King
10:00 CBS Report!
11:00 News
11:30 Movie
WRDU-TV. CHANNEL 28, DURHAM
:00 Today
9:00 New Zoo
9:30 Not, Worn. Only
10:00 Dinah Short
10:30 Concentration
ll:oo Sale of Century
ll:3Q Hollywood
12:00 Jeopardy
12:30 wh. What. Wh.
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Watch Child
1:30 3 on a Match
2:00 Dayt of LI vet
2:30 lm tar
3:00 Bay City
3:30 Peyton Place
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Movie
:00 Newt
0:30 NBC Newt
7:00 Call of West
7:30 Jam. Winters
0:00 Flip Wilton
0:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 Newt
11:30 Tonight Show
WTMY-TV. CHANNEL 2, GREENSBORO
'." Good Morning
1:00 Capt. Kangaroo
9:00 Old Rebel
9:30 Merv Griffin
10:30 Price It
11:00 Gambit
II :30 Love of Life
12:00 Where Heart
12:25 News
12:30 Starch
1:00 Today't Woman
1:30 World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Lovt It
1:30 Secret Storm
4:00 Vln Scully
4:30 Gomtr Pylt
5:00 Big Valley
0:00 Ntwt
0:30 CBS Ntwt
7:00 Andy Griffith
7:30 Dragnet
0:00 Walton
0:00 CBS Special
10:00 CBS Sptdll
11:00 Newt
11:30 Movlt
WRAL-TV. CHANNEL S, RALEIGH
olrl
6:00 Daybreak
6:55 Commentary
7:00 Newt
7:30 Make Wish
0:00 Uncle Paul
0:30 Elllott-LaLannt
9:30 Mike Douglat
11:00 Password
11:30 Bewitched
12:00 News
12:30 Split Second
1.00 My Children
1:30 Make Deal
3:00 Newlywed
2:30 Dating
3:00 General Hot.
3:30 Tell the Truth
4:00 Parry Mason
5:00 Truth Or
5:30 Jaannle
0:00 Ntwt
0:25 Commentary
0:30 ABC Newt
7:00 Bonanza
0:00 Mod Squad
9:00 Kung Pu
10:00 Streets
11:00 Ntwt
11:30 Entertainment Wort
WUNC-TV. CHANNEL 1 CHAPEL HILL
9:15 Ripples
9:30 Phyt. Science
10:00 Sesame St.
11 :0O Cultural
11:30 Film
12:00 Images
12:30 Electric Co.
1:00 U.S. History
1:30 Granny
1:50 Math
2:30 Cultural
3:20 Ready, Set, Go
3:00 Film
3:40 Film
4:00 Mltterogan
4:30 Sesame St.
5:30 Eltctrle Co.
0:00 Evening Edit.
0:30 Writing
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7:30 Farmer l
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Friday Highlights
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2
WTVD. CHANNEL U. DURHAM
8:30 a. m. SUNRISE
SEMESTER Prof. Morris
I. Stein discusses the his
tory of abnormal psychology
before Freud. WTVD
4:30 p.m. MOVIE An
English army officer returns
to bis post with his
Aim-nraii wife, creating an
emotional tangle in "Another
Dawn," starring Errol
Flynn, Kay Francis and Ian
Hunter. WRDU
I p. m. - MUCH ADO
ABOUT NOTHING - The
New York Shakespeare
Festival's production of the
Bard's classic play is set in
110 miiidle-America, but
Mends the language, plot
and structure of the original.
KjOleea Widdoe and San
Waterston star. WTVD,
WFMY
ft tt. - SANFORD AND
Km Fred announces he's
going to marry a young
womaa bo just met; she
turns ft to be an old flame
of Umoot'o. WRDU
t'M . M.C. THIS
WEEK - HighlighU of the
General Aiiemhlv iiwIuHIm
interviews with key
legislators and a discui
f major iasues. WUNC
f . -' CIRCLE OF
FEAR A secretary from a
small town Joins a friend in
the city but is baffled by the
office club in "Legion of
Demons." WRDU
9:30 p. m. EVENING
AT POPS Ferrante and
Teicher play "Exodus," a
selection from "Fiddler on
the Roof!' and modern
versions of Stephen Foster
tunes. WUNC
10 p.m. - BOBBY DAR
IN - Flip Wilson and Petula
Clark are scheduled guests.
WRDU
11:30 p. m. MOVIE A
gunfighter - turned - minister
comes to a western town
and finds himself in the
middle of a conflict between
ranchers and sheepmen in
"Heaven with Gun,"
starring Glenn Ford,
Barbara Hersboy and David
Carradine. WTVD, WFMY
11 a. m. MIDNIGHT
SPECIAL - Singer Helen
Reddy is the hostess for the
first of a series of concerts.
Tonight's guests include the
Byrdo, Don McLean and
Curtis Mayfield. WRDU
I'M a. in MOVIE -Raymond
Burr stars in the
pilot film for h i s TV series,
''Ironside." WFMY
1:30 Sun. Semester
7:00 CBS Ntwt
0:00 Kangaroo
0:00 Merv Griffin
10:00 Jokers Wild
10:30 Price It Right
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Lovt of Lift
11:00 Where Heart I
12:20 NewsBtn
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1:00 rate ajann
lit At WorM Turn
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
1:00 Lovt
1:10 Sterol Storm
4:00 McHale'i Navy
4:10 Wild, Wild Wait
3:30 ThtHtW
4:30 CSS
7:00 Drttntt
7:10 Holly.
0:00 Much Ado
11:10 Ntwt
11:50 Movlt
1:00 p.m. MOVIE Errol
Flynn leads the "Charge of
the Light Brigade." WRDU
1:30 p.m. - ACC BASKET
BALL The top-ten-ranked
Maryland Terrapins meetjthe
Duke Blue Devils in Durham.
WTVD, WFMY
3:00 p.m. - SOUTHERN
CONFERENCE BASKET
BALL The Furman Paladins
play the East Carolina
Pirates at Greenville, N.C.
WRAL
3:30 p.m. - ACC BASKET
BALL Virginia's Cavaliers
meet the N.C. State Wolfpack
In Raleigh. WTVD, WFMY
8:00 p.m. EMERGENCY
A government agent seeks
medical help in curing "The
Professor," while the res
curers save a helicopter pilot
and deliver a premature
baby. WRDU
8:30 p.m. - BRIDGET
LOVES BERNIE-Bridget's
father won't be reassured
when he finds out that Brid
get plans to teach a lesson
on sex education to her
fourth-grade class. WTVD,
WFMY
:00 p.rnv-MARY TYLER
0WO0OjioOM0M
MOORE Lou Grant gets a
new boss a woman who
thinks she's in love with him.
WTVD, WFMY
9:00 p.m. MOVIE A
French soldier on a one-week
leave goes to Brazil to rescue
his girlfriend from kidnapers
in "The Man From Rio,"
starring Jean Paul Belmondo
and Francoise Dorleac.
WRDU
9:30 p.m.-BOB NEWHART
Bob's swinging neighbor
turns into an overprotective
big brother when his sister
arrives for a visit. WTVD,
WFMY
10:00 p.m. CAROL BUR
NETT - Andy Griffith and
Helen Reddy are guests.
WTVD, WFMY
11:00 p.m-MOVIE- Vin
cent Price stars in "Souls
for Sale." WRDU
11:30 p.m.-MOVIE-"King
Kong vs. Godzilla." WTVD
11:30 p.m. - MOVIE
George Maharis and Nehem
iah Persoff star in "Escape
Mindinao." WFMY
11:30 p.m. BASKETBALL
UCLA plays the University
of Southern California. WRAL
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3
WTVD, CHANNEL 11, DURHAM
4:30
7:00
7:30
1:00
0:30
0:00
t:30
10:30
11:00
11:30
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Answer
Now
Bugs Bunny
Sabrlna
Chan
Scoobv Dm
Pussycats
Gllllgan
Bucky Waters
11 :45 Norm lloan
12:00 ACC B'Btll
2:00 Haztl
2:30 Daniel Boont
3:30 Outdoors
4:00 Golf ClOtlle
5:00 Del Reevet
5:30 Nashville
4:00 Black Unlimited
4:10 CBS Newt
7:00 Hot How
0:00 All In Family
1:11 Bridget Lovee
v.oo Mary T. Moort
0:30 Boa Ntwhart
10:00 Carol Burnett
11:00 Ntwt
11:30 Movlt
WRDU-TV, CHANNEL 28. DURHAM
0:00 Houndcatt
0:30 Roman Holiday
0:00 Jettons
9:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Underdog
10:30 Berkleys
11:00 Child's Theater
12:00 Eighty Dayt
12:30 Giant
1:1 Movie
1:00 Movlt
4:30 Block Omnlbut
3:30 Wrestling
4:30 NBC Newt
7:00 Untamed World
7:10 Stand Up
1:00 Emergency
0:30 Movie
11:00 Lata Movlt
WFMY-TV, CHANNEL 2, GREENSBORO
7:30 Globetrotter!
0:00 Bugs Bunny
0:30 Sabrlna
0:00 Chan
0:30 Scoobv Dot
10:30 Pussycats
12:00 ACC B'ball
2:00 Sports Report
2:15 Bucky Wattra
2:30 Movlt
4:00 Roller Darby
5:00 Outdoors
5:30 Your Lift
4:00 Newt
4:30 CBS NtwO
1:00 Hot HOW
0:00 All In Family
0:10 Bridget Lovet
0:00 Mary T. Moort
:30 Bob Ntwhart
10:00 Carol Burnett
11:00 Ntwt
11:30 Movlt
WRAL-TV, CHANNEL S, RALEIGH
7:00 Cartoon Ftt,
7:30 Movie
0:00 Otmondt .
9:30 Suparstart
10:30 Bradv Kldl
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 Kid Power
12:00 Phantom
12:30 Frolic!
1 :00 Monktte
1:30 TVS B'btll
3:30 UCLA B'ball
5:30 Wrettllng
4:00 Crosby Golf
7:00 L. Wtlk
0:00 Hart Again
0:30 Touch of Grace
t:M Julio Andrtwo
10:00 The Men
11:00 Newt
11:35 Movlt
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0:00 I
0:30 I
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11:00 Salt of Ctnt.
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12:30 Who, Whuff Wh.
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1:30 3 an a Match
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1:30 Tht Oteom
1:00 Bay City
3:30 Rat. 9m. PI
4:10 Somerset
4:10 Movlt
4:00 Newt
4:30 NBC Ntwt
7:00 Kathy Hill
7:10 Klldere
0:00Sanford t Son
0:30 Llttlt People
0:00 Circle of Fear
10:00 Bobby Dorm
11:00 l
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0:10
10:30
11:00
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12:00
12:25
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Old Rebel
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Price It Right
Gambit
Love Llfa
Where Heart
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11:10 Starch T'rew
1:00 Today' woman
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1:30 Edge of Night
1:00 Lava
3:30 Secret Storm
4:00 Vln Scully
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0:00 Big Valley
4:00 Ntwt
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by struggling to get a living.
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One (nay walk over the highest mountain
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VOLUME 53 No. 6
Prince George County Schools
Desegregation: Peaceful, Quiet
WASHINGTON (NBNS) -Desegregation
of public schools
in the nations' 10th largest
school system - Prince Georges
County -- was notiveably peace
ful and smooth as attendance
got back to normal on the se
cond day of enforced integrated
classes.
Attendance on the first day
of classes for the new semester
was down to 82.5 per cent of
the 161,000 students in the sys
tem, but it got back to normal -91.5
per cent - on the second
day of classes.
School officials blamed the
lower attendance on several fac
tors including the fear by some
parents for the safety of their
childrenand a planned "Day
of Mourning" to protest the in
creasing busing by the Citizens
for Community Schools.
The desegregation order,
which transferred 33,000 stu
dents, most of them black, to
new schools and bused 12,300
for the first time was the most
massive for a Washington subur
ban system.
Freezing, gray skies greeted
the youngsters on the first day
of this "new experience" but
most of them viewed it as a ra-
Continued on page 3A
Communications Confab to Hear
Federal Comrmmicdtiofi Official
BLACK JOURNAL will co
sponsor with Howard Univer-
wm
HOOKS
sity the second annual Black
Careers in Communications
conference in Washington, D
C. on March 5, 6 and 7.
The Conference will feature
EBRUARY 10, 1973
Benjamin L. Hooks, the first
and only Black FCC Commis
sioner, as guest speaker. Mr.
Hooks has also lent his support
to the Conference in a "Non
commercial" seen on public
television which urges viewers
to attend the three-day session.
According to Tony Brown,
executive producer of BLACK
JOURNAL and dean of Ho
ward's School of Communica
tions, the event is a demonstra
tion of "two Black institutions
joining in the name of self-help
to end the rhetoric and begin
the action of hiring qualified
Blacks in the communications
field."
The Conference will provide
extensive contact bet ween Black
aspirants and wprojtgntitive
from various media organiza
tions. Brown points out the
"intelligent qualified Blacks do
exist. They are eager, ready
Continued on page 3A
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDA
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PREGNANCY PLANNING By
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FROM BLACK By
FROM THE PEN OF DONALD LOVE
G.
Congressional Black Caucus
Raps Rkhard Nixon Budget Cats
WASHINGTON - The Con
gressional Black Caucus con
tinued to act as a thorn in
President Nixon's side last week
when it lambasted the Adminis
tration's cutback on federal
domestic programs in such areas
as civil rights, housing, employ
ment, education and drug abuse.
In a series of speeches be
fore the house of Representa
tives, the 15-member Caucus
said it Intended to "present an
alternative to what the Presi
dent has to offer" by deliver
ing what it termed a "true state
at the union" message as it re
lates to the destiny of poor,
black and disadvantaged Ameri
cans. The. Caucus was especially
critical of Mr. Nixon's Inau
gural Address in which he urged
the American People to be
more self-reliant by asking "Not
just what will government do
for me , but what can I do for
myself?" - an exhortation
which the black Congressmen
called a "perverted twist on
the message of John F. Ken
nedy." Self reliant, they contended
it a "goal," not a "means" as
Mr. Nixon perceives it.
"Over the past four years
we have learned that self-reliance
is a virtue which it de
manded only from minorities
the poor and the disadvan
taged,'' Rep. Louis Stokes (D-
Ohio), the caucus chairman,
declared in his opening state
ment before a nearly empty
House chamber.
"No one told Lockheed and
Penn Central to pull themselves
up by their bootstraps That
is the central fallacy in Mr
Nixon's exhortation. It is one
Continued on page 2A
MRS. BEATRICE WILLIAMS
26, of Memphis, isn't angry
about being awakened at 4:20
ajn., Jan. 28th. The call was
to tell her that her husband,
Air Force Capt. James Williams
was among the POWs bo be re
leased from Vietnam. An ear
lier call, at 12:30 a.m., had
informed her that his name
was not on the list.
I -NEWS BRIEFS-
l I l .U U i
Did Essex Seek Revenge For
Southern University Murders?
... SO DOES WILKINS
NIXON TO CURB BLACK
BUSINESS PROGRAM
WASHINGTON --(NBNS) -
President Nixon will sharply
cutback his program of aid to
black businesses with possible
emphasis shifting to other mi
nority groups, Fairchild Publi
cations, Inc, reported this week.
The news service said John
Jenkins, black director of the
Commerce Department's Office
of Minority Business Enterprise
(OMBE) may be replaced ty a
Chicano, thus leading to speuc
lation that the program will be
geared to Mexican-Americans,
Indians, and Pureto Ricans.
OMBE was begun in 19&9
to encourage development of
black-owned businesses with
federal and private aid. In 1971,
the agency was given authority
to award contracts and grants
and last year its budget totaled
$43.6 million. Fatrchild said
existing programs will continue
until present financing expires,
but chances of renewal are
slim.
NAACP OFFICIAL CALLS
NIXON A RACIST
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -(NBNS) -
Bishop Stephen G. Spotts
wood, chairman of the board
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, was quoted last week
as saying that President Nixon
"is a racist of the worst kind"
whose first term in office de
monstrated that he is "anti
black." Spottswood also said
the NAACP would attempt to
black anti-busing legislation in
Congress, calling it unconstitu
tional.
CARMICHAEL CALLS FOR
BUILDJNG, NOT
DESTROYING
OAKLAND, Calif. -(NBNS)-Stokely
Carmichaelr who form
erly told blacks to "go out and
kill them (whites)," preached
a different sermon this week
when he urged a gathering at
North Peralta Communtih Col
lege to "seek and create a new
system through a scientific ant
systematic program. We must
be preoccupied with building,
not destroying," the head of
the African Peoples' Revolu
tionary Party said.
MISS. BLACKS IN VOTING
SUIT
WASHINGTON --(NBNS)
The Justice Department has
filed a civil suit in U.S. District
Court in Oxford, Miss, charging
that blacks were prevented from
boting in Marshall County in
the 1971 elections, thus, viola
ing the 1965 Voting Rights
Act. The suit said the County
Board of Election Commiss
ioners and Circuit Clerk Edwin
Callicutt Jr. transferred at least
104 registered voters - two
thirds of whom were black -to
election districts in which
they were not qualified to vote
in the 1971 primary in general
elections. In addition, the suit
contends at least 258 whties
and 31 blacks were registered
to vote just before the 1971
elections even though their re
gistrations did not conform to
legal requirements.
VOLUNTEER POLICE
SUSPENDED 'AMBUSHES
BLAMED
WASHINGTON --(NBNS) -Citing
recent ambush attacks in
which four policemen were
shot and wounddd, Police Com
missioner Patrick Murphy has
indefinitely suspended 5,200
auxiliary police from street pa
trol duty. The civilian force
carries night sticks but is us
ually without firearms when it
patrols city streets and preforms
such functions as traffic con
trol and park patrol. Without
backup protection for its mem
bers, a police spokesman said,
"they'd be sitting ducks."
MALCOLM X HEAD
TO LEAVE IN JUND
CHICAGO -(NBNS) -- Dr.
Charles Hurst Jr., charged with
mismanaging $1.3 million In
federal funds given to Malcolm
X College, said this week that
Continued on page 3A
WASHINGTON - The con
Lents of a note presumed by
the New Orleans police to have
been written by Mark Essex
or someone associated with him
links the January 7 battle be
tween Essex and 700 New Or
leans policemen with the Nov.
16 murders of two Southern
University students by law of
ficers. Meanwhile, here a leading
Pan African ist organizer in a
speech before a college student
body commented on the im
plications of the New Orleans
"sniper" seige.
Essex, who was killed by
gunfire the night of Jan. 7 atop
the Downtown Howard Johnson
Hotel, had held the police at
bay for 27 hours before his
body was riddled with bullets
by officers in a helicopter.
The note in question, accord
ing to.poliee officials, was re
ceived at a New Orleans tele
vision station with a January
postmark. According to New
Orleans newsman Bill Elder
the letter warned of an attack
on police headquarters on New
Year's Eve, but that holiday
mail delivery had caused the
letter to not be received until
after the attack had taken place.
The letter apparently refer
red to a Dec. 31 attack on the
Central lockup (police station)
in which a police cadet was
killed and another policeman
standing near him was wounded
Police said the same .44
magnum Ruger carbine found
beside Essex's body was the
one which fired the bullets that
killed the police cadet.
The letter received by
LWWl-TV said:
"Africa greets you. On De
cember 31, 1972 appt. (approxi
mately) 11 p.m. the downtown
New Orleans police department
will be attacked.
"Reason - many. But the
death of two innocent brothers
will be avenged and many o
thers. Tell pig (Police Superin
tendent Clarence) Giarussothe
felony squad ain't (obscenity)."
The letter was signed "Mata"
a Swahili work meaning "m
sturment to kill." The word
"Mata" was also found on the
walls of Essex's New Orleans
apartment.
According to New Orleans
police officials, however, the
investigating officers are not
pursuing any attempt to link
Continued on page 2A
WASHINGTON - Noting
that there cannot be "true jus
tice in this country until we
have eradicated all vestiges of
discrimination,'' civil rights lea
der Roy Wilkins lambasted Pre
sident Nixon and his recent
cutbacks in federal programs
which enable blacks and other
minorities "the opportunity
to realize themselves fully."
Speaking before the annual
board dinner of the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights,
Wilkins recalled the President's
oath ot "preserve, protect, and
defend the Constitution of the
United States." However, he
added, "our experiences with
the way in which he (the Pre
sident) discharged that oath
in the past are a disquieting
preview of what we may expect
in the next four years."
Wilkins, who serves as chair
man of the Conference and
whose remarks came on the
same day that Mr. Nixon's
budget was released also de
nounced the Administration's
substantial cutbacks in eduea
tion, housing, employment,
health, and welfare programs.
Referring to Constitutional
provisions of insuring domestic
tranquility and promoting the
general welfare, Wilkins said;
"There can be no domestic
tranquility unless the general
welfare is advanced. . . We,
the most powerful nation, the
wealthiest nation in the world,
are on the verge of turning our
backs upon those among us
who are most disadvantaged.
"We are embarked upon a
course that must alarm all of
us concerned with the nation's
well-being," Wilkins added.
"Even before Inauguration Day,
the process was underway of
cutting back and weakening
and even abolishing programs
designed to promote the general
welfare."
In addition, Wilkins said,
the Nixon Administration "both
excites and panders to the cur
rent hysteria over busing," thus
hampering school desegregation
and equal educational oppor
tunity; destroys the work ethnic
by eliminating or reducing
manpower and job training pro
grams and by not supporting
an increased federal minimum
wage level; weakens the judicial
system by appointing judges
who "in the main show them
selves unresponsive to the needs
of those who suffer the great
est injustices"; and dilutes the
efficacy of federal civil rights
acts through budgetary cutbacks
or lax enforcement.
These factors, Wilkins ex
plained, create a "vicious circle"
which entraps blacks and other
minorities and prevents them
from achieving full equality of
oppoitjdttu
This circle could be broken
however, he added, were it not
for the fact that "our system
of checks and balances has
never seemed in greater jeopardy
Continued on page 3A
Budget Overview Bad Hews For Black
Community: Trims Domestic Programs
STEERING COMMITTEE
Ponr Set For Durham Human
Relations Week February IM8
WASHINGTON - In general
we got the stuffing knocked
out of us-- thanks to the new
proposed budget submitted to
the Congress by President Nix
on. Although the President in
creased substantially the a
mount of mAney spent by fe
deral government on enforce
ment o the civil rights laws,
he trimmed by hundreds of
millions of dollars most domes
tic programs including the Jus
tice Department's Community
Relations Service, Office of E
conomic Opportunity, Office
of Minority Business Enter
prise, Health, Education and
Welfare Department and Hou
sing and Urban Development
Department.
And these were just a few
of the programs- aimed at
helping the poor and the black
-that were literally gutted in
the President's new budget for
the fiscal year 1974.
As an example of what lies
ahead, the President has pro
posed a reduction of $158 mil
lion in the public assistance
programs administered by HEW
at a time when welfare costs
are spiraling. He plans on pena
lizing the states in order to
effect the cutback.
The President has recom
mended the complete abolition
of the federal Office of Eco
nomic Opportunity, the anti
poverty agency, which has ser
ved as a moral rallying cry
since its creation nearly 10
years ago for the poor of the
nation.
Its functions, under the Pre
sident's proposal, would be
transferred to other agencies
within the federal structure.
The move had been anticipated
for some time now.
In addition, the President
wants to limit the special milk
subsidy to institution not re
ceiving subsidized milk through
free and reduced price chid
feeding programs which would
mean a $59 million "savings"
Continued on page 2A
Black Catholic Bishop Joseph Howie
Ordained In Jackson Mississippi
A special steering commit
tee appointed by the' Durham
Human Relations Commission
is making preparations, for
special events for Human Re
lations Week, February 11-18.
The committee is co-chaired
by Thack Brown and Ervin
Hester. Brown is public re
lations manager for Burroughs
Welcome and Hester is a news
man for a local TV station.
According to Joe Becton
the commission's executive di
rector, the week will be obser
ved statewide for the first time
and will be jointly handled by
the North Carolina Human Re
lations Commission and the Na
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews.
The theme this year will
be "People Helping People."
The theme for the week's
programs being held in Durham
is "Let's Gat Us All Together".
Billboards and bus posters re
flecting the theme are now be
ing prepared.
Serving as coodinator be
tween the Commission and the
steering committee is Mrs. Do
rothy Brock, commission mem
ber. Planned activities for the
week include: an essay and
pester contest, special obser
vances in local churches, a re
ception honoring Mrs. Estelle
Hillman and numerous radio
and television shows.
JACKSON - In a ceremony
featuring traditional churhc mu
sic combined with a touch of
"soul," the Most Rev. Joseph
Lawson Howze was ordained
last Sunday as the Auxiliary
Bishop of Mississippi's 90,000
Roman Catholics only 9,000
of them black.
Bishop Howze, who was
born 49 years ago in Daphne,
Ala., and who served as a par
rish priest in North Carolina for
the past 12 years, is the third
black bishop ever consecrated
by the Roman Catholic Church
in the United States. However
only one other black bishop
the Most Rev. Harold R. Perry,
auxiliary bishop of the arch
diocese of New Orleans is
alive. Bishop Perry was one of
the principal co-consecrators at
the ordination.
The ceremony, which
brought together Catholics and
non-Catholics, blacks and whites
centered on Bishop Howze's
official motto, "Unity of God's
People," and music directed
by the Rev. Clarence Rivers,
a black priest who is also a
Continued on page 8A
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