1A THK CAROLINA TMB8 81, itarth 31, 1973
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EDITORIALS & COMMENT
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Grade Crossings - A Public Responsibility
Billions of dollars are spent every
year toward achieving the goal of
.highway safety. Paradoxically, one
phase of highway safety efforts
that having to do with nail grade
crossing accidents has been neglect
ed. Possibly the reason for this has
been a ak&nformed belief that grade
crossing protective measures are a
responsibility of railroads. But that
is far from the case.
A trend toward public responsibil
ity for highway grade crossing safe
ty began with a U. S. Supreme Court
decision in 1877. That decision held
that the rights snd obligations of a
railroad company and those of a pub
lic highway user were "mutual and
reciprocal.'' then in 1935, in another
milestone esse, the Supreme Court
held that grade crossing protection
should be primarily a public respon
sibility rater than an equal one.
Justice Brandeis, in handing down
the Court's opinion, wrote . . .
The railroad has ceased to be the
prime instrument of danger and the
main cause of accidents. It is the
railroad which now requires protec
tion from danger incident to motor
transportation.'' Subsequent to the
1935 Court decision, federal highway
appropriations have allocated certain
percentages of road construction
funds to removal of grade crossing
Jib the 61 years, from 1920 through
1970. more than 86,000 people were
killed and almost 230.000 injured in
accidents at grade crossings.
It is noted that the "grade cross
ings are the single most readily
identifiable location of highway . . ."
according to Association of American
Railroads and only about 20 percent
of the total now have protective de
vices. Greater support for federal pro
grams to improve grade crossings are
needed and it is a small price to pay
for the substantial benefits to be de
rived." The tragedies and inconvenience
which mark the meeting of every
railroad and highway emphasize the
urgency of making grade crossing
protection a number one priority in
the overall goal of highway safety.
Tests and Cultural Biases
For many years leading educators
and others have pointed out the un
fairness and cultural bias present in
many tests administered to students
and others.
- ill such, these substantive and me
thodical errors were again attacked
by several educators, scientists and
mmfic social workers recently in At
lanta. (See Article elsewhere on Tests
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tq Dr. Leon Kamin, Chairman of Ex
perimental Psychology Department at
Mncetbn University, pointed out
that oven in early 1920's certain
classes of immigrants were kept out
of the United States and certain
Unas of employment by so called I
Q tests. Such standarized tests does
indeed offer the danger of giving
God-like powers over the public well
being to a group of test makers.
For the past two or three decades
the black minority has been the most
studied sector of the American pop
ulation. Certainly by now, with the
wealth of knowledge and materials
produced from these studies, it would
seem to be an easy matter to devise
ami grade tests that are designed to
reflect certain cultural difference.
In this respect, the 1920's that Dr.
Kamin speaks of may not be materi
ally different from the 1970's.
We certainly look to the day when
factors other than just test scores
will be the genuine criteria for eval
uating individuals in all areas of edu
cational development and economic
permutation.
Lead Poisoning Campaign
The announcement by three major
health organizations calling for a
concerted public awareness campaign
to eliminate the problems of lead
based poisoning against babies and
children through the cooperative ef
forts of both federal and local levels
is long overdue. It is important and
timely that P. L 91-695 be re-instated
as needed legislation to effect this
vital campaign.
Public awareness and mobilization
of the health community to seek tot
al eradication of the use of lead based
paint Is being urged by the Ameri
can Academy of Pediatrics, The
American Public Health Association
and the National Environmental
Health Association.
The needless waste of human life
tat potential caused by this serious
crippling malady is long overdue.
The children, babies and toddlers
must be located and treated before
they suffer effects that will last a
fsttme.
Reports show that in 1972 one
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child died every 30 hours of lead
poisoning and more than 110,000
children suffered from actual disease
and an additional 600,000 had dange
rously high blood levels of lead.
Among the disorders caused by
lead based paint poisoning, if the
children survive are that many of
them are often left mentally retard
ed or suffer from cerebral palsy, con
vulsive disorders, blindness,, learn
ing defects, kidney diseases and
other handicaps
This danger of lead based poison
ing to babies and toddlers have long
been pointed out in rent strikes and
tenant organizations in large metro
politan areas and even within our
own communities. The urgency in
projecting this program must no
longer be delayed if we are to effec
tively work to eliminate, the needless
waste of human life and potential.
The medical community is to be
commended for this planned and co
operative assignment to help eradi
cate the danger to babies and chil
dren. ' .
By CHARLES SEABROOK
Before you enter college, you have to
take a test.
Before you go to work for the govern
ment, you have to. take a Civil Service
exam.
Before you get any kind of job, you
usually have to take a test of some sort.
"The bathroom is about the only place
you can go to these days without taking a
test;" says a South Carolina school teacher.
America is becoming "test oriented."
and several educators, scientists, and public
social workers who gathered in Atlanta mis
past week say they are "sick of aO the
tests."
"Pubhc policy makers, who are current
ly proposing drastic changes in public sup
port for social programs, are being support
ed by spurious evidence obtained from all
these tests," says Dr. Leon Kamin, chair
man of the experimental psychology depart
ment, at Princeton University
KAMIN SAYS he has uncovered "sub
stantive and methodological errors in the
data supporting IQ tests, which have for
years been used, to measure human intelli
gence." VJ' V
The professor said persons from differ
ait cultural and ethnic backgrounds simply
cannot be expected to perform the same on
a standardized LQ. (intelligence quotient)
The Princeton psychologist says it is
true that blacks and several other ethnic ra
cial minorities as a rule perform more poor
ly on IQ tests man whites. .
"And this has led to the prevalent belief
that these minority groups are mentally and
genetically inferior to whites," he said. "But
there is no evidence to convince a reasona
bly prudent man that this is true."
The belief that certain minorities are
mentally inferior to whites was used In
devising laws to keep certain classes of
immigrants out of the United States in the
early 1920s.
"And today the same belief in the re
sults of IQ tests is keeping members of
several minority groups out of schools,
industry, and government," he said.
Kamin says he sees "absolutely no good
in IQ tests, and they should be done away
with." ,. A '
"The I Q tests of today will be ludicrous
40 or SO years from now, just as those immi
gration laws were ludicrous in the 1980s," he
said.
But other speakers at the conference,
sponsored by the Southern Regional Council,
Inc., had bad things to say about standard
ized tests in general
.- ''Standardised tests (such as the
scholastic aptitude test and the national
teachers exam) are pregnant with lethal
dangers," said Dr. Norman Dixon, professor
of higher learning at the University of Pitts
ited Godlike powers over the public's well-
"To use standardized tests is to indulge
in social engineering and shape American
society," he said.
Dixon added that "standardized test
confer upon the group of test makers unlim
ited Godlike powers over thepublic's well
Pittsburgh orof essor said standard
ize! testa are not sensitive enough to detect
the varying gradations and the uniqueness
of human characteristics. ,
Dixon charged that many organizations,
schools and other instituting are using the
tests for administrative purposes "when
they know it's wrong, but still suitable to
their purposes."
"The time has come for drastic reform
of the standardized test system in this court
try," he said. v - ..h'v,M.
Dixon added that many testing compa
nies are getting rich through devising and
administering various types of standardized
tests, "but all those companies are doing is
sacrificing human progress and welfare for
their financial gain."
The "testmakers" themselves take a
dim view o the antitest group's charges.
"I lon't think that you can devise a test
mat is free of cultural ties," said John E.
dobbins, director of the atlanta office of the
Educational Testing Services.
"We agree that changes are needed in
the testing system," he said. "But we are
well on the way to making most of the
changes that have been recommended.
"Many areas of work and many schools
have opened their doors to minority groups
simply because members of the groups per
formed weD on tests," be sdded.Wwut
the tests they may have bad a hard go at
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One hundred ssT forty-two I
years ago (1S81) on Monday
this week the founder of the
African Methodist Episcopal 1
Church died. He was Richard I
Allen who was the first bishop
of the church.
Outer events .this week of
historical interest are as '
follows:
MARCH 27 - Negroes as
seamen, soldiers and ex- 1
plorers were brought to '
America as early as 1501.
MARCH 28 - Thomas
Clarkson (1780-1846), British
abolitionist, born, r
MARCH 29 Archdeacon
James S. Russell (1S57-193&),
founder the principal of St.
Paul Normal and Industrial
School now Saint Paul's
College at Lawrenceville, Va.,
died.
MARCH 30 The Fifteenth
Amendment to the U.S.
QpiatltwliBW was ratified in
1870. The ame
right to vote shall not be
denied to any citizen on ac
count of race, color or
previous condition of ser
vitude. There was a provision
that Congress had the
responsibility to enact any law
or act to see that the amend
ment was enforced.
But little was done by
Congress until the Civil Rights
Act of 19M was passed which
strengthened the previous
acts of 1867 and lSBO.
MARCH 31 - Jack Johnson
(1878-1846), first Negro
heavyweight champion of the
Dear Editor:
A white widow sitting by
throughout the trial, twenty
two minutes deliberation by a
jury in a widow's behalf, and
another black man is convicted.
All parties satisfied but those
who don't count. It has a long
and obvious pattern, especially
in the South. Only the degree
of sophistication represents no
velty, the creativity of the i
nagination of a new "old
South.
James Sneed was found guil
ty of killing a white state
trooper. Aside from the sort of
attention given in the case by
the newspapers initially and
recently, several questions re
main. A rather self-righteous
Jury bent on "fulfilling its do
ty" to a white widow, and a
jury whose composition (I will
suppose was by and huge, if
not entirely white (since the
Durham Herald's article does
not mention "those facts")
regarding this. In the light of
any jury composition we can
not help but recognize racial
and cultural factor present.
The fact that many southern
ers, perhaps most in a small
town, may know one another
even on a first name basis,
have grown up together, etc.
One recognizes ethno-cultural
factors adversely affecting a
member of any "outside"
group, especially the black. To
say a "fair trial" is impossible
in America may require stiff
argument; to say a "fair trial"
was not given Mr. Sneed is to
state what Is most obvious to
almost any casual black obser
ver. The ve' dlct returned In the
Sne ed case was not a new one
that has never been transcended
by the South.
Sincerely, . ,
Walter W. Burgord
APRIL 1 Thomas Fowell
Buxton (1786-1845), British
emancipationist, bora.
A program to preserve
Venice is begun.
Runaway prices Jolt three
Latin nations.
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The President's Code Words
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President Nixon's call last week for step
ped up law and order and a hardline, get
tough policy on certain criminal acts in
Huriine restoration of the death penalty and
a change of the U, S. criminal code--was
confusing.
Mr. Nixon denounced anyone who saw the
action as signals of increased oppression and
bigotry and reasoned instead that they were
code words for ''goodness and decency."
That just won't get it.
In the first place, there were other code
words mentioned in the address -- airline
hijackers, attackers of prison guards, per
petrators of certain other federal crimes,
street corner drug pushers - - all of these were
among the code words used by the chief
executive which in most instances translate
simply into a single word- -Blacks.
And, in another sense, all of them have
traditionally been code words for pushing
the' brunt of the problems they represent
off of the real cause--the criminal- and
blaming and subsequently punishing in
stead the victims of' society.
What made the law and order call most
interesting was that it followed a declara
tion of only a week earlier that the urban
crisis was over and that the quality of life
was on the upswing. If this is true, why go
to such drastic measures in deterring crime
already apparently oh the way down?
There is no consistency to the logic
here. The President should make up his
mind. He cannot have his cake and eat it,
too. " J '
If he wishes to believe that the urban crisis
is over, so crisis oriented social services
programs can be legitimately eliminated,
that's one thing. - But to then turn around
and say that though things are getting better,
they're also getting out of hand. . . .well,
that just doesn't make too much sense.
According to Nixon logic, America will
become the only state in the world where at
the same time that there is a marked im
provment in the quality of life, there is a cor
responding improvement in the quality of
death. That seems to be a total contradic
tion in essence and a code word for confusion.
$fMdw Willrl'fedh'Siion; of American pleas,
stand up and he OTtirafed? The President's
g code words are turning into meaningless
& babble. .... -.
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TO BE EQUAL
By VERNON JORDAN
EMtettM DtNetar, NatiMMl Urfcw Uaev
Children In Year 2,000
A national magaiine recently featured a cover story
symposium M the Subject: "How Will We Rats Our Children in
the Year 8080?" The participants covered a wide range of
viewpoints, from scene fiction outlooks to more realistic
proposals. It is a subject we all ought to be thinking about sine
our children are our most precious natural resource.
Chunren need security, and that mesM economic security u
well as the security of knowing that their parents love them For
millions of American children, such security does not exist
They go to bad with hunger in their stomachs, and they are
aware at too early an age of the struggles their parents go
through for the barest subsistence.
SO THE FIRST STEP IN ASSURING all children a humane
existence Is to end the poverty that afflicts their parents. The
time is long past when one nation must recognise that It is
wasting its precious future, Its children, by tolerating the
poverty, slums and hunger that Is the lot of so many families
In effect, many such children have their childhood stolen from
them as they are forced to bear burdens of responsibility at an
early age. White mkkse-dass children pky with their new toys
poor kids have to take care for younger siblings and have to -p
with the pressures of alum living and crtme-andnkipe-uifested
neighborhood!. Is anyone doing anything at all to insure the
same situation won't exist hi 8800?
OUR SOCIETY MUST ALSO EVOLVE to the point where it
can overcome the bigotry and narrowness so characterise o( so
many areas, and imbue Its children with the pluralistic ex
perience of the many cultures that make up the world In which
we live. The globe has shrunk in the past thirty years and it will
shrink tfll further in the next three decades. Yet children today
are taught to fear and to hate people of different colors and
beckgnuods. What are those children whose parents shut the
schools of Canarsie in protest against admission of black pupils
goign to think of the three-fourths non-white world in which
they'll have to function?
All this means mat we must fashion an educational system
... ..... t, teaches the worth of the individual
and of the groups that make up mankind, and acts aa a
estrectlve to the institutions in our society that encourage racial
TOO MANY PEOPLE f YUMPr A KNTI V h.t
effects
function, so if the society is racist or elitist, if it condition people
to be mindless consumers, if it discourages nstSpSsasat
thinking, then the schools cannot rise above this This kind of
thinking has resulted in an educational system that is mind
destroying and deadening.
Schools and teachers have to see themselves as primarily
ceswerned with the welfare of the children in their charge, and
as poBtsaafcig the truth and enlightenment that will overcome
the HmKtthmi of the society, .--j,
WE SHOULD BECOME A NATION oriented toward its
children, a nation of day-care center, of good schools, of social
Justice and eouai opparttswnes,cf healthy diversity and cultural
pluralism. Is short, a nation unlike the one in which we still
struggle for elementary human rights
And if we hope to create such a society that frees its children
from me chains of racial antagonism and economic insecurity,
we've get to start now. For it is not we who will raise our
children in 2000-it is our children who will be raising our
grandchildren. And it is our children who are now growing up in
an atmosphere of regression in a country that, after a few short
years of social reforms, slumped back, morally exhausted, to
renege on its promise of freedom and racial equality
LET US PBAV THAT OUR children can overcome this bitter
neniage ami raise men- own cnuaren to function in a more
-INSURANCE
(Continued from front page)
citizens of the right to
redress in the courts for in
juries suffered in automobile
accidents. Letters and reso
lutions of protest against the
Bill, now in hearings before
the Senate Commerce Com
mittee, have been sent to va
position to this Federal plan.
Among the many groups
and individuals who have voic
ed these protests are, Carl
Lawrence, President of the
New York Branch of the NA
ACP, who signed a resolution
adopted at a general Chapter
membership meeting which de
clared that, "certain provisions
of the Act would, in effect,
make it a crime to be poor.'!
Livingston L. Wingate, Chai
rman of the United Federation
of Black Community Organi
zations, declared that she Bill
"contains provisions which
would place a serious nandicap
on the poor." yfle appealed
to New York Senators James
Buckley, Jr., and Jacob Javits
to vote against the Bill in order
to "protect the rights of every
imerican citizen."
Charles Taylor, New York
City Councilman and Execu
tive of the Independent Co
alition of Democrats, Inc.,
stated, "Improvement can be
made in the auto insurance
system without the new in
justices that would be imposed
by the Federal Bill."
Lloyd Douglas, Manhattan
Coordinator of the New York
State Black Assembly, noted
that the Bill "would place ad
ditional hardship on both the
poor and retired people who
live on pensions."
The Central Harlem Council
of Neighborhood Boards, thr
ough its Secretary Ennis Fran
cis, termed the Bill "another
act which would seriously
hamper the poor and deprive
them of their basic legal
rights."
Herbert Seymour, Chairman
of Neighborhood Board No. 5
Inc., representing over 30,000
people in New York, asserted.
"We view Bill 354 as being
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terms of their economic status
and a viotettoflfcjf their basis
legal righto."
Bla ck organizations throu
ghout the country, together
with other minority, consum
er, and labor groups are pre
paring similar resolutions and
statements for transmittal to
their senators. While their
principal arguments deal with
the Bill's discrimination against
the poor, many cite that its
infringment of innocent acci
dent victims' right to sue for
personal injuries' is undemo
cratic.
admitted that at no time was
Brown closer than 86 to 40
feet away, he maintained that
Brown was one of two men
thing at him.
He pointed out Hunt's posi
tive identification came on a
night that was extremely foggy
m well -
Kunstier then criticized the
testimony of two men who
testified that they saw Brown
during the holdup, holding a
military carbine. He pointed
out that they had not volun
teered this information and
come forward until a long time
after the incident.
He said the police had mere
ly concoted a phony account
of tne details of the robber
a cover up the fact that they
had "brutalized" and "bush
wacked" the defendant.
WILKINS
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had been planted by his re
election committee. But, des
pite the fact that proposals
for job quotas were introduced
merely a minimum hiring
standard, the fear has persisted
that workers would be hired
just because they are black.
In the past, however, Mr.
Wilkins said, "guilt-edged qua
lifications" of black applicants
have always been ignored. Mr.
Wilkins noted that the Adminis
tration's skillful manipulation
of the race issue has even
muted the opposition from
many poor whites who are also
being affected by current bud
get cut-backs in several Federal
social programs.
The White House has criti
cised the beneficiaries of wel
fare and Federal anti-poverty
programs as people seeking
hand-outs, Mr. Wilkins said.
He reminded his audience that
the taxes that fund these pro
grams are not provided by whi
tes alone.
Black Americans, he said,
feel the burden, too. But they
know that the present poverty
within minority communities
is the result of "virulent discri
mination against blacks."
-BENEFIT
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town community which were
begun in the 1940's by the
late Jay L. Alexander and
other public-spirited citizens
in the neighborhood.
Participants on this livery
variety program are from the
University campus and the
local community. Featured
attractions will include: The
Back Stabbers of Fayetteville,
and Lincoln Brown, Mrs.
Margaret Goodwin, special
guest model, Mrs. Ester Hill,
UNC at Charlotte. Roosevelt
Wright will serve as M. C,
Ms. Sheila Turrentine and
Miss LaVone Jones as direc
tors, and Ms. Alctha Diggs
as Co-ordinator of Afro-Asian
attire.
General admission is $1.00
(and patron's tickets are
$5.00). Each ticket-holder
has a chance to win one of
the door prizes contributed
by local firms.
All checks should be made
payable to the Walitown
Charitable Community Cen
ter. Contributions are tax
deductible. Francis Hope is presidnet
of the Club and J. V. Turner
is the adviser. Melvin Rigw
is Chairman of the Outreach
Committee.
-PIRG
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courage all telephone subscri
bers in Durham who are upset
about the high rates and terri
ble service to make their voices
heard on this matter.
"The principle way which ,
someone can express tris 1 opin
ion is by attending adn testi
fying at the public hearings in
Durham, to be he Id on April
18th (in the County Court
house). We want to stress that
Citizen opininion on this rate
increase can make a difference,
but only if Durham consumers
come to this hearing and make
thier views known. NC PIRG
will serve as a clearing house
for information concerning this
hearing and the phone rate
hike, and we encourage any in
terested telephone users to con
tact us if they have further
questions; you can reach NC
PIRG at 684-5795, or P. O.
Box 4522, Duke Station, Dur
ham, 27705."
DROPOUTS
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for whites and 46.2 for blacks,
a difference of 10.4 pe rcent
points. Since that time, the
proportion for blacks has mov
ed upward.
Despite this trend, a larger
proportion of young blacks
still leave school before high
school graduation, about 19
percent as of October, 1972
compared with 13 percent
for whites.
The relative rates, however,
have change d merkedly over
the years. In 1968, 33 percent
of the blacks j dropped out,
almost twice as many as the
whites, with a 17 percent
dropout rate. In 1968, the
figures were 21.6 and 12.5
percent, respectively; in 1970
23 and li.l percent; and in
1971. 20 and 12 percent.
Approximately 347,000
young blacks were graduated
from high school in 1972.
HOMEOWNERS SUE HUD
DETROIT - Attorneys for
16,000 persons this week filed
a $65 million suit here against
the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, char
ging it approved sales through
its FHA-insured mortgage pro
gram of "substandard, defec
tive homes" that failed to
meet provisions of the Na
tional Housing Act.
The suit, filed by legal aid
and defender's office lawyers,
said HUD was responsible for
the purchase . of run-down
homes by low-income metro
politan Detroit familie s and
that the homes failed to meet
federal, state and local laws
on zoning and public health
and safety. The housing act
states that only those proper
ties meeting all state and local
laws on zoning and public
health and safety. The hous
ing act states that only those
properties meeting all state
and local health standards and
other laws are eligible for the
Federal Housing Administra
tion mortgage insurance programs.
-MORTICIANS
(Continued from front page)
and Mortuary Administration,
Louis T. Randolph; modera
tor, were also presented during
the course of the two-day se
minar. Gratz Norcott, second vice
president in closing the semi
nar, urged listemers to be
ready for the challenges that
tomorrow will bring in funeral
service.
DURHAM NATIVE
(Continued from front page)
of formal instruction in the
social sciences, departmental
organization and adjuncts of
budgets, records, and purchas
ing; personnel management;
communication; basic interior
design and environmental sani
tation. A native of Durham, North
Carolina, Mr. McClain is the
son of Mrs. Lydia McClain of
Durham. Mr. McClain is a
graduate of Hillside High Sc
hool and Durham College of
Durham, North Carolina. He
has attended classes in interior
decorating at Duquesne Uni
versity Jr.. Pittsburgh? r
Mr. McClain is a member
of the National Environmental
Health Association and En
vironmental Management As
sociation.
Mr. McClain is presently
employed as Chief of the Buil
ding Management Division at
the Veterans Administration
Hospital, Leech Farm Road,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
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'SPECAL' FUNIO Joseph L.
Caliri (left), Vice President
and Secretary of Kraftco Cor
poration, presents a check of
$2,500 to Roy Wilkins, Exe
cutive Director of the Nation
al Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored Peo
ple, for the civil rights or
ganization's Special Contribu
tion Fund. The presentation
was made during a recent
visft by Mr. Caliri to the NA
ACP National Headquarters
in New York City.
-BROWN
(Continued from front page)
the main issue was the relia
bility of the eyewitnesses and
their identifications. He poin
ted out that only three of the
prosecution witnesses had post
tively pointed out Brown aa a
participant in the robbery be
fore he was shot and captured
on the roof atop the apartment
huilduu a block away from
the lounge.
Kunstier was highly suspect
of the testimony of Patrolman
Gary Hunt, who was seriously
wounded in the stomach dur-
int the battle. Although Hunt
UDI Hires 3
Community
Coordinators
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Q. I will soon be sending
in my first doctor bills for
payment under Medicare. I
sign all my checks and im
portant papers with a short
ened form of my first name,
but my Medicare card
shows my- full name. Does it
make any difference how I
write my name on my Re
quest for Medicare Payment
form?
A. Yes, you should write
your name on the form ex
actly as it is shown On your
Medicare card. This will
help prevent delays in mak
ing payment to you.
Q. I'm 63, and I've worked
part time ever since I was
married over 30 years ago.
rMy husband is only 62 and
doesn't plan to retire until
he's 65. Do I have to wait
until he retires to get
monthly social security pay
ments? A. Probably not. You can
collect monthly checks now
on your own earnings rec
ord if your work was eov
ered by social security and
. you earned enough credits
.to. qualify. -You should ngejv
inntoueh with any social se
curity office to apply.
Q. I'll bt 72 in August.
Although I signed up for
Medicare when I was 65, I
couldn't get any monthly re
tirement benefits because I
was working and earning
too 'much. However, after
.I'm 72, I understand I can
keep right on working and
still get my full benefits. Do
L'have to apply for these
payments after my 72nd
birthday?
A. No. Your payments
will start automatically
with the month of your
72nd birthday. Since you
continued to work without
getting benefits after 65,
you can now qualify for
special delayed retirement
credits. These credits will
increase your benefit
amount 1 percent for each
year (or Vvi of 1 percent for
each month) after 1970 that
you worked and didn't col
lect monthly payments.
Q. My husband and I will
both be retiring at the end
of this year. Since I have
always worked under social
security, I'll be able to get
a monthly social security
retirement check. My hus
band, who works for the
post office, will be getting
a civil service annuity, and,
as his wife, I am also eli
gible for a check from the
civil service. Can I collect
oth social security pay
.nem and h wife's civil ser v
ice payment?
A. Yes, if you are eligible
for both payments, you can
receive both.
Q. My father, who gets a
small monthly social secu
rity check, is still working.
He told me it takes a year
for him to get his benefit
rate increased because of
his new yearly earnings. If
this is true, isn't he losing
some benefits?
A. No. Even though there
is a delay in refiguring your
father's benefit rate, he gets
all the increase due him at
one time. The refiguring of
the. rate is usually figured
in the last 3 months of the
year to take into considera
tion all social security earn
ings for the previous year,
and any increase due is
retroactive to January.
Q. In 1972 I didn't have
enough medical bills under
Medicare to file for payment.
Now I have some bills, and
my sister mentioned some
thing about using my medi
cal bills from October, No
vember, and December of
last year to count toward
the deductible for this year.
Is she right?
A. Yes. If you had med
ical expenses in the last 3
months of last year that
could have counted toward
your deductible for 1972,
you can also use them .
help !rt:t fcbis year's, de-,
ductible. Be sure to send in
all the bills for covered
services you received in
October, November, or De
cember of 1972 witb your
bills for this year.
A woman can get monthly
social security benefits as a
worker, wife, mother, widow,
or dependent daughter.
-BRIEFS .
(Continued from front page)
amendment of broadcasters
a Nixon Administration m
posal to extend station licenses
from three to five. Noting
that the FCC "will not act
as a censor," Hooks said on
an interview program, "I think
they (the broadoantor) - have
a positive duty to tell it Uke
they see It ... to ferret out the
truth. One of the most preci
ous things we have In this,
country Is freedom of the
United Durham, Incorporat
ed recently added three new
members to its staff. Mmes.
Etta Vinson, Christine Strud
wick, and Patricia Sutton were
hired as community coordi
nators for the six-month pe
riod beginning March 1. As
community coordinators the
ladies primary responsibilities
are in the area of coordinating
activities with other communi
ty groups to assist and work
with UDI ventures.
Mrs. Vinson has lived most
of her life in Durham and
was educated in the Durham
school system. Aside from
her new position, she is a mem
ber of UDI's board of directors
snd is active with other local
organizations including mem
bership on the policy advisory
boards of the Department of
Social Services and Operation
Breakthrough. She is also
tive with the Durha. ' '
mittee on Black A' andr
the Lincoln Commu..ty Heal
th Center. Mrs. Vinson is
a widow with flv children
and six grand children.
Mrs. Strudwick is a native
of Durham where she attended
public school. The mother
of twelve and grandmother of
seven, she has Worked on the
Board of Directors of Opera
tlon Breakthrough. Current
ly she serves on the Advisory
Board of television station
WTVD, is a member of Wo
men inaction, the Durham
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and Is a Den Mother for Cub 1
Sc out Bach 496.
the Mother of three boys,
Mrs. Sutton has lived in Dur
ham all of her life and like
the other two ladies, is active
in community work. She is
the President of the Cornwallis
Housing Project Council, Presi
dent of all Presidents' Coun
cils, a member of the Lincoln
Hospital Board Committee, a
member of the Steering Com
mittee of the Durham Hous
ing Authority, Den Mother of
Cub Scout Pack 189 and is
involved with numerous other
organizations.
Working mainly with local
community councils, the co
ordinators have aided in the
opening of a "community
house" in the East End Section
of the City. s" Serving as a
recreational center and a meet
ing place for neighborhood
councils, the house is open
Monday through Friday. The
three UDI community coordi
nators are available there and
at the UDI Central Office to
help visitors with problems
such as welfare fraud and to
answer questions concerning
UDI and its relationship to
the Durham community.
"Herring is
fixh of the
nonymous)
the national
Bronx." (A-
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"Folk singers are rich college kids who get together and
sing about poverty." (Mary Wells)
Authentic 18th Century Bone China
To Be Recreated in New Ceramics Museum
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This basioitea set, a reproduction of the first bone china
made by master potter josiah Spode II in 1790, will be
produced and decorated in the new Carborundum Museum
of Ceramics opening May, 1973 in Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Visitors will be able to watch craftsmen from Staffordshire,
England, dnassed in authentic 18th century costumes,
manufactureuand decorate exclusive bone china using es
sentially theisame techniques perfected nearly 200 years
ago. The Carborundum Museum of Ceramics is the world's
first and only museum of its kind, devoted to showing the
development of man through ceramics. Designed as a liv
ing experience, this unique museum will present the fas
cinating history of ceramics through the use of multi
media presentations, dioramas and other displays. In addi
tion to the on-site "mini-factory", there will be a pottery
studio, a grinding and finishing workshop, slide pre
sentations, a 200-seat theater offering a film on ceramic
art and technology, plus special events.
sheet and pillow cases or yew
won't be getting your money's
worth. They sjjouldbetmdble
dried and rwt ffafm the
dryer jirt ae,SpejB;ae taw
tumbling action stops, other
wise the remaining beat sad
confined space may cause set-
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Staiulir. teR us that most of line drying your no-iron
women spend more of their
time doing laundry (that in
cludes ironing!) than any other
household task a whopping
17' to 20 percent of their
waking hours.
With that fact in mind, I
assembled a few of my fa
vorite tipf .which can do their
part to cut down that hefty
percentage.
- Use hair
spray to remove
ballpoint pen
ink stains from
shirts and other
clothing items.
Spray the. ink
stain until it is
thoroughly wet.
then let 'it dry completely and
put t he art icle into your wash
ing machine.
Wash white nylon with
white items only as nylon
picks up color from other
cloths.
Knits can be put jn the
dryer, but you should always
take them out wtnle they are
still slightly damp or they:
may shrink. Besides, overdry
ing can cause static electricity,
always & problem.
To save hot water, use it
only for washing cycles, and
switch to cold water for rins
ing. An added bonus: cold
water adds life to your per
manent press articles.
To get mayonnaise and
salad dressing stains out of
your favorite blouse or the
children's good clothes, (this
may surprise you): try meat
tenderizer! Here's how: First,
work dry cleaning fluid into
the stain and allow time for it
to evaporate. Then cover the
stain with liquid detergent or
paste made out of dry deter
gent and a little water. Finally,
sprinkle the spot with meat
tenderizer and wash. If the
garment has been treated with
Scotchgard stain release, most
greasy stains should wash out
without any extra effort.
Don't make the mistake
The above ',ip also ap
plies to alt permanent press
articles. Don't leave them in
the dryer after H stops, or
you will harvest a crop of un
wanted wrinkles.
Cotton and polyester
fabrics tend to become yellow
because they retain oily soils.
Good laundry techniques can
rid you of that nuisance if
you use water that is hot
enough (approximately 14 0
degrees) and a sufficient a
mount of detergent, yon will
find that the stains gradually
disappear. Overnight soaking
rin concentrated detergent Will
speed up the process, and you
can keep fabrics bright by
making sure you haven't
skimped on hot water and
detergents.
Try adding fabric soft
ener to the rinse water to
prevent static electricity in
clothes and to soften wrinkles.
Static electricity attracts dirt
and lint.
Scientists say the family
wash can spread disease more
easily if cold water is used in
washing. So they recommend
hot water because it does a
better job of killing germs. It
also does a better job of wash
ing clothes clean.
Indians Get Last Laugh
The American Indians wreck
ed by the white man are having
the last laugh in the Great Be
yond. Tobacco is the Indian re
venge. Before Columbus, tobac
co was unknown to the white
.roan. But explorers soon saw
that Indian:; smoked she seat tr,
a Y-shaped pipe called a ta-
baco. Each end of the double
forked pipe was inserted into a
nostril. In some places, though,
Indians smoked tobacco leaves
rolled with husks of corn. The
white man sampled the stuff,
liked it, and thereby put a curse
on coming generations.
i 'lu- Indians smoked for cere
monial purposes and as a .sym
bol of goodwill. They alsr be
lieved that tobacco had medici
nal values.
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