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DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES
VnM'ME S3 No. 34
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1115 Chowan Road has been
elected an assistant treasurer of
Central Carolina Bank, Paul
Wright, Jr., CCB president, said
recently.
Bunch was born in Raleigh,
received his high school
education at Berry O'Kelly
School at Method, and earned
his degree in business from
Livingstone College at
Salisbury.
Bunch served for a time
with General Foods
Corporation as a sales
representative, until he was
called into military service.
Following his discharge, he
became a management trainee
at Consolidated Credit
Company.
He joined the management
associate program of Central
Carolina Bank in November,
1970. Following training in
several areas of bank
operations, Bunch was assigned
as a loan officer to CCB's
Forest Hills Office, where he is
currently serving.
Bunch is married to the
former Tina Suggs of Wilson,
and has one child.
Jerry R. Allen and J.
Quenlon U. Mallard were also
promoted. Allen is a native of
W i I m ington, but a tlended
Raleigh City schools. He served
2 years with the Army and
(See BUNCH Page 9 A).
Welfare Rights
Activist Drowns
In Boat Mishap
WASHINGTON - (NBNS)--The
body of welfare rights
activist George A. Wiley,
missing for several days in the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay,
was found recently near
Dares Beach, Md., by
fisherman who discovered the
body while pulling in his crab
pots. Wiley had been missing
since Wednesday night when
his two children reported that
he had fell from the boat
Into the bay two miles from
Dares Beach.
His body was taken to the
Baltimore City morgue, where
it was identified by his family.
The 12-year old founder
and former executive director
of the National Welfare Rights
Organization, was on a
vacation cruise in the 23-foot
boat, which he had purchased a
(See DROWNS Page 9A)
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NEWS
HEW Awards Grants
WASHINGTON - (NBNS)--
Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced recently that his
department has awarded an additional $1 million for biomedical
research in ethnic minority colleges.
existing Minority Schools Biomedical Support program, bring the
total to $5 million for the currect fiscal year and involves research
programs at 57 educational institutions with predominantly ethnic
minority student enrollments, including 45 black institutions.
Committee Formed to
ATLANTA - (NBNS)-- The successor of the Rev. Ralph D.
Abernathy as president of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference will probably be picked by a special committee
appointed by the chairman of the organization.
Dr. J. E. Lowery, chairman of the board of directors of SCLC,
named Rev. Jesse Douglas of Birmingham and Dr. M. L. Wilson of
New York to head the committee.
Last month, the veteran civil rights leader resigned as president
of the group he has headed for the past five years. He pointed to
insufficient support by the black middle class of the civil rights
movement as his main reason for leaving.
Although there has been broad speculation that Abemathy
would remain in his post, particularly after urging from the number
of his closest backers, Lowery discounted that as a possibility.
"I have always found him to be sincere... and I believe his desire
to resign was sincere," he said. The committee's recommendations
will be presented to the full convention in Indianapolis.
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Notre Dame Gets Grant For Rights Bid.
NOTRE DAME. Ind. - (NBNS)-- The Ford Foundation has
awarded a $500,000 grant to the
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Mark Fisher, IV, executive director of the National Association
Education. Washington, D.C., who was the keynote speaker, Dr.
and Dr. F. George Shipman, Livingstone president.
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DURHAM, N.'C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1973
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The 5 8 th Annual
Convention of KAPPA ALPHA
PSI Fraternity, a national greek
letter organization of college
men, nominated 4. J
Henderson for the group':
coveted ''Laurel Wreath"
Award at the recent, Miami
meeting.
W. Thomas Carter, the
Kappas' Grand Polemarch
(national president) announced
that J.J. Henderson, Vice
President, NQRif
CAROLINA MUTUAL Life
Insurance Company in
Durham, and Thomas Bradley,
Los Angeles Mayor, had been
nominated by the Convention
to receive the fraternity i
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Say Prisoners Being Deprived of
Certain Constitutional Rights
Two prisoners, Lewis
Turner and Daniel Ross, filed a
civil suit in the U. S. District
Court for the Eastern District
of North Carolina. Both
prisoners are referred to as
"jailhouse lawyers" are
inmates of the Caledonia
Prison Farm, Halifax County,
North Carolina. They allege
that the defendants in the suit
Salisbury, were from right, Miles
Tor Equal Opportunity in Higher
Betty Jean Verbal, who presided,
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INMATES FILE CIVIL
For
CRUSADE Denver: Cosmo Harris, 33, editor of a local black newspaper, shows how he uses the
paper to blast any resident who might live on or near property infested with unsanitary conditions.
Also using spot radio announcements, Harris lists the addresses and sometimes names of persons who
violate local sanitation codes. Harris says the response from black community residents to the
unorthodox campaign and its unprescribed tactics have been good.
bony Selects Kennedy I of 700
The editors of EBONY
Magazine the nation's most
widely circulated black
magazine, numbered W. J.
Kennedy IH, president of
North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, as one of
the '"100 Most Influential
Black Americans" in a special
feature in the August "special
Issue" dedicated to the "Black
Middle Class."
Each year the magazine's
staff encourages nominations
from readers for this coveted
honor. A number of new faces
appear in the '73 listing due to
the deaths of men like U. S.
Representative George Collins
and Bishop Bright- along with
"are taking undue advantage of
the low educational level of the
Caledonia inmates to deny and
deprive them of their
constitutional rights."
Their complaint names
three (3) defendants: Ralph D.
Edwards, Commissioner of
Correction, Fletcher Sanders,
Area Commander of Region
"L", and D.C. Lewis,
Superintendant of Caledonia
Prison Farm.
The complaint alleges that
in the light of and contrary to
recent Federal Court decisions
the three named defendants
have and are continuing to
deny and deprive prisoners of
certain constitutional rights in
disciplinary proceedings: the
right to have a lawyer or
lawyer substitute, the right to
confront the person bringing
the charge against them, the
right to haye the proceeding
properly and adequately
recorded or transcribed, and
the right to be provided an
impartial tribunal (not prison
guards who are friends,
co-workers, and buddies of the
accuser).
It should he noted at this
point that these particular
rights are very fundamental to
the American scheme of justice
and if they are, in fact,
infringed upon, irreparable
damage has been done and a
stiff reprimand is the least that
is authorized v '
Another injustice alleged by
the complaint is Statement No.
6 of the institution's Offense
and Disciplinary Report which
(See PRISONERS Page 9A)
Blaeks Rises
a number who were "edged
off" this year's list by
individuals who, in the editors'
opinion, now "meet the
necessary criteria." Others
simply were eliminated during
the editors' balloting because
the individuals "do not affect,
in a decisive way, the lives,
thinking and actions of large
segments of the nation's black
population."
Essentially the criteria for
selection are: "Does the
nominee command widespread
national influence among
blacks? Is the nominee
unusually influential with
those whites whose policies
and practices significantly
affect a large number of
blacks?
As in previous years, 1973's
"100 Most Influential..."
includes, person of various ages,
abilities, temperaments,
backgrounds and points of
view. There are integrationists,
separatists, cultural
nationalists, black
liberationists, Pan-Africanists,
businessmen, church leaders
and political activists.
As chief executive officer of
the nation's largest
black-managed financial
institution (currently ranked
(See KENNEDY Page 9 A)
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The Woman's Baptist Home
and Foreign Missionary
Convention of North Carolina,
Auxiliary to the General
Baptist State Convention, has
just closed its 89th Annual
Session on August 17th, at the
Sycamore Hill Baptist Church,
Greenville, the Reverend H R.
Felder is Minister.
Mrs. C. E. McLester (Mrs.
Johnnie Blunt McLester), of
Durham, member of the
Morehead Avenue Baptist
Church, was elected to serve as
tenue of four years as
president. She has served the
convention for more than
twenty-five years in the
capacity of third
vice-president, second
vice-president, first
vice-president and chairman of
the executive committee. Ok
district and local levels, she has
served as Junior Supervisor,
also oir State level, she
conducts Leadership Training
WORDS OF WISDOM
An expert is one who knows mora amd
about less and Una. Nicholas Murray
Health is the greatest of ail possessions;
cobbler is better than a sick king.
WILLIAM J. KENNEDY, III
Talent Being Sought For Second
World Black African Festival
The N. C. State
Coordinating Committee for
the Second World Black and
African Festival of Arts and
Culture is looking for talented
people in North Carolina for a
regional festival tentatively
scheduled to be held in
Durham, November 19-25.
Nearly every county in N. C.
has a committee to identify
and screen any potential
m
Classes and co-ordinates the
Annual Leadership Training
Conference at Shaw University
as assistant to the Executive
Secretary, Mrs. M. A. Home.
Recently, she was elected
chairman of the Board of
Directors of the J. J. Johnson
MRS. M cLESTER
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Jobless Rate
For Women
Is Unchanged
WASHINGTON - The rate
of unemployment for Negro
workers rose from 8.5 to &3
percent in July, following a
decrease in similar magnitude
in the previous month. In
contrast the rate of
unemployment for white
workers edged to 4.1 percent,
.the U.S. Department of
Labor's Bureau of Labor
Statistics reported.
Both the number of all
unemployed persons (4.2
million) and the
unemployment rate (4.7
percent) were virtually
unchanged from June, after
taking into account the normal
seasonal movements at his time
of year. The unemployment
rate bad been at a plateau of
about 5 percent during die fust
half of the year. After
dropping from 1971 levels of
about 6 percent
Although the overall jobless
rate was about unchanged in
July, there were some diverse
movements among the major
force groups. The
employment rate for
households heads inched down
to 2.7 percent, reaching its
lowest point since April 1970.
The rates for ail adult men (3.0
percent) and for married men
(2.1 percent) likewise declined
slightly over the month. The
jobless rate for adult women
was unchanged at 4.9 percent,
while the teenage rate rose to
14.4 percent after a sharp
decline in June.
Total employment (as
measured through the
household survey) was
unchanged in July at 84.6
million. Since Jury a year ago,
the number of employed
persons has increased by 2.9
(See EMPLOYMENT Page 9A)
performer.
The deadline for submitting
talents identification forme is
Aug. 31. WVtte L. Nash of
2015 S. Alston Ave., Durham,
Chairman of the N. C. State
Committee, said that any
talented person or group
wishing to participate should
contact the county committee
volunteers would be welcomed
(See TALENT Page 9A)
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Assembly Committee of the
General Baptist State
Convention, the Parent Body;
the duties of this committee
entail responsibilities for
development, operation
implementation of
etc. by next Spring.
Mrs. McLester is a HfiAeJi
Mobile, Alabama, where she
completed her i linn if j eJHl
high school training. She I
an A.B. degree from
College and a Master of Arts
Degree from Columbia
University, New York City, in
Student Personnel
Adm mtstration with
emphasis on Counseling
Guidance. She h
beyond the Master's Level in
both English, and Guidance at
North Carolina Cmtisl
University. Durham, and the
University of North fsnla
Chapel Hat.
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