1 1 - Tt"? rtcQLINA TIMES 8AT- FEBRUARY 7. 176
"-'z:::i3 Giy Doard of Public Utililios
icd With Discrimination
Cbargi
The Department of Justice
Tued a ctvfl suit Thurdy,
Jaautry 29, charging the Kansas
City, Kansas, Board of Public
utilities ' with discriminating
tgainst black persons in job
opportunities.
' Attorney General Edward H.
Levi ; said the employment
discrimination suit was filed in
U, S. District Court in Kansas
City, Kansas.
' ' Named as defendants were
the five-member Board of Public
Utilities, the city, and five
unions that have collective
,:, bargaining agreements with the
v board Electrical Workers Local
S3, Machinists Lodge, 92,
Carpenters District Council,
Painters District Council 3, and
Teamsters Local 498.
The suit charged that the
Board of Public Utilities has
violated the Civil Rights Act of
1964 by pursuing practices that
discriminate against black injunctions prohibiting the
employees and job applicants. defendants from engaging in any
The board has about 198 discriminatroy employment
employees, of whom 138, or 15 practise,
per cent, are black, the suit
noted. The suit also asked the court
The suit said the board has to order the defendants to hire
refused to recruit, hire, assign, blacks in sufficient numbers to
and piomote blacks on an equal overcome the effects of past
basis with whites; has fired discrimination, to assign
blacks who filed discrimination qualified blacks to the
charges against the board; and traditionally white jobs, and to
has assigned whites to jobs that compensate blacks who have
offer high opportunities for suffered economic loss,
advancement while assigning
GARY RYAtl SEEIO CAREER AS
MOTION PICTURE DIRECTOR
By Abigail L Flanders
Charlotte Post
blacks to low-paying jobs that
offer low opportunity for
advancement.
In addition, the suit said, the
board hires and assigns friends
and relatives of employees to
similar jobs, a practice that tends
to perpetuate past
discrimination against blacks.
The suit asked the court to
issue preliminary and permanent
layman would even attempt to
cope with, but Gary's life was
built on ambition and
determination a fact that is
easily recognized when one
understands how Gary got into
the business.
It was 1968, and Gary
desperately needed a job. His
small hometown, Durham,
offered very little in terms of
employment, but Gary found a
job as a custodian in a television
station -WRDU, a station that
reaches both Raleieh and
Durham. One day an engineer
who had been watching Gary
and recognizing that his
potential reached far beyond
that of just moving a broom,
helped him experiment with the
director's board. Gary not only
its creative side. Soon he became
individual complaints.
Memorial Day Program Planned
At S. C. State College
have a
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ORANGEBURG, S. C. - The
annual Memorial Day program at
South Carolina State College in
Orangeburg Sunday, Feb.. 8
beginning at 4 pjn., will feature
an evening of tribute through
the art forms to the three young
men who were slain on the
fringe of the campus in 1968.
Sponsored by the college and
the Student Government
Association, the program will
include an art exhibit, music,
dance and the theatre as vehicles
for remembering the anniversary
of the deaths of Henry E. Smith,
Samuel Hammond, Jr.. and
Delano B. Middleton.
The evening will begin when
the lobby of the Martin King Jr.
Auditorium opens at 4 p.m. for
J0
Caucus Unanimously Elects First
Female Chairperson
Representative Yvonne B.
Burke (D-Calif.) was elected
Chairperson of the
Congressional Black Caucus for
the 2nd Session of the 94th
Congress. Representative Burke
is the first female member to
head the Caucus. She has
served in Congress since 1972,
representing the 28th
Democratic National
Convention, Representative
Burke played a prominent role
as the Convention's permanent
Vice Chairperson.
The other Caucus officers
elected to serve during the
1976 Congressional
Session are: Representative Walter
E. Fauntroy (D-DC). Vice
Chairperson, Representative
Cardiss Collins (D-lll.),
Secretary and Representative
Andrew Young (D-Ga.),
Treasurer. During this past
year. Representative Fauntroy
held the position of Caucus
Secretary and Representative
Young held the same position
of Caucus Treasurer.
Following her election,
Representative Burke stated
that ' I am proud to have the
opportunity to serve the
Caucus in this office. 1 976 is a
crucial year in the development
of black political influence and
in the development of the
Congressional Black Caucus
Ike Andrews
To Seek 3rd
Terra in Cong.
RALEIGH - Fourth District
Rep. Ike Andrews made his
traditional Ground Hog Day
announcement that he will be a
candidate for re-election to a
third term to represent, Wake,
Durham, Chatham and
Randolph counties in the 95th
Congress.
In an informal meeting with
newsmen, The Siler City
Democrat said that his debts
from previous campaigns were
recently paid in full and that he
knows of no one planning to
oppose him in the August
(primary or the November
general election.
Andrews, 50, of Siler City,
has never lost a political race.
Before his election to Congress
in 1972, he served five terms in
the North Carolina General
Assembly where he became the
first legislator in the state's
history to serve as both House
Majority leader and speaker
pro-tem at the same time.
Andrews maintains district
congressional offices in Raleigh,
Durham and Asheboro. He is the
only one of the 11 -member
North Carolina House delegation
serving on the Education and
Labor and Select Aging
Committees.
The Chatham County native
received his undergraduate and
Jaw degrees from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
While a trustee of the university,
he served as chairman of the
selection committee that chose
the current chancellor, N.
Ferebee Taylor.
As an Army field artillery
forward observer in World War
II, Andrews earned two combat
battle stars, the bronze star and
the purple heart. A Baptist, he is
married and the father of two
daughters.
program. ! believe that the
Caucus has grown
immeasurably in stature and
influence since its formation in
1971.'
Representative Burke
continued that ' At the same
time, nonblack candidates for
the presidency, the Congress
and other elected offices are
becoming increasingly sensitive
to the black vote and are
asking for guidance on issues
affecting minorities and the
poor.'
GARY RYAN
tw tapnt, Attorniy G;nefrlJ- In these days of the playboy
S 0h, t ??er, head ? S'image-the suave, sophisticated
SS-.! DTnJ .arrogant male who thinks his
Jiit Ze rvL m nt ,I k. mirror has given him a license to learned the technical operations
in regard to of the board, but he also learned
L,,plu;,tUi vypui lumijr 1 t emaie relatinn!hini one
Commission, which found ,,emale re'atlonshlP
reasonable cause to believe that 8endeman "an out like the
the Public Utilities Board had ProverbiaUeedle in a haystack
discriminated in at least 19 nTe 15 oaV. yT- "lc,-u?
tail, aarK ana nanasome, ana
above all talented, Gary pursues
a career as the best director of
motion pictures on the
California scene. Presently, he's
taking his first step by giving his
best to a small yet progressive
television station - WRET,
channel 36.
an exhibit of art by students and Gary's duties at channel 36
professors from the area. The are technical and perhaps more
works will recall the events of comPucated than the average
1968.
At 5 p.m., 3 readers' theatre
will be staged in MLK
Auditorium. The production,
written by George Jamison and
directed by Vanessa Gordon,
with Darnell Edwards as musical
director and R. Paul Thomason
as technical director, will "be
entirely student-created and
directed.
Following the production, a
ceremony will be held at the site
of a monument erected on the
campus in memory of the three
dead youths.
Capping the evening will be a
concert, beginning at 7 p.m. in
Smith-Harnmond-Middleton
Memorial Center, featuring the
Orangeburg Choral Union and
the Savannah Grove Baptist
Choir from Sumter.
All portions of the Memorial
Day program are free, and the
public is invited to attend, a
spokesman for the college said.
a director of WRDU-TV and an personal philosophy "I believe
occasional production specialist in being very careful of how you
(cameraman). treat people while you're going
"I decided to move to up the ladder, because you're
Charlotte because 1 heard that likely to meet those same
all the big opportunities were people while you're coming
here in terms of creative down," he said in his typical
directing," Gary said. He worked serious deeply rich voice,
for one of the stations in His private life is just that,
Charlotte briefly and later private. Gary Ryan's basically a
moved on to WRET as a night Honer by preference, a luxury
supervisor a job which entails a. that many such bachelors can
great deal of creative directing, afford. So, ladies, if you're
Gary has had a variety of looking for a young handsome
experiences in his short twenty creative director who takes both
four years and because of them, his job and his courting
he has formulated and live by a relationships seriously, perhaps
somewhat cliche-ish yet very you're looking for Gary Ryan.
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