J - THE CAROLINA TU.'XS SATV MAY 21. 1977
f.lcro Gov'f Job Upgrading For Dacfis Promised
By Sherman Briscoe .
WASHINGTON (NNPA)
We ire golnj to do better
by bbcki in upper level
appointments and promo
tion, uid the new Chair
man of the U S. Gvfl Ser
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' Commission will accelerate
the appointment upgrading of.
blacks who were held at the
.'very bottom of - the ; Civil .
Service ladder until 1961
when ' President Kennedy
began opening the door to
upper grades. ; V t"
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port indicates that minorities
now hold 7.1 per . cent of
the $20,000 to $54,000 - a -year
positions in the Federal
Government. Only 5i per
cent; of the minorities and
about three per cent of the
blacks held such positions
when the last official report
was compiled in November of
1975.
In that report, at the top
level of the General Sche
dule, only eight of the 420
employees in GS-1 8 positions
were black. At the bottom
level, however, 98,000 or
nearly 60 per cent of the 175,
164 blacks under the General
Schedule were in grades GS-1
through GS-5. But only 346.
000 or 30 per cent of the 1 ,
138,010 white employees
were in these low . grades.
The proportions remain
ed about the same under all
pay systens in the, 1975
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CLOSING SHOP Gas station owner Lee Johnson, the only independent black
businessman operating in this mostly white Detroit suburb, said on May 10 that he
is closing up shop because of racial harrassment. I'm not the right complexion to
make it in this city," said Johnson, 34, who lives in Detroit, He said he decided to
board up his gas station, after discovering on May 9 that somebody had been using
it for target practice during the weekend. (UPI).
report with a total of 384,
652 blacks, 122,639 Spanish,
Indian, and Oriental em
ployees, and 1.911,229
whites.
Among the agencies, the
Postal Service hired the
largest number of blacks,
1 13.448; Defense was second
with 106,066; and Health,
Education and Welfare came
third with 29,876.
At the bottom were In
terior with only 3j079 blacks
out of 66,724 employees.
LEAA Issues
Guidebook For
Minorities
The Law Enforcement
' Assistance Administration
(LEAA) has issued an 18
page guidebook telling small
; and minority businesses how
; td participate inhe agency's
contracting programs.
The book points out that
the agency awards contracts
, for items ranging from house
keeping supplies to research
and -cnminal iustic.?; (Surveys
l.riijeqttiie by JawA .IaS;
. contents inciuae a sum
mary of LEAA activities and
financing, methods of
procurement, and suggestions
for contractos on what to
include in bids or proposals.
The book also contains
an application blank for the
LEAA bidders' mailing list .
; Copies of , "An , LEAA
j Guide to Contracting Oppor
tunities" are available free of
charged from the Contracts
Branch. Room 942, Grants
and Contracts Management.
Division, Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration,
633 Indiana Avenue, N. W.,
Washington, D C; 20531.
The telephone number is
202-376-3981.
Dr. D. Covington
New Chancellor
At Winston
WINSTON-SALEM - Dr.
H. Douglas Covington has
been named Chancellor of
Winston-Salem State Univer- 1
i sity by the Board of Gover
nors" of the University of
North Carolina? A native of,
Winston-Salem, he will be
come the University's sixth
chief administrative officer
since its founding in 1892. ,
The 42 year old Chan-.
cellor-elect will asume his
new duties on July I. He .
. leaves the position of Vice
President' for Development
Affairs at Tuskegee Institute
in Alabama where he has
served since 1974.
i He is married to the
former Beatrice Mitchell of
Dayton, Ohio. They are the ;
parents of two
Anthony and Jeffrey
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National Aeronautics and
Space with 1 ,233 out of 24,
766, and Agriculture with
5,656 blacks out of 85,
088 employees.
Percentagewise, General
Service Administration led
with 13,068 or 35 per cent of '.
its 36,756 employees being,
black; Labor was second with
26.4 per cent; and the
Veterans Administration was
third with 25 J per" tent.
By regions, blacks held
only about ten per cent of
the government jobs in the
South where they make up
Nurse-Scientist To Deliver
Nursing Finals Address
Oliver H. Osborne, R. N.,
PhD. wfll deliver the princi
pal address to the fifth and
largest graduating class in the
history of the" Nursing pro
gram Saturday, May 21, at 4
pjn. in . B. N. Duke
Auditorium.
Dr. Osborne was born in
New York and completed
1 basic ; preparation irt nursing
' - at Cemral;'islfp School of
Nursing and Hunter College,
both in New York. He re
ceived the master's degree
in psychiatric-mental health
nursing from New York Univ.
and the Ph. D. in Anthro
poloy from Michigan State
University.
His professional experi
ence includes faculty posi
tions at Michigan State Univ.
School of Nursing, Wayne
State Univ. School of Nurs-
ing and Univ. of Washington
School of Nursing in Seattle.
He currently serves as asso
. date research fellow at the
f: Univ. of Botswana, Lesotho
and Swaziland.
He has served as a con
sultant to the School of
Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry
Univ. of Washington; The
Nigeria Team, Meharry Medi
cal, College; Rockefeller
Foundation, Universidad del
Valle, Cali, Columbia; African-American
Scholars Coun
cil, Washington, D. C, and
Dept. of Nursing, Pennsyl
vania State Univ. He
currently serves as a site visi
tor for NIMH Community
Mental Health Centers, Dept.
of HEW.
4. Among the . many
seminars and colloquies con
ducted have been such topics
as, 'integration of Behavioral
Concepts into ; the .:, Nursing
Curriculum," "Work,- Play
and Social Structure," "Sys
tems Maintenance and Social
Change: Problems of Re
cruitment and Retention of
Minorities in Nursing," and
"Providing . Quality Psycho
social Nursing Care in a Multi
Racial Society."
Dr. Osborne's publications-have
appeared in the
.major, nursing and anthro
pological - journals, the
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Specials Good M on.-Tues.-Wed.
One llQiir "Maftinizing"
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nearly twenty per cent of the
population. In the North,
where blacks account for
about twelve , per cent of
the population, they held
eighteen per cent of the
positions; and in the West,
where they make up five
per cent of the population,
they held ten per cent of the
jobs.
However, in the Washing
ton area (D. C., Maryland,
and Virginia) blacks held 137,
000 or nearly thirty per cent
of the 428,000 positions. But
as in all regions, blacks were
mostly at the bottom levels.
DR. OSBORNE
International Journal of
Psychiatry and others.
He holds membership
in Sigma Theta Tau, National
Honor Society of Nursing,
The American Nurses'
Association j The American
Anthropological Association,
The American Association of
University Professors and
others. ;
His present position is
Professor of Psychosocial
Nursing, School of Nursing,
Univ. of Washington, Seattle.
Dr. Osborne brings a new
dimension of exposure to the
nursing students and faculty.
The public is cordially
invited to attend.
Federal Hen
Honitor Voting
Twenty-nine federal ob
servers were stationed at poll
ing place in eight cities in
Mississippi for municpal pri
mary elections last Tuesday
to monitor the voting process
and the counting of ballots,
Attorney General Griffin B.
Bell announced.
The cities were Edwards,
Hernando, Itta Bena, Macon,
Moorhead, Shaw, Sunflower,
and Tutwiler.
Bell asked the Civil Ser
vice Commission to assign
observers "under the Voting
Rights Act Of 1965 follow
ing a pre-election survey con
ducted by the Civil Rights
Division.
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