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Fed. Gov't Announces New
LOS ANGELES The
Carter ; Administration
recently i1' launched a
Minority Bank Development
Program to coordinate
public and private resources
in support ' of minority
owned. ; and operated
banks.
' This program was intro
duced at the 51st annual
convention of the National
Bankers Association by
John G. Heimann, Com
troller of the Currency and
Acting' Chairman of the
Federal - Deposit , Insurance
Corporation. According to.
Heimann, two distinct seg
ments of i the program are
management and market
development. .' !
Claims Ho
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In Arm For
The Durham Coalition
Against Police Bmtality has
chareed the DumanR
CoOtiea" 'prorfitsftirto
!
bad faith to conduct inves
tigations into allegations of ,
police brutality and miscon
duct J toward Durham's,
black and poor.i; Council
man Wade Penny, chosen by .
the Council to chair a probe
into police conduct, was in
a council, committee session
and could not be reached
for comment. .
' ,The charge against the
council followed six weeks
of waiting for Penny to con
vene the " committee after
the council heard 'citizens
complaints of . police mis
conduct thai ; spanned a
three year period.
In the wakfe of a Durham
Public Safety Officer shoot
ing a black man last week,
the Coalition! Against Po
lice Brutality members indi
cated they may be i getting
-ready to "hit the streets.
'Hitting the streets" is a
term that refers to street
demonstrations and simi
lar actions. 1 -
Coalition .spokesman,,
Mrs. Rosalyn PeUes, told
THE CAROLINA . TIMES'
this week that citizens have
Minority Enterprise Dill
Signed By
WASHINGTON,; D.C. -The
long-awaited" Mihortiy
Enterprise Bill, which will ,
substantially increase Black ,
participation in the free
enterprise system, if was ,
signed into law October
24" by President Carter, ;
reaffirming his commitment
to provide a more equitable '
share of federal - contract
' dollars to Black businesses.
Eugene Baker, President
of the National Association
of Black Manufacturers,
Inc., (NABM) applauded the
President, both Houses of
Congress, and the many sup
, porters of the Bill for their
efforts to assure minority
, businesses an opportunity
for a small business owner
ship among minorities and
, to bolster their participation
in . Federal ' contracting
opportunities. ,v
The Legislation, com-
monly referred to as The
Omnibus Minority Enter-,. :
; prise BUI (HR; 11318), was
introduced by Congressman '
Joseph' P. Addabbo
(D. NY), Chairman of the
House Small Business Sub-.
"For the last year,"
Heimann laid In his speech
before the more than 300
minority bankers attending
the NBA convention;" the
: Comptroller s office has
worked with the Inter
Agency Council for
Minority ' . eBusiness
Enterprise -(coordinated by
the Department of- Com
merce) to develop a pro
gram which addresses 'the
needs of the minority
banks, the TVnartmnt
of Commerce and the
three federal bank regula
tory agencies -will fund a
three to five year program
to address management
development, market deve
lopment, and , if all of our
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Ho Reason
"gone through the channels
to get : police brutality
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the streets." ' ( " -r
Mrs. Josephine Turner, a
Coalition member represent
ing ; the Durham County
NAACP, said she has re
quested that Penny convene
the Public Safety Commit
tee which he hasr promised
to do, but has not.
One month ago, this re
porter inquired of Penny
when .the committee would
be convened Hit reply
was that Mayor Wade Cavin
was going to appoint re
placements for former
Councilmen Clarence Brown
and Howard Harris before
the committee would begin
its work.
NEW CHARGE OF
BRUTALITY
Durham Police Major'
Talmadge Lassiter said this 1
week the k shooting of
Robert McAllister of 1415
Lakewood Drive, Friday,
October 27, by ' Publig
Safety Officer Jasper Gor
ham, was an accident. Mc
Allister has been charged
with : illegally parking a
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committee on Minority
Enterprise and : General
Oversight.; The Law makes
substantial amendments to
the Small Business Act and
the Small Business Invest
ment Act of 1958." It
requires the filing of a
subconstruction . - , pro- '
curements of $500,000 and '
above; ; and conferral ? of
bond waiving authority - to
the Small Business Adminis-.
tration under the terms of a
two-year pilot program.
According to Baker
"Passage of this Legislation
provides a ' well-deserved'
opportunity for minority
business ;, development
throughout the : country.
NABM has been a leader in
assisting the Congress in
drafting . ; legislation ' that ,
would be for the betterment
of Minority Business Enter
prise. We feel that many of
the problems inherent in the
8 (a) Program and in Pro-,
curment Procedures will be
eliminated through the
action adopted ; by the
President in signing this bill
into law" ' 1 '
plans can be translated into
reality , capital support.
Heimann warned that, if
the ' program is to work,
"its success will be attribu
table not to anything
government has to offer
minority banks, but to a lot
pf hard work on your part
to take advantage of the
resources being offered, and
to find solutions beyond
are able to conceive."
The management
development
component,
Heimann said, will
address the needs of all
levels of minority bank per
sonnel: tellers and clerical
staff, loan officers and
cashiers, ohief executive
COALIIION CHARGES-
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Ill THIS WEEK'S EDITION
African News
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Rev. Cobb Vows To Take WiL
Infant Mortality Rate In U.S.
At All-Time Low
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. . SENATOR EDWARD BROOKE, R-Mass., in his second
day before the Senate Ethics Committee last week! got an
Informal ruling from a majority of the Committee members
that he was not personally responsible for delaying the
Committee's Investigation of his financial affairs. (UPI)
BE SURE TO CAST YOUR
VOTE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Cong. Louis St olios Koynofor at
Criminal Justice Confab
RALEIGH-"Despite a
constitutional presumption
of innocence, and a consti
tutional guarantee of a
speedy trial, many accus
ed criminals do not receive
these rights and many are -held
for unconscionable
periods of time," remarked .
black Ohio ' Congressman
Louis Stokes at a criminal
justice conference this
week. "Many times bail is
set so high that the poverty
of the defendant is the
dominant cause of his de
tainment." ,
officers, and bank directors. management and staff
The objective 6f the devcloPmePt program . for
management development indivia-al bank partid
segment will be to assist Pants-"Thc Program repre
participating banks to wi meet: with the
develop more effective r chief executive officer of an
manaeemen t teams, imorove
man ana investment per
formance, enhance the mar
keting capabilities of the
bank, reduce its personnel
turnover, and increase pro
ductivity. Heimann explained that
the program will deal, with
problems which, while
common ' to most mino
rity banks, are unique in
their effect , on individual
banks. "Upon request, a
highly skilled program
representative will prepare
i
COQIG.
The - lawmaker's com
ments were part of his
keynote . address to a con
ference "On the Pursuit of
Justice", sponsored by the
Offender Aid and Restora
tion Project, held at i St.
Augustine's College in
Rileigh. -f f j. -f '
Stokes advocated passing
laws at the state and nation
al levels to' require reason
able or no bail in pretrial
detention, and wider use
of fines, probationary sen
tences, halfway houses,
group homes and , other
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Minority Bunk Program
"aiYiauai name to discuss
and negotiate a scope of
' work that both meets the
wishes of bank and
is within the guidelines and
resources of the program,"
he said.
THeimanh pointed out
that individualized mange
ment development effort
will be relatively modest
in its outreach during the
initial year during which the
bank will provide individua
lized assistance to some five
to"iseven of the banks which
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yiarlotto
3 Pardon
IBpncndcd
k group of supporters br'aved
y drizzling rain Saturday to
march, to the state capitol
to demand a pardon for the
Charlotte Three. Convicted
of arson of a Charlotte
horse stable in 1972, two of
the Charlotte Three were
ordered back to prison
October 17 after the U. S.
Supreme Court , refused to
overturn their convictions
' and long sentences. Another
was , already in prison" for
parole violation.
A 1974 probe by the
Charlotte Observer docu
mented that the Three had
been convicted through the
testimony of witnesses
bought for more than
$4000 in cash each, not
to men tion prosecutorial
favors.. ,
: "The FBI, SBI, CBI and
the Nixonian faction within
the judicial system were in
volved in a conspiracy to
limit, u eliminate the
Black protest movement
in this , country,"' said
Charlotte Three defendant,
T. J. Reddy in a statement
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Harry Groves, Dean of
the North Carolina Central
University (NCCU) Law
School, has reconsidered his
resignation from the pre
dominantly black institu
tion,. Groves explained the
circumstances surrounding
his resignation last month
to the N. C. Association of
Black Lawyers at a Durham
workshop on trial advocacy.
alternatives - to incarcera
tion of the convicted crimi
nal. "Incarceration may be
absolutely .necessary for
some offenders, but - for
many who are incarcerated,
it is not," said Stokes as he
gave statistics depicting
overcrowded conditions in
federal and state prisons.
Work; f Stokes said, has
greater , rehabilitative value
than any activity. Lack of
education and unemploy
ment he said, are root
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Established ot Satur. Fund doner
RALEIGH-Approximately
600. persons, pri
marily business and poli
tical leaders, attended a
$100 a plate dinner at the
Raleigh Civic Center
Saturday, October 28, in
honor of John H. Wheeler.
Wheeler, late president of
Mechanics ' and Farmers
Bank and chairman of the
Durham Committee on th
the Affairs of Black
People, - was praised by
Governor James Hunt and
other - political leaders.
Revenue from the affair
will establish a scholar
ship fund in Wheeler's
name.
Wheeler was generally
regarded as a political
broker, the most influ
ential black politician -following
the registration of
large numbers of black
voters as a result of passage
of the Voting Rights of the
sixties.
Evidence of Wheeler's
political influence was the
broad-based group of
politicians convened to pay
tribute. Attending were big
names in state and national
politics of the last two
decades.
Allard Lowenstein, politi
: cal assistant to U. S. Am
bassador Andrew Young,
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me , aoumern Regional
Council, and former Secre-
tary of the U. S. Depart-
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COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD - of the I manual Tempi savtntt Day Advantitt
Church was presented to S.J. Henderson last Saturday by U.S. Attorney H.M. clux
Jr. (I) as Mrs. Gloria Moore, a church leader looks on. (Photo by Kelvin A. BallL
G roves' v resignation
brought into public focus a
dispute between Groves,
NCCU Chancellor Albert
N. Whiting and University
of North Carolina President
William Friday. The dispute
centered around an accredi
tation report of the Ameri
can Bar Association (ABA)
which Groves termed "use
ful". The law. school's
accreditation has been pro
visional ' for several years
pending construction of a
new building and expansion
of the library volumes, plus
outlay of significant re
sources for the school.
"It was particularly con
cerned that we should have
not merely the new building
. . . .but more support re
sources, not teachers, neces
sarily, but more librarians
. and. clerical people, particu
f larly," said Groves to the
lawyers. The ABA team.
Groves said, "wanted to be
sure that it made clear that
it expected the school to
have more of these resourc
es when it moved into the
new building.
Groves said that he was
.not "dissatisfied with the
report and thought it was
useful "' however. Groves
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WINNER OF SCHOLARSHIP RAFFLE - Mrs. GjBY-ilto
dirta tl nMiant'nn ,1m. U:!tirli nt l-t fni f
ibjh ummu uiflLi. f
Miss Smith was the winner of the "Grocary Raffle" wftkh
, part of an effort, by tha Class of "54, to raisa fundi for
scholarship. (Photo by Kelvin A. BeB.)
said that UNC President
Friday didn't agree.
The ABA called for
response from Groves,
Chancellor Whiting, and Dr.
Friday,, but Friday answer
ed the ABA for all three.
That triggered Groves
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MAYOR BRAD LEYO LYT?IC HEAD S1CM AC.U-MENT-Los
Angeles Mayor Tom Brtdtey, left, and LcrJ
KUIanin, president f of the International Cyrv3
are all smiles as they prepare to sign an asrtemtr.t at t l
White House designating Los Angela at host for f a V. .
Olympic Games. ('- .)
i'jr min ri ri2
resignation. '
"President Friday, with
out choosing to discuss the
matter with me at all,
responded very angrily to
the report of the ABA. . : .
protesting that they (ABA)
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