Newspapers / The Carolina Times (Durham, … / Feb. 3, 1979, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Carolina Times (Durham, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
nF UNIVERSITY LI"RY DURHAM OUR NEW LOCATION IS AT 923 OLD FAYETTEVILLE STREET IN THE BUILDING FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY THE REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSION. Vords of 17sdom Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison VOLUME 57 - NUMBER 5 28 PAGES SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1979 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 20 CENTS Sec. Marshall Proirises- 1 MOTION r mm federa WASHINGTON - There will be no reduction in the number of jobs under federal programs designed to lessen unemployment, Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall said in announc ing the Labor Department's fiscal year 1 980 budget. Marshall said, however, that fiscal 1980 will be a year of "moderate auster ity" for the Labor Depart ment, along with other federal agencies.; He emphasized, though, that this does not mean a reduction in , the department's important programs, including those that help the joble'ss, the disadvantaged and the poor. Altough spending under the Comprehen sive Employment andTraining Act (CETA) will decline by $700 million, this decrease, Marshall said, will be offset by the Targeted NHU1I1K LPMilS f Employment Tax Credit, wich will cost an estimated $600 million in fiscal 1980. The only true cut will be a reduction of $100 million in the Summer Youth Pro gram. This saving will be accomplished by making 1 5 years of age, rather than 14, the entry level for particiaption, Marshall said. In a statement concern ing the budget, Marshall declared that "fiscal restraint is necessary to demonstrate that the federal government is willing to take the lead in the fight against inflation." Marshall pointed out that President Carter's total fed eral budget will hold the de ficit to $30 billion. "The Labor Depart ment budget reflects these fiscal realities," Secretary Marshall said. "But it also relflects the important principles. The Carter Administration has no intention of reducing its program for the poor, the disadvantaged and the un employed in order to pare the federal deficit. "Our budget also re flects the continued determ ination by this Administra tion to continue its fight against unemployment." Marshall said the Ad ministration realizes "that there are few things as inflationary , or that will increase the federal deficit as much as high unemployment." Marshall pointed out that the Department's pro grams to combat unemploy ment will rely more on the private sector. He said this is reflected both in the Targeted Em ployment Tax Credit and in the expansion of the Private Sector Initiative Pro gram.. "Both of these import -(Continued On Page 10) Chavis Urges Blacks Seek Four Keys To Freedom Wilmington 10 defendant Rev. Benjamin Chavis, Jr. was allowed by prison officials to break a three year long prison imposed silence last Sunday when he made an address at Russell Memorial C.M.E. Church. Apprehensive about reprisal of prison officials, Chavis urged, the capacity audience to use four keys to freedom -knowing self, that is black history and culture-keeping the faith, that is the freedom struggle tradition- knowing God, that is the God of liberation- and giving of ones self to the freedom strug tRle. Showing the charisma he exemplified beginning eleven years ago, until he was last imprisoned in 1976, the young black activist minister more than "once roused the audience which responded with amens, patting feet, app lause, and other expressions, v "Whenever you begin to talk about freedom and liberation for those who ire oppressed and for those who are exploited, inevitably you are bound to run into conflict or you are bound to be confronted by those Who have a vested interest maintaining racial op pression", Chavis said. iCYet, after careful con sideration and prayer, I de cided to go ahead on and jSreach on this sensitive v (Continued On Page 10) REV. W. E. BANKS LEADS MONDAY NIGHT MASS MEETING IN SINGING "WE SHALL OVERCOME" Rep. Walter Fauntroy To Speak At Vhite Rock The Honorable Walter E. Fauntroy,. Member, U.S. House of Representatives from the District of Colum bia, and Pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church, Washington, D. C, will preach at White Rock Bap tist Church, February 11, 10:55 a.m. Worship Ser- KrtStixeCccitroYersary Local 1MCP President Says Group Will Nil Support ' ' I j w " NAACP SWEARING-IN CEREMONY - (r-l) President Goerge W. Frazier, First Vice-President Mrs. Josephine Turner: W.W. Sanders, Second Vice-President and Secretary Mrs. Annie Mae Bynum are sworn in by Judge W.G. Pearson, III, J.E. Cromatie ( not pictured) was sworn in as treasurer; The Sunday afternoon ceremonies featured Soul City Developer Floyd M. McKissick, Sr. who mentioned that "some of us think that because they don't call us 'Nigger' any more, that under-achievers or culturally de-prived-that we have 'arrived'". The Inspirational Singers provided the music for the ceremony held at St. Joseph's (PHOTOS BY KELVIN A. BELL). BY KELVIN At' BELt The Durham Branch of the NAACP announced that it would neither participate in, nor support a boycott or demonstration at the Durham K-Mart store be cause of their beating of a black man. This announcement was made by Branch president George Frazier following swearing in ceremonies, Sunday, at St. Joseph's A.M.E. Church. The announcement, toward the end of the cere monies stirred ,some con troversy as several people in the audience misinter preted the statement to man that the NAACP would not support any boycott of K-mart. Grazier clarified this point by saying that should there be an issue which comes up in the future, it would have to be weighed and a decision arrived at by the officers and executive committee. As emotion? continued to spark, Frazier closed the ceremonies indicating that there was not an appropriate forum for dis cussion. PROGRESS???? "Some of us think that becuase they "Some of us think tnat because they don't call us "nigger" anymore, but underachieves or cul turally deprived, that we have "arrived". This was but one of the many comments Boycott """ 1 "-"-i k i ) j vice observing the Annual Miles Mark Fisher Memori al Scholarship Sunday. He will also speak at White Rock's Annual Human Relations Institute on the same day at 5 p.m. Rev. Fauntroy will be honored at a Banquet on Saturday, February 10 at 7 p.m. Fauntroy, the first per son to represent the District of Columbia in the U.S. House of Representatives in 100 years, was elected Dele gate to the House in 1971. He brought to his seat in the Congress a 'rich background Christian minister. Born February 6, 1933, in Washington, D. C, he was educated at Dunbar High School, Virginia Union Uni versity where he graduated Cum Laude in 1955, and at Yale University Divinity School where he earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1958. He began his public career in 1959 as pastor of the church of his childhood, where he con tinues to serve as pastor. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., appointed him Director of the Washington Bureau of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference from which position he perform ed many valuable services for the movement of the 60's. He was D. C. coordi nator for the historic March I j REP. FAUNTROY on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. He was also coordinator of the Selma-to-Montgomery March in 1965, vice-chairman of the White House Conference "To Fulfill These Rights" in 1966, and leader of an historic urban renewal project which pro duced housing and jobs for low and moderate income families in his own neigh borhood. During the 60's, he also served as the first appoint ed vice chairman of the D.C. City Council and as National Director of the Poor People's Campaign in (Continued On Page 20) made by Soul City devel oper Floyd B. McKissick, Jr. as he spoke at the swearing-in ceremonies. McKissick, who was the first black man admitted to the University of North Carolina Law School, recalled a tune by Jimmy Lunsford called "Four or Five Times": "You might think, you're free because you have freed four or five times," said Mc Kissick, referring to the Emanicpation Pro claimation and to Constitu tional amedments, "that QIC's Rev. Sullivan Launches Massive Dbilation Effort To Stimulate Youth Jobs' Training WASHINGTON D.C. -A nationwide mobilization effort with the goal of "taking one million youths off the street corners" was launched today at an emergency executive assem bly of OIC of America Inc., attended by some 150 OIC leaders representing 46 states and 150 rural and urban American commun ities. Citing a "clear and present danger of a possible total second generation of disadvantaged youth who might never enter toe labor force," OIC founder and chairman Rev. Leon H. ' Sullivan announced the plan at a' Congressional reception marking the 1 5th anniversary of the organiza tion. "We need balanced lives as much as we need balanced budgets," Rev. Sullivan warned. "We need a new comprehensive youth policy to build America's future as much as we need a new comprehensive de fense policy to protect America. The stop-gap jobs and training programs of CETA are not going to solve the problem. Neither will the 1978 Full-Employment Law be enough." The Sullivan plans calls for OIC leaders across America to hold rallies for youth employment in the churches to dramatize the need for youth training and jobs and to mobilize public and private sector leaders to works together to get more help to our unem ployed youth in all OIC cities. Rev. Sullivan also called on the 96th Congress to build emergency safe guards into its FY 80 Appropriations Bills. Praising the Executive Branch targeting of funds, he urged the President to use OIC and community based organizations which already are in place and prepared to reach the grassroots disadvantaged. At the reception, which honored more than 100 Senate and House members for their support of OIC and community-based organizations legislation, principal awards were presented to former Rep. George H. Mahon (D-Tex.) and former chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, for his support of OIC throughout its 15-year history, and newly elected Rep. William Gray (D-Pa.), a Philadelphia OIC board memeber, the first OIC leader to be elected to Congress. At the conference Rev. Sullivan, a black Baptist minister from Philadelphia, declared, "We will be coming back to the nation's capitol with thousands of our clergy, business support ers and our alumni at our national convocation June 10-14." you are free" - so much so that the youth do not want to go out and fight for their rights as they did in the 60s." . STRATEGIC PLANNING Comparing our plight to that of the Jews, who in the 1920s could not go on the beach in Miami and also had no medical schools, Mc Kissick pointed out that they organized, as a people, a ten-year plan: pooled their money, went back and bought Miami Beach and half of Miami, then turned around and bought the rest of Miami ten years later. He continued by saying that changes must be made in our strategy, policies, and objectives to insure our survival, because times have changed. "We have not made any economic progress" because the white man has made so much economic progress that we are, by relative standards, somewhere between 1948 and 1949. said McKissick. SWORN TO OFFICE Others swprn in along with Frazier were: Josephine Turner First Vice-President; Sanders as Second President; J.E. Cromatie as Treasurer, and Mrs. Annie Mae Bynum as Secretary. In his acceptance of the presidency Frazier said "I would like to remind you that the business of, and the role of the NAACP is (Continued On Page 6) United Church Of Christ Aids Zimbabwe Refugees UNITED NATIONS- Dr. Charles E. Cobb, Executive Director of the United Church of Christ Commis sion for Racial Justice pre sented a check for $9,657 to John Kelly, Regional Representative of the United Nations High Com mission for Refugees, for the purchasing of badly needed medical supplies for Zimbabwaen refugees. This represented the pro ceeds from "The Evening in Solidarity with Zimbabwe and the Wilmington 10," held in November. Dr. Cobb promised more yet to come. A similar "Evening in Soli darity..." will be held in Philadelphia later this month, of which the pro ceeds will also be given to Zimbabwaen refugees. Dr. Cobb, also a member of the Working Committee, of the Churches' Human Rights Program for the Im plementation of the Hel sinki Final Act of the World Council of Churches, said, "I have travelled through out the African Continent, and personally witnessed the plight of the refugees, especially the children." He urged his fellow churchmen to follow suit and help in w m i Q this struggle for human survival. Dr. Cobb said that "The United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice has been suppor tive of the African Freedom Struggle from Angola to Zimbabwe. Our Washington, D.C. Field Office monitors activities on Capitol Hill, as they relate to Africa. "This is a small contribu tion to the Zimbabwaen refugees of which a large part are children, but it is my sincere hope that this effort will spur other church and non-church organiza tions to follow suit." Mrs. as W.W. Vice- srecr'TTr-T n rr irmm C5E5V n - Wax ' O 1 n UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST PRESENTS CHECK FOR AID OF REFUGEES
The Carolina Times (Durham, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 3, 1979, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75