DURHAM JEPARTf1ENT
NC 27706
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Words of Visdoa
What a man thinks of himself, that it is
which determines, or rather indicates, his
fate.
Henry David Thorean
VOLUME 57-NUMBER 12
22 PAGES
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1979
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Black college professors;
students and alumni , and
friends have been urged t
get involved in voter regis
tration, fund raising, letter
writing, and other political
work to save the state's five
black state supported col
leges. The urgings came
during the fourth annual
banquet of the N.C. Alumni
and Friends Coalition at
Fayetteville State University
Saturday evening, March 17.
Natural Resources and
Community Development
Secretary Howard N. Lee
said he was disturbed that
few black faculty, students,
and alumni are involved in
organized efforts to save the
state's black colleges, adding
that "too many black teach
ers are not registered to
vote ". Recalling the involve
ment of black college
students in the civil rights
battles of the 1960's and
anti-war protests of the
early 1970's, Lee comment
ed that "as we move toward
1980, I don't see students
involved in anything". Lee
quickly warned that sit-ins
kneel-ins and other demon
stration tactics won't work
now. "It's time for the
vote in and vote out," he
continued.
Lee also raised fears that
one of the seven blacks
now on the UNC Board of
Governors may loose a seat.
"I am disturbed and
concerned that there are
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some blacks who would
allow themselves to be
prostituted to the extent
that they would allow
their names to be put up
against blacks who have
identified by our legisla
tive leadership, knowing full
well what will happen if
they are, in fact, elected."
Not calling any names, Lee
questioned what would
happen if two blacks
running for the same board
position were competing in
CITYCOUNTY MEET - Area high school women start first leg of Sprint Medley
Relay in meet held Monday. (Photo by Kelvin A. Bell).,-
People's Temple Styled Church
Investigated For Slave Labor
the General Assembly.
The banquet was held in
FSU's H.L. Cook Dining
Hall, noted by Chancellor
Charles Lyons as being too
small for the 2,000 member
student body. For five
the state legislature and the
university system have re
fused FSU funds to build
another facility. Like the
four other black colleges
across the state, FSU has
been severely underfunded
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help" mmm for afbicah refugees
Charges that a People's
Temple styled cult existed
in Durham until recently is
being investigated by the
U.S. Justice Department's
Civil Rights Division.
Federal Bureau of In
vestigation (FBI) Agent
Vic Holdren acknowledged
this week that the Durham
FBI office had turned over
to the Civil Rights Division
a preliminary report on the
Church of God and True
Holiness.
The Church is being
investigated for allegations
of involuntary servitude and
slavery, according to the
FBI.
Former church members
have said in published ac
counts that they knew of
whippings, forced work,
attempts by church officials
to separate tamily members,
and meager food rations.
The pastor of the church
is Bishop Robert A. Carr
who has been unavailable to
the news media.
Former members have
said that many of the
church's members worked
at Cross Poultry in
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Elections Opposed By
Student Leaders
BY PAT BRYANT
Clothing medical sup-i
plies, technical text1
books, and money are. :
needed by African refuguees
from warn torn nations of;
Southern Africa, particu
larly Zimbabwe, likely the
next African nation "to
overcome domination of -
er told of the horrors
of a 13 year war, children
and adults maimed by
bombs labeled "prop
U.S. Army", shot down
by U.S. made Bell helicop
tors flown by white soldiers.
Chikuse also spoke on
the struggles taking place
in Azania, and Namibia
to overcome the minority
white South Africa regime,
where military, medical
and other assistance are
needed .
"In Zambia we have
two schools run by our
organization and we don't
have money to buy school
books, or even ball pens
and pencils, let alone
$he other school equipment
needed or even textbooks,"
Chikuse said.
"We don't want your
history books.. .neither do
we youf books which
have got your own philoso
phies... We want textbooks
on scientific issues which
are very straight forward.
Chemistry will never be
anything but chemistry,"
Chikuse continued.
Some area groups sent
$40,000 in medical supplies
last year to Zimbabwe free
dom fighters, but much more
is needed, the student
leader said.
When the Ian Smith,
Prime Minister of the
Rhodesian government took
power in 1966, Chikuse said
repression of Zimbabweans
increased making clear that
only a military struggle
would liberate the country.
The proceeding six years
had been spent at the
bargaining table with
Great Britian, the
former colonial ruler.
Glaring contradictions
on U.S. denial of military
aid to the Zimbabwe revo
lutionaries while the U.S.
supported Ian Smith
regime was charged by
Chikuse. Revolutionaries
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Black Agent Quits Charlotte Liberty
Instructed to Use Certain Selling,
Collecting
Tcchniqu
RALEIGH,' N.C. - A
former insurance agent em
ployed by Charlotte Liberty
Mutual testified Wednesday
that techniques he was
instructed to use in the
collection and selling of in
dustrial debit insurance
caused him to get out of
the insurance business.
Robert Lee was the first
witness to testify at
hearings in the Insurance
Commissioner's Office on
industrial insurance.
Lee, who is black, said
most of his customers were
poor blacks, and many were
on fixed incomes.
He said he never received
any training from the com
pany he ork for in how to
sell the insurance, but was
continuously instructed to
try to place a new policy
each time he collected for
the policies he had already
sold.
Wayne Evans, a staff
member of the Insurance
Commissioner's Office
said that he found com
plaints of cancellations
without notice to the
policyholder, that policy
holders often did not know
the value of the policies
they are buying, or what
their premiums were, and
policyholders often re
ceived no receipts when
they paid premiums.
Evans said he found
citizens paying as much as
30 per cent of their income
for such insurance, and
many of them were on
fixed incomes;
Evans said he found
during investigations that
such
have
U.S. and western corpora
tions. White minority re-1
gimes in those nations are
being supported by the
corp.
Andrew Chikuse (Che-cu-
see), Secretary of Youth
OC Affairs, and a member of
v5 the Central Committee of
.policyholders c:ri
Rev. Leon Sullivan
Warns of Youth Unemployment Crisis
WASHINGTON, DC. -Rev.
Leon H. Sullivan, a
bought ordinary
insurance for what they
were paying for 10 and 11
policies that were worth
far less than an ordinary life
insurance policy.
Evans aid agents were
overloading policyholders,
and not explaining what
they were selling to the
customer.
One woman who is black
said that she purchased
what she thought was a
$1,500 death benefit policy
on her child. The child died,
and the policy paid approx
imately $300 in the burial
expenses.
The hearings are to ex
amine all aspects of the
industrial life and health
benefit insurance market.
North Carolina Insurance
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students in Chapel Hill last
Saturday. The student lead-
ANDREW CHIKUSE
Employment and Training
Policy, said today that
the 35 per cent unemploy
ment rate among black
youth, and estimates of 60
80 per cent in some
cities, represents a crisis as
important to the nation as
the Middle East crisis.
Calling on the President
and his domestic policy
advisers to make an all out
effort equivalent to that
made to bring Israel and
Egypt together, the
founder and chairman of
the nation's largest and
strongest network of job
training and job-creation
programs said:
"The black press, the
black mayors, the black
leadership of America
is alarmed. bui the
Natl Republican Council
HAKES DEMANDS ON GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
INDIANAPOLIS,
The front running candidat
es for the Republican
Party's presidential nomina
tion have been asked -to
commit their full support to
a move to gurantee a 200
per cent increase in the
number of Black dele
gates to the Republican Na
tional Convention in 1980
over 1976.
James C. Cummings, Jr.,
Chairman of the National
Black Republican Council,
told candidates during
Convention saw only 76
Blacks among its 2.033
a series of meetings here
last week that his organi
zation would "settle for
nothing less" from any
candidate soliciting its
support.
Mr. Cummings led a
delegation in meetings
with US, Senator Ro
bert Dole, former Texas
governor John Connally,
former U.S.: Ambassador to
the United Nations George
Bush, U.S. Representative
Phillip Crane, and re
presentatives of former
California governor
Ronald Reagan.
The meetings occurred
during the Midwest Re
publican Leadership Con
ference held in Indianapolis
March 9, and 10. Forty-two
Black Republican leaders
from eight Midwestern
states attended.
The 197b Republican
delegates ai Kansas City.
SDA Announces Federal Programs
to Assist Small Enterprises
ATLANTA, GA- A
program with nearly
unlimited potential for
small business to partici
pate in Government con
tract opportunities, which
last year totaled $68 billion,
of which $16 billion went
to small businesses has been
announced by the U.S.
Small Business Administra
tion. Wiley Messick, South
estern Regional Director for
the SBA, said the pro
gram - Procurement Auto
mated Source . System
(PASS), will permit small
business with one simple
registration ot have access
to over 300 major pro
curement centers of the
Federal Government and 60
prime contractors located
throughout the United
States.
The SBA Director
said, "The establishment
of this program provides
small business a tremendous
opportunity to obtain
government contracts by
enabling procuring agencies
to match up their require
ments with the capabilities
of the small businesses regis
tered in the program."
"Unless a firm is operat
ing an industry with u
special size standard, ii is
generally considered small
c-for the purpose of Govern
ment procurement if it has
fewer than 500 em
ployees for research and
development and . manufac
turing, has average annual
receipts for those preceding
years of less than $2 million
for service industry," the
SBA Director conluded.
To obtain a . PASS
registration write
Procurement Assistance
Division, U.S. Small
Business. Administration,
1375 Peachtree
Allan", GA
Mention: PASS, or
(404) 881-7587.
St.,
30309,
call
The National Black Repub
lican Council is determined
to raise this number to at
'least 224 in 1980 at
Detroit. :
The National Black Re
publican Council made it
clear to the candidates that
it intends to gain other
advances for Blacks during
this campaign for ' the
nomination, and during and
after the election campaign
itself.
Cumming told each
presidential aspirant that
NBRC expects a pledge to
hire Blacks in key staff
positions at the national
and state levels. It was
agreed NBRC would re
cruit and refer applicants
for the jobs. :
The Black Republican
group insisted that each can
didate develop a strong pro
gram aimed at the needs and
concerns of Blacks, includ
ing solutions to be im
plemented if he is success
ful. The program would
be utilized through the
state and local affiliates of
NBRC. The organization is
determined to avoid a cam
paign by "surrogates" who
simply travel into Black
communities making
speeches.
"Blacks cannot gain firm
commitments from surro
gates". Cummings told the
candidates. "We must get
away from the historical
paternalism of the Republi
can Party he demanded.
'After the victory', he
asserted, "we do not want
you as the president-elect
to hand pick a Black to
represent the rest of us in
making your appointments
and selecting your staff. We
want a structured system
which will reward those
who work for you and pro
duce votes for you." 1
Cummings also deliver
ed a speech before the 700
Republicans assembled for
the conference. He told the
Republican leadership that
Blacks have not made suf
ficient gains in the party. He
also pointed out that the
party does not provide suf
ficient funds to enable the
National Black Republican
Council to carry out an .
effective program in the
Black communities through
out the country.
Cummings called on the
newly-elected Republican
governors to make
significant appointments of
Blacks in their administra
tions; to set the proper
tone in their states by
articulating and serving
the needs of Blacks and
the poor, and to lead the
Republicans in the state
legislatures in the en
actment of bills which
remove obstacles and
provide opportunities for
Blacks.
danger is that the President
and the Congress will be
'too little and too late' with
solution ito Wis youth-"
crisis.
"I am appalled at the
Department of Labor re
ports which appear to be
only the top of the iceburg
that could mean social ex
plosions in our cities like
we saw in New York
during the power failure and
again in Baltimore during
the big snow emergency.
"I have called on the
150 OIC centers and the
more than 50 OIC inter
est groups and their clergy
support councils and
industry advisers to initiate
youth job rallies and seek
one million job pledges
from American business
owners. I have launched
a drive for one million
signatures appealing to the
President and the Congress
which we will deliver to
the White House and the
Capitol when our national
convocation convenes in
Washington in June.
"1 have already heard
from black mayors in our
key cities and I am meeting
today with the director of
the League of Cities to dis
cuss ways in which OICs
can work cooperatively with'
its 200 mayors to help
keep this crisis from be
coming a disaster.
"The heads of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, the
National Alliance of
Business and the Business
Roundtable have all indicat
ed that OIC is one of oui.
nation's best resources to
"help tin President, . the
Congress, the , governors
and local government offi
cials before it is too late.
"I am calling today for
other mayors to join in
proclaiming March 25 to
April 1 'OIC Help Our
Youth Week.' I am calling
on store owners, service
station operators and
other small busines owners
in the neighborhoods to
join the major industries
in this 'Help Our
Youth' campaign.
"I am calling on mem
bers of the President's
National Employment and
Training Policy Commis
sion, the President's
domestic policy staff, the
President himself, and the.
leaders of the Senate and
the House to make our
youth a number one prior
ity and develop a new com
prehensive national youth
policy.
"I want them to make
the same effort to find
the money and cut the
red tape on this
crisis as they did to
get Egypt and Israel
to agree on a peace treaty
to solve the Middle East
crisis.
"The national youth
policy should include:
-A plan to reach all the
youth in America and pre
pare them with training
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flamed to Mat.
Sav. Ass'n
CHICAGO, ILL - F.V.
Allison Jr., president of the
Mutual Savings and Loan
Association, Durham, North
Carolina, has been appoint
ed to the 1979 Investments
and Morgage Lending Com
mittee of the Uftited States
League of Savings Associa
tions. The appointment was
announced by Joseph T.
Benedict, president of
the League and chairman of
the board and president of
Freedom Federal Savings
and Loan Association, Wor
cester, Massachusetts.
The U.S. League is the
principal trade organiza
tion for the savings and loan
business and represents over
4,400 associations through
out the country.
Savings and loan asso
ciations are the second larg
est type of financial insti
tution in America and
specialize in attracting
savings accounts for invest
ment primarily in mortgage
loans on residential pro
perty. Currently savings
associations provide approx
imately twice the amount of
funds for home mortgage
financing as all other lend
ers combined.
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STOCKHOLDERS AT 71ST MEETING at Mechanics and Farmers Bank. Monday
March 12, at the home office on West Parrish Street, heard officers report that the Bank's
total resources increased over $4 million by the close of 1978. See full story nd other
pictures on Page 3.)