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! VOLUME 57 NUMBER 27
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1979
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NAACP Faces More And More
Dissension In Ranks
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by Milton Jordan fc
Editor
. Convention Coverage .
Newsservice
LOUISVILLE
Unless more black people
rally to its call, the
NAACP could find itself
spread too thin, fighting
too many battles on too
many fronts to be as effec
tive as, it has been in the
past. .
... This undercurrent of
warning drifted clearly
through the 70th annual
convention here last Week
that was a combination of
discussions of problems
facing the organization,
pep talks,- exuberance
and internal squabbles. .
Mrs. Margaret ' Bush
Wilson, NAACP national
board chairman, sounded
the warning in her keynote
address to more than
10,000 convention
delegates opening night:
"...we are now dealing
with a climate much more
treacherous than we faced
in the 60s and before. We
are facing a subtle form, a
covert form of racism,
and it is masked in all
kinds of colors, all kinds
of style, and all kinds of
intricate and sophisticated
strategies." )
Noting some of the issues,
the problems that, spread
the NAACP's resources
thin, Mrs. Wilson, a St. .
Louis attorney, cited:
The energy crisis,," a
situation that earned the
organization severe
criticism last year when its'
policy : supported energy
expansion. .
The Strategic Arms
Limitation Treaty, which
she called, "a survival
mechanism and a hedge
against the greatest threat
to our national security.
She also said the SALT
treaty will be a way to cut
escalating - armaments
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CHAPEL HILL
(NNPA) Dr. Sonja H.
Stone, who founded the
Southeastern Black Press
Institute and sparked con
siderable research on the
black press, has launched
a legal battle to retain her
post here at the University
of North Carolina as assis
tant professor- of Afro
American Studies and
Education. ,
Dr. Stone was denied
tenure last February by
her immediate supervisor,
Dr. Samuel R. William
son, Jr., dean of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences.
Although Provost J.
Charles Morrow said that
Dr. Stone has no teaching
deficiencies that he can
recall, and despite her
black press research, he
has announced that her
contract will not be renew
ed, because of .insufficient
research. Her term ends
on June 30, 1980, and her
cO-directorship of Afro-
Cifbs
Racism
American' studies ended
on June 30.
Numerous letters and
telegrams have poured in
to the university; pro
testing her dismissal.
... Members of her staff call
it tragic that so creative an
enterprise as the
Southeastern Black Press
Institute seems headed for
extinction.
Dr. Ruth G. Kennedy of
North Carolina Central
University's English
department said, "It
seems inconceivable that
Dr. Stone would be denied
tenure."
Dr. Russell L. Adams,
chairman of the Depart
ment of Afro-American
Studies at Howard
University, lauded Dr.
Stone as a teacher of
"high intellectual ability,
, an admirable concern with
scientific and pedagogical
theory, and who possesses
a conceptually brillant ap
proach to the study of
leadership phenomena."
costs that take away
money for the country's .
social programs. ,
Sanctions against
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia,
which the NAACP says
should be maintained
because the recent elec-,
tions weren't fair, and the
country still doesn't have
majority rule.
International Affairs,
about which Mrs. Wilson
said: "This world of ours
is no longer isolated, and -what
happens abroad im
pacts on us at home
whether we want to admit
it or not." . '
On domestic issues, the 1
organization's fiery ex-v
ecutive director Benjamin
Hooks, told reporters,
during a press meeting:'
"The headlines go to the
political manuevering
underway to beaf back the
steady progress blacks
have made in the past ten
years in the field of civil
rights.. Nowhere is this
concern of the public
about equality demands
more evident than in the
Congress of the United
States. What is generally
felt among our white peo
ple in this country is being
mimicked and pandered to .
in the United States Con-,
' gress by way of attacks on;
affirmative action, and
busing for -desegregation.
Other domestic
' Staff Report
The Durham City
Schools have a new chief
administrator. Dr.
Cleveland Hammonds,
43, superintendent of the
Inkster, Michigan schools,
was announced as the
unanimous choice of the
five member board. The
fortythree year old Ham
monds will become the
first't'- black school
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Durham Gty School Board Chairman, Mrs. Josephine
Clement welcomes Dr. Cleveland Hammonds as the
new school superintendent. Looking on during the sign
ing were School Board members fl-r) John Lennon and
Thomas Bass. Hammond will begin his four year con
tract August 1. Photo By Lionel! Parker
FRA4K WEAVER
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Secretary of State
. Cyfus R. Vance,
Secretary, U.S. Depart-
school meht of State will address
' the 69th Annual Con
issues ".ference of the National
Continued on page 5 ban League on Mon-
1 s
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JDprhda Qan ticked Chaiman
SocdI Ciffy
day, July 23 at 7 p.m. at
the Conrad Hilton Hotel
in Chicago, Illinois.
The appearance by
Secretary Vance marks the
fourth consecutive year
that the. League's annual
meeting features a major
foreign affairs address.
Previous speakers were
Mr. Vance has served in
numerous capacities on
the federal level including
Special Counsel to the
Preparedness Investiga
tion Committee of the
Senate Armed Forces
Committee, Consulting
Counsel to the Senate
Soecial Committee on
wforjnter Seeretary-o Stated
Henry Kissinger, General counsel to tne aunaay, jury na
Defense,
are expected to attend the
Conference which will ex
amine a number of issues
of significant importance
as the nation moves into
the next, decade.
The Conference of
ficially opens with a
Keynote Address by Ver
non E, Jordan, Jr., Presi-
. SOUL CITY In a
meeting held this past
week, the United Front, a
newly formed organiza
tion composed of
representatives from over
forty churches in the War
ren 'County .area
unanimously approved a
Resolution presented by
George Shearin, Warren
County's only black
County Commissioner, in
support of Soul City
under the management of
Floyd B. McKissick, Sr.
The Resolution reads as
follows: -.
"We the members of
the United Front support
the continued develop
ment Of Soul City under
the management of Floyd
B. McKissick, Sr. due to
the tremendous amount of
growth and economic:
development which Soul
City has generated in War
ren County and the entire.
Kerr-Tar Region.This was
done through the develop
ment ;of the Regional
Water System which cur
rently serves Henderson,
Oxford, and Soul City and
which line is currently be
ing extended to serve the
cities of Norlina and War
renton in Warren County.
. "Soul City was also in
strumental in constructing
a sewage force main which
serves Norlina and War
renton, and has recently
secured $4 million dollars
, in additional funding to
expand .the Warrenton
Treatment Plant. Soul Ci
ty has also assisted War
den County ; in ' securing
federal grants i for con
struction of, our new coun
tywide high school and
numerous other projects
which have been of benefit
to the seventeen thousand
residents of Warren Coun
ty and the fifty thousand
residents which have
benefitted from Soul Ci
ty's development of the
Regional Water System.
.Soul City has encouraged
new growth and develop
ment in our county and
has stimulated the interest
of industries in. locating
here. Since Soul " City's
development, Warren
County's growth rate has
increased by ten per cent.
This" reversed a historical
pattern which caused
Warren County to lose
population between 1960
and 1970.
"We do hereby en
courage Senators Morgan
and Helms and Represen
tative L.H. Fountain to
use all the powers at their
disposal to assist Soul City
in receiving' continued
funding and to use their
abilities to assist Soul City
in attracting new industry.
Conttaued on page 7
Ambassador. Andrew
Young, and M. Gatsha
Buthelizi, President of the
National Cultural Libera
tion Movement of South
Africa.
VJobor's Reverse -Bias Suit Dlov;
Hay Open More Jobs for
Blacks
. By Sherman Brisco
WASHINGTON
(NNPA) ' More
businesses are likely to be
encouraged to move ahead
with voluntary affirmative
action programs as a
result of the Supreme
Court's overthrow of the
Weber reverse
discrimination suit.
This was the view ex
pressed by both Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission Chair
Eleanor Holmes Norton
and Assisaht Attorney
General for Civil Rights
Drew S. Days, III, in a
White House press brief
ing following the court's
decision last Wednesday.
The guidelines an
nounced months ago by
EEOC, how reinforced by
the Weber decision, open
the way for race-conscious
affirmative action to
eliminate racial imbalance
created by years of hobbl
ing discrimination in the
past, both Mrs. Norton
and Days speculated.
The High Court's five-to-two
opinion was
delivered by Justice
William J. Brennan, Jr.
and concurred in by
Justice Thurgood Mar
shall, Harry A,
Department of
Secretary of the Army,
and Deputy Secretary of
Defense.
He has also served as
Special Representative to
the President on Civil
Disturbances to Detroit
and has led missions for
the President in Cyrus and
Korea. He was one of two
U.S. negotiators during
the Paris Peace Con
ference on Vietnam.
In addition, Mr. Vance
has served as a partner in
the New York law firm of
Simpson, Thacher &
Bartlett. He holds a B.A.
degree from Yale Univer
sity and a LL B. degree
from Yale University Law
School.
With the theme
"Mobilizing for the
Challenges of the 80's,"
more than 12,000 persons
p.m. and "ine worw ot
Black Business" on Tues
day, July 24th at 8 p.m.
The Conference ends on
Wednesday, July 25, with
the Conference Dinner.
The NUL last convened
its annual conference in
Chicago in 1943. That
year, the theme of the con
ference was "Victory
Through Unity,' which
focused the nation's atten
tion on the need to put
a$ide racial hostilities and
include blacks in the war
effort by bringing down
segregated barriers in
defense industries and by
integrating the armed
forces.
Headquarters for the
Conference is the Conrad
Hilton Hotel. The more
than 200 exhibits which
comprise the exhibition
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By David Puryear
GREENSBORO If
all goes well, experiments
designed and built by
A&T State University
students will be carried in
to earth orbit aboard the
space shuttle sometimes in
the mid 1980's.
Dr. Stuart Ahrens,
A&T physics professor,
said the university will
place a research payload
aboard a shuttle flight
under the , National
Aeronautics and ' Space
Administration's
"Getaway Special" pro
gram. Ahrens ; and A&T
recently made a $500
deposit with NASA to
secure a reservation in the
program, launched by the
space agency so that in
dividuals, business firm's
and colleges can send
small, self-contained
research and development
payloads into space.
A&T's shuttle venture
could end up costing
around $10,000, accor
ding to Ahrens. That price
will buy a oil-barrel sized '
container and NASA's
- technical assistance is get
ting A&T's experiment in
to space. It would also pay
the university's prorated
share of the shuttle's
operating costs.
Black Deputy Appeals
Gas Stealing Conviction
Discuss Prison.
Problems
RAHWAY, NJ. - Supreme Court Justice designate, Robert Wilenlz, left, and
Chief Justice Richard Hughes, discuss prison problems with inmates Ernie Pace,
(second from left), and Leon Richardson. The Justice's toured Rahway Prison on
June 22 along with other Judges and law enforcement officials from around the
state.
by Pat
'Durham District Court
Judge David LaBarre con
victed Gerald Jones, a
Durham County Sheriff
deputy, Tuesday, July 3 of
stealing gas from a
county-owned pump
behind the old courthouse
Bryant
last week. Jones appealed
the conviction which car
ried a $100 fine and court
costs, and 30 to 60 days in
jail suspended for three
years on the condition that
Jones remain on good
Continued on page 16
Ahrens saicL A&T's
chemistry physics, and
biology departments will
develop the shuttle ex-
periments, He said the
engineering school will
also be involved in design
ing and building the inner
workings of the ex
perimental container, as
NASA provides only the
outer cover for,, the
Getaway special payloads.
' The physics teacher said
that while large multi
million dollar payloads
will take up the bulk of
each shuttle's cargo space,
the Getaway special ex
periments will occupy no
more than five cubic feet
and can weigh in at no
more than 200 pounds.
About ten such containers
will be permitted to travel
on each shuttle mission. ;
Ahrens predicted that
the space project should
spark additional interest
and creative thought
among the A&T students.
"1 want the students to"
be able to dream about an
environment of zero gravi
ty, no pressure, no at
mosphere between them
and the stars," said
Ahrens, "and 1 want them
I
t
to get motivated by it alt"
, Ahrens said the biology
students may be asked to
design an experiment on
seed growth in space,
while the chemistry
department wflT be asked
to grow crystals.
A&T's physics students
will be asked to design a '
means of measuring the
environment as the other
twQ experiments take
place.
"This probably won't
win any Nobel; Prize,"
said Ahrens, "but it will
be something the students -can
grasp."
Ahrens believes ' thai
American interest in the
space program is going to
hit an Apollo-like peak
when the space shuttle
begins its missions into
earth orbit. He pointed -out
that with the advent of
regular space "" flights, -many
people are going to
realize the possibility for
space colonies in the very
near future. He said the
seed-growing experiment
may very well have prac
tical applications, if peo
ple are going to live away
from the earth for lonj
periods of time. "