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.v,Kt UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SSPAPER OEPARTMENT 277ob DURHAM f - I - Enjoy Tho Section Each Issuo - i ' ? i O (USPS 091-380) Words of IVisdca Worldly riches are like Bats; many cloths arc torn in getting them, man tooth broke ia crackfe? them, bat never a belly filled wftb eatlsz them. Venin2.; ': 1 r t i VOLUME 57 - NUMBER 31 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1979 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 29 COfTS DUnHATiHTES ft wmmmwmtm ' ' L , ' ',..''" .... - ' , - " ' ASA rn J! Division Exists In Copnunity By Pat Bryant Considerable doubt and division exists wjthin Durham's black com munity that President Carter can muster enough black support to win the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, next, year. Carter was very obscure until national spotlights focused on the "born again" Christian and a simple Georgia peanut farmer, supported by civil rights leaders, labor, and southern moderates and conservatives. Like most other black communities across, the state and nation,' Durham seems divided with a larger . segment ,j against Carter fbr re-election than for him. While the masses of black voters were at tracted toward Carter in 1976, black political elites in Durham didn't endorse the peanut l farmer politician until he met with a few of the blacks in a closed conference at the Duke Street Ramada Inn. Attorney Shirley Dean, chairman of the Black Continued on page 13 V mm f4 iiii ::ililiiisillhipS Is. dllillilifcppwill it imiiiiiiiiUKi mi. ' t -i- V ":v i, ; HOWARD LEE: White-Black Colleges Merger,, ot In Best Interest of Black's i! CHARLES LESLIE DURHAM'S AMBASSADOR OF GOODWILL TO HAVE HIS DAY Charles Leslie, known to most Durhamites, is to many an ambassador of goodwill. He can be seen at many church functions, disco clubs, gospel sing ings, parades almost anywhere an event is tak ing place. He's never a bystander whether for pay or not, he makes himself useful to help things rim smoothly. He does not have a car, but he doesn't let that bother him at all. If there is a place he wants to go, and he can't get a ride, he'll walk to get there. It does't matter V " Continued on page 2 ' Liu. tsouiware 'ss&tatcsment if- NRCD Scc'y Itoynotor For HMDP Group By Pat Bryant CHAPEL HILL Merger of black state-supported colleges with predominantly white community colleges and technical institutes would not be in the best interests of the black - schools, Natural . Resources and Community Development Secretary Howard Lee told 35 minority students and faculty in a pre-health career advancement pro gram. "I believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that even the worst of the black colleges and ; universities have to be far above the community colleges and technical institutes," Lee said. : 1 I!tirniiarks''er p'aft; ''i:Bf' 'Mutfiialna dialocue Will Not Run Aqain i' n;d debate er'lytc rrenhahce tfie stated Tiv( "Mr. Mayor, Members of the, Council; City Of ficials and Fellow Citizens: . "For more than twelve years' I have ; had the privilege of serving the people of Durham as a member of ' their City CouhciLf .Membership on this Council has provided for me many oppor tunities of working for the needs of so very many people who really needed someone to come to their aid. I rejoice to believe that, in this position, I have been helpful to many who knew not where to turn. These have been people of all walks of life. I have not turned aside or ignored a single person who has come to me seek ing advice or help. "In my first campaign for election in 1967, one promise I made to the peo ple of Durham. I promis ed that, if elected, there would be someone on that Council who would listen to the voices of those who came before that body, and that I would try to understand the problems and feel the hurts of those citizens. And for more than twelve years now, I Xv1 v.-1 i v fine persons have joined this Council, served the people of Durham . faithfully and have passed on. Many changes in at titude toward the citizens have taken place on this body. I have noted, with gratitude and praise, the present attitude of open ness and compassion ex isting in this Council. For many years this was not the case. "As time passed, greater and greater became the demands upon the time and energy of those who serve here. Continued on page 14 enhance the state's predominantly black state-supported colleges, which are fiercely com peting for students with the community colleges and technical institutes. Last week, Charlotte Attorney Julius Chambers, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, addressed a na tional institute on desegregation, proposing that Elizabeth City State University, Winston Salem State University, and N. C. A&T State University each be merged with technical institutes and community colleges in the areas in which the col- Continued on page 2 OPENS - INDUSTRIAL PARK BUILDING OPENED Left to right asslstthg Secttflur . Howard Lee in the ribbon cutting are: Ed Stewart, UDI-CDC director; Walker Arch, Automatic Systems; William Bell, president of UDI-CDC Board of Directors; and W.P. Edwards, chairman of the UDI-CDC board. CPC Industrial P ark CilM floiiuRieaf off Hope UpD By Lionell Parker Speaking to an audience of more than 200 onlookers and well wishers, Secretary of Natural Resources and Community Development Howard N. Lee called the New UDI Industrial Park project, "a monument of hope that should be prais ed." Lee told the audience that the dream of building an industrial park that would increase employ ment in the Durham area did not go unheeded by DR. BOULEWARE have endeavored to live up to that promise. "On the first day after being sworn into office, we were called upon to vote to add one cent to the sales tax, and I found myself voting, along with one other member in the minority AGAINST the additional sales tax on food and other essentials of life. This was only the beginning of many minority votes I cast in these troubled times. "Through the years from 1967 to 1979 many Tenants Plan to Testify at Confirmation Hoar in (js of HUD Socrotary By Pat Bryant Leaders of the National Tenants Organization in dicate they'll be in Washington, D.C. to testify before the U.S. Senate Finance Commit tee whenever the confir mation hearings are held for Housing and Urban Development Secretary designate Moon Landrieu. Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans, was appointed by Presi dent Carter during the cabinet shake-up last week. Upon confirmation by the Senate, Landrieu will take over manage ment of HUD where Secretary of Health : Education and Welfare (HEW) Patricia Harris ended during the cabinet shake-up. -"Moon Landrieu, we understand, has been pret ty receptive to tenants' problems and has had some kind of con sciousness around how to -go about getting some of the problems of the poor, as they relate to housing, resolved," commented NTO chairman Jesse Gray this week. "We are standing by to get a date and time for his confirmation hearing and Continued on page 3 the directors of UDI, and under the leadership of Edward Stewart, the dream was well on its way to fulfillment. The new facility, con sisting of 32,000 square .feet, was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting af fair attended by many of the persons responsible for attracting the present occupant Automatic Systems Developers of Poughkeepsie, New York. Walker Arch, represen tative of the company, told the listeners that the need arose when many of their clients started mov ing near and into the Research Triangle Park, and in order to get a little closer to their clients, they decided on Durham. Automatic Systems manufactures electronic equipment used in testing various products. The company has an affiliate company, Cabletronics, and is expanding its Durham operations with the recent move into the facility. According to Arch, the . Company has plans on the -drawing boards for an ad ditional building at the 41 -acre park. If Aft-G F ' V 26 Million Workers Without Health Protection 10 Sys Crfi(r Pfeci To The narrow catastrophic health in surance schemes pushed by the Carter Administra tion and Senator Russell Long (D.La.) offer little hope and even less help for millions of Americans who have only limited protection against high health care costs or none at all. 4 " ' That warning was issued Wednesday by the AFL-CIO's top health care expert, Bert Wcid man, who said that the federation will go all out to fight passage of such legislation. Seidman pointed out that, except for pregnant women and infants up to the age of one year, "nobody would have coverage for health care under the Carter pro gram until they had paid out $2500" in the year, and . that the Long pro gram sets an even more severe threshhold of $3500. The "real castastrophe," Seidman declared, is that a large proportion of American families would have to "spend themselves bankrupt before they could get any coverge for their health care ex penses." Seidman made the statements as he was questioned by reporters on the newtork radio inter view "LABOR NEWS CONFERENCE, broad cast Tuesday at 9:05 p.m. (EDT), over the Mutual Broadcasting System. Seidman stressed that it's not just poor and disadvantaged families who have little or no health insurance coverage. He said that an estimated 26 million people ".who are working full-time have no medical insurance of any kind"; that a great many others have policies that provide only "very, very inadequate" coverage; and that others "may have some kind of insurance, but they can't do very much with it because they live in areas where there is no ready ac cess to medical care." The AFL-CIO spokesman said that the only way to assure that every American ; has reasonable access to top quality, full-coverage health care at affordable costs is through the com prehensive and universal national health insurance " plan that is spelled Out in ' the Kennedy-Waxman Health Cre for Americans bill. He said ; that by every measure of public opinion in cluding a poll conducted recently by the health in surance industry's own trade association shows that a large majority of Americans strongly favor the Kennedy-Waxman-type of proposal over the narrowly limited plans urged by President Carter, Senator Long and others. Reporters questioning Seidman on the AFL-CIO produced public affairs program were Ann McFeatters of the Scripps Howard Newspapers and Robert Cooney of Press Associates. Dr. Davson Installed Pres. Nat'l Hod. Ass'n DR. DAWSON Dr. Robert E. Dawson of Durham was installed Tues day morning, July 31, in Detroit as president of the National Medical Associa tion, Inc., the nation's largest organization of black physicians. Dawson told delegates to the association's 84th annual convention that the nation " and the medical profession face a crisis. "The first meaning of the word 'crisisV Dr. Dawson said, "is "the turning point for better or worse in an acute disease or fever." He said he used the word in that sense. "The situation can worsen and it can improve." Dawson said the crisis in . eludes a reexamination of national priorities in health care and other areas, as well as a changing climate in race relations which can affect the health care of black Americans. "Health care remains a privilege and not a right," Dr. Dawson said. He called for the mem bers of the National Medical Association to take a lead ing role in creating national health policy and in the implementation " of that policy. ' "In the face of the Pro position 13s, the spending cuts and the retrenchments. we must assume the duty of saying This is what will work? this is what we need; wait for this; do this now!" He cited statistics showing that blacks continue to have a shorter life expectancy than white Americans. -I , "We know that a major . part, of that cost, a major cause of those lost years, is " the shortage of black physi cians. That shortage is one of the crises we face. We must do all we can to in crease the number of black physicians-they. are the physicians we are the physkians-who will prac tice where we are needed, among the black and the poor. , J 4 "We must be vigilant against ' admissions policies which exclude qualified black students from medical school; we must encourage ' exceptional - scholarship among , black college stu Continued on 2 'A 1 1
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