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,ciTV LIS' si'" c -n .. . - 't r Tt PER COPY i PER COPY . - - ......... ...... . f -J Vcrdi iof Tifc-rd'- The pessimist sees the difficaltjr Ik every eppor iHBiry; the optimist, the opportmifj la every tUlks' ty. -J S! VOLUME; 57 - NUMBER 38 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, SEPTEMBEB 29, 1979 ' TELEPHONE (919)682-2913 PRICE: 39 CCfTf mm mm DLACtCS jl ul SMS Ml lectures to Olaclts At $uko Univ. By Pat Bryant "rHoyt Fuller, editor of Jhe First World magazine, elieves thai "we are about tp embark in this :x6untry...on a new stage M our evolution, "but the jjiVriter-lecturer admits "I have no idea what it is go ing to lead to." ;The "we" Fuller refers io is black people. His predictions were made, on the eve of several bjack civil rights figures, jfiqst. representing the Southern Christian Leadership Con ..fcrence(SCLC), becoming "involved in middle east floreign policy discussions. "Most became active in the middle east discussions following former U.N. Ambassador Young's resignation. It was those discussions, in , the main, that hve Fuller puzzled. J Fuller lectured last week to . the Black Student Alliance at Puke Universi ty. ' .. - f On the day Fuller lec tured, CBS Evening News aired a :; hews account showing 45 seconds of film footage. tof several cjVil rights leaders meeting with Yasir Arafat, head of l:: wort :lrRf,i c ;Htv1' lii a., ., .... , Election October 9 Two Dlacb Sock At Largo Soats Pushes Toward Life Membership Frank G. Burnett (right) receives the Life Membership certificate into the Shriners from C.A. Levette. Burnette is the treasurer of Zafa Temple 1976 in Durham. Levette is the Imperial Deputy of North Carolina; The Life Membership certificate was presented to Burnette at the recent convention of the Shriners which was held in New York. Rgocisv fawi' Posted : joa.. rG0Eis.6ir.((i. DiMinn same evening ;BS News irttervlewed w Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Opera tion PUSH. Jackson lamented that Israeli of ficials had turned him down for a meeting with Prime Minister Begin. -Fuller, formerly editor othe now defunct Negro Digest, is suspicious of the interest Jackson and some p the other African American activists have in .the Mid-East discussions. .."The whole business of the Middle East thing is a fluke," says Fuller. "It happened accidentally. I said rather sarcastically that when Jesse Jackson called that conference in New York,... not more than a handful of them would have been able to . (Continued on Page 14 1 ''Jew Conspiracy is runn ing our government", ac cording to Leroy Gibson, national founder of the Rights of White People (ROWP) organization. Gibson, of Jacksonville (NC), said in a telephone interview, "Seventy per cent of all federal judges are Jews and sixty per cent of all newspapers are con trolled by Jews." He nam ed (James Schlesinger and Henryj Kissinger as examples of government domination by Jews. On September 25, the Greensboro Daily News reported that Gibson Was credited with organizing a meeting in which an alliance, the United Racist Front, was formed. The meeting was held in Louisburg. There, Ku the anH ' Claimed he knew stormtroopers, the Na- nothint about it until after tional States' Rights Party : the fer0UDS met. T inW-F w irgapling Klux Klan members, Nazi flnd' Alain and the ROWP met to "pool their resources into what they call the United Racist Front,, according to the article. "Klari leaders Virgil Grif fin' of Gastonia and Gor rell Pierce of Forsyth County . were . reported to have been, present along with Raleigh Nazi leader Harold Covington. Although Gibson was cited as organizer, he was not at the meeting because of parole" regulations, ac cording to the paper. Gib son was convicted in 1973 of possessing two unregistered bombs and of an alleged bombing. In the telephone inter view, Gibson . denied He also demed being guilty of the bombmg. charges. He said he" was framed by the state and has documentation to pro ve it. All he wants now, he said, is a hearing. Gibson contended it is unfair that "Ben Chavis has had two or three hear ings, while I have had none." "When Golden Frinks and Chavis had. rallies in Wilmington," said . Gib son, "no , one said anything. ' ' When whites had rallies, officials pro tested, according to Gibson. By Pat Bryant . . City Council candidates have been making the rounds to civic groups ex plaining their views , and campaigning, trying to get commitments from the voters. Primary election 'are October 9. Two black candidates ' Paul Bland and Mrs. Joan Burton, are . seeking at large seats on the council. - An? incumbent, Bland is serving the unexpired term of LMrs. Isabelle Budd. During Bland's short term on the council, he has. been l : a highly ( vocal member of the Council's finance and community service -' committees. Earlier this year Bland led an unsuccessful attempt to put a lid on the City's , finances and to reduce the k ? City's surolus funds .i . mccuus , ,. mem iq ine council. . , . Mrs. Burton, has been active in city politics, most recently representing the interests of , low and moderate income residents of the Edgemont com munity. Mrs. Burton is ex pected to get sizeable sup port' from East Durham. The present racial make-up on the council, five blacks, and seven whites, not including .the mayor, will change as a result of the (election. Three aMarge seats cur rently held by blacks are under contest, and only two blacks are seeking re election, Incumbent cpun cilmen Mrs. Carolyn Thornton and Dr. C.E. Boulware are not running for re-election. it ! i-f ( x Young Visits Toibert i UNITED NATIONS U.S. Ambassador Donald McIIenry, successor to Axdrew Young in the world assembly, is shown at his post as he heads the U.S. delegation at opening session of the 34th U.N. General Assembly here. UPI Photo i t m so- i i i 1 Mutual Senior Vice President irlsim Cooy 'Hbspitq' . Pat Bryant 'Disgruntled workers at Durham County General Hospital have organized a workers association. Last Sunday, about fifty, Workers met at Break The Chains Bookstore, l and after discussing common interests relating to work conditions, decided to organize, and selected a steering committee to begin work. "Public employees , are prohibited from engaging inKcollective bargaining with city, county, and state governments in North Carolina.. One worker said naming the group an association of workers was a means of getting around the law. Worker dissatisfaction, particularly among Afro American workers has been high at the hospital forisome time. Two recent . incidents the firing of a nutse and . the discovery ; an4 publication by laun dry workers at the hospital that at least one employee had , contracted tuber cuTpsis, quite possible from contaminated laun dry at the hospital seem to:; have sparked action among the workers. Th? workers claim that eight laundry workers who were given skin tests were found to be affected by the disease. But Earl Powell, one k of the Durham County General's assistants directors, told The Carolina Times that I only one worker and the worker's family had been found to have positive tuberculosis by x-rays. The worker, Powell said, has been referred to the Durham County Health Department for treat ment. - 'v.fv . Workers now question whether the person, whose identity has been kept secret, is really, being , treated. Powell said that he did not know whether the employee (presumably a woman because Powell referred to the employee as 'she') is now undergo- , ing treatment. The worker is still on staff, and Powell ' said he did not know what k ., efforts were being taken to insure the health of p& ment on the specifics of the workers' charges or the jaundry operations. Forced " overtime, uneven ; enforcement of hospital rules, inadequate grievance procedures, lack of pay raises for workers, health and safety condi- tions are among grievances the association is expected to negotiate a change with management, one worker said. Last week , several workers picketed the hospital with leaflets, and one worker said a hospital picnic will be picketed this weekend. - Rev. Benjamin chavis is leader of the Wilmington Ten, nine black men . and one white woman, who were convicted in 1972 of arson and conspiracy dur ing a period of racial tur moil in Wilmington. (ROWP patrolled Wilm ington's black neighborhoods during that time, telling the residents to go back to Africa, according to Irv Joyner, one of the lawyers for the Ten.) Since 1972, the three Continued on Page 7 Join The NAACP Today Be A First Class Citizen V. MURRAY J. MARVIN, of - 909 Dupree Street, ", senior vice president Cory : porate Planning and Cornr munications : at North : Carolina Mutual Life In surance Comapny, died September 24. He was 66. A native of Green County, Ohio, he graduated from . West . Virginia State College and . received his MBA degree from; the University f of Chicago. He also attended General Theological Seminary. ' ; Prior to joining NCM as planning director in 1961, Marvin had been ex ecutive director of the Na tional Insurance Associa tion, a trade association of black life insurance, com panies ' headquartered in Chicago. He was named vice president at NCM in 1970 and appointed to senior vice president in 1977. One' of his prime responsibilities during his early years with NCM was to serve as the company's representative during the construction' of NCM's new home office building - at Mutual Plaza." Marvin was a member of the American Manage ment Association, the American Institute of I Management, the Life In surance Advertisers Association, and the Public Relations Society of America; He was a member of the Advisory Council on Public Rela tions of the Institute of Life Insurance am the ' Community Resource Development Committee of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. . , He was also a member ,of the board of directors of the North Carolina, School of the Art? Foun dation, secretary-treasurer of the American Dance .Festival Foundation, The North Carolina Central University Museum . of Art, The Durham Rotary Club, . Kappa Alpha Psi and Sigma Pi Phi Frater nities. . ' Marvin was a vestryman and a licensed lay reader at St. Titus : Episcopal Church and a member of the brotherhood of St. Andrews. He was listed in the following Who's Who: In America, in Black America, in Finance and Industry and in Life In- J.; MARVIN J; ; I ; surance. ; T1' Memorial services for : Marvin will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 29 . at : St.. Pbiffips Episcopal Church and at 1 1 v . a.nv" ': i Sunday, September 30 at St; Titus Episcopal Church. The family has re quested . that in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the Brotherhood of St.! Andrews at St. Titus. 'Survivors include bis wife, Mrs, Delores Marvin and a sister, Mrs. George Coffee - of ,-. Atlanta, .Georgia." AT DURHAM COLLEGE ; HEW Analyst Maraod Vice President Financial AUs By Pat Bryant James E.Arneson, a HEW v ' management systems analyst, has been; loaned to the financially troubled Durham College. Arneson will become the college's vice president for. financial affairs. He will work for the school for two to three years, during which time his salary will be paid by HEW. '; ; The arrangement is part of the . intergovernment personnel ; loan program begun in 1970. Arneson said his work will be; City Seeks Adminstrai or for Spffoty Plan townjs tients aftd workers to pre- P! vent spread of the mfec Fred Gill, rtewly hired City, of Durham personnel director, has been on the job less than a month. Already he has been in volved in several matters of importance, . to the municipal Gill has several duties -..t ? l 11.. KAMt A tious lung disease. . fSSTr S n ir a Dersonnel matters. . the department's function which will likely be a focus of discussion in the mon ths to come ' is ; the ad ministration of a safety plan for city workers. The plan was focused upon following the death of Marcus Allen, 39 year old black sarritation worker who was crushed beneath a huge compactor two weeks ago. A local paper quoted Gill, swing, By Pat Bryant that the city was in the process , of developing a grievances, but indicated he had been made aware safety plan. 4 m , , 4 ; of grievances mtor- Gill said the city has a iimy : . t ' plan in existence and only f ' 9l!V said tbc has toli,Mr.e;:ani,adv:ct ministrator to make vit ii'death of Marcus Allen operational 'n Applicants wr u mvestiga are currently being review-;? "0? by the Occupational ed for the job. r , Safety and ' Health Ad Gill Would not say if he ministration (OSHAJ and had been formally madr 4tot report was expected : aware . of " wor kerf s. Continued on Page 7.. "soliciting the support of civic, business, and in dustrial organizations to make Durham College a more fiscally sound opera tion." HEW pays Arneson's salary, but he assured i press represen tatives at a news con- ference that his loyalty lies with Durham College. ' Arneson's appointment was announced at - the same time Dr. Guy Rankin's election as chair-, man of the school's board , of directors was announc ed by Dr." James Hill, president of the College. ; Rankin announced that a $23,000 payment toward the mortgage held by Cen s tral Carolina Bank on the ' McCauley Hall '..was paid," ending media speculation that the dormitory would -be foreclosed and sold at ' public auction. Rankin predicted a pro- : sperous year; for the CoU lege, citing a doubling'of , the school's -enrollment" over the past year. Of-: ficials attributed a sharp- . drop in enrollment last y H t0, unfavMublC publidtt.i'tne.sdiOQt' -financial worries are not . over. Judgments and pro- ' ; perty liens are outstancUrij -amounting to J120.CC0, j court records show,-' ' "
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