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VOLUME 57 NUMBER 41 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1979 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE 33 CENTS EEOC Files For Nationwide) , i - i, 2,000( Storos 'fejVlf '3 1 I Arc 'Involved & , k JiT M1 Mfc. : GIVE A PINT ttt THE HEMOPHILIA ; FOUNDATION it sponsoring t Blood Mobilt on Thursday, October 25, 2-7:30 p.m., it Bradley Lincoln-Mercury Chapel Hill Boulevard WASHINGTON, D.C. -In an unusual action, tl U.S. Equal Employmei Opportunity Comroissio (EEOC) today asked tr U.S. District Court i Phoenix to issue a perm, nent "nationwide injunt tion against ; Montgomer Ward and Co., Inc. pro hibiting the giant retaile from committing furthe alleged violations of th Equal Pay Act of i 973 The requested injunction novel in Equal Pay litigation because it would have nationwide effect was included in a suit filed with the. court -today against" A' Montgomery Ward store in a Phoenix suburb which the EEOC claims . discriminates against female department managers by paying them less than, male managers , although their . duties and responsibilities ; are ' the f same: J-.Ty' - In addition to. Commis sion " allegations , against the Glendale,' .Arizona store, the EEOC contends 1 ' ' ffatistmgesmdrf War if , , in violation of a settlement agreement it entered into - with the Department Of Labor' in' August 1976 The EEOC. assumed en-1 forcement responsibility . of the Equal Pay Act from the Department of Labors in July 1979 under the i: President's Civil Right . Reorganization Plan.' '?'. That Labor Department settlement, which involved one of the retailer's stores in Omaha, Nebraska, pro vided that the company would apply equal rates of pay for all male V and female employees, in all of its over 2,200 stores, on jobs requiring equal skill, effort and i responsibility and which) are performed under similar work conditions.- , . ' The injunction sought by the, EEOC would assure, that all ' Mon tgomery ward stores across the country provide equal pay for equal work regardless of the sex of the employee: T.'-tV,, ( The EEOC" says tnat women department managers at the Glendale store are paid substantial ly less tha'n their male counterparts for doing the same work Men have also been paid a high commis sion on department sales and a higher salary for ! supervising ; no-selling departments, the. agency claims- ' - " ; 4 The. EEOC further con tendsuf that, despite corn party, seniority and years of department manager experience,, women are paid less 'than men who have less experience. Ac- Continued On Page 3 -' APPRECIATION AND PARTING GIFTS L-R: Miss Mildred A. McGowan, Instructor in education and director of the audio visual media education at Saint Augustine's College, is presenting a gift to Dr. Lawrence H, Thompson, chairman and department head, division of education at the college, who has accepted employment in the Wake County School System. Mrs. Edwinton R. Ball, assistant -( t . ft 1 J . ..il. ,J A .. - . t0A Piii County Cited For CR Violations !.: it ft V- ' The Pitt County school system has been charged bytheU.S, Office of Civil Rights with violating the 1964 Civil Rights Acts. The agency notified school officials their system pf grouping student? into classes by ability , violates federal law. . "The assignment prac tices have resulted m the racially identifiable and racially - isolated classes that have not been educa tionally justified," the agency said in a statement of findings, v y A spokesman for the of fice;: a. division '.-of the ".Department of Health.pducation.and Welfare, said the. school system risk losing about 2.5 million , in federal "When Thermometers Drop The Poor Need A ShareNot Just A Prayer Black Churches Prep For Winter Fuel Emergencies NEW YORK-Black Christian activists have urged local churches 'to es tablish emergency fuel funds to aid low-income families and old people on fixed incomes this winter. The Black Theology Pro ject, a national network of Christian ministers and lav leaders, forecasts a bleak winter with rising fuel costs and sporadic shorta ges leaving many farmTies literally in the cold. "Emergency fuel funds, financed and directed by local churches, can help needy families overlooked by the government beaura cracy. Local pastors know what families are destitute and .can identify emergency cases;! more quickly than welfare departments or white-dominated charities," says the Rev. Muhammad Isaiah Kenyatta, the Pro ject's national director. The Black Theology Pro ject (BTP) places ultimate responsibility on the fede ral government to guarantee heating fuel for the poor, but also stresses the role of sharing and self-help within local communities. Tradi tionally, black churches provided emergency assistance to destitute families long before public welfare agencies existed in the United States. - "Just as we take up love offerings for our pas tors and mission offerings for overseas evangelism, we can take up fuel offerings for our suffering neighbors. Otherwise, some of our children will freeze to death for Uncle Sam this winter," warns Rev. Kenyatta, a Baptist minister and socio logist. Stressing a two-pronged strategy, BTP also advocates federal programs such as the issuance of "fuel stamps" modeled on the food stamp program: Indeed, the Pro ject argues mat church based self-help efforts will strengthen political leverage for fuel stamp legislation. "Our religious leaders, our politicians, ; and civil rights organizations should not have to crawl to Wash ington like beggars," asserts a recent BTP statement "We can command more respect and make more effective demands on government with a track record of self-reliance and practical Christian charity." fldoreovei" the state ment continues, "the masses of blacks, especially the poor, need a church that practices what it preaches. When thermometers drop and fuel costs rise, the poos need a share, not just a prayer" professor in elementary education presents a gift to Mrs. Ruth Curtis,, instructor in tanA. th dtnatinii k not education, who Is on leave from the college. The presentations were made during a .Aa Corrected banquet held In honor of both persons on September 27. , , . I School? superintendent, . v. . . . -r ! , . Arthur S. Alford said the , school-board intends jn fiehtins: the ruling in a i, Durban; PaJhiioVifiacoddtQj MID By Pat Bryant I CHESTER, , ..CA growing movement for raci' al justice is building tca head herd; and has already become; aaf entity vfec s.c. jusnc EEJT castrated." The coutt order to exhume theb5dy has oeen auainea local BowserJoins NEW YORK The pro motion 'of .Mrs. Doris ,. Bryant to assistant direc-. tor of the Women s DivK sion of t the Anti Defamation League Ap-. Dr . Allison Appointed .Member Of The APH A Committee ; ort; Equal Health Oppor? tunity is specifically charg ed "with promoting equal' . access !- for alj citizens ,to Jiealth services, health careers, and the oppor tunity to participate in the development of 'health policies. ' Major concerns of . the Committee are governmental enforce ment of the provisions of Title VI and the Civil Rights Act in: the health field;, manpower develop ment - and health : oppor-; tunities; monitoring the ' affirmative action pro-, gram, of APHA; and ' gathering information on the status of equal oppor tunity activities in health of state and local govern ments, professional associations,; and other voluntary groups and organizations. Allison has served as director of the ' Health Manpower Development , Program ? since ' January 1974. This Program is an Inter-institutional pro gram of the University of North Carolina i System, located in the Division of Health Affairs, University of North i Carolina at Chapel Hill. o Dr. E. Lavonia Allison, director of the NC Health Manpower Development Program, has . been ap pointed to a three-year term as a member of the American Public Health Association's Committee on Equal Health Oppor-' tunity. The appointment, effective November 1979 through November, 1982, was made by Dr. June Jackson Christmas, President-Elect of - the American Public Health ' Association (APHA). A national professional health organization, APHA, has approximate-, ly 50,000 members who ; represent all - disciplines and specialties in the field of public health. The goal of APHA is to protect and promote per sonal and environmental , health. It exercises leader ship with health ' profes sionals and the general public in the development of health policies and ac tions to improve the quali ty of life through the development of a national policy for health care and services. .The APHA Committee peal .has been announced for six years, assisting in by ' Nathan Perlmutter . planning- and . executing ADLs national director. K fundraising ' activities in ; Ms. Bryant, a native of ; behalf -j of the : national Durham, has been in "the human relations agency. Women's . Division staff . The promotion makes her a member of ADL s pro fessional staff j'i Ms. Bryant, who is the mother , of tw4 sons, at vtended Northi 'Carolina College for Negroes (now North ' Carolina Central University),? studying liberal arts asjd business administration She later wqrked in the ' Pentagon fori the then--.v Department of War, and ' after moving tQ New York City, was employed in the Redistribution and ' Disposal Administration for. the Department of Navy. t Immediately before coming to ADL in 1971, she was manager of s Madison Avenue Hair- dressers. i schob! assignment policies is ''based on achievement and not race. . Officials at HEW, said results from a. review .indicated the lowest abili ty classes had too" many blacks and the 'highest levels had too : many whites. ' , According to the of ficials it appeared that students had little oppor tunity to change levels in! high school. The Office of Civil Rights defines racially identifiable classes as those with a racial mixture that differs from the out deatn Clinton.A'atti elimteen yea old black youth, has become a catalyst; for the presentments of several economic and social demands affecting blacks and poor upon .Governor Richard Riley. ; f When Mickey- McClin ton's badly mutilated body was found straddling a rural road in Chester County May li; Sheriff Bobby Orr and other law enforcement officers had no idea that on October 14 at least two thousand blacks, many from Chester County, would protest their intrMicrattnn rtf Mrflintnn overall grade level mixture ath, of me by rwenty(20) per cent. 5tatfe Racially isolated classes , strtmg suspi. are those with one race don here that McClinton composition. ; t was banged, and possibly rf ' V; - iir:,n .... .. i s. I sf i ' 1 s!f ' CANDIDATES MEET ; ' - v The Council of Neighborhoods is sponsoring a Ward-Candidate Forum on October 23 at Salaam Cultural Center at 1101 W. Chapel Hill Street. All citizens of Durham are Invited to attend. blacks, assisted by the Southern Christian Leader ship Conference. Sheriff Orr says Mc Chnton was the victim of a Jvit and run accident, but jrthe Chester County Com ,jtip94$W vlwce ; say? W mvtigatton was a overup foia hanging. The - CCCEJ says McClinton had v a white ghf friend and that may have been the motive for the alleged hndung. Several other black youths have mysteriously died in' Chester, according to a CCCEJ leaflet that has been widely circulated. , The lift and run theory is not believed by the three black null workers who found McClinton shortly after midnight on May 11. One of those workers, Mrs. Mary Canty, says McCHn ton's body was wrapped, in twine and more unraveled .' twine was on the shoulder of the road. She said Mo Clinton's head was laying ; in his hands as if placed in "the position. ' Chester's city black population ' outnumbers whites, and outnumbers the EDWARD BOWSER, a former senior systems analyst with Sperry Univac in Charlotte, has joined North : Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Comapny as technical support manager in' the company's Data Process ing Division. He has been a senior systems analyst at NCM before joining Sperry Univac in 1974. In his new position Bowser will provide technical suppojt to systems programming maintenance and support for all program products. He will also handle the ad ministrative duties associated with-the in stallation of NCM'snevir management information system. ; nci ,aH. frrtm , county population by 38. Shaw UniveS He and -The control of Chester's anaw university, ne : ub -; population is de his wife, Lillian, are the wT a vfT? iUei , ' f .vs scribed by the CCEJ as a They live at 5420 Par tridge Street. "reign s of terror'. There Continued On Page 3 No Plan .-Roddy;-For Nuclear Wasto Adnit tod DR. ALLISON CoorJ Upholds Sfboludrfibri of Anorica NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Lloyd McBride, President of the United Steelworkers of America, Said last week's ruling by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals once again upheld the union's' election! v victory at Newport News Ship buiding and Dry Dock Company. The Court's findings came nearly 21 months after the shipyard owner, Tennecp,. contested the election results. In effect, the Court has directed the company to recognize the USWA for the purpose of collective bargaining. . "We fully expected the Court would rule as it did," McBride said'This is the fourth time one legal agency of another has said the election was a true reflection . of the employees' wishes to have a union. We are pleased with the ruling on the one hand and concerned on the other that the workers' democratically expressed desire can be frustrated so long while the weakness of the labor ' law is - ex ploited.". McBride noted that the chief executive at the shipyard has said publicly that the company would not appeal the decision of the Fourth Circuit and is recognizing United Steelworkers of America as the collective bargain ing representative, for, the employees of the com pany. "We hope the company will f. send representatives to : the k bargaining table now with the intention of reaching' agreement. At long last perhaps the com nanv 1s read, to abide bV the spirit of this nation's projected Under intense question ing by members of the Duke Faculty Committee for Alternatives r to Nuclear 'Power in ; the Shaeron Harris nuclear power' construction site Sunday, nucleaengineer Charles H. Moscley was forced to admit that a plan for ; Jhe permanent disposal ;bf radioactive nuclear ! wastes i C 'spent fuel") has yet to be work ed out. He stated that representatives from power industries from all over the nation met in Washington with govern ment 'officials two weeks ago and were told: that there would be no disposal site available until 1988 at . the earliest. -; ' Despite this, Shaeron Harris plans to, put the first of its: four projects reactors into operation in 1984. By the time all four reactors are. the length of a football field.- Until a national site is found, the nation's 69 operating nuclear power plants will have' to store their wastes themselves, or try to create temporary regional sites where the wastes of many nuclear ih'i Staff at Dorlian Collcnc Announced labor law. The men and women who build our . Navy's ships and sub v- marines are entitled to no less." i operational (1991),- they will generate an annual 7680 cubic feet of radioac tive waste enough to run a strip of waste 23 feet wide and one foot deep A promotion of an ad ministrator and the addi tion of new faculty and administrative staff at Durham College have been announced by James W. Hill, president of the college.. . Illawennette HiU was promoted from Director of Counseling and Testing to Dean of Student Af- fairs. Dean HtU has been on the staff of the college for three years prior to the promotion. She received the M.S.C. and M.A. degrees from North Carolina Central Universi ty. ' 'Meredith Kay Thrall has been appointed as an instructor in English. She received the B.S, degree at Iowa State University and the M.A. degree, at Duke University? where she is presently engaged in work toward the Ph.D. degree,: Cassandra Chisolm has been appointed as an in structor in English. She earned the B.A. degree at Brooklyn College and the M.A. degree at Teachers Colleges, Columbia University. Daniel Campbell has been appointed as an ac countant in the business office. -Campbell received the B.S. degree at Barber Scotia College' and previously worked as assistant manager for the Shermad Williams Co. in : Charlotte. a plants can be pooled. Jay Mullin, Senior Engineer ing Information Specialist at Shaeron Harris, said : yesterday that there is already talk of $uciTan ar rangement between;-Duke Power, CP&L and VEP CO. .. Approximately 110 people Duke faculty and their families as well as Duke students were given a two-hour tour and lecture at the only com pleted building of the CP&L plant, which , houses an "Energy Infor mation Center" and . a training facility for nuclear personnel. Representatives of the Duke group were told that three and one-half million dollars went into the con struction of the public reception facility atone one million more than it cost to build the National Humanities Center, at the Research Triangle during an equivalent period of time. "We wanted to see how they try to out human Continued On Page 3
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