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JULY IS NATIONAL fiTSYORY '"'.' Ulllll I IIJHIti.,: . IWX-iCWXX:.? Bur Co iUCre 091-380) Words Of Wisdom One f life's hardest Jobs b keeping ap with easy payments. j Overheard: "I'm going to gel oaf of-debl this year even if I have to mortgage my hasc l do it!" VOLUME 58 NUMBER 28 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1980 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS Centra Si Physical Education Bldg. Project Heads Budget North Carolina Central University gives top priority to the construc tion of a $10,020,000 Physical Education and Recreation Building in a Capital Improvement Budget request submitted in June to the University of North Carolina General Administration. the three-story physical education facility, with approximately 132,000 square feet of floor space, is one of four new con struction projects listed in a total request .of $18,949,975 for capital improvements. The budget request will be con sidered by the Board of Governors of the universi ty system, which submits a unified request for all six teen UNC campuses to the state's Advisory Budget Commission and the General Assembly. The re quest is for appropriations in the 1981-83 biennium. Final priorities are assigned by the Board of Continued on Page 2 bmif s Priormf Con struction-Requsst Thomas C. Jervay, Jr. Sworn In As U.S. Attorney SWP Candidate Demands Congress Revoke Hyde Amendment Gratitude For Outuauuing Service Expressing gratitude to the Honorable William Peacock, who as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of Energy rendered "outstanding service and special sensitivity to the disenfranchised and to the mission of the conference' Mayor Robert W. Drakeford (I) of Carr boro, N.C., first vice president of the National Conference of Black Mayors, Inc., presents an award to Peacock, who is now Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Af-, fairs. The award was actually made at the Conference's Sixth Annual Convention in' Washington, D.C. In April, but presented to Peacock in person at the Pentagon a few weeks after he was sworn into his new office by Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., Secretary ef the Army. U.S. Army Photo On Tuesday, July 1, Thomas C. Jervay, Jr. was sworn in as Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina in Greensboro. He is 34 years of age. His appointment was approved by the Deputy Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice, after having been recommended by H.M. Michaux, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District, Greensboro. Jervay, a U.S. Naval Officer from 1971 through 1974, worked as Trust Representative, North Carolina National Bank, Raleigh. From 1978 to 1979, he was Assistant District Attorney, Tenth Judicial District, Wake JERVAY County, North Carolina. Before his present ap pointment, he was associated with the Greensboro law firm of Frye, Johnson and Bar bee. A graduate of Williston Senior High School in Wilmington, Jervay ob tained the B.S. Degree in Commerce and a J.D. Degree (School of Law), both from North Carolina Central University, Durham. The appointee is the son of Mr. And Mrs. Thomas C. Jervay, Sr. of Wilm ington. His wife is Mrs. Marion White Jervay of Raleigh, who graduated from the University of N.C.-Wilmington and the Duke University School of Law. She is associated with the legal department of R.J. Reynolds Co., Winston-Salem, where the couple resides. They , are the parents of a daughter, Mona, ten. Chicago, Illinois, and Richmond, Virginia over the last two years, deman ding passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Sup port for Women's rights is growing, not eroding. "It's the Democrats and Republicans who are leading this assault on women's rights, which is part of the overall of fen-. . sive against working peo- NEW YORK, N.Y. The following statement was released this week by Ms. Matilde Zimmer mann, Socialist Workers candidate for vice president: "I demand that the U.S. Congress nullify its passage of ' the Hyde amendment.. "The- Suoreme Court's decMonvto,upnoJ auicuumcui, uutm r aim there is no monev nnvpmmpnl Jackson Meets With South African Ambassador Medicaid funding for abortions, is a cruel attack on the rights of women. We are now told that justice and liberty for all is limited to all those who can pay. Poor women especially blacks and Latinas will be forced to bleed to death on the butcher tables of back alley abortionists. "The women's move ment and its allies in the labor and black movements must unite to demand that the U.S., Congress revoke its passage of the Hyde amendment. "The court's decision is but one in a series of at tacks on the gains won by women over the last decade. It comes on the heels of the Illinois State legislature's refusal to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. And it opens the door for anti-abortion forces to ban abortions for all women. "Clearly, the rulers of this country are not listen ing to majority sentiment when they attack women's rights. Over 65 per cent of the American people favor a woman's right to choose an abortion. Hundreds of thousands of women and their supporters have mar ched in Washington D.C, for health care, education, housing, or childcare. In stead they increase military spending and, in stead of jobs, offer young people the draft. Thousands of workers are faced with unemployment and rising inflation as auto and steel plants shut down because their owners claim they are not "profitable." And now poor women are denied the right totontrol their own bodies. "It's clear that the rulers of this country do net represent the interests of the majority of working men and women-instead they represent the cor porate interest in main taining profits at the ex pense of human needs. "The Socialist Workers campaign believes that the time has come for working people to abandon the anti-woman, anti-labor, anti-black Demcoratic and Republican parties and form a labor party based on the unions. "A labor party could mobilize the power of the labor movement to fight for women's rights for abortion for all women, regardless of income, and, for passage of the ERA . as well as for jobs for all.i and against the draft." Bennett Receives $100,000 Humanities Grant GREENSBORO A 1100,000 grant will play a major rfire in strengthen ing the V-toanities offer ings at Benfeett College. Dr. Isaac RrMiller, presi dent of the women's col lege, recently announced the grant awarded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foun dation. Among the major com-, ponents of the humanities development effort are ac tivities to provide more in terdisciplinary offerings, to support faculty retreats focusing on examining and developing offerings in the division; and to fund campus extended visitations oPoutstanding artists and humanists. The grant provides assistance to faculty .engaged -in current humanities-related research. Small stipends, ranging from $100 to $1300, will be available for worthwhile projects and active participation in professional meetings. Support is also given to broaden the college's in terdisciplinary approach to course offerings. Atten tion will be placed on, history and foreign languages as they relate to studies in humanities. "The overall impact of the Mellon grant will be to generate more effective curriculum planning for the 1980's by stimulating a greater flow of ideas among the humanities faculty and those in other disciplines," explained Dr. Miller. Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, national president of Operation PUSH, and a delegation of black leaders met recently with South African Ambassador Donald B. Sole in Washington, . tpw request inmwncarr renounce its "shoot-to-kill" order issued last week during a series of disturbances in black and 'coloured' com munities. According to Jackson, Ambassador Sole told him that the shoot-to-kill order has been lifted, lasting on ly a few hours during the height of the turmoil in which approximately forty people were killed and nearly 200 wounded. Rev. Jackson, however, argued that the order may have PUSH Meet Hits Housing Inequities A recent Chicago Tribune series has pointed out how blacks in that city experience a "hidden" flow of their dollars from the community to the suburbs. The study has shown that as many as ten times the number of loans are granted to those outside of the city, than to those ac tively utilizing a bank's facilities. The dollar amounts granted in those loans reflected the same disparity between subur ban and urban dwellers. Through difficulties in procurement of loans for housing and home improvements,- inner-city neighborhoods are suffer ing, while those in the suburbs prosper. An unofficial "black tax" as the Tribune put it, affects those living in ur ban centers elsewhere. It is one of several im pediments to home owner ship and improvement which affects millions. ' To address such pro blems in housing rand economics , Operation PUSH has devoted an en tire day of its upcoming . convention in New Orleans to black, business and housing. Addressing these problems directly will be Moon Landrieu, Federal Secretary of , Housing and Urban Development . in Washington; George Johnson, president of Johnson Products; the Continued On Page 16 officially been lifted (dejure), but in fact many, of the deaths and injuries! occurred long after the order was issued in dicating that it still stood in effect (defacto). that he would convey their concerns to his govern ment. The delegation of black leaders also requested that: The travel ban against iook piace ai inc ouuui African Embassy in , Washington. On hand with the ambassador, who cancelled a scheduled ap pointment last week, was his legal staff. Rev. Jackson was accompanied by PUSH International Affairs director Jack O'Dell, Rev. Henry Gregory, chairman of the Washington metropolitan area PUSH chapter, and the chapter's executive director Godfrey Jacobs. Ambassador Sole, ac cording to Jackson, noted mond Tutu, the kencral secretary of the South African Council of Chur ches be lifted. Bishop Tutu is the first black to hold the position. Rev. Jackson, who visited South Africa last year at the invitation of the bishop and the church council, called Tutu, the Martin Luther King, Jr., of South Africa. Jackson insists that suppressing Bishop Tutu is tanta mount to suppressing the church. He went on to note that the bishop's right to travel should be restored as he has the right, ability and credibili ty to interpret the present conflict to the rest of the 'world. The ban against black tends that in light of the fact that the white South Africans have unlimited access to this country, American citizens, black or white, desiring to visit South Africa should be ac- TVn hMMhiiiM- rnrrirrt the iatae mivilee. fixanted fne acccw ttt this invited by South African Jackson on numerous oc- country to escape racism argued that escaping Russian Com munism and oppression are given carte blanche ac cess to this country, and Cuban Communism are given access, so too should black South Africans be black leaders to tour riot scarred areas for a first hand look at the situation should be lifted. During a labor dispute and distur bances earlier this year, Jackson and others were denied visas by the South African Government on the grounds that the pro blems were an internal matter. During his visit - last summer, Jackson visited the Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Soweto areas, sites of re cent racial unrest. He con- casiotts has American citizens should have the unquestioned right to travel in any coun try where the U.S. Government has an em bassy. Following the meeting, Jackson said he will try to meet with, and urge the U.S. State Department to review its refugee policy with an eye toward allow ing black South Africans desiring to leave their country open admission to the U.S. Just as Jews ncreasing Disillusionment Of Blacks To Government Shown In Survey NEW YORK, N.Y. -The recent hostile reaction of blacks in Miami to President Carter indicates, among other things, that an increasing mtfjority of blacks are disillusioned about the economic policies of this administra tion, according to Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, and Percy E. Sutton, chairman and president of Data Black, the research and analysis company conduc ting national surveys of black opinion, habits, preferences and customs. "The latest Data Black survey of the attituds of blacks toward the role of the federal govvernment in the enforcement of laws against discrimination in employment contributes to the understanding of their increasing bitterness and resentment. "Equally important and more specifically, they are. skeptical about extent to which the federal govern-, ment is enforcing present equal employment and af firmative action laws and regulations," say Clark and Sutton. "It is significant that there is an increase in this critical trend among blacks. In the three month interval between the first Data Black survey and the most recent survey, there was a twelve per cent in crease in the percentage of blacks who believed that the federal government was ineffective in enforc ing laws against racial discrimination. "This increase in criticism by blacks of the federal government's role is consistent with the fin ding that blacks continue to be harsh in their judg ment of the job that Presi dent Carter is doing to help blacks." say Clark and Sutton. "The skepticism of blacks concerning the in fluence of Equal Employ ment Opportunity and Af firmative Action laws upon their day-to-day economic conditions is Baha'is Of Durham Observe Martyrdom Of The Bab On July 9, the Baha'is of Durham joined with Baha'is around the world in observing the Martyr dom of the Bab. The Bab,, whose name means Gate, is considered the Prophet Herald of the Baha'i Faith. the Bab was martyred , by a firing squad in the public square in Tabriz, Iran on July 9, 1850. He had proclaimed the com ing of a new era in which the world would be unified and mankind would become one. The; Bab announced that there would shortly appear, one who would reveal the spiritual and social prin ciples and the ad ministrative order of this rew era one who would . "While it is true that, these are not the blacks who riot or throw bottles at the President's car," say Clark and Sutton, "the political significance of these findings is in the fact that these more negative and critical groups of blacks are tradi tionally the best informed. "They are more likely to vote in the presidential election and they are more likely to influence the policy programs and deci sions of black civil rights organizations," the two men concluded. Data Black is a joint venture of Clark, Phipps, Clark and Harris, Inc. and Inner City Broadcasting,: both of New York City, r Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, chairman of Data Black, former professor of psychology at City University of New York, and former president of the American Psychology Association, is president of Clark. Phipps, Clark out the new religious nams, a researcn movement and in the consuiung iirm aoing further revealed by the fact that 36 per cent of black Americans assert that these laws have not brought about any obser vable changes in discriminatory hiring practices." Data Black reports that this skepticism is most pronounced among blacks between the ages of 30 and 49 (63 per cent), black col lege graduates (62 per cent), and more affluent blacks with household in come of $23,000 or more (62 per cent). be the Bearer of God's Word for this age. The enthusiasm with which thousands accepted the Bab's teachings alarm ed the then rulers of church and state in Iran. I hey conspired to wipe persecution that followed, the Bab and 20,000 of His followers perished. Three years later, Baha'is believe, the One foretold by the Bab appeared in the person of Baha'u'llah, Prophet-Founder of the Baha'i Faith. Today, the Martyrdom of the Bab Is observed yearly as a Baha'i Holy Day. In the Holy Land (Israel), the Tomb of the Continued on Page f domestic and interna tional social, educational and economic research for corporate, institutional and government planning ' and action. Percy E. Sutton, presi dent of Data Black, former Manhattan Borough president, is chairman of the Board of Inner Cky Broadcasting' Corporation, a radio broadcasting and drver .. (Continued on Page 3' U.S. immigration policy must be consistent and ap plied uniformly to those escaping economic and political opression regardless of the color of their skin, or the nature of the oppression. Jackson said that should he be allowed to visit South Africa, his delegation would include O'Dell; Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana; UAW union leader, Marc Stepp and a number of black ministers. Funds To Aid Victims Of Violence RALEIGH Gover nor Jim Hunt announced this week the awarding of grants to fifteen com munities to aid victims of domestic violence. Hunt said the $90,000 will go to the community programs to find emergen cy services as well as to train 'volunteers to work with the victims. There are fifteen organizations receiving grants. The organization located in Durham is the Orange-Durham YWCA Coalition for Battered Women. "This is the third year the state has been able to award these grants to community-based organizations to help bat tered women' Hunt said. "In the past two years the council has awarded similar grants , totaling over $140,000 to sixteen .community organiza tions." The funds are- made available by the Division of Social Services through the N.C. Council on the Status of Women. Thirty community groups sub mitted requests this year for a total of over ;WOO.O0O. "These organizations are doing an 'Outstanding job and ire ! providing needed services in their communities and we want to help them in every way we can." Hunt said.
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