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VOLUME 58 - NUMBER 52
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY DECEMBER 27, 1980
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Disagrees on Busing Children
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Says "No" To Cabinet Post
: Mrs. Marva Collins has her arm around a student at her inner-city Westslde Preparatory School where "problem children"
kicked out of other schools are reading Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and such and excelling academically. President
Elect Ronald Reagan offered the post of Secretary of the Department of Education to Mrs. Collins this week and she turned it
aown. - .
"li-i. a i i
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Did (lot See
Eye-to-Eye"
NEW YORK Ben
jamin t-. Hooks, executive
director,, of the NAACP,
voice4.'.;cautious optimism
after meeting with
President-elect Ronald
Reaga$ recently in the na
tion' Capital:
' CP-esident-elect
Reagap and I did not see
eye-to--eye," said the
former Federal Com
munications Commis
sioned "but I was glad to
hear (hat the President
elect is committed to guar
ding the civil rights of all
Americans even to the
. pointf. of enforcement
similat; to measures taken
in s trie Eisenhower Ad
ministration." Hooks explained that he
randfhe President-elect
disagreed on the effec
tiveness of busing to reach
the goal of equal educa
tional opportunities for
blacks as well as whites.
Appearing before
Reagan in his capacity as
chairman of the Black
Leadership Forum, Hooks
urged: "Job creation to
bring i more -blacks and
tne numoer ana size oi rw
minority-owned :
businesses; and rein
vigorated commercial ac
tivity in predominantly
minority communities.
These are objectives
we believe we can achieve
together within a general
policy of economic
renewal, which would
concentrate direct and in
direct public subsidies on
communities in which
private economic activity
has all but disappeared. . .
.and some of us are look-
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RALEIGH In light
of the forthcoming New
Year's Day increase in the
federal minimum wage,
the state labor department
reminds thousands of
workers whose wage rates
are covered under the
North Carolina Wage and
Hour Act of 1979 that
there is no scheduled in
crease in the state
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GississipEN Boycott
Case
NEW YORK The
Jississippi' Supreme'
Court ha dealt the Na
tional Association for tn$
Advancement of Colored
People another staggering ,
felow in the fourteen-year
struggle to resolve the
trt Gibson case,
s Iri a 31 -page opinion,
the Mississippi Supreme
Court found the NAACP
Sable for conspiring to
rganize and y support an '
-Illegal boycott against
twelve merchants in Port
jSGibson, Mississippi. Their
Opinion was based on the
Common Law of
Mississippi.
!S Charles Carter,
Associate General
Counsel for the NAACP,
ixpressed utter disap
pointment with the court's
'Adverse decision, and
stated "the Association
will appeal directly to the
U.S. Supreme Court. We
are certain that the court's
fuling on liability would
hot hold up when com-'
?iared with the hard, solid
acts of the case. We can
not accept the high court's
decision on liability and
will persist in our defense
gainst these charges in
Order to circumvent the
fiotentially damaging ef
ect of these findings on
"our civil rights activities in
the future." ;
The State Suprme Court1
also found the $1.2
million damage judgment
rendered by the Chancery
Court excessive and
remanded it to the lower'
court for further pro
ceedings. The Mississippi
Supreme Court did,
KuKluxklan
can shoot citizens in
the streets and the
courts find them not
guilty; black women
in Chattanooga, Ten
nessee can be shot and
maimed and, the
courts set the
perpetrators free; and
an insurance ex
ecutive inMiami can
be beaten to death by
city police officials
and' the courts find
them not guilty yet
black citizens in
Mississippi, are
brought before the
bar and made to pay
an even greater price
than any of these
defendants. , . , "
mtmtmtmmt
however, dismiss the case
against Mississippi Action
for Progress, the Poverty
Head Start Program in
Mississippi and 37 in
dividual defendants cited
in the original lawsuit.
The original suit grew
Out of a 1966 boycott in
volving black citizens who
were protesting racial
discrimination in
Claiborne County,
Mississippi. The Port Gib
son merchants in 1969
sued the National and
local NAACP, the
Mississippi Action for
Progress and 129 private
citizens, claiming in their
lawsuit that the leaders of
the boycott conspired to
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Notice
The Carolina Times
office will be closed December 25
through January 3, so that our staff can
have a holiday, too. We will reopen
Monday, January 5.
Your January 3 issue will be a con
densed edition which should arrive on
time.
minimum wage.
"The North Carolina
minimum wage is $2.90 an
hour, . and it will not
change again until there is
further action by the
General Assembly," N.C.
Labor Commissioner
John C. Brooks explain
ed. On January 1, the
federal minimum will rise
from $3.10 to $3.jJ.
Brooks said that the
state minimum applies to
all non-exempt employees
in establishments having
four or more workers and
not covered by the federal
law. Employers covered
by state law are primarily
those smaller retail, food
service and service in
dustry establishments
which gross under
$325,000 annually.
Workers under the state
law who are full-time
students must be paid at
least $2.60 an hour. "The
state sub-minimum for
students was a new provi
sion in the 1979 law. It
was designed to encourage
employment opportunities
for young people, par
ticularly by assisting par
ticipation in cooperative
education programs that
provide on-the-job skill
training," the commis
sioner said. Included in
the general . student
category are learners and
messengers, paralleling a
similar provision in the
federal Fair Labor Stan
dards ct.
"For workers covered
by state law, overtime of
time-and-a-half the
regular rate of pay is re
quired after 45 hours in
any workweek," Brooks
added.
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Lincoln Health Confer Building
Fund Campaign launched
Meets With Black Leaders
President-elect Ronald Reagan talks to reporters after meeting recently with black leaders in New York. Reagan said, "We
talked about problems of mutual concern to us. I made it plain to them that I was going to count on their continued help and sup-
6ort because I Intend to be president of all the people." From left: Mayor Charles Evers of Fayette, Miss.' Rev. Hosea Williams,
eagan, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy. UPI Photo
A campaign to raise
funds from businesses, in
dividuals and civic groups
to construct and equip a
new building for the Lin
coln Community Health
Center is now under way.
Total project cost is
estimated at $4.9 million.
The goal within the
Durham community is
$200,000. The balance of
the needed funds is ex
pected from private foun
dations and a loan.
Durham County has
already pledged $1.1
million in Federal
Revenue Sharing funds to
the project.
The local drive is under
the direction of John" S.
Stewart. Working with
him are Mrs. Nancy Rand
and W.A. Clement,
trustees of the Durham
County Hospital Corpora
tion, as co-chair of the
Family Division; J.J. San
som, president of
Mechanics and Farmers ,
Banks and Edwin J.1
(Jack) Walker, chairman
of the Board of Trustees
of the DCHC as chairmen
of the Special Gifts Divi
sion. Also assisting
o : t r t?
jicwoh is l..d. rrasier.
In the Family Division
are Drs. Robert Yowell
and John Daniel, co-chair
for Medical Staff; John
M. Tezai, employee chair
man for Durham County
General Hospital; Mrs.
Pat Blue, employee chair
man for Lincoln Com
munity Health Center;
Mrs. Susan Beischer,
chairman for the FBHD
Board of Directors;
George M. Trout, chair
man for the DCHC
Trustees section; and
Nashid Lateef , chairman
or the LCHC Board of
i Directors.
in fr.i nil riiftc
Division, the captains are
F.V. Allison, Jesse B.
Anglin, W.L. Bradsher,
Dr. Robert E. Dawson,
Ms. Pat Buie, Mrs.
Josephine Clement, C
, Anthony Ricca, A.C. Sor
rell, and Mrs. Constance
Watts. Assisting them will
be campaigners Mrs.
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