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2 THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., MARCH 21, 1981 Jesse Gray (Continued Ki Nonviolence and More Power Than We Know: The Petple 's Movement Toward Democracy. In addition, a panel of speakers from all over North Carolina has been assembled to address the conference participants on specific issues facing the state. Among the panel members are: Ms. Jen nifer Henderson with the N.C. Hunger Coalition; Rev. WAV. Finlaier, pastor of Pullen Memorial Church in Raleigh; Peter Brandon, International Representative of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union; Dr. Jane Sharpe, past president of the con servation Council; Ms. Arnwine, co ot the National Independent Party; Mrs. Miriam Slifkin, past presi dent of N.C. NOW; and Ms. Deborah Giddens, a member of Feminary. Among the organiza ions; sponsoring the con ference are the N.C. Civil Liberties Union, the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black Peo ple, the N.C. National Organization for Women, the War Resisters League, the N.C.' People's Alliance, the American Friends Service Commit tee, the N.C. AFL-CIO and the N.C. Public In terest Research Group. According to Ms. Sue Hartnett, a conference organizer .and a Democratic precinct chair man in Orange County, "We are .getting an en thusiastic response from a wide range of people who feel 'that the Reagan Barbara convenor Black Political om Front) budget will have a devastating impact."' Said Ms. Hartnett, "the Reagan budget is a blow to economic justice and racial equality. Programs for jobs, legal assistance, and low cost loans have enabled low income families to make some gains; now these programs are to be slashed." The conference will feature workshops on a variety of interrelated topics including racism,, civil Jiberties, the environ ment, affecting local governmenj and the rela tionship between foreign and domestic policy. Steve Sumerford, a member of War Resisters League, played an in strumental role in organiz ing workshops. Sumer ford, a Durham resident who gained international prominence by passing out antiwar leaflets in Moscow, said of the con ference, "We want to tell our congressional representatives that we cannot accept a policy that fuels the global arms race at the expense of critically needed domestic pro grams. This policy can on ly lead to crisis." 1 The conference will start at 7:30 p.m. on Fri day night, March 27. A registration fee will be charged, but no one will be turned away if they can't afford the fee. Child care service will be available both Friday evening and Saturday. Housing arrangements will be made for those who call in advance. Saturday lunch will be provided on a dpnation basis. Dr. Thorpe To A ttend Conference 300 Attend Black History Program Dr. Earl E. Thorpe, Professor of History, North Carolina Central University, will participate in the 7th Annual Third World Conference, March 2528, 1981 at the Palmer House in Chicago. Dr. Thorpe, national president of The Associa tion For The Study of Afro-American Life and History will chair a session and read a paper in the area of "Inequality in Historical Images" on Saturday, March 28th. This inter disciplinaryintercultural conference wilt encompass the traditional areas of the Third World, namely, Africa, Asia, the Carrib- bean, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as Third World Com- munities in United States and Canada. In line with previous ' conferences, the 7th an nual Third World Con ference has set as its major objective the promotion of a spirited exchange of ideas among scholars, students and the lay public on the myriad problems confronting this sector of the global community as it prepares to enter the 2tsf century. This year's conference theme is "Global In-, terdependencc and Na-1 tional Development." Carolina Friends School We are now accepting applications for the 1981-82 school year: Friends school Is located in rural Orange County with early school programs (3-5 year olds) in Durham and Chapel Hill. The school program, presently enrolling'four hundred students, runs through high school and features self-directed learning, small classes, and concentrated skill instruction. In keeping with Quaker Tenets, the school seeks a diverse student body of all creeds, races, nationalities and social and economic backgrjwfid.! -Sjfpd tt,"ition-vaFSistatvce (based upon need) are available, tor information pleas call 383-6602929-1800. Mrs. Taylor Collects For Investigation Mrs. Edna Taylor, a worker at Duke Hospital, has taken up a collection to help in the search for the murderer(s) of black children in Atlanta. She reports that hospital workers have generously given contribu tions which now total $115.00. People throughout the hospital are wearing black, green and red ribbons to display their grief and anger at the vicious attacks on the black community. Mrs. Taylor said that she has taken it upon herself to give people the ribbons which she bought with her own money. "I want everyone to know how much I ap preciate their contributions. I want the whole world to pray that the killer(s) be found and to stop these killings of our children." According to Mrs. Taylor, all contributions are being sent to APB Investigative Fund, co Mayor Maynard ackson, City Hall, Atlanta, Ga., 30335. Official Says CBS Does Not Make Effort To Exploit Blacks , MMMMaHMMnp-- w A Luxury 76 Lincoln Mark IV 79 Buick Electro (?) 73Porecne911T 78 Buick LeSabre custom 4 Dr. 76 Cadillac Seville 79 Buick LeSabre 76 Cadillac Coupe DeVille 79 Okie Delta 88 Intermediate 80 Buick Century Sta. Wag. 77 Buick Skylark 79 Olds Cutlass Supreme 80 Olds Cutlass LS 4 Dr. 77 Granada 78 Che. Nova 76 Olds Cutlass 74 Olds Cutlass By Donald E. Alderman Blacks are the victims of stereotyping on televisipn network situation com edies, but seldom stereotyped on serious dramas, according to James H. Rosenfield,. 'Wesidenf.of Vtae CBS Television Network Divi- sion, who was in Durham recently to address the 69th annual meeting of th , Economy 80 VW Sclrocco 79 Rabbit Diesel Toyota Sta. Wag. 78 Mazda GLC 78 Honda Sta. Wag. 77 Toyota Celtea 77 Toyota Corolla 80 Mazda GLC 76 Dasher Wagon 79 Honda CVCC Under $2,000 75 Olds Wagon 74 Grand Prix 72 Audi 74 Monte Carlo 73 Olds Cutlass Over 60 Used Cars To Choose From Above can an covered by Star' Automobrte Limited Wwranty. We finance on the spot it you qualify, the car can be financed with tittle or no down payment, an pay ments subject to approved credtt. Above prion do not include N.C Sale, Tax. Ucenae or Ooo- paiajerf m i:;t:Hii t;t I , . w ; i u f I A 1 1 f I! J A t (litl Alifile i r ii ! :ji"'a".t Durham Chamber of Commerce. Although there is grow ing concern within the black community about the stereotyping of blacks on certain television pro grams, the networks CBS in particular have not made a conscious ef fort to subUminaUy; ploit black people or distort the realities of. black life. However, the concern , expressed by black citizens and leaders are not altogether un founded. Black actors are involved in far fewer com mercials than the percen tage of the population and partake in few intelligent, lead, or star roles in mo tion pictures of all types, Rosenfield said. FUTURE BRIGHT The notion that net work television is in trou ble that technological, and competitive challenges such as Home Box Office, cable and pay cable will cause the demise of network television is rejected by Rosenfield. Many, in 1950, beleived . radio would die and be replaced by the advent of television, He said. Today there are ten times the number of radio stations and three times the, number of national net works as there were in 19S0, Rosenfield cited. Although cablevision is proving itself in the marketplace, network television will not suffer a loss of audience. The population growth in the southeast, southwest, and west will more than offset the loss of audience to pay cable. "So while the share of the audience. . . .will .decline. . . .our actual au dience will be larger than today," Rosenfield ex plained. CBS will offset the' cablevision impact by beefing up its programm ing. The network will spend $100 million on 54 made-for-tclevision movies this year. The staple of network broad casting "series programm ing" will increase in quali ty as well, Rosenfield stated. MISDIRECTED . Rosenfield said that pressure groups attacking adult-oriented dramatic and comedy programs are "throttling freedom of ex pression." These "self-appo. ued censors" have attacked the "symptoms of social change" and have sought a scapegoat in television viewing. Television is merely a reflection of society and its changes. The censorship of "Dallas," "Three's Com- ByTrellleL. Jeffers More than 300 parents, teachers, students and other members of the Durham community jam med the Stanford L. War ren Library auditorium Saturday, March 14, to witness the first Black History Essay Awards Program. The essay con test was sponsored by the Durham City Schools, the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black Peo ple, and the Stanford L. Warren Library. Dr. Cleveland Ham monds, City Schools superintendent, addressed the group on "The Challenge ' of Black History." He told the group "the challenge of black history is to help us accomplish goals and ob jectives that we have set . for our lives. It challen nges us to a destiny." Dr. Hammonds cited the various challenges that blacks have had to face in America, and said that now the struggle may con tinue for greater oppor tunities. "We are the envy of, past generations 'because we do have so many op portunities. This does not mean that we don't have to continue struggling; our challenge is to continue. It is in our hands," said Dr. Hammonds. A total of 160 Durham City Schools pupils had completed an essay on "Black History: Role Dr. Lipscomb To Present Paper Dr. Lafayette Lipscomb of North Carolina Central University will present a paper at a conference on Third World Women and Feminism at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, April 10-12. Dr. Lipscomb's paper, to be presennted Satur day, April 11, is entitled "Sociological Implica tions of .Third World Women's Acceptance of Feminism." Dr. Lipscomb is an associate professor of sociology, director of the Academic Skills Center, and assistant to the chancellor at NCQU. The conference is spon sored by Brown Universi ty's Sarah Doyle Women's Center. Groundbreaking (Continued From Front) . since 1947, says that she is attached to the building as much as anyone, but, it is a matter of how best to serve your community. "I'm for change if it means progress" and in this case, the old building would cost too much to maintain and the parking space is desperately need ed, she adds. Model for Youth," and approximately 125 attend ed Saturday's program where they" received cer tificates of participation. Mrs. Josephine D. Cle ment, school board chair , man, told the pupils that "each participating stu dent is a winner. When you do research and then write an essay, you learn' something; therefore, you are a winner." The winners of the essay contest in each category in order of position were: High School Division: Kevin Washington and Wanda . Marie Bullar, Hillside; Junior High School: Brett Hymann, Shepard; Minho Do, Rogers-Herr; and Betsy Recap, Brogden; Grades 4-6: Terri Cor bitt, C.C. Spaulding; Jenifer Elmore, Fayet teville St.; and Tara Lashan Meeks, Burton; Grades 1-3: Brian Gat tlin, Y.E. Smith; Kimberly Harris, Burton; and Ozzie Daye, George Watts. All first place winners receiv ed $25; second place win ners received $15; and third place winners receiv ed $10. J.J. Henderson, Presi dent Emeritus of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black Peo ple and Dr. Robert ' Ghirardelli, vice chairman of the City School Board also appeared on the pro gram. , .Library (Continued From Front) speakers, and discussions on contemporary issues of black concern are integrals of the library's weekly program. "Many of the events are poorly attend ed. It is sad because a lot of good and practical in formation is being miss ed," Mrs. Brown com mented. Besides the .new main library, other branches of the county library system -are: Bragtown, Forest Hills, North Durham and Parkwood. Mrs. Brown believes the , black community will not "forsake their own." " Precinct pany," or "Soap" will not affect the stability of the American family, or influence changing social mores, societal violence, or cultural values', Rosen field stressed. (Continued From Front) Convention. At the precinct meetings, each precinct will be allowed to select one delegate for every fif ty votes that were cast in the respective precinct for the Democratic nominee for Governor. The duties of the duly elected delegates from the various precincts will be to elect the Durham County Democratic Party officers and county representatives to the State Executive Committee at the County Convention. No delegates can be sent to the County Convention unless elected at the precinct meetings where a quorum is pre sent. (A quorum is at least ten Democrats. In a precinct with fewer than twenty active Democrats, five active Democrats are considered a quorum.) The Durham County Democratic Party Con vention will be held on April 25 at Rogers-Herr Junior High School. An Open Letter To President Sanfoftt ' v';':'' - -: My name is Levi J. Johnson. I have been working for Duke Hospital since the early 50's and I have seen the growth of this great institution from a small plant to a large prestigious university. I hink part of this can be attributed! to your leadership 1 also'watched you as a governor f this great state and you made one Of the greatest governors that wejhe people of North Carolina have had. I always consider you to be fair and straight forward. I am sorry to remind you that the social stan dards of this great institution have not kept up with the physical growth of this institution. . The reason I am writing you is to point out some of the short comings of Duke University that I have been confronted with. I am surcj that you are unaware of these things, since you are so busy with the academic part of the university. 1 havfc been; told by a lot of my friends, who have been subjected to the same treatment not to write this letter because it will not do any good but I feel different. If you are unaware of what is hap pening throughout the whole university, as far as social aspects, you cannot do anything about it and that is why I feel very strongly about informing you on a few unfor tunate incidents that have happened, hot only to me but to other Duke employees as well: , I have supported Duke for a number of years. Each year I buy a season ticket for the Duke football games. I also buy one from North Carolina Central University and when NCCU is not playing, I attend the Duke game. I also root for the team. I also go to all of the Broadway Shows that are at, Puke because I cannot af ford to go to New York and see them lift I can when the play is being performed at Duke but that is my problem. What I am complaining about is the ticket distribution. The NIT game was played at Duke on Thursday, March 12, 1981. 1 called the ticket office and asked for a ticket on A&T's side. I was totdf by the ticket officer, which was a young lady, that "the tickets were sold on a first come first serve basis and there were no sides" and I complimented the young lady and told her that was the right thing to do. I knew that this couldn't be true. If you send A&T a block of tickets to sell, they must have been for the same section. Of course, I went out to the ticket office on Monday night to pick up my ticket and I also asked to see the diagram J The ticket officer showed me the diagram. When I poirtted to where I wanted to sit, I was told that there weref no more tickets for thajt location and Section 4 was the'iOnly section left that she had tickets for. As early as I had gone, I should have gotten a better seat selection and for any other section that I would have chosen. Then. Thursday I found out from the paper that A&T have returhed 1000 tickets. I called to request to have my ticket exchanged for one of those tickets returned from A&T. This was refused to me. I also asked what section A&T was seated in and I was told by the ticket officer that their section was behind the goal post. Then I really became upset. The reason I wanted to exchange my ticket was because my brother is an alumnus of A&T University and he wanted to sit with them to cheer for the AGGIES. I really felt bad when I learned that a "White Doc tor" went over to the ticket office with a "Black fellow" to pick up tickets for the NIT game. The doctor got a ticket in Section 6 and the other fellow got a ticket behind the goal post. I realize that it might have been impossible for them to sit together, but going together and purchasing their tickets at the same time, I would think that they would have gotten a ticket for seating in the same general area. To find out a university like Duke, for which I always had in mind its liberal views, would stoop that low, knowing that ail student&werfi Spring ivacaffori and . there were, qther jets, left fp;J; A&T's section and A&T being their guests, would have been given better seating arrangements. President Sanford, I think if we are going to initiate integration, I would think that it would have been on the educational level first and I see this is not true. You cannot say that this was a coincidence. I have been con fronted with this on several occasions. You might think that I am a racist; this is not true. I believe in "Freedom, , Liberty, and Justice" for all and if this is considered a racist, so be it. Last Fall, tickets went on sale for a Broadway Show. I went the second day. The seat I got was unbelievable. I also went to a Broadway Show at Page Auditorium and I purchased my ticket when they first went on sale. Would you believe I got the last seat on the back row at 1 Page Auditorium?" I have been told by one of my good friends, who happens to be "White" that they would buy a ticket for me the next time I wanted to go anywhere at Duke. Do I have to get a "White" person to buy a ticket for me, even though I pay the same price that everyone else does, in order to get a good seat? I certainly hope that you would correct this unfor tunate situation and 1 will remain supportive of all.. Duke's endeavors. (Signed) Levi J. Johnson Revival At Mount Olive Rev. Robyn Gool of Charlotte will preach Revival Services at Mount Olive A.M.E. Zion Church, 1515 W. Club Blvd., Monday, March 23 through Friday, March 27 nightly at 7:30 p.m. Rev. Gool graduated from Oral Roberts University S 1976 with a bachelor's degree in Sociology and Theology. He attended the school's Seminary until called to pastor Faith C.M.E. Church, Charlotte. In July 1980 he began his independent ministry and founded Victory Christian Center, Charlotte. M The Time Is . We'll Show You Just ask for our 'NOW Account brochure at any convenient Mechanics and Farmers Bank location. We want you to see if Checking with Interest is right for , you, because with us... You're Somebody MECHANICS & FARMERS BANK 116 East Parrish Street. 615 Fiyettevllle Street , 411 E. Chanel HiH Street ,. : i LucatrtStattwidela!. MHuatni MMM V i J0j,f:&i,-i0,- 'tv a.- cafe
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