2-THE CAROLINA TfMES
SAT., SEPTEMBER 5,1981
D.C. Demonstration Not
Affected by Travel Cuts
With sudden changes
in normal patterns of
mass transportation as a
result of the air con
trollers’ strike,
demonstrators preparing
to march on Solidarity
Day in Washington,
D.C. September 19 are
finding alternative
means of travel, Ben
jamin L. Hooks, ex-
_ ecutive director of the
* National Association for
the Advancement of Col
ored People (NAACP)
announced.
The massive
demonstration on
September 19, attracting
members of the sponsor
ing organizations, the
NAACP. the AFL-CIO,
the Leadership Con
ference on Civil Rights,
the National League,
Operation PUSH, the
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
and other concerned*
Americans opposed to
the Reagan Administra
tion’s budget cuts, will
represent a cross section
of the voting population,
; Hooks said. Buses
donated by church
groups in St. Louis,
Missouri; Dayton, Ohio;
Durham, North Carolina
and many other areas
will be transporting
march participants
throughout Middle
America, the South and
the Northeast.
In some areas, such as
New York, where there
are few' chartered buses
available, other
strategies are being
developed. Hooks said.
Reserving extra cars on
commercial train lines
and instituting
automobile caravans —
a throwback to the days
w'hen the price of
gasoline allowed citizens
to enjoy highway travell
ing — are some of the
more viable options
under consideration.
"As one of our
regional directors so ap
propriately described the
transportation dilemma,
‘It doesn’t matter how
you get there, even if it’s
a horse and wagon’,"
Ten NCCU Students
Admitted To LawSchon
Si. Aug.’s Deltas Win Award For Excellence
f hanll^r n' Minerva Award for Excellence to the Gamma Rlio
Ls1nc« "*'’**• Matthews, assistant professor of
the Tfith Naiinnai f ’ I"** Mnght. students. Gamma Rho Chapter was presented this award at
mL^G se^vicrrecord ' » --Istandins academic and com-
Hooks wryly okserved.
“This attitude retlects
the spirit and dedication
of our volunteers, many
of whom participated In
the historic March On
Washington in 196.1 and
understand the impor
tant role of direct action
in preserving our totter
ing civil rights gains."
Sears Bought From 441 N.C. Suppliers
Rev. Sullivan Honored
For QIC Contributions
In Africa
Ten students who par
ticipated in North
Carolina Central Univer
sity’s Pre-Law Program,
conducted by the
Department of Political
Science, w'ere admitted
to law schools for the
1981-82 academic year.
Dr. J.R. Aicher, Jr.,
director of the Pre-Law
Program, said the list in
cluded seven students ad
mitted to the North
Carolina Central Univer
sity School of Law. They
were Christopher
Watkins, Claude Cole,
Ms. Dcidre Whined, Ms.
Barbara Newton, Ms.
Phillis Plummer, Ms.
Alice Jones, and Eric
Tillman.
Ms. Debrough Nance
was accepted by two law
schools: The University
ot North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and Emory
University.
Ms. Brenda Page w'as
accepted by both^Wake
forest University and
American University.
Duff Tinnen w'as ac
cepted at the Tulsa
University School of
t.avv.
financial awards
made to the students for
Sears, Roebuck and
Co., the retailer, bought
$943,091,000 of mer
chandise from 441 sup
pliers in North Carolina
last year, according to
statistics released. The
retailer purv'hased 92^o
of its goods from
domestic suppliers last
year, according to F.R.
Haselton, general
manager of the Sears
stores in the Greensboro
Group.
"This contribution to
North Carolina’s
economy demonstrates
our traditional commit
ment to buying from
sources located where
Sears does business,"
Haselton said. *Tt’s a
practice that’s good for
everyone — not only
Sears and the local com
munity, but the nation as
a whole."
Haselton said the com
pany’s 11,300 domestic
suppliers range in size
from small firms to ma
jor corporations and
employ hundreds of
thousands of people to
produce the merchandise
sold by Sears.
"For residents of
North Carolina." he
said, "this means more
payroll dollars, more
purchasing power and
more lax dollars lo sup
port comiminiiy
services."
In North Carolina last
year. Sears maintained
119 retail stores and
other sales and service
facilities.
Sears paid $21,943,(X)0
in Slate and local taxes
and other sales and ser
vice facilities.
The company
employed 7.295 in the
state last year, pan of
the retailer’s naiionw'ide
workforce of 328,000,
Haselton said. Other
Sears businesses employ
an additional 62,000
people in the U.S. and
abroad.
He • said North
Carolina was home to
11»127 Sears
shareholders in 1980,
who owned 3.605,526
shares 6t the company's
stock. That includes the
6,097 Sears employees
who are members of the
company’s profit sharing
fund and own 2,075,589
shares of Sears slock.
The profit sharing fund
is the company’s largest
single shareholder, own-
‘ing 22.5% of all Scars
shares.
Haselton also said:
—Sears sells goods
through more than 3,600
units in 50 slates. Of
those units, 854 are retail
stores, the rest catalog
sales outlets.
— Domestic merchan
dising sales totaled near
ly $17 billion diirine
1980, 52.1% of (hose
sales on credit. Sears has
25 million active ac
counts.
— More than 20% of
Sears merchandise sales
come from its caialoe
operations. including
sales at the catalog de>ks
of ail Scars stores. Some
300 million catalogs are
printed each year, in
cluding two general
catalogs ■ in the spring
and lall with circulation
ol 15 million each; the
Christmas catalog
(" Wishbook "); winter
and summer seasonal
sales catalogs; plus 17
catlalogs for specific
product lines and 14
sales tabloids. About
one-third of ail U.S.
households have current
Sears catalogs.
Sears total revenues for
1980 were $25.2 billion,
including $18.7 billion
1 roin merchandising,
credit and international
operation,$6.2 billion
from its Allstate in
surance and financial
service business, and
$420 million from its
Seracd real estate and
financial ■ services
businesses.
Rev. Leon Sullivan,
chairman and founder of
Opportunities In
dustrialization Centers
— International, was
given a hero’s welcome
and Presidential Com
mendation in Accra,
Ghana by President
Hilla Limann.
The occasion was the
Tenth Anniversary of the
QIC’s in Ghana.
The President an
nounced the plan to have
the government under
write up to forty per cent
of the Ghana OIC
Budget. Rev. Sullivan
announced the expan
sion of the program to
include agricultural
economic development
patterned after the suc-
ce.ssful projects which
are underway in Gambia
and Sierra Leone.
OIC International is
currently operating in
Gambia. Sierra Leone,
Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria,
Ethiopia, Lesotho, and
Togo. Plans are under
way for development in
Zimbabwe and Tan
zania. Rev. Sullivan says
Sears Pricing Policy. . If an item is
not described as reduced or a special
purchase, it-is at its regular price. A
special purchase, though not reduc
ed, is an exceptional vaiue.
his goal is to be
operating in thirty
African nations with the
self-help job skills train
ing and job creation pro
ject development which
many African presidents
and heads of state regard
as one of the most suc
cessful programs on the
continent.
Rev. Sullivan met w'ith
President Limann atid
several members of the
cabinet to discuss the
Ghana Government’s
desire to improve (he
conditions for the poor
in his country.
His OIC work was
praised by govcrnincnt
leaders and major tribal
chiefs in a genuine out
pouring of appreciation,
’especially for the retrain
ing of former govern
ment youth employees to
move out of messenger
work into skilled occupa
tions.
Chief Adanlihinie
made a special appeal to
the Assembly of all the
chiefs of Ghana to sup
port OIC, especially in
the rural farm develop
ment projects that repre
sent a new' thrust at the
end of the first ten years.
, Rev. Sullivan said
"This Ghana OIC is one
of the most exciting in
Africa because it has
now developed the struc
ture to train the first
Icmale plumbers,
bricklayers and
automobile repair
technicians. 1 am so pro
ud of the w'ork of your
Board Members and the
C'hairman. Mr. John
Moses, as well as the
Director. We have cross
ed (he river, now the
ocean lies ahead. There
is so much more that
must be done."
After reviewing the
program, in Ghana.
Rev. Sullivan charged his
International OIC Direc
tor, Ciary Robinson,
v\i(h (he task of making
the next ten years in
Ghana
"history-making" voca
tional training and
agricultural economic
development in Kumasi
— Takoradi and Kpan-
du.
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Aicher reported. ’ ^
Boston
NAACP
Victorious
The Boston Biancii,
the NAACP sco|.jj
major victory in joi„,
with black and Hisna,
police and rircfig|,i(
against a major rouiidi
scheduled layoft's.
Judge Andrew A.Ca
trey ruled in
separate eases that iti
percentage of niinorji
police officers must b
niainlamcd at its
level of 11.7% and n'
fire department minorit
lirelighlers musi
slitute a; least 141,:
These figures reflect ib,
peieentagi’s ot riiinoriiiei
that existed July 6 *|,e,
Mayor Kevin H. wi,;
instituted a new seriesoi
cutbacks in bothdepan.
ments. The cityTUimej
the action was prompted
by a loss in reveiiuei
resulting from the la,
cutting referendum, Pro.
position 2'/:.
NAACP General
Coun.sel Thomas i,
Atkins, said he was ev
iremely pleased with the
judge’s decision, citing
the court’s commitment
10 uphold the principles
of affirmative action in
the mid.st of disturbing
signals from the U.S,
government as "highly
encouraging". He fur-
ther commented that
"on other occasions in
the past when neiiherthe
legislative nor executive
branch of government
were writing to protect
the rights of minorities,
we went to the federal
courts. Once again, the
federal courts have
shown their ability to
withstand the .shifting
tides of mob opinion,"
Judge Caffrey also
ordered- the city to main
tain separate seniority
lists tor whites and non-
whites to guide any fur
ther cutbacks in the worl;
force. He further ex
plained in his written
opinion that layofh in
the police department
would have reduced-
minority representation
by nearly one-haif to
6.2% from its existine
level of 11.7%. The
court’s aeiioii means that
some 83-mitu)ri(y police
olliccrs will not be laid
off this month; Similar
reductions in the fire
department would have
resulted in a substantial
decrease to 9.1'^'o from
the cxistinu level of
14.7%i.
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WII.llAMS
Williams
Heads
First Army
In a colorful ceremony
at Fort Meade, Md., last
month. Major General
Harvey D. Williams of
Durham as.sumed tem
porary command of the
First Army.
The First Army com
mands Army Re.serve
units in a 20-.state region
east of the Mississippi,
including Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands. It
also supervises and
evaluates the training oi
the Army National
Guard in the same area.
The First Army’s
primary mission is to en
sure that the Army
Reserve forces are ready
and able to fight w'hen
and where they are need
ed.
Major Williams is the
son of Mrs. Addie- H.
Williams of 1603 Fayet
teville Street, and the late
Matthew D. Williams.
He is married to the
former Miss Mary E.
Glenn.