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:yfQ Business Complex to Host
Small Business Workshop
Joe Dudley to Headline Weekend
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sponsormg a small busines work- ' I Retail Banking and vice president
shop June 23 and 24 at 212 Cor- - 1
coran StrceL ’■ft M Kernersville.
owners with information designed ’4“'^ ® sor af Wnston-SafemTtaL!’
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ly impact business planning." ^ N'c A&T
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be Joe Dudley. pre.sident and C^C wrte business plans, package loans
of Dudley Products of Kernersville ~ d submifting packages to the
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* Dr. Roland C. Chidomere, a joe Dudley, the workshop opens
member of the Southern Marke mg dy,j, enlrepreneur who has
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con,sidered to be marketing plan- JOE DUDLEY succeed against "'“5' "^^Uik
nmg.- ■ ng Your Own Business," and day will focus on the nuts Md bolts
* Dr. Joseph H. Horton, director 'Business Planning." of business an pro ems a may
of Continuing Education at * Paul O. Cloud is assistant occur, ■
Winston Salem State University, is professor of Business Law at Call for 956-7843 for cost an
the author of "The ABC’s of Start- Winston Salem State University, time.
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Professional basketball player Rodney Rogers of the Denver Nuggets visited the McDougald Tertatt
Branch Library in Durham and the East Winston Branch Library in Winston-Salem to kick off a suinm,
reading incentive program sponsored by participating Hardee’s restaurants in the Triangle and Triad.
Rogers, who was All-ACC and All-American for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, talked with a group of
young people about the importance of education and continuing to read over the summer.
Is Kansas City Ruling A Hint That
Court Remedies Are Drying Up?
By Sally Streff Buzbee
WASHINGTON (AP) - For 40
years, court desegregation orders
have swept through America’s big-
city schools, ever since the land
mark Brown vs. Board of Educa
tion ruling.
East Tuesday, districts and com
munity leaders braced for a day
when such orders may dry up, leav
ing uucients still facing crumbling
buildings,; mostly minority class
rooms and-little taxpayer support.
"It’s inevitable - we have to begin
preparing for life without
desegregation money," said a Kan
sas Cify, Mo., civil rights leader,
the Rev. Nelson ITiompson, after
the Supreme Court ruled against
the district in a key case.
"What we have to do now is
focus on local solutions, get the
civic and business leaders to come
together with pai'ents both white
and black, and figure out ‘How do
we save our district?"’ It is a mo
ment some conservatives have long
awaited.
For years, they have argued that
court desegregation plans have run
amok - mandating solutions that
hurl more than helped minority stu
dents and killed taxpayer support
for public schools.
In the Kansas City case, as in
other desegregation cases, a federal
judge ordered a government unit,
the’ state, to'spend millions each
year on desegregation. He also or
dered city officials to raise property
taxes.
Monday’s 5-4 ruling by the
Supreme Court won’t immediately
end the 18-yearlong, $1.3 billion
program.
But the justices ruled that the fed
eral judge had gone too far by or
dering the district to develop mag
net schools to attract white students
frorh surrounding suburbs. Just six
years ago, a more liberal court had
decHned'to consider that very ques
tion.
".Anybody (plaintiffs or judges)
contemplating this kind of relief in
the future will basically drop it like
a hot potato." said Michael Casser-
ly, director of the Council of Great
City Schools.
Perhaps even more significantly
for the dozen or so districts still un
der direct court supervision, the
justices ruled that black students’
below-average achievement scores
aren’t necessarily a reason to con
tinue a desegregation plan.
In a case with similar overtones,
lawyers for children in Wilming
ton, Del., recently argued that mi
nority lags in achievement indi
cated the need for a continued
plan.. That ruling, still pending,
could be influenced by the
Supreme Court decision.
And plaintiffs in Hartford, Conn.,
recently argued that state officials
had failed to correct socioeconomic
patterns that led to schools’ racial
imbalance. A federal judge threw
out that case.
David Armor of the Social Phi
losophy and Policy Center is
among researchers arguing that
socioeconomic factors, such as
poverty, that contribute to achieve
ment gaps can’t be blamed "entire
ly on the schools." The intent of the
1954 Brown ruling was never to
guarantee a good education to
Diack students, odd as that seems,
.Armor insisted. All it said was that
black children deserved equal ac
cess.
"We all want minority children tc
have good educations," Armor said.
"The point is, it might be time to
look at different solutions." Some
liberals feel quite differently.
The Brown decision was intended
to rid schools of discrimination,
and poor test scores could certainly
be a remnant of such discrimina
tion. Casserly said.
Thompson, who heads Kansas
City’s Martin Luther King Urban
Center, remembers how Kansas
City voters refused to approve a
school tax increase for 20 years,
leaving schools decrepit and stu
dents demoralized.
He blames "white folks who
move to the suburbs to escape the
problems of the city, and take their
resources with them." They must
realize they have a stake in black
children’s education, he said.
"You think you can get away
from crime, drug abuse, kids
without education, just because you
yourself flee to the suburbs?" he
asks. "That’s not going to happen."
But Thompson’s feelings also are
ambivalent. He was part of a group
of Kansas City black parents and
leaders upset several yeais ago be
cause they felt the desegregation
plan was focusing too much on at
tracting white students from sub
urbs.
"Quality education - that for us is
the issue," Thompson said.
"That’s more important than how
many white kids you have in class,"
Excerpts From Court Ruling On Affirmative Action
(AP) Excerpts from the Supreme
Court ruling that made federal pro
grams designed to give special help
to minorities more vulnerable to
legal challenges by those who con
tend, the programs discriminate
against whites.
From Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor’s majority opinion: Any
person, of whatever race, has the
right to demand that any govern
mental actor subject to the Con
stitution justify any racial classifi
cation subjecting that person to un
equal treatment under the strictest
judicial scrutiny.
The Fifth and 14th amendments
to the Constitution protect persons,
not groups. It follows from that
principle that all governmental ac
tion based on race ... should be sub
jected to detailed judicial inquiry to
ensure that the personal right to
equal protection of the laws has not
been infringed.
Accordingly, we hold today that
all racial classifications, imposed
by whatever federal, state or local
government actor, must be ana
lyzed by a reviewing court under
strict scrutiny. In other words, such
classifications are constitutional
only if they are narrowly tailored
measures that further compelling
governmental interests.
We wish to dispel the notion that
strict scrutiny is "strict in theory
but fatal in fact." The unhappy per
sistence of both the practice and the
lingering effects of racial dis
crimination against minority groups
in this country is an unf >riunate
reality, and the government is not
disqualified from acting in response
to it.
When race-based action is neces
sary to further a compelling inter
est, such action is within constitu
tional constraints if it satisfies the
"narrow tailoring" test this court
has set out in previous cases.
Because our decision today alters
the playing field in some important
respects, we think it best to remand
the case to the lower courts for fur
ther consideration in light of the
principles we have announced.
From Justice Antonii
Scalia’s concurring opinion; In my
view, government can never have a
;:ompelling interest in discriminat
ing on the basis of race in order to
make up for past racial discrimina
tion in the opposite direction.
Individuals who have been
wronged by unlawful racial dis
crimination should be made whole;
but under our Constitution there
can be no such thing as either a
creditor or debtor race.
To pursue the concept of racial
entitlement - even for the most ad
mirable and benign of purposes - is
to reinforce and preserve for future
mischief the way of thinking that
produced race slavery, race
■ privilege and race hatred.
In the eyes of government, we are
just one race here. It is American.
From Justice Clarence
Thomas’ concurring opinion: Gov
ernment cannot make us equal; it
can only recognize, respect and
protect us as equal before the law.
That these programs may have
been motivated, in part, by good in
tentions cannot provide refuge from
the principle that under our Con
stitution the government may not
make distinctions on the basis of
‘ace.
As far as the Constitution is con
cerned, it is irrelevant whether a
government’s racial classifications
are drawn by those who wish to op
press a race or by those who have a
sincere desire to help those thought
to be disadvantaged.
In my mind, government-
sponsored racial discrimination
based on benign prejudice is just as
noxious as discrimination inspired
by malicious prejudice. In each in
stance, it is racial discrimination,
plain and simple.
From justice John Paul
Stevens’ dissent: Instead of decid
ing this case in accordance wiili
controlling precedent, the couti
-oday delivers a disconcerting !«■
ture about the evils of govemmem
racial classifications.
The consistency that the cowl
espouses would disregard the dif'
ference between a "No Trespass'
ing" sign and a welcome mat, It
would treat a Dixiecrat senator's
decision to vote against Thurgood
Marshall’s confirmation in ordertc
keep African Americans off the
Supreme Court as on a par will
President Johnson’s evaluation of
his nominee’^ race as a posilivs
factor.
An interest in consistency does
not justify treating differences as
chough they were similarities.
Health Sunday Subject
Is High Blood Pressure
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The Health Sunday issue for Sun
day, June 25 is High Blood Pres
sure.
According to Elaine Hart-
Brothers, M D., M.P.H. of Durham
Metropolitan Medical Associates,
P.A., "high bipod pressure is a
major risk factor for heart attack
and stroke. But when compared to
Whites, African Americans have 1-
1/2 to 2 times more strokes, 10 to
18 times more kidney failures, and
3 to 5 times more heart failures...
all related to high blood pressure."
Over 58 million Americans suffer
from hypertension (abnormally
high blood pressure). Scientists
have been unable to pinpoint the
exact cause of the disease, there
fore, most persons suffering from
the disease are identified as having
essential hypertension. The disease
is more prevalent in blacks, in
males, and in the elderly. It is also
twice as common in persons living
in the South. The Hypertension
Detection and Follow-Up Program
(HDFP) reported a substantial
decline in heart attack mortality
among
hypertensive patients in an in
tensive, stepped-up-care program,
compared to hypertensive
patients referred for routine care.
This finding illustratgiC^ the impor
tance of preventive
BLACK
* Blacks suffer from hypertension
33% more than whites.
* Black males suffer from hyper
tension 4 times more than white
males.
* Black females suffer from hy
pertension 2 times more than white
females.
RISK FACTORS
* Genetic predisposition
* Smoking
* Obesity
* High sodium intake
* Stress
PREVENTION STRATEGIES
* Sodium restriction
* Weight reduction
* Exercise
* Decreased alcohol intake
* Compliance with drug therapy
* Bi-annual blood pressure check
HYPERTENSION IS A
MAJOR RISK FACTOR FOR:
* Coronary artery disease
* Congestive heart failure
* Stroke
* Kidney disease
* Retinopathy
Information will be available at
nany area local churches. To con-
;act the Community Health Coali
tion Project call 286-9898.
Greensboro Bank Agrees to
Be Acquired by Mutnal
Community Savings Bank
GREENSBORO ~ Michael L.
Diamond, president and chief exec
utive officer of Greensboro Nation
al Bank and F.V. "Pete" Allison,
Jr., chairman and chief executive
officer of Mutual Community
Savings Bank, SSB, Durham, an
nounced Friday that the banks have
signed a definitive agreement for
the acquisition of Greensboro Na
tional by Mutual Community
Savings.
In the acquisition, the sharehold
ers of Greensboro National will
receive $11.50 in cash for each
share of the bank’s common stock.
The acquisition is subject to a num
ber of conditions, including receipt
of all regulatory approvals, ap
proval of the acquisition by
Greensboro National’s shareholders
and receipt of fairness opinion:
from the banks’ respective financial
advisors.
Simultaneously with the execu
tion of the agreement, Greensboro
National granted Mutual Com
munity Savings a stock option
which allows Mutual Community
Savings to purchase up to 18,700
shares of Greensboro National s
common stock. The exercise price
of the stock option is $11.50 per
share, subject to adjustment under
specified circumstances. The stock
option is exercisable only upon Ur
occurrence of specified events
relating generally to the makinglij
third parties of offers to
Greensboro National and the ac
quisition by third parties of
specified percentages of its com
mon Slock.
"We are excited about the pro
posed merger with such a slroni
and reputable institution as Mu"®
Community Savings,
Diamond "We believe this pro
posed merger is in the best intetesi
of our customers and sharehoMo^
We expect the merger to pro'io^
Greensboro National’s customers
better service and access to *
broader product line." Allison smJ.
"The signing of this agreement sols
in motion the process to bring itos
merger to fruition. The combip
entity will have the resources to
olay a greater economic role in il*
Durham and Greensboro com-
munities we serve. We look fe'
ward to expanding upon Gfee''S‘
boro National’s and our extstml
customer bases."
It is the mark of a good
that it appears mevilablc m '
'•ospect.
—lioherl Lords