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Boone Outlines Strategies
yo Increase Opportunities
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a to success lay with
and women who
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htened, adept, and
find good, reliable
among our minori
me noted that the
attitude in business
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; either qualified or
.” The responsibili
ining the necessary
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There are business
centers located a
country to provide
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s firms and minori
s,” he said. “There
nore local business
ent organizations
the most part, by
erce Department’s
Minority Business
e (OMBE),” he
ational Minority
f Council, with 34
Councils, is very
locating qualified
ifiable minority
[noting proficiency
and professionalism, and offe
ring training and development
courses for minority suppli
ers,” Mr. Boone said. Pointing
out that there is no dearth of
efforts to get buyers and sell
ers together, he told the group
of the many publications a
vailable, such as the National
Directory of Minority Manu
facturers (published by
OMBE), the National Minori
ty Business Directory and
additional guides published by
the National Minority Pur
chasing Council and the Lati
mer Foundation of Cam
bridge, Massachusetts.
Mr. Boone summed up,
“With the levels of technical,
professional and management
asssitance available today,
with the active search that’s
underway by many major
firms for qualified and qualifi
able minority suppliers, with
the commitment which big
business, generally, is now
making to cultivate these sup
pliers and to make minority
purchasing a corporate policy
which is practiced at all levels
of management-with all this
the minority businessman or
woman today has a better
opportunity than ever to
‘Make It.’ ’’
CHARLES H. BOONE
...Coca-Cola vice president
Is Puzzling, Inconsistent?
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Special To The Post
A curious thing about poli
| tics is its puzzling inconsisten
cy. It is not unusual for
i something to be given with one
hand and to*b* -tokeh-away
with the other. Recently, for.
instance, the Senate passed a
- minimum wage bill which was
a definite improvement over
the version passed by the
House of Representatives. The
Senate then turned around and
voted to deregulate the price
of natural gas, a move that
would hurt most Americans
and inflict special hardships
on the poor.
Ironically, this time, the
House voted for a superior
bill.
It would probably take a
genius to make sense of the
way the Senate and the House
voted on these two issues.
There are, nonetheless, some
important lessons to be learn
ed from these two recent
votes. The first is the tremen
dous diversity of issues which
affect the black community.
Limited resources means that
we can tackle only some is
sues. Thus, while many black
organizations actively worked
for the passage of an improv
ed minimum wage bill (and
are continuing to work for the
8ui£rior Senate version).
Iawbl whether there is a
major black organization whi
etyort to affect the natural gas
vote.
The price of natural gas at
first, may not, seem to be a
' civil rights or black issue.
CertaUilj^ the^ proponents of
'aeregulafioii were not motiva
tecLby .same anti-black spirit.
Rather, the attraction of dere
gulation is that is appears to
provide a simple, sweeping
solution to a complex pro
blem. There is, however, stro
ng evidence that deregulation
will lead to considerably larg
er consumer expenditures and
only a negligible increase in
natural gas production. If this
view is correct, then, as the
Congressional Budget Office
observed, "the question be
comes prunarily one of in
come distribution." If natural
gas prices are deregulated, an
additional 976 billion will flow
from consumers to the indus
try between now and 1985. If
oil prices are also decontroll
ed, the effect could be as
devastating to the economy as
the four-fold increase in oil
prices imposed by OPEC
which was a major cause of
the recession. When we recall
the staggering and continuing
damage inflicted on black A
mericans by the recession, it
becomes clear that the issues
of energy and economic grow
th may be as important to our
future as the traditional civil
right* a
The importance of such is
sues as natural gas deregula
tion leads to a second lesson
that can be drawn from the
Senate vote on minimum wage
and natural gas deregulation.
Because civil rights organizg
tions are unable to give Uiot*
full attention to every issue
vitally affecting black Ameri
cans, we must have a strategy
or set of principles to guide us
in dealing with the whole
gamut of crucial issues.
Otherwise, we will find our
selves outmaneuvered and
outgunned. What we win in
one vote will be taken away
with another.
Our response must be based
upon an analysis of allies and
coalitions. It has occasionally
been suggested that blacks
should apply the philosophy of
the British Prime Minister
who proclaimed that his coun
try had "no permanent allies,
no permanent enemies, only
permanent interests. ” The dif
ficulty with this approach is
that politics within a country
differ profoundly from rela
tions between countries. The
victories won by the civil
rights movement were largely
possible because of the power
of moral concerns in domestic
politics.
More fundamentally, we are
part of a community that is
concerned with building a
more just, decent, and respon
sible society.
Kunaways Fall Victim To Juvenile Justice System
L.isa, a fourteen-year-old
runaway, represents one of
the many children who have
fallen victim to the juvenile
justice system because of a
bad home situation. Lisa’s
father is an alcoholic and is
constantly abusing i.jgn and
her mother. The situation be
came so intolerable that
started running away from
home. She has run many times
in the past three years. The
court’s only alternative was to
hold her in the secure deten
tion of the county jail.
Another youngster, Johnny,
has entered the system be
cause he refused to go to
school. Why was Johny tru
ant? He has a disability; he
cannot read. When asked to
recite he stumbles through a
sentence feeling embarrassed
and frustrated. The easiest
and least painful solution was
not to go to school at all.
Ken is from a single parent
family of five children. Since
he does not have a father, he
has no one to discuss the
normal problems which arise
during a boy’s adolescence.
Ken ended up in training
school because there was no
help for him in his community.
There are literally thou
sands of troubled youngsters
in North Carolina between the
ages of 10 and 17 who have the
same problems. They are call
I
ed status offenders - juveniles
guilty of offenses which would
not be violations of law if
committed by an adult.
In the past and to a lesser
degree today, the only alter
native the judge has had,
other than probation, was
sending these children to a
state training school.
In recent years, there has
been a growing concern a
cro6s the state and nation to
develop other methods of trea
ting juvenile delinquency -
with emphasis on prevention
Experts working with juve
niles feel that the problem
begins in the community and
can only be solved there
There is the growing realiza
tion that institutionalization
retards normal growth and
development.
The N.C. Department of
Human Resources has the
responsibility for assisting lo
cal communities in developing
community-based alterna
tives. To emphasize the priori
ty the Department has placed
on this program, a Communi
ty-Based Alternative Section
has been organized under the
Department’s Assistant Se
cretary for Children, headed
by Dennis Grady.
Grady says that North Caro
lina’s operation is one of a
kind. ‘‘Our program is unique
in the nation," commented
Grady. “Local communities
develop and operate their own
program and we serve as a
helping partner giving techni
cal and financial assistance."
Technical assistance is pro
vided to both county officials
and local program directors
by eight field consultants lo
cated across the state The
central office in Raleigh main
tains a repository of juvenile
justice information.
Presently, 85 counties are
participating in the Communi
ty-Based Alternative Pro
gram Over 90 percent of the
juvenile population between
the ages of 10 and 17 are
represented by these 85 coun
ties.
"Communities are concern
ed about their troubled young
sters. They know their needs
and this is one way state
government can help local
governments develop pro
grams and still keep decision
making at the local level,”
Grady concluded.
HISTORY
Two years ago, the 1975
Session of the North Carolina
General Assembly enacted le
gislation that prohibits status
offenders from being admitted
to state training schools after
July 1, itf77. The same,-legisla- i
tion encourage communities
icross the state to develop j
programs to serve as altema- |
lives to training schools. State
funds are available to assist
communities in this effort.
Realizing that communities
had not had time or enough
money to develop adequate
programs for juveniles, the
1977 Session of the General
Assembly amended the law
and set .Inly l, 1978 as the
deadline for no longer accep
ting status offenders in the
state’s training schools.
The Legislature appro mat
ed $1,000,000 for fiscal year
1977-78 and the same amount
for 1978-79 to assist communi
ties in developing adequate
community-based alterna
tives to training schools.
ur. oell 1 o Head Seminar
Dr Gerald D Bell, Profes
sor of Organizational Beha
vior, School of Business, Uni
versity of North Carolina, will
present a two-day seminar on
Achievement Leadership
Training at the Carolina Inn,
Chapel Hill, on October 27-28
The two-day session will focus
on motivation, personality and
leadership styles and their
application to everyday man
agement situations. The semi
nar is open to executives,
management and supervisory
personnel, training directors,
personnel officers, and admi
nistrative personnel who are
n managerial roles.
Dr, Bell received Ph D. and
VI A degrees from Yale Uni
versity. He has been a visiting
orofessor at the Harvard Busi
less School and the University
>f South Africa, School of
business Leadership. He is a
najor consultant and speaker
orjman^eadm^^usin^s«^
educational and governmental
organizations.
For further information re
garding reservations and tui
tion, please call 919-967-7904 or
write P.O. Box 572, Chapel
Hill, N.C. 27514.
Gala Birthday
Party Held For
Yolanda Leake
Yolanda LeaXe, tne daugh
ter of Bishop and Mrs. George
J. Leake, celebrated her eigh
th birthday recently by taking
several of her young friends to
dinner and a movie. Those
joining Yolanda on the outing
were Nickie Phifer, Alton
Hunnycutt, Kartnie McCoy
and Frederick Bryant
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