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VOLUME II, NO. 27
NOV0IBER 27, 1974
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THE MYTH OF INTEGRATION
WINSTON-SALEM - Don’t let a lost birth certificate
or marriage license deter you from seeking benefits,
the Veterans Administration today advised eligible
veterans, dependents and survivors.
VA Regional Office Director H.W. Johnson said less
formal proof of marriage and birth is acceptable when
this information is needed to establish claims for bigger
checks. Formerly the VA required all statements of
marriages and births to be supported by formalized
documentary evidence.
Johnson also pointed out a veteran’s or widow’s
certified statement of marriage is now sufficient on
applications for compensation and education benefits
for veterans, widows and orphaned children - provided
neither the veteran nor the spouse has been married
before and VA has no contradictory information on file.
A certified statement also is acceptable regarding
birth of a child of a veteran’s marriage and as proof of
age and relationship.
HIGH POINT - The High Point Parks and Recreation
Department is again sponsoring the annual City-Wide
Senior Citizens Bazaar on Saturday, December 7 at
Astor Dowdy Towers auditorium from 10:00 a.m. until
4:00 p.m. All senior citizen groups and/or individuals
interested in participating with us should call the Parks
and Recreation Department and leave their name and
phone number by December 2, 1974.
LEXINGTON - Charla Rae Wood, daughter of Charlie
& Jessie Wood, celebrated her 5th birthday Sunday,
November 17, 1974. She is the granddaughter of Mrs.
Alvnedia Verdell and great-granddaughter of Mrs.
Beatrice Hairston. She has 3 brothers and one sister.
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Thanksgiving services will be held Thursday at 11:00
a.m. at Buncombe Baptist Church with Rev. S. Walter
Mack, Pastor, in charge and at Files Chapel Baptist
Church with Rev. F.D. Betts, Pastor in charge.
GREENSBORO- There will be a HOLIDAY TEEN
DANCE Saturday, November 30th at the YWCA on Lee
Street and Murrow Blvd. from 8:00 P.M. - until
midnight, sponsored by the Youth Organization for
Black Unity.
For more information call; 273-1797.
HIGH POINT - YWCA Events, Fourth Street
Branch: November 25th - Y-Teen Club, 7:00
p.m....Co-Ed Club, 7:30 p.m. November 26th -
Peacemakers Club, 4:30 p.m. November 27th -
Teenage Drop-In, 7:00 p.m. November 28 - Closed,
THANKSGIVING DAY. Monday thru Wednesday -
After school Care beginning at 3:00 p.m. Monday thru
Friday (excluding Thursday) - Adult Day Care
beginning at 7:00 a.m.
LEXINGTON - The Ezekial A.M.E. Zion Church
observed “Family Day”, Sunday, November 24, 1974.
The speaker of the hour was Mrs. Jessie V. Wood, a
member of the Buncombe Baptist Church. Mrs. Wood
is a graduate of Dunbar High School; attended
Winston-Salem State University, School of Nursing;
and is presently employed with Morrison-Student
Funeral Home as secretary and licensed funeral
directress. Mrs. Wood’s topic was “The Power of a
United Family.”
HIGH POINT - Mr. J.V. Morgan was the Master of
Ceremonies at the annual recognition banquet of the
High Point District, Uwharrie Council, Boy Scouts of
America held last evening at the Emerywood Baptist
Church.
During the festivities, Mr. Don Lambert, the
outgoing District Chairman presented to Ms. Elaine
Carter and Dr. John Andrews the highest award
possible on the District level, the District Award of
Merit. This award was given in recognition of Ms.
Carter’s and Dr. Andrew’s outstanding service to youth
through Scouting.
At another point in the ceremonies, the new District
officers were presented to the approximately 280
persons in attendance, and officially installed in their
positions by Dr. Ken Gobel, Uwharrie Council
President. The officers for the coming year are: Charles
Mendenhall, Jr., District Chairman; Ned Covington,
District Vice-Chairman; Elaine Carter, Cubbing
Chairlady; Bob Buchner, Scouting Chairman; Tom
Rawleigh, Exploring Chairman; Clarence Kewer,
Finance Chairman; and David Wilson, Relationships
Chairman.
Since the 1954 Brown
decision which made the
vital connection that segre
gation and equality are
incompatible, the provision
of equal educational oppor
tunities and services to
Black children have been
minimal. All about us are
scraps of evidence to
support a depressing two
decades of educational
genocide. Julian Bond
recently stated:
“In a great many ways,
we are constantly discover
ing that things have either
not changed at all, or have
become much worse...It is
as though Black Americans
are climbing a molasses
mountain in snowshoes,
while the rest of the country
rides a rather leisurely
ski-lift to the top.”
He echoes DuBois,
seventy years ago:
“Away back in the days
of bondage, they thought to
see one devine event the
end of all doubt and
BY PAUL HILL, JR.
disappointment...emanci- been fired and demoted. desegregation, in that it
pation was the key. ...At 2) A recent United States requires contact of races
last it came - suddenly, Department of Health, under positive conditions.
fearfully, like a dream...
years have passed away
since then, ten, twenty,
forty years of national life,
forty years of renewal and
development, and yet the
nation has not yet found
peace from its sins: the
HIGH POINT - Charles
A. Ramsey, Talent and
Scholarship Director of
Abdallah Temple No. 189 in
High Point, N.C. would like
to announce the Inaugura
tion of the first local Talent
Competition sponsored by
the Ancient Egyptian
Arabic Order Noble Mystic
Shrine, Inc., Prince Hall
Affiliation.
Education and Welfare Increasing interaction,
study, for 21 states, shows whether of groups or
that of a 125,000 suspended individuals, intensifies and
students, 70,000 were magnifies processes al-
Black. ready underway. Hence,
3) Current statistics show mere interracial contact can
that in the eleven southern lead either to greater
states, only nine per cent of prejudice and rejection or
freedman has not yet found Black students are in to greater respect and
in freedom his promosed all-Black schools, and acceptance depending upon
land.” forty-six per cent are in the situation in which il
The educational process schools with a white occurs. The conditions
that exist under the majority. In Northern and necessary for positive
auspices of the Brown Western states, by con- interracial contacts, which
Decisions and the 1964 trast, eleven per cent of have been lacking in school
Civil Rights Act have Black students are in systems throughout the
psychologically mained all-Black schools, and only nation, include the pursuit
Black children throughout twenty-eight per cent are in of common goals, coopera-
this racist country. schools with a white tive dependence, equal
Some of the highlights of majority. status and affirmative
desegregation efforts can What has taken place in institutional support,
be reflected in the following the south and what is The positive conditions
statistics: taking place presently in necessary if interracial
1) A National Education the north is desegregation contacts are to yield
Association survey esti- which involves nothing benenficial results must be
mates for seventeen states more than the simple a result of attitudinal
that 33,000 Black teachers intermingling of races, changes of the general
and adrninistrators have Integration differs from public as well as constitu
tional changes. The quali
tative changes necessary
for bring about the
environment necessary for
will be held January 5, 1975 ^ows community; and positive integration is
at 6:00 P.M. in High Point scholarships to winners of nothing less than a social
Auditorium on the High talent competition. political, economic, and
Point Cnllpcjp r 8’f's, age 17 to 21 cultural revolution within
Point Col ege Campus. will compete in the local this country.
sale'f tiS^n '^•‘hin the prevailing
sale of tickets and appre- represent the city of High status quo’ educational
ciated donation will be used Point in the State contest! Jeno'^e^ relative to l^lac^
by the temple to develop a Winston-Salem
youth
politically and economicallv
distinct civilizations. The
Kerner Commission warn
ed that we are becoming
two societies. In progress
between these two societies
there is a brutal severing of
all connections relative to
politics, recreation, educa
tion transportation - all the
elements of daily social
intercourse. In the Detroil
case, the Court of Appeals
noted:
“This court never before
has been confronted by a
finding that any less
comprehensive a solution
that a metropolitan area
plan would result in an all
Black school system imme
diately surrounded by
practically all white subur
ban systems...”
It can be argued that
time and continued econo
mic growth will eventually
ameliorate this situation.
But the signs are all to the c
contrary. Some argued that
slavery too would just
whither away; and that
legal segregation would fall
of its own weight., in the
unaided tickings of the
clock, I have little fait!
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Leisurett Club Meets
iLJ ■■ auiiiiiii2»uaLui:i nave iniegration di
Abdaliati Temple Sponsors First
Talent Competition
program in High All interested girls within
Point designed to help the this age range are asked to
youths of today with the contact either Charles
Toi„„f r- rt- '"Mention, of producing Ramsey at 454-3542 or
Talent Competition better citizens for tomor- Larry Belo at 885-0320.
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[From I. to r.] 'Thomas Fuller, Assistant Rabbin; Charles Ramsey, Director of Talent
and Scholarships; Aaron Lightner, Illustrious Potentate.
children is inevitable. In
the Richmond and Detroit
decisions on busing, we
have reached an impasse,
not only in the law, but in
the facts. Each of the
nation’s metropolitan areas
north and south, have
divided itself into two
cities, white and black. This
is not a matter of
neighborhoods; there have
been racial, ethnic, and
economic neighborhoods.
This is different. In each
metropolitan area, there
exist two geographically,
W.S.S.U. Faculty
Members Awarded
Grantj
WINSTON-SALEM - Se
ven faculty members have
been awarded grants from
the Consortium
search Training (CORT)
which is in its second year
of operation on
Winston-Salem State Uni
versity campus. More than
$5,000 has been made
available to these faculty
members from the areas of
social sciences and
humanities.
Winston-Salem State Un
iversity is a member of the
Consortium on Research
Training which includes
some 15 black colleges and
universities. The objective
of the CORT program is to
increase research compe
tencies of both faculty and
students on predominantly
black campuses and build
on and increase the
stimulation and effort that
will produce a new
generation of students and
teachers who will consider
research worthwhile
rewarding
LEXINGTON - The
“Leisurett Club” of Lex
ington prepares for its
annual Bazaar which is to
be held December 7.
This year the club will be
featuring, for sale, hand
crafted items and home
baked patries made by the
club members.
The seven year old club
met last week at the home
of Mrs. Beauna Watkins, at
122 Smith Avenue to make
plans for next month’s
coming event.
Also, preliminary plans
were discussed about their
April, 1975 Debutante
Cctillion, their 7th. Attend
ing the meeting were five
voung ladies who will be
debutant participants.
The twelve member club
(originally four), was form
ed in 1967. Their primary
functions are social and
civic. During their exis-
tance, they have awarded
twenty one scholarships to
needy college students as
well as aided, assisted and
entertained senior citizens,
cripple children, churches
and sickle cell organiza
tions.
The officers of the club
are: Mrs. Beaunna Wat
kins, President; Mrs.
Nancy Harrislon, Vice
President; Mrs. Jessie
Wood, Secretary; and Mrs.
Mattie Drakeford, Treasur
er.
Hand crafted items made by The Leisurett Club. [Photo
by THE TRIBUNAL AID]
and
Debutante participatns, from I. to r., Honnie Smith,
Cynthia Miller, Elaine Rector, Beverly Roberts, and
Lillian Marshall. [Photo by THE TRIBUNAL AID]
Delay In Naming Vet
School Site Pleasing
GREENSBORO - The cine,
chancellor of A&T State A&T is seeking to gain
University said he is the new school as is North
pleased the state’s Board of Carolina State University in
Governors agreed to delay Raleigh,
for a month their selection Dowdy said, “I am
of the site for a proposed
school of veterinary medi-
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."“if’ give our children a sense of pride in being black. The glory of our past
and the dignity of our present must lead the way to the power of our future.”
— — ADAM CLAYTON POWELL