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2A L—THE CAROLINA TIMES SATURDAY, JAN. XI, 1968 One of the most significant com mitment a women can make today is to do her best to assure the birth of healthy children. Her own, first of all, and then the children of all mothers. Healthy children are a blessing. We are reminded of this when we learn about the imminent Mothers' March of the March of Dimes in our community. As most people know, the mothers are marching into battle against bijrth defects to collect funds which the March of Dimes will channel in to research and treatment . As a step toward prevention of birth defects the March of Dimes, We Condemn Earfha Kitt Incident The Carolina Times condemns, de- ing out of pants and throwing brides and is thoroughly disgusted *nd j n piateglass windows to qualify as ashamed of the gutter-like conduct R leader N or other and the uncouth language shouted at , , ~ ~, the wife of the president, by Miss group m these troubled tunes. Eartha Kitt during the recent lunch- , If th «* eon at the White House given by m J* Mrs. Johnson for 50 women to dis- by we ttunk, the White "U3S how to stop crime in the streets. House luncheon to which she was an For nearly a half century now this ***? newspaper has pulled no punches at ■** *" fluch UMesnJy presidents, governor, other high of- conduct Thu8 ' whatever good might ficials or their wives, in its uncom- of the mcident was de promising stand for the rights of all °deiy off-set by Miss Kitt s exhihi- N,egroes. We stand on our record and.. tion disrespect for both Mrs. John challenge the world to produce one President, jot or tittle of compromise we have Therefore, the most delighted per evpr written or uttered in the battle 80118 of the incident » entire ** we have waged for the rights of those on ' ve P l " o^*^ .been members of of our own race. Ku Klux Kian, the White Citizens We would say to Miss Kitt, there fore, and all of the other growing klan of self appointed spokesmen and leader sof today, that it takes more than headlines in newspapers, Afri can styled haircuts, shirt tails hang- The General Telephone Rate Increase Whether the users of telephones in Durham and Creedmoor like it or not they will probably And them selves on the short end of the rope when the final verdict is handed down by the North Carolina Public Utili ty esfCommissioff lh the matter of the proposed rate increases for which the General Telephone Company has notified the City of Durham it in tends filing in February. It is incred ible, in the face of the poor and at times, the miserable service furnish ed telephone users in Durham and Creedmoor, that General Telephone' would have the audacity to aak for rate increases before even expressing its regrets for the miserable service it is now rendering its subscribers in DURHAM Within Base Bate Ami Kxtattta* Bate Fropoaed Bate Business One-Party —sll.(K) *19.00 Business Two-Party #.OO 10.00 Business Four-Party 7.00 13.00 Business Extension 1.7# 1.00 Residence One-Party 4-15 8.00 Residence Two-Party 3.50 6.78 Residence Four-Party 2.00 IJS Residence Extension 1.00 1.00 Within Initial Barml Bate Area rnfMl Business Multi-Party 6.00 1100 Business Extension 1.75 2.00 Residence Multi-Party 2.90 5.15 Residence Extension 1.00 1.00 CREEDMOOB Within Base Bate Arm IxMu Bate Friiml Bate Business One-Party 8.00 11.00 Business Two-Party 7.00 10.00 Business Extension 1.75 2.00 Residence One-Party 1.75 6.50 Residence Two-Party 3.00 5.50 Residence Four-Party MI 4JO Residence Extension 1.00 1.00 Within Base Bate Area frtthf Bate fri|ml Bate Business Multi-Party 4-75 • 7-50 Business Extension 1.75 1.00 Residence Multi-Party 2.05 4.50 Residence Extension 1.00 1.00 Things You Should Know s '* I RSEf EUGENE CHEN fl &O*M IMTMMOAf) / ft.WXOr B NCdKVCHINCSI MDIMMMN V 3S& flWKiWfftHWl MTltlfttH |W tf |m| MM IXtHfe AOMBOW IP THE MWdfITWY OF COM- L2)k MBHTffIftHII HfWHHW 1 WtflUKHt j^ll/ißtrjV HfVlllwHltWlTM "* rfcJ " wll *"* l ** Jm rouwocDAw mmm y N» curat tnunM* *oaotD MNI txpuMVM 19 vSLiomobmiir Mothers' March now celebrating its 30th Anniver sary, has initiated education pro grams encouraging preconceptual and prenatal care. The voluntary health organization also finances Research and Treat ment Centers for the I ~iside study of birth defects and the development of treatment techniques. The National Foundation now has nearly 100 of these Births Defects Centers throughout the country. More research and more Centers are needed. Whether these needs are met depends on the generosity of your contribution to the March of Dimes. Council, other such hate groups and individuals who have so viciously opposed President Johnson because of his efforts to establish for the Ne groes of this country a greater share of citizenship and human dignity. Durham and Creechnoor. Below we are publishing the table of the rate increases the General Telephone Co. states it will ask the N. C. Public Utilities Commission to grant. It will be noted that in more - than one instance the increase to be asked for ranges up to as much as 70 per cent of the present monthly rate charged. Here, we think, is a good op port unity for the City Council to show hs responsibility to the citizens of Durham by coming to their defense in a critical situation instead of rub ber-stamping the exhoribant in creases the General Telephone Com pany is demanding far, what many of its subscribers state is, the very poor est phone system in the state: Key To Problem: More jobs prXbj&j£r ' - v -j / .Jr 1 'j\ TTr/ ir *: B *ECW£SW7H7?Mr JO3OHK3NKK or NX . . «S JOBS ARE THE KEY Nftl, ™ PRIORITY «** >■ The General Telephone Com pany wants to increase hi chafes fbr what too many people think is the worst telephone service in the nation. Considering the wide spread dissatisfaction among its subscriber!, the Coatpeny showed a lot of nerve in petitioning the City of Durham and the State Utilities Commission to approve a rate schedule that would nearly double the misting rates. If the lata schedule is approved, these people would pay substantially more for telephone service than the subscribers of other telephone sy»- tems throughout North Carolina. It is utterly fantastic that • telephone company that cannot even maintain the standards of ler ▼ioe found in other parts of the country and state, should hare the ■all to expect permission to raise its rates. But then. The General Telephone Company of the South east is a rather fantastic outfit. Fkst of all, General Telephone does not have customers; it has ciieiite-in-bondage. The Company has an absolute monopoly over a i' critical public service. No matter bow dteatiAd a subscriber might be with ' the service provided, as long at he needs a phone, be has got to put up with it The monopolistic rftuation has given rise to an "arrogance of po wer." General Telephone often gives the luipsession that it is more ooncemed about its own conven ience than that of its subscribers; and more interested ki its profits than in providing quality service. Be that as it may, Durham- Creedmoore mbscribers of the Ge neral Telephone Company now have a chance to yaak the tassle by which they have been tied. Every one of them rfiould write a letter to the State Utilities Commission in Raleigh (with a carbon copy for the City of Durham), urging that ths General Telephone Company not be given permission to raise its rates. Howard Fate expo led to wite pubUc worutlny thli week whee be appeared on WUNC-TVi Newt Conference Monday n%ht It wu • tbneiy appearance. He wm Mi to fin hit reaction to the fact that be had bean cleared of chaqee aapwltng hit lnrohetaeut hi thh ■unmer'i demonstration*, In Dur ham and which lad to hit mpao te tea the OEO payroll at the North CxoHoa Fund. Fuller quite pot hia On m om political teiaitemt whan ha Mid that OEO had te informa tion to cter hint lamal months a*>, tmt bad found it expedient to tet until the new anttporerty hgtettoa had posted Ora«h Con- before exonerating him. There b raaßy little atlafactlon to ba fated tern hating been deered of te chatpee again* him. Since the dMge* ware flnt made, Cbngtoamiaa Jta Gardner, Cover nor Moora, aad LT GOT. Bob Soott, hare need Polar and the ooatro toryilii lin hhn te that M poftkol od»teo» Not OM of tela nan wl reriae Uijadfa ■art that Fate feoaflt to tech at te Itatenltr of Notth Carotea, TELL IT LIKE fT IS By KENT R. AUTOR a judgement that was based on the assumption that the charges against Fußer were valid. On other matters, Howard Ful ler really didn't have much to say of any ignWcance. This was partly the fault of those who interviewed him. For his own part. Fuller spoiled his opportunity to commu nicate with his audience by af fecting some awkward mannerisms of speech. >He sounded more an adokeoent than a iwr/iwhlnaal ' social worker and community or ganizer when trying to express him self on some point Every other word be spoke was punctuated with the monotonous phrase "you know - ah .. as if he wen invi ting the audienoe to assist him in To Be Equal By WHITNEY PL YOUNG, J*. Creating Job Equality I HAVE often said that on* of the mora encouraging de velopments in recent months has been the determina tion of the business leaders of America to taclde pro blems of slums and unemployment Companies aM over America have made new effoils to hire and upgrade Negro employees, and some are putting new emphasis em locat ing plants in the ghetto. ■ And they are willing to break with tra dition, too. In Detroit, for example the big automakers threw out their teste and compli cated hiring procedures. They went right into the ghetto to recruit thousands of work ers. Many people scoffed, saying that Ne groes didn't want to work. But when the improvised hiring store* opened, they found thousands waiting in line for a Job. | But emphasis on hiring unemployed Mr. Young workers is just one way business can relieve toe job problem. We have to turn to Dallas, Texas, to sea another way in which a large company can have impact far greater than its own limited ability to create new Jobs. Stanley Marcus is president of ths famous department store, Neknan-Mamis, which saters to quality trade. All it had to do was to hire a few Negro clerks and few * would expect much mom from thtfm. I Model For Every Business But I've known Stanley Marcus for years, and h*'i hut not the kind of man who settles for token efforts. Ha has been concerned with the growing urban crisis, and the terri ble toll unemployment takes on Negro families He decid ed to do something about It, and what his company has done should serve as 'a model for every business in Asneric*. Every company which aells goods to the Neiman-Mar cus stores got a New Year's letter from Mr. Marcus. It told them that the business community has to assume a greater degree of responsibility tor urbair problems and that the federal government requires every company (t deals with to be an equal opportunity employer. He said that » pri vate company can do no lass, and that special efforts must be mage tojemte Jobs for minority .group menfceif. r Cu CatSiiU &aug PubUthed iwry Saturday at Dwhom, N. C. by United. PubUthm, Inc. ,U E. AUSTIN. Publisher SAMUEL L. BRIGCS MANAGFE* Ed tor J. EL WOOD CARTER. Adv*rti*t*c Hmm&r Saoond CfaM FoaUfo Fold at Ototen, N. (X 27708 i SUBSCRIPTION RATES *• ■ , •5-00 per ytear pfa* (15c tax fa N. G.) onywhrao fa tte US., aad Canada and to layiiwai Own-, Foreign. $7.50 par year, Single copy 20c. PHMCVAI. Orrtat LOCATED AT 430 E. FRIKBW Snaorr, Duautt, Noarra Caaoma S77OS his difficulty in speaking his mill, by admitting that they knew what he meant anyway. Howard Fuller is engaged in a vary important kind of work in our community: oxganUng poor people, and helping them to take part in the decisions that alTect their Uvea. He is a very talented and dedicated professional who de serves support. Much of the sup port he m*. tfowpytf, wffl depend en the kind of hunp projects to the community at large. It is im perative that he oommnntngte his ideas to the community Clearly and effecthrUy. But, it is alio im portant that the community not reject his ideas became they an mpieeeed so poorly. IHE WAY I SKIT By DAVID W. STITM SCHOOL BOND ISSUI that the city school board On January 90. we will be failed to keep Its promise to going to the to vote on the voters in 1964 when it did foe 9.78 million dollar school not fulfill promised work at bond issue. This columnist in a several city schools. series of articles has pointed The publication prepared by out the deficiencies and ine- the Durham City and County qui ties In this proposal. It is school board and published by clear that this proposal ia not the Durham Citizens For Bet- In the best Interest of the ma- ter Schools, Inc. points to the Jorlty of the people. This col- lack of attention to and con umnlst urges you to consider cern for the city schools. The this when you vote on January school boards suggest a new 10. band room for Hillside High A fact concerning this pro- School but ignore whst should poeal which has not been ap- be a higher priority need, a parent to most people is that physics lab and other modern the primary concern which science facilities. While sn ade motivated this bond proposal quate band room is undoubted was the county school board's ]y needed science facilities ire desire to build six new schools, much more necessary to the Knowing they could not get basic education of a much lar this themselves they tacked on g e r number of students. a merger amount for the city We are reprinting below the qratem hoping to get it through f u n text of this column of No on the pretense that it was vember 25, 1967 which shows really of benefit to both sys- the motives of the school boards. It must be emphasised again THE SCHOOL BOND PROPOSAL One knows thct under the very best circumstances it is extremely unpopular to attack any measure to improve a school system. However I think we need to prove the intent of the proposed bond issue and to qeesttoa how such funds will be aaed. The amount of money $9,750,000 seems to be a reasonable sum to qpssid on our school systems. But the use of the funds as stated by the combined achoo 1 boards is very questionable, to say the least To get things in perspective let's look at these very interesting facts. According to School Board figures released as of September 29, 1967, these wen 14,345 students in the aty school system. Of this number 7,810 wen Negro and 6,576 wen, white. Expressed in percentages $4.3% of the children in City schools wen Negro and 45.7% wen white. The Durham County schools had an enroQmssrt, as of September 29, 1967, of 13,060 of which 10,555 wen ia "predominantly white" schools white the Negro schools had sb aioßmeot of 2,505."1Wi nHftns that approximately 19%*cif thtf stu dents in the County schools an Negro while approximately 81% an white. f It seems suspicious that this per osatage equals the percentage split in hinds between City and County schools. Some 80% of the bond money Is proposed to be qwnt in the predominantly white county system and only 20% in the City system when Negroes only tflghtly outnumber whites. It Is significant that the bond proposal does not itself list any fwdflc use of the money. We have only a statement, prepared by the combined school boards, listing the CJty and County needs. Such needs sn listed ss being for the city: renovation of old buildings (over 40 yean old), new libraries, new classrooms, new gymtodums, s school shop sad storage buildings s mi an undisclosed new school site. County needs an bstod as: four new elementary schoola-old Chapel HID Road, North of the City, Northwest at the aty and East of the City, a new Junta High and a new Senior High school-both Northwest of the City 0 hear then is a new white housing development called Croas daite in that ana of the County), new school sites for elementary and Junior and Senior High schools North and Northwest of the City. No specific locations an given for any of these. ■ - The school boards have not been *Me to give any clear reason' why / nch an unequitable amount of money (17,250,000 for the County and $3,500,000 foe the City) is proposed to be vent In the County system. They giro ao ,facts to sup pott their contention that four new ahmentary and two new high schools are needed in the County system. Nothing is shown to indicate that nch a gnat movement of school population has oocured. Further, there is no guarantee that the fundi will be qpcot in the aaaaaer specified. In past bond issues when ftsnda ran *ort because of in nrsadug construction costs and other factors it was always the Negro schoob that got the short end of the sttok oc got left oat entirety. WMM Moll Mwtmoui fundi at* Ttopowd foe tha County qrrtam, without any Jujtlflcation, |MM aaadt of AM Oty icfcoal lyttcm «n Iforad. Fomnoit among thq mmy naada k a aalaaea wfa« fo* mm HJfh School which to totally , toofcfc* aojr ap to data labocatoiy , fcelMw aad which ha« no pfcyrtc* Tkb nooth'i PttiWi Diftft ■tow u toal food for lhoa|ht and Maats about tha MONI for tha Mtoi of tha ifhool board*. It nidi ■ MNR " "la Wathfafton today, radon* school desegregation is such an ob vious impossibility that it is silly to talk about it The District's primary and elementary schools are 93-per cent Negro; the high schools are poshing up toward 90 percent. And Washington is merely an advanced case. Here, as of last year, Is how far the primary and elemen tary schools of six other major cities hare traveled along the same road: Baltimore, 64-percent Negro, St Louis, 64-percent Negro, Philadel phia, 60-percent Negro, Chicago, 56-percent Negro, and Cleveland, 53- percent Negro. There is a mass of evidence-for Instance, in the supporting studies behind the Watts report-to show that School quality is a far more impor tant factor than racial feeling in this white flight from desegregated schools." Entire school systems across the County have made a vast change in )he last several years brought on by whites moving to the suburbs in order to avoid school intergration. {Now it appears that the same trend Is occuring in. Durham. It ii ifjte to. point out again Aisij in Durham a city of 100,000, )o% white and 30% Negro, 54.3% of the .school enrollment is already Negro, What the school bond issue really is doing is preparing for a white exodus from the city school system. They are constructing buildings that are needed for one purpose only to continue segregated schools. Should we awake one day and find ttut, like Washington, D. C., 93% of our Oty schools are Negroes, I would at least Hke to find that the school plants we have inherited an worth having. It also occures to me that those charged with the responsibility of spending this bond money- should concern themselves more with the current needs of the City system rather than with the unknown future needs of the County. Before you vote on December 12, consider the real motivies of those who will direct the use of the school Bond Honey if the Bond Proposal Is approved. IBlhis . Week In Negro History
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