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Saturday, December 7,1968 Six Pages -- Second Section / ITOUR PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY REYNOLDS HIRES BLACK PUBLIC RELATIONS CO. AkT STUDENT COMMISSION ED IN ARMY NURSES CORPS —Miss Magnolia Lucretia Lilly, senior nursing student at A&T State University, beams ap Humble Receives Award From NAACP for Opportunity Efforts HOUSTON—HumbIe Oil and Refining Company was present ed an award of merit by Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, on behalf of his organiza tion's Houston chapter here re cently. The citation was given in "recognition of outstanding and unusual contributions toward better race relations and the achievement of equal oppor tunity without regard to race, creed or color." It Watt based on the company'* national ef orts in the field of race rela lions and equal opportunity. Accepting the honor at the Houston NAACP chapter's an nual awards banquet, W. W. Bryan, senior vice-president of Humble, said: "This recognition of Humbel's past achievements in this area serves as a spur to faster progress in providing equal employment opportunities to present and prospective em ployees. The award is not a signal to relax our efforts." War on Crime Calls for Advance In Police and Corrections Work The most enduring protection against crime will come from ' righting the wrongs and cur ing the illnesses that tempt men to harm their neighbors." This means that "warring on poverty, inadequate housing, and unemployment is warring on crime.... Money for schools is money against crime," Beyond this it also requires that we improve the effective ness of the police the courts and the correctional system in dealing with crimes and crimi nals. THE CHALLENGE OF CRIME, by Robert Rice, a new Public Affairs Pamphlet, is a concise, eminently readable summary of these major find ings of the President's Com mission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice It is available for 25 cents from the Public Affairs Committee. 381 Park Avenue South, New York, N Y 10016 Crime, Mr. Rice points out, has always been a more serious problem in cities than in rural areas, and more prevalent in poor neighborhoods than in well-to-do sections. The fact that crime is predominantly ur ban and committed by young men makes it obvious that "the agencies that need Immediate shoring up with manpower, with equipment, with modern management methods, with pro cedural innovations, and with community concern and assist ance are city police depart ments, city prosecutors' offices, city courts, city jails, and the entire system of Juvenile jus lice .. ." ' Perhaps the best hope for controlling crime would toe an "increased effort to help young delinquents and potential de linquents grow into constructive cithern Instead of hardened proval as she is commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Nurses Corps by Lt. Col. William Graves, professor The company was cited for its recruitment, employment and training of minorities as well as for a six-page photo essay on Afro-American art which appeared in "The Hum ble Way." a company publica tion. Humble was also cited by the NAACP for its efforts to re cruit minority employees. Com pany recruiters visited more than 30 predominately Negro colleges duriqg the past year and hired more thin 75 minor ity cblltfcr cgHMBItw. Of its lMfc employments to date, nearly 30 per cent have been individuals from minority groups—some 800 with more than two-thirds in white collar and professional categories For the second year, the com pany led Houston businesses in hiring 113 disadvantaged mino rity youngsters for summer employment and exce«ded Its National Alliance of Business men nationwide target of 270 with 279 youngsters hired for the summer. and habitual criminals." Pos sibly the recommendation with the most far-reaching effect, Mr. Rice found, was the Com mission's stress on youth-serv ing agencies to help young peo ple who get into trouble or might get into trouble. Today the most that can be done "is advise them or warn them or threaten them, and then dis miss them until they commit an actionable offense." The main assignment given the National Crime Commis sion was to suggest how the agences of law enforcement — the police .the courts, the cor rectional system can work more effectively. Mr. Rice dis cusses the findings and recom mendations in each of these areas One of the most radical rec ommendations concerns the corrections system, which today functions primarily as a custo dial system with little oppor tunity or manpower for mak ng a significant effort at reha bilitation. "America's crime problem," Mr. Rice states, "is ... a problem of tens of thous ands of habitual offenders who, typically, commit progressively more serious offenses as their criminal careers continue." To effect a major change, the Com mission proposed "that custo dial institutions as they now typically exist be all but aban doned except for that small minority of criminals who are clearly dangerous either to the community or themselves, and that they be replaced toy a wide variety of community-baaed in stitutions." The aim would be to "reconcile** the criminal "to the everyday activities and duties and pleasnres—that most people take part In aa a matter of course." £b t Carlwia Cinws of military science at A&T. A native of Hertford, Lt. Lilly will enter on active duty after graduation next June. D J v ■ Roy WilKins, Executive Direc tor ot The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People presents W. W. Bryan, (1.),' Senior vice-president of Humble Oil & Refining Com pany with an award of merit given to the company for its ef forts in the field of face relations and equal opportunity without regard to race, creed or color. The company was cited for its recruitment, employment and training of minorities as well as the six page photo essay on Afro-American art which ap peared in a recent company publication. In recruitment, the Company visited more than 30 predomi nately Negro Colleges during the past year and hired more than 75 minority college candidates. Of its 1968 employments to date, nearly 30 per cent have been in dividuals from minority groups some 600 with more than two-thirds in white collar and professional categories. For the second year, the company led Houston businesses in hiring 115 disadvantaged minority young sters for summer employment and exceeded its National Alli ance of Businessmen nationwide target of 270 with 279 young sters hired for the summer. FSC to Observe Week of 'Black Awareness' FAYETTEVtLLE Fayette ville State College are observing a week of "Black Awareness" which began Mon. of this week and will terminate Friday, De cember 13, a spokesman for the Afro-American Student Organi zation stated this week Howard Fuller, Durham aeti vist, was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the initial session Monday evening in the Seabrook Auditorium The pro gram will begin at 8 o'clock and was opened to the general public "The Word is Given Black Liberation" is the title of the play which was scheduled to be presented by the Black Revolu tionary Theater in Seabrook Auditorium Tuesday evening, at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday's activities was billed as a panel discussion dur ing the college chapel hour "Hie Role of Black Students" was discussed by Gloria Stubba, Fred Hill, Betty Mickerson, and Larry McCleary. The Multi-purpose room. Ro senthal Building, was the scene of a Black Culture program Wednesday evening, December 11, commencing at 7:80 p.m. "Blaek Man and Religion'" will be subject of a panel dis- DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA Newly Acquired Firm to Provide Counsel for Negro Employment WINSTON -SALEM -\r J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, has named D. Parke (iibson Associates. Inc., a New York-headquartered na lional public relations and mar ketinu consulting firm, to pro vide counsel and services on ♦nailers involving the Negro market. Reynolds Tobacco. which manufacturers three of the four best selling cigarettes in the U. S. (Winston, Salem and Camel) retained Gibson Associates to assist in developing in-depth marketing programs to reach all consumers, and to communi cate company activity in equal employment opportunity and related matters. As part of the assignment, Gibson Associates will also be working with R. J. Reynolds Foods, Inc., a New York-based wholly-owned subsidiary of the Yets Reminded of Available Educational Assistance by VA WASHINGTON Veterans separated from service after Jan. 31, 1955, were reminded this week by the Veterans Ad ministration that they are now entitled to one and one-half months of educational assist ance—up to a maximum of 36 months—for each month of military service. A law which went into effect Dec. 1 liberalized the previous Post-Korean G. I. Bill limit of one month of educational assistance for each month of service for veterans with at least 181 days of service, in cluding some after Jan. 31. 1955 Another provision of the law which went into effect Dec. 1 grants veterans with at least 18 months of continuous service after Jan. 31, 1955, who have satisfied their military obliga tion, the maximum of 36 months of educational assist ance entitlement. Thus, for example, a veteran who may have entered service before the official end of the Korean Conflict (Jan. 31, 1955), but had only 18 months of Post-Korean service, will still be able to get four academic years of VA educational assist ance. Unchanged by this new law is the amount of educational , assistance allowance which a veteran may receive. Currently, a single veteran taking full time institutional training is paid $l3O a month by the VA. The amount of additional al lowance he may receive dpends on the number of dependents, j Post-Korean veterans have eight years from the date of their separation from service to complete training under the third generation G.I. Bill. Some Post-Korean veterans have earned entitlement to edu FAYETTEVILLE COLLEGE TO HOST ANNUAL DRAMA MEET ON DEC. 14 F A YETTEVILLE Fayette ville State College will host the North Carolina High School Drama Association's Twenty- Third Annual Drama Clinic on Saturday, December 14. Miss Lois Turner, FSC assistant pro fessor of speech and drama, nounced this week "Drama: Key to Communca tion" is the theme of the ses sion that will bring together high school drama associations throughout the state. Registra tion will be held in the Sea brook Auditorium and will com mence at 9:00 a. m. Workshops, panel discussions and techniques, and procedures of costuming, acting, stage con- cussion on Thursday evening in the Choir Room, Rosenthal Building. Featured panelists include Rev. Aaron Johnson, Dr. Grady Davis, James Parks and Raymond Gregor The lat ter two. are students. The week's activities will be culminated with a social in the Women'* Gymnasum beginning at 8:00 p.m. Reynolds Tobacco, whose pro ducts include Hawaiian Hunch and Chun King oriental foods. The Reynolds' appointment of Gibson is representative of business and industry's new ef forts to use black professional firms to assist them in achiev ing total marketing and public relaitons objectives. Gibson As sociates is a pjoneer in pro viding counsel and services to business and industry on mat t«rs involving the Negro R. J. Reynolds is an equal opportunity employer, and has made substantial gaips in the employment of Negrpes in sales, clerical, production, and man agement areas. As the nation's leading tobacco company. Rey nolds ha? involved itself not only in equal employment ef forts, but in the support of edu cational institutions and anti poverty programs. cational assistance under more than one VA program—the Ko rean Conflict G.I. Bill as well as the current measure, for example. Previously they were limited to aggregate benefits of of 36 months. Now, how ever under the new law which went into effect on Dec. 1 they will be entitled to aggre gate benefits of no more than 48 months. The VA especially urged Post-Korean veterans who did not return to school because they could coropleta only a couple ot years of college un der the old formula one month entitlement for each one month service—to contact their nearest VA office. I y rj I ! W\ "" |l i\ I TO SING ON ED SULLIVAN SHOW—Motown's Stevie Won der will sing his hit record "For Once In My Life" on the | F.d Sullivan Show this Sunday, December 15th (8-9 P.M. EST) over th e CBS-TV Stevie's Tamla recording of the song is currently the number one record in the country, ac cording to the trade press hit charts. struction, lighting, and make-up will highlight the day-long ses sion. Two one-act plays will be presented by students from Li gon High School, Raleigh; and Dillard High School, Goldsboro during the afternoon session. Mrs. J. W Lewis, FSC assistant professor of speech and drama; will act as consultant and critic for the presentations Fayetteville State College's Drama Guild will present 'Nev er Too Late" during the finaJ session in Seabrook Auditori um. Curtain call has been set for 7:00 p.m. According to Miss Turner, FSC finds hosting this particu lar clinic significant, in view of the fact the college has added to its curriculum an area of Speech and Theatre. The col lege is hopeful that this will serve as a magnet to attract academically talented students with an interest in drama. John C. Bias principal of Brawley High School, Scotland Neck, is the president of the NCHSDA Jfj/i jfIPJIHjHfiP' ; IMf ; j|Bf v flr ' $ &*' '-'lv L f HI * 1/ V • i • / 1 v§ B f|K' v MALE NURSE— Binh Son. So Vietnam—American Red Cross nurse Gene C. Holloman, 13322 Stanford Avenue, Los Angeles, California, examines young Vietnamese war refugee at one of 45 camps operated by the Dr. M. Thorpe is Named to NCACU Execut. Committee ELIZABETH CITY Keenly interested in furthering the cause of higher education in North Carolina, in accordance with the association's motto, Dr. Marion Thorpe, President of Elizabeth City State College, has been appointed to serve as a member of the Executive Committee of the North Caro lina Association of Colleges and Universities (NCACU). Ac cording to a communique from Dr. Clyde A Milner. Executive Director of the Association, thin committee will meet In the near future to continue its regulartory functions for the year, prior to the 49th. Annual Meeting of the Association, No vember 6-7, 1969. in Kaleigh. This is the third appointment that 'Dr. Thorpe has received since assuming duties as Presi dent of Elizabeth City State Gollege on July 1. 1968. The other two previous appoint ments were to: the Secretary's (HEW) National Advisory Com mittee on Dyslexia and Related Reading Disorders, and the Martin Luther King Fellowship Selection Committee—Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Fund. College Black Man Has Less Chance of Getting A Job WASHINGTON—In an assault upon racial discrimination in higher ranks of employment, a government official declared that a college-trained black man has less chance of gettinp a job commensurate with his training than a white grade school drop out. Clifford L Alexander. Jr Chairman of the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Com mission, documented this fact at a symposium on "The High er Education of Negroes—Ke\ to Equality." The symposium was sponsor ed by the United Negro College Fund and The Saturday Review and brought together an im posing array of leaders in gov ernment, business, industry, foundations, labor and educa tion at a meeting in Washing ton last week (December 3). Elaborating, Alexander noted that "a college-educated black man earns, at the median, less than a white high school drop out. and barely two-thirds what a white man earns with a comparable level of education." Continuing, he pointed out that "the disparity of income between black and white in America actually increases with the level of education attained. There is 3, closer approxima tion of equality in earnings among people with an elemen tary school education than there is among college gradu- r Locals State and National News of Sports World Cross in cooperation with • U.S. Agency for International Development in war-torn South Vietnam. Holloman was one of 100 American Red Cross staff members working with South Apparition of Virgin Mary Seen By Many Over Church in Egypt CAIRO, Egypt—As Christmas approaches, a new jojous event of tremendous religious impor tance is happening near Jesus' birthplace. However, for some unknown reason, America has not yet been informed. Eight months ago, two car mechanics, while working after midnight, thought they saw a potential case of suicide atop the church across the street Thev immediately notified the police an da priest, who were quick to arrive at the scene. This was the beginning of ' the most wondrous Christian event since the time of Christ When the authorities arrived, the figure dressed in white above the church was recog nized as being a miraculous ap parition of the Virgin Mary Since April 2, 1968, the Vir gin has made many such ap pearances over the Coptic Or thodox Church of the Virgin Mary in Zeitoun, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt. During the month of April, She appeared nearly every morning, including every day of Holy Week. From then until late September, She ap peared on the average of two to three times per week. Since thai time, She began appear ing regularly on Sunday morn ing exclusively and is still do ing so. This event has caused such interest in Europe and Africa that more than 20,000 pilgrims a day are flocking to the site. The church is believed to be located on a stopping point for the Holy Family on their flight to Egypt. In a world that largely does not believe in miracles, the events have proven particular ly significant since a number of healings have occurred in conjunction with the visions, almost from the beginning Mr. Manfouz Doss board chairman of the Los Angeles Foreign Press Association, reg ularly receives the Soptic news paper. "Watani." from Cairo, which has provided much cur rent information. boss reports cases of actual healing are published weekly in Watani, but only after they have been completely docu mented and verified by com petent physicians and special ists who knew the condition of those healed, both before and To the question of why edu cation has failed to bring about equality in income, or equality in emloyment, the head of the Federal Government's anti-job discrimination agency gave the one-word response: discrimina tion. In support of his allegation he presented some statistics drawn from the New York City white collar employment scene. Black people, representing approximately 18 percent of New York City's population in 1066, he reported, filled only 2.6 percent of the total while collar jobs of the city's 100 Price: 20c , Vietnamese Red Cross counter"* parts in the refugee program. American Red Cross is recruit ing additional male nurse* for the teams. (ARC Photo by James Caccavo)' after the mircale One example of miraculous healing is taken from the Oct 27 issue of Watani: "On the previous Sundav (Oct. 20), the Virgin Mary ap I peered twice. The second time, her appearance was much | clearer than the first time as L she appeared in a glowing ! light At that particular time many healings occurred. Others | followed after the people went I home j "Mi>. Karka Gobrial. wife of I a Cairo jeweler, had a serious j heart condition, as well as : arthritis and a serious disc con ■ dition in the back. Her problem ! was considerably worsened by | the fact medicine for her back I aggravated her heart, while her heart medicine aggravated hoi back "She went to the Coptii church and prayed fervently ; that she be healed Suddenly 1 she literally felt a hand goin* : over her back—it felt cold liki I a chilled hand. She turned t see who was doing this but only saw a woman standing a. few feet away, busy with hei pravers. "It was then that she noticed she could stand erect Her back pain was gone Later, she dis covered her heart condition, had been cured as well." Many more people have beer cured of disease, ranging fron . asthma to paralysis to termina! cancer. Faith has not been a limita tion. Egypt is a Moslem country " with about ten percent of thv— population belonging to thi Coptic faith; one of the fou;- original apostolic churche-i founded shortly after the tim. of Christ. Many Moselms have ben healed, as well as Christian-' since thapparitions began Brochures containing the ful.* details as'd documentation •' these events, which are far n • numerous to give here, may i ■ obtained by sending a stamper business-size envelop to Desei > Hills. P 0 Box 1968. I-ancav er. Calif 93534. Strangely, this phenomena has been virtually ignored IJ most of the major news medi. in this country, despite man opportunities made availahl. in Egypt to get the details. major corporations. The corporations, he said showed black people represeni ing 1.4 percent of the sale:- workers. 2.4 percent of the technicians, and only 0.7 per cent of the professionals. Forty five of the. 100 corporations, he said, had no black ftalea workers had no black technician* and 34 had no black profes sionals. Despite the existence in New York City of Federal, state am) municipal laws against Job dis crimination, tfmpllsns by pri vate agencies to Increase Ne gro employment and the elalnu /Continued on page 'SB)
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