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Grief can fake care of itself; but to get the full
value of joy, you must have somebody to divide
it with. — Mark Twain
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SAMPLE FLAG—In u special
meeting with the President
last month and display
ing one of the flags in the
deal involving a contract for
537.456.065 are. left to right:
Robert J. Brown, Special As-
Watts Corp. To Make 114,144
American Flags At $37,456,065
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
In the last year the number
of government procurement
contracts for minority business
enterprise has grown by nearly
1300 percent. Moreover, the
dollar value of the contracts
has risen from $7,657,889 in
1969 to $37,456,065 in 1970.
The actions taken by the
Nixon Administration in 1970
have resulted in contracts
valuing more than two times
the amounts let out in the
year before Nixon came to
office.
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SWORN IN AS 010 OFFICIAL
Otto McClarrin (left) former
Director of Public Relations at
Howard University, is shown
being sworn in as a member
of OEO's Public Affairs staff
by Robert Treuer (right) OEO's
Deputy Director of Personnel.
Donald Rumsfeld (center), DU
REV. MILES MARK FISHER DIES IN RICHMOND
Miles Mark Fisher, Clergy
man, Educator and Author,
succumbed December 14,
1970 In Richmond, Virginia
at the age of 71. He was pas
tor emeritus of the White
Rock Baptfct 'Church'of Dur
ham. Born in Atlanta, Georgia
the son of the late Reverend
Elijah John and Florida Neeley
Fisher, he was reared and re
ceived his early schooling in
Chicago, IllinoiswMre his
father was pastor of the
Olivet Baptist Church. A 1918
I sistant to the President; Brad}'
t Woods, son of Mr. and Mrs.
- Leon Woods; Donald Johnson,
; Administrator. Veterans Ad -
r ministration; The President;
: Leon Woods, President, Watts
i- Manufacturing Co.: Mrs. Leon
This progress is taking place
under a program by which the
agencies and departments of
the Federal government are
asked to subcontract their
work orders through the Small
Business Administration to
minority-led firms. President
Nixob's initiative in this re
gard is the greatest of its kind
ever undertaken by any ad
ministration.
Continuing efforts are being
made under what is called the
"8-A Contract." The Small
Business Administration, in co-
rector of the Office of Eco
nomic Opportunity and Special
Assistant to President Nixon,
attended the ceremony.
Mr. McClarrin resigned his
position at Howard University
to become Director of Special
Communications Programs at
OEO,
Former Pastor of While Rock Baptist Church
graduate of Morehouse Col
lege, Atlanta, Georgia, he re
ceived his theological training
at the Northern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary at Chicago.
IBs work in the Divinity
School of the University of
Chicago gained for him a Mas
ter's degree and the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy. Church
History was his specialty.
Clw CawQa Canes
Woods; Marsnau farfcar (par
tially hidden), Associate Ad
ministrator, Small Business Ad
ministration; James Woods,
Chairman of the Board, Watts
Manufacturing Co.
operation with the Federal
agencies, identifies the need
for items which the agencies
will procure. Once a need is
identified, the procurement of
the item is subcontracted to. a
minority business firm which
will supply or manufactvire the
item.
The impetus for this pro
gram came directly from Pre
sident Nixon. On December 5,
1969, the President requested
the heads of executive depart
ments and agencies to give
their support to increasing the
involvement of minority group
contractors in the Federal pro
curement program. In that
memorandum Nixon said:
"This program has high priori
ty on this Administration's
agenda. I trust that all of you
will give it your best attention
and effort." These efforts
have been enormously success
ful.
Recently, the Veterans Ad
ministration completed a con
tract with the Watts Manufac
turing Corporation, a model of
Blackowned and operated en
(See CONTRACT, page 12A)
National Urban League's OJT
Program Gets $7 Million Grant
NEW YORK - Director of
Program Operations, Adolph
Holmes announced recently
that the National Urban Lea
gue's On-The-Job Training
Program has signed a new (7
million contract from the
Manpower Administration of
the Department of Labor to
place an additional 5,422 dis
advantaged persons in training
riots in the next 12 months.
Monies are committed to 29
Shaw University conferred
upon him the degree of Doctor
of Divinity. His firs pastorate
was at the International Bap
tist Church, Chicago. While a
student at the University of
Chicago he was pastor of the
Zion Baptist Church, Racine,
Wisconsin. For five' years he
taught at Wayland Theological
Seminary of Virginia Union
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1970
Says 1970 Set Record
For Salary Increases
ATLANTA, Ga. - Salary
increases for white collar
workers in private Industry
were the largest last year in the
ten years the Labor Depart
ment's Bureau of Labor Statis
tics has surveyed such salary
trends, according to Brunswick
A. Bagdon, Southeastern Re
gional Director of the U. S.
Department of Labor's Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
The salaries of white collar
workers rose 6.2 per cent be
tween June 1969 and June
1970. This continued a trend
first evidenced in the year
ending June 1967 when
salaries advanced 4.5 percent;
followed by increase of 5.4
percent the next year and 5.7
Enrollment at
Negro Colleges
At All-time High
ATLANTA, Ga. - The
largest enrollment gains re
ported during the past four
years have brought the total
number of students attending
the nation's 33 public Negro
colleges to 103,968. This Fall
marks the first time in the his
tory of these institutions that
combines enrollments have ex
ceeded 100,000 students.
According to a report pub
lished by the Office for Ad
vancement of Public Negro
Colleges (OAPNC), an 8,887-
student increase in overall en
rollment reflects larger stu
dent bodies at 24 of the 33
predominantly black institu
tions. The largest, Southern
University, is the first to en
roll more than 10,000 stu
dents at campuses in Baton
Rouge, New Orleans, and
Shreveport, Louisiana. Four
others. Texas Southern Univer
sity in Houston, TOnnessee
State University in Nashville,
Norfolk State College in Vir
ginia, and Morgan State Col
(See ENROLLMENT, page 12A)
League Affiliates already op
erating OJT programs.
"Even in these recessionary
times when non-League pro
grams are being rejected by
employers due to layoffs, we
expect to exceed our quota
comfortably," said Adolph
Holmes, in an interview re
cently.
Holmes dUd the experi
ence and dedication of League
OJT staff, their proximity to
University. While at Virginia
Union he served as pastor of
Elam Baptist Church, Charles
City County, Virginia and
Second Liberty Baptist
Church, New Kent County,
Virginia, In 1928 he became
the pastor of Sixteenth Street
Baptist Church, Huntington,
West Virginia.
Reverend Fisher assumed
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
percent during the year ending
June 1969. These annual gains
ware well above the annual
average rate of increase of 3.1
percent from 1961 to 1966.
Clerical salaries have
generally risen at a somewhat
lower rate than the overall
white-collar average. Last year,
however, (June 1969 to June
1970) the average increase of
6.2 percent for clerical occu
pations was the same as for
professional, administrative,
and technical occupations.
pay rose 5.5 percent
in the year ending June 1969,
(See SALARY, page 12A)
Mrs. Martin L Kin
America's Most A
NEW YORK - Mrs. Martin
Luther King, Jr. ranks tenth in
a national magazine survey of
the world's most admired wo
men.
Shirley Chisholm, New
York Congresswoman, and
actress Diahann Carroll were
runners-up in the poll, which
will appear in the current
Governers Join Nixon in Issuing
Proclamations Honoring Carver
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Hie National Celebration of
the 1971 George Washington
Carver Week has been schedul
ed for the weekof January 3-9,
1971, and governors of more
than a half dozen states have
joined President Nixon in issu
ing proclamations for the event
in honor of the famed black
scientist.
A highlight of the Carver
Week Celebration will be the
annual Carver Week Lucheon
on Tuesday, January 6 at the
Webster Hall Hotel in Pitts
burg. The luncheon will be
headed by Dr. Alma Illery of
Pittsburgh, founder and Presi-
trainee recruits and the com
munity, the League's strong
follow-up service, and the Pro
gram's excellent past perform
ance recocd as reasons for his
confidence.
As of the end of Septemb*
er, OJT's original two-year
contract quota of 7,000
placements had been exceeded
by nearly 100 percent, 31 par
ticipating affiliates having
(See GRANT, page 12A)
the pastorate of Durham's
White Rocfc Baptist Church in
1933 and continued in this
capacity until his retirement
in Decenber 1964. For more
than thirty years he served on
the faculty of the School of
Religion, Shaw University in
Raleigh.
He's listed in "Directory
of American Scholars," "Con
temporary Authors," vo. 15-16;
"Who's Who in Colored
(See FISHER, page 12A)
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(January) issue of Good
Housekeeping.
Mrs. Rose Kennedy"'was
voted into the top position by
readers for her strength in the
face of great personal losses.
Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, the wi
dow of Robert F. Kennedy,
placed fourth. Mrs. Dwight D.
Eisenhower was named second
dent of the National George
Washington Carver Commemo
rative Day Association, and
Donald C. Clay of U.S. Steel
Corporation, general chairman
of the 1971 Carver celebra
tion.
Morton Waber, founder and
president of Food for Thought,
(See CARVER, page 12A)
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E. Burt, coordinator of alumni
affairs at Saint Augustine's
College; the Honorable Edward
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TANGIBLE EVIDENCE of the
spirit of cooperation which
exists between the NAACP and
the Nationai Urban League is
evidenced as the executive di
rectors of the two organizations
met in NAACP offices last
week. Roy Wilkins is shown
1970 Democratic Gains May be
Black Losses, Rep. Bond Warns
ATLANTA, Ga. - "Th*
1970 elections may spell a
k>nt-term loss for black voters
nationally, despite impressive
gains, primarily in the South."
That is the conclusion
reached by Political As
sociates, an Atlanta, Georgia
based research group headed
by Georgia State Representa
tive Julian Bond.
Bond noted that the No
vember 3rd elections, generally
considered a victory for the
Democratic Party, and the re
sults of the 1970 Census
"indicate population shifts
and Particia Near, who was
honored with first place last
year, was third. The wives of
the Apollo 13 Astronauts
(Mrs. James A. Lovell, Jr. and
Mrs. Fred W. Haise, Jr.) were
named to fifth position follow
ed by the nation's first lady,
Mrs. Richard M. Nixon. Alato
included among the top ten
were author Pearl S. Buck,
Premier Golda Meir and actress
Helen Hayes who ~ rahked
seventh, eight and ninth, re
spectively.
Readers' comments prove
that the qualities they based
their choices upon were the
courage that carried these wo
men through personal crises
and the insight requisite to
social consciousness. "They
have a quiet courage and beau
ty that appeal to me," wrote
one reader. And another,
"These women recognize cer
(See KING, page 12A)
W. Brooke, Senator of Must
chusetts, speaker for the "Sec
ond Spring," All College Con
vocation on December 4, at St.
[ Augustine's; The Right Rever
presenting Whitney Young
with the latter's NAACP Life
Membership plaque. Youngs
purchase of his life member
ship 'ook place 'Juring the
height of a national NAACP
membership campaign. (Layne
photo).
and political trends and
changes that may not favor
black voters."
"While black voters have
been almost slavishly devoted
to the Democratic Party since
the Roosevelt era, and while
the Democrats will in most
instances control state legis
lative and Congressional redis
tricting due in 1971, the nine
states where losses will occur
! far outweigh the five states
where gains will result in terms
| of black ability to influence
the mood of politics and elec
tions" Bond said.
North Dakata, lowa and
See DEMOCRATS, page 1
NAACP Blasts
Miss. Arrest of
Field Director
NEW YORK - NAACP
Executive Director Roy Wil
kins sent a telegram to Attor
ney General John N. Mitchell,
December 11, protesting "po
lice harassment and unwar
ranted arrest" of Harvey Brit
ton, an NAACP field director.
Britton was arrested in
Picayune, Mississippi, Decem
ber 9, allegedly for drunken
driving. He was in Picayune to
investigate charges of police
brutality and intimidation.
Text of the wire, which was
also sent to A. S. Summers,
Attorney General of Missis
sippi, follows:
"National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People greatly disturbed over
police harassment and unwar
(See ARREST, page 12A)
end Thomas A Fraaer, Chafed
man of the Board at Truateee,
and President Preseli R. Rob
inson.