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Orders Appointment of Asst. for Minority Affairs
WASHINGTON, D. C.
HM Ctataf of Naval Opera
tions, Admiral B. R. Zum
walt, Jr., ordered all com
manding offlMt* to appoint a
special assistant for minority
tffaks teat weak.
In a massage aant to all
Navy fleet and above person
nel, Admiral Zumwalt, the
Navy's top officer, said that
"This officer or petty officer
should have direct access to
tbe commanding officer and
will be consulted on all
matters Involving minority
▼ by Sieve Sherlock *1 V
HOW TO TAKE A LESSON
Professional ski instruction
is as essential to your ski
safety and your on-the-slope
enjoyment as your skis
Most areas maintain a pro
fessional ski school offering a
variety of classes and individual
instruction to skiers ranging
from beginner to expert. Infor
mation on which classes are
available, when and where they
meet and their costs is avail
ble at the ski school desk. If
you're planning to take a les
son, go there first and the ski
school director will assign you
to the class best suited for your
ability.
Before your lesson, be sure
all equipment is working well
especially your release bindings
If they need adjustment, have
the ski shop fix them Some
bindings, like the Marker heel
toe combinations are designed
for the skier to make his own
adjustments while he's on the
hill
Once you 're in class, expect
to get a good lesson. Don't hesi
tate to ask questions and don't
be afraid to try anythii.g your
instructor shows you.
If you feel that your class is
too slow or too advanced for
your ability, inform the instruc
tor so a change can be made.
Remember, you're spending
your money therefore spend
it wisely.
Some classes, such as those
at the beginner levels, move
more slowly than those for in
termediate or advanced skiers.
For a slow-moving class, dress
warmly, the slow-paced hour or
two on the slopes can chill
even the coldest-blooded
sportsmen
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Tbe DMMfei, known m
"Z NAVOP 66," it tbe latest
In a series of mwsaagas from
tbe 50-year old CNO to all
Navy personnel and responds
to Navy Secretary John H.
Chafee's recent directive
ordering a renewed effort for
tbe Navy in making equal
opportunity- a reality.
Since July this year, when
Admiral Zumwalt became the
youngest Navy Admiral to be
come Chief of Naval Opera
tions, his personal orders.
Following your lesson, prac
tice what you have learned. The
purpose of the lesson is to pro
vide you with the elements of
technique and style for good
skiing. How well you are able
to use those elements will be
determined by how much you
practice.
If you have difficulty learn
ing, it may be caused by your
equipment. Ski construction
thas a great effect
on your skiing
performance and
learning ability.
Your ski shop or
instructor can
help you evaluate
your ability and
Sherlock then recommend
a suitable ski. Some skis,
such as those in the Fischer
line, come in a complete range
of materials and styles for all
levels from beginner to expert
and professional.
The right boots help im
measurably in your ability to
learn. IdeaWy, your boots will
provide you with the import
ant combination of comfort
and support, while relaying
bodily movements to your skis.
Most boots today feature a
plastic construction like the
Coverite used in the Humanic
line. In addition to the sup
port it offers, plastic is more
easily maintained than the lea
ther used in boots years ago.
Learning to ski is an excit
ing, fun-filled experience. Each
level of learning has its own
slopes, and trails, its own equip
ment and its own ski school
classes. But each level of
learning to ski also has one
thing in common with all ski
ing and that's fun!
known throughout tbe Navy
as "Z-Grams," have es
tablished new leave . pMWw
for fleet personnel, new uni
form regulations, and ex
panded benefits for service
personnel and their depend
ents.
In this latest maasage,
titled "Equal Opportunity in
tbe Navy," Admiral Sumwalt
said:
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"Last month, Secretary
Chafee and I, along with other
senior officials of .the Navy
Department, met on one oc
casion with representative
black Navy officers and their
wives and later with a repre
sentative group of black en
listed men and their wives.
"Prior to these meetings, I
was convinced that, compared
with the civilian community,
we had relatively few racial
problems in the Navy. How
ever, after exploring the
matter in some depth with
these two groups, I have dis
covered that I was wrong -
we do have problems, and it
is my intention and that of
Secretary Chafee to take
prompt steps toward their
solution.
"What struck me more
than anything else was the
depth of feeling of our black
personnel that there is signi
ficant discrimination in the
Navy. Prkrt to these meetings,
I sincerely believed that I was
philosophically prepared to
understand the problems of
our black Naveymen and their
families, and until we dis
cussed them at length, 1 did
not realize the extent and
deep significance of many of
these matters.
"There are two keys to the
problem. First, we must open
up new avenues of communi
cation with not only our
black personnel, but also with
ail minority groups in the
Navy so that we may learn
what and where the areas of
A Lesson In
Volunteer Leadership
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OR. WALTER WASHINGTON, President of Alcorn A & M. Lorman,
Miss., and March of Dimes Volunteer Leader.
Dr. Walter Washington, pres
ident of Alcorn A & M, Lor
man, Miss., has been a staunch
energetic March of Dimes vol
unteer leader for more than a
quarter of a century.
His community service has
spanned a generation that
brought victory over epidemic
polio and the beginning of
progress against birth defects.
Like most young people in
1944, Dr. Washington had seen
the crippling force of polio. In
those days, he recalls, the dis
ease was a menace to every
community in America. To help
overcome this threat, he orga
nized a student drive at Parris
High School in Hazlehurst,
Miss., to support research and
treatment conducted by the
March of Dimes.
Man of Action
Throughout his college ca
reer, he continued to give time
and service although he was
carrying the demanding sched
ule of a sociology major with
a minor in economics. After
graduation he embarked upon
a teaching career and assumed
greater positions of chapter
volunteer leadership.
Presently, he is state chair
man of the Steering Commit
tee, a post he has held for some
five years. Mississippi chapters
have been extremely active ini
public health education aimed
at prenatal care and rubella
immunization. They also help
support a Birth Defects Center
at the University of Mississippi
friction are.-Second, all of us
in the Navy must develop a
far greater sensitivity to the
problems of all our minority
groups so that we may more
effectively go about solving
them. Our meetings hare in
Washington were a beginning,
but 11® more than that. Much
remains to be done.
"For example, I am parti-
Medical Center in Jackson.
He has stimulated widespread
interest in March of Dimes pro
grams among young people in
high schools and colleges.
While he was president of Uti
ca Junior College, he worked
closely on projects with stu
dents, including record-break
ing fund-raising appeals. Dr.
Washington attributes much of
the success of these programs
to Mettezzee Harris, then Jeanes
Supervisor of Hinds County
Schools, chairman then of the
March of Dimes Hinds County
Chapter.
The Southern educator has
varying reasons for his life
long commitment to the pub
lic health field.
Grows On You
"Here is an opportunity to
extend yourself to a group of
people who really need help,"
he explains. "Birth defects
strike some quarter of a mil
lion newborn babies every year
in the United States. Partici
pation in activities aimed at
prevention and treatment of
congenital disease has a ten
dency to grow on you.
"At the end of each cam
paign, there is always the
temptation to say, that's it, I've
had my last one," he adds
laughingly. "But I invariably
find myself back at work."
Dr. Washington also has kind
words for the volunteers he
has met over the years. They
are service-oriented men and
women who find fulfillment in
helping others.
cularly distressed by the num
erous examples of discrimina
tion black Navy families ftUT
experience in attempting to
locate housing for their fami
lies. This situation and others
like it are indicative in some
cases of less than full team
work being brought to bear
by the whole Navy team on
behalf of some of our mem
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Each stack requires its own electrostotic
precipitator such os these The massive
precipitators at the left are in operation,
removing 99 percent o( the flyash. The
ones ot the right are under construction.
Sigmas Elect Dr. Parlefle Moore President
NEW YORK - The seven
hundred and fifty Delegates
who journeyed acroaa the
United Statea and the Virgin
Islands to meet in the Robert
E. Lee Hotel of "Wlnatf'
Salem, from December 26
through 20, 1970 for the
56th Anniversary Conclave of
the Phi Beta Sigma Fratsnity,
Incorporated, elected Dr. Par
lett L. Moore, the recently re
tired President of Coppins
State College of Baltimore, its
new National President.
The Phi Beta Sigma Fra
ternity, Incorporated is one
of the eight nationally mem
ber ed greek-lettered collegiate
societies among Black college
trained men. The organiza
tion was founded at Howard
University in 1914; his
40,000 members operating
through 200 undergraduate
and graduate chapters located
on college campuses, cities
and towns and urban centers
in the United States, the Vir
gin Islands, and the contin
ent of America.
The Fraternity sponsors
national programs in Educa
tion, Bigger and Better Busi
ness, Political and Social Ac
tions.
The Delegates were in
spired towards conducting
four days of programming the
future aims of the Fraternity
after listening to an enthusi
astic speech delivered by Bro
ther Gilchrist Francis, a Civil
Rights specialist in the Dept.
of HEW, who keynoted the
meeting by asking the as
semblage to work for uplift
ing and advancing progress
among Black grassroots; a
resounding "State of the Fra
ternity" speech delivered by
outgoing President Dr. Alvin
J. McNeil who called for
change and progress coming
from within the ranks of the
Fraternity itself; Brother
bers and failure to use exist
ing authority and directives to
enforce their rights. In some
places, housing personnel are
tactily contributing to (In
crimination in housing.
We re getting rid of the smoke
at every one of our coal-burning
plants. It's going to take a couple
of years, but then our stacks will
be 99% clean.
Our problem is flyash —those
tiny, nontoxic particles that rise
from our stacks when we burn
coal.
The giant flyash collectors we
installed years ago can't remove
enough of the flyash produced
by today's low-quality coal.
So now we're putting in new,
highly effective systems—called
"electrostatic precipitators"
that remove 99% of the flyash.
Marshall Ban, Manager of
Corporate Personnel Develop
ment of the R. «L Reynolds
Industries, who, in speaking
at the Undergraduate Lunch
eon, asked undergraduate col
lege men assembled to* be
personally accountable for the
future of the country and par
ticularly how Black Ameri
cans will participate in the
health and well being of your
community, your
your nation; Brother Robert
Decorating Tips A
By Rhonda Racx
Home Decor Director
Hardwood Institute
RING MARKS NO MARRIAGE TO FURNITURE DISASTER
Most people I know tend to treat their wood furniture
with kid glove care. Naturally, I can't say that I blame
them. After all, they've made a big investment in their
furniture and they want it to last as long as possible.
And the same goes for people with children. So many
couples delay in buying good furniture until their offspring
grow old enough to treat their interior surroundings with
some degree of respect. I suppose they feel that childish
energy mixes with fine furniture like oil does with water.
Certainly both attitudes
are, to a large degree, quite
valid. But what most people
fail to realize when they
buy a piece of hardwood fur
niture is that they are not
only purchasing furniture
with great style and beauty,
but they've also invested in
outstanding durability. \
Genuine hardwood furnP"
ture, unlike cheaper imita
tion wood or plastic sub
stitutes, is virtually inde
structible. Of course,- chop
ping it to pieces with an
axe, or using it for kindling
wood won't help to preserve
its life. But normal house
hold abuse is never really
a problem. Periodic waxing,
say two or three times a
year, and daily dusting is
all the upkeep a piece of
hardwood furniture ever
needs.
As we all know, even with
the most tender loving care,
sometimes accidents will
occur. But when they do,
there's really no cause for
panic. Here hardwood furni
ture has the advantage over
other types of materials.
Minor scrapes, stains and
bruises can always be re
paired. In fact, you can
make repairs yourself, right
in your living room. For
example, one of the most
common household acci
dents to befall wood pieces
is the tell-tale white ring
blemish which often results
from leaving a wet glass or
You can see the result in the un
retouched photo of an operating
stack (above, right).
The precipitators are huge, and
very complicated. They have to
be custom-engineered, built and
installed. When the job is finish
ed in 1973, we will have spent
$43 million to practically elimi
nate flyash from the air.
It's a big job. But it needs to
be done to make our area a
better place to live.
Duke Power
Making life a little better
Booker, a member of the
Tennessee State Legislature
who said, "most youth, the
unsilent generation are honest
and sincere in calling atten
tion to what they call an un
desirable system flT' and State
Representative Brother Benja
min D. Brown, of the Georgia
Assembly, who said he felt
Extremism is creeping into
the Nixon-Agnew administra
tion.
vase on a wood surface for
too long. I asked experts at
Guardsman Chemical Coat
ings just what to do in that
eventuality. Here's what
they told me, and I'm happy
to pass this information a
long to you:
• Dampen a cloth pad with
ethyl alcohol until the pad
Hsi moist, but not wet.
the pad over the
using quick
back - and - forth strokes,
working in the same direc
tion as the grain of the
wood. Keep the pad moving
over the entire area lieing
repaired, neyer allowing
your pad to stop too long
on the surface since \it
might damage the furniture
finish.
• The application of al
cohol will undoubtedly
leave a shiny spot. This ;
sheen can be uniformed j
quite simply by rubbing the
area with an extra-fine grade
of steel wool, working in
the direction of the wood
grain.
• Wax the entire piece of
furniture and you'll be sur
prised to see how the ring
blemish completely dis
appears!
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Any questions on wood?
Write to Rhonda Racz, Hard
wood Institute, Suite 1422,
551 Fifth Avenue, New York,
N.Y. 10017.