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DEPARTMENT (ft LABOR BACKS EXPANSION OF OIC
WORDS OF WISDOM
Get the factn, study the evi
dence, document the informa
tion, dare to come to a con
clusion. —Harold C. Case
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If expenses must lie cut the
time to cut is immediately.
—Walter P. Chrysler
N OM ME 50 No. 5
Racial Discrimination Is
Charaed V. 0 \ Foundation
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GUAM OF VINTURI MAN
AG IMB NT Four Durham I
residents have been awarded
certificates by the University
of North Carolina upon their
graduation from Venture Man-
Minority Groups Practice Bus.
Management Skills At U.N.C.
CHAPEL HILL - The Uni
versity of North Carolina has
awarded certificates to ' 5 22
minority group persons who
operate or plan tot open busi
nesses in Chatham, Durham,
Orange and Wake Counties.
The twenty-two are graduates
of Venture Management, a pro
gram especially designed to
help blacks and members of
other groups develop the
mahagement skills required to
operate a small business.
Participants in the Venture
Management program studied
leadership, financial manage
ment, accounting, and market
ing during twelve evening ses
sions led by faculty members
of the UNC School of Busi
ness Administration and North
Carolina Central University.
The faculty was assisted in
developing program materials
by members of local black pro
fessional and business groups
who served on the program's
Advisory Committee.
Venture Management is pre
sented under the auspices of
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RIVIBWINO GAINS MADI
IN 1970—Daniel G. Kean (left),
Administrator of Equal Em
ployment Opportunity for Gulf
Oil Corporation, reviews some
of the gains made by blacks
at Gulf during 1970 with Wal
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agement, a Bureau of Buitinw «
Services program designed to 1
help members of minority i
groups develop the manage- ,
ment skills required for operat
ing a small business. They are
the Bureau of Business Serv
ices at UNC. A third session
is planned for Fall 1971.
Graduates of this year's pro
gram were honored at a ban
quet at the Community Church
in Chapel Hill. Mr. Braxton 0.
Foushee of Carboro and Mr.
Jesse H. Gibson II of Dur
ham, both graduates of the
program, presented the gradua
tion addressed. Mrs. Sheila F.
Turrentine of Chapel Hill was
mistress of ceremonies and Mr.
Graham Marsh of Siler City
gave the invocation.
Those receiving certificates
were: Mrs. Mildred Council,
Chapel Hill; Mrs. Emma Flow
ers, Durham; Mrs. Barbara
Fbggie, Chapel Hill; Braxton 0.
Foushee, Carborro; Jesse H.
Gibson 11, Durham; Wlllard E.
Johnson, Carborro; James Eu
gene Long, Jr., Durham;
Bonnie McDade, Hillsborough;
Walter W. McDade, Hillsbo
rough; Graham Marsh, Siler
City.
Other graduates Include:
(See MINORITY page 2A)
ter Jackson, of Durham, Super
visor of Minority and Academic
Relations. Jackson Is one of a
number of young black pro
fessionals hired by the Corpo
ration last year.
DURHAM, N. C.. SATURDAY" JANUARY 50. 1971
James Eugene Long, n (left);
Mn. Emma Flowers (fourth
from left); Coy Parker, and
Jesse H. Gibson, 11. Looking on
are Mrs. Long (second from
left) and Mr. Flowers.
Food Programs
Tap 33% More
Needy in N. C.
ATLANTA, Ga. - A 33
per cent increase in the numb
er of needy North Carolina
people receiving assistance
through U. S. Department of
Agriculture food programs has
been reported for the month of
November as compared to a
year earlier.
According to Russell H.
James, Southeast regional di
rector of the USDA's Food
and Nutrition Service, 287,
327 persons were assisted
during the month • an increase
of 72,083 over the 215,244
aided in November 1969.
FNS officials attributed the
large increase to the intensified
efforts of program administra
tors and concerned North
Carolina citizens to make cer
tain very eligible needy per
son receives adequate food.,
The increase, the FNS of
ficial announced, was in the
food stamp program where
164,050 low-income people in
50 counties were issued nearly
$4 million in food coupons
(See NEEDY page 2A)
NUL LEAR Program Triples Quota;
Obtains $1.4 Million Contract
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
The National Urban League's
Labor Education Advance
ment Program (LEAP) has
tripled its quota and received
a new $1.4 million contract.
This announcement was re
cently made by the Manpower
Administration, Department
of Labor.
The extended contract
through August, 1971 will
bring to 3,000 the olimber of
minority youths being pre
pared annually by the League
for apprenticeship entry tests
Clifton Jones Claims Arthritis
Project Unlawfully Operated
Clifton P. Jones of Chapel
Hill, treasurer for the North
Carolina Chapter of The Arth
ritis Foundation, has charged
that the organization has been
unlawfully and deceptively
operated since May 30, 1970.
Jones, a Negro, has al9o
charged the Foundation with
racial discrimination. He cited
the National Headquarters,
1212 Avenue of the Americas,
New York City, William M.
Stokes of Atlanta, Georgia, Joe
B. Chapman of Birmingham,
Alabama, Sue P. Littlejohn of
Chapel Hill, Robert E. Cooper
of Chapel Hill, Dr. David P.
Thomas of Wilmington, and
Dr. Jessee E. Roberts of Duke
University Medical Center in
Durham, and North Carolina
National Bank in Chapel Hill
with seeking to unlawfully re
move him as treasurer of the
organization. Jones said he be
lieves that a principal reason
for the treatment accorded him
in the fact that he is black. He
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Court Rules Newark Plan is Fair
NEW YORK, New York -
The NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)
announced last week that a
U. S. District Court in New
Jersey has called for implemen
tation of the Newark Affirma
tive Action Plan in the con
struction of the federal and
state funded New Jersey Col
lege of Medicine and Dentis
try to be built in that city.
The court:s ruling upheld
the lawfulness of the Plan's
and employment in the con
struction trades according to
NUL Labor Affairs Director
Napoleon Johnson, this puts
the League ahead of all other
Department of Labor "Ap
prenticeship Outreach" spon
sors in number of placements.
Referring to the past year's
LEAP record (in a recent
Construction LABOR Report
of the Bureau of National
Affairs), Manpower Adminis
trator Paul J. Fasser, Jr., was
quoted as aaying:
"We had expected the Lea
PRICE 20 CENTS
cited the fact that Dr. Thomas,
Mr. Chapman, and the National
Headquarters have refused to
even answer his letters.
Jones stated that the last
legal meeting of the board of
directors of the Foundation
met on March 1, 1970. An
illegal meeting was held on
November 8, 1970. This meet
ing he said was pre-planned and
merely sought to cover up ac
tions of William M. Stokes and
Sue P. Littlejohn. Jones alleged
that Stokes and Mrs. Little
john had caused a false docu
ment to be filed with the
North Carolina National Bank.
The document falsely stated
that the Foundation was unin
corporated, that Mrs. Little
john was the Administrative
Director, that Miss Myrtle
Ellen La Barr was the secre
tary, and that James A. Hullen
der was the treasurer. It as
serted that a meeting of the
executive committee 6f the
(See ARTHRITIS page 2A)
provision setting specific goals
for the hiring of minority
workers and guaranteeing auto
matic union membership to
those minority journeymen
employed by the contractors
within the time limits con
tained in the collective bar
gaining agreements or constitu
tions and by-laws of the res
pective unions.
According to these union
documents, non-union jour
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gue toplaceonly about 1,000...
but the League has placed al
most 2,700 - nearly tripling
its expected contract goal •
without additional funds, also
and we salute the League for
this outstanding accomplish
ment"
Since that report, Johnson
indicated the League's place
ment record had reached
3,000. During the same period
the League recruited 10,000
youths in 34 cities for the pro
gram, showing a far higher
(See NUL page 2A)
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DISCUSSES COMMITMENT
General Motors Board Chair
man James M. Roche (2nd
from right) discusses GM's
commitment of $5 million to
minority banks with William
Project To Receive $10.7 Million
Boost From Department Of Labor
Opportunities Industrializa
tion Centers (OIC), founded
by the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan,
will receive a $10.7 million
boost from the Department
of Labor to expand the pro
gram into 40 new cities over
the next 18 months.
Malcolm R. Love 11, Jr., As
sistant Secretary for Man
power, announced today that
the agreement will provide
job and training opportunities
for more than 27,000 hard
core unemployed persons.
The agreement was formal
ly announced by Lovell at a
press conference at the Labor
Department building with As
sistant Secretary of Labor for
Varkpiace Standards Adminis
tration Arthur A. Fletcher and
the Rev. Leon H. Sullivan.
In accepting the expansion
funds, Rev. Sullivan related
the OIC projection for the
decade of the 70's. He stated,
"OIC has the proven formula
for successfully training our
underprivileged unemployed
and underemployed citizens
and to place them in meaning
A&I State University Graduate
Named to Head Shaw University
RALEIGH - Shaw Univer
sity last Saturday announced
that Dr. J. Archie Hargraves,
54, a graduate of A&T State
University, will succeed Dr.
King V. Cheek as president.
Dr. William Jones, Jr.,
chairman of the Board of
Trustees, said that Hargraves
will assume his new duties
July 1. Cheek is to leave Jan.
31 to take over as president
of Morgan State College in
$40,000 AWARDED
IN INJURIES SUIT
A Durham County Superior
Court jury has awarded a
$40,000 judgement damages to
Lonnie Turrentine, 50, of Dur
ham, who was injured in a traf
fic accident Jan. 19, 1969.
The judgement, while less
than the $50,000 Turrentine
had sought in the suit, was by
"default" because the defend
ant in action, Nathaniel Leach,
j 23, of Durham, failed to file
an answer to the suit, court
officials said.
In the complaint, Turren
tine alleged that he was injured
by a car driven by Leach, as
he walked along a sidewalk on
South Roxboro Street, The
Leach vehicle, he stated, ran
off the road and struck him.
Turrentine alleged in the
hearing that Leach was negli
gent The plaintiff, Lonnie
Turrentine, was represented at
the hearing by Attorney, Na
thaniel L. Belcher, of the Firm
of Bumpass, Belcher and
Avant.
Hudgins (right), President,
National Bankers Association,
Dr. Edward D. Irons (2nd from
left), Executive Director,
NBA, and Samuel S. Beard,
Chairman of Capital Forma
ful jobs. Since its beginning
OIC has trained 65,000 per
sons and placed over 75 per
cent in jobs. The job retention
rate has been close to 80 per
cent Our centers have made
taxpayers out of tax con
sumers. During the next de
cade, 20 billion dollars in
money gained in new income
and money saved in welfare
payments will result to our
nation from OIC graduates..
Further, "In the decade of
the 70's, OIC will develop the
capability to train 1 million
persons in job related skills. To
I accomplish this, our projected
annual banquet Is 100 million
dollars. We know that the de
cision today by the Adminis
tration represents a positive
step in the right direction
necessary to meeting our na
tion's unemployment needs.
Government cannot and
should not do it all, so OIC
has embarked on a 10 million
dollars National Fund
We are asking American indus
try, foundations, churches, or
(See LABOR page 2A)
Baltimore.
The Executive Committee
of the Board of Trustees is
to meet with Hargraves next
week to discuss the operation
of Shaw during the interim
period.
Hargraves is presently as
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MILESTONE MARKED Sec
retary of Agriculture Clifford
U. Hardin chats with Fa us tine
Augustine Ojacor of Uganda,
the 150,000 th foreign national
to receive U.S. training under
the American foreign aid pro
gram. Ojacor's meeting with
Secretary Hardin was part of
the U.S. Agency for Interna
tion, Inc., which is assisting
NBA and the Treasury De
partment in the program to
increase the deposits of Black
banks by SIOO million during
1971.
HATCH
Expert in Rural
Med Care Joins
UNC's Center
By WES LEFLER
CHAPEL HILL - John
Hatch, former director of a
Mississippi program in rural
medical care, has joined the
University of North Carolina
Health Services Research
Center, it was announced to
day.
The announcement was
made by Dr. Cecil G. Sheps,
director of the Center.
Hatch, a man with unique
experience and skills in rural
medicine, will be responsible
for planning and evaluating
consumer involvement in the
development of health care de
livery systems at UNC.
Hatch is a former assistant
(See EXPERT page 2A)
tional Development and AM
U.S. Department of Agriculture
ceremonies marking the US.
foreign aid milestone. The Afri
can agriculturist completed a
4-month USDA-planned study
of U.S. farm credit ayeteme end
cooperatives. He is one of 100
AID- sponsored agriculturist*
programmed by USDA la TO.