Saturday, March 11,1972
Second Section 6 Pages
YOUR PKTURE-NEWS WEEKLY
$350,000 SUPPORT VOTER EDUCATION PROGRAMS
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TOURIST TALK— (Nassau, Bahamas) Joan
Mayson, pretty Assistant Manager, Cable
Beach Manor, talks with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Dillon, Groese Pointe, Michigan. The Dillons
University Of Pennsylva
Number Of Black History Comes Offered
JUDGE CHESS IS
NCCU AWARDS
DAY SPEAKER
Sammie Chess, Jr., a North
Carolina Central University
alumnus who is North Caro
lina's first black Superior
Court Judge, will be the speak
er for N. C. Central Awards
Day program Friday, April 7.
Dr. Ruth N. Horry, chair
man of the university's
Awards Day Committee, an
nounced Judge Chess's selec
tion as speaker Tuesday.
Among the honors an
nounced at the university's
Awards Day activities are the
James E. Shepard awards, re
cognizing the student and
faculty member selected by
their fellows as the most out
standing during the year, and
the President's Trophy, which
honors the graduating senior
with the highest academic
average.
The speaker for the oc
casion is a native of Allen-
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Newark Plan Proposed For Minority
Opportunity In J
WASHINGTON - Secretary
of Labor J. D. Hodgson has
announced a proposal to im
pose a "Newark Plan" setting
equal employment opportunity
standards in the construction
industry.
The proposed plan, which
was published for comment in
the Federal Register on
February 19, would cover 10
trades in the three-county
Newark, N. J., area of Essex,
Union and Morris.
Under the proposal, no con
tracts or subcontracts would
be awarded for Federally-in
volved construction projects
exceeding $500,000 unless the
bidder agrees to specific mi
nority-utilization goals.
The proposed plan, which
seeks an increase of about
1,150 minority workers in the
10 trades by 1975, would bring
imposed minority-hiring plans
in construction.
Similar plans are already in
effect in Philadelphia, Washing
ton, D. C., San Francisco, At
lanta and St. Louis.
The public was given 30
days from the date of publica
tion in the Register to submit
comments about the proposal
to the Director of the Office
of Federal Contract Compli
ance, U. S. Department of
Labor, 14th St., and Constitu
tion Avenue, N. W., Washlng-
were surprised to learn that Joan is also a
professional nurse with eight years of study
and experience in London.
EAST LANSING, Mich. -
Minority and disadvantaged
students are eligible for special
graduate study, fellowships in
community college counseling,
according to Dr. Bob B. Win
born, professor of counseling,
personnel services and educa
tional psychology at Michigan
State Unlwrslty.
The seven fellowships, Dr.
Winborn explains, are being
provided through the U. S. Of
fice of Education under the
Educational Professions Deve
lopment Act which was passed
to increase the number of
qualified persons in higher edu
cation.
Fellowship recipients will
pursie a master's degree in
MSU's Department of Coun
seling, Personnel Services and
Educational Psychology from
September 1972 to December
1973.
Students selected for the
fellowship program, Dr. Win
bom explains, will have the op
portunity to participate in on
going volunteer programs to
assist disadvantaged youth.
ton, D. C. 20210.
Trades to be covered by
the plan are: Asbestos work,
carpentry, electrical work,
elevator construction, glazing,
ironwork, operating engineer
work, plumbing, pipefltting
and steamfitting, sheetmetal
work and roofing.
Contractors and subcon
tractors involved in projects
under the plan would be re
quired to make a "good-faith"
effort to achieve their numeri
cal goals within a specific con
tract.
The proposal was based
upon findings made as a result
of public hearings which were
held in Newark in March
1970 to determine the neces
sary action to insure equal job
opportunity in the New Jersey
area's construction industry.
The Labor Department
found that, while some pro
gress has been made under a
State plan which covers only
the New Jersey State College
of Medicine and Dentistry pro
ject In Newark, "minority
workers (Negroes, Spanish-sur
named Americans, Orientals
and American Indians) con
tinue to be denied full partici
pation In certain construction
trades ..."
This underutilization of
minorities, the Department
found, "is due in substantial
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Practicum experiences in coun
seling disadvantaged students
will also be provided in pro
gressive community colleges
located near Michigan State
University.
He further notes, fellows
will also enroll in courses to
orient them to the entire field
of college student personnel
work and in seminars in urban
education that focus on the
problems of the disadvantaged.
The stipends, beginning in
September 1972 will be ap
proximately $2,400 for the
first 12 months and approxi
mately $867 for the part of
the second year that it takes to
complete the M. A. degree. An
additional SSOO is available for
each dependent.
Applications must be sub
mitted to Dr. Winborn by May
15, 1972. Those selected for
the program will be notified
by June 1, 1972. Applications
may be obtained from Dr.
Winborn at Michigan State Uni
versity, East Lansing, Mich.
48823.
measure to the unique nature
of employment practices in the
construction industry where
contractors and subcontractors
rely on construction craft
unions as their prime labor
source."
Judge Rules Out
t
Ist Degree Count
In Shotgun Death
SYLVA ln a swift
turn of events, Superior Court
Judge Sam J. Ervin 111 ruled
out a verdict of first-degree
murder Monday in the trial of
James Everett Barnwell in the
shotgun death of June Love
Barker last Sept. 13.
Ervin, however, denied a
defense motion that also would
have eliminated a veridict of
murder in the second degree.
Judge Ervin's ruling came
shortly before the noon recess
in the absence of the jury and
after the defense had suddenly
rested Its case and renewed
motions for non-suit in the trial
of the 25-year-old Sylva-Webster
High School teacher-coach.
When court reconvened at
1:40 p.m. in a packed court
room, Ervin told the jury of 10
men and two women that he
had allowed a defense motion
for non-suit to the charge of
first-degree murder.
In effect, he said, this meant
that Barnwell was not guilty as
charged of murder in the first
degree In the shooting of the
pretty 22-year-old school
teacher last September on a
lonely road 18 miles south of
Sylva.
DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA
Carnegie Corp., N.Y. Announces
Grants for 18-21 Yr. Old Youth
Carnegie Corporation of
New York today announced
grants totaling $350,000 to
support two non-partisan voter
education programs for 18-to
-21 year old youth.
The Voter Education Pro
ject in Atlanta, Georgia, which
received $250,000, will carry
out a two-year program con
centrating on encouraging the
participation of Black and
Mexican-American youth of
the South and Southwest in
local and state elections.
The National Movement for
the' Student Vote, a new or
ganization based in Washing
ton, D. C., received SIOO,OOO
for a voter education effort
that will focus mainly on col
lege students at approximately
300 four-year campuses across
the country.
Last fall, the Corporation
gave $250,000 to enable the
Youth Citizenship Fund, also
in Washington, to undertake a
voter education project aimed
at students and non-college
youth in major metropolitan
areas. Taken together, the
three organizations are serving
a large proportion of the na
President Nixon Called Racist
As Blacks Hit News Coverage
WASHINGTON > - Rep.
William L. Clay, D-Mo., called
President Nixon a racist and
the mass media were accused
of ignoring the interests of
black people Monday at a
meeting of the House Black
Caucus' Ad Hoc Committee on
Racism in the media.
Clay's reference to Nixon as
"this racist president" came
after black correspondent Ethel
Payne testified that her efforts
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COMMERCE SECRETARY Maurice H. Stans today presented
Berkley G. Burrell, President of the National Business
League, with a check for $124,750. The check represents
initial payment on a $1,617,000 contract under which the
Busineess League will establish one-stop counseling offices
to aid minority businessmen seeking loans and management
assistance. Looking on are, o the left, Robert Brown, Spe
cial Assistant to President Nixon, and John L. Jenkins, IM
rector of Commerce's Office of Minority Business Enter
prise .
Ga. Textile Workers Certified
Eligible for Trade Assistance
WASHINGTON - Approxi
mately 1,300 workers from 20
plants of the Bibb Manufac
turing Company, Macon, Ga.,
whose employment was ad
versely affected by increased
imports of cotton textile pro
ducts, have been certified by
the Labor Department as eligi
ble to apply for adjustment
assistance. About one-half ol
the wqrkers are black.
The plants - all in Georgia •
are located at Macon, Colum
bus, Newnan, Percale, Forsyth,
Reymonds, Porterdale, and
tion's voting age youth.
Alan Pifer, president of
Carnegie Corporation, in an
nouncing the grants, said:
"The passing of the 21st
Amendment has created both
an opportunity and a need to
assist the nation's newly en
franchised 18-to-21 year olds
to register for the vote. Youth
registration is lagging in part
through apathy and disappoint
ment with the electoral system,
but also because of the un
necessarily complicated and
confusing variety of registra
tion regulations and require
ments.
"The Voter Education Pro
ject, The Student Vote, and
the Youth Citizenship Fund
will give young people assist
ance in overcoming these ob
stacles and will educate them
to the importance of forming
a life-long habit of voting be
ginning with their first oppor
tunity in 1972. These projects,
it is hoped, may also stimulate
a more general concern for
equity and modernization of
the registration procedures for
everyone."
to get black reporter represen
tation at White House news
briefings were nearly fruitless.
"I think that our President is
making a mistake, surrounding
himself with the kind of colored
people he has, Clay said, refer
ring to the blacks on the White
House staff.
The public should be made
aware of the "kind of con game
being played on black America
by this president," he said.
Potterville.
The certification was issued
by Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Labor Herbert N. Blackman
following a Department investi
gation. On November 9, 1971,
the U. S. Tarriff Commission
had found that because of in
creased Imports, resulting in
major part from trade-agree
ment concessions, a significant
number of workers employed
at the plants became unem
ployed or underemployed.
The Bib Manufacturing
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PRINTING COMPANY TOUR Luther G.
Belling,er, McDonnell Douglas Corporation
director of Equal Opportunity Programs, gets
a tour through H&R Printing Company, St.
Louis, from Mrs. Elsa Hill (left), president of
firtn which is a McDonnell Douglas subcon-
Minority And Disadvantaged Students
Are Eligible For Special
The University of Pennsyl
vania's history department has
substantially increased its black
history course offerings with
the appointment of Robert F.
Engs as assistant professor of
history.
Engs comes to Pennsylvania
from Princeton University,
where he Is visiting lecturer in
Afro-American, African and
American Intellectual history,
and from a post with the New
Jersey Education Consortium,
Inc. where he is a field pro
fessor supervising a school de
segregation project in a New
Jersey community.
In announcing the appoint
ment Dr. Alfred J. Rieber,
chairman of the history depart
ment said, "Engs is one of the
best young black professors of
American history in the coun
try. I look forward to his join
ing our department with unre
strained enthusiasm."
Engs' academic credentials
include a bachelor's degree in
International and Public Af
fairs from Princeton University
and status as a doctoral candi
1971 Employment S
Poverty Neighboriwods: 4th
WASHINGTON - The un
employment rate in the pover
ty neighborhoods of the Na
tion's 100 largest metropolitan
areas edged down between the
third and fourth quarters of
1971, the U. S. Department
Governor Hopeful
Allowed To Keep
Tag For '7l Jag
RALEIGH A hearing
officer for the North Carolina
Motor Vehicles Department de
cided Monday to let Reginald
Lee Frazier of New Bern, a Dem
ocratic candidate for lieutenant
governor, keep his auto license
plate.
A 1 Neal took the action after
Frazier told him he has been
and is fully covered by insur
ance on a 1971 Jaguar automo
bile.
Frazier said he traded a 1969
Lincoln for the Jaguar in Mary
land and simply transferred the
plates on the cars.
Asst. Motor Vehicles Commis
sioner Bill Penny said last week
the department's record showed
no insurance on the Jaguar. On
this basis, the patrol had been
instructed to pick up the li
cense.
Arabs Participated
JERUSALEM - Israe
li-sponsored vocations training
centers attracted more than 2,-
000 Arab students to occupied
areas in 1971, Israeli authorities
reported.
Local, State and National
News of Interest to Ail
tractor. Working at a type-setting-machine
is Mrs. LaVone Morris. McDonnell Douglas
is holding a Procurement Fair for Minority
Business Enterprises at its St. Louis Plant
March 30.
date in the history at Yale
University, from whom he
hopes to receive his Ph.D. in
June. He has submitted his dis
sertation titled "The Develop
ment of Black Culture and
Community in the Emancipa
tion Era: Hampton Roads,
1861-1870."
The 29-year-old historian
will teach a prose minar in com
parative slavery, a one-semester
introductory course in black
history, a class on the civil war
arid reconstruction, and a grad
uate colloquium on the pro
blems in the history of the
American south.
Prom 1969 to 1970 Engs
was director of the New Jersey
Institute for the Study of
Society and Black History
where he trained teachers in
black history, developed
materials and publications for
classroom use, and served as a
consultant to the New Jersey
state colleges and other col
leges in the Northeast who
were developing black studies
programs.
of Labor's Bureau of Labor
Statistics has reported. The
jobless rate in these ur
ban poverty neighborhoods
was 9.8 percent in the fourth
quarter (seasonally adjusted).
It was 10.4 percent in the third
quarter. The jobless rate in the
other urban neighborhoods, at
6.0 percent, was essentially un
changed over the quarter, as
was the rate for the Nation as
a whole.
Jobless rates for both white
and black workers in urban po
verty neighborhoods were not
significantly changed over the
quarter. The rate for whites
was 7.6 percent in the fourth
quarter, while the black rate
was 13.3 percent. As a result,
the ratio of black-to-white job
less rates in poverty neighbor
hoods remained at 1.8 to 1.
The civilian noninstitutional
population and labor force in
poverty neighborhoods declin
ed in the fourth quarter of
1971, continuing the trend of
the past few years. These
poverty neighborhoods ac
counted for approximately 74
percent of the Nation's popula
tion and labor force in the
fourth quarter of 1971.
Employment in poverty
neighborhoods averaged 5.3
million in the fourth quarter,
seasonally adjusted, down
from 5.5 million in each of the
PRICE : 20 CENTS
Black Job Corps
Graduate Enrolls
In University
EVANSVILLE, Ind. - A
black youth from the Bronx,
(N. Y.) is the first graduate
of the Breckinridge, Ky., Job
Corps Center to enroll as a full
time student at the University
of Evansviile.
"I didn't even think of col
lege a year ago," said Charles
McKinnon, 19, who started
classes in January. His aim is a
career in the theatre, so he is
majoring in drama and minor
ing ins peech.
Charles finished Bth grade
in the Bronx public schools,
then dropped out. He held
several unskilled jobs as a fac
tory laborer and a deliveryman.
Then he heard about Job
Corps.
He spent over a year at
Breckinridge Men's Center. In
September he was awarded his
GED which made him eligible
for college training. He also
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first three quarters of the year.
In contrast, employment in the
other urban neighborhoods
rose by nearly 300,000 in the
fourth quarter and was up by
900,000 since the first quarter
of 1971.
In line with the drop in the
overall unemployment rate in
urban poverty neighborhoods,
the rate for adult men declined
between the third and fourth
quarters of 1971 - from 9.4 to
8.6 percent. Unemployment
rates for adult women (7.9 per
cent) and teenagers (26.7 per
cent) were not significantly
changed over the quarter. Job
less rates for both adult men
and women were above their
year-ago levels, while the rate
for teenagers was slightly be
low its year-ago level.
Peabody Wants N.H.
Vote Above 40 Pet.
MANCHESTER. N.H.
—Endicott Peabody said Mon
day he would end his vice pres
idential campaign if he does
not win 40 per cent of the vote
in the New Hampshire primary
Tuesday.
"I consider a 40 per cent vote
on Tuesday a mandate in sup
port of my candidacy." Peabo
dy told campaign workers. "I
predict we'll receive at least
that and hopefully more."
Peabody. a former Massachu
setts governor, is the only can
didate whose name will 'appear
on the Democratic vice-presi
dential ballot.