Saturday, March 25,1972
Second Section 6 Pages
YOUR. PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY
THE MASTER PLAN FOR BLACK AMERICANS
C.E. MEANS APPOINTED BSA PERSONNEL DIRECTOR
Durham Black Woman Honored
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Veazie Will Direct Fayetteville's
Million Dollar Student Center
FAYETTEVILLE - Fay
etteville State University's
$1 million Rudolph Jones
Student Center will be directed
by Irving Veazie, a veteran of
21-years in the United States
Armed Forces.
The sparkling new edifice,
named for former President
Rudolph Jones, is slated to be
dedicated Sunday, April 16.
The dedication will be part of
the annual Founder's Day ob
servance.
Containing more than
28,750 square feet, the
Rudolph Student Center will
feature a barber and beauty
shop, bookstore, post office,
canteen, ballroom, game room,
and offices for various student
organizations.
Included in the game room
area will be four bowling lanes,
billiard tables, ping pong,
shuffleboard, plus pinball and
amusement machines. All of
United Builders Ass'n Hosts
First Minority Contractors Meet
CHICAGO, Illinois - The
United Builders Association of
Chicago is hosting the first
Chicago convention of the Na
xioual Association of Minority
Contractors during minority
Builders Week in Chicago
(April 11-15). The theme of
the convention is MOVE ( Mi
nority Opportunity is a Viable
Economy).
"What we hope to achieve
at the convention," said Paul
King, Executive Director of
the United Builders Associa
tion," are discussions, exhibits
and workshops that will move
to set a course of action for
rectifying an inadequate situa
tion facing contractors are
faced with unfair union restric
tions, lack of skilled labor,
among other discriminatory
practices.
"In 1970, the national
construction spending was ap
proximately SIOO billion,"
said King. "Statistics show
Blacks share in this total was
less than SSOO million."
He is urging Black elected
officials to recognize, "that
this is one the lower level
along with the barber shop,
beauty shop, bookstore, and
post office.
On the first level are the
reading and music/listening
rooms, concession, machines,
the main ballroom, offices, and
conference room. The reading
room will feature a small
library with a special section
on black literature.
The center's fulltime staff
will have a director, program
director, secretary and bowling
alley technician. Approzimate
ly 25-students will make up
the part-time staff.
According to Veazie, stu
dents will play a major role
in the administration of the
facility. They will hold key
positions on the advisory
board -- this board dictates
how the Center will operate
and it will have twenty-one
members.
in our era of political sophisti
cation a new emphasis must
be placed on accountability."
The National Association of
Minority Contractors repre
sents over 1500 construction
contractors from every state.
They are expecting over 400
minority contractors and
workers from around the coun
try and related fields that in
clude realtors, housing deve
lopers and white subcontrac
tors to attend the convention.
The convention will be held
at the Sheraton-Chicago Hotel.
Confirmed speakers include,
Mayor Richard Daley, Senator
Charles Percy, Congressman
Parren Mitchell, Chairman,
Economic Subcommittee of
the Congressional Black Cau
cus, Rev. Jesse Jackson, HUD
Secretary George Romney and
Rev. C. T. Vivian of Opera
tion Breadbasket.
Paul King is available for
interviews by telephone in
Chicago. Contractors in
terested in additional informa
tion can also reach him at
312-225-0600.
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Sister Filmore
Cited as Great
Civic Worker
Mrs. David J. Filmore,
former Annie Lassiter and
better known as "Sister Fil
more" was one of the hono
rees at the luncheon honoring
the "Woman of the Year"
sponsored by the Greyhound
Corporation and The Carolina
Times. Unfortunately Mrs.
Filmore was out of town
pursuing Mission Work and
some interesting facts about
her life were missing. It would
appear that Mrs. Filmore has
been a great worker in re
ligious, community and civic
affairs. The Southern Baptist
Convention sponsored her for
study in foreign missions at
Glorietta, New Mexico.
Mrs. Filmore is president
of the Missionary Department
at Mt. Vernon Baptist Church.
She serves also as president of
the Durham County Missionary
Union: in fact, she is State
Institute Promoter and Bible
Teacher for North Carolina.
Missionary work within the
State Penitentiary for black
and white inmates, as well as
missionary work with the
elderly at the former Durham
County home, has been carried
on by Sister Filmore.
Further services reveal that
Mrs. Filmore was the organizer
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SWORN IN—George L. Holland, right, is
sworn in as Deputy Assistant Secretary and
Director of the Office of Federal Contract
Compliance by J. D. Hodgson, left, Secretary
of Labor. Matthew Tassim, a longtime friend
Black Theater Company, Voices
Inc. Opens 1972 UNC Symposium
By JOHN MYERS
CHAPEL HILL - "Using
drama and dance as their
metaphors, the Black musical
theater company, Voices, Inc.,
offers a presentation of rare
impact and vitality to express
the black experience through
its historical route." -- Ossie
Davis.
Voices Inc. gave the open
ing performance for the 1972
Symposium, Mind of the
South-The Southern Soul, on
the University of North Caro
lina campus Monday 20. Their
performance brought the black
man from the ancient jungles
DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA
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Black Scout
Executive Gets
Top Position
NORTH BRUNSWICK, N
J. A veteran black Scout
executive has been named to
direct all personnel functions
at the national office of the
Boy Scouts of America.
Charles E. "Chuck" Means,
Scout executive of Philadel
phia Council since 1969, has
beena ppointed director of
Personnel, effective June 1.
He was the first black Scout
executive of a major council
and Is now the highest ranking
black on the national staff of
the Boy Scouts of America.
As director of Personnel,
Means will supervise the Com
pensation and Benefits, Em
ployee Relations, Manpower
Development, Paraprofessional
and Professional Personnel
Services. Under his supervision
will be 5,000 professional
Scouters in 480 Scout offices
Contlnued on page 5B
of Mr. Holland, holds the Bible for the new
Director. Holland, a resident of New Orleans
at the time of his appointment, succeeded
John L. Wilks in the position. Holland's of
fices will be in Washington, D. C.
of Africa to the modern
ghettoes of present day, with
drama, humor, horror, and
clarity. Their performance was
dignified, human, sorrowful,
and over poweringly real. The
ten-member group traced the
black man from his captivity
of Africa through slavery in
the U. S., his liberation by the
Civil War, his disrespect 30
years later, and all the means
by which he searched for
identity. The group expressed
the black man's experience
with the "wild life", with re
ligion, with his search for suc
cess in music and art. They
Eleven Candidates Inducted Into Alpha Kappa
Mu Honor Society At Barber Scotia College
High Ranking
Students Enter
Elite Group
CONCORD - Recently
eleven candidates were in
ducted into Alpha Tau Chapter
of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor
Society at Barber-Scotia Col
lege, Concord, North Carolina.
Alpha Kappa Mu was con
ceived as an organization of
men and women of superior
abilities who would be so or
ganized that their mutual
efforts might be coordinated
and stimulated. The social and
fraternal phases of a national
organization are expecially
valuable in making a program
of creation articulate and dy
namic. Such an organization
can make scholarship real and
functional.
Alpha Kappa Mu aims to
encourage and emphasize
studies, original investigation,
research, creative work and
publication. It aims to bring
together master and student
to their mutual benefit and to
the advancement of human
knowledge and understanding.
Pictured from top to bottom
are; Ist row; Billie Williams,
Ella Manning, Bonita Wood
bury, Paulette Rawley, Linda
Dawson, Tonya Pearson. 2nd
row; Dr. Corderey, advisor, Ida
Burton, Ann Reed, Brenda
Moffitt and Mary Ann Gossett.
Not pictured is Gladys Manigo.
make their audience realize
that he found no answers in
any of these methods. Reli
gion did not work for "religion
is fine on Sunday but follow
ing Sunday is Monday morn
ing."
Their performance mounted
to the expression of black
power. "Down with segrega
tion, down with integration,
we want power-black power.
Money is power, politics is
power, self-awareness is power,
a shotgun is power" were the
ending statements by Voices
Inc. and the audience exploded
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"The Block Community" Most Determine
The Economic Destiny Of Black Americans
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
"The Black community, in
cluding organizations such as
the National Business League
and Business & Job Corpora
tion of Pittsburgh must de
termine the economic destiny
of Black Americans," accord
ing to Berkeley G. Burrell,
President of the National Busi
ness League.
Speaking at the annual
meeting of the Business & Job
Development Corporation in
Pittsburgh, Burrell outlined
seven steps of a master plan
by which Blacks will begin to
control their own destinies in
this "Time for Decision" (the
title of Burrell's speech). The
seven steps of the master plan
are:
1. Black responsibility - de
clare ourselves adults in our
own right. "We appreciate the
Mrs. Augusta Baker Vi NCCU
Under Joint Sponsorship Monday March 27
Mrs. Augusta Baker, coordi
nator of children's services for
the New York Public Library,
will be a guest speaker at
North Carolina Central Univer
sity and the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Monday, March 27.
Mrs. Baker is the first
Visiting Lecturer to be jointly
sponsored by the two univer
sities' schools of library
science. She will speak first at
N. C. Central, at 1:30 p.m. in
the Education Building Audi
torium, and then at 4 p.m. in
UNC's Manning Hall.
The speaker has gained re
cognition as a children's libra
rian, a story teller, a lecturer,
and an author. She won the
E. P. Dutton - John Macrae
Award in 1953 and the Con
stance Lindsay Skinner Award
in 1971, and in 1972 she was
an honoree at the 50th anni
versary celebration of Comp
ton's Encyclopedia during the
midwinter meeting of the
American Library Association.
She is a member of the execu
tive board of that association
and is a member of the faculty
of the School of Library
Science at Columbia Universi-
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Local, State and National
News of Interest to All
ALPHA MU HONOR SOCIETY
brotherhood of white America
but we firmly and irrevocably
reject their fatherhood
2. Be the rasters of our
own houses, neighborhoods,
cities and so on. As majority
inhabitants of most large cities
within a decade - then we must
run them.
3. Share equitably in the
financial, industrial and com
mercial establishments of this
nation. (Our consumer poten
tial exceeds SIOO billion);
4. The leadership in every
Black ghetto should conduct a
critical examination to ascer
tain the degree of economic
imbalance of the community
and seek ways of overcoming
deficiencies that have caused
the imbalance;
5. Land • we must control
the land resources for the eco
Black Workers Move Into Higher
Paying Occupations-Labor Dept
WASHINGTON - Black
workers moved away from
laborer and service occupations
in the past decade toward
white-collar, craftsmen, and
operative jobs, the U. S. De
partment of Labor has re
ported.
The trend is reported gra
phically in a new chartbook,
Occupational Change," issued
by the Labor Department's
Bureau of Labor Statistics. The
publication of a companion
to an earlier report. Black
Americans - a Chartbook.
By 1970, the new chart
book shows, more than half
of the Nation's black workers
were in the better-paying posi
tions, as against only two in
five in 1960.
"The change in the occupa
tional distribution of black
workers," the report says, "has
had the effect of reducing
their unemployment rate and
of increasing earnings."
The unemployment rate in
the lower-paid occupations has
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nomic benefit of the communi
ty;
6. Capital • We must pool
our capital resources for eco
nomic development; and
7. Development of skills
and technical capabilities to
improve earning power and
competence.
President Burrell also called
for the federal government
and private institutions to form
a partnership with the Black
community in an effort to
bring about, this change.
The National Business Lea
gue was founded in 1900 by
Booker T. Washington to pro
mote business development foi
Blacks. Today it has over
13,000 members throughout
the country and 72 chapters.
It's headquarters are located in
Washington, D. C.
been about four times greater
than in the higher-paid ones,
the chartbook reveals.
The chartbook adds: "In
1970, average earnings of
black men were 11 percent
higher, and of black women
about 30 percent higher than
they would have been if the
black labor force had not been
moving into the better-paying
occupations."
The report demonstrates
that occupational advancement
is related to a better prepared
black population - and that
black youths are staying in
school onger and are more
likely to go to college than
they were 10 year* earlier. Oc
cupational gains are moat ap
parent for young people, who
are becoming a much larger
part of the labor force. The
chart book notes, however, thai
despite the improvement In
black workers' jobs and securi
ty, there are still large numbers
of low earners in the labor
force.