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messenger. —// a/ Stebbins
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petition cannot undersell nor destroy.
—Marshall Field
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saving. _£. H. Harriman
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MRS. GLORIA G. VERNON
Native Named Director Of
Foreign Office
WASHINGTON - Mrs.
Gloria G. Vernon, a veteran
government economist, has
been named Director of the
Office of Foreign Economic
Policy in the Labor Depart
ment's Bureau of International
Labor Affairs.
In her new position, Mrs.
Vernon will direct the activi
ties of the Office, which is re
sponsible for formulating trade
policy for the Labor Depart
ment as it affects the Ameri
can working force and for ad
ministering the U. S. trade
adjustment assistance pro
gram.
Mrs. Vernon, who has re
cently served as Deputy and
Acting Director of the Office
of Foreign Economic Policy,
joined the Department in 1957
as a labor economist with the
Division of Wage, Hour, and
Public Contracts.
She joined the Bureau of
International Labor Affairs as
an international economist in
1963. From January 1966 to
June 1967, she served as the
Asa Sppudling Appointed To
National Advisory Council
Asa T. Spaulding, Durham
County Commissioner and for
mer president of North Caro
lina Mutual Life Insurance
Company, has been appointed
to membership on the Air
line Passengers Association Na
tional Advisory Council.
According to the Associa
tion's current APA News Ma
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JOHN AVERY BOYS' CLUB
RECEIVES GIFT - The John
Avery Boy's Club was the re
cipient of a gift totaling
$4500. The announcement was
made at its weekly luncheon
recently.
A check in partial pay
ment of SISOO is presented
Labor Department's resident
representative on the U. S.
delegation to the sixth round
of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
negotiations in Geneva, Swit
zerland. For this work, she
was lauded by the Labor De
partment for having made "an
outstanding contribution to
the achievement of United
States foreign economic p01i
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cy.
Mrs. Vernon has served on
several other U. S. delegations
to international conferences
concerned with trade policy.
The Durham, N. C., native
graduated with a BA. from
Howard University in Washing
ton, D. C., where she studied
business administration and
economics. She also did grad
uate work in these subjects at
Howard and at North Carolina
Central University at Durham.
Mrs. Vernon is the daughter
of Dr. and Mre. Y. D. Garrett
of Durham. She lives in Silver
Spring, Md.
gazine, "Advisory Council
members are chosen because
of their interest in the goals
and purposes of the Associ
ation." They are kept advised
as to the Association activi
ties and plans and assist in its
effort to be a more dynamic
organization.
to W. J. Kennedy, Jr. by-
Kiwanis Tobaccoland Presi
dent, C. C. Woods, Jr. The
remainder will be paid over
a 2 year period.
The Kiwanis Tobaccoland
Club is the only integrated
Kiwanis Club among the four
clubs of Durham.
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Second North Carolina Nat'l Black Political
Convention Scheduled For Raleigh Saturday
FCD GETS ADDITIONAL FORD FUNDING
Prison Demonstration
Planned Meet
On March 10-12, 1972, a
National Black Political Con
vention was held in Gary,
Indiana. The historic event
brought together Black People
of all political persuasions to
discuss and deliberate on is
sues affecting Black people
in the U. S. and the world.
Over 8,000 people (4,000 dele
gates) were responsible for
pulling together a National
Black Political Agenda. This
Agenda addressed itself to the
fundamental issues facing the
world Black Community. The
Agenda amongst other things
called for free comprehensive
health free transpor
tation to jobs for poor Black
people, job development pro
grams for Black youth, the
withdrawal of aid to countries
involved in wars against Africa
and other Third World peo
ple.
To insure that there would
be some follow-up to these
and other programmatic de
Labor Department Taps
Young South Carolinian
WASHINGTON - Charles
H. Thomas, Jr., has been
named by Associate Assistant
Secretary for Financial Ma
nagement Richard E. Miller as
his special assistant.
Thomas, 33, will be Miller's
principal staff assistant coordi
nating activities relating to ac
counting, budget, and finan
cial and procurement policies.
The Columbia, S. C., native
joined the Labor Department
in 1965 as a wage hour com
pliance officer in the Philadel
phia region. In 1966, he moved
to Washington as a budget
analyst. Prior to being ap
pointed to his new post, he
was a management analyst
with the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration
(OSHA). He was a member of
the task force that set up
OSHA between December
1970 and April 1971. He re
ceived a special achievement
award for this work.
He holds a B. S. degree in
business administration and
accounting from Virginia State
College (1961) where he was
a member of Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity. He has done fur
ther study in the areas of
management and automated
NCCU Nursing
Department
Adds Five
North Carolina Central Uni
versity's department of nurs
ing will add five faculty mem
bers and one clerical staffer
this fall under a special grant
from the U. S. Public Health
Service.
The $87,249 grant was
sought by Mrs. Helen Miller,
chairman of the department,
because enrollment in the de
part ment has increased faster
than have appropriations by
the state for additional faculty
positions.
The department has grown
in enrollment from 71 in 1969
to 190 in the fall of 1971. The
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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1972
mands, the Convention called
for the formation of a National
Black Assembly. This As
sembly is mandated to carry
out a number of functions.
Among them are: the initiation
of a National voter education
and registration drive among
Black voters, political educa
tion and political action pro
gram at the local, precinct,
municipal, state and national
levels the establishment of a
national research arm to pro
vide the on-going structure
with the capacity to develop
information, position and date
necessary for achieving Black
empowerment. This Assembly
will be made up of elected
representatives from each of
the states of the U. S. North
Carolina will have 17 delegates.
This number is based on the
Black population of N. C. as
compated with the total Black
population of the U. S.
In keeping with these aims,
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systems.
He was an Army Signal
Corps officer, mostly in the
European Command, from
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CHARLES H. THOMAS JR.
UDI Gets $87,00
United Durham, Inc., a
business owned and operated
by poor black people, signed
a contract Monday with Duke
University for construction of
$87,000 worth of student hous
ing.
The contract, signed by
Duke University Chancellor
John Blackbum and UDI Pre
sident Ed Stewart, calls for
construction and installation
of six modular homes near
Hull Avenue and Powe Street
Stewart said the houses will
be built at the UDI Modular
home plant on Clay Street,
and then taken to founda
tions also built by UDI at the
site on Duke property between
East and West campuses.
The target date for com
pletion of the project is Sept.
1, said Stewart.
He said the contract with
Duke is an expansion of UDl's
scope.
"The participation and sup
port that Duke is giving us
will certainly help us deter
mine the flexibility of our
modular homes" for institu
tional as well as individual use,
said Stewart.
UDI has current contracts
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ANNOUNCEMENT of the
second N. C. Black Political
Convention being made in
Raleigh. Seated from left to
right are Fayetteville Business
Black Families Have Strength
Hie National Urban League
announced today the publi
cation of the highly praised and
provocative "The Strengths of
Black Families" that challenges
many of the stereotypes which
have served as the basis for
so&al planning.
The study, by Urban Lea
gue Research Director Robert
B. Hill, was first made public
at the League's annual con
ference in Detroit last August.
Its publication by Emerson
Hall Publishers, Inc., now
makes it available on a nation
wide basis.
Dr. Hill's study takes dead
aim at the idea that Black
families are matriarchal, dis
organized, pathological and
disintegrating. Instead, he
contends, the Black family has
been able to survive because
its positive - strong kinship
bonds, strong work orientation
adaptability of roles, strong
achievement orientation and
strong religious orientation.
In exploring the often re
peated charge that Black wives
are "domineering matriachs"
the study found that most
UDI SIGNS CONTRACT with
Duke Univ. (L-R) Phillip Cole,
for construction of personal
houses in six cities, and re
cently completed its first in
stitutional constract by build
ing a day-care center for Spel
man College in Atlanta, Ga.
We're planning for a new
modular home plant on Fay
man Marion (Rex) Harris,
Greensboro Educator -activist
Howard Fuller, Raleigh Con
struction contractor John
Winters, Durham community
Black families "whether low
income or not, are character
ized by an equalitarian pattern
Blacks Have M
Demoncratic Na
Before 1972 Blacks from
North Carolina-and America
have had little or no oppor
tunity to participate in one of
the most important political
events - the nomination of
presidential candidates of the
major political parties. But
this year Blacks from North
Carolina and other states are
playing a significant role at
the national party conventions
according to a survey con
ducted by the North Carolina
Voter Education Project.
At the Democratic Party's
National Convention which
selected its presidential candi
date this week North Carolina
cast 64 votes, one vote for
each of the 64 delegates. Of
the 64 delegates, 13 were
Black and one was Indian.
This meant that the 13 Black
Marketing Specialist, R. E.
Stewart, Pres. of UDI, John
etteville Street," said Stewart,
and how the Duke work goes
will help us see just what is
the marketability of our
homes."
He said UDI Modular
Homes has plans to construct
units for use as offices by
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HIGHLIGHTS AT DURHAM HIGH
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CHAPEL HILL HIGH
organizer Charsie Hedge pet h,
and former Student Govern
ment President at Shaw John
Mendez.
in which neither spouse domi
nates, but shares decision-ma
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delegates controlled 20 per
cent of the votes cast by the
State's delegates at the na
tional convention.
Over 15 per cent of ail the
delegates from all the states at
the 1972 Democratic National
Convention were Black. In
1968 only 5.5 per cent of the
delegates were Black.
There were only four Black
delegates from North Carolina
at the 1968 Democratic Na
tional Convention. These four
delegates had only 3 1 / i votes.
(Under the old State Democra
tic Party Rules fractional votes
were allowed.) This meant that
the State's Black delegates
controlled only 6 per cent of
the 59 votes cast by the North
Carolina delegates at the con
vention. At the 1964 Demo-
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Blackburn, Duke Chancellor
some Durham buanesses.
"Depending on how our
busness and flexibility go,"
he said plans may be complete
and construction bids adver
tised for the new UDI plant
by the beginning of the year.
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PRICE: 20 CXinß
1*400,000
For Economic
Development
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It was announced Thurs
day that the Ford Foundation
has awarded an additional
one-year grant in the amount
of $400,000 to the Founda
tion for Community Develop
ment to continue its program
of economic development in
several Black communities of
the State.
This most recent action
brings the total support from
Ford for the year old
Durham based FCD to
$1,472,000.
Nathan Garrett, whose re
tirement as FCD's executive
director was announced two
weeks ago, released the follow
ing statement: "This lift
grant is clear evidence of the.
confidence which the Ford
Foundation has in the board
and staff of FCD to provide
badly needed support to or
ganizations of low-income peo
ple."
"Before making the grant,
Ford took a close look at our
programs, the quality of our
staff, and perhaps most im
portantly, at the image FCD
enjoys among the thousands of
people whose lives we touch."
"Ford has known for aome
time of my plans to return to
my practice as a Certified
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NCCU To Train
Rehabilitation
Specialists
North Carolina' Central Uni
versity will institute a program
which will allow its sociology
majors to train for vocational
rehabilitation work under a
grant from the Social and Re
habilitation Services of the
U. S. Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare.
The grant, which allots
$26,919 to the program for
the first of four years, will be
administered by the Atlanta
Regional Office of the Social
and Rehabilitation Service.
Directing the program will be
Isaac Robinson, assistant pro
fessor of sociology. Another
faculty member will be em
ployed to work with the pro
gram.
Robinson said the program
is "geared to provide black
students with the learning ex
periences necessary to equip
them with the knowledge,
skills, and attitudes necessary
for careers in human services
and vocational rehabilitation."
The proposal for the pant
said that only one black person
in North Carolina is known to
be working in vocational re
habilitation. Robinson
there is a genuine need for
members of minority groups
both in the conventional areas
of vocational rehabilitation,
which includes work with the
handicapped, and in the ana
of vocational rehabilitation for
culturally disadvantaged per
sons.
Plans call for developing of
Internship and field experi
ences for senior sociology
majors in Um many
in the Durham ana which
are involved in vocational re
habilitation.