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The first r Annual North
Carolina State Convention of
the A. Philip Randolph
Institute affiliates will be
held at the Governor's Inn,
Research Triangle Park, on
March 22-94.
During this convention a
state charter is to be issued
and election of state officers
to take place.
Mr. Norman Hill,
Assoicate Director, A. Philip
Randolph Institute, New
York City will be the
speaker at the Opening
session.
The Convention Banquet
will be held Saturday, March
23 at 7:30 p.m. Bayard
Rustin',' Executive. Director,
A. Philip Randolph jnstltuU,
and 1 well known labor
leader will ' be the guest
speaker for this occasion.
The A. Philip Randolph
Institute's main Objectives'
are to involve the Black
masses in the workings of
our political structure and to
open doors of organized
labor in this country to
young blacks. For these
reasons all segments of the
black community could
benefit by their attendance
at some of the convention's
well constructed workshops.
Registration fee is fifteen
dollars ($15.00) which
includes the banquet ticket.
Registration will begin
Friday, March 22, at 4:30
p.ra
If you wish to be a part
of this history making event,
you must register no later
than Friday, March 22.
. Fof additional Information
about Jhjlbhventlon you'
may contact Mrs. Gladys
McKlnnle, President of the
Durham Chapter; A. Philip
Randolph Institute at
688.2042.
VOLUME 51 -No. 10 DURHAM, N.C. SATURDAY, MARCH ti, 1974 price: TWENTY-CENT?
23,000 Minorities To Get Jobs,
Training With AFL-CIO Assist
WASHINGTON About
23,000 jobless persons will
be provided new jobs and
training under a $4.7 million
contract with the AFL-CIO
Human Resources
Development Institute
(HRDI), Secretary of Labor
Peter J. Brennan announced.
Under the one-year
agreement, the institute will
develop 22,000 jobs for
disadvantaged and jobless
persons. An additional 1,000
minority youths will be
prepared and placed as
'apprentices in the building
and construction trades.
HRDI was established by
the AFL-CIO in 1968 to
mobilize labor movement
resources in a nationwide
program to help recruit,
train, upgrade, and hire the
jobless and underemployed
through ongoing Labor
Department programs.
HRDI operated 63 local
offices and will shortly open
it 54th in Alaska.
Under the new contract,
HRDI will use $3.2 million
to develop 22,000 jobs as
well as:
Assist Comprehensive
Employment, and Training
Act (CETA) prime sponsors,
the National Alliance of
Businessmen (NAB), federal
(See MINORITIES Page 7A)
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ATLANTA
GEORGIA More blacks have
won public office in the
South than , in any other
'region of . the,... nation,
according to a Voter
Education Project (VEP)
survey which Identifies 1,307
black elected officials as of
February, 1974.
The VEP statistics
indicate that blacks, in an
off-election year, have
increased the total v number
of Southern offices held by
163 officials in the past
year an increase of 14.2
percent. Since seven persons
hold two offices each, the
1,307 blacks actually hold
1,314 positions.
The survey, conducted by
Barnette Jackson, VEP
Information Sepcialist, shows
that two of the states
covered by the 1965 Voting
Rights Act Alabama and
Mississippi, are among the
South's top three states with
th largest number - of black
officeholders. '
In 1964, Mississippi, with
only 6.7 percent of the
Offi
Of
black voting age population
registered, had the nation's
lowest rate of registered
minority voters. In 1974,
Mississippi with a total of
174 black elected officials,
leads all other southern
states. Arkansas, not covered
Nationwide Search Ison For
HighSchool CoverGirl of 1974
Is there an
all-expense-paid trip to New
York in your future? How
would you like to win a
glamorous stay at a famous
hotel, surrounded by all the
excitment of the city
theaters, museums, boutiques
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and restarurants? You'd meet
celebrities, try modeling,
maybe even win the grand
prize a $1000 educational
scholarship. It can happen to
you all for jus being your
best possible teen-aged self!
(See SEARCH Page 7A) '
by the Voting Rights Act,
ranks second with 150 black
officeholders. Alabama,
which had the nation's
second lowest black
registration rate in 1964,
now ranks third among
southern states with 149
blacks in public office.
The distribution of black
elected officials by state
includes Alabama, 149,
Arkansas, 150, Florida 62,
Georgia 130 Louisiana 147,
Mississippi 174, North
Carolina 148, South Carolina
106, Tennessee, 74, Texas
109, and Virginia 58.
Posittions held by
southern blacks are as
followes: U.S. House of
Representatives 2, state senators
6, state representatives, 54
couty officals 176 municipal
officials, 622
pecid Jobless Pay Becieffte
WASHINGTON-Secretary of Labor Peter J.
Brennan has asked Congress to augment
unemployment benefits up to an additional 1 3
weeks in areas of high joblessness - and to provide
up to 26 weeks of benefits in those areas to
persons not covered by present programs.
Hie proposals are included in a revised version
of the Administration's Job Security Assistance Act
which was first submitted to
Congess last year and would
include individuals out of
work in high unemployment
areas regardless of whether
their unemployment was
caused by the energy crisis.
"This bill," Brennan said,
"would make it unnecessary
to enact any special
legislation designed only to
meet the problems of
workers harmed by the
energy shortage.
"It demonstrates this
Administration's concern for
those who will lose thejr
jobs and' have great,
difficulty finding new jobs If
unemployment reaches
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mVERNOR LISTENS KALEICH- Alabama Governor Georte Wallace AO listens as Raleteh
Mayor Clarence Lightener (L) introduces various dignitaries thai attended the fund-raising;
dinner for the North Carolina Democratic Party t whcih Wallace' was the featured speaker.
Lightener is the first black mayor in the history of Raleigh.
certain levels in the months
ahead.
"By focusing on ' areas
with high rates of
unemployment, the measure
would aid jobless workers
who need help the most
more quickly than programs
triggered by statewide
unemployment rates,"
Brennan added.
With some increase in
unemployment already
occuring, and more
anticipated, it will take
unemployed workers longer'
to find jobs. The waiting
period between jobs can be
Bonds Sales In
ft Carolina Top
Sales of Series E and H
Savings Bonds in Durham
County for 1973 were!
$3,676,742. This represents ;
103.7 percent of thler goal;
of $3,547,000, according to
John D. Creadick County
Volunteer Chairman.
Sales of Series E and H
Bonds in North Carolina
came to $90,716,253 in
1973, the highest since
1945, and 104.2 percent of
the state's 1973 dollar goal
of $87,100,000. . E Bond
sales for the years were
$89,603,753. Sale of H
Bonds amounted to
$1 ,112,500. The combined
percentage Increase in sales
(See BONDS Page 7A)J
expected to be even longer
in areas where there are'
more people seeking work.
"This is why this program
is so necessary," Brennan
said, "and why we have
proposed that the special
benefits be triggered by the
unemployment rat within an
area, rather than a statewide
or national basis."
(See BRENNAN Page 7A)
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Durham Hofel And Mole! .
Siie of Association Galhering
Mrs. Ruby Hurley, director, Southeast Region,
NAACP, composed of North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and
Tennessee, announced from her Atlanta office
recently, that the 22nd Annual Convention of the
region, which will meet at the Durham Hotel and
Motel, March 14-16, will be the most crucial ever
held.
The theme of the convention. "Eaualitv and
Justice in Anotner Time of
Crisis," will be explored in
all its ramifications. More
than 500 delegates are
expected, due to the need
of the organization to
implement Its program that
both the President of the
United State and Congress
have shifted their interests
away from minority rights
to such an extent that many
forces are attempting to
legislate away some of the
gains made in the 60's.
Registration will begin at
8 a.m. Thursday, March 14
The band of Centra
Orphanage, Oxford, will give
a concert, beginning at 9
a.m. The Rev. B. A. Mack,
pastor, Morehead Avenue
Baptist Church, will conduct
a memorial service for those
who passed during the year.
The opening plenary session
will begin at 10:45, with
the Rev. J.C. Hope, Macon,
Georgia, presiding, at which
time the convention will be
organized.
The Minister's Luncheon,
(See CONFERENCE Page 7 A)
Mrs. Aulherins L. Foster, First
Woman Integrationist To Speak
Mrs. Autherine Lucy Foster, who as Autherine
Lucy, broke the racial barrier at the University of
Alabama, will be one of the principal speakers at
the 22nd annual session of the Southeastern
Regional Convention, Friday, March 15, at the
Durham Hotel & Motel.
She will be remembered as the first black to
apply for admission to the
University of Alabama. After
much harangue she was
admitted, to eventually be
expelled for an alleged
incorrect statement. However
she broke the barrier. She
was one of the personalties
that appeared in the time of
the first crisis. The theme is
"Equality and Justice in
Another Time of Crisis."
Dr. Vivian Henderson,
president, Clark College, will
giiniiiimni
be the keynote speaker at
the p u b 1 1 c mass meeting
Morehead Avenue Baptist
Church, Thursday night, May
14. Donald Hollowed,
Atlanta lawyer, will speak at
one of the sessions. Mayor
Clarence Lightner, Raleigh,
will be the speaker for the Life
Membership luncheon, 12:30
p.m., Friday. The Freedom
Fund Dinner, 7:30 p.m.,
Friday, will feature awards,
given by Mrs. Ruby Hurley,
Regtotar Director, Atlanta.
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' INTRODUCES VP-WASESNGTON, Mrs. Howard Jenkins Jr.,
of the Executive Board, introduces Vice President Gerald
Ford at Lincoln Day Dinner sponsored by the Capitol
Gty Republican Club The dinner climaxed two days of
activities by the predominantly Black organization.
ANOTHER BLACK APPOINTED
NEW YORK NYC Mayor Abe Beame has appointed
another Black as a deputy in his Administration. Atty. Jean
B. Cropper was named Asst. Commissioner for
Environmental Health Services in the Health Department at
$31,000-a-year.
PREDICTS NIXON TO RESIGN
Rep. Shirley Chisholm predicted before a University of
Colorado audience that President Nixon would resign "most
reluctantly" by next April due to increasing pressure from
his own Republican party. She repeated her prediction over
the weekend when she appeared on WABC-TV's "Eyewitness
News Report."
CANDIDATE FOR LT. GOVERNOR
A Black, Atty. James R. Williams is the Democratic
candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. A former school
teacher, and Akron City Councilman for six years, he's one
of the national vice presidents of the Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity.
BLACK NOTES IRONY
Blacks noting the irony of. the ship's name where 10
black U.S. Navy sailors have accused the commander of the
cruiser Little Rock, flagship of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, of
racism in connection with a night of racial violence aboard
ship in November in the Mediterranean.
PROUD PARENTS
Prime Minister and Mrs. Michael Manley of Jamacia are
the proud parents of a daughter. Authorities said it was the
first child born to a Jamaican Prime Minister while in
office.
KING'S PORTRAIT IN GA. CAPITOL
The new portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was
hung in the state capitol in Atlantla, Ga., while 15
protesters marched outside wearing the long tunics and
peaked caps of the Klu Klux Klan. Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox
was absent from the ceremony presided over by Gov.
Jimmy Carter. Hundreds of Blacks and whites jammed into
the Capitol routunda for the ceremony.
SIGNED TO APPELLATE TERM
NYC Supreme Court Justice Edward R. Dudley has been
assigned to the Appellate Term of the State Supreme Court,
the first black judge to serve in the Appellate Term.
ELECTED PRESIDENT
Bernard L. Charles, dean of academic affairs at Livingston
College of Rutgers University has been elected president of
the Society for Field Experience Education.
RACIAL HANG-UP '
University of Houston quarterback K.C. Nobles has
accused the National Football League of having a "racial
hangup" concerning black quarterbacks.He signed with
Winnipeg of the Canadian Football League.
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ROBINSON NO LONGER SEEKING MGRS JOB
Frank Robinson, now designated hitter for the California
Angels says he Is "no longer consideratlngM the prospects ot
managing a major league baseball team because he does not
belie ve the major want a Black to that typo job.