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Words of Wisdom
Creative thinking is today'a most prized,
profitable possession for any individual cor
poration or country, Koftert P. Crawford
People never improve unless they look to
some standard or example higher and better
than themselves. Tryon Edwards
VOLUME 5 1 -No. 45
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By NORMAN OLIVER
"I'M not asking for the !
world. I'm not asking for
welfare. I just want a good job
so I can have money to pay the
rent and buy some food,"
explained Carl Snipe. Snipe,
one of this country's 6.8
million Vietnam veterans,
spends a lot of time these days
waiting in line at the Veterans
Administration (VA) assistance
center in Brooklyn.
Snipe, who is Black, was
discharged from the Army in
November 1972, and hasn't
had much luck getting a job. "I
spent one and a half years in
this center," Snipe recalled. All
they ever did was give me
carfare home."
He finally got a job as a been sitting here since eight
company security guard, but
was only making $111 for a
Six-day week. Recently he
injured his leg while on the job
and now is back at the VA
center.
However, like the other
Black veterans at the center,
Snipe didn't think that the VA
would be much help. "I've
this morning. I know 111 be i
sitting here six or seven hour :
and I'll go back to one of those7 f
offices and the dude will say, f
"Sorry, can't help you."
"It's enough to make,you'j
lose faith the system. I mena.-v
soon these bier supermarkets'-.
chains are goint to have to 4
protect their stores with'?
machine guns. People have got?
to eat, and money doesn't
mean anything if your belly is
empty."
The massive layoffs and
other hardships of the current
economic crisis bear down
particularly hard on veterans
especially the younger
veterans. In the first half of
i974, recently discharged
(See VETERANS Page 11 A)
Jackson : Elderly Blacks Shad
Lobby More, Sing AndPrLess
By WILLIAM ERWIN
Elderly blacks should spend
sometime lobbying and not
confine themselves to singing,
praying and other traditional
activities (o older persons, says
a Duke University Medical
Center professor. -
They should get behind
legislation that will put more
money in their own hands,
Says Dr. Jacquelyne Jackson,
an associate professor of
medical Sociology.
Dr. Jackson was the first
black woman to become a
Duke professor. ' She was
founder of the National Caucus
on Black Aged and has for
years spoken out against racial
nd sexual
discrimination. Writing in a
recent issue of "The Annuals
of the American Acaedmy,"
she blasts those who ignore the
special needs fo black people
over 64. She also indicates that
older blacks will have to
become political activists if
they hope to make themselves
heard.
The black aged, Dr. Jackson
says, "often experience
multiple jeopardy from racism,
ageims and poverty, and, in the
case of females, sexism." They
Urban League Gels $4.8 Million
To Continue Outreach Program
WASHlNGTON-$4.8
million contract with the
National Urban League to
prepare, 2,672 economically
disadvantaged people for
construction jobs in 31 cities
was signed by Secretary of
Labor Peter J. Breenan and
NUL's Executive Director
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
The contract continues for
another year an outreach
program the League has
conducted since 1967. With
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Aiding Discriminatory Practices
some $15.7 million Federal
funding since 1967, the League
has placed more than 13,000
people in skilled jobs.
The League will subcontract
with its 31 local affiliates to
recruit and tutor participants,
most of whom are expected to
be members of minority
I ii J.. iL t.JlUl!lL groups
: 7 f Motivating 'and tutoring
2,360 youths to help them pass ,
apprenticeship entrance
examinations in the building
and construction trades, and
Training 312 people who
have some contruction
experience but are over the
apprenticeable age so they can
enter the contruction trades an
journeymen and union
members.
A pilot project will also
recruit and place an
undertermined numer of
women into non traditional
occupations, including the
apprenticeable trades.
Participants in the program
are recruited through local
state employemnt service
offices, construction, industry,
management and labor groups,
and community action
agencies.
are different from other aged
in this countryshe continues.
1 Old blacks are poorer than
old whites or older
Spanish-Americans, for one
'.thing, she says. Pointing to the
latest U.S. census figures, the
.professor notes that 83 per
'tent of black women 65 years
pld and older have yearly
Incomes of less than $2,000.
About 77 per cent of the
Spanish surnamed aged and 68
per cent of elderly whites fall
into that category,
-j For men, the figures show
(See JACKSON Page 11 A)
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In the Hand of the Man that stilled the water, Put your hand in the Hand of the Man that calmed the
Sea. Take a look at yourself and you can see others differently. Keep your hand in the Hand of the
WASHINGTON N A ACP
National Labor Director
Herbert Hill charges, in an
article in the current Civil
Rights Digest, that the Federal
Government has aided and
abetted discriminatory racial
practices in the construction
industry.
The relationship between
the U.S. Department of Labor
and the various unions
affiliated with the AFL-CIO
under both Democratic And
Republican administrations,
Hill states, is a prime example
of how government policy can
transform voluntary
associations, such as labor
unions into a private
sovereignty.
And, Hill says "While the
Department of Justice was
suing building trades unions
and contractors' associations
for violating the law, the
Department of Labor was
subsidizing them." ,
Hometown plans which
establish citywide goals and
timetables for minority hiring
in construction jobs have also
failed, Hill maintains. Although
the legality of mandatory
preferential hiring systems, as
well as the Government's
power to enforce them, has
been repeatedly sustained in
the courts, the Federal
Government has substituted
voluntarism in the form of
hometown plans.
OPPOSING ROCKEFELLER
NOMINATION
New York Assemblyman
Arthur Eve of Buffalo who
once proposed that Nelson
Rockefeller be impeached. as
governor of New York for his
handling of the Attica prison
riot, appeared, before the
House Jucidicary Committee
to oppose the nomination of
Rockefeller to be vice
president. Eve said
Rockefeller's nominatio should
be rejected not only because of
Attica, but because of
"degarding and dehumanizing"
social legislation he proposed
while governor. UPI.
Police Blame
Ethiopians For
Hearing Scheduled Monday for Recent Blasts
7b e "Gtarlom Three
By JOYCE SESSOM3
Three men convicted earlier
this year for the burning of a
Charlotte riding stable in 1968
have been granted a second
hearing following the discovery
of evidence which indicates
that witnesses brought to
testify against the men in thej
first hearing were paid by the;
federal government. !
The three T.J. Reddy.j
Charles Parker and Jim Grant
known as the Charlotte 3, a
December 9th hearing on the
basis of evidence showing that
Walter David .Washington and
Theodore Alfred Hood, the
witnesses who testified against
them In their 1972 trial were
paid by Robert Mardian a one
timetop aid to former
Attorney General John
Mtichell. Mardian is now on
trial.
A request by the three for a
new hearing was originally set
for Nov. 7 before Judge Sam
Ervin III in the Mecklenburg
Country Superior Court, but
was postponed. They requested
a new hearing on the
contention that their
conviction was based on tained
evidence.
Last much the Charlotte
Observer reported that
information on the case had
been uncovered by Observer
reporters but had not been
presented at the hearing. The;
. evidence disclosed that the two'
witnesses had received $1,000
"reward" payment from the
U.S. Treasury Department and
were each promised $3,000 1
more from the U.S. Justice
Department, following the,
trial.
The Observer also reported
that a Justice Department
official in Washington had;
confirmed from official
department records that the
$4,000 was paid in two
Installments to Hood and
Washington, and that the two
men were granted Immunity
from prosecution: for their
admitted part in the stable
burning, and for federal
charges of illegal possession of
guns and dynamite bombs and
for bond jumping. The two.
men were ''relocated" to
Mexico, according to the
Observer, after they had spent
three months at Atlantic Beach
at a cost of about $10,800 to
the federal government.
Washington and Hood
testified that they were part of
a group, organized by Grant
that called themselves "United
Souls" and which carried out
the lazy B burning and the
burning of the George Wallace
Headquarters in Charlotte that
same year.
The two witnesses testified
that Grant and the Reverend
Ben Chavis, a civil rights
activist, had once offered them
$5,000 to kill a white man
accused of killing a black
youth in Oxford, but they
declined the offer. They also
said that Grant and Chavis had
given them money to flee to
Canada when they jumped
bond but they returned to the
U.S. when Grant failed on a
alleged promise to deliver
passports to get them to Hanoi.
Reedy, a graduate of the
University of North Carolina at '
Charlotte and a writer, Parker,
who also attended UNCC, and
Grant, and holder of a
doctorate in chemistry from
Penn State University, were all
involved in the civil rights and
black consciousness
movements at the time of the
' fire. According to the Observer
the testimony of Hood and
Washington was the only
evidence .
Three powerful bombs were
set off in the turbulent
Ethiopian capital last weekend.
But, because of the confused
situation there, no one is sure
which dissident group is
responsible for the action.
An official communique
blamed the bombs on
"Clandestine elements," who
oppose the recent execution of
60 leaders of the old regime.
The blasts took place at a fuel
depot near the Addis Ababa
airport, at City Hall, and at a
major Downtown Hotel. No
deaths were officially reported,
but one news agency says
several persons were killed
when a bomb ripped down a
wall at the municipal building.
The military Junta that now
holds power in Ethiopia seems
to hint in its conminique that
relatives or supporters of the
60 slain officials may be
responsible for the bomings.
But, Another report claims
that Ethiopian Security police
believe that the Blasts were the
work of the Eriteran liberation
front, a secessionist group in
Ethiopia's Northern province.
There is speculation that the
bomings may have been
provoked by a large Ethiopian
troop" ' deployment to fight
rebel Guerrillas in Eritrea.
Secesslonsit forces in Eritrea
have been active since the
territory was annexed,
A&T State University has
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West Virginia University in a
$1.7 million project to assist in
agricultural development in
East Africa.
The grant, sponsored by the
Agency for International
Development, was announced
Wednesday, by Dr. Burleigh
Webb, dean of the school of
Agriculture at A&T.
Webb said that in the new
, project, A&T will provide
technical assistance to the
Republic of Tanzania in
developing trained manpower
for that nation's agricultural
industry.
The government of
Tanzania is deeply interested in
upgrading the state of
agriculture in that county,"
said Webb, "but has been
handicapped by insufficient
trained government with
technical assistance during this
four year project.
Webb, who visited Tanzania
earlier this year, said he
expects the new project to
make a significant difference in
the productivity and
agricultural economy of the
1 developing nation.
He said a nine-man team
from A&T will be assigned to
participate in the African
proje A&t has also been
asked to assist in the
development of a program in
agricultural education at the
University of Das es Salaam,
and to provide advanced
training here for faculty
members of Tanzania's
institutes.
The government of
Tanzania has an announced
goal of becoming self sufficient
in agricultural manpower by
1980, said Webb. This program
should help them in a big way.
A&T recently completed a two
year agricultural development
program with Ohio State and
West Virginia University to
assist the nation of Uganda.
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Celebrates Ninetieth Birthday
By ELVA P. DeJARMON
Mrs. Ada Yarborough
Leach, long time Durham
resident, eductor, civic and
community worker, celebrated
her 90th birthday o
November 28 with all the
anticipation glamor, good
foods, gifts, cards and anything
else that goes with a birthday
celebration in these days. This
writer has termed it as her
"ninety-years young"
celebration and a most unusual
occasion.
A charming still articulate
and with a style most unusual
in recalling memories,
pleasantries and her family
especially with love, as well as
the many friends and constant
visitors to talk with and admire
this lovely lady, Mrs. Leach
lives in Oldham Towers, the
Senior Citizens High Rise
Center in Durham. She is the
widow of the late William T.
Leach and maintains a . most
tastefully arranged apartment.
Mrs. Ada Y. Leach was born
in Raleigh in 1884 and was
brought to Durham at an early
age by her parents. They
worked in the home of the late
Washington Duke. At that time
their home was a mansion
called Fairview anc by all
accounts, it was quite some
place.
She recalled that as a child
she attended the old Whitted
School, then located on Red
Cross Street near the Bulls
Factory. The school was then
moved to the site of the former
old Boys Club on Ramsey
Street.
Mrs. Leach remembers with
fondest memories her first
teachers. Among them were
Mrs. Florence Johnson and
Miss Portia Whitted, daughter
of the founder of the James A.
Whitted School. She gives
highest praises to Miss Portia
Whitted for her diligence and
(See LEACH Page 11 A)
Retired General, Wife And
Aide Are TVA Crash Victims
Retired Army Brigadier
General Roscoe C. Cartwright,
one of the first black generals,
and his wife, Mrs. Gloria
Cartwright, were killed Sunday
in the crash of the TWA jet in
the Virginia moutains.
Among the passengers were
James Applewhite, an aide to
Rep. Andrew Young, D-Ga.,
and his wife Susan and son,
Benjamin, 3, of Georgetown,
Virginia.
One of the worst disasters
of the year scattered flaming
debris and torn victims atop
the rainswept and foggy Mt.
Weather area. None of the 92
passengers and crew on the
Boing 727 jet survived.
Cartwright retired test
August as deptuy chief of staff,
comptroller with 7th Army,
Heidelberg, Germnay after a
military career of over 31
years. The Kansas City,
Missouri native was promoted
to brigadier general in 1971.
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CHRYSLER PLANTS LAYS OFF WDRKERS-Chryber Corp., worker throws up his arms ia disgust
as Chrylser closed five of its six MS. assembly plants idling 80,000 workers, including 15,white collar
and managerial staff. The new layoffs are the industry's latest response to the sharply stumping new
car sales that, has left storage lots filled with unsold cars. Chrysler has a record 120day supply of
, unsold models with sales so far this month off 37.4 per cent from a year ago.