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. - . Cuke University Library - . :?'-- t'?' Newspaper ' Departmett t . r"-V .'t: : Durham, N. C. 27705 " '11-26 , i DURHwi, nV6. 27706 . Words of Wisdom . People ; of mediocre ability ; ) sometimes achieve success because they don't know enough to quit'.- " Bernard Baruch An old-timer remembers when an allergy was just an itch and all you did was scratch Arnold H. Glasow VOLUME 52-No. 2 Cfei - . SfTT . . DURHAM, N.CSATURDAV, JANUARY 11, 1975 Good Reading In tlih Izzuo DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By Mrs. Symmer Day FROM BLACK By John Ifodgins WRITERS FORUM By George B. Ru A POTPOURRI OF RECENT EVENTS By C. Rasa THEATRICAL WORLD By The Roving Reporter PRICE; 20 CENTS AAAA m joss Million Off Jobless To Receive Pay President Ford has signed emergency legislation authorizing public service jobs and extended unemployment compensation for millions of jobless workers and appropriating $4 billion to pay for them. The new legislation creates four emergency programs designed to assist jobless' workers most in need of help. They are: An emergency public service employment program authorizing an additional $2.5 billion for 330,000 new jobs. Congress appropriated $875 million for 112,100 jobs. This is on top of about $1 billion already allocated to cities, counties, and states for 170,000 public service jobs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). An emergency u n e m pi o y ment-compensation type program of up to $2.5 billion for more than 3 million persons not eligible for regular unemployment compensation. Congress appropriated, $2 -,. Bltllorr lb assist about 2.4 ' million workers. There are approximately 12 million workers (n this category, most of them in state and local government jobs. Additional unemployment insurance compensation for which $750 million was appropriated to assist approximately 1.2 million unemployed workers covered by unemployemtn insurance who have exhausted' their benefits. A $500 million program of job opportunities in public works and economic development projects, to be administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce. For this, $125 million was (See JOBLESS Page 7) Rape Report Called :A HoaxMy NCU Officials if 1 ELECTED DIRECTOR-W.J. Kennedy, III, president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, chats with Abram T. Collier, chairman of New England Mutual Life Insurance Company (left), and J. Henry Smith, chairman of The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (right), at the Institute of Life Insurance's 36th annual meeting Dec. 17 in New York City. Mr. Kennedy was elected to a four-year term as a director of the Institute at the meeting. flr.s Mice C. Kennedy Named To Fill Hospital Board Vacancy ' Mrs.; Alice C Kennedywas appointed ' to fill the Vacancy bit the .Durham CountyHospital Corporation Board of Trustee on Monday. She fills the unexpired term of R.C. Foreman who resigned from the Board last summer. His three year term will expire in June. The county commissioners emphasized her health background as important in the appointment to the commission post. Two other women had been nominated for the post. They were Mrs. Julla-Borbely Brown and Mrs. Jeanne Lucas. The commissioners voted 4-1 to appoint Mrs. Kennedy. The dissenting vote was by Commissioner Bell who had previously supported Mrs. Borbely Brown's nomination earlier. Mrs. Borberly-Brown had been nominated earlier last January to fill another vacancy. Hower, the commissioners in a 3-2 vote, appointed Commissioner Edwin B. Clements to fill the place. Mrs. Kennedy, currently a Named to School Post In Charlotte Eugene A. Harrington, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Harrington, Sr. of Durham has been named Director of Classified Personnel for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System. Classified personnel positions provide supportive services to the school system. He is currently Chief of Employee Labor Relations, D.C. Government, Department of Corrections. Presently residing in Rockville, Maryland, Mr. Harrington, a 1968 graduate of Howard University also serves as a Comrissioner on the Human Rights Commission, City of Rockville, and on the Small Schools Planning Board of the Montgomery County Board of Education. In additon he is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He was the recepient of the D.C. Government Merit Award for Outstanding Achievement during the fiscal period of 1973-74. Mr. Harrington will assume his Charlotte post in mid-January. He is married to the 'former Miss Minnie Roberson of Durham, a 1968 graduate of North Carolina Central University. They are. parents of His previous professionals a 2-12 year old daughter, experiences Include Staff Eugena Maria. ' , ' Social Worker, Children's Unit, taia .ii nL MRS. W. J. KENNEDY, III homemaker, has worked in the health field for several years. She has served, as Assistant " Director 6T Nuring Services at? Lincoln Hospital and as a Practical Nursing Instructor in the vocational education department of the Durham City Schools. She has taguht nursing skills to the retarded and underprivileged at Durham Technical Institute on job-training projects to upgrade their employment skills. She has also worked as curriculum director of the Nursing department at North Carolina Central University. A native of New York, Mrs. Kennedy has worked as a staff nurse at Harlem Hospital in New York City. She served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurses' Corps during World War II. Other areas of health services include supervisor of operating room techniques and instructor in .operating room skills. Mrs. Kennedy is a graduate (See KENNEDY Page 7) Durham Native To Lead Student Crisis Service Of Atlanta Univ. ATLANTA, GA.-Gerald S. ' McClain, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McClain, Sr.', of Cheek Road, Durham, has been appointed Director of the Student Crisis Service of the Atlanta University Center. The Student Crisis Service is one of the programs coordinated by the Atlanta University Center which serves the mental health needs of the students of the six Center institutions, Atlanta University, Clark College, Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College and S pel man College. It represents the second oldest consortium of institutions of higher learning in the United States and the largest center of black higher education. . Mr. McClain received a B.A. degree in Psychology from Morris Brown College and a Master's in Social Work from Atlanta University. He has also studied at the Smith College School of Social Work, Northampton, Massachusetts. Georgia Mental Health institute, Atlanta, Ga., arid Senior Social Workers, Inpatient Alcoholic Unit with the same organization, West Mental Health Center of (he Fulton County Health Department' as Senior Psychiatric Social Worker, and as project director of the Econorric Opportunity Atlanta . Drgu Recovery Program. McClain was a 1964 graduate of Hillside High Emotionally Disturbed Co-ed Taken Home . The report of an alleged rape which caused student protests for better security and other unrest at North Carolina Central University was a hoax, reports NCCU officials. The alleged October 16th rape of an 18 year old freshman co-ed from Kinston fand reports of other sexual assaults were cited ; by demonstrating students on,'; November 5 and 6. ' , : f The freshman student said tj 1 she had received threatening notes two weeks before the . assault and other women were reported to have received similar note. After much investigation the director of public relations at NCCU, said that it was a most regrettable incident. Handwriting analysts" revealed that the student was writing the notes to herself. It was also reported that it was fortunate that no one was accused and that no description was given as the incident was thoroughly investigated. Chancellor Whiting reported that the student's parents had come to take her home after the school received medical reports indicating she had emotional problems. He said "The medical people suggested that she be taken home, but if (See HOAX Page 7) Bibliographies Written By Local Resident Two Bibliographies on Black Religion "A History of Black Religion in Northern Areas," and "A History of Black Religion in Southern Areas" are stated to be released in the Fall of 1975, and Lenwood G. Davis, an Assistant Professor of the Department of Black Studies at " The Ohio State University is the author. Prof. Davis was notified recently by the Council of Planning Librarians of Monticello, III. that his' works will be published in Janurary and February of 1975. The compiler is the authro of several other bibliographies, ' Black Women in the Cities," "Blacks in The Cities," "Blacks' in Oregon,' "Blacks in Utah," "Blacks in the American West," "Blacks in the Pacific (See WRITTEN Page 7) I PC' FIRST FULLY ELECTED D.C. MAYOR-Walfcr E. Washington (right) pats Supreme Court Justice ThurgoodMarshallon the shoulder at the conclusion of a ceremony at which, y'asmgton was sworn in as the first fully -elected mayor of the District of Columbia in nwe JhaiU ceatufy Federal Revenue Shanni Checks Mailed To Local State Gov'ts WASHINGTON-Federal revenue sharing checks amounting to $39,238,033 h ve been mailed to North Carolina's local, county ancf state governments for the three months ended Dec. 31. Congressman Ike Andrews said Friday. Andrews said that the State of North Carolina was PERRY AND McM ANUS mm Redevefopnienf Coram. ipfoyee Retires LOVING TENDER CARE -Joyce Law gives her IS month old baby boy, Darrell, a kiss dukng his stay with her at this prison in Delaware. Ms. Law is serving a term for embezzling from a Wilmington bank and was given permission' to car for her child In prison this week before being transferred to a federal youth center in MorgantownW. Virginia. The child is with a foster family in Wlmington. Mr. Ulysses McManus, Property Manager for the Redevelopment Commission of the city of Durham, retired from the agency Dec. 31, after eleven years of service. He became affiliated with the agency vMay 7, 1963 as Assistant Property Manager. McManus, a native of Florida with . Monroe, as adopted home, is a 1926 high school graduate of A&T College (now A&T State University). He served 20 years In the Army, retiring as a Master Sargeant Er7. Currently, he is a member of the Eta Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and a member of Martin Street Baptist Church in Raleigh McManus' sister is Mrs. Eugenia M Young, who is an Assistant Professor in the Education Department "of North Carolina Central Ulversity, Durham. McManus is married to the former Hester Jones of Raleigh, a retired high school teacher. He stated, "I plan to get in a lot of fishing, some nuniing, ana oecome an official member ' of the "Honey-Do" club." President Ford Acclaims Bishop YONKERS, N.Y.-Bishop W. J. Walls, who has the second longest tenure, as a bishop in America and the author of "The AJ4.E. Zlon Church, that went on sale in lata 1974, was congratulated for his 50 years of service to the religious life of America, in a letter from President Ford. v. The President said that he and Mrs. Ford were happy to (Sea ACCLAIMS Pag 7) receiving $13,075,349 and that the four counties in the Fourth Congressional District were receiving $2,134,896. The payments for local and county governments in the Fourth District include: Chatham County. $67,655. Goldston, $1,296. Pittsboro. $8,423, Siler City. $30,447. county total, $107,821. Durham County. $299,668. Durham Ctiy. $507,483. county total $807,151. Randoph County. $81. 586. Asheboro, $78,3 18. Franklinville, $2,199. Liberty. $9,410, Ramseur. S8.569. Randleman. $11,319. Seagrove, $357, Staley. $245. Archdale. $5,140. county total, $197,173. Wake County. $244,706. Apex, $9,782, Cary. $34,070. Fuquay-Varina. $17,825. Garner. $22,241, Holly Springs, $2,139, Knightdale. $2,183. Morrisville, $363. Raleigh, $649,800. Rolesille. $1,292, Wake Forest, $14,614. Wendell. $10,016. Zebulon. $13,715, county total. $1,022,751. tl.C. Is Among Leaders In Immunization North Carolina is one of the top five best immunized states in the nation against measles, polio, rubella, diptheria, whooping gough and tetnus (DPT), according to John Irvin, program coordinator for the state's Immunization program, Irvin said a recent survey, which included 1,000 two-year old children, showed that two year olds with a bask series of immunizations had risen from 38 percent in 1972 to 67 percent in 1974. He said basic Immunizations consist of three or more1 does of DPT and oral potto vaccines, along with measles and rubella. - The public health official said 79 per cent of North (See LEADERS Pag 7)
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