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VOLUME 52-NO. 10
ONE SECTION THIS WEEK
DURHAM, N.C, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1975
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NEW YORK-The National
Assocaiton for the
Advancement of Colored
People endorsed a pledge by a
group of the nation's principal
business, government and civil
rights leaders that the
celebration of the bicentennial
of the Declaration of
Independence should be a
period for Americans to
rededicate themselves to the
ideals of a "government based
on freedom, justice, and
individual rights."
The ideals were contained in
a specially-created document
entitled, "A Bicentennial
Declaration." The existence of
the document was announced !
by John D. Rockefeller, 3d, in
a news conference at the
Waldorl Astoria on Thursday,
February 20. NAACP
Executive Director Roy
Wilkins, a co-signer of the
"Declaration," with Mr.
Rockefeller and 88 other
persons participated in
(See PLEDGE Page 3A)
Wallace
Muhammad
To Lead Sect
Wallace Muhammad, 40, the
second youngest son of the late
leader of the Nation of Islam,
Prophet Elijah Muhammad,
will succeed his father as leader
of the Sect.
Wallace Muhammad, who is
the assistant minister of
Temple Number 2, located at
735 1 S. Stony Island
apparently had been groomed
for the leadership role at an
early age.
He is the father of two
daugthers, Laila, 15, and
Bakerah, nearly 12. There are 5
other sons, Emmanule,
Nathaniel, Abkar, Herbert and
Elijah and two daughters,
Lottie Muhammad and Mrs.
(See MUHAMMAD Page 3A)
IN MATTER OF WAGES & HOURS-Shirley Moore, compliance officer, prepares a report on
possible violation of federal laws regarding wages. She uses a calculator and guidelines on the laws,
designed to protect working men and women. Ms. Moore works for the U.S. Labor Department's
Wage and Hour Division. She is assigned to the Hyattsville, Md area office.
Clflfiis Demp Forty Mas Reneged
On Affirmative Action Plan
SAN FRANCISCO-Dr.
Henry Lucas, Chairman of the
National Black Republican
Council said that the
Democratic Party has
apparently reneged on its plans
for an effecitve Affirmative
Action Plan and that in doing
so has not only hurt Black
Democrats but all Americans
and the future existence of the
country's two-part political
system
Dr. Lucas referred to a little
publicized meeting held in late
January by the Democratic
Compliance Review
Commission where the
members voted for rules that
Democratic Party reformers
had publically stated would
damage the cause of equal
opportunity for racial
minorities, women and youth.
The Chairman of the NBRC
made these comments upon
learning that the Compliance
Review Board voted to reverse
a decision made during the
Democrats mini-Convention
held last December in Kansas
City. The reversed decision by
the CRC involved Article X of
the Democratic Charter
regarding the question of full
participation by minorities In
all party affairs.
In Kansas City the decision
was to include provisions in the
affirmative action plan to
involve minorities in all party
affairs, at every level, but
during the January meeting the
Democratic Compliance
Review Commission voted to
reverse this decision and apply
the rule only In "process
through which delegates are
selected to the 1976
Democratic National
Convention and the processes
through which the members of
the state central committee,
state party officers and the
Democratic National
Committee are elected."
Dr. Lucas labeled this
position, "Dangerous especially
at a time when the growing
tendency is for Blacks to
become Independent of either
Partyt" He called for an
unprecendented need for
America to continue a strong
two-part system and cited the
critical need for the
involvement of Blacks within
both major political parties. He
called the action taken by the
Democratic Compliance
(See DEMO Page 3A)
0
UIIC Students
Suggest Way
To Help Hungry
By BRUCE TINDALL
1 n CHAPEL HILL-Hunger In
far-away places like India and
Bangladesh is dramatic and
well-known. But hunger is
widespread in North Carolina
too: 500,000 North Carolinans
(one out of 10) are below the
poverty line but do not receive
any food assistance.
:;Dne quarter of the state's
population and half its school
children are malnourished,
according to the state
government's nutiriton survey.
While only one county in
South Carolina and none in
West Viriginia are designated
"hunger counties" by the U.S.
government, North Carolina
has 30. To help end what they
call the "hunger crisis" in the
state, a group of students at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill is
suggesting how to help North
Carolina' hungry citizens.
The proposals suggest
simple changes in the food
stamp and school lunch
programs and in local health
departments which could
enable thousands of needy Tar
Heels to eat better, according
to UNC Junior Joel Harbinson
of Taylorville, chairman of the
group.
A legislative bill containing
the suggestions will be
introduced in the N.C. Studetn
Legislature (NCSL) by the
UNC delegation when NCSL
convens in Raleigh March 19.
After the Student
Legislature acts on the bill
(See HUNGRY Page 3A)
Dr. A. D.Moseley Recipient Ot
Personalities of South Award
Weiv HEW Contract Will Assist
Students to Find Financial Aid
A new training contract,
awarded by HE Ws Office of
Education, will make it easier
for needy, students to learn
how they can receive financial
assistance that would further
their education after high
school.
According to U.S.
Commissioner of Education
Terrel H. Bell, a $700,000
contract has been awarded to a
consortium of professional
associations for the training of
persons who advise students
about the Federal
Go vernment's Basic
Educational Opportunity
Grants program.
The consortium consists of
the National Institute for
Financial Aid Administrators.
The Basic Grants Program,
one of five financial aid
programs administered by the
Office of Education, provides
money to eligible needy
students who wish to attend
four-year colleges and
universities, community and
junior colleges, vocational and
technical institutes, or hospital
schools of nursing. It is
currently gearing up for its
third year of operation.
Under the new training'
contract, a central staff
representing the organizations
in the consortium will recruit,
organize, and train a
nationwide staff of persons to
help students get Basic
Educational Opportunity
Grants. These primary trainers
will, in turn, train high school
guidance counselors, financial
aid administrators, and flscaf
officers at postsecondary
institutions in all 50 States
during April and May. '
From 400 to 500
workshops are planned. More
than 5,500 postsecondary
institutions and 19,000 high
schools will be invited to
participate.
During the 1975-76 school,,
year,' over $600 million In
Basic Grant money will be
available to postsecondary
school students. Students may
attend either full or part-time
but must have begun their
schooling after April 1, 1973;
to become eligible for a grant.
Dr. A.D. Moseley, pastor of
Mount Gilead Baptist Church,
recently received the
Personalities' of the South
Award and is listed in the book
entitled Personalities of the
South, published in 1974 by
the American Biographical
Institute.
Moseley earned the award
through past achievements and
outstanding services to the
community and state. This
recognition was presented by
the Editorial Board of
Personalities of the South, a
Division of News Publishing
Co.
The preface reads: "This,
the Seventh Edition of
(See MOSELEY Page 3A)
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A HAND FOR THE PRES DENT -President Ford is applauded by Sen. Edward Brooke, as they share
a laugh when the President arrived at a meeting of the National Bicentennial Conference. Ford told
the group Americans will meet the current economic-energy crisis by making the same "necessary
sacrifices" as they did during the American Revolution, two world wars and the depression. UPi.
EDITORIALLY SPEAKS
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STORE
A DEEP COMMUNITY LOSS
A vital human and community need will be
lost with the expiration and non renewal of the
lease by the Fayetteville Street A&P when it
will close out on March 8 as the last day of
business at 3015 Fayetteville Street.
The community within the NCCU, Durham
College, Mutual Heights, Fisher Heights, College
Plaza, Forest View Heights, Cornwallis Road
Housing Development and the Homeland
Heights areas as well as the communities
located beyond the Immediate areas will suffer
tremendous inconvenience by. the closing of
that particular store. I '
" It "Is "and will be a tragic loss to the
community in both services and human needs
that one can only realize when the door closes.
A survey of persons who shop primarily
within the area store offered various comments
on the 'dosing. Most individuals cited
convenience, based on closeby walking
distances, time saving and availability of public
transportation to the store as immediate losses.
Much shopping could be done on the way home
from jobs whether motoring or whether on
public transportation. Such savings in money,
energy and time becomes even more important
to those in the low-income brackets where
every penny or dime must be budgeted for the
most effective maintenance of some life style.
Several persons talked of the longer
distances that now must be travelled with the
increased gas prices or even anticipated
increases in public service rides. Still others
remarked. Jhat they really hated losing the
raahageT afrd his staff who were
predomoninantly black. (The Manager, and
most of the staff will be at the East fein Street
and Alston Ave. store).
Further, many elderly or senior citizens who
reside in the nearby areas expressed shock and
dismay that the facility would be closed on
(See A&P STORE Page 3A)
Dany to Converge on Semo, Ala.
hr Bloody Sunday' Anniversary
FBI Mies Mo Charges in S.(ls
72 fatal Shooting of 2 Students
Assistant Attorney General J. Stanley
Pottinger, head of the Civil Rights Division,
issued the following statement today: .
The Department of Justice has concluded its
investigation into the fatal shooting of two
students at Southern University, in Baton.
Rouge, Louisiana, on November 16, 1972.
After the Federal Bureau of Investigation '
conducted . an exhaustive investigation, all
available facts were presented to a federal grand
jury that met in Baton Rouge for ikt days
beginning May 20, 1974. No indictments were
'eturned.
The federal grand jury was convened after
extensive state and local Inquiries were made
wlthput any charges being filed.
Since that time, evidence from all the
investigations has been painstakingly evaluated
by the Civil Rights Division to determine
whether indictments could be sought.
However, after all leads had been fully
investigated, and available witnesses
interrogated, federal prosecutors concluded
that sufficient evidence was not presently
available and could not be , developed to
determine whether any specific individual had
violated the federal criminal civil rights statutes.
The students, Denver Smith and Leonard
Brown, were shot and killed outside the
Southern University administration building in
Baton Rouge following a confrontation
between law enforoemtnt officers and students
of the predominantly black institution.
ATLANTA,
GEORGIA Hundreds of
people from the State of
Alabama and throughout the
South will converge in Selma,
Alabama on Saturday March 8,
to retrace the steps of the First
Selma-to Montogery March for
Voting Rights in 1965, the
Voter Education Project (VEP)
announced today.
The activities in Selma,
Alabama on March 7 and 8 will
commemorate the Tenth
Anniversary of "Bloody
Sunday," March 7, 1965, when
peaceful marchers were
attacked by 200 Alabama
Highway Patrolmen and
sheriff's deputies. The
commemoration activites, to
be held at Brown's Chapel
AME Church, will include a
rally at 7 p.m. on Friday,
March 7, featuring Mrs. Martin
Luther King, Jr., Georgia State
Senator Julian Bond, and VEP
Director John Lewis. A voting
rights workshop will be held at
10 a.m. on Saturday morning.
The commemorative march
will leave Brown's Chapel at
noon and be climaxed by a
rally at the Edmund Pettus
Bridge.
On "Bloody Sunday" in
1965, over 500 black marchers,
led by John Lewis and Hosea
Williams, left Brown's Chapel
Church to 'walk to the state
capitol in Montgomery to
demonstrate the need for
voting rights protection. The
marchers, including men,
women, and children, were
haltf d after crossing the
Edmund "Pettus Bridge by a
line of Alabama Highway
Patrolmen standing shoulder to
shoulder across both sides of
the divided four-lane highway.
As the marchers
approached, walking silently
two abreast, the troopers put
on gas masks and held their
long nightsticks ready. The
march was ordered to stop
with a voice on an amplifying
system saying, "This is an
unlawful assembly. Your
march is not condusive to
public safety." After a
rebuffed appeal on the part of
the march leaders, Hosea
Williams and John Lewis, to
the mayor Selma, the order
was given, "Troopers,
.
advance."
As the club-swining troopers
attacked the head of the
march, dozens of
demonstrators were swept to
the ground screaming.
Mounted policemen spurred
their horses and rode at a run
into the retreating mass. Tear
gas added to the agony and
confusion as a large cloud
began covering the highway.
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to the public by the VS. Department of Agriculture on March I,
are shown here. The old coupons still retain their value and will
be accepted by retailers until July 1. The SI coupon is the only
one retailers can accept without a coupon book cover. The $5
and $10 coupons must be used with books that have serial
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