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Cardinal Newman
VOLUME 57 - NUMBER 8
16 PAGES
PUR HAM. NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1979 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913
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Sanitation Head Fired
GREAT KINGS ARTISTS convene for the filming of commercials for Budweiser's
sponsorship of ABC-TV's "Roots: The Next Generation." Left to right: Alfred J. Smith,
painter of Osei-Tutu; Higgins Bond, painter of Mansa Mussa, Akhenaton and Nefertiti;
and Paul Collins, painter of Shaka. Four new portraits were recently added to the Great
Kings Collectwn. UnveUing carenies took piece at Chicago State Univen ;
BY PAT PRY ANT : :
John Morns, an official
of Local 1 194 of the Amen-,
can Federation of ; State,
County and Municipal Em
ployees Union, was fired
Friday, February 16 by
Hugh Pickett, general ser
vices director for the City
of Durham. For several
weeks, Morris had attempt
ed, unsuccessfully, to get
City Manager Dean. Hunter
to meet with disgruntled
sanitation workers; Morris
has indicated he plans to
.appeal the firing,, A letter
from Pickett to Morris
claims the truck driver was
Essential For Good Education
Ciuol Kigtes Comiaissioir
Urgds
in
This Veok's
Edition
NUL TO SP0HS0I
NATIONAL C0NFAI
CIVIL RIGHTS
UPDATE
SOCIAL SECURITY
SEEN THREATEN
GEN. MOTORS
DEMONSTRATES
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CONTROLLED ROIOTS
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clip Gsegireg'uaoDu Euffoo'i1
WASHINGTON, D.Cn -A
stepped-up Federal de-v
segregation enforcement
effort and less obstructior
by Congress are essential if
all of, Americas school
It also provides brief
accounts of desgregation
activities in '47 communities
nationally, r .
- "While- the 1 Supreme
Courtpf ..United., States $
children art to hive, a equal 'vhblds'' fast fto'.fista'blished
chance at a tfood tdUcatton,' 1 constitutional principles
the UJ3. Commission Civil
Rights said today, v
The Commission released
its lastest examination of
the nation's desgregation
effort, compiled into a re
port, "Desegregation of the
Nation's Public Schools: A
Status Report."
The new study focuses
on actions -, by the
courts, Congress, and the
Federal executive branch
during the past 2& years.
that mandate ' school de-
segregation,' it notes in an
accompanying letter to the
Presiddent and -r Congress,
"the Congress has - taken
steps that severely impede
the ability of..the
Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare to
enforce the Civil Rights
Act of 1964."
Such action is still
Critical, it says, pointing
out that .46 per cent
of the country's minority
pupils-almost - 4.9
million-still attend schools
in at least moderately
segregated districts.
Most severe , segregation
. occurs in the Nbijtheaf t and.,;
North "Central ' regions,
' J9toBtfi$Z.9tf&?wai ...
of all minority pupils re- :
spectively attend at least ,v
moderatelyy ; v .segregated
school districts, it stated..
The report itself is
critical of congress
for its passage -of legislation-
most currently - the
1978 Eagleton-Biden
amendment which limits
the ability of school dis
tricts to use student re
assignment and busing as
desegregation alternatives.
The report take note of
the Carter administration's
successful efforts to expand
the staff of HEWs Office
guilty of "insubordination".
; Morris says the insubordina
s tion complained of was his
questioning a reprimand for
; leaving a Bible in his truck
l, : a.: .u. l .
munis llllllg 5 uic IttSl
of several incidents of worker-management
conflict
.since Bob Mitchell, a white
man, tbok the job in
1976,.. The predominantly
black sanitation staff has
A QUICK TRIP TO THE ALTAR - Miss Beriinda Totbert, 29, who plays Jenny on
the television series 'The Jeffersons" and Bob Reid, 31, Atlanta bureau chief for NBC
News, exchanged wedding vows on St. Valentine's Day in the living room of a Brown
University dean in Providence, R.I. The couple met on February 3 in Atlanta and decided
on Sunday, February 11 to say 'I Do'. UPI Photo
Policemen and Sheriffs Indicted
For Beating Prisoner in Jail
P.f - igMs' At h ihe cpmplamed that MitcheU is
wwniv. nroj- unuuc?4 '?m&ot manager ,;j asnjl
"Although n "there, re .. Vcare about' Worker grievanc
Training Set For About 10,000
Low Income Area Leaders
NEW YORK - The
National Citizen Partici
pation Council, Inc.
recently entered into a co
operative agreement with
the Department of Housing
and Urban Development
(HUD), and the Department
of Energy (DOE) to train
between 8,000 - 10,000
citizen leaders from low and
moderate income areas to
more effectively participate
in Federal programs at
the local level.
The training will be con
ducted by NCPC - a seven
year old Washington-based
citizens advocacy organiza
tion. The community leaders
will be selected from
each of the 50 states, the
District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands. '
Thirty-five three-day
training workshops will be
held around the country
and will cover a broad range
of topics, such as: -
-Community Develop
ment Block Grant.
-Urban Development
Action Grant.
-Small Cities Program
-Community problem
solving
-Assessment of neigh
borhood programs. .
Energy- related topics
will include weatherization
assistance, solar energy
innovations, and general
conservation training.
The first training session
will be held February 16-18,
in Elizabeth, .New Jersey,
and will involve bout 400
community leaders from the
New York and New Jersey
areas. Other workshops will
be the first weekend in
March and will run through
the end of May,
Carl Johnson, Executive
Director, NCPC, said the
training is zeroing in on the
"grass .roots" citizens,
whom he termed 'the back
bone of America,' so they
can return to their com
munities and work with
locally-elected officials in
developing effective
programs to . eliminate
slums and blighted
areas.
Johnson, who is Black,
explained that since
virtually all state and feder
ally - funded programs
require citizen participation
in planning ' and
development stages, the em
phasis of the training
sessions will be on strenght
ening citizengovernment
relationships so that
programs which affect low
and moderate income per
sons will be responsive to
their needs.
"This is a sterling oppor
tunity for citizens to estab
lish a more comprehensive
understanding of the
government process and
how it works," Johnson
said.
He noted that, in
addition to tthe on site
training, specially prepared
"training packages" will be
distributed to cities
represented at the work
shops to encourage future
replication of the program.
some encouraging signs ;r:
the horizon; the executive
branch has yet to mount
the kind of all-out enforce
rhent effort that will mak
clear that the nation is
firmly committed to the
goal of ensuring equal
educational opportunities."
Many minority group
educators and leaders -including
Hispanics, Asian
and Pacific Island
Americans, and American
Indians, who are concerned
about bilingual education
programs-are "disenchant
ed" with 'HEWs
enforcement efforts, it says.
Commenting on the issue
of metropolitan desegrega
tion, the report adds:
"In 1977 this Commis
sion stressed the feasibility
of areawide desegregation
plans and urged government
at all levels to encourage
voluntary development of
such plans...Federal and
State governments have
done little to promote
metropolitan remedies to
eliminate educational in
equities they helped create.
"Only Wisconsin and
Massachusetts have enacted
laws that promote
interdistrict desegregation."
The Commission presents
four major recommenda
tions: It asks Congress to repeal
the Eagletoh-Biden amend
ment, to reject any new
measures designed to limit
the jurisdiction of
Federal courts, and to pro
vide funds and guidelines
to encourage voluntary
metropolitan school
desegregation.
It urges HEW to step up
its actions against non-complying
districts and to cut
Continued On Page 7
es. l and hasi a bad attitude.
Mitchell would no discuss "
Uhe allegations with" THE
CAROLINA TIMES.
Mitchell's .'l supervisor.
Hugh Pickett, acknowledges
that he has received com
plaints about Mitchell, par
ticularly from Morris. Pick
ett says that he can't talk
to Morris as a representa
tive of the union because
the city is prohibited from
Continued On Page 3
Three Tulasa, Okahoma,
city policemen and two
Tulsa County sheriffs
deputies were indicted by a
federal grand jury today on
charges of beating a prisoner
in" the city jail,
" Attorney General Griffin
.B. Bell said a three-count in-
dictment was returned in
U.S. District Court in Tulsa
'against Officers Jerry G
McFarland, Ronald - P.
Herwig, and Thomas J.
Gersham, : Sergeant Bruce
Baldwin of the sheriffs
department, and Auxiliary
Deputy Gene P. King.
Herwig, Baldwin, and
King were charged in one
count with beating and
kicking the prisoner, James
L. Winstead, in a jail cell on
August 10, 1978, violating
his constiutional rights
not to be deprived of
liberty without due process . fine.'
oi law. ?t"t
Herwig and McFarland
were charged in another
count with beating and,
kicking Winstead in the
booking area of the jail.
Gresham was charged in
the third count with de
priving Winstead of his
constitutional right to be
kept free from harm by
allowing Herwig and McFar
land to attack the prisoner
while he was in Gresham's
cusioay.
The maximum penalty
upon conviction of each
count of deprivation of
rights (18 USC 242) is one
year in prison and a $1,000
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NEWPORT NEWS, VA
One of the most intense
labor struggles in the South
is being waged in Newport
News, Va., between , oil
conglomerate Tenneco and
its striking shipyard work
ers. The workers are seeking
recognition of United Steel
workers Union Local 8888,
representing 17,500 produc
tion and maintenance work
ers. The strike began Febru
ary 1. Another group, USW
Local 8417, Design Workers
has been on strike at the
shipyard for more than 22
months. While Tenneco has
recognized Local 8417, the
National Labor Relations
Board has found the com
pany negotiated in bad
faith, and forced the skilled
workers on strike.
In addition to recogni
tion of Local 8888, unsafe
working conditions, low
wages, racist promotion
practices, and meager bene
fits ' for workers and
retirees are major com
plaints of striking shipyard
workers.
The complaints were
longstanding, but a former
association that represented
the workers, The Penninsula
Shipbuilding Association
(PSA), was ousted . by the
workers in a January, 1978
election and the United
Steelworkers were voted in.
The PSA, workers claim,
was a company union basic
ally representing the inter
ests of Tenneco.
RIGHT TO WORK LAW
DEFIED
Defying freezing temper
ature, snow, aiid steel hel
meted state and city police
equipped with riot gear, this
strike continues essentially
by workers' grit. Governor
John Dalton, acting under
Virginia's right-tevwork law,
has ordered out large num
bers -of state police. Police
arrests have anttered work
ers across the state against
the right-to-work law which
maintains open shops, and
favors non-union labor.
Workers have been well
disciplined during the strike
and expected violence has
not occurred. However, 58
arrests have been made
upon pickets who were
marching at plant gates by
state police. Under the pro
tection of hundreds of po
lice, strikebreakers, or
"scabs", the term used by
jeering strikers, tricle in
carpools and nearly empty
buses into the shipyard
daily.
Just how many workers
have gone back to work is
disputed. Tenneco claims
sixty per cent. Union offi
cials claim twenty per cent.
But an independent survey
bv THE VIRGINIAN
PILOT, a Norfolk based
total workforce.
John Townsell, a black
worker and vice president
of Local 8888, urges sup
port throughout the south
by churches, labor unions,
and other organizations to
put pressure on their con
gressional representatives to
revive the labor law reform
bill killed by the last Con
gress. "Companies throughout
the whole land will do the
same thing until this bill in
Congress is passed," re
marked Tounsell, a welder
at the shipyard.
Townsell and other wor
kers say Tenneco has used
"loopholes" in the law to
keep from negotiating with
the union, which, if not
stopped in Virginia, would
spread to other companies
in other states.
Many union observers
newspaper, puts the non- say the company is follow
strikers at eighteen per inn similar actions taken bv
cent of the company's (Continued From Page 2
ncClarrin Nmnod Public Affairs Hotid of HEWs Health Service Administration
WASHINGTON n Otto
McClarrin, a veteran public
relations executive, has been -named
. associate
administrator for
comunications and public
affairs of Health, Educ
ation and Welfare's Health
Services Administration
(ESA).
. The appointment was an
nounced this week by Dr
George I. Lythcott, HSA
administrator. '
At USA's principal com
munications official, Mr.
McClarrin will be responsi
ble for developing and ad
ministrating the public
affairs activities for , the
varied health services , pro
grams of a $2 , billion
agency.
HSA's 21 programs run
the garnet from direct
health care, technical and
financial assistance to
communities, assigning
medical manpower to short-
ago aitao, iu taiiiuy
planning, migrant
child health. , r
and
Mr. McClarrin brings to
his new post
experience in news paper,
art, foreign, service,
community relations and
public relations fields.
Before joining HSA in 1973,
he had served with the
Office of Economic Oppor
tunity, the U. Commission
on Civil Rights, United
States Information Agency,
and Howard University. ;
He began his career at
the age of 14 when he
was cartoonist, wirter
and columnist for the
Philadelphia Independent.
Throughout high school
and college he served in
similar jobs with the
Philadelphia Tribune ad
and the v Afro-American
newspapers.
Immediately following
military service in World
War II, Mr. McClarrin
served as editor-in-chief
of Newspic Magairie. News
pic, the first black publica
tion to break into the
' four-color advertising field,
was a forerunner of many
black magazines. - including
Ebony. .
Following ; this. he
worked as assistant editor of
Consumer Reports
Magazine, and Ihter served
as a foreign service
officer in Indonesia.
Mr. McClarrjun became
the first black to serve
as the . principal communi
cations official for an
independent U.S. Govern
ment agency ; when he was
appointed director of
informaion for, the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights
in 1958.
In recent years, his
activities have been gen
erally confined to public"
relations and civic efforts
but he still maintains a
weekly health column
syndicated by the Na
7 tional Newspaper Publishers
Association News Service.
Mr. McClarrin was born
in Atlanta. Ga.. reared in
fhUadelphia and graduated
from Howard University. He
did graduate work in public
relations and communica
tions at American Univer
sity. Additional graduate
study was at the New
School for Social Research
(New York), the
Department of State's
Foreign Service Institute,
and the University of Notre
Dame on a Ford
Foundation grant. He also
I)
McCLARRIN
made , a comprehensive
study of sharecroppers in 17
southern states under a ,
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