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VOLUME 57 - NUMBEft 25
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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA- SATURDAY, JUNE 23, ?979
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Lincoln Community
Health Center will be Short
funded more than $200,000,
for the next fiscaf year,
according to Df; Evely'a
Schmidt, Executive .Direc--tor
of the "Center. -V 'J t vi "
The exact amount of the
shortfall and the servicer
that will be short funded, is
not certain at the present,
Dr. Schmidt says, but with
in the next few . weeks,
more definitive data will be
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the nation have a good
sense of what is going to
happen. Already the House
Appropriations Committee
has allocated $30. million
less than the Carter Ad
ministration requested lor
health centers.
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Dr. M'Bakob Visits NCCU
Dr. Jacques-Rene M'Bakob, director of preventive medicine and health care for
the United Republic of the Cameroon, West Africa, visited North Carolina Central
University's campus recently during a visit to North Carolina. Shown above, left to
right, are Chancellor Albert N, Whiting of NCCU, Dr. M'Bakob, Ms. Gwendolyn
Jones, instructor of nursing at NCCU, and Dr. Howard Fitts, chairman of the NCCU
department of ' health education.
Fourth District Congress
man Ike Andrews has been
rallying for the nation's
health centers, and has
written letters of support
tq each of the members
of the house appropriations
committee. Andrews' letters
and the phone -calls and
telegrams of many other
health care supporters
around the nation couldn't
turn the House Appropria
tions Committee around.
Dr. Schmidt believes that
a vote by the full House
will confirm the House
Appropriations Committee's
verdict, but Senate consid
eration may save the much
needed funds.
Lincoln Health Center is
just one of the social
programs which face budget
cuts from the Congress.
After adjustments for in
creases in inflation, the
Durham Manpower agency,
Durham Housing Authority,
and several other programs
will get less of the federal
budget than they have re
ceived in previous years.
President Carter has
recommended $20 billion
less for social programs
than last year.
Decreases in funding of
social programs is not re
sulting in savings to the
taxpayers. On the contrary,
"fiscal restraint" and "re
sponsible government
spending", code words of
social program budget cut
ters, have not been used
when the military budget
is considered.
President Carter's pro
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Annual Black Leadership Caucus Held
BY PERITA BRYANT
RALEIGH-"Many who
have pushed for survival of
blacks in North - Carolina
don't get recognized", said
Secretary of Natural Re
sources , and Community
Development, ' Howard N.
Lee at the . second': annual
North f Carolina , Black
Leadership Caucus held at
.St. Augustine's Xollege in
Raleigh on Saturday, June
16. Lee who keynoted the
'afternoon session of the day
long gathering, recognized
several .black leaders who
' have worked diligently in
i the struggle for black people
ii North Carolina. Com
menting on their ..virtues, he
lauded such men As Floyd
McKisdck, Milton Fitch, J.
S Stewart and vety, briefly.
takes v courage to give up
pleasures in our lives in
hopes that it will have a
positive impact", Lee said.
Speaking on the purpose
of the leadership conference
Lee described . the issues
facing black North Caro
linians today as "the same
as in 1839" when a
similar black caucus met in
North Carolina, "but- the
responses are different'.
Creating a different
response to the issues whkh
confront the state's largest
minority is exactly - what
this year's annual confer
ence . proposed ,;to do.
Instead of changmg the tune
beyond what has been done
by numerous other groups
across the state, workshop
coodinator Richard Mizelle
said that "a major purpose
of the workshops is to get
black folk in the frame of
... mind to think beyond dis
icussioiCand 'to start for-
td ( the s SJbld song, t:'isndeu)atm''Sototi(.W'n
vored td write ft ternpiael get people to psychological-
Iv hew, sone. The ttieulll,. H think solutions instead of
Senior DIacIi Air Forco General
Receives Award
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The Harvard Business
School Association has
named the senior black
Air Force general, Major
General Lucius Theus, as
the 1979 recipient of Us
Alumni Achievement
Award.
General Theus who
rose through the' ranks
during a 36-year career to
assume command of the
Air Force Accounting and
Finance Center in Denver,
Colo., accepted the award
in the June 1 Alumni Day
ceremonies at the school
iri Cambridge, Mass.
The Alumni Achieve-
professional
ding '
stature.
The Harvard award
committee said General
Theus had more than fill
ed the bill. ''From enlist
ment to high command,"
the Committee said, "his
steady rise reveals unflag
ging : perserverance har
nassed to superlative
technical competence."
The committee said
General Theus was picked
because he is "a civic
minded military leader
who graces the nation's
defense establishment
with a pay-master's care
fot detail, an artist's eye
University's Advanced
Management Program.
He was graduated at the
bacclaureate level from
the University of
Maryland, holds a
master's degree from
George Washington
University and is an honor
graduate of the Industrial
College of the Armed
Forces. General Theus
was also graduated with
distinction from the Air
War College.
Jescribina me. ProbleniiV.
debicts the erowins concern
iofltate; leadership to search
J for( more viable means to in
sure black survival In ':
Holding workshops on the
major issues of education,
employment "and "econom
ics, health and. welfare, the
conference attempted to
provide solutions.- However,
many of those in attendance
view this as another occa
sion to again discuss the
age old problems. of black
people without devising
long range plans to alleviate
them.
When asked if the con
ference workshops would
actually accomplish the in
tended goal over and
problems."
A communications net
work designed to facilitate
the implementation of a
"Black Agenda" has been
instituted by the Caucus, It
proposes an organized net
work beginning at the
individual and precinct
levels and proceeding . to
the national Congressional
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Carter, Others Praise Randolph
President Jimmy Carter bows his head in prayer dar
ing a memorial for the late A. Phillip Randolph recently
at the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church in Washington,
D.C. The President called Randolph a "man of digni
ty. ..tenacity. ..eloquence" at the hour-long memorial.
Seated on Carter's right is Bayard Rustin, president of
the A. Philip Randolph Institute and on his left is
Bishop Henry Murph of the Second Episcopal District,
A.M.E. Church. Seated in the foreground is George
Shirley who sang a selection during the event.
Milovos Jit BtefiCis Dove-to
RALEIGH-The Ameri
can Socialist Party, better
known as the Nazi Party,
has set up offices , in the
same building as a well
known civil rights organi
zation. The civil rights
organization, the Com
mission For Racial Justice
of the United Church of
Christ is . moving from the
Odd Fellows Temple to the
Raleigh Building, next
door.
Rev. Leon White, Direc
tor of the NC-Va. Com
mission For Racial Justice
tola The Carolina Times
this week that there is no
connection between the or
ganization's move and the
Nazi tenants in his building.
Besides the Commission
For Racial Justice, black
attorney Richard Ball, once
a candidate for State Court
of Appeals, has also moved
next door to the Raleigh
Building.
The Nazi Party advocates
use or arms by whites
against blacks to establish a
white government where
blacks have no rights. It also
blames the nation's econom
ic woes on blacks.
Harold Covington, unsuc
cessful Nazi Party candidate
for City Council, and Sher
iff of Wake County, heads
the Raleigh brnach of the y
Party, and was seen entering '
the Odd Fellows Temple .
last week.
Church Group Announces Soul City Investment
Sherman Drisco
NNPA Official Norton
Day Observance
Keynoter in Pittsboro
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1 W
a m .1 . 1 r ' '
niciu nu uwh -ior.- oeauty, and a
presented each year statesman's concern for
(except 1975) since 1968 to
the Harvard alurrmus who:
had "achieved outstan-
commumty."
General Theus is a
graduate of Harvard
An integrated group of
North Carolina churchmen,
Church Clergy and Laity
Economic Development
According to sources, the
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Student Ufe Staff Members Honored At Dinner
Members of the staff at the North Carolina Central University Director of Student
Life Men honored their supervisor and one of their co-workers at a dinner Thurs
day; June i4. Wiljie J. Finch, left, represented the office In the presentation of lug
gage to Miss Mary Baines, residence supervisor at Chidley Hall, and John Lennon,
the Director of Student Ufa Mert, Miss Baines and Lennon will retire this year.
Group, Inc., has announced
plans to invest $300,000 to
$500,000 in a manufactur
ing firm to be located at
Soul City.
Dr. Joy Johnson, speak
ing for the organization,
said this week that the
manufacturing company
plans initially to produce
choir, college and other '
church robes, uniforms,
wood and leather crafts.
Church Clergy and
Laity Economic Develop
ment Group," Inc., includes
the General Baptist Con
vention ofr North Caro
lina, The Baptist Conven
tion, the United Church of
Christ, the United Holy
Church, United Methodist:
and African Methodist
Episcopal denominations.
Dr. Johnson said that the
investment group has been
incorporated approximately
three months, but has been
organized for about a year.
Development plans include
selling shares and soliciting
cooperatioh from, other
churches, financial institu
tions, as well as individual
shareholders. Shares, he
said, are being sold for
$105. . ",
The investment in the.
Soul City firm, . Johnson
says, will initially develop
between 75 and 100 jobs.'
Hev mentioned the possi-
bility of procuring military ;
contracts to produce duffel
bags and related items.
investment group is plan
ning to rescue Welmetco
Limited, a financially
troubled corporation,
already producing duffel
bags in Soul City. The
company is a traditional
cut and sew operation uti
lizing primarily semi-skilled
labor.
Affirmative Action
Brings Reduction In
Detroit Crime Rate
WASHINGTON -The
affirmative action
program implemented by
the Detroit Police Depart
ment has contributed
significantly to declining
crime rates in that city,
said Mayor Coleman A.
Young at a recent news
conference held in con
junction with planning for
the third annual con
ference of the National
Organization of Black
Law Enforcement Ex
ecutives (NOBLE).
"Crime is down 30 per
cent in the last two years,
and there is some reason
for this," the Detroit
mayor said.'. "The only
significant change that has
happened during this
period is the composition
Of the (Detroit) police
force at the officer and
command levels."
In 1967, Detroit suf
fered a race riot that had a
traumetic effect on the. ci
ty and its police force. At
that, time the police
department was only 4.9
per cent black; at the
supervisory ranks, blacks
accounted for only 2.6 per
cent of the sergeants and
1.3 per cent of the
lieutenants.
In 1974, under the
leadership of the Young
administration, the
Detroit Police Department,
designed an aggressive af
firmative action program
to study the effects of
previous ..discrimination.
By late 1977, when a
federal court ruled against
the department's, affir
mative action program,
blacks accounted for 32.5
per cent of the total force
and 15. 1 per cent ofrthe
sergeants were black. As
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Sherman s Brisco, Ex
ecutive Director of the Na
tional Newspaper
Publishers Association
The Black Press of
America will speak at
the Second Annual
George Moses Horton
Day in North Carolina, to
be held at the fairgrounds
at Pittsboro on Saturday,
June 30 beginning at 10
a.m. Dr. Brisco, former
national editor of the
Chicago Defender, is a
graduate of Southern and
American Universities and
served with the United
State Department of
Agriculture as Informa
tion Specialist from 1941
to 1969. He is also
presently writing a syn
dicated colume, "The
Black Side of
Washington".
Also appearing on the
program will be Dr. R.
Oakley Winters, Executive
Director of ' the North
Carolina Humanities
Committee who will speak
on "The Significance of
GeOrge Moses Horton
Day in North Carolina."
Groups presenting con
tributions and greeting in
clude Mrs. Mary B.
Perkins, president, N.C.
Federation of Negro
Women's Clubs, Rev.
C.J. Malloy, Jr.,
Associate General
Secretary, Progressive Na
tional Baptist Convention,
Inc., Rev. Mrs. Reather E.
Whitley, Ralei-Wake
Federation of Concerned
Christian Women; Mrs.
Alberta C. Pearson, N.G.:
State Director, ,Zeta Phi.
Beta Sorority, Inc;, and":
Rev . William H. Carr; .
pastor, Emmanuel United
Church of Christ
Greensboro, N.C C
Exhibits representing,"
many aspects of the 1
State's minority cultural."
heritage will be on display
and a special exhibit of the
works of George Moses!;
Horton wuT.be on display.' "
in the log-cabirt
"museum. A dance con
cert, "Our African;
Heritage" will be
presented by the AYD
Dance . Group of-,
Greensboro.
An added feature of the
day will be the field com-'
petition of Chatham'
County Recreational
Centers to begin at 2 p.m. 1
For the benefit of out-of-county
guests who,
-travel long distances, the.
drama, "A Man Called ,
Moses" will be performed
from 4:30 p.m: to 6:30 '
p.m. This will be the only;
performance of the day.
However, beginning on.
July 6, the performances,
will be held every Friday
and Saturday through Ju-
ly and August with 8:303
p.m. as opening time. This
drama, written by Mildred
Bright Payton, is the first
of its kind in the nation-'
its portrays the true story ,
of the Chatham County
slave who attempted to
buy his freedom by selling
his love poems to Chapel
Hill college students.
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