DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
NEWfiPAPFB ncmnti.r.it
1.
DURHAM
NC 27706
G1J0Y oun
OUR EUTERTAinnEtlT
SECTION EACH WEEK
' VflJSPS 091-380)
Words of Xllzizzi
Success it to bt measured not so much by th
position that on has reached m life as' by. the
obstacles which he has' overcome whila trying to
succeed. ' ' . ' , ' ,
Booker T. Washington
VOLUME 57 NUMBER 26
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1979
TELEPHONE: (919) 682-2913
m ICE: 23 CENTS
H0OO8 too ftsoa Dol
M0D00DII
S0il
Onford Vonaa
BETSY TAYIOR
Co? Causes
to Job Losses
during the period held
jobs by the skin of their
teeth. a Congress ap
propriated more money in
and Training Program will
be funded approximately
$548,000 less for the next
budget year than the labor
program is funded cur
rently. The budget will
decrease by about 45 the
number of jobs created by
the federal funds. Besides
fewer funds, limitations
on use of funds may result
in fewer jobs. Meanwhile,
a vast number of the
unemployed, mostly
black, are jobless.
The nation's job service
program was developed in
1974 following staggering
inflation of more than
eight per cent nationally.
The programs are pattern
ed after the -WPA pro
: grams of Jhe 1930s.
. Formerly foamed the
Durham-Orange 'Man
power Consortium, the
agency ,; was f -anted,
$280,000 to start its CETA
program in 1975. Federal
regulations allowed one
.year jobs for applicants
unemployed for , ; Jonger x
than thirty days. To in" ,i.v ,
crease the number of jobs CHARL0TTE"3VlThc
applicants were hired for old North State Medical
six month periods, hoping
that more 'funds would
come to extend the pro
gram
January,- 1977 wmcn ar
rived in Durham just in
time to avoid cut offs.
President Carter's pro
mises to expand the jobs
program didn't materilize.
Formerly, to be eligible,
the applicant had to be
unemployed thirty days.
But in May of 1977,
CETA program seekers
had to have been out of
work for more than fif
teen weeks. At that time,
half of the CETA ap
plicants in Durham had
been unemployed twelve
.weeks or less.
. Congressional changes
in the new program will
Continued On ?age 17 ,
Kiddie Koliege
Graduates
First row, left to right, Sean Odum, Paul Miller, An
tione Richardson, Kenneth Daye, Kelvin Daye, Jeffrey
Lunsford, and Thomas Parker. Second row, Chesenna
Ray, Joey Pfirker Monika Barnes, Tonya Hunt,
Donald Evans, Curtis Belfield, Tonya Carr and Tyrone
Elliott. Not shown Peter Fowler, Derek Meekins and
Torhi. Jackson . . , '' ':, , . 't.
Mrs. Mildred Carr, a parent, coordinated a covered
dish dinner which followed the graduation exercise for
graduates, their families and friends. Mrs. Lorraine
Stith is director of Kiddie Koliege. 5 1
Old North State Medical Society Ho
Annual Hoof inn In Charlotte
Medicaid Plan
92 nd
Dcprdo Ruling
Expected, Says
Don Cbvis
By Pat Bryant
Wilmington Ten defen
dant Rev. Benjamin
Chavis said that Judge
Franklin Dupree's ruling
denying the Wilmington
Ten a new trial troubled
him, but the ruling was to
be expected. Chavis, the
principal Wilmington Ten
defendant, and the only
one, still imprisoned, calm
ly lamented, "I learned a
long time ago not to put
trust in the courts of
North Carolina and the
federal government."
Judge Duprec ruled
Wednesday, June 20, that
Rev. Chavis, eight black
men and a white woman,
known as the Wilmington
Ten, were given fair trials,
but admitted that the trials
were not perfect. Accor
ding to Dupree, the law
only requires fair trials.
mmmm -
iiiiiiif -mm
"' j ?
wmsm mm
mar m
- , , , w , (
i" , . f i 4
- I - , v --: ; -'-
l rwiriii nnn ii
The ' formula set by
Congress for dispensing
the funds is tied to the
estimated unemployment
rate. Between 1975 and
1978, the Durham-Orange
Manpower Consortium
received grantswof nearly
$5 million, which initially
developed 59 jobs and , a
Society the oldest Negro
. medical 'society, in the
country, held its 92nd an
nual meeting in the Queen
- City June 22-23th.
Dr. Jbhn P. Holt of
Asheville, the" retiring
president, opened the con
vention with his fairwell
address on Friday night at
the opening session. Dr.
Holt asked the members
to keep the faith and con
tinue their work among all
The society will meet in
1980 at Hilton Head
Island, S.C.
USDA
Prepares for Possible
Food Stamp Cut
maximum of 270 jobs in , peoples. He also requested
iv wnen tne corsoruum - the society to keep up the
folded. Sixty-five per cent fight that he has been pur
of the CETA participants sujng for the complete
were Durhamites. recognition of the Black
In the first year of physician in all phases of
operation after the con- medical care in North
sortium disbanded, the
Durham Manpower and
Training Office received
$1.4 million with which it
developed 140 jobs. A
conservative mood among Board of Examiners
the congressional budget
well
Carolina. He also re
quested that the society
continue its fight for
representation oh the
North Carolina State
makers, as well as a
decline in the rate of
unemployment, accounts
for the cut-back, says Jack
Stone, Deputy of Durham
Manpower and Training.
Stone traces the history
of the Title II Emergency ,
jobs program and Title VI
Public Service jobs pro
gram which make up the
program, generally known
as the Comprehensive
Employment and Training
Act (CETA).
He explains how the Ti
,tle VI program died in
1976 with President Ford
opposed to continuing it.
During that national elec
tion year, Congress let the
program die, but added
Clinical sessions were
headed by Dr, Louis Ber
nard of Meharry Medical
College Surgical Depart
ment; Drj Charles Curry
of the Department of In
ternal Medicine, Howard
University; and Dr. Bren
da E. Armstrong of the
Departmnt of Pediatric
Cardiology of Duke
University Hospital Staff.
Dr; Frank N. Suilivan
of Wilson was inducted as
the new President. Dr. W.
T. Armstrong was re
elected as the Secretary
Treasurer. The Auxiliary
re-elected Mrs. Marjorie
Debnam of Raleigh as
President and Mrs. M.C.
Armstrong of Rocky
WASHINGTON,
Secretary of Agruculture
Bob Bergland has an
nounced an emergency
rule directing states to
prepare for ' possible
across-the-board .cuts in
food stamps benefits in
August and September.
"The cuts could be
necessary,"Bergland said,
"chiefly because unex
pectsdly high foor prices
have boosted the cost of
the program well above
original budget projection
and, Without supplemen
tal funding, the program
is going to run out of
money before the end of
the fiscal year."
Any such cuts would af
fect all households equal
ly, Bergland said, with
reductions applied on a
flat percentage basis.
States would notify food
, stamp household of benfit
cuts thriugh the new
media, direct mailing of
notice or posters in food
stamp offices.
Benefit Cuts due to a
shortage of funds would
be unprecedented in the
15-year history of the pro
gram and would - fallow
substantial cuts now being
made in benefits for
several million persons as
a result of tighter eligibili
ty and benefit rules im
plementing the 1977 Act.
Food stamp benefits,
which currently average 33
cents per person per meal,
are indexed to the cost of
food. The Food Stamp
Act of 1977 imposed a cap
on program expenditures
for each fiscal year based
on estimates of food price
inflation. At the time the
law was enacted, that in
flation, was projected at
three to. four percent each
year. However, food
prices are now expected to
rise 22 percent in the first
two years since the bill's
since the bill's passage,
the small amount of
money that remains in the
pocket Of , a minimum
wage employed after taxes
are ' witheld and work
related expenses paid.
Three pilot program pro
vide a greater incentive for
young people to work in
regular jobs by making it
MYRTLE, Beach, S.C.
Governor James
Hunt's acceptance and ap
proval of the $1.8 million
. medicaid fraud and abuse
monitoring contract
awarded Electronic Data
Systems Federal Corpora
tion (EDS-F) has been
supported by the Old
North State Dental Socie
ty. The Society represents
approximately 100 black
dentists who have been at
odds with the previous
Continued On Page 17
Dupree's ruling was the
latest in a seven year series
of court rulings rejecting,
claims of innocence by
,.,v , '..Wilmington Ten defen-
A 1 - -:w. simvc juw
Ilgius aiiu Human uguia
activists the world over.
Two years ago, the
witnesses who testified
against Chavis and the
other defendants, admit
ted they lied for pro
secutorial favors, in
cluding time off their
sentences.
MISS TAYLOR
r
OXFORD Twenty- " reports that her daughter
five year old Betsy Karen has been seen recently in
Taylor of 335 Henderson the Oxford area. But the
Street has been missing v . motner. says sne is com-
Preaching from a ser
mon entitled "Bridge
Over Troubled Waters",
Chavis urged a capacity
congregation to build
bridges of faith, prayer,
solidarity and struggle to
"overcome these troubled
waters of racism".
, . 4 11V
woman s relatives Believe,
foul play is involved in the
disappearance. Oxford
police seem to think the
woman is all right and just
hasn't returned home. A
detective assigned to the
case believes she is in the
Durham area.
Mrs. Esther N. Taylor,
Karen's mother, said her
daughter left for work on
June 1 , took her three year
old son, Gregory Dante,
to the babysitter, and
hasn't been seen by her
since.
According to Mrs.
Taylor, there have been
I'Jcber Loses Anti-Affirmative
Action Suit In Supromo Court
Staff Report
The United States
Supreme Court overturn
ed a lower court decision
Wednesday that voluntary
affirmative action pro
grams to assist black and
minority workers are not
reverse discrimination.
The Supreme Court, in
a 5-2 decision, ruled that
companies and unions
could set up voluntary af
firmative action programs
without fear of reprisals
or legal challenge. The
court ruled that racial
quotas were legal in ef
forts to increase minorities
in job training programs
possible for them to retain iV that would . be.f . advan
y tageoui to minorities.
Continued On Page 4 The case before - the
courts involved an affir
mative action program
entered into by Kaiser
Aluminum Company and
the United Steel Workers.
Jn 1974, Kaiser
Aluminum Company
undertook a new training
program to implement its
affirmative action plan.
Trainees were chosen on
the basis of seniority, but
the program specified that
half of its trainees must be
black.
De jure black trainees
accepted into the program
had less seniority than
some of the whites re
jected for the program.
One of the whites, a man
named Brian Weber, sued.
Weber charged that he
was denied admission into
a job training program,
causing him to be a victim
of reverse discrimination.
Weber charged that the
Kaiser Aluminum Com
pany's affirmative action
program violated the 1964
Civil Rights Act when he
was not admitted to the
training program. Kaiser
Aluminum, back in 1974,
viewed its areas of skilled
positions and found that
blacks constituted less
than two per cent of the
skilled workforce while
blacks constituted 39 per
cent of the workforce in
the city of the plant.
In an effort to stem any
future lawsuits based on
Continued On Page 4
VVJlt wts evi
would come home, u she
is able to do so.
Detective Royster, of
the Oxford Police Depart
ment, said shortly after
Miss Taylor was reported
missing, her supervisor
was phoned by an
anonymous caller saying
she had been hospitalized.
She worked at the
Employment Security
Commission in Raleigh.
Royster doesn't think
foul play is involved, but
thinks the women is in the
Durham area. He said
beginning this week
newspaper, radio, and
television media in the
Durham and uxtord area
would be uitlized to find
the woman.
Miss Taylor, is five feet,
tour inches tail, and
weighs 120 pounds. She
was last seen driving her
.i 11 11m
Toyota Corolla.
Persons having infor-
nearance should call
Detective Royster jat
693-2915.
JOIN THE
tlAACP
TODAY!
Breakthrough Directors Meet to Set 3 -Year Plans
With a jammed packed
agenda; 'Operation Break
through's (OBI) Boara 01
Directors met last week
to take action on a
variety; of "mm
Board chairman and Dur
ham County commissioner
William Bell led the
discussion which included
approval of a three year
plan which set OBT goals
through 1982. Also
approved was QBT's one
' year refunding proposal
to be-submitted to the
Community Services
Administration. The
proposal requests $715,542
to continue all of Operation
Breakthrough's basic
services, which include
general administration,
maintenance of 19 low
income neighborhood coun
ofistinformation, referral
and counseling services jr
housing, social : services ;
' health, education, and con
sumer education; commun-
ity gardening and Cannery,
weatherization, " ' an.
emergency fuel program j
senior i citizen activities,
and a youth program which
last year reached over
2,000 youngsters. Opera
tion Breakthrough would
add to the federal money
$178,88 in non-federal
share for a total program
cost of $894,427, Non
federal share includes such
things as the value of
volunteers', time; donated
items such as office space,
utilities, furniture? and
... local funding. In adddition,
the Board ; approved the
Head- .Start program's
proposal for 1979-80. Head
Start is requesting $482,900
from the Department of
Health;, Education and
Welfare (HEW) and pro
poses to supply an addition
al $120,725 in non-federal
share. The total projected
Head Start budget is
$603,625. ' After v the
proposals for Opera
tion Breakthrough's basic
services and the Head Start
full year program were
approved, the Board approv
ed the Head Start Handi
capped program proposal.
This program serves
handicapped ' youngsters
throughout - the year
providing i them . ' with
specially trained teachers,
special equipment, , and in
dividualized ; educational
programs in ' addition i to
their experiences in the
regular Head Start class
rooms. In the summertime,
the program provides both
Head ' Start classroom ex
periences and a home-based
' teaching program. HEW will
will be asked for $69,300 to
support .these activities.
, Head Start will be supplying
an additional $17,325
In non-federal share for a
total budget of $86,625.
.Other items of note in
cluded the approval of a
1979-80 Affirmati
'Action Plan and the
announcement that the
i Head . Start program had
been selected by the
Durham County Depart
ment of Social Services
to conduct a special
t summer program " serving
'80 children. The program
began June 18 and will run
for eight weeks this sum
mer. It was announced that
the Community Cannery, a
service that OBT has
provided since 1973, will
be moving in September.
If approved by the City
Board of Adjustments, the
Cannery will move from
its present location on
North Matigum Street to
. the Whitted School grounds
where OBT has its offices.
It is hoped that this
moving date In September
will letmost people who
want to can their fruits
and vegetables have an
opportunity to do so before
the move causes a dis
ruption in the Cannery
operations.
In his. remarks to the
Board before adjourning,
Fred McNeill, Jr., executive
director of Operation
Breakthrough, informed
members that he had enter
ed a national executive fel
lowship competition spon
sored . by the . National
Community Action
Agency Executive Direct
ors Association. The pro
gram will select twelve fel
lows to spend two months
in . Washington in ; 1980
learning ; the "political
rones. Those . selected
will work out of the
NCAAEDA office and
meet with federal agency
administrative staff, elected
officials and Congressional
staff members. Only twelve
of 900 executive directors
in the country will be
selected. The Board discuss
ed this decision and wishej
Mr. McNeill good luck
if- in j'iiiiiiii..niii.ii"ii.iiiHiiii.i'j Mfll-jpn.'nji-