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JDne hundred public ser
vice jobs are planned for
tht nexi fiscal year. That
number is ' based on an
unemployment rate of
around three per cent.
That figure estimates that
around 1800 people are
unemployed in Durham
and are looking for work.
This number represents
only those workers who
have not- become
discouraged and are still
looking for work. Among
4,238 applicants that ap
plied for jobs at Durham
Office of the N.C.
Employment Commission
(SEC) in February, a very
large number were welfare
recipients and poorly
educated persons. The
majority, were black. They
constitute the chronically
unemployed in Durham.
Welfare recipients
below thirty years of age
numbered 57 per cent of
the 1979 welfare claimants
that were seeking work in
February. That means
that during February,
1100 welfare recipients
below thirty in Durham
were looking for jobs.
The chronically
unemployed seeking jobs
are poorly educated, a fac
tor which makes their
plight nearly permanent.
Even in good times, they
are looking for work that
they can't find. Forty
three per cent or 1,822 of
the persons who registered
with the Durham ESC of
fice in February did not
complete the eleventh
grade in high school. In a
market where college
graduates and PhD's seek
work, the uneducated and
unskilled have little
chance. '' -
The chronically
unemployed are black,
and they are young. Sixty
nine per cent of the
February applicants at
ESC were black.
The estimated 1800 peo
ple unemployed and seek-'
ing work in Durham is a
very poor estiamte, accor
ding to Jack Stone, That,
number is based on the
unemployment rate na
tionally. Almost; 200
welfare recipients alone
were looking for work in
February which ' strongly
suggests that the number
of people looking for
work may be '.more than
doubled the estimated rate
of three per cent.
When workers loose
jobs, they frequently fall
behind in their mortgage
and rent payments.
Houses are forclosed by
bankers, cars are
repossessed.
Black: organizations
contacted this week in
dicated that widespread
plans have not been for;
mulated within the black
community to head off or
cushion the predicted
economic slowdown, as
described by the
economists. Similar
forecasts in 1973 proved a
"depression for the black
community which always
if faced with high
unemployment.
Jarvis Martin, Chairs
man of the Economic and
Employment sub
committee of the Durham
Committee on the Affairs
of Black People said thai
the most powerful black
organization - had not
discussed how to protect
blacks . who . may suffer
from the economic woes
of the nation." . ,
Likewise ' .George
Frazier, president ofMhe
Durham Branch ' of - the'
NAACP indicated that the
civil 1 rights organization
has not considered pro
grams for aiding blacks
caught in the throes of in
flation and unemploy
ment; but the organization
may in the near future.;
Nurses Award $10,000
In Scholarships At Boule
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Sorors
Sorority,
of Chi Eta Phi
Inc., a profes
sional nursing organiza
tion which held its 34th
Annual Boule in In
dianapolis, Indiana last
month, awarded eleven
scholarships to students
enrolled in schools of nur
sing. Among those receiving
scholarships was Earnest
Joe Grant who attends
Winston-Salem State
University.
Chi Eta Phi was found
ed in 1932 at Freedmen's
Hospital, Washington,
D.C. There are presently
47 graduate chapters and
nineteen undergraduate
chapters . located
throughout the United
States. The objectives of
the Sorority are en
couragement of continu
ing education among
members of the nursing
profession, maintaining a
recruitment program for
nursing, stimulating a
close, friendly relationship
among members, develop
ing working relations with
other professional groups
for the improvement and
delivery of health care ser
vices and the continuous
identification of nursing
leaders within the
membership , who will
function as agents of
social change on local,
regional and national
levels.
The Sisterhood
Breakfast was a salute to
all Past Supreme Basilei
who have served in the 47
years of the organization.
Among them was Miss
Helen S. Miller of
Durham (1969-1973).
Mrs. Lydia Betts of Pi
Chapter, Durham, was
one of fourteen sorors
who received Life
Membership pins during
the Life Membership Lun
cheon. Chi Chi Chapter of
Winston-Salem won the
chapter award for the Best
Scrapbook Implementing
the Sorority Theme.
New officers elected for
1979-81 were: Peola H.
McCaskill, Supreme
Basileus; Dorothy B. Mid
dleton, Second Supreme
Anti-Basileus; Clara
Love, Dean of Pledges;
Daisy Borel, Dean of
Sponsors and Willa B.
Miller, Editor-in-Chief.
Boule 1980 will be held
in New York City, June
22-29, 1980 with Omicron
Chapter as Host Chapter.
The theme will be "New
Directions, Accountability
and Responsibility".
NCCU Recognises Staff
Of 5,10,15,20, And 25
Years Service
North Carolina Central
University presented
awards for service to 55 of
its non-teaching
employees Friday, July 6,
in the Alfonso Elder Stu
dent Union Lounge.
The employees are those
who have in the past year
completed five, ten, fif
teen, twenty or 25 years of
state employment.
Receiving 25-year Ser
vice Awards were Mrs.
Lillie B. Fike of the
Academic Skills Center,
Mrs. Helen Garner of the
Graduate Office, and
Leon Snipes of the
Heating Plant.
Daniel McArthur of the
Heating plant received a
twenty-year Service
Award.
The university
presented fifteen-year Ser
vice Awards to Levester
Cogdell of the Houskeep
ing Department, Mrs.
Marian Covington of the
Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Student
Affairs, Mrs. Cottis L.
Dickens of the James E.
Shepard Memorial
Library, Mrs". Doris C.
Fitzgerald of the Student
Bookstore, Mrs. Edna L.
Harrington of the Student
Bookstore, Mrs. Effie
Hughes of the Houskeep
ing Department, Mrs.
Cornelia Leathers of the
Housekeeping Depart
ment, Mrs. Ruby Heroin
of the Accounting Office,
John Hines of the
Physical Plant Depart
ment, and Moses W.
Mclver of the Food Ser
vices Department.
Ten-year Service
Awards went to Mrs.
Margaret Adams of the
Housekeeping Depart
ment, Ms. Joyce F. Belton
of the Chemistry Depart
ment, .Mrs. Gertrude F.
Bland of, the Housekeep
ing Department; Thomas
R. Burkett of the
Housekeeping Depart
ment, Mrs. Carrie Davis
of the Learning Resources
Center, Mrs. Evelyn C.
Deck of the
Undergraduate Office,
Mrs. Ella L. Duncan of
the Food Services Depart-'
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cessing Center, Mrs.
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Duplicating Center.
'Also receiving Ten-year
Service Awards-were Mrs.
Donnie Jones of the Food
Services Department,
Mrs. Barbara J. Lassiter
of the Career Counseling
and Placement Bureau,
Mrs. Martina S. McKib
bins of the Physical Plant
Department, Mrs. Annie
M. Reed of the Data Pro
cessing . Center, 'R.T.
Robinson of the Physical
Plant Department, Mrs.
Janie Shaw of the Food
Service Department, Mrs.
Phyllis F. Shumate of
Residence I Operations,
Mrs. Lelah S. Smith of the
, Chancellor's Residence,
Mrs. Elma White of the
Food Service Department,
and Mrs. Julia Williams
of Residence Operations.
Five-year Service
Awards went to Mrs. Ed
na B. Becton of the Office
of the Assistant Comp
troller, James Brim of the
' Housekeeping Depart
ment, S. Wayne Cunn
ingham of Central Stores,
Ms. Stella D. Cutts of the
AIDP-FMS Office, Mrs.
Louis C. Davis of the
Housekeeping Depart
ment, Edward Cummings
of the Physical Plant
Department, Charles
Gamble of the
Housekeeping Depart
ment, William A. Gilmer
of the Duplicating Center,
Ms. Sharon M. Hadden of
the Physics Department
and the Registrar's Office,
Roy Helms of the Physical
Plant Department,
Junious Ingram of the
Housekeeping Depart
ment. Mrs. Rosalind W.
Manley of the Biology
Department, William E.
McDonald of the Physical
Plant Department, Mrs.
Barbara J. McMorris of
the Food Services Depart
ment, Mrs. Dorothy B.
Okeke ' of Residence
Operations, Mrs, Lessie
Privette . of the
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