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Duke University Library Newspaper Department Durham NC 27706 IlRlIOl Ml mniiMll UNITED MONTH f I." I. ' Words of Wisdom. . Th liberty of tfM individual must be thua far Baitarf: ha must not mafcf himself a nuisanea to other paopta. John Stuart IS3 "It h art mi iu wfco hii tot Bftt bat tia bis iriktV cram mora that is poor." SEKICA 1 VOLUME 58 - NUMBER 4 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1980 TELEPHONE (919) 632-2913 PRICE: 39 CENTS Prosidonf Carter m If i ... n i ., nilifi unr-ri mimvr r"--iirii J. J. Henderson (left) and F. V. Allison (right) pose with W. J. Kennedy, Jr., who retired as chairman of the Board of Directors of Mutual Savings & Loan Association The Annual very productive year vear." stated proht-wise Shareholders Meeting of the Mutual Savings and Loan Association was held Tuesday, January 8 in the lobby of the associa tion building. Mutual Savings and Loan Association loaned over 1 .5 million dollars to local borrowers last year, which was another good : year in the association history. "The majority of those loans " 'wertf'-'" residential loans," F. V. Allison, Jr., managing officer said. Allison pointed out that, "Despite the increase in cost of money from ' month to month, last year was a profitable year for the savings and loan in dustry and Mutual Sav ings and Loan showed a The growth was not as much we would have desired, and recognizing the slow down in savings growth, we hope to over-come the odds in the coming year." He added, "The association savings deposits totaled $14,221,500.05 last yfear. We are proud of ourWole as a specialized mortgage lending institution," Alfeoit Jatf . v wSavmgs associations were created nearly 150 years ago to serve the thrift and home ownership needs of the American people, and we at Mutual Savings and Loan Asociation take that responsibility very serious ly. Our savers had a good Allison, Mutual Savings and Loan Association paid its savers $942,515.84 in dividends during 1979. The total dividend distributed amountedto--$112,273.00jrB32 per cejjt over the previous year." Allison predicted for 1980 very high interest rates and very tight credit. He further added, "Savings., probably will continue- to fall below previous years growth and with the savings shortage and the inability for the consumer to meet their mortgage interest rates, it will put a damper on mor tgage demands." "The industry is strong and our savings and loan association is strong." Statement by Commissioner Spaulding I have enjoyed serving the citizens of Durham County as one of their County Commissioners for three terms, during which I ahve tried to do so with empathy, compas sion, understanding, and fiscal responsibility. I am, therefore, seeking re election on my record. As other issues develop, I shall address myself to them with equal fervor and dedication in the public interest. Not only are these crucial times through which we are passing in our economy, there are also many still unmet needs. And the burdens are heavy on both those of low income as well as with fixed incomes. Hence, the problems facing your; County Commissioners are many and difficult. To cope with them with mm Join Tho NAACP Today! Wo flood You Now! any reasonable degree of1 satisfaction will require all the knowledge, ex perience, wisdom, and sound judgment possible. : I have grown in all these areas during my tenure in; office. I am, therefore, seekin theoj opportunity to con tinue to serve the best in teiests of the total com munity, and ask for your continued support in the forthcoming Democratic Primary. Some of the ac complishments of the Board of County Com missioners during my tenure of service thereon have been: 1. New facilities for the Continued on Page 9 Bell Files For Re-Election ToCounty Commissioners William V, Bell, thirty nine year old Durham County Commissioner, filed for re-election for a fifth term on the Durham Board of County Com missioners as a democratic candidate. Bell, an electrical engineering manager at IBM Corporation's System Communications Division' in the Research triangle Park , was first elected to the Board of Commissioner! ' in 1972 and has been re-elected each term thereafter. He. will be making more' detailed announcements concerning his campaign organization and com ments on those topics, which he feel will be issues in the upcoming elections. Aside frj W.V.BELL is also involvrd quite ac-. is tiveiy m some ot the sloners responsibilities, he, following organizations: President of UDICDC Board of Directors Board Chairman of Custom Molders Inc. - A minority owned plastic in jection molding company. Board of Trustees - N. C. School of Science and Mathematics and its Ex ecutive Committee j Board .Chairman of1 Operation'Breakthrough Durham Committee of the Affairs of Black .Peo ple " President Durham Orange Howard Universi ty Alumni Chapter H C. Museum of Life and Science Board of , Directors r Bell and his wife, Gwen dolyn, a teacher to Durham city ! school : system, have two children, Billy and Tiffany. WASHINGTON President Jimmy Carter, in a memorandum to heads of government departments and agencies, outlined specific actions that need to be taken to ensure the President's goal of tripling the amount of business the Federal government does with minority businesses. The President said in the memo that when he announced his urban policy in March, 1978, he had pledged to increase federal procurement with minority businesses from the $1.1 billion level of 1977 to $3.3 billion by the end of fiscal year 1979. He also said he had signed an executive order to in crease substantially the amount of federal pro curement in areas of high unemployment (labor surplus areas). "In both instances, although the govern ment's performance im proved significantly over previous years, the goals I set werejiot achieved," he 1 said. The President stated the White House is in the process of establishing higher goals in minority and labor surplus area procurement for 1980, ; "which I am confident we : can achieve." He outlined the follow ing specific actions in the fnemoto ensureach ' agency is "doing its best to meet those goals:" Familiarize yourself with your agency goals and ensure that adequate plans have been developed to reach those goals. Instruct each of your procurement officials that these goals are a high priority with me that I ex pect each of them to take every necessary and ap propriate step to reach these goals. Public Lw 95-507 re quires that each agency establish an Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) with a full-time director who reports to the agency head or deputy. It also requires subcontrac ting plans for utilization of small and minority firms for most federal contracts over $500,000. Please take the following actions regarding P. L. 95-507: review your OSDBU to see that it has the necessary resources ; and full-time staff to carry out the responsibilities mandated by this law; and review the performance of your agency with regard to the subcontracting provi sion of the law, and take every action required to ensure that, henceforth, no contract covered by the provisions of this law is let by your agency which does not have a subcontracting plan. You should already have established with the Department of Commerce your annual minority con tracting goals and with SBA your subcontracting goals under P. L. 95-507; if no, do so immediately. Cooperate fully with GSA in establishing labor surplus area goals. Personally review the 1979 performance of your agency in the minority and labor surplus area pro curement areas, and if you did not meet your goals, develop a play by January 30 to meet 1980 goals. The President, in the memo, set a January 30th date for agency heads to report to him (through Jack Watson,, secretary to the Cabinet and assistant to the president for In tergovernmental Affairs) on specific steps they, are taking irf this area. U - I 1 DyiQEIitfiEi COGiffiitfili SuQEiii! il01EiCS AM Sy The February 2nd Mobilization Committee announced that all systems are "go"for the demonstration in Greensboro and cited a growing list of en dorsements. According to a prepared statement read by Pat Bryant, a spokesman for the Committee, at a press conference Thursday mor ning, January 24, at St. Joseph's AME Church, "Despite news reports to the contrary, the February 2nd Mobilization is not only alive and well, but has growing nationwide support from organiza tions such organizations as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, National Lawyers Guild, Operation PUSH, Americans for Democratic Action, National Newspaper Publishers Association, the National Council of Churches: Division of Church and. Societ and the Inter refigsrotindatidn for Inside This CALENDAR & ANNOUNCEMENTS A&t TRAINS NIGERIANS ENTERTAINMENT SECTION NO DOMINATING INTELLECTUAL BREAKTHROUGH YET Community Organization. "North Carolina sup porting groups include the North Carolina Associa tion of Black Lawyers, the North Carolina State: Association of Black Social Workers, North Carolina Lawyers GvukL Carolina Peacemaker NAACP of Greensboro and Warren County, Assembly of Vance, Assembly of Gates, First Congressional District Black Caucus, Halifax Xounty Coalition for Pro ess and the state Chapter of the Student National Dental Association." A mass meeting is scheduled for Sunday, January 27, 3 p.m., at Russell Memorial CME Church on Alston Avenue in Durham. Golden Frinks, whose Southern Christian Leadership Conference is one of the originators of the march, said "We are going into the streets of Greensboro with a non violent, peaceful march with or without a parade ipermit." He added, however, that he was certain "the organizers would obtain a permit by February 2." The prepared statement said, "While making plans, to .move forward in to a new1 decade, we aire also looking back into the rich history of the move ment for social justice in America. "Greensboro, North Carolina is a symbolic place. "Twenty years ago, on February 1, 1960, four black students staged a sit in at Woolworth's segregatefd lunch counter, thus defying local law and tradition. Their courage sparked a generation of struggle for people's rights. But the Nixon years and the period that followed wore away the gains won in these struggles." Rev. Z.D. Harris, pastor of Oak Grove Free Will Bap tist Church, and a member! of the February 2nd Com mittee, reiterated this 'point Thursday morning as being one of the main reasons for the march. The march, billed as a revival of the civil rights, movement and "a new lumonuea on rage 8 Feb. 2 Mobilization Committee Says Greensboro Officials Seek To Block Use of Coliseum In Suit GREENSBORO The' February 2nd Mobiliza tion Committee filed a law suit here Wednesday re questing the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina to declare "null and void" a contract between the Ci ty of Greensboro and con cert promoter Lawrence Toler. The $600,000 suit alleges that three city of ficials, Mayor James Melvin, City Manager Tom Osborne, and Col iseum Manager James Oshust conspired and ; minipulated black concert promoter Toler through a i $6,800 debt to the City to engage the Greensboro j Coliseum on February' 2nd, a date previously re quested by the February 2nd Committee. The alleged conspiacy, the suit asserts, was for the purpose of "preventing the plaintiffs from having a peaceful protest against the Ku Klux Klan, to com-, memorate the February 1, j 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, and kick off a new civil rights movement. February Mobilization Committee Director Dr. Lucius Walker, Jr., said, on the steps of the cour thouse, "Tom Osbone, James Oshust, and Mayor Jim Melvin have grievous ly squandered the tax payers money to under write a concert which the black community will not support and have know ingly and willfully misled the citizens of Greensboro." The cost to Greensboro residents, Oshust said last week, would exceed $16,000. The contract which the February Committee seeks to void in the federal court provides that promoter Toler, doing business as ANEW Productions, will be sheltered from finan cial loss. It has been reported that acts for the concert have already been paid sums much larger than they normally receive. Walker said the moral and legal questions raised by the officials' actions "are exacerbated by ef forts to cover up the facts. Walker mentioned that on several occasions, Tom Osborne has been quoted in the news media as hav ing said that the February. 2nd Mobilization Com-j mittee failed to respond to his offer of the War' Memorial Stadium for the rally. "In fact, on January 11, Dr. C.T. Vivian, co chairman of the February 2nd Committee, and I re quested a meeting with Osborne to interpret the Committee's purpose and commitment," Walker said. "In the course of the meeting, Osborne orally offered two alternate rally sites a black church and the stadium!" Speaking from his Atlanta office, Dr. C.T. Vivian said he responded to Osborne saying that "neither the black church' nor the stadium could match the security and seating capacity of the Coliseum." Vivian and Walker are not sure which black church Osborne was offering. Both maintain that Osborne's efforts, so far, have been designed to show the march organizers as unreasonable people. Walker and Vivian say, and the suit alleges, that march organizers had in quired of coliseum of ficials if other Saturdays in Februai y were available for use of the coliseum, but found that all were taken. Osborne has reputedly contended that other: dates, equally suitable to the February Committee, were offered. Dr. r Vivian explained that Saturday was impor tant "since thousands of the marchers are working people who need travel time which Fridays and Sundays other dates 6f- fered by Osborne do not allow." 12,000 Eligible In North Carolina Last Minute Effort Underway To Get Big Refunds To Tenants RALEIGH Legal Services of North i Carolina (LSNQ an nounced this week that its offices around the state have begun last-minute effortsto urge former residents of federally subsidiz ed Section 236 hous ing projects to file for rent refunds of up to $500. "Less than two I weeks remain before the January 31 filing January.' deadline," said LSNC Ms. Gentrv said North Community Educa tion Coordinator Ms. Trina Gentry at a hews conference Monday. "North Carolina has an estimated . 12,000 families eligible Cor refunds, yet only about 340. Carolina was 47th in the nation in terms of the number of claim forms fil ed. She added that the number of claims filed na tionally has. also been disappointingly low. "Of the 300.000 eligible tenants across the coun try, only 175,000 persons hav fifol rfiint rlaimc -6wam Ms. Gentrv said. "That forms from our state, accounts for a totaT reund had been filed as or nationwide of only $35 the first week in -million, .or, lltue .mort! than half of the $601 million ine U.S. Depart ment of Housing and Ur ban Development (HUD), has been ordered to. 're i fund." tr,r The refunds are part of1 ,a $60 million settlement between HUD and Lesal. Services lawyers who filed; class action lawsuits in' 1975 charging that HUD had aItowed-22resJEu: to be overcharged for f cr.t during a 32-month ptri-J.' between February . I, in Continued on h:iJ
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