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Words of Wisdom
"The love of liberty is the love of ethers; the fort of
power is the love of ourselves."
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VOLUME 58 - NUMBER 11
DURHAM,. NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, MARCH 15,1980
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Vernon Jor dan, Jr. , Elected
To Board of R.J. Reynolds
W I NSTON
SALEM Vernon Jordan
Jr., president of the Na
tional Urban League, was
elected to the board of
directors of R.J. Reynolds
Industries, Inc., last week.
Jordan has headed the
Urban League-since 1972.
The league, with Il6 af
filiates, four regional of
fices, Washington opera
tion and New York head
quarters, is engaged in the
securing of equal oppor
tunities for blacks and
other minorities.
Before joining the Ur
ban League, Jordan was
executive director of the
United Negro College
Fund. He also has held
positions with the
Southern Regional Coun
cil, the federal Office of;
Economic Opportunity,
and the National Associa-,
tion for the Advancement
of Colored People.
A native of Atlanta,
Georgia, and currently a
resident of New York Ci
ty, Jordan earned a
bachelors degree from De
Pauw University, and a
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law degree from Howard
University Law School.
In addition, Jordan is a ,
fellow, of the Institute of
Politics, John F. Kennedy
School of Government,
Harvard University.
Jordan's ac
complishments have earn-'
ed him numerous civic and
professional honors, in-,
eluding honorary degrees ,
from many prestigious
colleges and universities
around the country. He
also received the Alexis de
Tocqueville Award of the
United Way of America as
a tribute to his leadership
in voluntarism.
Jordan is a director of a
number of corporations
and organizations, in- i
eluding such major enter- j
prises as American Ex
press Company, Bankers
Trust Company, M.I.T.
Corporation, The Atlanta
University Center, J.C.
Penney Co. and Xerox
Corporation.
R.J. Reynolds In
dustries, with head
quarters in ' Winston
Salem, is the parent com-'
pany of R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co.; Del Monte,
Corp. (processed foods
and fresh fruit); R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Inter
national, Inc.; Aminoil
USA, Inc. (energy); Sea
Land Industries, Inc.
(containerized shipping);
RJR Foods, Inc.
(convenience foods and
beverages); aod RJR Ar
cher, Inc. (packaging).
UDI Community
Development Corporation
has. added three employees
as a means of expanding
and improving the
capabilities of the staff to
cover three project areas
in its economic develop
ment strategy for the
Durham community.
The project areas are:
(I) Development of the In
dustrial Park; (2)
Rehabilitation Program
(curently being developed)
and; (3) Monitoring of
current ventures.
Mrs. Lottie Hayes
Killett has assumed the
position of Administrative
Assistant and Fiscal Of
ficer. Mrs. Killett is a
native of Havelock,
previously employed as
Director of Admissions
and . Financial Aid at
Durham College. Her
work experiences include
the Foundation for Com
munity Development, the
North Carolina Fund and
-.Oneati,oitLBrtaiajuetlfi
She has a B.S. degree in '
Business Education from
North Carolina Central
University.
Edward Conners,
employed as Business
Analyst, is a MBA and is a
candidate for a Master of
Science degree in Planning
at the University of Ten
nessee. Prior work ex
periences include working
with a revitalization pro
gram for the city of Lon
don, Tennessee and in the
areas of marketing and
planning in Knoxville,
Tennessee.
He will be responsible
for developing and im
plementing a program
designed to revitalize a
designated impact area
within Southeast Durham.
Emphasis will be on the
restoration of a selected
commercial district.
Ms. Vivian Henderson
Presidential Candidates
Ignore Plight of Blacks
By Norman Hill
If the recent presidential
primary campaigns in
New Hampshire,. Maine
and Iowa are a preview of
things to come, then black
people indeed all
Americans have a great
deal to worry about. I am
not talking about the
results of those primaries.
Rather, I am disturbed
that virtually all the can
didates have consicously
avoided any serious
discussion of the real pro
blems of our time, pro
blems like black
unemployment, chronic
inflation, trade policy, the
fiscal crisis of urban
centers.
My point, I believe, is
well illustrated by political
events in New Hampshire.
Judging by what the
media focused on there,
one might conclude that
today's most critical issues '
are Ronald Reagan's sense ;
of humor, George Bush's
attitudes about debates,
Ted JKennedy's family life
and Jimmy Carter's per
sonality. On the rare occasions j'
when issues did receive
some attention, virtually !
all the candidates dealt '
with them vaguely and'
with broad, meaningless
generalities. On the
Republican side, for ex
ample, candidates talked
about need to bake a
larger "economic pie,"
the desirability of massive
tax cuts, and the goal of a
greatly reduced govern
ment. However, all of
these proposals, no matter
how eloquently stated, are
little more than empty
rhetoric. They provide
some hints about the
possible direction of a
Reagan, Bush, or Baker
Administration, voters
can hardly make in
telligent political choices
solely on hints and impres
sions. Similarly, ihe
Democratic candidates
have also failed to offer
any substantive or well
formulated economic or
social proposals. Aside
from an occasional
disagreement about wage
price controls and gas ra
tioning, the Democrats
have limited themselves to
nebulous discussions
about leadership qualities,
administrative talent, and
personal integrity. These
issues are, of course, im
portant. But they are not
the key questions confron
. ting America.
As things stand now,
there is no reason to ex-
will serve as secretary and
rpiioruuiSh:mies to ;
UDICDC from the City '
of Durham Employment
and Training Office,
where she served as a
clerk-typist. She is a
graduate of Durham High .
School and is currently a
student at Durham
Technical Institute where
she is on the Dean's List-
In further explanation
of the activities at UDI
CDC, Ed Stewart, Ex
ecutive Director stated
that UDI-CDC, operating
with Federal, State and
Private Funds, completed
the infrastructure of its 41
acre Industrial Park and a
33,000 square foot facility
for its first tenant in
August, 1979. The in
frastructure included pav
ed streets and gutter,
water and sewage lines,
gas and underground elec
trical wiring to make it the
most developed industrial
site in the area. The first
tenant in the Industrial ,
Park is Automatic
Systems Developers who
manufacture ' electrical
components and employ
125 persons.
UDl-CDC's venture in
vestments include a con
struction company and an
injection molding com
pany that supplies plastic
parts for many major cor
porations on a local and
national scale.
Details of the revitaliza
tion project are not
specific enough for full
disclosure. The strategy
involves a development
process to address certain
commercial development
needs within UDI-CDC's
designated impact area.
The project should be
ready for implementation
this summer.
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INSIDE
THIS WEEK
Complete
TV Listings
Including HBO
Entertainment Section
16 Pages
Dr. Cobb's Statement
Wilmington Ten Case
Page 2
City Schools Only
One-Seventh White
Page 2
Senator Whichard
Heads Cancer Crusade
Page 12
Vera Marable Gets .
Promotion At Kraft
Page 12
Durham Native
Honored In N.J.
Page 15
Omega Psi Phi
Plans Fifth,
Annual Mardi
Gras Festival
Beta Phi Chapter of
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
will hold its Fifth Annual
Mardi Gras Festivities
during the week of March
24-29. Omega Round-up
..will Jake ..placA on; WtffWes-,,,,
day , March 26;" a "Queen
contestants' reception; a
Fashion Show sponsored by
the Quettes on Saturday,
March 29 and the Marui
Gras Grand Ball on
March 29 at the Durham
Civic Center.
Proceeds from the acti
vities are used to support
the Omega's community
service program. Funds
from past Mardi Gras acti
vities have been used to
send needy children to
summer camp; provide
needy families with Thanks
giving baskets; support
needy families at Christmas
and to provide assistance to
local high school bands. The
fraternity has made a.
pledge of $250,000 to the
United Negro College Fund
over the next two and a half
years.
The public is invited to
participate in the Mardi
Gras activities and should
contact any member of the
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FINALIZING PLANS FOR OMEGA FESTIVAL - From left. Dr. Tyrone Baine,
chairman of the Publicity Committee; Clyde Thorpe, chairman of Mardi Gras Committee;
and George Quiett, Basileus, Beta Phi Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, work on the final
plans for the frat's Fifth Annual Mardi Gras Festivities to be held during the week of
March 24-29.
Time Funds Book Publishing
Program At Howard University
NEW YORK-Time
Inc. has granted $61,000 to
Howard to help start a
new book publishing in
stit.tite? there, it was an-Boufleei:4.y-
MfcHJoafl-D .
Manley, Group Vice
President of Time Inc.'s
book publishing operations.
The fundSvill be used,
Mrs. Manley said, to set
up an intensive, Five week
course to acauaint
students with the basic
tasks of book publishing.
According to Charles F,
Harris, Executive Director
of Howard University
Press, the program's cur
riculum will include lec
tures and workshops on
the role of the editor,
book and jacket design,
production and
typography, and
marketing and financial
managen.ent. It will run
from the last week of May
through the first week of
July.
Harris explained: "The
. Institute- will "Strive par
ticularly to recruit minori
ty group members in order
to increase fhe oppor
tunities for access of
minorities into the
publishing field. Recruit
ment will be mounted on a
national basis, with a
special effort made to
recruit students from
predominantly black col
leges and larger univer
sities located mainly in the
east and southeast." Total
enrollment will be approx
imately sixty students.
In making the grant,
Mrs. Manley said, "We
are very pleased to be able
to help fund this in
novative program. For
some time now, Time"
Inc., has been searching
for ways to encourage
minorities to enter the
book publishing field.
(Howard -University's
Book Publishing Institute
is an important step in this
direction."
Time Inc., a diversified
communications and
forest products company
with headquarters in New
York, owns and operates
several book publishing
subsidiaries. The largest,
Time-Life Books, Inc., is
located in Alexandria,
Virginia, not far from
Howard University's
Washington, D.C. cam
pus. Little, Brown &
Company of Boston and
New York's Book-of-the-Month
Club are Time
Inc.'s other major
publishing subsidiaries.
Fund Will Be
Nearly At End
Dy May 31
WASHINGTON -Food
Stamp benefits for close to
twenty million Americans
may be suspended June 1,
Secretary of Agriculture
Bob Bergland said last week.
In a letter to the fifty
gjvernon, the District of
olumbia, and the U.S.
territories, Bergland said he
has advised Congress that
funds for food stamp
benefits will be nearly gone
by the end of May.
"Unless Congress appro-
Eriates additional funds by
lay 15, 1 wiD be forced to
order a suspension of food
stamp benefits effective
June 1 " Bergland said.
The food stamp program
is running out of money,
according to Bergland,
because the legislative cHl
ing on expenditures for
fiscal year 1980 was set at
$6189 billion. That figure
established by Congress in
, 1977, was based on predic
tions that unemployment
would average S.7 per cent
in fiscal year 1980 and that
food prices would increase
thirteen per cent from fiscal
year 1977 to 1980.
Each one per cent in
crease in unemployment
adds 750,000 to one million
people to the program,
while a one per cent
increase in inflation adds
$58 million to food stamp
costs, Bergland said.
.rSftjo extfemety tight Con
gressional schedule and re
quirements of the budget
ary process complicate the
food stamp situation, Berg
land said. Although the
Senate has approved legis
lation to remove the cap on
food stamp spending and
the House Agriculture Com-
iiuiicc wmpieieu us wor
on the measure Wednesday,
action will still be needed
on the House floor and in
the Appropriations Com
mittees of both houses.
But the actual appropri
ation of more money for
food stamps may not be
possible unless and until
Congress passes a third bud-
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Dr. R. F. Mettler Appointed National
Chairman Of UNCF Drive For '80
CONNERS
MRS. KILLETT
Dr. Ruben F. Mettler,
Chairman of the Board of
TRW Inc., has been ap
pointed National Cam
paign, Chairman for the
1980 annual drive of the
United Negro College
Fund. Dr. Mettler suc
ceeds Lewis W. Foy,
Chairman of Bethlehem
Steel Corporation.
"As a businessman and
as a citizen, 1 am deeply
concerned with the soar
ing unemployment of
minority youngsters,"
said Dr. Mettler. "The
black colleges supported
by the United Negro Col
lege Fund have tradi
tionally offered minority
and Financially needy
young people a quality
education and the founda
tion for a secure future.
We are at a point in the
history of our nation when
we must not only assist in
the survival of the schools,
but we must see that they
are strengthened. We can
not afford to do other
wise." The United Negro Col
lege Fund is the largest na
tional black fund-raising
organization in the United ,
States. Its 41 private,
predominantly black col
leges and universities
enroll some 50,000
students annually.
In announcing Dr. Met
tier's appointment,
Christopher F. Edley, Ex
ecutive Director of . the
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United Negro College
Fund, praised his ac
complishments and his
leadership ability.
"Ruben Mettler is a
thoughtful and articulate
man who has played a key
role in the success of many
public and private
endeavors. Wc believe
that his strong leadership
and unquestionable
dedication will be a
valuable asset for our
campaiun. We are proud
that 'v. has placed the
United Mcio College
Fund a.-, one of his top
priorities," said Edley.
DR. METTLER
Dr. Mettler was elected
Chairman of the Board
and CEO of TRW Inc. in1
December 1977, after serv-'
ing as president for eight
years. In June, 1978, he"
also became Chairman of
the Executive Committee.
He is a graduate of the
California Institute of
Technology, from which
he also received his M.S.
degree and Ph.D. degree
in ' Electrical and
Aeronautical Engineering.
Dr. Mettler recently
served as National Chair
man of the National
Alliance of Business, an
organization to help train
and find private jobs for
the disadvantaged.
Previously, he was on
the Advisory Committee
for the UNCF's Cleveland
campaign and he con
tinues to serve in manv
other national and local
capacities: Board of Ad
visors of the Council for
Financial Aid to Educa-'
tion; Trustee, National
Safety Council; the
Cleveland Clinic Founda
tion, and the Nationr.
Fund for Minority
Engineering Students;
member of the Policy
Committee of the Business
Roundtable,Th Business
Council, The Board of
Trustees and Research and
Policy Committee of the
Committee for Economic
Development, the
Emergency Committee for
American Trade, and the
Rockefeller University
Council, among others.
The money raiseefby the
UNCF's annual fund
drive is used to help
operate and maintain the
organization's 41 member
colleges and universities.
According to a recent
survey, half of the
students at these; schools,
come from families earn
ing $9,000 or less annual
ly. -
Graduates of the UNCF
schools include such noted
public figures as U.S.
Treasurer Atie Taylor
Morton; U.S. . Solicitor
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