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Coming Next Week Full Picture Page NCCU Commencement VOLUME 58 NUMBER 21 (USPS 091-380) DURHAM, NORTH -CAROLINA SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1980 Words Of Wisdom The rest of yoar days dtpead o the rest of jomr nights. "Do't Worry" jnight be more appropriate if we added the word "others." TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 I m i nirfnry J J h. .r M f , 7 KARMYN CARRINGTON Miss Carrington Is Select Student Miss Karmyn J. Carr ington, formerly of Durham, and a rising senior at Alton High School, Alton, Illinois, has been selected to attend the annual Presidential Class Room for Young Americans, July 19-26, in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Arthur, L. Carrington,' formerly' oT Durham, and the grand daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. Wade Carrington, all of Durham. The program, originated in 1968, pro vides selected high school students with a week of in tensive study of American government, " including seminars on the three branches of government. Participants also study the media, the diplomatic community, labor and other private sectors whickiinfluetfcc... gftyefn mental decision-making. Miss Carrington attend ed Immaculata School and Shepard Junior High School before moving to Alton. M&F Bank To Establish Branch In Winston-Salem Mechanics and Farmers Bank, the state's oldest and largest black-owned bank, has received final regulatory approval to establish an office in Winston-Salem. The branch will be located on Claremont Avenue near Seventh Street. Efforts to establish a branch of Mechanics and Farmers in east Winston were started over a year ago by a group of prominent black leaders. In announcing final ap proval, JJ. Sansom, Jr., president of M & F, stated "we Ire delighted to be in position to proceed with our plans to enter the Winston-Salem ' market and look forward to serving the banking needs of the east Winston community." Mechanics and Farmers Bank was established in 1908 and currently has : eight branches in Durham, Raleigh and Charlotte. The bank ranks sixth in deposits among all black owned banks in the nation. Melvyn L. White, a native ' of Mocksville, has been hired as city executive for Winston-Salem and will oversee all of the bank's activities in the area. White is a career banker with sixteen years banking ex perience in New York and Florida. He is a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking, Rutgers, Univer sity, New Brunswick, NJ and was listed in "Who's who among black Ameri-. cans, 1977-78 " and "Who's Who in the South and South west, 1978-79. to its The bank expects start construction on new facility shortly. National Black Child Week Celebrated By Trellie L. Jeffers May 18-24 is the Na tional Black Child Development Week. Members of the natonal Black Child Development Institute (BCDI) from thirty offices across the nation, including two in North Carolina, will be placing special emphases on the eight million black children throughout the United States. The Greensboro branch of. BCDI will be holding a Black history quiz show, Thursday, May 22, and on Saturday, May .24,. there will be a picnic at Bat-' tleground Park from 2-4 p.m. in Greensboro after which black child en thusiasts will run a mile for black children. z Research Triangle Park, which recently organized a BCDI chapter is, scheduled to receive its national charter this week. Dr. Volara Washington, the Triangle spokesman for BCDI, and a UNC professor, says that during this week members of the organiza tion hope to inform peo ple of the purpose in such an organization. She points out that BCDI ex ists because one-jthird of the black population is below l he poverty line, and that forty per cent of black children live with their mothers, tt became necessary then, says Dr. Washington, for BCDI to assist in providing some of the social, psychological and educational needs for black children. Dr. Washington quickly Continued on Page 2 'A Disgrace To Greensboro, N.C.And Nation' GREENSBORO The Southern Organizing Committee for Economic & Social Justice (SOC) charged this week that re cent felony indictments against anti-Klan demonstrators here are "a disgrace to Greensboro, to North Carolina, to the na tion, and to humanity." The charges were made in communications sent to Greensboro District At torney Michael Schlosser and Governor James Hunt by the Reverend Ben Chavis and Mrs. Anne Braden, co-chairman of SOC. "We are outraged anew at the efforts of officials to blame the victims for the crime that occurred in Greensboro last November 3," Mrs. Braden and Rev. Chavis. said. "How many more political prisoners must go to jail in North Carolina before this state sees the light?" ' The Southern Organiz ing Committee, which has , hSgdquer in-rn ingham, Alabama, and Louisville, Kentucky, is a souttTwide multi-racial network committed to building movements for social ' and economic justice. V The organization's pro tests to Schlosser and Hunt were in response to charges brought by a grand jury in Greensboro May 2. The jury brought riot charges against five members and supporters of the Communist Workers Party which; organized the demonstra-' tion against the Ku Klux Klan last November 3 in Greensboro; five members of the party were shot and killed when a caravan of Klansmen and Nazis con fronted the demonstra tion. "People are shot down in cold blood, and Greensboro and North Carolina say in effect that their friends are to. blame," the SOC message to Hunt and Schlosser said. SOC's co-chairman, Rev. Ben Chavis, spent almost four years in North Carolina prisons as the leader of the Wilmington Ten. The messages to Schloser and Hunt said there are "startling parallels" between the case of the Wilmington Ten and the Greensboro situation. "In Wilmington, too, the Klan and other racist groups shot' at innocent people, and criminal charges were brought ; against the victims; now it is happening all over again in Greensboro," Rev. Chavis and Mrs. Braden said. They added that SOC sees the attack on anti Klan demonstrators in Greensboro as an "attack on the entire people's movement in this country just at a moment when the spirit that activated the civil rights movement is having a revival all across our land." Mrs. Braden and Rev. Chavis said "people everywhere" are doubting that North Carolina plans serious prosecution of those who murdered the Communist Worker Party1 members on November 3. They noted that "most of Continued on Page 3 op r51 ,,,W.v ii wml i ii ' - r. srA n 1 These four ladies, all employees of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in Durham, members of the Class of 1980 at NCCU North Carolina Central University, received their degrees during Commencement exercises Sunday. From left: Mrs. Wilhelmenia . - Upchurch, Business Education; Ms. Bertha Jordan, Business Education; Ms. Mary Ann Johnson, Business Administration; and GtBOUatdS Ms. Dorothy Allen, Business Education. Photo by Rivera t.iVv. . No Jobs For Dropouts In Ten Years school dropouts, whose chances of finding jobs are getting slimmer every day, face an even less promising future unless education methods and attitudes change soon to reverse the trend in with drawing from school. "In ten years, there will be no jobs available for high school dropouts," said Virgil L. McBride, manager of Regional Public Affairs at R.J. Rey nolds, Incorporated of Winston-Salem. McBride, along with representatives of private industry, community colleges, technical institu tions and state government, met to discuss changes which must take place to insure educational train ing which would prepare teenagers and young adults for a productive place in the technologi cally advanced decade of t the 1980's. The meeting which was t held at the Ciga-Geigy 'Offices in Greensboro last week was convened by the North Carolina Employ ment and Training Council. Participants explored methods of adapting educa tional curricula to the existing and future needs of private industry. The one day meeting was a planning session which will help determine the agenda for a more expanded conference to be held in the fall. Wayne Daves, executive director of North Carolina CETA Programs under the N.C. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, noted that the private sector was repre sented by a wide spectrum ' of experts from manufactur ing, financial and service industries. The participants were convened to plan the education and economic strategies for the 1980's which will be explored at length during the fall meeting. The strongest suggestion by the group was the estab lishment of systematic link-, ages between educational; institutions and private industry. The linkages would be a cooperative effort whereby industry would provide educational institutions with a protile of its needs, noting the job opportunities presently in high demand and a long term projection of the types of training which would be. required to satisfy indus trial needs in the future. Another approach cited by the participants was the need to make job oppor tunities more visible to students, possibly through more active vocational clubs and organizations. Attention to the trend toward plants with fewer employees which can match the production of firms with many workers was stressed. Not only is the ever growing number of technological advances reducing the required work force, but it can be further blamed for shifting indus trial needs from operation al skills to maintenance skills, said James Summers, ex and for i ex- sug- Rats And Snakes Plague Fisher Heights Residents Henry Brown and Ray rlunt, members of the( Fishdr Heights community appeared before the City Council, Monday night. May 19, with explicit, ar tistically painted pictures and color photographs to illustrate . to Council, members the damage, an noyance and exasperation that have been caused in their community by negligent developers and poorly constructed electric service mechanisms by Duke Power Company. Brown showed pictures of drainage that had cut an open ditch in the com munity which he said was large enough for children to drown in. He also said that there were raw elec tric and telephone wires that had been uncovered by the heavy drainage and that these wires were also dangerous. He also showed pictures of an opened manhole and a neighbor's yard that had been dug up and left bv Duke Power. By Trellie L. Jeffers Brown said, "because of the opened ditch, the residents of Fisher Heights are plagued by rats, snakes, mosquitoes, flooding and safety pro blems." Councilman Ralph Hunt, who was instrumen tal in getting Brown on the council's agenda said that he had spent three hours observing the situation in Fisher Heights, and he echoed Brown's descrip tion of the problems caus ed by the deep, wide ditch. After a brief discussion, the council voted to send the matter to the public works committee and to keep Brown informed on the progress. Councilman Margaret Keller asked the Council to ascertain from the public works committee the names of pcrsns responsible for problems left by private developers. The city is responsible1 for inspecting work done by private developers, however, it is not clear whether or not the city is responsible when pro blems occur on property that has been formerly in spected and approved by the city. Another member of the Fisher Heights Communi ty, Ray Hunt, requested, protection for the com munity from vandalism and theft. He said that a number of homes in the community have been vandalized. Hunt said that he and a friend had been searching for a home in Hope Valley and in the process they had been stopped three times by security officers. Said Hunt, "I have no quarrels about being stop ped by security officers, but I want to know why we don't have the same protection in Fisher Heights. The Council took no ac tion on the request for protection from van dalism made by Hunt. chairman of the North Caro lina Employment and Training Council., ... Similarly, the and planning officials panded this concept addressed the need structural changes in lating curricula to opportunities. Consequently, an change program was eested which would place teachers in private industry jobs for a summer or entire school year, while private industry personnel took over their duties in the classroom. In this way, students would benefit from exposure and training from skilled workers while teach ers expand and update their academic skill area through; in-service training. Efforts to change atti tudes on the part of parents, students, employers and the general public were also; cited as an area of concern. ; In addition, a change in the definition of success in: relation to jobs was also ': encouraged. The public pro-; motion of the concept that a skilled worker can be; every bit as successful and vocationally gratified as the president of a large firm was I championed by the partici pants. Other issues to be addressed at the fall confer ence are marketing of new ! job training concepts; cooperative el torts oerween four-year institutions and technical schools or com- munitv colleges in renrd to training with sophisticated equipment; and concerfled efforts on the past .ef private industry and training institutions to educate parents concerning potential job opportunities lor their children. '. ,
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