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' Durham NC iuw. . J n.v JUNE IS NATIONAL , DAIRY MONTH (USPS 091-380) Words of Wisdom The man who hits ik NO over I be fence cm take it easy goiag amend rbe Yob are either on the way or ia the way; the world will aol wail. VOLUME 53 -NUMBER 26 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1980 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 39 CENTS rn lfiw n P'zn n n7 mw a July UuUaiyiu UuliiZrA Becton And Jackson Will Remain Outcome Pleases Council Overflow Attendees ByTrellieR. Jeffers after the city and after returning from a brief recess, the council counal convened in special session, Thursday night, June 18, to con tinue the hearing on the Finance Committee's recommendation to delete . the director of the Human Relations Commissions, Councilman Paul Vick of fered several motions that pleased the overflowing crowd that had returned to witness the outcome of the previous Monday night's controversy. After the council quick ly dispensed with a few routine matters and mov ed rapidly into the matter of the budget item which related to the Human Relations Committee, Vick stated, "Mr. Mayor, if I am in order, I would like to make a series of motions." After assurance by Mayor Rodenhizer that he was in fa,ct in order, Vick made the following motions: That the Human Rela tions Commission remain intact with the director, the assistant director and the secretary; That the office of Af firmative Action remain a It hf presently con structed; That a citizens service office be established to lake citizens complaints; and That a committee which will consist of coun cilmen Ralph Hunt, Bill Smith, and Paul Vick be established to work with the Human Relations Commission to define its relationship to the city manager's office and report to the council by - September, 1980. After all except one mo- tion passed unanamiously, recess, voted to reduce the fuel cost adjustment account, by $21,661 in order to1 finance the cost of main taining the Human Rela tions Commission and the! Affirmative Action office as separable entities. Citizens present also ex pressed concern that the Durham Day Care coun cil's request for $10,000 had been denied by the council; however, Mayor Rodenhizer said that he was working with the County Commission - to see what other sources of funding could be secured for the organization. The Durham Day Care council monitors all day care homes and schools to insure that' they follow state regulations for health and safety. Two motions-one by ; councilwoman Adrienne Fox to reduce by $5,000 the $75,000 to be allocated for the N.C. Museum of Life and Science and the $15,000 allocated for the Durham Chambers of Commerce, and another by Stewart Pickett to redact by $5,000 the, "amount allocated. tP the N.C. Museum of Life and Science and the $40,000 allocated for the American Dance Festival failed by a vote of eight to three in an effort to find the $10,000 for the day care council. The Mayor assured the citizens that the council would continue to explore the possibility of allocating the funds re quested by the Durham Day Care council when and if all others efforts to secure funds fail. tj &:,:' 6 Institute For Southern Studies Blasts Justice Department W1 J ' a! ? VINDICATED - Muhammad Ali and his wife, Veronica, smile as they leave Federal Court in New Orleans where Ali was cleared of defamation charges in a $20 million slander suit filed by two white promoters of his 1978 title fight against Leon Spinks. UPI Photo ATLANTA, GA. "he Institute for Southern tudies released a 52-page ;port on the Ku Klux Jan Monday, June 23, nd charged that the U.S. ustice Department is aiding and abetting the se of racism" through le "irresponsible and il rgitimate" activities of its immunity Relations Ser ice in communities torn y Klan violence. According to Georgia tate Senator Julian ond, the Institute's presi ent, "The KKK is the ex- erne expression of the nti-black, anti-labor, nti-women and anti hird World mentality gain sweeping the coun y, from the county heriffs office in rural Jeorgia to' the highest ;vels of government in Vashington. "The very agencies harged with preserving lemocracy have turned ail and refused to face the lemon of racism still at arge in this land," Bond said. "As long as the ideology of white supremacy continues to spread and be the founda tion for unequal justice at home and abroad, the American people will re main blind to the causes of the rebellions stretching from Miami to the Middle East to South Africa, and they will be inviting their spread and increased counter-violence." Bond called upon "white Americans who have any understanding of the history of racial violence symbolized by the terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan' to "raise their voice in unison with black America and demand its elimination, root and branch." He also called for a "three-pronged" Con gressional investigation, led by the Black. Caucus and on the scale of one convened in the 1870s,- to focus on (1) the illegal ac tions of the KKK and Nazis, (2) acts of complici ty by Klan members and Klan sympathizers in local governments and police departments, and (3) the illegitimate role of such federal agencies as the Justice Department's Community Relations Ser vice which Bond says has Continued on Page 6 ;OO0 i MIAMI BEACH, FLA. Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, from the six teenth annual Convoca- tion of OIC of American meeting here recently xharged that the national television networks "blacked out" the positive effects of Presi dent Carter's visit to the area. . . .and said that there ought to be a way that the American public "We've Only Just Begun" Lauds Women Attorneys WASHINGTON, D.C. "We've come a long way, baby. . . .But we've only just begun' Assis tant Secretary of Agriculture Joan S. Wallace told the National Association of Black Women Attorneys at a re cent convention here. Noting that their organization can play a significant role in making the dreams of many blacks a reality, Ms. Wallace urg ed the attorneys to "make yourselves as visible as possible so you can serve as role models for the coming generations of aspiring blacks. Where possible, use your skills and expertise and posi tions to help curtail sexual harassment. Do not rest on your laurels. Try hard to stress to blacks that we have not overcome." Ms. Wallace, the highest ranking black in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, told the women they have to play a "significant role in the change process. You use the judicial system to pro vide opportunities. You advance the practice of law and advance causes of civil and human rights of all citizens in the United States. "Black women have been a creative, resourceful and enduring force throughout our country's history. "Blacks, in creating a movement for 1 social justice, did so in such universal and moral terms that they literally caused millions around the world to re-devaluate their own lives and aspirations," she said. Each group translated the black example in ways suitable to his or her own views. "In America, Chicanos, American In dians, Asians, young peo ple, and old people, created movements pat terned on the black strug gle." Ms. Wallace said the U.S. Department of Agriculture offers lawyers career opportunities in various specialties. These include administrative law, business utility finan cing, foreign market development, forestry, : land and water law, management research, pa tent law and federal-states relations. Ms. Wilhelminia Rolark of Washington, D.C; is founder and president of the National Association of Black Women Attorneys. could demand equal time for coverage of the "good news" that was generated here. "The nationwide televi sion black out of the good things that President Carter did in Miami is more than an outrage. It is danger6us. If we pour gasoline on smoldering coals we make new fires. If we pour water on them . we can begin to rebuild out of the ashes." he said. Specifically, Reverend Sullivan said ' that the President's visit to the OIC Convocation helped focus the Miami-Dade County business com munity's attention and the black community leader ship's attention on the need to find ways to bring more blacks into business ownership and the mainstream of the American economy. Sullivan said the Con vocation also attracted mayors, county ex ecutives, and the governor to form an intergovern mental team to work with federal officalsto help make the Miami com munity a place where equal justice under the law is a reality. The black Baptist minister from Philadelphia also said that the negative publicity obscured the historic agreement between the federal government and a community . based organization, a reference to the President's public private partnership plan with OIC to mount a com mon effort to train and place 100,000 youth in jobs, a project that will in volve the OIC of Miami in the business of producing 1,000 graduates in the riot torn "Liberty City" com munity. "In addition," he said, "it is a national tragedy that the networks would not show the three stan ding ovations that the black leaders and delegates of OIC gave the President during the same telecast in which they focused most of their at tention on the hostile reac tion and the bottle bounc ing off the President's car." "There have been many v positive developments in Miami during this Con vocation where we have brought the members of the religious community, leaders from the diverse interest groups, govern ment at all levels, and top business people to address the joblessness problem -and the need for economic development and job crea tion as well as job train ing. "When the networks portrayed only the sensa- Join The NAACP Today! We Need You! tional aspects of the Presi dent's visit and showed a notable disinterest in the quiet progress that occur red here over the four days of the Convocation, they, in effect, have placed themselves in the postiion of being a part of the pro blem rather than a part of the solution." Dr. Sullivan continued by pointing out that the OIC leaders realize that rebuilding the inner city of Miami and preventing Miami style social distur bances and explosions in other major cities is a pro blem far greater than OIC and the 100,000 youth jobs plan can solve. However, we regard the President's plan to work with us and our plan to work with him as a demonstration of what can be done and multiplied several times to reach ' millions of unemployed Americans. "At the same time we will continue to push for legislation in the Congress and at the Convocation we urged the clergy and the volunteer leadership of the Boards to work with their Congressmen to secure passage of the 1980 Youth Act and the Fair Housing Act." "Smokers' Court" Found To Harass Chicago Blacks An' analysis . of one month of operation of the City of Chicago's short lived "Smokers' Court" revealed that almost every person charged with viola tion of smoking restriction laws was black, The Tobacco Observer, the in dustry's widely-read trade publication reported recently. Court records examined by the Observer show that 279 people were summon ed to the special branch of the Circuit Court of Cook County between June 8 and July 8, 1977. Two hundred forty-eight were black. All but seven were male. 'These percentages pin point the racism that's behind such a situation," James Hicks, executive editor of the New York Voice, said when told of The Observer's findings. Hicks, a 38-ycar veteran 'newsman, represented black newspapers as a war correspondent and was ex ecutive editor of the prestigious Amsterdam News. He is also a former commissioner of human rights for New York State. Frank J. Williams, a Chicago leader with the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People, told the Observer that the analysis shows there is "a lot of validity to the charge that blacks are picked on more '' by the police" when this sort of law exists. It gives police a chance to pick up blacks and search them," Williams said. First hint that something was amiss with the Smokers' Court came from, of all people, a virulent anti-smoker, Min neapolis columnist Will Jones. He wrote: "The suspi cion is strong that Chicago's Smokers' Court has absolutely nothing to do with promoting clean public air. "The enforcement cam paign does provide the Law and Order boys, however, with a good ex cuse to arrest a suspect on an innocent smoking ' charge and then conduct a search for drugs, weapons, stolen goods, whatever. " It is a "charade. A damn shame, Hicks says. The Tobacco Observer , first reportechon Smokers Court in August 1976, pointing out that dozens of Chicagoans have had to jpend a night in jail because they were unable to post a $25 bond after Continued on Page 2 TM e I Hduc3i?ioci Program Me fJou Opeei Foir Public CocDraooB The Department of Education has announced that state and local educa-' tion agencies can now find in one place all, the. re quirements for ad ministering the Federal government's ' largest education program Ti tle I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This Is made possible" under propqsed Title I regulations published in the Federal Register. The proposed regulations for the three billion dollar program are open to public comment. The proposed regula tions strike a balance bet ween rigid compliance and reasonable flexiblity on sortie of the rramY more controversial issues. They include all Title I statutory requirements as well as additional stan dards, criteria, and ex amples that clarify the program. For example,. the regulations generally pro hibit agencies P i using Title I funds for services required by other Federal, State or local laws. However, the proposed regulations identify cer tain types of services for handicapped . children or children with limited English speaking skills that may be paid for with Title I funds. In addition, the propos ed regulations implement the requirement that Title j I funds may be used only" for the excess costs of pro jects. Under the proposed regulations, if an agency uses Title I services to replace more than twenty percent of the time that a ' child would otherwise ' spend with a particular teacher, it must contribute either State or local money or staff of .the Title I pro- ject. ' " The proposed regula tions recognize that the ex-: elusion of all ineligible children from a Title I ser vice is sometimes unreasonable. Thus, the' proposed regulations per-' mit the infrequent par-' ticipation of a limited number of ineligible children, An .example would be a field trip in a bus. If there is an extra seat after all the Title I students have been provid ed. forvJhcacat many be filled by an ineligible Title ' I student. The proposed regula tions also: v . require the in dependence of State auditor set the limits of State rulemaking. establish procedures for the use of compliance agreements between Slate and local education agen cies,. spell out procedures for the special incentive" grant program. clarify the rules for the maintenance of non- Federal fiscal effort. ' Interested . parties are urged to submit written vvuiiikuii . wnnm suttj days to: Dr. John Staehle; : U-S. Department of education; Room 3542. kuikj; 4i Mai Avenue Wash, D.
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