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Y JULY IS NATIONAL (USPS 091-380) WORDS OF WISDOM Hear one side, and yoa wis be in the dark; hear both tides, and you wifl be clear. The world tarns aside to let any nan pass who knows where he is going. VOLUME 58 - NUMBER 29 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1980 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS uccess Reported In Durham chools Testing 'it ft, 3 Durham City Schools Superintendent, Dr. Cleveland Hammonds presented a report of the recent test score results at the regular meeting of the school board on Monday night, July 14. While ex pressing his pleasure about pupil performance, Dr. Hammonds expressed concern that the state's Testing Commission has preceded city officials in releasing this information to the media. The following is a breakdown of the test results: The first grades scored 1.9 in reading and 2.9 in math. The first grade na tional norm for reading is 1.7. The second grades scored 2.9 in reading and 3.5 in math. The third grades averaged 3.7 in math, I reading, spelling and language arts. The sixth grades scored 6.1 in the same! four categories, five mon ths below the national average. The ninth grades averaged 7.9 in four By TrellieL. Jeffers approximately mg studied to ascertain the categories one whole grade level below the national average, but higher than last year's performance. Dr. Hammonds, said that test items are now be- exact categories where ad ditional attention should be focused, and when this has been done, special in struction and instructional materials will be centered Rev. Hosea Williams Presented As "Savior" By Trellie L. Jeffers With a loss of 100,000 Hosea' Williams, people as reflected in the 1980 census, most of whom are affluent, and with the mayoral election two years away, grass root leaders in Atlanta, Georgia, have begun focusing their attention on the grooming of suitable candidates who can cap ture and reflect the sen timents of the inner city voters, most of whom are ; pqor and powerless and1 further debilitated by in flation; a high crime rate; dilapidated, yet expensive, housing; inadequate schools, and a high unemployment rate. State Representative former field organizer for the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., is one of the persons who has risen to the forefront of this effort and is now being represented in Atlanta as the only follower of Dr. King whose attention is still focused on the needs of poor people. Acclaimed for his 105 jailings, which are said to have been caused by his fights for the poor, Rev. Williams is presented as the only leader who is con tinually involved in a struggle to improve life for Atlanta's poor. (Continued on Page 7) on these categories. Dr. Hammonds alto said that while Educa-. tional Testing Service (ETS) says that test scores reflect the pupils' socio economic income level the Durham City School r: district has succeeded in elevating pupils above the r national norms. (A large ' number of the city school, pupils are from low socio,' economic levels). -a There will be no study of psychological factors involved in determining why ninth graders fall below the national norms', according to Dr. Ham monds. "The first item . will be to make sure we ' teach the material that the students failed," he said. "We should let students know that we expect them to score above the na tional norms," he later (Continued on Page 3) NT,' 1 t V i y- JV ' V:. 1 IS J 1 FIRST IN NATION Mrs. Gloria Euland, 29, of Charleston, South Carolina, holds her six months old son, James, the first baby believed to have been born in the United States as a result of successful nose drop therapy to cure infertility. UPI Photo NMA Putting Finishing Touches On Meet iVialone Appointed Assistant Vice Chancellor For Relations William P. Malone has been appointed Assistant Vice-Chancellor for University Relations at North Carolina Central Unversity. The appointment was announced this week by Chancellor Albert N. Whiting, and will become effective September 1 . Malone has served as the university's Director of Development since 1968 and (since 1973) as Executive Director of the North Carolina Central . University Foundation. Dr. S. Dallas Simmons, Vice-Chancellor for University Relations, is currently accepting ap plications for the develop ment director's post. Malone will assist Dr. Simmons in the ad ministration of the University Relations divi sion, which includes the Office of Admissions, the Alumni Affairs office, the Athletic Department, the Career Counseling and Placement Bureau, the Development Office, the News Bureau, the Public Relations Office, and the Security Department. . He will also have responsibility for coor dination of university records relating to ad- Placement, holding ministrative and policy post until 1967. decisions, and for the development ' of a com prehensive university calendar. Malone is a native of Durham and attended the city's public schools. He holds the bachelor of science and the master of science in public health degrees from NCCU. He is a veteran of five years of service in the U.S. Army during World War II, hav ing served three years in the South Pacific. He was an instructor in public health education at NCCU (then North Carolina College) from 1947 to 1949. From 1949 to 1953 he was a public health investigator, employed jointly by the Federal Security Agency-, the U.S. Public Health Servicet and the North Carolina State Board of Health. From 1953 to 1960, Malone was a School I Health Coordinator in Greensboro, High Point, and Guilford County, and a public health in vestigator for the Guilford County Health Depart ment. Malone rejoined North Carolina Central Universi ty in 1960 as Director of the He has served on the board of the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, the travel and convention committee of the Durham Chamber of Commerce, the Durham , Child Advocacy Commis sion, and the board of the Durham Public Relations Society. He is currently a lay reader at St. Titus Episcopal Church in Durham, a member of the board of United Durham Incorporated, a board member of Concern for1 Children in Durham, and a board member for the Episcopal diocesan home for the aged in Southern Pines, the Penick Home. Malone has been a con sultant to the National In stitutes of Health, The Robert R. Moton Memorial Institute, University Associates ofi Washington, D.C., and the College Placement Council. The National Medical Association (NMA) is hard at work putting the finishing touches on its upcoming 85th annual convention to be held in Dallas, Texas, August 1-7, " " which; "according t6"JTJr . Charles Mitchell, general convention chairman, should be the most signifi cant medical conference of the year. "The struc ture of the medical profes sion is changing, par ticularly in light of our in flationary economy. Physicians have been forc ,ed to re-examine their roles in the communities they . serve. This year's NMA convention will discuss the pressing issues within the medical profes sion and forge an agenda to deal with them effec tively," said Mitchell. This year's NMA "con ference, being held at the Lowes Anatole, is Organized aroyhd the K theoa f- -HMiHmuaU wUL Child Health Focus for the Eighties, and is ex pected to draw nearly 4,000 participants. The 1980 convention has a number of unique features, provocative speakers and exciting workshops. For the first time, the nation's black i professional organizations (doctors, lawyers, den tists, nurses, and-fc phar macists) are holding their annual conventions in the same city, at the same time. Collectively over 12,000 black professionals are expected to conclave in Dallas, August 1-7 for what has been termed the nation's first Black Con gress on Health and Law. A professional coalition . ., will UkeW emet g&icara ihe Congress to address a number of relevant socioeconomic and public policy issues. A highlight of the NMA convention is expected to be an address by Patricia Harris, Secretary of Health and Human Ser vices, (formerly Health Education and Welfare) who will deliver the keynote address on August 5. Later that even ing, Benjamin Hooks, ex ecutive Director of the NAACP will deliver the convention's public welcoming speech. Enlightening discus sions will be held at several seminars during the 7-day NMA con ference. National Health insmanceri2! Subsidized-Abortion and Ur ban Health Care Centers are just a few of the issues that will be addresed. In an effort to continue the education of its membership and to keep them apprised of the state of the art within the pro fession, the NMA is plan ning seventeen medical assemblies for physicians. Topics of the workshops include, but will not be limited to, Adolescent Pregnancy, Medical Counseling, and Family Nutrition. Quality health care is of paramount concern to all Americans. The National Medical Association, a professional organization that represents over 9,000 -black - physicians, is dedicated to fostering the delivery of high quality health care to all segments of the American public. The NMA, founded in 1895, was not conceived in a spirit of racial ex clusiveness and operates on behalf of the entire professional and the na tion's citizenry. For further information regarding the NMA, its accomplishments, and the upcoming convention, please contact Thomas Hart, conference media coordinator 659-9623. ESC, County Schools And Wake Social Services Adopt Method Of Killing Two Birds With One Stone RALEIGH - The Employment Security Commission, the Wake County Schools and the Wake County Department of Social Services have hatched a method of kill ing two birds with- one stone. The stone is the school bus monitor pro gram which employs 'JJT'!"" f welfare mothers as monitors. The program, the only one of its kind in the na tion, employed 74 Wake County welfare mothers who were enrolled in the Work Incentive Program (WIN). Beginning in December 1979, the mothers rode buses to and from 27 county schools and worked during the day as teacher aides, cateferia workers, office assistants and maintenance workers. The program was specially designed to meet the transportation needs of welfare recipients. The $40,000 a month Richmond's Black Mayor To Address Grads Henry L. Marsh, HI, recently re-elected Mayor of Richmond, Va., will deliver the keynote ad dress during Elizabeth Ci ty State University's Ninety-Third Commence ment Exercise, Sunday, July 20. The Exercise, a Summer Commencement, is set for 10:00 a.m. in Moore Hall auditorium. . Approximately, j 42 graduating seniors will be awarded undergraduate degrees in the arts and sciences, up from last summers total of 25, and bringing to 323 the total number of graduates this year. "Because of the grow ' ing number of seniors who complete all requirements Ltfor graduation during the Summer School Sessions, a Commencement at this time of year is becoming increasingly necessary," Dr. Edyth B. Cole, Direc tor of the ECSU Summer School Program, stated. After serving for eleven ' years as a member of the City council in 1977 Marsh became the first black Mayor of the former Confederate capitol. A native of Richmond and a graduate of Virgnia Union and Howard Universities, he is a partner in the law firm of Hill, Tucker and Marsh. Selected, In 1978,'by In ternational Gty Managers Association as the' only elected official to serve on ; a special Task Force to! (Continued onyftfo' 6) k V,-.-' i;.f - n J 1 program, funded tnrougn the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), has meant a chance for women like Mrs. Gwendolyn Chalmers to get off welfare and back into the . world of work. A divorc- ed mother of three and a grandmother of one, Chalmers began receiving benefits in 1976 when she became critically ill and had to quit her job as a cashier at a doughnut shop. She was physically unable to work for the next three years. Chalmers said the mothering talents she ac quired in 23 years of child rearing proved invaluable when she boarded Buss 166 last December on her first trip to Farmington Woods Elementary School. Chalmers was responsible for keeping almost 50 children ages five to 1 1 quiet, happy and .seated during their '45-minute journey from iWestford Road in Raleigh ito Cary. ! Chalmers, a quiet but assertive woman, developed a method of maintaining discipline on her bus and she said she had no serious discipline problems. "Nobody ever gave me any real trouble. I had some kindergarteners who (Continued on Page 7 n i 1 4, t If' I m - 4000 Carolinians Being Mailed Federal Funds ANYBODY BUT CARTER iMtS31 .the natio,nal Repubhcan Party convention goes on this week in Detroit's new Joe Louis Arena, Michigan s unemployed crowd the floors of Detroit's unemployment offices to file for their unemploy ment compensation. Not one among the crowd interviewed expressed intentions of voting for President Jimmy Carter in the November 4 elections. "Anybody but Carter" was the general sentiment expressed whether they knew anything about other candidates or not. UPI Photo RALEIGH The state Employment Security Commission announced Friday, July 11 that more than $1 million in federal funding for several special unemployment programs has been received and that checks which have been withheld since early June when funds were ex nausted are now being mailed to the approx imately 4,000 North Carolinians who were af fected. ESCChai tan J.B.Ar cher said ti. funds were made availak ) Thursday, July 10 following Con gressional approval of the federal supplemental budget. When the funds for these programs were exhausted in early June, the commission continued to write the benefit checks but neiu inem uniu Con gress approved additional funding. Those checks, number ing approximately 14,000, are being mailed today to people whose unemploy ment benefits are based on recent federal civilian employment, military ser vice, employment as a Comprehensive Employ ment and Training Act (CETA) public service employee, and those unemployed because of the adverse impact of foreign trade. "We are sorry for the hardships these holdups In unemployment benefits may have caused these people," Archer said. "But I would like to cau i tion the recipients to cash these checks as soon as ipossibje. . ""V
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