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VOLUME 59 - NUMBER 8
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA,- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1981
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Keynoters
The Wilmington.. Ten
and I heir supporters will
gather in Raleigh for a
I reevloni .Celebration' on
Sunday. February 22. at
I aodieea United Church
of Christ. 2004 Rock
Uuarry Road, : ;
Speakers at the 3:30
. p.m. service include the
Rev. Hen Chavis, last of
i lie Wilmington Ten to be
released from prison; the
Rev. Dr. Charles Cobb,
executive director. United
Church of Christ Com
mission for Racial Justice;
and the Rev. I .eon White,
director of the Church
Agencies North Carolina
Virginia liield Office.
They will review the
fen's long struggle for
justice which culminated
with the ruling this
December by the Fourth
U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals in Richmond to
vacate the convict ipns of
i he nine black men and
one white woman.
The Ten were charged
with firebombing a
grocery store and con
spiracy to assault police
"and firemen during racial
unrest in Wilmington in
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$500 For Building Fund
JJarryl Smith (I). Basileus. Beta Phi Chapter. Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Durham, presents S500 check to J S Stewart chair
man of the Lincoln Community Health Center Building Fund. Looking on is R.H.JCherry, Keeper of Finance of Beta Phi This is
the first payment of a SI 000 pledge by the fraternal group. . , .
COUNTY DEMOCRATS ON THE MOVE
By Donald W, Marable
, a better feDresentattort harrt to
The Durham Cbu'h'ty 'i. ' wnventlons Ms. Smith r'f.W a
pull together to No. 41, the Masonic
'miracle rna1i Lodee on . Cook RcSad
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Annual Minority
Health Confab
Set For Friday
CHAPEL HILL-"Dying .
for a Job: Health Status
of Minorities in the
Workplace" will be ex
amined at the fifth annual
Minority Health Con
ference February 20 at the
University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The free, public seminar
is sponsored by the
Minority Student Caucus
and the Student Union
board of the UNC-CH
School of Public Health.
The conference will
feature Dr. George
Lythcott as keynote
speaker. Lythcott is direc
tor of- the health Services
Administration of the
U.S. , Department of
Health and Human Ser
vices "Minorities tend to
work in certain industries
that are more life
threatening," said Denise
Thomas, conference coor
dinator and chairperson
of the Minority Student
Caucus.
Other speakers include
Dr. Bailus Walker, direc
tor of the health standards
program of the U.S. Oc
cupational Safety and
Health- Administration;
Richard P, Bryan of the
Indian, Health Service of
Kellogg Foundation
Funds 3-Year Project
For Black Colleges
NEW YORK-The
United Negro College
Fund (UNCF) has been
awarded a SI, 158,000
grant from the W.K.
Kellogg Foundation of
Battle Creek, MI to im
prove the goverance and
management of its 41
member colleges and
universities.
Through the three-year
project, consultants will
be trained to identify
management problems
and prescribe assistance to
member institutions.
These consultants will also
be responsible for
monitoring participating
colleges' and universities'
progress toward adapting
as effective management
system.
An additional $2.5
million in Kellogg Foun
dation support is expected
to be awarded to UNCF
member institutions to
help them to develop and
implement programs to
strengthen their gover
nance and internal opera
tions. Institutions receiv
ing Foundation assistance
will be selected on the
basis of UNCF reccomen-dations.
The entire management
F. Edley, Executive Direc
tor of UNCF.
Recent reports have in-
dicated that a combina
' tion of problems, such as
' decreasing enrollments,
high energy costs, and in
flation, will combine dur
ing the 1980s to threaten
the stability of many of
? America's institutions of
'higher education.
"In the next decade,
colleges that succeed will
be the ones demonstrating
an ability to manage
scarce resources,"
predicted Mr. Edley.
"The Kellogg program
will face the challenge of
studying the management
of entire institutions,
Tather than just working
. with small segments of the
administration as do tradi
tional management pro
grams. "We expect that the
Kellogg-funded program
will serve as a model for
similar schools
throughout the country,"
he added.
The $1.1 million
Kellogg Foundation grant
is one of the largest con
tributions to the UNCF's
Capital Resources
Development . Program
.they were tried and con
victed in 1972,;he judges
noted thai defense attor
nies were denied access to
all statements of the the
key prosecution, witness
Alan Hall, ' who later
recanted his testimony;
that the Ten were
"prohibited from attack
ing the credibility" of the
two state's witnesses and
that the star witness
"perjured himself in his
repeated unfounded
.testimony."
night in the Durham
Courjty Health Building
on East Main Street.
Ms. Barbara V. Smith,
chairman, spoke to a
group of about forty
pnjeinct representatives
arid members on the com
mittee's' present status. '
Senator Jerry ; Hancock
was also present among
the group.
- Major issues on the
agenda were precinct
returns, a downtown per
manent office facility, and
state meeting and the
future is very optimistic
because ft fs the people's
party. "The diversities the
Democratic; Party has ex
perienced vyould make it
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one wuuiu
good smat-
and- Mrs. Ruth Kennedy,
: were commended for an
$6Vo turnout of voters.
. Haskell White, chair
man, and Walter Perry,
:vice chairman, . are
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One.
like to see a .
tenng of leadership at
future conventions, as
well as more represen
tatives from the tow in
come precincts. Precinct
utitmai itami, jniergraiea aysiems
vtronmen
Carolyn Bell, industrial
hygenist with the occupa
tional health program of
the University of Ten
nessee Center for Health
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Black Social Workers;
Opposed To Proposed
State Licensing Bill
r;
By Donald W. Marable '
Cumberland County
Representative Talley has
introduced a bill in the
North Carolina
Legislature on behalf of
the National Association
of Social porkers to
license, by test, all social
workers.
Leonard Dunston,
president of the North
Carolina tate Associa
tion of ' Black Social
Workers, ; expressed that
group's opposition to such
a bill. "The bill has racial
connotations and is back
ed by sociologists who
want to be licensed like
doctors, dentists and
.psychiatrist. We. are
diametrically opposed to
any form of licensing of
any human ' service '
worker be they
counselors, social workers
or ' whateverPY Dunston
said.
- He listed four major
reasons: tests are
discriminatory; tests can
never prove a person's ac
tual ability; the bill would
carry a $100 fee; and, the
bill would , eliminate
already practicing social t
workers who do not have;
degrees, but have proven
records. r-i? . -;V';;
NCSABSW is compris
ed of chapters in the
Triangle area,
Greensboro, ; Winston
Salem. Charlotte, Green
ville, Brunswick County
and FayetteviHe.. The
Triangle chapter is located
in Raleigh and meets ever) .
second Monday. The
president is Marshall
Harvey.
Dunston also said,
"Similar bills currently ex
ist in ten other states and
one is in the process of be
ting repealed in Kansas."
For. the past four years,
the same, legislation has
been, introduced and
defeated ; in the North
Carolina) General
Assembly. Dunston
described North Carolina
as a pivotal state by the
consistency ' and heavy
politicking going on
around this bill. "And if
the bill were to be passed,
it ..would knock out a
whole jsector of qualified
people who serve ? the
social field. If we let them
- license this, then next they
will want to license who
knows what,'- he added.
f We4 would like to
mobilize the masses of
people in Durham and
across the state to help
prevent this bilL .from
becoming law," Dunston
explained, as therer ap
pears to be no opposition
otherwise. I
NCSABSW'i position is
that social workers should
be addressing the preven
tion of social ills that af
fect the ' society '
: economic T exploitation,
poor housing, poor educa
' tion not licensing
sociologists to cure the ills
after the fact. It's another
classic case of blaming the
victim instead of blaming
the system."
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proach to
Management," will be
monitored by a steering
committee will be
representatives of the
UNCF, the American
. Council on Education, the
;V; Association of Governing
Boards of Universities and
Colleges, and the National
Association of College
and University Business
Officers.
To assure the broadest
range of expertise,
technical advise will also
be available from
representatives of eleven
national education
associations devoted to
major functioning areas
of institutional manage?
ment.
"The Kellogg Founda
tion grant is a major con
tribution to the future of
small and private col
leges," said Christopher
Ap- -Tund-raisint project The
Improving CRDP was launched in
1977 with a goal of $50
million. To date, it has
raised over $57 million in
gifts and pledges from
foundations, corpora
tions, and individuals for
the purposes of renovating
and building campus
facilities, building en
dowments and developing
curriculum and other new
programs at the UNCFs
, 41 private, historically
black colleges and univer
sities. The only grant
specifically earmarked for
programs in the critical
area of administration and
academic management is
the Kellogg grant.
ti "Small colleges have
'not had an opportunity to
devote their resources to
the management of curr
' riculum, finance, and ad
ministration," said Mr.
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NAACP Drive Helps Black
Voters Totals Up In '80
After Reagan Meeting
Atlanta civil rights leader Hosea Williams (I) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, after emerging from a half-hour meeting with Presi
dent Reagan last week, say they are assured that Reagan's across-the-board budget cuts will not hurt the poor. UPI Photo
Black Veteran Receives Appointment
To High DAV Service Program Position
WASHINGTON, DC
Vietname veteran Jesjse
Brown has been appointed
chief of claims of the
Disabled American
Veterans' (DAV) 290-man
National Service . Pro
gram, which operates
seventy of fices across the
country. This is the second
highest management posi
tion in the National Ser
vice Program, head
quartered here.
Upon his appointment,
Brown urged all minority
veterans who suffered ir
jury or illness during th
military service to 7
claims with the Vetet.
Administration through a
DAV national service of
.ficer. The DAV represents
veterans and their families
free of charge throughout
the VA claims process.
"It is extremely impor
tant to file a claim with the
VA as soon as possible
after the injury or illness
because the longer, a
veteran waits, the harder it
is to prove his or her
claim," he stated. ' j
Before his appointment;
Brown supervised the
DAV staff at the VA
Board of Veterans Ap
peals (BVA) in
Washington since 1976.
Claims that reach this
hoard, the highest level of .
appeal in the VA, are I
usually the most difficult
to prove and involve ex
tremely complicated
evidence. ,
Brown has been called a -i
"master in applying!
veterans'- law to win
'claims for veterans and
their families" by Norman
B. Hartnett, national
director of services for the
,. DAV. Hartnett added that
the success rate of the
DAV staff at BVA in
creased steadily under
Brown's supervision.
A combatrdisabled
Marine infantryman.
Brown joined the DAV
professional staff in 1967
as a national service of
ficer in Chicago. He mov
ed to Washington in 1973
to supervise the DAV of
fice for the District of Col
umbia. He is an honors
graduate of Chicago City
College and lives with his
i wife, Mrs. Sylvia Brown,
and their two children in
OxonHill. Md.
BROWN
DETROIT - Advance
statistics from the Bureau
of the Census indicate a
National Association for
the Advancement of Col
ored People 7(NAACP)
registration and get-out-the-vote
drive played an
essential role in raising
black voting totals in the
1980 Presential election.
The study, based on a
sampling of the popula
tion, showed the black
vote last year reversed a
downward trend and
climbed from 48.7 of
eligibles in 1976, to 50.5
in 1980. The highest Wack
vote in recent times was
58.5 in 1964.vThc com
plete report will be releas
ed later this year.
x Both the white and
Hispanic voting . percen
tages of eligibles tailed to
show any gain during 1976 -and
1980. The same 60.9
of the eligible white vote
was recorded in ooth elec
tions, but the Hispanic
percentage of those eligi
ble dipped from 11.8
four years ago to 19.9
: last year. . '" ;-f .
"We v estimate nearly
half a million new black
voters were registered as &
direct result of our nation-
wide program, and
another A million as an
indirect result of our
media campaign" Joe
Madison, . director of the
Detroit-based NAACP
Voter Education Division,
said. "The subsequent
election day activities by
our branches were respon
sible for motivating; most
of these new registrants to
the polls on November 4.
Madison said he - was
particularly pleased with
the turnout in the key age
category of 25 to 34 years
olds. Nearly 1.8 million
voters ' in this
chronological grouping
voted, accounting for
almost 25 of the 8.2
million total black tur
nout. y
"This : is a critical -category
he explained.
"Once they start voting at ;
that age, they tend to keep
voting.; We specifically
targeted this group and.
census figures indicate it
. paidoffV , . . 1
The voting age popula-
' tion last . year increased
from 146 million in 1976
to 157 million in 1980. The
composite voter turnout
. percentage however, re
mained at 59.2 for both
elections. :