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Words Of Wisdom
One wi9 not ga far wrong if one attribmte ex
Irrme actions la vanity, average mm to habit and
petty ones to fear.
, Friedricb Nielzchc
Predominant 'opinion, are generally the opi
nions of the generation that is vanishing.
Benjamin Disraeli
VOLUME 59 -NUMBER 13
DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA '- SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1981
TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913
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April
EV1 c EHI en ry To Speak
1 At UNC-CH
Magazine Changes Name and Editor
theMerrick-
The yVejro flratfe Magazine, founded by Mrs. Lyda Merrick (seated center), has changed its name to
7 fi rr'ne aeaiea at ten is Jonn Washington, associate editor of the magazine and at
right is Mrs. Charlotte Hackett, former editor. Standing are Mrs. Margaret Whisenton (left) retiring editor and Dr.
Ila J. Blue (right), the new editor. The internationally circulated magazine continues to seek contributions in order to
survive. Recent soaring costs of printing have necessitated reduction from quarterly to semi-annual publication.
Contributions may be sent to Mrs. Constance Watts; treasurer, 829 Lawson Street, Durham, NC 21J0!.
Black Child Development Institute
Now Has Durham Chapter
black
Dr.
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By Donald E. Alderman well-being of
The National' Black children "
Uuld Development in- Washington said,
stitufe now has another af- By organizing and
filiate the BlacK Child f mobUizing thfough a net-
Lcvciopmcnir insuiuio or work r of .volunteer ad
teenage pregnancy, and
infant mortality are issues
that the local chapter will
immediately address. The
group beheyes that many
Durham The group com
pleted steps necessary tor
affiliation at its Friday
meeting and has for
mulated its work plan.
The PCDI-D will ad
vocate locally on behalf of
black children to ensure
that policies and programs
allow them to grow to
their fullest potential, said
Dr. Valora Washington,
president of the local
group.
Day care, child welfare,
education, health, and
agency monitoring will be
the group's concentration
areas. It is not limited to
those areas and may ad
dress, any issue of black
concern, according to Ms.
Lauren Palmer, national
affiliate coordinator.
The local chapter is
made up of blacks from
all walks of life.
parents, . educators,
ministers, doctors, com
munity workers, concern
ed citizens. "We are
everyday . people concern
ed about preserving the
;voeateross-the; nation,"
the NBCDI has been suc
cessful in getting parents
and communities to play a
dominant role in deter
mining programs that af
fect their children. "We
want black parents to look
at what can be done local
ly, and to involve
themselves accordingly,
said Dr. Washington. The
Institute strongly believes
that . a dual advocacy
structure, one capable of
operating simultaneously
on local and national
levels, will make a critical
difference in its cause for
black children.
"Only ' t(ie concerted
and consistent mobiliza
tion of the black com
munity offers any hope of
arresting the worsening
picture .for black
children," stated Ms.
Evelyn Mdore, executive
director of NBCDI.
The adoption of black
children, the controversial,
competency test,
desegregation alternatives,
problems t otJik Maclu.jr.Rlea
i riarra;nayejK)r ficen,:
properly understood. "
It argues, for instance,
that "dropouts are a
symptpn, a warning that
schools have failed
students so extensively
that they no longer
perceive any purpose in
their education." All
issues addressed by BCDI
D will be analyzed in
detail, so that the com-,
plexity as well as the
significance of each sub
ject can be readily
grasped, said Dr.
Washington.
A partial plan of work
of the local Institute
follows: i
Black Child Develop
ment Week - beginning
May 17, 1981. Activities
to be announced.
Black youth "role ,
model" extravaganza in
conjunction with the .
publicschools in May. Ex-
act date to be announced.
Former U.S.
Ambassador To
United Nations
'CHAPEL HILL
Donald McHenry, former
U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, will give a
free, public talk on "The
United Nations ip a
Changing World"
Wednesday, April 1, at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
McHenry will discuss
the U.N. role in world'
issues, drawing from per
sonal experience and cur
rent events for his talk.
The lecture will be held in
Memorial Hall beginning
at 8 p.m., and will include
a short question-and-answer
session. It is spon
sored by the UNC-CH
curriculum in peace, war
and defense.
McHenry was the chief
U,S. representative to the
United Nations from
1979-81. He was U.S.
deputy representative to
the U.N. Security Council
when President Carter ap
pointed him to succeed
Andrew Young as am
bassador, , '
Before joining the U.S.
mission to the United Na-
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NAA CP Life Membership. .
. .Was the thrust of Sunday's monthly meeting or the Durham-Chapter or the
NAACP. Program participants included (l-r) Dr. Percy High, pastor, Mount Vernon
Baptist Church; Mrs. Bertie Bates, Lire Memmbership Committee chairman.
Durham Branch; Edward Muse, National Office Director, Life Membership Divi
sion; and, Durham Branch president, George Frazier. Photo bv Kelvin A. Bell
m uurnam in junt
Active presence at
Bambi festival . and
Centennial.
It is the Institute's senti
ment that blacks have a
collective responsibility to
ensure the health, safety,
and general happiness, of
their children. NBCDI is
an independent, non
profit , organization
dedicated to that attain
ment. It has twenty affiliates,
and is currently organizing
groups ii fifteen other
cities. Affiliates have been
chartered - in Greensboro
and Raleigh. :
The Durham chapter
will meet April 8 at the
Durham County Library.
with' the State Department
for eight years, primarily
in American x foreign'
policy and international
law and. organizations.
Since leaving the am
bassador's post in
January j he has been
teaching- at the Institute
for the Study of
Diplomacy at Georgetown
University's School of
Foreign Service in
Washington, D.C. He is
the author of
"Micronesia: , Trust
Betrayed" and several ar
ticles in professional jour
nals. For more information
about his Chapel Hill ap
pearance, call the cur
riculum in peace, war and
defense office, (919)
933-3093.
Parking Fines, Bond Forfeitures
Support Public Schools
lacic cnuaren
Mayor, Rhodenhizer
To Seek Reelection
Budget Cuts Demand
Attention Claims Dr.
Cleveland Hammonds
ByTrellieL. Jeffers
Durham mayor, Harry
Kodenhizer, told a small
group of students and
parents at Hillside High
School Thursday night,
March 19, that he plans to
seek reelection in the fall
of this year and that he
plans to continue many of
the programs he began
dujing his first term. The
mayor made the statement
in answer to a question on
his political future.
When asked if he would
support the election of
black candidates to cor-,
rect the inequity of blacks
on the Durham City
Council, the mayor said
that he would not make
that decision until he has
"examined the qualifica
tions" of the blacks seek
ing seats on the Council.
(Presently, there are
. 107,190 durham city
residents; approximately
39 of those ue
minorities. There are
twelve councilmen, two of
whom are black.)
Mayor Rodenhizer also
sc'd that 100 federal jobs
would be lost due to the
cut in CETA funds and
some staff members in,
Community Development
programs will also lose
their jobs due to those
cuts, but that the City will
not be able to provide
funds for these employees
to remain;
"I would be less than
honest to say that the city
will pick up these jobs;
.Durham City is in a finan
cial bind,;; said Mayor
Rodenhizer.
When asked about the
proposed civic center
later, the mayor said that
he could "see closing
Morgan Street and con
necting the old ' Carolina
Theatre, the present civic
center and the old city hall
and renovating, these
buildings for a civic
center. He said that this
would cost the city about
$13 million. He did not
stipulate how the city
would raise the money for
the project, although he
did say that he projects
that Durham city taxes
will be raised in the near
future.
Mayor Rodenhizer said
that ; in spite of the.
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, . ByTrellieL. Jeffers
Dr. Cteveland Ham- He said that he views
rnonds, Durham City $ome .of the cuts as
;wS JsuPTT,"te"dent1: philosophical rather than
a.umuuudju.sH.ivw.u Economical. "Cutting the
23, at the regular school chi1d nutrition nrocram
board meeting, that
"Citizens should grab an
anchor and demand atten
tion on some of the pro
posed budget cuts (by the
Reagan administration.)
Dr. Hammonds said
everyone expected some
cuts but the immediacy
and depth of the cuts were
not expected. Some of the
cuts will take effect as ear
ly as June lt 1981..
will have broad effects on
industry;.,, cutting Title I
will affect defense; there is
a relationship between
education and productivi
ty and one wonders
, whether cuts for the han
dicapped is lacking in
compassion," said Dr.
Hammonds.
Dr. Hammonds said
that there is concern about
(soldiers coming from the
low socio-economic in
come level who lack basic
skills, yet, Title I, which
would improve these
skills, will be cut.
"We can't afford to
waste minds. The public
needs to examine the cuts
that are proposed," said
Dr. Hammonds.
The pre-school program
for four-year-olds, one of
Durham City's Title I pro
grams for low income
children presented a video
tape of its classroom ac
tivities at the meeting. The
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ByTrellieL. Jeffers ,
The North Carolina
Constitution, Article IX,
Section 7, has recently
been interpreted in the
North Carolina Supreme
Court in the case of Cau
ble versus the City of
Ashevilie to stipulate that
money collected for city
parking violations and
bond forfeitures should go
to county school funds to
support public schools in
the North Carolina coun
ties where these funds are
collected.
Section 7 defines county
school funds as "all
moneys, stock, bonds,
and other property
belonging to a county
school fund, and the clear
proceeds of all penalties
and forfeitures and of all
fines collected in several
counties for any breach of
the penal laws of the state,
shall belong to and remain
in the several counties,
and shall be faithfully ap
propriated and used ex
clusively for maintaining
free public schools."
John Pederson, director
of the Durham City
Budget and Management,
said that parking funds
have previously gone into
the city's general funds,
the funds used to finance
police and fire protection,
sanitation, housing in
spection, and the great
bulk of the city ad
ministration. He said that
now the money is being
put into an escrow fund
until there is clarity on the
phrase "clear proceeds of
all penalties and
forfeitures."
Pederson said that the
city often spends money to
collect the fines and the
state statute does not
make it clear as to whether
or not this expense should
be substracted from the
parking fines and bond
forfeitures before turning
the funds over to the
public schools. '
Pederson said that the
statute probably has been
violated because city of
ficials did not know of its
existence. The question
now that remains is what
agency will be responsible
for collecting and dispers
ing the funds.
Mrs. Beth Unchurch
said Monday night, March
23, that she understood
that the Couity Commis
sion is not given the
authority by the statute to
handle the funds, in
Durham County,
however, the County
Commission is responsible
for the allocation of
public school funds.
Presently, the funds are
being labeled as
"untapped sources" of
revenue for the schools,
and the school attorney(s),
court officials, organiza
' tions as well as legislators
are asked to join in to help
execute the state statute.
JOIN THE
NAACP
Budget Guts Termed
Drastic
ByTrellie L. Jeffers
DURHAM VSB TO BE PILOT SITE
The Volunteer Services
Bureau of Durham, Inc.,
has been selected as one of
three pilot sites for a na
tional project in highway
safety sponsored by
VOLUNTEER: The Na
tional Center for Citizen
Involvement, according to
the Bureau's director,
Mrs. Anne Moore. The
purpose of the project is
to; demonstrate the
positive effect that broad
based citizen involvement
can have on local traffic
safety efforts and to pro
vide support for those ef
forts. Staff coordinator - for
the year-long project will
be Ms. Page McCullough,
a former teacher and coor
dinator for volunteers for
1 health projects in South
speakers bureau, com
munity education efforts
and a media campaign.
The project is being
conducted under contract
Carolina. She will provide to the National Highway
assistance for the project's 'Traffic Safety' Ad-
Ad visory - Committee
which consists of local
community leaders and is
chaired by Assistant
District Attorney Dick
Chaney. , ',
The Volunteers in Traf
fic Safety project will con
centrate on raising, com
munity awareness on child
restraint, risk perception
and alcohol abuse. Ac
tivities will ' include a
ministration and includes
development of a national
clearinghouse of citizen
involving highway, traffic
safety programs and .a
scries of basic manuals for
use by citizen groups in
terested in addressing traf
fic safety issues.
The National Center for
Citizen Involvement, with
offices in Washington,
D.C. and Boulder, Col
orado, provides training,
technical assistance and
information services
about volunteers and
volunteering to corpora
tions, public agencies,
human service organiza
tions,, volunteer groups
and the organization's
network of more than 900
associates.
The Durham VSB,
located at 809 West
Chapel Hill Street, serves
as a clearinghouse to
channel community
volunteers into areas of
need.
North Carolina school superintendents, board
chairmen and school board members have received a
memorandum outlining the proposed major cuts in the
federal budget by the Reagan administration that total
S99.641.886 or 35 V of what Is now received. Some of
the cuts will take effect as early as June 1. 1981.
The proposed cuts to education are outlined as
follow:
$53,947,430 from child nutrition program
$17,218,360 from ESEA, Title I Basic and Concentra
tion Grants -$910,484
from migrant students programs
$352,090 from handicapped student programs
$280,295 from programs for neglected and delinquent
student programs
$346,530 from state administration
$98,188 from ESEA Title II (Basic Skills Program)
$1,071,256 Part B. from Libraries and Learning
Resources
$2,334,476 Part C Support and Innovations
Education of the Handicapped
$5,524,341 Basic Grants
$165,850 Preschool incentive program
$20,250 Early Childhood Develorunent program
$3,283,500 Vocational Education
$11,000,000 Impact Aid
$1,313,460 Emergency School Aid
$81,748 Career Education
$119,562 Bilingual Education '
$105,000 Indo-Chinese Refugee Assistance
$702,224 Appalachian Regional Development Act
$502,344 Other programs f
Presently educators have expressed little public senti
ment over the proposed cuts. Nevertheless, in school
systems throughout the nation where there are large
numbers of pupils from low socio-economic income,
levels, educators are predicting that their school pto" ,
grams will suffer a devastating blow, and slashes in pro-, '
grams such as Title 1 will have a tasting, negative effect
on school pupils. f 1 -