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\ City
Official
Busted
Charges of conspiracy to
sell and distribut cocaine
have been larged against
William W. Bill" McGee,
according to Winston
Salem Police reports.
McGee, director of the
Coliseum and' Convention
Center's operations, was
arrested and charged early
Tuesday.
. Michael Smith was also
charged In connection with
coetplracy and trafficing
cocaine* * , >
McGcc hasfH
ed without pay by City
Manager, Bill Stuart.
McGee could not be reached
at press time. Other
details ot the incident were
unavailable.
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By Beverly McCarthy
Staff Writer
More than 800 delegates
of the Order of Eastern
Stars are expected to attend
the 80th Annual Grand
Session of the C.E,S. of
North Carolina. The celebration
will be hosted by
the 11 District Order of
Pactum Qt?i? Dri r? <-?r? Hall
ii Jiai 1 i iiivv * ion
affiliated, September 7
through the 9th at the
Benton Convention Center.
While attending the convention,
delegates will
lodge at the Winston-Salem
Hyatt Hotel.
Festivities will l?egin at
7:00 p.m. when city government
officials wil bring
greetings from their offi
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U.S.P.S. No. 067910 . ^
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By Yvonne Anderson
Staff Writer
Last week President Ronald Reagan announced that
his administration plans to reduce the rules that govern,
the affirmative action programs for federal contracts.
Under the proposed regulations, federal contractors
with fewer than 250 employees -- receiving a contract of
less than $1 million would not be required to prepare a
formal plan on hiring and promoting minorities and
women. The current regulation covers companies who
employ 50 or more people and $50,000 or more in contacts.
The decision is viewed with alarm by many civil rights
groups and Executive Director of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
Benjamin Hooks,* said, "It is no secret that black
Americans, Hispanic Americans and other minorities
have viewed with increasing alarm the drift of this Administration
away from the strong and affirmative role in
the civil rights arena which has characterized virtually
every national government since World War II,
Democrat and Republican alike."
The current Affirmative Action regulations grew out
of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which was originally designed
to give blacks and other minorities a part of the multibillion
dollar industry of public contracts.
CoftgresswQman Shirley Chisholm (D-New York) condjnuail
the Reagan Administration for an attack: on Affirmative
Action in a press release issued from her office
on Thursday.
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^Workers still experiencing employment discrimination in
this country/' she asserted, "President Reagan has called
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and Engineering are (L to R) RJR director of peria/1
Bass, A AT State Acting Chancellor, Dr. C/eon F.
freda Headen, Warren Moses and Raymond Thompson
check for $20,000 to support 20 students.
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ces. An annual memorial tor of First Baptist Church
service will be held imme- will be banquet speaker,
diately following the wel- According to Sister Elizacoming
program. The Rev- beth Tilley, the emphasis of
erend Brother J.W. Smith, the convention will be on
Sr., will deliver the sermon, donations, made to charttaThe
business session of ble organizations, and
the order will begin Tues- strengthening the order's
day mortiing. ?everal student loan fund. Sister
events of the convention Tilley is the Grand Associare
open to the public, ate Matron of the State
Tirlr Ate for curb mAAtinoc O P t
may be purchased at the The state O.E.S.. is an
Convention Center. organization which strongly
The main public event of supports Central Orphanthe
convention is the annu- age in Oxford, North Caroal
banquet which will be lina. The group also awards
held Tuesday evening at loans to students entering
7:?? P.M. A special high- or attending institutions of
light of the banquet will be higher learning,
the crowning of "Mill The 11IA UllCflit
Eastern Star." nored in having several of
Reverend W.S. Epps, pas- See page 2
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for the elimination of key components of the affirmative I
action program run by the U.S. Labor Department's Of- |
fice of Federal Contract Compliance. New proposed *
regulations would exempt all but the largest federal con- '
- tractors from affirmative action requirements, and would
weaken hiring, promoting and reporting requirements for
those which remain covered."
The North Carolina Human Relation Council made a,
resolution against the proposed relaxing of the laws at its
quarterly meeting held in New Bern, North Carolina last
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Solidarity Day
Draws Increased
Areas Of Support
On ^PntPmK^r 10 u?hoi Se ?
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expected to be the largest sition on the nation's ecomass
demonstration in re- nomic programs by resolvcent
history, will take place ing to co-sponsor the
on the National Mall in march. The August issue of ,
Washington, D.C. as the the unions monthly maga- j
American Tederttkm ofla- zinc is dedicated to the '
bor and Congress of Indus- organization's views on the
trial Organizations (AFL- subject in which it asserts,
CIO) join forces with the "American workers in the
National Association for the seven months of this AdAdvancement
of Colored ministration have seen in
People (NAACP), the Na- the name of balanced budtional
Urban League, and get the undermining and
many other civil rights repeal of social programs
groups to protest the do- that were painstakingly
mestic policies of the Rea- enacted over half a cengan
Administration. fury/*
The AFL-CIO'S General Sponsors hope that the
Board declared its intention massive demonstration will
to demonstrate to the Ad- See page 28
$1,000 Each
RJR Gives 20
Twenty North Carolina $20,000 award represents
Agricultural and Technical the second installment of a
State University (A&T) stu- $160,000 commitment andents
are the recipients of nounced in 1980, according
$1,000 R.J. Reynolds In- to Marshall Bass, corporate
dustries scholarships, the director of personnel devecompanv
announced todav. lonm#?nt at R TR
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Eleven freshmen and nine In making the award, Bass
sophomores received the said RJR "is deeply cornawards
as part of RJR's mitted to providing funds to
Scholarship Program in institutions such as A&T.
Business and Engineering We believe that these efat
the Greensboro, N.C. forts represent a sound
based university. The investment in the future
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with chains around his legs, pictured on ho
harbor of the little town Norrtalje, Middle
bidden to leave the boat for over a month,
stoweaway since the ship left Daker, has n*
when it arrives in Bremen, West-Germany i
and unwanted passenger left the Norttalje
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quality of life for many now that the
Americans. A&T can be vernment ha
justly proud of its continu- package for i
ing accomplishments program has
toward academic excel- progress in
lence," Bass said. ability studer
Cleon F. Thompson, Act- grateful for
ing Chancellor of A&T ac- port." he sai<
knowledged the award say- Freshmen
ing it would be difficult to RJR scholar
overemphasize the value of Keyto Browr
such support. "Scholarship Wanda Clark
aid is one of our most Hampton, C
critical needs, especially Dale Fisher
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ard a Pakistan freighter while docking in the
Sweden. Bar a has been handcuffed and forThe
reason: no country wants him. Bara, a
r)w been promised a chance to leave the ship
n a couple of days. The ship with its chained
harbor early Friday morning.
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* Federal Go- Walker, Fayetteville; Laws
cut the aid rence Thompson, Durham;
students. This Emmy Lyons, Battleboro;
i made great Kenneth Gibson, Hope
helping high Mills; Yolanda Foster, Kitits
and we are trell; Sherry Lester, RoxRJR's
sup- boro; and Timothy Van
d. Drew, Burlington,
recipients of Sophomores receiving
ships include RJR scholarships include
i, Warrenton; Arnold Cole, Goldsboro;
and Jonathan Derrell Dunn, Whitsett;
Jreensboro; Kevin Galloway, Eden;
and Darryl See Page 2
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