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VOLUME 1. NO. 22 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1973
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Deadline Nears For Scholarships
Reading Project
Helping Youngsters
Naval Reserve Officer
Training Corps scholar
ships is November 1.
Applicants must have
arranged to take one of two
A national Right-to-Rcad
Project in Greensboro is
Black high school grad- college. There are 56 increase the number of
uates are reminded that the colleges and universities black men and women
deadline for applying for from which to choose, serving as officers, through
including five predomi- such programs as the
nantly black colleges. NROTC scholarships. Cur-
Last year there were 43 rently 805 blacks are on having a positive affect on
black and other minority duty' as Navy officers, pupils and parents, coor-
students selected for scho- holding every rank from dinators of the
college board exams, the larships, plus 14 women warrant officer through reported this week ^ ,
results of which must be selectees. ■'sar admiral. “The program has slunvii ^ niciica wi
forwarded to the Navy- The Navy hopes to great worth in improving
Marine Corps Scholarship ^ . the reading and the climatc
Program, Iowa City, Iowa. f I IM I ^ Alderman
The college board tests,^ ^' School, site of the pilot
the Scholastic Aptitude GREENSBORO, N.C. -- 8®''® Barber most of Mis project," said Mrs. Gladys nicetmg eie on coiei
Test, or SAT, and the incumbent Greensboro City support. He did well in the white, a reading specialist I?- a
American College Test, Councilman Jimmie I. predommantly Black Gille- at A&T State University. Johnson, an A&T St. c
ACT, are the two accept- garber placed third in the spie and Bluford schools. The federally funded University graduate, w o
, j , , |-v r 1 TT • Hp iilso did well in the nrooram i^ipf'kinp to Hv6S in Greensboro, N.C.,
able tests. Deadline for primary last Tuesday. He is also aia wen m me program is seeking to
arranging to take these ^ne among 12 candidates Sternberger and Irving promote the improvement "P®"
tests was October 11. who will compete for one of P^^k precincts. of reading through staff Car°hna s agncultura
Graduates and seniors 5 seats on the Greensboro barber campaigned as development, pupil perfor- ucation stall,
who are otherwise eligible city Council in the elections "The people's man," the mance, the involvement of h,"
may apply through any Nov. 6. parents and the involve " "
local Navy recruiter. previous elections. He has rnent of the community.
The scholarships provide Barber is director of served as the
for four years of college housing and assistant representative
Humanitarian W. T. Johnson/Sr.
KANSAS CITY. MO. -
W.T. Johnson., longtime
state and national leader in
the field of agricultural
project education, has been honor
ed by the Future Farmers
The award was to be
presented at tlic 46th
National FFA Convention
formerly white Future
mayor’s Alderman School has Farmers of America with
to the been in the program for a all-black New Farmers of
tuition paid by the Navy professor of psychology and Greensboro Clearing House year, and the school’s America,
plus a $100-a-month living guidance at A&T. He is Commission and the Hous- principal. Miss Hazel Since his official retire-
allowance, uniforms, and seeking his third term as a ing Authority, Peritt, said the program ment ■ . • ,
other fees required of Greensboro City Council- Herman Gist, another has had a number of consultant in educational
full-time college students, man. Out of the estimated A&T alumnus who was encouraging results.
Selectees will be enrolled 11,000 who turned out to seeking a place in the Nov
in the Naval Reserve and vote, Barber collected 6,064 g elections, was unsuccess- this morning at Holiday Inn special assistant to the
appointed to the rank of votes. ful in his efforts. He - ^ « chairman of the North
midshipmen upon entering The Black community collected 1,649 votes.
Continued on Page 6
A Two Part Series
Watergate and Moral Responsibility
from A&T
int in educati
education for the state in the high school level, and bachelor’s and master’s
At an evaluation session 1971, he has served as a later on the college and degrees from A&T. He
state level, Johnson will be began his career as a
remembered as an human- vocational agricultural
itarian. teacher in Spring Hope,
For years, he solicited N.C., then taught for 10
scholarship funds from a years at A&T.
number of industries to
send needy black young- From 1941-48, he was
sters to college. assistant supervisor in
A native of Rocky Point, charge of the Defense,
N.C.. Johnson holds the Rural War Production and
Carolina Democratic party.
Johnson is being honored
by the FFA for his
outstanding contributions
in the field of agricultural
education for more than 39
years.
As an educator, both on
Veteran Farmer-Training
Progarnis.
He taught four years at
West Virginia State College
and directed tlie agricult
ural education program for
blacks in that state.
In 1952. Johnson return
ed to A&T and helped build
the S.B, Simmons NFA
Camp, now valued at more
than $300,000,
He served as National
Executive Treasurer of the
NFA. until the organization
was merged in 1965.
Johnson is president of
the Greensboro Association
for Retarded Children and
vice president of a region of
the state group. He is also
chairman of the Board of
Deacons at Providcnce
Baptist Church. He has
published a number of
articles in professional
agricultural journals.
Johnson is married to the
former Gertrude Alexan
der. They have four
children, Walter Jr., a
successful Greensboro law
yer and member of the
School Board; Mrs. Patricia
Trice, a music teacher at
the University of Southern
Florida; and Miss Jacque
line Johnson, an employee
of the Kendall Center in
Greensboro.
By Jackson Pyle's
The problem is that,
especially as we think of the
Watergate, the apparent
attitude of a lot of people
seems to be that such
behavior is acceptable. It is
not something to be
condemned, but rather
something to be tolerated
and explained away. This
was illustrated graphically
not too many weeks ago
when a lady wrote a letter
to our local newspaper in
High Point.
The lady make the
statement that she thought
Watergate hearings are
getting “unnecessary and
unfair’’ publicity, and that
the whole exercise is simply
“a political scheme to get
back at Mr. Nixon," She
then goes on to make her
major point; namely, that
the same thing has
happened many times
before and we have not
heard one thing about it.
The implication is, of
course, that since others
have done it before,
there must not be too much
wrong with it and Mr.
'Nixon is therefore justified
in what he did. He’s simply
doing more effectively what
others have done before
him.
Such an argument,
however, can be faulted on
at least two counts. We
need to ask, first of all,
when and where have such
dirty politics occured “ma
ny times before?" It is one
thing to make a genrealiza-
tion like that, but it’s often
times quite another to
support it.
So far as this author has
been able to determine
from his studies of our
political system, there is
quite a bit of evidence to
the contrary. When we
compare our system to that
of other countries, we can
see that we have been truly
blessed with an absence of
Part Two
Never Forget The People You Meet
Avenue. That was the best
work I could get. To remind
wide-spread and persistent sure of itself. We have a tion for his own illegal
scandals. In the long quite natural tendency to activities. The antiwar
history of our country we equate patriotism with movement in this country is
have been relatively free of loyalty to a given adminis- f “Never forget the people The script for what that “I met all those guys
dirty tricks. They have tration. Bu the two are not you meet on the way up, episode called for a skid about the same time," said
occure ,0 course, ut t e equa . a ove o coun ry nf Yale Tlniversitv because you’ll meet those row scene and several men Redd. “We used to hang me of those years, I keep a
only thing of similar does not mean that we give f J to play bums. Redd out in front of the Dunbar little gold Xmas tree,
proportion to have happen- up thinking, or that we fail who lead hundreds ot suggested to producer Hotel in Los Angeles and which I’ve had since then.
ed within the memory of to criticize those and the show Aaron Ruben that the show we were doing about as bad in my living room all year
people living in this which we see wrong. God philosophy of hire several of his old as human beings could, around. Because right now
generation was the Teapot help us tf this becomes L v^ar he Redd Foxx, star of NBC cronies from his lean days Usually, if we pooled all our I’m having Christmas
ome scan a o t e rue^ spoke openly against it,’and Television Network’s “San- in Los Angeles in the early money, we couldn’t have everyday.
become p V demonstra- ford and Son”. Redd fifties. Ruben agreed and gotten a dollar together.
tinnc flt which draft cards proved to several of the the men were hired. At that time, Redd and “Some of the guys we
people he met on the way They are Hucklebuck Slappy White had just hired for the show aren t
Over all we can consider confused and unable to
ourselves as having been render critical judgments
truly blessed as a nation because the government clffmTautht an *at he stands by his (Marlin Jackson), Jonesey broken up their comedy act doing much better now,"
pthirs pnnrsp at Williams philosophy during produc- (Ocie Jones), Nature Boy and Redd was having Redd continued, but I ve
Colleae As things turned episode, (Lee Andrews), Little difficulty getting club gigs, kept in touch with them
out Jeb Steward Maeruder “Fuentes, Fuentes, San- Caesar (Harry Caesar), “Around Christmas time, over the years. Sometimes I
took that course Said ford and Chico," which will Black Dot (Elihu McGee) said Redd, I used to paint go back over to the East
Magruder at the Watergate be colorcast Friday, Oct. 26 and Little Beaver (Gayle H. greetings on store windows Side just to talk. One of
/n n I.TV'T'\ DOOmS.)
with a disproportionate does sound convincing. The
number of honest and open government tells its story
politicians. from its own peculiar
But this lady’s argument perspective, and unless we
is weak on another, more are fairly well steeped in
important count. Even if we moral principle, we are
wanted to grant for the sake many times dupted into
of argument that we are accepting the line that is
indeed shot through with thrown at us.
dirty politics, can this serve We need to develop in
as a justification for more of our lives, as Madison would
the same? Do we really have insisted, such a
want to measure our tremendous openness and
conduct against the worst sensitivity to moral princi-
examples we can conjure pies that we are able to look
up? If we do that, then we at a given governmental Electricaf Engineering at
can measure ourselves by a action or rationalization and iTr,;„prcitv has
judge whe.l.e, i, “raltdedTg™,, of
for almost anything that we designed to serve all the National
might want to do. No, we people of this land, or only Aeronautics and Space
are called not to measure those who are interested ,n Administration (NASA) to
outselves by the worst that amassing power, privi- research in mic-
is before us, but by the ledge, and position. roelectronics and metallic
best. It simply won’t work An example of this can
to say that our own cvil is be seen in the way in which
justified by the evil wc find Jeb Steward Magruder tive year that this research
resident in the lives of must have confused a lot of
others. When it conies to people in his testimony at jy^^SA
hearings
hearings: “I saw people I 8-8:30 p.m. NYT).
Continued on Page 6
Wins $40,000 NASA
Research Grant
and down
The Department of
the kinds of misconduct we
see displayed before us in
the Watergate, wc simply
cannot approve of it as a
matter of basic principle.
ARROGANCE OF POWER
A major difficulty in
arriving at a mature
judgement of the Water
gate affair rests in the lad
that many, if not most of
us, find it virtually
impossible to believe bad
things about an administra
tion that sounds so
convincing and appears so
the Watergate
What he said slipped by a
lot of people -- even the
Senators on the panel -- but
people who have been
through the nonviolent
struggles of the Civil Rights
and Antiwar Movements
immediately saw the shal
lowness of his rationaliza
tions and justifications for
the acts of the Nixon
re-election committee.
Magruder pointed to the
antiwar efforts of William
Sloan coffin as a justifica-
The grant was made to
Leo Williams, Jr., profes
sor of Electrical Engineer
ing, who serves as the
principal investigator for
the project.
Dr. Donald Edwards,
professor of physics, will
serve as co-investigator.
Williams and Edwards
will be assisted by Darryl
Washington and Dalpat
Patel, graduate research
assistants, who are current
ly pursuing the master of
science in engineering
degree at A&T.
During the past three
years, Williams has con
ducted research on thick
film resistors. Thick film
resistors, due to their
ruggedness, small size,
light weight, high tempera
ture and power density
capabilities, and uniform
and economical fabrication,
find useful applications in
the aerospace, as well as,
commercial industries,
“As scientific probes are
rocketed to extremely
distant planets, for exam
ple," he said, “reliability
of electrical components is
of prime importance. Re
sults of the microelectronic
studies indicate that relia- BLISSFUL BRONCOS - Dr. Charles "A" Lyons,
bility concepts can be Jr., Chancellor of Fayetteville State
developed which will help University, happily kisses Homecomi.ng
to predict and monitor the Queen Lettie Williams during halftime
behavior of microelectronic ceremonies. The Broncos fans had to be
elements which will be h£'D"y after defeating arch-foe Winston-
subjected to extremely Salj.:. State University, 14-12 and mov-
adverse conditions." i;:ig into third p] ace in the tOMgh CIAA
football race.
Central the men said Redd usually
slips them money when
they’re in a pinch.
There are four men in the
skid row scene who were
not of Redd’s lean years
and one other who make
the lean years bearable.
Tony O’Dare is an actor
who was on “Sanford and
Son” previously and ac
cording to Redd, “was one
of the three white men who
were added to make the
scene realistic.” Another
white man was Shelly
(Sheldon Slusman) who is
the owner of Redd’s
favorite jazz club, The
Baked Potatoe! The third
was Louis Guss, also an
actor, who plays the
mission caretaker.
Jose Busby met Redd in
later years and was not
Continued on Page 8
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