High Point
THE TRIBUNAL AID
Qan^id^o-ii. and (landaLfiU Qau.ntle-i
VOLUME 1, NO. 33
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1974
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High Point College
MEMORIAL SERVICE PLANNED
SUNDAY FOR DR. M.L. KING
Millions Planning
To Honor Dr. King
most significant c«^rations
ever of the Birtliday
Anniversary of the late Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. are
being planned across the nation
for January 15' it was an
nounced this week.
It will be the sixth consecutive
year in which millions of per
sons from all walks of life will
observe “Martin Luther King
Day” in tribute to the life and
work of the: slain human rights
leader.
IN HIS HOME city of Atlanta,
a gala Benefit Concert for The
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center
for Social Change will be
followed by an Ecumenical
Service, a Celebration March
and mass CoAimunity Rally. In
Los Angeles, another star-
studded benefit will be held,
while a special observance can
be seen nationwide on CBS
television’s broadcast of the
National Basketball Association
All-Star game from Seattle.
Community groups in
Washington, D.C., will be
pressing Congress to make Dr.
King’s birthday an official
national holiday. In New York
City, the Council of Chui'ches
and the King Center will
sponsor activities in support of
local human rights
organizations. And so it goes
across At^erica.
No oth#'*‘holiday” is quite
like Janii^ IS.
WHILE TMe na^nal holiday
legislation is pending in
Congress, masses of people
everywhere already personally
declare the date to be their own
NAACP
enraged by
ticket slur
to honor “one of history’s
greatest leaders.”
The result has been, in each
year since Dr. King’s
assassination, April 4, 1968, an'
increasingly massive out
pouring of activities and ob
servances — all dedicated to the
continuation and strengthening
of his nonviolent movement and
teachings.
“THIS IS THE marvelous
way in which people say they
will keep alive my husband’s
work and legacy,” says his
widow, Mrs. Coretta Scott King.
“By participating in this non
violent movement for racial
equality and peace, all persons
of goodwill on January 15 are
celebrating a birthday, a
holiday, and a movement day.”
Mrs. King is President of 'The
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center
for Social Change, the Atlanta-
based organization which once
'again is coordinating the
nationwide January 15
Observances.
A community-wide
service of celebration
in honor of the late Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
will be held in the High
Point College Audito
rium Sunday, Jan. 13
at 7:30 p.m. The
service will be spon
sored by the Ministers’
Conference of High
Point and vicinity and
by the High Point
Ministerial Alliance.
The Rev. Dr. King’s
birthday falls on Jan.
15.
Among those parti
cipating on the pro
gram will be Dr. F.L.
Andrews, pastor of
Fii-st Baptist Church
and president of Min
isters’ Conference,
High Point and Vici
nity; the ‘Rev. J.E.
Trotman, pastor of
Calvary Baptist
Church, High Point;
the Rev. C.E. Strick
land, pastor of United
Memorial Methodist
Church.
The Rev. Dr. L.H.
Hollingsworth, pastor
of Emerywood Baptist
Church; The Rev. G.
Roy Coleman, pastor
of St. Stephen A.M.E.
Zion Church; the Rev.
Charles Teague, chap
lain of High Point
College;
Rabbi Robert Sand
man, rabbi of B’nai
Israel Congregation;
The Rev. Jackson
Pyles, minister of First
Christian Church (Dis
ciples of Christ) and
formerly a staff mem
ber with the American
Friends Service Com
mittee. The Rev. Mr.
Pyles is currently with
Model Cities Commis
sion.
Soloist at ther Sun
day service will be
Mrs. Barbara Collins.
A community chorus
under the direction of
William Highbaugh of
High Point College will
present special music
for the celebration.
The public is invited
to attend.
Recordings of ex
cerpts from some of
Dr. King’s speeches
and sermons will be
played during the
service.
Dr. Hollingsworth
will deliver “A State
ment of Remem
brance.” Dr. Hol
lingsworth, who was a
religious leader on the
Wake Forest Univer
sity campus at the time
of Dr. King’s assassi
nation in 1968, called
the college community
together at that time
for a special service
honoring the deceas
ed.
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Men And Wo^men 9n
police field.
Airman Little is a 1972 '
graduate of Lucy C.
Ragsdale High School,
Jamestown. His wife,
Pamela, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lee A.
Kearse of 714 Kroll Lane,
High Point.
JOE N. LITTLE
SAN ANTONIO- Airman
Joe N. Little, whose
GARY, Ind. — “The hu- guardian, Lillie M. Hous
ton, resides on Rt. 1, High
Point, has completed Air
Force basic training at
Lackland AFB, Tex.
During his six weeks
training, he studied the Air
Force mission, organization
and customs and received
special instruction in hu
man relations.
The airman is remaining
at the Air Training
Command base for special
ized training in the security
miliating and degrading act
performed by the officer
would not have occurred
Iiad not the entire depart
ment been permeated by
discrimination, racial bat-
dred and bigotry.”
During his six weeks at
the Air Training Com
mand's Lackland AFB,
Tex., he studied the Air
Force mission, organization
and customs and received
special instruction in hu
man relations.
The airman has been
assigned to the Technical
Training Center at Keesler
for specialized training in
communications - electro
nics systems.
Airman Mitchell is a 1971
“New York in the
Thirties” is the theme of an
exhibition of watercolors
and pen and ink drawings
on display in January at
High Point Public Library.
The traveling show of 25
works by New England
artist James L. Montague is
on view in the community
room, daily during library
hours, through Jan. 25.
The show evokes a mood
of nostalgia, offering visual
reminders of New York City
as it was 40 years ago.
Some of the subjects
depicted are The Cloisters,
he studied the Air Grant’s Tomb, Wall Street,
the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand
Niarfin Luther King
Art Exhibit At Library
Mrs. Jeannette Stronig
president of the Gary
NAACP, was reacting to a
traffic ticket on wMch a
state trooper designated the
violator’s race a “NIG.”
Only three of the 850
state police employee are
black, Mr. Strong said.
Force basic training.
graduate of Walter Hmes
Page High School. His ^om-
w.fe, Lois, is the daughter Lackland AFB,
ot Mrs. Louise Holcombe,
412 Beech St., Greensboro. Tex.
Mrs. Mitchell’s father. Force mission, organization
William Holcombe, resides and customs and received Central Station and the
at 1501 McConnell Road, special instruction in hu- George Washington Bridge
Greensboro. man relations. when it was under
TERRY E. JACKSON >, u construction.
The airman has been ,
, . , I he artist studied at the
SAN ANTONIO-Airman Art Students League in
A.B. degree from Dart- the Military Academy at
mouth College and did art West Point. Now a resident
, ^ , of Vermont, the artist is
work for Newsweek and ... r
director of the Southern
Travel magazine. His ,, ^ a . ^ ^
^ Vermont Art Center.
paintings are represented The exhibition is circulat-
in major collections in the ed by the Old Bergen Art
United States, including Guild of Bayonne, N.J.
Only 239 hold top jobs
with U.S. government
WILLIAM L. MITCHELL
SAN ANTONIO- Airman
William L. Mitchell, son of t ' ' r t f ri t
Mr. and Mrs. Willie L. Terry E. Jackson, son of 1 raming center at Lhanute ^ew York with Nicolaides,
Mitchell of Rt. 2, Greens- Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. for specialized training in in Paris with Fernand Leger
boro, hfls been 3,ssi§ncd to Jflckson of 1005 Row St., aircraft maintcn3.ncc.
Keesler AFB, Miss., after Winston-Salem, has been Airman Jackson is a 1973 York with
completing Air Force basic assigned to Chanute AFB, graduate of R.J. Reynolds DuBois.
training. W" after completing Air High School.
NEW YORK, N.Y. - As
oif Dec. 1, there were only
239 blacks holding top level
poisitions in the executive
branch of the federal gov
ernment out of more than
11,000 such positions — in
other words, blacks hold a
little mor« than 2 per cent
of these primfe jobs.
This informatioin compiled
ment, and now, non^white-s
constitute 23 per cent of all
the federal bureaucracy.
But as the magazine list
indicates, at the top level or
“siiper grades,” blacks
hol(j little more than 2 per
cent of these positionj.".
Blacks are djisicributed
unevenly in these top posi-
by Black Ente^ise Maga- tions. State. Health. E^uca-
and Ozenfant, and in New
Guy Pene
Montague received his
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Board approves school
for teenage dropouts
zine. can be found in its
January issue v/hich deals
with politics.
Black Ent€'rprise Mai?a-
zine cointends that a major
reason for the government’s
failu'.'e to employ more
biack.s in high level posi
tions is the lack of pressure
from outside sources to do
so.
After World War II,
b’ac'.iS in in'Creasinf! num
bers gained well payins,
but low level, civil service
jobs in the federal govera-
tion and Welfare, Housing
and Unban DeveJopment
and Transportation depart
ments have rela/tively la'ge
numbers of blacks at the
executive level while at the
Department! of Commerce,
Interior snd Defense,
blacks hold le's than 1 per
cemt of the top po'ition-.
The study concludes that
blacks are si‘.i!l far from
gaj!ning their fair share of
t'/'> fej’eral governiment’s
be‘ter paying, more respon
sible top-level jobs.
FSU Receives Grant
CH.'^RLOTTE - A night
school for teenage dropouts
set to begin on Feb. 4 and
scheduled to operate on - a
voluntary basis has re
ceived the approval of the
Charlotte-Mechlenburg
board of education.
The school, for stuisnts
who for personal, family or
financial reasons dropped
out of the daytime school
program, will be built at
830 S. Independence Blvd.,
on the downtown Metropoli
tan Campus.
Students who are 16, 17
and 18 years old are ex
pected to attend the in
stitution.
Subjects which the school
may offer include auto me
chanics, health occupations,
food services, language
arts, cosmetology, math,
science and cabinetmaking.
^Vhen students who have
completed the courses go
back to the regular daytime
schools, they will be given
credit toward graduation
for those courses.
State and local funds
amounting to $95,600 will fi
nance the school for a six-
month period.
FAYEITEVILLE - The
Business Administration
Department of Fayetteville
State University has receiv
ed a $1,000.00 Departmen
tal Assistance Grant from
the Gulf Oil Foundation.
A spokesman for the
University said that the
grant will be used for
educational programs with
in the Business Administra
tion Department.
The purpose of Depart
mental Assistance Grants is
to further special projects
proposed by selected de
partments in colleges and
universities.
This makes a total of
$4,500 that FSU has
received from Gulf.
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