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VOLUME 1, NO, 35
ftEll'IESDAY, JAiSlUARY k!3, 1974
15 CENTS
PRESS RON 6000
AREA SICKLE CELL PROGRAM
STANDSAT HALF-WAY POINT
Rev. M.C. White
Dies, Rites Held
Rev. M. C. White was
enlogized on Sun., Jan. 20,
1974 at First Baptist
Church on E. Washington
Dr. The Rev. F. L. Andrews
presiding. Others partici
pating in ceremony were
ministers of the h)cal
Ministers' Conference,
Knights of Pythians, and
friends.
The late Rev. White was
assistant Pastor of the First
Baptist Church in High
Point, N.C. He was a
Minister, father, friend,
and loved by all.
Order of Service
death always means sorrow
Selections by the Choir. loneliness. I commend
Scripture readings by
Rev. C.E. Strickland and
WINSTON-SALEM - The
Forsyth County Hospital
Authority, Inc., Family
Health Center, Sickle Cell
Disease Education, Screen
ing and Counseling Clinic is
in the 7th month of its
thirteen month U.S. De
partment of Health Educa
tion and Welfare contract
grant, in which they
propose to screen 10,000
persons for Sickle Cell
for Sickle Cell however, a consent form an unbelievable interest in
nYust be signed and an their employees' welfare
attempt made to assure and a willingness to
that those persons being cooperate fully, Rumph
everyone
Disease.
The approach being used
to accomplish their goals is:
a member of the program's screened understand why said,
outreach and community they are being tested. In the United States,
development staff contacts Similar steps are taken with Sickle Cell Anemia affects
these the individual groups, predominately black people
schools, colleges and nevertheless, Rumph feels
churches. that the whole community
Rumph responded to should know as much about
questions about the success this disease as they know
key persons
industries and organiza
tions and arranges for a
prescreening educational
presentation. This is usual-
gested in the early 1900s
and has come to be
accepted without anyone
really fully understanding
the precise mechanism by
which sickled cells provide
resistance to malaria. It has
also been postulated that
many centuries ago, mer
chants and tradesmen from
India deposited the hemo
globin gene along
Africa's east coast after
which the abnormal gene
Continued on Page 8
Rev M.C. White
ly in the form of a slide or of the screening operation about any other disease. He
Disease and educate the film strip showing followed thus far by naming a few of feels that their educational
total community relative to by a question and answer the companies that have efforts must be directed at
the significance of Sickle period, and the distribution supported the project to the medical and para-
Cell Anemia. of factual educational date, they include most of medical profession as well
To fulfill this contract, material about Sickle Cell the major industries in as the “lay" public - white
the program's director, N. Disease. Forsyth County, including and black people alike.
L. Rumph, and a staff of Following this, a date is the City of Winston-Salem, It has been theorized that
eight have been contacting set when the screening or Schlitz, Wachovia Bank Sickle Cell Anemia, which i
schools, churches, com- blood collection team is (main branch) Export Leaf, an inherited disease, w'as
munity groups, as well as sent into these companies Westinghouse, Western El- stimulated by nature as a
industries in Forsyth Cdun- to collect the blood sample ectric (both plants), the protective measure against
ty soliciting their coopera- which can be taken from school system and many, a particularly severe form
tion and support in their either the finger or arm. many more. Management of malaria fever. This
effort to educate and screen Before any sample is taken, in each concern has shown protective effect was sug-
E.J.
Rev. F. O. Bass.
Prayer by Rev
Love.
Tributes by Mr. H
Kirkpatrick and Rev. D.D
Mason.
Solo by Mrs
Conley.
Eulogy, which was
beautifully conducted,
the Rev. F. L. Andrews.
He spoke of the deceased
■■ having fought a good
fight.” Saying "1 have
finished my course, 1 have
kept the faith: Henceforth,
there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness. My
best earthly friend is
dead!" continued Rev.
Andrews. He was like a
God, who has
promised that, if we live
right, we too shall wear a
crown. “Good night, sweet
prince, and flights of angles
sing theee to thy rest!”
Acknowledgement: The
family will always-jemem-
ber and forever cherish the
kindness of the many
expressions so graciously
extended.
Mayor Howard N. Lee
Tells Higli Pointers
‘Become Involved’
by Albert A. Campbell direction. Moving on he
said, that he wished he
HIGH POINT - On last could say things were good
Sunday, Chapel Hill's - referring to conditions of
Mayor Howard N. Lee was this community and the
guest speaker for a nation. “1 have come to lay
community development it on the line.”
group at St. Stephens AME Getting involved, the
Zion Church. His talk was mayor implied, means
centered around three voting, helping others to
points of interest: (1) get registered and vote,
^ Brown has joined the Development Of Political giving up your favorite
father, a brother, and truly Fayetteville State Univer- power, (2) Development of television program, and
a ministerial comrade. ^^‘^ulty. Organizational Power, and attending council meetings.
He mentioned the fact Fayetteville State Uni- (3) Development of Econo- Get to know your elected
that he had learned much Chancellor, Di. power. officials. In this wav
from this “real man, who Charles A Lyons, Jr., Setting the stage, the communities can truly
knew what was coming, he announcement mayor attempted to in- develop the kind of power
M.R. Brown
Appointed
At FSU
Fayetteville -Dr. Myland
State Uni
versity Chancellor, Dr.
Charles “A” Lyons, Jr.,
made the announcement
faced it, he discussed Tt, he ‘'ecently. According to the fluence the citizens of High that's needed to get things
talked about it, he prepared FSU Chancellor, Dr. Brown p^jnt to become involved, done, he said. Continuing
for it.” He has taught us will serve m th^ position as carefully stated that on he said, we can no
/"I T-. . . means longer afford to sit on the
A&T
Given
$64,500
By Firms
GREENSBORO - A&T
State University's student
and faculty development
program has been enriched
by grants totaling $64,500
from several national firms.
The end of the year gifts
to the A&T University Inc.
Rev. F.L. Andrews
Rev.F.L. Andrews
Observing Sixth
Anniversary
all how to fight a good
fight.
He praised the deceased
for having had the forsight
of preparing to live as well
as to die.
He reminded us all for
those w'ho are left behind.
also
Chairman, Division of involvement
Social and Behaviorial sacrifice. side lines and simply
Sciences. Lee then said that he did complain. We are living at
The appointment is j,ot come to High Point to a time when people who
effective beginning the anger the people, but to complain the loudest act
second semester in Jan- share his thoughts and the least, and this is not the
uary, 1974. ex.periences which hopeful- way. If you fail to use the
Continued on Page 8 'y "'ill give a sense of resources available to you.
The Sixth Anniversary of wood Shopping Center;
were announced, this week the Rev. F. L. Andrews Member of the Legal Aid
by Marshall H. Colston, Pastorate at the First Board and Family Service
vice chancellor for planning Baptist Church will be Bureau; Co-Sponsor, Lon-
and development. observed January 23-27. don Woods Development;
Included in the awards Ministers, choirs and and Treasurer, High Point
were $20,000 from the E.l. congregations participating Church Housing, Incor-
DuPont de Nemours Co., to jn the observance include porated.
be shared by the univer- Rev. George Jones, East
sity’s schools of engineer- side Church of God of
ing and business and Prophecy, Wednesday
economics, and $15,000 night; Rev. J.E. Trotman,
from the Eastman Kodak Calvary Baptist Church,
you have no right to Co. for the cooperative Thursday night and Rev.
complain. If you do not education program. Ray McCluney, Gethse-
vote, then don t complain The Exxon Education mane Baptist Church on
about a member who was Foundation awarded Friday night,
electec by someone else $10,000 for the Department .^he Observance will
We must wake up the of Chemistry and the
School of Engineering. ^7 at 3:30 P.M. with Rev. J.
Howard Lee
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sleeping power that lies in
the Black community. Life
is not on television, but
rather in the streets.
Because things are well
with you, that does not
mean that everything is the
same with others. He said,
“Let us not forget those we
left behind.” Come out of
your shell and help others.
While going about the
task of electing officials,
make sure that only those
who will get the job done
become elected. We no
longer need the ''do
nothings” in office.
The government has a
responsibility to the people,
but only the people can
make it work. It isn't the
system that's bad, but the
people, and only the people
can correct this.
Bringing about unity, he
stressed, must include all
persons. The working
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Rev. Andrews is a former
National Board Member of
the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference of
which Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. was President,
and is a member of Phi
Beta Sigma Fraternity and
the Mayan Order.
The public is invited to
attend the 7:30 P.M.
Services and the concluding
Other grants received by ^ Service on Sunday at 3
30
the foundation included Calvary Baptist
$5,500 for engineering, Thomasville, his
business and chemistiy and congregation in
studies from the Dow
Chemistry Co., $5,000 from Andrews, a native
the Alcoa Foundation tor Alabama, re-
A&T's teaching develop- g 5
ment program,.and $5,000 Alabama State Col-
from the Ford Motor Co.
and $2,000 from the Quaker from Vir-
Oats Co., also toi the gjj,ja Union University's
School of Engineering. Religion, Rev.
The foundation also ^^^rews, a Ford Founda-
received grants of $1,500 recipient, stu-
each from the U.S. Steel Training
Corp. and the Consolidated Chicago and
holds an honorary Doctor of
Colston said the founda- Div'nity Degree from the
tion over the past few years Universal Bible Instittutc.
has generated over addition to Rev.
$613,000 from corporations Andrews pastorate, he
and foundation, and as the President of
$308,000 from the A&T Ministers' Conference
National Alumni Associa- ’f High Point and Vicinity;
tion. primarily for scholar- Chairman, High Point
ship and faculty develop- Business Development Cor-
ment poralion; President, Brent-
P.M.
WHO?
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