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VOLUME 1, NO. 40
WEDNESDAY,.FEBRUARY 27, 1974
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Citizens Participation
MaOEL CITIES PROJECT
MAY BE AXED JUNE 30
by Gaj Payne
Photo by Brian Montford
Oonno Walls With Escort Tom Sikes
Black Sophomore
Crowned Queen
At HP College
HIGH POINT-- For the first lime in the annals of
history High Point College has a Black Homecoming
Queen.
Donna Patricia Walls, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs.
Edward Walls, Sr. of Richmond, Va., is a sophomore
majoring in physical therapy at the college.
Miss Walls, elected by popular vote of the students
at the predominately white institution, was crowned
before the High Point-Catawba basket ball game.
After the crowning. Miss Walls exclaimed, “I feel as
if I'm the most important person in the world. I only
wish my mother were here.”
She received a standing ovation from her many fans
at the game.
One of seven children, she is cheerleader and
reporter for the colleges newspaper, the Hi-Po.
She was a contestant in last year's Miss High Point
Pageant. Due to illness, she was unable to compete, but
received the Miss Congeniality award.
An avid fan of modeling, she enjoys gymnastics,
music, swimming, traveling, creative arts and writing
and meeting people.
She is the neicc of Mr. and Mrs. John Green of Lamb
Avenue in Hit?h Point.
HIGH POINT Citizens
Participation, one of the
projects of Model Cities, is
in danger of being phased
out .June 30, with the rest of
the Model Cities programs.
Milton Stallings, director
of Citizens Participation as
well as many residents in
High Point feel that the
program should be kept
alive.
The purpose of C.P.
(Citizens Participation) is
“to involve as many
citizens as possible in a
decision-making process on
things which well affect
their lifestyles, as well as
a channel of information for
people throughout the city
of High Point," explains
Stallings.
"If C.P. is cut off June
30, 1974, then Model Cities
has failed because the
concept of citizens partici
pation is dead,” notes the
project’s director. Stallings
believes that Citizens
Participation has helped
Model Cities and without
the program Model Cities
would have failed. This line
of thinking is understand
able in as much as Model
Cities is a federally funded
project to help citizens of a
particular target area.
What is being done to
keep the program, which
Mrs, Viola McCollum, a
concerned citizen of High
Point, terms as “marve
lous,” alive?
VA Announces
Gl Home Loan
Rate Drop
WINSTON-SALEM- A
one-quarter percent reduc
tion in the maximum Gl
home loan interest rate
which became effective
January 22. has been
announced by H. W.
Johnson, Director of the
Winston-Salem Veterans
Administration Regional
Office.
Many hours of manpower
have been in to find out if
local residents feel a need
for continuation of the
program.
Also a petition is
circulating in the city of
High Point which recom
mends funds be available to
continue the Citizens Parti
cipation project beyond the
June 30, deadline. The
petition will be given to the
Model Cities Commission
and if approved will be sent
to the City Council.
During Thursday’s City
Council meeting Aaron
Byers spoke in favor of the
program's continuation.
When asked why he
favored further funding fo
the project, Byers replied
that, “the city needs this
type of project. Any city
does.”
“Citizens need someone
to help them and involve
them in what should be
achieved."
“Because High Point has
no middle class, there is a
need to link the rich and th
poor together. Citizens
Participation is that link,"
explained Byers.
Citizens Participation has
according to many area
residents, performed its
purpose and has at time
taken obstacles away when
other agencies could not.
“A strong concern and
power base is built up in
the community. There is a
grow'ing concern about
what will actually happen
because the citizens have
seen some great miracles
out of Citizens Participa
tion," said Stallings.
Exactly what will happen
to Model Cities and
specificially Citizens Parti
cipation has many people
stymied.
Mrs. Ida Covington, feels
that there is “certainly a
need to keep the people
close to the city fathers"
and to her thinking this is
one accomplishment of
Citizens Participation.
$195,000 Grant
Is Awarded
A&T State
Dr. C.A. Lyons Jr.
Dr. C.A. Lyons
New President
Of NAFEO
SCHLITZ SUPPORTS UNCF—A major supporter of the United Negro College Fund each
year, the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company recently contributed $10,000 to the 1974 drive,
Schiitz Chairman and President Robert A. Uihlein Jr. (left), presented the check to Bernard Director of Admissions.
W. Been, assistant vice president of the urban affairs department of the First Wisconsin P' ior to going to Howard
National Bank and vice chairman of the UNCF effort in Wisconsin. University he was Execu-
HOUSTON, TEXAS- Dr. Charles “A" Lyons, Jr..
Chancellor, Fayetteville State University has been
named President of the National Association for Equal
Opportunity in Higher Education.
Dr. Lyons' election came at the annual meeting of the
association in Houston, Texas, He succeeds Dr.
Herman Branson, President of Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania.
NAFEO is composed of more than 100 predominantly
Black colleges and Universities enrolling over 200.000
students in undergraduate, graduate and professional
schools.
In his acceptance re- tive Secretary of the North
marks. Dr. Lyons slated Carolina Teachers Associa-
that he was gratified at the tion, a position he assumed
trust his peers had placed after serving as Dean of
in him and pledged to work Elizabeth City State Uni
te make NAFEO the most versity for three years,
viable and forceful associa- Under Dr. Lyons' leader-
tion speaking for and about ship, Fayetteville State
the traditionally Black University has experienced
higher education institu
tions in the United States.
“These are very crucial
times for NAFEO- member
institutions and I solicit
your cooperation and sup- The Black Press in the 70s
port as we face, together, faces, along with all black
the challenges ahead of us
in higher education in
general and in Black higher
education in particular. Dr.
Lyons said. “I pledge to
you that 1 will utilize all of
the leadership talent we
have in this association as
we move forward to meet
these challenges."
Dr. Lyons has been the
chief administrator at
Fayetteville State Univer
sity since 1969. He came to
the post from Howard
University, where he was
Continued 'on Page ft
GREENSBORO - A&T
State University has receiv
ed approval for its second
major foundation grant in
two weeks, this one
$195,000 from W.K. Kel
logg Foundation of Battle
Creek, Mich, to strengthen
its business and economics
program.
The grant, largest ever
received by the fast
growing School of Business
and Economics, was an
nounced by Dr. Lewis C.
Dowdy, chancellor.
Dowdy said the new
funds will be extremely
valuable in assisting the
school with faculty deve
lopment, library services,
teaching aids and student
scholarships.
“At a time when the
School of Business and
Economics is pressing for
national accreditation by
the American Assembly of
Collegiate Schools of Busi
ness, this manisfestation of
faith and commitment to
our program is eyen more
significant," said Dowdy.
He pointed out that it
was the Kellogg Founda
tion which awarded the
university $200,000 five
years ago, which greatly
assisted A&T in achieving
national accreditation of its
schools of engineering and
nursing and department of
chemistry.
“Kellogg’s commitment
to providing educational
opportunities for the pre
dominately black colleges
and universities, including
the public institutions, is
one of the most heartening
developments in the nation
today,” said Dr. Quiester
Craig, dean of the School of
Business and Economics.
Easily the fastest grow
ing program on the A&T
campus, the School of
Business and Economics
today enrolls more than
1.000 students.
Discrimination
Charged In
Chair City
THOMASVILLE - Dewitt
White, a leader in this
city’s black community, has
charged discrimination in
city hirging practices.
Wilhite made his charges
before the Thomasville City
Council at a meeting last
week.
Wilhite told council
members that the NAACP
had requested that he
appear before them with
his grievances and that the
organization was prepared
to intercede should there be
no action on the part of the
governing body.
Kevin Gibson
THS Senior
Appointed
House Page
THOMASVILLE - Kevin
Gibson, 17, son of Mrs.
Dorothy Renwiek, has been
appointed a page to the
State House of Representa
tives for one week.
Gibson, a Thomasville
High School senior will be
the first black youth from
Davidson County to serve
as a General Assembly
page.
Davidson County Rep.
Bill Long recommended
Gibson for the post and
House Speaker James
Ramsey sent notice of the
appointment to Gibson last
week.
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Millions Depend Upon Black Press
By Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Executive Director
National Urban League
people, a time of testing. That
fruitful period of social reform
and advancement of black
citizens' rights we have called
the Second Reconstruction
seems ended, although it is as
unfinished as the First Recon
struction of over a century ago.
In times such as these there
can be no substitute for a
dynamic, free press that ex
poses inequities and educates
its readers.
It was the Black Press that led
the fight against lynching,
against police brutality, against
employment discrimination and
for desegregation of schools
and universities long before
these causes were even
thought of by white publishers
and editors.
The role of the Black Press In
this new era of struggle con
tinues to be crucial. It bears the
major burdens of the effort to
educate the black public to new
issues. It will have to explain
what revenue sharing is, what
the local process in deciding
expenditures of funds will be.
where the local power-levers
are and how they can be
moved, and what the black com
munity must do to get its fair
share of the funds.
It is upon that basic institution
of a free black press that the
hopes of millions ot our black
brothers and sisters will rest in
this crucial decade of the 70 s.
We must give our children a sense of pride in being black. The glory of our past
and the dignity of our present must lead the way to the power of our future."
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL