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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION REGIONAL OFFICE
Persons applying for headstones or memorial
markers for deceased veterans can get faster service by
making sure they use a new application form that
recently becamc available at Veterans Administration
hospitals and regional officcs, it was announced today.
VA Regional Office Director H.W. Johnson explained
the new monument application form (VA 40-1330)
replaces a similar Department of Defense form which
will continue to be accepted until supplies are
exhausted. Persons using the old form, however, are
cautioned to forward the application to the following
new address: Director, National Cemetery System (42),
Veterans Administration Central Office, 810 Vermont
Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20420.
A headstone or gravemarker is a\ailable for any
deceased veteran who received an other than
dishonorable discharge. The benefit is not available to
members of the veteran's family buried in private
cemeteries.
Memorial markers may be obtained to commemorate
any member of the armed forces who died in service,
and whose remains were not recovered and identified,
or who was buried at sea. These memorials may be
erected in private cemeteries in plots provided by
applicants, or in memorial sections of national
cemeteries.
Families eligible for the Veterans Administration's
Civilian Health and Medical Program (CHAMPVA) will
soon be receiving in the mail a new VA pamphlet on
these health benefits services for dependents and
survivors.
The just-published CHAMPVA pamphlet (VA
Infortiiation Bulletin 13-6) furnishes detailed
information on eligibility, medical services, and
methods for filing claims.
Copies are available at all VA hospitals, clinics,
domiciliaries, and regional offices, at the veterans'
assistance centers, nationwide, and at U.S. embassies
and consulates overseas.
Requests for the pamphlet should be sent to the
nearest VA hospital or regional office, not to the VA
Central Office in Washington. D.C.
CHAMPVA provides partial VA payment for the
health care of wives and children of veterans who arc
100 percent disabled from service-connected causes
and for the survivors of those who died of such causes
after leaving militarv service.
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU
Flimflam Artists: Ralph L. Sheppard of the Guilford
County Department of Social Services, has reported
that some ttim-tlani artists are attempting to sell bogus
insurance policies to recipients of welfare checks across
the county. "Don't pay anyone any money for
insurance for food stamps," he warned. Sheppard said
the insurance policies to insure the buyers against
being refused as applicants for food stamps arc
worthless. He said he was appalled at the flim-flam
artists taking advantage of the needy and poor, causing
them to spend money from their welfare checks for
insurance which doesn't reallv exist.
VOLUI'E II, NO. 9
vffireffiSDAY, JULY 24, 1074
15 CENTS PER COPY $5.00 PER YEAR
NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL
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WORLD’S LARGEST BLACK BUSINESS
BLACK BUSINESS HAS OFTEN BEEN
CHARACTERIZED, AS MERELY A FLY BY NIGHT
Now in its 75th year of company's leadership, a
business. North Carolina conservative investment
Mutual which had S200 in policy that has often
assets in 1900, today has brought criticism from
$1.7 billion worth insurance black entrepreneurs seek-
in force and $136 million in ing financial backing and a
assets. Operating out of its low-keyed, sometimes non
own modernistic 12-story existent, involvement in
office here in North social action causes for
Carolina, it is one of the blacks,
largest black-owned and Says William J. Kenne-
black managed companies dy. III. the 51 year old
EXPERIMENT TO BE FOLDED IN A COUPLE OF
WEEKS. ONE OF THE MOST CONSPICUOUS
EXCEPTIONS IS THE NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL
Also th
LH K INSURANCE COMPANY. IT IS PERHAPS THE
LEADING SYMBOL OF BLACK ECONOMIC
ACHIEVEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY.
in the world.
The route to the fop of
the black economic world
has been characterized by
tight family control of the
president of North Caro
lina, “We are conservative
in the sense that we don't
take unusual risks."
Elected president two
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MUTUAL PLAZA
CONTINUING EDUCATION
years ago, Kennedy e.\-
plained that N.C.M, "Take
a certain amount of risk,
but our feeling is that we
have an obligation to keep
the company sound no
matter what."
“Our role is not to
become involved in social
issues because we feel we
can do black people more
good in another sense -- as
an economic symbol. Manv
of our individual members
get involved in social
causes. But for the
company I think it
necessary that some ele
ment in the black communi
ty work from the inside as
much as possible."
North Carolina Mutual
has always invested its
policy holders' premiums
mostly in real estate
mortgages and bonds. It
never has put much into the
stock market.
The company recently
sold more than 90 per cent
of its stockholdings and
reinvested the money in
certificates of deposit.
The number of mortgage
investments has also de
clined in recent years,
although their total dollar
value has increased.
In 1968, the company had
27.8 per cent of its assets
invested in mortgages,
most of them home
mortgages. Last year this
dropped to 22,5 per cent.
During the last 10 years
mortgages have dropped in
number. Also the emphasis
on mortgages has shifted
from homes to commcrcial
developments.
Playing it safe probably
appeals to N.C.M.'s cus
tomers since they them
selves are often of a
dollar-stretching class-- al
though not necessarily by
choice. Since its founding.
the compan\ had depended
on the low-incomc black
wage earner.
More than 60 per cent of
its business comes from
so-called industrial policies
-- that is. insurance policies
that are paid for on a
weekly basis to an agent
w ho stops at home to collcci
a dollar or so. Most major
insurers ha\e dropped this
kind of business.
flic black wage earner
howc\cr. places a high
value on instu'ance. even if
it's just a small burial
policy. Today the average
industrial policy issued by
North Carolina Mutual is
$832.
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At Winston-Salem State
Safety Act Program
of the new created a new
emphasis on safety.
There is a need for safety
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Winston-Salem State U-
niversity has made a
commitment to the concept
of continuing education.
Broadly defined, continu
ing education includes all
post-high school training
except continuous full time
classroom attendance in a
degree grating program
during the day. Within this
broad definition, Winston-
Salem State University has
chosen to concentrate its
efforts in areas which
complement continuing ed
ucation opportunities avail
able at other local educa
tional institutions.
Late afternoon and even
ing classes are scheduled
primarily for the conveni
ence of those seeking
formal academic credit w ith
a degree as their objective
but whose family responsi
bilities or working hours
prevent them from taking
daytime classes. These
classes are taught by the
University faculty as a part
of their normal teachign
load and are attended bv
fullptime students as well
as those on a part-time
basis. The University
makes e\cry effort to
schedule a sufficient varie
ty of courses during these
hours to make it possible
for persistent students to
earn a degree solelv
through participation in
this program. Part-time
students are, of course,
eligible to enroll in daytime
classes if those are more
convenient to them.
Continuing education
students seeking to earn a
degree must meet the
University's regular admis
sion requirements - satis
factory completion of a four
year curriculum in a
secondary school approved
by a recognized accrediting
agency, or its equivalent,
and the Scholastic Aptitude
Test of the College
Entrance Examination
Board. Provisional admis
sion as a special student
may be granted pending
the fulfillment of these
Continued on Page 8
Homecoming
At Memorial
Wins
National
Award
FAYETTEVILLE J antes
E. Evans, Director of Bands
at Fayetteville State Uni
versity, was recently cho
sen by the College Band
Director's National Asso
ciation Meet at the
University of Wisconsin as
one of the first Blacks to
conduct at the annual
symposiu m.
Evans, a member of the
elite organization which is
composed of band directors
throughout the nation,
attended the meet in June
and July.
.4 native of Williamston,
North Carolina, he was
Director of Bands at
Livingston College. Salis
bury. N.C.. and several
high school bands in the
state before coming to
Fayetteville State Univer
sity in 1972,
Evans is a graduate of covered dish lunch
A&T State University and begin at 12:30.
is a recipient of the Master At 3:00. Rev. James W.
of Music Degree from the Ferree, currently pastoring
University of Michigan.
BARE FOOT TIME - When the (emperalure rises into the 90’s during Mid-Summer,
there is only one thing for Fayetteville Stale University coed, Deborah Balmcr, to do.
And that is - “Kicls her shoes off”. A native of New York City, Deborah is a physical
education major at FSU and wants to pursue her master’s degree in the area of
physieal theraphy. |FSU photo by John B. Henderson |
Driver^s Safety Program
GREENSBORO, N.C. - the preparation of teachers Barnett also indicated
Beginning in August, A&T in the field of safety and ,hat measures such as the
State University will offer a driver education, according „ew Occupational Health
new bachelor degree pro- to Dr, Isaac Barnett, and Safety Act
gram in safety and driver director
education, the only such program,
approved undergraduate “A&T has prepared
major in the state. more than 2.000 safety and supervisors in industry'.
Although the new major driver education teachers certain types of traffic court
has just been approved by and its program has served offlcials and for admini-
the Board of Governors, as a model for many ^trators for various agen-
A&T, for more than two colleges and universities in ^-ies within the state and for
decades, has pioneered in the Southeast," said Bar- ,hc national Department of
Transportation," he added.
Prior to getting approval Barnett said that safety
for the new program, A&T .pecialists can serve as
already had the only directors of safety for the
master’s degree program in schools, “Starting this
safety and drivers educa- fall," he emphasized,
tion in the state, the "schools will be required to
program being offered have the.se persons on their
through its teacher educa- staffs."
tion department. hc said a research team
In 1971, Barnett esta- of t^e North Carolina
blished a Safety and Driver
Education Center at the
university.
In addition to the
on-campus offerings. A&T
last semester provided
courses in the flcid for more
than 270 persons in
Concord, Durham, Hender
son, Moore County and at
the Gaston Community
College.
Barnett said there is a
tremendous demand for
personnel for both areas of
safety and driver’s educa
tion throughout the nation.
“For example, we can’t
begin to fulfill the requests
we get for driver’s
education teachers in such
metropolitan areas as
Baltimore and Washington,
D.C.." said Barnett, “and
these starting positions pay
Cbntinued on Page 8 $9,000 or more per year."
Homecoming at Memo
rial United Methodist
Church. 805 Fairview St.,
High Point, on Sunday,
July 28, 1974, will begin
with the regular morning
worship at 11:00 with the
minister, Belvin Jessup,
leading the services, A
ill
at St. Mattheus United
Methodist Church, Greens
boro, will preach the
afternoon sermon.
Born in Randleman,
N.C.. Rev. Ferree, received
the Bachelor of Arts Degree
from Livingstone College,
the Master of Divinity
Degree from Hood Semi-
nery. Salisbury. N.C., and
has studied further at
Union Seminary, Rich
mond, Va. He has served as
a pastor in the Western
North Carolina Conference
Department of Transporta
tion recently identified the
manpower needs for vari
ous traffic-related activities
in the state.
“They found 41 job
descriptions that are traffic
safety related,” he said.
The new A&T program
will provide instruction in
such diverse areas as
highway safety education,
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We must give our children a sense of pride in being blaclt. The glory of our past
and the dignity of our present must lead the way to the power of our future."
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL