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VOLUME II, I®. 12
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1974
15 CENTS PER CXPY $5.00 PER YEAR
Full Employment Topic Of Urban League Conference
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HIGH POINT - The Oak Hollow Yacht Club held its
August Regatta on Sunday, August 4, 1974. Three
races were held with 20 boats competing in three
sailing classes. In Funboats there were three different
winners:
Jim Bleech in a Sunflower
Ralph Logan in a Whistler
Richard Cox in a Sea Devil.
In Boardboats, Glover Bedford won twice in his
Scorpian, and Tom Lauer won one race in a Sunfish.
Robert Phillips sailing a Day Sailer won two races in the
Handicap Class, and Neil Benson won one race in a
Wildflower.
Current leaders for the season are as follows:
Jim Bleech in Funboats with 288 points
Tom Lauer in Board Boats with 393
Bo Morgan in Handicap Boats with 482
Robert Phillips in the Day Sailors with 207.
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.,
executive director of the
National Urban League, in his
keynote speech before the
league’s 64th Annual
Conference in San Francisco.
Jordan called for black
leadership to “maintain a
continuing relationship that
could take the form of regular
meetings to deal with specific
issues and specific strategies in
a comprehensive and detailed
way.”
stressed federal job creation in
the public sector in such jobs
as day care, transportation,
health, education, safety and
environmental protection to
put people to work in
meaningful jobs at decent
salaries and to create “a good
society based on human
services and equal
opportunities for all.”
Speaking also on revenue
municipal governments (state full-time jobs, women, and
governements excluded) spent those who have given up
approximately 44 per cent of looking for jobs and no longer
their revenue sharing funds on register at state employment
public safety. Also speaking at offices. Blacks’ resulting
the conference was economic problems, she
Congresswoman Yvonne continued, are revealed, by the
Braithwaite Burke, (D-Calif.) fact that 30 per cent of all
who identified employment as black Americans, and 40 per
the major problem and major cent of all black children, have
key to a better life for less to live on than the $12,500
minorities in 1974, which the Bureau of Labor
sharing, Jordan called it ‘ ‘a new Congresswoman Burke charged statistics estimates is necessary
ripoff that takes federal monies that the U.S. accepts higher “for a family to live a normal
He stated that black citizens that should be used to fight
poverty and gives them to
localities for use in cosmetic
projects of dubious necessity.”
His observation was directly in
line with a report issued by the
Washington Bureau of the
National Urban League
analyzing the deficiencies of
the Administration revenue
sharing program. Entitled,
“Revenue Sharing A Second
Look” the report points out
that the local government fiscal
crises, which general revenue
sharing was supposed to
overcome, have not
tace “issues” of tremendous
complexity that can’t be dealt
with by a blast of rhetoric or a
march on the county
courthouse. If black folk are
not to be left at the starting
gate of the changed society
that is emerging around us,” he
continued, “black leadership,
including black elected
officials, should conduct
strategy sessions to coordinate
actions and to make hard
decisions about how best to
use the resources we have.’ ’
Jordan also noted that
levels of unemployment to existence.”
counter inflation than other To be meaningful to
industrialized nations could minorities, she said, a national
afford “without a revolution,” full employment policy will
and said the nation’s major provide “not just any
challenge was “to work ouFa ^ dignity and
system of government spending decent earnings.” She called
in peacetime which does not costly, more available
depend on defense spending transportation to the
for full employment.’ ’ suburbs, where the jobs are,
She said also that minorities and for the enforcement of
especially are suffering frojn affirmative action programs up
the nation’s lack of to and including management,
commitment to fujl She further called for a new
employment, and from emphasis on public service
inaction due to official employment, new job
been statistics misrepresenting the classifications by government
many of the problems facing alleviated or even adequately full extend of unemployment planners and increased federal
blacks “transcends race” and addressed. The report states Not counted in official data funding to train displaced
urged white citizens to end that a major reason for the she said, are the “Chronically
their silence and to join with failure of revenue sharing to unenployed,” many of them
human rights agencies in calling meet the challenge of local
GREENSBORO - Registration procedures and bus
schedules for system-wide registration day
Wednesday, Aug. 21, have been announced by the
Greensboro Public Schools.
Transfer pupils and those new to Greensboro who
have not yet registered may do so at 2 p.m. Friday,
Aug. 16, at the school to which they are assigned.
Assignments are available through the system’s
administrative office.
Beginning kindergarteners and first graders who
have not previously registered should do so at 8:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 20. Parents are responsible for their
own transportation prior to Aug. 21.
for economic and social
changes. He suggested that
minority groups are being
played off against each other
and called tor “active
coalitions that draw upon the
power of our unified efforts.”
Sounding the theme of the
Conference, ‘‘Pull
Enployment as a National
goal,” Jordan called it the
“Single most crucial issue
facing our society today.'" He
declared that ‘ ‘success in th( report shows that a full 23 per
battle to achieve guaranteed cent of the expenditutes
minorities including part-time
workers unable to find
workers, such as that currently
proposed in amendments to
the Econotric Development
Act.
Transporatation Institute Expands Its Staff
fiscal needs was the cutoffs of
federal categorical funds by
presidential impoundment or
by lowered appropriations.
Instead of providing new funds
for local governments, revenue
sharing money was used to GREENSBORO Nr
replace other dwindling federal p ■ ’ ’ ’ able to expand its staff this with the increasing need for lies. The increase in the
funds with a net loss resulting e past tour years, fall, allowing more exten- transportation by the coun- demand, on the part of the
to the local governments. the Transportation Institute research in the try's rural residents for
In a breakdown of general of North Carolina A&T transportation field. health social service
ZZl There will be an opening recreation and employ:
through June 30, 1973, the come a regional center for for a Research Assistant ment, more research hL
research and education in
students, for more trans
portation courses has
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the Rural Public and will be done in this
jobs as a basic human right for ($655) million was allocated to '^^‘'^portation. As a result Transportation System Fea- field.
On Aug. 21, buses will begin picking up elementary all who are capable of work public safety. The report continued support sibility Project. Until, There will also be an
pupils one hour later than the regular schedule, at decide whether the further stated that this,figure from local, state and recently, transportation for opening for a Reseirdi
0.10 t> ^ ■ ,. nation’s economy can survive becomes even more critical federal agencies, the Tran- • . ^ ®
Returns
From
approximately 8:10 a.m. Buses will start picking up
rising juniors and seniors f(pr Page and all previously
unregistered students at Dudley, Grimsley, and Smith
High Schools at 9:30 a.m. Rising sophomores at Page
will be picked up beginning at 1 p.m.
Dismissal times on Wednesday are 10:10 a.m. for
elementary students; 11:30 a.m. for junior students and
all students not previously registered at Dudley,
Grimsley and Smith; and 3:30 p.m. for rising Page
sophomores.
Those students from all four high schools who have
previously registered need not report until the first full
day of classes Thursday, Aug. 22.
Buses will operate Aug. 22 on their regular
schedules, which will be published in local newspapers
Sunday, Aug. 18, and are available at all school offices.
Elementary and secondary school offices are open
from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday thru Friday. Guidance
counselors at junior and senior high schools are also on
hand to assist students in the selection of courses prior
to system-wide registration day.
While only a birth certificate is required to register a
first-grader, parents of incoming first-graders are
reminded that innoculation records must be complete at
the opening of school in order that the child may be
enrolled. First graders and kindergarteners who have
already registered do not report until Aug. 22.
RALEIGH - A program to provide management and
planning assistance to minority elected local officials in
North Carolina was announced today by Governor Jim
Holshouser.
The state will backup a $50,000 grant from the
Department of Housing and Urban Development with
$25,000 in services for the program.
A position will be established within the State
Division of Community Assistance with the special
assignment of providing management and plannii.J
assistance to the «iine communities with minority
elected officials.
Assistance will be centered oh five major are i»:
Assessing needs; increasing citizen participation in
developing goals and policies for the communities:
training in management techniques: improving use of
existing information systems and developing better
communications between the communities, federal and
state agencies and the Southern Conference of Black
Mayors.
The Match Institution, a management consultant
firm from Washington. D.C. will assist in the project.
Two workshops will be held later this year.
The nine communities, are Cofield. Bolton.
Princeville. Greenevers. Mesic, Chapel Hill. Raleigh.
the post-industrial age.” Jordan
when
realized
that sportation Institute will be virtuallv iynored. Howevc
rural areas has been Associate with teaching
WmWm
and research responsibili-
Freshmen
« Arrive
Europe
FAYETTEVILLE - Fresh
men and new students for
the 1974-75 academic year
at Fayetteville State Uni
versity arrive Sunday,
August 18.
Upperclassmen and
transfer students return
Wednesday, August 21.
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Miss Congeniality? If a campus wide vote would no doubt win hands down. A
were taken of the most charming personality, Fayetteville State coed Patricia plans on
beautiful Patricia Lindsey of Fayetteville majoring in Early Childhood Education.
[F.S.U. Photo by Gilbert H. Foust]
Opens Veterinary Clinic In High Point
For years, Dr. Calvert B. friends are here and that was in private practice in cause of the many genuine
Jeffers, Jr., and his wife the South offers many Massachusetts. opportunities for those of
have wanted to come back opportunities for Blacks. Dr. Jeffers is presently talent and training. In the
'•Home" to North Carolina. Dr. Jeffers, a U.S. Army practicing veterinary medi- South, as opposed to the
Dr. Jeffers is a native of veteran, received his Doc- cine at the East Gate North, opportunities for
Winston-Salem, and Mrs. tor of Veterinary Medicine Veterinary Clinic, (formerly Blacks are much more open
Jeffers, the former Patricia from Tuskegee Institute in Peace Veterinary Hospital,) ... in areas of employment,
Wall, a native of' Albe- 1972. He holds Bachelors' 200 Greensboro Road, High politics, as well as others,
marie. This personable Degrees in Agricultural Point. My talents as well as
couple have three children Science and Biology from Dr. Jeffers, in summing training, affords me the
which they feel can best be Tuskegee. His internship up his assessment of Blacks opportunity to work with
University of and the South, said, the masses of people here
Jetfers return to home is Illinois, College of Veteri- “Blacks can, and will, in the South. In the North,
primarily based on their nary Medicine, Champaign become viable assets to the the same is not true.”
feeling that their real 111. For the past year, he southern community be-
Phyllis Mcbane, a recent
graduate of N.C. Central
University, Durham, North
Carolina, with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Recrea
tion has just returned from
studying Recreation and
Leisure Services in Great
Britain. Her studies took
her to the University of
Aston, Oueene Margaret
College, and Glasgow
School of Art. The tour
included all phases of
parks, social services and
the arts.
The tour was sponsored
According to FSU Dean by California State Univer-
of Students, John C. Jones, sity, San Jose, Department
all new students and of Recreation and Leisure
freshmen, after arriving on Studies, under the direction
campus will be officially of Dr. Nellie D. Arnold,
greeted by the Chancellor Miss Mebane is the
of Fayetteville State Uni- daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
versity. Dr. Charles “A”
Lyons, Jr. and will receive
further orientation and
instructions.
In addition, Tommie
Mitchell, FSU Student
Government President, and
Ophelia Blyther, “Miss
FSU” for 1974-75, and
other university officials
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C. A. Mebane of 1407
Wendell Avenue, High
Point
We must give our children a sense of pride in being blaclt. The glorY of our past
and tn6 dignity of our present must lead the way to the power of our future.
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