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Forbes Selected Teacher Of The Year By ACT
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HIGH POINT - HISTORY OF THE CINEMA, Classic
feature films sponsored by High Point Public Library
first Thursday of every month Community Room, 7
p.m., 411 South Main Street.
"Learning Children's
strengths and weaknesses,
diagnosing and prescrib
ing, individualizing learn
ing and evaluating as much
as possible, and seeking to
guide and counsel the child
are basic procedural steps
in the fulfillment of my
philosophy.” HERMAN
LEE FORBES, High Point’s
ACT Selectee as “Teacher
of the Year”. This honor
afforded to Mr. Forbes may
well lead him to national
High Point Chapter of the
Classroom Teachers Asso
ciation’s "Teacher of the
Year”, he will now compete
in the statewide "Teacher
of the Year’’ contest
sponsored by the Class
room Teachers Association.
The winner in this contest
will represent North Caro
lina in the national
competition.
Mr. Forbes, a native of
recognition. For as the Greenville, attended public
schools there. He received
his B.S. from Shaw
University, Raleigh, and
his M.A. degree from the
University of Michigan.
Further studies, and he still
continues to study, have
been done at U.N.C.G.,
Greensboro; N.C.C.C.,
Durham; A&T State Uni
versity, Greensboro; and
conferences and in-service
workshops.
Mr. Forbes was one of
the first black educators to
instruct in an all white
facility in the High Point
City School System. Educa
tor Forbes' teaching record
is as follows: Sampson
County Training School,
Clinton, N.C. (grade 6);
Fairview Street School,
High Point, (Grades 4, 5,
and 6); Johnson Street
School. High Point, (Grade
6), Parkview Village School
(Grade 6),
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County Rally Set For Soul City
WINSTON-SALEM - Veterans and servicemen who
plan to train under the GI Bill this fall should act
promptly to receive advance payment of educational
assistance, the Veterans Administration urged today.
H. W. Johnson, Director of the Winston-Salem VA
Regional Office, noted that many schools open their
doors for the fall term in September, and tardy
notification of training plans could delay the trainee's
first check by several weeks. Gl Bill students returning
to the same school may notify their schools by phone or
letter, Johnson advised.
Authorized under PL 92-540 in 1972, advance
payment covers the first month or portion of month of
training, plus the following month. It was put into effect
last fall to eliminate financial difficulties some veterans
experienced while waiting for their first assistance
check to arrive under the former system of payment.
A single student attending school fulltime under the
Gl Bill receives a monthly allowance of $220 from VA,
while students with dependents receive additional
allowances.
Legislation is pending to increase these allowances,
Johnson said.
ENROLL NOW
HIGH POINT - First Emmanuel Kindergarten and
Child Care, 828 Leonard St. Education Building Ph:
885-0754 or 883-0568. accepting Registration: 3-4-5
year olds - Inquire about low monthly rales.
SOUL CITY, N.C. -
Citing a need for total
commitment and involve
ment in politics by Blacks,
Floyd B. McKissick ad
dressed a planning group of
about 75 persons here
Monday night, who con
vened to finalize plans for a
mass multi-county rally to
be held at Soul City
Thursday, September 5,
The rally, expected to be
the largest of its kind in the
area, will be in support of
Bill Stevens, candidate for
the United States Senate,
Attorney T. T. Clayton,
candidate for the North
Carolina House of Repre
sentatives, Leland D.
Gottschalk, candidate for
Clerk of Court, Warren
County, and Moses Smith,
candidate for sheriff of
Vance County. All four
candidates are scheduled to
speak at the event, which is
anticipated to be attended
by more than two thousand
North Carolina citizens.
McKissick, chairman of
the National Committee for
a Two-Party System and
founder and developer of
Soul City, told the
gathering that no party can
nor should take the Black
voter for granted. "We
must support the candidate
rather than the party. It is
imperative that we support
those persons who are
sensitive to the ambitions
and concerns of Blacks. We
can no longer afford to sell
ourselves and our vote for a
few dollars and a drink of
whiskey," he added.
The U.S. Senate candi
date, Bill Stevens, is
executive vice president of
Broyhill Industries in Le
noir, with a long history of
concern for Black citizens.
As the firm’s chief
executive, Stevens has
been instrumental in the
hiring of over 1400 Blacks,
many in management ansd
supervisory positions. He
was president of a day care
center for Black children in
Lenoir in the late 1940’s
when it was the only
organized day care center
in that city, and as
Chairman of the Lenoir
Recreation Commission, he
was instrumental in bring
ing about the total
integration of all recreatio
nal facilities in Lenoir in the
1950’s, Under his chair
manship, the recreation
program was a model of
integration and good re
creation far in advance of
legal requirements to
accomplish it. Throughout
his campaign, he has made
it clear that he is actively
seeking Black support.
T. T. Clayton is a partner
in the law firm of Clayton
and Ballance in Warrenton.
The group selected
McKissick as its chairman,
and named several promi
nent Blacks as chairpersons
and co-chairpersons of its
seven committees:
Entertainment Commit
tee; John Hawkins ot
Warrenton; Food Service
Committee: Mrs. Floyd B.
McKissick and Mrs. Moses
Smith, co-chairpersons,
and Ms. Shelia Terrv of
GREENSBORO - Dudley Flood, assistant state
superintendent ot public instruction, and second vice
president of the National Congress of PTA, and Mrs.
Carlton Watkins of Raleigh, national PTA membership
chairman, will be leatured speakers Thursday.
September 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the cafeteria of Smith
High School;
The occasion is the annual workship for P TA officers,
conimittcc chairmen, board members and school
principals, sponsored by the Greensboro Council of
PTA. Some 400 persons arc expected to attend the
sessions. Ms. Eula Hudgens, president elect of the
council, is workship chairman, and J.C. Barefoot Jr. is
council president.
Credit For Those Low Income
HIGH POINT - TARHEEL GHOSTS AND LEGENDS,
.lacquelyn Torrence, library storyteller known as the
Story Lady, will take pan in "Day in the Park.”
sponsored by the High Point Arts Council, on Sunday.
Sept. 15. at City Lake Park, telling slories to children of
all ages.
Mrs. Torrence is a specialist in lall talcs from the
Appalachian highlands, but is familiar with legends
from all over North Carolina. She has conducted storv
hours at schools, churches and librar\' pixigranis.
A member of the library staff for four years. Mrs.
Torrence has supervised children's and voung adult
services at Washington Street Branch Librar\ for Iwo
and halt years. A native ot Salisbury, she grew up in a
family of storytellers and attended Liv ingstone College.
HISTORY OF THE CINEMA. The enclosed folder
gives program notes on the coming scries of film
classics scheduled by the library each month,
September through January. Last year's successful
feature film events spanned nearlv 50 years of
filmmaking. This season it was decided to offer
selective fare from a more concentrated period, the
"breakthrough” decade of the 1950s, with the
exception of one film. Plan to attend. Ihe first Thursday
of each month, beginning Sept. 5. in the Coninuinitv
Room. Showtime is p.m.
by VIRGINIA KNAUER
Special Assistant to the community groups
President and Director Office of such courses: adult
Comsuner Affairs, Department education programs. Model
of Health, Education and Cities. Cooperative Exten-
Welfare. sion Service, Community
The credit picture has Action Programs, city or
begun to change for county consumer protection
consumers in low-income agencies and credit unions,
brackets. Look for these groups in
Until recently, banks and your telephone directory,
stores considered low-in- Work out an accurate
cone consumers to be a budget. List your exact
poor credit risk. Their monthly expenses for the
thinking was that if your next 6 or 8 months,
income is low, you might Will your monthly in-
never complete your pay- come cover all these
ments; therefore, they expenses and leave extra
charged higher interest money for emergencies? If
'■^ites. not, you cannot afford to
But recent pilot projects buy on credit,
run by government agen- Remember when you
cies and by private industry, apply for credit, a store or
ha\'c shown that low-in- bank will judge you on your
come consumers can be answers to the following
good credit risks when they questions; Where you
get training in how to work? What you earn?
manage money. What you do? A credit
Experts give these tips application also asks about
for low-incime consumers; dependents, wife's or
Learn how to manage husband's job, whether you
mone\ and use credit. rent or own your home, how
Find a community orga- long you've lived there and
nization that gives a course whether you always pay
in family money manage- bills promptly. Your ans-
ment. You will learn how to wers decide whether you
budget, shop for low credit will be reliable about
costs, establish your credit credit,
rating, buy on installment Study credit contracts
plans and apply for loans if carefully before signing,
thai is necessary. The Truth-in-Lendine
law says contracts must
give certain facts. Learn
what to look for by getting a
copy of the booklet
Truth-in-Lending Takes the
Wraps off Credit, which is
free from the Federal Trade
Commission, Legal and
Public Records, Washing
ton, D.C, 20580.
If you are turned down
for credit, you have a right
to know why. You can get
the reasons by contacting
the credit reporting com
pany that prepared your
credit rating report. Learn
how to handle this by
asking for Federal Trade
Commission's other free
booklets on the Fair Credit
Reporting Act.
If you ever run into
trouble meeting credit
payments, don't try to hide
from creditors.
Instead, go right to the
store or bank and explain
your problem: illness or
sudden job loss or whatever
else is the true reason. Ask
for help in planning a new
schedule for your pay
ments. Also, protect your
credit rating by visiting
your local credit reporting
company and explaining
your problem there.
Kittrell was named to the
committee; Finance Com
mittee; Spottswood Burwell
of Kittrell and Revernd W.
E. Johnson of Henderson,
co-chairmen; Publicity
Committee; Mrs. Margaret
L. Waller of Soul City,
chairperson; Vance County
Contact Committee; attor
ney John Banks of
Henderson and Mrs, Annie
M. Brame of Middleburg,
co-chairpersons. Banks is
campaign manager for T.
T. Clayton. Others named
to the committee were Ms.
Matilda Howard and Mel
vin Howard, both of
Kittrell; Warren County
Contact Committee; Ms.
Rose P. Ragland and Ms.
Lucille Jordan, both of Soul
City, co-chairpersons, as
sisted by L.D. Gottschalk of
Warrenton and Ms. Billie
Perry, Granville County;
Physical Arrangements
Committee: Moses Smith,
Henderson and Dave Gor
don of Soul City, co-chair
men, assisted by Maurice
Crump, also of Soul City.
During the course of
Monday’s night’s meeting,
the group raised over one
thousand dollars to offset
expenses, following an
observation by McKissick
that “it’s time for us to put
something into politics if
we expect to get anything
out of it.”
The rally will commence
at five p.m. and last until
dark.
Social
Services
by Liesel Flashenberg
The need for radical
improvement in the deli
very of social services to
minority communities is
generally acknowledged by
policy makers, service
recipients and those cur
rently delivering services.
All are seeking ways in
which to meet their needs
more effectively. Govern
ment sponsored and pri
vately funded programs in
areas such as day care and
child development, mental
health, welfare, nutrition,
education, recreation and
the arts, while steadily
growing, can all chronicle
specific cases of inadequate
and insufficient service
delivery systems.
The need to explore new,
potentially beneficial me
thods for service delivery is
acute. The Cablecommuni-
cations Resource Center
believes that carefully
researched applications of
cable television technology
may serve to improve,
enrich and significantly
Total Liberation
CARROLL CLARKE IS
ASSOCIATED WITH THE
AFRICAN RESEARCH IN
STITUTE, BROOKLYN
COLLEGE AND WAS A
MEMBER OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN DE
LEGATION AT THE
SIXTH PAN AFRICAN
CONGRESS.
Returning to the United
States, subsequent to my
participation in the Sixth
Pan African Congress held
at Dares Salaam, Tanzania,
1 am indeed encouraged by
the expressions of renewed
committment expressed by
numerous sisters and
brothers among the North
American delegation. This
committment generates a
strong spirit to continue in
the on-going struggle
designed to bring forth the
elimination of the social,
political, and economic
forces responsible for the
oppression of all African
Peoples. Inherent in this
renewed committment, was
an intensified recognition
of the need to pursue
indepth study and analysis
of the present political
realities facing African
Americans in the United
States with regard to their
goal toward self-determina
tion, and consequently the
total liberation of all
African Peoples,
One look at the numerous
books purchased at book
stores during this Congress
by these brothers and
sisters substantiates the
sense of importance identi
fied with understanding
through study. The reading
material encompassed a
wide range of serious
thought covering both the
theoretical and experimen-
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Via Cable
lower the costs of many
current delivery mecha
nisms. Funding organiza
tions, both public and
private, have sponsored
broad-based research into
the subject. This research
has generally fallen into
two categories: 1) All
inclusive studies focused on
‘‘service in general”.
These projects, while not
without value, rarely pro
duce enough specific in
formation to warrant furth
er study or experimental
demonstration programs to
test hypothese based on
gathered data. 2) Programs
designed from the beginn
ing to examine one
pre-chosen aspect of a
service to be delivered
experimentally via cable
television. These projects
often tend to be "techno
logy in search of a need,”
rather than the best
application of technology.
One example of this
approach involved the
installation of a broadband
system in a community
hospital network in the
Midwest for the general
purpose of "visual com
munications between de
partments and buildings.”
It was only after the
equipment had been in
stalled and in operation for
nearly a year that techni
ques for evaluating its
effect and defining its
specific use were formulat
ed.
Another basic problem
which has contributed to
the inadequacy of these
research and demonstra
tion projects is a pattern of
breakdown in significant
information exchange.
Those professionals in the
service areas usually lack
the time and resources
needed to keep them aware
of new technological deve
lopments that may have
specific application to their
needs. The imposition of
complex communications
systems on service projects
for arbitrary experimenta-
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"We must give our children a sense of pride in being
and the dignity of our present must lead the way to
black. The glory of our past
the povrer of our future."
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL