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\VEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1974
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Action Awarded $41,000
To Special Prison Program
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ACTION has awarded mission for students with a
$41,000 to the Mission of record of high absenteeism
Community Concern, Inc. O’" truancy. They also are
WINSTON-SALEM - Over 600,000 North Carolina
veterans and their dependents will now be as close to
the Veterans Administration Regional Office in
Winston-Salem as their telephone, announced H.W.
Johnson, Director of the Regional Office today.
The nine largest North Carolina cities will have
separate toll-free numbers. Residents in the rest of the
state may dial 1-800-642-0841. The Veterans
Administration will pay the long distance cost of these
calls.
Through this new service, callers may dial directly
through to the desk of a VA employee between the
hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
Johnson urged that veterans enter the proper
number for their area in the ready reference list of their
telephone directory. Those veterans or dependents who
have been assigned a claim number by the VA could
note it beside the telephone number and tell the VA
their claim number when calling.
“We were able to start the toll-free service for
Charlotte last year and it has been very successful. Now
nobody needs to pay a long distance phone call to reach
our office from anywhere in North Carolina," said
Johnson.
to operate an experimental
volunteer program in
Washington, D.C., using
prison inmates.
The special one-year
volunteer program will
enable the mission to
sponsor six inmates on
daily furlough from the
District of Columbia De
partment of Corrections
facility at Lorton, Va. as
full-time volunteers for a
year.
The mission is a private
nonprofit community cor
poration which provides
social, educational and
recreational activities for
low-income residents of the
far southeast area of the
nation's capital.
The inmates w'ill work
with approximately six
VISTA volunteers as coun
selors in a juvenile
delinquency prevention
A *1, -.u .1, , program. About 20 VISTA
Among the cities with separate phone numbers to the volunteers
VA Regional Office are. Greensboro, 274-1994, and
High Point, 888-7202.
GREENSBORO - Some 1,800 North Carolina
taxpayers haveundelivered refund checks waiting for
them" at the Internal Revenue Service.
Any taxpayer who has not yet received his refund
should call or visit his local IRS office, Charles 0.
DeWitt, District Director of Internal Revenue for North
Carolina, said today.
The dollar .value of the undelivered refund checks
total $500,000.00 since this year’s average refund
amounts to $270.00.
The most common reason for an undelivered chcck,
according to Mr. DeWitt, is that the taxpayer has
moved and left no forwarding address with the U.S.
Postal Service.
In cases where the taxpayer suspects his check may
have been lost or stolen, Mr. DeWitt suggested that the
person get in touch with his local IRS office so that a
tracer can be put on the missing check.
Some refunds may have been delayed because of
errors or omissions on tax returns, according to Mr.
DeWitt. Taxpayers affected should follow the
instructions received from the IRS in order to speed up
issuance of their checks.
TRINITY - Rev. John Mason and First Baptist
Church of Trinity will hold a revival beginning Sunday,
Sept. 15, at the 11 am Worship Service. The Sunday
Evening Service will begin at 6 pm., and nightly
through Friday, Sept. 20, 7 p.m.
The electrifying Rev. Richard Harriston, of
Columbus, Ohio, will be the evangelist for the week.
HIGH FUINT -On September 15, 1974, at the High
Point City Lake Park, the High Point Arts Council w'ill
once again present DAY IN THE PARK, its
arts/crafts/music event of the year. Being
co-sponsored by the City of High Point Parks &
Recreation Department, this year DAY IN THE PARK
will feature over seventy-five artists, artisans and
photographers demonstrating their crafts or displaying
their creations.
Beginning with a ribbon cutting by High Point Mayor
Paul Clapp at 1:00 p.m., and opening ceremonies
featuring a visit by Miss North Carolina, Susan Lynn
Griffin, DAY IN THE PARK will have something for
everyone.
Is music your interest? Day in the park will feature
music performed by the Air Force Jazz Band, an
assembly of the City's high school bands, and caliope
music. Or perhaps you would prefer gospel singing.
Barbershop Quartet: Both of these will be there, also.
Are you interested in history and the upcoming
Bicentennial celebration? The Tarheel Needlework
are assigned to
the mission.
The VISTA volunteers
have helped to set up a
tutoring program at the
working to involve potential
drop-outs in a truancy
prevention program.
The Lorton inmates will
work with juvenile offen
ders as well as high school
drop-outs. In addition, they
will help develop recreation
program for youth.
The purpose of the new
program is two-fold. First,
it will expand recreation
programs available to area
youngsters and help reduce
the number of high school
drop-outs and juvenile
delinquents.
Secondly, the program
will help to rehabilitate the
Lorton inmates and provide
them with marketable
skills.
Lorton inmates on work
furlough have assisted
VISTA volunteers at the
mission for the past year.
The new program will
enable them to become
official ACTION volun
teers.
They will receive exten
sive inservice training in
areas of youth counseling.
Italian
Airman Sergeant Henderson, an
son of education superintendent.
SAN ANTONIO
Randy Hickman,
Mrs. Mattie Hickman of was decorated for meritor-
241 7-H Phillips Ave., ious service at Bolling AFB,
Greensboro, N.C., has Washington, D.C.
been assigned to Sheppard He is now at Nakhon
AFB, Tex., after complet- Phanom with a unit of the
ing Air Force basic Pacific Air Forces,
training. The sergeant, a 1955
graduate of Atkins High
School, attended the Uni
versity of Southern Cali
fornia and Chapman Col
lege, Orange, Calif.
SAN ANTONIO -Airman
Jacob C. Williams, son of
human relations and pro
gram development. They
also will be counseled in
developing their own ca
reers based on individual
interests and aspirations.
Other ACTION volun
teers actively serving
prison terms are part of the
experimental Program for
Local Service in the state of
Washington.
Judge to rule
on Wallace
appointments
..MONTGOMERY, Ala. —
Within a few weeks, a fed
eral court judge is ex
pected to decide whether
Gk)v. George C. Wallace
has discriminated in mak
ing appointments to state
boards and commissions.
Attorney Morris Dees,
representing blacks who
seek appointments to in
fluential State Boards, ar
gued in federal district
court last week that Wall
ace’s record showed race
discrimination, because he
has refused to appoint
blacks to important boards
and commissions except
where federal funding re
quires it.
“Gov. Wallace pledged
segregation now. segrega
tion tomorrow and segrega
tion forever,” in his 1963
inaugural address.” Dees
said in a brief filed with
the court.
He said Wallace has at
tempted to rely on “good
faith” in justifying hLs a;p-
pointment record,
“His appointment of only
five blacks out of over 1,-
500 appointments to state
Continued on
HALTER TOPS are “in” at Fayetteville State University again this year and prett}^
Bronco coeds Barbara Wright, left, and Helen Oliver, model their latest “halter top’t
outfits. Barbara is a product of Rocky Mount, N.C. while Helen hails from
Fayetteville, N.C. |FSU Photo by John B. Henderson]
Employment Training Act
During his six weeks at Lackland AFB, Tex
the Air Training Com
mand’s Lackland AFB
Tex., he studied the Aii
Force mission, organizatior
and customs and received
special instruction in hu
man relations.
The airman has been
assigned to the Technical
Training Center at Shep
pard for specialized train
ing in the transportatiorr
field.
Airman Hickman is a
1974 graduate of
Senior High School.
The Comprehensive Em-
Mrs. Della C. Williams of ployment and Training Act
1597 Julian St., Greens- '973 (CETA), which
boro, N.C., has completed went into effect at the
Air Force basic training at beginning of July, marks
classroom vocation instruc
tion; on the job training;
work experience; and
transitional public service
employment- are not new,
the first instance of special the method of disbursing
revenue sharing.
Although the services
provided by CETA - which
include recruitment; coun
seling; testing; placement;
the funds - without any
Federal strings as to what
kind of services or how
much of those services
should be provided - is
new.
Gone are the categorical
grants programs. Instead,
states and local govern
ments determine which
manpower services they
choose to make available.
(For a summation of the
CETA legislation, see the
March Inter-ACTION or,
write to Technical Connec
ticut Avenue, N.W.. Wash-
Atlanfa Has New Chief
U.S. AIR FORCES,
Thailand -- Master Ser
geant James H. Hender-
j During his six weeks
training, he studied the Air
Force mission, organization
and customs and received
special instruction in hu
man relations.
The airman is remaining
at the Air Training
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son. whose wife. Joan, is Command base for specia-
the daughter of Mr. and lized training in the
Mrs. L. Woods of 2042 E. security police field.
17th St.. Winston-Salem, Airman Williams attend-
N.C.. has received his third ed Grimsley High School,
award of the U.S. Air Force His father, Lloyd E.
Commendation Medal at Williams, lives at 908 Shaw
Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai St., Greensboro.
AFB. Thailand.
Continued on Page
ATL.WTA — Atlanta
has a new superchief, part
ly thanks to an endorse
ment from former police
chief John Inman, and
heads have already started
to roll.
Reggie Eaves won the
job as superchief, head of
police, fire and civil de
fense departments, on a 12-
6 city council vote follow
ing wha.t officials have la
belled the surprise en-
dor.'ement of his appoint
ment by Inman.
Mayor Maynard Jackson
appointed Eaves.
The mayor and Inman
had been involved in a
fottf-month court fight over
Jackson’s authority to ap
point a superchief and to
fire Inman.
■Mle.ged “secret talks”
between the mavor, white
council members who
would have blocked Eaves’
appointment and Inman,
may have led to Inman’s
endorsement with the tm-
derstanding that his job
■would remain safe until
March,
City officials have ac
knowledged that Inman be
comes e!\gihle for a full
pension in March.
Some councilmen admit
meeting with the mayor
and Inman on different oc
casions but deny that any
reciprocal promises were
made in an effort to sway
the council vote.
Spokesmen for the
mayor’s office confirmed
that Jackson had made a
comment about a “clean
slate” over his differences
with Inman and that
Inman would be “judged
on the work that he does
henceforward.'’
Jackson’s office den es,
however, that the ma.vor’s
statement was Dart of an
agieement to win Inman’s
endorsement.
Eaves took office last
Tuesday and with his in
stallation six assistant
chiefs and John Inman lost
their titles and pos'tions.
Inma» *'as offered the
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ington, D.C. 20525).
The program itself is
being administered by over
500 ‘‘Prime sponsors.” The
chart below indicates juris
dictions, not offices. To
locate your prime sponsor,
contactthc chief political
officer of the governmental
unit which is the prime
sponsor. In other words, if
the prime sponsor in your
area is a state, contact the
governor’s office; if it is a
city, contact the mayor’s
office, etc.
Charlotte, Greensboro,
Raleigh, Winston-Salem,
Buncombe Co., Cumber
land Co. Durham Co.,
Gaston Co. Guilford Co.
Mecklenburg Co. Onslow
Co., Wake Co.
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Horoscope
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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