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VOm.IE II, NO. 19
ft'EDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1974
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HIGH POINT- The White Rose Chapter No. 157
Order of The Eastern Star recently held a fund raising
drive to assist with the biiilding fund and other
worthwhile piojects. During the special program, four
contestants; Sisters Aggie Eaves, Eudora Robinson,
Lee Young, and Ada Oueary, made their reports, which
totaled to be $1,0.36.00. Sister Queary was crowned
‘‘Miss White Rose 74” by the out-going Queen, Sister
Louise Dunlap. Program Chairman was Sister Eva
McQuirter. The Youth Choir of Friendship Baptist
Church were special guests. The program was largely
attended and enjoyed by all. Worthy Matron, Sister
Annie McCullough and Worthy Patron, Brother Walter
McCloud,
THOMASVILLE - Mrs. Ruth Chappelle and her
daughters, Yvonne and Veronica, visited their family,
Mrs. Margaret Green and Miss Miriam Graves of
Church St. Mrs. Chappelle is a registered nurse and
holds the position of Head Nurse at Sydenham Hospital
in New York City. Margaret is a senior at the Sacred
Heart of Mary High School, Bronx, N.Y., and Veronica
is a student at St. Aloysius Elementary School, New
York City.
Mrs. Doris W. Wilson and her daughter. Miss Lynn
Wilson, of Teaneck, N.J., spent a few days as house
guests of the Green & Graves family of Church St. Mrs.
Wilson is a registered nurse and a supervisor at
Sydenham Hospital in New York City. Her daughter,
Lynn, attends high school in Teaneck, N.J.
GREENSBORO - Concerned about your child's and
your own education?
If so, then Monday nights beginning October 14
through November 25 will be your opportunity to come
together with interested citizens and discuss your
concerns. These meetings make up the-
“Rural-Suburban Dialogue, Education: Learning in
Transition”. This Dialogue is sponsored by the
Rural-Suburban Council for all County residents.
Funding from the North Carolina Committee on
Continuing Education in the Htimanities and work by
many of your friends and neighbors has made this
opportunity possible. This seven week series of
discussions will be held at the Agricultural Center, 3309
Burlington Road, Greensboro from 7:15 to 9:30 P.M.
For further information please contact Ms. Wynn
McGregor, Project Director, (674-2318) or Rex Todd or
Barbara Israel, Community Councils Staff, (373-3172).
HIGH POINT - Oak Spring Baptist Church begins
their Reunion, October 6th thru 13th.
WARRENSVILLE - The Church of God will begin
their Reunion October 13. 1974.
GREENSBORO, N.C. - The Bennett College Music
Department will hold an Opera Workshop on Friday
and Saturday, October 4 and 5, in the Little Theatre at
8:00 p.m.
The performance of excerpts from operatic literature
will be rendered by voice students and members of the
Bennett College Choir.
Excerpts from the following operas include ‘‘The
Marriage of Figaro” by Mozart; “Carmen” by Bizet;
“Porgy and Bess” by Gershwin; “The Old Man and the
Thief” by Menotti; and ‘‘Down in The Valley” by
Weill.
Special guest performer is Miss Cynthia Isley, a
student at Dudley High School. She is also enrolled in
Bennett’s Preparatory Division.
HIGH POINT - A M iss American Pageant was given
by the New Hope Senior Choir. Miss Texas represented
by Mrs. Ruth Dumas was first runner up and Miss
Colorado represented by Mrs. Jessie Burke was third
runner up.
Miss Kansas represented by Mrs. Lillie Mae Crump
was crowned as winner. Mrs. Crump is a member of
both the senior choir and usher board. She resides at
615 Fairview St.
HIGH POINT - Selflessness was the rule, rather than
the exception as the City of High Point Parks &
Recreation Department quickly exceeded their United
Way Fund Drive goal for the second year in a row.
The first City department to meet or exceed their
goal. Parks & Recreation reported 100 percent
participation of all their employees in the fund drive.
One man who felt that severe family expenses
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Perhaps it is because no each case though, we have
one in the State Depart- been limited to European or
ment ever thought a Black Mediterranean areas. Syn-
diplomat could comprehend dicated columnist Carl
the Asian mind. Perhaps it Rowan was appointed
was because white Ameri- Ambassador to Finland
cans never sensed that under the late President
people of color in this Kennedy back in the early
World relate to each other, sixties. Under Lyndon
and not because of an
outmoded idea that top
Black U.S. diplomats would some of the conditions and
Perhaps it is because they Baines Johnson,
did. Whatever the reason,
there has never been a
Black American appointed
to any Far Eastern
country.*
This would not sound as
strange as it does, were it
not for the fact that Blacks
have already broken the
so-called African-reference
color barrier in some
non-African countries. In
Roberts Harris was the
Ambassador to the regal
kingdom of Luxembourg,
while Hugh Smythe served
as Ambassador to Malta.
Jerome Holland made
headlines when he was
given the diplomatic plum
of Sweden. All of these
appointments were made
because these people
adequately filled the need.
only be accepted in the
recently emerged Black
African nations.
Basil Paterson, the Vice
Chairman of the Democra
tic National Committee and
Patricia the party’s highest ranking
Black official, noted this
strange paradox on a recent
trip to Japan, Hong Kong,
Thailand and Macao. The
New York lawyer originally
had no thought of visiting
gain first-hand knowledge need special understand- James D. Hodgson in
about the Far East and ing. This is sadly lacking Tokyo and Ambassador
today.” William Kintner
Paterson also conferred kok. He later related,
privately with newly-ap-
pointed U.S. Ambassador
problems he had only read
about before.
Through personal con
tacts, Paterson talked to
government officials and
Diet (Parliament) members
in Japan and Thailand, He
met with Black members of
military organizations.
Black Japanese war-babies
- (who are now adults),
transplanted Black Ameri
can citizens who for one
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the Far East this year, until reason or another found it
Heritage Of Hope
HERITAGE OF HOPE is
a series of ten 30-minute,
color programs created,
written and produced by
two North Carolina blacks,
Evangeline Grant Redding
and her brother Gary
Grant, With the spiritual as
a thread running through
and tying together the
series, the programs aim at
"quality and positive black
programming,” according
he received an invitation to
be the lone American
observer at the first Asian
Conference of the Interna
tional Peace Academy.
They had put together a
two-week seminar at the
Foreign Relations Training
Institute in Tokyo, compos
ed of some of the foremost
authorities on international
to Mrs. Redding. “It gives peace-keeping, peace-
us a chance to define making and peace-build-
ourselves and give value to ing. However, it was only
what we are as a people, after the Deinocratic Vice
Financed by a grant from Chairman was in Japan that
the University of North he decided the trip would
Carolina Television Net- be a good opportunity to
work. Heritage of Hope can
be seen Tuesdays 9:00
p,m., on channels 4 and 26.
:See page 6 for this week’s
progratn.
more in their interest to live,
in the Asian community,
and a number of other
groups who receive very
little attention from official
sources. Although there
were individual problems
among the diverse groups
the Democratic Party offi
cial said one thought kept
recurring. “Essentially”,
he said, “American Black
expatriates working in
Japan, military men facing
racist and intolerant situa
tions and ostracized Black
former war-babies have
very special problems and
’sSijiiak.
Miss Pam Ewings, age 10, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Oliver Ewings, of Trinity, is THE TRIBUNAL
AID’S first 1974 Coiitcst Winner.
Pam sold twenty, 1-year subscriptions to THE
TRIBUNAL AID in just three short weeks. Her prize; a
brand new 10-speed racer for her efforts.
Congratulations, Pam!
Bennett Students
GREENSBORO, N.C. - • A key point emphasized
“Your degree is only one in by the panelist was that a
a million. You are the one College degree alone is not
who’s got to give some an automatic ticket to high
meaning to it.” paying, upper-level em-
Such was the advice ployment positions,
given to the young women Miss Kidd, a native of
of Bennett College who Wilberforce, Ohio, stated
recently attended a Career that she has been a news
Forum entitled “Black reporter for about a year
Women in the World of and came to Greensboro
Work.” Three young career from Atlanta where she
women informed them that worked as a receptionist at
it takes willingness to start a television station,
at rock bottom, a gutsy and ‘‘As a newly graduated
flexible attitude, and exper- English major from Albion
ience to make the high College (in Albion, Michi-
ground in today’s labor gan), my greatest ambition
market. was to go to Atlanta and
The guest panelists were plunge into a successful
Susan Kidd, news reporter career with dollar signs
for Greensboro’s WFMY- attached,” said Miss Kidd.
TV; Mae Douglas, admini- She recalled the disap-
strator for the Greensboro pointment of job hunting in
Commission on the Status Atlanta and coming home
of Women; and Edith each day with no promise of
Chance, administrative and a career,
corresponding supervisor “I was always confronted
of Ciba-Geigy Corporation, with the response “lack of
A fourth panelists, Amber experience.”
Anderson is a senior at Miss Kidd who describes
Bennett who has partici- herself as being very gutsy
pated in the cooperative and persistent said that she
education program. constantly badgered her
boss for a reporting spot
Preyer Assists Older Americans
was looking for.
She warned students not
, to be fooled by the glamor
of this proposed homes as they should. At ^ reporter.
legislation is that it would same time, they find it .5^^ suggested that more
help older Americans to difficult to compete m the black women are needed in
help themselves,” Preyer job market. behind-the-scenes com-
Preyer said that the bill munications positions.
“Home repair and main- would also be a shot in the “There are a very few
tenance costs rose 38 per a™ for the home construc- blacks who own television
cent in the last four years “on business which has stations, very few black
while the overall cost of been especially hard hit by commercial sales persons,
inflation. and very few black
cameramen, and photo-
He estimated that the bill graphers. These are the
would apply to about 40 per people who make televi-
cent of all older Americans, sion.”
Mrs. Chance stated that
Urged To Be Aggressive
she had been a business
education major in college,
but began her career as a
secretary in the typing pool
of a local industry.
“I thought this was
degrading for a college
graduate, but I needed a
job. I put my pride in my
pocketbook, wishing it was
money, and stayed there
until I was laid off.”
With little experience,
Mrs. Chance finally tried a
personnel placement agen
cy and requested a fee-paid
job.
“These are usually the
best jobs. They thought 1
was crazy to make such a
request, but 1 decided to set
my goals high.”
She stressed the impor
tance of maintaining a good
attitude and being flexible
enough to change.
Miss Douglas stressed
aggressiveness as being
essential to all women in
the work world.
“I too started out as a
secretary,” she stated,
“but then many top women
have,”
“Be aggressive. Black
women and women in
general tend to feel that
they can’t compete for the
same jobs that men have. 1
personally feel that each of
you should pursue any
career you desire.”
The forum is one of a
series sponsored by the
College’s Placement and
Counseling Office under
the direction of Mrs,
Zepplyn Humphrey.
Black Harvard
Lecturer At A&T
HERITAGE OF HOPE Producer Evangeline Grant
Redding and Associate Producer Gary Grant.
WASHINGTON - Sixth
District Congressman Rich
ardson Preyer joined other
members of the House this
week in introducing legisla
tion to assist older
Americans in improving
their homes.
ly people. income situation, they can’t
“The most attractive afford to maintain their
feature
The bill titled “Older
Americans Home Repair
Assistance Act” would
authorize jobs for older
workers w'ith low income
and low employment pros
pects in the repair of homes
belonging to low and
intermediate income elder-
living was going up 26 per
cent. This is particularly
hard on elderly citizens - 6
million of whom live in
substandard housing. With
inflation and their fixed
GREENSBORO, N.C. - A
Harvard university lecturer
Tuesday took to task those
economists who are saying
that a serious food shortage
will soon engult and
destroy the world.
“There is a world food
crisis,” said Samuel Woods
“but it has to do with the
distribution of food rather
than the production,”
Woods, one of the few
black lecturers at Harvard,
spent much of the day
lecturing on his specialty at
A&T State University,
where he was graduated
four years ago.
He currently teaches
principles of economics at
Harvard, where he is a
doctoral candidate. While
at A&T Tuesday, he helped
to honor Dr. Juanita Tate,
retired chairman emeritus
of the University’s Depart
ment of Economics.
The department announ
ced the initiation of three
special prizes for economic
writing to be named in
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