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VOLUME 11, NO. 39
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1975
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THE NEW FACE OF SCOUTING
Week’s
Capsule
by Alfred Hinson
NATIONAL
President Ford will nominate Carla Anderson Hills to
be the new secretary of Housing and Urban
Development, White House sources announced on
Thursday. Mrs. Hills is now serving as assistant
attorney general in charge of the civil division of the
Justice Department. If her nomination is accepted,
Mrs. Hills will be the third woman in the nation’s
history to hold a Cabinet post.
Sen. William Proxmire has already voiced his
opposition to the nomination by saying that “Mrs. Hills
is an able and intelligent person - but she has
absolutely no known qualifications for the job.”
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Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was
hospitalized last week with a respiratory infection.
Marshall, 66, was named to the Supreme Court by the
late President Lyndon B. Johnson. He is the first Black
to be named to the high court.
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas is also
hospitalized after suffering from a stroke in December.
Though his condition is listed as satisfactory, it is
unlikely that either he or Justice Marshall will be on the
bench when the court reconvenes.
STATE
President Ford's release of impounded federal
highway funds will mean a minimum of $75 million in
additional road construction money for the State of
North Carolina, according to Gov. Holshouser. Most of
this money is to be spent on interstate highway system
projects.
A recent “fad” has caused many college and high
school students to decorate their rooms with highway
and road signs. The state Senate last week passed and
sent to the House a bill that would authorize $500 fines
and six months in jail as penalties for stealing or
possessing a state highway sign.
Cooperative agreements have been made by certain
community colleges and four-year institutions to
community colleges, during this academic year,
according to B.L. Anderson, Director of the College
Transfer Division, Department of Community
Colleges.
Approximately two million letters soliciting funds for
the defense of Joan Little have been sent out by Julian
Bond’s Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery,
Alabama. Miss Little is a 20-year-old black who has
been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of
62-year-old jailer, Clarence Alligood.
Miss Little’s attorneys contend that Alligood was
attempting to rape her and that she stabbed him in
self-defense. The case now has national significance in
that civil rights and women’s rights groups are anxious
to see that justice is done.
LOCAL
GREENSBORO
Approximately 50 recruiters from school systems in
North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, and Massachusetts
interviewed students at A&T for possible teaching
positions within their respective school system on
February 14, 1975. Most of the recruiters indicated that
their respective systems were hiring fewer teachers,
but prospects were good for applicants majoring in
industrial arts, chemistry, earth science, reading, or if
one is a minority.
According to W.L Morris, more than 2500 interviews
were conducted during this day.
High Point- The Boy Scouts of America have changed.
What used to be a basically w'hite, middle class
movement, has now emerged into a viable force for
social change, dedicated to involving a ’’representative
sample of all American youth.” The ideals of Scouting
have not changed. Character building, citizenship
training, and mental and physical fitness are still the
end product. It is who they get there that is different.
To reach this goal of a large number of representative
youth, many new programs have been initiated, and
many older ones re-emphasized. There is Scouting for
the mentally handicapped, physically handicapped,
rural youth, urban youth, inner city youth, ghetto
youth, youth in jails and detention homes, migratory
farm youth, American Indians, the Appalachian poor,
Spanish-American, all socio-economic groups, and of
course, the black populace. And these types of Scout
troops and Cub packs are not just a few isolated boys.
There are literally thousands who t"it these catagories.
Being the largest youth organization in the world, this
is not surprising. For example:
Over 28% of the Scouts in ths country are black, a
number not yet totally representative as regards
population, but nevertheless, one which is growing
rapidly. Twenty-one percent are from city and
inner-city areas, and 22% from the rural section.
Mobile Scouting, i.e., some type of van or small
trailer, is widely use. The Sam Houston Area Council in
Texas serves over 700 inner-city boys in over 20 Scout
Troops simply by pulling a trailer from one location to
another and holding the Scout meetings right on the
street corner.
Block Scouting has been developed to offer a
spontaneous meeting place within ’’block” areas where
an adult serves as the leader.
Uniform ’’banks” have been established in
conjunction with such agencies as Goodwill.
Incorporated, the Salvation Army, Women’s Service
Boards, etc., to offer free or low cost uniforms, new and
used, to boys who otherwise would be left out because
they could not afford a uniform.
Drug programs have been established. Operation
“Reach” tries to put a boy in touch with another boy
who may be into drugs, and to then lead him to help,
thus eliminating the traditional ’’authority figure”
associated with drug rehabilitation.
Pollution programs that are directed especially at the
cities. Last year 2,000,000 Scouts cleaned up more than
a million tons of litter, thereby diverting large sums of
local government funds from trash collecting into more
people-oriented city projects.
Career interest area, covering everything from
atomic energy to truck driving to masonry to electronics
have been designed through the new merit badge
program; almost 130 total.
More Scout Troops are being formed in the nation’s
inner-cities than any other kind of boys groups. They’re
concentrating on such things as inner city survival, how
to handle the pusher, reading subway maps, “Ghetto
Gunners” basketball teams, “Try a job week,” political
action and consumer rights.
The advancement requirements have been changed.
It used to be that a boy had to have a swimming
lifesaving merit badge to get the Eagle rank. Now he
can substitute “Emergency Preparedness” for it.
Instead of treating snake bites, they’re learning how to
treat rat bites, get out of burning buildings, and how to
react to natural disasters.
Scouts in New York City recently went on a “Subway
Derby,” racing through the subway maze against the
clock, and some troops have abandoned the traditional
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Reidsville Man In Pearl Harbor
Seaman Charles Graves,
son of Mrs. Dorothy L.
Graves, of Reidsville, North
Carolina, has a unique job
in the Navy. He operates
Navy tour boatsto and from
the USS Arizona Memorial
for thousands of visitor
from around the world who
come to see the historic
shrine in Pearl harbor,
Hawaii every year.
As a member of the boat
crew making daily shuttles lot of people. He has a very
“Charlie” gets to meet a important job in the Navy
A&7 Students Going Abroad
Greensboro- Two A&T
State University students
are among a team of 12
college students selected to
participate in a six-month
internship program in
Africa and Indonesia under
the sponsorship of the
Agency for International
Development.
A&T coordinates the
student program for the
AID to provide future
leadership in the field of
international economicb.
Under the project, Pat
ricia Everett went tf
Tanzania, and Sharon Hale
went to Indonesia.
Other students will
spend their work-study tour
in Morocco, a Faire Mali
and Thailand. All of the
students underwent at A&T
intensive training in inter
national economics.
They left Greensboro
Feb. 10 for Washington,
Blraclal Politics
At NCSU
Raleigli- Bi-racial politics
will be examined Feb. 20 at
North Carolina State Uni
versity during the second of
a three-part symposia. The
session is scheduled for
7:30 p.m. in Poe Hall
Auditorium.
Entitled “Blacks in
Southern History,” the
trilogy is sponsored by the
School of Liberal Arts,
under the direction of the
Department of History.
Participants will be
Lawanda Cox of Hunter
College, co-author of “Po
litics, Principle & Pre
judice, 1865-66: Dilemma
of Reconstruction Amer
ica”; Sheldon Hackney of
Princeton University, who
wrote “Populism to Pro-
gressivism in Alabama”
and Dan T. Carter of Emory
University whose “Scotts-
boro: A Tragedy of the
American South” was
published in 1969.
Helen G. Edmonds of
North Carolina Central
University will be modera
tor.
The public is invited to
attend. The third and final
symposium will be Mon
day, April 7, when authors
Robert W. Fogel and
Eugene D. Genovese will
be featured.
D.C.* where they received
State Department and AID
briefings before going
overseas.
“The idea of this
project,” said Dr. Sidney
Evans, “is to encourage
more minorities to become
interested in the economic
development of foreign
countries.”
Evans, chairman of the
Department of Economics
at A&T, said the college
students will spend five or
more months attached to a
local mission of A&T AID.
While abroad, they will
actually work on problems
of their host country under
the supervision of a.
professional staff member.
The AID program was
open to juniors and seniors
majoring or minoring in
economics or agricultural
economics.
While abroad, the stu
dents are paid and many
receive college credits for
their experiences.
“We hope when they
return,” said Evans, “they
will become more involved
in economics and will see
greater applications for the
theories of economics.
and he enjoys doing it.
Graves entered the Naval
service from Reidsville in
November, 1971. After
completing basic training in
Great Lakes, Illinois, he
was initially assigned to a
repair division at the Naval
Station in Pearl Harbor,
rebuilding boats and ser
vicing as a member of the
harbor patrol.
Since September, 1973,
Graves has been working as
an operator on the
Navy-operated tour boats.
He also narrates events of
the Pearl Harbor attack.
When asked what made
him decide to join the Navy
Graves said, “I was the
only child in my family and
felt confined. I wanted to
see other parts of the world
and to experience life
aboard ship. The Navy gave
me that opportunity. I’m
glad I came in, especially
now, when getting a job on
the outside is difficult. I like
what I’m doing and have no
complaints.”
Members Appointed
To Sickle Cell Council
Kaleigh- Governor Jim
Holshouser today announ
ced the appointment of
three new members to the
Council on Sickle Cell
Syndrome.
The new members are
Ms. Ivestia H. (Peggy)
Beckwith of Charlotte,
Nathaniel Leo Rumph of
Winston-Salem, and Leo
Bradshaw of Greensboro.
Members on the Council
serve at the pleasure of the
Governor, rather than fixed
WSSU Receives Grant
Carl Chavis Membership
Meeting Held
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Continued on Pag:e 2
The Carl Chavis VMCA held its membership
enrollment and campaign meeting on Tuesday evening,
February 18, 1975. Campaign Committee Members,
left to right are: Thomas E. Moore, Isaac Watson, Rev.
J.E. Trotman, and Rev. J.L Thompson.
Winston-Salem- Dr. Wil-
veria Atkinson, Director of
Project Strengthen at
Winston-Salem State Uni
versity, has announced the
receipt of a grant by Dr.
William Dodge, Assistant
Professor of Biology, one of
the project’s research
investigators. Dr. Dodge
has received $52,190 from
the Kate B, Reynolds
Health Care Trust for a
biomedical research project
for students and faculty at
WSSU. The grant is for a
three year period beginning
March 1, 1975 and ending
February 28, 1978. He will
receive $19,406 for 1975-
1976, $16,356 for 1976-1977
and $16,428 for 1977-1978.
Dr. Dodge was the
recipient of a research
grant from the Forsyth
Cancer Service earlier in
the academic year for his
work with white blook cells.
He is studying the
mechanisms which conlrql
Continaed on Paee 3
Mai Goode
At Shaw
Raleigh- mal Goode, the
first Black news correspon
dent to work for a major
television network will
appear at Shaw University
March 2-7 for a series of
public speeches, work
shops, and classroom
lectures.
Goode’s appearance is
sponsored by the Lilly
Endowment and the Wood
row Wilson National Fel
lowship Foundation.
Goode, a native of
Virginia, joined ABC News
Continued on Page 6
terms.
Ms. Beckwith has been
executive director of the
Association for Sickle Cell
disease for Charlotte-
Mecklenburg, Inc., since
1972. She attended Bennett
College in Greensboro,
Brooklyn College, City
College of New York, and
Miles College in Alabama.
She has also completed a
training course for sickle
cell counseling at Central
Piedmont Community Col
lege and a post-graduate
curse on sickle cell disease
at Howard University.
Ms. Beckwith formerly
worked as a research
assistant with the Charlotte
Model Neighborhood Com
mission and as assistant in
university relations and
secretary to the director of
public relations at Johnson
C. Smith Universitv. She is
a member of the Board of
Directors of the National
Association for Sickle Cell
Disease and the First
United Presbyterian
Church. She assisted in the
production and appeared
on a Charlotte television
special entitled “Sickle Cell
-- A Closer Look.”
Rumph is program direc
tor for the sickle cell
disease screening program
at Forsyth Memorial Hos
pital. He attended the Fort
Valley State College in
Georgia, Northwest INsti-
tute of Medical Technol
ogy, and Forsyth Technical
Institute, He serves on the
Board of Directors of the '
Forsyth Mental Health
Association, and the Board
of Directors of the Council
on Drug Abuse, and is a
member of the St.
Stephen’s Episcopal
Church. Rumph and his
wife, Cordelia, have three
children.
Bradshaw is executive
director and organizer of
the Triad Sickle Cell
Anemia Foundation. He
attended A&T State
University, and is currently
enrolled in Shaw Univer
sity’s University Without
Walls program. He is a
member of the Board of
Directors of Catholic Char
ities of the Diocese of
Charlotte, organizer and
treasurer of the North
Carolina Catholics for
Renewal, and member of
the Board of Directors of
Birthright. He belongs to
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
in Greensboro. Bradshaw
and his wife have ten
children.
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