MUCH NEEDED COURSE OF ACTION
by Sandra Hill
REIDSVILLE - On March 10, a Black
civil organization, the Fellows Club,
presented the City Recreation Commis
sion with a list of improvements needed
at Lowe’s Community Center, the city’s
only recreational building located in a
Black neighborhood.
The group’s spokesman, Joseph
Johnson, told the Commission that the
building, built here in the early 30’s, was
desperately in need of improvement.
Johnson pointed out that there were
weak boards in the floor of the gym or
main building of the center, and that
cracks in the wall of the men’s bathroom
were so large that one could see outside
through them.
In addition the group requested
improvements in the outside area of the
center - better lighting around the
building, removal of unsightly bushes,
more trash cans, a picnic area with a
covering and grills, black topping the
parking lot, tennis, badminton, and
volleyball courts, and horse shoe pits.
The Fellows Club also requested that
the whole area be beautified with
shrubbery and flowers.
Agreeing that Lowe’s Center needed
some work done, the Commission set up a
committee to investigate the cost of the
improvements and additions.
This was an apparent success for the
group and for Lowe’s Center, but the
group didn’t just settle for the
Commission’s word and work no more on
gfetting money for the center.
'When city officials announced public
hearings for suggestions from citizens on
how to spend funds possibly available
through the Community Development
Act, the Fellows Club saw another chance
for Lowe's Center.
As a result of a proposal presented by
the Fellows Club at one of the two public
hearings, Lowe’s Center was listed as the
first priority. Thus, if the federal
government approves Reidsville’s re
quest for funds under this Act, an
estimated $180,000 will go towards the
reconstruction of the center.
The Fellows Club should be
commended for their efforts aimed at
getting something for Lowe’s Center. For
over 40 years the small building on
Sprinkle Street has provided recreation
for black youths in the city.
It has been the site of basketball games
and pool games, checkers and chess
tournaments, records hops and benefit
dances, senior citizens’ clubs meetings
and playschool classes.
For a considerable period of its
existence, Lowe’s Center was our only
recreational facility since distinct color
lines disallowed our participation in
activities in some of the city’s other
centers.
For Blacks of all incomes, low, middle,
and upper. Lowe’s Center was at one
time, the center of all recreational
activities: it still provides a considerable
portion of the Black population with an
outlet, a place to engage in athletic,
creative, or simply time-passing
activities.
We went there when we weren't
allowed elsewhere. So now, even that
"elsewheres" are open to us, we still owe
some loyalty to our very own community
center.
The Fellows Club has initiated
something that the entire Black
community of Reidsville should be get
behind and give their support.
Lowe's Center deserves a better
building and the improvements that the
Fellows Club has asked for. It has existed
with its inadequacies too long.
‘Tell It Like It Is’
Last
Week’s
Capsule
by Alfred Hinson
TH^E TRIBUNAL AID
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VOLUME II, NO. 47
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16. 1975
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South West Africa's Ambassador Speaks
NATIONAL
The states of Michigan. Massachusetts, Puerto Rico,
Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Washington, and
New Jersey are states that have now been forced to
borrow money from the federal government to pay
unemployment insurance benefits. Thus far, the
federal government has loaned states a total of $491
million and it is estimated by Labor Department
officials that as much as $2 billion more will be needed
tefore the year ends.
According to Labor Department officials, the
federal-state unemployment compensation system is
witnessing the most severe test of its 40 year history.
President Ford recently stated that he will press
Congress for approval of $222 million in military aid for
Cambodia, according to White House officials
Saturday. This aid is being requested, in part, because
Cambodian officials have decided to continue their fight
and are trying to maintain their government. It was
anticipated, however, that Cambodian officials would
leave when the U.S. Marines evacuated 276 Americans
on Friday. The fact that Cambodian officials, did not
leave is felt to have influenced Ford to take such an
active stance on their behalf.
STATE
Floyd B. McKissick. developer of Soul City, is still
under pressure from the federal government and the
Commerce Department is putting a freeze on funding
until matters of conflicts of interest have been resolved.
Soul City has been under the fire ever since The
Raleigh News and Observer ran a series of articles
about its development. Since that time, state and
federal officials have requested that investigations be
made into the planning, development, and spending
activities of the proposed city.
N.C. Senator William Mills, D- Onslow, Chairman of
the Senate Economy Committee introduced legislation
that would prevent public school teachers from
receiving unemployment compensation during their
two-month summer vacation. The introduction of this
proposed legislation, which was drafted by
Employment Security Commission attorneys, is a result
of the federal Special Unemployment Assistance Act.
The Act extends unemployment compensation to
workers formerly not eligible for compensation.
Federal guidelines for the Special Unemployment
Assistance Act are presently non-existent. Until
guidelines are established, the decision to dispense
unemployment funds will be left up to the states.
Members of the Guilford County legislative delegate
Continued on Page 2
SALISBURY- The annual
observance of International
Day, sponsored by the San
Fancisco based Howard
Thurman Foundation, was
held Friday on the campus
of Livingston College.
The speaker at an
all-college assembly in
Varick Memorial Auditor
ium was Amos Manyangwa
Dambe, Ambassador of the
Republic of Botswana
(South West Africa) to the
United States.
Dambe said, “There are
ties between our institu
tions of which you may not
be immediately aware.”
“The first and most
obvious," he said, “is the
missionary-explorer after
whom your college is
named. Dr. David Living
stone taught and preached
in Botswana and even
erected a house and a
church in the vicinity of the
capital city of Gaborne.
Livingstone is still revered
by our people as a preacher
and teacher."
“The other great figure
in the same context," said
the ambassador, “is Dr.
James Emman Kwegyir
Aggrey (the late Living
stone graduate and profes
sor), who was an African
and a citizen of the state of
Ghana.”
“1 feel greatly privileged
to stand where such great
men as Dr. Aggrey stood.
He was a great African
visionary and spokesman
for racial harmony and
quality. He has been called
‘the finest interpreter
which the present century
has produced - the white
man to the black and the
black man to white,” said
the speaker.
“Both Livingstone and
Aggrey are monuments in
themselves, in their spirit,
to the opening of Africa to
the world, and vise versa:
introducing the world to the
store of culture and history
embodied in the African
subcontinent,'' said
Dambe.
“Here you are almost
100 years old," he said,
“founded by blacks and
dedicated to blacks, by'
their own hand, to prove to
themselves that they can
bring forth a ‘whole
Continued on Page 7
PASOA Spring Conference Announced
workshops wherein various Friday, April 18 with an
factors contributing to Afrikan Heritage Extra-
economic independence vaganza, a cooperative
will be explored, and effort of the PASOA
recommendations made, chapter and the Afrikan
The workshop topics in- women's organization, Af-
clude Education and Self- rika Youth.
Reliance, Media, Politics, Saturday’s activities be-
Agriculture and Industry, gin at 8:30 a.m. with
and The Role of the Family registration, followed by
in Economic Independence, the keynote address and
These workshops will be the workshops.
GREENSBORO - “To
ward Economic Indepen
dence for Afrikan Peoples”
will be the theme of a
conference to be held April
18 and 19 at North Carolina
A&T State University in
Greensboro. The confe
rence, which is expected to
draw people from through
out North Carolina, is being
sponsored by the Greens
boro Chapter of the Pan
Afrikan Students Organiza
tion in the Americas, Inc.
(PASOA). The announce
ment was made by Utem
Kamin, president and
engineering student at
A&T State University.
Keynote speaker for the
conference will be Sister
Ama Atta Aidoo, noted RALEIGH - The aero- be held April 21-25 at Shaw g'^a'Tis is directing
Afrikan educator, writer space industry and the University, Raleigh, N.C. NASA program,
and lecturer. Sister Aidoo space program will be the Workshops and exhibits Objectives of the
appeared at A&T during focus of a week-long will be featured in the 8''®"’’ outlined by
February of this year. informational seminar -- symposium which is aimed are:
There will be five Space Symposium ’75 - to at disseminating informa-
SALISBURY.N.C.- HIS EXCELLENCY MR. AMOS
MANYANGWA DAMBE (right). Ambassador of the
Republic of Botswana to the United Slates accepts key
to the city from His Honor William C. Stanback (left).
Mayor of the City of Salisbury, at annual observance of
International Day at Livingstone College recently. To
the ambassador’s right are Mrs. Abna Aggrey
Lancaster, International Day Committee chairperson,
and Livingstone President F. George Shipman.
Bennett Stresses Medical
Careers For Women
GREENSBORO- Med- more appealing urban “This symposium, Ihe
ical professions are wide metropolitan areas. This second since the program
led by various members of All activities will take open to qualified women in was the opinion given by started, was centered
the Greensboro Chapter of place in the N.C. A&T State today’s society. However to guest panelist at Bennett around careers in dentistry,
PASOA with support from a University Memorial Un- gain early success in most College’s recent Health pharmacology, and veler-
variety of resource people ion. The public is invited to medical careers, it is often Careers Symposium. inary medicine, explained
knowledgeable in the area participate. For more essential to look for locales The panelists were Dr. Mr. Willie Young. Director
of focus for the workshop, p.., p 2 where they are needed Joyce Reese
The conference begins on ^ rather than to head for the dentists for the U.S.
Department or Health.
To Host NASA Symposium!::’::2j:t.rx^
director of minority recruit
Staff of Bennett's Health Ca
reers Program.
“By bringing black
professionals to the
campus, the young women
are able to receive firsthand
ment in pharmacy for information about the
-To provide the minority
Reading Fairs
Planned
the space program college student
tion on
to the slate’s
community.
with
minontv
wider exposure to, and a
greater appreciation of the
Upper elementary, junior potential that lies within
WINSTON-SALEM
Lelia Vickers. Director of
Reading at Winston-Salem
State University, has an
nounced plans for reading
fairs to be held on April 17
for elementary school
teachers and on April 24 for
secondary school teachers.
Workshops for each fair
will be in Room 214
Coltrane Hall. 1:00-5:30
p.m. Student tutors will
conduct the workshops
discussing diagnostic pro
cedures and innovative
methods and materials
used to improve the
reading skills of elementary
and secondary students.
high and high school
Ihe career fields of science.
Raleigh will be bused into
The students, who are
prospective teachers, are
juniors and seniors who
have tutored for at least one
semester in area schools.
These students have com
pleted reading competen
cies as specified by the
North Carolina Department
of Public Instruction. Al
though the workshops are
designed specifically for
elementary and secondary
school teachers; all who are
interested ar invited to
attend without charge. For [njustry
further information call Ms. Harriett G
Vickers at 725-3563 ~
76.
students from schools engineering and techno-
within a 75-mile radius of *°§y-
-To assist minority insti-
Raleigh to view the exhibits ’utions in recognizing and
and hear a lecture understanding the oppor
tunities for participation in
various institutional assis
tance programs operated
by NASA.
-To stimulate the inlerest
of the upper elementary,
middle school and high
school student, in these
career fields.
-To share with the
community the various
ways in which space age
presentation on air and
space travel.
College students will be
given an opportunity to
meet and talk wiih
prominent minority scien
tists and engineers who
hold vital positions both in
NASA and in the private
sector of the aerospace
Jenkins,
Assistant Administrator for technology has contributed
Equal Opportunity Pro- Continued on Page 3
southeast regional colleges:
and Dr. Alfreda Webb.
Professor of Biology at
North Carolina A. & T.
State University. They
participated in the program
entitle “Black Women in
Health Professions” which
was held in conjunction
with Health Careers
Awareness Week al the
women’s college.
Under the leadership of
Dr. J. Henry Saylcs.
Bennett College is under
taking a collaborative
health careers preparation
program with 15 other
institutions in North Caro- JCapsule News
lina and Virginia. Funded
by the Bureau of Health
Resources Development,
the program seeks to
strengthen each institu
tion’s pre-professional ed
ucation program, and to
increase the number of
problems black women
encounter in the medical
profession, and the advan
tages of a health career."
Dr. Webb, a veterinarian
by profession, was the first
black woman to do so. She
cited that there are very
few women in the field.
''Opportunities arc
dbntinued on Page 3
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schools in health careers.
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