THE TftlBUNAiAlf Serving Davidson, Firsyth, Guilford, Randolpli, Rockingjiam and Rowan Counties *Tell It Like It !•' Week' $ Cfpsile by AlfrM VOLUME II, NO. 48 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1975 15 cans PHI ocpy - $5.00 per yeah Member of NORTH CAROLINA BLACK PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Record 1,080 A&T Students To Graduate GREENSBORO -Vernon 83rd annual baccalaureate- Jordan, executive director commencement exercises of the National Urban of A&T State University ' League, will address the Sunday, May 4 at 11 a.m. in Bennett Alumnae Commencement Plans Set For May 9 - II NATIONAL According to the Harris Poll, Ronald Reagan could destroy President Ford’s chances of winning the 1976 presidential election should he, Reagan, leavethe Republican party and run on a conservative ticket. The polls now show President For and Senator Edmund Muskie tied for the position as the peoples choice. Should Ronald Reagan run for the presidential election, the poll shows Senator Muskie as winning with a 39 per cent pluralitay. Though Reagan has not announced that he would run for the presidency, it is known that he has been spending some time with Alabama Governor George Wallace. This contact with Wallace causes many to believe that a Reagan-Wallace or a Wallace-Reagan third pary ticket is a probability. ******** According to Federal Energy Administrator Frank G. Zarb, the United States is likely to face severe shortage in electric power within five years unless the nation speeds up the building of power plants. The rapidity with which the economy recovers will somewhat determine when the shortage will become a reality. STATE When Congress passed the Special Unemployment Assistance Act, many public school teachers were optimistic that they would be eligible for unemployment compensation during their summer vacations. According to interpretation by Employment Security Commission attorneys, state law bars persons who are under written or implied continuing contracts to draw benefits. Those school workers and teachers who are not under continuing contracts will be eligible for unemployment benefits providing they meet other requirements of state law. To be eligible for unemployment compensation under North Carolina law, one must be unemployed, able and available for work, and actively seeking work. Greensboro Guilford County Mental Health Director Don Fontanana on last Thursday fired Dr. Harry L. Johnson, medical consultant for the county’s psychiatric services unit at L. Richardson Hospital in Greensboro. He had previously accepted the resignation of Dr. Roy S.Clemmons, with both leaving the services of Guilford County on April 30. The firing of the two psychiatrists is a result of Fontana’s refusal to accept a proposal from them which they claimed would save the county money. The proposed to have physicians to work under negotiated contractual arrangements with the county instead of being treated as employees. Dr. Clemmons, working full time, earns $40,000 per year while Dr. Johnson earns $18,000 per year as a part-time medical consultant. Fontana said thut the proposals made by the two psychiatrists, working on a private contractual arrangement, would cause their salaries to be considerably higher than they presently are. Further, Fontana said that the quality of services at the hospital will not be jeopardized by the termination of employment of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Clemmons. •*«*•««* The Guilford County Social Services Board gave unanimous approval to the $26.2 million budget for fiscal year 1975-76. The departmental budget is $750,000 more than that of fiscal year 1974-75. Included in the new budget is provisions for hiring 38 new social workers of which 10 will be hired by July 1, 1975. The remainder 28 budgeted positions will be filled as the need arises or services will be contracted out to meet the expressed needs. HIGH POINT Dr. James E. Surrati assistant superintendant of. High Point city schools will resign his position on June 30, and become superintendant of the Goldsboro city school system. He has been employed by the local school system for five years and earned his doctors legree while employed in the local system. GREENSBORO Ben nett College will hold its annual Alumnae-Com- mencement Week, May 9-11 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Although most of the activities will take place on the woman’s campus, the headquarters will be the Royal Villa Inn. The weekend will include class reunions, business sessions, socials, and commencement-baccalau- reate activities. The alumnae activities will be highlighted by a special alumnae leadership conference on Friday, May 9 in Pfeiffer Science Hall. National alumnae Associa tion officers, chapter offi cers, and regional officers will receive firsthand in formation on the institu tion’s academic thrusts, development programs, and projected alumnae recruitment-fundraising programs. Special speakers^ will include President Isaac H. Miller, State of Institutional Affairs Pro grams; Mr. Marvin H. Watkins, Development Programs: Mr. Harold Bragg, Student Affairs Projections; Dr. Chelsea Tipton, Academic Develop ment; Mrs. Mary Eady, the Admissions Program; Mrs. Marion Tasco, the Alumnae Program. A special pre sentation on “The College Endowment Funding Plan” Mr. Earl Ravenu, associate director of Moton Man agement Improvement Program. The regional officials will meet in the afternoon to structure the year’s regional organiza tion programs. On Friday evening, the Alumnae “Sip-n-Chat” will be held at the Royal Villa at Oontinued on Page 3, the Greensboro Coliseum. Degrees will be awarded to a record 900 undergra duates and 180 graduate students during the cere mony. The graduation exercises will climax a full weekend of alumni and student activities, including the annual alumni national meeting, the alumni a- wards dinner and a series of class reunions. The concluding activity will be the chancellor's rei^ption for graduates, alumni and friends in the Blue Room at the coliseum following the commence ment exercises. During the services, a $500 teaching excellence award will be presented to a member of the faculty and the alumni excellence award will be given to one of the university’s gra duates. Jordan, 39, is a graduate of Howard University Law School. He began his fast rising career as a civil rights activist in the South. He helped journalist Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes integrale the University of Georgia and later headed the highly successful Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council. Under Jordan's gui dance, the Urban League has generated employment for more than 68,000 men and women over the past several years. The A&T reunion classes this year are the classes of 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1945, 1955, 1965. 1975. 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970. The alumni activities will get underway on Friday. May 2 at 8 p.m. with the annual alumni meeting. A number of individual reunion activities are sche duled for May 3, including the annual awards banquet at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Student Union. RALEIGH - An intensive rehabilitation program for Guilford County’s epilep tics has been created by the North Carolina Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services. The program, to be held in cooperation with the Guilford, Alamance, Da vidson and Randolph coun ties. Those interested in the program can get additional information from the Voca tional Rehabilitation Office at 1510 West Martin Street, Winston-Salem, telephone North Carolina Epilepsy 919/723-8811. Association, will utilize medical, educational, coun seling and placement For The Late Reggie Strickland THOMASVILLE On May 16, Thomasville Senior High School and Albemarle will battle in their annual high school baseball game. That night, at Finch Field, will be named the Reggie Strickland Memorial Night. Reggie, the former Thomasville and A&T State University football star, died last year of a heart condition. Plans are now being made to rename the Carver Park recreation building Reggie Strickland Center, Mrs. Minnie Payne, pro gram director for the recreation department re vealed at the last monthly meeting. Twelve Black men from the Thomasville community known as the Carver Park Advisory Board developed the plans and recommen dations and presented them to the recreation depart ment. The board meets frequently to discuss needs in recreation within the Black community with Carver Park the major subject. Suggestions arc then passed on to the recreation departinent and commission. Serving on the board are: Gregory Henderson. .lames Henderson, J.W, Mathis, James H. Henderson, W.G. Davis, Wai'dell lee. Jerry Phillips Willie Bax ter, Freddy Johnson, I.aw- rence Thomas, and .lessie Gathings. Plans for the game uere worked out by the boat'd with the cooperation of ihc Thomasville City Schools and the recreation depart ment. Proecdes from (he me morial night will go toward purchasing equipment and supplies for Carver Park. Principal E. M. Townes, Jr. Retires resources to improve the epileptic’s job potential, according to Walter B. Noble, development coor dinator for the program. Ms. Barbara Jones will be program counselor for the North Central Region which , includes Forsyth, by olandra Hill REIDSVILLE - EM. Townes Jr., principal of Moss Street Elementary School, recently announced his retirement, effective June 30 of this year. In his 25 years as school principal and a total of some 44 years of service to public school, Townes has seen a great number of changes. He has seen the emphasis switched from the single classroom teach er to team teaching, the fixed schedule classroom lose out to open classroom instruction in the primary grades. Townes feels that these innovative teaching meth ods offer some advantages, but he maintains that "the To Get Honorary Degrees Ccmtinued "cm ■ Pagg^.2; Peter Mason, age 9, proudly displays his new 10-speed racer which he has Jnst won in return for selling 20 snbscrlptions for THE TRIBUNAL AID newspaper. Congratulations Peter! Peter is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Mason, of 1309 Cedrow Avenue, High Point. GREENSBORO An assistant secretary of Hous ing and Urban develop ment, a prominent civil rights leader, a nationally prominent women’s leader and a corporate executive will be presented honorary degrees during the 83rd annual baccalaureate- commemcement exercises at A&T State University Sunday, May 4. The honorees will be H.R. Crawford, an assis tant secretary of HUD; Vernon E. Jordan Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Mrs. Elizabeth D. Koontz, former director of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor; and James E. Townsend Jr., manager of recruiting and college relations of Dow Chemical U.S.A. The four persons will be cited during ceremonies at the Greensboro Coliseum for 1,080 A&T graduates. The program will get underway at 11 a.m. A Winston-Salem, N.C. native, Crawford directs all of HUD’s programs and functions relative to the financial and operational management of housing. most important item for instruction is the classroom teacher." "Teachers are better prepared than in the past, but the classroom schedule is so fragmented that they don’t have enough time to emphasis skills," he com mented. He added, there are consultants in reading, in physical education; there are psychologists, speech therapists, learning disabi lity specialists -- the classroom teacher has to share her time with all of these. Townes strongly believes that if a child gets the basic skills, "it will be easy to add the others, but if he Black Educator Dies misses the basis skills, the other skills won’t carry him." "As a follower of the old school, I feel that a good foundation in maih. read ing, and writing is essential," he noted. The reduced emphasis on basic skills is only one of the changes thal the veteran educator feels may have been carried too far. Recent years have also brought an awareness on the parts of both students and parents of student righs. "It is good that students have and acknow ledge these rights, but neither parents nor teach ers should use students rights as an excuse to let a Continued on Page 2 RALEIGH Dr. Max Yergan, 82, a black leader and educator who also campaigned for black civil rights in Africa, died in Northern Westchester Hospital, Mount Kisco, N.Y. Yergan was born in Raleigh, N.C., the grand son of a slave. He graduated in 1914 from Shaw University, where he played football and was a member of the debating team, and did graduate studies at Springfield College. He was a former executive director of the Council on African Affairs and a former president of the defunct National Negro Congress. In 1915 he began an association with the Yount Continued On Page 5 | I poooooocxaa nac, II Reading Guide { ] Pagej I (Business & Finance.... 2 I ICapsulc New s 1 I jciassified 8| | I .Editorials 4(1 I |Educalion JS I lEntcrtainment 7 I iLadies 3 Notes & Reminders....2 I |Obituarics I IReligion 4 I ISports 7 .....81 SUPPORT THE ADVERTISING MERCHANTS OF THIS, YOUR NEWSPAPERI

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