THE BETTER WE KNOW US ...
Reverend Prince Graves accepted the
pastorate of St. James Baptist Church in
1953, since then the church has grown in
strength and congregation.
St. James has a great variety of
projects to aid the disadvantaged. These
projects are: an apartment complex, St.
James Homes; a day care center for the
children of working mothers; a program
to provide emergency furniture and food
supplies to the needy; a second hand
clothng store in a low-income
neighborhood; a social services depart
ment with a full-time caseworker, and the
use of a secretary to help people in
finding jobs, solving personal or family
problems, also to assist in distributing
food stamps.
Rev. Graves has very good reasons in
launching these various programs. He
fights poverty because he knows what it
is.”
One of the latest programs added was a
Head-Start Program for children between
ages 4 to 6. This program was set up to
familiarize the children with various
musical activities, field trips, and the
forth coming school year. Head-Start has
three qualified teachers and three
assistant teachers.
Transportation and one-meal daily is
provided for the children during their
nine month school term.
Graves believes that you have to feed a
hungry man before his soul can be
reached. Rev. Graves and St. James are
working together to provide the needs of
many individuals.
The Church has also taken on a social
services department which enables the
individual needs to be met directly.
While working in the social services
program many problems have come to
light because the people were not aware
of what was available to them. Several
people were turned away and mistreated
by Angela Griffin
by agencies, because they did not know
how to deal with them. But now St. James
can step in and fill out the forms, and cut
red tape for them.
They also, help provide transportation
so that local children can participate in
extracurricular school activities, free
public programs, and events that they
could not attend otherwise.
As a part of their social services project
an office is open daily for distribution of
food stamps. Office hours are Monday
through Friday 9:00 until 5:00, Tuesday
and Thursday 9:00 until 4:30. St. James
furnishes transportation to the church
and back to the church and back to the
home for these people.
In addition to operating the housing of
St. James Homes, the church occasionly
steps in during rough times and makes
payments on mortgages for individuals.
The church is able to lease individual
houses and sublease houses to families.
St. James has an outstanding
congregation not only in number but also
in action. Their purpose in life is to serve
God, and their way of serving Him is
through helping others.
One does not have to be a member of
St. James to receive assistance from any
of their programs.
St. James serves any individual in the
Greensboro Community who reaches out
for help. The Lord has smiled on St.
James and they are sharing that smile
with others.
Rev. Graves states, “Any church in a
poor community that can brag about
burning a 20 year mortage after 5 years
and hasn't done anything in the
community has burned the wrong thing."
“They ought to have burned the church
and raised chickens on theland, so at
least somebody could have something to
eat.”
I
Rev. Prince Graves
THE TRIBUNAL AID
‘Tell It Like It Is’
Week’s
Capsule
by Alfred Hinson
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Serving Davidson, Firsyth, Guilford, Randolph
Rockingham and Rowan Counties
VOLUME III, NO. 2 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1975
$5.00 PER YEAR PRESS RUN 6,400
Member of NORTH CAROLINA BLACK
PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL
Seymour Wenner, an administrative law judge
recently recommended that the cost of first class postal
rates be reduced from 10 cents to 8'/: cents. This
recommendation was not anticipated by postal officials
who were seeking a three cents increase in the cost of
first class mail.
According to Wenner, who surprised postal officials
with his recommendation, the U.S. Postal Services is
seeking an increase in first class rates to offset the cost
of business bulk mailers. He stated in his
recommendation that the cost of bulk mailings should
be increased-not first class mailings.
The final decision on whether to increase bulk
mailings or to decrease first class mailings will be made
by the board of governors of the U.S. Postal Service.
Must we continue to let the government use
low-wage consumer earnings to support big business?
Would it not be better to let big business to pay its own
way and pass the savings on to the average consumer?
It appears that Wenner does have the consumer at
heart.
STATE
Ben Fountain, president of North Carolina’s
community college system said that accreditation of
some schools may be threatened and admissions may
have to be limited if the legislature proceeds to cut their
funding. A recommendation was made to cut the
budget by a Senate Appropriation subcommittee.
If the budget is cut, teachers would have to be laid
off, classes will be larger, and quality education would
be adversely effected.
It was recommended by the Advisory Budget
Committee that $104.2 million be appropriated for the
1975-76 fiscal year. In fiscal year 1974-75. the
appropriation was $119.1 million. If approved, the
community college system will operate on $14.9 million
less in fiscal year 1975-76. Furthermore, the Senate
appropriations subcommittee on education has
-recommended an additional $7 million cutback in the
budget.
If the educational system is short-changed, one can
expect the output of its graduates to be less than
desirable. Can the economy afford to make these
sacrifices?
* ^ *
Incumbent school board member Janies Chestnut
and Mrs. Jennie Herndon are the first to announce
their intentions to be candidates for one of the four
available school board seats to be filled in the
November 4 general election. These four seats will
tarry a four year term for the top vote getter in each of
the four political wards. If no one from one of the four
wards chooses to run for a school board seat, the city
Cont:mued 3n Page 2
Co-Producer Of Local Television Show
HIGH POINT - Theodoro
(Thea) Gordon, new co
producer of “Southern
Exposure”, Channel 8’s
hour-long public service
talk show airing 11:30 AM -
12:30 PM weekdays, work
ed her way up to the
position she now has from a
studio operator where she
had served as a camera-
person since coming to
Channel 8 in June, 1973. As
co-producer of “Southern
Exposure,” Ms. Gordon
interviews and schedules
guests for the program,
talks with book publishers
for possible authors as
guests, and makes arrange
ments for taped interviews.
Since Ms. Gordon "likes to
meet new people and find
out how each one feel and
things" she is very well
suited to the position she
holds.
Prior to joining Channel
8's staff, Ms. Gordon
attended Hampton Institute
in Hampton, Va., and
graduated from the Univer
sity of Georgia with a B.A.
degree in Journalism.
During her leisure hours.
Ms. Gordon likes to spend
time reading poetry, listen
ing to music and participa
ting in all types of sports.
Ms. Gordon resides in
High Point and attends St.
Lukes Lutheran Church.
Interfaith Committee
Supports Soul City
Greatest Weakness Is Underprivileged
SOUL CITY The
interfaith committee of Soul
City, an organization of
National and State church
officials, residents of Vance
and Warren counties and
SALISBURY -Attorney
Christopher F. Edley told
Livingstone College’s 140
graduates last week that he
sees crises everywhere and
that blacks are clutching
the “short end of the stick"
in America.
Edley, speaking on the
subject “Apathy: A Pre
lude to Crises," said, “I
don’t see any single crisis
today but rather 1 see crises
everywhere. Too many
people without work, too
many people hungry, too
many people unable to get
proper medical care, and
too many people ostracized
from the economic, political
and social mainstreams of
America.
“The unemployment cri
sis, like all crises that grip
this nation," said Edley,
“finds blacks clutching
desperately to the short end
of the stick. While overall
employment is just under
nine per cent, for all blacks
the jobless rate is almost 15
per cent. In Harlem, two
out of five are out of work.
In the ghettos of Detroit,
half of the potential labor
force is unemployed.
“Black mortality rates ae
so bad that the average
black man cannot expect to
live to collect his social
security. Other health
indicators are so bad that
the U.S. Surgeon General
ought to issue a warning
that being black can be
dangerous to your health,”
he said.
“Welfare is still viewed
by whites as a dole for lazy
blacks. Last year New York
City spent $329 million on
housing welfare recipients.
“America can somehow
afford to spend $160 billion
on Indochina and billions
more on a nuclear arsenal,
which can blow this planet
up 10 times over,” he said,
“Yet' America’s greatest
weakness is the millions of
educational and economic
underprivileged. Individual
insecuritv is internal inse-
Continued on Page 2
Miss Black North
Carolina Pageant
To Be Held In Raleigh
All of this money went to
landlords, rental agents,
moving companies and
renovators,” he said. “Not
a dime went to the welfare
recipients. Food stamps
and crop subsidies have
benefitted the producers as
much or more than the
hungry. Who is indeed
really receiving the dole?”
asked Edley.
SALISBURY, N.C.--HONORARY DEGREES - Three
honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees were presented by
Hood Theological Seminary of Livingstone College last
week. College President F. George Shipman, left,
shakes hands with the Rev. Arthur L. Wilson. Other
degree recipients included, from left, the Rev. Robert
Lamar Lee and the Rev. Cecil Bishop.
RALEIGH It was an
nounced by Pageants
Unlimited, Inc., producing
organization for the Miss
Black Teenage World
Pageant that the 1975
World Finals for Miss Black
Teenage World will be held
in Raleigh during the
month of August.
Contestants from across
the country, plus several
foreign countries, will be
competing for the title
presently held by 17-year-
old Chancey Douglas of
Goldsboro, N.C.
Miss Douglas is a
Goldsboro East High
School junior and plans to
attend Hampton Institute in
Hampton, Virginia with the
scholarship she received by
winning the 1974 pageant.
Patricia Wilson, a Hamp
ton Institute junior, and
Phyllis Hamlett, a Norfolk
State College junior, will
co-direct the Pageant
production again this year.
The Pageant theme this
year will be “Pride in Our.
Heritage” with the Pa
geant’s production routines
designed to highlight
certain positive aspects of
Afro-American heritage.
During the summer
months. State Pageants ar
being conducted to deter
mine state representatives.
In those states where no
MBTW Pageant is held,
contestants-at-large will
participate.
An active itinerary has
been planned for the
contestants, their parents
and chaperons. Prizes,
trophies, and college scho
larships will be awarded
winners and all Pageant
participants. A Post-Pa
geant tour of Freeport in
the Bahamas is scheduled
for four nights and five
days.
Persons interested in
obtaining information re
garding the Miss Black
Teenage World Pageant or
tour information should
write: PUl, P.O. Box 1139,
Danville, Va. 24541.
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SALISBURY - STATUES
QUE LIVINGSTONE
BEAUTY - Pretty Barbara
Jean Blackwell, 22-year-oId
secretary in the social
welfare office at Living
stone College, Salisbury,
N.C., Is a Gemini who
stands 5’ 7’’ and weighs a
svelte 115 pounds.
Barbara is a native
Salisburian. She is single
and enjoys singing, roller
skating, baseball, sewing,
and talking with people.
She resides at 616 East
Bank Street. [L.C. Photo by
Kelsey]
residents of Soul City, have
taken a public stand in
support of the new town,
following recent press
attacks and unfavorable
publicity. At its meeting of
May 22, the interfaith
committee went on rccord
as “standing solidly beside
and with Soul City and
Floyd McKissick”, noting
that, “no person, agency,
or institution which has
verified any of the serious
charges made by the
Raleigh News and Observ
er”, and that, “In our close
observation and study, the
development of Soull City is
on schedule according to
federal guidelines and
development plans, and
private and ■ government
audits have continually
affirmed the finances and
progress of the project.”
The interfaith committee
further resolved to request
that the current general
accounting office audit of
Soul City requested by
Senator Jesse Helms and
Congressman L.H. Foun
tain be “made available to
anyone who wishes a copy
immediately upon coniple--
tion”. (The audit has been
designated a private audit
available only to Senator
Helms and Congressman'
Fountain.)
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