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THE BETTER WE KNOW US ... by R. Irving Boone, Editor-in-Ouef "The Masonic Journal” THE WORLD—Unquestionably, the Illustrious Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, Juris diction of North Carolina — Bishop Herbert Bell Shaw — is one of the most widely-traveled and widely- acclaimed leaders on the contemporary national scene, with his official contacts extending beyond our borders unto many foreign lands, and unto scores of international meetings. His two-fold leadership role as senior bishop in the great A.M.E. Zion Church and as Grand Master of the North Carolina’s M. W. Prince Hall Grand Lodge of F. and A. Masons, gives an immediate uniqueness to his status. Significantly, the two positions are complimentary — each to the other. Both extol and magnify the Sovereignty of the Almighty; both require obeisance to the Holy Writ: and both proclaim the immortal doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man. Review of a recent itinerary of Grand Master (Bishop) Shaw reveals, pointedly, the fact of the remarkably busy schedule and extensive travels of the man; and this is but symbolic of his week-after-week official perforni- ance: Early in May, in charge of a com bined Masonic leadership meeting, comprised of members of Executive Committee, District Deputies, ai leadership personnel of Knights of Pythagoras, in Greensboro; May 9th left via air for New York City, to be in memorial services with Dr. G. W. McMurray, pastor. Mother Zion Church; thence, the next day, to Saint Paul A.M.E. Zion Church, Great Neck, New York, with Pastor W. J. Jiles thence to Buffalo, New York; on the 13-16th, in Philadelphia, for Phila- delphia-Baltimore Conference; on the morning of 17th, at the Harriet Tubman Home, Auburn, New York; on afternoon same date, with Dr. R. D. Campbell, New Britian, Connecticut; on the morning of 18th, with the A.M. Spottswood A.M.E. Zion Church, New Britain, Connecticut, at 2 P.M., with the Mount Olive A.M.E. Zion Church, Waterbury, Connecticut, and at 4 P.M., same date, with the Beulah A.M.E. Zion Church, Forestiville, Connecticut; on May 19th-21st, in meeting at Livingstone College, Salis bury; on the 22nd, a meeting with the World Methodist Committee, at the Sheraton-Hilton, New York City; on the next day, with the Reverend Andrew E. Whitted, Buffalo, New York; at the Douglass Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, Reverend J.R. Josey, Pastor, on the 24th; thence to Continued on Page 3 JL THETRIBUNALAID A VIABLE, VALID REQUIREMENT RESPONDING TO BLACK NORTH. CAROLINA r VOLUME III, NO. 19 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1,1975 $5.00 PER YEAR PRESS RUN 8,500 MEMBER: North Carolina Black Publishers Association — North Carolina Press Association, Inc. The Gap Between Blacks And Whites Narrows Blacks working full time continue to earn considerably less than whites, but the gap Dr. N^ays Eulogizes Longtime Editor BY HOWARD B. WOODS BIRMINGHAM - This city is a better place because Dr. Emory O. Jackson, lived, worked and died here, said Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, presi dent emeritus of Morehouse College, in his eulogy of the venerable civil rights leader and editor of the Birming ham World. Services for Dr. Jackson, were held last Tuesday at the Sixth Street Baptist Church. Th«* ; !ar old crusader di^ of cancer. Burial was in Shadow Lawn Memorial Gar dens^ Trijbutes for Jackson came from all over the country. Before a church filled with that Dr friends and family. Dr. Mays teacher in high school, always said that the late editor was made his students read "bom a free man.” He walked newspapers and write letters to UKe one; talked like one and the editors. He told us that Icmked like one. Tracing his newspapers were of some history of public service. Dr. value “other than papering the Mays said that Emory an- walls to keep out the draft or to swered his call to duty after spread on the floor after a graduating from Atlanta’s mopping or to supplement the Morehouse College. worn soles of your shoes.” Nathaniel Veale, director of 0. A. Scott, editor and Alumni Affairs at Morehouse, general manage of the Atlanta speaking for its president, Dr. Daily World chain of which the Hugh G1 loster, who is ill, said Birmingham World is a part even at college, Emory said that he gave Dr. Jackson a Jackson protested segregation, free hand in editing the He said his protests of the Birmingham paper. “He was men’s rooms being marked one of the most vigorous “Faculty” “Men” and “Boys” persistent, and courageous succeeded in changing the advocates in the South for full desienations. civil rights for our people,” Robert Johnson, associate Scott added, publisher of Jet magazine, said Others wtio paid tribute to Jackson, me great editor were: Con gressman John H. Buchanan of Birmingham, his field repre sentative, James C. Cotton; wealthy businessman A. G. Gaston, Dr. Sanford Biship, president of Bishop State College; and the Rev. John T. Porter, pastor of Sixth Street, and YMCA chairman. Dr. Wayman C. Matherson. Dr. Jackson, whose honorary LL.D. degree was awarded by his Alma Mater, was born o September 8, 1908 in Buena Vista, Ga. His parents moved here in 1919. After graduating from Morehouse in 1932, he taught at Carver.high school, Dothan, Ala., and Westfield here in Jefferson County. After service during World War II, Jackson became managing editor of the Birmingham World in 1943 and served in the post until his death He was one of the founders of the Alabama Conference of NAACP Branches and leader of nearly a dozen political, economic, and civil rights efforts for which he received numerous awards ConHnued on Page 2 narrowed substantially from 1967 to 1975, the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Lab or Statistics reported. Over this period, the real earnings average for black full-time workers increased by 24 percent, whereas that for whites showed only a 4 percent gain. Based on data collected once a year through a household survey, the Bur eau’s analysis shows that: Median weekly earnings of blacks working full time rose from $79 in May 1967 to $155 in May 1975. For whites, weekly earnings rose from $113 to $190 during this period. Data also show that in May 1967 black male workers earned $90 a week, compared with $63 for black»female workers. In May 1975, earnings of black male workers had risen to $173, compared to $130 for female black workers. The Bureau’s analysis shows that there are wide differences in both the levels and trends of the medians for the usual earnings of the vari ous labor force groups. The principal findings are: Male household heads work ing full time reported the high est weekly earnings average in May 1975-a median of $231, up from $214 in 1974. After adjustment for price increases, however, the pur chasing power of this group showed the second consecu tive year-to-year decline. While the earnings gap bet ween blacks and whites has narrowed substantially, that between men and women has remained constant. In May 1975, women working full time reported a weekly average of $137, equivalent to 61 percent of the average for men ($221). This was the same relation ship which existed in 1967. Working wives with full time jobs reported average (median) weekly earnings of $139 in May 1975. In real terms, their earnings showed no change relative to 1974 but remained lower than in 1973. Despite the declines from the 1973 peaks, the purchasing power of the weekly earnings of male household heads and of working wives was still about 10 percent higher in May 1975 than in May 1967 (when these data were first collected). Compared with working wives, women heading their own households reported somewhat higher earnings for full-time work-$149 per week. In constant dollar terms, the earnings of this group have shown a 16 percent increase since 1967. While median earnings of men and women 25 years and over have shown average ann ual increases of nearly 8 per cent (in current dollars) over the 1967-75 period, those for young men and women 16 to 24 have grown at an annual rate of less than 6 percent. In constant dollar terms, the weekly earnings of these young workers were actually somewhat lower in May 1975 than in 1967. Part-time workers reported average weekly earnings of $50 in May 1975. This group of workers, which consists large ly of women and youths, ac counted'for over 18 percent of the wage and salary work force, up from 14 percent in 1967. Largely because of the in crease in the proportion of workers in part-time jobs, the weekly earnings average for all wage and salary workers has shown a smaller increase over the 1967-75 period than has the average for full-time workers. In real terms, earn ings for all wage and salary workers were the same in May 1975 as in May 1967, whereas those of full-time workers were about 5 percent higher. Workers who had recently become unemployed reported that they had generally been earning less in their last jobs than workers of the same age and sex who were still employ ed. The overall earnings aver age reporteu oy the unemploy ed for their previous full-time jobs was about 27 percent low'er than that of workers who were still employed. These findings are based on data currently obtained each May through a special supple ment to the Current Popula tion Survey-a monthly survey of about 47,000 households. These data come from an entirely different source than do the earnings data which are derived from the monthly sur vey of establishments and which are published in the Employment Situation and 20,000 Expected For A&T Homecoming GREENSBORO— More than 20,000 persons are ex pected to participate in the American bicentennial edition of the A&T State University Homecoming, October 13 - 18. An appropriate theme, “A Blast from the Past through Aggieland”, will be the signal of a full round of activities for the students and visiting alumni. “We are going all out to make this our biggest celebra tion yet,” said James Garfield, Homecoming football game general homecoming chair- featuring A&T against Mary- man. “The motels and hotels are cooperating and advance reservations are far ahead of last year.” Highlights of the activities will include the annual coro nation of “Miss A&T State University”, the annual pep rally, bam fire and Aggie feast, a campus-wide dormi tory and fraternity decora tion contest, a mile-long Homecoming parade, and the Shifting Responsibility For Child Rearing RALEIGH— Is North Carolina and the United States following the footsteps of the Soviet Union, Israel and some Western European countries S.C. Charged With Discrimination The Department of Justice filed a class-action suit September 15 charging that the State of South Carolina discriminates against black teachers by basing certification and salary on unvalidated National Teacher Examinations scores. Attorney General Edward H. Levi said the suit,, which he certified to be of general public importance, was filed in U.S. District Court in Columbia, South Carolina. Named as defendants were the state, the state board of education, the state retirement system, the state budget and control board, and the Charleston County, Colleton County, and Richland District No. 1 boards of education as representative of all local school boards in the state The suit charged that the state enforces a racially discriminatory system of certifying and compensating public school teachers on the basis of scores they attain on the National Teachers Examinations. ’The suit said the defendants have not validated their use of Oie NTE and the cut-off scores as standards for hiring teachers in South Carolina. By adopting an arbitrary cut-off score, the defendants knew that the practice would result in denying full certification to qualified black teachers, confining large numbers of them to lower paying levels and reducing their retirement benefits, the suit charged. The suit said the South Carolina certification system violates the equal employment -section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For the 1972-73 school year, there were 21,573 white and 9,554 black teachers in South Carolina. A total of 4.915 of the black teachers were not fully certification to qualified black teachers, confining large numbers of them to lower-paying levels and reducing their retirement benefits, the suit charged. The suit said the South Carolina certification system violates the equal employment section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For the 1972-73 school year, there were 21,573 white and 9,554 black teachers in South Carolina. A total of 4.915 of the black teachers were not fully certified. in a communal style of child Several social changes, factor in this high number of rearing? however, have been taking female-headed households but Based on actual statistics, place in North Carolina and the increasing divorce rate is more and more responsibility to® nation that have changed also a vital factor. The for early childhood rearing in this traditional concept. number of divorces has al- North Carolina and the nation More and more married most doubled during the past is being abdicated by parents women with children under ten years. In 1965, there were and given to day care centers six have gone to work during 11,160 divorces in the state and homes. the past twenty or so years, compared to 20,049 in 1974. Experts disagree as to the Based on the 1970 census, 45 During the ten year period psychological consequences percent of all women in the there have been a total of for children reared in this state with children under six 144,800 divorces, asked for the age six. were working. Another vital factor that Traditionally in this coun- A survey by the Learning enters into this whole picture to hear the case and to declare try, the prime responsibility Institute of North Carolina of child rearing is the drama- unconstitutional South for child rearing during the (LINC) in 1973, indicated tic increase in the number of Carolina law and regulations eariy years of childhood has that 161,000 mothers with babies bom out of wedlock in that condiUon teacher been that of mothers, certification and salary on NTE past ten years were 118,284. land Eastern Shore on Satur day, October 18, in Greens boro Memorial Stadium. For the art lovers, the Richard B. Harrison players will present the play, “Porgy” in the Paul Robeson Theatre, October 13 -18 at 8:15 p.m. Activities of the A&T Alumni Association this year will include the A&T Sports Hall of Fame induction ban quet Friday, Oct. 17, at 8 p.m. in the Cosmos Club I; the annual Homecoming Ball, October 18, in the Royal Villa, and the annual alumni The suit creation of a three-judge court In addition, the suit asked for preliminary and permanent injunctions barring the defendants from enforcing those regulations. Dave Brubeck In High Point HIGH POINT-Dave children under six were work ing and that they had 214,000 children needing day care. The survey also indicated North Carolina. In 1965, there were 10,970 births out of wedlock or 11.2 percent percent of all births for that that the 1600 licensed day year. Ten years later in 1974 care centers across the state there were 12,652 births out at that time could only of wedlock or 15 percent of accommodate 65,000 child- all births. No records are ren. This indicates that available to indicate how The suit also asked that the iciea. gf®atiy to populanz cared for by day care homes, the mothers after the babies were bom. Total births out of _ Today there are 1,749 wedlock, however, during the and compensating them for firsts in the world of jazz: licensed day care centers in financial loss. First modem jazzman on the state that care for 70,000 Assistant Attorney General the cover of Time, recorder children. Another 2,626 day J. Stanley Pottinger, head of of the first jazz single to sell a care homes are registered the CivU Rights Division, said million copies and first jazz with the state office of Child the suit U the second fUed by artist to perform at the White Day Care Licensine that take the Justice Department j L,icensmg tnat take “’■> use of ® “*** care of as many as five teacher P"ticulariy with his octet, he children each. Govemments-federal, state worship service on Sunday, and county-have been Involv- October 19, at 11 a.m. in the ed in the day care dilemma ^^^chard B. Harrison Auditor- for sometime. Prior to 1971, day care Coordinating the student centers in North Carolina activities are Ted Mangum, were not even required to be President of the Student licensed and meet certain Government Association, and standards. The state assumed Watson, “Miss A&T”. this responsibility that year Grant Will Assist after several years of opposi- « n u ■ tion to licensing from some N.C. MinOrlty day care operators and parents. The state is also the biggest purchaser of day care. There are various government al programs that pay for child care for low-income families and families with handicapped children. Some county departments of social services and local mental health centers actually operate day care centers. The N. C. Department of Human Resources in fiscal 1974 -75 spend $12.5 million for day care for a monthly average of 18,610 children. New Minority Programs On UNC-TV explored ties of CHAPEL HILL-SAY BROTHER and GETTIN’ OVER could be the titles of the jazz pos^ibili- The 1970 census indicated ^*t songs, but they’re not. similar suit was filed — '^°“"‘®n>oint and that there were 154,000 two new programs the State of North P^ovacatively employed poly- families in North Carolina special interest to minority CMolina in 1973. A three-judge tonality, polyrhythms, and ^ith female heads of house- audiences which premier on court last month declared the “unusual” meters well before jjold or 12 percent of all UNC-TV in eariy October. practice they all came into fashion. famlUes. SAY BROTHER, NA- Continued on Page 3 Death of husbands is a TIONAL EDITION, is a na- the Justice challenging a state’s use of NTE scores for certification. A North Carolina unconstitutional. tional version of the popular Boston series by and for blacks. It makes its national debut with a 60-mlnute spec ial on “The Nation of Islam” on October 1, at 10:00 p.m. A unique view of an organized religion that is little understood, “The Nation of Continued on Page 3 Businesses WASHINGTON, D.C.- Members of minority groups in North Carolina will receive business assistance services under the terms of a state grant recently announced by Alex Armendaris, director of the U.S. Department of Com merce’s Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE). Armendaris said that the one-year grant, in the amount of $80,000, will enable North Carolina to establish a state office of minority business enterprise, to be located in Raleigh, N.C. The funds will pay for the administra tive cost of its operation. The state is augmenting the feder al funds with $50,000 of state funds. Jerry M. Dodson is executive director of the state OMBE. According to Armendaris, state OMBEs seek to develop ways for minority business men and women to gain a fair share of stated purchases of Continued on Page 6 SUPPORT THE ADVERTISING MERCHANTS OF THIS, YOUR NEWSPAPERl
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