THE BETTER WE KNOW US ...
SALISBURY — A man who is com-
munity-oriented, community-minded
and community-active describes this
weeks personality, MR. WILEY LASH,
a small grocery store owner and
manager. A man who has been, and
still is, active in the development of
his community for Whites as well as
Blacks.
Mr. Lash is a native of Salisbury
where he attended public schools, but
as his father was a Lutheran minister,
he attended high school at Emmanuel
Lutheran College in Greensboro. Fol
lowing high school, he came back to
Salisbury to continue his education at
Livingstone College where he gradu
ated majoring in ijociology.
by Miller
Mr. Lash got into the grocery
business through his father who
started the business in 1929. As a
matter of fact, there was a chain of
seven stores; but through the years,
five of the stores have closed down
leaving two, one of which is operat
ed by Mr. Lash. Mr. Lash recalls the
year he opened the store, commenting
“1 was the second black businessman
ever to have a store in my block. The
whole block was filled with white
businesses.” Now, all of the other
businesses have moved or closed down
- but “Lash Groceries” is still in its
original spot and Mr. Lash says, “The
business is doing O.K.”
The 45-year-old grocery business is
Carter, Jr.
only part of Mr. Lash’s life. He is also
involved in a number of civic organi
zations. Mr. Lash is a member of the
Salisbury School Board and has been
on it for eleven years. He is also a
member of the Board of Re-Develop-
ment Commission, the City Board of
North Carolina National Bank
(N.C.N.B.), the Board of Directors in
the local Chamber of Commerce and a
number of other organizations. He
serves in an official capacity as Presi
dent of the Lincoln Park Apartment
Development of Salisbury and is the
Treasurer of the Negro Civic League
of which he has been a member since
1930.
Mr. Lash reveals that during the
integration era he was the only black
on the Salisbury School Baord, and a
large part of the integration in Salis
bury schools was on his shoulders.
Besides being the first Black on the
School Board, Mr Lash was also one
of the first Blacks in the NCCJ
(National Conference of Christians
and Jews) where he presided as
Chairman.
Integrated housing, low cost hous
ing and recreation facilities for young
people are just a few things that Mr.
Lash has seen come to pass through
the years of his community efforts.
One of the most memorable experi
ences Mr. Lash has faced was that of
Continued on Page 2
THE TR BUNALAID
A VIABLE, VALID REQUIREMENT
RESPONDING TO
BLACK NORTH CAROLINA
r ■■
VOLUME III, NO. 24 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1975
$5.00 PER YEAR PRESS RUN 8,500
MEMBER: North Carolina Black Publishers Associatioi; -
” i'orth Carolina Press Association, Inc.
Notes & RemindersI
The High Point Jaycees
will once again sponsor the
High Point Junior Miss
Pageant on November 15,
1975. The pageant will be
held in the auditorium at
High Point College, and
will begin at 7:30 p.m.
This year twenty-three
contestants, all high school
seniors, will compete.
pre-registration is available
by calling 869-7010.
BASKETBALL OFFICLi-
TING CLASS
Mondays,
thru December
8:30 p.m. a
persons intrested in officia-
tin basketball for the City
Leagues will be held at the
Leonard Street Recreation
NCCU Founder And Wife
Named To Hall Of Fame
representing Trinity, Allen Center. Call 883-2735 for
Jay, High Point Central, further details.
Andrews, Ragsdale, and
Ledford High Schools.
Tickets are available at
the Jaycee office.
MEN’S OPEN BASKET
BALL LEAGUE
Anyone interested in
play or coaching in an adult
men’s open basketball
league please call the
Leonard Street Recreation
Center, 883-2735. Play is
scheduled to start Decem
ber 2 with practice sessions
going on now.
Also, anyone desiring
team practice that will be
participating in City recre
ation leagues please call
the Leonard Street Center
for space and time
reservations.
CAKE DECORATING
The Oakview Recreation
Center is offering a second
5 week cake decorating
class just in time for
Christmas lovelies. Novem
ber 18 at 7:00 p.m. is the
scheduled starting time.
CHATTING WITH EBONY MODELS
-Mrs. Emaretta Felton, [extreme right]
newly-elected President of the Fayette
ville fN.C.] Chums, Inc., and out-going
prexy ivirs. ayivia Alien, cnai wiin two
Ebony Fashion Models prior to showtime.
The affair was sponsored by Chums of
Fayetteville, and was very successful.
North Carolina Central
University enshrined the names of
its founder and wife as the first
members of the North Carolina
Central University Hall of Fame on
Monday, November 3 at its 28th
annual Founder’s Day Convocation
and on the 100th anniversary of Dr.
Shepard’s birth.
Dr. James Edward Shepard and
Mrs. Annie Day Shepard, both of
whom died in 1947, were the
moving forces in the birth and early
development of the institution of
higher learning.
The NCCU Hall of Fame was
aeated to mark the university’s
50th anniversary as a senior
state-supported college. North
Carolina Central University became
Uhe nation’s first black
state-supported university with a
liberal arts orientation in 1925,
when Durham State Normal School
became the North Carolina College
Black Children^ m
Confidence And Self Esteem
Are Development Keys
NEW YORKi N. Y. - The black institutions as a means of creating a
sociai-protest movement has been new generation of blacks seeking
**the most single powerful force” in ‘*some values and goals in common
fostering national black jpride but with their white contemporaries in
more needs to be done at the grass order that some sort of integrated
roots level to help individual black republic can eventually arise.”
underclass children develop The authors, professors of
self-esteem and 'confidence, pyschology at WilUam Paterson
according to a nejv psychological College of New Jersey, contend
study. that by the time ghetto youngsters
TTie study, “Children of the start school they have already
Dark Ghetto: A Developmental developed distinct personalities,
Psychology,*’ states that black most of which are typified by
ghetto ditldren still “face the same antagonism toward adults,
problems their parents faced*' when especially teadiers.
they were young. While their Professors SUverstein and Krate
“group and individual identities are broke the personalities down into
changing in large measure because four type - The ambivalents,
of the i^ck ethnic ideology,** they constituting the majority, who
nevertheless lack the longed for warm relationships but
^'community-based support for “often were pulled in the opposite
their development.** direction by the desire to appear
The study, made possible by self-reliant”;
grants from the Anti-Defamation — The precocious independents.
League of B*nai B*rith and fte ^nerally * stubborn,” unfriendly to
Carn^e Corporation of New York, adults and peers, although some
ha* been published as a book by were “known to associate with
Ifraeger and is being distributed by older children who were heavily
ADL. Barry Sflverstein and Ronald involved in street culture
-- The mainstreimers, most process that results in functional despite the wide acceptance of
resembling middle-class white illiteracy*’ for most poor black may be “encouraged in the
children who if not friendly to students, marking them for life and mainstream development,” but
adults, “were at least cooperative “further diminishing their sense of most are pushed into ‘ being ‘one of
and usually obedient.” pride, dignity and self-confidence.” the gang,’ ” or if not deeply
The first three types, according It notes that only those pupils who committed to the street-based
dis(^y behavior which appeals to group, are left to “languish
administrators and teachers are pro^iack slogans, relatively few
placed in the “best” Classes, where • •• . j —
the instructor can “push them
harder to read.’ Little is expected
of the rest, who are deemed “less
like middle-class children, and
therefore, less promising as
achievers.”
to the psychologists, seemed to
suffer “intense feeling of shame
and doubt*’ stemming largely from
a lack of adult emotional support in
their own family life. Professors
SUverstein and Krate found “a
pervasive mistrust of adults” among
the children they saw growing up.
Their pupils “appeared to be
remarkably self-reliant and
independent.” Many possessed the
“strength, toughness, callousness
and even brutishness” which
equipped them for survival, but
'these very characteristics had the
effect of interfering with adult
control and influence” over them.
“Neither the threat of
withdrawal of emotional support
nor fear of beating (after a while)
could make many of the children
obedient to adult direction or keep
them away from the peer and street
Professors Sflverstein and Krate
indigenous structures and programs
have been created in inner-city
black communities” to work with
and help the children.
Even with heightened racial
pride, the authors continue,
‘'mdividuals are left to face the
consequences of economic
say this “sorting process” commits exploitation and racism with very
ei^t-year-olds to^either “a middld Httle support and direction,
dass or street- oriented lifestyle” Survival is often bought at the price
of diminished group cohesiveness
and heightened suspiciousness.’
Krate, ^»1to spent a combined 11 activitie -- The submissives, influence partnts feared,*’ the
years teadUng in Central Harlem, representing “a significant psychologists said,
are the authcvs. They call for “a minority,” who tended to be
closer tic between black “quiet, inactive, nonass»tive, stok,
nationalism” and neighborhood ^d socially isolated”;
The study contends that ghetto
schools participate in “an insidious
for the rest of their lives. A fe^l
apathetically.’
Acknowledging that there have
been developments in the past
decade to increase black self-pride,
they cite the rise of new
organization, election of blacks to
public office, and more authentic
portrayals of black American life
and culture in the media. They go
on to say, however, that the Black
movement remains “a relatively
unguided process.”
According to the psychologists,
Lacking are the kind of self-help
institutions which many white
ethnic and religious minorities
established to maintain positive
identity and meet specific group
needs.
According to Professors
SUverstein and Krate, “the major
tasks of black-child sociatiza^n
and development today may lie in
planned efforts to orient dhildien
Continued on Page 6
for Negroes.
Dr. Shepard, who was bon.
November 3, 1875, founded in
1910 the National Religious
Training School and Chautauqua.
He led the school as its president
during five years under that name,
eight years as the National Training
School, two years as Durham State
Normal School,, and 22 years as
North Carolina College.
He was a native of Raleigh and a
graduate of that city’s Shaw
University, where he received his
professional training as a
pharmacist. He was a leader of the
International Sunday School
Association.
Mrs. Shepard, who married Dr.
Shepard in 1895, worked closely
with him during the university’s
early years. She served as Matron of
the Dining Hall for a brief period,
but for most of the years of her
association with the university held
no title.
As the president’s wife, she was
remembered as a guide and
counselor to two generations of
students.
Mrs. Shepard was the author of
the Ijrics to the uiiiversily’s Alma
Mater. I'hose words, which begin
“The sloping hills, the vcrdani
green, itie lovel)' blossoms'
beauteous sheen,” are still sung
today at every athletic event and
formal university convocation.
The principal address was
delivered by The Reverend Phillip
R. Cousin, Pastor of St. Joseph’s
AME Church, Durham. The
Invocation and Benediction were
by The Reverend Harold Cobb,
Pastor, West Durhani Baptist
Church. William A. Clement,
Chairman of the NCCU Board of
Truestees conducted the induction
ceremony. Chancellor Albert N.
Whiting presented a Tribute to the
Shepard F'amily. Other participants
on the program were Miss Celia t.
Davidson, organist, Lena McLm,
Marion Wiggins, Paula Harrell, Miss
DeEdgra Fozard, "Miss NCCU”,
Jonathan Davis, president, Student
Government Association, Miss
Vatara Copeland, C. Bruce Butler,
Howard Hansen, the NCCU Choir
under the direction of Charles H.
Gilchrist and the NCCU Band,
under the direction of Dr. Joseph
T. Mitchell,
Government Should
Aid Minorities Also
Governor Makes
Appointments
RALEIGH-Governor Jim Green serves on
Holshouser announced the Durham City Board of
reappointment of Billy M. Adjustment, the Board of
Sessoms, a Durham attor- Directors and Management
ney and the appointment of Development, Inc., and the
Cicero M. Green, Jr., of Board of Directors of The
Durham to the North North Carolina Society of
Carolina Central University Financial Analysts. He is a
Board of Trustees. member of the Kyles
Both will serve terms Temple A.M.E. Zion
expiring June 30, 1979. Church.
Green, a Durham native. Green is married to the
is vice president and former Dora A. Jenkins
treasurer of North Carolina They have one daughu’i
Mutual Life Insurance and one son.
Company. He received his Governor Jim Holshous-
B.S.C. and M.S.C. degrees er reappointed two mem-
from North Carolina Cen- bers and named one new
tral University and com- member to the North
pleted the Executive Pro- Carolina Agricultural and
gram of Professional Man- Technical State University
agement at the University Board of Trustees,
of North Carolina. Reappointed for terms
He served four years in expiring June 30, 1979,
the U.S. Air Force. Cbntinued on Paffe 2“
WSHINGTON, D. C. - Attacking
the federal government for
passing-the-buck in response to
demands by minority American for
the formal establishment of
minority economic participation in
the nation’s proposed plan for the
reorganization of the “railroads in
bankruptcy’, the National Business
League recently released a stinging
status report on the organization’s
push for one of the mechanisms to
deliver parity to minority people in
this country.
Thwarted in its initial efforts to
incorporate provisions in the
official plan prepared by the United
States RaUway Association, prior to
its submission to Congress, the 75
year-old association is now seeking
to wage a battle against a proposal
which is slated for passage or veto
as a whole, with no provisions for
amendment.
NHL President, Dr. Berkeley G.
BurreU, in analyzing the current
status said: “What the federal
governemt is saying to us, and
^ecifically USRA and CONRAIL,
is that the Final Systems Plan is
more sacrosanct than the United
States Constitution, in that it
cannot be amended. We have
forwarded to Senators Birch Bayh
(D.Jnd.) and Clifford Case (R., N.
J.) and some 30 selected members
of the Congress and the
Administration, recommended
language for the amendment of the
current plan.”
‘ We seek only to assist this
country”, he continued, “as it
attempts to recover economicaUy,
and to use the process of parity for
the people as the vehicle. The time
is short and unless action is taken
immediately to (1) establish
legislative policy, (2) create the
NBL-proposed National Railroad
Resource Center (NRRC), and (3)
to provide adequate funds to
support the national effort the
Center will undertake; ‘he
opportunity for substantive
minority economic participation in
the railroad revitalization effort wUl
br seriously eroded, and probably
lost.’
Senator Bayh, Chairman of the
Senate Subcommittee on
Transportation Appropriations
addressed the NBL 75th Annual
Convention in Boston on Oct. 10,
and in support of the NBL push for
minority participation said:
Continued on Page 2
Bishop Warns Black Non-Voters
FLORENCE, S.C. - About 3,000 btocks mtreh«d through Fk>rtnc«, 8.C. itrMtt to mttt at 1h« 11'Story, dty-eounty
jcomplex here to protest the shooting to death of a black man by a white city policenMn. It was the second shooting of a
black by a white policeman in Florence this year.
SANFORD - Whfle some black
voters in Durham were staying
away from the polls, Tuesday,
Bishop W. A. HiUiard, presiding
over the 95th session of the Central
N, C. Conference, A. M E. Zion
Church, of which Durham is a part,
warned blacks that they had come a
long way, but they had a longer
way to go.
In his episcopal address, after
reading the editorials of the two
Durham daily newspapers, in which
the whites were being warned
that blacks were taking over, he
veered from his prepared text and
said “we must become involved in
the econon^y and politics of this
nation or we will continue to be the
last hired and the first fired.”
He told the churchmen thi.i the
black children had to be educated
or they would find the door of
employment closed and the lock on
promotion frozen. He took a close
look at the economy of the blacks
in this area and told them that they
must become concerned about the
aisis that is facing the tobacco
industry. He was referring to the
fact that subsidies are being
threatened, quotas for growing
tobacco are being discussed and
farm employment opportunities are
opening.
He saw 9 new day dawning for
blacks returning to the state if they
become involved in producing some
of the commodities that make life
possible, take a closer look at
Dolitics and provide proper
Muca^ion for their children.
The prelate also took a crack at
church leaders who still hold to the
tradition that young people are to
be seen and not heard in church
operation. “Church administrators
must be willing to accept change or
accept a revolution in church
circles”, he said.
The conference opened Monday
and is devoting much time to
“church policy”, ' Choirs
from St. Mark Church furnished the
music Monday night.
Revs. L. A. Miller, L. P. Perry, C.
C. Satterfield, M. F. Ward,Lawrence
Turner and Virginia Pitchfood are
playing important roles. Alexander
Barnes, Revs. Ward Miller and
Satterfield are active in the
institutes, of which Rev. D. L.
Blakely, former Kyles Temple
pastor, is the dean.
SUPPORT THE ADVERTISING MERCHANTS OF THIS, YOUR NEWSPAPER!