i
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
THE TR BUNALA D
A VIABLE. VALID REQUIREMENT
RESPONDING TO
BLACK NORTH. CAROLINA
r
VOLUME m, NO. 27
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1975
$5.00 PER YEAR PRESS RUN 8,500
MEMBER:
North Carolina Black Publishers Association —
North Carolina Press Association, Inc.
From INFO
by Lillian S. Bell
Man Vs Myth
Notes & Reminders
HIGH POINT-Thanks-
giving dinners will be sold
by the Crusaders’ Circle of
First Baptist Church, 701
East Washington Drive,
Thursday, November 27,
1975 from 10:00 A.M. to
5:00 P.M.
Dinners will consist of
turkey, ham and all the
trimmings. Donations of
$1.25 will be asked for the
dinners.
You may call 882-9229 for
deliveries. Willie Lewis is
President of the Crusaders’
Circle.
High Point-The High
Point Parks & Recreation
Department will be spon
soring a City-wide Senior
Citizens Bazzaar at Astor
Dowdy Towers on Satur
day, December 6, 1975.
The bazzaar will run from
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,
and all Senior Citizen
groups are invited and
urged to attend and
participate. Bring your
baked goods, craftwares,
and so on to the Senior
Citizens Bazzaar. For more
information call the Parks
& Recreation Department
at 885-6219 or 885-6925.
A Young Adult Single’s
Club is now being organiz
ed at the Southside
Recreation Center, 401
Taylor Street. Meetings
will be held on Thursday
evenings at 7:30. To join
you must be age 19 or older
and be single. For more
information, call Lue
Brown, Mondays thru
Fridays, 10:00-1:00 P.M. at
883-9412.
Three weeks ago I
asked Louis Martin,
executive editor of the
Chicago Defender,
astute viewer of life and
canny political colum
nist. when did hia
LILLIAN S. BELL
articles produce prolific
reader response.
“When I attack their
sacred cows. That’s
when the letters and
calls pour in,” he re
plied.
Barbara Reynolds,
Chicago Tribune repor
ter can say amen to
that. She attacked one of
Chicago’s most sacred
cows, Jesse Jackson,
and now is being attack
ed in return.
But it hasn’t been all
bad. She’s become a
cause celebre and will
be honored as Headliner
of the 'Y ear by the
Chicago Women in Com-
munications profes
sional organization this
Thursday night.
It hasn’t been all
good, either. She says
her book, “Jesse Jack
son, The Man, The
Movement, The Myth”
lost out in sales because
“it irritated the white
establishment that
counts on Jesse to keep
the lid on the black
communitv.
“Sales are down be
cause bookstores refuse
to display may book —
distribution has been af
fected. I can’t get the
local media exposure I
need, particularly the
mass audience TV talk
shows,” she said.
Pro/ecf Americanna Organized
FAYETTEVILLE-
PROJECT AMERICANNA,
INC. is a non-profit
organization established in
Fayetteville, North Carol
ina by Rev. (Dr.) Maurice
B. Hayes and supported in
principle by Mr. M.M.
Beard and other concerned
citizens. One basic purpose
of this organization is to
help those who can’t help
themselves without regard
to race, creed, sex, or
religious beliefs. Two
recent happenings caused
us in PROJECT AMERI
CANNA, INC. to rally our
support and your support in
these worthy causes. We
Issues Facing North
Blacks In The Seventies
refer to:
1. The wanton slaying of
Mr. William V. Tally of
Fayetteville, N.C.
and
2. The Flim-Flamming of
$2,000.00 from Mrs. Allene
Pitts, Raleigh, N.C., who is
82 years old. The money
represented her life savings
to be used for her burial
expenses.
PROJECT AMERI
CANA, INC., proposes to
do the following through its
funds and your voluntary
donations. This is why we
humbly ask you to help us:
1. Establish a William
Victor Tally Scholarship at
Carolina
Fayetteville State Univers
ity, Fayetteville, N.C. for
any deserving student
regardless of race, sex, or
religious belief based on
eligibility criteria set up.
2. Make a substantial
contribution to Mrs. Allene
Pitts of Raleigh, N.C. as an
indication that others
believe that we are our
brothers’ keeper.
All donations should be
sent to Rev. (Dr.) Maurice
B. Hayes, Box 781,
Fayetteville State Univer
sity, Fayetteville, North
Carolina. Checks should be
made to PROJECT AMERI
CANA, INC.
Shaw Receives
Grant From Sears
KINSTON - The North
Carolina Chapter of The
National Association of
Black Social Workers spon
sor its first state confe
rence: “ISSUES FACING
NORTH CAROLINA
BLACKS IN THE SEVEN
TIES", on December 6,
1975 at the Ramada Inn
Downtown (off Duke Street)
in Durham, N.C.
The purpose of this
timely conference is to
focus the attention of the
states concerned Black
workers on issues Mental
Health, Drug Abuse, Alco
holism, The Black Child
and The Family, The
Criminal Justice System,
The School of Social Work
and The Licensing of Social
Workers.
Its specific focus will be
on recognizing, exploring
and planning approaches to
help remedy some of the
chronic ills of our society.
The conference will serve
as major thrust for the
programs during the en
suing year. This will be
accomplished through a
variety of informative
workshops.
An impressive array of
speakers have been slated
to discuss vital issues
surrounding social pro
blems in the state of North
Carolina. They include:
Cenie Williams, Executive
Secretary of the National
Association of Black Social
Workers; Dr. James Car
ter, Psychiatrist at Duke
University: Jim Wright,
Chairman of the Task Force
on Licensing for the
Alliance of Black Social
Workers; Owusu Sadaukia
(Howard Fuller), Past
founder and teacher at
Malcolm X Liberation
University Durham
Greensboro, N.C.; and
several others.
NUMBER ONE IN N.C.--Mrs. Ruby
Murchinson (2nd from left), recently
chosen as North Carolina’s “Teacher of
the Year”, is all smiles recently as she
receives congratulations from black
Fayetteville, N.C. officials and citizenry.
A Junior High School language and arts
Instructor, Mrs. Murchison Is greeted by
(L-R) W.T. Brown, Assistant Super
intendent, Fayetteville City Schools; Dr.
C.R. Edwards, Chairman, Board of
Education, Fayetteville City Schools; and
Joseph Pillow, President, local NAACP
Chapter.
RALEIGH - Grants
totaling $90,000 from The
Sears-Roebuck Foundation
will be distributed to 40
colleges and universities
including Shaw University
in Raleigh and five other
institutions in the state.
The total grant was
presented in Atlanta by the
Foundation on November
12 to The United Negro
College Fund. Accepting
the check for redistribution
to member institutions was
Christopher F. Edley of
New York, executive direc
tor of UNCF. Colleges in
North Carolina will receive
$12,634.
The Sears-Roebuck
Foundation is a non-profit
corporation organized and
endowed by Sears, Roe
buck and Company to carry
on charitable, scientific and
educational programs, with
established groups with a
view toward improving the
well being of American
society.
In 1975 unrestricted
grants totaling $1,250,000
will be made to other
private colleges and uni
versities throughout the
nation.
At the presentation in
Atlanta was A.M. Prado,
Sears Southern Territory
vice president.
Shaw University in Ra
leigh will receive $2,828
from the UNCF grant.
Other grants include:
Barber-Scotia College in
Concord, $1,498; Bennett
College in Greensboro,
$1,572; Johnson C. Smith
University in Charlotte,
$2,196; St. Augustine’s
College in Raleigh, $2,805
■ and Livingston College in
Salisbury, $1,735.
The United Negro Col
lege Fund conducts natio
nal fund raising campaigns
in order to raise money for
operating expenses of 41
predominantly black col
leges and universities.
Edley said that 48,000
students were enrolled in
UNCF institutions last year
and the national fund
raising goal for 1975 is $14
million. The money is used,
he said, “for student
financial aid, the upgrading
of facilities and staff, the
upgrading of libraries, to
expand curricular offerings
in the field of business,
economics, medicine and
communications and add
new teaching and labora
tory equipment.”
The Sears-Roebuck
Foundation has been mak
ing grants to UNCF since
1955. A Dean Swift,
president of Sears, current
ly serves as Corporation
Committee Chairman for
the fund.
Another backlash
developed. When
Encore, a black bi
weekly newsmagazine,
published excerpts from
her book, three of
Encore’s largest adver
tisers withdrew their
business, Barbara said.
Nevertheless, she be
lieves leaders must be
accountable, and it is
not treason and treach
ery to the race for other
blacks to seek this
accountability.
“Jesse used the
drama of Martin L.
King’s death to
establish himself. The
men in Memphis when
King was killed swear
Jesse was not on the
balcony and did not
cradle the dying leader
in his arms.” According
to Barbara, Jesse seized
the opportunity to pro
mote himself with the
news media with these
untruths and has ridden
on a Messiah image
ever since.
I had heard about her
book but had not read it.
I bought a copy and
settled down. It’s long,
nearly 500 pages and
filled with much tedious
detail. But she makes
her points and docu
ments them — Jesse
depends on his
charisma for popularity
not the strength of his
programs; Jesse is
careful not to offend the
important white power;
and more.
When the book was
BARBARA REYNOLDS
published early this
year, Jesse publicly
accused her of having
whites who were against
him “ghost write” her
book. Barbara was en
raged and demanded
and got a “gracious,
sorrowful” private
apology. (She has since
regretted not having de
manded a public one.)
If the media, parti
cularly Playboy maga
zine, made Jesse, as
Barbara says, the
media also made a vil
lainous piece out of her
book. Uncompli
mentary passages were
played up and the pas
sages that seemed to me
to reveal the author as a
star-struck follower be-
gfiiming to see clay feet,
were played down.
Most journalists just
become a shade more
cynical when the tarnish
begins to show. Barbara
wrote a book.
Barbara did it be
cause she enjoys a chal
lenge. She graduated
from Journalism School
at Ohio State University
in 1967 with the odds
against black journalis
tic success.
She took a social work
job in Cleveland and
“did so well I quit,” she
said. “I knew I’d never
work in journalism if I
stayed.” She worked a
short time for the Cleve
land press daily news
papers, then moved to
Ebony magazine in
Chicago. She tried to
rockJohnson’s Ebony
boat and was fired. Now
she is with ^e Tribune,
one of seven black re
porters on a staff of 350.
The book that Jesse
would not give her per
mission to write, follows
him from childhood in
Greenville, S.C., to col
lege, to the mountain
with Dr. King, through
1974. It offer a probing
look at the moods and
motives of a talented,
complex, black man.
I did not find her
vindicative and mean.
At the end she says “For
five years I have follow
ed the leader. Now I
smile, wave, and wish
him well as I go off in
another direction.”
We’ll see which way
the road turns.
I
The 1975 WSSU Sports Hall of Fame
inductees are from left to right: Jack
O’Kelly, Willis Johnson, Jack M.
Blood Test Halts Newborn BIsease
DeFares, Albert E. Griffith, Troy Davis,
and Odell Clanton, (photo by Bailey)
From INFO
Can the state of North
Carolina afford to spend
$60,000 per year to test
80,00 newborn babies for
phenylketonuria (PKU)
when only three to four
cases are discovered?
The answer is, the state
can ill afford not to do the
test when the cost of
maintaining a person in a
mental retardation center
for a lifetime is considered.
Ask a young Raleigh
couple if the test is worth
the expense to the state.
They thrilled recenlty to the
birth of a supposedly
flawless baby girl. Soon
after the infant started
taking its formula, a tiny
prick was made on its heel,
a drop of blood soaked into
a blotter-like card and sent
to the State Laboratory to
be analyzed for PKU.
In a matter of hours the
results were telephoned to
the baby’s pediatrician.
Probable PKU. The pedia
trician immediately ordered
a confirming test. No doubt
about it, a textbook case.
The young parents
rounded up an armload of
books containing informa
tion about PKU in a frantic
attempt to learn more abut
the strange-sounding di
sease affecting their child.
What they learned only
added to their anxiety.
Their concern was justi
fied because PKU, if not
checked, can poison the
brain of a newborn infant
within a matter of two
months to the extent that
the baby will be hopelessly
retarded. The disease
works like this:
Amino acids, one of hte
life’s building blocks,
comes from protein foods.
When broken down the
amino acid involved in PKU
is called phenalalanine.
Some babies cannot meta
bolize phenalalanine. As it
accumulates the brain cells
are gradually destroyed.
The victim is left retarded.
That’s J. Edgar....lived 6 yrs. past his time trying
to damage your reputation.
SUPPORT THE ADVERTISING MERCHANTS OF TH IS, Y O U R N EW S PA P E R !