WELFARE RECIPIENTS
TO BE GIVEN JOB TRAINING
Atlanta, Georgia ? Some 1,
680 persons on welfare In North
Carolina will be given job and
training incentives through a
new Work Incentive Program
(WIN), according to William
IU. Norwood, regional manpower |
administrator, U. S. Department
of Labor. $1,122,023 in Federal
funds has been allocated for the
j project. i
| Exempt from the referral are: ^
1. The sick, the incapacitated,
and the elderly.
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NURSERY & KINDERGARTEN
3 - 5 YEARS
Excellent Creative Instruction in Art
and Music
N. C. Certified Teacher
? Hot Balanced Meals
? Large Fenced Play Area
? Constant Supervisor
? Field Trips
Owner: Mrs. Helen B. Holt
1917 Carlton Ave. Greensboro
Call 274-4575 After 5 P.M.
Opens, Tuesday, September 2, 1969
FOOTBALL
THE WORD IS OUT THAT THE 1969 NORTH
CAROLINA A&T FOOTBALL TEAM WILL BE
ONE OF THE FINEST IN THE NATION!
1969 Football Schedule
Home
Oct 4 ? J. C. Smith 8:00 P.M.
Oct. 18 ? Maryland State (Homecoming) 1:80 P.M.
Oct. 25 ? Winston-Salem State 8:00 P.M.
Nov. 8 ? Florida A.&M. 1 :30 P.M.
Nov. 22? N. C. College 1 :30 P.M.
You can see the Aggies in action in five (5) thrilling
home games. Avoid standing in line and secure the
best seats by ordering your tickets NOW.
*A&T is happy to accept Bankamericard ,
Mastercharge and First Bank Charge Card
for all ticket orders.
Season tickets for high-rise reserved section ? $15.00
General Admission season ticket $12.00
Send ticket orders to :
Athletic Tickets, Memorial Student Union, Room
101, A&T State University, Greensboro, N. C.
2. Those who live too far
away from a WIN center to
make participation practical.
3. Persons whose continuous
presence in the home is requir
ed because of illness or inca
pacity of another member of
the household.
4. Full-time students from
welfare homes.
The program is being funded
under provisions of Social Se
curity Act amendments enact
ed in early 1968.
A&T GRADUATE RECEIVES
GRADUATE SCHOOL
FELLOWSHIP
Princeton, N. J. ? The Wood
row Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation announced this
week the award of Martin Lu
ther King, Jr. Fellowships to
sixty-two Black ex-servicemen
and one former WAC corporal.
The fellowships provide full
support over two years for
graduate and professional study
leading to careers in service to
the nation and the community.
In addition, twenty-one addi
tional grants were made to stu
dents who had partial support
from other sources.
26-year-old Harvey Newton,
of Route 4, Greenville, N. C.,
a graduate of North Carolina
A&T State University was
awarded Pre-Medical at Hav
erford College in Pennsylvania.
According to Raymond Rich
ardson, Director of the King
Program, "whether the cry is
for community control or in
creased participation in local in
stitutions, it is clear that train
ed Black leadership is desper
ately needed. Everybody from
the Black Panthers to the na
tion's leading graduate and pro
fessional schools and industries
recognizes veterans as a group
of great promise and potential
for leadership training."
King Fellowships at $270 a
month supplement G.I. bene
fits, over and above tuition
which is absorbed by the grad
uate or professional school at
tended. The combined monthly
minimum income of $400 offers
a real option for additional
training rather than immediate
employment. The largest group
of King Fellows; eighteen, will
be studying law; thirteen are in
social work and related fields,
and five are preparing for ca
reers in business administra
tion. Among other fields of
study are education, medicine,
architecture, psychology, anrt
the sciences. The King Fellows
will be attending 49 universi
ties from Harvard and Colum
bia to Berkeley and the Uni
versity of Arkansas.
The former WAC corporal,
Mrs. Margaret Jones of Tuc
son, Arizona, is also the widow
of a serviceman and the mother
of two teen-agers. At present
employed as a social worker in
the VA hospital in Tucson, Mrs.
Jones will use her fellowship
fot doctoral study in social psy
chology at the University of
Arizona. Another King Fellow,
James H. Rogers of St. Louis, is
writing his doctoral disserta
tion on "The Black Experience
in Contemporary Afro-Ameri
can Literature." James O. Chaf
fers, who is studying architec
ture at the University of Michi
gan, is working on a long range
master plan to be proposed to
the Detroit City Planning Com
mission. Guy Ruth, a welfare
worker for the City of New,
York, where he "witnessed
much suttering, particularly
among my Black brothers and
sisters," will study psychology
to be able to help the mentally
ill. Earl Garrett, Jr. of Mont
clair. New Jersey, is preparing
for dentistry, a field with few
Black practitioners. Joshua
Bursh, of Phoenix, Arizona, is
completing his law studies
specializing in corporation law
with emphasis on developing
businesses with Black owner
ship.
The King Program, now in its
second year, is funded by ma
jor grants from the Rockefeller
and Sloan Foundations, with
additional funds from the Equ
itable Life Assurance Society of
the U.S. and the E. I. du Pont
de Nemours Company. Infor
mation about the program can
be had from the Woodrow Wil
son National Fellowship Foun
dation, Box 642, Princeton, N.J.
ALUMNI COOK-OUT
The Emmanuel Lutheran
College Alumni will have their
cook-out at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Scott A. Williams,
Lake Haven Road, Sunday,
August 24th at 3:30.
Mr. George Irvin, president
BARRY GORDY, JR.
RECEIVES KINO AWARD
Washington, D. C. ? Mo
town Record Corporation pres
ident, Barry Gordy, Jr., has
been named the first recipient
of the National Association of
Television and Radio Announc
ers' (NATRA) Martin Luther
King, Jr. Leadership Award.
The award was presented at
NATRA's Annual Awards Din
ner August 16 before 2,000
black broadcasters, officials of
the record industry, entertain
ers, and Washington officials.
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