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20 THE CAROLINIAN KALEIGH. N.C., SATURDAY JANUARY 20. 1973 MBA# I I * Black Businessmen Fear New UMW Bank Policy Impending Departure Of Head Seen National Black News Service WASHINGTON - Black tusinessmen in this city are more than a little disturbed over the impending departure of True Davis, a former ambassado” to Switzerland, from the helm ol the N.ntional Bank of Washington. The businessmen say that under Davis’ leadership the bank v;as the main source of loans for financing Black business enterprises. Davis is expected to resign at the meeting in March of the bank's Board of Directors. His resignation will be given because he is looked upon with disfavor bv the new leadership ol the United Mine Workers •(UMWI which has the majority interest in the bank. The Association of Technical Assistance Agencies which provides help to minority businessmen met recently to asses their chances for securing loans for minority enterprises in 1973 At that meeting the TAA representatives expressed gra titude to Davis lor his leadership in the minority loan program. Darryl A. Hill Business Resource Center executive director, said that the National Bank of Washington had approved more loans than all the other 13 banks in Washing ton put together. Technical Assistance Agenc ies officials estimated that the bank had made a total of a $ million in minority loans since Davis took over, with another $700,000 in pending loan ap plications. William A. J. Meson, director of the interracial Council for business opportunity said he would request a meeting with Arnold R. Miller, newly elected president of the United Mine Workers to ask that the bank's minority loan program be continued and expanded under the new bank leadership that will succeed Davis. The Back entrepreneurs ai afraid that new lending policies proposed by Miller would result in drying up funds available for minority enterprise. They were also concerned that Blacks elevated to top positions under Davis would to downgraded or dismissed. Every great man is always being helped by every body, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. -John Ruskin. Another Civil Rights Agency Said “Doomed” National Black News Service WASHINGTON — Yet anoth er agency dealing with the ployees, most of whom would be reassigned to other offices within the Justice Department. Other employees would be placed in other government agencies or be dropped. The Nixon Administration plans to announce its action on „ . January 29, and meetings are in Civil Rights Act of progress to plan the dismantl- ate racial trouble, mg procedure for the service which has operated on a $6 million yearly budget. Some supporters of the problems of black people is slated to bite the dust according to a reliable news source here. The Community Relations Service (CRSI of the Justice Department, an agency created under the Civ ' 1964 to mediate The Service, headed by Ben Holman, a black lormer news renorter. has some 300 em- service condemn the prospec tive action saying that there now exists no other agency within the government which is in touch with the life of this country's inner city black communities. Others feel that the agency is serving no useful purpose and may even have been used as a "spying" and surveillance op eration for the Justice Depart ment. When it was first put into operation, the service worked in many tense situations in the South involving civil rights confrontations. Perhaps its most publicized case of med iation involved the role of getting Sheriff Jim Clark of Selma. Alabama to withdraw his firm stance on not allowing courthouse demonstrations led by the late Rev. Dr, Martin Luther King, Jr, in 1965, In its early years, the service was strongly supported bv President Lyndon Johnson and Justice Department ofticials. In latter years it has not played a public role and like other agencies during the current administration its work has been downgraded. Community Relations Serv ice officials refused to comment on the story. HOUSE OF PETS Gainesville, Fla. -• Mark and Becky Schneider are real nature lovers- they share their home with 1,000 fish, two cats, two dogs, two ta- ran^l^j, five birds and five snakes. He said they are able to surround themselves • with nature without going into the woods. PLANE DISCOVERY Saxmundham. England - Police Constable Stewart Evans, whose hobby is un earthing the wreckage of old airplanes, claims to have found the remains of tne World War II Liberator bomb er which carried Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. He says they found fragments or the ex- ploded plane. Nixon Slashes Health Budget National Black News Service W ASHINGTON - By the end of the month. Congress and President Nixon may become invoiced m an Indian wrestling match with the electorate looking on in amazement to see which will be the victory The reason (or such a power struggle is the President’s drastic cutbacks in the area of health services, including such popular federal programs as the control of lead poisoning among low income children, hospital construction, and care for the chronically ill The President's propo.sed budget tor the fiscal year beginning in Julv would in creases in Medicare and Medicaid-the federal health programs lor the elderly and the poor under new amend ments passed by t'ongress last year. The Department ol Health, Education and Welfare would receive about $21 billion, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget-approved proposal Of this sum. $4 billion will go lor health programs other than Medicare and Medicaid. In addition, most research programs are being cut, but the cancer program will receive a $100 million increase to $445 million. In contrasts, the research budget of the National Institutes of Health-most of which will be used for heart disease study-was increased by $18 million. Other research projects for the next fiscal year include environmental health, birth conrol, and venereal disease. The Hill Burton hospital con- truction program, which has built $13 billion worth of hospitals in 4,000 communities during its 16-year existence, will be phased out during the next two vears The proposed budget also calls lor phasing out the Regional Medical Program, slashing community health planning by 10 per cent, cutting maternal and child health and family planning programs, closing eight Public Health hospitals across the country, and eliminating training pro grams in all areas Additionally, programs cov ering malaria research will be cut. rat control programs will be halved, and injury control programs will be reduced. The Medicate increase in eludes $100 million for artifical Kioney treatments ana trans plants and $25 million for peer review programs to guarantee adequate medical care for the poor Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.) has introduced an amend ment requiring Mr.Nixon to submit to Congress by Jan. 29 a report on impounded funds Congress voted to have him presr ,i last year. The Senate Mat . ity Whip proposes to add the imendment to a resolution au' orizing the President to se J his budget to Congress. CROWrve-U "LITTLE MISS UNCF " - Greensboro - Monika Lynelte Washington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darryl M. Washington, was crowned "Little Miss >-JkCF Livingstone College in Salisbury. Monika is the granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. Alfonso E. Gore of Greensboro, and Mr. and Mrs^ McKenzie T. Washington of Hollis. New 'ork: and the great-granddaughter of Mrs. Etta Jane Miller of Salisbury, a^ Washington of New York. New York. A »' was raised and Monika reported over $700. She received a heou‘»“ crown and a $100 Bond. Mrs, Louise M. Shipman, wife of president Dr. F. George Shipman, was chairman of the 'J®"**"'* the UNCF. Monika was sponsored by MUIer Core and her great aunt Mrs. Mabel Miller Jones both alumni ol Livingstone College.
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