North Carolina Newspapers

1 U.S. Commission 145 Blacks Fired In 20 Districts Alarming Rate Of Blacks * Bares Big Teacher Loss PRESS RUN THIS W£EK 9,i A United States Civil Rights Commission survey of 20 of the Stefp’Q lfi9 ' State’s 152 school districts shows ™uca^rs arc lositiK |obs at an alarming rate, E. B Palmer, associate secretary NCAE, said Kenerally school districts under court orders had small increases during the survey period 1970-1971 Included were Charlotte Mecklenburg, Durham' r ayetteville, and Granville. Jobless Risina Of Raleigh’s total teacher supply of 959. 22 or 23.1 percent teported as black in 1968. The Raleigh total increased to 972 in 1970 with a loss of 3 blacks. According to the survey. Raleigh added 13 teachers in 1968-1970 but lost three black teachers in the shuffle. Durham lost 22 teachers but gained 4 blacks during the same period. Rainier said the trend elimin ation of black educators is “clear and distinct and must be reversed immediately.” He called upon “educational leaders and community activ ists to employ black educators at least in proportion to the population of the Black student body “ He said all lawful means would be used to force school units “to discontinue the practice of reducing the black leaching population” Other highlights of the survey revealed that 19 of the Creaven (‘ountv tearhers lost were black In Martin County 23 of the 26 teachers dropped were black In Vance County the trend continued with 18 of 24 blacks being displaced. And in Warren County. 10 of 22 jobs lost in this heavily populated black center were black. Palmer emphasized the “a- larming nature of the elimina tion of black teachers” bv observing, in the 20 districts surveyed, “twenty-two positons were gained while 145 black positions were cut out." Pitt County gained 19 teach ing po.sitions and eliminated 37 jobs formerly held by blacks Cumberland County gained 48 positions and lopped off 13 blacks. New Hanover (Wil mington I gained 32 and dropped seven blacks. Asheville City and Robeson (.'ounty appear to be losing black teachers on a basis proportionate to their numbers in the population The complete report: THE CAROLINIAN NarthCaroUn'i^s Leadinf' Weekly I Founder’s Dr. Holland, Dr. Horton To Speak VOL. 32, .\0. 15 WEEK ENDING S.-\T., FEB. 10, 1973 SINGLE COPY lir Assailant At Large LigonGirl Shot Condition Remains Serions Unrest At Voorhees The 106th Founders’ Day eeiehralion at Saint Augustine’s C’oliege. will begin on Wednes day evening, February 14, with the coronation of 'Miss Home- coming”. Miss Wilhelmina VVillinian. a 19 year old sophomore education and soci- oiogy major from Baltimore, Maryland, will be crowned ' Miss Homecoming. " at 8 p.m. in the Emery Health and Fine .■\rts Building. The Founders' Day Banquet i.s scheduled for 6 p.m. in the College Union. The banquet speaker will be Dr. Jerome H. Holland, former Ambassador to •Sweden: member of the Board of the New- Exchange. An All College Assembly will take place on Thursday,' Feb 15, at 11 a.in. in ihe Emery Health and Fine Arts Building The speaker on this occ.i-..-1 will be Dr Larnie (1. llo'|.. i special assistant to ihc Uuvi r nor for Minority Aifairs. Slate (See. DK. UUI.LA.M). I>. -i York Stock I See. I'.S. BLACKS. P. 2l Lincoln Hospital Joins With CountyCombine DUHH.-\M Kven though there are very few people □round who remember when Lincoln Hospital wa.s the only medical facility for blacks in (he Durham area and even (hough there are still fewer who remember when the groans of ■iit’k people cast a synipalhetic •spirit over the area from the .md ot Mobile Avenue on the ‘asl to Ramsey St on Ihc west, ill along PnK-tor The horse and buggy days of many louse calls would find lorses around the frame juilding early in the morning, There such doctors as S. L. Warrt'n. ('harles SI v^wrd and t’ldiik C'diJwt-ll Aj.o were Du as! to give up the horse and >uggy- Drs Mills, Strudwick ind the others had taken to iutomobiles earlier. Perhaps there are a few more who saw the drive launched to move Lincoln to a new place. It s believed that Drs. Warren ind Shepard led the movement, tt was decided that Lincoln would be moved to Fayetteville .Street and it came to pass Once in Its new quarters and with black hospitals fading out in many North Carolina towns. Lincoln not only had to extend Us merciful hand to the fevered brow of Durham s sick, mothers in waiting. Saturday night butchery and acute appendicitis patients, but had to serve the surrounding area. It was out of Lincoln that hundreds of interns went to all parts of the nation to practice. It was from Lincoln’s Nursing Schools that many Florence Nightingales went forth to aid in taking care of the sick - some *'VcU found their way to the far flung battle fields. Perhaps the last page in this book, as it relates to the art of immediate suffering, was writ ten Monday when the trustees turned over the ownership of all properties of the hospital to the County Hospital Corporation. The transaction is expected to (See. LINCOLN. P. 2) BV KARL .MASON A 14-year-old Ligon Junior High School student, a juvenile parolee from one of the youth centers, still remained at large Wednesday after allegedly shooting and seriously injuring a 14-year-old female school mate with a .22 caliber pistol Tuesday afternoon on Swain Street near the intersection of Lenoir Street. Diane Robinson of 119 Cam den Street, who is the daughter of Mrs. Phyllis Robinson, a free lance writer of The CAROLINIAN'S weekly feature column “Strikes And Spares” remains in serious condition at Wake Memorial Hospital fol lowing an operation Tuesday- night. According to reports to The CAROLINIAN by Mrs. Robin son. Diane was shot in one side of her neck with the bullet coming through the other side of her neck. The operation was performed by doctors at Wake Memo/ial because they thought the bulipt roiild have hit orr of the larger veins in the neck and the bleeding had to be : lopped. The shooting occurr^ be tween 2:30 and 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. No factual motives had been developed as late as Wednesday morning. Sgt. B. E. Marshburn told 'The CAROLINIAN Wednesday that Prexy Ouster Which Way Today For Civil Rights U.S. And AT&T Sign History-Making Pact WASHING'! UiN In what federal officials call a history- making. precedent-setting a- greement. the American Tele phone and Telegraph Company has agreed to pay victims of racial and sex discrimination payments which could total $15 million. AT&T also agreed to develop a new wage and promotion policy for minority employees and blacks which may cost the company another $23 million in the coming year. The federal Equal Employ ment Opportunity Commission had charged that blacks, especially in the South, had been systematically excluded from high-paying craft jobs and were frequently blocked from these jobs by unfair tests. The complaint also said that women employees were segre- 2 Claim gated by company policies which set certain jobs aside for them, especially those of operators and clerks. The higher-paying jobs for reserved for white men. EEOC contend ed. Without agreeing that the complaint had merit, since hundreds of suits are now pending in court against the AT&T company, the agreement specifies that EEOC will drop its charges. The settlement could set precedents through major industries in the future. EEOC officials claim. About 13,000 women and 2.000 minority men will get the $12-$15 million since they may '5>ee. US & AT&T. P. 2) after police used the chemical to disperse fikhtinTstulms. , LW » '<•« HHH Asks $14 Billion U. S. Jobs Bill Appreciation * Money KKK Victim Visits Raieisli Two more winners have added their names to the growing list of winners in The CAROLINI.AN’s Appreciation Money weekly feature. Mrs. Maude P. Haywood and Harold Rhodes were the latest winners in this newspaper’s feature. Mrs. Haywood, who resides at 202 Parrish Street, saw her name in the Heilig-Le- (See. At'HRECTATION. P. 2) HAROLD RHODES The Rev, Vicent u. Warren, who was kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan 47 years ago. visited Raleigh this week. He has been a lifelong advocate of racial justice. The present black bishop of Mississippi, the Rev. Joseph L Howze was one of the Rev. Mr. Warren's converts to Catholic ism. Now 83. Mr. Warren was in Raleigh this week to visit an old friend. Bishop Vincent S. Walers. A member of the Josephites order that works entirely with blacks, Rev. Mr. Warren was kidnapped in 1926 when he was leaching school in an all-t .ack parish in Norfolk, Va, One of Mr. Warren's friends, a while business man and Klan member, saved the priest from the Norfolk klan. He remained under police protection for several months. Warren angered the with his activities blacks. Die incident only maae him more determined. One of the blacks whom he influenced was the Rev. Mr. Howze. Rev. Howze last month be came the first black bishop ot the Diocese of Natchez-Jack- son. which includes all of Mississippi. they have several pos motives but nothing substanial at this lime. Detective G. H. W’estbrook has been assigned to the case. Lt. L. T. Williams of the Raleigh police Department said the boy has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon in a ji’venile petition.' V. V. Langston, assistant principal at Ligon. told The CAROLINT.AN Wednesday that he had a few minor problems with both of the students but nothing major. He turther slated that he has had verv feu problems with Miss Robinson while he ha.s more man a normal amount of problems with the boy who is alleged to have shot the girl. "I have had a little more than a average number of problems with the boy but nothing serious. ■ Langston staled, ’ I have had to call him in tor such things as fights and failing to stay in after school when asked to do so." He was unable to pinpoint a motive for the shooting but said he felt the incident grew out of an argument or quarrel that developed after school. (See. LO( .\L GIRI.. iV 2> WASHINGiON, D.C. - Sena tor Hubert H. Humphrey recently charged “that the Republican Administration is attempting to solve the unem ployment problem simply by- announcing that the problem no longer exists. “This clearly exposes the Nixon Administration's deter mination to see only what it wants to see in determining spending priorities for domestic needs. It ignores continuing and extensive human despair and anxiety," he said. Humphrey’s remarks were made as he introduced in the U.S. Senate the Employment Opportunities Act of 1973, which he declared “would halt the regression in Federal man power policy and programs” and “establish a national policy to promote maximum employ ment.” " Behind the figures of a partial decline in unemploy ment are harsh facts of major groups of job .seekers still left with frustration and despair." he said. "For example, the decline in unemployment do over four million unemployed' occurred wholly among adult workers The unemployment rate for teenagers has remained at a crisis level of over 15 percent And the unemployment rale for blacks, at 10percent, showed an increa.se ot a year ago “But the Administration has presented a Federal budget for Fiscal 1974 which not only proposes major cutbacks in iund^ to combat joblessness and to curtail job training and emplovmenl opportunities. it also cancels some of them altogether.” Under the Humphrey em ployment measure, one million new public service jobs could be created, with an authorization of $7 billion for each of the Fiscal Years 1974 and 1975. “To assure that a maximum effort is made across the nation to combat joblessness, the bill designates broad categories of eligible public service employ ers. not distinguishing ^tween communities on ,the basis of Opera Singer Here Thursday .Mattiwilda Dubbs, interna tionally known coloratura soprano, will sing with the .N'.C. Symphon> for three weeks beginning with a Wednesda> night concert in (’hapel Hill. She Hill appear in ItaleiBl, Thursday night at Jones .ludilorium al .Merenilh C’oliege. Miss Dobbs is noted foi her operatic roles with ihe Melropoliian ‘^peia (om- pan\ in this country and with La Scal'j in Europe. Is there a genuine black civil rights movement today? Who are its leaders? Where is it going? What is the future of the civil rights movement in America? Editor-in-chief Bill Moyers a«?ked these and other questions of three black Americans who were in the vanguard of the civil rights movement in the volatile 1960 s on BILL MOYERS’ JOURNAL in a program entitled “Civil Rights - To^y," aired nationally over the Public Broadcasting Service on Tues day. February 6 at 8.30 p.m. from New- York. Appearing on the program were Georgia Stale Represent ative Julian Bond, former SNCC and Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael, and jour nalist Charlayne Hunter Galt, the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia. Bond. 32, is a product of the “new South.” He was communi cations director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com mittee from 1961 to 1965. when he won election to the Georgia House of Representatives from Atlanta’s lUh District. Fellow legislators objected to his opposition to the Vietnam War and prevented him from taking his seat for one year. Carmichael, also 32, was born in Trinidad and came to the U.S. at the age of two. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, it was he who first coined the phrase lA dr. HORTON Pole Crash Kills Speeding Motorist (See. WHICH WAY?. P. 2) CHAPEL HILL Willi.un Manning Hargraves. 38. of ill Caldwell Street, will be huri(>d from St. Puul A M E I htirdi 2:30 p.m., Thursday, wiih 'd Rev. T. L. Cole offif’^iing Manning is reported a.s having died as the result m having operated a car along West Rosemary Street, about U p.m., Sunday, at an estimaled (See. POLE D. C Paper Lr^^ds Black Mayor 'See. HHH ASKS. P. 2) CRIME BEAT From Raleigh’s OfflcUi Police File* but Klan among Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK NATURAL HEALTH FOOOS Where Oood Health Can Be Made Better And Fair Health Improved EDITOR'S NOTE; ThU coiuma or feature 1« produced In the iiub- Uc Intereit with an aim towards ellminatinc its contents. Numer ous indhlduah have requested that they be given the considera tion ot overlookin' their listing on the police blotter. This vva would like to do. However, it is not our position to be Judge or Jury. We merely publish the facts as we find them reported by the arresting officers. To keep out n| The Crime Beat Columns, merely means not being registered by a police officer in reporting his findings W'hUe on dulv. So sim ply keep off the -'Blotter'- and you won't be la The Crime Beal. STRIT’K WITH M.\.\IMER Officer J.T Fisher an.swpred a call on February 3 at 12 p.m al 712 Quarry* St where- complainant George I Pullioni allegedly .staled to him that -Melvin Bridge of the aijove address, was rousing a disturb ance across the street from his residence Pullion reported that he went across the street to tell •Mr, Bridge to “settle dowti” and Mr. Bridge then allegedly ^Iruck him in the face with a hammer, breaking his jawbone. After he w-as hit. Pullion stated ihat he went home to bed because Bridge had locked himself in the house and he ' Pullion» could no longer talk to him. Pullion went to Wake Memorial Hospital for treat ment on Sunday of a fractured jawbone Listed on the police general offense report as a witness was Marie Hinson 17 Quarry St (See. CRIMF. BEAT. P. 2) Police On Dope Ring Crackdown DURHAM • In a continued effort to get to the - big boys " in the dope peddling business, in the nationwide effort to stamp out the evil, the vice squad of the Durham Police Department carried out a successful raid that netted 12 alleged involved persons. According to information disclosed about the wholesale arrest, it was well planned and a well organized layout of the frequented areas of the ped dlers was charted The officers “laid-in-wait" on Sunday night. The result was that the following were arrested. PYed Wayne McGill. 23. of 2205 S Roxboro St.. Ronald Mack hZvans. 17. of 806 Hancock St,, and Clarence Trice, 19, of 2438 Duke Lane on charges they possessed a large quantity of marijuana with intent * to distribute. -A raid at 7 p m. Friday at the home of Douglas l>amon<l Saunders at 3(17 Lawson St resulted in the capture of less than five grams of murijuana, officers reported Saunders. 2:1, w-as charged with "simple possession of marijuana” and placed under bond for his appearance in District court, officers report ed. WASHINGTON - The Hon. Waller Washington, black may or of the nation's capital “has more running room than ever to exert personal leadership", the Washington Post said editorial ly Monday. The Post said Mr. Washington "clearly enjoys the confidence of President Nixon who has consistently voiced an intention to turn more and more of the city’s operations over to City Hall.” Mr. Washington has been in office for the past five years and was recently reappointed by •Mr Nixon. 'The mayor and his wife are active in Washington .social and diplomatic circles. Although the frequent target of criticism in his early years, Mr Washington has calmly taken over the reins of district government and won many former opponents over to his side. His ability to provide mean ingful leadership in the dis trict’s quest for self-govern ment remains to be proved, according to one Washington source. In addition to Mayor Wash ington. other top black officials in powerful positions in District of Columbia government are Chairman Charles C. Diggs (D., Mich.) of the House District Committee and Delegate Wal ler E. Fauntroy. The two often operate independently of Mavor Washington. The Post editorial wa.s occasioned by a November 29 (See. D C. PAPER. P. 2) College Head Forced To Quit Post DENMARK, S.C. - Disgru:.: led students at Voorhees College are seeking the ouster of President Harry P. Graham. A circular from student sources last week said: ‘We. the concerned students, tieg of you, in order to maintain ilu- survival of Voorhees, you should help us get rid of President Harry P Graham cause he ain't bout no liberation, he wants us ut be treated as if we are on the plantation.” There has been unrest hen* for some time. Some of it stems from the 1970 student outbreak Following the disturbance, the school suspended or expelleil 147 students. Eighteen sludeni,-; are now serving prison terms for common law rioring ot the (See, COLLEGE HEAD. I*. (vSee. POLU E. p 2) Dr. Westcott Sworn In As Social Services Head North Carolina got a new social services commissioner Monday. She is Dr. Jacqueline Renee Westcott of Durham Chief Justice William Bobbitt of (he .N.C. Supreme Courl administered the oath to Dr. Westcott. a black Democrat from Durham. On becoming the highest ranking black in Gov. Jim Holshouser’s administration. Dr. Westcott pledged that “her door shall ever be open to hear about the problems.“ David Flaherty, state Human Resources Director, said Dr. Westcott “promises to bring a refreshing approach to the complex and often confusing welfare situation In the state."