i Seek Answers To Strenghten Our Industrial World gUESTKM: In \ icH 0| HisinK('e the guest speaker at the E. ialeign Branch YWCA's pring fellowship dinner. The tinner will be held Thursdav. (bee YW' DINNER. P. 2) The Board of Trustees of North Carolina State Univer sity has passed a resolution in tribute to R. E. Jones, who retired Feb. 28, after 44 years with the North Carolina Agri culture Extension Service. NCSU Chancellor Joab L. Thomas presented the resolu tion to Jones at a state confer ence of Extension workers in Raleigh on March IS. The resolution noted that Jones began his extension career as the first black agent in Craven County and conclud ed it as an assistant director of the organization. The resolution further states; “...his career spans a period of tremendous change in Ameriran Hfe. frgm institu- (See R. JONES. P 2) ments. $25,201 was paid in employees' compensation and. $3,665 employees' benefits, while loan protection insurance amounted to $11,425. The net gain before dividends was $81,374, of which $59,551 was paid in dividends, all of which speaks exceedingly well for a county with only about 11,000 Negroes among the total of 24.000 population. Dividends paid in amount of 5'^ percent Last year, they paid just 5 percentage dividend, each year getting an award from credit union national associa tion for excellency of perform ance. So pleased was the member ship with the performance of their officers that they voted a unanimous reelection of all principal officers and board members after hearing the reports. A feature of the meeting was the free chicken dinner given to all who attended - non-mem bers included, who made up a large portion of the annual meeting, which must have cost about KOO or more. Officers are: William H. Manson, Jr., secretary'trea surer; W. E. Manson, Sr., president; Mrs. Joyce Gray, credit committee; Mrs. Nellie H. Slade, supervisory commit tee; W. J. Morris, Sr., nominating committee; Mrs. Eva L. James, vice president. Other officers included: (See CREDIT UNION. P. 2) Woman h Victort EEOC Says The North Carolina office of the E^ual Employment Oppor tunity Commission (EEOC) has found “reasonable cause to believe that" the Johnston-Lee Community Aclicm. Inc. fired (See EEOC SAYS. P. 2) Plan Estey Hall Stabilization Ur. George C. Debnam, chairman of the board of directors of the E^tey Hall Foundation, Inc., announced Tuesday that the contract for construction of stabilization of EUtey Hall has been awarded to William C. Vick Construc tion Co. of Raleijgh The stabilization of Estey Hall is (he first phase of a 3-phased plan to preserve, rehabilitate and maintain the ^historic building for adaptive ^se as a human resources center for the community, the dty and the university. The construction is being coordin ated through the Raleigh Historic Properties Commis sion. C. D. Arthur, chairman. The first phase of the construction has been made possible by a grant of $19,000 from the City of Raleigh and a $10,000 reimbursable grant from the National Parks Service. The project has received previous feasibility study grants from the National Trust for Historic Preserva tion. Entered in the Natioal Register of Historic Places in 1973, Estey Hall is reported to be the first education building for black women in the nation and the oldest women’s educa tion building in the South. It has also bMn designated as historically significant by the Raleigh City Council, the Raleigh Historic Properties Commission, and the North Carolina Department of Ar chives and Histo^. The Estey Hall Foundation is a non-profit corporation organ ized and existing under the laws of the slate of North (See ESTEY HALL. P. 2) >-UNUS appbopriatedbv (:iTY OF RALEIGH AND THENMmLPMW THE RESTORATION AND REHABILITATION Of Martin County (jlroup Ailciles ;c '^x 17^/ Loulovllloj L02' SO Black Teachers Fired ★ ★ ★ ★ Says He’s I’nfaithhil To RIaeks ¥ ^ Y- ¥ J. Bond Blasts Carter NAACP Asked To Give Aid (Vorl/i Carolina'I Leading Weekly VOl.. 36 NO. 22 ItAl.KICiH, N.C . THURSDAY. MARCH 24, 1977 SlNGl,F,.COPVL2a^ Simtks At VSe, But Shaw Bars Stokely ★ ★ ★ ★ BY J. B. HARRFN WILLIAMSTON - Mar tin Countv Ne^o leaders contend tnat during the period from 1969 through 1972, a total of 50 black public school teachers were either coerced into retiring, replaced by white teachers, or fired by the school officials. In response to this action, local blacks called upon the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple (NAACP) for assistance. The NAACP and the Depart ment of Health. Education and Welfare (HEW) had not, up to March 15, had a satisfactory reply from Martin County Question Senator ij SpeaksAt Dinner Sl(H) Fee Reouired-Citisiens Baby Deposit Officials DURHAM - Julian Bond. Georgia's contro versial state senator, con tinued his tirade against President Jimmy Carter here Saturday night as he charged him with unfaith fulness to blacks and his seeming failure to carry out his campaign promises, as he spoke at a fund-raising dinner, staged by Opera tion Breakthrough. He seemed to have ended up a blast that he started in Montgomery, Ala., when he spoke to (he youth of the Southeastern Regional Confer ence. NAACP. (See BOND BLASTS. P 2) At Shaw Comment School officials. F. L. Joyner, chairman of the local NAACP Education Com mittee. Box 1123, Williamston, N.C. 27892, recently heard from Albert T. Hamlin, acting director. Office of Civil Rights. Washington, D.C., in which he stated (in reply to a Feb. 4 letter from Joyner) (hat “the Atlanta, Ga. regional office for Civil Rights has informed me that officials of the Martin County Schools have neither rebutted the allegations con tained in this office's May 20, 1975, and Aug 21. 1975, letters (See 50 BLACK. P. 2) Henderson HQ^T^GEB ESCAPE UNHARMED — OrlaMlo, FU. — Mi. Ma'aola Andersoa escorts two smaU boys who aloog with herself J h “ .. . snd two others wit lakeo hostage by an unMeBtifled maa la (Maude Marc^ it. AH the boatagaa escaped imharmed and the man later died in a ftre which erupted after pslke teargased the apartment boildinc. (I'PI) Problem An official of the N.C. Department of Human Re sources has called upon the N.C. Attorney General to give a ruling on whether a Henderson hospital can charge $100 to medicaid patients that seek to hav^ (heir babies delivered. Robert Watkins, an official in the Recipient and Patient Services Section of (he Human Resources Department de scribed the policy of Maria Parham Hospital as “not within (he spirit and philosophy of helping poor people," but pointed out that wii just his personal opinion. The policy weas first im posed upon recipients of the federaliy-fi Israel Bearing Afriean Anger: Young Notional Bloc News Service NEW YORK ~ Andrew Young, United States Ambassodor to oung, Untted S the United Nations, asse teJ recently that Isroet hod borne the brunt of the Afric n countries' frustration over Americon policies regucuii.g African issues. Specking to obout 1.000 members of the National Council of Jewish Women at a meeting in New York, the block ombossodor said the African representatives had assured him privately that they felt “great odmirotion" and no hostility toward Israel. When the United States vetoed resolutions in the United Nations pertaining to Africa, Young declared, the Africans felt they could not “get bock at us" becouse the United Stotes was too strong, so they vented their anger on Isroel os the “smallest orid most vulnerable ally" of the U.S. CHAPEL HILL - Stokely Carmichael, once chairperHon of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCCI, that raised across the South and nation demands for Black Power in the mid-19609, lectured to an all-black group of students and some community people at the University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill last week. His Chapel Hill speech followed his being allegedlv denied permission to speak at Shaw Univer sity in Raleigh. Denouncing capitalisti ex ploitation and predicting the eventual overthrow of U.S. imperialism by Its workers, Carmichael l^tured oa the advantages of life under socialist government as oppos ed to “pr(rfll by any means necessary under capitalism.’’ Giving an example of 1956 cars being built better than 1977 cars, although technology to produce more efficient and longer lasting cars has im proved, Carmichael said, “technology and science are (See SHAW'BAR.S P 2) ALLEN K. HALL Parole Of Hall Revoked Statement Of Bell Refuted program recenlly Watkins ■ Blaek Press Observes id f the administration of Maria Parham Hospital did not consult the state prior to making the policy. One of the policy’s first victim's was 2S-year-old Ms. Georgia Brown, who tried to get admitted to the hospital for 6 hours, but was turned back because she didn't have the $100 deposit. Her doctor had sent her to the hospital for admittance so he could induce labor and end her problem pregnancy. Hospital administrator Sam uel Waddell said the $100 is charged only as a deposit that (See DEPO.SIT P 150th Birthday In DC 7) WASHINGTON. D C. - The story of how the black press has come through 150 years of operation in America was applauded many times as the National News^per Publish ers Association (NNPA) dedi cated the Black Press Archives in (he Moorland-Spingam Cen ter at Howard University, during a workshop held March 16-19. Representatives of the more than 200 black-owned news papers gathered at Interna- ESTEY HALL IS NOW IN PROGRESS administered aymESTEv 'dA/IOYARO ■ rs r T f Southeastern NAACP Holds 25th Sessions MONTGOMER Y. Ala. - The 2Sth anniversary of the South eastern Region. NAACP. which met here March 14-16. not only reviewed the work done in the past years, but set new goals for the next quarter century. Mrs. Ruby Hurley, who has directed the affairs during that lime, called upon the leaders of the 7 stales - Alabama. Georgia. Florida. North Caro lina. South Carolina. Mississi ppi and Tennessee to regird for a new and subtle attack upon the oroanizalion. She long with many others, warned that apathy could very easily wipe out the gains ma(k the last 25 years. The speakers were continuously mindful of the fact that complacency could be the factor by which blacks could be reconsigned to the depths of despair. Homage was paid to those who lost their lives in Ihe struggle, during the past 25 years, along with those who have made grave sacrifices to make Ihe orga'nization viable In the 7 stales. It was definitely decided that if freedom was to reign, it would he quite necessary to involve the youth. Toward this end, the drive must be focused on the ■Sec tionale Inn and explored the black press in all Its ramifica tions. They not only tackled affairs affecting our nation, but were conscious of the part it can play in international affairs. Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith was a guest speaker at one of the sessions. He talked abou tthc conditions existing in his country and could very well appreciate the expressed interest dispalyed by peoples of other nations. However, he very tacitly told them that it was his considered opinion that his nation could do a better job in straigihening out il.H own affairs, if there was no outside intervention. After much discussion on the Rhodesian matter, it was agreed that American blacks had a major job at home and ee BLACK PRESS. P 2) NEW YORK. N Y - In a stout defense of (he legal approach to school desegrega tion, NAACP general counsel Nathaniel R. Jones declared that repeated attacks upon the civil rights organization's ap proach to improving education for minorities by a noted Harvard scholar fails to take into consideratin the proved fact (hat segregation creates (See BELL REFUTED. P 1) Charges of larceny and passing worthless checlu have landed Allen R. Hall, chief prosecution witness against the celebrated Wilmington 10. back in jail. This action was taken Monday by the Slate Paroles Ckimmision. A spokes man for the commission said the earliest Hall could be eligible for parole would be in 1981. Already in Raleigh's Central Prison, serving a 2-year sen tence for breaking and enter ing, Hall has accused court officials of threatening to revoke his parole because he claimed he lied in his testi mony that helped convict the Wilmington 10 in 1972. The orimary witness against (he 9 black men and one white woman sentenced to long iMson terms for conspir.ncy and burning during the racial (See PAROLE IS. P. 2) Two (Jlfiim Aupreeiation Cheeks Here Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK A man and a woman were the lucK^' winum.jiUlca duUar cheeks each in The CAROLIN' lAN's Appreciation Money Feature, sponsored by this newspaper and participating merchants There were three names located on the Ap- pr(H.ualinn Page, the back page of the first section of The CAROLINIAN Diiinie Lyon. 322 S. Havwood nJei PLAN ESTEY HALL STABILIZATION — These arc Ike prlacipaU, who are plaanlag the Blabiliiing of historic Estey Hall at Shaw t'alverslty. Left-to-right are: Dr. (Jeorge Debnam. chairman of the board of directors of Estey Hall Foundation. Inc.; Mrs. Susie V. Perry: .Ms. Mildred WHIiamk, student representative; Ms. Linda Harris, city planner; Dr. Richard L. Fields, acting Shaw president; Charles Arthur, chairman, historic properties commission: Dr. Louise l.athaiii. Datid W. Jones, architect: and Thomas E. Kee. director of university relations at Shaw. • See storvi. HI:i)S()N BELK “FOR THE REST IN GOOD BARGAINS” Street, saw his name under the advertisement paid for by Lewis Motors. 600 S. Salisbury ( Street Mrs. Floyd Hill of 533 Method Road, saw her name in the ad\ertisemenl of Spivey'r La>sn Mowers. 2109 P(K>le Road Both of these pt^rsoas came lirsl to lYu* Caroliiuun Set* APPRECIATION. H 2) .\l- RICAN PRESIDENT KILLED — BrattavUle. The Congo — This is a file photograph of the late Presidcat Marien Xgouiht of Brazzaville, who was killed in a hail of bullets, fired in a coup at his General .Staff Headquarters in BraizavUle last Friday night. (I'PI)