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!■ Seek Answers To Strenghten Our Industrial Whrld In \ iPH 01 IlisinK Cokls Knr Eductllon. And The Demands Knr Skilled niirCTtny Labor. Is II I'lijust To Deny Masses Of Students Dhersified Career Skills Or I lyn* Trades Trailninft In The Public .Schools. BeKlnninx (For (iuManre Purposes) U ilh The Flemenlary Schools? Please React In The Affirnialls e Or NegalUe. 8TH. iUGENi JORDAN RtkKar I feel that o student should be exposed to o diversified curriculum in elementory, junior ond senior high school, with vocotionol educotion being one of the programs. Vocational education should not be offered as a substitute for academic education or ocademic educotion a substitute for vocotionol education; but each should be pursued for its own merit. Vocational education has gone through vorious high and low eras. At the present time, I think that it is going through o very high era, becouse of a greot need for vocational skills, the higher salaries offered, and its occeptance by society. Whereos, some yeors ago, society did not recognize the vocationolly skilled person os a professional. While vocotionol educotion is very important in the schools, no one group of individuals should be steered into certain fields. If one is inclined toword the vocotionol curriculum, then one should not automatically be guided oway from an academic curriculum. In order to be successful in the vocotionol field, one would still need a working knowledge of business and finance. Therefore, individuals preparing to study ot technical or trade schools should be encouraged to seek ocademic knowledge In order to successfully monoge ond expond their businesses. Should oil individuols be encouraged to attend a 4>year institution of higher learning? Yes, if he is ocademicolly prepored; even if he plans to enter into the vocational field. The exposure and atmosphere of the 4-yeor school would (bee STRENGTHEN. P. 2) H. EUGENI JORDAN Black Caucus Presses Got?.; Says Test Will Hurt Blacks A special task force of the North Carolina Black Demo cratic I.«ader8hip Caucus met with Dr Banks Talley, execu tive assistant to Gov. James Hunt, to discuss modification of Hunt's support for two pieces of legislation setting up M ROPA LEE TORREY Tutor Of Year Selected FAYETTEVILLE — An in novative Child Care Services ^course was the basis for the Selection of Mrs. Rosa Lee Torrey as the 1977 North Carolina Home Economics Association Teacher of the Year. Cosponsored by the American Home Economics Association and Family Circle magazine, the purpose of the award is to give visibility to teachers with outstanding home economics programs. As winner of the state award, Mrs. Torrey is eligible for consider ation for the national award which will be given in June at the American Home Elconom- ics Association annual meeting in Boston. Mrs. Torrey is chairperson of the Home Economics Depart ment and dean of students at E. E. Smith High School in Fayetteville, where she has taught for 13 years. Her Child Care Services program, which is designed to prepare senior high school students for entry- level positions in child care, f irew out of a community need or more day care centers. Comments from teachers and children at the centers and ^parents in the community provide evidence of the excel lent preparation students are receiving in the course. (See TUTOR OF. P. 2) standardized testing of all students in public schools. One piece of legislation would require high school seniors to pass a standardized exam before receiving a high school diploma. The other would make mandatory testing of all students in first, thirtT sixth, and ninth grades to determine supposedly if they had learned the prerequisite skills taught A positioi^per presented to the House Education Commit tee was discussed with Talley. The paper outlined eight criticisms of standardized ex ams as well as six recommen dations to insure that those criticisms are overcome Be cause these have allegedly not been reported fairly in the major media, the following eight criticisms appear in total so as to eradicate the dutor- tions prevailing: — Slandardued tests are biased and unfair to persems from cultural and socio-eco nomic minorities, since most tests reflect mostly white middle<lass values and atti tudes, and they do not reflect the experiences and the lin guistic. cognitive, and other cultural styles and values ot nlnority group penom. —Standaraizeo measure ment procedures have fostered undemocratic attitudes by their use to form homiMeneous classroom groups uduch se verely limit educational, voca tional. economic, and other opportunities. —Sometimes assessments are conducted incompetently by persons who do not understand the culture and language of minority group children and thus who are unable to elicit a level of performance which accurately reflects the child's underlying competence. —Testing practices foster expectations that may be damaging by contnbuting to the self-fulfilling prophecy which ensures low level a- chievemeni for persons who score low on tests. —Standardized measure ments rigidly shape school (See BLACK CAUCUS. P 2) MRS. DELOUEi CLEMENTS Iotas' Elect Soror Caledonia Revokes Privileges TILLERY — Formerly, a sunny day at Caledonia Prison Farm found inmates and their families sitting in the yard talking and enjoying a home- cooked meal under the watch ful eyes of the prison guards. But visiting {xivileges are not what they used to be. Prison officials made it known this week that the families of inmates would no longer be allowed to bring food from home, even if they met out of doors. Caledonia Prison Farm, the State's largest medium custo dy institution, houses 630 inmates mostly from the Triangle area and is located 45 miles north of Rocky Mount in (See CALEDONIA. P. 2) Mrs. Delores H. Gements, presic ^nt of Upsiloo Chapter of the lot*. Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc., was elected Southern Regional journalist, at the sorority's 40th Southern Re gional Conference. *^6 confer ence was held in Albany, Ga. recently. As a result of this election, Mrs. Gements will also serve on the sororitjr’s Southern Regional Executive Board. The Southern Re^on of the sorority c overs all chapters in 6 southern states, of which there are 22 graduate chapters and 4 undergra<]uate chapters, with a UKai ot 449 members. This marks a great step in progression for the Upsilon chapter, since the chapter's or^nizati<Mi in 1971 at Shaw University. Prior to their organization, Mrs. Clements served as organizing chairman. It was her job to interest qualified young ladles in this business and professional sisterhood. As results of her hard and extensive efforts in recruit ment, along with 7 other young ladies, the Upsilon chapter was founded and chartered. The 8 ladies became charter mem bers of the chapter in June, 1971. Since Upsilon’s charter, the (See IOTAS. P. 2) NEW SPIRIT OF CARTER ADMINISTRATION DISCUSSED — Left: Seated, Ben Brown, deputy chairman Democratic National Committee, Washington. D. C., talks with Casdell Singleton. Student (Government president. Saint Augustine's College, and other students about the new spirit of the Jimmy Carter Administration. Students standing, left to right: Reginald Hill, W. Scott Fatal Kntfind Not Reported For Day :mr — - ro MX go., a U1.UI a%iiiAiiiK XNAat. avaa a.-vra jl^«/ jfLWVJL Woman Slain; Man Held if**-* Rrfldd Addresses Student Legislators -U. S. ^ Laughing Stock: Brown Murder A 51-year-old Raleigh man has been charged with murder in the stabbing North Carolina’s Leadirm Weekly yOL. 36 NO, 23 RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY. MARCH 31, 1977 jjuc' In Johnston County death of a 40*year-oi3 woman here, allegedly his ml friend, about 7:30 p.m. bat Saturday. Detectives arrested Calvin Coolidge Pegram in the death of Mrs. Nancy Alice Ingram, whose body was cliscovered in her Bragg Street apart ment. She suffered one stab Fire Victims Buried wound in the abdomen. According to Lt. W. C. Nipper, the woman had been stabbed sometime Friday, but had not received any medical Says He Advocates Suppression •k ir ir ir Catholics Oppose Supt. Family Of 318 Mourned BY ALEXANDER BARNES PRINCETON - Long before the Revs. FletchOT Coley and Willie Williams began the Anal ritos for Mrs. Julia Beet Moore, 78, her son, Elton Leon Moore, 44. and her br')lber-in-law, Thomas Hezekiah Pierce, 101, at Cedar Gr^ive Piod- pie Church, in a triple tuntfml oeremonv. clusiert of pec^le were asking many questions that even local inveetigating officers have not enswered eetisfactorily about the fire th<*t theiir livee early Seturday morning. Burie was in Selzne Memorial Gardens. Tbe mystery surteo wnrn it ia alle^ that Donald Keamm. a relative of the viciims. broke down the door of a framt 6-room beuse after he noticed It on fire, about 4 a.m. Saturday. The information given out was that Mrs. Moore was not dead and was standing near the door, with a troubled look on her face. Her daughter, Mrs. Minnie Moore Williams, who lives across the street from her mother’s home, described the tragedy as "non- understandable.” A spokesperson for the Princeton Fire Department said that the fire seemed to have started in the kitchen and that no foul play was evident. But Princet(Hi officials are cautious about what is being (See FIRE VICTIMS. P. 2) Threatens Freedom Rights VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DIES — Washington — Uiere died In Washington last week a truly rebellious mao. It did not surprise those who followed hli career that M took two kln^ of incurable cancer to kill Joliui Hobson. In the early 1970s, he as told be bad cancer of the bone marrow. After be got sick, be ran for vice president with Benjamin Spock and for Congress and lost; for the school board and won; for city council and won the at-large seat be occupied until his death from complications of another type of cancer, ienkemla. Here he Is shown In Washington In 1972 (on crutches, suffering from the bone cancer) after being elected as People's Party vice presidential candU^tc. (UPI) Students Citizens To Speak Out On Welfare By National Black News WASHINGTON - Thn Catholic Leame for Rali- gioua and Rights hai condemned a Detroit school official's call for the tup- preasion of the Constitu tional rights of parents in the education of their children. Father vugil C. Blum. S. J., president of the Catholic League, took sharp iaaue with school superintendent, Arthur Jefferson’s call for federal income tax penalities for citizens who send their chil dren to private schoola. Jeffer son issued the call at a conferf ice here recently, sponsored by the National Institute of Education. Father Blum pointed out that such a tax on the exsrete of religions freedom rights la education would be a gross violation of tbe%Tr|i IMwi ment rights uphrid by • unanimous Supreme Coprt more than 50 vears ago. "It is indeed ironical," said the Catholic League sp(Aes- man, "that while more and more black parents are send ing their children to Catholic schools, Superintendent Jeffer son, himself a black, woidd call for legislation to penalize them for the sacrifices they make in paying tuition for (sualtty education in iM’ivate sc^ls.^’ The Supreme (^ourt, in its 1925 decision on Pierce V. Society of Sisters, ruled: "The (See CATHOLICS, P. 2) CALVIN C. PEGRAM ...faces stabbing charge treatment for the wound before the died. Pegram lived in Apartment B, 500 Bragg St., reportedly udth Mrs. Ingram, according to the detective, who also stated that the man and woman got into an argument Friday. Nipper refuse(j further com ment on a further motive for <Si^ WOMAN SLAIN. P. 2) Official OfVEP Heard Turn City Warned By Brown 1 If government-financed housing, health care, public works j(>bs and universal voter registration are not soon adopted as national policy, the "U. S. will be the laughing stock of the world,” said Ben .Irown, deputy chairperson of lie Democratic National Com mittee to the N. C. Student Legislature here last Thurs day. Brown is a former Georgia legislaior who was President Carter's coordinator in minori ty communities throughout the country. Following the elec tion, ^ was elected to the parly's number Gwo post. Introduced as a “good southerner” returning to the south. Brown charged the students from several of the state's campuses to become a (See US LAUGHING. P. 2) Many people through- out North Carolina and the nation have been critical of the welfare system for years. They now have an opportunity to sp^k out on how and why they think it should be changed. A statewide public hearing has been scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 4 at the Scott Pavillion in Raleigh to receive input from people across the state who have suggestions on how the present welfare system should be r '■'rmed. esident Carter has made a commitment to the nation that he will propose a major reform of the nation's welfare system. Lin Long Chief Of Through Joseph F. Califano, Jr., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, he is requesting individuals and organizations across the coun try to offer their suggestions on how it should be reformed. North Carolinians will have that opportunity for input regarding their views at the public hearing which is being held by the Division of Socim Services of the N. C. Depart ment of Human Resources. Dr. Sarah T. Morrow, Secre tary of the Department of Human Resources, will open the hearing and a representa tive from the southeastern area office of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare wilt also appear. Robert H. Ward, director of the Division of Social Services will conduct the hearins. Around: B. Burrell LAS VEGAS. Nev. — The efforts of minorities to achieve economic parity in the foresee able future are serioualy jeopardized by steady deterio ration of the nation’s centers of commerce, according to the head of the nations oldest national business organization. Dr. Berkeley G. Burrell, tenth president of the National Business League, recently warned that onless minorities can produce a health ectmomic climate in their communities, efforts to achieve economic parity may well be doomed Said Burrell: "Among |g many obstacles confronting (See WELFARE. F. 2) (See TURN tlTY, P. 2) ATLANTA. Oa. T (Mvirsal 4ial«twlao for Aiaeiirau vo(- •vtwill fraatly strengUMn Ibe political proeeu, but addition al federal and state programs of outreach and anlr^tive edocatloo will be neoeesary to increase the relatively-low levels of minority political participation, according to an officlalirf the Voter Education Proj«t (VEP). "neeident Cart«’'t proposal for universal rMistratlon is an exciting and major step toward the g^ of an interracial denocracy," stated Archie E. Allen, administrative director oi the Voter Education Project, a nonpartisan organization which has promoted minority political participation in the MUth for 15 years. "The universal registration pn^wsal is simple, but contains suffi cient safeguards to prevent abuse and provides incentive to the states to increase voter .participation outreach." "The VEP has advocated the elimination of the registration barrier for many years, but its removal will not be sufficient encouragement for minorities to participate," explained Al len. "As recently as 12 or 15 years ago, black people in the South bad to struggle, suffer, and even die for the right to register. The years of restraint and the climate of fear in manv parts of the South still intimidates prospective black voters. It will take more than the removal of the registration barrier to convince these n le that they have a stakw he voting process. A substantive program on the (See VEP UKFKjiaL, P. 2) Planning Two Claim Appreciation Checks Here J There were two winners in last week's Appreciation Mo ney Feature, sponsored by The CAROLINIAN and participat ing merchants. Each received chWlu in the amount of $10. Zollie Joyner. 614 Chamber- lain St., saw his name in the advertising paid for by Hud- ion-BeJk Company, 319 Fay etteville St. and Crabtree ■ TTATIDN, Improving the quality of life through long-range and short- range planning effort is the responsibility of Linwood Long as he became the chief of Local Planning and Management for the Community Assistance Di vision of the N.C. Department of Natural and Economic Re sources last week. Long, 32, and black, is responsible for planning efforts conducted for local govern ments through 7 regional offices scattered around the state. The operation is sup ported by a budget of more than $2.5 million of slate and federal funds. (See APPRECTA 21 (See LIN LONG, P 2l Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK RELIABLE LOAN COMPANY Murphy. .Sharon Frazier, Cornell McGill, Gregory P. Sligb, Janice M. Tyson, and James Beckw ith. Brown visited Saint Augustine's College on March 23. "FOI lARGAINS AND LOANS" PRESENTS BALL TO PRESIDENT — Washington — Edson Aranles do Mnsoimento. known better around the world as Peie. the recognized world’s best soccer pUyer, cnllod on President Carter at the White House March 28 and presented him with • soccer h^. (UPI).
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