At National Meeting otan ■ I't,, C6,, j-w^ ‘/r I/mlovlllr, Rep. Jordan Challenges All Women IjijijjTlianKsgivjng ★ ★ ★ ir it Hundred! ★ ★ ★ AME Zion Church Circles Shocked As At Tex. Bishop Walls * Widow Dies yorth Carolina's Leadinf! Weekly TIHIKSIMV. NOVKMBKH 24. 1!)77 SINGLE COPY 20c For Attacking Students Sentenced Congresswoman Bar bara Jordan, D-Texas told the National Organ ization of Women ner« Saturday that the figh for women's rights ne^ more soldier^., not pilots Ms. Jordan also said tha if the federally-fundet conference ended with out resolution of differ ences between factions “then we will have wast ed much more thai money ★ ★ ★ ★ TWO LEADERS TALK — Jerusalem — President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Israeli Prime Minister Menahom Begin sit down to historic first talks in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem Nov. 20 shortly after Sadat's arrival from Cairo. (L'PI) Native Of State Wins Big School Board Position NEW LONDON. Conn. — Mrs. Eunice McLean Waller, mathematics specialist, New London School Svstem, in her lirst trv lor political oitice. garnered the third highest number oi votes on the 7-member school board, in the recent elections. She ran on a 3-point platiorm — commitment to the people. ^ an interpreter oi educational ^ policv to parents and cilv otiicials and better communi cations on the part ot all ailected. Mrs. Waller is a native ot UUington, N. C. She received her elemenlarv and high school education in Harnett Countv. She received her Bachelor ot Arts degree irom FavettevUle State University and her Master's irom the Universitv OI Pennsylvania. %e has done lurther study at N.C. Central Howard Universitv and the University ot Connecticut. She began teaching in her native countv. thence to the Favetteville Citv School Sys tem She also taught in the schools OI Columbia, S. C. and the District ot Columbia, beiore coming here. She is married to Dr. W. D. Waller, president ot South Central Community and Tech nical College, New Haven, Conn. She is quite active in the religious and social liie ot New London. She has served the FSU National Alumni Associ ation tor a number ot years in many capacities, including executive secretary. She was named to chair a special (SeeNATIVE OF.P.2) WIN Program Puts 203,000 In Jobs Humphreys Hawkins Are Elated WASHINGTON, D C. - Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D- Minn.) and Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D-Calii.) last week said that they are "pleased" with the agreement reached with the President on a revised version ot the Full Emplov- iitcnl and Balanced Growth Act ot 1977, the so-called Hum- l^irey-Hawkins Bill. They pre dict tavorable action by the Congress early next year. (See HUMPHREY. P.2) WASHINGTON. D. C. — More than 203,000 welfare recipients tound unsubsidized Jobs through the Work Incoi- tive (WIN) program in the lirst nine months oi tiscal year 1077 -- producing estimated siviDgs in puUic welfare costs ot $455 milUoii. Almost halt — 94,000 oi the new job holders were earning enough to enable them and their tamilies to leave welfare. The other newly employed WIN program participants, whose earnings weren’t enough tor them to leave wehare immediately, continue to re ceive some assistance, but at a reduced level. Placement ot the 203,000 WIN registrants in welfare grant reductions ot more than $300 million in the nine-month period. Additional savings in Food Stamp and Medicaid costs brought total reductions in public ''xpenditures tor weltare to approximately $455 million tor the nine-month period. Average hourly starting pay tor men entering employment trom the WIN program was $3.70; tor women it was $2.73, or about 75 percent ot men’s wages. In the mainstream (See WIN PROGRAM, P.2) Abuse Of Welfare Is Shown National Black News Service WASHINGTON, D. C. - Sen. Charles H. Percy (R-IU.) recently made public previous ly undisclosed estimates show ing that abuses ot the nation’s weltari’ svstem by aliens cost taxpayers about $72 million a year in live states alone. The report ot the U. S. General Accounting Oiiice (GAO) — the investigating arm of Congress — shows that over three-iifths ot all aliens Ali To Visit Durham DURHAM - Muhammad Ali will visit Durham College, Durham, on Dec. 6 tor the dedication ot a multi-purpose athletic facility in his honor. Ali, the current heavyweight champion ot the world will speak at the 10 a.m. dedication ceremonv on the campus ot the business oriented junior col lege. "We want to dedicate our new gym to a person who has made a significant contribution to the world of sports," said C. Warren Massenburg, director Of public relations and alumni atiairs. The 12,000 square toot ath letic facility, which was com- FSU Lyons, Others Involved Controversy Judi^e She also declared that ranco must be replaced by interde pendence in all women' organizations. Mutual respec is also a necessity, she said. However. Ms. Jordan': touching address did not sto{ thousands of other womer Irom starting a counter-rail' labor lorce, women’s earnings are about 60 percent ot those ot men. Nearly two-thirds ot the jobs obtained by the women in WIN were in clerical, sales, and service occupations. These accounted tor only a little more than a fifth at the men’s jpba. About two-iitlhs 01 the men's jobs were in such relatively well-paid fields as machine trades, structural work, and FAYETTEVILLE - Even though Dr. Charles Lyons. Jr., chancellor of Fayetteville State Uni versity, and C.J. Barber, chairman of the school’s trustee board, are re ported as feeling that the affairs of the school are in good shape and the echoes and reechoes are just the opposite, alumni, some of the staff, some of the faculty, some of the students and friends are deeply concerned. The reported unrest became more visible when the alleged controversy over the usurpa tion 01 administrative power, between vice chancellor De- Field Holmes and the alleged designated head ot continuing education. Dr. Dickens, was aired at a meeting ot uent trustees and members oi the board ot governors, with President William C. Fridav, in Ci^hapel Hill, Nov. 10. The matter was not resolved there. It is reported as having been heard by *he executive com mittee Of FSU, Feb. 15. It was also reported that the matter remained unsolved, due to the tact that Dr. Dickens made some mandatory de mands that the administration felt needed further study. It was also reported that some tace might be lost, which could (See FSU IS. P.2) Orders Terms i Two young black men were sentenced in Wake District Court last L Thursday for assaulting Q||^ .Wi two white students at Needham B. Broughton High School on Nov, 3. Neither person is a student at the school. Two young black men were sentenced in Wake District Court last Thursday tor as saulting two white students at Needham B. Broughton High School on Nov. 3. Neither person is a student at the school. James Edward Whitaker, 20. (See2MEN.P. 2) \ CONVICTED KILLER TAKES LAST LOOK — Columbus. Ga. — An 11-man. i-woman all-whUe Jury Nov. IK found William Anthony Brooks guilty of the July 15. 1977 kidnapping, rape, robbery and muHer of Carol Galloway. Here BriMkb turns to look at his famllv during Nov. 18 trial. This has been the first trial of Us kind in Georgia to be covered by news television and still cameras. <UP1) SB A Lifts Ban On Workers Final Rites Held For Mrs. D. Walls Blacks Are Not In Art Work pleted in late 1976, houses a basketball court, exercise rooms, locker room facilities, Offices and classrooms. Ali will speak at a benefit luncheon at the Governor's Inn at 12:30 p.m. Persons wishing to attend should contact the Office ot Institutional Advance- (See ALI TO. P. 2) YONKERS N. Y. — Mrs. Dorothy Jordan Walls, widow Of Bishop W. J. Walls, known to many as "Mr. AME Zion Church, suffered a heart attack at her home, 72 Acqueduct St. Tuesdav, Nov. 15 and died in a local hospital on Wednesday, Nov. 16. She was tuneralized at Greater Walters AME Zion Church, 8422 S. Damen Ave., Chicago Saturday. Nov. 19 at 1 p.m. Her death was a shock to AME Zion church circles. Even though she was hospitalized beiore his death in 1974, she appeared to have Trained her health and was writing a book on his life, which was said to be about ready to give to the diristiandom. In his last book, (See MRS. WALLS. P.2) Grant Of lOGs To Theatre National Black News Service WASHINGTON, D. C. - Rep. Joseph P. .Addabbo (D-N.Y.), chairman of the subcommittee on minority enterprise and general over sight 01 the committee on Small Business, announced recently that the Small Busi ness Administration has lifted its moratorium on the so-called 9 contract program. The moratorium was im- J Tfc posed on July 30 last by SBA Administrator A. Vernon REP. BARBARAJORDAN across the city fimn the site o this national meeting. Thes women contended thi feminists ideas violate th precepts of God. family an count^. S<Mne ten thousand cimsei vative women heeded the ca of the dissldeot group and a tended the rally, coming I chartered buses and alr|daiM from throughout the counto waving placards carrying th signs, "ERA is anti-BiMe” an "We have ladies who like bein ladies." A small fight broke out whe some 20 white males attempte to break into the conference They kicked and struck th women who threw them out. (See REP. JORDAN,P.2) Minister National Black News Service WASHINGTON. D. C. - Works oi art portraving black Americans are scarce on Capitol Hill, but two congre* men think Congress can do something about it. U. S. Rep. William R. Cotter (D-C^nn.), who is while, and Charles B. Rangel (D-NY). a "carried tn former chairman oi the Con- November ot 1956. She was 26 gressionai Black Caucus, have However, the proposed that Congress com- In their ages did not mission a painting of the Rhode them in making a happv Island Raiment, one ot the n*" making a greater few black units to serve in the contribution to the AME Zion Ameiican Revolution. (iSturch and to the world oi Rangel, who last year de- ^ nounced the "underrepresen- Cookc MB tation and offensive portraval of black Americans" in U. S. A /k#9/k‘ta Capitol art work, joined Cotter at a press conference recently C'JkOtdi to support the efforts of a rvffgffijr Connecticut artist, David Wag Carolina Plavmakers Regi onal Theatre is receiving a grant ot $10,000 according to Sara W. Hodgkins, secretary of the N. C. Department ot CHiltural Resources. The grant will be used for salary assistance tor the spring '78 residency ot the company and to hire a staff member to arrange the 1978-79 tour. Recommendation tor sup port was made by Theatre Arts — the section oi the depart ment concerned wiih the encouragement of North Caro lina’s professional, non-profii Weaver in repsonse to hearings conducted by Sen. Lawton Chiles (D-Fla.) this past summer which reiterated pro- (SeeSBA LIFTS. P.2) JVC Board V. Jordan Supports Big Bill NEW YORK, N. Y. - Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, last Thursday ni^t announced his support ot ther theatre —at the fall meeting Of compromise Humphrey-Haw- ISecGRANTTO.P.2) (See V. JORDAN. P.2) KINSTON - The member and friends ot St. Augusti AME Zion Church, led by th Steward Board, feted th pastor. Rev. A. E. Harris an his family, in a tittin ceremonv at 5 p.m. on Sunda' Nov. 20. 17)0 affair was given appreciation ot the amtribi lion made bv the pastor, ar his tamilv, in making Kinston better place in which to livi Isaac Pope served as toas master. Greetings were givi bv Golan Frazier. Williai Coward, Rev. Gregory E mond and Alexander Bame along with representativf .See MINISTER, P.2) ner to paint a representation ot the black regiment tor the building. Of the nearly 700 works ot art in the Capitol, only five portray black subjects, the two con gressmen said. In most oi these, the subjects either are unidentified or depicted as servants. Only one painting portrays a black in an heroic role, a martyr oi the Boston Mas sacre, but this is displayed out Mrs. A. A. Cooke oi 418 Lament Street was the sole winner ot a check in the amount of $10 in last week’s Appreciation Money Feature. She saw her name in the advertisement paid for by Capital Vacuum (leaner Ck)m- panv, 525 Hillsborough Street, came into the oitice of The CAROLINIAN and identified herself and received the check. There were two other names also listed on the Appreciation Page. The name ot Belton G. Of public view in a committee Gibson. 906 S. East Street, was (Sec BLACKS NOT, P, 2) (See APPRECIATION. P. 2) MRS. KING TALKS ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS — Houston. Tex. — Surrounded by minority Vromen, last Sunday, Coretta Scott King talks of the resolution on minority women's rights that won the support of the National Women’s Conference Nov. 20. The minority resolution, proposed by representatives of many races, declared that minority women suffered discrimination based on both race and sex. (UPl) Appreciation Money SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK NATI RAL HEALTH FOODS “FOimBESriNOtlCAWCEATJIIC’’ "MISS ST. AUG.’S" AND HER ATTENDANTS - Chatting after the ZKb annual Coronatloa fl "Miss St. Augustine’s College", are. from left: Miss Talitha Karen Heard (the queen), a senioi from Norfolk, Va.. majoring in physical education; Vicky Renee Jeffries, a freshman buslneti education major from Raleigh: Janet Preston, a sophomore sociology major from Sumter, 8.C. Coeran Taylor, a junior psychology major from Sumter. 8.C.; and Marilyn Ward, a senioi psychology major (rf Baltimore. Md.. attendants to the queen.

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