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Black Att*y
PREPAID
Thlt niwtiMptf It pminttd to you pftpiM «i i comn
... . - - community
tirvlee by Thi CAROLINIAN ind lit Equal Opportunity
Advortlairt. This qoitura rtprtiinti i qroii amount ol $3,000
batad on a 15,000 dlitribulten to ab bemti occupitd by Mack
rtildanti in Aaltigit and Waki County at a coil of 20c aaeh at
our wholitalt rata of 13c of $1,950.
Deputy ACTION Head
* ★★★★ Female
Eyesight Losses Studied Has Top
Duties
State Personnel Dept.
Has New Pay Policy
Hie State Personnel Com*
mission last Monday, adopted
a new pav policy which will
award salary increases to slate
employees on the basis oi
individual job pertormance.
nils new policy is separate
irom any general salary in
crease budgeted tor slate
employees bv the General
Assembly, such as the recent
across-the-board C percent in
crease.
Under the new policy, which
lakes ettect July 1, new slate
employees and those who
change their job classiiication
will no longer receive an
automatic pav increase oi
approxiamtelv 5 percent dur
ing the tirst two years oi
employment.
'The new policy will award
pav Increases to new em
ployees who do a good job,'*
explained State Personnel Di
rector, Harold Webb.
Under the present policy, all
state employees are hired at
step 1. then receive a salary
increase oi approximately 5
percent at the end oi the tint
and second yean ot employ
ment, taking them to step 3 M
the T-step system. Pay in
creases tor employees at steps
4 to 7, are bas^ solely on job
(See PERSONNEL, P.2)
The Carolinian V )
North Co/ij/in.i . / I'ni/mr; Weekly
VOL. 1, NO. 13
RALEIGH, N.C.. MONDAY, JULY 3,1978
FREECOPY
GI Bill Proves
Worth To Vets
It anyone has doubts about
the worth oi the GI Bill, just
aske J. B. Spence.
In 1948, Spence was a
24-vear-old gas station atten
dant. going nowhere atter lour
years in the Navy.
Then a Veterans Admini-.
stration counselor talked him
into going back to high school
and earning a diploma. Later,
with $105 a month trom the GI
Bill, he went on to college and
then to the University oi Miami
Five-Day
Institute
Is Planned
WINSTON-SALEM - Win
ston-Salem State University’s
Otiice Ol Extended Education
and the r^unal oiiice oi the
National Alliance ot Busineas-
men, oo-spousored a 3-day in
stitute in Career Guidance. The
Institute was held Monday
through Friday, June 26-30,
fnmi 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the M. M.
Hauser Student Union on the
WSSU campus.
The purpose of the institute
was to improve the effective
ness of vocational counseling
for school teachers, guidance
counselors. administrators,
and others working with
students and in particular with
the economically disadvantag
ed youth.
13 Groups
Profiled In
Black Book
Law School, where he graduat
ed at the top ot his class.
Today, J. B. Spence is one of
Florida’s most successful at
torneys. His income taxes last
year alone were over $100,000,
but Spence says he do^’t
begrudge any oi it.
“I owe what I have to the
government.’' he savs, reterr-
ing to the tact that VA paid tor
his education.
He and his tamily live in a
spacious, $300,000 home near
Miami and sprad many ot their
weekends at their $150,000
vacation home in the Florida
Keys.
What Spence has accom
plished is, ot course, the result
Ol his own hard work and
ability.
But the tact remains that It
he had not been wise enou^ to
see the advantage in using the
GI Bill, he might be on the road
to nowhtfe.
Today's GI BUI and VA'i
oOTbr edbcatton bcoMlU otter
Glaucoma
Cited As
Reason
GRADUATION AT RALEIGH’S TUTTLE CENTER — TutUe
Commiralty Center held Hs graduation exerdset recently at St
Augnitlne’s College. The 1976 graduates are. front row, left*to-
right: NUtkl Banks, Christopher McCnllcrs. Catlna Hinton,
Suiette Whitten. Sean Hooker, 1976 Queen Stephanie McCorkle,
Monique Price, Rkky Gaither, Kendrick Rogers and William
White. Second row: Angella Rogers. Quintin Murray, Sean
Seay, Christopher Steadman. Jermain Parker. Glenn Jemlgan.
Eric Rogers, Latricia Walker, Tonya Lewis, Kelsha George and
Rachelle Hawkins.
If your eyesight is good
or eyeglasses are all you
require lo read, drive a
car, watch television, or
appreciate the joys of
nature, you are fortun
ate. It h as been estimat
ed that 8 million Ameri
cans suffer from glau
coma, a condition of the
eye that is generally
characterized by an ab
normal increase in intra
ocular pressure.
Glaucoma can result in irre
versible blindness Uirough pro
gressive loss of the field of vi
sion. Because the disease
doesn't give any warning
symptoms, 2 to 3 million people
are unaware they have the dis
ease.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
— Barbara Jean kelley,
28, a Colorado attorney
who was active in the
Denver Legal Aid
Society and the National
Conference of Black
Lawyers, has been
named depuU general
counsel at ACTION, the
federal volunteer service
agency. Sam Brown, the
director of ACTION, an
nounced her appoint
ment in Washington,
Ms. Kelley, who assumed her
legal duties at ACTION on
March 8. was associate general
un^aOelad opcKurtunjU
dmmlstratCR
And VA Administrator Has
Cleland It urging today's
Vietnam Era veterans to take
lull advantage ot them.
"An educaUtm Is one oi life's
most precious aaaeta," Cleland
said. "Don’t tall to use the
education benefits a grateful
natioD has given you."
Cleland reminded veterans
In North Carolina that they
must use their GI BIU assis
tance within ten years alter
discharge from military ser
vice.
"We have several (uograma
that make it easier tor
veterans to meet the expense ot
(SeeGI BILL, P.2)
PICTORIAL
COVERAGE
A complete pictorial
coverage of the honor
ing of MUs Alley Mae
Young of Wake Forest
on Sunday, June 2S,
'will appear in the
Thursday, July 6, edi-
Uon of The CAROLIN
IAN. Miss Young, an
ediicaMr '/ot.-M. rtum
in the school tj/ltmu
ol Wake Foreit and
vicinity, was honored
as "Citizen of the
Year" at the Olive
Branch Baptist
Church. One photo ap
peared on the front
page of last week's
Thursday paper, and
the others will be seen
this week. MUs Young
Is now serving her
second 4-year term as
the only bUck member
of the Wake Forest
Town Board of Com
missioners.
'I'be most prevalent type of
glaucoma is known medically
iSee EYESIGHT, P.6)
Shaw Students Hear Counselor
Shaw Unlvenlty educaUoo
maj<Ma in the innovalion, ex
perimentation and recearch
daaa heard Mre. Robbie D.
(kaham, elementary counse
lor, Wake Public School Sy
stem, $peMk on "Innovatloo In
Oounaeling," taat week.
Elonenlw counsding ia a
comparattvdy new feature in
pottiM^Ung, using techniques
ealf-niiitoet. ’ (i)' eoc^ reeo-
tieo, (t) teelingi, (4) AMibig
with career awareness, and (5)
dedrioo-niaUng.
Counselors work with
teachers, parents, prlne^Mls,
ezMl community agsodes, and
tbeir sticceae depends laigely
upon the cooperation ot these
Joint eitorta.
Mrs. Graham received her
undergraduate degree in Eng
lish trom Shaw Univerally a^
her masters degree in coun
seling trom N. C. State Uni
versity.
She is the daughter ot Hr.
and Mrs. Chester Debnam, 212
Walker St., Raleigh, and ii
married to Horace Graham.
MS. BARBARA J. KELLEY
counsel to Blue Cross and Blue
Shield d Colorado in Denver
Nnmediaitty prior to her pre
sent position.
As Deputy General Counsel.
Ms. Keiley will have super
visory responsibilities for gen
eral advice and assistance to
(See ATTORNEY IS. P. 2)
CB/TV
Antenna
Dangers
STUDENTS HEAR COUNSELOR—Mrs. Robbie Debnam Graham < I). elementary counselar fai
the Wake PnbUc School System, spoke to educatimi majors at Shaw University on Monday. June
26. Shown with Mri. Graham are, front row. lefl-to-right: Ms. Charlene McCoy. Ms. Mary Doan.
Ms. Virginia Peebles and Ms. Barbara Royal. Back row: Ms. Barbara Merritt. Ms. Dianne
Hodges. Ms. Rose Holtand and Ms. Georgene Taylor. (See story).
NEW YORK. N. Y. —
Thirteen organizations that
contribute to the advancement
ot blacks in the U. S., have been
selected tor leature treatment
in this year's edition ot
Schenley’s ever popular
"Little Black Book."
The lead article is on the
Jackie Robinson Foundation, a
comparatively young organi
zation (lounded in 1673) whose
main thrust is help tor
deprived black children. Other
profiled organizations that are
also black-child oriented are
Continental Societies. Inc.,
Jack and JiU ot America
Foundation, Sigma Gamma
Rho and The Links, Inc.
Subject organizations that
concentrate on improving the
business opportunities tor
blacks are the Council ot
Concerned Black Executives,
Inc., the National Bossiness
League and the National
Association oi Real Estate
Brokers.
Also included are The Na
tional Association ol Black
Social Workers, Inc., a pro-
tessionai socieiv, and the
National Alliance oi Postal and
Federal Employees, a union.
Completing the list are the
Tuskegee Airmen, the Con
gressional Black Caucus and
Zeta Phi Beta, a sorority with
more than 400 chapters in
Africa as well as the U. S.
in earlier editions ot "The
Little Black Book," other
important contributory black
organizations were written up.
"But we're not running out ot
worthy organizations to pro-
tile." states Charles T.
Williams, vice president oi
Scheniev Atiiliated Brands
Corp. and "The Little Black
Book’s’’ orignialor. "It’s in
credible how many associa
tions and institutes and socie
ties and leagues and loun-
dations and traternities and
iSeel3GROUPS.P.2)
Black Funeral Directors Charge
FTC*s Report Of Abuses Flawed
REVIVAL ATTEMPT IN VAIN — Waihlagton — Resene
workers try in vain to revive David WUsen, 46. who c<^psed of
an apparent heart attack after joggin abovt 2 miles daring a
"nm-ln" near the Department of HEW Jane 26. to protest sex
dUcrlmioation in sckools. The event was sponsored by a
woman's rights coatltion. Wilson, na HEW systems analyst, was
pronounced dead at a local hospital. (UPI)
The Federal Trade Com-
mitskra r^rt on and sug
gested regulations tor the
funeral industry released re
cently came under attack last
wedi bv Robert H. MUlm‘,
executive secretary ot the
National Funeral Directors
and Embalmers Association.
He charged that the report
was flawed because ot racial
discrimination on the part ot
the Commission when it began
its investigation oi the industry
tour years ago. He also
claimed that the regulations,
that have not vet been adopted
by tbe Commission, will in
crease, instead ot reduce the
costs 01 tunerals.
As background, Hiller ex-
(dains that as with other trades
and proiessitms, the under
taking industry was originally
organized nationally on a
racial basis that excluded
WEATHER
Miss Mahalia Jackson
Sings Songs Of *63
Mahalia Jackson's 1963 tele
vised gospel concert. "Joy Is
Mv Witness," will be rebroad
cast on "Behold Wondrous
Things-1963," Sunday, July 9
(10-10;30a.m..ET).ontheCBS
Television Network.
The late Miss Jackson’s
choice ot material, "Out ot tbe
Depths," "The Love oi God,”
"How We Got Over," "I Wasn’t
Going to Tell Nobody," and
"Just a Closer Walk With
Hiee," showed on to luUeat
advantage her rich deep con
tralto, Often compared to that
Of blues singer Bessie &nlth. It
is interesting to note that Hiu
Jackson steadtasUv reiused to
sing the Hues, whkb she called
"scHigs 01 despair." Gospel
songs, bowevm’, were "songsoi
hope."
Ihe "Queen ot Gospel Song,"
accompanied by Mildred Falls
on piano, Edward Robinson on
piano and organ, and Louise
Weaver on organ, sang to a
packed congr^atloD at Bethel
Temple Church in Harlem in
January. 1963. CBS News
Correspondent Charles CoU-
ingwood introduces "Behold
Wondrous Thing8*l963" with a
look at the evmits ot that year,
(SeeMAHALU, P.6)
The weather forecast for tbe
five day pmisd of Monday. July
3, through Friday, July 7, is as
follows: Temperatures re
mained in the 96s for a high
through most of the eastern
section of the state Monday.
Partly cloudy and humid skies
were foreseen, with a possibl-
Uty of thunderstorms each day
of tbe period. The extended
forecast calls for hot tempera
tures and very bi^ humidity
Monday through Friday, with a
chance of scattered afternoon
and evening thunderstorms.
Highs will remabi in the les la
the east and in the mid 86e la
the mountains of tbe state.
Lews wUl be In the 7ta in the
eastern section and the m^er
66s iu the western porthm.
blacks from membership. To
remedy the situatloo, blsck
undertakers termed their own
organisation that now has
branches in 84 states. They
have only recently been allow
ed to cremate in the south.
When the FTC launched its
study ot the industry tour years
ago, the black oi^anizatiim
was ignored, according to
BlUler and It wasn’t until
several oi the regional bear
ings were held that be as
executive secretary was able
to gain recognition trom the
FTC taak toree. They started
their investigation on 15 com
plaints out ot two miilion
deaths.
However, be pointed out, the
Commission investigators
died practices bv black un
dertakers in Wadiingtmi and
New Jersey as examples ot
abuses common in the indus
try. Regulations in the District
ot Columbia, are among the
weakest in tbe industry, be
noted. Further, Miller observ
ed. tbe Conuttission refused to
pay tbe expenses ot Mack
witnesses to testily at some ot
its hearings as it did iw whites.
Black tuneral directors ot the
District ot Columbia were the
targets. Wboe they were no
loose regulations. As a result,
according to Miller, not enou^
was learned about the pe
culiarities Ol the black tuneral
industry to make its recom
mended regualtions applicable
to the industry as ■ whole.
A probe ot tbe indudrv,
Miller said, should have in-
duded an Investigation ot the
racial discriminatory pract
ices in the industry nich as tbe
barring ot blacks interments in
some cemderies, the retusal ot
some crematories to handle
Mack corpses and other re
strictions placed on black
undertakers in diiterent parts
ot the country.
Arguing against itemization
OI tuneral costs. Miller, who
has been in the business tor
more than 58 years, said that
"pac age" charges now com
mon in the industry include
many services tor which no
charges are presently made.
The average tuneral, HUl^
said, requires the undertaker
to make live trips. These
indude a borne interview with
survivors alter notiiication ot a
death, transportation ot body
to tuneral home, ot tamily tor
(See FUNERAL. P.3>
‘Hymans’ To
Gather At
Garysburg
Several hundred black A-
mericans with the surname
"Hyman” and whose roots are
predominantly In North Caro
lina. assembled in Garysburg
tor a "Roots” reunion dinner at
the Old London Motel on Fri
day. June 30.
Scores ot ditierent Hyman
families trom over tbe country
were invited. Some out ot state
cities which were represented
were: Philadelphia, New York,
Washington. Baltimore.
(See’HYMANSTO’.P.6)
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Tbe
U. S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) apjknw^
a regulation that would rcqfliKA
manutactums ot citizen baM^^
(CB) base stations and tde-
viskm antennas to supply con
sumers with safety Iniorma-
tion at the time oi purchase.
CPSC estimates that ap*
proximatley 220 paeons in 1975
and 275 In 1976 were declro-
cuted in accidents involving
communications antennas. Tbe
majority ot tbe electrocutions
occurred as a result ot antenna
(See CB/TV. P. 2)
A REMINDER
Far Uw antk’i loul itilt
u4 uliMUl MW6, bay THE
CAROUMN. Oa ula tlitaa(li-
oat Waki Caaaty.
‘MITES' STUDENTS AT NCSU During the Miuorlty Introduction to Engineering summer
program underway this week at the North Carolina Sutc Unlvcraity School of Engineering. Dr.
John F. Ely (left), associate dean of engineering, explains to "MITE" sludenU how a coocretc cy
linder was fractured under a compresiioa test. From left-to-right: Ms. Jennifer Dykes of Magno
lia. a rising senior at tbe James Kenan High School in Warsaw, and Michael Hardisou and Hal
Howard, both of Jacksonville, rising seniors at White Oak High School. They are among more thou
390 minority studenU from North Carolina high schools touring engineering iaimratories and
attending special sesiions as part of the MITE pr^ram aimed at Introducing them to career op-
pMtunitiea in Ihe engineering profnsion. (Photoby VelUe Mathews, Visual Aids).