\ 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 ‘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).