Mm Education Dapt.
Under Fhra From NAACP
JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-A
representative of the NAACP has ac
' cused the Mississippi State Depart
ment of Education of “blatant and
gross discriminatory practices’’
because few blacks hold jobs in its up
per echelons.
Blacks employed by the depart
ment are being kept in the lowest
paying and lowest-ranking jobs, Mor
ris Kinsey, chairman of the education
committee of the state National
Association for the Advancement of
1 Colored People, said Wednesday.
“The irony of this issue is that
blacks are not being promoted in the
same manner *s whites,” Kinsey
said. “We call on the Department of
Education to put a halt to its
discriminatorypractices.”
At a noon press conference in the
Radisson Ralthall Hotel, Kinsey
t presented figures that' shewed that of
the top 19 positions in the department,
three are held by blacks and four by
women, ' , . ;
Kinsey also distributed a list of 13
demands, among them that a black
■be appointed as deputy state, assis
; tant superintendent and that 45 per
! cent of blacks be employed, promoted
j and retained in all jobs in the depart
• ment. He also called for the elimina
tion of the National Teachers Ex
; amination and the institution of a
1 statewide affirmative action policy.
Andy Mullins, special assistant to
the state superintendent, refused
Kinsey’s allegations', calling them
“absurd.” He said the list of demands
was received by the state Board of
Education this month.
“They are under consideration and
we’ll look at thqm,” Mullins said.
Mullins defended the department’s
hiring and promotion policies, sfying
that presently blacks make up_32.7
percent of employees. He also pointed
out that the department’s employee
procedures manual mandates that
hiring and promotion be done
“without regard to race, color,
political affiliation, religion, age,
handicapped condition, national
origin or sex.”
Regarding the NTE, which all
teacher candidates must pass to
practice in Mississippi, Mullins said,
“That’s state law. We don’t have
anything to do with that ”
H. G. Dawson, Jr.
To Head Howard
University Program
WASHIGNTON, D.C.-Horace G.
Dawson, Jr., former U.S. am
bassador to Botswana and former
NCCU faculty member, has been
named director of the Howard
University Patricia Roberts Harris
Public Affairs Program, Howard
President Franklyn G. Jenifer has
announced.
Ambassador Dawson is a native
Augustan who honored recently here
for his accomplishments in the
diplomatic service by the Augusta
Black History Committee. He grew
up on Wrightsboro Road and attended
Haines Institute.
An outgrowth of a bequest to the
university from the estate of the late
Ms. harris, the public affairs pro
gram affords Howard students an op
portunity to supplement classroom
instruction through exposure tb
enriching lecture, internship and stu
dent exchange experiences.
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Raleigh Stamp Collector
To Discuss Black Heritage
A Raleigh collector will discuss
black heritage in postage stamps at
the N..C- Museum of History Sunday,
July 15.
At the 3 p.m. continuing Month of
Sundays series, Gloria Wright Powell
of Raleigh, longtime stamp collector,
will present a multimedia lecture
using slides, music and photographs.
Her talk, titled “Black Heritage in
t Postage Stamps,” will focus on black
individuals and historical events as
they are depited in U.S. stamps.
Admission is free, and the public if
invited to attend.
For details, call the museum ii
Raleigh at 733-3894.
The N.C. Museum of History, ai
agency of the Department of Cultural
Resources, is located at 109 E. Jones
St., in downtown Raleigh.
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tnmumncm Commissioner Long
Hold* Him Ground On Rate Cut
Insurance Commissioner Jim
Long, in re-issuing a contested 1867
order, held Us ground in calling (or a
9.9 percent reduction in automobile.
insurance rates.
The state’s automobile insurance
industry had appealed the order to
the N.C. Court of Appeals. In August,
the court asked the commissioner to
provide more information.
In reisaulng the order, Long said,
“While I was happy to provide more
detail, I And no reason to rethink the
substance of the order. We couldn’t
Justify an increase; we could Justify a
cut.”
In appealing the order, the N.C.
Rate Bureau argued that premium
discounts and dividends to
policyholders had not been taken into
account when weighing industry pro
fits and that the order had not con
sidered other factors in determining
appropriate profit.
“Our position is and always has
been that companies offer discounts
and dividends voluntarily," Long
■aid. "Offering them makes good
sense for companies and consumers
but to turn around and try to raise
rates to recover that cost doesn’t ,
make sense.”
Today’s order—offering more
detail as the court requested—arrives
at the same bottom line as the 1987
order: the rates for automobiles
jbould be cut by 3.9 percent as oppos
ed to a 3.5 percent increase.
The initial order is the first of three *
still pending in the appeals court, all
of which challenge a Long decision to '
actually cut rates—by 3.4 percent, 1.4
percent and 6.2 percent—in the face
of industry requests for an increase. ,
With requests that have become
before him, die difference between
what Long has ordered and what the
industry has asked for is $492 million.
A recent survey shows that the
average auto insurance premium ;
paid by N.C. drivers is the eighth
lowest in the nation.
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Polk Youth Contorts Rooty Fence
Toe old gray cnam-una security
. fence topped 'with barbed wire that
surrounds Polk Youth Correctional
Institution in Raleigh is as sturdy as
ever, but it beginning to turn a rusty
brown.
Members of Polk’s Continuity
Resource Council, the panel ap
pointed by the correction secretary to
serve as a liaison between the com
munity and the prison, were concern
ed about die appearance of the
rusting eight- and 13-foot-high securi
ty fences that encircle the prison. One
member, Dr. Blanche Haning, went
■ to paint suppliers and encouraged
them to donate $8,000 worth of paint
I and supplies to cover die rust.
Superintendent Thomas Carroll
now has 22 55-galion arums of gray
paint in storage as he plans for the
massive project of having inmates
paint the eight miles of security fence
around Polk. Carroll says the work
should begin in mid-July.
The medium security prison houses *
approximately 700 inmates between
the ages of M and 24. Polk, located on
Blue Ridge road just off 1-40, sits on
one of the oldest prison sites in the
state.
Dr. Haning, an associate professor
in North Carolina State University’s
College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences, has served on the
13-member community resource; ,
council at Polk since 1979.
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