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A u g u s t 12
1971
Making It” on Black Campuses
High Court
Limits Job Tost
(Ed. Note: The following a rt
icle
la
a
reprint from
"Com m itm ent", A Report on
General Food's Actions in the
Field of Social Responsibility.
Some young people needed
proof of G F’ s sincerity— and
got ltd
Stato Employment
offices must bo
with a deliberated go-slow
ton, va.
At Hampton’ s re
Chief Jutice Warren Bur
philosophy.
Better let the
criminated before passage of
quest, they’ ve helped to de
The Northwest'» Best W eekly
ger, to a recent televised In
colleges and their students
the CtvU Rights Act.) Cooper
sign and Introduce a course
terview
with
ABC
newsman
learn that GF was willing to
said, however, that he saw
In Industrial engineering and
A Block O w ned Publication
W illiam Lawrence, singled out
help, willing to work with them
no Indication tliat the decision
plan to foUow up with one to
a fair employment case as
was limited to employers with
rather than to try to barge In
Published every Thursday by L xms Publishing Company 2201 N .
chemical engineering.
Proposed regulations requir
veterans, age 2 0 to 29, to the
a history of discrimination.
with an unwelcome, Insulting
KUlingsworth Portland. Oregon 97217.
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It’ s Impossible to detail providing a highly significant
labor force,” Hodgson said.
James M. NabrIt III of the ing Federal agencies a n d
Big Brother approach.
here all of the projects being but llttle-publlclsed decision
Sulm. nption rate»: 40 <ents per month bv e a rn e r. $4. 0 0 per year,
by the U.S. Supreme Court
" In June 8 percent of them were
Out of this thinking came a
N AACP Legal Defense and Ed Federal contractors to list Job
carried out to these palr-ups.
$5.00 per year by mall In Trl-County area; >5.25 per year e ls e
w it h o u t Jobs. I t
requires
ucational Fund suggested Dial, openings with State employment
But, quite regularly, faculty to the Just-concluded term .
It came as something of a gradual pairing-up of GF un
where.
Phone 283-2486
The case Is Griggs v. LXike
vigorous action on the part o f
although the decision to the s e r v i c e s to give their op
its and colleges.
shock to GF College recru it
members from predominantly
Power Co., and Burger wrote
ALFRED LEE HENDERSON. Publisher and Editor
/
Duck Power case effects only portunities f o r r e t u r n i n g
Government and private In
One such "p a lr-u p " devel
ers several years ago: Bright
Black colleges appear at GF.
the unanimous opinion Issued
private
employers, the court’ s servicemen have been posted by dustry to help these Vietnam era
oped between the Post divi
young Black college graduates
(T his summer a Delaware
S
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c
r
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t
a
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of
Labor
J.
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by the court on March 8.
reasoning might easily be ap
veterans reestablish a foothold
sion and Talladega College In
apparently didn't want to work
State professor Is at the Jetl-
The court held that the pow
plied to public employment Hodgson.
In the economy,’’
Talladega, Ala. B began with
for us.
O plant to Dover, Del., work
e r company, at a North Caro
Detailed requirements to Im
also. Many governmental em
The
proposed regulations
a plan for two undergraduates
Recruiters visiting camp
ing by turns to each of the
lina generating station, lied
ployers Impose requirements plement President Nixon’ s Ex
provide that:
to come to work each summer
uses of predominantly Black
various
accounting
areas
violated the C ivil Hights Act
on Job seekers sim ilar to those ecutive Order were published to m . Each contract made and en
at Battle Creek, Mich., to get
colleges as part of their reg
there.) Students come to GF
of 196» by establishing an em
the North Carolina low er t h e F e d e r a l Register last
tered Into by an executive de
a firsthand view of Post op
ular college rounds found they
too. (Right now, two Tennes
ployment standard unrelated
company iiad been Imposing, Saturday. The President called
partment, In d e p e n d e n t es
weren't getting many students erations.
From this there
see A. A L sophomores are
to Job performance. Specifi
for
the
mandatory
listing
of
such
Nabrlt said.
tablishment, or other agency or
lined up - even for Inter
developed, on both sides, the
In a co-op program with the
cally, the company made com
Job openings to a public letter to
Instrumentality o f the United
reallzaton that having stu
views.
“ We had Jobs to
Kool-Aid plant to Chicago,
pletion of high school or a
the Secretary of Labor Issued States w ill contain a clause un
dents get a look at the busi
o ffer,’ ’ says B ill Stohldrler
D I., working three months,
June 11, 1971.
passing grade on two tests a
der which the contractor agrees
Manager of College Relations, ness doesn’t go too far unless
studying three months, a lter
prerequisite for Initial hiring
After the proposal lias been
that all employment openings
"but the students didn’t seem th eir Instructors get a broad
nately untU they earn their
In or transfer to certain Jobs
Misted 30 days for comment and which exist at the tim e o f the
to believe we meant what we e r view of It. So Talladega’ s degrees.)
which were form erly tilled
«uggesttons for change from toe execution of the contract and
Dean of Instruction made a
said.’’
The palr-up system has ex
only by wIdles.
The court
public, the Secretary of lab o r
two-week tour of Post opera
What was wrong ' B ill and
tended GF work with predom
Across the country, com w ill review the suggestions and those which occur during the
found that neither a high school
performance o f the contract,
other GFers on recruiting tions not only In Battle Creek,
inantly Black schools Into
mercial schools which trato announce a date when the re
diploma nor satisfactory test
shall to the maximum extent
trips wanted an answer, and but In White Plains, N .Y ., and other areas.
For example,
people interested to obtain gulations w ill go into effect.
scores were demonstrably re
feasible be offered for a listing
gradually began to get It from Kankakee, 111.
the company Is active to a
ing
a
real
estate
salesman’
s
lated
to
successful per
The Executive Order, Issued
With more person-to-per
faculty members at the pre
Cluster program with such
license are rated by license by the President on June 16, at an appropriate local office of
formance of the Jobs to ques
the State employment service
son contact, there grew up a
dominantly Black schools.
schools and In a Consortium
law
officials
as
"good"
or
tion. Nor did It matter, the
makes It mandatory that m o s t
s y s t e m . T h i s c l a u s e also
The problem wasn’t stric t dialogue of "W e could use this
for Graduate Study In Busi
"bad”
.
court said, that the company
Federal contractors, their first
applies to first tie r subcontrac
ly GF’ s. B encompassed the at the college," and "W e at
ness for Negroes.
In Oregon, the rating tor l e v e l
subcontractors, a n d
did not Intend to discriminate
tors.
whole business world, or at Post could help you with this.”
GFers have even begun to
most would have to be " e x Federal executive agencies list
In Imposing these require
...T h e contract clause is not re
least the Black students’ view As a result, a number of Post
extend their work back a step
cellent", but there Is no reg suitable Jobs with local employ
ments.
quired for any contract or sub
of It. Many were automati division teams have visited the
from the college level-to the
ulation
to
guarantee
a
contin
ment
service
offices.
Prof. George Cooper of
contract which Is for an amount
cally assuming that careers Talladega campus: personnel
high school preparation Black
uation of this favorable cli
The order Is a major step to
Columbia
University
Lew
less than >10,000 or which will
In business and Industry were people to conduct a workshop
teenagers get. The company
mate
and,
It
has
been
breached
School, one of the lawyers tor
assist veterans to obtaining em
generate less than 400 man days
on job Interviewing andplace-
closed to them.
at
times.
Is working with schools, par
ployment as they leave m ilitary
the plaintiffs, told Race Re
of employment.
Unfortunately, there was m ent, technical people to help
ent groups and other asso
The state Board of Educa service at the rate of more than
lations Reporter that the de
... Federal executive depart
historical basis In fact tor develop ways for Talladega
ciations to help motivate these
tion,
which
licenses
vocation
80,000 a m o n th , Secretary
cision
"changes the whole
ments and agencies ''sliall list
th eir belief.
For too long, to best use a computer It
youngsters to start early to
al schools upon payment of a Hodgson said.
structure of American em
all of their suitable employment
business had been all but acquired, more technical peo
nominal license fee, lies ac
prepare to business careers.
It 1 s expected that several
ployment decision-making.*’
openings with the appropriate
closed to the young Black ple to review the college’ s
The Involvement of GFERS
complished many miracles m Ulton new Job orders from
There are Indications, lie
office of the Federal-State Em
graduate.
In that situation, research faculty, and even
with predominantly Black col
within the very limited scope public and private employers
said, that many employers
ployment Service."
he quite sensibly prepared a team of management peo
leges Is paying dividends.
of
the
law
under
which
it
lias
w ill be listed as a result of the
have dropped tests as a re
. .. Nothing to the provisions la to
for careers that were open. ple to help the coUege In Its
Certainly the colleges and
Jurisdiction.
action.
quirement for many Jobs, but
be construed In any way so as to
He took the ’ ’teaching or financial planning.
students - and future stu
In many parts of the na
More than 2,200 local em
there has been no widespread
Im pair bonaflde c o l l e c t i v e -
preaching" route.
dents
-
are
benefltttog.
GF
tion brokerage firm s have es ployment service offices across,
S im ilarly,
the
Maxwell
change yet to hlgh-school dip
bargatolng agreements.
But this "log ical” career House division has paired up
recruiters now get more of
tablished commercial sctiools the Nation, financed by
th e
loma requirements. He noted
...L istin g of Job openings sliall
a welcome at these schools
as wholly owned subsidiaries. Labor Department, w ill accept
choice was keeping talented, with MUes CoUege at B ir
too, that the court had upheld
because the students now do th guidelines of the Equal
The Instructor, a member of th e Job orders. L a s t year Involve only the normal obliga
high-potential young people mingham, Ala. The division
believe GF Is sincere to Its
a brokerage firm , looks over
out of the business world and the coUege co-sponsored
6,376,000 nonagrlcultural jobs tions which attach to the placing
Employment
Opportunity
Job offers.
After a ll, they
where in our society - like It a two-day symposium on "The
the
group
during
the
training
w
e r e listed at employment
Commission as expressing the
of Job orders and does not re
can see friends who gradu
o r not - a lot of the action is. Challenge of Participation to
period and offers Jobs to those
service offices.
w ill of Congress.
quire toe hiring of any Job appli
ated ahead of them now work
who appear to be most pro
How then to reach such a Mass Society,” with em
T h e Employment Service
Some lawyers have suggest
cant referred by toe employ
ing on GF Jobs. And there’ s
mising.
young Blacks? How to prove phasis on what businessmen
which already has a special
ed that the decision left open
ment service system.
the
dividend for General
In one state this recruit
that business - GF In partic can do. On a continuing ba
veterans employment service
the question of the court’ s at
. . . Contractors are to file peri
Foods. The company is get
ment plan lias been so suc
u lar - would welcome them? sis, MH Is providing curricu
w ill assist ex-servicemen and
titude toward job require
odic reports with the appro
ting promising young employ
cessful tliat the brokerage woman through a system of in
Again, GF recruiters turned to lum assistance and contribut
ments Imposed by an employ
priate office of the State em
ees from these campuses.
firm Is buying out brokers to terviewing, testing, counseling,
the collge faculties tor an
ing talent and resources to
e r who had no history of prior
ployment service system which
other cities to order to ex
swers - and faced up to some specific classes at MUes, to
and referral to Jobs or job train
discrimination. (Duke Power
shall indicate toe number of em
ing.
pend Into those areas.
tough facts. While, Increas addition to hiring students tor
was found to have openly dis
ployment openings and hires.
ingly, faculty members were summer
’ ’T h e r e
a re
3.7 million
employment
and
convinced
business meant graduates for regular, fu ll
what It said about recruiting tim e Jobs.
th e ir students, many predom
The Birds Eye, Jell-O and
inantly Black colleges were, Kool-Aid divisions are build-
again because of the histor tog close relationships, sim
ical situation, not geared to ila rly , with Virginia state
preparing students for busi CoUege at Petersburg, Dela
T h r m J years away, drop hen o3 tor repairs.
ness.
ware State CoUege at Dover,
The other day while visiting some of my senior «* i h
Changes In attitudes and North Carolina A. A T . State
friends and watching the Apollo 15 astronauts operate a flying
curricula were obviously nec University at Greensboro, ana
physics labratory in moon orbit, mapping a large area of
essary.
But such changes Tennessee A. i I. state Uni
the lunar surface, one of the senior citizens remarked, " I
cannot be achieved overnight, versity at Nashville.
Just believe they are on the moon.' ’
and they certainly cannot be
Technical Center people
Well, bare Is something else that may sound Impossible,
forced.
have taken a special Interest
In the future, a man with a bad heart w ill be able to drop It
GF approached the situation to Hampton Institute at Hamp
off at the clinic of his choice for repairs while be goes on
given job openings
What was the intent of Vice President
Spiro Agnew when he compared leaders
of African Governments to the Black
leaders in America?
It is most confusing to comprehend the
basis of his glib statements. He had
toured Africa.
He had met heads of
governments.
He did not speak with
any of the opposition leaders in any
country.
Are we to assume that all
is well and beautiful in all of the African
countries he visited.
Is there not any
dissatisfaction among any of the citizens?
Every man he met and had discussions
with were powerful men — heads of
state and/or aides,
Is any visitor at
high level honestly told or shown the
problems of a country? Or was he say
ing that the Africans are more capable
than American leaders and as a result
have no problems.
In any event, it is utter stupidiry to
assume there is any comparison between
a dedicated leader of Black Americans,
who is not paid for his efforts in behalf
of his brothers and sis te rs, and an elect
ed African leader, who is in a position
to act to improve conditions for his people.
American leaders, of any Black group,
are trying in their way to find freedom,’
justice, and equality for all people. With
out those leaders of the voicing needs -
and without the voices of today and the
future, Mr. Agnew might have been P re si
dent!
R.E. school
regulation?
Artificial Heart
his way with an artificial substitute. The rich w ill he able
to sit and get a heart repaired while they watt.
This Is only three years away and w ill he In clinics in five
years says D r. Horst Klinkmann, East Germany's leading organ-
transplant specialist.
D r. Klinkmann Is confident that for moral as well as practical
reasons the artificia l heart win win out over the human organ
for both temporary or permanent transplant«,
He Is confident that the ho art Is a relatively simple organ,
and In using polyurethane as the construction m aterial there
Is no problem with rejection at all.
The 36 year old specialist, Is the firs t East German ever
to get an American professorship.
He is best known for an artific ia l kidney he developed in
cooperation with D r. Hans-Juergeo Wilke. The membrane
which they produce on sausage-skin making machine«. is
regarded as the best and is now being bought by United
States firm s.
Most patients, according to medical records have died because
th eir bodies have rejected the foreign organ. D r. Klinkmann
believes medical science has reached the threshold of It’ s
most dramatic era. He says, "Medicine is now developing
the way physics and chemistry did at the beginning of the
century.”
The heart is based partly on the fact that it is a muscle
and not a complicated organ such as the Uver or the kidneys.
An artificial pump can be built, and the problem of regulating
It has already been solved with the pacemaker.
The great advantage with the artificia l heart is that It will
allow doctors to remove the natural heart, freeze It and
make the necessary repairs.
’
"Tw o thirds of the cases, the original heart could be returned
afte r It was repaired," he said. In the other one third the
people could survive with artificia l hearts i i i » l r bodies.
Hard to believe? Well, It we are around in five years It w ill
oe a common thing to see artific ia l heart clinics In full
operation
Education Satellite
Actor or Authority?
By W ilbur W. Burkhart
A fad of recent months has become popular among the persons
who have gained national recognition asentertatoers by utilizing
tbe radio, television and other means to influence their followers.
The fad?? — It Is that of becoming a pseudo —expert on almost
any public question and using the fame of their name to Justify the
position they take. N o t only do they take advantage of their
prominence to Influence the many followers but they Inject per
sonal opinion Into the question and make public statements repre
sented to be the truth, and often "las t word” concerning a
question on environment or ecology. The latter two subjects are
certain to command immediate attention today.
Like all of us these persons point to printed m aterial as the
source of their Information. They spice the report given from
printed m aterial In such a manner that the 11 sterner or viewer Is
led to believe that be is getting the truth when some of the state
ments are pure hogwash. The original printed m aterial select
ed If often the product of an Imaginative mind that happens to
agree with the thoughts«! the reporter b e lt totally lacking to fact
o r taken out of context for the sole purpose of supporting an
erroneous opinion.
A well known television entertainer has recently become an
’ ’ instant ecologist," entomologist, scientist and agriculturist. It
would appear that this person has assumed his position of ex
pertise rather than by study or experience. A recent communica
tion with him concerning bis manner of television portrayal of a
profession brought the reply that he really didn’t know anything
about the profession In question. He further replied that he was
m erely an actor and entertainer who carried out the Instructions
of his w riters and program producers.
Today this man has made public appearnaaes and made bold,
unfounded statements about the perils ahead from the upsetting of
nature’ s balance because chemicals have been used as pesticides.
H 1 s reasoning appears sound to the person Inexperienced in
carrying out the actual work of using a chemical to control an in-
sect known to cause epidemic outbreaks of human disease. H is
assumptions are bold tut his statemtns fall short of reaching sight
of the truth.
A n o t h e r entertainer of radio has recently become
an
"ecologist.” He has probably been concerned longer than anyone
in the entertainment field as the welfare of man b u t
his
powerful influence over the listening public hangs
without
foundation because he merely headlines the latest report of a
scientist and makes no explanation as to the true nature of the re
port and its true meaning to the practice or material In question.
He forther is fameus for avoiding to allow informed scientific ex
perts to discuss the facts of the question with him.
When I was a boy, not long ago, the day of Jack Armstrong,
Stella Dallas, Flasn Gordon, and Buck Rogers, science flctto i
seemed so impossible and now Apollo 15 has Just returned
making the almost imjiosslble, the possible.
I now predict that the classroom of the future w ill be linked
to a communicate.) satellite, thousands of miles away to space.
This prospect Is now ra ls e i by experts of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, watch has
been considering how to educate an exploding world population
that could total almost seven billion by the year 2000.
Only education telecommunication satellites can provide
the solution.
Satellites could be a swift and efficient way to help meet
growing educational needs, particularly to developing countries
India already has broad plans to reach it’ s far-flung villages'
by satellite communication.
UNESOO experts have reported that, "Ten feet of wire
netting could sarve as the gound antenna with an electronic
converter to pick up satellite signals.
UNESCO experts also believe that by 1875 instructional
programs w ill be broadcast directly from satellite to school-
ronm or community center without having to pass through
earth-bound relay stations,
Even before then villages to India w ill participate to a test
transmission project conducted to cooperation with the USA.
A space satellite equipped with one picture channel and two
BY Joyce H lfler
sound etian iels w ill broadcast Indian produced educational
programs four hours a day.
India’s Satellite Instructional Television Experiment is
One of the greatest medicines of all time Is to foreet
designed to be the forerunner of a national satellite
Remembering every least detail of unhappiness does*no'
Involving both direct reception and redifuaaton.
f .7 ii^ r w
U we h,n< onto ‘» J u ic e s and ID
UNESCO now is involved to a study for a regional Latin feelings It w ill show to minds and bodies.
American system of education by satellite
The majority of lltoessea, the greater number of accl-
Traditional television, radio and other audio-visual methods
^ nd eV* ) th* ,niMU «^«»m fo rts of living are brought
could provide education tor the 70 per cent of the world’ s about by our Inability to forget what has gone. Nothing gl/es
population living to areas where there are more than 40 us the right to Impose bitterness on ourselves.
is like
Inhabitants to the square kUometere (0.39) sq. m ile). But pressing on a sore spot. We keep doing It to see If it stilt
wnere there are 40 or less (and that Is true tor a fifth of
o
u r tM
nn
to remember out of
Latin America), then It Is education lor none at all
our
thinking,
we can be rid of r0U‘
it to ‘ he
our need
lives.
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