Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1977 — Page 14
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f erre Haute News
By Betffe Davis]
Black-owned Burger King Stores plagued by debts
TERRE HAUTE-
Second Baptist Church at
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles' Catlett, is attending Talladega
Washington observes Pastor (Ala.) CoUege. So is Miss Paula and Mrs. H.F. White Sr.’s third Hoopson of Indianapolis, dauganniversary Sunday. Rev. Earl hter of Mrs. Florence Hoopson Nolcox of Princeton, pastor of and granddaughter of Terre
Way man Chapel at Lyles Station, will speak during the 11 a.m. program and Rev. Edgar
Stewart of Faith Missionary their third anniversary during Baptist Church at Vincennes a program Saturday night, 7
Haute's Mrs. Pauline Ellis.
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MICHIGAN--The Burger King-Pillsbury Corporation has been ‘having it’s own way’ while Blackowned Burger King stores become extinct. Spurred on by governmental promises of minority capitalism, and a federal investment program (MESBIC), Blacks rushed head-
Dr. Christopher
headlines the 3:30 p.m. services. Fellowship dinner will be served after morning worship.
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Senior Usher Board of Spruce Street AME Church will sponsor talented Michael Russell in a gospel music recital Sunday night at 7 p.m. Mrs. Anita Rutledge is president.
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Calvary Baptist Church is in its 62nd year dating back to September 15, 1915.
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Sister Elise Pitts, Grand Public Relations person for District No. 3, announces Queen Esther Chapter, OES, will hold a tribute for Sister Ruth Towles Sunday, 5 p.m., at Prince Hall Masonic Temple. Sister Towles has been Queen Esther treasurer 22 years. A reception will follow the special program. Worthy Matron is Sister Charlene Walden and Worthy Patron is Brother Harley Woodall.
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Mrs. Wilma Graves, local NAACP chapter vice-president fecently accepted a special contribution from Bill Reed, Prince Hall Grand Lodge Foundation trustee. The money is (or printing souvenir booklets for the State NAACP conference here October 28-30. Witnessing the presentation were Thomas Waldon, Past Grand Master of the lodge, and Leon Pitts, lodge trustee.
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Paul Brink, Bruce Maxwell, Jeff Taylor and Leslie Grider were on the team named division winenrs at Burger King. Offensive backfield players for North High School’s Patriots include Howard Calimese and Alonzo Brown.
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Miss Linda Catlett, daughter
p n. .1 Calvary B.ptist (116$; W3S NAACP
Church featuring local talent.
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Relied on heavily for offensive play at Indiana State Univesity under coach Tom Harp are D.A. Daniels, Tony Cofield, Tom Johnson and all-American Vincent Allen.
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Remember the sick and shutin: Patients at Terre Haute Regional Hospital include Betty Campbell, Room 209; Walter Banord, 212; Gloria Payne, 215, and Rev. Clark Edwards, 315. Home from the hospital is Gonzella Poston. Also confined to their homes are Mrs. Cuba Clark and Mrs. Carrie Good-
A series of programs relating to black culture are slated this month at Indiana State University in observance of “Black Awareness Month.” The most recent featured a lecture by Dr. Joseph Russell, associate professor and an Afro-American Studies chairman, on “Black Students and Plight for Education.”
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Rev. Andre Love is now a parttime employee of the Christian Book Store in Riverside Plaza. Rev. Love, a senior at ISU, is from Elkhart. Majoring in radio and television broadcast, he is Freewill Baptist Church’s music director and assistant minister.
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Tune your radio to FM Station WWVR 105-5 Saturday evenings at 7 p.m. for the Shouse Singers Program.
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Nonviolence means that we will match your capacity to
board member NEW YORKDr. Nathan K. Christopher, former member of the NAACP National Board of Directors, died last Tuesday in Cleveland,
Ohio.
“His death,” the NAACP said, “is not only an immeasurable loss to his family but to the many friends who admired and respected him so well.” Gloster Current, administrator, who attended the funeral services, noted in his eulogy that Dr. Christopher was one of those who helped build the Ohio State Conference. “His interest in the Association and that of his family marks him as one who helped carry the flag of freedom proudly and victoriously,” he said. Dr. Christopher was first elected to the NAACP Board in January, 1947, and subsequently re-elected until his final term ended last year.
long into hamburgers--and steeply mounting debts. Quite siti.p.y, Burger King has used* their minority franchises tp fill their own coffers at the expenses of the businesses, which have a dismal failure rate. Of the loans which Blacks receive from MESBIC (which average $125,000) Burger King receives a whopping $100,000 up front for use of the company name and equipment package. In addition, training fees, advertising payments, and supply store subsidizing are all in-house enterprises which inflate company profits and bankrupt Black franchisees. Reginald Smith, a Detroit franchisee who has entered litigation with Burger KingPillsbury, contends that Burger King offered no services to minority entrepreneuers-ex-cept collection services and payment demands. A Burger King minority affairs director, company-tou-ted ‘equal opportunity' provisions, and viable lines of communication have all disappeared from Burger King-Pills-bury’s minority commitment. The corporation was not intended to be the sole party profiting from the MESBIC/ minority loans. Reggie Smith and other Black franchisees in court question how long Burger King can reap big profits.
Minorities, women benefit from Ford's summer program
Ball State University’s Young Americans will present Leonard Bernstein’s musical, “West Side Story,” on the 20th anniversary of its Broadway opening, 8 p.m. September 23, in BSU’s Emens Auditorium in the Artist Series opener. Now in their 15th season, the Young Americans have been touring the nation presenting a
inflict pain without capacity to variety show at college, un-
‘West Side Story’ to open BSD stage fare
Musical is the stsory of a
FORD'S BETTER: Don Reese has gained “hands-on” experience in product engineering through a Summer Intern Program for minorities and women offered by Ford Motor Company's Car Product Development Group
Two months ago, Kathy Leonard didn’t know a thing about eddy currents. And Don Reese couldn’t tell a rack from a pinion. But that was before they--and 48 other college juniors and seniors from across
in Dearborn, Mich. Here, Reese, 19, a junior at the Detroit Institute of Technology, inspects the body of a car involved in a corrosion prevention survey.
endure it. We have the choice in this world today between nonviolence and nonexistence.
George Schuyler dead; authored rights push
NEW YORK - rector, recalled that Schuyler George Schuyler, author and proposed in Black No More a gadfly of the civil rights move- mythical solution to the race ment, died recently at New problem that involved turning York Hospital at the age of 82. blacks white with a cream. As He is well remembered within blacks began disappearing, civil the NAACP for his visit to the rights leaders began fearing Mississippi Flood control pro- that they were losing their
reason Moon.
for existing, recalled
BLOOMINGTON--
Indiana cannot afford anything less than excellence in
ject in 1933 with Roy Wilkins to investigate the near-slavery conditions under which blacks were made to work. He barely
escaped with his life.
An acerbic writer, who in later life took on a studiedly conservative, and even reactionary, stance on civil rights, Mr. Schuyler helped A. Philip Randolph found the Messenger Magazine in 1926. At that time, he was a solcialist. who helped
edit the publication.
Between 1942 and 1964, he education, Indiana University was a columnist and corres- President John W. Ryan said pondent for the black weekly, last week in his state of the The Pitsburgh Courier. It was University Address to the during this period that his faculty, philosophical stance changed Ryan also said he would take from left to right. He was also a this message to the people of fiction writer, publishing Black Indiana whose support is essenNo More and Slaves Today: A tial for reaching a state of Story of Liberia. excellence. Commenting on Schuyler’s “Citizens must believe that conservative philosophy, for- their true interests lie in the mer NAACP director Wilkins continued development of exnoted that despite his becoming cellence in our colleges and a protagonist of the NAACP in universities,” Ryan said, later life, the writer was weU He pointed out that there is liked. “We were very close.” no industry in America which is Wilkins also chose to remember not built upon the trained skills him for his “period of lucidity” and educated talents of college and his attraction to the graduates. “It is the human NAACP. base, not the tax base, that Henry Lee Moon, retired truly matters,” he said. “It is NAACP public relations di- the human base that this state
iversities, state fairs, music halls, theatres and on television with much success. Last season they toured the country as a repertory company doing “Oklahoma” and “The Music Man.”. The success of their reviews led to a second season and “West Side Story:" Bernstein, former conductor of the New York Philharmonic, wrote the music and Stephen Sondheim the lyrics for “West Side Story” in 1957. Such songs as “Maria,” ‘Tonight,” “I Feel Pretty” and “Gee, Officer Krupkle” are performed frequently by “pops” orchestras and heard on radio and televi-
sion.
musical is tne stsory ot a I • I I r clash between a young, white C ilIICjOr New York City gang, the Jets, ^ ^
with the Sharks, a group of Puerto Rican immigrants who are trying to overcome prejudice in their west side neigh-
borhood.
“West Side Story” is a contemporary treatment of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Italy’s city of Verona becomes New York City and the feuding Capulets and Montagues are re-created by the
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Soweta get King award Nonviolent tactics employed by South Africa’s young people have earned them the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Martin Luther King Jr.
Award.
Announcement the citation
engineering work and are unfamiliar with automobiles and
mechanics.
“The idea of Ford Car Product Development’s program is to provide the kind of engineering training that will show minorities and women the soundness of a career in engi-neering--ideally with Ford,”
she added.
“However, they have no
graphed musical drama.
longtime South African majo-
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must have.”
Ryan pledged efforts throughout the state in bringing to Indiana citizens the message he gave the faculty. He also said he will visit every school and campus within the Indiana University system in seeking a consensus of priori-
ties and goals.
Among the needs listed by Ryan are endowed teaching positions, funds for improvement and innovation in the curricula, additional research support, and scholarship financial aid. Ryan said the money for these improvements “exists among our friends and benefactors.” He added the condition that such financial support will come only if the university has a clear vision of where it is to go and that this vision is transmitted to “those who would help us.” Ryan pointed out that higher education is a good investment for the state and the nation. He cited a national study which shows an income differential of $4,500 between high school and college graduates. This means that the average college graduate in Indiana is paying $200 more in state taxes than the average hight school graduate, h e said. He added that the state makes a tax profit on the graduates of the state universities. “They will repay far more
state, through its teaching, research, and public service. Ryan’s address was delivered by videotape at the first meeting of the 1977-78 Bloomington Faculty Council. The tape is being made available to all I.U. campuses.
are living in Atlanta.
In presenting the award. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery, SCLC president, said “The ‘Children of Soweto’ are most deserving of this cherished award. These young people have attempted to use nonviolence to make changes in the vicious apartheid system in that unhappy land. Their efforts have forced the government to drof Afrikaans and substitute African languages in the African schools. The government has upgraded the quality of education for Africans...The courage and tact of these young people must be supported worldwide.”
the country- began the Summer Intern Program for minorities and women offered by Ford Motor Company’s Car Product Development Group in Dear-
born, Mich.
The program, designed to give engineering candidates practical experience in the profession, is not new. What is new is that this year’s crop of candidates was made up en-
tirely of women, blacks and obligation to us,'nor w’e to other minorities. them, other than a good These arent hard-core stu- summer experience.”
dents, mind you; they have to
suport 3.0 or better grade-point The program is indeed an averages to participate in the attractive one. In addition to program. But they do repre- offering topnotch training in sent a core of college students product engineering, it proviwhich traditionally has over- ded f° r flying out-of-town stulooked engineering as a pro- dents to and from the Dearborn spective career. training site at company Emily DeMattia, personnel expense. The students also programs manager for Ford receive free bus transportation Car Product Development, said between work and the dormitothat “typically these students ries at Mercy College in lack a clear understanding of Detroit, where they were • :r - try/ ; y -p ^ .
‘Standardized tests rigged against blacks*
In his annual state of the university address, Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, A&T chancellor, cautioned the teachers to be wary of the idea that this nation now has too many trained and
educated persons.
Dowdy said the tradition of
housed for the summer. With a summer’s training under her belt, Kathy Leonard now can tell you not only about eddy currents, but also about such things as ultrasonics and fatigue analysis. “They are all methods of the mechanical properties of metal,” said the 20-year-old junior from the University of Missouri -Rolla. “The tests help design engineers decide what types of materials to use in cars. This sort of information was corn 1 pletely alien to me when I started in the Ford program." As for Don Reese, just point him toward a car and he’ll break it down for you, part by part. “I’ve learned all the basic parts of the car- on both the body and under body," said Reese, 19, a product of Detroit’s Kettering High School who nov is a junior at the Detroit Instit'ite of Technology. “I’ve learntd about different kinds of metals and paints, and the various stresses and pressures a car goes through. I can even look at a car now and tell you if there’.- enough sealer in a particular area.” What Reese has learned about automobiles is only one side of the coin. “I’ve also learned the responsibility of being on my own and carrying the weight of the job on my shoulders," he said. “All of a sudden, you’ve got a little authority and you’ve got that feeling, Tm important.’ It’s a nice feeling to have.” Ms. Leonard agrees. “I was afraid that, since I hadn't had any experience, I would be set off in a corner and told, ‘This is what we do, but you can’t do it,”* she said. “But I have been involved-so much so that I plan to change my major to mechanical engineering when I go back to college this fall.” She's also hoping she’ll be among those who take part in For Car Product Development’s intern program again next summer. "Practical experience,” Ms. Leonard emphasized, “is something you don’t get out of books!”
LOVE IS
FOREVER
BREENSBORA, N.C.“The system involving the
use of standardized tests is designed against the poor,” an official of the national Educational Testing Service said at A&T State University recent-
ly-
He was Dr. Joseph Williams, diversity in higher education is a program administrator for beginning to disappear. “We
ETS in Princeton, N.J. “There are no experts on standardized tests,” Williams said in his address to the annual back to school faculty-staff institute. "We won’t have any experts until we know how to raise the level of ghetto kids.” “The testing system," said Williams, “is designed against the poor, and to be poor and
black is worse.
cannot allow that to happen,”
he added.
He said that blacks and minorities need to embrace education in order to attempt to gain parity in leadership positions. We must have leaders from every segment of society,” he said.
Summers fUNERAL'jpHAPEL
Kentucky State Alumni weekend meeting here
The 1977 Midwest Regional Meeting of Kentucky State University Alumni will be held here at Stouffer’s Inn, 2820 N. Meridian, Friday and Saturday September 16 and 17. The Indianapolis chapter is host for the conference. Participating will be KSU alumni from Jefferson City, Mo.; St. Louis, Mo.; Chicago, Gary, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio. LSpecial guest will be the Louisville, Ky., chapter. The construction of the conference includes two miniworkshops. One is geared solely for KSU alumni and the other focused entirely for graduates of other black colleges and universities. This workshop is titled “Your Black Alumni Chapter •• Dead or Alive.”
ATTY. THOMAS TODD black alumni groups. The plight
of black schools and how to
The workshop convenes at 10:50 a.m. Saturday and all interested persons are
welcome.
After the workshops, Atty. Thomas N. Todd of Chicago will address the noon luncheon. Atty. Todd is a graduate of Southern University, Baton Rogue, La. He has served as executive vice - president of Operation PUSH, president of SCLC, worked in the Solicitor's Office, Department of Labor, and served as assistant professor of law at Northwestern
University.
Culminating the conference will be a “T horobred Ball” at Pearl’s Ballroom, McClean and
Illinois, at 10 p.m.
Tickets are available at Clark’s Pharmacy, Pearl’s Lounge and Big Fellas, 34th
According to KSU Midw<
than was ever appropriated for Regional president Roy Bussel them.” the latter workshop will discUss Ryan described a “tremend- tips on reactivating the work of
ous strength and vigor” within # # .
the university and cited grow* Q ran t boosts minority engineer program
idwest of black &
BusselK^assert poUtical pressure to Fairfield. Phone 542-9101 liscUss hH^taigblack identity wiU be a 5 p m for other in .
main element of the discussion, formation.
ing enrollments, improved pro-
grams, and addition of out- SOUTH BEND-
standing new faculty members. He expressed unease, however, about public attitudes toward higher education. “There is a feeling that society may no longer require excellence of its colleges and universities. There are great demands for some sort of undefined efficiency in higher education.” He reiterated that the university is geared toward excellence and will emphasize this both within the university and in its contacts throughout the
The new grant will be used to
The University of Notre purchase two minicomputers to Dame recently received a begin to replace time sharing $15,000 grant from the Inter- terminals currently used in nation*! Paper Foundation to each participating school. This fund a program which uses will eliminate the need for minicomputers to introduce mi- public telephone lines connectnosity students to engineering, fog the terminals to a central Notre Dame has conducted computer as well as the cost of the program in several South expensive computer time. Bend, Ind,. and Benton Harbor, Dr* D»vid L. Cohn, associate Mich-, junior and senior high professor of electrical engineerschools for the past two years, fog and director of the program Principal funding has come explained that the minicumputhrough the Sloan Foundation ters will make it possible for an and the Consortium for InstHu- isolated school district to use tional Cooperation. the techniques developed in the
program without having to rely on a university or other source for computer time. Computer programming is used to stiumalate the interest of talented minority students in problem-solving, the essence of engineering. Cohn said computer projects provide an excellent introduction to engineering that even younger students can understand. Cohn and a graduate assistant will conduct the minicomputer program.
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