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VoL 9 No. 4
Missing funds aFPaine total
The announcement Friday
that more than SBO,OOO of
Paine College funds had been
“displaced” drew gasps from
the appropriate persons
attending the news conference
at the college.
College officials had earlier
predicted that the amount
would be no more than
$20,000.
Bishop Nathaniel Lindsey a
trustee, accepted the news
philosophically. “It was
something that shocked me at
first,” he said, “but it happens
in other colleges. We just have
to tighten up and act on the
Mayor’s wife included
By Courtland Milloy
Washington Post
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
When Dr. Kenneth Smothers, a
black psychiatrist, strolled up
to the Elan nightclub on K
Street NW recently, a hostess,
wearing spiked heels and a
deeply split skirt, pulled a blue
velvet rope across the doorway.
Elan was too crowded, she
said, as she turned him away.
“So I stood on the street
and counted 10 whites go
inside,” Smothers recalls. “It
was so blatant.”
Despite the good looks and
important new positions of
Washington’s rising black
professionals, the doors of
some of the city’s nightclubs
still are being shut in their
faces.
Racial discrimination on
Agent wins trip to Europe
Two years ago James
Robinson joined the American
National Insurance Co. This
year he has won about every
incentive award the company
offers including a trip to
Europe.
First he won a heavy-duty
kitchen dub outfit, then a
complete luggage set, during
the third quarter of 1978 he
won a portable bar, a trophy,
and a 19-inch TV set.
Last month he and his wife,
Mary, were given an all-expense
paid trip to Las Vegas.
On Thursday he and his
spouse will board a 747 junbo
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basis of business instead of
friendship. There is really no
need to become alarmed.”
Trustee Luther R. Neal said
it was “regrettable” from the
stand point of the personnel
involved and “money that the
college needed.”
Painr President Julius S.
Scott Jr. read a prepared
statement in the school chapel
with the faculty, staff, students
and the news media present.
He did not reveal the names of
the persons involved and said
that the school’s legal counsel
advised him not to answer any
questions.
Washington night clubs refuse to admit blacks
Washington’s selective social
scene is still an everyday
occurrence, according to
interviews with dozens of black
professionals, social leaders and
some nightclub managers
themselves.
“I find it ironic that in a city
79 percent black, where most
of the elected city officials are
black, a black can’t go to most
nightclubs without a hassle,”
says John Wilson, a black
member of the D.C. City
Council.
Even the wife of Mayor
Marion Barry is not immune
from this kind of racial slight.
“It happens to me
continuously,” Effie Barry
said. “It’s not getting better.
People are being lulled into a
false sense of security. What
they don’t realize is that once
you get off your block or out
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He said that a “discrepancy”
by a former employee in the
business office discovered Fed.
15, 1979 led to an
investigation by the business
manager.
The employee was
immediately dismissed when
evidence of the missing funds
was provided, Dr. Scott said.
Pertinent details were
communicated to members of
the board of trustees, the
college attorney, law
enforcement agencies, the
bonding firm, the college
auditor, the Board of Higher
Education and Ministry of the
of your neighborhood, you’re
just another nigger.”
In a city that is
predominantly black, some
nightclub managers apparently
try to hold the precentage of
black customers to one-third or
less at any one time.
Integration is chic, but too
much - too many blacks -- is
not.
“They say this area has the
highest concentration of blacks
outside of Africa,” says Scott
Spaulding, night manager of
the Plum, another downtown
nightclub. “But here I’d say
about one-third is our happy
ratio.”
William Lindsay, part-owner
of Foxtrappe, a leading black
private nightclub at 16th and R
streets NW, says other clubs try
to restrict their black clientele
to about 10 to 25 percent.
jet and fly to Copenhagen for
eight days at the expense of his
insurance company.
Robinson was one of two
persons from Georgia to
qualify for the trip to Europe.
The other person was also
black.
The trip to Copenhagen is
awarded to the top 100 sales
leaders in the company that
qualify for the President’s
Club, the highest achievement
in the company.
A native of Emanuel
County, Robinson is a trustee
and a deacon at Antioch
Baptist Church in Augusta.
June 16, 1979
United Methodist Church, and
the Deparmtnt of Health
Education and Welfare,
Division of Student Financial
Assiatance, Dr. Scott said,
adding that controls were put
in place to prevent further
displacements.
He emphasized that no
funds from the United Negro
College Fund were involved.
On March 23, the business
manager was contacted by a
local person to whom a second
person in the business office
had confessed displacement of
funds and subsequently
“Blacks are still considered
inferior,” says Lindsay. “It’s
like we’re a negative concept.
White club owners feel that if
they admit a noticeable
percentage of blacks, they will
run away the whites, which has
proven to be the case.”
Most blacks who have been
discriminated against are
reluctant to talk about it, or
don’t want to be quoted or
identified by name. Being
discriminated against is both
painful and embarrassing.
“It hurts,” says Lynn
Bumbray, an assistant to Effi
Barry. “I don’t care how tough
you try to be or how much
you try to ignore it. It’s like
the poem, ‘Ode to Rejection.’”
Rarely is denial of admission
put in racial terms. Rather the
clubs start requiring
membership cards or
WASHINGTON - President
Jimmy Carter has announced
he will nominate Joseph C.
Howard Sr., of Baltimore, to
be U.S. district judge for the
District of Maryland. This is a
new judgeship created by the
Omnibus Judgeship Act of
1978.
Howard was bom Dec. 9,
1922, in Des Moines, lowa. He
received a B.A. from the
University of lowa in 1950,
and an LL.B. (1955) and M.A.
(1957) from Drake University.
He served in the U.S. Army
from 1944 to 1947.
From 1958 to 1960 Howard
was a probation officer in
Baltimore. From 1960 to 1964
he practiced law with the
Baltimore firm of Howard &
Hargrove. From 1964 to 1968
he was assistant state’s
attorney for Baltimore City.
Since 1968 he has been an
associate judge on the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City.
Carter scolds
black Americans
who don’t vote
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confessed the same
information to the business
manager, Dr. Scott said.
He said that the Internal
Revenue Service contacted the
business manager that same
afternoon with evidence
“strongly supporting” the
allegation and the employee
was “summarily dismissed” on
that date.
Dr. Scott said that he had
been assured by the holding
firm that Paine is fully covered
and that there will be no loss
of funds displaced.
He said that the auditors’
inaugurate dress codes or
invoke the city fire marshal’s
crowd capacity code.
In April 1977, Dr. Michael
Proctor, a black orthopedic
surgeon, sued the Apple tree
Club, at 1220 19th St. NW,
unsuccessfully alleging racial
discrimination. Proctor and
three other blacks had been
denied admission on the
grounds they were improperly
dressed.
“What upset me was the
white fellow they adnitted in
front of us,” Proctor said. “He
was wearing an outfit similar to
mine.”
Moments later, a black
salesman for the IBM
Corporation also was denied
admission to the Appletree,
alledgly for improper dress.
The man left and returned with
a uniformed D.C. police
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CLASS OF ’79 -- Paine College graduated 68 students
Sunday. Dr. James S. Barrett, associate general secretary
Lera than 75% Advertising
investigation showed that
between July, 1977 and
February, 1979 $27,355 were
displaced in the first case.
Between July, 1975 and
December, 1978 $52,663.21
were displaced in the second
case. The total amount was
$80,018.34.
Dr. Scott said he and the
trustees of the college are
“firmly convinced” that all the
displaced funds have been
properly revealed, that there
are no other employees
involved, and that the matter is
moving toward resolution.
officer.
After peering through the door
and seeing how others were
dressed, the officer told the
doorkeeper, “I think you
should let him in.” The man
was allowed inside.
But when Jack Sykes, a
black who is circulation
manager of The Washington
Star, attempted to enter the
Appletree Club later, he says
he was told it would cost $75 -
the cost of a membership card.
The club normally charges a
$lO cover charge after 5 p.m.
An all black jury ruled in
favor of the Appletree in the
discrimination case. Testimony
revealed that some of the
plaintiffs in the case had
subsequently returned to the
club and were admitted.
“My argument was that
the club used quotas for
Clergyman
Nathaniel Irvin
retires
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REGINA NEWTON, Delaware’s Junior Miss of 1979,
had her camera Joaded and ready to capture memories
on fdm during the America’s Junior Miss Pageant in
which she was a finalist in April. She won $6,000 in
college scholarships in the state and national pageants.
The camera was a gilt from Kodak, a national sponsor
of the scholarship program for high school seniors.
blacks,” said Albert Hopkins,
Proctor’s lawyer. “Once the
club reached its ‘tipping point,’
they stopped allowing blacks
inside. The jury didn’t buy it.
They felt that you have to
exclude all blacks all the time to
be guilty of racial
discrimination.”
Seated at a bar in the
Foxtrappe club one night
recently, several blacks said
they had stopped going to
white clubs altogether,
preferring to pass up the
chance to make business
contacts in an informal setting
rather than risk personal
insults, real or imagined.
“It’s a paradox,” said John
Forston, a supervisor at the
General Services
Administration. “Here I am, a
professional man, but you go
to some of these white places
of the Division of Higher Education and Ministry, was
the speaker. Photo by Mike Can
and the doorman expect- you
to be subservient.”
Vivian Leek, a black
free-lance writer who is
fair-skinned, said when she
went to The Buck Stops Here,
at 17th and G Streets NW, she
complimented the bartender
on how nice the place was.
“He agreed, but added they
vere still having problems with
blacks and were trying to
discouage them. He must have
thought I was Spanish or
something,” Leek said.
Harvey Thorton, a black
who works at the Federal
Reserve Board, said, “I went to
the Appletree one night and
the guy at the door says, ‘Hey,
you must be looking for the
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