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BFNNETT BANNKR
First Black Contestant
November 4, 1969
Howard Lee holds press conference.
Howard Lee Speaks
At Bennett
By MYRA DAVIS
After a very inspiring Octo-
ber 14, general assembly speech
to the Bennett student body, Ho
ward Lee, mayor of Chapel Hill,
held a news conference in the
Student Union attended by a large
representative from nearby news
media.
Much of the questioning con-
cemed his present term and
political future. One question
centered around the recent
squabble of the town of Chapel
Hill and the University involving
the $6.6 million Division of Health
Affairs complex on the campus
which has not complied with the
town's zoning ordinances. The
mayor took the position that it
Is now time that the University
Belle Seeks Beauty Title
conformed to the town’s laws.
His biggest problem as a black
politician in the South, he said
was his inexperience, lack of
influential political friends, and
lack of backing of a political
party. Therefore, he said, “I
have to struggle for support in
solving problems tliat would be
no problem with the cooperation
of the ri^t groups.” He said
that much resentment to his elec-
tion is subsiding, and that he is
receiving cooperation from
“even those who say openly that
they did not vote for me.”
Mr. Lee told the press that he
supports Malcolm X University
in principle, “because it is a
good concept and new venture in
education.”
Linda Silver, Bennett junior
is currently seeking the title
of Miss Goldsboro, the only black
out of 12 girls competing for the
title.
The criteria for eligibility is
that a candidate be between the
ages of 18 and 28 years old,
never married and a native of
Goldsboro. Linda became an of
ficial candidate upon filing a
formal application, and after an
interview with the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce.
The contestants in the beauty
contest are judged on evening
wear, swim wear, and talent.
The winner receives a scholar,
ship and automatically partici
pates in the Miss North Carolina
pageant.
Linda was previously Miss
Wayne County in 1967. This pa
geant was an all Black pageant
sponsored by members of the
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. It was
this same sorority that encour
aged Linda to enter the Miss
Goldsboro contest. Linda is a
chemistry major and math and
biology minor. She hopes to go
into medicinal chemistry upon
graduation. Her interests are
public speaking, drama and mo
dern dance. She holds member
ship in the science seminar club,
associate membership in the na-
tional science honor society and
student legislature. She holds
the office of corresponding se
cretary in the student senate,
assistant secretary of the legis-
lature, and treasurer of the sci
ence seminar. The pageant will
be held November 29.
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Former Miss Wayne County, Linda Silver, seeks new title.
From The Liberation News Service....
Panthers And Lords
NEW YORK (LNS) -- The Fe-
deral government, the govern
ment of the state of New York,
and Governor Rockefeller sim
ply do not have the resources
to meet the needs of the people,
what with all the more impor
tant things that have to be done
like sending three clowns to the
moon and dumping bombs and
napalm on the peasants of Viet
nam, Ethiopia, Guatemala, and
other countries around the world.
So when this year's budget rolled
round they were forced to make
major cuts in the welfare cloth
ing allowance. A grievous sit
uation for all concerned, they
assured us, but sadly unavoid
able.
What made it so sad for the
pigs was that quite a few of
the welfare mothers weren't tak
ing this sitting down. Instead
they were taking it to the streets,
pustiing a school boycott that
shut down several New York
schools almost completely during
the first weeks of the school
year.
What made it even sadder for
the pigs was that there are some
people around who understand
that serving the people is their
primary task and who make that
their life's work-.the Black Pan-
ther Party and the Young Lords
Organization. So when it became
clear that this racist govern,
ment had no more intention of
clothing children than it had of
giving them a decent break,
fast, the Panthers and Lords
announced that they would do
it
They moved on the business,
men who have been robbing from
the community for years and
put it to them that now the peo
ple were going to get something
back. They collected over three
tons of new and used clothes
and let the community know that
on Saturday, Sept. 27, it would
all be distributed for free.
Saturday came and- more than
500 people were lined up out
side Intermediate School 201
when the Panthers and Lords
told them to come in and help
themselves to the truckloads of
clothing that covered long rows
of tables. All the items were
marked, telling what they were
and what size. Panthers and
Lords stood behind each table,
ready to give help to anyone
who needed it. These people who
had spent months fighting to win
some kind of help from this
government began to understand
in a new and real way how this
pig government works not tor
the people but for the oppressors.
There were the clothes they need
ed, and there were the Panthers
and Lords who had gotten them
for them, and there were pam-
phlets and papers explaining why
the Panthers and Lords serve the
peopk.
The state was nowhere to be
seen, except for a few pigs who
kept a nervous eye on wiiat was
going down, afraid to vamp on
the Panthers and Lords when
the people could see what that
was all about. AJl about ALL
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
California Regents Five Black Woman
Who Is Communist Party Member
LOS ANGELES (LNS) -- The
Regents of the University of Cal
ifornia took it upon themselves
Sept. 19 to fire Angela Davis,
black assistant professor of phil
osophy at UCLA. It was a stupid
move, even for the Regents.
Angela, who at 25, is com
pleting her doctoral disertation
under the supervision of Her
bert Marcuse, a member of the
Communist Party. She belongs
to the Che-Lumumba Club, a CP
black collective in Southern Cal
ifornia. It is not surprising that
the UC Regents, with a right-
wing majority led by Ronald Rea-
ga, don't dig Professor Davis.
However, many liberal eyebrows
were raised here because the Re
gents' action is blatantly uncon-
stitutional.
In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court
invalidated New York statutes
making Communist Party mem
bership grounds for disqualifica
tion from teaching in a public
institution. Based on this deci-
Sion, the California Supreme
Court the same year invalidated
that section of the California
constitution requiring public em-
ployees to sign an oath denying
membership in any organization
advocating violent overthrow of
the government.
Many academic freedom types
on the UCLA faculty have ex
pressed their “outrage” at Prof,
Davis' dismissal. But Prof. Davis
herself and Robert Singleton of
the Afro-American Studies Cen.
ter understand the issue clearly
as a further example of racist
oppression. Singleton cited the
fact that many white Com,unists
are employed by the UC system
and sees Miss Davis' dismissal
as part of the movement of white
fascism against the black man.
When classes begin the first
week of October, Angela will be
teaching. Pending a hearing on
her dismissal, she has been assi.
gned by Philosophy Department
head Ronald Kalish to teach a
black literature course.
Angela Davis will fight the
Regents all the way to the Su
preme Court if necessary. “Let's
there be no doubt,” she states
“my stand is forthright. As a
black woman, my politics and
political affiliation are bound up
with and flow from participation
in my people's sturggle for lib-
eration, and with the fight of
oppressed people all over the
world against American Imper.
ialism, , . .As a black woman I
am used to fighting and I will
continue fighting now.”
Army Goes After Underground Editor
CAMP EAGLE, South Viet
nam (LNS) -- Army cops are
going all out to find the sold
iers who publish a mimeogra
phed underground sheet called
“GISays.”
Men from military intelli
gence got really pissed off, ac-
cording to a report in the Over
seas Weekly, when the under
ground paper called for the death
of Lt. Col. Weldon Honeycutt,
the decorated commander who led
his men on a costly charge up
Hamburger Hill. “GI Says” of
fered a reward of $10,000 for
Honeycutt's neck. Soon after, the
Weekly reported, “rumorsbegan
to run through the 3d Brigade's
Camp Evans that somebody tried
to collect the dough by booby-
trapping Honeycutt's hootch with
grenades and Claymore mines ''
The army has a suspect al-
ready.. He is Spec 4 Kenneth
Anderberg, a clerk at grigade
headquarters (and a former
sportswriter) whom the Overseas
Weekly describes as “hairy-lip.
ped.” Intelligence officers say
that Annenberg's typewriter was
the same one used to produce
“GI Says.”