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Durham, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 31, 1967
MISS HOMECOMING CROWNED
MISS HOMECOMING CROWNED — William Stanton, left,
crowns Miss Sondria Burris as Miss Homecoming at North Carolina
College’s homecoming game Saturday. Watching at right isi Douglas
Gill^, president of the student body. Stanton is captain of the foot
ball team which chose Miss Homecoming.
Dr. King Speaks On Separatism
Martin Luther King, Jr., in
an October meeting placed, the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference squarely against both
black separatism and anti-Semi
tism, calling anti-Semitism “im
moral” and used to dfvide Ne
gro and Jew, “who have effect
ively collaborated in the strug
gle for justice.” He added that
the group he heads considered
Israel’s right to exist as a state
“incontestable,” and was op
posed to “an unqualified en
dorsement of the policy of the
Arab powers.”
In a letter to Morris B.
Abram, president of the Ameri
can Jewish Committee, made
public today by Mr. Abram, Dr.
King denied earlier press re
ports that the S.C.L.C. was part
of the group at the recent “New
Politics” convention at Chicago
that had introduced a resolution
denouncing the “imperialistic
Zionist war.”
Dr. King who made the open
ing address at the convention,
had been asked about his stand
by Mr. Abram and the presi
dents of nine other national
Jewish agencies, all of them af
filiated with the National Com-
m u n i t y Relations Advisory.
These agencies had labelled as
“anti-Semitic” the resolution,
which reportedly had been
forced on the “New Politics”
convention by a minority black
caucus” of Negro delegates.
Dr. King explained to Mr.
Abram in the letter that not
only had he taken no part in
planning the structure or policy
of the convention nor was he
a delegate, but the staff mem
bers of the S.C.L.C. who did
attend were “ the most vigorous
and articulate opponents of the
simplistic resolution on the
Middle East question.” As a re
sult of the stand of the S.C.L.C.
members, he added, “the black
caucus modified its stand and
the convention voted to elimi
nate reference to Zionism and
referred to the executive board
in the matter of final wording.”
“If I had been at the con
ference during the discussion of
the resolutions, “Dr. King con
tinued, “I would have made it
crystal clear that I could not
have supported any resolution
calling for black separatism or
calling for a condemnation of
Israel and an unqualified en
dorsement of the policy of the
Arab powers.”
Dr. King used the occasion of
writing to Mr. Abrams to call
for “economic and social devel
opment” of the Middle East as
the only way out of the area’s
current diffictilties. The S.C.L.C.
has repeatedly stated that the
Middle East problem embodies
the related questions of security
and development, Dr. King stat
ed, adding:
“Israel’s right to exist as a
State in Security is incontest
able. At the same time the great
powers have the obligation to
recognize that the Arab world
is in a state of imposed poverty
and backwardness that must
threaten peace and harmony.
Until a concerted and democrat
ic program of assistance is ef
fected, tensions cannot be re
lieved. Neither Israel nor its
See King Speaks, Page 6
Students Urged
To Prepare
A highly-placed Federal civil
rights official Thursday urged
Negro students to prepare for
life in an integrated society,
rather than joining in “separa
tist” movement.
Harold B. Williams, assistant
director of the office for “Civil
Rights of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare,
said “We are looking for pro
gress, not retreat. I hope that
as you decide which way to go
next, you will elect to move for
ward among the avenues of
education, economics, and poli
tics as a contributing part of
society.
“The best way to influence
decisions that affect your lives
is to rise to the level at which
decisions are made,” the Negro
civil rights officer said.
Williams told his audience of
high school teachers and stu
dents attending the annual Re-
(See Students Urged, Page 5)
Aid Provided
For City Work
A new dimension in serv
ices for college students and re
cent graduates who are visiting
or planning to live and work
in American metropolitan cities
is being offered by The Ameri
can Union of Students Ltd. A
charter membership fee of $5
entitles students or recent grad
uates between 18 and 35 to the
facilities of a central informa
tion center and to special con
siderations from many partici
pating ships and restaurants.
The initial A. U. S. center at
113 West 42nd Street, New York
City will offer services such as
telephone message and mail pick
up, apartment locating, tempo
rary and permanent employment
placement, check cashing, com
plete travel service, planned so
cial and cultural events and
theatre ticket reservations. In
addition, members of the Ameri
can Union of Students Ltd. will
receive a monthly newsletter
advising what the scene is in
New York and specific informa
tion on events and activities
during peak vacation periods.
Similar organizations have
been successfully operating for
years in Europe. Their activi
ties, however, are directed to
ward the touring student. The
A. U. S. attempts to fill a void
in the United States by extend
ing personal service and imme
diate facilities to both the tour
ing and permanent resident
members.
“Out of town and newly ar
rived students and graduates
are lost in the maze of our larg
er cities,” says CJeorge Gary
Janis, President of the A. U. S.
“Our organization provides a
well-staffed information center
designed to meet the special
needs of young people on the
move.”
Mr. James and Larry Chase,
who have co-ordinated the de-
See Aid Provided, Page 5
Miss Sondria Burris, chosen
Miss Homecoming, by mem
bers of the Eagle football squad,
is a senior mathematics major
with a minor in chemistry. She
is a member of the college’s
mathematics and chemistry
clubs and a former member of
the dramatics club.
She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert A. Burris of
Gastonia. Her mother is an in
surance broker for W. L. Smith
A proven time—saving device
to assist graduate students in
the sciences with their thesis
literature research is now avail
able to students at North Caro
lina College at Durham.
The North Carolina Science
and Technology Research Cen
ter, a state agency in the Re
search Triangle Park, is offer
ing the resources of its massive
computerized bank of informa
tion to graduate students as a
supplement to their literature
research.
This experimental project is
supported by the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion to seek better ways of dis
seminating scientific informa
tion.
For $5, the STRC will con
duct a computer search for ma
terial pertinent to the student’s
field of study in the 250,000 re
ports of recent research collect
ed world-wide by NASA. About
half of the material is unpub
lished report literature, includ
ing government and contractor
technical reports. The remaind
er was gathered from more than
1,000 different professional and
scientific journals published in
the U.S. and many foreign coun
tries,,. including the USSR.
Monthly updates keep the col
lection current.
Insurance Agency of Gastonia.
At Gastonia’s Highland Jun
ior and Senior High S«hool,
Miss Burris was a majorette for
four years, was drum major her
junior and senior years, and re
ceived the best artist award. She
was a representative to a stu
dent government workshop in
Raleigh in 1963 and was selected
for the debutante’s ball.
She plans graduate study in
mathematics.
Local university faculty mem
bers estimate that to find the
literature located through a sin
gle computer search would re
quire as much as a month using
conventional manual searching
techniques.
Topics in the STRC bank in
formation cover these fields:
aircraft and structural mechan
ics, biosciences and biotechnol
ogy, chemistry and propellants,
communications and computers,
electronics and electronic equip
ment, fluid mechanics and aero
dynamics, geography and mete-
rology, instrumentation and
photography, and machine ele
ments and processes.
Materials—^metallic and non-
metallic; mathematics; physics
—general, atomic, molecular,
nuclear, plasma, solid-s t a t e,
masers; propulsion systems,
thermodynamics, and combus-'
tion;._ research facilities; and
sciences.
General — industrial applica
tions and technology, basic re
search, defense aspects, law and
related legal matters and legis
lative hearing and documents.
For further information, write
or call: N. C. Science and Tech
nology Research Center R e -
search Triangle Park, N .C.
27709; Durham 549-7291, Ral
eigh 834-7357 and Chapel Hill
929-6688.
An appointment for a confer
ence to plan the search will be
arranged with an applications
engineer of the STRC.
“MISS HOMECOMING” IN PARADE — Miss Sondria Burris, a
North Carolina College coed from Gastonia, N. C., rides her float as
“Miss Homecoming” during the college's annual downtown home
coming parade.
Miss Burris was elected by members of the Eagle football'
squad, who defeated the Shaw University Bears 35-14 to make the
occasion a. happy one for NCC.
Research Time Saver Offered