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Dr. Samuel Proctor Praises Demonstrations
Racial Gains
Attributed to
Student Action
RALEIGH A speaker at
Shaw University told a student
audience none of the advances
in the area of desegregation
would have been made had it
not been for the demonstra
tions and other actions of col
lege students in 1960.
Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, as
sociate director of the U. S.
Office of Economic Opportun
ity, said "There would be no
civil rights Act, voting rights
bill, integrated restaurants and
hotels today ..." but for the
civil rights demonstrations of
1959 and 1960."
' Proctor said a whole new
concept in the area of educa-
and the Negro College has
developed.
Speaking to the opening ses
sion of the two-day student
symposium opening Shaw Uni
versity's Centennial Inaugural
Convocation, Proctor said, "de
ficits" still exist in the educa
tion Negroes have gotten and
are still getting. He said these
are not "illusory or imaginary
but they are real."
He said these can be over
come with effort and proper
instruction.
Proctor commented on the
standarized tests which are re
quired by many schools for en
trance and by many business
organizations for employment.
"The tests may be loaded, but
they are loaded with the cul
ture and the facts you have
got to live with in today's so
ciety," he said.
He said the Negroes' biggest
problem is to understand that
the educational deficit exists
and that to compete in today's
society they must overcome
the gap that exists between the
kind of education the Negro
gets and that which is received
by the other segment.
Proctor listed three "needs"
which Negroes must meet to be
ready for full participation in
the American life in its main
stream.
He said a new breed of teach
ers must be produced, teachers
who are dedicated and willing
to sacrifice to do the kind of
job that is needed.
Secondly he said a new ad-
See PROCTOR 2A
Last Rites For
Wm. Husband
Set for Friday
William H. Husband, 65, of
413 Cecil St., died Monday
about 11 p.m. at his home. He
had been in failing health but
was not bedridden. Funeral
plans are incomplete.
A former employee of the
American Tobacco Co. who re
tired about six months ago,
Mr. Husband is survived by
two daughters, Miss Veronica
Gibson of Durham and Mrs.
Lillian H. Drake of Beacon, N.
Y.; and two brothers, James
Husband of Durham, and Sam
uel Husband of Philadelphia,
Penna.
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VOLUMN 43 No. 17 DURHAM, N.C. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1966 PRICE 15c
National NAACP President
Freedom Day Speaker May 1
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FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE
The East End Betterment
League's outgoing president
John L. Holloway (center) is
presented the community serv-
Ed. Desegregation Meet At
UNC In Greensboro Apr. 30
GREENSBORO A State
wide Conference on Education
Desegregation will be held in
Greensboro Saturday, April 30,
from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. ot
Eliot Hall of the University of
Carolina at Greensboro
The North Carolina State Ad
visory Committee to the U. S.
Commission on Civil Rights,
after specific requests, is spon
soring the conference in coope
ration with the Office of Edu
cation.
An Office of Education offi
cial, yet to be named, will open
the plenary session at 9 a.m.
M—sp b|gv mtm momthao
with the keynote address.
Among others invited to speak
are a Department of Justice of
ficial, a representative of a
national civil rights organiza
tion, and a North Carolina edu
cation official.
After the initial session, and
beginning at 10:30 a.m., five
concurrent workshops will be
held to clarify details of the
Federal 1966-67 School Deseg
regation Guidelines, the Provi
sions of Title IV ol the 1964
Civil Rights Act, the types of
See EDUCATION 2A
nlty. Cram I aft ara Alvln Me-
Naal. junior, of Klnaton; Dil
lard Rewa, aanior, of Wilton;
Robart Banton, aanior, of
Smithflald; and Colon Ollvar.
Ice award for outstanding civic
and religious community terv-
ice as its president from 1955
to 1965. Mrs. Willie Dunlap
chairman of tre Social Commit-
VA Official Awards Day Speaker
At N. Carolina College May 6
Mrs. Esther B. LaMarr, spe
cial assistant to the administra
tor of the Veterans Administra
tion, Washington, D. C., Will be
the principal speaker at North
Carolina College's 17th annual
Awards Day convocation Friday,
May 6.
The convocation, which is
open to the public, begins at
10 a.m. in the college's McDou
gald Gymnasium and will fea
ture the conferring of citations
and awards to 400 students for
excellence in scholarship, ath
letics, departmental and club
and other accom
plishments during the year.
Mrs. LaMarr, who was ap
pointed to her present position
by President Lyndon B. John
son in June of 1964, is a na
tive of Detroit, Michigan. An
honor graduate of Talladega
College, she holds also the
See LAMARR 2A
iunlor, of Fayatta villa.
Mam bars of tha fratarnlty
must ba gaography majors or
minora with at laait a "B"
araga In tha aubjact.
tee mad* the presentation •»
Dr. Alexander D. Moseley new
ly elected president and pastoi
of Mount Gilead Baptist Church
looks on.
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Clement To Attend Joint
Civilian Orientation Meet
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W. A. Clement, CLU, vice
president-f ie 1 d operations of
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company has accepted
an invitation from Secretary of
Defense, Robert S. McNamara
to attend the Joint Civilian
Orientation Conference to be
conducted by the Department
of Defense, April 21-28.
The conference is an effort
by the Secretary of Defense to
show the American people how
the Department of Defense is
operated. Its purpose is to ac
quaint the public with the
problems, workings, and ac
complishments of that branch
of the government responsible
for the adequate defense of the
country and the proper dispo
sition of the defense dollar.
Clement is one of a group of
75 industrial, business, and
professional leaders, represent
ing a cross section of American
leadership from all parts of the
country Invited to attend a
•week long visit of representa
tive military Installations. Theja
gentlemen are selected geogra
phically to give representation
to all parts of the country and
Kivie Kaplan
To Address
N. C. Branch
RALEIGH—Kivie Kaplan. Na
tional NAACP President will ad
dress the Annual NAACP Free
dom Day Celebration sponsor
ed by the North Carolina State
Conference of NAACP Branch
es in the Raleigh Memorial Au
ditorium Sunday afternoon,
May 1. Activities will begin at
3 o'clock P. M.
Kaplan was elected President
of the NAACP on last January
3, succeeding Arthur Spingarn.
He has made an outstanding
and notCAWthy contribution
to the NAACP. Kaplan, as Na
tional Life Membership Chair
man, has accelerated and ex
panded the Membership j
Program of the NAACP. It was
largely the funds provided
through the NAACP Life Mem
bership Program under hi s
leadership that enabled the
NAACP to keep faith with Its
people by supplying $300,000
cash bail for NAACP demon
strators arrested in Mississippi
in 1963 and 1964.
Kian Leader
Seeks Boycott
Of 20 Stores
LAWRENCEVILLE, Va. —At
the same time that James H.
Meredith, first known Negro to
enroll at and graduate from the
University of Mississippi at
Oxford, was making three pub
lic apperances here and in
nearby Alberta, Sunday, a Ku
Klux Klan rally and cross burn
ing were staged close by and
about 400 segregationists at
tending heard a Klan leader de
mand a boycott of twenty-odd
white area merchants because
they contributed souvenirs for
distribution at a Job Opportuni
ties Clinic held two days earli
er at Saint Paul's College
In a major address before an
overflow audience in the after
noon Meredith declared that "I
have faith that within 10 years
half of the white citizens of
Mississippi would vote for a
Negro seeking a state office."
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all facets of the U. S. economy.
They are briefed, shown train
ing demonstrations and "rub
elbows" with all ranks of the
armed forces
The conference will open
with a reception and dinner at
the Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado
Springs, Colorado on Thursday
evening, April 21. On Friday,
See CLEMINT 2A
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NEW STORE MANAGER
High Point —Walter Willis (cen
ter), newly appointed manager
of the F. W. Woolworth store
at 6908 South Halsted Street,
receives congratulations as well
Over 2,000 Expected At
CME General Conference
Former NCC Football Star is
Named Human Relations Aide
John Baker was named Tues
day a human relations aide
with the North Carolina Good
Neighbor Council. Baker, who
captains the Pittsburgh Steel
ers defensive unit from his end
position, will work as a council
representative in the field of
education and job opportuni
ties.
The appointment of Baker, a
native of Raleigh and graduate
of Ligon High School there and
N. C. College where he starr
ed in football at both institu
tions, to the $5,484 position,
was announced by D. S. Col
trane, chairman of the Good
Neighbor Council.
The 31-year old, 6-6, 270
pounder began his professional
career in 1958 with the Los
Angeles Rams and has playqd
with the Steelers since 1963.,
For the past seven years (lur
ing the off season, Baker who
is married and has two chil
dren, has worked with the State
Prison Department primarily in
physical education and recrea
tion.
In his new position, Baker
will assist Coltrane and Mrs.
Peggy Drew who seek job op
portunities for Negroes in the
State and encourage Negro
youths to educate themselves
for employment.
Spottswood to
Address Local
NAACP Sun.
Bishop Stephen Gill Spotts
wood, chairman of the board
of directors of the NAACP, will
be the speaker at the regular
monthly meeting of the Dur
ham Branch of the NAACP
Sunday, April 24, at Lincoln
Memorial Baptist Church, at 4
p.m.
The speaker will be present
ed by the Rev. L. A. Miller and
the program is part of the as
sociation's continuing efforts to
increase life membership en
rollees. Durham has a quota of
50 life membership subscrib
ers.
The Rev. Walter Yarbrough,
pastor of the host church, will
offer devotion.
J. L. Holloway is life mem
bership chairman and Mrs. 011-
See SPOTTSWOOD 2A
at the keyt to the store from
Edward J. Renowden (left),
Woolworth't regional pertonnel
director. Willis was named
manager of the itore after com
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Entori R«c» For Houio S»«t
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Former Durhamite
Drowns in Okinawa
Saturday, April 16
U. S. Army Spec. 4 Bobbie
F. Torian, 22-year-old son of
Mrs. Mary Dunnagan Torian of
411 Nassau St., and Willie J.
Torian of Washington, was
drowned April 16 in Okinawa,
his family was notified by the
United States Department of
Defense. The young Durhamite
entered the service in June
1963, one year after graduating
from Hillside High School.
He was assigned to Okinawa
after completing Special Forces
training at Ft. Bragg.
Surviving in addition to his
parents are four brothers,
James, Joseph and Willie To
rian of Durham and Bennie
Torian of Washington; and
three sisters, Annie, Bessie and
Barbara Torian of Durham and
his paternal grandmother, Mrs.
Rosa Jones, of Hillsborough.
Verse of the Week—Everybody
likes a good time but many fear
the consequences.
pleting Woolworth't accelerated
management training program.
At right it the store't assiitant
mainager in training, Clarence
Campbell.
MIAMI, Fla. More than
2,000 officers and delegates,
some from as far as Ghana and
Liberia, will gather in Miami
for the 25th Quadrennial Ses
sion of the Christian Metho
dist Episcopal General Confer
ence May 4-18.
An accumulation of four years
of church business will be re
solved during the conference
highlighted by the election of
a bishop and an.entire slate of
general officers.
Bayfront Auditorium has
been selected a s conference
headquarters and general as
semly site. Some 800 rooms in
hotels along Miami's famous
Biscayne Boulevard have been
reserved.
Among those considered for
the vacancy on the nine-mem
er Board of Bishops are Dr.
Joseph Johnson of Atlanta, the
Rev. J. L. Tolbert, Memphis;
the Rev. Amos Rice, St. Louis;
the Rev. J. M. Pettigrew, Chi-.,
cago; the Rev. L. S. Brannon,
Birmingham and the Rev. R.
B. Shorts, Atlanta.
The Second Episcopal Dis
trict seat, made vacant by the
See CONFERENCE 2A
H. Selassie !o
Visit Haiti on
Caribbean Tour
MIAMI, Florida Emperor
Haile Selassie of Ethiopia will
make a goodwill visit to Haiti
April 24-26 as part of the Afri
can ruler's Caribbean swing.
The emperor will be received
in Port-au-Prince by Haiti'p
President Francois Duvalier
and accorded full honors.
A great celebration is planned
in observance of the historic
friendship visit of the emperor
to the Negro republic of Haiti.
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EVANGELIST—Tha Rav. Par
vis (Flraball) McKannay will ba
tfca guast mlnlstar at a pro
gram at Kylaa Tampla AMB
Zlon Church Sunday. April 24,
at S p.m. Ha has conductad
succaaafui avangallstlc ca m
palgna throughout tha nation.
Immadlataly following tha
sarvlca. a racaptlon will ba hald
In tha fallowshlp hall of tha
church. Mrs. Mabla Powall la
chairman of tha program.