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t »aUi j?ilw LuDuruloric- , , 7UO Cliatbum SCLC May Call For Boycott Four North Carolina Counties Raleigh Set For Visit Of Martin Luther King, Jr., Sunday Huge Crowd Expected Hear Noted Leader RALEIGH—The William Ncal Reynolds Coliseum will be the j scene here Sunday, July 31, at j 4:00 p.m. of Ahat has been j predicted will be a gigantic mass meting. Speaker for the occasion will ' be Dr Martin Luther King, noted civil rights leader and president of the Southern 1 Christian Leadership Confer-, Born in Atlanta, Ga:, on Jan uary 15, 1929, King is the son of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Mar tin Luther King, Sr., where his father is pastor of the Ebenc zer Baptist Church and he is eo pastor. fn a poll, conducted recently in India. Dr King ranked as one of the sixteen world lead ers who had contributed most to the advancement of free dom during 1959 He has also been listed by the Gallup Poll as being one of the most ad mired religious leaders in the world. He was named "Man of the Year" by Time Magazine recently. President and one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Confer cnce. SCLC was formed on January 10, 1957 at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga., of which Dr. King is co-pastor •A ith bis father the Rev. Mar tin Luther King Sr. The South ern Christian leadership Con ference is a loosely structured federation of some 300 nation wide affiliates that adhere to the moral imperatives of a philosophy of nonviolence deep- Iv rooted in the thinking of Jesus, Henry Thoreau and Ma hatma Gandhi. SHORT OF THE WEEK: Lazi ness is the one common de ficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life. CR Leader Threatens Means To Secure Anti-Poverty Aid WINDSOR Golden Frinks, a field secretary of the South ern Christian Leadership Con ference, has threatened a boy cott in four North Carolina counties in efforts to gain add ed support in the area for federal anti-poverty programs. The target counties are Ber tie, Halifax, Hertford, and Northampton. Windsor, Frinks said, will be the first city to be affected. "We are ready to put in motion economic with drawal in the major cities of the four counties," he said. The remarks were made in a statement released Sunday after a march Saturday protest ing the rejection by the Ber tie County school board of a summer headstart program. Frinks stated the protests would seek to string lines of communication between Negro and white citizens and aid in "building a great future of in tegration." "The North Carolina Fund, the Office of Economic Oppor tunity, and the Choanoke Area Sec BOYCOTT 2A Former Durham Minister Named To New Post In United Church Of Christ NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Rev. Charles E. Cobb, minister of St. John's Congregational (Unit ed Church of Christ) Church Springfield, Mass., has been named executive coordinator of the Committee for Racial Justice Now of the United Church of Christ. The Rev. Dr. Ben Mohr Herb ster, preident of the church, announced here recently that Mr. Cobb will begin his new duties in New York on Sep tember 15. He will replace the Rev. W. Sterling Cary, minister of Grace Congregational (Unit ed Church of Christ) Church, Ne-*- York City. As the Committee's executive coordinator, Mr. Cobb will also serve as a member of the na tional staff of the denomina tion's Council for Christian Cle Camiiip Cimes VOLUME 43 No. 28 DURHAM, N. C— SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1966 ~ PRICE 15c NAACP Director Calls For Embargo Of South Africa ' VHr fIR I >> ST ■k.. A%i. L«^ AFRICAN VISITORS—Dr. Syl vester Broderick, an educator from Sierra Leone, West Africa, who this summer is serving as visiting professor at A&T Col- Last Rites to be Held for Mrs. Annie Mayer Sat, at Covenant Funeral services will be con ducted Saturday, July 30, at 3 i p.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church for Mrs. Annie W. Mayer, with the pastor of the j church, the Rev. J. W. Sniith, officiating. I Mrs. Mayer, who was born in I Littleton, died at 10:25 Tues day night at Lincoln Hospital. She was a graduate of North Carolina College and taught in the Durham city school system for 21 years. She was a mem ber of Covenant Presbyterian Church and served as organist. Survivors include one sister, Mrs. Mattie Saunders of the home at 1616 Fayetteville St.; one niece, Mrs. Jeanette Bry ant of Washington, D. C.; and one nephew, Staff Sergeant John Whitehurst of March Air Force Base, Calif. ■ I m. 1 m ■ ■ REV. COBB Social Action. The United Church of Christ See COBB Page 2A I lege Summer School, brought | with him Mrs. Broderick. | He is on leave from his post as professor at the University College of Sierra Leone. 300-lb. Woman Walking In Nude Down Broadway NEWBURGH, N. Y. —"'You won't believe this," the caller told police early Saturday, "but there is a 300- pound woman walking naked down Broadway." Police sent to check the re port found Mrs. 'Caroline Moore, 26, walking down the street clad only in a pair of sneakers. She said her hus band had ripped off her clothes during a figHt in their car. "I was just walking home," she explained. FUNERAL RITES HELD THURSDAY FOR W. W. PAGE AT MT. VERNON The funeral of Willie Wilbert Page, 82, well-known citizen of Durham, was held at the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church here Thursday, July 28, at 4:00 p.m. The Rev. V. E. Browne, pastor of Gethsemane Baptist Church, officiated. Intermeni was at Beechwood Cemetery. Mr Page was born in Dur ham County, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William J. Page. He succumbed at Lin coln Hospital, Sunday, July 24, following a brief illness. For a long number of years he was engaged in, business as a mer chant and owner of a local taxi company. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. See PACE 2A Dr. Fulbright Named NCC Un'grad Dean Dr Stewart B. Fulbright. i professor of commerce at North I Carolina Colleges, has been ap | pointed dean of the college's i Undergraduate School effective | September 1. The announcement was made | Wednesday by William Jones. 1 | chairman of the institution's In terim Committee, which is in i charge of administration of the I college until a president is se | lected j Speaking for the committee, j Jones said that everyone felt I the selection of Fulbright in j i t/iis capacity insured the con j tinued high quality of perform ance exemplified by the for | mer undergraduate dean. Dr. I Joseph A T'ittman. He added ! that the vacant deanship re sulted from Pittman's request that the committee permit him to return to his former posi ion as professor of education ♦ o pursue his interests in teach ing and statistical research. Pittman assumed the post in , September of 1964. Fulbright, who has been at NCC continuously since 1947, j { holds the A.B degree from Lin- ! j coin University (Mo.), th e j i M B.A. from the University of j Chicago, and the Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He pursued post-doctoral studies on a Danforth fellowship in 1962 at the University of Penn sylvania. Among flis rich experiences are teaching duties which in- I eluded undergraduate and grad- | | uate classes in insurance, real j I estate marketing and other j 1 areas of business administra- | tion. He has performed sum- ! | mer work with the North Caro j lina Mutual Life Insurance Co. j in microfilming and agency de- j partments. In the summer of | 1963, he was a social adminis- i tration specialist with the U.S. j Unemployment Insurance Serv i ice. Dr. Fulbright holds member ship in the Southern Market ing Association, American Risk I and Insurance Association, Na tional Business Teachers Asso ciation, North Carolina Teach- j ers Association, American As- j sociation of University Profes sors, Phi Delta Kappa, Delta Pi Epsilon, and Kappa Alpha Psi. As a captain in World War 11. he was a pilot with the j 477 Bombardment Group. Now j on inactive duty with the Air j Force Reserve, he is married I and the father of two children j |—a daughter, Gina, 13, and a Sec FULBRIGHT 2A PAGE NEW YORK Roy Wilkins. executive director of the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People, called for sanctions against Smith Africa. Rhodesia and the Portuguese colonies after the Court of Justice dismissed a complaint filed by the Governments of Ethiopia and Liberia challenging the racist policies instituted by So Africa in the mandated tcrri tory of South West Africa. The Court, the highest judi rial agency of the United Na tions, announced its verdict at The Hague, Holland, on July 1 18 By split vote. 8 to 7, the Court dismissed the complaint on the technical ground that neither Lilberia nor Ethiopia had a valid legal interet in the ease. The United States repre . tative on the Court, Justice P. ! C. Jcssup,, voted with the mi ! nority. The suit, filed six years ago, charged that South Africa, by | introducing its own apartheid policies in South West Africa. ! had violated requirements of 1 the League of Nations' mandate ; under which it ruled the terri j tory in that it had failed to t oro*nnte the welfare of the in habitants of the country. The full text of Wilkins' statement, issued July 19. fol lows: The failure of the Inter national Court of Justice to | take action against South Afri- I ca's racist regime in the man ; Hated territory of South West j Africa cannot but have a dis ! Maying impact upon Africans and their descendants in the United States and throughout the world. That the Court should subordinate justice to a technicality does not enhance its prestige among the disad vantaged peoples of the world. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored • People is gratified that the j American representative on the Court voted with the minority to sustain charges filed by | Ethiopia and Liberia. However, See EMBARGO 2A RIOT VlCTlM—(Clavtland, O.) ] —Polica carry tha body of Mr». j Joyca Arnatt, 26, from a ho»- pilal aftar th* wai killad in a NCM Cited By Vice Pres. For Youth Campaign Aid The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company has received an award in recogni- tion of its contribution to the Youth Opportunity Campaign. In making the award, V. Presi dent Hubert H. Humphrey, in a letter to Asa T. Spaulding, said: "Our youth and our na tion are beins greatly assisted by your action, and I congratu late you on the role you are playing in opening oppor tunities to youths ... I know I speak for the President know I speak for the President o -KIT* ... V - A V* JZT^UKS NATIVE AFRICANS were viti tors in Durham this week. While here, they toured the city visiting places of interest such as N. C. Mutual. N. C. College, the Mechanics and Far mers Bank. They expressed themselves as being highly NCC Trustees Authorize Over $2 Million In New Buildings Dr. Rose Butler Browne to Address AME Meeting Aug. 4 RALEIGH Dr. Rose Butler Browne, prominent educator, community and church leader, will be the guest speaker at a missionary institute luncheon, Thursday. Aug. 4. at St. Paul AME Church, Raleigh. Her sub ject will be: "A New and Noble Adventure." The luncheon is part of the proceedings of the 15th Chris tian Education Convocation and Youth Retreat of the Second Episcopal District of the AME Church scheduled Aug. 2-5. Bishop George W. Baber is bishop ofthe Second Episcopal District, the Rev. Melvin C. Swann, minister of Waters AME Church, Baltimore, Md., convo cation director, and the Rev. Benjamin Foust, host pastor. A native of Boston, Mass., Dr. Brrnvue earned an A.B. degree at the University of Rhode Island, an A. M. degree at Rhode Island College of Edu cation, and an Ed.D. degree at Harvard University. She is a re tired chairman of the Depart ment of Education at North Carolina College. She has also night of rioting that rockad Clavaland July 18. Mr*. Arnatt waa caught in an axchanga of gunfira batwaan polica and a when I say that you have our deep appreciation." The program of employing high school graduates and col lege students during the sum mer has been conducted at the Home Office of the North Car LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Our national library, the Li brary of Congress, was started fro mThomas Jefferson's per sonal collection of 6,187 books. Congress appropriated the sum of $23,950 in 1885. pleated at the strides member! of their race are making in Dur ham in business, education and other fields. At N. C. Mutual the visitors, accompanied by Dr J. Neal Hughley, college minister, second from left, were luncheon guests of the ** * * m W «% v DR. BROWNE served as chairman of the Psy chology Department, Virginia State College; head of the Psy chology Department, West Vir ginia. State College, and head of the Department of Educa tion, Bluefield Staie College. Dr. Browne is the wife of the j Rev. Emmett T Browne, Sr., See BROWN 2A sniper. Fifteen persons war* injured in the disturbances. (UPl^-TeJephoto) olina Mutual Life Insurance Company for several years in order to provide employment opportunities to young people interested in pursuing careers in business, insurance, or re lated fields. NOMINATED FOR NEW POST —(San Francisco) Tha Right Ravarand John Burgaas of New ton, Mass., first Negro Episco pal Bishop in tha United States, has been nominated as a possi- ble successor to th* Right Rev company. President A. T, Spaulding, sixth from left i shown with the visitors. At the extreme right is J. S. Stewart, president of Mutual Savings and Loan Association who also dined with the visitors. The North Carolina College hoard of trustees, meeting in its annual session Wednesday, icard a progress report from its Selection Committee, re elected officers, adopted two resolutions, and acted on re ports and recommendations by the college's Interim Commit tee. The Selection Committee, charged to recommend to the group names for consideration as president of the college, made a progress report It will continue its activities and will meet from time to time, it was decided Reelected to offices were Bascom Baynes, Durham, as chairman; Dr. J M. Hubbard, Sr.. Durham, as vice chairman; and Dr. John R. I-arkins, Ral eigh, as secretary. The board expressed appre ciation to the interim commit tee consisting of William Jones, chairman. Dr. Helen 0. Ed monds, and Dr. William H. Brown for its services to the college and requested that it continue to administer the af fairs of the institution until a president is selected and takes office. The group adopted a five-part report by the interim commit tee which included the areas of student life and welfare, faculty and staff, finance and See BOARD Page 2A New Hope M.B. Ass'n Meets at W. Rock Sat. The Union Meeting of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Association will hold its regu lar session at the White Rock Baptist Church, July 30-31. Rev. J. W. Barnes, President. Theme: The Teaching Min istry of the Churrh. Panel Dis cussion: The Deaconship, Dr. A. D. Moseley Moderator. Pan elists: Levi Mitchell, Deacons' Qualification; J. W. Carrington, Deacon and his relationship to the people; Narva Lassiter, Dean and his relationship to the Pastor. Sunday at 11:00 A. M.: The host Pastor, Rev. L. A: Lynch will have charge of the service. Bible lesson: Rev. L. W Reid. HP REV. BURGESS erend James A. Rika of Cali fornia. Bishop Burgess (shown in racant fila photo), 57, I* suf fragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocasa of Massachusetts.
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