iuuiS 11. 1967
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Hoodlums at Athletic Events
THE CAROLINA TIMES would
like to inform the students and visit
ing spectators involved in the dis
graceful behavior which occurred *♦
the hwkfthill game between the
NCC Eagles and the A.&T. Aggies on
last Saturday evening that respect
able people of Durham, as well as
alumni of NCC all over the state,
the nation and many parts of the
world, are postively opposed to such.
We trust officials of NCC will leave
no stone unturned to aid local no*'- -»
in bringing to a halt the kind of hood
lumism exhibited at the R. L. Me-
Dougald Gymnasium at last Satur
day night's game.
If perchance the spectators were
endeavoring to emulate the unsavory
conduct which sometimes occurs at
athletic contests between white col
leges and universities we would like
to. inform them that neither does this
newspaper nor the respectable /
citizens of Durham accept white
hoodlums anywhere as a criterion
for students or other spectators at
athletic events of Negro educational
institutions. We would, therefore,
much prefer that Negro students and
spectators at such places set a high
The Meeting Proposed by McKissick
F ioyd McKissick's call to all black
Americans, without regard to their
party affiliation, political leanings or
social status, to assemble in conven
tion in the city of New York on Feb
ruary 18-19 for the purpose of creat
ing a Black national political struc
ture, is "a consummation devoutly
to be wished." It is our opinion
though, that the proposed meeting
will fall short of the intended mark
in that it is ill-timed and ill-placed.
Such a proposed gathering, we
feel, would stand a better chance of
succeeding, weatherwise, if it were
called in the summer. It would like
wise stand a better chance of suc
ceeding from a numerical standpoint
if it were called in Washington, Rich
mond or even Atlanta.
There was a time when the word
New York City or "up North" car
ried a kind of hypnotic charm or
spell over the average Negro citizen,
especially those of the deep South.
The recent discovery that Npgrtjes
in New York City and other "up
North" cities are often as much ex
ploited, -cheated and discriminated
against, though in a much more sub
tle manner, as southern Negroes,
has about taken the sparkle or glitter
off the New York and "up North"
image. Add to this the progress
southern Negroes are making in the
fields of employment, education and
politics and you will be able to dis
cern the growing fallacy in the "up
U. S. Policy Toward South Africa
It is hard for those outside the
State Department to understand just
why the United States government
continues to humiliate the 20 million
or more Negro citizens of coun
try by its unncessary capitulation to
the sadistic custom of apartheid or
segregation in South Africa. The
scheduling of a four-day stopover at
Capetown by a U.S. Navy aircraft
carrier, which includes its
crew approximately 400 Negro en
listed men, appears to us to be a de
liberate attempt by this country to
heap upon every one of its Negro
citizens a bristling insult.
The action of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People, other civil rights
organizations and individuals In
quickly expressing their resentment
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standard of conduct than to have
them engage in such disgusting acts
as occurred at last Saturday's game.
THE CAROLINA TIMES would
also like to commend the four of five
police officers on duty at the game
for the patience and restraint which
they exhibited under what must
have been a most trying situation.
That they were able to come out of
the whole affair without resorting to
more drastic self-defense methods
than the use of a night stick deserves
the appreciation and praise of all
respectable citizens of Durham.
We are satisfied that the several
instances of bad conduct exhibited
by the hoodlums involved do not
meet the approval of respectable
students at NCC or spectators. We,
therefore, urge the both of them to
use /their influence at all future
events played at NCC to
prevent such from happening again.
Respectable citizens of Durham,
alumni and friends of NCC every
where would like to look to the col
lege as a source of culture and re
finement rather than one of unseem
ly conduct or hoodlum ism.
North" or New York city notion.
We think there is decidedly a great
need for such a meeting as that
which McKissick proposes. We think,
though, in view of the improved
conditions in southern travel, hotel
accommodations and otherwise that
the time has arrive when such a
meeting can and should be held
where a majority of Negroes reside
and where the major problems sup
posedly exist. It is then that a first
hand knowledge of such can be ob
served.
Another handicap o£ McKissick's
proposal is that he has given too
short a notice for a meeting a major
proportion and touching all seg
ments of the race. Many persons
who should attend and are sorely
needed at such a gathering are sub
ject to have commitments two, three
or six months ahead. If given ample
time in advance they could make it
possible to put in their appearance,
.whereas a. short notice at oaly Iwe
or three weeks would make it im
possible for them to be present.
In view of the fact that such a
gathering is presently so badly
needed we would like to suggest to
McKissick and all concerned that it
be held in the summer in the South.
It is our feeling that the change we
suggest will be well worthwhile in
helping to make the meeting a suc
cess financially as well as numerical
ly-
and objection to the proposed insult,
is only a natural consequence of such
a stupid act on the part of our State
Department. Had they pursued any
other course than to violently pro
test such action they would have not
been living up to the responsibility
entrusted into their keeping by
millions of loyal citizens of both
races in this country.
Hie awesome record of Sooth
African whites in the treatment ac
corded native Negroes is «*nn»igti to
turn the stomach of any fairminded
person. It is so terrible that we
think the time has arrived for the
State Department to give assurance
to the Negro citizens of the United
States that its future policy in
ing with South Africa as its now
exists will be one of total abstinence.
Cannot Be Derailed!
SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
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"Alone am I toft and th«y are
(••king my life." Rom. 11:3
In the most difficult battles
of righteousness we may have
this feeling of aloneness. This
is a common feeling for those
who have passionately and iear
lessly pursued some great
cause of truth and righteous
ness. God's way at times is a
lonely way.. It is very lonely
at times for it brings a break
with the crowd. The jolly good
fellow who follows the gang
may not know this kind of
loneliness. But he who dares
—ta walk in the highway of
Holiness with the High and the
Holy One may know this feel
ing of aloneness. Jesus felt It
as He faced Calvary. Paul felt
it in a Roman prison. Christ
ians are feeling it in lands in
which they are now suffering
persecutions. Persons who have
broken with their families to
follow the will of God know
this painful way of aloneness.
But he who walks the way
of God is never alone. In the
company of the Eternal we
cin never be alone. But when
the tide turns against us we
may have this temporary feel
ing of painful aloneness. In
-Africa
■XZfZ
(Continued from front page)
suited by the South African
racist policy.
"Those (Negroes) who re
main 0* - board rather than
subject themselves to South
African racial policy will be
degraded by the fact that their
country consented to the ar
rangement by which they and
their patrotiam and citizenship
are corned by South Africa,"
Mr. WiUdns warned.
Hie civil rights leader said
that those Negro soldiers who
venture ashore "will have their
every step dogged by the hated
policy which decrees where
they may not go. The United
States had no right to lacerate
brave men In this fashion. We
protest for them. We weep for
them. We are shamed as are
they."
The State Department, in a
statement Issued announcing
its plan to go ahead and allow
the carrier to make a refueling
and reprovisioaing stop-over
at Capetown, Feb. 4-7, said its
agreement specifies that the
government of Sooth Africa In
terpoees no objection to racial
ly mixed personnel performing
any military duties ashore.
-tiles
(Continued from front page)
Lake, North Dakota; two
daughters, Judith Carol and
Lartine Elisabeth Hubbard of
Durham; thro* sister*, Jin.
gmnu w. ahwmoM Mrp.
Gwendolyn W. Denials and
Mias Sharon L. Winston of
Durham and several other rala
tfvee.
Interment was at Glenavtow
Memorial Park.
Jesus Calls the Estranged Out
Of Their World of Loneliness
this way we have the word God
gave to Joshua when lapses
fell asleep in the fearful path
of leadership. You remember
God comforted Joshua when'
the burdensome mantle of lead
ership fell upon his shoulders.
"I will be with thee and he
gives further assurance in these
words, '.As I was with Moses,
so I will be with thee." And
Gpd said to John amid the
seeming loneliness of the Isle
of Patmos, "Fear not." And
Jesus said to His disciples
when, they were overborne with
TU am not a}oue v The E*tfcw,,f
is with Me." In fololwing God's
loving way we are never left
alone.
Apart from God there is a
miserable kind of loneliness
that is real and destructive.
Yes, there is an aloneness that
is unbearable. When through
sin we are isolated and cut off
from God, life is miserable and
empty. But through a decision
involving repentance we can
find a way of escape out of
this state of miserable alone
ness. If this is the cause of
your aloneness today, why not
-McLendon
(Continued from front page)
trotter.
McLendon, who studied bas
ketball under its inveiitoY, Dr.
James Naismith, has had a phe
nomenal history.
A graduate of the University
of Kansas, with an U.A. from
the University of lowa he has
a combined collegiate record
of 500-128 at five schools.
-Scientist
(Continued from front page)
the President's Science Advis
ory Committee and since 1957
has been chairman of its Panel
on International Science. In
1904, Dr. Bronk was a recipi
ent of the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, awarded to a select
few Americans outstanding in
their fields of knowledge.
-Speaker
(Continued from front page) ,
ecu tire vice president and di
rector of Standard Oil Com
pany, New Jersey.
Bora in Blair, Oklahoma, be
Is a graduate of Oklahoma St.
University with a degree in
dvtl engineering.
Mr. Wright began work with
the Carter Oil Company for
M7SO per month, although he
had been offered a position as
county engineer at $l3B a
month. Even though the money
looked good in those bleak days
of the Depression. Wright be
lieved the oil industry was tha
on* offering the greatest op
portunity.
He is a member of th* board
of gowi 1 not* of Oklahoma State
Univ. Development Foundation,
member of the board el direo
By REV. HAROLD ROLAND
decide to escape, now? God in
the love as revealed in Christ
has opened the escape hatch.
Through surrender you can es
cape the agony of your olone
ness. Jesus calls the estranged
and lost ones out of their pris
on cells of loneliness. God's
gift of freedom is your now.
Men in our times do not
have to suffer the painful
ness and the sickness of
estrangement from God. We
are cut off from God by our
own choice,' We can share the
blessings of union and com
munion with God. Now, not
some far off tomorrow. Now
Christ will lift the burden and
give you peace, healing and
fellowship. Now you can have
your sins forgiven and become
a member of the body of
Christ. Now you enter the
spiritual blessedness of the
household of the redeemed
Come now and be restored to
the fellowship of the Father.
The love of God in Christ
Jesus the Savior lifts us from
that state of aloneness which
we call sin to heal and re
store us to the community of
fellowship and love.
tors of the American Petroleum
Institute, and a 25-year mem
ber of the American Institute
of Mining, Metal-lurgical and
Petroleum Engineers. p
-Merrick
(Continued from front page)
ficer of the N. C. Mutual, Mr.
Merrick wis retired as an of
ficial along with A E. Spears
of Charlotte.
In addition to serving as
treasurer of N. C. Mutual, Mr.
Merrick was a member of the
Board of Directors of the Me
chanics and Fanners Bank, the
Mutual Savings and Loan As
sociation, a trustee of St Jos
eph's AME Church where he
also held membership for prac
tically all of his life and a
trustee of A and T. College.
Surviving are his wife; two
daughters, Mrs. Vivian San
som of Raleigh, Mrs. Constance
Watts of Durham; one sister,
Mrs. Mabel Brace of Winston-
Salem. and eight grandchil
dren.
Interment will be at Beech
wood Cemetery.
WASHINGTON A dtp*
lomit commenting an •
growing mov*m«nt among
technologically edvane • 4
oountrlM which do not
km nnctotr waapona to
demand that the United
flutes and tha Soviet Un
ion limit their atomic are*,
nal«:
"It to quit* poesibto that
taataod of tha familia*
JCaat • Wast confrontation,
there will ba a confronta
tion between tha nuclear
have-not* whan the Gene,
ra d'tarmament talka re
convened.'
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To Be Equal
By WHRNBI M. IOONfI A .
Humphrey's Example
I IKE MANY of their fellow Americans, a Washington, D.
C. couple recently moved from their suburban home
to a city apartment. This has become quite common,
as children grow up and many families decide they hava
had enough of-overcrowded commuter trains and highways
and of fighting with lawns that need tending. The city;
with its shot* and thaatraa and its promlvity to work, beck
ons.
This Washington couple moved into a new apartment
houie which Is interracial. Whites and Negroes live side
I by side In a community which waa once the
city's worst slum The apartment house is
next to a low-income housing project and
the neighborhood U still largely composed
of low-income Negro familiea.
All this Is not too unusual. Sophisticated
people today draw their friends from eth
groupa and pick their apartments on the
basis of comfort and taste and not on tha
basis of the race of the man next door.
What is unusual about this event how-,
ever, is thst the couple in question is Vice-
MR. YOUNG President and Mrs. Hubert H. Humphrey.
The fact that such a distinguished family moved into
such a neighborhood is news, and newspapers all over the
country showed photos of the party thrown by the neighbor
hood to welcome tha new arrivals. The Vice-President said
"I'm so pleased we are part of this exciting neighborhood."
And the neighborhood waa pleased to hava such distin
guished residents. " , .
Seek Best In City Living
There are hundreds of communities all over the coun
try composed of people like Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey
sophisticated, Intelligent people who are beginning to seek
out the best in city, living and who welcome the diversity
and exiperiences of living in an interracisl neighborhood. It
is these people who set the standards for society and who
reflect the wsve of the future, not the fsr more publicized
hoodlums who-threw rocks, at priests in Chicago last sum
mer and who waved Klan banners to "keep their neighbor
hood white," even when "white" mesnt lawless and medi
ocre.
Few Issues today are more Important than expanding
opportunities for Negroes and other minorities. The Urban
League has a program. Operation Equality, which assists
Negro citizens to find homes and apartments outside the
ghetto. White citizens can exert leadership in showing
their acceptance of integrated housing.
That is why the Humphrey family's new apartment is
so significant. It symbolizes the way people can live true
to their beliefs. I know many liberals who are genuinely
concerned about improving race relations (and some of them
are critical of Humphrey because of his stand on Vietnam)
but who continue to live in a lily-white neighborhood and
shield their children from contact with people in other in
come groups or Other races. Obey may believe the things
they say, but .when someone ilka the Vice-President lives in
a manner which reflects his beliefs, we must admire his sin
ceW fb/hls actions. ~
The Meaning Of Leadership
The Humphrey's move also symbolizes the meaning of
leadership. Implicit in "leadership" is the Idea that lead
ers set the standards for others; that the *ray they live and
the things they do will be emulated by others. Examined
In this light, the Humphreys did more than simply mova
into a new apartment, their action ssld to the country; In
terracial living is the American way, It is the msnner of
life we have chosen because we know that It has many re
wards and it is the way intelligent people of all races and
Incomes would chose to live if they were aware of its bene
fits. It was a conscious, deliberate action on their part to
help set the right standards for society.
This Is leadership; not simply flowing with the crowd
and doing what is expected but setting the standsrds for
others to follow. True leadership extends far beyond poli
tics. Educators, businessmen, and other persons sre the
pillars of our communities. They are the ones to whom peo
ple turn to see what is "right", what is "acceptable."
Whether it la Vice-President Humphrey moving into an In
tegrated neighborhood or the teacher who moves to
integrate a FTA, or the businessman who makes a special
effort to integrate his factory, tha mark of true leadership
la to live by one's Ideals and to stimulate others to follow.
I would hope that all people give serious consideration
to the Importance of the smallest action they take. We
ore all. leaders in the sense that our friends and associates
respect us and value our judgment. So when we move
into an integrated neighborhood, or hire a Negro worker for
•or business, or send our kids to an integrated school, we
ore indirectly influencing other peole as well as doing what
we know Is right.
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