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A Voteless People is A Hopeless People MUNICIPAL ELECTION MAY 13 VOLUME 44 No. II 125-Year-Old N. C. Native Granted Divorce i; f4o FIRST NEGRO IN POST (Grand Rapids, Mich.) Mrs. Robert W. Claytor (shown here), of Grand Rapids, Mich., was elected President of the Young Women's Christian As Dr. S. E. Duncan Named to Presidency of NCC Churches SAUSBURY—Dr. S. E. Dun can, President of Livingstone College, was elected president of the North Carolina Council of Churches during its annual meeting last week at Winston- Salem. A former Vice Presi dent of the Council of Church es and a layman, he becomes the first Negro to head the state-wide organization. A native of KehtUfcjty jditl I graouateof dyings tone lege. Dr. Duncan received the M A and Ph.D. degrees at Cor nell University, Ithaca, N. Y., and has held numerous posi tions and offices in education, the church and at the state level. He has taught at Wash ington High School, Reidsville; and served as principal of the Dunbar High School, East 10 Negroes Holding Public Office In Calif. OUTCOME OF RECENT LOCAL ELECTIONS SACRAMENTO, Calif. Ten Negroes have been added to the rolls of California Negroes who hold public offices in the State as the result of recent local elections, according to the Conference of Negro Elected Officials of California. Chairman of the Conference, Senator Mervyn M. Dymally, Los Angeles, announced re cently that the new office hold ers have taken two positions as City Councilmen and eight posi tions as school board members throughout the State. Dymally stated the Confer ence now has a total of sixty members, ranging from a Con gressman to a City Clerk, and is optimistic that another Ne gro will be elected to the ConiP ton City Council within two weeks. Two members of the Conference were dcfcaited in re election bids for school board districts. The newly-elected members, their positions and hometowna are as follows: Berkeley, City Council: Ron Dellums. Compton, Elementary School District. Dr„ William K. Payne, Jardine Wilson, and Wendell Handy. High School District: Dr. Walter Tucker. Junior College District: Dr. Matthew Jenkins. Milpitas, Elementary School District: Gilbert Brooks. Sacramento, Losa Rios Junior College District: Dr. George Stewart. San Bernardino, City Coun cil: Norris Gregory. San Mateo, Elementary School Dtetrlct: Mrs Mary Joe Howell. sociation for a three year term at the organization's national convention at Boston April 28. Mrs. Claytor is the first Negro to hold the post. (UPI Telephoto) DR. DUNCAN Spencer; and was State Super viser of Negro Schools with the See DUNCAN page 2A "Negro College as We Know If Has No Future" -■ Dowdy GREENSBORO "A and T College has no future as an exclusive Negro, college and does not continue as such." ■' VfjM i!' That was the-,, ppinion ex pressed last \?eik : J>y Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, A.| aim jT. president. He made the sjbteijient, along with others in « television in terview on the' thirty-minute, "Newsmaker Program", a week ly feature of the Greensboro WFMY-TV. He Appeared as guest during the A. and T. ob servance of its Diamond Anni versary. He said the predominant Ne gro college must continue to strengthen its program so that its offerings and its "respecta bility" will be unquestioned by any group, anywhere. "The future of his institu tion, like any Institution, now rests entirely on quality," said piSWVOIE The Carolina Times ♦ Annual Subscription Contest: THIS COUPON GOOD UNTIL MON„ MAY IS, IW i MISS, MRS. MR. ■ T €k CarSa Ctiors jpSWi-ni umwimlßJ; Howard U. Takes Steps To Curb Disruptive Activities Plan Merger of Denominations; AME Involved CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) A proposed merger of 10 Protestant denominations in volving 25 million members and 68.000 ministers has evolved from a four - day meeting of the Consultation on Church Union COCU. The shortcut plan to unity with details to be worked out during the coming year, calls for the 10 denominations to merge under an interim governing council witho u t waiting to draft a form a 1 constitution. "WE ARE much more closely bound together and more determiried to remain that way than ever before" said the Rev. Dr. David G. Colwell at the close of the Thursday meeting. Colwell, chaii'man of the COCU and pastor of the First Congrega tional United Church of Christ in Washington said the delegates "flounder e d around at first" but later showed "less partisans hi p than was present at some of four previous meetings and a greater sense of unity." Hammocks annual Pilgrimage si* RALEIGH, N.C. The 17th Annual Hammocks Pilgrimage Celebration at Swansboro, will ta':e place on Saturday May 20. Bus transportation will be available from Henderson. Rale gh and Durham. Persons planning to make the trip bv bus may contact W. R. Collins at 125 East Hargctt St., Raleigh or 304 Formosa Ave. t Durham, ' 'V -1 .|^H| DR. DOWDY Dowdy. In the interview. Dr. Dowdy said: "While integration of See DOWDY page 2A DURHAM, N. C SATURDAY, MAY IS, I*7 Reginald D. Smith Elected To Chapel Hill Board Aldermen Reginald D. Smith, a 1080 graduate of Dillard High School, Goldsboro, a 1940 graduate of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., and a teacher in Chapel Hill City Schools for 24 yeara was elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen for a period of four years on May 2. Smith served the unexpired term of Mrs. Mary Prothro, who had resigned to go to Chile. Smith is married to the for mer Miss Euzelle Patterson of Newport News, Va. and they have 4 children, Andrea, 18, a freshman at North Carolina College; Pamela and Patrice, twins, nine and Reginald, n, seven. Upon graduation from Hamp ton, he served for 2 years, 1&40- 42, as a farm manager. During World War n, he served with the 933 rd Automatic Weapons Battalion as Master Gunner in the Pcific Theatre of Opera tions. He has been active in civic affairs of the community, hav ing served 6 years as a member of the Chapel Hill Planning Board; a former member of the Recreation Commission; Board Mrs. Carter And Mrs. McGhee Tightens as Race Nears End There was every indication this week that the Closing hours of the Carolina Times Subscription Contest, which will end Monday, May 15, at 8:00 p.m , will set a record. With the goal line now in sight and all active contestants throwing all they have into the battle, the Contest Manager is preparing for whatever hap pens in the way of a last min ute overwhelming number of subscriptions or any surprise contestant's move that may be made in the closing moments of the contest. Still holding to the top posi tion as the official closing hour nearcd was Mrs. J. A. Carter of Durham. Trailing Mrs. Car ter in second and third place See CONTEST 2A N. C. Gets $805,484 For Manpower Training Project ATLANTA, Ga.—A regional spokesman for the U. S. De partment of Labor here said that U. S. Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz and SecrV tary of Health, Education and Welfare John W. Gardner an nounced this week approval of 12 Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) projects for North Carolina costing $844,307, of which $805,484 will be Federal MDTA funds. One project, to be conducted at Asheville Buncombe Tech nical Institute, Asheville, will train 16 medical laboratory as sistants for 52 weeks, Federal cost $88,892, total cost $94,614. Central Piedmont Commun ity College will phone operators (PBX) for 34 weeks, Federal cost $45,430, total $46,961. This project will be conducted in Charlotte. Three projects will be con ducted at Durham Technical Tnstnitute, one to train 40 com bination welders for 38 weeks, Federal cost $106,594, total $110,767; another to train 40 entry furniture upholsterers for 38 weeks, Federal cost $115,- 228, total $120,487; another to train 40 auto service station mechanics for 34 weeks, Fed eral cos $92,433, total $95,963. Four projects will be con- See NUNFOWIR 2A-. , ? l jr I SMITH of Directors of Hl-Y and Red Cross; Cub Scoutmaster; Gover nors Commission on Education; Chapel Hill - Carrboro Civic Club, Smith holds membership in the North Carolina Teach ers Association, National Edu cation Association, American Vocational Association, Enter prise Ijodge 347 Prince Hall F. and A.M. of N. C 'and is a Dis- See ELECTED 2A Standings of Contestants Mrs. J. A. Carter, Durham . 3,432,0001 Mrs. Oneida McGhee, Durham 3.212,0001 Mrs. Aline Baldwin, Chapel Hill 2,738,000 Mrs. Rosa O. Bass, Rougemont 1,885,000 [ Mrs J. L. Connor, Concord 987,000 Mrs. Delois Boyd, High Point 866,000 Mrs. Geraldine Alston, Chapel Hill 642,000 Mrs. Pearline Lennon, Durham 501,000 Benjamin Williams, Oxford 415.000 Mrs, Doris J. Hopkins, Kinston 302,000 Mrs. Willie B. Chapman, Grifton 287,000 1 Paul Mason, Durham 94,000, Mrs. Daisy Kizzie, Durham 45,000 Mrs. Mary H. Clifton, Winston-Salem 30,000 j Mrs. Ruth Worley, Greensboro 30,000' Miss Mary Curry, Smithfield 30,000 Mrs. Nancy G. Wilson, Rocky Mount 15,000; Mrs. Agnes Lee, Burlington • 15,000 Mrs. Addie Turner, Statesville 15,000j Mrs. Mary Boddie, Tarboro 15,000. Mrs. Bradsher, Roxboro 15,000 J Mrs. Fannie Dunlap, Winston-Salem 15,000 j Philip Morris Charged With Bias by LDF RICHMOND, Va. Attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) this week asked the Fed eral District Court here for an injunction against alleged ra cial discrimination on the part of the Philip Morris Tobacco Company, The case was argued in be half of two Negro employees— Douglas H. Quarles and Epriam Briggs. It is the first case to go to trial as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 19G4 which, un der Title VII, created the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which, un der Title VII, created the Equal Employment Opportunity Com mission (EEOC). LDF attorneys charged in their complaint that Quarles, a laborer in the Pre-Fabrication Department in the B and L plant in Rjchmonfl,, in a Ij >i* SeiJ CHAKGKS 2A WASHINGTON, D. C—How ard U. President James M. Na brit, Jr. last week issued a Statement of University Policy designed to curtail what he called recent "indefensible and disruptive activities" at Hoard. Such activities have disrupted the educational program at the Universiy, he said, and cannot •be permitted to continue if Howard is to maintain dignity and order within its environs. Proposed by the Steering Committee of the University Senate, and adopted unanl mously by the -Senate's legisla tive body, the University Coun cil, the statement has been ap proved by the Howard Board of Trustees. It also has re ceived the commendation of the full University Senate, compris ing more than 200 senior facul ty members. The Statement of Policy places Cramton Auditorium and other University lecture halls off limits to protesters, bans the blocking of building en trances, and prohibits all acti vities that may be characterized as racist or bigoted. The | statement goes on to point out that the University will not interfere with the In dividual's right to demonstrate as long as such action does not disrupt planned University ac tivities. Lawlessness and disor der shall not b8 permitted un der any circumstances, the 1 See HOWARD 2A w v RETIRING AS A TEACHER in th e Lakewood Elementary School of Durham County this month is Mrs. Stella V. Austin, wife of the publisher of the Carolina Times. The above scene was taken at the school A Voteless People is A Hopeless People MUNICIPAL ELECTION MAY 13 ** wye- ' .>* ■V&JH K?MH|b" v,.-w .'" ijftg* ilfj^^^^^K''^tii L «HR£*\ JK w" .: l^H **>..- ■S^n MAGHKI Former Slave, Union Soldier Believed America's Oldest Man GAILLARD NCM Official New President Great Lakes Thaddeus B. Gaillard, Associ ate Agency Director of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company has resigned his posi tion to accept the presidency of Great Lakes Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Detroit, Mich., it was announced here this week. Gaillard became connected with N. C. Mutual, April 16, 1962 as Director of Training. In January 1964. he was elevat ed to the position of Assistant Agency Director where he per formed with such efficiency he was elected in January 1966 as Associate Agency Director. W. A. Clement, Agency Vice President of N. C. Mutual stat ed this week that Gaillard is See GAILLARD page 2A on Monday evening, May 8, when co-workers honored Mrs. Austin with the presentation of a Certificate of Merit. The presentation was made by Su perintendent Charles Chewning PRICE: 2®c Fought In Union Army For Freedom Of His People Slyvester Magee, former slave, sole and only surviving soldier of the Civil War, and the oldest citizen of the state of Mississippi, will celebrate his 126 th birthday on May 29. Magee, who has resided in Mississippi for more than a century, was granted a divorce from hi* fourth wife in March of this year on the grounds that she deserted him. She and her 17-year-old daughter ("born Magee was but 109) are reportedly living in Pough' keepsie, New York Try recent telephone con vrr'i.w w : th his attorney W Arli"o'-'i Jones of Hatties hits I the Carolina Times re confirmation and au pt Mice's valiant service with the Un ! on Army during the war between the states. He was wounded twice while actually serving under fire In the summer of 1965. both the Mississippi House of Repre sentatives and the Senate, adopted a resolution memorial izing and congratulating Magee on his 124 th birthday. Presi dent Johnson sent a letter of congratulations. Paul B John son, governor of Mississippi, recognizing the longevity of this remarkable N'egro citizen commemorated the date of his birth by an official proelama t.ion, which staged in part that in so far as is known 'Sylvest er Magee is the oldest living person in the United States." Soewhat less memoriahle in the same year was Magee's signing up for Medicare bene fits although he has scarcelj- See SLAVE 2A of Durham County Schools antf is signed by all members of the Durham County Board of Edu cation. Principal of Lake view School is Mrs. Frances S. Clem ent. (Photo by P iref oy>
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