Watts Hill Predicts New Era Negro Colleges In NCC Address
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COMMENCEMENT PROCES
SION—Dr. Charles W. Orr, left,
marshal at North Carolina Col
lege's 56th annual commence
ment Sunday, leads the pro
N. C. Higher Education Head
Sees End Unequal Education
Says Gap of Negro
And White Colleges
Will Be Closed
Watts Hill, Jr., chairman of
the North Carolina State Board
of Higher Education, Sunday
predicted that the gap between
predominantly Negro and white
colleges will be closed with in
creased appropriations to Ne
gro colleges from the State
Legislature.
Speaking at North Carolina
College's 56th commencement
exercises. Hill said, "I believe
this legislature will begin a na
tional breakthrough by making
money available to the tiadi
tionally Negro colleges to en
able them to catch up with
their white counterparts."
PROBLEMS OF NEGRO
COLLEGES
Hill stated there • are good
reasons for the special prob
lems of the Nqgro college,
stemming—from the pattern of
segregation in the past. Presi
dents and deans, he said, were
caught between the needs of
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Secy Wirtz Names Holmes
To Labor Department Post
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LIBRARY SCIENTIST - Patri
cia Johnson, left, of Roxboro,
wearing for the first time the
hood showing that she is a Mas
ter of Science in Library Sci
ence, receives her diploma
from William Jones, North Car
olina College vice-president.
North Carolina Advisory Group
Sponsors Civil Rights Confab
RALEIGH Heslip M. Lee,
vice president for develop
ment at Shaw University and
acting chairman of the North
Carolina Advisory Committee
to the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights, announced this
week the completion of two
days of closed meetings con
cession of administrators and
trustees to the college's gym
nasium. Among those shown
are, in foreground. Dr. Bascom
I Baynes, chairman of the board
Mrs. I. Stephens Owens to Get
Ph.D. Degree from Duke Univ.
Mrs. Ida Stephens Owens, a
resident of 415 Pilot Street,
Durham is a candidate for the
Ph.D. degree in Physiojpgy
from Duke University at com
mencement exercises on June
5. 1967.
A native of Whiteville, Mrs.
Owens is a 1961 graduate of
North Carolina College, with
the degree of Bachelor of Sci
ence. Following graduation she
worked as a laboratory assist
ant in biology in a National
Science Foundation Summer In
stitute for High School Teach
ers North Carolina College.
She was enrolled in the De
partment of Physiology and
Pharmacology at Duke Univer
sity in the fall of 1962 to be
gin. work toward,,the Ph.D. de
gree
Mrs. Owens' dissertation sub
ject was: "Amino Acid Esters
as Inhibitors of Growth and of
Looking on at the Sunday com
mencement is Miss Evelyn
Pope, dean of the school of
library science at NCC. Jones
was one of the four recipients
of an honorary degree of Doc
tor of Laws.
ducted by the Advisory Com
mittee in Fayetteville.
The body met in the Cum
berland County seat to review
employment policies and prac
tices of the federal, state, coun
ty and city governments of
Fa ye tteville's metropolitan
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of trustees, Watts Hill Jr.,
■ speaker and chairman of the
State Board of Higher Educa
tion, and William Jones, col-
I! lege vice president.
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MRS. OWENS
Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases
in Astasia Longa and Euglena
Gracilis." She is the fjrst Ne
gro and the first woman to re
ceive a degree from Duke Uni
versity in this field of study.
D. C. Man to
Head Training
For Youths
WASHINGTON, D. C—Hor
ace R. Holmes this week was
appointed director of the Of
fice of Planning and Evalua
tion for the Bureau of Work
Programs of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor.
Secretary of Labor Willard
Wirtz, who made the appoint
ment, said Holmes, who is pres
ently Chief Program Analyst in
the District of Columbia's Of
fice of Program Coordination,
Department of General Admin
istration, would assume his
new post on June 5.
Holmes, who is 40 years old,
will be one of the Bureau of
Work Program's top operation
al executives. He will be re
sponsible for analyzing and
evaluating work experience and
training programs affecting
500,000 youth and adults
throughout the Nation.
These include the Neighbor
hood Youth Corps, Operation
Mainstream (in rural areas and
towns), New Careers, and Spe
cial Impact. These programs
also provide necessary suppor
tive services, including reme
dial education and individual
and group counseling.
The information Holmes de
velops will be used to deter
mine the effectiveness of these
programs, which have a budget
of $500,000,000, and to make
administrative determinations
concerning their futtire course.
Holmes was born in Wash
ington, D. C., where he attend
ed its public shools and How
ard University, graduating in
1949 with an A.B. degree in
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sociology, and in 1951, with a
Masters degree in social work.
Voter Education Project
Secured For North Carolina
Durham Man
Is Named to
Director Post
The formation of a North
Carolina Voter Education Pro
ject, with John Edwards of
Durham as director, was an
nounced here this week.
The NCVEP has received a
one-ear operating grant from
the Voter Education Project of
the Southern Regional Council.
Atlanta, Georgia, with which
to begin its work.
The NCVEP will be a state
wide organization with pre
cinct, county and congressional
district representation. It is
similar to the South Carolina
Voter Education Project, which
has operated successfully for
several years.
The non-partisan organiza
tion will have three major mis
sions: voter registration, citi
zenship education, and leader
ship training. Its work will b?
largely—but not entirely—with
Negro residents.
Formation of the NCVEP was
spearheaded by a group of N.
C. Ministers. The Rev. A. I.
Dunlap of Weldon is acting
chairman.
Edwards, who is 25 years old,
experience in lead
ing registration campaigns. As
neld-secretary-at-large for the
NAACP Voter Registration, he
•organized and directed regis
tration drives throughout the
Southeast.
Before becoming director of
the NCVEP, Edwards was a
community worker in Dur
ham's anti-poverty program,
Operati-qn Breakthrough. He
a4so has been employed .by Ex
periment in Self-fteliance, Win
ston-Salem's anti-poverty pro
gram, and has directed the
Winston-Salem Boys Club.
Edwards attended Durham
Business College and was
trained for anti-poverty work
through the North Carolina
Funda's Community Action
Technician Program.
Edwards is married to the
former Eloise Freeman of
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WARNS AGAINST INVAD- i
ING N. VETNAM— (Boston) I
Senator Edward W. Brooke,
his wife behind him, warns
at his news conference here
May 22nd against the move
Over 25,000 CR Petition
Pour Into NAACP Bureau
WASHINGTON, D. C.—More
than 25,060 signatures of sup
port for the 1967 civil rights
bills were received during . a
three-day period here at the
Washington bureau office of
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People.
The NAACP announced two
weeks ago at a New York City
news conference the launching
of a nationwide drive to gain
one million signatures to sup
port enactment of the 1967
civil rights legislation.
Clarence Mitchell, NAACP
Washington bureau chief, said
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13 Homes Of Negroes Burned
In Haywood County, Tenn.
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NERAL (New York)—Geo. |
Schuyler (right) and his wife,
Josephine attend funeral serv
ices for their daughter, Phi- |
LBJ Names Negro Lawyer To
D.C.Juvenile Court Bench
ment of U.S. troops into i
North Vietnam. Brooke said
it would completely change
the nature of the war in
Southeast Asia. If any of our
'The initial response has been
overwhelming ... At this rate
we should achieve our goal of
one million signatures."
Responses have come from
states in the Far West, includ
ing California; from the Mid
west, from Texas, from several
southern states including Louis
iana, Georgia, North and
South Carolina, and Virginia
as well as from the northeast
ern seaboard states, Mr. Mit
chell reported.
At his news conference, Ex
ecutive Director Roy Wilkins
had stressed the need for "em
phasizing support for the pas
I Hppa ""SWtOyier, in St. Pat
rick's Cathedral here May 18.
I Francis Cardinal Spellman
(left) conducted a pontifical
troops went beyond the 17th
parallel it would then be an
American war against the
North Vietnamese, he said.
(UPI Photo)
sage of the 1967 civil rights
bills," and pledged visits by
pro-civil rights delegations to
Washington during the debate
on the bills.
Negroes Graduating
From United States
Military Academy
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Among the seniors at the. Unit
ed States Military Academy,
scheduled to be graduated on
Wednesday, June V, are two Ne-
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high mass for the Negro con
cert pianist who died a hero
ine's death in Vietnam May
9th. (UPI Photo)
Fauntleroy Is
Choice For
Judicial Post
WASHINGTON (Special)
President Lyndon B. Johnson
announced Wednesday his in
tention to nominate John Dou
glas Fauntleroy, 47,
Negro lawyer in Washington,
to the Juvenile Court bench of
the District of Columbia.
Fauntleroy was born in Wash
ington and is a graduate of
Terrel Law School, having
done his undergraduate work at
American and Rutgers Univer
sities. He is a member of tht
D. C. Democratic Central Com
mittee and has been active in
public affairs. He is married
and has four children.
In naming Fauntleroy to the
judgeship, President Johnson
improved his own precedent
shattering record of judical ap
pointments of Negroes to the
judiciary. In October last year
President Johnson named four
Negroes to the judiciary in
one day, more than all the
Republica'n Presidents com
bined throughout our history.
Among the Negro appointees
to the federal bench in the
Democratic administration are:
Judge James B. Parsons, U S
District Court, Chicago
Judge James B. Parsons, U
S. District Court, Chicago.
Judge A. Leon Higginbot
ham, U. S. District Court, Phil
adelphia.
Judge Spottswood W Robin-
son, U. S. Court of Appeals
Washington, D. C.
Judge Wade McCrea, U, S,
District Court, Detroit
Judge Constance Baker Mot
ley, U.S. District Court, N. Y
Judge William Benson Bry
ant, U. S. District Court, Wash
ington, D. C.
Judge James L. Watson, U.
S. Customs Court, N. Y.
Judge Aubrey Robinson, U.
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No Protection
From Police
Against Terror
CINCINNATI "Houses of
Negroes are being burned again
this year in Haywood County,
Tennessee. Three out of the
eight Negroes who have dared
to run for office have had their
houses burned. We find this de
plorable," the Executive Com
mittee of Fayette - Haywood
Work - camps, mostly Cin
nati clergymen, said in a state
ment released this week.
"Last year thirteen houses of
Negroes were burned or bomb
ed. News of these burnings al
most never reaches the news
papers."
They referred to four new
burnings. The first was on the
night of April 14 when the
house of Joe Taylor, just west
of Brownsville, was set afire
Joe Taylor had run for the of
fice of Boad Commissioner.
According to Taylor, "The
deputy sheriff said gasoline
had been poured along a strip
of grass and on the corner of
the house. If this fire hadn't
gone out it would have burned
us all up while we were sleep
ing. There was nothing in the
newspapers about it."
On the same night two more
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GOODE
Principal Gets
6 Yr. Certificate
At NCC Finals
L. M. Goode, a native of War
ren County received a six year
certificate at NCC's 56th An
nual Commencement Exercises
on Sunday afternoon, May 28.
Goode is no stranger to
NCC's campus for he received
his B.A. and M.A. degrees from
the institution. He plans to
continue his studies at UNC,
Chape] Hill.
He has been a teacher and
principal in the public schools
for the past fifteen years. Pres
ently, he is serving as princi
pal at Lyon Park School.
He has served as Sunday
School Teacher and Chairman
of Trustee Board of the Mt.
Moriah Baptist Church, Bisca,
Since coming to Durham, he is
a member of Mt. Vernon Bap
tist Church.
He is a Mason, Fraternity
member and a member of sev
eral professional organizations.
Goode is married to the for
mer Mildred Butler and the
father of one son, Lee M. Jr.