Local Organizations Back UOIC Protest Of Racial In justices
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LBJ Calls For Action In Improving Negro Opportunity
Chief Executive
Cites the Basic
Cause for Riots
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Presi-
dent Lyndon B. Johnson in a
j press conference Tuesday call
ed again for action on "more
employment opportunities that
are equal, better schools, bet
ter recreation areas, better liv
ing accommodations, and bet
:4r housing" as the basic an
swer to riots.
Questioned on the Newark
riot, the President cited the
efforts of the Administration to
get Congress to support and
fund programs to help the
cities.
The President said: "We
have tried to do our part in
providing leadership in those
fields. We think we have a se
rious problem in our cities. For
that reason, we have urged the
rent supplement where we
could get the benefit of pri
vate industry and provide de
cent living accommodations for
the poorer groups in our coun
try. We think that program
has been successful. We have
urged Congress to expand it.
We feel that the Model Cities
Program is a good approach to
improving living conditions in
the cities of this country. While
it is very limited, the Adminis
tration has urged the Congress
last year and again this year
to act upon it."
President Johnson told re
porters: "In the poverty field,
we doubled last year the
amount we had the year before.
We have asked for an increase
of 25 per cent this year to try
to provide jobs. Over and above
that we asked for a special al
lotment to provide summer job
opportunities."
President Johnson indicated
that u, til basic improvements
are made that are meaningful
to the rank and file in the
ghettos disturbances are likely
to continue. Speaking of con
ditions in the cities, the Presi
dent said: "Until we can im
prove and correct them, we are
going to be confronted with
unpleasant situations."
The President condemned
the rioting and said: "No one
condones or approves—and ev
eryone regrets—the difficulties
that come in the Watts, the
Newarks, and the other places
in the country. They do empha
size the necessity of the people
of this country realizing that
we much get on with the job
See JOHNSON page 2A
Pres. Whiting
Presents Hopes
For NC College
Dr. Albert N. Whiting, presi
dent of North Carolina College,
meeting recently with, the
board of trustees for the first
time since he assumed the
presidency July 1, presented an
overview of his hopes and aspi
rations for the college.
Civen as an addendum to his
semi-annual report, the state
ment was in broad, general
terms, he said, to avoid pre
sumptuousness. "As I get ac
quainted with our resources
and major axes of interest, I
will then attempt, in coopera
tion with the faculty and sup
porting groups, to extend and
project these ideas in program
form."
Because of changes which
have occurred in society, he
said, a college must be delibe
rately selective in its empha
ses.
"North Carolina College will
undoubtedly continue to have
a predominantly Negro enroll
ment for at least the next dec
ade. Consequently, I believe
that our educational pattern
must be so shaped as to pre
pare our students for effective
participation, both professional
and lay, in an unsheltered, in
tegrated society.
"This means to me that na
tional performance norms, in
all areas, must be the guides
and determinative measures,
and that the outreach should
be the maximum possible at
tainment above these norms.
At the same time a subsidiary,
special, determined effort must
See WHITING page 2A
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VOLUME 44 No. 29
Raleigh To Host N.C. Baptist
Centennial Session Aug. 14
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BLACK POWER MEETING—
(Newark, N. J.)—Some of those
attending the opening session
of a four-day conference on
Black Power July 20 are, seat
ed from left: comedian Dick
Veteran Social Workers Says
Starvation Rampant In Miss.
Tarboro Mayor Names Negro
To City Housing Authority
TARJBORO—As the result of
efforts of the East Tarboro Ci
tizens League to secure lines
of communication between all
segments of the city's popula
tion, the mayor, Dr. EM Roben
son, has appointed the first
Negro, James E. Batts, to the
Tarboro Housing Authority.
The appointment is believed
to add favorably to efforts of
the local city government and
citizens to upgrade housing in
Tarboro.
Batts is the principal of the
Phillips High School, the lar
gest in Edgecombe County, a
member of Tarboro's Bi-racial
Advisory Board on Recreation,
trustee of the Mount Zion Bap
tist Church and president of
the local Alumni Chapter of
North Carolina College.
24th Biennial Meet of Colored
Women's Clubs July 30-Aug. 1
The 24th Biennial Session of
the Southeastern Association of
Colored Women's Clubs will be
held here July 20-August 1 at
the Jack Tar Hotel. Mrs. A. B.
Bolen of Fort Pierce, Florida is
president and will preside.
The session will get under
way with a press breakfast at
7:30 a.m. in the Washington
Duke Room of the hotel.
The Southeastern region of
the Association is composed of
eight states, namely: Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Caroli
na, Tennessee and Virginia.
Host to the Biennial session
is the N. C. Federation of Ne
gro Women's Clubs of which
Mrs. Fannie T. Newsome of
Rich Square is president. Mrs.
L. M. Harris of Durham is'
chairman.
The Biennial Session is ex
pected to bring together repre
sentatives from the entire
Southeastern District for the
purpose of communing togeth
er and considering efforts to
"Lift As We Climb,"^according
DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, JULY 29, I*7
Gregory; Ron Karenga, leader
of the Black Nationalist Cultu
ral Organization of the U. S.;
Rap Brown, national chairman
of the Student Nonviolent Co
ordinating Committee, and
BATTS
.. rfßßr
I MRS. BOLEN
to a statement released by Mrs.
Newsome.
A mass meeting of the As
sociation has been scheduled
for Sunday, July 30, at which
time Dr. Rose Butler Browne
of N. C. College will deliver
the keynote address.
Ralph Featherstone of SNOC.
The three men in the center
of the back row are aides of
Karenga's the others are un
identified.
(UPI Photo)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Veteran
social workers Alex Waites
and Rollie Eubanks, officers of
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People's Department of Wel
fare Branch in New York City,
toured twelve Mississippi River
counties on a 1700-mile fact
finding trip from the South
west to the Delta. Their two
week probe documented by
records on film and tape, show
ed that "hunger", malnutrition,
starvation, and homelessness
are the lot of thousands of Ne
gro families in the state of
Mississippi." Waites and Eu
banks disclosed their shocking
report to the more than 2,000
delegates attending the NAA
CP's 58th Annual Convention,
July 10-15, in Boston, Mass..
BOSTON—"The condition of
the Negro in Mississippi defies
adequate description. Every
where we went evidences of
malnutrition, hunger and even
starvation were apparent and
are supported by pictures we
took.
"The principal problem is
starvation and survival brought
about by omnipresent unem-
See POVERTY 2A
Powell Kept
In Exile By
Arrest Threat
BIMINI, The Bahamas
Adam Clayton Po
well remained in exile here
despite reports that he had
planned to fly to Newark to
address the black power-con, :
fernc and thn cross th
Hudson River to visit his
Harlem constituents.
Powell's anchor to this Is
land rtrat is still th 90-day
jail sentence he faces in Man
hattan on a criminal con
tempt citation, according to
William Kunstler, one of his
attorneys. .
KUNSTLER said Powell
feared racial violence would
result from any arrest made
of him.
PRICE: 2tc
All Statewide
Auxiliaries to
Attend Meet
RALElGH—Baptists from ev
ery corner of the state will
gather in Raleigh, August 14-
18 to celebrate the 100 th An
niversary of the General Bap
tist Convention, Inc.
Every auxiliary of the par
ent body will hold its meeting
simultaneously with the Con
vention. The Woman's Conven
tion, The Sunday School Con
vention, The Baptist Training
Union Convention, The Ushers
Convention and the Laymen's
League Convention. All state
wide auxiliaries will be meet
ing at sometime during the
week at various churches in
the immediate vicinity of the
Memorial Auditorium.
Reservations are being made
at the various hotels and mo
tels as well as at private homes
for the accommodation of the
"ielegates. All of the possible
available space at Shaw Uni-_
versity will be used for the
housing of the thousands of
persons who will be in attend
ance.
Delegates are expected to
start coming into Raleigh. Sun
day, August 13, and registra
tion will begin at 9:00 a.m. at
See BAPTIST page 2A
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HECKLERS Howard Fuller,
North Carolina Fund enjployee,
is shown standing in the way of
white hecklers of Negro march
ers headed for the City Hall
Dr. King Deplores Violence in Cities, Calls
On Johnson and Congress for Work Program
ATLANTA, Ga.—The follow
ing is part of the text of a
telegram from Dr. Martin Lu
ther King, Jr., President of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, to President Lyn
don B. Johnson:
I listened with great antici
pation to your statement of last
evening, for 1 too have labor
ed with heavy heart through
the tragic events of the past
weeks. The chaos and destruc
tion which now spreads through
our cities is a blind revolt
against the revolting conditions
which you so courageously set
out to remedy as you entered
office in 1964. The conditions
have not changed, and though
the aimless violence and des
truction may be contained
through military means, only
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KLANSMAN SHOWS UP AT
CITY COUNCIL—An unidenti
fied Negro girl peers curiously
at Ku Klux Klansman Lloyd
Jacobs during a Durham City
Council meeting on open hous
Wheeler, Brown Tell City
Council Reason For Unrest
Hillside Honor
Grad to Study
In France
Miss Carolyn Walker, a 1965
honor graduate of Durham's
Hillside High School, will leave
New York City on September 0
for a year's study in Nantes,
France.
The daughter of Dr. and Mrs
LerQy f;. Walker, she is a jun
ior at Spelman College in At
lanta, Georgia. On her return
to the United States, she will
begin her senior year at the
Atlanta school.
Miss Walker, whose father is
track coach at North Carolina
College, will attend the Ecole
Superieur National, speaking
here Monday night (July 17). (
Behind Fuller are the march-1
ers numbering approximately
200, who at his insistence ig
nored the hecklers and con-1
drastic changes in the life jpf
the poor will provide the kind
of order and stability you de
sire.
There is no question that the
violence and destruction of
property must be halted, but
congress has consistently re
fused to vote a halt to the de
struction of the lives of Ne
groes in the ghetto. First the
Rent Supplement Bill was
killed then the Model Cities
Proposal was drastically cut
and finally even a bill with no
political or financial implica
tions, but great humanitarian
aspects was laughed out of the
house and congress rejected a
simple bill to protect our cities
against rats. The suicidal and
irrational acts which plague
our streets daily are being
ing here. The Klansman showed
up in full red regalia, but left
shortly after the meeting got
underway. Last evening (7-19),
a group of 150 Negroes parti
MISS WALKER
French in classes, in the home
in which she will live for the
year, and in her everyday life.
A French major at Spelman,
Miss Walker will concetrate on
French literature in Nantes.
tinued on their way. The only
weapon of defense Fuller had
was the walking cane which he
is shown holding across his
shoulders.
sowed and watered by the ir
rational, irrelevant and equally
suicidal debate and delay in
congress. »
I do not think we are help
less; we are only acting help
lessly. I should like to offer a
single proposal that I am con
vinced will be as effective as it
is just.
Let us do one simple direct
thing—let us end unemploy
ment totally and immediately.
I propose specifically the
creation of a national agency
that shall provide a job to ev
ery person who needs work
young and old. White and Ne
gro. I propose a job for every
one. not a promise to see if
jobs can be found.
If our government cannot
See KING page 2A
cipating in a protest march,
stoned cars, smashed windows
and slightly injured two per
sons here.
(UPI Telephoto)-
Local Organizations
Endorse Statements
Of The Speakers
Addressing the Durham City
Council Wednesday morning,
July 26, regarding causes which
■resulted in the recent civil
demonstrations by various Ne
gro citizens, J. H. Wheeler,
chairman of Committee on Ne
gro Affairs and president of
Mechanics and Farmers Bank,
issued an official statement
bearing the endorsement of
th e following organizations:
Durham Committee on Negro
Affairs, Durham Branch NAA
CP, Interdenominational Minis
terial Alliance, Durham Real
Etate Brokers Association, Dur
ham Council on Human Rela
tions, George White Bar Asso
ciation, and the Durham Busi
ness and Professional Chain.
The statement is as follows:
We, the undersigned organi
zations, view with great seri
ousness the basic issues which
gave rise to the confrontation
on Monday, July 17, 1967 be
tween an aggrieved group of
citizens led by United Organi
zation for Community Improve
ment and the City of
Durham.
We regret the injustices on
the part of the city government
in dealing with the problems of
housing, employment, educa-
See COUNCIL page 2A
U.S. Secretary
Labor Approves
Plan for 2,706
WASHINGTON Secretary
of Labor Willard Wirtz has ap
proved 25 "New Careers" pro
jects that will provide work
experience opportunities for 2,-
706 improverished adults in 17
states.
"New Careers", an anti-pov
erty program administered by
the Department of Labor, seeks
to relieve critical national man
power shortages in such fields
as health, education and wel
fare by opening up new sup
port-professional job opportu
nities for adults at least 22
years old.
Projects usually run for a
year, and must offer possibili
ties for future employment
without Federal assistance as
well as progression to 'more re
sponsible and better-paying
jobs. Enrollees are trained as
aides to librarians, educators,
nurses, medical technicians, so
cial workers and police offi
cers, among others.
Total cost of the 17 projects
is $11,467,777. with the Federal
Government providing $9,913,-
360. This includes funds for
wages, training, supervision,
counseling and other support
ive services such as health and
remedial education.
Projects were approved for
Alaska, Connecticut, District of
Columbia, Illinois, Minnesota
New Hampshire, New Jersey,
North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsyl-
See LABOR page 2A