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Inaction On Apprentice Bias
Exposed At NAACP Meeting
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ROMNEY IN S. C. COTTON
FIELD (Kingstree, S. C.>—
Michigan Governor Geo. Rom
ney inspects the cotton field
President-Unitarian Association
To Conduct Service in City Oct. 8
Wilkins on Top
In Leader Race;
Marshall Third
A big surprise occurred this
week in the contest being con
ducted by the Carolina Times
to name a national Negro lead
er when Thurgood Marshall
polled enough votes to take
over third place, previously held
by Whitney Young, and threat
ened the second place held by
Dr. Martin Luther Xing.
Also still holding his own in
See CONTEST 6A
Duke U. Researcher Reports
New Anti-Cholesterol Drug
CHICAGO—A drug that may
profoundly affect the U.S.
health picture has been found
useful in the treatment of athe
rosclerosis, a major killer and
crippler.
A Duke University research
er said here recently that a
powdered plastic known chem
ically as cholestyramine offers
the possibility, of lowering
cholesterol levels.
Atherosclerosis, or harden
ing of the arteries, is a kind
of biological rusting of the
blood vessels. Its end results
can be a heart attack, stroke
or limb loss by gangrene.
The disease is believed to be
caused by a dangerous combi
nation of factors such as high
cholesterol or fat level, high
blood pressure, obesity-over
eating, heavy smoking, stress
and heredity.
It is in the reduction of cho
lesterol, the fatty material
which causes'the clogging of
the blood vessels, that choles
tyramine has been found use
ful. said Dr. Robert Fuson, a
surgery resident at Duke who
has been using the drug suc
cessfully on himself for three
years.
He toM the annual meeting
here of the American College
of Surgeons that cholestyra
mine combines with bile acids
in the intestine and causes
them to be excreted in the
stools rather than reabsorbed
as usual.
By interfering with the re
absorption process of bile acids,
he said, the body is required
to make additional quantities.
And since the body normally
makes bile acids from choles
terol, the serum cholesterol
can be lowered. The process
See DRUG page 3A
of sharecropper Joseph Chan
dler (R) as he made a whirl
wind trip of Williamsburg
County recently. Romne.v visit-
Dr. Dana Maclean Greeley,
j President of the Unitarian Uni
versalist Association, will con
-1 duct a service of the Unitarian
i Universalist Fellowship of Dur-
I ham and Chapel Hill Sunday,
the Bth of Ocobtor. The meet
ing will be held at the Dur-
I ham YWCA at 7:30 p.m. Dr.
Greeley's sermon will be, "Is
There An Implicit Unitarian
Creed?", a topic based on a
study of the Unitarian-Univer
salist denomination that was
published last spring.
Dr. Greeley has been presi
| dent of the U. U. A. since
j May , 1961, when he was elect
ed at the time of the time of
the formal merger of Lh e
American Unitarian Associa
tion and the Universalist
Church of America. He was
Last Rites for Sgf. Upchurch
At Ebenezer Baptist Saturday
Marine Sgt. William H. Up
church, Jr., 24, of Durham
was killed in action September
21, while serving in Vietnam,
'his family has been informed.
A telegram from Gen. Wal
lace M. Greene, Jr., comman
dant of the Marine Corps,
states Upchurch died of wounds
sustained in hostile artillery
fire while in a defensive posi
tion in the vicinity of Quang
Tri in South Vietnam.
Upchurch, a native of Dur
ham, attended Merrick-Moore
High School prior to enlisting
in the Marine Corps.
Surving are his wife, Mrs.
Sandra Upchurch; one son,
William H. Upchurch, III; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
H. Upchurch of Durham; two
sisters, Mrs. Shirley Cataß and
Mrs. Catherine Bobbitt, both
of Durham; his paternal grand
father, Robert Upchurch of
Durham; and his maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Josie Tan-
Leaders Rally to Membership
Drive Being Staged by NAACP
NEW YORK—As the Nation
al Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
swings into its intensive year
end membership drive, pledges
of all-out support are coming
into the National Office from
state officers throughout the
Ed South Carolina to study the
j migration of Negroes from the
i county to N. Y.
(UPI Telephoto)
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GREELEY
graduated from Harvard Col
lege and Harvard Divinity
School. He holds several hon
orary degrees.
In June and July 1965, Dr.
Greeley was one of a group of
religious leaders that traveled
to Viet Nam, seeking to re-
See GREELEY 6A
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UPCHURCH
ner of Wadesboro.
Funeral services will be held
at Ebenezer Baptist Church
Saturday at 2:00 p.m. The Rev.
Ellis Keith will deliver the
eulogy.
nation.
Gloster B. Current, director
of branches and field admini
stration, has alerted the Asso
ciation's multiple units across
the nation that enrolling a
total of an additional 200,000
See RALLY BA
Organization
Seeks to End
Color Barrier
NEW YORK—The drive of
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People to end the color bar in
federally - registered appren
ticeship training programs has
received an important assist
from Rep. Robert A. Taft, Jr.,
(R, Ohio) following exposure
of an official Department of
Labor memorandum to field
representatives directing that
no further action be taken to
secure compliance with the
Federal nondiscrimination pol
icy and departmental regula
tions.
The memorandum, dispatch
ed by Hugh C. Murphy, direc
tor of the Labor Department's
Bureau of Apprenticeship and
Training, was revealed by Her
bert Hill, NAACP labor direc
tor, Sept. 16, at the annual
conference of the Ohio State
NAACP in Cincinnati. Mr. Hill
read to the delegates the Mur
phy memorandum of April 20,
1967 which said, in part:
"This will confirm our tele
phone instructions ... in
which we requested that you
and your field staff do not take
any further action against pro
gram sponsors in the BAT
states relative to the letters
sent them on compliance . .
I repeat, do nothing in the
field of compliance follow-up
until you are given further in
structions from the Adminis
trator's Office." t
The NAACP labor director
charged that the BAT had
never decertified any of these
programs because of bias as
provided by departmental pol
icy and regulation—an allega
tion later confirmed by Mr
Murphy. The apprenticeship
programs are jointly sponsor
ed by management and the
trade unions.
Congressman Taft was on
the platform at the time that
Mr. Hill dramatically produced
and read the memorandum.
He expressed interests in the
exposure and, on his return to
Washington, sent a pointed
inquiry to Administrator Mur
phy, a former official of the
Bricklayers' Union.
The Ohio Congressman ask
ed: (1) if any apprenticeship
program has "ever been decer-
See INACTION 6A
Dr. V. E. Brown
Issues Laws on
Baptist Customs
Editor's Note
The following Is a state
ment issued by Dr. V. E.
Brown, pastor of Gethsemane
Baptist Church, President of
the Interdenominational Min
isterial Alliance of Durham
and Vicinity and Chairman
of the Executive Board of the
New Hope Baptist Associa
tion relative to certain laws
and customs governing the
Baptist Denomination:
WHO IS WHO IN A
BAPTIST CHURCH
The Missionary Baptist
Church is a democratic body
within itself; nevertheless
there are rules it must follow
in order to be democratic.
The Baptist Church holds
that there are two and only
two scriptural officers in the
Baptist Church; they are pas
tor and deacon. (See Hiscox
Directory Page 18, Article 7.)
Deacons must act only in
conjunction with the pastor;
not independent of him. It is
out of order for a deacon
board to ho|d or attempt to
hold a meeting among them-
See BAPTISTS 6A
Grabarek Tops
Opposition to
Negroes' Plea
By THAD GIVEN
The City Council voted 7-51
against a motion by Council- |
man C. E. Boulware to recon- |
sider its annexation of the Ba- |
con Street site (or "turnkey" j
public housing in Monday eve
ning's Council meeting.
In making his motion, Boul-1
ware appealed to the Council
to take note of the fact that
people living in the area are
united in their strong opposi- I
tion to struction of the Bacon I
Street project. "You cannot
ignore the voice of the peo
ple", he said.- He also empha
sized the fact that the Durham
Negro Community is not op
nosed to public housing, but
is opposed to the construction
of public housing that will
further the development of a i
"ghetto." "We want one city
in Durham, not two", he said,
and "the proposed Bacon Street
project will result in further
separation of the races". The
motion, seconded by Jack
Preiss, was supported by Boul- I
ware, John Stewart, Walter |
Biggs, and Mrs. R. O. Everett |
Attorney H. M. Michaux ]
opened discussion of the issue
by reading a prepared memo
randum sent last week to Sec
retary Robert C. Weaver of the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development. The mem
orandum, unsigned by any par
ticular group or individual,
had been approved by the Dur
ham Committee on Negro Af
fairs at its meeting September
28th . It concluded with what
• local newspaper called "a
polite but not veiled threat",
to which the Mayor took ex
ception by remarking: "this
Council will not be intimidat
ed by threats."
With the City Council's re
fusal to reconsider the annex
ation of the Bacon Street pro
ject site, the matter remains
in the hands of the Planning
and Reaming Commission. Fur
ther action by the Council will
depend upon the Commission's
recommendation.
Church To Worship In New
Edifice For First Time Sun.
General Meet
To Be Held in
City Oct. 9-15
The General Meeting of the
Church of God In Christ Je
sus, New Deal, Inc., will be
held in Durham, October 9-
15 in the new edifice located
at 815 Fargo Street.
The new church, which has
a seating capacity of 300, was
started in 1965 with the
membership working under a
pay as you go plan.
The new church structure,
in which services will be held
for the first time Sunday,
October 8, is under the lead
ership of Bishop W. A. Amos
who assumed the pastorate in
April 1963 following the
death of the former pastor,
Bishop C. L. Faison. Services
have previously been held in
the old Mt. Vernon Baptist
Church, located at 536 Queen
2*.
OMKGA FOUNDERS—Dr. Os
car Cooper, a practicing phy
sician in Philadelphia and
Bishop Edgar A. Love, retired
Prelate of the Methodist
Church, two of the remaining
four founders of Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity, made an his
UH§ ;| n
NEW COMMISSIONER CON
GRATULATED (Washing)
President Johnson congratu
lates Walter E. Washington
after he was sworn in as Wash
ington, D. C.'s new Commis
Howard Fuller Heard By
NCC Students In Address
Ronald Palmer Named Foreign
Service Officer at West Point
WEST POINT, New York—
Ronald D. Palmer has been
named Foreign Service Officer
at the U. S. Military Academy
and will serve as an instructor
in the Deparement of Social
Sciences here.
Mr. Palmer is the second
Foreign Service Officer to be
assigned to the Military Acad
emy since the program of in
cluding a State Department of
ficial on the Academy's faculty
was initiated in 1965. He suc
ceeds James Rosenthal who has
been assigned to the State De
partment in Washington, D.C.
A 1955 magna cum laude
graduate of Howard University,
Mr. Palmer was a Fulbright
See PALMER 6A
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BISHOP AMOS
Street.
The membership, which
numbers about 100, has
worked hard and earnestly to
achieve its present goal of a
new and modern church edi
fice.
Bishop W. A. Amos is Chief
Apostle of the entire church.
Other officers are Bishop W.
See CHUSCN 6A
toric appearance at a frater
nity banquet in Philadelphia
sponsored by Mu Omega Chap
ter. Two hundred and fifty
Omega men revered these dis
tinguished brothers and memo
rialized the late founders, Dr.
Ernest Just, internationally
sioner in a ceremony in the
White House East Room re
cently. Here, after the swear
ing in ar (LTR): Mrs. Wash
ington, Thomas W. Fletcher,
who was sworn in as Deputy
PALMER
NCC Faculty
Members on
History Panel
Four North Carolina College
faculty members will serve as
program participants at the
52nd annual meeting of the As
sociation for the Study of Ne
gro Life and History in Greens
boro, October 12 through 15.
Dr. Earlie E. Thorpe, Dr. W.
Edward Farrison, and Dr. Hel
en G. Edmonds will serve as
chairmen of individual ses
sions. Dr. Thorpe will lead a
session on the early nineteenth
century, Dr. Farrison a section
on folklore, and Dr. Edmonds
a section on the liberal pos
ture.
Caulbert A. Jones of NCC
will serve as a commentator at
a session on Black Nationalism
and Pan-Africanism.
See FACULTY 6A
famous zoologist and Dr. Frank
Coleman, head of the depart
ment of physics at Howard
University. The fraternity,
founded at Howard University
in 1911, has approximately
thirty-five thousand members
throughout the United States.
Commissioner; Supreme Court
Court Justice Ahe Fortas. who
administered the oaths; Wash
ington, Mrs Johnsor. asd the
President
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Claims Middleclass
Has Betrayed
Ghetto Brothers
Howard Fuller, the commu
nity organizer for the North
Carolina Fund who became a
controversial figure when he
led demonstrations this sum-
I mer in Durham, told North
Carolina College students Mon-
I day that they have begun be
j traying their black brothers in
I the ghetto.
"You began when somebody
j asked you, 'Where you from.
| baby?' and you said New
| Yorks' or 'Washingtons, D C '
! and you know you're from
Craven County, or Bertie.'
! Fuller said to the sounds o!
I laughter and cheers.
"The brother in the ghetto
I feels the black middle class
| doesn't care U.«u\ h m .> i it'-i
] true, not only of the stuit,.:'?
J here at NCC but of ">an> or
the faculty also They've be
come a part of the black sepa-
I ratist' movement —to separate
j themselves from their black
brothers and sisters.
"But the while man ain't go
to let you do it Wherever you
go. he's going to build a ghetto
around your black head,' Ful
i ler said.
The speaker, who is a part
' time lecturer in social work at
j the University of North Caro
' lina, said the Negro's need for
economic and political leverage
I can be summed up in "two
| little words—black power."
"I did not come to NCC to
| start a riot I have never gone
anywhere to start a riot." Ful
ler said. "But you know I have
j turned the last cheek. The
! next time 1 turn a cheek. I'll
J follow it with a right cross."
N.C. Federation
Women's Clubs
Meet Sept. 30
Members of the Executive
Board of the North Carolina
Federation of Negro Women'?
Clubs assembled in Peebles Ho
tel. Raleigh, Saturday, Sep
tember 30, for the fall meet
ing. Representatives were pres
ent from all part of the state
and much business was tran
sacted and plans made for the
progress of the Federation.
Mrs. M. N. Leitao, Executive-
Board Chairman assisted by
Mrs. F. T. Newsome, State
President presided over the
adult session. Mrs. Edith John
son. Youth Director had charge
of the youth division which
held a separate session.
The agenda included: report
by T. W. Moore concerning
the N. C. Council Leadership
Workshop at State University
of N. C. where she represent
ed the federation "The presi
dent reported on the Legisla
tive Council meeting held in
the Women's Club at Raleigh
Also included in the meeting
was a resume of the State Con
vention held at Franklinton
Center, Bricks; a resume of
the Southeastern Regional As
sociation which the State Fed
eration entertained at the Jack
Tar Hotel in Durham; a reports
of the National Federafr
Project; the District Aw
and the Youth Plans for tw \
See CLUBS 6A /
IS