Saturday, July 27, 1968
Section B—6 Pages
JfOUR PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY
Nat'l Black Power Confab Set
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ATTENDS COCA-COLA USA
MARKETING SEMINAR —(At
lanta, Georgia)— Fred Battle,
(right), merchandising and sales
representative for the Durham
Coca-Cola Bottling Company, is
pictured above at a recent mar
keting seminar held in Atlanta,
Georgia, sponge red by Coca-
Urban League in 58fh Annual
Conference July 28th-August 1
NEW ORLEANS About 1,-
500 persons are expected to at
tend the 85th Annual Confer
ence of the National Urban
League in New Orleans July
28-August 1.
The Conference, which will
seek to develop new programs
for coping with the current
racial crisis, will have as its
theme "Building Ghetto Pow
er." This theme grew out of
a n emergency meeting of
League officials April 27-28 in
New York City on ways to or
ganize the black masses in the
nation's ghettos.
Workshops will be held in
the slum districts of New Or
leans and at the Jung Hotel
Monday, July 29, on housing,
education, economic develop
ment and employment, and
family planning. In addition, a
workshop on the police and the
community will be held nt the
Jung Hotel, the Conference
headquarters on Tuesday, July
30.
Republican Party Called Upon
To Nominate Gov. Rockefeller
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The
Committee of Concern, Cleve
land's Community Forum of
the United Pastors Association,
which last week served notice
on the Republican Party that
unless it nominated Governor
Nelson A. Rockefeller of New
York as its standard bearer in
August, it would surrender Its
last best opportunity to attract
support from black Americans,
today sent the following tele
gram to Governor Rockefeller,
along with its pledge to "do
whatever is within our com
bined power" to make Its con
cern known to delegates to the
Republican convention:
Hon. Nelson A. Rockefeller
Governor of New York
22 West 55th Street
New York, N. Y.
Cola USA. Shown with Battle
are: Kelvin Wall (left), man
ager, Market Development De
partment, Coca-Cola USA; and
Henry Monroe (center), sales
and merchandising representa
tive for The Capitol Coca-Cola
Bottling Company, Inc. of Ral
Other highlights'will include
speeches by Carl Stokes, first
Negro Mayor of Cleveland;
John W. Gardner, former sec-
the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
and now chairman of The Ur
ban Coalition; Stanley Marcus,
president Neiman-Marcus-Dal
las, Houston, Fort Worth; Dr.
Vivian W. Henderson, presi
dent, Clark College, Atlanta;
and Dr. Margaret Walker Alex
ander, professor of English,
Jackson State College (Miss.).
On Monday morning, July
29, Whitney M. Young, Jr., the
League's nation excutive dirt
tor, will deliver the keynote
address, setting forth League
goals for the coming year.
On Sunday, July 28, Young
and Lindsley F. Kimball, presi
dent of the League, will be
given honorary degrees at a
special Xavier University con
vocation in the Municipal Audi
torium.
As leaders of the black com
munity committed to making
a reality of the great dream of
a truly just society for which
our late brother and colleague,
Or. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
give his love, his labor and his
life, we declare, as a Commit
tee of Concern, our Intent to
work for and to demand your
nomination by the Republican
Party as its candidate for Presi
dent of The United States.
We say now with unified voice
that of the announced or po
tential aspirants for the nomi
nation, only Nelson A. Rocke
feller is equipped by back
pound, experience and moti
vation to lead this nation away
from drift towards disaster and
the collision course with calam
ity on which it Is headed.
Kennedy Internationa] Airport
in New York is the largest air
cargo center in the world.
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eigh. The three-day seminar in
cluded sales and merchandising
representatives from local bot
tling companies from across the
nation, and territory manager
and account executive from the
Bottler and Fountain Sales De
partments, Coca-Cola USA.
Mrs. Sadie McCoy
Crowned Queen
Of Eastern Star
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Mrs. Sadie McKoy of Love
Chapter No. 632 Lillington,
was crowned Queen of the
Eastern Star at their Annual
District Meeting held in Fay
etteville recently. Mrs. McKoy
reigned over nine contestants
from other chapters. Runner
ups were Queen Esther, chap
ter No. 3 and Ada No. 3 both
of Fayetteville.
Mrs. McKoy will attend the
state meeting in September to
compete for State winner. The
state meeting win convene in
Oxford.
Bar Association
Auxiliary To Accept
Negro Members
CHARLOTTE - The Char
lotte-Mecklenburg Bar Associ
ation's women auxiliary hasvot
ed to open its membership to
Negroes, it was announced last
week.
Hie auxiliary, composed of
the wives and widows of law
yers, announced the group had
voted by a more than two-to
one margin to invite the wives
of Charlotte's seven Negro law
yers to join.
Mis. Lloyd, C. Caudle presi
dent, said the action was "a
change in policy." She said
Iter support of the move was
to change the auxiliary status
from a segregated social club
to a prefeaaionally-oriented or
ganization.
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
To Stress Black Unity During
Philadelphia Meet August 29
NEWARK, N. J. - The 3rd
National Conference on Black
Power will be held in Philadel
phia from August 29 to Sep
tember 1, it was announced to
day at a press conference at
the Church of the Advocate
(18th and Diamond Streets) in
'the heart of Philadelphia's
black community.
Dr. Nathan Wright, Chair
man of the Continuations
Committee of the National
Conference on Black Power,
said Philadelphia was choeen
because of a warm invitation
from that city's Council of
Black Clergy which had been
strongly urged by large seg
ments of the black community
to host the conference.
Also attending the press
conference were the four other
members of the Continuations
Committee who will be Vice-
Chairmen for specific areas of
administrative responsibility
and program planning for the
Conference: Omar Ahmed and
Isiah Robinson of New York
City; Ron Karenga of Los An
geles and Chuck Stone of
Washington, D. C.
The Philadelphia Host Com
mittee which will be responsi
ble for arrangements include:
Colonial Stores Makes Report
Of Record Sales and Earnings
ATLANTA, Ga. Colonial
Stores Incorporated, southeast
and midwestern supermarket
chain, last week reported rec
ord sales and earnings for the
first 24 weeks of 1968.
Ernest F. Boyce, Colonial
president, said sales for the 24
weeks which ended June 15,
1968, were $254,097,796, an in
crease of 6.4 per cent over the
comparable period of last year,
j New profit, after provision for
I income taxes and before provi
sion for the 10 per cent fed
eral surtax, was $3,713,810, an
increase of 28.3 percent. With
provision for the surtax, net
profit was $3,431,555, an in
crease of 18.5 percent over the
initial 24 weeks of last year.
Earnings per shgre of com
mon stock were $1.32 before
provision for the surtax and
$1.22 with provision for the
surtax, versus $1.02 in the first'
24 weeks of 1967, based on 2,-
798,164 shares currently out
standing and 2,806,557 shares
Chief Suspect in Recent Bronx
Killing Claims Self Defense
NEW YORK - Bobby
Rogers, the chief suspect in
the shooting of three men in
the Bronx, was in jail Monday
somewhere in New York.
Burton Roberts, the Bronx
chief assistant district attorney,
said Rogers, 31, was brought
back from Graham, where he
had been jailed since surrender
ing Friday. Authorities would
not say at which precinct he
had been booked for homicide.
"I want the man's rights
protected," Roberts said. "I
don't want the case prejudiced
in any way."
An assistant district attor
ney and two New York detec
tives rode the plane with
Rogers on the return trip.
On Thursday night a gun
man with a .30 caliber tally
automatic carbine shot three
Puerto Rican men to death.
They were Manuel Angel
Flgueroa, 19, Efreln Castro, 21,
and Jose Rivera, 18.
Henry Rogers, Bobby's
brother, said in North Carolina
Bobby told him he had shot
the three in aelf defense when
they tried to break into hb
apartment where his sister, his
Rev. Lorenzo Shepard, Chair
man of the Council of Black
Clergy; Rev. James Woodruff
of the Council of Black Clergy;
Walter Palmer of the Black
Peoples Unity Movement;
David Richardson of the
Young Afro-Americans; Rev.
Paul Washington, pastor of the
Church of the Advocate; An
drew Freeman, executive direc
tor of the Philadelphia Urban
League; Lee Montgomery of
the Center for Community
Studies of Temple University;
and Plathel Benjamin, a black
consultant.
The theme of this 3rd Na
tional Conference on Black Po
wer will be: "Black Self-De
termination and Black Unity
through Direct Action."
. There have been two pre
vious National Conferences on
Black Power. The first, con
vened by Rep. Adam Clayton
Powell, was held September 3,
1966 in Washington, D. C. The
second, convened by the Con
tinuation Committee was held
in Newark, New Jersey from
July 20 to July 23, 1967.
"This 3rd Conference will
deal with methods, techniques
and stragedy," said Dr. Wright,
to forge a black nation in
thought, experience and com
mitment.
last year and after preferred
dividends.
At the close of the 24-week
period, Colonial had 414 food
stores in operation, 12 less than
a year ago.
Colonial's previous record
first half was in 1966 when
sales for the 24 weeks were
$244,509,300, net profits $3,-
368,417 and earnings per share
sl.lß based on 2,815,332 com
mon shares outstanding.
In an interim report to share
holders, Boyce said prospects
for the remainder of 1968 are
favorable.
Six new food stores were
opened in the first 24 weeks of j
1968 and six stores were either [
sold or closed. Seventeen addi
tional new stores are expected
to be opened in the final six
months of 1968, Boyce said.
Eleven of these will replace
older units which will -«be
closed, giving an anticipated
total of 420 food stores at yegr
end.
girlfriend and another girl were
staying.
Deputy Sheriff Cliff Wilkin
son, of Graham, his ruddy face
shaded by his straw hat, was
ambling over to the Graham
soda shop for a cup of coffee
when the two men stopped
him.
''Do you know my broth
el?" said one of them, whom
he recognized as Henry Rogers.
Wilkinson looked at the
other man, who was wearing
a strange orange derby hat and
carrying a windbreaker jacket.
He looked frightened. "No,"
he said.
"Well, he's the one who
shot those three Puerto Ricans
in New York," said Henry.
"No," interrupted the slen
der man in the orange hat. "It
was the Bronx."
"He wants to surrender to
you," said the other.
Deputy Wilkinson looked at
the man in the orange hat
again, turned on his heel, said
"come on," and all three head
ed back to the courthouse.
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VINCE CULLERS (left), head
of Vince Cullers Advertising
Inc. of Chicago, examines po
tential art work for his newest
national client, Lorillard Cor
MANAGEMENT TRAINEE S»m
mie Wayne, who served as an
assistant manager in four stores
while completing a manage
ment training program, has
been promted to manager of a
F. W. Wooworth store in Gary,
Ind.
A native of Macon, Miss., he
lives in Chicago with his wife,
the former Mabel H. Harris of
Tougaloo, Miss., and two
daughters, Cynthia, 5 and
Cheryl, 3.
Mr. Wayne is a graduate of
Mary Holmes High School and
attended Mary Holmes Junior
Colleg at West Point, Miss, and
Tougaloo College at Tougaloo,
Miss, where he was a member
of the Kappa Alpha Psi fra
ternity. The Waynes are mem-
New Plan Advanced
For Relief in Biafra
LONDON British officials
Monday disclosed a new plan to
overcome the political obstacles
and get emergency relief to
Biafra.
The International Red Cross
proposes to take exclusive con
trol of an airstrip in the
breakaway area of eastern
Nigeria and fly supplies in. This
course could avoid Biafra's
obections to food being handled
by the Nigerian federal govern
ment, and Nigeria's . fear of
arms going in with relief flights.
George Thomson, the com
monwealth secretary, announced
the new idea to the House of
Commons Monday afternoon.
There were cheers from the
members, many of whom have
been increasingly troubled by
Britain's role in arming the
federal side as famine has
mounted.
Thomson could not yet say
that either side had accepted the
Red Cross proposal. But he told
the House:
"This move seems to unlock
what has been an extremely dif
ficult door, and I hope it will be
accepted by Colonel!
Fred McNeill, Project Director
Tapped for New State Position
Fred D. McNeill, Jr., director
of field services of the North
Carolina Teachers Association,
will join the staff of Learning
Institute of North Carolina as
Project Follow-Through Direc
tor sometime after August 1.
He is the new Program As
sociate for Early Childhood
Education on the LINC staff
replacing Mrs. Gertrude Wil
liams. He will specifically co
ordinate the Nimnicht method
of pre-school activities In
Goldsboro, Greensboro and
Durham.
McNeill, who also managed
the $100,000.00 NCTA Credit
Union for five years, will re
tain this position by special
arrangecnt. Before joining
NCTA, McNeill taught Biology
and coached football at Ox
ford's Mary Potter High School.
An Army veteran and Dur
ham native, McNeill is a grad
uate of Hillside High School.
He holds the 8.5., M.S. and a
principal's certificate from N.
C. College at Durham with ad
ditional study at Wisconsin
State and N. C. State at Ra
leigh.
He is married to the former
Myrtle Jones of Burgaw, with
News of Sports World
State, National And Local
poration, which makes Kent
and True cigarettes and other
tobacco products. Arthur E.
Toft (right) is Lorillard's di
bers of the Metropolitan Bap
tist Church in Chicago.
(Odumegwu) Okukwu," the
Biafran leader.
Relief Mission
Reporting of the finding of an
exploratory relief mission head
ed by Lord Hunt, Thomson gave
official support to some of the
terrible famine statistics that
charity groups have tentatively
used.
He said it would not be
"unrealistically high" to say
that one million persons on both
sides of the battle line were in
"dire distress." He said Lord
Hunt had spoken of a death rate
in Biafra of 200 to 300 a day.
Lord Hunt reported that the
main problem now was to find
the transportation and skilled
supervisory personnel to
distribute the food and medicine
already on hand. This view con
firmed what the charity agen
cies, such as the Red Cross,
have been saying for weeks.
Thomson also said that Lord
Hunt regarded a land corridor
from federal-held territory into
the shrunken part of Biafra still
held by the Ibos as the most ef
fective relief method.
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two children, Sheila 10 and
Veta 9. Mrs. McNeill serves as
librarian at the Fayettevllle
Street School of the city
schools.
McNeill led the May 4th
Democratic primary for the
Durham County Board of Edu
cation with 11,607 votes. If
elected In November, he will
be the first Negro to hold a
seat on the County Board of
Education.
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Livingstone College
Gets Loan For
New Dormitory
SALISBURY Livingstone
College has received a loan of
$590,000 from the Depart
ment of Housing and Urban
Affairs for the construction of
a new dormitory for women
according to information re
leased by the Public Relations
Office of the local church-re
lated institution.
Part of a $4,000,000 award
to seven institution of higher
learning in the state, this,loan
will make possible the immedi
ate construction of the much
needed facility on the Livine
stone campus. In commencing
on the telegram from Senator
B. Everett Jordan notifying
him of the loan, President Dun
can stated that "this will en
able us to relieve the crowded
conditions, provide a new fa
cility with greatly improved
living accommodations and in
crease the enrollment to about
the leveling point set for the
10-year, $7,000,000 Develop
ment Program."
Readers Digest
Gives $75,000
To College Fund
NEW YORK-The Reader's
Digest Foundation contributed
$75,000 this week to 30 se
lected colleges of the United
Negro College Fund. The gift
is the second installment on an
endowed scholarship program
established by the Reader's
Digest Foundation in 1967.
The program is to be continued
through 1970. This year's In
stallment represents the largest
amount ever given the United
Negro College Fund for schol
arship purposes and is the larg
est contribution received by
the Fund so far in 1968.
Only the interest on the
endowment may be used for
scholarship purposes. Each col
lege may use its share of the
Interest for one or more schol
arship awards per year accord
ing to its own discretion.
Hie scholarship program is
but one of the Reader's Digest
Foundation's several activities
in support of the United Negro
College Fund. For the past
eight years, the Foundation has
contributed a grant of $4,000
for a creative writing contest
open to all students attending
schools affiliated with the
Fund. First place winners were
also given trips to New York
and Washington.
In addition to the schol
arship and writing contest con
tributions, the Reader's Digest
Foundation has made an un
restricted contribution to the
United Negro College Fund
each year since the Fund's
inception In 1944.