Rev. X. R. Harris Restraitted From Pulpit
WSSC Students Express Little Reaction To Policy Report
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VOLUME 46 No. 4
Charlotte Negro
Important Goldsboro Post
Robf. Nicholas
First Human
Relations Dir.
GOLDSBORO ln a meet
ing of the Goldsboro Alderman,
January 6, Robert Nicholas, a
native of Charlotte who for
the past five years has been
employed as a psychiatric
social worker at o'Berry Cen
ter for mentally retarded and
emotionally disturbed children,
was named Goldsboro's first
director of human relations.
Nicholas was appointed to
the post after a committee of
the Human Relations Commis
sion had made a study of ten
applicants. It was their opinion
that of all applicants, Nicholas
was the best qualified.
Nicholas is a graduate of
Johnson C. Smith University
of Charlotte where he received
a bachelor of arts degree with
a major in sociology and a min
or in psychology, speech and
economics.
At present, he is a member
of the National Dramatics
Speech Arts Association, N. C.
Human Betterment League,
Board of Directors of the E. A.
See NICHOLAS 8A
NICHOLAS
Orangeburg!
Man Named Dir
Voter Project
COLUMBIA, S. C.-
Thomas Moss of Orangeburg,
S. C., has been named direc
tor of the South Carolina Voter
Education Project, it was an
nounced recently.
Moss, 40, succeeds James
L. Felder, who resigned in
November to direct a pro
gram of assistance to black
elected officials for the Scho
larship, Education and De
fense Fund for Racial Equali
ty. Felder had been director
since June, 1967.
Active in voter registration
since 1963, Moss has been
serving as chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee
of SCVEP and as co-chairman
of the Orangeburg County
VEP. The appointment was
announced by Dr. Charles H.
Thomas Jr., president of the
state organization.
The first of four statewide
programs formed by the
Voter Education Project of
the Southern Regional Coun
cil, the SCVEP is engaged in
See DIRECTOR 8A
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1969
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AT PRESS COMFIRBNCI
Attorney T. T. Clayton of War
renton is shown addressing the
press conference held in Chapel
Hill, Saturday. January 18 by
Orange Grove Baptist Church Host
East Cedar Grove Missionaries Sat.
One-Day Meeting
To Be Held Here
Sunday, January 26
The One-Day Session of the
East Cedar Grove Missionary
Baptist Association will be
held at the Orange Grove Bap
tist Church, Saturday, January
26, beginning at 9:30 A.M.
During the morning session
a Sermonette will be presented
by Dr. William H. Fuller, Pas
tor of Mount Zion Baptist
Church, Durham. Rev. U. R.
Booker, Moderator of the As
sociation will give the general
objectives of the association.
The afternoon session will
feature a panel discussion,
Sponsored by the Woman's
Auxiliary of the association
with Mrs. W. C. Bryant, presi
dent, presiding. Also the Junior
Department supervised by Miss
A. M. Dunnigan will partici
pate in the afternoon program.
The annual sermon will be
preached by Dr. C. R. Edwards,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church, Fayetteville. Music
will be rendered by the Orange
See HOST page 8A
Rev. L.A. Miller Urges Continued
Support Of Boycott At Meet Sun.
(By JON PHELPS)
Several major civic groups
are joining here to organize a
campaign to defend Merrick-
Moore and Little River Schools
from being phased out by the
Durham County Board of Edu
cation.
The drive springs from last
Saturday's meeting of the Black
Solidarity Steering Committee,
when representatives of the
Black Solidarity Committee for
Community Improvement were
named to work with members
of the Little River and Merrick-
Moore communities in an or
ganized effort to preserve the
schools.
This newly formed committee
will work with the Durham
Committee on Negro Affairs
and its Education Committee
in the endeavor.
Then representatives of all
McKissick Enterprises at the
Holiday Inn. It was announced
by Attorney Floyd B. McKissick
at the opening of the meeting
Last Rites Held for Rev. Cowan
In Asheville Sunday, January 18
ASHEVILLE—The funeral
of Rev. J. D. Cowan, 97,
retired minister of the A. M. E.
Church was held at the St.
James A. M. E. Church in
Asheville, Sunday, January 18,
at 1:00 p.m.
Officiatinge were Rev. J. D
Davis, pfpsiding Elder of the
Morganton District and Rev.
C. W. Hunt, pastor. Interment
was in Violet Hill Cemetery.
Rev. Cowan served as a min
ister in North Carolina for 57
years, retiring in 1960. He had
served as pastor of St. James
for four years and as presiding
elder of four districts for 32
years.
He served as a delegate to
the General Conference from
1916 through 1956, during
which time he held various
offices. Since retiring he has
served as supply pastor of sev
eral Asheville churches.
Surviving are four sons and
a daughter, Mrs. Gladys C.
these groups will meet with the
lawyers working on the county
schools' integration suit in
Federal Court "to let the Coun
ty Board of Education know
that the black community is
not going to accept" its plan
to gradually phase out the two
all-black schools.
A. J. Howard Clement, head
of the BSCCI, announced the
campaign at lpst Sunday night's
mass meeting of the Black
Solidarity Movement. The meet
ing was held at Mount Calvary
United Church of Christ on
Athens Avenue.
"We want everyone to know
—black' and white alike—that
this is a new day," Mr. Clement
declared. "Black people are not
just going to sit down any
longer and let white people
make the decisions for them.
We are going to make these
PRICE: 20 Cents
with the press~lhat Clayton will
be the 'Director of Legal Serv
ice and Planning for Soul City."
(Photo by Purefoy)
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REV. COWAN
Kennedy of Asheville, with
whom he lived. The sons are:
Waldo E. of Atlantic City, N.J.
Vernon D. of Asheville; Horace
B. of Little Rock, Arkansas
and John D. Jr., of New York
City. Several grandchildren
also survive.
decisions ourselves."
"Merrick-Moore and Little
River Schools 'shall not be
moved.' We want to let those
communities know that they
have our interest and support
in this."
Rev. L. A. Miller, pastor of
St. Mark AME Zion Church
and featured speaker on last
Sunday night's program, em
phasized that Durham's black
citizens must "keep ourselves
closely knitted together" in
struggles such as the Merrick-
Moore and Little River School
fights, and the current Black
Solidarity boycott.
His text was similar to one
chosen by Louis E. Austin in a
Black Solidority talk last fall,
with a variation: "Who know
eth but that the Black Solidar
(See SOLIDARITY 7A)
Calm Prevails
After Reading
Of Statement
WINSTON SALEM - There
was little immediate reaction
I from students at Winston
' Salem State College Wednes
i day morning when an official
I college policy statement on
i campus demonstration and clis
| ruption of the institution was
J presented to them at a weekly
; assembly.
Vice President W. Archie
Blount read the statement
which had been prepared by a
committee of six faculty mem
bers and five representative of
the student government.
The committee, established
by college president, Kenneth
R. Williams early last October,
was intended to have an equal
number of students and facul
ty, but the freshman class was
not organized in time to elect
a representative.
Student government presi
dent Robbin Kirkland, a mem
ber of the committee which
drafted the policy, said there
would be little student reac
tion until the statement could
,be studied after copies were
printed and distributed. The
statement was expected to be
available in quantity within
several days.
Kirkland doesn't expect any
serious negative reaction. "I
was on the committee," he
said, "and I made sure our
rights were protected."
The concise, two-page state
ment is intended to establish
a definite position regarding
demonstrations before a crisis
demanding such a policy arises.
"This statement is for the
benefit of the entire college
family," Blount said. He noted
that it is not directed solely
at students, but is designed to
protect the rights of expression
of everyone connected with
the college.
The statement defines those
situations which may or may
not need disciplinary action,
describes the sorts of actions
the administration may take,
and details channels of com
munication and formal disci
plinary procedures.
"The college cannot con
done disruptive or destructive
See STUDENTS 8A
Dr. J. Pittman Named Acting
Dean by NCC Trustee Board
The Board of Trustees of
North Carolina College last
week approved the appoint
ment of Dr. Joseph A. Pittman
as Acting Dean of the Graduate
School at the college.
Dr. Pittman will serve in
the post during the absence of
Dean Helen G. Edmonds, who
is on leave of absence to do
scholarly research.
Pittman, a native of Charles
ton, S. C., is a nationally re
cognized scholar in educational
research and statistics and
holds the doctor's degree in
Directing Educational Research
from Columbia University. He
has most recently served as
co-director of the college's
self-study program.
Dr. Pittman is a member of
the American Educational Re
search Association, American
Statistical Association, the
Psychometric Society, and the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science. His
biographical sketch is included
in "American Men of Science."
Dr. Edmonds is a renowned
historian. She has also long
been involved in national and
international affairs, and was
the first Negro woman to par
ticipate in the nomination of
a Republican candidate for the
Presidency when she seconded
the nomination of Dwight D.
Eisenhower for his second term
She did postdoctoral work
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OFFICIALS OF THE UNITED
American Freewill Baptist
Church were in Durham in De
cember to arrange for legal as
sistance in an attempt to halt
the efforts of Rev. Z. D. Harris,
former pastor of Oak Grove
Freewill Baptist Church ol Dur
ham, to continue as its pastor.
Oak Grove Pastor
Halted From Pulpit And Church
Mrs. Lavonia Allison To Be
Awarded Ph.D Degree by NYU
Mrs. E. Lavonia I. Allison,
assistant professor of physical
education at North Carolina
College, will be awarded the
Doctor of Education degree
in physical education by New
York University's School of
Education on February 24.
Mrs. Allison, a Durham
native, graduated from Hill
side High School In Durham
after attending Durham city
schools. She received the B.
S. degree from Hampton Insti
tute and the M. A. from New
York University.
Mrs. Allison is the daugh
ter of Mrs. Bernice H. Ingram,
manager of Dunbar Realty
and Insurance, and the late
Charles J. Ingram. She is mar
ried to F. V. Allison, Jr.,
secretary-treasurer of Mutual
Savings and Loan Association.
They are the parents of two
children. ,
At present, Mrs. Allison
serves as supervisor of student
teachers in physical education
DR. PITTMAN
in Germany and in 1955 she
lectured in German through
out Germany under the Inter
national Educational Exchange
Service. She made a five-na
tion tour in 1957 for the same
organization. In 1957 also she
was President Eisenhower's
personal representative to the
dedication ceremonies of the
Liberian Capitol Building.
She is the author of one of
the books described by two
outstanding North Carolina
scholars at one of the 100
outstanding books about the
state. Her book, "The Negro
and Fusion Politics in North
Carolina," was published by
the University of North Caro
lina Press in 1951.
Rev. Harris was expelled Dec.
4 from the denomination by the
General Executive Committee
at a meeting held at the Mt.
Calvary FWB Church in La-
Grange. From left to right they
are: Rev. R. J. Avery, Fayette
ville, Chairman, Trustee Board;
Rev. J. D. Douglas, Carthage,
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MRS. ALLISON
and health at NCC. She has
been a teacher in city schools
at Durham, Bel Air, Md., and
Baltimore.
See ALLISON 8A
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Visit to a
Small Plant
I'VE JUST RETURNED from a visit to the news
paper that gave me my start in this hectic
career.
The kindhearted editor didn't fire me for my stupidity
and, as a result, opened a new life for me.
Today I was again filled with appreciation for that
newspaper and any homr-town newspaper which labors,
often against impossible odds, to publish daily or weekly
and meet both deadline and payroll.
Never sell the home-town newspaper short. However
inferior you may consider it, you'd be lost without it. No
other newspaper would be so willing to print what is
vital to you and trivia) to everyone else. No other cares
so deeply about your town and its problems.
My home-town newspaper does, and the people who put
it together care, too. They spend their days or nights in
an airless little world of noise and confusion no man
would tolerate in his own home but which they accept
because it is an integral part of their lives. »
They put up with the abuse of ignorance and the scorn
of sophistication, with a press that won't run and a paper
boy who won't, either. Some days nothing fits in the pages.
Other days there isn't enough to fill them. The coffee ma
chine breaks down, or somebody has lost the paper cups.
A flood destroys the equipment in the basement. An
advertiser cancels the biggest ad two hours before press
time. The editor's wife becomes her own baby sitter, and
the circulation manager's wife is afraid shell have to
deliver their new baby herself.
Up and down Main Street the subscribers complain,
"The paper never gets anything right" or "I wish we
had another paper in this town" or "Anybody who'd go in
the newspaper business is crazy."
Only that last comment is completely accurate. A news
paperman is a little crazy from fighting to survive in an
ulcerative job of doing his best while expecting the worst.
While you read your home-town newspaper today, read
between the lines, there you'll find a record of your times
put together with honest sweat, varying degrees of skill,
and machinery occasionally held in place with baling wire.
But mostly, gentle reader, mostly with love.
member of the Board; Bev. fc.
A. Jackson, Pinehurst, Mode
rator; Rev. E. J. Terry, Red
| Springs, member of the Board.
and Rev. J. M. Jackson, Pine-
I hurst, Secretary of the Board
| and Chairman of the Genera!
I Executive Board.
(Photo by Purefoy
A restraining order, prohi
biting the Rev. Z. D. Harris,
former pastor of the OaJt
Grove Free Will Baptist Church
■ of Durham, William Alphonsa
Reeves, Joseph S. Williamson,
Otto Allen, former trustees of
Oak Grove; Preston Quick and
Wilbert Pryor, former Deacons;
Richard Leon Thomas, Clifford
McDonald and Theodore Over
by, deacons from "holding
1 themselves as the pastor or
1 officers of the church, was
' issued here Saturday, January
; 18, by Judge Coy E. Brewer,
N. C. Judge of Superior Court
The document went on to
' read further that:
"It is ordered, condis
I and adjudged, that the defen
f dants and each of them and
I their agents, or persons acting
by, for or through their au
thority, are restrained and en
joined from holding themselves
: out as the pastor or officers of
the Oak Grove Free Will Bap
tist Church, and from exercis
, ing any control of the church
See CHURCH 8A