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THREE GET PLAQUES—Sun
day night, Jan. 26, plaques
were presented three outstand
ing members of Mt. Gilead
Baptist Chucrh here for long
years of faithful service as
church and Sunday School
workers. Making the presenta
tion was Rev. A. D. Moseley,
Excelsior Credit Union Assets
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Near Million And
Annual Meeting of
Gastonia Group
Shows Great Gain
By Maude M. Jeffers •'
GASTONIA The share
holders of Excelsior Credit
Union of Gaston County cele
brated their 27th anniversary
and the reaching of their first
million and a quarter in assets,
Tuesday night.
Beginning in 1942 with ini
tial assets of $193.75, Excel
sior has grown to a total worth
of $1,244,611.53 as of Decem
ber 31, 1968. It started with
20 members and has now
grown to over 3,000. A 4.5
per cent dividend was voted by
the shareholders. The earnings
for 1968 totaled $90,741.49,
the largest in its history. Over
the years, the Christmas Club
has paid out over one-half mil
lion dollars.
W. B. Brooks, president,
presided over the meeting, and
presented Attorney Donald E.
Ramseur who presented pla
ques to each of the past presi
dents. Honored were Charles
Costner, the First president,
Douglas Miller, Sr. (deceased),
the second president; T. Jeffers,
Dr. N. A. Smith, and J. Q.
Falls. Expressions of apprecia
tion was made for the service
these men had rendered over
the 27 year history.
v ßoard members also pre
sented a special plaque to Exe
cutive Secretary Nathaniel
(See EXCELSIOR page 8A)
Alexander Cites
Black Voters
Of Greensboro
By J. B. Harren
RALEIGH The future
progress of Negro-Tarheelie
will depend, in the main, upon
the continued application of
the intelligent use of legal pres
sures in all areas of civil rights,
declared N. C. NAACP presi
dent Kelly Miller Alexander
Sr., of Charlotte and Grover
Smith Jr., Labor Kirector of
Birmingham, Ala., aa they ad
dressed the fifty adults and 4E
youth and college chapter
members of the State NAACP
meeting in Raleigh at the Caro
lina Hotel Saturday, Jan. 25,
in their Winter Meeting.
On the theme of "Imple
menting An Effective 1969
NAACP Program Of Action,"
the Leadership Conference en
visioned new horizons for
those who are willing to work
(See ALKXANDIR page 8A)
pastor, second from left. At the
extreme left in the picfure is
Levi Mitchell who was honored
for 25 years as Sunday School
teacher and superintendent.
Also was Mrs. Bettie Tuck, Sun
day School teacher who was
honored by having the name
White Urges All Black People
Remain Unified in Boycott Effort
One of Durham's most
prominent civic leaders warned
last SUnday night that the cur
rent Black Solidarity boycott
"may be...the last attempt to
settle the racial problems in
our city peacefully and without
I violence."
Nathaniel B. White, presi
dent of Service Printing Co.
and a veteran leader in business,
church, and civic affairs here,
voiced the warning in a talk at
last Sunday night's mass meet
ing of the Black Solidarity
Committee for Community
Improvement.
"The truth of the matter,"
White declared, "is that every
conceivable way to solve the
problems of black people in
Durham has been tried without
any appreciable success."
Later, a second speaker was
applauded when he praised
Black Solidarity leaders as peo
ple who "don't believe in burn
ing up things, but in tearing
down a whole lot of things and
building up."
The comments emphasized
the mood of the audience to
press forward and to "keep
keeping on" with the boycott
until its demands are satisfied.
White recalled several
S. C. Group Asks Aid
In Prosecuting State
Patrolmen Killers
Dear Friends of the State
College Family:
As you are probably well
aware, a Federal Grand Jury
in Columbia recently refused
to bring Indictments against
nine nameless State Highway
Patrolmen who shot more than
thirty of our students last Feb
ruary 8.
With the hope that justice
might yet prevaii, an autono
mous committee of faculty,
students and staff from South
Carolina State College had
been formed. We have enlisted
the services of Attorney
Matthew Perry to pursue our
fight through legal channels
and have secured wtitten per
mission from the injured stu
dents and parents oi the
deceased students to pursue
these steps. Attorney Perry has
willingly decided to file civil
suits in Federal Court against
the highway patrolmen on be
half of the dead and injured
students.
Moreover, Attorney Perry
has generously declined to ac
(See PATROLMAN 8A)
of the Truth Seekers Bible Class
changed to the Bettie Tuc£
Bible Class. At the right is B.
B. Rogers who was also honor
ed for his long years of serv
ice in the church and Sunday.
School.
(Photo by Purefoy)
WHITE
instances of discrimination
against black people that he
has personally witnessed during
his decades of civic service
here.
He was loudly applauded
when he declared, "This com
munity has all the resources it
needs to solve its racial prob
lems. What is needed is the will,
the desire, the commitment to
solve them."
After listing again the de
mands of the Black Solidarity
Committee, White urged all
(See WHITE page 8A)
Edwin T. Pratt, Urban League
Seattle Unit Director Slain Sun.
SEATTLE The executive
director of the Seattle Urban
Lfeague, Edwin T. Pratt, 38,
was shot to death here Sunday
when he opened the door to
enter his home, located in the
northern section of the city.
Officers stated Pratt was
shot in the forehead by a bullet
fired about 20 feet away.
Benjamin Weeks, put presi
dent of the Urban League
Board of Directors, told offi
cers that Pratt had informed
blm Q( threats but shrugged
off the incidents and gave no
further information about
them.
His wife Betty said she went
to a window as he came to the
door and saw two youths with
a rifle. A neighbor, Don Ander
son, said he heard the two
shots and saw two youths
about 18 or 19 run from Pratt's
home. One carried a rifle. He
said they jumped into a near
by car and sped away.
Che
VOLUME 46 No. 5
NAACP In Mississippi Presses
School Upgrading Demand
Board Asked
For New Heads
Negro Schools
INDIANOLA, Miss. - The
Sunflower County Branch of
the NAACP has achieved the
first success in its four-month
campaign to win quality edu
cation in the local schools. The
county school board has
agreed to consider, at its next
meeting, Feb. 11, the replace
ment of two principals of all-
Negro schools whom the
NAACP had found education
ally and psychologically un
qualified. Their replacement
was one of ten demands made
by the NAACP branch in Sep
tember of last year.
In its first demand, the
branch asked that "immediate
steps to secure accreditation"
of each school in the Indianola
school system be taken. The
principals in question, the
NAACP claimed, had so little
education themselves that this
fact alone made any accredit
ing practically impossible.
Other demands included:
establishing of an effective
parents and teachers associa
tion, free school lunches for
the poor, lunchroom facilities
in which children could eat
from tables instead of their
laps, immediate inclusion of
black people on the school
board, installation of lockers
and language laboratories. All
of these improvements were
requested for implementation
prior to the beginning of the
second semester.
Full integration of the pub
lic school system is part of the
campaign. There are 4,100
Negro and about 1,000 white
students in the county school
system which has been opera
ting on the "freedom of
choice" system. Opposing
total integration, the county
(See SCHOOLS page 8A)
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Indian Study
PEMBROKE A national
study of American Indian
education is being conducted
and the Pembroke area will be
the only one examined east of
the Missisippi.
Robert W. Birchfield,
associate professor of
sociology at Pembroke State
College, is the project
supervisor of the Lambee In
dian portion of the national
study.
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1969
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NIXON MEETS LEADERS AT
HEADQUARTERS— (New York)
Robert Brown, a recent Nixon
appointee, called a meeting at
Nixon's headquarters at the
Hotel Pierre here recently.
Among those present were
President Nixon, the Revs.
Ralph Abernathy, Sandy Ray
of Brooklyn, N. Y. who repre
sented the Rev. Jessie Jackson,
Nathan Wright, Hobson Rey
nolds, the Elks leader; Ebony
Five Va. Teachers
$6,000 To 7,000 M
NOTE TO EDITORS: This
release includes 23 localities
which have been reported to
us since our last salary round
up.)
RICHMOND At least a
$6,000 minimum salary is be
ing sought by all but one of
the 51 local education associa
tions which have reported
their salary objectives to the
Virginia Education Association
(VEA) to date.
School boards in six locali
ties have proposed salary
schedules to their governing
bodies for approval. In Fairfax
county school board and Fair
fax Education Association re
presentatives have reached
agreement on a $7,000 mini
mum through professional ne
gotiations.
In Portsmouth, the school
board is proposing a $6,500
minimum; in Buena Vista,
(See TEACHERS page 8A)
Weldon Physician Urges Abolishment
Taxation Blacks -No Representation
HALIFAX-At a meeting
with the Halifax County Board
of Education here last Tuesday
light, Dr. Salter J. Cochran
'of Weldon, representing black
citizens of the county ; ' Eas
tern North Carolina, pleaded
with its members to appoint
or help elect some Negro mem
ber to the Board.
Said Dr. Cochran in part:
"This Board is composed of
elected and appointed mem
bers, all of whom are of the
white or Causasian race. We
recognize that this Board has
the power and duty to make
policies and decide school busi
ness for all people of Halifax
County, most of whom are
black. It is most difficult for
the Black Community to ac
cept the actions and decisions
of this Board so long as the
Black people are completely
Magazine Editor, John Johnson
and John H. Murphy m, Afro
president and president of the
National Newspaper Publishers
Association.
Roy Wilkins, NAACP nation
al director, was at a meeting
and could not attend.
Robert Brown and Pat Moy
nihan, Nixon appointee on Ur
ban Affairs, assisted the Presi
dent.
Mr. Nixon indicated that this
Ralph K. Frasier Named Vice President
Wachovia Bank And Trust Company
The Directors of Wachovia
Bank & Trust Company, N. A.
in a recent meeting promoted
Ralph Kennedy Frasier to the
position of Vice President in
the bank's general offices in
Winston-Salem, Frasier will
head up the bank's legal de
part.
He joined the bank in 1965
and was elected Assistant Se
cretary in 1966 and promoted
to Assistant Vice President in
1968.
Frasier was born in Winston-
Salem and moved to Durham
with his parents at a very early
age. He attended elementary
and high school in Durham.
He attended the University of
North Carolina and graduated
from North Carolina College
and the School of Law of that
institution.
COCHRAN
denied participation as mem
bers of the Board."
Included in Dr. Cochran's
pleas was that some qualified
Negro principals be appointed
to head some previously all
PRICE: 20 Cents
would be the first of many
such meetings to develop com
munications between his ad
ministration and black Ameri
ca.
He said he will want advice
from these leaders as well as
other leaders in specific fields,
to give him direction, advice
and criticism when necessary
in affairs that affect black
citiuna.
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FRASIER
The Wachovia Bank is the
largest bank in the Southeast
with assets of IV4 billion dollars.
He is believed to be the first
(See FRASIER page 8A)
white schools of the county
Said Dr. Cochran further:
"In an effort to gain a seat on
this Board, the Black man has
been defeated. The reason for
this consistent defeat is ex
pressed in the 1968 Report of
The National Advisory Com
mission OQ Civil Disorders,
which states that race riots
are by 'White Racism' in this
country. This white racism is
a wide spread (Baeese ae* *
present in Halifax County in
epidemic proportions and is
the real cause of the Black
man's defeat each time be hM
sought office In Halifax Coun
ty."
School Board Chairman,
Macon Moore stated at the
close of the meeting: "I think
Dr. Cochran was criticising the
recent appointment of a white
(See PHYSICIAN pace 8A)
Black Vote in
Dixie Praised
By Louis Martin
By Louis Martin
An analysis erf the 1968
election returns in key anas
reveals that clow to 80 per
cent of the 7.2 million Negroes
registered in vote went to the
polls last November.
The returns indicate further
that the Humphrey-Muskie
ticket received between 90
and 92 per cent of the national
black vote. It appears that Ne
groes who are registered as
Republicans either fail to vote
in large numbers or gave their
support to the Democratic
standard bearers.
Attached to this report is a
survey of sample wards and
precincts in key Negro areas.
The voting pattern was the
same in all sections of the
country without exception.
Despite a late start and a
shortage of funds, campaign
activities in the black commu
nities and the promotion of
the candidates through Negro
oriented literature and the Ne
gro media, principally news
papers and radio, reached a
satisfactory peak by election
day.
The Committee received
more volunteer campaign sup
port from the Negro commu
nity than ever before. Direct
mail appeals for funds to Ne
gro professional leaders in sup
port of the ticket brought in
over $35,000. Volunteer or
ganizational support in con
ducting rallies and special cam
paign programs was never
greater.
For the first time in this
(See VOTi page 8A)
S. C. President
Speaks at Ship
Commissioning
ORANGEBURG, S. C. -
The Nary for the first time has
selected a Negro to deliver the
principal address at the com
missioning of one of its nuclear
powered attack submarines.
Dr. M. Ma ceo Nance, Jr.,
president of South Carolina
State College in Orangeburg,
will be the principal speaker at
the commissioning of the Nu
clear Attack Submarine Sea
Devil, (SSN 664) January 30,
at the Newport News Ship
building and Dry dock Com
pany, in Newport News, Vir
ginia.
Dr. Nance, a World War II
Navy veteran, was attached to
the YP 105 which was in
volved in testing of mines and
torpedoes off the Atlantic
Coast. (The YP 105 was the
Navy-converted yacht of Maj
or Edward Bowes, the network
radio personality of the 1930's
who conducted "Major Ed
ward Bowes Original Hour"
and other programs on CBS.
The Navy's lateet ship will
be the second sub in the fleet
to bear the name Sea Devil.
The first ship made her
maiden partrol on September
3, 1944. She was decommis
sioned in March, 1948 and was
recommMoned twice. Her
name was taken from the Navy
List on July 10,1964.
Her namesake is a 292-foot
warship equipped with the
latest navigation and etectro
nks systems, a computer con
trolled weapons system which
enables her to detect and at
tack targets at vartoua distances.
She will be maimed by 12
officers and a crew of 96. Her
wifhced ifhw—t Is 4,140
tons. The captain of the drip
Is Commander R. A. Cuniar,
a native at Beverly, Massachu
setts, aad a veteran of 19 yam
hi the Navy.