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MRS. VERA M. SLADE
State President
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VOLUME 48 No. 32
Charlotte A ttorney
Judge of Mecklenburg County
NCCU Grad is
First Negro in
State's History
RALEIGH Governor Bob
Scott announced Tuesday the
appointment of Clifton John
son, attorney of Charlotte and
a North Carolina Central Uni
versity Law School graduate, to
the position of district court
judge in North Carolina. John
son becomes the first Negro to
be appointed to the state court
system in the history of North
Carolina.
The appointment of Johnson
to the $17,000 a year post
brings to seven the number of
judges in the 26th Judicial Dis
trict which is composed of
Mecklenburg County. This Is in
compliance with a decision by
the 1969 General Assembly re
garding expansion of the court
system.
A native of Williamston,
Jo'.nson formerly was associat
ed with the Pearson-Malone-
DeJarmon-Johnson firm of Dur
ham. prior to accepting an as
sistant solicitorship post in
Charlotte last January. Until
his appointment as judge, he
served this position in the 26th
District Court.
N. C. Mutual to
Participate in
Job Program
North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company has been
named as one of thirty-nine
companies in six U. S. cities
that will hire and train 571
disadvantaged jobless persons
in 30 different occupational
skills under the Job Opportuni
ties in the Business Sector
(JOBS) program.
Secretary of Labor George
P. Shultz has set up procedures
enlisting the resources of pri
vate industry in providing jobs
and training for the hard core
unemployed. Under these pro
cedures, funds will be provided
to help companies offset the
cost of recruiting, remedial
education, counseling, on-the
job training, supportive ser
vices such as minor medical
care and transportation where
needed; and a production dif
ferential based on what an ave
rage untrained disadvantaged
worker produces during the
training period.
North Carolina Mutual's
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PRESENTATION MADE TO DR.
BROWN—The Kingdom Seek
er's Bible Class of Mt. Vernon
Baptist Church honored the
pastor's wife, Dr. Rose Butler
Browne, at the Annual Birth
night Social held here recently.
Sigma Gamma R
To Feature Farmer As Keynoter
ATLANTA, Georgia James
Farmer, Assistant Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare
will serve as ke.vnolc speaker
for the 32nd Boule of
Gamma Rho Sorority announc
ed Dr. Lorraine A. Williams,
Grand Basilcus of the national
organization.
Using the Boule's themo of
"Greater Community Service for
Greater Community Progress,"
Mr. Farmer's address will be
entitled "I am My Brothers
Brother."
Farmer, highest ranking
black man in the Nixon admin
istration was a congressional
candidate from the Bedford-
SUiyvasent area of Brooklyn.
Now York prior to the appoint
ment "by President Nixon. lie
gained prominence as a founder
of the Congress of Racial Equal
ity (CORE) and his leadership
of the Mississippi "Freedom
Rifle" of 1961.
The Marshall, Texas native
holds degrees from Wiley Col
lege and Howard University.
Tie also has honorary degrees
from Morgan State und Muh
lenberg Collefe
The 10,000 member sorority's
convention will open on Mon
day, August 11th at the Re
gency-Hyatt House, and will
run through Saturday August
16.
Dr. Williams Grand Basileus,
will deliver the address at the
convention's annual banquet,
MRS. ROSALIE WYATT MRS. LAVIA M. GRIER
Chm., Executive Board State Junior Supervisor
Shown in the photo from left
to right are Mrs. Ruth Ander
son of Roanoke, Va.; Dr. Octa
via Knight of Durham, repre
senting Dr. Browne's former
Virginia students; Dr. Browne,
Mrs. Eddie Bell Gogle, organist;
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FARMER
using as her theme "We Are A
Tribute To Our Heritage."
Refuses to Sell
Gravesight For
Vietnam Casualty
NEW YORK—NAACP Legal
Defense and Educational Fund,
Inc. filed a motion for an in
junction against the Elmwood
Cemetery in Birmingham, Ala
bama ,for refusing to fell a
gravesight to a dead Viet Nam
veteran because he was black.
Pvt. Bill Henry Terry, Jr.,
who volunteered for the Armed
Services, was killed on July 3
of this year in Viet Nam. When
(See REFUSES page 10A)
Mrs. Virginia Davis of Blue
field, representing former W.
Va. students; and Dr. Alphonso
Elder, President Emeritus of
North Carolina College, who
was guest speaker.
(Photo by Purefoy)
Million Dollar
Salesman Aids
Drive for Poor
CiriCAflO—A former Olym
pic track st: 1 >• is still setting a
record breaking pasc for his
race as a salesman for Free
dom and security through his
work with the Southern Chris
tian leadership Conference.
Although he has sold more
ti«an a million dollars worth
of insvance annually for the
past 12 years years, Cirilo Mc-
Sween, the nation's top black
agent, now spends almost 50
per cent of his time as SCLC
treasurer.
Me succeeded the Rev. Ralph
D. Abernathy as chief finan
cial officer of the major civil
rights organization after Rev.
Abernathy was elevated to the
SCLC presidency when Dr. Mar
tin Luther King, Jr. was killed
in Memphis.
McSween, the first black
member of the Life Insurance
Million Dollar Roundtable, be
lieves all businessmen, scien
tists. teachers, etc., "should
help their poor and less for
tunate brothers prepare for a
(See SALESMAN page 10A)
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MRS. EVA M. PRATT
Associate Jr. Supervisor
Mt. Vernon Site of 1969 Annual
Session of Mammoth Convention
Mt. Vernon Baptist Church,
Rev. E. T. Browne, pastor, will
host the eighty-fifty annual ses
sion of The Woman's Baptist
Home and Foreign Missionary
Convention of North Carolina,
to be held here beginning Tues
day, August 12, through the
15. The Convention is an auxi
liary to the General Baptist
State Convention, Inc., and will
implement the theme, "The
Relevance of Jesus In This
Present Age."
Following registration, the
opening Tuesday afternoon
session will consist of board
meetings. Rev. H. S. Diggs of
Providence Baptist Church of
Rockingham, N. C., will deliver
the annual sermon during the
evening "Welcome Program"
sponsored by Mt. Vernon. Also
will be featured musical rendi
tions by the Male Chorus and
Former Durhamite Named
Adm. Marti and Hospital N. J.
Frank W. Scott
Appointed to
Important Post
NEWARK, N. J.—lt has been
announced by Dr. Robert R.
Cadmus, President of New Jer
sey College of Medicine and
Dentistry, that Frank W. Scott,
associate administrator of Mart
land Hospital of the college,
has been promoted to the posi
tion of administrator.
Succeeding Theodore A. Aus
tin, the associate dean for hos
pitals and administrator of
Mart land, Scott will assume the
now position August 1.
Former director of Lincoln
Hospital of Durham, N. C.,
Scott came to Martland College
April. 1968.
In announcing Scott's new
position, college president, Dr.
Cadmus said: "I am particular
ly proud of Scott's elevation. I
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TAKING THE OATH—Mrs. Viv.
ian A. Edmonds, center and
Mrs. Jean McDade are shown
taking the oath of office as new
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MRS M. A. HORNE
Ex. Secretary-Treasurer
special music by J. Robert
Bradley and Mrs. Eddye H.
Fogle. Mrs. Fogle is the organ
ist at Mt. Vernon and Brad
ley is Director of Music Pro
motion, National Baptist Con
vention, USA. at Nashville.
Dr. John W. White of Ashe
ville, President, General Bap
tist State Convention, will de
liver remarks during the Wed
nesday morning session follow
ed by the Assembly Site Pro
gress Report by Dr. Talmadge
A. Watkins, pastor of Univer
sity Park Baptist Church and
chairman of the Board of Trus
tees of H. V. Bryant, Superin
tendent of Central Orphanage
at Oxford, will make the an.
nual report. The remainder of
the session will be allotted to
the Junior—Young People and
a message by their president,
(See BAPTISTS page 10A)
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SCOTT
have known and worked with
him for over eighteen years
and in that time, I have recog
nized his lifelong preparation
for such a position and have
long admired his warm, per
sonal and instinctive talents in
administration."
Dr. Cadmus went on to say
that sin«ecott has had a year
(See SCOTT page 10A)
replacements on the Orange
County Board of Social Serv
ices (formerly called Welfare
Board). These new members
MISS BRONNIE M. HARRIS
Pres., Young Adults
REV. E. T. BROWNE, Host P»ttor
Harold Boyd Accepts Position
At Stanford University in Calif.
WASHINGTON Harold K.
Boyd, a native of Oxford, N.
C. who has worked with the
National Upward Bound pro
gram for the past three years,
recently accepted a new posi
tion at Stanford University in
California.
Boyd will be assistant dean
of students, effective Septem
ber 1 with particular responsi
bilities for disadvantaged stu
dents.
Boyd's parents, Mr .and Mrs.
W. E. Boyd, live at 424 Gran
ville Street in Oxford.
A graduate of elementary
and secondary schools in Ox
ford, Boyd received his Bache
lor of Arts Degree from Saint
Augustine's College in Raleigh.
He did graduate work in so
ciology at Atlanta Uni%ersity,
and received his Master of Arts
will occupy the vacancies left
when two former members
were not eligible for reap
pointment.
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MISS HORTENSE MERRITT
State Junior President
BOYD
degree in History from North
Carolina Central University in
Durham.
After teaching 12 years in
(See BOYD page 10A)
C. Hill Mayor,
Councilman to
Address Sigmas
NEW YORK—Howard X. Ue,
the first Clack man to bo elect-
• 1 Mayor of the City of Chap
ci Hill. North Carolina and the
Honorable Gilbert Lindsay, al
so the first Negro elected to
the City Council of Los Ange
les, California, were announced
as featured speakers to ad
dress delegates attending the
55th anniversary conclave of
the Phi Beta Sigr*a Fraternity;
which will convene August 12
through 16 in the Sheraton
Belevedere Hotel, Baltimore,
Maryland.
The meeting will be hosted
by Zeta Sigma Chapter of Bal
timore of which Attorney U.
Theodore Hayes is President
and officers and members of
the Chapter charged whh the
responsibilities of the meeting
are: Ernest W. Lee, Conclave
Director: Attorney U. Theodore
Hayes, President: Gilbert Daley.
(See SIGMAS page 10A)