Saturday, October 25,1969
Six Pages - Second Section
YOUR PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY
ARC Urges Public to Write
Hanoi About U. S. Prisoners
WASHINGTON, D. C The
American Red Cross last week
urged a massive expression of
indignation over the treatmnt
of U. S. prisoners held 1 by the
North Vietnamese. It called on
the American people to write
direct to the president of the
Democratic Republic of North
Vietnam to express concern
about Hanoi's failure to give
captured U. S. military person
nel the benefits of the Geneva
Conventions^.
According to latest Depart
ment of Defense figures. 413
Americans are known to be
prisoners of war and 918 others
are missing and believed cap
tured.
Pointing out that the North
Vietnamese are signatory to the
Geneva Conventions, Red Cross
national headquarters here said
such a public outcry might dto
much to ensure that American
prisoners will receive the hu
mane treatment called for in
the Conventions. It urged that
appeals be addressed to:
Office of the President
Democratic Republic of
North Vietnam
Hanoi, North Vietnam
An airmail letter weighing
less than one-half ounce takes
25 cents in postage, the Red
Cross said.
DUKE POWER COMPANY TO BUILD
NEW GARAGE - MARKETING BLDG.
Duke Power Company has
announced it will build a new
Garage and Marketing building
on property recently acquired
from the Urban Redevelopment
Commission of Durham.
H. E. Shoaf, Manager of Duke
Power's Durham District, said
the new transit center will
serve as the operations and
maintenance point for"' Duke
Power Company buses and
electric operating vehicles in
the Durham area; and, the mar
keting building will provide
office space for the company's
marketing personnel in the
Durham District.
The transit center will con
tain approximately 4500 square
feet of office space and 23,300
square-feet of garage area. The
marketing building will have
about 6,000 square feet of floor
space.
The transit building will be
constructed of steel, concrete
and masonary and will feature
electric heating and cooling and
the latest in lighting facilities.
The most modern equipment
for the maintenance of buses
18 Girls Enrolled in Mclver
Occupational Clothing Class
McIVER eighteen
girls enrolled in the Occupa
tional Clothing Class at Mc
lver are enjoying many new
experiences in modem meth
ods and techniques of con
structing garments for them
selves and others.
The past six weeks were a
little agitating because we were
not able to make the progress
expected, due to the inadequate
4 MEN NAMED
TO NCCU BOARD
OF TRUSTEES
RALEIGH Governor Bob
Scott announced last week the
appointment of four men to the
board of trustees of North
Carolina Central University in
Durham. Lewis T. Randolph,
owner of Randolph Funeral
Home in Washington Nentfl
Carolina, was appointed for a
term to expire June 30, 1977.
Randolph replaces Mrs. Everett
I. Bugg, Jr. of Durham.
E. K. Powe, a Durham at
torney, was appointed a tenji
to expire June 30, 1977. Powe
replaces Dr. J. M. Hubbard of
Durham.
Dr. Wiley T. Armstrong,
Rocky Mount physician, was ap
pointed to serve the unexpired
term of Robert J. Brown of
High Point. His term will ex
pire June 30, 1973.
Dr. John R. Larkins, Depart
ment of Social Services, Ral
eigh, was also reappointed. His
term will expire June 30, 1977.
The board' of trustees of N.
C. Central University has 12
memebers.
Meanwhile, the American
Red Cross is continuing to urge
Red Cross societies in all parts
of the world to intercede in
behalf of the U. S. prisoners
with the Red Cross Society of
North Vietnam and to ask that
their respective governments
take similar action with the
North Vietnamese government.
In an American Red Cross
sponsored resolution passed
without a dissenting vote by
77 governments and 91 nation
al Rod Cross societies, the In
ternational Conference of the
Red Cross in Istanbul last
month urged that all prisoners
of-war be given the benefits
an 4 protection of the Geneva
Conventions.
The Geneva Conventions call
for all prisoners to be prompt
ly identified: afforded an ade
quate diet and medical care;
permitted to communicate with
other prisoners and the "ex
terior;" promptly repatriated if
seriously sick or wounded; and
at all times be protected from
abuse or reprisals. The Con
ventions also state that a neu
tral intermediary, such as the
all-Swiss International Commit
tee of the Red Cross, be given
free access to prisoners and
their places of detention.
will be installed in the garage
area. This will include a com
pletely automatic washing ma
chine for the buses, and auto
matic vacuum, cleaner, plus the
latest in alignment equipment,
lifts, monorails, etc.
The new marketing building
will be of similar construction;
and, in addition to providing
office space for marketing per
sonnel, it will contain a mod
ern, all-electric kitchen and an
assembly room.
Shoaf said the property ac
quired by Duke Power for the
buildings fronts on Vivian St.,
abuts South Mangum Street and
extends through to Dillard St
Contracts have been award
ed to N. C. Monroe Construc
tion Company for the general
contract, the Modem Electric
Company for the electrical con
tract, and Lee Air Conditioning
Corporation for heating and
air conditioning.
Architects for the project are
Carr, Harrison, Pruden and De
Pasquale. Engineers are Wal
ter G. Smith and Watson Engi
neers.
equipment. With the many
handicaps (only three usable
machines) we were able to con
struct seven dresses for chil
dren, one pair of culottes, re
pair seven garments and each
of us made an outfit (jacket,
skirt and pants, stringbean
vestset, or culottes and vest).
>Ve started our Community
Project for this semester. The
project is "Decorating a Child's
Bedroom." We chose Mrs.
Clark's (our counselor) daugh
ter's room. The class went to
the Fabric Shops in Rocky Mt.
to purchase materials and other
accessories needed. We learned
and prospered much from this
project which will help us in
the World of Work when we
become homemakers.
The making of the Draperies
and Dust Ruffles gave us sev
eral new experiences such as
.wing designs, accurate
measuring, double hems, mitred
corners, lining and pleating.
We will display a child's win
ter outfit in the Fabric Shop
in Littleton, this week, that
was constructed, "Shop Meth
od."
The FHA officers were elect-
A October 8. They are:
President, Laurann Brown;
Vice President, Viola Burnette;
Secretary, Doris Phipps; Assist
ant Secretary, Avis Phipps;
Treasurer, Denise Weaver; Re
porters, Mavrice Alston, Sheila
Dawson, Belinda Powell and
Teelezyne Brown.
The Future Homemakers of
Mclver are diligently striving
to fulfill the promises of the
FHA Creed, by sacrificing their
time and talents to improve
the world in which we live.
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LIFf MEMBER Dr. John A. i Director, presenting Life Mem-
Morsell, National Association bership Plaque to Sidney Poi
for the Advancement of Color- tier recently,
ed People Assistant Executive
Project Three Meeting Held at
Saint Mark AME Zion Church
By MILTON JORDAN
Residents, homewners, and I 3 plan.
business owners of the Project
3 area were brought up to date
on the progress made by the
Planning Committee in its dis
cussions with the Redevelop
ment Commission at the meet
ing at St. Mark Church, Thurs
day night, October 16.
The Committee, which grew
out of a concern by people liv
ing in the Project 3 area, has
met with members of the Re
development Commission on
three different occasions to
iron out differences that have
developed over the Commis
sion's plans to completely clear
the area of all substandard
housing and buildings.
The original plan submitted
to the Committee by the Com
mission was generally approved
with the stipulation that certain
changes would be considered.
These changes include the re
structing of streets, specifically
the rerouting of Dillard Street
so that it will not cross the
eastern corner of Ramsey and
Pettigrew Streets. Other faults
of the original plan that were
pointed out was the isolation
of Pettigrew Street businesses
north of the Expressway, the
decentralization of all services
in the area, no effort to reha-
bilitate standards housing, and
several others.
As a result of the initial dis
cussion, RDC officials submit
ted a revised plan to the com
mittee. Though this revised
plan included most of the rec
omendations of the committee
there was still lengthy discus
sion on the implementation of
these new ideas.
The situation as it presently
stands was put before those at
tending the Thursday night
meeting for their deliberation.
No concrete decisions were
made because there are still
several alternatives open to the
group. One of these alterna
tives is to determine if the
Project 3 area can qualify for
rehabilitation assistance. This
course is being pursued by the
committee with the help of
Commission inspections who
are reinspecting every house
in the area to this possible end.
The Planning Committee is
.scheduled to hold additional
meetings with Commission of
| ficials to relay the feelings of
those affected by the Project
Sixteen Black Students Study Dentistry
Under AFDE Scholarship Program
CHICAGO Some 16 Black
students are now deeply In
volved in pursuing a dental
education under a year-old
scholarship program operated
by the American Fund for Den
tal Education.
The $12,500 five-year schol
arships provide each student
with up to $2,500 for the final
year of pre-dental education
and for each of the four years
at dental school.
"We are very proud that
our first recipients successfully
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
According to J. K. Kerr,
Commission official, "We are
working with the Project 3
planning committee because
we feel obligated to work with
any group interested in our
plans."
Kerr went on to say that the
committee is not recognized as
an official project organiza
tion. He also stressed the fact
that the talk about making the
project a rehabilitation area is
pure conjecture at this point as
the Commission's plans are for
total clearance of the area.
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MOORE
Moore Named
Aetna Life Ins.
Job Official
HARTFORD, Conn. James
M. Moore has been appointed
administrator, equal employ
ment opportunity, by Aetna
Life & Casualty.
Moore will administer Aetna's
practices in the employment
and promotion of minority
group members both in the
company's home office and
field locations.
A graduate of Central Con
necticut State College, he joins
the company after previous ex
perience as a teacher in the
Hartford Public School System
and as a television news editor.
Moore lives at 96 Oakwood Dr.,
Covertry.
completed their final year of
undergraduate school and are
now freshmen dental students,"
said David Sloane, special pro
jec t s coordinator, William
Wrigley, Jr., company, and
chairman of AFDE's scholar
ship selection committee.
The W. K. Kellogg founda
tion is sponsoring the second
year scholarships awarded to A.
M. Jones, Jr., Chillicothe, Ohio,
at Case Western Reserve Uni
versity; and Douglas M. Sim
mons, Dallas, at the University
NAPFE Head
Hits Bias in W.
Coast Hiring
LOS ANGELES Ashby G.
Smith, President of the Na
tional Alliance of Postal and
Federal Employees, arriving in
Los Angeles to attend a meet
ing of the unions of District
Ten, this week reaffirmed his
unions concern in and support
for the efforts of every na
tional or racial minority group
on the West Coast to obtain
justice in the appointments, as
signments and l promotions in
the Federal service.
The Alliance has traditional
ly stood for the right of every
person to have equal opportu
nity to obtain any job for which
he is fitted and l to be promoted
as merit dictates.
Smith strongly condemned
the practice of bigoted officials
who set groups against one
another by explaining to both
that the other is the author of
their misfortunes. This is the
game that the greedy intole
rants play.
It is deplorable, in the view
of the union president, that
too often many of the victims
are taken In by the game, as
Negroes blame Mexican Ameri
cans or orientals for their fail
ure to achieve desired positions
and are in turn blamed by the
Spanish speaking and Oriental
people. This way leads only to
division hostility and frustra
tion. Brainwashed, we hit out
in all directions and injure
everyone but the real enemy
who cyrically manipulated the
game.
One has only to look at the
heirarchy within the Federal
Agencies to discover that while
the white power structure plays
the minority groups off against
each other to the detriment
of all, it is the white, English
speaking majority that fill all
the top seats in the plush,
thickly - carpeted, mahogony
panelled Federal Offices.
Smith predicted that the
walls of discrimination in the
federal system would not fall,
would hardly be breached' un
til the oppressed see through
the vicious game that victim
izes them and launch a common
assault against the common
enemy which has been identi
fied as "white racism."
"I am convinced," Smith add
ed, "that the victims of dis
crimination can generate
enugh pressure to move this
government toward an Equal
Em ployment Opportunity
stance, but it can db so only
if the pressure is organized."
He proclaimed that his union
is prepared and structured to
spearhead, or to participate in,
a united assault upon the ar
rogant bastions of bias and
bigotry in the Federal Estab
lishment.
Soviet Economic Statistics To Be The
Subject of Duke University Meeting
' A conference to assess the
quality of Soviet economic sta.
tistics and the changing role of
statistics in the Soviet economic
system will be hosted Nov. 3-5
by Duke University.
The program will bring to
gether leaders from education,
government and research or
ganizations. They will explore
such problems as the avail
ability, reliability and credi
bility of Soviet statistics, as
well as discussing the changes
in Soviet statistical methodol
ogy and collection and process
ing of data.
Papers will be delivered on
such topics as national income,
industry, agriculture, money
and prices, and consumption.
Similar seminars were held
in the late 40's and early 'sos.
According to Dr. Vladimir G.
Treml, associate professor of
economics at Duke, those meet
ings provided valuable infor
mation on the credibility and
reliability of Soviet statistics.
"The volume of published
Soviet economic data has been
of Texas.
A family foundation in New
York is sponsoring second-year
scholarships for Raymond J.
Fonseco, Bridgeport, Conn.,
University of Connecticut; and
Evelyn W. Richardson, Boley,
Okla., Meharry Medical Col
lege.
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ST. AUG. CONVOCATION
(Left to right) Dr. Prezell R.
Robinson, President, Saint Au
gustine; Dr. Joseph Jones, Jr.,
Vice President for Academic
Affairs; Peter Holden, National
Black Ministers To
Participate in Black
Families Conference
ROCHESTER, N. Y.—ls there
a "Black Bible?" A "Black The
ology?" Dr. Henry H. Mitchell
will bring new insights to those
propositions during the forth
coming Black Families Confer
ence. Mitchell, Martin Luther
King Professor in Black Church
Studies, Colgate Rochester Di
vinity School/Bexley Hall, will
appear in Black American
Families: Myth and Reality,
October 21-23, 1969.
Mitchell and three (3) other
black theologians will conduct
a workshop entitled "Black
Church: How Relevant; How
Important Now?" The workshop
will be chaired by Dr. John
David Cato, Associate Professor
of Urban Studies at the Divin
ity School. Other participants
will be Reverend Andrew Gib
son, pastor of Rochester's AME
Zion Church and Reverend John
Salmon, pastor of Tabor Pres
byterian Church, Washington,
D. C.
Questions about the related
ness of the black church and
the white church have surfaced
in recent months. In February
of this year, Mack seminarians
had! caused the closing of Col
gate Rochester Divinity School
by takeover of the administra
tion building. This action in
creased the pace at which the
seminary moved to hire black
faculty and to elect black trus
tees.
Historically, but increasingly,
since 1957, the Black Church
has involved itself in civil rights
activity. Lately, the impatience
of dissident voices tear at the
Church's tradition of leader
ship. The Black Families Con
ference proposes to examine
the substance of such chal
lenges and suggest positive
means of meeting them.
increasing steadily over the
last 10 years, calling for a
new effort at an overall evalu
ation of statistics," Treml said.
As a member of the organ
izing committee, Dr. Treml is
in charge of local arrangements
for the conference.
Sessions will be held at the
Quail Roost Conference Center
near Durham. Sponsors are the
Duke Committee on Interna
tional Studies and the Thomas
Jefferson Center for Politcal
Economy at the University of
Virginia.
Alabama State
University Receives
W-D Scholarship
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Ala
bama State University received
recently, the annual Winn-Dixie
Athletic Scholarship of SI2OO
from Une Davis, Executive of
the Winn-Dixie store chain.
Mr. Davis, a sports enthusiast
himself, presents the check
yearly to help supplement the
Athletic Department of Ala
bama State cope with the ris
ing cost of Athletic Programs
in Higher Educations.
Dr. Levi Watkins, President
of Alabama State University,
along with C. Johnson Dunn.
Director of Athletics, accepted
the check from Davis.
Local, State and National
News of Sport* World
Walker, Jr., Vice President, j The occasion was the 103 rd
Board of Trustees; Mayor Seby j Formal Opening Convocation at
Jones, Mark G. Birchette, Vice ! Saint Augustine's College, Tues-
President for Development and j day, October 14, in the Emery
Raymond Gilmore, President, | Health and Fine Arts Center.
Spaulding: World Must Change
To Prevent Post-Christian Era
*y MILTON JORDAN
A meeting of minds was the
underlying purpose of a dis
cussion session held Sunday
afternoon at Covenant Presby
terian Church. It was generally
agreed by the more than 50
persons attending that such an
unity of thought was achieved.
The meeting was the final
activity of Men's Day at the
church located on the corner
of Lincoln and Massey Streets.
Other activities included an ad
dress Sunday morning by N.
B. White, well-known local
churchman and civic leader.
Moderator of the afternoon
program was C. E. Bouleware
who in his opening remarks
challenged the group to search
themselves to find a problem
that could not be solved by
Christians acting together. He
expressed the belief that no
such problem existed.
The large group was then
divided into six smaller groups
under a pre-appointed leadei
to facilitate discussion. Leaders
of groups 1 thru 6 respectively
were: Ray Thompson, James
McFarland, J. H. Phillips,
Howard Fitts, Kenneth Readin,
and Huey Hall. Each group
was assigned a room and asked
to discuss problems confront
ing today's society, and parti
cularly the Durham communi
ty within the context of a
Christian's relation to these
problems.
Problems discussed were
poverty, inadequate housing,
racism, industry's tendency to
exploit people lowest on the
social totem pole, the genera
tion gap, and militancy. Each
of the groups felt the church
as a whole is not working ef
fectively to obliterate a vac
cuum existing between society
and the church.'
It was emphatically stressed
that the major concern of all
Christians is first of all self
examination. The individual is
expected to know if he is ful
filling the requirements of a
follower of Christ. In league
with self-examination is con
crete action, it was also said.
Guidelines were given on
Swann Raised to Vice-Chairman
On Maryland Hospital Board
The Rev. Melvin C. Swann,
formerly of Durham, has been
appointed vice-chairman of the
Baltimore City Hospitals Com
mission, it was announced re
cently by Mayor Thomas J.
D'Alesandro.
In elevating Swann to the
newly created vice-chairman
post, the Mayvr stated in a
letter to the minister: "In order
for the Chairman to continue
the fine work which the com
mission has accomplished over
the years, I believe it is neces
sary that he have dedicated
and hard working associates.
"It Is for this reason that I
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how to best achieve both goals.
In evaluating themselves,
Christians are admonished to
give up vanity, change atti
tudes, and not be callous to
the cry for christian service.
Concrete action may be ac
hieved by first determining if
the person is a Christian, and
by the cultivation of strong
leaders in the church. It was
noted that strong leadeis can
command respect.
The problem with today's
youth was also a major con
cern of the groups. Juvenile
delinquency is the exact op
posite of Juvenile decency, it
was observed. Whether a child
is delinquent or not depends
mainly upon the example and
teaching he received from pa
rents, everyone agreed.
In his summation and dos
ing remarks to the assembly,
Asa T. Spaulding told them
that the meeting should not be
the get-together of just another
group.
"When are we going to do
something about these pro
blems? This group can be use
ful because I do not feel we
can have too many groups for
the problems are many and
varied, he said.
Spaulding noted that the
problems today are not just
local, or area-wide, but world
problems, and expressed the
belief that unless something
happens to change the trends,
the world is headed towards
a post-Christian era.
"However," he cautioned,
"we can defeat our own pur
pose in finding solutions by
trying to sterotype everyone
into a particular mode. Peo
ple are not going to act the
same, but everyone has his
place in the overall scheme of
things. Teamwork is absolute
ly essential," he concluded.
The meeting closed with
unanimous approval of a sug
gestion to work for the con
tinuation and enlargement of
this discussion group to work
with the existing problems. A
efcond meeting is tentatively
set for Westminister Presby
terian Church next month on a
date to be announced.
am asking that you agree to
serve as vice-chairman'of the
Baltimore City Hospitals Com
mission, so that Mr. Hofberger
(chairman) can rely upon your
experience and involvement In
commission matters.
"And also to insure that in
his absence, the commission
will function in an efficient
manner."
Swann, presently pastor of
Waters AME Church in Balti
more has served on thC com
mission as its only Negro mem
ber since 1968. His term ex
pires in 1972.