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N. C. Mutual Great Lakes Insurance Companies Plan Merger Bayard Ruskin First Black Named To Notre Dame Board Cite CawjSla €tm VOLUME 48 No. 46 Reynolds Tob. Co. Donates $60,000 To Meh Negro Medical School Reaches Ist Step of Goal WINSTON - SALEM R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company will contribute $60,000 to a national fund-raising campaign for Me harry Medical College in Nash ville, Tenn., it was announced this week. Colin Stokes, executive vice president of Reynolds, made the announcement at a lunch eon Dr. Ralph H. Hines, vice president of Meharry College, and several Meharry alumni practicing in the Winston-Salem area. Meharry is the only private, predominantly Negro medical school in the country. Since its founding in 1876, it has gradu ated about one-half of the Ne gro physicians and dtentists in the U.S. There are 21 physi cians and dentists In the Win ston-Salem area who are alitnni of Meharry. The national campaign's goal is to raise $55 million from pri vate sources in three phases. Another $34 million is expect ed from the federal govern ment. The goal for the first phase, launched in October, Is $12.6 million from private sources and $14.2 million in an ticipated government support. "This is a proud occasion for our Company," Stokes said. "All of us are mindful of the contributions and the needs of Meharry Medical College. It is obvious from the number of Meharry alumni practicing in Winston-Salem and elsewhere here today, that our employees and the citizens of our commu nity have an interest in the fu ture of Meharry Medicpl Col lege." Dr. Hines noted that North Carolina ranks fourth in the nation In the number of physi cians and dentists who are Me harry graduates. He said 80 percent of all Negro physicians and dentists in the state are Meharry alumni. Housing Grants For 2 NC Cities WASHINGTON —The Department of Housing and Urban Development has ap proved grants for Asheville and Clinton, N.C. 111 l »" I jjj NRc HONORED Dr. Marion D. Thorpe, President of Elizabeth City State University, reads the words which were inscribed on a plaque, citing and officially naming Dr. Sidney D. Williams as President-Emeritus of the University. Dr. Williams (left), DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1969 I Rt. mL A I n HUMAN RILATIONS COMMIS SION GIVES ANNUAL AWARD —One of the twenty-five re ciients of Human Relations Combined Assets Of Two Firms To Be Nearly S2OO Million Well-Known Oxford Mortician Passes After Lengthy Illness OXFORD Robert Leslie Shepard, 72, died at 1 Granville County Hospital here Monday, November 10, after an illness of several months. He was the son of the late Rev. Robert Shepard, founder and first su perintendent of Oxford Colored Orphanage, and Mrs. Pattie Shepard l . Born, reared, and edu cated at Oxford, Shepard later attended and graduated from National Training School in Durham now known as North Carolina Central University. (His cousin, the late Dr. James E. Shepard was the founder and first president of the institu tion.) He was member of Phi eta Sigma fraternity and prior to his death operated Shepard Funeral Homes of Oxford and Henderson. Funeral services were held Thursday, Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. As who served ECSU over a pe riod of 29 years, was the fourth president of the -Ihstitution from 1946-1958. City for his noble contributions as an out standing educator, administra tor, sports enthusiast, leadter, Commission Awards at the first annual meeting Tuesday night. Presenting the award is com- SHEPARD a member of his church Shep ard served as chairman of the board of trustees, treasurer, and deacon. Rev. Percy L. High, former pastor, delivered the (See SHEPARD 12A) and genleman, Dr. Williams be came the second president to be so honored in the 78-year history of the university. A re ception, in his honor, was held in the university center, follow ing the installation ceremony. PRICE: 20 Cents mission vice chairman, J. A. McLean. (Photo by Purefoy) Joseph W. Goodloe, President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Thad deus B. Gaillard, CLU, Presi dent of Great Lakes Life Insur ance Company made joint an nouncements recently of the proposed merger of the two companies. The merger would be subject to approval of members of the two companies and the Insur ance Commissioners of both North Carolina and Michigan who have already granted l their preliminary approvals. Great Lakes is the largest life insurance company in Mich igan operated by Negroes. North Carolina Mutual is the largest Negro operated life in surance company in the United States. Mr. Goodloe and Mr. Gaillard, Presidents of the two compa nies, pointed out, "Both com panies have a rich heritage of community service. By pooling our manpower we will be in a position to effect certain cost reductions and put the com bined firm in a more competi (See MERGER page 12) Tan Electronics Firm Wins RCA Vendor Award MASSACHUSETTS - Free dom Electronics and Engineer ing, Inc., a black-owned and operated Dorchester, Mass. firm, was honored recently by the ECA Aerospace Systems Divi sion with its Vendor-of-the Month Award. John R. McAllister, Division Vice President and General Manager of the RCA Division located in Burlington, presented the award to Robert Brown, Freedom Electronics and Engi neering's General Manager, for the firm's work on a major RCA-built system. "We appreciate the excellent performance that has characte rized Freedom Electronic's and Engineering's work for RCA, and we wish to recognize this excellence formally with an (See FIRM page 12) Civil Rights Leader Reaches New Milestone NOTRE DAME. Ind The University of Notre Dame ap pointed civil rights leader Ba yard Rustin as the first Negro member of its Board l of Trus tees, last week. Rustin's career as a civil rights leader began in 1941, when he served as Race Rela tions Secretary of the Fellow ship of Reconciliation. He par ticipated in the first Freedom Ride, designed to test laws out lawing discrimination in inter state travel, and alter became director of A. Philip Randolph's Committee Against Discrimina tion in the Armed Forces. A long-time friend of Martin Luther King, Rustin drew up the first plans for the Southern Christian Leadership Confer ence, and later served as special assistant to King for seven years. In 1964, he organized the New York school boycott, the largest civil rights demonstra tion up to that time, and aided striking sanitation workers of Memphis by raising SIOO,OOO fyr their community committee. He is currently Executive Di rector of the A. Philip Ran dolph Institute, an organization sponsoring programs to enhance the political power of the poor, by enlisting the help of white Americans, sponsoring voter •egistration, and expanding op portunities for the unemployed. In addition to his efforts on behalf of American blacks, Rus tin has defended Japanese- Americans placed In work camps during World War n, was chairman of the Free India Committee in 1945, and or ganized the Committee to Sup port South African Resistance, supporting blacks in that rigid * apartheid country. Hum. Relations Comm. Gives Annual Award The Durham Human Rela tions Commission held its first annual awards meeting Tues day night, to reflect upon the progress the commission had made during its first year of existence, and bestow special recognition upon those persons and institutions considered by the commission to have most aided the commission in its efforts. : Guest speaker for the event was Olive Lofton of Washint ton, associate director of the Justice Department's Commu nity relations groups must play to prevent violent upheaval and yet bring about needful change. 1 Warning that the establish ment has never, or very rarely, initiated change, he said, "It only responds to the explosive forces gathering underneath it." ! He concluded that the enormity of the problems will require a coordinated attack on many fronts and will take time, but added that a step in the right direction has been made by the establishment of the Human Relations Commis sion. Commission vice chairman J. A. McLean pwaented awards to persons agj|. organizations the comifll«#f&n felt had made significant contributions to hu man relation in Durham during the past year. They were: city manager L H. Hughes and police officer E. A. Allen Jr., for city govern ment; Miss Dorothy Keister of the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill for state govern ment; Oliver Lofton for federal government; Human Relation Commission mem bers J. J. Henderson and Miss lizzie G. Chandler; youth volunteer Alger Marable; adult volunteer Mrs. Frans Jobsis and Nathaniel B. White; James (See RELATIONS 12A) m # %i ui W.' v jSfIF "MV ; il hi. ' jf^S^fejH Ji l» %J2BS& m b flKl BISHOP STEWART Mt. Olive AME Zion Begins Two Weeks of Dedicatory Services First services in the new home of Mount Olive AME Church will be conducted Sun day, November 16 at the re cently erected building at 1515 Club Blvd. Ceremonies will be gin wtih a motorcade from the old church to the new site at 9:45 Sunday morning. The morning sermon will be given by Rev. E. H. Whitley, pastor of the church. Monday, November 24 will mark the beginning of two weeks of dedicatory services. Each day of activities will fea ture a different speaker from churches in Durham and the surrounding areas. Presiding prelates of the A. M. E. Zion church will also ap pear on the program of dedi cation that will end December 7. Speaking Friefay, December 5 will be J. A. Brown, Supervi sor Durham District, Mount Olive AME Zion. Officiating at the actual dedicatory services Sunday, December 7 will be the Right Rev. William Andrew Stewart, Presiding Bishop, 4th Episcopal District of AME Zion Church. The 3 p.m. services, entitled the "Act of Dedication" will In clude greetings by Durham mayor Wense Graberek, J. J. Henderson, Treasurer, North Carolina Mutual; J. H. Wheel er, President, Mechanics and Farmers Bank; and John S. Stewart, President of Mutual Savings and Loan and a Dur ham city councilmn. The Mount Olive AME Zion Church had been at its old lo cation for a number of years, when notified to move by of ficials of Durham's Urban Re newal Program. This launched the search for their present new site. Branch Joins Attack on Aid To Private Edu. NEW YORK—The Connecti cut State Conference of the NAACP has joined the Ameri can Jewish Congress, three other organizations and six in dividuals in a major test case challenging the constitutional ity of state aid to parochial and other non-public schools. The plaintiffs contend that public funds for parochial schools would promote de facto segregation as well as violate the guarantees of religious li berty and church-state separa tion in the Connecticut and Federal Constitutions. They are seeking an injunc tion in U. S. District Court to halt the allocation of $6-mil lion in direct state aid to pri vate and parochial schools in Connecticut. The aid was pro vided for in a bill the State Legislature passed last June, effective July 1, permitting the state to pay 20 per cent of the salary of a instructor who teaches secular subjects in any of the state's 360 private schools, including parochial schools. Suine, in addition to the NAACP and AJ Congress, are ♦he Connecticut Council of I (See NAACP page 12A) NEW EDIFICE MPs * JUDGE PARKER Justice R. Hunt Parker Buried In Enfield Wednesday RAELEIGH Governor Bob Scott led a large throng that filled Christ Episcopal Church Wednesday for simple, stately funeral services for Chief Jus tice R. Hunt Parker of the North Carolina Supreme Court. The crowd included former governors Dan Moore and Terry Sanford, their wives, other members of the Supreme Court, judges of the Court of Appeals and Superior Courts, members of the Council of State and at torneys from throughout the state. After the Raleigh services, the governor and many other members of the funeral party drove to Enifeld where Justice Parker's body lay in state. N. C. Beauticians Trade Show Ass'n Holds First Annual Event The North Carolina Beautici ans Trade Show ended two days of activities Monday, marking the initial presentation of the show planned to be an annual event for beauticians of Dur ham and surrounding areas. "We felt we should try to give the beauticians of our area some of the advantages those in other parts of the country have," said Mrs. Esther Wiley, founder and organizer of the N. C. Beauticians Trade Show Association. In explaining the reason that led to efforts to present such a show in Durham, Mrs. Wiley cited the fact that many areas such as Philadelphia, Atlanta, and California have trade shows tht attract some of the biggest names in the beauty culture world. ' "We in Durham and North Carolina need to be exposed to these new techniques and trends, and often we are not able to go to some of these other shows. So we plan to bring the show to us," Mrs. Wiley added. The first two day meet held here November 9-10 in the Dur ham Hotel included platform demonstrations and classes by such well-known hair stylists as Chi-Chi of Chicago and U. G. Jefferies. Also on the show was one of the top salesmen for Summit Laboratories, Fred E. Singleton. Several other na tioanl manufacturers, including Lustrasilk and Lady Koscot cos metics company attended the show. REV. WHITLEY Howard U. Honors Nabrit And Five Other Alumni WASHINGTON, D. C —Presi dent-Emeritus James M Nabrit, Jr., and five distinguished alumni of Howard University were honored by the Howard University Alumni Federation Saturday night at its annual Awards Dinner and Gala, the final event in a week-long se ries of Homecoming activities. Dr. Nabrit, who retired aa President at Howard in June after more than 30 years serv ice to the University, received a "Special Award for Service to the University nd the Alum ni Federation." The other recipients of awards, all alumni of Howard University, were: Dr. William Edwards Allen, Jr., of St. Louis, Mo, for "Con spicuous Service to his Profes sion and Community;" Dr. Nor man Henry Campbell-Griffiths, of Washington, D C., for "Con spicuous Service to his Profes sion and the University;" Judge Odell Horton, of Memphis. Ten nessee, for "Conspicuous Serv ice to his Profession and Com munity;" Captain Lucia A. Rap ley, of Washington. D. C., for "Conspicuous Service to the Alumni Federation;" and Dr. Edgar A. Toppin. of Petersburg. Va., for "Conspicuous Service to his Profession." Dr. Marvin M. Fisk, of Cle veland, Ohio, President of the Howard University Alumni Fed eration. who presided at the affair, said the Alumni Federa tion honors Howard graduates each year who have excelled in their contributions to the Uni versity, the federation, to their profession and to their com munity respectievly. Highlighting the events Sun day was a banquet, fashion show, followed by a hair styl ing competition. The affair, held in the hotel's Washington Duke ballroom, was headlined by one of the top mocfels of men fashions in the country. Richard E. DeCarlo of Wash ington. Also modeling were Dorris Taylor of Ebonette Fash ion Fair, Mary Hawkins of Dur ham, and others. Several of the newest wig creations by Pretty Girl, Inc. were also shown. The hair styling competition pitted five contestants trying to capture one of the three tro phies given. Winner of the con test was Dorris Taylor, with a creation she calls "Second Thought." Daisy Harris of Dur ham won second place with a style label "Platinum Essence.'* Capturing third place was Caro lyn Dunston of Fayetteville with a work called "Strawberry Cameo. Other contestants were Dorothy Wilson of Durham and Doray Wallington of Greens boro The N. C. Beauticians Trade Show Association, which spon sors the planned annual event, is comprised of members of the DeShazor Alumnea. an in dependent chapter from the state organisation. In addition to Mrs. Wiley, the founder, of ficers of the NCBTSA are The resa Hall. General Mgr.: Mag nolia Leak, Secretary: Gladys t.miter. Fashion Coordinator: Mable Bumette. Supplv Chair man; and Carolvn Dunston, Public Relations Manager.