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Over $6 Million In Loans Approved for Black Businessmen
Report Says American Methodism Headed For Trouble
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VOLUME 48 No. 49 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1969
Low Income Housing Plans
Greenville As One of 3 Centers
V j 1 Yaffil
FINAL TOUCH—Dr. John Now-
Lin of the Duke Medical Cen
ter attaches wires to the head
President Clark
Trustee Of For
NEW YORK—Dr. Vivian W.
Henderson, president of Clark
College, Atlanta, has been elect
ed to the Board of Trustees
of the Ford Foundation, it was
announced this week by Julius
A. Stratton, chairman of the
board
An economist and civil rights
authority, Dr Henderson be
came president of Clark Col
lege in 1965 after serving as
chairman of the Economics De
partmet at Fisk University.
He has also been a govern
mental advisor, particularly on
the utilization of Negro man
power in the South. He was a
member of the U. S. Civil
Rights Commission Advisory
Committee for the Study of
Race and Education, the Presi
dent's Commission on Rural
Poverty, and a task force ap
pointed by Secretary of Labor
Wirtz to develop a new man-
Harlem Activists CommeDd
Nixon Administration on CR
WASHINGTON Black acti
vists from Harlem spent two
days in Washington conferring
with officials of the Nixon Ad
ministration and the Republi
can National Committee in an
effort to determine what the
Administration is doing to car
ry out President Nixon's cam
paign promise to give the Black
Community "a piece of the ac
tion."
Clarence L. Townes? Jr., As
sistant to Republican National
Committee Chairman Rogers C.
B. Morton, in addreaalng the
group known u the Liberal In
dependent Republican Club of
Harlem commended them for
their interest in the affairs of
government and "for taking
time to come to Washington to
get a better inaight into the
many outstanding programs of
the Nixon Administration and
the Republican Party."
The group composed of ten
profesaiooai men and women
from Harlem, headed by John
Cottman, Recruitment and
Training Coordinator for the
Housing and Development Ad
ministration of New York, de
sribed the trip to Washington
at a "fact finding miaaion."
"We want to find out first hand
of Miss Margaret Smith prepa
ratory to making an electroen
cephalogram a measurement
DR. HENDERSON
date ior the united States Em
ployment Service.
He is also a member of the
U.S. National Commission to
what the posture of the Ad
ministration is toward the Black
Community and to see what
steps are being taken to in
volve Blacks effectively In the
governmental process."
Following two days of meet
Cultural Differences Discussed in Publication
WASHINGTON - Cultural
ly different does not mean
culturally disadvantaged, but
this semantic misunderstanding
may be one of the major rea
sons why education is failing
great numbers of children in
America.
This belief is expressed in
a publication, "Media and the
Culturally Different Learner,"
published by the National Edu
cation Association's Project Ur
ban and the Division of Educa
tional Technology. The authors
include Joseph M. Conte, as
sociate professor of education.
La Verne College, La Verne,
Calif.; George H. Grimes, su
pervisor of curriculum labora
tories, Detroit public schools.
George W. Jones, director of
of brain waves—from inside
her home.
UNESCO, chairman of the
Georgia State Advisory Com
mittee of the U. S. Civil Rights
Commission, a life member of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple, and a director i,f the Na
tional Bureau of Economic Re
search, the Southern Regional
Council, the Urban Coalition,
the National Sharecroppers
Fund, the Potomac Institute,
and several other professional,
civic, and church organizations
and institutions.
Dr. Henderson was born in
Bristol, Tennessee on February
10, 1923 and completed his un
dergraduate studies at North
Carolina College at Durham.
He received master's and doc
tor's degrees in economics at
the State University of lowa.
He is married and the father
of four children.
ings with Agency personnel and
Robert Brown, Special Assistant
to the President Mr. Cottman
said, "we were genuinely Im
pressed with the minority
representation at the policy
making level and the track rec
Project Urban; and Anna L.
Hyer, director of the Division
of Educational Technology.
The book is designed for
use by teachers, administrators,
publishers and producers of
media materials for distribu
tion in the public schools.
The publication consists of
two chapters dealing with the
learning characteristics of cul
turally different children, and
how media can be used to
teach them, and an annotated
list of audiovisual materials
that can be used in the class
room. While the opening chap
ter stresses that the book deals
primarily with the poor in ur
ban communities - and pri
marily the black poor- - it alao
states that "it must alao be
PRICE: 20 Cents
OEO Will Fund
New Effort to
Help Housing
By MILTON JORDAN
(Times Staff Writer)
GREENSVILLE—The Low In
come Housing Development Cor
poration of North Carolina an
nounced recently that an area
surrounding and including
Greenville had been selected as
one of the three rural "devel
opment centers." Each of these
centers will share in a pro
gram designed to build at least
1200 units of new housing for
the low-income families in
North Carolina in the next
three years. Selection of the
Greenville area by the state
wide, non-profit organization
followed an intensive, six
months series of meeting with
community leaders throughout
the state.
Money for this new effort
will come from the Office of
Economic Opporunity on a re
volving fund plan. The termi
nolo.Ty stems from the fact that
LIHDC strategy is to parlay
$300,000 into the erecting of
low-cost, top-quality homes,
using the same money several
times and then giving it back
to the Office of Economic Op
portunity.
The money will be used' to
buy land, develop streets, sew
er systems and water systems,
and build houses. LJDHC will
work with local agencies and
groups to find buyers and help
arrange mortgage financing
that will be insured by Farm
ers Home Administration, or the
Federal Housing Administra
tion. The program wil also use
mortgage monies available
through local lenders when pos
sible.
Plans call for mostly three
bedroom homes in the $12,000
range, the type that can be af
forded by someeone making $3,-
500 to $6,000 annually. A spe
cial government subsidy of in
terest rates will make it possi
ble for a person in the $3,500
(See HOUSING 2A)
ord which has been set by the
Administration in the field of
civil rights suits. The Nixon
approach is more positive to
ward the Black Community
than we have been led to be
lieve."
recognized that the children of
the white middle class are cul
turally deprived in a very real
sense. In many cases they are
nutured in and limited to an
unrealistically all-white world.
Boy Saves Man
As House Burns
MORAVIAN FALLS, N.C.
- Hal Hawkins Jr.. 16,
knocked out the window of a
neighbor's home Friday and
pulled Mack Reavis, about 90,
to safety as flamea engulfed
the structure.
The youth noticed fire com
ing from the house but smoke
prevented him from entering
the front door. He heard a
noise coming from a first floor
bedroom and went around tc
the ,window.
The house waa destroyed.
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REVIEWING FINER POINTS be held December 14 in the B. Laßue Cunningham, Soprano;
OF MUSlC—Reviewing some of N. Duke Auditorium. From left Tropzie White, Senior Alton;
the finer points of music are to right, they are: Charles H. George E. Hatcher, Jr., Accom
seven members of the NCCU Gilchrist, Choir Director; Bren- panist; and Melvin Batten, Choir
Choir in preparation for their da Doub, Publicity Manager; President.
Annual Christmas Concert to i Linda Shaw, Soprano Soloist;
National Business
Makes Important Statement
Cily Involved in
$1.2 Million
Loans for Race
WASHINGTON, D. C. The
I approval of more than $6 mil
' lion in loans for black busi
i nessmen, with $5.9 million
pending, was announced by
Berkeley G. Burrell, President
of the National Business
League. The loans were obtain
ed since January through the
League's Project Outreach, a
♦management and technical as
sistance program.
Burrell made the announce
ment in a nine-month report of
the activities of the Project,
which is funded by the Eco
nomic Development Admini
stration of the Commerce De
partment. Evaluating its per
formance on a $55,000 EDA
contract, he commented 1 , "The
favorable cost-benefit ratio for
minority business development
is clearly indicated by the ac
complishments of Project Out
reach." Burrell also cited the
cooperation of the 58 NBL
chapters as a vital factor in the
implementation of Outreach
goals.
The Project was initiated in
July 1967 and now offers mi
nority entrepreneurs specialized
training and counseling in areas
such as loan packaging, market
ing and site location, business
nroblem solving, contract and
boning procurement, and the
establishment of local develop
ment companies.
Project Outreach is operative
nationally in ten cities: Atlanta,
Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus,
Durham, Jackson, Memphis,
Norfolk, Richmond and Seattle.
The National Business League
maintains a professional staff
in each city to provide program
services for the local minority
business community.
According to Ed Stewart, di
rector of Project Outreach in
Durham, the local chapter has
either had approved or has
pending some 1.2 million dol
lars in loans to assist Black
businessmen I* the climb for
success.
F. W. Allicon, president of
the Durham Business and Pro
fessional Chain, which sponsors
Proect Outreach locally,lauded
both the National Business
League and Project Outreach
for the invaluable assistance it
has rendered in Durham.
Carolyn D. Edwards
Elected Corporate
Sect'y of GLMLI Co.
DETROIT, Mich. —Thaddeus
B. GaiUard, CLU, President of
Great Lakes Mutual Life Insu
rance Company, announced the
unanimous election by the
Board of Directors of Carolyn
D. Edwards as Corporate Sec
retary of the firm. Mrs. Edward
succeeds Datis B. Norton who
has accepted an executive posi
tion with the American Wood
men Life Insurance Company
(See EDWARDS 2A)
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KEYNOTER —F. V. Allison,
President of the Durham Busi
ness and Professional Chain
addresses the audience attend-1
Duke University "Takes Clinic to
The People" in New Experiment
By VANCE WHITFIELD
The Duke Medical Center is
conducting an experiment in
"taking the hospital to the peo
ple" with the operation of a
mobile unit. The unit, which
can be described as a portable
hospital laboratory, is a panel
truck outfitted with sophisti
cated electronic equipment that
visits homes of people involved
in Duke's long-term study of
the aged.
In 1954 the Center for the
Study of Aging and Human De
velopment at Duke began a pro
gram involving 260 community
volunteers over 60 years old.
Participants came to Duke for
a comprehensive psychological,
psychiatric and medical evalua
tion.
The intent was to obtain
health data on the 260 volun
teers, compare the data with
similar information gathered
later, and analyze the results to
determine the effects of aging
and how they varied among the
individuals.
Dr. John B. Nowlin, assistant
professor in the department of
Community Health Sciences at
Duke, is in charge of the mo
bile unit. He is assisted by Dr.
Shirley Hastings, research fel
low in the aging program. Also
helping are Stephen Harkins,
research associate, and Michael
Zollinger, who plans to attend
Duke Medical School.
Each person visited receives a
physical examination. Blood
samples are taken and an elec
trocardiogram (EKG) and elec
troencephalogram (EEG) are al
so given. This two hour pro
cess requires teamwork be
tween the doctors in the house
and the persons manning the
I ing the annual event, capping
the yearly fund raising drive
of the affiliate of the National
[ Business League.
monitoring equipment in the
truck. The electrical signals
from the patient is recorded
and) stored on tape for future
reference.
After the informtion is ana
lyzed, doctors write a patient
summary and send it to the
personal physician of each vol
unteer, noting any health irre
gularity that should be exam
ined.
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REV. SAUNDERS
Hickory Elects First
Negro President of
Ministerial Ass'n
| Rev. L. O. Saunders former
I pastor here in the city (Hick
jofy) presently pastoring the
Mt Pisgah A. M E. Church
I was elected president of the
Greater Hickory Ministerial As
sociation at the group's month
ly meeting Monday, November
24. Rev. Saunders was the Vies
President, another that before
his being elected PiesMsot.
Present Crisis
May Surpass
Former Split
NASHVILLE A report on
racial unrest in the United
Methodist Church sees Ameri
can Methodism "headed for a
severe racial crisis, perhaps its
worst since the bitter schism
of the 19th Century."
The report, "Black Protest:
Will It Split the United Metho
dists?" was released recently
by the Race Relations Infor
mation Center (RRIC), a private
agency based in Nashville that
prepares journalistic studies on
various aspects of race rela
tions in the United States.
"Less than two years after
the Methodist Church, largest
Protestant denomination, wel
comed its once separate black
contingent, laid the ground
work for a racially inclusive
institution, and formed the
United Methodist Church," the
report notes, "a seemingly in
evitable confrontation is brew
ing."
The study notes the widen
ing rift between the Black
Methodists for Church Renewal
(BMCR), an activist body of
black clergy and 1 laymen based
in Atlanta, and the church's
white middle-class conserva
tives, the majority of the
Wesleyan denomination's 11.3
million members and the group
that contributes most heavily
to the church.
BMCR has accused the Metho
dist Church of racism, demand
ed recognition of black achieve
ments anu emphasis on black
problems and aspirations, in
sisted on representation in all
church activities—from national
to local levels—and pushed the
church to seek reunion with the
African Methodist Episcopal.
African Methodist EDiscopal
Zion, and Christian Methodist
Episcopal churches, the three
(See METHODIST 2A)
$lO Million Suit
Halts Memphis
School Boycott
MEMPHIS Following filing
of a $lO million damage suit
by the Board of Education
against leaders of the Ameri
can Federation of State, Coun
ty and Municipal Employees
Union and of United Black
Coalition, a school boycott has
been called off and suspended
students re-admitted to classes.
The joint action, which had
been initiated by the Memphis
NAACP and the union, split
when the union and some other
elements in the coalition re
jected the NAACP call for a
moratorium to permit a cool
ing-off period after an outbreak
of arson, vandalism and vio
lence in the predominantly Ne
gro schools.
The Rev. Ezekiel Bell, chair
man of the ÜBC boycott com
mittee, said that the filing of
the damage suit had nothing to
do with termination of the boy
cott. Both the NAACP and the
ÜBC said they had received as
surance from the Board of
Education that no punishment
would be meted out tq teach
ers or students who who sup
ported the boycott.
The coalition had sought to
hasten desegregation in the
city. Prime NAACP concern
had been with the public
schools and the local Board of
Education. The union was seek
ing to organise employees of
St. Joseph Hospital. Black stu
dents participated in large num
bers in demonstrations to
achieve the combined goal.
The NAACP board had agreed
! to a ten-day moratorium during
which it urged students to re
turn to classes as negotiotiona
were conducted with school
officials. Others continued the
student demonstrations in a
move designed to use the dam
onstrations to force the hospi
tal to accede to onion demand*
As windows were broken tn
several schools, fires sot in two
and rock-throwing attacks won
made, Lsroy Clark, BOW NAACf
president, said that the NAACP
and its members "deplore sad
condemn the violence that Is
currently being wrought en
schools."
Ho said the NAACP win con
(See SCHOOL 1A)