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Remember! A VOTELESS PEOPLE IS A HOPELESS PEOPLE Register and Vote VOLUME 49 No. 21 CME Church To Study Union w y w w y a i i JL w w w w i JL Jl JL A JL JAMES FARMER TO DELIVER NCCU FINALS ADDRESS m\ f \? v ni"' JH K* in A # RETIRING PERSONNEL of the Durham City Schools who were honored at the thirteenth an nual banquet of the Durham Association of Classroom Teachers Thursday, May 14, at North Carolina Central Univer Dr. Roy D. Hudson Named New President Of Ham Teachers Ass'n Honors Retiring School Persons The Durham Association of Classroom Teachers held a ban quet honoring retiring person nel of the Durham City School Thursday, May 14, 1970, at the North Carolina Central University Cafeteria at 7:30 p.m. This was the thirteenth annual banquet that the associ ation was sponsored. The honorees were Mrs. Marion W. Alston, Mrs. Mary S. Curtis, Mrs. Virgie J. Davis, Mrs. Eddye H. Fogle, Mrs. Manie F. Greer, Mrs. Ethel B. Jones, Curtis G. Mabry, Mrs. Ethel M. Morrison, Edward L. Phillips, Miss Ethel G. Reade, James M. Schooler and Mrs. Marion W. Williams. The banquet was attended by over 200 persons who feast ed on steak and all the trim mings. Frank G. Burnett was simply great as toastmaster. John H. Gattis was at the or gan playing tunes from all ages. He received a standing ovation (See TEACHERS RA) GREY CULBRETM Honor** sity. Front row, reading left to right: Mesdames Eddie H. Fogle, Virgie J. Davis, Manie T. Geer. Ethel B. Jones, Ethel M. Morrison and Marian W. Williams. Back row: Rev. John ny Barnes who is leaving the WAS FORMER GRADUATE DEAN OF BROWN UNIV. PROVIDENCE, R. I HAMPTON INST., Hamp ton, Va. Dr. Arthur Howe, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute, announced today that Dr. Roy D. Hudson, former Associate Dean of the Graduate School DR. HUDSON of Brown University, Provi dence, Rhode Island, has been appointed President of Hamp ton Institute. In accepting the appointment Dr. Hudson be comes the tenth president of the 102-year-old Virginia insti tution of higher learning, suc ceeding Dr. Jerome 11. Holland, '** '■ ** "* 1 W"**«l*!" "*"" "* M ißfl 1 Supt. Chapel Hill Schools, Dr. William S. Cody Che teaching profession to assume full time pastoring. Mrs. Marion Alston, Curtis G. Mabry, James M. Schooler, Mrs. Mary S. Cur tis, Miss Ethel G. Reade and Edward L. Phillips. who recently became the U. S. Ambassador to Sweden. In the interim between Dr. Holland's departure for Swe den on April 8, 1970, and Dr. Roy D. Hudson's pending arri val on campus, August 1,1970, Dr. G. Robert Cotton, H. I. Alumnis and Member of the Board of Trustees, has been, and will continue as, Acting President of Hampton Insti tute. Dr. Hudson, a neuropharma cologist, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hudson of Chatta nooga, Tennessee. He has served as Assistant Professor of Pharamacology on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School (1961-1966), Ann Arbor, Michigan, and As sociate Professor of Pharma cology at the Brown Univer sity School of Medicine (1966 to the present). After finishing his tour of duty in the U. S. Air Force from 1948 to 1952, Dr. Hud son returned to his under graduate studies at Livingstone College in Salisbury. He was graduated in 1955 with a bachelor of science degree, summa cum laude and was the (See HUDSON page 8A) DURHAM, N. C. ( SATURDAY, MAY 2\ 197 ft Norman Amaker Panthers Staff Feels Affiliation May Jeopardize Commission Work NEW YORK - Norman C. Amaker, Staff Director of the Commission of Inquiry into the Black Panthers and Law Enforcement, has today sub mitted his resignation. The full text of his letter of resignation is as follows: "Events at the Legal De fense Fund during the last several months have required me to reevaluate my position as Staff Director of the Com mission of Inquiry into the Black Panthers and Law En forcement. The Legal Defense Fund's handling of the contempt charges against Bobby Seale and the amicus briefs filed by the Fund in behalf of the Panthers 21 has the potential of raising questions concerning the credibility of the Commis sion's findings so long as I remain as Director. I have been a staff attorney for LDF for nearly ten years and I would not want this fact to jeopardize the work of the Commission. I, therefore, feel obliged to tender my resignation as Staff (See QUITS page 8A) Dedication of Grey Culbreth School Held in Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL - Dedica tion ceremony of the Grey Culbreth School erected at a cost of over $1 million was held here Tuesday, May 19 in its auditorium at 1:30 p.m. Presiding ova: the program was Mrs. Rose Scroggs, vice chairman of the Chapel Hill School Board, Music was fur nished by the school band, under the direction of Philip Gordon. Following the invocation by the Rev. H. L. Watson, pas tor of the University Methodist Church, words of welcome were made by Dr. Roy Lind hal, chairman of the School Board. Recognition of plat form guests was by Mrs. Scroggs. After the rendition of a second number by the school band, W. W. Edmonds, princi pal, gave expression of appre - • '• liinijiiiTr ! **£ *mK 'i «• * J 2*18121 4 1 w^s ] if ::„. ■ : * *T* * - »JSlggßf'N'*'* «« itfefig. - * * ■•■** «§ > wwtwmmm mn«*«. A ■* jwwemw: * |V|j|k HLS > Sspb ™ W«s #«■«& MWlrilUm i mas % Principal Speaker, Dr. A. Craig Phillips National Council Of Negro Women Launches Plan Against Drug Abuse Morehouse Head Calls Meeting Of College Presidents, Students ATLANTA - Dr. Hugh M. Gloster, president of More house College, has called an emergency meeting of black presidents and student leaders at Morehouse College on Sun day, May 24. The purpose of this meet ing, according to Dr. Gloster, will be to prepare for President Nixon a statement giving a description of the pressing problems of Negro colleges and students today as well as an account of the reaction of the black academic community to the extension of the war in Southeast Asia and to the WK-ent shootings of Negroes in Augusta, Georgia, and at Jack son State College. In commenting on the (See MOREHOUSE 8A) ciation to the school board of ficials, faculty members, and others who had worked to make the new school building possible. The dedicatory address was delivered by Dr. A. Craig Phillips, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, follow ing introductory remarks by Dr. Wilmer S, Cody, superin tendent, Chapel Hill city schools. Also remarks were given by the honoree, Grey Culbreth. Special presentation of a large size photograph of the honoree was made by Nathan Tyndall. Acceptance on behalf of the students was by Miss Cassandra Perry, student repre sentative. Benediction was by Rev. J. F. Epps, pastor, St. Paul /V.M.E. Church. lEfc 'WSH ■I Hp ■■ « M FUNERALIZED Last rites were held Friday, May 15 at St. Mark A. M. E. Zio-n Church for Larry Lenford Frazier who was accidently shot on Sunday, May 10. The deceased was the son of Miss Ernestine Frazier, was born Nov. 24, 1945 in Durham County. At a very early age he at tended Sunday School at Saint Mark A. M. E. Zion Church. He leaves to mourn hi s mother: Ernestine Frazier; his father, Julius Davis; his grand mother, Dorsey Frazier; seven sisters, a stepfather; six broth ers; two aunts; two uncles, and a host of relatives and friends. Funeral Services Held Wednesday Miss Hattie Jenkins Funeral service for Miss Hattie Jenkins, retired teacher of the Durham City Schools, were held at St. Joseph'sA.M.E. Church here, Wednesday, May 20 at 4:00 p.m. The Rev. Phillip R. Cousin, Pastor, offi ciated. Miss Jenkins succumbed early Sunday morning at Hill haven Convalescent Center, fol lowing a lengthy illness. She was born and reared in Durham where she attended a private school, after which she (See JENKINS page 8A) # > r s w2§ | --" v . •~i SSSMttfe- v ifIBRI H Presiding, Mrs. Ross Scrogg, V. P. School Board Words of Wisdom ★ The reason many persons do not succeed is because they do not figure how much they con do, but how little. — Edward W. Bok Nixon Sets May 24- 30 As Week For Needed Program WASHINGTON, D. C. - The National Council of Negro Women has urged the nearly 4 million members and girls it reaches to map plans and mount programs on May 24, to prevent drug abuse. Miss Dorothy I. Height, NCNW's National President, urged 50 local Sections of NCNW to mobilize their local luncheons to "take a hard look at the drug abuse situation and develop plans to combat it." Other NCNW units which could not be reached in time to develop activities for May 24 were asked to mount programs as early as possible thereafter. May 24 • 30 is Drug Abuse Prevention Week, recently de signated by President Nixon. Miss He Ight in a letter to NCNW units across the coun try, said: "It is my hope that the activity you undertake on See WOMEN page 8A) Wilkins and Nixon Confer At White House NEW YORK - In a busy three-day period, May 13-15, Roy Wilkins, executive direc tor of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, confere d with President Nixon in the White House, was honored by the Gary, Ind., NAACP Branch at its seventh annual life mem bership dinner, received the American Liberties Medallion from the American Jewish Committee, and attended the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Reuther. At the request of the Presi dent, Wilkins visited him on the morning of May 13 for a discussion of current issues. )See CONFER page 8A) PRICE: 20 Cent* Former CORE Head Speaker Class of 1970 ' FARMER James Farmer, assistant secretary for administration of | the U. S. Department of ! Health, Education, and Wel fare, will be North Carolina Central University's com mencement speaker at 10 a.m. j Sunday, May 31. Farmer, one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), was in the first group of Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, I in 1961. Later arrests came in Plaquemine, La., where he was one of 233 persons charged ! with "disturbing the peace and obstructing the sidewalks" after a demonstration counter ed with tear gas and electric (See FARMER page BA II rr- * **? IN NAVAL HOSPITAL Su preme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, 61, was admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital Friday for treatment of an "acute up per respiratory" infection. A court spokesman said that barring complications, Navy doctors expect Marshall to be out of the hospital in about a week. The court met Monday after a two-week recess. "^P pi^pMM jU W. W. IDMONDS Principal
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