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Groundbreaking Conducted Here For GE Cite Caroliib VOLUME 50 No. II Nationwide Search Begins For High School Cover Girl . I *? ' 1 A IV Hk % W^^R|||:: RIV. TERRY l AMkM I fHB - i!> KENNEDY Community Baptist to Note 29"! Anniversary The Community Baptist Church on Barbee Road, Rev. E. T. Thompson, pastor, will observe its Twenty-Ninth Church Anniversary on Sun day, March 14. The theme for the day will be "The Church in the World Today." The speaker for the 11:00 a.m. services will be W. J. Kennedy, Jr. of White Rock Baptist Church. Music will be rendered by the Senior Choir of Community Baptist. At 3:00 p.m. the Rev. F. D. Terry and the congregation and choir of the West Dur ham Baptist Church will ren der the services. (See COMMUNITY 12A) N. C. Native to Train Police In Fayette, Miss. FAYETTE, Miss. - The Town of Fayette, Mississippi, has been granted a total of $20,000 by the Medgar Evers Fund to modernize its police communications system and to employ a New York detective for one year to train its local policemen, it was announced today by Robert Carter, Exe cutive Vice President of the Fund. Fayette is the first bl-racial Mississippi town to have elected a Negro Mayor - Charles Evers, brother of the slain civil rights leader, Med gar Evers. Mayor Evers war elected in May, 1969. The first grant, totalling $5,000, covers the town's local share of matching funds for a grant of almost (13,000 to enable Fayette to purchase radio equipment to link the (&?• NATIVE 12A) |"THE Truth\INBRIS!EP^ 1)1 'UII AM. N. C. SAT I ItDAY. MARCH It. 1«)71 Rewards are a SIOOO Sholarshigj Travel and A Taste of Modeling j NEW YORK - Imagine being put on a plane to New York, treated to the big city excitement of theatres and "in" restaurants, meeting cele brities, modeling and being a runner-up for a SIOOO educa tional scholarship ~ all for just being one's best possible teen aged self! That's only part of what happens to the five re gional winners of the Tenth Annual High School Cover Girl Contest sponsored by Co-ed, the classroom magazine and Noxell Corporation, makers of Cover Girl Cosmetics. All girls in grades 7 through 12 are eligible and the nation wide search is first for five girls who typify the teen-age ideal of an all-round, great looking girl with personality and manners to match; then from the five finalists emerges the national winner, High School Cover Girl of 1971! Finalists selected from five In, Hf iigag, A* jm I / Mm ■ l I\ A| ■ xj (M ■ ■9 KBfißiS M - w f E mm n a .» -J hi HW IK PLAN EVENT -Members of the planning committee for Co-Ed Week, beginning Mon day at N. C. Central Univer iity, arc shown as they set final plans for the event, which Black-Owned 18 Store Shopping Complex Opens WASHINGTON, D. C. - A black-owned and operated eighteen store shopping center complex was dedicated today in Memphis, Tennessee and was the culmination of over four years of hard work and a dream that began many years ago at the National Business League. Speaking at the festivities which included a parade and a VIP tour of the shopping complex, NBL's President, Berkeley G. Burrell called Me tro Memphis Shopping "Plaza, "Tangible proof of what a sin cere group of Blacks and Whites can accomplish when committed to an objective." "The need for inner-city residents to become involved in the economic development of their communities has be come vital to the total deve lopment of the minority com munity" said Burrell. He ex- horted the community to con tinue to invest in themselves regions of the country (North east, Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, Far West/Canada) are judged by the editors of Co-ed Magazine according to pictures and written descriptions of daily beauty routines they sub mit to the contest. All five regional winners are flown to New York City where they stay at the Waldorf Astoria, famous for receiving dignitaries and celebrities in every field of endeavor. In a three-day whirl, the-girls have their hair styled by a top New York stylist, are given a complete new designer ensem ble and a model's kit of Cover Girl Make-up -- and are photographed by one of fash ion's hot young Bond. And the national winner, High School Cover Girl of 1971, gets the grand prize, the SIOOO scho larship from Noxell and the thrill of seeing her picture ap (See SEARCH 12A) mmmmm v ! will include beauty and' charm clinics, a contest to select the best dressed woman student on • the campus, and a breakfast on ; Sunday with comedian-activist Dick Gregory. Shown, clock "Metro Memphis Shopping Plaza has addressed itself to this problem through the crea tion of 200 new jobs and pro viding new goods and services to the community," added Burrell. "This shopping plaza says one thing to me," said Bur rell, "the National Business League can and will make American business viable for Hacks within the existing economic structure. While many are saying that the sy stem "Won't work" for Blacks, NBL continues to disprove the theory." The National Business lea gue has been dedicated to minority economic develop ment since its inception over 70 years ago and now has 13,000 members in seventy chapters , throughout the United States. It has a profes- sionai staff of 50 in sixteen cities. PRICE 20 CENTS k> U •SKI ■^i PASSES IN HOSPITAL —Ellis F. Corbett, longtime director of public relations at A&T State University and former national president of the 20,- 000 member Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, died Wednesday morning in L. Richardson Me morial Hospital after a lengthy illness. Words of Wisdom ORDER is godlike; it is the first and supreme law of na ture. Nine of every ten men who make any progress, have a natural sense of order. The reason is perfectly clear. mmrnmmmmßammmmmmmmmmm wise from extreme left, Helen Whitaker, Frankie Shaw, La- Faye Ellerbe, Calvin Kearney, Patricia Farrington, Vanessa Watson, Emma Mosby, Karen Taylor, and Gail Jones. JACK ANU JILL HEAD CITED —Mrs. Charles H. Stanback.l left, present head of the Dur ham Jack and Jill Chapter, is shown here with seven former presidents of the organization lioih red lit the Jack and Jin s MMMJ-4lWli|\,>f Vl' t >1 . . J||MMMUK '-|g— 1 f I'• .. J A A $% • ■ I ■HH -;".; r' r - ■ %;, -v-i^Mfl^^^Hr H w v /■■ jSkfa* %& 1 inßc^lP^^l^^^^ltffl GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONIES— Bob Booth, Executive Vice President of Durham Chamber of Commerce tosses A&T's Beloved E. F. Corbet! Dies in Hospital GREENSBORO - Ellis F. Corbett, longtime director of public relations at A&T State University and former national president of the 20,000-memb er Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, died Wednesday morning in L. Richardson Memorial Hos pital after a long illness. Corbett, 61, has been em ployed at A&T since 1951, and just three years ago was named associate director of planning and development. An energetic and fun loving publicist, Corbett at one time served concurrently as public relations director, alumni secretary and director of place ment. During his tenure as execu ! tive secretary of the A&T | National Alumni Association, annual giving by the graduates, rose from about $7,000 an nually to more than $50,000. Just last November, more than 300 persons honored Cor bett as a testimonial for his contributions to many local, state and national organiza (See CORBETT 12A) Durham Jack and Jiil Mothers Sponsor Theatre Benefit Friday The members of the Dur ham Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. observed their annual "Evening With Friends" at the Village Dinner Theatre on Friday night, March 5. Members and guests ga thered for the evening's enter tainment which was sponsored by this local group of mothers for the benefit of local and national service programs. Jack and Jill of America, Inc. was founded in Philadelphia in 1938 by twenty mothers who organized a club to stimulate a social and cultural relation ship between children. Within a few years other > annual "Evening with friends", I held Friday night, 5 at ■ | the Village I)inne>- Theatre.! ; In addition to Mrs Slanback (I. to It): Mesdanv- .mines S.' i I ce, Edward Ualfncs• I'hjlip i'Marab'lc. Ellis D. J .lies, Jr., Building To House Dollar Generator A ground breaking cere mony with General Electric and Durham area officials par ticipating was held March 5 on the 710 acre tract of land de signated for a s4l million dol lar generator » manufacturing plant for that company's Me dium Steam Turbine Genera tor Department of Lynn, Mass. Ballenger Corporation of Prosperity, South Carolina will complete the grading work on the site, following the cere monial spading east of the Re search Triangle Park near here. Following the grading work, construction of the plant, which was designed by J. E. Sirrine Company-Engi neers of Greenville, S. C., will begin. Also announced was the awarding of a contract to Caro lina Steel Corporation of Greensboro for fabricating and erecting the structrual steel re quired by the three buildings involved in the new complex. First deliveries to the site are expected in June. According to John N. Boyle, General Electric Mana (Sce GE page 12Aj mothers formed similar clubs throughout the country. A group of Durham mothers or ganized in 1945 and partici pated in a national meeting in 1945 when the group was in corporated with ten chapters. The national organization now includes 129 chapters in 35 states and the District of Columbia. Since its inception in 1938, the mothers of Jack and Jill have been concerned with and given support through finan cial contributions and service to a long list and wide variety of local, national, and inter national programs aimed at (See JACK AND JILL 12A) William A Clement, D. E. Moore, and G. W. Cox, Jr. Former presidents of the Durham Chapter not pictured are Mrs. George Kyle and Mrs l.i'roy Walker. (See other pic tures on page 10A). first spade of dirt at groundbreaking of new General Bte^ trie plant last Friday, March 5. (Photo by Purtfoj) Teachers' Committee Joins in Defense of Angela Davis in Cal. OAKLAND, California The formation of a Teachers' Committee for the Defense of Angela Davis was announced this week by American Federa tion of Teachers Oakland Local 771, AFL-CIO, and the Bay Area Committee to Free Angela Davis. Over 100 teachers meeting at Oakland Technical High School heard George Stokes, Local 771 executive secretary, declare, "We are proud that our membership voted to have our organization work as hard as possible with the Angela Davis Defense Committee to free Angela Davis as soon as possible. | , ■ Wm am. CM t Wrm iVa 1 m m Wk *#■ TO SPEAK AT NCCU—Dick Gregory, comedian-author lecturer and political activist, will speak at 9 a.m. Sunday at I coed weekend' breakfast at North Carolina Central Unive'sity'l cafe teria. The visit of the Chicago-based former president!®! cta» didate will highlight the weekend planned by the univtttity*g Women's Assembly. Gregory is also expected to make • brief personal appearance at a coed weekend dance early fttbday morning. The dance, which begins at 8 p.m. Saturday niffet In Women's Gym will follow a 3 p.m. competition to seW«J the three best-dressed women on the campus. Hist contest be held in B N. Duke Auditorium. Delegates to VEA Convention to To Take Stand on Students Rights PETERSBURG - Delegates 1 to the Student Virginia Educa tion Association (VEA) Con vention will take a stand con cerning the right of students to be involved in the shaping of I their education curriculum. Meeting March 13, at Virginia State College in Petersburg, the 150 delegates represent 2300 prospective teachers in 25 Student VEA college chapters across the state. Through two resolutions proposed by their executive committee, the delegates will have an opportunity to put the 2300-member college organiza tion on record in favor of earlier classroom experience "The thinking of our teach ers who directed me to spaak on their behalf," Stokes said, "is that it is important that we take the strongest and most militant position" in working for the freedom of Angela Davis. While expressing concern for a fair trial and that Miss Davis receive full due process, Stokes stated that "Angela has to be freed - not tried - freeii, and that is the position of our local." Teachers, he continued, "have not only the right, but the duty" to take up the case of Angela~davis. (See TEACHERS 12A) prior to student teachPl tJ W student participation oi colleges' curriculum mittees. Other resolutions the 18-yearold vote U> and local elections, urf> co operation witK the high school Future Teachers of AiMHca groups and encourage student awareness and involve mrtt in correcting environmental Bis. Key noting the convention will be Mel Hligenberg, pnai dent of the 90,000 - member Student NEA. On full rttaue time at the NEA Cent* in Washington, D. C. from the university of Northern Colora (S«- OELKIiATItt UA.
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