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SENATOR MUSKIE MEETS EPILEPSY PQSTER CHILD
Presidential contender Edmund S. Muskie (D., Maine), gets to
gether with five year old' Zachery Williams, National Poster
Child of the Epilepsy Foundation of America, before addressing
the U. S. Conference of Mayors in Philadelphia. Zachery hails
from Jackson, Mississippi, and has had epilepsy since age two.
Most Successful Freedom Fund
Drive of NAACP Ends Thursday
The most successful Freedom
Fund Drive ever put on by the
Durham Chapter, NAACP, end
ed Thursday, 7:30 p.m., at the
United Durham Store, 604 N.
Mangum Street, where the
drawing was held to determine
the winner of a national brand
television set.
Through the efforts of Mrs.
Annie Mae Bynum, chairman
of the Freedom Fund Drive
and the Durham NAACP moth
er of the year, $1,095.91 was
reported at the annual Free
dom Fund Rally, held in Ral
eigh recently. She was the run
ner-up in the big city group
of the North Carolina Branch
es of State Conferences, nar
rowly missing an all-expense
trip to the national convention,
which will be held in Minnea
polis, Minn., July 5-9. She not
only offered the television
set, but created ah innovation
of selling "Freedom Pies,"
Vernon £. Jordan,
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Exec Dir. Natl Urban
NEW YORK—Vernon E. Jor
dan, Jr., Executive Director of
the United Negro College Fund,
has been named l Executive Di
rector of the National Urban
League, James A. Linen, Presi
lent of the League, announced
this week.
Selection of Mr. Jordan by
the National Urban League
Board was made on the rec
ommendation of a nine-mem
ber sub-committee that spent
almost two months in a nation
wide search for a successor to
the late Whitney M. Young,
Jr
Mr. Young, who had been
the League's Executive Director
since 1961, died in Lagos, Ni
geria, March 11. Since that
time, Harold ft. Sims, Deputy
Director of tlio League has
been sen in \eting Execu
tive DiriTt'
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JORDAN
which added l greatly to the col
lection of monies.
The local chapter will give
her special honors at its
monthly meeting, which will be
held at Morehead Avenue Bap
tist Church, 4 p.m., Sunday.
The theme of the meeting will
De "The NAACP's interest in
community life." The Rev. B.
A. Mack will be in charge of
devotions. Dr. L. W. Reid, pas
tor, New Bethel Baptist Church,
will be the principal speaker.
His congregation, which is
principally composed of per
sons who live in the Crest
Street community, where the
NAACP Day Care Center is
being planned, is expected to
be in attendance. Mrs. Maggie
Holman, the guiding spirit of
the community will speak also.
A progress report will be
made by Mrs. Bynum on the
"Freedom Fund Drive." The
(See FUND page 8A)
Mr. Jordan, 35, will assume
his duties at the prior to Jan
uary 1, 1972.
"Recognizing the tremendous
importance of its action, the
subcommittee devoted hun
dreds of hours to interviews
and to the careful considera
tion of the backgrounds of
scores of individuals before
reaching the conclusion that
Mr. Jordan is the right man to
direct the League in the years
ahead.
"The full Board, in accept
ing the recommendation after
its own careful study of the
sub-committee's report, is con
vinced the choice is an excel
lent one. The qualilties of lead
ership, commitment, int e 11 i
gence and integrity that Mr.
Jordan possesses in such abun
dance, are the qualities need
ed in the new role he is under
taking," Mr. Linen said.
"His period of service at the
United Negro College Fund
has been marked with distinc
tion and wc can fully appreci
ate the tremendous impact of
his departure from the im
portant organization with jta
vitally needed programs," he
added.
Mr. Jordan was born in At
lanta and educated in that
city's public school system. In
1953 he entered DePauw Uni
versity, the only black student
in his class. He received his
bachelor's degree in 1957 and
went to law school at Howard
Univertity, graduating in 1960. |
After a short period in pri-
Unemployment Hate Among
Blaehs Reaches 10.5 Percent
Negro People
Continue to
Bear the Brunt
Official figures compiled by
the Bureau of Stitistics
(HI.S) shows that joblessness
among Negro workers is now
up l> 10.5 per cent in its latest
release of May. 1971. At 10.5
percent the Negro unemploy
ment rate was not significantly
changed over the month, but
was up from 9.4 per cent in
March and is now at its highest
point since November, 1963.
Women are hard hit. Job
lessness among Negro women
who want jobs and are actively
seeking jobs increased to 11.7
percent continuing the upward
trend in evidence since the be
ginning of the year. The rates
for whites was 5.7 percent in
May, its highest level also since
September, 1961. Federal offi
cials have no ready explana
tion for this trend, but a plausi
ble hypothesis could' be that it
reflects the impact of economic
recession on white-middleclass
families who are economizing
by laying off domestic work
ers.
The jobless rate among
black youths is highest of all.
It increased from 24.1 percent
average in 1969 to an over
whelming high of 32.1 percent
and may be even higher* now.
This figure may be deceptive
since the BLS counts as unem
ployed only persons who are
actively seeking jobs thus
omitting hundreds of thous
ands of young urban blacks,
who have despaired' and quit
trying to find work. Actually
(See UNEMPLOYMENT 8A)
Sees Swimming Pool
Shutdown As A
Dangerous Move
NEW YORK—"A dangerous
precedent," NAACP General
Counsel Nathaniel R. Jones
characterized the decision of
the United States Supreme
Court permitting the City of
Jackson, Miss., to shut down
its public swimming pools
rather than comply with a U.S.
District Court order to deseg
regate them.
The 5 to 4 decision, handed
down, June 14, "portends judi
cial sanction of this tactic to
thwart desegregation of other
public facilities," Mr. Jones
said. • •
"If a unit of government can
(See POOL page 8A)
vate practice in Atlanta, Mr.
Jordan became Georgia field
director for the NAACP, as
sistant to the executive director
of the Southern Regional Coun
cil, and then served a B a con
sultant to the Office of Eco
nomic Opportunity.
In 1965, he took on the as
signment that was to bring
(See NUL page SA)
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CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT —Secre
tary of the Navy John H. Chafee looks on
as James E. Johnson receives his Certificate
of Appointment as Assistant Secretary of the
Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) from
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Secrt
Words of Wisdom
The tongue is like a race
horse, which runs the faster
the less weight it carries.
—Samuel Butler
VOLUME 50 No. 26
Local Firm Awarded Security Pact
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Wm. T. Brown
New Principal
Of E. E. Smith
FAYETTEVTLLE William
Brown, principal of Washing
ton Drive Junior' High has
been named principal of the
E. E. Smith Senior High School.
He fills a vacancy createed by
the retirement of E. E. Miller
who served! Smith as principal
for a period of thirty-two
years.
Brown taught fof a year in
Summerville, S. C., before com
ing to E. E. Smith High School
as a teacher in 1955. He served
as assistant principal at E. £1
(See PRINCIPAL page 8A)
Rev. James W. Smith Jr. Resigns
As Pastor of Covenant Church
Rev. James Wyntotte Smith,
Jr., minister of Covenant Unit-'
ed Presbyterian Church for the
past eighteen years, has re
signed' his position here in
Durham to accept employment
with the Federal government as
Chaplain with the Central
Agency, Veterans Administra
tion Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Rev. Smith, a native of Knox
ville, Tennessee, came to Dur
ham from Charlotte where be
held the pastorate of Ben
Salem United Presbyterian
Church, and was installed as
pastor of Covenant in Septem
ber, 1953. He received his early
education in the public schools
of Raleigh and) holds the B.A.
and B.D. degrees from John
son C. Smith University and
the M.A. degree from the Mc-
Cormick Theological Seminary
in Chicago.
He served the national Unit-
tary Laird administered the Oath of Office
before the presentation. The ceremony took
place at the Pentagon, Washington, D. C.,
Wednesday, June 16. Mr. Johnson was Vice
Chairman, U. S, Civil Seervice Commission
before assuming his present duties.
Che CarSa €mt%
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Gets Two Gov't
Contracts Close
To $150,000
The United States Special
Police Corp., a new Durham
Corporation, has been awarded
two government contracts tot
aling $146,000, Guy R. Ran
kin, president of the company,
announced Friday.
"These two contracts will
cfeate 18 new positions in the
Raleigh-Durham area," Ran
kin said. -
The new company will pro
vide security services for the
Environmental Protection
Agency Technical Center in the
Research Triangle Park and
its offices in Raleigh anl Dur
ham, Rankin said.
The contracts will be in ef
fect from July 1, to Oct. 31,
1972, he said.
Rankin stated the company
was awarded the contracts
through the Small Business
Administration under a pro
gram he referred to as "Ba."
"Eight A" he explained, "is
where the SBA bypasses the
normal bidding procedures and
gets the government to award
contracts directly to a minority
business on a non-competitive
basis."
Ramkin's first contract with
SBA was through Ed' Stewart,
(See FIRM page 8A)
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REV. SMITH
Ed Presbyterian Church in
many capacities. Most recently
in a year's leave from the pas
torate, he served as Director
of the Fifty Million Dollar
Fund for the Catawba and
(See RESIGNS page 8A)
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1971
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RUSSWURM TROPHY—Longworth M. Quinn,
2nd from left, editor and' publisher of the
Michigan Chronicle, is holding the Russwurra
Trophy which has just been presented to
him by Herbert G. Klein, White House Com
munications Director, who was the awards
banquet speaker at the 31st Annual Conven
tion of the National Newspaper' Publishers
Status Of Negro Influenced
National Admin.,
ATLANTA—The outlook and
status of Negro Americans is
affected by the national ad
ministration in power "more
than any other factor," Roy
Wilkins, executive director of
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People, told delgates attending
the 31st annual convention of
the National Newspaper Pub
lishers Association here, June
17.
He traced the history of Ne
g r o-Presidential relationships
since the Administration of
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-21. The
commitment to civil rights of
the present Administration, the
NAACP leader said, is "de
pressing." Of President Nixon,
he added: "The least said, the
better —if it were not for many
dedicated people in govern
ment, the Nixon policies would
make us very depressed."
President Wilson was char
acterized as "hostile" by Mr.
Wilkins and, Herbert Hoover
as "silent." Franklin D. Roose
velt "rescued the country and
Dr. Earle E. Thorpe Men's Day
Speaker at Mt. Gilead Sunday
Observance of Men's Day
will be held Sunday, June 27,
at the Mount Gilead Baptist
Church during two morning
services.
The speaker for the eight
o'clock service is the Reverend
Jackson Trueitt, Assistant Min
ister of the church.
Dr. Earie E. Thorpe will
speak at the eleven o'clock
worship service on the subject:
"A Negro or Black Church."
Dr. Thorpe a native of Dur
ham, was educated in the Dur
ham City Schools and North
Carolina College at Durham
(now NCCU) where he received
the B.S. and M.S. degrees. His
Ph.D. was earned at Ohio State
University in History.
Dr. Thorpe's publications in
clude approximately twenty
five scholarly articles publish
ed in several learned journals,
and five (5) books which bear
the titles—"Negro Historians
in the United States (1958);
(2) "The Desertion of Man: A
Critique of Philsophy of His
tory" (1958); (3) "The Mind of
the Negro: An Intellectual His
tory of Afro-Americans (1961);
(4) "Eros and Freedom in
Association, at the Regency Hyatt House in
Atlanta. Second from right is Mayor Carl B.
Stokes of Cleveland, Ohio, who was presented
the publishers' highest honor, the "NJJPA
Award." At extreme right is Garth Reeves,
new president of the association and publish
er of the Miami Times. Convention closed last
Saturday.
the Negroes" from the Depres
sion but it was Mrs. Roosevelt
who was most helpful to black
people in that administration,
he said. The NAACP leader
recalled that at the Associa
tion's 19 4 7 convention in
Washington, Harry Truman
warned that "the Federal Gov
ernment cannot wait until the
most backward l community in
the United States is ready to
take the lead in civil rights."
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mr.
Wilkins recalled, sent troops
to Little Rock "more to enforce
a Federal order than to put
Negro children in the school."
John F. Kennedy's start was
"beautiful" but it was Lyndon
B. Johnson who "gave the
greatest impetus to civil rights
in the history of our coun
try."
After the American Civil
War, Confederate President
Jefferson Davis spent two
years in prison. He refused
to ask for amnesty and nev
er regained U.S. citizenship.
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Southern Life and Thought"
(1967); and "The Central Theme
of Black History" (1969). He is
a member of Omega Psi Phi
Fraternity; Phi Alpha Uieta,
the National History honorary
society; Pi Gamma Mu, the
National Social Science honor
ary society; the Organization
of American Historians; the
Society for the Study of South
ern Literature; the American
Historical Association; the As
(See THORPE page 8A)
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Claude Cobb Jr.
Promoted At
Duke Med. Cen.
Duke Medical Center haa a
new employe relations assistant
in its personnel office.
He is Claude Cobb Jr. of
Durham, formerly business of*
ficer in the hospital's Emer
gency Department. His promo
tion was effective this month.
Cobb replaces Ellis Jones of
Durham who recently accepted
a position in Washington, D.C.
Cobb acts as a coordinator
of employe relations, and much
of his work involves matters
relating to personnel policies.
He also assists in conducting
orientation for new personnel.
Prior to coming to the hos
pital seven months ago, Cobb
worked as a counselor at Ope-«
ration Breakthrough in Dur->
ham and, for 10 years before
that, as a manager with the
Durham Public Housing Au
thority.
Electrocuted
In His Pulpit
NEW ORLEANS
The Reverend Edward Klein,
a Seventh Day Adventist min
ister, was electrocuted dur
ing a weekend baptismal ser
vice. Klein, still dripping from
the baptism, grabbed •
microphone to apeak to his
congregation and suffered a
fatal shock. He died an hour
later in a local hospital.