Neighborhood Centers Receive U.S. Grant
GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE
"STANGERS ON A BUS" By George B. RUBS
DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By Mia Syminer Days
RAMBLING With Mr*. Virginia Alston
PREGNANCY PLANNING ft HEALTH By G. Riggabee
CHEYENNE SCOUT CORNER By E. L Kearney
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK By John Myen
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Brief Riot At College plaza
OFC DEPOSITS $217,000 IN
MECHANICS AND FARMERS
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A CAREFUL WATCH is maintained ovw
parks, recreation areas and similar f»«»HH—
by members of the Rochester, N. Y. Police
Department's Teens on Patrol program. Rich
ard Stevenson, above (left), is visited at his
post in Edgerton Playground by Community
First In Series Of Steps Taken
To Assist Poverty-Ar
Miss L. Atkins
Appointed Miss
Durham Data
By JOHN MYERS
In an attempt to create
interest and enthusiasm to
wards the city of Durham, the
Chamber of Commerce has had
20,000 Durham Data Cards
printed. These cards, on one
side, contain numerical facts
about the city such as popula
tion, retail sales yearly, whole
sales yearly, employment, and
the number of telephones in
the city. T>ie other side of the
card lists interesting facts
about Durham such as its
cultural center, medical center,
and Research Triangle Park.
To promote the acceptance
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Services police officer John Denero. The
Eastman Kodak-financed program, sponsor-'
ed by Rochester Jobs, Inc., helps to estab
lish a more positive relationship between
inner city teens and l police.
John H. Wheeler, President
of Mechanics and Farmers
Bank in Durham, announced
today the receipt of a
$217,000 check from John
Gloster, President of Oppor
tunity Funding Corporation in
Washington, D. C.
The $217,000 deposit is
part of OFC's broad banking
program to strengthen banks
serving poverty communities.
Opportunity Funding Corpora
tion is a non-profit corporation
funded by a $7 million grant
from the Office of Economic
Opportunity.
Mr. Wheeler, "dean" of
black bankers, indicated that
he was "extremely proud" to
participate in OFC's demon
stration program. Mr. Wheeler
said: "This establishes a rela
tionship that we feel will be
very meaningful. It will enable
us, particularly, to extend our
thrust in the Black commu
nity."
Mechanics & Farmers is one
of more than 35 banks in the
(See BANK page 1A)
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FSU Names
P. Leazer to
New Position
FAYETTEVILLE—Perry R.
Leazer, Administrative Assis
tant to the President, has been
elevated to the position of.
Director of Development and
University Relations at Fay
etteville State University.
Leazer's promotion was
announced by President Charles
"A" Lyons, Jr. effective Sep
tember 16.
In making the announce
ment, President Lyons said
that Leazer would have direct
responsibility over one of the
institution's key areas. "The
area of Development and Uni
versity Relations includes Pub
lic Relations, Alumni Affairs,
(See LEAZER page 2A)
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1971
NUL Asks Governor to Probe
Facts Which Led to Attica Riots
NEW YORK—As a regult of
initiatives by its Buffalo, N.Y.,
affiliate, the National Urban
League today called on Gover
nor Rockefeller to appoint a
broadly representative Citizens
Committee of "established
integrity" to inquire into, and
lay bare, the facts which led to
the Attica Prison riots resulting
in the tragic deaths of forty
persons including hostages and
inmates of the state prison.
James A. Linen, President
of the National Urban League
and Harold R. Sims, Acting
Executive Director of the
League said in a telegram to
the governor:
"We understand fully that
you already have an investiga
tion underway through the
legal machinery of our state.
"But we respectfully submit
that the type of investigation
we have in mind and the Citi
zens Committee which we are
seeking should have no connec
tions whatever with the State
government. Unfortunately,
one of the facts which must be
faced at the outset of such an
investigation is that many of
the ills which helped to bring
about this tragedy stem from
the failure of the legislative,
judicial and executive branches
of our government to heed the
warning signals of unrest from
inside our prison walls and the
Spaulding Is
Assigned White
House Aide
A Durham native is one of
34 officers from all military
services who have been assign
ed as White House social aides
in the nation's capital.
Navy Lt. (jg) Aaron Spauld
ing, a graduate of North
Carolina Central University,
has been serving as a social aide
on a voluntary basis for ap
proximately rive weeks, while
continuing his regular duties as
a Financial management analyst
in the Washington Navy Yard.
In his new capacity, Spauld
ing greets puests of White
House functions, explains the
program of events, escorts
(See AIDE page 2A)
Looting Occurs
When Window
Glasses Broken
A short-lived riot occured
early Saturday morning at Col
lege Plaza on Fayetteville
Street when patroling police
attempted to stop a fight tak
ing place on the parking lot.
An unidentified witness
stated, "I was hiding behind a
parked car when the fight
started. Police arrived and tried
to break it up. Some shots
were fired and the crowd got
really up-tight. After the fight
stopped the police started to
leave and a lot of the kids
started throwing rocks and
bottles at their car.
"When the cops left, the kids
were standing around, still
pretty mad. Someone threw a
bottle through a near-by store
window and everybody went
wild."
Durham College Student
Union and Quick-Wash laundro
mat were two of the stores
suffering damage to the win
dows. Entrance was not gained
to either store.
James Mitchel, manager of
the A&P Supermarket in the
Plaza reported nine wall panels
of plate glass destroyed in the
front of his store. According to
Mitchel, looters took mostly
meats, cigarettes, and watches.
According to unofficial
testimony, The House Of
(See PLAZA page 2A)
recommendations for reform
by penal experts outside our
prison walls.
"The charges of racism al
ready levelled by many and the
fact that eighty-five percent of
the inmates of Attica are Black
and Puerto Rican, while the
guard force is virtually white,
makes it plain also that the ele
ments of racism must be thor
oughly investigated by the
Citizens Committee.
"Recent events, climaxing
with the tragedy at Attica,
have raised serious and unan
swered questions as to whether
justice for Black and poor
people in our prisons is truly
blind and impartial as it should
be.
"To leave these questions
unanswered in the minds of
any segment of our society, is
(See NUL pege 2A)
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Tubamn Branch of the YWCA has added two
new staff members. They are Miss Judy Mc-
Koy, a graduate of North Carolina Central
University. .
Miss McKoy, a native of Fucpiay-Varina
comes to the YWCA from the "Paths for
Employes' Progress" program at Duke Uni
versity. Miss McKoy was a Counselor with
W. D. Hill And Weaver Street
Facilities To Benefit From Grant
The U. S. Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment has announced the grant
of $312,095 for the construc
tion of W. D. Hill Center,
which was destroyed by fire
over three years ago, and for a
satellite center on Weaver
Street in the Cornwallis Road
Housing Project. The Durham
Housing Authority will pay
$40,000 toward construction
of the Weaver Street project
and the city will pay $146,000
for both projects.
Alex Gilleskie, City Recrea
tion Director, has said that
guidelines required that inten
sive planning with community
residents be shared and thus
the planning of the centers has
taken over a year and a half.
Gilleikie reported that
(See CENTERS page 2A)
Word* of Wisdom
I don't know who my grandfather vu; lam mash more
concerned to know what hia grandson will be.
—Abraham Uncsfci
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stag
nant remains fruitless. —Hoeea BaOoo
the program.
Mrs. Leak, a graduate of Bennett Collar
haa lon* graduate work at tha Howard Uni
vrsity School of Social Work and recently
a Master's Degree in Recreation AAninistra
tion and Gerontology from University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She haa work
ed as • Social Worker for several years and
is a past resident of Reidsville.
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Baha'is Speakers to Highlight
September Meeting of NAACP
Dr. Dwight Allen, Dean of
the School of Education at the
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, Massachusetts, and
Mrs. Charmion Winful, an
employee in Western Electric's
Defense Activities in the pur
chasing organization, Greens
boro, North Carolina, will be
the Baha'i speakers presented
at the monthly meeting of the
NAACP at 4:00 P.M., Sunday,
September 26 at the Commu
PRESIDENT OF A&T UNIVERSITY
PICKED FOR EUROPE STUDY TOUR
GREENSBORO, N.C.-Dr.
Lewie C. Dowdy, president of
A&T State University, has been
■elected by the Anti-Defa
mation League of BWai B"rith
to participate in a study-tour
of Israel early in November.
Dowdy's selection waa
announced by Kenyon C.
Burke, director of the League's
national urban affairs depart
ment in New York City.
"We hope that this tour will
provide indghts that will coun
teract the polarisation and
pervasive racism that we are
witnessing today in many
' communities," said Burke.
Dowdy will join approxi
mately eight other presidents
of predominately-black" col
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nity Baptist Church on Barbae
Road. Lawrence Miller, an
employee in reaearch in pris
oner rehabilitation in Raleigh,
will serve as master of cere
monies.
Dr. Allen will address him
self to education and the prob
lem of poverty from the Bahat
vantage point. Mrs. Winful will
treat human relations and
peace, also from the Bahal
(See BAHA'IS ptge 2AJ
lages on the tour from Novem
ber 1-15.
While in Israel, the edu
cators will meet the preeidents
of the Hebrew University, the
Weismann Institute and the
Afro-Asian Institute.
"We hope to esamlne the
way Israel has dealt with its
socio-economic problems,
including absorbing of minori
ties sad land economic ttevee
opment," said Dowdy. "We
would aleo like to investigate
educational techniques that
have been employed with
penaatory education for the
disadvantaged."
Dowdy said he wiß discties
the possi bflity of establishing
(See TOUR pa* 1A)