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* THOUSANDS FOR HAACP CAMPAIGN—
Mrs. Margaret Jackson, who for ten yean
has been producing the "Show of Shows" as
a benefit for the NAACP, presents a check
for $8,900.00 to NAACP Executive Director
Roy Wilkins (left) and Ted Meeldns, Assist
Former Breadbasket Director
Reveals Birth Of
Black Woman
Named Director
EEO For Labor
WASHINGTON - Mrs.
Velma McEwan Strode, a long
time worker for equal rights and
better human relations has been
appointed to the new position
of Dbector of Equal Employ
ment Opportunity for the U.S.
Department of Labor.
In announcing the appoint
ment, Secretary of Labor J. D.
Hodgson stressed the "critical
importance" of the new posi
tion.
"It is my intent to create
within the Department an equal
employment opportunity pro
gram that will serve as a model
for other government agencies
and private industry," the Sec
retary stated. "The appoint
ment of a person of Mrs.
Strodes outstanding capabilities
as full-time director is an im
portant step towards accom
plishing this goal," he added.
Mrs. Strode, Senior Commu
nity Relations Specialist for the
Justice Department's Commu
nity Relations Service since
1968, was selected for the post
following an intensive recruit
ment effort to find the best per
son noted.
In her new position, Mrs.
Strode will advise the Secretary
on equal employment opportu
nity (EEO) policies. She will
guide and coordinate Depart
(See WOMAN page 3A)
Chavis Indicted, Face with Being
Accessory After Fact of Murder
By JAMES VAUGHAN
Ben Chavis, field organizer
for the North Carolina-Virginia
Commission on Racial Justice
was arrested immediately after
unboarding a plane at the New
Hanover County Airport this
week. He was arrested on
charges of being an accessory
after the fact of murder of a
Wilmington teenager, killed last
March.
Chavis reportedly had flown
from New Yorlf to surrender to
a warrant issued earlier this
week for his arrest. According
to the authorities, Chavis gave
aid to Jerome Nixon, charged
with the murder of Eugene
Wright, 18 of the area.
This week's arrest marked
the second time Chavis has been
arrested in two weeks. He was
ant Director, NAACP life Membership Divi
sion. The star-studded 1971 show headlined
Johnny Haitman, Beverly Todd and The La
Roc que Bey Dancexfe. Music was provided by
the Ray Block Orchestra.
By JAMES VAUGHAN
The birth of Operation
PUSH was announced recently
by former Operation Bread
basket head, Rev. Jesse Jack
son following his break
with the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference after
suspension from the Atlanta
headquarters.
Operation PUSH meaning
People United to Save Humani
ty has as its main objective
to conscentrate on political
economics.
"We are after taking black
consciousness a step beyond the
new rap, the new look, and the
new language. We are after
getti.ig and maintaining power,"
Rev. Jackson stated in announc
ing the new organization.
Black national leaders met
in New York recently on the
heals of the split between Rev.
Jackson and SCLC to determine
the effect of the split on the
black movement.
"There cannot be too many
black leaders," stated » Mayor
Carl Stokes, one of the 25
leaders attending. "We pledged
him our support and told him
to develop a framework."
Jackson stated in reference
to the split, "Thou has multi
plied the nation, not split the
nation," quoting from the bible.
Many black leaders have
stated recently that Rev. Jack
son, the dynamic, 30-year-old
Baptist minister from South
Carolina may become one of
the nation's leading black re
formers. Youth and older
blacks are waiting attentively
to witness the development of
PUSH.
previously arrested by Federal
Agents in Raleigh on charges
of smiggling two men out of
the country to avoid prosecu
tion stemming from an Oxford
racial incident.
On both occasions Chavis
was released on bond, the latest
bond was set at $lO thousand.
Chavis is being backed by the
Commission. According to Rev.
Leon White, of Raleigh, execu
tive director of the regional
commission, there is the belief
that Chavis is innocent and will
be vindicated.
A national staff member of
the commission, Irv Joyner of
New York accompanied Chavis
to Wilmington.
Chavis refused comment to
news sources acting on the
council of his attorneys Regi
nald Lewis and Frank Ballance.
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Congr. Diggs
Resigns From
African Post
By JAMES VAUGHAN
Congressman Charles C.
Diggs, Jr. (D),resigned from the
U. S. delegation to the U. N.
General Assembly recently
charging the Nixon Administra
tion with being hypocritical in
its African policies.
Diggs resigned his post as
head of the Subcommittee on
African Affairs. He expressed
fear that Nixon's recent meet
ing with Prime Minister Edward
Heath would result in an under
standing of U. S. Support for
Brittian's proposed Rhodesian
settlement.
"I submit my resignation to
the president and to the coun
try," Diggs stated. Diggs also
criticized the Azores accord
with the Portugal and his dele-
(See DIGGS page 3A)
Story: A 1
New Focus 1
By WILLIAM TURNER
Most of the time, when we
tell the Christmas Story we tell
it as some great and wonderous
tale that should inspire joy and
uplifting in the hearer. We talk
about the birth of the Prince of
Peace and how the sheperds
came to see the King in the
manger. We say that Jesus was
born on that day in Bethlehem
to be the Saviour of the world.
But we never stop to ponder
how we can speak of peace and
salvation in a world like ours--
some two thousand years after
the bringer of these items sup
posedly has come. And we for
get that it was a manger wherein
the baby was laid, or either we
forget what a manger is, if ever
we knew. We pass over the part
where the expectant couple was
told that there was no room in
the inn, and we move on to the
singing and celebration. And so
we lump all celebration to
gether: we celebrate Santa,
Rudolf, the tree, or Belks. If we
happen to think of Jesus at all'
we think of him as some half
real character of fantasy who
really doesn't matter anyway.
We forget, if ever we knew,
what it meant to be a Jew in
(See CHRISTMAS I.A)
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1971
Part Of Shaw University
Faculty May Be Shifted
Million Dollar
Deficit Causes
Staff Change
By JAMES VAUGHAN
Shaw University announced
recently that because of a $1 1
million deficit many of : iits
faculty and staff members may
be shifted next year as partici
pants of a tri-college corporate
program.
Dr. Leon Thompson, pro
vost, announced at a faculty
meeting that Shaw will attempt
to create along with St. Augus
tine College and Kittrell College
a shared program of curriculum
and staff which would reduce
costs of operating quality edu
cation "tremendously."
School officials reported,
however, that contrary to re
cent news reports Shaw "does
not anticipate a massive dis
missal of at least one-half of its
200 members staff of facult)
and administrators."
Spokesman fron. the univer
sity stated that "the story ori
ginated from an interview with
President J. Archie Hargraves in
which there was no statement
(See SHAW page ZA)
Miss Mattiwilda
Dobbs Sings Praise»
Of Sweden "Home"
I STOCKHOLM, Sweden -
Atlanta-born, Black operatic
singer, Mattiwilda Dobbs de
scribes Sweden as "a cradle of
humanitarianism." Miss Dobbs
has only the highest praise for
the tiny, progressive country ofr
eight million people that she
now calls "home."
I spent two hours with Miss
Dobbs discussing her career as
one of the world's great opera
stars, and her life as one of
the few Blacks living in Swe
(See DOBBS page 2A)
Black Youth Registering Too Slowly
SCLC REGISTRATION DRIVE BEGINS
By .IAMES VAUGHAN
Newly enfranchised youth
including blacks across the state
are reportedly slow to register.
Black elected officials in the
state including members of the
North Carolina Black Caucuss
are counting heavily on a large
turnout of black youth in Black
politics for '72.
According to Alex Brock,
director of elections for the
state of North Carolina, "re
gistration is going as we antici
pated. New groups have always
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PROBLEMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST DIS
CUSSED—Dr. Hugh H. Smythe, consultant,
U.S. Office of Education, New York, Is point
ing out on the map some of the troubled
areas of the Middle East, as he lectured to
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Jame« V. Smith, Administrator of the-Parm.
ers Home Administration andl Matter of
Girl 11, Tells U.S. Officials Of
"Good life' / - la Rural America
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
When the 1971 Yearbook of
Agriculture, "A Better Life for
More People," was introduced
at a press conference in (he
Rayburn Office Building, one
spokesman for the better life
was 11-year-old Christine Butler
of St. Mary's County, Maryland.
Christine told newsmen and
high-ranking government offi
cials how their parents - Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Butler --
taken several years to get a sub
stantial number on the hooks."
He stated that where there
have been registration drives in
high schools there has been an
even number of blacks register
ing along with the whites.
"Surprisingly," he staled
"some of the youth have voiced
a preference to wait to register
Iwcause they felt that they
didn't know enough about po
litics."
Brock stated that in his be
(Sea YOUTH page 3A)
students, faculty and friends of the com
munity on December 8. The occasion was the
first in a series of three lectures, sponsored
by tha S and H Foundation, Inc.
Ceremonies and the honoree, Christine But
ler. (U. S. D. A. Photo)
used a loan from the Farmers
Home Administration to buy
a new three-bedroom house.
"We used to live in a small
trailer with one bedroom and a
kitchen-living room combined.
My father went down and
talked with the Farmers HoiW
Administration about getting a
loan for us to build a house.
Then, after we got our house,
we sold the trailer and took the
money and bought furniture for
Students Charge
Halt Of School Desegregation
A&T Univ. School of Nursing
Wins National Accreditation
GREENSBORO - The
School of Nursing at A&T State
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lIMH 0F OUR CUSTOMERS ' m
111 EXTEND SINCERE GREETINGS.
the house.
"In our new home flow, we
have three bedrooms. We two
girls have a room, my two
brothers have a room, and my
mother and father have a room.
"My brothers and my sister
and I are in the 4-H Club and
we help my mother around the
house, cook and paint. We have
a dog and a cat for pets."
Christine's mother, Mrs.
(See GIRL page 3A)
University Monday was granted
accreditation by the National
League for Nursing, the highest
evaluating agency for nursing
education.
Announcement of the
school's accreditation was made
at a press conference this morn
ing by Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy,
president of the University.
Dowdy was notified Monday
by Dr. Dorothy Osimek, secre
tary of the League's board of
review in New York City.
The accreditation of A&T's
baccalaureate nursing program
came on the heels of a week
long evaluation by the board of
review during October.
Dr. Oamek's letter said in
part:
"The National League for
Nursing's board of review for
baccalaureate and higher de
gree programs voted to grant
initial accreditation to the
baccalaureate degree programs
in nursing." She said the
(See NURSING page 3A)
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Pitt County
Blacks Suffer
Further Defeat
By JAMES V A UGH AN
Blacks of Pitt County suf
fered a recent defeat in at
tempts to have Trooper Billy
Day relieved of duty over the
August slaying of a black farm
worker. The N. C. Civil Liber
ties te»m of investigators up
held State reports which cleared
Trooper Day of Black charges
that the August slaying of
William Murphy was injustified.
Blacks of Pitt County includ
ing SCLC Held worker Golden
Frinks charged that Trooper
Day shot and killed Murphy
after he was handcuffed and
held in custody. Blacks of the
County have declared that de
monstrations and protest will
continue until Day is relieved
of Duty.
Day claimed, however, that
Murphy was shot after a strug
gle during arrest attempt.
Following the rulings of the
second investigations, renewed
threats of protests were issued
forth from blacks of the area.
Currently, a little under 1,000
(See PITT page 3A)
Mason Delegation
Invited to Tolbert
Inauguration Jan. 3
NEW ORLEANS - A dele
gation of thirty-third degree
Prince Hall Masons has been ex
tended an invitation by Presi
dent William R. Tolbert to
attend his inauguration on Jan.
3, in Monrovia, Liberia.
Dr. John G. Lewis Jr. of
Baton Rouge, soveriegn grand
commander. United Supreme
Council, Ancient Accepted
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry,
Southern Jurisdiction, will head
(See MASONS page 3A)
By JAMES VAUGHAN
A group of Southern school
students filed a class-action suit
against the Nixon Administra
tion seeking a judgment direct
ing the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare to begin
an administrative or judicial en
forcement proceedings against
segregated state colleges in 10
Southern states and segregated
school districts in 17 Southern
and nearby states.
The suit charged that the
Nixon Administration delibe
rately has ground to a halt its
school desegregation machinery.
In an 80-page brief, the suit
detailed charges against the ad
ministration stating that: "The
Government has annually con
tinued to grant millions of
dollars in federal aid to segre
gated public schools and col
leges throughout the South.
"Under a variety of half-J
hearted HEW enforcement po
licies and unnecessary wlf
denying ordinances, hundreds
of elementary and secondary
school districts have continued
to receive federal aid for
months and yean after they
were found to be segregated or
(See SCHOOLS page 9A)