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NCCU, UNC-CH TO CREATE JOINT CENTER WORDS OF WISDOM One man with courage makes a majority. —K.V.P. Philosopher A young man's most profitable investment is to give his best to his employer. —Roger W. Babson A time comes to every man when he must do a tiling or miss a great benefit. —Theodore Roosevelt VOLUME 51 No. 11 Negro College Fu Meet lu Raleigh March 12-14 J I ISFjS HHL. *e* ■p«r.^MHE*^H ■ I "~*~t£4,; ■.-•-teia^^B CHECK PRESENTED—CIaude 0. Sykes, left, of General Telephone of the Southeast, and Anthony J. Morreale, Jr., right, of the parent GTE Sylvania, presented a $2,900 check representing an unrestricted gift by the GTE Sylvania First Black Student Pres. Named at UNC CHAPEL HILL - Univer sity of North Carolina junior Richard James Epps Jr. of Wilmington is the first black student to be elected president of the student body here. Epps was named president elect during annual UNC cam pus erections held this week. A runoff was scheduled for next week between Epps and his closest contender, David Pittman Dickey from Fayette ville, until Dickey withdrew from the race. Epps received 46 percent of the votes in one of the largest turnouts for a campus election in UNC history. Dickey re ceived 25 percent of the votes. Epps, campsign platform focused on the re-direction of student government. Epps and his running mate for vice presi dent, Fred Biount Davenport Jr. of Mackeys, proposed (See STUDENT page 2A) Blacks Are Urged To Seek Posts As Precinct Election Officials On March 18, 1972, the County Board of Eelctions in every county meets to appoint new precinct election officials for every precinct in their county. "It is very important that more Blacks be appointed as precinct election officials" said John Edwards, director of the North Carolina Voter Edu cation Project, in a recent ad Eastern District C Church To Convene The Eastern District Con ference of the African Metho dist Episcopal Church of the Western North Carolina Con ference will convene at the Em manuel A.M.E. Church, 2018 Riddle Road, Durham, March 16 and continue through MarcH 17, 1972. Rev. J. R. Crutchfield is the host pastor. Opening session begins Thursday at 10 o'clock with devotions led by the Reverends D. L. Morrison, D. H. Ford, and A. M. Hall. Rev. A. J. Turner, Pastor of the North Hillsborough Church, will deliver the open ing sermon. Music will be rendered by the District Con ference Choir. Holy Communion will be administered by the Visiting Presiding Elders and Pastors of the District. Dr. G. W. Larkin, who pre sides over the Eastern District, will deliver his message Thurs (See CONVENTION 4A) dress to the Granville County Improvement Association. The most important pre cinct officials are the registrar and two judges. In addition, other precinct election officials such as ballot counters, are ap pointed in some counties. The director of the Durham-based organization said these officials, particularly the precinct regis Otf Car§2|a Foundation to North Carolina Central University. NCCU President Albert N. Whiting is shown accepting the gift presented Wednesday, March 1. Howard Lee Opens Carrboro Headquarters By JOHN MYERS CHAPEL HILL - The Masonic Temple in Carrboro has been the successful be ginning site for two election campaigns for Howard Lee of Chapel Hill. It was in that building Lee opened his cam paign headquarters for both races for mayor in which he came out first. Friday evening, March 3, Lee once again put the building to candidacy use. This time to open his headquarters for a congressional seat in district 2. In his welcoming address Lee stated that the Masonic Temple had meant good luck for him trar can have a lot to do with whether or not voter registra tion drives are successful, and that the election officials are the ones who run the precinct polling place on election day. In his speech Edwards out lined how people are appointed as election officials. He said that in every county the Coun ty Chairman of each political (See PRECINCT 2A)» DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1972 in the past and he saw no rea son to stop using the building now. Lee stated that in his pre liminary campaigning of the past several weeks he had been spending 13-14 hour days tour ing 2nd district and talking to the people of the area. The common attitude of the people (See LEE page 2A) K -JM Pw m r* in ** V JHH m */ 9 mm . ■ ■ / ■ fIUH II m 'fit - f i Wm ■ ■ I ■'s&' *jl>, ■ M JhJf J RECEIVES AWARD Mrs. Secolla Bishop, center, accepts 6-year pin for service ren dered the Cub Scouts of Mount Gilead Bap tist Church. The Rev. A. D. Moseley, pastor, presents the award as Thomas King observes. Mrs. Bishop is a member of the Willing UNCF Consists of Forty Private Fully-Accredited Black Schools The United Negro College Fund will hold its joint annual meeting of Members and Di rectors in Raleigh, N. C. from March 12-14 th. Arthur A. Fletcher, execu tive director of the UNCF, said that the meeting will continue the practice of holding board meetings in a city where the UNCF has member institu tions. Shaw University and Saint Augustine's College, two UNCF colleges, are located in Raleigh. On the agenda for the leaders of the Fund to discuss are matters pertaining to the financial problems of the schools, possible new avenues Release of Angela Davis Was Staunch Victory in People's Fight The release of Angela Davis on bail is a resounding victory In the people's fight to free all political prisoners. In the past 16 months, our committee has taken the lead in the building of a broad mass movement. We were correct in setting our goal and correct in our tactics. We have literally built a movement standing over the shoulder of the state and the court which is tied to a legal defense that takes the movement into the court At this very important mo ment in our campaign we must shift into higher gear. The bail restrictions placed on Miss Davis by the court are not only unconstitutional, but the right to speak and travel (during pauses in court proceedings) is part and parcel of a "fair trial." We will mount an in tense movement to remove those restrictions. But bail is not enough! It is an interim victory. Now our focus must be Sister Angela's full and complete freedom. Workers Sunday School Class, Missionary Board of Christian Education and a Hostess of the Mt. Gilead Bapitst Church. She 1s the wife of Frank Bishop of Mineral Springs Rd. and they have three sons. PRICE: 20 CENTS of loan assistance to students and greater cooperative plan ning among the , member schools. The UNCF consists of 40 private fully-accredited four year institutions. Some 45,000 students attend these schools. Ely R. Callaway, president of Burlington Industries, Inc., will be the main speaker at a corporate luncheon during the three-day meeting. The lunch eon, which is by invitation only, will be held at 12:30 p.m. Monday, March 13th, at the Holiday Inn in Raleigh, where all sessions will take place. John W. Winters, Raleigh (See UNCF page 2A) We have already maintained and continue to stress the fact that Angela Davisis the victim of a racist, anti-communist frameup. She is the victim of (See ANGELA page 2A) Fuming For The Mai Center WV Be Provided By Consolidated UNC A Center for the Study of Desegregation, staffed by facul ty members of predominantly black North Carolina Central University and the largely white University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be established on the North Carolina Central campus here. Funding for the Center will be provided by the Consoli dated Univeristy of North Carolina. UNC President Wil liam C. Friday and NCCU Pre sident Albert N. Whiting an nounced Monday that $15,000 annually will be allocated by the Consolidated University to the Center's operations. I ■r I *4f V CHARMMI-—(Columbia, & C.)— Abigail Brown, a junior at South Carolina State College at Orangeburg, was crowned Miss South Carolina State Park recently. Mia* Brown w«a .presented to the Paries, Recreation and Tourism Commia [ . sloii at its monthly meeting at Middleburg Mall by Bob Hickman, executive director oI the Commission. She will represent the State Parks and Recreation Division at offici ial throughout the year. Dr. Norman P. Uhl, the North Carolina Central Uni versity professor of education whose brainchild the center is, said that the Center will be set up to study the problems and effects of desegregation from as broad a perspective as possible. Uhl said a group of twelve raculty members representing both educational institutions has begun preliminary meetings to determine specific functions and organizational structure of the center. The faculty memb ers represent the academic areas of city and regional planning, education, history, law, physical education, psy chology, sociology, and urban studies, in addition to the re search and evaluation offices of the schools. Uhl said the interdiscipli nary interest in the center had encouraged him. "The answers to desegregation and integra tion are not available in any single discipline," he said, "and (See CENTER 2A) Blacks Are Urged to Participate In the Democratic Convention Blacks throughout the state are urged to participate in pre cinct, county and congressional district as well as national con ventions by the Minorities Di vision of the Democratic Na tional Committee in an at tempt to mount a strong "Nixon is thru in '72" cam paign. Dr. E. Lavonia Allison, A. J. H. Clement 111 and other key black Demo crates of the area hosted a series of news conferences with Andrew C. Muse, Director, Minorities Di vicion Democratic National Social Clubs Organized for Mental Patients By JOHN MYERS Mrs. Patricia Osborne and Quinton Parker announced Thursday 2 the organization of two social clubs for the mental health patients in the Durham Mental Health Center. One club will meet Thurs days 10-IL'3O a.m. This club will consist of people who are over 40 and who do not have jobs in the community. After attending three meetings this person may decide whether or not he wishes to become a member. After becoming a member if he misses three con tacted by some other member and asked the reason for not attending and if he is not in terested in remaining in the (See MENTAL page 8A) Committee, in Durham recent ly- In an attack on the current administration Muse stated, "... the presidency of Mr. Nixon has been wishy-washy if not anti-black in the area of dvil rights." He charged further that the administration has been at tempting to put blinders over Nixon's poor record, but blacks of North Carolina and other parts of the nation are not in the mood for being fooled with misinformation, even if the source if the White (See DEMOS pa«e 2A)
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