WORDS OF WISDOM
Mere criticism is like shadow-boxing: It may be good
for the liver, but it won't win the fight.
—Alexander Markey
Men are not judged by how they start, but by how they
ffi" 8 * 1 - —J. Richard Sneed
VOLUME 51 No. 14
After Two Year
THE REMAINING TWO SOLEDAD
BROTHERS FOUND NOT GUILTY
SAN FRANCISCO - John
Clutchette and Fletta Drumgo,
the two surviving members
of the Soledad Brothers, were
freed Monday of murder
charges , stemming from the
death of a prison guard Jan
uary 16, 1970 at Soledad Pri
son in Monterey County.
An all white jury returned
the not-guilty verdict Monday
March 27 after three days de
liberation. The jury went into
deliberation Friday night 24
after a 13 week trial held
under extraordinary security
BRIEF BLACK
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NATIONAL BLACK NEWS
BROADCAST
Beginning April Bth, 1972
General Motors will sponsor a
weekly news program designed
to inform Black people about
significant events in their com
munities a swell as national
news. Media Ventures Inc. a
subsidiary of B. & C. Associ
ates Inc., a minority-owned
PR firm in High Point N. C.
will produce the program
which will be aired on minori -
ty oriented stations during
prime listening time in major
cities throughout the country.
Other stations desiring .to sub
scribe to this fifteen minute
broadcast may do so.
CHISHOLM SUPPORTS
ON BIG BUSINESS
Seven Presidential candi
dates including Congresswo
man Shirley Chisholm (D-NY)
said they woulcj consider or
support a proposal to restrain
the power of giant corpora
tions by compelling them to
get their business charters from
the federal government rather
that the states. Chisholm said
that, "concentration of econo
mic power and wealth is largly
responsible for many of the in
ternal social problems we face
today."
ATTENTION MINORITY
MANUFACTURERS!!
If you are interested in
starting an industrial enter
prise of strengthening an exis
ting company please contact
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration. The
agency has made available 24
technology items for interested
TRIBUTE GIVEN TO IATE
PUBUSHER L
Memorial tributes will be
given for the late Dr. L. E.
Austin who served for over
twenty years as president of
the Interdenominational
Ushers Association of North
Carolina, Inc., by the group.
The Annual Midyear Ses
sion of The Interdenomination
al Ushers Association of North
Carolina, Inc. will be held at
the Ushers Home, Highway
No. 1, North of Franklinton,
N. C. Sunday April 9, 1972.
Sunday School will be held at
9:30 AM. followed by the
business session and an open
discussion at 11 a.m. The
Bldg. Committee and Board
of Trustees will have an im
portant meeting during the
precautions at the Hall of Jus
tice.
Clutchette 28, and Drumgo
26 were accused with George
Jackson 28, a third Soledad
Brother who died in San Quen
tin violence last August 21,
of beating guard John V. Mills
to death Jan. 16, 1970 at
Soledad Prison.
Jackson, whose book of
letters from prison became an
underground best seller, died
with three white guards and
two white convicts in what
prison authorities called an es
cape attempt.
minority businessmen to exa
mine for possible production.
The agency frequently makes
this kind of offer to small
firms. Please address your in
quiry to: Technology Utiliza
tion Office, Code Kt, NASA
Headquarters, Washington, D.
C. 20546 to the attention of
K. J. Kler.
INDIAN MESBIC IN
OKLAHOMA
The first Indian-owned
Minority Enterprise Small Busi
ness Investment Company in
the State of Arizona was re
cently opened. Mrs. Lola Hay
den is director of American
Indian Investment Opportuni
ties Inc. which was capitalized
at $150,102. The MESBIC is
the 46th to be licensed by
SBA according to Thomas S.
Kleppe, Administrator.
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI
Dr. Haywook Anderson
elected Board Chairman of
Jackson NBL...Black Business
Week scheduled May 1 - 5
1972 ... Johnnie Harris local
NBL Chapter president and
Jan Winkley, Project Out
reach's assistant director ap
peared on WLBT-TV's "Tem
po 72".
BLACK NEWSPAPERS
There are 178 Black news
papers published in the U. S.
The combined circulation ex
ceeds 3.5 million and the larg
est Black paper in Muhammed
Speaks which has a weekly na
tional circulation of 700,000.
Don't Forget NBL's 72nd
Annual Convention in Dallas
Texas October 3 - 6th, 1972
at the Fairmont Hotel!!!
morning session to make final
plans for our propoaed building
The Raleigh Ushers Union will
serve lunch at 1 p.m. Rev.
S. G. Clemmoner, Pastor of
the Faith Tabernacle Holy
Church of Kinston, will bring
the annual sermon at 2:30
p.m.
€hr Car§3|a Ciuws
Upon hearing the innocent
verdicts, Clutchette and
Drumgo jumped up and hug
ged their court-appointed at
torneys -- Richard Silver and
Floyd Silliman.
Clutchette's mother, Doris
Maxwell, said, "Oh, thank
God. God bless the jury. I
am as happy as the first day
John was born."
Inez Williams, mother of
Drumgo, said, "I'm very, very
happy and very excited.
THE PRESENCE Of BUCKS
AND PREJUDICE M SOUTH
By JOHN MYERS
CHAPEL HILL - Vernon
Jordan, director of the Na
tional Urban League; Albert
Murray, author of "The Omni-
Americans and South to a Very
UNC Features
t
Failures Of
Southern Past
By JOHN MYERS
CHAPEL HILL - "The
South has spent the past hun
dred years feeling guilty. That's
just fine. But I think things
would have been speeded up if
the rest of the nation would
have spent some time feeling
guilty about some things too
Penny Micklebury, metropoli
tan correspondent for the
Washington Post, served as one
of the members of a panel dis
cussing the failures of the sou
thern past at the University
of North Carolina Symposium
Monday March 27. Other
members of the panel included
Dr. Larry Goodwin, UNC his
torian; Hodding Carter 111, edi
tor of the Delta Democrat
Times; Edwin M. Yoder, as
sociate editor of the Greens
boro Daily News; George Core,
editor of the University of
Georgia Press; and George
Esser, executive director of the
Southern Regional Coundl.
Miss Micklebury continued
her discussion of the southern
past by stating that the strug
gle is not over just because
it has been recognized in the
other parts of the country.
"Where is the South now? We
can't sit here and watch the
Supreme Court run all over
111. or bus kids from central
Cincinatti to Shaker Heights.
It does not release us just be
cause everyone else does it.
So that's my question. What
do we do now?"
Dr. Goodwin pointed out
that the past is changing ra
pidly in its approach and ac
ceptance of the wrongs com
mitted and left unrecorded by
present history books. "His
torians have little faith in our
college history text and no
faith in elementary text books.
The events that took place and
the ways in which they were
recorded is often extremely
different."
He referred to present his
tory teachings as "dull mytho
dology which passes for his
tory." And brought out one
point which na historian can
overlook or fully deny: "black
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DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1972
"But our fight is not over.
Fleeta has been indicted for
what happened at San Quentin
when George Jackson died. So
we have to keep on fighting."
Clutchette faces no further
charges and was scheduled for
parole April 20, 1970 before
being charged in Mills' death.
Drumgo still faces a charge
of murder in connection with
a Marin County indictment
stemming from the San Quen
tin violence.
Old Place;" and Dr. Benjamin
Mayes, former President of
Morehouse College, author of
"Born to Rebel" were the par
ticipants in a panel discussion
of black presence in the South
over the last 30 years at the
University of North Carolina
Symposium Tuesday 28.
Jordan discussed what he
felt to be difference in preju
dice of the 1960's and that
of the 1970'5. "In the 60's
we were confronted with the
right to ride on a city bus. In
the 70's it is the question of
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GREYHOUND IS AIDING
NEEDY BLACK STUDENTS
with special scholarships to
Black colleges. Greyhound, an
Equal Opportunity Employer,
presented scholarships to three
Black schools, Nashville's
Educational Reg
Blacks Cut Off By Officials
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Rep. Augustus F. " Hawkins,
Chairman of the National
Policy Conference on Educa
tion for Blacks announced to
day that registration for the
fourty-day confab has been cut
off and that no additional
registrations can be honored
because of space limitations.
The National Policy Con
ference on Education for
Blacks is scheduled to begin
March 29 at the Marriott
Twin-Bridges Hotel, in Wash
ington, D. C. It will continue
through April 1 with some
600 participants from across
the country.
Former Assistant Secretary
of Labor Arthur Fletcher,
Executive Director of the
United Negro College Fund;
Nathaniel Jones, Legal Counsel
for the NAACP; Dr. Vivian
Henderson, President of Clack
College; Barbara Jordan, Texas
State Senator, and Kenneth
"The verdict is beautiful"
said Angela Davis, the alleged
black communist military pre
sently on trial for kidnap, con
spiracy and murder. Miss Davis
is charged with providing the
weapons for an Aug. 7, 1970,
Marin County courtroom break
attempt in which a judge and
three abductors died. The pro
secution contends the purpose
was to ransom freedom for the
three Soledad Brothers.
having the right to determine
where the bus is going and at
what fare it will go. In the
60's we fought for the right
to sit and eat at a public
lunch counter. In the 70's we
are fighting for food for our
poor while hunger stalks the
land. In the 60's we fought
for the right to spend the
night in the Hilton. In the
70's we are fighting for the
money with which to spend
the night in the Hilton. In
the 70's we are fighting for
the money with which to
spend the night there now that
we are allowed to.
"I want to know if this
nation proposes to complete
the revolution it began in the
60's." Jordon continued with
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Tennessee State U., Southern
U. of Baton Rouge and Hous
ton's Prairie View in March.
. Dr. A. P. Torrence re
ceives a check from Grey
hound's Will Hatch, Memphis
Regional Sales Manager.
Clark, Director of the Metro
politan Applied Research
Center, are among the princi
ples who will speak at the
Conference. Some 12 other
nationally recognized educa-.
tion specialists will also play
major roles at the invitational
parley.
Dr. Bernard Watson, Project
Director, said that the Con
ference sponsored by the Con
gressional Black Caucus and
nine other national organiza
tions, is designed to enable
blacks from across the nation
to arrive at a consensus on
selected policy issues and to
have a better understanding of
other issues. "The Confer
ence," says Doctor Watson,
"will serve as a forum for the
ideas and information on how
best to build on the educa
tional achievements of blacks
and how best to rectify the
educational injustices faced
daily by black children and
youth."
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ARBOR DAY PLANT
ING Dr. J. C. Simpson,
dean of instruction at Living
stone College, plants a tree in
STUDENT
AT LOCAL SCHOOLS
By JAMES VAUGHAN
Durham recently was the
scene of black student unrest
u two of it* institution* -
North Carolina Central Uni
versity and Durham College -
were temporarily plagued by
student demonstrations. NCCU,
the first to be plagued by con
flict, reported no arrests, nor
injuries following several) hours
of student marching arid chant
ing in front of President Al
bert Whiting's office and later
demonstrations at the student
union building.
Durham College,'this week
suffered broken windows, da
maged facilities in the college's
cafeteria and boycotted classes.
Students, in turn were asked
to leave the college for a de
layed spring break.
Both incidents of protest
resulted following lists of de
mands from the student
bodies. NCCU students drew
up a list seeking improve
ments of medical facilities,
dormitories, security measures
and other grievances.
According to Harvey
White, president of the Stu
dent body, "We were only
after making improvements of
living conditions for the stu
dents here. Our protest was
not directed at Dr. Whiting, the
man."
The student spokesman con
tinued to explain that students
"feel the Dr. Whiting has the
potential of becoming the
greatest president this school
has ever had. And to be quite
frank, the students here like
him."
Mrs. V. Alston
Appointed By
Governor Scott
Gov. Bob Scott today an
nounced that Mrs. Virginia Al
ston of Durham and Mrs.
Rachel Weaver Frazier of Ra
leigh have been appointed to
the State Child Day Care Li
censing Board.
Mrs. Alston's term will ex
pire Dec. 31, 1977. She owns
and operates a day care center
in Durham and has worked
with kindergarten and day care
facilities for 25 years. She
received her education in Dur
ham and New York. She is ac
tive in many civic and reli
gious activities in and out of
the community. She is the
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GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE
YOUR MIND By William Thorpe
CHEYENNE SCOUT CORNER By E. L. Kearney
PREGNANCY PLANNING & HEALTH By G. Rfegsbea
DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By Mrs. Syminer Day#
WRITERS FORUM By George B. Ron
HIGHLIGHTS AT DURHAM HIGH
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CHAPEL HILL HIGH
the college's Poets and Dream
ers Garden honoring his late
father-in-law, Professor Emri
tus Isaac H. Miller, during Ar
The statements from the j
students were made following
letters to about two dozen
students from President Whit
ing warning them against
further demonstrations.
According to students, Dr.
Whiting's letter denied legiti- ■
mate grievances and shows a
Lack of faith in us on the part i
of the president when he
wfote "you can't try to bring
about constructive changes be
cause you'll be kicked out." |
Dr. Whiting has referred to
the North Carolina statue on
higher education making crimi
LOW-INCOM[ GROUP
MET HOSPITAL BOARD
By JOHN MYERS
"We cannot give you all the
answers now. We do not have
the authority or the knowledge
to answer all of your ques
tions. We will help you when
and where we can at any time
but some of the problems will
have to evolve as plans for the
county hospital develop."
Speurgon Boyce, chairman
of the board of directors for
the new Durham County hos
pital gave the above reply to
the Low-Income Health Care
Committee at a board of di
rectors meeting Thursday 24
in the county courthouse. The
low-income group originally
listed five demands for changes
in the construction of the new
hospital with its board of di
rectors and during the previous
month no action has been
taken. Boyce replied that the
board did not have the autho
rity to act on several of the
demands such as cite, trans
portation, etc. and did not
have the knowledge to act on
the others such as clinic space,
the ultimate plans for Watts
Hospital, etc.
The Low-Income Com
mittee headed by Mrs. Inez
Gooch, offered two major
proposals at Thursday's meet
ings. The first proposal was to
invite the board of directors,
the federal officials from
Raleigh, and officials from At
lanta to a public meeting to
be held April 6 at 7:30 p.m.
in Durham. Three members of
the board for the new hospital
stated they would be at the
meeting. The remaining board
members consented to give
PRICE: 20 CENTO
oor uay ceremonies. Professor
Miller was head of the De
partment of Education at Liv
ingstone for many years.
nal trespass law, punishable
by a fine up to SSOO or six
months imprisonment.
Currently, the NCCU cam
pus remains relatively quite.
Students are reported anxious
to talk further with the presi
dent rp«wding seeking change*.
Dr. Whiting stated that "my
office has and always win be
waiting and ready to receive
any student seeking construc
tive changes. I am perplexed
as to why they felt the need
to demonstrate rather than
come into my office," he said.
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every effort towards attend
ance.
The second proposal by
Mrs. Gooch's group was to
offer the remaining two vacant
seats on the board of directors
to representatives of the low
income sector of Durham.
John Wheeler, President of Me
chanics & Farmers' Bank made
the motion to consider the
proposal and the motion was
seconded by James Ward. The
Board approved the motion
and so carried.
Blacks Are
Wooed
Some Africans
By LOUISE MERIWETHER
"Black Americans who go
to South Africa to entertain
or lecture are lending legiti
macy to the white rulers and
spreading confusion and dis
unity in the Third World. They
are conferring support to the
white recist regime and are
pawns in the further enslave
ment of their African
brothers."
This is the position of the
Committee of Concerned
Blacks, a national group
which came into existence re
cently in alarm over the grow
ing number of Afro-Americans
being wooed to South Africa.
Fortunately, negotiations
for Sammy Davis, Jr., Aretha
Franklin and Muhammad All
to appear in South Africa for
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