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WORDS OF WISDOM Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. —Henry Ward Beechei m What one man can imagine another man can (JQ —Jules Verne VOLUME 51 NUMBER 40 FOR BREAKFAST A.M.E.BISHOPS SAY "NO" TO PRESIDENT NIXON The Coundl of Bishops of the African Methodist Episco pal Church (AME), during their recent meeting in the District of Columbia, flatly turned down a political in vitation from the White House for the entire group to break bread with the President. The same Nixon who for a full year refused to meet with the 13 elected officials of the Con gressional Black Caucus in the election year of 1972 was angling for a meeting with black church prelates obvious ly in an effort to sell them on supporting him and ac cepting his history of anti black behaviors by giving them breakfast in the White House. "Thank you Bishops for not going," said Andrew C. Muse, Assistant to the chair man, Democratic National Convention. A young pastor who ob served the Council of Bishops meeting recalled episodes lead ing to the fait turn-down. He reasoned that it might have been expedient politically for the bishops to disband their meeting in order to dine with the President and show respect for his high office, not neces sarily to show support of Ni xon programs and the policies that so denigrate the welfare of the black church and the black community. The men of the cloth have their basic charge the advo cation and maintenance of morality and the Judeo- Christian ethic. Unlike a past era when political candidates too often bought the support of the clergy with small con tributions to the church, to day is different. The black cl«rgy appears unwilling to compromke with evil and Im morality, not even for the pieces of silver a super rich Nixon Administration might offer. Of course, there are and will continue to be exceptions, for example, the Atlanta prea cher who compared Nixon with Jesus Christ. We are glad that ambitious minister didn't go the next step and kiss the hem of Nixon's gar ment. The good thing about that exception, the Nixon-loving preacher, is that he got his comuppance at the polls. He was soundly trounced last month in his bid to unseat a black Georgia legislator. And his political conduct sup porting the nation's first anti black president provoked cri ticism from his own profes sion. "1 still can't understand how ...(the Georgia preacher politician) can compare Nixon with Jesus Christ," wrote a minister from Portland, Ore., "...it's hard for me to believe that Jesus Christ is a bureau crat, war monger, racist and a hypocrite. God forbid." Continuing his attack, the Oregon minister said: "It's a disgrace to the j| -4, MISS CHESTER WORCESTER, MASS., Miss Laurie Chester of Auburn was installed today as worthy ad visor of the Auburn Assembly, Order of Rainbow for Girls. Miss Chester became the first black member of the assembly when she was unanimously elected to membership in 1968. The next year the Su preme Assembly, the national body of the order, notified the Auburn group that it was suspended from both the state and national rolls. The sus pension was apparently due to Miss Chester's acceptance into the group but it was never acknowledged by either parent group. whole Heavenly Family for anybody to compare our Lord with Satin (Nixon) and until Nixon changes his life style, he is still the devil, and any body else who supports him is in the same category." He said the $200,000 that the Georgia preacher and some of Nixon's other "colored" supporters helped to raise for the man to wage political war against blacks "should be do nated to help the poor peo ple." I agree. That money would be better spent to help the families of brothers who are unemployed because of Ni xon's anti-poor and anti-black economic policies. The reason the AME bi shops refused to be taken in by Nixon is not that they believe politics to be inhe rently evil. To the contrary, they see evil developing be cause of a lack of broad based participation that in cludes the least among us. That is why they have launch ed a voter registration drive to fight evil with ballots as well as with the Word of the Lord. In announcing the AME church's voter registration campaign, Bishop Frederick D. Jordan of Los Angeles said the national drive was being mounted "because the ballot box is the only way provided by our system to give the citizens a voice in directing the vast power that affects their lives. Failure to use it will mean that abuses will in crease until frustration finds outlet in violent revolution." During the Nixon Admini stration, the abuses the Bi shop refers to have been In creasing to fast that It is hard to keep pace with them. In addition to engineered unem ployment, and a raft of do mestic problems caused by the Nixon Administration, the, President has become the 1 world's greatest bomber, hav ing dropped more than a ton a-minute to kill non-whites including women and child ren—of Indo-China. He has pushed through preventive de tention in Washington, D.C. and vetoed child care and do zens of other bills designed to ease the plight of disad vantaged blacks and the poor. The man in the White House does not understand the needs of this country and has failed to pay the rent due to blacks and other minorities. Eviction day is November 7 when we march to the polls and vote for a change. Raleigh Blacks Hear Demons Across The State If there was any doubt about Black feeling in this election, it was dispelled Sun day night in Raleigh. The message is simple. Register and vote. In a meeting room of the Golden Eagle Motel an over flow crowd of more than one hundred heard this message repeated by speakers from across the state. Black Mc- Govern-Shriver voter registra tion chairmen, black candi dates, and elected officials discussed campaign strategy in general and voter registra tion in particular. "If we were ever afraid, we are now aware," empha sized Elizabeth Cofield, can didate for Wake County com missioner. "Use the churches, the schools, the homes, the poolrooms." Techniques for the final three weeks of the registration drive were shared by such leaders as E. V. Wilkins of the First Congressional Dis trict, co-chairman of the state McGovem-Shriver Voter re gistration steering committee, Dr. Lavonia Allison, chairman of the Durham County Demo cratic party, and John Taylor of Pitt County, among others. "Registration is the first step towards turning black frustration into constructive action," promised Wilkins. "The Republican party is tak ing two positions at the same Continued On Page 8A €k Car§^aCtoo Young Durham Mother Shot To Death MRS. ALLEN Bliad Man Beaten And Robbed By Two Yoana Men Edward Lee Herndon, 20, of 1007 Merrick Street and Paul Allen Clements, 20, of 909 Cleveland Street were ar rested her Sunday and charged with beating and robbing James Lee Strickland, 30, of 804 Grant Street, who is partially blind. Strickland is an employee of the Lions Club Workshop for the Blind. Herndon was put on pro bation, less than a month ago, in another case of volun tary manslaughter. He and Clements are being held in Durham County jail in lieu of $5,000 bonds. Officers who answered a call to the comer of Walker and Elm Streets late Sunday night went to check the re port that someone was being beaten in an abandoned ware house. They arrested Herndon and Clements nearby and took them to the warehouse where Strickland was found. The victim was bleeding about the head and face. Jordan Charges Designed To Sp Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., ex ecutive director of the Na tional Urban League charged today that the "issue of so called quotas" and the rumor ed weakening of the Phila delphia Plan seems "a trans parent attempt to drive a wedge between black people, who have historically been denied the right to work and to join unions in the construc tion industry, and the labor movement." Mr. Jordan made his charge in a speech to the Sixteenth Constitutional Convention of the United Steelworkers of America in Convention Hall, Las Vegas, Nevada. "Anyone, from the man with the shovel to the men contending for the White House," Mr. Jordan said, "knows that without some sort of effective numerical guidelines, no affirmative ac tion plan can work. Already there are self-satisfied state NCCU law School Has Great Variety In Enrollment NCCU L.w School's en rollment ths current year has shown a great deal of variety among its total student body of 266 with 130 of these students being freshmen. The entering class repre sents a 30 per cent increase over the similar class of 1971- 72 school year. A review of the student body will find that there are 226 males, 40 females, in cluding 4 American Indians, 2 Africans, 1 Asian and 1 West Indian. Represented in this enroll ment are 91 colleges and uni versities with 21 states, the District of Columbia, Liberia, the West Indies, China and Sierra Leone. These final results show the unprecedented rush for law school admission that has been prevalent among all the law DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1972 Mrs. Lula Bell Williams Allen, Durham mother of three young children, was shot to death early Sunday morn ing in her 143-D Commerce Street apartment. Her hus band, Sherman Logan Allen, 27, of the same address has been charged with murder and is now being held in the Dur ham County jaiL Answering a call to the Alien apartment, Public Safety Officer Harold Southerland said he entered the first floor of the apartment and found Allen sitting in the living room, apparently waiting for the officer, and found the body of Mrs. Allen lying on the floor in the bedroom up- Strickland said he had just returned from a bus trip to Graham and was walking from the bus station on his way home when he was stopped by two men enar the limes Square building on Ramseur Street. According to Strick land, the men threaten to "blow his head off" if he didn't hand over his money, forced him to go to the rear of the building where they took his money, watch, glasses and clothes and beat him about the head. Herndon's give-year pro bation from a 15 to 20 year prison sentence was on the oondttion that he JM a full time student in school or be gainfully employed, violate no laws, and pay court costs of $330 at the rate of S3O per month, and started August 29 of this year. He had been a senior at Durham High School ments coming from people in the construction industry about how the removal of firm guidelines will mean they won't have to integrate their union or their work force. An end to the Philadelphia Plan spells an end to the only moderately effective effort to open job opportunities for black workers, but it also spells the end of the very many voluntary hometown plans jointly formulated by the civil rights movement, government and the building trades locals." "Let us not forget that this country has always had negative quotas against black people who were barred from jobs, schools and homes. Black people today seek not special treatment as special Ameri icans, but assurances that we will not receive the special treatment we've received th- Continued On Page 8A schools. It appears that the law school had received over 1,500 inquiries and 638 ap plications for admission. Of that number 202 first year and new students were ac cepted. From this number 140 first year and dents are enrollejL—Unfortu nately, 492..potential students had t»"t>e turned away due to t-ick of space. lJorth Carolina colleges and universities with the largest representation of students arc NCCU with 63; NC A&T, 22; and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with 22 students. In addition, twenty other North Carolina colleges and universities are represented. Further, 189 of the current enrollees are in. state, students and 77 are out of-state students. stairs shortly before 8:30 a.m. She was dressed in a blouse and underwear and the room showed no signs of a struggle, according to the officer. A 22-caliber rifle was found in the apartment. Mrs. Allen had been shot twice in the chest and once in the leg. Cause of death was attributed to gunshot wounds by the Durham County medical exami ner, Dr. Lawrence Virgilio. Mrs. Allen was a 1964 graduate of Hillside High School in Durham and was employed as Head Cashier at the UDI Supermarket. She was one of the first cashiers employed from the time of the store's opening. She was HERNDON Fnre Alanta Georgia Voters File Suit For More Time ATLANTA, GA.-Five At lanta-based non-partisan, non profit organizations concerned with voter registration and election laws and three indi viduals today filed a suit in U. S. Federal District Court seeking to extend from Sept. 18 to October 24 Georgia's voter registration deadline for voting for all offices in the November general election. Bringing the suit are the Voter Education Project, Inc., Youth Citizenship Fund, Inc., Common Cause, Inc., The League of Women Voters, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, and three individuals, each representing a class of aggrieved parties. Named as defendants in the complaint are Secretary of State Ben Fortson, Governor Jimmy Carter, and Registrar of Fulton County Joseph Hon stem. According to Georgia law, NCCU Gets Two Million In Grants North Carolina Central Uni versity began the 1972-73 academic year with $2,457,- 461 in grants for special pur poses, according to Chancellor Albert N. Whiting. Most of the outside money was for financial aid, Dr. Whiting reported. Nearly 85 per cent of the students at the Durham institution receive some form of financial assis tance. But a large portion of the funds, which break down into $2,155,819 from federal agen cies and $301,642 from other sources, is devoted to other purposes. Purposes other than finan cial aid for which grants are in force include faculty de velopment, administrative im provement, such special pro grams as N. C. Central's pub lic administration program, cross-disciplinary courses, li brary programs, and sponsored research. Not included in the figure are the funds raised in N. C. Central's faculty endowment campaign. The more than half million dollar endowment is invested in securities. the daughter of Walter and Mrs. Eula Williams of Durham. Funeral services for Mrs. Allen will be held Saturday, September 30 at 3 p.m., at the Pilgrim Baptist Church with Rev. Willie Thornton officiating. Burial will be in Beechwood Cemetery. The body will remain at the Scar borough & Hargett Funeral Chapel until moved to the church at 2 p.m., to lie in state until the hour of the service. Sherman Allen, son of Chester and Mrs. Lucy Allen, was born and raised in the airport section of Wake Coun ty. He was a 1963 graduate of Berry O'Kelly School in CLEMENTS persons must register to vote at least 50 days prior to the general election. However, a person moving from one county to another, or moving into the state from another state may register up to 14 days prior to the general Continued On Page 8A Senate Leaders Mansfield And Scott Showdown NeorAnti-Civil On Friday, September 15, Senate Leaders Mike Mans field, for the Democrats, and Hugh Scott, for the Repub licans, issued a joint memo randum in which they pro mised to bring H. R. 13915 (the Equal Education Oppor tunities Act) before the full Senate, prior to adjournment. With that, they set the stage for a confrontation on the worst piece of anti-civil rights legislation in recent history. When will the Bill come up; We do not know. That determination rests with Sena tor Mansfield. The best guess, now, is that this session of Congress will end no later than October 13 or 14. If that is so, the bill can be taken off the Senate calendar and made the pending busi ness anytime between now and then. We will not repeat for you, again, our many ob jections to this terrible bill. We do include, however, an excellent editorial from the WASHINGTON POST (Sept. 13) that points out the dan gers of the legislation. (See editorial, Page 8A). WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE? We must contime to let every member of the Senate know where we stand. At this moment the ways of de feating the bill are technical and complex. But if Senators stand against it, it can be beaten. That is the message we must get to every Senate member. They are, unfor tunately, getting many mes sages urging them to vote for the bill. Typically, the office of one Senator sympathetic to our efforts, tells us "we got a pile of mat on the bill; and only one pro-busing let ter." But the issue goes be yond busing, to the heart of our efforts to achieve equality GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE YOUR MIND BY WBHMB Ttop* CHEYENNE SCOUT CORNER By E. L KMVMJT DURHAM SOCIAL NOTEB Bjr Mrs. Bylaw Day* WRITERS FORUM By Gterf B. torn* PREGNANCY PLANNING * HEALTH By G. Rifgnbc* Method. An LPN graduate of Durham Technical Institute, Allen was employed at Duke Hospital as a physician's assis tant. Busing Schedule Set In Memphis MEMPHIS, Tenn. -A federal judge agreed to a Mem phis school board request Tuesday and ordered the city to begin desegregation busing of 10 per cent of its pupils next January when the second ae mester begins. Students Suspen Two Reversed NEW YORK—The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, September 19, re versed a lower court's ruling that upheld the suspension of three Texas high school stu dents, thus handing the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People a far-reaching victory. In commenting on the de cision Friday, Sept. 22, Char les Carter, NAAC? Associate Counsel, said that "Thk is the first time that the Fifth Cir cuit Court has ruled in this way. It is dgnificant because we have several similar cases pending." The case evolved out of the suspension of two black La Marque High School stu dents last February 9 and February 16, respectively, for what the principal, Jimmy Llewellyn, called "inexcus able" conduct. This drastic action was taken before the students were given a hearing, which was required by law. through democratic process. We urge you once more to keep making direct approaches to Senators and keep sending your messages in None of us can put this MEMO down with a good conscience unless we resolve to call or wire or write Black Principal Fired, Sues For Back Pay WASHINGTON, D.C.-An Abbeyville County, South Carolina, black educator who -.vas demoted and then fired in the wake of desegregation will file suit in U. S. District Court, Greenwood, on Friday (Sept. 22). Cornell Reynolds, who has had 27 years' experience in education, alleges the treat ment he received is part of a pattern of "demoting, trans ferring and moving blacks out of the district's schoob." Defendants in the class action are the Abbey ville County School District; Ro bert H. Gettys, administrative superintendent; and members of the district's Board of Trus tees and Board of Education. Reynolds is seeking back pay, accrued retirement con tribution, and a principal's position, as well as attorney's fees. The National Education Association DuShane Emer gency Fund, established to protect the civil, human, and professional rights of edu cators, and the South Carolina Education Association, a state affiliate of NEA, are sharing litigation expenses. Prior to desegregation in the 1970-71 school year, Rey nolds was principal of the all black Branch Street Elemen tary School in Abbeyville. PRICE: 20 CENTS ALLEN With the help ot tne local branch of the NAACP, the parents immediately appealed Mr. Llewellyn's action to the Federal District Court They contended that the due pro cess rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment were violated. Because of this action, a hearing was eventually held on May 4, by the La Marcue school board, which followed the deciaon of the school superintendent to uphold the suspension edict The Federal District Court further ruled agaimt the parents and up held the suspension order. But the Fifth Circuit Court said that "It seems to us that an even more ba6ic tenet of due process is the notion that punishment cannot be im posed before a hearing is given." Consequently, the court ordered the school board to reinstate the students and clear their records of the sus pensions. our Senators at once urging them to do all in their power to defeat a bill that the WASHINGTON POST de scribes exactly when it calls it "a fraud and a hoax and a cruel hoax at that." When the school was closed in September 1970, he was not given a principal ship but was assigned as assistant to the administrative superintendent, ostensibly to serve as liason between that office and the faculty. Most of those he suD»?rvised were black. In April 1971 he was informed he would not be retained for the 1971-72 school year. The board granted two hearings, but did not reverse its de cision. In the suit, Reynolds ch arges that a disproportionate number of black educators have been demoted, displaced, not rehired, and otherwise discriminated against during transition to a unitary school system. Also, a dispropor tionate number of whites have been employed to fill vacan cies a* they occur. The suit alleges that the defendants have not issued nonracial, objective standards governing dismissals, demo tions, hirings, renewals and nonrenewals, promotions and staff assignments. Reynold"; asserts in the complaint that, white princi pals and white teachers re tained by the district do not have qualifications equal to or superior to bis. NEA's Office of Teacher Continued On Page 8A
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