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WORDS OF WISDOM A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package. — K. V. P. Philosopher What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence. —Samuel Johnson VOLUME 51 NUMBER 48 TWO DEAD INI SOUTHERN UNIV AT BATON ROUGE STUDENT PROTEST President's Resignation Asked, Two On Faculty Fired The slaying of two young black students by the law en forcement authorities at pre dominantly black Southern University campus in Baton Rouye. Louisiana has evoked much horror and criticism at the "trigger happy" hands of policy authorities. Denver A. Smith, New Road, La., and Leonard Douglas Brown of Gil bert, La., both 20 year old stu dents were the bictims. Both students were slain during a police-student confrontation in front of the university's presi dent's office. Southern Univer sity at Baton Rouge is the na tion's largest black university with well over 9,000 students on its main campus. Earlier in cidents had been occurring on the New Orleans campus of Southerti University. As to who killed them, the coroner's reports and other ex aminations point to the illegal TUSKEGEE, ALA. Johnny Ford, shown in 1972 file photo was recently sworn in as Mayor of Tuskegee, Alabama. Ford was on the presidential cam paign staff of the late Robert Kennedy. NAACP Supports Long Island Murder Suspect NEW YORK—The National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People has •gone to the aid of a black Long Island student who has been jailed in lowa on charges of murdering a white woman. The student, Allen, 24, of West Babylon, was a junior at Tarkio College in Missouri. He was arrested about twlo weeks after the body of Sha ron Barnett, 21, was found in a wooded area close to the southwest corner of lowa. The body was discovered in a ditch by an unidentified agent of the Bui'eau of Oima nal Investigation who began a search after Miss Barnett's Continued on page 8A CUBA DOESN'T WANT 'EM' JM SC V MIAMI The Federal govern ment charged 11/12 three young black fugitives still in Havana with air piracy in the hijacking of a Southern Airways Jetliner and recommed bond use of buckshots by the police officials who supposedly were to use only tear gas. Even now, Governor Edwin M. Ed wards is admitting that the students may have been killed by a deputy who reached for a shotgun shell instead of tear gas when he loaded his gun. The FBI has sent in its agents to assist in the investigation. The direct of cause of the deaths may remain a mystery as have been the case in other campus deaths. However, the long term cause should be clear to all. The rapidly gain ing collisions between the ris ing political, economic and economic and ting htm mama legal awareness of young blacks and the traditional white political power is and has been rising with a momen tum which cannot and will not be stopped. This is also true with many middleclass stu- Promoions Changes North Carolina Promotions and reassign ment of eight employees of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company employees were announced rtcently by the Company's president, W. J. Kennedy, HL Promoted were: Cicero M. Green to the office of Treasurer of the Company; Bertie Bates to the position of Secretary to the Treasurer; Audrey K. Edgers ton to the position of Secre tary to the President and a member of the Company's Ad ministrative Staff; Durlin Hayes to the office of Man ager of the Data Processing Division; Constantine G. Lyon and Mary H. Pamplin to the positions of Administrative As sistant in North Carolina Mu tual's Finance Department. The transfer of V. Jeffery Al steon to the office of Assist ant to the Financial Vice President and of Loyd L. Bat tle to the position of Manager of North Carolina Mutual's Real Estate Division were also announced by the Company. Holdinv both a B.S. in ac counting and an M.B.A. (Mas ter's in Business Administra tion) from NOCU, Cieerto Green began his career with N, C. Mutual in 1957 as a Spe cial Home Office Representa tive,. subsequently receiving promotions to the offices of Assistant Manager of the Tab ulating Department, Control ler's Staff Assistant, Adminis trative Assistant and Assistant Treasurer. Mr. Green is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trus tees of Kyles Temple AME Zion Church, and is married to the former Dora A. Jenkins of Durham. A graduate of Hillside High School, Bertie Bates attended ItiH HL I BP v^l|H of $Lc Million for each of them. The hpackers had collected $2 million in ransom. They have tteen identified as (L-R): Henry D. Jackson, Jr., 27; Louis Che Cargpb Cineo dents not matter where they may be. Southern University, like other predominantly black universities and colleges has long been the center of leader ship training for black students as well as the place so de signed by statute to provide educational training for blacks since the Reconstruction pe riod. Many private universities have also shared in this great 7 N.C.On RTI'S Board RESEARCH TRIANGLE, PARK Seven Carol Lniains and a New Jersey Industrial ist were named to the 'Re search Triangle Institute's Board oi Governors at its 14th annual meeting. Board chairman George Watts Hill said the eight new members are William W. Bate*, Jr., vice president end director of research, Liggett it 'Myers, Inc., Durham; Fafa'- leigh S. Dickinson, Jr., presi dent and chief executive of ficer, Becton Dickinson and Co., Rutherford, N. J.; Lyle North Carolina College, (now NOCU), began her career with NCM in 1959, and has since worked as a receptionist, an accounting cleric in the Fin ance Department, and as a stenographer In the Securities Division. Mrs. Bates is a mem ber of Russell Memorial CME Church, lota Phi Lambda So rority, The (Daughters of Isis, and the Order of the Golden Circle. A native of Winston-Salem, Audrey K. Edgerston holds a A native of Winston-Salem, North C. Mutua Position In Top Fifty William J. Kennedy,lll the newly elected president of the largest black managed corpora tion in America, North Caro lina Mutual Life Insurance, has committed his corporation to becoming an aggressive com petitor in the market place of such insurance coverages as group insurance. These thoughts were voiced by him in a recent interview with Busi ness Week Magazine. With more than $1 billion of insurance in force and as sets of some $123 millions, the company plans to aid more toward the general market, while continuing the high type of services they have been fur nishing to the black income markets. More than SSOO million in corporate group insurance, in cluding policies with such com panies as General Motors, Chrysler, IBM and Campbell ■ |Qf , %|J|| Hl?*" Moore, 27; and Melvin C. Cale, 22. Jackson and Moore are both from' Detroit and Cale is a fugitive from a Tennessee prison. DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1972 responsibility as well. Even now divisive forces are about to continue the drain off of training schools for many of its black citizens. It has been announced by Atty. General William Guste that a 12 member' commission would investigate the turmoil at Southern University that led to the slaying of the two black students. V. Jones, vice chancellor and graduate dean, University of North Cart>lina at Chapel Hill; and A. C. Menius, Jr., dean of physical and mathe matical sciences, North Car olina State University at Ral eigh. Also George E. Norman, Jr., vice president and direc tor' of research and develop ment, Burlington Industries, Inc., Greensboro; Louis C. Stephens, Jr., president, Pilot Life Insurance Co., Greens boro; N. Ferebee Taylor, Continued on page 8A Aulrey K. Edjerston holds a B.S. in commercial education from Central State College in Wilberforce, Ohio. She has worked for North Carolina Mutual since 1952, serving in the offices of secretary to the Controlled and secretary to the Senior Vice President-Finance. Durlin Hayes graduated from Alabama State University with a B.S. in accounting, and be gan his career in the Data Processing Division of North Continued on page 8A Soup are now listed by the N. C. Mutual Company up to 207 th place among the 892 American insurance companies as ranked by the National Un derwriter Company. Postive planning by the 7th President, W. J. KennedyJO includes competitiveness that will push N.C. Mutual into the circle of the largest 50 companies with in the next 25 years. Kennedy is the osn of the v fourth president of the N. C. Mutual Life Insurance Com pany, W.J. Kennedy, Jr. Old timers well recall when the younger Kennedy was first placed on the payroll to learn the business from the ground Continued on page 8A "Mommie' / - Hale Babies To Grow Up Right iNBW YORK—''I believe inl you. You can do anything," Clara Hale told each one of the •cores of children the has raised in her rickety, five room Harlem apartment over the pest thirty years. Accord ing to a profile in December McCains, just published, that faith, herd work and some re cent financial assistance from the Office of Economic Oppor tunity has enabled 68 year old tCommie" Hale to raise 40 youngsters besides her own three, to make the lifo-and death difference to children of the heroin addicts who have moved into her nettfdwchootf In recent years, and says Me- Orils, to "become ehnoet a leg end in Harlem." Tre always taken care of baMes, money or **"4. and 1 always will, says Mrs. Bale ducrihing her cared£ as SUP rotate toother. '1 took thfen h mkz , t : wßmSKmm - Ahi«iiß^^ff^WHl^B I 4 iHPMMBER - BATON ROUGE, LA. ~ The bodies of two black students lie on the sidewalk on the N CMasonic To Convene Here N0v.25 The North Carolina Grand Lodge No. 44 .Modern Free and Accepted Masons of the World, Inc., will hold its IPfoifedl teg*** f MP* Hi JB M McKISSICK conclave November 24,25 and 26 at the Downtowner Motor Hotel. Keynote speaker for the occasion will be Floyd Mc- Kissick of Soul City, N.C. McKissick is the only black to ever receive some sl4 mil lion from the U.S. Govern ment. The meeting opens at 9:15 on Saturday morning with wel coming from City officials, civic and educational groups. McKissick is a noted na tional speaker, former resident of Durham, and a graduate of the North Carolina Central Uni versity Law School. Floyd B. McKissick Enterprises, Inc., is a national company formed to help organize and finance substantial black businesses a cross the nation. McKissick is also president of Warrei Re gional Planning Corporation, the technical planning arm of McKissick Enterprises of Soul City. One of the mttfor pro jects of the Company is the development of Soul City, a for five or six dollars a week. I started doing this because I had three kids myself, I was a widow without much educa tion—and what kind of work could a black woman get?" Bach of the children Mi*. Hale Oared tor, *beeame like my own children" and die man aged to arrange private school- end college scholarships for each. When heroin addicts became pert of the Harlem scene a few yeaife ago, Mrs. Hale began taking in addicts' babies, some times whole families of chil dren free. She offers one of the few refuges in the dty for these malnourished, neg lected and sometimes battered youngsters. "A few of these kids have been looakd hi a rooaa for daps without food, "she MOTS. M One of them had been sold la* campus of Southern Univ. 11/ 16 after police tear gassed the building students were occupy- new town iir North Carolina. He is a former visiting profes sor at the State University of New York at Binghamton, (Harpur College), Department of Afro-American Studies, and former columnist for the New York Amsterdam News. The general public is in vited to hear McKissick at 11 a.m., Saturday, NOvember 25. Cmphasis will be stressed by him on ways to improve the economic conditions of blacks. Among other highlights of the Conclave will be a presen tation by Mrs. Selma Forrester nationally known professional skin-care and beauty aid con sultant. She will conduct an hour of charm far Eastern Stars and guests at the Down towner Motor Inn, the head quarters for the Grand Lodge meeting. The time will be 1:15 p.m. on November 25th All ladies are invited. Free gifts will be distributed and admission is FREE. Mrs. Forrester is headquar tered in Columbus, Georgia, but travels to all sections of the nation conducting clinics. Formal cnartering services for local Masonic Lodges and Eastern Star chapters will be held on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Kyles Temple A.M.E. Zion Church. A parade from North Carolina Central University to Kyles Temple Church will pre cede this service. These services are open to the general public. Protection Bill ANKARA, TUrkey A Turkish senator introduced • bill making it an offense to In sult Allah, holy men, holy books or boly relics. He said communism, Zionism, and Christian imperialism are try ing to attack the Islamic reli gion. *260 by bo 1 junkie mother far drug money. These cMldren have seen such terrible thin*." More then « year ego Mr*. Hale's daughter, Lorraine, a candidate for a Ph.D. in child development, wr*ote the OBC for financial assistance and as a result, Mrs. Hale and the children who number 36 at the moment, will be moving Aran the apartment to a brownstone renovated with a portion of the $316,000 annual grant awaitted by the federal gov ernment, and rented from Nlf Yonr Qty for a nominal fee. Mrt. Bale's daughter it execu tive director of the newly Ale House «»hich wU| employ a staff of 10 to assM with the children md he% E£,tssS ! GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE YOUR MIND By WFLBM THONK CHEYENNE SCOUT CORNER By E. L. K tmrmf PREGNANCY PLANNING A HEALTH By G. DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By Mrs. SymSam Dtcjm WRITERS FORUM By G«ory« B. RM HIGHLIGHTS AT DURHAM HIGH WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CHAPEL HILL HIGH Ing. The cause of their death has not been made known. The governor has called out the Na Jg HL ' BATON ROUGE, LA. - Loui- | siana Governor Edwin Edwards accompanied by guards, arrives at Southern University cam pus November 16th after state and local officers routed students from the school's ad- Franklin And Voncey To Spelman Board ATLANTA - President Al bert E. Man ley has announced the election of Eleanor Ison Franklin and Carolyn "Marge" Dunbar Yancy to the Spelman College Board of Trustees. Dr. Franklin is professor in the Department of Physiology and associate dean for Admini stration, College of Medicine, Howard University. She is mar ried to George W. Franklin, a Clinical Psychologist. Mrs. Yancey is the wife of Dr. Asa G. Yancey, Medical Director of Grady Memorial VICTORY IN GEORGIA ■ - VBm t ■■*»"? l^H *9k ■' ' JM ■%*- - v ,^> ** Jtv f%4^ : ATLANTA Andrew Young, democratic candidate for Geo gia's fifth district House seat smiles eith his wife Jean, as the two greet supporters at PRICE: 20 CENTS tional Guard as friction between students and the school ad ministration rose. ministration building. Two black students were killed in the confrontation. The gover nor declared the Louisiana capital in a state of emergency and called up 700 National Guardsmen. Hospital, Associate dean, E mory University School of Me dicine and a member of the Atlanta Board of Education. The appointments of Mrs. Yancey and Dr. Franklin con tinue a longtime association between Spelman and the two women. Dr. Franklin, a 1948 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Spebnan College, is the first alumna representative to til on the Board. Mrs. Yancey's dau ghter, Carolyn, is a 1972 honor graduate of the College. Young's headquarters. He de feated Republican Rofaey Cook to become the first Bfcck to hold the offke dace recon structive.
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