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Kat , Jane 2. 197 5 THE CAROLINA 8 A THE CAROLINA TIMES Sat, Jt ltTt r WALLTOWN 40 By Donald Love alter Before there was a Wall-town, there stood a forest Mr. George Wall came here Iron somewhere with Trinity College I don't know how long he was here. Of course, he had to have a place to live. 1 can tmagi ne at off times, he explored Durham, searching a place for his family. Naturally, he wanted to live as near his work as possible. He went north of Trinity College, entered this forest, picked a place, and said to himself, "This is it". I have no idea how hf went about finding out how he might buy this spot or any spot. He did and if you observe where the Wall's site is now, it appears he went about half-way into this forest and made his decision on the tract of land he wanted. The home site is almost dead center of Wall-town. There was no log rolling to build his home, there was no one there. He collected material from Trinity College, such as boxes, scrap lumber, anything he could find useful to build quarters for his family. As he worked building his castle, he beat a path through this forest from Tinity College. After finishing it, moving in, this path was the only in-let and out-let to and from his home. Knowing him as I did, he worked hard night and day clearing around his place. As much as he liked tilling the soil, his main objective after moving into his home was a Mntnn ennf frtr rflicintf fonH for gaiutii bjv. v . "a his family. I don't know how long others invaded this forest. There were the Pattersons, Haskins, Canidies, Basses, two sets of Devises, two of Hopkins .Rogers .Love Hookers, and more. These were the earlier settlers and there were others. I would assume, it was these early settlers who conceived the idea of calling the area Wall-town. These settlers had the least knowledge about laying off and planning streets. They beat paths to their castles. One or more came in possession of horses, cows, hogs, chickens, and garden spots which were their main and chief objectives. These passageways in and out of the area were called wagon tracks, not even roads. In order to get from one neighbor to another without going through the woods, these wagon tracks were used. If you note now, Wall-town is one of the best layed out communities in the City of Durham. There were no churches, schools, lights, water, other than a few neighbors had wells for water. The whole community depended on one well until others were dug. The lighting system was lamps for the inside and lanterns for the outside. Lanterns were used for night visiting also. One or the tirst cnurcnes was a Methodist Church which once stood where St. John Baptist Church now stands. me next cnurcn was a swk located on what is now "B" Street. Rev. J. R. Brandon had uonsumer T-hL Consumerism Is Here To Stay The Seventies may well be remembered by historians as the Age of Consumerism. Consumer advocates such as Virginia Knauer and Ralph Nader have become household names, "Action Line" columns have sprouted in .major newspapers to ad ve consumers, and the old Latin phrase, "caveat emp-tor"-let the buyer beware is being superseded by a true phenomenon, a modern bat tle cry from a dead language - "caveat venditor" - let the seller beware! The latest shot-in-the-arm for the consumer movement is Consumer Information Week, a national program sponsored by the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc., with the aim of encour aging business to talk to con sumers and, more important ly, to listen to them. The list of companies sup porting Consumer Informa tion Week is impressive, and not surprisingly is laced with major firms such as General Electric Company which have long been in the forefront of consumer education efforts. General Electric, for ex nmple, packs a "use and care" manual with every ap pliance it makes which not onlv covers how to make the best use of the product, but also how to obtain service. GE use-and-care manuals try to answer most of the questions a customer might nsk. The instructions are written by home economists, not engineers, and they trans late technology into lay man's language and take spe cial pains to anticipate a housewife's problems. Warranty information in cluded in each instruction book is in clear, concise form so the consumer can under stand her rights without need ing legal training. The telephone book is the most common source used by the public to locate help . wbenr they have an appli ance problem, so GE main tains extensive Yellow Pages listings in most large popu lation centers as well as the normal white page entries. GE product service person nel in the area where the customer lives are able to handle most customer prob lems, questions or complaints. But if a problem cannot be handled locally, GE's Major Appliance Group has a cus tomer relations manager a sort of consumer ombudsman whose job it is to see to it that consumer questions get answered and that complaints are resolved. Consumers can write to him at Appliance . Park, Louisville, Ky. 40225, or call 502-452-3362. Still a "higher court" that consumers can take their problems to if they are not satisfied is the independently operated Major Appliance Consumer Action Panel. It analyzes consumer complaints and recommends appropriate action to manufacturers. All GE use-and-care manuals tell consumers about MACAP, and provide its address: 20 North Wacker Drive, Chi cago, 111. 60606. With cooperation like this from manufacturers, Con sumer Information Week should have no trouble nr.1,1 mm no- tViA status nf jt major annual two-way in formation, exchange between business and consumers. 'Hr ;:'BmcH Mk Stand tall in Maxi'a ... today's fashion look for the young man on the go. Buy them at Fields Shoe Service 742 NINTH STREET DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA Z77W Ik -FBWE 286-2509 this store house moved from where It was down to the spot where St. John was. This church was a Baptist Church and called Wall Street Baptist Church. The only school the children could attend was in the West Durham section, a community known then and now, Hickstown School This school was located where the Baker House Nursing Home is now located. These Wall-town children had to walk. There was no such thing as being transported to and from school Going to and from school, you had to go through the heart of West Durham. The white children would be going to their school at or around the same time and there was a daily fight between the children. The last fight between the children was one morning. My brother Otho Love and the late James (Fox, Little Man) Bass, were going to school together. They were late and the last to be getting to school As the two boys were going on Erwin Road they met the white boys. These white bovs joined hands and formed a line across Erwin Road. There was no way for them to get through. If they went or tried to get around either end of this line, these white boys would force this line longer to prevent them from getting through. This went on for a while until it became so provoking to my brother. He found a stick of some sort handy or nearby and he used this stick on these boys. James Bass was able to make it through line line and ran all the way to the school for help. Help came causing my brother to get away without bodily harm. The parents of these white boys had warrants taken against all the black boys involved. Met court, the black boys were found guilty. The parents of these black boys Stood up and were all counted. They had special meetings with the County Board of Education, not asking but telling the Board what they were not going to do and what was to be done. The black kids from the Wall-town community did not attend school any more. Now the Wall-town School was born. There wasn't a building suitable for classes. The black parents suggested to the Education Board, they would contact the pastor and officers of Wall Street Church, asking permission to use the church for a school building but the Board had to make the plans and pay the expenses to meet the plans. This was accepted by the Board of Education. The next move the Board had to make, getting a principal and teachers. This was no hill to climb. The parents asked several teachers but they refused. There was a lady by the name of Anger Turner, accepted, mainly for the kids in the community. A few years later, some man by the name of R osen wall had four or five schools built in Durham County just for flie Blacks. One in Hickstown, Walltown, Lyon's Park and East Durham. These schools were the property of the County School System until Durham extended the City limits and all of these schools became the property of the City School System. The boys in Wall-town became very much interested in athletics; especially baseball One reason, we would go to all of Trinity College ballgames. We learned the names of the players and would pick our idols and put forth every effort to duplicate their style of play. Our relatives, such as fathers, uncles and friends worked in dormitories ilsaWnnmr and the gym. The students would five them balk, such as baseballs and tennis balls. We kids were given these balls .gloves, bats .and whatever. We played ball twelve months to the year. We specialized in running throwing and batting. We gradually became interested in football but never basketball Our interest grew in football equal to that of baseball. The older boys would teach the younger how to throw, run bases, slide, throw the football After going to high school, we learned finer points in football and passed this information on down. In the years of the thirties, we began to lean toward politics. There were just a few individuals interested in voting knowing nothing about any of the insides of politics. There were one or two and no more, who would go to the voting place, just sit there and ask the voters to cast their votes for candidates who had promised a few dollars over a dav's nav on their job. The masses knew nothing about voting, registering, when to register, when to vote, who to vote for, and how. We held night sessions in the school to acquaint them. It was amazing how interested they were. At these sessions, questions were asked, the attendance was good denoting interest Our first political test was on mail delivery. The mail was delivered in the nine hundreds blocks. The blacks on 2nd Street began at the 1000 block to Club Blvd. Third and Fourth Streets began at the 900 blocks to Club. Fifth Street began at the 1000 block to Englewood Ave. This means from the 1000 blocks on all streets did not get mail delivery. We took it upon ourselves to make contact to find out why the lower parts of the Continued on page 11A DO YOUR OWN THING... with Dillard's Bar-B-Q Sauce ah DUAMDDnn m Dillard's Bar-B-Q Sauce tastes good on everything. Mr. Bar-B-Q says thank you for buying our product. '.-e ft Hsl slllttfui FREE RECIPES ON BACK OF EACH BOTTLE Only Baccarat is Baccarat 7OnWO.isVO. j; 1 In the world of fine crystal, only baccarat is honored as i ne Crystalof KinRs" Like Baccarat, SeaBranVs V.O.Ciadinh also is honored: for a taste that has made it Trie First Canadian throughout the world. . Seagram's SThe Rrst Canadian. WISKV-l HMO Of ttUCIM WIMUU. 6 YUM 010. 86.8 MOOf. SUOMM OISTIUUS CHUNK .U. Br f Chemic 1 W vJs? 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The needs of boys 8 through 10 years of age are basically oriented to the home and neighborhood. The family plays an important role in his growth and development. When boys reach the fifth grade and are 11 years of age, their worlds broaden from home and neighborhood into the community as a whole. Involvement with their peers is important to their growth and development. Elementary school children find their teachers to be the most important adults outside the home. Most often these adults have been women. School systems now seek out male teachers since there is an increasing evidence that male teachers are more helpful to boys. Boys, especially from fatherless homes, need the male image. HOW SCOUTING MEETS THE NEEDS OF YOUTH The Cub Scout program is designed to include the family with an important leadership role for women as den mothers. Membership in the den and pack is limited to boys 8 through 10. The den mother's leadership in den meetings, at home, and in the neighborhood is now extended into a camp setting with the addition of Cub Scout day camping. In the setting of a day camp, women staff members give leadership to Cub Scout activities in the outdoors. Qualified women and young women may find opportunities to serve on the staff. As a boy reaches Webelos, the leadership of his Webelos den is a man. This is an initial step in having the Cub Scout move into his pwr group and a male-oriented program. The Webelos den camps together with den leadership and father-son association. Up to this time he has been managed by his mother, sometimes sister, and most often by women school teachers. As' the next step in his growth and development, the program of Scouting calls for male adult troop leadership. Adult male association is one of the seven basic methods of Scouting. ThThe Scoutmaster's Handbook includes the following statement: "You may not think of yourself as a 'method. Yet your role as friend, coach, and counselor to Scouts is one of the most valuable parts of the program. "In his quest for manhood, every boy needs contact with men he can copy. Living, breathing men provide models of what manhood is like. Boys copy whatever models are available to them. Not all of these are really good models. So just by doing things and talking with Scouts, you are carrying out one of the methods of Scouting. You are providing a good example of what a man should be like. What you do and what you are may be worth a thousand lectures and sermons". DAILY : mm- Are We Under-estimating Home-town people? ! WILLIAM THOPtssse& New Miss Fayetteville State University for 1973-74 is Angela Calloway, a senior from Jacksonville. An elementary education major, Angela is very active in student affairs and is a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. This male leadership of Scoutmaster and assistants extends into his outdoor experiences. If the Scoutmaster can't be present his role is filled by a carefully selected male alternate--troop committee member, male parent, or camp (council) provided provisional leadership. Women serving as troop committee members do not fulfill this role. Scouting gives a boy an opportunity to become a part of a peer group in patrol and troop activities. This is an important part of his personal growth and development as he moves into the larger community. In keeping with the methods of Scouting, his experiences in a Scout camp happens with a male Scoutmaster and assistants. We provide in camp adult and young adult male staff members. Hopefully these men, carefully chosen, will provide male images worth emulating. This is part of the design of Scouting and the reason why we establish this "man's world" called a Scout camp. FROM BLACK By John Hudgins Commitment to Enrolling Blacks Is Waning, College Officials Say OBERLIN, Ohio - The commitment of highly selective colleges and universities to recruit and enroll minority students---and especially blacks--may be waning, accordins to officials at a two-day conference on minority admissions which ended here last Saturday. After the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1 96 8, predominantly white colleges and universities underwent and attack of conscience and actively sought to enroll more minority students and provide them with special services such as tutoring and financial aid-in order to keep them there once they were enrolled. However, according to college and university officials who gathered here for the conference, which was under the auspices of the College Entrance Examination Board, that commitment may be declining because' of budgetary problems, a changing political climate and a lack of adequate programs to deal with the academic and emotional needs of students. "We are, at the point at which the attitude has to change from treating black students as a passing fad to regarding them as a permanent and inseparable part of the colleges", said Franklin Moore, an admissions officer at Princeton. Some leading educational institutions, which had been exclusively white until the late 1960s, now have about 5 to 10 per cent black enrollment. Some conferees here expressed concern that many of these institutions would be content to remain at that percentage, rather than attempting to bring the level more in proportion with the overall black population in this country, which is estimated at between 10 to 15 per cent. According to the Census Bureau, black enrollment in colleges and universities has tripled since 1964 to a figure which is now estimated at about 700,000. Of this total, 20 to 25 per cent of the students attend the traditional predominantly black private and public colleges and about 40 per cent attend community colleges. Robert L. Green, acting dean of Michigan State University's College of Urban Development and professor of educational psychology, summed up the problem this way: "The greatest threat to increased minority enrollments lies in the proposed cutbacks in student financial aid programs. These are the heart of recruitment programs, and it seems evident that given the current income status of minority citizens, the number of minority college students will decline if Such aid is withdrawn". According to a recent New York Times survey of a dozen of the largest public universities, black enrollments African Liberation Day was the past Saturday. Of course, if you were there you would know that. If you were not there then you are probably not interested anyway. It is good when a large group of Black people can get together to show solidarity with Brothers on the continent or any place else. Getting together helps to strengthen our identity as to who we are. It helps us to better appreciate each other. And in this case it gives to those that were present a sense of contributing to something much greater and more significant in our struggle for liberation from oppression Perhaps it is only fitting that I remind you of the recent move in what is called Rhodesia by Black people. When we can demonstrate solidarity on Saturday and brothers are moving enough to thr whf& press 6S Tuesday, then it is clear to this writer and to the world, that Black people are beginning to get It together. Congratulations to Black students finishing high school this week. Welcome to the world. Let me be among the first to take your hand, not only to congradulate you but also to lead you to the other side of the beautiful world that you have learned about. gladly welcome you to the struggle for Black and human liberation which you will become aware of and I hope you will devote you life to. In a day of watergates, tornadoes, solicitor immunity, city council payoffs, and widespread uncletomism, play. you part. You are young, there are expected to increase slightly next fall. The surbey also indicated, however, a lack of enthusiasm for minority programs that are supposedly being implemented at the expense of potential white, middle-income students. The College Entrance Examination Board is expected to release a report, "Toward Equal Opportunity for Higher Education", this week in which it will outline innovative proposals a n,d recommendations, including a $2.4 billion program to provide annual maximum grants of $2,000 each to college students whose adjusted annual family income is under $9,622; a $533 million fund to give low-income students $35-a-month to buy supplementary services, including tutoring; and a new federal loan system to make unlimited loans which would be repayable over a lifetime to students of all economic classes. John Hudgins You are aware, no doubt, of the difficulty that the average home-town boy often has in achieving success in his home community. This might be due to the fact, that older people can seldon visualize young men that they know so well, doing the sort of things to which they aspire. Some of the well-meaning elders may classify the abilities of the young, crediting them with little or no talents as they have noticed and granting these same young people with little or no opportunity to make children will see in -you that ever burning drive for the liberation of our people, that commitment to the right, the reality of Black Man, Black Woman, Black Future. good in other lines for which they possess aptitude. I've seen so many young people coming in from, other cities and towns claiming on ability in certain lines, and are accepted on face value and given the opportunity to prove themselves in positions for which many home-town people are just as ideally suited. But because of this set mental picture of their limitations in the minds of the elders, many of these young people are forced to leave their home-town to achieve the success they desire. I remember when I was attending college for my profession; two thirds of the students were from here, but only "one" of them who graduated with me and to Mi the here. WM up continue to to flat ttey could ikery succeed in some other city or town, bexaif pMpv would patronize them more. That's why you can see so many people in many professions moat likely withdrawn from their home-town and go to other cities and towns to achieve success in their profession. In my opinion, possibly local people should give our home-town young adults first choice when opportunities are open to prove themselves when they have the ability and aspiration. ' Whether they succeed or not, it's better when a person knows that someone has given them a chance to motivate their ambitions. Finally, I don't think a te) i gegeflMiA eVTYCMaV tTeaWiTiWFJlBww aaw' when they lie the mental attic IsieJI m00m awo don't think people should nelSTtaeJialf diofce In uppuilaatiHe iS could have more talent k hone town then w tfernk if we would pat fjeatl:fpa;fi oar huuMtowu people, as we eaunuaasd taean to develop their highest potential. North Carolina ! expected to increase its number of beef cows by 15 percent by 1975 and 35 percent by 1980. If the 1980 prediction is realized, the state will have around a half million brood cows and heifers. is a long life ahead of you. Spend that life in a worthwhile pursuit Spend that life in something you and your children can be proud of. I would certainly recommend that if you get the chance, go see the movie WATTSTAX. I think it is certainly one of the more worthwhile Black movies around It is the only film that I have seen that deals with Black reality. The film is more of a documentary of the Watts Festival, and Black life, Black ideas, Black feelings. Of course, white folks are going to make the money on it but they made it on the other movie you saw, and believe it or not they are making it on your television set. Rev. William (Bell) Turner gets married this Saturday; Bill I wish you and your future wife all the jolfnappteeW and fulfillment that can come to two beautiful Black people in this day and time. May the two of you grow together in service to our people as you grow in years of love and appreciation of each other. Live so that your children and their Q. How can I avoid meeting unexpected cars on blind carves during night driving? A. By using a trick of pro fessional truth drivers, re layed here by Clark Equip ment Trailer Division. Drive into the curves with low beams. High beams kill the other motorist's advance glow, visible as light reflec tions from wires, poles, trees and sky. If you flash your lights on curves, you'll see that glow and at the same time warn tine other driver you're enter ing the curve too. Q. I A. Surp. trical that's the main reason tie-road .uit luilun s ' rp defects have now re placed tire troubles as tne leading cause of road failures. Avoid using too many of the electric powered acces sories in your car while do ing start-and-stop driving. Keep track of now often it is necessary to add water to your battery. Excessive con sumption of water means elec trical trouble. Have a com petent mechanic check it out. Q. People say you should maintain the same driving speed as the rest of the traf fic. Why? A. Simply because it's the safest thing to do-for you and the other guy. Driving too fast and chang ing lanes needlessly causes accidents directly. Driving too slow and holding up traf fic causes them indirectly. For your own sake, learn to "run with the pack." Non conformity is fine if you're not behind the wheel when you practice it. Q. As the population in creases, more and more goods must be moved by trucks, planes, trains, ships. How can shipping costs be kept in line? A. One answer is in vehicles themselves. Costs can be re duced as more cargo can be carried in each vemcle, each trip. Outdated weight restric ' ticms " rlevolopcfl as "tempo rary limits in 1946 and frozen by act of Congress in 1956. prevent trucks from op erating with great efficiency, even though today's roads are built to take weights well PETER PAN MARKET 517 BACON ST. DURHAM, N. C. SPECIALS FOR THURS., FRL & SAT. GRADE A NOT FROZEN FRYERS LARGE BREAD DRIVE 25c LOAF OR 4 FOR GIANT SIZE lb. 45c 99c Washing Powder 79c beyond those quarter-century old trucks car limits. And remember, irry most of the na tion's freight. FRESH GROUND Hamburger MRS. FILBERT lb. 79c MAYONNAISE Qt. 59c PEPSODENT Tooth Paste REG. 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