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VOLUME 72 - NUMBER 1
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1994
TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913
PRICE:30 CENTS
MLK Observance Events
Sponsored by The Durham Community
Martin Luther King Steering Committee
[See also Duke University Schedule, Page 3]
• January 8, 9:30 - 12:00 — DURHAM COUNTY REGIONAL
LIBRARY, Roxhbro Street. Annual Oratorical Contest will be held in
the library auditorium. Theme for this year: "Living The Dream-Let
Freedom Ring; A Challenge For The 90s." Participants: Senior high
school students.
• January 9, 4 p.m. — YOUTH MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO DR.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. West Durham Baptist Church, comer
Nixon and Athens streets. The Triangle Notables will highlight the
tribute along with other area youth.
" January 14, 11:30 a.m. — DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL
CENTER. The film. King, Montgomery to Memphis, will be .shown in
Hospital North, Room 2002.
• January 14, 5:30 p.m. — DUKE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, DUKE
CHAPEL STEPS. Candlelight vigil for the Duke Community (students,
staff, faculty and employees). Remarks by Dr. Nannerl O. Keohane, Dr.
Leonard C. Beckhum, Dr. Toby Kahr and musical selection by Prof.
Paul H. Jeffrey.
• January 15, 9 a.m. — DUKE MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH (Downtown Durham). Rev. Mark Weddington, The Durham
Comn^unity Martin Luther King Steering Committee will co-sponsor
the City of Durham Commemorative Breakfast with the following
sponsors: Duke Memorial Methodist Church, NAACP, People’s
Alliance, Fisher Memorial United Holy Church of America, Watts
Street Baptist Church, Concerned Citizens United, Trinity United
Methodist Church, Masjid Ar-Razzaq, Special Events Committee of
Durham Human Relations Commission.
• January 15, 8 a.m. — MARTIN LUTHER KING MEMORIAL
GARDENS, RALEIGH. Wreath Laying Ceremony.
• January 15, 9 a.m. — RALEIGH CIVIC & CONVENTION
CENTER DOWNTOWN. King Clergy Conference on Violence &
Community Development.
• January 15, 1:30 p.m. — ENLOE HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM,
RALEIGH. King Youth & Parents Assembly.
• January 16, 11 a.m. — DUKE UNIVERSITY, DUKE CHAPEL.
University Service of Worship. Rev. Dr. Samuel D. Proctor, Professor
of Practice, Divinity School.
• January 16, 7:30 p.m. — DUKE UNIVER5,ITY, DUKE CHAPEL.
Service of Celebration and Commemoration. Rev. Dr. -Samuel D.
Proctor,.Professor of Practice, Divinity School. Reception following
service Alumni Commons, 1st Floor, Divinity School.
• January 17, 8 a.m. — SHERATON IMPERIAL HOTEL &
CONVENTION CENTER, RESEARCH TRI.YNGLE PARK. The
Mardn Luiiier King Triangle Interdenominational Prayer Breakfast.
Speakers from Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill communities.
• January 17, 10:30 a.m. — DOWNTOWN DURHAM, CITY OF
DURHAM. The Durham Community Martin Luther King Steering
Committee sponsors a citywide march for jobs, hope and drug
prevention (freedom, justice and equality for our society). The planned
route will be Chapel Hill Street to the Homeless Shelter on Liberty
Street and on to B.N. Duke Auditorium on the campus of North
Carolina Central University.
• January 17, 6:30-9 p.m. — WHITE ROCK BAPTIST CHURCH,'
3400 Fayetteville Road. Annual Religious Program. The speaker will
be Dr. Renita Weems, Professor of Old Testament Studies, Vanderbilt
University.
Dean of Black Press,
T.C. Jervay, Succumbs
WILMINGTON (AP and StafQ
— Thomas Clarence Jervay, Sr.,
longtime owner and publisher of
the Wilmington Journal who wrote
during the height of the civil rights
movement, died Tuesday,
December 28, after a long illness.
He was 79.
Jervay became editor of The
Cape Fear Journal in 1938, taking
over for his father, who had started
the paper 11 years earlier. He latei
renamed the paper The Wilmington
Journal and edited it for over fifty
years. He once wrote, "I had a long,
varied and interesting career whose
center was the field of Journalism,
which I effectively used to promote
the economic, political and social
advancement of my race."
Regarded as Dean of the Black
Press, "Mr T.C.", as he was known
particularly to North Carolina
editors and publishers, was not only
outspoken on social issues, but was
active in community organizations
as well.
Some of his religious, civic,
professipnal and social
memberships included: Sl Mark’s
Episcopal, Church, the National-
Publishers Association,
Amalgamated Publishers, Inc.,
North Carolina Black Publishers
Association, NAACP (in which he
held a life membership and two
Golden Heritage Memberships),
Who’s Who in Black America,
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Elks,
Prince Hall Masons, United Grand
Order of Salem, the Professional
Society of Journalists, and Sigma
Della Chi;
Mr. Jervay received various
national, state and local awards and
recognitions for his cOTtributions to _
Durham Committee Election January 13
Spaulding vs. Allison
Attorney Kenneth B. Spaulding has entered the race for chairmanship
of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People. The election
is scheduled for Thursday, January 13, 7 p.m., at White Rock Baptist
Church.
Currently holding the position of second vice president of the
Committee, Spaulding has been an adult member of the Committee for
at least 25 years. Prior to that, as a member of a politically active
family, he attended many meetings during his youth.
Committee Chairman F.V. "Pete" Allison has held the post since
November 14, 1991 when he completed the term from which John
Edwards resigned, and then was elected to a full two-year term in
January 1992.
Allison was treasurer of the DCOABP from 1957 to 1991. He has
been a member of the Committee since 1953.
With emphasis on "economic empowerment," Allison is credited with
quieting dissension in the Committee and strongly supporting a
teamwork approach, enhancing the work of the housing, health, youth,
education and political comn\itlees.
T.C. JERVAY
his community and was the first
North Carolinian to receive the
esteemed Kellogg Celebrity Tribute
award. This award was given for
his longstanding community
service adtivities and his support of
the United Negro College Fund.
During the school segregation
riots that led to ten defendants
being charged with the bombing of
a grocery store in 1971 — a case
known as the "Wilington 10" —
Jervay wrote many stories and
columns at that time. Mrs. Sarah
Wri^t, mother of Wilmington 10
defendant Joe Write, said Jervay’s
writings helped rally the African
American communijy.
"We really aipreciated what he
did," she said, "He stood with us."
Two years later, the Journal office
was bombed. Ms. Florence Warren,
who lived upstairs from the
newspaper office, said she
remembered Mr. Jervay rnming to.
Kwanzaa
Celebration
Dedicated to
Seven
By Ray Trent
This year’s Kwanzaa celebration
in Durham was dedicated to seven
“Vanishing Runners" who gave so
much to make the community,
nation and world a better place in
which to live and thrive.
Honored were the late Dr. C.-
Elwood Bculware, Marian
Anderson, Arthur Ashe, Billy
Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Justice
Thurgood Marshall and Sun Ra.
.On the first day at Hayti Heritage
Center, the Umoja candle of unity
was lit to start the week of working
together and to further proceed
throughout the year with the other
principles — Kujichgulia, self-
determination; Ujima, collective
works and responsibility; Kuumba,
creativity; and on New Year’s day,
the- observance closed at the
Durham Armory with Imani, faith.
The closing program was filled
with music, griots (storytellers),
dimeers, African foods and crafts.
Kwanzaa was established in
America in 1966 by Dr. Ron
Karenga, based on Nguzo Saba,
seven principles of African origin.
Its dates are December 26 through
January 1, when attention is called
each day to a specific principle to
be practiced throughout the year.
N.C. Black
Caucus To
Meet
Jan. 21-22
The North Carolina Black
Leadership Caucus has scheduled a
strategic Planning Conference for
January 21-22 at the Greentree
Hotel in Fayetteville.
All officers are expected to
attend. Interested members are
welcome. The group will develop a
plan that charts goals and
objectives for the organization.
For additional information call
Faiger Blackwell, the newly elected
chairman,-at (919) 226-0508 or fax
226-3923.'
visit his devastated office that
night
"I saw him just stand and look,"
she said. "He gazed for quite a
while."
Mr. Jervay was bom November
30, 1914 in Wilmington, a son of
the late Robert Smith Jervay and
Mrs. Mary Alice McNeill Jervay.
His brother, Paul R. Jervay, who
founded The Carolinian in Raleigh
died December 11. His only son,
Thomas C. Jervay, Jr., preceded
him in death.
A service in remembrance was
held Friday, December 31, at St
Mark’s Episcopal Church in
Wilmington. Canon Edwin E.
Simthv. rector of St Mark’s,
officiated;, Interment was in
DR. VICTOR MAAFO prepares to pour libation to ancestors with the help of Chuck Davis.
COMMISSIONERS GILES AND BLACK listen to griot (storyteller) at Kwanzaa.
Greenlawn Memorial Park.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Willie E. Jervay; two daughters,
Mrs. Mary Alice Thatch of Raleigh
and Mrs. Katherine "Kitty" Tate of
Wilmington (who has edited and
published The Wilmington Journal
since her father’s illness); six
grandchildren, Robin Thatch Allen,
Shawn Thatch and Johanna Thatch,
all of Raleigh, Mona Jervay of
Seattle, Washington, Lacy Jervay
Tate and Robert Jravay Tate, both
of Wilmington; and seven great
grandchildren.
Mississippi Desegregation
Plan Find Statens Past
IsnHAt Universities
By Steve Walton
THE CLARION-LEDGER
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -
Mississippi remains enslaved by its
past efforts to keep races separate
and keep one of them down.
That’s the thread that weaves
through the 62-page U.S.
Department of Justice plan to solve
the university desegregation
lawsuit that Jake Ayers Sr. of Glen
Allan filed in 1975.
Justice Department lawyers
seemed to find segregauon - or ils
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