*' * ' "* fmj -'i-* ' lyy^yjM , *^W^*T' r , ff FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM -- Those youngsters, representing the youth of the North Carolina State Conference of Branches, NAACP, are at the 62nd annual meeting of the organization, Minneapolis, Minn. July 5-9. They joined other young NAACPers, from over the nation, in getting through legislation that gives them a louder voice in the organization. Sitting in fore front is Ronald Cunningham, Charlotte. L-r, kneeling, Steve Akers, Cleveland County; Willie Bratcher, Alfred Alexander, Kelly Alexander, Jr., James Shands, Richard Clyburn, all from Charlotte and Joseph Gatewood, Wadesboro; Ist row standing, Johnnie Mae Murphy, Charlotte; Elaine Harris and Janet Meadales, Greensboro; Bettye Thompson, Maple Hill; Regina Stokes, Roner, and Carlotta Judd, Greensboro; 3rd row, Barbara Clark, Greensboro, Robert Still, State Youth Advisor. Charlotte Delicordo, Roseboro and Ora Featherson, Wax haw. j INQUIRING REPORTER j BY C. WARREN MASSENBURG Haywood Shacklef’d Williams The following question was posed to a ran dom selection of black people around Raleigh Ithis week: What is your opinion on the Ra le: ;h School Board’s 70-30 desegregation plan »and« the effect it will have on black schools? Richard Shackleford, 314 Davie Street I have been hasseling with the idea for the last two weeks. First of all, turning Ligon into a junior high school is de finitely a mistake. I personally think every effort should be made to preserve it. As long as the ratio of the schools is 70-30, black kids will always be out voted in elections be cause there are more whites than blacks. WHiiams, 709 t:. Martin St. I think there should be more than 30 percent colored in these schools. Willie Moore, 1803 Malone Street First of ail, I am totally against bussing for intergra tion. I am strongly opposed to thq, 70-30 plan mainly be cause it is eliminating all black schools and is turning my alma mater (Ligon) into a junior high school. Cheslev Haywood, Washington Terrace I just can’t “dig it man.” Whites shouldn't force us into a situation in which we lose our identity in a 70-30 situation and lose Ligon High School too. I hope all of Raleigh will rise up together to fight it. Mrs. Birdena Montague, 542 Martin Street I don't like it. I think it should be equal, 50-50. They aren’t concerned about learning. I tell you things are bad. There might be another depression or something. Whites just won't do right. Vernon Keith, 500 E. Martin Street I don't believe in bussing. I ain’t got nothing against in tergration,* but I don’t see no sense in carrying the kids way across town. I’m just against the bussing part. Mrs. Josephine Upchurch, Washington Terrace I don't like that 70-30 plan. I don’t have any children in school, but I have several grand children in school. I’m concerned about all of the kids. There ought to be just as many colored as there are white. They’re turning Ligon into a junior high school, and I’m definitely against that. Lawrence Collins, 308 S. East Street If it s 50-50 it's “OK”, but this 70-30 plan is definitely wrong. I fear the safety of bussing these kids aroltnd. I think intergration is good to a certain extent, but when it comes to turning Ligon into a junior high school it’s time to STOP. See THEY SAY P. 2) URGE BLACKS TO VOTE - .John Lewis tnxj-r!> ryn-sj-n- Job Bias Law Passed Assembly Kills Old Practice State Representative Joy J. Johnson, a Demo crat from Robeson County, authored a bill recently that is consid ered one of the South’s first state equal oppor tunity lavt’s. The North Carolina General Assembly enacted the one-sen tence addition to state govern ment personnel laws Friday without debate by the Senate. It was later passed by the House unanimously. Johnson, himself, hailed the law as “the greatest morale booster for minorities since the Emancipation Proclama tion.” Saying the law is the first of its kind in the South, Rep. Johnson was quite excited about his bills’ passage. A race relations writer In At lanta said ”1 feel certain that this is the first such law in the South, unless there Is some dead one buried in reconstruction statutes.” The Impact of the law is clear. There are no penalty provisions for agencies judged to be discriminating against qualified job-seekers because of race, sex or religion. However, Johnson said the law could lie used to open new Jobs for minorities In government posts. Johnson introduced the bill shortly after the Assembly con vened in January. It was bot tled up in a committee on manu facturing and labor for a long time when later It was given an unfavorable report. (See ASSEMBLY. P. 2) CRIME BEAT Imm Raleigh’’ Os ft. ml 1.1- SUITOR’S NOTE: Thi* eoUutu* or feature is produces in the pub lic interest with an aim toward* eliminating It* content*. Numer ous Individuals have requested that they be given the considera tion of overlooking their listing on the police blotter. This we would like to do. However, it is not our position to be Judge or ju ry. We merely publish th* fact* at we find them reported by the arresting officers. To keep out of The Crime Beat Columns, merely means not being registered by a Follce officer In reporting hi* Sndtngt while on duty. So sim ply keep off the "Blotter" and you won't b* In The Crime Beat. SHOWS PARTS Dorothy Lassiter 530 E. Eden ton St, allegedly told Officer F, L. Rountree that at 4:07 p.m, Sunday her daughter had gone to Smiley's Groc, (416 E. Edenton St,, and that while there a Mr. Massey took out his private parts, and showed it to her. The official Police reports in dicated that the complainant fur ther stated that Massey mastur bated himself while In the child’s presence. The report* stated that the offense occured In the Grocery Store, John Tommie, Massey, U 0 N, Bloodworth St., wa* ‘‘hauled off* to jail for In decent exposures, according to the reports, (tea CRIME SKAT, R. i) North Carolina’s Leading Weekly RALEIGH, N. C., WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1971 VICTIM OF STONE THROWING - SOUTH KOREA: An unidentified black American soldier, bleeding from the fore head, is escorted by MPs from the scene of a stone-throw ing battle between black soldiers and South Korean civilians. RCA, NAACP Chari Integration Course One year ago a position paper was filed with the Raleigh School Board concerning safeguards that should be taken when schools tre fully integrated. The paper was prepared by the following safeguards,” the NAACP and the Raleigh Ci tizens Association. The group believes that “iii order to over come any semantic barrier, we define ‘total Integration’ not to mean assimilation but rather to Include, among other matters, the recognition that every effort be made to guarantee the reten tion of the cultrual identity of black sutdents by observing Ip iji imf - %;' I m REP. JOY JOHNSON Durham Men Awarded MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Two of the persons who received awards at the Freedom Fund Dinner, held Friday night, July 9, were Alexander Barnes and W.M. Gilliam, both of Durham. They received plaques for <»*« TWO, f *> (See CHARTS, P, ?> X InTheSweepstakes X l| SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK | | TERRY FURNITURE CO. | I J “For Your Housing Needs” A SISTER OF 'MARTIN LUTHER KING AT ST. .AUO. ■ — (Loft to right) Mrs. cKp Ist hie King Farris, assistant professor of Education at Spelmun College and sister to the late Dr, Mr. tin Luther King, spoke at Saint Augustine's College during the Reading Institute Friday, July 9. Others on the picture are Dr, Thelma Roundtree, chairman of the school's division of humanities, and adjunct professor of reading at N.C. State University, B'sco Ywicy, Jr., and Miss Volina* Hardy, participants in the program and Mrs. Ann Alford, instructor. SINGLE COPY 15c Hi School Problem Debated BY CURETON JOHNSON “We all know that ev eryone’s main concent here today is Ligon and mine is too,” said Mrs. Moitres Pridgeon of the Raleigh Citizens Asso ciation. From then on ail types of verbal lacerations were hurled at the Raleigh School Board, the NAACP, and several indi (See HI SCHOOL, P. 2) wmmi *p*-j krm *> ATT. JULIUS CHAMBERS Hailed By Many WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Federal District Court in Oxford, Miss., ruled invalid, on June 23,’ a school district requirement of a 1,000 score on the National Teachers Examination as a standard for hir ing and dismissing teachers. In a suit brought by the Na tional Education Association and its affiliate, the Mississippi Teachers Association, against the Columbus Municipal Sep arate School District, Judge Orma R. Smith held that the school district's use of theNTE violated the Fourteenth Amend ment because.it was discrimina tory and arbitrary. In the, course of his 37-page opinion, Judge Smith said the NTE does not measure class room teaching performance, nor does it measure many of the qualities that school superin tendents may wish to know a bout prospective teachers. The court said that the use of the NTE cut-off score would bar good as well as bad teachers from employment. One of the eight teachers who had been dismissed by the Co lumbus school district because of a low NTE score, Jesse Jones, had been ranked first on his school faculty by his princi pal. The other teachers in cluded in the suit vere Bettye Joe Baker, v. llli< I ouis Dillard, Ester Harrison, Mildred Patri cia Hubbard, Annie D. Prowell, Albert Williams Jr., and Ca mille Burnadette Yates. (Se« DECISION, i* •') WOO Ducats Given For inmates About 1,000 honor grade in mates from the North Carolina Department of Correction, both men and-women, will attend the two day Pan African U.S.A. In ternational t Track Meet at Duke University July IC-17. The event will be- held at Wal lace Wade Stadium, first perfor mances beginning at 4:30 p.m. each day. The last event of each day wiii begin at 7:30 p.m. Complimentary tickets to the track meet, first of its kind ever staged, are being provided in mates by the office of Governor Robei’t W. Scott. In order to accommodate them, a section of 1,000 seats will be roped off at the stadium, and this will be sub divided into blocks of 200 seats each. Approximately 1,000 inmates will be in attendance each day. They will be accompanied by staff, and community volunteers who have been working with in mates of the several prison units in a program designed to guide their return to and re-assimi lation as law-abiding citizens into the communities from which they came. Commissioner Lee Bounds and Deputy Commissioner George \V. Randall expressed their ap preciation, on behalf of the De partment of Correction, to Gov ernor Scott, In making this large number of complimentary tickets avail able, Bounds said, Governor (See 1,000. P. 2)