NCTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEET la nation Saturday. December 5, at the VCTA headquar ter* here were the following membera el the Nerth Carotin* Teaehera Association's Beard of Director*: Left to right: J. H. Twitty, A. D. Smith L. H. Meeeley, O. A. Face. Jr., Mr*. Leona B. Daniel. Charles il. Coleman, J. A. Clarke, J. A. Brown, Dr. S. O. lone* Dr. 8. E. Donean, president; Attorney Corttas Todd. Mrs. Geneve J. Bowe, secretary; Oliver N. Freeman, A. R. Bo we, Mr*. Juanita M. Corbin, Dr. Nelson H. Hants, treasurer; Mrs. Elisabeth D. Koonts, NfEA-DCT elect president; John H. Wooten, and King A. Williams. Standing, L-R.: J. R. Barnes, J. H. Lacs* Dr. Lafayette Parker, W. A. Foster, Fred McNeill, field representative; and E. B. Palmer, executive secretary. Seek 20’000 Turkeys So Miss. Negroes Won't Have To Eat Syrup, Bread For Yule CHICAGO <NPI> Comedian Dick Gregory and Mississippi heroine Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer have started a campaign to airlift JO,OOO turkeys to Mississippi so Ne groes in the state won’t have to eat “syrup and bread” for Christ mas dinner. Mrs. Hamer, who stirred the Na tional Democratic Convention Plat form Committee with her account of Mississippi terror, said most Ne groes in the state have never seen a turkey except in pictures. *1 am 47 years aid and 1 have had aaa turkey and I am nn- OSUII, ,U, SU,,t. I H<li V, lie {lit er six years ago and I bought It ah the installment plan and took about eight months to pay #«." Mrs. Hamer said the white man who gave her credit “doen’t own that store any more.” The idea to airlift the 20:000 tur key* to Mississippi was the Inspira tion of Dick Gregory, who formed a committee for Christmas in Mis sissippi. Famed news columnist Drew Pearson is co-chairman, at in Law rence Landry of Chicago. Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson is honorary chairman. Gregory announced that Sammy Davis, Jr. will appear in a Chicago BHSa sr* ON MANUFACTURER'S LIST ON ELECTRIC FIXTURES Electrical Wholesalers Inc. 911 N. West St It Costs You Nothing •To find out bow you can atep op into roar own home on yoor own Imd in *64. • To aee how the new tax eat can help you atop • To find out U you can be OK'd for a OI or FHA home loan la beautiful... Biltaore Hills Estates Call Our Building Agent* Now Company >oh p w. whiter. rm Tatoto utL mi m benefit performance on Dec. 20 in connection with the project. Gregory himself said he and his family will accompany the Christ mas dinners on the flight to Missis sippi and will spend Christmas with the people of Mississippi. Pearson anneaacad from Washington that lAM turkey* have been donated by the Feed Fair grocery chain and that Gi ant Food chain store* have of fered a “generous amount." In describing the condition of Ne groes in Mississippi, Mrs. Hammer said: 2- Year Boycott Os Store Changes Town's Pattern OROVILLE, Calif. - A two-year boycott of the Barnes Supermarket not only has made that store aban don Us lily-white job policy, but has changed the employment patt ern in the entire town. Negroes now are working at the local brandies of Montgomery Ward, the Bank of America and seveal other down town stores. The boyeett, bolstered by pic keting. had wea Um sarppsrt of more than 98 percent et to* “From now until Christmas there is a very little work, the cotton is light add picking is very slow be cause you have to work in mud al most up to your knees. “When I left on Thanksgiving Day the people were working in the fields to earn enough money to be able to buy a little something for that night’s supper. “All my life I never htd enough to eat until I began working for the ‘movement.’ Then my doctor told me I had to go on a diet, so I am now back to boiled eggs where 1 was before.” non-white Community. Finally, following rumors that toe store , was about to close, management hired Its first Negro clerk and toe long boycott was ended. “Members of CORE'S Orovill* chapter are comparing their success with Barnes Supermarket to toe result* of the 1258 Montgomery bus boycott, though on a smaller scale.’’ commented Chet Duncan. CORE’S Wd stern field secretary. y i * [ \ \ 4| j I I \ \ I t_\ 1 / / i / / i i - / 1 j / / 'vH Haw, hl«h offldoney * B L J - Thin-Pak Inflation tth# door low, LOW PMCE y I 5-YEAR | SOOO 95 4 R pnkeawiMMk.n MMU\ I gagsawa>‘gdL*t ■»———■■ - witimidmtimm tHmUm .!»«« » awrtr- TIRE SALES & SERVICE CO. 401 Hflbboro St 1819 Poole Road 833-2571 828-9396 Analyze Failure Os “White Backlash" NEW YORK (ANPD Column ists and political analysts who pre dicted that the white backlash vota was going to b* » major factor in the election art looking for some new answers since the election. The New Port Times to aa editorial effaced two auptoaa torn* far to* tellur* at to* bask lash veto to develop, “The Bn* h that far meat Americana out ■Me the deep South there waa dearly m eeafUct,' the Times mid. They wanted a PiwMud right* was aaerat aa wall aa to " They feel it demonstrates again the effectiveness of complete Ne gro community support in ending discrimination.* BoL YEARS ESI ULU I I ■ Iji 4w ECHO SPRING KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON 8« PROOF •**%*4. ECHO SPRING OIST. CO., LOUISVILLE, KT. gal and who tea Id be aaunlsd on to aaok national unity to making real too prtadplm of eqaaltty. The second explanation la toot even those with basic reservations about the civil rights movement recoiled in many instances from giving their votes to the Republi can ticket because they feared tost a Goidwater victory would prove too injurious in its over-all effect on foreign and domestic affairs. California's vote for a constitutional prohibition against fair housing legislation make* it plain that the absence of a widespread backlash in the Presidential race la no guar antee of easy progress toward breaking down the walls of racial ghettos, toward* better school inte gration or toward other forms of program at the local level “The difficulties in to* way of toll equality, in tact u well aa law, remain staggering. But to* election returns Indicate that the / -~*ran people at large want to move affirmatively toward a so lution of these difficulties; and even if they may be reserved in their attitude toward speedy at tainment of racial justice, they are not prepared to cast overboard all other values and judgements af fecting the nation's welfare.” PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS Theodore Roosevelt, the Catholic Digest states, waa the tint Presi dent to ride In an automoblla and the first to laava th* U. S. while in office, o trip to toe Panama Canal. 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