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TH^ CAROLINA TIMES ^AAI J-A—TMl tIkUTN UNtRIDi.BO~ SAn JAN 21. 1M1 STILL AT LARC^ DEFAM"NO THE PRESTI6E OP OUR COUNTRY Ibffropond Unification of the City and Countif thM Oro)i«p Ti^fs warns the N’epro vot- «rt rf DHrharti to tread with extreme 'cantioti I# pathway stretched before thetn vhich ]^ds to unification of the city and county Iff Durham. Seldom hi past elections has there existed such an awful split within the ranks of tile lei^ing V^te citiaens of the city as noyr obtaimi owifif‘thc question of unific.-ition. think, liie|‘f|^t, that Negro voters would d«i wcH t6 Mrait the final decision «)f the Durham Co|||lhittee on Negro Affairs. We hnve been thformed that the Committee is "now makiafr a thorough investipation of the plans for unification in order to determine vhcther^r not it will he detrimental or help ful to^e Kegro citizens. As Mas been the custom in past years, the vleci|ibn of the Committee will he withheld nnti after the Thursday night meeting on January' 19. This procedure is for obvious reaBons and is for the best of all concerned, wMether it will be for or against unification. As it now stands, no Qfii^er o» member of the Durham Committee on Negrb Affair.s can truthfully say what the reccomendation to the Xegro voters of Durham will be. In recent years most of the progressive movements in Durham have been supported wholeheartedly by the Committee. In fact many of them would have failed, especially where a bond issue was concerned, had it not l>een for the backing of the Committee and the Xegro vote. Whether unification or non- unification of the city and cpufity govern ments of Durham can be considered progres sive will be determined by the committee iK)w making the study ^^lie }>ropesa}. Whatever the course,, we advise Negro ' voters to be careful not to make any com mitments before they have listened to the s])ecial committee appointed by the Durham Committee on Negro Affairs to study and look into all angles of the unification plan. bKouraging is tlie Proposal of tiie C-R Commission Tuesday’s Associated Press dispatch car ried an account of a proposal of the Civil Rights Commissipn that federal funds be withheld from public supported institutions higher education that discriminate on ac count of race, color, religion or national ori gin. The most encouraging thing about the en tire proposal of the commission was that two southerners, one from Texas and the other from North Carolina, joined m support of it. t)r. Robert Rankin, chairman of the political science department of Duke University and former member of the Durham City Council, ■was the North Carolinian who registered / his vote in favor of the proposal. Robert G. Store}', vice chairman of the commission, was the Texan. On the whole, Texas and North Carolina, are way out in front of a majority of southern states on the question of integration. It, there fore, was more in keeping with the trenti in those two states for their representatives to lend their support to a proposal such as that presented by the Ciyil Rights Commission. Although neither Dr. Rankin nor Mr. Storey were in accord with the commission’s further proposal to withhold federal funds from pri vate as well as public coHegps and universities that discriminate, their suport of the with holding of federal funds fVom public institu tions of higher education is indeed encourag ing. The action taken by the comiiitSs^n in the propsal to withold federal funds jrom public colleges and universities recalls to mind a bill introduced in Congress only a few years ago by Representative Clayton Powell of New York to cut off funds f/om such in stitutions of higher learning. The bill drew rapid fire from a majority of southerners in the House of Representatives and Powell was practically thrown o\it on his head for intro ducing such a piece of legislation. The same proposal by the Civil Rights Commission cer tainly is a vindication for Congressman Pow ell who got little or not support for his bill even from northern and western' members of the lower house. The action of the commission just goes to. show how fast we are traveling on th^ques- tion of integration. What today seems im practical and impossible for the South may only a few months from now be accepted as the common pattern. Five years from now ■ Negro students in institutions of higher learn ing all over the South will be the common practice. Then we shall look back at the time in which we now live as the age in which morons of the South were in the saddle and kept that section of the country poverty- strickened and backward for nearly one hui> dred years after slavery. Inside Somerville, Tennes^ SPI^UAL INSIGHT By REV. HAROLD ROLAND Words of Encouragement Addlb ttie Joy of Living human get to Congratulations to Charlotte and M & F. Bank The announcement in last week’s issue of ttie'eanlina Tinrps “that the Mechanics and Farmers Bank of this city will open a branch in Charlotte, if and when the North Caro lina State Banking Department approves the move at a meeting on January 18, brings much joy and pride fo cilstomers and friends of the institution both in and out of Durham. With three offices, including the headquarters lo* cated in this city, a branch in Raleigh and its Fayeteville Street office, also in this city, the local bank already has the distinction of b|ehig the only one operated by the race with a. brtnch office in another city. The addition of,'a Qiarlo^e pf^ic^ to the three already in jofeirft^oif, ;a(3kl pr(isljg)|, tti the p^^.'wnlcir^ bW iseveral miiiion ^llars to its resources. By the time this editorial is read we pre dict that the banking department of the state will have already approved the plan of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank to open a branch in Charlotte. We, therefore, take this means of extending our congratulations to the officers for what we consider a most progressive move.. Also we would like to offer our praise to those of Charlotte who have worked so diligently to help make the plan aTBUcccss: Only timc'mlt be able to members of the race in Charlotte just how much a bank owned«t§nd operated by Negroes can mean economicaUy to a community. Here in Durham and Raleigh where Ne groes are direct beneficiaries of a banking institution of their own, they are so close to the picture'that they cannot realize its beau ty and its worth. Once one of them moves to another city where such facilities a>"e not available, they are quick to realize the dif ference and what great advantages Negroes in a city in which a bank of their own race is located hate over thjpse in other places^ We soiip^ifoR tj|i4-5J|^fclv^ic^; afwl' i'larmers Bank the fuil cooperation ^of tlie people of Charlotte. If they will’give the bank their support, it is certain to raise the entire eco nomic level of all the Negroes of that city. Whoever of their city has been responsible for helping to secure a branch of the bank for Charlotte has Hade-a l^’eat contribution toward not only ^he economic Kfe of the Negro citizens of »e cjty, b ut the religious, cultural and the jridtistrial al well. "The brehSrtn encouraged him." Acts 18:27. Encoui^ement is essential to Sle. Too often we for- "the spiritual lift of '‘VV^cird of encourage- of encouragement „n|toch for those fight ing th^i^l^ffieult battles of this life. TOal word of encourage--^ ment wilt^ve new meanings to life and^ijll struggles. We take too for granted, and we never speak that much needed word of encouragement to a bur- den-betring sister or brother.' Your word of eneouragent.ent may save some weary, stiiiggling soul from defeat. JUst » word can make the difference at times l>etween defeat and victory. Many a soul ^has lost .Its hold . on life because no one spoke that word of encouragement at the right time. Words have great power in life’s critical times. Then, let us iH theTTaW of'passing along ' words of encouragement where they may be needed. That word will give the neded courage to carry on another day. That word of encouragement will give the needed spark of hope. That word may mean light in the darkest hour. Yes, your word of en couragement may mean the dif ference between success and failure for a struggling soul. Words of encouragement will cost only a little time and pat ience. Just a little time and >' liUle love will do the job. Then let us get in the habit of taking a little more .time to speak these lifegivipg and renewing- words of encouragement. You. know what it meant when some one took time to speak a word of encour agement to you in the midst of a battle you were fighting. Words of encouragement cost so li.tle and they pay such great dividends. I«t us then invest a Iittre lime to along lhat' much needed word that will do so much good. The giver of words of encour agement can add to the sum total of the joy of living. We all know there is too much sadness and not enough joy in this old world. You can so easily add to the joy of the world by becom ing a broadcasting center for the blessed worlls of encourage ment. Your husband needs a word of encouragement. The teactaAr of your children needs a word of encouragement. Chil dren, your parents need words at encouragement. Your minis ter needs a word of encourage ment. Let us in the habit of speaking those much needed words of encouragement so that we can add to the joy of living. Let us cultivate the habit of speaking that much needed word when and where it may be needed. PROMISIHG OUTLOOK Americans enjoy a variety, quality and abundance of food unmatched anywhere, and beyond the imagiiiation of a good part of the world’s people. TTie retail stores which have developed tl|e distribution system to move and selj this mountain of goods do an im- at Durham. N. C. TcIciiImm: aiB-MU and 681-8512 bf tteUt# MUAmts. Inc. U i. Amtm, WbhMba IXniiil W «|M t&e POat Office . m nopi, jioilfc w4fU ttw Act « I CkdUu MMtpd (Mtoi E. Petticww St If, CoafnHer FEB YKAS ufm HM ense and outstanding job—and one that is getting bigger every year. Food chains are backing up their confi dence in the economic outlook with planned expenditures for building and remodeling tot aling about $1,159- million during 1961, a slightly larger amount than 4hat spent in 1960. Further evidence of the impact of food chain expenditures on the economy is the outlook for increased employment opportuni ties in food chains as new people are hired to staff new stores and stipermarkets. Payroll costs in 1960 are estimated at more than $2 billioh for food chains alone. According to Paul }. Cypp, Chairman of the Board of National Association of Food Chains, the trend tow*»d construction of “su per supermarkets" is abating in favor of medium-size niarkcts and food chain execu tives are planning ati all-eut attack on ris- WASHINGTON, D. C. — Many test and surveys^ have shown that average attainment of Ne gro students at many levels has been below the national mean,” writes Dr. W.' Montague Cobb, editor, of^ the Journal of the Na tional Medical .A^o6iation, in the current issue of the magazine.. Equally^ significant demon- > strations have be«n made, tf- in 1;He public schools of Hip District of Columbia, that th«M dtficHs can b« quickly over come in the primary grade* when opportunities and teach ers are equivalent. “What|»,a large number, of people f^ to realize, however, lag in average at- ; college level can- uickly overcome ahd modest increases in ns and facilities in ges have been able the norms of attain ment of their students, the lead- leaping ahead, p widens between performance in stitutions and those is that tammen not be that whi appropn many to impr mg scho so that the qua the leadi less favo al of th ^In principal editori- Journal’s current issue, says the Negro' population has always been handicapped educationally and the pressing demands of the present have served but to emphasize the in equities of the past. “The be- gitmings of integration in edu cation as manifest today are but a drop in the bucket to what mus^be done.” Th^ editorial emphasized tip fact that the Negro in medicine. over the years, has shown slow but constant progress. “He has moved in no direction^but up ward. The demands of our tim^s are such, however, that especial ly dkected effort must be made by all concerned, particularly medicalalumni, i to discover youth of promise iof medicine in high school; to s^ that at that ^vel these .young people receive proper guidance and erientation, and to aid them financially as circumstances warraijt.” Dr. Cobb .said the seed for ibis' kind of activity was long ago recognized' by many. It Was pointed out by him over a decade ago. The National Urban League has launched a program, ‘To morrow’s Scientists and Techni cians,” which represents a signi ficant step. Under the auspices of the National Scholarship Ser vice and Fund for Negro Stu dents, a* “Committee to Salvage Talent”, has been organized and is promulgating a program. “This kind of organized effort, however, cannot be effective un less all the individuals who are aware of the values involved are alert t^the need and are doing something about it. “Every member of the Nation al Medical Association should have a sharp eye out fw goten- tial talent and bestir him or her self about providing for the able youngster, proper motivation) seeing to it that he forms the proper habits of study while young and if he need* financial aid, help in finding some source to provide it. President Aidrich’i plan for a $25,000 NMA Scholar ly ALICE DUNNIGAN There is ap miaii;a^Ua| tk« fact Uat the situation ia Faij^tte County, Tennesaee is despera^. Many people are being made to suffer, and many people are go ring to Mt for theiif rights, but 'those who move into a situation for the purpose of exploiting it should be exposed. Thts is the opinion of those familiar Wth the whole story. . fi \ Interviews in the are«i |ev^l th^t Scott Franklin is oi|^ such person. A news dispatch 4%ing from Somerville quoted #l|ank- lin as saying that an oij'-vl^m- pany took up his gasoline P^P about''the same time thaf-Tl^ Ferren’s fuel si^iply was ed. The i^efisc fqrtlfer ' "Wted that “nationwide protest forced the oil coBiMBies to supply Mo- Ferren aitai^, but Franklin is still dep|iva4.” This writer learned from a li.'liable sourcai' that Franklin never had a gasoline station “The old, battered, weed-covered gasoline pump - in the yard of his home could never be called a service station by the wildest stretch of the imagination’^ ^aid a recent visitor. Hie gasoline which he bought was lot use in his owq,npi>|ck which, according to local Jdssip, was used more for delivering grain for spirits other than it was for transporting farm pro- ' ducts. A £heck with the Amoco people revealed that Franklin however,''who lives more than 20 miles on a rather lonely road from the distributor's plant, never purchased more t^i|B 200i gallons of gas at a time. And since the distributor’s^ ' gross i margin is never greater than three-and-a-quarter cents, this means that he had to loan his truck and sent it on a 44 mile rquad-trip over rough''^oads to Franklin’s home fojr a nUximum profit of $».M obce every three 0^ ||our months. ^Vhen Franklin’s pump broke, according to an Amoco spokes- nuin, company never replac- ejj it. Since Franklin’s account oever was considered a good a$», they felt that putting in /a new pump would “simply be throwing good money af^r '^ad." John McFenren, who was the tero in the registration move, is still in the forefront of the fight. This local leader, who operates a grocery store and filling station, was ^ hardest hit from the beginning when the Gulf oil distributor of the area Refused to sell him gasoline and a Kpi^ber of wholesalers declin- e4 tp sell Um commodities for his grooery. The Giilf people snatched out McFerren’s 250-gallon tank, which he replaced himself with a 12,000-gallon tank. After much pressure about the gas situation, several companies agreed to let McFerren have gas on bn inde pendent basis, and it was de livered in unmarked trucks. The continuation of the whol- sale eviction movement is a economic squeeze which ^gan in Fayette County back in vAuguit, 1089, when Negroes m&de this first effort to register to vote. With a Federal Court or^er pro hibiting reprisals and oljher un fair practices by white fanners and businessmen there is much hope Negroe^''will evolve to a better position. ^ McFerren has fought a terrific battle and deserves much praise for his militant stand in the whole matter. But in this situa tion as in many others there is always some non-deserving per sons who move in and share the limelight. Plight Of Demagogic Politici Deficits Among Nedro Students Can Be Overcome When Opportunities, Teachers Are Equivalent . ^ftkFund should certainly be implemented”. Dr. CNjb further stated that the pursuH^^of excellence has be come so Wfde^ recognized a necessity for out survival that it has become a nnonal refrain.j “Siurveys by tl\ highest ais- pfces have clearly V(^cated that the United States ^iiot be sa tisfied with mediocrtljf at any level. Numerous sourly have pointed out that our educational system has shown laxity in nk^y areas and was becoming tolerad^ of superficiality and permitting youth to become preoccupied with materialistic trivia. Can't Explain A MetTiodist missionary says “the decision to treat all men as equals was not forced upon by the Supreme Court, but by the teachings, examples and spirit of Jesus Christ.” The Rev. Gunnar J. Teilmann, Jr., a missionary to Malaya, ask ed 300 leaders of the Methodist Women’s Society of Christian Service in th^ Southeast; “How can we missionaries possibly ex plain Little Rock to the peeple Of Asia and Africa?” He added; “They know the story, even in the most remote jungle.” He continued that he could ex plain political action by congress men or a governor against racial eq\iality, “But not the action of the church in refusing to lead the way.” Mr. Teilman is a na- ^ tive of Johiuon City, Teiu. —from an Associated Press dispatch, June 30, 1960 The plight of a politician caught upon the rack of his own dem^gogery is demonstrated by the (situation in which Georgia governor Ernest. Vandiver finds himself. Sleeted on his promise to keep Negro children out of “white” schools, Vandiver and his pre decessor got thru the Georgia State legislature bills which would automatically cloae any school in the state which o^yed the U. S. Supreme Court de cision desegregating schools. Monday Vandiver cam^ face to face with the realities of the situation when two Negro col lege,, students appeared ^th Federal canrt sanction to e^oll in th£ Iliiivertity of C«ffgl% After a day of diziying legal action, the students’ entry in the state university was delayed an# the University was ordered , ed by state authorities to bl^k court ordered integration. Vandiver’s dilemma has a nwpber of sides. He was discuss ed favorably in some quarters for a place in the Kennedy, ca binet as Army secretary but im mediately a hue and cry, went up from those citizens who want no arrant segregatic^ist in charge of any branch of U^e arm ed forces the personnel of which will eventually be 10 per cent American Negro. Obviously the reason why Van diver ' turned down the sub-ca- biiiet Job was due to the heat which Negro supporters o the President-elect generated . Vandiver is a young nun and despite bis campaign pledges to the molt backward elements in bis state, to keep the schools se- gre^ted must now see that the lengths to which his course has carried is dangerous to the fu ture at his state’s educatipn aiid more important, his own future in national politics. At ot Tuesday of this week hia course and that of his ad- . JiereikU..may force, the closiiig of t^ state’s chief educational insiti^on and lock the 7,500 stu dent body at the University frotn their classes simply because two Negro Students have been order ed admitted to classes. This is not a pretty picture and , Gov. Vandiver knows it. It is his own ntaking and he will have to live with it and so will other Dixie politicians who blithely go along their way campaigning on plat forms “to keep the Negro in his place.” ' —The Minneapolis SPOKESMA^ INFORMATION fOR VETERANS iblTO^'S NOTI: Vet^ans aMl their families are sMtbig thousands of questions concern- ina the benefits their Oovehfi- ment provides for them throuoh ^Veterans Adminisiratlon. Below seme representative queries. Additional Information may be obfdned at any VA office. ing expenses. The gradual cHmb in operating costs is one of the key problems facing the industry in its effort to satisfy consumer de mand for variety and convenience while main taining its record for pioneering lower cost distribution methods. . Q.—>» it necessary that a Ke* rean veftran receive vecatlenal counsellntf from VA before he begins vocMlonai rehabilitation training undey -PufaHc L^w t94f A.—Yes, The law requires that disabled veterans desiring train ing under the vsjcational oeha- bilitation act receive this C9i)n- seling to determine the n^ed'- for this training to oveicome their handicap, and in ordu' to help the veteran in choosiag a Pro^ gram best suited to him. d Q.—A non-veteran frlonH and I want to go into business. ^ a Korean veteran, am l' entitled l» a Gl lean on this parMer^lp business? A.—^Yes, if otherwise^ eligilk. But, the amount of the loan ^ which VA’s guaranty ia haw will be in proportion to youi own interest in the loan, aqa will not cover any portion the loan constituting the non veteran’s eoBtribution to the busineu. Q-—As a "peeeettwie veteran," am I eligible for VA hoapltalhu- tlen? .—Only under these t\yp con ditions: (1) If you were dis charged under other than di»- honorable conditions for,,a dis ability incurred in line of duty or (2) If you are receiving com pensation for a service-connected or service-aggravated disability or disease. Q.—My World War II Gl In surance policy, on the endow ment plan, matures seen. May I receive the proceeds of the pel-' Icy in monthly tnstellment* fer the rest of my life? A.—I'^o. You may choose one of two payment plans; (1) lump syv, or (2) equal monthly pay- ranging from 36vto 240 installments, in multiples of 12. 0*^ la oar refuge ai|4, otro^th, a very preaeat la tMBhle^fPealai 4«il> There are times when even Um most agffreaeive. forceful, aeif-aaaured among na myat- kaoW, fas their secret kearta, tkitl Uioir human atrength ta not enough—that God aktaa CM k#lp then ttieir trou« bl(k Theaf who humbly, t^uijr, ^ 'Jto yithlB Bin ”wni chough the ««rtli bo re- aovraA.**
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