I MHWH' ON THL DOC T WRONS? / TERRIBLE FROM ) R R VF — V FM N " V\ 1 VLMONEOF MV , FT H ; - \! ■ MA6 ANYTHING BEEN heard sorry, ALL THE EDITORS ANO PRATTLE & T ATT Li OF IT? I OFFERED A REWARP RE PORTIAS AWE OL>T L POKING t , ~r OF T£H DOLLARS, t FOR THE DOG) J I JNS6RTED AN AD FOR AW || . / F// ✓. /Y , \ JN - " 71 OH. yes- FINE I ~1 II VES— "COTQN'T ♦ TOWN 'TOPICS yeSTERPAy! R-* R GO! H~ K * T 1 —IvfiSTgßOAy; I X, i ,1 YOU DIPN'T HAVE MUCH LUCK Washington Newspaper Awards $2,500 for Book-length Poem WASHINGTON, D. C. The Washington Star awarded a $2, 500 research grant to a Howard University professor to complete book-length epic poem on the American Negro. Dr. Lewis H. Fenderson, an as sociate professor of English at Howard University since 1949, '*ill title his work, "In My Hands A Sword." "Except for 'John Brown's Body' and 'Harlem Shadows'," Dr. Fenderson said, "there is no other narrative or epic poem in Ameri can literature dealing with the spectrum -of the Negro, projecting in breadth and depth his involved and fascinating history. In its totality, the poem will re flect the entire chronicle of the origin, persecution, the vicissi tudes, and the final victorious ac complishments of a minority group unique in the history of man kind." A former newspaperman, Fcn derson wrote about 300 poems in his column, "Songs from a Lit tered Desk," in the Pittsburgh Courier. The author of many arti cles dealing with the Negro press, (tistant Cool Comfort $99.95 UWNATOI awSmoiS Install-it-yourself and save! No special tools needed! « filir i Til ill a A Mirt »■■■»*. J L 2.3. ui."' 4. "" • Op«r«Ul on 115-volt current KELVINATOR MUMS TOI MUTU VUltl .ta.Mllctartfcr.My filter Kfjug Ufiai |Mf||Ki| thlt MS RMfl Hukl WlOfS tfft' « WMmM. foam liter IwUMtwi mmuM towMte wt AJMflcin Motoi |H BWI ml tthtt juil • NEMA-Cwtlfted 4,200-ttu Ciptclty m » R«m> wt r> Nu-Tread Tire Co. VWBBB7 EOI FOSTER ST. DURHAM, N. C. Il' '.. jink. ■ - - . : Fenderson has alr-i published nu merous poems in such journals as Fantasy, Overture and the Howard Magazine. In addition he is the co author of a forthcoming book en titled "The Negro American: A History of the Negro in the Unit ed States." A native of Baltimore, Fender son moved "Arith his family to Pittsburgh as a child, and gradu ated from the University of University of Pittsburgh in 1941. He received his master's degree there the following year, and his Ph.D. there in 1948. The Evening Star Newspaper Grants Program awards a total of $12,000 a year to promote distin guished scholarship among the faculty of five Washington uni versities: American University, Catholic University, George Wash ington University, Howard Uni versity, and Georgetown Univer sity. Each of the university presi dents awards the grants to deserv ing faculty members for further research. Since the program was initiated in 1958, The Evening Star has awarded $84,000 in faculty grants. Jas. Farmer Attends Funeral of Slain Deputy in Louisiana VARNADO, La—CORE Nation al Director James Farmer flew here on June 9 to attend the fun eral of O'Neal Moore, the Negro deputy sheriff who was murdered while on patrol duty a week ago. While Farmer was on the speak ers platform, he did not partici pate in the program since Mrs. Moore had requested that there be no civil rights activity af the funeral. The day after the slaying. Far mer issued a public statement: "Let there be no mistake; this is a racial killing in response to our demands for an increaseed Negro police force in Bogalusa (about 7 miles south of Varnado). Once again the racist had made his bloody reply. "CORE will not bo intimidated N. C. Employers Respond to Plea For Youth Jobs ATLANTA, Ga.—"North Caro lina employers have offered 4,- 960 jobs for young people in re sponse to the President's Youth Opportunity Campaign." Henry A. Huettner, chairman of the U. S. Department of Labor's Regional Staff announced last week. During the first Vao weeks of the campaign. North Carolina em ployers wrote and telegraphed thei rsummer job offers to offi cials of the program Washington. In ddition, many others contacted the local officers of the State Em upoyment Service office for young job seekers. Leading national organizations " such as the Chamber of Commerce, | the American Legion, the National Council of Churches, YMCA, Na tional Urban League, PTA Nation al Congress and National Council of Jewish Women, among others, have also pledged their aupport of the President's summer jobs for youth program. Summer job offers by employers are continuing to mount accord ing to State Employment Service officials. These jobs and pledges of support resulted from Presi dent Johnson's May 23 urgent ap peal to public and private organi zations to develop work and train ing opportunities for the more than 2 million youth who will enter the labor force this month. "Some of these two million will be looking only for temporary lunmer jobs," the President said. "But getting those jobs may be the difference between being able to go back to school or not go ing back." He also pointed out that "Almost a million of these young Americans will be trying to find their places hi Hie trying to become independent, telf-tuffi .l «'»"».J U •* »-> w »•> •V " ' set. ."kil ,tr and stands ready with all its re sources to back the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League in its drive tor dignity and civic free dom in Louisiana. We extend our deepest sympathy to the family of martyr O'Neal Moore and our pvayers for the successful recovery of Mr. Creed Rogers." Rogers, Washington Parish's only other Negro deputy sheriff, 1 was shot in the shoulder at the same time Moore was killed. The two Negro men had been hired a year ago despite protests by the Klan, which is strong in Washing ton parish. Ernest McElveen, a white employee of Crown Zqllor bach Corporation was arrested an hour after the shooting. ZZZ • JJ' S AMA Z| NG! Shoes WERE vrevPS^U* ■Flu " 'ilir *8 - cL' Y O.OFN times!'. "Utey h/vo thick I #v \SOueS,WnVi Pi METAU ARC^GTVtQrr | \ Jf' \ UND6R THBToe*....WnH Tve - > „> t*m*r ACCENT, ; V*\~tW NO PtLoY ftSoAtp. FLEW 7 MILES X .Euraocm-E HIMOU RUGS'. NO cmO LANDED ,Vs/\TH 09m.v /=) PROPELLPP ' I HWMP|M «e*»ss . including FVwacss ci irutiv wsMflrcn/ 7\t rT!oL J\ \ I ftCe coMStoeceo vjioemv CNOOGH . ( SLKJHTLY DAMAGED [CHFNKE. MONt) 1 To STEP on TWEM: • :^ f "%fr a: lArl NCC Prof on Foreign Tour For Summer Dr. Ruth N. Horry, professor of French at North Carolina College, sailed from New York Wednesday, June 9, for a six-week tour of France and other European coun tries. In addition to France, promi nent on her itinerary are Vienna, Strasburg, Austria, and Sweden. The NCC professor, who was on leave last year to participate in the Cooperative Program in the Humanities at Duke University, will resume her duties at NCC in September. Holder of the A.B. degree from Talladega College, the M.A. from Howard University, and the Ph.D. from New York University, Dr. Horry has studied also at the Uni verslfy\)f Chicago and at the Sor bonne. She has been on the NCC faculty since 1949. In Durham prior to her depart ure, she was honored at a bon voyage party given by her sister, Mrs. Sara Horry Jones, and an other sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Dudley, at the Dud ley home at 307 Pekoe Street. Unmarried minor children of de ceased veterans remain eligible for pension payments even though their mother loses her eligibility by rsmarriage, Judson D. Deßa mus, Manager of the North Caro lina VA Regional Office, reminded this week. THS CAROLINA TIMIS SATURDAY, JUNI 19, IMS -DURHAM, N. C. 4-B 12 PRESBYTERIAN LAYMEN TO MAKE TRIP TO AFRICA NEW YORK Twelve United Presbyterian Laymen will leave their homes and jobs for two months this summer to be part of an inter-racial team foster ing Christian good will and work* in Africa. Six of the men, ranging in age from 29 to 66, will form a team to West Africa There they will help build a dormitory for stu dents in agriculture near the Col lege of Libamda in the Camemun. The other six will head for East Africa where they will participate in intensive visitations with Afri can churchmen and complete a two-w*t'k work project in Kenya. Later, the two groups will meet for a six-day African-American laymen's conference at the Min dolo Ecumenical Foundation, Kit we, Zambia. The project is co-sponsored by the National Council of United Presbyterian Men and the Com mission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations of the United Pres byterian Church U.S.A. in coope ration with Operation Crossroads Africa. The latter is an inter-ra cial, inter-denominational work camp, study, friendship and aid program which sends' 300 or more American college students to Africa each summer. The two teams are comprised of "dedicated laymen in our church with professional backgrounds and skills who are deeply concerned about the problems of African na tions in the economic, social and political developments as .veil as in the spiritual life and witness of the church in Africa today," accoring to James C. Baird, Jr., the United Presbyterian Church's Secretary for Laymen Overseas. Those comprising the team to West Africa are: Gary Booher, a general oontractor, Indianapolis, Ind.; Robert D. Bowen, teacher of the mentally retarded, Rochester, Ind; James A. McDaniel, church administrator, Presbytery of Chi cago, Chicago, 111.; Robert K. Mik kelson, insurance salesman, Al bany, bter, JoHri H. Perry, teach er, Englewood, N. J.; and Robert W. Smith, farmer and seedsman, Tolono, 111. They will leave New York on June 24 and return on August 26. Making up the team to East Two-Week Festival to Honor Dr. Bethune In Harlem, New York WASHINGTON, D .C. A two week "Summer Art Festival in Harlem" commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the death of Mary McLeod Bethune is underway at Blumstein's Department Store in Nt'iV York City. The Festival, launched June 8 will continue thru June 24. New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner issued a procalamation re cently declaring the period May 18 to June 17, as Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Month. While presenting the proclamation to Miss Dorothy I. Height, National President, National Council of Negro Women and Miss Wilhel mina Adams, member of the Council's Executive Committee, Mayor Wagner pointed out that Mrs. Bethune convened the found- Africa are: Carl Benninghoff, in termediate grade teacher, Kendall Park, N. J.; Carson Carr, Jr., high school teacher, E~st Orange, N. J.; Kenneth Alton Morris, executive secretary of the Los Angeles YMCA, Los Angele3, Calif.; Floyd Motley, teacher, Leavenworth, Kan.; Chester A. Richard, teacher, Livonia, Mich.; William C. Voor hees, Jr., carpenter, Princeton, N. Jersey. They will leave New York on June 25 and return August 27. ♦ ' 10 Years Old r~ t ill i j |iBOURBOM| 1 ■ ' V '""" 86 PROOF ,%4.00.52.50 fifth I ing meeting of the National Coun cil of Negro Women in New York City just 30 years ago. According to Miss Height, the Art Festival and the Bethune Pro clamation are two of the many aitivities which will take place during the Bethuno Memorial Month. A speetal feature of the Festival earlier was sidewalk art exhibits of the paintings of Harlem young sters placed on the block of Blum stein's department store. Works of some 40 noted artists are on dis play on the third floor of the up town department store. Mrs. Marguerite Van Ness Brandt of P. S. 100 is serving as coordinator of the student artists. James DcLoache, noted artist, is serving as coordinator of the Fes tival in behalf of the National Council. At present the National Coun cil of Negro Women is conduct ing a nationwide campaign to erect a memorial to Mrs. Bethune in Lincoln Park, Washington, D. C. The memorial, which is to be the first memorial to an Ameri can Negro ever erected on public grounds in the Nation's Capital, was authorized by a Joint Reso lution of Congress Jun. 1, 1960.

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