North Carolina Newspapers

f • • y. «V ,y> • •JAB CAKOUNA HUB BATUHDAY, JULY H IMB 2-A Negro Highway Patrolmen For N. C. The Carolina Times has been asked to urge Negroes to apply for employ ment in the Motor Vehicles Depart ment of North Carolina as highway patrolmen. As badly as the employ ment situation is for Negroes in this state, we are of the opinion that until a more honest method is used in the screening or passing on applicants for such positions, or pressure* is brought through the courts or otherwise, a Ne gro applicant is merely throwing his time away to make application for em ployment in North Carolina as a high way patrolman. A telephone conversation had with an official of the* North Carolina Motor Vehicles Department, this week, dis closed that within the past several months, eight Negroes have taken the examination for employment as high way patrolmen, but not a single one has been able to pass. Frankly, we are of the opinion that under the present method of passing on Negro applicants none of them will be able to pass the test even if 8,000 apply. In short, we have on more faith in the honor or integrity of those who have to do with processing the. Negro applicants in North Carolina than we have in a backwood's white registrar The 1966 Political Campaign It is not too early for Negro lead ers of North Carolina to begin laying plans for the biggest register and vote effort in the political campaign of 196f in the history of the South. In keeping with the proposal to double and possi bly triple the voting strength of Ne groes in the state, we urg«\ wc implore and we beg those in positions of lead ership to leave no stone unturned to arouse every qualified member of the race as to the Importance of the regis ter and vote campaign. Foremost in the register and vote campaign for Negroes in this state is th«i conference held at the Ushers Home in Franklinton last week and sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Summer Com munity Organization and Political Education project and the Congress of ~ijH r—Miii mmamtrnnm vaHous and sundry ways were dis cussed as to how the Negro vote can be increased in North Carolina It is our candid opinion though, that the. conference held at Franklinton is not enough and that it should be followed by others and workshops on regis tering and voting in every section of tht state. Especially is there much work to be done in eastern North Carolina's black belt. In this particular section, An Apology to Gov. Dan K. Moore In our last week's edition of the Carolina Times we published an edi torial in these columns in which we unintentionally stated that Go*enu&' Dan K. Moore had appointed John S. Stewart to the State Board of Higller Education and that in so doing it ap~ peared that the govern c* was "deli berately attempting to use Stewart as a red herring to throw the federal government off the scent of the state's lack of square dealing with Ha Negro citizens when it comes to handing out appointments, especially those with a high salary price tag attached." Unlike our front page article which attributed the full responsibility of Stewart's appointment to the A. ft T. College Board of Trustees, our edito rial went on to remind our readers that at best the appoiatamt afcoold Things Ton Should Know jRMMg c LAUPIO fIM L* E> ORN AUOUST *, IN HAVANA- HE 8r 'CStf SHOWH) EANLYTALEfft - FOR THE VIOLIN.., » PLAYH> HIS FIRST COMPOemON AT AGE OFEMHT—O4ME HJS RRSTCONCERTAT VJp ELEVEN IIN WENT TO PARIS TO 4l f STUDY; FMANCEO BY THE WINNIN6B OF A LOTTERY! HE WON COUNTLESS AWARDS dmfc AND TOURED THEMUBIC CENTERS OFTHE EL BY , WORLD I YEARS LATER HE D»EO Of TUBER ■I CUUOSISM POVERTY AND OMCURTTYi processing a Negro's attempt to regis ter Mid vote in Mississippi. From our conversation with the official of the North Carolina Motor Vehicles De partment, we have discovered that the very same technique of failing Negroes who attempt to register and vote, in Mississippi is being used to fail Negro applicants who apply for employment as highway patrolmen in this state. The situation is no different from that which Negroes have been forced to undergo in North Carolina for every inch of advancement they have obtain ed in education, employment and oth erwise. Nothing has ever been handed them on a platter. To the contrary, they have been forced to resort to the courts and pursue other methods of pressure to obtain whatever progress they have been able to achieve. We predict, therefore, that before the victory for employment of Negroes as highway patrolmen and several oth er state departments is won, they will either be forced to resort to the courts, sit-ins, walk-ins, marches or some oth er means of impressing upon state of ficials that Negroes are citizens and taxpayers the same as others of North Carolina. there are thousands of Negroes who have never registered. As a result, there is a gravft necessity for holding workshops on registering and voting, so that when the time arrives an in telligent effort can be made in a door to door canvass of every Negro home. We have been informed that in one congressional district, located in the black belt of eastern North Carolina the representative to Congress is ofteta elected by polling a vote as low as IS, 000. Thus, instead of a mandate of all the people he represents, the> congres man this particular district is elected by a handful of voters, who for the most part are of the> white popula tion. We think the time has arrived for Negroes all over the state, especially in the* black belt of the eastern sec- rejfche sent them in Congress and who will serve them elsewhere, in local and state public offices. To this end, we urge that an organized effort be started NOW to bring out the biggest Negro vote in 1966 ever recorded in this state. If this can be accomplished, it will give support to President Johnson's effeftts to accord full citizenship to the people of all races, creeds and colors. only be viewed as a crumb that has "fallen from the white man's table." We think we owe Governor Moore an apology for unintentionally attri- buting to him, in our editorial thij particular appointment and we most humbly extend such to him. However, we stand by the remainder of our edi torial which charged that too often gubernatorial appointments of Negroes are to positions that have little or no salary at consequence attached or to deal with Negroes only. We further think the time has ar rived for a serious study and restudy of the political status and future of the Negro in North Carolina. Unless the members of the race are goiijg to be treated as equals we think they ought to seek what new course they can purine to achieve such. _- \ AN OLD INSTITUTION IS BEGINNING TO CRUMBLE 1 -=r s|l fflHl « Ip' /* Bigl -IkSC^jII SPIRITUAL INSIGHT "THIS THING KILLS MR" "Sin. .. Jellied m*.~ Rom. 7:13 In one of the Insecticide com mercials on the TV we hear the little bug say: "This Thing Kills Me." And how dramatical ly true is this saying as applied to man's spiritual state in God's creation. Man, created in the divine image, has allowed his prideful disobedience to iso late or cut him off from God the ground and source of his true being. And this wilful act of man's isolation from God we call sin. You don't have to call it sin, call it something else. But you can't escape the Jaci , of. man's spiritual-moral sickness. So you can name it but man can say of this dis rupting condition. . 'This Thing Kills Me." The final work of this spirit ual disrupter called sin is death. It warps, vitiates, para lyzes, shatters, crushes and sickness until man is dead. We SOUTHERN JUSTICE By Whitney M. Young Jr. Despite unprecedented assur ances by U. S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Negro citizens are deeply troubled over President Johnson's ele vation of former governor James P. Coleman of Mississippi to the Federal bench. Southern judges of Coleman's emotional persuasion have tra ditionally upheld segregationist policies, have defied Federal laws, and have complied ugly records of dismissing numerous cases in which southern whites were accused of acts of vio lence against Negro citizens. Look magazine recently carried a revealing editorial tallying for us the growing list of Ne gro and white Americans mur dered in the South. The magazine, commemorat ing the first anniversary of the deaths of the three young rights workers slain in Mississippi, counted IS persons killed since 1058 and adds, "no one will ever know how many more vic tims lie awash in the swamps and bayous of the Deep South." Writer Charles Morgan Jr., who compiled the list of victims makes this telling point: "In all the above killings, not a tin gle convitcion has been obtain ed." Recently, we know that the FBI hat been stepping up Its ■TBently needed infiltration of lawless, extremist groups. But the FBl—as in the IJuzso case —can only compile the facts. It cannot sit ss judge and jury. Yet, as Morgan argues, "South ern justice is segregated. Jud ges, juries, sheriffs, police, troopers and FBI agents are while. So are. Jailers, bailiffs, marshals, lawyers stenograph era, clerks and coroners who command southern court houses and jails and electric chairs." According to the Southern Regional Council, of 12 circuit court judges andgfll district court judges, not a single one is Negro. This amazing statis tic comes from a region in which nearly half the popula tion in some states is colored and in which there are obvious ly hundreds of qualified Negro God Moved in His Son to Arrest the Death Grip oi Sin lave seen it take away life un til we could hear nothing but death rattle. This thing smoth ers and puts out, in man, the the soul and we are left anemic, light of life. It 1* unbecoming man to cherish this kind of shameful robbery. Sin extracts the vitamins of the spirit from the soul and we are left anemic malnourished and then fall dead in the embrace of sin. Thus if you play aronud with this thing long enough you to, can truthfully say, "Sin Kills Me.. It is a blessing to know that God has moved in Christ his Son to arrest the death-dealing work of sin. This is what we call the good news of the Gos pel. Now we can shout joyously and triumphantly, God has come near in redeeming love to stop or break this death grip of sin. Jesus now takes , away our sins and breaks the death-deal ing power of sin. Just believe To Be Equal attornies standing in line for judgeships. Part of the blame must be laid at the doorstep of the Presidents who make such ap pointments. Most routinely made lifetime Federal bench appointments are st the behest of a state senstor. And this system, it seems to me, must be changed. Recent Presidents who elo quently championed the rights of Negro citizens for full citi zenship hsve gone along with diehard Dixie senators in ap pointing rank segregationists to the bench. In decision after decision, such men have shown themselves incapable of uphold ing justice and the decisions of our Supreme Court have been flounted. Protocol and custom are for midiable adversaries. It is no easy task to break with tradi tion; to see working political relstionshlpe with influential senators swept away by ignor ing their time-honored "right" to act as one-man nominating committees for Federal judge ship* in their ball wicks. Yet America Is not America if we cannot break with the past. And justice will not be justice in the South until we do. Therefore, I look to the Ad ministration which took so per sonal an interest In the Uuxxo murder (Tried In a State Court) to help guarantee that, in the future, judges who preside over vital circuit and district court case* will be impartial and blind to racism. If this means not having the support of a given senator on a given bill I can only suggest that this must be balanced by the possibility of having the legislative will of the majority of Congress bogged down by partial and biased Dixie judges. After all, the add teat of oar new rleht* law* will be their workability in the South. If southern judge* are going to go on making mockery of new na tional goals aa they have done In tlrwarting writ*- ordering school Integration and appeals on civil rights, then we cannot hope for much progress from a new voting rights law, vital as •y REV. HAROLD ROLAND in Jesus and you can pass from death unto life. This Jesus is indeed.. ."The way the Truth and the life.. Truly this Jesus now can free us from the law of sin and death. And thank God that in Christ been lifted so that we now in Christ have our freedom from sin and death. Now in Christ we too, can shout for Joy and whole. Jesus has freed man from and opened the way of escape from death's mighty power. Jesus, in God's sover eign power, has conquered death. In Jesus through faith and repentance, we are made conquera too. And thank God tat In Christ we, too, can shout for joy and now say triumphantly, O death where is thy sting, O grave where is thy victory? Now we humans in the face of sin are not subject to fatality of the little bug. . "This Tiling Kills Me." it may be. I look to the White House to show the way by its judi cial appointments as it has done in its legislative enactments. I look to the White House to ap peal to the consciences of white southerners to uphold the law in jury trials. America is not America unless we can break with the past. And "justice" will not be justice in the South until we do. -Elks Continued from front Page Daughter N. K. Dunn and Thomas Cooper. Norris Shearin and McKellar Stephenson. The Scott Sisters, of Weldon, will render special selections. Peter Davis, Exalted Ruler of Progres sive Lodge, will give remarks and M. F. Broednax will intro duce the Rev. Clyde Johnson, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Weldon, who will de liver the sermon. Political leader* have long since had an eye on the Negro vote, in this area, and through out the eastern part of the State. Hie celebration is being planned ■» the spring board whereby Negroes will be awak ened politically. It Is being dis cussed that a prominent politi cal leader is being urged to move into the area by member* of both races and become a candidate for Congress. It Is possible that this announce ment might be made at this meeting. -Lawyers Continued from front Page work for the protection of the future generations of Ameri cans yet unborn,'* Bill Golaon of Miami, Fla., national presi dent of the American Mai Lawyers Association, declared. "Trial lawyers must euncei n themselves with governmental and community activities far more than ever before as legal Interpretation and trial activi ty become the center around which our rights and liberties revolve." ftigaiSliCw Published every Saturday at Durham, N. C. by United Publiaheri, Inc. L. E. AUSTIN, Publiaber Second Claaa Portage Paid at Durham, N. C. *noa SUBSCRIPTION RATES $4.00 per year pins (IV tax In N. C. (any where in the UJS., and Canada and to service men Overseas; Foreign, |7.30 per year, 81B gli copy 10c. Principal Office Located at 4M I. Pettigrew Street, Durham, North Carolina -Meet Continued from front Page worn psychological gimmick* of the put: 'Buy where you can work!' Nor can we say with complete accuracy: 'Get your policy where you get your mort gage.' Thus, we are facing in creased and increasing penetra tion of a market that, until the recent past, vu ignored by others in the life insurance in industry. "Having posed the problems created by the tremendous so cial snd cultural changes tak ing place, I must be the first to sdmlt that I have no pat solutions," Goodloe said. "I can briefly outline some of the questions our management is asking and suggest the way we are going about trying to an swer them. "On every level of manage ment we try to measure results. After sll, results are the pay off everytime! The Life Office Management Associstion has developed a Supervisory TYain ing Manual which many of us are using to upgrade supervi sory performance. As you will perhaps recall," Goodloe stated, "LOMA suggests four areas of management performance for evaluation: planning, organiz ing, directing and controlling. Goodloe declared, "Although there are many fancy and in volved definitions for these functions, we, at North Caro lina Mutual, have rather simple definitive statements for them: For example, we think of plan ning simply in terms of a blue print of the job to be done. Organizing is merely a com bination of the required re sources to be blended in ac cordance with the accepted blueprint. Directing is simply the activating of the job with the pre-determined resources consistent with the blueprint And, controlling is periodic evaluation and review, i.e., see ing that the job is done ss per blueprint standards. Or, de manding to know, why not? "In brief," he concluded, "we are making a concerted effort to be imaginative, innovative and creative within the frame work of sound business prac tices. This is our program for meeting the challenge of change." -Speaker Continued from front Page would still, be using those textbooks written with a view of perpetuating a segre gated society." -Clinic Continued from front Pag* vlsory Group (MAAG) In Sout Viet Nam. As a result of his services there, he was awarded The Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and has a pending recommendation for the Bronx Star and The Combat Medics Badge. He came to Durham from Viet Nam In search of further training in Medicine and Cardi ology and has decided to re main. He is married and has a Letter to Dear Editor: As you are aware, some time ago we began advising motion picture companlea on the need to promote all of their pictures to the Negro community, not just those with Negroes in the picture, or with racial orientation. We have adv lead that this means, as well, that all mo tion pictures should be pobli clxed, and advertaed to Ne gro moviegoers. We have taken stops to advise their fleld personnel of the need to include Negro-oriented newspapers in their adver tising budgets, and as pic tures have opened in some markets this is being done. Tour help Is needed, if this now recognition ot the Negro community, and Ne gro-oriented media, is to be carried out to its logical con' elusion, which is more movie advertising far your news paper. Tour advertising ——"g— -Students Continued from front Pact overcome the fears and the ta boos Inflicted upon them, cant ed by 300 years of slavery and segregation. Presiding over the morning session was Benjamin Van Clarke of SCLC who also preaented John Calhoun of At lanta, a noted Negro political analyist and organiser. The conference discussed tho roughly the Poverty Program and how- it affects Negro com munities in North Carolina and the voting Bill now pending In Congress. Workshop groups agreed that police brutality, wrongful arrest poor housing, poor schools, un fair employment practices, im proper expenditures of Federal Funds and slow voter registra tion procedures, are the major concerns in the Black Beit The site upon which the con communities. ference is located is owned, by the North Carolina Interdenomi national Uahers' Association of which L E. Austin of Durham, publisher of the Carolina Times is President The Lenoir County delegation consisting of about 14 young people was headed by Mrs. J. J. Hannibal, former member of the City Council. Freedom songs were sung between sessions. The conference leaders indi cated that it was- through the youngsters that a third Politi cal Force could be created. The Political Force which was an nouned by McKissick last week was proceeding according to scheduled plans and further de tails will be announced at the conclusion of the program. The conference also agreed to call a meeting of farmers who re quested to be organised in the Black Belt This conference will be held August 7 In William ston at the Shiloh Baptist Church. The purpose of the conference Is to discuss the problems of North Carolina farmers and how Federal Funds can be used to improve pro duction and bring about a high er standard of living. Counties represented at the SCLC, SCOPE, CORE Confer, ence are Craven, Durham, Guil ford, Pitt Washington, Nash, Edgecombe, Chowan, Prequl mans, Lenoir, Franklin, Bertie, Edgecombe, Gates, Greene, Halifax, Hertford, Martin, Northampton, Robeson and Warren. Other North Carolina leaders present at the conference were Rev. B. Elton Cox, High Point; J. S. Stewart, Durham and Dr. Reginald Hawkins of Charlotte. -Brutality Continued from front Pact only one capacity; that of floor sweeper. There are no Negro clerks or meat cutters." Hale County, of which Greens boro is the county seat, has a total population of 10,537 and Negroes make up 70.7 percent of the population. three-and-a-half year old ton. Clinic hour* will be 1:09 p. m. to 9.-00 p. m. Mood*? through Prday. the Editor shoald have people calling oa theatre managers in yoar city, for tbaee are the people who have Influence on load money being spaat Give the manager • prsosniatlua on the "sphare at taflasaoe'' created by yoar newspaper We ere working from the other end, and we hope thai •oon yoor newspaper will re flect the changed attitudes on the pert * local theatre management Your utilisation at oar 09199 fttIMUMA MLUMMM without racial orientation, will alao be appreciated. However, we wOl try intim ever possible, to provide ydb with material oi particu lar interest to your readers. Basically, what we want to do is provide you with the best possible material we are capable at producing pa any subject Cordially. . D. Parka GHbeoa