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Ushers Launch Debt Clearance Drive At Raleigh Convention * * * **** *.* ★ ★ MOTS HURT CR CAUSE... WLKMS ElI fl KJr Ij ■ . jjß/i' y S., 1 II ] iff -[JI I I ! ' jVL» 4 ■ f x * SORORITY SO C I AL—During Kit racant Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority convention in Naw York, uvtral mambars visitad Small's Paradise Club and »n Over 100 Complaints Filed Against Biased Hospitals WASHINGTON The De partment of Health Education and Welfare has been charged by two major civil rights or ganizations, with having led many southern hospitals to conclude that Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act "is only a paper tiger." •Jack Greenberg, director counsel of the NAACP Legal Def en se and Educational Fund, inc., and Frank Pohl haus, counsel of the NAACP's Washington Bureau have filed over 100 complaints of racial discrimination i n federally assisted hospitals and other medical facilities since Feb ruary 1965 with HEW. To date, the two organiza tions charge that HEW "has found only twenty of these facilities in compliance with Title VI." They add that HEW has taken no action on the re maining complaints "despite the fact that many of these facilities have been investiga ted by HEW and have refused and are refusing to end dis crimination against Negroes." The Legal Defense Fund and the NAACP charge that the Department's obligation under law is clear: "It is to cut off federal funds from such hospitals See HOSPITALS 2A Interdenominational Group Sets $17,000 Goal For 65-66 RALEIGH —Following the an nual sermon preached here Sunday morning by the host pastor, the Rev. T. H. Harris of the Metropolitan AMEZ Church, the 41it Annual Con vention of the Interdenomina tional Ushers Association held Its final session, presided over by the president, L. E. Austin. In spite of the fact that the delegation to this year's an nual session of the Association was not quite as large as the 1084 convention held in Kins ton, the financial receipts for 1988 exceeded those of last year. In his final remarks to the convention, the president an nounced that the Board of Trustees and the Board of Supervisors have approved a debt Retirement drive for 19- 65-88 with the first report to be made at the Annual Mid year SessioL to be held at the Ushers Home, in Franklin County the Sunday following Easter of next year. Each district was asked to set as its goal the raising of SI,OOO for the year with one half the amount to be report- See USMRS 2A joyad a social avaning. Chat tinf. during fha avaning were (laft to right) Mr*. Annia Ne villa, Grand Basilus, of Rocky Mount; William Jackson; Mrs. Jesse Allen Gets First M.Ed. Degree From Duke University Jesse L. Allen of 207 Alston Avenue, added another first to his accomplishments at Duke University Tuesday August 24, when he completed the re quirements for the Master of Education degree. His depart mental major was school ad ministration. Thus, he became the first Negro to complete the requirements for a gradu ate degree in the Education Department at Duke. Allen first entered Duke on a Summer Session Scholarship in 1964 and was the first of his race to be awarded a Sum mer Session scholarship at the University. He was awarded a second scholarship for the 1965 Summer Session. During the 1965 Summer Session he also became the first Negro initiated into the Alpha Tau Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi honorary and pro fessional society in education at Duke. He is a business educa tion teacher at Hillside High School, where he graduated in 1949. The first student council in the history of Hill- Operation Breakthrough In Important Workshop Program Two workshops for the pur pose of upgrading daycare ser vice relently were sponsored by Operation Breakthrough, and reportedly were so suc cessful that the idea has been developed into a special course at the Durham Tehnical Insti tute. One workshop was held for professional daycare workers (directors and teachers), and another for non-professional workers (Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees serving as teacher-aides. The Durham Technical Institute reportedly will, hereafter, sponsor such training as a ten-week on-the- Job-training course in pre school education. The workshop for profes sionals was staged at Mount Vernon Church in seven, two hour weekly sessions. It fea tured a host of special speak ers. Among these "were Dt Owen McConnell, chief, psy- A. 0. Davis, First Grand Anti- Basilus, of Baton Rouga, La. and Mrs. Lucilla B. Shappard, Grand Epistolius of Naw York. ALLEN side High School was organiz ed during 1948-49 school year. He served as its first Vic« President. In 1953 Allen received the B. S. degree in Commerce from North Carolina College. During the same year he was elected to memberships in WHO'S WHO AMONG STU- See ALLEN 2A chologist at the Murdoch Cen ter's diagnostic clinic at John Umstead Hospital In Butner. He spoke on "Child-adult re lations and their effects on mental and emotional health." The workshop also featured Mrs. Jessie Allen of North Carolina College's music facul ty; Dr. Ross Butle r Brown, re tired head of NCC's education department and now director of the daycare center at Mount Vernon Churh; Miss Marie Hu man, director of Duke Uni versity's pre-school program; and Mrs. Frank Gray, director of St. Luke Church's pre-school program. A 12-hour orientation work shop also was staged for the Neighborhood Youth Corps girls who are serving as teach er-aides. This was held at Operation Breakthrough's "Target Area A" neighborhood center on E. Pettigrew Street. See BREAKTHROUGH 2A Chf CarSila €inws jphiHwTw UWMICW^ VOLUME 12 No. 30 DURHAM, N. C SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1965 PRICE: 15c Halifax Co. Voters Ask For Year-Round Registration WELDON—The Halifax Vot erss Movement, headed by A C. Cofield. prominent businesr man of Weldon and Enfield, has petitioned Chairman Wi ley Connell of Halifax Coun ty and Roanoke Rapids, urg ing him to request the adop tion of a permanent, year round system of voter re gistration. Said Cofield in his letter: "It is our understanding, based on a letter written on August 6, 1965, to Mrs. Vir. ginia Teager, who is working •*ith our organization by Mr. Alex Brock, Executive secre tary of the State Board of Elections, that according to the General Statutes of North Carolina (163-43), "Any county board of elections, by and with the consent of a majority of the board of have the authority to adopt county commissioners, shall and to install a modern loose leaf system in Any or All of the voting precincts of the County." Cofield then went on to state that there are "more than 9,000 Negroes of voting age in Halifax County who are not registered." He fur ther stated that the represent atives of the Halifax County Voters Movement will be pleased to meet with the County Commisiosners within the next ten days to discuss the adoption of the "loose leaf registration system." Cofield also stated that "we seek without Federal Examiners" being invited to the county and further sug gested that a joint meeting be held instead with the See HALIFAX 2A N. C Mutual In New Home Office Building Asa T. Spaulding, president North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Company announced this week that Home Office employees was scheduled to complete the transfer to the company's new location at 411 West Chapel Hill Street by Friday, August 20. Although the twelve-story building has not been fully completed, the company began operations in its new facilities on Monday, August 23. Families of employees and other policyholders along with the general public will be ex tended a special invitation to tour the building after a peri od of adjustment following the building's completion. Regular guided tours have been temporarily suspended. The public is urged, however, to watch for the announce ment of the resumption of tours at which time all will be welcomed. OAK GROVE FWB TO WORSHIP IN PEARSON AUD. The Sunday Morning Wor ship Service for the Oak Grove Free Will Baptist Church will be held at the W. G. Pearson School Auditorium on Umstead Street. At 3 P. M. Reverend A. D. Mosley and the Congrega tion from Mount Gllead Bapt ist Chur£h will be in charge of the Services for the Auxili ary Day. This change is due to the Remodling of the Oak Grove Free Will Baptist Church on Colfax Street. Rev. Z. D. Harris, Pastor IK| M I |g T 3M£'c. CLEANUP TlME—Member* of the Community | Council of Hayti are shown j above conducting a cleanup campaign recently as one of that* special projects. Such | r M '* ■ -»•' fill I H hp®parol •V:fv% V ' , j. ' «iK*.- FOR RENT ANYWAY A- > though it has no window pants or screens and obviously is the object of flagrant naglact both inside and out with its sawage emptying Into the open ditch of Progressive Community Council Launches Cleanup Campaign In Hayti Section of City The Progressive Community Council has been busy promot ing ' progress in the Hayti sec tion of Durham it represents. This has been demonstrated recently by a cleanup campaign which not only included the usual business of collecting and hauling away trash and junk but also getting torn down some old houses which had long outlived their usefulness and rightful places in the com munity. Despite the bright, sultry heat, council members and volunteers early one day last week turned out and began collecting heaps of worthless clutter they had persuaded residents to dig out of their homes. This was loaded onto a city garbage truck, complete with driver, that the council had arranged to be provided, and hauled away to the city incinerator. During the busy day, the council members cleanedrub ble heaps from in front of homes on Mobile, Ramsey, Ray, Chess, Henry and Cozart Sts. and Branch Place, Meade Place and McCoy Place. Even as the trash piles were being picked up, a rickety, abandoned house on Mobile Street was. being torn down This came about as a result of councils, designed to draw dis advantaged. low-income resi dents together to work towards common needs, are being or ganized throughout Durham with the encouragement of Op the street behind it, this eye sore on Ramsey Street is up for rent at nine dollars per week! It is such examples of disgrace and exploitation that the Progressive Community a petition for such action 4he council sent to the city build ing inspector. Two other hazar dous eyesores at the corner of Ramsey and Proctor Streets also are scheduled to come do-.vn as a result of such peti- j tioning. Still other projects the Pro- i DURHAM GIRL TAKES FIRST PRIZE IN ANNUAL ORATORICAL CONTEST Miss Jacquelyn De Von Mc crae, age 16, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George McCrae, was the winner of the first prize in the Interdenonination al Ushers Oratorical Contest Saturday, August 21, held in Raleigh, at the Rush Metro politan A. M. E. Zion Church. Three other contestants from Kinston, Raleigh and Greens boro were participants. Miss McCrae is a member of White Rock Baptist Church, People's Choir, Vice President People's Choir Vice President of the Young Women's Usher Board, President of the So phisticated Y Teens, Y.W.C.A., and the Girl Scout Cadette Troop 177. Miss McCrae was an "A" student throughout elemen. tary school and is a "B" plus eration Breakthrough, the lo cal anti-poverty organization. The above scene was taken on Ramsey Street just south of Proctor Street Council of Hayti it trying to r«t rid of. It is responsible for such a house being torn down on Mobile St., with others scheduled to follow. gressivc Community Council is either already working on or considering include taking steps to pet landlords to improve their rental properties such as providing window panes and screens, closed sewage drains and structural repairs and im- See CLEANUP 2A MISS McCRAK student in High School. She is at present a rising Junior at Hillside High School. Says Wrongs Not Settled by Mob Action NEW YORK.—"The Los An geles riot hurt the cause of civil rights because it gave free ammunition in generous a mounts to Negro haters in the Southern California hot-be d and over the nation," Roy Wil kins declared in his colum which appeared in the Amster dam News, a weekly nc#paper, dated Saturday, August 21. "But, along with this dam age," asserted the executive director of the National As sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, "the riot revealed sicknesses that, un less cured by the people them selves, can hurt the Negro community's forward move ment." Mr. Wilkins said he was well aware that, "Negro citizens in Los Angeles have just griev ances." Also, that, "The Watts area has the lowest per capita income in the entire city ex cept that of skid row bums." Furthermore, he continued, "Black Angelnos have had a hard and unsympathetic police chief and department on their backs for more than fifteen years," noting that, "It was a police incident that set off the riot." "But no grievances are set tied by mob action and sense less mass destruction of pro perty. The remedy lies in a de termined and inescapable pre sentation of the grievances to the proper authorities Mith the widest possible publicity and I the smartest possible use of , political strength," the NAACP , director declared. "Choosing the emotional out let of rioting and anarchy could mean the enthronement of thievery as an ideal of the Freedom Movement.' It could mean a society-sanctioned prac tice of hating people for their skin color alone—a practice Negroes have fought since 1610 "Real opportunities are at last opening up for the black minority. The machinery to en able it to win its share has been provided. Allies includ ing government, stand ready to aid. There need be no more riots for both blacks and whites to lose," he said. Deltas Name Dr. G.P. Woods Nat'l President LOS ANGELES —Dr. Geral dine P. Woods of Los Angeles was re-elected national presi dent of Delta Sigma Theta So rority, today, concluding one of the most successful and pro dutive conventions in the his tory of the fifty-four year old organization. Cincinnati, Ohio was selected as convention site In August 1967. 3500 delegates and their families attended the six day meeting headquartered at the Ambassador hotel. Also returned to national office were: Frankie M. Free man, First Vice President; Constance Rolison, Second Vice President, Marie C. Fons worth, Secretary, Thelma T. Daley, Treasurer, Sadie T. E. Alexander, Legal Adviser and Allene J. Tooks, Executive Director. Dr. Jeanne L. Noble is immediate past president. Regional directors are: Min erva Sloss, Central; Constance Clayton, Eastern; Edythe Twe edy, South Atlantic, oona H. Bailey, Farwest, Nona Ross, Midwest, Maggie McDowell, Southern; Helen Richards, Southwest; Katie Wright re placed Mary E. Collier aa Chairman of the nominating committee Letitia Lightfoot was elected to the Finance Com mittee and Gloria Randall was reelected to the Scholarship and Standards Committee. Attending the convention from Durham, North Carolina were: Sorors Patricia Hawkins, and Janice Matthewson of Al pha Lamba Chapter and Sorors Clara Allen, Constance Allen, Martha Dooms and Gloria Mas sie of the Durham Alumnae See DII.TAS 2A
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