Durham Housing Authority By Passes Henderson 4th Time
20 Thousand Register In Alabama Vote Drive
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FIRST ASSEMBLY—Two mem-
bers of the NCC Trustee Board
were the principal speakers a»
the First Assembly held a» the
beginning of the Second Se- i
mester here Wednesday. Those
Richmond Host To VTA Meet
On Education Feb. 11-12
Improved Education
For Va.'s Children
Is Theme of Meet
RICHMOND, Vißginia—Rich
mond will be the scene of a
state wide conference on in-,
struction, it was announced
by Dr. J. Rupert Pieott, execu
tive secretary of the Virginia
Teachers Association. The con
ference will he the second of
the 1966 series of meetings
sponsored by the VTA and will
have as its theme, "Improved
Education for Virginia's Chil
dren.
Approximately 200 school in
structors on all teaching lev
els—from kindergarten thru
college from all parts of the
Commonwealth "will attend
the meeting which will open
with dinner at the John Mar
shall Hotel on Friday evening,
February 11 at 6:00 o'clock
and continue Saturday, Feb. 12.
Dr. A. Harry Passow, pro
fessor of education, Depart
ment of Curriculum and Teach
ing, Teachers College, Colum
bia University, New York, will
deliver the keynote address at
the dinner session. His subject
will be "How Children Learn."
Featured during the Satur
day morning session •will be a
symposium, "Education for Fu
ture Leaders." Speakers will
include Dr. Walter G. Daniel,
professor of reading, Education
Department, Howard Univer
sity, Washington, D. C., whose
subject will be "Emerging Edu
cational Opportunities For
A 11"; Mrs. Charlene H. Byrd,
supervisor of English and
Reading, Kanawha County Sec
ondary Schools, Charleston, W.
Virginia, who will speak on
"Communication Is The Fore-
See VTA page 2A
Dr. B. Quarles
NCC History
Week Speaker
Dr. Benjamin Quarles, chair
man of the Department of His
tory at Morgan State College,
will be the vesper speaker at
North Carolina- College's an
nual Negro History Week ob
servance Feb. 14 at 10 a.m.
in B. N. Duke Auditorium.
A graduate of Shaw Univer
sity who earned his Ph.D. de
gree at the University of Wis
consin in 1940, Dr. Quarles is
the author of five books: "Fred
erick Douglass," "The Negro
in the Civil War," "The Negro
in the American Revolution,"
"Lincoln and the Negro," and
"The Negro in the Making of
America."
He has received a fellowship
from the Guggenheim Founda
tion, two from the Hosenwald
Fund, two from the Carnegie
Corporation, and three from
the Social Science Research
Council.
The program, open to the
public, will be sponsored by
the N'CC Department of History
and Social Science.
addressing the students were
j were Chairman of the Board,
Bascom Baynes, second from
left; and William Jones, third
! from left, chairman of the In
' terim Committee artd business
Sister of Slain NAACP Miss.
Leader to Head Vote Drive
HATTIESBURG, Miss. The
sister of the recently murdered
NAACP branch leader, Vernon
Dahmer, will be the honorary
chairman of an accelerated vo
ter registration drive here to
register the remaining 5,000
potential Negro voters in For
rest County, it was announced
this week.
Mrs. Kenneth Beard will
head the drive which was
launched last week at a mass
meeting at the Bentley Chapel
Methodist Church. Miss Althea
T. L. Simmons, director of last
summer's NAACP voter regis
tration project, was keynote
speaker at the meeting.
The six-week campaign will
be under the direction of Rev.
John Barbour, NAACP Missis
sippi coordinator for voter
education.
Co-chairmen in the drive in
clude Rev. J. D. Barnes, Mrs.
Annie Mae James, Rev. J.
Wheaton, Isaiah Reeves and
Rev. M. K. Duncan.
A 70-member committee has
also been selected for the cam
paign. In announcing the
names of the committee, J. C.
Fairley, president cf the
branch, stated: "Our committee
has been selected from a cross
section of the various business,
civic and social organizations
in our county.
"We want to be sure that
Dahmer, who was intensely in
terested in voter registration,
did not die in vain and our
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EjLNI^M
BOY SCOUT feANQUET —By
tradition during Boy Scout
WHk, St Joseph's A. M. E.
Church field iti annual Boy
Scout Banqu«t, Tuesday, Feb
ruary 8, 1966 at 7:30 p.m. For
mat District Chairman W. A.
manager of the college. At the
extreme left is Attorney M. H.
Thompson, member of the
Board and at the extreme right
'is Dr. J. M. Hubbard, secretary j
of the Board.
MARCH 4 & 5
NCC to Host
NCAA Cage
Tournament
North Carolina "College at
Durham will be the site of the
NCC Midest-South Central Re
gional Basketball Tournament
on Friday and Saturday, March
4-5, James W. Younge, NCC di
rector of athletics and the tour
nament director, announced
this week.
The tournament, to be co
sponsored by NCC and the
Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association (CIAA), will mark
the first time a predominant
ly Negro college has served as
host for a regional NCCA in
tegrated tournament.
Younge said four teams will
participate in the tournament
at which time the NCAA re
gional college division cham
pionship will be decided The
teams will represent the Mason-
Dixon Conference, the Central
Inter-Collegiate Athletic Asso
ciation (CIAA) and the South
ern Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference (SIAC) and one
team will be selected at-large.
Thought of the Week: History
teaches one lesson: Be y good.
Clamant waa guatt speaker. In
the above photo are Cub Scout
Pack No. 295, Boy Scout Troop
105, and adult leaders. Front
row, left to right: Joseph H.
Martin, Cub Pack Leader; Mrs.
J. H. Martin, Dean Mother,
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UNBRIDLED J;
VOLUMI- 43 No. 7 DURHAM, N. C
Dr. Willa Player Resigns As
President Of Bennett College
GREENSBORO—" Announce
ment of the acceptance "with
profound regret" by the Ben
nett College board of trustees
of the resignation of President
Willa B Player, was made by
Dr. F D Patterson, of New
York City, board chairman, at
a general assembly on Tues
day.
The resignation, he said, will
become effective on March 1
a hen Dr. Player assumes the
position of director of the di
vision of college support in the
U.S. Office of Education of the
Department of Helath, Educa
tion and Welfare.
Dr Player's resignation will
officially terminate 35 years
of service to Bennett, the last
10 of which were in the posi
tion of president.
Under her leadership, the
college has expanded its en
rollment, strengthened tht* fac
ulty and the physical plant of
the of the college has under
gone substantial development.
An interim committee to
conduct the, affairs of the col
lege and consisting of the fol-
Chairman Thrown "Mickey"
Again By Slick City Officials
For the fourth time within
his 15-year tenure as a mem
ber of the Durham Housing
Authority, the name of J. J.
Henderson, vice-chairman, was
again by-passed for chairman
in a meeting here Wednesday.
Instead of electing its vice
chairman to tile chairmanship
the housing authority went on
to elect its newest member,
Carl R. Harris, to the office.
Harris, who was appointed to
the authority just Monday
night, by Mayor R. Wense Gra
barek, to fill a vacancy creat
ed by the resignation of H. Ed
ward Gwin, Chairman of the
authority, was sworn in a little
before 2:00 p.m. He was nomi-
nated and elected chairman
within less than a half-hour
later.
Presiding at the time of Har
ris' election was Vice-Chair
man Henderson, who expressed
in no uncertain terms his dis
approval of the treatment he
has received at the hands of
the authority during the past
15 years. ,
extreme right; Mrs. Nannie
Tomlin. Dan Mother. Back row:
J. W. McClinton, Troop Com
mitteeman and Program Chair
man; J. Eiwood Carter, Troop
Committeeman, Neighborhood
Commissioner and Banquet |
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1966
DR. PLAYER
lowing persons was desinated
by the hoard:
Mrs Mary Kadv, reistrar;
James J. Scarlette, business
manager; Or. George Breath
ett. of I lie office of education
al planning and development;
See PLAYER page 2A
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HENDERSON
Said Henderson: "I wish to
remind you of the fact that I
have served on this commission
since it was established. 1 am
the senior member and ju»t
about the only remaining mem
ber of the city adminlstr»tion
and housing authority contin-
See HOUSING pagp 2A
Chairman; G. W. Rhodes, Scout
Master; M. J. Moore, Assistant
Scout Master; J; C. Scarbo
rough, 111, Troop Committee
man and N. H. Bennett, Troop
Committee Chairman, and Dis
trict Chairman Cheyenne Leaf.
E. W. Midgette is Ebenezer
Speaker for Sunday Morning
E. W Midgette. the principal
of Burton Elementary School,
•a ill speak on '"God's Church
and Ebenezer,'' Sunday at the
eleven o'clock morning service.
Midgette is a graduate of
North Carolina College and re
ceived his Masters there. He
has also done Post Graduate
j studies at the University of
| North Carolina.
He taught American History
at Hillside High School for a
number of years
Being very active in the
I civic affairs in the community
I where he has been principal
| of Burton School for 16 years,
I has made Midgette an inesti
mable asset to the community
and Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Midgette is married and has
| three children, one girl and
• two boys.
Governer Dan Moore Appoints
NCC Nursing Head to Board
Governor Dan K. Moore
Wednesday afternoon appoint
ed Mrs. Helen S. Miller, chair
man of tfic Department of
Nursing at N. C. College, to
North Carolina College, to
membership on the North Car
olina Board of Nursing, the
governing body for nursing
education and nursing practice
throughout the state.
The appointment, for four
years, will expire in January
of 1970.
Mrs. Miller, a graduate of
the Medical College of Virginia
and Yale University, has been
a member of the NCC faculty
since 1956. Under her admin
istration, the college's nursing
program received its first na
tional accreditation in 1958. It
was accredited again in 1963.
A native of Atlanta, Ga., Mrs.
Miller has held numerous posts
with the North Carolina League
for Nursing, the North Caro
lina State Nurses Association,
and the Southern Regional Ed-
Two Noted Speakers Slated for
White Rock Relations Institute
Dr. Franklin L. Littell of
Chicago Theological Seminary
and Dr. Luther H. Holcomb,
vice chairman of the Equal
Opportunities Commission,
Washington, D. C. are among
nationally known personalities
participating in White Rock
Baptist Church's Human Rela
tions Institute here Thursday
through Sunday (Feb. 11-13).
Dr. Littell will deliver the
first of several addresses after
registration starting at 2 p.m.,
Friday in the opening session
with pastor, priests, and rabbis.
Also to be featured at the
7 p.m. banquet in the church's
Baraca Room at 7 p.m. Friday,
nr. Littell will continue to
discuss aspects of the institute's
theme. "Local Congregations
Seeking God's Way in Race Re
'ations."
Fice continuing study ses
sions Saturday and Sunday will
bring together an inter racial
and interdenominational group
of church and lay leaders.
PRICE: 15c
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MIDGETTE
MRS. MILLER
ucation Board's Council for
Collegiate Education in Nurs
ing.
Active in ciric, professional,
and community organizations,
she is currently serving on the
See MILLER 2A
As speaker for the Sunday
morning service (11 a.m.), Dr.
Holcomb will highlight the
church's observance of Race
Relations Sunday.
Presiding at the five study
sessions starting at 1 p m. Sat
urday will be W. J. Kennedy,
Jr., John D. Lennon, Irwin R.
Holmes, J. S. Stewart, and J.
D. Harrell.
In addition to his speeches
Friday at 2:45 and 7 p.m., Dr.
Littell will also speak at 1:30
and 3:00 p.m. Friday.
A. T. Spaulding, White Rock
trustee will inrtoduce Dr. Hol- 0
comb at the 11 a. m. service
Sunday.
Other Sunday activities in
clude continuation of the study
discussions began on Saturday.
The groups will resume discus
sion at 5 p.m. At 6:15 p.m., the
church's Miles Mark Fisher dis
trict will present a special pro
g?am with Charles A. Ray, trus
tee, and chairman of the De-
See RELATIONS 2A
King Declares
Campaign Most
Significant
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A sus
tained voter registration drive
started here on last December
22 by the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference has add
ed almost 20.000 new Negro
registered voters to the Jeffer
son County rolls.
SCLC President, Dr. Martin
Luther King, T r, has termed
the registration drive, "the
most significant ever to take
place in the South."
A local minister, the Rev.
Calvin Wood, declared early
this week in a private unity
meeting with prominent Bir
mingham "loaders, chaired by
Dr. King:
"Birmingham calls itself the
Magic City Magic has appeared
on the streets of Birmingham
these last few weeks when
thousands of Negroes register
ed to vote for the first time,"
In the same breath, however.
Rev Wood added: "But we had
to work to make that magic. In
the early hatfrs of the morn
ing. SCI A' workers and local
citizens were driving and can
vassing. and all the other or
ganizations were helping the
citizens of Birmingham to reg
ister"
Noting the presence of Fed
era! registrars which had been
dispatched to Birmingham on
January 24. Rev. Wood said:
"Demonstrations were worth
while a great asset—we oould
not carry on without the com
munity backing these demon
strations in Birmingham."
SCI.C's sustained voter reg
istration drive is being led by
Hosea L. Williams, Director of
SCl.Cj's Voter Registration and
Political Education Depart
ment
Student Body,
Faculty Hear
NCC Officials
Bascom Baynes, chairman of
the North Carolina College
hoard of trustees, and William
Jones, chairman of the col
lege's Interim Committee, re
ceived enthusiastic responses
as they addressed the institu
tion's faculty and student body
Wednesday in B. N. Duke Au
ditorium
The occasion was the first
assembly of the second semes
ter and the first since the re
signation on Jan. 19 of Dr.
am(iel P. Massie as president
of the college. It also marked
the first appearance before the
student body of the Interim
Committee, named by the
board of trustees to conduct
administrative affairs of the
institution until a new presi
dent is chosen. In addition to
Jones, Dr. Helen Edmonds,
dean of the Graduate School,
and Dr. William H. Brown,
professor of education, form
the committee.
Baynes, retired president of
Durham's Home Security Life
Ins. Co. and a member of the
NCC trustee board for sixteen
years, in a brief speech inter
rupted four times by applause
said this was his first time
addressing an NCC student
group
Expressing the hoard's con
fidence in the administration,
faculty, and staff, he spoke
also of the college's current
building program under which
dormitories and a cafeterial
are under construction and
other buildings, including a
student union, are projected.
Discussing the Interim Com
mittee, he said, "Government
cannot stop beacuse the Presi
dent of the United States or
the governor of a state or the
mayor of a city passes off the
scene. Business cannot stop
because the children of the
board of directors is no longer
there. Armies cannot stop be
cause a general leaves the
scene. So it is with education:
colleges canot stop because
are no longer on
the scene The job must be
done. So in appointing an In
terim Committee, , the Board
of Trustees measured up to its
responsibility in seeing that
'eadership for the institution
would continue."
Jones, in assessing the com
mittee's functions, said there
need not—and there will not—
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