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GILBERTSVILLE, Ky. No
where has the absence of the
Negro from the mainstream of
Ameiican life been more vividly I
apparent than in the confer- |
ence of 17 governors at a state ]
park near here Sept. 17-21.
The governor's constituents |
include more than half the na
tion's Negro population. (The I
1960 census showed that of al- |
most 19 million Negroes, more '
than 11 million lived in these I
17 states.)
Except for several musicians, j
who played Stephen Foster mel- \
odies to entertain the gover
nors during a lake ride on the
North Carolina NAACP Branch To
Meet In Raleigh October 13-16
Many Notables
Slated For
Annual Session
RALEIGH—The 23rd Annual
Convention of the North Car
olina State Conference of
Branches, National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People will meet in Raleigh
October 13,-16.
Gloster B. Current, Director
Branch and Field Operations
will deliver the Keynote Ad
dress Friday evening, October
14, 8 o'clock in the Raleigh
United Church, the Rev. S. Col
lins Kilburn is the Pastor. Bish.
op Stephen Gill Spottswood,
NAACP Board of Directors
Chairman will address a Din
ner Meeting of the Ministers
Meeting on Thursday evening,
October 13, at 6 p.m. All ses
sions of the Ministers Meeting
will be held in the First Bap
tist Church, the Rev. C. W.
Ward is Pastor.
The Rev. J. T. McMillian,
Pastor, St. James A.M.E. Church
and militant Chairman of the
Winston-Salem Branch Educa
tion Committee, will be the
Keynote Speaker for the Min
isters Meeting.
YOUTH AND COLLEGE
CHAPTERS
The Youth and College Chap
ter officers will convene 4:00
P.M. Friday for an executive
session with Regional Youth
NAACP Director, Sherrill Mar
cus and J. W. Hill, Advisor,
Youth Work, North Carolina
State Conference of Branches
of Durham.
The convention on Saturday
will feature Attorney Kenneth
Holbert, Director of Compli
ance, Equal Employment Op-
See NAACP page 7A
NCC to Host
Resource-Use
Annual Meet
The twentieth annual meet
ing of the North Carolina Re
source-Use Education Confer
ence will convene at North
Carolina College at Durham on
Thursday, November 10, begin
ning at 9 a.m. in the college's
B. N. Duke Auditorium.
The announcement was made
recently by Dr. Theodore R.
Speigner, director of the NCC
Division of Resource-Use Edu
cation and state chairman of
the North Carolina Resource-
Use Education, who indicated
that 500 invitations have been
mailed to superintendents, su
pervisors, principals, teachers
and former workshop partici
pants throughout the state.
The general theme for the
conference is, "Harnessing Hu
man and Natural Resources Un
der Wise and Energetic Leader
ship for the Great Society."
Ofield Dukes, assistant to the
Vice President of the United
States, will deliver the keynote
address at 2 p.m. in B. N. Duke
Auditorium. A native of Mich
igan and a graduate of Wayne
State University, he has dis
tinguished himself in journal
ism and education.
Mrs. Ruth Lawrence Wood
son, state supervisor of ele
mentary education, State De
partment of Public Instruction,
Raleigh, will deliver the prin
cipal address at a 11 a.m ses
sion which will be attended by
See SPEAKER page 7A
Belle of Louisville, no Negroes
•,vere included among the more
than 300 persons who com
prised the governors' parties—
aides, state officials, friends,
state troopers, National Guards
men.
The absence of any "black
power" was in strange con
trast to the mood of some of
the governors. At press con
ferences they lashed out at
"anarchy in the streets" and
talked of how demonstrations
and the cry of "Black Power"
were hurting the cause of Ne
groes.
None of the conference
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VOLUME 43 - No. 39 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1966 PRICE: 15c
LBJ Asks Bishops To Help
Drown Sounds Of Violence
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SURRENDER —(San Francisco)
—Nagro, who cama out waving
whrta cloth to poiica aftar thay
firad on group in building at
West Coast NAACP
Intervenes In Riot
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.
West Coast Regional Director
Leonard Carter says that he
and other civil rights leaders
are doing everything possible
to quell the rioting in the Hun
ter Point and Fillmore dis
tricts of San Francisco,
Carter himself has taped mes
sages which are being broadcast
every hour on local Negro sta
tions calling for a halt to the
violence and the destruction of
property.
Rioting broke out Sept. 27
when a policeman shot and
killed a Negro who reportedly
was trying to steal a car. Gov.
Edmund G. Brown has called
out approximately 2,000 Na
tional Guardsmen to help the
local police.
The NAACP spokesman says
employment and poverty are
the main contributing factors
to the outbursts. He has
pledged the support of his or
ganization to any meaningful
program which can be worked
out to benefit the people in
the riot-torn areas.
562 ATTEND WITNESSES'
CONVENTION HERE
"Never anything like it be
fore!" "Highly educational!"
These were some of the ex
pressions of joy and gratitude
heard from the hundreds of
delegates who attended the cir
cuit convention of Jehovah'*
Witnesses here last week.
speakers even mentioned the
nation's racial crises until Un
dersecretary of Commerce Le-
Roy Collins told a banquet ses
sion that the problems of
"ghettos . . . violence and law
lessness" will not disappear
with the passage of time and
that governors should work to
ward their solution.
There was little reaction
from his all-white audience.
Earlier Collins, a former head
of the Community Relations
Service, which was created by
the 1964 Civil Rights Act to
negotiate racial problems be
tween Negroes and govern
right, said that thay surrandar
ad and that ftiara wara wound
ad Nogroaa inaido tha building
and noadad halp. Na»ro than
Funeral lor Former Durham
Teacher at St. Joseph's Thurs.
The funeral of Mrs. Emma
Wfdrris Butler was held at St.
Joseph's A. M. E. Church here
Thusrday, October 6, at 4:00
p.m. The Rev. Philip R. Cousin,
pastor, delivered the eulogy.
Mrs. Butler, the daughter of
the late Joseph and Sallie A.
Morris, succumbed October 2
in New York where she had
been living for the past sev
eral years. Her death followed
a lengthy illness.
For a long number of years,
Mrs. Butler was a teacher in
the Durham City School sys
tem. She was also a member of
St. Joseph's where she sang in
the Senior Choir for several
years and was active in other
departments of the church.
In addition to her school
work, she was connected with
the Girl Scouts, a director of
the City School playground and
an official of the State Teach
ers Association.
Her husband, Edward J. But
ler, succumbed forty-five years
■go.
Surviving Mrs. Butler are
ine son, Edward, of New York;
mental agencies, looked em
barrassed when a reporter ask
ed about the all-white nature ;
of a conference whose 17 mem- j
ber states include more than '
half of the nation's Negro pop
ulation.
He looked around the room ;
of white faces, carefully not- j
ing that many newsmen and \
public-relations representatives i
■*ere among the governors and
their parties.
"It's symbolic of the white j
problem," he said. "There are j
many different agencie s and
organizations represented here, j
Why don't you write about it?" I
looted four-letter foul word* at
the armed police in foreground.
(UPI Telephoto)
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MRS. BUTLER
three sisters, Mrs. Bertha Shaw,
Mrs. Leon M. Christmas, Dur
ham, and Mrs. Dorothy Woods
of New York, New York;
two nieces, Mrs. Lois Shaw Ray,
Durham, Mrs. Wilhelmina O.
Lawson, New York; two neph
ews, Dr. Thomas H. Shaw, New
York and Joseph Morris, Wash
ington, D. C.
Interment was at Beechwood
Cemetery.
It was a meeting of the
I Southern Governors' Confer
| ence, but geographically the
| body is "Southern" in name
! only. Its members include such
non-Southern "Border" states
ias Kentucky, Missouri, Mary
; land, Delaware and West Vir
| ginia
! A governor from one of the
i border states told a reporter
I that "off the record" he has
Negroes on his staff but did
i not bring any because he did
j not want to "offend" any of
I the other governors
The conference traditionally
| eschews the racial issue and
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Presi
dent Lyndon B. Johnson urged
the Bishops of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church
Tuesday to help "drown out
the sounds of violence" which
are hurting the Civil Rights
movement.
The President said if «*he
sound of violence "should
drown out the voices of rea
son, frustration wifl replace
progress and all of our best
work will be undone."
The President also asked the
church leaders to raise their
voices in politics and urge "all
of your members to live up to
their responsibilities as citi
zens" and vote for the candi
dates of their choice He asked:
"What good does it do us if
we seek freedom and secure it
and then do not utilize it."
Bishop George W. Baber pre
sented the Bishops to the Presi
dent in the Cabinet Room of
the White House and Bishop
E. C. N. Hatcher, President of
the Bishop's Council, read a
statement in which he pledged
the Council's "full moral and
spiritual support" to the Presi
dent's program of the Great
Society."
Follorwing the President's
statement, 88-year-old Bishop R
R. Wright of Philadelphia offer
ed a brief prayer.
CHOIRS TO SING
AT WHITE ROCK
SUNDAY OCT. 16
The White Rock • Baptist
Church and St. Joseph's A. M.
E. Church Senior Choirs will
present a joint musical program
at the White Rock Baptist
Church, Sunday evening, Octo
ber 16, at 7:30 o'clock. The 75
voices will be under the direc
tion of John H. Gattis and Jo
seph T, Mitchell, directors of
White Rock and St. Joseph's
Senrbr Choirs, respectively. The
program is being presented in
connection with the 100 th an
niversary observance of White
Rock Baptist Church.
Rev. Lorenzo Lynch is pastor
of White Rock and Rev. Philip
R. Cousin is pastor of St. Jo
seph's.
As the announcement of the
joint appearance of two of Dur.
ham's leading church choirs
began to circulate over the
city, enthusiasm and interest of
music lovers and civic minded
persons began to mount.
It has been predicted that a
capacity audience will be on
hand to witness the program
on the evening of October 16.
Already, there is much talk in
music and civic circles of mak
ing the joint recital of the two
choirs an annual affair.
In the one hundred years that
White Rock and St. Joseph's
churches have existed in Dur-
See CHOIRS pa?e 7A
other sensitive subjects, but j
this time, because of the white i
backlash to demonstrations and j
violence in Negro ghettos, the I
governors departed from dis- |
cussions on tourism, natural re |
sources, interstate compacts!
and highway safety long enough I
to adopt a resolution against
the U.S. Office of Education's
school integration guidelines. .
The 17-state conference that j
is using its influence to try !
to further blunt the effective- j
ness of a tool which has been j
far from successful in ending
"tokenism" in school desegre- j
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ASKED TO RESIGN—(Macon,!
Ga.) —Dr. Thomas Holmes '(C),
and hit assistants, Minister of j
Music Jacfc Jones, (L) and As- I
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TURNED AWAY FROM;
CHURCH—(Macon. Ga.) Sam
Jerry Oni, a Nigerian attending
Mercer University here, walki
to claea September 16. Oni wai j
one of leveret Negro student!
NAACP Steps Up Campaign
For Additional Members
NEW YORK—Spurred by the
shelving of the civil rights bill
of 1966 in the U.S. Senate, units
of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People throughout the country
are stepping up the Associa
tion's crash memebership drive
to enroll an additional 200,000
members between now and the
end of the year.
NAACP units in 50 cities
have launched drives to exceed
the memberships enrolled last
yar. Branches in scores of other
cities are mapping plans to get
their campaigns under way as
soon as possible. Reports from
cities in which the drive has
already been launched indicate
enthusiastic support of the
NAACP goal.
"Memberships provide us
with the muscle needed to get
our job done," says Roy Wil-
Vins .NAACP executive direc
gation. More than 95 per cent
of Negro students in Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama. Georgia
and South Carolina still attend
all-Negro schools.
"Black Power" seemed far
from the minds of t'Ao segrega
tionist governors George C.
Wallace of Alabama and Orval
E Eaubus of Arkansas—as they
rode the Belle of Louisville on
Kentucky Lake,
Both governors chatted ami
ably with the Negro musicians
and each stuffed a dollar bill
into the coat pocket of one who
smiled broadly and shuffled his
feet while blowing a melody
sistant Pastor, Rev. Douglas
Johnson, talk it over in hit
home here. The three were !
asked to resign from Hie Tatt
turned away from the Tattnall
Baptist Church whose member
ship asked their Paster, Dr.
Thomas J. Holmes, and his as
sistants to resign for advocating
opening services to Negroes..
tor. "The public and the poli
ticians consider the size of our
organization. A growing organ
ization means more power; a
loss in membership can mean
a diminuition of influence. In
a time such as this we cannot
afford any loss. We can only
move ahead. Accordingly, mem
bership is the No. 1 job of the
NAACP from now until the end
of the year."
Gloster B. Current, director
jof branches and field adminis
tration, and Miss Lucille Black,
secretary for membership, have
set quotas, in excess of last
year's enrollment, for each of
the Association's more than 1,-
600 units in 50 states.
"The response has been
gratifying," according to Mr.
Current. "The branches ate rec
ognizing the urgency of the
need for increased membership
in order to accelerate the drive
t ; from a brown jug.
j | But back in the press room
jJ of convention headquarters,
J Wallace and Faubus talked of
I how the white backlash against
| "Black Power' and federal en
' I forcement of civil rights laws
j was going to reshape the poli
tics of the action.
t '
i Wallace spoke of himself as
I a third-party candidate for
• | president in 1968 and said he
5 hoped his candidacy would
1 i "hurt both the Democratic
) i Party—of which he is officially
> | a member—and the Republican
/ i See GOV.'S CONFAB 7A
nall Baptist Church here for ad
vocating. opening services to
Negroes. (UPI Telephoto)
WASHINGTON Walter
Dukes, a former college and
professional basketball star, has
been appointed as an attorney
in the Labor Department's Of
fice of the Solicitor.
Dukes, a professional basket
ball player for 10 years, will
'tfork out of the regional at
torney's office in New York
City
In his new position, Dukes
will be concerned with legal
issues arising under the Fair
Labor Standards Act, the Labor
Management Reporting and Dis
closure Act and other laws ad
ministered by the Labor De
partment,
A native of Youngstown,
Ohio, Dukes attended public
schoQls in Youngstown and Ro
Chester, N. Y. He received a
B.S. degree from Seton Hall
University where he starred
in basketball
The 36-year-old attorney ob
tained an L.L.B. degree from
New York Law School and a
master's degree in business ad
ministration from New York
University. He also attemled
the Sorbonne in France.
Dukes, now a resident of
New York City, was admitted
to the Michigan and Pennsyl
vania Bars in 1961 and 1963.
respectively. Since 1963, he has
practiced law in Michigan and
in the Federal courts.
From 1953 to 1963, Dukes
See EX-STAR page 7A
for full equality. We confident
ly, expect to go over the top
this year," he says.
OAK GROVE PASTOR TO
CONDUCT REVIVAL AT
FAUCETTE MEMORIAL
Revival services at Faucette
Memorial C. M. E. Church
will begin Monday, October 17,
and continue until Octo
ber 21. Service will be held
each night at 7:30 o'clock. Rev
James F. Bowden is Pastor.
Speaker for the week will be
Rev. Z. D. Harris, Pastor of
Oak Grove Freewill Baptist
Church. Music will be rendered
by various choirs.
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK:
The man who is born with a
talent which he is meant to
use finds his greatest happi
ness in using it.
—Johann von Goethe