Durham Citizens Oppose Housing Project In Negro Section
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Negro Church Burned To Ground In Tenn.
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GETS OCNA AWARD The
Durham Committee on Negro i
Affairs staged its annual pic- j
nic. Saturday, July 15, at llm
stead State Park at which time i
a special Civic Award usually j
made annually, was awarded j
Miss Ellen S. Warren for 1987.
The award was made to Miss
Warren in recognition of her I
long years of meritorious serv- I
More Than 150 Voice Strong
Protest At Loca I Meet Here
Ben Ruffin, Ray
Thompson Head
Housing Ban
Following a meeting of the
Durham City Council held here
Monday night, a t which time
several speakers from the Ne
gro community presented com
plaints of poor and inade
quate housing, a lack of em
ployment, and other injustices
suffered by Negroes, a second
meeting of the Council was
held here Thursday morning at
which time the city's governing
body authorized the immedi
ate action of committees pre
viously named to study all of
the problems faced by Negro
citizens.
Heading a parade of nume
rous speakers from the 190 or
more Negroes before the Coun
cil Monday night were Dr. Ray
Thompson, N. C. College facul
ty member; Ben Ruffin, execu
tive director of United Organi
zation for Community Improve
ment, who was formerly em
ployed in the Durham office of
Operation Breakthrough; How.
ard Fuller, former employee of
Breakthrough; Thomas M. Dav
is, of Hillside High School;
Claude Norman, James Coun
sel, Moses Russell, Jr., Matilda •
Harris and others.
Ail of the speakers opposed
the placing of another housing
project in the southeastern sec
tion of the city, which is prac
tically 100 per cent inhabited
by Negroes. In opposing the
idea. Fuller charged that the
action of the Council in at
i) tempting to place an additional
housing project in the Negro
inhabited section of the city "is
highly political."
Fuller further charged that
the council was lumping Ne
groes together because it did
not want to lose any votes in
Negro precinct*.
Underlying the remarks of a
majority of the speakers were
warnings that unless relief is
See MOTIST 3A
ice to the Durham Committee .
I on Affairs and to the !
j Durham rommunity as a whole, j
On account of her loyal and i
j hard work as Precinct worker J
I and Precinct Chairman, Miss ,
' Warren was the recipient of a
j citation was read by Dr. C. E. J
I BMilware,- nitfUUj Tity Coun
j cilman.
A plaque was also prosented
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i Philly NAACP President is
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ATI.ANTA Local Negro
clergy have been asked by the
Atlanta Alliance For Peace to
announce to their churches
1 plans for a southwide appeal
for peace to be held August 5-
6, a spokesman for the alliance
said Saturday.
Negro and white ministers
were asked by the alliance—a
coalition of 16 peace and civil
rights groups —to join their
congregations with churchmen
from throughout the South in
the demonstration.
The peace meeting will bring
to Atlanta many prominent
clergymen and entertainers in
cluding Dick Gregory and Fath
er Malcolm Boyd, author of All
You Running With- Me Jesus?
Among the local celebrities
scheduled to speak are the Rev.
Ralph Abernathy of SCLC,
Rep. Brown of SNCC and Rep'.
Julian Bond.
The weekend—22nd anniver
I Miss Warren by Aattorney W.
! G. Pearson, 11, who Is chairman
of the Civic Committee of the
i Durham Committee on Negro
j Affairs.
Shown during the presenta
tion ceremony are Miss War
ren, Dr. C. E. Boulware, at
right, and Attorney W!1 C. Pear
| son, H.
(Photo by Purefoy)
1 sary of the atomic bombing of
Hiroshima, Japan—will include
1 a rally, sing out-out and art
' show on Saturday and a march
from Piedmont to Grant Park
on Sunday afternoon.
The' purpose of these activi
ties is to peacefully demon
strate the displeasure of a
growing number of people in
the South with war in general
and the Vietnam war in parti
cular. One theme of the events
is slated in the short prayer,
I "Please God, never againjl
which refers to the use of
atomic weapons on human be
ings.
Earlier in the week. Rep.
Bond had said, ''The children
of Mississippi the slum-dwell
ers of New York, the unem
ployed of Appalachia, the poor
of Vine City, and the napalmed
children of Viet Nam are all
victims of the war in Asia."
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VOLUME 44 No. 2S DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, JULY 22, IW7 PRICE: 2fcr
N. C. Gets $1,465,000 U. S.
Funds For Career Projects
Breakthrough
Of Durham
Gets $403>580
WASHINGTON. D. C —Secre
tary of Labor Willard Wirtr
last week approved four "New
Careers" projects that will pro
vide work experience oppor
tunities for 362 poverty level
adults in North Carolina.
"New Careers," is an anti
poverty program administered
by the Department of Labor's
Bureau of Work Programs in
such fields as health, education
and welfare by opening up new
support-professional job oppor- I
tunities for adults at least 22'
years old.
Projects usually run for a
year and must offer possibili
ties for future jemployment
without Fedej»l assistance as
well as progression to more re
sponsible and better paying
jobs. Ettrollees are trained as
aides to librarians, educators,
nurses, medical technicians, so
cial workers and police offi
cers, among others.
One project to be sponsored
by Experiment in Self-Reli
ance. Winston-Salem, will train
See BREAKTHROUGH 2A
Minn. Senator
introduces Two
Housing Bills
WASHINGTON, D. C—Sen
ator Walter F. Mondale' (D-
Minn.) this week introduced
two major housing propsals de
signed to better the living con
ditions of millions of low and
' moderate income families.
One of the bills—the Home
i Purchase Assistant Act—is de-
I signed to conserve existing
housing and increase home
ownership opportunities by
making low-interest mortgage
credit available to lower in
come families. The other pro
posal—the Housing Expert and
Loan Program (HELP) —is de
signed to help non-profit
groups sponsor multi-unit hous
ing projects for lower income
families and the elderly under
exisiting programs.
Under the home purchase
proposal, the federal govern
ment would pay up to half the
interest costs for low and mod- I
crale income families purchas-1
ihg previously occupied single- :
family dwellings. Mondale esti
mated that this would have j
the effect of reducing mortgage
payments by about $25 to $37 a j
month.
The program would not apply
to new homes and would be re
stricted to homes costing $12,-
500 or less, except in high-cost
areas where homes costing up to
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(Photos by Purefoy)
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CLEMENT
A. J. Clement Jr.
Spaulding Day
Speaker Jul. 30
A. J. Clement, Jr., Manager,
N. Philadelphia District, Penn
sylvania, North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance Company
since 1963. will be the featured
speaker at the Annual C. C.
Spaulding, Sr. Scholarship Day,
Sunday, July 30, at 11:00 A.M.
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NEW JUDGE AND WIFE —,
(Washington) Thurgood Mar
shall, the first Negro nominat
ed to the Supreme Court, faces
Senate Judiciary Committee ex
Congressman Conyers Terms
Anti Riot Bill Fraud On U. S.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-*"The
anti-riot bill is a fracd upon
the American people," declared
Congressman John Conyers
(Dem-Michigan) in a speech
prepared for delivery during
debate on the bill this week.
"The bill rests on the assump
tion that riots are caused by
professionals traveling from
state to state. This assumption
See CONYERS 2A
NCCJ Appoints Dr. J. Oscar
Lee Nat'l Education Director
NEW YORK Dr. J. Oscar
Lee, an offttial of the Nation
al Council of Churches and a
member of New York City's
Board of Higher Educatin, was
recently named national direc
tor of education by the Nation
al Conference of Christians and
Jews here. He will assume his
new post on Oct. 1.
Dr. Lee has been director for
program planning of the NCC's
Division of Christian Life and
Mission since Sept. 1,
Dr. Lee has been director for
program planning of the NCC's
Division of Christian Life and
Mission since Sept. 1, 1965 Ha
has reved the NCC and the
Federal Council of Churches in
the-field of race and intergroup
relations for many years. The
Federal Council was one of the
agencies forming the NCC in
1950
Announcing the appointment,
Dr. Sterling W. Brown, presi
dent of the NCCJ, observed
that Dr. Lee "is prt-eminent in
the field of education and re
ligion, with exceptional compe
tency in intergroup education."
He noted that NCCJ "is i
amination on his attitudes to
ward the court's increasingly
liberal rulings on criminal jus
tice and civil rights. Marshall
ATLANTA NEGRO CHURCHES IN
SOUTHWIDE APPEAL FOR PEACE
BOSTON Acting on charg
es that controversial lawyer
Cecil B. Moore is causing the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple "irreparable harm and
damage to its reputation, good
Hampton Addresses City Council
OR. LEE
pleased to welcome him to its
stff. particularly when the role
of education appears to be the
soundest hope for the attain
ment of equality of opportu
nity for all people."
Dr. Lee has served on the
faculty of the School of Re
ligion, Howard University in
Washington, D. C., as a naaso-
See LEI 2A
is shown here with his wife as
he waits to take the witness
stand.
(UPI Telephoto)
name and integrity," Roy Wil
kins has ordered the Philadel
phia NAACP branch president
suspended
NAACP executive director
Wilkins ordered the suspension
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Fires Linked to
Integration of
Public Schools
BROWNSVILLE, Tennessee-
Willow Grove Baptist Church
burned to the ground recent
ly. Deacons of this large Negro
church stated that they were
called to the scene, four miles
east of Brownsville on Highway
70, at 4;00 A.M. Although the
cause of the fire has not been
determined, there has been a
rash of unexplained burnings
of Negro homes recently, four
this summer and thirteen last
summer.
One of the previous burnings
was the house of Joe Taylor, a
Negro who ran for the office
of Road Commissioner. Hi s
house was set afire April 14
He suffered a stroke July 3
j Anothe rcandidate whose
1 house was borned was Annie
I Lois Jackson, who ran for the
office of magistrate. Her house,
which was burned to the
ground last July, as located in
the vicinity of Willow Grove
Church. Fayette-Haywood Work
camps, whose office is in Cin
cinnati, Ohio, is at present
helping to build another house
for the Jacksons. Four volun
teer workcampers, University
of Dayton students, are at work
| with local Nevroes on construc
tion.
Some observers link the re
cent burning with the integra
tion of schools. The county is
awaiting the decision of Judge
Bailey Brown of the U. S. Dis
trict Court in Memphis on
school desegregation. Hearings
were held June 5 to 9 on the
rase of the U.S. vs. the Hay
wood County Board and Educa
tion and the City of Browns
ville Board of Education. The
Justice Department is seeking
consolidation of the two school
systems. It is also seeking to
substitute a zoning plan of
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AME Lapen to
Meet in New
Orleans Aug. 15
By ALMA I. MACKEY
NEW ORLEANS—'"Challeng
ing The Laymen With New
Frontiers In Christian Serv
ice," is the general theme of
the 10th biennial convention of
the Connectional Laymens' Or
ganization, A. M. E. Church,
which meets August 1-5, in
New Orleans, La. The ser
mon for the first morning wor
ship services will be delivered
by the Rt. Reverend William F.
Ball, with communion by Bish
op Ball, visiting bishops, pre
siding elders, and ministers.
All connectional officers and
episcopal district presidents
will be present for executive
board meeting, Monday, July
31, 7 p.m. Features of the pro
gram will be panels and work
shops. Prof Waymon C. Mather
son. Supervisor Schools, Bir
mingham, Alabama will be
workshop director. Dr Robert
W Mance, treasurer A.M.E
church, Washington, D. C. will
discuss "Financing Of The
Church," Dr. L. L. Berry, medi
cal director, A.M.E. Church,
Chicago, Illinois, will speak on
"Developing a Health Project
and Program For The Church,"
L. J. Washington, Department
of Agriculture, Wasl.ington, D.
C. will be panel speaker on
"Urban Development, The Hon
orable George L. Russell, Judge
of the Supreme Bench, Balti-
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