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Saturday, January 20, 1968 Section B 6 Pages YOUR PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY Ui'SrAfrican Ties impro «P FRED M. LANGE HALL TO BE NAMED —The men's dormitory at Bishop College in Dallas will be named in honor of the well-known Texas humani tarian Fred M. Lunge in dedication ceremonies at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 4. Lange, pictured at left, is executive vice-president of the Dallas Community Allison Gordon Retires After 38 Years as A&TU. Retiree Served Under Five College Heads By RICHARD * MOORE GREENSBORO— Allison Gor don, who parlayed a $3.00 a month scholarship into a 38- ■» year career as postman at A&T . State University, has gone fish ing. Gordon's recent retirement robbed A&T of a devoted em ployee approaching a legend. Known and loved by thousands of students over the years, he lost no time in seeking out his rod and reel. "Retirement is fine," chuckl eed Gordon in an interview at his home. "When my time came, I decided to go. No use in hogging the road." When Gordon left his tiny seaport town of Southport, N. C. for college back in 1922, A. and T. was| just "three build ings and a barn." • "In those days," he said, "each county gave one schol arship of $3.00 per month to a youngster going to college and I got the one in my county. The fees then were something like $20.00 a month." Although not officially ap pointed postman until 192 9, Gordon said he "started fooling around with the mail" as early as 1923, under the late Presi- j dent James B. Dudley. "I remember one time I lost a special delivery letter and had to pay for it. That taught me a lesson I shall never for get." Gordon specialized in busi ness courses at A&T, picking up his degree in 1929 after sandwiching in stints as a news boy and secretary in the col lege's mechanical arts depart ment. Even though he was an ex cellent student in typing and -horthand. Gordon said that after he started handling mail, he never really considered tak ing any other kind of job. •In that kind of job you are r always meeting people,' 1 said Gordon, "and you have to be friendly Vou just get anjjry and you just can't ex pect to do an eight-hour job and go home." And that seemed to be his personal code of ethics. His was always a ready smile and long after the office had closed, he would hang around to de liver a telegram or special which meant so much to a stu dent on a shoestring budget. Gordon was also a whizz at remembering names. "The only time I nearly got thrown was the year I had the five William Smiths, two of them in the same town and all of them in the same general area." the only thing that saved me was learning the addresses Continued on page 3B J jUfl, i » ■ jgiH j. k • ■ i|H I L I W JSM mr m jH IHB I B ENDS 38 YEARS AT AAT—Al lison Gordon, right, who re cently retired as campus post man at A&T State University, Women Organize for Unity; Join Jeanette Rankin Brigade Mrs. Martin Luther King, Urges Support for Anti-War Campaign ATLANTA, Georgia A group of prominent Negro women in Atlanta have begun to organize for unity among black women in support of world peace efforts, including the Jeanette ■ Rankin Brigade which was scheduled to hold a peace demonstration in Wash ington recently. Some of the Negro women went with other Atlanta wom en to Washington, where a mass gathering of women for peace joined Miss Rankin in a march to Congress and meeting with congregational leaders in which they will de mand an end to the war in Vietnam. Miss Rankin was the first woman elected to Con gress and cast her first vote as a U. S. Representative, iigainst World I In a statement issued today, the black women of Atlanta said: "It is time for black wom en throughout this nation to unite in a determined effort to oppose the rapidly growing American involvement in a vi cious and unjust war in Viet nam. We who have worked so hard for Freedom for our peo ple in America must do every thing possible to stop this war which is draining away the lives of our young men and deepening the problems of pov erty and racism. One action we support is the Jeanette Rankin Brigade march for Peace in Washington. The Atlanta group praised a similar group of black women Che CarSita ©mrs Chest Trust Fund and was instrumental in bringing the 87-year-old college to Dallas in liHil from its original location in Marshall. Lange ii> also a trustee of Bishop. F red M. Lange Hall is among several new buildings at the college to be named for supportjers who have played key roles in BishopV development. I shows his daughter, Miss Char mion Gordon, the plaque and check presented him by the faculty, staff and student body in Harlem and agreed with Miss Ruby Dee, the noted stage and TV actress, who has said dxflives swi-Uhar mtowa htra as spokesman for the Harlem group: "Negro mothers must become involved in working to end the war in Vietnam be cause their sons represent 22 per cent of the dead, while they get only two per cent of the bread' . . . The Negro volunteers for the army i.l a greater rate and en lists for longer stints because opportunity in the army for equality and jobs is greater than in civilian life—what a terrible tragedy for our democ racy!". i The Atlanta group urged blnck women in all other com munities to unite in similar lo cal groups against the war, Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., a national co-chairman of the Jeanette Rankin Brigade and member of the Atlanta group of Negro women, said she is contacting other Negro women around the nation about the anti-war campaign. She added that "the women of America can and should now come together to build a pow erful force against this tragic war in Vietnam. The American military machine is sending fine young black and white men to kill and be killed with out any justification, and at the same time the American poli tical and economic system is neglecting the millions of pov- Contlnued on page 6B DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA of the University. Gordon served under five A&T Presi dents. «P jjlnH I OR. TAYLOR 1 NCC Professor | Named For Study At Jadavpur Uni. Dr. Arnold H. Taylor, profes sor of history at North Carolina College, is one of 33 distinguished scholars awarded grants-in-aid by the American Council of Learned I Societies for post-doctoral research. The award recipients, who re present twenty-eight colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, were named after a national competition sponsored by [ theACLS. Dr. Taylor's research will be on I American diplomacy and humani tarian reform. He is currently on leave from NCC and is serving 1 under a grant from the U. S. States Department as senior lecturer In i American history at Jadavpur Uni versity, Calcutta, India. A native of Regina, Va., Tay i tor's secondary education was at Continued on page 5B Many Leaders Impressed By HHH's Visit Congo (Kinshasa) —A top official of the State Department said, Vice President Humphrey has done more in 12 days to improve U.S. relations in Africa than has been done in a long I time. Mr. Peter Straus, Assistant Administrator. AID, Bureau for Africa, made .the assessment after the Vice President had completed visits to eight Afri can countries. Mr. Straus was one of several State Depart ment officials accompanying the Vice President on his nine nation cross-country tour of Africa. Without exemption," Straus said, "the leaders of the coun tries visited by the Vice Presi dent, and in particular the Economic Ministers, were pro foundly impressed with the Vice President and his ability to fp'asp and understand their economic problems. They said they would have been »lad to have a Vice Presi dent visit their country, but they were doubly impressed and pleased that such a rank ing member of the United States, with a deep and genu ine interest in the future of Africa, was sent to ho'd talks with them," Straus said. In discussing the possible impact and influence the Vice President's African visit will have back in the United States, Mrs. Straus said, "The Vice President has the great ad vantage of seeing for himself the problems and progress of Africa." "When he speaks on Africa, he will speak not on the basis of what he has read but on the basis of what he has seen and heard from the leaders and people of Africa. And, of course, the Vice President's voice carries far more weight than any other, except one, to the people of the United States and to the Congress," Straus said. "They will understand and accept what he says far more quickly than the rest of Sigmas Re-elect Dr. McNeil at Annual Meet RICHMOND, Va. Delegates attending the 53rd Anniversary Conclave of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Incorporated, which met in the John Marshall Ho tel, Richmond, Virginia, Dec. 23-30, re-elected Dr. Alvin J. McNeil, a professor of Social Studies at Grambling College, National President of the or ganization, then voted ta, sup port all programs of the Na tional Urban League as their project for the ensuing year. The national body also voted to send letters of commenda tions to President Lyndon B. Johnson and Senator Robert F Kennedy for the herculean ef forts they made in the passage i of legislation through the 90th i Congress. The President was cited for his efforts to get a Rat Control Bill, (even although it was watered down) passed and Sen-, ator Kennedy for guiding a Poverty Bill to passage through the Congress. The body voted to re-affirm its' endorsement of a Virgin Islander as governor of the Virgin Islands and voted to in crease its financial obligations to the Leadership Conference in Washington, D. C. whose duties are to lobby for legisla tion favorable to minority groups and the Negro in the Congress. Under the new parking re strictions the motorist virtually walks to work. Lazy nfcn without money are always putting a loud pedal on the idea that it takes money to make money. HK • #H Ml - ...*V • HHPp ■Y*? XL "' .^P^I gdHWf JMji^B V — 0/ p ' ♦ -»j.' '&■%* 3? S ; . ; _ V KIE WWT» 4 • e •• w \FT; "^jgaJr^* -# '"f ""tß^^S ARETHA FRANKLIN Aretha Franklin Sweeps Leading Vocalist Poll NEW YORK—Aretha Frank lin, Atantic hit-maker, has just completed her greatest year in the record business, has swept every popularity poll in the business. Her list of awards for 1967 includes every trade mag agine popularity poll, the NATRA (National Association of Television and Radio An nouncers) Award and the Bill Gavin Year End Awards, Miss Franklin won the NATRA award as the Best Female Sing er of the Year, in the summer of 1967. The organization also I m&m w I BEm ft 1 w CITED FOR WORK IN ALUM NI CROUP —Mrs. Agnes H. Green receives gold watch after she won "Miss Gate City" ' Veep Amazed By Huge, Genial Crowds During Tour Of Africa ACCRA, Ghana-"! have never seen anything like this before." This was the on-the-spot reac tion of Vice President Hubert Hum phrey to the great out pouring of warmth and friendliness which he has received during his tour of Africa. The large, lively and colorful crowds have demonstrated, in their own dramatic way, their friendship for and welcome to the Vice Presi dent and Mrs. Humphrey. Although this Is Mr. Hum phrey's first trip to Sub-Saharan Africa, he is no stranger to Africans and their problems and prospects. Over the years, he has met a number of African leaders during their visits to the United States, had talked with African students, maintained close liaison with Am bassadors from Africa in Washing ton, and had served on the Board Newsof Sports World State, mitional And Local named her recording of "Re spect" as the Best Single Rec ord of the Year and her album "I Never Loved A Man The Way I -Cove You" as Best Al bum of the Year. In December of 1967 she won the Billboard, Cash Box and Record World polls as the Top Female Vocalist of the Year, Top Female Artist R&B for the year as well as awards for Top Singer of the Year on Sin gle Records and Albums. At the Bill Gavin Radio Program title in contest sponsored by A&T State University alumni chapter in Greensboro. Making of the American Committee on Africa, sharing the platform with African nationalist leaders at Afri- can Freedom Day rallies. Upon the Vice President's 3 a.m. arrival from Washington in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, he was greeted by a crowd of more than 1,000 Ivorians who had come miles, many by foot, to participate in a dazzling welcoming ceremony of pulsating tom-toms and dancing African women and children. During a tour, of a public mar ket in Abidjan, the Vice President was surrounded by hundreds; and thousands of other Ivorians lined the streets, waved, applauded rhy thmically, and chanted native songs as the Vice President's limosine passed slowly by. £ LIBERIA-In Liberia, Vice Pre sident Humphrey headed the U.S. PRICE: 20c ming Convention held in Las Vegas i* mid-December, she won the award as Top R&B Artist of the Year. Five of Miss Franklin's sin gle records and two albums have been nominated for Gram my Awards by members of the NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts, and Sciences). The national organiatzicn com posed of members of the re cording industry will vote on. the top performers and rec ords of 1967 in March . presentation for Coca-Cola Bot tling Company is special repre ' sentative Milton Gerald delegation to the Sixth Inaugura tion of President William V. S. Tub man. A second member of the delegation was Supreme Court Jus tice Thurgood Marshall, who made two speeches during the three day visit to Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. He also met with President Tub man, and held private sessions with other African leaders in Monrovia for the inaugural festivities. A recurring theme in Vice Pre sident Humphrey's remarks in Afri ca was the fact that America shared and supported Africa's goals of developing new nations and human resources and individual freedom. Wake's two State senators, Democrats Jyles Coggins and Ruffin Bailey, both have indicated they will seek new terms.
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