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Negro Vote, Anti-Integrationists Formulation of New Law Firm For Durham Is Announced City Educators Ponder Next Move for Funds Durham voters defeated the proposed School Bond Issue here last Tuesday, January 30 when they turned down the issue with only one-fourth of the 52,836 registrants taking part. Of the 8,070 registered voters from the four major Negro precincts only 1,554 turned out with 1,265 of that number going against the issue. In addition to Negro oppo sition the bond issue was also opposed by white voters for various and sundry•reasons, along with white organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, CStizens for Local Controlled Private Schools that opposed the bond issue on the grounds that it was geared toward school integration. Of the proposed $9.75 mil lion bond issue, $2.15 million would have gone to the city schools and the remaining 87.26 million to tha county. Op posers of the Negro popu lation maintained that the bulk of the Negro citizens receiving benefit from the issue, had it passed, would not have been located in the county. The Durham Council of Hu man Relations saw a need for, "complete consolidation of Ci ty and County school systems.' In further expressing its op position to the bond issue, Atty. M. C. Burt, president of the organization, expressed the See VOTERS page 8A NCTA Sect'y Answers Charge of "Cheating" By Teachers By E. B. PALMER Executive Secretary N. C. Teachers Association RALElGH—Recently, a news release carried in the Raleigh News and Observer, a report which was announced by the State Department of Public In Lindsey Merritt New Director Of Placement for N. C. College Lindsey A. Merritt, employ ment services representative for the North Carolina Good Neighbor Council, has been appointed direc tor of placement at North Carolina effective February 1. Merritt, who holds the B. S. and M. S. degrees from NCC, joined the Good Neighbor Council in Jan uary, 1967, after ten years as co ordinator of Distributive Education at Hillside High School in Durham. He served for one year as assist ant director of the NCC News Bureau before accepting his posi tion at Hillside. Prior to that he had served with the U. S. Army and had been sports information assistant at NCC for a year. From 1962 to 1966, Merritt was sports announcer for Radio Station WSRC, Durham. He has also been a free lance public rela tions representative. King Announces Appointments In SCLC Operation ATLANTA, Ga.-Dr. Martin Lu ther King Jr., president of the Sou thern Christian Leadership Confe rence (SCLC), today announced the appointment of two key as sistants to Rev. Jesse Jackson, Na tional Director of SCLC's Opera tion Breadbasket. Rev. Calvin Morris has been named Associate Director of Chica go Operation Breadbasket, the comprehensive program of econo mic development in the ghetto that ' has become SCLC's model for ex pansion of Breadbasket to major cities in the nation. Rev. Ed Riddick was appointed Cbe Car§s|a VOLUME 45 No. 6 NAACP Executive Secretary Heard By 1500 at Shaw Univ. iBB II j~'fr-« > . A. |y l'v^ gmmiir-- A I # 11, 1 NAACP Executive Roy Wilkins Speaking At Shaw U struction as reported by the Educational Testing Service. This release charged, that Ne gro teachers are cheating on the National Teachers Exami nation and, that it can be ex pected that they will cheat more." It is difficult for in dim i Merritt | He is a member of the American Vocational Association, the j National Education Association, | the North Carolina Personnel and See MERRITT 8A National Research Director of the SCLC Breadbasket program. The SCLC president said, "With the addition of these outstanding men, Rev. Morris and Rev. Riddick to the Breadbasket staff, we are stepping up our aggressive cam* paign under the able direction of Rev. Jackson to establish economic security and control within the Negro community." Since April, 1966, Rev. Jackson has directed the widely acclaimed SCLC Operation Breadbasket in Chicago. The program began in 1962 in Atlanta as a project to secure more and better jobs for Negroes. Breadbasket through the DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1968 telligent people of this State to understand how such rash conclusions can be arrived at when one or two isolated cases are identified. In this particu lar instance, the limited ex perience of cheating on the NTE in this State is the sole basis for concluding, that an entire group of ethnic people (the Negro teachers) are and will cheat on the National Teachers Examination. Educators have long been searching for an objective means of evaluating the ability of a teacher to teach. Since no single instrument has yet been devised to accurately assess teacher performance, the writ er fails to understand how long the legislators and citizens of this great state intend to sit by and see a discriminatory in strument like the NTE, which is not able to measure the abil ity of a teacher to teach, to continue in use in our states. Whether the lay public is aware of it or not, the Nation al Teachers Examination, as used in North Carolina is pres ently serving as sort of a Merit Pay determinant. Should a teacher, after finishing four years of college, after satisfying all of that college's require ments, fail to pass the Nation al Teachers Examination after three attempts (and even mak ing a score of 473), that teach- See TEACHERS page 4A 1 years has been started in numerous I Southern communities. I In Chicago, SCLC developed a comprehensive economic program through Operation Breadbasket. Last fall, as SCLC began organizing Breadbasket chapters in major ci- I ties, Rev. Jackson became National Director. He is directing both the Chicago and NationaLßrcadbasket programs from the SCLC office in Chicago, and co-ordinating this work with I other SCLC programs by frequent j consultation with Dr. King and the j organization's Executive Staff in L Atlanta. See KING page 8A WILKINS CALLS FOR COMPLETE INTEGRATION IN ALL AREAS RALEIGH "ln a multi-ra cial society, national achieve ment can only be gained through complete integration," Roy Wilkins, Executive Direc tor of the National Association for the Advancement of "Color ed People, informed more than 1,500 persons in a Public Af fairs Forum address at Shaw University here Monday. Introduced by Shaw Presi dent James E. Cheek, Wilkins continued, "Negro youth are determined to speed action of the national will. This is the mission of black people, espe cially our youth." Mr. Wilkins, a native of St. Louis, Mo., who grew up in St. Paul Minn., was the third speaker in the University's Fo rum series, held at 11:30 a.m. in the Spaulding Gymnasium. > "The word 'integration' has been distorted. Integration in education was one goal. But our goal of complete integration was never limited to education. The nine students who entered Little Rock's Central High School were there for the pur pose of getting the best edu cation available in the city of Little Rock, not to ml* with white." Advocating open housing, he declared, '1 can't think of a greater humiliation for the Ne gro than to have to vote on it. In California last year, citizens voted to keep Negroes and Orientals out! "Open housing keeps open job opportunities, because the area in which you live is very essential jjrhere the distance to your place of employment is concerned. "In this great wave of the future, some Negro applicants for postions will be excluded simply because they are de nied housing in certain neigh borhoods. Transportation and accessibility art the key factors in some employment. Blasts Sanator Ervin Citing the civil rights vot ing record of North Carolina's senior Senator Sam J. Ervin See WILKINS 8A B V J fl H ... V Br- | I jh- S BANKERS AND FINANCIERS GATHER—(Nassau, Bahamas) —Premier Lynden O. Pindling and Mrs. Pindling were among the distinguished guests at a President Johnson Stands, Firm on Civil Rights WASHINGTON, D. C. (Special) President Lyndon B. Johnson reaf firmed his vigorous stand on civil rights and called for action by the Congress in a Special Civil Rights Message to the Congress Wednes day. The President said: "In this session, I Appeal to the Congress to complete the task it has begun: PRICE: 20c DR. MANNEY White Rock to Hold Human Relations Inst. White Rock Baptist Church's third annual Human Relations IN STITUTE OPENS - here Friday (February 9) with a Ministers' ses sion at Duke University's Baptist Student Center on Alexander Ave- Dr. Carlyle Marney, Executive Director, Interpreter's House, Lake Junaluska, will be the featured speaker during the three day*'ses sions that end with a Goodwill Sunday program on Feb. 11. The annual banquet session fea turing Dt. Marney will be held at Hillside High School's cafeteria at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 9. for the program has been under the general direction of I. R. Holmes,, withjhe Rev. Loren zo A. Lynch, pastor of White Rock Church, serving ex-officio. Eleven study-discussion sessions will be held at Durham Business College on Saturday and Sunday. Discussion topics include (1) See WHITE ROCK 8A Lyford Cay dinner for bankers and financiers from three con tinents attending a Deltec group meeting here. From left: Mr Pindling, Mrs. Clarence ! "To strengthen Federal crimi- I nal laws prohibiting violent interfe | rence with the exercise of dvil j rights. I "To give the Equal Employ ment Opportunity Commission the authority it needs to cany out iu vital responsibilities. "To assure that Federal and State juries are selected without ; II O MISS MARSHALL Two NCC Summa Cum Laude Grads leaching at Mich. Univ. North Carolina College's, two 1967 summa cum laude gradu*- ates. friendly rivals for aca demic honors since elementary now both teaching fellows, at tlfe of Michigan. Natalie Marshall, top-rank ing student year's grad; uating class at NCC, was offer ed a teaching fellowship at the Klansman To Be His Assistant Grand Dragon And Tan Boss Agree To Work Together ATLANTA, Ga. —Johnny Cornelius Johnson, an At lanta realtor, ha« been elec ted executive director of the city's Model Cities Program, a job for which he will be paid SIO,OOO a year. After his election he pro mised ,tp work closely with his j assistant, Calvin Craig, grand dragon of the Georgia United Klan ot America, who was elected to his unpaid post a day earlier. MR. JOHNSON said, "I think when we can find that the far right and the far left can recognize that all of our problems are common prob lems, then w,e will be able to proceed with the objec tive." Reflecting the same atti tude of willingness to work together, Mr. Craig said that he would work closely with Mr Johnson. He said, "I work with anybody as long as it's in the interest of thfc com munity. Dauphinot Jr., Mrs. Pindling and Mr. Dauphinot, president of Deltec Panamerica S. A. The Deltec group specializes in Lat in American loan operations discrimination. "To make equal opportunity in housing a reality for all Ameri cans." On the crucial issue of employ ment the President reiterated his re quest for Congress to appropriate $2.1 billion for a manpower pro gram to help secure jobs for 500, See JOHNSON 8A .? MISS WRAY University of Michigan before graduation. Sandra Wray, also a mathematics major, also went to the University of Michigan for graduate study. In December, Miss Wray was also named by the university as a teaching fellow. Both teach calculus. Both are from Dur ham. ■ W M fl I LARK INS John Larkins to Speak at Fay. Street School The fifth Annual Founder's Day observance of the Fayetteville Street Elementary School Parent- Teacher Association will be held on Tuesday, February 6, at 7:45 p.m. in the school auditorium Dr. John R. Larkins, Special Consultant, N.C. Department of Public Welfare, will be the guest speaker. Dr. Larkins is a graduate of Shaw University, Raleigh, and re ceived the M.S.W. Degree from At lanta University School of Social Work. He has done advanced study at the School of Social Service Ad ministration University of Chicago, Columbia University School of So cial Work; and the University of North Carolina. Larkins received an honorary See LARKINS page 8A Dr. Robt. E. Seymour to Speak At W. Durham Baptist Feb. f 1 Dr. Robert E. Seymour, Minis ter of the Olin C. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, Chapel Hill, will speak at the 11:00 a.m. service at the West Durham Baptist Church, on Human Relation Sunday, Feb ruary 11. Dr. Seymour is a native of Greenwood, South Carolina, where he received his public school train ing. Hit education was continued at Duke University, where he re ceived the A.B. Degree. He holds the B.D. from Yale Divinity School and Pli.D from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Before coming to his present pastorate, Dr. Seymour was assis tant _minister at M; ers Park Bap tist Church, Charlotte, Mars Hill Baptist Church, Mars Hills, and Warrenton Baptist Church,' Warjenton. The speaker is married to Mrs. Pearl Francis Seymour of LaFol lette, Tenn. They have two child ren, Robert 10 years; and Francis 9. 5 Lawyers of City Organize Partnership What is believed to be the establishment of the largest Negro law firm in North Caro lina, if not the entire South, was announced here this week by five of Durham's leading I attorneys. —* ; ~~— With office suites 202-204, located in the Mutual Savings and Loan Association building at 112 West Parrish Street, the new law firm will be known as Pearson, Malone, Johnson and DeJarmon. Associated With the firm will be Attorneys W G Pearson, IT, C. C. Malone, Jr., M. E. John son, LeMarquis'DeJarmon and C. E. Johnson. Pearson and Malone have been engaged in the practice of law in Durham for approxi mately 10 years. M. E. John ' son, prior to becoming eon j nccted with the law fcculty at I N C College, was enaged in See LAWYERS 8A P. 0. Officials Hold Meet on. Equal Hiring ATLANTA, Ga.-Top post of fice officials from four southeas tern states will meet in Atlanta January 30-31 to seek ways of insuring equal employment oppor tunities for all persons. Regional Director C. Banks Gladden of Atlanta said this fifth annual conference is expected to attract about 65 persons, the lar gest number ever. An expected program is also planned in an effort to spur along the department's equal opportunity program, he said. Among those attending will be assistant postmasters and chairmen of the Equal Employment Oppor tunity Advisory Committees from the 34 largest post offices in the region. This includes W. M. Womble and J. T. Rigsbee as representatives from the Durham Post Office. Mr. Gladden said the two-day program will study three objec tives: -Resolving problems of com munication within post offices and between post offices and commu nities concerning equal employ ment. -Determing how to meet qualification standards for the em ployment and promotion within each postal installation. -Implementing a positive equal employment program. Various speeches and panel dis cussions are scheduled during the sessions, which will be held in Conference Room 556 at the Peachtree-Baker Federal Building. See POST OFFICE 8A Ifc - ;Sf t ' Jj' ■ES Wm a -'% V pfr - /•* JSM i DR. SEYMOUR In addition to his pastoral du ties, Dr. Seymour is President of N.C. Council on World Affairs and President of the Inter-Church Coun cil for social Service in Chapel Hill. Lee E. Jones is Chairman of the Human Relations Planning Commit tee. Members are: W.L. McAuley, John Plummer, Jr., Milton Love, Oather Jones, and John Amey. F.D. Terry is pastor of the church.
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