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State Wide Voter-Registration Meet Set For Shaw Mar. 9
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PICKED FOR STUDY PRO
CRAM Dr. Marie V. Wood,
director of the Foreign Study
Program of Hampton Institute
Durham Native Among Three
HI Students to Study In Japan
HAMPTON INSTITUTE,
HAMPTON, Va.—Three Hamp
ton Institute students will go
half-way around the world for
their second semester studies
this year.
The students, all juniors at
the Virginia College, are God
frey B. Herndon of Durham;
Timothy R. Harris of New
York City and James A. Craw
ford of Opa Locka, Fla.
They are the first students
selected for the school's for
eign study work in Japan.
Hampton Institute, which has
participated in undergraduate
study programs for the past
four years, will be represented
this season by 27 students in
Japan, France, England, Spain,
Greece' and Turkey.
All three students are at
work on different scholastic
programs.
Herndon, now 20 years old,
is majoring in history with a
minor in philosophy. A grad
uate of Hillside High School
in Durham, he is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey M. Hern
don, of 624 Dunbar Street,
Durham.
He has been active in Hamp-
See NATIVE 2A
Bi-racial Group
Organized in
Orangeburg
ORANGEBURG, S.C.-The
City Council has announced
the formation of a Human Re
lations Committee to study in
depth the grievances and civil
rights objectives as spelled out
in the Orangeburg Declaration
which was submitted to the
Council by the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement
of Colored People.
TTie Declaration asks for:
"adequate restitution" to the
families of students who were
wounded or killed; suspension
of responsible law enforcement
officers; inclusion of an "equit
able number of Negroes on all
levels of law enforcement;" the
desegregation of All-Star Bowl
ing Lanes; the formation of a
community relations task
force; an Investigation of the
local penal system and of the
broadcasting practices of Ra
dio Station WDIX.
Five representatives of the
NAACP in South Carolina
made the presentation to the
Orangeburg City Council on
February 13. They are Miss
Cynthia Zeigler, Claflln Col
lege; Dr. C. H. Thomas, Jr.,
president of the Orangeburg
Branch; the Rev. A. W. Hol
man, president, State Confer
ence; George Campbell, South
Carolina State College; and the
Rev. I. DeQuincey Newman,
South Carolina field director.
fifty-six Orangeburg citl-
See Bl RACIAL 2A
confers with Hampton students
prior to their embarkation to
Japan. Left to right they are:
James Crawford, Marie Wood,
R. W. Dalton Files for Seat in
N. C. House of Representatives
R. W. Dalton, Republican,
filed Tuesday for one of the
3 seats in the State House
of Representatives.
Attacking the legislators'
new seat numbering system,
Dalton stated, "It is an out
standing example of their lack
of interest and concern for the
citizens of Durham County."
"It is a means of depriving
minority groups of representa
tion."
Dalton, who is to date un
opposed for seat number 3,
was unsuccessful as a Repu
blican Candidate in 1966.
The GOP candidate who
hopes to promote racial har
mony, through "understanding
and better communication,"
has listed three main issues to
which he intends to give atten
tion; teachers' salaries, taxes
and lowering of the voting age
to 18 years. • *
Concerning teachers' sala
ries, Dalton cited recent in
stances of schools in other
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Community Revival Slated
For Shepard Jr. High School
"Strength and Growth
Through Unity" is the theme
of the Community Revival,
sponsored by the North Caro
lina College Council to be con
ducted March 6-8, at Shepard
Junior High School.
Rev. Jesse Jones, Rev. L. A.
Miller and Rev. William H.
Fuller will be featured as guest
ministers for the three-day
meeting.
Rev. Jones will deliver the
message for the first night of
the revival which will begin at
7:30 and continue at the same
time each evening. Rev. Jones
is president of the sponsoring
organization.
Rev. Miller, who l> pastor of
Saint Mark AME Zion Church,
will deliver the sermon for the
second session, Thursday even
ing, March 7.
See MVIVAL 1A
Timothy Harris, Uoairey Hern
don. The above students arrived
in Tokyo on February 15.
DALTON
southern states and said he
would work for higher salaries
for all school personnel "be
fore trouble starts."
In support of his tax issue,
Dalton predicted that a lighter
tax load would encourage
more industry to locate here.
His intention is to seek ways of
See DALTON page 2A
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Wilkins Asks Federal Probe
Of Shooting in Hattiesburg
NEW YORK-Attorney Ge
neral Ramsey Clark has been
urged by the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People to probe the
shooting into the home of Dr.
C. E. Smith, president of the
Association's Forrest County,
Miss., Branch in Hattiesburg
on Feb. 20.
In a telegram to the Attor
ney General, Feb. 20, NAACP
Executive Director Roy Wil
kins recalled the firebomb
murder of an NAACP leader in
that county in January, 1966.
The text of his telegram fol
lows:
We are Informed that shot-
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VOLUME 45 No. 9 DUURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1968
Stith Makes Bid For Congress
Official By Paying Filing Fee
Candidate For
House Seat
Pays His S3OO
David Stith, 38, President of
Southeastern Business College
of Durham, officially entered
the race for Congress from the
Fourth Congressional District
by paying his S3OO filing fee.
Stith was accompanied to the
State Board of Elections by
Raleigh City Councilman C. E.
Lightner n, Rev. L. E. Hunt
of Durham, his wife Lorraine
and their two children Thomas,
HI, and Karen.
After re-stating his previous
stand on some state and na
tional problems, Stith launched
a blistering attack on the "lack
of positive action" on the part
of Galifianakis, both in Con
gress and on local racial issues.
Stith, told newsmen that Gali
fianakis was "fiddling while
Rome burns."
Asked about the cause of the
racial disturbance in Durham
last week, Stith said, "The
whole thing was unnecessary.
My position is why have dem
onstrations? Why not remove
the cause?"
Stith then suggested that the
congressman should take the
lead in bringing together di
verse elements of the commu
nity for conferences to work
out problems facing the people
within his district.
One way of meeting the prob
lems, Stith said is for the con
gressman to attract better pay
ing industries to his district
to raise the level of income.
When asked about the effects
See STITH page 8A
REV. JONES
gun blasts were fired Tuesday,
February 20, at 3:00 a.m. into
the home and automobile of
Dr. C. E. Smith, NAACP Presi
dent of Forrest County, Miss.,
Branch at Hattiesburg doing
considerable damage. In view
of past tragedy in this county
in firebomb murder of Vernon
Dahmer in January, 1966, we
urge prompt investigation and
appropriate action to appre
hend any person or persons
who may be involved in these
cowardly attacks upon an of
ficer of the NAACP. Also re
quest protection be given his
family.
PAYS FILING FEE David
Stith, Durham Democratic can
didate for the Fourth District
seat in Congress, is shown fil
ing Thursday, February 22,
in Raleigh. Accompanying Stith
to Raleigh was his family, com-
National Medical Ass'n Gets
$3 Million Grant For Health
By KENT R. AUTOR
For the first time in history,
a national medical association
has teamed up with govern
ment to sponsor a nation-wide
program for comprehensive
health care. The National Medi
cal Association (NMA) —a pre
dominantly Negro organization
—'has joined with the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW) and the Depart
ment of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) to develop
comprehensive health and
housing facilities for the poor
and the aged in several cities
throughout the country.
The joint venture was initiat
ed by the NMA several months
ago in response to President
Johnson's appeal for new types
of partnership arrangements to
provide health care in poverty
areas.
The program will begin with
a $3 million pilot health pro
ject in Washington, D. C. to
provide new types of nursing
home and other health care for
the elderly and the poor, ac
cording to a White House an
nouncement on January 20. The
President expressed hope that
the capitol pilot project would
serve as a model for the de
velopment of similar facilities
in other cities. He also praised
the NMA.
"The National Medical Asso
citaion deserves great credit for
taking the lead in sponsoring
this project. It is an example of
how concerned citizens in a
voluntary association can work
with government to solve ur
gent problems", Johnson said.
The role of the two govern
ment agencies will be support
ive. Both IIEW and HUD will
provide the technical assistance
and advice required by the
NMA to develop and carry out
its plans. They will also pro
vide speedy processing of appli
cations for federal assistance
resulting from the program,
and modify their own practices
and procedures as much as
possible to make the program
effective.
The NMA will do the work.
Above and beyond what is re
quired for the capitol pilot pro
ject, the NMA's general plan
calls for cooperation with local
hospitals, medical schools, and
the medical profession in vari
ous cities to construct or other-
See MEDICAL SA
posed of his wite, Mrs. Loraine
Stith, their son, Thomas and
daughter, Karen. In the back
ground are two of his support
ers, Rev. L. H. Hunt, of Dur
ham, and C. E. Lightner of Ral
eigh. Stith is a graduate of N.
Rap Brown Launches Prison Fast
And Blasts Court's Punishment
NEW YORK-H. Rap
Brown, Chairman of SNCC, is
refusing to eat to protest his
illegal arrest and detention by
the Federal Government
through its agents in the State
of Louisiana. Brown was ar
rested on the alleged charge
that he had violated the travel
ban that had been imposed
upon him by Federal Courts in
Louisiana and Virginia. This
unconstitutional travel ban
provided, however, that Brown
was free to travel to consult
with his attorneys, which is
what he was doing this past
weekend when he went to Cali
fornia to consult with Attor
ney William Kunstler, who is
preparing a brief to present, to
the Supreme Court on Febru
ary 26 appealing the travel
ban. --
■ Once more we see an exam
ple of honky justice violating
the human rights of a black
person in America. But we all
know about honky justice, par-
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TALENT RECRUITMENT AND
MOTIVATION Members of
the National Medical Associa
tion confer with Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey at his of
fices in the Senate Office Build
ing on plans to seek and aid
talented and deserving young
sters to prepare for careers if* l
the medical and paramedical
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C. College and the president of
Southeastern Business College.
He told the Carolina Times that
he will make his campaign
headquarters in Durham and
will name his manager during
I the early part of March. ,
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BROWN
ticularly when it is applied to
SNCC and other black militant
organizations.
Rap was conf.ned under
maximum security to the Pa
rish Prison in New Orleans on
Wednesday, February 21st for
"violating" the travel ban and
a new charge of intimidating
an FBI agent. (Now any black
See BROWN page 2A
professions, ft is proposed that tague Cobb (Editor, NMA Jour
this pro grim be sponsored by n al), James M. Whitttco, Jr. (N
the NMA Foundation. MA President-Elect), W. T.
Left to right—Doctors Edward Armstrong (NMA Board Chair-
C. Maziqje (Part President, nun), Jionel F. Swan (NMA
NMA), Mitchell W. Spellman President), Leroy R. Swift
(NMA Trustee), K. Albert Har- (Chairman, NMA Council oa
den (Dean, Howard Unirerstty Talent Recruitment), and Vice
College of Medicine), W. Mon- President Humphrey.
300,000 New
Negro Voters
Goal for 1968
-The- Conference of North
Carolina Negro Public Officials
working cooperatively with the
State Branches of the NAACP
and the North Carolina Voter
Education Project, will sponsor
a STATE-WIDE VOTER HE
GISTRATION CONFERENCE,
Saturday, March 9, Student
Union Building, Shaw Univer
sity, Raleigh, North Carolina,
according to an announcement
released yesterday by Dr.
Theodore R. Speigner, acting
chairman of the Conference.
The Conference of N. C.
Negro Publie Officials is a non
partisan organization. Its pri
mary objective is to assist and
advise voter registration orga
nizations to place on the re
gistration books of the State
some 300,000 additional Ne
gro voters during 1968.
President Kelly M. Alexan
der of N. C. State Conference
of Branches of NAACP and
John Edwards, Director of the
N. C. Voter Education Project,
have pledged their loyal sup
port and cooperation in every
way possible to add more Ne
gro voters to the registration
books this year throughout the
State. Delegates are expected
to attend the Statewide Con-
See MEET page 2A
Hawkins Says
White Votes
Needed to Win
GREENSBORO-Dr. Regi
nald Hawkins, first Negro gu
bernatorial candidate in North
Carolina since Reconstruction,
thinks that disenchanted
whites may help to put him
into office.
"The white man wants bet
ter housing and money just
like the Negro does," said
Hawkins in remarks following
a Men's Day speech last Sun
day at A&T State University.
"Poor whites have become so
disenchanted that they can't
be sold white supremacy any
more."
Hawkins said he trying to
win the votes of lfijeral whites,
especially the young people.
"Our campaign is a cam
paign of all the people," added
Hawkins. "I don't waiit to be
the governor of Negroes alone,
but of all the people."
Hawkins was schkiuled to
pay his filing, fee in Raleigh
Feb. 21. Asked how his cam
paign is going, he said:
"It's going so well that it
frightens me. I think the other
candidates are running scared."
Hawkirts launched a verbal
attack on the otlAer gubernato
rial candidates who have made
statements opposing "open
housing."
"When my opponents say
See HAWKINS page 2A