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—* . 'aMUi i? alU Ltkboarcwcrits • » % y u - 7*o Chatham Rd. " • V - :r _ DCNA AnnuallPleet ★★★★★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * * ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★★ White Racism Blamed For Urban Disorders Past 4 Years Advisory Commission Calls For Half on Two Societies in U. 5. WASHINGTON—The Nation al Advisory Commission on Civil Disoreds reported to the President and the nation Sun day that Americans must halt a "movement toward two soci eties—one black, one white separate and unequal"—in an effort to end urban violence. In its report on eight months of studies into racial unrest, the 11-member Commission al Asserted that America "cannot—it will not—tolerate coercion and mob rule" and that violence and destruction must be ended "not only in the streets of the ghetto, but in the lives of people." —Blamed "white racism . . . for the explosive mixture" which culminated in the urban disorders of the last four years, but also condemned black ex tremists" who have stimulated a mood of violence which needs only a spark to s£t it aflame. —Outlined courses of action local governments, and the po lice, to heal a widening breach between the "power structure" and the Negro slum dweller— to open doors that have long been barred to him in the white community. —Called for far-reaching action—much of it over the next three to five years—in jobs, -housing, education and welfare—to bring Negroes out of "ghettos" and intp the main- NCM Pres. Delivers Address On Black Revolution in Atlanta ATLANTA, Ga— Speaking at the bi-monthly luncheon of the twenty-one year old, inter racial HUNGRY CLUB FO RUM in Atlanta, today, Joseph W. Goodloe, recently installed president of the NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL Life In surance Company, stated, 'The black revolution has not only liberated Negro business for survival but has fortified it for growth, prosperity and progress in the finest American tradition." "For more than a decade," he said, "we, at NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL have been struggling with the ques tions surrounding Negro-ope rated business. Complex ques tions like these cannot be ans wered simply. Although we do not pretend to have all the answers we do feel we have a few, sound answers. And, these form the basic guidelines for Symposium On 'Black Identity' At NCC Mar. 20 "Black Identity" in its per sonal, institutional, and social aspects will be the theme of a three-day symposium at North Carolina College, Wednesday through Friday, March 20-22. The symposium sessions, which will convene from 2 to 4:30 p.m. each day in B.N. Duke Auditorium, will feature a position paper by a North Carolina College faculty mem ber and a seminar on a related topic. General assembly ses sions will convene at 8 p.m. and will feature prominent lea ders. ' The theme of the sessions on Wednesday will be "Black Power." The position paper will be by Dr. James Brewer, of the history department. The "Black Power" statement by the National Committee of Ne gro Churchmen will be the focal point of the seminar. Howard Fuller, a community organizer and the controversial figure In North Carolina's black power movement, will address the general session. Dr. Earlie Thorpe, chairman of NCC's department ol his- See IDENTITY 8A strram of American society. The Commission declared: "This is our basic conclusion. Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal. The 250,000 word report, c'gnod by all members of the bi-pnrtifan Commission, was completed more than three months in advance of the July 29 deadline which was set by President Lyndon B. Johnson when he established the Com mission on that date last year. Members of the Commission Governor Otto Kerner, of Illinois. Chairman; Mayor Jnhn V. Lindsay, of New York City, Vice-Chairman; Senator Fred R Harris, of Oklahoma; Senator Edward W. Brooke, of Massa fhusetts; Representative James C. Corman, 22nd District, Cali fornia; Representative William M. McCulloch, 4th District, O.; Charles B. Thornton, Chairman of the Board, Litton Industries, Inc.; Roy Wilkins, Executive Director, NAACP. I. W. Abel, President, United Steel Workers of America; Miss Katherine Graham Peden, for mer Commissioner of Com merce of Kentucky; Herbert Jenkins, Chief of Police, At lanta, Ga. Advance copies of the mo mentous report were sent to the White House and members See RACISM 2A corporate behavior and direc tion." "This soul-searching, self study has led to some very basic new definitions. We feel, for example, that 'Negro Busi ness' is just another form of See GOODLOE BA City Garbage Contract May Brew Labor Dispute Here Last Monday night the Dur ham City Council listened for four hours to a barrage of arguments against the city administration's proposal to farm out garbage collection to a private firm, Modern Clean up Service, Inc., of Oak Ridge, Tenn. The Council voted to delay their decision until Friday. Pessimists say that the contract will be awarded; that it will not. The president of Modern Clean-Up, Robert A. Tooke, acted as a Cconsultant recent burg, Florida, when garbage collectors, went on strike there. Tooke brought in workers, some of whom he recruited from Tennessee, without telling them they were going in to be strike breakers. The city hastily ordered anti-riot equipment ordered anti-riot equipment, fearing the reaction of the strikers; but when the Im ported worker: discovered they'd been hired to break a strike, they faded away and the strike was settled. Tooke did not pay his Tennessee workers' bus fare home, and the city had to do it. Hio Council heard Luke Professor Eugene Grueling report on his investigation of Che VOLUME 45 No. 10 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1968 N.C. Groups Request Federal Registrars For Cumberland ; : j ;iH D w^ : r JBL T ' • vnriirf '- •' TOP STAFF MEMBERS in handling the preparation and dissemination of the Report of the National Advisory Commis sion on Civil Disorders include (left to right) David Ginsburg, Executive Director; Merle Mc- 2 Hillside Seniors Win 1968 Achievement Scholarships Two Hillside High School se niors Wednesday were named winners of four-year college scholarships in -the fourts an nual Nationnal Achievement Scholarship Program for out standing Negro students. Allyson Kay Duncan, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Duncan of 204 Pekoe St., and Dwight Rodriquez Green, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Greene of 43-C Ridgeway Ave., were chosen as winners in the competition. Miss Duncan plans to major In political science at Hampton Institute and Greene also plans to major in political science at Wake Forest U. and to enter the field of law. • • • EVANSTON, Illinois—Names of more than 280 winners in the fourth National Achieve ment Scholarship Program for outstanding Negro students were announced this week by John M. Stalnaker, president of Tooke's firm. He found that Modern Clean-Up will double its business if its gets the con tract, and it will be charging Durham residents about dou ble what Oak Ridge, Tenn., pays per capita for compar able service. Last week the Durham Morninj Herald noted that the budgeted cost of garbage collection for 1067-68 is $250,000 less than Tooke's bid for a year's ser vice.) If the Council refuses to turn over garbage collection to Tooke. an unnecessary public storm is hoped to be avoided. DRUG OVERDOSE KILLS SINGER FRANKIE LYMON NEW YORK-Singer Fran kie Lymon, leader of the vocal group the "Teen-ageis' died of an apparent overdose of narco tics Saturday, March 2 in a Harlem tenement. An admitted drug addict, the young singer had taken the cure for narcotics at New Yolk's Manhatten General Hospital In the summer of 1966. At age 13, Lymon had See LYMON 8A V Curdy, General Counsel, and Lawrence A. Still, Deputy Di rector of Information. Ginsburg is a Prominent Washington at torney and White House advis or. McCurdy is on leave as U. W MISS DUNCAN the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. The awards are valued at $1.4 million. AH Achievement Scholarships are four-year college scholar ships providing aid ranging from $250 to $1,500 per year, depending on the student's St. Mark AMEZ To Host DCNA Meet Sunday The annual meeting of the Durham Committee On Negro Affairs will be held at St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church, Sunday, March 10 it was an nounced this week by Dr. C. E. Boulware, executive secre tary of the organization. J. H. Wheeler, chairman of DCNA stated Wednesday he trusts the meeting will be well attended by representa tives from all sections of the city in view of the fact that a Primary and a General Elec tion will be held this year. In addition to the discus sion of the political program of the Committee annual re ports from all committees of the organization will be had, Dr. Boulware stated. Following the reports, a discussion of the Primary and General Election will be held with plans being made for a mammoth registration and vote campaign for the entire county. S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. Still is a Wash ington newsman on leave as Chief of Information Services for the U. S. Employment Serv ice for the District of Columbia. *5 J * T*p^B GREENE need to attend the college of his choice. E2ghty=one of the 1968 awards were sponsored by 55 different corporations and foundations. Over 200 were un derwritten by funds from a 1964 Ford Foundation grant. Inauguration of NCC President Set for Apr. 27 Dr. Albert N. Whiting will be formally inaugurated as president of North Carolina College in ceremonies Saturday, April 27. The inaugural weekend will begin on Friday with a semi formal (black tie) art exhibit in the James E Shepard Me morial Library. Events on the day of the inaugural will in clude an inaugural luncheon, a concert by the NCC band, an inaugural procession, and a re ception for the president. Special invitations will be mailed to representative* of colleges and unlwrsltles, to state government officials, to federal officials, to alumni of the college, to prominent citi zens of Durham and the state, and to principals of Junior and senior high schools. Dr. Helen G. Edmonds, dean of NCCs graduate school, is general chairman of the event. Owners of automobiles are the least punctual of all people because they assume they can get anywhere in the city in ten minutes, which is possible if everything favors them, but it never does. PRICE: 20 Cents Telegrams Sent President And Attorney Gen. FAYETTEVILLE - Three North Carolina Negro organi zations have sent telegrams to President Johnson and Attor ney General Ramsey Clark re questing that federal registrars be sent into Cumberland Coun ty. They consist of the Fayet teville Area Poor Peoples Group, The Afro-American Students Association of Fayet teville State College and the North Carolina Voter-Educa tion Project of Durham. They charge the chairman of the Board of Elections in Cumberland County has re fused to appoint deputy regis trars, saying that if registra tion is made too easy for cer tain citizens, they won't vote, causing his office to have to go to the extra work of purging their names from voter roles. John Edwards, director of the State Voter-Education Pro ject, has stated he feels that this is in violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and there fore, his group has joined with other organizations in appeal ing to the president and the See CROUP 8A Last Rites Held for Mrs. Samuel At Union Baptist Church Mar. 6 Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ellen T. Samuel, wife of James I}. Samuel, weie held Wednesday, March 6, at Union Baptist Church. Mrs. Samuel, daughter of Mrs. Cora Waddell succumbed at Lincoln Hospital, Sunday, March 3. She attended Durham City Schools and graduated from Hillside High School in 1941. Mrs. Samuel received her B. S. degree from Winston-Salem Teachers College and her M.A. degree fmn-i York Univer sity. She had done post grad uate work at North Carolina College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a teacher at Pearson town School. Mrs. Samuel was a member of Union Baptist Church where she had served at one time as ANNUAL OMEGA TALENT HUNT IS SET FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 10 The Annual Omega Talent Hunt sponsored by Beta Phi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fra ternity, Incorporated, will be presented Sunday, March 10 at three o'clock in the B. N. Duke Auditorium on the N. C. College campus. Some fifteen students from Hillside High, Durham High, Carr Junior High and Hawley High at Creedmore will gather on the NCC campus to com pete In the talent program which begin a series of elimi nation appearances ultimately aimed at providing full four year college scholarships to a national Omega Talent Hunt winner. Hi j, jjH FULLER Fuller Delivers Stirring Speech On Black Power at Shaw U. RALEIGH —toward Fuller, Director of Training (or the Foundation for Community De velopment, had a Shaw Univer sity student-faculty audience so enthralled Friday night with his stirring speech on Black Power that he received a stand ing ovation at the completion of his 40-minute address in the C. C. Spaulding Gymnasium. Speaking at a student-faculty assembly, sponsored by the Shaw Players, the dynamic Mr. Fuller said one definition of power is, "The white man sit ting up there in Washington making decisions against Blacks." His address was inter rupted nine times with applause and he received a standing ova tion at the conclusion. Presently employed as Direc tor of Training for Community Development, Fuller went on to say, "Black people must have A MR£il SAMUEL Superintendent of the Sunday School, as Director of Vaca tion Bible School and as Church Clerk until her death. She is survived by her hus- See SAMUEL 8A Merian Lyons and James Lawrence are scheduled to ap pear as representatives from Hawley High of Creedmore, while Carletta Jamison, Gayle McLaughlin, India Cooke, De nise Little, and Joy Woolfolk are slated to give presentations as members of the Hillside student bftdy. Elaine Artis and Joyce Cle ments, students at Durham High, are also scheduled to compete and Carol Johnson of Carr Junior High is the lone junior high competitor. Two NCC students, Warren Froneberger and Alton Wright are scheduled to participate in See OMEGA 8A the ability to affect decisions that will help them directly. Since the white people are jus tified in getting what they want through power, why can't the Black man?", he asked" We must demand a real part in de riding what happens in this na tion. "Let's take a look at our selves politically. When the Legislature comes back to town I want you to put on some darl shades because white reflect) light, and the only Black mar you'll see down there will be the janitor. "All of the Boards are domi nated by whites", he declared— the Welfare Board, the State Board and especially the Draft Board. As long as a Negro is 'responsible' (a 'Yes' man to the Caueasin) he is all right as a Board member, but as soon See FULLER 8A CITIZENS FOR McCARTHY TO HOLD MEETING A group composed of Dur ham residents and Duke Uni versity faculty and students today (Tuesday) announced the formation of Durham Citizens for McCarthv. Patterned after similar or ganization which have formed recently in Chapel Hill and Raleigh, the new group hopes to express opposition to Presi dent Johnson's foreign policy and to channel funds and other help to Eugene McCarthv for his presidential campaigns in forthcoming Democratic prima ries. A mass rally and organiza tional meeting for Senator Mc- Carty will kickoff the public activities of the new organiza tion Wednesday night. The ral ly will take place at 8 p.m. in Room 130 of the Sociology building on the Duke University campus. At this time several of the founders of Citizens for Mc- Carthy will explain why they are backing the Minnesota Sen ator in his bid for the presi dency and how North Carolina residents can participate in his campaign, although no presi dential primary is scheduled for the Tarheel state. Two private organizational meetings have preceeded the mass i-ally. The second of these was attended by more than six ty people, most of whom were Duke faculty and students. The primary goal of the group is to present a visible organi zation supporting McCarthy in Durham and to co-operate Mc- Carthy activities in the Dur ham-Raleigh-Chapel Hill -area with previously formed organi zations. Citizens for McCarthy also in tends to concentrate on a straw presidential vote to be taken on the Duke c*mpus in April. The poll will be conducted nation ally by TIME m« gamine «t a See MCCARTHY, page 8
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