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liiau ff itratimi NCC Pre Association To Fight Public Housing In Southeast Durham Guy Rankin to Head New East Durham Group The East Durham Citizens Association met last Sunday to formulate plans of attack di rected at the Durham Housing Authority and to elect spokes men for the group who repre sent a petition list of 2,000 persons. Spokesmen for zoning, schools, traffic and a genera) spokesman were elected to voice the opinion of the group. Guy Rankin, general spokesman, stated: "We have no intentions of accepting any compromise. It is high time that the voice of the middle class and lower class be heard without marching and destroy ing private property." "We don't want that kind of power play, but the Hoover Road Boone Street Project is like a stick of dynamite complete with fuse waiting for a match." "We don't understand how a Housing Authority Board would purposely put a minori ty group in one corner of the city and create a super ghet to." "Some people might be offended but, we see that Hope Valley and Forrest Hills or Crosdale don't have any of their fair share of projects." The group met with Mayor Grabarek who stated that Dur ham was slated for 2500 units over a period of years. Rankin stated, "Our feeling is that with 1279 units in southeast Durham, we certainly have our share and that North, South, East and West should have equal distribution. I don't see how the people can let this go on." "We learned that after ap pointment to the Housing Board no one has any authori ty in Housing matters except the Federal Government. We contend that If this is the sys tem then it is wrong. Each community should be repre sented." "Our post office Box 11213 is being used to accept contri butions or letters of support." Rankin closed his interview with the following statement: See HOUSING 2A Local Doctor Pushes Search For Medical Career Seekers W. J. Kennedy Jr. Is Speaker For Boys' Club Week Meet W. J. Kennedy, Jr., presi dent of the John Avery Boys' CSub and a member of the Board of Directors of Boys' Clubs of America, will be the speaker at a public meeting that will be held at the Whitted Junior High School Auditori um, Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting is one of many activities planned by the John Avery Boys' Club In Its cele bration of National Boys' Club Week March 31-April 6. Clinton A. Shearin, program director of the local Club stated that the theme of the program Is "Boy Develop ment." Also included in the program will be the showing of two movies entitled "The Dan gerous Years" and "A Place For Growing." The public Is cordially In vited to attend this meeting and learn what one of your United Fund Agencies has ac complished In Its 29 years of Voting Power is The Right Power v*• "^MUf ,r I !/S ''!■ -U liiEa El P •I w J1 I lifi David Stith, President of South eastern Business College and Democratic Candidate for Con gress from the 4th Congression al District is shown making an Stith Says Galiafanakis Not Interested In Local Problems Cong. Conyers to Address Rally For Mrs. Clayton in Rocky Mt. ROCKY MOUNT - Con gressman John Conyers, Jr. of the First District of Michigan will be the featured speaker in Rocky Mount at a political rally in behalf of candidates Eva Clayton for Congress and Reginald Hawkins for gover nor, April 6. The rally will be held at TMtyWwn Mall at 8:00 g.m. and supporters from all over the Second Congressional District and the state are ex pected to be there to hear Conyers and the candidates. Congressman Conyers was elected in 1966 to his second term in the U. S. House of Re presentatives with 84% of the vote in the First Congressional District of Michigan, the fourth highest percentage of any Congressman. He was sponsor of the Full Opportunity Act which would provide S3O billion yearly to KINNSDY existence and its plans for the future as It works with the boys of our community. CHARLOTTE (UPI) The North Carolina Association of Realtors will be asked next month by its president to back him In a court test of any open housing act passed by Congress. appeal for Life Membership for NAACP. Seated right to life, is Dr. Kiv i e Kaplan, National President of NAACP, Dr. Albert N. Whiting, President of North vEfH MRS. CLAYTON aid low income Americans in the areas of jobs, housing and education. The bill also, has strong anti-discrimination laws and enforcement provisions. See MRS. CLAYTON 8A NMA COUNCIL BACKS TALENT RECRUITMENT Durham physician, Leßoy R. Swift, has developed a pro gram for recruiting Negro youth for medical and health careers which he hopes will be funded for operation in North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina. Dr. Swift is the Chairman of the National Me dical Association's (NMA) Council on Talent Recruit ment. Hie plan, first conceived by Dr. William M. Cobb of Howard University, aims to motivate and assist young Ne groes in developing careen as physicians, medical technicians and health specialists. Con ceived as a five year demon stration project, the program would aim immediately at tap ping a pool of nearly 26,000 students presently enrolled in colleges in the trt-state area. In time, it would reach out to youngsters In high schools and junior high schools. In general, the demand for medical and health personnel exceeds the demand, but the demand, according to NMA, presents important occupation- See PUSHES 2A A Voteless People Is A Hopeless People Carolina College, Maceo Sloan, Vice-President of North Caro lina Mutual and J. C. Scarbo rough, in, Candidate for Dur ham County Commissioner. Says Incumbent Silent on Civil Rights Report David Stith, Democratic Candidate for Congress from the 4th Congressional District, Saturday accused Incumbent Nick Galiafanakis "of doing more to try to solve the pro blems of France than of taking any active interest in the peo ple of his home district in the United States." Stith sighted as a case in point Galiafanakis' complete lack of reaction on the recent report of the Presi dent's Commission's on Civil Disorder as a case in point. Here, Stith said "is a matter which will have to be discussed and handled by the Congress and to date Galiafanakis has not given any indication of his feelings on the report." Nick is still fighting the. question of France's debt to the U. S. and the Gold Crisis. In other words, Stith said "Nick is still fiddling while Rome burns." Stith said in a statement, "Mr. Galiafenakis' comments on Gen. De Gaulle and the gold crisis are deliberate efforts to create a smokescreen to hide his inactivity and appa rent disinterest in pressing pro blems of disadvantaged citizens in his own district." Stith also linked Durham Mayor Wense Grabarek with "those politicians who are pre occupied with problems out side of Durham and the 4th District at the expense of im pending crisis growing out of implications of the President's Commission's report on Civil Disorder." "With the obviously flam mable situation in Durham, the Mayor and his colleagues virtually ignored a report from its Ad Hoc Committee on Hu man Relations while the coun cil adjourned for what might have well have been an oppor tunity to view sports activi ties." Stith said in an interview Saturday that "the persistent refusal of the peoples" repre sentatives to ignore the basic aspirations of the masses is becoming more not less fla grant than ever. For this rea son, it is imperative that the little people in the nation's cities elect representatives who are not only aware of the pro blems of little people, but re presentatives who will take an active and> consistent port in promoting the interest of the people." j Stith went on to £y "that week after week we see news reports from Galiafanakis" Washington Office, reports de- See STITH page 2A Che €awop €tm*s VOLUME 45 No. 13 DURHAM, N. C—SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1968 Spaulding And Barnes Enter Primary Slated Sat., May 4 Retired NCM Head, News Man Seek Seat Two additional Negro can didates for public offices in Durham will be in the Primary to be held May 4 it was dis closed here at the closing of the Sling date at Noon Friday, March 22. Filing for office of County Commissioner were Asa T. Spaulding, retired president of N. C. Mutual Life Insurance Company and Alexander Barnes, newspaper man and Dr. Albert Whiting Mark Shepard's 3rd Successor Former Durham Man Named to Supervisory Post in Gastonia • GASTONIA - Thebaud Jef fers, for many years, principal of Highland Junior-Senior High School and since 1966 of High land Junior High School, has been named to the top super visory position in the Gasto nia-Gaston County Consolidat ed School System, at Gastonia. He will have direct supervi sion of the eleven senior high schools and the six junior high schools of the 33,000 student Gastonia-Gaston County Con solidated School System. Superintendent William H. Brown of the consolidated school system told the Board of Education in making his re- See JEFFERS page 2A PROMOTED TO MAJOR FORT BENNING, Ga.-Wil liam B. Gooch, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Lerman Gooch, Route 1, Stem, N. C., has been promoted to major by Colonel Herbert E. Wolff, commander, U. S. Army Training Center, Infantry. Before assignment to the Training Center, Maj. Gooch served with Advisory Team 33, Vietnam. He has been awarded the Bronze Star and the Corn SPAULDING public relations director of the A.M.E. Zion Church. - In filing for the County Commissioner post, Spaulding JEFFERS * * bat Infantryman's Badge. The Training Center was established here Sept. 15,1965 and since December 1965 has graduated more than 125,000 soldiers from basic combat training. A graduate of G. C. Hawley High School, Creedmoor, N.C., Maj. Gooch received his Bach elor of Science degree from North Carolina A&T Univer sity, Greensboro. He was com missioned through the Reserve mm wDRh JjJJjßk BARNES had the following to say: "I have lived in Durham County for more than forty See PRIMARY 2A Local College Plans Rites For Fourth Head Inaugural ceremonies on Saturday, April 27* will mark North Carolina College's offi cial welcome tc Dr. Albert N. Whiting, the fourth man to hold the college presidency since-. its founding in 1910. Dr. Whiting, who took of fice on July 1, 1967, takes on the mantle of Dr. James E. Shepard, the college's founder and its president from 1910 until his death in 1947. Others who have worn the mantle include Dr. Alfonso Elder and Dr. Samuel P. Massie. Dr. Shepard was described as "greater than Booker T. Washington" during his life time. The college's founder re ceived his undergraduate and See WHITING 8A Officer Training Corps. Prior to entering the Army in January 1964, Gooch was a case worker with the Durham County Welfare Department. His wife, Margaret, is the dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Watson Parham, Creedmoor. Major Gooch is shown re ceiving the new rank insignia from Col. Herbert E. Wolff, commander, U. S. Army Train ing Center, Infantry and Mrs. Gooch. Voting Power is The Right Power PRICE: 20 Cents Anthropologist Claims Racism Dangerous Myth Dr. Stanton K. Tefft, of, Wake Forest University's de partment of anthropology, told North Carolina College students in a lecture Friday, March 22, that racism is "man's most dangerous myth." Tefft examined each of the white racist's claims to superio rity and found that no scienti fic evidence supports any of those claims. The claim of the pre-Civil War apologist for slavery that Negroes are subhuman Tefft found totally insupportable. "Negroes are least 'apelike' in six (of eleven selected traits)... and Europeans are least in only three," Tefft said. If average brain size were proven to be a measure of racial superiority, Tefft said, the white man would "have to acknowledge the large-brained Eskimos as our intellectual su periors and include the African Zulu and AnaXhosa along with them." Although many racists seized upon the results of the Army alpha and beta tests of the first World War and on subsequent so-called intelli gence tests, as evidence of white superiority, Tefft said, warnings of probable invalidi ty for this purpose came in the See RACISM 2A Winston-Salem Jaycees Cite Negro Teacher WINSTON-SALEM - Mrs. Clarice Graham Carter, a 1955 graduate of Winston-Salem State College and a fourth grade teacher at Dlggs Elemen tary School, was recently named "Outstanding Young Educator for 1968" by the Winston-Salem Jaycees. Mrs. Carter is the first Ne gro selected for the title which the local Jaycees have given annually for the past four years. They also nominated her for the state title. The holder of a master's degree from A&T State Uni versity, Mrs. Carter has taught every year except one since 1955. She was on leave one year when her daughter, Gail Alison, was born. Mrs. Carter has taught fourth grade every year but one and she taught gifted students from 1959 un til 1966 when gifted classes were moved from Digg's school. "I accept every child where he is and help him to progress as Cast as he can or as slowly as he must. I derive my great est satisfaction in teaching from being totally involved with my children, being sensi tive to their needs, providing stimuli for their inquiring minds and sharing with them their hopes and their pro- See CITH pafs 8A
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