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Saturday, May 4,1968 Section B 8 Pages YOUR PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY Earl Graves Has Role In RFK Campaign P**4 |L/ hh 1$: Jy > ■ HF- Buvl WIT Ijs^SJ N CAROLINA SECRETARIES' GROUP HONORS SPEAKER— Dr. Elmore M. Kennedy Jr., consultant for the General Electric Space Technology Cen ter in Philadelphia, Pa., re With Our Area Men V • W *s ROBERSON Airman Charles J. Roberson, brother ot Miss Lula M. Rober son of Rt. 1, Pantego, has com pleted basic training at Lack land AFB, Tex. He is now as signed as a food service spe cialist with a unit of the Air Training Command at Lackland. Airman Roberson is a 1967 graduate of Beaufort County High School. Sergeant Larry W. Champion, son of Otha H. Champion of 3643 Roxboro Road Durham, has helped his organization at Kelly AFB, Tex., earn the U.S. Air- Force Outstanding Unit Award. The sergeant, an intelligence specialist, will wear the dis tinctive service ribbon as a permanent decoration to mark his affiliation with the Air Force Special Communications Center, a facility of the U.S. Air Force Security Service. Sergeant Champion attended high school in Durham and completed requirements for his diploma after entering the Air Force. His wife is the former Kath leen Fellman. Airman Robert Caldwell, son of Mrs. Bessie Marshall of 606 Reservoir St., Durham, Wis completed basic training at Amarillo AFB, Tex. He is re maining at the Air Force Tech nical Training Center for spe cialized schooling as an ad ministrative specialist. Airman Caldwell is a 1967 graduate of Hillside High School. His father, Harold Caldwell, resides on Fay Street, Durham. ceives gift from Mrs. Dorothy G. Jones (rigHt) following Dr. Kennedy's address to Profes sional Secretaries' Association meeting at A&T State Univer in the Service : * WHEELER Airman George D. Wheeler,' son of Mrs. George E. Wheeler of 3701 Garrett Road, Durham, has completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. He has been assigned to the Air Force Technical Training Center at Chanute AFB, 111., for special ibed schooling as an aircraft maintenance specialist. Airman Wheeler, a 1966 graduate of Northern High School, attended Wilmington (fI.C.) College. Staff Sergeant Harvey Har per, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dock Harper who resides on Triple Drive, Durham, has been given special recognition at Oxnard AFB, Calif., for his military improvement suggestion. Sergeant Harper has designed a time-saving tool for use in hydraulic, pump repair. Hi s suggestion was part of the con tinuous Air Force-wide cost re duction campaign. The -sergeant, an aircraft pneudraulic repairman at Ox nard, is a member of the Aero space Defense Command. Sergeant Harper previously served at Tan Son Nhut AB, Vietnam. A 1960 graduate of Hillside High School, he has studied at Ventura (Calif.) College. His wife, Delores, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Carr of #l2 Scout Drive, Durham. A sense of humor keen enough to »how a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commissions of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing. —S. Butler Che Carols €3ims (pi« Wra UnwrciEO^ sity last week. Lopping on it' Mrs. Jeanne Mill, Sedalia, president of the association. Mrs. Jones was co-chairman of the prgoram. JARRELL Airman First Class Jimmie L. Jarrell, grandson of Mrs. Beu lah Jeffries, 833 Rugby Street, Greensboro, has arrived for duty at Tachikawa AB, Japan. Airman Jarrell, a security policeman, is assigned to a of the Pacific Air Forces. He previously served at Pleiku AB, Vietnam. The airman is a 1964 gradu ate of Dudley High School. Dr. Jack Price Is Speaker at Women's Meet At the April 25 meeting of the Women's International League, held in the Faculty Lounge of the North Carolina College Library, Dr. Jack Price, Sociologist of Duke University was the speaker. Taking as his theme the projected Model Cities program for Durham. Dr. Price outlined the pro gress, or the lack of it, in race relations in the ~ area, and stressed the need for co-opera tion between the races if the city is to reach any working solution for its problems. He saw as a good thing, the work of such organizations as the OEO in involving people at the grass roots. Only as the poor and disad vantaged have a voice in their affairs can lasting solutions be made. Dr. Price aaw the young people as the hope of the fu- DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 33-Year-Old Staff Assistant.. Resembles TV Star, Bill Cosby NEW YORK—That's not Bill Cosby traveling with Senator Robert F. Kennedy as he criss crosses the nation in his face for the Presidency. It's Earl Graves, a 33-Vear-old staff as sistant who looks enough like the TV star and comedian to double for him. "People are always taking me for Cosby and asking me for autographs," Graves sgys. "We know each other back ing the Senator, too." Graves, who has a couple of inches and a few pounds on Cosby, has been on Kennedy's staff for two years, serving as the Senator's regional political coordinator and liaison man for -Long Island, Westchester and Brooklyn. He also served as Senator Kennedy's specialist on problems of health, housing and narcotics abuse. When Senator Kennedy an nounced for the Presidency, he handed the hard-driving, can do Graves a major role in his national campaign the task of mobilizing of the Black com munity. To accomplish this* Graves has been working to JACK AND JILL CELEBRATION IS SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY, MAY 5 The Durham Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, In corporated is observing its an nual celebration of Jack and Jill Day on Sunday, May 5, 1968, at 4:00 p.m., in the Dur ham Business College Auditori um, 3128 Fayetteville Street, Durham. Jack and Jill Day is being celebrated through the presentation of a Fine Arts Festival which will be used as a means of presenting to the public the various talents of both the adult members and children of the Durham Chap ter of Jack of America Hie Fine Afcte Festival pro gram will be comprised Oof dance selection!, jdnipvatic ' reading and instr imental mu sical selections. A l Art Exhi bit, made up of paintings, drawings, ceramics, photo graphy, various hobbies, sculp ture and collections from va rious parts of the United States and other countries will be on Parenthood Organization Names First Woman Vice President J NEW VICE PRESIDENT— Mrs. Naomi T. Gray, Field Direc tor of Planned Parenthood Fed eration of America, who has just been elected the first woman vice president of this 52-year-old vol untary national birth control organization. Mrs. Gray directs the department the acti vities of Planned Parenthood's 154 Affiliates in major cities in 37 states and the District of Col umbia. The Federation, founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916, is headed by Alan F, Guttmacher, M.D., president. NEW YOntC Planned Par enthood-Wond Population, the national U. S. voluntary birth control organization founded by women to help women bear only wanted children, has just named a woman vice-president for the first time in its 52-year - ture. They mutt be given all the education and training they can uae, while the older work ers secure a living wage. Poli tical and economic change may be enough to solve the nation's dilemma, Dr. Price thought. Repressive action can only lead to more violence. enlist Black persons at all lev els of the campaign in every one of the 50 states. In addi tion, he travels with Senator Kennedy and advises him on the concerns and aspirations of the Black community. In the hectic days following Senator Kennedy's announce ment that he would run for President, Graves was with him much of the time. And when Dt- Martin Luther King was felled by an assassin's bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, it' was Graves who informed Senator Kennedy moments before he was scheduled to address a rally in a Black neighborhood in Indianapolis. Senator Ken nedy broke the tragic news of the shooting to the crowd of 2,000. But first, Senator Kennedy instructed Graves to contact Mrs. King and offer, in his be half, whatever help she need ed. Later, both Senator Kennedy and Graves spoke with Mrs. King in Atlanta, and Senator Kennedy supplied the chartered plane to bring Dr. King's body home to Atlanta. display also in the Durham Business College Auditorium. There is no admission charge to the Fine Arts Festival and the Durham Community is invited to come out and enjoy an afternoon of entertainment. The object of this non-pro fit organization is to create a medium of contact for child ren, which will stimulate growth and development, and to provide for them a construc tive-educational, cultural, civic, recreational and social pro gram. This Fine Arts Festival is but one means that the Durham Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Incorporated has taken to bring before the Durham community one aspect of its program. Shan tribesmen of Burma of ten tattoo themselves from neck to knee with intricate designs. The tattooing began as a charm to ward off sickness and injury. Now the designs are a symbol of manhood. history Mrs. Naomi Thomas Gray,, whose selection for the post has just been announced by PPWP president Alan F. Guttmacher, M.D., has been Field Director of the organization since 1961, and for nearly a decade before that served as a field consul tant. As Field Director, she supervises a staff of consul tants in seven regional offices around the country and coordi nates the organizational efforts and program undertakings of 184 PPWP Affiliates and Com mittees in 37 states and the District of Columbia. Mrs. Gray is a graduate of Hampton Institute in Virginia and holds a Master's Degree from the Indiana University School of Social Work. She is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the National Association of Social Workers, the National Conference on So cial Welfare, the Academy of Certified Social Workers, the National Urban League's Com mittee on Family and Individ ual Services, and the National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People. Planned Parenthood, founded by birth control pioneer Marga ret Sanger, has had many dis tinguished women volunteer leaders, but has never before had a woman serve in such a high professional capacity as vice president a fulltime ex-? ecutive position. Did you work your way through school? Millions of youngsters are trying the same thing today. Help them help themselves. Give them a job this summer. Call your local state employment service to day. 111 l ' BUST OF BLOOD BANK DIS COVERER UNVEILED (New York) Bronx Borough Presi dent Herman Badillo unveils a bust of Dr. Charles R. Drew at the high school named for Dr. Drew. The bust, pays tribute to Dr. Drew, an "Ingenious Ameri can" who during his lifetime Boys' Clubs to Holfl Annual Meet May 12-16 NEW YORK—The Boys' Clubs of America will hold their 62nd annual convention May 12-16 in Chicago, it was announced this week by A. L. Cole, presi dent of the national youth guidance organization. More than 1,000 youth work ers from more than 760 Boys' Clubs across the nation will gather at the Palmer House to take part in some 50 forums, workshops and training courses with nationally known educa tors, civic and business leaders. Bob Richards will g've the convention keynote address. Other convention speakers will include John Cardinal Cody, Archbishop of Chicago; Whit ney M. Young, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Milton Rector, execu tive director of the National Council on Crima and Delin ■ - H|^^y|AßH ■ JKr JH HV |H ■ r^. .—■ &&£*& f#*» 4i ®®®®**^BBBBBBBBBHBBBBBi» v^%*- LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON— (Tappahannock) Ernest A. Gaines, right, is the second member of the local Negro community to win elective of fice in Tappahannock, Virginia, county seat of Essex County. His father, the late A. S. Gaines, was the first, winning election to the Tappahannock Town Council about 40 years ago and Arthur Clement Elected First Sgt. at N. C. State RALEIGH - Arthur John Clement, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Clement, 206 Pekoe Street, Durham, has been elect ed first sergeant of Company L-4 of the Pershing Rifles, na tional honorary military so ciety at North Carolina State University. The Pershing Rifles society was founded at the University of Nebraska in 1894. The so ciety was named after General John J. Pershing, commander of the AEF during the First World War. Company L of the Fourth News of Sports World State, National And Local never won acclaim due him. He discovered the blood bank which has helped save many lives. Viewing the ceremony are (left to right) Alton Klein, principal of the school, the Charles Richard Drew High School in the Bronx; Carter Perry, executive director of the quency; Win. I. Nichols, editor and publisher of This Week Magazine and Gerald Christen son, executive director of the President's Council on Youth Opporunity. W. Clement Stone, president of the Combined Insurance Co. o£ America and the Chicago Boys Clubs, and General Robert E. ( Wood, whose leadership shaped Sears-Roebuck, are the convention chairmen. Both are members of the national board of directors of Boys' Clubs of America, and long active in the Boys' Clube movement. Sessions will deal with sub jects such as inner city prob lems, prevention of delinquen cy, physical fitness and many other concerns of youth today. They are designed to sharpen the skills of professional Boys' serving until his death in 1934 as a Councilman, the same post that the son now holds. Gaines, a successful service station dealer for Humble Oil and Re fining Company, is also chair man of the board of directors of the Essex Recreation Corpo ration, organized by Tappahan nock's Negro community last year to build a recreation com Regiment of this society was founded at NCSU on February 27, 1953 and was the first such company in the State of North Carolina. The drill tearr of Company L-4 now partici pates in drill meets, color guards and parades throughout the southeastern United States. Clement, who is a sopho more in NCSU's famed School of Design, was graduated from Dearfleld Academy in Massa chusetts in 1966. After enrol ling at NCSU, Clement pledged the Pershing Rifles and became a brother after he had shown PRICE: 20e Morrrisania Community Corpo ration; and Vincent A. Cun ningham, representing the Old Taylor Company. The Old Taylor "Ingenious Americans" series, now in its third year, has now honored in its advertising 13 great Negro scientists overlooked by history. Club workers and increase the effectiveness of the organiza tion's drive for ''Juvenile De- General Bapt. State Convention To Hold 1 -Day Session May 7 - The General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, Inc. will hold its Annual One Day Session Tuesday, May 7 at the First Baptist Church, Lumberton, Dr. E. B. Turner, Pastor. The Session will open at 10:00 a.m. Dr. J. W. White is President of the General Baptist Conven tion; Dr. O. L. Sherrill is the Executive Secretary. plex and pool near the center of town. Shown in the photo with Gaines, inspecting blue prints at the project site, is J. H. Carey, a fellow member of the Essex Recreation Corpora tion board of directors and principal of Essex County High School in Tappahannock. The pool and its associated facilities will open in June. that he had the qualities re quired by the society. As an officer, Clement will be actively involved in the ad ministration of Company L-4 and will involve himself in the varied activities of the organi zation. She's Again A Greek ATHENS - The Greek military government announced it has reinstated the citizenship of Amalia Fleming, 57. widow of the discoverer of penicillin, Al exander Fleming. She had be come a British citizen by mar riage and applied months ago to become a Greek citizen again.
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