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Durham Housing Tenants Meet
(Special to Hi» Carolina Timti)
(By BEN RIPFFIN)
ATLANTA, Ga.—A group of
•bout fifty housing tenants of
Durham met Tuesday in, A
tlanta, Georgia with top offi
cials of the Region 111, office
of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD).
The group was told, in effect,
Sen. Kennedy Succumbs To Assassin's Bullets
J. C. "Skeepie " Scarborough 111
Tops Run-off Primary June 1
SCARBOROUGH
Candidate Polls
Highest Vote in
Second Race
In a second primary held
"here Saturday, June 1,. J. C.
"Skeepie" Scarborough, 111,
outdistanced all opponents to
win one of five Democratic
nominations for the Board of
Durham County Commission
ers.
Others to win victories in the
run-off were incumbents Dew
ey Scarboro and Howard Eas
ly. Losers in the contest were
Mrs. Robert Lyon and Frank
Annan.
On the Republican side of
the ledger in the Durham
County run-off race for nomi
nation for the U. S. Senate was
Attorney Larry Zimmerman
who garnered a total of 309
votes to outdistance his near
est rival who only finished with
a total of 186 votes. At the
level Zimmer was out-polled by
Robert Somers of Salisbury.
As the winner of the Repub
lican nomination Somers will
face encumbent Sam J. Ervin
for the United States Senate in
the November General Elec
tion.
In winning the nomination in
the second primary last Satur
day J. C. "Skeepie" Scarbo
rough, 111 became the second
member of his race to be nomi
nated as a candidate for the
See POLLS page 8A
All-Black Town
To Observe 95th
Anniversary
BROOKLYN, El. - (NPI)
Birthdays and anniversaries of
people, events and places are
■uch regular occurrence# hi the
everyday life of man that he
wants to ignore these celebra
tlons-which descend upon him
each year, in increasing num
bers.
However, there is one such
anniversary which stands out
above the countless horde of
dates--the anniversary of the
Incorporation of the Village
of Brooklyn (Illinois.)
Brooklyn has the distinc
tion of being the oldest all
black town in the United
States and this year, it will
mark the 95th year of incor
poration with a gigantic three
day homecoming celebration-
June 21-23.
The Village of Brooklyn
was founded in 1837 on the
banks of the Mississippi river
across from St. Louis- where
freedmen and runaway slaves
established a community of
their own.
In the same year, Bishop
William Paul Qulnn founded
Quinn Chapel AME church,
Chicago, which Is the oldest
AME church west of the moth-
See TOWN page 8A
that their battle for reforms in
the Durham Housing Authority
will be won or lost in Durham.
The tenants, who rode buses
all night to get to the meeting,
presented HUD with many
grievances, all of which center
around the administrative prac
tices of Carvie Oldham, execu
tive director of the DHA. But
NCM Pres. Delivers Address ai
Hillside Annual Awards Day
Speaking at the Nineteenth
Annual Awards Day program
at Hillside High School, Joseph
W. Goodloe, president of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company, paid tribute
to the administration and fa
culty of the school for, "Their
stimulation of so many stud
ents in their pursuit of excel
lence."
"I am a proud product of
this One school," he continued,
"It was my privilege to serve
as captain of the basketball
and baseball teams during my
last two years and upon grad
uation to be valedictorian of
my class. Later, my daughter
was also selected as valedic
torian of her class. Thus, my
ties with Hillside have been
many and varied for a long
period of years."
"It makes me mighty proud
of my school to know that so
many Hillside graduates not
only enter colleges and univer
sities from Maine to Califor
nia but make outstanding re
cords in those institutions as
well. For example, I was most
impressed recently to learn
of a Hillside High graduate's
to Phi Beta Kappa and gradua
tion "cum laude" with a ma
jor in physics. This sort of
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SHAW'S 103 RD COMMENCE
MENT PRINCIPALS—A high
light of Shaw University's
103 rd Convocation for the Con
ferring of Degrees on Sunday,
June 9, at 3 p.m. at the Raleigh
Memorial Auditorium, will be
the conferring of honorary
First Negro Appointed Chief
Attorney In Veterans Admin.
Geo. J. Moore Is
Named To Post
At Sioux Falls
WASHINGTON, D. C. -Ap
pointment of the first Negro
as a Chief Attorney in the
Veterans Administration. was
announced today by William
r Driver, Administrator of
Veterans Affaire.
He is George W. Moore,
49, who joined the VA in
1988, after Army service dur
ing World War 11. Moore has
been appointed Chief Attorney
in the VA Center at Sioux
Fills, S. D.
The center contains both a
VA regional office and a hos
pital. Hie chief attorney's of
fice handles guardianship and
fiduciary matters and other au
thorized legal proceedings on
behalf' cf veterans, their de
pendents and survivors.
Moore, a native of Madison,
Miss., received his B. A. degree
bom Tougaioo (Miss.) College
In 1941 and * Doctor of Law
degree" from DePaul University
See ATTORMIY page 8A
HUD's answers, for the most
part, boiled down to two state
ments:
"We have no authority over
the local housing agency,"
and "Make a complaint—HUD
willl investigate."
The HUD officials explained
that their authority over the
DHA is limited mostly to re
GOOOLOE
achievement speaks well for
the spirit of teamwork, the
quality of training, the breadth
of perspective and general out
look afforded by the Hillside x
teachers."
"In today's highly compe
titive world," he emphasized,
"the ability to compete with
one's fellows is becoming in
creasingly important. Possibly
the best example of the truly
competitive environment Is
found every four years at the
Olympic Games. Soon after the
games in Tokyo a few years
ago, someone figured out that
the difference between first
place and last place was only
two percent."
doctorate degrees upon the
keynote speaker and three oth
er distinguished citizens. From
left, they are: Dr. James E.
Cheek, University President;
Andrew Heiskell, Chairman of
the Board of Time, Inc., speak
er; John W. Winters, Raleigh
Dr. John H. Franklin Speaker
At Howard U. Commencement
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Noted historian John Hope
Franklin will be the principal
speaker at Howard University's
101 st Commencement exer
cises Friday, June 7 at 5:30
p.m. The program will be held
on the upper quadrangle of
the Howard campus opposite
Frederick Douglass Hall and
will be open to the public
without charge.
During the program degrees
will be conferred on some
1,150 graduating seniors In the
University's 10 schools and col
leges. In addition, honorary
Doctor of Laws degrees will
be presented .to Jamaican
Prime Minister Hugh Lawson
Shearer, Maryland state sena
tor Verda F. Welcome, and Dr.
Franklin.
Dr. Franklin is chairman of
the Department of History at
the University of Chicago. A
view of site selection and archi
tect's plans; review of financ
ing plans; review of occupancy
selection policy; and annual re
view of the budget.
But these powers do not
cover many of the tenant's
complaints, which include:
—plans to use the Duke mar
ried students apartments for
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VOLUME 45 - No. 23 DURHAM, N .C. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1968
Two Negro Star Athletes Aid
In Capture Kennedy's Slayer
Johnson, Grier
Grapple With
Gunman at Site
JJOS ANGELES - Senator
Robert F. Kennedy succumbed
at Good Samaritan Hospital
early here Thursday about 24
hours after he had been felled
by an assassin's bullets at the
Ambassador Hotel.
The shot which took Ken
nedy's life was fired from a
revolver in the hand of one
Sirham Bishara Sirham, 24
years old and a Jordanian.
Members of the assassin's
family, a« well as cloae ac.
quaintances and police stated
that Sirham was a tight lip
person who was bom in Pales
tinian Jerusalem. He had been
a resident of Los Angeles for
about 15 years and is reported
to be a hater of Jews.
After a court arraignment
Wednesday, he was held under
real estate broker-land develop
er; the Rev. Theodore Brooks,
Superintendent of Oxford Or
phanage, Oxford; and William
R. Hudgins, first President of
the Freedom National Bank of
New York. «
ML PKANKLIN
distinguished author of nume
rous books and articles, he b a
world-renowned scholar of the
Civil War and Reconstruction
era. His best known book,
"From Slavery to Freedom,"
See PRANK UN page 8A
low-income housing for the
elderly.
—alleged lack of initiative
of the local Hohsing Authority
in obtaining available federal
programs that would benefit
the tenants;
—the still-unexplained theft
of $27,000 from the DHA of
fice;
OSIER
a $250,000 bail in an undls
✓
closed jail by the Los Angeles
sheriff.
In addition to Senator Ken
nedy, five other persons were
wounded, but not seriously, by
the burst of bullets from the
22 caliber revolver fired at
close range into the crowd of
Commission Formed To Plan
Union Of 14 De
Authorization For
Formation Made at
Dayton, Ohio Meet
BOSTON—The Consultation
on Church Union has esta
blished a commission to draft
a plan of union, it was an
nounced earlier this week.
Announcement of the 14-
member Plan of Union Com
mission was made by United
Methodist Bishop James K.
Matthews of Boston, chairman
of the Consultation and its
executive committee, which
this week ended a two-day
meeting in Chicago.
Authorization for the es
tablishment of such a com
mission was given in March
when COCU delegates met in
Dayton, Ohio. The commission
is charged with writing a plan
of union for the seven-year-old
Consultation's nine participat
ing denominations. The plan
will be presented to the 1969
Consultation "if possible," but
definitely by the 1970 meet
ing.
The drafting group will be
chaired by the Rev. William A.
Benfield, Jr., pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church,
Charleston, W. Va. and a mem
ber, as designated by their
respective denominations, are:
African Methodist Episcopal
-Bishop G. Wayman Blakeley
of Philadelphia;
African Methodist Episcopal
Zion - Prof. John H. Satter
whlte of Wesley Theological
Seminary, Washington, D. C.;
Christian Methodist Episco
pal - Bishop E. T. Murchison
of Birmingham, Ala., and W.
A. Solo man, Columbia, S. C.;
Disciples of Christ - the
Rev. George G. Beazley, Jr.,
Indianapolis, president of the
Council on Christian Unity,
See COMMISSION page 8A
—the general attitude of
Carvie Oldham toward black
tenants.
The HUD officials promised
to try to come to Durham be
fore July 1 to re-investigate
the married students apart
ments.
The probably effect of the
meeting with HUD will be an
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JOHNSON
cheering supporters following
Senator Kennedy's speech cele
brating his victory in the Cali
fornia presidential primary.
First to seize Sirham, mo
ments after he had fired the
shots that felled his victim,
were two Negro athletes,
Roosevett Grier, pro football
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PRESIDENT JONES PRESENTS
PLAQUE Mrs. Helen Chick,
retiring Fayetteville State Col
lege faculty member, receives
a plaque in tribute to her long
service to the college and the
state from President Rudolph
5 to 7 Hundred Black Teachers
Expected at Chicago Meeting
CHICAGO From five to
seven hundred Black teachers
and school administrators are
expected in Chicago, June 6-9
to attend the first National
Conference of Afro-American
Educators.
The conference will be con
vened by the Association of
Afro-American Educators,
which has national headquar
ters in Chicago.
The conference will have a
three-fold goal:
to identify and understand
effort on the tenants' part to
focus their reform efforts on
Durham and particularly on
Mr. Oldham, whom the tenants
regard as opposed to their ef
forts. Mrs. Retha Rogers, chair
man of the Tenants Steering
Committee, put it this way:
"Every time we ask Oldhaip to
do something, he says, "I'll
PRICE: 20 Cents
player tackle and Rafer John
son, Olympic decathlon cham
pion. They were aided In their
capture of the assassin by
about a half dozen guards in
disarming him.
Following the announce
ment of the death of Kennedy,
the second of his family to die
at the hands of an assassins
bullets, it was announced that
the body will be flown to New
York in a jet plane where it
will lie in state until the funer
al which has been set for Sat
urday. Burial will be in Arling
ton National Cemetery, near
his brother, the late president
John F. Kennedy who was al-
S9 slain by an assassin's bullets.
EDENTON, N. C.—-Funeral
services tor Sp/4 Charlie Jer
nigan, son of Walter S. and
the late Mrs. Lillie Capehart
Jernigan, were held recently
at Warren Grove Missionary
Baptist Church. The Rev. A.
C. Robinson, pastor, officiat
ed.
Jones. Mrs. Chick retired at the
end of the college year and the
plaque was among tributes and
gifts presented her at a spe
cial recognition program Fri
day, May 31.
the crisis facing the Black com
munity;
To prepare Black people
mentally and psychologically
to survive and to redirect Black
human resources and potential
to liberate the Black commu
nity;
To change educational sys
tems and processes or create
new onea so that they provide
for the self-realization of Black
students taking into account
the questions-
See LIAOmS page 8A
have to go to Atlanta to see
HUD.' Well, we've been to At
lanta and found out HUD can't
do anything. So from now on.
we'll be working in Durham."
The lengthy discussion about
the Duke married students pro
ject is a good example of the
way the meeting went. HUD
See HOUSING page 8A
Mi
KILLED BY ASSASSIN—Rob
ert F. Kennedy slain by assas
sination, is shown here in recent
campaigning which brought his
biggest triumph in California
Tuesday. At top his hair is
carefully groomed, but has
often fallen in disarray as he
wanned up to the crowds.
Negro Named
To Cumberland
Demo. Comm.
FAYETTEVILLE - D. A.
Williams of Fayetteville State
College became the first Negro
elected to the Cumberland
County Democratic Executive
Committee, Saturday, when he
was made third Vice-chairman
at the county's Democratic
convention here Saturday
morning.
Williams is assistant profes
sor of health education and
Director of the Audio-Visual
Aids Center at the college.
Reece Lancaster of Fayette
ville succeeded Thomas H. Wil
liams as chairman of the exe
cutive committee. Mrs.
Rudolph Singleton, Jr., and
John P. Beasley were elected
to fill the posts of first and
second vice-chairman respect-
See NAMED page 8A
Five Firms to
Be Barred For
Discrimination
WASHINGTON—Five major
U.S. firms have been notified
of plans to bar them from
Government contract work be
cause of discriminating em- ( ,
ployment policies or practices.
Action against the five
firms resulted from their fail
ure to comply with the equal
employment opportunities pro
visions of Executive Order
11246.
The five firms are: Bethle
hem Steel Corp., Bethlehem,
Pa., Tlmken Roller Bearing,
Canton, Ohio, Allen-Bradley,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; B and
P Motor Express, Pittsburgh,
Pa.; and Pullman Inc., Bease
mer, Ala.
The action was taken by
the Office of Federal Contract
Compliance following concilia
tion efforts by the Government
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