Saturday, July 6,1968
Section B—6 Pages
YOUR PICTURE-NEWS WEEKLY
Aim Control Of Black Schools
COOLING "A HOT SUMMIR"
—On June 28-29 a city-wide
conference of 500 youths was
held in Newark, N. J. Thelma
Riley one of the members of
Fifteen Awarded Scholarships
By N. C. Insurance Association
RALEIGH—Four college stu
dents and eleven high school
graduates have been named to
receive education scholarships
from the North Carolina Asso
ciation of Insurance Agents.
The scholarship awards are
made annually in the amount
of SSOO each.
The program was created by
the professional agents associa
tion to encourage deserving
young students to enter the
field of insurance and each
scholarship applicant is spon
sored by a member of the
agents association.
In announcing the awards
Ernest F. Young, Jr., CPCU,
Charlotte, Chairman of the
Scholarship Board of Trustees,
said:
"The primary purpose of our
scholarship program is to en
courage deserving recipients to
pursue a professional insurance
career. We sincerely hope that
on completion of their studies
these young people will find
their place in the insurance
profession. We wish each of
them every success."
Thos? receiving the rvrrds
are: Arthur Marvin Newsom,
111, of Littleton, senior at
With Our Men in the Service
Radarman Third Class John
ny A. Bryant, USN, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Orpha W. Bryant of
116 Queen St., Durham, is
serving aboard the destroyer
USS Benner at Long Beach,
California.
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Technical Sergeant Robert
E. Hagan, Sr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert L,. Hagan of 209
N. Hyde Park Ave., Durham, is
on duty at Bien Hoa AB, Viet
nam.
Sergeant Hagan, a mainte
nance technician, is a member
of the Pacific Air Forces.
Before his arrival in Viet
nam, he was assigned to Pope
AFB, N. C.
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BURTON
Edward L. Burton, son of
Mrs. Emma Burton of 928 Ber
kely St., Durham, is participat
ing in a U. S. Air Force Re
serve Officers Training Corps
(AFROTC) field training en
campment aj Gunter AFB, Ala.
During the encampment, ca
dets become familiar with the
life and activities on Air Force
bases and can examine career
opportunities in which they
might wish to serve as officers,
might wish to serve as officers.
Other highlights of the
course include survival train
ing, aircraft and aircrew T&
doctrination, small arms train
ing and visits to other Air
Force bases.
Cadet Burton, a 1965 eq
uate of Hillside High School,
is a member of the AFROTC
unit at North Carolina A. and
T. University.
the sth Precinct Community
Council is shown selling candy
to help raise funds to finance
the conference which was
North Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege; Percy L. Winslow, Jr., of
Belvidere, senior at East Caro
lina University; George Aloy
sius Molloy, Jr., Creedmoor,
junior at ECU; Ray Baxter,
Chapel Hill, sophomore at Uni
versity of North Carolina; and
the following high school grad
uates: William Norfleet Alex
ander, Jr., Eure; Robert L«e
Coppage, Jr. aiMj Larry C.
Scott, Enfield; Jerry L. Driver,
Stantonsburg; Robert Carroll
Montague, Jr. and Charles
Thomas Piper, Oxford; George
Levi Perkinson, Wise; Dallas
Levern Silverthorne, William
ston; Michatel E. Fox, States
ville; William Gaston Johnson,
Jr., Mocksville; John Benjamin
Williams, High Point. Messrs.
Newsom, Molloy and Huff are
recipients of this award for
the second year in succession.
Each of the scholarship win
ners will receive a check to be
applied on his tuition at the
college of his choice. Winners
were determined by a Scholar
ship Board of Trustees com
posed of a North Carolina
professor, a bank ex
ecutive and two independent
agents.
Second Lieutenant Owen W.
Justice, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. O. W. Justice, Sr., of 213
Lawson St., Durham, has been
graduated at Tyndall AFB,
Fla., from the course for U. S.
Air Force weapons controllers.
Lieutenant Justice, trained
to direct opertaion and maiiv
tenance of ground search and
height finding radars, is being
assigned to Luke AFB, Ariz.,
for duty with the Aerospace
Defense Command.
The lieutenant, a graduate
of Hillside High School, re
ceived a B.S. degree in 1965
from North Carolina College.
His wife is the former Nancy
M. Jones.
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Airman Sam E. Johnson, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Johnson of
101 E. Weaver St., Durham,
has completed basic training at
Amarillo AFB, Tex. He has
been assigned to the Air Force
Technical Training Center a*
Chanute AFB, 111., for special
ized schooling as an aircraft
maintenance specialist.
Airman Johnson is a 1967
graduate of Hillside High
School.
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Staff Sergeant Robert W.
Booth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo
nard P. Booth of of 4137 Chap
el Road, Durham, has been
graduated from a U.S. Air
Force technical school at Cha
nute AFB, M.
He was trained as a weather
equipment repairman and ho
been assigned to a unk of the
Air Weather Service at Home
stead AFB, Fla.
€ht Cawlila Cimcs
called with the hope of pre
venting further riots and dis
turbances in the city this sum
mer.
FCC Orders Equal
Broadcast Time
For 4 Workers
PIKEVTLLE, Ky —The Fede
ral Communications Commis
si on ordered equal broad
cast time for four anti-poverty
workers who were attacked on
audio and television stations.
The order was issued to
Station WLSI here and Station
WSAZ-TV in Huntington, W.
Va., in response to a complaint
by four employees of the
Southern Conference Educa
tional Fund (SCEF).
Joe and~ Karen Mulloy and
Allan and Margaret McSurely
said they were personally at
tacked by State's Attorney
Thomas Ratliff last fall. Rat
life had caused the arrest of
Mulloy and the McSurelys on
charges of sedition, claiming
they were trying to overthrow
the government of Pike Coun
ty.
The federal commission also
noted that James L. Balser,
general manager of WLSI,
made a broadcast about the
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Last Rites Held For
Thomas A. Harrison
Sr. on Sat., June 29
Thomas Astor Hatrison, Sr.
son of Benjamin F. Harrison
and the late Carrie Hedgepeth
Harrison passed at his home
Route 3, Box 436, Nashville,
North Carolina on June 25,
at 8:00 A.M.
Final rites were held Satur
day, June 29, at 4:00 pm. with
the Reverend L. Edwards,
minister of Castalia Baptist
Church, delivering the eulogy.
At an early age he joined
Castalia Baptist Church and in
March 1967 was ordained dea
con. He was active in Commu
nity affsdrs, was a member of
Snow Hill Community Club and
a trustee of the Community
Development Club.
He was married to the former
Leah Leonard and to this union
was born thirteen ehi'dren.
His survivors include: his
wife of the home; five daugh
ters, Mrs. Carolina Lanette Al
ston of Washington, D.C., Mrs.
Barbara Ann Hunter of Balti
more, Md. t Mrs. Hattie Coop
er of Vauxhall, N. J., Willie
Mary and Sandra Marie Harri
son of the home; six sons, Ken
neth Duray of Newport News,
Va., James Russell of Creed
moor, Benjamin Franklin HI of
the U. S. Army. Sidney, Ernest
Earl and Charles Henry of the
home; a father; two sisters,
Mrs. Ernestine West of New
port News, Va., and Mrs. Cor
rinne Turner of Washington, D.
C.; four brothers, Benjamin
Franklin n of Washington, D.
C., Bernard of Rocky Mount.
David L. of Durham and Samuel
of Newport News, Va.; two
sons-in-law; two daughters-in
law; five grandchildren; three
aunts and a host of relatives
and friends.
Interment was In the Harri
son family cemetery.
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Group Courts Negro Teachers
In Natl Education Association
NEW YORK CITY - The
new National Association of
Afro-American Educators
(NAAE) has set black control
of black schools as its goal.
A first priority will be to at
tract Negro members away
from national teacher groups
like the National Education
Association and the American
Federation of Teachers.
Details of planning by the
NAAE were formed in closed
sessions this month in Chicago
by some 800 Negro teachers
and professors from 37 states.
Delegates to the founding
session came both from public
schools and from higher educa
tion. One of the speakers at the
general sessions was Muhammad
All. Conference workshops
treated such topics as: "black
ening" the curriculum, schools
in a black comminity, materi
als of instruction, the black
student, the black educator
and higher education.
According a spokesman,
the NAAE operations are now
divided among five regional
Student Council Delegates
In Annual Convention in Texas
The North Carolina Associa
tion of Student Councils sent
delegates to the 32nd Annual
National Conference of the Na
tional Association of Student
Councils that met at the L. D.
Bell High School, Hurst, Texas,
a suburban area of Dallas, from
June 23-27. The theme of the
conference was "Youth in an
Era of Conflict."
The delegates from NCASC
were Roderick Hinton, Presi
dent of NCASC and a rising
senior at the Phillips High
School, Whitakers; Sharon
King, Second Vice-President of
NCASC and a rising junior at
Hillside High School, Durham;
Miss Ruby Pinchback, Student
Council Sponsor, North Warren
High School, Wise and Mrs.
Mary Hester Smith, Student
Council Sponsor, Shepard Jun
ior High, Durham and a Dis
trict Chairman of NCASC.
Some of the highlights of
the conference enjoyed by the
delegates were speeches by
Jack H. Vaugh, "The Peace
Corps: In Defense of Youth",
and The Honorable Gale W.
McGee, U. S. Senator-Wyoming:
"The Nation in an Era of Con
flict" and also a visit to Six
Flags Over Texas, an amuse
ment park located in the Dal
las-Fort Worth area.
More Than 25,000 Yets Get
Aid From USVAC Program
WAHINGTON, D. C. Since
the United States Veterans As
sistance Center (USVAC) pro
gram began four months ago,
more than 25,000 recently dis
charged Viet-Nam era veterans
have received the "personal at
tention and counsel" on vet
erans benefits called for in
President Johnson's directive
establishing the program. Ad
ministrator of Veterans Affairs
William J. Driver reported this
week.
Nearly 6,200 of these vete
rans have been assisted in ob
taining education and training
benfits, the head of the Vete
rans Administration said in
summarizing the activities thru
May 31 of the first 21 USVACs
operating in major cities
throughout the country.
Additionally, jobs in both
government and private indus
try have been found for nearly
3,000 of the interviewed vet
erans who specifically sought
employment assistance, Driver
said.
Approximately 7,000 applica
tions for home loans, compen
sation and pensions, hospital
centers: Chicago, general co
ordination of activities; New
York, communications; stu
dent relations, Fisk University,
Nashville; Philadelphia, curricu
lum studies; and a fifth city
not known to the spokesman.
The NAAE will seek to win
full communitv control over
staff and curriculum for red
dents of the Ocean Hills-
Brownsville district in New
York City, where an experi
ment in decentralized, local
control has recently run Into
trouble. This is in line with a
strong resolution adopted by
the delegates in favor of com
munity control of all-black
schools in all-black neighbor
hoods.
The NAAE has scheduled
a meeting of a 40-man planning
committee for August in St.
Louis, to develop the formal
structure of the organization
and design a blueprint for ac
tion. Temporary chairman of
the NAAE is Preston R. Wil
cox, assistant professor at
Columbia University's School
of Social Work.
Hr "X
PROMOTED Mrs. Patricia
Daniels Ruffin, wife of Staff-
Sergeant Frederick K. Ruffin
was recently notified of his
promotion to Technical Ser
geant. Sgt. Rulfin, 1954 gradu
ate of Hillside High School Is
a veteran of 14 years of serv
ice in the U. S. Air Force. He
is currently stationed at U-Ta
poa Air Force Base, Thailand.
His wife and three children
are residing in Durham until
Sgt. Ruffin's return in early
February. He is the son of Mrs.
Catherine Ruffin of 2914 Kane
wood Drive.
care and other non-employ
ment and non-education bene
fits have ben handled.
The first 10 USCACs were
opened Feb. 19, 10 were openr
ed in March, and the 21st was
opened in Dallas, April 22.
Staffed on a full-time basis
by representatives of the Civil
Service Commission and the
Department of Labor as well as
the Veterans Administration,
each TJSVAC has also been
able to call on specialists from
the Departments of Justice,
Health, Education and Welfare,
and Housing and Urban Devel
opment, the Small Business Ad
ministration, and other govern
ment agencies and service or
ganizations concerned with vet
erans benefits.
These representatives have
been available to assist all re
turning Viet-Nam era veterans,
Driver said, but have made a
special effort to help educa
tionally disadvantaged vete
rans, who have not completed
high school or its equivalent,
to find Jobs and further their
education.
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DR. NABRIT RECIIVIS
CHECK FROM GRAY ESTATE
—Dr. James M. Nabrit, Jr.,
president of Howard Univer
sity, receives a check for $35,-
000 from the estate of the late
Edward M. Gray, a former gov
ernment employee. Under the
Colum. Journalism
School Establishes
Racial Fellowship
NEW YORK—Columbia Uni
versity's Graduate School of
Journalism recently announced
the establishment of fellow
ships aimed at improving un
derstanding between the black
and white communities of the
United States.
Financed by a $300,000 3-
year grant from the Rockefeller
Foundation, the Columbia pro
gram will focus on improving
race-relations reporting and ex
ploring ways that the mass
media can help to overcome
racism in American society.
Fellowships will awardsd to
Negro and white mid-career
journalists who wish to devote
a year to experimentation and
study in race-relationing re
porting, starting in September
Grants will also be available for
less-experienced minority group
college graduates who wish to
study journalism on a graduate
level, and a talent search will
be conducted to locate younger
members of Negro and other
minority groups who look for
ward to careers in newspapers
and television. The program
will be coordinated with Colum
bia's new Center on Urban Com
munity Affairs.
Plans For 2nd
Super Jet Mkt
Begun July 1
BALTIMORE —Rev. Frank L.
Williams, President of the sec
ond Super Jet Market in Balti
more announces that ground
breaking cermonies will be
held this week at Lafayette
Avenue and Payson Street. The
new Super Jet is owened by
Monumental Foods, Inc.
Monumental Foods, Inc. is
comprised of fourteen clergy
men of seven faiths, a cross sec
tion of the religious commu
nity—Baptist, Methodist, Pres
byterian, African Methodist,
Episcopal, Community, and
Apostolic of the City. This
thrust by Monumental Foods,
Inc. life other Super Jet Mar
kets is designed to be actually
owned by the people in the
community through the pur
chase of stock.
This second Super Jet Mar
ket, like the first Super Jet
Market located at Patterson
Park Avenue and Chase Street,
will be a completely new, mod
ern structure built from the
ground up. There will be park
ing for approximately 150 cars.
Rev. Williams stated that
this mass ministerial envolve
ment In a major community
business enterprise represents
a first for Baltimore, if not the
nation, and will go a long way
toward helping Negroes make
a serious breakthrough into the
economic mainstream of
America.
News of Sports World
State, National And Local
terms of the legacy the sum
will be used as tuition grants
for students' from the District
of Columbia. Presenting the
check is Mrs. Gladys L. Math
thews, owner of Matthews Fun
eral Home and a niece of the
New Program Designed to
Free Downtown Parking Woes
A new program designed to
enable merchants located in
downtown shopping areas to
offer their customers free park
ing at a parking meter has
been introduced by Duncan In
dustries, Inc.
"Under the system, a city
will continue to control parking
spaces with the well-proven ef
fectiveness of metered parking
applictaions," noted A. R. Sei
tel, Duncan President.
The "no cost to shoppers"
aspect of the Duncan program
results from a unique parking
meter the company has de
signed that automatically gives
shoppers tokens when operated
in the normal fashion. The tok
ens are then redeemed for a
parking refund by participat
ing merchants when a purchase
is made.
Called the "Golden Circle
Validating Parking Meter," the
unit was unveiled recently be
fore traffic control profession
als attending the International
Municipal Parking Congress in
PNBC ESTABLISHES PERMANENT
NIGHT TO MEMORALIZE DR. KING
CINCINNATI Progressive
pastors united behind their
President, Dr. Gardner C Tay
lor (pastor of 12,000 members
Concord Baptist Church of
Christi n Brooklyn) to establish
in the Progressive National
Bap&st Convention a permanent
night each year to memorialize
their immortal member, Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Be
ginning at the Seventh Annual
Session, September 3-8 at the
St., N.W., Washington, D. C„
Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert
each year thereafter Friday
Night known as Civil Rights
and Religion Night, will be
named "Martin Luther King,
Jr. Memorial Night." On this
night some speaker dedicated
to Non-Violence will speak and
historical notes will be read
about Dr. King. The speaker
selected to speak this year will
be Dr. Ralph D. Abernathy,
Memory Club Organized at
West Durham Baptist Church
The Young Adults of West
Durham Baptist Church recent
ly organized a Young Adult
Club in memory of the late
Mrs. Hazel B. Plummer. The
club is composed mostly of
young married couples in the
church, called together by Mrs.
Elizabeth Tate. The group
named as its President, John
Amey.
The first objective of the
club was to organize a Sunday
School Class.
It was felt that it would be
fitting to name the club in
memory of Mrs. Hazel Plumm
er, because she was a young
adult who passed August 1,
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late Mr. Gray with whom he
lived at the time of his death
in 1967. Left to right are: G.
Frederick Stanton, University
secretary; Dr. Nabrit, Mrs.
Matthews, and James B. Clarke,
University treasurer.
Toronto.
A gold, circular decai plays
a major identification role in
the Duncan system. Each meter
head clearly displays the em
blem while each merchant also
displays it fn his windows to
indicate participation in the
program.
"The Golden Circle Meter is
the result of a program initiat
tion for the pressing problems
ed by Duncan to find a solu
merchants have in providing
convenient, free parking for
their customers," Seitel said.
"We believe that the Golden
Circle programs offers a highly
effective answer because It
provides free parking for what
has normally beer, a metered
street or off-street parking
lot," he said.
"We expect our program to
contribute substantially in the
efforts that are underway to
revitalize and further develop
traditional downtown shopping
areas."
successor to the late Dr. King.
In another significant and
dramatic move, the Convention
recommended that her pastors
will bring Memorial Gifts to be
presented to the memorial ef
forts at Morehouse College un
der the direction of Dr. Hugh
M. Gloster, President. The
Progressive National Baptist
Convention, Inc. is blessed to
have as its great legacy that
Dr. King held membership in
this dynamic young group.
The above actions were tak
en at the recent Executive
Board of Meeting convening in
St. Louis during the Annual
National Congress of Christian
Education. In addition to these,
plans were approved to send
President Taylor and two other
pastors to the coming Executive
Board Meeting which will con
vene in Monrovia, Liberia W.
Africa, July 30-August 3, 1968.
1967. She was Church Secre
tary at th? time of her pass
ing.
Mrs. Plummer was a graduate
of Hilside High School and re
ceived her BS-C. degree from
North Carolina College In ISOS.
She was Secretary and aide
to three directors of North
Carolina College News Bureau
during an eleven year period.