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Dental Group Finds Hawkins Guilty Of Malpractice
Board Orders
Licenses of 3
Suspended
CHARLOTTE - Dr. Regi
nald A. Hawkins, a Negro who
ran for governor unsuccessfully
as a champion of the poor, has
been convicted by the state
Board of Dental Examiners of
malpractice by willfully neg
lecting the teeth of under
priviledged children and charg-
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ing for fixing them.
Hawkins and two other
Charlotte Negro dentists were
notified by a deputy sheriff
Wednesday that the board has
ordered their licenses to prac
tice suspended unless they
meet certain conditions.
Hawkins and Dr. George T.
Nash, the board said, can re
tain their licenses by enrolling
in a recognized dental school
for 100 clinical hours of work,
or 3'A years, to take courses in
clinical operative restorative
dentistry.
They may also appeal the
board's decision to Superior
Court. Hawkins, charging that
the Board of Dental Examiners
is operated by "racial bigots,"
said he and Dr. Nash will ap
peal to the courts.
By appealing they can con
tinue to practice, Dr. Hawkins
said.
See HAWKINS 8A
AFL- CIO Pres. Geo. Meany Says
Housing Bill Is Best to History
Strikes Blow at One j
Of Worst Factors
In Urban Crisis
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
AFL-CIO President George
Meany today issued the fol
lowing statement:
The Congress has adopted
and sent to the President the
best single housing bill in his
tory. It strikes a major blow
at one of the worst factors in
the urban crisis - deplorable
housing. Coupled with the
open housing bill passed earlier
this year, it is certain to make
a major contribution to bet
tering life in our cities.
One of the most significant
sections of the measure openly
welcomes the entry of private
industry and private financing
into large scale housing deve
lopments. We hope the private
sector will immediately avail
itself of this opportunity for .
delay would mean additional
suffering for those unbandwel
lers who desperately need new
housing. , '
Passage of this measure is
one more domestic legislative
victory for the Johnson-Hum
phrey Administration. It right
ly takes its place along side
the othei great liberal legisla
tive landmarks of this Adminis
tration - Medicare, education
measures, health and civil
rights legislation, minimum
wage improvements and anti
poverty laws.
It is a record that will be
before the American people in
November and it is a record
which we are certain they ap
prove and will support.
Che Camti|a Cioics
VOLUME 45 No. 31
NEGRO FIRES
IS ATTACKED
Postal Exemption
In Personnel Cut
Approved By House
WASHINGTON—The House
passed Monday a Senate-ap-
proved bill to exempt the Post
Office Department from a gov
ernment manpower cutback
imposed by Congress, while
the Senate was busy adding
still more exemptions.
Having voted last week to
exempt air traffic controllers
as well as postal employes from
the rollback, the Senate voted
Monday to exempt FBI agents
and assistant U. S, attorneys.
Sen. John J. Williams, R-
Del.. opposing these additions,
said it looked as if Congress
were going to exempt govern
ment agencies one by one.
The House voice vote send
ing the postal exemption into
conference came amid charges
by some Republicans that Con
gress was being blackmailed by
threats of a reduction in local
postal services if the manpower
rollback went through.
Postmaster General W. Mar
vin Watson, estimating that his
department would-lose 83,238
of its 726,400 employes in a
rollback, had said this would
force curtailment of services
beginning with the closing of
post office window service last
Saturday.
He postponed the curtail
ment for one week, after the
Senate approved the exemp-
See POSTAL 8A
Raleigh to Host 15th Annual
Leadership Conference Aug. 9
RALEIGH - "A Time For
Educational Statesmanship,"
the theme selected by the new
NEA President, Mrs. Elizabeth
D. Koontz, will be carried out
at the l&th Annual Leadership
Conference of the North Caro
lina Teachers Association and
the National Education Associ
ation which convenes friday
and Saturday, August 9-10 on
the campus of Shaw Univer
sity.
All persons interested in ed
ucation, professional and non
professional are Invited to at
tend the Conference to hear
first hand reports on the pro
blems facing educators and ed
ucation today and how to deal
• with these problems effective
ly.
Group sessions, planning
committees and panel discus
CAROLINA TIMES SUSPENDS
AUG. 31 ISSUE FOR VACATION
For the first time in nearly a half century
The Carolina Times will suspend publication for
one issue Saturday, August 31, to allow its itaff
to take a vacation.
Many of our employees of several years ten
ure have worked without a yearly vacation. Our
publisher has been unable to take any time off
for practically forty-five years. This is inhumane
We thank you our advertisers and subscribers
for your indulgence.
Semnrt L. Briggs, Managing Editor
DURHAM, N. C. - SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1968
BACK WHEN HOME
BY 2 WHITE MEN
Hazel Scott to
Of Tau Gamma
The keynote speaker for the
twenty-third Annual Boule of
Tau Gamma Delta Sorority is
Mrs. Hazel B. Scott of Winston-
Salem. The public is invited to
attend this meeting.
The week long convention
will be held at the Jack Tar
Hotel August 12-18 with
Lambda Chapter of Durham
as hostess. Mrs. Scott who will
speak on Wednesday, August
14, at 8 p.m. at the Jack Tar,
is president of the Winston-
Salem Urban League Guild,
Vice Chairman of the Forsyth
County Democratic Party, Girl
Scout Leader of Troop 99,
member of the Board of For
syth County Mental Health As
sociation, and a member of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
She is the first recipient of the
Founders' Graduate Service
Award for High Achievement
In Human Relations and Com
munity Service prwqited at
the 4 let Boule of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority. She is jk mem
ber of St. Stephen's Episcopal
Church, and is married to T.
Alfred Scott, a realtor. She is a
niece of the late Mr. E. R.
Merrick.
Many festivities have been
planned for the visiting dele
gates. Included are an early-
sions will be held to give par
ticipating members an oppor
tunity to state their views and
opinions on the problems of
education an£-io have an op
portunity to make suggestions
as to ways and methods of
dealing with these problems so
as to arrive at the best possible
solutions to be of benefit to all
Registration begins at 9:00
a.m. on the morning of the
9th, the Conference is sched
uled to start at 11:00 a.m.
For members of the North
Carolina Teachers Association,
the cost of meals and lodging
will be paid by the Association.
For non-members, lodging will
be $2.50, breakfast SI.OO, with
lunch and dinner $1.50 each,
payable at registration. All
meals will be served in the Stu-
See RALEIGH 8A
Keynote Boule
Delta Sorority
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MRS. SCOTT
bird party, a luncheon and
fashion show, a tour of the
city, a formal dance, and a
banquet. The banquet will be
held on Saturday, August 17,
7 p.m. at the Downtowner
Motor Inn. Mrs. Lizzie M.
Crews will be the banquet
speaker.
The Boule will 'close with
the sorors attending worship
service at St. Mark AME
Church on Sunday morning.
The Rev. L. A. Miller is minis
ter of the church.
GETS PUBLISHERS AWAKO—
Roy Kohler (center), Manager-
Special Projects, Public Rela
tions Department, Gulf Oil Cor
poration, holds the award he
received from the National
Newspaper Publishers at their
recent convention in New York
City. Mr. Kohler was given the
The Poor Will Help Run Concentrated Job
Program From Mow on, iays
WASHINGTON - The poor
are going to help ron the Con
centrated Employment Pro
gram from now on, Secretary
of Labor Willard Wirtz an
nounced.
The Secretary has ordered
local sponsors—usually a city
or a community action agency
—to recruit at least half their
staf 'i members from among res
ide Bln poverty neighbor
he ids served.
And six months after the
contract has been operative all
positions as they become va
cant and all new positions must
be filled by neighborhood res
idents, the Secretary ordered.
It affects 40 cities and rural
areas recently granted CEP
contracts Involving nearly S9O
PRICE: 20 Cents
FBI And SBI Are
Investigating Case
In Town of Hickory
HICKORY—Two white men
who fired on the home of a
Negro man who recently
moved into an all-white neigh
borhood here were wounded
when the man fired back.
Catawba County authorities
said Jim Cannon, 24, of south
west Hickory, and Walter Park
hurst, 32, of Burke county,
were wounded in the exchange
of gunfire with Bernard Morri
son. Hendrix at Hendrix' home
in southwest Hickory.
Catawba County authorities,
along with the SBI and the
FBI are investigating the shoot
ing. No charges have yet been
filed.
The incident occurred at
the home of Hendrix, who
recently purchased and moved
int6 a house on a formerly all
white street on the edge of a
Negro neighborhood.
Catawba County Sheriff T.
Dale Johnson said charges will
be filed after the investigation
is completed.
Hie Sheriff said that four
',\ote firom a pellet gun had
been fired through the win-'
dows of the Hendrix home.
He said Mrs. Hendrix told
him the shots were fired by
men standing in her front yard.
See FIRES page 8A
award for his several years'
work as a judge in the NNPA
newspaper competition.
With Mr. Kohler are (from
left to right): Garth Reeves
(Editor, Miami Times), NNPA
Vice-President; John H. Mur
phy, in (Publsher, Afro-Ameri-
million in Federal funds. The
order does not apply to the
32 CEP contracts funded be
fore July 1, 1967.
The special provision in
serted in all new contracts pro
vides that "no less than 50 per
cent of the contractor's (the
local sponsor's staff employed
in the performance of this con
tract shall be residents of the
target area served by the Con
centra ted Employ ~ent Pro
gram funded under this con
tact, and the contractor agrees
that any subcontract, hereun
der shall require the subcon
tractor to hire no less than 50
percent of its staff foi the per
formance of work under °uch
subcontract from among resi
dents of the target area.
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AME ZION BlSHOPS—Prelates
of the AME Zion Church who
have been holding sessions
here this week in connection
with the Denominational Ad
ministration Program for the
next four years. They met along
with the Connectional Council
which opened at St. Mark AME
Zion Church Wednesday and
Mewly Formed Organization
Takes "Last Resort" Measure
A newly formed black or
ganization in Durham lasl
week forwarded a 15 pag
memorandum to the Chamber
of Commerce and the Mer
chants Association in an effort
to solicit help from these
groups in obtaining positive ac
tion toward the goal of making
Durham a better place for each
and all of Its citizens to live.
In its memorandum, the
group, known as the Black
Solidarity Committee for Com
munity Improvement, (BSCCI)
listed the "essential" needs of
See NEWLY 8A
can chain), NNPA Preiident;
Mrs. Eleanor Lofton (Seng
stacke Publications), Chairman
of NNPA's Merit Awards Com
mittee; and Frank Stanley
{Editor, Louisville Defender),
NNPA General Convention
Chairman.
"Six months after the date
of execution of this contract,
any staff positions that be
come vacant, or any new posi
tions created, must be filled by
residents of the target area. ."
Secretary Wlrtz, in a June
18 letter to Rev. Ralph David
Abernathy at Resurrection
City, said that the Department
of Labor was committed to
making sure "that the poor
participated in decision-making
at all levels" in its effort to
overcome poverty. He also said
that "special new attention will
be directed to practices that
perpetuate discrimination in
hiring and promotions."
The CEP contracts to be af
fected are those for rural areas
in Arkansas, Kentucky, Minne-
See PEOPLE page 8A
continues through Friday.
-Front row: W. A. Stewart,
Washington, D. C.; A. D. Spock
wood, Washington, D. C.; H.
B. Shaw, Wilmington; W. J.
Walls, (retired) Chicago, 111.;
and R. L. Jones, Salisbury.
Second row: W. M. Smith, Mo
bile, Ala.; F. H. Anderson, Lit
Funeral Held for Mrs. Christine
Robinson Fowler on July 29
Funeral services for Mrs.
Christine Robinson Fowler
were held at St. Joseph's
A.M.E. Church, Monday, July
29 at 1:30 p.m. Rev. Lorenzo
A. Lynch, pastor of White
Rock Baptist Church, officiat
ed.
Mrs. Fowler, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Sivie Robinson,
was bom in Duplin County,
October 8, 1918, and departed
this life July 26, 1968, at
11:30 p.m. at Watts Hospital.
Mrs t Fowler attended Dur
ham City schools and was grad
uated from Winston-Salem
Teachers College. She received
her M.A. Degree from New
York University. For seven
years she taught in Fuquay
Springs. At the time of death
die was employed by the Dur
ham City School system.
She was an active member
of White Rock Baptist Church,
where she served as teacher
in the Sunday School and
Daily Vacation Bible School.
She was also active in other
professional and civic organi
zations.
She is survived by her hus
band, Hardy Fowler; a daugh
ter, Clara Denise; Mr. and Mrs.
See FOWLER page 8A
World War II Vets
To Convene In D. C.
August 22 Thru 24
WASHINGTON - Approxi
mately 100 veterans of World
War II and their families will
convene In Washington, August
to pay tribute to
Colleagues and establish an
educational scholarship for
their children at the 25th anni
versary reunion of the 251E
Army Specialized Training Pro
gram of Howard University.
The former G. I.s were
members of a special army unit
of some 250 engineering and
medical students who were dis
patched from the Hilltop cam
pus in 1944 to join the 92nd
Infantry Buffalo Division for
training in Louisiana and Ari
zona and fighting throughout
Italy.
The nationally organized
alumni group has held two m«y
or reunions here and a local
chapter meets regularly in
Washington where at least a
third of the AST? unit mem
bers returned to complete col
lege and live after the war.
See VITIRANS 8A
tleton, Kentucky; J. W. Carl
ton, Norfolk, Va. and C. E.
Tucker, Littleton, Kentucky.
Back row. C. H. Foggie, Pitta
burgh, Pa.; A. G. Dunston, Jr.,
Phila., Pa. and W. A. Hilliard,
Detroit, Mich. Not shown is S.
Dorme Lartey, Ghana, Africa.
(Photo by Purefoy)
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Black Power
Saluted By
Lawyer's Ass'n
LOS ANGELES - The Na
tional Lawyers Guild is Ameri
ca's most progressive bar asso
ciation. It is composed entirely
of black and white civil rights,
and civil liberties attorneys.
At its 30th convention held
in Los Angeles a few days ago,
the Guild took two significant
steps to make itself more rele
vant to the Black struggle.
The first step was the elec
tion of Milton R. Henry as
Vice President. Henry is from
the Detroit area, one of the
ten top criminal lawyers in the
nation., and First Vice Presi
dent of the Republic of New
Africa. The Republic of New
Africa seeks to end the endless
agony of trying to get white
America born again •• free of
racism -- by creating a separate
nation for Blacks within the
confines, of what is now, the
southern United States.
At the same time as Henry's
election, three other Black
men were re-elected or elected,
Guild Vice Presidents. Judge
George Crockett of Detroit
who is considered the mo6t
eminent jurist in the country
by many; Len Holt of Berkeley,
California; and C. B. King, a
constitutional lawyer par ex
cellence from Albany, Georgia.
The second significant step
towards relevance to Black
people by the National Law
yen Guild was the undertaking
See POWIR page 8A j