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Att'y C. O. Pearson Attacks Separatism At NCC Conference
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VOLUME 46 No. 9
Thurgood Marsha
Randolph Birthday Tribute
FREEDOMS FOUNDATION |
AWARDEE— Sp/4 Receil W.
Seymour, United States Army,
received a George Washington
Medal and SIOO Saturday after
noon for his winning letter "A
Free Ballot—A Free Country,"
«t the 20th annual awards cere
Teacher Asks $
Pupils For Judgments
GREENSBORO —An assist
ant professor at A&T State
University sued two of its stud
ents in a libel case here Mon
day in U. S. District Court,
charging that they had dam
aged his reputation by de
manding that the school fire
him.
Frederick Griffin named
Calvin Matthews and Willie
Drake as defendants, identify
ing them as president and vice
president, respectively, of the
A&T State University Student
Government Association.
Griffin asked for a $10,000"
judgment against each defen
dant for damages and a judg
ment of $250,000 against each
for punitive damages.
Griffin said that earlier this
month the association circu
lated a newsletter, the essence
of which was:
"Due to the continuous and
reiterated complaints that cer
tain instructors are incompe
tent and undesirable, we, the
Student Government Associa
tion, demand that the follow
ing instructors be dismissed im
mediately at the end of the
semester:"
Griffin's name was second
on a list of six instructors
following that statement.
Griffin has been an assistant
professor mathematics at A&T
for five and a half years. He
said he "has the reputation of
being a very competent mathe
matician and teacher of mathe
matics."
$93,800 Set For
Law Ren! Homes
WASHINGTON -The
Dcoartment of Housing and
Ui har Development Wednes
day announced approval of
preliminary loans for planning
of low rent home projects in
two North Carolina cities.
A $53,800 preliminary loan
was approved for planning 269
low rent homes in Gastonia
and a $40,000 preliminary loan
for planning 100 low rent
homes in Lenoir.
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1%9
mony of Freedoms Foundation
at Valley Forge, Pa. Left to
right are Gen. Harold K. John
son, USA (Retd.) who received
the Foundation's top award this
year. Dr. Kenneth D. Wells,
President of Freedoms Founda
tion, Specialist Seymour and
Dr. Donald Moore to be Inducted
Into Med Group at Annual Meet
Doctor Donald T. Moore,"
of 1301 FayetteviUe Street,
>Durham, will be installed as a
' Fellow of The American Col
lege of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists at its Annual
Meeting, April 28 - May 1, in
Bal Harbour, Florida.
The College, which was
founded to promote the
health and medical care of
women, accepts physicians
who specialize completely in
obstetrics and gynecology,
who have demonstrated clini
cal ability by successful com
pletion of an examination,
and who have been judged by
their colleagues as competent
and ethical physicians.
Further, a Fellow must
have graduated from an ap-
Catholics Face Challenge of
Two Levels of Race Question
NOTRE DAME, Ind.-The
Catholic Church is facing a
challenge on two levels of the
race question—its potential
impact on the general welfare
of black people and its ability
"to totally integrate"blacks
into its life.
This is the conclusion of a
study of "The Catholic
Church and the Negro" by
two Notre Dame sociologists,
Dr. Richard A. Lamanna, an
associate profesaor sociology,
and Jay J. Coakley, a doctoral
candidate in the field.
The fundamental problem
common to both challenges,
Joseph R. Fugget of West
Chester, Pa., a trustee of free
doms Foundation. Specialist
Seymour, a native of High
Point, is stationed at the John
F. Kennedy Special Warfare
Center at Fort Bragg, N. C.
MOORE
proved medical school and
limited his practice to obste
trics and gynecology for at
least five years prior to ap
plying for membership in the
College. -■
according to the researchers,
is the role of the Church in
the inner city and its relation
ship to the large number of
non-Catholics residing ther.
Present Church practice in
the ghetto, they note, varies
from an aggressive prosely
tizing which makes baptism
the price of admission to a
parochial school to "social
actionists" involved in essen
tially secular activities—pro
test marches, credit unions,
recreational programs, and so
on. The sociologists criticize
both, calling the emphasis on
(See CATHOLIC page 2A)
PRICE: 20 Cents
Testimonial to
Be Held May 6
In New York
NEW YORK - An A. Philip
Randolph 80th Birthday Com
mittee, headed by the Honor
able Thurgood Marshall, Asso
ciate Justice, U. S. Supreme
Court and George Meany, Pre
sident, AFL-CIO, has been
formed to pay tribute to the
famed labor leader and civil
rights crusander, it was an
nounced by Bayard Rustin,
Executive Director, A Philip
Randolph Institute.
Highlighting the tribute is
a testimonial dinner which will
take place on May 6 at the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New
York City. Other events are
planned as well. Goal of the
birthday tribute is a fund of
$250,000 to carry on Ran
dolph's life work through the
Institute which bears his name.
Sponsors of the birthday
tribute, for which Justice Mar
shal! and Meany are Chairmen,
inclurt* national labor leaders
industrialists, educators, clergy
of all faiths, and political lea
ders including Governor Nel
son Mayor John
Lindsay, former President
Lyndon B. Johnson and form
er Vice-President Hubert H.
Humphrey.
The Honorary Chairmen of
the Birthday Committee are
(See MARSHALL page 2A)
Officials Of 9 Ed. Institutions
Form Joint Organization
CHARLOTTE—Officials of
nine Charlotte area colleges and
universities have agreed to pool
their brains and building in an
effort to stimulate a free flow
of students and knowledge be
tween the institutions.
A formal association in
birth since the fall of 1967
was born publicly this week
and named the Charlotte Area
Education Consortium (CA
EC).
It groups more than 10,000
students and about 700 pro
fessors in a plan designed to
make all the professors availa
ble to any student without
complicated transfer proce
dures.
Dr. W. Hugh McEniry, vice
chancellor for academic affairs
at the University of North Car
olina at Charlotte (UNC-C),
was named to head the associa
tion's central committee.
The students will receive
credit for their off-campus
courses toward degrees grant
ed by their own institutions.
This in effect broadens the pro
grams of each participating col
lege by as many courses as are
offered in any of the nine
schools.
Charter members of the con
sortium are: Barber Scotia Col
lege, Belmont Abbey, Central
Piedmont Community College,
Davidson, Gaston College,
Johnson C. Smith University,
Queens College, Sacred Heart,
and UNC-Charlotte.
Other projects on the CAEC
agenda include: -A book pool
See OFFICIAL page 2A
a
NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE
STUDENTS participated Fri
day, February 21 in a Memorial
Day Program for Malcolm X.
Va. Teachers Rece
In '7O May Exceed
RICHMOND, Va. - The
number of new teachers in
Virginia who receive starting
salaries of less than $6,000
next year may possibly be
outnumbered by those who
receive $7,000 or more.
The Virginia Education
Association(VEA) noted that
among 79 salary proposals
submitted by school boards,
superintendents and local edu
cation associations through
out the state only one suggest
ed a beginnign teacher's salary
of less than $6,000.
The 79 include 20 newly
reported proposals- mostly
* from rural areas-all of which
equal or exceed $6,000 for
first-year teachers.
New state leatier in salary
proposals is Alexandria where
the local education associa
tion and the school board
have-through professional ne
gotiations-agreed on a 1969-
70 starting salary of $7,050,
See TEACHERS page 2A
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CITY OFFICIAL GREETS
STATE PREXY Coloney L.
McDaniel (right) assistant city
manager; welcomes Mrs. Mar
garet Minor of Durham, presi
dent, N. C. State Beautician
and Cosmetologist Association;
Last Rites For Mrs. E. B. Weaver Held Sunday
Mrs. Effie Brown Weaver
was funeralized here at Lincoln
Memorial Baptist Church, Sun
day, February 23 at 2:00 p.m.
The pastor, Rev. Norman
Brodle, officiated.
Mrs. Weaver, a native of
Hemingways, S. C.. was born
March 10, 1900. She died in
Lincoln Hospital, February SO.
She attended public schools
in South Carolina. In 1918 abe
Shown is part of the crowd.
The rally followed a march
route from North Carolina Col
lege Student Union Building to
Robert Lewis Awarded Plaque
Of the Durham Chapter of MB;
Robert T. Lewis, manager
of Fayetteville Street Branch
of the Mechanics and Farmers
Bank of Durham, is the
bank's first employee to re
ceive a plaque from the Dur
ham Chapter of the American
Institute of Banking. Lewis
was awarded the plaque on
February 22. The organiza
tion has a membership of
over 200,000 and has chap
ters throughout the country.
Lewis won one of the four
award by having placed first
in one of the four courses,
taught to bank employees
last semester. The Institute
of Banking offers self-deve
lopment courses for all bank
employees at all levels.
Lewis received his formal
to Fayetteville recently. Mrs.
Minor was in the city to lay
groundwork for the 1970 con
vention which will be hosted
by local chapters 61 and 32 and
the city. With them (1-r) arc
Mrs. Ruth Washington and
married Andrew Weaver and
moved to Durham in 1924. For
more than thirty-five yean
ahe was employed at Aweriean
Tobacco Co.
Mrs. Weaver was a charter
member of Lincoln Memorial
Baptist where she served faith
fully as a member of the sen
ior choir.
Survivors include: her hu>
the Durham Athletic Park lo
cated in the Northern section
(Photo by Purefoy)
ry
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LEWIS
training in the Atlanta Uni
versity system, Atlanta, Ga.
He is an active member of
St. Joseph's A.M.E. Church,
(See LEWIS page 2A)
Mrs. Inez Godwin, presidents
of the two local organizations.
Mrs. Georgia Owens was named
local chairman of the conven
tion committee and Mrs. Bell
Moore, vice chairman.
band, Andrew Weaver, of Dur
ham; two daughters, Mrs. Ella
Mae Andrew* and Mrs. Mattie
Craft on, both of Durham; one
sister, Mrs. Mary Spearman,
of Newark, New Jersey; four
grandchildren; eleven great
grandchildren and many other
relatives.
Interment was in Beechwood
Cemetery.
Hits Disruptive
Tactics Used
On Campuses
"We need lawyers- not black
lawyer*, not white lawyers—
need lawyer*," Mid Durham «t
torney C. 0. Peaiaon.
The exchange came at a
North Carolina College Confer
ence on the Black Lawyer and
the Black Law School, sponsored
last weekend by the Law Stu
dent* Civil Right* Research
Council.
Pearson, who presented open
ing remarks at the conference,
told the attending undergrad
uates that he had turned down
an invitation to be keynoter for
the conference because he ob
jected to the separatism he felt
was implied by the conference
title. He warned the group that
intolerance is as wrong as silence,
and blasted the "Uncle Tom"
charges aimed at the members of
his generation by the younger
generation.
"The objective of the Negro
after slavery was survival. The
people who led that survival are
now Uncle Toms. When the
Black Codes were passed after
Reconstruction, somebody led
the Negro people through that
trying time, but today they are
Uncle Toms."
"If your mother and father
are of my generation, they are
Uncle Toms."
The Durham attorney, a vet
(See PEARSON page 2A)
Times Adv. Mgr.
Judge For Adv.
Layout Contest
I
J. Elwood Carter, Advertis
ing Manager of the Carolina
Times was one of the judges
for Advertising Layout Con
test of District VII of Distribu
tive Education Clubs of Ameri
ca held February 19 at Rox
boro High School, Roxboro
Fifteen schools participated in
this contest.
Co-ordinators in charge of
Advertising Contest were Mrs.
Shirley T. Herbin D.E. Co-ordi
nator. Hillside High School and
Mrs. Dorothy D. Turner, D. E.
Co-ordinator, Durham High
School.
Other contests held at Rox
boro High were Public Speak
ing, Job Interview. DECA
Sweetheart, Sales Demonstra
tion, D. E. Student of the Year
—Girl, and D. E Student ol
the Year—Boy There were ap
proximately 20 schools repre
sented in these contests
AKA's Observe
Founder's Day
With Luncheon
On Sundly, February 9, at
1:30 p.m. Alpha Zeta Omega
Chapter and Alpha Chi Chapter
of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
joined in celebrating Founder's
Day with a luncheon at the
North Carolina College Cafe
teria.
"Grace" was offered by
Soror Doris Thomas. Former
Basileus of both chapters were
presented by Soror Gwendolyn
Newkirk, who presided at the
luncheon. Soror Katehrine
Thomas, Basileus of Alpha
Zeta Omega Alumnae Chapter
and Soror Barbara Graham.
Basileus of Alpha Chi Chapter
gave appropriate remarks ee
the occasion and observance
of Founder's Day. Music wae
furnished by Alpha Chi Chap
ter.
A very impressive re-dedica
tion ceremony was conducted
by Soror Rose Butler
who holds the national office
of Supreme Parliamentarian.
Soror Laßue Cunningham as
sisted Soror Browne tn the
Founder's Day Ceremony.
The large number of sorer*
present expressed pride
enthusiasm over the achieve
ments of the sorority riaee tto
founding and pledged greater
involvement in service fee all
mankind.