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VOLUME 46 No. 17
Over 5,000 Are Expected At
"Que" Confab
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BETA PHI OFFICERS DISCUSS
CONVENTION Officers of
Beta Phi Chapter of Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., are
shown above discussing plans
for the Sixth District Conven
tion of the Fraternity which
got underway Friday, April 25
Candidates
Forum To Be
Held April 30
Candidates in the spring
municipal election will be avail
able to the public for questions
at the Meet the Candidates
meeting on Wednesday, April
30. The 8 P.M. forum, sponsor
ed by the League of Women
Voters of Durham, will be held
at the Central Civic Center on
Foster Street and is open to
the public without charge. All
candidates have been invited to
participate.
For the first time a panel
of representatives from local
newspapers will question the
candidates. Panelists will be
Louis E. Austin, publisher of
The Carolina Times, Cornelia
Olive of the Durham Morning
Herald, Elizabeth Tornquist of
the North Carolina Anvil, and
Owen Bishop of The Durham
Sun.
Mrs. Joel Smith, president
of the Durham League and
member of the Executive Com
mittee of the Operation Break
through board of directors, will
moderate the program.
There are eighteen conten
ders for the offices of mayor
and city councilman in this
election. Three races will be
involved in the May 3 primary.
Two of the four candidates for
mayor will be eliminated and
one of the candidates in the
three way race for the Ward V
seat on the City Council will be
dropped. The field of seven
candidates for the three At
iarge Council seats will be nar
rowed to six. Although can
didates for numbered ward
seats must live within the geo
graphical boundaries of the
ward to run for that office, all
registered voters in the city
may vote for them.
The General Municipal Elec
tion will be held on Saturday,
May 17, and the polls will be
JUfn from 6:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Nearly 9,000 offshore oil
wells have been sunk in the
world's continental shelves,
says the National Geographic.
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1969
at the Durham Hotel and Mo
tel.
From left, G. C. Burthey,
Keeper of Peace; Lindsey A.
Merritt, Basileus and District
Marshal; W. A. Marsh, Jr., Vice
Basileus; Fred D. McNeill, Jr.,
editor; and Claude Harrison,
Mrs. Lyda Merrick Honored
By Durham Chapter of Links
Long Years of
Church, Civic
Service Lauded
The Durham Chapter of
National Links, Incorporated,
honored Mrs. Edward Richard
Merrick of this city Sunday,
April 20. To the very spacious
new Student Union Building of
the North Carolina College at
Durham, came friends of the
honoree from practically every
walk of life. It was the celebra
tion of the Links' annual spring
Week of Achievement. Amid
the most decorous setting of
spring flowers, green and white
motif arrangements, and
against the soft background
music, an atmosphere of
warmth and cordiality pre
vailed.
Mrs. Lyda Moore Merrick
was honored as being the per
son, who, by her own life had
fulfilled the three purposes of
the organization of Links—
intercultural, civic and educa
tional. Mrs. Merrick is an
accomplished musician with
piano and organ as specialities;
a member of the Volkemenia
Literary Society; and, an
expert with the paint brush,
easel and canvas. These inter
cultural talents and activities
she has shared broadly with
her church, St. Joseph's A.M.E.
and her community.
In her civic life, Mrs.
Merrick was a pioneer in the
Dorcas Club, so named of
Biblical feme, and which has
ministered to the poor and the
needy. As a pillar in the Color
ed Women's Federated Clubs,
she has been dedicated support
er of the Girls' Training School
of Klnaton, for more than
thirty years—and long before
the state of North Carolina
accepted the training of delin-
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Keeper of Records and Seal.
Not shown, C. H. Cherry, Chap
lain.
Some 500 delegates and
guests are expected in at
tendance at the three day con
ference.
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HONORED —The local chapter
of the National Links, Incorpo
rated, honored Mrs. Edward
Richard Merrick Sunday, April
20 in the new Student Union
Building at North Carolina
N. C. State Beauticians Convention
Opening Session At St. Joseph's Sun.
The annual meeting of the
North Carolina State Beauti
cians and Cosmetologists Asso
ciation will begin here Sunday,
April 27, at 3:30 p.m. at St.
Joseph's AME Church. The
Rev. Phillip R. Cousin, pastor,
is scheduled to deliver the
opening message.
The theme of the annual
session, which will be presided
over by Mrs. Margaret Minor,
state president, of the N. C.
Association is "Looking Up
ward."
Visiting the annual session
during the convention will be
See BEAUTICIANS 9A
PRICE: 20 Cents
Bull City Preps
For '69 Frat
Convention
Some 500 delegates, their
wives and children are expect
ed to arrive in Durham this
weekend for the Annual Sixth
District Convention of the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, In
corporated which will convene
at The Durham Hotel and
Motel April 25-27.
Local graduate and under
graduate chapters, Beta Phi
and Tau Psi respectively, are
hosting the three-day confer
ence which will draw atten
dance from throughout the
two carolinas.
Lindsey A. Merritt, Basileus
of the Beta Phi Chapter, is
serving as District Marshall for
the convention and is being
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College at Durham. Friends of
the honoree from practically
every walk of life were on hand
to honor her. It was the cele
bration of the Links' annual
spring Week of Achievement.
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MRS. MINOR
Stackhouse
Holds Highest
Race Position
The promotion oif Robert
Stackhouse to the position of
co-manager of the Kroger Store
of the Foreat Hill Shopping
Center brought many favorable
comments from all sections of
the Negro pupulace here this
week as circulation of the pro
motion became known.
jr Stackhouse has been em
ployed by the Kro, ,s Stores
Company for around 5 years in
Danville, Va., where he pre
sently resides. He is a member
of the Guieldfield Baptist
Church and chairman of its
Trustee Board. He is married
to the former Miss Beatrice
Wallace of Danville. The couple
is the parents of two children;
a daughter Trina Renee and
a son Robert, Jr.
In addition to Stackhouse,
Kroger Stores of Durham are
presently employing a total of
18 other Negroes, many of
whom are holding responsible
positions.
Total Human Eye
Implant Reported
HOUSTON, Tex. - Doc
tors at Methodist Hospital per
formed Tuesday the world's
first total human eye trans
plant, the Houston Post said.
It will be about three weeks
before doctors can determine if
the surgery was successful.
The recipient of the right eye
was John Madden, 54, owner of
a Conroe, Tex., photography
studio.
Shown in the above .picture
from 1. to r. are Mrs. Minnie P.
Spaulding, pres. of Durham
Links; Mrs. Lyda Merrick, hon
oree and Mrs. E. L. Randolph,
mistress of ceremonies.
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MANAGERS of the Kroger
Forest Hills Store are shown
here, just after the appoint
ment of Robert Stackhouse as
Co-Manager along with Glenn
Two Former Durham Ministers
To Conduct Revivals
Mt. Vernon and
Mount Olive in
Search of Souls
Revivals at two Durham
churches will get underway :
here next week when it was
learned that two former Dur
ham ministers, Rev. W. L.
Mason of Rocky Mount and
Rev. R. L. Speaks of Brooklyn,
N.Y. would be engaged as
guest ministers at Mt. Vernon
Baptist and Mt. Olive A.M.E.
Zion churches, respectively for
the entire week.
Rev. Mason was born and
reared in Durham. At an early
age he joined Mt. Vernon
where he grew up and was
ordained as minister over 50
years ago. He is presently the
pastor of St. James Baptist
Church in Rocky Mount. He
will preach his opening sermon
of the revival Sunday, April 27
at 6:30 p.m. His subject will
be "Christian Convictions, The
World's Needs." On Monday
evening Rev. Mason will use
as a subject, "What Hell Has
That The Church Needs."
Rev. Speaks will open the
Mt. Olive series of meetings
Monday, April 28, at 8:00 p.m.
He is well-known in Durham
where he pastored for several
years the St. Mark AME Zion
Church. He presently pas
tors the First AME Zion
Church of Brooklyn.
KINSHASA, Congo
A C 46 transport plant of th«
Congolese air force crashed
into the Congo River near*
Kinshasa's Ndjili airport April
16, killing all 44 persona
aboard. J
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MRS. SfMS
E. Woods. The store is located .
in the Forest Hills Shopping
Center and is one of the three I
stores in Durham owned by |
REV. MASON
Morehouse President Resigns
During Lock-in of Trustees
Duke U. Chaplain
White Rock Church
Speaker Sun. A.M.
The Reverend David E. May,
Chaplain of Duke University,
will be the preacher at the
White Rock Baptist Church
morning worship service at
11 o'clock Sunday, April 17.
The congregation is worship
pint at the B. N. Duke Audi
torium, North Carolina College.
Rev. May is a native of
Winchendon, Mass. He received
his A. B. Degree from Brown
University, Profidence, Rhode
Island; the B. D. Degree, South
eastern Baptist Associate Chap
lain at Dorothea Six Hosiptal,
Raleigh; pastor Blackston Bap
tist Church, Blackstone, Virgin
ia; 1966-69.
He is married to the former
Nancy Tuttle of Greensboro
They have two children, Susan
Elizabeth and Maria Teresa.
Plans Complete
For ONSMS
Durham Meet
The Executive Committee
of the Old North State Medical
Society announced today that
all plans for the 82nd meeting
of this organization had been
completed. The meeting will
convene at the Durham Hotel-
Motel June 10-11 12th. Clini
cians from Meharry Medical
College, Nashville, Tenn., •
Howard University, Washing
ton, D. C., Duke University,
Bowman Gray School of Medi
cine, and Um Medical School of
the University of North Caro-
Una, all in North Carolina
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the Kroger Co. The store also
has seven other Negroes em
ployed in various departments.
(Photo by Purefoy)
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REV. SPEAKS
Below is a text of the letter
of resignation submitted by
Morehouse College President,
Dr. Hugh M. Gloster, who
refused to participate in nego
tiations under duress with
a group of Atlanta University
Center students during their
lock-in of Morehouse Board of
Trustees on April 18 and 19:
I am in favor of increased
black membership on the
Board of Trustees of More
house College and of closer
relationships among the six
institutions in the Atlanta
University Center, but I cannot
participate in a meeting in
which members of the Board
of Trustees are confined in
this conference room by force
and are subjected to insult and
intimidation. Moreover, I can
not sign any document or vote
on any motion presented in
such a meeting on this day
when my office has been bro
ken into and occupied.
Since I cannot be a party
to concessions made under
duress to a group of ten indivi
duals including one student
from Clark, one student from
Morris Brown, three students
from Morehouse, and four stu
dents and a teacher from Spel
man and supported by a More
house teacher and about forty
Atlanta University Center stu
dents who have locked this
conference room and taken
over this building, I am here
with submitting my resignation
as President of Morehouae Col
lege, effective on a date to be
agreed upon by the Board and
myself.
Please let me thank the
ftard, the Faculty, the Stu
dent Body, the Alumni, and
other friends of this institution
for the counsel and coopera
tion extended to me from the
time of my appointment to
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