Kinston Housewives Launch Big Register, Vote Campaign
Drive To Block Haynsworth
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VOLUME 18 No. 36 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PRICE: 20 Cents
NBL Names INew Officers At
69th Annual Session In D. C.
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RETIRING TEACHERS for 1969
of the Franklin County School
System who were honored re
cently in a program sponsored
by the Perry's Civic Affairs
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FRIENDS HONOR DAWSONS—
—Dr. and Mrs. Horace G. Daw
son, Director of the U. S. In
formation Agency of Monrovia,
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Mrs. Whtehead Recruits voters from pool room
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organization. From left to right
are: Mrs. Chlora Holt, Edward
Best High School; B. J. Hayes
Gold Sand High School; M
Sadie Suitt, Gold Sand Elemi
Liberia, West Africa are shown
surrounded by friends at a
party given in their honor at
the Durham Hotel Tuesday, Au
tary School; Jerry Alston, presi
dent of the Perry's Civic Af
' .up and Mrs. Mabel Dav
rvisor.
(Rivera Photo)
gust 26. Those in the picture
from left to right are: Mrs. J.
A. Jeffries, Mrs. C. R. Holmes,
Dr. and Mrs. R. E. Townes,
Black Women of Lenoir County Increase Vote from 1,500 to 15,000
5 New Directors
Added to Board
In Election
WASHINGTON, D. C. The
69th Annual Convention of the
National Business League
closed recently with the elec
tion of a new senior vice presi
dent, a new secretary and five
(5) new directors.
Theodore Hagans of Wash
ington, D. C., the newly elected
senior Vice President, is Presi
dent of the D. C. Chamber of
Commerce and a past president
of Nationwide Hotel Associa
tion. He is Vice President of
the Dunbar Hotel, Inc., )>id
serves on many boards in com
munity affairs in the Nation's
Capital.
Edward Feggans of Wash
ington, D. C., was elected Sec
retary. Mr. Feggans is a former
president of the Washington
Chapter NBL and is an Asso
ciate Director bf the Howtrd
(See LEAGUE page 2A)
Mrs. Ellis D. Jones, Jr., Dr. J.
W. Young, Mrs. H. G. Dawson,
Ellis D. Jones, Jr., Mis. J. W.
Young and Dr. H. G. Dawson.
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Mrs. Whitehead and Mrs. Williams discuss drive with
John Edwards.
Opposition to
Jurist Backed
By the NAACP
NEW YORK Opposition to
the nomination of Judge Clem
ent F. Haynsworth for associ
ate justice of the IT. S. Supreme
Court continued to swell this
week as the NAACP pressed
its drive to prevail upon the
Senate to reject President. Nix
on's nominee to the n tt'on's
highest court.
In addition to the charges of
racial bias raised by the
NAACP and other civil rights
groups and the allegations of
anti-unionism leveled against
the South Carolina jurist by
thte AFL-CTO. the damaging
issue of conflict of interest has
been raised to challenge the
nominee's qualifications for a
seat on the Supreme Court.
A column by Frank Mankie
wicz and Tom Braden, publish
ed in THE WASHINGTON
POST, August 26, charges:
"Jud?e Haynsworth was in clear
violation of the canons of ethics
for seven years on the bench,
during which time he profited
over $400,000 worth from a
company in which he was not
just a casual investor, but an
insider. He decided an impor
tant case in favor of a com
pany doing SIOO,OOO a year's
worth of business with his com
pany, an act in which he says
—incredibly—that he " saw no
impropriety and sees none
now."
Editorially a number of news
papers have looked askance at
the nominee's record and ques
tioned his qualifications for the
position.
To the ATLANTA INQUIRER
the naming of Judge Hayns
(See BLOCK page 2A)
23 A&T Grads
Receive Grants
For '69 Study
GREENSBORO—Rutgers Uni
versity announced last Wed
nesday that 23 of the gradu
ates of 1969 at A4cT State Uni
versity have been awarded
scholarships, fellowships and
grants for graduate study tot
aling $60,000.
The students, who will en
roll in September, represent
the largest single number of
A&T graduates to enter an in
stitution in a single year
"We are extremely pleased
with these grants ." said Dr.
Frederick A. Williams, director
of planning and development at
A&T. "Rutgers was pleased
with the work done by the few
of our students who had en
rolled there before."
Two years ago, A&T joined
with Rutgers in a program of
inter-institutional cooperation
to include student and faculty
exchange and consultive serv
(See GRANTS page 2A)
BON VOYAGE—Asa T. Spaul- Russian and East European
ding, Durham County Commis- tour. They are from left to
sioner is shown bidding his right: Mrs. Asa T. Spaulding,
family and friends farewell as son, Kenneth and his wife, Mrs.
he boards the plane for his
Lenoir Register And Vote Drive
Spreading To OtherNC.
NCTA Employs Bernard Allen
As New Field Representative
RALEIGH The Board of
Directors of the North Caro
lina Teachers Association re
cently announced its decision
to employ Bernard Allen as
Field Representative. Allen re
places F. D. McNeill who re
signed in August of 1968 to ac
cept a position with the Learn
ing Institute of North Carolina
in Durham.
Bernard Allen comes to the
NCTA having served 6 years
as a classroom teacher in Vance
County Public Schools, Hen
derson. Having graduated with
a B. A. degree in Social Studies
from Saint Augustine's College,
Raleigh, Bernard has done fur
ther studying at North Caro
lina Central University, Dur
ham and East Carolina Univer
sity, Greenville.
A member of Phi Beta Sigma
Fraternity the Masonic and Elk
Lodges, Bernard has served as
Vice-President of the East
Piedmont District-NCTA; Chair
man of the Resolutions Com
mittee of the Vance County
Unit, member of the VC Unit
Professional Rights and Re
sponsibilities Committee of the
NCTA and a member of the
Vance County NCTA-NCEA
personnel Policies Committee.
An Episcopalian and married,
Allen is the father of two chil
dren. At the age of thirty-one
Allen will assume his duties as
Field Representative for the
NCTA and Treasurer-Manager
of the NCTA Credit Union on
September 1. E. B. Palmer, ex
ecutive secretary of the NCTA
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Ira Branch signs up future voter in his store
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ALLEN
said, "We are quite fortunate
to be able to bring a man of
Allen's ability and enthusiasm
to the state office. We are look
ing forward with great antici
pation to the outstanding con
tributions Allen will make to a
new and more vital program
which NCTA is going to launch
during 1969-70."
Proctor To Get
Davidson Degree
DAVIDSON, N.C.
Davidson College will present
honorary degrees to a Negro
educator, a medical mission
ary to Korea, and the presi
dent of Washington State Uni
versity at its opening convo
cation Sept. 29
Kenneth Spaulding. Mrs A. K.
Jackson, Asa T., HI. Asa T Jr.
and Mrs Asa T Jr., and daugh
ter, Pamela
KJNSTON—Five years ago,
after a N'egro-supported can
didate lost an election here, a
group of black housewives de
cided to get busy.
They formed the Volunteer
Housewives League of Kinston
and Lenoir County, centered
upon increasing black registra
tion to vote.
A black woman, Mrs. J. J
Hannibal, had served for two
years on Kinston's City Council
in the early sixties. At that
time, black registration in the
county was only some 1.200.
Now black registration in Le
noir County is more than four
times that figure close to
5.000.
Spurred on by these succes
ses, the housewives have con
tinued their registrations ef
forts in the summer heat of
rural, tobacco-growing Lenior
County and have come up, in
the process, with some regis
tration techniques that are be
ing copied in other eastern Car
olina towns.
In the past, the Lenoir Coun
ty women had used the tradi
tional, time-tested voter regis
tration technique of canvassing
—that is, going from house-to
house, block-to-block, road-by
ro a d and neighborhood-by
neighhood to find out who was
registered to vote and who
wasn't. This is the method used
by black registration workers
all over the South.
But in Lenoir County—as in
many other localities in the
South—all those not registered
must be carried to the court
house to sign up to vote. The
courthouse in Lenoir County—
as in many other rural coun
ties—is located on a main Kin
ston street along which Negores
pass during the day.
So the Volunteer League's
(See HOUSEWIVES 2A)