DURHAM'S OLDEST
NEGRO CHURCH TO CELEBRATE CENTENNIAL OCT. 26
Declares Peace Corp
Director Calls
For New System
Of Selection
WASHINGTON, D C—"The
Peace Corps is lily-white and
we've got to change that,"
Peace Corps Director Blatchford
said Monday in an interview
on Boston's "soul station."
WILD
Blatchford said that upon be
ing appointed l Director of the
Peace Corps he discovered that
the Peace Corps selection pro
cess has been unintentionally
discouraging applications from
members of minority groups.
"To begin with, a 16 page
application would frighten any
one, but particularly those who
haven't made a career of filling
out forms as have most middle
class Americans." he pointed
out.
"Then there is the reference
system. The Peace Corps re
quires a large number of writ
ten references and members of
minority groups are often from
backgrounds in which their
friends and associates are un
familiar with or reticent about
filling out government forms.
Consequently, many applica
tions from members of minority
groups never get processed l .
They lack the proper number
of references," he said.
Blatchford noted that the re
sult of this system has been
that black Americans who ap
plied for the Peace Corps were
three times less likely to be
selected He also said that in
the past training has not been
geared to the needs of minority
group members.
He stated that the application
form will be simplified and re
duced in size, and references
obtained either in person or by
phone where necessary.
"We are not looking toward
a quota system of any kind
We don't even keep records ac
cording to racial background,
although everyone who has
(See PEACE CORPS 10A)
President Names NCM Insurance
Official To Urban Renewal Post
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HONORED FOR LANDSCAP
ING—Murray J. Marvin (left)
representing North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company,
received a Certificate of Merit
Award l from Secretary of Agri
NCCU Homecoming
Oct 31 With Crowning of Queen
'A New Name in Progress'
will be the theme of North
Carolina Central University's
annual Homecoming Week
which begins Friday with the
coronation of Miss NCCU, Miss
Jean Wright of Richmond, Va.
The coronation will be held
Friday, October 24, at 8 p.m.
in B. N. Duke Auditorium.
A reception will follow at
8:45 p.m. in the Alfonso
Elder Student Union.
On Tuesday, the Alfonso
Elder Student Union will be
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VOLUME 48 No. 43 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1969
Whitney Young Jr. Blasts
U. S. War Effort In Vietnam
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CHARGED WITH i.730 FELON
IES—These 24 students of San
Fernando Valley State College
in California are on trial in
the Superior Court, Los Ange
les. for acts allegedly committ
ed during campus disturbance
last November: From left, front
row—Lidwina Apo (Hawaiian),
culture Clifford M. Hardin
(right) during ceremonies in
Washington, D. C. on Wednes
day (October 15) for the 17th
Annual Landscaping Awards
Program of the American As
the site of "An Hour with
Miss Homecoming." The time
of the reception for Thelma
Craig, Miss Homecoming, a
Monroe senior, is inderter
mined.
At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
the Maroon and Gray Day
Fashion Show will be pre
sented in B. N. Duke Auditori-
Activities on Halloween
night will Include a Hippie
Mock Funeral at 7 p.m. in
B. N. Duke, a bonfire at BJ3O
Arnold Boyd. George Brady.
Benjamin Caraveo (Mexican-
American), Archie Chatman
and Jethro Collins; second row
—Vaye Crockett, Eddie Dancer,
Deardis Davis, Robert Dyer,
Larry Hardison, Arrinta Hollo
way; third row—La Frida Jami
son, Howard Johnson, Arthur
sociation of Nurserymen. The
company was cited for the un
usual landscaping design and
maintenance of the grounds of
the North Carolina Mutual
Building.
p.m. at Upperclasswomen's
Dormitory, an "NCCU turns
'U' On" event at 11 p.m., and
an outdoor social and dance
which begins at 11:30 p.m.
either in the Upperclasswo
men's Dormitory area, or in
case of inclement weather in
Women's Gymnasium. 'Activi
ties will move to Women's
Gymnasium at 3 a.m., when
the Dawn Dance begins.
An alumni open house and
hospitality hour , will be held
(Sp» HOMECOMING 10A)
Judge Jones, Jr., Schelton
Jones, Marian Kindle, Robert
Lewis; Fourth row—Linda Ni
chols, Marita E. Pette, Yvonne
Robinson, Leaman Scott, Mi
chael Wrice and Sharon Emory.
All are being defended by
NAACP lawyers.
Marvin One of
Three Blacks on
Task Force
WASHINGTON, D. C. The
President this week announced
the establishment of a Task
Force on Urban Renewal. The
task force, another in the series
to make recommendations for
1970 and beyond, will be chair
ed by Miles L. Colean, a con
sulting economist in Washing
ton, D. C. The task force will
examine the current status of
the federal urban renewal pro
gram, evaluate the results of
its operations to date, and make
recommendations c o ncerning
the future direction of the pro
gram.
The eleven man Task Force
on Urban Renewal has three
Black members: Attorney Mar
jorie M. "Lawson of Washing
ton; Murray J. Marvin, Director
of Corporate Planning at North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company in Durham; and
Dempsey J. Travis of Sivart
Mortgage Company of Chicago
The focus of the work of this
Task Force will be with the
planning and implementation of
the human considerations con
nected with urban renewal
rather than the loan and grant
provisions of the legislation.
Fewer Smokers
WASHINGTON —The
average person is smoking
four or five packs of cigarettes
fewer this year than in 1968,
according to the Agriculture
Department.
Economists said in ■ "to
bacco situation" report smok
ing-health publicity and rising
cigarette prices are driving
down the average use
.of cigarettes.
PRICE: 20 Cents
Asian Conflict
Seen as Cause
For Division
NEW YORK - For some
time now I have viewed this
country's agony in Vietnam
with a sense of deepening
distress.
Day after day, month after
month, our involvement in the
war on distant Asian soil has
sharpened the divisions and
frustrations among the people
of this country as no other
issue has in recent history.
I am totally convinced that
Vietnam is tragically diverting
America's attention from its
primary problem - the urban
and racial crisis - At the very
ttuie that crisis is at flash point.
I am totally convinced that
Vietnam has increased tensions
in the United States Armed
Forces as a direct result of
frustrations and bitterness
growing out of this war. What
started out as the best exam
ple of racial teamwork is rapid
ly eroding and is adding to the
already severe tensions in the
black community.
I am totally convinced that
this war has an extra dimen
sion for black people that it
does not have for many whites.
We are suffering soubly. We
are dying for something abroad
that we do not have at home.
At the same time we are
victims of backlash among the
white majority - a backlash
greatly sharpened by the ten
sions of the war. By a strange
twist of human folly the
groups that are most at odds
in our country today - whites
and blacks from working class
and poor families - are those
whose young men are dying in
disaproportionate numbers in
(See YOUNG 10A)
HUD Official is
Speaker at KC
Groundbreak'g
KITTRELL—SamueI C. Jack
son, Assistant Secretary for
Metropolitan Development, De
partment of Housing and Urban
Development will be the prin
cipal speaker during Fall Con
vocation and Groundbreaking
Exercises at Kittrell College.
"The College That Cares"
will be the theme for the one
day exercise which begins 11:00
a.m. Wednesday. October 22,
and the public is invited to
hear Mr. Jackson in the Reid
Gymnasium on campus. He will
be addressing students and
guests primarily on Kittrell's
giant leap forward developing
a new "System of Instruction."
Jackson, a graduate of Wash
burn University and the Wash
burn School of Law, brings to
HUD a long and distinguished
record both as a lawyer and
public servant. In addition to
his responsibilities as Assistant
h Secretary for Metropolitan at
I mm, Jackon serves as General
(See HUO page 10A)
St. Joseph's
Observes One
Hundredth Yr.
St. Joseph's AME Church,
the oldest Negro church in
Durham will begin its one hun
dredth anniversary celebration
Sunday, October 26.
From humble beginnings in a
grassy field, St. Joseph's has
grown in the past century to a i
most impressive edifice at 804 '
Fayetteville Street. Only six
members were on the rolls Au- i
gust 20, 1869 when Rev. Edian
Markham officially organized j
St. Joseph's.
Markham, who founded the
African Methodist Episcopal
Church in Durham, was a self
educated ex-slave that follow
ed a call to missionary work
to the Tarheel State and Dur
ham. Arriving here in 1868,
Markham purchased from Mrs.
Minerva Fowler a parcel of land
on which to erect a church. He
later donated the land on
which the St. Joseph's Church
now stancts.
The original building was a
log structure, and the first
name of the church was Union
Bethel. However, officers of
the church later laid plans for
a brick structure to be renamed
St. Joseph's. By this time, Rev
Markham had left to serve in
another field, leaving the
church with fifteen members.
The founder was followed by
Lewis Edwards who was later
succeeded by George Hunter.
Hunter built the first frame
church. This was followed' by
another more stately frame
structure before a brick build
Mrs. Nannie L.
Stewart Union
Bapt. Speaker
The Union Baptist Church
pastored by Dr. Grady D. Davis
will present its Annual Wom
an's Day services Sunday, Octo
ber 26 at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00
p.m. respectively.
Mrs. Nannie Leonard Stewart
of the Mount Vernon Baptist
Church will be the guest speak
er at 11:00 a.m. service. Mrs.
Stewart received her B.S. die-
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MRS. STEWART
gree from State College, Win
ston-Salem, M.A. degree from
North Carolina Central Univer
sity at Durham and has done
further study at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and Columbia University at
New York City. Mrs. Stewart
has taught from pre-school to
college critic teaching with ex
tensive experience in organiz
ing and guiding children and
youth of all ages in North Caro
lina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and
New York. She is now special
izing in Early Childhood' Edu
cation with Emphasis on Child
growth and Development Miss
Annie M. Dunigan will preside
during the morning service. Mu
sic will be rendered by the
Women's Chorus directed by
Mrs. D. V. Reaves. Mrs Lucilla
Fuller is chairman of the
Woman's Day. A fellowship
dinner will follow the mornilg
service.
HUD Gives Grants
WASHINGTON Th e
Department of Housing and
Urban Development recently
announced grants of more than
$2 million each for Monroe and
Lincolnton, N.C.
Th e Monroe grant of $2,083,-
824 will go toward a govern
mental center area bounded
by Franklin, Church, Seaboard
Coastline Railroad and Char
lotte.
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BISHOP BABER
ing was raised.
The brick edifice was com
menced by Rev. Chambers, and
the Masons laid the cornerstone
in 1892 This building was con
tinued by a successive line of
ministers, and was completed
The Church of course, is the oldest Negro institution
in Durham. The first congregation in point of time is
Saint Joseph's African Methodist Episcopali It was
founded in 1869, and the first church building was a
little log house about a half a block from the present
edifice on Fayetteville Street. The first pastor was
Edium who, in addition to preaching on Sunday,
taught school on week days. The second church to
be organized was the White Rock Baptist. For its
origin the congregation is deeply indebted to Mar
garet Faucett, who about 1875 open her house to few
Negro Baptists who desired a place to worship. She
gave the first dollar toward a church building, which
was'a small frame structure on Pettigrew Street.
BOYD, WILLIAM KENNETH
THE STORY OF DURHAM
P. 291 -292.
For the past century a great
many of Durham's Negroes
have crossed the portals of St.
Joseph's to worship as their
conscience directed. From the
smallest to the greatest, none
were turned away. The church
counts among its membership
many of the most illustrous re
ligious and civic leaders of the
city.
Over the years, St. Joseph's
has stood like a proud beacon
casting its never failing light
through the swirling turmoil
Dr. James R. Lewis Appointed to
Faculty of UNC Dental School
CHAPEL HILL—Dr. James
R. Lewis has been appointed
an instructor in the School of
Dentistry at the University of
North Carolina here.
The announcement was made
this week by Dr. James W.
Bawden, dean of the Dental
School.
Dr. Lewis will instruct in the
Division of Hospital Dentistry
in the Department of Dental
Ecology.
A native of Asheboro, Dr
Lewis is a graduate of North
Carolina Central University at
Durham where he received the
bachelor of science degree in
chemistry. His professional
training was completed at the
College of Dentistry, Howard
University, Washington. D C.
where he earned l the doctor of
dental surgery degree in 1968.
Upon completion of profes
sional training. Dr Lewis com
pleted a one-year rotating den-
Annual Home Office Mid-Year
Confab of NIA Convenes in Fla.
CHICAGO - Sixty execu
tives of Negro-owned life in
surance companies will pursue
the subject, "How to recap
ture the Black Market," when
the Sixth Annual Home Office
Mid-Year Conference of the
National Insurance Association
meets in Tampa, Fla., October
23-25, according to James H.
Browne, NIA vice president
and president of Cn»ander life
Insurance Co. of Kansas City,
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MAS MARKHAM
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REV. COUSIN
under the supervision of Re*.
J. E. Jackson.
Proof of St Joseph's place
in history is ample and authen
ticated 1 From Boyd's History
of Durham there is the follow
ing quote:
around it. It has weathered
many storms, and is now fight
ing to overcome the grasping
tentacles of urban renewal. "
The four day observance will
begin with worship services
Sunday morning. Guest speaker
for the 11:00 a m. services will
be Bishop G. W. Baber, of
Washington. D. C. who is Pre
siding Prelate of the Second
Episcopal District.
At 7:00 p.m. there will be a
(See ANNIVERSARY 10A)
DR LEWIS
tal internship at the Veterans
Administration Hospital. Al
bany, New York.
Dr Lewis is a member of Chi
Delta Mu medical and dental
(See*bß LEWIS page 10A)
Kansas.
The conference is part of
the association's ongoing pro
gram to raise standards and im
prove practices among its mem
bers. All sessions will be held at
the Manager Motor Hotel.
Browne will deliver the key
note address at the opening
session. A college president, a
professor management, an un
derwriting Inspections qwdn
(See NIA MI«T page tOA)