Words of Wisdom
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We should all be interested in the future
because that is where we are going to spend
the rest of our lives.— Charles F. Kettering
VOLUME 49 No. 10
FCD Anxiously Awaits Word On Foundation Grant
Decision On Plans To Aid Poor
People Coming Within Two Weeks
Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee
Calls for More Political Power
Chapel Hill Mayor Howard
Lee told members and guests
of the Durham Council on
Human Relations that there
must be more concentrated
political power, especially
among minorities of the pen
dulum of power is to swing
back to humanization of law
making.
He called for a unity of the
three minorities in this coun
try-Blacks, Jews, and liberal
Whites in order to effect this
change.
"The United States i> in a
terrible delimma in that it has
a booming economy while
seven million people on welfare
suffer due to the system," Lee
said.
In analyzing the problems of
America, th; first black man to
win the mayorality in a pre
dominantly vhite southern
town, pointed the finger at
silence rather than bigotry and
racism. Progress, he observed,
is often slowed by the silent
majority.
"We need to speak out," he
said, "but be careful not to
let rhetoric replace thought,
or spontaniety replace think
ing."
"We crn't silently stand by
as Black Panthers are slain in
National Negro College Fund
Reports Record Funds for '69
NEW YORK, N. Y. - The
United Negro College Fund's
national campaign for 1969
concluded with a record total
of $6,875,394, it was an
nounced by Harry V. Richard
son, the Fund's outgoing exe
cutive director.
Of this amount, $5,755,885
was distributed to its 36-mem
ber institutions; $248,641 was
received in special gifts; $l7O,
867 was derived from earn
ings from investments, and
$700,000 was received as gifts
in kind.
Dr. Richardson who is retir
ing from the Fund on March
Ist, reported that the 1969
gifts were received from 46,429
individuals, corporations and
foundations.
Dr. Richardson also re
ported that the total income
during the campaign year re
presented a 15.42 per cent in
crease over the $5.95 million
achieved in 1968 and an at
NAACP Action Turns Back the
Jim Crow Proposal by the NEA
WASHINGTON—Prompt and
vigorous action by the Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People suc
ceeded in turning back an ef
fort to secure endorsement of
an anti-school deaegregatios
proposal by a unit of the Na
tional Education Association.
Negro delegates attending the
annual NEA Conference on
Civil and Human Rights in
Education here strongly sap
ported! the NAACP position.
In a telegram to Dr. Sam-
M. Lambert, NEA executive
director, and to the conference
co-chairmen, Hiss June Shaga
loff, NAACP education direc
tor, expressed the Association's
dismay that NEA should at
this late date, consider any
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the name of law and order,"
he said, decrying situations in
the South which made voter
registration laws necessary to
insure the black vote when it
was supposed to be insured
under the Constitution.
Lee also called for a return
to hunamess in relations, es
pecially in the sphere of public
service. Public servants is a de
gisnation he prefers over politi
cians, and he said these ser
vants of the public must be
come more responsive to the
needs of the people.
"If they do not become
responsive, then, it is time the
(See LEE page 9A)
tainment of 91.67 per cent of
the 1969 goal of $7.5 million.
The increase in contribu-
tions to the College Fund will
help to meet the high cost of
education and help support the
educational opportunities and
developments for the 40,000
students presently enrolled in
the Fund's member colleges
and universities
"It is evident," said Dr.
Richardson," that corpora
tions, foundations and indivi
duals who invested their finan
cial support this year in our
member institutions are aware
of not only today's high cost
of learning, but of the returns
derived from educating our
nation's youth."
"The funds raised through
the United Negro College
Fund nationwide annual ap
peal," adds Dr. Richardson,
"will be used to provide more
young men and women with
(See FUND page 9A)
proposal to halt the edesegre
gation process. "The language
and spirit of the proposed NEA
position is racist and separa
tist," Miss Shagaloff charged.
The NAACP, she said, would
use all of its resources "to op
pose such a policy by NEA or
any NEA unit. We call upen
you to withdraw this position
and we strongly urge the dele
gates to reject resoundingly
the proposed NEA position as
embodied in the draft distri
buted at the meeting."
Burghardt Turner of the
NAACP education field staff
led the opposition to the pro
posal which the delegates over
whelmingly rejected at the
final session of the. two-day
conference here.
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REDUCED STAFF
WORKING IN
LOCAL OFFICE
Ford I ouadation will
decide March 12 whether to
make a new grant to the
Foundation for Community
Development. Without the
grant, FCD will close up.
FCD, headed by executive
director Nathan T. Garrett,
continues to work with a re
duced staff while waiting for
the decision. The Ford Foun
dation is considering a propo
sal outlining FCD's plans for
working with the Black poor
of North Carolina for the next
two years.
FCD is two years old, pri
vate nonprofit foundation
working on community organi
zation and economic develop
ment of the Black communi
ty-
In two years, FCD has
helped develop ten poor peo
ple's corporations, including
Durham's United Organizations
for Community Improvement,
which is made up of 23
neighborhood councils repre
senting some 5,000 low-income
(See FCD page 9A)
Charles W. Johnson
Highest Ranking
Honeywell Officer
Flak University graduate
Charles W. Johnson recently
became the highest ranking
Black executive with Honey
well, Inc., Minneapolis, when
be was upgraded to director of
the firm's System Development
JOHNSON
Center. Now 40, Johnson Join
ed Honeywell in 1966 as a re
search engineer in the Aero
space and Defense group. A
native of San Antonio, Tex., he
was graduated! magna cum
laude in mathematics from Fisk
in 1961.
(NPI Photo)
Mafcom X Author To Speak Here
To Students At NCCU Mar. 18
Alex Haley, internationally
known author, world traveler
and lecturer, will speak in
B. N. Duke Auditorium at
North Carolina Central Univer
sity March 18 at 8 p.m.
Haley is renowned for his
ability to grip his audiences
with insights from his exten
sive travel and historical know
ledge, at well as his strongly
independent thinking, applied
to contemporary social pro
blems. He win address the
NCCU student body.
A* an author, Haley's first
book is the award-winning clas
sic "Autobiography of Malcom
X". After five years as a steady
best seller, this book now has
passed two million copies in
eight languages. Recently,
both the New York Times and
Time Magazine selected it
among their "Ten Most Nota
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970
Lee Smith is Named Chairman
Of Boys Club Regional Area
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SMITH
Lee Smith, Executive Direc
tor of the John Avery Boys'
Club, was recently elected to
ser\e as the 1971 Chairman of
the Boys' Clubs of America
N. €. SCIENCE
BOARD INVITES
RESEARCH PLAN
RESEARCH TRIANGLE Par*
—The N. C. Board of Science
and Technology again inviting
proposals for research projects,
it was announced recently by
P. J. Chenery, director of the
state agency. The 1969 General
Assembly appropriated $250,-
000 for each year of the 1969-
71 biennium to support re
search which will benefit the
state.
Typical projects may stimu
late economic growth, indus
trial development or the crea
tion of new businesses. Other
research will seek solutions to
problems of concern to the
state in such areas as marine
science and' resource develop
ment.
"Priority will also be given
to those proposals which show
promise of receiving other sup
port after Board funds have
initiated the research," he con
tinued. "This is in line with
the Board's long-standing poli
cy of using its limited funds
for research as 'seed mosey."
Since its inception in 1963,
the Board has awarded $2,140,-
143 to support research across
the state. Additional funds re
ceived by the grantees from
outside sources have produced
a return of $6 for each $1 of
the "seed money" invested by
the Board. Previous grants
have been concerned with such
problems as reversing the ef
fects of pollution in streams,
ponds, tidal waters, and air;
understanding the ecology of
marshland's and freshwater
streams; quality control in tex
tile mills; prefabricaion of
(See SCIENCE 9A)
HALIY
ble Books of the Sixties." Mal
com X's life is being made
into a motion picture with
the script being based on Ha
ley's book.
Haley's second book, to be
publiched by Doubleday late
in 1970 is titled "Before This
Southern Region Administra
tive Conference, according to
Robert M. Sykes, Regional Di
rector with offices in Atlan
ta.
Smith was honored by his
colleagues at the 1970 Con
ference, held in Savannah on
February 18, 19 and 20, by
being elected to this post. His
duties will include working
with a Conference Committee
to plan the 1971 meeting and
them presiding at the Confer
ence. Other officers elected
include Hal Stephens of Knox
ville, Tennessee as Vice-Chair
man, David Henshaw of Morris
town, Tennessee as Secretary
and James Hennessy of At
lanta as Treasurer.
The Boys' Clubs of Ameri
(See SMITH 9A)
North Carolina Central Univ.
Junior Runs For President
Percy Peele, II
Active Student
On Campus
By MILTON JORDAN
Times Staff Writer
Running on a platform for
overall betterment and more
relevant involvement for the
sti dent chapter, Percy Peele,
II has announced he is a candi
date f or president of the Stu
dent National Education As
sociation, the undergraduate
wing of the National Educa
tion Association.
Peele, a North Carolina Cen
tral University junior, is a his
tory major and a political
science minor who admits that
many of his ideas for the group
he now serves as second vice
president are politically orient
ed.
His campaign slogan gives
hint of the direction he intends
to steer SNEA should he be
elected. The slogan, "Forward
Together: Through Active Par
ticipation and Creativity,"
calls for more action from stu
dent members and more input
into the parent organization.
(See STUDENT page 9A)
Anger." It will trace and docu
ment Haley's maternal lineage
across nine unbroken genera
tions back into the 1700's
and a tiny West African village
and the Mandinka tribe.
Haley spent seven years and
$32,000 in his pursuit of
slender linguistic clues in North
America, Europe, and made
several safaris into West Afri
can bush country villages.
Even before publication, the
book is being hailed as a
"genealogical miracle." It will
be published simultaneously in
14 languages, and Columbia
Pictures is already committed
to the film rights for a major
film.
Alex Haley is a native of
Tennessee, the son of a retired
college professor. One of Ha
ley's two younger brothers,
George, formerly a Kansas
(See HALEY page 9A)
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ALL 33RD DEGREE MASONS
Recently several men, among
them John J. Johnson, publish
er of EBONY, were elevated to
PEELE
Bold New
University
RALElGH—Attorney Romal
lus O. Murphy, Vice President
for Development and Univer
sity Relations, acting for Dr.
King V. Cheek, Jr., President
of Shaw University revealed
plans, during a press confer
ence recently, of Shaw Univer
sity's Board) of Trustees to
launch Its nationwide Develop
ment Program on March 9,
1970 to raise $250 million dur
ing the decade 1970-79 for
Shaw's total development.
Hie program will be launch
ed with a series of dinners, the
first of which will be held in
the Raleigh Memorial Audito
rium at 7:30 p.m.
Mt. Vernon Church Sponsors
Leadership Training Institute
All general assembly session
and all classes will be held in
the Education Building of the
Church.
Admission to classes will be
by class card approved by the
Classification Committee. Dr.
Rose Butler Browne is Chair
man.
The leadership Institute has
been approvedand certified by
the Division of Christian Edu
cation of the National Council
of Churches of Christ to issue
credits and certificates at the
completion of regular Standard
Leadership Training Courses.
The theme of the Institute is
"Discover God Where You
Are." The faculty, and staff are
qualified leaders in the areas
they will teach. Dr. Lorenzo
Lynch will guide the worship
hour each evening.
1. Materials and Methods
fe Teaching in the Church
Facts on the Weather
SATURDAY THRU MONDAY
Chance of rain over weekend. Clearing
Monday. Highest temperatures 5Cs in west
portion to sixties esat. Lowest tempera
tures in mid thirties west to mid forties
east- Warmer Monday.
the 33rd degree rank of Mason
ry. Shown here are seven of
the men who now hold the
highest rating possible in the
Two Outstanding Students from
A&T Participate in CL Institute
Two outstanding student lead
en from North Carolina AfcT
University participated In the
College Leadership Institute at
Montreat, this weekend. They
were: Lillle R. Miller, 21, of 6
Granville Terrace in Raleigh, a
senior majoring in English, and
Pearline Jefferson, 19, of Edge
field, ®. C., a junior majoring
in Accounting.
Venture For An Old
With A Futu
The Honorable Terry San
ford, President-elect of Duke
University, a member of Shaw
University's Board of Trustees,
and! former Governor of North
Carolina will deliver the Key
note address at the North Car
olina dinner.
The "Decade of the 70's"
Program which has been in the
planning stages for the past
five and a half years, will seek
funds totalling the above
amount for three specific op
erations:
1. The continued devolpment
o f the campus located in down
town Raleigh wbich will be the
center of programs in urban
sciences, communications, Hu
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School -- led by James W Eng
lish, Marketing Specialist,
David C. Cook publishing Com
pany.
2. Methods and Materials
for Teaching in the Baptist
Training Union -- Mrs. Georgia
(See MT. VERNON 9X)
PRICE: 20 Cemtm
| fraternity.
Johnson is 3rd from the
I right.
In all, 82 outstanding stu
dent leaders from 13 cofleges
and universities in North and
South Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia participated.
The course was offered by
The National Leadership Insti
tute, a private non-profit or
ganization, under a grant from
the Humble Oil Education
(See INSTITUTE 9A)
manities and the Arts and pro
fessional teacher education; X
The creation of a Shaw Univer
sity City in the Raleigh are*
to be called a Living Learning
Center. It will provide facilities
housing commercial stores and
businesses, sports and recrea
tion cultural and community
services. The environment will
be one in which Shaw faculty
members, students, and local
residents can learn from each
other. Many of the facilities In
the Living Learning complex
were designed to be continual
sources of revenue for the Uni
versity; (3) The creation ol
Metropolitan Colleges in seve
ral metropolitan areas.
Adkins
Held At
Joseph's Wed.
Funeral services for Sirs.
Julia M. Adkins of 105 Alton
St., who died Monday morning
at Duke Hospital, were held
Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. at the
St. Joseph's AME Church with
Reverend Philip R. Cousin of
ficiating. Burial was in Beecb
wood Cemetery.
Mrs. Adkins was for many
years receptionist for the late
Dr. A- S. Hunter, one of Dor
ham's well-known dentists. In
more recent yean die was re
ceptionist for Dr. E. P. Norrte
before illness forced her retire
meat
She is survived by her bee
band, Lewis W. Adkins; two
sisters, Mrs. Mary EtU Pettt
ford and Miss EfSe Mitchell ef
Long Island, New York.
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The difference between fail
ure and success is doing •
thing nearly right and doing II
exactly right. —Anonymoue