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Words of Wisdom ★ We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns. — Orison S. Marden VOLUME 49 No. 12 Durham Business College Scene Of Student Protest ****.*** * * * *★**★* ★ ★ ★ ' ★ * Community Honors Louis E. Austin With Testimonial Veteran Times Editor is Hailed As "A Modern-Day Prophet" Louis E. Austin, veteran publisher, editor of the Caro lina Times Newspaper, was honored here Tuesday night, March 17 with a testimonial banquet sponsored by the Dur ham Committee on Negro Af fairs, and the Durham Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The banquet was held in the cafeteria of North Caro lina Central University, Aus tin's alma mater. Greetings of warmth and ap preciation were given to the re nowned editorialist by eleven individuals, representing vari ous segments of the Durham community. They all described the septe genarian newspaperman as a diligent fighter for human rights and a constant guard of St. Joseph's Annua Services Set To St. Joseph's A.M.E. Church will have its Annual Holy Week Services Monday, March 23 through Thursday, March 26, 1970. The services will be held at 7:30 each evening. The guest speaker for Holy Week is Rev. Henry L. Starks, pastor of St. James AM.E. Church in Memphis, Tennessee. Rev. Starks received his B. S. De gree from LeMoyne-Owen Col lege, M. A. from Fisk Universi ty, Master of Divinity from Memphis Theological Seminary and Doctor of Divinity from Monrovia College, Monrovia, Liberia. He has served as Chaplain of Western State Mental Hos pital and is presently a member of the faculty of Memphis Theological Seminary. He is ■■ wtHm BP. ? mk «ggfl ■ | +*? ' m m jofjfl KrJ| QUICK RESPONSE North Carolina Mutual employees re sponded quickly to an appeal by J. W. Goodloe, President of the company, for assistance to Thanks to all. It is with great humility that I take this means of expressing thanks to the Heavenly Father for the many friends who sent cards, letters, flowers and telegrams, paid visits to the hospital and my home during my recent illness. May God bless and keep all of you from harm and danger. Louis E. Austin the integrity of black people. William G. Pearson, toast master of the program said Austin has been keeping the faith for a long time. According to Rev. Andrew W. Lawson of the interdenomi national Ministerial Alliance, "Louis G. Austin is a prophet after the like of Jeremiah. Jeremiah prophesied whether the people liked it or not. And he never gave up; he just kept on telling them like it was." The designation prophet was the description most often ap plied to Austin, for it was he who, years before school integration became a burning issue, carried a young Negro to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to register. After being refused (See EDITOR page 8A) STARKS President of the Interdenomi national Ministerial Alliance of Memphis and Shelby County, First Vice President of Mem phis Human Relations Com mission, Member of the Board of Trustees Henderson Busi ness College and Chairman of the Board North Memphis Oxford Central Orphanage. The Negro institution lost most of the clothes of the children there in an early morning fire which gutted the laundry. The Che Cawpp Cunrs w ISmMNMII ®| *8 IPI? W | HBii - y ; j£-IIP J ' JF pp * o»iBr ill fl ■ P* - I ■ S ML J ■ "PAY TO THE ORDflt OF"— J. H. Wheeler, President of Mechanics and Farmers Bank presents check to Louis E. Agencies Coordinating Com mittee. The public is invited to at tend the services and enjoy the fellowship with members of St. Joseph's. Ministerial Group To Sponsor Good Friday Service The Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Durham and Vicinity will sponsor Good FViday's service Friday, March 27, at the Mt. Olive A.M.E.Z. Church on W. Club Boulevard from 12 noon to 3:00 p.m. Rev. E. H. Whitley is the pastor and Rev. V.E. Brown is chairman of the publicity committee. clothes shown here are only a part of the literally pounds of clothing that was donated by concerned persons. (Photo by Purefoy) Professor Dies PETERSBURG, Va. Lt. Col. (Ret.) Crawford H. Lydle, 111, US Army, a former profes sor of Military Science at Vir ginia State College, died re cently at his home in Sunny mead, Calif. COLONEL. Lydle served as the second PMS at VSC during the period 1950 through 1954. He succeeded LTC Robert M. Hendrick Jr., who is presently serving as the director of ad missions and registrar at the college. DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 Austin andl his wife during a testimonial banquet given in honor of the veteran publisher of The Carolina Times, the oId I BARBER Barber Appointed Assistant School Business Manager Richard F. Barber, 36, Dur ham native and presently assis tant internal auditor at Duke University, has been named as sistant business manager of Durham City Schools. The Durham City Board of Education has been seeking an assistant to Business Manager J. L. Woodward, who is Hear ing retirement. Barber's duties for the city school system are to begin on or before May 1. Holder of a bachelor's degree in accounting from Duke Uni versity, Barber joined Duke in 1959 as auditor and assistant to the manager of stores opera tions. Before that, he was employed by the United States General Accounting Office, first as a junior auditor, then as senior assistant auditor. NEA Hits School Desegregation In East Texas WASHINGTON - School desegregation in East Texas is producing "arbitrary recent ly by the National Education Association charges. In a 57-page document out lining the failures and frustra tions of desegregation in 25 rural counties east of Dallas and Houston, the NEA re commends formation of "black occupational caucuses" by teachers to give blacks the political power they need to fight "white domination." Based on a special study by NEA's Commission of Profes sional Rights and Responsibili ties, the report tells of the sy stematic elimination of black (See NEA page 8A) est Negro weekly in the Caro lines. (Photo by Purefoy) N Carolina University Dean To Address Honor Society ELIZABETH CITY—Dr. Cecil Patterson, dean, North Carolina Central University will pive one of ; principle addresses at the thirty-second annual con vention of Alpha Kappa Mu National Honor Society which will be held at Elizabeth City State University March 26-28. The other speaker will be Dr. James Farmer, assistant secre tary, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Wash ington. Theme of the convention will be "Academic Excellence and Its Relevance to Social Change." Student participants include Miss Judith Moore of Hampton Institute, banquet speaker and Cornelius King of Southern University. Panels and Committees will consider problems associated with student unrest, pass-fail grades, newer roles for honor societies and) the future of (See PATTERSON page 8A) Coca-Cola USA Announces Its Annual Carl Murphy Award To Be Given In June at The NNPA Confab ATLANTA, Ga. - The third annual Carl Murphy Award, given by Coca-Cola USA, will be presented to a se lected newspaper during the annual convention in June of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Kelvin A. Wall, vice president of the soft drink firm, announced recently. The award, given in honor of the late Carl Murphy, former publisher of the Afro- American newspapers, consists of a plaque and an award of SIOOO. Entitled the "Carl Murphy Community Service Award," it is designed to en courage further community service programs by the Black newspapers. The newspaper to receive the award will be selected by the NNPA Awards Committee, composed of dis tinguished journalists. (See AWARD page 8A) Window In Student Smnshed During Demonstrntion 16 Demands Issued to School Officials Wed. Protest demonstrations broke out on the campus of Durham Business College Wed nesday afternoon as more than 50% of the student body sur rounded the administration building. According to a student spokesman, they wanted to talk to the college administra tion for the purpose of re solving a list of grievances that have been compiled by the All American Management Corp. Taps Hudson As CHICAGO Roamless Hud- Williston Senior High in Wil- B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chem son, Jr. of Durham, has been rohigton, Hudson received his j stry f rom x or th Carolina Cen- appointed Branch Manager of All American Management Cor poration's office located at 1101 Scranton Place. The announce ment was made in Chicago by Ronald R. Wicks, President of the Corporation. All American Management Corporation dis tributes mutual fund shares in 37 states through a sales force of over 260 registered repre sentatives. A complete line of Life Insurance is also offered through an affiliate, All Ameri can Life & Casualty Company. Following {graduation from m, JB9 IKB lr *1 mm f f jiJ OFF TO NEW YORK— Eleven students and two teachers from Pearson School attended the re cen 11 y conducted) Columbia Press Association meeting in New York City. The meeting lasted three days, frcm March Facts on the Weather SATURDAY THRU MONDAY Chance of rain and mild through the weekend. Daytime highs, mostly in the sixties. Lows at night in the forties ex cept upper thirties in the mountains and low fifties along the coast. V pXjM Ki %"4^, * s MRS. HARRIS students. J. W. Hill, college adminis trator, said this is not the first time the business school has HUDSON 12 through 13. The students were: Eva Jus tice, Audrey Mangum, Sheila Brown, Corliss Suite, Robert Conrad, Frederick Bennett, An thony Myers, Charlie Mebane, Richard Conrad, Deidre Barnes, PRICE: 20 Cento oeen confronted with the same questions. "Last year about the same time, we had the same pro blems," he said. The main point of protest according to the students is the curfew placed upon stu dents on the weekends. In their list of objections, they suggest that the present time students are allowed out of the dorm be extended to 3 a.m. They also ask that the ban on College Plaza be lifted. Col lege Plaza is the apartments complex that once served as living quarters for DBC stu dents. Now, however, a majori ty of the residents of the (See DEMANDS 8A) tral University and most re cently has taken advanced studies at Western Michigan University. Mr. Hudson has served as a minister of Social Concern at the Abiding Savior Lutheran Church in Durham and as Sec retary of Beta Theta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He is a 32nd degree Mason and Shriner, a member of the American Chemical So ciety and the National Educa tion Association. Demetrius Lytche. Advisor* were: Mrs. Ruth Thomas, and Mrs. Bernadine Bailey. First place rating at UM meeting was won by the Pear son School Voice, the school'* newspaper.
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