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VOLUME 49 No. 28
Election Black
Looms In Macon
TEACHING THE DANGER OF
DRUGS Officer E. A. Allen
of the Durham Police Depart
ment is shown presenting a
drug awareness program to a
Report Of Council's Newspaper
Blasts Four Top S
N.C. Commonwealth
One of 4 Weighed
Found Wanting
ATLANTA The welfare
departments of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Virginia and
Florida are the biggest slum
owners in those states, the
Southern Regional Council
says in a news report.
The report in the Council's
monthly newspaper, South To
day, says these states have be
come slum owners in an at
tempt to recoup some of their
welfare expenditures by en
forcing liens or claims against
the property-owning poor. The
lien/claim laws provide that
welfare recipients must put a
"voluntary" lien on their pro
perty so that the state can be
assured of repayment upon the
death of the client.
The laws have the effect,
says the report, of discourag
ing many needy people from
applying for welfare payments.
The report suggests this was
the principal motivation be
hind the states' passage of the
laws.
"Once the recipient dies,"
says the article, " and the state
gains title to the land, the pro
perty is not sold for at least
six months and sometimes two
to three years pass before they
are disposed of at forced auc
tion. Since they cannot be
rented or leased during this
period, they deteriorate like
festering sored enhancing the
squalor of the city or country
slum--a fitting monument to
the welfare system's concern
for the poor."
Among the points made by
the study;
-•Welfare departments not
only own substandared housing,
they contribute to its deterio
ration.
-The lien law operating in
neighborhoods where property
values are most threatened robs
the poor person of his motiva
tion to maintain his property;
(See BLASTS page 10A)
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1970
: group of young people at the
Edgemont Community Center
here last week. Director of the
center is Mrs. Josephine Lewis
shown standing in the center
Maynard Jackson to Address
Urban League's Annual Meet
NEW YORK, N. Y. - June
29- Maynard H. Jackson first
black man ever elected Vice-
Mayor of Atlanta Georgia, will
be the guest speaker at the Na
tional Urban League's Annual
Dinner, Wednesday July 19-23.
Jackson, who was elected Vice-
Mayor last October, ran unsuc
cessfully for the seat held by
Senator Herman Talmadge two
years ago. He received 207,171
votes in a concentrated, state
wide campaign against the in
cumbent.
Other speakers at the
National Urban League Con
ference will include Whitney
M. Young, Jr., the League's
Executive Director who will
deliver the Keynote address
Frontiers 1970
Meeting Set for
Baltimore, Md.
BALTIMORE - The Rev.
Phale D. Hale, president of
Frontiers International, an
nounced that the annual con
vention of this nation's oldest
service club organized and
funded by Negroes, will bfe
held July 21-25, in Baltimore,
Maryland.
According to Rev. Hale,
who is also a member of the
Ohio legislature, this year's
convention is going to be
"something new and differ
ent," in that the organization
will focus its attention on the
major problems that are now
facing blacks in this country,
particularly as they try to
move into the main stream of
an integrated society.
"From Protests to Produc
tion" is the theme of the four
(See FRONTIERS 10A)
at the extreme rear of the pic
ture. The program is designed
to make young people aware of
the danger existing in the use
of drugs.
JACKSON
Sunday, July 19 at i P.M.;
Elizabeth Duncan Koontz,
Director of the Women's
(See JACKSON page 10A)
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Victor Over Powell Looks To November
Standing next to a large photo of himself, former New York State Assem
blyman Charles B. Rangel confidently speaks to a group of supporters on the
prospects of becoming the next congressman from Harlem, replacing Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell. Rangel, who defeated Rep. Powell in the recent Demo
cratic Primary, also has the support of Republicans in his district. Rep. Powell,
however, has announced plans to become an "independent" candidate in the
November general election, in which he and Rangel would meet head-on.
PRICE: 20 Cents
Hopkins May be
First Black in
Such Office
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE,
Ala. Macon County, Ala.,
has in recent years been es
tablishing a history of electing
black county officials. Macon
County Sheriff Lucius Amer
son was the South's first black
sheriff since reconstruction.
Three members of the coun
ty board of education are
black, the board of revenue
has black representation and
the tax collector is black.
And now only the election
of George Wallace over Gov.
Albert Brewer is overshadow
ing the election of a black man
to another position in the
Macon County government.
James Hopkins, 11, a 28 year
old native of Jackson,
Mississippi, will be the county's
first black circuit clerk unlest
he is defeated by a written
candidate in November.
That Hopkins is black does
not make his election so signi
ficant because black voters out
number white voters in Macon
County 2-1. Nor is it so signifi
cant that Hopkins had to out
poll his white opponent in a
runoff to win the democratic
nomination.
But Hopkins will among
other things be signing war
rants and scheduling trials that
could change the heretofore
questionable system of justice
in Macon County. One of the
more important functions of
the Macon County Circuit
Clerk is that of scheduling
trials.
Citizens who have spent
most of their lives here remem
ber cases, particularly where
whites are accused, that never
came to trial. A case in point
is that of the former Macon
County Superintendent of
Schools. The superintendent
was arrested and charged with
assault and battery in an al
ledged attack of a black wo
man. Although the case was
once scheduled and later
(See HOPKINS 10A)
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MORTICIANS MEET —At the
recent meeting of the 43rd an
nual convention of the Funeral
and Mortician's Association of
North Carolina held last month,
Louis G. Randolph of Wash
Leading Blacks
Across Nation
Form Group
WASHINGTON - A group
of leading blacks across the
nation have banded together to
create the National Black
Silent Majority Committee.
The group has embarked on
a membership drive aimed at
proving that the vast majority
of America's twenty-two
million blacks are not repre
sented by the violent black
minority who advocate mili
tant action against American
institutions.
"We believe that black re
volutionaries and militants,
upon whom some segments of
the news media seem to dote,
are not dedicated to progress
for our people," said Clay J.
Claiborne, one of the organi
zers and spokesman for the
black national committee.
Claiborne is serving as national
director of the new group.
"Blacks don't want to burn
America down," he said. "We
want to build America - and,
like all patriotic Americans,
earn enought money to own
part of this great nation."
The National Black Silent
Majority Committee's execu
tive committee consist of pro
minent blacks from twenty
two states.
In its statement of beliefs,
the Black Silent Majority
Committee pointed out:
"There are millions of black
Americans who work fevery
day, keep their kids in schools,
have never been to jail, pay
their taxed, shop for bargains,
have never participated in a
(See LEADING 10A)
ington, N. C., was elected
President; Ist Vice President,
Mrs. Ernestine Bynum, Dur
ham; 2nd Vice President, Jerry
C. Gilmore, 111, Winston-Salem
and Chairman of the Board, |
HAACP's Annual Report Cites
Gains Made During '69 At Meet
NEW YORK - The many
and varied aspects of the pro
grams and activities of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
during 1969 are detailed in the
Association's 60th Annual Re
port released here and in Cin
cinnati by NAACP Executive
Director Roy Wilkins on the
eve of the organization's 61st
annual convention in Cincinna
ti, June 29-July 4. The 165-
page document is the largest
annual report published by the
organization in its six-decade
history.
The year, 1969, was a yeai
"of widespread activity and
creative advances by the As
sociation and its local units all
along the civil rights front,"
the report points out. "Despite
or, perhaps, because of the
slow-down policy and philoso
phy of the Nixon Administra
tion the NAACP pushed for
ward with renewed vigor. At
no time and in no way was
(See REPORT 10A)
Mattiwilda Dobbs to Make Two
Appearances at N. C. Central U.
Mattiwilda Dobbs is a nice
lady in a pretty flower-print
dress, who graciously forgives,
and gently chides, you for be
ing late when she has a plane
to catch in less than an hour.
She is also a world-famous
coloratura soprano, who has
starred at the Metropolitan
Opera, Milan's La Scala, and
London's Covent Garden. The
plane was to fly her to Keno
sha, New York, where she
would sing in the Caramoor
Festival's presentation of baro
que music.
And she is a teacher. That's
new, and the reason you are
able to interview her.
Miss Dobbs is conducting,
through July 17, an "artists's
seminar" in voice at Durham's
North Carolina Central Univer
sity. She has also accepted
("more work than I bargained
for") six private students of
voice. The 12 students in the
seminar and the six private
students are a first step to-
LDF Files Brief in U. S. Court -
On Behalf of Convicted Panther
NEW YORK - Attorneys
for the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, Inc.
(LDF), have filed a brief in the
United States Court of Ap
peals for the Seventh Circuit
on behalf of Black Panther
Chairman Bobby Seale, who is
fighting a four-year prison sen
tence imposed by Federal
Judge Julius Hoffman in Chica
go for contempt of court dur
J. C. Gilmore. Jr. also of Win
ston-Salem
At the meeting Mrs. Bynum
was also named "Woman of the
Year," by the convention.
United States Military Academy
Has Highest Enrollment in History
WASHINGTON - For the
first time in its 168 year
history the United States
Military Academy will have a
cadet strength of more than
4,000 with the arrival of the
Class of 1974. The incoming
Plebes (freshmen) are 1378
strong while the resident three
classes total 280.2. The Aca
demy will reach a cadet
strength of 4400 by 1972,
an objective set by Congress
for each of the three acade
mies.
Academy officials reported
that approximately 6000 can
didates were examined for ac
ceptance by the USMA from
a total of more than 30,000
who submitted inquiries. Of
those examined, 2200 were
(See MILITARY 10A)
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MATTIWILDA DOSBS
ward a new career for Miss
Dobbs, sometime in the future.
"Even though I'm still sing
ing, I can't wait until the voice
gives out to learn to teach,"
Miss Dobbs says.
"Still singing" is an under
(See DOBBS page 10A)
ing the trial of the Chicago
Eight.
The brief contends that
Seale's conviction must be re
versed and the charges dis
missed for the following rea
sons:
First - he was wrongfully
denied the fundamental right
to present a defense to the
criminal conspiracy charges
either by counsel of his choice
tSce FILES page IQA)
President Cites
Need in Black
Ed. Institutions
North Carolina Central Uni
versity has taken steps to ex
pand ita Million-Dollar Endow
ment Fund Drive, which will
create a fund to provide salary
supplements for outstanding
faculty members.
The drive, which began in
1968, is directed by William P.
Malone, director of develop
ment and public relations at
the university, and the fund
has reached the quarter-million
-dollar mark under his guid
ance.
In order to expand the
drive to reach major contribu
tors outside the state and to
attract additional funds from
sources within North Carolina,
the university has employed
(See NCCU page 10A)
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TRACK COACH CF YEAR
Frank Sowell, Jr., who was re
cently chosen Track Coach of
the year by the Southern Mary
land Athletic Conference. Sow
ell is a native of Durham and
a graduate of North Carolina
Central University.
During his years as track
coach at Chopticon High School
his teams have established *
conference record in the shot
put discus throw, 440 yard
dash, triple jump and long
jump.
Dr. H. Ponder
Named Fourth
St. Paul's Head
LAWRENCEVILLE, Va. -
Charles A. Can of Danville,
Va., newly elected chairman of
the Board of Trustees of Saint
I Paul's College here, has today
' announced the election of Dr.
1 Henry Ponder as the next and
{ fourth president of Saint Paul's
College.
Saint Paul's established in
1888, is a private church-re
lated college sponsored by the
Episcopal Church. It is ac
. credited by the Southern As
sociation of Colleges and
Schools and by the Virginia
State Department of Educa
tion.
Dr. Ponder, 42 years of age
and a native of Seminole,
Oklahoma, is presently dean of
Alabama Agriculture and Me
chanical College at Normal,
Ala., and has held that post
since 196*3.
In 1963-64, he was chair
man of the Department of
Agricultural Economics at
Virginia Suite College, Peters
burg, from which institution
he moved to Fort Valley Stat*
College, Fort Valley, Ga., as
chairman of Its Department of
(See POND ER page 10A) ,