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VOLUME 49 No. 31
WOMEN IN ACTION OPENS SCHOOL SUPPORT CENTER
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Ex-Diirhamite Seeks Hawaii Lt. Gov. Post
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PARTY TlMi—Senator Charles
Goodell (R-N. Y.), singer Diana
Ross and New York Congress
woman Shirley Chisholm at a
party given in Miss Ross' hon
or by Senator Goodell follow
ing the singer's opening at
Want To See City Schools Open
With Little Trouble
Four Minority Owned Firms are
Awarded Government Contracts
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Four minority-owned firms
have been awarded profes
sional services contracts total
ing more than $275,000 by
the Post Office Department,
Postmaster General Winton M.
Blount announced today.
The contracts were awarded
under auspices of the Small
Business Administration's pro
gram to stimulate growth of
minority enterprises through
out the United States.
The largest contract among
the group, valued at $106,000,
went to the Lawrence Johnson
& Associates of Washington,
D.C. The firm will perform
marketing research studies for
the Department and will eval
uate various postal products
and services.
An $85,000 contract was
Student NEA
Pres. Criticizes
Elections Laws
Percy A. Peele, 11, president
of the North Carolina Student
NEA/NCAE Monday criticized
the N.C. State Board of Elec
tions for ignoring provisions
of the recently passed Voting
Rights Act.
The federal law, which goes
into effect Jan. I, 1971 extend*
voting to 18 years old and
abolishes literary tests as re
quirement for voter registra
tion.
The lowering of the voting
age to 18 years was one of the
national priorities set by the
Student NEA the past year.
And IU passage by Congress
and the signing by President
Nixon on June 22 marked a
hopeful victory.
In his first criticism since
aasumlng office In early April,
Peele stated, "it is evident that
the state does not wish to
(See CRITICIZES 2A)
Washington's Carter Barron
Amphitheatre.
Many of Senator Goodell's
congressional colleagues at
tended both the show and the
reception. They included Sen
ator Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) and
awarded to the Pacific Train
ing and Technical Assistance
Corporation, Washington
D.C., to develop and test a
customer relations training
course for postal service em
ployees.
Price & Williams Associates,
Inc., also of Washington, was
given a $71,500 contract to
perform various systems anal
ysis services for the develop
ment of a Post Office De
partment marketing informa
tion system.
A New York firm Optimum
Computer Systems, Inc., was
awarded a $17,000 contract
to provide a computer train
ing course for postal manage
ment and planning personnel
"The awarding of these
contracts is in keeping with the
(See CONTRACTS 1A)
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OPP ON IUROMAN TOUR
Meadames Bessie McLaurin
and Plassie Harris left Durham
Friday for Europe. The tour is
under the auspices of N. C.
Central University. They will
visit six countries. Among the
highlights of the trip is to
€ht Carwla €tm*o
Assistant Secretary of Labor
Arthur Fletcher (former Los
; Angeles Rams football star).
The week-long engagement
i marked Miss Ross' first major
' appearance in the East as a
[ solo performer.
Old Boone Drug
Store Building Site
Of WIAPV Project
Women in Action for the
Prevention of Violence and its
Causes have opened a School
Support Center in the old
Boone Drug Store building on
the corner of Mangum and
Parrish Streets. Women In
Action take no position on any
specific desegregation plan.
They are supporting the com
munity in the American Way.
They want to see Durham city
schools open September 2,
with as little confusion as
possible.
The School Support Center
is being operated with the
complete approval of the
school administration. As a
result, the WIAPV volunteers
will try to get factual answers
to parents' specific questions
regarding the latest school
plan. Mrs. George Miller co
ordinating chairman of the
project has announced its
(See WOMEN 2A)
wknees the Passion Play at
Obcrammeragau and a Swiss
Folklore Performance in
Lucerne. ,
Their first stop will be Paris
and will return to the U. S. A.
via London. During* Friday
afternnon they will hob nob
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1970
Charles Campbell, Councilman
Of Honolulu Visits Hometown
By MARCIA WILLIAMS
Charles M. Campbell, coun
cilman for the City and
County of Honolulu, Hawaii
and native of Durham, re
turned to his hometown Sun
day to speak at Saint Mark
AMe Zion Church.
The councilman, who is
presently a Democratic candi
date for lieutenant governor
of Hawaii, is a graduate of
Hillside High School. He re- ,
cieved an A.B. degree from
North Carolina Central Uni
versity; an M.A.
Howard University and an
M.A. degree In Cociology from
Columbia University. The
Ph.D. candidate at New York
University has been a high
school teacher of American
Government at Farrington
High School In Honolulu for
many years.
Campbell, former chairman
of the Oahu Democratic par
ty, is chairman of the Hawaii
State Advisory Committee,
U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights and has been elected
to the executive committee
of the Council of National
Organizations of Children and
Youth.
Dubbed "a political curi
osity" by local political
300 Negro Baptists Expected
For Durham Session Aug. 3-6
3(10 Mnorn momhprs **
of the General Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina,
Inc., are expected at North
Carolina Central University
August 3-6 for the 97th annual
State Baptist Sunday School
Congress and the 69th Baptist
Training Union Congress.
C. C. Craig of Raleigh, direc
tor of Christian Education for
the state Baptists, said the
theme of this years' session*
will be "The Church's Re
sponse to the Challenge of
the Seventies."
The Rev. Lorenzo A.
Lynch, pastor of the White
Rock Baptist Church of Dur
ham, is the host pastor for the
meetings. James T. Hawkins ol
Durham is president of the
State BTU Convention.
Activities get under way
(See BAPTISTS 2A)
with Mr*. Harris' brother T. L.
Williams and friends who have
planned dinner and entertain
ment for them until flight time
at ten o'clock from Kennedy
International Airport. They
will be traveling by Afar France.
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CAMPMLL
analyists, Campbell wu chosen
among six of 39 candidates
for Honolulu City Council
seats in is considered
one bf the leading contenders
for the position of lieutenant
governor in the coming elec
tion.
Among those attending the
"Get Acquainted Fellowship
honoring Charles Milton Camp
bell" were Dr. C.E. Boulware,
Durham City Councilman; J.H.
Lucas of Hillside High School;
Dr. C.W. Orr of NCCU; G.S.
Nixon of NCCU Alumni As
sociation and F.H. Alston,
Mend and classmate.
Rev. L.A. MUler, pastor of
I (See CAMPBELL 2A)
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Plan Memorial
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Services For
Arch Foster, Jr.
A Wake and a Memorial
service will be held this week !
for Arch K. Foster, Jr. Former i
Associate Director of Foun
dation for Community De
velopment for Leadership De
velopment. Foster drowned
at Atlantic Beach in Morehead
City, N. C,
A wake will be held Thurs
day, beginning at 6 p.m. in
the Malcolm X Liberation Uni
versity building on Pettigrew
Street.
A memorial service will be
held Friday at 7 p.m. in
Hillside Park. The Service is
being coordinated by Howard
L. Fuller, with who Foster
had worked for several years.
The Liberation Singers of Mal
colm X Liberation University
will provide the music.
Foster, who redded at 1326
Ivy Street, was a native of
Deiand, Fla. He was a graduate
of North Carolina Central
University and served in the
U.S. Air Force before working
with the North Carolina Fund.
Black Cosmetics Firm
Opens sMillion Plant
Nat'l Leaders
At Dedication
Ceremony in Ga
ATLANTA The ability of
black businessmen to succeed
in the national marketplace has
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been demonstrated anew by
the Cannolenc Company,
manufacturer of cosmetics,
with the opening of a new
sl-million plant here that in
corporates the most modern
production technologies.
The dedication ceremony
was attended by government
and business leaders, including
Secretary of Commerce Mau
rice H. Stans, Whitney Young,
executive director of the Na
tional Urban League, and H. P.
Smith, Vice president of F. W.
Wootworth (Jo.
Although the Cannolene
Company is 46 years old, its
current substantial growth be
gan only three years ago when
it expanded into the national
market, explains Robert 0.
Cannon, president, who is the
son of the founder, W. S.
Cannon.
Sales topped $1 million in
(See COSMETICS 2A)
NAACP Launches 70 Stepped-up
Membership natio
NEW YORK - In the wake
of its widely acclaimed 61st
annual convention in Cincinna
ti earlier this month, the Na
tional Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
ple has launched a stepped
up nationwide membership
campaign in the hope of ex
ceeding its 1969 total of
461,957 despite a 100 per
cent increase in the minimum
annual membership fee from
$2.00 to $4.00.
In a memoradum to local
units throughout the nation,
Gloster B. Current, director of
(See DRIVE 2A)
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CMTIPICATI OP APPOINT.
MlNT— Frank Render, n, of
Syracuse, New York, (left) re
ceives his Certificate of Ap
pointment from Roger T. Kel
ley. Assistant Secretary of De
fense (Manpower and Reserve
Affairs) after being sworn into
office as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Man
power and Reserve Affairs) for
Words of Wisdom
Those who love deeply nover grow old; they may
di« of old age, but they di« young.
—-Arthur Wing Pinmro
I believe the first test of a truly great man is
humility. — John Kuskin
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CASH BREAKS BARRIER
Rosalind Cash, after years of a
professional career as singer
entertainer and a talent that
won her roles on the legitimate
stage, finally has made her
motion picture debut, and in
a big way—a plum role oppo-
site Jon Voight in "The All
American Boy," a Warner
Bros, production. Miss Cash is
Business League's Convention to
Open Opportunity for Profit
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Berkeley G, Burrell, President
of the National Business
League announced today that
the Detroit Hilton and the
Sheraton Cadillac Hotels in
Detroit, Michigan are rapidly
assigning rooms to an ex
pected 3,000 businessmen for
the 70th Annual XBL Busi
nessmen's Convention.
Civil Rights, at the Pentagon,
Washington, D. C., Monday,
July 20. Mrs. Render witnessed
the ceremony.
The position of Deputy As
sistant Secretary for Civil
i Rights is the principal Defense
> office responsible for equality
of opportunity in the U. S.
Armed Forces, for both mili
tary and civilian personnel.
PRICE: 20 Crate
"doing her thing" now after a
long uphill struggle filled with
bitterness and frustration and
wants to continue in her new
found field Charles Eastman
directs "The All American
Boy," Joseph T. Naar is pro
ducer and Saul John Krugman
is executive producer on The
Technicolor drama.
The theme of the conven
tion, which will be held Sep
tember 30-october 3, 1970,
will be "Make American Busi
ness A 2 - Way Street". The
Detroit NBL chapter will host
the meeting. The Convention
will be a practical meeting
place for minority businessmen
to arrange with majority busi
fSee BUSINESS 2A;
and compliance with equal em
ployment standards of the Fed
eral government
He is married to the former
Eva Smith of Richmond. Vir>
ginia, and they hate three
sons. Mrs. Sylvia Lyons-Rea
der, Mr. Render's mother is at
present Professor of English,
N. C. Central University.