Words of Wisdom
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one
likes, but in liking what one does.
—James M. Barrie
VOLUME 49 No. 39
luteal Educator Becomes First
Black President
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Davis Named Civil Aviation Security Head
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APPOINTED TO CONTRACT
APPEALS BOARD Thaddeus
V. Ware (Center), who, for
more than a year has served
on the White House Staff as
an Aide to Presidential Assis
tant Robert J. Brown (Right),
has returned to the Depart
Ifolpe To Confer With Europeans
On Recent Aircraft Hijacking
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
President Nixon today an
nounced he is sending Secre
tary of Transportation John A.
Volpe as his personal emissary
to six European cities to con
fer with top European civil
aviation and airport officials
about the international aspects
of aircraft hijacking.
Secretary Volpe will meet
with officials in Amsterdam,
Frankfurt, Paris, London and
Zurich to discuss measures to
prevent air piracy.
Announcement of the visit
follows Secretary Volpe's pre
sentation Friday to the govern
ing council of the International
Civil Aviation Organization of
the United States position on
aircraft hijacking.
The Secretary asked the in
ternational aviation communi
ty to support the principle of
suspension of air services to
nations that harbor persons re
sponsible for air piracy or
those that detain passengers
and crew or any aircraft that
has been illegally seized.
Secretary Volpe, in his
NCCL Supplementary Requests Made
To Protect Accreditatio
Says Salaries Must Be Equalized
To Maintain Qualified Personnel
North Carolina Central Uni
versity's "B" budget requests,
forwarded Tuesday to the
state's Advisory Budget Com
mission, may technically re
flect "program enrichment"
proposals, as the law provides.
But President Albert N.
Whiting's cover letter to the
Commission makes it clear that
in his opinion "enrichment" is
vei> nearly the same thing as
"survival".
The request, for $2,269,847
ment of Transportation. Mr.
Ware, a career civil servant,
met with President Nixon on
his departure and received
words of praise from the Chief
Executive.
Mr. Ware stressed that the
time he spent at the White
meetings with the European
officials, is expected to dis
cuss the United States posi
tion on hijacking. He also is
expected to attempt to set up
a formal means of exchanging
information on measures that
can be taken to counter acts
of air piracy. Among these
measures are electronic surveil
lance, the use of armed guards,
and personal and baggage
searches for boarding passen
gers.
The Secretary is tentatively
scheduled to be in Rome on
September 28, in Zurich and
Frankfurt on September 29, in
Paris and Amsterdam on Sep
tember 30, and in London on
October 1.
Protects Aircraft
WASHINGTON (UPl)—The
first specially trained mili
tary guards will start riding
commercial airliners within a
week with orders to shoot hi
jackers only as a last resort
to save the lives of passeng
ers, Transportation Secretary
John A. Volpe said Friday.
includes a request for one mil
lion dollars as a reserve to pro
vide a ten per cent salary in
crease to faculty members in
both years of the 1971-73
biennium.
(The university's "A" bud
get, for maintaining its already
existing programs, is $11,887,
521 for the bienni um).
President Whiting sees this
request as essential to the con
tinued operation of the uni
(See NCCU page 10A)
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House had been a "remarkable
and rewarding experience."
He returns to the Depart
ment of Transportation in a
new capacity as a member of
the Department's Contract Ap
peals Board.
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DBC COED TGD SCHOLAR
SHIP WINNER _ DBC Coed,
Louvenia Morris, receives a
SIOO.OO Scholarship from Tau
Gamma Delta Sorority in a re
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CLARENCE MITCHELL, II
Director NAACP
Washington Bureau
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1970
Test Dates For
Nat'l Teachers
Exams are Set
North Carolina Central Uni
versity will offer the National
Teacher's Examination three
times during 1971. New dates
for the testing of prospective
teachers are: January 30, April
3, and July 17,1971.
Results of the National
Teacher Examinations are
used by many large school dis
tricts as one of several factors
in the selection of new teach
ers and by several states for
certification or licensing of
teachers. All teachers in North
Carolina must take this exami
nation in order to be certified.
On each full day of testing,
prospective teachers may take
the Common Examinations
which measure their profes
sional preparation and general
cultural background, and a
Teaching Area Examination
which measures their mastery
of the subject they expect to
teach.
Prospective teachers should
contact the school systems in
which they seek employment,
or their colleges, for specific
advice on which examinations
(See TEST page 10A)
cent welcome students program
held at the college.
Left to right presenting the
SIOO.OO Scholarship is (Mrs.)
Lizzie Crews, President; (Mrs.)
Gastonia To Be Host to the 27th
Annual State NAACP Convention
The 27th annual State Con
vention of the NAACP will be
held in Gastonia Oct. 8-10
with State President Kelly M.
Alexander in charge. He will
be assisted by the local presi
dent The Rev. J. E. Coleman,
pastor of Greater Mt. Zion
Baptist Church. The theme is
"The Status of Black Ameri
cans in an Era of Social
Change."
The Convention headquart
ers will be at Mt. Calvary Bap
REV BARNES
Rev. Barnes to
Be Installed as
Shiloh's Pastor
WILMINGTON - The Shi
loh Missionary Baptist Church,
Walnut and McCrae Street,
Wilmington will begin a week
of Christian Fellowship in the
installation of its thirteenth
pastor Reverend J. W. Barnes.
Reverend Barnes is from
Durham, and a graduate of
North Carolina Central Uni
verMty, receiving both the
Bachelor and Master of Arts
degrees in history. His divinity
training was done at Shaw Uni
(See BARNES page 10A)
L. McCauley Harris, President
of Durham Business College;
and (Miss) Louvenia Morris,
Senior.
tist Church on N. Marietta St.
Registration of adult and
youth delegates will be held.
Both branches are required
to pay a convention access
ment to State Treasurer, B. J.
Battle, 1010 Bellevue St.,
Greensboro.
Convention delegates will
be houses in private homes
and in motels of the city.
The convention begins
(See NAACP page 10A)
PRICE: 20 Cents
Retired Lieut.
Gen. to Advise
Sect'y Volpe
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
The Department of Transpor
tation today moved on two
fronts to meet the threat of
air piracy.
Secretary of Transportation
John A. Volpe announced
that:
-• Lt. Gen. Benjamin Q.
Davis, Jr., who retired from
the U. S. Air Force in 1969,
has been appointed as Direc
tor of Civil Aviation Security
for the Department.
- The Department is offer
ing aviation war risk insurance
coverage to American air
carriers because the insurance
is not available at reasonable
rates from commercial in
surers.
Gen. Davis, 57, will advise
Secretary Volpe on the De
partment's anti-hijacking pro
gram and will coordinate the
functions of the airport and
airborne security force, now
composes of operatives from
the Departments of transpor
(See DAVIS page 10A)
Black Historians
Major Issues At Conference
1 WASHINGTON, D. C. -
The 55th anniversary session
of the Association for the
Study of Negro Life and His
tory, scheduled for Philadel
phia, Oct. 22-25, will focus on
a wide spectrum of issues,
events, and personalities in the
Black experience, according to
Dr. J. Rupert Picott, ASNLH
president.
Dr. Picott is also assistant
director of membership deve
lopment for the National Edu
cation Association.
In discussing the ASNLH
convention, Dr. Picott said:
"This conference promises to
be the largest and best ever.
More than 100 scholars, teach
ers and lay specialists will lead
the four general and 29 special
sessions.
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BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
A goal of UNICEN, a non-profit
youth organization in a pre
dominantly black Dayton, Ohio,
neighborhood, was achieved
recently when PPG Industries
donated a building to the group
for use as offices and a com
MAS. PRASIIR
UNC Early Childhood Lecturer
Chosen by 1200 Member Group
Mrs. Elizabeth Frasier, a
lecturer in Early Childhood
Education at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
was elected president of the
North Carolina Kindergarten
Association Saturday, Septem
ber 26, at its annual Study
Conference in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.
The twenty-year-old organi
zation which has more than
1200 members from through
out the State includes in
addition to public and private
kindergarten educators; princi
pals, supervisors, and teachers
.a the primary grades.
Mrs. Frasier, a native of
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DR. PICOTT
"The general sessions, and
all public meetings, are de
sighed with intimate relevance
to the Black Movement in
America and the world," Dr.
munity center. In a ceremony
in front of the 20,000-square
foot building in West Dayton,
the deed to the property was
presented by Richard Peake,
Jr. of PPG (second from left)
to two happy teenage UNICEN
board members, Earl Matlock
Yanceyville, North Carolina,
attended Fayetteville State
Teachers College and Howard
University in Washington, D.
C. prior to receiving a master's
degree from North Carolina
Central University in Durham.
She has done advanced study
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Some
of her professional experiences
include:
Teacher in Ford Founda
tion's Pilot program in Lan
guage Arts for deprived chil
dren in Washington, D. C.
Instructor, University of
i North 'Qirolina Regional Train-
I (See EDUCATOR page 10A)
Picott said. "The numerous
group sessions will provide tre
mendous opportunities for
exploration and planning de
finitive action, through
scholarly papers and pragma
tic resolutions."
Dr. Picott said he expected
approximately 4,000 persons
to participate in the conven
tion.
Keynote speakers will in
clude: Dr. Samuel D. Proctor,
chairman, Afro-American
Studies Committee, Rutgers
State University; California
State Senator Mervyn Dymal
ly, who also is co-chairman of
the National Conference of
Black Elected Officials; Ber
nard E. Garnett, of Race Re
lations Information Center,
Nashville, Tenn.
and Robin Rucker. TKI>HB| oq
at left is Rev. Percy W. Jones,
UNICEN director. First stage
of the building renovation
plans calls for converting part
of the building (or us* as a
teen activities center and office
space.