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Words of Wisdom ★ After a man makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers. —Frank G. Mdnnis VOLUME 49 No. 48 Sen. Edward Brooke In Raleigh Friday mL J- s - - HE a j£9 v ■ ■i ■ V ■ HEARD AT ST. AUG. —(Left to right) Cliff Baker of NCS University; Landard C. Ulmer, staff manager, N. C. Mutual Life Insurance Company; C. 0. Ray, agent, North Carolina NAACP Executive To Bolster Drive At St. Joseph's Thursday Edward B. Muse, Director, life Membership Division, NAACP, New York City, will be the principal speaker at "Awards Night," 8:00 p.m., Thursday, December 3, at St. Joseph A.M.E. Church. The program w&l feature the presentation of Life Mem bership plaques to organiza tions or peisons who have' paid out their memberships this year. They will be presented Emergency School Assistance Program Is Sharply Criticized PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - The Federal government's $75 million Emergency School Assistance Program, proposed to aid in school de segregation, was sharply criti cized in a report today by six private civil rights organi zations. "The promise of the Emergency School Assistance Program has been broken," they declared, adding that, "Fund that were appropri ated by Congress last August to help desegregated public schools have been used for general school aid purposes unrelated to desegregation. Roy Wilkins Returns East After Touring in Pacific Northwest NEW YORK - Back from a busy five-day tour of units of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the Pacific Northwest, Executive Director Roy Wilkins reported an alert, active and growing NAACP membership in that area. The tour took him to Seattle and Bremerton, Wash., and Kla math Falls, Oregon. He also stopped in San Francisco on his return to New York City. Mr. Wilkins* jam-packed program, Nov. 15-18, con sisted of a series of public meetings, conferences with local NAACP leaders, meet ings with public officials and community leaders, addresses before student groups, and meetings with representatives of the news media. In Seattle, the NAACP leader addressed a mass meet ing at the Garfield High School, followed by a dinner meeting with members of the ; Mutual participants and Dr. S. P. Puri, director of the insti , tute. The program began No vember 17. Baker spoke on "Consumer Economics, Princi- I to St. Joseph Church, Mount Calvary Christian Church and J. C. Scarborough, in. J. B. Philyaw, chairman, Life Membership Committee, announced that this program is designed to make Durham number one, in the state, for 1970. The report at the 1970 convention showed that the local branch was number two With three paid out and twelve subscribing. Philyaw felt that In many instances funds have been granted to school dis tricts that are continuing to discriminate against black children." The organizations primarily involved in the preparation of the report are the American Friends Service Committee, the Delta Ministry of the Na tional Council of Churches, the Lawyers Committee for Qvil Rights Under Law, the Lawyers Constitutional De fense Committee, the NAACP Legal and Educational De fense Fund, Inc., and the Washington Research Project. (See SCHOOL page SA) branch's executive board, and a reception. The next day, Nov. 16, he spoke at the Shoreline Community College and later met with some 80 journalism students attending high schools throughout the county. The Freedom Fund Dinner which he addressed in Bremer ton, was packed to capacity, with the city's foremost citi zens as well as the rank and file in attendance. Of the day In bßremerton, Adele Fergu son, political writer for "The Bremerton Sun," reports: "Community leaders, Navy brass and civil rights officials from all over the west coast gathered here last night to pay tribute to the man they acclaimed as the most out • standing and respected black leader in the nation. "There were also just a lot of plan people, black and white, among the star-studded (See WILKINS, page SA) €he CarSfetCtiMg pies and Practices." The gen eral theme from November 17, through February 8, 1971 will be "Improvement of the Com munity from the Economic and Consumer Point of View. there might be two more who would pay out at the Thurs day meeting and he believed that perhaps five would get started paying the $500.00, which makes one a life mem ber. According to W. M. Gilliam, general membership chairman, the 1970 drive is perhaps the most successful ever held. Reports are coming in daily and from all indica tions the allocated total will (See MUSE, page SA) MUSE Activist Is Arrested At Home; Begins Five-Year Sentence NEW ORLEANS, La. - Walter Collins, 24-year-old activist in the black liberation movement, was arrested at his home here November 27, to start serving a five-year sen tence for refusing to be drafted. The arrest came just 11 days after the U. S. Supreme Court declined to hear an ap peal of his sentence, while his lawyers were still preparing a petition for reconsideration by the high court. They have 25 days to file such a peti tion. Collins himself had been (See ACTIVIST, page SA) Subpoena Of Black R Investigation Quashed SAN FRANCISCO, Calif- In a landmark decision under scoring the sanctity of a free press, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled this week that a re porter could not be required to testify before a secret grand jury unless the Fedaral Gov erment was able to show a DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1970 TWO NEW BOARD MEMBERS AND VP ELECTED AT N. C. MUTUAL LIFE Baker Assigned To Great Lakes Regional Office Joseph W. Goodloe, presi dent, North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, on behalf of the board of direc tors, announced the election of two new board members and: a new vice president for the company's Great Lake* Region at the November board meeting. The two new board mem bers are: Alfred M. Pelham, long-time public official in De troit and chairman of the board of directors of the Great Lakes Mutual Life In surance Company before that Arm's merger with the North Carolina Mutual Life Insur ance Company, succeeding Thad B. Gail lard, CLU; and Henry E. Frye, prominent Greensboro, North Carolina attorney and the first black to Rev. Sandy F. Ray To Deliver Emancipation Day Address Here The West Durham Baptist Church, Athens Street will be the host church for the 1971 Emancipation Proclamation programs Friday, January 1, 1971 at 11:00 a.m., Rev. F. D. Tory, pastor. The program will be sponsored by the Inter denominational Ministerial Alliance of Durham and Vi cinity, Rev. E. H. Whitly, President; Rev. V. E. Brown, Chairmen of the Publicity Committee. Rev. Sandy F. Ray is a native of Texas. He is a grad uate of Arkansas Baptist College, Morehouse College, Mrs. Daisy C. Froz | Ex-Shaw Univ. Dea RALEIGH Mrs. Daisy Christian Frazer, widow of the late Charles Rivers Frazer, Sr., noted Raleigh educator, busi ness man and civic leader, was funeralized here Sunday (Nov. 29). She died in East St. Louis, 111. on Nov. 25. Prior to her going to East St. Louis in 1963, she had made her home in Raleigh with her family since her marriage to the late Prof. Frazer in 1907. Her late husband was one of the nation's pioneer Negro educators and served as the first academic dean of Shaw compelling need for his pre sence. The action was brought by attorneys of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) in behalf of "New Ybrk Times" re porter Earl Caldwell, who was subpoenaed last February to testify in a grand jury investi- gmr- m ■P Hi HI F*YE be elected to the N. C. state legislature in thte century. Harrison E. Baker, an assis tant vice president, was elected vice president of North Carolina Mutual and assigned to the Great Lakes Regional Office. Alfred M. Pelham has a long and illustrious record of county government in De troit and Wayne County. He was an associate professor and budget officer at Wayne State University. OR. RAY University from 1910 to 1921. He was also active in the business and civic life of the state as manager of the Raleigh branch of the Mecha nics and Farmers Bank and later special representative of the bank and N. C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. Dr. Charles W. Ward of the First Baptist Church of Ra leigh and the Rev. Lorenzo A. Lynch, pastor of White Rock Baptist Church of Dur ham, officiated at last rites for Mrs. Frazer in brief and simple ceremonies at Raleigh's Lightner's Funeral Home. Dr. ption of the Black Panther Party. Caldwell was or dered to bring this tape re cordings and notes of inter views with Panther leaders. LDF attorneys were ap pealing a district court order which directed Caldwell to testify, though granting him the privilege of withholding PELHAM Henry E. Frye, a graduate -of A. & T. University in Greensboro and the University of North Carolina's Law School at' Chapel Hill, is a partner in the firm of Frye & Johnson of Greensboro. He is active in civic and community affairs in his home city and state having served as Assis tant United States Attorney for the Middle District from 1963 to 1965. Harrison E. Baker, has his (See BOARD, page SA) received DD Degree from Ar kansas Baptist College in 1936, received DD Degree from Morehouse College in 1958. He served as Minister in the following churches: First Baptist Church, La Grange, Georgia, First Baptist Church, Macon, Georgia, St. Luke Bap tist Church, Chicago, Illinois, Shiloh Baptist Church, Colum bus, Ohio. Brighten your packages? with TB Christmas Seals, and make the world bright- ( er for those who suffer from TB, Emphysema and other respiratory diseases. Ward delivered the eulogy and the Rev. Mr. Lynch gave prayer at graveside rites at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Mrs. Frazer was one of 10 children of the late Wallace and Josephine Wayatt Chris tian of Richmond, Va. She attended Richmond public schools, Richmond Normal In stitute and Shaw University. She worked briefly as a teach er at the State Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind and as an office clerk at Shaw University. Surviving Mrs. Frazer are (See MRS. FRAZER, SA) confidential information. He nevertheless refused to appear and was cited for contempt of court. The LDF brief asked that the subpoena be quashed en tirely, maintaining that: 1. Mr. Caldwell's appear ance would destroy the re lationship of trust between re (See REPORTER, SA) The Golden One is Coming YOUR WAY IN 1971 For The Important Date WATCH THESE COLUMNS Mass. Leader is Keynoter at St. Augustine's Convocation An All-College Convoca tion, a "Second Spring," a rebirth as it were,' will take place on the campus of Saint Augustine's College, President Prezell R. Robinson has an nounced. The event will be held on December 4, at 8:00 p.m. in the Emery HeaXh~Shd Fine Arts Building. On this occasion the College will an nounce its plans for the next ten years. The keynote speaker for the convocation will be Sena te® Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts. This is the first time in the history of the college that a black sena tor has been on the Saint Augustine's College campus. Senator Brooke is a world famous lawyer and Episcopal Lay Leader. He is native of Washington, D. C. and was graduated from Howard Uni versity in 1941. Following World War II Service as an Army Captain, during which he received the Bronze Star for coiKbat duty with the par tisans in Italy, he entered Geographical Honor Society Names First Black President DETROIT, Michigan - The Gamma Theta Upsilon Inter national Honorary Geographi cal Society unanimously elected Dr. Theodore R. Speigner, Chairman, Depart ment of Geography, North Carolina Central University, Durham, as its first black pre sident in the history of the Society, November 27, 1970, Detroit Michigan. The annual meeting of Gamma Theta Upsilon Inter national Honorary Geographi cal Society was held in con junction with the 56th annual convention of the National Council for Geographic Edu cation at Detroit. Dr. Speigner has served as first vice-presi dent of the Honorary Society for two years. During his term ■ f I CONSISTORY Prince D. D. Brightwell, past Commander-in Chief and long time assistant recorder of the Boyer Consistory No. 219 of Raleigh, was honored gt the re PRICE 20 CENTS ■ Mfl SEN. BROOKE Boston University Law School where he earned the degrees LL. B. (1948) and LL.M. (1950). After two terms as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachu setts, Brooke won election to the U. S. Senate in 1966. He now served on the Banking and Currency Committee and the Afmed Services Com mittee. (See BBOOKE, page SA) of first vice-president of the Honorary Society for two years. During his term of of fice as second vice-president he was editor of the G.T.U. Newsletter. As first vice-presi dent of Gamma Theta Upsilon he was in charge of aH scholar ship awards on the undergrad uate, master's, and doctorate levels. Gamma Theta Upsilon In ternational Honorary Geogra phical Society was founded by Dr. Robert G. Buzzard, on May 15, 1928, at Illinois Southern University, Normal, Illinois. At present, there are 150 chapters with a member ship of 20,000. These chapters and members are located in Canada, Mexico, Europe, (See HONOR, page SA) cent annual Banquet held at St. Augustine's College Student Union. Making the presenta tion is Prince James G. Taylor, right of Raleigh
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