Words of Wisdom
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Once an organization loses its spirit of
pioneering and rests on its early work, its
progress stops. — Thomas /. Watson
VOLUME 50 No. 2
Defeat Education Bill
With Anti-Negro
Urges The NAACP
NEW YORK - In an ef
fort to protect and extend
gains in school desegregation,
the National Association of
the Advancement of Colored
People called upon Congress
to reject the $1.5 billion
emergency educational bill
unless two anti-Negro amend
ments were deleted in the last
days of the 92nd Congress.
In a telegram to Clarence
Mitchell, dispatched, Decem
ber 30, Executive Director
Roy Wilkins called the As
sociation's Washington repre
sentative to "advise senators
and congressmen of our
stand."
The text of the telegram
follows:
We understand emergency
Education Bill authorizing
one billion five hundred
million dollars in federal as
sistance in carrying out dese
gregation policy will be con
sidered in clising days of
session. This bill contains two
(See BILL page 2A)
Emmanuel Votes To Buy New Church Bldg.
May Abandon Present Kent St.
Location For Riddle Road Edifice
It was disclosed here this
week that at a recent meet
ing held at the Emmanuel
A.M.E. Church, located at
714 Kent Street, a prepon
dent number of the member
ship voted to abandon the
present building which has
been used as a place of wor
ship for the past 83 years and
to purchase an abandoned
white church building, for
merly known as the Inde
pendent Baptist Church, lo
cated on Riddle Road.
It was further disclosed
that the present structure of
Emmanuel is owned by the
Fitzgerald family, having been
originally provided or given
by the late R. B. Fitegerald
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Air Force Col. Die
Col. Brown Temporary Successor
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Air Force Colonel.J. E. Dienz,
51, who retired December 31,
was presented the Legion of
Merit in a Pentagon ceremony
Dec. 28, 1970 by Roger T.
KeUey, Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Manpower and Re
serve Affairs). Colonel Dienz
has been a special assistant to a
Kelley for Domestic Action
Census Bureau
To Probe Black
Business World
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
A new mail survey, designed
to determine the extent of
business ownership by minori
ty businessmen, will be con
ducted by the Bureau of the
Census, U. S. Department of
Commerce.
Forms for the survey will
be mailed on or about De
cember 15 and will seek in
formation about the number
and kind of businesses, em
ployment, receipts, legal form
of ownership, and geographic
location of businesses owned
by Black, Mexican-American,
Puerto Rican-American,
Cuban-American, and other
(See CENSUS page 2A)
without any provision being
originally or since made for
transfer of the title to the
membership or congregation.
The present minister of
Emmanuel is the Rev. J. R.
Crutchfield who has held the
pastorate for the past five
years. Under his leadership
the church is said to be in
creasing in membership and
importance as a place of wor
ship, instead of being at a
standstill and of little impor
tance in comparison with
leading churches of the city.
•T The new site on Riddle
Road is reported to be larger
and possesses more of the
facilities necessary for the
(See EMMANUEL page 2A)
since February, 1969.
Colonel Dienz, a native of
California, was graduated
from the University of Cali
fornia in 1942. In January of
that year he enlisted in the
Army Air Corps and was com
missioned from Officer Candi
date School in August. *
Succeeding Colonel Dienz
in the Domestic Action assign
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HONORARY MIMBIR _ Presi
dent Nixon is shown receiving
a Honorary lifetime Member
ship to the Boys' dubs Profes
sional Association from George
A Director
Whitney M. Young Jr.,
the executive director
of the National Urban Lea
gue, was appointed Mon
day (Dec. 28) by the Fed
eral Reserve Board as a di
rector in the Federal Re
serve Bank of New York.
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ment will be Lieutenant Colo
nel (colonel selectee) William
E. Brown, Jr., a native of New
York who has keen on active
duty since December 15,
1951. He flew combat mis
sions both in Korea and in
Southeast Ada. His most re
cent assignment was at George
Air Force Base, California,
(See COLONEL page 2A)
DURHAM. N. C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1971
"S. Palino, president of the As
sociation. Also in the picture
from left to right are A. Boyd
Hinds, National Director of
Boys' Clubs of Americe, Palino,
Food Programs Ai
Needy Persons In 70
"Write Hanoi"
Drive Gets Aid
Of Red Cross
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Students at 1,700 U. S. col
leges and universities are being
asked to support the wide
spread "Letter to Hanoi" pro
test campaign of the Ameri
can Red Cross.
The campaign's goal, ac
cording to ARC President
George M. Elsey, is to con
vince the government of
North Vietnam that it should
adhere to its Geneva Conven
tion pledge in the treatment
of U. S. war prisoners, some
of whom have been held in
captivity for as long as six
years.
Since the -campaign was
first launched in November
1969, hundreds of thousands
of letters have poured into
Hanoi asking that the North
Vietnamese president prompt
(See HANOI page 2A)
Unit Drive to
Register 18-Yr.
Olds Launched
NEW YORK - A nation
wide drive to register the
newly enfranchised 18-year
olds was announced this voek
by James Brown, Jr., direc
tor of the Youth and College
Division of the National As
sociation for the Advance
ment of Colored People. The
campaign, he said, will be
kicked-off late in January.
The NAACP Youth Divi
sion has been among the most
active forces ill the successful
campaign to lower the voting
age to 18. In April, 1969, this
unit sponsored the National
Youth Confer
ence which brought more
(See REGISTER page 2A)
President Nixon, Jay Markle
of Chicago, Lee W. Smith, Jr..
executive director of the John
Avery Boys' Club of Durham,
and a member of the Associa
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Assistant Secretary of Agri
culture Richard Lyng today
reported that in November an
estimated 12.9 million needy
persons took part in the U. S.
Department of Agriculture's
family food-assistance pro
grams. This is the largest par
ticipation ever and climaxes
two years of steady progress
to bring food assistance to
more of the Nation's needy.
November 1969's participa
tion in the programs was 7.1
million.
Lyng said November parti
cipation in the Food Stamp
Program climbed to an esti
mated 9.3 million people, a
Young Mississippian Homed 1971
National fpifep sy Roster Child
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
It's going to be a big year for
five year old Zachery Wil
liams, of Jackson, Mississippi.
Zachery has just been named
the winner in the Epilepsy
Foundation of America's
1971 National Poster Child
Contest.
Zachery, whose name was
entered in the Contest by
the Mississippi Council on
Epilepsy, has had epilepsy
since he was two years old.
He now has good seizure
control and is looking for
ward to carrying the symbo
lic Candle of Understnading
passed to him by Deborah
Sue Gager and Ronald Jace
Meckenstock, EFA's Poster
Children during the past year.
Zachery's first public ap
pearance as the Poster Child
was at the Orange Bowl
Parade in Miami on New
Year's Eve, where he rode on
a colorful float saluting the
Foundation.
As the 1971 Poster Child,
Zachery Williams can look
forward to meeting many new
people - and according to his
two brothers and two sisters,
(See EPILEPSY page 2A)
tion's Executive Committee and
Ray Lockwood, 2nd Vice Presi
dent of the Association. The
presentation was made recently
at the White House.
record for the program. Par
ticipation in November a year
ago was 3.5 million. In De
cember 1969, when improve
ments were announced per
mitting low-income families
to pay less and get more
food stamps, participation
was 3,600,000. Some of No
vember 1970's increase was
strikers, who are now at work.
Payments of "bonus cou
pons" to participating fami
lies also climbed during No
vember to an estimated total
of $124.6 million. A year
earlier, the value of bonus
coupons issued was $23.3 mil
lion.
(See FOOD page 2A)
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GETS A PROMISE—Singer Di
onne Warwick gets together
with five year old Zachery Wil
liams at the Diplomat Hotel in
Hollywood, Florida. Zachery,
1071 National Poster Child of
the Epilepsy Foundation of
America, gets Dionne to prom
The Golden One is Coming
For The Important Date
WATCH THESE COLUMNS
Interest Rates Easing, Dollars
Scarce For the Black Borrowers
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
"The recently announced tril
lion dollar gross national pro
duct is not helping the na
tion's Blacks at all," declares
Berkeley G. Burrell, president
of the National Business Lea
gue, the nation's oldest busi
ness association.
"Quite the contrary, the
apparent upsurge in the eco
nomy has been drastically off
set by inflation, the cutbacks
in defense spending, and the
General Motors strike and
wage settlement. This has had
a negative impact upon
(See DOLLARS page 2A)
Milton Grant Joins the Chase-
Manhattan Management Project
Milton Grant of Durham
will take part in a year long
training program sponsored
by the National Banker's As
sociation and the American
Banker's Association jointly,
(jfrant has been selected to
take his training at „ the
Chase • Manhattan Bank of
New York City.
The program is set up to
give Blacks with an interest
in banking an insight of the
banking system of our larger
banks, through on -the-job
training and a selective pro
1970 Housing Act Broke New
Ground With Labor Backings
The 1970 Housing Act
broke new ground with labor
backed programs, despite Ad
ministration attempts to
"merely extend some of the
existing programs," an AFL
CIO spokesman declared to
day in a network radio inter
view.
AFL-CIO Legislative Re
presentative Ray Denison
ise to carry his message of un
derstanding with ber wherever
she goes. Hie young Mississip
plan was In Florida as part of
a tour designed to help pave
the wsy for s better life for
four million Americans who
have the disorder.
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gram in bank management.
Grant received his educa
tion in the Durham City
Schools and is a graduate of
North Carolina Central Uni
versity with a degree in Ac
counting. He also did study
in the School of Law at
N. C. C. U. Grant was former
ly employed with the Minne
sota Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
He is married to the former
Miss Doris Wall of Durham
and is the father of two
children.
listed authority for unions
and other non-profit organi
zations to help build housing
for farm and migratory
workers, and federal assist
ance in the construction of
dormitory-type quarters and
new communities as major
steps toward meeting national
housing needs. He pointed out
that two years ago, Congress
set a 10-year goal of 26
million new housing units.
Denison renewed the call
for the president to use the
authority Congress gave him
to "ration and redirect cre
dit ... toward the building
of homes." He said that
Housing and Urban Develop
ment Secretary Romney
should also "order and direct"
that the FHA-VA rat* be cut
from the present 8% to 7%
now - and eventually to 6%.
Roy Wilkins
Makes Report
To Annual Meet
NEW YORK Executive
Director Roy Wilkins will re
port to the annual meeting
of the National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People on the "State
of NAACP" at the Plaza
Hotel here, Monday
January 11.
The report will cover the
various activities of the As
sociation during 1970 includ
ing the programs carried out
by the several NAACP de
partments, significant achieve
ments, membership and in
come figures, and highlights
of branch activity*. Wilkins
will also Indicate major pro
grams for 197*
(See WILKINS page 2A)