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Discriminatory Practices
In a letter to the North
Carolina Attorney General,
Durham Attorney Kenneth
B. Spaulding blasted the
racially discriminatory prac
tices carried on by the State
of North Carolina through
its Probation Department.
Spaulding said that it was
his understanding that the
general practice by the Pro
WORDS OF WISDOM
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Don't become, so wrapped up
in decisions that you forget to
communicate them to the peo
ple who will carry them out.
—Lon D. Barton
VOLUME 50 No. 6
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LAST YEAR IN SERVICES TO PEOPLE
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Miss Ferrie Kuteesa of East
Africa Airways welcomes Carl
Foreman, executive producer of
the Columbia Pictures-Fore
Supreme Court Orders Retrial
In Telephone Jo
WASHINGTON. D C
The Supreme Court of the
United States, in response to
a peition filed by the Na
tional Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People, has ruled that a
complainant charging racial
cfiscrimination under Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 need not submit the
complaint to a state or local
anti - discrimination agency
before appealing to the Fed
eral judiciary for relief
A ruling by the Court
of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit requiring exhaustion
of state or local remedies
was vacated by order of the
Supreme Court, January
18, and the case remanded
to the U.S. District Court
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DRAWINGS of General Elec
tee's new s4l Million Durham
generator plant are unveiled
for North Carolina officials at
Friday luncheon for 200 at the
bation Office is that the
Negro probation officers
supervise only Negro pro
bationers, yet white proba
tion officers may and do
supervise both black and
white probationers.
He said that to his knowl
edge he was aware of only
one occasion in the 33-year
old Department's history
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man presentation, Living Free,
as he departs London for loca
tion shooting in Kenya. Living
Free is the story of the further
exciting adventures of the three
cubs of Elsa, the beloved lion-
for the District of Arizona
for reconsideration. This
was the first instance in
which the Supreme Court
agreed to hear a case under
Title VII.
Miss Erlene Crosslin, a
Negro, filed charges of
racial discrimination in em
ployment against the Moun
tain State Telephone and
Telegraph Company. The
Equal Employment Opportu
nity Commission validated
her complaint and was sus
tained by the District
Court. The company appeal
ed the District Court's rul
ing to the Court of Appeals
which held that Miss Cross
lin was not entitled to a
trial on the merits of her
claim and that the District
See COURT page 10A
Durham Hotel. John N. Boyle,
second from left, who will |
manage the GE Durham plant,
shows artist's conception of
350,000 square foot plant to,
where a Negro probation
officer supervised a white
probationer He stated that
this racially discriminatory
practice is and has been
state-wide. Because of the
closeness of this Depart
ment's work with the court
system, Spaulding said that
such discriminatory prac
tices reflect poorly on the
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971
, ess of the memorable film
• Born Free. Susan Hampshire
I and Nigel Davenport star in
• the picture which also includes
i two Kenyan actors.
Quincy Jones To
Direct Music For
Oscar Awards Show
Quincy Jones, a three
time nominee for Academy
Awards and winner of a
Grammy Award last year,
has been appointed music
director of the 43rd Annual
Awards Program of the
Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences, it was
announced last week by
Robert E. Wise, producer of
the program.
A talented composer, Jones
won his Oscar nomination
for the score of "In Cold
Blood" and the spng "The
Eyes ol Love" and from the
See JONGS page 10X
from left, former Governor Lu-!
ther H. Hodges, State Senator
Claude Currie and Congress
man Nick Galifianakis.
effective administration of
justice.
Spaulding called for the
immediate cessation of these
practices and pointed out
that such state-wide prac
tices were clearly uncon
stitutional. He said, "It is
clear by both case law and
statutory law that state ac
tion cannot be founded on a
Cost Pushed Upward by Record
Disaster and Operating Expenses
WASHINGTON, D. C. -*
Pushed upward by a record
disaster year and the spiral
ing cost of all operations,
American Red Cross expendi
tures for services to the
American people andi U. S.
military personnel around the
world came to $149,360,647 In
1969-70, highest since World
War H.
The record expenditure fig
ure topped the previous fis
cal year's operating costs by
more than $29.2 million and
exceeded Red Cross income
for the year by $2.2 million,
the organization announced
in its 1970 Annual Report,
which has just been publish
ed.
Income Jurlng the year tot
aled $147,087,885, the Red
Cross reported, and $112,766,-
000 of this amount came from
the annual membership and
fund drive, the greater part
of it in partnership campaigns
with United Way groups.
Over 33,586,500 Americans
gave one dollar or more to
become Red Cross members.
Assistance to disaster vic
tims in 1969-70 came to $32,-
625,556, bringing Red Cross
expenditures for disaster aid
in the decade of the sixties to
$145,974,000, highest for any
ten-year period on record. In
688 disaster relief operations
during the year, 397,000 per
sons received emergency mass
care and 43,400 families were
given long-term recovery help
in repairing or rebuilding and
refurnishing their damaged
homes Following Hurricane
Camilla alone, over 29,000
See RED CROSS page 10A
Jesse Jackson Flies to Alabama
To Assist in Angela Davis Rally
CHICAGO, ILL. Re
sponding to an appeal from
the parents of Angela Davis,
Reverend Jesse Louis Jack
son flew to Birmingham,
Alabama last week to be the
principal guest speaker at
an Angela Davis Birthday
Fund Raising Service and
Rally.
The rally was held at the
Sixteenth Baptist Church,
the scene of a tragic bomb
ing in 1968 in which four
Sunday School teenagers,
friends of Miss Davis, were
killed. Held on Miss Davis'
birthday, it is one of numer
ous events being staged all
over the country to raise
funds for the defense of the
Recruiters On N. C. Central Campus
North Carolina Central
University's placement cen
ter will be a busy spot
through the month of Feb
ruary as seniors start their
final semester with visits by
prospective employers.
Nearly 80 different or
ganizations will visit the
campus during the month to
seek employees.
Lindsey SK. Merritt, di
racially discriminatory basis,
nor can it be a part of the
continuation or initiation of
racially discriminatory prac
tices. It is also clear that
state and public monies
cannot be spent to effectuate
or perpetuate any practices
or programs which are
See BLASTS page 10A
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MISS ROBINSON
Clinton Girl is
Named "Miss
U. N. C. Fund"
Miss Joyce Gail Robinson, 21
year old senior sociology major
at Saint Augustine's College,
has been elected "Miss United
Negro College Fund." Miss
Robinson will represent the
Fund at the annual meeting to
be held in Atlanta, Georgia,
February 4-7.
She is a member of the So
ciology club, and the Pre-alum
ni Club of Saint Augustine's
College.
Miss Robinson is a native of
Clinton.
There is a wide gulf between
a suggestion and an idea. True
idfeas are rare. —Stebbins
philosophy professor who is
charged with murder and
conspiracy.
In their telegram to Rev.
Jackson asking him to ap
pear at the Birmingham
rally which was attended by
Miss Davis' family, Mr. and
Mrs. Davis thanked the Na
tional Director of SCLC
Operation Breakbasket for
his recent visit to their
daughter in the prison
where she is incarcerated at
San Rafael, California.
The wire reads as follows:
"We are deeply grateful
for your visit and prayer
with our daughter and your
belief in her. We too deeo-
See JACKSON page 10A
rector of the university's
career counseling and place
ment bureau, said that
1970's tight employment
market has not significantly
reduced the number of re
cruiters visiting the campus,
pus.
"For each company that
cancelled, another came in,"
Merritt said.
But while the number of
Charges Nixon
Is Perpetuating Discrimination
Mrs. Asa Spaulding
To Receive Annual
Golden Plate Award
Mrs. Asa T. Spaulding, Presi
dent of Women-In-Action for
the Prevention of Violence and
Its Causes, Inc. of Durham, has
been chosen by the American
Academy of Achievement as
one of fifty giants of accom
plishment from the fields of
endeavor to receive the Golden
Plate award during the tenth
annual Salute to Excellence
weekend, June 24-26, at Phila
delphia.
Recipient of the Freedoms
Foundation George Washington
Honor Medal, and national tri
bute from Kiwanls Internation-
See AWARD page 10A
N.C. Educators Credit Union, Inc.
Holds Shareholders Meeting
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The North Carolina Ednca
tors Credit Union, Inc., held
its 10th annual Shareholders
meeting 11:00 AM Saturday
30 January in Durham, at the
N. C. Central University, where
the Honorable Howard Lee,
Mayor of Chapel Hill was the
guest speaker. Mayor Lee, was
introduced by T. Jeffers, a
Gastonia City Councilman,
and the president of the credit
union, presiding. The audience
gave the speaker a standing
ovation after the introduction
in recognition of his singular
See EDUCATORS page 10A
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HONORS FIRST WOMAN SEC
RETARY OF THE COMMON
WEALTH OF PENNA.—C. De
lores Tucker is being congrat
ulated by Roy Kohler, manager
of Community Relations, Gulf
recruiters did not fall, the
placement director in
dicated, those who visit the
campus will have fewer
jobs to offer.
"Accounting majors and
mathematics students with
training in computers and
data processing will get
multiple offers, but students
in other majors will find
very few openings are
ATTORNEY SPAULDING
by E. B. PALMER
Associate Executive Secre
tary, North Carolina Asso
ciation of Educators
The Nixon Administration
recently announced the
funding of a program to re
tain black teachers and ad
ministrators who have been
displaced by the process of
school desegregation and
who want to remain in the
teaching profession. For this
endeavor $4.9 million has
been appropriated under the
Education Profession De
velopment Act. For those
persons who desire to enter
other feilds, a new $200,000
training program is being
developed under the Man
power Development Act.
In my personal opinion,
it is mighty "generous" of
EXCELSIOR CREDIT UNION HOLDS
ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS MEETING
The State's largest pre
dominently black Credit
Union flexed its financial
muscle last week while
looking back on its greatest
year. Shareholders were
told that their organization
now has assets of $1,513,-
508.92, a growth of $154,-
033.10 during 1970. This is
a great leap forward from
the $193.75 in assets that
the organization had when
it was granted a charter in
April, 1942 by the Credit
Oil Corporation. Other officials
at the company-sponsored
breakfast following the inaugu
ral ball at the Penn Harris Mo
tel, Harrisburg, Pa., are, left,
Kenneth Hawthrone of the
World-widte Marketing staff
actually available," Merritt
said.
Graduate school recruit
ment has been stepped up,
Merritt said, and the num
ber of N. C. Central students
going to graduate school has
also increased. Yale Uni
versity and Purdue Uni
versity will send recruiters
this month. Many other in
stitutions have announced
the Nixon Administration to
afford so much money to
perpetuate discrimination.
The very fact that this of
fer is being made to black
educators, with no refer
ence to preventive action
against this practice of un
fair, unethical, and dis
criminatory dismissal of
black educators, in itself
supports and perpetuates
conclusion, "that black edu
cators dismissed are incom
petent; , therefore, need re
training." To the contrary,
the courts have ruled in
many cases in North Caro
lina that the dismissal of
blacks was racially dis
criminatory and either or
dered re-instatement or
back pay and damages
See PALMER page IQA
| Union Division of the N* C
I Department of Agriculture
j Interest on loans and in
i vestments amounted to
| $117,662.03 in 1970, and
j dividends paid out during
| the year amounted to 559-
| 023.61. The total paid out in
I dividends over the 29 year
j history of the organization
J is $411,941.11. The meeting
! was held at Gaston Boys
Club.
President W B. Brooks
See EXCELSIOR page 10A
and Walter Jackson, right. Su
pervisor of Minority and Aca
demic Relations. The breakfast
was arranged anc* co-sponsored
by the Pennsylvania Negro
Democratic Council.
scholarship and fellowship
programs open to N. C. Cen
tral students.
Recruiters during the
month of February will in
clude a number of North
Carolina Central alumni.
They will represent such
companies as Sterling Win
throp Research Institute,
Dow Chemical, Celanese
C or p or ation.