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3 Storwntrooners Freed iT. MM ,'4 ' (jflP JHRsfll ■ JpPilif «# j SMALL BUSINCSS SBMINAR —The participants of the Small Business Management Seminar which was held recently at North Carolina Central Univer sity. The project was sponsored by SBA and Project Outreach. Black Architect Company Designs Igjp % W DK. DcJAKMON N. C. Law Dean Is Delegate to W. House Meet LeMarquis DeJarmon, Dean of the North Carolina Central University, School of Law, has been invited by President Nixon as a delegate to the 1971 White House Conference on Youth, to be held as Estes Park, Colorado, April 18-22. Steve Hess, national chair man of the conference, asked Dean DeJarmon to "help for mulate recommendations at the Conference in the area of Legal Rights and Justice.'' The Legal Rights and Justice Task Foree will concentrate on three areas; the age of majority, the relationship be tween youth and academic institutions, and the admin stration of justice with respect to youth. Hess told Dean DeJarmon, author of a widley-circulated monograph on student rights," The Cap, The Gown, and The Robe." that the recom mendational policy and pro (See LAW page 2A) Edward J. demons Completes Course Given By LIAMA Edward J. demons, CLU, training assistant in Durham, for the North Carolina Mutual Life Ins. Co. has just completed an intensive two-week course given by the Life Insurance Agency Management Associa tion, an international coopera tive research organization of over 500 life insurance com panies. This 318 th School in Agency Management was con ducted at the Governor Morris Inn, Morris town, New Jersey, March 15-29. More than 19,000 managers have been graduated from this course since 1889. During the two-week period, a selected group of field man agement and home office ex ecutives studied basic princi ples and methods of agency planning, recruiting, selection, training, and supervision. Shown receiving certificates are 1 Mrs. Mary Fowler, W. C. Fow ' ler, Miss Helen Ellison, Guy Ellison, Sr., Mrs. Ida Smith, Mrs. Margaret Holloway, B. R. I Page, Daniel French, Lewis Brown, R. A. Hunt, deputy di WASHINGTON, D. C.- Bertram A. Bruton - head of the only black-owned ar chitectural firm in the State of Colorado - unveiled a model of a building his firm is de signing for the Department's High Speed Ground Te->, Center in Pueblo, Colorado recently. Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe and Under Secretary of Transportation James A. Beggs along with officials of the .Federal Rail road Administration examined the model. The $22,513 contract calls for providing architectural - engineering services for a 14,000 square foot Project Management Building to be constructed at the test site. The facility is being managed by the Department's Federal Railroad Administration. "The award of this contract is yet another example of the Department's commitment to carry out President Nixon's executive order of March 1969, fostering the develop ment of minority business en terprise," Secretary Volpe said. "During 1970, the Depart ment awarded 40 contracts with a value of $1,488,027 to companies owned by members minority groups," the Secre tary said. The Commerce Depart- Dr. H. Edmonds To Attend Meet Israeli Women On March 29, Dr. Helen G. Edmonds leaves the United States to attepd an Interna tional conference of women in Isael. She will be the guest of the Israeli Government. The women will meet at Mount C arm el International Training Center for Communi ty Services in Haifa. The symposium is titled: "The Changing Needs in the Educa tion of Women in the Second Development Decade." The program and the reunion of former seminar participants are under the auspices of The Prime Minister of Israel, Mrs. Golda Meir. Dr. Edmonds served as United States Alternate Dele gate to the United Nations during the 25th Commemora tive Session, 1970. She is dean of the graduate school at North Carolina Central Uni versity, Durham. The Israeli conference is timely in that it begins to work immediately on the second development decade, 1971-1981, a close correlation to the United Nation's reso lution which effected planning (See ISRAELI page 2A) rector of Project Outreach, El lis Allen, director and Dr. Rich ard Ball of the Commerce Dept. NCCU, lecturer. Recipients not shown are Miss Joyce Grant and Henry Ward. ment, through its Office of Minority Business Enterprise, provided assistance to the De partment in its efforts to find and involve minority business enterprises in the business of the Department, an FRA spokesman said. The Bruton firm has had several large contracts in the Colorado area since it began in 1964. Projects range from shopping centers to apartment complexes and housing deve lopments, mostly in Denver and Colorado Springs. The Project Management Building will be the first of several buildings to be con structed at the Pueblo Test Center. It will serve as head quarters for the Department's manager and will also be oc cupied by various DOT con tractors. Looking Up VALLEY FORGE, Pa. January income of the American Baptist Mis sion Budget in January was the highest for that month in 10 years, according to Ralph R. Rott, executive director, Division of World Mission Support. Receipts were $1,080,475, compared with $1,015,411 in January, 1970, an increase of 6.4 per cent. B ■ mri Jfll fl HP* mm M rM ■ STUDY SCOftl FOft CANTATA -Joseph Mitchell, (right) and Fred Mason, Jr., Organist of St. Joseph's AMG Church study soore in preparation for the church's Senior Choir's Good CBf CarSaCim^o VOLUME 50 No. 14 Office Of Administration Of City Schools In Chapel Fire Bomb Thrown Info Supply Room; Extensive Damage Done By JOHN MYERS, Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL - The Chapel Hill Fire Department answered a call at 12:11 a.m., Friday morning 26 at the Ad ministration Office of Chapel Hill Public School System lo cated at 400 School Lane. A fire bomb lhad been thrown into the supply room and one in the conference room of the building through the windows. Fire Chief Everett Lloyd said Friday morning that the damage was extensive but that the exact amount had not been deter mined. By the time "firemen reached the scene, the fire had Meeting Held at Robinson Street Recreation Center for Jas. Cates By JOHN MYERS Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL - A meet-" ing was held by the black com munity at the Roberson Street Recreation Center at 11:30 a.m. on Friday March 26 to make arrangements to place flowers on the grave of James Louis Cates. Several speakers for the community outlined the griev ences and plans of the com munity. Henry Anderson, Director of the Recreation Department stated, "We have to have uni ty. We have to stick together. We have to make sure this doesn't happen again." Fl-idiy performance of the Du boia "Seven Last Words of Christ." The church's sanctuary will be site of the performance The Choir is under the direc tion of Joseph Mitchell and DURHAM, N C., SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1971 burned through part of the roof. Firemen worked for an hour getting the . disaster under control. It took some time longer j for the fire to be completely extinguished. At 11:47 Thursday night 25, firemen answered a call at the School of Pharmacy on the University of North Caro lina Campus. Fire bombs had been thrown into the storage area of the structure. Minor damage was suffered. Mayor Howard Lee said there was no doubt in his mind that the two bombings were due to the outcome of the Stormtroopers trial in Hillsborough last week. Reverend John Epps said, "This problem is not restricted ito North* Carolina. If you're black, you're not going to get justice anywhere. But let's be very careful. Let's try peaceful means to get justice." An unidentified speaker said, "If we could sing for our freedom, we would already be free. If we could dance for our freedom we would be free. Blacks are some of the best dancers in the world. If we could march for our freedom, we would be free. We htive done all these things. There is only one way left. I'm not go ing to say it. But we are going (See MEETING page 2A) will be accompanied by orches tral Instruments from Durham and Chapel Hill. Soloists—Mrs Katie Smith, soprano; Eugene Eaves, baritone; J. W. McClin ton and J. E. Hill, tenor. mm**. ... ■ \ ■ I * vjiw ■ ■ Bpr ■|B> V MT Jf S H^J§| PLANS FOR EXPANSION—Dr. James E. Cheek, 15th Presi dent of Howard University dis cusses the new innovations and future plans for expansion of the University with William Nine Men And Deliberate 1 Hour And 45 Min. By JOHN MYERS, Staff Writer HILLSBOROUGH - In the second and third days of tes timony in the trial of the State vs. Ronnie Dale Broadwell, Rufus Paul Nelson, and Wil liam B. Johnson for the No vember 21 slaying of James Louis Cates, Kevin Edwards took the stand for the prose cution. Edwards, 17, testified he saw Johnson, Nelson and Broadwell stab Cates. He said Broadwell stabbed Cates twice and Johnson and Nelson stabbed him one time each. Edwards testimony was de graded by defense attorneys due to conflicting testimony of the preliminary hearing and his statements in court. When asked by Johnson's attorney, James Maxwell, to circle on a diagram of the student union and surround ing grounds, Cates body, the defendants, and himself, Ed wards differed in the positions NEA Brief Discloses Elimination Of Black Educators in the South WASHINGTON, D. C. - The National Education Asso ciation today proposed legal machinery aimed at eliminat ing the spread of racial discri mination among Southern school faculties in the wake of a disclosure that over 5,000 white teachers and administra tors were hired while more than 1,000 black educators were dropped over a three-year period. Equipped with statistics from the federal government indicating that school desegre gation has resulted in substan tial cutbacks of black teachers and principals, the NEA filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U. S. Justice Department's de segregation suit against the State of Georgia. According to data present ed by the NEA, black educa tors - a total of 1,040 since 1968 - had been dropped in more than half of the school systems reporting from Alaba ma, Georgia, Florida, Louisi ana, and MiaaissippL In Texas, where less than a third of the H. Tblet, of ITT Continental Baking Co. D- Edmund W. Gordon of Columbia Univer sity also took pert in the dis cussion. The occasion was the Annual Charter Day Celebra he circled on a like diagram at the hearing in November. Edwards statement of see ing the defendants stab Cates four times was discredited by Dr. Richard Page Hudson, Chief Medical Examiner of North Carolina when he stated the autopsy showed two wounds on Cates body. One wound, under the left rib cage and another, the death wound, in the right groin area which severed the femoral vein and artery resulting in death by bleeding. Walter McMillian 19, of Chapel Hill, testified he saw Nelson throw Cates to the ground. He said he saw Broad well standing over Cates coming down with his arm with a silver object in his hand. He said he could not identify the object but that it was smaller at one end than at the other and tapered to a (See STORMTROOPEBS XA) districts reported, figures dis close that the count of black educators was reduced by 32, while white teachers increas ed by 1, 383. In the brief filed in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the NEA seeks extensive changes in the con troversial "Singleton decree" in an attempt to protect black educators from being phased out. According to the Singleton decree, issued by the court in 1969, school systems must apply "reasonable, objective, and non-discriminatory stan dards" when faced with staff reductions caused by school desegregation. In its brief, the NEA pre sents statistics baaed on data from the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Wel fare (HEW) to show that the Singleton decree has not halt ed elimination of blacks from the teaching profession in the South. The NEA action is signlfl (See BRIEF page SA) Words of Wisdom A man is relieved and gay when he has pat his heart into his work and done his beat • • • He who conaiders too much will perform little. —Schiller PRICE 20 CENTS tkm of tfae Howard Untrersitr Alumni Club of NYC. Left to right: Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, Dr. Junes E. Cheek and Wil liam H. Toles, Howard Alra nus. Bish. A. Lawson Allen's Chapel Men's Speaker ■ ■ BISHOP LAWSON Allen's Chapel A M. Church of Woodsdale, will ob serve its Annual Men's Day Service Sunday, April 4. Rev. L W. Knight, Pastor, will speak at the 11:00 A.M. worship serv ice. Dinner will be served fol lowing the morning service. Bishop A. W. Lawson, Pas tor of the Fisher Memorial Holiness Church of Durham, choir officers and congregation will render Annual Men's Day service at 3:00. P.M. Bishop Lawson presides over the Western North Carolina Con vocation of The United Holy Church of America; and is also Vice President of the Florida- Georgia District Convocation. ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL MERGER IS DEFEATED William Stauber, county commissioner, said Monday, March 30, that he would "make the motion" to merge city and county school sys tems with out a referendum to Durham's governing board. Stauber stated this Monday after the board of commis sioners disbanded plans for a public vote on school renova tion bonds and consolidation May 15. Roger Upchurch, a city school board member said the (See MERGER pafe SA)