Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Dies
Words of Wisdom
The virtue of a man ought
to be measured, not by his ex
traordinary exertions, but by
his everyday conduct.
—Blaise Pascal
VOLUME 50 No. 28
Rural Residents Of State
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ALEXANDER
Alexander to
Head Illinois
State Program
Harold W. Alexander, assis
tant dean of the Undergrad
uate School and director of the
Academic Skills Center at
North Carolina Central Univer
sity, in July will join the facul
ty of Dlinois State University,
Normal, where tie will be an
associate professor of English
and director of the university's
High Potential Students Pro
gram.
A member of the NCCU
faculty since 1962, Alexander
was an assistant professor of
English and director of the
university's News Bureau for
six of the nine years he spent
at the institution. In 1968,
when the Academic Skills
Center was established, he was
appointed to the assistant
deanship and directorship of
the Center's program.
Prior to joining the NCCU
faculty, Alexander taught Eng
lish at Texas Southern Univer
sity, Tougaloo College, Jack
son State College, and the Fort
(See ALEXANDER 2A)
Dr. R. Speaks
Keynoter at
Morehead Sun.
Dr. Ruben L. Speaks, Pastor
of First A.M.E. Zion Church of
Brooklyn, N. Y., will speak at
Morehead Avenue Baptist
Church Sunday at 6:00 p.m.
during the week-long observ
ance of the 25th Church An
niversary Celebration and the
4th of the pastor, Rev. B.A.
Mack.
Dr. Speaks, formerly pas
tored the St. Mark A.M.E.
Zion Church here from 1956
to 1964 before going to New
York.
(See SPEAKS 2A)
Two Area Students Awardees
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To Provide Training, Technical
Help to Land Grant Colleges
The rural residents of North
Carolina as well as the residents
pf areas in which the 14 other
black land-grant colleges are
located will benefit from the
Rural Community Assistance
Consortium (RCAC).
RCAC was established by a
grant from the Office of Eco
nomic Opportunity in Washing
lon to the National Associa
tion of State Universities and
Land-Grant Colleges. RCAC
provides training and technical
assistance to Black-land grant
colleges serving lower rural in
come groups. It seeks ways of
mobilizing existing resources
to improve living conditions in
local communities.
The most immediate efforts
of RCAC will be the prepara
tion and communication of
formal proposals seeking fund
ing for programs in the 15
states represented.
Historically, Black land
grant institutions have been
attuned to the needs, potential
and aspirations of rural disad
vantaged, deserving Americans.
They have enrolled and pre
pared students under less than
favorable conditions. Their
graduates provide leadership
for the entire black communi
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RETURN FROM WEST COAST —The Reverend 6. G.
Ewings, Pastor of the Henderson Grove Baptist Church,
Durham County and Chestnut Grove Baptist Church,
Wake County, and part of the Mount Vernon Baptist
Church delegation smile and wave as they descend from
the plane at the Raleigh-Durham Airport Saturday, June
20, oh their return from the Progressive National Sun
day School Congress which convened in Los Angelea,
California June 20-25.
Miss Ann Z. Jones and Ed
ward Allen have been awarded
the James M. Johnston Scho
larships in Nursing at the Uni
versity of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. Miss Jones is the
daughter of Mrs. Goldie Mae
Jones, Bluefield St. She is a
graduate of Hillside High
School, class of 1971 and was
a member of the National Ho
nor Society, F.T.A. and the
Debating Society.
Allen is the son of Vernon
(See AREA 2A)
•DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1971
ty and make valuable contri
butions to American life.
However, the effectiveness of
such institutions has been
limited by the unavailability
of adequate funds to finance
services needed by people and
communities which they serve.
RCAC's purpose is to provide
further opportunity for these
colleges to pursue the service
programs for which are so well
suited.
Dr. Ozias Pearson will head
the project. The office for Ad
vancement of Public Negro
Colleges was founded in 1968
as a branch of the National
Association of State Universi
ties and Land-Grant Colleges.
Durham To Get
Federal Grant
Durham's city government will
pot $114,27(1 from the Environ
mental Projection to help in
the building of a waste water
treatment plant and related con
struction.
Announcement of the grant
came Tuesday from the office
of U.S. Sen. Everett B. Jordan,
D-N.C.
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MISS HAUSIR :
Lois P. Hauser Elected Pres.
Of Student Body of N. Carolina
WINSTON-SALEM - Lois
P. Hauser was elected president
of the student body of the
North Carolina Governor's
School last Monday.
Miss Hauser thus became
the first black and the first girl
president in the school's nine
year history. The daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Hauser, she
is a rising senior at Richard L
Reynolds High School. Other
officers are Paul Tuttle of Ra
leigh, first vice president; Craig
Maddoz of Elizabeth City,
second vice president, and
Donna Benson, a black of
Charlotte, secretary.
The Governor's School is an
all expense-paid, eight-week
summer institute for talented
juniors and seniors in the high
school of the state of North
NCCU To Investigate African-
American Materials In 6 States
North Carolina Central Uni
versity will investigate the
availability of African-Ameri
can materials in the states of
Alabama, Georgia, North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Tennes
see, and Virginia under a
$53,000 research grant from
the U. S. Office of Education.
Dr. Annette L. Phinazee,
dean of the university'* school
of library science, will be the
principal investigator and serve
as project director.
Although five of the six
states have at least one major
collection of materials relating
to the largest minority group
in the United States, according
to Dr "Phinazee, there con
tinues to be a problem in lo
cating all available material.
"Librarians in predominatly
black institutions have strug
gled to collect and maintain
these materials with little mo
ral, financial, or personnel sup
port. Few, if any, institutions
have a program for the consis
tent search for and solicitation
of materials," Dr. Phinazee
said in her proposal for the re
search.
PRICE: 20 CENTS
Carolina. Students are recom
mended by their school system
or chosen through audition
and concentrate in the humani
ties, an academic subject or
or one of the performing arts.
Miss Hauser is concentrating in
chemistry. The school is held
at Salem College.
At Reynolds High School,
Miss Hauser is a member of the
National Honor Society, past
secretary of the Student Coun
cil, a member and choreogra
pher of the Dancing Boots and
Majorettes and is the school's
student representative on the
County-wide Citizens Advisory
Council, a group which advises
the County Board of Educa
tion.
In the Community Miss
Hauser is past president of the
(See HAUSER 2A)
"A centralized program to
discover, coordinate, and dis
seminate information about
African-American in the
United States is imperative if
an accurate record is to be
preserved. Many valuable docu
ments have already been de
stroyed, because the owners
were not made aware of their
values and librarians did not
know of their existence or
were not in a position to locate
and acquire them."
One library in each of the
six states will be asked to
make a thorough search for
other African-American col
lections 6r items, to record
their locations, and to report
to Dr. Phinazee at N. C. Cen
tral.
Libraries which have been
invited to participate, in addi
tion to N. C. Central, are those
at Tuskegee Institute in Ala
bama, Atlanta University,
South Carolina State College,
Fisk University in Tennessee,
and Hampton Institute in Vir
ginia.
The libraries will be asked
to catalog their own existing
(See INVESTIGATE 2A)
End Comes to
Famous Jazz
TrumpeterTues.
Louis "Satchmo" Arm
strong, the world-famous trum
peter with the voice that
sounded like it was strained
through a sieve, died quietly
in his sleep Tuesday morning.
His family said his tired heart
simply gave out.
He had celebrated his 71st
birthday Sunday.
Death was attributed to a
heart attack. Armstrong had
been at home since mid-June,
when he was discharged from
Beth Israel Medical Center
after 10 weeks of treatment
for heart, liver and kidney dis
orders.
He seemed in good health
during an interview June 23, in
which he played his trumpet
and announced his intention
to return to public perform
ances. "I'm going back to work
when my treaders get in as
good shape as my chops,' he
said, noting that his legs were
weak from his hospitalization.
Armstrong is survived by his
third wife, the former Lucille
Wilson, and by an adopted son,
Clarence Hatfield of New
York. He also leaves a sister,
Mrs. Beatrice Collins of New
Orleans and two half-brothers,
Henry'and William Armstrong,
both of New Orleans.
Chi Eta Phi Sorority Dedicates
National Sorority D.C
CHI ETA PHI SORORITY,
an organization of Registered
Professional Nurses, will dedi
cate its National Sorority
House in Washington, D. C.,
on July 11, 1971 at 3:00 p.m.
for members of the 48 chap
ters.
Mrs. Aliene C. Ewell, foun
der of the Chi Eta Phi Sorority
will open the door to the So
rority House. The original
chapter, with eleven nurses,
was founded by Mrs. Aliene
Ewell at Freedmen's Hospital,
Washington, D. C. in 1932. De-
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NCCU GETS GRANT—MobiI Oil Corporation
has made a $1,500 grant to North Carolina
Central University. The grant, which was
earmarked for use by the Department of
Business, is part of Mobil's Minority Finan
cial Aid Program given to worthy students
and institutions of higher education.
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ARMSTRONG
A funeral service will be
held Friday at 1 p.m. at the
Corona Congregational Church,
34th Avenue and 103 d Street.
Burial will be in the Flushing
Cemetery.
Mrs. Armstrong requested
that flowers and cards be
omitted and said those wishing
to do so could send contribu
tions in his memor to the Kid
ney Research Foundation and
the Sickle Cell Anemia Foun
dation, the latter which pro
legates from the Annual Con
vention, being held in Rich
mond, Virginia will go on to
Washington, D. C. for the dedi
cation.
Since 1934, Chi Eta Phi
Sorority, Inc. has awarded
scholarships to 85 graduates
and undergraduate nurses. The
annual recruitment program
"Futurama" and Seminars held
during "Nurses Week", spon
sored by each chapter, fed the
profession with students inter
ested in nursing careers.
The guest speaker for the
dedication will be Miss Venice
Ferguson, who received the
1971 Mary Mahoney Award
from the American Nurses As
sociation for her outstanding
contribution toward integra
tion in nursing.
Mrs. Helen S. Miller, Chair
man of the School of Nursing,
North Carolina Central Univer
sity, serves as president of the
national sorority. Mrs. Miller
was the 1968 recipient of Mary
Mahoney Award. She is also
the author of the history of
Chi Eta Phi Sorority.
Pictured above are Mrs.
Aliene Ewell, founder and de
dication door opener for the
National Sorority House and
Mrs. Helen S. Miller, national
president.
Rock Music Ban
BEIRUT - Lebanese
Prime Minister Saeb Salam pro
hibited a rock music concert—
the Beirut Woodstock Festival
—after religious and community
groups opposed it.
At the check presentation ceremony wete
(left to right) James Robertson, Mobil; Or.
Albert N. Whiting, (now in Africa) ft art
dent. North Carolina Central Unhandy; and
Jones Goode and R. W. Brocksbaak of
This grant is part of Mobil's continuing mm*
port of educational proyrams throughout tha
motes research on a disease
that mainly afflicts blacks.
The honorary pallbearers
will include Gov. Nelson A.
Rockefeller, Mayor John V.
Lindsay, Bing Crosby, Ella
Fitzgerald, Guy Lombardo,
Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gilles
pie, Pearl Bailey, Count Basie,
Harry James, Frank Sinatra,
Ed Sullivan, Earl Wilson, Alan
King, Johnnie Carson, David
Frost, Merv Griffin, Dick Cav
ett and Bobby Hackett.
Mrs. Ethel Sims
Woman's Day
Speaker Sun.
Woman's Day will be ob
served at Mt. Calvary United
Church of Christ Sunday, July
11, at 11:00 a.m. The message
will be brought by Rev. Ethel
J. Sims, who is the associate
Minister of the Oak Grove Free
Will Baptist Church. Rev. Sims
is the recipient of the B.T.H.
Degree from the Union Chris
tian Bible Institute. She is also
a Liscensed Practical Nurse and
a member of the Nurse's Break
fast Club.
The Mt. Calvary Echoes will
render the music and Charlie
Clayton will be the organist.
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