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Coming Attraction: ' Strangers on a Bus" Beginning in our next issue a new and exciting story by the author of "Traveling Shoes"—George Russ. The brand new series is "Strangers On A Bus". Don't miss an issue. If you're not on our mailing list, a $6.24 check will assure you of your copy each week. Call our circu lation department—6B2-2913 today and mail your check to P. 0. Box 3825. VOLUME 50 No. 38 Richmond Ms Ready For NBL "s Conclave HIGH-POWERED GROUP TO PUSH NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL DRIVE 22 Members to Comprise Fund Raising Team They are a group with con siderable professional and business experience, those 22 members of the North Caro lina Central University En dowment Fund Campaign Committee. Among them are four in surance company presidents, two bank presidents and one senior vice president of a bank, the president of a large drug manufacturer, a retired broadcasting executive, a newspaper publisher, and executive officer of Liggett & Myers, Inc. They will not be unfami liar with their roles as fund raisers. Most list experience with charitable organizations in their official biographies the N. C. Symphony Society, the United Fund, boys' clubs, YM and YWCAs, collegiate loyalty funds, and similar programs. What is unusual is that this experience-most of it repre senting the "establishment" and all of it derived from the commercial world-will be put i See DRIVE page 2A) jfl HHllfc gp m pi- M ||j| Hk ■ WOOTEN Woolen Named Goldsboro Asst. Supt. of Schools GOLDSBORO Veteran Goldsboro educator, John H. Wooten, was named Assistant Superintendent in charge of instruction for the Goldsboro City Schools by the Board of Education last week. School Superintendent, Dr. Jerry D. Paschal, announced that Mr. Wooten will be also corordi nate primary, elementary and secondary education as well as guidance services, special edu cation programs, attendance (Sec SUPT. page 2A) Americans to Spend Record SBS Billion for Education During 71 -2 WASHINGTON, D. C. Americans will spend a record $85.1 billion to educate the increased l numbers of students expected to fill the nation's classrooms during the school year, HEW's Office of Educa tion predicted this week. Data, supplied by the agen cy's National Center for Edu cational Statistics for the an nual ba c k-to-school survey, indicate that enrollment in f , . ) J i %*W i$ *sm£\ X®!| *""' W'J 11 ft 111 . a®® ft it® m ill ! *, MiMi ..A 111 i M ,* m&sW ;i adUM. * - lk:*>2s m m ■ f\l ■ I If ■ ■ fl ■ k ■ ■ CHAIRMANSHIP PASSES— MiIton E. Harrington, left, president of Liggett & Myers Inc., accepts a gavel signifying his chair manship of North Carolina Central University's Faculty En downment Fund Campaign Committee from John B. Wilson, vice-president of television station WRDU. Wilson has served as chairman of the university's Advisory Department Com mittee, which has been phased out with the creation of Har rington's committee. Under Wilson's chairmanship the cam paign passed the $300,000 mark Harrington is believed to be the first president of one nation's major industrial organiza tions to serve as chairman of a fund-raising campaign for a predominantly black institution. United Negro College Fund Gets SIO,OOO AFL-CIO Contribution NEW YORK The United Negro College Fund announced this week a contribution of i SIO.OOO from the executive council of the AFL-CIO. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., exe cutive director of the UNCF, said the AFL-CIO donation is "tremendously important" to the Fund's 1971 appeal. "This support, by the gov erning body representing 13.6 million Amrican workers, sig nals the AFL-ClO's endorse ment of the UNCF's purposes and objectives, "Mr. Jordan said. "We are confident that this endorsement, with the support the UNCF traditionally gets from the corporate and foun dation sectors, will help us reach our goal of $10,000,000 this year." George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, said the execu tive council's action recognizes the extremely serious plight of the black colleges at this time. "We are, therefore, very happy to make this contribu tion, "Mr. Meany said. The AFL-CIO check was presented to Mr. Jordan by Mr. Meany at union head quarters in Washington on Tuesday. Walter Davis, Director of Education for the AFL-CIO said' his division had studied the needs of higher education j (See AFL-CIO page 2A) public and 1 private educational institutions is likely to increase for the 27th consecutive year to a record 60.2 million, a rise of about one percent over the 59.7 million persons enrolled last fall. At the same time expendi tures for public and private education at all levels arc projected to increase by $7.5 billion, a 9.7 percent jump (See EDUCATION page 2A) €ht Canji|a€jmgg Trends In Southern Politics is Subject Of Women Voters Panel Discussion "Current Trends in South ern Politics" will be the sub ject of a panal discussion at the first General Meeting of the League of Women Voters of Durham. Howard Lee, Thad Beyle and Joel L. Fleishman will be the guest panalists at this September 23 meeting at 8:00 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church, corner of Main and Roxboro Streets. Hk 4SI : IjjHht. u , 4 -3 [^^lmjt*Um II I ' ■ Kr v * ■k -dl ■Lj -/- ■ . I ikl ■' A HP* ■ ■ ■ ■* Lee of Chapel Hill is one of the South's first Black Mayors. Beyle is Director of Graduate Studies in the Politi cal Science Department at the University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill. His recent- A MEDALLION FOR SWEDEN—On Septem ber 5, King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, re ceived the annual distinction from the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith. Bishop S. McDowell Shelton, the spiritual lc; dc-i nf the Church, presented the medal lion to Leii Leifland 1 , Charged' Affaires of DURHAM, N. C. ( SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1971 Mrs. Rosa Parks, Mother of C-R Movement Gets Young Award NEW YORK Mrs. Rosa Parks, mother of the civil rights movement was presented the National Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memorial Award during the half-time ceremon ies of the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Memorial Football Classic, featuring Grambling and Mor gain Colleges—held in Yankee Stadium Saturday night, Sep tember 11. The award was presented to Mrs. Parks by Livingston L. Wingate, executive director of the New York Urban League for achievement in the bet terment of brotherhood and mankind through equality. A Whitney M. Young, Jr. Industrial Memorial Award was presented combinatively to At lantic Richfield Company, Bur lington Industries, Inc., First National City Bank, IBM Cor poration, McGraw-Hill, I n c., and Union Carbide Corporation for continuous support of the Street Academy Program. Jas. Linen, chairman of the Execu tive Committee of Time, Inc. and president of the National Urban League accepted the award on behalf of the corpo rations. ly published book is "Plan ning and Politics" from the Odyssey Press. Newly arrived in Durham, but a Fayetteville native, Fleishman served as legal ad viser to former Gov. Terry Sanford. He is now Director of the Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs at Duke University. "The general public, as well as all out old and pro spective members are invited to attend this kick-off meet ing," said Mrs. Thomas Keller, Program Coordinator for the League. "Coffee and refresh ments will be served at 8:00 (See WOMEN page 2A) the Swedish Embassy. The ceremony took place at the Church's International Headquarters in Philadelphia, during the International Convention, gather ing the representatives of nearly five mil lion church numbers from the United States, Europe, Africa and India. The final award was pre sented to William Hamer, a teacher at the New York Ur ban League Street Academies, for devotion and accomplish ment in encouraging dropouts to continue their education. Prior to the game, in talk with reporters, Wingate stat ed that Mrs. Parks was a liv ing symbol of the passive re sistance movement in the U.S. He went on to say, "when she refused to vacate her bus seat to a white man in the south, (See PARKS page 2A) Wilson Girl Winner In Memphis Oratorical Contest; Church Begins I A Month-Long Series of Events CHAPEL HILL —The Com munity Church of Chapel Hill, located at the corner of Pure foy and Mason Farm Roads, begins this Sunday a month long series of events to cele brate the dedication of the Church's new building. The minister, the Reverend James Douglass Riddle, and all the I members of the Church, in vite the people of Chapel Hill and the surrounding area to participate in these events. The activities are designed to dem onstrate the variety of possi ble uses to which the complex of building can be put, Situat ed on 26 wooded acres near the University's married stu dent housing, the dedication celebratas the Church's 18th year in Chapel Hill. The Community Church is by design and commitment inter national, interracial, and in terdenominational in keeping with its history. The growing involvement of churches in so cial problems is now well known and accepted!. In the summer of 1953, this was not true. There was concern, bul a lack of unity on the part of church members, and timid- (See CHURCH ijjage 2A) M JM X.{ : JMjflj jfc SM - ~ s J MISS KORNEGAY WILSON MiS3 Romonla Kornegay, President of the Marian Anderson Girls' Club, Wilson, North Carolina, repre sented the club in a series of oratorical contests. The con tests began in Kinston, at the Negro Women's Northeastern District Federation. The sub ject of the speech was "Work ing Together for a Better Un derstanding." Miss Kornegay won first place in th'e Kinston District Contest and also the State Contest held in Rocky Mount. Recently she attended the 26th Biennial Meeting of the Southeastern Association of Negero Women and Girls in Memphis, Tenn. where she also won first place. Her victories will lead her to San Jose, Cali fornia next year for the Na tional Convention of Negro A GREAT AMERICAN—NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins, with Mrs. WiUdns at his side, is presented with New York City's Bronze Medallion by Mayor John V. Lind say. The inscription praised l him as "a great Young Block Wom During SCLC March In Alabama BUTLER, Alabama - A white man drove a car into a demonstration here Saturday, striking and killing a black youth, 19-year-old Margaret Ann Knott, who was in the march organized by the Southern Ch*» itian Leader ship Conference (SCLC). In follow-up protests, 1,700 marched Sunday and about 250 black students were arrested in a Monday morning march. National Guardsmen and state troopers moved in during the weekend. Words of Wisdom Advertising is one of the few callings in which it it advisable to pay attention to someone else's business. —Howard W. Newton One pound of learning requires ten pounds' of common sense to apply it. —Persian Proverb Women and Girls' Clubs. There she will compete against three finalists representing the Northern, Eastern, and West ern United States. The south ern states represented by Miss Kornegay are Mississippi, Ala bam a. Tennessee, Virginia, North and South Carolinaj Georgia, and Florida. Miss Kornegay is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Best of Wilson, and a 1971 gradu ate of Fike High School. As a student she participated in the following activities: Band Modern Dance, French Club Debate Club, and Internation al Thespian Society. She was selected by the faculty and Student Council of the school to Who's Who of the 1971 Graduating Class and Associate Editor of the Fike Yearbook. (See CONTEST page 2A) American" who "never lost faith in his country." Hie presentation was made at a surprise 70th birthday party at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City. (Layne Photo) Funeral services for Miss Knott are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in nearby Yantlev. Alabama. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, SCLC President, will officiate. Dr. Abernathy said today that the killing was "a tragic and destable example of the hate and terror inspired by George Wallace's Alabama. Black people will rise up and put a stop to killing, repres sion and racism." The killing Satruday occur PRICE: 20 CENTS John Marshall Awaits a 2000- Plus Delegation If the treatment received by NBL's National Admin istrator on a recent visit to Richmond is any indication of what delegates can expect at this years 71st Annual Con vention then the word is: Right on Richmond! The hospitality of the hotel was magnifigue-a-la- Richmond style and left little to be desired, said NBL's Greg Moses. The Rich mond Chapter, NBL staff and the John Marshall Hotel Management are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the 2000-plus NBL delegation September 28-Oct 1. All of this year's activities will take place in the Jolm Marshall Hotel which is con vention headquarters. There will be planned activities for women this year. The registra tion fee for wives is SSO. Registration fee includes all (See CONCLAVE page 2A) Urges Stokes Offer Himself As Democratic Pres. Candidate DETROIT. Mich.—Congress man John Conyers this week urged Mayor Carl Stokes to offer himself as a Democratic candidate for the Presidential nomination, declaring that ne cessity dictates that a blaclt Presidential hopeful be seri ously considered by the Party, The Democratic Party needs a candidate who will speak to the critical reform needed in this country and who will go (See STOKES page 2A) red during a march of 1,500 people in this Choctow Coun ty community. Witnesses said police and sheriff's staff stood by and watched as a man roared his car into the de monstrators at a speed esti mated to be as much as 40 miles per hour. As demonstra tors scattered, the car struck and killed Miss Knott. The sheriff reportedly refused to arrest the man, and he was not apprehended until later Saturday night. The march had been or- See MARCH page 2A
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