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ton-Salem State University are (left to right),
Valeria Price, a Reynolds Scholar at WSSU;
Dr. Kenneth R. Williams, president of the
Strengths Of Bla
Emphasized In League Study
Retired NAACP Nat'l Treasurer
Blasts the Nixon Administration
By JAMES VAUGHAN
"President Nixon is empha
tically not ont he side of the
Blacks or the poor," stated Al
fred Baker Lewis, national
treasurer emeritus of the
NAACP.
Lewis was in" the Durham
area working with the local
branch NAACP day care facili
ties project.
He stated in an interview
that, "He (Nixon) tried to put
on the Supreme Court two
bitter reactionaries and even
bigots, Judge Haynesworth
and Casswell. He was success
ful in putting reactionary, Mr.
Rehnquist, on the court."
Lewis charged that "This
is part of his 'Southern strate
gy' to win for the Republicans
the people who voted for Wal
More Blacks Are
While, More Wh
By JAMES VAUGHAN
Blacks throughout the
country suffered an increased
rate of unemployment; while
whites enjoyed the opposite
an increase in employment.
An examination of last
months Labor statistics, de
spite the claim that the unem
ployment situation remained
essentially unchanged, revealed
that the jobless rate for Blacks,
previously 9.3 percent between
November, rose over the last
month to 10.3 percent. Whites,
on the other hand, had moved
to 5.7 percent during the
month of November, but de
creased to 5.4 percent during
the month of December.
An official reasons, or ex
planation of the trend was re
leased from the Department of
Labor. Other data showed that
the unemployment rate among
Blacks of 10.3 compared with
>n overall rate of 6.1 percent
in December. The total num
ber of unemployed reached
4.7 million persons in Decem
ber.
The unemployment pattern
of major groups of people re
vealed the following: All adult
men (4.4 percent), married
men (3.3 percent), adult
women (5.8 percent), and
teenagers (17.5 percent).
In assessing the ratio be
tween Black and white jobless
university; Colin Stokes, member of the
board of directors of Reynold* Industries;
and Dr. Jeraline HarVin, chairman of uni
versity's Division of Applied Arts and Sci
ences and a Reynolds Professor.
lace in the last election, by
bidding for the support of the
racially biassed white whom
Wallace appealed."
In outlining ways to com
bat the Administration's poli
tical manuevering and to "stop
political reaction," Lewis
stated, "The best way to stop
political reaction is by a strug
gle uniting Blacks and poor
whites to end economic exploi
tation."
"The natural political al
liance should be between the
financially underprivileged and
the racially underprivileged."
Lewis then moved to point
out falacies in the programs
put forth by the Nixon Ad
ministration. "Our present wel
(See RETIRED 2A)
rates, the Labor Department
stated that the jobless rate for
Blacks continued to drift up
wards in the first half of 1971,
reaching 10 percent in the
second quarter and remaining
the rest of the year. In con
trast, the rate for whites stayed
at 5.5 percent from the fourth
quarter of 1970. The overall
Black-white jobless rate ratio,
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A PRESIDENT, QUEEN, AND GOVERNOR?—
(Charlotte) —Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins (R), a
gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina,
raps to Miss JCSU Gail Hinsley and Smith
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WASHINGTON - The sy
stematic examination of the
strengths of black families
should facilitate the develop
ment of national policies and
programs that both enhance
and employ these assets, ac
cording to a new study by the
National Urban League.
The study, "The Strengths
of Black Families," points out
that "examining the strengths
of black families can contri
bute at least as much toward
understanding and ameliorating
some social problems as exa
mining their weaknesses."
The League study, reviewed
in the current issue of the
Labor Department's Manpower
magazine, maintains that black
families typically display:
~ strong work orientation
-- strong achievement ofien
tation
-- strong kinship bonds
-- adaptability of roles
- strong religious orienta
tion.
which had fallen to its lowest
point in nearly two decades
was 1.8 to 1 in 1971.
Rhodes Scholar
SALISBURY, Rhodesia
Oliver David Ncube of Rho
desia, an agriculture student
at Oxford is the first black
from southern Africa to win a
Rhodes scholarship since they
were established in 1902>
prcsident Lionel Newsom following his forty
minute speech to the Smith student body at
Martin Luther King Memorial Services.
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1972
Bank Deposit Program
$3,5 Million Expand
In Deposits AtM&F
Minority Banks
Deposits Reach
Over $l5O Mil.
By JAMES VAUGHAN
John H. Wheeler, president
of Mechanics and Farmers
Bank announced today at a
press conference that an in
crease of more than $3 million
resulted from the Bank Deposit
Program, sponsored by the Fe
deral Government's Capital
Formation, Inc.
Samuel S. Beard, chairman
of Capital Formation, Inc., an
action foundation and national
Co-Chairman of President
Nixon's SIOO million Minority
Bank Deposit Program and
Richard C. Kennard, president
of Capital Formation joined
the conference session in an
nouncing an increase in de
posits in excess of $l5O million
for the nation's 36 minority
owned banks.
During the session, Beard
complimented Wheeler for his
leadership in the area of mi
(See BANKS 2A)
Local Woman
Dies Following
Alleged Beating
By JAMES VAUGHAN
Miss Alice Rogers, 60, of
3308 Apex Highway, died last
week following an alledged
beating and hospitalization.
Miss Rogers, a former work
er at what was Reeves Rest
Home, was found unconscious
in a bed at the Mt. Vernon
St. home by police sources re
ported. Police were called to
the scene by Mrs. Mae Bell Bel
ton of 404 S. Queen St.
Currently, police and medi
cal authorities are waiting for
the results of an autopsy to
establish if the cause of death
could be attributed to the in
juries received from the beat
ing.
Medical examiner Dr. Ro
bert Zipf said that a hemor
rage in the brain caused the
(See WOMAN 2A)
HAACP Delays Charging Blame
In Killing Of 2 B
By JAMES VAUGHAN
After more than a week of
controversy surrounding the
shoot-out between the police
and alledged Black Muslims in
Baton Rouge, La., mystery of
who the men actually were,
and their motivations plagues
authorities.
The shooting errupted in
the streets as police charged a
rally called by two strange
blacks standing atop cars ad
dressing an audience which
had gathered.
One of the two who had
declared themselves God and
answered the police's order to
move with "One of us is going
to die," was actually shot and
killed.
(See SHOOT-OUT 2A)
Should Aid Development Of
Black Political Power In State
Hugh Morton Holds
Television Press
Conference Tuesday
By JOHN MYERS
Hugh Morton, democratic
candidate for Governor of
North Carolina held a televised
press conference at WTVD
TVLL Tuesday, Jan. 18, as
part of his democratic cam
paign for Governor. Morton
said the issues of roads, taxes,
schools, and race problems
were at the top of the list in
this campaign but he also add
ed the issue of job opportuni
ties in N.C. to the list. He
stated that N. C. was tying
Miss, for the low income per
capata standing in the U.S. He
further noticed that one half
of the families in N.C. had a
total income of less than
SB,OOO per year. He attributed
this, in part, to the rural-urban
balance and expressed his de
(See MORTON 2A)
Hold Funeral Services in Balf.
For Retired Afro-American VP
BALTIMORE (NNPA) -
Funeral services for David Ar
nett Murphy, retired vice presi
dent of the Afro-American
Newspapers, were held here
Saturday afternoon at Grace
United Presbyterian Church of
which he was a pioneer mem
ber.
Murphy, 79, died recently
after a long illness.
Survivors include his widow,
Mrs. Sadie Clark Murphy, two
daughters, Mrs. Mae E. Dyson
and Mrs. Arnetta M. Lottier,
six grandchildren, and a bro
ther, John H. Murphy, Jr., 90. *
The eulogy was delivered by
the Rev. William T. Peters, Jr.,
pastor of Grace. He was assist
ed by the Rev. N. B. Carring-
Two Widowed Bass Sisters Die
Same Hour, Only One Day Apart
By JAMES VAUGHAN
One wonders at the mys
teries of the unseen hand of
Supreme Powers. Death, with
its unknown properties, has
continued to mystify man, and
especially when coupled with
what we perceive to be an
irony.
Two sisters of the area were
married to Bass's: Mimmie Day
was married to the late Buck
Bass; and Corinna Day was
married to the late W. L. Bass.
Mis. Corinna Day Bass died
at the Person County Hospital
COURT DECISION
N. C/s Anti-Single Shot Law Is
Major Significance in Elections
The ruling of the U. S.
Eastern District Court last
week striking down North
Carolina's anti-single-shot law
and the numbered-seat law is
of major significance in j,the
development of Black political
power in the state according
to John Edwards, director of
the North Carolina Voter Edu
cation Project. Edwards main
tains that the intent and effect
of both of these laws is to
minimize the power of the
Black vote and to keep Blacks
from being elected to public
office.
Edwards stated that these
laws have discouraged Blacks
from running for public office
at both the local and state
level. Now that the anti-single
shot law and the numbered
ton.
Murphy, youngest of the 11
children of the founder of the
Afro-American, John H. Mur
phy, Sr., was born a month
before the paper was establish
ed in August of 1892.
For 67 years, he served the
Afro in various capacities, in
cluding pressman, linotype
operator, bookkeeper, reporter,
and finally vice president in
charge of advertising. He held
the latter post for 51 years.
A highlight of his career was
the organizing of Associated
Publishers, Inc. in 1944. It
has become Amalgamated
Publishers, Inc., representing
nearly 50 black newspapers.
(See FUNERAL page 2A)
WORDS OF WISDOM
L«t us spend more time . . . improving oar opentioM
end less time trying to curb oar competition.
—Dr. ChM. L. Fhillfpe
We would accomplish many more things if w did uA
think of them M iznpoeaible
—C. Malesiwbee
January 11,1972 at 1:00 p.m.;
Mrs. Mimmie Day Bass died
January 12, 1:00 p.m., 1972.
The sisters were the daugh
ters of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar Day of Rougemont,
N. C.
Mrs. Mimmie Bass was born
in Person County, April 3,
1901 and received her educa
tion in Person County schools.
She was married in 1928 and
was the mother of eight
children.
(See WIDOWS page 2A)
seat law have been declared un
constitutional, Blacks have a
much better chance of being
elected to boards of county
commissioners and the General
Assembly in 1972. Edwards
said, "In light of this decision,
I hope Blacks will reasses the
use of the vote in our struggle,
and more Blacks will run for
public office. The deadline for
filing is 12 noon on Monday,
February 21, 1972."
According to N. C. VEP's
director, as Black voter regis
tration began to increase after
World War 11, local governing
bodies and the General As
sembly began to change the
methods of electing officials
and to pass laws in order to
keep the Black vote from being
effective.
Many towns and cities dur
ing the 1950's and early 1960's
switched from the ward to at
large method of electing city
councilmen. If the ward
method of elections is used,
the housing pattern in many
municipalities will produce
some Black wards, and, in
turn, some Black councilmen.
But if the municipal officials
are elected at-large, the White
majority will usually be able
to elect all the councilmen.
Also many counties switch
ed to at-large elections. At one
time, in many counties the
voters in each township elected
a member of the board of
county commissioners.
Edwards pointed out that
the change to at-large elections
for municipal and county offi
cers, and the refusal of whites
to vote in a significant number
for Black candidates convinced
Blacks that the only way they
(See COURT 2A)
PRICE: at cm
Clement Named
To Wachovia
Board of Dirs.
mk
CUMIMT
By JAMES VAUGHAN
William A. Clement, senior
vice president of North Caro
lina Mutual Life Insurance
Company recently became the
first Black appointee to the
Durham area Wachovia Bank
and Trust Company board of
directors.
His appointment was an
nounced this week by Durward
R. Everett, Jr., senior vice
president of Wachovia and
Durham office executive.
Everett stated that, "It is a
pleasure to have a man of his
calliber serving on the board
with us. He has distinguished
himself through the communi
ty for his fine service."
(See CLEMENT page 2A)
NCCU's Gamma
Fraternity Observes
Founder's Day
By JOHN MYERS
Saturday, Jan. 15, was
Founder's Day for the Gamma
Gamma Chapter of Phi Beta
Sigma Fraternity at North
Carolina Central University.
Fectivitlea began at 9 a.m.
with a coffee hour in the Stu
dent Union on campus and was
followed at 10 a.m. with wel
coming addresses presented by
brothers William E. Stanley,
President of the Gamma
Gamma Chapter and Michael
Pierce.
Sigma Fraternity's past ac
complishments and future pro
jections were discussed in a
meeting at 10:30 a.m. and was
followed at 11 a.m. by a silent
march and open air jnemoriam
in the Freshman Bowl.
The Fraternity broke for
lunch at 11:45 a.m. to return
(See FRATERNITY 2AJ
Reynolds Gives
Grant to W-S
State University
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. -
A grant of $144,778 to
Winston-Salem State Univer
sity has been announced by
R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc.,
bringing to $678,052 the total
funds contributed by Reynolds
since 1969 in support of the
Winston-Salem State Universi
ty Scholastic Achievement
Program.
The most recent grant com
pletes the four-part funding
program by Reynolds which to
designed to help the univenlty
attract especially well-qualified
(See REYNOLDS 2A)