WORDS OF WISDOM
the reason some parents no longer LEAD their chil
dren in the RIGHT DIRECTION is because the parents
aren't going that way themselves.
Work is the YEAST that raises the Dough.
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
VOLUME 51 No. 10
Black Caucus Has Successful Beginning
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HEADS AFRICAN PROJICT—
Dr. Sidney Evans, chairman of
the Department of Economics
at A&T State University, is
scheduled to leave Friday to
teach and do research in Ugan
da. Evans 1 project is being
funded by the U. S. Agency
for International Development.
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NORTH CAROLINIAN HONORID IN D. C-
North Carolina FHA Director James T. John
son, 3rd from right, WBS among those hon
ored at the AFME Founders D*y banquet
in Washington, D. C., recently. Under John
son's direction, the North Carolina FHA pro
gram has increased almost 80 perecent In
the amount of credit made available to rural
people, and nearly 20 percent In the num
WOW graduate will be able to "talk car" and
fix one with a couple of screw drivers, a
wrench and pliers. It begins this week.
By JAMES VAUGHAN
The noise level, a typical
part of any convention, was
high; excitement ran rampant,
likewise, an accustomed con
vention trait. But business was
conducted, and the N.C. Black
Caucus, the statewide Black
political convention was a suc
cess.
More than 500 blacks from
counties throughout the State
assembled on the campus of
Shaw University Saturday at
10:00 a.m. The group pro
ceeded to adopt a 19-page re
solution containing eight sec
tions and to elect delegates
from congressional districts to
attend the March 10-12 Na
tional Black Convention in
Gary, Indiana.
Dispite N.C. convention
planners' contention that the
Saturday meeting was burden
ed by a time element, and
should have been planned
several months in advance,
those in attendance and elected
officials stated that the turn
out and results of the caucus
were gratifying.
Chapel Hill Mayor Howard
Lee, a candidate for the U.S.
ber of loans and grants advanced. From leftl
are Rev. Sidney W. William, Jr., Newport
News, Va.; Bishop Henry Murph, Presiding
Bishop of the 2nd Episcopal District; Direc
tor Johnson, Administrator of the Farmers
Home Administration James V. Smith, Wash
ington, D. C., and Dr. Larnle 0. Hortom,
President of Kittrell College.
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Congress stated that: "The
Caucus was very fruitful. This,
of course, is not to say that
such things as timing does not
have to be improved. But the
turnout and interest mark a
good start."
Mayor Lee is a member of
the National Caucus Steering
committee and one of the first
black elected officials to sug
gest such a move by blacks. He
suggested that, "in the future
we hope to base our conven
tions on a three-point plan:
politics, economics and com
munications."
John Wheeler, head of the
Durham Committee On Black
(See CAUCUS 8A)
Angela Davis Begins Courtroom
Drama; Free Of F
A courtroom drama--an
event to capture the attention
of the full range of the black
community, young and old,
intellectuals and the "run-of
the-mill"--has commenced to
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1972
ATTY. M. HUGH THOMPSON
IS NAMED BAR PRESIDENT
Durham Courtly
Ass'n Picks First
Black as Head
M. Hugh Thompson, often
referred to as the Dean of
Black Lawyers of Durham, was
elected, by unanimous vote, to
serve as president of the Dur
ham County Bar Association
on February 24, 1972.
Thompson is the first black
attorney in North Carolina to
head a county bar association.
Atty. Thompson has been
engaged in the practice of law
in Durham for 48 years. A le
gal scholar, he has long been
respected in court circles. Dur
ing these years his legal prac
tice has been conducted in the
highest tradition.
His high school education
was completed in Newark, New
Jersey where his uncle lived.
From there he attended Syra
cuse University In New York.
(See PICKED 8A)
Asa Spaulding
Keynoter For
House Fellows
Asa T. Spaulding, Durham
County Commissioner and for
mer President of the North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company was invited to ad
dress the sixteen 1971-72
White House Fellows at a two
hour informal meeting and dis
cussion on March 1, in Wash
ington.
The White House Fellows
program was founded October
3, 1964. Each year since then,
"a group of 15 to 20 excep
tionally promising young citi
(See KEYNOTE 8A)
unfold. Angela Davis' trial,
after more than 19 months be
gan this week in San Jose, Cal.
The promise of a highly conse
quential series of events to be
spurred by the trial focusses
the anxious discernings of
blacks-anxiety, re-enforced by
the controversial figure of Miss
Davis and contradictions. She,
Wilmington: City of Eternal Strife
CONTACT Volunteer Training
For Durham to Start March 13
By JOHN MYERS
CONTACT, a telephone as
sistance service, will begin the
training of its volunteers March
13 at 9:30 a.m. at Calvary
United Methodist Church. The
evening session will be held
Tuesday 14 at 7:30 p.m. at
Asbury United Methodist
Church.
The training sessions will
run a total of 25 weeks and
will be held both morning and
evening for volunteer's con-
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250 children who were recently given a
party at the Selma Burke Art Center. The
Center has a program of Instruction in vari
ous art disciplines, designed to motivate and
William Bell Announce
For Seat On County Commission
By JAMES VAUGHAN
William Bell, an IBM Elec
tronics engineer of Durham re
cently announced his candi
dacy for a seat on the Durham
County Commission.
"Greater Community in
volvement is the real need,"
he stated. "If the commission
is to function in the interest of
the people, there must be
means whereby people from
any section of the community
can involve themselves."
Bell, a soft-spoken graduate
of Howard University school
of engineering also holds a
masters degree in engineering
from New York University and
has studied at UCLA and the
University of Michigan. A re
sident of Durham since 1968,
Bell is a native of Washington,
a youthful 28 in years, but
aged and set in her convictions;
a radical, and defiant make-up,
yet, undeniably a proven in
tellectual; and an earnest fight
er for black liberation, yet,
and avowed Communist.
Jury selection filled the
agenda of Superior Court
(See ANGELA 8A)
vience. The training will be in
structed by Dr. William P. Wil
son and a volunteer profession
al faculty.
The initiation meeting held
Feb. 15 received 52 volunteers
for the training sessions and
plans were made for the open
ing of a CONTACT center in
Durham at the completion of
the program in the fall of
1972.
CONTACT will be a tele
phone advisory center for any
(See CONTACT 8A)
encourage Black talent in the Pittsburgh. Dr.
Selma Burke, for whom the center was nam
ed, is the sculptor whose bust of President
Roosevelt was used as the model for the
Roosevelt dime.
D.C., but attended public
schools in Winston-Salem, N.C.
In an interview, Bell
expressed hopes of being able
to serve the people and the
Commission by digging deeper
into the issue of school bond
merger stating that "a merger
is needed but has to be con
ducted in such a way as to
leave the school systems in a
much improved state in the
face of the unavoidable expen
ses to be passed on the public."
He mentioned also, concern
for such issues as county water
and sewage facilities, the new
hospital board appointment,
which, according to him, "can
not afford to be anything less
than reflective of the total
county it is to serve-the poor
as well as the affluent and
blacks as well as whites. No
institution serves as inclusive
a citizenry as a hospital, every
one gets in need of medical
attention."
These and other issues led
to a conclusion that Bell, the
31 year old father of a daugh
ter and a son, is a very con
cerned and involved member
of the black community.
It is further substantiated
by the various civic organiza
tions he serves including being
a member of the trustee Board
By JAMES VAUGHAN
Wilmington, following the
past weekend of sniper firing,
fires and other signs of racially
tense community, bears out
the suspicion that this North
Carolina port city seems
destined to an eternal plague
of race war.
The most recent violence of
that area last Saturday night
and Sunday morning left two
white men wounded-one
creased in the head and the
other shot in the leg, both by
snipers.
Several car passengers re
ported being fired upon by
snipers including police
cruisers in and around the
black neighborhood of Wil
(See STRIFE 8A)
GOOD READING IN TEDS ISSUE
YOUR MIND By WDHJUB Thorp#
CHEYENNE SCOUT CORNER By E. L. Kearney
PREGNANCY PLANNING A HEALTH By G. Rfepbw
DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By Mrs. Syntiaer Day*
WRITERS FORUM By George B. ROM
HIGHLIGHTS AT DURHAM HIGH
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CHAPEL HILL HIGH
BELL
of Covenant Presbyterian
Church, Emory Woods Com
munity board, and past presi
dent of that organization; a
member of the Durham Coun
ty Emergency School Com
mittee; the board of Southwest
Durham Athletic Association
and others.
Bell has the full support of
the Durham Committee on
Black Affairs in his bid for
public office.
His wife, Gwendolyn is em
ployed with the Durham City
School board.
N. C. Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Case Ruling is Delayed for Week
Orders restraining Mutual
Life Insurance Company re
mains in effect this week as
the Durham courts delayed
rulings on the company's by
laws.
The trial is a result of a
civil suit filed against the com
pany led by Lee B. Potter and
other policyholders. The latest
ruling on restraint halts the
company from soliciting pro
xies from policyholders who
don't plan to attend or vote at
the company's annual meeting
In March.
PRICE: 20 CENTS
ATTORNEY THOMPSON
Neighborhood
Registration
Drive Continues
Last Friday and Saturday,
over 1,200 people filled out
applications for registration in
a Voter Registration Drive
conducted by the Durham
Committee on Voter Registra
tion. It was one of the largest
registration efforts ever held
in Durham County, and the
Committee on Voter Registra
tion considered it to have been
very successful.
People wanting to register
literally swamped the registra
tion tables at timet, and the
response was so overwhelming
that several of the locations
(See DRIVE 8A)
Income Tax Aid
Free of Charge
To Community
By JAMES VAUGHAN
A group of North Carolina
Central University Law School
students have formed a group
to operate a center to assist
members of the community in
filling out income tax reports
to file with the Internal Reve
nue Services.
"This service, we feel is
much needed in the black
community in particular, and
we are attempting a beginning
of this sort of thing," a spokes
man from the group stated.
Churches For Action, a re
cently formed religious organi
zation for community involve
ment and service will assist in
co-ordinating the group.
Currently, eight students
are offering the services free of
charge. The central office for
the group is at 500 East Petti
grew St., housed in the UOCI
office.
The office will be open
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays
thru Fridays and from 7 p.m.
to 9 pjn. on Saturdays.
Also, the group will be
traveling to different churches
Judge Thomas D. Cooper
said Mutual can't solicit the
proxies unless the mailing in
cludes the printed statement of
Lee B. Porter and 20 other po
licyholders who haw challeng
ed the company's management
practices in a civil suit.
The controversy centers on
a provision of Mutual'* bylaw*,
approved in 1971, which re
quires the signatures of about
17,000 policyholders to make
a nomination to the board of
(See MUTUAL 8A)