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WORDS. QEJKISDOM Talk with your employee!—but listen more than you talk. —Charles S. Weber • No man ever succeeded by waiting for the i -Ralph Hites He climbs highest who helps another up. —Anonymous VOLUME 51 NUMBER 26 DURHAM HOUSING AUTHORITY CONFLICT RAGES ■■ I I K § 'NJ£NJ£ Ben Ruffin presents SIOO.OO UDI church award to Mr. McKintoy Gates UDI Awards SIOO To Union Baptist Church In Final Week Of Celebration United Durham, Inc. (UDI) awarded SIOO to Union Bap tist Church last week terminat ing the month long anniver sary celebration in which UDI gave away am-fm radioes, toasters, irons, baskets of food and other items to customers on a weekly basis. The church contest awarded the grant to the church having Black Youths Urged To Visit State Employment Office WASHINGTON-Thinking about a job for the summer? Black young people who want jobs this summer are urged to visit their local State Employ ment Service office and register as soon as possible. This is the advice of the U.S. Department of Labor which points out that well over one million jobs are expected to be available to youngsters through the State Employment Service this summer. Available jobs include 740,222 slots in the summer Neighborhood Youth Corps Program for disadvantaged young people under 22. The jobs will pay a minimum of $1.60 an hour for nine weeks work in community service ac tivities. The National Alliance of Mrs. Scarborough Elected Head Ot N.C. Morticians Mrs. Ernestine Scarborough Bynum, daughter of the late J. C. Scarborough and the late Daisy E. Scarborough, found ers of the Scarborough and Hargett Funeral Home In 1888, was elected as the first woman president of the Funeral Directors and Morti cians Assn. of N. C. The 45th annual conven tion was held at the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, N. C. June 13, 14, 15. Mrs. Bynum Is the sister of J. C. Scar borough, Jr. and the aunt of J. C. Scarborough, 111, who are also affiliated with the Scarborough and Hargett Funeral Home. Woman power WM shown by the election of Mrs. Bynum as State President ss well as Mrs. Catharine Payne of New York, who is also the first National president of the As sociation. The educational back- the largest number of cus tomers attending the super market. Shoppers were asked to drop ballots in the church bod in the supermarket from May Ist through Jane 4th. The presentation of the gift to Union Baptist was made by Ben Ruffin, an official of UDI at a special reception offering refreshments. Osofo McDonald ffcuiinessmen (NAB) has pledged to hire 175,000 disadvantaged youngsters in 126 metropolitan areas this summer. NAB job orders will be filled by the local State Employment Service. Other job slots that the State Employment Service (ES) will help fill include 63,000 positions with the Federal Sum mer Employment Program for Youth; up to 59,100 positions in the Public Employment Pro gram; and 161,000 jobs in the ES Youth Summer Placement program. In addition, they will have job listings from mem bers of the local community. Young people eligible for jobs on the Employment Ser vice Registry will be notified by post card of an available opportunity. There are over 2300 local •J m^i^F f f^Hf ERNESTINE SCARBOROUGH ground of Mrs. Bynum in cludes diplomas from St. Augustine's College, Rhodes Business School of New York City, Atlanta College of Mort uary Science and N. C. Cen tral University. Additional studies towards the M. A. degree has been pursued at NCCU. Work experiences have been varied, and include service as Continued on page 6A Che Carcpb Ciroe^ was the speaker. anniversary celebration closed out a successful year (or UDI establishing a first venture of Black community owned and operated busi nesses. ■ Bearing the slogan "people before profits," UDI has weathered the first year storm and Is k>oktng forward to a prosperous future. offices of the Federal-State Em ployment Service system throughout the country. Most cities have more than one office and large cities may have as many as a dozen. To find the nearest office, look in the tele phone book under the name of the state, then look under the name of the State Government agency that runs the Public employment Service Offices for the local phone number and address. Last Rites Held For Former Durham Health Educator Joseph Beebe Funeral rites were held on June 19 In Lansing, Michigan for Joseph A. Beebe 111, a former resident of Durham, Mr. Beebee 50, died of a heart attack while speaking to the Ministerial Economic Develop ment Corporation of Detroit, Michigan, a part of the Model Cities Division of HUD. The former Durham Health Educator was a native of Washington, North Carolina. He attended Pain College of Augusta, Georgia and received his B. S. degree from Johnson C. Smith University. Follow ing further graduate training at Howard University he earned a Master's Degree in Public Health was earned at North Carolina Central Uni versity. He then worked without pay at the Durham County Health Department at a health educator to demonstrate the need in public health for such a position. In 1956, he joined the Durham United Fund's Better Health Foundation as a health educator. From 1957 to 1960, he served as execu tive director of the Durham Social Planning Council, earn ing wide recognition at the time for being the first Black to head a community wel&re agency in the nation. While in Durham, Bee bee was program DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1972 By JAMES VAUGHAN For several weeks Durham has been the scene of an es calated Housing Authority Conflict which carried the threat of a paralysis of ad ministrative functioning. How ever, the Housing Authority Commission, headed by J. J. Henderson felt assured this week that "the DJI.A.'s func tions are being carried on." $25,000 Granted To Find Safe Birth Control Methods Ala.—Researchers at Tuakegee Institute have received a federal grant to punue a project con cerned with finding a safer method of birth control. The $25,000 grant from the National Science Foundation wilb support the initial phases of research on "In Vive Studies on the Avian Oviduct Motility." Dr. 0. P. Verma, an assistant professor in the School of Vet erinary Medicine, is the princi pal investigator. Two other veterinary professors, Dr. C. A. Walker and Dr. W. C. Bowie, are co-principal investigators in the project. While the popular birth con trol "pill" is said to be an ef fective method of birth control, researchers are concerned over the potentially dangerous side effects the pill also causes its human takers. The birth con trol pill altera the reproductive process by varying the levels of reproductive hormones. But at the same time, "the pill" can influence other physiology sys tems in the body. Emotional disturbances and thromboem bolisms are common side ef fects of "the pill." The Tuskegee research pro ject will use the chicken as the principal laboratory because of its large and easily identifiable reproductive tract. Small moni toring devices are being inserted in the chicken's oviduct (repro ductive tract) to study the dif ference in oviduct activity upon the administration of certain drugs and foreign intrauterus devices. In addition to learning more about the changes in activity in the oviduct system, the re- director for the Durham Busi ness and Professional Chain and participated in numerous other civic activities. §LM JOSEPH BEEBE He left Durham In 1960 for Dayton, Ohio, where he was research director of the Com munity Welfare Council. In 1966 Bee be mo red to Washington, D. C. whore he became a research program specialist with the National Urban League. Later that year he joined the Michigan Eco nomic Opportunity Office under then Governor George, Continued on page -6A The continuing operation of the D.H.A. has been main tained despite resignations of five key members of the ad ministrative staff last week. In addition, Carvie Oldham, executive director laid claim to a 36-week sick leave. It is believed that the con troversy began to mount a few weeks ago following the DHA Commissioners' approval of a searchers hope to find a com pound that will relate more directly to the reproductive process and without the poten tially hazardous effects of "the pill." * 1 : ATTACK—A top loader devours the first of four houses which fell this week on the site of North Carolina Central University's planned Communications Bulldlnf. The $2.2 million building, at the corner of Fayettevllle and Law- Second World Black Festival, Arts And Culture To Be Held Seconfl World/ Black Festival of Arts and Culture will take place in 1974 in Lagos, Nigeria. Originally known as the World Festival of Negro Arts, the First Festival was held in Dakar, Senegal in 1966 on the initiative of the African Cultural Society and the Gov ernment of the Republic of Senegal, and under the chair manship of President Leopold Sedar Senghor of Senegal. At that Festival Nigeria was honoured with the rolf of "Star Country." The aim of these two Festi vals, and of those that will fol low in future years, is to pre sent Black Culture in its highest and widest conception. In order to achieve this goal, each Festi val will bring together Black Artistes from all over the world, so that styles and talents can confront one another, and so as to illustrate the diversity and the entity of Black Culture, Art and Civilization. The Festival NCGJ Faculty Member To Do History Of Funeral Directors And Morticians J. Alfred Williams of Dur ham and Raleigh, a member of the history faculty at North Carolina Central University, has been commissioned to write the history of the Funeral Directors and Morticians Asso ciation of North Caroling. Williams, who is a member of the association as secretary manager of the Community Funeral Home, Raleigh, was named to research, write, and publish the association's history during the group's 45th annual convention in Raleigh, June 13-15. In addition to being named director of the funded history project, Williams was named to new policy empowering it self to hire ind fire personnel with the DHA in portions paying annual salaries of $lO thousand or more, of course, limiting the authdritles of the executive director. Also, the Commission abolished the position of Director of Mana gement. "But, in actuality," accord ing to several officials of the Durham Black community, "this is not an isolated ind dent; we've had some 20-years of trouble with the DHA." Mrs. Nellie White, president of the Tenant Steering Com mittee said, "This seems to me to be an initial effort to straighten out a backoog of conflicts within the DHA." Mrs. White heads the tenant group made-up of 1,600 Ron Streets, will provide facilities for InsSrme- Uon In English. German, Romance language*, reading, writing, speech, and an audio-visual television conter. Construction should begin sometime during the fall semester. will favour the promotion of Black Artistes and bring to light the diverse contributions of Black Peoples to the universal currents of thought and of art. At the First Festival, there were 3,000 participants and 20,000 visitors. The Second Festival is expected to attract 10,000 artistes and 100,000 visitors, many of them from the United States of America. Preparations and planning are already well under way both by the Nigerian Government and peoples— hosts to the Festival— and the International Secretariat of the organizing body of the Festival. Chief Anthony Ena horo, Nigeria's Information and Labour Minister, has been ap pointed President of the Festi val. President-Poet Leopold Senghor of Senegal and the Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, are Grand Pat ron and Patron respectively of the 1974 Festival. The Federal Government of the history committee of the state association. Williams is a native of Dur ham, the son of Mrs. Isabella King Williams of 2507 Otis Street and the late Goler Wil liams, Sr. He is a graduate of Hillside High School,) received his B.A. degree in history in 1966 from North Carolina Cen tral, and holds the MA. degree in history from Longwood Col lege. He has also done graduate study at the University of Vir ginia and William and Mary College. Prior to joining the NCCU faculty, Williams taught in Vir ginia. He has been associated with GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE YOUR MIND JJr Win Itoyf CHEYENNE SCOOT CORNER By S. L. Imhmt PREGNANCY PLANNING * HEALTH By a RI— III DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES Bf Mn. flying Day* WRITERS FORUM Bf Cm rf BL Km HIGHLIGHTS AT DURHAM HIGH WHAT'S HAPPENING AT CHAPEL HILL HIGH families Uving In pubic bous ing in the city. She explained further that, "we view the latest develop ment as part of a long hard struggle of many of us to pin respect and concern for the DHA." She listed many of the past problems with the Oldham ad ministration is being: A total lack of com nunication, and a disregard or the well-being of tenants Mrs. White stated, bow ever, "that the tenant group has confidence in the com mission and they are optimistic that the developments will produce positive results." Another noted figure stated, "maybe we can begin to unravel the 'Carrey Old ham Synasty." Nigeria is building a reception infrastructure worthy of the high bearing of the occasion. Indeed the 1974 Festival will be the greatest gathering of Black Peoples and the greatest manifestation of their art and culture, that the world has ever seen. The whole Black World has VEP Reports Blacks Show Voter Registration Gains Over 53,000 Blacks regis tered to vote from January 1, 1972 until the registration books closed on April 7, before the May primary elections ac cording to a survey released by the North CArolina Voter Edu-j the Durham firms of Ellis D. Jones and Sons Funeral Home, Inc., and Scarborough and Har gette Funeral Home, Inc., as an apprentice funeral director and as an embalmer respectively. Now a licensed funeral dir ector, he is currently secretary manager of the Community Funeral Home in Raleigh. He is a member of several civic, professional and fraternal state and national organisations. Williams said, "I consider this commission a privilege and a challenge. With the help of the Divine Creator and my fel low association members, elder ly and young, the project will be successfully completed." PRICE: 29 CBflS Oldham currently remains with the DHA "cooperating fully "with a transition, ac cording to Attorney Dan K. Edwards, legal DHA counselor. Atty. Edwards has been dub bed acting executive director in the anticipated abaence of Oldham. According to Edwards, "things are going along well at the DHA. Everyone la cooper- Continued on page 6A A Statement By NAACP Director Roy WHkins It is difficult for millions of Americans to understand the reasoning of the Court's major ity when the plain fact exists that but for state action in granting a liquor license, the Moose Lodge in Harrisburg. Pa., would not be able to refuse ser vice at its bar to a black citizen. This is state action in support of racial discrimination which is forbidden by the Consti tution. To argue otherwise, as has Mr. Justice Rehnquist, is smelly hair-splitting which one seldom gets diis late in the century, from the highest court in the land. This strange ruling leaves the door open for many places of public accommodations to claim to be private. It could mangle some sections of the 1964 Civil Rights law into an unrecognizable mess. Before today's decision we would have said it was unlikely - that the Court would reaffirm the notorious inequality in the 1896 Plsflßy case's "separate but equal" doctrine. But today's opinion makes anything possible—even the period, 1896-1915, when Negro civil rights were non-existent and the U.S. Supreme Court was deaf to the plea that the U. S. Constitution included blacks as well as whites. The majority of the Court may even be on its way back to the Dred Scott decision of 1857 when it held that a black man had no rights which a white man was bound to res pect. cation Project. In December 1971, 46 per cent of the 675,000 Blacks 18 years of age and over were re gistered. The gains in the first few months have boosted this percentage to 54 per cent. (The total registration figure includes 14,000 Indians who are registered. Over 10,000 of the 14,000 Indians who are registered are in Robeson County.) There were sixteen counties in which over 1,000 Blacks registered in the first few months of 1972. Most of these gains were made in counties in which the state's major cities are located and in counties located in the Second Congres sional District. In fact, of these sixteen counties, seven are located in the largely rural and sparsely populated Second District., John Edwards, Director ol the North Carolina Voter Edu cation Project (N. C VEP), said that Blacks should con tinue to work to increase Black registration and that N. C VEP will assist community groups and organisations in this work ss it has done in the past.