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the reason Mime 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 SI NUMBER 33
THEY'RE OUT TO Kill SCHOOL INTEGRATION
Politicians Hoping To Ride To
Re-Election On Anti-Busing
School desegregation is
under attack in many parts
of Congress.
The latest move to use the
furor over busing as a means
of blocking further integra
tion of the public schools is
now underway in the House
Education and Labor Com
mittee. There, members are
considering a bill the President
wants. Under the guise of
setting "guidelines" for courts
and federal agencies to follow
in school desegregation cases,
the bill, among other things,
would virtually foreclose bus
ing to desegregate kids in the
first six grades; put new
restructions on the remedies
courts can order; and make it
possible to reopen school
cases already decided.
Meanwhile, the House
rules Committee has a "stop
integration" program of its
own. The Committee's chair
man, Rep. William Colmer
(DL, Miss.) has already an
nounced that when his com
mittee meets again, he will
try and take away from the
House Judiciary Committee
another of the President's
bills • one that would set a
moratorium on further busing
until Congress enacts desegre
gation guidelines. Colmer may
even try to take the Constitu
tional amendment on busing
away from Judiciary.
The name of this game is
Politicking, 1972. President
Nixon took the lead by mak
ing it abundantly clear that
he intends to use busing as a
major campaign issue. The
others are following him. Both
Gambrell and Griffin are up
for reelection this year. And
so is every member of the
House. You can expect more
Thalhimers To
Store At Northg
Announcement was made
here Tuesday that the formal
lease has been signed for a
new and greatly enlarged
Thalhimers store at Northgate
Shopping Center. The joint
announcement was made by
W. Kenan Rand Jr., president
of Northgate Shopping Center,
Inc., and Charles Thalhimer,
exective vice president of
Thalhimers.
Thalhimer said that the
new 57,000 square foot, one
level store, replacing an exist
ing 20,000 square foot unit in
the center, will open in August
1973.
He explained that his firm's
confidence and enthusiasm
for the new Thalhimers North-
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LEFT TO RIGHT are Charles
Thalhimer, executive vice pre
sident of Thalhimers Stores;
W. Kenan Rand, Jr., President,
bills like the one before
House Education and Labor;
more high-handed tactics by
House Rules; more discharge
petitions; more anti-busing
amendments on every imagin
able bill that comes before
the Senate - unless. Unless we
all start hollering stop at the
top of our lungs. That this is
an election year is a fact that
cuts both ways. Members are
using busing as an issue be
cause they hope to ride to
victory on it. What they have
not heard are the voices of
those Americans who feel it
is outrageous for members of
Congress to play politics with
out children, our schools, our
courts and our constitutional
rights.
What You Must Do
Wire. Write. To members of
the House Education and
Labor Committee, first, but
to House and Senate members
after that. Tell them one thing:
to vote against all anti-busing
bills and all anti-busing amend
ments. Get your friends to
write. Get your organizations
to issue resolutions to Con
gress. Unless we act and act
at once, unless we buty them
under an avalanche of mail,
we can lose on this issue. And
the damage done will be to
more than school desegrega
tion; these political maneuvers
threaten to undermine the
civil rights progress of the pas«t
two decades. So please get
busy.
In a vigorous effort to pre
vent enactment of anti-busng
legislation by the Congress,
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People has conducted a sus
tained attack upon the pending
bill, H. R. 13915, in a series
gate store is based on the
fact that the existing North
gate unit has achieved the
highest dollar per square foot
production of any unit in the
cooperation and continues to
grow faster than the average
store. In addition, Northgate
Shopping Center is being ex
panded greatly and improved
by the addition of the major
new Sears store for Durham
which will anchor the center
on the West, the opposite end
of the proposed new mall from
the Thalhimer unit on the
East.
Increased parking will be
provided by both the expand
ed acreage of the center, as
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and Hubert H. Rand, execu
tive vice president of North
gate Shopping Center, Inc.,
displaying the artist's rendering
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of appearances before the
House Labor and Education
Committee. National, state
and local leaders of the As
sociation testified before the
committee bluntly branding
as anti-Negro proposals to
curb busing as a means of
schieving school desegregation.
Opening the NAACP at
tack was Clarence Mitchell,
director of the Association's
Washington Bureau, who, in
testimony before the Com
mittee on July 25, charged
that support of the bill was
"close to the brink of inciting
racial hatred." He further told
the committee: "As a person
who was present at a lynching
in 1933, I see no difference
between the mood of the mob
Continued on page 9A
One Million To
Aid Blacks
In Health
In launching a major effort
to increase the number ol
Blacks in the health profes
sions, the U. S. Department
of Health, Education, and Wel
fare (HEW) awarded ten grants
totaling more than $1 million
to schools and organizations
in eight States.
Special Health Career Op
portunity grants were awarded
to:
-University of Alabama in
Birmington, $102,524.
-University of California at
San Diego, $46,808.
Xavier University of
Louisiana, Newp Orleans,
$106,048.
--University of Maryland,
Baltimore, $59,425.
-Mississippi Valley State
College, Itta Bena, $292,959.
-Rutgers, The State Uni
versity, New Brunswick, New
Jersey, $117,483.
-Temple University Health
Sciences Center, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, $107,255:
-University of Pennsyl
vania, Philadelphia, $15,768.
-Meharry Medical College,
Nashville, Tennessee, $325,
020. (two grants)
Meharry received a $220,
229 grant to support its
Biomedical Sciences and Den
tal Admissions Program. The
Biomedical Sciences program,
for college students interested
in health careers, strives to
increase the number of mino
rity students enrolled in health
professions schools and to im
prove their performance in
classes. The dental program
provides supplemental training
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I Thalhimers expected to open
: at Northgate in late summer
1 of 1973.
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1972
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DETROIT Jean and Melvin
McNair along with their two
children Ayona (L), 1, and
Yahari, 2, were identified by
the FBI as members of the
"family" that hijacked a Delta
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DETROIT - The FBI identi
fied two of the hijackers of a
Delta Airlines jet to Algeria
with $1 million in ransom as
escapers from a prison in New
Jersey. An FBI spokesman
identified one of the alleged
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Jackson Co-ed Vies For Miss
Black America Crown
Jackson, Miss. Beautiful
and vivacious Carolyn Elaine
Coleman has her mind set 011
sunny California these days,
and with good reason. August
25 marks the opening of the
Miss Black America Beauty Pa
geant to be held at the Holly
wood Paladium and Carolyn
is a contender for this crown.
Having won the title of Miss
Black Mississippi earlier this
year, Carolyn is anxiously
looking forward to the Miss
Black America Pageant.
The 5'5V4", brown-eyed
beauty is a native of West
Point, Mississippi and a Jun
ior English Literature major
at Jackson State College. Caro
lyn is the youngest of three
daughters bom to Mr. & Mrs.
John Milton Coleman of West
Point.
She attended South Side
and North Side Elementary
Schools and Fifth Street Jun
ior-Senior High School. In
Airlines jetliner 8/1 to Algeria
with $1 million in ransom.
The McNair family along with I
two escapees from a New
Jersey State Prison and |
another woman have been
hijackers as George Edward
'V-ight (left), 22, who escaped
from a Leesburg, N. J. prison
in 1970. The other alleged hi
jacker identified was George
Brown (right), 44, who es
caped from the same prison.
Miss Carolyn Coleman
1970, Carolyn graduated with
honors from West Point High
School.
Learning of the Miss Black
Mississippi Pageant while stu
dying at Jackson State Col
lege, Carolyn became inspired
by other contestants to enter
the Pageant. (Miss Black Mis
sissippi *7O, Montie Davis and
Miss Black Mississippi '7l, Ste
lla Davisdon were also students
at Jackson State College).
However, beauty pageants are
not unfamiliar to the 18-year
old co-ed. In 1968, Carolyn
was selected first alternate in
the Miss Elks Pageant.
After graduating from Jack
son State College, Carolyn an
tici pates a career in television
announcing. She would also
like to be a free lance writer.
States Carolyn, "My total ob
jective is to acquire a job that
is developing-one that con
stantly involves me with peo-
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charged in Miami with armed
hijacking. At present there
I still is no word from Algeria
on the five's fate or of the
I ransom money.
Whitney Young
Nominations
Now Open
Nominations for the New
York Urban League's Second
Annual Whitney M. Young,
Jr. National Memorial Award
are now open to the general
public throughout the nation,
according tosan announcement
by Lemuel M. Wells, director
of Public Affairs for the Lea
gue.
The award will be presented
during the halftime of the sec
ond Annual Whitney M.
Young, Jr. Memorial Football
Classic, featuring Gambling
College of Louisiana and Mor
gan State College of Baltimore,
Maryland, on September 9,
Lawyers Urged
|To Expand
IRole By Hud
Black Lawyers not involved
in housing and land develop
ment law are missing unlimited
opportunities to help their
communities as well as their
own careers, a Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment official said in Miami
Beach, Fla., this week.
Addressing members of the
National Bar Association (N
--BA) attending their annual
convention in that city's Fon
tainbleu Hotel, HUD General
Assistant Secretary Samuel C.
Jackson noted that the Ad
ministration's efforts have sub
stantially increased the invol
vement of black attorneys in
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MAJOR GENERAL DANIEL
(Chappie) James, Jr., USAF,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Public Affairs), re
GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE
YOUR MIND By William Thorpe
CHEYENNE SCOUT CORNER By E. L Kearney
DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By Mrs. Syminer Daye
WRITERS FORUM By George B. Rns
PREGNANCY PLANNING & HEALTH By G. RiggHbee
All Baptist Me
3,000 To Raleigh
The 106 th year old GEn
eral Baptist State Convention
of North Carolina, Inc., will
assemble all of the auxiliary
bodies of the convention in
all Baptist Assembly August
14-18, in the capital city.
The convention is headed
by Dr. C.RJSdwards of Fay
etteville and Dr. O.L.Sherrill,
Executive Secretary.
The Woman's Auxiliary is
headed by Mrs. Vera M. Slade
of Ahoskie and Mrs. M.A.
Home, Executive Secretary.
The other auxiliaries of the
convention are: Sunday-
School, J.WJdartin, President;
Baptist Training union, Clif
ton Stone, Presidetn; Laymen
League, Frank Marshall, Presi
dent; and ushers'. Arthru Wil
liams, President.
Approximately 3,000 dele
gates will come to Raleigh
and center their attention for
the entire week around the
theme: "A United Witness for
A Confused World." The open
ing assembly will begin Mon
day evening, August 14 in the
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium !
with music furnished by the
combined choirs of Raleigh.
The feature address of this
session will be given by Dr.
Benjamin E. Mays, President
Emeritus of Morehouse Col
lege. Dr. Mays is one of the
Block Americans Asked
To Have Faith In ARBC
WASHINGTON, D. C. -
Roy L. Brooks, 22, of Storrs,
Connecticut, a Member of the
American Revolution Bicen
tennial Commission (ARBC)
testified before a Senate sub
committee reviewing the status
of Bicentennial planning this
week on behalf of the five
Black members of the Com
mission. Brooks was recently
sworn in by President Nixon
as one of eight new members
of the Commisson of whom
three were Black, bringing
Black representation to 10%
of the total Commission
membership.
Brooks stated in response
to criticism of lack of "mean
ingful employment" of Black' -
on the ARBC staff that "Thit
is a problem which can only
be dealt with effectively by
the Black Commission Memb
ers." Said Brooks, "Quite
frankly, I feel that it is far
more important that we hire
a person whose thinking is
compatible with the thinking
of Black people in general
rather than hiring a Black
face."
In noting that his com-
ceive* the stars of hie new
rank from his son, Air Force
Captain Daniel James, 111
(left), and wife Dorothy
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Dr. Edwards
most respected educators, pre
achers and authors in America
and the world. Other feature
sermons and addresses will be
delivered by Dr. O.B.Burson.
A Former North Carolina pas
tor and currently the pastor
Continued on page 9A
ments covered tne period since
his active participation on the
Commission, Brooks said that
he sincerely felt that the
Commission was now making
powerful attempts to become
a more active and more re
sponsive body, but that the
most serious problem was a
lack of sufficient funds. He
went on to contend that
serious criticisms directed
against the ARBC are un
founded with respect to the
original legislation and are
based upon misinformation
and/or incomplete informa
tion, particularly in areas
where the ARBC had insuffi
cient funds to carry out
planned programs.
He cited Congressman Fred
Schwengel (R. Iowa) who has
criticized the ARBC for "neg
lecting the historical aspect of
the Bicentennial" and noted
that in his remarks to Con
gress on June 19, Schwengel
stated the aims of the Bicen
tennial celebration to be to
"cultivate, recall and promote
the history of this great
country," and further that the
Continued on page 9A
(right). Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird assists Mrs.
James during the Pentagon
ceremony last week.