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WORDS OF WISDOM • The right man can make a good job out of any job. — William Feather • A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best. VOLUME 51 NUMBER 99 if; ■ WipM i Wmr% \ ' in^KO Kill;.:: If w : .iwp v. .urn j*'■ t Hk % « A * i F WKmmvk. 3 f ißi «c lii *>£ #. lEftsS JULIAN BOND (I) AND JOHN LEWIS (r) - officials of the Voter Education Pro ject, Inc. (VEP) shown above holding a news conference during recent tours of North Suspicious Fin Destroys Mobile In Manhasset, NEW YORK-A suspicious fire during the early hours of Tuesday, September 12, com pletely destroyed the NAACP voter mobile in Manhasset, L.1., that the New York State Conference of Branches was using to assist in its registration campaign. Dr. Eugene Reed, New York NAACP State Confer ence president, immediately deplored the fire and express ed a strong feeling that it was deliberately set. "This wanton destruction of property," he said, "was a graphic example of the kinds of problems that we of the NAACP nave been experiencing for the past several weeks in our work to register voters a ound the state." Consequently, Dr. Reed immediately telegraphed President Nixon to ask for a federal investigation sinr» C 6 felt that the fire was a viola tion of the civil rights of Long Island residents. According to Kenneth R. Bedford, NAACP Long Island regional director, kindle wood and rags were found under the trailer which was parked in a playground. The trailer was locked and nobody had entered it for 15 hours before the fire started. A considerable amount of records and registrations whicn had not been officially tallied were destroyed in the blaze. Nevertheless, Dr. Reed expressed a strong oe.ermi na tion to continue the campaign in Negro neighborhoods, which has a goal of 10,000 newly registered Long Island voters this year. "No aisonist or any otner kind of stumbling block will stop the New York State NAACP from exercising its responsibility to see that black " : *'' * \ - |;;||fi^'J j '' MUNICH: Former Olympic gold medal winners expressing their grief at memorial csre mony for Israeli athletes and and South Carolina, are sched uling a nonpartisan voter registration tour of Virginia on September 21 through 23, 1972. The VEP team will citizens register to vote," he said. Other NAACP branches througnout New York have More Block Officers Needed Says Marine When Ed Green was a fresh man at Westchester State Col lege in Pennsylvania, he nad never met a black Marine officer. In fact, he had never seen one. But through a Marine recruiter he had heard of the Platoon Leaders Class, a sum mer program leading to a com mission as a Marine second lieutenant after college grad uation. So he joined. In the summer of 1956 Ed Green was one of two blacks in the program. At that time he felt a few more black brothers would make him more comfortable. Today , as Major E. L. Green, USMC, he still feels the same way. He is one of 300 black Marine officers. Major Green has been tapped to become a racial trouble shooter for the Corps. He is the new Special Assistant for Minority Affairs, for the Commandant of the Marine Corps. He was born in Henderson, N. C., and his wife, Lilian, is a guidance counselor. They have three children. The outlook for many blacks in the service until recently, according to Major Green, would have made good material for a Kafka - n material for a Kafka novel: "The black serviceman enters the military from a society which he has learned to distrust, and he joins a society he does not know. "He is more aware of and officials who were killed by Palestinian terrorists are (L-R) Son Kitel Of South Korea winner of marathon in 1936 Cbe Car§ji|a DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1972 •peak throughout southeastern Virginia, urging blacks to register prior to the registra tion deadline and vote in the 1972 elections. also complained of problems they felt have been created by uncooperative election boards and local ofticials. sensitive to past injustices than ever before and unfortunately, the reoollections of past in justices merely tend to solidify the mistrust that he may already possess. "If you're white, visualize a court martial where you will confront a black military judge an all black court, a black trial counsel, and a black defense counsel. And, if that is not y| r.f^) GREEN enough, discover that if con victed, the case will initially be reviewed by the black convening authority who referred the case to the court in the first place, and subse quently reviewed by a black Board of Review." Major Green says his example is an exact reversal, in racial composition, of the military justice system that Continue on Page 6A Jesse Owens of U.S.A., winner of sprint and long jump in I j.936; and Manfred Germar of . West Germany, spring winner in i 956. Nation's Black Busin "Restructure 99 In Dallas October 3-6. The Nation's Black businessmen and business women will convene October 3-6 at the National Business League's (NBL) 72nd Annual Convention at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Some 1,500 business leaders* from across the Nation are expected to attend the Convention - 1972's most significant meet ing of Blacks in business. This year's Convention program or the 72 year-old organization will Highlight an aggressive commitment by delegates to "restructure" the National Business League from a business development orga nization to a multi-industry trade association, to guarantee it a permanent position of influence within the business life of America. "Its influence," says NBL president Berkeley G. Burrell, "must be indelibly stamped upon the life styles of Black Americans who dare to be ambititious." "While the National Business League has never endorsed any candidate for any office," con tinues Burrell, "the NBL leadership feels that at this critical time in American minority business enterprise history, it is imperative that NBL's constituency be pro vided a penetrating, intellectual analysis of the current political S.C. Black Voters Swing Election WASHINGTON, D. C. - Black voters in South Caro lina's Sixth Congressional District contributed about 47 percent of the total vote for John Jenrette, who defeated Rep. John L. McMillan in last Tuesday's Democratic primary runoff election. Seventeen percent of McMillan's vote was cast by black voters. This conclusion is drawn from an analysis of the un official election returns released today by the Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington, D. C. The Joint Center is a privately funded non-profit organization which conducts researcn on black and other minority elected officials, and on black participation in the electoral process. It also provides technical assistance and information to black elected officials throughout the country. By looking at sample pre cincts with 95% or more black registered voters, the Center estimates that 73 percent of all black voters voted for Jenrette. Eddie N. Williams, president of the Joint Center, said, "The results in the congressional primary runoff in South Carolina's Sixth Congressional District are a striking example of the importance of the black vote in both local and national elections across the country." j Williams added that "the | figures show that where black I voters show a strong preference I for candidate, they can i provide not only the margin of j victory, but tiie base of his ! support. All politicians, both j white and black, are horning 1 increasingly aware of that j fact." In the Jenrette-McMillan Continue on Page 6A s Ik M BURRELL scene." It is expected, then, that one of the more heavily at tended convention workshops will be the one on Black Politics In The Years Ahead, led by the Joint Center for Alpha's Name Washington Nat'l Prexy Dr. Walter Washington, president of Alcorn A. & M. College which is the oldest predominantly black land grant college in the nation, was elected National President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity in the recent meeting of the General Convention in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Washington has given long service to the Fraternity. He has served as one of its vice presidents and has been a member of its Board of Directors. Dr. Washington is married to the former Carolyn Carter, a college classmate. Mrs. Washington serves as Profes sor of Sociology at Alcorn A. & M. College. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is the oldest predominantly black fraternity in the nation. It was organized in 1906 at Cornell University by seven Negro college students. It has initiated 40,000 men since its founding and it maintains 382 chapters on major college and university campuses and 228 Continue on Page 6A October 9-13 Nat'l School Lunch Week ATLANTA' Ga.-Since 1946 when the National School Lunch Act was enacted, Congress has accelerated ex pansion of the national school lunch program to provide food to nearly 25 million children a day. Twenty-six years of prog ress in this UJS. Department of Agriculture (USDA) admin istered program has made child nutrition a national policy. Regional officials of USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) report that the federal-state-local team admin istering school lunch and other child nutrition programs will be making a special effort in | October to call the public's i attention to this national policy. To further arouse the public awareness and understanding of this program designed to improve the nutrition of school children, President Nixon has proclaimed October 9-13 as Continue on Page 6A Political Studies. Two other workshops, also expecting heavy attendance, will be The Current Economy of the Black Community, led by the Caucus of Black Economists, and Cable Television, the latest multi-billion dollar media frontier for which minorities must struggle to share owner ship. This workshop will be led by a panel of national media experts, among whom will be Charles Tate and Ted Ledbetter, both of Washington. D.C. The Convention will kick off its four-day program with a seminar on opportunities for minority-owned businesses, sponsored by the Federal Government's General Ser vices Administration (GSA), detailing immediate available financial, management and technical assistance to those interested in establishing new businesses, and in expanding existing ones. Or. hand at the Convention to award contracts to minority owned businesses will be re- from the Federal Government, and from the National Mis ority Purchasing C : incil, tics organization ,f .• nporate officials devnc:". f -.mulating national ai'; >». X juiicies to encourage tit i«iu ohasing of goods and s»jrvices Humanities Group To Meet At St. Augustine Saint Augustine's College will host the North Carolina Committee For Continuing Education In The Humanities. September 25. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the development of a second year proposal for the public pro gram which will encourage the State of North Carolina to inform the public about con temporary social and cultural concerns througn the Humani ties. The theme of this year's program is "Traditions in Transition: The Impact of Urbanization on North Caro lina Communities." The Humanities Program reacnes out into communities that are affected by change created by urbanization. This project is funded by the National En dowment for the Humanities. Jim Noel is the executive director of the project. Other members of the North Carolina committee are as follows: John T. Caldwell, chancellor, North Carolina Continue on Page 6A immm l I I LhhhhhbhhhbbbbJ* V fUC A & T FOUNDATION INI TLATES $4.5 MILLION CAM PAIGN - Present at Greens boro-High Point Airport last Friday as the A & T University Foundation initiated a $4.5 million fund raising campaign GOOD READING IN THIS ISSUE YOUR MIND By Thorpe CHEYENNE SCOUT CORNER By E. L. Kmrmtf DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES Br Mn. Sjmlmer Dmy* WRITERS FORUM Bf Gm*W B. RM PREGNANCY PLANNING it HEALTH By G. RfesabM JENKINS hom ininority-woned Firms. Participating on the j s eakdrs' platform wiil be Jo., j L. J nkino, director of Presi- | rieiu NL.on'b $lO J million national minority enterprise j Spaulding Resigns Commission In a letter to the chairman of the board, Asa T. Spaulding, Durham's only black County Commissioner, resigned Mon day, He said it was "with mixed emotions" that he took that action. Spaulding said that he is "already finding my associa tion with the Urban National Corporation (a Boston-based investment firm) challenging, mind-stretching, and exciting." jjra ■ ■8 A SPAULDING "I just don't feel that I can carry on in both capacities," Spaulding said. He was serving his second two-year term at the time. In his letter to Dewey S. Scarboro, chairman of the Board, Spaulding said that it had been "a privilege and a Continue on Page 6A were (left to right) Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, chancellor of A & T State University; Dr. Earke B. Barnes, president of Dow Chemical U. S. A. and national campaign chairman for the A & T campaign and Dr. Alvin PUCE: 20 CENTS piograr.., «u>d a boat of other speakers, including P'Vi McKissick. fo .niter of S*>u* Jity, N. C. and Benjamin L. Hooks, recently appoint*** Federal Communication: Commissioner. Among the Convention par ticipants who win "restruc ture" the National Business League wll be representative national Black elected officii national Black elected official* the UJS. Chamber of Com merce, civic and academic communities, national trade associations such as the Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc. and the American Truckers Associa tion, Inc. and the American Truckers Associations, and the corporate wo ld - including General Motors Corp., Mar riott Corp., New York Life Insurance Co., Pepsi-Cola Co., Johnson & Johnson, Inc., Greyhound Corp., American Oil Co., Sears Roebuck and Co., General Electric Co., Cummins Engine Co., Inc., Chase Manhattan Bank, and others. South African diamond min ers have to dig up and silt 100 million pounds of sand and gravel for each pound oi gems they find, says National Geographic. Jordan Asks Assurance On Philly Plan Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Exe cutive Director of the National Urban League issued the following statement today, urging retention of the Phila delphia Plan and its vigorous enforcement: "Despite denials by high Administration officials that the Philadelphia Plan will be discontinued, press reports indicate that there is a reap praisal underway that could well result in watering down federal attempts to equalize job opportunities in the con struction trades. Any such reversal of policy would be a stab in the back to black people and a betrayal of the black working-man at a time of economic Depression in the black community. Hie National Urban League calls for immediate, binding assur ances by the Administration tiiat it will not consider any changes in tiie Philadelphia plan and will vigorously en force it." Blount pmfcftaat of the A ft T Foundation. The drive will involve foundation*, cor porations, alumni, faculty and student* See story on Page I • B
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