WORDS OF WISDOM
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 51 NUMBER 43
BEN CHAVIS,AND NINE OTHERS, FOUND GUILTY
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ED AT A & T : Four living
persons inducted into the A&T
State University Sports Hall of
Fame last Saturday in clude(left
First Black Named To Major
Army Reserve Troop Command
FT. MEADE, Md.—Benjamin
L. Hunton, a US Army Reserve
brigadier general and Washing
ton, D. C. native, has been
named the new commander of
97th Army Reserve Com
mand (ARCOM), here. General
Hunton, the first black officer
ever to hold general officer
rank in the Army Reserve, now
becomes the first black to take
over a major Army Reserve
troop command.
Lieutenant General C. E.
Hutchin, Jr., commander of
the First US Army, in an
nouncing General Hunton's ap
pointment, said he was well
qualified by background and
experience for the two-star po
sition. Command of an AR
COM is one of the most pres
tigious assignments attainable
in the Army Reserve.
General Hunton's last as
signment was as advisor to the
Chief of Reserve Components,
Department of the Army, as
Special Assistant on Minority
Affairs. His previous assign
ments had been as Commander,
428 th Infantry Regiment (Sep
arate); and of 317 th Infantry
Regiment and Ist Brigade, Basic
Combat Trainiing, 80th Train
ing Division, Alexandria, Va.
in civilian life, General
Hunton is Assistant Director of
Education and Training, US
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WASHINGTON : Rep Shirley
Chisholm(D-N.Y.) talks with
juvenile inmates after their re-
lease from a cellblock where
hostages are being held by
to right), Tom alston, former
St. Louis Cardinals baseball
star; Connie Raiford, success
ful Greensboro bondsman; Ro
bert H. "Stonewall" Jackson,
Bureau of Mines, Department
of the Interior. He was area
director of equal educational
opportunity for the Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW) from 1966 to
1969.
A 1940 graduate of Howard
University and a World War II
veteran, General Hunton earned
HUNTON
a doctorate in philosophy from
American University, Washing
ton, D.C. in 1956.
He was commissioned through
the Reserve Officer Training
Corps program at Howard Uni
versity and later during World
War II returned there as assist
and professor of military sci-
other inmates of D.C. Jail, Oct.
11, The inmates remaining in
the cellblock were reportedly
in real negotiations with prison
officials after a morning in which
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assistant football coach at
North Carolina Central; and
Art Statum, varsity wrestling
coach at Lafayette College.
ence and tactics.
He is a graduate of the US
Army Command and General
Staff College, Fort Leaven
worth, Kan.
The 53-year-old general and
his wife, the former Jean Coop
er, also a Howard graduate,
make their home in Hyattsville,
Md., and have one son, Ben
jamin, Jr., a 1971 graduate of
John Carroll High School, Wash
ington, D.C., who is currently
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Oaega Fonder
Moaned
Dr. Oscar J. Cooper, 1621
West Jefferson Street, one of
America's foremost and oldest
physicians, died at Lankenau
Hospi 1 in Philadelphia Mon
day, Jctober 9. Dr. Cooper
was graduated from Howard
University Medical School in
1918. He was the first intern
at old Mercy Hospital in Phil
adelphia, 50th and Woodland.
He practiced privately in North
Philadelphia for forty-eight
years.
A native of Washington, D.C.
Dr. Cooper held the distinction
of being one of the last of two
living founders of Omega Psi
Phi Fraternity, Inc., a Black
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they demanded immediate re
lease from prison or they would,
kill a D.C. con-editions official
one of ten hostages being held. |
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1972
A(tivist Sentenced
25 - 33 Years
BURGAW -- A Pender County
Superior Court jury took ex
actly three hours here Tuesday
to deliver a verdict of guilty
in the trial of black activist Ben
Chavis and nine others who
were accused of firpboming
and conspiring to assult emer
gency personnel during racial
disruptions in Wilmington, Feb
ruary 5 and 6,1971.
The jurors, who had been
listening to testimony in the
case of more than five weeks,
delivered guilty verdicts on 19
counts.
Others on trial along with
Chavis were: Connie "Tiny"
Tyndall, 22; Reginald Epps,lß;
James McKoy, 19; Mrs. Ann
Sheppard, 35; Jerry Jacobs, 19;
Joe Wright, 19; Wayne Moore,
Willie Earl Vereen, 19; and
Marvin Patrick, 20. All are
natives of Wilmington.
Mrs. Sheppard began sobbing
when the verdicts were an
nounced by Julian Wooten,
jury foreman. The other de
fendants seemed to have listened
with no show of emotion.
Mrs. Elizabeth Chavis, mother
of Ben Chavis who was among
the few persons in attendance
at the trial, is reported to have
remarked that "whenever a
black man speaks out in this
country he can expect to go to
jail." A small group of sym
pathizers sang "We Shall Over
come"and recited the Twenty
third Psalm as the defendants
were led to a bus which took
them to a prison unit inJack-
Garrett Re - fletted To
Opportunity F Corp
Following its second Annual
Meeting of Members and Board
of Governors recently, the Op
portunity Funding Corporation
announced the re-election of
Nathan T. Garrett to its Board
of Governors.
Mr. Garrett, a practicing CPA
In Durham, North Carolina
will continue to work closely
with OFC.
Commenting on Garrett's re
election to the Board of Gover
nors, OFC's President, John G.
H Alexander I
Named Interim
Prexy At Smith
CHARLOTTE - Harvey R. Al
exander, 51, has been named
interim president of Johnson
C. Smith University by its
board of directors. He succeeds
Dr. Lionel H. Newsom, who
resigned to accept the presi
dency of Central State Uni
versity in Wilberforce, Ohio.
Alexander, who had become
Vice President of Financial Af
fairs since joining J.C.S. staff
in 1968, is credited with much
of the University's success in
erasing a $3-million debt.
Expressing his gratification
at havinp selected to fill
the post until a permanent pre
sident is chosen, Alexander
said, "I will try to fill this
sensitive position as adequately
as I possibly can."
After receiving the B.S. de
gree in Industrial Management
at the University of Illinois
College of Commerce in 1947
Alexander earned his master's
degree in accounting at Du
quesne University in 1950.
He is married to the former
festher Beatty of Cairo, 111.
They have two daughters, Mrs.
Robin Alexander Moore of
Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Ka
ren Alexander White of Char
lotte, N. C.
Mr. Alexander is a native of
Georgetown, 111., where his mo
ther, Mrs. Mattie Alexander
Long resides.
sonville to spend the night.
Judge Robert Martin charged
the jury for six and one-half
hours reciting evidence and
points of law that might affect
the verdict.
On Wednesday, the nine
blacks were sentenced. Cha vis
received 25-29 years on the
fireboming charge and four
years on the charge of con
spiring to assult emergency per
sonnel. The eight other blacks
received lesser sentences. Mrs.
Sheppard, the only white in the
group was charged with being
an accessory before the fact of
burning property.
The State charged that Chavis
and his followers had barricaded
themselves in the Gregory Con
gregational Church during a
protest of public school po
licies in Wilmington. It further
charged that they later con
ducted several armed forays
into the neighborhood, which
was black, to firebomb build
ings and snoot at police and
firemen.
During the period of dis
ruption, two houses and a gro
cery store were burned and se
veral gun battles erupted be
tween snipers and police. Killed
in the exchange of gunfire were
a young black man and a mid
dle-aged white man.
The first attempt to try the
defendants ended in a mistrial.
Jay Strioud, New Hanover
County assistant solicitor who
with a team of prosecutors had
built a lenghty case against the
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Gloster, stated: "1 an extreme
ly pleased with Mr. Garrett's
re-election to the Board of
Governors. I look forward to
continuation of the interests
and support previously shown
by Mr. Garrett toward accom
plishment of our goals."
OFC is a non-profit organi
zation established in June, 1970
with a $7.4 million grant from
the Office of Economic Oppor
tunity. In all of its programs
launched to date OFC. seeks to
demonstrate that innovative
application of risk-reduction
techniques- guaranties, dis
counting, incentives, --can in
crease the flow of private ca
pital into low-income communi
ties.
OFC's President, John G. Glo
ster, described activities under
taken by the organization in
five programs which have been
launched to date. These in
clude programs to support po
verty-area banks, to assist mi
nority contractors obtain bond
ing, to make matching funds
available for SBA plan and
facilities loans, to provide
flexible guaranties of loan and
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Career Film
Withdrawn At
HAACP Protest
NEW YORK -- Aneducational
film that the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
Colored People found objection
able has been withdrawn by the
UJS. Commissioner of Education.
The film, "Career Educa
tion," was produced by the
Maryland State Department of
Education for the U. S. Office
of Education, Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
After previewing it, Mrs. Mer
cedes Wright, NAACP acting
director of education, protested
to Commissioner Sidney Mar
land that the Him was ob
jectionable.
Her reasons were that "Ca
reer Education" fostered racial
separation in the classroom,
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SAN DEEGO, CALIF. : Ex-
POW U.S. Navy Lt.(j.g.) Nor-
ris Charles, flanked by his wife
Meharry To Get
Train For Front Line Service
PRINCETON,N.J.,
Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, Princeton, New
Jersey, today announced a grant
of $5 million to Meharry Med
ical College, Nashville, Tennes
see, to support over a five-year
period an expansion of the Col
lege's programs to train health
professionals for front-line ser
vice in "under-doctored" com
munities.
The grant is the largest single
award made by the Foundation
since it became a national phil
anthropy in the health field
this year and reflects the
Foundation's major emphasis
on improving access to health
care in American society. The
grant is also the largest ever
received by Meharry Medical
College.
Meharry is pioneering in the
development of new types of
health service teams that pro
vide a full range of medical
care for underserved, disadvant
aged communities, both urban
and rural. In addition to pro
Young ' Blacks Offere
Action In ! Slowiag
WASHINGTON - The U. S.
Bureau of Narcotics and Dan
gerous Drugs offers youag blacks
"a piece of the action" in a
new kind of mainstream pro
fessional career.
So says Vincent Oliver, a
black personnel executive in
BNDD, as the agency is known
here.
BNDD, an agency of the
U. S. Department of Justice
war established in 1968 to carry
out one of the nation's most
critical missions-to arrest the
flow of illicit drug traffic and
bring under control the abuse
of dangerous drugs in the Uni
ted States.
BNDD narcs, as the agency's
Special Agents are called, are
an elite corps of tough, com
mitted young men and women
who are put through rigorous
screening and training in pre
paration for taking on assign
ments that are demanding and
often dangerous. -
Under cover work,
lance, intelligence, investigation
and relentless tracking of drug
traffickers, from street pushers
to high level anonymous syn
dicate members air over the
world-these an the BNDD
narc's stock trade.
They're proud, inconspicu
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olga, and their daughter, Kir-
sten, during hospital visit here
Sept. 30. Charles is one of
viding care, these teams also
serve as a teaching base for
Meharry's students, thus
strengthening Meharry s long
standing national role in the
training of doctors and other
health professionals for service
in these communities.
In 4 statement announcing'
the grant, Dr. David E. Rogers,
President of The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation, said:
"For nearly a century, Me
harry Medical College has
played a vital role in the prep
aration of black doctors and
dentists, a large proportion of
whom serve the urban and rural
poor.
"This historic commitment
has been extended and reaf
firmed by the excellent prog
ress the College has made under
the institution-wide improve
ment plan it adopted in 1968.
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation's grant is intended
to help Meharry continue the
momentum it has achieved
under this plan, which is the
ous, closely knit cadre opera
ting around the world on the
ground, in the air and on the
seas in their constant efforts to
break up illicit drug distribu
tion systems, destroy clandes
tine laboratories, cut off the
flow of drugs into the United
States and bust the pushers.
"The agency is new in more
wavs than one," says Oliver.
"Its new because it is an a
gency that affords the best
of young blacks a new kind of
mainstream professional career
in which black power is a
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result of the efforts of its
students, faculty, trustees, and
growing list of dedicated sup
porters.
"We arc hopeful that the
Foundation's grant will encour
age other potential contribu
tors across the country to join
these groups in the work that
needs to be accomplished to
enable Meharry to realize its
important aspirations in educa
tion and in service.
"Meharry s commitment to
the preparation of more and
better doctors, dentists, and
other professionals in health to
meet the needs of the country's
poverty areas is shared by The
Robert Wood Johnson Found
ation. Thus, it is gratifying to
be able to assist the College in
carrying forward this urgent
mission."
Half of all the black physi
cians and dentists now prac
ticing in the United States were
trained at Meharrv Medical Col
lege. Eighty per cent of those
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critical element. These are
the young people we're looking
for.
"It's new because I would
never have believed that I could
have been 'turned on* by be
ing a part of a law enforcement
agency, but I have been since
joining the Bureau and seeing
how our mission relates to car
ing about black people,"Otiv«r
adds.
"And it's new because the
Director, John E. Ingersoll, gen
uinely understands the critical
contribution minorities have to
make toward the fulfillment of
of the Bureau's mission and is
working diligently to encour
age and develop minority par
ticipation."
Oliver emphasizes that drug
traffickers are all colors who
destroy people without regard
for race.
"They have preyed upon
black people for yean and
they still do as they continue to
expend the sale of their poison
to Include broader markets in
white communities,'* he
tresses. "The big difference
is that BNDD marcs are now
doing something about it la a
big way and we need al UM
black power we can muster,
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