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DURHAM SOCIAL NOTES By llr. Syminer Day
FROM BLACK ' By John Iladgin
' WRITERS FORUM - By George B. Rosa
A POTPOURRI OP RECENT EVENTS By G. Roar
ERNIE'S SPORTS SPOT By Ernie Ingram
THROUGH BLACK EYES By Rhett Tanner
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REPRESSION-Left to right: Leon White Charsie Hedgepeth, Larry Bagley, Victor Vockerodt.
See other picture, front page B section. (Photo by Anthony Quinn)
DURHAM
Mrkan liberation Soppforf
Sponsors forums
Committee
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The Durham African
L i b r a tlon , S u p p o it
Committee (DALSC) has
sponsored two Forums
during African Liberation
Month. Both Forums were
held at the Stafford Warren
Library on Fayetteville
Street.
The first Forum held on
Thursday, May 2 focused on
the so-called Energy 'Crisis.
The panelist, Owusu
Sadaukai (Howard Fuller),
Muhammad Shadid and
Theodore Speight presented
stimulating information on
the subject from three
different but related
perspectives.
Sadaukai, spelling out the
ALSO position called for: 1)
an end to tax klckblacks to
oil monopolies, 2) more gas
for the people and less gas
for the military, 3) a
reinstatement of ecology and,
conservation - legislation and
4) price control on all
gasoline. Sadaukai further
stated that the so-called
Energy Crisis was hoax and
that oil monopolies in this
country have reaped millions
in profits at the expense of
working people.
Muhammad Shadid a
native of Palestine and a
instructor at Shaw University
in Raleigh explained the
political dynamics of
progressive Arab nations
during the "Energy Crisis."
Shadid also condemned
reactionary oil producing
countries (Kuwait) for
permitting big U. S.
corporations like Chase
Manhatten Bank to invest oil
profits that result in the
support and the perpetuation
Michaux, Bell, Mrs. Spaulding
Successful Primary Candidates
Durham County electorate
returned four incumbents to
the position of County
Commissioner and added a
fifth, a woman, Mrs. Elna B.
Spaulding. Mrs. Spaulding; a
first-time candidate was third
in the ' voting which saw
some 18,415 votes cast from
an eligible registered list of
56,809 voters.
William V. Bell, Edwin B.
Clements, Howard Easley,
and . Dewey S. Scarborough,
were among the top vote
receivers. Nathan Garrett, an
incumbent, narrowly missed
being returned as he finished
sixth in a group of 5
nominees. Garrett has said
that he would not call for a
run-off as he felt the
electorate had made their
wishes known. . " v
Incumbent Kenneth C.
Royall and new comer Willis
P. Whichard were the leading
vote getters in the Senate.'
H. M. Michaux, Jr. and
George W. Miller, Jr.
received the 16th District
Democratic nominations to
the State House of
.Representatives. Mrs. Pat
Griffin, a member of the
.Durham City Council
received the other
nomination for the State
House of Representatives,
making her the first woman
-for such a slot from
Durham County. Sheriff
Marvin L. Davis, incumbent,
received the Democratic
nomination for another term
in the office by
outdistancing former Deputy
Isaac E, Jacobs nearly 4 to
1.
Mrs. Spaulding has been
(See CANDIDATES Page 3A)
of Zionism and imperialism,
'' Theodore--Speight av local
service station operator
contrasted the existing gas
"crisis" with the post World
War II shortage. He
elaborated on the coupon
(See FORUMS Page 3A)
May Issue Of
Crisis Devoted
To CR Revtv;
NEW YORK-Twehty
years ago when the Supreme
Court handed down its
history making decision
overturning the "separate but
equal" doctrine of the land,
civil libertarians joyfully
hailed it as having launched
a new era in race relations
and especially iooked
forward to an. early
eradication of segregation in
public schools.
The subsequent history of
this nation, however, reveals
that racism dies hard. -
The May issue of The
Crisis, the magazine of the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People, is devoted to a
review of 'the progress that
has been made in school
desegregation since the U.S.
Supreme Court handed down
its decision in the Brown v.
Topeka, Kan., Board of
Education case. This case
was brought by the NAACP.
Two leading articjes In the
issue 'are contributed by
NAACP General Counsel
Nathaniel R. Jones and the
.noted .-, psychologist, aliidf
educator, Dr. Kenneth . B.
Clark, whose testimony on
the- harmful effects of
segregated1 education weighed
greatly in, the Supreme
(See CRISIS Page 3A)
Governor Holshouser Names
Two To Manpower Council
CAMPBELL
Hillside Grad
Is Invited To
Security Meet
Charles M. Campbell, a
graduate of Hillside High
School and North Carolina
Central." University was
invited by General George S.
Brown, U S. Air Force
Chief of Staff to participate
in the 1974 National
Security Forum. The Forum
(See CAMPBELL Page 3A)
Dr. Palsy B. Perry Publishes
Articles on hedrich Douglass
Dr. Patsy B. Perry,
Associate Professor of
English of at North Carolina
Central University, has
recently published two
articles on the editorial
career of Frederick Douglass.
One essay, "Before The
North Star: Frederick
Douglass' Early Journalistic
Career," was published in
PHYLON, THE ATLANTA
UNIVERSITY REVIEW OF
RACE AND CULTURE,
XXXV (March, 1974). This
essay presents the details of
Douglass' contributions to
American journalism before
1847 when he established.
The North Star., Specifically,
it reviews Douglass'
relationships with THE
NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY
STANDARD, published in
Boston, Massachusetts, and
with THE RAM'S HORN, a
weekly published by two
Black men in New York
City.
A second essay, "The
Literary Content of
Frederick Douglass' Paper
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DR. PERRY
laslMes Held for 17. 1. Coofr
If Sf. Josephs Church Saturday
William Lionel Cook, retired
Assistant Agency Director of
North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance Company, died May.
8, 1974 in Durham at the age
of 73 after a long and brave
struggle with cancer. Funeral
services were held at St.
Joseph's AME Church.
Mr. Cook, or "Cookie" as
he was affectionately known to
his friends, was a native of
Washington, D.C. and
graduated from Shaw
University in Raleigh. He began
' working for NCM in February
of "1933 as a Special-Ordinary
Agent , for. the company's
Raleigh district in Windsor.
Just seven month later, he was
named Assistant Manager, and
in December of 1938 he was
chosen to head North Carolina
Mutual's Durham Office, a
position which he held for the
following 25 years. On January
COOK
1, 1964, Cook was named
Assistant Agency Director, in
which capacity he supervised
the company's operations in
North and South Carolina. His
retirment two years later on
December 31, 1965, marked
the close of 32 years of service
to North Carolina Mutual
During his career with
North Carolina Mutual, Mr.
Cook garnered many,
responsibilities, recongitions,
and awards. A graduate of the
courses offered by the Life
Underwriter's Training
Council, he helped other life
agents to .achieve this - goal
througbyhKsitlons as Senior
Instructor and Senior
Chairman . of North Carolina
for the LUTC. He served as
(See COOK Page 3A)
Through 1860," was
published in THE COLLEGE
LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
JOURNAL, XVII (December,
1973). It supports the thesis
that Douglass, in the pages
of his newspaper, influences
literary tastes through his
reviews of books, monthly
magazines, and dramatic
productions. In addition, he
is shown to have stimulated
a general appreciation for
representative poetry and
prose from some of the best
English and American writers
of the day as well as for
original poetry and prose,
especially slave narratives,
(See MRS. PERRY Page 3A)
John Bethel And Henry Hayes
Named to Serve State's Council
Two prominent Black
North Carolinians have been
named by Governor James
E. Holshouser, Jr. to serve
on the State's Manpower
Council. They are John R.
Bethel, 206 Todd Street,
Belmont, and Henry Clifton
Hayes, 226 Hayley Street,
Warrenton.
Bethel is Assistant
Director for the Charlotte,
North Carolina Model Cities
Program. He received his
RA. degree in Social Science
at Texas College in Tyler,
Texas in 1964. He has done
further studies at the
University of Wisconsin and
holds a M.S. in Urban and
Regional Planning from that
insitution. He and wife,
Gussie P., have one
daughter, Pamela, age 7.
A Social Worker with the
Durham County Department
of Special Services Hayes is
(See COUNCIL Page 3A)
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EXXON
Durham lion Appoinfed fo Stale
Position In VJestern fileiv Yorh
The Rev. Dr. John H.
Dixon wsa recently
appointed as regional
director of the New York
istai'e "Dlvfcton ' For Youth
serving western New York.
Dr. Dixon is a 1966
graduate of Hillside High
School where he was an
honor student and also vice
president and president of
the student government. Dr.
Dixon attended Lincoln
University at Oxford,
Pennsylvania from 1966 to
1970 and majored in
political science as a prelaw
student. Dr. Dixon then
entered the Colgate
Rochester Divinity School
and was in a joint graduate
program with the University
of Rochester. He received
the Master of Divinity
Degree with honors and has
now completed his doctorate
in the area of psychiatric
counseling and
psychotherapy. Dr. Dixon
also received an honorary
Doctor of Divinity degree
from Hamilton State
University in 1973. During
his graduate studies, Dr.
Dixon was nominated twice
as a National Rockefeller
Fellow.
During the summer of
1972, Dr. Dixon traveled to
West Africa where he was a
junior fellow in the Martin
Luther King Memorial Black
Church Studies Program.
In his new position, Dr.
Dixon will be responsible for
the Urban Homes Project in
the Rochester area which is
one of the programs of the
New York State Division
For Youth designed with the
purpose of rehabilitating
deliqueht youths.
He'll Get Law Degree Eight Days
Before HisSeventieth Birthday
Sanford E. Williams of
Henderson will receive his Juris
Doctor degree from the North
Carolina Central University
School of Law Sunday, May
19.
Eight days later he will
celebrate his 70th birthday.
Not many men start a new
career a 0, but Williams plans
to use his law degree. He'll take
the North Carolina Bar
Examination this summer he
has been studying for it since
December and the he hopes to
start a legal practice.
. He says he'll take any cases
he can get, but he really hopes
to specialize in property law.
That interest stems from his
having seen people close to him
lose their property, particulary
in old age, through a lack of
legal knowledge and . legal
protection.
It was a course in school
law, taken while he was
principal of Henderson's
Eaton-Johnson Elementary
School, that sparked Williams'
renewed interest in legal
studies. He had dreamed of
being a lawyer while he was in
high school and college in
Bluefield, W.Va.
But there were more
openings in ' the educational
field and that was the route he
elected to take. He began
teaching in 1934. In 1942 his
teaching career was interrupted
for service in the U.S. Navy,
from which Williams was
discharged in 1945. From 1946
to the fall of 1948 he was a
graduate student at the
University of Michigan.
He then joined the faculty
of Georgia's Fort Valley State
College as associate professor
of education, teaching the
history and philosphy of
education and directing the
training of secondary teachers.
He ledt Fort. Valley in 1950 to
accept the prlnclpalship at the
Henderson school.
Retirement from the
prlnclpalship found ' Williams
determined not to repeat what
(See DEGREE Page 3A)
N. C. Central Alumni Mayors
Will Be Honored on May 19
Two black mayors of
Southern capital cities will be
awarded honorary degrees
Sunday, May 19, by their alma
mater, North Carolina Central
University.
Maynard H. Jackson, Jr. of
Atlanta and Clarence E.
Ughtner of Raleigh will receive
Xhe honorary Doctor of Laws
degree during the university's
annual commencement
exercises, which begins at 10
a.m. in the school's R. L.
McDougald Gymnasium.
Jackson, an alumnus of the
NCCU School of Law, will be
the principal speaker as more
than 900 graduates receive
degrees. Lightner, who was an
outstanding football back as he
worked toward his
Undergraduate degree, spoke
recently at the university's
Awards Day ceremonies.
Both men were elected to
their posts in the fall of 1973.
Lightner won the first popular
election for the mayor of
Raleigh after having served as
mayor pro tern. Jackson won
his post after a term as vice
mayor of Atlanta.
Jackson, who won a run-off
campaign against the
then-incumbent mayor, Sam
Masse 11, became Atlanta's
youngest mayor at 35 as well
as the city's first black mayor.
Jackson is a native of Dallas,
Texas, the son of Dr. Irene D.
Jackson, a professor of French
at NCCU, and of the late Rev.
Maynard H. Jackson. He was
admitted to Atlanta's
Morehouse College at 14 as a
Ford Foundation Early
Admissions Scholar. Jackson
received his degree in political
science and history from
Morehouse at 18.
Jackson's first entry into
politics came when he entered
the primary race against U. S.
Sen. Herman Talmadge of
(See MAYORS Page 3A)
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DURING NATIONAL
INSURANCE ' WEEK-May 13-18.
representatives of NLVs 39 member companies will display
posters and distribute Bterature bearing the above photo and
theme, "Insurance The Next Best Thing to Being There," as they
set out to reach their goal of S 1 00 million in new business. f