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' I v. V . ' Duke .University Library 5 - Newspaper.. Departmetxt ; '; . ; Durham- NC- a u& -r: if V , .I -? , I7crrfs of Wisdom It helps us to walk among little' things down here when we think of big things up there. ' Dr. Ralph W. Sockman Grandpa says that, psychiatry is simply the art of analyzing ouches on couches. S. Omar Barker VOLUME 51-No. 46 DURHAM, N.C. SATURDAY; DECEMBER 14. 1974 Gcod nbcdlnH In flifc hsuo DURHAM SOCIAL NUTI S By Mrs. Sy miner Dayc FROM BLACK By John Hudgins WRITERS TORUM By Ceorge B. Russ APOTPOURRI 01" Rl C i:Nl KV1 NTS By (i. Russ ... RIFLIXTIONS By Mary Bohanon PRICE: 20 CENTS ' " '"P" f"'f '" ee'si IF MS Former Director of Voter Danlis Nov; Total Sinty- In U.S. i , -HUm ''' 4,, it t ft 3 & L . . .-.l-J2FM&mdfMmm. .... . . Eight i TALENTED ACCOMPANIST"MiM Pauls D. HarreB, daughter of ; Mr. and Mrs, John D- Harrell of Difton served a? accompanist. University when the two choirs presented their annual Christmas Concert Sunday, Dec. 8. Miss Harrell is a junior music major. She attended Hillside High School, where she was accompanist to the concert choir. She is pianist of the Sunday School and organist and director of the Youth Choir at White Rock Baptist Church, and has served as guest accompanist at Carr Junior High. She is a candidate for Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society at North Carolina Central University. ' ' She is the fourth accompanist to work with the NCCU choirs during the tenure of Charles Gilchrist as director of the choirs. Previous accompanists have been Fred Mason Jr., now organist at St. Joseph's A.M.E. Church, George E. Hatcher, Jr., instructor of music at Shaw University, and Grover Wilson, Jr., a music instructor in the Durham County School system. Seven new minority owned banks have been . chartered recently,'? brining the total; of;;; minority owned banks" In the,. United States to 68, according to Alex Armendaris, Director of the U.S. Commerce Department's Office of Minority Business Enterprise. Armendaris sais the New banks represent; S., "significant improvement- in the picture of minority Owned banking in the United States." When the Office of Minority Business Enterprise was formed to offer technical and management expertise to minority business in 1969, Armendaris said, only 31 minority banks existed. Deposits in 1969 totaled $396.5 million. Today, minority owned bank deposits are estimated at almost, $1.2 billion, Armendaris said. "We certainly ,feel that the formation of these new minority banks is a healthy development, Armendaris said. "In keeping with our charter to assist minority business, we will continue to encourage V Em '! . ,S ' c. Project To Be Honored John Edwards To Be Feted Sunday At Hill Rec. Center ' f ' A. L if ' 4 1 b 5 11 .. 1 1 " y'". tr TEAMMVTES-Silas McGce, San fifncisco longshoreman and teammate of Pres. Ford on the Grand Rapids, Mich. South High School football team in 1930, poses with the President in the White House recently. Ford gathered the members of the undefeated team for brunch at the White House. if. Gov. f fori? fo Address Duma ii Oasiness Professional CiiGn Tlie Durham Business and 'Professional Chain will hold its Annual Awards Banquet Friday, February 14 in the North Carolina Central University dinning hall. Guest speaker for the occasion will be James B. Hunt, Lieutenant (Joveinor of, North Carolina. Hunt has a broad background in agriculture, formation. of, vnew minority '..I, education, economics, and th law. many other areas: The Civic Organizations and activities of his community, the Alumni Affairs of his University, the (See HUNT Page 8A) i "' "- 111111111 1111 It Party Convention Dfocr Dofegafes rifli State Delegation FMWwinS is a list er the new mmonty ownea oanxs, with more'than 50 percent of stock owned by members of minority groups: Brownsville (Tex.) National Bank, Pan American National Bank o;; Dallas (Tex.) Continental. National Bank (El PasaTex.), laza National Bank Harlingen, ;Tex.), Union National Bank, (Austin Tex.), American , Indian National Bank (Washington, D.C.), and First i Prudential Bank (West Palm Beach, Fla.) He received his Bachelors f fi e r e e 1 n " A gricii i t u ra 1 Education from North Carolina State University, was certified to teach, and then went on to receive a Master's Degree in Economics. After that came a law degree from the University of North Carolina. In each of these areas, he has put his formal training to work. Brought up on a tobacco and dairy farm in the Rock Ridge Community of Wilson County, he has for many years been active in activities relating to agriculture and its Impact on North Carolina's economy. In 1964, he went to Nepal, a tiny kingdom between Indian and China, and served for two years as an economci advisor hfelpign that country work out a development plan based on the free enterprise system. Here in North Carolina he served as President of the Coastal Plains Development Association. His personal interest in and commitment to his state is shown by his involvement in Black and minorit; delegates to the Democrat i Party's mid-term convention ii Kansas City last week wen successful in their tight to ban a controversial section removed from the party's proposed new charter, but minority gains made In the party since the 1972 : nomonatlng convention seem to have retrogressed. The controversial clause, contained in the charter's, section on affirmative action, would have placed the burden of proof of discrimination In delegate selection ,on those who filed the challenges to the delegation rather than on the 'party unit . that put delegation together. The section also contained language that said a delegation's composition, it's number ofbfacks and women, cannot be used as proof of discrimination in the delegate selection process. The issue had provoked threats of a black delegate walkout, similar to one led by. California Assemblyman Willie Brown last August. The blacks , were supported in their bid to have the burden of proof language removed by women and Chicano caucuses, (See DELEGATES Page 8A) VJM-E To Present A llvianza Premiere Dec. 22 WAFR-FM presents a "Kwanza Premiere," Sunday, Dec. 22, at 6:30 p.m., at David Paynes, Champagne Club in Hillsborough. The event will feature a live presentation of the widely acclaimed "Heritage of Hope" series. The presentation marks WAFR's kickoff of the traditional Afrlckan holy week which is celebrcted Dec. 26 thru Jan. 1. Heritage of Hope is an original production researched,! written and performed by Evangeline Grant Redding and her brother, Gary Grant. The idea of the series was conceived out of a yearning the grants had to know more about. themselves. The idea came In 1969, at a time when the "Black is Beautiful, Revolution" was at its peak. After what they term as their own cultural revival, they said they felt a respnsibllity to teach other Blacks what they had discovered. Blacks, who like them had been denied as acceptable image of themselves, and who were in desperate need of a spiritual revival of a for gotten tradition of faith and cohesiveness. The public Is jnvlted to participate in this occasion. Persons interested in attending "may contact WAFR-FM, P.O. Box 1166, Durham. I - - - - ) ' ., - MU -I...,.!.!.,. I. the SliaM ... r Mr r - ttf;,! iju wL-tYMl fill zs'xxp'r I f5j(ilii?Kh: I; If iff i, rJixMln III 111 III 1 fill ' m- u ! bit QUw w Pil1 I1! if II1 1 :uM . ( . . -4 4 W v. '-VM .....HHftT1l,ll. I . i ' ; ,j - K I " , ' ) ,T- c - HUNT John l-dwards former director of the North Carolina Voter Kducation Project and lunp-tirac civic leader in Durham, will be honored at a reception given by The Cunirittcc on People VMio Appreciate John hdwards. Sunday. Dec. 15, at 5 p.m.. at the W.D. Hill Recreation Center. In announcing the reception, committee chairman Joe Green noted that Edwards "deserves recognition for the fine work he has done for Black citizens of the State of North Carolina." The North Carolina Voter . Education Project which Edwards directed ceased operations last month as a result of lack of funding. The organization was founded cin 1967 as a non-partisan educational organization dedicated to brining the poor and disadvantaged into active and effective involvement in the democratic process. As - director, Edwards worked ' 1 streriodsly to increase Black Voter registration and voter turn-out, provided citizenship ; education and leadership, ' braining to local community leaders throughout the State, and served as consultant to Elack elected officials. Many of the recent gains in . Black registration and election of Black officials in North Carolina can be traced to the rrwosh ot l;he Voter Education A native oC Durham, Edwards is active in community organization and civic affairs, and holds positions on boards of directors of a number of local and state foundations and community organizations. He is s member of the . Board of Trustees of Durham College, his alma rater. He is also National President of the Durham College National Alumni Association. Both Edwards and other supporters of the work of the HOWARDS Voter Education Project have expressed interest in continuing efforts to increase Black voter registration in North Carolina and creation of a vehicle to interpret and explain to local communities the. issues affecting Black citizens, Comrittee leaders Qreene, Philip Cousin, J.S. Stewart, and ijW Wheeler have pointed out that "a vital ."tsotrres-ia"-r eommuotty. which Johs administered with a great dearof success, will no longer, be available to us. John has given of himself to insure that Black elected officials in North Carolina are a reality rather than a dream, as they were some short years ago." Leaders across the State will be meeting in the coming months to develop a program to continue the work begun by the North Carolina Voter Education Project over the past seven years. The receptionis open to the public. National Urhm Fefloivs Seefi tafs for 75-76 In Durham m m Vp V LEADING THE MARCH-Mrs. Corf tU King (C), widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, as she led march through Boston streets recently in support of court-ordered school intergration Shown in background is the State House. UPl. By BOB WILSON Creation of a black-oriented mortgage bank that would help blacks buy land in the South offers a solution to the continuing loss of minority land holding in the region, a researcher for the Atlama-based Emergency Land Fund has suggested. Jess Morris, in a paper prepared for a Duke University workshop on the economic potential of black-owned land, said there is virtually no lending source" that will advance moderate-income blacks and whites money to buy undeveloped land in amounts less than 500 acres. A black-oriented mortgage bank, Morris said, coulc reverse the role of blacks in today's marketplace where they are primarily sellers of land and rarely buyers of it. Morris said the proposed institution would double as a land bank, buying land for blacks and holding title to it until the debt is paid off. The title would then be transferred to the new owner: Morris's proposal was submitted in response to the estimated loss of 330,000 acres of black owned land a year in the South, much of it being bought for agribusiness farms, developments or industrial purposes. The mortgage bank, Morris said, would contract with a real estate broker or development to dispose of a black owner's land, upon his or her decision to seel it, in a way that would keep It in black hands. And, he continued, the bank would enable blacks presently unable to qualify for jSee URBAN Page 8A) ? .:f5is;v;5$sr'C I ANOTHER FIRST-Mrs. EIna B. Spudding, first woman elect ea to the Durham County Commissioners Board, listens intently as Dewey Scarboro briefs ber in her new role. Mrs. Spauiding is well known for her leadership in the founding of Women-ln-Actkm for the Prevention of Violence and Its Causes which now has chapters in Wilmington, Raleigh and Indianapolis, Ind. . IVomon In Political Nqvjq Many women won political offices during the recent Novermber elections throughout the nation and North Carolina. In North Carolina, tart . black women were elected County Commissioners. Among the winners were Mrs. Etna B. Spauiding who became the first woman elected a Durham County Commissioner, while in neighboring Raleigh, Mrs. Eltaabeth Cofield was re-elected to a wake county commissioners post and recently was elected Vke Chairman of the County Commissioners Board. Mrs. Zoe Barbae, of Greensboro, was elected to a spot as a Guilford County Comrissioner. I ) r W7 :, X".
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