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Local Deaths Funerals and , i icrf , xi I t V' ' if jC mmmi,mmxitkimmm iL .jlijk. SL.-- PRATT FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR EDGAR W. PRATT Funeral services were held Tuesday. Jan. 21, at the White Rock Baptist Church for Edgar W. Pratt who died Jan. 18 at Duke University Medical Center. Rev. Lorenzo A. Lynch delivered the eulogy. Mr. Pratt was born in Durham and spent his early years in the city. He attended the Durham City Schools, graduating from Hillside High School. He joined White Rock Baptist Church at an early age and was a member of the Senior Choir. He later became director of the Kyles Temple A.M.E. Zion Church Choir. For a number of years he lived in Washington, D.C. and New York City. He later returned to Durham where he joined his brother in business until he retired due to ill health. He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Gwendetta Pratt Boyd of New York City, a sister, Mrs. Gladys Pratt Newby. of Gary, Ind., a brother, Etrmett C. Pratt, and several neices and nephews. Burial was in Beechwood Cemetery. THOMAS BOYD STROUD ., Thomas Boyd Stroud of 1023 Morehead Avenue died Wednesday, January 15, at his 1 home, Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. at Russell Memorial on Saturday, Jan. 18. Rev. L.H. Whelchel officiated. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Fannie T. Stroud of the home, two daughters, Mrs. Ruth S. Lewis of Portsmouth, N.H. and Mrs. Grace S. Thornton, of Durham, three sisters, Mrs. Fannie Tapp, Mrs. Louise. Wooten, both of Durham, and Mrs. Ella Chrisp of Atlantic City, N.J., one brother, Wilbur F. Stroud of Durham, eight grandchildren and one great grand-child. Interment was in Beechwood Cemetery. LETTER OF THANKS My dear Friends; I wish to thank eacy of you for your kindness shown me during the bereavement of my dear husband, Baxter Rigsbee. Your cards, telegrams, flowers and many gifts helped to tighten my heavy heart. ' May God bless you. Ida M. Riesbee IICCU Law Grad Chosen For Dis. Judgeship Donald Earl Rameur of Gastonia has been named by Governor Jim Holshouser to fill a district court judgeship in Gaston County. Ramseur was seleced from four names submitted by the judicial district bar association, which includes Gaston, Lincoln, and Cleveland Counties. Dr. Larnie G. Horton, Special Assistant to the Governor for Minority Affairs, noted that the Ramseur appointment brings to six the number of black judges in North Carolina. Prior to his appointment, Ramseur was a member of the law firm of Ramseur and Gingle. A Cleveland County native, Ramseur is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University. He received his law degree from North Carolina Central University in 1954. Ramseur has been active in various governmental and civic affairs, including holding memberships on the Gastonia City Board of Education, the Gastonia Mayor's Commission on Human Relations, and the Gaston Memorial Hospital Board of Truestees. He is also the founder and current Board Memember of the Gaston Boys Club. Other activities include President of Citizen Credit Union in Gastonia, member of N.C. Bar and N.C. Assn., of Black Lawyers. 7be Now WashbasKefc By Bobbie Hill 0 Miles Davis Is Looked Upon As King Of Jazz "Rftrat"- music ' enthusiasts, wit K',r; fhe--J,ecpt ioto Jfl o f ' hard-core jazz people, look upon Miles Davis as some sort of King of Jazz, the type of musician one acknowledges as the best because everyone says he's the best. Many people have never taken the time to listen to tlje music of Miles. He has become the most unknown King. There are even people who don't like his music who, declare he is the best. Why this mysterious adulation for Miles? Is it because he has never commercialized his music? Is it because he has been the guiding force between the formation of several popular jazzrock bands of today? Maybe its because of his celebrated liefstyle. Is he idolized because there are so many obvious music impostors around these days. Surely the fact that he was the first jazz artist to use heavy electronic music successfully to create his sound has proudced innumerable permanent fans, who forgot that there was a highly creative Miles Davis before synthesization. Miles laughs at attempts to catergorize . him, explain his fame or compare him to this musician and that musician. It seems that the greatest compliment to the man is that in reality he cannot be adequately catorized as a jazz musician, Jazzrock or jazz R&B musician. How can one categorize the music of "Bitches Brew," the offering from Miles that started an entire new trend in popular music? The closest we can come to a description is a bit putrid and unfair to his creative abiliites. He combines many types of music into haunting chord patterns that are unpredictable and seem almost as if they are alive with character that is a bit more than music There is a communicated feeling that grabs you and says, "Don't try and understand for it may be above you, but listen, you may learn something, or get the feeling you always hope to get from listening to great mu6lc, that inner stimulation that rhythm gives your soul." Miles Davis says that if his music does indeed give that type of stimulation it is because he is 80 music and 20 all of the other things people are made of. In his latest album on Columbia Records, "Get Up Wlfch It," Miles lets us know once again - what ? he aod h is . i jnusioo are made of. From the beautiful ballad tribute to Duke Ellington titled "He loved Him Madly," to the African rhythms of "Mtume," to the blues rock of "Red China Blues," to the special funk of "Honky Tonk" and "Rated X," this album is a work of art by a man who cannot be categorized. If anyone receives any awards, gold records, etc., it should be the public that is finally ready. Through proper care the toughest of the man-made fab rics - nylon underthings not only can be kept white and fresh, but most times they can be re-whitened after they turn yellow. Wash them only with other white things because the colors in nylons transfer. Use hot water and a gentle wash cycle with the recom mended amount of soap or de tergent and a bleach substitute, Wch as JBorateem Plus, ihlch 'deodorizes the ' garments' and keeps them relatively odor free during the next wearing. By comparison, colored ny lons should be washed in warm water, also at the gentle cycle, setting. This will help hold the colors fast. A fabric softener in the rinse water will check static cling. Delicate, silk-like nylon blouses should be -washed in warm water (120'F), except those with lace trim. They should be hand washed. Iron at low temperature. Durham Man Hatted Employee Of The Monti 13. EUBANKS Norman B. Eubanks, Administrative Supply Techician with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has been named employee of the month by the R for your child's safety Agency's Federal Women's Program Advisory Cormittee. The committee reporterd that this honorary award is given in recognition of "outstanding job performance and sincere conern for humanity." Embanks joined the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. Since coming to -EPA, he has helped in the establishment of the Agency's mailr6om and motor pool sections and served as Chief of bofh' areas until 1973. Recently, Eubanks set-up a self service supply store at the Agency's National Environmental Research Center, located in the Research Triangle Park, for use by EPA employees from all facilities. He has been responsible for transportation services to visiting dignitaries and serves as a volunteer Equal Employment Opportunity Representative for fellow employees. Eubanks, now a senior at Shaw - University, has been working toward a degree, part time, for the past eleven years. Plans for the future include a masters degree which he watns to utilize at the middle Management Level for the government. Eubanks' wife, Spanola, is director of Library Services at Dorothea Dix Hospital In Raleigh. The couple have a five year old daughter, Sherry Lynn, and live at 2201 Wise Place, Durham. The cutest doll or the most realistic model truck can be a potential hazard to a young child unless parents use care in the selection of toys, warns Dr. Albert H. Domm, child safety specialist and medical director of the Prudential Insurance Company. "The parent must realize how dangerous a toy can become when it is poorly made or un suitable for a toddler's age brack et," says Dr. Domm. For infants he recom mends toys "too large to swallow, too tough to Dr. Albert break, and H. Domm without sharp points or edges." Special attention should be given to dolls and toy animals. The child can choke on their stuff ing or button-eyes if they fall apart. As the youngster grows old er, Dr. Domm suggests toys which are large, sturdy and have no removable small parts. He advises that extreme cau tion be exercised before buying any electrical toys or "projec tile" toys, such as a bow and arrow. Likewise, parents should be sure their child is mature enough before allowing him to own chemistry sets or engage in other potentially dangerous hobbies; ; ,, Households with children of differing ages can present prob lems. "The elder ones must be taught to keep their playthings out of the reach of their young er brothers and sisters," says Dr. Domm. Widow of Dr. DuBois Invited To Teach Creative Writing AMHERST, MASS -Mrs. Shirley Graham DuBois, widow of Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, will be returning to the United States this month to teach creative writing during the Spring semester here at the University of Massachusetts, it was announced last week. Mrs. DuBois, author of 11 books, resides in Cairo, Egypt, where she has lived since her expulsion from Ghana following the coup that overthrew the government of Dr,JKwame Nkrumah in 1966. Her first published novel, "Zulu Heart," was recently released by The Third Press. Her biography of Tanzanian President Julius1 Nyerere is due for release soon by the same publisher. Mrs. DuBois is currently at work on a book on the women of China. : She recently made an extended visit to China (her sixth) where she collected rmterials for her book on the women in China. She was accompanied on her trip by her brother, Lorenze Graham and his wife Ruth Morris Graham, both writers of books for children, her son, David G. DuBois, editor-in-chief of the Black Panther Party, and her lawyer, Bernard Jaffe of New York City. aiLast .year! the University of. Massachusetts announced the acquisition of the very valuable papers of Dr. DuBois. Mrs. DuBois came here then from Cairo to make the formal presentation and to announced At the inaugural celebration for the new Governor of Colorado, the entertainment included Mexican, Soul and Gospel music. Stands to reason since the new Lieutenant Governor, George Brown, is black. At a similar affair in NYC, there was a steel band, a Latin ballet troupe, a Greek band, a jazz band, a dance orchestra and an Irish bagpipe band. But ethnic booths featured only Italian, Greek, Israeli and Polish food. Black Empowerment By Dr. Nathaniel Wrigfa, Jr. HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST NEW BLACK DEPRESSION" Black Americans of my vintage, and even of a few years younger, will remember quite will the period of the Great Depression. Officially begun in the late I920's, the de pression era had begun effectively for black Americans some years earlier. The age-old, and seemingly endless pattern, of being the "last hired and first fired" had been in operation since the ending of the Reconstruction in the 1870's. Still blacks debated their plight, were dealt with respectfully through the back or side doors of the White House and so had some measure of hope. It was not until World War I that blacks came to know for certain that they were to be the indefinite economic and social outcasts of America. It was the world renounced, idealistic and scholarly President, Woodrow Wilson, who gratuitously re-segregated the public toilets in Washington, D.C, and who abruptly terminated the unofficial presidential meetings with black advisors on black needs and aspirations; He invited this latter group to leave quickly by the same door by which they had entered, adding tersely that ho white man had to respect as binding any commitment he might have made with a' Negro. This, it might be said, was the point at which the great Depression began for black Americans. The greatest black semblance of economic power, and of political bargaining clout, ironically was built into the structure of segrega tion. The carrying of passenger's bags for the railroads, the making of beds, shining of sho cooking and serving of meals on the trains representeu the most secure large-scale economic opportunity in the black community in the period immediately following World War I. I well remember all of the fin Ay and proudly dressed black men who looked like bankers and who visited o;ur home when I was a youngster. They were among the eco nomic cream of the black community. They held forth in high style in the black drug stores, pool halls and barber shops.. They were the deacons and trustees (and even vestrymep!) of the churches and they comprised much of the leadership ranks of the Masons and the Elks. Collectively they presented themselves as a power force and voice for black liberation in A. Phillip Randolph's incomparable, and still unsurpassed, black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. With the precipitous decline of the railroads and the ending of baggage carrier's segrega- ' don, the bottom fell out of this power structure. A note or two further regarding the men who worked on "the road" speaks graphically of our long continuing plight of economic depression during the 1910's, 20's, 30 's and 40's. When I moved from the Mid-west to. Boston in 1947, there was an average of slightly more than one col lege degree per man among the red caps in Boston's famed South Station. The third job which a presently sitting black judge in Boston had before being called to the bench was carryin bags in South Station. A distinguished black bishop of the Episcopal Church who died just a few years ago had followed much the same route. It is a relatively easy matter to forget the difficulties in one's past. But we do so as black Americans to our peril. We have experienced, in fact, only an awesomely few non -depression years. These could be marked roughly from the end of World War II to the middle of the 1950's. Lest we forget, it was in response to a lack of black eco nomic and social progress that the seeds of unrest were sown leading to the rise of such leaders as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and to the hope-laden response of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1962. We have never been on what might be called "the fat side" for very 'long. The Census Bureau tells us of the sad statistics for 1973 regarding the unclosing social and economic gap between white and black Americans in a report circulated cur rently by the NAACP. Median black family income Was down to 58 of white family income after reaching 61 in 1969. Even in 1969 white families, on the average, were nearly 40 better off than blacks. Is this the kind of ''progress" that more than 100 yean of freedom should require? v Earnings of white families from 1969 to 1973 out stripped price increases by 6.1. Meanwhile black fam ilies below the poverty line increased by 160,000 while 350,000 white families moved ibove the line, that is in exactly the opposite direction. From elsewhere, we learn that if black workers were paid'as much as whites for the same work, black earned incomes would rise by 27. . Let's not let the spending poWer of the relief checks and of the momentary unemployment compensation checks fool us. These are marks of a depression. When your com munity's unemployment rate has reached 15 per cent, you are long passed the entry poihe of a depression. That's where we, as black Americans, wre today. the publication of the first volume of a series of Dr. DuBois' unpublished writings and letters by the University of Massachusetts Press. CAIRO, Egypt . - Police reported 72 persons were killed and 56 were injured Saturday when an express train derailed near Qalyub, 10 miles north of Cairo. 1AT JAN. jS, THS CA2CUSA nVTt-IA Crooovord Pucclc ACROSS 1. Kitchen tool 7. Clergyman 13. Mental condition 14. Forest warden 15. Middle East native 16. Big cat 18. English letter 19. Thing: law 2Q. Congers 21. Perceive 22. River border 23. Over 24. Leave 27. Strike with foot 31. Oak fruit 32. Harpsichord 33. Move 34. Printing errors 35. Male 41. Completely nickname 44. Judean king 36. Indian tribe 45. Space 37. Browns 46. Entreaty slightly 47. Bind 40. Inter 49. Bothers 1 1 i' i i' i t i1 1 i' r ' - - - T "T T """ T""""rmr"mm"m . u. itmtitman , a x f gj1 " T Ti !" T i , iT " "" "" " " 37 T" "" """ "" " " - I I I I 1 Ev; Mil Answer to Putil 51. Nut 52. Mistakes DOWN 1. Khayyam 2. Skin opening 3. Ages 4. Catch: slang 5. Building wing 6. Softens in feelings 7. and cons. 8. Sped 9. At 10. Incites 11. Ooze 12. Playing card 17. Kind 20. Gained 21. Whole 22. Unpowered vessels 23. Hawk 24. Pat lightly 25. Medieval shield 26. Seed vessel 28. Collection of facts 29. Intersected 30. School group: abbr. 32. Having teeth 36. Hint 37. Powder base 38. Continent 39. Horses: slang 40. Make tea 41. Too 42. Slv glance 43. Girl 45. Consumed 46. Average 48. Exclamation 50. Erbium: chem. BW"MirWonnt)iihi CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CONDITION Mechanics & Farmers Band Of Durham in the State of North Carolina and Domestic Subsidiaries ot the close of Business on December 31, 1974 ASSETS Cash and due from banks $ 3,777,410.06 U.S. Treasury securities 4,326,762.80 Obligation ot Federal Financing Bank 4,326,762.80 Obligations of other U.S. Government agencies and corporations 5,396,502.40 Obligations of States and pt-iitit-il subdivisions 9,367,354.08 Other securities 15,033.17 Federal funds sold aiidsef l11'ities purchased j under agreemenSresSf1.?. ... lJMRB..: 250,000.00 Other loans 14,469,914.66 Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and other assets representing bank premises 910,008.16 Heal estate owned other than bank premises 10,212.35 Other assets 398,724.87 TOTAL ASSETS 838.921.922.55 ..$12,267,777.9$ LIABILITIES Demand deposits of indiv iduals, partnerships, and corporations Time and savings deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 17,698,727.24 Deposits of United States Govcmm nt 1,435,375.05 Deposits of States and political subdivisions 2,892,626.52 Certified and officers' checks, etc 721,988.62 TOTAL DEPOSITS 535,06! ,495.38 (a) Total demand deposits $15,612,768.14 (b) Total time and savings deposits $19,403,727.24 Mortgage indebtedness 194,402.43 Total liabilities 451,641.88 TOTAL LIABILITIES ,.6139.69 MINORITY INTEREST IN CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARIES $ 28,15056 RESERVE QNJ.OANS AND SECURITIES Reserve for bad debt losses on loans $ Reserves on securities TOTAL RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURiTIEsl"..".""$ CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 152,050.33 1,500.00 '153.5S0.33 660,000.00 3 I 85 Capital notes and debentures $ Equity capital, total 1417M.W Common stock - total pp.r valu- 761,505.00 (No. shares authorized 200,000) (No. shares outstanding 140,401) TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS Mi 681 fr TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES. -1 ' AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS ..$38,921,922.55 MEMORANDA Average of total deposits for the 15 calendar days ending with call date $34,918,177.22 Average of total loans for the 15 calendar days ending with call date $15,805,537.18 Total deposit of the state of North Carolina or any official thereof $1,120,058.42 I, J. B. Anclin, - Jr., Comptroller, of the above-named, do solemnly swear that this report of condition is true and correct, to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. B Ancun, Jiu Correci-Arrcsr: State of North Carolina, County of Durham, as: Sworn to and subscribed before me tbi Mth W. J. Kennedy, Jr. day of January, 1975, and I hereby certify that J. H. Wheeler am not an officer or director of this bank J. S. Stewart Josemunk S. Stiuymornx, Nor art Prauc My Commission Expires December 10 1979. qrtQrrfiyiy mm M m m m ny yn .m.mllSMyn f .. f MJ
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