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COINCIDENCE?,
BOSTON'S "SOUTH IE' HIGH SCHOOL PUT IN
RECEIVERSHIP TUESDAY, BECAUSE "BLACK
STUDENTS WERE NOT BEING EDUCATED UNDER
CURRENT SCHOOL PRACTICES".
BOSTON'S NAACP OFFICES BOMBED LATE
TUESDAY NIGHT.
Hanging on a little longer with creative
effort can often turn a brassy idea into gold.
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VOLUME 53 - NUMBER 46
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1975
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FUNERAL HELD THURS.
FOR EDGAR L. ALSTON
Final rites were held Thursday,
December 11, for Edgar Lee
Alston of Price Avenue who died
at his home on Monday.
The service was conducted by
Dr. L. A. Miller, pastor, from St.
Mark A.M.E. Zion Church.
Masonic rites were by Doric
Lodge 28.
Alston retired from the city
school system in 1974, following
more than 30 years service as an
attendance counselor, and adult
education teacher. He also
worked with the city-wide
Safety Patrol and served as
treasurer of the W. G. Pearson
Elementary School PTA.
Alston is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Lillie Alston; one daughter,
Mrs. Doris Crudup; and three
grandchildren.
Burial was in Beechwood
Cemetery. Burial u
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WASHINGTON D. C. - A
three-day national meeting of
black elected officials gets
underway here Thursday,
December 11, with a keynote'
address by U. S. Senator Edward
W. Brooke (R-Mass.). who will
assess the posture of blacks in
public office and the political : Funeral services were
power they need to bring about held here Wednesday afternoon
economic advancement for black for Dr. Clemuel Durham Grandy
Americans. at white Rock Baptist Church.
sponsored Dy eignt national n- Grandv died suddenly at
FINAL RITES HELD FOR
DR. CD. GRANDY WED.
and
the
Nashville, Tenn., and completed
his' internship at Lincoln
Hospital. Following surgical
training at Parksides and Wayne
State ' University hospitals in
meetini is TaUTcanei Se W' home on Crete street Iroit, Mich., he jeturned to
TNlllSSLjtaS1 for Monday morning shortly before Durham for his'residlncy.
Black Elected Public Officials. time for the Penmg r nte Dr. Grandy was a member of
Other such institutes were held offices. He had practiced and had held leadership
In 1967 and 1969. Since the medicine here for more than positions in a number of medical
earlier institutes the number of thirty years and was organisations including the
black elected officials has Instrumental In organizing the Durham Academy of Medicine
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EDGAR LEE ALSTON
POSSIBLE $440,000 FINE
HEAT PACKER CONVICTED
OF SELLING SPOILED PORK
WASHINGTON - Following a
five-day jury trial, a Thurmont,
Md., meat packer and operator
of two District of Columbia
retail meat markets, was
convicted on 44 felony counts
markets, USDA's Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service
said.
The maximum penalty for
each felony is three years
imprisonment and ,t 110,000
Black elected officials, however.
still comprise less than one per
cent of the nation's total of
publicly elected office holders.
The theme of the Institute is
"Politics and the Black
Economic Condition" and much
of the Institute discussion is
expected to focus on how to
most effectively use the political
process to secure greater
economic advancement for
America's largest racial minority.
The eight sponsoring
organizations, which collectively
represent almost every level of
office held by black elected
officials are: the Congressional
Black Caucus; the Joint Center
for Political Studies, which is
also coordinating the national
gathering; the Judicial Council
of the National Bar Association;
the National Association of
Black County Officials; the
National Black Caucus of Local
Elected Officials; the National
Black Legislative Clearinghouse;
the National caucus
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DR. GRANDY
of violating -ttar Federal Meat ""T, yAV7u re Senator, Brooke
or Agriculture
S. Department
has announced.
On December 2, In the U. S.
District Court for the District of
Columbia, a jury found James A.
Fraley, Jr., guilty of devising and
perpetrating a scheme to defraud
consumers and deceive federal
meat inspection and local health
officers in the operation of his
Howard F. CWcbrw "will hand
down the sentence at a later
date.
Convictions as misdemeanors
for violating the FMIA have
been common, but felony
convictions are a rarity under
the Act, according to Milton L.
Goodman, director of APHIS
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A native of Wilson Mills,
of Black Grandy received his M.D. degree
School Board Members, and the from Meharry Medical College in
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Dymally of California.
Senator Brooke, the only
black elected official to hold
that level of office, will be
joined on the speaker's platform
at a 7:00 p.m. banquet to
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Society and the
Medical Association.
He was an officer at Asbury
Temple United Methodist
Church and was a member of the
Methodist Men's Society. He was
a member of Beta Phi Chapter of
OmegaPsi Phi Fraternity.
'.iDr.prandy is survived by his
wife Jf Mrs. Ophelia Sharpe :
Grandl: a son, Clemuel Grandy,
Jr., of i)urham; a daughter, Mrs.
Judith Grandy Chenevert of
Nashville, Tenn.; one brother,
Walterl,Grandy of Durham; two
sisters,! Mrs. Augusta Gardner of
Hampton, Va., and Mrs. Mabel
Forte of Raleigh; and one
granddaughter.
Pallbearers were: Dr. John T.
Daniels, Dr. Norman Johnson, B.
H.!" Thornton, Robert T. Lewis,
Dr. Thomas B. Bass, R. H.
Cherry, Dr. Joseph Campbell
and Lindsay A. Merritt.
Interment was in the
Piedmont Cemetery in
Greensboro.
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NEW YORK - FIRST TWO-TIME WINNER - ARCHIE GRIFFIN of Ohio State holds up two
tlnen as he poses with the Heisman Trophy after he was named winner of the coveted bronze statue
for the second time in a row here Dec. 2nd. Griffin is the first player ever to win the trophy twice.
(UPI).
NAACP General Counsel Scores
Columnist On The Busing Issue
ZIONISM AM) RACISM
THIS WEEKS TOPIC IN "THE POINT"
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SPEIGNER ELECTED DURHA
SCHOOL BOARD CHAIRMAN
Dr. Theodore R. Speiener,
who served as chairman of the
formerly appointed Durham
City Board of Education, was
elected Monday night to serve as
the first chairman of the elected
Board. Harry E. Rodenhizer,
also a member of the formerly
appointed board, was elected
vice chairman.
Prior to the October election,
and the swearing in earlier this
month, the Durham City school
board was appointed by the City
Council. A local act of the 1975
General Assembly made the
posts elective and reduced the
board from six to five members.
As part of the board
reorganization, the
administration recommended
that school board meetings be
held once a month, rather than
twice monthly as has been done
in the past. The motion, made
by Rodenhizer, did not receive a
second and no action was taken.
In lieu of the second meeting
each month, City Schools
Superintendent Dr. Ben T.
Brooks said it was the feeling of
the administrative staff that
board business could be
conducted in a single session and
that the board could have a
meeting once a month at each
school with the principal.
John Lennon, a new'tnember
of the board, made the motion
to hold semi-monthly sessions.
The motion was seconded by
Mrs. Josephine D. Clement and
The legislative act which set
up the new elective board also
adding that "we give our time,
energy, efforts. I don't think we
should have to fix up the board
room in addition."
Rodenhizer's motion failed
with the comment from Lennon
that he did not see "any reason
we should have to change what
NEW YORK, N. Y. -Disturbed
by persistent media
efforts to distort and continue
confusion over the busing for
school desegregation -issue,
Nathaniel R. Jones, general
counsel for the National
Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
sent the following telegram to
New York Times columnist
James Reston, resulting from
one of his recent columns:
"The references in your
Sunday, November 23 column
to Cleveland's school
desegregation suit are disturbing.
Some of the persons who you
reported to have interviewed
have; the trial record will
develop, in varying degrees
contributed to segregation
within the school system. It is
therefore not surprising that
they spoke as they did. Certainly
'The public relations line of a to those who know the real
school board hierachy, namely, situation and I trust that you
the number of black teachers would not like to Aeave the
and administrators in the system impression that black public
is a constituOonai irrelevancy so officials have an immunity to
long as school officials refuse to the Constitution.
take steps to eliminate
made provision for payment of the statutes call for."
$25 per member per meeting,
not to exceed three meetings per
month, for the board.
Rodenhizer made a motion
that past board policy be
followed and that members
waive the payment and the
$0.15 per mile expense
allowance. He said the money
would be enough to pay an aide
and fringe benefits for a year.
After twelve years of waiving
payments, Spelgner countered,
and with the rising costs of
transportation, he felt the board
would be justified in receiving
the payments.
Dr. Thomas Bass joined in the
discussion, commenting that
board members should refuse
the $25 per meeting and use the
funds to redeocorate the board
meeting room at the Fuller
School Building.
Mrs. Clement said that she
did not think that redecorating
the board room was the
responsibility of the board,
The superintendent then
presented the board with a State
Department of Public
Instruction projection which
indicated that Durham City
Schools will lose 1,528 students
from the 1975-76 school year to
the 1979-80 school year. The
state figures showed daily
membership of 14,353 in
1965-66, and projected 8,218 in
1979-80.
When asked by Lennon what
could be done the change the
trend, Brooks replied that the
answer was tp jave tje that the
answer was to have the programs
students and parents want, and
practices and housing patterns
that make people want to stay
where they are.
He added that it would be
necessary to develop programs
that would draw the more than
1,000 students in Durham out of
private schools and back into the
public school system.
Brooks said, "We have to do
the kinds of things to make
these things happen. It is up to
the board, and I suppose, the
administration to act jointly.'
Lennon said that he would
like a report showing where the
citv schools are now.
Mrs. Clement then commented
that she was not aware of any
problems at Durham High
School until she read about
them recently and that, as a
member of the board, she would
like to be more aware of what is
going on in the school system.
In response to a question by
Bass pertaining to , reports of
overcrowding at Hillside High
School, Brooks told the board
that a report by the State
Department of Public
Instruction showed that Hillside
has a capacity of 1,400, which is
the current membership. Brooks
added that he has not received
any requests from Hillside's
principal John Lucas, for
additional space for classes.
A request from Lucus that
some vocational classes be
moved to Whitted Junior High
School wasbroughtout by Mrs.
Clement, but that Lucas was
told it could not be done due to
the costs involved.
Bass told fellow board
membera that he has received a
segregated pupu assignments.
The 'progress' cited in your
column fails to offset the
segregated result which has led
to Cleveland having one of the
most severely segregated systems
in the country.
' Contrary to your inference,
the Cleveland NAACP branch is
strongly supporting the black
complainants in this lawsuit and
any suggestion that the
'national' NAACP is cracking the
whip on an unwilling local
affiliate is totally untrue. This
represents the propaganda line as
followed by members of the
school hierachy and others and
is akin to the complaints once
mkQ nt .iic .k,..i th vou did not conter with the
7 " ' n...r" GTT a : black parents and children who heard from Southerners about
... . are the comnlainants in the suit Northern 'meddlers.' Your
4um""u' 1 ."j and whose rights are beinu dailv reference to black members on
students and the teachers and violated in the segregated school the school board is unpersuasive
school administration. "It filters sste!n. "r aos " appear tna,,
A-Mim " ho oiH twu ic n you interviewed officials of the
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' Coming as it did on the eve
of trial, portions of your column
are based upon ex parte
information, much of which was
untrue and misleading and,
although having no bearing on
the issues at this date of the
trial, will undoubtedly be used
by those who wish to defy a
desegregation order, should one
be ultimately handed down.
Your concern for 'peace' causes
many of us to recall that such a
concern has been used as a
means of thwarting efforts to
throw off caste and subjugation,
and I ask of you, 'What price
peace?'
"You owe the black children
of Cleveland who dare to seek
legal relief for a problem that
has long been unresponsive to
political solutions equal time."
Sloan Named To Fodoral
Rosorvo Post
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tho nort nf toanWc f. th0 to ascertain the basis for the
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Brooks said that "if the board ,that constitutional rights the
would like to get involved with'comPlainan.ts fexer . akre
that level of personnel, we can Peonal " not qualified by
get an executive session. It is not Plls or subject to vetoes by
the kind of thing you discuss on newspaper publishers white or
Main Street. I am aware of those blackir Polltlcal leade,r,: or
allegations and charges by some board members - white or
individuals " black. The compromise efforts
Spelgner said it would serve you referred to failed when it
no purpose for the school board Mcaf evident that school
to talk about such problems, but officials would do so only on a
rather it would be necessary for basis of PLESSY versus
the board to act on the problems FERGUSON,
and change things.
'"""'"B"''''"'' &I Governors.
Sloan is a member of the
' University of North Carolina
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Maceo A. Sloan, Senior
Vice-president of North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company,
has been named to a three-year
term as a director of The Federal
Reserve Bank of Richmond. His
appointment is effective January
1.
The announcment of Sloan's
appointment was made last week
by the federal Reserve bystera
Board of Governors, president of
North Carolina Community
Services and chairman of the
board of the North Carolina
Zoological Society.
He also is a trustee for the
National Assembly of Social
Policy and Development,
director of the National Budget
and Consultation Committee,
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SLOAN
and is a member of '.he Health
Planning Council and the
Durham United Fund.
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JOHN LENNON (L) AND DR. THOMAS BASS
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