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Local Squaws Attend National Conclave Members of Squaws, Inc a local organization of Black Women, recently attended a national conclave in Toledo. Ohio from July 13 - 16, at the Commodore Perry Motor Inn. The theme of the 6th Bi Annual Conclave was "Better Communication Involve ment." Members and their families who attended included Mr. and Mrs. James Barnes. Mrs. Lilliam Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. Purcell Bowser, Mr. and re. Ernest Cherry, Mr. and Mrs. William Gill, Mr.and Mrs. Charlie Perry, Mrs. Shir ley Massey, Mr. and Mrs. James Phifer, Mr. and Mrs. John Shadd, and Mrs. Norma Westmorland. The organization has 16 _ chapters on the national level. The other chapters are located in Philadelphia and Pittsburg, Pa., Detroit and Benton Har bor, Mich., Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio, Charlotte, and Durham, N.C., Savanna and Atlanta, Ga., Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston, Texas, Washington, D.C., Springfield, III., and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Squaws, Inc. is a service organization. In 1977, the organization presented a donation to the NAACP Legal Fund, in 1978 the conference bought a life membership and a golden heritage certificate, and gave a donation to the local chapter of the NAACP in Toledo, Ohio. New Officers elected at the convention were Mrs. Bettye M. McLaurin, president; Ms. Patricia Dunn of Benton Har bor, Michigan, first vice-presi dent; Mrs. Omego Parker of Durham, N.C., second vice president; Mrs. Marian Covington of Durham, record ing secretary; Mrs. Gloria Tomman of Detroit, corre spondence secretary; Mrs. Mae C. Orr of Charlotte, Fina ncial secretary; Mrs. Audrey Davis, Philadelphia, treasu rer; Mrs. Marion Hatcher, Washington, D.C. parliament arian; Mrs. Maria Horton, Houston, Texfl9,- chaplain; Mrs. Alice Sloan, Pittsburg, Mich., historian; and Mrs. LaLeUe Rhodes, Toledo, Ohio. The conclave will be held in Charlotte at the Radisson Plaza Hotel on July 17 - 20, 19M) S J, , Greensboro Bank Names Chiles Vice President Robert S. Chiles Sr. has been named Executive Vice President of Greensboro National Rank, replacing William Pickens, who recently resigned Chiles, who will assume his duties on August 1, was formerly manager of retail banking administration at Wachovia Bank in Durham. The announcement was made by Greensboro National Bank President Henry Frye Chiles, a native of Charlotte and graduate of both NCCU and Wake Forest University, is the son of Mr and Mrs Thomas S Chiles of iftifi Rus sell St. He is the past chairman ol the advisory board of th« North Carolina Fellows pro gram at ΛΑΤ State Univer slty. Chiles is married, has tw< children and will be moving t< Greensboro before assumin) his new poet For the delivery of THf CHARLiiTTF. POST in youi neighborhood, call the Cirru lation (department T7R 049Λ niusuwss In I tw HUu k Article Says Court Desegregation Decision Affected Birthrates By Richard Bierck Special to the Post Chapel Hill - The Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that blacks and whites attending public schools must be educated together resulted in a signifi cant drop in childbearing among Southern whites, according to an article by sociology professors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The article, to be published Friday ι July 14) in "Science," a Washington-based weekly journal, says that while ferti lity rates in the nation as a whole increased between 1954 and 1955, they decreased for several months in nine of the 11 former Confederate states all but North Carolina and Florida, where white births increased. The article was written by Dr. Ronald R. Rindfuss, assis tant professor of sociology. Dr Shelton Reed. associate professor and doctoral candi date Craig St. John. It says the decrease in Southern white births began about 12 months after the court ruling, '•...at almost the exact time we would predict, assuming the (courtι decision demoralized prospective parents enough to cause some who would otherwise have stopped contracepting to con tinue and to cause some who had not been contracepting to start..." In "A Fertility Reaction to a Historical Event: Southern White Birthrates and the 1954 Desegreation Ruling," the authors say birth records show the drop to be about 5 percent This is a significant decrease, they say, since the increase in white births in the South the year before was nearly three times that of the nation as a whole. The article says there is a striking coincidence in the birthrates of states Nifected by the court decision and those not affected On May 17. 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown vs. the Topeka. Kansas. Board of Education, that the segregation of blacks and whiles in public schools was unconstitutional. In doing so. the court struck down a previous ruling that separate schools for blacks and whites were legal so long as the educations they received were equal. "It is clear that the court's unanimous decision struck at what many white Southerners saw as the basis of their region's way of life, and it came as a shock to many Southerners," the article says. "It seems reasonable, therefore, to entertain the con jecture that anomie (social disorientation > and fear fer the future led some Souther ners to put off having child ren." The article says that any dwisions by couples to conti nue or begin contracepting would not have been rnade the day after the ruling, "that it took a while for the implica tions of the decision to sink in." But the downtrend that began in June 1955 did not last long, they say. White South ern births were increasing rapidly again in August and September. The decrease was short lived. the article suggests, because white Southerners realized that "nothing was going to change anytime soon." "...After it became clear that segregation would conti nue for some time...(couples) would have resumed their normal fprtiij^y K^havtnr and the Southern white birthrate would resume its increase," the article says Black births followed a simi lar. though less pronounced, pattern, the article says. ". The slighter drop among blacks seem consistent with the hypothesis: while black Southerners also experienced uncertainty in ttie wake ot me court s ruling τ their traditi onal pattern of education was threatened, and undoubtedly they feared that violence 1 might accompany desegrega tion!. obviously the status and prerogatives of white Souther ners were more clearly threat ened " ? Registration Set For Music Study rvot'K niii-negisirauon is now open for the fall semester of the Music Study Program in the School of Music at Wint hrop College. In the Music Study Pro gram. private instruction is available in piano, flute, clari net. saxophone, trombone, trumpet, French horn, organ, voice and guitar. Supervised by the Winthrop music facu lty, private lessons are taught by college music majors who have been approved for this instruction. The fee for piano instruction is $80 per semester which includes one 30-minute private lesson and one 45-minute class lesson per week. The fee for private instruction in other instruments is $40 per seme ster for one 30-minute lesson per week * Instruction will begin the week of Sept. 4. The deadline for registration is Aug. IS. POST CARRIERS WANTED Newsboys and Distributors Call Mr. Watson 376Ό496 Do It Today 1 y I X j Bettye M. McLaurin Serving 3rd term Robert S.Chile .. 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