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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1974
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IMPEACHMENT IN FUTURE
Legal Services
Elects Officers
At the annual meeting of
the Board of Directors of
High Point Legal Services
for the election of new
officers, Attorney James F.
Morgan, President of the
Board, stepped down after
four years of continuous
and devoted service. Elect
ed to fill his post was
Attorney Rossie Gardner
of the law firm of Clontz,
Gardner and Tate, The
other newly elected officers
to serve on the Board are
Doyle Early, Vice Presi
dent; Stanley Shavitz,
Treasurer; and James
Mattocks, Secretary.
Michael McGee, ^n
attorney with High Point
Legal Services for two
years, has accepted a
position in Charlotte, North
Carolina, with the Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission. Elected to fill
his position as Senior Staff
Attorney was Clara A.
Williamson, who has been
an attorney with High Point
Legal Services since Sep
tember, 1973, and served
as a legal assistant during
the year 1972.
High Point Legal Ser
vices, which was previously
funded by HEW, is
presently funded entirely b
the High Point Model City
Commission. It was further
resolved at the January
15th meeting to seek
funding beginning in July,
1974, from the National
Legal Services Corporation,
presently being enacted by
Congress.
GREENSBORO -- Con
gressman L. Richardson
Preyer said recently he still
thinks President Nixon
shuld resign but he
probably won’t, so Con
gress will go through with
impeachment proceedings.
“We will proceed
straight through with this
and there will be no turning
back,” said Preyer, “and
we will probably get to vote
on the matter either by
April or June.”
The 6th District repre
sentative was the keynote
speaker for the Affair
sponsored by the Ladies
Faculty Club at A&T State
University.
“I still think it is in the
best interest of the country
that President Nixon should
resign,” Preyer said, ”but
he is going to have to make
that decision, and his
Republican colleagues are
going to have to push him
on that,
“If we should back off on
this vote,” he added, “it
will legitimize the kind of
misconduct we have had,
and Watergate will serve as
a license as to how far
people can go.”
Preyer said he believes
most of the members of
Congress are going to be
fair about the impeachment
vote and they will put the
merits of impeachment
above politics.
“The evidence is going
to have to be strong and
very specific,” he said.
Touching on the energy
crisis, Preyer said new
congressional legislation is
going to have a curbing
effect on the large oil
companies.
“The energy shortage is
real,” he said, “because
our consumption has gone
up eight times since 1950,
but the oil companies have
behaved arrogantly and
have profited at the
expense of the taxpayers."
Preyer said the energy
crisis probably will last 10
to 15 years in its chronic
form.
Preyer also predicted
that passage of the Budget
Reform Bill will restore the
power to Congress to set
spending limitations and
stop President Nixon from
impounding funds.
Another speaker. Dr.
Lewis C. Dowdy, chancellor
of A&T, said the state of
civil rights legislation in his
nation has gone beyond
whether or not a person can
eat in a certain restaurant.
"It has now become
sophisticated evasion as to
why a man can’t get a
certain job or get a
promotion or live in a
certain house,” said Dow
dy.
Preyer was introduced on
the program by Rep. Henry
E. Frye.
David Richmond
Receives Honors
GREENSBORO - David "Like a building,” said
Richmond, one of the four Dowdy, "a community
former A&T State Univer- must have strength which
sity students who staged >s generally strong, but
the now famous sit-in at which reflects themselves
Woolworth’s, was honored in courage, and commit-
recently by members of the ment.
community in which he This leadership reflects
grew up. itself in being willing to try
Held in the East White something which has not
Oak Community Center, been tried and which brings
the celebration recalled about unity in a commu-
that February day 14 years n>ty.” said Dowdy,
ago when Richmond and “These pillars must be white sailors
three other freshmen stu- willing to work incessantly aboard the
Black Naval Official Principal
Speaker At Ship Commissioning
James E. Johnson
Court Martial Protested
NAPLES, Italy—Ten their complaints of racism,
black American seamen THE 10 SEAMEN and
charged with assaulting an 11th black sailor charged
a race riot in an earlier incident aboard
6th Fleet the cruiser said at a news
dents narticioated in the achieve the dignity and flagship Little Rock accused conference in a Naples hotel
“ wLr was to worth of all human the U.S. Navy of racism they comsidered their
, , , , Wednesday and said they impending court-martial
reverberate throughout the beings,” added Dowdy were being denied a fair illegal because it was
South and set the stage for celbrating trial. convened by Capt. P. K
the passage of important nillars whinh seamen blamed the Cullins, 45, commander of
Civil Rights legislation. » , j * ,■ violence that broke out Nov. the Little Rock, who was
In his address Dr. Lewis 8 aboard the guided missile directly involved in the
r nr.wfiv rlnncpllor r the light cruiser on tensions that incident.
j n u T and freedom built up in a month at sea THE COMMITTEE, an
A&T, called Richmond one expressed in the during the Middle East war affUiate of the American
of the pillars of strength so. because the captain Civil Liberties Union, was
badly needed by a society.” CoBonBea on tt allegedly failed to act on founded four years ago
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NORFOLK, VA.- The
nuclear-powered guided
missile frigate USS CALI
FORNIA (DLGN-36) was
commissioned here last
Saturday.
The principal speaker for
the ceremony was the
Honorable James E. John
son, former Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for
Manpower and Reserve
Affairs.
Johnson is an Illinois
native and attended Orange
University, Chapman Col
lege, Maryland University,
received an Associate of
Arts Degree from Santa
Ana College and his
Bachelor of Arts Degree
from George Washington
University where he major
ed in Business Administra
tion.
During World War II he
entered the United States
Marine Corps as an
enlisted man and rose
through the ranks to the
grade of Chief Warrant
Officer. He retired from
Military service in 1965 and
became an executive with
the Prudential Life Insu
rance Company where he
was a million dollar a year
man. In 1967 he was
appointed Director, Cali
fornia State Department of
Veterans Affairs.
In 1969 he became Vice
Chairman, U.S. Civil Ser
vice Commission, one of
three members who govern
the affairs of 3 million civil
service employees. He
served as Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy for
Manpower and Reserve
Affairs from June 16, 1971
until August 2, 1973.
California is the sixth
ship to be named and will
be the fifth nuclearpowered
surface ship to be commis
sioned into the Navy. Her
kell was laid January 23,
1970 and she was launched
on September 22, 1971
under the sponsorship of
Mrs. Patricia Nixon.
California will have a
complement of 540 officers
and men. She will operate
as an element of a fast
carrier task force or as an
independent unit to detect
and destroy any threats by
hostile forces. She is
equipped with the most
advanced sonar and anti
submarine weapons as well
as Tartar surface to air
missile launchers and two 5
inch guns. She has an
overall length of 596 feet
with a beam of 61 feet and
a speed in excess of 30
knots.
California was build by
the Newport News Ship
building and Drydock
Company, Newport News,
Virginia. Prospective com
manding officer of Califor
nia is Captain Floyd H.
Miller, Jr. of Clinton,
Connecticut. The prospec
tive executive officer is
Commander Edwin M.
Baldwin of Marshfield,
Wisconsin.
She will be temporarily
homeported in Norfolk, Va.
and assigned to the Atlantic
Fleet for shakedown. She
eventually will be based in
San Diego, California and
assigned to Commander
Cruiser Destroyer Force
Pacific Fleet.
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Oil Companies Charged
With Discriminating
Against Black Press
■WASHINGTON —The
president of the National
Newspaper Publishers
Association has charged
five major oil companies of
America with “summarily
flagrant violation of equity-
in-advertising,” a concept
which the Black Press can
no longer bear in silence.
Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett,
publisher fo
Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett,
publisher of the San
Francisco Sun-Reporter,
has told five major cwn-
panies that “public subsidy
of oil through federal and
state tax depreciation
allowances gives every
right to 25 million Black
Americans to insist that
your company stop its racial
discrimination against the
Black Press.”
THE CHARGE was
contained in a sharply
worded telegram from
Goodlett to Texaco, Exxon,
Standard Oil of California,
Siell of California and Gulf.
“After decades of fruitless
pleas for oil advertising,
commensurate with the $46
billion purchasing power of
Black Americans, first the
tremendous 1973 oil com
pany profits, second the
massive energy crisis ad
vertising campaign of oil
companies utilizing white
metropolitan daily
newspapers, and finally the
petroleum industry’s long
record of advertising
discrimination against the
Black Press...it can no
longer be born in silence,”
the tdegram said.
The President pointed out
that the “public subsidy of
dl through federal and state
tax depreciation allowances
gives every right to 25
millicn Black Americans
(the 26th largest nation in
the world of 179 nations) to
insist that vour company
stop its racial discrimination
against the Black Press,
which is the sole Black
controlled communication
medium.”
GOODLETT pointed out
that Black Americans
represent 27.6 per cent of the
population of the nation’s 48
largest cities and that they
cannot obtain a viable
community press so
desperately needed by both
Black and White America
without that press receiving
its fair share of advertising
dollars derived from Black
purchasing power.
“Black Americans can no
longer participate in the
subsidy of America’s oil
industry if such
beneficiaries of federal
subsidies continue their
flagrant disregard of Black
demands for fair ad
vertising.
COPIES OF the wire were
sent to the National Urban
League, the NAACP, the
Congressional Black Caucus
the National Black Chur
chmen and the National
Council of Negro Women.
Nixon Salutes
Duke Ellington
WASHINGTON — Uuke
Ellington was presented a
presidential commendation
Monday by Julie Nixon
Eisenhower, who said it
bore the added honor of
being signed by the
president himself. “Dad’s
signature is the real
McCoy,” she said.
Presidential signatures
often are facsimiles.
"We must give our cliildren a sense of pride in being black. The glory of our past
and the dignity of our present must lead the way to the power of our future.”
CLAYTON POWELL