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VOLUME 1, NO, 41
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1974
15 a-::jT'S PER OT'Y f;3.00 I’ER 'ilyU!,
PAPER BOMBER GETS LIFE
WILMINGTON, newspaper -- The minutes to detcrninie ROWP (Rights of ness, told the court newspaper, which ob-
N.C.-- A former Ma-Wihnington Journal. its decision. White f’eople). a and jur\ that he had served its 2^)th \ ear of
rine was sentenced to Attorneys for Law- Little, who offered far-right organi/ation. given blasting caps publication only Iasi
life imprisonment here rence R. Little, 19, no evidence in his own The bonibing of The and dvnaniite to Little week, was heavv but
Saturday w hen an served notice of appeal defense, has been .lournal occured last shortiv before the there was no' one
all-white jury found following the verdict identified as the self- May. bombing occured last inside the plant at ll,e
him guilty of bombing returned by the jury styled minister of David H. Smith. Mav time of the explosion
the offices of a black which took only 25 propaganda of the another defense wit- Damage to the
Andrews Basketball Coach
Foree Selected ‘Coach Of Year’ In District
HIGH POINT -- George Foree, head basketball coach at T. Wingate
Andrews High School, has been selected for Coach of the Year, for
district 7, 4-A High Schools.
“You feel good when other coaches vote you as Coach of the Year.”
“I’ve had a lot of awards and it doesn’t mean that much.”
“I’d much rather for my players to win awards than myself,”
explained Foree.
Foree’s wish was granted. Three members of his ball club were
named as All Conference players.
Seniors Willie Williams, Johnny Evans and Roger DeGrande
received All Conference honors.
The head coach feels that the players themselves more than anything
else influenced his selection.
“The record we had would be nothing without them [the players],”
notes Foree.
The Red Raiders, coached by Foree, experienced an added attraction
in practice - mime steps and dance steps.
Sandra Epperson, drama instructor at High Point College, taught the
basketball players basic pantamoine and dance steps which helped in
body control which is important on the court.
The idea of athletes dancing is not a revolutionary explained Foree.
Winston-Salem State University’s basketball coach had his team taking
karate lessons. “Dance and karate are so closely related to what you do
in basketball” said Foree.
Though the basketball season is over, Foree is looking forward to next
year.
Foree, unlike coaches in other school systems, has only one sport to
oversee.
“I am dedicated to basketball. After basketball season, I’m worn out.
“I don’t think I’d enjoy coaehing^nything else for I’rn not sure I’d put
everything in it and I would not want to short change the students,”
said Foree.
Foree was also chosen Coach of the Year in 1972.
A&T Trustees
Seeking New
Buildings
GREENSBORO - Appropriations for nine
major capital improvement projects will be
asked of the Board of Governors by A&T State
University for the 1975-77 biennium.
The requests, including a pre-school
laboratory, humanities center and social
science building, were revealed by Chancellor
Lewis C. Dowdy at the meeting of the
university’s board of trustees Wednesday
morning.
The board approved the request for
submission to the Board of Governors.
Funds arc al.so being the Department of Heallh,
asked for an adull ediiea- Education and Welfare,
tion and community service Dowdy said the stale's
building, an administration new desegregation plan, lo
building, a women's dormi- be submitted to Wasbing-
tory, biology field station, ton around March 15, ••will
farm dwelling for the have more infornialion
superintendent and a about how the higher
conservation resources lab- education system works in
oratory. North Carolina."
Dowdy said funds for the "You have lo be realistic
pre-school laboratory will about what can be done,"
be asked as a top priority, said Dowdy. "Wc have to
In his report lo the board, study the pool of available
Dowdy discussed implica- college sUidenls and try lo
incrcjisc this pool as rapidly
as possible.•'
Dowdy said A&T cur-
Conliiiued on Page 8
lions of A&T's new
affirmative action program
and the new plans being
developed by the board of
governors as required by
'IF YOU TRY, SOMEBODY'LL HELP'
BV .JOHN STAPLKS
He calls himself a “third-
grade scholar” but he knows the
Bible backward and forward.
By his own admission, he
“could carry you back 75 years
and lell you every president and
what they've done.'''
Walter W. Friende is 81 years
old, a lifelong Kernersville
resident and a Negro. He is a
reader, a thinker and an
amateur philosopher. But more
than that, he is an
unquestionable authority on the
subject of raising children. He
needs nothing more than his
own, and his wife’s success lo
prove it.
With a steady, but sometimes
meager income. Wall and
Leone Friende have raised
seven children, pul them
through college, sent three or
four on to graduate schools and
have lived to settle back and
admire the fruits of their love
and their labor.
Two of . the Friendes' sons
have become school principals
(one is now retired, the other is
an assistant superintendent of
Winslon-Salem-Forsyth Coimty
Schools); the third has a
management position with the
Ford Motor Co. in Detroit
Mich.
Three of the four Friende
daughters are school teachers
and the fourth, a former
teacher, operates a successful
florist business with her
husband. Several of the couple's
grandcliildren have already
finished college, the latest
received^an engineering degree
from Howard University last
spring and entered Emory
University Law School in the
fall.
Grey-haired now. Walt
Friende cannot bend over as far
as he used lo, his eyes are
clouded with glaucoma and he
claims to remember things that
happened 75 years ago better
than those of 75 minutes ago.
Bui if age has narrowed his
physical abiillies, it has not
narrowed his mind. His only
regret in life is that he himself
never had the opportunity to get
a better education.
Friende never let the lack of
opportunity get him down. An
intelligent man, he has gotten
an education from life. He went
to work at an early age and was
making 80 cents a day - $9 every
two wooks - I'+O" cr.^f
married. Residing Vvilii his
brother, he had saved $150 and
owned a cow and a calf when he
asked Leone to marry him. The
daughter of a school principal,
she was a church pianist and a
college student. She told him
she would marry him if he
would sell the cow and the calf
(she had no intention of learning
to milk the cow, she says). Walt
agreed and Leone accepted his
proposal.
That was in 1913. Walt was 20
years old and Leone was 17. He
was a machine operator in a
local furniture factory and she
had been playing Ihe piano for
Saint Paul’s Methodist Church
for two years. By 1929 their
family had grown to include all
seven children. Also by then,
Walt had built a house and had
paid for it.. Two years later
the depression hit Kernersville
hard. The furniture factory
closed and Walt lost the job he
had held for nearly 20 years.
With no uork a\'aila'ble here, he
went to Detroit for a while to
work at Ford .Motor Co. But
soon ins heallh began to fail and
he returned home to Ker-
nersvil'.p Shortly thereafter he
went 10 work for the town -.s hei e
he stayed until he retired if.
.vears a,go,
Friende s formula for success
is clear positive: Hesays: "If a
person can’t lay brick (there's
good money in that(, then he
should stick to making the
mortar (they do pretty well).
Or if you can 't teach school, be a
good secretary or grab a broom
or a dust rag.
“Thai’s what I done.” he
says. “I took what I had in my
hand and I worked with it and it
paid off. It was slow but it paid
off!”
Walt thinks things could have
been better when he and Leone
were growing up. He would
have liked more money and
more opportunities and. par
ticularly, he would have liked to
have gone on to school.
But in spite of not having
those things, he had what he
now considers most important -
“the love of a mother and the
care of a father.”
“Head your children in the
right direction; that’s the main
thing,” says Friende. “If you
head them in the right direction,
your job gets harder and harder
to keep them there...but that’s
the 'oiggest thing.”
In order lo do that Friende
says parents must start out as
soon as their children are big
enough to know anything. “The
Bible says 20 years before
they’re born. We won’t go back
that far but you got to get a good
seedbed,” says Walt, adding
philosophically that " honest,
decent parents, as a rule, raise
decent children,”
Walt and Leone endured
hardships to provide for their
children. Although she had
been to college. Leone spent
years doing domestic work,
because it was the only job she
could get. At home at night she
made most of her children's
clothes.
A local mill owner once said
when he saw her sewing for his
wife, “You don't need to be
working here, you need to be
working at my mill.” It was a
compliment to her until he
added, “but you know I can’t
hire you.”
When one of her daughter’s
wrote home from college that
she needed money for tuiton,
Leone and Walt decided they
could do without electricity for
a month lo pay for it.
The results were worth the
hardships; the children have
not forgotten their parents’
sacrifices.
W'alt and Leone put their
children’s education above
everything except their
religion. Walt became a Sunday
School teacher at Saint Paul’s
United Methodist Church when
he was 20 years old. He stayed
at it until he became the Sunday
School superintendent, a job he
kept nearly 20 years.
Leone was the church's first
pianist. This Easter she will
have held the position for 62
years.
Through enduring its hard
ships, the Friendes have
learned much about the art of
living. Walt believes that in the
long run God is just and that
right will ultimately prevail.
He is convinced, however, that
man must do his part to help.
As he says: “You got to think
about the short runs once in a
while. God gives you health and
strength, but you’ve got to take
it from there,”
Envy of one's fellow man will
not help man overcome hi;
adversaries, Friende t>elieves.
He says:
“If somebody else’s got more
than you got, they
just got It. The Bible says
there's always gonna be
somebody who’s poor, but it
don't have to be you, and it don’t
have to be me. If you try,
somebody’ll help you.”
MR. AND MRS. WALTER IRiENDE
"We must
and the
give our children a sense of pride in being blaclt. The glory of our past
dignity of our present must lead the way to the power of our future."
ADAM CLAYTON POWEIL