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VOLUME 1, NO, 44
WEDNESDAY , MARQI 27, 1974
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BLACK SESSIONS
CALLED FAILURE
LITTLE ROCK —A
spokesman for a black
organization in Arkansas
said Monday the National
Harriet Chandler Warren
Has No Time For Sorrow
By Shelia King
STOKESDALE -Seventy-,
two-year-old Harriet Chan
dler Warren never has had
time to feel sorry for herself
because she is blind. “You
know what the past has
been, but you don’t know
what the future will bring,”
she says.
Born in Stokes County to
the late Alice Martin and
Sherman Chandler, she
began domestic work in the
rural area when she was
only nine. She went as far
as the fifth grade and
joined Oak Spring Church
when she was 14.
On April 2, 1922, she was
married to the late George
"Coty” Warren. Their only
child died at birth. Mrs.
Warren worked for the
0‘Brians here and she and
her husband moved with
them to Florida. They
returned home in 1947. It
was while she was working
for "Doc” Williams that
she lost her sight.
telling her not to open it
and Mrs. Williams (for
whom she was working)
answered it. It was a deaf
mute who wanted some
thing. Mrs. Williams told
Mrs. Warren to never
doubt her maker and Mrs.
Warren said this gave her
the courage to continue
trusting in God. Before her
blindness, Harriet had
worked on the Usher Board
at the church for 19 years.
When her husband died,
she wondered where she
would go or what she would
do. But she has lived with
her nephews and neices
since that time. She lives an
active life, visits the sick
and shut-ins, attends Sun
day School and church, and
HARRIET WARREN
cooks and cleans at home.
She enjoys fishing and says
she “just keeps going, by
looking up and loving
people... and living each
day, day by day.”
Black Political Convention
held in Little Rock during
last weekend was a failure.
Rev. Roy L. Laird of
Cotton Plant, head of a
political organization called
Combat, said convention
leaders were more in
terested in making speeches
before television cameras
than dealing with the
problems of “suffering and
oppressed blacks.”
LAIRD SAID the con
vention was “used as a tool
to cultivate eastern
politics.”
The convention, which
had delegates from nearly
every state in the union,
ended a three-day caucus at
the Little Rock Convention
Center Sunday.
AFTEK LENGTHY
debate, black leaders and
organizers at a political
convention voted to table a
controversial proposal for
formation of a national
black political party.
The voice vote to set the
idea aside followed
proposals by the Louisiana
and Ohio delegations for an
outright objection to the
motion proposed by the
Georgia delegation.
SPOKESMEN for the two
National Fraternity Sets
Convention In Greensboro
At first she was depress
ed and simply wanted to be
left alone. But one day
there was a knock on the
door. She heard a voice
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Editorials
Entertainment
GREENSBORO More
than 500 members of the
national Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity will converge on
Greensboro April 11-13 for
the annual convention of
the fraternity's Southern
Region.
Officials of the host
Kappa Lambda chapter
outlined this week a
comprehensive schedule of
business sessions, promi
nent speakers and social
activities for the visiting
members of their families.
The Southern
Features
SPRING BREAK-Pretty Fayetteville State University coed
Beverly Rankins gets set for a break from the books. The
first year student from I :’xii;gton is a picture ofbeauty on
:ampus and wants to piirs ii' a career in French and English
literature. (FSU Phpto by Jolin B. HenHprtor,^
includes chapters in Flori
da, Alabama, Mississippi,
Georgia, Tennessee, South
Carolina and North Caro
lina.
Alpha Phi Alpha, the
nation’s oldest predomi-
nately-black social frater
nity, was founded at
Cornell University in 1906.
The fraternity today claims
more than 20,000 mem
bers, including Edward
Brooke, the nation’s only
black senator; Supreme
Court Justice Thurgood
Marshall, and Congress
men Charles Rangel of
Harlem and Ron Dellam of
California.
More than 30 college
presidents are members of
the fraternity.
Most of the convention
activities will be held at the
Holiday Inn-Four Seasons.
Keynote speaker for the
public session on April 12
will be Ozell Sutton, an
official of the U.S. Civil
Service 'Commission in
Atlanta and a former vice
president of the fraternity.
At a luncheon on the
same date, the delegates
will be addressed by Dr.
Herman B. Smith, director
of the Office for the
Advancement of Public
Negro Colleges in Atlanta.
The fraternity , will con
duct its formal banquet on
April 13, featuring an
address by Former Munici
pal Court Judge Bennie
Harris of Chatanooga,
Tennessee. ^
Other speakers will
include Dr. Walter Wash
ington. national president
of the fraternity and
president of Alcorn A&M
College in Mississippi; and
William Walker, executive
secretary of the fraternity.
A special feature of this
vear's convention will be a
two-day Job Bank which
will coordinate career
opportunities interviews for
college graduates. More
than 25 national firms will
participate in the program
to be held in the Memorial
Student Union at A&T
State University on April
11-12.
Paul D. Sandifer of
Greensboro is president of
the host chapter and Dr.
Walter Sullivan in general
chairman of the convention.
Lt. Col. Harold Lanier is
chairman of the Job Bank
program and Mrs, Arthur
Stevens is in charge of
children and family activi
ties.
Guys & Dolls
Host National
Meeting Here
By Gay Payne
HIGH POINT - Holiday
Inn, Downtown, served as
the setting recently of the
seventh annual national
executive board meeting
of Guys and Dolls Inc. High
Points Theta Chapter
served as host for the
day-long event.
President of the host
chapter, Doll Erma Mason
and Program Chairman
Anne Gibson coordinated
the events of the conven
tion.
Constitutional amend
ments budgeting and the
planning of special events,
highlighted the business
session. National-President
Doll Anne G. Fulford of
Raleigh presided over these
sessions.
Local\hapter members.
Dr. Julius L. Lones
delivered the main address
during the luncheon. He
stressed “the need for good
family relationships and
communications.”
delgations said ideological
differences among blacks
made formation of a third
major political party im
practical at this time.
The vote at the Black
National Political Con
vention folowed an earlier
resolution criticizing the
national Democratic Party
for allegedly failing to in
clude blacks in meaningful
decision-making processes.
IMAMU BARAKA, a
convenor of the conference,
suggested to the Georgia
delegation that it redraft the
party motion and submit it
for discussion at a scheduled
meeting in September.
Delegates voted to create
a National Black United
Fund with a goal of raising
$17.5 million within three
years to support black
political causes.
THE CONVENTION
passed, over the objection of
the New York delegation, a
New Jersey resolution
condemning members of
Congress who voted for $2.2
billion in military aid for
Israel. The resolution ac
cused the Israelis of
depriving the Palestinians
of their homeland.
The delegates also called
tor: the establishment of a
legal defense system and
the raising of funds to help
imprisioned black activists;
more African studies at
elementary and secondary
schools; an end to
psychological testing
isystems blacks consider
demeaning; stronger Pan-
African ties; and greater
control of black radio
stations.
MANY BLACK
organizations, including the
NAACP, and many black
political leaders boycotted
or did not attend the con
vention.
One of the few black
politicians who did attend.
Mayor Maynard Jackson of
Atlanta, urged blacks to
work together as a people to
“create a new way out of the
old.”
JACKSON, keynote
speaker, addressed a
convention rife with division
and reports that moderate
black leaders were thinking
of abandoning it altogether.
“If we can prove during
these 48 hours that here, in
the old stubble-ground of
hate and prejudice, slavery
and segregation, black men
and women of discipline,
tolerance, i wisdom and
strength can create a new
way out of the old, then we
shall offer to our people a
Black Heritage
Luncheon Held
The Banquet room of
Western-Sizzler Steak
House was the recent scene
of the first Black - Heritage
Luncheon sponsored by the
1974 Cotillionettes of the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Soro
rity.
Guest speaker for the
occasion was Mrs. Frede
rick Jones, a former teacher
at T. Wingate Andrews
High School. Mrs. Jones is
presently studying at the
University of North •Caro
lina in Greensboro. She
chose as her theme “We
Cannot Escape History.”
Ms. Anita Dicken was
Mistress of Ceremony for
the afternoon affair and
other participants includes
Misses Toni Gibson, Mar
sha Roebuck, Petrinia
Hardison and Teresa Con-
model of possibility and
hope in the midst of distrust,
anxiety and conflict,”
Jackson told an enthusiastic
audience.
ANOTHER SPEAKER.
Rep. Ron Dellums, D-Calif.
said blacks must “challenge
the basic values of this
country.”
“The question for black
people in 1974 has to be
whether we accept the
values that permeate
American society,”
Dellums said.
“We must challenge the
basic values of this country.
If not, we’re going to be just
12 per cent of all that’s
wrong with it.’l
MAYOR RICHARD
Hatcher of Gary, Ind.,
convention chairman, was
reported ready to give up
the convention as any kind
of useful political force if it
did not come to a more
middle-of-the-road stance.
r.
Walter T. Johnson Jr.
Walter T. Johnson Jr., 33-year-old Greensboro
attorney, has been unanimously elected chairman of
the Greensboro School Board. Johnson is believed to be
the first black elected chairman of a school board in
North Carolina that governs any of the state’s
predominantly white public school systems. Johnson,
who had been reappointed by Greensboro City Council
for a second four-year term, had been vice chairman of
the school board this past year. He is former assistant
solicitor of Guilford County Superior Court.
HUD Gives WSSU Nod
To Present Proposal
By Marie A. Denning
WINSTON-SALEM - The
United States Department
of Housing and ■ Urban
Development has entitled
Winston-Salem State Uni
versity to submit a proposal
for planning, organizing
and initially operating a
“Housing and Community
Development Education
Center.”
The purpose of the
Center will be to provide
individuals involved with
housing programs re
sources from which to draw
that would assist in the
management and supervi
sion of such projects.
It is anticipated that the
‘.‘development center”
would serve the entire
southeast region in the
education and career ad
vancement needs of indivi
duals and public and
private agencies who are
involved in housing plann
ing for public and private
agencies, housing ma
nagement in the preceding
areas, and overall commu
nity development planning
at the physical ind social
levels.
“Individuals and agen
cies which serve in this area
and who express an interest
in the initial planning
process would participate
in the structuring and
planning process of the
proposed “development
center.”
As a preliminary step to
getting the pilot project
operative, Winston-Salem
State University recently
held a seminar to deter
mine the interest of local
and area personnel who are
presently involved in hous
ing programs. The seminar
was conducted by Moses
Burt, director of the
professional development
division of the National
Association of Housing and
Redevelopment Officials in
Washington, D.C.
The concept to provide
and Urban Development in
Washington and a $5,000
grant from the Ford
Foundation to initiate plans
for the “Housing Manage
ment” course.
The course in “Housing
Management” will begin
as a part of the university’s
continuing education pro
gram Thursday, April 4. On
Thursday, March 28, H.R.
Crawford, the assistant
secretary of HUD in
Washington will visit the
such a “housing center” on
the university’s campus
was initiated by three
faculty members of the
Social Science Department,
Dr. William Rice, depart
ment chairman, Dr. Wil
liam Sheppard, director of
the university’s continuing
education program and Dr.
Cleveland Williams, Rey
nolds Professor of social
science.
The university has re
ceived a $30,000 grant from
the Department of Housing campus.
Legislator Tells
A&T Students:
Utilize Power
The “command power” of college students,
if properly applied, could change the entjre
political setup of this nation, a Robeson
County legislator said her Sunday.
Urging youthful voters to begin asserting
more leadership was the Rev. Dr. Joy
Johnson, one of the state’s three black
meinbers of the General Assembly.
“University stuaents can be- pusnmg voter education and reg-
come astute political leaders in
local, state, national and inter
national governments,” said
Johnson in the keynote address
at the 83rd Founder’s Day convo
cation at A&T State University.
* '* *
“THEY CAN control or influ
ence every branch of govern
ment, because they have the
techniques, information, intelli
gence and organization.”
More than 500 persons heard
Rep. Johnson urge college stu
dents to begin using their psycho
o r command power to effect
changes.
“College students can innovate
most any kind of fad and it will
b e nationwide in a matter of
hours,” he said. “It doesn’t mat
ter whether these fads be boy
cotts, demonstrations, sit-ins,
kneel-ins wade-ins, raid-ins or
streaking contests. The record in
this regard speaks for itself.”
‘ * I believe that college stu-
a e n t s could determine every
Council of State office in North
Carolina,” said Johnson, “and
could determine who will be the
next presiient of the United
States in 1976.”
He suggested that, as a start,
campus newspapers and radio
stations could take the lead in
istration projects, aided by such
groups as sororities and fratern
ities.
“College students can rectify
the stereotyped image of the pol
itician and help to eradicate the
corruption and discredibility in
politics,” Johnson added. “But
they need to become politically
awake and aware and just not
be streaking to be seen.”
“If college students become in
volved politically, educationally,
econom-ically and socially, they
can bring joy, peace, love and
brotherhood upon the earth,”
Johnson concluded.
In his remarks to the assem
bly, Chancellor Lewis C. Dowdy,
?aid “we became a great nation,
not by closing educational op
portunities, but by opening and
widening these opportunities. I
would hope that we shall contin
ue that tradition.
Other speakers included Miss
Marilyn Marshall, president of
the Student Government Associa-
t i o n ; Dr. Otis Tillman, vice
chairman of the A&T board of
trustees: Jimmie I. Barber of
the A&T National Alumni Asso
ciation; and Dr. Frances Logan
of the Faculty Forum.
"We must give our children a sense of pride in being blaclc. The glory of our past
and the dignilY of our present must lead the wav to the power of our future."
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL