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VOLttE 1, igo. 51 Section - A
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1974
15 CENTS PER OOPY $3,00 PER YEAR
Tribute Paid
To 4 WSSU
Employees
WINSTON-SALEM -
Winston-Salem State Uni
versity recently paid tribute
to four retiring employees
of the university at a
banquet.
Honorees for the event
which was entitled “Golden
Threats of Memory” were
Mrs. Frances R. Coble,
registrar, Thomas R. Con
rad, associate professor of
health and physical educa
tion, Mrs. Clara B.
Lawrence, associate profes
sor of nursing, and Archie
Alumni
Give To
John H. Johnson
EBONY PUBLISHER
ISSUES CHALLENGE
TO A&T GRADS
FSU
PHlLADELPfflA Fay
etteville State University’s
Philadelphia Alumni Chap
ter has awarded 10
scholarships to FSU stu
dents for use toward
University expenses.
In acknowledging the
receipt of the scholarships.
Chancellor Charles “A”
Lyons, Jr. also noted that
the FSU Philadelphia
Alumni Chapter continues
to be one of the real pillars
of the national body in its
support to the institution.
FSU students receiving
the $200 grants are Rosetta
Lacewell, William Carr,
Leroy Lewis, Annie Louise
Hill, Malinda P. Hedge
peth, Willie J. Gladden,
Marjorie Gill, Linwood E.
Faison, Willie O. Chancey
and Wilton Brooks Best.
Love of the maintenance
department.
Mrs. Coble who received
her early education in the
public school’s in Denver is
a graduate of the University
of Northern Colorado where
she earned her B.A. and
M.A. degrees in business
education. She has been
employed at the university
38 years. Mrs. Coble began
her first years of service
under Dr. Francis Atkins, a
fomrer president of the
university, who was then
registrar. In 1938 she
became university regi
strar, the post she currently
holds.
Mrs. Coble is active in
many professional and
community organizations
including the North Caro
lina Association of Collegi
ate Registrars and Admis
sions Officers, The National
Associations of College
Deans, Registrars, and
Admissions Officers and
membership on the board
of the Winston-Salem
Symphony.
Conrad has been at
Winston-Salem State 25
year. A graduate of Morgan
State College, he earned NEW YORK-The Colgate Members of the coalition
his M.S. degree from New Palmolive Co., is the first plan to negotiate with the
York University. He came target of a movement to corporation on its hiring
to Wmston-Salem State in urge large corporations to and advertising policies. If
1949. He had, served as increase minority hiring results are not satisfactory,
head of the athletic and advertising in black a nationwide boy-cott of its
Led Legal Baffle
Har'i-working, dedicated Thurgood Marshall
spearheaded the NAACP’s long legal crusade which
finally was climaxed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic
desegretation verdict in 1954. It was a decision that turned
the nation around, although progress against segregation
has since been slow. Thirteen years later in 1967 the
NAACP’s Mr. Marshall was appointed to the U.S.
Supreme Court by President Lyndon Johnson. May 17th
marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark ruling known
in legal circles as “Brown v. Board of Education.”
Soap Company
Lilly White?
By Richard Moore
GREENSBORO - The call
for “individual responsibi
lity’’ to help solve the
nation’s ills was sounded
by publisher, John H.
Johnson, in the commence
ment address at A&T State
University.
“Many young people tell
me they want to start a
chain of supermarkets,”
said Johnson, publisher of
Ebony magazine. “I then
tell them to start one little
market, because that’s how
a chain is started.
“We have an obligation
to succeed in life ourselves
before we can help others.
We can’t liberate black
people until we liberate
ourselves.”
“We need personal
commitment to help work
for fair employment, envi
ronmental protection, and
dignity for the young and
the aged,” Johnson told
the record 850 graduates.
“There is much to be
done,” the publisher of
Ebony and Jet magazines
continued. “There are
cities to be rebuilt, lives to
be reclaimed and children
to be taught.
“To be human at this
crucial age is to be
responsiblem,” added
Johnson. “You can be
responsible by controlling
your own communities, and
voting and influencing
others.”
Johnson told the gra
duates to refuse to
participate in institutional
repression of any type.
“Free men and women,”
he said, “accept the
challenge of righting the
wrongs.”
During the exercises,
Johnson and Dr. Russel
Mawby, president of W.K.
Kellogg Foundation in
Battle Creek, Mich., re
ceived honorary degrees.
The university also
commissioned 15 second
lieutenants in the U.S.
Army and a record 34
commissions in the U.S. Air
Force.
Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy,
chancellor of A&T, pre
sented the Alumni Excel
lence Award to Greensboro
Attorney J. Kenneth Lee
and the outstanding admi
nistrator award of $500 to
Jerald M. Martenna, dean
of administration who will
retire in June after 45 years
with A&T.
John H. Johnson, president and publisher of Johnson
Publishing Company, receives hood designating the
doctor of human letters honorary degree awarded him
by A&T State University. Assisting him is Dr. Glenn F.
Rankin, vice chancellor for academic affairs. [William
Peeler Photo]
Deposition 34-Year-Old Father Of 4
Obtained
From FBI
Academic Honoree At A&T
newspapers
zines.
and
The Consumer Action
maga- products, will be called,
Goodlett said.
Goodlett said of the $105
„ ,... ^ . million spent by Coleate-
Coalition, a group of major „ , • .m'l r
, , , • , Palmolive in 1972 for
black organizations, is led
by Dr. Carlton Goodlett
publisher of the San
Francisco Sun Reporter and
share-
department and coach at
Delaware State College in
Dover. In August of 1949 he
joined the faculty of the
university as associate
professor of health, and
physical education and
became assistant coach, he
has served as head football
Continued on Page 2-A Colgate-Palmolive
holder.
I COMING ACTIVITIES I
STOKESDALE
Lowe’s Memorial Church - 26, at 11:00 a.m. Speaker Shell Oil Company Grant
Revival starts 1st Sunday in will be Evangelist Anne P.
June at 7:00 p.m. (runs the Hairston. At 2:30 p.m. North Carolina Central
whole week)
speaker will be Evangelist of $1,000 from the Shell
Companies Foundation,
Oak Spring Baptist Church Bertha Champ. Everyone is
- Women’s Day will be May invited.
advertising, $67 million
went for television commer
cials, but none went to the
black media.
He also pointed out that
none of the company’s 2500
top executives were black.
The company, however
denied the charges.
NCCU Receives M,000
CHICAGO - Deposition
was recently obtained from
FBI agent Roy M. Mitchell
on what he knew of the
infamous 1969 raid on
Black Panthers head
quarters which resulted in
the death of Panther leader
Fred Hampton.
Attorneys for Mrs. Iberia
Hampton, the leader’s
mother, took the deposition
in preparation for a
November hearing of the $3
million damage suit filed by
Mrs. Hampton and three
survivors against State
Attorney Edward Hanra-
han, and his aides as well
as police involved in the
raid.
Mitchell reportedly was
in daily contact with a
Panther informer prior to
the raid.
By Richard Moore
GREENSBORO - For a
34-year-old father with a
wife and three children to
win academic honors over
849 other energetic 22-year
olds, it takes some doing.
It never phased Hezekiah
Jones, who reigned as the
top graduating student at
A&T State University’s
exercises in the Coliseum.
“If you think about being
in competition with the
younger students, it would
probably bother you,” said
Jones. “But I just didn’t
think about it.”
Jones did do a lot of
thinking about his class
assignments and examina
tions, and he will leave
behind at A&T a sterling
academic average of 3.932
out of a possible 4.00.
Translated into under
standable language, that
means that Jones collected
GUILFORD COLLEGE
Xerox Board
Vernon E. Jordan Jr.,
executive director of the
National Urban League
has been nominated for
election to the board of
directors of Xerox
Corporation.
The Guilford College
area of Greensboro will
soon have a new play
ground for community
recreation. Woody Side
Playground will have its
grand opening Saturday,
May 18, beginning at 11:00
a.m.
Located near Guilford
Station just of the James
town Road, the reality of
the playground is the direct
result of community work
ers, and the following
churches. Raleigh Cross
United Methodist Church,
Reynolds Chapel Baptist
Church, Muir’s Chapel
United Methodist Church,
Persimmon Grove A.M.E.
Church.
The public is invited to
come and join in a full day
of fund and recreation.
NAACP Director
Clarence Mitchell
BALTIMORE - Clarence
Mitchell, director of the
NAACP Washington Bur
eau, was hospitalized here
recently following an at
tempted holdup which he
thwarted by resisting two
young muggers.
As the veteran NAACP
legislative representative
drove up to his Druid Hill
Avenue home here about 10
p.m. Thursday night, he
was approached by two
teenagers who informed
him that “This is a
stick-u-.’’ Mr. Mitchell
fought them off as they
attempted to take his wallet
During the scuffle, one ot
Mugged
them dropped a gun as Mr.
Mitchell struggled to get on
his feet. They ran back to
recover the firearm and
again threatened him. He
seized the pistol which
went off in his hand. The
muggers fled and Mr.
Mitchell, slightly wounded
was taken to the hospital.
all A’s, except for two B’s
for the work he completed
at the University for a
degree in agricultural
economics.
When Jones says his
good marks are probably
due in large measure to
“hard work and sacrifice”,
the phrase doesn’t just
sound like another cliche.
In talking with the stocky
and neatly dressed native
of Portland, Jamaica, one
gets the impression that he
is all business.
“I think that the fact that
I had a family helped to
motivate me to do well,”
said Jones,” and it is my
policy also to be prepared
for an examination.”
Jones was born and grev
up in a rural area of
Jamaica. He was the fourth
of eight children of a
laborer.
After attending elemen
tary school and a technical
high school, he was
accepted at Jamaica School
of Agriculture, a junior
college for general agricul
ture.
After leaving the school,
Jones worked two years as
a field assessor for a firm
which insured banana
crops, and as a field
overseer on a sugar
plantation.
“After working a while, 1
felt the need for more
education,” said Jones,
“and that’s when I decided
to come to A&T.”
With some aid from his
country and a stipend from
the Jamaica Sugar Produ
cers Federation, and work-
aid from A&T, he has been
able to pay his bills and
support his family.
After leaving A&T,
Jones plans to pursue a
master’s degree in farm
management, then return
to Jamaica to work. He has
already received assu
rances of graduate aid from
Rutgers University, the
University of Illinois, and
the universities of Flordia
and Wisconsin.
“I am interested in the
business side of agriculture
he said, “as the prospects
in that area are good.”
Cola-Cola
Refunds
$8,000
GREENSBORO - Coca-
Cola Bottling Co., Consoli
dated, Charlotte, has a-
greed to refund $8,000 to
its customers in North
Carolina.
The refunds will be made
by reducing the price of
cases of Coca-Cola sold by
$.40 per case in its 22
branches (approximately
900 cases per branch). The
refunds will be completed
in a two week period.
"We must give our children 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."
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL