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“Tell It Like It Is’
VOLUME 11, No. 33
JANUARY 8, 1975
15 CENTS PER CtPY - $5.00 PER YEAR
TRAGEDY OF A MAN
By Carl T. Rowan
Publishers - Hall Syndicate
WASHINGTON The
verdicls in the Watergate
coverup trial have pushed
past half a hundred the
Freedom Day Celebration 1975
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by Albert Campbell
Staff Writer
address with, “I AM
SOMEBODY!” He later
said, “I ain't no flea, but
I’ll be doggone if I won’t
keep the white man
itching.” That brought
the entire
Labled at times, “Nigger who needs emancipation,
Aggitator”, Frinks declar- but America.”
LEXINGTON-The Lex
ington Civic League held its
Second Annual Freedom
Day Celebration on Sun- applause from
day, January 5, at First audience.
Baptist Church.
The guest speaker was
the North Carolina Field
Representative of the
SCLC, Mr. Golden Frinks,
who was introduced by the
church’s pastor, Rev. B.F.
Daniels.
Mr. Frinks began his
Frinks went on to say
that, ‘‘Injustices are still
happening, while we
(Blacks) are still singing
and shouting.” He stated,
‘‘Racism is the number one
problem of this country,
while all others are
superficial.”
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HIGH POINT- On January 11, 1975, there will be a
wheelchair basketball game at City Lake Park. The
High Point Warriors will host the Raleigh Hustlers for
Iwo games. The first game will be at 6:30 p.m. followed
by an 8:00 p.m. nightcap. Admission will be $1.00 for
adults and children will be admitted free. The games
will be sponsored by the High Point Parks & Recreation
Department.
ALL THAT GLITTERS: Under Public Law 93-373 the
general public will be permitted on and after December
31, 1974 to purchase, sell and possess gold for the first
time in 41 years. In anticipation of the lifting of
ownership and trading restrictions, some advertisers
are already proclaiming “golden” opportunities of high
profits and substantial appreciation rates for
prospective investors. Your BBB has notified our media
of recommendations in advertising which w'e hope will
give the investor in gold a realistic picture of the
situation.
A NEW TWIST: Right w'hen you think the office
supplies hucksters from the west coast and New York
had been finally exposed and warned against, they
come up with yet another scheme to part the
businessman with his dollar. The Consolidated Office
Supply Company of Los Angeles, California and the
Commercial Office Supply Company of Los Angeles are
currently calling local businesses asking them to pay
what they claim is a bill incurred many months ago. Of
course, the business never ordered any products or had
a bill to pay from these outfits. Apparently, the
companies sometimes pay since they can’t find a record
and want to clear the matter since it is usually for forty
dollars or so. If you get a call, refer your caller to your
BBB for clearance, before you pay a pay a phony bill.
HIGH POINT - The United States Pov\ er Squadron
and the High Point Parks & Recreation Department will
present the Basic Boating Course of the United States
Power Squadrons at Astor Dowdy Towers Auditorium,
701 East Green Drive, High Point. The first class will be
held on Wednesday, January 15. 1975, at 7:30 p.m.
Registration will be on opening night.
HIGH POINT - The monthly roundtable of Cubs and
Cubbers from the High Point District of the Boy Scouts
will be held Monday, January 13. 1974, at the High
Point Friends Meeting House on Qnaker Lane. The
meeting, which is scheduled to begin at 7?30 p.m.. will
concentrate on the activities which the Cubs will take
part in during the Boy Scout birthday celebration in
February. The meeting is open to the public, and all
Cubs, Cubbers, and other persons interested in the
Cubbing movement of the Boy Scouts are welcome to
attend.
HIGH POINT-Y.W.C.A. EVENTS (Fourth Street
Branch)-January 8th, Peacemakers at 4:30...January
8th, Co-Ed Ciub at 6:30--Teenage Drop-In at
7:30.. .January 9th, Let’s Go Girls Club at
7:30...January 10th, Open Recreation at 7:00. Monday
thru Friday, Adult Day Care begins at 7:00-After
School Care begins at 3:00.
high POINT--Library Highlights, Washington
Street Branch--January 10, 9:30 and 10:30,
Filmstories...January 17, 9:30 and 10:30, Filmstories...
January 23, 9:30, Filmstories. January filmstrips: The
Guard Mouse and Brer Rabbit and the Laughing Place.
ed, “1 am an aggitator
because the civil war is yet
a part of me, because my
great grandparents w'ere
slaves at that time.
Frinks in his way of
stirring his audiences
received a standing ovation
at the conclusion of his
address.
Albert A. Campbell,
editor of THE TRIBUNAL
AID newspaper, gave
response to the welcome
which was offered by Mrs.
Jessie Wood, a member of
the Lexington Civic Lea
gue. Campbell congratu
lated the League for being
involved. He said, “With
out involvement, there can
be no freedom,”
Also responding was
Rev. R.L. Thomas, who
said, “It is not the Black
man alone in this country
number of people convicted crushed. it-ts easy to think
of one offense or another in of Watergate as a national
this most pervasive [Jblitical calamity. But it really isn’t,
crime in America’s history. Watergate was a test of
When so many people' this nation’s institutions --
are jailed. so many of the judiciary, of the
marriages busted up. so Senate's investigative po\\-
many brilliant careers ers, of the diligence and
guts of a free press, of the
character and strength of
the House of Representa
tives in an impeachment
proceeding.
While none of us can
rejoice in the convictions of
John Mitchell. H.R. Halde-
nian, John Ehrilichman or
Robert Mardian -- as this is
a tragedy for their families
-- we can exult in the fact
that every one of our
institutions proved equal to
the challenge.
One need not be
pollyannaish to conclude
that Watergate has
strengthened the institu
tions of liberty and justice
New Year's Day verdicts in
the coverup trial.
It was never really a
“national” nightmare. It
who voted for Nixon in 1968
and 1972 did so with acti\e
suspicions that ho was
mentally questionable and
Mr. Willie Shoaf, who
served as M.C. reminded
the audience that “Today
racism is no longer obvious,
but has now become the
nation's undercurrent. We
now must fight a different
type battle.”
Rev. B.F. Daniels, who
gave closing remarks said,
“We don’t need people
with cold feet who only sing
and pray; but rather, those
who will get involved and
stand up to their enemies.”
One example was the here - even after allowing
Buncombe Baptist Church for the fact that justice and
Junior Choir which render- punishment were not dis-
ed the soul stirring music pensed evenly to those
that set the pace of the guilty of Watergate crimes,
program. Punishment has never been
The Freedom Day Cele- dispensed evenhandedly
bration was a kick-off of Dr. and never will be.
Martin Luther King’s But it w'ill be a long time
birthday commemoration before another U.S. Presi-
\\as a personal nightmare morally despicable. Of all
for Richard Nixon, a man the passages in those
who. for psychological Watergate tapes that con-
quirks and aberrations that demn and damn Richard
we may never fully Nixon, the one that haunts
understand, stood at the me in his April 16. 1973,
very center of it all. conversation with John
Those jailed men. those Dean about Alger Hiss and
humiliated lawyers, those the stupidity of lying:
shattered families are the NIXON: That son of a
shame of Richard Nixon bitch Hiss would be free
who, even now in his today if he hadn't lied
friends' moments of great- about his espionage. He
est tragedy, lurks in his could have just said hc--he
secluded California com- didn't even have to. He
pound, perhaps asking could've just said, “l--look,
himself again and again, 1 knew Chambers. And.
“Did 1 fail to become a yes. as a young man I was
millionaire?” involved with some Com-
Millions of Americans munist activities but I broke
New Columnist Appears
it off many years ago.” And
Chambers would have
dropped it.
DEAN: Well-
NIXON: But. the son of a
bitch lied, and he goes to
jail for the lie rather than
ihc crime.
DEAN: Uh-
NIXON: So believe me.
don't e\er lie with these
bastards.
Nixon was dispensing
fake moralily right to ihc
end.
Whatever else we ma>
blame the various Water
gate characters for. surely
not the leasl important is
that ihey were gullible
enough to pledge their very
souls to a Richard Nixon
Continued on Page 7
on January 15th.
It is said that unless one
has been in government,
one cannot understand how
government works. Carl T.
Rowan, whose column will
appear .in
The Tribunal Aid
beginning this issue. Page
4, has been in government
dent has the gall to draw' up and he know's how it works.
Black Publishers
Consolidate
Jean M. White,
Staff Writer
blisher; The Carolina
Times, Durham, Mrs.
Vivian Austin Edmonds,
publisher; The Carolinian,
Raleigh, Mr. Paul C.
Jervay, publisher; The
Charlotte Post, Charlotte,
Mr. Bill Johnson, publish
er; The Tribunal Aid, High
Point, Mr. Albert A.
Campbell, publisher; The
Wilmington Journal, Wil-
Continued on Page 2
GREENSBORO Black
publishers of weekly, news
papers in North Carolina
met this weekend and
formed a coalition, The
N.C. Black Publishers’
Association.
The NCBPA represents a
circulation of approximate
ly 60,000 and will be
headquartered at the Caro
lina Peacemaker’s offices in
the Southeastern Building,
Greensboro. Officers of the
newly formed organization by Albert Campbell,
are President, Dr. John Staff Writer
Marshall Kilimanjaro;
Vice-President, Mr. Albert HIGH POINT--The High
A. Campbell; and, Secre- Point Chapter of Ancient
tary-Treasurer, Mrs. Vivian Egyptian Arabic Order
Austin Edmonds. Nobles of the Mystic
This history-making coa- Shrine, Abdallah Temple
lition is membered by The No. 189, held its First
Carolina Peacemaker, Annual Talent and Beauty
Greensboro, Dr. John Competition last Sunday in
Marshall Kilimanjaro, pu- the High Point College
an enemies list, to try to
commit the FBI, the IRs, te
CIA, to his special
paranois, his peculiar
hatreds. We may be lucky
enough to go a few more
generations before presi
dential aides assume the
kind of witless arrogance
that characterized the
Rowan, a prize-winning
reporter for the Minneapo
lis Tribune, only reporter to
win the coveted Sigma
March Of Dimes
Telerama
What I am saying is that
President Ford failed to
comprehend the real situa
tion when he said, after the
WINSTON-SALEM-Aud-
itions for the Second
Annual March of Dimes
Telerama are set for
Saturday, January II, at
Summit School in Winston-
conterence ne told them.
“There is no such thing as
an embarrassing question,
just embarrassing answ
ers.”
President Johnson, w iio
called Rowan “one of our
outstanding young Ameri
cans,” recalled Rowan
from Finland to head the
United States Information
Agency at a time when a
capable newsman was
needed in that Cabinet
level position to explain
United Slates policy to the
troubled world. As head of
USIA, Rowan logged more
than a half-million air miles
who wish to audition for the coveiing situations in 37
Telerma should call the different countries and
nearest March of Dimes '‘"■nd trips to
office to schedule
Delta Chi award three
consecutive years, was
drafted into government as
Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for Public Affairs
by President Kennedy. His
next post was ambassador
to Finland in 1963, when
Helsinki provided an im
portant window to the East.
As ambassador. Rowan
gained instant popularity
with foreign newsmen,
when at his first press
resignation and pardon of Salem and on Sunday,
Nixon, that ‘‘our long January 12, at Elliott Hall
national nightmare is on the UNC campus in
over,” a comment that was Greensboro,
repeated often after the Experienced performers
Beauty Pageant Held
audition time. The phone
number in Winston-Salem
is 723-4386 and in Greens
boro 273-7334.
The 18-hour Telerma w ill
begin at the Benton
Convention Center on
Saturday night, February 1,
at 11:30 P.M. and run
continuously until 5:30
Vietna m.
Carl Rowan returned to
journalism as a columnist
for the Chicago Daily New s,
and his column is now
distributed to newspapers
throughout the world by
Publishers-Hall Syndicate.
In addition to writing his
newspaper column. Rowan
covers special assignments
Memorial Auditorium.
Vying for the newly
formed crown of MiSs High
Point were ten young ladies
from and around High
Point. There were three
levels of competition:
Talent, Swim Suit, and
Evening Wear.
Miss Gwendolyn E.
Clinton was crow'ned the
winner. Miss Chiquita L.
General Assembly To Be Televised
For the second year, the
UNC-TV Network will carry
coverage of the North
Carolina General Assembly
beginning on opening day
January 15. The GENERAL
ASSEMBLY TODAY, a
half-hour summary of
legislative events, will be
broadcast on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays, and Thurs
days at 7:30 p.m. on
Channels 4 & 26.
Richard W. Hatch, public
affairs producer for the
Network, will anchor the
legislative summary. A-
niong those assisting Hatch
will be newsmen Peggy
Payne and Bob Farrington,
both of whom reported on
last year’s program. Ms.
Payne is a free-lance w riter
and former ‘‘Raleigh
Times” reporter; Farring
ton is a free-lance Raleigh
broadcast journalist and
former news director for
WPTF in Raleigh.
The program w'ill feature
reports and analyses by the
UNC-TV staff, video-taped
segments of the day’s floor
events and committee
hearings and interviews
with the lawmakers.
“Because of additional
equipment, we expect
improved video tape cover
age this year,” comments
Hatch. “We w'ill also profit
from last year's experi
ences to better provide the
coverage North Carolinians
want of their Assembly.”
Dr. George Bair, director
of UNC-TV. notes that the
program is being produced
with extensive financial
support from the Network.
‘‘We believe that an
important role of public
television is to offer its
audiences a spectrum of
programs for self-educa
tion. A populace well-
informed on the processes
and personalities of their
government increase the
likelihood that democracy
functions properly. After
the political experiences of
the past two years, we are
convinced that Americans
will take a more active
Tillman was the First
Runner-Up. Miss Clinton
will represent High Point at
the Mid-Winter Conference
w'hieh is to be held later in
Winston-Salem.
The Master of Ceremo
nies, Noble Charles A.
Ramsey, preluded the,
aw'ards with, “I know that
all are winners; but under
the rules, there can be only
one representative.”
Noble Aaron Lightner,
the Temple's Illustrious
Potentate, presented the
awards.
In addition to the winner
and first runner-up were.
Miss Charlene Nelson,
(jDHtinued on Page 8
P.M. the following Sunday Reader's Digest on a
regular basis, making his
one of the world's best
evening, February 2.
Television Star Gary
Collins of NBC's “BORN
FREE” fame and his wife,
former Miss America,
Mary Ann Mobley, will
host the special event.
Singer Lee Kirk, a
favorite with last year's
Telerama audience, will be
back again this year to
promote the effort to fight
birth defects.
Presented by the North
west Piedmont Chapter-
March of Dimes, the
Telerama
produced through the
facilities of WXIl-TV,
Channel 12 in Winston-
Salem.
known bylines.
Rowan is no armchair
columnist. He travels
extensively, keeping his
contacts throughout the
world brightly polished.
Anywhere in the world
there is someone Carl
Rowan can call for
first-hand information as
news is breaking.
Born in Ravenscroft,
Tennessee, Rowan attend
ed Tennessee State Univer-
will again be Washburn University,
and Obcrlin College. He
served as a naval officer in
Continued on Page 8
Open Meeting For Guilford Delegation
A post-Assembly survey interest in their govern-
conducted by the Network ment's business, not only
has provided additional
guidelines for planning this
year's program.
on the national level but
Continued on Paf
The Guilford Delegation presentations will be asked
to the General Assembly to limit their remarks to five
will have an open public (5) minutes in order that as
meeting in the County many persons as possible
Commissioner's Room in may be heard. The meeting
the Guilford County Court- is expected to last from
house on Saturday, January 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
11, 1975 at 10:00 a.m. The Persons desiring priority
purpose of the meeting is to on the program should call
permit interested citizens 274-8463 and leave their
to present to the Delegation name and the subject about
their views on any matters which they wish to speak,
of public concern. Time will be allotted at the
The Delegation Chair- ^nd of the meeting for
man, Henry E. Frye, stated persons who have not made
that all persons making appointments.
The General Assembly
convenes in Raleigh at 12
noon on Wednesday, Jan-
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