Keep Up With The Times! THE Read The Future Outlook! VOL. 23, NO. 28 GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1964 PRICE 5 CENTS Way nick Cites Urgency Of Better Employment Opportunities The urgency of meeting prob lems of better employment for Negroes in North Carolina was outlined last week at A&T Col lege. Speaking was Capus Waynick, special assistant to the Governor, who appeared before a meeting of the North Carolina Good Nei ghbor Council. "Unless the nation can adjust its employment opportunities," he said, "to meet the upcoming needs for minority groups, we are head ed for real trouble." He told the group that the cur rent and tremendous output from the nation's industries will be in adequate to meet the challenges which face it. "I. am afraid for the white ma jority," General Wyniclc continu ed, "if it fails now to give justice in employment to the Negro mi nority." He said the United States tor mented the current social revolu tion by showing to the world .that man can live more abundant ly, by the ?luU use of Its man power in the production of goods and services. "We cannot survive," he told the Council, "if ten per cent ol our people continue to march the streets in protest and with thou sands of others standing by in support, unless we make drama tic changes." Concluding, he said, "This state .is great enough in hoart and mind to meet the tremendous chal lenges it faces at this hour. This Council is trying hard to lift the overburden so that twenty-five per cent of North Carolina's pop ulation, Negroes, can express themselves in its progress." Another speaker, Dr; Vivian W. Henderson, professor and chair man of the Department of Eco nomics at Fisk University, Nash ville, Tennessee, serving this year as visiting professor at State Col lege, said the Negro has made sig nificant economic strides since World War H, but the economic gap has widened between them and whites. (He explained that whites had also made economic progress, and more. A&T Symphony Band In Concert On Sunday The A&T College Symphony Band will present its annual spring concert on Sunday. The program is set for the Har rison Auditorium beginning at , 6:30, P.M. . Walter F. Carlson, Jr., direct . or of bands, will conduct the 70 piece group in a variety program which will include groups of . marches, sami -classical literature >? and music' by the masters. He will toe assisted by J. J. Williams, assistant director. The publtc is invited. He brought a ripple from the group when he cited figures to show that the income gap widens between Negroes and whites as the Negro gains more education and training. He said figures show that Negroes with eight-years of schooling will earn $71,000 less than whites in a lifetime, or 57 To; after 12-years of schooling, $125, 000 less,, or 48% of that of whites with the -same training, and, after 16-years of schooling, $215,000, or 42% of that of whites. He said that the employment plight for the Negro will probab ly worsen before it improves, un less major offsetting factors are employed. He mentioned massive education and training programs and immediate large scale public effort to diminish unemployment among Negroes, as possible cor rective measures. ? Other speakers appearing in cluded: Hugh M. Raper, director, Employment Security Research, N. C. Employment Security Com mission; 1 Fred Eason, education al ''supervisor,' Department of! Community Colleges, * and Dr. Horace Hamilton, professor of rural sociology, State College, all of Raleigh, N. C., and R. E. Jones, State Agent, A&T College Exten sion Service. The Council heard a report on progress in High Point by Irving Hamilton, vice chairman, and Mrs. Howard Marsh, both of the High Point Human Relations Commit tee. I caas "lit! GREEK LIGHT , WOMAN'S DAY AT CELIA PHELPS METHODIST CHURCH Woman's Day at Ceiia Phelps Methodist Church, Sunday, April 26, was highlighted in the morn ing service with an address by the president of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the church, Mrs. Ada M. Tonkins. The after noon service was highlighted with an address by the Greensboro Dis trict president, of the Woman's Society of Christian Service, Mrs. K\ -W; Jones of Reidsville. Music for both services was furnished by the Women's Choir, with Mis. Jacqueline Kerr, Pi anist. Vocal solos were rendered at both services by Miss Nellie Mobane. Members of the local church appearing- on the program during the day. were Mesdames, Mary Mebar.e, . who v;rcjjided iia, the morning; . Pearl Siler, Johnsie Moore, Patsy Ann Stroud, V. M. Allen, Emma Herbin, Willie Mae Cathey, Alice Mebane, Margaret Free, Johnsie Alston, Patricia Wiseman, Mary .Herbin, Myrtle Crutchfield, Beatrice McClammy. Ushers were Mesdames Catherine Tonkins and Louise McGibboney. Proceeds for the day were ap plied to the Building Fund of the church. James Brown To Headline Galaxy Of Record Stars At Coliseum Probably the greatest group ol rhythuin and "blues singers ever assembled on the same bill will appear in Greensboro at the Coli seum Wednesday, May 13, head ed by James Brown. James Brown, famous as both a singer and instrumentalist, has practical ly made record history in that each time he changes his style, he becomes more successful with larger audiences. A favorite performer all over America, James Brown's fellow performers in this show include an all-star list otf recording artists. The complete unit, at 20 song stars, is backed by the James Brown Orchestra, conducted by Paul Williams, and emceed by King Coleman, popular comic. James Brown, ?whose first re cord release "Please -Please Please" began an unbroken string otf hit records unmatched in the record industry, is a great favo rite here. After vocal, successes like "Try Me", "Bewildered", "Good, Good Lowin' " he turned to Instrumental^ with similar sue ' * V * . . ? . I cess. His "Night Train" is still one of the best-selling instrumen tal records in the country. Recent ly, adding strings to his backing and trying his hand at ballads, he released "Prisoner of Love" and "These Foolish Things" and increased his audience immeasur ably. Musically speaking, James Brown just can't do anything wrong. He is probably the most excit ing performer to come on the scene in the past ten years. Re cord fans in this area will have an evening of thrills in store. They'll hear Solomon Burke, Garnet Mimms, Dionne Warwick, The Tama, The Orlons, Otis Red ding, Anna King, Tirrvmy Shaiw, Dean and Jean, King Coleman, Comic MC, Bobby Byrd, Johnny and Bill, and The Famous Flames. And that's only a small part of the story. The Biggest Show of Stars for '64 ? Spring Edition is slated to be a bigger and better show than most record fans could believe possible. Tickets are on sale only at the Coliseum Box Office. YMCA Executive To Deliver A&T College Baccalaureate Sermon A top 'executive in the Young Men's Christian Association of America will deliver the sermon at the A&T College Baccalaureate Services. Dr. Matthew G. Carter, assist ant director, Association Press, National Board of YMCA, New York City, will speak here on Sunday, May 24. The program has been set for the Charles Moore Gymnasium, beginning at 11:00 AM. A native of Danville, Va., the speaker is a graduate of Virginia Union- University and has had: graduate study at Columbia Uni-J versity and Union Theological : Seminary. He has held executive' positions with the YMCA in ! Richmond, Va., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Columbus, Ohio, ' prior to assuming his present post, i Tlie baccalaureate services will set in motion the weeklong 73rd annual commencement program for the College. Other events scheduled for Sunday, May 24, induce: Hie aiuiual joint con cert of the A&T College Choir and the A&T College Symphony Band on the front campus laiwn, beginning at 5:30 P.M., and the annual reception for graduating seniors, alumni and friends of the College, given that evening at 7:30 o'clock by Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, president of the College, and Mrs. Dowdy. That event is to be hedd in Cooper HaU. The finals program, set for the Greensboro Coliseum on Saturday, A&T ALUMNI SET ANNNUAL MEETING The A&T College General A luimni Association will hold its annual meeting here on Saturday, May 30. The meet is set lor the Carver Hall Auditorium, begin ning at 9:00 A.M. The official call, issued this , week by Howard C. Barnhill, Charlotte, N. C? president of the Association, said the organization j will be called upon to vote on im portant new' legislation and to ap prove a new campaign which would lead to the construction of a national headquarters build ing. Barnhill said that ample land area for the nerw structure has already been procured. Nearly forty-chapters, located in North Carolina and principal aities in the East and Midwest, will present their annua} financial reports in sujuport of the Associa tion's Scholarship Fund. The opening session, the annual Alumni Dinner, will be held at the Greensboro Hot Shoppes on the previous evening, Friday, May 29, beginning at 6:00 o'clock. Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, president of the College, will deliver the dinner speech. May 30, at 3:00 P.M., will feature the main address by Dr. Charles Wesley, president of Centra] State College, Wilberforce, Ohio. Earlier in the day, at 9:00 A.M., the A&T College General Alumni Association will hold its annual meeting. "NEGRO WRITERS FACE CHAL LENGE," SAYS BO N'T EM PS A&T College students were told last week that the modern day Negro writer faces a big chal lenge. Speaking was Ana Bontemps, noted noveist and poet, who de livered a main address during the observance of Humanities Week. He used as his subject, "Ameri can Negro Poetry," the title of his latest book, published late in 1963. "The chalenge of the Negro writer in the second century of freedom," he said, "is to attempt | to consolidate in the heart of. his ? reader what lias ji>een won irv' the I mind." Services Held i JAMES ALBERT YOURSE Funeral services for James Al bert Yourse were held at St. Matthews Methodist Church on Wednesday, April 29 at 4:00 p.m. Rev. John G. Corry, pastor, of ficiated. James Albert Yourse, a native of Rockingham County was born November 22, 1890 and departed this life in the Moses Cone Me morial Hospital April 27, 1964. A Greensboro resident for near ly 50 years, he was a member of St. Matthews Methodist Church where he served on the Steward Board. Surviving are his wife: Mrs. Ollie Yourse, one brother, George Yourse; two sons, Clarence and Wiley Yourse, three grandchil dren, nieces, nephews and many relatives and friends. Smith's Funeral Directors in charge of arrangements.

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