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"J A, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1967
PRICE 10 CENTS
$50,000 Promised For
Rights Litigation By N.
Carolina Men
DURHAM ? Announcement ol
the formation of the North Car
olina chapter of the National
Negro Business and Professional
Committee for the Legal De
fense Fund was made here to
day by John S. Stewart.
Mr. Stewart, president of the
Mutual Savings and Loan As
sociation here, is state chairman
of the new group which has
pledged S50, 000.00 for the un
derwriting of civil rights' litiga
tion.
The monies are to be raised
within the next year by an array
of leaders across the state, each
of whom has pledged to con
tribute or raise $*,000.
Dr. Hubert A. Eaton of Wil
mington and Dr. Reginald Haw-j
kins of Charlotte were named
vice-chairmen of the North Car
olina Committee. Both are well
known across the state for their
active work in civil rights.
The NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund, Inc.
(LDF), which will receive the
money, serves as the legal arm
of the entire civil rights move
ment.
Its attorneys represent all the
major civil rights groups plus
individuals with bona fide civil
rights claims.
Nationally, the LDF is now
representing 13,000 persons ar
rested for participating in peace
ful protest demonstrations, 420
groups of cases, and working
with nearly three hundred at
torneys across the nation.
Among other prominent North
Carolina business and profes
sional personalities joining Mr.
Stewart at the recent organiza
tional meeting were Asa T.
Spaulding, president of North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company, national chairman, i
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A&T-UNC Professors Receive Travel -
Study Grants From Office Of Education
Three A&T State University
Professors receive Travel- Study
Grants, provided by the Office
of Education through the De
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare under Title 111 ?!
the Higher Education Act of
1965.
Recipients of the grants are
from center: Dr. Darwin T. Tur
ner, Dean of the Graduate
School and Professor of English,
who will attend the Annual Con
vention of the National Council
of Teachers of English in Hono
lulu; J. M. Marteena, Dean ol
the School of Engineer!"":, who
will travel in several European
countries to observe new trends
in . engineering education for
professional growth and devel
opment, and William A. S treat,
chairman, Department of Archi
tectural Engineering:, who will
travel to several European coun
tries to observe works at vari
ous schools of architec
1''. L. C. Dowdy, le
dent of A&T State Uj|
makes the presentation
Glenn F. Rankin, DeaiL
demic Affairs looks on&$vl
Tobacco, Cotton, And Peanut
Farmers To Vote July 18
By Woody Upchurch
North Carolina tobacco, pea
nut and cotton growers will vote
on a total of four issues in a
joint referendum to be held
Tuesday, July 18.
BENNETT COLLEGE SHARES IN
GRANTS FROM FORD FOUNDATION
Bennett College is one of 52
predominantly Negro colleges to
share in a series of grants total
ing some $1.1 million from a new
Ford Foundation effort to meet
specific educational needs in the
South.
A grant of $26,000 will permit
Bennett to serve as host for a
workshop for neighboring col
leges to plan cooperative proj
ects. Other institutions involved
are Barber-Scotia College, Liv
ingstone College, St. Augustine's
College, Shaw University and
Winston-Salem State College.
By working among them
selves, it is hoped that improved
curricula, strengthened faculty
resources and broadened student
opportunities will be achieved.
FRESHMAN SCHOLARSHIPS
Two entering freshmen al
Bennett College have been ap
proved for 1967-68 National
Methodist Scholarships.
They are Misses Janice F.
Gwyn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Paul H. Gwyn of Jonesville, N.
C. and Carolyn A. Prince,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wade
H. Prince, of Bennettsville, S. C.
The awards cover tuition and
fees up to $500 and are granted
on the basis of superior aca
demic standing, leadership abil
ity, active churchmanship, char
acter, personality and need.
Second in a series of cultural
programs for high school stu
dents engaged in summer studies
at Bennett College will be the
concert Sunday night by pianist
Howard Aibel.
Mr. Aibel, a former faculty
member of the Juilliard School
but now a member of the faculty
of the North Carolina School of
the Arts, will play from the
works of Scarlatti, Beethovtn,
Rachmanioff, Chopin and Liszt.
Secretary of Agriculture Or- 1
ville Freeman has announced
this date for tobacco growers to
vote on continuation of the pres
ent acreage - poundage control
program with price supports. I
The three commodity groups,!
Tobacco Associates, N. C. Pea- 1
nut Growers Association and the
N. C. Cotton Promotion Associa
tion, have selected the same date
to have farmers Vote on contin
uation of the respective assess
ment programs which support
the work of the three groups.
These are the issues to be
voted on:
1. Continuation of tobacco
acreage-poundage program for
the years 1968-1970.
2. Continuation of assessments
in an amount to be determined
by the board of directors of To
bacco Associates but not to be
more than $1, 1968-1970. The
assessment is to support work of
the organization in promoting,
developing and expanding do
mestic and foreign purchase and
consumption of flue-cured to
bacco.
3. Continuation of assessments
on peanuts in an amount of 2 ,
cents per hundred pounds for
the years 1968- 1973. The col
lected funds will be used to sup
port the promotional work of the
N. C. Peanut Growers Associa
| tion.
1 4. Continuation of an assess
1 ment program for cotton, the
amount to be determined by the'
board of directors of the N. C.
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HAROLD E. HIGH NAMED
ALUMNI AFFAIRS
DIRECTOR AT SHAW
RALEIGH, N. C. ? Dr. James
E. Cheek, president of Shaw
University, has announced the
appointment of Harold E. High
as Director of Alumni Affairs
and public relations.
A native of Raleigh, Mr. High
is a graduate of the local Wash
ington High School and received
the B.S. degree at Shaw in 1950.
He also holds the M.S. degree in
special education from Gallaudet
College, Washington, D. C.
In his new capacity, High will
correlate all national alumni ac
tivities and work closely with
the director of publicity and
publications and the Office of
Development in the interest of
Shaw alumni.
The World War II veteran ol
Marine Corps service taughl
mathematics at the Oovernoi
Morehead School, Raleigh, from
1950 to 1963 and from 1964 to
1967, taking a year's leave of
absence in 1963 to obtain his
master's.
High is a member of the
American Association of In
structors of the Deaf and the
North Carolina Teachers Asso
ciation. He also holds member
ship in the Omega Psi Phi Fra
ternity.
He is married to the former
Miss Willie Howell of Shaw's
ipecch-reading faculty, and they
reside at 1008 S. Pearson Street
here.
LEWIS CARROLL'S WORLD
BROUGHT TO NORTH
CAROLINA COLLEGE
DURHAM. N. C.? The world
of Lewis Carroll, author of the
ever-popular "Alice in Wonder
land" and "Through the Look
ing Glass," is the theme of the
Kaleidoscope Players' presenta
tion of "Other Sides of the Look
' Continued on Pane 4i
FINAL RITES HELD FOR
MRS. OLIVIA P. WOMACK
Mrs. Olivia P. Womack, re
tired public school teacher, of
1103 Gorrell Street died Satur
day, July 8th at L. Richardson
Memorial Hospital following
several weeks illness.
Mrs. Womack was the daugh
ter of Mrs. Anna E. Peace and
the late Reverend Samuel F. B
Peace and the wife of the late
David H. Womack.
She was a graduate of Ben
nett College and The Agricul
tural and Technical College,
both of Greensboro, North Caro
lina.
A faithful and devoted teach
er, she was satisfied only when
she attained her highest educa
tional and professional goals.
For many years she faithfully
served as a leader in the Wo->
man's Division of the Methodist
Church. Some of the offices she
held were: President of Wo
man's Society of Christian Ser
vice of St. Matthews Church,
Wesleyan Service Guild Secre
tary of the Greensboro District,
Conference Secretary of the
Wesleyan Service Guild, and her
current office was Jurisdictional
Secretary of Spiritual Life.
She was a staunch supporter
of many outstanding community
and civic organizations. We will
always remember her for her
elegant manners and discrimi
nating values which she exhib
ited throughout her entire ca
reer.
Funeral service was held
Tuesday, July 11, 4:00 p. m., St.
Matthews Methodist Church.
Rev. J. C. Peters, pastor, offici
ated. Burial followed in Pied
mont Memorial Park.
The body remained at Brown's
Funeral Home until the hour of
service.
Survivors include her mother,
Mrs. Anna E. Peace, Greensboro,
N. C.; one sister, Mrs. Lillian P.
| H a r r i s, of Greensboro; one
; brother, Samuel B. Peace ol
Burlington, North Carolina.
Brown's Funeral Directors in
charge of arrangements.