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Final Kites Held For
Greensboro Minister
Reverend Joseph C. Melton,
ago 86, retired minister, former
ly the pastor of United Institu
tional Baptist Church of this
city, passed away at L. Rich
ardson Memorial Hospital on
Monday morning after a brief
Illness, following more than a
year of declining health.
He was a native of Gates
County, N. C., and a graduate
of Shaw University. For many
years he was active in the civic
and religious life of this com
munity. He established the first
branch of the Girls' Scout Troop
for Negro girls, and active par
ticipated In the establishment of
the first Y.M.C.A. branch for
Negro youth.
He is survived by a son, Jud
son C. Melton of Laurinburg, N.
C.; two daughters, Mrs. Etta M.
Mitchell of Zanesville, Ohio and
Mrs. Elreta Melton Alexander
of this city; two grandson a, Joel
C. Melton, U. S. Army, and
Girardeau Alexander III, and
one great-granddaughter, Jeni
fer Claire Melton.
His late wife, Mrs. A A. Mel
REV. JOSEPH C. MELTON
ton, retired public school teach
er, passed away in 1964.
Funeral service was held
Wednesday, January 17 J 1:00 p.
m., Providence Baptist Church.
Rev. Howard A. Chubbs, pas
tor, officiated. Burial followed
in Piedmont Memorial Park.
Brown's Funeral Directors in
charge of arrangements.
Ground Breaking Next Sunday For
New St. Matthews Church
The Bishop
Will Preach
St. Matthews Methodist
Church on the corner of Ashe
and Lee streets will conduct its
"ground-breaking" services on
Sunday, January 21. The serv
ices will be twofold with the
regular Morning Worship Serv
ice starting at the usual time,
11:00 a. m., and immediately
following there will be a motor
cade to the new site on the
corner of Asheboro and E. Flor
ida streets where the ground
breaking ceremony will be held.
The time for the latter service
is 1:30 p. m.
The present building was
erected in 1903 and since that
time has served the city of
Greensboro well. One signifi
cant contribution has been that
out of the basement of its for
mer building, Bennett College
was founded. Long before de
segregation of public facilities in
Greensboro, St. Matthews was
something of a city auditorium
for Negroes. The institution has
had and is having a great influ
ence upon the social, economical
and religious welfare of our
community.
The guest speaker for this
special twofold service will be
Bishop L. Scott Allen of Nash
ville, Tennessee. Bishop Allen
has recently been assigned as
resident Bishop for the North
Carolina-Virginia Conference.
To these services, the pastor,
J Rev. J. C. Peters, extends a
I cordial Invitation to all.
Economic Power, Not Long Hair,
Key To Ills, Says Bev. Jackson
"Wearing long hair won't
frighten anybody. It's only put
ting Negro barbers out of work."
That's the kind of biting logic
26-year-old Rev. Jesse L. Jack
son advances In his crusade to
gain civil rights for -Negroes.
In a series of weekend ap
pearances at A&T 'State Uni
versity, Jackson, national direc
tor of Operation Breadbasket
?aid:
"At its worst, black power is
a reaction by Negroes to the
cruelty of white America. Black
power raises the questions of
who the Negro is and how he
j can have power In a society of
power playa."
Comparing the plight of his
people to that of the ancient
Jews, Jackson added that "the
ancient Jews were in slavery
because although they formed
the base of the Egyptian econo
my, they did not control any of
the modes of production. They
furnished the labor only. The
Negro might be said to be in the
same position today."
"One must take a look at the
hard realities of life," Jackson
continued. "The most essential
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$230,000 Grant For Negro
Ministerial Training Program
NEW YORK, Jan. 5 ? The
Ford Foundation today an
nounced a $230,000 grant for a
Negro ministerial training pro
gram in urban leadership to be
conducted in fifteen cities of the
North and South by the South
ern Christian Leadership Con
ference (S.C.L.C.).
At the same time, the Foun
dation announced a $522,200
grant to the National Catholic
Conference for Interracial Jus
tice for a national program to
influence equal employment pol
icies among commercial firms
that do business with churches.
(Details listed later in this arti
cle.)
In making the announcement,
McGeorge Rundy, president of
the Foundation, said:
"The grant to the Southern
Christian Leadership Foundation
is for educational work among
Negro ministers. Religious lead
ers of all faiths are recognizing
the need for a new and broader
role for the ministry in the
crisis of the cities, and this
Foundation has made earlier
grants to other groups for work
in the same field. There is an
obvious and special opportunity
and responsibility here for Ne
gro clergymen, and it seems to
us clear beyond argument that
Dr. Martin Luther King and his
associates are qualified to give
unusual leadership in educa
tional work with member.- of
this group.
"This grant therefore is for a
specific set of educational activ- !
ities, and not for general support
of the Southern Christian Lead- I
ership Conference as a whole. ?
Dr. King and his associates have '
other commitments that fall out
side the areas in which a tax
exempt foundation should give
support. But Dr. King and the
S.C.L.C. have a standing among
American Negroes, a passionate
commtiment t o non-violence, !
and a proven concern for the
social commitment of the clergy
which make their Southern
Christian Leadership Founda
tion, in our judgment, an out
standing instrument for this
particular educational effort."
The grant to the Southern
Christian Leadership Founda
tion, a fiscal arm of S.C.L.C., is
the fourth within the last year
to major Negro organizations.
The others were for programs
of the National Urban League,
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
and for a program in Cleveland
of the Congress of Racial Equal
ity. (Earlier Foundation grants
for training clergymen in deal
ing with urban problems have
included assistance to the Urban
Training Center of Christian
Missions In Chicago and the
National Council of Churches,
to help acquaint clergy and lay
men with significant urban
work of church groups.)
With Its grant, S.C.L.C. will
conduct seminars, for about 150
Negro ministers, that are de
signed to provide leadership
training for urban programs in
?uch fields as education, hous
ing, employment, and business
opportunities. The seminars will
be offered for five days semi
annually in cooperation with
the Metropolitan Applied Re
search Center in New York
which is directed by Dr. Ken
neth B. Clark.
The seminars will cover more
than forty subjects such as the
history of the civil rights move
ment. urban sociology, econom
ics. urban renewal, housing,
employment, small business de
velopment, and government an
ti-poverty programs. P a r t i c i
pants will receive study and
reference materials for use in
continuing education activities
in their communities.
S.C.L.S. hopes to offer the
seminars to additional ministers
who will receive funds for par
ticipation from other sources.
The ministers who complete the
seminars will be assisted when
they return to their communi
ties in organizing continuing
economic, education and social
change programs. They will help
organize courses in employment
and economic development,
housing, political processes and
voter registration, welfare, edu
cation, and legal services. The
educational effort begun with
the seminars will continue
through local retreats, local
seminars, and discussion meet
ings.
The seminars will be eon
ducted in fifteen cities which
will be selected from among the
twenty-five in the United States
with Negro populations of more
than 100,000.
S.C.L.S., whose founder and
president is Martin Luther King.
Jr., was formed in 1957 as a
permanent consulting body of
Negro ministers after the Mont
gomery, Alabama bus boycott.
It has advocated non-violent
protests by ministers and their
followers to achieve civil rights
goals.
The grant to the National
Catholic Conference for Inter
racial Justice (N.C.C.I.J.) will
be used to expand Project
Equality, a program to over
come racial discrimination in
employment.
The project, which now oper
ates in twelve metropolitan
areas ? Detroit, St. Louis, San
' Antonio, Hartford, Seattle, Lan
sing, Columbus, Los ""Angeles,
Nashville. Minneapolis, Omaha,
' and Kansas City ? has the par
ticipation of lay and religious
bodies of the Jewish, Protes
tant. Eastern Orthodox, Unitar
i ian-Universalist, and Roman
Catholic faiths.
More than 15,000 business
firms ? from two-man shops to
corporations ? have pledged co
operation with Project Equality.
Each of the firms does business
with churches. They include
suppliers of goods, construction
contractors, insurance compa
nies, banks, and real estate
firms.
The National Catholic Con
ference for Interracial Justice
was established in 1961 as a lay
organization to mobilize the
Catholic community for positive
action on equal opportunity
programs, and to lend technical
assistance to and join forces
with other denominational
groups similarly motivated.
Project Equality was begun in
1965, on the premise that religi
ous institutions have a responsi
bility to spend their money in a
moral manner and, job discrim
ination being both morally and
legally wrong, should use their
purchasing power to encourage
their suppliers to avoid it.
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Funeral Services Held For Booker
T. Washington NcClain
Mr. Booker T. Washington
McClain, age 58, of 545 Cross
Street, Asheboro, N. C., died
January 14. Funeral services
were held Wednesday, January
17, from the Church of God of
Prophecy, Asheboro, N. C., Rev.
Floyd Mclver officiating. Burial
was in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in
Asheboro, N. C.
He is survived by four sla
ters, Mrs. Katie Walker, Mrs.
Mandy Aurman, Mrs. Eldora
Larkins, all of Asheboro, and
Mrs. Nora Gross of Washington,
D. C.; two brothers, Rugus Mc
Clain of Asheboro and William
of Fayetteville, N. C.
Hargett's Funeral Service in
charge of arrangements.
MR. BOOKER T.
WASHINGTON McCUUN