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VOL. 28, NO. 19 GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1969 PRICE 10 CENTS
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
Mrs. Myrtle Sapp Crutchfield,
age 74, of 3407 Herbin St.,
Greensboro, N. C., died Tues
day, March 4, 1969 at Moses
H. Cone Hospital.
She was the widow of the
late Rev. Oscar Crutchfield.
Funeral will be held Satur
day, March 8, 1969 from the
Celia Phelps Methodist Church
with the Rev. J. W. Free, of
ficiating. Interment will be in
Mt. Tabor Cemetery.
She is survived by two daugh
ters, Mrs. Lucille Mebane, and
Mrs. Bessie Jones; seven sons,
Mr. Henry Cecil Crutchfield of
Greensboro, Mr. S a n f o r d j
Crutchfield of Baltimore, Md.,
Mr. William Crutchfield, Mr.
Norman Crutchfield, Mr. Lu
ther Crutchfield, Mr. David
Crutchfield, and Mr. Oscar
Crutchfield, Jr. all of Greens
boro; one sister, Mrs. Louise
Sapp Webster of Guilford Col
lege, N. C.; two brothers, Prof.
Earl Sapp of Guilford College,
MR. WALTER L. SMITH, SR.
Walter Lindsay Smith, Jr.,
age 59 of Route 2, Gibsonville,
died Tuesday at the Moses Cone
Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services were to be
held 3:00 F.M., Thursday at
Hargett's Memorial Chapel. Rev.
C. B. McLean, the pastor of
Community Baptist Church,
officiated and burial followed in
Clapp's Chapel A.M.E. Church
cemetery, Whitsett, N. C.
He is survived by his widow,
Mis. Lucille F. Smith of the
home; daughter, Betty Smith;
two sons, Walter L. Smith Jr.
and Windell Smith; one step
daughter, Mary R. Smith; one
step-son, Monroe Smith, all of
the home; two sisters, Mrs.
Catherine Smith and Mrs. Em- |
ma McManus, both of Whitsett, !
N. C.; six brothers, Russell
Smith of Sedalia, N. C., Wallace
Smith, Henry Smith, both of j
Greensboro, Rufus Smith of J
Gibsonville, N. C., and aGin
Smith of Elon College, N. C., j
and Chancy Smith of Whitsett,
N. C.
The family met their friends ;
at Hargett's Funeral Home
Wednesday night from 7 to 9.
Hargett Funeral Service in
charge of arrangements.
MR. WILLARD CRAWFORD
Mr. Willard Crawford, age 47
died March 2nd as a result of
injuries received from contact
with a moving automobile. He
lived at 2700 McConnell Road,
and was a World War II vet
eran.
Funeral service will be held
Saturday, March 8th, 2:00 P.M.
Brown's Funeral Home Chapel, j
Burial will follow in Veterans j
Plo^ Maplewood Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Louise Crawford, Winston
Salem, N. C.; mother, Mrs.
Laura Lewis of the home; sis
ters, Mrs. Marie Rice and Mrs.
Quinnie Coley, Greensboro, Mrs.
Essie Comer, Washington, D. C.,
MRS. M. S. CRUTCHFIELD
N. C., and William Sapp of
Jamestown, N. C.; 15 grandchil
dren and 19 great grandchildren.
Hargett's Funeral Service in
charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Darlene Husher, Brooklyn,
N. Y., Mrs. Irene Reid, Phila
delphia, Pa., and Mrs. Bessie
Futch, Savannah, Ga.; two
brothers; Fred Crawford,
Greensboro and Elroy Craw
ford, Goldsboro, N. C.; five half
brothers, John and Jasper
Lewis, Greensboro, Clarence and
Lafayette Lewis, Goldsboro, N.
C., Alexander Lewis, U. S.
Army.
The family will receive their
friends at the funeral home
Friday evening from 7 to 9.
Brown's Funeral Directors in
charge of arrangements.
MRS. BLANCHE PAGE
Mrs. Blanche Page, 49 died
Saturday morning, March 1st
at her home,' 515 East Street
from injuries received from fir".
Funeral service was held
Monday, March 3rd, 2:00 P.M.
Browns Funeral Home Chapel,
Rev. J. L. Foushee, Baptist
Evangelist officiated. Burial fol
lowed in Maple wood Cemetery.
The body remained at the !
Funeral Home until the hour of
service.
Survivors include her hus
band, Earl Page of the home. !
Brown's Funeral Directors in
charge of arrangements.
MRS. BELLE WEATHERS
Mrs. Belle Weathers, age 84
died at Evergreen Nursing
Home Tuesday, February 25th
following several months of de
clining health.
Funeral service was held Sun
day, March 2nd, 3:00 P.M.,
Brown's Funeral Home Chapel,
Rev. J. L. Foushee, Baptist
Evangelist officiated. Burial fol
lowed in Piedmont Memorial
Park.
She Is survived by several
grandchildren, other relatives
and friends.'
Brown's Funeral Directors in
charge of arrangements.
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Greensboio Native Heads Bronx AntiPnveity Agency
uj rcic I1U1UCU
Bronx, N. Y., Versatile B.
Frank Wright, who formerly
served in the capacity of Depu
ty Director of the South Bronx
Community Progress Center,
was elevated by the Commun
ity Corporation through its
Board of Directors to the posi
tion of Executive Director. This
action took place during a clos
ed session of the Board, on May
24, 1968, however, the Board
withheld the official release un
til now.
The hard working Mr. Wright,
who was acting Director until
the above mentioned Board's
decision, succeeds Mrs. Gladys
Harrington, who resigned her
South Bronx Community Cor
poration post in mid April to
join the staff of H.R.A.
The new Center Director, who
joined the East 149th Street
(near 3rd Ave.) staff in July
1966, formerly headed this anti
poverty agency's Neighborhood
Youth Corps and Manpower
Development Department.
During Mr. Wright's director
ship of the latter department,
the South Bronx CPC hit an
all time high in youth job
training and placement. In Aug
ust 1967, the Neighborhood
Youth Corps and Manpower De
velopment employed upwards of
1400 boys and girls, ranging in
age from 18 to 21, in addition
approximately 400 were refer
red to and/or placed in private
employment.
This was something of a rec
ord in South Bronx Youth em
ployment training and develop
ment, Mr. Wright simultaneous
ly paced several hundred addi
tional youths in "On the Job
Training" programs in Bronx
Hospitals, schools, parks, banks,
community coordinating agen
cies, playgrounds, parochial
school vacation playgrounds
and the U. S. Rubber Company,
among other private enterprises
and public agencies.
Summer Youth Payroll
Mr. Wright, also designed pro
posals for and administered last
summer New York City pro
gram with a $42,000 weekly
payroll, one of the nation's
largest for a local anti-poverty
agency.
A Native of North Carolina
Mr. Wright is a native of
Greensboro, North Carolina,
where he attended public
schools and worked his way
through N. C. Agricultural and
Technical State University. The
many talented South Bronx C.
P. C. Director went on to the
City University of New York
and Toledo (Ohio) University.
A former Teacher and Com
munity Relations Director for
the Board of Education, Mr
Wright is an above the average
golf and tennis player, and
when he is not spending his
leisure time in one of the above
sports, he is reading extensively
and writing, professional perio
dicals for publication. He is
married to the former Laura
Hartman of Brooklyn, a New
York City public school teacher.
A&T STUDENT SCORES
A 'FIRST'
A&T State University student
Lawrence Calvin Mr Swain
Saturday became the first black
student to head the North Caro
lina Student Legislature. He is
a native of Kings Mountain,
N. C.
See Story On Page 5
"Our Crooks Are Flying; Oar Boys Are Dying"
By RALPH JOHNS
Mr. President; While you are
flying over the European Area
seeking peace and prosperity;
Which I agree is very commen
dable and admirable and shows
that you are an honorable man; j
But up in Washington, we have
a bunch of Senators who only
recently voted to give them
selves an enormous raise in sal
ary, while our country is bank
rupt, while our boys in Vietnam
are dying for peanuts. This I
don't understand! But I'm not
mad; But I am mad about a
matter that is the most sicken
ing thing that could happen in
our country, especially at a
time when the mood of our
Militants are dangerous; When !
students and minority groups
are groping for a sign from the !
leaders of our government that j
they have got heart and mind
for understanding the complex
problems that must be resolved
at once, before America goes up
in flames, before blood and lives
are lost all over this land of
ours.
Our values are mixed up in
America when we fail to see
what our youngsters are trying
to tell us. They are sick of this
floundering, failing, phony lead
ership that calls itself our lead
ers. Here is a gross example;
Senator John Stennis from Mis
sissippi for years that states !
Senator; for years he has been I
head of the Committee on !
HUAC, which was supposed to
be the witch hunters, which
was supposed to ferret out Com
munist activities and un Ameri
canism in our country; This
man who owns thousands of
acres of land in Mississippi and
has shared it out to sharecrop
pers at starvation wages; This
man who has been paid by our
government many years, many
hundreds of thousands of dol
lars to plow under his crops
through government subsidies.
This man who for years and
years has condoned discrimina
tion, segregation, injustices,
White Sheeted K.K.K. to ride
and terrorize black Americans in
his home state; Here is a man
who for many years has pointed
a finger. Here is a Senator un
der Congressional Immunity
Character Assassinated many a
Black and White American;
This same Senator Stennis was
honored the other day in Mis
sissippi.
That's all right, that's his
business and the business of
those who honored him; But I
say it is my business and the
business of every tax-paying
American citizen to yell 'to the
high heavens . . : U. $. Gov
ernment jet planes were flown
to Mississippi ? riding these
jet planes were many Senators
and big wheels at taxpayers ex
pense who went on a surprise
party honoring Senator Stennis!
When is our country going to
learn, when is there going to
be honesty in government, when
are our Senators and Congress
men going to learn to stop this
petty pilfering and I call It
stealing from the taxpayers and
America. I say it's time some
one woke up! I think a lot of
young boys in Vietnam would
like a ride home at govern
ment's expense for a day or so
to see their loved ones. The
money spent on this excursion
is a sin. For this money spent
honoring this old hypocrit, this
man who pretends to be a great
Christian and Great American
is blood money.
The blood of many children
and old folks who died of starv
ation in Mississippi; The blood
of boys dying in Vietnam; This
man who has castigated, who
has threatened, who has yelled
Communist with impunity
through Senatorial immunity
with his cohorts who took this
hundred thousand dollar tax
payers ride should not be al
lowed to reimburse the govern
ment, they should not be al
lowed to whitewash or sweep
under the rug this dishonest act;
They should be fired, thrown in
jail, like many of the ones who
were beaten up, and thrown in
jail in his home state of Mis
sissippi for demanding the right
to vote, insisting on the right
to be treated as Americans; You
Senator John Stennis, who have
tried so many Americans by
insinuations and innuendoes
through your House Un-Ameri
can Committee, .(HUAC) You
are now on trial: Those Senators
who took that free ride, they're
on trial. Let me hear you holler
loud and clear . . . Un-Ameri
can ? Un-American ? Un
American.