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VOL. 30, NO. 27
DEATHS AN
MR. JOHN THOMAS JACOB!
Funeral services for Mr. Johr
Thomas (Boss) Jacobs were con
ducted on Sunday, June 6, 197:
at 3:30 p.m. at Mount Olive
A.M.E. Zion Church, Greens
boro, N. C., with Dr. Walter L
MR. HARVEY STEELE
Mr. Harvey Steele, age 50 o
2600-B Husband St. was deal
on arrival Moses Cone Hospita
Tuesday, June 1st following <
brief illness.
Funeral services were hell
Sunday, June 6th, 3:00 P.M.
Brown's Funeral Home Chapel
Burial followed in Maplewooi
Cemetery.
Survivors include his widow
Mrs. Rosa Boyd Steele of thi
home; daughter, Mrs. Mattii
Dixon, Charlotte, N. C.; son
Robert Taylor Steele, Greens
boro, N. C.; seven grandchildrei
and eight great grandchildren
brother, Otis Glenn, Charlotte
N. C.
Brown's Funeral Directors h
charge of arrangements.
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MRS. HANNAH L. MITCHED]
Mrs. Hannah Lenoir Mitchell
age 50 died at Moses Cone Hospital
Tuesday, June 1st following
a brief illness. She lived a
1118 W. McGee St.
Funeral services were hel<
Sunday, June 8th. 1:30 P.M.
Brown's Funeral Home Chapel
Burial followed in Piedmont
Memorial Park.
Survivors include mother an<
father, Mrs. Corzena Browi
Pressley and Mr. Isiah Pressle;
of Greensboro; sister, Mrs. Vadi
W. Blackwell, Richmond, Va.
Brown's Funeral Directors ii
charge of arrangements.
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Yates, officiating. Burial followed
in Piedmont Memorial
Park.
Mr. Jacobs, son of the late
Samuel and Harriett McNeeley
Jacobs, was born in Guilford
County, April 15, 1877, and passed
away on June 2, 1971 at L.
Richardson Memorial Hospital,
after a brief illness.
Mr. Jacobs joined the Hannah's
Presbyterian Church at an
early age, and he also attended
St. James Presbyterian Church
until his health and age prevented
his attendance.
Survivors include his daughter,
Mrs. Ruth Jacobs Tonkins,
II a grandson KOberl Jacobs TonI
kins, Jr., a devoted granddaugh- |
I ter-in-law, three great grandI
children all of Greensboro, a
k niece Mrs. Frances Scarborough
of Brooklyn, N. Y., and a nephew
L Mr. Cephas Jacobs of Greens- j
[ boro.
Smith's Funeral Service in |
. charge of arrangements.
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Funeral services were held j
for Mr. James Morris Fennell,
_ Sr. at Hargett Memorial Chapel, I
Greensboro, N. C. on Sunday,
. June 6, 1971 at 2:00 p.m, with
Rev. James McCoy, pastor of
New Zion Baptist Church, of'
ficiating. Burial followed in the
Veterans Plot of Maplewood
1 Cemetery.
Hargett Funeral Service in
" charge of arrangements.
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TORTH CAROLINA, FRIDi
Garden Club
Baby Contest
First Prize Winner: Tammy S.
McCall, daughter of Mr. and
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The Golden Bell Garden Club
presented a baby contest May
23rd at the Reid Memorial C.
M. E. Church.
First prize winner was Tammy
McCall; second place, Kenneth
Thompson and third place,
Traci Bracken. Consolation winners
were: Levetta Sellars,
Dawn Richmond, Teresa Lee
and Mark Smith.
Proceeds of the contest to go
toward beautification projects.
Three Injured
In One-Car Accident
Three persons were critically
injured late Saturday in a onecar
accident in the Benbow Park
section of Greensboro, which
caused some residents to be
without electric power for almost
six hours when a utility
pole was hit, destroying a transformer.
The injured, who were taker
to L. Richardson Hospital, wen
identified as William Murphy
20, of Rt. 1, Jamestown, Roberi
Mitchell Jr. of Greensboro anc
William Brinsfield ot Eion College.
Police reports said the 1971
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"Jwuv* "J
went out of control on Belcres
Drive, struck and knocked ciowr
a utility pole, veered across a
yard, hit a small tree and wenl
on to strike a car parked in a
driveway, before coming to ?
stop.
A Duke Power official saic
the entire Benbow Park area
was without power for about 4?
minutes. Power was not restored
to the homes in the immediate
vicinity of the destroye<
transformer until almost si:
hours later when the installatioi
of a new pole was completed.
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RACIAL PROGRES
CHEEK TELLS 750
The belief that the United
States has made progress in resolving
the conflict between its
black and white citizens is s
myth, according to Dr. James E.
Cheek, president of Howard University.
"The belief in racial progress
is a myth," said Cheek in the
baccalaureate - commencement
address last Sunday at A&T
State University.
"To be half slave and half free
is still to be a slave," he told
the record 750 graduates, "and I
I know of no black man in
America who is totally and com*?
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I pieaeiy nee. *vu 01 us wno nave
' black skin are still regarded
and treated as inferior human
beings, having no rights and no
dignities that the white man is
bound to respect."
Cheek, the former president
, of Shaw University, said it is
his conviction that America's
, racial crisis can no longer be
f described or defined as a movej
ment for civil rights.
1 Cheek's stirring address was
the climax of A&T's 80th annual
baccalaureate - commencement
exercises that included a I
j $15,000 in Donalii
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A&T News Bureau
Alumni and faculty members
' of A&T State University Saturday
donated nearly $43,000 tc
the University's foundation a!
1 an installment of the groups' j
! pledges for scholarships and
1 faculty study grants.
The reports were made dur-'
ing the annual Alumi Awards
' | luncheon held in the Memorial
' Union.
f The graduates turned over
. more than $28,000 and the facllltv
ronftrt wac in nvnnc rtf
| $15,000. The report upped the (
t alumni giving to more than
t $128,000 during the past three
years, on a goal of $333,000.
j Principal speaker at the lunI
chcon was Marshall Colston, a
, professor of social work at Sac- J
i | ramento State College in Cali.
fornia.
| Colston, who will become di3
rector of planning and developc
ment at A&T in July, called for
i a continuation of black colleges
I and universities in this country.
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IS IS A MYTH,
A&T GRADS
number of records and firsts.
A total of 72 of the graduates
finished with honors, a new record
for scholastic achievement.
Top honor student in the class
was brainy Samuel A. Woods of
New Bern, N. C.
Woods graduated with a 3.904
average and has been awarded
a graduate fellowship to attend
Harvard University.
President Lewis C. Dowdy also
awarded two new prizes to
faculty members. Mrs. Ernestine
Compton, an assistant professor
physical education, received a
$750 check for having been selected
the outstanding teacher
of the year.
Mrs. Carrie Walden, an assistant
professor of nursing, was
presented with a $500 check for
outstanding service to the University.
Another $500 prize was awarded
to the Department of Sociology
for having been named the
top department of the year.
A Presidential Citation was
presented by Dowdy to Clyde
DeHuguley, who has completed
47 years at A&T. He had been
the commencement marsh all for
the past 21 years.
>ns From Faculty
Giving to $43,000
"Black teachers actually go
into the classroom and teach."
said Colston, "so we must be
doing something right. "In other
institutions a lot of the teaching
is done by graduate assistants.
You never even see the professors."
"Black institutions have always
dealt with teaching the disadvantaged,"
said Colston.
"Some predominately-white institutions
are just taking on this
role."
In a nationwide election conducted
Saturday by the alumni,
Mrs. Julia S. Brooks of Philadelphia
was re-elected national
president. Other officers selected
were B. H. Thornton of Durham,
treasurer, Mrs. Veda S
Stroud of Greensboro, secretary
and Rep. Harry E. Frye of
Greensboro^ parliamentarian.
Winners of the association's
hiffhost qit/orHa umrn PIaViaw)
Earl Barber of Pittsburgh, winner
of the achievement award,
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