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14 THE CAIOLLMIAN RALEIGH, N. c., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1006 "Redress The Balance,” Dr. Cheek Tells Shaw Students AT FOUNDER’S DAY PROGRAM - Dr. Dorothy Broun, of Nashville, Tenn., who delivered Founder’s Day address at Bennett Colleen on Sunday, chats with President Isaac H. Miller, Jr., a former colleague of hers at Meharry Medical College where she is professor of surgery. life Os Ambassador To Visit 1C College DURHAM—Lad; Sara Lou Carter, the wife of Sir John Carter, ambassador of the new Republic of Guyana to the U nited States, will be the visit ing lecturer for the North Caro lina College Department of Geography on F r i d a y, Novom - ber 11, according to Dr. Theo dore, R. Speigner, chairm >.n of the department. During the visit, -pons a by the college’s Department of Geography and the Committ-v on Visiting Lecturers, she will talk with small groups, visit classes, and deliver a public address. Lady Carter, a native North Carolinian and a forme; Wilk eslx>ro third grade teacher, holds the B.A, degree f. ;ir: Bennett College. She has had wide experience in the fields of fashion and radio. As a NEWS DIGEST FIGHTS CLAIM W ASHINGTON--Famous or - ehestra leader Duke Ellington last week filed a suit in U.S. Tax court challenging the In ternal Revenue agency’s claim that he owes th< government $125,000 in back taxes for non reported income for the Tempo Music publishing firm. Puke contends that Tempo is not his; that he has received no money from the firm, operated by Ruth Ellington Stamatou, his sister. SAVES ORPHAN AG i PERIGUEUX, France—Once more a friend has rallied to entertainer Josephine Baker to help her save her famed inter racial orphanage from closure due to debts. Miss Baker was "highly relieved” when one oi her admirers, who remained anonymous, donated SBO,OOO to save the orphanage, located in southern France. SCORES IN PARIS PARIS, France—American born singer Dakota Station flew in from London last week and scored a big hit at several service clubs at U.S. military bases within a 150-mile rad ius. She turned in top-notch performances for the Gls de spite the fact that she was suf fering from a cold brought on by what was described as a sudden change of Paris’ "funny weather.” GONE BROADWAY NEW YORK—Famous sing er-dancer Leslie Uggams will switch from the kleig lights of television to the footlights of Broadway next April when she’ll star in a new musical titled "Hallelujah, Baby! The star of Mitch Miller’s "Song Along” television show, Miss Uggams will be making her Broadway debut in the show. SIGNS NEW YORK--Shakespearan actor W'ilUam Marshall of Ga ry, Ind., has signed to play the starring role in "Javelin”, a new play opening at the Actors Playhouse, Nov. 9. Marshall is a star of the stage, screen/ radio and television. TURNS INNKEEPER KERHONKSON, N.Y.--Fam ous one-legged dancer "Peg Leg Bates” has ended a color ful 42-year (active - ) career in show business to settle down to the full time life of a coun try squire. B-.: e r ,- : fashion model, she has appear . mo-, than 26 covers. Sin has also had eight years < xperience in mcadca. sting, the last four as conductor of a d < i:" interview-type radio pro -un in Guyana. The program, cmed ‘Sara Salon,” lasted for 1 : 2 iunii's. She has conduct ; > ch 11 dren ’s programs •!L'd “Son; ething for the n” and “Welcome on Earth.” 1 Carter is scheduled to , , v banquet address for the twentieth annual meeting of the North Carolina Resource-Use E Jo cation Conference at 6 p.m., November 10, at the B . house. She will beintro i io the convention at the vueial session at 2 p.m. in ~N. Duke Auditorium, said 'P igner, state chairman of the conference. manages fie Bates Country club - I'sort ii. the Catskills mountain area nearby, where ‘ • reported!} does an annual business ol $200,000. UNDERCOVER V. ASHINGTON--D i x ie-style filling stations have adopted a new s} stem to get around de signating rest r ooms for whites and Negroes, Rest rooms are marked "A,” “B” and “C.” N- roes often get the "A” room to give them the impression that the; are considered tops. Ho tels that don’t want to inte grate assign Negroes to the dingiest rooms with cracked or falling piaster. Travel agents ofter designate Negroes by re servation slips of a different olor or a code letter. TOURIST $ LOST NEW YORK--Racial discri mination is costing this nation millions of tourist dollars, ac cording to D. Parke Gibson, public relations executive. "A Negro planning a trip doesn't think about the Gulf of Mexi co or fishing in the Minnesota lakes, or skiing in Sun Valley. These places are foreign to him,” he said. Discrimination on the way to resorts and at •some vacation areas in this country induces many Negroes to spend their vacations with relatives and friends or going to foreign lands, especially the Caribbean, he added. FITS BILL WASHINGT ON--Harlem’s anti-poverty agency, Harou- Act, is looking for a new pro gram director--and Julius W. Hobson, chairman of Wash ington ACT, appears to fit the bill. "If I can do a real Job, something useful, it might lie OK, because I need the money,” he said. Hobson would makebetween $17,000 and $22,000 a year. RIGHTS CONSULTANT NEW YORK—June Shagaloff, NAACP education director, has been appointed "civil rights consultant in residence” atYe shiva University’s Ferkauf School of Humanities and So cial engaging in informal talks with taking part in the spool’s Project Beacon. The pmject trains teachers and mental health specialists for schools with many poor Negroes :nd Puerto Ricans enrolled. Youthful President Keynotes 102nd Annual Fail Convention Beginning “our one hundred and second year in a cli mate of unparailed national con cern about the roll and pur poses of higher education” were the words voiced by Dr. James E. Cheek, President of Shaw University, at the 102nd Annual Fall Convocation, held at theC. C. Spaulding Gymnasium, Fri day, Oct. 29. Addressing the largest stu dent body in the University’s history, Dr. Cheek said, “In our society, the extent to which equality and economic oppor tunity, political opportunity and Young Science Students At Chicago Conference Two of the most promising young science students in the Carolinas—Mark C. Russell of Cary, and Richard E. Allen, Jr., of Greeleyville, S. C.,-- are delegates to the national Youth Conference on the Atom in Chicago, 111., this week. Russell and Allen are among some 700 students and teachers from virtually every section of the United States attending the conference, which is sponsored each year by the Investor-own ed electric utility industry. Russell and Allen were se lected to represent the area served by Carolina Power & Light Company in North Car olina and South Carolina on the basis of competition in district science fairs. The two Carolinas’ high school seniors are accompanied on the trip by their science teachers—Mrs. Rebe B. Bone. j A r* ’ r \l— QUEEN - Miss Patricia Johnson, North Carolina College’s “Miss Alumni,” is presented to a homecoming crowd of more than 8,000 by Henry M. Michaux Jr., presi dent of the college’s National Alumni Association, Saturday during halftime ceremonies at NCC’s O’Kelly Field. A native of Roxbcro, N. C. t and a librarian at the Institution, Miss Johnson, who represented the Durham alumni chapter, won the title in competition with contestants from chapters through out the country. CAMPUS FASHIONS - These North Carolina College coeds examine the current fashions they are modeling as part of a program spearheaded by the college’s campus paper, “The Echo.” Left, Karen Haynes, a senior from Union, N. J., shows off a minisuit. Lana McCleary, a freshman from Durham, wears a side-wrapped coat-dress with large, wooden buttons, center, and Deborah Burton, also a Durham freshman, wears a suit yf Ye-Ye design, textured stockings, and a baby hood. social responsible is achieved will be determined in large measure by the extend o measure by the extent by which the Inequality and educational opportunity is removed.” Dr. Cheek, who has headed the nation’s oldest predomi nately Negro Institution for three years, further stated, that “the whole work of this Institu tion during the past three years has been guided by the aware ness and the conviction that the predominately Negro College represents one of our nation’s first lines or defense against chemistry and biology teacher at Cary High School, and Mrs. Joyce J. McCullough, chemis try and physics teacher at Gree leyville High School. During the three-day confer ence, delegates will head from some of the most eminent sci entists in the United States on subjects ranging from bio chemistry to nuclear fusion and from transuranium to space travel. In addition to the discussions, delegates will also visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and the Argonne National Laboratory, one of the principal centers for peaceful atomic research. The entire program is de signed to give gifted young sci ence students and their teach ers an opportunity to gain in spiration and knowledge from the laatter# of today. further social troubles and it is the chief instrument for ef fective reform in our social order.” “Everything we have done... has been done in an effort to assist in our own way to ward redressing the balance.” Dr. Cheek continued, remind ing the audience of the pro posed new buildings, increased operating capital, and an entire up-grade in the University’sto tal educational program. Nevertheless, the President re minded the audience, “all of this if it be accomplished will not guarantee that we are func tioning adequately to redress the balance and contribute to the emotion of a more equi - table sociak order. Dollars and buildings and land, donotguran tee an out standing college or center of learning.” Dr, Cheek concluded, by stat ing the need for academic free dom. A freedom, not only to teach and learn or of schol arly inquiry,” but also the free dom of the institution itself to choose, to determine its own internal policies and philoso phy; to create that curriculum and program which it deems necessary for the welfare of its students and to decide for itself the role it must play as a center of learning. Residential Building Up 25% The national slowdown in new housing starts has not yet been felt in North Carolina’s 36citi cies of more than 10,000 popu lation, State Labor Commis sioner Frank Crane said last weekend. Commissioner Crane point ed out that new residential building permits totaling $133, ~ 102,846 were issued by the 36 Tar Heel cities during the first nine months of 1966 an in crease of 25.8 per cent over the $105,837,689 reported for the same period last year. m harvest/ fresh PACKAGED ▼ PRODUCE U. S. No. 1 Rum* 59 — New Crop Florida Fresh Green | Grapefruit 8a 59‘J | Cabbage * 9*) Delicious 95/ 6 4 49/' Yellow Tender N. C. Grown Sweet Corn 6 - 49 c Potatoes * 10‘ Thrifty Maid Town House Ice Milk 2 ss. 89* Pecan Pies * 39' Morton Frozen Fox Deluxe Meat Dinners - 39’ Pizza Pies 3 •-«- $ P Frozen Crinkle Cut McKenzie Mix Vegs. Shoe Peg Com or Potatoes 5 a 89* Green Peas 39* Pet Ritz Taste - O - Sea Fillet of T ' f*j£L \ j k, W 1 ‘MISS HOMECOMING' AT FAYETTEVILLE, HER COURT - Miss Addle Powell, of Littleton, Miss Sophomore; Miss Pa tricia Jacobs, of Clinton, Miss junior; Miss Ann Wilson, of Berryville, Miss Senior; Miss Carolyn Clark of Enfield, Miss Freshman; Miss Allean Davis, of Fayetteville, Miss ESC; and Miss Donna Newman of Clinton, “Miss Homecoming.” Pilot, 30, Whith PhD. May Become Ist Tan Astronaut CHIC AGO—(N PI)—A 30- year-old, Chicago-born Air Force captain, with a Ph,D. in physical chemistry, may be come the nation’s first Negro astronaut. He is Capt. Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., who is in the Aerospace Research Pilot Training program Edwards Air Force Base, California. The program has graduated such fa mous astronauts as James Mc- Divitt, Dave Scot, Elliott See and Charles Bassette. Discussing Capt. Lawrence’s chances to become an outer space traveler, Lt. William P. Campbell, base information of ficer, said: “Capt. Lawrence is indeed one of the pilots in-the school, and it is conceivable that he will become a member of the outer space program.” He also confirmed that Law- FSC Alumni See Many Changes FAYETTEVILLE - Fayette ville State College, alumni at tending Homecoming are see ing many examples of the col lege's growth and expansion. More students, new buildings, enlarged classrooms, and plans tor science, library, physical education, student union facili ties—all of these attest to the fact that Fayetteville State has grown measurably. Physical growth is not unusu al among Institutions of higher education. All of them have been growing in enrollment and facilities since World War n. They will continue to grow as Increasing educational demands continues to expand, it Is In creasingly apparent that sound growth demands much more than new buildings on larger campuses. The real challenge of growth la that threat of mediocrity that can result from rapid ex pansion. The underlying story of growth at Fayetteville State is not one of more, ‘'but of d More and better." To grow J Is normal. To grow with Con sistently higher standards, as Fayetteville State has done, Is |§fl an achievement based on many things that do not meet the |fl campus visitor's Immediate glance. w The college's academic standards today are higher than ever In Its long history. Its programs In every field of stu dy it offers are among the best. In the humanities, education, the arts, business and secre tarial science, and the social and physical sciences the col lege enjoys a reputation which has been consistently enhanced throughout the period of its greatest growth. rence Is undergoing special training "which will quality him as an astronaut." A graduate of Englew'ood High . School, Lawrence alsoholdsthe b.s. degree in chemistry from Bradley University, and is a products of the School’s ROTC training. V He is married to the former Miss Barbara Cross, Chicago, and is the father of a seven year-old boy, Tracey.
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