THE CAROLINIAN RALJSIGft. N. C., SATURDAY. MAY 8. 1971 2 E. CARSON (CONTINUED FROM PAG* 1) cil were four incumbents and a former mayor of the city. Incumbent Alton Strickland led the balloting In Tuesday’s elec tion with 8,539 votes. Other incumbents chosen to serve on the city council were Tom Bradshaw with 8,909, Jesse Sanderson with 8,563 votes, ; Robert Shoffner with 8,1)9 ; votes and William Enloe, form ; jT mayor of Raleigh with 7,886 • votes. Chairman W. Caspar Ho’royd led the vote-getting for the , three school board seats. He ■ polled 8,439 votes. Also win ning seats on the school board '• were Gilliam Nicholson with 7,833 voles and Mrs. Betsy Runkle with 6,835 votes. A total of 15,682 voters turned out for Tuesday’s elect ion after a small turnout for the primar ies two weeks ago. Only 9,363 turned out for the primary e loction. Lightner and Carson ran one two in the six predominantly blaqk precincts but Lightner garnered better than 500 more votes in these six polling plac e.-i. Lightner collected a total of 2,019 votes in precincts 20, 22, 25, 26, 34 and 35 while Carson totaled 2,127 votes in these- same precincts. Lightner, who made the strou.-est showing ever by a black council candidate, ex pressed his happiness of being i‘--elected by taring,’’ What else is there for me to say other than I'm - appy I got elected. “Lightner’s total of 5.013 \oi stopped his 19G0 tot of 8,586 votes, iue now council will take office iii July. TV council, at this time, will elect new niay-ir. M: yor Seby Jones did nut seek re-election to the ci>iiii4 this time. His named w.,s placed on the ballot blithe will hew ironi the race offi cial 1- ,ii-i the primary. U. S. ARMY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) a: bars winch discriminate at airist blacks, “off-limits” to all servicemen. Encouraging was the fact that most blacks w< re content to abide by Un democratic processes in cor recting these evils; whereas, a si/.eablo minority was growing increasingly impatient dls , la.’, in:- a lack of faith ill the administration’s ability and will to correct the inequities named. N.'.ACP pointed out that siini -1 lar fact-finding junkets had beam made following the Korean War, World War II and World Win 1 to expose and seek cor rection of discriminatory prac tices heaped upon Negroes; and alwnis with marked improve ment ’ resulting. Former chief counsel Thurgood Marshall made the Korean trip. The late M alter White did the World War II survey; and the renowned w. i:. ji. Dußois, (founder of the NAACP CRISIS Magazine) '•unearthed the scandalous, of licia 11 \ -sponsored discrimina tion against Negro servicemen” during the World War I period. Wilkins sent a hot wire to Sen ator Abraham Ribicoff, I)-Conn. demanding an apology for an alleged statement (amendment) char, ing that liberal norther ners Mere financing much of NAACP’s freedom fighting which NAACP did not wish to alienate. Wilkins pointed out that NAACP’s rank and file membership contributes more than a million dollars annually to promote its legislative pro grams, not denying that NAACP and the Legal Defense and Edu cational heartily welcomes all contributions to promote just ice and equality for all Ameri cans. .Hi Everything* For... BUILDING REMODELING REPAIRING • LUMBER • MILL WORK • ATHEY’g PAINTS • BUILDING MATERIALS • RUSSWIN HARDWARE ' At On? New Location On RALEIGH BELTLINE CAROLINA BUILDERS CORP. Between U. 8 1 and U Ph. R2S-747I—Raldfls, N. C. •lIttMNONOinnni»NU»ItWNHCn»Hm»IUHIIMSKiMKUIidfSiqiSiM; Eyeglasses CONTACT LENSES HEARING AIDS Bring Your Prescription to OPTICIANS, Inc. FIRST IN THE CAROLINAS- Raildln* EULUEIGB—M« St. Mura St. Other Office*: came tlm first Negro ‘o l>e e leeb* i In mouth as he won a s-'ii. on the town council and James B rbriur finished second in the voting for a .own council seal o> polling 729 votes in Smithflold. John Taylor and Clarence Gray won seats on the six member « it\ co,i icil in Green ville while Tarltoro increased Its Nogi i representation from one to two members. Dr. M.A. It,l , -v,e I -|t-( ti ll II io|HJSed while John ni m it It .titled a po-.itt< i i.uim Hie six'll Ward seat mi tli> eight-man tow i board. lel tin fun lin in 111' 1 last tell eats, K ledtii, |>.i t black man on t!u cove, si ir btaid, W, ( , 1 midt ti lilu d a spot oil the tit', (ou‘tci! in this city. Elsewhere in North Carolina elections, Inctn !m iii Mai lon George polled Ibe- lliul'e Notes than an\ oUil ) rah id. te IS lie led the balloting In Fa • "t!e» Vllle. lie received 1,25'd Mites in th ' ettj council race. Re-elected it) ter ins were 111. J. C. Owens in Roxboi o, George Raws-nn tn Coin ni ; i, s mi W bitted, Ji . in Goldsboro, Hen ri Marsh in A noskit , Jacob Ruffin in Murfreesboro, Eman uel Douglas in Southern Pines, C. E. Wilkins in Roper and Samuel E. Buford, principal of the Wingate Anderson High School, won a post in High Point, In GroonsUiro, , two black members, Jimmy Barber and Vance Chavis, finished fifth and sixth respectively to regain their seats on *he seven-man city council in that city. WIFE SAYS (CONTINUED FROM PAG* 1) Miller answered the call. Mrs. Covin eon ini' mined the cop Hurt on the previous night, around 10 o’clock, in reference to an ass mlt case, that her husband, Charlie Covington, same address, had assaulted her by striking her about the head with his hands. The woman further declared thu. her husband pulled hoi “hair out In the handfulls”, Covington, who was ar rested on the previous day for disorderly conduct, Vi a dif ferent case, was arrested for assault on a female after his wife signed a warrant. The .vonian suffered Ivaiises on both cheeks and the ravages of having her hair pulled from her head. A witness in the case was listed as Lawrence Covington, believed to be the son of Mr. and Mrs. Covington. Covington will have his day in court (Wake County Dist rict) on Friday, May 7, at 2 p.m., on the assault on a female rap. The other charge, disorderly conduct, will allegedly be tried later date. EX-LOCAL (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) at the age of 59 last week. A graduate of Cheyney Col lege in Pennsylvania with a B. S. degree, Mrs. Jones taught nutrition at Shaw University before going over to St. Augus tine’s to teach courses in nu trition. During this time, she also found time to do some work at Tuttle Community Col lege, Mrs. Jones, who received her master’s degree from Colum ■ bia University, also taught home economics courses at Tuskeegee Institute before joining the New York Bureau of Public Welfare 17 years ago. She served in the capacity as nutrition consultant for the Welfare Bureau. She was a life-long member of the YWCA serving and work ing w ith the program where- ever she went. Mrs. Jones was a member of the Union Baptist Church in Me at clair and belonged o the Cheyney Alumnae Association and Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Survivors include her hus band; one son, Wilkarn Henry Jr. of New York and her mo ther, Mrs. Nellie Tate of Mont clair. RURAL POOR (CONTINUED FROM PAG* 1) Other points the report makes: —The amount set aside for FmHA rural housing loans is insufficient, even if it were dis tributed where it should be. “Traditional racism” in the FmHA and its parent or ganization, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, deters many blacks from applying for loans. -- local three-member com mittees of the FmHA, which must approve housing loans, still have disproportionate numbers of white members. Between 60 and 70 per cent of the nation’s substandard housing is in rural America - more than four million units - and a large percentage of this is ;n the South, the report notes. It says this housing blight continues to exist in large part because the FmHA “is super conscious of the desires of Con gress, and super-sensitive to the charge that it is giving money away in a ‘socialistic’ fashion.” it adds; “As a whole, of course, the U. S. Department of Agriculture is extremely conservative branch of the gov ernment which has been firmly in control of the less visionary members of Congress since shortly after World War 11. The USDA has not empowered the FmHA to liberalize its regula tions because Congress es pecially its powerful Southern and Midwestern members did not want it to.” The report says FmHA’s ad ministrators have made “sig nificant progress in equalizing its racial composition” in the past several years but Black representation remains too small. As of December, 1970, in South Carolina, Georgia, Al abama, Mississippi and Louisi ana, there were 76 non-whites among 776 FmHA professional personnel; 231 non-white com mitteemen among 993; and 112 non-white committee chairmen amon*. 327. (See state-by-state breakdowns). These figures, as well as fig ures on the number of loans made to blacks and whites, in dicate are “encouraging signs” of change in FmHA, for ob tain!!);' the loans themselves • itaiasitee that those most in need of them will be left out. “Less than six per cent of the FmHA total loans made in 1970 went to families with an income of less than $3,000,” it says. “Many simply don’t possess the knowhow and ex perience necessary to cope with the forms and letters and affi davits required of an applicant. ...Many white FmHA officials realize the tremendous gap still left between the black and the white farmer, and make every effort to contact and help the blacks, but the effort often ends in frustration and confusion on both sides. Os course, blacks’ experience with the FmHA in the past taught them that It would do them no good to even attempt to apply for a loan.” Under present regulations, FmHA’s housing loans are not made in towns of more than 10,000 population. The SRC re port recommends that this size limitation be raised to 25,000 population. Other recommendations in clude proposals that steps, be taken to reinstitute direct giants to individuals for hous ing repair and improvement under the 504 program and that the FmHA re-examine its in ternal structure and attempt to substitute professional judment for the now largely amateur opinions of the three-man local committees. The report was prepared by William Winn for the Housing and Urban Planning Project of the Southern Regional Council, a privately-funded agency deal ing with problems of race and poverty. FSU FEATURES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) if not all, remained in the pro fession and rendered creditable service. The members expected to lie present are Mrs. Irene Hill, Clinton; Mrs. Estella Mc- Neil, Fayetteville; Mrs. Mary Watson, Raleigh; Alexander Barnes, Durham; Mrs. Della Jones, Smithfield; Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Saunders, Southern Pines and Mr. and Mrs. C. Nathaniel Caple, Morven. Persons close to Negro ed ucation remember that there were on by three accredited Ne gro High schools In the state at that time, supported by the state, Fayetteville State Norm al, Elizabeth City State Normal and Winston - Salem State Nomal. Elementary B. teacher certificates were issued, that had a starting salary of $55.00 per month. There were only two brick buildings on the campus, one used for administration and class rooms and the other was the girls f dormitory, with the dining room in the basement. There was no tuition, in lieu of the promise to teach. The cost of board and lodging was $6.00 per year. A member of the class re lated how boys received voca tional trade training by first learning the name and types 1 of tools and then began sand ing 'lumber to make book racks and book cases. Perhaps the first on-the-job experience these promising craftsmen re ceived was the building of a garage for the first car bought by the president, Dr. E. E. Smith, in 1918. The members allege *hat real on-the-job agricultural training was avail able practically throughout the eight months of the scholastic year. The boys learned, or at least implemented their back home farm training, by working on adjacent farms, from har vesting in the fall, clearing away hedge rows, in the winter and preparing the soil for plant ing in the spring. One of the few living members of the fac ulty, Prof. J. E. Coppage, who doubled as the math teacher and athletic coach, along with teaeing manual training, will be the guest of the class. The hands of the girls were, also kept busy. Domestic sci ence and domestic art were high on the curriculum sheet. All of them had to take turns in preparing and serving food in the dining room. The cur riculum spelled out, in very definite ways, how to cook, wash and sew. There was also the matter of learning how to can foods and vegetables. The main fuel was wood and another item on the boys’work list was the cutting of wood, both green and dry, to supply the two brick buildings, the president's home and the cot tages, in which they lived. The only heating 1 appliance in the the girls- dormitory, with the girls’ building were small laundry heaters and the wood could only lie 6” long. Disci pline was the or der of the day and any infraction, by a boy, was to spend more hours cut ting wood. A girl’s punishment was scrubbing the floors of the dormitory, on her knees. This also was one of the courses offered in domestic science. These and many other hap penings of yesteryear will be rehearsed, discussed and even some reenacted by those who attend the 50th anniversary. Registration will begin at Holiday Inn, May 14. Those who come early will attend a get-together Friday night. The class will have breakfast at 9:30 a.rn., May 15 and then go to the campus for a day of fun activity. They will be featured in a “This is Your Life” presentation. A brief memori al service will be held for those who have passed on. The public program will be cli maxed with an address by the Honorable Hilliard E. Moore, Class of ‘57, Mayor of Lawn side, N. J. He is expected to contrast the education of the twenties, which offered only high school diplomas, with limited possibilities, with that of now, where complimenting degrees are given and the world is a big parish. The class and all alumni, along wit# former students, rela tives and friends, will be the guests of a dinner, following the close of the public ses sion. NBA HEAD (CONTINUED FROM FAG* I) ing the cause and solution of this problem.” He added, “What is lacking is the will to do what needs to be done. It seems clear to me that until individual and in stitutional racism is eradicat ed in this country, no amount o' programming, no matter how sophisticated or sound, will be of consequence.” He emphasized that only in cisive action by the President of the United States can effect the change needed to improve conditions of Black Americans. Dr. Irons said the executive branch of the Federal Govern ment must eliminate job dis crimination within its own ranks as a first priority. Fur ther, he said, the government must use its massive purchas ing power, .which ranges from 75 to SIOO billion annually, tc eradicate job discrimination in the private sector. He also recommended; ♦That a comprehensive pro gram be initiated to facilitate sound economic enterprises by Black and other minorities as a means of bringing them into the free enterprise system for the, first time. ♦That Urban Development Banks be created in much the same format as the agriculture .credit banks of 1916. The purpose of the Urban De velopment Banks, according to Di. Irons, is “to provide both short and long term capital to the urban centers, and also to provide management and tech nical assistance in a compre hensive program similar to the Marshall Plan which the United States developed to rehabili tate Europe after World War 11, These 'ranks would facili tate the development of exist ing minority banks and foster the creation of others. Dr. Irons formerly served as the chairman of the Depart ment of Business at Howard University. He has been Exe cutive Director of the National Bankers Association for the past three years. NEEDS OF (CONTINUED FROM PAGE I) jority, he called upon this lm- Z r Y-• » % MAY DAY AT SAINT AUGUSTINE’S COL LEGE - In the center is Miss Marjorie Louise Taylor, May Day Queen at Saint Augustine’s College, who reigned over the festivities on Saturday, May 1. Escorts and attendants are portant population segment of America to revolt against; 1) Racism - that state of mind which through decades and centuries of practice has be come embedded in the psyche and emotions to the point that it has become a motor reflex. Thus, America has been placed in the untenable posit ion of pro jecting before the world a dem ocratic Image while operating in the reality context of in situtional racism. This has re sulted in a nation of SCHIZO PHRENICS. 1) The condescending atti tudes of whites coming into Black communities on a white agenda. 3) American institutions which breed and perpetuate ra cism and retard our national development. 4) Legislative lxxiies which in times of economic stress, snatch survival dollars from the poor so that the abundant wealth and comfort of a few remain relatively undisturbed. 5) A system which plows ''trillions of tons of food into the ground while millions of Amer icans starve and are maimed because of insufficient food. 6) A system of criminal jus tice which denies opportunity to 1/4 of its citizens to gain the income necessary to live, then base their freedom from the criminal process on the posses sion of money for counsel or ball. Dope peddlers don’t spend 24 months in jail, but for in ability to raise bail, a man who steals ten dollars can and often does. Freedom like diamonds is a precious commodity for sale. 7) A system which projects the wealth of a nation before 95% of its population (T.V.) then tells them that there is no bread for them to eat nor is there a house for them to live in. It is tantamount to telling a man its dark when he is blind ed by the light - that the sun is shining when he is soaking from the rain or that it is hot when he is freezing from the cold. The address was delivered at a banquet held in the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce Ballroom’ and sponsored by the Martin Luther King Living Memorial Organization and the Fort Wayne Urban League. PV -w y, ■ if > m J; s•'" * ifIP IS p; ffp I® When If I 1! You Need j| §§ j|j Guidance... jjj ■Jill hi ; ; ii ft- i Uur years of serving the bereaved| have taught us what is most rr: •’ ant in making funeral merits. We are here to give you the benefit of that experience. HAYWOODi FUNERALHOME, INC. ' Qrqr « half century dt service to Raleigh and community Raleigh Mutual Burial Association tour am wm&M. mnxmAtiat avao-abuc m x. cabarrus BT-~fhone 832-2835 SWEEPSTAKES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) es on that page. Continue to read this column weekly to .see when the promo tion will start again. In the meantime, hold onto those lucky numbers because they will be valuable prizes at one of the participating sponsors when the promotion is resum ed, INCREASES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) year were in the top municipal posit ions--may or. vice mayor, councilman, and/or alderman. A previous study, made by the Metropolitan Applied Research Center (MARC) in Feb ruary, 1970, listed a total of 1,469 Blacks holding elective offices in the United States. According to the JCPS survey, there are presently 1,860 Black Elected Officials, an increase of 22 per cent since the 1970 survey. JCPS functions as a re search, informational, and service program designed to provide technical assistance to Black Elected Officials. Dr. Frank D. Reeves, Exec utive Director of JCPS, inter preted the new data and roster of Black Elected Officials as “evidence that Blacks are gain ing clout more and more in the nation’s electoral system.” Dr. Reeves, who also serves as a professor of law at Howard University, noted that in spite of recent gains, Black office holders represent only 3/lOths of 1 (one) per cent of the total of 522,000 elected officials in this country. “The increases in Blacks e lected to public office represent an encouraging and significant trend,” Dr. Reeves said, “but Blacks still have a long way to go before they realize their full representation in Government.” Since the first survey, the number of Black mayors and vice mayors have increased 48 to 81.’ Os these 81, 38 are located in ten southern states. There are 69 Black mayors and 12 vice mayors. In the 11 states of the old Confederate South, the broad ening scope of Black political involvement is reflected in the increasing number of Blacks elected to public office in these left to right: Ollie M. Dunston, Jr., Miss Yvonne Carballo, Kennth Hall, Miss ( onstance Sands, Master Ivan Holloway, Little Miss Bren da Bradley, Miss Queen Thompson, William J. LeCount, Miss Deidre Anthony and Sherman A rrington. states. The February, 1970, Survey listed 563 Black officeholders in the South. The current fig ure of 711 is an increase of 26 per cent. South Carolina, during the past year, registered the largest and most dramatic in crease of any southern state. The South Carolina total in creased from 38 Black office holders in February of 1970, to 61 by the latest compilation; a rise of 60 per cent. Included in the South Carolina increase was the election of three Blacks to the State Legislature for the first time since Reconstruc tion. Alabama has the largest number of Black officeholders of the southern states—los--an increase of 19, or 22 per cent over a year ago - including the first two Black state legisla ir~" • Am mm co. REAL ESTATE RENTALS—BUILDING AND REPAIRS— PROPERTY MANAGEMENT INSIJRAKirF FIRE!—HOME—AUTOMOBILE IIMOUfVMIMV.r AND WINDSTORM Call Us For Information Acmmmco. Phone 832-0956 129 E. HARGETT STREET RALEIGH, V C.: Fallon’s MOTOR'S DAY SPECIAL Remember Mother and Your Wife with CUT FRESH DAILY FROM OUR OWN GREENHOUSES pi.ease 1 FALLON'S I PHom I mu 1 YOUR ! "UtJL | omas 1 SPECIAL I NOW * 1 t|l4 RED! :ROSESS 1 n 950* | H Lj v* •X !v No, Mother’# Dny Gift could i|;: ,p!ea»* her tnor* th*n thii Fallon’* Heel Rom BpecUl *?*• $ * DELIVERED lOCAUT i Sh® Will Remember... So don't You t©r§ef! ■■.: ■‘■ - ! ’ tors since Reconstruction. (Esso) DIAL 828-9317 For WotcK dog oil heat service, Esso Heating Oil end Oil Burner Service. CAPITAL FUEL OIL ICE & COAL CO.- 600 W. Hargett St.