1 TARHEEL V c r-4 ELKS ,A - ON THE Zftr Publicity Director As we turn back the pages of Flkdom, it is interesting to note that we have been in busi ness for more than one hundred years. The years of 1868 through *7!’ were called the fornuilative years. They were allowed by the state of New York to put on a dispensation for the lodges to go into per manent organization. The Grand Lodge charter was issued March 10, 1871 in New York State. The Lodges that were set up immediately were in San Francisco, Sacramento, California, Baltimore, Mary land, Chicago, Illinois, Louis ville, Ky., Cincinnati, Ohio, Boston, Mass, and Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1878 there were onlv 820 members. Plans have just about been completed for the State con', tui tion which will be held in 1972 in New Bern, North Carolina, according to information re ceived from State Director J.R. ij ay wood, I mean as far as "Tne site and headquarters are concerned. It is our hope that we can have the full support of the Lodges and Temples over the State as to the complete history and pictures of their buildings and group so we may lie able to present it at that time. lam asking them to contact your Scribe on this mat ter at once because we don’t want anyone to be left out. I just received some Infor mation that there Is an effort underway by the Daughters to help our State Director to at tend the National meeting in New Orleans during the last week in August. These affairs, I am fold, will start with a Tea Sunday evening at a;00 P.M. on the lawn of Fidelity Lodge on East Davie Street. Come out and support this worthwhile cause. Those of you who comprise the Fifth District must get over and see the new building that the Bull City Lodge and So noma Temple has just complet ed. It is located just behind the old structure, so they are boasting of sporting two build ings, instead of one. I under stand they are having a formal opening, from Friday night through Sunday. The Brothers and Daughters are sending their money in now for the New Orleans trip and I am sure you realize that it is set up on a first come, first served basis, so don’t put It off any longer if y ou plan to go. Around the city, I am pleas ed to see men like Dr. J. Ar chie Hargraves, president of Shaw University, and Dr. Lar nio Horton, president of Kittroll College, out saying hello and getting a little recreation with the Meadowbrook group. Other new faces who are beginning j-et uur Exp«m * TIRES Keep your Cm * BArTERJES /v • AUTO ACCESSORIES / \ TOP Sn#Pe studying housing, trans portation, finances, and per sonnel to determine Its plan. HEW has issued no specific standards. The racial ratio in Wake County runs from 10 per cent in Cary to 56 percent in Zebulon. The letter from HEW cites Briarcliff as an illustration with y .' A t^Ptb • idmbm, Jmmmm . ,X& // t # is* < IH. BLACK s. C. .OMKST.'vrs . IIAT- —i.ill.’, & C. -Hips. /~v»\ three contestants in the Black Miss South Carolina Pageant talk with pro ducer Moses Dillard about -July 23 routine. LTR are: Miss Black Columbia, Mary Porterfield; Miss Black Aiken, Ivy Fridee and Miss Black Horry County, Cheryl Moore. Miss Black South Carolina was picked lated July 23. (UPI). PRESIDENT DIES - Liberian President Wil liam Tubman died in a hospital here Friday tit the age of 75. Cause of death was not given for the ruler, who has led the African nation since 1944. (UPI). Clearinghouse Set For August Opening BY CURETON JOHNSON A “Clearinghouse’* for com - munity problems has been set up by the Raleigh-Wake chap ter of Women-In-Action for the Prevention of Violence and Its Causes. The new office is located at 13 Exchange Plaza, next to the Wachovia building here. President of the organization, Miss Louise Latham, said the group with help stop rumors, serve people having problems and need somone to talk to about 99 percent white. Last year Briarcliff had 531 whites in comparison to 8 blacks. In the Millbrook area, Brent wood had no black students. In Garner the Black percentage was only 17. According to the HEW let ter, the Apex attendance sill probably go over 34 percent black. WOLF PACK BEAUTY WINS- Orpenville, S. C.- Miss Black Columbia, 20 year-old Mary Evelyn Porterfield, was named Miss Black South Carolina for 1972 recently at the conclusion of a three day pageant here. Miss Porterfield is s*s'\ and weighs 115 lbs. and is a student , at North Carolina State University. The hew Miss Black South Carolina will represent her state in the national finals later this year in New York City. (UP!). them, provide social relief, and work with the Raleigh school board In problems this coming fall to name a few. “There might be disagree ment between teachers and chil dren in school that both parties can come to us for mediation,’’ Miss Latham said. The organization, which has a membership of around 65 la dies, believes ‘that they can best serve the interest of the en tire community by studying its problems, by acting us a forum for communication and by offer ing to play the role of negotia tor between conflicting forces or groups. ‘‘There are some opposing forces and activist groups in the community, but only a limit ed number working for media tion and reconciliation, which in also a necessary role in tens® situations and in resulting con flict.*' sn\s tin* croup'spositio paper. The major purpose of the in terracial group is to encourage Blacks and whites to work to gether in an independent, non profit community organ’zatlon which encourages every citizen to develop his greatest poten tial. Officers of the organization include; Miss Louise Latham, president; Mrs. R. R. Doak, vice-president; Mrs. Susanne 11. R. Freund, recording secre tary; Mrs. Gladys Bredenberg. assistant; Mrs. Marie Long, corresponding secretary; Miss Jeanette Hicks, parliamen tarian; Mrs. Carrie H. Wil liams, membership co-chair man; Mrs. Rita Harding, publi city co-chairman; Mrs. Clifonia Wimberly, schools subcommit tee; and Mrs. Sheila Nader, housing subcommittee. The W o m e n-In-Action have begun work immediately but of ficial opening of the “house’’ is scheduled for the latter part of August. Walter Mon dale, Senator (D-Minn): “Is a space shuttle four times more important than safe streets, clean air and water and freedom from dead ly disease?” REGNANCySJT ft® PLANNING Land healthVi mWV Mru. Qtori* BUnhw^lA Dear Mrs. Riggsbee; I would appreciate your help ing me with my problem if it can be done. Here’s my story I have give birth to four nice and healthy children, but was not married then. So I decided to have my tubes tied, not even thinking that I might get mar ried someday. Well, now I am happily married and my husband does not know that I can’t have children. I would give anything to have just one baby for him so I would not lose him. He loves me and the children very much. I had the operation in 1967. Please let me know if it can be undone. My children are from ages 14-6 years old. Back when I had them, I was getting aid and I could have gotten all sorts of birth control free. I just don’t Know why I had that operation. I must have been crazy. I am so worried. Please help. Mrs. J. Dear Mrs. J.: I certqinly do not think you were crazy to have your tubes tied. No birth control method works unless it Is used proper ly. and I suspect you doubted that you would use birth control correctly. So it was certainly logical to have your tubes tied to keep from having any more illegitimate children. I do believe, however, that >ou made a mistake in not tel ling your husband before you married him that you were un able to have any more children. Apparently you were afraid he wouldn’t marr\ von if he knew, ling your nusnanu before you married him that you were un able to have any more children. Apparently you were afraid he wouldn’t marry you if he knew, because now you are afraid you will lose him if you don’t bear him a child. Since you no longer receive Social Service assistance, I am sure your husband has his hands full trying to provide a good home for you and the four kids. If you want to try to have your tubes joined back together, you will certainly have to tell him about it. It is a major opera tion, it is very expensive, and furthermore, after all the trou ble and expense and four or five days in. the hospital to have it done, it only works about 40 per cent of the time. This operation could cost you and your husband SI,OOO. With four kids to fee c and clothe, can you really afford this for something that doesn’t work for 6 out of 10 wonien whe have it? These are some very serious Abernathy Hosts Soythern Terror ATLANTA, G.i.- Dr. Ralph David Avernathy, President ot the Southern Christian Leader ship Conference (SCI ( >, lus condemned white terrorist tae tlcs against Mack people in ( o lurnbus, Georgia. The most recent such tactics include an attempted fire boiiiMug of a union hall used M the movement in Columbus and the filing of shots at the home of Robert I ionard, execut ivt di - rector of the Afro-American Patrolmen's I . ague. Several telephone threats havi also been received at the I.eonat d’s home, “Official silence and the Klan-stlye violence must cops, to si halt in Columbus, - ’ Dr. Abernathy said .it his •Tl tee. “Beyond Columbus, there is a reign of terror against Black people sill across the south this summer, and wo can not tolerate it. I urge the Black community of Columbus and Black people everywhere to unite behind movements to stop this terror, using every nonviolent tactie a vailable, such as boycotts, po litical organizing, and mass di rect action. In Columbus, SCLC Field Organizer Joe Hammonds continues to bo assieuoiltowork with the Black community.” Residents of the Black com munity saw white men throw th<> fire bomb into the union lull. The bomb did not explode. At 1 a.m., July 15, Mr. Leo nard was watching television in home when shots were fired into Eight Outsanding Selected Eight young women who u. graduates of Saint August im-’s College have Loon selected to appear in the lb7l • lit ion of Out - standing Young Women Os A tnerica. They are, Mrs. Lucv P. Jones, class ot eg from Richmond, Virginia; Miss Pa tricia Y. Marshall, class of ’lid from Raleigh; Mrs. Mice V. Mann Carpenter, class of ’6B from Raleigh; Misses Harriett A. Moore, class of ’6l from Chicago, Illinois; Brenda Bowery, class of ’67 from the Bronx, New York; Lorraine Green, class of’69, Mt. Vernon, New York; W. Ruth Fuller, class of ’69, Raleigh; and Mrs. facts for you to consider. You would certainly have to talk a bout it with your husband. 1 am afraid I can't offer you the kind of help you v.ant, because' hav ing your tubes re-joined is not nearly as simple as having them tied. So talk this over very care fully with your husband, it is not up to you alone to decide--it is up to both of you to decide if it is worth taking this expensive gamble. Dear Mrs. Riggsbee; My period lias not conn: on since March 4, 1971, but I donot think I am pregnant. At times, I get a knot in the bottom of my stomach. What nr. trouble? I have an appointment at the cli nic on August 13 (I take birth control pills). I hope I am not pregnant, be cause my baby is only seven months old. Could you please give me some advice as quick ie. as possible. 1 also have these terrible headaches on the top of my head. I am 21 years Id and have three children fl am married). 1 am about 5 It. 10 in. tall and weigh about 210 pounds. Mrs. W. Dear Mrs. W. I cannot tell you for sure what your problem is, but I think you should immedi ately have a pregnancy test done. Do not wait for your Uicust 13 appoint!-have it done right u way. If you are pregnant, it is possible that you would be eli gible for a legal abortion under North Carolina law. If vou are not pregnant, KEEP USING BIRTH CONTROL: And be sure to keep youi August 13 appointment. 1 am sure the doc tor will want t" give you a com plete physical examination. Al so, if you are not pregnant, you and your husband might be in terested in talking with a doctor about a permanent form of birth control (such as t tibia ligation for you or a vasectomy for him) if you are quite sure that you have all the children you will e ver want. Please write me if you have further questions, and please have a pregnancy test done Im mediately. * * * For free information on any of the three methods of perma nent birth control (tubal ligation or laparoscopy for the woman, vasectomy for the man;, write; , Mrs. Gloria Riggsbee, 214 earn er sort Ave., Chapel Hill, N. C. 27514. THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH, N. C , SATURDAY. JULV at 1071 the house. Mr. Leonard made mie Lis wife and children were L. mg Hti tin floor liefore he went mt side. Ho saw a car lacing a . . Two bullet-holes were 1 op■ < 1 i i the front of his house. The seven members of the \ fro- \mer 1c a n Patrolmen’s League were fired from the Co lumbus police force recently vhen the\ protested against ra cial di el imination. This led to a community-wide movement a . ainst racism in the city. Ligon Means Pride (Kditor’s Note; Last week The C VROLIXI.YN ran comments from the letters of William R. Knight, Raleigh Community Re- Ni. ll ii G. Powell, class of’67, 1 ouisl mrg. They were nominated by the Saint Augustine's College A luinni Association earlier this year on the basis of their achievements. The Outstanding Young Women of America program, now in its seventh year, was conceived by the leaders of the nation’s ma jor women’s organizations. The program recognizes young wo men between the ages of 21 and 35 for their contributions to the betterment of their communi ties, professions, and country. SorvLs on the program's Board of Advisors are the national presidents of women’s clubs, headed by Mrs. Dexter Otis Ar nold, honorary president of the General Federation of Wo ineii’s Chibs. Each year over 6,000 young women are nominated as Out standing Young Women of A m erica by leading women’s or ganizations, college alumni as sociations, and churches a cross the country. Complete biographical sketches of all no minees are featured In the na tional volume, OUTSTANDING YOUNG WOMEN OF AMERICA. These women are now In com petition for their states’ Out standing Young Woman of the Year Award. This fall, fifty of the young women included In Outstanding Young Women Os k America—one from each state I —will l»e named as their states’ n Outstanding Young Woman of the Year. Publication date for the 1971 iwards volume is November. We’ve come a bug way... I Banking has come a long woy since the horse and buggy. But on® thing at our bank has never changed. That’s old-fash ioned, courteous service. Why not bank where th© customer is treated as more than just a com puter number. Bank with us. mmmcsAHD mmm tm Large.enough to serve you . . . 1 Smell enough to know you. RALEIGH—DURHA M—CHARLOT TE Member Federal Deposit Tmuranee Corporation J latlons Committee member and Edward Carson, president of the Raleigh Citizens Association concerning Ligon High’s future. This week a Ligon student, Miss Stella Glenn, offers a view point from those who will t>e directly affected). The other day I was reading an article that started off like this: “Save Ligon Controver sy Draws Little RCA Support.” I had to read the heading again be cause little support didn’t sound right, not tor the RCA anyway. Then all of a sudden a rea lization hit me. There were a few things I hadn’t even thought about. Since the alternate plan became known only a few Blacks were doing anything to keep it from being passed. The plan made us mad, but still we were contented to sit back and let the white man tilan our education. It came to tne that we as a Black majority in Raleigh must take a stand on th:s Issue. We must realize that Black people in Raleigh have one last grasp to reality, W'e have one thing left. We can call our own, just one thing we can show Black pride in, but now that’s being taken from us. Now this plan is said to be sot equal education. I said the entire thing was just more poli tical propaganda. You see, It’s another man’s gain at our loss. Tills alternate plan estab llshes a 70-30 ratio. Now how many Blacks will hold school offices with this ratio? How will our opinions even be heard o ver that of the numerous whites? Your child had a 50-50 chance of winning a scholarship at Li gon. What are his chances now? You see, no matter what’s done or said it isn’t what you know, it’s who you know. Now up to some 11,318 stu dents must -be bused. Face it, that's your child who’ll get up earlier, ride to school In crowd ed, hazardous conditions and then he’ll get home later. But groove on It, it’s all to bettor his education. Now school equipment must be moved around. Ligon was set up to be a high school - remem ber. Parking areas will be im proved, streets must be wid ened and unloading areas must be provided. All of this wasn’t done when the school remained Black. The facts are here, but therl are my feelings. I’m trying to say,' Black people ot Raleign we need your support. You see this thing goes deeper. Your pride is at stake and they’re taking that from you. Go To Church Sun. 13