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HUMAN RELATIONS WEEKFebruary 13-20

VOLUME 51 No. 5

WORDS OF WISDOM

Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee.?Psalms 58:22

We must keep our faith in God, and know that thftlight and guidance we receive from Him through pray-er will take us forward to the perfect fulfillment ofour needs.

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Final Decision to Be ReachedIn Selection of Jurors Friday

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Seven youths charged withconspiracy in the attemptedbombing of a Burlington de-

tective's home won a smallvictory in Alamance CountySuperior Court recently. JudgeHenry A. McKinnon Jr. ofLumberton ruled that an out-of-county jury will be selectedfor the trial of five chargedwith the conspiracy.

The Judge ruled after listen-ing to motions from defenseattorneys requesting the trial

be moved to another county.The Judge denied the mo-

tion for moving to anothercounty but ruled that jurors be

selected from another county.The motion was argued on

ground that widespread publi-city has been accorded to thecase.

Charged in the case areThomas Michael Hanford,William J. Stollings, Michael S.B°ggs, Glenn Alan Lee andJeffrey S. Martindale. All five

charged with conspiring toplace the bomb at DetectiveWilliam Hoggard's home.

John D. Smith and SamuelD. Faulkner were charged withthe conspiracy and placing the

bomb. Smith and Faulkner arescheduled to be tried later.

Another hearing, discussingthe selection of jurors, was ten-tatively set for Friday. A finaldecision is to be reached onwhat counties the jurors are tobe selected from. Suggestedcounties currently have beenCaswelf, Chatham, Guilford

FIRST BLACK WOMAN N. C. LAWMAKERDr. Alfreda Webb, left, professor of biologyat A&T State University, takes oath as thefirst black woman member of the N.C. House

of Representatives. Holding Bible for her ifljbailiff Edward H. Williamson. Oath wai ad-[ministered by Judge James G. Exum.

NEW ARMY OFFICERS Col. William BNeal, right, professor of military science atA&T State University, awards commissionsas second lieutenants to (left to right) Wil-

liam R Hargraves, Durham; Walter A. Fos-ter, Marion, N. C.; and Joseph A. Durham,Mt. Olive.

(See YOUTHS 2A)

BLACK CAUCUS VIEWS STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGENORTH CAROLINA'S

First Block WomanWants To Encourage Women

Nixon Fails to Mention BatonRouge, Wilmington,N.C. in Talk

Convention CenterHolds Meet At City Hall Hon.LOS ANGELES -The Con-

gressional Black Caucus viewsthe State of the Union Addressdelivered to the Congress on

Thursday by President RichardNixon as arecapitulation of hissame old unsuccessful pro-grams while placing the blamo

on Congress for not passing hisproposals.

The President said that he

had presented "90 proposals"that still needed real action byCongress, but completely over-looked and refused to evenmention any more than 60proposals presented to him byCongressional Black Caucus.

The entire message, in ourview, was an evangelisticmeandering with nothing en-

couraging or helpful for the

situation of Black people in

the United States. The issue of

civil rights, for instance, wasvirtually omitted.

The glowing peace phrasesuttered by the President werecontradictory with- the warmongering suggestions of in-creased spending for defense.

Comparing the 1960's with1970'5, and comparing the de-

fense budgets over spendingfor human resources over the

last two decades were not suf-ficient documentation for hisprojections for 1972 nor forhis boasting of past accom-

plishments. The CongressionalBlack Caucus can find nothingwithin the Nixon Administra-tion that indicates any signi-

(See CAUCUS 2A)

Final Tribute Paid EvangelistInez Choates Here on Tuesday

GREENSBORO, N.C. - "Iwant my appointment to thisoffice to be an encouragementto both blacks and women."

Those were the remarks ofDl. Alfreda Webb, an attractivecollege professor and motherof three, who was sworn in

Tuesday as the first black wo-man ever to serve as a memberof the North Carolina GeneralAssembly.

Dr. Webb, a professor ofbiology at A&T State Univer-sity, received her oath of officefrom District Judge James C.Exum in Greensboro. She hadpreviously been appointed to

the position by Gov. Robert

Scott, on recommendation ofthe Democratic Executive

Committee of GuilfordCounty.

As a new legislator, Dr.Webb will replace Rep. McNeilSmith, who resigned to acceptan appointment to the state

Senate."I feel like this service is the

best way for me to be in-(See LAWMAKER 2A)

By JOHN MYERS

The newly formed Conven-tion Center Commission heldits first meeting in the CityCouncil Chamber of City HallMonday 24.

The original 14 member

commission, at that time, an-nounced the addition of Dr.Lelian Williams. The 15member group, headed by Em-!Ie Greup of WTVD in Dur-ham, will be in charge of se-lecting a site for the center,obtaining the land, hiring thearchitects for preliminarydrawings, and promoting the

center and selling it to thepublic. The group will later be

(See CENTER 2A)

Benedict President Dr. PaytonNamed S. Carolinian of the Year

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EVANGELIST CHOATES

Bv JAMES VAUGHANThe Reverend Inez W.

Choates, noted Evangelist and

founder of Deliverance Taber-nacle of Durham was funera-lized this week. Rev. Choates,who went in to the ministry in1954, was heralded for estab-

lishing, in addition to the localDeliverance Tabernacle, othersthroughout the eastern sea-board, including the states ofConnecticut, New York, South

Carolina and Georgia.Her ministerial duties ex-

tended beyond the national

boundaries into countries

abroad.Beginning her ministry in

1954 In Oxford, her husband,Robert Lee Choates gave ac-count of how her unfalteringdedication to the church be-gan: "One morning she was lis-tening to Bishop Frizelle Yel-veiton's radio program and de-cided that it was time to an-swer God."

For the next five years shepastored Mount Calvary HolyChurch in Oxford, later es-tablishing her Durham minis-try.

A most memorable eventsurrounding Rev. Choates, herhusband remembers is one inwhich, in his words, "is unlike-ly to be believed by manypeople."

COLUMBUS, S. C. - D*.Benjamin F. Payton, presidentof Benedict College, this week

became the first black man tobe named South Carolinian ofthe Year.

The 39-year-old educator,who has just taken a leave of

absence for the college to head

the Ford Foundation's SIOOmillion program to increaseminority opportunities in high-er education, was honored atceremonies Wednesday givenby WIS-Television and RadioStation in Columbia.

He is the ninth recipient ofthe annual award, which pre-viously has been presented toU.S. Fifth Circuit JudgeDonald S. Russel (1963), in-dustralist Charles E. Daniel(1964), U.S. Army GeneralWilliam C. Westmoreland(1965), Dr. Thomas F. Jones,

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D«. PAYTOMpresident of the University ofSouth Carolina (1966), EllisCampbell MacDougall, Direc-

tor of the state's correctionalsystem (1967), U.S. Senator

Strom Thurmond (1968), U.S.District Judge Clement F.Haynesworth (1969), and The

Public School Student of

South Carolina (1970)."Dr. Payton's dynamic drive

for the betterment of black

education has focused nationalattention on the state of SouthCarolina," the citation said.

"Under his guidance. BenedictCollege is presently carryingout a seven-and-a-half milliondollar, five year developmentprogram. In October, 1971 thecollege received a Ford Foun-dation grant*

"We were called to Hills-borough in 1959 where afriend, a white minister visit-ing there was strickened with aheart attack. We arrived asmany people had gathered; she

went into the room quietly ashe layed there. After silentprayer, she went to the minist-er and touched his head. Hearose, walked, and drove hiscar following us back to Dur-ham," he recounted.

According to Mr. Choates,she had been suffering from

(See CHOATES page 2A)

A Case for N. C. Central; A sl2Million-Plus Budet tor 1980

By JAMES VAUGHAN"The goal may remain the

traditional well-rounded man,but he will be defined as the

integrated' man. He will com-bine an awareness and appre-

ciation of his own personalworth and independence with

a sense of the interdependencyof all men; he will be so sure of

his own values and contribu-

tions that he will feel no need

to denigrate those of others."The quotes are taken from a

report of the Presidential Task

Force Committee on the Casefor North Carolina Central Uni-versity.

The report is a written re-ference to provide a plan of

action for the university basedon (1) an inventory of needs

which require funding fromprivate sources, (2) a set ofmajor arguments for whyNCCU should be consideredan object of significant philan-thropy, (3) the University's ac-complishments and distinctiveservices, and (4) the Univer-

sity's future thrusts.The New Directions data

continued: "Of necessity, he

will be 'plastic' - having theability to adapt himself andhis knowledge to any situa-

tion."Also included in the future

forecast -- a projection of the

1980 NCCU graduate and hisclass was, "The racial mix pro-bably will move toward a 20%white component plus a small

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"Workers, young black onesin particular, are displayinggross dissatisfaction with their

jobs," reported "ManPower"magazine and the Departmentof Labor.

"Workers talk back to

bosses. They no longer acceptthe old authoritarian ways.

The turnover rates are climb-

ing despite rising wage levels.Absenteeism has increased asmuch as 100 percent in the

past ten years in the automo-

bile industry. In short, workers

want to do meaningful work

and the chance to achieve and

grow on the job-perhaps evenovershadowing financial con-siderations," reported an

article listing the results of a

Survey Research Center at the

University of Michigan under

contracts from the Departmentof Labor.

According to the survey,

"The people most dissatisfiedare blacks under 30. Second

Racial JusticeGroup Bows toHR Commission

RALEIGH The Commis-sion for Racial Justice can-celed plans Tuesday for aweekend hearing in Wilmingtonand offered its encouragementinstead to programs launchedby the port city's new Human

Relations Commission.The Rev. Leon White of

Raleigh, regional director for

the civil rights organization,said activity by the reorganizedHuman Relations Commissioninfluenced his decision to can-cel the Wilmington hearing.

"The kind of forum the

Commission for Racial Justicehad planned to provide would

have permitted persons of di-verse and sometimes oppositeviewpoints to sit down to-gether and try to come togrips with the racial problemsbesetting Wilmington," White

said in a statement released bythe commission's New Yorkoffice.

He continued, "And this is

what the Wilmington Human(See RACIAL 2A>

MAKING PLANS? Provost J. C. Morrow, (1),and Carl W. Smith, go over some plans foracademic administration at Chapel Hill.Smith, an instructor in business at N. C. Cen-

Labor Dept. Survey Shows BlackWorkers Not Content With Jobs

come all workers under 30 whohave some college education.And women under 30 are the

third most dissatisfied group.Dealing more with the black

situation, the report stated thatblacks were about twice aslikely to be dissatisfied withtheir jobs through age 44. Thenthe percentage of dissatisfiedblacks dropped to 7 comparedwith 9 for whites age 44 andover.

(See WORKERS 2A)

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tral University in Durham, has entered aninternship in Provost Morrow's office at theUniversity of North Carolina in Chapel Hill,effective from January to June.

Four Black U.S.Congressmen alLusaka Talks

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA-Con-

gressman Charles C. Diggs, Jr.(D.Mich), Chairman of the

House Foreign Affairs Sub-committee on Africa and

Chairman of the CongressionalBlack Caucus, made the fol-

lowing opening statement at apress conference held here to-

day. Congressman Diggs is at-tending a conference in Lusakadesigned to bring togetherAmerican parliamentarians and

African leaders for the purpose

of evaluating U.S. and Westernpolicy vis-a-vis Africa.

"This is the first time that

four Black members of the

United States Congress have

been on African soil at the

same time. This press con-ference is being called becauseof the historical significance of

this, our being together in

Africa and in Zambia, which

under the courageous and wiseleadership of President Ken-neth Kaunda has been a mov

ing force in the political and

economic liberation of Africa.(See LUSAKA 2A)

Shirley ChishlomAnnounces HerCandidacy for Pres*

Shirley Chisholm, Demo-cratic Representative of Brook-lyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant areaof New York, the first Blackwoman in the U. S. Congress,recently announced her candi-dacy entering the presidential

j race."I am not a candidate of

Black America, although I amBlack and proud. I am not the

candidate of the women'smovement in this country, al-though 1 am a woman and I

| am equally proud of that,"she said in opening remarks ofher announcement as a candi-

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The fiery former schooltM-

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?h tCarcpp CtntidDURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY. JANUARY 29, 1972