Fight Erupts After A&T-Winston-Salem
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DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, I960
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Action Comesj^er Tense Game
Between Two ^en Rivals
* WINSTON-SALEM — A thrill-
in2 basketball game witnessed here
Saturday night by more than 4,000
Iftators was marred by a fight
,vh erupted between followers
of [■ two teams,
I of A and T College
Largest Crowd Attends CONA Meeting
Ministers Get
Segregated Film
Preview invite
WINSTON-SM.EM — A group
of Negro ministers refused seats
in the main auditorium of a local |
theater boycotted a private ’ pre
view of “Samson and Delilah,” a
movie with a bibical story, here
Wednesday.
They have been invited as mem
bers of the city’s interracial mini
sterial association to see the pic
ture Wednesday morning at he
Carolina Theater.
Hewever, when the group ar
rived the whits' ministers were
admitted to seats in the main au-
! ditorlum and the janitor was sent
'! to tell tbh Negroes to enter the
balcoa)’.
Thi^refusei apid wpre’ tol(i by
Jhe aslivtent again ^ey
would tp tiSiiJseiats fif the
J. 3l;«wart, City
«nd (itoiilr'
man tht purhani
Affain, rt«4s
AN
niUtMk jfipr H city.
Fjttafty, >nf! of the group was
able to talk with the manager who
told him that the “theater’s po-
See MINISTERS, page 6
THE YEAR — Att
and Wlnstw-Salem Teacher* Col
lege becami’ involved in a brawl
which started at Memorial Coli
seum and ended at the Winston
Salem Teachers College campus,
nearly three miles distant.
The Agg(es defeated the Win-
ston-Salem team by a close 71-68
score after a disputed free throw
There were no arrests and no re
ports of serious injury.
Ctilisem police had their hands
full scpara^ng combatants and
police resptaded to calls at the
Winston-Salem Teachers Campus.
Campus officials had called com
plaining . of a large crowd “mill
ing around."
There were also several uncon
firmed reports from citizens scat
tered throughout town being at
tacked by fired-up partisans.
OTficials of the two schools were
unavailable for^ comment on ' the
matter this we«%.
_ However, Winston-Salem coach
C. £. Gaines, who was a witness to
the scuffling which took place in
side the coliseum, said most of the
trouble appeared to stem from fol
lowers of the two teams.
Gaines told the following story
of what happened.
As A and T captain A1 Attles
and Winston-Salem star Cleo Hill
shook hands at mid-court, a fired
up A and T rooter ran up and
banged Cleo on the head.
Hill took a swing at his assail
ant and made a dash for the dress-
See ACTION, page 6
Last Rites Are
Iteld For Former
Durliam Resident
Decision Questioned
PriM Filed
WMiCIAA
C. E. (BighouM) CaiiMt, coach
of tha Win«»on-SalMn Taachars
Colltfa batkalfaall tMm, said
har* W»dn»*day that h« had
filed a protest of Saturday
ni||ht't dacUien in which tha
Rams lost a closa ena ta A and
T Ceilag* with CIAA officials.
Tha Rams war* ahaad of the
Aggies by four points in the
closing minutes of the game
when officials' attention was
called to a free throw error com
mitted by the Rams.
Cleo Hill, Ram goring ace,
had taken and made two free
throws which h i s teammate
Charlie Riley should have shot.
Officials corrected the error
by erasing the two foul shots
converted by Hill, a subsequent
field goal the Rams madi and
r^erted the game to stage at
which it was befora Kill took the
foul line.
At that point, the Rams were
leading, 66-65.
Charlie Rilev was then awarded
the free throws, a one-and-one
opportunity, and he missed,
Tha Aggies recovered, went
ahead and held on to their even
tual 71-68 Victory;margin.
Coach Gaines said Sunday fol-
l.>wing the game that his inter-
See PROTEST, page 6
stntatiM took place at Durham
',Commiitfi| on Negro Affairs
imeating iSunday.
C0A(UMiTTE& Officials —
This group picture was taken of
cleiitfd officials of tha Durham
Committee on Negro Affairs
following the annual mass meet
ing held by the group Sunday.
Also seen in picture are Atler>
ney Floyd McKissick and J. L.
Atkins, .who were, honored dur
ins til* meeting.
"Man af tha Y**f"'by th* H
,,wlv»t Laague of the Durham
Business and Profasanmal Chyin,
is pictured with Mrs. Magnolia
McKissick and Atlcins Awarded
At Annual Session^ Comfflittee
The 24th annual session of the invocation, by Rev. E. T. Browne
Durham Committee on Negro Af-| president of the Interdenomina
fai s was .held at St. Mark A. M. j tional Ministerial Alliance, the
Zion Church here Sunday. Jan- meeting was opened with remarks
lary 17 at 4:30 p m. The meeting | from the chairman who cited the
vas presided over by J. H. Wheel-. purpdse of the occasion,
r, chairman. | ' Two Citations Given
What is believed to have been iphe annual “Man of the Year”
'le largest crowd ever to attend j citation awarded by the House-
n annual session of the Commit-1 wives League of the Durham Busi
ee, apnroximately 900, was on j ness and Professional Chain was
and to hear the reports for the presei^tod to Attorney F. B. Mc-
•»ar from the various sub-commit- Rissick by Mrs. Magnolia Leak,
ees and to witness two citations, president. The award was given in
Music for the occasion was fur- appreciation for the service Me-
ished by the St. Mark Choir, | Kissick has rendered his race in
president, portly
Isident, M^re held; Tuesday
ai^Wartiati^ *1 the gftnon v
Release Names of Mississippi
Lynch Suspects, Wilkins Urges
‘ NEW YORK—Following refusal port and completely ignort.d the
tmlay of the federal grand jury lynching.
fitting in Biloxi, Miss., to indict Rogers then announced that he
gny suspect in the kldnap-lynch- would seek a federal grand .jury
his of Mack Charles Parker. probe of the vase for violations of
ACT Executive Secretary Roy Wil-I federal law.
kins called upon Attorney Genera!
William r. Uogers lo make public
the Federal iiureau of Investiga
tion’s exhaustive report on the
lynching last April.
The NAACP leader, in a tele-
graAi to Rogers, said that the
failui% of the federal g'-and jury
ti return a tru* bill t09» thee
w*th the refusal of the Pearl
, River County grand jury to eon-
tidier the evldenco in the case
"deWons'rates anew the urgent
n?ed for strong civil rights leg
islation."
Parker, a 23-ye'T i(ld Negro, was
$ci7.ed by a mob from his_ cell
in the Poplarville jail and lynched
last April 25, two days before he
was scheduleJ lo be trii;d on the
i^arge that he had raped a young
white mother.
At the request of Gov. James P
Goleman, the FBt «ntered thV case
and' made an extensive intsstiga-
tion, the results of which were
turned over to the Governor. When
the Pearl Biver County grand
jury convened last 'November, it
refused to consider the FBI re-
The full text of Wilkins tele
■jram to the Attorney General fol-
iowsr
In view nf the failure of federal
grand jury in Biloxi, M ssissippi,
to return a true bill in the ab
duction anJ lynching of Mack
Charles Parker and in view of
your characteritation of the in-
Se^ RELEASE, page 6
BAKER
John Baker, Pro Football Star
To Speak In Raleigh For YHCA
RALEIGH—John Baker, Jr., star
(defensive tackle of the Los Ange
les Rams professional football
team will be guest of honor at a
ba^iquet sponsored by the Blood-
worth Street Y M C A, Thursday
evebing at 8:00 P. M. at the “Y".
Toastmaster for the occasion
will be Royal “Skink" Brownihg,
former football and baseball star
player at Shaw University and now
B well-known sports official.
Two of Baker’s lormer coachcs
Pete Williams of Ligon High and
J. A. Stevenson of North Carolina
College will pay tribute and dis
cuss his high school and 'college
athletic careers, J. J. Madison of
the “Y" physical department will
present an award from the YMCA
Young Men’s Athletic Club.
The sponsoring committor for
the event includes ; J. J. Madison
See BAKER, page 6
■ Funeral services for Mfss Betty e
Emily Atwater, former Durham re
sident, wjere ||«ld^ Tuesday .^ter-
E. Church.
The Rev. &I«lVin C. Swann, St.
Toseph’s pastor,' officiated. Burial
was in Beechicood cemetery.
Miss' Atwat«r di«d on Sunday,
Tan. 17 at Lincoln hospital follow
ing a short illness.
The deceaied was the daughter
of the late llunny arid Nonie At
water, of Durham.
Born Tn PhiladelpliQi she came
to Durham at an early age end was
trained in the public schools of|
;he city. She . earned an A. B. de-l
Sree at Shaw University and later
received a master’s degree from
North Carolina College. ^
For a number of years she
taught in the city schools of Dur-j ||| V#rvvllrfllVlO
ham and Kannopolis. At the time'
SHUTTUESWORTH
Deep Sou
Leader To
mder the direction of Mrs. R. L.
Speaks, wife of the pastor and the
lillside High School Band, under
he direction of J. T. Mitchell.
The band gave a half-hour pre-con
cert which was begun a‘ 4:00 p.m.
Following the band concert and
the school integration fight and
other civic affairs.
His daughter. Miss Joycelyn Mc
Kissick, was the plaintiff in a suit
brought with the aid of Ihe Dur^
ham Committee on Negro Affairs
See McKISSICK. page 6
of her death she was employed in
the city schools of Winter Park,
Fla. •' ‘ . .
She had b(jjn a member of St.
Joseph’s for several years, and
took part in the church’s activities,
including hold'ng at various times
membership in the senior choir
and ladies aid society.
Miss Atwater is survived by a
foster son, Alphonso Hicks a fos
ter brother, Tobias Clark, of New
York, and several other relatives.
Burthey was in charge of ar
rangements.
GREENSBORO -- Plans ^ pre
sent the Rev. F. L. Shuttleswurth,
of Birmingham Ala., one of today’s
most militant fighters for Negro
rights, as the main speaker for
the Membership Drive Kick-off
Mass Meeting, were outlined at the
Executive Board Meeting of the
Greensboro Branch of the NAACP
at Hayes-Taylnr YMCA, ^ere last
Thursday night.
The meeting is slated for Thurs
day night, February 11th at Shiloh
Baptist Church.
See DEEP SOUTH, page 6
"MISS SUGAR CANE"—ll*«ent-
ly crowned "Miss Haiti o# I960",
pert Claudinette Futtchard has
added another crown to N«r col
lection by winning the co*oted
titio "Queen of the Susar Cane",
in Cali, Colombia. Madcnioiscllc
Fouchard, who measures a stun
ning 36-24-36, competed against
42 beauKes from Hawaii, Cuba,
Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ftorida,
Louisiana, Dominican Re»uWic,
Panama and Coiombi*. Educated
at the Sorbotma in Paris, and
George Washington University
in Washiitgtoa, D. C-, the 21
year old Haitian stunner speaks
French, English, Spanish and
German.
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Rei)prt On Trip
To ^th Africa
John H. Wheeler. o.ie of the
visit South Aftica. will make a re
port on his trip to that country at
St. Joseph’s AME church on Sun
day night, Jan. 31.
The appearance is bein3 spon
sored by the St Joseph’3 AME
church and the Durham Commit
tee on Negro
Wheeler made a fo«.r week
tour of South Africa last uecem-
ber as part of an cxchang« pr»-
gram worked oof between the
South African gavemmTnf and
the Frank Loascher organization
of Philadalphia. a private group.
The purpose of the exchange of
5oulh iVfricans and Americans, as
stated by the Loescher organiza
tion. is. to promoie oetter rela
tions between the two countries.
Speculation in many quarters
is that the S«.ulh African govern
ment hopes to g^:n a softer at-
See WHEELER, page 6
FUTURE SCIENTISTS — This
gfoop of Winston-Salem |unior
and senior high school students
organised tha first "Tomorrow's
Scientists and Technicians" Ca
reer Club in-North Carolina re
cently. Formed under the aus
pices of the Winston-Salem Ur
ban League, it is designed to
crcate intsrest and jgreater pre-
foHmancaa In (lia science* by
Msh school atudenN. Simitar
clubs have tetn farmad through
out tha cewntry aa part of tha
league's yawth incentives pro
gram. Officer! of tha Winston-
Salem Career Club ar# WilfArd
GiMm, Jr„ pra«M«tf; Kf^
Parker, vica-protMfnt; Caralyn
Archie, sacralary; Owtwdai^
Wilson, asaistant socratary; and
D a I»i s tauMricIc^ trtasurar.
Other cammitttna
baM NaAanial MiUar,
aad Oaris