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SNOW FUN—T ha ht«vy sliMt that covered Raleigh Iasi «i^.ek did'not stop (Ae&e studenW from regit|er)ng for tha second *etn- ester. Left to right ar'e Elijah Stewart from New B«rn and Jo Arm Holden and Patricia An> draws from Raleigh, N. C. HABEAS CORPUS WRIT READY s Lawyers Seek His Release From Jail Young T^qher At Creedmoor KINSTON^Attorneys for Wins ton Philip, Durham businessman charged with the ttaufdcr of a Km- ston gciiool teachcr; ■ ire seelcing hisiM4.se from prisdn. A wriT'^if habeas corpus was filed with tlie court this “week by the. man’s defense lawyers. A hearing on the writ is scheduled for Feb. 7 at Goldsoofo before Judge Rudolph Mintz. Philip was arresten ih Durham on Dec. 27 for the December 26 slaying of Mrs. Ruth Graham Til lery, eighth grade teacher at Ad- kin high school. , He has been held without bond in Lenoir County jaU since. Philip, waived a preliminary hearing and was indictcd by a Grand Jury last month. Although the defendant, who See PHILIP, page 2-A HUTCHElj^SON " Expert on Negros Role in Labor To Speak to NAACP Youtli Rally PROPOSES ANOTHER FIRST— Danville businessman James W. Peters |:l}(.!tion«d Carolina Lea gue owners recently to permit him to en:*r a team in the six team class B basieball V**Bwe. Peters' proposal, which has not been acted upon by League of ficials, would provide for the fii'K team with Negro own|»r- ship in th« league. The players' color bar was broken several years ago when Major leag4s parent clubs began signing Ne gro players to the league, Hill^de Teacher Kamed Pastor of Terrell Creek The Chairman of the Dcacon Board of Terrell Creek Baptist Church of Chapel Hill announced the calling of Reverend J. W. Barnes as pastor. lie succeeds Reverends L. S. Thompson who resigned last fall. Reverend Barnes will begin his duties Sunday, February 5th. The new pastor is a member of the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church of Durham, where for the past two • years he has served as teacher of the T. L. Roland Bible Class, lie holds both the Bachelor and See HILLSIDE TEACHER, 2-A An expert on the ^^egro’s histo rical role in the organized Ixibor movement will address an NAACP rally in Durham Sunday aftdr- noon. He is Herbert Hill, NAACP La bor Secretary, and author of num erous pieces of research on the subject of Negroes and their part in the American labor movement. Hill will address a meeting sponsored by the youth branch of the Durham NAACP at St, Mark A. M. E. Zion Church at 3;30 p.m. The young NAACP officer start ed his career in the trade union movement as an. organizer for United Steelworkers Unioil. From this experience became interested in the plight of minority group workers in the American labor movement. His activities have led him to do considerable research in this area. He spent several years, for instance, on the Pacific and At lantic coasts, where he conducted investigations of the migratory farm labor system. As a result of his studies on the problem, the NAACP sponsored several pieces of remedial legisla- See HILL, page. 2-A. Dies In SItf ■■■ OXFORD — Joseph Hutcherson, 22,- music teacher at the G. C. flawley high school, of Creed moor, died in his sleep at his home near here early Wednesday, Jan uary 25. Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon at the Michael’s Creek Baptist Church at Stovall. The Rev. D. P. Lewis officiated. Hutcherson was buried in the church c^eUry- ‘UTe young -rtiUsicran’s * dcalh stunned Granville County resi dents, many of whom thronged the church to p'ay last respects Sun day. Among the mourners were See TEACHER, page 2-A FBI JOINS MflliHUHT ★ ★ ♦ Body of Sbin Woman Found; Suspect Hunted VOLUME 37—No. s DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, IMl Return PostaMe Guaranteed PRICE: IS CENTS ONE HOUSE CLOSES BALCONY PICKETING GONTWUES ELECTED—The Rev. O. L. Sher rill, itxecutive secretary of tM> State taptist Convention, was elected a vice-president of the North Carolina Council of Churcljle* at the organization's annual meeting In Raleigh this week. Dr. Willa B. Player, presi dent of Bennett College, was also elected- a vice-president during the meeting. Th* Council called on the General Assembly to pass lews ending segregation. FRANK REEVES Protest To Go On, Says Leader Picketing of two Durham thea ters continued this week despite the fact that one of the theaters closed its Negro balcony. Charles Lewis, manager of the Center theater, announced early this week that the balcony seat*, reserved for Negroes, were closed at that theater Sunday. Lewis said the facilities were closed because of the "obvious fact that our separate facilities are no longer acceptable to many, and what we believe a majority.’*" He did not say that Negroes would be accommodated at the downstairs auditoriunv • Picket lines wefC^fermed in front of the Center and Carolina theaters on Monday and Tuesday. A spokesman for the students had said last week that th)e picket would continue in the ^vent of the closing of the balcottiesj'for Negroes at the two theaters. ' ‘‘We’re not picketing to go to the balconies. We’re picketinf^ to 'use any entrance which serves the public,” John E^lwards, one of the Picketing of theaters also irtift-i ed in Winston-Salem last week. A. and T. College students had picketed Greensboro thesters sev eral weeks ago. Washington Attorney Frank Reeves is Appointed Special Assistmt to President lotm F. Kennedy WASHINGTON, D. C.—Frank D. Reeves, Democratic National Com mitteeman for the District of Co-, lumbia, has been appointed .by President Kennedy to tie a special Presidential assistant. He has long been active in Democratic politics, serving in 1952 and 1956 on Governor Steven son’s Presidential campaign staffs. Reeves seconded Senator Ken nedy’s nomination and travellM with him throughout the cam paign. t In May 1960 he was elected Democratic National Committee man for the District of Columbia, becoming tlie first Negro to hold that position. Mr. Reeves is Wash ington representative for the Na tional Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People and since 1948 has served as a mem ber of the National Legal Com mittee of the NAACP. Earlier, from 1940 to 1942, he was assist ant to Thurgood Marshall, special counsel for the NAACP. fte^ves, 44, was born in Mon treal, Canada, and came to the District of Columbia in 1928. He graduated cum laude from How ard University in 1936 and re ceived his law degree from there in 1939. He has served on the staff of the University’s law school at various periods since 1943. In 1954 he entered private prac tice, and is currently senior law partner in the firm of Reeves, Robinson and Duncan. Sincc 1948 Reeevs has participated in all ma jor NAACP legal . activities, in cluding school desegreation cases. During the past two years he has served as council for desegrega tion cases in Northern Virginia. Reeves is married to Dr. Eli zabeth W. Reeves, a member of the faculty at D. C. Teachers Col lege. They have twO children— Deborah, 7, and Daniel, 5. AT INAUGURATION PETE FOR DAWSON — Three prominent North Carolinians were among guests attending a party for Congressman William L. Dawson during Inauturstion celebrations in Washington recently. Litft to right are N. H. lennott, of Dur ham, vice-president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; Dr. Reginald Hawkins, of Charlotte; Congressman Daw son; J. S. Stewart, of Durham, i^ember of ttie Durham City Cotincil; and John R. Larki^r' ceqsull’ant for Welfare. Dept'. ‘ REV. REID Reid Elected | Union President; Two Ordained j .>• The Rev. Lowry W. Reid, pas- j tor of New Bethel Baptist Church, I of Durham, was elected president fSf: Vmion Jnectiifc-0f the-Jfa-w; Mope |bptist Association- bast] Sattvday. The Rev. Reid was elected to socceed Rev. Harold' Roland, form er pastor Mt. Gilead Baptist church «4i6 has left the area to accept a pastorate in Orangeburg, S. C. -''^lection of Rev. Reid ,came shortly after Rev. Roland’s resig nation as read to the delegates. .. In (ither action,s at the quarter ly meeting of Ministers and Dea- See REID, page 2-A Durham police were still ing at mid-week for the slayer of a woman whose body was found by a curious neighbor here .Monday. Detective J. T. Lynn teM Hi* TIMES tliis week tfcat Durtiam police had n* leads on tK* «rher*}abouts of Buster OraMfO, Jr., alias Elijah Bass, Jr., chief suspect in the slaying. Detective Frank McCrae and Clyde Cox. who are handling the investigation, were in Baltimare to pick up a suspect in anotiiar homicide. , Lynn revealed Htat tiie Fe4> eral Bureau of lnvestigatiai» hari fscm called m to assist in tlM hunt for Orange. Police theorize that Orange left the city shortly after the slayinc of Miss Mary Lee Jones. Miss Jones' body was discovered Monday lying on the floor of a bedroom in a duplex apartment at 2201 1 2 Otis street. Sheriff Jennis Mangum said the woman's body was lying face down on the floor of a bedroom in the apartment when it was found. A bullet hole was found in the upper left side of her chest. The slug, which patted through body and cam* out ef her bacld, was found lying along sid* the body. A butcher knife, which police said were free of fingerprints, was fimnd in her right hand. Authorities theorized that it had been place there to make the incident appev to look like a case of self e^nse. Coromer Dr. D. R. Perry e*- See MANHUMT. page 2-A NEWS SHMHARY BOY RECOVERING FROM PISTOL WOUND INFLICTED BY PAL Jacob Dash, a 13 year old Mer- rick-Moore student, was reported in “fair” condition at Lincoln hos pital this week where he is re covering from a pistol wound in flicted by a schoolmate. Dash was injured on Sat., Jan- 21 when a .38 calibre revolver dis charged, lodging a bullet in his right side. A 15 year old schotrf mat^ of the youngster admitted to authori ties that the pistol was in his hands when it went off “accident ally.” Juvenile authorites reported that no disposition had been made in the incident this week. * ♦ • ' WHITE BOYCOTT OF NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS FALTERS, RECOVERS NEW ORLEANS, La.—The weeks old white boycott of McDonough, 10, firmed up again this .week, after a white family \yhich tried to break it was forced to leave the city. . Alabama-born John N. Thomp^ son, 33 year old Walgreen Drug Stores employee, broke the boy cott briefly last week when his two sons, Gregory, 9, and Michael, 8, enrolled at the school. But it was short-lived. Thompson was forced to yield to increasing pressure from white who supported the boycott and asked for transfer to a Wal- green’s store in another town. It was granted. • * His sons attended the school with three Negro children Friday, Monday and Tuesday. They were the first whites to attend the schol since court ordered integra tion. WERE TARHEEL CONGRESSMEN PUNISHED FOR RULES VOTE? The failure of North Carolina’s freshmen Congressmen to get the committee appointments they re quested raised speculation here if they were being disciplined for their failure to go along with House Majority leader Sam Ray- bum in the close vote over the Rule Committee this week. All but one of North Carolina's Congre'ssmen voted against Ray burn oh the issue. The sole Tar heel to vote with the Democratic majority leader was* William 11. Bonner, of Washington. Rayburn wos the vote, but by a narrow 217-212 margin. Rep. Horace Kornegay, was de nied all of his three choices for a committee assignment. Rev. David Henderson had to settle for his second choice. Komegay asked for a seat on the Interstate and Foreign Com merce Foreign Affairs or Govern ment Operations Conunittee. He got instead an assignment on Vet erans Affairs. There were no openings on Com merce or Government Operations. He failed to get enough votes for Foreign Affairs. Henderson received his second choice, a spot on the Post Office and Civil Service Committee. He asked for Banking and Currency. * * * ROWAN'S APPOINTMENT MEETS WITH FAVOR WASHINGTON, D. C—Appoint ment of Carl T. Rowan, of the Minneapolis Tribune, is Assistant Secretary of tSate for Public, Af fairs, was warmly received by leading Negro organizations this week. Sm SUMMARY, page 2 A Progress in Many Areas Noted By COKA Progress on several fronts by Negroes of Durham was noted in the annual report of various sub committees at the annnal meet ing of the Durham Coaunittee on Negro AffalR7 ^traaay: Among the most dramatic was announcement of progress in a^ curing enlarging employment pcrtunities for Durham Negroes in “non traditional areas.” Attorney F. B. McKissick, wte made the report of the Ecixiomias subcommittee, pointed out that least four department stores, aft of the major bottling firms and several factories had broken tte barrier in employment of Ne groes. He said four downtown stwes employed Negro women as sales clerks during the holiday season. See CONA, page 2-A NO ONE REMEMBERED There were no winners in Ih* "Do You Remember* contest far the third straiglit time this afthough two e«trants cam* close. Mrs. M f r I e Greenville. S. C., 1'ham, of CharloWle, MewHfiei tw* of Hte three scenes tet'recHf but failed on Itw third. They were tiie anly cawfrt ants to get more than an* scan* correc\ Thire wvre several wh* c**^ rectly idmtifled at least *••• scene. "Do You Rememter* is a lenr feature testing th* wawieriea *f TIMES readers, Basil weak. a*«> eral pictures of incidents which have been ptAiished hi the past in th* TIMSS sf^ printed. The first three readan wh* can identify wr—Hy all of lh» scenes appearing wMI deeeie* • SI bill. Entrte need ne* iitas* tify individuals a«s*arina In Ml* picture^ only th* saaMBs the» seWev In case *1 ties, Ih* Nira* ***• liest paahnariis e# entries will be Three nm ter year appear m mm •• •• this week** paper. Andersen, ef
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