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VOtUME 37—No. 18
ltovm Po*tag« euartntMcl
DURHAM, N; C, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1961
Me-
OTjPR non^bias order
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ATLANTIC crrv, N. J.—Major
southern textile companies have
gone on a “contract sit-dowtff;
strike-” against the Defense Dep^-
ment and othe^ U. S. Government
procurement agei^ies, it was as
serted here todajr by an JNAACP
official.
These companies are currently
refusing to bid on Government
contracts, an Association spokes
man declared, because of President
John F. Kenedy's executive order
establishing new non-discrimina-
tory employment requirements tar
all private manufacturing firms
operating with Government con
tracts.
Already several of the largest
textile firms have refused to sign
contracts and the Quartermaster
Corps of the Defense Department,
in charge «f defense i proceure-
ment, has failed to receive any
textile bids ' since the effective
See TEXtlUl, page 6-A
m§ AT A AND T.
fiMI wMfc
.rifht; Dtaita
WHkMboiWif y
. G©lJllAGEOtlS’
sSeek
!ef Three
ratiobs for 14 NBgroes who
pt^lpplled'ior admission to Duke*
slty are being processed, ac-
'Ho a story appearing in
M Apbil issue of the Duke Chron-
{^‘"atui^nta newspaper at the
llijtteiSBity.
, ith^ «t«ry *ai4 only one of
4ft'. 13 • «|»|>lieitiens had iMen
Mt|l!«ilaid. All «f th« othart
MlikM of iMt scoMs,
«f rec«n^m«nilatlon> and
jilliM' r«^lrat information.
0^. the Negro students are
IlHMchti idmission to the Graduate
of Arts a/id lienees, ac-
tiding,to the Chronicle.
^t'-quoted the school’s assistant
and admissions officer Dr.
Vlaacis Bowman aa saying that
«iM of these apj)lieatibn8 has
lt(i^ coni]pleted. it is being review.
i| rtow to determine if the appli-
HM' Wiif b« admitted.
‘, D««ii Blvin Latly, «f tho Uni*
Law Sehool, was roport-
Hw ChronIcIo M ravoafing
liiit'dM Law School It procosi-
applications'.from Ne-
thirfonts.
SeiBltk M the Apr^Law School
^tud^,^testi are b«mg awaited
Wifpre processini^ of> these re-
vbettf can be compleWd, the pa-
ptfi stated.
^FeijHr .Negro students have ap
plied !'6>r t^e Divinity’ School^ aC-
See DUKE, page. 6-A
mov«iAWh'-. Dttrhii*
ceived a* jSlrge' of leU*rs
o£ sttp^oct 'froirt'the hbrth da the
result'of lC' ftilt 4«!ttilh’ latticfe
a r^oeto)
magazim w of the
movetaenf. ' •H-'* ■ ■" '
The article, prepared by^ Miss
Katherine Ktnib«id, sifter a visit
to Durham last srintsr. apppeared
in the April istsue tit the magacifae.
John Edwards, One! of the stu
dent leaders mentioned in the
in the articles, received one letter
from San 'D|ego,' Calif., asking .the
address of the nearmt NAACP
fioe. ' ’
Another received by EdWards
from NeW 'Y(ri*k enclosed a oh^k
to help the novenkent’s finances.
Attorney Floyd Bi MoKitfsicki
adult adviior'to the students, was
told in a l^er by Mrs. Hobart
Rogeht, of Oaklapd, Calif.:
“After reading Mias Kincaid’s
article In thei New Yorkw about
the people of Durham working for
desegregation, and how much you
had done, 1 felt that 1 should like'
to help, a bit.” '
The magazine forwarded ,ex-
cei>ts frbm aeverial letlSers-.lt had
received from readers of the arti
cle:
Some Of them are as fblloYTs;
From Miss Isabel Johnson of
New York; ' ’ .
"I have just finished your piece
on the Durhaoi young people. In
all my years of JJew Yorkfer read
ing, 1 have never found a story
that moved me so much.**
From Mrs. Uoyd Dunning, Conn.
“I wo'uld like to take this, op
portunity of thanjclng you for
your recent stoiy ,on the sit-ins.
One^ally cannot be too righteous
See MAIL, page 6-A
UP P(p HILLSroE HIGH band
Awto Swryk* station MilfArm 4rlv*.
that It will, donato
Iti paimyitHioath CfMon of ,«m>
-trilW'Mifl Salur«iayi'%May 6 to
^/iNllhMo hlfh aihoel band
Th* Oti^im school Is cvrron*.
ly safklng'to outfit IH baMI wlHi
100 now tfnlforms.
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PURHAMITE TO
STUDY IN PARIS
A Durham native who oamod
a master's dasreo in English at
.North Carolina Coiloga in 1957
hat bton grantod a tcholarihip
' for nino waafct of study In France
(June 19 to August 21).
Mrs. Maggie J, DeSerry, who
also earned Ifor undergraduate
degr« at. NCC, was among 80
teachers in tho Untied States
telacttd. to participate in the
Foreign Language Inttltute of
the Unlvorsity. of Oregon.
Her grant includM exponiet
for air travel to and from Tours,
France, whore the Institute will
be conducted, as well at othor
expentos of room and board for
herself and two children while
in France.
S#^ce3 Held
i-'
fatal to NCC
Grid Prospect
Memorial services for George
Lee Besler, North Carolina Col
lege ftfahman lootball .-prospect
who died suddenly Su(iday were
held at, .|he Duke auditorium on
the campiis Wednesday morning.
The Rev. J.^eal Hughiey, Col
lege minister, officiated.'
College physicians ruled that
Besler died of a heart attack
around noon Sunday.
The 21 year old Petersburg, Va.
freshman was playing with other
students on the lawn in front of
the men’s dormitory Sunday morn-
See FRESHMAN, page 6-A
FORMER PASTOR
ST. MARK PASSES
I$urham church circles were
grieved when it was learned that
the Rev. W. F. Witherspoon, vete
ran pastor of the A. M. E. Zion
church was funeralized from St.
Catherine Church, New Rochelle,
N. y., last week.
Rev. Witherspoon made' an en
viable record u pastor of St. Mark
'pictured hore iniat against a
background of the wrocfc scona
ar* tliroo of tho victimc In an
autoitruck collision near Durham
oarly Saturday which took two
Mrs. Holman Is
Orange Candidate
For Mother Title
- HILLSBORO —Mrs. JoMphlno
Molntah, promlnont hi Orango
County civic affairs, will be
Orang* County's conlott^an^^^,
"NAACP Mother of the 1' .
^ %h» ONhual stato^wide^’if^W
oom Fund rally in Raloigb Sun
day.
TW« iHnning mother will too'
(lB>wn at.l^ Raleigh
21 i
MatiallTo^^
Address Meeting
In. Raleigh Sun.
EALEIGE—JSAACP T.pad«ri and
Members representing 100 Branch
es throughout the State of North
Carolina will gather in Raleigh,
on May 7th at the Raleigh Memo
rial Auditorium to celeBrate free
dom and hear a dynamic ad
dress by Thurgood Marshall, Di-
rector-Counsel, NAACP Legal De
fense and Educational Fund, Inc.,
New York City.
Mr. Marshall has received honor
ary degrees of Doctor of Law from
the following institutions; Lincoln
University, 1947; Virginia State
College, IMd; Morgiin State Col
lege, 1952; Howard University;
1954; Grinnell College, 1954; New
School for Social Research, 19M;
Syracuse University, 1956.
In the U. S. Supreme Court, Mr.
Marshall has argued or prepared
briefs with the cooperation of
NAACP lawyers in all' NAACP
cases affecting constitutional
rights of Negroes from 1938 to
the present time. He has appeared
twenty-five times before the Unit-
(Bd States Supreme Court, winning
and losing two.
livas. Two eoupl#t wofo on thoir
way hom#'Irom a higlt> school
(unleir-Mititr pr^ Mm car
in which. J.hayVor« .ri|[^lrtg was
smashed in tha ^da‘ by a tractor-
traitor. Farrell Laa Daye and
Mitt Doris Richards diod in tha
wrack.. Miss Pearl Enoch and
Charles Puller received iniuriat.
Daye is pictured wlf.'i Miss Enoch
tho IlljUhaio ki^ school
dance right) a fow
hour* ac£ide«». Imot
at betto« M «y*ows MIm Ricte-
ard:—Pholo*.
ITERS; HatoigK rMi>^
dfnt, w^ Aftho* Success
ful fes|^idate«' fbr_ Ovi^af on tho
City Council ii| in-io'loct1«i» hold
in Mtat ci^ 'on Tuofday,' |Ray 2.
Wiiiters anio lif s>x|!h.V *
of j14 cfndidittee. pollod'k
toial 6,1U vol*s #nd bocowe
thoVfir«t mem^r of hi; raco to
Couple Killed Retumii| From
Hillsboro High SdiOQl DiKe
The sweet joys of a high school
junior-senior prom were turned'
into bitter tragedy for two Ala
mance County families when ai
couple on their vay home Iromi
the dance died in an auto-track
collision near Durham early Sat-.
urday.
Killed ware Mary L. Rickarrft, >
]«, /of EfIaNdr Md hor atcort, '|
Hwwll lute S> j
Burlingtoln. |
They were buried in' funeral j
services early this week. , j
Their companions in the auto-'
m(rii>ile, Charles W. Fuller, 20, alsoj
of Rt. 5, Burlington, and Pearl
Ehock, 16, of Inland, escaped with
injuries.
Miss Enoch . sustained a broken
teg and was reprised in f»ly con-
ditfop at lhii« lioapital lato this
week. ‘ ‘ ’■
Fuller, drmv of the automobile,
was tF?ai|Mt Aff 4iead injurica and
releamd. ~~
The a«^Ueqt took piae* at the
intersectiaii of'htshways 751 and
70, . just ‘ laaide ' Orai^e Coanty
around tUrft tf-m. Saturday.
' Friends of tk« two amaftm said
thar-tm i—iwafiar
prom at lUdliboro’s ^entnl high
school araa^ midniibit to attlend
a party, l^egr peculated tkat tbe
four were rettming ham* when
the accIftei^ occurred
Miss Ri^^s and Misa Enoch
were studetitr at Central high.
Fuller’s late model Fc^ sedan
was struck aipidshiiK by a traetor-
See SiUn.E, JHSP >A
REEVES. ADDR^SES NCC AUDIENCE
Church and is believed to have
been the guiding apirit that car-1 twenty-three „ ,
ried that con^egation to the (ies were: Several cases involving
See PASTOR, page 6-A , I See MARSHALL, page 6-A
KEY TO THB CITY —Spoeial
protidonMal astittant Frank D.
lUovtt gats koy to thw city from
Maypr Evant as the former was
in Durham Monday to deliver
an addrott at North Carolina
Col leg* in commamoratjon of
Law Day. Pictured at tho cora-
mofioy afcova Art, loft to ri«ht,
NCC PreoMient Alfonso IMor,
Dr. A. L. Tumor, dMfl of the
NCC Law School; Roovot, J. S.
Staw#H, city tAuneilman, May4r
Evant, J. N. Whao^, mMbor'of
the #retiient't Committee on
Equal iMploymont in Gowom-
moflt CdMtracts; and A T. Spawl'
ding, protidont of North Caro-
linr'Mutual Lifo insurance Co.
Attorney Frank D. Reeves, spe-l
cial assistant to President'John
F. Kennedy, told fn audience it
Nprth Carolina College today that
the Kennedy administration is
maiung . observance • of ■ non-dis-
criminatory praptices in govern
ment and throughout (he country
one of its pi‘iiv:ipal aiths'.
Reaves ,was the main speaker at
an assembly highlighting, the cele
bration of “Law' Day, U.S.A-” by
the North Carolina College Law
School Bar Association.
He was presented a “key to the
city” to MayoE E. J. Evans, who
cited progress Dui^ham has. made
“in extending equal o.pportunities
to all citizens regardless of race.
Evans'said the city, in awarding
Reeves the key, “wishes to show
its respect for the attainment of
this man.”-
In his address, the presidential
assistant called aftention to evi
dence, of “affirmaUve action” , tak
en by the Presiftnt in the area
of civil rights.
Included in such actiod,^ Reeves
said are “taking the responsibility
for implemeiUing equal .employ
ment policies in government and
work under government contracts;
issuance of a White House memo
randum directing ’all execatlve de
partments and agnkcies.to cease
sponsorship of any (Useriminatory
employee .reereatiaqal, activities;
the Presidmt’s directive. |o the
Civil War .Centennlil Commission
to avoid use of aeipregat^ facili
ties and icconinioditijHtt in eon-
nectirm.witli iti aetlvUics;.a&d ..
Sea REIVES, p«|e «-A
FIRST NEGRO PAGES—John T.
Brown, (standing Mt} and E4-
ward Wadoll (landing' oatramo
right) wore '.h* firs*. Nayo boy*
to torvo a* p«9tt for tlto North
CaroMn* logialaturo. Th% ygynj
tiora, aorvod tho laamiakor*
whon Mioy mot In Wlw«h|»a talam
rooaiit^«. Pldvrod wilfi rBfown
and WaMall aro CHario* McLoaa,
maw^ior of Poray:4i Donvo-
cratic Party KMcwthm Commt^'
. to4 wha nooiinatai tha bays, and
Stato Senator Archto fiiavla, l^iNP'
syth's Mniv|fi|litaH«o. Brawiw io
tho aonr and Mrs. ciarli
Brown. iwfe-\padMI> iMfiMtB
aro Mr. Idwort Wo4
dolL
Crowfoi^j
Io ik» N. C
Houao
mtoMii iB'iPMMMiiMk. Cr«»
ford I* IH mMhp liillto Wmt.
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