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HOLIDAYS SPAWN RASH OCCUPANTS, SKETCH, BUILDER AND DESIGNER Mechanics And Farmers Breaks Ground in Charlotte The sc*ne$ «t top ami l*ft war* t«k*n in Charl^» last Friday as a formal grcund brtaking e*r*mony markad th« baginning of censtruetion »f a branch of Mechanic* and Farmart Bank. Tha structure, which is Expected to be cemplattd by early 1M2, will be iituattd at tha' intersec tion of Baattie* Ford Robd and Trad* Street. Sevar|t civic, edu ce i'ion and business dignitaries of Charlotte were on hand for tite ^ound breaking. At top left, occupants, arthitect and builder of th«, new building are pictured as architect Edward Miller, Of Atlan'a points le the drawing. ■Holding the design is bank presi dent, J. H. Wheeler. At left #re N. H. Bennett, vice presidant- actuary of North Carolina Mu tual, which will move its offices to tha second floor of the new building, and Ei L. Laxton, presi dent of the Laxton Construction Company, of Charlotte, contract or for the building. In the bot tom photograph, A. E. Spears bank vice president and senior officer for the bank's operation in Charlotte is (hewn making ; remarks. He is flanged.-b^Man- ify Mwiefcilitriv ' lotte. In the «Mt«r photograph, *Jehnson C. Smith University president Dr. Rufus P. Perry takes his turn at breaking the ground' during the ceremony. fThe^fheiVijI M'tiO'^O'Used #t ‘33 ceri^Mies oh .tha John- ofi prAtJoiitl glioutiiliH^kk- in» «tta>,HNiot»« ^ Xivail*,, BREAp THJ2 GRpyND SENIOR OPERATION OFFICER four Year Sit-in Campaign Ends Cafe Bias in Oklahoma HAWLEY NAMEb TO MT. OLIVE POST OXFORD—G. C. Hawley of Ox ford has been named principal of the Carver High School of Mt Olive, according to M. S. Porter, chairman of the Mt. Olive school cohimittee. Hawley will succeed E. K. Tolbert, who resigned to ac cept a school position in Durham. He is a graduate of Lincoln U. ia Pennsylvania, North Carolina See HAWLEY, 6-A Race Turmoil Slows Down UlliVGKnY UMURY VOLUME 37—No. 27 OUKHAM/N. C, SATURDAY, JULY 8, IWl RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTIED PRICE: IS Cents CHAPEL HILL. GOLDSBORO ACT integii^ion On Durham Slate The Durham School Boater ig expected to make a deciston this week at its July 10 meeting on the 135 requests for reassignmnt to predominately white schools. The Board, sctieduled to meet at an early date, has delayed action on the requests for nearly a month. Lew Hannen, city school iiiper- intendent said earlier this month la an interview that he could not give a definite date for the meet ing, but said that he regular meet ing this weeic should tell the story. The 135 applications were sub mitted to the city Board of Edu cation during a 10-day period which ended in the middle of June. The period followed an nouncement of assignments in the students’ final report cards. ■ Prime targets of this year’s ap plications are Durham High School and Carr Junior High. Hannen re ported 36 are seeking reassi^- ment to Durham High and 26 to Carr, while only five are apply ing to Brogden Jr. High and two to East Durham Jr. High. East .Durham is the only one of these ■MshoQli" which has not been pre viously integrated. Meanwlille in nearby Chapel EUll the Sichool Board laid down' a broad policy of pdpil assignment \0iich wc(ul^ radically integrate ci CiMipel ejtementary grAham See INTIORATION, 6-A Carlin Grd Me^brfal seiVic^s Saturday, July 8 for Carlin P. Graham, 52, Durham native who died last week at Tuskegee, Ala. The Rej^erends E. T. Thoittpson, pastor of Community Baptist, and Sylvester Biggers, will officiate at the services. Burial rites will be conducted at Beechwood ceme tery. The body will be taken to West Durham Baptist two houfs prior to the service where it will lie in state. The funeral service begins at 3:30 p.m. Graham died at the Veteran hospital in Tuskegee around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, July 1. He had bees admitted to the hospital 3^ days prior to his death. The deceased was born in Ire dell County in 1900, son of the Rev and Mrs T. C Graham, of DuriiMn. He was trained at Hillside High Sch^ and Hampton Institute Graham was appointed to the photography staff at Duke hospi- tall where- he worked until 1950 when he left the city to join the medical illustration staff., at the Veteriuis hospital. He was head of the medical illustration depart ment there at his death. He ^as active in church and conununity life during his stay in Durham. He was a member of W. See GRAHAM, 6-A WHAT'S GOING ON OVbR 1 tw 1w^ I: ton 'W Hie face of yOting t)w«n' ^ l^undeH^rg, Jr. as he peuMs, picnic plate in hand, to survey the scene around him during a backyard outing in his neigh- borhM»d-r'^^H.^ youngest pr«nfcitei4'ta«(|i^ by th» TIMiES i*m«r» TiMfday, thre«-y 0 A r- Owen was typical ef the Hiewaaiidi- af Hgrh^lMs who celkbi^M ^lie Fo«*rth *^itfi a picnic. Ho^s tha sen of Mr. and Mrs. I..0. Fui^r^rg, of^1303 Rosewood St. See additienal picnic pictures from the Dur ham area on this page and page 5>A.^Staff phot«‘by SatteHidd. THgNEWS IN BRIEF^ 'Reporter's Survey SItows South's Business Development Hindered ATLANTA, Ga.—Racial troubles in the So6th have dulled the jin gle of some cash registers, David Swift, aiv' Associated Press re- poretr said this week. Swift, mak ing a survey of tourism, prospects, industries, investment and other economic and financial fields in nine Southern states, said, that school troubles, sit-ins and Free dom Rides have definitely hurt the southern businesses in most areas. WASHINGTON, D. C. — Miss Edith J. Barksdale of New York become the first woman selected from some 1300 Negro women sur veyed in the American Councilon Human Relations “Woma'npower Talent Search” for government See IN BRIEF, page 6-A Rreman »•. More than Dnii Incidents Giei The four day July 4 bolMasr ft'*- duced a wave of miner oiOK* to the DurhsM area earlf Wa Police and iioapital were kept busy aroiuid Uw elaefc from Saturday throu^ night as mate than a dents of assault, theft Bhior sfaot e site i The moat serioua staM)ing and a piaM There were no fatalitica through Tuesday nigM. The incidents ranged fBHB A* theft of 50 cases of beer tnm '• popular Durham tavern fliA^ bings «»d pist(ri *o«iadaL In one af the last ini, iilaafi: t*- ported as the holiday poMI neared its end. John IjreM, M year old fireman, of C-l IMwtf Drive and Lymon Brandflii, ft 918 Thaxton avenue were smaaA- ed in a knife attack hgr OdM Ijfy Watson, 2Siyear-oM (Midart o( 1400 Caswell Place. The scen4 of this Tirienc* .wM the VaM Club, one at the popular nitery’s, on Sooth AktM Avenue. Watson was arrested ae*eni| hours after the brawl and held for Recorder’s Court on four cfealSH —two of aaaault and battery See CRIME, 8-A E. Cedar Grtie Holds Sessnns At Creedmoor ^^nwgjjne^-Sixth abmh0 cetfiF ary A ,l|pM ««r. Wedn^^ay and Smith-Xhom2s ib CMMt r v i '12 The tWednesd^ Wtfm, ■ ^ Ices highli^ljpligr it by Dr.' Grady v ^ the Sdj^l of Rf^tioD at a Iaym*n’s period. Highlightisg the eve^^i was the Moderatge's Ammmt dress by Dr. Wi)|ian B. NpM’. Stewardesses also, present^,, tm- ports. On Wednesday aigU or«t«r- ical contests were' cniidqelMMv Dr. FttUetj, BIrs. W. C. bad Miss Annie Dunn^ln.- ' : The Women's their program on tharai|i9;- bgr- note speaker for Ike sion was Mrs. M. A>.' dent of th« State and ForeigB MiasM|lB Othef program ; Mesdames Tempie Turrentine, Addi* )L -I OKLAHOMA Jrry, Okla.-John A. Brown’s the$rgest department (tore here, ended segregation this week;, thus\ bringing to a victorious close the natiotTli longest single li^in campaign. , Successful NjiACP youths there by ended bias lit'the lunch room, (oda fountains rest rooms of tht giant store which covers a blpck and a haUlt ' 'hie NAAGP youth group start ed'its drive to itttegrate the store thfough a series ,ef conferences iiH May of 1957. isist organized, it hlid 14 members at the time. ,,When talks failed, the NAACP 7hiths began afitife sit-ins in Aug ust of 1958 a^(( 'Continued, with- oiit letup. The ^i}jMicirs member- ihip. jumped ts.iMXK). It. was not u^Uluat for as many as 1,!^ young^tofs to be involved In* sit4ns and pidjetllnes through out the city wH«i inany stores iHi'e being pickeiid. ^he NAAGPJ J^ot^th council launched a “wi^hhddlng of patro nage . campaign” against Brownes Ih September’of-1,960. ' Although it ott to a slow st^rt, an estimi|ted 78 t>er cent of the Negro population was parti- d^atiiig when tl)is store’s owner, Frank Wade, capitulated on June 23. All told,. 117 stores have been integrated thro^hout the city by NAACP youth since inception of the' sit-ins in 1958. These successes served as a pilot study for the sit-ins that sprang from the Greensboro, effort on See SIT-IN, 6-A Tuesday (The Fourth) Was Picnic Time in Durham Reeves Sustains Political Setback In District Issue WASHINGTON, D. C.—Attorney Prank Reeves was faced' with a sdvere political reversal last week in the wake of the failure of his nomination for a post on the Dis trict of Columbia board of Com- missioner?. Reeves asked that his name be withdrawn after a Senate Com mittee on the District' uncovered apast record of tax difficulty for the young attorney. He had been nominated for the positioh by President Kennedy. The Senate Committee revealed that Reeves had been billed for See REEVES, 6 A Durhamites droves deserted their television satiT hi-fis, and kitchens Tuesday afterqoon to take to tile outdoors for a Fourth of July picnic. Almost any outdoor spot which provided enough «hada fer a sandwich and a seat became a picnic site. Moat popular were beckyards, farms and iakefronts. The TIMIS 'cameraman made a |aunt thru the city and outlying areas and came upt with thest tcanes. Ab. left are e 4ui>tet (oops) ^ ^ui» twt of picnikers teking pert of the fare served up at the Church of God picnic on Pence Row raod. Even the little ones showed up harp, as seen by the fether with cup In Me hand and haby ma C. Brjpant, ZtoDie TffBfmiF. ^ A A m A r' ^ BAPTMTS, 8-A play. Tha three young damsels on the left, |ust arrivinc at tli* Shriners picnic M RahNrtn'a farm, show eff a variety «f sportswear as they carry tMr goodies to pientc aria. Girl in the other. Soma biiarre fash ions in headgeaf were also pro minent, as our happy picnikar in South American straw dem onstrates. Fashions in headgear war* not the oniv onts on dis-
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