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VOLUME 37—No. 37
DURHAM. N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER W, 1961
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TAYLOR PUSHED BACK—The I conventien In kanM* City, Ms.,
|tf«. Gardner C. Taylor, defeat-
leader of one of the two
^pppalng fectloni at the Baptist
U pietwred in the midst of this
' miss of dolegatBs as he and his
"followers are pushed back by
Jaelcson forces when Taylor tried
to mount the platform where
the Rev. J. H. Jackson' was try
ing to open the convention. The
resultant melee resulfed in the
deeth of one of the delegates,
who died in fall from the plat
form.
JACKSON REELECTED
Minister Killed-In Convention
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JACKSON
Racial Bias
Proved in 100
Dixie Counties
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The U. S.
Commission on Civil Rights Satur
day submitted, a report to the
President and Congress which
documents racial denials of the
rights to vote and reconunends re
medical legislation and executive
action.
See BIAS, 2-A
CINCINNATI, Ohio —As a re
sult of mass disorder during the
National Baptist Cofiventipn over
the pa»t several yeaA, a volunteer
conunittee for the formation of a
ifew Natislnal Baptist CoHventioi;
Was*i!tis*^rililt"i$*lrr‘it Wa§ .re
ported.
According to reports, the Rev.
L. V. Booth, pastor of Zion Bap
tist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio,
was elected chairman and follow
ing his election, announced that
a meeting will lie held iNovetjiltttr
14, 15, at his chHKh).
The'.two^y dessiOB 4iil1be de-
'VoTe'ff to' iftaiitofhf dp to
Buiid A Democriitic Conwntion
Dedicated to Christian Objectives.”
The Iceynote speaker is slated to
be Dr. William H. Borders, pastor
of Wheat St. Baptist Church in
Atlanta.
Dr, Borders is one of the ten
ministers expelled from the Na
tional Baptist Convention, Inc. fol
lowing its unruly session at Louis
ville, Ky., in 1957, when the Rev.
Joseph H. Jackson, present leader
of the convention, ruled tenure
unconstitutional.
This movement, it was reported,
is in no way connected with the
past efforts of either of the con
troversial parties of the conven
tion.
Amid the chaos a nd fist fight
ing whkh resulted in the death
of one of the delegates at the
Kansas City convention last week.
See BAPTISTS, 2-A
NEW GOP OFFICIALS — GOP
National Chairman William E.
Miller points out some political
ly Important areas on the map
to two new top officials he ap
pointed on September 13. Grant
Reynolds (left), an attorney from
White Plains, N. Y., was appoint-
Louis Lautier Appointed To
GOP's National Committee
HE»S GOING AGAIN SATURDAY
Sharp Secretary Hits
“Mr. T.” For Big Prize
Like jn the western movies,
residents of the East End com-
inunity were wailing in aipbush for
Mr. T Saturday as they all but
■tripped him of his pants.
Practically everywhere he went,
it appealed as though someone
was hitting him for some money.
In total, Mr. T got rid of $18. One
i)iarp lady, well read and ready,
hit our nian for $11, answering
two 6f the jackpot questions for
$5 each and getting an extra buck
'for just havihg a cqpy of last
week’s TIMES iii her possession.
A neighbor hit the old man for
$0. She answered one of the ques
tions and got i free buck. Two
nthers hit Mr. T for $1 each for
just having a copy of the TIMES.
On Gray Ave., Mrs. Ruth McCol
lum, a North Carolina Mutual
Insurance Co. Secretary tapped
the out-of-season Santa Claus for
a jackpot of $11. With the Lucky
Sticker in her window, she was all
primed for oui' matt f ..'
Mrs. McCollum quickly pulled
out a copy of last week’s paper
and answered two of the three
questions put to her.
A neighbor, Mrs. Hattie Suitt,
602 Gray Ave., sized up the situa
tion next door and got into a
mad search for her copy of the
paper. She then answered one of
the questions put to her and col
lected $8.
In addition, Mrs. Zollie Reuben,
See "MR, T", 2-A
Vet0riin, City Taxi Driver Dies
Car Stopped by Brick Wall
A 66-year-4)ld off-«hity-taxi driv
er was fatally stricken with a
heart attack while driving his auto-
mebile near his home on Tuesday
alght.
Dead on arrival at Lincoln Hos
pital was Eddie Wilson, 600 Fow-
ler Ave.
According to witnesses, Wilson
aiil' a woman identified as his
wife, were driving on Fowler Ave.
near Fayetteville St. when seizure
overtook him. The car ran out ol
control and into a low brick wall
on Fowler Ave.
Russell Partridge of 56 E. Coop
er St. an employee at a nearby
service station and eyewitness to
the incident said he was the first
to reach the car after it ran out
See DRIVE, page 2 A
News In Brief
Young Attorney
$wom in Before
Court
HHILSON
City Gariiage
ed Counsel to the National Chair
man. Louis R. Lautier (right).
Chief of the Washington Bureau
of the National Negro Press As
sociation sinoe 1945, was a|>point-
ed Special Assistant to the Na
tional Chairman.
Pi’Qof, of. the powpt of pieacftul
picketing and cotlmtiVe bairjii^iiijt
was seen this week.'in durhiiti
as the city’s garbage collectors
finally won hike in pay and other
concideration from the City Man
ager’s office.
City Manager George Aull late
this week admitted that the city
had made certain concessions to
end the week-long strike staged
by garbage collectors in'protest of
unfair wages and “oth^r griev
ances.”
Among the adjustments report
edly made were:
1. An immediate raise to $1.34
an hour for men with the most
seniority (a total of 121 raises);
and for those men making the
minimum of -$1, raises to $1.05
See GARBAGE, pag« 2-A
Attorney
(Buddy) Malone was formally
sworn in before the North Caro-
liai bar Monday by Superior Court
Judge William Y. Bickett.
, The young Durham attorney was
Introduced to the Court by Atty.
(fc J.^tijfites, veteran Durham law-
yet. '
Malone wil- sik ^ up an offiee
It the old CQlill ’bunmhg (now
the Masonic on Petti-
irew St. in for general
pr«tice.
Malone was licensed to practiee
following his successful comple
tion of the State Bar examination
in August.
A native of Durham and the
PRETTY GAL—The new secre
tary in the office of President
Elder at North Carolina Colley
is pertty Ruth Margaret Vellirtes/
Burlington, a 1961 magna cum
laude grad of NCC. While a sto-
Largest Frosh
Class at A&T
Ime 1948
Nearly a thousand freshman
students, representing one of the
son of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Malone, largest fir.st day turnouts at A.
of Durham, young Malone received' College, reported Monday
his higher formal training at N. i week.
C. College, where he earned the* The count had reached a total
bacehlor’s degree in 1051, and the i of 956 students by late afternoon
LL.B. degree in 1959. j and Dr. Glenn F. Rankin, dean of
, Malone is married to the former students, said Jafe comers were
Miss Margaret O. Hunter , of
FankliQ County. She is a member
of the Whftted Junior high school
faculty.
They live at F-2 Atlantic St.
See BRlIjFS, page 2-A
still arriving.
He believes the total will ex
ceed the one thousand mark by
the end of registration.
Not since 194S, has A. and T.
College freshman class reached
this figure. The y^pup exceeds last
year^ .fk-eshmaa class by 375 stu-
See A. and T...page-6-A
dent, Miaa VelliM m
to Who's Wile Ameng Student*
ia Amcicen CeUeae* ead UHivei^
sities. She is a aaeeafcar «f IMto
Sigma Theta Seeerily.
jNCC'i Cbs
lAfriveS At
iMid-Week
Prospects of an enroUment of
2500 students loomed large at
North Carolina College this week
as officials braced to receive a
record 900 freshmen and new stu
dents.
Tlie class at '65 began coming
in Wednesda;^. Memliers were
greeted by tlR sew c«f>tdinator at
freshman studies, James H.
Knight.
Prior to the arrival of fTeshmen,
President Elder grmtted the col
lege's laoK|t .facidty in the first
meeting of the yew last Monday
night; and Dean Louise M. Lathaa
and Dean J. L. Stewart had orieo-
See NCC, PMC 2 A
MRS. McCOLLUM
WASHINGTON, D. C. — GOP
Chairman William E. Miller last
week announced two more key ap
pointments in his developing plan
to reorganize and strengthen the
staff of the Republican National
Committee.
Louis R. Lautier, Chief of the
Washington Bureau of the Nation
al Negro Press Association, was
appointed Special Assistant to the
Chairman of the Republican Na
tional Committee.
Grant Reynolds, attorney at law
from White Plains, N. Y., and past
Grand Basileus (President) of the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, was ap
pointed Counsel to the Chairman
of the Republican National Com
mittee.
“These two-appointments add a
wealth of experience and talent to
our staff,” Chairman Miller said,
“and will greatly strengthen our
drive to win the local and Con-
gre.ssional elections of 1961 and
1962.”
Lautier, who will assist and.'ad-
vise the Chairman in the general
areas of public relations, press
relations and campaigning, has
ton Bureau since 1945 and covered
See GOP, page 2-A
TWO WANTED TO GO TO COLIJEGE
Heroines
While young high school grad
uates all over the country are en
tering college this week, two
young Durham girls who blazed
a trail in race relations in Dur
ham are forced to sit by on the
sidelines and watch their class
mates troop off to the campus.
They are Maxine Bledsoe of f03
Lee St., and Claudette Brame of
lOOS Onslow St., 1961 graduates of
Durham High.
Both had dreams of . going to
college after several n^e tingl
ing months in newly integrated
schools.
Claudette spent three yeirs M
Durham high and Maxine com
pleted her senior year there.
Both girls come from large fam
ilies with modest incomes. Max
ine is next to the oldest of six
children. Claudette is a member
of a family 6t 11. It was almost
a certaist# that bMh K-
quii^ some kind of assistance
paying college fees.
And had t^y not elected to
volunteer Ihemsclves to run the
nerve-grinding gauntlet at iiewl;
integrated Durham high, thev
might have earned a chance to ga
to college.
. Both had compiled goad records
as tlillsfilB ttndeaK "Cbc Durham
Board of Educatioai saw to tiua.
One ui the standard applied ts
Negn> applicants was tft# test oi
academic prepar^riMB. Prospect
ive Niitpro studeats Iiad to liavtt
goo«^* rdbrds hdlar* ttey wm
cassidered tor iiliBiniiia
Had the two ciria elected ta
at Hillside wMTe thm
..~~1 * was more *—tllar aa#
,less hfMlile, they might lum
ished higk eaoufh ia tlH^
clata ta aara a callafa ■
Ahnaet each
xeniors at HilUida are
weak have
BLEDSOE