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DURHAMTES HURT OVER SCHOOL DOARD ACTION
Governor Stops
Short of Asking
Statewide FEP
HALEIGH — Governor Terry
Sanford told a press conference
here last week that North Carolina
Viiist do something about giving
its Negro citizens a chance to get
jcSis for which they can qualify.
But he stopped short of advo-
Cilting FE3PC policy to itnplemenl
&(r' suggestion.
These remarks came during the
course of his weekly press con-
(frence when reporters asked him
ibout an earlier statement he had
made on the subject.
In May, the Governor issued a
ktatement calling attention to the
Ictw per capita income of Negroes
fa North Carolina, and declared
that until something is done to
»*l*e the income level of Negroes,
state would never make the
Itrpgress it should.
Questioned as to whether he
would favor a law similar to Fair
employment Practices Commis-
the Governor replied in the
negative. He said “broad under-
itiinding that v/ould break down
racial barriers in employment
00>ieg r.bbut voluntarily.
i^'The leadership in human un-
(^tstanding has never been in
£\l!6rnmcnt It is not possible to
i: things in government not in
lia^ing with the will of the peo-
'Me said further that the state
feb not intend to become a re
organization, “attempting to
' the morals and employment
ices of the peo(>U.'’
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BOULWARE MUST FACE
RUN-OFF TEST JUNE 23
Or. C. E. Boulwar*, North
Carolina Cell««« profastor who
finithod fifth in a tan man race
for tha Board of County Com*
mistioners, will tiava to do it
alt over again.
Thlf bacama a cartainty whan
incumbant Dewey Scarboro, who
'^railed Boulware to finish sixth,
called for a run-off. Scarboro
won the right to ask for a run
off when Boulware failed to gar
ner a majority of votes east in
the race.
Boulware polled 7,472 votes
while Scarboro got 6,580.
The run-off will be held on
June 23.
Crackdown On
Bias In Toliacco
Plants Asked
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
NAACP has asked the Presi
dent’s Committee on Equal Em
ployment Opportunity to “move
against the entire Southern to
bacco industry” for denial of
skilled jobs to Negro workers.
Herbert Hill, the Association’s
labor secretary filed complaints
against the American Tobacco
Company, Redisville, N. C., on
May 31. A complaint was also
filed against the Matson Naviga
tion Company, San Franciso.
Hill called attention to NAACP
complaints filed on October 10.
1961 on behalf of Association
members, in .Durham,. N.. .0.,
agalnat Liggett and Myan To
bacco Company and fbm Tobacco
VOLUME 38 — No. 23
DURHAM, N. C., ItATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1962
PRICE: 15 Centa
RETUtN RIQUESTEO
NAACP MAKES PLEA
Back Medicare
Doctors Urged
Scenes From NCC's 37th Finals
WASHINGTON, D. C. —
NAACP Executive Secretary
Roy Wilkins urged Negro physi
cians this week to support the
Administration-backed bill call
ing for medical care for aged
through Society Security.
He addressed the opening ses
sion of the sixth annual Imhotep
conference on hospital integra
tion sponsored by the NAACP
National Urban League and the
National Medical Association.
The two-day conference was held
here. May 25-26.
A nationwide survey of me
dical conditions confronting Ne
gro physicians and pati&nts, re
leased at tlie conference, indi
cated hospital discrimination still
exists in many parts of the
country.
American Tobacco’Cbrnpany aa-
$66 CMACKDOWN; S-A
There has beeq little improve
ment during the past six years;
Sputb^ES. NewD^ not have
aAiliated hospitals are among
the worst offenders, the jsurvey
WINSTON-SALEM _ Ken
neth R. Williams has officially
been named president of Wins-
ton-Salem Teachers College
here. The action was announced
Friday.
Williams haa been serving
acting pri^ident ^ the state’
nilin^ tm |
post vacated b» the retirement
of former presiaent Dr. Frank
L. Atkins. t
The college’s board of trustees
acted to make his position of
ficial last week- by formally
j-fetectlng tiliH to the post.
, Inauguration ceremonies for
the new college president will
be held next fall, possibly in
early October, Winfield Black-
well, chairman of the trustees
said.
TARHEEL MOTHERS HELP
RAISE $11,000 — The 2 5
NAACP "MOTHERS" (above)
aparked the recent North Car
olina NAACP Freedom Fund
Drive which resulted in a to
tal of $11,655 being reported
at the Freedom Rally In Ra
leigh when Jackie Robinson
crowned the winners.
At left center is Mrs. Gladys
Jeter, Charlotte, top winner
with $1050. Mrs. Annie Hart,
Chatham County, (right cen
ter) led tha small branches
with $625. Mrs. Georgia Ham,
Goldsboro, (3rd from left) was
runner-up with $500. Winston
Salem reported $406; and
Franklin County $366.
—photo by Harren
At NAACP Confab
Weaver to Get
47th Award of
Spingarn Medal
NEW YORK — Robert C.
Weaver, Administrator of the
Abusing and Home Finance
Agency, has been named win
ner of he coveted Spingarn
Bbdal, awarded annually to a
Negro Amcrtcan lor distmguish-
•d'achievement.
Announcement of the selection
of Weaver was made Monday
fcy Roy Wilkins, executive sec
retary of the National Associa-
llon for the Advancement of
Colored People. The 54 year old
fMeral official was chosen by
tte nine-person Spingarn Award
camnitttee.
A
The medal will lie presented
it the closing session, July 8,
of the Association’s week-long
99rd annual convention in At
lanta.
The honor was bestowed upon
Weaver for his long years of
dedicated public service at
municipal, state and federal
levels; for bis pioneer role in
the development and advocacy
See WEAVER, 6-A
Over 1,200 Expected at NCC
Summer School Opening Friday
Summer School registration
gets underway at North Caro
lina College Saturday with the
prospects of another record en
rollment for the ensuing term.
Dormitories open Friday, fol-
Pee Wee Reese Loses
Post Because of His
Jimcro Bowling Lanes
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Protests
by integration leaders forced
the resignation of two members
of the Louisville Human Rela
tions Commission, just appoint
ed by Mayor William O. Cow-
gar.
One of those who quit under
fire was Harold "Pea Wee"
Reese, former major league
baseball star. Reese operates a
bowling allay titat does not ad
mit Negroes.
The other who resigned was
Albert J. Grisanti, proprietor
of a swank restaurant which
serves only white people. Gri
santi is a sen of Italian immi
grants to this country. j
Protests against Reese and |
Grisanti were started by Blskep
SPf PEE WEE, 6-A
lowed by registration Saturday,
and the beginning of classes
Monday morning.
Dr. J. H. Taylor, chairman of
the division of social sciences at
NCC, is the Summer School di
rector. Taylor says enrollment
in the 1'982 Summer School is
expected to reach an all-time
high, with a record number of
Durhamites among the enrollees.
Over 1200 students attended
the NCC Sunnmer School In
1961.
Courses in all departments of
the college will l>e offered dur
ing the nine week’s term, June
11-July 2il, Dr. Taylor said, thus
making it possible for both NCC
and transfer students to con
tinue without interruption for the
summer.
In addition, 1963 high school
graduate*, iriany of them from
Hillside High School in Dur-
iram, may l>egin their regular
freshman year during the sum
mer. Such students are expect
ed from throughout the South
east, pre-registration figures re
veal.
Freshman level course*
, counselling, testing and ail
See NCC, 6-A
revealed.
On the encouraging side, the
survey found that 01 per cent
of the Northern hospitals accept
Negro physicians on their staff
See DOCTORS, 6-A.
Williams Is
Formally Tapped
W-S President
s
Wife Succumbs
In Saint Louis
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Mrs. Veat-
rice V. Reid of Washington, D.
C., the wife of Bishop Frank
Madison Reid, presiding bishop
of the Second Episcopal District
of the A M. E. Church which
includes Maryland, the District of
Columbia, Virginia and North
Carolina, died here early Mon
day morning, June 4.
Mrs. Reid was the Supervisor
of Missions of the A. M. E.
Church in the Second Episcopal
District and was tiic mother of
two prominent ministers, the
Rev. Frank M. Reid, Jr., pastor
of St. James A M. E. Church,
St. Louis and The Rev. George
Ransom Reid, pastor of St. Paul
A. M. E. Church Wasifington,
See RElb, 6-A
NCC PROCESSION ~ The
toadtna^netloir ot Nofm Cns"
4)llna College's procession for
dpmmencement snakes Its way
ta ^e entrance of the gymn
asium, scene of the 37ih finals
program last Sunday. Leading
itar imnreBr^oTchTei ItfwiHil
Dr. J. H. Taylor. DIreetly be
hind him are President Alfon
so Elder and main speaker
Harry Qoldea.
PEACE CORPS BOUNDI —
The four person above, all of
whom received their bachelor's
degrees In commencement ex
ercises at North Carolina Col
lage Sunday, have i»een chosen
for service with the Peace
Corj^s. All have been given
/.fri>-ia asslgnmentB includ-
inL. left to right, WilUe Hall
Charlotte, who will go to
Ethiopia; Aljosie Baker, Salis
bury, Togo; Marian Lynch,
Enfield, Ethiopia; and Ralph
Bullock, Bahama, Ethiopia.
Bias Charged At
S. C. Marine Base
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Con
gressman Charles C. Diggs (D-
Mich.) revealed this week that
he hed asked Marine Corps
Washington officers to Investi
gate complaints he had received
of racial discrimination against
Negro service men stationed at
at the Corps air base near
Beaufort, S. C.
Diggs said his Informant stat
ed that the Con>s operate* a
bus for white marines only l« a
recreational area for white on
ly, that the post exchange re
fuses to sell Negro publlcatiens
and that Negro Marines were
afraid of reporting their com-
plaints to 1t*e Corps Inspector
General because ef fear e# ra-
ri'i^sli
VIP'S AT FINALS — President 44
Alfonso fMer left, and Harry
Golden, right, a^e seen ia a
close-up during the 37th an
aual commencement celebra-
at North Carolina Cel-
lege Sunday. Dr. Eldor In
troduced Golden, who deliver
ed the main addres* to an
over-flow audience,, largeat in
the history of NCC, and (omo
177 gr»dimt*e, ^
Related Artlcks
Becau*e of the wide*pread in-
tere*t In the Durham pupil as
signment maMers, the TIMES
is carrying this week addition
al article* on the lubjeet. One
is entitled, "Durham Board ef
Educational Plans Robbery of
Negro School Children." It ap
pears on page 2-A. Editorial
comment appears under "The
Future of Negro School Child
ren at Stake," also on page
2-A.
Circuit Court
Gets Durham
Appeal Thursday
NEW YORK _ The U. S.
Court of Appeals for the B’ourth
Circuit is scheduled to hear an
appeal asking for increased de
segregation in the Durham, N.
C. school case on June 14 in
Asheville, N. C.
Plaintiffs in the case are 272
Negro school chldren, the largest
number of plaintiffs in any
school segregation case. Jack
Greenberg, Uirwlor Coun.iel of
the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,
will represent the Negro, plain
tiffs.
The Durham case is on ap
peal from an April II decision
of District Judge Edwin M.
Stanley, who dismissed the
complaint of the Negro child
ren. Judge Stanley upheld the
Durham School Board’s policy of
allowing transfers of Negro stU'
denta to white achoola only atter
rlKti'tMa KTMtiiyg t|| ih« 6Mrd
anidjthe application of the North
Carolina Pupils Placement Law
to Durham schools.
The Durham case is similar to
the Roanoke, Va. school caw
which the Court of Appeals for
the Fourth Circuit decided last
month, in the Ronnoki? casc 4h8-
Court invalidated "Negro” and
‘white’’ school areas, racially
discriminatory transfer proce
dures, and the initial assignment
of children to .segregated) schools.
The Fund brief to the Court
of Appeals at'.acks many of the
same features in the Durham
school system. Fund attorney*
contend that the constitutional
rights of Negro students are in
fringed "so long as a school
system bo.ied upon dual racial
zones is maintained and they
are assigned to those zones.”
In 1959 and 1960, the School
Board held appeal hearings to
determine which Negro students
See APPEAL, 6-A
Dismay Voiced
At Shuffle of
7th Graders
Action by the Durham Board nf
Education- Friday night in shift
ing seventh grade pupils from
Whitted Junior High to vario.u*
i'lementary schools in the city
crystallized into expression (.’row
ing discontent among Negro lead-
ors over the Board’s handling of
Negro school matters and the in
tegration issue.
The board announced Saturday
that it' was changing assignment
in some first year junior high pu
pil* to relieve crowded condition*
at Whitted Junior high scrool.
It acted to establish seventh
grades at the following elemen
tary schools; Crest St., Fayette
ville Street, Lyon Pvk, Wall-
lown. Burton^ Pearson and Spauld
ing.
A ninth grade will be estab
lished at Hillside hip.h.
Announcement of the action
touched off immediate and sharp
reaction from Negro leaders.
A statement from the Durham
Committee on Negro Affairs,
which combined this action with
others involving integration,
charged the Board with "dishon
esty” and ‘‘immorality.” (See
complete text, ‘‘Durham Board of
Education Plans Robbery of Negre
School Children,” page 2-A).
R. N. Harris, Negro school
board member who recently re
signed tMicauBc of poor healthy had
published at his expense a 1«mI-
iut entitled “Urgent Appeat
Important Information,” In
he described the board’*
In s^Uhf tlae acn^antl
diacrlMnatlM,’
paronta of childtvn wl
ment to schools will be affeci
by (he change to apply for reas
signment to white achool*.
The leaflet explains in detail
the procedure for making appU-
cfllioh for realignment.
In NCC Finals Talk
Golden Sees
Full Equality
In Few Years
All obstacles to the Negro’s
achievement of first-class clti
zcnship will be removed ‘‘in
your life time,” Harry Golden,
famed author, told candidates
for graduation at North Caro
lina College here Sunday.
Golden warned the 377 candi
dates, however, that removal of
segregation and discrimination
barriers will mean ‘‘greater, not
less, responsibility” for them.
The Negro’s salvation, he con
tinued, lies in ‘‘more education
and greater political activity,”
both recommended to the grad
uates as “the only way for you
in a world where Negroes will
have to take pot luck with all
Other Americans,”
President Alfonso Elder in
troduced the commencement
speaker, in NCC’* 37th finals
celebration, and conferred de
grees.
Outstanding among degree
recipient* were 27 undergrad
uates who finished with honor*
and three *tudents who receiv
ed law degrees.
Honor students Included:
Edward Bosier, Wilmington, and
See GOLDEN, «-A
ed In homes throughout the Ne
gro aeighbbrhood* of Durham on
‘ Soe DISMAY, 6^A
Duke UniversHy
Lowers Final
Color Barrier
Duke University lowered its fi
nal racial harriers last week when
officials announced that its trus
tees had voted to admit Nogroe*
to its undergraduate schools.
The" action wa* taken on Sat
urday at the annual commence
ment meeting of the board of
try^t^s.
'University had 19 month*
earlier voted to accept Negroe*
to its graduate schools. Last fall,
three Negro students entered, two .
in Law antf one in Divinity. Mor*
enrolled in the wring (emester;:
The trustees’ action in lowerinif
the final racial barriers was not
completely surprising. ‘Two other
North Carolina colleoes announc
ed earlier in the week that they
were accepting Negro students.
These were Davidson, a Presby
terian school, and Wake Forest,
a Baptist school at Winston-Sa
lem.
— A
Raleigh To Be Host
To National Meeting
Of Ministers* Wives
RALBIG« — The Planning
Committee of the Mlniaters*
Wives Auxfiary met recently
to continue plans for the forth
coming National Convention to
be held at Snaw University,
Raleigh, Narth Carilina, June
26-2».
A one-day buaineis session, in
lieu of the regular State Con
vention, will b« held on June
29 prior to the National Con
vention.
Mrs. Forreat D. Hadden,
aident 9l the local Coaq«U of'
Church Women, waa g^^s «t
this meeting. She spoke
World Day ef Itayer and we
plight of migrant worker*.