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TIMES Contest Gains Interest As 44 Sign
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VOLUME 38 — No. 38 DURHAM, N. C,, SATURDAY, SE^ttMteR'. -
HETURM REQUESTED " ' .
PRICei IS C«nt«
Elder Seeks $6^000 Pay Bike
For His Successor At N.C. College
Retiring NCC
Prexy Requests
ircaiio producer _ pro-
Bamual Biacheff (left)
and David Diamond (right)
this wMfc announced they have
•Iftnad clnamatographer-writer
producar.Cd Smith (center) as
tn,a*Mfclat« producer, the first
INffro to be given a top pro
wood film making company.
The first project on which he
will work under tlie Bischoff-
Diamond Productions banner
wilt be "The Crisis In the
Daep South,' to roll in Octo
ber in Hollywood.
Smith at one time was an as-
■istanf cameraman on Paul
Coates' "Confidential File'
television show, fiimed in
Hollywood. During 1959 in the
South, he wrote and produced
a documentary for the Mont
gomery Improvement Associa
tion, "The Montgomery Story.'
liALElGH — Appearing be
fore the State Advisory Budget
Conunision on Monday North
Caruhna College i’residcnt Al
fonso Elder requested more
than a million dollars in funds
as part ot a "B” (supplementary)
budget proposal for the institu
tion’s coming bcinnium.
The request included $59,504
for 1&63-64 and $500,541 for the
1984-65 school year. When add
ed to the “A” budget, submitt
ed earlier, this brings the total
reeonunended to $2,150,669 for
1963-64 and $2,209,73S for
19M-65.
Included in te “B' budget rC'
SECURES LEGAL ASSIS-
TAIfCE — Miss Guytana Hor
ton, a member of the NAACP's
Durham, youth council, came
to New York City this week
and conferred with the As
sociation's General Counsel
—
Robert L. Carter. Misa Horton
and either militant NAACP'
youth leaders served 30 days
in Jail for challenging Jim
Crow, facilities of the Howard
Johnson Restaurant In Dur
ham. NAACP youth council
there also faces a damaqe suit
from the Carolina Theatre
which is pTotosling their inte
gration efforts.
—Photo by Bagwell
BeginiSeipt. 24
In Subscription Derby
Strassner
At Hampton Institute
News In Brief
Race Plays Big
Ne In N. Y.,
Mass. Politics
The Negro vote loomed as a
formidable faptor in politicul
situations in New York and
Massachusetts this week.
The Massachusetts Repub
lican Party, seeking to offset the
magic of the Kennedy name,
nominated Edward W. Brooks
as its candidate for the post of
Attorney General.
In New York, Democrats
named Edward Dudley former
Manahattan Borough president,
for the Attorney General’s post.
Nomination of butii men niark-
td “firsts” for the race in New
York and Massachusetts.
An additional 20 names were
entered this week in the Car
olina Times annual fall subscri
ption contest as the first week
of reports in the new contest
approaches.-
The new group of contestants
who entered this week brought
to 44 the total number of en
trants in the contesl.
Contest spokesman said en
trants would be accepted at arry-
time during the contest prior
to the final two weeks.
Three big prizes await the first
second and third place
contc.stants. First prize is a
196.3 Ford Falcon. A color tele
vision set will be given to the
I second place winner, and $300
' cash will go to the third place
winner.
Twenty percent commissions
will be paid to all non-prize win
ner.
The first week of reports in
|the contest is scheduled next
week. The TIMjKSj^ffice will
remain open ' unifi Saturday
noon to collect reports from the
contestants.
All reports which are turned
in to the office by Saturday,
noon, September 29 or which
bear a postmark '-©f • that» date
will be counted in next week’s
standings.
See REPORTS, 6-A
for xoumelorv aer,vi«4i
for students, additional graduait*>»^^ T J ^
assistantships, instructional an«
departmental research, increases
in library staff and holdings,
and substantial increases in
salaries of faculty members.
Raise for Successor
r ESlder, who has annouiKod^
plans to retire at the end of4he’
cnirrenr scBooT j^af7 Ssked
for a $6,000 salary increase for
his succesaor in the presidency.
Discussing his impending re
tirement and informing the
Commission that he had never
requested a salary increase, he
said he believed that the col
lege’s Board of Trustees would
like to consider a wide range of
prospective candidates. “This,”
he said, “is impossible with the
present salary.”
Urge* Improvement
One of several presidents to
appear before the Commission,
Elder stated that the problem
the institution faces is not one
of being a good school by com
parison with some other institu
tions. “It is, however, one of
being good enough to insure
that the average student whom
we serve measures up at the end
of four years, in spite of his
background limitations, to the
level of achievement expected
of ■ standard • four year college
graduates.’
“I should like to point out,”
See REQUESTS, 6-A
Four Turned
Over to Ga.
Authorities
LAW SCHOOL DEANS IN N.
C._ CONFER WITH BAH
RALEIGH — The North Car
olina Bar examiners will hear
what deans and faculities of law
sdiools in North Carolirfa think
about the slate law examina
tion when they meet in Raleigh
on Saturday, Sept. 29.
Deans of Law Schools at
North Carblina College, Wake
Forest, Duke and the Univer-
sily- of North Carolina have
been invited to confer with the
examiners.
The conference came about as
a ^result of sharp criticism by
law school professors high per
centage of failures in the state
bar exarninations.
See POLITICS, 6-A
HAMPTON, Va. — Dr. William
Russnll Slrassni^r, former Presi
dent «f Shaw University, Ralnigh,
htis bm-n' appointed cnordinalor ot
College Community Relations at
Hampton Institute, according tn Dr
Jerome II. Holland, president of
the Hampton College.
A native of Morrilton, Arkansa.s,
Dr. Stra.ssner has been an active
particpant in community affairs,
fn Charlottesville, Va.. he served
as pastor of the Mount Zion Kiip
ti.st Church for seven years, While
there he initiated a campaign
which caused a re-aTginizalioti. A1
so in Charlottesville, he orRaiiized
the Civic I,eaRue, the Inter-frnter
nal Counril, and was instrumental
in the estHhlinhment of a reerea-
tional center for the rommiinity.
Dr Strassner served as atudeni
Pii.stor of the '/Aon and (ialilee
(Churches in Westnioreland Coun-
t.v. V'while attending Virginia
Uni 'n ''dversity. While in West-
II re' ,id County, Dr. Strassner
v,a!i a key figure in a movement
which resulted in the crection of
a modern church building and a
four Terrell County reaidtnta
were picked up by F, B, I. agenta
and taken to Dawson, Ga. tox
questioning in the burnings o
the High Hol>e Baptist Church.
The Terrell County aherltt
identified them ai Marvin Allen
Miller, 31^ Me|vln Earl Roland.
21, Glen Roland, 5« ■
juvenil whose name was with
held under Georgia law. All
were charged wH*i arson.
Investigators said th» four
men admitted “they w^re drink
ing beer and Just decided to
burn the church'. Fumai of
kerosene or a' conn|bu8tiol^ re
sembling kerosene were detect
ed in the air near the church
site.
Director J, Eagar Hoover of
thi F. B. I. said his agents turn
ed over evidence a*d a sum
mary of. facts to Georgia futhcn-i-
tles after questlonring .the four
inen.
These persons were observed
In a car near the church after
fire was discovered. Hoover
Vld, ^'1 . j
ihe "fire was the latest in a
series which destoryed four
churches in the same Georgia
area within recent weeks. Mount
Olive and Mount Mary Baptist
Churches were burned down
one week ago. Both were in Saj-
ser, near Dawaeri, about 20
miles south o* Albany.
One other ohurch. Shady
Grove Baptist tn Leeaburg was
burned August 15. Five Negro
homes have been
' Mhi |(r«a’^
gistration’.woclnr injured, thir*
have beeh no arrests.
The state and toeal law of
ficers emphasised that the High
Hope naptlat Church hed not
been used io voter registration
activities, as had the three pre
viously burned..
liBOVtnBW the' FBI is con-
tinulog it« iovestigatioR of the
other church burnlngt.
“All servfoei of the FBI
laboratory and the fingerprint
identificailonr division are fully
available to Georgia authorities
in the event that additional. as
sistance is needed for prosecu
tion of state violations, tiie de
partment anmounced said.
Monday's fire aroused Georgia
officials to fresh ef^rts to catch
i:he arsoniata Georgia Gov.
Ernest VandlVer ordered all
available state officers Into the
investigation.
STRASSNER
iiiudcrn cotmty IruininK school for
tile cummiinity.
With an HpMnititiMf'Mt as dean^of
Religion and director of rclieious
'jrtivitics at f!ishop CoIIpj!*", Mar
shall. Texas, I'*', Slriniiniir entered j
the field of ediii'atioii. After five I
years at fli'ti'i'i Iir. Stras-
See STRASSNER, OjA I
AT PITTSBORO MEET
WORTHY
EARLY STARTERS — Fresh
men at Nbrth Carolina Col
lege wasted little time in gett
ing started with their studies
on the college's spacious cami-
pui lut week. JL group la,
shown in front of Hie James E.
Shepard Memorial Library.
All Nerth Carolinians, they
are, seated: OHtIs Harris,
Wilkesboro; Jean Mosee,
Qfaensboro} Mere&e
Sanford: and Evelyn Pierce,
Jonesvllle. Standing are
Robert Duncan, Asherjlle;
James Ebron, GreenTiUe; and
Earl Johnson, Marion.
Newsman Gets
3 Months for
Trip to China
MIAMI, Fla. — William C
Worthy, correspondent for th-
Baltinvore AttV) American, whs
sentenced on Mtonday to three
months ' In Federal prison and
one year of probation.
M!r. Worthy, 40 years old, post
ed a $4,000 appeal bond, re-
duoed from $5,000 by Judge
Emett Choate in Federal Court.
Mr. Worthy was convicted
August 8 of reentering the
United States without a pass-
Jee NEWSMAN, 6 A
AME Zion Conference Asks JFK
To Halt Racism In Southern States
PnTSBORO — The annual
meeting of the District Confer
ence, Durham District A, M, E.
Zion Church, composed o f
churches inr Chatham, Durham
and Orange counties which clos
ed at Union Grove Church re
cently, implored both Presiderrt
ment iiRcncids were handling
themselves in tiie matter
They called attention to the
fact that here in North Carolina
the rightK of citizen* were be
ing violated and pictured States
ville cm a powder keg. Person
wtftt had information on the
Kennedy and his brother, Robert trials held there last week. In
to intervene in the growing tid^j which seven people were sen^
of barbarism that Is swccpif^ ‘enced for trespassing on How-
the south. “*■‘1 Johnson property pictured
The unwarranted attacks' on| the attitude of the police, court
Negroes, the burning of church-1 officials and even the trial Judge
es, the Jailing of persona who ■ •* conducive • to rioting and
attempt to enter Howard John- bhiod shed. They charged that
son Restaurants and the shoot- the lawyer, representng the de-
ing of two girls for their in-! fendants were denied the right
Iterest in registering and voting
were termed as not ortly due to the attitued of his Judge.
I Christian, but inhuman. The eoS'
fab was highly critical of the
vay many of the law enforce-
to properly defend his clients.
TTie telegram to the presi
dent was as follows:
See CONFERENCE, tl A
U. s. Marshals
To Escort Negro
To "Ole Miss"
JACKSON, Mlu. — U. S.
Attorney Odneral Robert F.
Kennedy personally phoned
Governor Roas Barnett Tuesday
and told the defiant governor
that federal marshalls will es
cort Negro James Meredith into
(he Unlveralty of Mississippi
this week.
Thursday Is the first day of
registration for upper classmen
at the univeslty. On that day
James H. Mtoredith Is expected
to present himself for admission.
On Monday Governor Barnett
and the 13 members of the
Board of Trustees met In closed
session for more than two and
a half hours in the State Office
Building. The spokesman, Dr. E.
R. Jobe, executive aecretary of
the board said the koard’s next
regular meeting wo«ld be held
at 9:30 a. m. Thuratey.
The phone call frmn Atty.
Gen. Kennedy came shortly
after cheeritig Miaalaalppi legis
lators voted II >111 aflit*q»»giy to
l>ack Gov. Baraett-
to obey a iadeavl
order. ■.
The attorney*
would call :
Barnett said,
Meredith to