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VOLUME 3S — No. 43
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1962
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GREBISSORO, KINSTON
BOYCOTTS MT 2 AREAS
Kinston's 200th
Event
Snifbbed by Race|
JCIMSTON — Negroes staged
•■^near complete boycott of the
Mebration of this town’s 200th,
fttrthday last week while federal. |
lute and local officials attempt
^ to smooth over a racial in-'
iuit to an' invited guest from
ilainaicB. |
■ Approximately 35 members of
ttie Kinston Youth NAACP
picketed Granger stadium, ter-
lifihal point of the city’s bi-
^ntennial parade last Thurs-
(|ay, (n protest over segregated.
fen-angements made for partici-'
tiBtion of Negro citizens in the
•vent. , I
' t)nly two or three Negroes,'
Kportedly from out of town, I
took part in Thursday’s cele-1
braflbn which was featured by
a' titrade and a ceremony at
taraiiger stadiunu I
Plans had been made, accord-
tbg to reports, to have Negroes |
^Vticipate in the parade to de-|
' the slavery era in thei
over. *e-
tt# report^
a Jamaican dfficial by
cHy'g leading hotel.
^^'Ingston, Jamaica’s deputy
l^yor Balsfour Barneswell, in-
#ted by the bi-centennial com
See KINSTON, 6-A
Gate City CORE
Opens Action
Against Stores
ORLENSBORO — A protest
i march through the city on
October 11 in which hundreds
of persons participated, has set
ojtf a boycott of downtown
stores.
Initiating the boycott was the Millie Lipscomb of Pickett
Greensboro CORE group, which st. and attended Hillside High
FIRE
Strange Slaying
Of Ex-Durlianiite
In Pa. Unsolved
The killing whch has baffled
detectives is that of Brodle
Lipscomb Jr., of 7748 Monticello
St. in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Mon
day, October 15.
Lipscomb was found dead in
his parked car on Brlnton Rd.
in Braddock Hill with bullet
holes in his arm and cheek.
Hi.i car motor was still runn
ing when discovered.
Lipscon4b is the son of Mrs.
Helen Lipscomb of Pittsburgh
and Brodie Lipscomb of Hamp
ton, Va. He formerly lived in
Durham with his grandmother
CONGOLESE OFFICIAL IN
DURHAM — John H. Wheeler
(right) is shown with Jaion
Sendwa, assiilant to Congo
premier Cyrllla Aduola, as
Sendwe wcs being Introduced
to a dinnar party in Durham
on WadnAsday consisting of
civic and business leaders.
photo by Purefoy
' rived iM ■ Diirhahi- Wednesday
I afternoon for a two day stay
in the city.
Sendwe is currently on a tour
of the South to observe the role
I of Negroes in the commercial
Ifbfd Woman to Speak For
•' ■; ■ !'(!;■ , (
ty-Wide Mission Meeting
1^*8. Maude W. Lassiter of
0titford, N. C. will be guest
for Installation service
the Durham County Mis-
4((inary tftiion Sunday, October
a», at 3 p. m. at Ebenezer Bap-
tlat Chur^.
Mrs. Lassiter is board mem
ber and . Chairman of District 7-
Group 1 of the Woman’s Home
«nd foreign Missionary Conven
tion, original president of the
Shiloh Missionary Auxiliary and
librarian in the Oxford City
Library.
Mrs. Minnie C. Lyons will
present the speaker.
I Appearing on a symposium
1 will be sisters Lah& WilliamB,
iBcrna Dunnegan, Wilma Bryant
Wnd A. L. FUmore
Congolese Official is Greeted By
Civic Leaders in Durham Visit
— premier *:yrUt.AdoaUl.-ar;,^ Farmers bank president
John H. Wheeler during his stay
in Durham.
The Congolese official was met
at the airport Wednesday by a
delegation of civic' leaders and
entertained at a dinner at
Schrafft’s restaurant Wednesff^
evening.
On hand for the affair were
several civiC h anxi ^ political di
gnitaries and biiiiness atrd com
munity leaders.
They included Mayor E. J.
Evans, Senator Claude Currie,
City Manager George Aull,
County Manager E. S. Swindell,
City Councilman John S. Ste- •
wart, Rev. E. T. Thonnpson, I
president of the Durham Min-1
isterial Alliance, S. T. Castle-
man, senior vice president of
Wachovia Bank, Mrs. E. ' C,
%
MRS. LASSSITER
for three weeks has been mass
picketing the Mayfair and S. &
W. cafeteria in an attempt to
gain service for Negroes.
In a letter to the Merchants
Association, William Thomas,
chairman of Greensboro CORE
wrote; “We are requesting that
you use your influence in
order to help us in our efforts.
Should you be unwilling to do
this, then we have no alterna
tive but to launch a selective
buying campaign against the
entire downtown area.’
Stanley Culbreth, exerutive
vice president of the Merchants
Association announced that
Thomas’s letter had b«en rea
red™ to .*tore aminbaw
the association was taktn'g no
action. The boycott of the down
town ar«a resulted.
School.
Shaw Univ. Issue
To Confront
Baptists Again
WINSrON-SALEM — The
problem of relation* between
Shaw University and the State
Baptist convention is expected
to claim major inter«»t of dele
gates to the annual State Bap
tist convenUon h«te n«xt week,
pretli^t, will conduot th« or-
See >HAW. 6-A
Chatham Kids
Die While Mom,
Dad are at Work
Four Negro chljdrcn were
burned to death when fire de
stroyed their Chatham County
home Tuesday. Acting Coroner
A. D. Hartsell ruled the deaths
accidental.
Roberl Junior and Mary Jane
Craham, the children's parents,
wore away at work wken the
honje burned. Thfe house was
on the farm of Frank Goodwin
on Route 3. Apex, in the Mar
tha’s Chirpel section.
The mother told Chatham
Sheriff John Emerson she lefl
Evelyn Joyce, 5; Vivian Ann'.',
3; and Napoleon; 1 in the charge
of Ella Louise, a retarded 16
year old. She added that she
had built a fire in a stove
earlier but told the children not
to put any miore wood in it.
She left at 7:30 to work on the
George T. Yates Farm in the
home community.
When she returned home
about 3 p. m. the mother found
the three room house burned
to the ground and all four
children dead.
MILDRED BLACK-,r“W>SS Hrii HOMECOMINQ”
Hillside Picks Queen, Prepares
Nine Contestants Trail Closely
As Prize Deiby In Final
Miss Hattie White of Durham
nosed out Mrs. Ruby Devine for
top position in the already red
hot Carolina Times subscription
contest this week. With only one
more week to go and the closing
hour set for six o’clock Saturday
November 3, the contest manager
will call in extra help to take
care of the avalanche of subscrip
tions that- are expected to flood
the office of the Carolina Times
Turner, vice president of North As it now stands, it is hard to
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance who will be the winners oi
Company, and executives of|^*'e three top prize*. Sff close are
several other Durham business | standings of the ten top con
firms. (testants that any one of
I Sendwe made brief remarks
at the dinner. He was introduc
ed by Wheeler.
could walk off with tk»
new Falcoli, for the first
brand
prize;
the brand n*w color television for
the second prize, or the $300 in
cash for the third
the contest manageiMj^ not be
surprised if a dai^^rse enter*
the picture at the last moment
and walks off with one of the top
prizes. Rumors are going the
rounds^ that some of the con
testanti are holding back unlil
the la*t minute when they expect
to shoot the works In an effort toj
.vin the Ford Falcon. I 1216
Miss Mildred Black, pert 18
year old senior coed member of
1-2-4 homeroom at Hillside High
School, has been elec'ted to reign
^ Hi 11b
for 1962 and will be officially
crowned on Thursday night,
November 1, at Durham County
Memorial Stadium during half-
time activities of the -Hillside
Georgetown football clash. j
The Hillside homecoming
queen, President of the Indus-
trial Cooperative Training Class, I
is an active member of the
school’s Vocational Club, and the!
Mt. Olive AME Zion Church.,
She is al.'io a fornu-r member,
of the Hillside Band and a |
former majorrette. I
Miss Black is the daughter of
and Mrs. Fred Black of
Sedgefleld Street. i
The Congolese official ^
scheduled to hold a press confer
ence Thursday morning. He will
leave Durham somfetime late
Thursday or Friday for Atlanta.
,tE inmSES COItVEM-
:OH _ I* • etoM —e-
of a*l««alw to tt* an-
Htrtb Carolina Stato
AsaociaHon eonvon-
HO W in sMsion • .
Ttr hotal la
Jack
Th* conTsntien oponod on |
TuMday and is schaduled to I
and on Friday. On Wadnasdar
aftarnooiw dalagatM{ haard j
Mrs. Judith WhiUkai, of Naw 1
York, axaculiva diractor of I
flM Antarleait Huni» >
tion, dalivar an addras* at an
aftamoon maating, Businasi
■ataiens and eommittaa ra-
ports wara *lat«d to occupy
dalagata* on Thunday and
Fridar.
photo by Pur^fo*
The relative stsnding of con ; Queen will be attended
them testants this week is as follows; j njjggi,/, Glatiys McDonald, j
' . ,, , 1 MUiKlfll Delores Nicholson.
Miss ilattic White, Ourhani - j McDcmald, 16, is a mem-1
Mrs. Ruby Devine, Durham i 117'nil'ber of 12-2 homeroom and is an
L\Irs. Maudie V. Dickcr.son, Marnarettsvillc active member of the Dramaticf
Mrs. Louise Lassiter, Rocky Mount Club and the Oak Grove Free |
Mrs. C. Woods, lUiriin>;ton nTT 'm Baptist Church where ihe [
Mrs. Ulysses CirinifS. Durham 7 sm! President of the |
Mrs. Odestcr Moore, (Ircenshoro Choir and secretary to
Miss Sylvia (hitlaw. Koxhoro
Mrs. Mattie Lakin. (lastonia
Mrs. Svniiiitr Dave, Durham
Mrs. Marian Crutcl-.ficUl. Durham
Mrs. Viola iirodie. Durhi’.ni
Mrs. Inc/, Minor. Clia|)el Hill
Mr. James Salis))iiry, Kocky Mount
Mrs, (]. J*'. Dalton.'Satcsville
.Mrs. Odcs.sa Kdwards. Durham tk m •
Mrs. l-'lorin.t Shoffner. Cireenshoro 7r',wv.
Mrs. Thelma Hamlin, Koxhoro ,.
Miss Henrietta Johnson, (Joldsljoro
Mr. Walter .\danis. Jr.. Gastonia
I
Edenton Leaders
Vow to Fight
Laws
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.Ml (XX)
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.Mr. Walter .AUams. jr.. oasionia
Mr. Thomas F. Ldward.s, Garysburg
Mrs. yueniilla Thompson. HillHhuro
Mr. Clifton Johiisni. IJurham
Mr. Marvin (jerman, lirecnvillc .mI.IXX)
Mrs. Mar_\ J. Strickland. Kinston
Miss \’vt)niie lillis, Greensboro ••
Mrs. .Mbert Hester, Hiilsl)oro
•Mrs. Mary l-ee, UurlinKton .ViOOO
Mr. Henry Harris. .Sanford .V (X)0
Mrs. Kula Steele l^aney, Durham .V'(XX;
•Mrs. Ruby Williams, L'hapcl Hill .V'.CXX)
.Mr. Clarence Walden, Halifax .VI.OiK)
Mrs. Roxie Small. I’ittsboro UlOOO
Mr, Clifton Stone. Chapel Hill .V).(XX)
.Miss Knim^ Holmes, Fayetteville .K^OfX)
.Mrs. Mary W. Cant, Oxford ,... .V»(XX)
.Mrs. .''adie M. Srieed. Koupemont .W).flOO
Mrs. Delores [,. .\rtis. Ralei^rh .K).(XX)
.Miss l.ois Haiztip. Hij»h I’oint 30.000
.Mrs. l‘‘lora K'. .Vlrxjre, Winston-Salem 30.000
Mr. O. H. Uavis, Charlotte .M'OOO
See CONTIift, 6-A
Mrs,
1104
Her parental, Mr. and
Julius Corbitt, reside at
Glenn Steet.
Miss Nicholson. 17, is a mem-
t)er of 12-4 homeroom where
See HILLSIDE, 6 A
ANSWERS WHITE EDITOH—
Harptr's msgaiina adiior John
Flaithar lavaral waaki ago
pointed out in api article ap
pearing in ihit publication a list
of things Negroes of America
needed to do to make them-
selves pelatable for integra
tion. John Fleming (above)
answers Fleisher's article in
this week issue. See page 2-Ai
"What ihe White Man Needs
Most . . ."
EDENTON — Civil rights
leaders In thi* northeastern
North Carolina community have
dinance restricting peaceful
picketing. .
The ordinance, passed by the
Town Council, is avowedly aim
ed at persons protesting segre
gation.
It state* that no one can
picket a residence or place of
business in Edenton without ap
plying to the town clerk for a
permit 24 hours in advance. If
the permit is granted. It
costs $10. If anyone plckcts
without a permit, he Is subject
to a $200 fine or 30 days In
jail.
Edenton is following a pattern
spreading throughout the South.
A number of cities have adop
ted laws restricting picketing.
In a Joint statement, Norman
L. Brinkley, local NAACP pre
sident, Golden A. Frinks, Edcn-
ton civil rights leader, and
Frederick H. LaOarde. region
al representative of the South
ern Christian Leadership Con-
I ference, labelled the Edenton or
I dinance as “unfair, uncon.stitu-
I tional . . . and in clear violation
of every citizen’s right to peace-
i ful protest under the First
I Amendment to the U. S. Con
stitution.” They added:
See roiNTOM, 6 A
PRESIDENTIAL KISS —
Nerth Carolina College's pre
sident, Dr. Alfonso Elder, biie-
•M Mtss Marva Roberts, a
Baltimore, Maryland, senior
•t the eollega alter rrowning
her "Miss Homecoming" at
the halftime ei the If C C-
Maryland State Celiese gane
last Saturdar. Leokins on ap
provingly (0r in envy) are,
leh (• right: ee oaftains Ro
bert MeAdhte, ta«CM Rar-
■nond SabiMt fullback; wmt
Careie .Aunaa, Charlotte,
junlo* attiitilint. The ZwqVm
BMde the ocflMisB a happy ob».
by winniaf lS-0.