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VOLUME 40 — No. 14
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1963
RETURN REQUESTED
Ifxford Rally Planned
Meet to Push
PRICE; IS
CONTEST
. MtZP CHEtK-r Mrs.
of Rocky it
chMk yh* ri^vtcl
hti* C«r9Un« TimM Mr btr
flnith In (Mt
promotion contest,
it Rov. Gtorflo Dud>
ley, pMtor of Mt. Zion
Church of Rocky Mount. The
presentation of the check took
p^ce «i Mt, Zion U|t Sunday.
Rom, ihsnaging editor
oP’in^ CerotM Timet, eywied
the check to Mrs. Lastiter.
New Entrants Make Race
' Tempo Quickens
V^V,. John R, Dungee of Hender* all they can into the contest which
sgU^'Was still holding the lead at Ms certain to mako the race even
HObn.-'Wtdnesday In the Carolina tighter than it has been hereto-
Ministers Vacation Popu-jfore
Civil Riglits
Set Sunday
OXI'DRD—A nrass meeting has
bc(^ Kciicdulcd for the First Bap
tist Church here Sunday afternoon
to mobilize support for a planned
selective buying campaign here.
L. ll. McDonaJd,, .of Piirham,
spokesman for the NAACI* Youth
Councils which are sponsoring the
campaign, released details a#' the
meeting this week.
McDonoUl sai/fmati).spea||cr for
the meeting wHl« L: E. Austin
publishtcr of tn&^AroUna Times,
and oifispoken^of racial dii
'rimination.
The purpose of the mcoting is
to marshail support behind a boy
cott of Oxford merchants, and to
stimulates interest in a registra
tion campaign.
ifte explained, that boycott
it being.waged, to “break down
Ui^rlminatioit in cnjpiaiymchl."
urar, wtfe>iiMMfci i Xj
hire ott a basis of inftrit ratlj*^,
.me,” Mcfi^or
saiv fuHher. 'C
d^n
tM
tail firms arc expected to be ‘n
eluded in=the btycott.
The registration campaign ■wii/
be designed at getting more Ne
groes registered prior to th« up
bp held
McDonald said only 9.1 percent ol
the total number of Negroes in
Granville County are registered
Negroes make up approximately
Taking over the The rumofs Ji a darkhorse con- 43 pgr cent of the total 'popula
siBMM |>laec from Rev. J. H. Jones | tcstant showing up during tlTC last
i^IJnfaiVlUe,. Va., in the tirrid last two or three weeks of, the
i‘ai$?.wu Bev; A. D. Moseley of contest continued to persist here
Dtttham.
Although the pace was becoming
terrific as the half-way
n^rk oi the contest was reached
the nine leading contestants ap
pcarcd to be holding their own
withs only a few slight changes
b6ihit' made in the positions they
htU in last week's standing.
>Vith the second period closing
next .veek on Saturday, April 13
tion of the county.
The boycott-launchjng meeting
Sunday is the latest In a series of
this week with the contest man- developments here in a campaign
ager and his aides keeping theii by Negroes against racial dis
eyes and ears wiJe open for any j crimination practices,
spectacular developments Ahich Last winter a successful cam-
may occur. paign was opened against segrcga-
Ali nominees cxcept one nomi-1 tion at downtown lunch counters,
nated this week, not having » pive counters at drug and variety
standing of at least 100,000 points, stores were integrated as a re-
were dropped from the listing thi.' | suit.
week as being loo far behind to' This drive was heralded as the
overcome the lead set by the 23
after which a Bonus Vote will top ranking contestants.
again be cut 500 points all con- The relative standing of contest-
tcstants will be expectcd to throw) ants this week is as follows:
Rev. John-R. Dungee, Henderson >• 2,989,000
Rev.’' A. D; Moseley, Durham 2,872,000
Rev. J. H. Jones, Danville, Va j 2,718,500
Rfev.'T. U. Murphy, Henderson 2,407,000
Bev. W. T. Bigelow, Durham ■ • • 1,992,500
HiRV. KermU DeGraffenreidt, Pittsboro - 1,050,000
Rev. J. C.' Harris, Statesville 997,500
Rev. A. W. Lawson, Durham 992,500
Rev.. J. R, Manley. Chapel Hill 844,500
L W. Ciioates, Durham .. 802,000
Walter .Yarborough, Fianklirfloa 718,500
Kev., R. L. Speaks, Durham 704,500
^Ishop M.-T.. Mitclicll, iiallimorc, Md (iOl.OOO
,Z.' p. Harris, Diiriuun 502,500
Bcv. J, li. Thotuas, liast Orange, N. J 405,000
Rev,,. K. L. Kirby, Reidsvilie 38(;,000
Riv, Jlarold Cobb, Burlington 296,000
^SV.,;K. p. P. Goodwin, Wiuston-Salcm 249,000
Bov.. J. M. Mantium, Kranklintun 248,500
Rev. Juaies 1'. Werlz, Cliarlotle 240,000
^ov, .L, T., Daye, Mcbaiie 206,500
Rev, ,W. L. J.om's,.(lri'(Miville 191,000
Ifev^.JL'lyUe Johnson^ WeUlun 102,500
beginning of a wider campaign
against discrimination.
Since the opening of the coun
ters, Negro leaders have sought
to integrate two laundromats
rcgated. Recently, a gentleman's
agreement was reached with town
officials permitting use of the
laudromats 'Ahich had been re
served for whites but which is
also located near Mary Potter
.school in aHnixed community.
almixed (
m
liiineral Rites Held For Prominent
North Carolina Pliysician
,Bt MAUDE M. JEFFERS
- GASTONIA — Dr. William
Percy Carter, Sr., prominent
ph'yaioian, civic, social and re-
ligioas leader in Gastonia for
the-' pafit 30 years, died in a
locql hospital Sunday at 0:30,
24th. He liad been I n
failing health for several
months.
Funeral was held by his pas>
tor, the Rev. Moses Javis, at
St. Paul Baptist Church Wednes
day at 11 -a. m.
Final masonic rites, were giv-
Sce PHYSICIAN, 0 A
First Negro
Placed in Class
For Astronauts
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE,
Calif, — Air Force Captain Ed
ward J. Dwight, Jr., was named
among 15 members to the United
been scheduled for the First Bap
course recently.
He Is the first Negro to be as
signed to astronaut training;
Captain C'.vight is a former
Kansas City high school and col-
Icglatc athletic standout.
Father of two sons, he joli\cd
the Air Force In 19B3.
The course to which he will be
assigned begins June 17 and lasts
seven months. It qualifies men
who complete it for assignment as
pilots, managers or consultants on
future manned U. S. space probes.
Special Services
Planned In Duriian^
For'^ster •
Se«et«t eburches ia tbe OuVbtm
«re*‘ wMf '. present speci«|^. Nivfic
•ni >wMsM ip ' services apifMirtiato
to ^ Ettltr teaaon
we^u'
Whil* It^ flWMtt.
S4. " A. ;M. ■, B;^ijirt(L;.St.
A5 M.' E. Zion'Ch»i'dtji^«^*»
perf^m. sacred choral w^XK 'on
PaFm Surnday. White.. I^oclr'^^and
St. Mark will be heard in'ti«e’(en'
ten , canfate. "The S4^«n ijwt
Weids." St. Josepli't ^hoirs will
•Iso be featured in iKoir annual
falm Sunday perfermapice pf^‘t»*
^ed music. ■ t
In. addition many other churches
hava scheduled special wvrship
and Easter music during next
week and on Easter Sundi^f.- For
details of these religious iwesen'
tations,. see article beginni|W on
page
TAYLOR
m EMPLOYMB¥T SERVICES
Ylctlm's
Coroner Says
Gun-shot Victim
Could Have Lived
“Had Cleophus Pettiford sat
down after he was shot and been
taken to a hospital, he (night i>e
alive today,” testified Coroner D.
R. Perry Tuesday.
Coroner Perry was one of the
tw0'.t->witnc8scs to testify in the
flrst-dcgre* murder trial of James
Rosoibe Casb,^ Jr., 28 yc»t old Dur
haMiiNegro.
: The body of 17-ycar-oid Petti-
fotil, Negro youth of Timberlakc,
wM found in a com field last
C]irl9tmas Eve, about 150 yards
frQm- the home of Benny Chavis,
wlwre the shooting allegedly oc-
cufr^d. An autopsy showed he ha.d
been struck by a .,25 caliber slug.
Coroner ferry a^ld he saw the
victim’s body in the field at about
2:30 P. M. oh Dfcember 24, and
surmised that the youth had been
dead 12 to 18 hours.
He said that a small caliber
pistol bullet had severed a large
aiHery near Pottiford’s juglar
vein, causing extensive inside
bleeding'which In^luced shock and
brought death.
Asked ho*' long he though
Pettiford lived after he was shot.
Hie official answered “a couple
hours. }Ie wds a healthly 17-yeaf
ojd boy."
Solicitor Dan Edwards is seek-
ir^ II conviction Irhich could s*nd
Cash tot th* gas chamber.
^et Gi‘ants
Unnecessary
VIEW THE FALLEN LEADER
Unidentified mourner chokes
back grief as two small children
pass Bishop Faison’s bier during
funeral services
Tuesday morninfi.
hi Durham
0)^0RD —; Three Mary Potter
science tiachers have been a'ward
ed stipends to study this summer.
Gjporg^ A. Taylor, chemistry
teacher, will study analytic geo-
See TEACHERS, 6-A
Jillside H^h Band to March In
Cherry Blossom Parade in D. C.
State Position
Racial Bias
Is Charged
At Canaveral
NEW YORK — President Ken
nedy has been urged to end “the
continuing flagrant discrimina
tion suffered by Negro citizens in
the Cape Canaveral-Ciioa area in
Florida.'’
In a letter to the President,
dated March 18, Roy Wilkins, exe
cutive secretary of the National
Association for the Advancemen*
of Colored People, said that the
1,000 Negroes employed in the
nation’s vital space effort in that
area arc denied opportunity for
Job promotipns and refused ac
cess to decent hou.sing while “as
many as 300 FIIA-finaneed homes
.'■tand vacant and unused in the
Cocoa metropolitan area.’’
An affidavit charging housing
discrimination, he told the Presl
dent, had been filed by the
NAACP with the new Committee
on Efiuqal Opportunity in Hous
ing on March 15. On the same
day, complaints charging job dis
crimination were tiled with the
President's Committee on Equal
&mplo^:ment Opportunity.
“I cannot urge too strongly the
noccssity for action to. remove the
racial discrimination . . . exempli
fied in the complaints filed with
the l'//o committees," Mr. Wilkins
said. “I believe that you will agree
with me that'x'ull and speedy
exercise of the Presidential ;.owcr
can and should accon^lish this
purpose.” 1
See CANAVERAL,/G-A
RALEIGH — James T. Taylor,
67, was named administrative of
ficcr with the Service Division of
the Norh Carolina Employment
Security Cwnroission last week by
Commission,.'Chairman Henry E.
Ken^ll. '
Chairman Kendall, in a state
ment ar?n(»uncing the appoint
mcnt, said: ‘The commission is
very fortunate to have a man of
't>*ofcssor Taylor's calibre and ex
perience to join our central of
fice.
Professor Taylor's duties will bt
cancerned with developing a pro
gram of hiring by quality and me
rit He will 'ivork with employees
ESO officers and Negro colleges
Vflth his work being coordinated
by the Governor's Good Nelghiwr
Committee.
Taylor is retired profes.sor of
Psychology at North Carolina Coi-
See TAYLOR, 6-A
BISHOP FAISo:^
Eight Bishops Pay Final Re^ts
To Rev. Faison in Funeral RHes
More than a dozen of the | tery followed the church ritual,
highest ranking clergymen and 1 Services started at the church,
officials of the Church of God located at Queen and Proctor
in Christ Jesus, New Deal, Inc.' streets at 11 a. m. Tuesday mom-
paid final respects to Bishop jng. They were concluded short-
Cluster L. Faison, spiritual lead- ly after 3:30 p. m.
er of the faith, in funeral serv- Bishop Fasion. who began his
ices for the fallen leader held career as a Baptist in
in Durham on Tuesday after-, Qporgia, died_at Duke hovpital
‘ noon. I 00 Wednesday 27. (See
The array of church leade^is .-Deaths and Fuiends.” page
who took part in the funeral .^or complete Qbitwry de-
servlce was so impressive that ' ' y,
it required four and one and
hours' to complete'the church t iTaierrf his
portion of the service. Burial ^
services at Beech wood Ceme- church froni Moh(Uy-e^wning a*
..five p. ni- ontil the h>ur of th^
i funeral service Tuesday.
All of the approaches to the
mobiles timring mourners who
N. Y.
Joins Attack
On Adam Powell
attended .the serviMs. Nearly
half of th&m were out ot state
license plates. The church sanc-
ctuary was fiUed to capacity.
Bishop W. H. Amos, presid-
;r4
ing prelate of the Southeaster
The popular Hillside H i g ir
j School Band, under the dlrectior.
I of J. T. Mitchell, will participate
along with some 6.000 other per
sons in the 1963 Naf onal Cherrj i Division, delivered the eulogy.
Blossom Parade of Princesses Sat jjg preceded by remarks
urday morning in Washington j from seven other bishops of the
D- C. i church and eight general of-
i This year's visit to the nation’s *ficers. ParWcipafeing were the
I Capitol will mark the second con-, following bishops; the Rt. Rev-
NEW YORK—New York legisla secutive year that the Hillside erends A.Simmons. Georgia: G,
Five Durham
Stores Remain
Under Boycott
The list of Durham retail stores
under a boycott sponsored by the
Durham NAACP and CORE re
mained unchanged this week,
spokaamen for the twe organixa
tions reported.
Five downtown retail stores are
being boycotted by Negroes in what
has been described by NAACP
and CORE as an oHort to secure
fair employment opportunities
Stores on the current boycott list
are Sears, Walgreen's Drug Stores
See BOYCOTT, 6-A
bandsmen have received an in- W. Wilds,' Maryland; H. L. Mc-
vitation to participate In the an Bryde,'mlso business manager of
nual Cherry Blossom Festival af j the church; R. B. Mumford, who
fair that is sponsored by the is national Youth president; W.
Metropolitan Washington Board of E. Edward, Southeastern North
Trade. Carolina; and D. S. Scott,
Three special chartered buses Western North Carolina,
will depart Durham Friday mom-; In addition, other general of-
ing carrying the Hillside contin-1 ficers taking part included
gent consisting of 90 student mu-i Atty C. J. Gates, ot Durham,
scntative for Dr. Martin Luthei i sicians, four faculty advisers, and; business manager for Bishop
King's Southern Christian Lead- ^ four parents. ; Faison; and missionary Mothers
ership Conference, took exception ■ The local group will be housed from throughout the denomina-
to the Nf,v York Congressman's ■ at the Stratford, Hotel, 25 E. St., tion. These included Mothers
tor-minister Adam Clayton Powell.
•Ir. was criticized by a fellow cler
!?yman here this week for declar
ing that former baseball star
.Tackle Rabinson “has never earn
?d one penny from Negro sup
port.”
The Rev. George Lawrence. Pas
tor of The Antioch Baptist Church
of Brooklyn and Regional Repre-
remark. I N.W., and will, in addition to the
“When Jackie Robinson became ! parade participation, have an op
See ATTACK, 6-A I See BAND, 6-A
Lila Singletary, General Moths
of tile Church; C. P. Jeffreys,
See FAISON. 8-A
THE BISHOP’S FAMILY—Mrs. L foster sons. Fermon and CltieHr ba» aa^tWilH
Isabelle Fasion (in white veil) | (next to Mrs, Faison) bear Man- tmierat rAn.
wife of Bishop Faison, and two 1 i