DUNGEE 1ST, MOSELEY 2ND IN HOLY UND CONTEST
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Parents to Boycott East End School
In Durham Boarding House
ENRAGED MAN SLAYS TWO
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Parents Protest
Split Shifts at
! Durham School
REV. DUNCEE
REV. MOSELEY
REV. JONES
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VOLUME 40 — No. J8
Jones Takes
in Second
il Contest
'7^110 lipv. John R. DUugcc, of
lf|ifdcrsoin who led every week
Bitm- th* first in the Carolina
Times sccond annual Minister^'
C^Ot'e.sti CHpturecl the grand prizt
lU-the conlc.ft this wceit.
i^y. Dungec wiii get a irui
fl^nd trip to the holy Iqnd for
Wif first place finish.
Sf'cond prize in the conlcst wa-
won by the Rev. Alexander b
H«wlpy. of Durham, and Rev.
Jolin JI. Jones, of Danville, picked
up the third prizo.
; Ucsults cif the contc.st were an-
nomccd early Tliursday as an in-
df^cHdcnt auditing committer,
hiiaUorl by William .1. Walker
accountant, veriiicd the
eldest results.
in the top ten. in
W(src the loflowiiij^
llovcrends J. C. Harris,
Sfcl'csvilk: T. II. Miiriihy, Hen
dmiDil; Kcrmit DcGralfenrcidi,
K»ro; W. T. Bigelow, Apex; A
Durham; J. R. Manley,
1; and I V/. Choatei
,.
J*cv. Walter Yarboroufth. oi ior Court Thursday
r^klinton, and Rev. R. L. Sp'iaks, against Nathaniel E.
)|^h>rhtnfi,.taiAc in nth and J2ti., Sr., undertaker,'' Who; PfloleM'
r»fi^ctivcly. | said, jailed to provide a "Chris-1
jWv. Dungee, pastor of Cotton! tian burial for'Boole’s son
Pre.sybtcrian Church, amass-1 The suit alleged that the
oitrtiore'than 2 million vote mar-1 undertaker buried Poole's in-
g|i to vin tht! grand prize. Ho fant son in a pine box in a shal-
jutnpcd into the lead in the sec-1 low grave contained at least
ond week of the contest and was i three other infants wrapped in
.ari
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DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1963
RETURN REQUEST5D
PRICE; 15 Centr
Court Awards Man $5,000
In Suit against Undertalier
FAISON
MRS. EATMON
Failed to Give
Decent Burial,
GREENSBORO Willie
Poole of Oreensboro was award
ed nrKire than $5,000 in Super-
a suit
Har|«tt,
never headed.
■’Although he was pre.ssed at sev
ersi points in The slx weeks con
test by Rev. Moseley and Rev.
.loites, he finished with a rus.T
Itttalling 8,051,500 votes.
Rev. Moseley, pastor of Mt
Gilead Baptist Church of Ournam
will get a free round trip to Ber
muda for his second place finish
A relative newcomer to Durham,
ftpv. Moseley started slowly and
moved Up to second place at the
half way mark. He remained in
second until the end, barely nos
ing' out Rev, Jones with less thai!
300,000 votes.
Rev. Moseley’s final total was 6,-
337,500 while Rev. Jones finishcu
with 8,045.500.
Reverend Harris and Murphy,
who finished fourth and fifth, re
spectively, waged a hot race for
one of’thc top th/cc spots b..'
failed to pick up enough points
in the final weeks to move up. i
Both maintained fourth and fil'ti
positions in the conlcst throug.i
out the sixth weeks.
Rev, Bigelow, who was an early
leadrr, fell behind midway in th'_
contest and wound up in scv;-ntS
This was the second year ol the
newspaper.
The grave vvas discovered
psrttaltjr opsnecr ~by~two deputy-’
sheriffs who were investigating
a report that someone was in
the process of burying a small
foreign car.
Some 400 parents of the East
End community voted Wednesday
I night to Ifeop their children out
; of fl'rc damaged East End .school.
The action came at a spcciul
meeting at the Mickle Community
Center called by the East End
Betterment League to consider a;
course to pursue in the sehuoll
crisis. I
More, than 7 0 0 elementary j
school chitdren assigned to East {
tnd have been attending double'
sessions in the undamaged sec-1
I tion of the school since a SSaO,-
: 000 fire last week left the main -
part of the building a gutted hull.
But community residents voiced
a strong protest to the plan at it.S:
announcement and urged the:
board to reconsider the move i
Wednesday night's action was
part of this protest.
The motion to boycott
i school received unanimous
i proval from the gathering whiclV Elmo L. Faison, whom ings earty Sunday morning re-
crowded the t'ommunity Center, police say sliot and killed his ported t^at Faison shot and kill
: The meeting '*as presided over landlady,. Mrs, Ester F. Eatmon. ed Mrs. Eatmon and Davis fn
, by Reverend A. D. Moseley, pas- High St.. and her neigh- an aj^part^nt drunken rage
I tor of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church. Elijah Davis, 4ti, of 817" " ■
; and John L. Holloway, chairman W*8h St.
of the Betterment League.
In addition to the boycott ae-
• (tion, the parents ad»|H«d a pusi-
tion to be presented 40 the board
at its'' regular meting Monday
high|t asking it to make other ur-
rangements for accomiiKHiating
Set EAST END 6-A
Woman's Body Riddled with Slugs;
Man Shot and Beaten with Rifle
A 44 year old Durham man Faison was captured Sunday
waii behind bars in Durham this afternoon after be was reported
■ week after his arrest in con- seen lying beside a hogpen' in
tho *'‘-*ction with a double slaying East Durham section of the city,
ap- bcre early Sunday. .Witncsaes to the fatal shoot-
GOVERNOR
OMEGAS —
Persons shown in
The officers later learned that i this picture were those who look
Nathaniel Hargett Jr., had re.
ported his car stolen. He was
later convicted on charges of
filing a false insurance claim
and causing false information
to be broadcast over a police
radio.
Martin A. Martin,
Civil Rights
Lawyer, Dies
part in a specie I awards pro
gram Saturday at A. and T. Col
lege. sponsored by the 6th di
strict Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
Gov. Terry Sanford, 2nd from
was given the 'Citisen's and Mayor David Schenk were
Aw»rd' by the fraternity. Ellit of the Greensboro City Council.
F. Corbott, who arranged the on hand representing the city,
program, is shown on the left. George Mears, first grad basi*
Dr. Walter Ridley, president of leus, of N. Y.. (extreme right'
Elisabeth State Teachers Col- greeted the Governor "for the
lege (n e x t). presented the fratarnity.
award. Welde Falkner, member |
Kennedy Has Kept Campaign Promises to Negroes,
Negro Democratic Leader Asserts’in Address
are
, Boycott’
Group Complains
The boycott of a selected group
of downtown Durham stores con
tinued this week with the li.st of
stores under sanction remaining'
unchanged.
Targets of the boycott are
Sears, Walgreen's, Kobbins. Thom
! McAn and Royal Clothing Co. I
I The action is being sponsored
by the Durham NAACP and CORE.
Spokesmen for the organization.s
REV. SPOTTSV/OOD
Bish. Spottswood
To Keynote C-R
Rally Sunday
RICHMOND, Va. — Martin
A. Martin, civil rights lawyer,
died at age 52 of a heart at
tack at his home here Saturday
night.
Martin, a native of Danville,
was a graduate of Ohio State I I960 campaign promise to open
University and the Howard Uni-! the doors of the White' House
Minislrrs Popularity Contest. Tnc verslty School of Law. He had j and the federal government to
Rev. James A. Brown, of Durnam I practiced law for a quarter-icen- ^11 Americans and to place
won the grand prize and, took a tcry appearing as a council for j qu'aiified Negroes in positions of
(rop 17 day trip tiirough soutacrn' plaintiffs in racials segregation national responsibility.
Europe and the Holy Land las | ca.ses locally and nationally. At
August. Rev. W. L. Williams, of one time he was chairman of the
Wrhlon. '.von the trip to nermuda,' State Legal Staff of the NA-
I ACP.
; Funeral services were held
j Wednesday, May 1, at the First
I African Baptist Church.
I Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
I Ruth J. Martin; two sisters, Mrs.
Today, a hundred years after the complete disfranchisement the hill, had taken a look at the complained this week that N*---
Emancipation, I believe we stand of Ntgroes. | promised land, and had been gmes are violating picket line» at
on the threshold of a new era | Mentioning 20 or more Ne- sent sprawling back down ; Sears, Walgreen Drug Store ami r^LEIGH — Accordinij to
of liberty in America,’ Louis groes from the South who serv- again. I oscoe-Griffin. Information given bv leaders of
Martin, deputy chairman of the j ed in the U. S. House and Sen-1 The rebound began, he said, | They are crossing the lines as- naacp tht*' ••Fropdom
.. „ ... . .. .. . .. J T 1 if w.>riin’» thor.. ” ..n.. I e iAIAACP IHe t recaom
Democratic Natiohal Committee. I ate,
told an audience at North Car- 20th
olina College Friday. I by now the Negro
and the Rev. M. C. Swann, of Dur
liam, won the third prize last vcar
Sixth District
Omegas Close
Annual Meet
He said .also that President
John F. K,°nnedy has kept his
Addressing the 28th annual
meeting of the Association of
Social Science Teachers, Martin j
was the principal speaker at an j
assembly which included wel-1
scribed as a social force capable j groups have passed out leaflets’ “ddresies by militant
of shaking the whole society and explaining the reason for the
serving to crumble the mores
and customs conditioning social
behavior. "Finally,’ he said, "the
Korean conflict helped to ac-
See PROMISES. 6-A
, he said; “As we enter the with World War I, continued >f we weren’t there,” one membei , T
h century, it is obvious that through the depression follow-' of the group said. Dorton Arena in olLervanc° of
now the Negro had climbed ing World War II, which he de- In addition to picketing, thej
School Secretary
Is Charged In
Check Fogery
Mrs, Pearl Wyche, 31 and
Mrs. Annie Regan, 50, roomers
at the EUttrooK hom^. were
quoted by police as saying that
Fasion had iHfen drinking armT
came into the house and start
ed shooting, first at Davis then
at Mrs. EatnwD. ^
I The shooting took place
around 2 a. m. Sunday. Police
Ay :Faison used a .22 . calibr?
automatic rifle. Alter shooting
.Mrs. Batmon and Davis. Faison
soiashed over the head
StB SLAYS. 6-A
N. C. Elks to^
Stress Rights in
State Confab
GOLDSBORO — A heavy em
phasis on civil rights ^vilI fcatun
the annual state convention o:
Elks which gels underway here
Saturday.
Among the items on the aeend;)
of the organization is a drive tn
register some 10,000 Negro voters
in Eastern North Carolina, accord
ing to convention spokesmen.
.■Vction is expected to be taken
to implement the drive at the
convention.
Highlights of the meeting will
ing of the Emancipation Pro ” htri'ader' l“'e. "Au^m.
action and urging support fot' tishcr of the Carolina Times, and
their boycott. | ^ ever t ^ Moseley, pastor of Mt.
The action seeks to secure wider Kelley Alexander, State Pre- Gilead Baptist Church, of Durham
employment for Negroes in the sident, announced that Clarence and a former leader of civil rights
Durham area.
GREENSBORO—The Sixth Uis-I
trict annual meeting of the Omega Youth WjllVeS
P.si Phi Fraternity, presided over xj • i
by Ifarold R. Boulware, Columbia, Mcarin^ IH
CHARLOTTE — Miss Gladys j
come remarks by Durham Mayor Wall of Brown St., who
E. J. Evans and NCC President formerly was secretary at Plato ‘
Alfonso Elder. His subject (and Price High School, has been
nun. ivi«riii.; iwo sisiers, , the conference theme) was, “The charged with forging 29 ch^a
W. Gladys Flint and Mrs. Bea-1 Emancipation Proclamation; lOO 5>'556 03 on school
4 • TT 1. I. ^ w Aftor’ funds. She waived hearing in
trice Helton, both ot Columbu.i, Years After. . , , mi
' Recorders Court last Thursday
Martin discussed three periods and was released on $1,000 bond
in the century-long struggle of for the trial in Superior Court.
Negroes for full citizenship
righs — the period from 1865
to 1875, in which efforts at Re
construction brought Negroes
the right to vote and some mea
sure of participation in the
South’s political power structure;
I Ohio; and two brothers, M .C.
i Martin of Danville and R. D.
j Martin, Jr., of Washington, D.
C.
Mitchell. Ill, son of Clarence movements in eastern North Ca
Mitchell, Jr., Director of the rolina.
Washington Bureau of the NA- in addition, provisions are ex-
ACP, and a member of the pected to be made to give aid
Maryland Legislature, will team to Negroes in civil rights action»
up with Bishop S. G. Spotts- in Caswell and Sampson CountifiT
I wood. Chairman of the Board of j
' Directors, to not only give the I
audience the facts about the
organization, but to show it that
100 years is long enough to wait
for first class citizenship.
Alexander pointed out that,
oven though the organization ^ 5^,^
had done l^airly well m North
Can>lina that the surface had i.
. . ^ „ fractured nt>« when her car
not been scratched and that Ne- ... ,
. . .,,, . struck a power pole Mi>n-
grocs must be willing to pay
to become first blass citizens.
Teacher Hurt
In Car Wreck
Mrs. Katheryn E. Walker, teu-
day Morning as she was driving
north on Roxt>oro St.
Detective said that Miss Wall
wrote the checks, signed them
with the name of Principal
James Burch, and counter-
signed them with her name as' I The^jver of the ballot will Policeman Buddy Rogers ouot
treasurer of the school. All ‘ CANDIDATES - Shown here the first time since Reconitruc- ^ explored in every way. The ^ Walker at soying
checks were not cashed, tHey are Mrs. Lattice Vickers (left) lion, in the state. Mr*. Viekers. North^Carolina hM the fwjnt Of her car
said. and A. Reed Johnson, candi- a Carrbero mother, ia running
The
S. C., cloiicd here Sunday, after Fire ChargfeS \
one of the most successful se.s-j Jesse Preston Trice.ilS year j the period characterized by the
sions ever held. It is composed of, olcl boy charged with t#o counts I so-called Hayes-Tiiden ‘deal,’
chapters in the two Carolinas anil |of setHng fires in Annectlon I which led to withdrawal of superintendent of the spring in North is Carrboro. Johnson is seeking
IS considered one of the outstand-i with the $500,000 f£e which ' federal troops in 1877 and caused system and Buroii Carolina. They are lust two of election to the EnlieM City
ing districts in the fraternity. | ruined half of East E« elemen- the collapse of Reconstructlftn | witnesses agair , unprcdentedly Urge number Council in a r»ce that will be
The meeting o)l)ened F'"idayitrry school In Du»ym last' govcrnmenlj>; and a period, | Wiss Woll.s in her forthcomin-g j of N«>(iroFt who dacidad Tuasdayf May
See OMEGAS, 6-A j See YOUTH, #A beginning in 1090, which s|aw trial, public ofllce. la many cases Iql^!
causing her to »w«rv».' to tht
dates for city officers in elee- for the Board of Commlsaieners United States and one of ^ .
i_ m.—... ^the lowest registered averages — '
in the nation Is said to be a re-
Th« e«r fkrcUrcd a b^tal
4u 1 II 1*^- was plat;»{ ut
flection on the civil conscious-
ness '''f rn'-*- The futt tnat
Set RALLY, B-A
Mr? Wa.iher i* rtni+'it :m t,
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