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Dr. Elder to Remain as Acting President of NCC 'tfl Sip. 1
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PROTESTS THEME OF NAACP
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VOLUME 40—No. 27
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1963
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In obscrvanei of ihc 100th annivartary af tha sifcnins af Hia
Emancipafieti Proclamation by Prasidant Littcoln, fh« Carolina iTimM
ia this waak prasanting a tpacial taction prapa'rad for thii bcctkiMi.
Ai*ticlas avaluating the signl/ieanco of tha docwmaiit, which frMil
moft American Negro slaves, and assataing the status of Nagraas
today In light of intent of the cmaneipatioti edict will be fownd in
this issue, foi the most part, in Section C, « special supplement. Ba-|
cause of the pressing urgency of race relatMwk in our society today,
the TIMES hopes this supplement will provide historical perspective
for these problems. — The Editor
Philip to Appeal Five-Year Prison Sentence
Jury Says Man
Guilty of Causing
A Miscarriage
ing Ends Artist Dreams
13 Year-old Durham Boy
Boy Loses Life
Diving In Lake
for Golf Balls
Patrick Gamble talked often
of leading the life of an artist
He started drawing rough
sketches of objects from the
time he could hold a pencil in
his hand. When he reached the
sixth grade a t Fayettevillo
Street Elementary School he had
been hailed as' one of the best
drawers and painters in his
class. He won a blue ribbon for
omi of his recent paintings en
tered in oontest for Durham
city schools’ students, AimI W*
ability to compose and his taste
for colors were shown in his
artistic arrangement of flowers
in the flower gardens around
his home.
When school ended and sum'
mer came, Pat had very little
to pursue his ambition. Instead
of being able to attend day camp
and summer school, whOTe
GAMBLE
DR. ELDER
Mass Meting in
D. C. fo Press
CR Bills Urged
CHICAGO, ni. — Leaders of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
announced at their national con
vention earner this week that
plans are being completed for a
series of nationwide demonstra-
tions to rally support for its
propoaals to eliminate all bar
riers to integratian.
The demonstrations will ctil-
minate with a giant national
civil rl*hU lecislativ* conven-
tion in Wv'Mngton, D. C., Aug.
«-« to wl.lch UM*Presideat and
congretalonal leaders wiU be in
vited to “report on the progress
and plans for the passage flf
civil rights legislation.”
The leaders' announcement
came after some 2,000 clieering.
^land-clapping delegates adopted
a resolution which called Presi-
«^nt Kennedy’s recent civil
rights proposals “inadequate to
meet the minimum needs of the
existing situation.”
Robert L. Carter, NAACP
general counsel, introduced the
group’s resolution embodying
the legislative program to titt
54th annual PBAACP convention.
While commending the Presi
dent’s program as “a step to
ward discharging the moral
obligation of our federal govern
ment to its Negro citizens,” th8
resolution urged thesf^^^ition-
•al measures;
1. Establishment of a Fair £m-
ployment Practices Commission
tees, announced that although with the right to subpoena wit-
th'> board had actively sought a i-nesses and evidenj^e, and the le-
suit^le replacement for Dr. gal teeth to enforce its decrees.
Elder, it had not chosen a sue-1 2. Extension of the attorney
cessor. He mentioned the po'r • ^eoeral's authoritjF to initiate
bility of an interim administ. r ' ^rei|
; t-ion. 1 Oi ^
Dr. Elder saifl Tuesday that a | presi»r.« /
1 , avininatlnt gommitte* of tht | posed thft t^-anniiij-^ ,
w K** Vi" ***" ^ board of • trustee^,.charged wHBlb* given the pdwefr to iaitiat:
7 h f ' Tithe tesponsibility of submittin.' -
3 and a half to 5 years; prartic i .
Carolina Times, was one of a ^ fnedicine without a Uien^-.' candidates to the
A ^ Vwrtarri
Successor May
Be Named at
July 16 Meet
Dr. Alfonso Elder, president
of North Carolina College, who
was scheduled to retire as the
college’s head effective June
30, has acceded to a request by
the college’s t>oard of trustees
,,, , . j . .. that he administer the instiut-
file an appeal of a 4 and a haU September 1.
5 ye^rs prison sentence t.| educator, who
the State Supreme Court "be ' ^ ^ 15 years
cause there were errors com- president of the college in
mit ed durmg he course of he
trial’ of Winston Peter Philip, ,3tion in educational cir-
oi«rator of the Durham Surgi-.^,^^ announced
ca upp y o. j impending retiretpeat.
At the college’s June 3 com*
A local attorney announced
that he is filing an appeal to}
the prison sentence of a lociR
businessman convicted for char
ges growing out of an atwrtion
attempt on a Wilson white wom
an.
Attorney C. J. Gates said
earlier this week that he will
toCubam
Revolution Event
Liess than a year' ago Philip
was acquitted of an alleged mur '
der and abortion of another
woman. |
In his trial last Friday, the
58 year old West Indian plea.?
ed innocent^to three charges
growing out w ^s alleged induc
tion. «f a milcacriag*>'«f a pre
gnant woman. |
A mixed jury found Philip
guilty of “inducing a misrar I
mencement, Bascom Bay nes,
chairman of the board of trus-
L. E. Austin, publisher of the
K«yNOn NURSES
nijllHMrs. L Ado^
CONVBN>
,(l*ff).
^
iMll liiijlMtft ' ^w*ll lifptif)\ and
Afrs. itelM f.awU (rlijttj jwara
*1 tha key spatkari f6r tha
art,: .the 13-y«ar-old had to put
Eta Phi Sorority, hold In DulHham address. T^rs'.' Iwell, founSer' o*
last watk. The sorority is a na-ithe sorority, also addresses group ^
tionai organization of professional' Mrs. Lewis, professor of Public' hlS liencils and brushes dowi^ to
nurses. Mrs. Butts, Durham, eha'r 1 Health nursing at the University stiek job. He very often end-
min of the local program com- of North Carol’na, was speaker tor caddying or doing other
group of Americans invited to for which he ir;ceived 12 ,l
attend the 10th anniversary cele
bration of the July 26 Revolu* jjjg lirst sentence; charges of
he could leanr inore abwt -jNia tion to be heldjn Havana, Cuba , unlawful-pn«w*s.sinn-iai- i)arbitUv
ijMMc-lang convantlon of tha Chi i mllteo, Is shown giving welcomo j a banquet^ —Photos by Purefey J®**® *"Ost of the local golf
■ ___ courses.
Baptists Slate
Conventions
New Hope to
Convene In
Chapel Hill
Pat left his home at 112 Corn
wallis Rd., early Saturday morii
ing, and no one had the idea he
would be late returning. He and
his older brother, Eddie, and
I four other boys stayed at Wol
ford Golf Course until everyone
left. When night came the boys
entered the muddy waters Jf
See BOY, 6-A
board,’win tneet Tuesday, JaJy
16./‘Possibly some1;hing definite
J about a successor will clevelop
ill tiwt meeting,” he said, j '
this month.
'AudtincfecBiyfed i
Giraido iua^oia ,. ^retideht ' of
Cuban Institute of if^Hend-
ship with the Peoples.
it offered to pay ' tVarSl)ortb-
tion expenses by way of Mexico
to Havana for the event.
A New York Times article
, ii ' ate i^rugdi, and unlawful delivery
Wireiirotti iijrugs, wtrich werp coi^Udat-
ed for judgement, with the de
fendant receiving 12 months, to
ruiXjconcurrent with 12 months
active term.
Mrs. Ruby Woodard, 39 testi
fied that she paid Philip $120
for an unsuccessful abortion at
Tuesday disclosed that 15 to 20 ^ office-house at 412 S. Mail
other Americans had received
East Cedar
Grove Meet
Opens Wed.
CREEDMOOR — Some 3 8
churches in north east section
of the state will take part in the
9Bth annual session of the B^st
Cedar Grove Missionary Bap
tist Association’s annual conven
tion here next Wednesday and
Thursday, July 10-11.
"The sessions will be held at
the Smith-Thomas building.
The Association takes in Bap-
tlrt churches located in the coun
ties of Durham, Person, Orange
And Granville.
Meeting concurrently with as
sociation convention will be the
women’s auxiliary, whose ses
sions will 1d€ confined largely
to the final day of the conven
tion, Thursday.
The convention’s program will
open Wednesday morning with
rotf^ne devotions and opening
dntailV
■ The major address for the con
vention will be delivered^by the
■^v. C. W. Anderson, pastor of
Institutional Baptist church, of
Greensboro, Dr. A. L. Thomp
son, pastor of First Calvary, of
Duirham, and Rev. S. L. Suitt,
)|aa^r ■ of First Baptist/. Rox-
bbro.
' Rev. Dr. Thompson is modera-
&LC EAST cedar, o-A
THOMAS
Retired Barber Is
Fatajly Stricken
CHAPEL HILL — A panel dis
cussion, an oratorical contest,
and selection of new officers
will highlight the 86th Annual
Session of the New Hope Mis
sionary Baptist Auxiliary Sun
day School Convention and the
32nd Annual Session of the
New Hope Missionary Baptisrt
Auxiliary B T. U. Convention
slated to meet here July 9-10
at the Second Baptist Church.
36 Baptist churches from the
Samuel Nick Thomas, resi-' Piedmont area will be represent
dent of the Logan Building otl ed at the two day convention
DINAH WASHINGTON
Dinah Marries
Pro Grid Star
LAS VEGAS — Jazz slnggr
Dinah Washington and prof)
_ . , , ^ A^aaacsil TT aOlltaiKVVtl attu Ut l
Pettigrew and Ramsey Sts. died Representatives from Durham,' gjong, football star Dick (NigW ■ ®
on Tuesday morning, July 2, in Wake and Orange counties con-
the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel, stitute over half of the conven-
Thomas had just entered the tion’s delegates,
building when he was stricke". I Following the theme; “Be
Thomas worked for a numbel | Witnesses Unto Me,” the conven-
of years as barber at the Cosmo tion will open Tuesday morning
poiitan Barber Shop on Chapel with an address by the group’s
Hill St., before his retirement, president,, T. R. Speight t)f Dur-
Funeral arrangements are in- ham. Dr. Minnie T. Forte will
similar invitations, and among
them were author Louis Lomax
and James Hicks, editor of the
Amsterdam News.
Lomax ref)ortedly expressed
a desire to go and asked the
State Department for advice.
Hicks declined the invitation.
The state department has im
posed a ban on travel to Cuba,
except for reporters, lawyers
and businessmen.
gum St., April 13.
The woman became critically
ill while returning to her home
and underwent treatment at
Wake Memorial Hospital in Ra
leigh.
Gates said he thought the jury
could easily have found Philip
not guility as well as guility.
But Judge Leo Carr reminded
Gates that, “The jury wasn’t
See PHILIP, 6-A
Negro Student is Appointed to
Staff of Durham High Newspaper
Carlton Lafayette Greene, a
rising senior at Durham High
School, has been appointed fea
ture editor of the school news-
papr; the Hi-Rocket, for the'
1963-64 school year.
Carlton, the first Negro stu
dent to become a member of
the Hi-Rocket staff, has had
several articles in each of the is
sues published since his arrival
at the school on January 22 ol
complete.
TO ALL OF OUR READERS
The Carolina Times welcomes theme of
news items of community social scheduled
and civic activities, club meet
ings, coming events, engagment,
announcements, weddings, baby
christenings, births, trips, visits,
Sec READERS, 6-A
preside over the morning ses
sion. ,»■
A panel discussion on the
the convention
for Tuesday after-
iiuun wiirt ivitii. liai'DUtJ
1^. r'ciiiCtiui. xwi* iLHi uio*
iuuacit.
Train) Lane were married in a
surprise ceremony Tuesday at
Las Vegas.
After a hotel reception, the
couple was to fly back to Los
Angeles. ^
It was the sixth marriage for
Miss Washington, 37, and the se
cond for Lane, 35.
\ The ceremony was perform-
eo by Justice of the Peace Tom
Pursel in the “Little Old Church
of the West.”
Miss Washington Is one of the
most prominent jazz singers of
He, along with Cora Coles, an
other Negro student at Durham
High, Intergrated the school’s
literary magazine; Potpurri,
when they worked on the pub
licity and circulation commit
tees of that publication this pa5t
spring.
While at Hillside High, where
0^ spert his sophomore, and
one semester of his junior yeaf,
Carlton was active in the Dra
ma Club, the Broadcasters club,
and was a valuable meml>er of
the Chronicle and the Hornet;
the era. Lane is a halfback for I the school newspaper and year-
' the Detroit Lions. He formerly book respectively.
I played with the Los Angeles | Extremely interested in i?-
McKISSICK
court actioA' only ik school de-
seg)«gati(MB cs*M.
3. Provide tor legal sa>»ttfo^
ag;aiiist labor umons> that, pr(W-
tice discrimination. '
The resbtutkm outlined a pr«>-
grsTtr of 'iiiawrve iMibiif HeiiiaiA
, strations be^nning wmhj local
I civil rights rallies in tBe latter
' part of July i^tor the-pArpose of
ijmobilizing local grass-roots sup
I port.”
I Executive secretary Roy Wil
kins set the pace for the firaming
nf the resolution with his open
ing day speech which statH
that anti-segregation protests
would be “accelarated" ttii*
summer.
Wilkins said that “accelerate,
accelerate, accelerate” is the con
j vention’s theme and that tb#
meet will stimulate demonstra
tions thgoughout the country.
He said that “blackjack pro
cedures” by Southern Congress
men “will not deter the civil
rights movement and will only
mean' that ntassive demonstra
tions will become more neces
sary tten ever.”
The Washington convention
would gather as many as possi
ble of the NAACP*! members
and supporters In the capttol
city for the purpose of makid)[
- See CONVENTION. 6-A
Durham Attorney is Elected
National Chairman of CORE
DAYTON, Ohio — Attorney After his gmtfu^tion, McKia-
Floyd B. McKlssick, of Durham sick set up law offices in Duf-
was elected national chairman ham and has been cowtantly la
of the Congress of Racial Equal, the forefront of inovenients by
ity at the organization’s annual , Negretes to elimiiMite aPgraga-
conventlon held here last week. tion.
An outspokenly militant aT-1 Hia oldest daughter. Joyceiyn.
torney in civil rights. McKissic^ waj one ol the plaintiffs ia 89
succeeeds Charles Oldham as Durham school integration suit
chairman. The Durham attome'J and was one rf the first Negro-
GREENE *
hopes of working this coming
school term, on the Messenger;
the DHS annual.
The aspiring journalist is the
son of Mrs. Ruth H Gretne, of
held the office of local chair^
man prior to his election.
McKlssick has l>sen identified
with militant elements in th*
civil rights struggle since h%
days as a student at the law
school at Ntorth Carolina Col
lege. ^
He led a picket of the state
legislature protesting unequSS
facilities at the NCC law school
iu 19-iii aim wiu> the fur»t Ne
gro to enter the Univtirsity of
IRanui.
704 Glenn Str»*et hefe in Dur-1 North Carolina v hen m
. ^ IJ.w.
es to etwoll la whii^ public
schools ia the city.' A aacand
daughter, AbAm*. IMowad.
McKlssick became advlaar to
the Durham youth and
NAACP whea 1
dent ntovtmgiKt
gatioa
late 50’t I
tive
tiniBar
He IB
to auyc