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Mann Film Laboratories 7^0 C hatha Cl Rd. Winston-Salem, N. C. 7/20/Comp. 22 Nominated For Third Annual Holy Voting Starts sri LUME 1 — 10 DURHAM, N. C., 27702, ^ATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1964 RETURt] REQUESTED PRICE: 15 C«nt» Dr. Proctor Resigns As A&T College President DR. COLE Leaders Hail LBJ's Stand In Florida Speech Democratic Party leaders around the nation hailed the forthright civil rights stand tak en by President Lyndon B. Johnson in his first political spcech at a fund raising dinner in IVTlanii, FIoH^a last Thursday. President Johnson told the 3. 500 Southern Democrats that he was not only going "to protcct the constitutional rights of all Americans” but that his Adminl- stration “would press forward Duke Professor To Speak At NCC March. 11 A Duke University expert on international political systems will deliver the second in tlie iMt North Carolina College so ciology lepture series Wednes-1 iuy, March 11, at 7:30 p. m. In tlye auditorium of the college’s Siducation Building. Dr. R. Taylor Cole, a profes 4or of political science at Duke knd University Provost, will •peak on the subject, “Federal- iain In Nigeria,” ^ctures in ithis; .series ivHl ceirtet- 'prt political institu tions and pi^^esses, bothj in the United States and abroad. A James B. Duke Professor of Political Scienpe at Duke yeriity, Dr. Cole, a native of JSald Prairie, Texas, holds the See PROFESSOR, 6A with legislation, with education and with action, until we have eliminated' the last barrier of ihtolerance,” Thg President said, “Tlie-Con stitution applies to Americans of every religion, every regiorr and every race.” He warned that “For as long as freedom is den ied to some, the liberty of all is in danger.” Thg President in sisted, “full participation in our society can no longer be reserv ed to men of ong color.’’ The significarrce of the strong stand taken on civil rights in a deep South setting was noted by civil rights leaders and news men described the speech as con taining some of “the most forth right statements on civil rights a President had ever addressed to a Southern audience." The Florida speech was the first political address ot Presi dent Johnson and \Vai consider ed doubly significant by state and local party leaders across the country who are girding themselves for the national elec- See SPEECH, 6A Ooen Scliools In Prince Edward NAACP Urges U. WASHINGTON — In a brief filed with the U. S. Supreme Court on Feb. 26, the NAACP seeks to write the chapter to a school desegregation case which predates the 1954 Su preme Court decision. The NAACP suit, filed by the AfiHOciation’s General Counsel, Robert L. Carter, ask,'! the Court to order the reopening of the public schools in Princo Edward County, Va., on a nton-discrimina tory basis. The schools were closed nearly five years ago to avoid court ordered integra tion. The origitral suit dates back to 1951 and was one o( the suits which prompted the historic de cision of May 17, 1954, Voiding the “separate but equal” doctrine bi public education. In addition to the reopenirrg o# t h c schools by September, I#64, the NAACP also requests that local officilnls be barred from using state or local tuition franrts, tax credits or any other public funds to support any ■ehool in the county or state wbleh operates as a segregated tostitution. Finally, to frestall any furth er attempts by school authorities to dodge their responsibilitiei. the NAACP asks that the (11 strict court be required to mnin- ^in Jurisdiction • in the case iii Qfder to bnplement promptly the Supreme Cburt’s decision. Oral argument In the Court has been set for March 30, thus xnaking it possible for a decision btfore the beginning of the 1964- See SCHOOLS, aA H. l^. Michaux, Jr. Seeks G. A. Noinination H. M. Michaux, Jr., local In surance and Real Estate Agent, formally announced this week his candidacy for the Durham County Democratic nomination for the North Carolina General Assembly. According to all available sourees, it appears that Mi- chaux’n effort* to sefk the De- See MICHAUX. 6A GREENSBORO — Dr. Samuel D. Proctor has resigned as pre sident of The Agricultural and Technical College, here. Notice of the resignation, to' become effective on April 10, 1!)64, was filed late Saturd.ny by wire to members of the A. and T. College Trustee Board. Dr. Proctor artnounccd that he will return to Wa.shington, D. C. as associate director of the U. S. Peace Corps, a position he held for eight months from January through August, 1963. He had served with thp Pcace Corps first as director of the pro gram in Nigeria, Africa, as a part of a 20 month leave from thp presidency of A. and T. be ginning' In January 1962. He came to the College first in July I960'. Referring to his resigniilion. DR. PrtOPTOR Dr. Proctor said, “When Pre.*;! dent Lyndon B. Johnson asked Sargent Shriver (Director o£ the Peace Corps) to direct the ‘War On Poverty’, I found it dif ficult to decline Mr. Shrivors Invitation to return to the Peace Corps. Despite my deep, personal lt>yultie‘i to higher »dueation in Next Saturday For Ministers A total of 22 ministers had l)oen nominated for the Carolin? Times third annual Ministers V;iea tion Popularity Conle.st at Wednes day noon of this Acck .Additional nominations over ihc weekend were e»pected to run the total b> clo.'^int: time Siilurd;iv to at leas* 33. With another full week of nominations still to follow. tti total number tjy the time votins in the contest sets-, under wav Mrrch 14 is expected to be iififh*' neit;hborho»d of 50. Tile tl.ree ;;i'and pri/es this -^ear ioeliide, the first, an airplane ■ound trip to the Holy Land which will make it possible for the win nor to visit such cities at Athens Rome, Jerusalem. Bethlehem, Bet hany and other Binlieal points o interest: the second an airplane round trip to Bermuda, and thr third, an airplane round trip tr New York. The contest will last for six weeks, ending on April 27. Th*^ following week, photojranhs of the winners will be puhlistied In th' Carolina Times along with theii final standin;. All non-priz» win ners will he paid a commi.ssion oi 15% on all subscribers reportet' In their behalf. Kull information and participa tion in the contest will he found on page (i-H in the second sect'op of this week's i.ssue of the Caro lina Times. Those nominated up to Wednes 'bv noop as follow. ; Itev. .1. K. McRay, Elizabeth gtrneral and to A. arrd T. Col lege, in particular, the urgency of the summons to serve the .country — especially after the death of President John Kj* Ken nedy — seemed overriding.” - A native of Norfolk, Virginia, See PROCTOk. 6A CTfy Hev. C. I!. Moseley, fireenville Rev. I. J. Williams. (',ri'enville Rev. T. V. Koster. Rockv Mount Hev. J. W. White, Asheville Hev. Colrnan Kerry, Charlotte Rev. Otis Dunn, Asheville i Rev. K. 0. P C!o(i.viii. Win.ston I See CONTEST 4A OCEANOGRAPHER SPEAKS — Dr. Robert J* Menzies, director of th« oceanography project of Duke University, was the speak- #r at an annual seminar pre* tented by the Geography Club of Norrh Carolina College re* cently. From left are Samuel Craft, vice president of the Geography Club; Dr, Theodore R. Speigner, chairman of the NCC Department of Geography: Dr. Menzles, Joseph Williams, Jr., secretary of the Geography Club, and Donald Ensley, prcsi* dent of the club. U. s. Supreme Court Outlaws Hospital Bias Congressman Powell Tells of Early Difficiilties in Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. D. C. — The United States Supre^ne Court Monday allowed to stand a cTC- cisiiMi outlawing racial segrega- tion of doctors and patients T!y Host Committee for the Brother hood Day Luncheon honoring Hif Excellency Julius Momo Udochi, Ambassador of Nigeria, held in Durham at the Jack Tar Hotel, Sunday, February 23. Seated, from left, Dr. S. P. Mas- sle. Vice Chairman, President, North Carolina College; Honor able Claude E. Currie, N. C. Sena tor; Ambassador Udochi; A. T. Spaulding, Chairman of Commit- tee. President of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company: and Dr. R. Taylor Cole, Vice Chairman, Provost, Duke Uni versity. Standing; J. H. Lucas, Princi pal. Hillside High School; E. S. Swind-ell. Jr., Durham County Maneger; E. J. Evans, former Mayor of the City of Durham; L. B. Frasier, Chairman, Clli- *en» Advisory Committee; M r. George Walpole, Jr., ExecutiTe Vice President., Durham Cham ber of Commerce; S. Ogimegah, Personal Secretary to the Am bassador. Dr. Theodore R. Speig- n e r. Member of Durham City School Board, W. J. Kennedy, Jr., member of N. C. Boar4 Higher Education and J. H. Wheeler. Chairman. Durham Committee on Negro Affairs. Minister's Ass^ns Favor Sunday Polio 1 realment Claims Division in Black Musliiii Ranks Appears to be Imminent The Durham Minister's Asso i ciation and the Ministerial AI liance have endorsed Ihe usp of: a Sunday for the polio immuni zation program to be conducted j in March by thg Durham-Orange | County Medical Foundation. | The Foundation's Durhnni County chairman for the Oralj Polio Vaccine Program, Dr. i Will London, said recently that i thg two minister’s groups hud given their full support tu the | carrkpaign. | The medical foundation has | organized the immization pro' gram in an effort to get the new { Trivalent Oral Vaccine to allj residents of the two cwnty area.: It has made plans to set up I Seedirg sltations to administer j the convenient and easy to use { vaccinc in every elementary 1 school in Durham and Orange Courrty. | Each station will he manned, j by a local doctor and by nurs« I I SEE MINISTERS, 6A i N-KW YORK — There appears t(> Ij,, an imminent split brewing 1 the ranks of the Black Mus- li;ns, according to current re- pidts. It is reported that Elijah Mu hammad, the movement leader may lose a substantial part liis di.sciples to an organization | led by Malcolm, X, his number 2 man and Cassius Clay, the number 1, in boxing. Malcolm X, who^has been ban ned from speaking for the move ment since he was alleged to have made a desparaging state ment about President John F. Kennedy after he was assassinat ed, the Muslims’ American pro phet, Elijah Muhammad, and lieiivyweiEht cliumpiun Ca^jsiua Clay, did not attend the recent Mu.slim Convention in Chicago, because he appearently had not been restored to power by tit* number 1 Muslim boss, Elijah Muhammad. . Other developments reveal that Malcolm X gave Cassius Clay the spiritual iind psycholo gical preparation for his upset victory over former heavy weight champion. Sonny Liston, in Miami last week. Clay spent the majority of his hours in Mi ami with Malcolm X when he was not physical, training. Clay announced, a day after his ring victory that he was ,» Muslim, thus giving Malcolm X a surge of prestige by having the !icc MUSLIM, (iA washin(;ton—i whs pu' nut of nearly every hotel in thi town after they found out uhr I was." The scone is a plush Con^res sional barbershop and the speak er is himself a veteran (.'onuress man who is reminisein'.! alioul some of the dilficiilties he fiieeH as a Nenro Ifl years ii'^o when be first arrived in Washini'.ton as treshnian llepresentati\e. As Hep re.sentative Adam Clavtdn I’owell (I).-N.Y.) reflects on hi'- 'arlv day on Capitol Hill, his recollection lorm a vivid picture of the eeloi harriers in the eity at that time Some, of Powell's- repiinisccncu' will form. a portion ici' the “NB' White Paper" tel ’'.‘ist Thursday, .Mart'h 12 (7:30-8:30 P.M. KST) in which r^wcll is the proi^rain sub ject. The following, aeeordini; to I’ow ell. is what life for tlie .Nec:ro- ’.vhether he was a laborer or a ConRre.ssinan—was like in Wash intton in 1945: ON RESTAURANT.*:: "There wasn't a restaurant in this town that would serve a Ne «ro. You eoudn't get a cup of cof fee in an ordinary 5 and 10 cent store . . . uiile.sM you wauled to take it out in a paper container.’' "I can, reme.n')ei- the first time I went into the dininu room for Congressmen. 1 was stopped at the door, even thoufili I was a C(umressinan Soin" into the Con .qressional restaurant, beeau.se I had with me a Nefiro yuest. And then I called up Sam liayburn (.Speaker of the llousiM. He c:illed up the lady in charge and said stop this foolishness.’ Krom thcr on there has been no problem tlia‘ I know of.’’ ON THEATRES: "There wasn’t a theatre in this town that you could yo to There A-asn't even a theat.e that had a .lim Crow balcony. The only the atres that you could ro to were those built e^tclusively for .Negroes in t..e Negro areas.” can remember my wife. Haze Scott, had just made a pieture. th' | life *f Georse Gershwin, callcl; llhapsody in Blue.’ She was on’> of the stars in it. She could'n' .see the picture even though the' theatre was "owned bv the comoany | that made the picture. She called | them up in California and they | said 'Sorry. Miss Scott, the policy j in Washinston is we can't let Ne ‘ groes in even if they're the star” of the picture’. ” ON HOTELS: "I was put out of the . . hotc' right across the strec^t. which was owned by a friend of mine in New York. And the manager was a fellow from Pennsylvania I knew He put me out and wouldn’t le* me register there any more. I was put out of the, hotel back of the ’."here tlir h.-iii:; out for a ylass of .sarsapa I rilla. Oh. I was put out of nearly] every liotel in this town after they found out whi^l -A'as,” ^ Powell points out that thjnjjs- are considerably different in Washin;;ton today: "... Tliat was 19 yeajs a^o. Today in this town vou can sjo I anywhere you want to—the best ' hotels, the best theatres, the he.st restaurants ... no problem at ' all.'’ Monthly Meeting of Ushers at New Bethel Church Sunday ■The Monthly Mcetinrg of the , Durham Interdenoinination a I ' Ushers Union will be held on ' S'unday. March 8. at New Bethel Baptist Church on Crest -Street The meeting, sponsored by the Choral Society of New Bethel, has as its theme, "Strivirtg 'JPo- ward Greater Growth.’ Mrs. Virginia W. Alston of White Rock Bagtist Chureli will deliver the keynote address. ; hospitals built with federal assfs- j tance. Monday’s actiort was in jthe form of a brief order with I no opinionr. — I The decision was rendered I November 1, 1963, in the 4th Circuit Court ot Appeals in a I case involving two Grecrr.sbc(?ti hospitals, Wesley Long Commu nity and Moses H. Cong Memor ial. i The action was begun in 19G2 iir Greensboro federal eourl if 11 Negro ducturs. dentists and patients with the Justice Deparl- mejjti intervening in •their behalf. The defendants clmllenged thn two hospitals, under the provl- sioi's of the Hill-Burton Act of 104G, in which Congress authfl' izecf grants of federal funds for hos'pital con.sl>ructit)h. The money is paid mt Ihroligh slate trca- uries in accordarrep with a state ho.spital construction plan. The law expressly allows a “.separate but equal” treatment of the two races. 'I'lie litigant.'!, arguing that thp "separate but equal’ clawse of the Hill Burton Act was imcon slitutional- asked that it bo striK-k down and further nsked for an anti-segregation order for doctors, derrtists and patients. Urban Renewal May Deprive Many Citizens of Standard Housing The director ot Nortlnvestern University's Center for Metro-' politan Studies Tuesday even ing told a North Carolirra Col-1 lege audience that without sub sidized public housing for those' needing it, urban renewal will| deprive many Americans of, standard housing. The speaker. Dr. Scolt Greer. als(^a professor of sociology at Northwestern, dulivering the first in NCC’s 19K3-64 sociology lecture scries, addressed a eapa city audience in. the coltege’s- Education Building auditorium on the subject. "The Politics ofi Urban Renewal." j Recurring in his lecture — j and in the lively, extended que.s - tion and discussion period which followed — was Greer’s insfs tence that the only way to as sure that many Americans will Stewart Steadily ' Improving At j Lincoln Hospital J. s. Stewart, City Council-; man and Presidertt of Mutual | Savings and Loan Association.! is in satisfactory condition atj Lincoln Hospital after having undergone surgery last week. | According to information ob-j tained from the hospital, Ste-j wart is rapidly recovering and will probably be discharged i '..iUiiO Uic I have decent, safe and sanitary housirrg is through subsidiza tion. In his leuture. Dr. Greer dis cussed the sociology of trends and cTiscourrted the efforts of planners to renew old business districts. “Our qities," he de clared, “are going outwards and they're going outward very fast.’ The fact that Durham has not grown very much lately is pro bably a result of its essential conservatism, which has thus seen the city pas.sed serially by three or four different North Caiolina cities, he said, adding that “Durham will catch u p. Durham will also become subur banized.” "The whole push is outward.” h(. a.sscrted. “This we know from every study we have done of what Americans want to live like. They want to live dispers ed. We know, also, that they do no( understand metropolitan ,i?ov prnments: that they want to live without government ... I call it 'Hasty Hedonism — America’s answer to the atomic bomb.” Answering questions and com ments about urban renewal. Greer stated that large numbers of people in America cannot pay for standard housirrg. “If feel f>ersonally that people should live in stamfard housing, fcirt HOUSING. 6A w