HIGH POINT JAYCEES NAME NEGRO MAN OF THE YEAR"
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UOIMMESSMAN JAMES ROOSEVELT, from right proudly pfttt with Hie Man of Hio
V> Yc«f. Albert Watson and family. Roosevelt, candidate for Moyor of Lot Angeles,
c'psps silver spade with Mr. Watson, expre sslng complete confidence In Mr. Watson's
. r' "' ty to rise to even greater heights, so says Mr. Roosevelt.
Two Churches Burned
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to Ground In Louisiana
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-{•■fbstoro, La.—TVo churches
iqted by Core for voter regis
trttiea activites were burned to
ground around 2 a. m., Jan.
They were Pleasant Grove
•a|(ti«t Church and Bethany Bapi*
lit Church.
\CdltE officials alerted the
IT. •&. L, bvft it was not until ap- (
proximately nine hours after the ;
ftirt) that agents arrived on the (
scree. CORE Southern Director
Rictard Haley wired Governor .
Jetttl McKeithen: "One month ago,
Morris di£d, a flaming torch, ]
ih nearby T'erriday. Two Negro
churches lie in ahses in Jones-
Irffe. CORfi urges complete in-
platitudes."
.' toto arrest has been made to
Ute In the o»»e of Morris, who
hurned to death when two
men pimped gasoline in
riWe hls small shoe repair shop
and set it aflt-e.
J-*# church burnings came only j
tCouple ofl weeks after CORE
' Mi started testing public accomo
dation to determine whether
tjsfcy wejre complying with, the
SVU : Rights ■ Act. In fact, the
jaegt. recent tests, in which Ne
groes were served without in
cident took place the day be
fore the two fljrcs
Mississippi Gets Its Largest School j
Integration Law Suit This Week
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iIOSS POINT, Miss.—The larg
est number Of Mississippi Negroes
ever to register a coiftplaint for
desfcgregation of a school system
Was filed her? today (Jan. 22).
NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund representing
the parents 6f 6i school age Ne
gro youths Urged the United
StStes Couvt' for the Southern
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\ WORKSHbp PARTICIPANTS— at Tubman Branch YWCA of Dur- Una MeCtiaa of Hfllslda Hltf*
fkiHwad akoVa ara participant* him. From left to right ara ilaa- School, and Tenia Robarton of
Wt fi—fmt Offlcar* Trailing niwta Brown and Sandra Vauflhna' J*ma* ft. jhtppard School. "** "
Workihap Prayram at ttw Htrrl- of Paarionfown School, Jacqua- - ,
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Costa Rica Ambassador to Speak
At White Rock Church Feb. 14
Hii Excellency, Gonzalo J. Fa
cio, Ambassador from the Repub
lic N>f Costarica will be the
Good Will Day speaker at White
Rock Baptist Church, Sunday,
February 14, at the 11 o'clock
service. The public is invited to
hear Ambassador Facio.
A. T. Spaulding, a member of
White Rock's Trustee Board is
chairman of the church's Good
Will and Brotherhood Day Com
mittee. He was appointed by Dr.
Miles Mark Fisher who retired as
pastor, December 31, 1964.
Mr. Facio was born in San Jose
Costa Rica. He was educated at
the University of Costa Rica
where he received his law degree
and at the Institute of Inter-
American Law, New York Uni
versity. In 1963 he was awarded,
the Doctor of Laws degree from
this same instituiton.
In addition to his practice of
law, he has served as a professor
of law at the University of Costa
Division of Mississippi to give i
immediate consideration to their
charges against the "segregated,
dual-standard" school system of
Moss Point.
This small Mississippi town,
having only 6,0C0 elementary and
high school enrollment, is the
fifth Mississippi school system
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AMBASSADOR FACIO >;
Rica.
A founder 6f Costa R.icd's Na-*
tional Liberation Party, the party
in power 6t the present time, Mr.
Facio has played an important
role in nearly ev?ry aspect of
governmental responsibility. He is
alsc an editor of several outstand
ing publications. Previous to
serving as Ambassador to the
United States, Mr. Facio has car
ried out ten level dtplomatic mis
sions f«r his country in nearly ali
the Central American republics.
His Excellency was president of
the Costa Rican Delegation to the
United States in 1948 and 1952. At
the present time, he is Chairman
of the Standing Committee on Eco
nomic and Social Affairs of the
Council of the Organization of
See/ AMBASSADOR, 4A
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VOLUME 42— N0.~5 DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1965 PRICE :~IS Cents
Conviction Oi Miss. NAACP
Bead Voided By U. S. Court
Miss. Governor
Ordered Before
MFDP's Session
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JACKSON, Mississippi— Gover- j
nor Paul Johnson of Mississippi
ind three other state officials
must appear at Negro Parish
Street Baptist Church here Janu
ary- 25 to answer question* from
the Mississippi Freedom Demo
cratic Partjr (MFDP).
Under an 1851 federal law, the
MFDP has subpoenaed the state
officials to give depositions con
cerning the bi-racial group's chal
lenge of Mississippi's all-white
representatives in Congress.
Failure to respond to the sub
poena is a misdemeanor. The sub
poenas were issued for Governor
Johnson; Attorney General Joe T.
Patterson; Colonel T. 6. Birdsong,
head of-the State Highway Patrol;
and Erie Johnston, Director of
the State Sovereignty Commission,
Mississippi's segregation watch
dog agency.
The Governor **as in Washing
ton, J).- C. attending President L.
B. Johnson's inauguration. Attor
ney General Patterson's subpoena
was taken to his home, where his
wife- refused to accept it.
Tt*»-#FDP, first organized tft
a state-wide convention in April,
1964, challenged the right of the
slate's all-white Democratic Par
ty to represent Mississippi at the
Nattoikpi " Democratic Convention
in Atlantic' City. The challenge re
sulted In two token "at large"
seats for the MFDP and the re
fusal of most of the state's regu
lar Democrats to take a loyalty
oath; •'
On January 4, 1065, the MFDP
announced a contest over Missis-'
sippi's five seats in the United
States House of Representatives.
City Councilman
Stewart Credit
Union Speaker
GASTONIA John Sylvester
Stewart, Durham city councilman,
and president of the Mutual Sav
ings and Loan Association of Dur
ham, was guest speaker to an
overflow audience in the Highland
Elementary School Tuesday, Jan.
26, at the 22nd annual share
holders meeting of the Excelsion
Credit Union.
He was welcomed to the city
by James Q. Falls, president, and
Nathaniel Barber, secretary- treas
urer of the credit union, and Gas
toaia city councilman Thebaud
Jeffers.
During the course of his address
Stewart made a plea for improved
See STEWART, page 4A
Thanks Ushers
And Friends!
It Is with a spirit of deep '
gratitude and great humility
.that I take this method to
say THANK YOU to all the
ushers of Durham and my !
Other friends who were so t
kind to remember me with
their donations and cards on
my birthday, Sunday, Janu
ary 34. May God bless and
keep ail of you.
I ■ L. E. Austin
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Funeral of Prominent Durham
Merchant Scheduled* for Sunday
The funeral of Freeman Smith,
age 68, prominent Durham mer
chant will be held at Mt. Vernon
Baptist Church her* Sunday/ Jan
uary 31 at 12:30 P.M. The Re*.
E. T. Browne, pastor yill effieiate.
Smith succumbed here suddenly
Wednesday morning around 3:30
while enroute to the hospital aftsr
becoming ill at his home earlier
in the morning.
For a long number, ef years We
had operated a fish market and
grocery store at the corner tf
Fayetteville and St. Joseph Stf.
Recently he had moved his busi
ness to Morehead Avenue in : the
western part of the city where We
had opened one of the" city's. mok
modern and up-to-date groceries
and snack bars.
Surviving Mr. Smith Are bjs
wife, Mrs. Viola Smith, one son,. 1
Worth T. Smith; one brother, W. 1
E. Smith; two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Lassiter and Miss Mary .Smith of
Boston, Mass. Several grasdcUU-
I. A. Businessman to Construct $3
Million Meat Packing Plant
LOS ANGELES Ground w*»,
broken here recently ftn' fcnew
$3 million structure t.e hoUs* the
Watg ad Meat Company, beaded by
Albfrrt Watsoft, Whoa# firstjOb ja
a boy , w.as selling irieat, fr6m a
paper bag in his nativG Louiftiaiip.
Mr. WatSoh rteCeived a loan of
$206 300 from the Small Buainess
Association to al In
the building which W|UA«
at 1784 E. Vernon fetrelt.'«!♦ pre,
sently conducts hW [ bysintys. at
3344 E. 45th Street. \ . ■. * j
A supervisor for Best Meat Co.
f>efore starting his own company,
Watson is an ordained minister
and assistant pastor Of the Bright
Baptist Church. -
Among dignitaries participating
in the groundbreaking Arera Al
bert E. Meyer, Regional director
of the Small Business Adminis
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ANNUAL MEETING |
OF CONA SET FOR
SUNDAY, JAN. 31
Summary reports by fivf sub
committees will be among items
on the agenda at the annual meet
ing of the Durham Committee
on Negro Affairs Sunday, January
31 at 4 p.m. at Ebenezer Baptist
Church.
JJub-committee chairmen _ will
summarize 1964 in their respective
areas as follows: legal redriss;
William A. Marsh; education. Dr.
Harold M. aFitts; civic activities;
L. Bb Frasier; political fction/
Ellis D. Jones, and economic life-;
N. B. White.
Awards for outstanding civic
work '.vill be presented at the
meeting, which wa a originally
scheduled for Jan. 17, but post-
See CONA, page 4A •
$12,000 TEACHING
POSTS OPEN IN
W'CHESTER, N. Y.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—Teach:
era with 30-points beyond a Mas
ter's Degree can pern over $12,-
000 in three schpol • districts hi
Westchester County, and twenty l
nine, of the 47 aqhool districts in
the county pay ?s high as SII,OOO
to $12,000 to such teachers, If
was announced this week by Mrs.
Herbert Mark, Director of Teach
er Recruitment of they Urbah
League of Westchester. >•\
The median salary earned .by
Westchester teachers in, the. 1984
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survive.:
- Interment will be at Beeehwood
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Iriitjon, who called Watson "the
•jnan Of the year" *in making the
diy's keynote address; Congress
man James Roosevelt; Joseph Bat.
ion, president of the newly-organ-
Izfcd. Inter-racial Bank of Finance;
city touncilmen Thomas Bradley
and Gilbert Lindsay.
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H/fPPY" BIRTHDAY—Members of
Hit Durh«m Ushers Onion a»e
thown In the above picture at the
fh* Carolina Times and president
'df-Mie N. C. Ushers Association,
'Stinday, 1 January 24, during the
Mrthdey ceJ*bration given by his
wHe, Mr*. Stella V. Austin, honor-
In-ytha nfwspapßrman. Austin was
•howered. With donations enclosed
SNCC, Martin Luther King, Nazis Clash in Selma,
Alabama in First Major Civil Rights Push of 1965
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'' SftlMA, Alabama This black
bolt tawn, of 28,000 has become
the; site of the first major civil
rights push of 1965. A three-day'
'•'Freefionp Day!',, beginning Janu
ary 18 qpt the scene for a clash
tfcat Ihctyded:
'• John Lc'jvis, Chafrnian of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
QmmUtw (SNCC), and a SNCC
(\qiHpgup that has been work
since February, 196";
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WASHINGTON ■ — The U. S. bu-j
preme Court on Jan. 18 set aside |
the conviction of the president j
of the Mississippi NAACP State j
Conference who. had been found |
guilty.of a. morals charge by a;
white Mississippi jury.
Dr. Aaron Henry had been cfm-
victed on* charges of making im
moral advances towards a teenage ,
white boy. lie was originally sen \
tenced to six months in prison j
and fined SSOO.
NAACP attorneys defending Dr.
Henry appealed the case to the
Supreme Court on the grounds
that he had been unlawfully ar
rested, that his automobile .vas
unlawfully searched, that the af
fidavit on which he was tried in
the lower court was illegal and
defective, and that there was no
corroborating evidence to support
the charge against him.
In setting aside the conviction,
the Supreme Court remanded the
case to the Mississippi Supreme
Court which had failed to decide
federal issues raised before it. i
The Mississippi Court was order
ed to decide Whether during the
original trial Dr. Henry had
knowingly waived his right to
challenge the use of illegally
seized evidence.
The Court was directed to re
view the case in light of the prior
U.S. Supreme Court decisions re
lating to the waiver issue.
> The case was argjied before the
• Supreme Court in October by
NAACP Associate Counsel Bar
. bara Morris of New York City.
Other NAACP attorneys in the
case included General Counsel K!
L. Carter, also of New York City,
and Jack Young of Jackson, Miss.
; In birthday greetinfls in amounts
ranging from SI.OO to $25.00 and
totaling several hundred dollars.
Austin stated it was the first j
birthday party h« had ever had
and expressed himself as being
most trateful to his many friends 1
11 and the ushers of Durham for re- \
. membering him.in such a tangi
ble way. His wife, who had suf- j
, fered a light stroke, was unable to]
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,'''
1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner;
• George Lincoln Rockwell and
members of his American Nazi
P?rty;
• Attorney J. -B. Stonoi' of At
lanta and his supporters from the
racist National States Rights Par
ty. Aiding Stoncr was Rev. Con
nie Lynch, active in whipping up
white mobs in St. Augustine last
summer; ____ ,
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PR Wan Cited
For Achievement
In Business Circle
HIGH POINT—What is believed
1 to be the first time a Negro has
I ever received the "Man of tho
| Year" award from a Junior Cham-
I ber of' Commerce in North Caro
j lina,- and probably the entire
i South, occurred here last week
whei? Robert J. Brown, a public
relations consultant was given the
honor by the High Point Jaycees
last Thursday night at their an
nual award banquet,
„ feroAii, a 2#-y«ar-old young man,
has lifed .himself by his own boot
straps, from shining shoes on the
streets* (>f High Point for 5 cents
a pair, to one of the state's most
efficient and capable public rela
tions consultants, is a member of '"*•
the Governor 1 * _ Good Neighbor
Council.
Brown was notified of the award
after he had been lured to the
banquet by being, told that he was
to discuss a program of a rede
velopment commission
Said Brown: '-This award shows ,
1 that High Point is a bright spot
in th* area of race relations in
the area.'ritate and nation. It gives
renewed faith and courage,
' and proves that people can live
• together, ia i»eaee."
1* .addition, toi being -pFesidnrt 1
s of the public, relations firm. Brown
r is also -chairman of the Board of
- Directors .of _ the United Publish
. ers of Durham, owners of the Car
s' olina Times, serves on a job op
! porfwiity subcommittee of the
, Human Relations Committee of
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preeent. he is at Lincoln Hospital
where doctors report her well on
the way to recovery.
..Those in th« picture from left
td "flgTit *re Mrs. Louise Harvey,
Mrs. Hatti«i Bell Thomas, Austin,
i Clyde Moere, president, Durham
' Ushers Union, Mrs. Viola Brodie,
; Mrs. Minnif Ford and Mrs. S. D.
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'•'y • Dallas County Sheriff Jim
£Urk r the targtet of two Justice
Department suits charging him
with infinpidatijig ,'SNCC workers
and loc»l NfgWXS. Clark's county
police forces are. bolstered by a
volunteer pass?;
♦ ..* city administration led
by Mtnftr JSmitberman and Public
Safety. Baker;
• 19,00 ft Dallas County Negroes
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