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_THt CAWXJDtt BHD SATURDAY, AUGUST 38, IMB 2-A Governor Moore Pays His Debt Governor Moore'* appointment of Dr. I. Beverly Lake justice o! the North Carolina Supreme Court is one df those debts that had to be paid. It will be recalled that the Negro vote eliminated Dr. Lake in the gubernatorial campaign of 1960 in favor of Gov. Sanford and it help ed to eliminate him again in 1964 in favor of Gov. Moore. In the run off in 1960 Governor Sanford polled 352,133 votes and Lake 275,905, or 76,238 vptes less than the winner, which was approximately the esti mated vote cast by the Negroes of the state. Again in the election of 1964 it was the Negro vote, which had in creased to well over the 100,000 m.Ai that was the deciding factor in eliminating Dr. Lake, in the Pri mary from the gubernatorial race of that year.' After Dr. Lake's defeat in the primary he went on to throw his 217fi00 more or less votes to Governor Moore in the Democratic run-off which was deciding factor in Moore's successful bid for the office of governor. It, therefore, now appears that the Negro voters, who had much to do in preserving Governor Moore as a potential gubernatorial candidate, are his only supporters who will be, left holding the bag and an empty bag at that. Up to the present moment Why We Have Been Able to Endure It is not often that we publish or even pay attention to unsigned let ters. However we received one through the mail this week which we feel deserves more than passing attention and we would like to beg the indulgence of our readers in printing its contents in full in this issue of the Carolina Times. The letter which is self explanatory contains to a great extent the. senti ment that has made it possible for us to endure through the years the "pangs and arrows of outrageous fortune" and "take, up arms against a sea of trouble." Coming from the black belt of the state it is un derstandable why the writer took no chance in attaching his or her name to it. The letter is as follows: Editor The Carolina Times I am a regular subscriber to The Carolina Times and will renew my subscription before it expires. The Lack of Leadership In his letter to the Durham Morn ing Herald and to the editor of this newspaper on the. recent riots in Los Angeles, Chicago and Springfield, Dr. Ray Thompson of the N. C College faculty points to some glaring and long time ailments in a majority of cities in America, as well as our own city of Durham. Whether all of the criticisms which Dr. Thompson has hurled at our own city government, officials and agencies are justifiable or can be substantiated is not a ques tion we will attempt to deal with at the moment. Many of them have al ready been pointed to from time to time, in this newspaper and the good that can come from further comment on our part is probably not too im portant We do think, however, that some good can result * from Dr. Thomp son's letter and this newspaper's hum ble efforts to interpret the feelings of Negro citizens here in Durham if our city officials will only stop, look, lis ten, have the nobility to heed and the courage to move forward. Two glaring examples of the type of attitude on the part of the "power structure" of Durham that is begin ning to bear the fruits of frustration iyl discouragement in the Negro community, are to be found at fire station No. 4 on Fayetteville Street i«ui the Durham County Recorders Court. The evidence in both cases is so glaring that even a child would haTQ no trouble in observing the re sults of the policy of segregation which Negro citizens are expected to continue to bear and grin. In the case of Fire Station No. 4 we would like to invite any citizen or group of citizens to pay a visit there and observe the fire fighting equip ment or lack of equipment that exists there to say nothing about the morale of the men who are employed at this particular station. In short, city offi cial! have apparently decided that this all Negro manned fire station is aot going to be provided with ade the governor has failed to throw even on« political appointment in the direction of his Negro constituency that is more than the usual crumbs that have always been tossed to Negroes by his predecessors. As we see it the Negro political status in North Carolina is in a criti cal state of affairs. Certainly the growing Negro vote can find no re fuge or solution to its problem in the Republican party, either from a na tional or state standpoint, with the Goldwater camp apparently calling the shots of the GOP. On the Demo cratic side not only does Governor Moore appear to not be aware of his debt to the Negro voters of the state but he seems to regard the debt as one that does not have to be paid. Thus it appears that at present the Negro voter has no place of refuge in either the Democratic or Republi can party. Our advice therefore to the more than one million Negroes of North Carolina is to continue to increase their strength and to vote» in every election and bide the time when some candidates for public offices, favor able to them and worthy of their support, will appear on the scene. If they will follow such a course the time is sure to come when the, debt owed them must and will have to be paid. Please continue to expose the hor rible conditions that exist in the "Black Counties." As a teacher in one of the countries I am ashamed of the conditions. Our problem? Fear, yes fear from many sides, in cluding local school boards, princi pal, parents, and the landowners. I hear and view with alarm the at titudes and views of some of my stu dents, they are Fed Up with the situation. I wish it were possible that someone would and could come to the county and awaken the people. What do they desire? Just a chance to do and obtain a decent education. I desire the same thing for them. To tell them to excel is a crime, and I have and will violate that law. Mr. Austin, again I beg you and your staff to please continue to tell your message to the people, of North Carolina. Very truly yours, A Faithful Reader qaate equipment to protect the lives and proptry of the people in the area it is located. Therefore, in addition to having only a very poor, homemade, makeshift engine, the station, erected at a cost of approximately $70,000, has never been adequately supplied with equipment. In the case of the Durham Record ers Court, a casual observation will disclose that here again the policy of segregation in all its majesty is the order of day. From its beginning until this very hour there has never been employed at the Recorders Court a Negro officer of any sort. Even the post of assistant prosecuting attorney has always been handed to any person other than a Negro. What obtains in these two cases that we have endeavored to pinpoint here is the established policy that is follow ed in every post of the city and coun ty governments. It is this same pat tern that makes it difficult for Negro leaders to retain the respect of the masses and to furnish answers for the denial of equal opportunities for Ne groes in employment and elsewhere. It is this same pattern that obtained in Los Angeles, Chicago and Spring field, only to a lesser degree. It is this same pattern to which Dr. Ray Thompson points with such timely and thought provoking observations. We think Durham city and county officials should begin now to remedy some of the existing inadequacies rather than expect Negroes to _ con tinue to bear and grin in the face of such glaring examples of rabid segre gation. We think now is the time if only the leadership and the courage can be found to move forward instead of standing still KNOW TOUR NEGRO HISTORY In 1790, Negroes made up 19.3 per cent of the U. S. population. The number of Negroes in the United States increased from 15,044,- 937 in 1950 to 18*71,831 in 1960. THE AFTERMATH . . . LEADERSHIP VOIDT 'POWRY OFTEN OEPRIVESA HAH Of ALL SPHHTAND MTUE : ITISHARD I FOR AN EMPTY BAG TO STANP fljfl 32£ • - itfUffl I f>*tSM*HT JOMH9OH By Whltnay M. Young, Jr. WHEN TO MARCH John W. Douglas, the assist ant attorney general in charge of the Civil Right Division, told the Federal Bar Assn. in Baltimore recently that there are "limits to the dramatic presentation" of rights demon strations. Douglas, son of the Illinois senator who has long champ ioned equal rights for Negroes, made some sound points: Demonstrations should not be ends in themselves but must focus attention on speci fic grievances and offer speci fic remedies. •The rights movement can not sustain itself "on indig nation alone." •"Each demonstration should point towards a particular ob jective," Douglas said. "Vague generalities confuse support ers estrange sympathiz ers." The Justice Department aide also makes good sense when he says that the public must judge each demonstration on its merits. Just because it oc curs, he told the larders, "does not mean that its pur poses are either desirable or undesirable, wise or unwise." Excesses in rights demon strations, Douglas says, might touch off violent upheavals. -Cleanup (Continued from front page) provements to occupied houses dangerously rickety; the pro vision of day care for small children 30 both parents can be free to work; paved streets, street lights and even a com munity recreation program. There are four other councils such as the Progressive Com munity Council in the low-in come area south of Pettigrgw Street. Their recent organisa tion has been encouraged by Operation Breakthrough, Dur ham's anti-poverty organiza tion, in the hope that they will draw people together in a common effort to do what they can about their own mutual problems. With the Progressive Com munity Council setting the pace, indications are that the other councils will get busy and effectively tackle some of the problems in the areas they represent. Perhaps most im portant of all, they wjll be demonstrating to the rest if Durham that they do care about their plight of poverty, and are worthy of whatever outside support can be given them. -Allen (Continued from front page) DENTS IN AMERICAN UNI VERSITIES AND COLLEGES AND AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENT LEADERS from North Carolina College. He was a letterman in football for two of the three year* while he waa a member of the team. While at North Carolina College he waa initi ated into Tau Pai Chapter of Omega Pai Phi Fraternity, Inc. Currently he aerved aa the Keeper of Record! and Seal for Beta Phi Chapter of Ome ga Pai Phi Fraternity. He if a member of Mt. Gi lead Baptist Church. He is married to the former Constance Glenn and they are To Be Equal If past experience is a guide, many persons' will seize upon his words to mean that direct action protests by CORE, SNCC, NAACP, and others be ended. According to the polls, a majority of white citi zens are already tired of civil disobedience and wish Negroes would cut it out. "You've made your point," these persons think, "now quit bothering us." Such persons want nothing more than for the rights lead ers to give up, and send their marchers home to the ghetto to stay put. These citizens don't really go beyond lip ser vice in civil rights. They pre sume that the fact that they understand Negroes are hurt ing is all that is required of them. Many are not ready to take the slightest personal in tiative in behalf of rectifying old injustices. In cities like Chicago and Bogalusa, La., for instance, officials want a moratorium on marches and Chicagoans want an end to the Loop-sit ins that have snarled rush hour traffic. But are residents of either community 'willing to give up something, to make some po sitive change in return? Will Negroes vote or be hired for the parents of one daughter, Jennifer Lauren. -Hospitals (Continued from front page) that do not provide equal treatment to Negroes." ant Counsel Michael Melts- Legal Defense Fund Assist ner, who lodged this most re cent charge against HEW, singled out King's Daughters Hospital in Canton, Mississip- This hospital "is not only pi as a flagrant example, refusing to comply -*ith Title VI, but it has, subsequent to our complaint, reduced the number of beds in the hospi tal so that no Negroes and whites would have to share rooms. -Breakthrough (Continued from front page) Teaching that course were Mrs. Mary Mason, daycare consult ant with the State Welfare De partment, and Mrs. Erika Ric hey, daycare coordinator for Operation Breakthrough. "Daycare service in Durham for low-Income families is growing,." Mrs. Rlchey explain ed, "and these workshops were provided in the interest of pro viding the best daycare service possible for the children en rolled in this program." -Ushers (Continued from front page) ed at the Mid-year Session and the remainder at the Annual Session in August 1906. The president also announc ed that as soon as the debt which amounts to leas than $17,000 is retired that plana will be initiated to renovate all of the buildings at the instl of the home for unwed moth ers immediately. In pre par a 1 hers Immediately. In prepara tion for the operation of the home each union is being urg ed to aid in the search for a city jobs in the South? Will Chicagoans erase the gerry mandered school district lines, the building of public housing in the segregated ghetto along south State Street? Often, white citizens and Negroes are just not com municating on the same wave length. White citizens want or der and an end to disturb ances—-'sometimes, I think, "peace at any price." Negroes want changes in the circum stances of their lives— good schools for their children, de cent housing, a fair chance in the job market, and the like. Their leaders would be fired overnight if they resigned themselves to quite acceptance of the status quo. Yes. Negro leaders know that many white citizens are growing tired of the protests. But Negro mothers are tired of seeing their kids bitten by rats, their husband exploited for pitiful wages, their fami lies confined to ghettos in which, as James Baldwin says, "Everything - vas always fall ing down." For white citizens, the rights revolution is a mild in convenience—a traffic snarl or an unpleasant shopping trip. For Negroes, it is a quest for survival. -Halifax (Continued from front page) County Commissioners to set tle the matter. Other officers of the Voters Movement are Troy Lassiter, co-chairman; Mrs. Mima John son, secretary; Mrs. Doris Co chan, assistant secretary; A. Reed Johnson, teasurer and Rev. A. I. Dunlap, chaplain. -Deltas (Continued from front page) Chapter. Climax and closing of the event activities was a banquet at which Mrs. Patricia Harris, newly named Ambassador to Luxembourg and a Delta Ad dressed her fellow sorors as principal speaker. Urban Renewal Tenanb Behind In House Rent The CRy Redevelopment Com mission asked administrative of ficials Tuesday to make recom mendations on ways to improve collection procedures for bouses being rented in the urban re newal area*. Robinaoa Everett, commission chairman, noted that approxi mately *I,OOO remains uncollect ed on houses being leased while efforts are being made to re locate tTf* 1 Everett noted Out this figure compare* to the approximately |U,OOO which has been collect ed. raOn* to pay rental foe* bade en* and one-half to two year* in actne cast*, he said. "Ia order to apeed up col lections, we have claasifUwl the into coUecUbte, uncol lecUbfe and hanlihip cat*- goriea," Everett Mid. "And with this to work on, we bar* asked lL* 1A MJUkHk toe administration to r®com mend any fangrovemeots on supervisor for the position im mediately. , «' lltfgawfflUChw* Published every Saturday at Durham, N. C. by United Publisher*, Inc." v L. E. AUSTIN, Publisher Second Class Postage Paid at Durham, N. C. 27702 SUBSCRIPTION RATES J4.00 per year plus (12c tax in N. C. (any where in the U.S., and Canada and to service men Overseas; Foreign, $7.30 per year, Sin gle copy 15c. Principal Office Located at 436 E. Pettlgrew Street, Durham, North Carolina Letter to the Editor Editor Carolina Times I am not sufficiently ex pert to know the exact causes of the riots in Los Angles nor the demonstrations in Chica go and Springfield. I am not knowledgeable enough to know how to prevent th? pos sible occurance of similar in cidents in our or other cities, but I felt that I should call to your attention the exist ence of circumstances com mon to the three cities and ours. You are interested in the growth and well being of Durham but so are the May ors of the cities above. You ap pointed a Human Relations Committee that seems to be doing nothing including the ignoring of non-violent re sponsible Negroes and so did they. We have a Board of Education, to my knowledge, taking no initiative to end segregation in our public schools and the same held true in these cities. Our Board of Education seems to try to continue segregation and compound the ominous cost of court action by poor Negro parents. The "Power Structure" of the city has seemingly sanc tioned a policy of segregation in housing, education, em ployment. and an Operation Breakthrough Project geared to perpetuate the status quo. The Industry Hunters, Mer chants. Chamber of Com merce, and service clubs have steered clear of human re lations as an area of work. Compare this with the three cities. We have a solidly segrega ted ghetto ih the southeast section pf our city and they have theirs. We have an ur ban renewal program that seems to be part of a great conspiracy to extend and World News Round-Up GENEVA Population experts from 36 nations assembled here for the first International conference on family planning co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Population Coun cil. Discussions take place against the backdrop of a United Nations study showing that the world population, now totalling 3.22 billion people, will increase to as much us 7.41 billion in the year 2000. AUCKLAND, New Zealand Mrs. Shirley Lawson, the New Zealander who gave birtk to quintuplets here July 27, has been re-admitted to National Women* Hospital for treatment of exhaustion. "I think she has Just overdone It a little," her husband, Samuel, said today. • » • JIDDA, Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabian King Feisal said after a three-hour meeting with United Arab Republic Presi dent Gamal Abdel Nasser that the outlook for peace in the Yemen "is very encouraging." "The beginning was good and I hope the talks will end well," King Feisal said. The two day meeting between the King and Nasser is seen as a possi ble breakthrough in the three-year civil war in Yemen. Feisal, apparently In a good humor, added, "as long as the President is taking the initiative in bringing-up various subjects, the re sult must be good." • • • SEOUL, South Korea About B,He students from six universities battled police in the streets of Seoul during an other demonstration protesting the treaty norlnalixlng relations between Sooth Korea and Japan. In Chungju, abost 'lll nß(t South of Soon], more than I,M* youths clashed with police hi a similar demonstration. Truckle ads af armed military police In Seoul fired tear gas and smoke hombo and fongkt nek throwing students with clubs. More than IN students were ar rested. • • • VIENTIANE, Laos An Indonesian air force transport plane arrived here with seven tons of military equipment for neutralist forces fighting the Communist Pathet Lao. A similar plane load of military equipment'arrived here Saturday from Indonesia for the neutralist forces at General Kong Le. Kong Le left here yesterday for a tour of military and industrial centers in the United States, Britain, France and Japan. A spokesman for the neutralist forces said 129 officers arc now undergoing military training in Indonesia. • • • BERLIN The East Berlin Communist press said Gemini- I was taking a "(mat risk" In continuing Ms flight. The official East German Communist Party newspaper headline read "risky flight prolonged U hours." IV Berliner Zeitang wrote In an editorial '% fight does not have a lucky star, It being dictated to a great extent by military and prestige factorsm." * ■* • • DOVER, England Greta Anderson, a Danish-born swim mer from Los Alamitos, Calif., failed in an attempt to swim the English Channel. Miss Anderson, 37, .was pulled from the water eight miles off the French coast shortly after hours after she set out from Shakespeare Beach near Dover. The swimmer, who wanted to swim to France and back, was suffering from chest pains and was haveing difficulty in (he use of one arm. * * • TAIPEI, Formosa— I Today marked the seventh anniversary of the Communist shelling ef the off-shore islands of Quemoy and Mats?. The mainland Communist .Chinese have lobbed a total ef M,«a reads ef shells en Qnenwy cottoning up to last night. There was (Hence. Bat Ike red she Dings In Be past (km years have been strictly Hwlfsd to shells leaded wMfe pro paganda leaflets instead ef expto styes. maintain segregated houslag. and this is another common elem en t. Some landlords thrive off the rentals paid by the poor for sub-standard housing that the cities con done. The proposed city ex pansion appears to be racial ly biased so note new deve lopments in our troubled cities. It appears to me our local employing agencies generally make no effort to eliminated unfair emp 10 yi ng practices based on race and this could be noted in the other cities. Qualified Negroes are most often forced to accept jobs be low their levels of education and vocational proficiency In ours and the other cities. We have a representative number of Ministers, Rabbis, Priests, Churches, Temp 1 es, and mass communication med ia. The same can be said of the three cities. There is not, to my knowledge, any leader ship and organized collective efforts by these individuals and institutions in the area of human relations. There Is token Negro repre sentation in the City Council and on various Boards and Commissions, but no sem blance of fair employment in the several city Department. Note the three troubled cities. There are other facets of our city that could be mentioned here but I think the comments above will suffice. Violence can and must be avoided but this cannot be done by a wait and see strate gy. It also cannot be done by lethargic city governments. Human Relation Councils, Chambers of Commerce, Chur ches, Employers, Service Clubs. "Power Structures," nnd uncohterned citizens. ' " Very truly yours. Ray Thompson
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