Over 6,200 Registered In Sou
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Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Quits Abyssinia
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NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH
CORPS Pictured above ara
two Neighborhood Youth
Corp* enrollees who are work
ins •• receptionist-secretaries
for tho City of Durham Recre-
Negro Registration In So. Car.
Over 15,000 Mark for Summer
CHARLESTON, S. C. The
biggest month on record has
been chalked up in CORE'S
South Carolina voter registra
tion drive. Over 6,200 Negroes
■were registered in the state
■with the assistance of CORE
workers in September. This
following the over eight thous
and registered earlier this
summer, means an additional
15,000 Negroes added to the
voter roles.
The biggest gains were made
in Williamsburg County where
Negroes comprise over 66%
of the voting age population.
However, registered whites al
ready exceed the number of
voting age whites in the coun
ty. (7,860 voting age whites
and 8,067 registered whites),
while only 18.3% of the coun
ty's 10,535 eligible Negroes
were registered at the first of
this year. Since January, near
ly 1,400 Negroes have been
registered in Williamsburg
County, thereby increasing the
percentage of Negroes regis
tered to over 30% of those
eligible.
In Dorchester, Claredon and
Sumter Counties, state regis
trars sought to hinder Negro
voter registration by "slow
down" tactics. When the regis
tration books closed at the
end of the one day on which
they were open for the month,
there were over one thousand
Negroes waiting to register in
these three counties alone.
CORE South Carolina state
director James McCain has
filed protests with the Justice
Department and has threaten
ed to call for federal registrars
unless the state officials end
their stalling tactics.
Hillsborough
Host to DECA
Conference
HILLSBOROUGH—Some 400
distributive education stu
dents, representing seventeen
High Schools, along with their
respective distributive educa
tion coordinators, convened at
the Northeastern District DE
CA (Distributive Education
Cluba of America) Convention
at Orange High School, Hills
borough, on Wednesday eve
ning October 6.
The convention opened with
registration at 2:30 p.m. in the
Orange High lobby. Following
a refreshment period, sponsor
ed by the Orange Home Eco
nomics Department, the ses
sion got underway at S o'clock
is the school auditorium.
George Penick, President of
the Nprtheastern District and
a student of Chapel Hill
School, presided.
A parliamentary procedure
workshop, special group meet
ings of club officers, projects
and activities sessions, various
L-onteats, and the election of
District Officers were included
on the evening agenda.
Dinner for the delegates and
dob members was aerved in
the school cafeteria, and an
nouncement of contest winners
See CONFAB 4A
atlon Department at Edwin
Auditorium. These two girls
ara members of tha project un
der the auspices of Operation
Breakthrough.
MRS. TURNER
N. C. Mutual
Honors Fin.
V. President
The Agency Department of
the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company re
cently concluded a seven
weeks sales contest in honor
of Mrs. V. G. Turner, Finan
cial Vice President and a
member of the Board of Di
rectors. Seventeen women em
ployees of the Home Office
served as sponsors of two or
more districts in each of
four zones. The district which
reported the highest average
production record in each zone
enabled the sponsors to win a
trip to the city in which the
district is located. The winners
accompanied by Mrs. Turner,
will be extended many courte
sies by the local district per
sonnel who •will serve as hosts.
See TURNER 4A
Former NCC Instructor is
Funeralized In Washington
WASHINGTON, D. C. Fu
neral services for Dr. L Greg
ory Newton, dean of Maryland
State College and former con
sultant to the Peace Corps,
were held at the 19th Street
Baptist Church here Wednes
day.
He had been In declining
health for several months.
From IMB until 1062 he
taught at North Carolina Col
lege following earlier teach
ing stint at Lincoln Univer
sity, Pa. He left NCC in 1082
to became a full time consul
tant with the Peace Corps in
charge of college and univer
sity relations.
He was married to Dr. Eu
nice Shaed Newton, a former
NCC professor of education
now employed at Howard Uni
versity. The Newtons lived at
4208 Argyle Terrace in Wash
ington .His mother, Mrs.
Amanda Newton, 1111 New
Hampshire Avenue, N.W., sur
vive#.
A native of Washington, Dr.
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VOLUME 42 No. 36 DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER », 1»«5 PRICE: 15c
McDOUGALD TERRACE
Durham Housing Unit
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Stage Revolt
The upheaval and unrest in
McDougald Terrace, Durham
housing unit continued unabat
ed this week as tenant after
tenant continued to lodge
numerous complaints of abu
sive methods being used by
officials and employees of the
Durham Housing Authority.
Some of the complaints con
sisted of excess utility bills,
increased rental charges, fail
ure on the part of representa
tives of the Housing Authority
to furnish tenants with copies
of rental leases. One tenant
related how he was told by a
representative of the Housing
Authority before moving in
that his lease would be good
for one year only to discover,
after he had moved that it
was good for only 30 days.
Another complaint that ten
ants are not given any set
when excess charges are made
they will be able to determine
for themselves the correct
amount.
Other complaints consisted
of bad management of the
Housing Authority and general
abusive and browbeating meth
ods used in dealing with ten
ants.
When questioned by a repre
sentative of the Carolina Times
this week as to the charges
brought by the numerous ten
ants C. S. Oldham, executive
director' had the following to
say:
"My duties and responsibili
ties as Secretary and Execu
tive Director of the Housing
Authority are administrative
only and do not include policy
making functions. The five (5)
Commissioners of the Author
ity, appointed by the Mayor,
are responsible for all policies
under which the Authority op
erates. The policies adopted by
the Commissioners must be
within the framework of the
Housing Act of 1937 and sub
sequent Amendments there to
as adopted by the Congress
an dour contract with the Pub
lic Housing Administration.
Our operation is also controll
ed by the North Carolina Hous
ing Authority's Law (Chapter
157 of the Geenral Statutes)
and a Co-operation Agreement
between the Housing Authority
and the City of Durham.
If any person or agency has
knowledge of a violation of any
of the statues or policies under
which we operate. I feel sure
that the Commissioners and
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DR. NEWTON
Newton attended Dunbar High
School, Lincoln (Pa.) Univer
sity and received master's and
doctor's degrees from the Uni
versity of Pa.
His dissertation on the minor
judiciary in North Carolina
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DR. RAY DR. BOULWARE GALIFIANAKIS
AT COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN
Ray, Boulware, Galifianakis
Slated For Local Church Sun.
The Men's Council of the
Covenant United Presbyterian
Church will sponsor a full
day's program of activities at
the Church Sunday, October
10, beginning with a Men's fel
lowship breakfast at 8:15 Sun
day morning. Richard T. Pip
pin will be in charge of the
early morning occasion with
the main address being de
livered by Dr. Charles A. Ray,
Professor and Chairman of the
Department of English at N. C.
College.
During the 11:00 a.m. hour
the services will be led by
Robert J. Colclough, President
of the Men's group, with the
message of the hour being de
livered by Dr. C. Elwood Boul
ware, an elder in the local
church, Professor of Mathe
matics at North Carolina Col
lege and local civic leader.
At 6:00 p.m., the men of
the Church •jvill present State
Representative Nick Galifia
nakis who will deliver the
principal address with Harry
L. Bryant, Principal of the
New Highland Junior High
School, presiding. Music for
•he day will be furnished by
♦he men's chorus of the Church
with Mrs. Ann W. Mayer as
accompanist. The public is
cordially invited to attend all
I of these programs.
SVi Million
Drive Planned
For KHtrell
KITTRELL The Jack Tar
Hotel was the scene of a spe
clal call meeting here on Sep
tember 28 by Bishop George
W. Baber, presiding prelate of
the Second Episcopal District
of the A. M. E. Church and
Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of Kittrell Junior
College. The purpose of the
meeting was to study the re
cent survey of the needs of
the college made by Dr. Wil
liam Brown to have it quali
fy for accreditation and to dis
cuss ways and means of Imple
menting the plans of the Kit
trell College Foundation now
In the process of being formu-
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Mrs. Eugenia Younge Named
Instructor Advancement School
Mrs. Eugenia M. Younge,
Junior High School teacher at
Little River School has been
appointed visiting instructor
at North Carolina Advance
ment School, Winston-Salem.
C. H. Chewning, superinten
dent of Durham County
schools, approved the appoint
ment in cooperation with ef
forts to up-grade the in-service
training among Little River
teachers. Dr. Ralph McAllister,
Director of the Advancement
and J. D. Lennon, principal of
Little River have discussed
the possibility of applying
some of the successful tech
niques used at the Adance
ment School in accelerating
the achievement of students,
with emphasis on the Junior
School.
Mrs. Younge is a native of
Monroe, she is a graduate of
Fayetteville State College,
where she earned the Bachelor
degree in Elementary Educa
tion. The Master of science de
gree was earned at the Uni
versity of Indiana. Mrs. Younge
has done further study above
the Masters degree in English
and Language Arts for Junior
NCC ALUMNI
TO PRESENT
FASHION FAIR
The North Carolina College
Alumni Association will pre
sent the EBONY Fashion Fair
1965 at the B. N. Duke Audi
torium, North Carolina College
on Sunday, October 17, at 4
p.m. The traveling fashion
shor* is sponsored by EBONY
Magazine, a Ne g r o-oriented
publication, for charitable pur
poses •in some 64 cities this
year.
Norwood Pearson, general
chairman of North Carolina
College, announced that net
proceeds from the show in
Durham will go to the Asso
ciation's Scholarship Fund.
Mrs. Olivia Cole, chairman of
publicity, stated that arrange
ments are underway to make
the affair one of the largest
social eventa .of the season in
which everyone in Durham can
contribute to a worthy cause,
and have an exciting evening
doing it.
The EBONY Fashion Fair
consists of ten attractive fe
male models and a male mod-
See IBONY 4A
MRS. YOUNGE
High students.
After serving. eleven weeks
at the Advancement school,
Mrs. Younge will return to
Little River school where she
will apply some of the tech
niques learned during her
work-training program to aid
in accelerating the achieve
ment of Junior High school
students at Little River.
Lt. Gov. Scott to Keynote Annual Resource-
Use Meeting at North Carolina College
Lt. Gov. Robert W. Scott
will deliver the keynote ad
dress at the 18th annual meet
ing of the North Carolina Re
-1 source-Use Education Confer
ence, to be held at North Car
olina College Thursday, Nov.
11.
In making the announce
ment, Dr. Theodore R. Speig
ner, director of the NCC Divi
sion of Resource-Use Educa
tion and state chairman of the
North Carolina Resource-Use
Education Conference, indicat
ed that the conference will be
gin at 9 a.m. in the college's
B. N. Duke Auditorium. Scott
will speak at 2 p.m.
Following the theme, "Build
ing the Great Society Through
Conservation of Human and
Natural Resources," the one
day program will attract prin
cipals, supervisors, teachers,
students, and parents from
throughout the state.
During the Arts general ses
sion, which begins at 9 a.m.,
several schools from various
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POWELL
Minister-Politician Resigns After
Firing Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker
By ALFRED DUCKETT AND
EARLE CHiSOLM
NEW YORK CITY—(ANPI)
—A threatened revolt within
the membership and official
family of Harlem's famed
Abyssinian Baptist Church has
caused Dr. Adam Clayton Pow
ell to announce his resigna
tion from the active pastorate
as of January 1, 1966. Dr. Pow
ell has occupied the pulpit of
the 11,000-member institution
since 1937.
Although sources in New
York City, close to the contro
versial clergyman - legislator,
deny that Dr. Powell is leav
ing Abyssinia under duresse,
The Associated Negro Press
International has learned that
the minister's Sunday morning
(September 26) announcement
from his pulpit, of his forth
coming retirement climaxed a
series of turbulent events.
Deep resentment had been
touchd off in the congregation
as a result of Dr. Powell's dis
missal of the youthful Hev.
Wyatt Tee Walker, former top
aide—now on l^ave—to Dr.
Martin Luther Kin. Jr. Rev.
Walker, who had been appoint
ed Acting Minister by Dr.
Powell, was notified of termi
nation of his services after he
had made a statement to the
press with Dr.
Powell's highly - publicized
warning to Dr. Martin Luther
King to stay out of Harlem on
civil rights. business.
Women and youth members
of the congregation, who had
become deeply attached to
Reverend Walker's youih, good
looks and eloquence as a
Army Commendation Medal
Awarded to Local Man in N. J.
The Army Commendation
Medal was recently awarded to
Major Harvey D. Williams by
direction of the Secretary of
the Army for meritorious serv
ice while assigned as Logistics
Officer of the 52nd Artillery
(Air Defense), Fort
Hancock, New Jersey. The
medal -#ith accompanying ci
tation was presented to major
Williams upon his arrival in
Korea, where he is serving a
second tour.
During his first tour in that
country (1953-1954), he was
awarded the Bronze Star Medal
for meritorious service as the
Commanding Officer of a Field
Artillery Battery during com
parts of the state will present
Resource-Use Education play
lets which will illusrate ways
lets which will illustrate ways
tempted to conserve human
and natural resources.
The principal address for
the morning will be delivered
by Dr. Gene C. Fusco, direc
FUNERAL RITES TO BE HELD SUN.
1 P.M. FOR WILLIE GRAY SPEIGHT
WilUe Gray Speight, 90,
succumbed at his home here
Wednesday evening, October
6, at 11:00, following a short
illness. The funeral will be
held Sunday at 1:00 P. M., at
Community Baptist Church on
Barbee Road. The Rev. E. T.
Thompson, pastor, will offi
ate. Interment will be in
Greene County .
Speight was born and rear
ed in Snow Hill, the son of
the late Gray and Julia Free
man Speight. He attended the
public school of Snow Hill and
WALKIR
preacher mobilized to express
resentment against his dismis
sal.
Abyssinia Baptist Church,
•which has been described as
having the largest membership V
of any Protestant church in
the world, was founded by it*
present pastor's father, Dr.
Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., ivow
deceased. Throughout the Pow
ell career, the church has been
the foundation of his incredi
ble support in the Harlem
community. One Harlem phi
losopher was quoted as saying:
"Adam Powell—forget about
beating him in any political
campaign. What are you going
to do with a man who makes
5000 precinct captains sfry
'ampn' every Sunday morn
ing?"
The church has been one of
the most successful, culturally,
spiritually and financially of
any of the thousands of Bap
tist institutions in the nation.
Will wounds be healed and
will Abyssinnia continue to
move forward under the famed
and flamboyant leadership of
Adam Clayton Powell, who has
become a giant in the nation's
i>oHtical affairs?
Or will the "new breed"
which revolted, carry the day
and sweep young Wyatt Wal- i
Iter into command?
Or will there be an accord
which permits the church to
have the benefit of the leader
ship of the Old Master and the
inspiration of the Young Turk?
Everyone in Harlem is guess
ing—and everyone's guess is
as good as everyone else's
guess.
bat operations. Among his oth
er assignments, he has served
as a member of the military
staff and faculty of Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York
(1957-1959), and as an Opera
tions Officer of Artillery in
Germany during a European
tour (1959-1962).,
Major Williams, son of Mrs.
Addie M. Williams, 1003 Fay
etteville St., and the late Mat
thew D. Williams, is an alum
nus of Hillside High School
('46) and West Virginia State
College ('SO). His wife, the
former Miss Mary E. Glenn of
Rougemont and their children
presently reside in New Jer
sey.
tor, school and community re
lations, Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare, Wash
ington, D. C., -who will apeak
at the second general session
at 11 a.m. He will also serve
as director-consultant for an
administrators' workshop dar
ing the afternoon.
at an early age became a mem
ber of the Freewill Baptist
Church of that city. He later
married the former Miss Hat
tie Beamon. Ten children wen
born of his first marriage,
three of which survive. They
are Theodore R., Charlie F.
and all of Durham. His
first wife succumbed Deoem
ber, 1837.
Following the death'« his
first wife, Speight was mar
ried to the former Mrs. Harri
etts Mcdrae ot Durham. MM
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