Durham Mayor Charged With Conducting One Man Drive
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CONNECTICUT SOLON SAYS
Failure of Colleges and Neglect
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APPEAR BEFORE SENATE JU
DICIARY COMMITTEE —(Wash-
ington*— Rufus Mayfield, left,
of Washington, and Norris
Morrow, of Tampa, Fla., testi
fied before the Sepate Judici
Official Accuses Grabarek
Of Using Discrimination
COUNCILMAN
SAYS MAYOR
IS DOMINATING
Jack Preiss. a member of
Durham City Council, has
charged Mayor Wense Graba
rek with trying to run the af
fairs of the city single handed
and discrimination of choice of
appointees.
Grabarek retaliated by say
ing he would let the citizens
of Durham judge the charges.
Preiss said the discrimination
has not been confined to ap
pointments made by the mayor
directly. "It also extends to in
fluencing of persons, commit
tees and boards which should
make independent recommen
dations to the Council," he add
ed.
The recent report of the City
Council Committee empowered
to make recommendations for
the new coordination committee
for housing and related matters,
was a sample of the mayor's in
fluence.
Even though the mayor had
originally voted against the
coordinating committee, Preiss
said, "he was able to influence
the decisions of the Council
Committee to the extent that
he was made a member of the
committee. In doing so he as
sumed the chairmanship and
definitely indicated who was to
be excluded
Mayor Grabarek answered the
charges in three sentences: "In
a democracy such as ours, and
this is so in the city of Dur
ham," Grabarek stated, "all
elected officials and, indeed all
citizens are entitled to an open
expression of their opinions.
The evaluation of the merits
and substance of such state
ments reposes within the judge
ment of the people. I trust we
can all be in agreement in this
See MAYOR page 2A
ENJOYING LUNCH are some
members of the North Carolina
and South Carolina delegation
at the recent meeting of the
National Bar Association 42nd
Annual meeting held in Hous
j ary subcommittee considering .
| the anti-riot bill recently and j
discounted the role of outside
agitators in urban rioting. May-1
| field is director of Pride, Inc.,
I a federally financed group pro- i
E. F. Corbett Elected Grand
Basileus of Omegas in Boston
BOSTON, Mass—Ellis F. Cor-
I bett, director, Public Relations,
A&T State University, Greens
! boro, at the final session of
j the 51st annual conclave of the
I Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, here
| August 17, was installed as
, Grand Basileus of the 25,000-
; member organization. He suc
ceeds George E. Meares, Brook
! lyn, N. Y., who is also a native
| North Carolinian.
j James S. Avery, Plainsfield,
| N. J., was elected Ist Vice
| Grand Basileus; Lincoln Scott
I 2nd Vice; Jesse B. Blayton, Sr.,
Atlanta, the perennial Keeper
of Finance, was returned to of
fice; W. C. Pruitt, Oklahoma
City, Okla., was re-elected Edi- I
tor-in-Chief of the Oracle.
The meet began August 13
and went into every phase of
the life of the organization,
with much emphasis on the un
der graduate chapters. It was
definitely decided that the
members, on the campuses of
W. Rock Members Worship
Last Time In Old Edifice Sun.
The Historic White Rock Bap
tist Church. 600-606 Fayette
vilie Street, founded in 1866
I and built at its present site
I 1895, will observe its last Sun
day in its present quarters Sep- ]
j tember 3, at 11 a.m. and 7:30
p m. The pastor, Rev. Lorenzo
A Lynch, will preach at 11
a.m. on "Pilgrims—The Christ
ians Watch Word."
Scenes Taken During Annual Meeting of National Bar Association in Houston, Texas
ton, Texas. Seated from left to
right are Judge Charles Lun
derman, Louisville; Asberry
Butler, Houston School-board
member; LeMarquis DeJarmon,
viding summer jobs for Negro
youths, and Morrow was one
of the leaders of the white hel
meted youths wo helped subdue
Tampa's riots. (UPI)
I If
CORBETT
| tne colleges, would be the
| prime objective of the frater
i nity.
Senator Edward Brooke was
given the "Citizens of the Year
Award." It was presented by
Dr. Matthew J. Whitehead,
See CORBETT page 2A
A special program will be
held in the evening at which
time the men of the church
will climax a SIO,OOO Building
Fund Drive. The membership
will worship and set up offices
in temporary quarters, to be
announced later. The church
property has heen sold to the
Redevelopment Commission of
Durham. The new church
D. G. Sampson, Durham, N. C.;
Miss Dorothy Sampson, Sumter,
S. C. and Henry Frye, Greens
boro, N. C.
Che Car§3a Ciuws
VOLUME 44 No. 33 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2~ 1%7 PRICE: 20c
Newark Negroes Ask United States
Court To Take Over Police Dept.
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Mayor, Chief of
Police Named
In Indictment
NEW YORK The National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People has
called on a Federal court in
New Jersey to appoint a re
ceiver to operate the Newark
city police department in the
aftermath of "police violence
and intimidation to keep the
Negro community in a second
class status."
The suit names as defendants
Newark Mayor Hugh J. Addo
nizio, Public Safety Director
Dominick Spina and Police
Chief Oliver Kelly.
The suit was filed Thursday,
August 24, in behalf of 18
Newark Negroes who charged
that police violence and inti
midation was intensified under
"cover" of the recent Newark
riots.
In addition to a Federal re
ceiver, NAACP General Coun
sel Robert L. Carter told news
men, "the Negro plaintiffs ask
for a court order directing the,,
Newark police from engaging
in police brutality, using racial
and obscene epithets, compiling
dossiers on civil rights groups
and arresting persons for ex- |
ercising their First Amendment
rights."
They also ask for a court ord- I
er directing the police depart- I
ment to arrest policemen who
commit crimes against Negroes.
Carter and Henry M, di Su
vero, executive director of the
ACLU in New Jersey, in a joint j
statement said "This suit repre- |
sents a major effort to check j
police lawlessness.
building to be ereceted by the
congregation will get under
construction soon, at the new
site 3400 Fayetteville Road
The church was formerly pas
tored by the Dr. Miles Mark
Fisher, Pastor Emeritus, 1932-
1963. The present pastor came
to the church September 1,
1965. The church's active mem
bership is approximately 1,200.
ATTENDING A GAME in the
world famous Astrodome in
Houston, Texas, recently, from
left to right are (Bottom row)
Atty. and Mrs. LeMarquis De-
Jarmon. Durham: (Second row)
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LOST ARM REPLACED
(Daytona Beach, Fla.) —Mau-
rice Thomas 21, of Daytona
Beach, a laundry employee
suffered the loss of his right
arm below the shoulder on
Monday afternoon. The towel
Cincinnati To Host National
Bapt. Convention Sept. 5 10
Over 2,000 to
Attend Meet
In Ohio City
CINCINNATI, Ohio The
Progressive National Baptist
Convention holds its Annual
i Session with the churches of
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 5-
■ 10, 1967. Headquarters for the
Convention will be the Nether
i land Hilton Hotel, Fifth and
I Race Streets, where all sessions
will be held.
More than 2,000 accredited
delegates from 500 member
church will attend, in addition
to several thousand observers
and visitors, according to The
Rev. Dr Gardner C. Taylor,
President of the Progressive
National Baptist Convention.
Principal speakers will in
clude Dr. Taylor, who has just
returned from a preaching and
speaking tour of South Africa:
Dr. Martin Luther King of At
lanta, president of the South
ern Christian Leadership Con
ference (SCLC); Dr. Benjamin
See BAPTIST page 2A
Atty. Ed Toles, Chicago; Henry
Frye, Greensboro; Atty. and
Mrs. Henry of Atlanta. They
were in Houston for a meeting
of the National Bar Association
and Barrister's Wives, Inc.
wrapped arm and Thomas
were rushed to Halifax Gen
eral Hospital where a two
doctor team labored 5 hours
to replace the arm. This
morning Thomas reported
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CAPTAIN MICHAUX
Young Durham Lawyer Gets
Promotion to Captain in A. F.
DENVER Eric C. Michaux,
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Mi
chaux Sr. of 408 Formosa St.,
Durham, has been promoted to
captain in the U. S. Air Force.
Captain Michaux is an as
BARRISTER'S WlVES—Review
ing some of the highlights of
the keynote panel discussion
are some members of the Bar
risters' Wives, Inc. at its an
nual meeting, July 24-29 in
feeling in the fingers of this
arm. While his condition is
good, doctors cannot at this
point give any assurance on
the outcome of the operation.
(UPI)
sistant staff judge advocate at
the Air Reserve Personnel Cen
ter in Denver. He is a member
of the Continental Air Com
mand which keeps units and in-
See MICHAUX 2A
Houston, Texas. Seated from
left to right are Mesdames
Surrey E. Davis, president of
Houston Chapter, George Law
rence, parliamentarian and
Wm. Peterson, National Presi
Sen. Ribicoff
Heard at Phi
Beta Meeting
In an address to the Trien
nial Council meeting of the
United Chapters of Phi Beta
Kappa held here at Duke Uni
versity, Tuesday. August 29,
Connecticut Democratic Sena
tor Abraham Ribicoff blamed
the failure of college experts
to cope with Negro problems,
and that a "century of neglect"
have led to violence in Ameri
can cities.
Kibicoff called the bussing
of school children from N'egro
slum areas to better cross-town
neighborhoods for a day in the
classroom and a hot lunch in
clean surroundings "one of
our biggest mistakes "
"We give them neither ad
vantage nor education by such
moves, what we do is to re
turn the young N'egrp to his
poverty - stricken surroundings
more aware than ever of his
plight."
The senator called for a
long-range program that would
include four basic elements in
addition to guaranteed job op
portunities which are as fol
lows:
Provision of decent homes in
a decent environment that in
cludes personal security and
public safety
Offering of maximum en
couragement to private invest
ment in rebuilding our cities
and the lives of our people.
Involvement of the individ
ual in his own destiny and em
phasizing neighborhood devel
opment.
Reorganization of the Fede
ral Government so that new
See SOLON page 2A
Times Launches
Plan fo Name
Negro Leader
The Carolina Times launched
last week a nation-wide cam
paign to name one Negro of
profound integrity, as the top
leader of all Negro American
citizens.
A determined effort will be
attempted, to settle during our
time if not once and for all,
the grave question and selection
of a leader by our Negro read
ers. It is our hope, therefore,
by so doing, to have it distinct
ly understood by all Americans,
that the person named will be
recognized as the leading repre
sentative and spokesman for
the race.
Nominated this week in ac
cordance with the number of
letters and cards recteved by
the Times are: Whit
ney Woung, Roy Wilkins, A.
Phillip Randolph and Martin
Luther King. The nomination
period will end Monday noon,
September 11, following which
voting for the top leader of the
See LEADER page 2A
dent. Standing from left to
right are Mesdames Charles
Lunderman, Elmer Jackson.
Tremayne Brigham, Hul a n
Lott and LeMarquis DeJarmon.