Durham Ciiy Council Rebuffs Negro Citizens'' Housing Plea
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VOLUME 44 No. 34 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1967 PRICE: 20c
Socialists To Run Negro For
Vice President U. S. In 1968
Anti-war And
Black Power
Leader Chosen
NEW YORK The national
committee of the Socialist
Workers party announced here
this week that it has nominated
Fred Halstead, a leader of the
New York anti-war movement,
and Paul Boutelle, a Harlem
black power spokesman, as the
party's candidates respectively
for President and Vice Presi
dent of Uniteds State in the
1988 elections.
Halstead. one of the princi
pal organizers of the massive
April 15 antiwar demonstration
in New York, said that the war
in Vietnam would be a centra)
White Rock
Men Raise
$10,480 in Aug.
About 100 men (Captains) of
White Rock Baptist Church cli
maxed the observances of the
congregation's worshipping in
■ts present quarters for the last
time last Sunday night, by re
porting $10,480.20 raised for
the building fund during the
month of August. The campaign
was launched Sunday, August
6, and ended Sunday, Sept 3, at
7:30 p.m. During the month of
June a similar effort by about
100 women of the church led
the congregation to contribute
over SII,OOO for the building
fund.
W R Collins, a member of
the Board of Trustees, spoke
for the occasion Sunday at 7:30
p.m.: W. J. Kennedy, Jr., chair
man of the August campaign
presided Albert Eaton was sec
retary.
Worship will again be held
in the present quarters Sunday,
September 10, at 11 a.m. and
7:30 p.m. The congregation
will, therefore, again observe
another last Sunday in the
present quarters.
Last Sunday's observance at
11:00 a.m. included Rev. Lo
renzo A. Lynch, the pastor,
preaching on the Subject? "Pil
grims—The Christian's Watch
word." The Senior Choir, under
the direction of Mrs. Lyda L.
Parker, sang "I'm Seeking for
A City." Mrs. Margaret Good
win was soloist. The male
Chorus, under the direction of
T. Freeland, sang "Heaven is
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Death Comes to
Journal and
Guide Editor
Thomas W. Young, Editor
and Publisher of the Journal
and Guide newspaper since the
death of his father, P B.
Ywmft, Sr., 1062, died at
the Norfolk General Hospital,
Wednesday, September 6 at
3:15. He had been hospitalized
for the past two weeks and was
about to undergo a probing
operation of the chest. The
cause of death was a heart at
tack
Young was a member of the
Norfolk Redevelopment and
Housing Authority. Funeral
services will be held at Grace
Episcopal C h u,r c h Saturday
September 9, at noon.
HALSTEAD
issue of the campaign. He ex
plained that, "The continued
escalation of the Vietnam war
is bringing this country closer
to the brink of a war with
China and the possibility of a
MEN WHO WERE ABLE TO
RAISE OVER SIO,OOO for the
month of August building fund
drive of White Rock Baptist
Church. A new structure will be
erected at 3400 Fayetteville
Street, in the near future. The
men's fund drive followed a
similar drive in June at which
time the women were able to
raise over SII,OOO.
From left to right the Cap
tains are, first row: Charles
Durham to Host NAACP Annual
State Branch Conference in Nov.
NEW YORK —The National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, which
has more than 1,500 chapters
located in cities throughout the'
country, has announced com
pletion of plans for their an
nual state conferences.
Gloster B. Current, NAACP
director of branches and field
administration, released the
following schedule of state con
ference meetings this fall:
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 15-17,
Netherland Hilton Hotel:
Wheeling, W Va., Sept. 15-17, j
Macedonia Baptist Church. New |
Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 20-30, j
Holiday Inn; Chattanooga, Ten- [
Sept. 28-30; -Ooloradc I
Wyoming, in Denver, Sept. 20- I
Oct. 1; North Carolina, Nov. 23- J
25, Durham: North West Area, J
Oct. 7-8, in Tacoma, Wash.;
Florida, Oct. 12-14, Fort Myers; i
New Mexico, Oct. 13-15, Ros- j
well; Georgia, Oct. 26-28, j
Brunswick, Zion Baptist Church;
Arkansas, Oct. 20-21, Magnolia; j
Illinois, Oct. 20-22, Decatur,
Orlando Hotel.
Other state conferences: New I
York, Oct. 20-22, Albany, j
Schine Ten Eyck Hotel; Ala
jm
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BOUTELLE
nuclear holocaust.
"The only way to end the war
is to bring the U.S. troops home
immediately," said Halstead.
"That," he continued, "is what
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Noel, Leroy Harrington, J. H.
Lucas, R. D. Locust, L. A.
Lynch, pastor; Ralph Hunt,
Raymond Williams, William
Taylor, D. F. Spaulding. Sec
ond row: R. Kelly Bryant, J. H.
Hines, C. C. Malone, William
Allen, Louis Ewing, J. W
Goodloe, A. T. Spaulding, Sr.,
T. E, Lambeth, J. S. Stewart
and Theodore Freeland.
Third row: J. P. Thorpe, J.
T. Taylor, Odell Fields, B. H.
bama, Oct. 26-28, Birmingham;
Texas, Oct. 26-28, Dallas; In- |
diana, Oct. 27-28, Muncie, Van
Orman-Roberts Hotel; Missis- |
sippi, Nov. 3-5, Natchez. South j
Carolina, Nov. 9-12, Spartan- I
burg; Louisiana, Nov. 17-19, i
Lake Charles; lowa. Oct. 6-8, I
Sheraton-Warrior Hotel, Sioux !
City; Missouri, Oct. 20-22, Ken- !
nett High School, Kennett: Va., j
Oct 20-22. Williamsburg; Min- .
nesota-Dakota, Oct. 27-28, Holi
day Inn, St. Paul; Connecticut, 1
Oct. 27-29, Holiday Inn, Dan- I
bury; Pa , Oct. 27-29, Penn j
Sheraton Hotel, Pittsburgh; and |
Kansas, Nov 10-12, Howard j
Johnson Motel, Salina
Th* NAAOP ■atiisa'.s ■
oldest and largest civil rights
organzation with a paid mem
bership of almost 450,000.
Police To Patrol
NC Bus Station
CHARLOTTE (UPI) Char
lotte police will patrol the local
bus station on an hourly basis
because of rising complaints about
Activities at the public facility. |
Morehouse Col.
Approved For
Phi Beta Kappa
ATLANTA, Ga. Morehouse j
College was granted a chapter I
of Phi Beta Kappa on August j
20 at Duke University during |
th e Twenty-eighth Triennial
Conference of the national hon- j
orary society, according to an
announcement by Dr. Hugh M.
Gloster, president of the At
lanta institution.
Dr. Gloster further stated
that Morehouse was the only j
Southern college and one of J
eight American schools admit
ted to membership in Phi Beta j
Kappa during the meeting at !
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Thornton, Frank Bright, G W
Logan, Sr., W. J. Kennedy, Jr.,
Chairman; E. C. Pratt,,, C. E.
Geer, J. H. Bell and J H
Schooler.
Fourth row: N. B. White, R.
L. Jones, D. E. Watson, G. W.
White, J. R. Peddy, Ervin Trice,
S. L. Dudley, W. A. Clement,
Ezekiel Clemons, W. F. Hen
derson, A. T. Spaulding, Jr,,
and N. A. Cheek.
Fifth row: C. C. Spaulding, |
HILLSIDE PRINCIPAL 0/V TV SVJSDAY
John H. Lucas, Principal of Hillside High School, wilt appear on
a television panel over WUNC-TV, Chapel Hill, (Channel 4), Sunday,
September 10 at 9:00 p.m. to discuss Public School Desegregation.
Other panelists are Dr. Robert Rankin, Professor of Political
Science, Duke University, and a member of the United States Civil
Rights Commission and Robert Phay, Professor at the Institute of
Government, UNC—Chapel Hill.
Marion Bird, Director of the Education Leadership and Human
Relations Center, Raleigh, will moderate the panel.
Local Committee Gets Firsthand
Look at City's Housing Problem
During a tour of the City's
I Public Housing. Wednesday,
j September 6, it was revealed
that, along with the shortage
[in Public Housing, there is
j need to improve those units
already occupied.
Mrs. Retha Rogers, tenant
I spokesman voiced some of the
| problems which tenants have.
They are: lack of recreation,
I unfinished landscaping, poor
ventilation during summer
months, apartments not being
painted and bad communication
channels between tenants and
the Housing Authority. The
group also visited project areas
throughout the city, including
housing for the elderly.
I Although Carvie S. Oldham,
Voters Forced
To Use White
Aids at Polls
JACKSON, Miss. ln a tele-
I RTam of protest to President
I Lyndon B. Johnson, leaders of
| the Mississippi State Confer
i ence of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of
j Colored People charged that
! elections held in some counties
j were 'rigged" to defeat an un
| precedented number of Negro
candidates.
NAACP State Field Director
Charles Evers told newsmen
, ahat Negro voter s had been
I forced to obtain assistance from
! white election officials, who
marked the ballots for white
candidates.
In calling for new elections,
I Mr Evers said Federal officials
I sent to observe the voting had
1 ' sat around drinking coffee and
1 grinning with all the racists."
The telegram sent by Mr Ev
ers and Dr. Aaron E. Henry,
NAACP state conference presi
dent, urged President Johnson
to "use your influence and call
for new elections in many sec
tions of Mississipppi and send
representatives from Washing
ton and across the country to
make certain that Negroes and
Negro candidates are assured
justice and fair play in all
elections."
Negro candidates were de
feated by white opponents in
21 contests in nine counties
across the state. Many of the
losses were by large margins.
This was in sharp contrast to
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Jr., Jimmie Lyon, Burnis Ray,
C. G. Mabry, E. W. Midgette,
J. W. Carrington, J. E. Peele,
T. Baily, Jr., E. F. Hill, Moses
Russell.
Sixth row: J. E. Cromartie,
H. T. Lucas, J. T. Hawkins, Al
bert Eaton, Secretary; Preston
Kennedy, E. L. Allen, David
Harrison, J. D. Harrell and B.
F. Page.
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Executive Director of Durham
Housing Authority, stated that
there was no discrimination in
the placement of tenants, mem
bers of the citizens committee
observed several instances of
what appeared to be segrega
tion in the placement of elder
ly.
Oldham noted that a social
worker is being hired and said
his first job under the title of
community service coordinator,
will be to work in the tenant
cooperative club area.
He said that if the Housing ■
Authority does not do this
"some outside force will come
in an do it" and that the out
side force might not be as use-
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PENS FOR THE WOUNDED—
(Washington) ln a ceremony
in the East Room of the White j
House, President Johnson sign- I
ed into law a bill expanding ,
benefits of hundreds of thous- I
ands of Gl's. After signing the j
bill, the President hands out ;
Says Delegation May Appeal
To U. S. Housing Agency
Lenoir Minister's Name Linked
With 1968 Bishopric Campaign
DR. J. D. DAVIS
MENTIONED FOR
AME PRELATE
KITTRELL The annual A.
M. E. retreat held at Kittrell
College closed here Saturday,
August 19. The session, which
brought ministers and laymen
to the college from all over the
Second Episcopal District was
presided over by Bishop George
W. Baber, presiding prelate.
Probably the most forceful
message delivered during the
entire retreat program was the
opening sermon preached by
Presiding Elder J. D. Davis of
the Morganton District. Dr. j
Davis was called on in an emer
gency to pinch-hit in the place
of Bishop John D. Bright of
the First Episcopal District who
was unable to be present until
the following day.
In commenting on the sermon
of Presiding Elder Davis, sev
eral persons stated that he |
Prosecution Of 3 Workers
Being Held Up For U. S. Court
Local Business College Has
Largest Enrollment In History
Southeastern Business Col
lege opened its doors here
Thursday, September 7, to the
largest enrollment in its his
tory. Also the college's opening
of a new $150,000.00 dormitory
and cafeteria complex marked
another giant step in its devel
opment.
The five-year campus de
velopment program, which was
approved by the College s
Board of Trustees at its Febru
ary meeting, will also see the
building of a complete indepen
dent campus, which will in
clude an administration build
ing. a class room building, a
boy's dormitory and an addi
tion to the girl's dormitory.
In its short history, the insti
tution has come from 1 teacher
and 12 students in 1956 to 8
teachers and 150 students in
1967
David W. Stith, Southeastern
Business College President,
commenting on the opening of
the 12th school year said, "It
is the beginning of a new day
in the history of Southeastern.
We are building a quality in
stitution to match the demands
of industry for truly qualified
employees."
The new dormitory was fin
anced by the Small Business
pens to a group of wounded
Gl's from Vietnam In the front
row are, left to right: Leslie
Burghoff Massachusetts, Nat'l
President. Paralyzed Veterans
of America; Sgt. James Combs,
Washington, I) C.; SP/4 Ray
mond Fijal, Bristol, Conn ; Pfc.
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REV. DAVIS
preached more like a bishop
than an ordinary minister. It
was the opinion of many that
since North Carolina has never
had a bishop elected for the
A. M. E. Church that Dr. Da
vis should run for the office
| in 1968
Administration, which Presi
dent Stith called "a real boon
to the Negro businessman " De
signed by a local architect and
built by Durham's Trout and
Riggs Construction Company,
the dormitory will house fe
male students. The cafeteria
will serve more than 100 per
sons per hour.
Southeastern is one of the
few business colleges in this
area having a campus housing
for its students.
Mrs. E. Rankin
Named Mgr. of
Damar Court
Announcement was made this
week that Mrs. Ethel Rankin,
wife of G R. Rankin, has been
appointed manager of the Da
mar Court Apartments, recent
ly acquired by the Durham
Housing Authority. Mrs. Ran
kin, a native of Yanceyville is
Training School and Cortez
Peters Business School of
Washington, D. C.
Vincent Rizzo, Long Island, N
Y ; SFC James Jones, Fayette
ville, N C , and Jayne Jayroe
of Oklahoma. Miss America
who just returned from enter
taining troops in Vietnam.
(UPI Telephoto'
RUFFIN SAYS
CITY'S DECISION
'UNFORTUNATE'
"Unfortunate" was the term
used by Ben Ruffin, UOCI di
rector following the City Coun
cil meeting here' Tuesday night,
to the reaction of the Durham
City Council in annexing the
Bacon Street area for addition
al Negro housing in the city.
Ruffin indicated that a dele
gation would be sent to Wash
ington to confer with U.S. Sec
retary of Housing and Urban
Development, Robert C. Weav
er
"There is the possibility that
we shall seek redress in the
federal courts also," Ruffin
said
In a statement to newspaper
representatives, Ruffin said
"Historically the southeastern
area of Durham has been set
aside for Negroes. The Durham
City Council, through its action
Tuesday night, did not deviate
from the history of the city by
voting to place another public
housing project in the south
eastern section of the city
which already comprises 75 OT -
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JUDGES AGREE
TO QUICK ACTION
IN KY. CASES
PIKEVILLE, Ky. Further
| prosecution of three poverty
i workers on sedition charges
j will be held up until a special
I U. S. court decides whether
| their arrest was valid.
Thomas Ratliff, the prosecu-
I ting attorney, agreed to post
pone grand-jurv action after a
hearing before a three-judge
I federal court in Lexington on
| September 1
The three judges agreed to
I act quickly on the question of
| whether Kentucky's sedition
law is unconstitutional. How
ever, they gave Ratliff and at
j torneys for the accused almost
j a month to file written argu
! ments.
The sedition law was chal
, lenged by attorneys for Alan
and Margaret McSurely, field
organizers for the Southern
I Conference Educational Fund
i (SCEF). and Joseph Mulloy,
field director for the Appala
; chian Volunteers (AV).
SCEF is a South-wide inter
-1 racial organization working to
end racial discrimination and
j poverty in the South. Appala
! chian Volunteers does com
munity work among the poor
in the mountains, and is partly
funded by the Office of Eco
nomic Opporunity (OEO).
The three were arrested Au
gust 11 after Ratliff and a doz-
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