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City Group Launches $103,000 Drive For Lincoln Hospital * * * * * * ★★★ ★ ★★★ ★★★ Dick Gregory Announces Vietnam Fast Until Christmas Che CarSa Ciroes InigfuuTHJWBI>IO£EB*/7 VOLUME 44—No. 46 DURHAM, N. C.—SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1967 A rsonists Burn Negro Church, Homes In Tennessee Towns - %m inwifeiß.' 1 £BP 9 X ** ■*"%'./' ■«• /•. *■ ■, , , _J •..-,- A ' . AjS :.;,- K j /*fK> :,: ■■■ '-? ■ ft "WjjMKSSI _.:.» ijf M lONGRATULATIONS (Cle ■eland, Ohio) —Republican Seth ;. Taft (R) congratulated Ma >or Carl B. Stokes at the Elec- Testimony Given On Disorders Howard P. Leary Explains How It- Worked In N. Y. WASHINGTON, —The surest way to turn a limited civil disturbance into full scale riot is to send in a hand ful of police, according to the chief of the nation's big gest police force. The proper response is in stead to make an early show of massive force, New York Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary believes. Leary outlined his theory in testimony before President Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disor-| ders on Sept. 20. Excerpts | were released Thursday. i NEW YORK, which averted' serious rioting the past sum mer, followed the rule that "if a street must be cleared,) six menarenot sent to do it, | but 50, 100, 200 if necessary— and they are backed up." Leary told the commission. "A half dozen men should never be sent into a street crowd in one of these disturb-, ances. It is too easy for men. under such conditions to over-| act, perhaps to use a pistol,, and with one shot do what the agtft'ators have tried to create a martyr. HE SAID RIOT control forces should be well super vised by senior officers who can exert a "calming and re- 1 assuring influence on the po licemen." "And they should be taught that "it is better to listen to hours of oral abuse than to change it with a single shot into days or weeks of rioting," Leary said. "Every policemen in this country carries at his hip a machine that can blow almost any incident in the ghetto Into a full scale riot." Leary'* testimony chal lenged a technique used with varying success by some ■mailer cities last summer. In those instances, relatively small numbers of police were dispatched to the scene at a disturbance in an effort to avoid overaction that could atir up worst troiAle The technique failed in New ark, which experienced one of the moat severe riota. tion Board when a recount of last week's mayoral election was completed November 17 giving Stokes a 1,679 vote vic- Last Rites Held for John W. Bailey at St. Joseph's Ctanth I I I Funeral services for John William j Bailey were held Monday, November 27th at Saint Joseph's A. M. E. I Church. A life-time resident of Dur ham, Mr. Bailey attended local public schools and was graduated from North Carolina College where he received the Bachelor of Science de gree in Commerce. | Mx. Bailey was married to the former , Miss Bernadine Stoneham Smith of Richmond, Virginia, who survives ' him. Also surviving are two sisters, j Mis. Thelma Bailey Lanier and Mrs. ' Addie L. Bailey, both of Durham; several other relatives, and many l friends. For more than twenty years, Mr., Bailey sang in the choir of Saint \ j Joseph's A. M. E. Church. He was j a member of the Beta Phi Chapter | I of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity; a mem • ber of Doric Lodge, No. 28 of the ! Free and Accepted Order of Masons; I a member of the Advisory Commit j tee for Troup 105 of Saint Joseph's ' A. M. E. Church, Boy Scouts of America; and one of the founders of the John Avery Boys' Club. The eulogy was delivered by the Reverend Philip R. Cousin, Pastor of Saint Joseph's. A solo was rendered by Mrs. Margaret Goodwin. Interment was at Beechwood Ceme tery. i ■ - -mati '** ( ! HE* • l * mk Js? * s *& —"" V i Jhj v E FOR 3S FAITHFUL YiARS— Highly honored and presented • plaque for approximately 25 years of faithful service as General Counselor of the N. C. Branches of the National Asso Tory over Taft. Taft who had asked for the recount, picked up a net gain of only 19 votes. (UPI Telephoto) JMF ' V wk BAILEY j 5 ALA. COPS CHARGED WITH ABUSE MONTGOMERY, Ala.-The Na-| ! tional Association for the Advance j ment of Colored People has filed complaints against five Montgomery ! policemen alleging brutality, and the i violation of the civil rights of Mrs.' | Edna Warner. The complaints were filed upon her behalf by the Rev. K. j L. Buford, NAACP field director for, Alabama. r Mrs. Warner states that she was not guilty of the traffic violation tot which ihe was arrested, and further i alleges that she was beaten by the ! ciation for the Advancement of Colored People, during the 1967 annual session, held in Durham November 24-26, was Atty. C. 0 Pearson. Presenting PRICE: 20c Wave of Fires Follows U. S. Court Order BROWNSVILLE, Tenn.-The homes of 11 Negro families in Hay wood County have been set afire since August 4. These are in addition to four house burnings in the spring, the burning of a church in July, and the bombing of 13 Negro homes in 1966. The latest wave of fire followed a U. S. District Court order to place 10 Negro teachers in five previously white schools and 10 white teachers in four schools attended by black children. i The decision by Judge Bailey ! Brown of Memphis made no pro vision for increasing the number of j black children in mostly white | j schools, or vice versa. Interracial 1 attendance is now about 2 per cent. Mrs. Virgie Hortenstine, coordi nator of the Fayette-Haywood Work- 1 camps, said: "Some of the fires were set to the property of Negroes who were active in civil rights or who; served as witnesses in court for the 1 school cases. Some were old people and people handicapped by illness." j She reported that the home of l Dan Nixon, west of Brownsville, has 1 been set afire twice. Nixon is one of the two Negro magistrates in the county, the first to be elected in, this century. Haywood and neighboring Fay ette County have been the scene of a long struggle for human rights. In the I early 60's hundreds of Negro fami lies were driven off the land because j they registered and voted. Massive! 'support from throughout the nation j ' helped them in that crisis. Mrs. j | Hortenstine said that protests are| | now needed to the Governor of I Tennessee at Nashville. arresting officers. The complaints, which were filed ' with the Civil Division of the 'U. S. Department of Justice, the I Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Commissioner of Police are ac companied by copies of a local physician's statement asserting that ! Mrs. Warner has been treated three times since the incident for "nume rous bruises and contusions of the right hand, arm and shoulder which she reported she had sustained during ;her arrest" - the plaque is Charles McLean, NAACP State Director. In the center is Mrs. Mildred H. Pear son, wife of Atty. Pearson. (Photo by Purefoy) ENTRENCHED (Dak To So, Vietnam)— With the first part of the battle for Hill 875 over, members of the 173 rd Airborne Brigade entrench themselves in Massive Registrat Continued In Danville, I!a. Atty. Harvey Urges Ballot as Power Means DANVILLE, Va.-Attorney Ruth L. Harvey, recent candidate for the Virginia State Legislature, announces that one of the good side effects of her campaign is the amount of inter est the citizens of Danville and Pitt sylvania County have shown in now launching a massive Voter Registra tion drive. Attorney Harvey, speaking for the Dan River Civic League, stated i that "ballot power is the key to the future, and every unregistered black man and woman 21 years old and older must register and participate in the political affairs of the city, county, state, and nation. We have allowed other folks to take us for granted, we must not only register and vote but we must have our own candidates and back them 100 per cent. We hold the key to changing this nation. Negroes are tired of left-out-ism and our political power can wake up the power structure." NCM President 30-Day Fund Raising Effort Drive Expected To Explore Every Segment of City With Asa T. Spaulding, president of N. C. Mutual Life Insurance Com pany, as chairman, a campaign to raise a minimum of $103,000 for Lincoln Hospital was launched here Tuesday evening, November 28, by a most enthusiastic committee com posed or many of Durham's most prominent business and professional personalities. The drive will be conducted dur ing the entire month of December and is expected to explore every segment of the city's population in an effort to achieve the desired goal. Campaign coordinators named for the effort are Maceo Sloane, vice president, in charge of N. C. home office operations and Nathan Garrett, Certified Public Accountant and Deputy Director of N. C. Fund. Named as chairmen of the several groups or segments of the city are: City Schools, J. M. Schooler and Mrs. Nancy Rowland; County Schools, H. L. Bryant; N. C. College, Dr. Albert Whiting, Corporate Gifts, W. A. Cle ment and Mrs. M. T. Semans; Labor, Walter O. Daye; Business Division, : F. V. Allison; Physicians, Dr. R. E. King; Dentists, Dr. C. L. Curry; Nursing and Paramedical, Mrs. L. Z. Williams; Lawyers, Atty. M. Hugh Thompson and Atty. H. M. Michaux; Sororities and Women's Clubs, Dr. Rose Butler Browne; Fraternal Orga nizations, L. B. Frazier: churches. Rev. Wm. H. Fuller; Duke University, Dr. Lenox BakeV; Social action agen cies, Ben Ruffin; Downtown Busi nesses, J. S. Stewart; Neighborhood 'Canvassing, S. D. Cuthbertson; Build ers and Developers, Bobby Roberts. North Vietnamese Army bunk-1 ers before the next stage in the fight for the hill Nov. 21.) U. S. Army paratroopers of the j w Y M The Pittsylvania County Voter League is organizing every precinct and has declared war on all unregis Harlem Leader Named Deputy Housing Administrator N. Y. City NEW YORK-Dr. Eugene S. Cal ender, noted Harlem leader was ap pointed Saturday, November 25th as Deputy Administrator of the New York City Housing and Development I Association. This appointment puts ' a Negro in the position of first assist ant of the recently created depart iment responsible for development of I public housing, clearance of slums, and rent control in New York City. Dr. Callender has been active in advancing the condition of minorities in New York for several years. He was Chairman of the Urban League of Greater New York, and Chairman iof the Board of Haryou-Act, the [Harlem's largest poverty agency. As pastor of one of Harlem's largest Churches, he was active in developing i programs to help Negro and Puerto Rican youngsters living in the area, i It is expected that Dr. Callender i Councilmen Elected i At St. Augustine's j RALEIGH, N. C. Stu- 1 dent Council officers and members at Saint Augus- j' tine's College were formally j installed by Dr. Prezell R. i Robinson, college president, j They were Eugene Thorn- | as, senior, of Washingt on, D. C., president; Curtis i TVHarch, senior, Columbia, S. j C., vice-president; and Quin- | tard Taylor, junior, Browns- j sville, Tenn., member- at large. j. 173 rd Airborne Brigade Nov. 22 began a final assault up the bloody slopes of Hill 875. (UPI Radiophoto by Stone) ATTY. HARVEY tered black citizens. The drive will continue until the books close in 1968. CALLENDER " will assume his new duties before the lend of the year, following his resigna jtion of his post with the Urban Lea- Igue. | Mayor Lindsay said when he announced the appointment to the j $30,000 a year post, "Eugene Callen- : i der will bring to city housing pro-' 1 J grams unmatched experience, imagi nation, and sensitivity. He knows our city and its people and understands the complex relationships of housing, I social, educational and other pro j blems." Callender joins five other Negroes who have found important positions lin Mayor Lindsay's administration. |He is joining the first of 10 super-j j agencies Mayor Lindsay created to i j modernize New York City's admin istrative machinery. Comedian Joins Opposition to U.S. War Effort CHICAGO-(LDA)-Dick Grego ry, declared independent candidate for President of the United States in 1968, announced last week that he would fast beginning on Thanks giving Day and lasting until Christ mas. There was much excitement in the Continental Room of the Knic kerbocker Hotel here as the some what gaunt comedian explained to reporters, radio and television news men the philosophical reasons and technical details of his demonstration. "1 am determined to set an exam ple as an individual American, law fully protesting against my govern ment's policy in Vietnam." He sip ped on a glass of water, his only form of sustenance during the 32- aay last. About ten days prior to the press conference, Gregory was exis ting on water and orange juice. The fast eliminated even the vitamins found in the fruit juice. He continued: "From Thanks giving Day until Christmas, 1 will fast in sympathy with the millions of Americans who are also opposed to the war in Vietnam. 1 will not eat, drink juice or take prepared vitamin; or other food supplements. 1 will drink only distilled water." Gregory fielded a barrage of pointed questions asked by white newsmen on assignment who felt the demonstration was a publicity stunt. Having worked with Dick Gregory for the past two years, it is my con sidered opinion that whatever Gre gory does-regardless of how it may seem to spectators-is done with sin cere conviction and a deep and abid ing concern for his fellow man. To add further emphasis to his demonstrative fast, Gregory asked that "all those who, like myself, are opposed to war to demonstrate their determination by not buying a tur key for Christmas dinner. I suggest that true Christians and humani tarians celebrate Christmas this year in simplicity and sacrifice, and, in sympathy with the suffering on both sides of the war, avoid traditional decorations, Christmas trees, lights ornaments, toys and the exchange of gifts and presents until peace on earth and good will to men become a reality." Dentist May Enter Race For Governor CHARLOTTE—Dr. Reginald Hawkins, dentist and civil rights leader of Charlotte, an nounced this week that he is seriously considering entering the race for governor in the 1968 Democratic Primary. Dr. Hawkins is widely known throughout North Carolina as a fearless civil rights leader, as well as a highly respected citizen. He stated emphatically that he is contemplating run ning for the office of governor, although he has not reached a definite decision. Said Dr. Hawkins. "I have been ap proached by Negro leaders across the State to consider running, primarily to discuss the issues which should be dis cussed and to get this State moving." Said Hawkins further, "It seems that all of the candi dates, or the talked-about can didates so far have been dis cussing only who is left of what and who is right of what. This is not important. They should be discussing the is sues—education, housing, em ployment health and income, he stated. If and when Hawkins does enter the gubernatorial cam paign he will be the first of his race to aspire for the of fice of governor since Recon struction. The estimated voting strength of Negroes in North Carolina is believed to be approximately 300,000. Should Hawkins enter the race it is believed the num ber would double, in considera tion of the mammoth register and vote campaign that is now being contemplated by Negro leaders for the 1968 primary and election.