Police Lt. J. B. Samuel Acquitted Of Manslaughter Charge
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Funds Ordered Cut
WASHINGTON-Fed
eral Examiner Seymour A.
Emmerglick Thursday order
ed a cut-off of federal aid to
the Greensboro, N.C., city
school system for failing to
eliminate segregation.
The City School Board,
which was given 20 days from
April 22 to appeal the deci
sion, receives about sl.l mil
lion in federal funds per year.
Veteran Police Officer Found
"Hot Guilty" At April 25 Trial
A Superior Court jury
cleared Lt. J. 3. Samuel here
Saturday of manslaughter
charges that had been brought
against him in the slapping
death of Jesse Hill a 20-year
old N. C. College student last
October.
Samuel had been under sus
pension from the police depart
ment for the past several
months, following the death
of Hill which occurred on the
night of October 26, when he
stated he administered a sneak
slap, to Hill to prevent him,
"from hitting me."
Trial of Samuel on a charge
of manslaughter in connection
with Hill's death ended Satur
day, April 26, following the
verdict of the jury. He ex
pressed himself as being over-
Buy Rankin and
In Durham City
Two more Negro candidates
will make their bid for the
office of the Durham City
Council in the election to be
, held May 17. The two new
candidates are Guy Rankin and
Gene Hampton.
Rankin is owner of Van
guard Security Service, a prive
police company and a native
of Washington, D. C. He at
tended Montgomer Junior Col
lege and did further study at
the Washington School of
Technology and D. C. Teachers
College. He is a member of the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity; a
member of the East Durham
Citizens Association and a
member of the International
Association of Chiefs of Police.
He is affiliated with the Metho
dist Church.
In making his announce
ment Rankin stated:
Young People Meet In Wash.
In Effort To Lowe
WASHINGTON—More than
2,000 young people from 33
states and Canada spent two
days here in an organized
effort to have the voting age
lowered from 21 to 18. Spon
sored by the Youth Division
of the NAACP, the delegates
to the mobilization presented
their caae in General Assembly
Sessions held at the Hotel
America. They also separated
into State Delegations on Tues
day for the purpose of visiting
their Congressional Representa
tives od Capitol Hill.
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DR. THORPE ACCEPTS PRESI-1 Thorpe (right) for induction
DENCY— J«aceo A. Sloan (left),
Vice-President of North Caro
lina Mutual Life Insurance Co.
and a member of the ECSC
Board of Trustees, presents Dr.
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LT. SAMUEL
joyed at the "not guilty" ver
dict and embraced his attor
neys of the law firm of Pear
son, Malone, Johnson and
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RANKIN
"I am honored to announce
my candidancy for the seat of
councilman at large. Having
been in Durham for ova three
years. I have seen the little
man abused, ignored, and taken
Prior to the Congressional
Visitations, the full youth
mobilization met in the Senate
Auditorium to hear pledges of
support from Senators Thomas
F. Eagleton, Ed vard W.
Brooke, Jacob K. Javits, Fred
Hugh Scott, Birch Bayh ,
Joseph D. Tydings and Repre
sentatives Carl Albert and
Gerald Ford.
Maryland Senator Clarence
Mitchell, 111, told a mass meet
ing Monday night at the Metro
politan AME Church that intel-
ligent use of the ballot was the
and investiture. Board Chair
man McDonald Dixon (center)
presented Dr. Thorpe with the
symbols of office as President
of Elizabeth City State College.
DeJarmon
Appearing as character wit
nesses for Samuel were Sheriff
J. M. Mangum; Chief of Police
W. W. Pleasants; Atty. M. Hugh
Thompson; Atty. A. H. Borland,
City Councilman J. S. Stewart,
Rev. Lorenzo A. Lynch, pastor
of White Rock Baptist Church,
L B. Fraiser, official of the
N. C. Mutual Life Insurance
Company and L. E. Austin,
publisher of The Carolina
Times.
Samuel was reinstated to
the Police Department Monday,
April 28, where he has worked
as a police officer for over
25 years.
He, with the late Clyde L.
Cox, were the first Negroes
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HAMPTON
advantage of, time and time
again. It is for this reason I
am campaigning. I want to
make sure that people with
small incomes have someone
(See RACE page 2A)
single most important power
a citizen possessed. He said
that, whether the young peo
ple succeed In getting the vot
ing age lowered or not, they
can use their energies and their
knowledge In a continuous
voter education and registra
tion program.
He cited Baltimore as a city
where Negroes had no political
power until the young people
conducted a major voter regis
tration campaign. Once a large
number of Negroes were on the
(See PEOPLE pan*. 2Ai
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VOLUME 16 No. 18
3 Veteran Employe
Mutual Elevated
Board Makes
Announcement
Of Promotions
WINSTON SALEM - Three
veteran employees of Winston
Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany were elevated to new
positions with the company at
a recent meeting of its board
of directors, R. 1 L. Oden,
agency director, announced
this week.
Walter M. Hairston, a board
member, was elevated to com
pany treasurer.
Hairston, who had served as
assistant treasurer, was elected
to fill the vacancy created by
the death of Mrs. Nellie Hair
ston Bausman. He will serve
until the next annual meeting
of the policyholders of the
company. .
Mrs. Treatha P. Harper, wife
of Amos W. Harper, who is a
retired auditor of the company,
will serve as assistant treasurer
until the annual meeting.
James Q. Falls, district
manager of the Charlotte, area,
will fill the vacancy on the
board, Oden said.
Hairston is the son of the
late W. P. Hairston, a former
treasurer and vice president of
the company. He is a graduate
of Atkins High School and
West Virginia State College.
He is a member of Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity and a
(See EMPLOYES page 2A)
Dr. Frank Trigg
Succumbs In
Norfolk, Ya.
NORFOLK - Dr. Frank
Trigg of 933 Oaklawn Ave,.
Norfolk, a dean of Negro phy
sicians in the Old Common
wealth, died Friday, April 18,
enroute to a local hospital.
He had practiced medicine in
Norfolk over half a century, but
had been in retirement several
years and in failing health
since his retirement.
A funeral service was held
Monday, April 21, at Grace
Episcopal Church where he
served as a member of the
Vestry until his health failed.
Father Joseph N. Green Jr.,
rector, officiated. Members of
the professional organizations
of which Dr. Trigg was a mem
ber were represented at the
funeral.
Dr. Trigg, member of a dis
tinguished professional family,
set a high example of profi
ciency and learning for his pro
fession. He was a student of
medical science during his en
tire career. He studied during
his summer vacation and took
special courses to keep abreast
the progress of his profession.
He was one of the first if not
the first Negro physician in the
Norfolk area to take a special
course in the treatment of
tubercular patients. A native
of Lynchburg, Dr. Trigg was
the son of Frank and Mrs.
Ellen P. Trigg and the husband
of Mrs. Baulah T. Trigg.
(See TRIGG page 2AI
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1969
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MRS. HARPER
Citizens of Choanoke Area Begin
Struggle For Educational Rights
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STUDENT BODY OFFICERS
AT N C S U North Carolina
State University Chancellor
John T. Caldwell chats with the
John Avery Boys
Campaign To Ra
Drive is Held
For Erection
Of New Home
The John Avery Boys Club
plans to launch a SIOO,OOO
building fund drive during the
month of May, according to
W. J. Kennedy, Jr., president.
The drive has the approval of
the United Fund in which the
club holds membership. The
fund goal plus an additional
$83,000 will be needed for per
manent relocation of the agen
cy which moved from its ori -
ginal location to make way for
the new East-West Expressway.
The latter sum was made avail
able to the club by the Rede
velopment Commission.
The new clufc will be built
at Pettigrew and Grant Streets.
William A. Marsh, Durham
Lawyer, has been chairman of
the Capital Fund Committee.
Other committee members in
clude W. L Bradsher, Jr., N.
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HAIRSTON
newly-elected student body of
ficers at NCSU. From left, Cald
well; Jack Barger of Moores
ville, student body president;
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KENNEDY
H. Bennett, Dr. W. A. Cleland, 1
Mrs. Edith M. Johnson, Lee ]
Jones, W. J. Kennedy, Jr., Ben- i
jamin Ruffin, Lee W. Smith, ;
Asa T. Spaulding, and John H.
Wheeler.
Public support of the drive 1
is expected to be enthusiastic, i
Operating continuously since
November, 1940, the club
reached its peak enrollment
of 893 boys in 1967 prior to
the loss of its home at 508
(See BOYS paKe 2Ai
PRICE: 20 Cents
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FALLS
■ Eric Moore of Durham, student
• senate president; and Rick Rice
• of Raleigh, student body treas
; urer.
Durham FCD
To Get Grant
From OEO
The Foundation for Com
munity Development, Durham,
will receive a $900,000 OEO
grant to conduct a Community
Capitalism project in which
poor people will share in the
profits, Theodore M. Berry,
director of the Community
Action Program, said today.
It is the first of some $lO
million in grants for Communi
ty Capitalism projects allocated
under the Title 1-D Special
Impact Program for the current
fiscal year. Other such projects
will be announced in the next
; two months.
The Foundation is a non
profit corporation started in
1967 by the North Carolina
Fund.
Under the 24-month grant,
(Sec GRANT paw 2A)
Durham Native
Installed Sixth
President ECSC
ELIZABETH CITY-A* the
sun's rays mildly burned the
skin of hundreds of people sit
ting in the open air of the col
lege quadrangle, the words of
Dr. Alphonso Elder and Dr.
Marion D. Thorpe burned their
way into the heart and mind of
each person in the audience.
Such was the impact the histor
ic occasion Sunday afternoon
at Elizabeth City State College
during the inauguration of Dr.
Thorpe as the sixth president
of that 78-year old institution
of higher learning.
Dr. Elder, President Emeri
tus of North Carolina College
and former teacher of mathe
matics at ECSC, gave a timely
inaugural address related to
proposals for dealing with the
crises on college campuses.
Dr. Thorpe, who graduated
from North Carolina College,
Magna Cum laude, in 1958,
receiving both the B.A. and
M.A. degrees in psychology,
gave a challenging response to
(See THO*P€ page 2A)
Approximately
200 at Trial of
Jackson Sheriff
JACKSON Approximate-
ly 200 Black Citizens from the
4-County area of Choanoke
(Halifax, Hertford, Northamp
ton and Bertie), gathered in
Jackson this morning for the'
trial of Frank Outland, Sheriff
of Northampton County, who
was accused of slapping a
Black woman, Mrs. Lucy
Baker, on February 7, 1969.
The incident stemmed from
the trial of her son, who was
being tried in Juvenile court
that day in Jafkson.
The trial of Sheriff Frank
Outland lasted approximately
2 hours. After several witnesses
testified, the Solicitor rested
his case and the Presiding
Judge, Ballard S. Gay found
the Sheriff not guilty. Immedi
ately following the trial, a
group of protesters, about 75
to 100, marched around the
Courthouse carrying posters
which read, "We protest Injus
tice in the Courts, you respect
our money why not our
Rights?"
Attorney Frank Balknce, a
Black Lawyer explained to
the group outside the Court
house, how he was denied the
right to participate in the trial
Rev. Jeremiah Webb, Coor
dinator of Halifax County
Division of People's Program
on Poverty, a non profit Orga
nization operating in the 4-
County area, funded by Found
ation For Community Deve
lopment, in Durham, told ths
group, there are two juaticas in
the Courts, one for Blacks and
one for Whites. He rtafcsd, •
Black man is prejudged before
the trial and convicted, while
many Whites are relaeaed. He
also stated, it ia the Whit*
Man's Court and they are to
gether and doing t*">
now it is time for us as
People to get together and do
our thing.
The group have a pmi
permit for several days and
pledged to continue to protest
the injustice in the Fow-Coun
ty area State of North ChroUna
until some chafes are made