Durham Files
Suit To Open
Movie House
DURHAM After failing in
to'-ir demonstration* and pleas to
get a local theater manager to op
er his facilities to Negroes, the
Durham Youth and Collage Chap*
tars of the NAACP. this weak filed
a Federal county suit seeking non
discriminatory use of the city-own
ed Carolina Theater tat Durham.
Tha suit, tiled in U. 8. Middle
Distiict Court in Greensboro, was
directed against the City of Dur
ham and Abercrombie Enterprises,
Inc., which leases the theater from
the city.
The students claim they have
been denied admittance to the main
auditorium of the theater and state
in tha complaint that they are seek
ing equal right of all citizens.
The plaintiffs, both Negro and
white, also seek a preliminary anft
permanent injunction enjoining the
defendants, their agents, employees,
lessees, attorneys, and successors
and all person in active concert and
participation with them, from con
tinuing to enforce cr permit to be
enforced any policy or practice of
racial segregation or exclusion a
gainst Negroes in the use of the
Durham theater.
Tha students said that when
Biey sought admission to the main
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REGISTER ljtfSfe— Students %working with the voter regh
(ration campaign weiesucceesEti in registering the l,oooth voter.
Pictured above center tk James Ruthland, 1008 Pooh Rd., the
l.OOjfft registrant, beinM put oaTtlhe books by etudents taking
part in the driva. * ' ■ ' “
sll Million Is Sough tßy }.
A&TAnd NCC For Future
Expansion, Building Needs
Tha State Advisory Budget Com
mittee finds itself in s peculiar
situation with so-called Negro col
leges making demands and many
Negroes are now wending their
way to so-called white colleges.
Last Rites Are Held
For Veteran Lawyer
GEORGETOWN. S. C. Attor
ney Roger D. O'Kelly, for more
than SO years a prominent Raleigh
attorney, died here last week after
a longtime illness. He was 82.
O'Kelly, for more than 30 years
Served as attorney to the Mechanics
and Fanners Bank ot Raleigh and
Durham and for the Acme Realty
Company.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday at the Raleigh Funeral
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North Carolina *g Leading Weefily
VOL 21, NO. 37 * RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY, JULY 21, IMS PRICK lSe
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VOL 21, NO. 37
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Dr. Alphonso Elder, North Ca
rolina College, is . reported as hav
ing asked for $5,000,000.00 while
A&T is seeking $6,000,000.00. The
two top Negro colleges are said
to have asked for the money to
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ATTY. ROGER O*UU.Y
Students
Jubilant
Over Efforts
A mass citizens rally to commem
orate the closing week of the regi
stration drive which has been go
ing on here since June 15 will be
held here next Sunday afternoon
at 3 o'clock.
The rally meeting will feature a
talk by Charles McDew, chairman
of the Students Nonvioleni Coordi
nating Committee with headquart
ers in Atlanta, Ga.
McDew who has been ahfestad and
jailed 37 times for his civil rights
activities, led the Student Nonvio
lint demonstrations in A Many, Ga..
McCombs, Miss, and tat Baton
Rouge, La. At present, 7 ad the stu
dent participant* are now picking
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make capital impovements. North
Carolina College is said to want to
buy property from George Street
to Burlington Street and from Fay
etteville Street to Alston Avenue.
Reliable sources say that th* ad
ministration plans to build m new
athletic field, a student union build
ing and another dormitory along
with, a science building, at North
Carolina College. At Greensboro's
A&T it is also expected that many
capital Improvement* will be
made. Woman's College, Grsensbo
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17-Year-Old
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xaifnc I nilsl a
One Drowns
SNEADS FERRY*- Mart Ray
Evtrett Jr., 13. drowned in tbe
New River late last week despite
efforts of a companion to pull him
to wtfety.
The accident occured just 100
yards from where four persons
drowned two years ago.
Tbs boy was swimming with Jo
sephus Davis, 11, and Alphana
Hobbs, 17, of Sneads Ferry. Young
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a rheas; to dhpww by pitot. PaEw Chief Uarte MEett said
to Z^MM^rnJnSto* tnf
fla signals ani Maefctog the flan es traffic.
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MRS- ROBB LBB ROLLINS
Man About
Town Shot
WithPjstol
Playboys should take a leaf from
the book of Archie McDowell, well
known Blobdworth Street persona
lity, who now lies in tbe morgue ot
Lightner’s Funeral Home, dead
from gun shot wound* inflicted by
Mrs. Rosa Lee Rollins, of 3 Frank
lin Terrace.
Mrs. Rollins, who told the CARO-
T TWA y tfcgt to* was 57 years old.
I while she sat In
I a detention room
|of the Raleigh
I City Court Tues
|d a y afternoon,
■ that McDowell
I came to her home
I about 11 o'clock
I Monday night
I ind they talked
I n general con-
I -ersation about
Ime half hour.
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MCDOWELL 3be alleges that
she was sewing up her late hus
band's house coat and that Archie
took the coat from her and said
that he wanted to see how it would
fit him. She further alleges that he
put the cost on and then made ab
normal sex approaches to her.
The woman said that she told
Archie that her husband had only
been dead about tors* months and
that toe was not intersssd in any
love affair and ceralnly not any
abnormal way. Bh* further stated
that Archi* became violent and told
bar, "I am going to have you the
way I want to have you" tt was
then that aha began retreating and
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Board Fails
To Rescind
Shaw Order
After nearly four hoprs of haaa
llng, the General Baptist Stats
Convention of North Carolina
tamed down a resolution made up
by the executive committee of the
convention calling for trusted
board members of Shaw Univers
ity to rescind their action in dis
charging the school's president,
Dr. William R. Straasner.
The Oonssal Convention also
turned thumbs down an a resolu
tion which stated that If any fur
ther action taken is not favorably
complied with the convention may
understand that they are under
no obligation to the trufeeea.
More than 3M delegates at
tended the session held fe the
chapel at Shaw University.
The < vote on the resolution to
mfetof their action Was 87 tm
and ltt against.
The group also passed a rant*
Intlon asking the trustees to give
their reasons for the action and
calling sorta conference between
Irusteea and representatives of
the convention. This resolution,
passed by a 103-M margin. 2
The one-day special session was
spotlighted by numerous orations,
accusations and, at one point,
talk of splitting the convention.
More than a score of people
took the floor to offer pros and
oons as to the dismiss*! of Stress
ner.
' Common point among the op
position was that the method used
In announcing the dismissal was
not proper.
Orators In favor of the action
taken by the trustee borad stated
the board has been given the pow
er to run the school and their de
cision should be final.
At one point In the meeting. Dr.
Strassner charged that the trustee
board never talked with him a
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Girl, 9, Falls
To Her Death
From Truck
ENFIELD A nine-year-old
girl tell to her death from a mov
ing truck here this week as to*
triad to catch bar hat which was
blowing away.
A (wording to State Trooper B. Q
McDonald. Bobbie Jean Horton
was riding in toe rear of a pickup
truck with three brothers and sis
ters when the trapsdy occurred.
The trooper said the girl’s Ist
blew off and in her effort to catch
it she lost her balance and tell
bead-first onto the pevement of a
rural rood five miles south of her*.
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CORE Delegates Meeting
Stiff Opposition In Attempt
To Integrate Res taurants
Demonstrations stated at Inte
grating a number «8 stating places
around several North Carolina ci
ties, including tbs Raleigh area, are
planned tor toe beer future, it was
learned this wade,
Among toe aree restaurants
which may be Bated as targets for
th* integration attempts is the
Howard Johnson's Restaurant
n^iti
The program of coordinated dem
onstrations may also include "park
ins'* at soma McDonald's hamburg
er chain establishments in the
state, it was further reported.
Rev. B. BHon Cox ot High Point
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IN REBUTTAL Dr. William R. Straasner, ousted presi
dent of Shew University is shown in rebuttal oi statements made
against him at a special meeting ot the Baptist Convention 7uas
day at Shaw’s chapel. Behind Dr. Straasner is Dr. R. St. Fitts,
preeident at the convention.
M. L. King Vows To Stf yln
Albany, Ga. Until Charges
Are Dropped Against 700 .
ALBANY. Ga. (AND Rsloaete
ed from an Albany jail against his
will integration leader Martin Lu
ther King, Jr, vowed at a mass
rally that he would not leave tho
city until charges are,dropped a
gainst more han 700 Negroes ar
rested with him last year.
Rev. King said emphatically at
Shiloh Baptist Church that he was
"not happy" to be freed. He had
hoped his jail term would rally for
es* against discrimination in this
south Georgia city.
Hearing In. Atlanta School
Mixing Set For Augusts
ATLANTA Hearing on a mo
tion by NAACP attorneys calling
for complete desegregation of
schools here was set for Aug. 2,
by Federal Judge Frank A. Hooper
last week.
Th* motion calls for complete
reorganization of the city schools
on a non-raclal basis. Including
faculty and staffs, extra-curricular
activities and all classes.
Judge Hooper noted two attor
neys seeking early hearing of the
motion that no attack of the present
grade-a-yesr plan for dasegrega
tlon has been made in higher courts
and tost no Negro pupil has com
plained of discrimination to his
court.
Mrs. Constane* Baker Hotter
Charged With Robbing
Relegates A t NAA CM* 3Meet
ATLANTA (ANP) A member
of the NAACP welcoming commit
tee was placed under a 1 1.000 bond
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said this week that 40 Core dele
gates at a blrectal workshop last
Sunday in Greensboro had agreed
to face arrest if necessary in th*
demonstrations planned tor the
Greensboro area.
Cox, a field secretary in North
Carolina for tha Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE), said 78 Greens
boro area residents, mostly stu
dents, also will take part In th*
two-week workshop.
It was understood that some re
presentatives of protest groups in
th* Raleigh-Durham are* also at
tended th* workshops.
Discussing th* plain for th* Tar
In Washington, a spokesman ter
th* Justice Department said A tty.
Gen. Robert F Kennedy had given
a “full report" on the King case to
his brother, President Kennedy,
who had requested a complete In
vestigation.
Th# attorney general issued a
statement expressing gratification
at toe release ot Rev. King and
Rev. Ralph Abernathy, a fellow in
tegration Ist
Pqllce her* ordered a uniformed
escort to accompany Rev King as
NAACP attorney from New York,
Mid the present plan should have
resulted n ‘‘substantial deagrega
tlon" test year Instead of being ii
inied to nine Negro students.
Mrs. Motley said Negro** do not
expect the reorganisation to take
effect until the 1963-04 school year.
Judge Hooper remarked that Ne
gro attorneys had not askad for
‘‘wholesale and Immediate” deseg
regation in the original suit on
which he ruled in June ISSS. He
Issued the desegregation order and
approved the present plan.
Noting that dissatisfied students
had had plenty of time to bring
eompiainta to bis court Judge Hoo
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end bound over to the Fulton Coun
ty Grand Jury on charger that ha
■tola I*oo from a fellow delegate
and at leatt three other robhniies
were reported at th 93rd annual
convention closed here lait work
Held under the 11.000 bond wat
Prank Holloway, 23, who wat ic
cutad of entering the room of de
legate Mr*. Deborah Moseley of
Chicago and taking a purse con
taining S3OO in cash Recorder*
Court Judge Luke Arnold ordered
Holloway placed under the bond,
pending the jurr'i investigation of
the burglary charges against him.
Holloway wa* Identified by po
lice records a» an official "holt"
and, a member of the welcoming
committee of the convention Po
lice reported he had about $2«4 on
hli be non when he waa arreited
a day before the convention e’nsed
Capt R. E. Little, a member of
the police robbery detail, raid Hol
loway admitted the theft. It wai not
immediately known what action
the NAACP plana to lake against
him.
Meanwhile, three other delegates
reported losing cash and personal
belonging*. One of the three was
idntifled as Hames Stewart. 49. of
Oklahoma City. Okie. Stewart re-
heel demonstration, Cox said that
negotiations with the McDonald's
chain have been unsuccessful.
According to reports, th* targe
program of Tarheel demonstrations
is to be called "Freedom Highway**.
The 40 CORE delegates sttasxi
ing the Greensboro workshop will
visit a number of citlss in North
Carolina during August to help Vo
cal groups with integration prob
lems, Cox said.
He said that if integration ef
forts proved successful in North
Carolina, they will spread into
Virginia, Tennessee and South Ca
rolina in the tell.
Brownings
Take Three
Lives In N.C.
Three persons in North Carolina
were killed as a result of drowning*
this week.
In Lumbarton, three-yeer-old
Tammy Ray Lowry, daughter of
Mrs. Leth* Lowry, drowned in a
term pool Tuesday evening.
Chief Alton Carroll of th* Robe
son County Rescue Squad mid to*
child wandered to th* pond near
his home on th* H. M. Bakar term,
seven miles east of hers, and tell
Into to# pond before being discov
ered.
Efforts at resuscitation by rescue
rquad members tailed as the child
was being taken to th* hospital
In Roanoke Rapids, Joseph
Champion, Jr., 0. drowned Tuesday
'n a lake at to* Rochelle Park hous
ing development here. His parents
live In the development
Another boy with whom he was
playing was rescue dby a man whs
was working nearby*
The Roanoke Rapids ratals* ■quad
recovered to* boyUlwgy.
At Chowan Btosh, It pear iM
lone as he stays ia flrig saAaUy
ten«« city where there were flare*
upi Ju»t before hli releeie.
King and Rev. Abernathy had
served Just two days of their 48-
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ODDS-ENDS
BY ROBERT O. BRETARD
“Open Thou mine eyes”.
A GOOD MEETING
The special one day meetnc of
the N. C. State Baptist Conven
tion held on the campus of Shaw
University last Tuesday was a food
meeting.
Called sos the expressed purpose
of havtnf the convention act upon
resoluions passed previously by lta
executive committee relatinf to
Shaw and Is president Dr. W. R.
Strasener, this special session, af
ter succeeding in getting some bugs
out of Is machinery, showed Rut
there is no split within the ranks
of North Carolina Baptists, that
the convention was not going to
be ruled by a few publicity seek
ers, that it did recognise the au
thority and the functions of the
board of trustees of Shaw Univer
sity and that Dr. W. R. Strasaner
was out as Shaw’s president.
In defeating the executive com
mittee's resolution by a vote of 138
to 92 which demanded that the
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I ported at least 9100 in cash, a Swlga
watch valued at $l9O and a gold
j i tng were stolen from hig dormito
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State News
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Briefs
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COP SUSPENDED
SILER CITY A 48-year-old
rookie policeman has been an*
1 spended after the death of a Negro
man ha had arrested and toot in an
escape attempt.
Joe Kucinlc joined the force a
week ago and waa auspanded Sun
day Tha victim was Meivtn White,
28. Rt 1. Graham. Juctnlc is under
8100 bond.
KILLED BY TRUCK
BEULA VILLI A tractor*
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