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Stanford L Warren Public Library Fayetteville St I \ Down East Lawyer Loses, Must Pay ^500 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ VIRGINIA’S TIME UP, N. C. BUYS MORE Court Acts On Action Shocks Citizens Druggist Defies Court Again# Must Serve Prison] Term Immediately Sidney T. James, Durfaam, drug store operator, was forced, to begin serving a lour month jail sentence immediately ther than wait until April 1, as the court had orginally agreed to, ior his latest violation oi court orders. Last Wednesday, Superior Court Judge Hoyle Sink sen-i tenced James to a four month prison term and a 12 month term, suspended on condition that be under go a physical and mental examination. State Supreme Court Rejects Wall(er^s Appeal BALEIGH The State Supreme Court last week rejected the appeal of At torney James R. Walker from an assault on a female judge-^ ment rendered against him last summer in Northampton county Superior court. Thus, the crusading clvU rights lawyer must pay a $500 line plus cost or serve a suspen ded prison s«itence. The latter choice would leave the young lawyer open to possible disbar ment. The court ruled that Walker’s attot;peys, Herman S. Taylor and Samuel Mitchell of RaleiU^ lailad to pwrfAct tlM iifm out by evuxi, tiona. The court’s ruling pointed out that Walker’s trial ended in Jackson on August 8 and the ap peal should have been docketed not later than August 28. The case was not docketed until Jan. 18. The court said that the case on appeal was neither docketed within the pcescribed time nor a motion made to allow addi tional time to complete the ap peal; that Walker has “lost his right of appeal.” Action against Walker origi nally stenmied from an inci dent last Spring in a Seaboard precinct where Walker was Ac tive in getting Negroes to regis ter. The precinct registrar, Mrs. Helen Taylor, charged Walker with assaulting her and creating a disturbance alter he disagreed with her pn matters pertain ing to registering lor the May Democratic primary. Mrs. Taylor testified in North ampton Recorder’s Court that Walker's attitude frightened her and that he created a distur bance when she asked him to leave. 'II Walker was given a suspend ed sentence by Judge Ballard S. Gay in Recorder’s Court and he appealed that judgement to Su- I (continued on page 8) The court did agree, however, that the lour months term, would not begin until April 1. However, James violated the terms ol the court sentence Fri day by going to his home, tak ing his three children with him to the police station and reques ting that a warrant be sworn out against his wile lor neglect ol the children. He claimed she was away from home and drunk. Assistant Solicitor Blackwell Brogden'discovered that James had returned to his "home and brought his children to the courthouse, lound that James’ wile had not been drinking as he had charged, and had a war rant Issued lor his re-arrest. On Monday, Judge Q. K. Ni- mocks, presiding over Superior Court, ruled that James had lor- leited his right for the stay of a four months sentence and order ed him to begin serving it im mediately. However, the 12 months suspended sentence was not vacated. James’ action in returning to his home alter his conviction in court on Wednesday ol as saulting and molesting his wile shocked residents ol the city, who felt that h« had^received a lenient sentence' at the hands ol t^e court. Prior to his first conviction in Superior Court, James waa already under strict court or ders to stay away from hlf wUe, Mrs. Vivian James. He had been haled to court several times during the past year on charges ol molMting her, and as a result ol these ac- Uons, the court had issued or* ders for him to stay away from' her. However^ hit wife charged in last Wednesday’s trial that he {»ad consistently defied the court order and continued to ipnolest her. A curious and crowded court room heard two and one half dnys »f testimony in the tria> which at times bordered on the I'lrid. At one point, James wife t(Mlfi«d that he had forced her (continued on page 8) One of principals In case In volving Seaboard registrar Is Mrs. Louise Lassiter, above. See “Coiutjr May Vse IViz,” etc. this pitfe. Cbf Cart VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 13 DURHAM, N. SATUIpAY, MARCH 30, 1957 PRICE: rSN CENTS Tf tr-y - ) in Northampton- County May Use Tax Money To Defend Vote Official School Issue Old Fort Negroes Must Try N. C. Remedy; Ya. integration Is Upheld EARL A. CAB1:ER Ex-Durhamlte Dies In Charlotte Earl A. (Pinky) Carter, Man ager of the Charlotte District of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, died sud denly ol a heart attack Tuesday morning, March 26, at his home in Charlotte. Carter was well known ' in Durham where he served as a representative ol North Caro lina Mutual as agent and assis tant manager from August, 1938 to March, 1946. A native of Natural Bridge, Virginia, Carter spent several years in Charleston, West Va., where he graduated from West Virginia State College with a B.S. Degree in 1937. Immedi ately after graduation he Joined. North Carolina Mutual as an agent on the Winston-Salem District. He was subsequently transferred to the Durham Dis trict and drafted into the Armed Services in 1943. (continued on page 8) JACKSON Northampton county officials trar charged with illegally de priving Negroes of the right to vote. Mrs. Helen Taylor, registrar at SeaBoafd, faces charges In three cases growing out of re fusal to register Negroes during last Spring’s primary elections. Indication of the possibility^ that tlie county would fork up tax money to support Mrs. Tay lor’s defense came this week with reports that County Com missioners have voted to make study of the situation with reference to financing lt County leaders have already stated their intention to back Mrs. Taylor in the cases. The Commissioners voted last week to support her after hearing l>oard of elections chairman Russell Johnson declare that the cases pose a tiireat to establish ed voting procedures of the county and state. Meanwhile, attorneys for both parties in one of the suits an action brought by Mrs. Louise Lassiter, were scheduledi to conduct a “feeling out” manuever Friday, March 29 at the courthouse here. Fluoride Safe, Fluoride Sin-Both Sides Speak Proponents and opponents ol fluoride additives to tKe city water supply both got licks oi^ the issue in Durham last week. Rev. Julius Hicks, evangelist 'and candidate for Mayor,^ de nounced the proposal to add ' fluoride to the city’s water sup ply from his pulpit last Sunday. Last Monday, state health officer J.W.R. Norton told a gathering ol some 75 persons at the Durham Social .Planning CouncU meeting that the water fluoridated according to recom mended standards is sate lor any purpose that water is used. The controversy over fluoride additives to the city water sup ply was lought to a decision aeveral years ago. At that time, a but weU organised op- poaltton defeated the measure in a city-Jirtde vote. So lar, the- opposition to the latest proposal has been cen tered around advertisements igtonsored by John Spnmt Hill and Bm. Hicks. In iiis church last Sunday, Rev. Hlclcs denounced the pro posal to fluoridate the water as ‘money making deal.” Many are using the excuse that they are lor it just because the dental society endorses it. Let’s not lorget that the devil midorses Hell, but that place is still hot,” be said. He criticized the recent ac tion ol school students tieing given blanks lor their parents to record their sentiments about the proposal and charged that chemical interests are behind the move to make money. “They plainly state,” he said in reference to fluoi^e sales men, "that the stull is good lor children only in the age ol>six and ten years. You people that are adults should grow up be fore you are one ot the slx- feet-under persons. Alter all, 11 you have good tMth and no able to chew, what good would fluoride be to youT" In a q)cech to the Planning Council Monday night, state health officer Norton pointed to the controlled study (continued on page 8) Shaw Dean At NCC Vespers Rev. Grady Davis, dean ol the school ol Religion at Shaw University, will deliver the ves pers sermon at North Carolina College Sunday afternoon at 3;1S. Rev. Davis will speak cm the “Art of Human Relations.” Hie Central high school chorus of Whlteville will furnish music lor the services in the absence ol North Carolina College’s choir, which is on its annual •t^^qping tour. Mrs. Dorothy Starr Johnson, and N. C. College alumna, will SodalJi|||Ntet the Whlteville cJMmis. Attorneys lor Mrs. Taylor summoned Mrs. Lassiter lor an mdvvrwm hpytog" at.- Mrs. Lassiter’s attomeji^dfe- dared that they would also serve notice to have Mrs. Taylor appear at 3 o’clock, following Mrs. Lassiter’s hearing. The hearings are lor the pur pose ol pre determining the main arguments both parties in to present to t)o reportedly told the County Commissioners that the case against Mrs. Taylor would be defended 11 lunds had to be solicited Irom private citizens. A Northampton newspaper quoted iiim as saying, that "the opposition has unlimited lands. M oasas ham bMn pIsinnKI’, He was also quoted as saying tliat the rest ol the counties of the state left the fight to North ampton, although the Issues at stake equally affects tliem. WASHINGTON, D, C. Time has apparently run out for Virginia in the school de segregation issue, but North Carolina, with its newly erected machinery on the subject, has won more time for itself. Th^e results appeared im mediately evident in decisions of the United States Supreme Court Monday. The court, with an economy, of words, rejected 8-0 Virginia's appeal from lower federal court orders enjoining enforcement of segregation in Ctiarlottesville and Arlington County. It ruled against an appeal by a group of Negro parents seek ing admission of their children to a wiiite school in the western North Carolina village of Old Fort in McDowell county. The appeal was from a decision by a lower federal court that the plaintiffs iiad not exhausted ad ministrative rem^ies open to them under the new Pupil As signment Act. ' Of course, the full meaning of court decisions, especially of me nature of those rendered Mon- day, are largely a matter of conjecture until they arc spelled out in formal opinions submit ted to both sidM. Apparent again in Monday’& decisions on the segregation is sue was the court’s policy of giving lower courts wide discre tion in bringing aliout desegre gation “with all deUberate speed," as ordered in the May, 1955 decision. The policy became apparent in Its refusal to review appeals from lower courts in both North Carolina and Virginia cases. Treating t^e Virginia appeals in its list of orders and merely said for all of them: “The peti- (continued on page 8) Regional Confab Of Sorority ^t Dr. Marjorie Parker, Wash ington, D. C., Mrs. Elna Spaul ding, Durham, and Mrs. Edna Over Campbell, Baltimoret are among the distinguished women scheduled to speak and lead dis cussions at the Mid-Atlantia Regional Conference of the Al pha Kappa Alpha Sorority tiiat meetk at North Carolina College from April 5 to 7. Some 200 delegates and guests from 42 chapters with an aggregate membership number ing over 1,000 in eastern West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina are expected for the meeting. Dr. Rose Browne, General Chairman, stated that programs and discussions will focus on the theme “The Role of Alpha Kappa Alpha in Times of Transition.” A highlight of the tturee-day 1 (continued on page 8) After Tour In Philippines To Pilot J. S. Stewart's Campaign Attorney M. Hugh ’Riompson, left, has be«i appointed by J. S. Stewart to dlreet Us campaign tar a seat on the eKy council from the IMrd Ward, it was an- nonnced this week. Thompson Will be sssisted by J. Fred Prstt, right, In the campaign. Both, Thompson and Pratt are active members of the Durham Com mittee on Negro Affairs and ac tive in the political and civic activities of the city. Duiham Bank as High Rank According to the AMERICAN BANKER, daily newspaper for the banking profession, the Me chanics and Farmers Bank of Durham and Raleigh now ranks 3,207th largest of the more than 15,000 banlcs located In the United States. As of December 31, 1956, the local bank report ed deposits of $7,080,142.51. Based upon this figure, it gained 231' places from the 3,438th po sition which it held at the end of 1955. Officials of the bank reveal ed today that the new building being constructed for its Ra leigh, North Carolina branch would be ready for occupancy during the month of June and that this new and modern fa cility should permit the Raleigh office to double its deposits within the next two years. NEW YORK A North Carolina woman who has been serving in the Phill pplnes with an international agency for the blind returned to her home in Frahkllnton for MRS. JEANfiTTE BILLS her visit since she left fof that country 4wo years ago. Mrs. Jeanette Sills, supervisor of Negro activities at the Re habilitation Center for the Blind at Butner, has been on leave of absence from her state post while working in Manila for the American foundation for Over seas Blind, an international agency for the sightless which also sponsors the world travels, of Helen Keller. A native of Raleigh, Mrs, Sills was sent to Manila by th'> w o dation iii rcbruary 19J;i lo serve ui Advisor to the Govern ment (if the Philippines in launching a new Government agency—the office of Voca tional Rehabilitation. tThUer Tier guiaiance; a Tno- dern rehabilitation center for visually and otherwise handi capped persons has Just been opened in Manila which is des tined to serve as a showpiace throughout the Far East. According to officials at the Foundation's headquarters in New York, Mrs. Sills is the first Negro woman to be appointed to a post of this kind. The Foundation's field direc tor Eric T. Boulter, stated that his organization had received letters of commendation from Philippines government offuijl. praising Mrs. Silki' work in t i national and citing the instru mental role she has played In developing programs (or i...- handicapped. > Mrs. Sills is a graduate of Shaw University, Raleigh, and the Atlanta School of Social WorlE. She Joined the North Carolina State vvorking under (continued on page 8) Supreme Court Asked To Hear Alabama NAACP WASHINGTON, D. C. The United States Supreme Court has been asked to review the contempt Judgment against the National Association for the Advancement ol Colored People In Alabama and the |100,000 fine levied sgslnst the Associ ation by Circuit Court Judge Walter B. Jones of Montgomery in that state. Lawyers lor the Association filed a petition for writ of cer- Uonri with the Supreme Court on March 30, charging that the Alabama-court order “is a seri ous interferMiec with essential freedom of apfecb, freedom of assembly, freadom of associa tion, and the right to petition and suit to seek enforcement of this Court’s dodslons sjslnst itate enforced racial segrega tlon.” The Alabama courts, the petl tion points out, “could not con- (contlnuad on page 8) This gronp of AME Zion chnrch leaders, sbown here in the basesMat of the Mother Zion shareh In New York, at tended a baa veyage for a sds- sloaary commission of tha oharch which left reeaatly fer the VIrgia Islswds sad Soath Aaiarica. T» be lad by BIshep Baymaad L. Jeass af Sallsbary, N. C., tka eaawilssioa will s vey the work of the denomlaa- tion in these areas. Members of the geaaral church’s miasienary departinaat seea here are, seated ea froat, Mrs. Bista Key of Wssfciagtoa, D. C.., vice-presldeat of the Wo- mea’s Home sad rereiga Mls- sioaary Society; Dr. J. C. Hog* fard of Washlagtoa, D. C., s«c- ratary-tressarer of the Missioh ary Department; Mrs. Emma Watson of Lancaster, S. C.^ exe- cative secretary of the mMoa- ary aait; Mrs. Loreae Jones, sa-. pervisor W missloBs for the taarth Episcopal district aad wife of Bishop Jeass; M^rs. Sa- vaaaah Medford ef Washlagtoa, O, C., sapOTvisw of missieas of the fifth episcopal district; Mrs. Abbie Clement Jackson, of LoaisvUle, Ky., geaeral presi dent of mlssioas; Mrs. J. W. Wacter, New York, aad Alex ander Bames, pnblic relatloas director. Showa la roar ara members of the denomiaatioa who toak part in the Birsais nlM. The commiasioa will re- tam to the eoaatry oa April t.
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