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VOLUME 33 — NUMBER 45
DURHAM. N. SATURDAY, NOV. 1C, lt57
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Wilkins Serves Notice
NAACP Won’t Show List
Unless High Court Asks
NEW YORK
Little Rock and other com-
muDities have been warned
that the NAACP wUl surren
der it* membership lists to
them only "If the Supreme
Court of the United States
■ays that we must submit
them."
Roy Wilkins, NAACP execu
tive secretary, voiced this
warning in an address here at
the Williams ttnstitutional
CME Church on Nov. 3. The
NAACP rally was to have been
addressed personally by Mrs.
L. C. Bates, president of the
Arkansas State NAACP.
Mrs. Bates addressed the as
semblage by tel^hone from
her Little Rock home. She had
returned to Arkansas to pre
pare for an appearance in
court on Nov, 4. The meeting
was held on Nov. 3.
Mrs. Bates’ arrest was order
ed on Oct. 31 by the Little
Rock City CouncU because ofl
faUure to comply with a
which
Baynes is New
Trustee Head
At N.C College
Bascom Baynes, president of
the Home Security lilfe Insur
ance Company of Durham, has
been elected chairman of
North Carolina College’s tru*-
tee board.
He succeeds R. M. Gantt,
Durham lawyer, who resigned
recently for health reasons.
Baynes formerly served as
vice chairman.
The election was held Tues
day afternoon during a regu
lar meeting of the board in
NCC’s Administration Build
ing.
Trustees attending the ses
sion authorized a special reso
lution of appreciation to be
sent Gantt for his many years
service to NCC.
Other officers named Tues
day were Welch Harris, High
Point, a new appointee by
Gov. Hodges, whose term ex
pires in June, 1959, as vice-
oifiiTnan^ and Dr. J. M. Hub
bard, Sr., Duziuun dentist, sec
retary. Dr. Hubbard has ser
ved as secretary for some 10
years.
Named to serve on the exe
cutive Committee with the
three officers were M. L.
Spears, Sr., Durham, -and Dr.
W. W. Pierson, Chapel Hill.
Dr. Pierson was acting dean
of the NCC Graduate School
from 1984 to 1986.
Action taken by the board
yesterday included approval
of a resoluticKi to initiate ma
chinery to construct a new
$800,000 dormitory to accom
modate 200 women students.*
nie board is imderstood to
have consideration in
struments to acquire the Grant
Street Extension ruiming from
Dupree Street to t«waon St.
Trustees attending ’Tuesday’s
meeting were Baynes, Dr. J.
W. Blatk, Rocky Mount; John
O. Clark, Greenville; Harris,
Dr. Hubbard, Hanes LMiiter,
Matthews; Dr. Pierson, and
Speers.
Other members of the board
are Mrs. Ida Duncan, Reids-
ville; Edwin Jones, Sr., Char
lotte; Clyde A. Shreve, Sum-
marficld; Dillard Teer,
Wlute Monroe Group Asl(s City To
Run NAACP Heads Out Of Town
MONROE—A campaign to silence the last of the newly
risen voices of desegregation appeared to be underway here
as a petition calling for the city to forcibly oust two NAACP
leaders active in a recent desegregation movement made the
rounds this week.
The petition is aimed directly at Robert F. Williams,
Monrot NAACP president, and the embattled Dr. A. E. Perry,
vice pnsident of the organization. It brands the NAACP as
“Communist-inspired*’ and asked the city government to or
der the two men “to leave and not return to the citv of Mon
roe/*
The state student l^clslature convened in
Raleigh last week for its once-a-year get to
gether and passed several resolutions, one
of which drew sharp criticism from Rep.
Harold D. Cooley. The Tar HmI Congress
men attadced ihe~l>bdy for pas^ig • meas
ure legalizing inter-racial marriage. North
Carolina College President Alfonso Elder,
who addressed one of the sessions of the
legislature, is shown in bottom picture.
standing.
Members of the North Carolina College
delegation inset at top are, first row, left to
right, Joseph Becton, Durham; Carrie Fair,
Asheville; Samuel Russell, Gastonia; and
arady Bell,"Washington, D, C.
Back row, same order, are Lloyd Yancey,
Philadelphia and Robert Simmons, New
Bern.
Howard Dson Defaids Riglrt Of Seareflotiosists
Negroes Must Aid dimote
For Rociol Understanding
Monroe has been in the toils
of considerable racial unrest
since last August when a
group of Negro citizens at
tempted to tise the only city
owned swimming pool. Early
thU fall, Ku Klux Klan activi
ty, charges of police compli
city with the KKK by the
NAACP, an appeal by the
NAACP to the President for
investigation of the Monroe
police, the conviction of a
leading NAACP figure on
charges of abortion and the
discovery of a still on his pro
perty plus a behind the scenes
I>ower struggle between tac
tions of Negro leadership have
served to deepen the Monroe
troubles.
’The petition asking the ous
ter of Williams and Dr. Perry
this week was the latest de-
veloiHnent in the continiiing
crisis in this S. C. borderline
county town. It read;
, “We the undersigned do here
and now demand that the city
and county government of
Monroe, county of Union, in
the state of North Carolina,
with all deliberate speed and
due process of law, order Dr.
A. E. Perry and Robert F.
Williams, ^th office holders
in the Communist-inspired
NAACP to leave and not re
turn to the city of Monroe.”
Just how much effect the pe
tition will have on Monroe's
racial troubles was a matter of
speculation this week. But it
appeared fairly oertain that it
would aid ia the continuing
Dr. Perry was recently con
victed on charges of pertorm-
ing an abortion on a white wo
man. Following hit arrest and
trial, an illegal whiskey still
was discovered on farm pro
perty of his in the county.
However, police subsequently
issued a statemmt to the ef
fect that they were confident
the physician knew nothing of
the operation of the still.
It was Dr. Perry and Willi
ams who led the move to dese
gregate the town’s only swim
ming pool last August. At that
(continued on page 8)
Beating Of
Man Near Home
Sliocl(s Citizens
I ASHEVILLE
’The specter of police brutality
loomed sharply in the minds of
Negro citizens this week in the
wake of reports of a beating ad
ministered to a man near his
home last Friday.
Edward Baird, 34 year old em
ployee of the VA hospital here,
was hospitalized with severe
bruises and a rupture of the ear
after his arrest by policemen
last Friday night.
Reports of alleged beating
shocked usually blase Ashevil-
lians who have tended to dis
count rumors of police brutality
in the past.
However, Baird was well
known throughout the city and
had a reputation of possessing a
mild nature and coming from an
old, respected Asheville family.
Funeral director John Thomp
son told the TIMES that there
has been a growing suspicion of
police brutality for sometime
(continued on page 8)
Wes Covington
DR. ALBERT E. PERRY, left, and Robert WUliams, top
echelon NAACP men in Monroe are the objects of a petition
being circulated by whites of the commi^ty urging city
officials to run them out of town.
HiBre And There
SEPARATE BUT NOT EQUAL ‘
RALEIGH—Hyde County may be “walking into a bear
trap” by refusing even to abide by the separate but equal
doctrine in providing for education of its children in the view
of pro-segregation Republican leader John A. 1'ilkinaon.
Wilkinson is attorney for a group of Negroes seeking im
proved facilities at the Engelhard community Negro S^ool.
The crux of his case is that Hyde County is ready to spend
$177,000 for a consolidated white high school and not a penny
for the Negro school. Wilkinson asked the State Board of Edu
cation to intervene to set aside $40,000 for the Negro school of
the earmarked $177,000.
Dean George M. Johnson of
the Howard University Law
School defended the rights of
opponents of desegregation to
use legal means to state their
case, but he condemned extre
mists who use inflamatory tac
tics, and urged Negroes to
meet the challenge to provide
a “climate for the acceptance of
desegregation at the commu-
Study Use Of
New C-R Law
A’TLANTA, Ga.
Ways of enlarging the Negro
vote in the southern states and
of luing on the local level the
new federal civil rights law will
be studied by NAACP sotithem
leaders here on Nov ..id 17
The conference, by
NAACP Executive viecretary
Roy Wilkins, will be attended by
local and state leaders of the
Association from 10 southern
states.
’The aim of the NAACP is a
larger and better informed Ne
gro electorate in the South. Of
ficials of the organization have
expressed the opinion that the
new civil rights law will be an
important aid in giving suffrage
to Negroes in ar^ wh»« they
previously have been prevented
from voting by trickery, threats
or violence.
The NAACP is a non-partisan
organization, and its register-
and-vote campaign will be coo-
dueted oa that basis.
nlty level” in a NCC forum
speech here Tuesday.
’The 1984 and 1988 U.S. Su
preme Court decisions consti
tute (1) “a judicial conclusion
that racial segregation in edu
cation deprives students of
equal educational opportuni
ties and (2) a Judicial direc
tive to states requiring racial
segregation in public support
ed education, to eliminate such
requirements, that Is, to dese
gregate,” Johnson said.
’The noted civil rights lawyer
warned that “certain power
ful and influential opponents
of desegregation” are trying to
create the impression that
“what the Supreme Court did
in the segregation cases was
unprecendented, revolutionary
and incapable of rational anti
cipation by lawyers, and cases
have been cited by certain
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DEAN JOHNSON
Versatile Author Returns
To Adopted Home For Talk
Miss Pauli Murray, author,
lecturer, clvtt lil>erties champion
and member of a prominent New
York law firm, will be heard in
a special review of her recently
published ‘^oud Shoes” a|
Stanford L. Warren Library
Monday night.
A former Durhamite, Misa
Murray has combined a variety
of interests into a many sided
career. She has acliieved sue
cess as an attorney, writer and
pioneer in diampionlng dvil
liber^.
Her review of \i>e autobiogra
phical work, published last year
by Harper’s, will open the Li
brary's adult forum series. The
series is a regular Isature of tha
library and is conducted by Mrs.
Ray N. Moore, head llbnrian.
Monday nlghTs retrlew is sdM-
PAUU MUBBAT
duled for eight o'clock in the
auditorium of the library.
Earlier Monday, she is slated
to talk with students at Little
River school at ten o’clock, be
the subject of a radio interview
over a local radio station at
12:08, guest at a luncheon at one
and give an informal talk at
Hillside at 2:48.
The distinguished attorney is
the daughter of the late William
H. and Mrs. Agnes Fitzgerald
Murray of Baltimore. She was
adopted by the late Mrs. Pauline
F. Dame, a former Durham
school teacher, and attended
public schools of Durham.
She received bar formal train
ing at Hunter College (A3.,
19S3), Howard University
(LL.B., 1944) and the Univer-
(cootinued on page •)
One of Durham’s most famous
athletes is scheduled to be hon
ored by his former high school
In Durham on Friday. He is Wes
Covington, defensive Star of the
World Series.
A Wes Covlhgton Day Is being'
planned by high school students
and faculty for Friday.
A football and t>asketball
stand out at Hillside, Covington
Joined the Milwaukee Braves
farm system shortly after his
graduation from the school in
1982. He got his big break with
Uie Milwaukee club this summer
after a series of trades vaulted
him into the starting left field
slot.
Sports writers who follow the
Braves and the club’s manage
rial staff credit much of the
Braves’ ability to nail down the
pennant this year after last
year’s frustration to the spark
ling play afield and at bat of the
strong armed ex-Hiliside athlete.
HU near Incredible defensive
play in his first World Series
earned him a spot among the
Milwaukee heroes of the series.
At Hillside, Mrs. L. I. Riddick
is heading a special committee
appointed by Principal H. M.
Holmes, to formulate plana for
the gala celebration.
To date, a special assembly
program, dinner in the school
cafeteria, presentations by stu.
dent, civic, and various other
leaders of the Durham commu
nity, and a short parade are ten
tative Items on the agenda for
the festive day.
Covington, accompanied by
his wife, former Marion Evans
of Durham, and his two childrat
are expected to arrive in the city
on or about November 15, and
the program has been slated for
Blonday, November 18, at 2:p.m.
Mayor E. J. Evans, City Coun
cilman J. S. Stewart, North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company President W. J. Ken
nedy, Jr., and Durham Business
and Professional Chain President
W. G, Rhodes are some of the
outstanding dlgnataries that are
slated to participate on the as
sembly program.
Other members of the commit
tee who are working with Mrs.
Riddick are: Athletic Business
Manager W. M. Orandy; Mrs. D,
C. Reavss; Mrs. G. L. Thomp
son; C. L. Easterling; J. H. Gat-
tls; Mrs. E. R. Herndon; L. A.
Merritt: and Miss Bennie Book
er, Preddent of the Hillside
Student Council.
ic) became
CO-EDS IN THE NEWS—These three young college co
eds were in the news in recent weelu bcause of their campus
activities. At left is Hampton Institute Junior Delores Wil
liams of Durham who was recently formally installed as
treasurer of Women’s Senate. Center is Miss June Mitchell
of Gatesvllle, Howardlte, who was recently named Howard
Woman of the Year by the Howard Women’s Club. At right is
Doris Henderson, Atlantic City» N. J. junior who reigned
over Johnson C. Smith's Homecoming last week.
FIRST LINKS CHAMPION
LONG BEACH, CAUF.—Charles Sifford of Philadelphia
downed Eric Monti in a suddent death play-off to become the
first Negro to capture a major golf tournament in the U. S.
last Sunday. He tied Monti with a seven under par 64 on the
final round to set the stage for the play-off.
ON FAYETTEVILLE VA STAFF
F'AYETTEVILLE—Mrs. Y. W. Veazie, (see
the second Negro to be added to the staff of I
the VA hospital here this week. A native of I
Mississippi, she received her training at I
Piney Woo^ Junior College, Mississippi, and!
Winston-Salem Teachers College School oij
Nursing. Active in Fayetteville’s religioutl
and civic affairs, she is married to Sergeanl |
Irvin Veazie and they have one daughter
She is a registered nurse with the Bacheloi {
of Science in Nursing from the Winston-Sa
lem Teachers College School of Nursing.^
Prior to her new employment she worked on * eazie
the staff of the Cape Fear Valley Hospital in Fayetteville.
CIVIL RIGHTS BODY APPOINTED
WASHINGTON, D. C.—J. Ernest Willdns, former Negro
assistant secreta^ of labor, was named to the newly created
Commission on Civil Rights last week by President Eisen-
however. Former Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed of
Kentucky was named to head the group. Other members
named are former Virginia Ciovemor Jom S. Battle, Notre
Dame President the Rev. Theodore Hessburg; Robert G.
Storey, dean of the Southern Methodist University Law
School.
SHAW TO HONOR ROBERTS
RALEIGH — A testimonial on the late Dr. N. Frank-
Roberts, for whom Science Hall will be
* named, will be delivered during Founder’s
Day at Shaw University Friday by Charles
R. Frazier (see pic), Raleif^ Real Ectate
Broker and former dean of Shaw University.
Rev. Joseph W. Wiley, principal of Swift
Creek. School in Nash County, will deliver
the main address for the University’s Found
er’s Day exercises at 11:00 o’clodc. The cere
monies will commemorate the 92nd anniver
sary of the establishment of ttie ^ptist sup-
C. R. Frazier ported institution which is currently guided
by President William R. Strassner, a former dean of the
ichool.
RUMOR PROVOKES ATTACK
DENTON — JVhen 25 year-old sawmill worker Cleve
Adams stepped off a bus here Wednesday, bou^t a soft drink
and began to walk around looking the town over, he soon
found himself the object of an attack by a group of white
boys who used epiteths, rocks and flrecradcers in their as
sault. Someone rescued Adams In a car and whisked
away leaving Denton officials indexing the cause of the dis
turbance. Police Chief T. R. uallimore said the'attack was
apparently spurred by nmtors tliat Negroes planned to enroll
in the white school there, though he confessed he was jnizzled
as to how this could happen since no Negroes live the
town limits. ^
SCHOOL DEDICATION m
GOLDSBORO—A number of outstanding N^ro dtizens
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