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VOLUME 34 — NUMBER 47 OUKHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1958
PRICE: 10 CENTS
Monroe Leader Receives
3 Threatening Letters
i
Fred V, Allison ((oresroand)
and filisni^'ArGMMon’gfeta'd*'
monstnii^pn of the opei^tlon of
th« cetfUfl^cMirpla M tk« nairir
activated #aye|teiriiU gtrMt
station from flrattwi lolm 0
Ljoa, Ato wen* was repMtti o|ientnf new sj(»ti«ii.. Citj
aev««» tlm^' imwtKBr
nigM ■■ residents «f the comma*
«itjr fof'thrir first clow-ap look
M Ih^ statton tad Its equipment
foUo#ln( formal eerononled
S5S aaf..v.^wfts«pRp»«^8-
Chief C. h, Cox and City Conn-
cilman J. S. Stewart were amongr
the elTic dUtaitarles to take par
in th« tomM profram.
—Photo A. DeVeanx, n
Broad WwiMre Sangltt
ErWii Opposes Try To Make
S. Crime
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Cousins Die In Sunday Crash
Funeral For Tlinl Vicliin Friday;
Fourth Man Hospitalized At Lincoln
JfOE WILLIAMS
Protested Fate
Of Youths In
Interracial Kiss
MONRQE-f
Robert F. Williams, NAACt*
leader here who last week prjj-
tested the sentence handed two
young Negro boys for stealings
kiss from a white girl said' this
week he had deceived three
threatening letters.
Williams had wired Presidilbt
Elsenhower to investigate
incident. His wire described tKe
South as a “social jungle.”
Two young Negro boys w^e
given' long terms at a refotsia-
kory school for kissing the white
girl.
Williams said Monday .♦tie
letters, all postmarked Satur^y,
came from Greensboro, MortU-
town, Tenn., and Lafayette, La.
^Niggers ^n t need to eypect | ham Tnesday night, Nov. 25, for
'..r>thino >> a concert at Hillside high school
auditorium. A sophomore, Tuck
er is a music major at the At
lanta institution. The concert is
being spMlsored by the Hillsid^
CLAUDE (SLICK) WILLIAMS
A double funeral was Kbe-
duled Thursday afternoon for
two Durham men killed in an
automobile accident Sunday.
Funeral services for a third man
who died in the same wreck
were set for Friday.
First Calvary Baptist ChurdJ
on Morehead avenue was to be
Dairy bar early Sunday where tt
Chapel at 2:30 p.m.
A fourth man reaped with in-
juries and was reported in **fair"
condition at Lincoln hoqjiHal
Wednesday. He is Albert Barrett,
24, of 314 East Enterprise street.
The accident took place in the
mid-afternoon Sunday on the
scene of a double funeral for Pine street extension about a
cousins Claude and Joe Willi
ams. The services were set for
two p.m.
CecU Jford, 58, of 1204 Pine
street, third man to lose his life
In the accident, was to be fune-
Set For Athletic Park
Students Appeol
Game Change Site
Michael Tucker (above), son
of Mr. and Mrs. John Tuckep ol
Lee street in Durham, will ac
company at the piano the More
house College Glee Club when
the organization appears in Dur-
from Loui^ana said.
The (^eensboro letier, signed
wi^h a ' skull an| crossbone^
read, i'^hey are gi|hna come an4
Businessmen Hear Suggestions
For Aiding Equal Job Nances
Woman's Story
Hit In Trial Of
Seven For Rape
GOLDSBORO
“Can people who desert the
truth in small matters be trusted
in a matter so great as to involve
lives of citizens of North Caro*
lina”, Attorney Herbert Parks of
Greensboro told a Wayna
County Judy late Tuesday, dur
ing the trial of seven Negro
youths charged with allegedly
raping a white 21-year-old
mother of two, Mrs. Leslie G.
Strickland.
hile the National Association’ ~
for the Advancement of Colored I
People was urging that proposed I
anti-dynamite legislation be j
broadened o include protection |
oi homes and businesses as well'
as of churches and schools.
Senior North Carolina Senator
Stam Ervin, Jr., flatly opposed
any bill to make dynamiting
federal crime.
Senator Ervin said it would be
unconstitutional and bad public
policy perhaps eroding further
the position of the states.
However, he said he would
not oppose laws which use the
crossing of state lines as a justi
fication to deter hate bombings.
The NAApP's Board of Direc
tors at its regular monthly meet
ing in New York on November
10 approved an amendment to
the bill Introduced to the 8Sth
Congress by Senatdr John Ken
nedy and Representatives Eman^
uel Cuellar and Kenneth Keating
w^th a view to etxpanding the
scope of the measure.
The Kennedy-Celler-Keating
proposal would make it a federal
to transport explosives
Parks nv>de the statement
after he noted that Mrs. Strick
land had admitted not telling the
truth in her first version of the
incident to the Police.
Prior to the lawyers statement
to the court, two city detectives crime
told the jury that two days after across state lines or to use ex-
Mrs. Strickland allegedly was plosives so transported “with the
raped by seven Negro youths ii{ knowledge or Intent that it will
Goldsboro, she was unable to he used to damage or destroy any
Identify them all in a police line-j building for the purpose of inter-'
up. ( Iferring with Its use for educa-
Earlier in the trial Mrs. tional, religious, charitable, or
Strickland pointed out each of civic objectives or of Intimida-
the seven defendants in the ting any person pursuing such
courtroom. She said they had objectives”,
ganged up on her and attacked Senator Eryin in Washington
her as she was walking a dark on Monday suggested that Con-
path near the Negro community' gress might make it a federal of-
center on August 24. fense to flee over state lines to
Park4, one of three attorney’s escape prosecution for bombing
represepting the group, quoted a building,
the Declaration of IndependMica A similar law is now on the
that “All men are created i>oolu about unlawful flight toi
equal”, and that “All citizens escape charges of muryler, kid-
stand on equality before the bar! nappjng and several other
pf justice”. I felonies.
Asserting that Mrs. Strickland' He also 9sid he would- have
as the only witness it) the case,! “no serious objection to a. law
See WOMEN, page 8 I See ERVIN, page 8
Negro's Role In
South To Be Told
By Bennett Prof.
GREENSBORO
Dr. Edwin R. Edmonds, Pro
fessor of Sociology at Bennett
College will, deliver the second
in a series of lectures on “The
Role of the Negro in Interracial
Relationships in the South” Fri
day, Novemi>er 21, at the Second
Baptist Church on South Gra
ham Street at 8 p.m. The public
is invited to attend.
The meeting is sponsored by
the I nterracial Fellowship for
the Schools, which regularly
meets the third Thursday of the
month, but postponed its meet
ing a day in order to accommo
date Dr. Edmonds, who teaches
in Concord on Thursdays.
Dr. Edmonds has been at Ben-
nett College since 1956. Prior to
this, he taught at Langston Uni
versity in Oklahoma, where he
was ^ofessor of Sociology and
Director of Research, and at
Delaware State College, where
he was Professor of Sociology,
Dean of Students, and Chaplain.
Voters Urged To
Ready For 1
NEW ORLEANS, La.
Now is the time to “begin pre
paring tor 1960,” Clarence Mit->
chell, director of the NAACP
Washington bureau, declared in
yn address at a crusade ‘ for
voters meeting here.
See VOTERS, page 8
A proposal that Negro busi
nesses employ qualified white
employejes to demonstrate the
fact that Negroes and whites can
work side by side in the South
without major disturbances was
made this week to a group of
Durham businessmen.
Mayes Behrman, a consultant
with the North Carolina Council
on Human Relations, suggested
the step Tuesday before a meet
ing of the Durham Business and
Professional Chain One O’clock
Luncheon club.
Durham has enough Negro
businesses to consider employing
white workers to prove that the
two races can work side by side,
Behrman told the group of as
sembled businessmen.
He explained that a demon
stration of the effectiveness of
integrated job situations was im
portant to influence white em
ployers to consider hiring quali
fied Negroes.
“Fear on the part of white
employers in the South is the
biggest obstacle to promoting
equal opportunities,” he- de
clared.
”It is important to understand
that it is not only a_ matter of
prejudice,” he said, “but in most
cases the underlying cause is
fear-f—fear of their employees,'
thei^ customers, their commu^l
nity.
White employers must be
shown that they can hire Ne
groes for jobs at any level with
out suffering undue hardships,
he added.
A Negro business which hired
a white employee could make a
contribution toward demonstra
ting this, Behrman said.
He cited instances where Ne
groes were integrated in jobs in
the South-in wiilcli the employ
ers at first feared the worst, but
discovered that very few diffi
culties were encountered once
the step had been taken.
See SUGGESTIONS, page 8
Indications at North Carolina
College this week are that stu
dent leaders will appeal the
decision of the school athletic
committee to play the Thanks
giving Day football game with
A and T College at Durham
Athletic Park.
The Athletic Committee vo
ted on Tuesday to sustain an
earlier decision reportedly
made by athletic director I. G.
Newton.
Traditional Carolina Classic
with A and T College was
originally scheduled this year
for the Eagles' O'Kelly field.
Decision to change the game
location was made “in order
to accommodate a larger num
ber; of fans,’’' Newton said in
Prior to the release of New
ton’s letter some 85 students
hanged the athletic director
in effigy in' front of the col
lege’s cafeteria on the night of
Nov. 15.^
The effigy wa’^ later impaled
in front of the cafeteria where
it remained .throughout the
day on Nov. 16 and was
ea tim TrtgBT affttasr
ing for return to O’Kelly field.
Spokesman at NCC business
office have jton^tently up
held the decflHU to hold the
game at Durham Athletic
Park. It Is said that the park
can be arranged to aeoommo-
date the 10,000 fans expected
to see the game.
Newton explained his de
cision on the basis that it was
an administrative matter and
not a policy decision.
Coaches and football person
nel at NCC favor O’Kelly field
Students leaders, who hold
valuable concession rights to
O’Kelly field, are likewise op
posed to the shift.
At mid-week the situation
was still muddled.
The contest is certain to be
a hard-fought one, and its out
come will decide the 1958
CIAA football champion.
PTA Congress
out me H A P ■ I
«^^|feOpen Friday
In High Point
Members of the Alexander break in the sessions. Revresent- ganisatioiial bw^ess. Otticeis of
Hunter Dental Society which ing dental practictioners from the Society are Dr. J. M. Huk-
met In a one-day symposium at the Durham area, the group bard. Sr. president; Ite. N. W.
Lincoln hospital are pictured heard learned discussions in den- Cordlee, secretary; and-Dt. E. F.
here on the steps of the Angler tal techniques and conducted or- Norris, treasnrcr.
B. Dnke Nurses home daring a —Fhato by A. DeVeaux, II
SMALL AIRCBAFT HALTS
A&T FOOTBALL DRILLS
While a squabble between ath'
letics officials and students over
the place for the North Carolina
College A and T game raged at
Durham, over in Greensboro,
A and T people were having
their troubles too on account of
the game.
It seems a small airplane, for
ced down because of heavy fog
Monday afternoon, landed on the
Aggies’ practice field while Bert
PIggot whipped his boys in shape
for Thank^vii^ Day’s elash.
N^ed^ to sae^ j^caetjjse c«im
tb a halt.
Tke plane, pUated by W. K.
Cleland was headed far MMu«e.
HIGH POINT
“Imperatives for growth in the
Home, School and Community”
Will be the theme of the 1958
convention of the North Caro
lina Congress of Colored Parents
and Teachers, it was annoimced
here this week.
The convention got underway>
Friday, Nov. !{1 at William S.
Penn High School. It will cm-
clude on Saturday.
Some of the special features
of this year’s convention will in
clude a symposium on “The
Challenge We Face—Are These
Our Ctuldren.”
Outstanding speakers to be
heard include Charles Bynum,
head of the Race Relations divi
sion of the National Foundation;
Charles Taylor, Boy Scouts of
Alnerica; Dr. John R. Larkins,
State Department of Public Wel
fare; and Wallace Hyde, director
of driver education for the N. C.
Highway Commission.
Mrs. Leona B. Daniel will
make her presidential address to
the convention on Friday.
Women Can't
I
See President
WASHINGTON, O. C.
Their request refused for a
conference with President Eisen
hower to discuss the school de
segregation crisis, the National
Council of Negro Women urged
him to “immediately take moral
leadership to prevent the further
spread of massive resistance,
terrorism and violence.”
Representing 850,000 women
in 22 national organization af
filiates and 95 local and Junior
councils, the organization made
the statement to special
dential assistant Roscoe C. Sid-
liano today, climaxing Its ttuwfr*
day national conTentini held ta
Washington, D. C.’s Statler-Hl)-
ton Hotel.
mile and one-half South of the
Pilgrim Chapel Baptist Church.
According to State highway
patrohnan C. L. Phillips who in*
vestlgated, the automobile, aph
parently operating at a high rat*
of speed, failed to maite a sharp
turn in the road and careenad
off an emt»ankment, turning ever
several times.
The car landed in the front
yard of a residence at 2260 on
the Pine street extension. Occu
pants of the bouse were not
identified.
Phillips told the TIMES that
he was unable to discover any
eyewitnesses to the accident.
It took place around 4:30 Sun
day afternoon.
Claude Williams, who, acc(^-
ding to Phillips, was the last
known driver of the vehicle, and
Cecil Ford died almost instantly.
Joe Williams, taken to Lincoln
and later transferred to Duke for
emergency surgery where he
died early Monday.
The death car, a blue, 1951
Mercury, was twisted almost be
yond recognition. It was owned
by Claude, who was nicknamed
■‘Slick” by close fri«jds.
According to the family of Joe
Williams, cousin to Claude, he
was last seen early Sunday
afternoon when a car with four
men rode by his house at 91C
South street and he hailed his
sister.
Sec WSECK, page 8
W. C. Chancellor
Urges South Take
Cue From N. C.
WASHniGTOHr,TX c.
In a keynot^ address at the
ninth annual conventio of the
Southern College Personnel As
sociation ‘at the Burlingtoa
Hotel, here this wfek, CKancel-
h>r Gordon BlackwA of the Vni-
versiyt of North Carolina Wo
man’s College charged many lo
calities in the south with “abdi-.
eating leadership” on the aph««»|
issue to “extremists” on both
sidesi.
Blackwell declared that local
communities are best fitted to
detannine the pace of desesreS*-
tion in their areas.
Blackwell said that the south
face a choice between “massive
resistance with its potential mas
sive ignorance on the one hand
and moderately paced integra
tion in certain conununitles on
the other hand”.
The experience of. the past
four years indicates the advisa>
bUity of considerable commu
nity autonomy in the determina
tion of how rapidly or how slow
ly to ‘biove toward full compli
ance with the spirit o the &i-
preme Court decisicu”, he said.
A well known sociologiat,
Blackwell in his address —***
North Carolina’s plao of locally
administered school systems pn>-
vides a good example &r tb«
region.
A native of the south. Blade-
well said that the Scqxrene
Court decision should have come
to no surprise to Southeraen be
cause it followed “a generation**
of decisions “laodifying our
M»te stnicture". He listed rul-
i»Ss on peonage, residential
covenants. se«rcestion in pabltfr
transportation and institutiona
highw teaming among other^.
Citing studies which show HmH
the increase in the white pop»
li^n of the South sinca IlM
hla been ten times the groirlh lik
the Negro patalatioa, Bladkvdl
criticised “SontlMflM
and agitators”, lor m—siltig
that Nscroas “may ■Twlmilj
take over the soulli^*. -
His stataaMBt ttal local Iwik
«rshlp has too iMtmmtly hmtk
lait to “ra««^ m
“reactio
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