FINALLY JMAOe IT—Aft*r mv-
• r ■ I unsuecasiful t r i • • by
school kids to mt n««r Guinta
prssldent Stkoir Tour* during
his visit last wMk to tht North
Carolina Collaya, tha youngstar
shown photographad shaking
hands with th* distinguished
visitor finally mad* if. H* is
Ronald Howard Miliar, 11 y*ar
old fifth g r a d • r at Burton
school. Ronald, who lik* s*v*ral
oth*r youngstors was pushad
away by security polica, is th*
son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Miliar of 905 Cox str**t.—Photo
by Rivar*.
Laney Wins
Daye Second, Holman Third
In State Beauticians Contest
Mrs. Eula Steele Laney ol Dur
ham who had led in the Carolina
Times Beauticians Popularity Con
test for the past five weelcs came
in, under the wire ahead of all
oUier contestants last week to.
wallc off with the top prize, an
airplane round trip to Bermuda
ivith hotel expenses paid for on«
w!ek. Coming in next and taking
the second prize, a round trip to
Bermuda without hotel expense
paid, was Mrs. Callie Daye of J)ur-
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VOLUME 35 — NUMBER 45
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1959
PRICE: IS CENTS
Baptists Elect Pitts President
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Toure’s Visit To Area
Creates Mild Sensation
The visit of President Sekou Totire of Guinea to the Ralcigh-Durham'area last week crcated
a mild sensation. The sight of motorcycle poli ce, leading the official caravan of state Cadillacs
and highway patrol cruisers caused many a, resident of the area to gawk and wonder.
—For *4ltorlal cow^mnt,
of NCC aATi^sa,
s«* pago 2
—Pictur* highlights,
pag*s 9 and 10
One of the biggest news created
by the President’* visit waa th«
reception of his party by Cover*
nor Luther Hodges and Mrs. Hod
ges.
Toure and the 11 other members
of the delegation were guests at
a state dinner given by the Gov
ernor at Morehead planetarium
Wednesday night. Five prominent
Negro couples, in addition to sev>
eral UNC officials attended.' It is
(See Sensation, page 8)
"Will Take Back
The ^irit
Of Friendship
Guinea President Sekou Toure
and his party left North Carolina
laden with gifts from North Caro
lina College and the North Caro
lina Mutual Life Insurance Co.
At a special program held in the
Insurance, company’s auditorium,
Mayor E. J. Evans of Durham gave
the visiting chief of state the keys
to the city.
Ladies in the entourage, includ
ing Mrs. Toure, were given cor
sages and Mr. Toure himself was
given an honorary LL.D. (doctor
laws) degree by NCC. a plaque
See WILL TAKE, page 8
rr
PITTS
Winston-Salem
Man Defeats
Ajieville'sWhite
The Rev. R. M, Pitts, pastor of
Shiloh Baptist Church of Winston-
Salem, was elected president of
the General State Baptist Conven
tion as the climax to the three
day annual state convention here
last week.
Pitts won on the first ballot by
more than 60 votes over his near
est rival, the Rev. J. W. White,
pastor of Mt. Zion of Asheville.
Pitts and White were conceded
the strongest contenders for the
post in pre-convention sr>eculation.
See BAPTISTS, page 8
GuinHJrexf^
Calls For
CooperatHNi
President Sekou Toure of Guinea
said at North Carolina College
October 29 his country’s "great
iJeslrc Is to consolidate the fotinda-
tions for cooperation” between
Guinea and the United States of
America.
“The differences ot climate, of
color, and position in life” Mr.
Toure said "have nothing to do
with our common rMponsibility of|
cooperating togeth* to make a
more firm foundation upon which
to build.
North Carolina College bestowed
an honorary Doctor of Laws de
t;rec upon the 37 year old Guinea
president.
Afterwards, Mayor E. J. Evans
of Durham gave Mr. Toure a gold
en key to the city at a ceremony
held at the North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Company. Mr. and
Mrs. Toure visited Durham after
spending Wednesday night in
Chapel Hill where he was a guest
of honor at a dinner given by
North Carolina Governor Luther
Hnrlges.
It is thought to be the first offi
cial dinner of an interracial kind
given by a southern governor.
North Carolina College Presi
dent Alfonso Elder, who awarded
Mr. Totire’s degree on Thursday,
rind Mrs. Elder were among the
MRS. LANKY
ham who was last year’s itrinner
of an airplane round trip with
hotel expenses paid for one week
to the Beauticians annual meeting
held in Miami, Florida.
Winner of the third prize, a
round trip to New York, was Mrs.
Josephitie Holman of Hillsboro.
Albert E. Hart, contest manager,
said here Tuesday he considered
the contest a great success from
all angles although he and others
of the CAROUNA TIMES manage
ment had hoped that at least two
of the prizes would go to cities or
localities outside of Durham.
Tickets for the trip have al
ready been purchased from East
ern Air Lines and will be award
ed the winners at a public gath-
eriI^' to be announced in next
week's issue of the Carolina Times.
The time will depend on what is
most agreeable to the three win
ner*. Place of the awarding will
also -be announced.
T^e final and actual standing
of the six highest contestants are
as follows;
Mrs. Eula Steele Laney . 4,043,900
Mr*. Callie Daye 4,007,500
Mrs. Josephine Holman . 3,950,200
Mr*. Inez Minor 3,002,500
Mrs. Dorothy Parker .. 2,626,600
Mrs. Mary B. Lyons ... 2,125,700
Suit Against
Airport in Court
NEW YORK — Thurgood Mar
shall disclosed today that a law-
tult involving the Greenville, S.
C. ^irport is currently pending in
* ^eral court.
Greenville airport is where
lobiij^jm ..^nd-,, a ^ of
(See Sort, page 8)~'''
MITCHELL
See GUINEA PRBXY, page 8
Judkial Depravity in Mississippi
This editorial is being written Tuesday eve
ning a few' hours after a grand jury composed
entirely of white men met in Poplarville,
Mississippi to decide whether or not anyone
will be tried for the lynching of a Negro sus
pect. Mack Charles Parker, on April 23 by a
band of inasked w'hite men. It is foolhardy for
any sensible person tiO even hope that there
will be an indictment after the tragic charge
to members of the grand jury by Circuit Court
Judge Sabe Dale, w'ho w'as t(> have tried Par
ker on charges of raping a white woman.
When a ])ublic official, be it a judge of a
circuit court or a town constable, who has
taken the oath t)f office, which includes a
.solemn vo\T to u])hold th^ Constitution of the
United States, wantonly and flagrantly at
tacks the IL .S. Supreme C'cnirt. referring to it
as “board of sociology" sitting iu Washington,
garbed in judicial robes.” he haj sunk to the
low’est depths of judicial depravity. Said
Judge Dale further in his charge to the grand
jury, “we of this county atid state face the
duty of maintaining ouK precious rights and
liberties . . . and we should have the backbone
to stand against any tyranny, whether of
some individual willing to seri ottr l»irthright
for a mess of political pottage on the national
level or the reformers that would make us
over.”
It is thus ))lain that the only “precious
liberties” which Judge Dale is conscious of
is that of the liberty of white men to deny
a Negro the same “]ireciou» liberties,” one of
which ts the right to be tried, when charged
with a cmrff. by his peers in a constituted
court of^iw a'nd not ;U the hands o'f a dani-
Sec EDITORIAL, page 2
MRS. DAYS
MRS. HOLMAN
Capital City Night Club Fighting
Court Order That Closed Its Doors
By United N*gro Pross
RALEIGH — District Solicitor
Lester Chalmers, Jr. filed a pet
ition with the Wake County Su
perior Court asking that the Press
Club, Inc., of South Street be clos
ed this week. A temporary Injunc-
wias granted in September.
^'A motion by defense Attorney,
H. L. Taylor, that the action to
padlock the club be dismissed
was Bverruled by Judge WiUiaih
Y. Pickett this week.
The motion in behalf of W. H.
Bryant, Jr. and the Press Club,
Spaulding To
Be Honored
By His Church
. Asa T. Spaulding, presideiit. ql
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company and lay leader
of White Rock Baptist Chureh,
will be honored by his church in
a testimonal service Sunday eve
ning at a 7:30 program.
Dr. Alfpnso Elder, president of
North Carolina College, will be
the main speaker.
A church offi(j«l said Spaulding
is beio^ honored for his contribu
tions to the religious, business and
civic worlds.
See SPAyLDING, 8
Inc, was made after the comple
tion of the State’s evidence, but
stated in their answer that the
constitutions of North Carolina
and the United States have been
violated.
Discrimination
The defense has argued that the
Press Club is a private organiza
tion and that it has been operated
in a legal manner. Taylor, who had
twenty affidavits supporting the
way the club was operated by its
members, argued that Raleigh and
Wake County law enforcement of
ficers have not been fair to Ne
gro Chibs in that (hey have not
allowed them the privileges al
lowed similar organizations operat
ed by white persons.
In the testimony offered before
the jury of 12 men, including one
Negro, FNA agent Richard
Patch, the only real incriminatii
witness who was charged by the
defense with telling untruths to
keep his job, told that he bought
whiskey once from the club and
discussed plans for purchase of
marijiMina from , the defendant’s
father William H. Bryant, Sr. and
the Club.
Tt)e senior Bryant was arrested
in a crackdown which resulted in
seizure of over half million dol
lars worth of raw marijuana by
narcotics agents late last sum
mer.
In his argument for di.smissal,
See CAPITAL CITY, page 8
PRATT
Funerals For
Durham's Wreck
Victims Slated
ham men who were killflltf in a
head-on auto Collision Sun4ayt eve
ning were scheduled for Thursday
afternoon.
Dead as a result of a two-car
crash on U. S. 401 near Lillington
are William Edgar Pratt, 48, and
John Edward Mitchell, 40.
Six others, five of them from
Durham, were also hurt in the
ere- hospitriised
Mitchell and Pratt were riding
together.
Final rites for Pratt were set for
the Oak Grove Free Will Baptist
Church Thursday afternoon. The
Reverends T. C. Graham and
George Siler were listed as of
ficiating ministers.
Mitchell’s funeral was scheduled
for the Amey Funeral home chap
el at two o’clock Thursday after
noon. The Rev. E. T. Browne, pas
tor of Mt. Vernon Baptist, was to
officiate.
According to highway patrol re
ports, the fatal accident took place
at about six p.m. eight miles from
Lillington near the LaFayette
school.
State patrolman Herman Ward,
who investigated, said the acci
dent occured when the car driven
by Mitchell attempted to pass an-
vehicle against traffic and
’’ded with a station wagon car
rying six people, five of them Dur-
See FUNERALS, page 8
other
cctfde
WSTC Business Manager
Wounds as Auditors Check
WIX.STO\-S.\LEM — A. I.
Terrell, business manager of
VVinston-Salem Teachers Col
lege. for more than 30 years,
was described as “out of dan
ger” by doctors late Tuesday
after undergoing emergency
surgery for what city police
said was an attempted suicide.
The 60 year-old Teachers Col
lege official was discovered with
a bullet wound in his cheek and
extensive cuts on his neck and
wrist at his home Tuesday.
The wounds were inflicted as a
team of state auditing officials,
headed by state auditor Hairy
Bridges, were going over the
school’s business record*.
Bridges said there had been dis
covered “discrepanciees” in the
school’s financial records. How
ever, he declined to say if there
had been evidence of a shortage.
“It’s difficult to say now wheth
er there is a shortage or not We
are just getting into it. Something
which may look out of line at
this time may be all right under
closer examination.”
President F. L. Atkins declined
See TERRELL, page 8
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AT NCC FOUNDER’S DAY
Trained Youth Must Fight Race
Hate, Claude Barnett Declares
Trained young Negro college
graduates must shoulder the re
sponsibility of offsetting the ef
forts of those who “follow a ban
ner of race hate” in the United
States, Dr. Claude A. Barnett of
Chicago said in a Founder’s Day
speech at North Carolina College
Tuesday.
Dr. Barnett spoke at the col
legers 12th memorial program hon
oring its founder, the late Dr. Jas.
E. Shepard. Dr. Barnett is founder
and director of the Associated Ne-
ro Press. He is also a world trav-
elwr -WMl OOTpmentator on race re
lations in the United States, Afri
ca, the West Indies, and South
America.
The occasion also marked
formal announcements of plans
to launch a $50,000 scholarship
program during a c*i*bration of
tho college's Goldon Anniversary,
Nov*mb*r 9-12, 1960.
Barnett described Dr. Shepard
a» a man who while thoroughly ac-
quainted with the difficulties of
his time “was still an optimist in
the matter of race relations.”
“In this he was often likened
to Booker T.’Wash ingtofi and Rob
ert R. Moton of Tuskegee. There
was deeply ingrained in each of
these men the belief that condi
tions would grow better as time
went on. They thou^t that as their
people got education and began to
conquer the disadvantages and
barriers which had faced them
through the ye^s, the truth would
emerge that the race problem was
really a human problem and
therefore soluble.
"All thr** of thos* mon w*r*
certain th*r* w*r* a large num-
b*r of whit* friends in th* south
who know th*s* truths within
thair hearts and, whil* th«y
w*re sil*nc*d by th* anti-N*gro
sentiment of tho times, w*r*
prepared to encouraga and help
whenever th* opportunity for
See TRAINED, page 8
Four of Durham
Leaders Cited
In Trade Week
Four prominent Durhamitea
who have ^iven man thaa a cen
tury of service to the community
in ousiness, medieiDe, edncatiaa
and farm improvemcid, were
^heduled to ba honored npadagr
^^t'af the Durham Bniiieas and
Professional Chain’t amnial Irade
Week banquet
Honorees are W. J. Kennedy,
Jr., adviser and cteimum of the
board of North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance ContNmy; William
R. Rich, former diteator of Lin
coln hospital; J. C Htabbard, for-
mer Cranty farm agent; and Mrs.
Estelle Nixon, former home dem-
ofistntflHTsscnt
Ail have recently retired.
The banquet, scheduled for Hill
side high school cafeteria, is one
of the lutures o the Chain’s an
nual Trade Week. T. ‘H. Schooler,
Whitted school principal, was to
be the main speaker.
The fall promoticm began Sat
urday with a street parade held
in conjunction with North Carolina
College’s homecoming parade.
Other features of the week's ac
tivities include a meeting of the
North Carolina Negro Business
League Thursday at N. C. Mutual
Life Insurance Company; the “Miss
Trade Beauty Pageant” at seven
p.m. Saturday at Hillside high
auditorium followed by the
Queen’s ball at nine in the school
gymnasium.
Joseph Beebe is overall chair
man fMT this week’s Trade Week
program. He is assisted by a bat
tery of Bosiness and Professional
Chair officers headed by Chain
president L. B. Fraaier.
Mrs. Claude Barnett known pro
fessionally as Miss Etta Moten,
wife of the founder and director
of the Associated Negro Press,
third from right, was honored at
a reception sponsored by the Wom
en’s Assembly at North Carolina
College on the eve of Founder’s
Day, November 2. Her husband
was the principal speaker at 12th
anniversary services memorialix-
ing late Dr. James E. Shepard. Also
shown left to right are Miss Diana
S. Dent, chairman of home eco
nomics department; Mra. H^n Sk
Morse, chairman of the Depart
ment af PiMe SMltt
Mrs. Alfeoao Um HoImh
Misa CyUW MiOWmMt pwfeleBt
of tha f|MMari«g Waw*»
sembly; whI Dr. IUm
. latnnan a( tiwflMMiar^
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