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rnrnmmmm mf ■1 Wave Of Violence Threatens Holiday Season RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED VOLUME 35—No. 52 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 19:9 FHICE; 15 CENTS f^T ANYWHIM ShtitnH hiadxl hame by but flir tht 'hvtUlays liitcd thti main waiting r*Mn anil fa4iliti«$ »f th* Dur ham bus station las, vst!l-end. This scene was taken during rusli station.—Burthey USE “WHITE” LOBBY Student Travellers Find Littie Jim Crow at Local Biis Station Students traveling home for th«. tiilty olpiainlng Uckcts .and ticket “Meanest Man” Dad Beats Child Unconscious Guy Dooley, of 30t Cobb street, would probably win the title of the city's "meanest man'* if an election wero held in Dur ham .th|»' week. Tht 33 year-old father b*«t his six year eld daw9h>«r into uncontcieusnets Monday night. Tho girl had be kMpltallitrf. Dooley was clampod into fiiil by local authorities under a $500 bond on charges of assault and . battery on a minor female re sulting in serious bodily injury. The yjung child, her bofy j trembling' and her face distort- j ed from blows inflicted by her i father, was taken to the police I station Monday night by her mother,. Mrs. Dorothy Dooley, who presented the girl’ as evi dence to obtain a warrant against her husband. She t«W police that her hus band ha4 kicked Ih* giri in Hi* mout1«, siitt and other parts ^f the bod^. Shootings, Stabbings, Accidents Send Death Toll Mounting ,\ iiKiimtin',’- wave Ilf violent cicatli.s from traftie aCCHfeirts. ■it:ihi)iii"> aiiil ntluT misliaii*' threatened to make iJ'C .'Iiristiii.'is sc:is(in a >a(I ntu- fur a ntiinlicr'^ijt Tarheels. As ii'iial. tralt’ic aci'idi'nt-. arr ta^in;:; thr tt>II t»f live?. At (. luirldl'.c. Will W’illi.inis « a> killfil n IiVjj lie p>inn^;i iiiidcr a irni'k « skidflcd fcrt Siiudwy Aiff a ramp lead- til r. S. J1 two niili-s wot III Charlotte. Earncstinc .McNoil. 23. »Bfi Eu- matod f5i»000 bum*^ fiir- lone Hicks. 2!>, wore kiHod when nvihingc in the •aditoriani wd Uic gtruck by an auto as they walked: tcachers’ loonge. “‘Sn^EninW 22 of Green..! ^ *«»-•*• boro, was killrfl last Friday whenr®"^** "5*””””* he lost control of his autf> andl A similar attaek tMk plaee at slruck s ulilitic? pole. ' Burton pl*nicnt®ry scfiool 3 In Durham eoiinty, Frini Wat- » son. 5B year old sawmill wi>rkcr,[ wrp-l;iiif jarty at the eekool orcr iliffl S.iliinl;iy of .slab woiimls in ! wrek-e«rt. flir-teil t)y his wife as th*> pair' Thpy were qt»ickly i«>twrhended, ))iiich'crcd ho''s. however, hy the work of I>etectivc3 ■\t Fayetteville, a Fort Ilraq" Frank MrCrae and Cly»Ie Cox. wha soWirr, Sp5 Jame.s Hrown, .Jr.. have Ijecn assisnid to 0»e Will- was killed iiy a shot-t;un hlasf town schonl case, when he went “Kunnin;" fi r the There was considerable water luisl)and of his cirl friend. damage to the buikiitlE aa nngrcw AI.sq in Durham, police were qurnched llte U'co^ad ''t hoc;* tnrniid upon each other, | ;;carch^g for suspects in the bum-j do further tfamafie. f rcsultinc; in the fatal stahbins of I ,j,„ „f Walltown elementary school. ‘ Ttie school is }ocat^ if the hushaiid. * j rh® ifipe, wiiictj • ca»seJ an csti : ter street and Ch* jicin!; Held un(k-r bp.in] of .—• ■'jr frail on cUarrfes of murdrr is’ MRS. WATSON holidays from several Durham la slitutions were met with a varied racial policy at the Durham bus station. Approximately 150 students from iii.ri.TTi R-Kiness Collet'c. North Carolina Colleee and Southeastern Vernon Johns is Speaker For Emancipation The fiTlh annual eelebrstion of the Emancipation Proclamation will be hold in Durham, Friday, .Tanuary 1 at 1:00 a.m. at St. Mark AME Zion Church. The Rev. R. L. Speaks, pastor The celebration is sponsored , cach year by the Durham Minis terial Alliance, and will be presid ed o\cr by the Ilev. E. T. Browne, atliwfw' prpstdenl”' and pasior of tlic Ml. Vernon Baptist Church. The si^akcr for the occasion will be Dr, Vernon .Johns, noted See JOHNS, page 6 iervice in the side of the station raditionally reserved for whiles. ’However, some reported refusal 'f ;he I'cstanrant .and . newsstand o serve them while dtliers said hey had no difficulty ohtsinlnc my services at the bus station. ( A spokesni.in for the students 1 vlio had used ‘he "white” waitin': room during the Thank.s2ivliv: holi 'ays al.sn, said “tiiere seemed t' ‘)c no fixed policy l»y the istation IS to how to handle Ne^ro pa- rons." I.asl Friday and Satur'ay were he two days in which !,he largest lumber of students were in the ‘>ns station. On Friday morniii", two stu- Iciits by reported refusiil l>y the i*nslaur.‘iht and the news stand. ThCjV sai(l they Were foferred to I,he “Necro" side of the station. Both students, however, piirehas (kI tirkets with^ul difficully on ihe "while" sirle. oil the .same aftrrnnon, another ‘.{roup of students said they had no trouble Kcttini* .service frqin the re.staurant and news stand. Attain on Saturday, there was a report that a Negro seaman was refusetl ser+ice by the restaurant, tl 'Was estimated that nearly 50 See BUS, page C badly- dcred bor rushed fo Line*)* hospitef where her condition ,w«* i^eribed at mld'Week as "faif." Desk lieutenant Jake D«by said the child was "trembling and her face badly swollen. She didn't ktww where she was." The' girl lost consciousness be-. the hospital. Hog Butchering Leads to Death Of Husband A Durham County couple whii-h iCt out Saturdny morning to ijiitch- ■■rURNED '’handler Uoatf She admitteil this week tn statv l)ing her hMslwnd, Fred Watsm in the shoulder Jale Saturday with knife she had been usin;;' to butch-' •r hogs earlie# during the day Her husljand died a few minutes ■iftcr being slabbed in the top of liis left shoulder. He was .“ir-. Sheriff Jennis Mangum .said the| “I’m fjoin.;; to send you to hell.’' Sp. 5C James J. Drowit Jf.. f')P- nan wa.s dead wiien~Tcpntics ar-t'a > o»ni; Korl r.r;i^TTOiTWjr^mmir-mr-r Durtiareite ajlw st>ti»n»i at fived at llic liomc to invpsli^nte. j t'd as he moved on the hu.^band Fort liras;, was killed alnv^t in- County coroner Pr, R, A. Harlon of his sirl friend in Favettevillc srantly by a blast from a .12 aid Watson died from loss of wil'i a loaded shot cun Saturday, j ;;ua3e shot gun as he ch»sed Jake blood suffered when an artery was Tlie trooper was buried in fun-; Dunlap' oulsifl^ Dunlap’s hftme GI “Guns” For Girl's Mate; Killed Instead Over Thousand Kids Get Christmas Cheer Christmas Cheer packages were distributed to approximate ly 465 families, including 1,513 children Wednecday, fund direc tor I. R. t^olmes said Wednes day. The distribution was made Wednesdey morning at- W. D. Hill Community Center,' where Holmes is director. The' fund is an annual pro ject supported by several Dur ham erganiiatJont to help the needy et Christmas. Althea Lashes Sepgation At Norfolk Match p N01!F0l,K. Va.—Althea r.lbson,‘ tennis queen who received rnuch of her training, sports ’ anti aca demic. in the south turned loose a blast aeainst secresalion here this week after playin; in an exhibition match liefore a sc?resated audi-| encc. I "I don't like it. I didn't know | this sort of thing sstiU existed." ' Miss CJb.-on was quoted as aay- { ing after playing here Sunday with the touring Harlem Globe trotters. The exihibilons, W'hich preceded .severed. The woman told investiuiitin" officers that she and her husband had killed ho?s Saturday morning and were stillj cuttin," up the See, BUrCnBRING, pasze G eral services in Durham on Mon-1 early Saturday, day. I “You ju.st beat me tA It” Brown llis intended vic‘im, who turned j said as he lay shot temple the tables on him, mus lieine held and left side. Ilis jiW ■WR. t dw- in Fayetteville on an open charge* hie barrelled stiotguii,, wis toundi without bond. ^ See QUN, paste ^ A In NO TROUBLE — None of the estimated 200 Durham students who used "whita" waiting room at the Durham bus station re ported hawing trouble purchas ing as this scene shows.. Unid?nt'iH(^ young lady in fore- g--ound was waiting at biggage countcr. (out of view in this picture)—Burthey photo. A. Philip Randolph Endorses March on Greenyille^^irpo^t PRESIDENT’S COMMITTEE REPORTS Crisis Predicted Skilled Workers Force WASilfNGTON, O. C.—A sub- in cinployment will be in occupa-; projections, the report ttates, 7.5 stanlial increase In the Nesro seg- lions requirins more trainin;? anil inilliim new workers diiring tfte ment of the nation's job seekers eduction.” the report states. "The next decade will be witticMU ■ bi^li dlirin'; the noxt ten eyars and a( Am"rican eeonomy will reauire an school education. Unless the situ- eoneurrent shorla;;c of drained Ne-j increa,>;e of ne;*rly 50 per cent in. alion of Ihe pest and present js gro workers, p;\rlicularly in the profe.^sional and technical »K;eu|>a- sharply chanued. the Cixnmipeo'' the (’ilobetrotters game, was s’**Sed fici,| vvere pictured in tions, 80 per-cent in the numbers believes that it very pr*»por- at the city arena. annual report of a presidential of proprie'.ors and mananers, 25 lion of these •‘hawlieaftpcr worit- "This is a sport—an •''Ipi’""'*'*'* : relca.scd by the While per cent in the clerical and sales ers will be Ne;n*es. al lhin','-—and yet, you bave some' ycsirrduy, forte, Zl per cent in the numbers “Kven within the bineewllur job per»ple sittin" here .some people ' skilled craXi.-iinen, and 2.1 per'lu^mp, new forees Jure ot'eratln'j f 'tlin? there, ’ Miss Gibson said. A hishli-!ht of the report of the gg,jj more scfv.ice workers. which wilV create urave pfobleiM “Thcre’.s only one difference be-'I’rcsidcnl's Commiitec on Govern- increase proJecte«l for semi for Ihe .Ne;^^ worker unless he tween us—our color. Our c.vcs arc mcnt Contracts is a statement of skilled workers is only 15 percent, can adapt 'aimseU to rbansr^ I the same, our mouths arc the | the Committees intention to con ; however, and no increase is fore-'Many fartury Jotei art *tKitoma»ra.’ ; same. Just what the hell is thej contrate its efforts on the intcsra-: labon'rs.” j To cwitiniie fi htikl even senit ! matter?, she continued, j jion of .NeRr.jes into the white-j The siunificance of these ft -mes, skilled pusitiofNi. workm ui I "Do these people (whites) think; collar job catcRory, where *.he jjesroes. according to the Com-[ future will have to have a felfiher there, is such a bis difference tliat greatest increases in employment report, lies in the fact that decree of lit;;r»C3f. These autonwt- thoy have to sit . by themselves? are expected during the coming decent Census Bureau data indi-| ef* .•t>ht renulre that th* workfMr be “f don’t want lo skirt the law, decade. go per cent of white ehil- ab to read cenplea meMWrteg tmt there must be something The report, submitted to Presi between aqes 18-14 are at- instruments, maintaia cleerly Of wrong with the law. Just think, dent Eisenhower by Vice President ‘ tpn^jng hiqh school while only 65 tailed reeonta, aad ia feHwral adults actin,? like that. Nixon, Committee Chairman, cited ^ent of Ne.gro children in the ! rate macbisccs whieK iiB iMt "f have been acccpted as an Department of L,abor projections NEW YORK — Philip Ran- irilrost of Ite God-!»iven rifiht of individual.«1|,don’t want to be a for the 1960’3 to point up serious vice-president and 1 every Amoriyan citizen to enjoy pioneer in this sort of thing. And problen lolpli, AFL-CIO vice-i eteran civil rights leader, today 1 citizenship pi^vilcges without in- indorsed the Emancipation DaylsuU because »>f race or color. I ’rayer Pilgrimage to the Green-1 trust that the 1 demonstration will t'ille, South Carolina, airport. This be effective.” s the airport where Jackie Rob The demonstration is sponsored nson and others were asked to by Greenville C novo from the ‘white’ waiting Uacial Equality "oom. i Randolph said, "I consider this i lieverend J. S. a timely and constructive form of j if Greenville ORE (Committee of problems which will confront Ne- I don’t want to do anything that. groes during that period in their would bring discredit on the group efforts to compete for employment I’m with or Abe Saperstein (Globe- with tht white labor force, trotters promoter) but personally.! Continuing the Committee re-1 I think I have a right lo say the port states that anticipatefl changes 1 things I' feel.”' | in the composition of the labor ■ same age group are enrolled.” I demanding tkM ptndlK' AccH>rding to Labor Departmeati Sec CRISIS. p«gr t Wheeler Returns from So. Mia iionviolent, g.iod-will action in the J^n H. Wheeler, re^wrtedly the first Americen Ne«r« I* be invited to tite Unt«n el SewHt ioniinati,onal Nfinislerial Alliance.' Negro to crack the top tennis cir-1 Negrroes which will underscore the! Africa by the eevemmeet, re- Hall, Jr., chairman' clcs. Sho holds victories in the importance of education and train-' twmed to Durltem eerty Swndey. QOR£, announced Wimbledon (English) and Forest ihg. . Ttie Meclsenks «id Permee* ) and the Intcrdc-I Miss Gibson became the first force pose special problems for malely fwtr VMiMim HM Ne WM See endorses, page 6 I'ills (United, States) tournaments. ‘The most (i-nificant increase Benk president ipgnt e^reai- el Miie Atrkew
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