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Howard President: "My Heart Leaps Up" at Student Demonstrations The powers oi,' the spirit avj^l able to the late Mahatma Gandhi of India is today “available to all who dare to carry on Gandhi’s kind of experiment with truth.” That was Howard University President Mordecai W. Johnson’s theme in messages deli ercd at North Carolina College last Sun day and Monday. Ohandi is tht great Indian leader whose practice* pf non violent resistance led to fhe freedom of ^seme 420,000,000 peoples of India, Dr. Johnaon reminded packed audiences In Duke Auditorium each day of ^1* spofch. ' , Speaking to audicnces composed Urgely of student "sit-downers” protesting segregated lunch count er jseating, Dr. Johnson-sard Sun day.' “If I were a student I’d read Gandhi's spiritual autobiography, “My Experiment with Truth.” Of the student sit-down move- intent, Dr. Johnson said, “My heart leaps up v>ith admiration - ' ahd prayer. "Do not betray yourselves' with any acts of violence. "It is better for you to be and to be spat upon, and even to be mutilated rather than to strike b«ek. "The quiet dlj^nity of the.apir^t of suffering wt^ch Ghandi taught ^ still of great value. In your laps. Oe en being b«at> •n. It Is better that we all died in attesting to the aroused con science of our people than that we use the weapons of our op pressors In retaliation. For to fight back with our enemies' weapons would be to drag our nation down to death. / Ob Monday, he la«i»«d «it-at-tii*^' 16 Southern senators currently fili bustering against civil lights leg islation in the U. S. »nate. "The United Stms already has the body of OTath hanging ^i"^irTrTirTliFT51m^"Tfie ^Southern senatorJand the white ^Christian preaches in the segre- ted ohvrches ti{Ahe South. \ ‘‘They are tht; greatest liability tt^e Western world,” h^ said. Ic s^id such men are oblivious to lie Inarch of history and deter- ninetdly blind and dumb to the futile. Hi urged Negroes, however, to love ^heae Southerners and to pray —and ^ort that they might see thtf light to the end they would vol untarily cooperate in the Negro’s light for equality. See JOHNSON, page 6 . Thi^ Week’s Adviertisers firms listed below are > youif friends and they appreciate , yeu^ trade: ) Alexander Ford Kfoger Grocery Co. iAAF Markets ICeloniel Stores puke Fower Company Out»Rate Super Market Poosl-Cola Bottling Co. Mu^al Savings A Loan Ass'n Norm Carolina Mutual J.ife Ins, Coiwany I'Mecfanics A Farmers Bank 1 poling Sound Sarvlce Anoel Pink Cosmetic Co. Roueon's Commercial Art Enter- 1 P''®** ^B. F. Hosiery Store IWinti-Dixie Stores 'iTri-Angle Super Market Vllonton Realty and Insurance 'iudson Well Co. i tigsbee Tire Sales Aontgomery-Aldridge Appliance Ov inc. eur^ Martiniiing Kfnan Oil Co. Scwthorn Fidolity Mutual Ins. Co. l/ttion Insurance A Realty Co. BilWnore Hotel & Grill SerMTlce Crilf New Mothod Laundry McGjheo Coal Co. Uni«n electric Co. Hunt Linoleum & Tile Co. Speight's Auto Service Dvfham Builders Supply Co. MertY Window ClMning C«. — Miss Cynth'a McDonald, cen ter above. Southern FHnes, senior English and socal science major at North Carolina College, was one of five coeds cited for their distinguished academic records at NCC during Coed Week End observance. Pictured left to right during congratulatory scene are Miss NCC President Alfonso El der; Delores Artis, Farmvllle; Pauline K. Wynn. Raleigh: Miss McDonald; Betty B*thel, Winston-Salem; Carolyn Gating; Carysfaurg; and Dr. Mordec«i W. Johnson, piesidont of Howard University. Dr. Johnson deliver ed Sunday vesper sermon and addressed upperclassmen's for um Monday. NCC Photo by Jordait. Crowd Attends Tuck Funeral Horrid Murder By Quiet Church - goer Of His Wife Shocks Durham Residents The unexplained killing, Ir'st week by a Durham man of Ms wife left big question marks in the minds of thousands of reai- denta. Mra. Elizabeth Tuck, the miUr- der victim, was eulogized in tian- eral services Monday Hflernoon''at the Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. The building was taxed beyond Its capacity with the crowds who at tended. >• The, Rev. E. T. Browne, Ml. Ver non pastor, officiated, and bui^al followed in Beechwood ccmetery Mrs. Tuck J^sd on Wednesday, March 3 after a bruta,' assault by her husband.^ He told iitves^- gatlng police officers detectiwp Frank McCrae and Clyde Cox that he shot his wife first with a .32 calibre pistol, hit her ever the head with a poker, then stabbed her several times in the back with a knife after she had fallen. One of the detectives said the poker nearfy scalped the woman. The obvious brutality with which the killing .vas committed .chocked Durhamites and left a big ques tion as to the motive for the kill ing. The first explanation was that Tuck apparently lost control and went into a blind, insane rage. But his motive was still unexoiained See MURDER, page 6 7^ VOLMUE 36—No. 11 DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1960 RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED PRICE: 15 CENtS SINGER MARGARET TYNES CITED AT NCC — Miss Cynthia AAcDonaid, Suuthern Pines senior English major at NCC, :s shown here pinning orchid corsage oh Miss Margaret Tvnes, Greensboro born operatic sopr£.-.o. Miss Tynes was soloist during Co-ed I Weed End activities. She recent ly returned to the United States after a sensationally successful toor of Russ’a with tht r-^ 'iif- livan troup. S. W. Hili, NCC choir director, who accom^-inied Tynes, is shown in back* ground. NCC Photo by Jordan. WILKMS TO VISIT DURHAM NAACP Head To Speak in Durham Tiiurs. Boy Wilkins, «x(Mative secretary Of the NAA/d^r ^11 speak at a mass meeti^ lAM|layjMarch li at -th^ Zi CImnMf.t. tif!' Announcement the meetin$[,; which will be held ^n connection with a membership drive and in support of the current student pro test against segregation, was made this week by I. O. Funderburg and Attorney F. B. McKissick. co- chairman of the membership drive. Goal of this year’s membership campaign, according to Funder- burg and McKissick, is 5,000 new members for the Durham NAACP. The drive .starts on the Thurs day, day of the mass meeting. The National NAACP, also sup porting—the «mth-wide sit-in strike against segregation, has created a scholarship fund for students who may be expelled from schopl^ because of their par ticipation in the protest. Wilkins was unanimously named by the Board of Directors on Aprily 11, 1965, to succeed the late Walter White. He joined the staff on the NAA CP in 1931 as Assistant Executive Secretary anw was Editor of The Crisis (as well as Assistant Secre tary), the monthly magazine that is the official organ of the NAA CP, from 1934 to 1949. From 1950 to his election as executive secretary, Wilkins serv ed as Administrator. He has tra veled throughout the country and has spoken before clubs, forums, college groups, associations and See WILKINS, page 6 Pickets March in Dwrham Protest Goes On As WILKINS Dufhainite Historic New SPRINGFIELD. Mass.—From the pulpit of the 323 year old First Chureh of Christ Congregational in Springfield, Massachusetts, ,on Sunday, March 13th at divine wor ship, the deep re.sonant voice of the Reverend Ci\arles E. Cobb, Minister of the famed St. John’s Congregational Church was heard delivering the sermon. This was the occasion of the ex change of pulpits with the Rever end Francis E. Potter preaching at St. John’s Church. Both ciiurches have an lllusiri- ous history. Old First Church is thefirst chjrch established in Sprih^ield and the only 'one for nearly two centuries and pastored Ay some of the country’s most out- See DURHAMITE, pa^e 6 ■H*icketing of diree do#iltown Durham stores continued this week as an organization of students from various Durham institutions kept up their protest against segregated lunch counters. Students from Durham Business College, DeShazor’s Beauty School, North Carolina College and Hili- side high school alternated in shifts to man picket lines in front of Walgreens' Drug Store. Kress and Woolworth variety stores. Except for, the arrest Sunday of about 15 students who refused to )eav« lunch there were no incidents.*" The stu-’ dents were released after tl^e store management failed to press charges. Lacy Streeter, North Carolina College junior and head of the student, protest in Durham, said late this week the piciteting will continue until “we reach some Purdy Named Special Assistant, Advertising Director for Times PURDY James H. Purdy, Jr., veteran newspaperman, has been added to the Carolina Times staff, as a,dver- tising manager. n TIMES publisher L. E. Austin announced the appointment this week. Pmdy replaces Albert E. Hart, who formerly held the post. Purdy came to the TIMES from a job as managing edjtor^of the Cincinnati Leader. His past news paper experience .includes hold ing various positions in advertis ing and management for the At lanta Daily World, Memphis World, Tampa Bulletin, Johnson Publications (Ebony and Jet), the Afro-American, Pittsburgh Cour ier, and Amsterdam Newi. See PURDY, page 6 BURTHEY Last Rites Held For R. 0. ^rthey Funeral services for the Rev. Rember 0. Burthey of Durham were held M^onday, March 7 at the Russell Memorial CME Church at 11 o’clock. The Rev. J. A. Davis, a presid ing elder, officiated. Burial fol lowed in Beechwood cemetery. The Rev. Burthey died on Fri day, March 4. He had been an ordained minister in the CME See BURTHEY, page 6 agreement” with the'sto;^ man agement. NEW YORK — Support of the southern student’s protest move ment against lunch counter' Jim- Crow mounted throughout the na tion this week as young people. continuing theiJf demonstrations, faced trial in Raleigh, N. C.; were expelled from college Mont gomery, Ala.; and fined in Win- ston-Salem, N C.; and arrested in other southern cities. Local branches of the National See SIT-DC)WN, page 6 LONE NEGRO ON FINCH JURY LOS ANGELES, Calif—(CNS) —The 7 women, 5 man jury de ciding the fate of Dr. Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff in the ' case,*^ began fe|iberation \^lti its ; lone Negro juilbr, Eddie L. Lind- | say, a postat Employee, in good i health. Lindsay's recent tooth ache had caused a delay while | he was given recess to go to a | dentist. MRS. CCTLEii Funeral F Blind Man Who Gave Hayestown its Buried-ia DurhanL Set for B«^n _ A 47 year old blind ' ':.r s-it down in a downtown Durh . ; ture on Tuesday’ to have simir C"’" shoes fitted and qyiell' in her chair. Sl'.e was R'Jlh HAYES Elton Cly^ Hayes, long-time Durham resident for whom the Hayestown section is named, was buried last week. Hayes died at Lincoln hospital on Tuesday, March 1. He was 84. Funeral services were held on Saturday, March 5 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, The Rev. J. A. Brown, Ehenezer’s pastor, officiat ed. Burial services followed at the Beechwood cemetery. The pioneer community leader was the first settler in the south-, eastern section of the city which is known as "Hayestown." The | area was given the name in his | honor by the late attorney ! Foushee. j Hayestown is located roughly between the boundaries of East End avenue, on the west. Highway 70 on the north and the city limits on the east and south. Hayes was born in Wake Count!? on October 22, 1875, son of the late Robert and Harriet Hayes. He came to Durham as a youth and was married in 1893 to the former See HAYES, page 6 AME Zion Official Sends Pointed Letter On South's Race Troubles to President Eisenhower in S. America street. •Arrangements tor funer.-il ices were incomplet' -if pn (Wednesday) because if ' tr. However, it va. U.ri ' she will be bur- I ■ County sometime ’.;i>' ■ Mrs. Cutler died in t.> department of Rcbbins Tuesday around 11:10 C>x Dr. D. R. Pen - said of a heart attack. Mrs. Annie E. •»!, ' Price avenue, ono f ‘ See FUNERAL, pa. ;^'rv- •^:nc •at i-^er died 4i>9 Uid- A letter sharply pointing but that there is much work for the United Slates President to do in the South, especially on the race issue, was sent last week by an AME Zion church official to Presi dent Eisenhower in South Ameri ca. The letter, sent by Alexander Barnes, director of public relations for the AME Zion church, pointed out that while the President was spreading goodwill in South America there was much that he could do in the South toward set tling racial conflicts which have become intensified in the, face of a sustained student-inspii’ed pro test against segregation. ; In. his letter addressed to the President “Somewhere in South America,” Barnes said, “It is my earnest hbpe that you will find time to visit the south upon your return . . . There are thousands of people down here who need some of the godwill you have spread throughout the world.” The full text of his letter is as follows: “Honorable Dwight D. Eisenho wer President of the United States En Route Puerto Rico Somewhere in South America “Dear Mr. President: “I am quite sure that you are very busy and therefore you don’t have much time to listen to the pleas of 16 million of your Ameri can citizens. We appreciate the goodwill that you are . spreading for us, as you travel. “Mr. President, since you left America things have been happen ing over here. I am quite sure that you have not seen papers like the Atlanta Constitution, The Rich mond Times Dispatch, The Ral eigh News & Oh.server, The Dur ham Morning Herald, the Wilming ton Star and many others. “Mr. Eisenhower, do you know that 18 southern senators, led by James Eastland, are right now locked in a do-or-die marathon ti) prove that (here is a superior race Appointment d First Negro Cardina! Hailed NEW YORK —Dr. (’hanr.M- H. Tobias, chairman cmiTitu- i>( the Board of Directors of i!u- Na- \d- to- in America. One of them went so far as to call the ruling of the United States Supreme Court “crap”. Mr. President, I,hope you are not.called upon to explain why a man, supposedly elected to Assotialion ' (r I lo hold the consitiution, would stand: vancement of Colored Pi'>>f»u. up in the halls of our aUgust body j day sent the foUr v. im t- l.-uram and defy it. j to Pope John .X.\tU in p^ais.' of “ Mr. President, I can sympa-| the appointment of lao fir-; Ne-“ thize with you when \»ou tell 400,; gro cardinal: 000 people that America is ready "Elevation of Archbishop Law and willing to lend a friendly hand, rian Rugambwa of Rutaho Tan- to them and yet there .are elected Lganyika to th'o Cardinalato in officials who stand up in your the Roman Catholic Church Congress and say that all men are not created equal. “There are a few quesf^ms 1 want to ask you. How can you ex plain how the state of Alabama can see a Negro woman mauled with a baseball bat and do nothing about it? Mr, President, is it pos sible for you to tell colored pK)pie in the countries you visit, that gives American Negroes a d—p sense of pride and an abiding feeling of encoursgcn'unr. Ottr good wishes to you and owr com mendations to the new cardinal and his coliaagues iacltidins Ha* first of Japaneso and FtliyiM descent." » j III 1951. when he was a niein&i.>r of the I'niteri States ilelegalinti te law and order prevails, when mure ^ the Gwral A-wmbty of the UmW than 40 students were arrested in: ed NaUons. Dr. ToMad r*-- swanky Cameron Vjllage. in Ral-j oived at the Valkaa by See LETTER, page 6 , XII. ' ^ Buy From The CAROLINA TINES Advertisers-They Value Your tr
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