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SOUTHWIDE MEETON STT-DOWNS ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jf ^ ^ N. C. College Faculty Backs Student Movement DR. PARKER Rocky Mount Physician Dies In Aufo Crasii ROCKY MOUNT ^ The Mt. Pis- gah Presbyterian church - was the sccne here Tuesday afternoon of funeral services for Dr. Joseph Willis Parker, 42 year-old physi cian who died in the wreckage of his sports car Sunday. The Rev. J. H. Costen, Mt. Pis- gah minister .officiated at the fun eral and burial was held in the Nortlicastern cemetery. Dr. Parker rtturning to Rocky Mount from Wilson whon hit Utt model ipertt car wont out of control and flipptd ovor Mvtral timos two mil** south of tho cl y Ip .h* vicinity of ttio Atlantic Coast Lin* freight yard. The accident occured at approxi mately 10:00 a.m. Sunday. Investigating police said the automobile tumbled along the road at least 200 feet before com ing to a stop. Dr. Parker was a native of Rocky Mount and a gra|fuate of Johnson C. Smith University, where his oldest child, Jocile, 19, is a sophomore. He received his medical tr^iining at the Howard University Medical College and bad practiced here nine years. Ho was oloctcd to tho Rocky Mt. school beard in 19St artd is bolievad to bo tho first Nogro to sorve on tho board. The deceased was a member of See PHYS.C:an, page 2 Langua^ ^en Aid tomng World. Peace Dr. Raleigh Morgan; , associate (tircctor of the CCnter for Apptted Ltngiijiitics, Washington, D. C., idld the . 20th College Language Association at North Carolina Col lege last' week that understanding the thought patterns of the Afro- Asian languages of “emerging na tions” could help the cause of "global citizenship.” Formerly a cultural affairs at tache ' and educational ofHcer for the U. S. State Department In the Caribbean and in Germany, Dr. Morgan scored the excessive tradi tional emphasis upon the ‘‘West- European cultural heritage.” "Provincialism, both cultural and tthnic," Dr. Morgan said, "found in this country will to a See LANOUAOi, page 2 ADVERTISERS OF THE WEEK Tho fjrms listed below are your friends and they appreciate your trade; Alexander Pord Allenton Realty and Insurance AAP Markets BMtmore Hotel A Grill Boone Drug Co. Colonial Stores Carpenter's Inc. Coca-Cola Bottlino Company Durham Builders Supply Co. Praiier Realty Cc. Hour Martiniting Ingold Tire Co. Kenan Oil Co. Hunt Lineleum A ' lie Co. Julie's Johnson Motors Liberty Market Mutual Savings & Loan Ass'n McGh.>e Coal Co. Midas Muffler Co. Mechanics A Farmers Bank New Method Laundry North Carolina Mutual Life Ins. Company Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. I Sharyn Lynn Tire Appliance * Lipscomb-Cattis Roberts CenstMV^n Co. , / Roscoa Griffin Royal Clothes Rigsbee Tire Sales Seven-Up Bottling Co. Southern Fidelity Mutual Ins. Co Service Cirill Speight's Auto Service Peoples UniM Electric Co, Union Insurance A Realty Ce. Winn-Dixie Stores We* Shop Columns 7, 8 mm0 VOLUME 36-No. 16 DURHAM, N. €., SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1960 RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED PRICE; 15 CENTS DRIVER HELD ON MANSLAUGHTER Woman Fatally Injured in Wreck In Front of Daughter's Home TEACHERS PRESIDENY—W. R. Collins, principal of the John- Mon Couniy Training School at Smlthfield, is pictured here with his wife shortly after he was elected president of the North Carolina Teachers Association in the NCTA's annual convention in .Raleigh last weekend. Photo by Rivera. A 72 year old Durham woman died in Lincoln hospital late Wed nesday shortly after she had Uben rushed there following an auto mobile’accident. She was Mrs. Ber tha Patterson Sawyer, of 1322 Faye street. ' Mrs. Sawyer was thrown out of a car driven by her neighbor, Willie L.' Carrington, when Car rington’s car crashed iilto one driven by Miss Daisy Armstrong, a county school teacher. The accident occured at the intersection of Juniper sfreet and Alston avenue Wednesday at approximately 4:10 p.m. it See WRECK, page 2 MRS. SAWYER J AKA'S GIVE LIFE MEMBER- BERSHIP — Mrs. E. P. Pratt hands check to Maurguerite Beiafonte, NAACP national re- re»entative, in'\^artial payment of a life Membership for the NAACP ordered by the Durham graduate chapter of Alpha Kap pa sorority. Looking on are At torney F. B. McKissick, co-Chair- man of the current NAACP mem bership drive, and Mrs. R^ C. W.- Perry, AKA officer. While sIm was in Durham Mrs. BeUfocito laid plans for a fashion show she will present fior* MON. Photo by Rivera. ' JUDGE TURNS TO DICTIONARY Statesville Students' Jokes Convict Them on Charge Of Abusing Police Officer Follovnng Sit-Down In Durham Special to the Times STATESVILLE — A Citv court judge resorted to the dictionary here this week before finding three students guilty of abusing a policemen when they were arrest- Eight students, all of Unity high school, were facing rharges here in city court Monday on trespassing and abusing police officers. The charges grew from a sit-down staged at the F. W. Woolworth lunch counter on April 1. When testimony from both Sides revealed—ttrat ~ttre' atrasc rttarge stemmed from the fact that stu dents laughed and jo^ed while they were being booked, Judge diction- MAIN SPEAKER — Mrs. Elreta M. Alexander, right, Greensboro attorney, who last week address ed the annual convention of the N. C. Association of New Hon>e- makfrs of America is p. evented a gift by rcqgie Hogan, left Chapel Hill, new presidenr, as Frances Brown, Leaksville, tiring president, looks c. from' center. Mrs. Alexander was later inducted as honorary member. RENAMED TO CLA'S T0» SPOTS — Dr. Charles A. Ray, right, professor of English at North Carolina College, was re named president of the College Language JVssiclatlofl et Hie end of the 30th annual session at NCC iMt week. Dr. Albert H. Berrien, chairman of NCC's Romance Language department, was reflected vise presid f it. Next year's meeting will be at Morgan Slate College. A near record 73 professors from lead ing U. S. colleges and Univer sities attended sessions at NCC April 79. NCC photo by Jordan. Bennett Co-eds Register 1,000 North Carolina College’s under graduate Alpha Kappa Chapter of the Kappa Alpha PSl fraternity will rohost with the Durham Alumni Chapler some 100 frater nity members from Korth Caro-' Una, Vfrgtnla, and West Virginia April 15-17. Sessions are slated j^or the Edu cation building. J. D, Lennpn of Merrick Moore J4ck Harris called for High Sdhool, Durham, is chairman ary. of the Steering Committee plan ning the events. F. G. Burnette, provincial pole- march, will preside at business sessions. Some 20 chapters forming the Middle Eastern Regional Provin cial area are expected to be rep resented. The opening session will be highlighted by an address from the Grand Polemarch, C. Roger Wilson of Chicago, Illinois. In ad dition to the Grand Polemarch many other current and past offi cers of the Fraternity will be pres ent such men as: W. Henry Green, Past Grand Polemarch ,of Wash- mgton, D. C.; H. H. Holloway, Ex ecutive Secretary, Philadelphia, "Operation Pennsylvania; J. J. Henderson, registra- Grand Keeper of Exchequer; and The chief of police and two other policemen had testified that students mocked and laugh ed at' them while they were be ing booked. Students, however, said during the trial that they did not ridi cule police, but that their laughter came about as the result of jokes among l,hemselves. Three of them—Stafford Turner, Joyce Ann Reid and James Ham monds—were found guilty on the See STATESVILLE, page 2 GREENSBORO — Doorknock”—the voter tjon drive conducted by Kennett; J. T. Hawkins, Past vice Grand Polemarch, of Durham. Colleje students—put the names of more than 1,000 new volers on the books in Greensboro last week. The campaign. Which was con ducted in Precinct No. 7 as a highlight of the college's 34th annual Homemaking Institute, reached more than 2,700 persons of voting ag?, of whom only 736 were registered. Over 1.700 6f the unregistered persons, however, promised that they would register. For this reason, registration is continuing this week. Although most of the new voters registered at either the Kay Warren Homes Thomas C. Watson of Rocky Mt. and Ross M. Sutton of Acme are polemarch and keeper of records respectively for the NCC chapter of the fraternity. Destroying Negro Culture Won't Solve Race Issue CHARLOTTE — 92 year old Dr. or the Windsor Community Cen-|w. E. B. DuBois. tjie elder states- tr, it is known that many others i man of Negro America, cautioned registered at downtown election Negroes against losing their racial headquarters. A tabulation of identities at the joint 2Sth Annual these names is expected to run! Meeting of the Association of So- the total figure well oVer tliejCial Science Teachers and the 15th 1,000 mark. National Convention of the Sigma Mrs. Louise G. Streat, institute Rho Sigma Science Honor Society chairman, gave a summary of the at Johnson C. Smith University activities on the closing program Sunday and paid special tribute to school principals, ministers and. other civic-minded individuals who See BENNETT, page 6 Raleigh is Site Of Regional Meet On Protest Move ATLANTA, Ga. — Youth lead ers from thirty-five (35 communi ties in ten (10) Southern states had registered for the Leadership ! Conference on Nonviolent Resist ance, convening at Shaw Univer sity, Raleigh, N. C., April 15-17, according to reports from the At lanta office of the Southern Chris tian Leadership Conference at press time. It was also reported that re quests for observer status had been received from more than a score of youth and adults groups from New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the South. The states that will be officially represented at the (meeting are: Alabama, Florida, Georgia. Louisi ana, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Tennessee, Texas, and Vir ginia. Indications are that North Carolina. South Carolina, and Vir- r D'- MON LIBERTY JUSTICE for ALL’? mm PICKETING RESUMED — A&T College students who touched off a nationwide sitdown move ment against segregated' lunch counters on February 1, last week resumed picketing against the Greensboro F. W. Woolworth and S. H. Krfss S.'ores, main tar gets in the campaign. The new drive was besun on Friday, Apjit 1, immediately following an announcement by the local Mayor's Committee on Human Relations that they had failed to get the stores to open the counters on an unscgreyaf- ed basis. here. In his keynote address “Whither Now and Why,” Dr. DuBois said j ginia will lead in attendance, with that the process of getting rid of| seventeen North Carolina commu- See DESTROYING, page 6 J See SOUTHWIDE, page 6 103 at Durham School Sign AAUP Statement on Sit-Downs Some 103 North Carolina Col lege faculty members signed a statement this week supporting the student-inspired protests against segregation. "W* are Compelled to ack nowledge that these demands, no matter how embarrassing to us elders, are reasonable and just, and the orderly pretests ought to continue as long mt opposition to the grant of equal rights exists," the statement said. It was drafted by the NCC chap ter of the American Ajssociation of University Professors and re leased thi>^ week by the chapter's Buy From The CAROLINATIMES Advertisers a. .they Value Yotir president Ur. C. lil. Boulware. I^iur to this week, the oaly statement which hud come frooi NCC from any other source thM students was one which the Stu dent Welfare ComooittM when it announced tkat tions would be sou^t in the That statement coadwutad regated "undeMocntic, ifti- moral and uachHtUao.’* Following is the tnll text at Qh| statement aicned tty faculty WMft* bers this week. “It ia regreUabl^ that in positions of only lo«dtei wUk Se« rACtiLI
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