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HAWLEY BLAMED IN SCHOOL MORALS CASE ★★★★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★★★★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Lunch Counters Now Open In Elizabeth City m» VOLUME 3>-No. 30 DURHAM, N. SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1960 Return Postage Guaranteed PRICE: IS CENTS Court Rules Gradual Plan Too Slow Delaware's Plan Of Grade-a*Year Thrown Out PIULADiiLPHIA, Pa.—A plan of gradual desegregation expacted to complete integration o^ Dela ware scliools by 1972 wag declared too slow by a Circuit Court of Appeals here tliis weeic. On an appeal filed by alter- ney for 20 Negro youth*, the court ordered Delaware to be* gin total Integration • ot Its Khooli by 1961. The appeal was filed against a plan approved by a Federal Die- trict Court for a grade-a-yeav plan which would start this fai^ with the first grade. The Circuit Court ruled that the gradual plan was too slow to meet Ihe requirement* of the Supreme Court's quaj^^icatlen for "deliberate sfeed." The Court also ru)^ thjt all 20 See 0HADWAb;'^piige«4'A McCASKILL NAMED REPLACEMENT Merrick-Moore School Assigned New Principal MISS LIWIS Miss Jane E. Lewis, Veteran Teacher, Passes in Durham Miss Jane Elizabeth Lewis, vete ran Durham public school teacher, died at Duke hospital Tuesday night, July 19. Funeral services have been scheduled for Monday at 11 o’clock at the Union Baptist Church, where Miss Lewis was. a promt nent member. The Rev. A. S. See LEWIS, page 6-A ADVERTISERS OF THE WEEK The firms IfstMl belew are your friend* and they apprecltt* your trade: . Blltmore Hotel A Orlll Colonial Store* Duritam BulMeri Supply Co. One Hour Marflnlilng Kenan Oil Co. Hunt Linoleum 4 Tile Co. Mutual Sivlng* A Loan Ass'n McGhee Coal Co. Mid*' Muffler Co. MMhanle* A Farmer* Bank New Miethod Laundry North Carolina Mutual Life In*. Company Rigsby TIr* Sale* Southei^ Fidelity Mutu*l In*. Co Speight'* Aut* Service Union Electric Co. Union Insurance A Realty Co. Krooer Co. Alexander Motor- Co. Burthey'* Photographic Laboratory Winn-Dixie Store* P*p*l-Cola Duice Power Company AAP Store* Elkin* Meter Co. Kitlrtll College Dennis M. McCaskill, Durham native, has been appointed princi pal of Merrick-Moore school, it was announced this week. He replaces'E. P. Robinson, who rcsignedi to accept | civil service position in WHsbington, D. C. S^erintendent Charles Cl:ewn- in's said a successor to Robinson would, be announced later. McCjtkill 'becftme principal of Lakevftw scliool when the new facility was opened last year. Pilvr ti» comihg to Durham, was principal of Washington high ROBINSON 4 NCC SEEKS $5 MILLION Pace Three • SCOUTS IN ^Page^wo ’ ’ Don’t Miss Other Features Inside The Times Pilvr ti» comlhg to Durham, he ^ * ras principal of Washington high in Sfielby, N,C. ,, % *.He i|^« gntdhiate of North ^ rolina CoUegfe, wHere' h»» recpt^d See PRINCIPAL, page 6 A IVKCASKtLL Charges Against Creedmoor Principal Listed CREEDMOOR— An official of the Sou‘:h Gran ville Improvement Association this week spelled out a list of charges against G. C. Hawley, principal Of the school which bears his name here. Mrs. E. E. Green, secretly of the organization, accused the principal of following policies which have led to the deterioration of both discipline and academic achievement at the school. One of the charge* accu*ed Hawley of refu*ing to act in a ca*e in which a school bu* driv er wai allegedly caught engag ing in an immoral act with one of the girl *tudents. The charge, as stated in the letter reads, “Failure to take the proper ac tion in a moral case where a young lady reported being forci bly seduced by a bus driver.” Mrs. Green explained that the incident occured early last Spring. She said a *upervi*or, who reportedly discovered the pair, reported the incident to Hawley but he took no action agalnit either of the students and both maintained titeir *tand- ing bt school without any ap parent'lo** of status. Mrs. Green’s charges we«e con tained in a letter to the Oxford Public Ledger, answering that toper’s editorial endorsement of ■ See HAWLEY, page 6 A BEAUTY COURSE FOR "MISS | ling school, as her friend Janet GHANA—Star Annan, 19 ^ear ~ old "Mis* Ghana of 1960" (^ft), get* a lesson in the art of nt&ke- up,at a London, England madol* Snowden (center) looks on. Dur ing her London modelling cQurse "Miss Ghana" will learn how to talk correctly, the finer points of maka-M* antf oMier aftribiitas of a swccassful marfaL On har return la Ghaiia, Star Ani wiH becaaia a« airliM hactasa. (AHPhata) TO TEACH NON-VIOLENCE Volunteer Mission To Congo Proposed Need For Unwed Mother's Home Is Cited By Welfare Official Preliminary plans for mobiliz- ing' Worth earoltea- lijshers for $60it)0d 4^iv^ to co'ufipiete di hom^ tor unwed mothers were mapped this week in a meeting between Ushers president L. E. Austin and See NEED, page 6-A NAACP Sends Aid To Residents Of Economic Squeeze Area in Tenn. NEW YORK. — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People this week con tinued its two-front aid to the be- leagured Negro farmers and mer chants of Fa.vette and Haywood Counties, Tenn.. who. because they dared to register lo vote, have aroused (he fury of the counties’ white supremacists. The NAACP program em braces, first, direct relief to needy famille* victimlied by the economic squeei* and, *econdly, •poniorthip if a nationwide withholding of aptronage cam* paign from maTer oil companie* whote local dealer* have re fused to *ell oil and gatoline to Negroe* who regi*ter to vote W. C. Patton, the As.sociation’s special field secretary, has been as signed to the area to supervise the See AID, page 6-A SENTENCED^ofcert Leathars, 60, drew a IS-SO year prison sentence In Durham Superior Court Wednesday for the May 18 *hotgun (laying of hi* broth- At Greenville lunch Counter GREENVn.LE, S. C.—An inter- the Greenville, South Carolina Courthouse today to seek service at the lunch counters of four dime stores. The group, led by Rev. J. S. Hall, Jr., chairman of Greenville CORE, had been attending the trial of eight students who had been charged with “disorderly conduct” for sitting-in at the pub lic library. The trial of the eight—five girls and three boys—was delayed inde finitely by Judge Jester. More than 150 Negroes attended the trial. After the trial wa* postponed. Rev. Hall led the group to the Woolworth dime *tore for break fast. The entire store was clo*ed a* they approached. They then went to the H. L. Green *tore but were not served at the lunch See SIT-INS, page 6 A Having Trouble Getfiiig The Call . 2-2913 OUR r^W PHONE NyMBER BAtdN ROUGE, La. — Marvin Robinson, CORE field secretary* and expelled president of the Southern University student gov ernment called up(tp AamfietB. to^lun^frtr non lent service in Ifce Congo. T Wefcinsy made tha>^aqwfst at a rally called to eitcoaraia sfa- dent* to particlpeteln a drive to regi*ter 30,000 Negro vater* in East Batoo Rauge Parish and to get Negroes ta. the poli* in the July 23rd prMiary election. Robinson sent a telegram to W. L Grant Stores in Seaport Town Begin Serving Negroes NCC PRESIDENT tLDER ASKS |5 MILLION OF ADVISORY BUDGET GROUP — Preeident Alfonso Elder of North Carolina College, left, last weak submitt ed a $5 million request for NCC's 1959-61 biennium. Kemp Daugh- ton of Sparta, enter, chairman of the budget body, heard tfie re port with other commissioner*. Support ws* given NCC l»y Bes eem Bayne* af Durham, noted insurance executive and chair man of NCC's trustees. Photo > eovrttay of Durham Morning Herald. Rockefeller To Address NAACP Rally NEW YORK, — Governor Nel son A. Rockefeller of New York heads a list of Republican no tables who will address NAACP- sponsored rallies in Chicago on Sunday, July 24, Roy Wilkins, the Association’s executive secretary, announced here today. The rallies, similar to the mamoth mass meeting held in Los Angeles on July 10, are scheduled for the eve of the Re publican National Convention. They have been called, Wil kins , M>d, to "discuss civil rights and other issues of con cern to Negro voters." Vice President Nixon will be represented at the meetings by Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsyl vania, a veteran leader of the See "ROCKY", page 6-A ELIZABETH CITy — Lunchj counter segregation fell in thin North Carolina seaport town Mon-| day when the W. T. Grant stores began serving Negro customers. The move was interpreted by tome here as the result of a boy- qott by Negro patrons of the store. However, one source reported that the W. T. Grant stores have issued a new policy from its na tional office to let down segrega-. tion barriers in its lunch counters throughout the country. ' A sizeable number of Negroes have been served at the lunch \ counter since the new policy went into effect on Monday, MU. eoocN Funeral ^ For Mrs. July 11. EKzabeth City is the fourth southern town in which lunch counters have been desegregated in recent weeks. Arlington, Va., Charlotte. Nash ville, Tenn., and Hampton, Va., iunck counters have been opened to all. Prior to the serving of Ne groe* at Grant's here, a macs meeting was held at Mt. Leban on AMC Zion Church to acquaint people with developments end instruct them on proper attt- tudas and conduct in taking act vantage of the service at Grants. The meeting was called by the See OPEN, page 6-A Mrs. Minnie Florencr- Haskins Gooch. lanC-time reaideBt af Gvao- ville Coontir, was buried Tuesday afternooQ. July 19 faUewinc ser vices af Synaiha Grove Baptist Church. Mrs. Gooek ilied at Shaw Memo rial hoepiUl in Ozfocd late Satur day nigU, July 16. She had been admitted ta the ho^ital am Tues day. The Rev. R W. Pfetry pfesided at the funeral servftas Ttesday. He was assisted by tiK Reverends J. Burchette. who delivered the eulo^, L .E. Daye aod C A. At- kins. Mrs. Gooch was barn in Gnuk ville. County on May 8, IMS. Sha was the daughter of the late Kd> mond and Lucin4a Hisfcina, Sae RTE% »afe CHALLENGE UP TO GOP-WILKINS Demo Plank “Okayed ff LOS ANGEUIS, — The 1960 Democratic party civil rights plank was characterized hera by Roy Wilkins, chairman of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and NAACP executive sec retary, as a “bold recognition of the fact that our country requires reaffirmation of basic human rights.” The plank, adopted by the De mocratic National Convention io Los Angeles- this week,” presents the Republicans,” Wiik4ns said, “with a clear challenge. "If the Republicans party ac cepts that chellenga, it will act favorably upon these proposals and tfie country can unite in im plementing ttiam naxt January." Wiliuns said the 38 national organizations comprising the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights express their appreciation to “all those who contributed to the shaping” of the Democratic party document. Wilkins observed that the ovarali theme of the documanl appeared la be conlelned im the following section which Im auofed "Tha tima has came ta assure e«|ual accaa* lor all- Americans ta all areas af eoi munlty life, including vating bootti, schoolraama. jobs. end public facilities.* Throughout, Wilkins stated, the document Mtft forth the duty ot all the branches of govenunent to secure these richts and specific commttments for Miicu- live and legislative actkm ia np> port of tlM cifht-poiiit prepant. "THa plank," the NAACT leader declared,** rassgwlass NmI cMI rights Is af caisrara nat aMr ta mlarHy greups, bu* la Amarti ean ta ear future aa a Iraa “It MMeniies that the pace l»> word^ equality hag beaa far to* stow.*^ “it reisgaiass that the tian af cai^.'ttiiMaasI rijMa um ar ta the anearl^laty af pfhiata *nrhi» moQiittwi nMjMIJIf ' Set OttMi ' Buy From The CAROLINA TIMES Advertisers.. .They Value Your Ti*-
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