Creedmoor &hool Board Refuses Integration
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Sunday Outing Turns To Tragedy As Parents
Drown Trying to Save Boy From Catawba River
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Greensboro Is
Sixth Tarheel
Town to Open
The spotlight shifted to the
ipurham lunch counter scene this
Eek as lunch counters in several
ie* in the area began integrating
fjjH quick succession.
f Graantboro bacama on Monday
tha fifth'North Carolina city in
racanti weeks in which lunch
eaaatert were opened on a non*
legregatad basis.
■.vOnly last week, similar moves
%ere made in Elizabeth City, Nor-
nUk, and Portsmouth Va.
I In Durham this week, spokes*
|t»en 01^both sides of Hte contr»
Versy maintained a careful sil-
anee on possible development*
^Id specwlation that certain
ftore* were preparing to intv-
irate. . . i \
^ Agai^t th^ backgM>i}nd ef these
^peaings . aties si|CTg*ft4iliaj
there rfetelop-
i^ents, taking place in the tollow-
iag ordei*} which gave weight to
the speculation:.
1.—High level officials of one
See DURHAM, page 6-A
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MR. AND MRS. BYNUM
STATESVir.LE — A family of three was
wiped oi* in mirmtes here Sonday as the swift
waters df »h€ Catawba river swept them to
their deaths.
The triple A-owiwg ocewcd mAea Ih*
mother and father liiirf m train to fcacae
tbdr S-yoar-old son iato tte rivar.
Dead arti Credis Bynnm, 62, his wife, Mrs.
55. and tlteir only son, Billy
Wayne.
The ^noois ^ed at St. t State
sville, “
Tfcey hari *oo« fishing StMiday
aheirt U miloe wtt* of hare.
Tha boy wandered off from his
parental (act hie balaim and fell
In'.o tha atream.
Id quick siMeession, bis mother
and Ma father followed him into
the water tryinj to save him.
TTia StafasvNIe reacoa saiaad
pirilad Um fatlwr from the river
wit bin mlmrte* after he went
under. Ahaaf an hnwr later, his
wife^t body was raca^ared.
The boy’s body wa» not recover
ed until niKiitfall. more than two
hourt aft»^ the drowiiing. It was
brought ut dragging opera
tion* by the Clareaiont rescue
team.
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|arM GOP Dei|p|tes 1^^
Ule io Weaken Plank
By ALEXANDSR BARNES
Special To The Times
IDITOR'S NOTE: Alexander
Barnes, veteran Republican work- V
er and newspaperman in North I
Carolina, is tha only Durhamite
sitting with the NorHi Carolina
delegation at tha Republican
Party convention. This report
was prepared early Monday.
CHICAGO, 111.—North Carolina
members of the Republican Party
Convention Platform sustained a
beating here this week when they|
attempted to push through a wat-'
ered-down civil, rights plank.
(Late Wednesday the platform
committee was ready to submit a
strong civil rjghts plank to a con
vention which was expected to ac
cept it without opposition.
ADVERTISERS OF
THE WEEK
The firms lilted below are
your friends and they appreciate
your trade:
Blltmere Hotel tk Orill
CotonUI Ste^ai .
Durham Builden Supply Co.
)na Hour Martlnlsing
Kenan Oil Co.
Hunt Linoleum ^ *'lla Co.
Mutual Sivlngs A Loan Ass'n
McGh.^ Coal Co.
Midai MuHler Co.
Mechanics & Farmers Bank
New Method Laundry
'North Carolina.Mutual Life Ins,
Company
Rigsbee Tire Sale*
Southern Fidelity Mutual Ins. Co.
Speight's Auto Service
Union Electric Co.
Union Insurance A Realty, Co,
Kroger Co.
Alexander Motor Co. •
Laboratory ■ ;
, Winn-Dixie Storea'
' Pepsi-Cola «
Duktf Powar Company
AAP Stores
Elkins Motor Co/
Kittrell Colle^a .
(The revised platform, which at
tacks discrimination in voting,'
housing, schools, jobs, oublic f^ci-
See OOP, page 6-A
Hew Bern Ministers ioin^
Students In Pidet Lines
Durham Youth
Going jo Congo
' NEW XPRK —William Ronald
Schooler, 607 Lawson street, Dur
ham, is among 46 young persons
who will begin this fall 3 years
of missionary service overseas un
der the Methodist Board of Mis
sions.
Schooler is scheduled to go
to the Conge Republic (former-
. See GOING, page 6-A
Dr. John W. Tilley, well-Known
former resident of this area, re
turns to S:iaw University-s siart
this fall. See t’ory, this page.
Elks May
Draft N. e. ’
Man as 'Grand'
NEW BERN—Rev. Kemp Battle,
pastor of the outstanding St. John
Baptist Church in New Bern, may
be drafted to be a contestant for
Grand Exalted Ruler of the
IBPOE of W this year. It has been
reliably reported that some of
^ Elkdom’s ' Giants are looking in
Battle's direction.
Dr, Battle is a native of Rocky
Mount,, and has been a religious,
civic and fraternal leader there
for many years. He has t>een the
State President of the Elks’ Con
vention for nearly IS years, and
holds a high post in the Grand
Lodge Council. .
^ Dr. Robert H. Johnson, the
praient "Grand," has been in
failing health for about 2 years,
and \t has been reportad that
his top aides will strongly urge
him to retire.
Sueti a step would definitely
bring favor to Dr. Battle’s support^
See DRAFT, page 9-A
Had A Wonderfiri
Time!
Three Beauticlaaa of the Dur
ham area have recently retvrnad
from trips to Bermuda and New
York, which they won as top
priies in the Carolina Times
Popularity Contest. Read thair
accounts of Ufe in Bermuda, in
next w^k's Timet.
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Parents Seeks
Change From
Hawley School
OXFORD—Granville County
school boara Uiis week tu^ed
down the reiju^st of parent^ for
29- Negro students for the.’r chil
dren- to enter the all-white Creed,
moor high school.
At the same time the board ap
proved requests of parents of 2ll
children that ^leir names be re
moved from the petitions asking
admission t,o the white 'school.
These actiojl^ canvi following
meeting of t^ board Tuesday
night. They announced by
Superintendent D. N. Hix.
They wetfi tjfee latest develop
ments in a CoiiAty which has seen
its Negro residents split 6ver i
controversy involving the Hawley
high school prijficipal, G. C. Haw
ley.
The requests for Integration are
being backed by the South Grui-
See CRIEI^OR, page 6-A
NEyV BERN — The New Bern
Youth Council of the ,NAACP is
on the warpath again. This organi-
zaUori has aimed its activities at
Kress’ Department Store, Clarke’s
Drug Store and Anderson’s Drug!
Store. Each of these businesses is'
a New Bern firm. i
Rev. G. J. Hill, Dr. A Hillary^
Fisher, Rev. Leon C. fflxon and
B. S.. Rivers have served as adult
advisors of the group since early
this year. The advisors have work
'd very closely with the organiza-
RIV. DAVIS
tion aw?"many ^ gains have been
See MINISTERS, pa*ge 6-A
PICKETS MARCH—This single
pkket was photographed as he
walkad in New Bern last wea^
protesting segregation at lunch
counters in that eastern saa>
h«ar|i, ,^i^. The protest there is
balnf 4i0e«ri|aaiM by members
of a Y«iilh Cei^iL Ttiey have
received support from New Bern
ministars.-More pictures pg. A.
N. C. CME's to Open
Conference bi nttrfwin
RusseH Memorial C.M.E. CtRirch, (
located on south Alston aveiltie in
Durham, will be host week
to the North Carolina Conference
of the Chrktian Methodist Epis
copal Chxjrch.
Announcement of tha annual
conference, SSth in the denomi
nation's history, was made this
week by the Rev. C. R. White,
of Durham, pastor host Rw»
sell MemoriaL
The conference will open on
Wednesday morning, August 3 and
close on Sunday, Aug. 7.
The area's highest ranking
CMB clergymen will taka pa^
See CME, page 6-A
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Shaw Gets. New
Business Mgr.;
Tilley Returns
RALEIGH—I’he appointment of
a new business manager and direc
tor of public relations uid alumni
affairs topped the list of' sevecal
faculty and staff changes announc
ed for Shaw University this week.
J. V. Anderson former business
manager at Bercan Insitute of PUl-
adetphia, has been named to the
same petition fw Shaw.
Dr. John L. Tillay, Shaw graik
uate and North CaraiiiM Mth*a,
was appointed director of pw^
lie releMons and alumni affairs.
Other appointments, tmnomeed
from the office of pr«tident Dr.
William R. Strassner, are as fol
lows:
Mrv Vivian MerrM Sanna^
of Ralaigh. eaiietaMt profasaar af
physical educationf Mn. Vl«^
ginia Kimhreugh Hawaii, af Hal*
eigh. assistent profesear af NWI^
See SHAW, page B-A
REV. WHITE
Curfew lapsed
After
In S. C.
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GREENVILLE. S. C.—A curfew
was clamped on tti« weaiaite S. C
town here Toeadar as the reaolt
ot a seriet of viofeat iacideBts
following peacaful demaBstntiotis
against aecregatioii.
The curfew forfakti loitering ia
any iMiblic place at amusement by
peraoos vtdor 30 between ism
p.m. and aax a.aL
City offieiala Haft the meaior*
viU ke«9 jrooaetes at home and
prcTent mfniiij|ji ot vlol»c«
sinflpn' t« that of Sunday aad
Monii^p night i« «Mch gangs
whMta cagaCM) yw»g Nigroaa in
a bnnidl Mt irkvthin raatMttanla te
the ellif nhariw.
Ten Ngfraaa an4 a^t wMIm
were vnatmi, wgigBag
aa bnm kaadtlaa, taina, raaan