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King Goes To Jail In Aaain$t Georgia Sit-In Law PRINCIPALS AT OOP RALLY— TImm war* tin k«y ftflvm in It rally for RcpubllcM eandlkUt** ImM In Durham last wMk. Jacki* Robinson, Now York rM'aurant •xocutivo and formor batobalt star, (oxtrt'mo loft) was the main spoakor. Othors, loft to ri«ftt, aro tho Rt. Rov. Frank M. RoM, Bishop of :4io A. M. E. Church; the Rov. Molvin C. Swann, pastor of St. Joseph's A. M. E. Church; AloKandor Bameo, candidate on the COP ticket for tho State Senate; the Ro^ WIHiam Puller; and tho Rev. E. T. Brown, pastor of ttvf host Mt. Vomea Baptist Church. Photo by Mannhif. ★ ’ ★ ★ ★ DEMOCRATS SET RALLY Tuesday KUit Meeting to Hear Rev. M. Shepard Tlie Itev. Manliitti* Sktpard, out- sUndiBg B»ptl«t mtntiter and pro minent' Pennaylvanik Dmiocrat, will be the mdH speaker at a Democratic party minx in Duriuun TBffUay light. Ho will addr«U ypwbM« e/big at the St. A. M. E. Zion church ofCjSiAitk Rfexbero and Pickett stHMI^et • pneorem startbii at 7:30; The rally waif ijifliiunced joinQy this week by J.. S. ^wait and J. H. Wheeler, Ieal!|iiic^l)urhain Demo crats and activlK' io the party’s See D^MOClfi^ page 6-A VOLUME 3 — No/|3 m«HAM, N. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, IMO RETURN POSTAGE CUAmNTEEO PRICEt CENTS NIXON BEST FOR US’-JACKIE I ★ ★ ★ Ex-Baseball St^r Supports GO^.%>pe forflter Brooklyn Ddtger baM- b^ll Jackie Bobituon lald here Sunday night X)iat. Republi- eihi candidate Rich«r4 Nixcm is tfae bost man for the job of> presi dent for the ne^^Hlbnr years. "I'm net a lUi^Hblican, i'm not • Democrat. But I'm hero tonight Meatise I think Nixon Is the - fcflUr-i*a» - Robinson ma^ tt|M statetoeiit li| 8:B!»ecjb befate ■4p», >^o:^cro»|pd W. i(Ve|tenf Baptret''Church ti att^Kl a RcBul>- lican rally. | The restaurant executive was the mjiin speaker at the gathering which heard three other speakers crii.icize the long hold of the Dem- oeratic party on this region. The graying former baseball great who opened the door to Negro athletes In profMslonal baseball, based his decision In of Nixon over Kennedy lergely on the basis of personal encount ers with the two men. In describing his meeting with Democratic presidential condidate John F. Kennedy, Robinson said the Massachusetts Senator hedged on question about his relations with Alabama Governor Patterson and White Citizens dpuncil leader Sam Engleiiardt. ★ Y\ ★ ★ ★ IN BEAUTICIANS CONTEST In Tie MISS AMERICAN BEAUTY — Emily Yancy, of New York, (cen ter) Is pictured here immedia tely after she was crowned in New York the new "Miss Ameri can Beauty" by last year's win ner Mits LaJeune Hundley, left. At' right ir Cecelia Cooper, who won the title two years age. The contest is sponsored by the Ophelia DeVere and the pest twe wiMMrs, Misses Cooper and Hun dley, ha«b wen tlie "MIsa Cannes Film Pwtivar beauty title two years in lueceaefeii. Tlie new "Miss AmerlcaH Beewty* is a native New Yericer who aepiree te be • eiM Mk'U RALLY SPEAKER — Pictured here is the Rev. Marshall Shep ard who will be the key speaker for a Democratic party rally Tuesday night at St. Mark A. M. E. Zlen Church. NAACP Quizzes Kennedy And Nixon on Civil Rigiits Issue NEW Y0RK;-i>re8idential Can didates Richard M. Nixon and John f. Kennedy are asked if they would use their' powerp as cbiet executive to end all aeg^egatioiJ •nd (discrimination in every pro- frnn utilizing federal funds in •ny form today. The questions are asked in a questionnaire sent them Leadership Conference publicize findings on Optober 24. A' questionnaire Identical to those sent presidential candidates, running jnates and Congressmen, 1s enclosed for your Informytion and use._ Partial letter to presidential condidates follows. A modified version was sent to^vice presiden- by the I tiai espirants. Civil I Enclosed Is e copy' of a question' Bights, chaired by NAACP Execu-' JT* „ _ , „ . have sent today to members of the tive Secretary Roy Wilkins and senate and te all candidates for made up of nearly 50 national ^ the Senate and the House of Rep- civic, fraternal, religious and labor organizations. Questionnaire, are a means of calling for positive pledges for veainingful action on civil rights In the upcoming 87th Congress, are being sent to all carry-over Senators and candidates for seats in both houses of Congress. The Leadenhlp Conference will resentativee. As you will note, the quesien- nalre sets forth a number of pro posals for legislation and for rules and procedures to assure that such legislation may be brought to vete. Taken together, these con stitute what we believe to be minimum program for meaning ful civil ri^ts action by the Con' gress. The President of the United See QUIZZES, pages 6-A First Plaice week finds tl(e two top, lible to avokl the rush at tke last^\ contestanU in the Carolina Times moment wi»i this lilrge number of regylar votes'^d'^pnus -votes that ^ust Jbe cottnted.'aid'. fal^ ^ V- Beatiticians ■ Popularity Cohteat a tie .tor first ,;place. Mr* S||»iej 4 Ch|pcl l||ll a^ Quinc^ Mullen of RdSnake’^fi^ds both had exactly 1,265,900 points when the tabulation was made Wednesday noon of this week. Another t'e also took’ place when Mrs. Alice Reed of Durham who last week was in eighth place ad vanced to the fifth place and tied with Mrs. Jessie Nunn also of Durham. Holding ti^ht to second and third place wjere Mrs. M. H. DeVane of New Bern and Miss Martha Row land of Durham. t. Final reports will be receive’ from Tuesday, October 24 to the closing hour Monday, October 31 as previously announced and print ed on the back of subscription re ceipt books sent all' active contest ants. Full credit iHIl be given all reports that are litiiled and bear ing post office of before and up to .Monday lii^tfii^, October 3L The actual standii^ and winners of the three given in the contest will b4 ai^iiounccd in the AUhough the official closing Noyember 5 issu( lt tiie Carolina hour of the contest is Monday Times. The winri^ may make^the noon, October 31, the contest man- trips anytime choose within ager is urging all contestants to j a period of 12 ijSbbthg tiom the get their reports in earlier if pos- closing date ot tKi^ contest. Third Period — Oct. 19 - ^ 1 YR. SUB.— 10,000 VOTES $4.00 2 YR. SUB— 28,000 VOTES ! « 8.00 3 YR, SUB— 40,000 VOTES $12.00 4 YR. SUB— 60,000 VOTES $16.00 5 YR. SUB.— 75,000 VOTES $20.00 Tjie relative standing this week is as follows: Mrs. Susie Weaver,, Chapel Hill 1,26»,90« Mrs. Quincey Mullen, Roanoke Rapids 1,265,900 Mrs. M. H. DeVane, New Bern 1,114,400 Miss Martha Rowland, Durham 1,102,800 Mrs. Jessie Nunn, Durham 982,600 Mrs. Alice Reed, Durham ' ' 992,600 Miss Doris J. Garrison, Burlington 876,400 Mrs. Oneida McGhee, Durham 876;i00 Mrs. Earlie Grandy,'Durham 349,800 Mrs. Otto White, New Bern > 841,700 Mrs. Dorothy P. Carter, New Bern 302,600 Mrs. Goldie Gray, PoUocksyUle 287.400 Mrs. Eula S. Lan«y, Durham 285,900 Mrs. Dorothy Parker, Greensboro Mrs.'Callie Ashford, Durham ... Mrs. Pecola Jones, Durham Miss Victoria Moore, Durham ■}. Mrs. Barbara Qregg, New Bern ’ Mrs. Lucille Ferrell, Durham Mrs. Evelyn Leary, Williamston Mrs. Syminer Daye, Durham Mrs. D. Fontaine, Burlington ' Mrs. Hazel Jeffreys, Burlington^. Mrs. Inez Minor, Chapel Hill .(, Mrs. Esther Bland, Durham f Mrs. Daisy Cannon, Durham , (See CONTEST, page 6^A) 243,200 222,800 214.600 208.900 199.600 161.400 126.900 112.400 102,800 99,800 99,600 96,700 81,000 ASHEVILLE NAACP GETS YAN- CASE AWARD —AHorney teuben Dally an3 Mitt Elma Dennis, Asheville, accept the ,award for their NAACP chapter ‘for the Accessful fight on be half of the Burnsville ;(Yancey County) Integration which re- tured in the idiilMlon of teii colored children to previously cll-white schools last week. J. B. Harren Fete INDIANS OKAYED AT DUNN Three Trying For Grid Team as Yancey Integration Made Calmly Political Action Main Theme of NMCP Session By J. B. HARREN GREENSBORO—This city, fam ous as the beachhead of the 1960 Students’ S i t-in Demonstration which resulted in the elimination of segregated eating facilities in spme 112 cities of the Soutiw was host to the 17th Annual Conven tion of the N. C. NAACP Confer ence Octot>er 13-16. Clote to one hundred minittert came Thuriday for the one-day special. Minittert pledged a clot- tir cooperation with the NAACP in all areas of civil rights action with the ma|or accent on mem berships and regittratien and veting campaign. During Friday and Saturday, there were one hundred adult del egates registered, and another hun dred college and youth chap!er delegates in attendance under the guidance of Dr. Marguerite Adams, Raleigh college professor, and Herbert L. Wright, youth depart ment secretary. New York. Mych interest and enthusiasm was -shown by the youths 2ls they reviewed the results of their ef fective sit-in, swin-in, kneel-in and other forms of protests this year. State NAACP president Kelly See THEME, page 6-A Three of the seven students who were admitted to all white schools in Yancey County were trying out for the football team before the first week was over. The seven enrolled in two' formerly all-white tchoolt In the wettern North Carolina moun tain county Monday. They were the firtt to be integrated under a federal court order. Orieinally, federal Judge Wilson Warlicfc ordered the county to ad mit ten students whose parents were plaintiffs in a suit against the county school board. Three of the ten attending out- of state schools, two in South Caro lina, and an^^er in New Yoik. The with which the change-over took place Mo«i. was apparent In the fact that beferei the firtt day wes over, John Yance Jackton, one of the seven Negro itudents, wet running at end on the varsMy of the Cene River High School football team, and Louis Yeung was working out with the junior varsity. Over at East Yancey, John Hor ton was expected to join the foot ball team there on Wednesday. At Cane River, Jackson enrolled in the 11th grade. Young, Rose ftoland and Carolyn Young reg istered for the ninth grade. At Eii.st Yancey, Horton registered for the 10th grade and Marvin and Shirley Barnett entered the ninth grade. Admltsion of the Negro stu dents took place so tmoothly that at Burnsville, which lies be- See YANCEY, page 6-A ‘ 108 Year Old Resident Is Buried In Durham Funeral Services Funeral services for Mrs. Rox- anna Quick Taylor, 108 year old Durham resident, were held Mon day afternoon at the New Bethel Baptist Church. The Rev. L. W. Reid, pastor of New Bethel, officiated. Burial was in Beechwood cemetaiy. Mrk. Taylor died on Friday, Oct. 14 at her home at 114 Neal Sf. ter ot the late' Lotus and SaA Quick, of Bennettevflle, S. C. %e was married to the St^ve Steele, and thfty had nine fflildren. She later lAatried the late George Taylor.. Mrs. Taylor came to Durham in 1922 where she lived until her death. She joined the Bethel Taber nacle whan she first came ta the city, and later became a member of the old Mt. Zion Holiness, now New Covenant. She was a faith ful member until her death. She is survived by three daugh- See 106 YEARS, 6-A Is REFUSE BAIL IN ATLANTA SIT-IN ATLANTA, Ga.—The Rev. Mar tin Luther King, Jr., famed pas sive resistance leader and 34 oth ers, elected to remain in jail here Wednesday in a head-on test of a new Georgia law against si-in demonstrations. King told municipal Judge J. E. Webb, as he refused bail, that he would go to jail "I, 5, or 10 years" if necettary to uphold his principles. He and 52 others were arrested at the tea room of Rich’s depart ment store as they sought service. One of the group was a white man. * Thirty-five members of the group, including the Rev. King, pleaded innocent and elected to remain in jail rather than post a $500 bend. They were arrested under a new ly passed state law which makes it a crime to refuse to leave an establishment when asked to do See REFUSE, page 6-A MRS. TAYUMt New Bern Has Celebration For Counter Win NEW BERN — The New Bern Youth Council of the NAACP staged a Victory Rally last Monday night at St. Peter’s AME Zion Church here. A jubilant host of Council laeiBbers and interested citizens composed the throng that assemUed to celebrate ttie inte gration of the Kress lunch counter after an eight-monib-long picketing attaclc. Plcketins e Krees' began af!«r 29 meinhers ef Mw NAACP youth bedi were erresled early tliis yeer after siMn demenstrations at Kress' and the Clark Orwg Sterei. Clerk's baa refwsmi aN mowfe teward ItHegretiow. Many ot the deaioiistratoi:^ w«e on hand to mark the celebration of victory at the variety store. Chaiiee Bell, president of the nAaCP Yeuth organixation. pre sided at the Rally. He frequently See CELEMkATtS, pege frA THE NEWS IN BRIEF TO KEYNOTE GEORGIA DEMO RALLY John S. Stewwrt, State Coordina tor for the Democratic Party in N. C., will address a gathering of Georgia Democrats in a rally at Macon for the tenth Geor^ Con gressional District nest Tuesday. Stewart is a memt>er of the na tional Democratic party’s speakers bttreau. DOCTORS CLINK SET TO ONN AT LINCOLN Lincoln hospital and the Old North State Nedteal Sopiety expect more thM 100 phyaiciaiu and sur geons at tlMir ISth Poet Graduate Clinic hi Dmkam oa Oet. 26. D«ir- ham Doelen R. P. SaMdolph. ( D. Watts, P. W. Watkins. E. L Bugg. w^ l^ve key roles in the one dar ae^ TO «KAK M OXPORD OXFOIO>-^W. 3. Keenedy. 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