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VOLUME 3»-No. 50
DURHAM, N. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1960
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'Tulbright Disastrous
★ ★★★★★ ★★
Ten-Choir Song Fete In
NAACP Opposes,
Arkansan As
Slate SecretaiY
PLAINFIKLD, N. J. — Appoint
ment of Arkahsas Senator j. ’Win,'
Fulbright as Secretary of State
would be “disastrous' for the na-'
tif>n’s foreign policy,” a high NA
I ACP officer charged this week.
Or. John A. MorSell. assistant to
the Association’s executive secre-|
tary, said “No thought has been
more disturbing sinne the Nov,
8th election."
Citing the rtshig Afro-Asian
bk'c of nationci. Dr. Morse)! said
Senator Fulbright's record on' ra-j
cial matters, “is much wdm-than!
the * tionat anti»civil rights I
sta. " average southera c6n-
grcasmai
“He w»i sl|;ner of the ill-
fanned SouU (I Manifttto, whiili
pruelaimed
value:' J ^ ^
‘This manifesto also *a|iiil«uded
the states that defi^ the V. S.
Supremt! Cte^t scho«t latfgration
ruling,” he said. Dr. Udfiell s|ioke
at a civil rights ndly of the Plain
field branch of the NAACP.
He added that Senator Fulbright
filed a brief with the nation’s high
cpAirt tn sufifioct of reverting Lit
tle Rock school integration.
Senator Fulbright wrent further
by associating himself with law
yers of the Little Rock school
board who railed for a suspension
of school integration tor two
years, Dr. Morsell asserted.
AFKICANSi Visit DUfhAM-Mr.
|SiHi -Mr*. G««ra* ManMl (ctn-
Cap^ewn, Africa,
pictyrccf hart as they vUited
kwtfi Cal|««a dMfint a
Wjjpk'M l^lanfciMa liieno jit
k',Or.- CMrlw:*ay.,s|,*KC, ,
4#fmaM,, •4(Mr. Mm
Ned srtNUW-iwHpa^. Manual
I* member of the Cape Times
ftawspapar staff. He>nd his wife
are in this country as a part of
the Spuih African-United States
teader Exchange program. Whee
ler, was th#ir host during
their Durham visljt, visited So.
|>art Hi# prograM.
|a#l^jt Ask JFK To Consider
Dauphine, $20Q[
To ^ Given at
Raleigli Songfest
I^ALEIGH—A total of 10 choirs,
quartets, choruses and Soloists
have been listed forthe mammoth
Choir and Song Festival to lie
heard here Sunday, December H,
it was announced here Wednesday
by J. T. O’Neal, vice president of
the Interdenominational Ushers
Associalion of North Carolina,
sponsors oif the program.
O’Neal is local chairman of the
arrangement committee.
. Among the vocal ensembles and
soloists already scheduled for the
program are the New Cedar Grove
Gospel. Choir of the New Cedar
Grove Baptist Church, Greensboro;
Grace A.M.E. Zion Youth Choir of
the Grace A- M. E. Zion Church
Raleigh; Community Cl)«ir. Ral
eigh; Johnson County .JTrayeJers,,
Smilhfield; Clover Gasmen Junior
'Chcir, Burlington;,, $I«pti*l City
Maple'. Temple Chriiliai
Raleigh; Swpnd . Baptist Senior
Chcir, Fayetteville; First. Baptist
Church Chorus, Roxhoro an«l^the!
See SONGFEST, 4-A
STURDIVANT
KELLY
r NEW SCHOOL PROPOSED FOR NEGROES
Strife, Confusion Rage
Over Chapel Hill School
CHAPEL HILL—The Chapel Hill, vative battle, tliere is tt>e Board
school situation continued in a
muddled stew this week as the
several factions in the tug of war
that has been going on for the
past several weeks between the
liberal and conservative elements
of both races became more terri
fic.
In the face of the liberal-conser-
of Elducation which has apparently
assumed > watchful, waiting atti
tude with the hope that the war
ing factions wilt battle to the death
or at least to a draw, which in
turn will give the Board good and
justifiable reasons for continuing
segregation as the pattern.
This week finds the Negro citi
“ARTICULATED RACE’S ANGUISH”
Noted Leaders Mourn Death Of
Famed Autlior Ricliard Wriglit
NEW YORK—The literary gen
ius of Richard Wright, the novelist
and 1941 NAACP Spingam medal
ist who died in Paris Nov. 28, “ar
ticulated the anguish of his peo
ple.” the NAACP declared in a
meSsage to his widow.
The Association’s condolences to
Mrs. Wright were expressed by
Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins
who said:
"The officers. Board of Direct
ors and membership of. the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
join with millions mourning th*
grievous loss of your husband.
"His literary genius articulat
ed the anguish of his people, and
through it he won many audi
ences previously unaware of the
American Negro's plight. The
world has lost a rare talent.
Please accept our deep sympa
thy."
Wrignt won the- Association’s
“powerful depiction ih'Ma botiks.f worshipfuT mastdl^, J % Tueke^
Boy^,
Use of meclianical powei* and
machinery’ on the ftirm increased
by 57 per cent from 10^ to 195D.
■ COLUMBIA; S. C.t^-^ ofgani*a-1 Negroes . in appointments in the
tioA of lawjeers. ftom fouj^ states I new adininisti'ation was made in
#ill 'iisk .nati&nM betiipotitk party the .fo^-m of a resolution, passed
(rfhciais to consider qualified N& by the organization.
groes for appointments in the Ken
nedy administration.
' This was one, of a - series at ,a&
tions taken by the organization in
its fall meeting here^ last week
end. '
News Summary
Planetarium Vigitors
Students from the E. D. ..Mickle
Play School were scheduM to
journey to Chapel Hill Thursday
to see the Mprehead Planetarium’s
Christmas s^ow, “Star of Bethle
hem,”
Mrs. Helen Daniel, dlr«etor of
the newly opened school, explain
ed that although the students,
whose ages range from two to
five, may no^ be able to oompiete-
ly understand the prM«nt«tlon,
the trip and the show will give
them some grasp of theiV environ-
ment.
, She iiaid the school plans at
r iS^t two special extra learning
experiences for the students each
month, either in the form of ex
cursions or special prbgrums.
There are 12 children enrolled
i» the school.
•
Hulan Jack Convicted
NEW YORK — Manhattan Bo-
reugh president Hulan Jack was
convicted Tuesday of “conflict-of-
interest” charges • in connection
with his acceptance of an apart
ment remodeling job from s city
business client.
Announcement of- the Jury's ver
dict stunned Jack, whose job was
automatically forfeit under the
new New York city, charter with
the conviction.
He held the highest post of any
Nrm'o in America. The job pays
$2.’i.000 per year.
His ^attorneys said immediately
following the verdict they would
appeal,
The reiolutlon called attention
to the fact that the Democratic
party received h**vy support
from Negro voters in the No
vember election.
When the actual request by the
, lawyers will be formally present-
. The request for consideration of I Democratic party leaders
was not disclosed.
The organization discused proce
dures in the sit-in demonstrations
being led by students throughout
the region arid cases resulting
froa^ the demonstration^now pend
ing fn various states.v
The group also ^scussed im
plications in the dtnnissal by a
See LAWYERS, 6-A
SCEf’ Calls For Probe
. BATESVILLE, Miss.—The South
ern Conference Educational Fund
has cabled for an immediate^ fed
criil invMtigktion of the charges by
a IS-year-old Nflgro girl, Lynda F.
Kuykendall,' that she was Ijrutally
l^lkten by « merchant and a local
police official.
. In letters to the Department of
J.ustice *nd the U. £. Comn^ission
ofi Civil Rigbtst, Dr. James A.
pom^rowski, ’’executive director of
SCEF, quoted an affidavit by
Willie Kuykendall of Batesville,
Coahpm9 .County, Mississippi, ac
cusing Leo Daniels, manager of
t(ie Sterling Variety Store and I.
C. Seales, , the town Marshal of hit'
Eiog. his daughter, Lyda Faye.
Fire Destroys School
: WINSTON-SALEM—A fire de-
Mr6yed the Fairview elementary
Mheol here last Thursday night,
forcing tome 600 students to be
traniferred'to other schools this
week.
iQlty schools superintendent A,
praig Phillips ertimated the dam
age «t apprejf^ately ^400,000.
The building was 4fl years old.
.Cause ef the fire was not re
vealed early ttiis week.
P.lremen received an alarm at
abeut nine p.m. Thursday. When
thty reacIM 'the scene the
^l«ie whs ragirtg o«t ef control
th^ughout. the skcond floor of
.4he building.'
Ne tn|uri»s wert reported.
AT SONG FETE —Mrs. Evelyn
Morehead, popular soloist of
Greensboro, will be one of the
mony intiividuals and groups to
l>e heard in the choir festival at
Raleigh Memorial auditorium
Sunday.
DAVIS
Duritam Autlior's Wori( To Be
Reviewed At Library on Monday
The latest work of one of Dur- Stahford Warren library,
ham’s distinguished authoi? will Dr. Rose Butler Browne, chair-
be- reviewed Monday night at the man of the Departmeht of Edu-
• cation at North Carolina College,
Will discus “Queen of Persia,” a
novel based on the biblical story
of Esther and Mordecai.
It was written by Mrs. Ella Earles
Gotten.
The review will be presented as
part of the library’s monthly adult
forun^. The program starts ai 7:30
in fh^. library’s auditorium.
Mrs. Cotten’s latest work was is
sued by Exposition press early this
tall. It has received praise from
critics in both Durham and else
where. ,•
By^aeder Is
Killed as Two
Sta^ Showdown
Willie B. Davis, 26 year old resi
dent of 85^ Estes street, was i;)eing
'held in Durlutm County'jail this
week awaiting formal charges of
murder in connection with a shoot
ing incident which resulted in the
death of two Durham men Mon
day night.
Just as police were about ready
to write the case off as a double
slaying resulting from a duel
between the two slain men, Da
vis surrendered himself to au
thorities and conTessed he
killed one of the men.
No charges had been filed
against him at mid-week. He was
being held on investigation of mur
der.
Killed were James Arnest Stur
divant, 19, of 733 1/2 Estes
street, and Floyd Kelly, Jr., 22,
of 209 Lawson street.
The incident took place in front
of a house at 806 Gerard street
Monday night.
Police at first thought that
Sturdivant and Kelly killed each
other as they, dueled in dark-
See SHOOT OUT, 6 A
Fund Raising Event
For Orphans Set
OXFORD—The annual fund rais-
mg campaign for the Oxford Col
ored Orphanage will be concluded
here Sunday, December 11, at 3.00
P.M. when the final reports of all
workers in the campaign will l)e
made. The goal for Oxford and
“Queen of Persia” is Mrs. Cot- Granville County is $3,000.
Speaker for the occasion will be
mi. COTTiN
ten’s second major work. Her first,
an autobiographical work entitled
“A Spark for My People,” appear
ed in 1954.
John W. Par’iier, of Fayetteville,
writing in the Phylon for 1954,
said the following about this work.
' “A Spark for My people, author
ed by a pioneering ‘school marrh’
-of yesterday, 'Ella E. Cotten, the
romance of whose fruitful years
in the hinterlands ot Virginia.
See AUTHOR, 6^
Dr. J. A. Tarpley, principal of the
Dudley High School of Greens
boro. Music will be furnished by
the Orphanage Ch(^ under the
direction of Mrs. B. J. Mayes.
Among the prominent workers
in the local campaign are: Rev. L.
M. Gooch, Rev. Frank Smith. Roy
Tyler,. Theodore Harris, Lexie Ty
ler, Robert Hargrove, Mrs. C. H.
McGhee, M. h, Harris, Edward
Gregory, Mrs. Florence Moss Wil
son and others. '
Uncle Tom's Children and Native
Son, of the effect of proscription*
segregation and denial of oppor
tunities on the American Negro.”
Hubturd Seeks
State Post With
r
N. C. Masons
Members of two Durham lodges
made final preparations this week
week for the coming state-wide
meeting of North Carolina masons
in Winston-Salem.
Doris Lodge, 28, selected three
delegates to attend the convention
at its meeting Mondav night. The
names of deleagtes picked to rei>-
resent the Dorcas Lodge, 460, were
not made available.
The state-wide meeting opens! would give impetus to integration,
zeory miserably divided on the
issue as to where to iMiiM mem
schools and wiietiier or boC tkcjr
should take under eensi^mtlaa
the continuance erf a legregaWI
pattern or look forward toward fiw
future when only an integmtMi
school system will l>e aceept«d m
most sensible and most ecoaoaii'
cal.
With a clear lack of viaiaa wkA
courage demonstrated bjr »o-fntW'J
Negro leaders. of the commmilv,
the mam in the street is faMjr
wandering around in' * fog tmt
knowing which way to or '
to follow.
The scene became eves
complicated this week when tke
Lincoln High School PTA caaw
out opposing part of a plan pre
sented by Dr. Richard M. ePters
which calls for>enlar^ng and im
proving the present Northside ele
mentary- schp^ plant with an
eight to lO^lassroom wing and
multi-purpose rtfem. Lincoln is lo
cated on a 10-acre site which Dr.
Peters contends is adequate for
the schools. expansion.
Already approved by the Board
of Education is the erection of a
Negro elementary school and a
white elementary school in the
same region of the county and only
one mile apart. This is t>eing ob
jected to by progressive white citi
zens because it is apparent that
the Board intends to hold the line
against the erection of any new
school building in a place that
at the First Baptist Church in
Winston-Salem on Monday, Dec.
12. It will run through Dec. 14.
To represent Doric Lodge at the
senior w^den, and Jessie
junior -wardeB.
At least one Durhamite will be
See MASONS, 4-A
a move which it has fougiit consist
ently.
Rev. J. R. Manley, the only
gro on the Board, is reported ta
have voted fNr the tw» segregated
schfola, in pfdfefence the erect
ion ef one good large elementarjr
school in the southwest section of
Chapel Hill that will serve both
races.
Promotions Are Made For Foiir
At North Carolina Mutual Life
DUMAS
LER
Three new Agency QfBcers. and
an Agency Administritive Assist
ant have been named by the
Board of Directors of North Caro
lina Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany.
N. L. Gregg, curr.-ntly Manager
of the Greensborj District, Abner
E. Lee and Alexander P. Dumas,
both Assistants to the Agency Di
rector will serve as Assistant
Agency Directors.
W. M. Gilliam, Assistant to the
Agency Director, ihas been named
as Agency Administrative Assis
tant.
The effective date of these
changes is January 1.
Gregg started his career as an
agent on the Charlotte District in
1927, named Assistant District
Manager in Charlotte in 1929, and
Mar'ager of Greensboro the same
year,
See PROMOTIONS, 4-A
GREGG
Human Element Still Vital In
Business, NCC Professor AveiS
Despite the inroads of automa-
mation, the human element is still
vital in the business world, a N.
C. College professor of Cou.merce
said here this week.
The( assertion came from Or.
Stewart B. Fulbright during his
addtess at a program in celebra
tion of Founder’s Day at Durham
Business College. j
Dr. Fulbright said that auto- ;
mation was advancing rapidly in
the business world, but ke |win^
ed out that machines eewld nev
er replace human belnys.
Machines require trained indi
viduals to instruct them, he said,
making the human element all the
more important.
Because of autotnation’s k>-
creased emphasis on the value of
human intelligence. Dr. Fulbright
said education becomes more im
portant in the modem wnrid.
Speafcim ««t Ik* swM«ct.
RmI Mdairia* Rdwcatiww** Dr.
Fulkrigl^t declared that the main
r«**«mMllly a# gdlKaHwi |> t*
make the student iMak. clearly
and independently.
The Founder’s Day prograni
marked Dtirham Businett College's
13th anniversary. Aside from the
program at which .JDr. Fulbrist
spoke, panel discussioaa by stu
dents and business execttliwes wen
held during the day.
L. B. Frasier^^eocy Secretary
for North Carolioa Muta^ Life In
surance Company; White,
President of Serrioa Pipjiijig Co.;
Dr. H. B. Yo«a. dakaiaa of
the NCC CoouBcrce
and E. V. Maaf*;
took ptft in ’ diacwaMir duriii&
the aftenjoob. . ^
Students parMiteMliB in
Shirley Rennak.
vie laddy
AArs. Jeycn
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