Government Worker Gives $10,000 To Ktttrell
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IS PHILIP CASE CRUMBLING?
Theater Protest Draws
Adult Leaders’ Support
VOLUME No. 37-^No. 6
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1961
R«tum Poitav* GuarantMd
PRICE: IS CENTS
GIVES $10,000—Mr>. Camp of
Waahincton, O. C. Rfiasantt hn
fihouMiHi doMar ch»ck t* Presi
4tnt CMMin of Kittrall Collage
Bishop Reid and Mr.
look on.
State ft:
KITTRBLL—KittreH Junior Col- v ' - • ' •i^’ coileees and universities
By Senate Unit
KITTRBLL—KittreH Junior Col
lege received a |ijft of $}0,00p ibis
week from a Waihihgton, D.
government worker.
A check for $|0,6qO.W8S handed,
over to school ^fticial;^ by Mrs,
Dulcye Finch Camp during a spe*
cial vespers service at. the cam'
TasHCTB Sunday. . ~r
Mrs. Camp Mid tba was "im-
pramd" wit)* tha work of. tha
A. M. ■•■supporicd iunior eel-
laga.
The donation will go for the
school’s endorsement fund.
KittreH officials said Mrs. Camp’s
gift was th« targesi from ah, m
dividual ^ince the philanthropy ot
the late B. -N. Duke, who gave the
school two buildings and $100,-
000 during the 1920'!
^'1 was impresMMt what
Kittrall Junior Coli*fl* is doinfl
for yeuHi In tha «rM whfara most
neadMl/*^ Mrs. Ca«Mp stated in
maklnv fha donation.
“Great ideas can-rarely be de
veloped in an atmosphere of con
straint and oppressidn. KittreH, as
a private chuTch college, affords
freedom in developing the habit
of independent’ thinking,” she
went on.
“1 hope my,gift Will encodragc
the chairman. Bishop Reid, who
has always been so unselfiaJi in
his struggles for Christian educa
tion of our youth,” she said fur
ther.
The Rt. Rev. Wank Madison
See OIPT, 8-A
Rockefeller
Ad(ed I Give
Cavers Kefuge
NEW YORK-^tte NAACP has
appealed to NeVf .York Governor
Nelson Rockefeller to prevent ex
tradition of a minister wanted
i|i South Caroliha on a traffic-fa-
tality charge. ' - ^
The clergyman, who ■ had been
active with the NAACP in the,
^utheast for yenf^M^
Cavers, 61, formerly tf Charlotte,
North Carolina. ■
In a wire to thf Governor, /eb„
I, NAACP Execij^tv0 Secretary
poy Wilkins said:
. "I Mrrivatly and - ^Mpactfully
urfl* fiiat you
regatlva as 0«^i>ner prayant
tha •xtradiflon t* Sautii Care-
See IIIPU9I, 8-A
Southerners Badger Nominee
WASHINGTON,. D. C.^Robert opposing Weaver^ nomination.
S. Weaver was approved by the
%nate inking Committee Wed
nesday for the post of head of the
Hblising and Home Finance Agen
cy after two days of badgering by
southern members of the commit'
tee.
■ The vote was 11-4 with three
southerners and one Republican
GETS PH.D.—Horace 6. DawsM,
Jr., assistant profassor of Ens*
llsh and diractor of tha North
Carolina Collage News Bureau,
wa* awarded the l^tor of Phi
losophy dafliiee in Mass Commu
nications at tha winter convoca
tion at Iowa University Satur
day. Sea paflw ^-B for details..
VoHng againii!; the former
NAACP board chairman^ were
Senate Banking Committee
chairman Willis Rob«rtson (D.>
Va.), Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-
Ata.), William Btakely (D-Tex.)
and Wallace BenneH (R-Utah).
Clearance by the committee
opens the way for full Senate
vote on his confirmation. However,
Senate action is not expected un
til after the holiday for Lincoln’s
birthday.
Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) is ex
pected to bring the nomination to
the floor for a vote.
Weaver, 53 year old Harvard
University graduate, thus be-
conifs the first Negro to be
cleared 'for a post as high in
government.
He wasj picked for the position
by Presidi^nt Kennedy, and it was
Kennedy’s dramatic action
Tuesday in support of his nomi
nation which opened the way for
the Senate Cooimlttee’s approval.
. Senate Banking Committe*
chairman Willi* Rstoertaon (D-
Va.) announced he would not
prooeed with tha hearing until
he ha^ iteelved a letter from
Presld^t Kennedy on an FBI
report on Weav»r'* loyalty.
The loyalty issiie- had been
raised In the (Ammittee by Sen
William Blakey. Blakey queMioned
Weaver at length, on his affilia
tions with organizations the Texas
See WEAVBH, 6-A
202 Colleges In
Oxford Hospital J\nn^s
Appointment of Administrator
OXFORD—William L. Miller, a
native of Bluefield, West Vlrginiaj
has been appointed Mministrator
of Shaw Memorial hospital here. ■
Announcement of Miller’rf ap
pointment was made by the hospi
tal this week. Miller assumed his
duties on Jan. 1.
The new hospital head is a na
tive of Bluefield, West Virginia,
where he graduated "from Blue
field State College.
H« came to Shaw Memorial horn
Conunuaity Hospital of Martinst
villa, Va., where he held > similar
post between 1858 and 1960.
Miller’s first job as hospitah ad
ministrator was at Providen^fe
hovital, of Bluefield, where 'Tie
was appointed administrator in
1946. He has also seen public
school service,. having worked in
the school' system of Martinsville,
.Virginia.
He was active in religious life
while a-fcri}«lt «t tfartiosvUle,
where he was ^jpurinan of the
dekon board, and puperintendent
of the Pilgrim "fiipt Sunday
S«« HOiPITAW e-A
totafT)f 202
colleges and universities in 17
southern states which were form
erly air white have now desegre
gated, according to a report issued
this week tiy the Southern Region
al Council here.
Included in the list was tite
University of Georgia,, at Athens, *
Se«^ JMTEGAATED, ^A
KINSfro^^^ Superior Court
Judge may iu^C'^l firut wrecked
the state’s case of first degree
murder against Durham business
man 'Kinston Philip in a ruling
here Wednesday.
Judge Rudolph Mlntz granted
PhlKi^ a $25,000 bond after rul
ing there was insufficient evl-
de«me for holdlnt^ him without
bn^l on the charge.
Hie ruling came during hear
ing Keld on a writ of habeas cor
pus prepared by Philip’s attor
ney*. '
AKhmigh the Judge granted the
bcmd, Philip was still in jail-late
Wednesday night.
Dgputy Sheriff Elijah Tyndall
tolt^ the TIMES that Philip had
not 'Posted bond.
^^lip was arrested at his of
fice at Durham Surgical Supply
Coi, jit 412 S. Mangum St., on
Dm. 38 in connection wiHi tine
dfeth of Mrs. Ruth Graham Til-
iary, 47 year old eighth grade
tatcher at Adkln high school.
. Mrs. Tillery’s almost nude body
was found in the yard of an aban
doned rural school building early
"Dec. 27.
Her head bore deep wounds, be
lieved made b/ a piece of con
crete or stone. But a subsequent
autopsy revealed that the blows
Were not heavy enough to have
caused death.
Legal, experts hftre expressed
tha opinion that Judge Mintz's
tfranting of tha bend on grounds
of insufficient •videnee may b«
•nough to laarmit Philip's at-
iM'^eys to frMii' Mn 9f the
GETS EAGLE—Mrs. JanM* W.
™ ,; ^lawR affIjcM E^le acaM pin
It was suggested that jiis at
torneys might now press for
quashing of the indictment against
him. Prospects for success of such
manuever appeared . brighter
See PHILIP, 6-A
LEAVES FOR AFRICA
Speculation
Rises Over NCC
Prof's Departure
The* whereabouts of a young
North Carolina College professor
was a subject of much speculation
in Durhapi tis week.
Usually reliable reports said
that Dr. AH>ert Berrian, chair
man of Hie Romance Language
Departmant at NCC, left the
country Iasi week on an asslgn-
iment for the United States Gov-,
ernment in tlie Congo.
Though there had been no of
ficial confirmation at mid-week,
it is reported that the language
professor departed for Leopold
ville, the Congo last week where
he will set up an English language
center for the United', States State
Department.
North Carolina College offi
cials had no comment on Ber
rien's dcp|rtui*e this week, ex-
oeut to admit that the young
linguist had not been seen on
See BERRIAN, 6-A
Catholics Attack
Smear of NAACP
With “Red” Label
WASHINGTON — Speaking at
a meeting of the Catholic Inter
racial Council of Washington two
Catholics active in interracial
work said that attacks on the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People as
communist-dominated are “a vici
ous and unmitigated slander.”
George K. Hunton, secretary of
the New York Interracial Council
theref is not a “scintilla of evi
dence” to connect the organiza
tion with Reds or Fellow travel
ed. Furthermore;, he said that he
S«e SMiAR, 2-A
BERRIAN
Greenville, S. C.
Ready For
NAACP Meeting
By J. B. HARREN
GREENVILLE, S. C.—This Pal
metto State textile city is work
ing hard to see to it that the 9th
Annual NAACP Southeastern Re
gional Conference meeting here
February 16-19 is a success ahd
an inspiration to freedom-seeking
race citizens.
Some five hundred adult and
youth NAACP officers and mem
bers are expected to take part in
the four days of seminars, panels
and mass meetings to be held at
the Springfield Baptist Church,
602 East McBee Street.
Mrs. Ruby Hurley, Atlanta, Ga.,
Southeast Regional Secretary, is
director of conference. She will
be ably assisted by the Rev. ^
Leon Lowry, president, Florida
NAACP Conference; and Atty. D.
L. Hollowell, chief counsel in the
University of Georgia integration
case.
Also Clarence Mitchell, Wash-
and a member of tlje board oflington, D. C. NAACP Bureau Di
directors of the NAACP, said that jrector who will review the voting
ceremony at. While Rock Bap
tist Church, Sunday nipht at
which tha Hillside ))enth grader
received th« rank, highest in
the Boy Scowt order. At left, H.
W. Glllis, Division Executive
reads citation accompanying
'a#afi^ '%h1le Srowtfs fiiifier
ieoks on in backgrouM- Also
stated in the backgrMnd is Miss
Sandra Wray, a participant on
tha program.
A snowstorm which brought
traffic in the East to a standstill
last week-end prevented NAACP
Labor Secretary Herbert Hill from
making a scheduled appearance iB
Durham Sunday at an NAACP
youth program.
But it failed to stop the yaane-
sters from turning tke meeUnC
into a rally which saw several of
the community’s leading eider
citizens pledge support l« the
youngsters in their current anti-
segregation drive.
Several community l-eader»
spoke during the rally at St. Mark
A,M E, Zion church Sunday after
noon. pledging support- of .Uie
community for the students’ ctir-
rcnt movie theater protest.
Among them was J. H.-Wlieel-
er. chairman of the Durham Cbo»-
mittee on Negro Affairs.
“An long as your activities are
peaceful and sincere,” the people
of the community will support
you, Wheeler said.
William J. Walker, also a mem-
l)€r of the committee declared:
“Don’t be afraid you will, be
placed in iail. If you are put in
jail, you will not be left there.”
Walicer posted liond amounting
to several hundred dollars for stu
dents arrested during last spring’s
lunch counter demonstratioas.
Wbeelef and Walker w«re just
two- of, several elder leaders who
pledged support of the student
ihovement.
Others who spolBe were n; B.
Whit#. X)t.
CP branch president, L O. Fuad-
erburg and the Re*(rends B. I*.
Speaks and J. A. Bro^.
DELEGATES BRAVE ICE, SNOW
TO ATTEND PTA WORK-
AT SMITH UNIVERSITY
CHARLOTTE — Thirty-seven
leaders and PTA workers braved
the snow, sle^t and ice to attend
the 1961 sectional PTA workshop
held at J. C. Smith University,
Saturday.
Delegates re-evaluated and re
constructed goals, explored meth
ods and ways of achieving appro
priate solutions to many issues,
problems as well as opportuni
ties as we focused attention on
the provocative and timely con
ference thpme: “From Responsi
bility to Action Through Quality
Parents-Teachers Associations.”
STRIVE TO RISE ABOVE
MEDIOCRITY, MRS. MASON
TELLS SHAW STUDENTS
RALEIGH—The only future that
America has lies in its youth, said
Mrs. Vivian Mason, Public Rela
tions Consultant, American Chris
tian Palestine Committee as she
spoke to Shaw ■ University stu
dents and faculty. Monday, Febru
ary 6, at the cha^l assembly.
She urged the students to take
advantage of their great heritage
and to strive above mediocrity.
ONE-DAY .BUS BOYCOTT
STAGED m SUMTER '
SUMTER, S. C.—Negro citizens
staged a one-day bus boycott here
this week marking the anniver
sary of the first southern sit-in.
Dr. B. T. Williams, local NAA
CP leader, who led the protest,
indicated that the boycott might
be continued at a future date
against the Jim Crow buses.
SUPREME COURT ASKED TO
STRIKE VIRGINIA ANTI
INTEGRATION LAW
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The N
AACP the U. S. Supreme
Court this week to challenge a
Virginia state law that could
break the back of the school in-
See summary, 6-A
NAACP In Drive
Supporting N.
Carolina Units
NEW YORK—The NAACP call
ed on its more than 1, unib IB
45 states to initiate sympathy
“protests and • demonstratians,
adapted to t^al conditions” sup
porting the newly-Iaunehed North
Ncrth Carolina drive against “seg
regation in theatres and discrimi
nation in employment.”
The directhie, issued by MA
ACP Executive Ray
came on the annfversery ef Mm
.first southern sitnn. *
NAACP Youth Councils in Nfflrllt
Carolina, are fighting excluaiM
and segregated seating -in thtttres
and widespread job discrinia*-
tion.
They are employing various tac
tics including theatre staad-ins
and picketing.
These pr*iccts eve ygider |bmI>
ership of Kelly M. Aiesander,
NAACP state canfarailta peeai
4?nt. and Flayd B. NkKlstiek.
adviser of the ITiirtiain
See SUPPOKTi.
record of congressmen and fore
cast the trend . «f things to come
on the civil rights fronts.
Lowuy is one of several NA\
Sec READY, S-A I
VOICE Of ii4«IRicA PANEL—
Pictured her* are some of the
participants In the# panel dia-
] eussion pHtmiitad recently fer
Overseas breedcaat on tha Voice
ef Americ*. Shewn here era
(teft to right) FredwUt
producer of Mie pufrawi Jas.
Bryaart, a aenier at Marth C«r»
lina Cetaga; JanaHii, YawHy.
editor ef tfia Dally Tarheel, the
Unhwrstiy ef Nerth Cerelina